Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-09-24
Local and Rural News

Mr.. Clay E. Dennis, of Hearne &
Dennis, successors to Mr.. Vernon P.
Stevenson, has moved to Pocomoke
and taken up his residence in the Epis-
copal Rectory on Third Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. Talton accom-
panied their daughter, Miss Winifred,
to Philadelphia Sunday where she en-
tered the Methodist Episcopal Hos
pital School of Nursing as student
nurse.
Mr.. Garrick Stevenson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Stevenson, of Cape
Charles, who has been a recent visitor
in Pocomoke, left Friday last to re-
sumo his studies at the University of
Virginia.
DR.. and Mrs. Warren Wright, of
Northampton, Mass, were recent
guests in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. C. Stevenson. DR.. Wright is pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek at Smith
College.
Fire of unknown origin completely
destroyed the home of Mr.. Miles Gun
by in the Parsonville section of Som
erset County last Thursday night. Mr..
tGunby and his family barely escaped
with their lives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Berman, Miss
Goldie Berman and Mr.. Benny Ber-
man, of Washington, D. c., have been
entertained recently in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Levin and family.
They were accompanied by Miss Syl-
via Levin. .....,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A. Evans and
Mr.. VIM. T. C. Hargis motored to
Halethorpe, Md, last week to attend
the wedding Of Mr.. William Il. Evans
to DR.. Elsie Wade which took place
at the brides home on Saturday, Sep
TENDER eighteenth.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. B.: Dresser, of
Hampton, Va, and Mrs. G. Dunaway,
of Newport News stopped in town this
week, enroute to Chester, Pa, where
they were called by the illness of Mr..
and Mrs. Dresser's daughter and Mrs.
Dunaway's daughter-in-law Mrs. Hun
ter Leitch.
Mrs. G. G. Hall is in the Norfolk
General Hospital, in Norfolk, where
she underwent an operation on We'd
nesday of this week. Her friends here
are hoping her condition may be i'm
proved by the operation and that she
may soon be able to return to her
home in this city. Her daughter, Miss
Eleanor Hall, is with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence T. Mills, ac-
companied by Mrs. Harold C. Mills,
Mrs. Will Sterling, Miss Dorothy Mills
and Mr.. Robert Mills motored to Bal
timore over the weekend where they
were guests of friends. After visiting
many places of interest in Baltimore
they motored to Washington, D. c., re-
turning home on Monday.
The annual fall meeting Of the exc
cutive board of the Eastern Shore Dis
trict of the Maryland Federation of
Women's Clubs will be held at Cherry
Grove, the home of Mrs. Reginald Con-
stable, near Earlville, Cecil County,
tonight, Friday. Mrs. Constable will
entertain at luncheon Mrs. Harry L.
Harcum, of Salisbury, president of the
district, and her staff of forty assis-
tants.
Funeral services were held Monday
of last week for Mr.. Samuel J. Mat
thews, ST., highly esteemed citizen of
New Church, who died at the age of
81 years. He is survived by the fol-
lowing children: Mrs. j. F. White,
Mrs. H. K. Marshall, New Church;
Mrs. Bates Pilchard, Mr.. L. w. Mat
thews, Pocomoke City; Mr.. M. D.
Grizzard, Dreweyville, Va; DR.. w. F.
Matthews, Montclaire, N. ]. He also
leaves fifteen grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Among the students entering or re-
turning to college this fall are: Ed
ward w. Ross, Jr., st. Johns College,
Annapolis; Ogden A. Wilkins, Uni
versity of Maryland, Baltimore; Miss
Nancy Schoolfield, Duer Mears, Brink
ley Hayman, William H. Schoolfield,
University of Maryland, College Park;
Miss Jane Y. veasey, New England