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Page 8 End the tcorryoi Christmas Shopping Nothing you could discover in a month of Christmas shoppingwould be quite as acceptable to the whole family as a Better Buick. BUICK MOTOR CO., FLINT, MICH. Divilion of General Motort Corporation MURPHY’S GARAGE, Berlin, Md. WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM S = 5 = I . j | E i i = jrttyAY the season bring you all an- | ticipated happiness, and more. 1 May the New Year abound in bles- 1 sings, and these consist of good health | prosperous undertakings, and the | good will and friendship of a large | circle of friends. I s = I J. T. Smullin & Son | Fwmiture—Floor Coverings—Wall Paper—Paints | POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND \ I i S E iouiiittiiiiiiimiinMniiimmmiitMiiiiiiiiimiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiiiii rismiifitiMtinfHiiiiiniiiisivtiiiitiiuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiuitmmmHitun CONCERT | I MARYLAND UNIVERSITY ! [ GLEE CLUB I 1 X s a s (Friday, January 1,1926 j j 8.15 P. M. ] | EMPIRE THEATRE | Pocomoke City, Md. | Proceeds for benefit of the Pocomoke Library | E E Seats can be reserved at A. H. Stevens' store | beginning on Wednesday, Dec. 30,1925 f | Admission, 50 Cents ( E 5 fimiMiiimmiinmiiiiiiiiiimimnimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimmmiiiiiii BUSINESS POINTERS GET SURE AND QUICK RESULTS wMtC ESTER DEMOCRAT, POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND Miss Elizabeth Venable Critically 111 In Wilmington i The many friends of Miss Elizabeth j Venable, of this city, but conducting a public school at Marshallton, near Wilmington, Del., will regret to hear that at this writing she is seriously ill with what was supposed to be pneumonia but now has developed in to pleurisy. Miss Venable was taken ill last week and rapidly showed a very- high temperature, and from present re ports does not seem to improve as fast as her family and friends would i like to see. Mrs. Venable, her mother, is with her and she together wit hprofession a! nursing will insure the invalid the best of attention. It is to be hoped i news will soon reach here that she is on the road to recovery. Prominent Stockton Man Died At Home Last Week James K. Smack, a highly respect ed citizen of Stockton, died last week, j his death being due primarily to a fall he experienced which caused pneumonia to develop. - He was 77 years of age, and his : last illness extended through a period li of only a few days. E Besides a widow, he leaves four 1 S children: Mrs. C. H. Jones, Mrs. John! E Burbage, of Cape Charles; Iceland 5 and Herman Smack, both of Phila- j E delphia. £ Funeral services were held on Sun- E day last, at which a large concourse | E of friends attested the esteem in which E the deceased was held. E Mr. Smack was an uncle of the late, S Francis M. Wilson of this city. j MEANDERINCS OF A MILDLY ! I MILITANT MIND. 5 I 1 WHERE WE ERR. 5 Everyone, everywhere, is talking a-, S bout the wretched moral condition ex- j E isting at the present time and trying j 5 to fix the blame. E Some say it is the after-effect of S the world war, others that it is the E natural result of meddlesome legisla- S tion. And then there are those who,, ' E like the chivalrous Y. M. C. A., the jj pious old pope and a lot of preachers 5 and priests, declare the crux of the E whole morbid matter is found in the, S face of the flapper. 