Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-04-15

his family.
Mrs. Oscar NJ. Purnell and Miss
Juliet 7. Purnell returned home Tues
day from visit Of several weeks to
relatives in Baltimore.
Rev. |. s. Owens has been re-
turned to Powellsville Circuit another
year Mr.. Owens is pastor of the
Powellsville, Mt. Zion, and Mt. Olive
NJ. T. Churches.
MIR. and Mrs. Howard Dryden
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mock, and Mrs. Dryden, of Salisbury,
were visitors at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William ]. Mock Sunday.
Mrs. James b. Truitt and daugh-
ter, Miss Gertrude, are spending the
Easter holidays with Mrs. Truths
daughter, Mrs. James S. Russell, in
Salisbury. Mr.. Truitt and daughters,
Misses Ida and Frances, will join
them Sunday.
Prof. Walter S. Hastings, of
Princeton University, is spending the
Easter holidays at home with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Has
tings.
MIR. and Mrs. S. King Atkinson
and three children visited her mother,
Mrs. John w. Gordy, and her sister,
Mrs. Claude w. Dayton, in Salisbury,
Sunday.
Mrs. Richard Howard and Miss
Lille Howard are spending the EaS-
ter holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Howard, in Philadelphia. Mrs. Vir-
ginia Ward is at Cape Charles with
her daughter, Mrs. Berry.
The Stockton District Sunday
School Association will hold its next
session at Remson's Chapel. on We'd
nesday afternoon and evening May
18th. Mr. j. 7. Sharpley, the District
President, desires that all Sunday
Schools elect delegates as early as
possible and send their names TO Mrs.
Ruth Pilchard, Stockton, likewise the
names OF SuperintendentS who are to
be at the meetings. Officers arc also
requested to have their reports as
complete as possible.
Miss Evelyn Shockley, who is
studying music at the Peabody Con
servatory of Music, Baltimore, is
spending the Easter holidays at home
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
W. Shockley.
1.-THE People, newspaper has ;uS-
pended publication and the office is
closed. Editor Johnston will go to
Baltimore City to accept position,
ard Mr.. Petit, the foreman. expects
to go to North Carolina to live.
MIR. James Hickman, one of he
Bailffs Of the Circuit Court for W,r-
ccster County is i'll, at his home nar
Cedartown, with pneumonia. He is
rs years of age.
MIR. William Price, law studot
at the University of Maryland
spending the Easter holidays hers
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J
Samuel Price. He will graduate this
Spring.
Rev. c. r. Strausburg has beer
sent back to Snow Hill by the VI. p
Conference. The people of the towr
will join the members of his congre-
cation in welcoming him hack anr
The Messenger feels a special pleas
ure in doing so.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles II. Parsons
attended the funeral Of his brother
in-law, Mr.. J. Ernest Shockley, IL
Salisbury Sunday. Mr., Shockley was
paralyzed a few weeks ago. since
which time his son, J. Ernest Shock
ley. Jr., had been staying with Mr.
and Mrs. Parsons.
MIR. b. +. Sturgis and family
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F.. Payne, and Nh
J. r. Lynch and family, of Pocomoke
Mr.. j. W. Sturgis and Mr., G. r
Sturgis, of Greenbackville, spent Sun
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c
c. Pilchard, of near Stockton.
MIR. Albert Fooks and Mr.. Homer
Phillips who were reputed by Pow
ellsville correspondent of The Mes-
senger last week as having paid a
visit to Joe Bodley, say they did not
make such a visit and did not see Nj
Bodley.
Mrs. Pauline Murray and son
Nelson. of Wilmington, are spendino
the Easter holidays with her mothe
Mrs. Edwin Nelson.
ALFRED S. Dashiell, managing edi
tor of the Daily Princetonian, Prince
ton University, Princeton, New Jer'
sey, came home Thursday morning to
spend the holidays with his mother
Mrs. +. S. Dashiell, and brother, Mr.
Edward J. Dashiell, and wife.