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VOL. XXVIII. LA PLATA, MARYLAND, SEPTEMBER 28, 1919. tarovemeivPS' m. CONCRETE improvements make your place modem; they indicate progress, success and prosperity.

They help you make more money; make your work easier and let you work quicker. They make a farm an efficient business establishment I And they are not expensive. Build with Concrete and you build but once I Concrete Improvements are strong as solid rock, and as Concrete construction is the best, easiest and cheapest. method of building any kind of a farm structure; under, on, or over the ground. Concrete never needs repairs.

Never warps, rusts, rob or decays. Absolutely proof against wind, water, fire, rab and disease vermin. Cannot be blown down or burned down. You can build practically any kind of a. stmcture with Concrete.

You can rebuild your bam into a new, modem Concrete building at smaO expense. A Concrete feeding floor will save enough in feed alone to pay for itself a short time; keep stock healthier and more productive. I AND La Plata Milling Inc. I La Plata, Maryland I SECUIITT CEMENT AND LIME STONI CEMENT I Protect Your Farm Products Live Stock From the Weather All kinds of food and lire are g-oingto be worth money next wifier and the time is right here to make your preparations for taking care of them. Do not delay building and improving until every one will want material and labor for this same purpose, BUT DO IT NOW.

When you consider the value of other articles you will not find the price of LUMBER, BUILDING MATERIALS and MILL WORK so high that you cannot afford to do your building and improving to as good advantage as usual. Our stocks are very complete and we can give good values in both the high and low grades. W. A. ALEXANDRA, VIRGINIA.

L- FEED FEED Corn, Oats, Hay, Cracked Corn, Bran, Mill Feed, SPECIAL DAIRY FEEDS All Kinds of Poultry Feed. LA PLATA MILLING INC. UNITED Farmers Agency Of Baltimore City I (BONDED) A FOB THE SALE OF Grain, Frulu. Lire Stock, Fool try and Farm Generally. SOUTH CHAIU.ES STREET I I sssaanv PORTLAND CSiISiW Joy Charles N.

Dement Contractor and Builder ALL WORK la my line attended to promptly and with dispatch. Frame Dwellings A Specialty CHAKLES N. DEMENT INDIAN HEAD, MD PUBLISHED AT LA PLATA. CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND EVERY FRIDAY. AT Sl.oo PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE YOU can put in Concrete Improvements yourself with little time, no trouble and at Ipw cost No special tools or machinery are necessary.

You have on your land, or nearby, everything you need, except the cement SECURITY CEMENT comes to you ready to use. You can get any quantity for any size job, from the smallest walk to the largest building. SECURITY CEMENT standard. Used exteruivrly for all construction work; uniform in quality and strength, made in this locality, and specially adapted to your needs. Put in Concrete Improvements now with SECURITY CEMENT.

We are at your service and will give you practical and experienced help in planning and doing the wotk, no matter how small or large the job may be. Or we will arrange to have the work done for you if you do not want to do it yourself. Ask for our booklet What a Bag of Cement Will Do," and get in touch with us now i about inexpensive Concrete Improvements that will make more money for you. it Aim Pure Arrmal Base Fertilizers Give The Best Results On TOBACCO AND OTHER CROPS Write For Farmers Almanac. Sons Co.

Of Baltimore City BALTIMORE, A J. LOMAX, HENRY A. PENN LOMAX PENN Funeral Directors La Plata, Md I Our for the business are of the beet Outfit complete, food hearse and team. We are prepared to furutsb on the shortest notice all styles of the beat grade of caskets and I coffins. Will give our personal attention to all business put In our charge knd will guarantee the beet of service.

No extra Charge for Long Distances. LOMAX PENN LA PLATA, MD Turner Owens 10 East Pratt Street Authorized Agents of the Maryland Tobacco Growers Association For the eale of Tobacco, Grata, Fruit, Live Stock and Produce. Prompt returns and highest prices guaranteed Farm supplies furnished at lowest Member Corn find Flour Your patronage so- llctted. THE CHARLES COUNTY BANK LA PLATA, MD Open to the public for a general banking business. Up to date lira proof building and banking facilities TWO DEPARTMENTS, Commercial and Savings Safe deposit boxes for the preserva' tion and safe keeping of valuable papers, offered the public at a reasonable annual rental.

Accounts solicited, no amount too small. Doors open for business from M. to 4P. M. Saturdays 9to 1.

W. MITCHELL DIGGER, Pres. CONRAD POSEY, Vlce-Pres RICHARD 11. HALLEY, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Walter J. Mitchell, John W. Waring Robt. D. Wills, Conrad Posey W.

Mitchell Digges P. P. Williams William H. Hese W. Southerland R.