5 The shoulders of the daughters of S Eve should sag under so monstrous 5 a burden; but they don’t. It’s not S there. They do not bear it. That’s S why. S The burden of blame belongs to ev- E eryone of us . ■ There’s just one legitimate reason jj for the present deplorable state of It affairs. We am wasting our time blaming everything and anything, everybody and anybody, but our own ‘ I deeds and our own selves. ■ We need to look within, not with- S out. We have grown slack in the mat- , [ ter of discrimination. We are men- ( : tally and spiritually lazy. We shirk ] l and we sham. We have become a na- ( j tlon of investigators. And our inves • tigations don’t amount to a tinker's j darn. They are smoke-screens that : cover inefficiency and worse, actual ■ profligacy. j If the public is roused, if some un- j ■ toward event wakens us from our le- j j thargy and action is imminent, an in-! j vestigation is invariably started, but; ■ before it is thoroughly under way our j interest flags; and so far as making ■ even the feeblest effort towards im : proving things is concerned, we a- I gain fall fast asleep. | This is true throughout our whole | governmental world, from center to j circumference. It is true in social as • well as political life. The one spot ■ j where we are not guilty of indiffer-! • once is in matters of finance. And at! ■ that, many of us are so blind that we i j can’t see the connection between poli- i 5 tics and our pocketbooks. S What we need is to wake up! S Where we err is in blaming others S where we should blame ourselves. S Few of us are doing the good of E which we are capable. We’re loafing E on the job, rubbing our eyes, yawn- S ing, complaining, and condemning E others for conditions we don’t lift a 5 finger to change. E In the name of reason, why don’t E we get busy and attempt to create the S conditions we want, or at least try to E correct those we deplore? | EDNA BENTLEY HANCOCK. E “The Fable of Adding Up E 1925,” by George Ade, .. in Sun- I day's Baltimore American. I Want Sometkag, ? | Advertise i! for it in 3 these columns ?' j Reciprocity Lacking In Maryland Colleges (Continued from Page 1) ;little further away from the temp tation.s of the big town. However, he seems sincere in his ! intentions to reform, and he has all (the incentives of a wonderful money making proposition to urge him on ward. Easton was no match for Barton in the State scholastic soccer champion ship game played on the Western iShore last week, Barton being return ed the winner by the overwhelming score of 17 to 0, thereby winning i State honors for three successive years. With its new coach, a wealth of material and the desire to proceed with its progressive football policy, 'Western Maryland College has met | with disappointment at every turn. The three teams the W. M. C. desire most to play—University of Alary land, Johns Hopkins and St. John’s— | have declined to meet the Green Ter rors on the gridiron during the sea son of 1026. In each case Western Maryland ■was told the schedule for next sea son was complete. j This is sad news they had counted | upon making a real bid for the Mary ; landcollegiate championship in 1926, I but of course, they can make no claim unless they meet Maryland, Hopkins land St. John’s, even though their sea son turned out most successful a -gaint even stronger outside elevens. It is most unfortunate, this failure of Maryland elevens to meet each j other, because the Baltimoreans who ; have the interest of no particular j school at heart always hav< ; found the j race for the Maryland title most at tractive. I Dick Harlow, one of the most sue-1 cessful football coaches in the United States ,a man who has done wonders at Colgate, has been employed by Western Maryland. He is to take up his new duties at Westminster in April, when spring practice will be j held. His very presence in Maryland j should add interest to foot ball in this State. Moreover, his presence in a battle for the Maryland title would increase the color and attractiveness to this rivalry, but the W. M. C., must wait another year. Christmas Services At M. E. Church Sunday Special music and Christmas ser mons will feature the services at Salem M. E. Church next Sunday, both morning and evening. The subject of the morning sermon will be, “The Desire of Desires,” and of the evening’s, “Returning from the Manger.” The public is cordially in vited. The Sunday school entertainment and treat will be held Wednesday night, December 30th at 7.30. A watch night service will be held Thursday night, December 31, begin ning at 10 o’clock. There will