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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1901
Page
3
Local notices report court in session and upcoming events in Centreville and surrounding towns. Includes postmaster appointments, sales, lectures, concerts, and school plans. Also notes wheat and corn prices in Baltimore, and tax collection totals for the county in 1899 and 1900.
A string of weddings is reported from Caroline and nearby areas. John F. Davis and Nellie M. Jester wed in Seaford with reception at the Jester home. Orville Grant Smith and Bernice Mowbray marry in Baltimore. Earle Clough and Eola Nichols wed in Hillsborough. Annie Thompson and Hugh Pope marry in Howard County. John R. McNeal and Lena Denbler unite in Grove. S. Chester Coursey and Lydia Witworth wed in Elkton. Martha Reed and Aristides Goldsborough tie in Centreville. Lillie Plummer and Richard Porter to marry in town. Lora Smith and John Spanner wed in Philadelphia. Nellie May Skinner and Mordecai Price set for Wye Mills. Bessie Rochester and Marc Bryant announce Feb 7 Denton wedding. Emma Fleming and William Cooper to wed in Burrsville.
Local notes report W Thomas Temple formerly of Fallowfield and Temple will open a store on First Street. He brings mercantile experience from clerkships with C W Jackson and Swing & Co. Other items mention New York visitors Peacock and the Herald repertory staff, plus assorted county notes and a medicine show in town.
Protracted meetings continue at Ames Methodist Protestant Church drawing large crowds and steady interest. Rev. B F Weikil leads the Saint’s Chapel near Andersontown with an all day meeting planned tomorrow. Rev J W Norris heads the Ames church as pastor. Several children recover from grip, scarletina, and measles. School reopened Monday. Mr Silas Layton plans to move to Hobbs with a new dwelling to be built near Jonathan Towers’ lot. Mrs B B Allen, visiting her parents, returns to Washington.
Greensboro firm F. P. Roe & Bro. announces readiness to contract for inner peas at 2 cents per pound and picked peas at 60 cents per bushel, with tomatoes at $6 per ton. They predict a favorable crop outlook as demand rises. Also, T. M. Green leaves Greensboro for a role with Baugh & Sons Co. in Baltimore. Epworth League plans a Betsy Robert performance at Mozart Hall on Friday night, February 22, and town reports multiple grip cases stretching physicians thin.
Storms prevented three scheduled Prohibition meetings. The Ladies Mite Society of the M. P. Church will meet next Thursday afternoon January 31 at J. D. White’s home. The U P B C E held its January social and business meeting at T. F. Daker’s home. The Union Cottage prayer meeting met last Wednesday at A. Cannon’s residence.
Mr. Alex Smith of Adams Farm near Ingleside woke Sunday night to smoke and found the sitting room in flames. After heroic effort the fire was subdued revealing a clock clothing and other items destroyed. Had it not been discovered the sleeping household would have faced great danger escaping.
Mrs J M Covey and children Neva Roland and Gladys stay with Mrs Coveys father Mr R W Medford at Hurlock. Mr Robert Patton retired from farming and moves to Preston to make his future home. It is rumored several more weddings may occur in the neighborhood as Mr A J Corkran and family visited Hurlock this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Somers Blake and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lee have been visiting Preston friends. Rev. C. H. Gootee is spending some time with relatives and friends in this place. Clerk Collins is now assisting Mr. J. A. Cox in the store. Mr. Nelson H. Fooks was in the city this week. Col. A. W. Sisk was in Baltimore Tuesday last.
In Caroline county a probate dispute over the will of Elisha W. Andrew seeks court construction. The 1898 will leaves 365 acres and Federalsburg town property to fund a church trust for the Liberty Methodist Protestant Church with annuities and potential distribution to weak churches if the church ceases. Executed by Levin W. Williams and Thomas H. Chambers, the case tests whether the Liberty church, not then incorporated, could take the bequest under state statutes. The matter involves heirs at law and prior case law on charitable gifts to unincorporated religious entities.
The Wheeler Transportation Line will be sold at public sale in this place on Tuesday February 12. The property includes three steamers the Easton Chesapeake and Minnie Wheeler. The Minnie Wheeler lies at Waymans Wharf Tuckahoe River. James W Holt and Annie E and Elmer E Wheeler administrators of Caleb C Wheeler oversee the sale. Holt has long run the line with Capt Wheeler’s former partners and now manages the business. Rumors say Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway or United States Express may seek to purchase. Wheeler representatives say they dont know the buyer.
