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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1903
Page
3
Public notice lists the schedule for the county: Court sessions begin April 6, February 3 for the levy board and February 10 for the supervisors board. Also notes citizens may submit news and solicits items under this calendar.
The ice harvest in Caroline is heavy. Miss Ethel Fletcher becomes Hog Island teacher. A new colored school at Tuckahoe is set to open Monday. Denton’s growth is seen to continue. Hughes Lumber and Coal plans spring dwelling builds. A steamboat line manager eyes a boat and new business. Snow swept the Peninsula briefly. pine scarce. drug store planned in Denton. Box social at Long’s school on Feb 6 to aid the school. inclement weather may move it to Saturday. Funeral for Howard Carroll, 18, held at Concord. graveside service noted.
Grace Towers and Vaughn Todd wed at Williston M E Church in a sparsely adorned ceremony with the Towers family. A second wedding joined James Andrew Mitchell to Malissa Detwiler at the home of Abraham Detwiler followed by a breakfast. Social events, travels, and local health notes fill a long society page with numerous names and attending relatives.
Mrs James Slaughter and daughter Mary of Dover spent last week with her sister Mrs J C Longfellow and Miss Cora Cooper after visiting brothers in Philadelphia and have returned home. Several local youths enjoyed skating parties at Silver Spring mill pond last week. Miss Laura Sylvester of Fair View visited Miss Edith Harrington. Mr A Schaube suffers rheumatism. Mrs A Schaube visited friends in Harrington. Miss Nettie Longfellow has been ill with a fever.
E B Carter returns home after days with relatives in Philadelphia. Will Carrow of Wilmington visits parents Mr and Mrs W C Carrow. Mrs Sadie Smith returns from months with relatives in Detroit. Miss Ida Pritchett visits friends in Philadelphia. Mrs Frank Moore of Baltimore guests Mrs Wm Dukes. Reynolds Moore of Dover visits his mother. Mrs P A Marvel is very ill. Agnes. Bertye Saulsbury returns to Farmington Del after visiting her sister Mrs Dennis Nichols. J Gootee Collins, formerly of this place, moves to Philadelphia for a position. Pie social at Chestnut Grove next Friday evening February 6. La Grippe very prevalent locally.
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, furnished promptly at the Journal office.
January real estate transfers list many Denton area deeds and licenses. Names include Joshua W. Bryant Louisa Tilghman Edward Kay Benjamin Dill and Robert Wyatt among others with properties in First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh and Eighth districts valued from 50 to 3398 dollars. The record also notes marriage licenses and transfers involving Dougherty Collins Hutchins and other property owners in multiple districts.
Property transfers include K Crouse 138 acres in the Sixth district for 6000 dollars and Annie H Downes executor selling 72 acres in the Third district for 750 dollars. Marriage licenses issued to Norman Seward with Maggie Scully, John Hullock with Laura Porter, and many others including Walter Kellay with Grace Collins and James Mitchell with Malissa Daetwiler.
Mr 8S H Todd lectured at the Farmer's Institute on hog husbandry stressing clean quarters natural exercise and balanced feeding. He urged early weaning thin troughs avoid bran for pigs and keeping pigs at a constitutional weight while noting an experiment where a hog peaked too soon and declined. Personal attention to hog raising was urged as key to success.
At the seventh annual meeting in Dover, Harry A. Richardson was elected president and W H Baker general manager. A two percent dividend was declared as the company has spent $143,000 to connect nearly every village and hamlet on the peninsula with a $30,000 cable. A resolution to spend $150,000 more, totaling $600,000, will extend the line to Cape Charles, reaching additional communities.
A Monday evening party hosted by Mr James Hicks included Miss Lydia Lane Leslye Cheezum Edythe Clark Sadye Cheezum Amanda Tate and Messrs Rob Fleetwood A J Robinson Phares Crouse Monroe Crouse and Elwood Lane Refreshments followed at 10 30 Mrs J L Bennett is visiting her aunt Mrs Wm E Chaczum and Mr Norman Hicks spent a few days with his parents in Tuckahoe Negk The Evolution of the Commission Business notes a New York Fruit Trade Journal report that last year purchase accounts were 83 percent of transactions with 35 percent in the commission account and profits mostly from the purchase side.
Misses Nora Collison and Annie Christopher of Easton were 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 jails, praising Snow Hill and proposing a new jail near the courthouse to share heating with the court building. The rest of the column notes real estate moves, immigrant farm plans, almanac data, store repairs, lectures, court activity, railroad upgrades, local deaths, and other town matters.
A two day diphtheria tragedy shocks Bridgeville California as five year old Paul H. E. Hardesty is taken by the disease after being found in his home. The town mourns a bright, respectful boy beloved by all and shares heartfelt sympathy with his parents H. E. and Mrs. Hardesty.
Captain Washing ton Laird Goldsborough, city solicitor of Manila and a former Seventy first New York Volunteer Infantry commandant, married Katherine Egbert in Manila on the 10th inst. He hails from the Goldsborough family with ties to Colonel Egbert and notable military service in the Spanish American War. The note also recalls other family connections and wartime events.
The Citizens Light and Fuel Company led by Albert G. Towers won permission to lay pipes in Denton streets excluding rivals, with a plant optional later to light streets. Work to start within four months and main on Market Street from First to Seventh to finish within eight months. Towers expects rapid progress and townwide illumination within a year. Others weigh adopting the new light for business and homes.
The note explains the saying mind your P's and Q's as chalk marks for pints and quarts in taverns. It cites humorous exchanges about Daisy and Clarissa of Circassia remarking on the deceased’s final hours, reflecting a light wind of facetious obituary banter.
A Havre de Grace reader argues that canners face dim prospects this year as tomato prices drop from $2.35 to $1.70 per case with further discounts. He explains Maryland Delaware Peninsula packers and Harford Cecil counties show large canner activity, contracts at last year’s prices, and widespread planting for a better crop if farms secure cash contracts.
A list of top averages from Williamson's School and nearby schools names pupils by site. Miss Ethel P. Cade and Miss Laura Letty are among those leading classes with teachers Addie Murphy and Dora MacMahan respectively. Other schools include Boonsboro Greensboro Denton Friendship and Houston's Branch with multiple students and staff named.
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