Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper, 1906, 1997, 1897.

    

    

               

(Julia Robertson would become a beloved elementary school teacher to future generations in Pocomoke City.)

                                                                

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 Anonymous said...

MISS Julia Robertson was my second grade teacher. Interestingly, MISS Sarah Dallas was my first grade teacher, MISS Ann Meyers (later Taylor) for third grade, and MISS Violet Chesser for fourth grade. It was not until fifth grade did I have a married teacher.

tk for PPE says: Miss Robertson was my third grade teacher.  At the beginning of second grade my teacher was Miss Moore. She married during the school year and became Mrs. Klein Leister. Miss Dallas was my first grade teacher also. 

(Following the "softball" reporting of two local Ku Klux Klan articles in the previous week's issue it was encouraging to note the local newspaper published an article under the following headline.)

   

(Millinery wars in Pocomoke City!  Friendly we hope. The following two ads appeared side by side.) 

(An Eastern Shore farmer of a hundred years ago gets in his two-cents worth, and more.)

November, 1906

The Washington Post

Pocomoke Public Eye footnote:  A second item of interest regarding the above article is where (or what?) was Hursley. Comments about Hursley from two sources follow.

KILDUFFS.NET

In researching Hursley, we found some information : An Excursion Train leaving Franklin City , Virginia to Ocean City was scheduled in the following years that we found . We found references from 1899 to 1915, and I believe earlier than that . The Station was listed between Franklin City , Virginia , just 8 minutes south of Hursley and Girdletree to the North , 7 minutes to the North. I believe the Excursion Trains went back to around 1889.

We found “Excursion Train” ads for the trip from Franklin City Virginia to Ocean City dating back to 1880. The earlier trains didn’t quite make it all the way to Ocean City, but to Newark ( Maryland ) at the Queponco Station. The ads continued until about 1915. In 1922 , we found an ad for a ” Special Train” stopping at Hursley, which stopped at Wilmington Delaware and later Philadelphia Pa. The train left Hursley at 512 AM , and arrived in Wilmington at 927 AM.

An article in 1940 debated the name of both the name of the Train Station and the Town Name, after disputes over nearby Newark and Quepenco (Queponco ) Station. The article mentioned that the depot went by the name of Hursley, while the Town went by the name of Stockton and many older residents still called the Town by it’s old name of Sandy Hill. From what I understand , a fire destroyed the bank and center of town.

 

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RoadsideThoughts

A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada

Although we found mention of Hursley during our research, we have little information about it. Given the context of how Hursley was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists.

While we are confident that Hursley was located in Worcester County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

October, 1997

                                                 

                                                 

         

Salisbury Daily Times

*July, 1897

Baltimore Sun