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FIRE RECORD

Twenty-four hours from 10 a. m. De-
cember % to 10 a. m. December %.
1926 A. M.-Front of 1916 Vermont
Ave. N. W.. automobile.
1888 P. M.-15O2 D st. N. E., need
less alarm.
1:25 P. M-Front of 1927 Fifteenth
ST. N. W.. automobile.
1:4S P. M.-4621 Chesapeake st. N. W.,
1853 P. M.-Front of 1920 South Caro-.
lima Ave. S. E., automobile.
6:54 P. M.-Box $780, Forty-seventh
and Eads Streets Northeast, false.
S:24-P. M.-1347 Columbia Rd. N W.,
1905 P. M:-Bov s2s7, Taft Junior
10: P. M.~408 V St. N. W., parti.
1925 A. M.-ss4 Columbia Rd. N. W.,
7:4s A. M-2sos Connecticut Ave
N. w, oil burner.
S:os A. M.-6OO G st. N. E., needless.
$3.50 A. M.-146O Irving st. N. W., in
s:87 A: M.-1ss5 sixteenth st. N. W..
rags,
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Ken MURRAY
Says:

While merrymaking seems to
be the order of the day on this
side of the Atlantic, the grim
thunder of those guns in Spain
continues uninterrupted by the
spirit of Yuletide. Evidently
England'S diplomats wasted too
much time in going after the
wrong ruler Mars is the guy
who should be forced to abdi-
cate.
You know, it seems as though
there have been an awful lot
of Spanish lives thrown away
just to determine whether the
arm shall be lifted with the fist
clenched or the palm extended
forward.
don't know what kind of
credit system they have in
Europe, but those nations over
there are about the only ones
who can buy a new war ma
chine without paying the finance
company for the old one.
And from the reckless way in
which MuSSOlini, Hitler and
Stain have been driving, 1t
looks as If those war machines
are in the hands Of q bunch of
guys who should never have
been granted a drivers license.
So remember:
The pen is not only mightier
than the sword, but it would
also have made a nicer Christ
mas present.
Copyright 1885. Mcknight Syndicate
Incl
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5 DRIVING PERMITS REVOKED 81 SUSPENDED HERE

Revelations of licenses of four
District and one nonresident
drivers were ordered today by the
Board Of Revocation, Suspension
and Restoration, which also or,
dered 81 other drivers not to drive
for periods of from Is to As days.
Those whose licenses were re,
voked are:
Jesse S. Henighan, "A L st.
N. w., SIS miles.
Bonnie Johnson, ATS L st. S. W.,
60 miles.
Richard D. Loomis, Mclean,
Va, go miles, second offense.
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Eulalie G.. Johnson, 913 r ST..
N. w., Is miles.
Thomas F. Kane, 631 East Capt.
toll A miles.
Harry A. Keys, 318 Fourteenth
Pl. N. E., 48 miles.
Michael P. McFerren, 1901 C ST..
N. w., AZ miles.
Charles A. McWilliamson, 10
Sixth st. S. E., a. miles.
John M. Mitchell, 2207 Cham
plain st. N. W., IS miles.
FrapciS H. O'Rork, 1909 Rhode
Island Ave. N. E., As miles.
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Writ M. Patton, 500 A st. S. E.,
so miles.
John P. Prior, 1913 Seventeenth
st. N. w., 81 miles.
Suspended for 30 Days
Henry L. Callahan, 6225 West
ern Ave. N. w., A miles.
Clarence M. Chandler, Alex
andria, Va, AZ miles.
Frank j. Dixon, 3144 o st. N. W.,
AZ miles.
Herbert Dodd, 4171a Fifteenth
st. S. E., A miles.
Ernest L. Hutchinson. 5908 Dale
carlia Pl. N. w., A miles.
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The dinner -
the invitation
said E a S t e r n
Shore supper
was given by
Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Walker
and Mr.. and
M RS. Lawrence
Wood r o b e TT
jr., for Mrs. Sid
ney Clonan.
T h e dinner,
or the supper,
was really a LII.
cullan feast. It
was all the
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Michael J. Pagliaro, 2406 Eight.
zenith st. N. w., ~ miles.
Donald Powell, 1347 Kalmia st.
N. w., A miles.
Norman w. Powell, 228 Parker
st. N. E., As miles.
Mitchell D. Rogers, 498 Mary
land Ave. S. W., 40 miles, second
offense.
George Seymore, 1928 Twelfth
st. N. w., As miles.
Continued on Page 22, Col. 81
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NOW
Sunday Dinner
ShO' Style
RECOLLECTIONS
BY HELEN ESSARY

