New cell phone policy for Accomack County Public School students-.

 

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Princess Anne Military Tribute Banners-

 

(Town of Princess Anne)
We are pleased to announce The Town of Princess Anne now has Hometown Hero banners to give a living tribute to recognize and honor those who have served or serving the country in the United States Armed Forces. If you live in the 21853 zip code and would like to see your loved one honored on Somerset Avenue please click the link below to purchase your banner. Banners will be going up as early as November for Veterans Day.  A special thank you to everyone who helped to bring this project to our community.

Princess Anne, MD (militarytributebanners.org)

Deal Island/Fairmount waterfowl hunting-

 

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Waterfowl Hunting Schedule Set for Deal Island and Fairmount WMA Impoundments (maryland.gov)

Protecting your gift card purchase-

 

Have you heard about gift card draining?  It's a fraudulent scheme that preys on gift card purchasers and Maryland is now the first state to take legal action to diminish the practice.

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Maryland becomes first state to pass law against gift card draining - CBS News

Local TV-

 

You won't be seeing reporter Kristina DeRobertis again on WBOC-TV but she won't be far away.  She'll be reporting and anchoring news on WRDE, the NBC affiliate based in Milton, De.  Both stations are owned by Draper Media. 

Another Pocomoke summertime music treat-

 IRIE TREE BAND

(Roots, Rock, and Reggae)

August 1

Weather peak-

Toasty, mostly clear.

Snow Hill puts our farmers in the spotlight-

 Anonymous said...

How old am I? Well, my family had a combine like the one pictured here.

Fortunately, my grandfather figured how to rig it to be pulled by a tractor instead of a team of mules. It did not have a grain tank to collect the corn, wheat or whatever; instead the grain came down a chute to a divider where the operator stood, holding a burlap bag on one side to be filled. When the bag was full a switch was thrown and the grain passed to the other side of the divider into another bag while the operator manually tied off the first bag and threw it down a tin slide to the ground.

After a full day harvesting it was not unusual to have 400 or 500 full bags of wheat on the ground, and we had to load them onto a wagon to take back to the barn before nightfall so it would not spoil. Of course barley and wheat were harvested in June or July so the temperatures were always a cozy 95 degrees or thereabouts. And to think we only had a bath once per week, usually on Saturday nights!

Your friend,
Slim

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 Blessing of the Combines - Program

Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1989, 1884, 1939, 1997, 1919/21.

 

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Footnote: The Hargis location, at the northeast corner of Clarke Avenue and Market Street, was known as the Veasey Building in later years with JC Penney occupying the front section of the building and Montgomery Ward occupying the back section.

January, 1989

Salisbury Daily Times

November, 1884

Free Daily Press (Easton, Pa.)

February, 1939

The News Journal (Wilmington)

August, 1997

Salisbury Daily Times

Vessel built and launched at Pocomoke met doom in hurricane.

October, 1919

Baltimore Sun

October, 1921

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Recollections from generations past (Elmer A. Brittingham -3)

 

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

Interviewer: Do you remember the Pocomoke (River) ever flooding?

Elmer: Yeah, when I was a boy and lived on Front Street. In 1915, I lived on

 Front Street in Pocomoke, and the boats came right up by the house,

 rowboats and things, could come right up by the house. That was the biggest

 flood that I remember.

Interviewer: So it went up over Front Street?

Elmer: Yeah, over the street. Boats could come right up the street. Of course,

 most of the vehicles then were horse and carriage. The horse would still go.

 They didn’t like to go in the water, but they would.

Interviewer: Did you go to Public Landing?

Elmer: Yeah, that was mostly where we went for our summer parties and

 things. It was outings for the day because it was safe swimming, and people

 who couldn’t swim could still go in there. And also catch crabs. And it was

 a...we didn’t have much money to spend and you could still have a good time

 down there.

Interviewer: What kind of amusements did they have down there?

Elmer: They didn’t have very much; they had places you could buy

 sandwiches and things like that. A restaurant or two. And then there was an

 old hotel down there, but we didn’t go to that. We went out on the pier, got

 sunburned, and bathed, and caught crabs, ate picnic lunches.

Interviewer: Did you ever go on the pier in Ocean City?

Elmer: Oh, yeah. You could fish from the pier. And then they had amusements

 on this end. Still, I don’t know if it’s still there or not. You were allowed to fish

 from it. It wasn’t really good fishing, not like the surf. You might catch one

 now and then.

Interviewer: Did you go to Assateague?

Elmer: Well, at Assateague we fished on the beach for drum. And then, one

 year we went deer hunting. There are only 2 of us left today that went on a

 party. All the rest of them are dead. There were about 10 or 12. We went to

 Public Landing and went across in a boat to Green Run Inlet, which was on

 this end of Assateague then. There was another inlet was cut in there. And

 we hunted deer all day over there, but we were not experienced in deer

 hunting and they run ahead of us all the time. They cut around on the beach.

 One of the Coast Guard told us that a deer ran up the beach, right aside of

 you, and we looked and there were the footprints in the sand. And we

 couldn’t see them because we were in the woods a little higher where they

 run all the way back up. In other words, they run as far as the inlet and then

 they could’ve jumped across and swam back across, but they knew we

 couldn’t get down there and they run right back up the beach.

Interviewer: Do you remember Jake, an alligator in Ocean City? Or Snow Hill?

Elmer: No.

Interviewer: There was some guy who had an alligator he brought from

 somewhere and had in a cage in Snow Hill.

Elmer: We had one at the fairgrounds for many, the old fairgrounds

Interviewer: an alligator?

Elmer: It may have escaped from the circus that was there or carnival, we

 don’t know. But it was there for many years. I never saw him, but all the boys

 seen him.

Interviewer: Where was he? He was in the wild?

Elmer: Right in the middle of the track. There was a low place down there and

 they can bury in the mud. With the fauna and the type of vegetation we have,

 we’re just like a swamp. We had alligators at one time.

Interviewer: When you were a child, what kind of home life did you have?

Elmer: Well, until I was 6 years old, we lived on a farm in Cokesbury. I went 6

 months,  the first half of the year, until Christmas, to the country school. Of

 course, it was just a short distance and we walked. Church was right near the

 school. The family went there on Sundays. We had just a crop and farm,

 raising potatoes and corn.

Interviewer: What kind of chores did you have?

Elmer: Well, first thing we did was feed the chickens and pick up the eggs.

 Bring the wood in and all that kind of stuff, firewood

Interviewer: Did you help plant?

Elmer: No, not then. But later on, when I moved in town, I was 6 years old, but

 I spent 2 summers on my grandmother’s farm. And there I learned to do

 everything. One summer when I was about 11, 11 or 12, I guess, I (learned) to

 drive mules without cussing? and I (audio not clear) all day long, just like

 everybody else. But the first year I was there, I was too small. They didn't let

 me handle the team then. 

(Continues next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye)

 Anonymous said...

To be capable of driving a team of mules without cursing is quite an accomplishment as mules do not respond to reins but to words. If you think herding cats is hard driving a team of mules is 10 times harder.

Your friend,
Slim

American Legion recognizes Senator Carozza