Laurie Mitchell W. R. CLARK FUNERAL DIRECTOR LA PLATA, MD Our for the business art of the best, our outfit Hearse and Good Team. Are prepared to furnish, on the shortest notice, all atyles of the best grades of Caskets and Coffins. Will give our personal attention to all business put in our charge, and we guarantee the best of service.

Terms Reasonable. W. R. CLARE. Advertising in this paper will bring 1 good returns on the money invested I ANNAPOLIS NEWS Baptist Quotas Out.

The advisory committee of the Baptist 175,000.000 campaign gave out the tfflclal list of the amounts that have oeen apportioned the Baptist churches in the city and State as their share of Jhe $750,000. which is quota the national fund to be raised by that denomination the first week in December, for educational general benevolent Institutions ibe church. To Eutaw Place Church, this city, was allotted the contributing of the largest amount to the fund of any church in the State, its apportionment being $225,000, or nearly a third of the total of the State's quota. Seventh tiaptist comes second, with Avenue is third, with followed closely hy Franklin Square and First Churches, with $76,000 each. The amounts apportioned other Baltimore churches are as follows: Fulton Avenue.

Wilkens Avenue. $250; Druid Park $4,000: Grace. 000; Hamilton, Temple Baptist. West Baltimore. Scott Street.

Pimlico. Liberty Heights Fuller Memorial, Brantly, East Baltimore, Patterson Park, 500; Overlea. Gregory Memorial, Hampden. Huntingdon. Lee Street Memorial.

Towson, $3750; Reisterstown, $750. Amounts apportioned to churches in the counties are: Athol, $1,250: Beth- Eden. $250; Branch Hill. Canton, $250; Cambridge, Cordova, Crisfleld, East New Market, Easton, Girdletree. $750; Goodwill.

$750; Hebron. $500: Hurlock. 'lmmanuel. $2. 500: Jumptown.

$250; Marion. $3,750: Miller Memorial, Oak Grove. Mission, $500: Pitts Creek, $4,000: Pocomoke. Princess Anne. $750; Rehoboth.

Ridgely, Salisbury. $3,000: Spence, $750; Vienna, $750; Annapolis. Brooklyn. $750; Capitol Heights, East Point, $750; Forest. Fountain Green.

$750; Good Hope, $500; Gunpowder $3750. Havre de Grace, Hereford. Marhury, Nanjemoy, Port Tobacco, $250: Riverside, SateFs. $750; Towson, Barnesville. Brownsville, $250; Brunswick, Cumberland (first).

(second), Deer Park. $250; Eckhart, $2,000: Edward's Ferry, $250; Faith. $500: Ferndale. $250: Frederick, Frostburg. Germantown, $250; Hagerstown.

Laurel. $500; Loch Lynn, $250; Lonaconing, $750; Mount Zion. $1,250: Pikesville, $250; Pdolesvllle, $750; Rockville. Savage, $750; Senega (lower), $250; (upper), Travilah, $750: Weverton, $250, and Westernport, eparing For Convention. ELoorate preparations are being made by the War Mothers for the dedication of the memorial groves in Druid Hill Park that will be planted on Wednesday, October 8, during the National War Convention (hat convenes In Baltimore that week.

Representatives of all the allied nations will be invited from Washington. with Secretary of War and Mrs. Baker, and with the Governor, Mayor, members of the Park Board and patriotic societies will participate in the celebration. A special committee will be appointed by Mayor Broenlng to assist the Mothers in the convention, and Frederick R. Huber, municipal director of music is arranging for a musical pageant for the dedicatory service in the park.

Chaplain Reynolds, of the 59th Division, and Mrs. Robert Morris will deliver addresses, and Mrs. Newton Baker will be asked to sing. Marines, boys of the Navy and Army, and members of the American Legion will he in attendance, and the school children will also participate in the celebrations. Nurses To Organize.

Maryland nurses will elect permanent officers of the Maryland Chapter of Nurses, American Legion, at a 'meeting to be held in the Medical and Chlrurgical Faculty Building. Formed only recently by Will Wayne, national organizer for the American Legion, it Is anticipated that the 414 Maryland nurses who were in the service will unite in making the organization a potent factor in immortalizing the heroic achievements of nurses during? the world war and will bind together the cherished memories of a peculiar service and sacrifice for humanity and country. Addresses will be delivered by Major Wilson Henderson, chief of the educational division of Fort McHenry; Carl Singewald and Will Payne. Delegates to the State Convention of the American Legion to be held In this city neit month will also be elected. K.

