Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1942-04-10
Local and Rural News

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Johnson Mis-.
Martha Han and Mr. Otis Pusey Of
this city, spent last week end witt
friends and relatives in Baltimore.
Mrs. George Tilghman and young
son, of Amagansett, Long Island, N
Y, are guests Of her parents, Mr.. anc
Mrs. c. Fletcher Justice of near town
Mrs. George P. Fleming, of Ports
mouth, Va, and Mrs Alice Tull and
sons, of Salisbury, were dinner guests
Sunday at the G. c. Brittingham
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Brittingham
have been recent visitors at the home
of their son and his wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Birmingham Of Chinco-
league.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Dryden and
their young son, who have been guests
Of his mother, Mrs. Maude Dryden
have returned to their home in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman c. Mock an
nounca the birth Of a fine daughter,
Joyce Ann, born Wednesday, April /.
Mrs Mock before her marriage was
Miss Mary Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murrell McGrath and
daughter, Lynn Ellen, of near Fruit
land, were Easter guests of the Mrs.
McGrath's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarke Lambertson.
Mr.. G. Courtney Hall stopped in
Pocomoke last week enroute from
North Carolina to his home in Flush
ing, N. Y. Mr. B. Fuller Walters ac-
companied him home.
The Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian Church will meet Thurs
day night April 10th at 7.3O o'clock
in the Sunday school room. A good
attendance is desired.
Mrs. John Florick, Of Wilmington,
Del, and Mrs. Donald Marshall and
children of Newport News, spent the
Easter holidays with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. w. Justis.
Mrs. B. F. Sturgis has returned to
Pocomoke after spending the past
several months with her daughter,
Mrs. John R. Birmingham and Mr..
Birmingham in Roanoke, Va.
Friends here will be glad to know
that Mr. Allen p Schoolfield is grad
ually improving at the Peninsula Gen
eral Hospital where he underwent an
emergency appendectomy last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Talton had
their two daughters home for the
holidays: Miss Anne Talton, student
at Beacoms Business College and
Mrs. E. w. Marshall and Mr.. Mar
shall of Dundalk, Md.
Mrs. S. w. Russell, Worthy Matron
of Crescent Chapter No. A o. f. S.,
will represent Crescent at the Grand
Chapter meeting to be held in the
Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore on
April 27, %, and 29th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Stewart of Bal
timore are proud to announce the
birth of daughter, Kaye Earlene, at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital on March
Both. Mrs. Stewart was formerly Miss
Jessie Lee Lambden of this city.
After a very pleasant visit of two
months with her sister, Mrs. Bertie
Lockerman of Second St., Mrs. Sam
uel B. Churchill left Tuesday for a
brief stay with her daughter in Ho.
bart, N. Y, before returning to hel
home in Old Orchard, Maine.
Rev. H. V. Clary will spend the
week end in Bluefield, w. Va. He vii
be accompanied home the early part
of the week by Mrs. Clary and theil
young son, Val, who will make theil
permanent home with Mr. Clary a
the Rectory.
Miss Myrtle Mock, formerly of Pc
comoke, has been named acting super
intendent of the Peninsula Genera
Hospital to serve during the absence
of Brady J. Dayton who was recalled
to active duty in the United States
Navy. Miss Mock is at present super
intendent of nurses in which capac
ity she has served for number Of
years.