Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-04-05

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will be given the adoption degree. and
a large attendance is looked for.
The many friends of little Katha-
rine Fooks. who has been very i'll at the
home of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. +.
Hance Fooks, will be glad to learn that
she is improving. We hope that she
will soon be able to be out again.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Mills died on Friday of last week.
The funeral services we're conducted
Sunday afternoon at the house by Rev.
George Hines, after which the body was
laid to rest in the NJ. f. Cemetery.
If you have not paid your subscrip-
ton. please do so at once. We are not
allowed to send your paper through the
mails il you owe US more than one dollar
on subscription. The United States
Government has made this ruling and
we must abide by it.
We received letter this week from
Bishop in which adollar bill was enclosed
AS the person who sent the money failed
to send us his name, we will thank him
to do so at once, so he may be credited
with the amount on his subscription.
MIR. Gordon Wonnell. who has been i'll
with typhoid fever for several weeks at
the home of his brother. Mr.. George w.
Wonnell, is able to be out again. Mr..
Wonnell was taken sick while at work
in Ashville. North Carolina. and came
home to recuperate.
Rev. James w. Easley returned
this week from attending the sessions
OF Conference at Crisfield. Great salts
faction is expressed among his parish
toner's. and the public generally, that he
has returned to Snow Hill another year.
Regular services will be held in What
coat NJ. L. Church Sunday morning and
evening
Mrs. Stephen NJ. Morgan. wife of a
former pastor of the Whatcoat NJ. L.
Church. Snow Hill. spent several days
here the first of this and the latter part
of last week with her friends. Mr.. and
Mrs. William 7. Duffy. Rev. Mr.. Nor
gan joined his wife here on Tuesday
morning after Conference had adj
journed.
Mr.. Clayton T. Richardson has COM
pleted his new house on Church Street,
and. with his wife and son, began occupy
ing il last week. MIR. Richardson is the
assistant cashier in the Commercial
National Bank. and has been living in
Snow Hill for more than two years. We
are glad to have him become perma-
nent resident. and also extend a cordial
welcome to his wife and little son.
-Messrs. Upshur & upshur. through
George NJ. Upshur, assignee of mort
gage, advertise tract of lana near
Newark, and house and lot in Newark
at public sale in this issue of the Mes
senger. A lot of corn and fodder will
be sold at the same time. The sale will
take place at the Court House door, in
Snow Hill. on Tuesday afternoon. April
10Th, at 23O o'clock. For further par
ticulars see advertisement on the first
page of the Messenger.
No more road building will be done
this year on the shell road in Indiantown,
as the quota OF expenditure for that
section has been used. The road now
reaches short distance beyond the For
est Lane road, with only little more
than mile to be built to reach to Ac-
quango Branch. 1t is hoped that this
stretch will be built before another year.
This road has been built at a minimum
cost, as the farmers have hauled the
shells. the county paying for the shells.
and for the grading and other necessary
expense in constructing road.
MIR. William Clayville. of Wilton.
caught five big mouth black bass in the
Pocomoke River one afternoon last
week. The weight of the five was las
lbs. The largest fish weighed four
pounds. 1t is reported that a great
many bass go far up the Pocomoke IN
the early Spring to spawn. 1t is known
that there are great many in this
river, but they will not take the hook
at all seasons of the year. as the river
is so full of natural food that the fish
are almost always gorged. In the early
Spring and late Fall is the best time to
fish for them.
Sixty seven head of fattened cattle
were driven into Snow Hill Monday
afternoon. and loaded in three cars for
shipment to Philadelphia. The cattle
were owned by Mcssrs. John II. Truitt,
William X. Truitt, and j. A. DeMar.
of Indiantown. who purchased them in
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