Local Notes From Denton and Vicinity
Census work continues as harvest nears on the sixteenth with Peaches set to rise in price. Merrickton is renamed Bar clay and the orphans court plans a session next Tuesday. Denton hosts bank directors and a Sunday school room project while fishing yields rare late shad. A strawberry festival, Creek Church events, and a large Harrington church dedication mark a busy week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gale
Easton
Epworth League
M. E. Church
Court House Square
Will Shawn
Queen Anne’s
Denton
Central Church Grove
Levy Court
Samuel R. Meredith
Willow Crove
Lewis
Turrsville M. P
Clarence Emerson
Ansonia
Sziténe
Christ Church, Denton
Levi D. Roe
Oxford
Harwood Ayres
T. O. Ayres
Philadelphia
Railroad Vote Setstle County Rail Link For Good
Voters approved the railroad plan by a strong majority in Caroline County. Provisions include the right of way and sixty thousand dollars in bonds, secured by a first mortgage on property valued at about two hundred thousand dollars, with tax revenue covering interest. Official returns show total majorities across districts and the project’s financial safeguards. Districts reported strong support, with totals indicating broad community backing for the county enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline
Pennsylvania Company
Burrsville Beats Federalsburg In Saturday Baseball Clash
Burrsville defeated Federalsburg 13 to 9 on Federalsburg grounds in a Saturday game. Umpire was E. W. Burke Jr. A return game is set for Burrsville grounds Monday June 9. The Burrsville club seeks county opponents. Also notes Miss Lelia Stafford’s return from Philadelphia and upcoming Children’s Day services at Wesley M E and Union M P schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrsville
Federalsburg
PF. Welch
Jefferson
T. Cahall
Carroll
A. Harvey
Price
W. Fluharty
White
E. Welch
Stowell
F. Cahail
Messenger
H. Hardesty
Clark
J. Mitchell
Hcorkranc
B. Welch
Logan
E. W. Burke, Jr
Burrsville Grounds
Lelia Stafford
Philadelphia
Wesley M. E
Union M. P
Burglary at Goldsborough Station House Stole Goods
An unknown thief broke into the Goldsborough station house on Thursday night and stole about $75 worth of Agent Jones’s property including a watch gun razor and cigars. Jones has no lead on the burglar. The ad then shifts to a local sales pitch for Waterbury watches and a wind-up key-winder. Gottlieb promotes a Waterbury watch at $4.00 and touts its features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldsborough
Agent Jones
Mr. Jones
Waterbury
Gottlieb
Cottlieb
Pleasant Social Events in Caroline County this June
In Greensborough and nearby towns, a sequence of summer gatherings unfolds. Mrs. Walker of Virginia attends a Mozart Hall dance with Greensborough host Calv in Satterfield, featuring many local guests and festive costumes. A Breeze Lawn lawn party honors Miss Atkinson and Miss Comegys with music, lanterns, and croquet under the cordial moon. Courting announcements include Laura Spencer Emory and Dr. Corkran’s Centreville nuptials on June 11. Various locals travel, host teas, and plan lawn parties as summer social life blooms across Caroline County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensborough
Mozart Hall
Walker
Virginia
Calvin Satterfield
Terpsicore
Mary Lobstein
Katie Roe
Mamie Schofield
Mary Satterfield
Libbie Satterfield
Effie Kenney
Fannie Jarrell
Elma Orrell
Carrie Manlove
Iva Lowe
Henderson
Annie Carter
Julia Carter
Bridgeville
Morgan
Etta Gray
Messrs
Irving Jones
Laird Goldsborough
John D. Plummer
Fred. Roe
F. R. Malone
A. Hardcastle
R. Garey
Denton
Carter
Mr. VanBuskirk
Smynn
Julia Atkinson
Princess Anne
Mamie Comegys
Scranton
Potter Steele
George M. Russum
Breeze Lawn
