Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-08-29

them put in ten or twelve pieces of
rice, says Woman's Home Companion
for September. This will not come
through the holes in the cover Of the
saltcellars. but will break the Jumps of
salt and gather the moisture; thus the
salt is always dry and fine. "
The fifth annual convention of the
Rural Letter Carriers association will
be held in Baltimore on September It'll,
in Room % of the Post Office building
The convention will be called at 8
O'Clock a. m. Mr.. w. c. Stevens,
Secretary of the Association, desires
through the MESSENGER TO urge the
Carriers of Worcester County to be well
represented on this occasion.
Rev. L. A. Bennett and family will
return home from Ocean City to-day.
He will preach in Bates Memorial NJ.
7. Church Sunday morning at the usual
hour, at Trinity in the afternoon, and
at Snow Hill again in the evening. Mr..
Bennett says the attendance at the
Ocean City campmeeting has been very
large and about twenty persons have
been converted.
Sadie Collins. who left Chincoteague
about fouteen years ago with Joe Lynch
and his band of free lovers. has re-
turned to Chincoteague with young Joe
Lynch and his wife and James Hudson
and wife. If they attempt to hold any
meetings like those held by Lynch on
the Island fourteen years or more ago.
they will likely be hustled away from
Chincoteague.
Mr. |. James Burbage. one of the
and Norfolk K. K. Co.. at Cape Charles,
Va. was visitor in Snow Hill last
Saturday He was accompanied by his
brother, Mr. Gordon l.. Burbage. OF
Friendship. this county. Mr.. |. James
Burbage is a member of the Democratic
State Central Committee for his county
and is popular young man.
1t is now thought that the alleged
"moonshiners" seen by an automobile
party between here and Salisbury. was a
party of woodcock hunters, who heard
the automobile coming and stood rest
ing on their guns awaiting the approach
of the machine. The smell Of dis
tllery may be accounted for in the fact
that the men had just taken drink Of
whskcy, and their anxiety for the go
ing of the auto party may be accounted
for when il is known that the hunters
did not feel like blessing the machine
for soaring all the birds out of the
woods.
The school authorities are to be
congratulated on the marked improve
L..fI I
fort Of the Snow Hill High School. 1t
has been served to a fresh coat of paint
and the school parks cleared OF weeds
and the grass cut. Steam heat has
been installed throughout the building
and a sewer is being run to connect
with the Church street sewer leading to
the Pocomoke River With the compile
ton of these improvements. but few
school buildings in the state will be
better equipped for the convenience and
health of teachers and students
The reports coming in from inspec.
tors of the State horticultural Depart
ment show that peach yelows is again
becoming abundant in the Northern
counties of the Eastern Shore and that
this destructive disease is still alarm
ingly prevalent in the mountain peach
orchards. as well as in all Northern
Maryland where growers have not kept
il cut out. State Pathologist j. b 5.
Norton says that only vigorous effort
of orchardists to keep the diseased
trees cut out as soon as the premature
fruit appears, this being the surest
sign of the disease. will prevent the
loss of large part of the orchards.
The Bryan, Kern, Covington Club.
of Cambridge has passed resolutions
the Bditim0r, SIM for re-
pudiating the Democratic platform and
refusing TO support the Democratic
Presidential candidate. The resolution
concludes as follows 'Resoird. That
the Bryan. Kern and Covington club
Of Cambridge, Md. does hereby record
its dsapproval of the SIMS course and
does hereby pledge its members. collcc-
lively and individually. TO use their in
fluence TO discourage the reading of
the SIM by Democrats in the town of
and the county of Dorchester
them to substitute therefor
the Phiiudeiphi0 Record and other daily
papers of Philadelphia and New York.
which are supporting the principles and
nominees of the Democratic party"
Snow Hill is to have base ball
novelty. On the 4th of September next
friday ball club composed Of Chero-
kee Indians, accompanied by Miss Maud
Nelson, the champion lady pitcher of
the world. will play Snow Hill club.
Our club will be strengthened by good
battery and the games will be good.
We will not only nave the novelty of an
Indian ball club with lady pitcher,
but the greatest novelty of all will be
the night game The Indians have with
them complete electrical outfit with
which they can illuminate ball ground
10 daylight brightness. and they will
play game Friday night as we'll as
Friday afternoon. There is every pros
pect of being big crowd in attendance
at these two games, not only of home
people. but of people from Chincoteague.
Franklin. Greenbackville, Stockton and
other stations on the d. NJ. & V, K. K.
Don't miss IT,