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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1946
Page
17
Local society meetings and Christmas events fill Ridgely and surrounding towns. visitors include Charles Garey Ridgely on a Jersey deer trip and Miss Patsy Donoho in Washington, D C. The USO and Boy Scout fund drive kicks off as the Ridgely Town Commissioners hire Carlton Andrews as night watch.
Templeville residents and visitors share weekend travels and family visits. Mr and Mrs Oscar Lord with son spent time in Philadelphia while Chester and Wilmington guests enjoyed gatherings with local families including Knotts and Prescott households. The remains of Al Faulkner were interred in the local cemetery Sunday.
Queen Anne hosts a volunteer fire company supper and the Community Club holds its annual Christmas party. Residents, including Mrs. Bernard Sparks Sr and Paul Boyle, travel to Baltimore and Washington for visits and the opera Aida. Maryland State Police Vaughn Pepper visits family in Pikesville. The Wesleyan Service Guild and W S C S serve supper for the Southern Co operative Association.
Mr Charles Boyle, delegate from Queen Anne's County Farm Bureau, is expected home this week after time in San Francisco. James G Nelson visited friends in the area. he now lives with his children in Connecticut and New Jersey. Other items note Wesleyan Service Guild December meeting with twelve members, Tuckahoe Homemakers Club Christmas Party, and callers from Denton visiting the Ellwood Dulin home.
Miss Iva Griffith of Philadelphia and Miss Esther Griffith of Wilmington are visiting relatives in the area during Christmas. Mr and Mrs John Noble and daughter Happy were in Baltimore last Wednesday. A Preston party attended a Friday night gathering at the Dallas Blades home in Federalsburg. Numerous local residents joined dinner guests Friday at Miss Viola Brinsfield's home in Cambridge. Mrs Rachel Baylor and Miss Patty Payne, Hagerstown High School teachers, are with their mother Mrs Clare N Payne. Mr and Mrs Theodore Fletcher Sr and Mr Theodore Fletcher Jr are...
Local families and students spent Christmas week with relatives from Nassa Waddox to Cambridge and Wilmington. Events included a December 19 elementary program “Farewell to Toyland,” a high school dance, church candlelight service, and multiple dinner gatherings among the Nobles, Trices, and Nabbs with friends from Beacom Business College and McDonogh School.
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