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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
3
Public notices list circuit court to meet on October 2 Levy court to convene July 25 and orphan’s court set for July 20. The schedule names the three courts for upcoming dates.
Local items report price quotes for wheat and corn and a municipal tax appeal notice. Cambridge reports an appendicitis outbreak while hotel work and street improvements progress. A fatal lightning strike hits a farm. telegraph and telephone Lines expand. Political races surface with sheriff candidacy and county commission petitions as social notices detail marriages, visits, and travel across Eastern Shore towns.
The Sunday School of St Pauls M E Church plans an excursion to Rehoboth next Friday. The train departs Downes at 8 07 a m with stops at Tuckahoe Denton and Hobbs arriving 10 15 a m Returning departs Rehoboth at 5 05 p m School members travel free all others pay round trip 80 cents adults 40 cents children 20 cents Details: Denton transport for school members free and extra teams for others 25 cents if planned with Superintendent T C Curry.
Sunday is the last day of the Bush Meeting with the Salvation Army of Wilmington expected to attend. The notice urges all who can attend to hear services and support the event. Mrs. E. A. Starkey visits her daughter Mrs. Joseph Taylor in Hartley Delaware.
Cordova residents and friends share visits and health news. Mrs. Howard Hubbard and son Harry visit their aunt Mrs. John Lloyd in Greenwood Delaware, while Mrs. W W Hopkins and son Herman also travel. Walter Russell of Baltimore stays with W T Callahan for health reasons. Various others host relatives or travel, including Misses Lida Dill May Elben Mattie Skinner and Master Allen Stella. Mrs. Henrietta Hicks of Greensboro visits sister Mrs. A Smith. Miss Ethel Perry visits cousin Miss Grace Perry near Easton. Mr J E Cleary of Delmar visits Cordova friends. Mamie Favinger visits Mrs W T Collier.
Miss Stella Daffin returns home after visiting relatives at Easton and Hopewell. Miss Hattie Daffin visits her aunt Mrs. W. C. Maloney of Williston.
Marydel reports the dissolution of the partnership Emory & Heather. Mr Emory and his family will move to Ashville North Carolina. General notices include visitors and residents such as Mrs J R Heather in Philadelphia, Miss Jenrietta Hall of Wilmington visiting relatives, Miss Bessie Milburn with her parents, Miriam Heather visiting, and Mr C W Jacobs leaving for Rome Georgia. An elderly citizen Mr Cunningham died at his home Monday. Additional short movements mention Mrs Margaret Mmory visiting Barclay and Chas Jump visiting Hartly.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hutson of Ridgely mourn the death of their baby on Saturday. Interment followed Sunday at Greensboro Cemetery. Nearby, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lockwood of Vernon Texas visit Mrs. Lockwood's sister, Mrs. A. B. Gooden, near town. Rev. W. W. Harris left for Leslie camp meeting and will be away about ten days. Wilbert Dill and son James of Wilmington visited Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Dill. Town residents attend holiness camp near Denton. Miss Lula Marvel visits her aunt, Mrs. Charles Marvel near Wyoming. Mrs. Herman G. Dill of Wilmington visits friends in town. D. M. Gooden spent Tuesday in Dover.
The Ridgely club upset the visiting Baltimore and Ohio team, winning 3 to 1 after a scoreless early stretch. In other notes, Ridgely MKE Sunday School plans a July 25 excursion to Rehoboth via Downes and Queen Anne, with round trip fares for adults and children listed.
Mr. Grover Waddell returns home on vacation from the C. N. C. Ind. to study electrical engineering at Purdue University in the fall. Mrs. Annie Holmes Burnite of Newark N. J. visits Waddell family and now stays with her mother near Bethlehem. Miss H. Waddell returns home after music studies at C. N. C. Ind. Clarence Pritchett of Camden N. J. visits his uncle W. B. Waddell.
Ingleside Miss Mary Walls hosted a large group of young friends Friday night at her home near town with games and hearty praise. Ingleside baseball club defeated Tilghman's club last Saturday 29 to 3. Mrs R S Palmatory hosted the Ladies Aid Society last Wednesday evening. Miss Katie Sweeney of Henderson visits her sister Mrs W H Kenton. Dr Graham improves his property with a fresh coat of paint.
