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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1938
Page
8
Melvin Johnson Inc publishers release Saturday morning edition of the Denton Journal on June 4 1938. The page 8 segment presents local news notices and community items from Denton and surrounding areas.
Eastern Shore Base Ball League news highlights trades and returns with Roberts and Short infield versatility. Pocomoke City adds George Short as field leader while Ogden and Carroll back from Centreville for Montgomery. Dover tops its division with Dick West batting .397 and Hank Harris pitching. Kohlman optioned to Columbia. A parade of local residents from Federalsburg to Rehoboth Beach anchors the column with community sports and social notes.
Mr and Mrs Charles Hobbs and others from Baltimore Dover Reading Pa Chester Pa Marcus Hook Swarthmore and Swarthmore Pa join Linwood Bennett Norman Usilton Ida Clark and Susan Thawley families for holiday visits with ties to Greensboro. Several guests continue visiting Marydel and Marydel Marydel area through the holidays.
Holiday greetings and visits are listed with individuals including Mrs Effa Plummer Mrs Alanah Dobson hosting her father Mr Sorden of Dagsboro Del Mr W B Moore of Wilmington as a Sunday visitor to Mrs Harry Moore L W Taylor Jr visiting Mr Smith Longfellow in Lumberton N C Miss Ernestine Carroll spending the day with her parents in Hillsboro and Mrs Emma Day visiting Mrs Annie Hopkins over the weekend
A health official urges travelers to get the typhoid vaccine before vacations. The article explains how typhoid spreads through contaminated water and food, the role of carriers, and that water and milk safety plus sanitary practices cut risk. It cautions against delaying protection and notes several contamination sources beyond public measures.
Health departments safeguard against infection and vaccination remains the best defense. Clinics for typhoid protection are held regularly in many counties. Your family doctor or health officer will arrange access for you.
A cool, cloudy week with scattered moisture and rains on the 26th to 29th limited field work. Temperatures averaged 8 degrees below normal and sunshine 15 percent below normal. Crops generally in good to excellent shape with wheat, rye, barley and oats maturing. corn stands good though planting held back. tomato, tobacco and sweet potato plantings progressing. fruit trees sizing and ripening while strawberries harvests vary by region.
Harvesting peas continues in southern and central counties while pods fill in the north. Pea plants bloom and puddle in the Allegheny Mountain region. Snow Hill district reports range from poor to good pea crop outcomes.
The National Conservation Bureau and the Safety Division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police publish Traffic Engineering and the Police. The handbook outlines hazard analysis at accident prone locations and proper use of traffic engineering devices, with sections on stop signs and street control. It includes an appendix on conducting field studies and presents materials not previously printed.
A conservation handbook on safety will be distributed free to municipal and state officials upon request to the National Conservation Bureau in New York City. It is expected to lower accidents injuries and deaths nationwide by encouraging safer practices.
Poem fragment presents a meditation on happiness and melancholy. A quotation from Coleridge and a reflection on human cruelty. The lines juxtapose joyful feeling with the sorrow caused by inhumanity, expressing enduring emotional tension.
Five percent acre property opposite Zeigler lane near Denton Md available for cash offers. Improvements include a 21 by 38 foot house with a 12 by 20 garage and a 7 by 12 summer cottage. House features water inside and a fireplace with double construction, built six years ago. No reasonable cash offer will be refused. Charles J Curran Denton Md.
Day old and started Barred Rocks New Hampshire and Rhode Island Red chicks offered. Also custom hatching of both meat and egg-type varieties. J Harvey Quillen, Preston Maryland. Phone Denton 4F14. (4 16 71).
Old and young chicks available including Barred Rocks New Hampshire Reds and Single Comb White Leghorns. Prices listed upon inquiry. Contact QUALITY POULTRY FARM at phone 122 Tarrington Del for details.
For Sale or Rent: a 7 room semi-bungalow with electricity and cellar furnace, front and back porches. Located in Oil City near Denton. Contact YW. C. Wright for details.
Assignee Fred R. Owens offers for sale at public outcry the mortgaged property on the Denton courthouse yard. The parcel list includes three tracts totaling about 15 acres with a two story dwelling, barn and outbuildings. Sale set between 2 and 4 pm with payment terms: half cash day of sale and balance in six months, or full cash option. Auctioneer John L. Stevens listed.
A 46 acre milk and poultry farm in A-1 condition with 7-190 meter dwelling and outbuildings. Located near Greensboro Maryland, convenient to school mail route and milk plant. For inquiries write P O Box 308 Denton.
MAN WANTED to supply Rawleigh's Household Products to nearby consumers. We train and help you. Good profits for hustlers. No experience necessary. Pleasant, profitable, dignified work. Write today. RAWLEIGH'S, DEPT. MDF-40-53, Chester, Pa.
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