Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1912-01-18
pt Mary $ Beacon.
5UNTY NEWS.
EOcalEiSe and Otherwise.

Our young people and some old
ones loo are enjoying the coasting on
the snow and ice-covered hills.
We have been obliged to hold for
our next issue several conmunica-
tions OF esteemed correspondents.
We invite especial attention 10 the
Political Advertisement" OF the
Anti-Saloon League OF Maryland.
The present Geld snap is reviving
memories Of the fam rus Winter OF
1856 in the minds OF our oldest In
habitsnts.
W. V. Waters. our local mail con-
tractor, is having che mails carried
now in sleighs-an easier and quick.
or method OF transit than wheeled
vehicles.
Misses Cleveland and Mira r.
Canter, OF Charlotte Hall. have re-
turned from q pleasant visit 70 thsir
brother, Mr. James r. Canter, OF
Washington.
Buz7ards, our aerial scaveugers.
are suffering and dying from cold
and famine and travellers report
their dead bodies being seen in df.
fcrent localities.
Mrs. William Abel, OF P..tuxept
District, who died recently al her
husbands residence, was buried
last Monday al ST. Johns. May
she rest 10 peAcel
Few remember when thicker ice
was harvested in ibis section.
Second crops have been cut from
some ponds ard good ice bas been
gathered from she big run"
Delegate Walter B. Dorsey came
home last Friday ard returned TO his
post Of duty on Monday We 70
gret not being able TO see him so as
to give his views OF life at Anna.
polls.
DIR. W'n. II Stone, formerly OF
this county, who for the plst ten
years has been a resident OF Jack
sonville, Fla, died In that city on
the 9th inss1nI, aged seventy.
one years.
"A merciful man is n erciiul 10
beast" and we hope every man,
u.Soman and child in St. Nary's eoup
fil be merciiul 70 beasts and
during this servers weather.
} and project them.
During the cold wave, our house.
lders have have bad cons dersbe
puble with their water pipes and
~ ma hines. Few 81. Mary 8 snun.
uses are built 10 Withstand
iFspell Of cold weather.
litigation is tied up BY she ice.
IFfew steamers are now leaving
fillmore Our STEAMBOATS, are mob
sdDninR AID 10 consequences ihs
Mechspicsville railroad is our only
connection with the outsids world.
Attend the Supper al Hotel 81.
Mays, Leonardsown, " be given
under the auspices Of 81. Mary's
Council. X. OF q. You will enjoy
real good time and hrst-class ban.
quet. The price of admission is
but rs cents.
The merry jiogle OF sleigh bells
is heard in the land. The jingle,
however is not confined 10 sleigh
bells, for COW. bells and nll oshsr
kinds OF bells are brought into re-.
QUESTION. SleiRhing withouI bellies
is not chi dyed by our beAux.
Recently. while coming ashore
from his vessel. an unknown drodgS-
boz VRp plain slipped on the ice and
fading on an oyster shell, imbadded
in the ice, cut Of his kneecsp and
was so seriously ipj ired that be had
to be seut 10 hospital. Accident
happen ed near Ewell's shipysrd
We return thanks 10 Hon John
f. Weyler, Warden OF the Mary
land Penitentiary, for a copy ofhis
report. The Penitsntiary is now
In its hundreih year. having been
established ia 1911, There are
twenty natives Of ST. Mary 8 county.
now confined there. fourtsen OF
whom were sentenced by this Cir
cult Court Will Hill. celered,
aged "a. a native OF ST. Mary's
county, died In ihe penitsntiary OF
pulmonary tuberculosis. June 10,
1911.
The Democratic caucus at.Anna
polls last Monday night nominated
Gen. Murray Vandiver for State
Treasurer by vote Of 70 70 8.
State Senator Blair Lee led ths
hOhk a0ainak Gon Vandiwar and