TIME MACHINE... 1958, 1977, 1894, 1905, 1943

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January, 1958
Salisbury Times

(Excerpt)

POCOMOKE CITY — Win Pendleton, Washington, D. C. newspaperman and public relations consultant, will be the principal speaker at the inter-city 35th anniversary meeting of the Pocomoke City Rotary Club here Monday at the Pocomoke Fire Hall. The date marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Pocomoke club. Members of the Rotary clubs of Snow Hill, Ocean City, Princess Anne, Crisfield and Salisbury have been invited to attend.

The Pocomoke Rotary Club received its official charter on Jan. 13, 1923. The late Dr. A. A. Parker served as the first president, being in office until June, 1923. At that time, Dr. N. E. Sartorius Sr. was elected as president to serve the first full term. Besides Dr. Sartorius, Godfrey Child and Roger W. Lankford are the remaining charter members still active in the club. The Rev. Paul H. Walenta is now president and will preside at the anniversary meeting.

March, 1977
The News (Frederick, Md)

Report recommends new hospital in Worcester

SNOW HILL, Md. (AP) - A long-awaited report on Worcester County hospital needs concludes that the needs of the county are not being adequately served.

The study concluded that "the quality of treatment is jeopardized by the lack of a local facility that is reliably open and adequately staffed throughout the year."

The study was based on data collected by the state health department under the direction of a local advisory committee established by last year's General Assembly.

The Price Waterhouse accounting firm report was ordered by the General Assembly in response to a request by private developers who want to build a 75-bed hospital in Worcester.

The developers' proposal to build a hospital in Berlin, just west of Ocean City, was turned down last year by the Maryland Health Resources Planning Commission.

The denial came after the commission adopted a plan designed to reduce the number of unused hospital beds in the state.

Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury, which now serves many Worcester Comity residents, argued in hearings before the commission that there was no need for another hospital in the area.

July, 1894
(Peninsula Enterprise- Accomac Court House)


Examination Of Public School Teachers

The examination for white public school teachers will be held on July 31st and August 1st, at Parksley and Keller; for colored, August 7th and 8th, at Keller.

Two days are given for the examinations and the whole examinations cannot, as in the past, be taken in one day- hence teachers are hereby notified to be present on both days.

All teachers whose certificates have expired are by the law required to take the examination, unless holding State Normal Diplomas, and no exceptions will be made.

Those expecting to teach next session are therefore warned to be present, as private examinations are not allowed.

Jno. E. Mapp, Supt. Schools


June, 1905 (Time Machine archive)

Changes in some Maryland postmaster salaries were to be implemented based on post office business during the past fiscal year. The annual salary would go from $1,600 to $1,700 in Pocomoke; $1,500 to $1,600 in Snow Hill, and from $1,700 to $1,800 in Crisfield.

　
 July, 1943
The Salisbury Times

(Excerpt)

Bahaman Laborers At Pocomoke Will Stage Native Fire Dance

Pocomoke City, July 3- A native "fire dance" performed around a huge tom-tom drum by a group of 50, will be given for the public by the Bahaman inhabitants of the FSA operated emergency farm labor camp near here on July 12.

Brought from Aftrica to their British West Indies homes, and now to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the dance is a traditional one in which the participants circle around the big drum, dancing to the throb of a tom tom's rhythm and clapping their hands with the tempo of the drum.

　
February, 1890
(The Daily News- Frederick, Md.)

The canners of Worcester County refuse the demands of the farmers to pledge themselves to pay $5.50 per ton for the next crop of tomatoes.


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