Memorial Day-

 

  Below are some thoughts from a former era

 about this special day as published in

 Pocomoke City's newspaper.

 

Events honoring Memorial Day-

 

(View more of this news article and an article on the event at The Worcester County Veterans Memorial.. page 4 at link below)

05.23.24-Bayside-Gazette.pdf (baysideoc.net)

(Pocomoke Public Eye)

Other Memorial Day observances:

Wicomico County’s Memorial Day Ceremony will be held Monday, May 30.

The ceremony, to honor Wicomico County veterans who died in the line of duty, is set for 10 a.m., and it will take place at the Wicomico War Veterans' Memorial in front of the Wicomico Civic Center. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this free event, which is organized by members of the Wicomico County War Memorial Committee. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held in the Wicomico Civic Center's Midway Room.

Thursday May 30, 2024 at 1:30PM:

• Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery
  • 6827 East New Market Ellwood Road, Hurlock, Maryland 21643

Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1964,1884, 2006, 1898, 1899.

 

September, 1964

The Evening Sun (Baltimore)

April, 1884

The Morning Herald (Baltimore)

*August, 2006

(From left, Kirstie Reid, Chelsea Mason, Stephanie Blevins, Lauren Lubben, Erick Brown and Hunter Stonnell traveled to Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, to minister to the local people.)

Salisbury Daily Times

January, 1898

The News Journal (Wilmington)

February, 1899

Democratic Messenger

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When Pocomoke Was Young- A continuing weekly feature.

 

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ITS ORIGIN AND TOWN LIMITS

TOWN LIMITS

GROWTH, CHANGE OF NAME, ETC.

MERCANTILE ASPECT

MANUFACTURING

TRADES ETC.

SHIPPING INTERESTS

EASTERN SHORE STEAMBOAT CO.

SHIP BUILDING ETC.

HOTELS, LIVERY STABLES, ETC.

PHYSICIANS

LAWYERS

POST OFFICE

PRINTING OFFICES

SOCIAL ASPECT, ETC.

MORAL ASPECT

TEMPERANCE CAUSE

SCHOOLS

CHURCHES

Note:  In duplicating this material for publishing on The Pocomoke Public Eye we have made minor adjustments to correct some of the spelling, punctuation, etc. We believe the errors were not in Rev. Murray's original writing but occurred in the process of formatting the material to a digital format for viewing online.

SCHOOLS (CONTINUED.) 

George S. Bell, Esq., was an assistant in the New Town 
High School. He was born in Northampton County, 
Va. He was educated at Snow Hill and Pocomoke City, 
Md., at Newark College, Del., and at the Theological 
Seminary, Princeton, N. J. He was licensed to preach 
the gospel by the New Castle Presbytery about the year 
1875. He supplied a pulpit in the State of New York 
and afterward received a call to the Presbyterian Church 
in Wrightsville, Penn., which he is now acceptably filling. 
Mr. Bell was a close student, had a good mind and has 
reflected a credit upon himself in view of his elevation. 

Miss Eudora E. Hay succeeded John W. Murray as 
teacher of the grammar school department in the High 
School of Pocomoke City, and continued in that relation 
for two years when she retired, and afterward procured 
a situation as teacher in the schools of Wilmington, Del. 

Ebenezer Hearn was born in New Town, Worcester 
County, Md., on the 26th day of November, 1854. He 
commenced going to school at 8 years of age. Left 
school in July, 1873. Served as an assistant to the princi- 
pal of the High School in 1874. Engaged in mercantile 
business with E. H. Clarke from 1874 to 1877. In 1877 
he received an appointment from the Trustees of 
Rehoboth Academy, in Somerset County, as principal 
which position he still holds, and that school is recognized 
by the school board of Somerset County, as one of the 
best schools in the county. Ebenezer Hearn is a young 
man in whose favor it would be difficult for me to say 
too much. His mental, moral and religious qualities 
are of such a character as to entitle him to the highest 
praise of all who know him, and to positions of trust 
and responsibility. 

Richard A. Wilson, an assistant to the principal of the 
High School in Pocomoke City, was a native of Cannons- 
burg, Penn. He was educated at Jefferson College. He 
studied law, graduated and removed to Missouri, where 
he is now practicing law. 

Miss Fannie Matthews is a native of Accomac County, 
Va. Her parents died while she was quite young, and 
she was taken in charge by her aunt, Miss Jane Porter, 
who is living in the City of Baltimore, and there in the 
Western High School she was educated. In 1873, a 
vacancy being open in the High School of Pocomoke 
City, Miss Fannie was appointed to fill that vacancy, and, 
during the seven years of her instructions, which closed 
up with 1881, she exhibited such wisdom in the instruc- 
tion of her class, as caused it to be said that her place in 
the school would be hard to fill. By her adaptation as a 
teacher she has gained the highest respect of the trustees 
of the High School, and as a lady she is known only to be 
esteemed. There is no one upon whom she has made 
a more indelible impression in this direction than the 
principal of the High School. Indeed she contemplated, 
very seriously, too, a change of name, and finally 
concluded that she was tired of her old name and would 
accept of one that was more handy and she became the 
happy bride of Dr. Sidney W. Hardy, principal of the 
High School of Pocomoke City. 

