Saint Mary's beacon., 1914-07-30
Cardinal Gibson recently celebrat.
ed his eightieth birthday.


On Tuesday last the Supervisor,
of Election met and named judges anC
clerks of election.
The season for hook and line fish
ing has opened. Fair catches hav,
been reported.
The festival and tournament a
Our Lady's Chapel on Tuesday las
was well attended.
The church festivals at Newtowr
and st. Johns were great successe,
socially and financially.
Miss Annie r. Graves, of BaIti
more, is spending the summer at hel
home in Mechanicsville.
Miss Mabel Raley, OF Washing
ton, is visiting her sister,, Mrs. Chas
b. McCully, Leonardtown.
The Commissioners and Orphans
Courts were In session on Tuesday
and transacted routine business.
Mr.. James Linahan, of Pittsburg
Pa, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. F.
+. Greenwell, of Leonardtown.
Lieut.. Frank r. Foxwell, Paymas
ter U. s. N, is visiting his parents
Capt. and Mrs. Thos. +. Foxwell.
Mrs. Il. ii. Camalier and Mis-,
Eleanor Carhalier, motored to- Wash
ington on Wednesday morning last.
The Maryland Road Commission
has ordered the arrest of persons op.
Grating cleated-wheel traction engines
on State roads.
John a. Fowler, of Mechanics.
vile, has been named as tax super.
visor for st. Mary's county, at a sal.
ary of $500.
MIR. Leo s. Knott, of Trent Hall.
made $50 bushels of wheat from 81
acres, which was threshed in one day
by MIR. 5. B. Burch.
We understand that a movement
is on foot by the Town Commissioners
of Leonardtown to provide some facill-
tiles for fighting fires.
Miss Alice and Bernadine Marsh,
OF Washington are visiting their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A.
Fenwick, at Hotel st. Mary's.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. &. Livingston.
Mr. and Mrs. Plankington and Mr..
and Mrs. Friend, all of Washington,
spent the week end in Leonardtown.
Henry Campbell, colored, commit
ed to jail on charge of attempting to
criminally assault two colored girls.
was last week released on 500 bail.
Miss Sallie Pillsbury one of our
Oldest residents, died at the home of
her brother, Mr.. George Pillsbury.
in Medley's Neck, on Wednesday last.
Rev. Father John La Fargo, s. j..
has returaed from an extended visit to
Philadelphia. Father La Fargo says
he became real home sick" while
away.
The Misses Adele, Helen, Martha
Lee and Master AloysiuS Drury, oi
Baltimore, are guests of their uncle.
Mr.. Phillip e. Drury, of near Glenn
ents.
Mrs. Zach Graves, who was oper-
ated on in Baltimore, two weeks ago
for appendicitis. is very much im-
proved and is expected home in few
weeks
Miss Addie Lynch, who has been
visiting relatives in the lower section
of the county, has returned. She was
accompanied by Miss Edith Evans, ol
Pearson.
How long will the supply of gaso.
line lastr asks an automobile writer
AS rule it lasts until you get on q
county road forty miles from any sup
ply station.-Baltimore American.
Now that the United States anC
Mexican war scare is in the way of q
speedy settlement, the flare lines il
our daily papers and pattern-outsider.
will be taken up by the Austrian
Servian war scare.
Mr.. Joseph Readmond, died at hi.
home in Medley's Neck, on Thursda,
last. He was highly respected ant
prosperous farmer, about 40 years o
age, and is survived by wife and two
children.
Miss Maud Jarboe, of Washing
ton, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. H. =
Jarboe, of near Leonardtown. Mr.
JarbOe has been dangerously i'll fo
sometime past, and his many friends
are pleased TO know of his rapid i'm
provemen..
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Cryer, O
Baltimore, who have been spendin,
the past two weeks with friends il
Medley's Neck, are the guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. Jos. NJ. Mattingly, a
Peterborough" this week. Mr.
Cryer is in the Internal Revenue ser
vice in Baltimore.
Congressman Frank o. Smith. il
circular letter asking the support o
the democratic voters at the comins
primaries enumerates the many
things be has accomplished fol-
his constituents in the Fifth District
and claims he will be able to SHOW
even greater results If returned.
The population of Maryland, &C
cording to the estimates of the Depart
ment of Commerce, is l,34l, ,075, an in
crease of Is, 729 in four years. Tn,
population of the 4s States of tn
Union Is now placed at 9s, 81, ,s24, an.
of the United States, including its is
lands and other POSSESSIONS at l0l,