Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-01-07

BERLIN

the Virginia Theological Seminary this
week, after recovering from a long
illness from typhoid fever.
Mr.. Ernest Bradley removed to West
street this week.
Mr.. Ernest Burbage is occupying his
handsome new residence on Main street.
Sympathy is expressed here for Mr..
WilliaW johnson in the illness Of his
littlsNnildren.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference
meets at the NJ. Z. Church here next
Thursday.
J. G. Harrison & Son have opened a
branch Office in Hagerstown. in order
to handle their Western Maryland ard
farther west trade more efficiently.
Their exhibit at the Reading Terminal
Market, in Philadelphia, is arresting
general attention, and is being exploited
in Pennsylvania and Northern papers.
Mr.. Thomas T. Hammond, of Berlin, is
showing some mammoth Blacktwig APP
Piles there which were grown at Berlin,
and should be an eye opener to every
Eastern Shoreman to the possibilities
Of fruit culture right at home.
The Harrison Nurseries made large
shipment of Bartlett pears this week to
California, and another to Colorado.
Though that sounds like sending Goals
to New Castle" The moral of which
s,-The Eastern Shore can always
come out at the top, if the Eastern
Shoreman wills it.
Every live grower should attend the
Peninsula horticultural Society meet
ing at Dover, DEL, January l0-1l-l2,
and give and receive inspiration and in
| formation.
Come out everybody to the special
strawberry meeting in Berlin Jan. goth,
and if you haven't got a strawberry
patch already, get hustle on you, and
have one before another year. If you
put on your thinking cap you will GER
tainly realize how much it means to the
comfort of any family.
Why can't we have the farmers In
stitute here this winter If we ask for
it, we will. So sign the petition when
it comes your way, and talk it up, to
ensure good turn out, to show our APP
probation, of the lecturers, who will
come to tell US what they have tried and
found good, along farming lines Agri-
culture, and its by-products will always
be our chief hope, with such favorable
climate and kindly soil. so let US educate
ourselves in up-to-date methods, and
money returning labor, and welcome the
! farmers Institute as means to our
betterment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Selby Purnell returned
from their wedding trip and are staying
with her parents until their own home
is made ready.
DIR. Thomas Hammond and family of
Washington, spent the holidays at the
old home.
Mr.. Kendall Palmer is back from the
hospital much improved in health.
The Baltimore Sunday Sun showed a
picture of Miss Katherine Anderson
in its society column.
The Berlin Library was moved this
week to the West Berlin voting booth,
and will resume business on Saturday.
All fines will be RENTED and a fresh
start in the New Year for everybody.
Additional new books will lend interest.
and librarians, officers and borrowers
will resume work with even greater en-
thusiasm and desire to make the coming
year the best ever. The annual meet
inc will be announced later.
Miss Minnie Franklin has returned
from visit to Snow Hill.
Mrs. Bassett Birmingham, who has
been quite sick, is much better.
An afflicted but respected colored
man, Cause Martin, was found in the
woods frozen to death. He evidently
fell INTO ditch and could not get out.
The Organ Recital, at the Presbyter-
ian Church, by Prof. Reeves, assisted
by Wallace Bancroft, and IN the vocal
numbers, by Mrs. Bancroft, was a
greatly enjoyed entertainment. There
are many music lovers in Berlin, who
welcome such an opportunity for en-
joyment, and to whom Friday evening
is delightful memory.
Mrs. Minnie Pitts Robinson and hus-
band, who came to attend the funeral of
DR. John Pitts, have returned TO Bel Air.
The fixtures of Berlin Drug Co., were
bid in by DIR. Townsend, of Ocean City,
and moved to the former Pool room,
where the new firm, Townsend 4 Jones:
will do business.
Mr.. John Farlow will resume the
business of the Drug Co., at the same
stand.
The Bruf house was offered at auc-
ton last Saturday but withdrawn as no
bid worth considering was made.
Rev. Mr. Thomas, Missionary to
Brazil, preached at the Episcopal
Church last Sunday two inspiring SER
mons relative to his part of the mission
field. 1t is interesting to note that the
first Episcopal Church built in Bra7''
was memorial to son of our est
ed citizen, Mrs. Uber, who dieS
he was to go to Brazil, as a
This is the week of g
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