Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-09-26

Netrunk being rolled to one side, and
LMr. Dorman being thrown out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Riggin and
Miss Pearl Thornton, who have been
| spending the summer in Snow Hill and
Ocean City. will leave Monday for their
home in Los Angeles, California. Miss
Crete Thrailkill, of ST. Louis, who has
been their guest, will travel with them
as far as their home.
Mrs. Charles Gregor. who was taken
ill with typhoid fever the first part of
July while on visit to her mother,
Mrs, Margaret D. Purnell, has recover.
ed under the Sklllful treatment of DIR.
Paul Jones, and accompanied by her
husband, who has never left her bed.
side during her long illness, returned to
New York, Wednesday morning.
"A number of legal advertisements
will be found on the first page this
week. Attention is also called to changes
in the advertisements of j. S. Price &
Co., Snow Hill; I. H. Merrill. Pocomoke
City: DR.. Paul Jones, Snow Hill; J. H.
Perdue, Snow Hill; David H. Hudson,
Snow Hill;David j. Adkins & Co.. Berlin;
Smith, Moore & Hargis. Snow Hill.
After a delightful trip to Niagara
Falls, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B Timmons
returned to Philadelphia last Monday.
This week, Mr.. Timmons, who is a
member Of the firm of Hastings & Tim.
mons, has been busily engaged in Phila.
delphia and Baltimore buying the new
stock Of fall and winter goods for this
firm. In this work, MIR. Timmons has
been efficiently assisted by Mrs. Tim.
mons.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Margaret Payne, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Payne, of this town. to
Mr.. Wilbur Hurlock, of Baltimore. The
ceremony will be solemnized in All
Hallows' Church, Wednesday evening,
September 30Gh, at 730 o'clock. No
cards have been sent out in Snow Hill.
The church will be open to all the
friends of the bride and groom who
desire to attend.
William S. M. Anderson, ESQ, who
left here for Quincy, ILL.,, years ago, has
been visiting friends and relatives here
Anderson made to Worcester county
was - y0"As ago. anu Ao ILLUS CIIaG
many changes have taken place in that
time. Mr.. Anderson is a cousin of
George S. Payne. Horace Payne, Mrs.
George w. Coyington, and of the late
DIR. Bishop, and has many friends and
acquaintance in the county.
MIR. Il. B. Adams whose advertise.
ment appears in the columns of this pa
per. is making run on the fine stock Of
wagons. buggies, carriages, runa.
bouts, ETC., that he is carrying in Berlin
He has put them down to cost, to make
room for the fall stock coming in, and
it is the opportunity of life time to
get bargain. They are all standard
makes, and not a vehicle among them
but which is guaranteed.
The Republicans met in the Court
House in County Convention last Tues
day. The gathering was small and there
was no enthusiasm. It was deemed
expedient not to nominate full ticket,
so the only nominations made were
Charles G. Mumford, of Showells, Asbury
O. Riley, of Snow Hill; and o. J Lucas,
OF Pocomoke City. for the Legislature;
William L. Truitt, of Box Iron, for
Sheriff and w. U. Scheduled, of POGO.
mohe City for Surveyor.
Mr.. and Mrs. James P. Townsend
went to Baltimore Tuesday morning,
and from there to Washington to at.
tend the meeting of the State Bankers
Association. An innovation was intro.
duced this year. the Association having
chartered boat which cruised from
Washington to Newport News, OH
which all the sessions were held. On
Friday the Association was entertained
at the Chamberlain Hotel. after which
the return to Washington was begun
Mr.. Townsend is cashier of the First
National Bank of Snow Hill, and went
as delegate to the State Bankers
Association.
Orlando Harrison, of Berlin, is at.
tending the Farmers National Congress
ut Niagara Falls. He was appointed by
the Vice. PresidenG of Maryland as an
associate delegate, and will represent
Worcester County at the twenty third
annual session, from September 2cnd.
to October 10th. Many prominent men
are listed to speak, probably the most
important subject is "How can we
enlarge our Foreign Markets for Farm
Products" Mr.. Harrison knows per.
sonally many of the speakers, as well as
the President and Secretary, and we are
glad to know that Worcester County is
to be represented.
The storm of last week did no dam.
age, as far as can be ascertained, to the
new church, st. Paul's By The Sea, at
Ocean City, nor to St. Paul's, at Berlin,
but the wind broke in the peak of the
east end of St. Martins Brick Church,
and number of bricks fell down ON the
high curved, ceiled roof of that building,
and loosened one of the planks While |
Mr.. CAN'T was officiating last Sunday
afternoon, one of the bricks fell. It
grazed the Bible from which he was
reading the lesson from the Old Tesla.
ment. fell upon the Lectern, and was
broken by the force of it's fall, of some
twenty five feet, into several fragments
AS the brick came within a short dis.
lance OF the readers head, he had a
narrow escape from, what doubtless
severe injury.
Mrs. J. B. North has returned
home from delightful trip to the
Pacific coast and through British
Columbia, accompanied by her brother
Dr. Samuel 9. Leonhardt. Mrs. Leon.
hardt and little son. She visited rela.
tlves i'll Seattle, and with her brother
aud sister were guests of the celebrated
"Washington HOTEL" at a dinner just
before leaving for home. Mrs. North
went west with friends in special
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