Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1921-07-01
LOCAL BREvIIiEs.

All stores in La Plata will be closed
Monday, July 4th.
The Piney festival will be held on
Thursday, July 2sth.
Hon. w. NJ. Digges was visitor to
Washington during the week.
The tobacco crop, from present indi-
cation, will be short this year.
Monday next Inlu Ath- will he India
pendence Day-a legal holiday.
The wheat yield, we are advised, is
much shorter than was expected. y
Read the g Ford advertisement each
week: it is worth your attention. :.
Work on the State road from New
port to Aliens Fresh is progressing
rapidly.
II youswant to sell your farm, list it
with S. K. B67rh. Hughesville, Nd
adv.
Judge George NJ. Carpenter, Of Pts
gah, was visitor to the county seat
Tuesday
Mr.. p. A. Wheatley and daughter,
Miss Elise, OF Pomfret, spent Sunday
in Washington.
Messrs. B. B. Love and p. L. Graves,
of St. Mary S county, spent Wednesday
might in La Plata.
Mr.. John N. Simms, the prominept
Wayside merchant, was visitor to
La Plata Tuesday.
There will be services at Christ
Church, Wayside, Sunday morning
next, at IL O'Clock.
The hand of welcome, and solicitude
for your comfort is always found at
the New Wills Hotel.
The Misses Kimmel, of Kentucky,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Paul ID.
Brown, near Bel Alton.
The glorious rain Wednesday was a
blessing, not only to suffering human
ity, but to crops, as we'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry S. Matthews,
of Washington, spent the weekend
with relatives in the county.
Mrs. NJ. Louise Sanders has returned
20 her home, near this town, from a
visit to friends in Baltimore.
Misses Christine and Maria Green
we'll, of Leonardtown, are visiting Miss
Gladys Howard, of Waldorf.
Miss Lille Bean and her guest, Miss
Betty Pearson, of Waldorf, Are spend
ing several days in Washington.
Mrs. Lizzie Il. Howard, Mrs, Clara
Nj. Budd and Mrs. Adrian Posey we're
visitors to Washington during the
week.
Dame Rumor has it that one our
Young merchants has been struck by
Cupid's arrow. Now, don't all guess
at once.
Miss Ruth Boehm, who was the
que for several weeks OF the Misses
Hammond, this town, has returned to
her home, Strasburg, Va.
The Roamer Athletic Club, of Wash
ington, will play the Bel Alton Base
bail team at Bel Alton, Monday, July.
4th. Game called L. M.
The month of June, 1921, went down
Ii the history of U. S. Weather Bu-
reau as the dryest and hottest, since
the latter's creation, over fifty years
ago.
The Bel Alton Baseball team suf-
fered defeat at the hands OF the Lower
Marlboro team on the grounds of the
latter, Saturday last, by the score 8
to2.
LOST. Pocket Book; Automobile
0perator's License in same. Please
return to r. 4. EDMoNsToN, Tidewater
Lines, 6l3 Street, N. W., Washing
ton ID. c. Suitable reward. [2t.
Charles county papers are requested
to publish the death OF Mrs. Rose Pur-
cell, wife of William Purcell, which oc-
CURED in Washington, Monday, June
q. Mrs. Purcell was AZ years old,
The Ladies Card Club was enter
tanned Wednesday afternoon by Mps.
Paul d. Brown al her pretty and hos
pitable home, ''Causein's. Manor .
Mrs. Bernard A. Howard won the
prize.
The Supervisors OF Elections will
meet at their office In La Plata at |
o'clock, p NJ, Thursday, July 9th,
instead Of 10 O'Clock, as enormously
stated BY advertisements in our last
Issue.
Ida Garner, daughter OF jackson
Garner and Mrs. Garner, highly re-
speeted colored citizens of this town,
was one Of this years graduates from
81. Peters Catholic School, Balti-
more, Md.
Among those who attended the meet
ing here Saturday last, in the interest
Of Creamery in Southern Maryland,
we're Senator Frank Parran, OF Cal
vert county, and Messrs. Aquilla Rob.
inson, Joseph Blandford, Herman
Badenhoop and County Agent w. B.
Reseyi Of Prince Georges county,