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

Timely Items from Our En-
Exchanges Concerning
Things in Nearby States
and Counties.
Oysters are scarce in Crisfield market
and are bringing the following prices:
Pocomoke :, sl20; Tangiers, SO cts; ST.
Jeromes. % cts: Bays, so cts Virginia
plants, so cts.
The approaching session of the Will
mington Conference will be the first
to meet i'll Eiston for II years. At
that time Rev w. w w Wilson, ID
D., was pastor of EbeneZer church. Ii
is somewhat of coincidence that IA
years also elapsed between the two SEES
sions of the NJ. p Conference held
there, from 1887 to 1901.
Crisfield was visited Thursday night
bv storm which sunk the schooner
Hattie Start of Baltimore. belonging to
Capt. +. J. Ward, which had just ar
rived from Norfolk with load of lum-
her for the firm of A. Il Cochrane &
Co.
Examiner H. Crawford Bounds of the
Wicomico county schools has sent out
letters to all the teachers to assemble at
the High chool Building in Salisbury
on Saturday, January "a. for the pur.
pose of organizing a county teachers
association.
The steamer Tivol. which was
aground 90 hours at Deals Island, was
pulled off by Captain Howard. of the
State fishery force, and is safe at Sails
bury.
Miss NJ S Hampton, of Fredericks-
burg. Va. daughter of the late Gen.
Wade Hampton of Confederate fame,
is stopping at Boyds. Montgomery
county. for an extended period. She is
at the High View House with friends
More than 5000 was paid out at Han.
cock this week for right of way for the
Baltimore and Ohio cutoff to be con-
structed from Hancock, Md, through
Fulton county to GratZtown, Pa.
United States Marshal John Cannon
Short. in Wilmington Monday, sold the
steamboat Atlantic, which had been
seized at Ocean View on some claims,
to Andrew @. Gray. attorney for the
owners, for $1,000.
Unless the coal situation in Kent
county improves the schools will have
to close at the end of this month.
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Selden +. Flowers died at Mountain
Lake Park of pneumonia, aged 80 years
He was veteran of the Civil War.
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Governor Smith has appointed Will
liam II. Hillen notary public for
Solomon Island. Calvert county.
Mrs. James Maddox, of Crisfield who
had been suffering from cancer and was
taken TO the Salisbury Hospital about a
month ago for treatment. died Saturday
and was brought to her home for burial.
Her husband has been engaged in the
blacksmith business about 10 years and
is well known in Somerset county She
was 30 wears of age and is survived by
| five children
The friends and admirers of the late
b. +. Haynes, of Marion. are taking
steps TO erect suitable monument to
his memory. He was for over % wears
school teacher. and his old pupils are
leaders in the movement. The matter
is now in the hands of the following
MtS>TS- -.
Gordon Tull. j c. Horsey; Miss Ger.
trude Hail. and Mrs. j. w. C0ulbourn.
The 2-year-old son of A. f. Phillips,
of Hooper's Island, was shot and killed
ON Sunday last by the formers year.
old sister. The children were playing
with "A toy pistol and gun. The little
girl thinking the gun was not loaded
pointed it at the boy saying: "I'll shoot
you" The gun was discharged and
the little boys head was blown almost
off
A meeting of the directors of the
Savings Bank of Somerset County was
held on New Years Day, and it was
decided TO build new banking house
on the Reid lot. which was recently
purchased by the bank. 1t will be a
modern structure with all the neces.
sary appointments for comfort and
convenience. and will probably cost
about $4,000. 1t is thought work OH it
will be commenced during the coming
spring or summer