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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the
subscriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters of administration
on the personal estate of John Will
liam Mason, late of Worcester Coun-
ty, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or be-
fore the 9th day of June, 1871. They
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of the said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate
payment. Given under my hand this
18th day of November, 1910.
WILLARD J. STEVENSON,
Administrator
Test: Frank E. Hudson, Register Of
Wills.
Nov. 29-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
FLEEING STILL OPERATOR
FALLS INTO A WELL

Two men, captured after a chase
that ended in a we'll, were held un-
der 1900 bond each by Commission
err Louis C. Merryman, in Salisbury
last week, for District Court after
they had been arrested by Alcohol
Tax Unit Office agents on charges
of operating an illicit still.
The agents raided the still near
Greensboro last week and took into
custody John Wood and Lester Combs
The two agents, Henry D. Thomp-
son and Allen S. Bartlett and Con-
stable Walter Banks, had waited un-
der cover until the plant was in op-
Grafton. Suddenly the agents rush.
ed into he clearing and the two men
fled. Constable Banks chased Wood
down a trail through the forest and
captured him.
Combs took another path with
Thompson following. In the dark
ness Combs stumbled over a mash
barrel and landed in a well. Agent
Thompson, who was close at his heels
made a flying leap and also landed
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
NOTICE,

Application has been made to the
undersigned by Earl H. Merritt, for
transfer of a license to sell beer
and light wine, containing not more
than fourteen per centpm of alcohol
by volume at the premises known as
Town Tavern, Pocomoke City, Nd,
at intersection of Rt. 113 and By
Pass, the said license to be known as
"Class D Beer and Wine License,
which would permit the licensee to
keep for sale and sell beer and light
wines at retail at the premises there
in described for consumption thereon
or elsewhere. The application is
made in accordance with Chapter
of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, 1888, Special Session,
and is on file in this office. Any
exceptions to the issuance of the Ii
cense must be filed with the under
from the publication of this adver-
signed within a period of one week
tisement, otherwise the license ap-
piled for will be issued. The manner
of filing exceptions is described in
the Act, a copy of which is on file
in the Clerks office.
JOEPH E. BRIMER,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Worcester County, Maryland
Dec. 13-1t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
L. Paul Ewell, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters Testamentary on
the personal estate of Peter ]. Gootee
late of Worcester County, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or before
the 9th day of June, 1941. They may
otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefits of the said estate. All
persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand this
18th day of November, 1910.
L. PAUL EWELL, Executor
Test: Frank E. Hudson, Register OF
Wills.
Nov. 29-3t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT, POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND

be cancelled, or else the rate would
go up.
Likewise, it is not without reason
that limit should be placed on cars
between Second and Front streets,
which are parked on Market street.
I have seen cars driven to a favored
spot in the morning, and stay in such
a spot until-and after night. Most
times, persons are in them, watching
the parade go by.
Pocomoke is not unique in having
such a problem. Pocomoke is unique
in not doing anything about it. It
would seem that the business men
themselves would band together to
find solution. Is it not the policy
Of the business men to wait on GUS
toner, then look for another one?
BY turning over of stock profit is
made. The same principle applies,
or should, with those buying. When
they finish their business, give way
to some one else who wishes to do
business.
Many towns have a two-hour park
ing limit in the business district.
Some have a one-hour limit. The
police force is responsible in enforc-
ing the time limit. The police force
is paid by the taxes from the people
in town. It should be one of their
duties. Very few, if any town of any
size, will allow double parking on a
street less than thirty feet from curb
to curb. Traffic could be regulated
and kept moving by a few signs put
|up on electric light poles. It is done
in other places. Why not in POGO
moke? Could it be that Pocomoke is
too backward not to want something
done? All that is necessary to do, is
to get in q car and drive 80 miles
north to find out what is being done.
From Salisbury north, any town Of
any consequence has parking restric-
tions. Here, we have none.
It would appear that something
should be done. It would appear
that the Mayor and City Council
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
n Q TlCE

This is to notify the public, that
/, George HI. johnson have re-
signed from the johnson Meat
Products Corporation, and will
open for business December 16,
on what is known as the GrOtOn
place, just outside POcOm0ke
City on the Snow Hill road, and
will engage in the business of
manufacturing sausage, scrap
pie, lard, and other meat foods.
Dec. 13-3tp.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
FARM BUREAU
STUDIES REPORTS
OF THE DOLLAR
Laid Before The FederatiOn's
Twenty-SecOnd Annual Con-
ventiOn In Baltimore