Of C. Home Dedicated. With dignified ceremonies a building, which the Knights of Columbus will place at the disposal of the service men who come to Annapolis, was dedicated Sunday, the Governor, the Mayor of Annapolis and officers of the navy and Marine Corps taking part, as weH as officials of the organization and clergymen of the Catholic Church. The building is located on an island of oyster shells at the month of Spa Creek, which joins the Severn River near that point, and is connected with the main land. Breaking Up Craps.

that the game of craps, which had become quite popular among a certain alement. had consid erabiy marred the reputation which the town of Kensington, this county, had always enjoyed, of being town of homes and one of the most orderly and attractive places near the national Mayor Willtam W. 'Skinner has taken personal charge of a cam palgn to break up gambling, drunken ns and disorderly conduct generally. STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD The Latest Gleanings From All Over the State THINGS SEEN AND HEARD Colonial Estate Sold. farm of Mrs.

Amanda G. Walter, widow of C. Walter, the title of part of which dates back to Charles, Lord Baron of Baltimore. under a deed made by "him to Hebert Downey for 100 acres, dated March 13. 1759, the farm being situated partly in Washington county and partly in Franklin county, Pennsyl vania, was sold Thursday on private terms to Frank Neibert.

near Green castle. The deed followed a warrant for the land, dated March 9, 1750. Mrs. Wal ter still has the ancient document in her possession. It Is parchment and contains the Seal of the Prov lnce of The wax seal is so badly broken as to be Illegible.

The annual rent was shillings ster ling in gold or or the value of in such commodities as the lord of the province might designate. The rent was to be paid in two equal install ments at "our City of St. Mary's at the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin and "St. Michael the Archangel." It was further pro vided that in case of alienation of the land a fine equal to one year's rent to be paid to the lord proprietor and recorded within one month i in the provincial or county court, oth erwise alienation would be void. Woman Attacked By Bull.

presence of mind anf the good right arm of a little boy probably saved the life of Mrs. Mary E. Bavington. of near High Point, tbif county, when she was attacked by ar angry bull. Mrs.

Bavington, who 65 years old. discovered the animal it the lane approaching her home, anr realizing that it did cot care foi strangers who might come to house, attempted, with the boy's help to drive the animal Into a field. No 1 ticlng that the bull was in an angry mood, Mrs. Bavington decided to turr away, and as she did so, the rushed fiercely at her knocking hei 1 down. She regained hertpet oflly be knocked down a second time, anr although the animal had been do horned, It viciously tried to gore prostrate woman with its stub horns two and a half inches in length.

Realizing the woman's dangerous position, the boy began to cream foi help and pelt the bull with stones and finally succeeded in driving away. James Onion, brother of Mrs 1 Bavington, came to her rescue. Dr Frank P. Smithson, of Forest Hill found the woman had escaped seriout injury, but was suffering from painfu bruises and shock. Big Thing For White Haven.

VV. Robertson head of the White Haven Shipbuilding Company-, has returned from Bethle hem, with a signed contract fron the Bethlehem Steel Company for construction of a wooden dry dock 6,000 tons capacity. Work will be bvf gun on this big contract as soon at material can be assembled, and wil require the big force of the plant fron 3 six to eigbt months to complete contract. It will require 1,600,000 foe of lumber to build the dry dock. contract price is approximately S3OO.

000. The contract will mean a thing for White Haven, as the pay-rol will amount to hundreds of weekly. County To Fight Typhoid. a meeting of County Health Board measures taken to combat the spread of typhoit i fever Washington county. Four nev 1 cases, two of which are in Hagerstown i were reported.

In the absence of city 1 health regulations and a city healtl officer the State Health Board taken charge of the situation and viola a tions will be prosecuted by the officials. Representatives of the State Health Board are here, securing samples o' milk and water used by the public The County Health Board drew uj 1 regulations covering the sale of milk which will be submitted to the Board for approval. 1 Covington OUt For Suffrage. J. Harry Covington came out with a flat-footed announce ment that he is in favor of extending the right of suffrage to women in a speech to 100 or more guests at a suf frage tea at his home here.

Judge Covington is regarded as the most important acquisition to the ranks ol suffragists secured in many a long day. and the Maryland workers are 1 filled with confidence that victory for their cause Is on the horizon. Killed In Fall From Tree. 1 aged 12. i son of Mr.

and Mrs. William Wilson, was instantly killed in a 20-foot Call i from a hickory nut tree. He landed on his head, breaking his neck. New Bank At Hurlock. Bank of Hurlock is the name of a new financial institution organized with the following directors: L.

Otis Corkran, i Dr. G. Roger Myers. G. T.

Bell, S. K. Andrews, P. S. Messiek.

W. N. Wright, Ernest B. Hurlock, C. L.

Sexton, Luke K. Neal and Edgar B. Simmons. There are about 11,188 square miles of peat bog in the United States, cap able of producing more than 12,000, 000,000 tons of fuel. rSICASmiIA It The Kind You Have Always Bough) for Is fej 88528K58 Bears the Signature Promotes DigpstotfkoW- jf.

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