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I .-nitfi! TCLD ie Latest Gleanings From All Over the State THINGS SEEN AND HEARD Annapolis.—Sergt. H. C. Heffner, 4U years old, for several years drum major of the Naval Academy Hand, died at the naval hospital here fol lowing a brief Illness of pneumonia, which developed from an attack of pleurisy. Surviving him are a widow and four children, who live at Home wood. near Annapolis. Annapolis.—Major Edmund P Du vall, a native of Annapolis, former prominent athlete at St. John's Col lege. has been transferred to the re tired list of the United States Army at his own request With Ills family, he plans to go to Pinehurst, N. C., where he will devote a large part of his time to giving lessons in horse manship. Hagerstown.—Five knights of Itixie Klan. Ku Klux. of this city, in regalia, entered the Salvation Army hall dur ing services and presented the officers with s2l for u* in Christmas relief. Adjutant Itessie Humphreys had been notified that a delegation from a secret organization would visit the meeting' and was told not to he frightened when they appeared. Baltimore. —Vice. President ;ln ,| yf rs Coolldge accepted an invitation to open the Charity Hall to be given for tin 1 benefit of the Union Memorial Hos- j pital at th'- l.yric January a This an nouncement was made by Mrs Rugene . I,e\i -ring gem r. I i Imirman of tin- hall committee Other distinguished g'm-ts will im Lab Ueneral Pershing, tinv entor hitchie. Mayor Brooding and many of the diplomatic s.-t iti Wash ington. Baltimore. —"Modern religion with out the pro would lie impossible." the Rev. Robert Kvans Browning, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension, declared, speaking of “Pulpit and Press." Not only does the press create public opin ion and establish comity and friend ship among peoples and nations." lie said, “but it is tesponaihle for the eradication of many abuses and wrongs and has been the promoter of countless uplifting causes." Baltimore. Warning shopkeepers that in the future he would consider punch hoards as gambling devices. Magistrate Joseph L. Ratlft. in the Northwestern Police Court, dismissed l,ouls Hillman. 21 years old, who keeps a store at 2421 West North avenue upon a charge of distributing gambling devices. According to the j police. Hillman has been selling the j punch boards to children. It was test! fled that cash prizes were given those who punched the lucky number. , Further distribution of the hoards will | bring a heavy fine, the magistrate said Easton. —At the meeting of the council here a motion was passed that the Mayor ask for the resignation of E. 0. Kastenhuber. Jr., town engineer William Whitby, a member of the council, stated that several matters ] have come to the attention of the ; body recently leading to the determin ation to request the resignation The latest. Mr. Whitby states, was the charge of $lO5 made by Mr Hasten hither for engineering services and in spection of curb and gutter on South Aurora street and North Washington street. ' A few weeks ago Mr Kas tenhuher preferred charges against Mr. Whitby, asking that his license a a plumber lie revoked. Baltimore.-— George K Kieffner. As-, slstant United States District Attor ney. who has bandied most of the nar cotic cases in the local Federal Court during the last two years or more, -aid these eases constitute from 25 to 3n j per cent of the total criminal prosecn- ! tions before Judge Rose "I do not believe there lias been any marked in- j crease In narcotic addicts since the dry j laws went into effect." said Mr. Kieff ner. "It Is an argument of the wets 1 that the use of narcotics has increased with the enforcement of th> dry law.