Local Denton Journal Page Two Highlights
Saturday morning edition features brief notices and community items from Denton. Readers find local updates, a short column snapshot, and scattered notices reflecting the city’s happenings.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1921
Page
2
Saturday morning edition features brief notices and community items from Denton. Readers find local updates, a short column snapshot, and scattered notices reflecting the city’s happenings.
The Maryland Farmer urges farm boys to love the soil by owning livestock and crops, arguing self ownership builds pride and a banked future. The piece laments few Eastern Shore youths owning land, calling such expatriation sorrowful for the fatherland and its inheritance.
Editorial notes dismiss the idea of Maryland as lonely rural life. It highlights strong family roots, historic mansions, active neighbors, community clubs and Grange meetings. The piece portrays Maryland farms as welcoming, with hospitable gatherings, fried chicken and homegrown fare.
The text highlights Maryland's highland and coastal regions with active community clubs and better organized rural life. It notes an ideal road system, improving schools, proximity to major markets, and soil climate suitable for crops livestock and fruit, pointing to over 1800 women farmers in Maryland and their expanding influence.
Public notice outlines 1920 tax filing rules for individuals and married couples. Anyone with net income of 1000 dollars or more must file. married couples with 2000 dollars or more must file in the district of residence. Filing period runs January 1 to March 15. Exemptions total 1000 for singles 2000 for married or heads of families plus 200 per dependent under eighteen or incapable of self support. Tax may be paid in full or in four installments: due March 15 June 15 Sept 1 and Dec 15. First installment due with the return. Revised forms for incomes 5000 or less and over 5000 include instructions to aid filers.
A moral exhortation urges readers to forgive past mistakes and seize new beginnings. It speaks of dawn bringing renewal, the power to rise from mire, and to shed regrets as each day offers fresh chances and guidance toward a better path.
Sheriff Owen N Dulin will sell at public auction in front of Denton Court House to the highest bidder for cash the right and interest of Chauncey D Garvey in the Brotherhood tract adjoining Mrs Harrietts Harris and Chauncey D Garvey lands in Caroline County Maryland. Auctioneer John Clark will conduct the sale between 2 and 4 pm.
Start now to safeguard health this winter. The ad urges choosing Gude's Pepto Mangan, available in liquid or tablet form, and to tell the druggist the full brand name. It emphasizes daily health habits and stocking up before cold weather arrives.
The Secretary of Agriculture calls crop development through breeding and selection highly promising and hard to quantify in dollars. He notes 20 years of corn improvement work may have boosted production by about a quarter. Seaford sportsmen oppose a Delaware bill to shorten the quail and rabbit shooting season from November 15 to January 1.
In Equity the Circuit Court for Caroline County orders sale of Ananias Blough’s real estate to divide proceeds among heirs. The 125 acre tract on the Tatman’s Cross Roads to Burrs Valley road, conveyed 1906, cannot be partitioned without loss, thus necessitating sale. Parties include Elva Kissel and Cline Kissel, Sadie Blough, Ralph Cannon, Edna Cannon, Albert Cannon, Charles Blough, Joseph Blough, Lucy Blough, Jeannette Blough, Alice Blough. Ralph Cannon nonresident defendant in Wilmington Delaware. Infants listed: Edna, Albert, Charles, Joseph, Lucy, Jeannette, Alice Blough. Hearing set for February 15. Publication required in Caroline County newspaper four weeks before Jan 31.
By power of sale in a 1912 mortgage, Oscar Nichols assigns to J Peter Cook, and default occurs. The attorney will offer at public sale, in front of the Court House door in American Corners, the lot on the north side of the road to Laurel Grove, 216 by 260 feet, bounded by Beauchamp lands, described as the property conveyed to John I Collins May 25 1912, improvements included.
A memorial notice from Mr. and Mrs. Algie Willoughby chronicles the five year anniversary of their son Walstan who died January 15 1916. It speaks of gate opening and a gentle voice inviting him home and of reunion in a resting place awaiting Jesus and judgment.
Mr. Wilmer Collins has joined the Philadelphia Public Transportation Company in a capacity linked to the city’s transit services. The announcement notes his role and the organization involved, highlighting the ongoing staffing update in Philadelphia’s transit sector.
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