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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1904
Page
3
Orphans Court will convene on April 26 and Levy Court will meet on April 26. The announcements indicate scheduled sessions in the local circuit and related courts. Names, places, and precise actions are unspecified in the fragment.
Advertisements show Lewis Slaughter selling a small farm while carpenters and painters stay busy. The cold wave hurts fruit growers and strawberries. Tax changes and bank capital increases occur as fires, ship repairs, and bridge concerns draw attention. Personal items note weddings, relocations, and society events in Caroline and Talbot counties.
A meeting of prohibitionists convened Wednesday at the Holiness Mission with T. L. Trice presiding. Delegates to the Salisbury convention were elected including Williams Truitt Thawley Towers Porter Hynson and Bloxsom. alternates Trice Trice Taylor Chambers Wilson and Saulsbury. Volney B. Cushing of Bangor Maine, a nationally known lecturer, addressed the audience. Also spoke at night. Berry check orders urged.
The Provident Savings Bank site at Front street between El bert Douglass residence and John son Bros store is chosen and building will start soon. The B A A Railway Co. takes over mail from post office to the rail station as the post office is within the depot radius. Moore Miller of Har ford county looked to erect a canning house or buy a site nearby Preston. Rev Wilson Lewis of Cranesville WV begins duties at Bible Holiness Chapel with wife to join soon. Vignettes note the passing of James Tf. Douglass, a well regarded man. Local trio W H Wallis, Levin Reed, John E Henry and Chas M Johnson joined a Baltimore excursion last Thursday.
Caroline county laws tighten net on fish sizes and muskrat season and set fines for violations. amendments authorize dock school funding and bank charters in Federalsburg Ridgely and Greensboro. tax, treasurer reforms, and almshouse realignments detailed with new duties salaries and deadlines. gypsy band license law expands enforcement and seizing property. good roads bill heads to voter ratification.
Margated Mr. and Mrs. Chas W Jacobs returned from Florida last Thursday. Mrs. Jacobs left again for Charleston. Dr and Mrs Nicols were warmly welcomed and urged to settle in. Mr and Mrs Sidell have left for Philadelphia. Miss Mayme Segelken of Oxford visits her brother WH Segelken. Miss Hennie Hall of Wilmington visits. Temple Jump and bride from Cheswold visit. J Seward Danley of WCA Dover spends weekend here. Mayme Gooden of Henderson visits Helen Jump. Rev E W H Collins spends a day with friends near Mt Pleasant. James Morgan is ill.
Mrs M B Marsh and daughter Gladys return home from Calvert county after a visit with sister Mrs J B Slaughter. C U Adams moves his mill to Mr D U M Nobles woods to save lumber. Rev T S Wright is reassigned to Caroline circuit for a fourth year. F T Paisley resumes work at Greenwood after a Sunday visit home. Mr and Mrs C M Pritchett with family visited Whitelevsburg friends. Elwood Spicer of Philadelphia visits Hobbs on business. Ladies Aid to be hosted by Mrs John Eaton Wednesday evening. Mr and Mrs E M Willey visit Mrs Nathan Corkran. Farmers report a busy season.
Mr and Mrs Harry Moore entertained friends on Tuesday evening for their fifth anniversary. Mrs Cliff Parkman Hand of Baltimore visited relatives in and near town. Andrew Lives and son Harold returned from Baltimore. Mrs Howard Jarman of Berlin visited relatives nearby. Mr and Mrs Samuel Vail of Wilmington visited. John Brown of Baltimore visited N Horsey. R J Raughley guests in Baltimore this week. Ladies of the M E Church plan cream sales this summer.
Apner notes many youths attended the drama Under the Laurels at Music Hall Federalsburg on Tuesday evening. Miss Katie Adams and Miss Breeding joined Miss Sunice and Miss Ola Wilson as guests last Sunday. The Epworth League cabinet met at Mr and Mrs John Rosset's last Tuesday. Eva Satterfield returned home from a visit to her sister Mrs Leonard Covey. Mr and Mrs Will Todd spent Sunday with the Coveys.
Miss Edith Dill spends time in Baltimore while Ethyl Scott visits Bertha Longfellow. The brief notes social visiting between residents of Whitteleysburg highlight local ties and travel.
Miss Mattie Day was hosted by Mrs S Alhott Shaunahan in Laston last week, as reported by local society notes.
An article lauds Mr Goslin as Ways and Means chair for guiding all appropriation bills without changes, praising his diplomacy and integrity alongside Mr Morrison. It also reports expansion of free rural delivery in Caroline County with multiple new routes from Ridgely, Goldsboro, and Greensboro, detailing routes, mileage, areas served, houses and population.
V Building Notes reports multiple Denton projects. Contractor Gootee will construct a glass-front store on Main and Fifth for B. W. Parker, 24 by 80 feet, two stories, plus an eight-room dwelling on the adjacent west lot. Cootee to build dwellings for J Thlavanne on Tilorey or Fifth Avenue and a south addition on Barnhart nursery land for J J Gelletty. Fleetwood to enlarge a farm dwelling. J H W Brown building on South Seventh. Somers Blake to build an East Denton dwelling.
Edith Hutchinson Trice died Sunday April 17 aged 11 after months of illness. She wished her school friends from Harmony and Laurel Grove dressed in white to attend her funeral. Rev Jones of Grove conducted the service, Miss Mary Todd sang Beckoning Hands, and interment followed at Grove cemetery.
