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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1910
Page
5
Items from all parts of the county are solicited under this head. The column in the Denton Journal for Saturday morning January 8, 1910 presents short notices and local items reflecting community events and happenings across the area.
The column lists varied items from prices for wheat and corn to people moving shops and court actions. It notes travel between towns, farm and bank news, school openings, a gunning license arrest, and plans for an Armour plant in Ridgely alongside weather impacts and agricultural notes.
Federalsburg druggist William E Brown visited to oversee Duffeys drugstore while Charles E Stevens faced illness. A long list of social visits, dances, dinners, travel to Baltimore Philadelphia and Norfolk. engagements about health, hosting and hosting guests. property sale of Way man Wharf for 7000. various locals visiting kin in Wilmington Goldsboro Chesapeake season at home in Hillsboro.
Super intendent Noble asks each county school to host patrons meetings this winter. Pupils prepare short talks on improving schools attendance and possible compulsory attendance law. Teachers invite parents and friends, with office officials attending on listed January dates at 7 pm or 2 pm in various towns.
The Legislature organized in Annapolis with Senate officers led by President Arthur P. Gorman and Secretary Max Ways. Reading Clerk Walter R. Townsend and Engrossing Clerk L 13 Kerr hailed from Baltimore area counties. House officers include Speaker Adam Peeples and Chief Clerk Albert J. Almoney. Additional posts cover Journal Clerk Robert Carter Halli and others from Prince Georges Howard Montgomery and Dorchester counties.
Smithville reports the burial Sunday morning at Bloomery of infant Clyde Chaffinch son of Mr and Mrs John Chaffinch. Rev L B Morgan officiated. Pneumonia listed as the cause. Community extends sympathy to the bereaved family.
Preaching at Grove M P Church Sunday January gth 10 30 a m Choptank 3 p m Christian Endeavor at Grove 7 30 p m led by the pastor Mrs J Baseman Elliott wife of Rev W Biggs Elliott and their son Russell L Elliott are visiting in Baltimore at Mrs Elliott's sister home Mr Bradford Connelly takes over as Grove merchant and farmed near Federalsburg Lewis Francis Frampton and Miss Jennie Vernon Fleming wed at Grove M P parsonage on December 22 Robert Wesley Clark infant son of Mr Joseph E and Mrs Viola S Clark baptized January 4
Mrs. 5. K. Fulton and Miss Rita George returned to Baltimore after visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Towers. James H. Pollard was badly hurt last week while hauling wood, with one foot mashed. Constable W. C. Andrew sick with typhoid fever but recovering. St. Roland Towers returns to Baltimore to seek employment. School reopened after holidays with large attendance. Fox hunting enjoyed by local young men. Mr. Oscar Murphy on the sick list.
The Centreville Record notes multiple weddings from Centreville to Easton, Queen Anne, and Greensboro. Lillian Rhodes and Alfred Hammer wed at Mother of Sorrows Church, with reception to follow. Additional ceremonies include Miss Phyllis Stitchberry and G Edgar Smith in Easton, Beulah Stevenson and Harry Totheroh in Greensboro, and several other marriages and upcoming betrothals across Kent and Caroline counties, with plans for new homes and local receptions.
Poem remembrance by a daughter Lavaa honoring Wilhelmina Welch who died January 8 1909. The speaker recalls a graveyard scene with stars above and the mother resting beneath the cold sod, expressing love and sorrow. The daughter signs the tribute.
Mr. and Mrs. John Chaffinch express gratitude to neighbors and friends for their kindness shown during their recent bereavement.
The Marydel Choptank Grange elected Henry Williams Walter Marvel and Adelbert Peck to a committee to lobby Dover and the Levy Court for enforcing the Soper good roads law allowing Kent county to borrow up to 100000 dollars alongside the old State aid plan. Local social notes follow with residents visiting, hosting events, and travels through town.
Poultrymen are advised to keep hens active in search of food and to roost with full crops. For winter egg production imitate summer feeding with grain, green food, dry chaff, and meat or milk supplements, plus farm-grown feed and additional buys like bran and gluten meal to improve results.
