Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-02-15

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will be one or two new features intro.
duced during the evening. which. il is
believed. will add greatly to the enter.
tainment of those who attend. A cor
dial welcome is extended to all.
One of the editors of the MESSENGER
met Mr.. Uriah w. Dickerson here
this week and was pleased to learn
from him that he had prospered in his
business downin Virginia. He is sending
his boy To school in Baltimore and has
been visiting HIM. Mr.. Dickerson says
his timber is about exhausted in Vir-
ginia and he will soon have to stop
his mills. We wish him and all of our
friends continued prosperity.
Victor Hall. located on Washington
Street near the RiAer bridge. was dis
covered on fire about five O'Clock We'd
nesday afternoon. The doors were
broken open aud the fire was easily ex-
tinguished. Shavings were found on
tire, and an odor OF coal oil was evident.
Ii is thus supposed TO have been the
work of an inceHdiary, and the State
Fire Marshall will investigate. Mr.. j.
J. Collins owns the building.
In accordance with the constitution
which requires the Governor to send IN
his appointments TO the Senate for con-
firmation within 30 days after the meet
ing of the Legislature Governor Smith
is sending them ont rs fast as recon-
mendations are in hand. He has this
week sent i'm number and among them
we notice the name of Mr.. jeff Station,
formerly of this county. who is re APP
pointed a school commissioner for Wi
comico county.
Just as we are going to press we
learn of the death of Mrs. Esther Nell
sou, which occurred yesterday at her
home near Snow Hill. She was 81 years
of age and was the oldest member of
the Presbyterian church of this town.
She is survived by two sons and two
daughters. Messrs. Sidney aud Oliver
Nelson and Miss Jennie and Miss EN-
ma Nelson. Interment will be made at
the old Stevenson place, near where the
Messrs. Nelson live, on Saturday.
Deputy Collector of Internal Rev
enue Charles o. Melvin was in Denton
last week and secured list of guardians
and administrators bonds filed III the
Orphans Court since last July, for the
purpose of notifying the parties giving
them that il was necessary for Do cent
stamp to be affixed to each bond, under
a recent ruling of rhe Department of In.
ternal Revenue. 1t is said that mis-
take was made by Congress i'll repeal
ing the War Tax Act, and that the de-
partment had been in error III advising
Orphans Courts that guardians and ad-
bonds were no longer re-
quired to be sapmted
The largest progressive euchre party
of the season at College Park was given
by Vice President and Mrs Thos Hum
phreys Spence, of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College, at their residence at
that place Tuesday night. There were
eight tables and beautiful red and gold
tally cards were used TO keep score of
the games won and lost. The prizes
were japanese cream bowl for the
ladies' first prize and silver overcoat
hanger fer the gentlemen first prize
Mrs Spence and Miss Nora Hargis. of
Snow Hill: Miss Mary Spence and Miss
Genevieve Turner, of Virginia. received
The biggest span of mules on earth
is at the Kansas City stock yards. OF
course they were bred in Missouri. They
are five years old. weigh exactly 1890
pounds each, and each is Is hands high.
They belong TO J. W. George. who bred
and raised them on his farm IL miles
from Harrisonville, Mo. They are half
brothers, being out of different mothers.
Their father is gray jack, but their
mothers are bays, and the mules are
mouse colored. Mr.. George has lived
near Jacksonville for many years. and
was one of the first men TO bring range !
horses into Missouri. He is /. breeder
Of both horses and mules.-EX.
A teacher in Texas public school
received the following letter the other |
day: "Sir: Will you in the future give
my son easier SONS to do ut mites: This !
is what he's brought hoam two or three
mites back IF fore gallins of bere will
ill thirty to pint bottles, how many
pints and half bottles will nine gallins
Of bcre fill: Well, we tried and could
make nofhingo of il all, and my boy cried
aud laughed and sed he didn't dare To
20 bak in the morning without doin It, |
so | had Ia go and buy nine galiln |
keg of bere, which | could i'll afford TO |
do, and then he Went and borrowed II
lot of wine and brandy bottles, We
fill them, and my boy put the numbers
down for AN answer. don't know
il is right or not. as we split
some while dom il. p. S.-Please let
the next sum be- III water. rs | am mot
able to bay more here"
In another column of the MEsSEN
GER will be found the advertisement of
the Fidelity and Deposit Company of
Maryland. This is the pioneer surety
company of the South, and il could al
most be truthfully said. of the world,
because it is entitled TO the credit of
the surety business through
out the United States This company
is in no sense of the word a Trust Com |
pany, its business being that OF becom-
ing surety for individuals, that is, guar
their honesty, and also guaran-
teeing the completion of contracts. Its
total resources are $J,69l, 19i. Ii Is the |
strongest company of Its kind Ill exist |
euce. This company was founded by |
Mr. Edwin Warfield, who is its Presi |
dent. and he Is generally recognized as
the foremost authority ON matters per
tanning to the surety business. When |
this company was started iii 1890 IL was |
not thought it would succeed, but by |
Mr. Warfield's interchangeable efforts lie |
educated the people TO the use OF cor |
Dorate surety. ship by demonstrating the |
fact that no individual should become |
surety for another. The company rep |