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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1949
Page
7
Classified buyers advertise baled peas and wheat straw hay and two animals for sale. A spotted gentle riding horse and a half breed young pony are listed by Joe Schneider in Denton Maryland with contact phone 7233.
Sunday School at 9 45 A M led by Walter B Palmer, Superintendent. Morning Worship and Sermon at 10 45 A M. All Sunday evening and mid week services cancelled until September.
Grace Methodist Church on Main Street Denton Maryland lists Rev T J Turkington pastor. Sunday School 9 45 a m with John R Ricards as superintendent. Morning service 11 a m Evening service 8 p m Prayer Meeting Wednesday 8 p m Choir rehearsal Thursday 7 p m.
Ames Methodist Church Hobbs Maryland lists morning service at 9 30 Sunday School at 10 30 with Manning Merriken as superintendent.
The church offers 10:00 A M Sunday School 11:00 A M sermon 7:30 P M night service with vesper youth led Missionary meeting at 8:00 P M. The sixtieth wedding anniversary of Elder and Mrs J W Krabill will be marked as their children and grandchildren contribute songs and readings at the 11:00 service.
August 14 1949 schedule shows St Elizabeths St Benedicts worship and confession times plus August 15 services. Concord Grove Grove Harmony and Choptank and Grove Bloomery note worship and Sunday School hours. Concord Bloomery reports no services during August. Chestnut Grove American Corners Chestnut Grove listed.
Dora B Melvin and Miss Catherine Melvin spent several days with Mr and Mrs Lewis Shelton in Sadlersville. Phillip Vivien J E Walls of Dover called on Mr and Mrs L M Montague on Sunday. The Montagues hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Tom Allen near Dover. Bonnie Lou Shelton of Sadlersville visits grandmother Dora B Melvin. Mrs Harvey Thompson remains a patient in Memorial Hospital Easton wishing for a speedy recovery. Michael Bachman near Wilmington visits his grandparents T A Montague. Cartwright of Richardson Park spent Tuesday with the Montagues. H L Melvin and family visited Edwin D Dill and son in Rising Sun Del. Thomas Allen family spent Sunday at Riverview Beach, WN J. J Omer Jones visited Lola G King in Wilmington. Sida Orr Frampton spent last Saturday in Ridgely. Winifred Dixon near Dover visits grandmother J H Thornton. Norman Stubbs family visited W C Goodman Milford on Sunday. Niles Clark near Wilmington spent a few days this week.
A brief Cooper Furniture Co. advertisement touts better value at Cooper's with local phone contact in Denton.
The message mourns Robert E. Kenny who died Friday August 5 1949 in Bethlehem Maryland. It speaks of suffering endured and faith in rest in the holy land. Missed by sister-in-law Mrs. Harry Hignutt of Denton Maryland.
On Thursday August 18 at noon at J. M. Brubaker farm Willow Street Village Pa four miles south of Lancaster 60 Holstein cattle 45 registered 15 grades 55 fresh heavy springers five bulls from high producing dams consignors include I V Otte Red Rose Farms Abner Risser Raymond Allebach Methodist Home for Children Norman Rishel John Witmer Lawrence Lindquist Lewis Duerr many animals from Canada fat 400 600 lbs two time milking 20 young cows and first calf heifers come to the 78th Garden Spot Sale an established event all animals sold as represented good trucking and free transportation available contact R Austin Backus Mexico N Y Earl Groff Strasburg Pa Local representative
Assignee's sale of valuable property in the Circuit Court for Caroline County equity matter CHY. No. 4297 under order of publication. Legal action directs sale by the assignee to satisfy claims in the case filed in this jurisdiction. Further details on date, place, and terms are presented in the publication.
Calvert C. Merriken, assignee, offers at public sale the real estate in Hickman village Caroline County following a mortgage from Otis E. Breeding and Mary E. Breeding to Jessie Stinson Merriken dated 1948 now foreclosed. The notice includes divorce proceedings for Wannetah Miller Howeth with a court order requiring appearance by September 26 1949 and publication in Caroline County newspapers. Property features a 10 275 square foot lot with a 1948 dwelling wired for electricity. payment terms: one half cash day of sale and balance at ratification or all cash, with notes secured by purchaser.
Lawrence Vickery owner offers personal property at public auction starting 10 am at the farm road from Andersontown to Concord near Concord. Items include cows calves horse hogs hay equipment household goods and farming implements. After personal property sale, 51 acre farm with eight room bungalow barn outbuildings and clear tillable land will be sold cash day of sale.
A church advertises sermons at 2 30 p m on the first third and fifth Sundays of each month.
Commencing at 10 30 A M the following items to be sold Philco radio Becker Bros piano trola records antique sofa dining suite dishes beds feather beds wardrobe bureaus chests ladies desk oil stove water heater Frigidaire sun lamp ironing board electric iron window shades linen silverware and many more Mrs Minnie L Baggs William Andrew Auctioneer 7 5 31 Plus church schedule Rev W BR Dudley pastor services listed Sundays and Thursdays
A roundup of church schedules across Greensboro Maryland and West Denton detailing Sunday School and worship times, prayer meetings, and youth activities led by pastors H DuBois Grayson H Wheatley and Laura B Albright with service times including 10 a m Sunday School 11 a m worship 7 45 p m evening services and midweek prayer meetings.
Jamaica lawyer traces cryptic notes to 110000 dollars deposited in many town banks by a former vaudeville star using different stage names. Each note linked to a different bank account. Feature on Frugal Flora in The American Weekly August 14 issue via Baltimore Sunday American.
Melvin E. Brown owner hosts a public sale at the farm one mile from Denton on New Bridge Road starting at 10:00 A M rain or shine. Auction lists 8 purebred Shorthorn cows 10 Guernseys and Holsteins 1 purebred Shorthorn bull 213 years old 6 or 7 month old shorthorn bulls 17 grade heifers and more farm implements including an International H tractor plows cultivators a 52 R combine and numerous David Bradley tools. Most machinery bought new within two years and the herd tested for tuberculosis with vaccines where noted.
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