The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-08-31
BREVITIES

daughter, Mlss Katherine Brooke, an
Miss Katherine Billopp, have been a
Virginia Beach for two weeks.
MIR. Charles CIagett will give
dance at Masonic Hall tomorrow even
ing in honor of his sisters, Mlsse
Rachel and Louise.
Miss Emily Crowley and Maste
Charles Crowley, of Baltimore, have
been visiting at the home Of their IN
Gle, MIR. John IL. Trablnd.
A new line of millinery is on dis
play at our store. Up to date style:
and our prices are right. Call and IN
spect same NJ. J. q NJ. r. Edlavltch
MIR. and Mrs. Charles binger ant
family and Mrs. Wesley Binger anc
children, o. Halls, have returned from
a pleasant motor trip visiting relatives
in PennsS lvania.
Mr.. al d Mrs j. Dom Bowling anc
family are moving to the "Sttawbcrry
| Hill farm. "BoWling Heights has
! been purchased by Mr.. and Mrs Geo' ge
Swanson of North Dakot@, who will take
! possession September list. This is one
of the largest and prettiest estates in
the County.
MIR. and Mrs. r. T. Coffren an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Magdaline B., to Mr.. james
E. Vogts, formerly of this town. The
wedding will take place in the early
fall.
Mrs. Tunstall Smith, who has been
visiting Mrs. William Aylett at New
port News, Va, returned Monday, and
will spend the late season at North
ampton, the estate of her brother,
Lord Fairfax.
Miss Susanna Hall, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Hall, sustained a
severe cut by falling against a glass
door on Wednesday afternoon last.
She lost great deal of blood from the
artery in her wrist before the flow was
stopped by DR.. Griffith who rendered
medical assistance.
There will be no primary election
in Kent county this year. There was
no opposition ticket offered in either
party therefore there was no primary
election. Both the Democrats and Re-
publcans have nominated full tickets
and the voters must make their choice
between these two tickets.
while returning from a days out
ing early Friday morning last, Mr..
Lewis Branson's machine, containing
him and his father and mother crashed
into telephone pole near Odd Fellows
Hall, Forestville, and injured them all
quite seriously. Mrs. Branson was the
worst injured, sustaining a fractured
jaw bone. We understand she is i'm
proving.
Francis S. Carmody, chairman of
the Republican State Central Commit
tee filed with the Board of Election
Supervisors Wednesday affidavits that
the certificates filed by Edward T.
Shea, VIM. B. Fenwick and William J.
Conway, for members of the State
Central Committee, were illegal, as the
affidavits accompanying them were
acknowledged by notary public for
the District of Columbia, and that in
the body of the certificates there was
no statement as to where the affidavits
were executed. The question of the
eligibility of Fenwick, Shea and Con-
way was referred to Attorney General
Richie for decision.
The members of the Seat Pleasant
Fire Company and Community Well
fare League are working day and night
to make the Carnival they are plann-
| ing to hold on the 3rd, 4th. 5th and 9th
of September, that largest affair of its
kind ever held in Prince Georges coun-
| ty. Every member of the Company
has had something to do in arranging
| for the Carnival. The carpenters have
| been busy making the stands, while the
painters have been decorating the inte-
rior of the Fire Department and paint
ing the wood work of the stands. The
program and publicity committees have
been busy arranging a program that
will be a credit to the Company.
| William Brooks, colored, and four
children, of Paramount Heights, are
dead as result of an automobile con-
tanning him and his wife and seven
children being struck by the through
eleven o'clock Washington Chesapeake
Beach train on Sunday last. The ac-
cident occurred at the crossing near the
station. The machine which was driv-
en- by man named Sergeant was hired
by Brooks to take him and family tc
some relatives at Nottingham where
they intended spending week Some
forty feet from the machine which wa:
completely demolished. Those who
escaped death are very i'll in Wash
ington hospital. Brooks is said to have
been an energetic man and kept store
at Paramount Heights.
Walter Brooke Hunter, Jr., eldel
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brook
Hunter, of Hyattsville, is private il
the Richmond Howitzers, Battery A
First Battalion Field Artillery, Virgin
National Guard, at Fort Oglethorpe
Ga. He served with Company F. Firs
Maryland Infantry, on the border las
summer at Eagle Pass, Texas, and ha
an honorable discharge from that com
pany. Prior to his enlistment in tn
Richmond Howitzers he was employe
in the document division of the Govern
ment Printing Office as skilled labor
err. He is 10 years of age and is tn
great grandson of John Chapma
Hunter, of Fairfax County, Va, VIII
uas in the Revolutionary War and tn