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August, 1974
(Salisbury Times)
(Excerpt)
Pitch Will Be Made For New College
Frank H. Morris, former mayor of Salisbury and member of the
state board of community colleges, is expected to appear before the Wicomico
County Council Tuesday to emphasize the need for an occupationally-technically
oriented community college on the lower Eastern Shore.
The four lower Eastern Shore counties are the only ones in the
state not served by a community college.
Mr. Morris said he will ask for the council's participation in a
feasibility study and also for the council's consideration of the study when
complete. Dorchester and Worcester Counties have agreed to lend their support to
the study.
July, 1929
(The Morning Herald- Hagerstown, Md.)
Bootlegging In Potatoes Costly
(By The Associated Press)
Salisbury, Md., July 25- A bootlegging trade in potatoes has
cost farmers on the eastern shore of Virginia about ten carloads, the amount
they estimated has been stolen from fields and cars, it was reported here today.
In the night, they said, trucks have taken on loads of potatoes, packed and left
in the fields near New Church and Onley, Va. At Onley three freight cars were
opened and 240 barrels taken. The farmers believe the trucks have been carrying
the stolen potatoes to Philadelphia and New York markets.
October, 1964 (Time Machine Archive)
The latest business addition to downtown Pocomoke was SILCO
celebrating its' Grand Opening at Front and Market Streets near the Marva
Theater. Grand Opening specials included: Ladies Shirts..$1.27, Men's
Shirts..$1.48, Large Cannon Blankets..$2.77, Men's Boots with steel shank and
waterproof insulation..$3.69, TV Tray Tables with sturdy collapsible stand..
regularly 94 cents for 59 cents each.
June, 1880
(The Herald And Torch Light- Hagerstown, Md.)
The State Teachers' Association will meet at Ocean City the 6th,
7th, and 8th of July. Tickets of membership (50 cents) for teachers, school
officers and friends, may be obtained from P. A. Witmer.
These tickets are necessary to secure the advantages of reduced
fare on railroads, steamboat, and at hotel. The Western Maryland Railroad will
issue tickets to Baltimore and return for $2.50 from Hagerstown, good from 5th
to 13th of July. The steamboat fare from Baltimore to Ocean City and return will
be four dollars. The boat leaves wharf, foot of South Street, at five o'clock
every evening except Saturday. The ticket by rail from Baltimore to Ocean City
and return (good during the season) will be six dollars. Boarding at the
Atlantic Hotel to members one dollar a day for the three days the Association is
in session. Afterwards, $12.50 a week. Persons desiring to attend ought to start
on Monday the fifth by the 6:10 train.
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 4)
Bill R's (Ayres) didn't need any telephone. He had a voice that
enabled him to talk to the town. He was a grand old character. A large handsome
man with a wonderful genial and kindly disposition.
One day he told me he needed some cats to protect his barn
against rats. I was then doing a lot of traveling around the country and
proceeded to pick up every spare cat I could find and landed twenty-seven on
him. In after years whenever he saw me he referred to the cat
episode.
Henry Ayres would stop in, but being only a carpenter he didn't
find it very congenial to mix in with lawyers, doctors and students. Henry lived
in the little house near the drug store which I believe he built with his own
labor.
He lived to be an old man. Sitting on the steps of the old
Coleburn store, which was on the present open space on Main Street now opposite
the drug store, he told me he worked as a carpenter building that house in 1855,
and that year cast his first vote for my grandfather for Governor.
Tom Russell was a young lawyer in Drummondtown then. He was a
great friend of John Blackstone and John Bundick, another local lawyer. Young
Jim Fletcher, afterwards Circuit Judge, was a lawyer then.
William Parker was living in the Gibb House on the back street
where Dr. John Hack Ayers afterwards lived. He had a pretty little daughter
about my age. Lottie she was called. All the boys were making eyes at
Lottie.
Dr. J. H. Ayres was a young doctor and was usually at the noon
gathering.
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