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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
3
Public notices show court schedules for the county with meetings set for April 6 for circuit court February 3 for levy court February 10 for board of supervisors and February 10 for other court sessions. The brief calendar lists dates and upcoming gatherings across departments.
The ice harvests in Caroline are heavy. Ethel Fletcher becomes Hog Island School teacher. A new colored school at Tuckahoe will open Monday. Denton’s growth likely to continue. Hughes Lumber plans new houses and timber purchases. A steamboat line may start soon. wood demand remains high. A snowstorm swept the Peninsula briefly. New drug store planned in Denton. Cornice work on a bank building by Baltimore contractor. A Philadelphian sent a three month old call to a firm and got $24.40. Wright Choptank boy nearly bled to death. saved by swift care. Choptank Conclave I O H installs officers next Thursday. Tuckahoe Neck mill to install roller process machinery. Watch-maker Wilt returns to Bul lock with improved health. John Singer hurt shelling corn. Hillsboro cannery plans 15k–20k cans daily. tomatoes to be packed. stock at $8/ton. Box social at Long’s school Feb 6. weather may postpone. Mitchell and Sewell patent corn thinning machine. attaches to setting out plants. Religious meetings draw deep interest. Rev Truitt aided by Rev Beanatt. Gravatt to attend Maryland Agricultural College feb 10 for entomology and horticulture. wood on peach trees promising. Howard Carroll, 18, dies of Bright’s disease. funeral held with Rev Tay officiating at Concord.
Grace Towers and Vaughn Todd marry in Willis ton at the Methodist Church with Rev J W Fogle officiating. A reception follows at the Towers home as many relatives and friends attend, including the Towers and Todd families and local residents. Earlier, James Andrew Mitchell wed Malissa Detwiler at a quiet morning ceremony with a breakfast reception at the Detwiler home. Various social gatherings, visits, illnesses, and travel notes fill the rest of the society page with local doings and arrivals.
Mrs James Slaughter and daughter Mary of Dover spent a week with sister Mrs J C Longfellow after a lengthy Philadelphia visit and have now returned home. Numerous local youths enjoyed skating parties at Silver Spring mill pond last week. Miss Laura Sylvester of Fair View stayed with Miss Edith Harrington. Mr A Schaube suffers rheumatism. Mrs A Schaube visited friends in Harrington. Miss Nettie Longfellow ill with fever.
E B Carter returns home after visits with relatives and friends in Philadelphia. Will Carrow of Wilmington spends time with his parents. Mrs Sadie Smith returns from Detroit. Miss Ida Pritchett visits Philadelphia friends. Mrs Frank Moore of Baltimore visits Mrs Wm Dukes. Reynolds Moore of Dover visits his mother. Mrs P A Marvel is very ill. Agnes Misa Bertye Saulsbury returns from Farmington. J Gootee Collins relocates to Philadelphia for a job. A pie social at Chestnut Grove planned for Friday February 6. La Grippe is very prevalent in the neighborhood.
Mr. George Hubbard captured three fine coons one night last week. Rev. Mr. King spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nichols. Miss Lelia Covey, who has been on the sick bed, is improving. Our farmers are busy hauling lime. Wedding and social invitations of all kinds in correct form are furnished promptly at the Journal office.
A January record of real estate transfers lists numerous Denton area deeds with prices and district designations. Names include Joshua W. Bryant Louisa Tilghman Edward Kay Benjamin Dill and many others with properties ranging from 1 to 378 acres across First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh and Eighth districts.
The notice lists transfers of 138 acres in the Sixth district from K Crouse to H Franklin Stevens for 6000 dollars and 72 acres in the Third district from Annie H Downes executrix to H Franklin Stevens for 750 dollars. Also recorded are transfers of Denton property from Philp W Downes and wife to Josephine M Downes for 1500 dollars and a list of individuals issued marriage licenses including Norman Seward and Maggie Scully among many others.
