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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
4
A harvest of varied local items fills the page from Denton and nearby towns. Reports cover farm activity, fruit prices, and business notices including watermelons sold for $90, harvests of Elberta peaches, and new positions for local workers. Also noted are weather impacts, road and rail updates, school trips, a hospital superintendent election, and a fatal mushroom poisoning case affecting Rochester relatives.
Social notes from Caroline county recount the marriage of Rev. Dr. S. J. Smith to Miss Rebecca Stockley in Pittsville and list numerous visitors and residents from Denton, Easton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Dover, and Wilmington, with repeated mentions of travel, hosting, and social engagements around town and nearby towns.
Hobbs and Collins families from Preston host and visit relatives in the area. Miss Dillie Merriken returns from Hebron after a visit with Miss Freeny. C E Collins completes a timber tract project near Concord. Baltimore guests Elmer Cohee family depart. Edwin Paisley sometimes visits Wilmington Business School. Bohemian shanties moved for occupancy. Miss Georgie Roop enters Emergency Hospital Easton to train as nurse. Wm H Murphy & Son ship pulp wood to Wilmington in 5 foot lengths. Jno H Bell and Miss Mary Leverage visit from Sadlersville. Wesley Towers of Harmony visits C S Collins. W Walls of Marydel visits his son Fletcher. Miss Ethel Smith of Queen Anne visits Bessie Towers. Ethel Paisley returns from Baltimore.
Henderson scene as Coffin brothers and mother Ellen Coffin visit over Sunday. Virgie Rowe returns home to Greensboro after a stay with Viola Pritchett. Numerous relatives from Philadelphia Ridgely Wilmington and Del appear visiting, plus travel notes of McKvaine Turner Gough Ayres and others.
Mr Reese Dick visits after thirty years away. Mrs Ora Bowdle and children, Mrs Alice Stafford and family, Miss Ira Russell, Florrie Dill, Ethel Cahall and Mr Arthur Cahall spent last week at Concord camp. Tred Hopkins and sister Coursey Hammond return to Frederica after visiting their mother Mary J Thawley. Vertie Cahall and Bertha Trice of Harrington visiting nearby. Lulu Pedrick and children of Wilmington visit brother R W Dill. Rev Thomas Sard and family back from two weeks with New Market friends. May Gootee of Denton at A T Porter home this week. Ben Sheppard of New Castle guest of John Parris. James A Stephens with family in Crisfield. Miss Maggie Melvin convalescent.
Fire near Mrs. Francis Green’s home in Ridgely was checked by neighbors after an oil stove toppled spilling burning oil on the carpet. Little damage occurred. Nearby, Elberta peaches sold at 1.05 a basket. white fruit priced 25 to 50 cents. eight peach cars shipped Wednesday. Local visits include Lucas Cooper of Philadelphia and Miss Mary Vosmus of Denton. various residents visiting Dover, Milford, and Wilmington. Sussex Levy Court plans to drain cypress swamp into the Pocomoke River, opening 5,000 acres of land.
The Pentecostal Grove camp meeting opens with Rev. George S. Kulp in charge and ministers from multiple states. Attendance is large with visitors from Baltimore and Washington. over fifty professions reported and missionary talks by Rev. Kilbourne, Slater, and Warren. Rules limit meals on Sabbath and ban disturbances within the camp.
Road Engineer Uhler filed the year end report with the County Commissioners listing total expenditures of 15990.11 including labor 7237.37 carpenters 37.25 lumber 499.10 hardware 45.48 pipe 1410.83 repairs 154.93 shells 554.42 feed 3544.01 vehicles 235 sundries 142.22 harness 194.95. At year end on hand valued 1518.66 with last year adding two mowers a four horse wagon a road house and terra cotta pipe left valued 212.38. Each annual report is kept as part of county records.
Week ahead weather summary notes high temperatures around go degrees and a low of 58 degrees. Precipitation totaled 1.29 inches during the period.
Hillsboro reports many residents and guests this week including Thomas Hackett returning to Pomona California after months here. Visiting strings include Mrs L R Adams and family from Reading Pennsylvania and Ray Helms. The Sunday School excursion to Rehoboth Beach was a grand success. Local canneries opened to begin tomato canning. Multiple visits to Baltimore Easton Philadelphia and Atlantic City noted with various relatives and friends visiting or staying with local families.
Mr and Mrs Tilghman Cahall of Greenwood and Mrs Simpson of Philadelphia were guests of Mrs S C Adams this week. Mr and Mrs IL Homer Cohee and children of Delmar spent the week end with Mr and Mrs Thos Cleaves. Miss Edith Noble and Miss Etta Hanson of Philadelphia were guests of Miss Ida Meloney last week. Miss Frank of Philadelphia is spending time with Miss Harkins. Mrs Chas W Melvin of Philadelphia is visiting friends here.
