Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-09-30

weeks vacation.
Mrs. Emma Franklin visited Ocean
City and Berlin. She will soon return
to her New York home.
Mr.. Wilbur Keas is back in the bank.
after a pleasant vacation spent on a
houseboat down the bay.
Messrs. Joe and Abe Hollins attended
the Hebrew New Years solemn Jewish
services in Baltimore.
Raymond Esham is still suffering from
terrible accident. He fell under a
manure spreader and was fearfully torn.
This is the second distressing accident
of that kind in the family.
John ID. Rayne will erect handsome
building on Main Street opposite Dish
aroon's store. for business purposes.
Mr.. Lee Purnell is now occupying the
office in the Connoway building, former
ly the Office of Harry Ayers.
Mr.. Sidney Jones has removed to the
old manse. which has been beautifully
remodeled.
The Epworth League of the NJ. E.
Church has organized into Bible study
class, with Rev. Thomas VanDyke leader
Mrs. Guy Boston and Mrs. Selby Pur-
nell are delegates to the State Sunday
School Convention at Easton, this week
Mr.. Hines Thomas entertained his
Sunday School class pleasantly.
MISS Lizzie Tilghman is in Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Scott will visit
New York, Niagara and other points.
Charles Hastings is recovering from
the heat stroke to which he succumbed
last week.
Rev. William Clews preached Sunday
at Buckingham and Liberty.
The communion service at the NJ. Z.
Church was postponed to last Sunday,
owing to confusion in the notice.
Rev. VanDyke is under the care of a
throat specialist in Wilmington.
Mrs. Charles Jarman and daughter
are recovering from typhoid, but the
son, Calvin, has been stricken, and is
quite sick.
Edward Furbush, Jr.. is having bad
time with "A mashed foot.
DR.. Cullen has taken possession of the
Office of the late DR.. John Pitts, which
has been fitted up for the purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Showell visited
town Saturday. The latter was the
guest of Mrs. Zadok Henry.
The canning factory at Ocean City is
running over time, and employs large
number of people of all ages and sexes.
The cement block industry is grow
ing thing at Ocean City, and it looks as
if the day is near. when immense guam
titles of them will be manufactured there.
The sand is ideal for the purpose. and.
of course, practically inexhaustible in
amount.
Mr.. Norman Bunting, of Bishopville.
who was lately operated on. died and
was brought home last week for burial.
Rev. A. w. Lithicum preached his
last sermon at St. Martins Sunday. and
returned to Randolph Macon College,
Va, on Monday, to the regret of his
Pensioners.
Miss Margaret Jacobs left Tuesday to
enter the Hannah More Academy.
Miss Elizabeth Post left for Fair
mount, West Virginia, to enter the
school she attended last year. from
which she hopes to graduate next June.
The Presbyterian Sunday School and
congregation of Ocean City enjoyed
their annual picnic last Saturday on the
mainland, Notwithstanding the down.
pour.
Rev DIR. Rushbridge is off on his
vacation, during which he will visit his
boyhood home, his first passionate and
his married sons and daughters. He
will be absent month. Mr.. Gunby. Of
Salisbury. will hold service in his alb
sence.
Miss Sallie Henry has returned to New
York. after spending the summer at
home.
The army worm has done thousands
of dollars worth of damage in this
section of the county. Mr.. James +.
Thomas. our County Commissioner. is
damaged to the extent of at least 5000
by the humiliation of field of eighteen
acres of millet by these destructive
pests. Other farmers have had their
millet and fodder crops badly damaged
also.
Berlin is great sporting and amuse-