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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1929
Page
5
Items from across the county are gathered under this column, inviting readers to submit news and short notices for publication. The page presents community updates, upcoming events, and local happenings in a concise, period-appropriate style.
Denton community items include a banquet, plays, church events, a pancake supper, and a move against Sunday moving pictures. Local officials discuss weather, snow, and preparations for spring farming as well as a fatality of a well known horseman. A federal court session ends, with plans for July, and obituaries note Mr. George W. Camper. Rotary Club hosts speakers, with community club help and court officials in attendance.
Denton hosts the eleventh annual Temple Lodge No. 128 A F and A M banquet in Masonic Hall with a large turnout. Toastmaster Hon T Alan Goldsborough introduces Fred W C Webb who discusses the Constitution and ratification trials. Performances by Miss Margaret Sherwood and the Parletts, plus music by a home talent orchestra, conclude with benediction. Also reported is Willard C Todd and Mrs Wilhelmina AW Todd celebrating a golden wedding anniversary with a family dinner at their Williston home joined by four children and grandchildren.
Robert W Medford 83 retired farmer died Sunday evening. Funeral was held Wednesday from his son William R Medford s home in Williamsburg with Rev H M Ralph officiating. Interment in St Pauls Cemetery Hurlock. Survived by four sons and three daughters. Also notes a Cambridge theatre party for Mrs J R Charles birthday and a hospital visit for William S Williams. Mentions local electric light installation and a brisk building boom amid balmy winter weather on the Del Mar Va Peninsula.
Jane Wine of Denton Maryland, a Club Congress member at the International Exposition in Chicago, received nine fountain pens from the National Live Stock Producers Association for the best letter describing her trip and participation in the entertainment and luncheon. She was among 37 winners. The association, which managed $150,000,000 in livestock cooperatively in 1928, will publish excerpts in its February magazine National Live Stock Producer.
John Pably aged 50 died at his home after a brief illness of complications. Funeral services were held January 20 at 2 o’clock, interment in the Catholic cemetery between Denton and Greensboro. He leaves a widow and daughter Mary. born in Austria Hungary, son of Joseph Pably. Wide circle of friends will miss him. Local social notices list several visitors and acquaintances visiting or visiting from Wilmington, Goldsboro, Chester, Wyoming, Harrington, Easton, and other nearby towns during the week.
The Harrington January PTA meeting in the High School Auditorium featured a health topic addressed by Mr. Messner and L. G. Markett, urging support for Harrington’s sewerage system. A night school for adults was discussed, with seventh and eighth graders presenting club work and readings by representatives. The program closed with the school orchestra and Bernice Calloway reading Edgar Guest’s poem Team Work.
The Twentieth Century Community Club will hold its next regular meeting on the 6th in the Community House at Bethlehem with the first and third Wednesdays of each month set for 1929 dates. Members are urged to attend to show support for Miss Spafford. The M. P. Church Ladies Aid in Choptank had no January meeting due to sickness. the February gathering will be on the 8th at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Spence with full attendance requested.
Mr and Mrs Willoughby Nowell of Denton were guests of Mr and Mrs John Parris on Sunday in a social visit reflecting local hospitality and community ties.
Rev A C Baugher of Elizabeth town Pa will preach at Ridgely Church of the Brethren this evening and Sunday morning. A conference with Easton and Fairview churches is planned for Sunday afternoon at Fairview. Rev H K Ober of Elizabethtown will speak on Orange Blossoms Sunday evening. Numerous visits, social events, and community club plans are noted along with local church activities and school updates.
A compact collection of adages by Ben Jonson Franklin and Burgh on learning, discipline, and heedfulness. It presents cautions about self instruction and resisting affliction, urging timely listening to life lessons and consequences.
The Orphans Court of Caroline County met with Judges West Harper and Shawn. Orders authorized Layman J Redden to assign stocks for Marriott S Redden estate. Inventory and appraisal filed for George T Redden. sale order granted. Alverta Webb filed final administration for Charles E Webb. Jonas Shaner will admitted to probate. Bonds filed and creditors notice ordered. Johns E Hoffman James Walker named appraisers. Kents filed inventory and appraisal for Lillian E Kent. Clera Sullivan estate letters of administration granted to Harry L Sullivan. bond filed. J Roe McSorley and Edward Brown named appraisers.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South holds worship with Rev. Lee H. Riedereck leading 9:30 Sunday School and 10:30 service, Rev. T. J. Lambert presiding elder to preach at 7:30. Nightly preaching by the pastor with Rev. J. W. Ensley assisting as revival continues. Quarterly Conference at the parsonage Saturday at 8 p.m. Local social notes mention visits and illness among residents including the Messicks, Wrights, and Kemp families, and moves of Rev. G. S. Lightner and Mrs. Marion Covey.
