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June, 1895
Peninsula Enterprise- Accomac)
Temperanceville.

The citizens of this village were agreeably surprised last week. We have heard so much about the sidewalks in other places being torn up by the road machine, that when we saw it come into town we naturally expected like treatment from it, but it did nothing of the kind. Our overseer, Mr. E. T. Lang, more considerate than some, is leaving us a nice walk on each side, and says he is going to do the same, when practicable, over all his roads. He evidently takes the just view, that walkers have some rights to the roads as well as those who ride. Mr. Lang is winning the gratitude of all footmen and bicyclists. If any croaker wants to be convinced that the road machine is a good thing, when intelligently managed, let him come here and look.
　　
March, 1969
(Daily Times- Salisbury)

Board Reviews Library Plans

SNOW HILL- Preliminary drawings of proposed library buildings for Pocomoke City and Berlin were shown to the Worcester County Commissioners Tuesday.

The sketches, prepared by George Bert Cropper of Ocean City, were presented to the county commissioners by Library Board president Klein Leister of Pocomoke City.

No action on the part of the commissioners was necessary, since the session was primarily a briefing on progress of the new libraries.

Last November, the commissioners approved new libraries for both Pocomoke City and Berlin, with a cost of about $70,000 attached to each structure.

Plans called for a brick building of around 5,000 square feet for each community.

Mr. Leister said he had shown sketches and floor plans of the Pocomoke City building to the mayor and council there sometime ago, noting that only a couple of minor changes had been made in the plans since that time.

The Pocomoke City building will be of modified colonial architecture, it was explained.

The commissioners stressed the need to get the ideas and impressions of the mayor and council in both Pocomoke City and Berlin, before a final decision is made.

After considerable discussion and some disagreement between Library Board President Leister and the commissioners, it was agreed that the final decision on the building should be made by the library board, only after considerations of any suggestions from leaders in both towns.

This agreement was the same as that of last November, when the commissioners noted that the design of the buildings should be worked out by the library board in accordance with the wishes of the people in each community. 　

　
April, 1938
(The Morning Herald- Hagerstown, Md)

Planting Is Rushed

Crisfiled, Md., April 7 (AP)- Headlights from tractors glowed on hundreds of fields in the lower Eastern Shore tonight as farmers rushed spring planting, many of them working 24 hours at a stretch. The above freezing cold wave of Sunday and today, some farmers explained, was probably the last of the season and will be followed by spring rains to reward their early plowing.

　
April, 1887
(The Weekly Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Wis.)

Town Destroyed
Richmond, Va., April 14- Fire in Onancock, Accomac County, destroyed most of the business portion of that town. Twenty-three houses, including the Grand Central Hotel, the post office and a number of business houses, were burned. There is no fire department in the town and the citizens could only fight the fire with buckets. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $25,000.
　
　
July, 1913
(The Journal Tribune-Logansport, Ind.)

Coroner's Jury Holds Gas Company Head for Death of Young Girl

(By Associated Press)

Salisbury, Md., July 1.- That Florence Wainwright came to her death on Friday, June 20, at about 630P.M., by a criminal operation, performed in or about the Home Gas Company's office, in which operation Harold R. Smith was implicated as an accessory both before and after the fact, was the verdict of the coroner's jury today.

Smith is general manager of the Home Gas Company, is 40 years old, and married. He was arrested and later released on bail.

Miss Wainwright, 24 years old, was the bookkeeper of the gas company. Her body was found in the office of the gas company. A medical examination showed that death had been caused by a criminal operation. A possible motive for the operation was established by testimony given at the inquest last Friday night. Two new witnesses today contradicted Smith's statements regarding the time he left the office of the gas company on June 20; Smith was the last person known to have seen Miss Wainwright alive.

Footnote: Smith's fate would be decided by a Grand Jury in September. Next week's article reports the Grand Jury's verdict.


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