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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1954
Page
3
A Christmas message from Bishop Allen J. Miller calls for faith renewal amid a dark world. He frames Christmas as mercy and peace, urging a revival of charity and love, and ends with a blessing for households.
The SANTA CLARA later SUSAN B ANTHONY, a Grace Line liner, sank off Normandy on D Day plus one while carrying 2000 troops. Captains steadied the ship enabling all aboard to be saved. The article stresses the merchant fleet’s wartime importance and current decline with under forty passenger ships remaining.
Henderson couple Mr and Mrs Philip Richard welcome baby boy Thomas Wayne born December 14 in Memorial Hospital Easton. Community notes include visits by Mrs Dora B Melvin and others, Homemakers Club Christmas dinner at Eden Hall, and local residents visiting relatives in Dover Ridgely Greensboro and Wilmington. Master Rickey Palmer stayed with grandparents T A Montague. Montague injured returning from Christmas tree gathering.
Thirteen WSCS members attended a Christmas Party at Bettys Dover last Wednesday. Goldsboro Sunday School superintendents thank program helpers. Memorial Hospital patient Mrs Edward Jarrell and Havre de Grace Hospital patient Mrs Omro Todd update. Thanksgiving turkey dinners hosted by Mr and Mrs Clifford Hughes and other families including Lane and Dennison households with Detroit and Philadelphia connections.
Hillsboro community items note visits and family gatherings. Mr E Edwin Gale and sons spent Sunday with E H Gale family. Orville Mullikin Jr of Maryland visited Ralph Holland. Thomas Cruikshank dined with Nelson Brown. John Decker visited Baltimore. Sadye Wothers spent Sunday with the Wm Cummings in Tilghman. Brown Thawley of Milford joined Russell Eaton on Sunday.
The WSCS will meet with Mrs. T. J. Turkington at her Denton residence next Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. W. G. Holbrook and uncle Mr. J. P. Hilliard were in Cambridge last Thursday. Mr. Artley Clark spent Tuesday of last week in Baltimore.
A survey of truck-trailer drivers cites the ABCs of careful driving as care courtesy and common sense. The Greater New York Safety Council urges compulsory driver training for all high school students as the strongest weapon against highway deaths. The American Automobile Association reports motorists paid over 175 million dollars in 1952 for toll bridges and highways.
A Detroit Times quote cites speed as the top driving mistake of last year. Census Bureau projections forecast 193 million Americans operating 65 million autos in 1975. Other notes discuss pedestrian rights and the need for compliance with traffic laws to save countless lives.
Marydel residents report reunions and holiday visits with relatives in Media Baltimore Philadelphia Dover and Smyrna. Families include Owen Hughes Maud Hummer Pamela Cook F E Snow Emerson Dailey and J S Dailey with gatherings at The Wayside Inn and local celebrations. Several family members are in hospitals and convalescing.
Johnson and Dickie in Newark Del visit. Isaac Thomas couple spent days in New York last week. Toward Logan to spend Christmas with children in New Jersey. Rev C H Atkins Viola Del called on friends Saturday. Elvin and wife to spend holidays with children in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A H Wyatt attended Railroad Association ladies night and Christmas dinner in Lansbury. Community extends sympathy to Richard Has family after his death Friday. Funeral held Monday at Rawlings Greensboro. Wife and several children survive. Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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