News from Preston Fourth District highlights the Preston Community Club meeting at Mrs. J Frank Lednum's home on January 28 with hostesses Mrs. E Douglas and program committee members A W Sisk Wm Cannon and Miss Bessie Phillips. Blanche Stowell spoke on Women in Politics and Club Women. Myrna Carson gave a sketch about Madame Schumann Heink.
Sophie Kerr’s Mareea Maria set in Caroline follows Mareea a passionate Italian woman who clashes with Wes Dean and his mother Allie Dean. The Philadelphia Public Ledger review praises Kerr’s character work and the tale of land love and conflict with Mareea triumphing after Wes is killed, amid community scrutiny.
Robert Parker Miles, famed New York journalist and editor, will appear Thursday February 14 at the C H S Auditorium. His anti vice campaigns, world tours, and popular lecture tours have made him a renowned public speaker and crusading editor, shaping national reform across tobacco, gambling, and white slavery.
Tickets for the Senior Class Play The Whole Town's Talking are 650e reserved seating at Davis' Drug Store. The event occurs Friday February 8 at 8 o'clock in the C H S Auditorium with a plot featuring Ethel Simmons and her love, a dancing teacher, a Dutch father, and a prize fighter in a dark fight scene.
H. H. Nuttle chairs a new Forestry Council in Caroline aimed at reforestation of idle lands and better forestry practices. Membership includes forest wardens and Maryland Forestry Association members with no dues. Caroline growers will plant loblolly pine seedlings this spring on unproductive land. 1000 seedlings per acre from State Forestry Nursery, College Park. planting by Nuttle and Ellwanger in 1928 shows strong survival.
Turkey breeding flocks of Denton residents Harvey Towers and George Shaffer have been certified by the Maryland Poultry Association. State Inspector P. J. A. Raper evaluated vigor size and breed standards. Towers and Shaffer will offer surplus hatching eggs and baby poults for sale.
Tomato growers planning an early market meeting at the Denton Court House Tuesday afternoon February 6. Topics include production and marketing factors with L M Goodwin Canning Crops Specialist attending.
In sad but loving remembrance of our dear father Roger E. Adams who departed this life two years ago January 26 1927 We miss you and long for you in sorrow The poem speaks of rest in the grave and the family’s quiet faith and love expressed through memories and flowers planted.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ahtes of Chester announce the birth of two daughters, Virginia Marie, on January 26. Mrs. Ahtes formerly Miss Mattie Mitchell of Greensboro. Numerous visits and social calls mark a weekend, including Denton residents Larrimore and Porter, Paul Longfellow and Ruth Wheeler with Coulter family in Trainer, Pa. Other featured names include Irving Van Sant of Washington College, Chestertown, and a report of the Kinnamon family visiting from Marcus Hook. Two sons born to J. Keene Saulsbury on January 22. Karl Dingledine leaves for St. Louis to study aviation.
Vernon notes that Thomas R. Clancey is among ten selected by the College of the City of New York to play basketball, with nearly full four year tuition due to excellence in academics and extracurriculars. The text then lists multiple social visits and gatherings across Wilmington Dover Frederica Magnolia Burrsville and Philadelphia with various local residents and families. The article reads as a social column detailing visits, dinners and hosts including Mr and Mrs George Ellers and Mrs Amanda Melvin among others.
The Fox film Fazil shot under Howard Hawks in a blistering Arizona desert for two weeks. Fox staff built a Moorish Castle and planted palm trees while the cast led by Charles Farrel and Greta Nissen, with Mae Busch and others, screens February 4 5 6 at Dover Opera House.
Mr and Mrs H A Porter welcomed Miss Neil Raphalie of New York Mr and Mrs Fred Hopkins of Frederica Mr and Mrs Coursey Hammond of Harrington Mr and Mrs Harry Kemp of Queen Anne Mr and Mrs W T Bullock and Mr and Mrs Clarence Lofland also attended. Mrs Enos Cleaves spent part of last week with her father near Church Hill Md and Mrs Chance died of flu last Saturday. Enos Cleaves family attended Mrs Will Chance funeral at Church Hill Tuesday. Messrs Brown Thawley Harold Hopkins and Robert Garrett spent last week end in Chester Pa R H Stafford visited Philadelphia this week.
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