Court House Plan Sparks Taxpayers Meeting
A large crowd gathered as Caroline County officials discussed erecting a new court house. Architects compared bids from twenty five to thirty five thousand dollars, with a proposed fifteen thousand dollar core building and external vaults. Debate centered on bonding authority and funding, with sentiment for building running six to one in favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagadone
Elias W. Williamson
Z. Potter Steele
Jackson C. Gott
Baltimore
Joseph H. Bernard
Second District
Chestertown Court House
Vernard
H. R. Lewis
Emory S. Turpin
Turpin
Edward Saulsbury
Messrs. Williamson
Bernard
T. Pliny Fisher
Deakyne
Caroline
School Notes and county teachers meeting report
The school board reviewed winter term reports and will pay teachers in full at next Tuesday's session. Friendship public school operates in a temporary tent after the fire, with plans to replace the building in summer. The County Teachers Association met at the town hall with a literary and musical program, featuring Hon. George M. Russum and Minnie Fields. A library fundraiser at Williston school raised 25 to 30 dollars despite bad weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Teachers' Association
George M. Russum
Minnie Fields
Mosquito Hawks overwhelm Farmington by 40 to 4 score
On St Valentine’s Day the Mosquito Hawks of Hickman defeated Farmington 40 to 4. Hill pitched for Farmington while Welch and Carey starred for the Marylanders. The Wonderful nine of Whiteleysburg lost 36 to 17 to Cedar Grove on the same day.
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Mosquito Hawks
Hickman
Farmington
The
Hill Battery
Marylanders
Welch
Carey
Whiteleysburg
Cedar Grove Club
Pennsylvania Railroad Special Train For Assembly Members
The Pennsylvania Railroad will furnish a special train and provide free transportation to General Assembly members for the excursion to Cleveland's inauguration. Dover Fedex reports this arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
General Assembly
Cleveland
Dover Fudex
Attorneys in Gootee Stevens codicil dispute heard
In Orphans Court yesterday lawyers for caveator William E. Liden pressed to set aside the July 11 1861 codicil to Gootee Stevens will dated September 16 1857 on grounds of improper execution unsound mind and undue inducement. Executors for William Stevens deny the allegations and the court prepared issues to send to the circuit court for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphans’ Court
Liden-Stevens
Gootee Stevens
Circuit Court
Messrs
John AB
Edwin H. Brown
William E. Liden
Mr. Stevens
Stevens
Maryland Annual M P Conference meets in Laurel April 5
The Maryland Annual Conference will meet in Laurel on April 5 with proceedings to be published in the Daily Conference Gazette. Sent post paid during the session for 20 cents to Deatly Conference Gazette Laurel Delaware. Rt Rev William Forbes Adams, Bishop of Easton, preached at Christ Church last Sunday evening. B W Parker was elected a delegate to the Maryland Annual Conference to meet in Laurel Delaware next April. Revival services at M E Church closed Wednesday night and were very successful. Rev J M Lindale may return as pastor of Kings Creek M E Church next conference. Rev E T Griffith will lecture on the Destruction of Johnstown in Goldsborough March 2. Presbyterians of Church Hill plan to build a church in the spring. Revival services at Burrsville M P Church Marydel continue.
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Maryland
Laurel
Daily
Deatly Conference Gazette
Del
William Forbes Adams
Easton
Christ Church
B. W. Parker
Delaware
E. T. Griffith
Johnstown
Goldsborough
Church Hill
Burrsville M. P
Marydel
Local Advertisements Highlight Horses Hardware Firm and Sales
Sapp and Roughley of Harrington Del return from the West with 47 head of young broke horses and mules. Shannahan Wrightson Hardware Co Easton announces a spring stock expansion. William A Stewart advertises a mercantile sale. Redsecker schedules horse sale in Denton next Tuesday. Siegel Co Easton touts bargains. Ben Brown Cambridge builder advertises. Chester River Steamboat schedule updated. Nichols Denton offers 25 cent coffee. J E Phillips Co sells fine cigars.
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Sapp & Roughley
Harrington
Del
Caroline
Shannahan & Wrightson Hardware Company
Easton
William A. Stewart
Denton
Redsecker
Siegel & Co
Ben Brown
Cambridge
Chester River Steamboat Company
Nichols
Denton Bridge
J. E. Phillips & Co
Electric railway proposal to link Federalsburg and Greensborough
The Courier notes the DeNTon Journal urging an electric light plant to power street lighting in Denton and Ridgely and to run trains between the towns. It argues a Federalsburg Greensborough line via county roads could be built with a single track and sidings, no grading, and provide freight and passenger service, claiming it feasible and beneficial.
