The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-11-17
BREVITIES

are visiting Mrs. A. R, Cheston In Phil
adelphia.
The next meeting of the Gard Club
will take place at the home of Mrs.
John H. Traband on Wednesday next
at o'clock.
Presiding Elder, DR.. H. M. Canter,
will preach at Green Mount Methodist
Church, Sunday morning, November
10Th. at II o'clock. Public cordially
| invited.
AT a meeting of the Citizens Tenn
perance Union of Prince Georges Coun-
ty, held in Washington on Saturday, it
was decided not to contest the recent
elention when the county went wet, y
by 80 votes.
Over 400 persons crowded Gibbons
Hall last Friday night and enjoyed the
comedy in acts entitled" Bachelor For
A Day. enacted by the st Bernard
Dramatic Club. The entertainment was
for the benefit of St. Mary's Church.
The ladies of St. Thomas, Parish
will have an Oyster Supper in Groom
H all on Wednesday, November 20, be-
ginning at p. m Supper 35cts. Rich
ardson's Orchestra will furnish the mu-
sic for dancing. Ice cream and cake
will also be served.
Oyster Supper and Bazaar for the
benefit of Prince Georges Library AS
ISOLATION will be held at Mitchellville
on November 25th, 1916, at M. w. A.
Hail, p. m. Supper rs cts. Admiss-
ion and dancing free.
There will be dance in Accokeek
Hall, Accokeek Md, Friday November
"a, 1916. Silesia Orchestra. Admis-
sion 25cts. Children free. Retrssh-
ments. Doors open at p. m.
Forty Hours Devotion was held in
St. Mary's Church, beginning last Sun
day with High Mass and ending Tues
day night with the Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament. Fathers Conroy,
of Bryantown; Shehan of New York
and Barley. of Baltimore officiated
Mrs. A, T. Brooke. of Washington,
spent part of last week with Mrs. Nary
E. Wilson, and Mrs. 7. Van Clagett1
and Miss Ellie D. Sasscer. She YVES
most warmly greeted by old friends,
who continue to regret that she and MIR
Brooke are no longer in this neighbor-
hood.
Miss Marian Evelyn Starks will
give a dram attic Interpretation of the
play "Fanchon the Cricket on Nov.
23rd at Odd Fellows Hall, Forestville,
Md. Admission 25cts. After enter
tainment the admission will be free
and the Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ.
E. Church will have a sale of fancy
goods and refreshments.
There will be a dance given al
Masonic Hall, Friday November oath
1916 for the benefit of the Ladies AS
ISOLATION. Refreshments, sandwiches
and coffee served. Admission p cents
Richardson's band will furnish the mu
sic, commencing at o. m. Committee
z. L. Wells, W. S. Hill, R. Ernest
Smith, John Russell, Howard Suit,
Roland Ryon.
The last lap of the Maryland fall
racing began Tuesday at Bowie and will
continue through the last Of the month,
giving the association Is days, including
two Saturdays, Fifty-four days al
ready have been used. and when the
Bowie plant gets through the total will
be 60. Havre de Grace had II, Laurel
26 and Pimlico II.
VIM. H. Moore died early Monday
morning at his home in Baltimore. He
was born in Charles county in 1888, anc
at the age of 81 went to Baltimore ano
entered the commission business at
BOT South Charles street, where he was
actively engaged for Al years. In 1865
Mr.. Moore married Alice Sophia Burch,
of Charles county. He was descend
ant of William Hanson, brother of Johr
Hanson, the president of the first United
States Congress. He was Mason, be
ing member of Waverly Lodge TO,
the last IS years.
The ladies of St. Mary's Church
will hold a card party and dance ir
Gibbons Hall on Thanksgiving evening,
November 80. Dancing will be par
/ cipated in during the entire evening,
as only one portion of the large hall
will be used by the card players, there
by affording amusement for both dan
GERS and players at the same time
There will be an abundance of goot
music, and handsome prizes for the
winning players. The public is cordially
invited.
A real touch of cold weather-the
kind that summons the remaining over
coats out of ''hock" and makes US anf
our beds feel inseparable in the morn
ing arrived Tuesday.
The cold wave came from that part
of the country that so recently chilled
Republican hopes-the wild, woolly
Northwest. High winds heralled its
arrival and added emphas;5 10 the tinge
of cold.
The warm rains and fog3 III t had
persistently chung with Us lave drifted
far out over the Atlantic.