Dr. George
Atkinson
Russum
Anderson
Comegys
Melvin
Rice
Enoch George
Z. Potter Steele
Luther H. Gadd
W. H. Anderson
R. G. Stewart
John S. Barnhart
Giles B. Cooke
Sallie E. Downes
Clara Downes
Laura Melvin
Eleanor Turner
Clara Naudain
Mamie Downes
Centreville
Sa.m
St. Paul’s P, EE
Olivia Shields
Huron
Kansas
Laura Willis
Chas. F. Lucas
Talbot County
Shields
L. H. Gadd
M. Bates Stephens
Chambersburg
S. M. Morgan
Minnie Speer
Robly Hackett
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Hillsborough
Twenty Second Annual Convention of Easton Diocese
The Twenty Second Annual Convention of the Diocese of Easton met at Christ Church in Easton with Bishop Adams presiding. Clergy changes include Batte, Hilliard, Walker, Chesley, and de Learsey. Delegates listed from Cambridge, Centreville, Chestertown, Snow Hill, and other counties. Diocesan statistics show 8,054 individuals in 1,783 families and 2,969 communicants with varied missions and church funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diocese of
Easton
Christ Church, Easton
Adams
James A. Mitchell
Centreville
William S. Walker
Chestertown
Maryland
A A. Batte
Locust Grove
Church Hill
F. W. Hilliard
Pocomoke
A. R. Walker
St. Michael’s
North Carolina
Trinity Cathedral
J. I. Chesley
A. T
Denton
Levin Woolford
H. H. Dashiell
Princess Anne
Ulster
Sassafras
George ‘T. Walter
Stepney
James Brown
W. EE
Church Hil
RK. C. Mackall
L Kten
HH. S. Condon
Northest
Samuel M. ‘Travers
Dorchester
E. C. Legg
Kent Island
Episcopal
Excursion by St Michael's band delights village crowd
More than a hundred St Michael's ladies and gentlemen visited the village on Thursday, accompanied by the local band. They enjoyed musical airs in Col Douglass's yard with ice cream and refreshments. The report notes a census taker exchange and political scene around the Greensborough to Federalsburg railroad vote, which carried decisively last year and plans a summer route survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Michael's
St. Michael’s
James H. Douglass
Nellie Brown
Baltimore
J. R. Phillips
Bessie Phillips
Susie Harrison
Normal School
Mrs. Sarah Truitt Dies at 74 in Harrington Funeral Held
Mrs. Sarah Truitt aged 74 died at her daughter Mrs. Purnell Johnson home on Sunday morning from general debility. Widow of Peter Truitt who moved from Kent county Delaware to Michigan long ago. She returned from the west several years ago. Interment was at Harrington on Monday June 2 with Rev. Mr. Lewis of Burrsville officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Truitt
Purnell Johnson
Four Clergymen Profiles From Easton Diocese
Easton Ledger provides biographies of clerical delegates to the Easton Diocesan Convention. Profiles cover Rev. George Francis Beaven born 1824 in Charles County educated at Nashotah Theological Seminary and rectorships in Caroline and Talbot counties. Rev. Franklin Bache Adkins born 1856 at Woodland near Easton, education across Easton High Shenandoah Valley Academy Johns Hopkins Berkeley Divinity School and successive priestly charges. Rev. Wordsworth Young Beaven born 1849 son of George F. Beaven with swift clerical rise including Trinity College General Theological Seminary and Easton parishes. Rev. Giles Buckner Cooke rector of Whitechapel Denton veteran of Confederate service and long colored work in Virginia and Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Beaven
Cooke
Adkins
Easton Ledger
Easton
George Francis Beaven
Charles County
Nashotah Theological Seminary
Wisconsin
St. Mary’s Church
Prince George's County
Maryland
Whittingham
A. J. Rich
St. John’s Church
St. Peter’s Church
Ellicott City
St. John’s
Caroline
Queen Anne’s
Talbot
Hubert Hutton
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Trinity College
