Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1917-02-15
LOcalEise and Otherwise.


ton, visited DIR. B. Harris CamalieI
last week.
Mrs. George f. Fluery, of Her.
ring Creek, is visiting relatives in
Washington.
Miss Mary Duke. of Cross
the Bay, is visiting Mrs. Ralph
Cullinan, Beauvue.
Abraham Lincoln's birthday
was celebrated throughout the coun-
try on Monday last.
Note the new advertisement of
George G. Poverty for pulp wood,
elsewhere in this issue.
Miss Nellie Fenwick, who has
been on brief visit to relatives in
Washington, has returned.
The Hospital Five Hundred
Benefit will be held at Hotel st.
Mary's Thursday evening, Feb. 18th.
The Orphans and Commissions
ers' Courts were in session on Tues
day last and transacted routine bust
ness.
The local council of the Knights
of Columbus will meet on Thurs
day, February 22nd, in Leonard
town.
Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop
Of Washington and party, were
guests at Hotel st, Mary's, during
the week.
A party Of Leonardtown folk
attended the production Of Ben Hur,
at the National Theatre, Washing
ton, last week.
The Hollywood Community
Club will meet on Saturday, Feb.
18th, for the purpose of discussing
the tobacco problem.
Miss Eloise Moore, who has
been visiting relatives in Leonard
town, left last week for a lengthy
stay with friends in Chicago.
Mr.. Henry Loker, OF the Aus
tin-Nicols Company, New York,
spent a few days at his home in
Leonardtown during last week.
On Sunday, February 18th,
there will be service at st. Georges
Church, Poplar Hill. Rev. George
w. Hurlbut, Rector, will conduct
same.
A joint session of the Senate
and House will canvas the electoral
vote cast for President and Vice
President at the election held in
November, 1915.
II is reported that the Fifth
Maryland Regiment, stationed at
Eagle Pass, will return to Baltimore
to be mustered out Of the Federal
service in the very near future.
Mr.. Louis Abel, Of Clovis.
New Mexico, lis visiting his old
This is Mr.. Abell's FIRST
enTsfh seventeen years. His
y friends are delighted to see
him.
A supper and social evening
will be given on Monday, Feb. 18th,
al the home OF Mr.. Geo. l.. Bnckler,
Laurel Grove, Tor the benefit Of Mt.
Zion M. r. Church. All are cor
daily invited.
Tickets 70. the Alumnae Ball,
TO be held at Hotel St. Mary's on
the evening Of Feb. 10th, are to be
had at the hotels and department
stores in Leonardtown and from
members of the society.
While watching the skaters who
were enjoying the good ice on the
Bay last Tuesday evening, Master
Robert Loker walked too near
boat that had been cut out and but
for the timely assistance of Arthur
Jones, col, might have been drown
ed.
All members Of the Seventh
District Farmers Club are request
ed to be present at an important
meeting TO be held in Oakley Hall
on Saturday, Feb. 18th. Matters
OF grave importance will be discuss
ed. All tobacco growers are urged
to be present.
The cold weather has afforded
a great deal of pleasure to those who
enjoy skating. Several ineevenings
of the sport have been enjoyed on
the bay and it has proven very
profitable to those owning ice-houses,
for the ice has been thick and re-
markably clear.
An innovation at the ID. ID.
Movie performance that attracted
much enthusiastic applause and one
that will serve to rekindle the al
ready intense fame Of patriotism is
the reel furnished by the Ford Mo-
tor Company, reproducing the his
toric land marks of revolutionary
days.
In order to minimize the danger
Of fires at this most dangerous sea-
son the Commissioners of Leonard