Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-10-10

duce dealer of Gainesville. who has
been suffering from cancer of the
tongue for the past four or five months,
is in critical condition at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Stokes, near Cambridge.
Dorchester county. The cancerous
growth, it is said, was due to his tongue
coming in contact with the jagged
edges of broken tooth. He is married
and has family of four boys.
Thomas w. Prettyman. who resides
in South Milford, can claim the dis
tinction of being the best pumpkin
grower in Delaware. He has three
vines that have yielded this season 10
pumpkins. weighing from 25 to 55 lbs.
each. 1t is believed that this is the
largest yield known in the State.
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Delaware farm lands are bringing a
good price aud number of sales are
being recorded at this time. Harrison
NJ. Russell has bought of Daniel @. W..
Smith his farm of 1876 acres, near
Brenford, for $4,000; Ezekiel Anderson
has sold to Beniah Anderson his 214
acre farm in Mispitlion hundred for
SO $50; Edmin Knox has sold to Letitia
Morris his 1877 acre farm for $500.
Admiral Sigsbee visited Chincoteague
Island last week in connection with the
Lighthouse Board. During his stay he
was rendered a reception by Mr.. o. D.
Doughty, of the Atlantic Hotel, at
which number of prominent citizens
were present. In the morning he called
at the high school and gave the child
rem plain, practical talk.
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| Philip Richards, who died at Bridge
vile OH Monday, bequeathed almost his
entire fortune. estimated to be worth
from $50, 900 to $4,000. to Miss Susie
Davis, whom he took from Whining
ton church home about 10 years ago.
Miss Davis is now said to be about %
years of age. The exceptions are $500
to Robert H. Richards, Deputy Attor-
ney General, nephew; $500 to Mrs. j.
T. Jacobs, of Bridgeville, 800 to Mary
Mooney servant; and few small be-
quests, including $50 to the Episcopal
Church at Seaford, for repairs At
Miss Davis death the farm, worth
$l2 900, goes to the P. E. Diocese Of
Delaware.
Bishop Leighton Coleman. of the E.
piscopal Diocese Of Delaware, returned
late Saturday night from his annual va
cation pedestrian tour. He spent nearly
two weeks travelling incognito through
the mountains of Virginia and North
Carolina. Not once during his trip was
he recognized. The Bishop wore coarse
and heavh clothing, wide brimmed black
hat and long linen buster, and carried a
heavy staff. He went by train to a place
in Virginia and then struck out on his
tramp, going about 200 miles on foot.
He slept in farm houses, one night in a
barn aud mingled with the crowds found
everywhere in the rough country
through which he journeyed. Bishop
Coleman gained weight during his
tramp. and is bronzed by exposure. He
plunged at once into his church duties.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley died at her res
idence in Onancock last Friday aged a.
bout 1OS years. She was che oldest per-
son in Accomac county, and probably
the oldest in Virginia. The record of
her birth has not been kept, but it is
known that she was a grown young
woman at the time the British forces
occupied Tangler Island, in the War OF
1912. She resided Oh the island at that
time and became personally acquainted
with the commodore Of the English fleet
and the commanding officer'of the land
forces. She was fond of relating many
incidents connected with them, and
from her could have been obtained a
faithful account of the operations of the
redcoats-as she always called them-in
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