Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper, 1957, 1943(x4), 2003.

 

                    (Editorial)

June, 1957

Salisbury Times

Perhaps you were one of those who looked forward to the late Edna Davy Muir's popular weekly column that began in the late 1980's in the Salisbury newspaper and ran for almost 20 years reminiscing simpler times on the Eastern Shore.

                                                                     

But at times Edna was a newsmaker, too, and there were aspects of her life you may not have been aware of such as evidenced in the following news accounts from 1943 in the Wilmington News Journal.

February, 1943

                                                         

                                        

April, 1943

May, 1943

 

October, 1943

This was Edna in her early 20's.  "While (her sister) rubbed shoulders with New York City's social elite and was a regular at social hot spots, opera premiers and cruising on the grand ocean liners of the day, Muir said she was content driving tractors, trapping and arm-wrestling farm hands." We'll have more on her colorful life in next Sunday's edition.

 Anonymous said...

I remember Edna very well. She did have a daughter by William Muir but her name was Frances, not Edna. Frances married Perry Havey, a retired undertaker, and they operated Meadowbridge Nursery near Allen, MD.

Edna later married a well-known features writer for the Daily Times and that union resulted in much speculation.

I have even heard it said that Edna took a bath at one time but that rumor has not been confirmed.

tk for ppe says: Edna Muir's newspaper column would state that it was written as told to Brice Stump (the Daily Times writer whom she later married).

 Anonymous said...

After further thought I seem to recall that the daughter's proper name was actually Edna Frances Muir (Davey) but she commonly went by Frances and I never heard anyone address her as Edna.

I also remember one day she and her new husband, Brice, were on a trip to Norfolk in her Lincoln Continental (the only type of automobile she would own). Just after arriving somewhere near the old Lake Wright Motor Lodge on Rt. 13 the Lincoln started to overheat so Brice pulled into the nearest Ford/Lincoln dealership. Instead of waiting to have her car repaired Edna pulled out her checkbook and purchased a new Lincoln right then and there.

February, 2003

Salisbury Daily Times