Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-02-15
Mr.. E. S. Furbush. the Berlin mer-

MIR y. ). furbush, the Berlin mer-
chant, has recently returned home from
New York, where he went to attend a
big bankrupt sale of merchandise. He
bought about ten thousand dollars
worth which he is advertising in full
page (page 81 to day at the greatest
bargains. he says ever heard Of
Every member OF the church and
congregation is requested to meet in the
Lecture Room of the Presbyterian
Church next Wednesday evening. Feb
ruary 18th. at O'Clock. The Commit
tee on PASTORAL Relations will meet in
the Municipal Building. on Monday even
ing. February nth. at eight O'Clock.
MIR. George w. Coulbourn and daugh-
ter. Miss Molle Coulbourn. will leave
today for Philadelphia, where they will
spend a couple of weeks with Mr.. John
l. Coulbourn and family. While in
Philadelphia Mr.. Coulbourn will also
meet his other other sons. who will hold
their annual business meeting in Phil
adelphia.
The Sunday School of Cedartown
NJ. T.. Church will hold festival and
supper on Thursday evening. February
Goth. The proceeds will be for the ben
eft of the said Sunday School. II the
weather should be unfavorable. the
festival and supper will be held the
following evening. The public cordially
invited to attend.
The special meetings at the Snow
Hill Methodist Episcopal Church will
continue indefinitely. Service each even
ing. except Saturday. at 7.30. The
Sabbath services are as follows: morn
ing services. II o'clock; evening, 7.3O
o'clock Love Feast. 3 o'clock. A
cordial invitation to the Christian public.
and welcome for all
The sale of the personal effects Of
Mr.. Charles NJ. Peters took place last
Wednesday and was one OF the most
largely attended sales in Worcester
County in number of years. The bid
ding was spirited. and. as general
thing. good prices prevailed. The farm,
which was offered for sale by Mr.. Wood
cock, who now owns it, was withdrawn
after bid of S2i. 900 was put on it.
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Jones attended meeting of Bishop
Berry and his Cabinet on Tuesday last,
at which time il was decided to change
the date of the next session of the Will
mington Conference meeting at Girls
field Md. from March 18th to March
18th. in order that the churches related
thereto may observe Easter services
with their respective pastors officiating.
Commander T. c. Il. Howard. of
the State Fishery Force. left Annapolis
Tuesday in the State steamer Governor
Thomas for Crisfield. where he met
the commander of the Virginia Fishery
Force in the Commodore Maury to plant
bouys to mark the old Black and Jenkins
line. which defines the boundaries of
Maryland and Virginia in Pocomoke
Sound. Swepson Earle. engineer of the
Maryland Shellfsh Commission went
with Commander Howard to act as con
sulting engineer. He will establish the
location of the original corner marks of
the line. and will plant new buoys to
mark them. the original ones having
disapared.
Last week Polk Turpin. a colored
buyer Of fur in this county brought to
Snow Hill a pelt to ascertain what IT
was. He purchased the skin of hun
ter between the Pocomoke River and
the Wicomico line. who captured the
animal during one of his recent night
hunts. The animal who had originally
worn the coat was readily identified by
several OF our citizens who are ac-
auainted with his kind. both by then
appearance and odoriferous perfume al
a skunk. No one ever heard of one OF
these animals being this far down the
Peninsula. and the only plausible expla.
nation of his presence in our over river
forest is the probability Of his having
ridden on some of the through trains
from the North and making his escap,
somewhere between Salisbury anc
Fruitland.
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