Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-02-23

Nd, has called the Rev. Mr.. Buxton
of Covington, Va, to become their
rector to take the place of the Rev.
Clarence E. Wolfe, who recently re-
signed.
The Victory Sparkler and Speciality
Company of Elkton has purchased
from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.,
a tract of land in that town, and will
shortly break ground for another fac
tory building. It will be built of con-
crete blocks.
Unknown parties entered the radio
store of w. L. Brock, of Rising Sun,
and carried off complete radio ma
chine, horn, wires and other equip
ment. Mr.. Brock claims his loss will
amount to $500. He said they were
careful in selecting apparatus, indi-
eating that they understood radio me
chanism.
Miss Adelaide Lambert, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. Kent Lambert
formerly OF Chestertown, Md, but
now residing in Panama, is winning
many laurels in the preliminary
swimming contests in Miami, Fla.
Contestants for the Olympic games
will be selected from the winners.
Miss Lambert, though but sixtee1
years old, is the champion swimmer
of Panama and during her stay in the
States last summer she won many
prizes in New York and elsewhere ir
competition with many of the coun-
try's best swimmers.
The men of Sardis M. E. Church,
St. Michaels, Nd, have decided tx
give an oyster and chicken supper or
February % and %. They will d.
everything connected with the supper
without the assistance of the ladies.
This week will determine whether
Easton will enter the Eastern Shore
League, partly insuring six-tean.
circuit for 1924.
Up to the present time only four.
team circuit is assured. The four
towns now officially represented in
the league will send delegations to
Easton in effort to show how Easton
would benefit by membership in the
Shore League.
About rs fans, headed by Graham
Gunby president OF the Salisbury
Baseball Club, will come from Sails
bury.
The four teams now in the league
are Salisbury, Cambridge, Dover and
Parksley. Crisfeld Md, and Laurel,
DEL, are the other prospects. 1t is
confidently believed that one of them
will post a $500 forfeit before the
opening of the season. In that event
with Easton lined up, the league will
start with six clubs.
Scores of witnesses have been sum-
moned at Crisfeld, Nd, for the trial,
Of the suit by Wallace Sterling a.
gainst his second wife's brother, who
married his daughter, making him
the brother-in-law Of his own child's
husband.
Sterling is suing for an annulment
of his daughters marriage, asserting
that she is only 10 years old.
The daughter, Emma, says she is
1S years old and refuses to leave her
husband, Alfred Fluhart. They are
living at the home OF Fluhart's par
ents, who are parents-in-law of the
brides father as we'll as of the bride.
Fluhart and Miss Sterling were
married a few weeks ago, after OBJ
tanning a marriage license in which
it was set forth that the girl was Is
years old.
The day following the wedding,
which was performed without the
knowledge or consent of the girls
father, Fluhart was arrested on a
warrant sworn out by Sterling in
which the father charged the bride
groom with perjury in connection with
the issuance Of the marriage license.
Fluhart was taken to Princess Anne
and given hearing before Magis-
trate Edgar A. Jones who held him
for grand jury action. Later he was
released in $4,000 bail for his appear
ance at the April term of court for
Somerset county.