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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1909
Page
2
A compact Saturday morning issue outlines local notices and brief items from Century Journal. It presents community updates, society notes, and short market or public notices typical of an early 20th century local page.
Messrs Tubbs and Noble plan a Maryland literature manual of about 230 pages featuring the best works from Marylanders and natives. The volume aims for every library in the State and for Marylanders abroad to own it.
A Maryland speaker argues against opposition to an voting amendment, criticizing Republican attempts at disenfranchisement and warning that allowing black voters to register could shift the state toward one party. He urges unity across whites to pass the measure despite criticism and external interference.
Senator Jesse D. Price argues the State should guard voter eligibility and deny rights to certain groups, while praising the Maryland Fire Insurance Company formed in Easton. The article details stockholders, directors, and officers including John M. Elliott, J. Harry Covington, Michael B. Nichols, Wim Reddie, and Edward G. Cover, highlighting stability and local leadership on the Eastern Shore.
The lesson notes Philip in Samaria preaching Christ to Samaritans, many believe and receive the Holy Spirit while Peter and John aid through prayer and laying on of hands. It contrasts genuine faith with Simon the sorcerer’s attempted purchase of spiritual power and warns against church members driven by worldly motives.
The JOURNAL office offers a selection of wedding novelties and gift items for couples. Readers can browse playful keepsakes and practical mementos showcased for nuptial celebrations.
An old-fashioned shoe insert advertisement promotes Sprinkle Allen's Foot-Hase used in one shoe to ease pinching when rubber boots or overshoes are needed. It emphasizes versatility and urges buyers not to accept substitutes. Sold everywhere for 5 cents.
Trustees offer real estate and a shirt factory lot in Federalsburg Caroline County. Tract No 1 includes 7700 square feet on Main Street near the Nanticoke river with a large canning house and drainage rights. Tract No 2 comprises two parcels totaling 1308 square feet with drainage rights and a shirt factory building with machinery. Cash on sale day.
Quiat signs to discontinue blacksmith and wheelwright business and sell his entire stock of tools at his shop in Burcsville Maryland. The notice calls for liquidation of equipment used in metalwork and would affect local trades.
A sale notice for Saturday afternoon March 6 1909 begins at 1 30 listing a complete blacksmith shop. Items include L Forge 16 inch fall anvil self feed drill butts 6 horsepower gasoline engine wood saw bench belt emery stone New Holland corn mill and other shop goods plus a Norse horse cow carriage harness wagons sleigh and carts. Terms announced day of sale. Jon W Smith F Covey auctioneers.
Public sale in front of Denton Court House on March 16 1909 between 2 and 3 pm offers the undivided one half interest of J Edward Douglass in Bell Mount and Huntington tracts in Hunting Creek Neck Caroline county along the Choptank River adjoining James C McCarter and others.
Trustees will expose at public sale in front of Greensboro hardware shop Maryland the property secured by a deed from Thomas M. Green to T Akin Goldsborough dated December 14 1908 and recorded in Caroline land records to the highest bidder.
Between 2 and o'clock p m on Saturday February 27 1909 the T M Green hardware store in Greensboro Maryland offers stock of general hardware stoves blankets coats whips harness paints oils bound rope window glass and a large gasoline engine including goodwill of the business. Sale terms cash. inventory can be viewed at the law office of T Alan Goldsborough in Denton Maryland.
Notice to tomato growers that contracts will open on March 1 and remain available until acreage is filled at eight dollars per ton. Thomas H. Jones of W Hillsboro Maryland signs the notice.
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