This place (Newtown) is a pretty snug little village, containing about 500 clever and hospitable inhabitants; is has good wide streets, quite clear of that "eye sore," known mostly over the Peninsula by the name of "deep sand"; the houses, though built of frame, are generally built substantially and with some discretion and taste; there are two neat, new, and quite handsome frame churches in it; as for the merchants of the place, suffice it to state that they are very clever and hospitable. F. Mezick, Esq., the landlord with whom I stopped, and his very obliging and jolly assistant, are richly deserving of a passing notice, for the good treatment and the extension of the many civilities to "the stranger."
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(Halloween)
October, 1962
The Salisbury Times
(Excerpt)
Four Towns In Worcester Plan Ghostly Activites
Pocomoke City is planning a week-long celebration, said James Morrison, member of the town's Jaycees, who are sponsoring the program there. Store windows will be painted by pupils of the lower grades in the elementary school, he said, then they will be judged by the number of votes (a penny is a vote) placed in the ballot boxes in front of the windows. A $5 prize will be given to the class painting the best window.
J. William Robertson, chairman of the parade, said that the parade itself will be held on Halloween night beginning at 7PM. Contestants will line up between 6:30 and 7 p.m. at various downtown locations. They will be divided into four age groups, he said, and prizes will be given to the funniest, the most original, and the best dressed parader in each group.
At 8p.m. there will be a dance on Willow Street, Mr. Robertson said. Music will be provided by the "Sparks," a combo made up from members of the high school band.
At 10p.m. there will be a free movie at the Marva Theater, he said.
Footnote: Snow Hill, Berlin, and Newark were also planning Halloween activities, including a parade in each community.
October, 1920
The Washington Post
DOCTOR IS JAILED UNDER "DRY" LAW
Admits Prescribing and Selling Liquor to "Sick" Cannery Hands.
Special toThe Washington Post.
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 11.- Admitting that he unlawfully prescribed whiskey on the Eastern Shore on at least six occasions, Dr. Samuel Alexander Ross, of Crisfield, Md., was sentenced to four months in jail today by Judge Rose in the United States court. He is the first physician to be jailed under the prohibition laws in the Maryland district.
According to revenue agent Herman E. Parks, Dr. Ross was engaged in an extensive illegal traffic with canning house proprietors and other businessmen. One transaction, according to the government man, involved the sale of 24 pints of whiskey.
There were 38 charges against Dr. Ross and he pleaded guilty to five of them, requesting that he be sent to jail at Princess Anne, near Crisfield, rather than the city jail. The court took the request under consideration.
Among other offenses the physician is said to have prescribed 33 pints of whiskey and sold them between July 6 and July 16, dating the prescriptions from Crisfield. He admitted that he was not in Crisfield during that period and dated the others ahead of time. He told the court he operated all along the Eastern Shore, prescribing and selling liquor for the canning houses, where employees were reported to be "sick."
February, 1956
Somerset and Worcester Counties lost one of their prominent agricultural leaders with the death of J. Miles Lankford. He was active in farm and civic organizations in the two counties, a member of the State Forests And Parks Commission, and was proprietor of the Southern States Co-operative Store in Pocomoke City. His father was the late state senator Edward B. Lankford.
August, 1930 (Time Machine archive)
(The Daily Mail- Hagerstown, Md.)
LIGHTS MATCH AND BUS CAUGHT FIRE
POCOMOKE CITY, Aug 25. (AP) - At 3 o'clock in the morning 14 passengers enroute on a bus from New York to Cape Charles that halted here for a few minutes were hurriedly driven into the open as fire destroyed the vehicle. Some were cut and bruised in rushing for the door. Blame was placed on a passenger who alighted as the stop was made at a filling station and stuck a match to light a cigarette. The passengers were transferred to a train for the rest of the journey. The bus was owned by the Pennsylvania Railway Transit Company.
January, 1996
The Somerset Herald (Princess Anne)
(Excerpts)
First phase of renovations begin this month at Crisfield High School
According to Crisfield High School principal John D. Samus, the first phase of the school's long awaited renovation will begin Jan. 17. This portion of the renovation will include the newer wing of the building.
Footnote: Former students will recall the reshuffling of classroom and office space during this renovation period. Auditorium and cafeteria renovations were to begin the following September.
(A visitor to Chincoteague writes his observations.)
August, 1903
The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.)
PART 2 (continued from last week)
Chincoteague is out of the world in the sense that it is a few thousand acres of land surrounded by water, but in other senses it is close to what outsiders are pleased to call the world. Franklin City and Greenbackville are only six miles away. Franklin is the terminus of one branch of the Pennsylvania Railway. There are three mails to and from the island every day. The Baltimore papers are received by noon of the day on which they are printed, and the Philadelphia papers come in on the same train. There are but few dailies taken on the island. Many weeklies come to the Chincoteague postoffice.
There are forty-four licensed stores of various kinds ln Chincoteague. D. J. Whealton, the wealthiest man on the island, is the proprietor of one of the largest general stores I have seen anywhere. The stock carried is probably worth $25,000. The trade at all the stores appeared to be good. The islanders have plenty of money, and they spend it.
The oyster and clam industries form the chief sources of income. I was told of one man who had made for several weeks an average of between $25 and $30 a week digging and marketing clams. The clam industry is comparatively new, but several persons have told me that it will soon become more profitable than oystering, unless the Baylor survey (public access to naturally producing oyster areas) is broken by act of the Legislature. What I have seen in this oyster country in the past week convinces me that legislation breaking the survey would mean much suffering, if not starvation to Chincoteague.
Captain J. T. Rowley, who deals more extensively in clams than any other man on the island, sold seven million clams last winter a year ago, and last winter he sold between five million and six million. He is rich, and growing richer. The hundreds of men and women who sell him clams are making good livings. They could not do so if the Legislature throws open the State oyster beds to pre-emption by individuals. It is the constant fear of such action that makes the average Chincoteaguer grow old before his time.
But I was talking of the prosperity of the people of Chlncoteague.
"There is not another place of three thousand inhabitants in the United States where more than ninety per cent of the people own their own homes," said Captain Rowley the other afternoon, as we were driving over the island behind his fast horse. "There are very few renters on the island, though, of course, there are no large landholders."
Just about that time Captain Rowley stopped In front of a tiny house in the pine grove a few yards away. It was a frame structure, one story high, and not an inch over twelve feet square. I admitted that I hardly thought a person could live in so small a house.
"A man and his wife and five children live there." said the Captain, as he started up his horse. "The oldest child is a boy twelve years of age, and he works with his father every day, making good money."
(More from this article next Sunday.)
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