- and al the an me time they say the dry laws are a failure because liquor is so easy to procure." Baltimore. The nomination of Judge John Rose was continued by the and he may enter upon bis duties as Circuit Judge of the Fourth Circuit at any ttnie His pro motion leaves a vacancy on the dis-' trlet bench which must be filled at an early day Appreciating the im portance of speedy action, the lead ers of the local bar are concentrating their influence to Insure the nomina tion of a man who Is eminently quali fied to fill the position. Almost every lawyer of any prominence Is urging the appointment of Judge Morris A. Soper, and the pressure exerted is so great he cannot well afford io refuse to accept If the tender Is made. It Is understood that others who are seeking the appointment have strong political indorsements, but It is doubt ed that these will avail when the facts are squarely placed before the PresL tent and the Attorney General. • , . / * * or IP RULii ATTACKrB IN BRIEF Plea Filed in Supreme Court Against Decision MISINTERPRET TERRITORY Nothing In Congressional Debate To Show Anyone Meant Law To Reach Vessels Most Serious in Pacific. Washington.—A plea that American -hips cannot justly be prevented from i serving liquor on Hie high seas under the prohibition laws is set forth 111 a brief filed in the Supreme Court by 1 the International Mercantile Marine ; in support of its appeal from the In terpretation given the Daugherty ' ••hone-dry" ruling by Federal Judge Hand at New York. The brief also declares It Is not unlawful for vessels to bring their ship stores of liquor Into American territorial waters. In this respect the position taken by the Mercantile Ma rine is similar to that set forth by 1 the foreign shipping concerns in a ' brief filed recently with the court Declaring that should tile <l-i i -i-*ti 1 of Judge Hand tie sustained "it wou'-l he impossible commercially to opera:■ American Hag strainers in the p - etiger trade of the world.” the brh points out tha* the g-eat for t-im-Atlantic liners will always !>■ ah'e to sell liquor on their westbound , voyagos. and agiiti-t -in !i conipi" f. U"’ .American liners will he -• riou Iv j h ndieapped because, it says Kip. ora ns will not travel by Amerli -a , '■learners when they ran come b; , ’ ' igii ships and enjoy their ii-ual , wine. i similar conditions, I* adds, will . *" Ami- Sls.4ii tr- ’* j on the northbound voyages. v. )p’ • ( vessels oiithlioitnd In that trail, ran | tork np with liquors at Bermuda , or Havana The most serious com | >• it im, wit! ronie i' asserts, on the | P ■ ifh . win re. in the Near Eastern | trade ships sailing from Canadian t ports would have diverted to them irt ira lly all the passenger bust- . ness. !' Only by tlie adoption of a flrtlnii Is it possible by" constitutional con- , sirm-tlon to hold, the brief adds, that the word "territory" as ti-eil in the prohibition act s Includes vessels of the United States upon the high sens and In foreign ports. Such a construction "would lead to an em barrassing International situation." it is declared. The brief sets forth that • ximlna Mon of Congressional debates doe not disclose “a single word which I would indicate In any way that any | one in Congress ever contemplated I Mint prohibition would apply to ves ; -els of the United States " p sei tiled "hardly conceivable," It j (s added, "that Congress would place I an additional obstacle In the way of \ th*- establishment of an American iperi ’iiint marine when the addition.'! 1 , burden imposed was not essentia! to carry out the fundamental purposes of the prohibition reform." PROPHESIES 18 STORMS. Goshen Observer Bases Prediction On First Snow's Arrival. Middletown. N \ Conrad Diehl 110-hep - weather prophet, exports 1- moi- ' storms this winter. According io the old sy-tem of reckoning, be -ays. v.e are to get 20 In all. and we already have had eight. He arrives at this conclusion because the first inowstorm of the season came on No vember 2d. and It Is hold that tie* ] number of snows is governed by the ! date on which the first storm appears Diehl, wlio is in his eighty-sixth i year, litis been tl dose observer of the 1 w< ath*r all iti- life, and his fr*enils ■ ; hire that his predictions have come | 'rue more often than those of D< vne. ! of Hackensack, who predicted a warm ! December. ENDS LIFE V/ITH DYNAMITE. , Sits On Charge And Pulls Cap When Told To Leave Home. Pentislmrg. Pa William Reiter, a r tired well driller, of Reid Hill, near cl.