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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1953
Page
16
Christmas 1953 message urges worship and rededication to God and country. It prays for steadfast faith, gratitude for American blessings, and blessing for the sick and persecuted. It calls on prayer for leaders and unity among nations toward freedom and peace.
A Clifton Forge editorial recounts a London anecdote in which a crowd interrupts a socialist speaker. The tale ends with a firm reminder that under socialism or communism people are forced to obey orders, a commentary on dictatorship and control.
A sequence of land transfer records dated December 1953 and earlier covers numerous parcels across Election Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, and 8. Transfers include Alexander Karpinski to Harold Jopp and back. Harold Kathman to W A Stewart Wright and back. Ellwood Bridegroom and Layman Redden exchanges. George Truitt Sr to Arthur Hull. Wesley Thawley to Raymond Carroll. Bennister Meredith to Nuttle Lumber and Coal. J Robert Eddington to Joseph Towers. M E Noble et al to W Lee Jester. Jester to Enoch Nuttle. Samuel Fogle to Robert Downes Jr and back. John Taylor to Leonard Williamson. Jacob Covey and Dora Mitchell exchanges. Charles Butler to Calvert Merriken. Corkell pair transfers. and various listed residents of Dover, Harrington, Henderson, Bridgeville, Milford, and Preston with ages and towns noted.
A Greensboro pair Francis Allen Jarman 22 and Mary Ellen Cohee 19 obtained licenses. Additional licenses listed include John E Truitt 22 of Bridgeville Del with Virginia D Snowberger 18 of Greensboro and several Delaware and nearby residents pairing off in marriage licenses. The column notes other names: Sewell J Whaley 43 Lincoln Del Cinderella L Hearn 25 Barwyn Pa Rodger H Post 32 and Betty O Jones Felton Del Lionel Phillip Nault 43 and Viola Newspaper Aob Hlye.
A notice urges readers to call Denton at 10 to place a classified advertisement. The item promotes using the number for submitting listings and related notices.
The Reese Theatre in Harrington announces its 25th annual New Year's Eve Midnight Stage and Screen Jamboree on Thursday December 31 at midnight. The program features Smoky Daniels, Kandy & Koke, Shorty Long, Smoky & Henry, Jackson & Miss Sugar, The Westerners and the Happy Landers plus a complete movie lineup. Tickets are $1.20, doors open 11:30. Health public notices urge Christmas Seals to fund tuberculin case-finding and X-ray screening programs.
One hundred fifty thousand missing persons must be found to keep you safe from tuberculosis. There are an estimated 400,000 active TB cases in the United States today, of which only 250,000 are known to health authorities. Tuberculosis can be cured if the chain of infection is broken.
Christmas week here was filled with visits from relatives and friends. Notable mentions include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stanton and families, Dr. Louis F. Richards of Baltimore welcoming a daughter, and Mrs. James Carmine visiting from Wilmington. Bethesda Church hosted a Christmas program with Nativity scenes and a White Gift service. The Monday Bridge Club met with Mrs. Lee Noble, while families in Seaford and Easton shared holiday meals and hospitality.
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