Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1921-05-27
LOCAL BREvTIEs.

Monday next will be Decoration
Day.
Hon. Robert Grain was in La Plata
Tuesday.
The public schools of the county will
close June 10th.
DO not fali 10 dJteiIti inc pidy az tiIv
Town Hall tonight.
Mrs. Bernard A. Howard spent
Wednesday in Baltimore,
Mr.. Charles r. Stone, of Newport,
visited Baltimore during the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Thompson
spent the weekend in Washington.
Work on the State road between Al
lens Fresh and Newport has begun.
Miss Elizabeth Osborn, of Hartford
county, is visiting Miss Inez Posey.
If you want to sell your farm, list it
with S. X. Burch, Hughesville, Nd
adv.
A dance will given at Bel Alton
School Friday evening, June 10th.
Brookbank's music.
The hand Of welcome, and solicitude
for your comfort are always found at
the New Wills Hotel.
The guests of Tailor Smallwood, IN
charge OF Sheriff Goode, left Tuesday
for other places of abode.
Mr.. Brooke jenkins, OF Wilmington,
Del, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Ber-
tina Jenkins, at "Idlewild.
Attorney Richard NJ. Duvall, of the
Baltimore Bar, was among those who
attended Court here last week.
Mesdames Estelle Brady and Eliza
Taylor, OF Houston, Texas, are visit
ing their sisters, the. Misses jenkins,
this town.
Many Washington visitors enjoyed
bathing and fishing at our popular
water resorts-Chapel Point and Rock
Point Sunday last
Matthews Howard Co., Inc.n can
convince you that farming can be made
more profitable by using a "Fordson"
tractor. Call on them to explain. =
Mrs. 2. N. Thompson, of Bel Alton,
and her two bright little boys, have
returned from short visit to her mo-
ther, Mrs. A. r. Compton, in Wash
ington.
Mr.. W. ]. Smythe, of near this town,
had the misfortune Sunday last to have
his Dodge touring car destroyed 10y
fire. We have not been able to learn
the particulars.
AS we go to press our city is at the
call of the public school teachers and
children of thecounty school Rally
and ahappier aggregation ofhumanity
was never seen.
After your days work behind team
of horses, reflect upon the advantages
of having "Fordsoni tractor, and
consult "Matthews-Howard Company
Inc" about getting one. :.
McDonough Institute has garden
plants for sale, including the following
varieties of sweet potatoes; Early June
(red), Yellow Jersey, White Yam, Nan
ey. Hall and Yellow Nancemond. =.
The regular business session of the
Pomonkey Community Club will be
held at the home of Mrs. Nellie Jen-
kins, Pomonkey. Saturday, June 4, at
.2.30P. NJ. All interested are cordially
invited to attend. SEC
James Fletcher, or Morsell, a 16-
sear-old colored youth, said to have
escaped from the HOUSE Oh Neioffnh-
ton, at Cheltenham, was apprehended
near Hughesville and lodged in jail by
Sheriff Goode Wednesday.
Commencement exercises at Nc
Donough Institute will begin next
Thursday. at z. NJ, with an enter
tertainment by the primary and ele-
mentary departments. Commencement
dance will be the following night.
Bel Alton base ball team again de
feated the Charlotte Hall cadets in a
game played Saturday last on the lat
+ tens grounds b a score OF &c .
Mates, for Bel Alton, pitched his
usual good game and was we'll sup
ported by Catcher Matthews and the
rest of his team.
Mr.. Fred Mertens, Jr., the popular
proprietor OF Marshall Hall, was in La
Plata Friday. MIR. Mertens advises
US that his resort will open for the
season May 2sth He also advises us
that an additionto the dancing pavil-
ion has been made, which makes it the
largest In this section of the State.
The investment made in 'iFordson'
tractor and outfit is small in COMPARE
son TO the saving and the work accom-
plished byits use, Consult Matthews
Howard Co, Inc, for particulars.