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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1936
Page
2
Denton area notices include farm equipment for sale and rentals from Wooters Stafford Everngam and others, shop hours through Christmas, coal yard and heater ads, a photo studio move, and local Christmas decorations. Public notices cover school holiday schedules, welfare board spending, and pension funds. Reports of local thefts and robberies, equipment and produce losses, and two arrests follow.
Mrs Edgar Anderson and children of Bridgeville spent Sunday with Mrs Mary Jackson and family. Zev and Mrs A B Frye of Lewes Del spent Saturday with friends in town. Mr and Mrs Hubert Dill of Magnolia Del spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Wyatt. Mr and Mrs Wilmer Webber visited Mrs Ella Mackey at Woodside Del on Sunday. Miss Jessie Wyatt of Wilmington spent Sunday with her mother Mrs Cora Wyatt. Miss Ruthanna Shulties of Henderson spent Tuesday with Mrs Oscar Nichols. Mrs Georgia Swann visiting Mr and Mrs Ralph Swann at Chestertown. Mr and Mrs Francis Blackburn of New York City are visiting relatives here. Irene Dawson on sick list.
Christmas Eve midnight Holy Communion at St Pauls Hillsboro begins 11 30 pm. Holy Trinity Greensboro holds 7 30 am Christmas Day Holy Communion. Christ Church Denton offers 11 am Christmas Day Holy Communion. Holy Innocents pageant The Holy Nativity at Christ Church Denton 7 pm December 28. All welcome to attend.
The weekly Ridgely News Letter reports the Community Club's White Gift Christmas party with Mrs Beatrice Bowers in charge and funds requested for a foster child by Dorchester Maryland Children's Aid Society. Local clubs held fairs, bridg es, and parties. engagements, weddings, and 4 H Club officer elections are noted along with visits, dinners, and social events around Ridgely and nearby towns.
The Denton M E Church holds 9:45 Sunday School and 10:45 worship with Christmas music and a Junior Choir cantata The Beth lehem pageant follows December 27 under Dr Walter Russell Bowie The Denton M P Church plans Christ on Christmas List songs and stories with a Malachi study Revival at Burrsville M E closes Sunday Rev Estella Gibbon preaches The New Jerusalem Preston holds 11 am service The Epiphany Mission Preston offers Sunday School at 10 am and 7:30 pm service with Bishop Davenport preaching
Afternoon worship at Williston Community Church Sunday at 2 30 p m with Sunday School at 1 30 p m The sermon theme Redemption scripture Romans 5 6 Three Christmas Masses to be held at St Elizabeth s Denton St Benedict s Ridgely Midnight Mass at St Benedict s Christmas Eve 12 o clock Morning Mass at St Elizabeth s 7 30 Christmas Mass at St Benedict s 9 o clock Confessions Christmas Eve 6 30 All welcome
The Love Point ferry Pittsburgh grounded on a sand bar in fog Thursday night last week and was freed at 6 10 p m Sunday by Coast Guard cutter Apache and a tug. Twenty seven passengers and 21 crew were aboard. ten went ashore Friday and the rest Saturday. First mate E J Kelly ill since Thursday confined to berth. Dredge Derrick Dreadnaught used to dig a 200 foot channel to the ferry.
Plans were perfected at a Sunday meeting of the young peoples organizations of local churches for a Community Sing on Christmas Eve. All ages are invited to meet in front of the M. P. Church at ten o'clock December 24 to carol through town and end at the Community tree on the Court House lawn. Rev. T. J. Turkington will lead the carols.
The Twentieth Century Club met December 9 at Mrs Albert Willis home with fifteen members. They discussed welfare parcels, annual reports, and a forthcoming Christmas party at Mrs Evelyn Holden home. Mrs Marie Perry presented the finance report and Mrs Wm Dulin reviewed Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis.
A summary of postwar auto shows praising new cars for beauty power and safety features while warning that speed optimism and better highways have kept accident tolls high. It notes brakes steel bodies and tires improve but driver overconfidence sustains crashes with 36000 yearly deaths. The piece urges caution and respect for modern performance cars.
Eastern Shore Public Service offers a Feather Spice Cake recipe by Ethel M. Hunter. It uses flour baking powder spices butter sugar molasses milk and yields two 9 inch layers baked at 375 for 30 to 35 minutes. Includes Fluffy Mocha Icing with cocoa coffee vanilla and toasted walnut meats.
