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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1929
Page
5
Community notices—from the Caroline Council banquet on Thursday to the first installment of The Treasure of the Bucoleon beginning today—detail social events church services a Lions Club talk on Lincoln and a busy week in local life with markets clinics and Chautauqua at Caroline High School.
The Williston Community Club gathered Friday at Mrs G A Thune's home for a pleasant afternoon. New president Mrs Rosa Hignutt presided with 12 members present, two sick. They plan to enter a homemakers dress show in April and vote roll call on wall decoration preferences. Sunday School reorganized with Milo Crane superintendent and a Washington Birthday Social planned. Edward Willoughby of Centreville home with a cold.
Federalsburg Fire Company announces a two part entertainment at the Temple Theatre by Friendship District citizens. A minstrel show and drama The Dearest Thing in Boots will be offered as a school benefit and accepted as a free donation to the local firemen. Also, Christ Methodist Protestant Church launches an eight week pre Easter Loyalty Crusade with crowded services and Wednesday prayer meetings.
Wilmington residents hosted a string of weekend visitors including Dorothy Otline Grace Poole Mildred Cecil and Elizabeth Griffith from Greensboro and Carrie Hobbs from Baltimore. Other guests noted were Jacob Dingledine returning from Madison Ohio and Coursey Edwards from Wilmington with family at nearby towns. Community Club held a pancake supper at the High School Auditorium and various locals welcomed relatives staying in Dover Ellendale Smyrna and Easton.
A Denton-based ad touts Hera tonic as a remedy for indigestion constipation sleeplessness fatigue and neuritis rheumatic pains. It is herbal from a reliable firm sold by The Caroline Pharmacy W J Evans proprietor with a money back guarantee. Ask him about Hera Adv.
The Methodist Ladies Aid meets at Mrs. John Davis home to organize the annual Dollar Social at Church House on Washington's Birthday eve. Plans include Beatrice Bowers leading the program and decorations by Mary Laird, with refreshments by J T Moore and others. Community events feature a Trinity Trinity colore quartette contest, senior Applesaucer play on February 26, and various church and club activities through March.
The Senior Class play The Whole Towns Talking presented Friday night in the auditorium drew high praise for the cast and Miss Ellen Brown’s directing. Upcoming school events include Declamation Contests in January and March, PTA plans for benefits, and the operetta Love Pirates of Hawaii to be staged under Mrs J Kemp Stevens with the Glee Club. The January Honor Roll lists post graduates Marion Linn and Elizabeth Dulin, plus multiple seniors juniors and first and second year students.
Mrs Newman D Richards is visiting relatives in Washington DC during a brief mid spring trip. She plans meetings with family members and local friends while in the capital.
A 1763 Baltimore classroom letter recounts a colonial boy Samuel Johnson describing a soldier’s search for molasses, a hidden trap door, a perilous escape, and a ship arrival, ending with a question about the narrow escape and a postscript verse on exploration. The piece ties into exploration and discovery with a Columbus theme and a Washington Birthday event at Washington College.
A calm February wedding united Miss Louise Fleming of Hillsboro and Urban Bowman of Washington DC at the home of Frank Sparks in Baltimore. The bride wore blue georgette with gray accessories, and the ceremony featured Ruth Meredith singing O Promise Me and Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Guests included family friends and local notables. postnuptial plans include a northern trip and residence in Decatur Heights, Landover Md.
Mr and Mrs Byron Barton moved into the Price house vacated by Rev and Mrs G S Lightner Olin Pippin will move into the Barton home and open a grocery store in the near future A large group shared a 36 oclock turkey dinner at the Fisher home in Hillsboro Church services at Methodist Episcopal Church South are announced Miss Eugenia Morgan and Dora Sewell attended the YWCA Convention in Westminster Several community members gathered for a Wesley Brotherhood meeting and other social visits Mrs Everett Blades hosted relatives including Mary Harrison and sisters from Sherwood and St Michaels Francis Jump and Marie Dashiels visited Salisbury and stayed with Mrs Howard Eley Lincoln topic addressed by Rev F W Kirwan of Denton at Tri County High School Bernard Messix and family visited Cambridge Household goods of Mrs Ella Richards sold Union prayer meeting held Thursday night Grace Love spent time in Baltimore.
