Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17

X. r., was suspended on
navigation between Clai-
altimore was blocked. The
ambridge went aground and
led in by ice
nave had some extremely cold
this week and owing to the
he river the steamer Maryland
iot come any further than Girls
and the Pocomoke Transportation
boats between here and Pocomoke
" were compelled TO stop. The mail
As been brought over land.
Three weeks ago Levin Powell of
/ Marion. while putting on coat,
scratched his hand with pin. Moth
ing was thought of it until few days
later. when the hand and arm began to
swell. Physicians were sent for. but
blood poisoning resulted and caused
Mr. Powell's death.
Mr. George T. Richardson has just
room residence for Mr. VIM j. Meal
len. of Atkinson s district, near Bound s
Voting House. Mr.. McAllen will &C.
cupy his honse IN the near future, and
on the 18th of February will give a
house. warming aud supper to his friends.
AT the annual election of officers of
the NJ E. Sunday School the following
were elected for the ensuing year.
Superintendent, r ID. Jones; Assistant.
r.. J. McAllen; Secretary, g. Clark;
Treasurer, Miss Julia Bratten; Librar-
ian, w. G. Duffy, Secretary of Mission.
airy Society. VIM. Hearn; Superintend-
ent Infant Department, Miss Minnie q.
Vincent; Organist. Miss Minnie Town
send.
Some of our Franklin City and Chin
coteaguere friends is now getting fright
ened at the spread of small pox in Phila-
delphia, Wilmington. Chester and other
places mp the road. When they go to the
running up against. One fellow re-
marks that they should quarantine
against those places and the list would
then be comlete as they have shut out
everything but heaven and they are vac
cinated against it.
EARLY one morning this week.
Lucinda, wife of James Bishop, colored.
was found crouching in the corner of a
fence, i'll partially nude and half fro
zen condition. The unfortunate woman
is regarded as demented, and i'm her
Authorizations. imagines that some one
is trying to kill her. She was brought
to Snow Hill where she will be taken
care of by friends. 1t is hoped that their
care and attention will be efficacious in
restoring her to her right mind.
MIR Herbert n Fell. Manager for
the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Della
ware and Virginia of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York, sent
Us tins week very interesting chart
showing the clearings of the New York
Clearing Home for 1902 This chart is
issued by the Mutual Life Insurance
Company. and will be sent free ON re-
quest of anyone disiring same. upon APP
plication to Mr.. Herbert N Fell, S37
Market Street, Wilmington Del.
The Peninsula Horticultural Socie-
tv held its sixteenth annual session in
Newark last week. These officers for
the ensuing year were chosen: Presi-
dent, w. q. Dawson, of Cambridge,
Nd; first vice president, Hon. Charles
Wright, Seaford; secretary and trea-
surer, Wesley Webb. Dover. Del
The next annual meeting will be held
in Cambridge, Md, and a summer field
meeting will be held at the farm of w.
+. Allen, near Salisbury, at the height
of the cantaloupe season.
A letter from Mr.. Lee Purnell to
relatives here, written from Laredo,
on the Rio Grande, states that he is in
part of Texas where drought has pre-
vailed for near nearly two years. At
the time of writing "a "Norther" was in
progress, and the natives and Mexicans
with blankets wrapped around them.
stood shivering in their bare feet. 1t
will be remembered by his friends that
Mr.. Purnell spent several months here
last summer as the guest of his brother,
Thomas NJ. Purnell, of the Purnell
House.
Hicks predicts stormy weather for
the remainder of January From the
18th to the Goth there will be genuine
winter storms, turning TO billiards. in
many sections. About the 22d TO 9th,
look for some moderation of the prevail
ing cold, with falling barometer. grow
ing cloudiness and return of rain and
snow in wide section. The last storm
period for the month extends from the
9th to the 3lst. being central on the
Goth. New Moon falls on the 2Sth, a
fact that will hasten the change back to
very marked storm conditions.
The call for the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company To be held March 10