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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1911
Page
5
Centor Journal notes solicited news items from all parts of the county under this header. Community updates, notices, and brief reports are welcomed for forthcoming editions to share local happenings and announcements with residents.
A Denton oriented summary notes cash prices for wheat 88 and corn 54, a Valentine party at the High School, spring goods arrivals, and local business ads. It covers wage-related items, a Ten days clearance sale, tomato and corn contracts, and Kent Island shipments. Also mentions Delaware political activity, a piano dealer, a musical association event, a proposed NC lumber mill venture, and upcoming public entertainments and civic notices.
Miss Mary Elfen youngest daughter of James Harding Bethlehem and J W Richards Ellwood quietly married Wednesday evening at Preston M E parsonage by Rev C N Jones. Bride wore white messaline gown with crystal trim and pearls and lilies of the valley veil, carrying white carnations. They will reside at Ellwood where groom is in mercantile business.
Maryland remains a leading canning hub with large tomato packs and high quality peas. Baltimore accounts for about half Maryland's output while Maryland’s tomato pack neared 3.7 million cases in 1910, and corn and oysters show notable but shifting production patterns amid weather and method changes.
Burrsville residents joined a lively fox chase last Saturday with participants including Ora Bowdle Wilton Porter and T I Cahall. Weekend visitors included Edythe Reese from Talbot Mrs Walter T George and daughter Helen of Denton and nurses Barcell Stisses Rose and Caroline Thawley in Philadelphia summoned to their mother ill with pneumonia. Others at Sunday gatherings were Misses Ella and Cora Shockley and brother Harvey of Greensboro with friends here. Master Lloyd Porter returned home after visiting his aunt near Denton. John Parris recently spent time in Wilmington and Jr Porter of Warrington was a town visitor.
Mr and Mrs Ed E Spence and lit tle neice Annie of Chillicothe Ohio visited the former brothers and sisters and returned The funeral of Mr Herbert Carroll Easton noted last week was held Sunday afternoon H C Hobbs moved stock to Denton for disposal Lumbermen Murphy and Hayes supply pine piling to Pennsylvania Co Christian Endeavor led by M I J Collison Topic Lives of great men Mrs J W Satterfield and Miss Pearl Murphy sick with mumps Miss A G Adams recently visited Federalsburg Relatives All frame for the parsonage in place
Mrs Sallie Stevens of Hickman is visiting her mother Mrs M J Signult this week. Mrs Josephine Kemp of Trappe Talbot county is visiting relatives here. Willard, late son of Mr and Mrs Wm Taylor, is ill with pneumonia.
Mr W B Cooke returns home to Baltimore after a pleasant visit with Mr and Mrs G W Towers. Mr George Kelley undertook a business trip to Baltimore last week. Wandering dogs kill many young rabbits and a Delaware legislature bill would prohibit dogs running at large during certain seasons.
Captain Wright proposes a Caroline County history drawn from written and oral sources. He cites 1665 boundary disputes, 1676 land surveys, early mills, military actions in 1777, 1787 Storehouse at Federalsburg, 1814 Bank of Caroline, 1819 bridge company, tolls, 1820 tobacco warehouse, Greensborough origins, 1822 anti cruelty law, 1826 district boundary changes, and notes on prominent white and black residents. He urges publication through the press.
Tomorrow offers sermons at Concord M E Church Hillsboro and Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Denton with themes Guarding the Important Treasure and The Lord's requirements. Varying messages for youth and marriage prep at Denton Methodist. Hillsboro topics A Race for Heaven and Readiness. Quiet Day for clergy in Queen Annes Talbot Caroline counties led by Rev William A Coale. Beulah Church revival noted. Epworth League meets Friday. Ladies Aid Concord M E plans Wednesday gathering.
The New York Sun reports muskrat skins fetch 75 cents to 1 each in prime condition and compares the animal favorably to sealskin in appearance. Muskrats, though small, fight fiercely when cornered, while their meat is praised as white and sweet. Maryland marsh trappers supply much of the skins, and rising prices have boosted trapping nationwide.
Mr. Charles L. Phelps urged Maryland farmers to expand dairy ventures near East markets. He advocated Jersey and Guernsey for butter and Holsteins and Ayrshires for milk, warned against mixing breeds, and urged keeping individual herd records to favor small producers. He emphasized udder development and milk-producing organs over color traits.
Misses Helen and Bessie and Mr Claude Liden and Miss Myrtle Thompson spent weekend with Mr and Mrs Clarence Parker near Bridgeville. Mr William E Liden, recently ill, is out and visited his daughter Mrs Lewis Todd. S M Liden family visited Clarence Lockerman near Bridgeville. Miss Claudia Thomas of Cambridge stayed with Miss Roberta Bowdle. Mr Will Davis and Mr F Alford stayed with Hurlock friends. Mrs John Sutherland ill with grip improving. Miss Ola Scott spent part of last week with Mrs Blaine Bullock.
