Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-02-25
LOCAL AND PERSONAL


and Mrs. Franklin Upshur in Berlin
this week.
Mrs. Benton II. Whaley has re-
turned from visit to relatives in
Trenton, y. j.
MIR. Glenmore S. Williams is on
a visit to his brother-in-law, DIR. l..
w. Anderson, at Dunbarton, South
Carolina. He writes The Messenger
he is making an automobile tour of
the country with the windshield open.
-Washington's Birthday was cele-
brated in the public schools of Snow
Hill with special programs appro-
pirate to the day.
The social given by the Odd Eel
lows and members of the Rebekah
order held in Odd Fellows Hall Tues
day night was a grand success and
was the best attended of any ever
given by these orders.
Mrs. Harry X. Mock was oper-
ated on for appendicitis at the PENN
sula General Hospital, Salisbury, last
Tuesday. 1t YVES bad Gaze. but
Mrs. Mock is getting along very
nicely.
MIR. John |. Timmons, of the firm
of Chas. b. Timmons q Son, has been
in Philadelphia this week buying
new spring goods.
Mrs. Washington p. Pusey is
very i'll at her home on Washington
Street. She has been sick for the
past two months.
MIR. Luther Johnson, of Colds
boro, Md. visited his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. William ID. Johnson, on the
bayside, this week.
Mr.. Granville Pryor. of Whining
ton. visited Mr.. Leland Richardson, a
few days this week.
MIR. and Mrs. j. Arthur Powell
and Misses Nellie and Flora Powell,
of Princess Anne, were visitors at
the home of Mrs. Powel's mother
Mrs. Emma Spencer, last Sunday.
1t is reported that aspirants for
the Snow Hill Postoilice are making
pilgrimages to Salisbury to secure
the support of Hon. William 2. Jack
son. Saw one of the applicants in his
best bib-and-tucker last Saturday
morning, getting ready to take the
trip. Not much use however if he
didn't have 4. C's endorsement. If
he had that nothing else matters.
The S. Z. A. II. Society of Bates
Memorial NJ. p. Church is preparing
to give splendid comedy, "A Rival
by Request" in Mason's Opera House
Thursday evening, March I'd. The
young people who will take part have
been rehearsing their parts for some
time. and ii is expected by those ac-
quanted with their histrionic ability
that the play will be we'll acted and
will afford much pleasure to those
who are so furtunate as to attend.
r.. G. Finney. of the Comp
troller's office, Washington, has been
appointed receiver for the Second
National Bank of Elkton, which
closed its doors January 20.
DIR. Frank Layton Grier, of Mil
ford, has been appointed trustee
of the University of Delaware 10
succeed Edward d. Hearn, deceased.
Although Harrington is the june
ton for many trains with many hun
CRY passengers, the law against Sun
day selling is rigidly enforced and
not even a plate of ice cream can be
obtained.
Mayor d. Frank Fooks and
Messrs. Montgomery Stage and f.
Hance Fooks visited in Baltimore and
Annapolis several days this week.
Rev. James II. Straughn, d. d.,
of Baltimore, President OF the Mary
land Conference OF the Methodist
Protestant Church, made an official
visit here this week. Wednesday
evening he preached at Trinity NJ. p.
Church, Newark, and on Thursday
he went to Pocomoke. While here
he was the guest of Rev. c. X.
Strausburg. pastor Of Bates Memoir
ial NJ. p. Church. Mr.. Strausburg
accompanied DR.. Straughn to New
ark and Pocomokc City.
The first herring Of the season
we're caught in the Pocomoke River
Tuesday, when Mr. w. o. Shockley
gathered in three. On Wednesday he
caught -four, and on Thursday his
nets yielded sixteen. They sold at the
river landing for thirty-five cents for
a bunch of six.
All the garden seed sent us by
Congressman Goldsborough have been
distributed.