Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-05-16

SO well. not long since. will give anoth-
er entertainment with entire new pro-
gram on Friday night of this week
(to-night,) for benefit of school library
%. Is. 35cts admission. Prof. Walden
will appear at Berlin on Monday night
next. May 18th. same prices.
Mr. James Guthrie. of Cedartown.
aged IS years. died of cancer Sunday.
He had his arm amputated over month
ago at Salisbury. but nothing could save
>hif life, as the disease had progressed
10 far for medical skill to arrest it.
Hin funeral service were held in the NJ.
p. Church Snow Hill, by Rev. Avery
Donovan. and the intcrmcnt was made
in the cemetery of the same denomina-
ton He leaves widow, three daugh-
tiers, and two sons.
The trial trip of the sidewheel
steamer Virginia, which was built at
the marine department of the Mary
land Steel Cos. plant at Sparrows
Point. Md, was made on Tuesday She
left the shipyard about 1890 o'clock,
and returned after IA three hours run
down the Chesapeake Bay. The trial
was successful in every detail. The re
representatives. of the Baltimore. Chesa
pcake Il Atlantic Railway, for which
concern she was built, were present.
Col. w. III. Stevens and family, of
Seaford Del. together with number of
other strangers, came to Snow Hill on
The steamer Maryland last Saturday.
Col. Stevens said it was the most de.
lightful trip of his life. The scenery
along the Pocomoke is very pretty now
and strangers can easily imagine them
selves navigating tropical river. as the
dense foliage along the narrow stream,
the moss covered cypress trees, and the
sweet scented magnolias, all lend an in
describable charm to the scene.
Next Sunday being the fourteenth
anniversary of the Epworth League and
also very close TO the two hundredth
anniversary of the birth of John Wesley.
the Epworth League of the NJ. f.
Church will hold appropriate exercises.
In the morning the pastor will preach
sermon suitable to the occasion and in
the evening at O'Clock the young peo-
pie of the League will render an inter
esting program entitled The Wesley
Succession" The usual League Prayer
Meeting at p NJ, will be omitted.
Thousands of herring have been
caught in the Poccmokc River this
week. Mr.. Juckett took from his pound
net above the bridge several thousand
Since the weather came warmer shad
have also been more plentiful. The
CccH f'o"nty Nc~s of Thursday says:
The run of herring in our local waters
the past few days has surpassed any
records of recent years. Fishermen are
still unable to secure barrels and salt,
and many cured fish are being shipped
in bulk. Shad were also more plcnti.
full the past week. but prices still re-
main high. The season has been one of
the most successful of recent years
The case of the administrator of
Thomas J. Pussy VS. the commissioners
of Worcester county, which was first
moved from Snow Hill Ia Salisbury.
then to Cambridge was ended Friday
night after being on trial two days The
jury gave verdict for TN" plaintiff for
$500. This was a case brought first by
Thomas |. Pusey against the commits
sioners of Worcester county to recover
5000 for damages sustained by Pussy
by reason of fall from the bridge over
Dividing creek, which divides Somcr.
set from Worcester county. The bridge
was said by the plaintiff to be badly ont
of repair and there was no rail on the
upper side. Pussy was going from Po-
cumoke City toward his own hnm.
When on the center of Dividing creek
bridge the mule which he was driving
became frightened at something, sup.
posed to be small boat fastened to one
side of the bridge, and turned around
and backed the cart off the bridge
Pussy, the cart and the mule were
precipitated into the stream below.
Pussy sustained injuries which render.
ed him an Invalid frnnl fhn tir,a ,,f tbo
accident. June 4a-!2o2, to the time of
his death, in December of the same
year. Messrs KerbIn aud Simmons
represented the plaintiff and johnson
and Pdttison the defendant
The committees appointed by the
Snow Hill Improvement Association
have been actively engaged this week,
i'll identifying the vacant lots i'm the
centre of the town. Cellars are being
filled. bricks. TIN cans. broken down
fences. and other unsightly debris being
removed, weeds are being pulled, trees
and bushes uprootcd, and the appear
ance of the whole so materially changed
as to give it an air of responsibility. A
mound has been thrown IN. plants
imbcdded, bulbs planted. and so swiftly
and magically have the forces been at
work, that il would not be surprising to
see these flowers burst into blossom
any day Some delay has been occasion
ed by the inability to secure labor. but