Mr Todd spoke at the Greensboro Farmers Institute on hog care and feeding. He urged comfortable quarters and exercise, milk as brood sow food, and thin slop for piglets. Weaning at ten weeks and careful, stable feeding were advised, with a focus on personal attention to raise hogs successfully.
At the seventh annual meeting in Dover Harry A. Richardson was elected president and W H Baker was named general manager. A two percent dividend was declared. The company has spent 143000 to date and connected nearly every village on the peninsula with a 30000 cable across the bay. A resolution authorized spending 150000 more to reach Cape Charles, extending the line to cover additional overlooked areas.
A Monday gathering at Mr James Hicks included Lydia Lane Leslye Cheezum Edythe Clark Sadye Cheezum Amanda Tate Rob Fleetwood A J Robinson Phares Crouse Monroe Crouse and Elwood Lane Refreshments were served at 1030 PM Mr and Mrs J L Bennett are visiting Mrs Wm Chaczum Norman Hicks spent several days with his parents in Tuckahoe Negk Evolution of the Commission Business notes a New York Fruit Trade Journal report describing a firm in the East shifting from commission to purchase accounts with 83 percent of transactions in purchases and 35 percent in commissions, profits favoring purchases.
Misses Nora Collison and Annie Christopher of Easton were recent guests of Miss Wilma Carroll in Newton. Mr. R. M. Messick has been visiting in Philadelphia.
County Commissioners Acharias Wright and Jarre, Sheriff Dukes and C. H. Whitby Jr visited Princess Anne and Snow Hill to inspect jails. They favor locating a new jail near the courthouse to share heating with the court building.
In Bridgeville California on Tuesday July 20 a local child named Paul Hardesty died from diphtheria after being abducted from his home by a stranger. Paul was bright, respectful, and a universal favorite, and his loss shocks the town as his parents mourn with community support.
News notes Captain Washing ton Laird Goldsborough, Manila city solicitor and war veteran, wed Katherine Egbert in Manila on the 10th inst. He hails from prominent families and fought at San Juan Hill. Also includes local inquiry about muskrat shooting laws in Talbot county and a 1900 act restricting night shooting along Choptank and Tuckahoe rivers with penalties and penalties.
The Citizens Light and Fuel Company led by president Albert G. Towers won permission to lay pipes in Denton streets to exclude rival acetylene firms. Work to start within four months, main line on Market Street from First to Seventh to be completed in eight months. Towers returned from Philadelphia with materials and predicts illumination of town in under a year. Many residents consider adopting the new light for businesses and homes. Denton may become one of about twenty U S towns lit similarly.
The tale links the saying to chalked pints and quarts in taverns marking orders. A corrective warning urged a man to mind his P s and Q s when overindulging. Daisy mocks a deceased patron, while Clarissa of Circassia notes he died hard.
A reader from Havre de Grace Maryland argues profits fall for canners this year as tomato prices slide from $2.35 to $1.70 per case and 65 cents below last year. He notes Harford Cecil and Lancaster counties lead Maryland Delaware and Pennsylvania in canning, many farmers seek contracts at last year’s prices, while some old packers leave for new buyers. He warns packers to look at past cycles and predicts farmers will plant tomatoes widely if contracts or promises improve, with Caroline county packers offering $3 per ton for next season.
A list of top performing pupils by school and teacher across Williamson, Boonsboro, Agner, Greensboro, Denton, Friendship, Roplar Neck, Houston's Branch and Cedar Grove. Names include Addie Murphy, Lola Clark, Mary Wright, Norman Jobes, George Hance, Pauline Horsey, George Murphy, Jobe Brambaugh, Henry Holsinger, Elsie Carroll, Virginia Wooters, Mildred Seward, Clara Replogie, Dora MacMahan, Lizzie Cox, Edith Cannon, Alice Jeavons, Bessie Ai Smith and others with their educators and school locations.
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