Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-06-14

focal brevtfses
Vae,tion days are rally here
The tobacco market is sti drag
Wheat harvest will be on hand in ten
days.
Spring chickens ave feathered the
City cousin is coming in.
What will be the tax rate IS the tax
PAYERS xious qaers2
MatS commandments were hell
during the past week.
Deputy Clerk Warren NJ Alorittrn.
spent Sunday last in Washington
Miss Mary Hutchins spent the week
with the Misses Cochrane. this town.
Miss Louise Matthews in the Spanish
dancing girl was charm.
Application has been made to re-es-
tablish the Post Office at Aliens Fresh.
Mr.. Hampton Cox. is prospecting for
place to open another green grocery
in La Plata.
Get together everybody and give the
Southern Maryland League your CO.
operation,
Miss Edith Montgomery, of Wilm-
ington, Delaware, is visiting the Misses
Posey.
Miss Mae Mullen, of New York City,
is visiting her cousin Mrs. +. Wills
Posey.
Mr.. Augustus Fowke, of Baltimore
county, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. +.
W. Hopper near this town.
There are some mad people over the
appointment of local health otfiser.
Vow Vow Vow
The attendance at the McDonough
Institute exercises during the week
have been very large.
Mrs. Bertha Jenkins, of this neigh
borhood has been quite ill during the
week.
DIR. j. Marion ! enichet, of Matanzas,
Cuba. is visiting the family Of Mr.. Ad-
risn Posey.
Mr.. Louis Cough, Of Chaptico, spent
several days with his mother in this
town during the week.
The County Commissioners were in
session on Monday and Tuesday pass
ing accounts against the county.
Miss Helen Talbot, of Marlboro,
was guest of Miss Rave Bailey, this
town, during the week.
The School Commissioners met on
Tuesday to transact some routine bus
mess.
Messrs j. Ed. Smith and Mr.. George
Hamilton have become purchasers of
Automobiles.
Ensign Harold scofeld, U. S. N, is
visiting the family OF Mrs. Adrian
Posey at Tbs Naples.
Mrs. Harry c. Bowie, accompanied
by her TWO little daughters, is visiting
friends in Washington.
Miss Carmen Berry, who has been
quite unwell has, we are glad to state,
fully recovered.
A religious mission, it is said, will
be held at the Catholic hurch in La
Plata, beginning July It'll, next.
A call nom our friend Mr.. j. R. Sim
clair who has made himself scarce
since his removal to this neighborhood
last week, was much appreciated.
See notice of the big stock sale a.
Tayior's Neck on the 18th inst. 1t will
be the place to buy fiue oxen and other
stock.
Mrs. Nathaniel Cole, from West
Virginia, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and mrs, J, B. Jarboe, st. Man
or.
..Kelly's Dream was charm and
SO is sweet little Miss Carmen Owen
who recited the attractive poem at the
McDonough Institute exercises.
Miss Mary Allison Wilmer spent last
week in Annapolis where she attended
the exercises of june week at the Naval
Academy,
Misses Katherine and Inez Posey have
returned from visit to Annapolis
where they attended the exercises of
June week at the Naval Academy.
Mr.. William T. Warburton, the Re-
publican Floor leader during the re-
cent session of the legislature delivered
the address TO the graduating class Of
the Maryland Agricultural College on
Wednesday.
There is no more gracious host than
Landlord Posey. Call at Hotel La
Plata and spend your time there if you
want everything just as you want H.
Mr.. J. R. Lawson did some good
road mending on Grange Hill but be
did not come far enough up the road.
He stated that he thought the La Plata
town limits went that far. oh no, the
town does not quite cover the EARTH
although some Of Its inhabitants think
its citizenship population Of 255is as
rich asthat OF New York.