Local department highlights and upcoming events
Squirrel shooting will soon begin and taxes due next Friday. Elkton fair dates are September 5 to 8. Denton and Greensborough rail and canning activity noted with fruit shipments and excursion plans. A series of personal notices, post office name changes, weather impacts, and local society events fill the page with community updates.
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Cahall & Jacobs
Denton
Elkton
Greensborough
Daniel Turner
Queen Anne
Clayton
Bay Ridge
Cambridge
Joshua C. Morris
Bridgeville
Washington
Philadelphia
Mt. Zion
Horsey’s Cross-Roads
Sussex County
Federalsburg
M. F. Bennett
Robert Wyatt
Reeves
Death of Preston Citizen in Railroad Tragedy
William R. Smoot, a respected Preston resident, was killed Saturday afternoon when an unexpected extra train struck him near the Preston Bethlehem track. Coroner Dixon’s inquest cleared the railroad company. funeral held Monday with Rev. Wilson officiating. Survived by widow and seven children, with tributes from the Preston community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Smoot
Preston
Bethlehem
Walter Sparklin
Smoot
Dixon
Wilson
M. FE. Church
Preston-Winchester Road
Joanna Valliant
Burrsville School
Changes in Mail Schedules In Maryland
Maryland mail routes updated with new daily schedules. Preston to Choptank departures and arrivals adjusted with Sunday exceptions. Choptank to Preston timings set, plus Preston to Hynson and Hynson to Preston changes. Williamsburg and Walnut Landing connections revised with multiple leg times. Elwood to Beulah and Beulah to Elwood routes synchronized with Sunday exclusions.
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Maryland Star Mail
Preston
Choptank
Hynson
Williamsburg
Walnut Landing
Brookview
Rock View
Elwood
Beulah
Accident at Ridgely Depot Injures Commission House Clerk
W. G. Coburn of Frank Gibson Philadelphia, about 3 years with the commission house, was crushed by a locomotive at Ridgely while alighting on Wednesday afternoon. Foot mashed, facial injuries, rescue by Thomas L. Day. He was too weak for immediate amputation and was taken to Philadelphia with Drs. George and Barton assisting.
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W. G. Coburn
Commission
Frank Gibson
Philadelphia
Ridgely
Thomas L. Day
A Borchester Homicide Report In Dorchester
George L. Austin son of Senator George E. Austin Dorchester shot and instantly killed William T. Phillips son of John H. Phillips Cambridge. Austin surrendered and was jailed claiming accidental shooting. Coroner Justice George B Hart and a Cambridge jury filed the verdict Tuesday stating Austin feloniously and voluntarily murdered Phillips with a pistol shot from his own hands.
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George L. Austin
George E. Austin
Dorchester
William T. Phillips
John H. Phillips
Cambridge
Austin
George B. Hart
Benjamin Hart
George Austin, Jr
William Phillips
Orphans' Court Appoints Administrators in Ridgaway Estate
The Orphans' Court met last Tuesday with Dr Charles H Rose of Talbot presenting the renunciation of James H Ridgaway and James M Arringdale for the Alexander Ridgaway estate in Caroline County. Rose named administrator and authorized creditor notices. Miss Sarah E Hignutt to sell Andrew C Hignutt personal property and notify creditors. Mrs Mary Davis and Dr J C Clark, administrators of Alfred Davis, authorized to sell deceased’s personal property at public sale. I have an overstock of South Bend Plows. Will sell at reduced prices by J M Beaven Hillsboro Md.
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Orphans’ Court
Charles H. Rose
Talbot
James H. Ridgaway
James M. Arringdale
Alexander Ridgaway
Caroline County
Dr. Rose
Sarah E. Hignutt
Andrew C. Hignutt
Mary Davis
J. C. Clark
Alfred Davis
South Bend
J. M. Beaven
Hillsboro
Eastern Shore Politics Contest in Talbot Today
A large Talbot county delegation travels to Ocean City for Democratic contests and a county convention fight. Key players Oswald Tilghman Gibson Seth Turner and ex-Comptroller Turner backers clash over State Senator nomination as United States Senate stakes loom in Wicomico Worcester and Dorchester counties.
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Stevenson
Springer
Black
Ocean City
Sinepuxent Beach Company
Sun
Talbot County
Gibson
Easton
Joseph HB. Seth
Turner
United States
Oswald Tilghman
Seth
Worcester County
Wicomico
Holland
Jackson
Europe
Mr. Turner
Talbot
Dorchester
Somerset
Baltimore and Ohio special excursions to World's Fair
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway runs round trip specials from Baltimore and Washington to the World's Fair at 17 dollars. First class day coaches with lavatories. Camden Station Baltimore at 9:30 am and Washington at 10:45 am on August 36, September 7, 3rd and 21st. Arrive Chicago 1:15 pm next day via Grafton and Bellaire. outward only on special trains. return on any regular train within ten days. Meals stops at dining stations. Tourist Agent and train porter aboard. Contact Chas. O. Scull, General Passenger Agent, Baltimore for details.