The American Farm Bureau Fede-
ration meeting in Baltimore studied
q report by it's research staff that
the New Deal through operation of
its multi-million dollar farmer-aid
programs, had built up large official
staff that threatened to place agricul-
ture, under "costly bureaucratic con-
troll
The report was laid before the res
buttons committee Of the fsderation's
twenty-second annual convention.
Officials said the resolutions COM
mittee planned to invite Secretary OF
Agriculture Claude Wickard, AAA
Administrator, R. M. Evans, and 9th
CT agriculture department. officials
10 discuss ways of decentralizing ad'
nainistration of farm programs.
The report, not yet made public
was said by officials to show that as
many as seven different agriculture
department agencies, each with it,
own staff, were administering pro
grams which had virtually identica
detectives.
Members said that it was possible
that the resolutions committee might
ask the federation to go on RECORD
for legislation which would give the
states, through land grant agricul
tural college, greater responsible!
in conduct of farm programs.
The resolutions committee tool
up many other agricultural problems
including ways of boosting farm in.
come and combating losses in foreign
markets for American crops.
Some federation delegates, led BY
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
Henry p. Walters, Atty
NOTICE To CREDTTORC

Notice is hereby given that the
subscriber has obtained from the Or
phans' Court for Worcester County,
Maryland, letters Testamentary on
the personal estate of Beulah M.
Blaine, late of Worcester County, de-
ceased.
All persons having claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber on or be-
fore the 2Srd day Of June, 1941. They
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of the said estate.
All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate
payment. Given under my hand this
18th day of December, 1910.
CYNTHIA p. BLAINE,
So Executrix
Test: Frank E. Hudson, Register Of
Wills.
Dec. 13-3t. ,..,-.o. ., S.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
PEOPLES COLUMN
December Q, 1910

December ., 1910
DR.. E. J. Clarke, Editor,
Worcester Democrat,
Pocomoke City, Md.
Dear Sir:
For some little time, there has
been talk about something being done
in town concerning the traffic prob
lem. Once in q while we see q short
article appear in the paper, then all
is silent.
Considerable talk has been going
the rounds concerning parking
meters. They are all well and good
in their way, but Pocomoke is too
small a town for meters. It would
seem the biggest point to be brought
to the attention of the people is not
meters, but the congestion which is
glaringly apparent over the week
ends. Parking meters on Market
street would not offset the tie-uI
which occurs increasingly at the cor
ner of Market and Second street, o,
the corner Of Willow and Clarke
Avenue.
Furthermore, because Of the way
car owners are allowed to park or
both sides of the street, on the mar.
rowest of streets, it is often impos.
sible for one to get through for five
minutes and more at a time. That is
the part which should be remedied
Should a fire break out in town ir
the business section on a Saturday
night, what chance would the fire
trucks have of getting through? II
runs in my mind should the under
writer's for the building come here
over a weekend, some policies would
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
would, of their own accord, do some

would, of their own accord, do some
thing.
At the present time, conditions are
deplorable. Let some of the folks
who work down town leave cars home
for awhile and give the spaces to an
out-of-town car. Put a time limit
on the business section, and make
narrow streets one way. If the bust
ness men in town are progressive.
this article will have a good sound
If they are not progressive, this ar
ticle will be very much abused, as
well as the person who wrote it. Let
US wait to hear the reaction.
Sincerely,
VIM. L. Bennett.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
in the we'll, along with the barrel and

in the we'll, along with the barrel and
Combs.
The plant, capable of producing $50
gallons of liquor week, had been
in operation only week, it was claim
ed. The officers destroyed the still,
which was without coil, one 5O-gal-
lon wooden doubler; one 80 gallon
steel drum boiler with bricked up fire
place; five 55-gallon wooden barrel
mash fermenters and two 50-gallon
mash fermenters; 10 five gallon tin
cans, and one 55-gallon steel drum
condenser.
The agents said that they found
S15 gallons of mash in the barrels.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

The regular annual meeting of the
shareholders of the Pocomoke City
National Bank, of Pocomoke City
will be held on Tuesday, January 18th
1941, between the hours of 10 O'Clock
A. M. and 8 o'clock P. M. for the cleo
ton of Board of Directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction
of any other business which may be
considered.
WILLARD J. STEVENSON,
Cashier
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

Edward A. O'Neal, president, favor
ed a revision in present farm laws
which would permit the government
to make loans on basic commodities
at levels which would peg prices at
so-called parity" levels. Opposition
to such a plan has been voiced in adj
ministration farm circles.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

The regular annual meeting of the
shareholders of the Citizens National
Bank, in Pocomoke City, will be held
on Tuesday, January 14th, 1941, be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock A. M,
and 8 o'clock P. M. for the election
of Board of Directors for the en-
suing year, and for the transaction OF
any other business which may bt
considered.
J. c. STEVENSON,
Cashier
Dec. 1876.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13
NOTICE OF TESTS
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
WILLIAM Fl. SCOTT, Solicitors

