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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1903
Page
3
Public Business Calendar lists Circuit Court meeting on April 6 Omprana Court February 24 Study Court February 24 and School Board February 24 all scheduled for public business and county notices in this issue February 21 1903.
Rural mail routes expand to Tuckahoe Bridge. savings bank planned for Sadlersville. Denton National Bank to close Monday. Weather slows rail travel. prices for wheat and corn listed. various local business moves and fires. Insurance prospects improve amid water works. Phone line projects to Greensboro and Barrville eyed. Notable appointments include Stewart Earle Barber in the navy.
Socials and visits fill the Newton area notes with gatherings at Miss Maggie Allaband home near Denton and a Progressive Euchre Club evening in the Law Building Assembly Room. Attendees include Dulin Drig gus Cheezum Smith Wright Cade and many others. Entomology lectures in Maryland mark Tree Inspector Gravatti s return. Gas pipe plans and a local chartered company project are noted along with marriages and health updates among residents and visitors to Baltimore Philadelphia and nearby towns.
Prof. R Roe Richards led a varied program at the Methodist Episcopal Church last Saturday evening with vocal selections and instrumental pieces by Knapp Flotow Wintowski Beethoven and others. A local reader writes to neutralize a rumor claiming a smallpox quarantine, stating no cases or symptoms exist in Delaware or the town. resident physician Dr H W B Rowe confirms there are no known cases.
The advertisement lists wall paper patterns including gilt and a piece. Window shades priced at 22 cents each. Thomas and Messer located at 1015 West Baltimore Street in Baltimore.
A mad dog on the rampage damaged several dogs, with most killed, and a horse owned by Mr. Dietrick shot. Preston lost its federal mail on Tuesday as the Hynson bridge washed away. Mr. Stack visits Denton daughter Mrs. Albert Reichman, returns home Friday. Benjamin Johnson visits his ill brother J C Johnson. Lena Sullivan of St Michaels visits the Sisks in Preston. Lottie Charles and Nellie Vickers stay with Mrs Parker. Mrs. Clara Payne of Baltimore visits her parents Dr and Mrs J L Noble. Nellie Vickers visits Ruby Poole. Mrs Bradley visits aunt Mrs Bessie Noble.
Mrs D S Truitt and family depart Wednesday for a new home in Northumberland county Virginia with Miss Lucy Morris accompanying. Robt Jarrell and Chas L Jarrell attended the Canners Convention in Washington last week. Mrs Will Holland of Millington visited the Truitts last week. Noble Jarrell visits his brother Robert Jarrell Jr in Philadelphia. William H Quillien home bound with influenza. Lucy Wilson recovering from illness. H W Temple in Baltimore. Smallpox scare abating.
Mrs Alfred Clark residing near Whiteleysburg had a fall from a barn loft after a high ladder step broke. She landed on the floor and sustained a broken arm. Wheat crops are fair in the region except in low ground due to heavy rains. Mrs Charles Ellwanger has been ill at her sister's home in Denton for two weeks. Miss Bertha Longfellow is visiting her grandfather, Mr Jonathan Longfellow. John Raughiey suffers considerable jaw pain from a gathered jaw for the past week.
Mrs Joseph Price and daughter Mrs Nat Johnson of Barclay and Mr and Mrs William Whiteley of Kennedyville were guests of Mr and Mrs Wellington Heather last week. Miss Effa W Heather received a case of fine strawberries. Captain T E Heather of Betterton visited brothers in town. Mrs Charles Todd of Dover visited her sister Mrs Jacob Rickards.
Miss Jonnie Lyon visiting John Haymond returned to Cambridge last Friday. A dance was hosted at Mr. Beniah Wothers home Thursday evening. Miss Sallye White of Bridgeville Del visiting her friend Miss Lettye Brown. A festival at Liden's school last Friday was a quiet success. Mr FD Rust of Lowes was in Hickaman Tuesday.
Mr J H Perry who has been home for some time is expecting to go to Philadelphia in a few days. Mr H F Andrew and C H Lord have returned home after spending several days in the Quaker City. Mrs E McCarty and her granddaughter Mamie are visiting friends in Philadelphia. Miss Manie Harding spent Sunday with Miss Selah Perry. Miss Lizzie Andrew is visiting friends in Exston.
Ridgely's Mr C W Jackson hosted an oyster supper for fire-ighters who stopped a recent blaze saving thousands in property. Mr Thomas L Day bought the Wm C Satterfield canning house at Greensboro to operate next season. Thistown sent strong representation to the Canners' Convention in Washington last week.
A Saturday night gathering hosted by Miss Lola Willoughby featured music by Prof. R Richards of Denton. Guests included Miss Deorah Donahoe of Burrsville who visited during the evening and departed late, carrying memories of a delightful social.
