Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-08-20


water and milk you use are pure ant
that the flies do not have access to the
food you eat.
District Superintendent G. p Jones
will preach in the Methodist Episcopal
Church tomorrow Sunday morning, and
a large attendance is expected. Rev.
Mr.. Jones is well known as a very
eloquent preacher.
Next Thursday, August Goth. will
be Temperance Day at the Ocean City
camp meeting, with fine program Of
music and addresses. All members of
the w. c. 7. u. and the public gener-
ally are cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Charles G. Atwell came last
week to visit Mr.. b. T. Truitt and
family. Mr.. Atwell now resides at
bennington, Ontario. Canada, and this
is his first visit to Worcester County
since he moved away some years ago.
Rev. d. N. Middlekauff will leave
next week for Washington, d. c..
where he will make his home for a
while. During his short stay here he
has made many friends in the COM
munity who will regret to see him leave.
"A union festival will be held by Mt.
Olive, Mt. Zion and Aquango Branch
NJ. P. Churches, Wednesday evening.
August 25th, at Aquango Branch. Should
the weather be unfavorable on the day
appointed the festival will be held on
Thursday.
Our canning factories have opened
with favorable prospects. The tomato
crop promises to be an abundant one.
Our yearly visitors. the Bohemians,
have arrived in large numbers and find
plenty of work in the Snow Hill, Scar
borough Switch and Newark factories.
Lieutenant Joshua j. w. Shockley,
of the Baltimore police force, and Mrs.
Shockley spent part of this week with
his mother, Mrs. Uriah F. Shockley,
in Snow Hill, leaving here on Tuesday
for Salisbury where they visited rela-
tives and also took in the Salisbury
fair.
The Republican Convention met in
the Court House here last Tuesday and
elected delegates to the State Conven-
ton. No nominations were made. the
Convention adjourning subject to the
call of the chairman. The following
were reelected members of the State
Central Committee E. S. Furbush,
chairman, A. c. Riley, w. L. Tull and
E. J. Schoolfield.
Quite number of Snow Hill peo-
pie. who have been spending some
time at Ocean City. have returnedho
Among the number we note the follow
ing: Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Station,
Mrs. VIM. G. Powell and daughter,
Elizabeth, Miss Wilson Hargis, Mrs.
VIM. E. Bratten and son, Edward, Mrs.
VIM. E. Rownds, Mrs. John l.. Mock and
children.
One of the friends of Mr.. Calvin B.
Taylor, of Berlin, received letter from
him this week in which he states that
his health is much improved by rest and
travel. Mr.. Taylor has visited every
place of Importance in California. He
is now in Yosemite Valley and will leave
next week for Seattle, Washington. to
attend the Alaska Yukon Exposition
Mr.. Taylor has many friends in Wor-
cester County who rejoice in his inn
proved health and who will gladly well
come him home.
u. S. Senator John Walter Smith
came to Snow Hill Monday night for a
short visit. Senator Smith took an i'm
portant part in the recent tariff discus
sion in the upper branch of Congress.
and during the long session, which last
ed from early spring to midsummer, he |
distinguished himself by several telling |
speeches. and measured swords with |
some of the keenest blades of the Sem
ate. His constituents are justly proud
of his record, and his Snow Hill and
Worcester County friends are always |
glad when he is at home.
The Postoffice Department at WASH
ington. has added another enterprise to
its already large list of business VEN
lures. The new venture is the manufac-
ture of ice. For many years the De-
partment has been paying $7.65 per ton
for its ice. and desire to cheaper the |
product has resulted in the recent es-
tablishment of Department Ice Plant.
The Postoflice Department now makes
its own ice for sixty.iive cents per ton. |
This announcement will enlighten to
some extent, the minds of the consum-
ers. which have been filled with the vex-