Rumors persist that the new
American ambassador to Soviet
Russia, Mr.. Joseph E. Davies. will
be the special representative of
the United States Government at
the coronation of King George vi.
Not only have Ambassador and
Mrs. Davies taken The Holme in
Regents Park, one of the most
gorgeous houses in England, for
the period of the coronation, but
they have ordered their yacht, the
Sea Cloud, to be waiting in the
Thames prepared for the enter
tainment of important guests.
Over on the Eastern Sho' of
Maryland, where the sweet pota-
toes and the Strawberries and the
chickens grow big and fine, lit
tie colored boy was sitting one day
last summer by the roadside, eat
ing away at a half of a water
melon. He would dig out with
his hands a piece of the crisp red
meat. Stuff it in his mouth.
Chew a little and sigh.
A white gentleman, passing
along the road, stopped and said:
whats the matter, son? Too
much Watermelon"
mo Suh," was the moaning
answer. ''NOt too much water.
melOn-just too little cOlOred
bOy!"
T fho11oht oho,,t this cfoy.x, c,,v,
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I thought about this story Sun
day night in the middle of the
best dinner I have had in years.
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WPA Won't Drop
Actors and Writers

Actors, musicians, writer's and
artists employed on Federal works
projects will be retained despite
rumors such projects are to be
liquidated, WPA Administrator
Hopkins announced yesterday,
adding:
"Those in actual need will
continue to receive employment
If not on their present prof.
ects, then in other useful Ca
pacitieS."
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Mr.. Clarence B. Hewes, who has
been around the world many times,
topped the food conversation with
the remark that Maryland cooking
caused the recent abdication of
the British throne, The former
King Edward, az other men, is
very susceptible to good food. And
Mrs. Simpson fed, him well from
famous Maryland dishes.
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D. c. Couple Wed

Florence Thompson. 25-year-ofd
daughter of Chief Of Detectives
and Mrs. Bernard w. Thompson,
was married yesterday to Floyd M.
Owen, jr., 81, at the home Of the
brides sister, Mrs. Robert S. Nc
Kinney, $500 Stanford ST., Chevy
Chase, Md.
owen is a son of DR.. F. M. Owen.
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xmas OF O1S11SSMrB. l.. W. Robert, jr.
for which the Eastern Shore is
famous in ballads and cook books
Put together on one menu and
serve to about a hundred and fifty
guests in the gorgeous big house,
the Villa Rose on Massachusetts,
Avenue, which Mr.. and Mrs.
Walker have taken for the win.
ter.
We were seated, after an exhil'
Grating preliminary of cocktails, at
small tables of eight or ten. With
one glance at the menu, the
guests, diplomats, statesmen and
beautiful ladies, broke down and
began to talk about the food that
was coming. Here's what the menu
said:
Crab Flakes Webley in Shells
Eastern Shore Terrapin-Corn
bread and Sherry
Dreamed Oysters, Rice Webley
Cold Sliced Turkey, Maryland
Ham, Vegetable Salad, Old
Fashioned
Potato Salad, Rolls and Biscuits
Champagne.
Old-FashiOned Cakes and Ice
Cream
Every dish was fit for the lore
Of an Eastern Shore Manor. The
crabs, the terrapin and the tur
key came from Webley, the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walker neal
Cambridge, Md. The cakes were
small cup cakes, followed out il
the middle and filled with va
nilla ice cream and covered with
hot chocolate sauce.
At our table was Mrs. Claude
M. Swanson, wife of the Score
tary of the Navy. Mrs. Swanson
recognized in one of the colorec
walters a former butler. Ou
service Of ICON" bread and ter
rapin was therefore most abund
ant.
There were other clever host
esseS at our table; Mrs. Alvin T
Hert, Mrs. Mitchell Palmer anc
Mrs. Mark L. Bristol. With TIT
turkey, Mrs. Bristol remembered
the time she and Admiral Bristol
then stationed at Constantinople
demanded Of their French che
an American Christmas dinneI
for Naval visiting officers. There
must be two turkeys, she said
one at each end of the table, tx
be carved by the admiral and {
guest, and sweet potatoes ant
cranberries.
The chef protested that ladieI
and gentlemen never ate swee
potatoes. Cranberries were fol
coolies. And as for turkeys
but if Mrs. Bristol insisted OF
that sort of a dinner there wa
nothing he could do but o b e y
Twenty Americans later sa
expectantly around the BriStol
table, waiting for the two tur
keys to be born in. They came
the size of spring chickens. Fol
Turkey, regardless of its nam
produces turkeys that are onl!
poor relations to their American
cousins.
A. NI..ono n rIo-o Il. =. -.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
CANCER ON THE BODY POLITIC

