Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1918-05-23
LocaIYise and Otherwise.


The a. registrants whose names
were published in last week.
BEACON, will leave Leonardtowr
May "a.
Miss G.. d. Gardner, Of Allan
tic City, has beer visiting
Mrs. Geo. @. beverley, Me
chanicsville.
Misses Madeline and Anits
Camalier, of Washington, attended
the Red Cross dance in Leonardtowr
Tuesday night.
-. The greatest humanitarian or
ganization--the American Red
Cross--is calling for your help this
week. Will you help?
Mr.. John CrYer, of Baltimore,
has been spending about ten days in
the county, the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Greenwich, of Medley 8
Neck.
Judge B. II. Camalier left on
Monday morning last to be in at
tendance at the May term Of court
for Charles county. now in session
at La Plata.
There will be a dance with re-
freshments at Charlotte Hall Public
School, Miss Dora Harrison, teacher,
on Friday, May gath, for the bene-
fit of the Red Cross.
An examination of applicants
for teachers certificates will be held
in the Town Hall on Frid1y and
Saturday, May Slst inst. ard June
lst prox.
Miss Catherine Mattingly and
her brother, Mr.. Robert Mattingly,
of Washington, attended the Red
Gross dance in Leonardtown Tues
day evening.
The public Athletic Meet of
the pupils of the Public Schools
will be held on the campus Of Char
lotte Hall Military Academy on
Monday, May 97th inst, 9 o'clock
p. m.
The Second District Farmers
Club will meet Saturday, May 95th,
at Poplar Hill Hall at p. m. A
full attendance is requested as time
ly subjects of Importance will be
discussed.
At 2 p. IN. Tuesday, the second
day Of the Red Gross drive, the
Seventh District had officially re-
to the county chairman that it had
raised S33l of its quota Of S345.
PatroDize home industries.
Buy your plants from Jos. NJ. Reed
81, Oraville, Md. He can be reach
cd by phone at Turner's store, and
delivery can be made by parcel post.
The Levy of 1918 closes on
Tuesday, May 2sth, and all persons
having accounts against the county
are notified to file them in the Office
of the County Commissioners before
that date.
Mr.. VIM. q. Fenwick' who
has been convalescing at his home
in Leonardtown for two months,
left last Friday to accept a position
- clerk-bookkeeper in the Govern.
ment service.
Read in this issue what Gener-
81 Pershing says of the work Of the
Red Cross in France. and then show
your appreciation by responding
literally when you are solicited for
contribution to the Second War
Fund.
The children Of Sunnyside
School, who were recently enrolled
in the Junior Red Cross, have GRO
chetted a yoke and rafiied it OF for
the benefit of their school fund,
Miss Nellie M. Tabler being the
winner.
Mr.. K. j, Plowden, of Bush
wood, has resigned his position as
Index Clerk in the Land Office at
Annapolis, and has accepted the
Southern MARYLAND agency for the
Compulsory Work Bureau.
Owing to i'll health, Mrs. J. o.
King has been obliged to resign as
chairman of the Women's Section,
Maryland Council Of Defense for
the Sixth district, aud Mrs. Fred
Wathen has been appointed in her
place.
The Seventh district was the
first to make report of actual sub
scriptions to the Red Cross Fund.
At . p. m. on Monday, Mr.. T. g.
Slingluff phoned the county chair
man that two solicitors in his dis
trict had turned in $50. That was
quick and good work.
The Eighth district has the
honor Of being the first to guarantee
10 the county chairman that its full
quota would be subscribed. This
cheering news was received from
Mrs. A. L. Hodgdon, chairman for
the 9Th district, at 1890 p. m. Mon
day, the first day Of the drive.
Tomorrow, Friday, May gath,
is the date of the regular semi
monthly dance at Morkanza. This
should bring out good crowd, as