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Courier
Denton Journal
Denton
Ridgely
Greensborough
Federalsburg
Pennsylvania Company
Citizens meet to discuss court house plans Greensborough
Taxpayers from Second and First districts met in Greensborough to consider protecting court house records amid plans for a new building or remodeling. Dr. G W Goldsborough led the meeting with Cal William H Comegys chosen president. Resolutions protested excessive outlay and proposed funding by county bonds over at least twenty years, awaiting an enabling act from the General Assembly. A committee was appointed to present the views at the next Denton county meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensborough
G. W. Goldsborough
Cal
Wm. H. Comegys
Wuenreas
Board of County Commissioners
Dny
Denton
Court House
General Assembly of
Maryland
Messrs
Robert Jarrell
D. J. Zacharias
E. S. Turpin
C. 8. Jarman
J. D. Plummer
Death of John C. Mason of Easton at 64
John C. Mason died at his Easton residence on Friday February 17 1893 aged 64. He was the son of the late Richard Mason of Baltimore and a former member of the Mason cracker firm. The remains were transported to Baltimore Sunday night and interred Monday in Greenmount cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Mason
Easton
Richard Mason
Baltimore
Masons
Greenmount Cemetery
Dukes
Peter Trice
Jeremiah Dukes
Hardy
Frederick Ferris
Camdin
Wallis
Kenton
Julia
W.G. Wallis
Steel
Dover
Arthur Steel
Workman Injured Cutting Rail on Switch Project
A workman on the travel line was badly cut when a piece of steel pierced his hand while sawing a rail for a switch addition. Dr. H H Kuhn removed the object. The article also notes Cannery expansion, local visits, illnesses, school exams, a theater club, a theft at a carriage house, and other town items with multiple names and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Arthurs
H. H. Kuhn
Owl shot dead near town with steel trap on leg
Howard Stephens killed a four foot six inch owl near town that bore a steel trap on one leg. He also killed a four plus foot long snake near Moore's mill pond. Morris Bros. installed a new steam mill. Roads are in poor shape. John Watson, ill, went to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for treatment with Messrs. Will Towers and John Flaharty. he returned improved. Edward Meeds spent winter in Choptank. James Dill family of Bridgeville all died in ten days with pneumonia and measles in the children. Joseph Lawrence, aged twelve, inherits $50,000 New York property from uncle Joseph Lawrence and will be educated there.
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Baltimore News
Mary
Chowan
Maryland Steamboat Company
James Corkrin
Corner’s Point
Corkrin
Town Point
Oxford
Samuel Phillips
Barney J. Clancey
Paul Lynch
Jas. Corkrin
Clancey
James Stack
Paddy
Joe
Frederick Langrell
Frederick Shelton
Howard Stephens
Town
Mr. Stephens
Moore's Mill Pond
John Watson
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Messrs
Will Towers
John Flaharty
Mr. Watson
James Dill
Bridgeville
Joseph Lawrence
John Lawrence
Williamsburg
New York City
Talmage’s Tabernacle
Brooklyn
New York
Cambridge News
Ridgely
Denton Journal
Cambridge
Real estate transfers and marriages in Dorchester area
A long list of property transfers from Oales of the Clerk of the Courts Martin J. Cohee and others to various buyers for acres and nominal sums, followed by a batch of marriage licenses. Included are multiple town properties in Federalsburg and Denton, large 274 acre land transfer, and several dower and church site dealings. Also noted are obituaries and notices from Cambridge and Denton papers with poems and local commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin J. Cohee
Gus
Wooters
H. T. Nuttle
Callie Boston
Mary N. Hignuttt
W. T. Higoutt
Mary A. Noble
Thos. J. Williams
Federalsburg
Wilson M. Tyler
George W. Baughley
Denton
Robert M. Messick
C. D. Cannon
John S. Doughty
Henry F. Andrews
Hog Creek Mills
Manlius P. Hutchinson
M. LE. Church South
Laurel Grove
Aaron Willoughby
Francis T. Willoughby
James R. Phillips
Aaron Towers
John W. Wright
W. B. Nuttle
W. D. Taylor
Louisa Scott
Edwin H. Brown
Deborah A. Lobstein
Mary A. E. Lobstein
Greensborough
Social notes from Denton and nearby towns
Personal visits and social events fill the week as residents travel, visit friends, and host guests. Notables include Kent Island’s deputy organizer and a police captain at a civic parade, plus many from Harrington, Greensborough, Dover, and Williamsburg visiting local homes and markets.
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John Q. Phillips
Bullin
Frolic
Kent Island
Senate Debates Public Building Aids Amid Warning
Senator Gorman from Maryland opposes public building appropriations warning of a dire national condition and possible Treasury action or July Congressional reassembly. The Senate still passed amendments increasing or authorizing higher costs for public buildings. Also notes Randall the evangelist’s visits, a rock inscription prank, a live frog found with an oyster stove, Templeville school contract petition, and Rev J M Yingling likely return to Caroline circuit with W P Stafford as lay delegate.
