Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-05-07
M ! samuel Price and daughter

Miss Nellie, went to Baltimore this
week to attend the graduating exer-
cises Of the class of nurses Of the Mary
land University. Miss Lula, the eldest
daughter of Mr.. Price, is one of the
graduates.
One Of the largest shad that has
been caught in the Delaware River for
twenty years was caught on Saturday.
IL weighed l2A pounds. IL was caught
in the Jersey channel by Mr.. Duncan,
a well-known fisherman, and was taken
to Chester, Pa.
Our old friend Thomas J. Herman
went to the Johns Hopkins hospital Sun
day for treatment or an operation for
cancer on his lower lip. We trust that
he will come out all right. Tom is
valuable citizen. lie is hard working
industrious man much priced by the
community.
With the automobile season now
well under way. persons using the pub
lie roads Of the county should remem-
Der the following rule of the road That
when an automobile approaches team
from the rear the team should pull to
the right of the road and allow the ma
chine to passon the left. The observ-
ancc of this rule might at times save
serious accidents.
Miss Lille Workman had narrow
escape from very serious accident at
Holloway's shirt factory Thursday
morning. She was standing near the
driving belt when the wind blew her
dress skirt into it winding it up and
tearing the skirt off her. She was car
ried Off her feet, and fell to the floor
head foremost. She was badly bruised
but sustained no serious injuries.
The opinion of those who are inter-
ested in the industry of tomato canning
on this Peninsula IS that the packing of
the vegetables on the Eastern Shore
during the canning season will fall short
Of that of the past two seasons. The
poor prices obtained for the canned
goods during the past two years, dur
ing which time the market was too full
Of tomatoes, is held responsible for the
prediction.
"A Chincoteague correspondent says:
1.-The fishermen here, from Cape Cod
are not giving our boys any lessons in
catching mackeral. sturgeon, blue fish,
&c. In the last few days Capt. c. E.
Rabbit. one of our fishermen. has caught
more than all the Cape Cod fleet of 30
boats. The catch of Capt. Rabbit in
three days sold for $4,000. Three stur-
geons recently caught by Capt. John
Jester and crew, also of this place, were
sold for $4,000.
We would call the attention. of our
readers to lot of fakirs going through
this section, humbugging the people by
offering them what is supposed to be
struggled cloth and lot Of other mer-
chandise. The best way for our readers
to do is to patronize our home merchants.
They are the ones who help pay taxes,
help the churches and schools and who
are always ready to correct mistakes.
so take our advice. shun the peddlers-
they are never reliable.
Eva Teresa, the l3-year-old daugh-
ter Of Thomas A. Minch, of near Church
Hill, was terribly burned about the face
and body Monday and died shortly after
ward. She was studying her lessons at
the table. above which was suspended a
swinging lamp. Suddenly the lamp ex-
ploded. and in falling, set fire to another
lamp. which was directly beneath it. Oil
and flames were scattered about the ia
bic and the girl was enveloped in the
blaze. Her father rushed to her rescue
and was badly burned.
Fish messenger WilliamT. Vincent.
of the Fish Matching station at Sails
bury, came to Snow Hill on Tuesday and
deposited one million young shad in the
Pocomoke River. Later in the week he
went 10 Pocomoke City and put three mil
lion in the Pocomoke at that place. Mr..
Vincent accompanied Fish Commissioner
Twilley to Havre de Grace on Wednes-
day of last week in quest of shad eggs,
as they have been hard to obtain in
quantities on the Eastern Shore. Their
trip was not very productive, as eggs
are also hard to get on the Susquehanna,
and the government hatchery. which
they visited, was having the same trouble
that Commissioner Twilley was having
with his department.
Deputy Sheriff Gordon Bowen had
an encounter with gang of young ne
groes over the river last Saturday night.
He was in a carriage when he heard one
of the crowd he passed say: lets take
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