Hartford
Conn
Johns Hopkins University
Stearns
All Souls
Wilson
Congregation of the Holy Trinity
Greensborough
Clergy Relief Fund
Mary V
Wordsworth Young Beaven
George F. Beaven
Hillsborough
St. John’s Parish
Caroline County
Virginia L. (Waters) Beaven
Old Brick
Episcopal Academy of
Cheshire, Conn
St. Paul's Church
Hillsboro
H. C. Lay
Lay
Trinity Cathedral
St. Michaels
E. F. Dashiell
All Saint's Church
All Saint's
Christchurch
A. H. Kirby
J. Thomas Kirby
All Saints
Coats’ Lodge
Talbot Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
A. Als. R
Giles Buckner Cooke
Whitechapel
Denton
Portsmouth
Virginia Military Institute
Robert E. Lee
Petersburg
Richmond
Whittle
Virginia
Kentucky
Willsborough notes and local life across Cordova
The column mixes local happenings in Willsborough and Cordova with family news. It notes the Mt. Zion church moving to Cordova, a child burial for Dean Calloway’s family, a boy named Charlie Jarrell trading eggs for goods and hatching a chick, and assorted society items. It also reports Washington notes on Speaker Reed’s drink order, a Richmond flag moment, Des Moines travel, and Cordovan Baptist association events. Died notices list Drucilla Dean and James M. Vandyke, with church weddings and local marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Methodists
Mt. Zion
Cordova
Dean Calloway
Charlie” Jarrell
Mrs
Frank Gooding
Mr. Gooding
Mrs. Sparklin
Speaker Reed
Richmond
Clarkson
Postal Service
Pacific Coast
Des Moines
Pacific Slope
Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
Denton Journal
the Local Department
Merrickton
Barclay
Orphans’ Court
Nexr
C. H. Gibson
Denton National Bank
Mert Dunning
Ansonia, Conn
Gadd
Hopkins
Tuckahoe Neck
M. I. Church
Williston
Stevens
Mosquito Hawk
Hickman
P. W. Carey
Smithville
E. M. Harvey
Deakyne
Brockway
Cedar Bend
E. M. Dunning
Bradford
W. D. Burchinal
George D. Mudd
William H. Legg
Somerset County
the Courier
Berry Fields
Sussex
Peninsula
Cambridge and
Seaford
Three Bridges
Thomas H. Slaughter, Jr
Carey
Harrington
J.s.willis
Col. Douglass
McGill
Our Town
Bay Shore
Preston
Harmony and Federal Halsburg Union
G. E. Davis
W. M. Green
Mr. Kenney
E. S. Mace
G. IH. Nock
Bowdle
Pine Grove
Nock
Kenney
J. W. Easley
E. le Mace
W. J. Davis
C. N. Todd
R. M. Messick
S.P. Eaton
M. P
M. E. South
Mission School
Presbyterian
New Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Annie Betson
G. W. Betson
Lutherville Seminary
J. E. Tyler
Effie Bishop
Queen Anne’s County
Denton Friends
James G. Whiteley
Lottie Cline
Alice Melvin
Mary Fisher
Western Maryland College
Ella Finch
Trout
J. D. ‘Taylor
E. L. Waldron
Nora Buckley
Haston
Joseph D. Seth
Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad Company
Willsborough
M. Morgan
Flo
Washington Notes
Fnther Association
Cordovan
Baptist Association of the
Baptist Church
A.C. Dison
Sp. m
Dixon
America
Europe
London
Spurgeon
Margadet
John Walters
Tolson
van Heather
Drax
Friendship
Drucilla Dean
Jeus
N. M
Harrison
Samuel Alexander Harrison
Matl Dd. Baker—Collison
M. J. Cohee
I. Fr. Tabler
James Baker
Sallie Collison
Cook
M. P. Parsonage
Ruthsburg
J. Smith
Geo. S. Knotts
Fannie Cook
NEW York Life Insurance Company
Isso, Ws Fe
Sion
New York
Edwin H. Brown
W. TE. Gerson, Esq
The
Renee Teenyett
Sears
Edwin E H. Brown
W. W. Busteed
Creninevinne
W.E Godeson
Gener
New York Life Endurance Company
Walter J. Draper
Draper
Wid
New York Life
Co-Operative
W. I Gibson
J. E. Jacobs
Soutitor
S. E. Dept
R. T. Carter
S Denton
Binder
MLZ Tan Ae
M. J. Young
Joan F. Gontrum
Philip Peter Mehr
Caro-line County
George Mehr
Enid
Ernest Downes
Wale
Liden
C. W. Tobbs
Tas, Ii, Steele
Register of Wills
Journal
Tueday
Arab Andrew
B.W. Walker
Geo, A
Deak Yne
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