be a sermon by the pastor, followed by a social season at which light refresh ments will be served; closing with a consecration service. Here's Wfsbfno Evenjbobp H flDerr\> Christmas! MILES SECTIONAL BUILDINGS CO. OUR WISH TO EVERYONE EVERYWHERE I I ilberrv Christmas AND A I Moppv flew IJlear May 1926 Bring Peace, Prosperity and Happiness to All ! i MATTHEWS & LANKFORD HARDWARE Commissioners Pass On Bills For Payment Dr. Ira Tyndall, County Registrar and Physician’s Account, $73.50. Upshur Gray, lumber for bridges, . $47.35. William Goodman .supplies, $19.07. . j L. T. Parks, Dputy Sheriff, $157.50. .. J. H. Perdue supplies roads, $10.40. J. Francis Wilson, tile for roads, ' $2.70. i 1 James Shockley, sand for roads, SIO.OO. J. W. Hancock, paid for work on roads, $5.00. Detect. W. L. Cook, mileage witness ■ Janies Baker case, SB.OB. I). 11. Zeigler, mileage witness, James Baker case, SB.OB, Edw. Carpentier, mileage witness, James Baker case, SB.OB. i Dr. A. A. Parker, Physician’s ac i count, SIO.OO W. S. Purnell, Sheriff’s account, taking James Baker away, $39.00. Sam Fisher, work on wood Court House, $2.25. 1 George W. Long, labor and team on . roads, $25.60. E. T. Brittingham, labor and team on bridges, $14.32. C. If. Burbage, labor and team on roa*ls, $48.32. j C. W .Murray ,labor and team on . roads, $12.20. W. T. Mason, labor and team on roads, $58.35. | Philip Timmons, labor and team on roads, $53.95. H. L. Burbage labor and team on roads, $11.70. j R. T. Shockley, labor and team on I roads, $61.81. j Elton M. Sirman, wood for Court , House, $50.00. ! Roy Stagg, work on roads, $5.00. j W. W. Davis, Jailor, $31.55. J. P. Johnson, work on roads, $32. * Dean Fassitt, work on Court House, $7.75. Otho W. Wilson, repairs to Jail, $9.60. “The Great Man” by Fannie Hurst, World’s Highest Paid i Woman writer, in Sunday’s Bal- : timore American. ! empire]! \ PROGRAM t " <► f WEEK OF DEC. 28 TO JAN. 2 \\ ] o —■ <► I! MONDAY AND TUESDAY o j j “The Pony Express” I: j ; * A Paramount Super-Special Pro- ) \ : J; duction With a Brilliant Cast <[ : J ► of Film Stars. < \ : < ► One Show Each Night at 8 O’clock < J j !! Admission 25 cents and 50 cents < > * ~ ;; | o WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY \ \ Douglas Fairbanks, in !! j ii The Thief of Bagdad <| < ► 3 i Another Big Super-Special. <> : < i One Show Each Night at 8 O’clock <► Z !! Admission 25c and 50c. < i * i , <> S ;; FRIDAY It [ I! Maryland University Glee Club I! 5 !i SATURDAY It j J f Fred Thompson, in \\ . i: “Thundering Hoofs” :! o Admission 10 and 25c. it it o Continuous Show Saturday 4to 11 P.M <> Matinee Saturday at 4 P. M. o Children 10c Adults 20c o J [ Telephone No. 245-W J [ i > miiiimiii fKterT J < f nx H r ,£ s\j A moment’s thought of “Good Will to All Men ” makes life worth while and Friendship the basis of all our associations. N. DAVIS & SONS Quality furniture POCOMOKE CITY, MD. GODWIN’O DEPARTMENT STORE J; 4 POCOMOKE CITY. MD. 4 4 Where the Woman Who Knows Buys Her Clothes \ < < ©ur Christmas XlKUsb fot H?ou 4 For each and all it is our sincere wish that this < may be your happiest Christmas. May joy and hap- piness be yours throughout the Yuletide and peace j and prosperity to all for 1926. I < Our New Year’s Endeavor: To serve you well, to J serve you better in appreciation of your past as well ; as your future patrunage. J < iinHiiiiiiiHiimiiHiHniiiiiiuniiwiiHuinnniiiinnimmuiHHtmiHiMwiiiiiiMUMa. Qmnnqsjm | We extend to our friends and cus- \ tomers our hearty good wishes for the Holiday Season and may the New Year bring an abundance of 1 • Happiness and Prosperity. 1 " 1 * "■ J W. H. CLARKE & CO. | DRUGGISTS ■* 48£ POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND niiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiitmtiiNinttfM % WISHING YOU A Merry Christmas .. AND A.. Happy and Prosperous New Year * “A Better Job at a Better Price 99 Pocomoke City Garage Market Street Telephone 742 Business Pointers Bridge The Gap Between Buyer And Selin*. Saturday, December 26,1926