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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1944
Page
4
In a Detroit tribute to retiring GM sales chief R H Grant, colleagues distill his maxims on salesmanship. They urge a return to aggressive customer service and advertise to meet postwar demand, arguing the spirit of selling will drive growth and competition.
James J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads praises American institutions and private initiative as the engine of national growth. He credits railroads with enabling vast agricultural industrial and commercial development and notes private capital planning and efficiency in wartime transport. The railroads embody America's story.
Wartime notices detail ration stamps for meats fats sugar gas and fuel oil with validity dates and consumption guidance. The War Department and Navy outline peak strength needs of 7.7 million and 3.5 million respectively, plus selective service changes for agricultural deferments. Jobs for discharged veterans will appear in 114 centers with bimonthly updates. Gasoline rationing expands for farm organizations and Victory gardeners, under OPA rules.
We thank the Greensboro Fire Company and the Cooklyn Milk Company of Goldsboro for extinguishing the woods fire on our place last Monday. Mrs. John C. Wright Hilda M. Wright Henderson, Md.
The Burrsville charge held its fourth quarterly conference at Wesley Church last Tuesday April 4 led by Rev. Earl Cummings district superintendent Easton District. Local residents noted visits from Emma Smith and Frances Truitt Perry families.
Statistical summary of the Caroline County Health Department for March 1944. It lists communicable diseases by case counts including chickenpox three, influenza one, measles four, pneumonia nine, scarlet fever thirty five, streptococcal sore throat fifteen, syphilis eight, tuberculosis four, whooping cough thirteen. It details clinics and visits such as Venereal Disease Clinics nine, diagnosis and treatment visits two hundred eighty nine, Tuberculosis Clinic one with four examined and twenty two X-rayed, prenatal clinics three with six examined, child hygiene clinics three with twelve examined, orthopedic clinic one with twenty nine examined. Nurses visits cover communicable diseases sixty nine, venereal diseases twenty five, tuberculosis nineteen, prenatal twenty, postnatal twenty four, infants forty five, preschool forty eight, school homes four, morbidity nineteen, crippled children twelve. Sanitation notes dairy farm visits thirty, milk samples thirty nine. Miscellaneous shows twenty six home nursing classes taught and sixty one reference visits. Signed by Walter B. Johnson, M.D., Deputy State Health Officer.
Congressman David J. Ward has obtained Farmer's Bulletins from the Department of Agriculture for redistribution. He has mailed lists for postcard selection to patrons of post offices who are boxholders or receive rural or star route delivery. Town residents not in general distribution may request lists by writing Ward in Washington, D. C.
In loving memory of our dear father George F Noble who died April 15 1933. The note recalls the pain of loss and the comfort of memory. Lovingly signed by his children expressing enduring companionship beyond death.
Mrs. Russell Marker and son Jim visited in State College while Collins Marker flew to Mexico City for Easter with his father on a mission. Families gathered across Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia for holidays with relatives in Towson Baltimore Easton and Dover.
Announcement from Mr and Mrs Elwood Fleming Hillsboro of the engagement of their daughter Laura Virginia Fleming to Aviation Student Hall Barton Butler son of Mr and Mrs Edward Butler Denton Maryland Laura Virginia Fleming is a Tri County High School graduate and attended St Marys Seminary She works at Liberty Bank Hillsboro Barton Butler attends Davidson College North Carolina training as a pilot and is a Caroline High School graduate The note also mentions community events and visits during Easter week and a request for surgical dressings workers with local churchyard egg hunts and guest visits from Trappe Easton Centreville and Easton related households
The record lists numerous social visits and holiday gatherings. Families from Camden Wilmington Cambridge Baltimore Ridgely Elizabethtown Mt. Airy Greensboro and other towns hosted guests including Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Clark, Mr. and Mrs. N. & Knott, Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, Mr. Harvey Cheezum, Mr. Walter Abbott, the Marters and Nell Naylor family, Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, and Miss Eloise Morgan among others during Easter and the holiday period.
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