Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-05-20

Hotel, saturday afternoon; May ZOth,
at 800 o'clock.
We want pair of oxen yoke
broken) at our saw mill in Accomac Co.,
Va. Will correspond with persons
having same to sell. Platt & Company.
Hazelton, Pennsylvania. ct
Mrs. Samuel H. Townsend returned
home on the boat Wednesday from a
visit to Mrs. William S. Wilson in
Baltimore. Mrs. Townsend is very
much improved in health.
The porch of Purnell's Hotel will
be fitted with seats for ladies' and
spectators to hear the lecture and see
the fire on Saturday afternoon, May
10th, at 800 O'Clock, p. M.
Come out and give Gould crowd
Saturday afternoon, May 10th, at 300
O'Clock. His lecture will interest you.
and you should not fail to witness the
tests of Gibraltar Paints in fire.
The Baltimore, Chesapeake and At
lantic Railway Company contemplates
running excursions from all points on
Railway Division to Rehoboth, Delaware,
this season via special train, which will
be advertised in due time.
Rev. j. B. North is attending the
sessions of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church of the United
States, now in session at Winona Lake,
Indiana. Mr.. North is commissioner
representing the Presbytery of New
Castle.
Gibraltar Fire Resisting Paints and
Roofing for sale by P. d. Cottingham
& Co., and VIM. d. Corddry & Son,
Snow Hill; Harvey Dukes and j. P.
Hancock, Girdletree; B. Taylor & Son,
Stockton; J. F. Powell & Son, Franklin
City; Bowen Bros. & Son, Newark /;
Anderson & Williams, Berlin; Charles
J. McCabe, Shovel.
Mrs. Marie B. Handy, wife of Rev.
William C. Handy, died Monday night
in Princess Anne, at the residence of
her son-in-law, DIR. Teackle Jacob Smith.
Mrs. Handy was born in Lexington,
Kentucky, and belonged to the famous
Breckenridge family of that state.
Hon. L. Irving Handy, of Delaware,
is son of the deceased.
DIR. Harry C. Houck, of Snow Hill,
was given the first certificate of honor
at the graduating exercises of Maryland
University, Medical department Balti-
more. This is quite an honor for our
fellow townsman, and we congratulate
him on his success. We have also
learned that he came within a few
points of receiving the gold medal,
which is the highest honor awarded by
the University.
An extra session of the Grand
Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Maryland
will be held at Frederick on Wednesday,
the oath instant. The purpose of the
session is to discuss and adopt plans for
the good of the order. All the lodges
of the State are requested to send de-
legates. The Supreme Chancellor of
the World is expected to be present,
and the Grand Chancellors of several
States have been invited to attend. Mr..
c. A. Townsend will represent the
Snow Hill lodge.
Miss Sara G. Mcdonald, trained
nurse and graduate of Johns Hopkins
Hospital, died in Baltimore few days
ago. She nursed John P. Moore, Jr.,
when i'll with typhoid fever in Paris
some years ago, and had successfully
nursed 20 cases of typhoid without los
ing patient. Miss Mcdonald enjoyed
an international reputation as a trained
nurse, being well-known in this country
and Europe as one of the most efficient
of her profession. For the last five
years she had resided in Paris, but re-
turned to this country about two
months ago.
One of the severest of recent wind
storms visited Salisbury Monday night,
about z O'Clock. The day preceding had
been warm and sultry. A genuine
cyclone struck the place, and with it
came hailstones the size of marbles.
Some sections of the town were hardly
touched. In many places trees were
uprooted and piled one upon another.
A large portion of the sheetiron of the
new electric light plant was blown off
and carried two squares up steep HILL
While the dashing rain, hail and wind
were severe in the county, still the dam
age does not extend over a large area
and the loss in the aggregate is not
thought to be very great.
Notwithstanding the hot sun OF