Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-12-11

with Mrs. Harriet Richardson ana Mr..
and Mrs. j. S. Price.
Rev. J. b. North will preach in the
lecture room Of the Presbyterian Church
tomorrow Sunday morning and even
ing at the usual hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Tilghman have
issued invitation cards for their golden
wedding anniversary next Tuesday even
ing, at their home in Snow Hill.
General Joseph b. Seth, president
of the Maryland Senate, who has been
i'll at Easton for several weeks, is so
far recovered as to be able to take short
walks.
Miss Winifred Spencer is spending
this week with friends and relatives in
Berlin. While there she will attend the
marriage of her cousin, Miss Florence
Grise.
In another column of the MEssEN-
GER to-day the Trustees of the Poor
advertise lot of farming implements,
feed, ETC.. to be sold at the poor house
farm.
Mrs. Harry Davis and little daugh-
ter, Blanche, of Nanticoke, and Miss
Lola Davis, of Salisbury, are spending
this week with their sister, Mrs. Chas.
Riley, near town.
-Twenty-four hundred turkeys were
unloaded on Monday from car on the
Delaware Railroad near New Castle
and taken to farm near by to be fed
for the Christmas holidays.
Calvin Savage, colored, while at
work at the Snow Hill Butter Dish &
Basket Co. IS factory this Friday morn
ing, stepped backward into the log vat
and was severely scalded up to his knees.
MIR. H. C. Spurrier has contracted
with the Presbyterians of Snow Hill to
install water motor in their church
for the purpose of pumping their pipe
organ. 1t will be installed as rapidly
as possible.
The farm near Newark, which was
the property of the late Preston p.
Townsend, was sold at public auction
last Tuesday at the Court House door.
and was purchased by Mr.. William z.
Powell, of Cedartown, for 50, $50.
AT a special meeting of directors of
the Peoples Bank, in Princess Anne,
Friday, Mr.. Henry j. Waters was elect
ed president of the bank, to succeed the
late Francis j. Barnes, who died re-
Gently. Mr.. Waters has been director
since the organization of the bank in
1895.
Mrs. William Todt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard johnson, came home
to spend the Christmas holidays with
her parents last Thursday. Mrs. Todt
came from South Carolina where her
husband is conducting his shows, to Will
mington, Del, where she visited her
sister. and thence to Snow Hill.
Archie Collins. colored youth aged
10 years, met with fatal accident last
Friday. While cutting logs in the woods
a tree fell on him crushing his head.
Though he was Immediately brought
to town and received prompt medical
attention, his injuries were so great
that he expired in few minutes after
reaching here.
The Dcimdr News says the reason
Salisbury is such hustling town and
does such large business is because
her merchants are not afraid to adver-
tise extensively in their home papers.
The Nscs says. Practically every
clothing store in Salisbury spends on an
average$200 year for advertising space
in the Salisbury papers.
Eastern Shore Temple, No. 3, Order
of United Americans. was instituted at
Red Mems Hall, Snow Hill, this week.
Officials of the Grand Temple, Philadel-
phia, were present and gave an inter-
esting talk on the work of the Order.
They left here feeling that the success
of the Temple was assured. Both ladies
and gentlemen can become members.
Mr.. James NJ. Wilson was taken to
the Peninsula General Hospital Thurs
day morning by DIR. Straughn, to be
operated upon for appendicitis. At this
writing his condition is very serious.
Mr.. Wilson is son of CAPTAIN Stephen
II. Wilson and brother of Captain
Ohio w. Wilson. of this town. He is a
tailor and has place of business over
the law Office Of Mr.. A. p. Barnes.
-Messrs. F. A. Grier & Sons, of Sal
isbury, are putting in new power plant
for the municipality of Ocean City.
The contract covers the installation of a
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