Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1912-04-18


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Owing to the road conditions, the
Buss line between Leonardtown
anu Washington. will be discon
tibued until further notice.
The Governor has vet ed the bill
appropriating m lney from the State
Treasury to pay the Mccormick
State road claims.
Returns from Illinois indicate that
Col. Roosevelt thoroughly walloped
President Taft 10 the recent direct
primary in that State.
Major r. w. Sylvester, President
of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege is in Johns Hopkins Hospital
for treatment for a nervous break
down.
T. Lee Mattingly lost fine COW
and calf this week. The COW be-
came entangled in thick growth Of
honeysuckle. lost her footing and
fell into ditch.
The Presidential Primary Election
Law has been approved by the Gov
ernor. Under t the primary will
be held on the 6rst Monday OF May
which falls on the 6 III.
1t is now estimated that thirty
thousand people have been made
homeless and ten millions of dollars
worth of property been destroyed
bv recent floods along the Mississip-
pi.
Father limerick. of st. Inigo's, is
giving the annual retreat TO the pu.
pills of st. Mary's Academy, aud
Father Hogan, of Sacred Heart Pa
IRISH, is giving the retreat at Leon
ara Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b, Abel and little
son, John Lee, and Miss Anna May
Melton. all OF Washington, D. c.,
spent Easter week with Mr.. and
Mrs. 7 LIE Mattingly at their home,
Buena Vista.
K. D. Burch & Co, whoh have bee n
engaged in the mercantile business
at Milestown for some years, are
building fine store opposite the old
stand, and expect in short time TO
open up the business
There will be service at All Saints
p. K. church, near Oakley, at IL, A.
M. ON Sunday, May 2lst, and az The
Mission in the same parish al 4, p, NJ,
same day A minister from Washing
ton, d. c., will conductthe services
Stanley Johnson is having built on
part OF the old Orchard lot, Leon.
ardtown, handsome and commodi.
GUS dwelling and storehovse com
bined. Messrs. Ben, Garner,
John Clements and Wilson Russell
are doing the work.
Horses and cattle still continue
dying In 81. Mary's and State Vete
rlnaIian, +. H. Mackie mas been ask
ed 10 investigate Among the los
ses recently reported are: A COW
belonging tot. Lee MattinRly, Leon
ardtowb; horses of Miss Sailie Cost
GIN, O4kvllo.
William II. Anderson, Superin.
tendent of the Anti Saloon League,
10 the April 18th issue Of The Amer.
lean Issue, eXcoriates majority Of
the members Of the late General
Assembly. Senator Wilkinson, and
Do egates Dorsey and Garner get
some lively whacks.
Ii is now considered an extra dan
geTous occupation to report q Re
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Gus West. At last weeks Republi-
can State Convention OF Michigan,
tbs Roosevelt temporary chairman
was thrown bodily of the platform
and fell ON the reporters.
The best dramatic talent in Leon
ardtown is engaged in the prepare
ZION OF Esmeralda. touching
drama from life in North Carolina.
This play will be produced in the
Town Hall vi der The auspices OF the
locsi Anmn4e Of St Mary's Acad.
envy, on Friday evening, May 3
The nc mination certificates Of En-
est Holly, Joshua Holley and Willis
Tolsou for candidates for delegates
to the Repu biican State Convention,
were, we are informed, prepared b.
] mes N. V. Stitb, antgro lawyer OF
Baltimore, who came TO st Mary
AID secured their applications
We invite espf cial attention to the
advertisement Of Guy Brothers,
Clements TIE firm handle the
] hnston Harvester Company
machinery--a firm not in the trust
AID keep on hand repsirs for their
machine. Farmers who have ussd
their implt ments spe X in bighcs,
trrlAs Of them. Give Guy Brothers
o call.
The sinking OF the great ocean
liner Titanic Monday morning last,
by collision with an iceberg was
probaly the greatest maritime cat
sstrophe in history. Owl fifteen
hundred lives are reported lost.
The value of the ship, $40, 000. 900 /;
jew wells OF passengers, S.. 600, 900 ;
baggage ard mails. 81 000, 900. 1t
was the Titanic's maiden voyage.
DR.. James +. Thompson, the Oldest
Dentist in fredericksburg, Va, died
at his home in that city May IL,
aged n years. DR.. Thompson was
native OF this county, his family
owning The Myr 10 Point estate en-