Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-03-04

these services.
The Woman's Club of Worcester
County will meet in the Snow Hill
High School Thursday afternoon,
March 10th. Mrs. M. Phillips will
have charge of the program. A good
attendance is desired at the meeting.
Mr.. Arthur Copeland, Princeton
Seminary Student, will return to fill
the pulpit of the Pitts Creek Presby-
terian Church, Sunday next, also at
Beaver Dam in the afternoon. Each
tof these services will be held at the
usual preaching hour.
An executive board meeting of the
Woman's Club of Pocomoke City will
be held Monday, March 18th at P.
NJ, at the home of the President, Mrs.
R. Lee Hall, for the purpose of elect
ing a nominating committee to select
officers for the ensuing two years.
Mrs. Irving Ward, Misses Myrtle
and Beatrice Ward, Mrs. Elmer B.
Hudson. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ward and
daughter, Betty, visited Mr.. Irving
Ward in the Peninsula General Hos
pital in Salisbury on Sunday last. Mr..
Ward is gradually improving.
The Inasmuch Circle Of Kings
Daughters will meet Monday after
noon, March 7th, with Mrs. John T.
Smullin. A full attendance of the
members is desired at this meeting
as plans will be made for the Golden
Anniversary celebration which will
be held some time in April.
Those from distance who attend
ed the funeral of Mr.. Arthur Merrill
held in Pocomoke last week were: Mr..
and Mrs. S. James Handy, Miss Fran
ces B. Handy and Mr.. Sidney Handy
of West Grove, Pa, Mrs. Lucius S.
Jacob, of Cape Charles and Mr.. George
johnson of Onancock.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hampton of 70 Chestnut ST.,
Battle Creek, Michigan on March LIST
at the Leila Hospital, Battle Creek.
Mrs. Hampton is the former Miss
Lola Miles of Jersey City, N. j., daugh
ter of Mrs. Herbert Grenville Miles,
of Jersey City and Churchland, Va,
and the late Herbert Grenville Miles.
Mr.. Clifton Sparrow and sisters:
Miss Virginia Sparrow of New Church
and Mrs. Hazel Martin of this city,
and Miss Fannie Hickman, spent the
weekend in Catawba, Va, with Mrs.
Clifton Sparrow who is patient in
the Catawba Sanatorium. They re-
port Mrs. Sparrow very much i'm
proved.
Little Miss Betty Wooster celebrat-
ed her eighth birthday on Saturday
last by entertaining a few of her
little friends. Those present were:
Alice Jean Mister, Judy Hayman,
Jacie and Emily Allen, Betty Lou and
Patsy Wilkerson, Norma Lee Price,
Betty Lee and Lola johnson, Joyce
Headley, Geraldine Groh, Bobby Bos-
man, Bobby Bagwell, Arnold Cohen,
Bobby Price, Woodland Willing and
Jackie Wooster.
Three fire alarms were sent in
Monday morning within a period of
three hours. The first sounded at 8
o'clock and called the firemen to the
home of Mr.. Tom Davis, Second st.
At ten o'clock the firemen were called
to the home of Mr.. John Jones, near
the McMaster schoolhouse and the
third alarm at eleven o'clock was at
the home of Mrs. Ethelyn Barnes Ran
kin. All three were chimney fires but
particularly dangerous due to the
high wind that prevailed all day.
Miss Jane Veasey, talented young
Pocomoke City pianist who is a stud
ent at the New England Conservatory
of Music, in Boston, Mass, is listed
among the soloists appearing on the
program of the student recital, Thurs
day afternoon, March 8. Miss Yeas
ey, who is pupil of Howard Cooling,
known throughout New England and
the West as a concert pianist and
member of the Conservatory faculty,
will play Chopin's Polonaise in B-flat
major, op. II, no. 2.
Captain and Mrs. Walter Church
were among the invited guests at
tending the dinner given at New
Haven, Conn.,. on Monday evening:
February Fl, by the Governors Foot
Guard in honor of His Excellency
Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of
Connecticut, preceding the annual
Foot Guard Ball. Captain Church is
an officer on the staff of the Gov
ernor' Foot Guard organized in Its
and he and Mrs. Church are frequent