Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-01-04
''Chirps" ~
from the
Democrats Pen

Well. here we are, with little old
1885" looking at us right in the face
and asking us what we are going to
do about it. All I can say is, we have
not been doing much with several OF
his predecessors and just what we'll
do with him, is a problem. Seems to
me, the question should be, "What is
he going to do about us?" 1884 and
several others have done plenty and
then some to us, and we are hoping
and praying, the newest yearly edition
of old Father Time, will be just a
little better tempered.
hope everybody will see the start
of the good times we've been expect
ing for SO long. Maybe some think
these times have already begun; ii
30, then so much the better. see the
preachers have already begun the
New Year in a mighty good way. l
hope their efforts will be rewarded
BY success in inducing their parish
oner to think less of worldly things
and more of spiritual; hope the
Church can be made as attractive as
any secular organization, and that
clergymen will see the pews more
generally filled.
hope our merchants will have diff
ficulty in keeping their shelves filled
with stock, and that good profits may
ensue. Pocomolqe's shopping facili-
ties are hard to beat, and the profits
are not all to the merchandise buy
er is also benefited.
I hope our physician-well, you
know how it is with them. To wish
success in their profession, is to wish
somebody else out O. luck and there
is no mistake about it. If desire
perfect health to all, then, what's the
doctor going to do ab0ue~ his Tread
and butter. The best I can do is, to
pray for sickness to be conspicuous
BY it's absence; but if illness should
come, I trust our physicians will be
successful in their treatment and
get paid for it.
I hope our politicians, who are about
to assemble at Annapolis for the 1895
term of the General Assembly, will
keep in mind the real needs of the
Commonwealth; that the uppermost
idea in their minds will be pure states
nnanship; and that nothing but good
will come out Of the legislative halls
I hope our city fathers will be en-
abled to add to the beauty of POGO
moke as well as to the ease and COM
fort of it's residents. And right here
I'd like to slip in word or two. Oh
course, have slipped in several in the
days gone by, but one or two more
won't hurt. want to say something
about "dawgs." Maybe, the mention
Of the animal is enough. The aver.
age public knows as much about
"dawgs" as do, and maybe they cuss
'em as much as I do. But I don't
believe there is a town on the Shore
where there are as many CANNES
which need introduction to shot gun
as there are in Pocomoke; and that
shot gun should be in the hands Of
a mighty good marksman. Blest il
/ could see how the youthful New
Year got into town without his leg
being bitten. Please Mr.. Councilmen
clean 'em up.
I hope the coming year will set
new industries coming to Pocomoke
/ wish our Boy Scouts could have 6
nice log cabin in Hearn's woods, dow1
on the shore of the River. I hope oul
Fire Department can have themselves
q finer home and increased equip
ment for themselves and fire fight
p ing trucks. I hope our schools viii
have a year of unbounded success il
the making of young manhood ant
young WomanhoOd.
trust that all efforts for the bet
terment of things in general may b.
rewarded. It seems time that sui
fering humanity should come in for {
period of relief from the many i'll tina
the Depression has created. 1 trus
1885 has in store for everybody a re
turn of the remembered years of pros
perity land that it will not be long il
revealing evidences thereof.
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