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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1902
Page
3
Court docket items list upcoming meetings in county offices. Levy Court set for Feb 20. Orphans' Court to meet Feb 25. London Board scheduled to meet Feb 23. Public notices solicit information from all parts of the county.
Washington's Birthday brings bank closures and local notices across Denton and nearby towns. Reports note mill sale at Hobbs, creamery butter supply, pensions, egg prices, weather telegraph efforts, new shop and band hall completion, and a Gay street dwelling for sale. Local politics, theatre rehearsals, debates, and parkway hotel updates accompany casualty reports, land sales, and a planned railroad branch to Bethany Beach pending weather.
Miss Nellie Fisher hosts a Valentine party with six hand euchre, unique scorecards, and prizes. Announcements include Alberta Williams to William Ledrum in Cordova, engagements in Seaford, weddings in Denton and Germany, and plans by locals in Queen Annes. Sleighing joys headline with multiple riders, races, and near-matches on Williston pond days.
Governor sends the Caroline list to the Senate listing Justices of the Peace for districts one through eight including William George Smith and others, Notaries Public in Denton Federalsburg and more, Supervisors of Election Harry W. Temple and William H. Thornley, and Albert W. Sisk named School Commissioner.
Mr. Gravatt, appointed by Quaintance, becomes state entomologist and tree inspector for Caroline County. He will join inspectors at the Maryland Experiment Station for disease instruction in fruit trees, including San Jose scale control. He has substantial experience with diverse fruit trees and is expected to be an efficient official.
The No. 391 line arrived at 7 30 after a heavy snow drift slowed it between Clayton and Ridgely. Relief engines struggled through the drift, attracting attention from passengers headed to Easton, including Senator Dixon and Miss Helen Covey. The town faced continued rail difficulties, local business changes and a push to enlarge Christ Church as the community recovers from the storm.
Snowdrifts close Denton area schools as pupils miss classes while residents like T F Chaffinch H C Hobbs Edwin Paisley and others ride sleighs over well equipped cutters. Ed Paisley Gordon Holbrook and Roland Chaffinch could not attend school due to heavy snow blocking roads. Miss Bessie Towers remains ill at her father’s home. Roads from Hobbs to Denton are in poor condition.
Leonard Blades, 26, son of farmer Alexander Blades of Delaware, died in Philadelphia from pneumonia last week. His funeral was held in Harrington with interment at Hollywood cemetery led by Rev. Mr. Phillips. Mrs. Martha A. Griffith, wife of Elisha Griffith, died of consumption on Saturday at 1620 East 13th Street Wilmington, sister to Charles Johnson of Magnolia and Aston Griffith of Concord.
Weather permitting the Tecumseh Tribe No. 43 of Hickman will meet at Noble's Hall Sunday at 9 o'clock and march to the M E Church where Rev Harry Taylor will deliver a special sermon to Red Men Public is cordially invited Mrs Joseph Brown improving under Dr Ward care Anderson town Mr John Downes of Queenstown spent a few days here with his daughter Mrs Beniah Wothers
Mr Algie Todd of the steamer Chesapeake spent Saturday and Sunday with his brother John E Todd. Mrs Millie Pounding is sick with pneumonia at the home of her brother S R Hopkins. Mr Roland Neighbors spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of R W Carroll. Mr Andrew Beachamp is on the alo list.
To gauge snow depth in the woods, residents rely on those short of wood. The mail carrier has walked the route with mail for several days, and he finds the travel quite rough.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M P Church hosts a musical at Mr T Pliny Fisher's tonight featuring an orchestra recitals mandolin club and vocal and instrumental solos. Denton churches announce trustee elections missionary anniversary confirmation services and revival meetings across several congregations. The event list notes a special church meeting Monday at 7 30 and a Sunday School missionary celebration tomorrow night. Bishop Adams will conduct confirmation services at Christ Church with possible evening service. Centreville prepares for a Methodist Protestant Conference in April and Rev Kemp is invited back to Felton M K Church next conference year. Rev Chandler conducts revivals at Hurlock.
Unfavorable weather delayed moving teachers and upper grade pupils to the High School. Prof Noble, Mrs Pippin, Miss Balls, and Prof Cockle will lead classes there next week. New building walls dry and steam heat praised as economical. Woodworking room nearly finished. lower grades to attend Academy. piano funds raised. St icf instrument ordered. Saturday exhibition planned in Bullock’s window. Annie Fisher resigns from Denton Academy.
Denton gains major industrial project as Hughes Lumber and Coal Company plans BE E Titus 1902 pattern machinery. startup in ten days, full operation by mid March with 75 workers. production targets include cups track baskets half-barrel baskets crates and box shocks daily, timber tracts along Watts Creek to supply the mill.
An 18th century land grant in Huntington's Addition is tied to Charles Dickerson Sr and his son Dickerson, amid a whispered account of a duel with President Andrew Jackson. Eyewitness testimony attributed to Dickerson's slave Jerry West describes Jackson killing Dickerson after a staged gown distraction, with later reminiscences from 1855 about Dickerson's grave and vandals erasing family tombstones.
New owners Messrs. Marry A Roe Frederick P Roe William P Man love and Capt James B Draper plan to resume service from Greensboro Denton and possibly other points to Baltimore once the river is cleared. Capt Brockway, longtime freighter on the Choptank, will retire and sell his other steamer the Canaho. The venture aims to expand the enterprise and its patronage.
A late Sunday night snow storm battered the Middle Atlantic States and Peninsulas, delaying Caroline mails and halting several star routes. Ridgely sent one late telegram on Tuesday. Snow drifts closed some roads and shut several country schools while railroad travel slowed but Queen Annes Road reported no missed trips.
Klaw and Erlanger present Ben Hur in Baltimore for a limited engagement at the Academy of Music starting February 24. The production features elaborate stage scenery, live animals, fast chariot race scenes, and a Christ-like illumination, with scenes from Jerusalem, the galley, and the Grove of Daphne. Tickets on sale by mail order with payment.
Obituary notices recount the deaths of Annie E. Mitchell at 62 years, and Berths M. Stafford at 23, with tributes from husbands, children, and church ministers. The column includes verses, family reminiscences, prayers for eternal peace, and memorial sentiments, along with a short ad for Reliable Cough Balsam.
Mr H Miller outlines a feeding program for long term profitability, detailing crossing short horn cows with pure bred Angus sires and feeding calves continually to finish weight. He argues beef cattle support fertility, meet rising demand, and yield 1,600 pound steers in about 2.5 years with heavy marbling and minimal excess fat. Field and Willis offer canned salmon.
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