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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1955
Page
5
Wobbs notes a Sunday service led by Rev William D Turkington with music and a duet by Turkington and the pastor Rev T J Turkington. The column lists social visits across Bridgeville Denton Queen Anne and other local towns. Several residents and families are mentioned as entertaining and visiting during the week.
A historical note explains that New Year's Day did not always fall on January 1. England kept March 25 as New Year’s Day until 1752. Other calendars mark New Year differently: Jewish New Year spans Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur, and the Islamic calendar, starting circa 626 AD, follows lunar months with no seasonal intercalation. The Gregorian reform came in 1582, but dates still drift among cultures.
Mr and Mrs Edward Fountain and guests from Preston, Farmington and Holliday spent weekends with friends. Denton visitors Sarah Van Dyke joined Crolls. New Year dinner hosted by Winnie and Ella Breeding. Lt Barbara Brown and Clayton Brown visited Goldsboro. various reunions and dinners noted with Crolls Wroten Noble and other families. Kent and Sussex Fair banquet in Harrington referenced.
Before the revolution New Year's was a gay festive time in Russia with decorated streets and crowds in cities. Cannons fired a hundred shots to usher in the year and the Winter Palace opened to society. Hospitality and charity defined celebrations from palace to cottage.
The article explains how 46 B C became a 445 day year after Julius Caesar’s calendar reform inserted two months between November and December to realign with the sun. It notes tax collection disruption likely occurred and traces calendar changes from Numa Pompilius to Caesar’s era.
Marydel area residents shared holidays with relatives across New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware. Mr and Mrs Elvin Phillips returned home after visiting relatives. Miss Maud Hlummer visited Baltimore sister. WSCS met for January. numerous guests attended New Year gatherings hosted by local families including Covington Bickling and Harman households.
Mr and Mrs Earl Howard Morgan and children from Detroit visit Queen Anne with the Morgans also hosting. W Gregg Mullen and son from New City N Y accompany. Georgetown Del guests Woodrow Marsh with Luther Short. Eaton relatives visit Baltimore. Miriam and Mildred Gale Wilmington visitors. Kay and Betty Sue Taylor visit Salisbury grandparents. Mrs James E Sherwood visits Denton. Mr Wm Sherwood of Wilmington in town. Brown and Beaven funeral rites in Philadelphia. Willard Russell Blanche Morse host family dinner. Grace Brown Centreville and Naomi Griffin Still Pond visit Beaven home. Urban Bowman Janet visit Westminster over weekend.
The 1954 amendments expand coverage to self employed professionals in certain fields. Engineers, architects, accountants and funeral directors now receive social security benefits under the same basis as tradespersons. Excluded are lawyers physicians dentists osteopaths veterinarians chiropractors naturopaths and optometrists.
Preston notes the funeral of Harry B. Wright Sr at Bethesda Methodist Church on Friday after noon. Wright, a prominent Mason, died suddenly at his son's home on Wednesday. The item lists social visits and gatherings including Miss Katherine Cox of Annapolis, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hall, and others, with notes on arrivals, entertainments, and a death of J. L. Gallagher with services at Clark Funeral Home in Easton.
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