County Agent Announces Tax Ditch Meetings and Ditch Work
County Agent informs managers on 28 Caroilne County public tax ditches to post notices announcing second Saturday of January meetings. Ditch managers must elect a 3 year term, report finances, and coordinate with Soil Conservation District for dragline work. Since 1945 twenty three ditches organized. four ditches viewed in 1953. three have filed petitions for inspection and action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline County
Board of Managers
Old Town Branch Public Drainage Association
Nichols Public Drainage Association
Caroline Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation Service
Old Town
Nichols
West Henderson
Hickman
Broadway
Laramore
Harrington-Beaver Dam
Templeville
Marydel
Oakland
Maryland vegetable goals and wool price support announced
The USDA, via George J. Martin, set Maryland spring vegetable goals unchanged for spinach and cabbage from 1953 with potato acreage cut to 3,700 acres, yielding about 625,000 bushels at normal yields. Wool price support for 1954 set at 52.1 cents per pound grease basis, 1 cent below 1953, and subject to parity changes as of April 1, 1954.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
U. S. Department of Agriculture
George J. Martin
Denton Soldier Graduates From Signal School Course
Pvt. John W. Bacsak of Denton completed the Wire Electronics course at The Signal School Signal Corps Headquarters on December 14. The 21 year old was educated at Caroline High School before enlisting in January 1953. Thousands are graduated yearly with many chosen for outstanding work in military communications. Bacsak will be reassigned to a position using his technical knowledge with the defense network either in the United States or with U S forces abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Monmouth
WN. J
John W. Bacsak
Denton
Signal School
Signal Corps
John Bacsak
Caroline High School
Signal
Baecsak
United States
U. S
Farm Program For 1954 Planned By Caroline County Agent
The Caroline County Extension Service outlines eight major lines for 1954 including 4 H clubs corn soybeans tomatoes swine poultry pasture and drainage with planned demonstrations and cooperative practices. Soil testing via University of Maryland labs will support lime use and the 1954 ASC program with designated soil sample receiving stations in Federalsburg Ridgely Marydel Harmony Preston Bethlehem and nearby Dorchester County farmers also designated as sample collectors. The writer extends Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to 1953 service recipients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Extension Service
Caroline County
Farmers and Homemakers Association of
Farmers and Homemakers Association
University of Maryland Laboratories
J. Boone Jarrell
ASC
Federalsburg
A. J. Hubbard
Mission
James Jackson
Ridgely
Colbert Henry
Marydel
Lester George
Harmony
Andrew Kelley
Preston
Charles Foster, Jr
Bethlehem
John J. Newcomb
Dorchester County
West Jr. Takes Rest Leave in Kobe Japan
Armyist Lt. Carl ton V. West Jr. spent seven days on R and R in Kobe Japan while normally stationed in Korea with the Korean Military Advisory Group. He stayed at a top resort hotel and enjoyed luxuries not available on the peninsula. his wife Bernice of Preston and his Denton parents are noted.
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Kobe
Japan
Carlton V. West
Denton
Korea
West
Bernice
Preston
Caroline High School
Classified Ad Placement Guidance from Denton
Local notice invites readers to call Denton for placing a classified ad. Provides phone contact and basic instructions for submitting text and payment. Includes typical ad categories and turnaround expectations. No names, dates, or addresses provided beyond the city reference.
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Denton
Christmas Time Is Here
Poem celebrating Christmas with vivid imagery of bells singing and joy in the morning air. The speaker Hilda K. Wiggins Love reflects on kindness spreading over the earth and the Savior's birth. The verse describes Christmas as a wondrous, beautiful day bringing happiness to all.
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Hilda K. Wiggins
Snow Flakes by Hilda K Wiggins Lowe
Poem describes snow flakes drifting softly from a gray sky. The verses contrast dreary brown ground and gray day with a carpet of white, suggesting snow brings brightness and cheer as flakes fall lightly. The author signs as Hilda K Wiggins Lowe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilda K. Wiggins
Lowe
Gadsden Purchase of 1853 Strips Arizona from Mexico
In 1853 the United States acquired a strip of southern Arizona from Mexico for ten million dollars. The purchase completed early American territorial expansion and shaped southwestern borders for decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Gadsden Purchase
Arizona
Mexico
Community Visits and Family News From Dover to Wilmington
A Gulliver of visits marks a weekend in the region with Dover born GREENSBORO Ann and multiple families from Bridgeville Denton Wilmington St. Michaels and Camden sharing time. Members of the Collins Williamson Voshells Downey Morris Dobson and Wyatt clans alongside others gathered for visits and family occasions.
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Ann
Kent General Hospital
Dover
Norris Messick
Bridgeville
Harvey Collins
Denton
G. Harrison Nashold
Jo Ann Collins
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
C. C. Williamson
Wallace Johnson
Daniel Sherwood
Wilmington
Alta Voshell
Camden
Del
Jas. Voshell
Donald Travis
Donald, Jr
Washington, D. C
Nelson Bishop
Irving Morris
Donna
John
John Shockley
St. Michaels
Kenneth Bostic
Chester
Noble Sipple
Robert Downey
Paul Biggers
Biggers
Ann Fields
William Haines
Washington
Paul Dobson
Thomas Dobson
Harvey Jones
In Memoriam for P F Torbert Departed 1953
In memory of my dear husband P. F. Torbert who departed this life one year ago December 26 1953. One sad year has passed away I often sit and think of you and think of how you died. It is lonesome here without you and home is not the same since you were called away. Only God knew best trusting to meet in a place of rest. Sadly missed by wife and family.
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P. F. Torbert
World Replies With Lesson After Grinning Graduate
A young man fresh from college exclaimed I have my AB. The world answered Sit down son and I will teach you the rest of the alphabet. The quip highlights the gap between academic achievement and practical knowledge. It reflects a humorous perspective on learning beyond formal education.
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Burrsville Ditch
Colored Farmers and Homemakers News
Gale Electric Company
Cordova, Maryland
Skipton
Alexander’s Music Stor
Cambridge, Md
Sunbeam
Dominion
Proctor
M. Griffith Denton
Greensboro Road
Greensboro
U.S
Knollwood Rag
Butterfly Farms
New York
Rag Apple Gay
W. T. Lockerman CO
Crownsville
C. C. Williamson, Jr
Clayton Wyatt
Gary
Mattie Wyatt
J. E. Weaver
Clifford Heinold
Dorothy Swann
Georgia Swann
Roland Taylor
Paul DeFord
Ben S. Trice
F. Vincent Wright
Susie Wright
Bobby
Memoriam
Bakers Hy
Thomasville
M. J. Grove
Sai EE Pena
Soil Service
Walter B. Palmer
Mgr
Ice Plant
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