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Washington
Baltimore and Ohio
Grafton
Bellaire
Chicago
Chas. O. Scull
Baltimore
Two Wrecks on the Delaware Road
Two serious wrecks disrupted the Delaware road this week. At Middletown on Tuesday a northbound freight rear-ended by No 72 crushed a preceding way car and toppled six peach cars off the embankment. the 72 engineer injured, mail delays of four to five hours. At Porter station Wednesday morning the southbound Norfolk express collided with a freight train. fireman Wheatley was killed and several others injured as track damage halted travel for hours.
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Delaware Road
Middletown
Porter Station
Wheatley
Ridgely Business Booms With Wages and Trade
Prosperous Ridgely reports indicate strong activity across industries with weekly wages around seventeen hundred dollars. Peach shipments last week totaled seventy three thousand baskets, netting growers twenty one thousand dollars, while a daily freight bill reached twelve hundred seventy eight dollars.
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Ridgely
Reformed Church
Cort
T. W. Smith
Denton Journal Gets New Equal Owners Editors
The Denton Journal on Maryland’s Eastern Shore changes hands as Z P Steele and B H Johnson become equal owners with Howard Melvin. Steele, Johnson, and Melvin form a three man team praised by Centreville Centreville Observer Cambridge Chronicle and other papers for editorial talent and strong rural journalism.
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Baltimore Sunday News
Zabdiel Potter Steele
Benjamin Howard Johnson
Howard Melvin
Denton
Mr. Steele
George T. Melvin
Annapolis
Marshall 5S
Mutchler
Caroline
Register of Wills
James B. Steele
Johnson
Journal
Harrington
del.) Enterprise
Centreville Observer
Denton Journal
Messrs. Z. P. Steele
B. H. Johnson
Cambridge Chronicle
American Union
Messrs
Steele and
Melvin
Peninsula
Baltimore Morning Herald
Denton Jour Nal
Messrs. Z. Potter Steele
A. H. Johnson
Anne Arundel Advertiser
Reverend Sam Jones Lectures at Easton Fair Grounds
At least two thousand heard Rev Sam Jones address visitors at the Easton Fair Grounds on Wednesday. The event featured Greensborough cornet band, with many attendees from Caroline. The article notes church cornerstone laid at the new Southern M E Church and mentions several ministers present.
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Sam Jones
Fair Grounds
Easton
Caroline
Greensborough Cornet
M. E
Mr. Jones
School house work progresses at multiple districts
School commissioners received notice of the shutting in of the new school house at Friendship. Furniture for the new school houses at Andersontown and Friendship has been ordered. The Andersontown building has been raised and shut in, with rapid progress. Harcus' new school house nears completion. The Improved Order of Heptasophs has rented the upper room of Hillsborough academy from the school board.
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Friendship
Andersontown
Harcus
Hillsborough Academy
Ridgely Peach Trade Booms Amid Heavy Shipments
Ridgely reports the busiest peach season on record with 10 to 20 loaded cars daily and long wagon blockades near the siding. Prices in markets across Philadelphia Baltimore and New York range from 20 cents to 1.50 per basket as fruit buyers compete. local packing firms Brigham and Ramsdell have produced about 200,000 peach baskets this season.
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Ridgely
Philadelphia
Delaware
Maryland
Dock Street
New York
Baltimore
Kent Republicans
Chestertown
David T. Rickards
Baltimore Custom House
Rickards
Denton Union
Ramsdell
Talbot County Sale and Local Notices Highlight Market Ads
Public sale advertised by Joseph Brown at his residence in Talbot County near Queen Anne's and Hillsborough includes machinery, implements, horses, mules, cattle and more. Also features new dress goods bargains at James H. Smith's Ridgely store, Talbot Fair Association fall meeting notice, registration officer sittings, a store sale by an owner, J M Beaven merchandise offer, Snow Hill council enforces brick construction, fire recovery contracts for rebuilt structures, and the First National Hawk slated for rebuilding on prior plans.
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Joseph Brown
Talbot County
Queen Anne's
Hillsborough
James H. Smith
Ridgely
Talbot Fair Association
Snow Hill
First National Hawk
Which Land is Best under the Sun in a Rhyme Chorus
A humorous verse gathers voices of national stereotypes the German, the Russian, the Irish, the Englishman and the Yankee as they debate which land is best. Their heated banter ends in a shared conclusion that all nations, in essence, are the same, differing only in name.
Lands and waters belong to me decree
Giant Gall issues a royal decree extending dominion over lands waters and people. He commands bread to feed his granaries and fruit to satisfy his hoard while workers toil for a day that never arrives. The radical ruler demands obedience across borders under a divine right.
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Gall
Messenger Returns From Three Weeks At World’s Fair
Mrs. E. F. Messenger has completed a three week visit to the World's Fair returning with impressions and notes on exhibits and attractions.
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E. F. Messenger
Financial Legislation Emphasized by Ways and Means Leader
Chairman Wilson of the Ways and Means Committee says no tariff legislation will be considered in the current Congress session. He prioritizes improving financial legislation, a stance seen as significant from a leading Democratic figure in the House.
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Wilson
Ways
House of Representatives
Congress
House
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