A nostalgic poem about a fondly remembered country farm in Caroline. The speaker recalls free delivery, a shady yard, birds, pure air, a strawberry patch, and a cool cement pump house. Now living in town, the memory lingers with beauty and quiet from rural life, encouraging appreciation of country living.
Families including Medford Starkey Raughley and Ben Starkey joined in a turkey dinner at Homer Stufft's near Greensboro to honor Mr. Starkey's 79th birthday. Other local items note a serious collarbone fracture, a funeral in Smyrna, and various social visits.
Dr. H W B Rowe spent Monday and Tuesday with his mother Mrs Francis Rowe of Indian Head. Mr and Mrs Oscar Rice visited their daughter Miss Ida Rice at Cambridge Hospital. Mr and Mrs Avery Story visited her parents Mr and Mrs H R Covell on Tuesday. Hillsboro P T A has postponed their meeting due to illness. Mrs Catherine Holland is visiting her daughter Mrs H S Fisher. Mrs Mary S Cooper spent the week end in Baltimore with her son. Mrs Louise Blades of Queen Anne is visiting her son Mr Edgar Blades. Dr Norris Pilchard left for a three weeks visit in New York. Mr Edgar Blanch of Baltimore is visiting his ill mother. Mrs H R Covell has returned from Centreville relatives. Mrs Elwood Fleming entertains Miss Viola Jones of Ridgely. Mr and Mrs S N Smith visited Centreville friends on Sunday. Little Robert Thawley Sawyer has recovered from the flu.
Mr and Mrs Elon Wright and family attended a funeral in Chester for Mrs Wrights sister the body arriving from California. The 4 H club met at 2 pm with Mrs June Walling. Helen Melvin returned home after a visit with George Stafford Cambridge. Clarence Melvin and sister Helen visited William Neal. Bessie Liden hosted Norwood Melvin and Linda Passwaters. Florence Gresham Philadelphia visited her father William Chapel. Lidens Community Club met with Helen Melvin on February 14. Lawrence Torbert on sick list. Willie Liden spent Saturday in Federalsburg. Lena Bullock visited Ida Melvin Thursday.
A concise meditation from The Christian Science Monitor on the challenge of discarding evil thoughts and pursuing moral discipline. The remark frames inner struggle as essential to spiritual progress and ethical living.
A 75th birthday for Mr. Samuel Hudson and 66th for Mrs. Hudson was celebrated Sunday by their children with a large cake and red and white decorations. Attendees included numerous Hudson relatives and friends, with visits from family members in Dover Harrington Wilmington and Philadelphia.
A surprise birthday party for Mrs Earl Adams was held Friday evening with many guests. Games, music, ice cream and cake followed, and guests departed late wishing her more such occasions. Also notices of visits and social events across Wilmington, Bridgeville, Ellendale and Smithville, with church and Sunday School times.
Dr Catherine Goodson represents the Bureau of Child Hygiene as midwifery classes begin with eight weekly lectures. Three lectures had nine midwives in attendance and 16 county midwives were visited beforehand. A baby clinic in Ridgely on January 16 examined nine colored children led by Dr F Q Reinhard. A Home Hygiene and Care of The Sick course started in Greensboro School with 25 junior and senior pupils, under the Red Cross. A patient was taken to the Wilmer Eye Clinic at Johns Hopkins for operation and treatment. Easton hosted an Eastern Shore Nurses and Health Officers meeting January 11. The Maryland State Nurses Association Maryland League of Nursery Education and Maryland State Association for Public Health met in Baltimore January 29–31. H Ruth Jackson RN Public Health Nurse.
Mrs J Tyson Heather hosted a linen shower for Mrs Leonard Covell before her marriage, inviting Marguerite Griffin Louise Dennison Emma Gooden Maude Hummer Sara Scotton Ruth Scotton Virginia Smith Anne Saatman Marietta Heather Anne Jump. Guests played 600 and enjoyed refreshments. gifts were numerous and useful.
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