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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1894
Page
3
The L local scene features a new fire engine for Berlin and Ridgely’s upcoming incorporation. Other notes include a likely short ice crop, Shad caught near Bombay Hook, and various county civic items. Prohibitionist conference set for Easton on the 22nd. Easton and Southern railroad funding discussions continue.
In Annapolis during legislative sessions new members adjust to life near the State house. They board in shared houses, stroll the Naval Academy grounds, and attend dances while cadets perform. The town offers creeks, old mansions, and a busy library, with visitors asking for charity, and locals noting shops, cannery work, and a mix of social events and local notices.
Mr William R Allaband a popular farmer of Tuckahoe Neck and Miss Christine Allee daughter of Jacob R Allee were married at Thimble's Methodist Protestant Church with Rev C TH Day officiating and a large congregation. Miss Sallie Allaband played the wedding march as ushers stood by. Afterward the couple held a reception at Furman farm. Mr and Mrs Allaband received handsome gifts. Other notices include marriages of John E Atkinson and Zula Meginney and William Townsend Wallace and Mary S. Banning, plus various local social items and health notes on community figures.
Queen Anne Emma Wilson visits cousin Sadie Chipley of Philadelphia then plans a Florida winter. Ethel Moore hosts a fourteenth birthday party at Maple Grove. Lizzie Nichols, former Hillsborough resident, dies in Baltimore aged about 62, daughter of Rev. James Nichols. Elizabeth Trumbleton, ex Knotts school teacher, wed Preston Grace at St Michaels. Reed missing work to care for Baltimore mother. Pearl Mullikin returns after two weeks ill. Emily Stranglin of Damsontown School ill. William B. Bowens of Wye Mills in town. Mary Knotts visiting relatives at Williston.
Bethlehem sees Young men like William T. Dean and James B. Blades take new positions in North Adams and Philadelphia while families report illnesses and visits. The Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad builds a new freight house in Bethlehem. Miss Ruth Kemp hosts a party and Captain Kemp suffers with the grip. A wedding unites Cornelius Brown Susan Anthony George W. Blades and Edna Russell. Aunt Lina Taylor, Caroline County’s likely oldest resident, dies. Preaching plans and a morning theme at Hartsville and Ames churches are announced.
Mr. George Howsell, about fifty four, living with Squire Sutchinson near American Corner, died suddenly Sunday night after a threat pain and mustard plaster. He was found dead Monday morning. Trowsell owned a farm nearby and moved from New Jersey. Mrs. G S Layton of Bridgeville recovering from poisoning mistaken for medicine.
Rev W R Mowbray, formerly of this county, argues that Young People's Societies must show hearty sympathy and cooperation with the church and pastor, aiding their ministers and influencing members and others. The piece accompanies notices of plays, revivals, appointments, and local civic notes including a fatal arsenic poisoning and regional agricultural progress in Caroline and the Eastern Shore.
Market notes show wheat at 64 cents, corn around 41 cents, eggs 15 cents per dozen, poultry steady, chickens 0 to 10 cents, turkeys 10 cents, sweet potatoes 1.50 to 2.00 per barrel, white potatoes 50 to 60 cents per bushel, with only minor changes in supply.
On Mr. Levi King’s farm last week, fourteen black snakes were killed while clearing new ground. The largest measured five feet one and a half inches, with the others of similar size. The snakes hid under an old stump until one exposed itself to sun, exposing the whole cluster.
Miss Iva Lowe assumes oversight of the Greensborough academy fourth room as additions to the building, approved by the school board after recommendations from Commissioner Dawson and Examiner Stephens. Also, a festival at Grove school house to aid the school library is planned for Saturday evening, with a postponement possible to Monday if rain. Locals note rentals, concerts, and a railroad meeting in Caroline County, and George W. Johnson returns to oversee a saw mill and related plant plans near Denton and Tuckahoe Neck.
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