Miss Mary Smyth held a pleasant Valentine party Saturday evening with friends and neighbors in attendance, sharing music, gifts, and light refreshments.
A Newsy letter from Stenderson notes a Friday coffee party at George IL Cassavant’s home near Goldsboro with many attendees including Mrs. Effu Plummer Miss Patsey Pritchett Miss Rose Harrington and numerous others. Social games and a late dining hour followed dancing and refreshments. Also mention of a social at Norman Bickling’s near Henderson Md with similar activities and attendees. Elizabeth widow of Alexander C. Dill died at her son Frank Dill’s home aged 76. survivors listed. Various locals visited relatives and traveled, with several residents and guests noted in Henderson area events.
A public domain anti-debt allegory portrays the mortgage as an inexorable, inexorable burden on farmers and households. It grips farmers from dawn to night consuming grain and cattle, shaping poverty and toil, and robs families of clothes and comfort.
Postmaster Green and rural carriers prepare for free rural delivery on routes 1 2 and 3 from Denton starting Monday March 2. Orders for galvanized steel mailboxes six by eight by eighteen inches have been taken by Mr Jonathan Evitts with many local residents listed as buyers.
Judge Martin opened Thursday hearing in Parker v Neal over a parol timber contract. Parker seeks specific performance for pine boards from Bennett Todd tract near Concord. Neal contends the deal was contingent on timber sales and offers substitute timber from another tract. Attorneys Lewis Goldsborough Towers for Parker and Deweese for Neal appeared.
Deaths of Mrs Rebecca Dill Stubbs near Hollandsville Delaware from small pox. her family and Mt Olive Protestant Church ties noted. Funeral for Captain James B Calloway at Hobbs with pallbearers listed. Dr Thomas Atkinson Councell, a popular Easton physician, died at City Hospital Baltimore.
Rev L T Widerman of Baltimore will preach at Denton M E Church tomorrow morning at 10 30. In the evening he will preach at the M P Church. The Denton Sunday School missionary anniversary was postponed from last Sunday due to the storm and will be observed tomorrow night. Temple Masonic Lodge plans to attend Christ Church service tomorrow evening. Rev F C O Meara will deliver a sermon. The Southern Convocation of the Diocese of Easton met in Salisbury on Tuesday.
At a recent executive committee meeting of Queen Anne's Railroad Company Charles Neilson was elected vice-president and general manager and placed in charge of the operating department. He began in construction at Northern Pacific, then moved to Erie with Henry Tyson, held roles in mechanical and transportation departments, led the operating department at Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, served in Washington as Second Assistant Postmaster General in Cleveland's second term, and has since worked in locomotive matters. He resides at Relay.
William Wayback recalls Easton memory with Dr Baird reading the Declaration of Independence General Thomas on a gray mare and a marshal bearing equal to General Lee. The crowd fills streets for Ennals Camp with processions, services, and social figures including Nan ie Cox Mary Muse Powell and many Mrs and Misses.
Miscellaneous items report a fire at R. W. Randall’s East New Market mill and yards destroying flour, wheat, corn and other buildings with about $6,000 loss and no insurance. A stolen team found near Maryland line, horse frostbitten, sheriff notified. Henry Malcolm Anderson pardoned and arrived after prior killing conviction. Oliver Faulkner courted by Woonsocket club for $400 monthly. may play in Detroit. Rail freight rate cut planned. marriage invitations issued. Queen Anne’s RR may run Lewes to Philadelphia steamer. Local holiday mood amid severe weather. ads for wagons and a plumber featured.
A voluntary contribution program grants liberal quantities of Longman & Martinez Pure Paints to institutions that paint, a tradition in Norte for 27 years. The paint covers tens of millions of gallons and about two million houses under a repaint guarantee if unsatisfactory, lasting up to 18 years. Linseed oil is mixed in two minutes, actual cost about 1.25 per gallon. Samples free. Sold by agents J. H. Nichols Denton R. M. Messick Bethlehem T. Harvey Burrsville J. Frank Lednum Preston.
In loving remembrance of Thurman Chester Breeding who fell asleep February 10 1903 Safe is now our little darling safe from toil and care Safely gathered with the angels in his heavenly home Sister
Local town items recount a visiting machinist from Hurlock, Stewart Maxwell, riding a motor bicycle at nearly 30 miles per hour and staging a graphophone concert at Rev C W Smith’s home. Other bits describe Mr Thomas Mitchell rebuilding a barn and adding a windmill on his Queen Anne property.
Col Ham delivered the famous Snollygoster in Politics lecture in Mason ic Hall last night. Prof Moore's Orchestra opened with selections. Proceeds from the event go to the fire company. Judge Stamp, hearing the earlier talk, wished for the lecturer to tour Maryland towns.
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