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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1926
Page
4
Publication note showing weekly Saturday issue published by Melvin and Johnson Incorporated with Benjamin H Johnson as president and treasurer and Benjamin F Johnson as vice president and secretary. Entered at Denton Maryland Post Office as second class mail matter for Saturday morning August 14 1926.
The Tri-State Packers Association met in Easton on Friday August 6 with Maryland Delaware and New Jersey tomato packers present. President N N Fooks announced a $100 prize fund for best packing method of fancy tomatoes to be judged on practicability and quality with a minimum load required and likely sold at a public auction.
The 1926 wheat crop on the Del Mar Va Peninsula averages 30 to 45 bushels per acre with several fields reaching 60. This surpasses previous Eastern Shore yields and could rival the best in the United States for the season. Growers credit unusually favorable weather for the exceptional harvest across Del Mar Va counties.
Dr J ST M Knox Jr chief of the State Bureau of Child Hygiene recommends a well balanced diet rich in milk fruit and vegetables with meals at regular hours ample sleep at night and a nap during the day. He cautions this is especially vital for prospective first graders entering school in the fall and identified as underweight at state child health conferences under the State Department of Health.
In East New Market Maryland on the Eastern Shore a boy named William Van Edmond son of Jacobs was born in October 1862 and three years later six miles away another boy named George Creighton Carmine was born, with no striking unusual events recorded in the brief note.
Destiny mapped out a pair of Maryland sons to tackle a task viewed as Herculean. Carmine would dry up the Atlantic while Jacobs would mop up the Pacific, a unmatched mandate set after long years.
A historical sketch recounts General William Potter and his era in Caroline County including tannery remains, a rebuilt grist mill, and the Potter family land transfers. It notes will provisions, the 19th century wharf and ship channel, early sail and steam boat traffic to Baltimore, and the community’s shift from Potter’s Landing to Williston.
Mr and Mrs Daniel O Rourke spend a week with Mrs O Rourke s sister Mrs Edgar S Willis and their three children Lawrence Gertrude and Agnes. Mr and Mrs J M Brown Mrs Elizabeth Carey and daughters drove to Salisbury on Tuesday to visit Billy Carey in hospital.
Misses Delman and Nettie Mann return to Pikesville after visiting Miss Addie Lord. Mr. Charles Lord goes back to Baltimore after Concord camp visit. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lord hosted Mr. L Carroll and his young son Richard of Easton. Mr. Lloyd Covey returns to Philadelphia after time with parents. Toward Wright of Philadelphia visits his brother Fred Wright. William Orme remains on the sick list, with hopes for a quick recovery. Miss Laura Sullivan admitted to Easton Hospital.
A memorial notice recalls Anna Mae Spence who died August 16 1924 and a mother who passed February 5 1926. The family writes of missed love and tears, promising remembrance and faith, signed by Olivia I Lord and family.
An elderly visitor in the city samples éclairs at a tea shop with his granddaughter and hesitantly questions the treat’s doneness. The girl teases him while he critiques the pastry, noting a possible underbaked middle in a cautious, humorous exchange.
A hundred years ago Michael Faraday discovered benzene, a six carbon six hydrogen compound. The revelation altered chemical thought, likened to oxygen's role today, and envisioned as a hexagonal ring with hydrogen at each vertex.
A newly married couple argued over a tiny rodent with each insisting a different name. They parted, then reconciled recalling their foolish dispute, each admitting how ridiculous the quarrel seemed, as recounted by the Hachester Democrat and Chronicle.
The attorney for widow Lona G. Clark offers at public auction the valuable dwelling and lot on Market Street Denton Caroline County Maryland. Sale in front of the Court House door Tuesday September 7 1926 between 2 and 4 PM. The property includes a modern home with bath water and sewer electric lights porch barn and fruit trees on a cement paved street. Terms: one third cash day of sale and balance in 12 and 18 months secured by mortgage or all cash. Title papers at purchaser's expense. J Owen Knotts attorney and James Temple auctioneer.
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