Chestnut Grove reports the Sunday School reorganization with Charles Culver named superintendent and L F Covey as assistant. Mattie Trice is organist, Oli Scott and Addie Smith assistants, Willa Johnson secretary. A Sunday School service is planned for Sunday morning at 4 30 o'clock and William Sennypacker is listed as sick.
Year after year the famous minstrel men add new features to their act. This season promises a complete fresh presentation from start to finish. They perform at Masonic Hall tonight February 18 with tickets at Duffeys drug store.
Ridgely's board of trade strengthens its activity with a planned local creamery and a wide investor list led by A.G. Saulsbury and J.M. Swing. Executives include John M. Swing as president and J.D. Davis as vice president. Day Swing & Co. expand manufacturing while a new Armour plant siding and a bustling canning house drive labor and timber procurement from Warrenton, D.C.
The river channel near Federalsburg is being deepened and widened by a dredge, expected to bring passenger and freight steamer service within earshot soon. In town news, Corrinne Mowbray and Sue Turner dissolve their partnership, each moving to new business locations. A Sunday School lecture on In His Steps is planned for the M P Church, and local merchants Covey and Williams buy Wright’s Store to begin March 1. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Allen of Wilmington and Mr W Philip Cheezyn with Miss Edythe Reese. others note la grippe recovery and hospital discharge for Miss Iva Davis.
W OQ Collier of Easton Maryland advocates high yield corn by selecting seed from medium sized ears with a slight tip protrusion and using germinating text-box to reduce replanting. He cites 100 bushels per acre as a possible Maryland standard with soil prep seven to eight months before planting, July wheat stubble break and scarlet clover sowing, plowing under crimson clover when tips show, lime addition, and notes fertilizers fail.
Prof. 4 E Thompson becomes school principal replacing Prof Williams. Thompson family occupies Miss Annabel Moore property on Railroad avenue. Several visits and travels noted including Rev J P Otis, Mrs Otis, and others. A Kentucky Belle slated for Mozart Hall to fund a piano for M E Sunday School. Various residents seek medical treatment, building plans, or travel to Philadelphia Wilmington and New Jersey. Legal note: Joshua W Miles represents Wilton Hignutt in Centreville jail on a grave charge involving a 13 year old accuser.
Irish cobblers and other white potatoes will be grown extensively near Denton Ridgely and Greensboro and in Southern Caroline this year. The crop has shifted from experimental to profitable with soil favorable for good yields and machinery cultivation reducing labor. An acre may yield 60 barrels at about $1 per barrel cost and $2 per barrel sale, yielding roughly $60 profit per acre. Several hundred acres were planted last year west of the Choptank river and will expand this year in Greensboro and Ridgely regions.
Mr and Mrs Elbert Taylor hosted a Valentine gathering Tuesday evening with decorated rooms and a ten o'clock dining refreshments. Guests included Marye Harding Maude Harding Janie Leggates Florence Legates Katie Bennett Maude Hubbard Earl Legates Harvey Harding Martin Harding Charley Perry Roland Carroll Andrew Christopher Clinton Carroll W Taylor f and Mr and Mrs George Harrington of Bethlehem called to aid the dying father of Mr Harrington. Also guests Monday were Mr and Mrs William Caulk and son and Mrs Mellie Williams of Federalsburg visiting Mr James E Harding. Mrs R W Carroll on the sick list is improving.
Advertisement promoting Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claimed to relieve feverish cranky children by cleansing the stomach and aiding the liver, described as a remedy for worms. Stated available at all druggists for 23 cents with address in Olmsted LeRoy, N.Y.
Fragmentary text mentions shoes or overshoes and substitutes like whey rubbera. Appears to be a brief notice about footwear choices and price or availability. Names or places are not discernible.
Mrs Ollie Wharton Evans widow of Harry Evans and daughter of the late Charles Wharton of Dover died in Dover after acute indigestion and heart failure. Survived by two sons and a sister. Mr Herbert F Carroll aged 46 died at Emergency Hospital Easton after back injury from a wagon mishap. Survived by widow and three children. Mrs Margaret J Bloxsom aged 84 died at her son's home in Tuckahoe Neck from acute indigestion. Miss Alma W Truitt died in Washington at 18. Mr John H Kinder aged 72 died in Seaford. Funeral services held in Denton area for several.
A three day farmers education train concluded at Cape Charles with a large turnout as about two hundred farmers attended the final lectures on intensive farming. Across the tour eight hundred people heard talks while stops highlighted potato and other crop growing. The event, run by the New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and State Experiment Station, promoted farming, migration, and industrial development along the peninsula. In Orphans Court Tuesday Judges Clark Liden and Fleetwood heard guardian accounts and estate sales releases.
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