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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1891
Page
3
Public business calendars show the circuit court will meet on October 1. Marauding times and routes indicate mails leave via D and C railroad north at 9 00 AM and Preston at 9 45 AM with sky south at 4 45 AM and other lines. The fragmentary text confirms scheduled court action and travel times for the day.
School board notices announce a wild meet on August 18 at UGUST 18 and an Orleans Court session on August 4. Levy Court is scheduled for August 18. The fragment outlines upcoming public meetings with dates and places.
Reports cover camp meetings near Harrington and Denton, weather, church services, and social events. Items include a duck yellow glove color, peaches sold at Ridgely, a cabbage harvest, a Sunday school institute, a lightning strike, and travel for editors to Niagara Falls. Also noted are real estate moves, a large Concord camp ground diagram, and obituaries and farm produce details.
Democratic county convention in Denton elected delegates and approved resolutions endorsing Senator Arthur P. Gorman for Congress and Hon. Frank Brown for governor. The body instructed delegates to back Col. Luther W. H. Gadd for Clerk of the Court of Appeals and named E E Goslin James H Douglass and William Massey as nomination contacts. The gathering adjourned after naming alternates and sending several delegates to Baltimore.
Denton Academy principal Miss Robie Hobbs, praised as an efficient county teacher, has been appointed to a prestigious Friends Society school in Riverton New Jersey. Grand Lecturer Graham Dukehart of Maryland paid a fraternal visit to Temple Lodge Denton this week, staying with John S. Barnhart, lodge master.
The column records visits and travels among local residents and guests from Baltimore Philadelphia and Wilmington. It notes Memorial font installation at Christ Church Denton, harvest rains helping crops but delaying wheat, and various social engagements and visits including Church events and summer stays.
Deaths and infant losses reported cross several families. Harry Merriken Hopkins died June 30 1891 in his sixty first year after six years of illness. He joined a church at nineteen and lived a faithful member until death. Survived by wife Mrs Hopkins after thirty five years of marriage. Roland J Hicks died July 19 1891 at Concord aged two years and two days. Clare Estelle Smith infant daughter of Selby and Alice A Smith born Ridgely July 21 1891.
Fragments describe a hollow world with a canker at the root of trees and leaves that redden before summer. The poem traces decay from birth through youth and manhood to old age, ending with a cloud of tears over a brief life.
Greensborough notes include visits by Will Manlove and Rev J E Kidney from Pittsburgh. Denton defeats Hillsborough 7 to 6 in eleven innings. Queenstown club to visit. plans for Denton Centreville series. Local business moves noted include J Ed Willis brick and tile works and W Richards building blacksmith shop. Parishioners of Greensborough P E Church plan rectory. Satterfields vacation at Cape May.
Miss Belle Percy named teacher at Boonsborough and Miss Georgia Reidling confirmed for Bridge town. Building committees chosen for Chaptank and Hog Creek school houses. Auditors named for the fiscal year accounts. Commissioner to inspect books, buy land for a colored school at Ridgely, and advertise bids for wood.
Mr Samuel Collins aged about 75 died on the 16th alt from injuries after being thrown from his buggy near Williston a few weeks ago with dysentery as the immediate cause. Robert M Messick Bethlehem has enclosed the churchyard with a pipe railing fence and marble posts, gate bears his name and date 1591. Robert Starkey Andersontown near completion of a 36 by 50 foot auditorium on the camp ground with pulpit at rear. H T Nuttle building a cottage on his camp ground site. Thomas Starkey doing the work. There are 1399 tent sites already taken and more expected.
Gen. Agnus of the Baltimore American declines to run as the Republican candidate for governor, signaling a shift in party plans.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Dr Fenner's Soothing Syrup as superior for children's ailments. It promises life and joy at home and guarantees satisfaction with a money refund if not satisfied.
A Federalsburg reunion of Mrs. H. P. Fields family occurred Sunday with all members together for the first time in seven years. Visitors include John W. Fields and wife of Baton Rouge Louisiana and W C Fields of Martinsburg West Virginia. Rittenhouse, a mill worker for James B Wright, lost all fingers of one hand Monday and doctors amputated the remaining part.
Midsummer transfers include T P Fisher to Mary A Daily for 235 acres at 1200 and R Kemp Williams to Fisher for 238 acres at 1430. Other entries cover Todd to Covey for 13 acres at 27, Stevens to Wooters for Denton town property, Loeckerman to Nicey Wright and S T Collins for 23 percent of land at 82, orrells to Grace Church for 1 acre at 315, Lowe to Van Gesel for Denton town property at 500. Road officials announce Greensborough Federalsburg line surveys planned for September and rapid construction possible after legislative ratification, with Vice-President Thomson pushing the project.
Treston Joseph Sisk and Dr Rose of Cordova and Dr Osler of Galestown and Dr Douglass of Oxford and Rev L P Cork ran of Lincoln were among week visitors. Mr J E Nichols of Harrisburg Pa, a Northern Central Railroad brakeman, returned home for a brief holiday. Talks of a harness factory here. Preston and Beurgh ball clubs played a tie at this place last Saturday.
During July, marriage licenses were issued to Frank H. Jones and Susie Bradley John C. Well and Stella Breeding Elijah Benson and Martha J. Pierce James H. Ross and Mary Taylor.
The Democratic State Convention met at Ford's Opera House Baltimore and nominated Brown Smith Poe and Ford for key posts. Delegates from cities and counties wore silk markers as Ennall's camp meeting drew hundreds including ministers from Maryland towns. A storm damaged crops in Hillsborough area while the platform criticizes Harrison and praises Gorman for defeating the Force bill.
Mrs Ella Salloway wife of John Salloway died suddenly at home in Denton on Friday evening from apoplexy. She appeared healthy moments before the attack, grew short of breath, and expired within ten minutes. She was about twenty six years old and left a husband and one child. Interment was held Saturday at two o'clock.
The Prohibition party of Maryland held its state convention at Glyndon Camp on the Western Maryland Railroad and elected by acclamation its 1902 style ticket with Edwin Higgins for Governor Joshua Levering for Comptroller Hosea J. Moulton for Attorney General and Levin S. Melson for Clerk of the Court of Appeals.
Chief mason W F F Leonard of Fowling Creek lays the foundation for Smithson Chapel. The marble cornerstone encloses copies of local newspapers, a subscription list, coins, and a manuscript naming ministers present and directions to notify living ministers the stone has been opened. The church has outgrown the old chapel and work will proceed to complete the new building quickly.
Francis Nichols presented interest and administration accounts of the estate of the late Samuel Nichols. The wills of Joseph Hummer and John Nichols were ordered recorded. Bayard Nichols received letters on the estate of John Nichols. George M. Russum was granted letters of administration for the estate of Jacob R. Kephart.
Gaanumnaher's Pintrabenrura reports store hours through July with Saturday closings at one o clock. The notice indicates abbreviated Saturday operations for the current month.
Shoppers flock to a busy Cotton Dress Goods display with prices slashed to 10c for Mousseline de Find, 12 4c for Sateen patterns, 12 4e for batistes, and 32 for all wool striped batiste. Also six dressy fabrics head to Men's Made to Order Suits at 16.50, with blues and grays, while other suiting ranges rise to 22.50 and 25.00. Clay Serges in ten colors offered at 30.00, signaling substantial savings across fabric lines.
Summer driftwood signals savings on handkerchiefs, with coats of prices showing cheapness for winter. The offer includes pure linen hemstitched handkerchiefs with colored borders at 5c, fine hemstitched varieties at 25c, and plain hemstitched aut 25c, all claimed to outvalue typical 40c goods.
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