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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
3
County notices list public business items and court sessions. Chevit Court meets October 1. Levy Court convenes September 25. Orphans Court gathers August 23. Senator Board schedules meetings for August 23.
August weather continues as Seashore visitors depart. Denton area notes cover school opening dates, local planning, bank and business ads, house sale, revival meetings, sermons, and social events. Public notices mention railroad shop plans, teachers examinations, and local honors. Dental and medical figures referenced. numerous community announcements and personal news items fill the page.
Mr and Mrs D W Davis entertained many relatives and friends. Among guests were Mr and Mrs George Webster of Baltimore Miss Lettie Wheatley of El Dorado Miss Mamie Wheatley Ethel and Lelia Bamberger of Cambridge Arcy Wheatley and Verlon Stack of El Dorado Rev T C Smoot and family of Galena visited his sister Mrs Thos Todd this week Th H T Nuttle and family spent several days at Rehoboth last week.
Mr and Mrs C H Todd and their son Lyman with other Concord residents vacationing in Ocean City on Tuesday. S P Shipman is spending his vacation with Dorchester county communities.
Mrs A Street Waters of Baltimore visits J Yates Scrivener at father John Mackintosh home. Many locals and visitors traipse through town with extended stays in Baltimore Rehoboth Ocean Grove and Harrisburg. Canning season opens with a short tomato crop due to heavy rains. farmers busy with corn and tomatoes. For sale A 7 room dwelling on Sixth Street in Denton. Apply F B Norrie Denton Md.
County commissioners received engineer Uhler's plans for a new bridge over the Choptank River at Greensboro. They will tour the site on Monday and likely begin the improvement. Now is a good time to subscribe.
A knightly tourney at Old St. Joseph's in Talbot concluded with a coronation in the grove. Rev. John N. Daughtery of Cambridge delivered the coronation address as James Slaughter crowned Miss Eva Callahan queen of love and beauty and other couples were named in the order of heralded honors. Sheriff T. Frank Seward of Caroline served as a judge.
Packing houses statewide expect a busy six weeks despite a short tomato crop. Canning volume drop hurts county commerce, yet packers distribute thousands through trade channels. August and September bring extra wages for workers, with post season settlements stabilizing grower centers.
Instructors will gather at Caroline High School for an upcoming teachers institute next week. Notable participants include state officials Dr M Bates Stephens and Dr A D Yocum, local superintendents from Centreville La Plata and Denton, and educators such as Miss Pearl Griffin and Miss Mary Gray. Lectures at Masonic Hall will feature Prof Morimoto with topics Japan and People Tuesday and The Far East and the Far West Wednesday.
Stewart White of Western Kent county Delaware drove toward Medford Mills with a wheat load when the county bridge gave way after a rain. The barge and wagon plunged fifteen feet into the torrent. White escaped by swimming while rescuers saved a living horse but eight bushels of wheat were lost.
A fire early Tuesday destroyed N. L. Tribbitt's storehouse with furniture stock on the first floor and a carriage and sleigh on the second, valued over fifteen hundred dollars. Firefighters arrived promptly but low water pressure hampered efforts. nearby dwellings were saved. Insurance on the property was arranged through Lark and Brother.
A Clifton Virginia girl eight years old praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as fine as silk for stomach aches. She recounts severe pain last night eased immediately after taking the remedy, which is sold by local druggists.
Freight only 4 cents a bushel. Plenty of grain sacks at Greensboro, Denton and other points furnished free of charge to shippers.
The campaign for Uncle Big Jackson- The Brikery Evil begins with Congressman Smith visiting several counties and meeting thousands of voters. The Poco moke Ledger-Enterprise urges the Republican opponent to start early, engage voters personally, and act decisively. Smith canvasses personally, urging voters to support him for Congress.
From the Wicomico News and Cambridge sources comes discussion of Hon. Wmn H Jackson refusing a money driven nomination and opposing vote buying while campaigning. The piece contrasts Congressman Smiths resilient effort with Burke and Jackson contesting credentials and a Dover editorial on pulpit anti bribery messaging. It highlights Jacksons stance and Smiths demonstrated work ethic.
A column urges women to seek beauty from within through careful living, diet tailored to individuals, fresh air, and exercise. It warns against cosmetic fads and hard water, notes wrinkles can be softened by massage, and calls for district managers to post signs and distribute samples for Shear Co. at 39 Randolph St., Chicago.
The Great Baltimore Jubilee and Home Coming committee announces poetry submissions from Maryland and neighboring states for September 9 to 16. Judges will assess the entries with Mayor Timanus to honor a Jubilee ode, with poems ranging in length and metre and no prize specified.
Levin Butler a deaf and dumb colored man died of consumption in a Philadelphia hospital at about 65. He served the Flaharty family in the Fourth district from boyhood and was beloved by white residents in Preston. After Mrs Flaharty’s death he lived with her daughter Mrs Walter Todd until his passing. Burial was arranged by Mr Calvert Todd in Preston. The note also mentions resignations, laborer hires, watermelons and cantaloupes shipments, and local visits including Miss Grace Stevenson and Ocean City visitors.
A sorrowful memory notes the July 25 1906 death of George W Dill aged 48 at his Andersontown home with verses from sister Fannie. It also remembers Lyman Lee Grey son of George S and Fannie Griffith who died August 25 1905 at eight months, in a mother’s poetic goodbye.
The Wicomico News reports a prospect of a new railroad on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A Wabash representative and a Pacific Express official visited Salisbury to study routes avoiding ferries, with a favored charter route through Baltimore County and nearby counties. Strong trade in potatoes and other produce lures the line, as growers seek competing rail service to Chicago and St Louis.
Ex Governor Elihu E. Jackson of this county appears to be in fighting trim again with prospects for a gubernatorial nomination next year. The return of William Pinkney Whyte to the United States Senate and Jackson’s bid for the state’s top post fit the Osler theory and its solar plexus blow to the idea.
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