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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1897
Page
3
The Denton town election is set for Monday April 26 with repairs underway on Thawley & Ghingher beef shop. Estates, rail and postal updates appear alongside church events, school honors, and meticulous Methodist Protestant conference appointments across Queen Anne's and surrounding areas.
A long listing of church and society names follows, including Reliance A D Dick and many parishes. Local residents and visitors are named, with reports on a railroad accident to eight year old Harvey Gifford and social events at Har rington and Queenstown. Easter plans, church services, a wedding, and upcoming baseball in Centreville are noted along with brief visits by residents to Baltimore and Quaker City.
M L Sullivan and Will Satterfield relocated the colored school house from T N Todd’s farm to near G L Stevens’s farm. Miss Nannie Roe, visiting Dr William H Meredith, returned home near Queen Anne. Grace Meredith will stay a week. Rev. Mr. Cochran delivered his first sermon at the M E Church to a large audience. Miss Winifred Johnson visits brother T H Johnson in Greenwood. Wheat looks good and fruit crop prospects are strong. Chamberlains Cough Remedy praised in a letter to West Monterey manufacturers and is sold by W E Brown in Denton, H Duffey in Hillsboro, and R J Colston in Ridgely.
Rev Mr Webster sermon at M B Church urged Junior Order of United American Mechanics to seek the welfare of the commonwealth. Emphasizing lawfulness taxes churches and temperance, he warned that bribery and vice threaten national stability and urged piety and righteous governance to preserve civilization.
Personal mentions include marriages of L P Clifton to Miss Borman in Baltimore and Isaac Sparklin to Emma Pearl Smith in Baltimore. Notables include Dr P Roland Fisher planning to practice in Denton, Marie Butler to wed Harvey Morganthal in Easton, and various visits, travel, and property updates in Ridgely and nearby towns. Arbor Day observed at Ridgely Academy with tree planting and Arbor Day activities noted.
Attorneys Deweese and Owens questioned whether income from mortgages held by Delaware citizens is taxable in the county. They argued mortgages are not local property and that taxation applies only where the mortgagee resides, citing U.S. Supreme Court decisions to support the claim.
Reverend Mr Kenney completed a sidewalk on the road from the M E Parsonage to the esturch largely by his own effort. The work reflects credit upon the preacher though not on the people. Mr C L Cahall of Philadelphia visited friends here Saturday. Miss Jessie Saulsbury returned Friday from Dover.
A large Denton County teachers gathering discussed phonics teaching first grade, English instruction, physical culture, and a time schedule for country classrooms. Guests included State Superintendent E B Prettyman and State Senator Thomas A Smith. Resolutions thanked Denton hosts and visiting educators.
Thomas R. Brown and William H. Thompson visited Denton on Tuesday to reclaim two double-barrel guns and a pistol held by Clerk Fields since his brother in law Samuel M. Rush’s murder trial last October. One gun belonged to Rush. Brown produced a sister signed order to recover it. Brown stayed briefly, then reportedly returned to Queen Anne's, denying marriage rumors.
General Organizer Camp of the Home Forum Benefit Order met in Denton on Wednesday evening with forty-two members. Officers installed include John S. Barnhart as president James T. Sylvester as vice president John H. Horsley as second vice-president Charles H. Whitby as treasurer Charles E. Stevens as secretary Isaac D. Anderson as orator Frank Dorsch as assistant orator Willoughby Nowell as inside guard R W Anthony as outside guard Isaac J. Moore Isaac T. Fleetwood and Arlington T Porter as directors. Meetings will be the first and third Friday evenings each month. Clinton Cook is local organizer.
Rev Edward R Rich will give a lecture on Prison Life in Fort Delaware at Masonic Hall next Thursday evening. He promises an entertaining and instructive talk with historical themes appealing to the older generation, presenting Christian sentiment and balanced depictions of the Civil War era without offense. Planters can buy Lloyd strawberry plants from C W Atherton Greenwood Vel at five dollars per thousand.
Superintendent L T Dryden and Secretary C W Vander Hoogt propose cultivating beets for sugar in Maryland. They cite higher yields of 12 to 20 tons per acre and potential sugar prices, noting interest from Dutch and German growers and plans for a tour of the Eastern Shore to recruit farmers and push the project forward.
The new line linked by boat to Baltimore shortens travel for the middle Delaware and Eastern Shore, boosting agriculture and industry prospects. Denton and other towns gain via improved communications. The Delaware Senate widened the charter and lines for expansion while local authorities permit poles and wires. travel shows early gains as service grows.
J H Carroll arrived with a load of shad in a dearborn wagon when his horse balked on a muddy stretch near Alfred J Wilson’s farm. The wagon overturned burying Carroll in mud but he was rescued with only minor injuries and heavy mud coverage. The incident is noted in the Zeston Ledger alongside an advertisement for Le Gore's Combination of Lime for corn and soil improvement.
A Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin summarizes three to four year trials on corn and potato cultivation. Findings include: corn benefits from crimson clover plowed down, wide rows sometimes superior, deep vs shallow cultivation similar, infrequent cultivation slightly better, drilled corn gains about 10 percent, ten bushels lime per acre profitable. For potatoes early varieties lead yields, complete fertilizer best, dried blood plus nitrate better than dried blood alone, potash sources vary, early cultivation better, ridge farming slightly superior, wide vs narrow rows favoring narrow rows.
John F. Waggaman purchased at public auction the Sinepuxent Beach Company assets at Ocean City Maryland for 65000 dollars. The sale occurred at the Real Estate Exchange by order of the court with receivers Samuel Maddox and Fielder C. Slingluff handling the proceedings. The lot includes Atlantic Hotel and associated utilities and improvements.
W. W. Brewer, Esq., justice of the peace and prominent Mt Jewett resident, praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for immediate relief. For sale by W E Brown Denton H Duffey Hillsboro R J Colston Ridgely.
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