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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1912
Page
7
The Local Department announces a Post Office Department regulation denying mail service to newspapers sent to subscribers with unpaid accounts unless rates are increased. The Journal urges all subscribers with arrears to settle promptly to comply with the government order.
Local notices report wheat prices and coin values, Kodak services, and auto line updates. Centreville plans a creamery, a festival, and new hires while Denton merchants tout stocks, taxes, and a bridge project. Weather and heat prostrations accompany county crop notes amid advertisements and church events.
Army officers receive new assignments with Denton visits noted. Lieutenant R. Earle Fisher returns to his regiment and heads to Texas after teaching military science at St John’s College Annapolis. Several locals including Miss Irene Wallace and Mrs. James E H Phawley are mentioned in social travel and hospital notes.
The School Board awarded scholarships to Miss Shl da Turner of Ridgely at Western Maryland College, William M. Garey of Denton at Maryland Agricultural College, Edward Bright of Henderson at Charlotte Hall Academy, and Misses Anna Brown Federalsburg Catherine Cox Preston Mary Russell Greensboro at the State Normal School Baltimore.
Justice Matoy of Greensboro held court Friday. Louis Taylor, colored, sentenced to three months in the House of Correction for disorderly conduct and threatening Officer Temple. Wood Larle, colored, jailed ninety days for resisting an officer. Watson Murray, colored, fined ten dollars and costs for resisting an officer.
Mrs J S Lapham and children and Mrs W L T Jarman were visitors in Smyrna along with Hovey L Morris and her son Mildred. Miss Alia Sapp returned home from Plintsone with Miss Jessie Jones. Several couples visited Harrington and Greenwood in Jarmans car. Wheat growing began with poor yield. berry crops forecast below normal. Numerous visits from Philadelphia to Smyrna and back, plus Typhoid fever recovery and local sick lists. Farmers report good hay yield. Mary Cutler of Wilmington visiting town friends.
Mr and Mrs Alfred I Ross hosted a Friday evening lawn party at their home on Ross Lane in honor of their daughter Helen Nathryn. Attendees included Misses Jessie Cannon Catharine Cannon Mary Wroten Edythe Simpson Mary Thon Ethel Camper Nettie Ross Hlaine Graham Vlorrie Dill Georgie Seeders Bertha Col leen Alessis Ltdicd Baughley Wallace Walter Hlanson Harold Outten Olaf Smith Harlan Blades Henry Noble Philip Cheezum Jack Evans Wesley Thawley Bloyd Purner and Uury Minner. Games amused guests before music. Dinner featured cake fruits and ice cream. Ferns and potted plants adorned the table with sweet peas as souvenirs.
J Boon Duke, Jesse P Warren and Joseph P Anthony, examiners, give notice they will meet to consider the matter of opening a new public road in the Third district.
Mesa church figures organize a Sunday school convention at this place with sessions Friday through Sunday. Rev. Elen Onepe and Rev. Daxon lead services, with address by J. Jerson and notes on methods to advance Sunday School work. Concord camp meeting set for August 3rd to 12th features revivals, new pews, and a focus on missions.
A Hillsboro item describes a new Queen Anne school building with a four column portico and broad roof, funded by Caroline, Talbot and Ducum Anne counties, and outlines a teaching staff including a principal, an assistant, and an intiner. The rest is a chain of short notes on local residents’ activities and visits around Baltimore, Centreville, Tolchester, and Dougron.
Mrs. Jesse P Warren of near Denton buys the John Wesley Semple homestead a two acre tract for 7500 dollars and plans to move to the new farm. The Semple homestead long a social center hosted many friends and committee work for a camp was organized with ALP Heather in charge of the bread tent. Activities included tender and horse pound plans meanwhile several local residents and visitors from Denton and Philadelphia were noted attending events and funerals as Sunday gatherings and travel by local cars.
Mr and Mrs Joshua Sparks and Mr Larry Sparks attend the funeral of Mrs J J Sparks in Ridgely. The Fourth of July week brings local visits, entertainments in progress, and farming purchases as EH J Cooper and J W Funk buy the Merchant farm near Marydel. Miss Maud Hummimer and Lara Heather spend the Fourth in Cenveville. Local residents Olin Hummer, Bernard Sparks, and others visit kin and friends in Chestertown, Rectortown, Hartley, and Rehoboth.
