Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1913-04-24
Saint Mary 5 Beacon.
COUNTY NEWS.
LocalVise and Otherwise.

elsewhere.
Work on the upper section of
the state road is being rapidly push
ed forward.
Miss Nellie Fenwick, of
Leonardtown, is visiting relatives
in Washington.
Mr.. John N. Fowler, of
INTERCHANGEABLE, has purchased a
Ford Touring Car.
Mr.. Jos. F. Neal, of Leonard
town has recently received a cargo
of North Carolina lumber.
The Orphans and Commission
ers' Courts were in session on Tues
day and both had busy sessions.
Miss Lottie May Fenwick, of
Washington, is visiting friends
and relatives in Leonardtown.
The Board of Trustees of Char
lotte Hall Military Academy met
at that institution on Tuesday last.
The residence of Mr.. Fabian
F. Cough, of Leonardtown, has
been improved by new coat of
paint.
The we'll in the Court House
yard is being re-bricked and a new
pump will be installed. This will
be of great convenience to the pub
lie.
The game Of base ball scheduled
to take place last Saturday between
the Leonard Hall and the Kinsale
High School mines, was postponed
until Saturday, the 2eth, inst.
On Monday, April 2sth inst.
the Matthew'S Greenwell Implement
Co. will give demonstration of
cooking. An expert from Che Great
, Majestic Range Factory will con-
duct the demonstration.
The Stockholders of the
Leonardtown Bank of the Eastern
Shore Trust Co. held their annual
meeting at their banking house on
Tuesday last. Directors and officers
were elected. The shareholders
and their friends were entertained at
dinner at Hotel Lawrence. An
account of the meeting, received too
late for this issue, will appear next
week,
On Monday, the IA, inst, Mrs.
Martin Latham, of near ClementF,
had her right hand nearly severed
from the wrist by the top of jar
breaking of and the glass cutting
vail the tendons and large artery.
She was taken to Providence Hospi-
tai, Washington, where it is hoped
the wound will be healed and the
use of her hand regained.
Mr.. Robert Loker, of Leonard
town, has purchased of DIR. L. Z.
Payne, the building lot on Washing
ton street, near the residence Of
Mr.. Geo. p. Loker. Mr.. Loker ex-
poets m the near future to erect a
handsome home on the property.
1t is with very great pleasure that
we note such improvements, as it
evidences a kindling of interest in
developing our good old home town.
Mr.. Leon Dubois of st. Mary's
County is seeking a diplomatic post
and in company with Congressman
Frank o. Smith, called on Secr~ tary
of State Bryan on Friday ] It'll. inst,
when the claims Of the aspirant were
presented. Mr.. Dubois was born
in France and has been engaged
for many years in England in a
banking and exporting firm and came
to this country about 10 years ago,
making this county his home. He
has family of ten children living
10 the United States, is fluent
linguist, good democrat and gave
good account of himsel while fact
ing as magistrate under the late
Austin L. Crothers' administration
At a meeting of the Board OF
Directors of st. Mary's Hospital,
held on Wednesday last, DR.. Carrie
Martin, a graduate physician, Johns
Hopkins University, and a graduati
trained nurse Of the Maryland Gen.
eral Hospital, Baltimore, was. ap
pointed Superintendent, and Mis-
Louie L. Moore, Assistant Super.
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