Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-02-13
STATE OF MARYLAND
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appointed postmaster at Maynard.
In Hyattsville il is proposed To issue
$50, bonds for sewerage system.
Rev. w o. Bennett has been asked
to return to Sudlersville NJ. + Church
circuit the coming conference year
The Havre de Grace City Council has
under consideration the building of a
sewerage system during the present
year.
Gustavus Warfield has been chosen
president, and Mr. H. G. Peddicord, sec
rotary, of the Glenwood Farmers Club
for the year.
An all-day rally was held Sunday in
North East NJ. +. Church, to raise
enough money to liquidate the remain
ing debt upon the church.
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DIR. +. II. Richardson has been APP
pointed vaccine physician for the Third
district of Hartford County. vice DIR. f.
Lee Hughes. resigned.
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The report Of the Commissioners of
Fisheries of Maryland shows that the
shad fisheries are being depleted by the
pound-net catches and steam pollution.
Shooting with Baltimore team
against the Wawaset Club, of Whining.
ton. Del. II. Linn Worthington. of
Rising Sun. broke 81 out of 100 blue
rocks
The Hartford County delegation IL
the MARYLAND Legislature will support a
bill to regulate the speed of automo-
biles in villages of the county at ~
miles per hour.
Rev. w. A. Wise, pastor of North
East NJ. +. Church. is probable sue
cessor to DIR. Watt as presiding elder of
the Wilmington District. of Wilmington
NJ. Z. Conference
The County Commissioners of Wico-
mico County have appointed David
Short constable of Pittsburg district
and Isaac w Sirman road supervisor
for Nutter's district.
The financial condition of Elkton
thus far this fiscal year is reported by
City Treasurer Lewis to be as follows:
Receipts. $5905.i5: disbursements.
$546S 81: cash balance, $i36. SO
Owing To the reduced appropriation
by the State for colored schools the
Commissioners of Dorchester County
have found il necessary Il order all but
one colorcd school in each district
closed.
The residents of Salisbury are cXccr-
cised over petty thieving. Umbrellas.
gum shoes. thermometers aud carriage
robes have been stolen and woodpiies
and chicken roosts are being robbed
every night.
Thomas Carr has organized the Elk
Art Square Company. with local and
Philadelphia capitalists. and leased the
factory of the Elk Mills Company. At
Baldwins. Operations will be- com
menced in about six weeks
Should the present warm spell con
time ice in the Susquehanna will make
trouble at both Havre de Grace and
Port Deposit The ice is gorged from a
mile below Havre de Grace to Port De
post, distance of over five miles
The new basket factory at Chesapeake
City is about ready to commence
operations.
States Attorney-elect J. Royston
Sitter. of Hartford County. has as sumed
the duties of his new office.
Rev A. +. Whatham, rector of
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, at
Cambridge. has rendered his resigna-
ton.
Petitions. largely signed. will be pre-
scented 10 the Legislature, asking for
the passage of a prohibitory law for
Salisbury.
The February term of Circuit Court
for Hartford County convened in Belair
Monday with Judge George L. Van
Bibber presiding.
Game wardens in several counties
on the Eastern Shore report that quail
and pheasants have suffered little from
the severe cold weather
William Holton. Jr., of Iron Hill had
one of his arms broken nv his yahicle