Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-11-18

Mrs. r. w. Holland ana Mrs.
John Pilchard, Of Stockton, spent
Tuesday with Mrs. r. F. Clarke.
MIR. John M. Savin returned home
the first of the week from Baltimore,
where he has been spending several
weeks at the Albion Hotel.
Miss Juliet T. Purnell has re-
turned home from Baltimore, and will
spend some time here with her sister,
Mrs. o. NJ. Purnell.
MIR. Howard T. Postles, ticket
clerk at the Railroad Passenger Sta
ton, Snow Hill, and Miss Edna NJ.
Clendanniel, Of Lincoln City, Del, were
married in Wilmington, Wednesday
last by Rev. C. l.. Hubbard, pastor of
st. Paul's NJ. f. Church. Mr.. and
Mrs. Postles are on honeymoon trip
in the South, including Columbia, S.
C., and Pinehust, n. c.
A Defamation Contest will be
held in the Girdletree High School
this friday evening. The program
will consist of declamations in three
groups, the contestants in the first
part being, Blanche Barnes, Lula
Jackson, Carolyn Hickman, and Wini-
fred Riley; second part, Katharine
Dickerson, Claudia Riley, Mildred
Jackson, and Herman Smack; third
part, Ellen Hill, Mae Jones, Ruth
Tarr, and Louise Townsend. The
occasion will be enlivened with APP
propriate music.
-Messrs. John L. Mock, George II.
Corddry. William 0. Shockley and
Edmond II. johnson spent the first of
the week on cunning expedition
aboard a houseboat in the bay. The
weather was mild, and but few wild
fowl were seen, so that the gunners
had to come home with a small quota
of wild fowl-sixty-six to be exact.
DR.. Charles Law, of Berlin, has
returned from a three weeks hunting
trip in Canada and northern Maine.
He reports 4 successful trip, with
plenty of game, large and small,
ranging from deer to rufiled grouse,
He enjoyed fox hunting, and also en-
gagged in a wild cat hunt.
Deputy Game Warden Charles f..
Hill has received word from State
Game Warden f. Lee LeCompte that
the deer intended for the Hickory
Ridge Game Refuge will be shipped
as soon as the weather becomes
colder.
The Young Peoples Aid Society
of Whatcoat NJ. f. Church was enter
tanned in the Social Hall of the
Church Tuesday evening by Mrs. E.
I. Taylor, Mrs. Horace Griffin and
Mrs. Joseph Godfrey. After a short
business meeting the guests INDUCED
in very enjoyable social hour.
County Commissioner j. Spencer
Lapham of near Goldsboro, Caroline
County, one of the largest fruit grow
ers on the Peninsula, is said to have
cleared in the neighborhood of $4,000
on grapes this year.
Mrs. Merrill Chesser and daugh-
tiers, Nellie Mae and Iva, and Mrs.
George F. Hill, of near town, spent
last Friday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Rufus johnson, of
Girdletree.
MIR. o. c. Jones and two little
sons, George and Walter, and Mr..
James +. Hancock, of Philadelphia,
spent last week at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Obed A. Jones, near
klej Grange. Mrs. Jones held fam
lily reunion Sunday, at which all of
her children, and all of her grand
children, except one little grand
daughter, Sara Powell Jones, were
present.
Mrs. Harry Bell, of Bullbeggar,
Virginia, accompanied by her two
younger children, has been visiting
friends in Snow Hill. Mrs. Bell, who,
before her marriage was Miss Viola
Wilson, formerly lived in Snow Hill,
and she has a large number of friends
here.
The first of series of six dis
trict meetings of the Improved Order
of Red Men in .iaryland was held in
Salisbury Monday, and attended by
about 400 members from Wicomico,
Worcester and Somerset Counties.
Other meetings will be held as fol-
lows: Elkton, Wednesday; Baltimore,
Thursday; Frederick, Friday; Cum
berland, Saturday. Nassawango
Tribe Of Snow Hill, and Alletta Tribe
of Girdietree were among the fra
ternal bodies represented at the
meeting in Salisbury.
Mrs. I. NJ. Kelley, of Philadelphia,
who spent week here with her
mother, Mrs. Henry Jackson, of New
ark, returned home Saturday.