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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1930
Page
5
A collage of small ads from Denton Md areas features Everngams and M K Newnam selling clothing, furniture, and Frigidaire appliances, plus farm goods like timber and mules. Local events include church bake sale, baby clinics, a Holy Land lecture, and Rotary Club updates. Fire calls, court term notes, and police-fire news appear alongside theater listings and car sale pitches.
The Christian Comrades Class of the M. E. Sunday School presented the play So's Your Aunt Anna with seven cast members. The evening featured musical selections, monologues, solos, duets, and a Goodby Song. a full house reported an enjoyable evening. Numerous local families hosted gatherings. community events included a chicken and waffle supper, bridge gatherings, and multiple social visits to Wilmington, Chestertown, and Harrington.
The Maryland Theatre in Baltimore hosts The Little Show for the week of April 7. Star trio Clifton Webb Fred Allen Libby Holman headline with signature numbers and sketches like Moanin Low What Have You and Still Alarm. Laffargue pianos in first class condition priced discounted from 400 to 95 dollars.
At C H S the entire girl student body is organized into ten teams to compete in Volley Hit Ball Touchdown Pass Run and Catch Relay and Obstacle Relay over two weeks of practice. Coaches nominate thirty five girls to form the semi select squad for two practice groups before the Field Meet where each girl will enter one game and one relay.
Ridgely residents and visitors fill the week with social calls church events and club meetings. Messages cover university ties with The Hatchet journalistic appointment for Mr Reese Sewell and a host of family visits from Baltimore Wilmington Greensboro and Denton plus details of church services and upcoming fundraiser baked goods sale.
On Monday evening April 7 the local PTA hosts a unique program featuring Miss Edith Straughn and first grade pupils in a music lesson and The Dance of Greeting. Mrs Alice Hignutt and fourth graders present two part music with a Dutch costume dance. Seventh graders under Mrs Raleigh perform two and three part melodies. Mrs J Kemp Stevens, Music Supervisor for Caroline county, closes with two vocal numbers. All are invited to attend at 8 p.m.
The final school declamation contest date will be announced at the Monday PTA meeting. Participants include James Duffey The New South Earl Wright Fight Woodrow Hurst The Dukite Snake Dorothea O Connor A Love Story of Old Madrid Caroline Greenley Zin garella Salome Somers Sonny's Christenin Alice Ross The Highwayman Winifred Towers Seventeen Jean Kauffman Michael Strogoff The public is invited to attend.
Mr and Mrs W J Murphy entertained Rev D J Lambert of Baltimore Rev J H Jordan Ingleside and Rev and Mrs W H Ballengee at a six oclock dinner on Saturday. Several relatives and friends visited in town over the weekend including Miss Addie Williams who returned from Kent General Hospital Dover after appendicitis surgery.
County extension notes announce a Women’s Rally in Denton Community House on Friday April 11 at 10 am with program items from local clubs and a 12:30 lunch. Also upcoming Local Leaders 4-H spring meeting in the Home Demonstration Agent office on April 7, and the Bee Tree 4-H festival set for April 12 at 7:30 pm, with a meeting of 12 clubs and elections of officers for the year.
Caroline County growers are invited to join the 1930 Ten Ton Tomato Club Contest by sending name and acreage to the County Agricultural Agent in Denton. In 1929, 23 entries existed with three qualifying for producing over 10 tons per acre and receiving certificates. Participants must grow two acres or more, report total farm acreage, and provide tomato sale receipts. Awards include $100, $75, and $50 gold watches for top state yields, plus certificates for all yields of ten tons per acre.
From March 26 to 31 illness cases include tuberculosis in Preston, scarlet fever in Denton, lobar pneumonia in Federalsburg, and measles in Ridgely with three cases. The item notes public health concerns and closes with an unrelated promotional line about berry tickets printing on short notice.
Community notes list turkey dinners hosted by Hillsboro families and visiting guests from Easton Trappe Denton and Baltimore. Club meeting speaker Mrs. Alfonso Boley heads next week’s Eastern Shore Federation of Women’s Clubs address with roll call on trees. Local residents visit friends in Wilmington Denton Centreville and Philadelphia.