Miss Nellie Butler and Miss Mary Towers, Federalsburg teachers, visited relatives here. Mr W H Lane slaughtered a fine 11 month old porker weighing 4074 pounds. Agnes Brodes improves after a severe measles attack. Elsie Collins travels to Baltimore seeking a position. Lizzie Williamson visits Greenwood with her daughter. Louise Higgins returns from Talbot relatives.
In Federalsburg Miss Myrtle J. Kemp entertained many friends for New Year's Day dinner with guest Mr. Toro of Washington. Miss Mary Wright returned home after holidays with her sister Mrs. Joseph Smith. Earl G. Breeding, after Christmas with parents, returned to Maryland University. Mrs. Harry Merriken, taken to Baltimore for an operation last week, is recovering well.
In Orphans' Court Tuesday Judges Clark Liden and Fleetwood granted letters of administration on Caroline Bailey's personal estate to George W Bailey bond filed and approved notice to creditors ordered renunciation filed. Victor Fred Kirsch executor of Nicholas Kirsch presented a distribution approved. Edwin C Fields administrator of Harriet P Fields presented an account of sales a list of desperate debts and a first and partial account of administration approved and passed.
Dentonians held a Friday night dance with decorations of green and red, music by Robinson's First Infantry Orchestra of Wilmington, and a midnight collation. The event drew broad local social participation and included a long list of patronesses and guests from multiple towns.
The article suggests broom corn as a profitable addition to diversified farming. It grows easily in good soils with little care and fetches strong market prices. Maryland farmers are urged to consider broom corn, with advice to seek explicit growing instructions from the Department of Agriculture in Washington.
A corn import from Shanghai in 1908 tested by the United States Department of Agriculture showed potential for arid Southwest breeding. Plants averaged under six feet tall with 12 leaves at tasseling, ears about 54 inches long and circumference, 16 to 18 rows of small grains. Upper leaves are unilateral and erect, with silks forming at the leaf joint before ears become visible.
Lawyers in the First Judicial Circuit of Maryland anticipate Judge Charles F. Holland reaching the 70 year age limit next summer and retirement. The successor selection will be limited to Somerset and Wicomico counties, with Dorchester and Worcester already holding circuit judges. Wicomico is expected to back Salisbury attorney F. Stanley Toadvin, while Somerset leaders led by ex Congressman Joshua W. Miles back H. L. Stanford, Miles partner and former House of Delegates member.
Maryland has about 1.2 million acres of water area feeding Chesapeake Bay with 36 navigable rivers seven bays three sounds and many creeks. The report classifies bottoms into five groups including natural oyster bars 192000 acres depleted bottoms 108000 acres and 430000 acres of mud channels and shifting sands with 360000 acres of potentially productive bottoms. Great financial returns are anticipated from the Chesapeake in the not distant future.
A page advises crafting a burlap portiere inspired by Bagdad style with careful hemming, five fabric strips, and cross stitched panels in cream blue brick red nile and green. Use a black border to enhance tones and hang from a dark pole with matching rings.
The Dover Delawarean reports William G. Rawlins died in a Christmas afternoon accident while riding a hay wagon. Neighbors saw a sheet of flame in front of his horses as he returned home, and he apparently died from burns after a pipe sparked the hay. An elderly servant noted Rawlins had epilepsy and speculated the pipe caused the fatal blaze.
Rev Frank T Benson of the Methodist Protestant Church outlines a January Sunday program for young men with topics Life Assets Choosing the Path Making the Most of Life and The Stature of a Man The Denton Mission holiness convention draws several state delegates and ministers including Rev H J Olsen Rev T F Tabler Rev Frank Robison Rev Ellis Boswell Rev H P Adams Rev A A Price Rev J Warren Slate Rev Ethel Brown Rev Mamie Elliott Rev G L Helsby with new state superintendent and officers. Special evenings at Denton M E Church continue with Miss Annie E Dryden leading music.
The Hubbard farm near Grove marks the old Dickinson home where Charles Dickinson dueled Andrew Jackson on Kentucky soil. Dickinson died in the exchange after Jackson survived thanks to a coat button misfire. Tales say the mansion haunted by spectral visitants and whispered by locals across generations.
Washington, with a 400000 population and wealthy residents, is a market for country produce. The Electric Express Company of Washington Baltimore and Annapolis plans fast electric steamers between Annapolis and Eastern Shore towns to feed Washington and Baltimore, speeding delivery and reducing costs for Eastern Shore produce.
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