- sti -ceded in ending his life and hi- worries quickly. lie walked front his home, which he j ha- been notified to vacate, and sat down In a vacant field on a charge of dynamite and pulled the rap. Bovs r-turning from a trapping trip found . hi- hotly, burned and mangled. 2<t feet from the place of the explosion, licit er was t!T years old. The notice to vacate made him do ■ pendent and Is believed to have caused him to Hike his life. 5253.000.000 FOR PENSIONS. Sum Included In Appropriation Bill Reported To House. i Washington. The annual under department appropriation hill was r" , tmrteil to the House by the House An nroprl.itions Committee. The meas ure earr -d *251 215.300. of Which *251.f>5 v>n |s recommended for the United States Pension Ollli-o. Of the '-nter siimls2!>3,oflh.io is to go for the * - 1 k.. v y(HE DEMOCRATIC MESSENGER SNf>W HILL, MARYLAND. UPSHUR & URt'lll'R, Solicitors ORDER OK COURT T. Spence Smith, Collector of State and County taxes for the Second Collection District of Worcester County, Maryland, for 1912 and 1913, ex parte. In the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland. No. •: Miscella- ' neous. Octolter Term, 1922. Application having heen made by the petition of William <!. Kerbin, Trustee in Itankruptcy of the pur chaser, to procure the ratification and confirmation of the sale made to Elijah W. Davis on the seventeenth day of August, 1915, by T. Spence , Smith, Collector of State and County taxes for the Second Collection Dis trict of Worcester County, Maryland, for 1912 anil 1913, of all that lot or parcel of land with the improvements there on, situate on the east side of the county road leading from Millville to Salisbury, about one-half of a mile from .Millville, adjoining the lands of the .1. E. Dickerson estate,Larry Mills, and Addie K. Moore, in the Sixth Election District of said Worcester County, conveyed to the suid Lemuel A. Jenkitis in part by Leonard U. Mills, by' lined dated June 20. 1905, recorded among the land records of -aid Worcester County in Liber F. 11. P. No. 23, folio 52, and in part to said Lemuel A. Jenkins by William M. Moore and wife, by deed dated October ft, 15*01, recorded among the aforesaid land records in Liber F. 11. I‘. No. 15 foliv 577. containing about twenty-eight aUrres of land, and as sessed for thet said years 1912 and 1913 to said Lemuel A. Jenkins, and the said Collectyr ha ing made a re port to this Count of the said sale to gether with all thy proceedings had in relation thereto a\nd the said pro- dings having h \ tmined by the Court and the sanity appealing to l regular, and the provision- of the law in relation thereto appearing to have been complied withs it i thereupon this 2Kth day of November, 1922. by the Circuit Court for Worcester Coun ty, Maryland, adjudgcnl and ordered that notice he gi\eii by Vho insertion of a copy of this order ink some weekly newspapt published \n Worcester County. Maryland, oncel a week for four successive weeks. InJfore the 10th day of January. 1923, Yearning all persons inter. de,l in sai<l\ property to he and appear in this Uourt on or before the Kith day of Jatnuary, 1923. to show cause, if any they Riave, why n " t “"<> order he served“W.t :* of this A. Jenkins before the lfith Lemuel January. 