Fishermen rush to stake pond nets along the river under a 400 yard spacing rule from the last session. First comer gets position and season pre-emption, risking conflicts when stakes replace former sites. Ice breakup could erase stakes, and reports claim nocturnal shooting of wild ducks with heavy guns near the Choptank. Wardens investigate amid large winter flocks feeding near the river mouth.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a personal tour to California on February 24 running to March 20 aboard the Golden Gate Special. Pullman parlor smoking dining drawing-room sleeping compartments and observation cars dominate the train. Round trip tickets are 150 to most points, 445 from Pittsburgh, with hotel stops and full expenses. Ticket agents and passenger agents across New York Philadelphia Brooklyn Newark Baltimore Washington Pittsburg and Philadelphia offices listed for details.
The Eastern Shore Telegraph and Telephone Company of Caroline county met at Ridgely and elected directors for the next year: Harry A Richardson Wm H Baker Dupont Walker Dover Delaware Wilbur W Hubbard Chestertown Wm J Price Jr Centreville Judge William R Martin Easton George W Woolford Cambridge Thomas L Day Frederick R Owens Carolina county. The president reports eighty towns connected by wire and nearly one thousand phones in use. Lines are being built in Kent county with Queen Annes to follow, connecting toward Easton and the Denton Easton line in the spring. Officers named are Harry A Richardson president Thomas L Day vice president F R Owens secretary Dupont Walker treasurer.
A wealthy woman cured of deafness by Dr Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums donated 910,000 to the Nicholson Institute. The gift funds free ear drum provision for deaf people unable to pay. Address is No. 4874 The Nicholson Institute, 780 Highth Avenue, New York.
A Ridgely correspondent notes farmers busily growing vegetables at home to cut freight costs and guide profits. White potatoes cabbage and apples are imported from Canada Virginia and the North while local growers could meet demand with higher yields. Much of the region’s hay and grain is bought from the West though Eastern Shore soil and climate could support more home production. Former Immigration Commissioner Littleton T. Dryden cites Somerset County as example where money leaves for Michigan goods that could be produced locally, leaving households with nothing tangible in return.
The Peninsula Methodist notes Rev S M Morgan, former Hillsboro circuit pastor, has been invited to become pastor of Mt Salem Church in Wilmington next year. It praises his work at Snow Hill, where he is asked to return for another year, and notes his possible conference presentation of the Snow Hill board’s unanimous request. Also mentions sermons by C V Williams for the New Jersey Children's Home Society, the upcoming Christian Endeavor meeting, and Rev Vaughn Collins resigning to lead Smyrna Asbury Church.
In the Orphans Court on Tuesday last letters of administration on the personal estate of Charlotte A. Langston were granted to Geo. W. Eliason with bond approved. Appraisers named and creditor notices ordered. Wingate Wallace and William J. Price presented accounts and debts. multiple administrations approved and passed. Emma Florence Fleming and James T. Smith administrations proceeding with inventories and notices. Letters granted to Emma Fleming and Oscar Clark respectively. appraisers and sales orders recorded. Various executors presented debt lists and accounts, all approved.
Maryland Agricultural College monthly cautions about a misrepresented fertilizer sold in northern Maryland. It warns buyers about misleading claims of a phosphoric deposit near Littlestown Pennsylvania with dubious ingredients and inflated promises. The notice notes the analysis shows low phosphoric acid and argues the product is not worth the bag it comes in.
County Commissioners received a citizen petition from the Second district urging a new public road from Irvin's Chapel to Sandtown through the lands of T. P. Richards W. Brice and George Kemp to connect with the Goldsboro Sandtown road near Sandy Island Bridge. They took no action and will hear the Pepper road settlement case on February 6. Clerk Whitby was authorized to order a car load of terra cotta pipe ten inches in diameter to be sent to Federalsburg.
The Montauk Ladies Quartet presents a varied program at Masonic Hall in town. The lineup includes Molloy Love's Old Bong, Helene Taylor performing Woman's Rights monologue, a Medley of Popular Songs, C Catharine Lane soprano, Edith Beach recitals, and more with intermission. A five minute intermission precedes items like Willow Pattern Plate and Snowflakes. Merchants and other Caroline business men may order neatly printed stationery and invitations from this office.
Miss Eleanor Turner hosts the Euchre Club at the Brick Hotel with close play and a card cut deciding the prize won by Mrs. Lhcy Griffith. A gentleman’s prize goes to A G Towers by a point. Prof Moore takes the booby. Meringue, cake and coffee end the evening as the club plans next Thursday at Towers.
In a January 11 1901 Greensboro Free Press editorial a census error is claimed. G W Betson Jr of Englewood asserts the Greensboro Md enumeration occurred in June 1900 and disputes reported unoccupied houses and per diem payment claims. He urges local residents to respond by sending names to the Free Press. Also adds classified ad bits for Western mules and horses from Oakland.
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