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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1902
Page
3
Saturday morning February 8 1902 items of news from Alabama county offices list upcoming meetings. Circuit Court will meet April 7 Orphans Court will meet February 11 Levy Court will meet February 11 School Board will meet February 11.
Ridgely residents hear of Henry Sinclair and F G Slemmer bringing simple steam powered canning units to farms. A 3000 cans per day machine fits beside a stove, needs little water or fuel, and can be hauled on a wagon. Sinclair exhibits the device at his Ridgely store while local news covers upcoming lectures, local business moves, and social notes from Ridgely Maryland.
Mrs. Lona A. Culver owns a half gallon can of peaches canned in 1886 with no mould and firm fruit. Samuel Culver Sr. just returned from a two week visit to Easton Maryland and Laurel Delaware. Mrs. Andrew Deen is ill at her son T A Deen’s home near Fowling Creek. Several school children are home with chickenpox. Sylvester Andrew will run the B W Parker packing house this year. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bradley visited friends near Greensboro last Sunday. Mrs. Wm A Griffith has been on the sick list for some time.
Businessmen in Federalsburg push to shell and improve the Puckham road amid town boom. Residents note poor road conditions hindering convenience and growth as the community eyes further development. A humorous drama for M. E. Church fundraiser airs Friday. Local visits include Roland Webster family from Cambridge and Miss Agnes Elliott in Seaford. Earthquake-like Ardwick explosion effects felt locally.
Mr W T Jones, a enterprising jeweler and optician, has opened a Henderson branch he visits each Wednesday. Sleighing remains enjoyed as bells ring and townspeople revel. The postponed Progressive Supper was moved due to weather. James E Comegys and Ella Breeden wed at 7 30 by Rev Kennard. Miss Estelle Hearn and Miss Blanche Graham visitant Mrs Jump. J F Russom traveled to Baltimore on business. Ethel Bryan visits Mrs Barton.
The weather page notes a central storm period beginning February 7 spanning the 7th to 10th with cold air gradually yielding to warmer conditions. Barometric drop starts in the western regions and moves east, winds shifting southerly and easterly. Storms on February 18 and 20 show tropical influences with lightning and thunder especially to the south. A brewing storm period ends February as March arrives.
Inclement weather halts most business except wood chopping as heat drives demand. A eight month old child of Mr Charley Cannon died suddenly with interment at Concord. Denton High School students find the train convenient, while local roads are nearly impassable.
Tuckahoe work on the cannery of T W Smith at Tuckahoe Station is delayed due to bad weather. Once conditions improve, finishing touches on the warehouse and storage room and cannmaking house will proceed rapidly. Mr. Replogle, suffering from a neck and face cancer, is reported improving and believed cured.
Demand for oyster shells increases as limited oyster houses on the lower peninsula diminish supply. Prices rise and shell roads on the Eastern Shore face deterioration. Scarcity drives up value of shells used to solve road problems in the region.
On January 24, pneumonia claimed Isaac Monroe Slaughter beloved son of Lewis and Minnie Slaughter aged six months and nineteen days. A religious couplet follows. An excursion to Baltimore is announced for next Thursday with brief details.
The court decides the Dukes Downes freighting dispute. It holds the Beck ownership of the disputed judgment was reasonable and dissolves the injunction. The case ends with dismissal of the bill and no accounting due to lapse of time and statute limits.
A solicitor offers six telephones to groups of farmers at 18 dollars yearly per instrument for a three year contract with bridging instruments and metallic circuits. The plan lets farmers choose members to join, building a line when six names are submitted, expanding to well to do farmers within ten miles of town.
Rev W B Godbey answers a reader asking if a man can be a lawyer and a Bible Christian He says yes a lawyer is a business man whose duty is to expound the laws of the land and uphold justice and equity If honest he can be a good Christian and keep salvation intact through lawful work Subscribe for the Journal.
Bad weather reduced attendance at the teachers association meeting. It was adjourned to March 1 with full attendance planned. Papers on Teaching and Class Management and School Room Decoration will be presented by named teachers and discussed by others. A round table will be conducted by Examiner Crouse.
Justice Richards heard the case at Sadlersville where Charles Rolph claimed damages from Charles Ross over 800 bushels of corn at 50 cents a bushel. No written contract or payment. Ross said corn was in the crib when sold, making the deal non binding. Ross sold 400 bushels to another dealer as prices rose to 63 cents. Judge Hackett sat out. decision favored Ross.
The Comptroller of the Treasury details sums paid and taxes due from county offices. Register of Wills Robert J. Fump remitted 370.27 plus 320.08 taxes on collateral inheritances. Register’s fees total 822.66 with 165.00 for clerical work. Circuit clerk Charles W. Hobbs lists licenses and civil taxes totaling several thousands. County Treasurer Charles H Whitby paid 7,883.05 on the 1900 levy. State’s Attorney Towers reports 1,114.90 in fees. Local institutions paid taxes: Denton National Bank 108.05, People's National Bank 70.25, Eastern Shore Telegraph and Telephone 15.19, with gross receipts taxes 175.38 and 245.08 for Queen Anne's Railroad.
Emory Scollen, Dover resident, was imprisoned to obtain a judicial ruling on a new Delaware law. He faced charges that punished concealment of goods held under attachment. At a public sale, Dailey offered attached property. Three vehicles bought by Scottenhaul were previously attacked by Mrs. Flaherty in a Dailey claim. Judge Pennewill ruled habeas corpus released Scollen, saying the law applied only to defendants in attachment cases, not innocent third parties.
