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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1892
Page
3
Stage schedules detail 600 A.M. mail departures with routes including North via 100 First Street and Preston, South via 645 Pr. Mt. The fragment notes Vin D. & Co. RR and stage connections, indicating a northern and southern service pattern with morning departures.
A collage of holiday commerce and community events fills the town. Mr Samuel Griffin rents Choptank Hotel for '93 while Jefferson White moves to Hope to clerk for Rich and Holland. Denton merchants display gifts. a savings bank opens in Crisfield with 25000 capital. The Seaside canning factory burns near Berlin. Christmas plays, school reopenings, and measles rounds color the festive period.
A Baltimore sermon by Rev. Thomas A King, pastor of the New Jerusalem Church of Preston, discusses heaven as a spiritual country in the two kingdoms of celestial love and charity, the Holy Ghost, and the recognition of friends after death, drawing on Swedenborgian ideas and Revelations.
In Concord a series of residence and farm moves occur as residents shift to the areas vacated by others. K J Todd relocates near Williamsburg and Robert Saulsbury moves to the Todd farm. Wagamon goes to Georgetown Delaware, Messick occupies Wagamon’s place, Bowdie moves near Hynson, Liden to Bowdie’s farm, Satterfield to Williston, Lewis to his former spot, Reed to Lewis’s former place, Higgnutt to his father’s former farm, Smith moves to Buck farm near Chestnut Grove, Nichols follows, Fenton brothers settle on Harris farm, Alva Hubbard takes their vacated place. C E Todd suffers a puncture wound from a rusty nail. Henry Bowdle dies aged fifth district resident, longtime M E Church member and trustee. Christmas night church services set for 7 pm with a prepared choir.
We have too many carpets and will sell them very low for the next thirty days. Good carpets from 25 cents up. L. P. Cox, Easton. Fancy China, queensware, handker chiefs, neckwear, &c., for Christmas presents, very low at J. M. BEAVEN's.
Denton M E Sunday School plans a Tuesday evening program at the church after rescheduling from Monday. Harris Chapel school exhib its Monday evening with Rev Townsend aiding in music. Christ Church Easton to ordain Rev James L. Bryan D D at Christchurch on Wednesday Dec 28 with service at 11 AM. Children’s Christmas exercises and tree set for 6:30 PM Monday 26 at Christ Church, then process to Court House for the tree. Christ Church morning prayers and Eucharist at 10:30 AM. evening service omitted. Central M E Church to host a Tuesday evening celebration. St Stephen’s Chapel Houston's Branch holds Christmas Day service at 3 PM.
The playful exchange hints at curiosity about science while a joke about dancing with links adds light humor. An advertisement promises Best 150 degree fire test coal oil at 10 cents per gallon, at J. M. Beaven's Hillsborough station.
Mr R E Jarman travels to Baltimore to buy a new outfit for the coming year. Several residents relocate farms including Ife leaving John A Clough's near Bridgetown for W C Satterfield near Greensborough and Wes ley Jarrell moving to the Pippin farm bought by J B Orrell. Henry Kinnamon of Wynett IL visits Caroline. he moved to Illinois in 1869 and notes changes. Mrs Noble, mother-in law of Robert Jarrell, fractures her leg after a fall. Goldsboro youths plan a musical entertainment on December 27 at the Hardcastle dryer. R Jarrell aims to finish a new dwelling by January 1 for Henry C Booker. Annie E Wyatt visits Goldsboro. Jarman near Goldsboro loses a mare on December 16 and George Griffith a horse last week.
Our merchants adorn stores for the holidays with windows like a Columbus landing scene in Mr. T. W. Smith’s drugstore. Lehigh University student Martin Saulsbury is home for the holidays. The postmaster now owns an express wagon for depot mail runs. The Wednesday Club gathers at Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Saulsbury’s home next week. Miss Maud Greer and Miss Ida Marshall are home for the holidays. Ridgely youths consider forming a brass band.
