Among the local news sections of the newspaper the article about the opening of the baseball season consumed the largest space. The names of the players on the Frostburg team and their positions were listed. Then ensued a lengthy discussion of the results of the previous season by focusing on the names of the teams. The Cumberland News was conducting a contest to develop a new name for that city's team, with a season ticket as the prize. Its previous name was the Finishers, "though in several games they failed to finish at all…." The season results of the Midland Giants "proved how very little the sobriquet gentlemen knew about the name up there" Even the Colts as a name for the Frostburg team was deemed inappropriate. "Great Ceasar, what had the boys done that was not up to wheel-horse par." Fans expected the Frostburg players to repeat as champions and if not, "be the first to congratulate the winners."

The proceedings of the Frostburg Town Council were publicized and included a permit for Mrs. Sarah Chidester to build a two-story frame slate-roofed dwelling house on the east side of Wood Grant. Mayor Townsend complained about the practice of farmers leaving their teams of horses unattended at dinner time.

An unnamed business concern was losing business to its rival, the Western Maryland Telephone Co. "Western Maryland is probably here to stay…. Moreover, [it] is a home concern…." 

The newspaper urged citizens to the exercise their voting rights in the upcoming city election. "As the party arrangement practically precludes

News about mining activities appeared in some columns. "Thomas Murphy, mine inspector, is after a mine foreman at Barton, and one at Lonaconing, with warrants charging them with evading and disobeying mining laws. The inspector has borne with some troubles long enough, and he says 'but there comes a time when it must be ascertained whether the law is fact or theory.'"

Among the many social activities noted in the paper were some with charitable purposes. "The entertainments recently held by the Eckhart Literary and Sporting Club for the benefit of Mr. And Mrs. John Barth, a helpless but worthy couple…. The club's prompt action carried substantial relief to the old people, for which the latter are sincerely thankful. It was a kind act, well done."

John W. Young, the clerk of the circuit, was praised for creating an index to the chancery dockets, a project funded by the state and begun when he took office in 1903. "Over six thousand cases that have been docketed from the year 1816 to the present date have been indexed…. It was recently stated by an eminent jurist on a visit to the court house here that in all Maryland there can not be found a more thorough system of recording and ready reference than is afforded in the vaults of the Allegany county clerk's office…. Young has also had installed a ready reference to the plats or land surveys of the county."

Several inhabitants of the county filed a petition in 1788 for bridges to facilitate commerce, in which was stated "That much of the exportable produce that formerly came to Bladensburg … now goes elsewhere owing to the want of a good bridge on the great road to Frederick Town and to Baltimore over the Southwest Branch by Moore's and over Paint Branch at the Baltimore Road: We therefore hope for the good of the County of which you are the guardians in order to keep up our ability to pay taxes by increasing the value of property instead of allowing it to sink, your Worships will restore to us the benefits we used to have of good bridges…." The court ordered the awarding of contracts to build the two bridges and to dispose of the old one at the Southwest Branch.

The few petitions concerning roads usually involved the relocation of existing routes. In 1771 Daniel Clarke and James Alder requested and obtained permission to relocate roads passing through their plantations. In August 1774 the justices appointed a committee to examine and report on a proposed change on a two-mile stretch of road between Deep Branch Bridge and the land of James Hunt. Five years later John Read Magruder wanted to reroute the part of the road from Upper Marlboro to the Eastern Branch Ferry that when went through his plantation.

At a time when the General Assembly was increasing its involvement in the construction and maintenance of roads in the state, only one law pertained directly to Prince George's County, mostly because the county lay outside the principal commerce routes to the west and north. The legislation, Chap. 28 of the Acts of 1789, authorized the county court to levy taxes for the construction of a bridge over the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River near Bladensburg where the post road to Georgetown passed by.

Even the minutes of the county court, found in (Court Record) in series C1191 and (Judgment Record) in series C1231 contain little information about roads except for the annual appointment of overseers for sections of each hundred. Most activity, especially after the Revolution, concerned bridges. 

In March 1771, several residents petitioned for the replacement of two bridges over Piscataway Creek, which had been washed away. Six months later citizens of Bladensburg wanted a replacement for the bridge over Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, destroyed during an ice jam the previous winter. James Sprigg and Richard Duckett were appointed to supervise the project. Construction did not begin until 1773 when Benjamin Beall contracted for the work. The specifications called for a length of 130' and a width of 12'.

At the August 1776 court term, Jeremiah Moore was awarded a contract to build a bridge over the Northwest Branch of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River at the plantation of his father, George Moore, below the existing bridge. The estimated cost was 20,000 lbs. of tobacco.

In November 1772, Capt. Christopher Lowndes brought two young girls, Catherine Grant, age 12, and Rachel Grant, age 10, to have the court handle their indentures. They and their parents had sailed from Scotland on Lowndes' vessel, and by agreement with the captain the girls would become indentured servants upon their arrival in Maryland. Because both parents died during passage, the agreement could not be executed without permission of the justices who were authorized to handle matters concerning orphans. The court ordered the girls apprenticed to Lowndes until each reached the age of 21.

Notation from the minutes for June 1786: "No Grand Jury for this session for the reason that the town of Upper Marlboro is overrun with Smallpox."