Mrs James C Reed and children of Queen Anne visit her mother Mrs Sarah Downes in Denton. Mrs E T Thompson reviews new Baltimore styles. Mrs Ira Williams stays a month with friends in Portsmouth Virginia. Chas Sauer and wife visit Wm H Thawley for two weeks. Rev D J Givan and family spend days at Kent Island. T Edward Willis of Greensboro visits Jno Ff Russum.
Will Crosby of Mexico visits grandparents Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Stevens in Williston. Mrs. Indian Williamson and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Welch spent Sunday with Miss Edna Brice of Philadelphia, guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Rice. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Chaffineh spent last Sunday in Easton. Prof. Roe Richards teaches a class of five here. Miss Misse Roe is with Harrington Friends.
A Sunday school lesson frames God s invitation to everyone to drink of the water of life and the milk of salvation, urging belief, repentance, and baptism as the path to pardon. It contrasts worldly thirst with spiritual hunger and calls readers to come before it is too late, noting Isaiah s future vision of Jesus as Savior.
Hicks forecasts a sequence of hot days with high temperatures and falling barometers around the 20th to 22nd and again on the 26th and 27th. Storms, gusts, and violent hail are expected in many central and northwestern regions. The month ends with an extreme heat or warm spell spreading from west to east.
J. H. Barrow of Preston Md advertises a new two horsepower gasoline engine now priced at 55 dollars, down from 125 dollars, with a guarantee offered.
The extreme heat calls for common sense and mercy toward people and animals. Employers should ease workload and discipline. Water for animals and dogs should be available and refreshed. Eat sparingly, avoid fats and alcohol, prefer real lemon lemonade if thirsty, and skip heavy political editorials to endure the heat safely.
A ten year old orphan boy aboard a southbound Delaware Railroad train near New Castle wandered onto a platform, fell off, and died within an hour. He suffered a fractured skull and a severed arm, and his final moment featured a tremulous smile and the whispered plea Mamma as he faded.
Mr and Mrs Marcus H Smith celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary on Friday July fourteen at their home in Tuckahoe Neck. About eighty guests attended including relatives from Baltimore Willow Grove and Seaford as well as Del partner Leroy Smith. The evening featured social time and refreshments with guests departing after best wishes and tokens of remembrance.
The Cumberland American endorses a proposed oyster culture law as a prudent measure. It aims to curb pirate abuses in the industry and establish safeguards for investors to support intelligent and profitable development.
An advertisement urges readers to purchase Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy from Douglass Drug Store in Hillsboro, noting urgency and potential life saving value and urging immediate action.
Obituary notices list several local figures: Mr Albert Reichman postmaster of Williston and longtime fruit packer. Mrs Reichman and two sons plus a daughter survive. Also Rev J E Graham of Burrsville Seaford. Dr Crawford Graham, Dover, son. Dr William H Meredith near Smithville. Tilghman Andrew near Andersontown. Robert Eugene McKeown infant Wilmington. Catherine Roe Greensboro. John C Henry Easton. Dr William K Carroll Queens Town, Colorado. Funeral details and interments noted.
Excursions from Chicago to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland offered without changes via the Chicago Union Pacific and North Western line. One way tickets for September and October priced at 33 dollars from Chicago with reduced rates from other points. Double berth in tourist sleeping cars available for seven dollars. Booklets maps and full information available on receipt of stamps. W B Knishern P T M C and N W Ry Chicago.
For twenty five cents you can insure yourself and family against any bad results from an attack of col ic or diarrhea during the summer months. That is the price of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, a medicine that has never been known to fail. Buy it now, it may save life. For sale by Douglass Drug Store A L Duffey Hillsboro.
In Orphans Court on Tuesday guardian Charles F Williamson’s appointment of Eliza Josephine Williamson as ward was revoked. Albert G Towers appointed new guardian after bond approval. Court passed an order on investment of ward funds. The proceedings record the change and funding actions.
Twenty percent discount on entire line of vehicles comprising about 40 up to date carriages. Come early and secure one of these bargains. J H Barrow Preston Md.
Seapiece patterns and gilt sea piece wallpaper offered at 22 cents each. Window shades advertised by Thomas and Messer located at 1015 West Baltimore Street in Baltimore.
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