Reflects on life as an invitation to love work play and admire the stars, attributing the remark to Henry Van Dyke.
The 4-11 Club Senior of Hillsboro met at Mrs. Fisher’s home with Miss Spafford joining as county home demonstration agent. Members enjoyed crochet and knitting after a business meeting, then games and Christmas carols before adjourning for an all day holiday gathering to be scheduled. Various local visits and Christmas events noted follow.
The Queen Anne Community Club held its annual Christmas party with about sixty members and guests. A slate of officers was presented by Mrs. Lee for the coming year. After the business meeting a program featured carols, readings, piano solos, a playlet, and a Christmas enrol. Refreshments followed.
Mrs. H. MacMahan of Preston and Mrs. Emma Reese return from visits in Riverhead and Easton Hospital respectively. A Christmas entertainment is scheduled at Smithson Church on Monday evening, December 28. Local families, including the Bowdles, Willoughbys, Towers, Dew, Wall, Miley, and Perry, visited relatives or hosted guests in the past week.
Mrs L H W Thomas hosted the Sunshine Workers Class Tuesday night with a literary program and refreshments. The class plans an entertainment in January. Guests included Mr and Mrs F N Smith Mrs J A Billings and Sue Smith at the home of Mr and Mrs Arthur Billings of Wilmington. Mrs Eldon Marine will lead the Christian Endeavor service tomorrow evening.
Little James Richard Parsons III, only child of Mr and Mrs J Richard Parsons Jr, died at his home Sunday morning December 6. The funeral was held at two o'clock December 8 at Concord with Reverend L R Dennis officiating. Interment followed at Concord.
Christmas carols will be sung around the Preston community tree Thursday at 7 30 pm followed by a Christmas program at Bethesda M E Church. Bishop Davenport plans to deliver the Epiphany Mission sermon on Sunday December 20 at 7 30 replacing the December 13 date.
Mr Car Gibbon and Estella Gibbon of Pennsville joined by Norman Butler near Farmington Rev Ira Crum Austine Stafford and Mrs John Thawley visited Henry Stafford on Sunday. Lula Pusey spent days in Camden with relatives returning with husband and daughter. Ray and Evelyn Collison hosted weekend visits in Wilmington. Charlie Willis attended his brother's funeral in Wilmington. Pearl Pusey family visited Delmar. James Lewis visiting son Fred Lewis. Most residents report hog slaughtering this week.
RIDGELY Mr. R. E. Fountain left Thursday to spend the Christmas holidays with his son Roland Fountain in Maplewood New Jersey. Rev. and Mrs. Jos Rittenhouse of Easton were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Holsinger on Wednesday of last week. Rev Francis Hensel will conduct a Christmas Eve mass with special music at St Benedicts Catholic. Mrs L M Winstead is visiting her daughter Mrs Roland Cherry and family in Chester. Mr and Mrs William Blackburn of New York were guests of Mr and Mrs Richard Blackburn last week. Mr and Mrs George Walls attended the funeral of Mrs D H Roberts in Easton on Thursday. Mrs George Slaughter and Mr and Mrs Roy Slaughter were Wilmington visitors on Thursday.
Hickman Mr and Mrs J L Stevens and daughter Dorothy were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Harvey Warner of Milford on Sunday last. Mr and Mrs Martin Noble and children Marie and Francis visited Mr and Mrs George E Nichols on Sunday last. Miss Catherine Stevens returned home after two weeks with sister Mrs Pauline Warner of Milford. Del Mr and Mrs Russell Stevens welcomed baby girl Ruth Ann born Sunday night at home. Miss Naomi Fountain was weekend guest of Miss Violet Trice.
A December 17 1986 letter from eight year old Eleanor Pearson in Denton Maryland to Santa Claus asks for a big doll and a snow suit. She mentions helping mother all summer and includes her younger brother Gordon Lewis who wants a kiddie car, plus a note to remember mother father and other children who won’t have a Christmas.
Mrs. W. F. Smith of Nashville announces the marriage of her daughter Margaret Elizabeth to Robert B. Davenport of Greensboro. The ceremony occurred December 9 at National City Christian Church Washington with Rev. Raymond J. Mills officiating. Groom's best man Raymond Oglesby, cousins and Miss Mildred Tatum attended, and the couple plan a home on Main Street Greensboro after a motor trip through Virginia and North Carolina. Mr Davenport works in field operations for Pet Milk Company and is son of J. C. Davenport of Bowling Green Kentucky.
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