The Community Club held a Tuesday night meeting with 24 members present and served cake and cocoa. Meanwhile the St Michaels Dramatic Club plans Bettys Last Bet for April 11 at the High School Auditorium to benefit the Ladies Aid of St Pauls Church, admission 60 cents.
Robert Jarrell Sr aged 80 died at his Goldsboro home on Monday morning of paralysis. He was an early canning business pioneer in Goldsboro since 1892 and a founding vice president of the Goldsboro Bank. Survived by six children including Mrs. Downes and Mrs. Rowe and a brother Wesley Jarrell of Greensboro. Funeral held Thursday with Rev. W H Ballengee. burial in Greensboro cemetery. Active pallbearers listed. honorary bearers named.
John T. Porter dies after weeks confined to his Market Street residence. Funeral with Masonic rites set for this afternoon at two with interment in Denton cemetery. Born November 23, 1858 in Talbot County he moved to Denton 25 years ago and served as supervisor of the M D and W Railroad. Survived by wife Mary Emily Barwick, a daughter Muriel Walls, three grandchildren, and brothers and sisters W. W. Porter, R. R. Porter, Mrs. Geo. W. Godwin, and Mrs. Charles Marvel.
John S. Barnhart, 78, nurseryman and former Denton resident, died last Saturday after a brief pneumonia illness. Born in Mechanicsville, Pa., he lived in Delaware before relocating to Washington, where he started a Beltsville Md nursery five years ago. Survived by three daughters Helen, Mrs. L. M. Caton, and Mrs. Joseph Munroe, and four sons John S., Jason B., Randolph J., and B. Hall. a Mason. Funeral held at Hall Barnhart’s home Tuesday at 11, interment Fort Lincoln cemetery, Washington.
The ad letter from M. K. Newnam of Denton Maryland promises a full refund of every dollar paid for a Frigidaire if after three months of use the customer does not believe it is the best investment for the home. It frames a bold guarantee to persuade buyers.
Caroline County Orphans Court with Judges West Harper and Shawn approves actions including sale orders for estates of Barton Rowe and others, final and initial accounts for numerous administrators, probate of wills for Willie Carroll Albert Wheatley and George Holland, and bond and appraisers named with creditors notice ordered. Guardian releases and additional accounts filed for several estates, detailing inventory distribution and sales.
The pupils Josephine Quidas Dorothy Towers Edna Opkins Florence Dolly Marie Christopher Ethel Quidas Net tie Flaharty Alton Cole Gustav Frase Towers Edna Hopkins Florence Dolby Quidas Leonard Cole Richard Frase Edward Hopkins William Mundt William Worm Leslie Cole Kenneth Fluharty were present on every school day in March.
The Roop family expresses sincere thanks to friends relatives and neighbors for sympathy kindness floral offerings and use of automopiles during their recent bereavement.
Greensboro and its environs notes three community events including the Miss Blue Bonnet musical comedy at the school auditorium on Tuesday April 8 under Greensboro Community Club, a Wayne P. Sewell production directed by Mabel McDonald, and Ridgely Minstrels at the local high school auditorium on Thursday April 10 to aid the fire company. The column also records various visits and family movements among residents from Felton Marcus Hook Smyrna and Wilmington.
At the Church of the New Jeru salem services will be held on Sunday April 6 with a 10 16 a m Church School and 11 a m worship. Afternoon services at Williston at 2 and 3 oclock feature a sermon on following Christ. The community is invited. Local social notes mention Mrs James Bolling and children returning from visit with relatives, Rev and Mrs O A Bartley returning, and various card clubs and visits among residents.
The community lists visiting friends and family from Wilmington Chester Dover Atlantic City and Greensboro with several gatherings including a funeral for Mr. Robert Jarrell Sr in Goldsboro and a Ladies Aid event hosted by Mrs J F Quillen.
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