Ruth Marie Boggs, VS.. Kenny Dill
worth Boggs.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland.
In Equity.
No. 5155 Chancery.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

FOR SALE One casting box, size
IL 10, in good condition. Worcester
Democrat.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

FOR SALE-Dry chicken manure.
delivered anywhere within miles Of
Pocomoke, $1,000 a load, 6 tons to o
load. Harvey Mears, Chincoteague, Va.
Sept-13-tf
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

ANNAPOLIS - MATAPEAKk
ROMANCOKE - CLAIBORNE
FERRIES
FALL and WINTER SCHEDULE
-194O-
Effective September 9TH, 194o
DAILY AND SUNDAY
Eastern Standard Time
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

NOTICE - Will take orders for
hand made doll clothes. Mrs. PHI
Creath. Nov-16-G
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

FOR RENT-6-room house and O
4-room apartment. Gus Mason.
Dec. 1S-tf.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

John Deere Tractors and Farming
Implements. Tractor repairs and re-
placements. M. w. Boston, Telephone
143-J Pocomoke. ...e
Mar 29-tf. ...
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

FOR SALE-Turkey Toms, lSc
per pound. Mrs. Elon w. Mills, Po-
comoke r. F. D. No. /. 80.
Dec. 13-1tp.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

FOR RENT OR SALE-Store cor.
Fourth and Second, all modern fix
lures, interior and exterior thorough
ly remodeled. 5-room apartment o.
bove store. Apply Somers Garage.
Nov. 29-tf.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

BUNGALOW FOR RENT-Cedar G
9th st. Possession January LIST. Roy
Lescalette. ''> =.
Dec. 13-3tp. ~,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

Dec. 13-5t.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

NOTICE-Price ON hair eattine-
Is cents will remain the same st
Shaws.
July loft.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-12-13

FOR RENT-Furnished apartment
Mrs. VIM. Stevenson, Front st.
Dec. 13-tf.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25

ed. Though much has been said
about that tide of sentiment, the
parts of the Union where it is
rising have been vaguely limited
10y political writers. 1t may be far
w j d e 7 I h a they think. T h e
Wilkie clubs announced as form
ing in Texas have not been much
noticed, but Texas, though geo.
graphically Deep Southern, is ac-
tually of the Southwest, and there
has always been a Republican
party there, small as it is. In the
Deep South, however, voting Re
publican simply has not been So
cially possible since 1876.
In commenting on the Guides
stand, the Summit Sun, without
We Joining in Rand's bolt, de-
clares that for the time being W
will not state our choice" as be-
tween the parties, though it will
after the DerSocratic convention,
and says: Under no circumstan-
ces could we indorse President
Roosevelt for a third term
Wendell Willkie stands for all the
things that Democrats of the old
school stand for, and we claim to
be a member of that almost ex-
tinct party" Rand himself spoke
similarly: America will put pat
riotism above party or we perish.
The Dixie Guide is for Wendell
Willkie, the true Democrat.
Now is the time for every patriot
to come to the aid Of his country"
Other Mississippi papers which
take less outright stands are never
theless enthusiastic about Willkie,
especially the Columbus Com
mercial Dispatch. The Mississippi
Sun, published in Charleston, Mis-
sissippi, calls Wilkes nomination
"a spectacle of democracy at its
best, n marking the passing of
political bossism."
If the much-rumored current of
discomfort reaches even the deep
est of the Deep South, it may be
questioned whether it is a cur
rent; ii is not a nationwide
ground swell, TO become perhaps
a tidal wave.
Charles Willis Thompson.
New York, July 9.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25

To The Editor of The Sun-Sir:
Within the last few days my cor
r~espondence in the Deep South
has informed me of a most signi-
ficant development. 1t is signifi-
cant less in itself than in what it
suggests, which is a state OF feel
ing of which it is seemingly a re-
Election. The Dixie Guide of Gulf
port, Mississippi, deepest in the
Deep South, responded to WILKES
nomination not with the
tional Deep South soothing at every
Republican nomination, but with
an editorial headed We're for
Willkie'' in twenty-four-point
blackface caps.
Instead of being howled down
as a party renegade, the Guides
bolt has been received by the
Mississippi press with great re-
spect, and with almost unconceal-
ed approval by some Mississippi
editors who refrain from taking
the same stand but who, four
years ago or forty, would have
furiously denounced the Guide as
a traitor to the South and to the
white race.
Ever since 1876 the South has
been solidly Democratic, but, as
the Durant News now says edi-
torially, it is largely a social in
heritance rather than a political
creed" TO put it still more plainly,
in it's struggle against the Recon-
struction domination it became an
obligation for all white ME to
stand together, and now, when
that crisis is ancient history, their
grandsons still follow in the party
rut from habit and heritage. In
the northern States of the South
boiling is not visited with social
ostracism, but hitherto it always
has been in the Deep South. Clay
ton Rand, the Guides editor, is
one OF the most distinguished of
Mississippi's editors, and the open
approval of some editors and the
lack of condemnation by any
shows an unprecedented unrest in
the quarters where it was least
to be looked for.
What it suggests is that the dis
content with the New Deal is
far wider than has been suspect
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25
Mrs. Tucker Attends
Funeral In Yuzoo

