Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-27
Local and Rural News

Miss Mary Emily Matthews lef
Wednesday for Westminster where
she will attend summer school al
Western Maryland College.
Mrs. Harry Bushman and daughter
Suzanne, of Miami, Florida, are
guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. De.
Mar near town.
Misses Bertha and Willie Walters
and Mrs. James P. Blaine spent Tues
day with Mrs. r. Lee Hall at her
apartment in Ocean City.
Mrs. William Mason left last week
to spend few days with relatives in
Washington, D. C. From there she
will go to College Park to attend
summer school at the University of
Maryland.
Mrs. Winter C. Cullen entertained
at miscellaneous shower and bridge
Saturday afternoon last in honor of
Miss Jane Veasey whose marriage to
DR.. John r. Stein took place We'd
nesday.
Miss Barbara Hancock, of this city
and Mr.. James A. Virgins, of Colora
Md, were united in marriage Wed
nesday night at $50 o'clock at the
parsonage of Salem Methodist Church
Rev. John w. Wootten, pastor of the
church, officiated.
Mrs. A. O.. Hamilton is entertain
ing her brother-in-law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. H. G. Williams, of Lyons,
Kansas, and her two nieces, Miss An
ma Jean Williams, of Lyons, and Miss
Mary Virginia Patterson, of Wichita,
Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence E. Duncan,
of Cedar Street, will celebrate their
twenty-fifth wedding anniversary by
entertaining number of their friends
Sunday, June goth from four to six
at the Club House, New Municipal
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Solum and
family mtored to Baltimore last week
end to visit Mrs. Solum's father, Mr..
w. H. Satchell who is a patient in
Johns Hopkins Hospital, and her sis
ter, Mrs. John Mock, who was a pat
lent at South Baltimore General Hos
pital.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Ham motored
to Baltimore Monday where Mrs.
Ham entered the University Hospital
to undergo a thyroid operation on
Thursday morning. Friends here
hope she may be- greatly benefited by
hospital treatment and may soon be
able to return to her home in her
usual good health.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Estelle Durham,
formerly Of Mears, Va, now of Bal
timore, to Corporal Lyman F. Flax,
of Pocomoke City, now located at
Fort George G. Meade. The wedding
will take place the latter part of jan
uary. Corporal Flax is with the
Headquarters Detachment 3rd Bat
talon, 18th Infantry.
DR.. and Mrs. Erich Meitzner and
children, of Philadelphia, were week
end guests of Mrs. Meitzner's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Marion r. Merrill.
Mrs. Meitzner and children remained
for longer stay. Lieut.. Claude
Merrill and David Merrill also spent
the weekend with their parents, re-
turning to Edgewood Arsenal on Sun
day.
Effective at once the Pocomoke
Public Library will be closed Satur-
day night until September 18th. No
changes will be made in the daytime
schedule. The Library will be open
Tuesday morning and Thursday and
Saturday afternoons as usual and
will be closed Saturday nights only
during the hot weather. Patrons of
the library will keep this in mind and
make their Saturday selections before
$3.50 P. M. New books are being
added as frequently as possible and
number have been received within
the past few weeks.