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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1906
Page
3
The record notes that the CiIACULT court will meet on April seventeen along with the Levy Court, Orphans' Court, and School Board all scheduled to convene that day. The entries indicate multiple government bodies set to hold meetings in the same date.
Local department items report mill improvements in Talbot and a West Denton factory project. Delaware railroad section hands faced indefinite discharge while a Pennsburg delegation praised a model gas plant in Denton. Land sales include properties in Williston and Townsend's Cross Roads. A barn fire near Ruthsburg caused $1800 loss, incendiary suspected. Debating clubs plan a railway run and operate venue in Greensboro. Mr. Booker dies of typhoid in Greensboro. he leaves three brothers and a long church record.
The seventy-eighth session of the Maryland Annual Conference of the M. P. Church adjourned on Tuesday at West Baltimore Church. President Little announced numerous appointments across towns including Accomac A W Mather, Cambridge Dorsey Blake, Cumberland W A Metvyin, Easton W R Graham, Georgetown C T O Crouse, Newark J W Balderson, and Wilmington B A Bryan, among many others. The list also notes several supply assignments, superannuates, and changes within the Caroline Denton area, with local notices of meetings and personal updates from clergy and families.
The third Teachers Association for the scholastic year will convene at Caroline High School on Saturday the 21st at 10 a.m. Miss Brumbaugh discusses Grammar and Composition in Intermediate Grades, Miss Perry Geography in Third and Fourth Grades, Miss Mildren Primary Work, Bullock Teaching Arithmetic to develop thought, Cox Reading in Intermediate Grades, Willis and Cobey Basis of Promotion. All teachers expected to attend, patrons invited. The country is growing radiant to fruit blossoms.
Mrs Frances Pennington fell and lay unconscious overnight, rescued by neighbors and treated by Dr Rowe. Easter events include a poverty social at the M E parsonage and Arbor Day at Preston Academy. Various residents visited, traveled, or returned, with bank and church notices and an upcoming May 7 town election.
Talbot county commissioners and Caroline county commissioners met Thursday to adjust accounts. They considered appointing a keeper for Dover bridge. Talbot proposed incumbent A E Elliott and three local applicants were considered. no election occurred. Caroline officials will meet Talbot at Easton on the 26th.
Easton National Bank stock recently sold at 60 dollars per share par 25 dollars and a similar premium was seen in nearby Denton National. Five shares of the stock valued at 100 dollars each brought 1300 dollars signaling a strong market on the Eastern Shore.
A sizable crowd from Templeville attended the Friday funeral service for Miss Mary Nickerson at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs Owen Nickerson in Hartley Delaware. Many friends also joined the funeral for Mrs Joseph Fallowfield at her Barclay residence last Sunday.
This Sunday school lesson explores two miracles from Jesus second year ministry, healing a gravely ill servant and restoring a widow's dead son, highlighting His control over life and death, compassion for sorrowing families, and faithfulness of the centurion as a model. It connects to Easter and notes Jesus as resurrection and life with the golden text from John xi 20.
In Denton an Orphans Court session admitted the will of Elien Hamilton to probate and granted letters of administration for Elizabeth Swann to Watrry C. Swann. An account of sales for Christina Spicer was approved, with guardianship details for Alexander Blake and others. A concrete plant project near J W Kerr’s land is planned with May 1 start, and a Denton stageplay Dot the Miner's Daughter features in coming performances.
Easter week services announced across Christ Protestant and Christ Episcopal in Denton with Holy Communion, Easter music, and sermons. Also plans for vestry elections, camp meetings, and church repairs plus local obituaries, factory contracts, and prize offers from the Peninsula Agricultural Society for insect collections and a contested will in Ellendale.
After years of trials three million seedless apples will start nationwide, removing seed pockets and worm risk. The tree lacks blossoms though green leaves shelter the fruit, hindering coddling moths and frost damage. The fruit is dark red with strawberry dots, solid flesh, and a navel end that tightens over generations.
Beautiful new spring styles draw shoppers to Hochschild Kohn Co at Howard and Lexington streets in Baltimore. The store offers hats, suits, dress goods, wash fabrics, laces and embroideries with fashionable, quality items and fair prices. Mail orders welcomed with careful service. freight paid on $5 purchases within 125 miles.
A mother who keeps Chamberlain's Cough Remedy on hand saves herself uneasiness. Coughs colds and croup in children are quickly cured by its use. It counters cold to pneumonia and given at first croup symptoms may prevent the attack. Safe for children. Sold by Douglass Drug Store and A L Duffey Hillsboro.
Quotations show wheat No 2 red 87 3 4 cents steamer No 2 red 8 1 2 cents corn No 2 white 63 1 2 cents steamer yellow 55 cents chicken prices range old hens 11 13 cents young 16 25 cents spring 30 35 cents turkeys 16 to 20 cents ducks 16 cents eggs 17 cents potatoes white 75 90 cents per bushel sweet 1 50 to 2 25 per barrel veal calves 7 cents lambs 7 to 10 cents sheep 10 cents beef hides green 9 cents green salted hides 10 3 4 cents.
A sister poem memorializes Charles B. Outten who died April 15, 1905. The verse asks for peace in his grave, speaks of their sorrow, and hopes to meet again in heaven. It is signed by his Sister S. 1K. HL.
The President states Mutuality as the core principle guiding National Life. He asserts rates and policy terms must be fair and square and that control should vest in policyholders via votes proportional to their insurance, not the policy form. The practice has aligned with this principle historically and continues today.
The notice schedules public voting hours from 5 o'clock p m for consideration of a sewerage bill. The bill's text outlines proposed measures and potential impacts on the locality, signaling a formal decision day and related procedural steps.
Maryland General Assembly empowers Denton Commissioners to build a town sewer system, issue bonds up to 3000 dollars, levy sewer taxes and front-foot charges, and require connections with penalties for noncompliance. The act details bond terms, tax mechanisms, bid process, and election for voter approval.
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