Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-04-22
LOCALS.

Church VIII hold supper and festival
Saturday afternoon and evening.
Don't fail to call at this store for
beef, pork, sausage and groceries of all
kinds. G. w. Wonnell, Snow Hill
Look out for the new advertisement
of Hastings & Timmons, which came in
too late to get in this weeks paper.
Rev. ]. r. Biggs, of Princess Anne,
will preach in the Christian Church to-
morrow Sunday at IL A. M. and P.
NJ.
Clayton J. Purnell, attorney, adver-
tises valuable lot just outside of town
to be sold at public sale Tuesday May
9th.
1 shall hold service at Holy Cross
Church, Stockton, in the afternoon of
Easter Day at o'clock. John F. Kirk,
Rector.
Wanted good steady white girl
or woman, to cook and do general house
work. Address George B. Tilghman,
Cape Charles, Va.
The Great Council of Maryland, I'M
proved Order Red Men, will meet in
Crisfeld on Wednesday and Thursday,
April 18th and 9th.
Mr.. f. G. Kenly, assistant State
Librarian, was in Snow Hill on legal
business last Monday. Mr.. Henley is a
polished gentleman and is giving salts
faction in the office he is filling.
Ponies Wanted-Any one having
ponies for sale will please write and
state number they have and price, also
where they can be seen. Address VIM.
s. Richardson. Marion Station. Md.
There will be special Easter services
in the Presbyterian Church tomorrow.
Rev. J. B. North will preach both
morning and evening, and several an
thems will be rendered by the choir.
Thieves entered the flour mill of
Shockley & Selby last Saturday night
and stole some -four therefrom. How
much was taken the owners do not
know, as they had large stock of bags
piled up in the mill.
Last Friday saw log rolled off the
timber cart of Mr.. John H. Shockley,
of Atkinson's district. and Mr. Shockley
was caught underfit and had one of his
legs badly injured Dr. Straughn was
summoned and cared for the injured
limb.
There will be services on Snow Hill
Charge tomorrow Sunday AS follows:
Preaching, Nassawango in the morning
and Trinity in the afternoon, Bates
Memorial Christian Endeavor 7.15 p.
M. Preaching 800 P. M.
The oyster season along the Chesa-
peake will close next Tuesday, April
18th. Tongers will be given five days
thereafter in which to dispose of their
stock. After that the men employed in
the business will take up fishing and
gathering CLANS during the summer.
Mr.. Theodore Pruitt, because of
failing eye-sight and poor health gen.
orally, has resigned his position of
book-keeper for w. ID. Corddry & Son,
and is now away on trip, hoping to be
benefited thereby in such manner as
will enable him to soon be able to go to
work again.
Owing to heavy freights all along
the line, the steamer Maryland has been
arriving in Snow Hill from eight to ten
hours late for the past month or more.
Since the Pocomoke has stopped running
to Pocomoke City the volume of freight
handled by the crew of the Maryland
has been immense.
Rev Mervin J. Eckles, pastor of the
Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Phila-
delphia, took the trip from Baltimore
to Snow Hill on the steamer Maryland
last Friday, arriving here Sunday MORN
ing. Rev. Mr.. North invited Mr..
Eckels to preach for him at night, and
Mr.. Eckels complied with the request.
Mr.. Brantly Handy, son of Prof
Henry ]. Handy, of Pocomoke City,
was carried to Salisbury last Tuesday
and operated upon for appendicitis.
His was a very far advanced case and
his condition, when he arrived at the
hospital, was quite serious. He is get
ting along as well as could be expected.
Rev. Stephen M. Morgan, Presiding
Elder of Dover District, Wilmington
M. E. Conference, spent Thursday here
with friends. Mr.. Morgan was form
erly pastor of Whatcoat M. E. Church
and was. the principal factor in building
the handsome new edifice now occupied
by the that congregation.
The friends of Mr.. c. V. White will