1923. day of JOSEPH L. DAII True Copy—Test: F' OLIVER I). COLLINS, (Clerk. i I'Slll i: & UPSHUR, Attorneys Sheriff’s Sale * OF Real and Personal PROPERTY lly virtue of several writs of fieri facias issued out of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, and to me directed, one at the suit of Exchange and Savings Hank of Ber lin. Maryland, a corporation, one at the suit of Ajax Rubber Company, Incorporated, a corporation, and one at the suit of Clarence E Bodley and John C. Bodley, partners trading as The Showed Garage, against Thur man Dale; and also one at the suit of Traveller Rubber Company of Bethlehem, C. S. A., a Delaware Cor poration. ami one at the suit of the American Car Company, a corpor ation. against Thurman Dale and Vaughn Butler, partners trading as Dale and Butler and Thurman Dale; and also one at the suit of Traveller Rubber Company of Bethlehem, U. S. A., a Delaware Corporation, against Thurman Dale and Vaughn Butler, partners trailing as Dale and Butler, I have levied upon, seized and taken i:i execution all the right, title and interest of the said Thurman Dale in and to the following real and jier sonal property, to wit: 1 All that house and lot on the west ide of Main Street in Whaley ville, in Worcester County, and State of Maryland, now occupied by the said Thurman Dale and his wife, be ing the same property which was de vised to the said Thurman Dale by hi mother, Jane L. Dale, by her last will and testament. 2. All the household and kitchen furniture contained in the above men tioned house at the date of levy thereon, to wit. November Bth, 1922, consisting of beds, licdding, stoves, chairs, carpets, tallies and other per sonal effects. And I hereby give notice that I will sell the said real and personal property, or so much thereof as may be necessary on the premises at Whaleyville, in said county, on SATURDAY, January 6th, 1923 AT 10.30 O’CLOCK, A. M„ to satisfy said writ and costs. Terms of Sale: CASH. W. O. SHOCKLEY, Sheriff. —Many people have paid their sub scriptions to The Messenger in the past week. Have you paid your* ? < A /\ ! STATON & WHALER, Attys-at-Law Trustees Sale OF VALUABLE Shares of Stock By virtue of an older of the Hon. •liable John C. Rost, Judge of the District Court of tin I’nitcd States for the District of Maryland, passed in the matter of Christopher Ludlam, individually and as a member of the partnership composed of himself and Ansley Ludlam, trading as Ocean City Fish Company, bankrupt, the undersigned Trustee will sell at pub lic auction, in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, in front of the hank building occupied by the Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company, SATURDAY, January 13. 1923. AT 2.30 O’CLOCK, !’- M. certain personal property of the said bankrupt, as follows: Fifty-seven shares of the capital stock of The Ocean City Pier and Im provement Company, a corporation. Terms of Sale:—One-third cash on the day of sale, the balance of ttie purchase price in full within four months from the day of sale, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser, the deferred balance to bear interest from the day of sale and to he secured to the atisfaction of the Trustee. JOHN S. WHALEY, Trustee. NOTICE TO CREDITORS: The creditors of Clui-topher Lud lam, individually and a- a member of the partner-hip eompn •<1 of himself and Ansley Ludlam, tiading a- Ocean City Fish Company, an hereby noti fied that th, -ale of the aforesaid person: l l propeitj of the bankrupts will take plaee as above staled. F. W. C. \\ EBB. Referee. NOTICE TO Slot KIIOi.DFRS Notice is hereby : en that the an nual meeting of tie lorkho! ■ r of the Depo.it and Saving- Bank, of Snow Hill. Maryland, will he held in the hank building on T.n - Jay ti e 2nd day of January, 1923. at 11 o'clock, .V. M., for the purpose of eluting a Board of Directors of- aid hank for the ensuing vear. K. W. MARSHALL. Ca.