Monday evening the M E Sunday School presents a cantata A Shine for a Nickel or the Boot Black's Christmas with a live Santa Claus. The Foreign Missionary Society Children’s Band has a special service after Sunday School tomorrow with a cantata among other exercises. Presbyterians hold a Christmas service Monday night with music recitations and a children’s treat. A daughter was born to J P White last Saturday.
A good line of clothing offered at low prices with suits from 4.50 and overcoats from 2.50 at J. M. Beaven’s in Hillsborough, inviting shoppers to visit the store for affordable menswear and outerwear.
Captain Elisha S Hobbs a noted Federalsburg resident who supervised track service on the Cambridge and Seaford railroad died suddenly of paralysis last Friday aged about sixty. He collapsed at dinner, lingered, and died about five o'clock. Funeral services were conducted Sunday by Rev Julius Dodd with Col William Coulbourn reading Red Men rites. Interment was at Ames Chapel near Denton. He leaves a widow and six grown children.
The Postoffice Department awarded several mail routes in Caroline county. Contracts include Templeville to Marydel two miles round trip twelve times weekly by C. G. Steele for 130 dollars, and Hillsborough to Willoughby by J. A. Falls for 139.80 dollars. Other routes cover Griffin to Hillsborough by P. F. Stilling 38.70, Preston to Choptank by J. A. Dillon, Ridgely to Denton by F. S. Smith 346.90, Denton through Anthony and others to Preston by W. St. Patton 483, Bridgetown to Goldsborough by P. F. Stilling 150, Federalsburg via Nichols and others to Smithville by C. G. Steele 4 40, and Preston to Hynson by J. A. Dillon 113.
Miss Laura Melvin of Goldsboro and H B Larman, D C railroad agent at Trappe, were married at the M Church South in Goldsboro on Wednesday evening at 6 oclock. Rev F T Griffith officiated, with Mrs Emma Wharton playing the wedding march. Ushers included James Curry, Will Jones, Marion Jarman and Alda Jackson. The bride wore blue Henrietta trimmed in sarah silk. The couple departed on the 6 37 train to Trappe amid rice and well wishes.
The School Board on Tuesday ordered Miss M. Kate Musselman appointed assistant teacher of Marydel public school to replace Miss Sallie C. Rickards who resigned. Schools will close Friday December 23 and reopen Tuesday January 3. The Treasurer is directed to pay ten dollars for maps for Greensborough school, matched by a community raise. Donations approved for library book purchases at Moore's, Henderson, Bethlehem, Willoughby's and Choptank.
A Laurel Georgia clipping reports repeated marriages within Wilson W. Bryan's Oak Grove family. In March Edith eloped with a neighbor’s son, on November 76th Effie wed a Maryland gentleman, and on December 14 the two sons wed, Priestly to a New Haven lady and William to Celia Stevens at Old Bethel church nearby.
J W Kerr cites trees as living witnesses that peach orchards in two Delaware counties show about 2 000 000 healthy trees while eight Maryland peninsula counties report 5 000 000 more untouched by the yellows, contrasting newspaper claims with observed vitality.
Tuesday session saw judges and Register of Wills Steele present. George H. Moore, administrator of John W. Lockerman, presented an account of sales passed. Court ordered notice to creditors of the late E Madison Towers published. Thomas A Satterfield, administrator, authorized to sell personal property of R J Satterfield Sr deceased.
Poem describing Christ flowers blooming through seasons as comfort for sorrow. It likens blossoms to solace in loneliness, snow and dusk, noting their beauty when year nears end. The lines evoke white blossoms, sweet cheer, and enduring hope as December imagery.
Richard Henry Spencer writes to the Ledger with printed matter about the Washington and Chesapeake Railway Company. He notes a contract awarded for construction and states the road will be built. Upon completion steamers will link Oxford and Cambridge. Godeffroy & How of New York hold the building contract for a thirty mile line from Washington to Chesapeake Beach.
J. M. Heaven offers a sale on single and double barrel breech loading guns at greatly reduced prices in Hillsborough. B. P. Cox advertises two week reductions on ladies and children wraps and dress goods in Easton.
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