Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-11-10

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Alice Young, Secretary, w. ]. Mills,
Foreman, Stuart VESSELS, Linotypist,
I. James Covington, Norris Willing
and George Holland, compositors.
While not properly considered a
regular newspaper, the late Francis
H. Dryden, compiled and published as
an advertising medium for general
distribution, large four page paper
called "Dryden's Real Estate Journal"
I have one of these papers in my pos
session. The copy is Volume A, No. 1,
issued between 1900 and 1905. Mr..
Dryden was successful real estate
dealer and in the Journal there is a
list of two hundred and fifty different
properties that had been placed in his
agency for sale. The Journal con-
tains very accurate map of what is
called "The Peninsula" and valuable
information concerning that part OF
the United States.
On August %, 1890, Loire G. Quinn,
formerly one of the editors of the
Record and Gazette, established in Po-
comoke City new weekly newspaper
which he named "The Eastern Shore
man.. After publishing the paper in
this town about two years, Mr.. Quinn
removed the plant to Crisfield, Md,
where he continued its publication I'M
der the name of 1.-THE Crisfield Times
Before closing this sketch, wish to
make q record Of some facts that
should be Of interest to every resident
of Worcester County. It is in place
to state that Worcester County was
carved out of Somerset County in 1742
and Snow Hill was selected as the
county seat. The county was over one
hundred years old before the first
newspaper was published within its
boundaries. The Worcester County
Shield was established in 1845 in Snow
Hill and had no competition in the
County for twenty years, or until the
Newtown Record was founded in 1865.
Hence the Shield was the only adver-
Using medium for the entire county
for twenty years. It's life covered
period Of forty-eight years. It's
plant was totally destroyed in the
great fire that visited Snow Hill on
August z, 1898, which ended its ca
reer. The we'll known Smith family
of Snow Hill for years was associated
with the Shield and prominent among
them were the late B. Everett Smith
and Philip Sidney Smith.
I am indebted to Mr.. G. v. White,
one of the editors of the Democratic
Messenger, of Snow Hill for the fol-
lowing interesting information con-
corning the late Thomas Ennalls
Martin, one of the editors Of the Wor-
cester County Shield.
Thomas Ennalls Martin, descendant
of the distinguished Martin family, of
Talbot County, Nd, was born Deem
Der H., 1911. He was apprenticed
to the Easton Ledger at the age Of
sixteen. Later he removed to Phila-
delphia and took charge of "The
Pennsylvania" as foreman, after
which he led nomadic life.
He came to Snow Hill probably in
the late eighteen hundred and fifties,
bought the Worcester County Shield
which he edited and published success
fully until the breaking out Of the
Civil War. Espousing the cause Of
the Union, which attitude was unpop-
ular in this County, his business was
completely broken up and he lost four
hundred subscribers in a single day.
Afterwards he went to Washington,
D. c., and was employed in the U. S.
Treasury Department. Later he To-
Gated in Annapolis, Md, where he pub
lished the Maryland Gazette, one of
the oldest newspapers in the United
States. He died in Annapolis, May,
1902.
Pocomoke City, Nd.
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