-hier. VO’ -'* S'TOI'I. ll' ' OVIK' Notice is hereby given tht the annual meeting of the stockjolders of the Worcester Fertilizer Com pany of Snow Hill, Maryland, 'ill he held in the Community Hall ( the Deposit and Savings Bank, ofSnovv Hill, Maryland, on Tuesday, Jauary 9th, 1923, at the hour of 10 o’lock, IA. M., for the purpose of eltctng a Board of Directors for the enuing year, and transacting any otlcrbus inoss that may properly come bfore the meeting. D. FRANK FOOLS, Sec lea ry. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDER. Notice is hereby given that theun nual meeting of the stockholder* of the Bank of Ocean City, of (iijaii City, Maryland, will be hold in tht hank building on Tuesday, the jnd 'lay of January, 1923. between lie hours of ten o’clock, A. M., and flur o’clock, p. M„ for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors of ml hank for the ensuing year, and trafcs acting such other business as nny regularly come before the meeting FRANK W. TRUITT, | Cashiox N<TICE TO~ S I (K'K HOLDERS 'I he annual meeting of the Stock holders of the Snov Hill Electric u n ht \i and | Po^ er Conpany, of Snow Hill, Maryland will beheld on Tues day, January 2nd, 192:. between the hoursofOo’clok. A. M.and 9 o’clock iLwHni 1 * t “• —W l„ T - M PURNELL Secretary. NOTH E TtfSTOt KH*I7)EK S~* Notice is hereby given tlt the an nual meeting of the stockriders n r The First National Bank“f °. Hill, Maryland, will be hc| §„ thp hank building on Tuesday, he 9th day of January, 1923, betw* n ' th „ hours of 10 o’clock, a.m., and Vclock p. m., for the purpose of elei ni > _ Board of Directors of said hay fo Z , the ensuing year, and to tr* Bact , such other business as may (gu larly come before the meeting. * W. E. BRATTEN, Cas^r. —■ : -v— ' l NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS' \ Notice is hereh.v given \that t'l annual meeting of th stqckholdei of the Commercial National Ulank, I Snow Hill, Maryland, will l><\ held I the hank building on Tuesday, th 9th day of January, 1923, etw the hours of 10 o’clock. A. M.V an® o’clock, P. M., for tlie phflHl electing a Board of Dii'ertol^K r hank for the ensuing ear. CLAYTON T. KICHAR.^HrJ _ 'Sp Tht* Messenger vnLhes jP a Happy NetA ‘ “ Public Sale! OF VALUABLE Personal Property Intending to leave the County. J will sell at public auction, on the premises where I reside, near Klej Grange Church and store, on WEDNESDAY, January 3d, 1923 Commencing at 9 o’clock, A. If., the following discribed property, to wit: One Grey Mare, weight 1000 ibs. Two Jersey Cows. Three Heifers. Three Shoats and some Pig-H. Two Poland China Sows. One 2-horse Wagon. One Top Buggy. One Runabout One Horse Cart. One John Deere Double Valking Cultivator. One 4-row Barrel Sprayer. One John Deere Double Horse Plow. One I ron Drag. Lot of Tomato Baskets. 1 Other things, too numerou.* to men tion. Lot of Household and KiUpn Fur ' niture. j Terms: Made known on day ,f sale ELTON /ARMS. William F. Johnson and Kdniomf H. Joh n -on, A ttomeys-at-Lavv. ORDER OF PUBLICATION. Oliver F. Tingle and Mamie Tingle Vs. Louisa L. Tingle, Okohna Hudson and Robert Hudson, Matilda Long and Stephen Long and Mattie L. Richardson and Thouas Richard ! son. In the Circuit Court fir Worcester County. Maryland, in Equity. No. The object of this slit is to pro cure a decree for the sdc of certain propel tv in Worcester bounty. Mary . land, of which William H. Tingle, ' died, eized and possisseil. lln Dill states tha* said William i H- Tingle died about the month of i July, 1922. possessed of a certain , parcel of land situate, n said Worces i tv County, near the Delaware State r Lm and on the couity road leading D on. Selby die. Delavare, to what is . know a ;e Carey,kiwn, eontaining rtfty-.