Dover Bridge linking Talbot and Caroline counties opened to traffic on June 29 after York Bridge Company began work a year earlier on June 29 1911 under A S Lane. The project combined county state and Shoemaker Act funding to replace a wooden draw with a two span structure 76 foot fixed and a 144 foot 6 inch draw. The work involved 125000 pounds of steel 4000 feet of pine 2600 piles and 220 cubic yards of concrete masonry despite river bottom challenges and material delays. Completion will improve regional road connections and future causeway construction will finalize links to Caroline county.
The M. EE. Sunday School of Ridgely plans an annual excursion to Rehoboth Del on Wednesday July 17 with special low rates from Downes station plus Tuckahoe and Denton. Trains depart at .43 3.46 and 55 a m and return from Rehoboth at 5 15 p m. Those from Ridgely without travel to Downes should meet at the church at 7 30 a m where teams will be provided.
In Orphans Court on Tuesday Judges Clark Rawlings and Stevens pres ent executors Garey and Towers of Edwin Garey deceased presented inventory and appraisement of personal estate approved. Linwood Eaton administrator of John Eaton presented a first and final account and distribution approved. Orlando Patton and Chris Harrison executors of Robert Patton presented a receipt from Matthew Patton approved. Decree granted on sale of Thomas Hutson estate after oral testimony. May relief department reports show 20749 59 paid in benefits. total paid since establishment 33329221.46.
A local notice reports that Mr John Towers is very ill and under medical care. The other John involved appears in unrelated context. no further details are provided.
The piece urges action to prohibit temperance violations in the local option community. It cites disorder linked to liquor, including a fatal incident and a man in Denton jail facing murderous conduct, with taxpayers expected to bear legal costs. It notes Ben Weaver buying the Fonwell farm in Queen Anne's for 35,500 dollars.
The three month old Noble died on Monday. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 4:30. Interment in Mt Pleasant Cemetery. Mr and Mrs David Jenning and Lydia returned from Baltimore where they visited relatives. Rev C M Elderdice left for Atlantic City to attend the Prohibition convention.
Community notes from Trinity detail July Fourth visits among families including Mrs. M A Young and Mr Hf Bowman. Epworth League to be led by Miss Mary Davis at Trinity M E Church. Weather hot, crops dry, and summer school at Georgetown. Local sermons, farm fires, and visits by residents to towns like Atlantic City and Wilmington are reported along with road conditions and upcoming church trips.
A Wilmington column notes Stephen Morgan of Hillboro is ill with diabetes and worsened condition, while the C. C. Wheeler schooner from the Tuckahoe to Baltimore is sold to Roanoke River interests. Rev William Sherman Phillips, a Maryland preacher and former conference secretary, dies in New Jersey. Dr C Macnichol of Wilmington plans rest at a health resort. local items cover apple shipments, a Thames-style B C A railway disruption, young lawyer L Wethered Barroll starting Baltimore practice, and various regional notices on exams, stationery, and local commerce.
Misses Mamie and Sophia Ringe of Philadelphia with Mrs Nannie Butler of New York stay at a new bungalow for the summer. Mire Mo J Hignatt, seventy nine, is in good health and able to manage household duties. Sunday School will be held tomorrow at two o'clock with full attendance urged. Mr Madison Lowers and Miss Katie Neal visited Goldsboro and Dover. Miss Mabel Baker and Mr Chase Andreas are in Talbot county visiting relatives. Mr Bennett Todd has bought a groline launch. Farmers report only half a crop of wheat.
Mrs. Mary J. Eaton widow of Capt. John I. Eaton died Sunday at her Denton home aged seventy four. Funeral services were held Tuesday with Rev. Ward officiating and interment in Denton cemetery. Surviving children include William W. Tutt of Preston Rev. Ro Alex Tutt of Daytona Fla Lanwood Eaton and Mrs. Pannie Howell of Denton. Two brothers also survive. Long illness and a fall left her severely crippled in recent years.
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