Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-04-06

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the Presbyterian parsonage.
-Shad are getting plentiful in this
market and are now selling at 40 cents
a pair. Herring are down to ten cents
a dozen and selling slow at that.
Mr. b. T. Truitt made a business
trip TO Chincoteague this week. We
would advise our Island friends that he
can, and will treat them right, if they
place their orders with him for clothing.
Floor coverings never were so
good for the money rs now. A straw
mating for 10 cents a yard is cheap
enough for anybody. 10 cents, -!
cents, Is cents, 20 cents and up at J.
5. Price Il Co.'S.
Notice. will sell ON reasonable
terms the vacant lot adjoining my resi-
dence on Virginia Road 1t has a
front OF sufficient width for two build
ing lots. with depth of 200 feet.
Clayton J. Purnell.
Quite large number of people
the sale OF personal property
of Mrs. Mary +. Bailey, which came
off as advertised, on Monday morning.
Some of the articles brought good prices
while others went very cheap.
MIR. ID. III. Lewis has sold two
building lots adjoining his new home
on Washington street. Mr.. II. II.
Lewis will build on one of the lots
and James Dryden on the other. these
gentlemen being the purchasers.
We make a speciality of doing
every kind Of job printing, from the
very finest to the plainest. Twenty
years of experience in some OF the best
printing offices in the United States is
n guarantee we can give you salts
faction.
Miss Alice Dymock has been in
spectiDg the latest in millinery goods
and styles in Baltimore this week. She
will return with Mrs. V. 5. Townsend,
and their selection of Spring millinery
will be advertised in time for the lady
readers of the MESSENGER
The iron railing, old shaniy, and
4 lot of stone, furniture, etc, the re-
mains of the old court house and equip
nents were sold at public auction last
Tuesday. The two law offices were
bid in by the county commissioners and
will be sold by them at public sale.
MIR. Charles Boehm and family,
IF Baltimore, have gone TO the Public
Landing property Of Mrs. Davis TO re-
side for awhile until Mr.. Boehm's
health is improved, his doctor having
ordered him to take more outdoor ex-
ercise than he has been accustomed to.
Our friends and patrons through
out the county will greatly oblige us
and our readers, by sending us all local
news items, etc. What may seem of
no Importance, becomes, when publish
ID, interesting TO a large number of
readers. Let us have the news Of your
-Moze, Lonza and Annie Wilson
we're lodged in Jail last Saturday
when they were sentenced for thirty
lays on the charge of having beaten
,ne Rose Wilson. They hail from Po-
somoke where they were troublesome
but Warden Mock has found them very
Deaceable guests.
Mrs. William Swan is home from
he annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Presbytery of New Brunswick, n. J.
She has been the president of this
for several years and is
me of the most active Missionary
workers in the United States.
-Harrington's New York Concert
Company will appear in McAllen's
Hall, on Saturday evening next, April
18th. The program given by this
is rare and novel. Go and
carry your children to hear Mrs.
French's laughable impersonation of
How Mrs. Higgins painted the house"
Last Saturday J. 5. Price & Co.
advertised in the MESSENGER that
they had some 1000 yards Of prints to
be sold at five cents yard. Before
Tuesday four or five hundred yards
had been sold and still the goods are
Does 1t pay TO advertise
II you do it i'll the MESSENGER il does.
Heavy engines from the Maryland
Division of the p, w. & b. Railroad
are being sent TO the Delaware Division,
for the purpose of hauling the heavy
freight trains that are expected to be
necessary during the coming fruit and
berry season, when it is expected to
run freight trains OF from 40 to 30 cars
each.
An inventive genius has gotten up
a contrivance that ought to sell like
hot cakes in church circles. II is in
the shape of a contribution, box, and is
certainly triumph in its way. The
coin falls through slots OF different sizes,
and dollars, halves, quarters and dimes
drop on velvet, but the nickles and
pennies drop on chinese gong.
MIR. Charles G.. Atwell, who re-
Gently purchased of 4. T.. Barnes,
Esq, the Judge Spence farm at Pub
lie Landing. arrived here this
week with several car loads of
property including furniture, horses and
other goods and chattels which he took
10 his farm. Mrs. Atwell will come
down as soon as the house is fixed up.
i wish to say TO the ladies of Snow
Hill and vicinity that have Just re-
ceived full line of Evitt & Bro : cell
brated shoes for ladies, misses and
all sizes and widths. also
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