-i- ,eres of iJK more or less; and tilt he lei ■ wiving him a Louisa L. Tingle, who is of full age and reside- in ,he State of Delaware, and leaving besides as his neirs at law, the following children, namely: Oliver F. Tingle, a -on, v,ho inter married with Mamie Tingle, Okolona Hudson, a daughter, who intermar ried with Robert Hudson, Matilda Long, a daughter, who intermarried with Stephen Long, al! of whom arc t full age and reside in the State of Delaware, also Mattie L. Richardson, i a daughter, who intermarried with I hotnas Richardson, who are of full age and reside in Worcester County, Maryland. I hat said real estate is unproduc tive in its present condition and is not now being tenanted and is idle and unoccupied. 1 hat the said real estate is not i ifptiblc of distribution without material loss and injury to the par t'*" entit,e<l to interests therein, and tl at in order to make divisions of ' 1 '*i interests, it will be necessary that said real estate be sold and the proceed- thereof be divided amongst the parties hereto according to their, several interests. It is, thereupon, this 13th day of December, 1922, ordered by the'Cir cuit Court for Worcester County, in Equity, that the plaintiffs by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in -ome newspaper published in said Worcester County, once in each' of four successive weeks before the Bth cav of January, 1923, give notice to tie said absent defendants of tho ob- | ject ami substance of this bill, warning j them to appear in this Court in per son or by solicitor, on or before the 1 - ; th day of January, next, to show ' cause, if any they have, why a decree ought not to be passed as prayed. ■ OLIVER D. COLLINS, Clerk. True Copy. Test: I OLIVER D. COLLINS, Cleikl NOTICE TO CREDITORS < Notice is hereby g . u that the sub- * scriber has obtained f; m th • Or phans’ Court for Worcester County, Maryland, letters ol Administration on the personal estate of ANNIE F. PIL( HARO; ( ;late of Worcester County, deceased, jft V persons having nst t' are hereb< ed to gt the same, wi'h th vouvhwsl I3B>f. b) the subsenbe. n he -I|H the 12th day ‘Jn 23. otherwise x from all benefits of the sai< All persons indebted to sai .are ier|ue>ted to make imm payment, (liven under i* jtPf ii. 9th day of D.eember, 19 , oil Ad! AKI.KS C. I’II.CHARI * ildfScrr. Administri * jiM I*AIL JONES. ; Register of V *** print your HiMheads, BmEFsI Letterheads now. EBRR* them ready for the fi., MASON’S Opera House SNOW HILL, MI). ' t SATURDAY, DEC. .(Oth 1 AND JANUARY Ist JACKIE COOGAN IN “MY ROY" You will surely enjoy this picture. Come and bring' the kiddies. We will give to the child holding the lucky number a Jackie Coogan doll. Admission—Adults 28c; Chil dren 17c. JAN. 2nd. “BEYOND THE RAINBOW” This picture will assure you good entertainment. Adults 20c; Children 10c. JANUARY .7th and 6th “WHERE IS MY WANDER ING BOY TONIGHT.” Be sure to see this picture, one that will be Admission Adults 35c; Chil dren 20c. The opera House will be com fortably heated, and the new machines recently installed in sure a continuous production, with splendid pictures. Beginning January 2nd, two shows a night will begin. The i first will start at 7.15 P. M.. and the second at 8.15 P. M. Public Sale —OF VALUABLE— . "’•fr ■ ■ Bl rm'wK ■ 'gwl t ijp HORSES AND mm l JOE KIN DIG ! JOdNDIG DEALER IN HORS AN MULES FROM YORK, . WilJ be here and oflVoi* at Doc Ned Timmorst; SnowXHill, a choice lo' and houses, on -w ' >A3toA Comne^ K at i.oo This is ,j ect ed t know me, a< the Don't fail to sv t j,; days prior to , your choi This s heavy, : poses. Chari N t SU> 0? t’ DECF GL TH BERLIN TUESD “SMILES Also 1 e “Nan r THURB A i Also SATU ' A “LA. * Haroh . j ===== , WILLIAM Wi j Orlean In the Circi County In Term, 1921 ORDEREE ’ reported by for the sale >!above cause , confirmed t r trary therei | the 15th d: vided a cop in some m cester Cou successive of January died and i, The repor sales to be $ OLIY True Copy, OLIY STATON & Of Ja Ezekie I In the Ci ’ Countv t rep. S. • j thf | re I? L