Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-04-23
LOCAL BREvl1sEs.

The New Wills Hotel I the Travellers
Home.
Attend the Sheep Growers meeting
tomorrow.
The official season for fly swatting
opened Wednesday.
Cow Peas and Soy Beans for seed. =
La PLATA MILLING Co. ladv.
Mr.. Il. Wright Wills and son, of l;el
Alton, visited Baltimore Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Wills Posey were
visitors to Washington on Saturday.
There will be dance at Dentsville
public school, Friday night, April 30.
If you want to sell your farm, list il
with S. X. Burch, Hughesville, Nd.
adv.
Mrs. Blanche Yates spent Sunday
and Monday with relatives in Balti-
more.
The new implement building of Mes
srs. Martin & Mitchell is nearing COM
pletion.
Miss Alice Lomax spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. F. Lomax.
Miss Constance Berry. of Washing
ton, formerly OF this county, is spend
ing the week with relatives here.
Mr.. Frank'F. Jenkins, OF Whining
ton, Del spent Sunday last with his
mother, Mrs. Bertha jenkins, at Idle
Wild
Attend the Robinson sale tomorrow
and avail yourself of the opportunity
of supplying your farm with first class
materials.
Mr.. Robert S. Jameson, of the firm
of Edelen Bros Commission Mer-
chants, spent the weekend with rela-
tives in the county.
Mrs. G. r. Powell and little daugh-
ter, Jeane, who have been visiting Mrs.
Powell's parents in this town, returned
to their home in Baltimore Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. S. Goldsmith are
now located on the Chapman farm,
called 'Home Again. near Bel Alton,
where they will be glad to see their
many friends.
Messrs. r. Laurie Mitchell and Fl.
H. Hawkins, of La Plata, were among
those who attended the dinner given by
the Southern Maryland Society in Bal
timore last week.
The meeting OF the Archdeaconry OF
Southern Maryland, held at Christ
Episcopal Church, this town, Wednes-
day last, was attended by large and
representative gathering
Owing to the publication of tax sales
this week. we are obliged to curtail our
reading matter. However, sales of
this kind, as rule, prove of as much
interest to the curious as to those con-
cerned.
Capt. Henry Z. Lackey has been de-
tached from duty as naval inspector of
ordnance in charge of the naval prov
ing grounds at Indian Head, and or
dered to assume command of the Z. S.
S. San Francisco.
Plant and cultivate your corn with a
Moline Universal Tractor. Steadier
than horses for planting, and culti-
Yates more than four men and four
horses with hand cultivators. Let us
demonstrate. Selby Brothers, Agents,
Rock Point, Md.
Messrs. P. r. Wills, Bel Alton; f.
Il. Mattingly, Indian Head; p. A.
Wheatley, Pomfret; Fl. r. Bowling,
Bryantown; Robert Grain, Washing
ton, and r. NJ. Swami, Wicomico,
were among the prominent visitors to
the county seat on Tuesday.
Nowhere in Southern Maryland will
you find a finer and better selected line
OF Mems, Young Mems and Boys
Ready-to- Wear Spring Clothing, Fur
nishings, Shoes, Hats, Ladies' MILF
merry, etc, than at p S Bowling u
Co.. new store in La Plata. Call on
them and be convinced that we know
whereof we speak. lady.
Mr.. Edward A. Fuller, editor of the
Ilyattsville Independent, is touring
Southern Maryland in the interest of
the forthcoming Salvation Army drive,
May 10th to goth. It is Mr. Fuller
object to form organizations in st.
Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties
for the purpose of successfully prose-
cutting the undertaking.