recent editorial the Manufacturers Record presents some
statistics vital to ctizenworker OF
employer millionaire day aborer. .oooo
According the Record there than lOOOOOOO per-
sons receiving aid from the Federal government hs
figure included 100000 receiving AAA payments who longer
receive them following the Supreme Courts AAA decision How
ever the will also include payments to farmers
the chances the number of agricultural benecaes
will not change greatly)
Eliminating Implications the Record continues the total
of receiving Federal about
of the voting the last presidential election
More persons getting Federal than the number
gagged in manufacturing industries Almost
directly indirectly the Federal payro the number
ed AGRICULTURE list of Federal benefciaries nearly
double number of engaged in trade their
counts in this country -
These figures do include the millions of other public
poyes and the payo of state and local
mentS
obvious deductions to be gained from these
startling facts the growth of payros plac
inc an increasing ntoerable burden the
ready it estimated and hidden taxes take third of the
peoples income Second and equally important permit
ting the creation and bureaucracy which
the productive energies Of the nation limits rights and lib
critics. endangers the existence OF free democracy
need and cheaper government We need
fewer the public trough and productivity employ
ed Continuance of the present trend will lead nev
tably to bankruptcy, chaos-and finally, ruin.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
IVA IS LEGAL-BUT IS 1T WISE?

Tho Surname Courts recent decision holding the Tennessee
Valley Authority constitutional insofar as the points issue
the concerned has served to partially clear n
surrounded the Federal governments osC
ambitious realms that have in the past been CONSIDER
legal one- left the courts and must in the future
be considered purely in the light of public policy
The Supreme judicial body without authority TO
venture an opinion as wisdom of Act of Congress-
inferior court in the light of the basic law OF e an ne
Constitution the Court found that the gov
sell electricity by such DAMS and that may take steps
necessary moving that electricity to market CONSTITUTION
atty Of the IVA whole was not involved ana me So may
in the future be called upon to decide the legality Oh oer PHASES
Of TWAS vast social and economic undertakings
However, all of IVA is eventually held legal IS the
precedent established by the Authority wise one that squares
Institutions and with national philosophy at
encouraged the fIeest possible play oil pVae
tive? The IVA nothing less than
ties the Valley must be paid for in the future
us-by the taxpayers of Maine and Michigan no less
than taxpayers of Alabama and Tennessee In its power
the existence of private
ing millions of dollars of ordinary citizens invested
have long served their areas we'll and
w. And great practical Importance to remember that
responsible spokesman for the private industry
that his given the same legal and
subsidies IVA has been given by Congress- it would be
able to undercut IVA rates by at least rs per cent
deprives states of vast tax revenuet per
it's wholesale sales, while private utlS
pay of about IL cent retail power sales IL
deprves communities of all the tax that accrue from -
operaonsand number of towns have voted down
proposals build municipal plants to IVA power on that
serious of all in the long view TVA establish
Advocates business will attempt to the
Courts decision advance the creation OF other and
authorities for other sections of this country And that puts
the responsibility security of billions of dollars of
savings hundreds of thousands of investors section OF
country quaey their shoulders Do the American people
ownership of industry instead OF private oppr
tunty? If they think they do they should first realize that
such program marks long step on the road to socialism
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
To the Taxpayers Of Pocomoke City

candidate for Mayor
to notes and bHls
cash bastO stop
eresta nd o cash discount.
Put Second Ge State paid for about
of bed).
Had poles sidewalks and installed metal pedas ~ .
property owners) Clarke Avenue
River Street Linden
Vine Street from Front Second
Fourth
from Fifth to SEVENTH Clarke avenue from Kali
Clarke
relad Third Street; water
Put 36
extended short sections Of
Walnut Street Ninth
wdned Market Street
moved metal pede-
of
take Of due $4,000 due in 49,
the
money will direct all energies toward the
E.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
Assignee's Sale
OF VALUABLE
Residence Property
in Pocomoke Civ

