Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-04-01

Just as we are going to press we learn
learn that telegram has been received
announcing the death Of County Com
missioner John l.. Robins. He was
about Sc years old. He leaves widow
and two sons. Lieutenant Thoms NJ.
Robins, U. S. A., and Mr.. James b.
Robins, who resides with his parents on
their farm near town. The Messenger
will contain sketch of Mr.. Robins
next week. He was an honorable gentle
man, who had host of friends.
The remains will be brought TO Snow
Hill from Philadelphia, where Mr.. Rob-
ins died. this friday night.
AT the moving picture show at Mas
on's Opera House this Saturday night
another kimono will be given away.
Miss Blanche Bailey received the one
given away last Saturday night. Ladies
are requested to remove their hats while
the pictures are being shown.
Mr.. Randolph Jones, who is attend
ing Swarthmore College, came home
last week to spend his vacation with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon B. Jones.
He was joined this week by Mr.. Will
ham Lyman. of Wilmington, who is
also student at the same college.
Mrs. Aydelotte. wife of DIR. John
S. Aydelotte, fell from the front porch
of her home Thursday night and frac-
tured her left shoulder. She was so
badly hurt that she was unable to get
up without assistance, and had to call
to passers-by to help her into the house.
As the Governor has designated
April 2lst as Arbor Day the meeting of
the Worcester County Teachers Associ-
alton which was set for that date has
been postpone until Friday. April 2sth,
on which date the Association will carry
out the program outlined for the first
date.
Mr.. Joseph Morgan was in town
several days this week. He has been
at the State sanitarium for consumptives
for some months. and is so much bene-
fitted by the treatment he received there
that he looks and feels like a new man
and has gone to Roanoke, Va, to accept
position.
Rev. NJ. r. Evans will preach at
Nassawango. M. r. Church Sunday
evening at 7.30 o'clock. April the 9th.
This will probably be the last opportun-
ity to hear him. as he graduates from the
Seminary at Westminster in May and
expects then to return to his old home
in Alabama.
MIR. and Mrs. L. S. Johnson, who
have been spending some time in
Snow Hill at the PurneIl Hotel, left this
week for New York. Mr.. johnson has
been introducing the Bogart piano in
this vicinity. and has established an
agency here. Messrs. Charles II. Parsons
and Edward c. Conner are the agents.
Mr.. Royce Hancock left Tuesday
for Delmar, where he has accepted
position in drug store. Mr.. Hancock
has been clerking in DR.. Jones Drug
store for several years, and has been
attentive to his duties. and courteous to
the public. His many friends in Snow
Hill wish him success in his new field
of labor.
Miss Elizabeth Leonhardt, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. b. North
at the Manse, and who is in the Nurse
Corps of the United States Navy has
been promoted to be a Chief Nurse,
and sent to the U. S. Naval Hospital at
Guam. She left for San Francisco on
the 2Sth, and will sail for Guam early in
April. accompanied by two other ladies
who are in the Nurse Corps.
MIR. o. NJ. Purnell. the real estate
man, has sold this week the Dover
Farm, near Public Landing. for MIR.
William +. Johnson to Mr.. Elton M.
Jones, of Decatur, Kansas. This is
good farm and Mr.. Jones will make
many improvements and restore it to
its old standing as one of the best farms
in the county. The farm contains $50
acres, and the purchase price was $500.
MIR. John l.. Mason will represent
Bates Memorial Church and Trinity NJ.
p. Church at the Maryland Annual Con-
ference. He is instructed to ask for
the return of Rev. George Hines as pas
tor of these churches. Mr.. Hines has
also been promised an increase of 500
in his salary. He is splendid gentle
man. and good preacher. We will be
pleased to see him returned to Snow
Hill.
Rev. Dr. S. NJ. Morgan. pastor of
Mount Salem Methodist Church, of Viii