Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-11-21
OVER THE peninsula.

OVER THE peninsula.
Station Agents of the Penn
sylvania Road to Wear
Uniforms.-Preachers Meet
at North East.
The County Commissioners for Cecil
have decided not to refund to
the Cecil & Kent Electric Railway Go.
the 81 500 deposited as guarantee of
good faith that the electric railroad be-
tween Elkton and Chesapeake City
would be completed within one year
from September, 1902. Failing to COM
plete this work the commissioners de-
clared the franchise annulled and voted
to keep the money in the county treas.
urY.
Officers of the Delaware Game Pro-
tective Association have issued an ap-
peal to sportsmen not to kill the Chinese
pheasants, with which the State has
been stocked, during the present season.
The law does not protect these birds. but
the association points out that if the
birds are not slaughtered this year they
will multiply so rapidly as to furnish
good cunning for years to come.
Sheriff William T. McAllister, of &C.
Gil county, made narrow escape from
being perhaps seriously burned while
pouring coal oil in stove at the Elkton
Jail, Wednesday morning of last week.
When the fluid struck live coal it in
stantly burst into flame which struck
the Sheriff in the face. He luckily es-
capped with only his eyebrows and hair
being badly scorched.
The present oyster season, especially
around Crisfield, gives promise of being
the best for a number of years. Oysters
are more plentiful in Tangier Sound
than at any time during the last ten
years. Every house in Crisfield is shuck-
ing to it's full capacity, and, as an old
timer remarked one day recently, lit
looks like old timesD
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The Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
Preachers Association, composed of
members OF the Wilmington Conference,
and their wives. numbering more than
100, visited North East Monday where
they held their monthly meeting. They
were entertained by the congregation of
the North East Church. Rev. Mr.. Light
bourne, of Wilmington, Del, preached.
Julius Huntemann, one of the many
Nebraskans who have located on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland by the State
Bureau of immigration, left Talbot
county this week for his former home in
Nebraska, to claim the bride who prom
ised to be faithful when Mr.. Huntemann
left her for the East several months ago
He expects to be gone until the first Of
the new year, when he will return &C
companied by his bride and several fam
lilies of the neighborhood. who have
purchased farms near Oordova. where
Mr.. Huntemann and his father, Henry
Huntemann, have settled. While the
Nebraskans, as rule, are honest.
straightforward and hard working men,
they do not seem to find favor in the
eyes of the manageable ladies here.
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Sunday night the dwelling of o. W.
Turner. of Mount Vernon District, Som
erset County, was destroyed by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Turner were at church,
and the fire was discovered by passer-
by. who gave the alarm, but before as
sistance arrived the house and nearly
all the furniture were burned. The
flames broke out in the roof, near a
chimney, and 1t is supposed it's origin
was from defective flue.
Joshua T. Owens, who, with his part
ner, Oney A. Munden, was arrested and
lodged in Jail early in July charged with
setting fire to their furniture store. on
Poplar street, Cambridge, has con-
fessed his guilt to States Attorney E..
@. Harrington, in the presence of the
sheriff.
The German American settlement in
Talbot county is assuming considerable
proportions. and the number of settlers
is constantly increasing. Like similar
settlements elsewhere in this State, it is
composed of immigrants and the child
rem of immigrants. who at first passed
over the East in their rush for the West
ern prairies, led to believe that the West
was an earthly paradise.
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Elliott Williams, aged IL years, son
of T. F. Williams. while ducking on the
Susquehanna river Saturday morning