Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-09-23


last week, and made many friends here.
His wife was one of our most popular
girls.
Mr.. Henry Davis and family are at
home again, after spending the summer
at Ocean City.
Mr.. Calvin Birmingham will enter
Goldey's Business College next week.
He is such an efficient young man in the
store that he will be much missed.
Miss Katherine Hammond returned
from a stay in Baltimore to enter school.
This is her graduating year.
The many Berlin friends of Mr.. |. j.
Burbage, of Cape Charles, are glad to
know of the recent honor conferred upon
him. Mr.. Burbage has recently been
elected Mayor of Cape Charles. For
some years he has been one Of the city
officials and he has also been member
of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Northampton County, for
number of years. Mr. Burbage is a
high official Of the New York, Philadel-
phia g. Norfolk X. X. Co. He is son Of
the late Isaac Burbage, of lronshire, and
is brother of Mrs. G. A. Harrison,
Mrs. w. Elton Boston and Messrs. Cor
don, William, Charles, and Miss Bessie
Burbage. of Berlin. His mother also
resides here.
The Harrisons will make large ship
ments of Keifer pears from their orch
ards in this section this fall. The great
success of the Harrisons this year with
fruits, when so many Have failed to
make crop, demonstrates that the only
requisite to an almost certain crop is
care of trees. Fruit trees must be
cared for as thoroughly as any other
crop, and when so looked after will yield
a profitable crop.
The many friends of Mr.. Thomas J..
Whaley are glad to know that he is on
the road to recovery from severe i'll
ness of typhoid fever.
Everybody is praying for street inn
provement. If any town in the county
needs good streets it s Berlin. But we
cannot have good streets without pay
ing for them. and the only way to get
them is by way of taxation. We can
not expect something for nothing.
Miss Rachel Hudson made a week
stay with friends at Ocean City.
Ebert Bounds is in business now at
Vancouver He is highly thought of
here.
Mr. Orlando Shockley will speak to
the Presbyterian Sunday School next
Sunday morning on the Great Conven-
ton" in San Francisco. He has com
posed Rally Song for the Sunday
Schools, which will be sung at the State
Convention in Easton, September 9th
and 2Sth.
Miss Eva Hudson, now of New Lon
don, Conn, visited her parents at Ocean
City.
Mrs. George Hammond and Mrs.
Wood are visiting in Dover.
Rev. Vaughn Collins visited his moth
er, who continues i'll.
Mr.. Henry Harrison. who entered
Conference Academy last week, has re-
turned home, overcome by that awful
malady, Inconsistencies.
Mr.. Hale Harrison is now student of
Worcester Academy. Mass, and is
greatly pleased with his surroundings.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Coffin are at
home again in Berlin.
Immense bill boards have been put up
on the lot next Odd Fellows Hall, and
by Mr.. Lee Purnells Office.
Mr.. Calvin Taylor has been entertain
ing his sisters, Mrs. Mumford and Mrs.
Swift. of Cape Charles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Hedges have de-
parted for their new home in West Vir-
GINA, to the expressed regret Of many
friends.
Prof. NJ. Bowman is in Berlin teach
ing John Burbage. Jr., to cut marble.
Under so fine an artist, we trust he may
learn well the work that has made Ber
lin famous under Mr.. Bowman.
Miss Annie Adkins has taken her place
in the school as instructor in Manual
Training. We wish her the fullest sue
cess.
Mrs. S. X. Marshall is suffering with
a dislocated shoulder. She was injured
while nursing her little niece at Easton,
who is gradually recovering from seri-
Gus burns.
New houses are already contracted
for at Ocean City for the next season.
Mrs. Jean Herring, of New York, is
at her cottage at Ocean City. Though
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