Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-09-14
GIRDLETREE.

MS dWeIlin. ny the addition al coat
of paint.
Mr.. James Rowley has moved to his
new home on Bay Avenue.
Mrs. Mary Rowley and daughter
Miss Mollie. are visiting DR. S.raughn,
at Snow HILL
Mr.. Will Sturgis left here last week
for Philadelphia, where he has secured
Il good position.
Mrs. Lizzie Hudson spent few
days with relatives in Berlin this week.
Mr. Joe Taylor, Of Green Run Life
Saving Station. is still confined to his
home, unable to resume his duties
Mr.. l.. W. Onley and wife spent
Thursday at Ocean City.
Mr.. G.. l.. Barnes is on business
trip to Philadelphia this week
Mr.. Thomas Jones who has been
very sick with typhoid fever is improv-
ing.
Rev. +. F. Tabler is absent from
home this week assisting Rev. Horace
Truitt in his revival meetings nj
Hooper's Island.
Miss Nina Scarborough is visiting
Miss Sallie Truitt this week. We are
much pleased 10 see Miss Nina looking
better and hope she will still continue
to improve in health
Miss Emma Hudson is spending a
few days on Chincoteague On her
return she will be accompanied by her
son Mr.. Moses Hudson and family.
Owing 10 his delicate health he will
leave the Island and make Girdletree
his future home.
Mr. James Stevens was summoned
to the bedside of his sick child last
week, but has returned to his home in
Cape Charles this week.
Miss Olive Onlev returned home
Friday morning from Stockton where
she has has been visiting relatives.
Miss Lottle Hammond, of Philadel-
pima, who has been visiting Miss Halle
Scarborough has returned home.
Messrs. Harold and Levin Houston
visited our town last Wednesday night.
Mr. Henry Hill, of Pocomoke City,
visited his parents near here last Sun
day
We are glad To report that Mr..
Charlie Pilchard who left here few
weeks ago to settle in Cape Charles is
much pleased with his prospects there.
He is an industrious boy and we wish
there were more like him here.
Mrs. &. c. Watson and daughter
are visiting relatives ut Exmore, Vir-
ginia.
Messrs. Thomas Tarr and William
Munford spent las, Sunday at home
with their families They have been
ut Ocean City for two months or more
and returned there Monday.
We are sorry Ia report Mrs. Robert
Powell who has been quite sick at her
home on the Avcrill farm is no better.
Messrs. Gordy Il Eggs schooner
Nettie loaded in our bay last Monday
with hay from Mr.. G.. +. Averill's
Bay View Farm.
Our farmers are taking advantage
of the good weather to save their fod-
der.
Mr.. Edward Kitchens. our railroad
section boss, is improving the property
he recently purchased by the erection
OF nice house.
Improvements are being made by
Mr. Cookman Dukes on his dwelling
house. He evidently expects to shelter
someone else there soon. The cage
will sppn he in readin :. aud the bird
who occupies il will make II happy
selection OF a husband AMI home.
Mrs. William Scarborough is here at
the bedside of her father, Mr. Charles
Bishop. who is very i'll.
The peaceful harmony of our little
village was disturbed ON last Saturday
evening by brutal fight between
.Iohr Ayres and John Davis which
ended in Davis throwing brick at
Ayres and cutting deep cash in his
head. Ayres had Davis arrested and
LODGED in Snow Hill Jail.
Several of our people attended the
circus in Snow Hill las; Friday. Some
had the prohibition camp for an ex-
cuse, while others went for the amuse.
ment 90 their children. Blu, the most
amusing thing to us was those that did
not have any children, borrowed their
neighhors for the occasion.
Autumn is here and it will soon he
time for both teachers aud pupils to
Resume their school duties. each better
qualified To ill their different positions
by the long recreation which they have
enjoyed
While solnurning At SCOTS Beach a
short time ago one Of our young ladies,
for amusement wrote note. sealed it
in Il hottie, and threw it in the ocean re-
questlng the finder To notify her when
and where it was found. Just one
month from the time it was thrown in
the water she received Il letter from Il
gentleman in Philadelphia saying that
while out rowing he found the bottle 4
miles south Of Atlantic City. The
bottle having dritted about so miles
from where 1t was thrown in.
Mrs. Margaret Neill Purnell,
wife of DIR. William II Purnell, presi-
dent of the New Windsor College, died
at that institution this morning after Il
lingering illness Mrs. Purnell was a
native of Snow Hill, aud daughter OF
the late DIR. John 5 Martin, of that
place She WAS also sister of the late
Mrs. Isaac d. Jones, OF Baltimore.