The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-19
BREvITIEs

DIR. Charles A. Wells and Mrs
Wells are at the Panama Pacific Elk
position in San Franc isco, California.
The Oyster Lunc h at ST. Barnabas
Hall, near Iceland, has been postponed
from November 18th to Saturday tn
Goth.
Thanksgiving Day being holiday,
the Postoffice here will be open the
usual holiday hours only, and the rura
carriers will not serve their routes.
Mrs. Ida Hill Bowie announces the
engagement of her daughter, Emily
Dolores, to Mr.. Robert w. Hunter.
The wedding will take place in Deem
Der.
-Mizphah Rebecca Lodge, No Sc
will give a Masquerade Dance at Odd
Fellows Hall, Forestville, on Thanks
giving Night. November rs. Admis-
sion Csc. Good music in attendance.
Refreshments served.
Miss M. B. Chew. of Upper MARI
boro, spent the weekend at Port De-
post. Md, where her nephews, Richard
C. Zantzinger and Otway b. Zantzing
er, of Hyattsville, Md, are students at
the Tome School.
Miss Katherine Wilson, daughter,
of the late Mr.. w. H. Wilson. and
Mrs. Maggie Wilson, of this town, was
married Wednesday evening to Mr..
j. Everett Suit, son of County Com.
missioner j. J. Suit, Rev. G. J.
Loughran, of St. Mary's Catholic
Church this town, officiating.
The attention of our readers is
called to the fact that the Baltimore
firm of Likes, Berwanger & Co. is be-
ing dissolved. For many, many years
this old, reliable firm has catered to the
needs of the men of this community,
and now their high-grade stock can be
had at sacrifice prices. See their an
uouncement in this issue.
In the Circuit Court, Anne Arundel
county, Meter Jones entered a plea OF
guilty of the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses from William G.
byron and was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. Jones was caught
cashing a betting ticket at the Laurel
race track on October Is, of this year,
after he had changed the number on
the ticket so as to bring it within the
winning class when, as matter Of fact
1t was a losing ticket.
Temporary construction work was
begun on the proposed line OF the
Washington, Westminster and Gettys-
ourg Electric Railway on Thursday.
The first pile was driven tor the bridge
over the branch at Brentwood, this
county. 1t Is the intention of the COM
pany, we believe to locate the terminal
at or near the Brentwood freight sta
zion. The line could continue through
Mt. Rainier via Valley avenue, making
connection at the New York avenue
bridge, thence to 18th street, Washing
ton.
Competition to the w. B. & A.
Electric Line between Annapolis and
W ashington, is promised by the West
Shore Transit Company, which has an
bounced that it will established line
Of automobile buses by way of Mt.
Lion and Marlboro. The management
promises it will cover the distance in a
shorter time than the electric cars:
that the fare will be lower and that the
change of cars will also be avoided. II
Is stated that the cars will be in opera
ton by a week or ten days before
Christmas.
Register of Wills Hickey had a
narrow escape from serious injury re
Gently when his nice little automobile
slipped over a steep embankment near
old Seat Pleasant and rolled to the bot
tom pinning him beneath the machine.
Mr.. John ". Kaldenback, who was rid
ing with him at the time, crawled out
and assisted MIR. Hickey to. extricate
himself. The road is very narrow at
this place and it is said this was the
third machine to 60 over the place.
Both escaped injury.
q AS result of collapse of scat
fold on a church in Washington last
Friday, Harry B. Belt, carpenter, of
Riverdale, and John Silk, stonemason
of Towson, we're killed, and colored
laborer seriously injured. The men
were at work on the scaffold at the
time. They fell about 60 feet and were
pinioned under the wreckage, making
it necessary to remove quantity of
scaffolding before they could be extri-
Gated. Mr.. Belt died about two hours
after the accident. He was buried in
Ivy Hill Cemetery, Laurel, and is sur
vived wife and one son.
Horsemen Hit Hard by Fire at