Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-04-30
LOCAL BREvIlEs.

The New Wills Hotel r. the Travellers
Home.
The price of sugar has taken another
jump skyward.
The primary election will held Mon
day next, May 4th.
Mr.. w. W. Berry spent the we *
end in Washington.
Cow Peas and Soy Beans for seed. -
La PLATA MILLING Co. lady.
The Commissioners and Orphans
Courts will be in session Tuesday
The road member will be most well
come visitor to the Fourth District.
DR.. George o. Monroe and family
motored to Washington on Saturday.
Mr.. p. A. Wheatley, of Pomfret, was
a visitor to the Capital City during the
week.
If you want to sell your farm, list it
with S. K. Burch, Hughesville, Nd
adv.
The good weather last Sunday
brought many city tourists to the
county.
Misses Anna and Eleanor Brown
spent Sunday last at their home in
this town.
Mrs. L. r. Howard, we regret to
learn, has been quite sick during the
past week.
Republicans, attend the primaries,
and vote for Gen. Leonard Wood for
President
Read the new adv. of W. A. Smoot
& Co., the Alexandria VA lumber
merchants.
The young folks enjoyed delightful
dance in the Town Hall Saturday
evening last.
Mrs. Margaret Strong of Plainfield,
N. j., is visiting the family of Mr..
Adrian Posey.
Messrs. J. d. Robinson and Harry
E. Graves motored to Washington on
Saturday last.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Arthur Gardiner are
rejoicing over the safe arrival of
little Miss Gardiner,
Miss Frances Morrow, of Washing
ton, was a guest OF Miss Louise Mat
thews during the week.
With the May term of Court near at
Hldlut seven piASOuNIS llc III tut COuHlN
jail awaiting their fate.
MIR. Daniel Mulcahy, Of Baltimore,
was a guest during the week of Rev
Father Bradley, OF Newport.
Miss Constance Berry has returned
to her home in Washington, after Wis
iting relatives in the county.
Mrs. Frank Martin and little son, of
loft al 7 q vi hn
mer's father, Mr.. r. H. Turner.
The Improvements recently made to
the banking room of the Southern Md.
National Bank have been completed.
The Southern Maryland National
Bank, in its enlarged quarters, is
ready to serve the public in every way.
Messrs. John Robertson and Leon
ard Ritter, of Washington, spent Sun
day with their respective parents in
this town.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Cecil, of Great
Mills, ST. Mary's County, passed
through La Plata Sunday last, en-
route to Washington.
We regret to learn that two children
of former Deputy-Sheriff Robert h.
Cooksey are i'll with pneumonia, and
wish them a speedy recovery.
Mr.. William c. Ferguson, of Balti-
more, visited the county during the
week and, as usual, received a warm
reception from his many old friends.
Mr.. p. T. Graves, travelling sales
man Tor the we'll known Baltimore
firms of Clarke & Jones and Red "C''
Oil Mfg. Co, was in La Plata last
week.
Queer, what scramble our Demo-
cratic friends are making for "lost
cause, as is Witnessed by the fight for
the Fifth District Congressional nomi-
nation ?
Master Harold Howard. son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph II. Howard, of Wal
dorf, is quite sick at the Emergency
Hospital in Washington. We wish
him speedy recovery.
Hon. Philip D. Laird, former chair
man of the Public Service Commits
sion, who represented Montgomery
County four times in the Maryland
Legislature, being Speaker of the
House in 1915, died at his home in
Rockville Tuesday night. He was 70
years old.
Mesdames William G. Bond, Louis
v. Hannah, Frank Parker, B. A.
Howard, Mrs. Mamie de Roode, of
Baltimore: Mrs. Margaret Strong. Of
Plaintield, N. j.; Misses Inez and Bet
tie Osborne, of Havre de Grace; Laurel
and Cecile Bond, of Baltimore, and
Frances Morrow, of Washington, were
house guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian
Posey, 10 attendance at the wedding of
their daughter, Miss Mary Regina, to
Mr. Iiar1 via Turnar