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feet away). Wilkersun aimed his shot-j gun and fired both barrels. The nib- (1 bit jumped over the big hole the twoj charges tore in the ground and ran. away unscathed. Brimer waited until,1 the rabbit was fifty yards away, then coolly fired one little shot Ihe rab-1 bit toppled over, killed dead. Now ■ Brimer is looking around for a live rabbit to send to farmer Wilkerson his pal.TRICKY TRACKS — Are those which extend across the highway at Newark. Ever so often the grade crossing roadbed disappears, leaving dangerous traffic gaps alongside the twin steel rails. We used to literally bounce into the village of Newark,* when our late Ford struck that crossing. And we would howl. And somehow, within a da or so, either the State Roads Commission 01* the railroad track workers, filled up the* trenches. During the past week the crossing is all washed up again with big holes. One motorist blew out two tires going over the tracks there a few nights ago After all, no one driving a car across the tracks, { should register a kick. In time, perhaps, the trenches might sink low ■ enough to allow cars to pass under-1 neath the rails. Which would eliminate a dangerous grade crossing for Worcester County motorists * . !INTERCEPTED:—Spy No. 13 informed us this week that the presence of a police officer, who rapped upon the door of a certain house last Saturday night, where a birthday party j was in full swing, was not an acci-1 dent. In fact, says Spy No 13, the! policeman’s interruption at the time, and his caution to the hostess to ( “quiet things down” was part of a j prank, planned by her guests, just to ( embarrass the hostess, in whose honor. the birthday party was being staged | We hate to tattle but .WHO REMEMBERS:—When Berlin’s first tomato factory stood just back of the old Bell store, which stood on the present site of Keas Williams establishment 011 Main street? Who remembers when an elderly lady named Mrs. Miller, ran a store in Berlin? And who remembers when a Mr. Workman operated a liquor tavern in Berlin? Well, according to my friend, Thomas L. Pitts, of Essington, Pa., years ago, all three such places were in operation at Berlin.TaylorvilleThere will be Sunday School services at the Taylorville Church, Sunday morning at 9:30.Mr. and Mrs. William Skes and Mr. John Edward Rogers, of Philadel-
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Democratic Messenger
Snow Hill, Maryland, US
Thu, Dec 12, 1940
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