Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1921-01-14

4 Cashier r. J. Mates, of the South
ern Maryland National Bank, spent
SUNDAY with his parents at Indian
Head.
Have you paid your 1920 taxes II
not do 50 before February LIST. unless
you want to be advertised as delin-
quent.
A number of used "Fordn cars in
good shape can be bought OF Matthews
Howard Co., Inc, at very reduced
prices.
Open an account with the Southern
MARYLAND National Bank of La Plata.
No account is too small that it should
not be safely kept.
Mrs. Hill Hamilton very pleasantly
entertained the Ladies' Card Club
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Walter
J. Mitchell won the prize.
Read the ad. in another column OF
Murphy Bros, at Pomonkey, Nd, and
grasp the opportunity they offer for
is days to buy goods at cost.
A marriage license was ISSUED in
Washington Friday last to F. Ray
mond Mudd, OF Baltimore, Nd, and
Emma E. Brent. of Waldorf, Md,
The many friends Of Rev. Father
Bradley. pastor of Newport Church,
who has been quite sick, are glad 70
learn he is much better and out sgain.
The meeting of the stockholders OF
the Southern Maryland Bank has been
postponed to January 18th, on account
OF death in the family of the Presi-
dent.
Messrs. A. E. Wetherald, of Hughes
vile, and E. B. Selby, Of Rock Point,
local distributors, attended the Moline
Truck and Tractor School in Balti-
more last week.
must make room for Spring Goods.
Cut prices on all lines. Special reduc.
tion on Silk, Millinery, Coats, Etc.
Come quick and get your choice.
l. NJ. KERR, Waldorf, Nd.
Mrs. Thomas Arnst and little daugh-
ter. Catherine, OF Westmoreland Co..
Va, have returned to their home, after
short visit to Mrs. Arnst's mother,
Mrs. NJ. HALEY, this town.
According to Comptroller Lees first
Observation-Disclosures OF school funds,
1921, Charles county's allotments are
as follows School find, $7,024.98;
books, 1888 Al; supplies sl94.47.
Rev. Father Kreis, who has been
quite i'll at st. Thomas Rectory, was
removed to Georgetown Hospital d r.
ing the week. However, at this writ
ing, we are glad TO state he is iaeroy-
ing.
The season for trapping musk rats
and other fur-bearing game opened
january /, and, while the game is said
TO be plentiful, the season does not
promise TO be profitable, owing TO the
great drop in the prices OF fur,
These are the days when fires arc
costly. II your property is not in
sured and fire visits you, all may be
lost. Take time by the forelock by in
surfing your property through South
ern Maryland insurance Agency.
Upon commitment OF Justice II. q.
Robertson, John Roy, coiored.
charged with burglarizing and rob-
bling the store OF William j. Simpson.
at Lothair, on the night OF january |,
was lodged in jail BY Sheriff Goode
Friday last to await the action of the
grand jury.
The war being waged by Dan Cupid
on the school teachers of Charles
X county, from an educational stand
point, is assuming rather alarming
( proportions, no less than six OF the
fair sex having made the supreme
sacrifice ~ since the beginning Of the
scholastic year in September.
Two hundred and forty hopsheads.
ISL, 80 pounds of Southern MARYLAND
tobacco, average price .263 per pound,
and 10 hogsheads, II, 1875 pounds Of
upland tobacco, average price, 1850
per pound, we're sold during the month
oi December, according TO the sum
binary of returns by the selling agents
of leaf tobacco on or through the Bal
fimore market, reported to the Mary.
lsga SEafe Board Of Agriculture,