The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-01-18
BREvITIEs

The public schools resumed work o
Monday last.
The regular January term of tn
Circuit Court will begin on Monday.
See that your live stock and poul
try do not suffer during the sever
winter weather.
Many of our people have been in
convenienced by the scarcity of coal
and fire wood is in big demand here.
The rush of the registrants to the
Court House, seeking aid in filling on
| their questionnaires, has abated.
Mrs. Walter Euwer and little sol
| have gone on a visit to Mrs. Euwer'i
| sister, Mrs. Brainard, in Jersey City.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Vogts of Wash
ington spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
R. T. Coffren, of this town.
There will be a special meeting o.
Town Commissioners at the Library a
the Court House on Saturday, the 18th
inst. at o'clock P. M to consider ways
and means for the town, and the citi
zens are requested to be present.
Mr.. Frederick Sasscer received a
cablegram from his son, Lieutenant
L. G. Sasscer, on the 9th inst, stating
that he had LANDED" somewhere ovea
there.
The Young Ladies' Guild of st. Bar
nabas Church, will give dance, at the
Grange Hall, near Iceland, on Satur-
day, Jan 10Th, at o'clock p. m. Rich
ardson's Orchestra. Refreshments.
Admission 35cts.
A Farmers Meeting will be held at
the Grange Hall in MitcheIlville, on
January 26th. There will be fore
noon and afternoon session and any
one interested in farming is cordially
invited. Speakers from the Extension
Service of the Maryland State College
will be present.
The shareholders of the First
National Bank of Southern Maryland
at their annual meeting on the 9Th inst.
elected the same board of Directors for
the ensuing year and voted to increase
the Capital Stock from $4,000. 90 to
$50, 10000.
Miss Bertha Thorp, who was well
known in this community, died at the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home in
Tacoma, D C. on Jan. 7th- last, aged
II years. She was stricken with par
alysis at the close of the evening ser
vice on Dec. Both, and never rallied.
Mount Rainier will entertain the
regular January meeting of the County
Council of Defense in Star Hall on Sat
urday, January 26, at 10 o'clock. Fol
lowing reports from the Vice Chairman,
a program of addresses will be in order,
Mrs. Flora Thompson, an authority on
women in agriculture, being among
those to appear. The meeting set for
Dodge Park has been indefinitely post
poned until the roads are in better con
dition.
Corporal Hugh Young. a son of
Mr. Thos. Young of Aquasco and a
graduate of Washington College, is
substituting for Miss Suffin at the
Marlbsro High School. Corp. Young
enlisted with the Marines in April
last, and has been transferred to the
Aviation Corps at Princeton whittier he
will go at the end of his furlough on
Feb. End.
The Prince Georges County colored
school teachers have been called to
meet at Fairmount Heights, Maryland.
Friday, February l. 1918, at O'Clock
A. M, sharp. The trustees of the
colored schools and the colored farmers
are invited and urged to attend the
Meeting: Supt E. S. Burroughs, State
supervisor, ]. Walter Huff lgton; AS
sstant Secretary of War, Emmett J.
Scott, and others will be present.
Miss Elizabeth Lansdale Du Val
laughter of Mr.. E. B. Du Val, of Bal
timore, took up wireless telegraphy be
cause she wanted to "do something
vital" She tried to join the Navy, but
failing, she got a position with the
Marconi Company as an operator on a
merchant ships. She has complete
charge of a vessels wireless at certain
hours. Her picture was in recent
issue of the New York Evening Sun.
Miss Du Val has many relatives and
friends in this County.