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September, 1976
(The Salisbury Times)
(Excerpt)
Opening Of New School Is Delayed
POCOMOKE CITY- It will be several weeks after school starts
Tuesday before classes will be held in the elementary school under construction
on Old Virginia Rd., here, Robert W. Gaddis, superintendent of education, has
announced.
Members of the Worcester County board of education inspected the
project recently and decided not to accept it from the contractor until he had
made corrections requested by the board.
Mr. Gaddis complained of "poor workmanship" in the installation
of materials. He said that all materials met specifications but that in many
instances were not installed properly.
So for the first few weeks of school, elementary school children
will be attending classes in three different locations, as they have been doing
since a fire wiped out the building on Market St., in December, 1970.
Kindergarten students will be attending classes at the Walnut
and Fourth Sts.structure, first and second grades in temporary classrooms on
Market St., and the third grade in the Pocomoke Middle School.
December, 1929
(Salisbury Times)
FOR RENT:- ONLY $15.00 PER MONTH
Ten minutes from court house. Brick residence centrally located
in Delmar, supplied with gas and electricity for lighting and cooking,
containing six rooms, besides bathroom and kitchen pantry, bathroom complete
with modern fixtures, bedrooms supplied with clothes presses. Also a good sized
garage, opening on an alley with ample coal and wood compartments attached, a
good front porch and back porch, ample back yard, all for $15.00 per month,
which is about one-half or two-thirds of the real rental value. Anyone wishing
to inspect the property can find keys left with Mrs. J.D. Mills. Apply by letter
or phone to Jay Williams, Salisbury.
April, 1886
(Peninsula Enterprise- Accomac)
Rates for board at Savage hotel Accomac C. H. is now $2 per day
— in fact most of the hotel proprietors, throughout the county have entered into
an agreement to that effect.
September, 1910
(The Washington Post)
DR. J.W. DASHIELL DEAD.
Aged Physician of Princess Anne Succumbs After Years of
Illness
Special to The Washington Post
Princess Anne, Md., Sept. 4.- Dr. John W. Dashiell died at his
Princess Anne home, the old Teagle Mansion, this morning. Dr. Dashiell was 93
years old last January. He had been an invalid for the last ten years, and had
been confined to his home for the last four years. Dr. Dashiell began to study
medicine in the office of Dr. Nathan Smith, in Baltimore, and was graduated in
the medical department of the University Of Maryland in 1842. In 1849 he engaged
in the practice of his profession in Princess Anne. In 1875 he engaged in the
drug business, and retired from active work in 1895.
In politics Dr. Dashiell was a Democrat, but was originally a
Whig, and cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison. He is survived by two
daughters- Mrs. Francis H. Dashiell amd Mrs. E.O. Smith, of Princess Anne.
Memories of Accomac, 1890
John S. Wise Jr.. "Memories of Accomac, 1890" Peninsula
Enterprise (Accomac, Va.: August 21, 1937)
(Introduction)
A friend recently said to me that after all, our memories remain
with us and with many are all they get out of life. Certainly I cherish nothing
more than my memories of old Drummondtown and Accomack County in 1890, now
nearly half a century ago, when I spent a summer with my dear old cousin, Dr.
John J. Wise, at his old home "Woodburn," about a mile north of
Drummondtown.
I was then a lad of fourteen and full of youthful vitality and
activity and interest and curiosity about all things of the Eastern Shore new to
a boy who had spent most of his time in the inland country
mountains.
(PART 3)
Nobody in town was a subscriber to any daily metropolitan
newspaper giving the racing returns of the previous afternoon. Before leaving
New York I had subscribed to the New York Evening World. It was an innovation in
Drummondtown. As all the blades usually made an annual trip north to trotting
and running races they gathered for the news and Drummondtown, was threatened
with becoming a sporting centre in a mild way.
Mr. Blackstone was always neatly and well dressed, with the old
fashioned white pique tie. He was a very handsome old gentleman, with a clear
complexion, gray hair and always neatly shaven. He was all that dignity and
refinement could suggest. Even with me, only a boy, he was princely in his
courtesy and consideration.
I have no memory of any man of my many acquaintances I hold
above him in his eminent gentility.
John W. G. Blackstone was pretty regular at the noon gatherings.
He was then a practicing lawyer. John wore the loudest clothes he could buy, the
gaudier the better for him. His cuff buttons were a gold enameled poker hand. He
was an able young lawyer and well liked and respected. He later became Circuit
Judge.
Mr. Willie Bell and Mr. Thomas W. Blackstone were busy at their
drug store and had little time for these gatherings.
Bill Ayres (pronounced Rs) the blacksmith was a man of
intelligence and character and always welcome, but in working hours he rarely
had time to leave his shop. He had his shop where his son now is. Ned was then
his understudy.
Mr. Elijah Hickman was the other village smithy but he was a
quiet type.
We had no telephone in those days and telegrams had to come up
from Tasley.
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(Lyrics)
"Like a comet
Blazing 'cross the evening sky
Gone too soon
Like a Rainbow
Fading in the twinkling of an eye
Gone too soon
Shiny and sparkly
And splendidly bright
Here one day
Gone one night
Like the loss of sunlight
On a cloudy afternoon
Gone too soon
Like a castle
Built upon a sandy beach
Gone too soon
Like a perfect flower
That is just beyond your reach
Gone too soon
Born to amuse, to inspire, to delight
Here one day
Gone one night
Like a sunset
Dying with the rising of the moon
Gone too soon
Gone too soon"
Seems like only yesterday when we listened to them on the radio, and
their passing is much too soon...
C R HOOK.. WICO (December, 2012)
WAYNE POWELL.. WDMV, WICO, WJDY, WKHI, WKHW (January,
2013)
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