Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-01-20
Local and Rural News

Mrs. G. E. Schoolfield was hostess
Tuesday to the afternoon bridge club.
Miss Edna Pierce, of New York,
was a business visitor in Pocomoke
this week. ~
Mrs. e. Farrell Bowen was hostess
Wednesday to the luncheon bridge
bridge club .-.
Mrs. Ralph Lednum spent Wednes-
day and Thursday with friends IN
Cambridge and Preston.
Mayor and Mrs. E. w. Ross have
been recent guests of friends In Hamp
ton, Va.
Mr.. Carl Monsees, of Washington,
d. c., spent the past weekend in this
city.
Mrs. E. W. Ham entertained very
delightfully."- at bridge luncheon on
Thursday.
Miss Bessie Hayward, of York, New
Salem. Pa, spent the weekend at
home with her sister and brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Dryden, OF
Princess Anne, spent the weekend
with friends and relatives here.
Mrs. j. Harry Young was the over
night guest Thursday OF her sister IN
Berlin.
Mrs. Roy Jones has returned after
a visit with friends and relatives In
Princess Anne. =
The ladies of the M. P. Church en-
loved a covered dish supper at the
Social Hail of the church Tuesday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Birmingham
and Mrs. jeanette Birmingham, &C
eompanied by relatives, motored 70
Wilmington, Del, over the weekend
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wigglesworth
we're weekend guests of the latters
PARENTS, Mr.. and Mrs. c. o. HUFFMAN
of Princess Anne.
A regular meeting of Crescent Chap
ter No. "A o. E. S. will be held Mon
dav night, January 22nd at 1880
O'Clock. The meeting will be in charge
of the newly installed officers.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Hope, Mr.. w. A.
Rundick and Mrs. H. L. Bundick, OF
Accomac, Va, and Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward Merrill were dinner guests Fri
day of Mr. and Mrs. William II. Mer-
rill of Clarke Avenue.
Miss Mabel Stevenson who under
vent an operation for appendicitis at
the Peninsula General Hospital In
Salisbury, returned Wednesday and
is now recuperating at her home on
Front Street.
Funeral rites were held in Phila-
delphia Monday afternoon for Mr..
lanes Murphy, II, who died at the
home of his son and daughter-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Murphey, Four
tn Street, this city, Thursday OF last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garland D. Bull have
returned from the South where Mr..
Bull was on business for the Small
and Bull Poultry Company OF TINS
city. While away they visited, among
other places, Tampa and St. Peters
burg, Florida.
Sympathy of friends and relatives
is extended to Mr.. and Mrs. j. u.
Gochnour, of this city, in the death
of their 4-months' old baby boy, Ken
meth Hart, who died on Tuesday morn
ing last, January II. Mrs. Gochnour
il the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
IN H. Hillman, this city.
The heaviest snow fall of the season
visited this section Sunday night and
Monday and continued to fall until
late in the afternoon when it began
to thaw. Tuesday morning the Their
mometer registered % and while the
streets were soon clear lawns and
many sidewalks were still blanketed
with snow and ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Guy; of Wal
brook, Baltimore, accompanied by
Mrs. Essie Mariner and son, Jennings
Mariner, motored to Pocomoke Saturt
day last where Mrs. Mariner and son
were weekend guests of her sister,
Mrs. Charles Byrd. Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy continued to Onancock, Va, where