Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-07-01

team, but the public wants no insulting
and haunting remarks made to our WISH
tors. Never forget that you are gen.
tleman and everything will go right.
The members and friends of Mt.
Zion M. P. Church are making arrange
ments to celebrate the Fourth in grand
style. A festival will be held in the
afternoon and evening, and a match
game of base ball will be played in the
afternoon. The public is cordially in
vited to come out and join the celebra-
ton.
AT meeting of the directors of
the First National Bank held in the
bank building, on Tuesday, June 18th. a
semi-annual dividend of per cent was
declared, and large sum placed to the
surplus fund. The directors of the
Commercial National Bank also held
a meeting, June 9th, and declared a
semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent.
This bank also added considerable sum
to its surplus fund.
Mr.. Samuel Mumford, who has
been on visit to his brother, Rev.
Fred |. Mumford, at Crisfield is now at
the home of his parents in Snow Hill.
Mr.. Mumford attended Wilmington
Conference Academy at Dover this
year. He made good record in his
studies, and was prominent in athletics
and has the honor of being elected both
manager of the foot ball team and cap
tain of the base ball team for the next
term.
Mr.. w. Oscar Coulbourn, who re-
signed his position as instructor in the
manual training department of the Po-
comoke City High School at the close
of the last scholastic year to become a
member of the lumber firm of Coul-
bourn Bros, left this week for North
Carolina to assume charge of his new
duties. The firm is composed of Messrs
Goldsborough, John, Edwin and Oscar
Coulbourn, and has mills in North Caro-
lima and Virginia.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
2lst, 22nd and 23rd, of the present
month, were the longest days of the
year and, consequently, the correspond
ing nights the shortest of the year. 1t
is known in the cycle of seasons as the
Summer Solstice, or that period of the
year when the sun is farthest north
from the Equator From now until
December 21st, the sun in his course
will travel south at which time the
farthest point south of the Equator will
be reached.
Misses Wilhelmina Hurlock and
Edna Hurlock who recently died in
Smyrna, left a large and valuable es-
tate, variously estimated to amount to
from 500, 900 to 100, 900. Under the wills
of these ladies the property goes to
of nieces and nephews. Mr.
Jonathan j. Hurlock, of Snow Hill, is
a beneficiary. The estate of the ladies
consisted largely of mortgages, bonds,
stock and personal securities easily con-
vertible into cash, and a number of
farms in Delaware and MARYLAND.
"A fine opportunity to spend whole
day at Ocean City for everybody from
Franklin City, Va, to Berlin, on July
M. & V. Train leaving Franklin City
can make connection with special train
arriving at Ocean City lis a. m. Re-
turning special train will leave Ocean
City at 9.l5 p. M, connecting with ID.
M. & V. train leaving Berlin 43 p. M,
Franklin City 1886 p. m. For
rates apply to agent. A. j. Benjamin,
ID. p. A.
Not many years ago the fact that
a Town Hall in Snow Hill was not
paying investment, was patent to every
one. Times and conditions are both
al nd I'll
safe in venturing the assertion that
Town Hall in Snow Hill would be well
patronized, and qualified, if not a
bowling success. The change has been
brought about principally by the great
influx of people attracted to Snow Hill
by the increased manufacturing inter-
ests, and the consequent growing de-
mand for suitable place to hold enter
theatricals, etc. We would
like to see public interest stimulated in
the matter, and will render whatever
assistance we can to advance and fur
thur the project.
Mr.. A. d. Irwin, Jr., came home
from Philadelphia last Saturday night
to spend few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. d. Irwin. He was
Ito anu COilcRe
chum, Mr.. F. S. Myers, of the Myers
Company, Detroit, Michigan.
During his short visit to Snow Hill Mr..
Myers was given an opportunity to in
dulge in the surf bathing at Ocean City.
as well as to see the other amusements
at our popular summer resort. On the
return trip from Ocean City a stop was
made in Berlin, where the party sat
down to most excellent supper at the
Atlantic Hotel. CLANS, crabs, fried
lamb chops, ham, etc. THAT
will do three orders each, please. y On
Monday evening terrapin supper was
given at the Hotel Purnell, Snow Hill,
which Mr.. Myers declared was the
event of his visit. Mr.. Myers,
or as he is more Familiarity called
Teddy" has shot grizzly bears in the
Rockies, has ridden wild buffaloes over
the plains, has followed the trail with
the redoubtable Scotty Ward, and has
even shown Cyclone Bill the way to go
home. He knows all about the country
and he is as entertaining and versatile
in relating his adventures in the wild
west, as he is eloquent in his praises of
the Myers Remedy Company, Detroit,
Michigan Here's to the man from