Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-05-27
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

The banks of Snow Hill will be
closed next Tuesday, which is Decora-
ton Day, and a national holiday.
Miss Eva johnson spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Sames, at
Ocean City.
Mrs. +. d. Truitt has returned
home from a visit to Mr.. and Mrs.
II. j. Esham, at Cape Charles.
Miss Edith Beauchamp was a
week end visitor with her sister, Mrs.
Thomas Elliott, at Ocean City.
Mrs. A. Fred Hartman is spend
ing week with her son. Edwin Hart
man, in Onancock. She has also
visited in Baltimore.
Rev. c. Il. Strausburg has an
other boy visiting his home. He ar
rived Friday and has good lungs.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph S. Allcnder,
of Baltimore. are here on a visit to
their daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
W. Corddry.
MIR. Thomas Collins is here on a
visit to his sister, Mrs. Levin J. Kelly.
The Senior and intermediate
Classes of Mackenzie Memorial Sunday
School gave social in Walter Prices
hall last Tuesday night. The young
people from the different churches in
town, who attended the Young Peo-
pies Conference at Berlin recently
were invited guests. Supper was
served at Z o'clock for forty persons.
Altogether it was a most delightful
occasion.
AT the annual convention of the
Maryland Bankers Association held
in Atlantic City last week, Mr.. Clay
ton\ I. Richardson, cashier of the
Commercial National Bank of Snow
Hill, Was named as one of the vice
presidents of the association. DR..
Samuel A, Graham, cashier of the
farmers and Merchants Bank of
Salisbury, was elected president to
succeed Mr.. George w. Waters, of
Laurel, Nd.
Rev. A. Lee Gray, missionary
to India, well known in Snow Hill,
having been resident of this town
in his boyhood days, preached at
Whatcoat NJ. f. Church last Sunday
night. He went to India in 1908, and
is now District Superintendent, work
ing for the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the NJ. +. Church. He is
here on furlough of six months. His
wife and children accompanied him
back to the United States. Mrs. Gray
addressed the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society at the church Thurs
day evening. Both addresses were
greatly appreciated and were full of
valuable information regarding the
work of the Church in India.
The Sunshine Bible Class of
Whatcoat NJ. +. Sunday School
taught by Rev. f. w. Jones, held "a
business and social meeting last Tues
day evening. The following officers
were elected: President, Miss Mary
Nelson; ice-Presidcnt. f. T. Taylor;
Secretary, Wheatley Sturg;s; Treas
urer, ErnestTS. Parsons.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Henderson,
of Wilmington. Del, are here on a
visit to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John Henderson.
The semi-annual meeting of the
" orcester County Medical Society
met in the parlor of the Atlantic
Hotel, at Berlin, Thursday of last
week at 10 A. NJ. There was good
attendance and the meeting was a
very interesting and enjoyable one
After the business meeting the society
rs a body took dinner at the hotel
The next meeting will be held in
October at Snow Hill, at which time
a specialist on tuberculosis will adj
dress the society ard hold Il tubercu-
lar clinic.
MIR. and Mrs. Walter Jarman and
son, of Millsboro, Del, spent Sunday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sewell
Jarman.
Mrs. Sewell Jarman spent part
of this week with her daughter, Mrs.
Harry Jones, near Ocean City.
Mr.. l.. T. Carter is in a Phila-
delphia hospital where he has been
operated on for a tumor in his neck
Miss Irene Leonard. of Chinco-
league, Va, was a week end visitor
with Miss Lena Riggin.
If you have advertisements OF
news for The Messenger get it in
early in the week, so we can get out
a good paper. We cannot do il all on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Robert F. Clarke, Jr., returned
home Sunday from Norfolk, where he
has been attending school, to spend
the summer with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. F. Clarke. He has accepted
a position in Arthur Duer's barber