Assistant Fish Commissioner Hughlett reports a distribution of young yellow perch across multiple Maryland sites in April. The plan lists quantities of 2,000,000 on most dates and locations including Wye River Chester River Goosehill Creek Queenstown Creek Little and Big Back water rivers Knott's Mill Tuckahoe Todd's Millstream Transquakin Chicha maconico Corsica River Tred Avon Miles River Horse Shoe Bend Chop tank.
Principal Murdaugh announces a Special Summer Course at State Normal School Frostburg Md from June 1 to July 9 1904. Courses include Primary Work Teaching and Psychology Mathematics Physics Book-Keeping Latin English and History Nature Study Drawing and Primary Manual Training. Free tuition. board at reasonable rates. Lectures on School Management Administration Law and Economics by Murdaugh Dryden Olin 2 Roe and others. Model School practice under experienced teachers. Designed for teachers seeking next fall certificates. write for information.
If you want noteheads billheads envelopes posters dodgers programs or other job printing at reasonable prices berry checks or earners stationery send your orders to the Jovryan. We guarantee excellent work that will give entire satisfaction.
Mary Davis the one year old daughter of Rev and Mrs Holt died Wednesday morning at one. Funeral held at seven thirty Wednesday evening. Remains sent to Cecil county Thursday for burial. The High School drama Under the Laurels drew large crowds at Music Hall. E C Foster bought out Rufus Poole and will manufacture boxes and baskets on an adjoining lot. Children’s Homes agents from Baltimore and New York toured the area. G S Neal’s mill and box shop advancing for spring trade. R W Messenger traveled to Baltimore on can shop business. Mr Ashcroft of New York visited Stowell home. J M Wright rebuilding on Bloomingdale avenue. The can shop is finished and machinery installed. Homer Wright adding improvements to his new home.
A Tuesday performance of Miss Topsy Turvy drew a good crowd and earned a respectable sum. The play moves to Jump's Hall, Queen Anne, Thursday the 28th. Arbor Day was celebrated with students performing a flower drill under Miss Hubbard and Mrs Knotts. Various local social notes follow.
Henderson and Mrs Marvel entertained guests including Mr and Mrs Geo Marvel of Busies Mr and Mrs Chas Marvel of Wyoming and Mr and Mrs Wm Marvel of Bridge Ezekiel Gooden and Allie Sweeney have secured positions in Wilmington and Philadelphia Roscoe Taylor of Dover visited friends Sunday and Miss Andr Moore of Dover visited her mother Sunday.
Mr James Wright led a party of youths on a yacht pleasure trip to Cambridge last Monday. Mr Orland Wright has the lumber in place and will soon start a handsome residence. Miss Frankie Price visits her sister Mrs Cora Willey in Cambridge. Miss Nettie Dean of Baltimore visited friends in town Sunday and Monday.
An early Wednesday fire destroyed the home and meat house of Mr. Chas. E. Wright on the road to Smithville. Mrs. Wright lost most clothing and kitchen utensils. The blaze started from a chimney spark. Insurance listed at 150 dollars. Our constable closes with the line A charge to keep I have.
Templeville residents report Mr. Davis Temple of Philadelphia visiting his parents Mr and Mrs J T Temple for several days. James Clark and son Maylin of Mortis Plains attended the funeral of William P Clark, brother of James Clark. Mrs Laura Dailey spent time with her parents in Philadelphia.
The farmers are busy plowing their ground and preparing it for planting corn. Miss Lola Smith, who has been quite ill, is convalescing. Miss Elva Poore is on the sick list.
Newly appointed Reverend C. E. Dryden will reside in Greenwood for a period while the parsonage at the new appointment is prepared.
A short anonymous verse links patience and sunshine with love and a happy home. It notes that hope brightens rainy days and charity eases a weary way, presenting a warm moral vignette about daily virtue.
In Orphans Court on Tuesday last, Mary KE Jester through E W Deen secured an order to appoint William L Jester as trustee to manage trust funds from the will of Olisha W Andrew. Bond approved. A Wayne M Wayman estate inventory approved. Real estate sale ordered for William Morgan case with guardian ad litem appointed. Liden estate sale petition filed. summons and publication granted. appraisers Reynolds Y Collins and William T Hignutt appointed.
The survey team lists T A Cheen L B Leopold Ferguson Harrison Olin Smith B J Green B F Crown Jr J C Gaither Jr C W Thorn ton Ralph Hutchins Thomas M Owens D G F P Crouse 8 S Dwight Landon W Carvel Hall Joseph Sinclair L La Bass R D Budd Carroll Cladwell C A Clunch J D Jack T H W Moncure J W P McGregor C R Ridgely Neville Montigue R B Spence and G T Whelton. The maps color code roads with good roads solid and private roads dotted, showing each house stream railroad civil and political divisions and geographic names. Elevation points marked, contour lines depict hills.
The county commissioners approved Walter H. Lord from Seventh district and John T. Fleetwood from Fifth district as constables. Thomas A. Litterfield was authorized to repair Ringgold Green to Henry Porter corner. William T. Baker will repair Burrsville to Chilton’s campground, Burrsville to Townsend’s Cross Roads, and Chilton’s campground to Anthony’s Mill. Jarrell and Medford met Queen Anne’s officials at Garey’s Mill Branch bridge, agreeing on a new bridge. They refused to pay p175 for seven weeks of smallpox nurse service.
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