Twenty Five Years Ago This Week in Denton News
Wheat and corn prices from 25 years prior appear alongside social notes. Den ton hosts the twentieth annual Pentecostal Grove camp meeting near Denton for ten days with notable ministers. Various locals and servicemen are mentioned, including families awaiting overseas service and marriages. A fatal pneumonia death and a gas explosion at Harmony affecting the Willis family are recounted, with hospital care and injuries described. A wartime note on farm labor mobility and a June pork quota update conclude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentecostal Grove
Denton
James A. Trazzare
Wilmington
Clifford T. Trazzare
Camp Mills
University of Pittsburgh
Trazzare
Camp Merritt
P. R. Fisher
Camp Dix
Howard
Cane
Mason
Jones
Addison A. Christian
Mary Ker
Andrew Irvin Brumbaugh
Camp Meade
Maryland
George D. Morgan
Edgar Morgan
Minance
Che
J. R. Rochester
A. A. Rocheste
Jennie Hicks
Philadelphia
Clara Skirven
Beacom Business College
Lester Kauffman
Plattsburg
Hopkins
Perrysille
John L. Everryam
J. Lester Evernyam
Wm. B. Masey
Alzera Harman
Greensboro
Clarence Atkinson
Bessie DuMar
Elbert Wright
Aires
Sophia
Elizabeth Meyers
Baimore
C. Biger
Harold Nettle
Sam
E. E. Nichols
Love Point
Baltimore
Roberta Evernham
T. H. Evernham
Isaac L. Dukes
Louis R. Dukes
Barton Merrick
Mildred Phammer
S. M. Newen
Churchland
John W. Stephens
Cambridge Hospital
Stephens
H. W. Davis
Crisfield
James A. Stephens
M. Bates Stephens
State Board of Education
Wesley M. EF. Church
W. N. Conway
C. T. Wyatt
T. O. Crouse
Willis
Harmony
William Penn Willis
Martha
Everett
Mr. Willis
Easton Hospital
Linw
Todd
Severa
Delflad- Wav
Weis
Hia Feng
Maryland Farm Front This Week Contracts Awarded
Maryland’s Farm Front This Week reports new contracts by the Marviani Agriculturib Adj ust ment Agence for supplying conservation materials to AAA program farmers in soil conservation and war food production. Contracts extend the 1918 program to December 31 1943 with discounts on super phosphate and lime, storage guidance, and limited monthly supply. Davidson Chemical Company won the limestone contracts for multiple counties while other firms serve regional needs. Opportunities note tenant purchase programs replacing free lands for homesteaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marviani Agriculturib
AAA
Leonard C. Burns
Davidson Chemical Company
Baltimore
Allegany County
New Enterprise Lime and Stone Company
New Enterprise
Garrett County
Farmers Cooperative Association
New London
SS. W. Garrick and Sons
Woodsboro
Anne Aruntel
Cavert
Charles
Prince Georges
St. Mary’s
Bellefonte Stone Products Corporation
New York
N. Y
National Mortar and Supply Company
Pittsburgh
Farm Security Administration
OPA
Harold L. Ickes
United States
War and Navy Department
Tang
Army
FWA
Mareh
Trafie
Nore Mal Trafic
Weeern
CCC
Oregon
Wartime Health Aid For Wives Of Soldiers Expanded
More than three fourths of states have approved programs by the Children's Bureau for medical and hospital maternity care for wives of men in the four lowest pay grades of the armed services, including care for babies. Applications cover pregnancy childbirth and six weeks after, with options to extend care through the child’s first year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Armed Services
Ild
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Slats' Diary Sunday preacher sermon and town antics
A fragmentary diary entry recounts a church sermon about B B and other topics, plus a string of humorous family anecdotes. It notes pranks at the newspaper, July 4th celebrations, blisters from fireworks, and small-town gossip about payments to a coffin. The tone is informal and nostalgic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okey Doke
Ma & Ankel Hen
Ant Emmy Laft
Bill Smith
Jameter
Noosepaner
P. m
Ant Emmy
Jake
Lokel
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. H. Stafford
Burrsville
America
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Congress
Niles S. Baldridge
Health Department
Department of Agriculture
U. S
War Department
Continental
WEA
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
United States Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
WFA
WPB
Maritime Commission
Heart of Baltimore
GR. Q. Pier
Daily Daly
Pier 5
Light Street
Posen
Aviom Teweks
Eastern Shore
BY Oliver N. Warren
Chirch
A. m
B. B
Montay
Gertudes Beauty Shoppe
Second Street
Moore's Funeral Home
Denton, Maryland
Eaese
Maie
the Peoples Bank of