Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-11-19

Rev. l.. A. Bennett, OF Harrington,
came this week to attend the funeral Of
Mr.. Daniel II. Lewis. Mr.. Bennett re-
ports the revival meeting at Milford
continues with interest There have
been over three hundred conversions,
with 225 accessions to the church. A
Sunday school has been organized with
more than two hundred teachers and
scholars.
The General Committee on Foreign
Missions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church ended its annual meeting in Bal
timore Monday and will meet next year
at Denver. At the sessions just closed
the work OF making all appropriations
for all the foreign mission fields for 1911
was perfected. II was decided to ask
the church throughout the United States
for 81, 500, 900 to prosecute the mission
work next year.
MIR. C. l.. Boehm has resigned his
position as assistant postmaster on ac-
count Of i'll health. He moved this week
to his new home at Spence. and will en-
gage actively in the real estate business
as the representative Of the +. A. Strout
Company. Mr.. Boehm's place in the
post office has been taken temporarily
by Mr.. j. J. Salcedo. who formerly fill
ed the position so acceptably to the pa
irons Of the office.
The increase in the value of Wor-
cester County real estate was illustrated
very forcibly at a public sale in Snow
Hill last Tuesday. On that day William
+. Johnson, Esq, trustee, sold farm of
three hundred, acres which was conveyed
to John +. Pusey by Elizabeth p. Town
send, and known as Greek Farm" in
Atkinson's District. In 1882 this farm
was sold at public sale for $4,000. On
Tuesday last il brought $l2, SIS 90. The
purchaser was Mr.. W. G.. Landlord, Of
Somerset County.
The Third Quarterly Conference of
Whatcoat NJ. L. Church, Snow Hill. was
held on Friday evening of last week,
District Superintendent, Rev. George P.
Jones, presiding. A unanimous call was
extended to the pastor, Rev. c. w.
Prettyman. to return another year. Rev.
Mr.. Prettyman is rounding out his fifth
year as pastor of the church. and the
action taken at the Quarterly Confer
ence is an evidence of his fitness and &C.
ceptibility as well as the esteem in which
he is universally held.
AT Hallwood. Va. 10 miles below
the Maryland boundary line. there is in
operation a factory for reducing Irish
potatoes to finely pulverized condition
like wheat flour. Thousands Of barrels
of potatoes have been thus pulverized
this year, and the product shipped in
barrels to the starch and yeast factories
in distant parts of the United States.
Other towns on the Eastern Shore are
asking for factories like that at Hall
wood. Farmers throughout the lower
peninsula would be glad to grow the
crops to supply the needed material, and
would thus be assured of proftably dis
posing of their potatoes the small in
ferior ones as well as the large ones.
The Board Of Trade meetings are
very poorly attended. Our business
men who are directors of this associa-
ton do wrong in neglecting their duties.
While something does not develop every
meeting that will put money directly in
your pockets. yet the very fact that you
are on the lookout for the business in
terests and advancement of the town.
is encouraging. Have you done anything
to get lower freight rates to and from
our town? Have you done anything to-
ward throttling the Adams Express Co.
leech, which is sucking the life-biood Of
business? If you will meet regularly
and do something. you will find that sat
isfactory results will follow.
The Worcester County Teachers
Association met in the Snow Hill High
School Friday of this week. The pro-
gram consisted of business session in
the morning from ten o'clock to twelve.
In the afternoon Mr.. A. c. Humphreys
led the Round Table Discussion. taking
for his topic, The Lesson" pages IL
81. Teachers Year Book. Other papers
were read and general discussion led by
the following Miss Mary II. Stevenson.
of Pocomoke City Mr.. Eugene w.
Pruitt, of Girdletree Miss Nettie b.
Carey, of Berlin and Mr.. John $. Hill.
Of Stockton. Mr.. +. Clarke Fontaine,
of Pocomoke City. is the president, and
Mr.. John S. Hill. of Stockton. secretary
of the association. County Superintend-
ent +. w. McMaster and members of
the School Board attended the sessions.
MELBOURNE.