May, 1971
17-year-old Becky Culp was named Miss Pocomoke for 1971 with Peggy L. Richardson placing as first runner up in the annual competition sponsored by the Pocomoke Junior Woman's Club. Five-year-old Sharon Yvonne Daugherty was crowned Little Miss Pocomoke and Terri Anne Christian was runner up.
March, 1977
17-year-old Joy Laureen Dooling was crowned Miss Pocomoke 1977. First runner-up was 16-year-old Lisa Ellen Maddox, and her piano solo won her first place in the talent competition. 17-year-old Susan Patricia Reese was named Miss Congeniality. 5-year-old Tracy Lyn Worth was crowned Little Miss Pocomoke; 4-year-old Laura Lyn Santiano was first runner-up. The pageant was sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club and held in the Pocomoke High School auditorium.
July, 1977
Bob Frostrom of Pocomoke City drove his Porsche Carrera to victory in the "production" sports racing event at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia in the Mid-Atlantic Road Racing Series.
For those who followed the postings this past week of the trial and verdict in the 1879 murder case against Lillie Duer of Pocomoke City an additional post-trial item was located.
TK for PPE
July, 1879
(Salt Lake Daily Tribune)
Thief as Well as Murderess
Miss Duer, who killed her school-mate and intimate friend in Maryland, and was recently acquitted of murder, has come to grief after all. Within a fortnight of her acquittal she had the enterprise to sell a sensational paper a novel entitled , "A Love Story: They Parted and Met Again". "By Miss Lillian Duer, lately on trial for the murder of Miss Ella Hearn." In the first installment of that romance she thus describes a death: "They had been boarding but for five months when her father was taken seriously ill. Medical aid proved of no avail. The baleful breath of death infused itself into his body and rendered it inanimate." This is certainly bad enough to be original, but now a Washington paper declares that the story, with slight changes, is copied from an English novel called "Catherine." So the sensational paper has lost its $500, and serves it right.
Footnote: A comment left to a previous posting on this case:
Anonymous said...
So if they had cable networks and tv back then do you think this would be like the Casey Anthony thing?
For sure.
4 comments:
I remember all of these people (with the obvious exception of Ms. Duer) and actually dated two of them. The only problem you might run into is that when you publish the dates it's easy to figure out the current ages. Some of the ladies may not like that.
A valid point re the ages but let's hope these gals will let me off the hook this one time as we recognize their accomplishments!
LOL! Don't think there will be any problem - I'm the same age of a couple and near the ages of the others......
I've posted this on our PPE facebook page so we'll see....
GREAT story about Miss Duer, tk!
that was so interesting TK. I'm a bit shocked that the press was so open about the matter of it all at the time. Thank you for such an interesting story. I find it a bit like the Anthony story but our own story here a much more "salacious" and I'm sure the Nancy Grace's of TV would have had a field day due to the nature of the story.
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