Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-02-25

Miss M0Ilie kowley, OF Chincoteague
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Bratten few days of last week.
Eastern Shore Gamers are offering
farmers from S. to $40 per ton to plant
tomatoes for the coming season.
Misses Pearl Layton and Ida Perdue
spent last Saturday and Sunday with
friends and relatives at Greenbackville.
State Game Warden. II. +. Har-
monson. Esq, was a caller at the Mess
enger office while in town last Tuesday.
Miss Bessie Brown, Of Centreville,
who has been here on visit to Miss
Nora Hargis, returned home Thursday.
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, of Pittsville.
visited Mrs. Rebecca Vincent. at her
home in Snow Hill, several days last
week.
1T is hoped we will have as good a
fruit crop this year as we had last.
Don't forget to spray your fruit trees If
you want good fruit.
MIR. Robert Rogers, of Williams
vile, Delaware, returned home Thurs
day after a visit to Mr. Hiram Little
ton and other friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Laws. of Sails
bury, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
II. Perdue over Sunday. Mrs. Laws
and Mrs. Perdue are sisters.
MIR. Loire Wilson is making i'm
provements to the Railways of the
Odd Fellows Building. A little paint
makes great improvement.
-Four large farms around George
town were sold last week to men from
Baltimore Hundred, who are going there
to engage in strawberry culture.
Adam Peoples. of Port Deposit.
Speaker of the last House of Delegates
of Maryland. has announced himself a
Democratic candidate for denomination.
Mr.. S. 0. Eaton, who recently pur-
chased farm near Girdletree, was in
Snow Hill Saturday, and subscribed to
the Messenger. Mr.. Eaton is formerly
from Virginia.
Mrs. Benjamin Twigg died Tuesday
at her home in Coulbourne' s district, aged
10 years. lnterment was made Thurs
day morning in the family burying
ground on the farm.
"A delegation of Bishopville citizens
came to Snow Hill Tuesday to petition
the county Commissioners for road
through Bishopville to the Delaware
line, under the Shoemaker Act.
-Seaford merchants who do not pro-
vide hitching posts in front of their
stores will not be patronized by Seaford
Grange. while if they do they will be
fined by order of Town Council.
Quite large number of straw
berry crates are being made in prepare
ton for the coming strawberry crop.
Watch the columns of this paper and you
will know the best to buy from.
The death of Samuel Hurlock Of
Cecilton. Cecil county, leaves to his son,
Clarence S. Hurlock of Massey, Kent
county, over $500 acres of land. as the
elder Hurlock died without leaving a
will.
Organized but a few weeks, Milton
Board of Trade is already showing
results. and through its work Milton
has secured an opportunity to build
first-class creamery on the Elgin cream
ers cooperative plain.
Miss Florence Lindsay, Of Balti-
more returned home Friday. after having
spent ten days with her sister Mrs. l..
Ellis at Greenbackville. She was accom-
panied home by her niece, Miss Regina
Ellis. who returned home Sunday.
The advertisement of the F. S.
Register Fertilizer Company, of Norfolk,
Va, appears in this issue. This is one
of the largest fertilizer manufacturing
concerns in the south and their business
extends over large part of the coun-
try.
Miss Elizabeth Miller. of Somerset
County, Md. a student at Kee Mar
College, underwent serious operation
at the Washington County Hospital for
appendicitis. Her condition is critical.
A specialist from Baltimore was sum-
moned.
Hon. Orlando Harrison wrote to
friend in Virginia to send him family
of colored beople. On Saturday they
arrived. The man brought twenty-six,
his sisters, his cousins and his aunts.
Mr.. Harrison fed and distributed the
rrivala