Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-05-30

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parents. Mrs and DIR. Charles =. Jones
returned home on Wednesday.
-River-ice delivered in all parts Of
the town at J cent per pound. Manu-.
featured ice will be furnished about
the first OF June. -Full-W Weight Coal
4 Ice Company, I. r. Selby. Manager.
Work on the new brick buildings
of w. ID. Corddry 4 Son. John J. Col.
lins aud " $. Wilson is progressing
finely and Boot Heel will soon be
putting on airs, with her handsome
storehOuses.
Snow Hill Council No. l67, Jun.
Tor Order United American Mechanics,
expects TO celebrate the Fourth of July
at Riverside Park in an appropriate
manner, with speaking, singing, re.
freshments, etc.
Several prisoners in Georgetown
Jail got possession of small bottle of
powder and exploded it, in the hope
OF creating an excitement and getting
an opportunity to escape. The plan,
however, did not work.
Seaside Lodge |. O. o. f., No.
q. of Newark, will hold banquet
and reunion of her members, Satur-
day, May 30th, at s o'clock p. M. All
members are cordially invited to be
present on that occasion.
Mr.. l.. Edward B@hm has been
selected by X. I. Waters, Esq, of
Baltimore, TO paint his summer home
at Rehoboth, Del. Mr.. Behm is an
excellent painter and Mr.. Waters will
find his work satisfactory.
Our thanks are rendered to Miss
Lulu Elizabeth Moore, of this town,
who is a member OF the graduating
class of the State Normal School, for
an invitation to attend the commence.
ment exercises" on the 2Sth inst.
Editor X. ID. Hoffecker and daugh-
ter. of Smyrna, Del, returned home
On Monday after spending three days
very pleasantly in our town. Mr..
Hofecker thinks we have n nice town,
but is surprised that our sidewalks are
not paved.
Rev. S. n. Pilchard. who was re-
Gently appointed a chaplain in the
United States Army. has severed his
pastorate at Scott NJ. +. Church, Viii.
mington, and will move his family to
Dover. He expects an assignment
next week.
Mrs. Horace Payne returned home
last week from visit to her brother,
Col Littleton b. Purnell, in Baltimore.
Mrs. Payne's charming daughter, Miss
Mary, who has been spending the
winter in New York and Baltimore,
will soon be home for the summer.
Strawberries have been very poor
this season owing to the dry spell of
weather prevailing at the opening of
the season, which shrivelled them up,
and the continuous rains we have had
for week or more around Snow Hill
has not improved their quality much.
WIN. Levi Laws, Esq, and his
daughter, Miss Alice, Of Wango, we're
visitors at the home of Mrs. Mary J.
Purnell on Thursday. Mr.. Laws is
Mrs. Purnells brother, and, owing to
poor health, has not been able to visit
Snow Hill before for a year or more.
Mr.. Charles Pruitt, who was home
for several weeks during his mothers
last sickness, left here on Saturday
after her funeral on Tuesday. He is
a trusted employee of the b., c. & A.
Railway Co, on one of their steamers
plying between Baltimore and Southern
Maryland.
The June drop" of peaches has
begun. Orchards that bore heavily
last year are shedding their fruit more
freely than other trees. One full crop
does not Immediately follow full
crop, hence those who enjoyed heavy
yields last year cannot expect so much
this season.
Already large number of tickets
have been sold for the Presbyterian
Church's entertainment at the High
School Hall next Monday and Tuesday
evenings. Diagrams for both evenings
can be seen at DIR. Halls drug store,
where reserved seat tickets may be
purchased for 80 cents.
Mr.. Richard Morgan painted the
banners used in the trades display pre-
sented by the ladies of the NJ. Z.
Church last week. In the execution
of this class Of work Mr.. Morgan is an
expert. His reputation as first class
sign and banner painter is unquestioned
and he has few superiors in the State.
The annual Whit Monday Gel
ebration at Ironshire last Monday was
success. An address by Rev. Ed
ward Davis and a game of ball we're
features of the day and in the evening
a festival was held. The Berlin band
furnished good music Several young
men of Snow Hill were in attendance.
-Messrs. John Taylor, b. r. Truitt
and NJ. I. Hargis have been circulat-
ing petition this week asking contri.
buttons for the Franklin City sufferers
from the late fire. We are advised
our people are responding cheerfully.
Over a hundred dollars has already
been subscribed aud more has been
promised.
BY the act of the Legislature of
1896 law was passed abolishing the
three days grace on all bankable paper.
Hereafter if note natures June LIST. il
will be protested il not paid on the first
day of June, instead OF on the 4th day
of June rs has heen heretofore tho cus-