The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-03-17
BREvITIEs

| -Lenten services at st. George 8
Chapel, Glendale. every Wednesday at
4 p m. during Lent.
| Mrs John F. Sweeney, who has
been i'll at her home near North Keys.
of pneumonia, is improving.
Mr.. Roger Crosby is i'll with ty-
phoid fever at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Crosby, near this
town.
Judge Beall on Tuesday drew the
jury for the April Term of the Circuit
Court The list appears in this issue.
Mrs. Ella Bailey is visiting her
sister Mrs. Cope Livingston, at Lang
don, D. c., at whose home the recent
arrival of a little daughter has caused
much joy.
The Novena of Grace held in St.
Mary's Church closed Sunday night af-
ter nine days services which were in
charge of Rev. Father Loughran and
his assistant, Father Novah.
-Maryl and Day will be observed by
the schools on Friday March Oath.
The topic will be 1.-THE Cornerstone of
| our Federal Union" Appropriate ex-
! ercises will be held in all the schools on
that day.
j. Enos. Ray, Jr., was elected
President of the Prince Georges Bank
of Hyattsville, at meeting of the
Directors of the Bank last Tuesday
night. Mr.. Rays election was un-
animous.
A Grand Ball will be given in Glib
bons' Hall, this town, on St. Palrick's
night, Friday. March II, for the benefit
of st. Mary's Church. Admission 25
cents. Refreshments will be served.
An Orchestra from Washington will
furnish music from 8 to IL p. m.
The Rev. l. Cody Marsh rector of
St. Barnabas church, Iceland, is suffer
ing from serious after effects of grippe
and has been ordered by his physician
to take complete rest for some weeks.
Archdeacon Williams will hold service
Sunday next at the usual hour.
Mrs. Charlton M. Clark, of Wash
ington, daughter of Mrs. Thomas
Clagett, of "Keokuk," near this town,
who was operated upon for Appendix
citis last week at Providence Hospital
Washington, is reported to be improv-
ment At the hospital it was stated
that she probably would would be well
enough to return to her home this week.
MIR. James Swain has again begun
operating an auto bus from this town
to the National Hotel, Washington,
and until further notice the following
schedule will prevail. Leave Nationai |
Hotel at 7.15 a. m leave Marlboro 8:15
a. M, leave National Hotel at 5. p. M,
leave Marlboro $50 p. m. Fare 75c |
round trip, 40c one way. Closed car
with pneumatic tires. Owner operates. |
DIR. Thomas W. Byerly, leading |
physician of Laurel, Md, waived an ex
animation Tuesday before Commission
or Bond on the charge of furnishing |
opium in violation of the Harrison Drug |
act and was held in $1,000 bail for the
action of the United States grand jury.
1t is alleged that last summer DR.. BY
erly sold an ounce of the drug to two
men for $50. The warrant was sworr
out by Internal Revenue Officer Thomas
E. Stone.
If the Pennsylvania Railroad Sys
tenn could take up all of it's tracks ano
relay them in single line, it woulo
nave enough to build standard gauge
railroad around the world and double
track it from New York to Kansas
City. The annual Record of Transpor.
tation Lines which has just been issueo
shows that the trains of this Railroad
System are now being operased daily |
over 26,705 miles of track, which gridl-
ron IL states and the District of Colum |
bia.
Thomas Williams, colored, who was
brought here from Washington last |
Friday by Constable Thomas Garrison.
is charged with having robbed stores
at Mount Rainier, Hyattsville, Bladens, |
burg, Berwyn and Riverdale. Twice |
since reaching here he managed tt
start fire in his cell. which necessitat-
ed the removal of his bedding. Thomas
was a patient in the Neutrality-suspicious.,
having been arrested for an alleged VIC.
lation of law. He was discharged from |
the hospital without trial however, an,
later was arrested on suspicion of hav |
ing robbed several stores in the county. |
The Ladies Association met OF
Monday to decide upon their Lenten
work which has nearly always beer
chiefly for some charity and at the sug-
geston of Miss Carol Wilson, who be- |
longs to club of Washington women
who are working hard for the wounded
French soldiers, our ladies concluded to
aid in this noble work and make small
pillows, pads and other needed articles,
and will meet next Monday afternoon
at Mrs. John H. Traband's to sew, af
ter collecting old, white bedspreads for
pads, odds and ends of cretone, worn
undergarments etc. Any persons wish
ing to contribute such articles will
please send them to Mrs. Mary E.
Wilson.