TIME MACHINE ... 1976, 1929, 1886, 1910, 1890

 

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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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