Denton Journal Page 2 Highlights Apr 18 1908
Denton Journal page details events and notices from April 18 1908. Howard Melvit Benj. H. Johnson, Melvin & Johnson publishers, present local items of interest from Denton.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1908
Page
2
Denton Journal page details events and notices from April 18 1908. Howard Melvit Benj. H. Johnson, Melvin & Johnson publishers, present local items of interest from Denton.
A congressional proposal by Representative Bourke Cochran seeks to turn the dignified thirty fifth parallel into a macadamized roller skate of a highway stretching from the Atlantic to the Golden Gate via New Bern North Carolina. The plan envisions electric lights police protection and garden city borders with eight hour law protections for workers.
Washington correspondence notes rival candidate efforts for the Democratic and Republican nominations. Friends of Judge Gray and Governor Johnson seek support across the South East and West from Chicago and Philadelphia headquarters, while Harmon backers press for Kentucky Michigan and central states. The electoral math shows 483 votes with 166 certain for Democrats, needing 76 more to win. In Ohio a Taft Cox faction revolt threatens the state ticket as Taft supporters push for delegates at any cost.
The Baltimore Sun notes the President will host a White House conference next month including Governors from all states, Andrew Carnegie, John Mitchell, James J. Hill and cabinet members. It may feature former President Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan as trump cards, framed as a display of national resource stewardship and conscience.
A Mihignatt at Williston advertises a fresh stock of shirt waists from 50¢ to 300 each and trimmed hats including Merry Widow styles. The line features ceiling fabrics in blue brown black and white, belt pins, beauty pins, veil pins, long hair combs, hair puffs, wire puffs, Sailors 25c to 2.00, corsets 25c to 50c 1.00 and 1.50, plus new Japanese silks for waists at 50c.
All sums of and under ten dollars paid in cash. Above that amount a six month credit. Purchaser to give interest bearing notes payable at the Denton National Bank. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. LAVENSA HICKS EF. P. Covey, Auctioneer, J. F. Boothe, Clerk.
Assignee's sale pursues authority from a mortgage involving Walter M Love and Addie R Love to Elmer W Deen later assigned to William H Deen then back to Elmer W Deen. It covers two tracts in Caroline County Maryland along the county road from New Hope to Hubbard's X Roads.
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