The article notes Rev. Mr. Lard of Burrsville preached at St. Pauls M E Church last Sunday evening. Rev T A Scott of Wilmington will fill the pulpit on August 16 in morning and evening. Dr W W Goldsborough of Greensboro serves on the State Commission on Public Health and Hygiene, which met in Baltimore on August 14. Miss Sallie Culbreth of Greensboro visited friends in Oxford. Rev BR Tyson returned from a vacation trip.
Hartley Grange No. 26 will hold an ice cream festival on Saturday night August 5 in the P.O. 5. of A. Hall. Mrs Arthur Griffith of New Jersey and her brother William are visiting their parents. Mr and Mrs Frank Pearson of Philadelphia are visiting his parents. Wilson Bearman of New Jersey is spending a week at home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jump died August 3 at her home in Ander sontown at eighty four. She survived by her husband the late Daniel Jump and bore illness with faith in the afterlife. She died firm in the hope of a dwelling place in Paradise. A Friends obituary notice.
Miss Cora Downes of Philadelphia visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. E W Downes while Mr Ollie Connelly of Hurlock returns home after a visit. Miss Lena Howard spends time in Baltimore for a period.
Oak Grove. A Viola correspondent of the Dover Delawarean says Rev. Melvin E Wheatley, our beloved pastor, left on Monday for a two week's visit with his parents at Oak Grove. During his absence he will assist Revs. Marion Tingle and Fogle at Wheatley and Melson camps.
Planted in 1825, David J. Wilson's Harford apple orchard is bearing a fine crop this season. Local growers note the trees show strong yields and fruit quality, with improvements from decades of care and selective pruning.
A flood of obituary notices from Denton recalls Mrs. Ella Liden wife of Judge Edward W Liden dies after long illness at home. Also listed are funeral details for Burton W Parker and Mrs. Mary R Brown with interments in local cemeteries. Other notices include Park Avenue resident Frank M Poole and Lottie Cleaver obituary details and Willard S Dill Arm strong Hotel proprietor death from Bright's disease.
At the State Bureau of Immigration monthly meeting Superintendent Hines said the agency solved the farm labor problem during their administration. They placed 240 men with farmers, with mixed outcomes, and noted slack immigrant arrivals to Baltimore this summer.
A fine sand clay road east of town built by the county with state aid, contracted by Mr L Towers, has been accepted by the State. Travel has greatly increased on the road since the improvement was completed, and autoists enjoy many spins upon it.
A country editor recalls nearly buying a new $3500 car, only to be jolted awake when three bed slats collapsed trapping him on the floor, a humorous aside on the era’s affordable automobiles.
A local cooperative creamery operating over twenty years in the northern part of the state shows steady growth with about 500 patrons and June output of over 57 000 pounds of butter sold mainly to the New York market. The plant budget includes a 3 000 dollar property and standard equipment, a six director board, a manager and a buttermaker, all chosen to ensure steady product quality and low friction in governance.
Dr Bosley warns in Baltimore that typhoid control hinges on cleanliness and no sharing of items used by patients. He urges constant bed linen changes, spot free rooms, boiled water, and avoiding impure or suspect spring and woodland streams to prevent spread.
The Democratic platform and Ocean City nominee Covington stand out as capable. Covington, in full vigor of manhood with mature judgment, is a gifted lawyer at Talbot bar and county State's Attorney with a large civil practice. He blends party loyalty with independent thought and promises an active, pushing campaign and industrious representation if elected.
Government officials from the Board of Engineers of Rivers and Harbors met about a hundred farmers and business people at Mr H M Thompsons office in Hillsboro to discuss opening the Tuckahoe river channel from Waymans wharf to Hillsboro. They noted interest from Caroline Talbot and Queen Annes counties and expect a recommendation in the next rivers and harbors bill.
A leading packer reports that there will likely be less than half a tomato crop on the Shore. Vines appear healthy with no fruit and blossoms scarce, while blight and scorching strike other areas, supporting the forecast of a reduced harvest.
Rev. Stephen P. Shipman, of Hurlock and former Caroline pastor, was nearly beaten to death by Thomas Carew of Somerset County. Carew’s wife and mother incited a brutal attack after an in-home dispute, with Shipman filing for church action and Carew pursuing divorce proceedings.
The state roads commission will advertise for bids to build a mile or two of road in Caroline County near Greensboro as the initial test under the state aid law. Governor Crothers says selection aims for a practical observation of road type and speed of construction with no delay in surveying.
Advice on preparing land with heavy manure for alfalfa and proper drainage, plus timing for late summer sowing of twenty to thirty pounds per acre. Also promotional blurb urging attendance at the Easton Fair noting superior cattle and hog exhibits.
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