Mr. Janes H. Nichols who has long operated here in shirt making plans a new plat factory at Lewes in connection with the steam laundry. He has secured an option on the laundry site and hopes to run about one hundred machines at the Lewes plant.
Farmers and hunters push a bill to extend open seasons for quail rabbit and other game. It would repeal and reenact sections governing hunting times in Caroline county, aiming to unify local and general laws and empower landowners to regulate hunting on their lands.
Captain A A Price of Trappe will lead Holiness Mission services tomorrow with preaching at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., Sunday School at 2 p.m., song service at 7 p.m., and preaching at 7:30 p.m. Rev J E B Smith to lecture soon in New Jerusalem Preston and Denton. Communion at Methodist Protestant tomorrow morning after sermon. Greensboro Methodists seek a new church funded by $3,000 in pledges. Further revival aids in Greenwood and Denton M P Church conference at 7:30 Monday. T F Tabler of Easton begins meetings in Wilmington. Seventh Day Adventists plan a church at Oxford.
The schooner Memento Mori owned by Towers and Wallace M Mason sank near Clara's Point this week. Captain Mason telegraphed the owner on Thursday with few details. Towers thinks no one was drowned and hopes the lumber cargo for Waters & Son Baltimore is not a total loss. Lumber was sent by Jt T Rittenhouss from Hog Island. The crew listed includes master Mason mate Prettymin Manual Lane and Clinton Mason.
The State Bureau of Immigration reported 63 additional arrivals to Maryland in the last three months. Most were Germans and Swiss with some Dutch and Scandinavian migrants. A Swedish farmer visiting Maryland praised the state and planned to return in fall with family and friends.
A very pretty wedding was solemnized in St Elizabeth's Catholic Church Denton Thursday morning at 10 30 by Father Ferdinand The brides Miss Josie Wil loughby Hobbs and Mr Louis H Brogly Greensboro were attended by maid of honor Miss Susie Willoughbly and best man Mr August Brogly Ushers were Philip Lawrence George Schriber Louis Kibler and Mike Kibler After a sumptuous supper the couple will reside near Greensboro Other local notices include career move of Charles E Stevens to Home Comfort Range Co and various residents' comings and goings with postings from Lakeland Fla and Baltimore region.
Rev. E. Nicholson of the Maryland Anti-Saloon League spoke at M E Church on Tuesday about temperance, agitation, legislation, and law enforcement. He noted strong Eastern Shore support for abolition of liquor licenses and said petitions are circulating in Talbot, Caroline and Queen Anne’s counties to ban the sale in Chapel district.
The steamer Caroline, built by Baltimore Shipbuilding and Drydock Co for Queen Anne's Railway and Equipment Co, honors Caroline county. Hull steel 200 ft long, 31 ft beam, 12 ft 9 in depth, 30 in stroke, triple expansion engines with 16, 25, 42 1/2 in cylinders, four steel Scotch boilers, contract speed 16 mph, capacity 2000 to 1200 passengers, four staterooms and director room on saloon deck, dining saloon on main deck, interior white and gold.
Some Peninsula growers oppose the Hort icultural Society decision to replace peach baskets with carriers. They warn carriers raise packing costs and harm profits, citing markets in Providence Albany and Boston where carriers reportedly fail to sell Peninsula peaches. Carriers cost 15 cents each, baskets cost the same and hold similar fruit, with uniform sizing required for carriers.
Good seed potatoes are necessary for a large harvest. Do not economize on seed by cutting into small pieces. Use whole seed and give more room to the rows. Sprouts break ground while eyes sprout, and full potatoes yield bigger tops for plowing. Cutting seed loses money in the crop.
The March issue of Bazar of Fashions providing guidance on next spring dressmaking styles is available free if you mention this paper. It also explains how to receive it monthly.
Multiple notices report deaths in Caroline Queen Annes and surrounding areas. Miss Isabel Jewell died after a long illness at her mother's Franklin street home aged 52. Jennie Hollingsworth aged 34 dies in Queen Anne’s district leaving a husband and six children. Lillian A Hutson daughter of N A Hutson dies aged 13 in Baltimore. Other obituaries note Dr J T Eskridge of Denver Col, Luther W Jewell interment changes, E Scott Payne head of Baltimore hardware firm dies, and Jonathan Harrington choked to death at Delaware State Hospital. Funeral services listed with Rev J T Richardson and Rev P H Rawlins officiants.
A Ellwood correspondent cites a February 2 report of loud, thunderlike earthbound sounds at 10.25 p.m. heard indoors and outdoors. Many locals, including frightened residents, believed prophecies of an approaching earthquake for Friday. Sounds moved southwest to northeast, resembling ice cracking but louder.
In a Philadelphia fruit shop window two gondola shaped baskets hold plums at ten dollars a dozen and peaches priced at a dollar a dozen, both from English hothouses near London. The peaches are ripened on estate grounds for artful perfection. Strawberries temptingly price 75 to 99 cents a quart, or two dollars a quart for the finest fruit.
Mr. Joseph T. Gough occupies the new store replacing the one destroyed by fire about a year ago at Bear Station. Gough is the Delaware Railroad agent there with J. E. Moerriken as assistant ticket agent and Walter Sapp as night operator. Register Wilson of Kent county grants letters of administration on the estate of Philip Marvel to David Marvel. James C. Godwin buys Brooklets Avenue lot to build a residence next spring.
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