Friends of Mrs. w. F. Tucker will
regret to learn of the death of her
grandfather, J. B. Kinard, in Yazoo
City Friday.
Mr.. Kinard passed away Friday
night after a long illness.
Funeral services were held Sun
day.
Mrs. Tucker is the wife of the local
manager for Mississippi Power G.
Light Co.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25
An Echo Of The Fourth

Ed,torial from h Tuscaloosa, Alabama, News - July 9, ls4W
While the rest of the nation was taking time out tor
various celebrations on July the Fourth, the U. 3 House
of Representatives was meeting in Washington. ms
brief session was held merely to give service to the con-
stitutional requirement that neither house, during the
session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the
other, adjourn for more than 3 days"
This short meeting did provide a sounding board for
some sound utterances. The Declaration of lndepend-
ence (printed in full by the News last Thursday, was
read by Rep. Lewis of Colorado, and several congress
men spoke for brief intervals in praise of that honored
document.
1t remained for Rep. Rankin, of the Mississippi Ran
kins, to bring out a Fourth of July fact that many have
overlooked. 1t forms a tribute to Stephen Foster, whom
many know by music but fewer by name.
"Mr. Speaker, we always celebrate the Fourth of
July as the birthday of the nation Mr.. Rankin said.
"We call attention to the fact that it is the anniversary
of the deaths of three of our former presidents -
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both of whom
died on July a, 1926, and James Monroe, who died
on July a, 1881. We also recall the fact that it is the
anniversary of the birth of former President CALVIN Cool
idge, who was born on July A, 1872.
ut is also the birthday of one of Americas leading
literary lights, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was born /
believe, on July A, 1904.
Another significant fact is that it is the anniversary
of the birth of another leading American who Will
live perhaps as long as any of these, Stephen Foster,
who wrote the popular songs of the nation a hundred
years ago, songs that stir the human heart today JUST
as they did then, if not more.
stephen Foster was born on the day Thomas JET
ferson and John Adams died, July A, 1926. More than
any other man of his day, he shaped the thoughts ot
the American people through the songs he wrote, chief
among which, | would say, were "Sawanee River, MY
Old Kentucky Home and "Old Black Joe"
eve praise the man who fights our battles; we honor
the man who makes our laws; we remunerate the man
who controls our finances; but, in my humble Judg-
ment, there is none who deserves more praise, more
credit, or more recommendation at the hands of en-
lightened humanity than he who touches the golden
harp of song and stirs with love and hope the languid
souls of listening men,
To which we say, amen, Brother Rankin"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25
Defense

~
I'VE declare for the prompt,
orderly, and realistic building OF
our national defense to the point
at which we shall be able not
only to defend the United States,
its possessions, and essential out
posts from foreign attack, but also
efficiently to uphold in war the
Monroe doctrine"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25
Mississippi Gets Attention

Mississippi occupied more floor space than any other
state in the union other than Texas at the Democratic
national convention. 108 delegates attended to cast
our 18 votes.
Texas had 1872 to cast 46 votes.
Yes, we got plenty of attention, discussion and just
plain cussin'.
We understand New York was greatly disturbed be-
cause she had only 12 delegates to cast "a votes to
say nothing of Pennsylvania delegation of "a to cast
~ votes. California sent 48 delegates to cast "A votes.
Illinois seated only 80 delegates to cast her SO votes.
There was considerable discussion in the national
committee on the Mississippi delegation but after a while
they finally decided they would seat all of US provided
next time we limit our delegation to ~ including alter
mates.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25
Durant Personals


Mrs. John Phillips and two daugh-
tiers, Irma, and Kathleen from India
nola spent last Sunday with w. C.
and Arnold Renacker.
Miss Kathleen Phillips of Indianola
is spending the week with Buddy and
Willie Martin Renacker.
Budy Renacker returned Wednes-
day from Clarksdale after two weeks
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. John Motlow.
James Longinotti spent the week
end in Memphis.
Mrs. Morris Phillips, nee Grace Van
Keuren, of near Carthage, is visit
ing her father C. G. VanKeuren here
this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-25
Cord Of Thanks

We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kind expressions
of sympathy in our recent bereave-
ment. May Gods richest blessings a
bide with you.
MRS. j. B. THOMPSON,
w. w. THOMPSON,
HARRY THOMPSON.