John S. McMaster was born in New Town, on the 29th 
day of December, 1859. He was educated partly at the 
High School in Pocomoke City, partly at Newark College, 
Del., and is finishing his education at Lafayette College, 
Penn., where he will no doubt graduate with honor. Mr. 
McMaster is a young man of promise; his aim is the 
profession of the law as his life work. He will make his 
mark and be an honor to his name and to his native town. 
As a teacher in the High School, he acquitted himself 
with honor. 

William S. Dix is a native of Accomac County, Va., but 
his father moving to Somerset County, Md., he was 
educated at the Washington Academy, near Princess 
Anne, and at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn. At the 
time Mr. Dix went to the Washington Academy it was a 
school of renown, having for its principal the Rev. Francis 
Waters, D.D., a man of celebrity. After he resigned the 
Rev. Robert M. Laird, a Presbyterian minister, was 
appointed principal in his place, having the Hon. Isaac D. 
Jones for an assistant. Mr. Dix engaged as teacher in the 
High School of New Town in 1875, and for six consecu- 
tive years he continued in that capacity, when at the close 
of the school term in 1881, he retired from the school. 

Mr. Dix is a man of high moral worth and he has the 
respect of all who know him as a Christian gentleman. 

Hilary T. Stevenson and Dr. Julius T. Hall were teach- 
ers in the New Town High School, but as I have taken 
notice of them under another heading, I shall here pass 
them by. 

The Misses Maggie Webb, Rose Tull, Emma Robinson, 
Ella Scott, Rose Marshall and Sallie Henderson were all 
good and efficient teachers. The last three named are 
still teaching in the High School. In closing up this 
account of the High School in Pocomoke City I will state 
that there are on the school roll in regular attendance 
235 scholars. 

I have failed to notice heretofore two of our young men 
of promise and consequently will have to notice them here. 
Edward J. Clarke, son of Littleton T. Clarke, deceased, 
was born in New Town on the first day of September, 1860. 
After the death of his father, which event occurred when 
he was but six years of age, the Rev. John W. Pierson 
being an intimate friend of his father and taking a liking 
to the youth, by the consent of his mother, took him into 
his own family and under his own guardian care to raise and 
educate him. He remained with Mr. Pierson until he was 
sixteen years of age, during which time he was schooled 
at the Academy in Snow Hill and Pocomoke City High 
School. At the age of sixteen he entered St. John's 
College, Annapolis, Md., where he remained five years. 
At the age of twenty-one he graduated, standing well up 
in his class. After this he taught school at Whaleyville, 
Worcester County, Md., one year. He is now employed 
as teacher in the High School of Pocomoke City. Mr. 
Clarke is a young man of promise and with applica- 
tion will make his mark. 

Austin H. Merrill, son of William H. S. Merrill, was 
born in New Town on the first day of June, 1859. He was 
a student in the High School of this place until he was 
eighteen years of age, at which time he entered the Dela- 
ware College at Newark, Del. His education at this 
period was sufficient to justify his entering the Sophomore 
Class. He graduated with the first honor, taking the 
decree of A. I., and chosen valedictorian of his class. He 
taught school two years as principal of the Temperance- 
ville Graded School. He then entered the National School 
of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, Penn., where 
he graduated with honor. Mr. Merrill is just entering the 
arena of public life, having in contemplation the law as his 
life work, and with application on his part and no unfore- 
seen event happening to blast the fond hopes of his friends, 
he will, it is anticipated, be the peer of the first jurists of 
Maryland and of whom his friends and the citizens of 
Pocomoke City have just cause to feel proud. 

The school for the education of colored children in 
Pocomoke City was established directly after the free 
school system became a law in the State. This school 
has been kept up ever since, and is today a graded school 
of primary and grammar school departments. There are 
on the school roll 117 scholars. The school is taught by 
a principal and one assistant. These teachers are quite 
efficient and the school is advancing. 

The principal, David W. Ogden, is a native of New 
Jersey. He attended a primary and grammar school in 
that State until he was sixteen years of age, when he 
entered Lincoln University, in Chester County, Penn. 
After applying himself closely for five years, he graduated 
 with honor in 18S0. 

The following is the basis upon which the colored 
school is sustained. The school receives from the county 
the proportion of county taxes paid by the colored people 
in the county, which amounts to about eleven cents on the 
one hundred dollars. In addition to this the State makes 
a special appropriation of $100,000 annually for all the 
schools throughout the State, of which Worcester County 
receives about $3,600. 

CONTINUES NEXT SATURDAY HERE AT THE POCOMOKE PUBLIC EYE.

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Name selected, basketball courts/park opens June 4.

      

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The basketball courts being renovated at Pocomoke Middle School will be known as Warrior Courts at Stephen H. Long Memorial Park.

Area residents are invited to join the Worcester County Commissioners and school officials when they cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and park at Pocomoke Middle School on June 4 at 1:30 p.m. Worcester County Recreation and Parks professionals contracted with Surface Solutions, LongFence, and Musco to install new fencing, a basketball court and associated components, and a “mini pitch” with lights. The basketball court and mini pitch are comprised of two basketball courts that can also be used as one basketball court and one soccer pitch. The park is recommended for children and adults and is open to the public outside of school hours and when organized programming is not taking place.

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