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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1921
Page
2
The Denton Journal page 2 presents the issue dated Saturday July 30, 1921. Publisher names H. Johnson Melvin and Melvin & Johnson are listed, with Howard e. Melvin credited as editor. The page format likely includes section headers and typical newspaper departments of the era.
The Philadelphia Record notes a GOP majority passage of the Fordney tariff bill but says Democrats aided by some Republicans won five key points. They overturned the dyestuffs embargo, restored hides and oils to free status, and secured liberal provisions. It predicts a Senate-House battle over revisions and a less reactionary final bill if the Democratic minority keeps its stance.
Representative Tillman ridicules the Fordney Tariff Free List citing numerous taxed and untaxed items. He lampoons the tariff as full of loopholes, noting chemicals and everyday goods like civet and musk spared from duties while hats shirts and baby clothes face levies. The critic highlights absurd contrasts and jokes about the tariff wall and needless exemptions.
A tribute to Boy Scouts cites their role in training youth toward lawful citizenship and discipline, noting a New York judge’s remark that Scouts rarely appear as defendants. The piece lauds Scout virtues and cites a Maryland Democratic State Committee meeting at the Hotel Rennett in Baltimore with prominent leaders and women attendees.
Dr. J Herbert Wade state chair called meeting to set a date for the coming primary with Galen Tait Republican chair. Primary date would fall September 12 unless rescheduled due to Defenders Day. Wade authorized to confer and name a new date between September 5 and 11 and to set the Democratic State Convention date in Baltimore. Resolutions doubled Central Committees size from three to six to improve women representation. Governor Ritchie outlined reorganization plans and noted Fed Roads Bill features incompatible with Maryland interests.
Former Federal Judge George Gray, one of four Americans invited by the League of Nations to propose judges for the international court of justice, calls the move a four step advance toward world peace. He says the world has shifted from survival of the fittest to a civilization where nations’ rights are decided by judicial process and arbitration has reduced conflict.
From August 1 to 15 Maryland farmers may donate surplus corn and wheat to feed orphans and starving refugees in the Caucasus and Levant. The appeal comes from Maryland Headquarters of Near East Relief and is supported by Harold F. Pellegrin. Posters and grain buyers will provide official receipts for donated grain through mills across the state.
A lawn fete on M. E. parsonage grounds at Reliance will feature Rev. George C. Williams of Wilmington delivering an address at 7 30. A fine program is planned. Christ Methodist Protestant Church opens open air services for Sunday evenings through summer. Glen Noble is sworn town bailiff and constable. Victor Goslin signs to pitch for Princess Anne. Sunday School picnic at Oyster Shell Point. T Milton Cox visits his father Justice Thomas F. Cox. Winnie Davis moves to Benges suburb of Baltimore.
Mr and Mrs Shultie and daughter Helen of Woodside spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs N W Dennison. George Everett and Harvey Bickling with wife visited Watson Everett in Wilmington. Miss Mildred Everett hosted friends for her birthday with games and refreshments. Mrs J P Jones of Barclay visited the parsonage. Rain is needed to mature corn and vegetables. Rev E L Woolf presiding elder will preach next Sunday at 8 p m followed by quarterly conference.
On Tuesday night August 2 the Denton Colored Jazz Fiends perform at Williston Wharf between seven and nine. Williston has become a resort with bathhouses diving boards and spectator benches. Enjoy a cool swim as the band plays.
Dr E L Woolf to preach at St Pauls M E Church South Sunday at 11 and 8 pm. Second quarterly conference set for Monday at 11 am. Delegates from Queen Anne to district and other church meetings named. Weather and harvest notes, social visits, and a community picnic planned for Selchester. busy week with threshing nearing finish.
Maryland apple production falls to about 17 percent of normal after early spring freezes and hail and windstorms. Officials estimate the state crop at 99 000 barrels, down from last year’s 511 000. Other states show larger crops with New York near 3 000 000 barrels and Washington about 5 500 000.
Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway reports five month period gains in gross earnings to 562 323 from 504 897 last year while total expenses reach 648 973. Net deficit narrows to 110 286 from 166 408. Traffic costs fall but transportation and maintenance spend rise due to wage changes.
Several Caroline county fertilizer firms say prices for this fall will drop significantly, pleasing about two thousand farmers. Sixteen per cent phosphate, last year $28 to $32, is reduced to $16 and some brands are even lower. In places the cut approaches 50 percent.
Assignee Oscar Clark advertises a public sale of real estate in Caroline County Maryland under a mortgage from Calvin I Hallaman and Sadie M Hallaman to Charles Jarrel dated January 1 1920, recorded in Liber 1B T No 19 folio 551. The sale will be in front of the Court House door in Denton to the highest bidder.
Auction Tuesday August 28 1921 between 2 and 4 pm offers multiple land parcels in Caroline County Maryland near Hillsboro and Ridgely. Tracts 1 and 2 will be offered separately then as a whole, Tract 3 and 4 described with roads bridges and streams, acreage total 71.9 acres approximately, improvements include a large comfortable structure on the fourth tract.
Under a writ of execution I will sell at the Denton courthouse door the interest of David M. Cheezum in a parcel conveyed from Oscar Clark and wife to Cheezum by deed dated January 25 1913 recorded in Liber J K S No 75 folio 541 etc. to satisfy the writ debt costs and interest. Owen N Dulin Sheriff of Caroline county
Price sixty cents at all dealers. Don t simply ask for a kidney remedy get Dosa s Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Murphey had. Foster Milburn Co Mrs Buffalo NY.
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