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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
6
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The Ridgely Chamber of Commerce met on June 1 at the Methodist Church House with Prof. Fred G. Asilton directing the Ridgely High School Glee Club and Mrs. Clinton Guthrie delivering two readings. A surprise birthday party for Mrs. Ernest Buckle followed at her Ridgely area farm with about fifty guests. other social visits and family news populate the local scene.
Arthur T. Layton consigns a large farm sale starting 10 a.m. on site 41 1/2 miles west of Harrington Delaware off the Harrington Denton highway. Readied consignments include 12 dairy cattle with calves age 2 to 8 years, 1 1100 lb male, plus a W C Allis Chalmers tractor and a broad array of farming tools, machinery, household goods, and stock items. Dickerson Brothers Auctioneers.
Several families welcome relatives visiting from Baltimore Ches tertown Ingle side and Wilmington. The Ridgely 4-H Club camps at Garland Lake. Local residents host guests from Lancaster Centreville Bridgeville Goldsboro and Wilmington. One member returns to town after illness and another moves to Secretary.
Public foreclosure sale front of Denton Court House will auction a two story nine room frame dwelling and outbuildings in Denton Maryland described as blocks on Seventh Street and Gay Street. The sale is between 2 and 4 pm with one third cash due day of sale and balance upon ratification or all cash. Assignee Wesley E Thawley conducts the sale with auctioneer Wm. E. Andrew.
Attorney in fact T Alan Goldsborough offers for sale at the Denton courthouse two parcels in Caroline County with multiple improvements. Parcels include Chilton Farm and adjacent tracts with two story dwellings barns and outbuildings. Terms require one third cash sale day balance by Jan 1 1945 or all cash. taxes and stamps paid by buyer. crops for 1944 reserved.
Cash sale of valuable personal property at 10 o'clock a m at Mrs Emma Satterfield's home Burrsville Maryland including furniture, tools, sewing machine, linens, kitchenware, a Farrand organ and Cable piano with sale of real estate named Jackson's Hardship in Caroline County near Greensboro to Old Town Goldsboro. Estate of W Winder Goldsborough administrator.
Having given up my apartment I will sell on the Brick Hotel porch at 1:30 p m. Items listed include a writing desk leather arm chair boudoir chair foot stool two smoking stands day bed two stool chairs six scatter rugs a basic stand two sofa pillows phone stand two bedroom chairs one odd chair breakfast table two chairs kitchen table one metal cabinet one wood cabinet one linoleum rug three small linoleum rugs one bedroom stand one chest drawers one bureau one metal bed with duplex springs and inner spring mattress good as new pillows. Furniture is worn but in excellent condition. Edwin Thawley.
Congress again ignored protests over the 35 Federal use tax on motor vehicles. Stamps go on sale June 1 at post offices. Keystone Automobile Club says stamps are on hand in all post offices and urges motorists to comply despite indignation over the tax.
Keystone blasts the Federal levy as the most unpopular tax on motorists and unfair to East Coast drivers. The statement cites an Arcadia motorist limited to two gallons per week and argues a $5 license for about 1,500 miles yearly is unjust and inequitable. The lavender stamp matches previous size and the law requires it.
The display is in the lower right corner of the windshield beside the inspection sticker. The five dollar tax covers the full fiscal year. If an unused car is put into operation or sold, tax is prorated by one twelfth per month after July. In stamp transactions, new owners need not buy new stamps. the stamp stays with the car.
Administrator of the estate of W. Winder Gouldsborough offers at public sale before the Denton Court House door between 2 and 4 p m. the mortgage power sale described in the July 11 1925 deed from John F Stevenson and wife recorded in Liber G A D No 25 Folio 58 Caroline County Maryland to W Winder Goldsborough.
In Equity No. 3854 Chy the court orders the sale reported by Trustee Layman J. Redden to be ratified unless a contrary cause is shown by July 26. A copy of the order must be published in a Caroline County newspaper for four consecutive weeks before June 24. Reported sales amount is 1600 dollars. D Ralph Horsey, Clerk. True Copy-tTest
This notice announces that A. Clark Smith has letters of administration from the Orphans Court for Caroline County Maryland on the personal estate of Lawrence F. Pendergast, deceased. Creditors must present their claims with vouchers by November 26, 1944 or be barred from benefits. Debtors must settle promptly. True Copy Test Carlton V. West, Register of Wills.
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