BY virtue of the power of sale con-
tanned in a mortgage from Gordon l..
Pusey and Emma F. Pussy, his wife,
to Lloyd w. Jones, dated December
27, 1920, and of record among the
land records of Worcester County,
Maryland, in Liber o. D. C. No. 80,
folios 412 ct seq, default having oc-
Cured under the terms, covenants and
conditions of said mortgage, the I'M
dersigned, assignee for the purpose
of foreclosure, will offer for sale at
public auction, in front of the Parker
House, in Pocomoke City, Worcester
County. MARYLAND on
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
Sat. March ID, 1886
At 2:3O o'clock P. M.

all that lot or parcel Of ground, to-
gether with the buildings and i'm
provements thereon, and the right to
the use of the nine foot alley herein
after mentioned in common with the
owners and occupants of the Charles
Wheaton lot hereinafter mentioned,
situate, lying and being in Pocomoke
City, Worcester County, Maryland, on
the east side of Clarke Avenue, and
more particularly described as fol-
lows: Beginning for the same at the
southwest corner of the property for
merly owned by Charles Wheaton
(now owned and occupied by Peter j.
Gootee and wife) on said Clarke Ave-
nue., and running in a southwark di-
1ection by and with said Clarke Ave-
nue. fifty (5O) feet and six co. inches
to Cedar Street; thence in an easterly
direction by and with said Cedar
Street one hundred and twelve (112)
feet and six (6) inches to an alley
nine (9) feet wide; thence in a north
erly direction by and with said alley
sixty-one (6D feet to the Charles
Wheaton or Gootee lot above men,
toned; thence in northwesterly d.
rection by and with said Wheaton or
Gootee lot to said Clarke Avenue, the
place of beginning containing one
fourth (A) of an acre of land, more
or less, being all and the same lot
or parcel of land conveyed to the asid
Gordon L. Pussy from Alfred W..
Payne and wife by deed dated Deem
Der 81, 1920, and of record among the
aforesaid land records in Liber o. D.
C. No. 80 folios Ali ct seq, and being
also all and the same tract or parcel
of land conveyed to Eugene c. Payne
and Virginia V. Payne, his wife from
the said Gordon L. Pusey and wife,
by deed dated December 80, 1922, and
of record among the aforesaid land
records in Liber o. D. C. No. 45 folios
430 ct seq.
The above lot is improved by two
story frame double dwelling house,
with electric lights, together with sew
eral other buildings, so subdivided and
arranged that it may be used as two
separate and distinct residences.
The Assignee will first offer the
property in two parcels, for that pur-
pose using the center line of the par
tition wall between the two residences
and thence continuing said line to the
alley above mentioned, as the division
al line
The northeast parcel is improved
by an eight-room frame dwelling with
bath, combination garage and work.
shop and wood and coal house.
The southeast parcel is improved by
a six-room frame dwelling, with bath,
a wood house and frame store or
shop fronting on Cedar Street.
After reserving the bids for the
parcels he will then offer the prop
erty as a whole, and if the highest
bid for the whole exceeds the aggre-
gate Of the bids for the parcels, the
bid for the whole property will be &C
copied. Otherwise the bid for the
whole will be rejected, and the bids
for the parcels will be accepted.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash. as pre-
scribed by the mortgage. Taxes and
all other liens will be paid to Deem
Der 81, 1885. Possession upon ratifi-
cation of sale. Title papers and
revenue stamps at the expense of the
purchaser.
GODFREY CHILD
Assignee for purpose
of foreclosure.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
Johnson & Johnson
o r ID E X n ] S /

Marion Frances Elgin VS.. Charles
o. Elgin.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland, In Equity.
No. 4647 Chancery
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object of this suit is to pro-
cure a decree for divorce vinculo
matrimonii by the plaintiff, Marion
Francis Elgin, from the defendant,
Charles o. Elgin.
The bill recites that the parties
hereto were married on or about April
27, 1904, and lived together as hus-
band and wife until on or about Sep
TENDER Is, 1892. That, though the
conduct of the plaintiff towards her
husband has always been kind, al
fectionate and above reproach, he,
without just cause or reason, aban-
doned and deserted her, and has de-
clared his intention to live with her
no longer, and that such abandonment
has continued uninterruptedly for
more than three years, and is deliber-
ate and final, and the separation is
beyond any reasonable hope of a re-
Cancellation. That the plaintiff has
been a resident of Worcester County,
Maryland, for more than three years
past.
1t is, thereupon, by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, Mary
land, ORDERED this 9th day of
March, 1886, that the plaintiff, Marion
Frances Elgin, by causing copy OF
this order to be inserted in some
weekly newspaper published in Wor-
cester County, Maryland, once in each
of four successive weeks before the
18th day of April, 1886, give notice
to the said absent defendant, Charles
o. Elgin, of the object and substance
of this bill, warning him to be and
appear in this Court in person, or by
solicitor, on or before the 28th day Of
April 1886, to show cause, if any he
has, why a decree should not be pass
ed as prayed.
BESSIE BOWEN, Clerk.
True Copy, Test: Bessie Bowen, Clerk.
March 13-4t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
KEEPING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING

