Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-12-10

Collins have returned home form visit
to relatives in Philadelphia and other
places.
Jail deliveries in Sussex county are
expected to end with the installation Of
several new steel cages in the jail at
Georgetown.
One of the Editors of the Messenger
will be at the Atlantic Hotel, Berlin,
next Saturday. December 18th, for the
purpose Of collecting subscriptions.
Mrs. John w. Station left Friday
for visit to her parents in Hartford
County. She was accompanied by her
husband, Mr.. John w. Station, who re-
turned today.
Mrs. Edna S. Whaley returned
home Monday night from a short visit
to Philadelphia and Trenton. having ac-
companied home her sister, Mrs. Will
ford Lawshe.
The Board of County Commission
ers, the Orphans Court and the School
Commissioners will meet in their re-
spective offices in the Court House next
Tuesday, December 18th.
-Messrs. Z w. McMaster. Ghas. G.
Dale and Edgar Fontaine, Of Pocomoke
City. and Horace +. Harmonson and
Thomas J. Whaley, of Berlin, were Wis
itors in Snow Hill Tuesday.
Hon. George w. Covington and
family have gone to New York, where
they will spend the winter. They have an
apartment at 263 West slst. Street,
near Riverside Drive. in very delight
full part of New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Shooster. of
Wilmington, Del, and Mr. Levi Latta-
mus. of Shannon. Del, are guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles +. Hill. An old
fashioned taffy-pulling was given in
honor of the visitors last Tuesday even
ing.
Mrs. Mary NJ. North, of Snow Hill,
Md. was elected recording secretary of
the Woman's National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress. which was in session in
Washington Tuesday. She was also
appointed as vice-president for Mary
land.
Mrs. Annie Richie, who resided
near Virginia Crossing, moved Tuesday
to Delmar where she will reside. Her
father, Mr.. Thomas Devereaux, who
has resided in this county all his life.
accompanied her and will make his home
with her.
Charles Marvil, well-known farm
err of near Bridgeville. has hog that
weighs !, 100 pounds and will weigh $50
pounds dressed. 1t is the general opin-
ion Of those that have seen the porker
that it is the largest ever raised in Sus-
sex county.
Claude Bowen, of Missouri, will
sell car load of horses and mules at
John w. Gordy's stables on Thursday,
December 18th. The steamer Mabel
will leave here on that day at 400. so
persons down the river can attend this
sale. See his advertisement.
The Norfolk express trains from
Cape Charles to New York. are now
composed of solid trains of steel cars,
as only steel equipment will be allowed
in the new Pennsylvania tubes under
the Hudson River to the new station
which opened for business last week.
Mr.. Alonzo l.. Miles. formerly of
Somerset County. but now of Baltimore,
has sufficiently recovered from his re-
cent illness to resume his law practice
in Baltimore. Mr.. Miles spent several
weeks at sanitarium near Baltimore,
and has recently returned from two
weeks stay at Atlantic City.
Because of his work in Milford in
building new Methodist Protestant
church and gaining congregation of
300 in three months, Rev. l.. A. Bennett
has been authorized by the Methodist
Protestant Conference to be transfer
red from his pastorate in Harrington to
the new church he has founded.
MIR. Carl Sturgis. of East Bridge
water, Massachusetts. came Sunday
night. remaining until Tuesday, with
his mother, Mrs. A. ID. Sturgis. Mr..
Sturgis was on his way south to Mobile
and other points, from which he expect
ed to make a trip to Chicago. st. Paul
and Montreal before the holidays.
When Congress met last Monday
Senator John Walter Smith. Congress
men J. Harry Covington and Fred Tai
bolt were subjects of congratulations
from their brother Democrats in the
Senate and House for the great victory
won by the Maryland Democracy at the
late election. and in approval of the
IN he held in Baltimore on