The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-01-09
BREVETIES

Mrs William H. Harper spent New
Years with her daughter, Mrs. William
S. Hill.
Miss Mary w. Merrick has gone tt
Baltimore for the remainder of the win
ter
Mrs. Frank Legg, of Kent Island
is visiting her sister. Mrs. John H. Ira
band, in this town.
There will be a meeting OF the
Town Improvement Club on Wednesday
January IA, at half past three o'cloch
at Mrs. Mary E. Wilson's.
Our public schools will reopen or
Monday next, after being closed fol
the holidays. The teachers are attend
ing an institute this week in Washing
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Colburn, of Arbutus,
have announced the engagement OF
their daughter, Emily, and Mr.. Mlliaro
Traband, of Baltimore. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Traband, of this town.
In our next issue we will publish
the tax sales. and as our space will De
entirely taken up, we request our cor
respondents to hold their items for the
issue of the 23rd.
The election held by the qualified
voters of this town on Monday after
noon resulted IN the following being
elected Town Commissioners for two
wears: John H. Traband, George Buck
and w. T. DAVIS. There were no con-
tests.
Mrs. Mary E. Wilson entertained a
few ladies at cards on New Years Day.
Those present were: Mrs. c. V. A.
Clagett, Mrs. E L. Bruun, Mrs. A. L.
Brooke, Mrs. W. T. Davis, Mrs. L. A.
Griffith, Mrs. G. W. Wilson, Miss Min
ME Chew, Miss Ellie D. Sasscer and
Miss Merrick.
The Hyattsville Town Council has
appointed a committee to wait upon the
officials of the Chesapeake Beach Rail-
road Company to urge the restoration
of the service between the District of
Columbia line and Hyattsville which
was discontinued several months ago.
The claim is made that the residents OF
Hyattsville and the thickly settled por-
lions in the upper section of this county
are put to great Inconvenience. annoy
ance and discomfort in reaching here
by being compelled to travel through
Washington in order to reach the Dis
trict Line to take the train.
Work on the Marlboro and Wash
ington State Road has been discontin-
ued until Spring. 1t is much regretted
that the contractors did not get all the
cement laid before the work was stop
ped as persons driving have to travel
over the unfinished portion (from the
colored Methodist Church to the new
Catholic church, on the outskirts OF
Forestville. This work was started
last April and we hope it will be COM
pleted this year. The new cement road
from Meadows to the colored Meuho-
dist Church in Forestville is said to be
very fine.
Thieves entered the postoffice at
Mount Rainier, of this county Monday
morning, blew open the door of the
three-ton safe and extracted money
to the value of 5000 The postofice is
located in small frame building in a
thickly settled portion of the town, but
so quietly was the job executed that
no one heard the explosion, and the
robbery was not discovered until Post
master Edward Walsh arrived. The
driver of bread wagon saw two men
hurrying away from the town toward
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. turnpike
about $3.50 o'clock in a buggy. Private
books and papers of the postmaster
were strewn about the floor. Postoffi-
&c officials were in Mount Rainier Mon
day afternoon. and the police in nearby
towns and counties have been notified.
The work was apparently done by ex-
perts, nitroglycerine being used.