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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1938
Page
6
A sermon emphasizes paternal duties and privileges, urging fathers to actively engage in their children’s lives rather than remain distant. It cites Eli as a cautionary example of weak influence and contrasts godly fatherhood with failing sons, urging personal integrity, consistent faith, and family-centered national well being.
A dense OCR style word puzzle lists many clues and partial answers across numbered items. It mixes definitions for both horizontal and vertical entries, including ancient terms, animal names, plants, and generic descriptors, with final solution promised in a future issue.
Summer schedule effective June 17 1938 lists daily and Sunday ferry departures between Annapolis and Matapeake with times from 7:26 a m to 12 p m and 7 30 to 12 midnight for Matapeake, plus Matapeake to Annapolis times and notes pedestrian and direct connections via Romancoke to Claiborne. Includes c and e annotations for connections.
The Board of Supervisors of Elections for Caroline County announces registration sessions for all qualified residents. Officers of Registration will sit in each district or precinct from 9 AM to 9 PM on the date following Tuesday, September 6, 1938, at Henderson, Greensboro, Denton precincts, Federalsburg, Hillsboro, West Denton, and Ridgely locations.
Assignee offers for sale at public auction the 224.15 acre farm in Caroline County Maryland in the Fifth Election District, three miles north of Federalsburg on the Federalsburg to Bloomery Mills road. The deeded property includes a frame dwelling, barn and outbuildings, with 105 acres cultivated and the rest woodland. Terms require $500 cash at sale and balance after circuit court ratification, with taxes adjusted to June 30 1938. W D Gould did., Assignee. James Temple, Auctioneer.
Pedestrians will be transported by motor coach on trips between Matapeake Romancoke and Claiborne with departures at 9 00, 11 00 a m, 2 00, 4 00, 6 00, 8 00 p m from Romancoke and 8 00, 10 00 a m, 1 00, 3 00, 5 00, 7 00 p m from Claiborne.
Notice to Taxpayers lists tax collection sessions in Federalsburg Covey and Williams American Corner Sartain's Greensboro Fire House Hillsboro Thompson's Hardware Henderson J. C. Melvin's store with dates September 8 10 22 24 and times from 1 p m to 6 p m 5 30 p m and 4 p m across multiple locations.
In Equity No 2949 Chy this 16th day of August 1938 the court orders Warren F Sterling Receiver of The Goldsboro Bank to offer and sell at public auction the bank assets including mortgages notes judgments and other evidence of indebtedness not paid The sale will be at highest bid for cash and subject to court confirmation Notice of sale time place manner and terms will be advertised weekly for two weeks in a Caroline County newspaper A detailed list of assets will be available at the Clerk's Den ton office the Receiver and his attorney True Copy Test: T. Clayton Horsey Clerk.
The Administrator of J. Ed. Wyatt will begin at 10 a m selling at the late home on Seventh St Denton the entire lot of personal property. Items include bedroom suites outfits dining room and living room furniture rockers lamps clocks kitchen range glassware and chinaware sewing machine tools harness lawn mowers firewood and various small goods. Sale to occur rain or shine.
Court orders the sale reported by W Brewster Deen, Assignee, to be ratified and confirmed unless objections are shown by October 20. A newspaper notice must run four weeks before September 19. Reported sale amount is 500 dollars. T Clayton Horsey, Clerk.
The order dated August 18 in these proceedings by W Brewster Deen Trustee is to be ratified unless a contrary showing is made by October 20. A copy must be printed in a Caroline County newspaper four weeks before September 19. The sales amount is $1900. true copy.
A trustee under a Caroline County equity decree will publicly offer for sale the canning house property and dwelling at the DeWitt Lane and Company premises in Goldsboro Maryland. The action, Chancery No 3479, names J Frank Lane as complainant and Esther A DeWitt et al as defendants. Sale will be to the highest bidder on site in Goldsboro.
Real estate and cannery machinery in Goldeboro Maryland to be sold September 3 1938 at 2 pm. Property includes canning house two large warehouses a dwelling and equipment with three vintage trucks. Decree directs one third cash at sale balance in six months or all cash option. Auctioneer A J Dhue.
All creditors of Grant DeWitt late of Caroline County Maryland deceased must file claims with the Clerk of the Circuit Court by November 4 1938 or lose rights to estate. The estate will also offer at public sale eight acres adjoining the DeWitt Lane & Company canning house property as described in deed from Goldsborough Knotts and Thawley Trustees to J Frank Lane dated March 17 1934 recorded in Liber TCH 94 folio 219. Wesley E Thawley attorney A J Dhue auctioneer.
Georgia nna Clough and Lemuel R Clough appear as plaintiffs in a county chancery matter identified by No 3469. The sparse OCR reads as a docket header noting parties and case number in a legal action.
Mortgagees will sell at public auction in front of the Denton Maryland court house the Deen storehouse land and Fowling Creek Mill site with mill pond and dam. Parcels include a two story storehouse building and a one acre sixty four perches mill site described in deeds dating back to 1884 and 1918 with note that Parcel 2 carries a $15,000 debt to Reconstruction Enterprise and bids payable half cash day of sale and balance after circuit court ratification with title papers and revenue stamps at purchaser cost.
The subscriber of Caroline county has obtained from The Orphans Court for Caroline county Maryland letters of administration on the personal estate of Joseph P Harris.
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