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Wasttsatoy
Gorman
Maryland
Senate
Treasury Department
Congress
Sherman
Ohio
Mr. West
Missouri
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Vin D. & C.R
Preston
Via
Vin D
Governor Reynolds
Dick Handy
Centreville
H. Lee Vickers
East New Market
Chester River
Talbot County
Samuel G. Fisher
Sussex
Frankford
Hemingway & Co
Queen Anne's
W. E. Wilson
Mill Ponds
A. R. Redsecker
Clerk Fields
Harry A. Roe
David Swing
William Jewell
Caroline County
Main Street
Alex. H. Boyer
Sadie Russell
Happy Russell
Peninsula Press Association
National Association
Chicago
New York Commission
Mercury
Hull
Williston Public School
Church Notes
M. E. Church
J. M. Lindale
King’s Creek M. E
John Co. Mason
Day Bros. & Co
T. W. Smith
H.f. Smith
Thomas Temple
C. W. Jackson
Templeville
Anita Smith
Ida G. Marshall
Grace V. Smith
Mattie Day
Robert Smith
Walden
N. Y
Kitty McShane
Minnie Lucas
Dr. Dunning
Mr. Thomas Roberts
Harry N. Willis
Pocomoke City
M. Patton
John Sewell
C. W. Clapham
Church Creek
Joseph Douglass
Frederick
S. E. Douglass
J. W. Corbett
P. N. Collins
Carrie Williamson
Emily Fletcher
Nannie Gootee
Mr. Hassinger
Col. J. H. Douglass
Washington
W. E. Percy
Vienna
J. R. Phillips
Mollie Collins
Isaac Anderson
Anderson
Ethel Smith
Lizzie Barton
Katie Anthony
Clara Price
Laura Lee
Katie Lee
Sallie Barton
Elmer Brown
Garrettson Smith
Charles Mahoney
Jas, Clark
Virginia
Mrs. Melvin
Near
Mr. Wm. Diggans
Cordova
Morris Bros
Edward Meeds
Choptank
James N. Todd
J. T. Clark
Addie H. George
H. M. Carroll
Carrie L. Davis
Richard Conner
Clara M. Cork
John W. Smith
Annie Draper
James A. Bendon
Maggie M. Cannon
Wm. E. Passwater
Lula M. Wil
Cox
CoLorep
Jas. Cannon
Mary Johnson
H.H. Mason
Sarah Hines
Amy Senille Wolre
Smith—Hickkey
William Crawford
Newport
BE. K. Miller
George F. Smith
Suchersville
Ella F. Hickey
Hartly
Wiicut—McGonicat
Little Creek
W. L. S. Murray
D. D
Henry Wright
Beulah McGonigal
Magnolia
Kinder—Graham
Concord
R.T. Coursey
W. E. England
J. T. Kinder
Annie Graham
Bradley T. Johnson
Cleveland Inauguration
Oswald Tilghman
G. E. Haddaway
Ida Moore
Lucy Draper
Governor’s Avenue
Helen O'Sullivan Dixon
Paris
Sadie Shipley
Philadelphia
George F. Beaven
Hillsborough
Fannie Wood
Mrs
Samuel Rhodes
Lelia Stafford
Burrsville
Stafford
Flora B. Deen
Fowling Creek
Lertha Towns
James H. Nichols
Mrs. W. 5. Russell
Emma Redden
Sallie Field
John Clymer
George F. Stafford
J. B. Port
Huntingdon
Minnie Quillen
Harringtons
B. H. Johnson
Edwin R. Downes, Esq
Thomas Butler
William T. Hebron
Kent
Nettie Stevens
Reuben Garey
Annie Clark
Victor Hitch
Seaford
Edward Randall
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Randall
Radway
Pepare
William Parker
Tangier Sound
Caroline County Board
Queen Anne Commissioners
J. M. Yingling
W. P. Stafford
United States
Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall St
Cady M’f'g CO
Aubury
J. 2. Jarrell
Inter
Jarrell & Nichols
Tance
Dr. Warner
New York Mills
Molland
M. BS. Nichols
Euston, Md
West Virginia
C. H. Shields
A. R. Redseoker
Beauchamp's
L.R. Bhauchamp Denton
Delaware and Chesapeake
Mail
A.M
Orth
Trappe
Chapel
Queen Anne
Greensboro
Goldsboro
Henderson
Slaughters
Martley
Clayton
A.M. P.M
Clayton Wition
P.W.& BL RI
H. F. Kenney
Su Cras
E. Poon
R. L. Holliday
Emma A. Ford
Chestertown
Haltimore
Rolph
Bookers
Quaker Neck
Queenstown
Jackson Creek
Light St
Set
Ford
Bers
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