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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1891
Page
3
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Wheat worth 1.06 to 1.08 at markets. Hurlock becomes a money order post office. Levy court meets next Tuesday. Schubert's Quartette to sing at Salisbury March 2. Orphans' court session next Tuesday. Firms in Adamsville seek engine and boiler. Denton causeway shelling done this week. John E Harman, J. died at Centreville. Farmer alliance organized at Cannon Delaware. Administrator notices creditors of Samuel Trice. Betsey Bobbett promoted at Williamsburg. Telegraph lines open along B and E R R. Washington College given inkstand from St Mary’s mulberry tree. Glass ball and live pigeon match at Hillsborough March 7. Boy on East New Market tracks faces punishment. Del State Fair officers listed. Tri-county Farmer's Alliance rally March 5 at Easton with Col Polk planned. Wreck of foot injury to Captain Windsor. Mrs Mowbray divorced by Delaware Legislature. Mail pouches dispatched from Baltimore at 9 am. Snow Hill Messenger notes miswriting slows mail. Mrs Layfield administers aconite to sons. near tragedy. Disappearances in Easton puzzle locals. Mrs Jackson elopes with cousin. arrested in Baltimore. Mr Thomas J. Hunter dies in Baltimore. Denton hosts match game baseball with Denton nine vs Tuckahoe. Deeds recorded in February list numerous transfers. Married men challenge single men to Denton baseball next Wednesday at 2:30.
The Talbot County School Board met Tuesday and appointed Phoebe C Schreiner to the Maryland Institute scholarship. Ten dollars was raised for each school library, matching funds authorized. Chestnut Grove gets a single sturdy door to deter intruders. Denton Colored Academy to host Saturday event. joint talks with Queen Anne's county planned. Examinations granted for uncertified teachers Errickson and Hollis. A to-be-suppressed Shrove Tuesday disruption rule imposes loss of time for teachers and possible expulsion for pupils involved.
Examiners report on laying a public road in the Fourth district known as the Rawlins road was ratified and William H. Deen’s bid of 149.50 accepted. Commissioners debated best and cheapest methods for road work. Samuel Ewing applied for keeper of Denton Bridge. Mary and Steamboat Company annual meeting elected Gen. Howard B. Ensign, John W. D. Pentz, Gilmor Meredith, Enoch Pratt and Henry Jones as directors. Ensign re-elected president and James E. Byrd as secretary-treasurer.
Ridgely residents attended a two night waffle and chicken supper at MacShane's Hall hosted by the Reformed Church Missionary Aid Society. A cane contest between Emory S. Turpin and Thomas A. Smith raised about 131 dollars with total receipts near 150 dollars. Smith won the pole contest and a speech by Dr. F. P. Herrin followed. George and Mrs McNichol, both ill, are recovering. Ridgely February 26.
St Pauls Church receives altar cloths and lectern hangings funded by a Philadelphia congregation and a Baltimore embroiderer. A county petition results in shelling Lloyds Hill and grading it toward the bridge over Lloyds branch. Queen Anne schoolhouse near opening. Miss Mollie Brown hired as teacher. Social notices include travel and visits. news item concludes with a long letter debating the origin and authority of the New Testament and the church as guardian of the Bible.
The Dover District Epworth League Convention on Thursday the 16th drew many attendees with reports from Revs McSorley Green Townsend and Duhadway of Delaware Howard, and Fletcher Corkran Mace of Caroline. Delegates joined discussions while Sam Small lectured on From Nar-Room to Pulpit. Local notes include a bride joining the harness shop, seed contracts for canning-house operators, A J Boyd visiting from Livingston County, new railroad bridge piling, and visits by local residents. Federalsburg, February 26.
J. W. Kerr, a nurseryman, advertises for two white boys aged 16 to 18 to join his nursery workforce. He promises regular work and good wages for bright, willing lads, starting about the first of March.
Childish appetite nearly caused a fatality in the Wright family as Nellie Wright drank Fowler's Solution of arsenic. A near drowning of Col J M McCarter's horse followed. a lime-hauling accident narrowly avoided drowning. Local church lectures and a revival update fill community notices along with auctions and social events. Marydel and Preston hosts report weddings, religious visits, and a variety of county happenings with multiple named individuals and firms.
The article lists census figures by election district for nine Maryland counties on the Eastern Shore. Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties show counts for towns and districts such as Henderson Denton Cambridge Easton Saint Michaels Centreville Kent Island Snow Hill Princess Anne Berlin and others, totaling a regional population recap. It also reports Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company cases affirmed by the Court of Appeals with notes on bandholders and canal rights.
Assignee of a Maryland mortgage offers for sale the Clara I George and Joseph T George property in Marydel Caroline County comprising a dwelling stable outbuildings and 16 acres with adjoining land. Sale at noon on premises includes two parcels with specified bounds, cash or two installment options, $100 deposit, auctioneer Henry Innox.
The Rev Samuel Davidson Hall died at The Church Home and Infirmary Baltimore last Saturday at age 49. Funeral services were held Sunday in the institution chapel, with Rev J B Harding and others assisting. Interment was at Davidsonville Anne Arundel County, his birthplace. He formerly served as rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Sykesville and held posts across Maryland and Delaware. He leaves a widow and three children. His life was insured for $1000 with the Independent Order of Heptasophs. he belonged to Choptank conclave, Denton.
Remittance dates appear with subscribers on journals sent this morning letting friends see at a glance when payments are due.
Robertson and Carr successors to Henry Allnutt announce leading styles and best wearing shoes hats and umbrellas at lowest city prices. Located at 10 East Pratt Street Baltimore.
A bazar at Institute Building Wilmington closed on Ash Wednesday eve to liquidate a $30,000 debt on St Patrick's Church. Opened January 16, receipts exceed $30,000 with $23,000 from a Europe return ticket contest run by Bishop Curtis for Rev D J Flynn of St Marys and Rev W J Bermingham of St Pauls. Flynn won with $13,288 to Bermingham's $10,030 as the public vote flooded in at ten cents a vote, splitting the city east and west.
In February the Circuit court issued marriage licenses to White William W. Davis and Ollie Lord Alfred W. Thompson and Clarence E Turner William G. Wright and Laura Towers Henry L. Cohee and Mary Bailey George T. Musselman and M. Viola Powell Nicholas Fountain and Mary Hemsley Philip Pritchett and Anna Stewart William S. Reed and Annie Williamson.
The proprietor announces a 20 foot addition and full expansion of available space, aiming to supply the most needed goods to customers. The enlargement consolidates all previously accessible stock into a larger, more convenient area.
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