The steady the cost of living during the last two years
the fact that family income has risen proportion
aey become burning problem in millions of American
dollar in the light of it's purchasing in the
much less impressive article than it used
to be.
There cheering phase to the problem however phase
that overlooked in the general discomfort at high
The of living has risen much less than would have
had BETTER efficient and progressive merchandise
ing methods yeoman's work in holding back it's RISE
In brief many foods have shown larger rises in wholesale
than retail responsible for this First
masspurchasng distributing Of foods has eliminated
wasefu handling COSTS and has done with
various nbetweens food handling of which all tended
final selling prices And large turnover by permitting
down inventory costs and to sell
makes possible smaller profit each ndvi
dual sale and reasonable total profit Some of the
large merchandising organizations make profit of
half less each dollars of gross sales
efficiency Economy Service the watchwords of the
merchandising industry todayand family the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
Sat-. March IA, 1886
At 8 O'clock P. M,

At O'clock P. M.
all that lot or parcel of ground sit
uate, lying and being in Pocomoke
City, Worcester County, Maryland,
on the Northeast side of Market
Street having width of 25 and 45-
100 feet, being bounded on the North
west by the property of The Citizens
National Bank of Pocomoke City, on
the Southeast by the property of
Lloyd & Blaine and extending from
Market Street Northeasterly to an al
ley. together with the buildings and
improvements thereon, being all and
the same property by the aforesaid
mortgage conveyed and it being also
all and the same lot of ground con-
veyed to the said Robert J. Lambden
from the said F. Lee Bonneville by
deed dated February 26, 1923 and
recorded among the land records
of Worcester County, Maryland, in
Liber o. D. G. No. as folios 578, etc.
The use of the alley in the rear
passes to the purchaser as provided in
said mortgage and which will be found
more particularly set forth in the
above mentioned deed.
This sale will be made subject to
a party wall agreement with The Citi-
zens National Bank as to the North
west Wall and subject to an under
standing there will be a party wall
agreement with Lloyd & Blaine as
to the Southeast wall.
The property is located on Market
Street in the heart of the business
section of Pocomoke City and is i'm
proved by modern two story brick
store building. It should appeal to
anyone desiring an exceptionally well
located up to date business property.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash as pro-
vided in the mortgage. Taxes paid
to January, 1, 1886. Title papers at ex-
pense Of the purchaser. Possession on
ratification of the sale.
l.. PAUL EWELL,
Trustee.
P. S. The undersigned will consider
a reasonable amount of the purchase
price to be secured by mortgage on
the premises.
L. Paul Ewe1l
Feb. 21-4t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
Sat-, April A, 1886
at three o'clock P. NJ.


all that farm or tract of land situate,
lying and being in the Seventh Tor
Atkinson's) Election District of Wor-
cester County, Maryland, on the coun-
ty road leading from Dividing Greek to
Webb's Mill Pond, adjoining the land
of a certain William Ross, George w.
Beauchamp and others, containing 106
acres of land, more or less, being a
part of tract of land called majors
Security" or by whatever name or
names the same may be known, and
being all the land by the aforesaid
mortgage conveyed.
This farm has some improvements
and some timber.
Terms Of sale c A S H.
Title papers and revenue stamps at
the expense of the purchaser.
Taxes paid to January 1, 1886.
l.. PAUL EWELL, Trustee
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
Announcement

I wish to announce that am can
didate for Mayor of Pocomoke City,
subject to the election to be held on
April z, 1886.
Having served as City Clerk of Po-
comoke for several years, l, of course,
realize the responsibility that goes
with the office of Mayor. With a
knowledge of that responsibility 1 an
nounce my candidacy, and hereby
pledge, if elected, to give to the duties
of that office the very best service of
which 1 am capable.
E. WILFRED ROSS.