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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1888
Page
2
Saturday Morning notes from July include scattered county items, brief notices, and local happenings solicited under this header. The shard emphasizes miscellaneous news items drawn from various parts of the county with concise blurbs and updates.
Community items from the Denton area include court sessions, a lunar eclipse, a Camile n camp meeting, school appointment for Walter Sparklin at Seaford Academy, and peach prices. Local clubs, church services, and political badges are mentioned along with river dredging costs, floods, and social events at Thawley’s Chapel.
Dry milling wheat brings top Baltimore market prices with longberry 84 to 87 and choice fultz 86. White corn quoted 65 to 67, yellow 58 to 60. Peaches baskets 20 to 50, soft prime in demand, with overall strong demand across varieties.
A large attendance at a church fundraiser lifted a neat sum for the church fund. Ira L. Guilford the phrenologist lectured in the hall on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Mrs. J. Bice of Oxford and daughter in law Mrs. Frank Bice visited Henderson this week as guests of Mrs. George W. Carrow. Carrow's guests returned home on Wednesday. Fruit shipments grow with an extra engine ordered to Henderson daily. berry shipments remain large and moderately profitable.
Capt. Charles Conaway moved his brother Henry's remains to Harrison churchyard beside parents. Miss Etta Charles, back from Philadelphia, lies very low at her mother's home after treatment. Mrs. James Mosely of Brooklyn visits cousin Mrs. E. F. Messenger. Albert Mosely on vacation. Telegraph operator Joe Maxwell suffers a bad abscess. Crabbing parties grow in popularity. P E chapel ladies host a lawn party on Goslin's lawn this afternoon. The cornet band is engaged to play in Easton for Centennial day.
James Thomas Matthews, about 62, colored, died after his leg was torn off by a threshing machine at Mr. William Jarrell's farm near Greensboro. He stepped backward to inspect a feed issue, slipped, and his leg entered the hopper as the cylinder pulled it in. Eight minutes elapsed before the machine was stopped and he died soon after.
Byron C. Holbrook led a party from the Baltimore phosphate firm on a two day trip to its Newark New Jersey works visiting New York and nearby sites. They commended the grand establishment and the hospitality. W A Stewart of Fried man Lauterjung Cutlery Co stays with family in Denton. Mrs George Melvin of Annapolis and Mrs James Melvin of Ellicott City visit Denton relatives. Editor Dunn of Dover Index visits his ill mother at Mrs Deweese's. Maggie Wilson of Hillsboro visits aunt Mrs John M Rawlins Georgetown Del. Col Phillip W Downes customs apraiser spends weekend with family. Miss Fannie Jump of Baltimore visits sister Mrs Emmett Downes. J Craig Crawford of Norris Town PA visits Denton. Mrs M S Mutchler visits Miss Mamie Harrington Talbot Co. Mamie Evitts visits Sudlersville friends.
Fruit growers in Preston and vicinity protested a sudden tariff hike on river freight to Baltimore. Peaches rose from four cents to ten cents per box, with similar increases on other produce. Delegates met at the Academy, Col. McCarter presiding, to seek independent cheaper transport. a committee was appointed after talks with boat companies yielded no relief.
Easton Maryland celebrates its centennial since incorporation with a July 26 public event on the courthouse green. Activities include a historical paper by Dr Samuel A Harrison, a Lord Baltimore reception, a trades display, military and civic units, five bands, and schoolchildren performances. Easton’s 1880 population was 3 009, now near 4 000.
Capt Dan Brockway owner and master of the steamer Bradford has settled his family locally after dredging the Chop tank and is building a substantial wharf warehouse granary coal sheds and a residence nearby. Hopkins and Clymer fertilizer firm reports large seasonal business and plans building additions as Bradford runs weekly trips to Baltimore.
The Philadelphia Times comments on Mrs. Cleveland's anti bustle crusade noting Paris fashion reports that the bustle wanes and women may look taller, with benefits for wire fences and pedestrian flow. Orphans' Court actions include admin inventories, appraisals, and final accounts for deceased estates, with meetings set for July dist.
Married notices list Thomas Cole and Laura Shively wed on July 12 in Ingleside, Emma F. Rumbold and E. F. Dunham married on July 10 in Preston, Lena Nichols wed Wm. W. Dukes on June 26, and infant Lloyd Downes, four months old, born July 17, 1888, to Emmet and Sallie Downes.
Two deaths occurred in Greensborough last week as dysentery struck the Day family. Rebecca A. Day 68 and William M. Day 77 died within days of each other, both in the same house. They were long known in Caroline and Queen Anne counties, with one daughter Maud Isabella and two sons surviving. The Day family has a history of fatal dysentery across generations, including the late Mrs Day’s first husband and several Day children and relatives. Both bodies were interred at Greensborough cemetery.
The Wanamaker's department store announces it is a meeting and resting place as well as the world’s largest store. It offers reading and sitting rooms, telephone and telegraph facilities, and free parcel care, inviting visitors whether or not they shop.
An old Wanamaker store notice invites mail order shopping from Chetnut Thirteenth and Market streets and City Hall Square, promising samples and goods by request with simple pen scratches to access the store facilities.
A column contrasts the Royal Baking Powder as chemically pure amid claims about cheaper powders containing lime or alum and harming health. It notes experts praise Royal’s purity and outlines a New York Times description of refining cream of tartar, plus a digest on beliefs about rainbows as omens across cultures and myths.
The Bord of County School Commissioners invites proposals by August 7 for building four school houses in Bridgetown Jumptown Bethlehem and Union Grove in two districts. Each building 32 by 20 feet with brick and pine frame details, five windows, vestibules, teacher’s room, doors windows and shutters, belfry, interior finish, and two coats of Lewis’s bid paint. Bids to Canton office. plans available at Bee Tree.
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