Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-12-04

Rev. j. b. North will preach al
Stockton tomorrow Sunday and there
will be no service in the Snow Hill
Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Mary E. Collins and daughter,
Miss Mildred, of Pocomoke City, spent
several days last week with Mrs. Ben.
jamin Hearthway.
Miss Jane Townsend. who has beer
visiting relatives in Snow Hill fol
several weeks, returned last Thursday
to her home in Baltimore.
Miss Doris Parsons, of the PENN.
sula General Hospital, Salisbury, is
nursing her aunt, Mrs. Ernest Parsons,
who is i'll with catarrh fever.
Miss Ruth Truitt. a popular nurse
at the Peninsula General Hospital. Sails
bury, spent Thanksgiving with her par
ents, MIR. and Mrs. James b. Truitt.
at Spence.
Mrs. A. j. Haubert returned this
week from visit to her daughter, Miss
Matte Haubert, in Baltimore. Mrs.
and Miss Haubert spent Thanksgiving
in Washington,
Prayer meeting at the home of Mr..
Edward Leake on the Girdletree road
near Snow Hill, tomorrow Sunday
afternoon, at two o'clock. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
The many friends of John w. Sta
ton. Esq, regret that he is suffering
from an attack Of catarrh fever and is
unable to attend to business. We hope
to see him out again soon.
Mr.. Clarence Taylor and son, Master
Maurice. spent Thanksgiving with Mr..
Taylor's grandmother, Mrs. Mary A.
Kollock, and his aunt. Miss Annie j.
Kollock. in Georgetown. Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Bevans, of Po-
comoke City, visited their son, Mr..
George Bevans, a few days this week.
Mrs. George Bevans spent last Monday
and Tuesday with relatives in Pocomoke
City.
The work of matchmaking Wash
ington Street from the Methodist Episco-
pal Church out to the railroad track is
progressing finely. When completed
this will enhance the value of property
along this street.
Mrs. w. f. Cuff and Miss Eva
Trader spent Thanksgiving in Stockton
with the latter's sister. Mrs. Shepard.
Miss Trader returned to her home in
Berlin this week to the regret of her
Snow Hill friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Sypherd. Of
Atlantic City, N. j., came last week to
visit Mr.. George S. Payne and family.
Mr.. Sypherd resided in Snow Hill some
years ago when his father was pastor
of Whatcoat M. Z. Church.
On every page of the MESSENGER
this week will be found attractive
Christmas advertisements. This is an
all-home printed paper every week in
the year and you don't want to skip
reading single column of it.
If you are to have sale of house.
hold goods. farming implements, horses,
real estate, etc., put it in the MEssEN-
GER which visits nearly two thousand
families every week. The MESSENGER
is read by nearly ten thousand people.
-Sportsmen are now wondering what
has become of the rabbits and cartridges
which were reported so plentiful few
days before the season opened. 1t was
said that this season would be great
one for both kinds of game. but there
does net seem to be much doing.
Decorators are at work on the
Presbyterian Church. Also the wood
work, including pews, pulpit and organ
will be cleaned and vanished; new
carpet will cover the floors, and it is
the intention to install water motor
with which to pump the organ.
Mr.. w. o. Shockley. who moved
here from Shovel recently, is living in
the Gordon Bowen house on Martin
Street. Mr.. c. C. Mumford and Mr..
Shockley have put up mill in Coul-
bourn's District which Mr.. Shockley will
manage and which is conveniently located
to Snow Hill.
Capt. Joel r. Gordon, of Girdletree,
and Messrs. Z. E. Mock. j. r. Robin
son and G. w. Ward, of Stockton, called
at the MESSENGER Office on Wednesday