29 Jul 1955
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1955
Page
1
Mr. Charles V. Moore, a Denton business leader, is named the Denton chair man for the Peninsula Girl Scout Council fund drive. His wife serves on a local troop committee and his daughter Victoria Ann is a Brownie. Dates Aug 28 to Sept 10 are set for solicitation.
The Peninsula Girl Scout Council announces Brownie Girl Scouts may enroll in Camp Todd during August 7 to 20. Limit of twenty girls with a qualified staff and special program. notify the Council office in Denton promptly. Reports from the first encampment praised the two weeks with canoe trips, overnight excursions, a swimming meet, and a water ballet.
The Shore Society of Maryland invites applicants for the Eva Hodson Memorial Scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. The full tuition grant for one year begins with the September 29 term, with auditions the second week of August. Applicants must be Eastern Shore high school graduates, natives or have Eastern Shore maternal ancestry.
Fourteen 4 H girls and adults from Caroline County travel to the University of Maryland College Park for State 4 H Club Week August 8 13 About 1200 Maryland 4 H members attend daily classes in agricultural and home economics assemblies and evening events Visitors day for families is Friday August 12 with dress review pageant talent show and honors service for top 4 H members The group sponsored by local agents and leaders includes Marybelle Remsburg and Gertude Gronbech as attending staff
Shadowlawn Frozen Food Locker Plant in Denton expands its poultry processing room and adds space for winter meat processing. The plant reports busy Thursdays for picking, drawing, cutting, wrapping and freezing for locker patrons and home freezers. In ten years locals find it cheaper to use the locker plant for complete processing, and winter work will gain room for extra butchers to handle beef and pork.
The Denton Production Credit Association and the National Farm Loan Association of Denton will jointly build a one story brick office at Randolph and Third Streets. The 50 by 40 foot building, to be completed January 1, will house four offices and a board room. Charles Hadaway announced the plan. he and staff will share space with Harry Holsinger and his team.
Mr. W Stewart Fitzgerald reports that 39 Caroline County teachers are attending summer school sessions. Attendees include Anna Lee Wood Ruth Trice Mildred Gale Blanche Chaffinch Bernice Lawless Esther Ennis Lillian McKenzie Edward McNeair Morgan Williams Thomas Robbins Anne Dickson Walter Martin Aurelia Shearins Hattie Curry Esther Brooks Blanche Van Dyke Florence Hoffman Jo Purcell Wilma McClung Mary Hynson May Worme Mary Campbell Royce Goslee Teressa Coe Isabel Todd Ruth Goslin Alvera Pinkney Roger Ewing Albert Will plus Hopkins Mitchell Foxwell.
Miles River Yacht Club announces two annual regattas in August for sail and power boats. Sail includes Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes Stars Thistles Hamptons Comets International 14s Penguins Chesapeake 16s Chesapeake 20s Lightnings and a new 20 feet and under Free-For-All. First place wins a perpetual trophy. Registration begins Friday on the docks. events feature an orchestra and a Dixie land Band outside Saturday night. Also An-napolis Miles River Race for A B C Cruising Classes and the Potapskut Sailing Association race from Gibson Island.
Caroline County must hire six teachers including a principal before the new school year. Fred Asilton says the vacancies span Caroline High School, Denton music, Federalsburg agriculture, and general science, physics, biology. Lockerman in Denton needs social studies and science math staff. Preston Ridgely have no vacancies. Greensboro near full. elementary vacancies include a fourth grade at Greensboro.
The Harmony Methodist Church invites the public to a second vesper service at Harmony Mill Pond near Harmony Md on Sunday July 31 with Rev Preston W Spence Jr District Superintendent Easton District Peninsula Conference of the Methodist Church as speaker Pastor Vin ton D Shufelt notes Spence previously led Bethesda Methodist Preston 1939 42 and has served in Claymont Bridgeville and Wilmington area Saxophonist Rev Dale Chapman will join the program with Harmony Church youths performing and other vocal numbers may follow In case of bad weather the service will move to the church.
Fred McCabe of Burrsville was found guilty of reckless driving after side swiping the old bridge and colliding with a pickup on the Choptank River bridge at Greensboro. He was fined 10.75 dollars. A second case involved Jackie Lee Blades of Ridgely who wrecked a car on Boyce Mill Road, sustaining facial injuries. He faced reckless driving charges. a 10.75 dollar fine was suspended.
A Maryland campaign to double mental hygiene clinic service opens with Miss Eloise Pickrell of Leonardtown announcing a Friday conference in Baltimore. Officials from the State Health Department and local leaders join in urging expansion to one day per week per county, addressing long waits and a 30 family waiting list in Caroline County.
The Rotary Club and The Lions Club of Denton finalize plans for their annual Cambridge cruise at the Denton Rotary meeting held last Tuesday. Twenty six Rotarians and twenty Lions will depart Long Wharf at 6 50 p m Tuesday with Mandrells Motor Coaches transporting groups from the Brick Hotel. Box lunches prepared by L A Moore will be eaten aboard.
Peggy Crouse a 17 year old Denton girl and Caroline High School graduate won the Caroline County Farm Queen contest at Federalsburg, to represent the county at Timonium Fair on August 27. Nancy Cooper was runner up and Joan Elaine Morgan placed third. several other children competed in morning baby contests and age group classes supervised by county farm bureau leaders.
Explorer Post 295 of Easton plans a two part life saving demo on August 20 in Caroline County with Emergency Action to Save Lives and rescue work from the Civil Defense Welfare Rescue Truck containing over $5,000 worth of portable equipment. Demonstrations occur in Preston Federalsburg Denton and run August 6 through September 3 on Saturdays. rain postponements possible.
Members of the Southern States Farmers Supply Cooperative Board of Directors and the Farm Home Advisory Committee and their spouses will meet August 4 at 7 p m DST at the Brick Hotel in Denton. They will plan the 1955 Annual Membership meeting, nominate persons for vacancies, and discuss the Farm Talent Round-Up Contest with district eliminations and a Richmond Virginia final in November. Local board members include Walter B Steward chairman and other Denton and Greensboro leaders.
Arrangements are complete for the Eastern Shore Holstein Field Day to be held at Chambers Park Federalsburg on Thursday August 4. About 60 pure bred Holsteins have been entered by 25 exhibitors from Talbot Dorchester and Caroline Counties. Judge will be Allie Messer a prominent Holstein breeder from Montgomery County. Trophy donors include Willis Cowell Co Denton Greensboro Supply Co Greensboro Hardware Co C Brooks Nagel Preston Norwood Collins Hurlock Robert M Harper Preston Ridgely Supply Co Ridgely Carroll W Thomas Sons Vienna Alton H Spear Vienna Harry E French Sons Preston Blades Phillips Preston. Model Bull trophy donated by Irwin Feed Co to Grand Champion Bull. Federalsburg Chamber of Commerce provides Champion 4-H Holstein Cow. E S Hubbert Son Cambridge donates Model Holstein Cow trophy for Grand Champion Female. Public is invited. events begin at 10 a m DST with lunch on grounds.
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