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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1905
Page
4
Public business calendar lists Cr rr ov itt court and levy court meeting dates. Local department news covers wheat at 95 cents and corn 57 cents, Rehoboth hotels opening, and various local business and farms, with growth at the Brick Hotel and a June 21 wedding in Denton.
Caroline highlights include social visits in various towns with many Baltimore Philadelphia and Wilmington connections. A stock company plan to run a steamboat line on Choptank and Tuckahoe rivers wins farmer support. Education notes report resignations promotions graduates and upcoming exhibitions. Also coverage of church disputes political notes and a thriving duck farm enterprise near Narmony with 3000 young ducks and refrigerated export.
Harry Cummings, a colored lawyer of Baltimore, organized the Suffrage League of Maryland. A meeting was held recently and Rev. F. A. Seaton represented the local club.
On Monday June 19 at seven in the evening the Class Exercises of 1905 will be held in Masonic Hall with a salutatory by the class president, history, prophecy, poem, presenting address, mantulation and valedictory amid music. The year book Outward Bound will also go on sale. The following day commencement exercises open to all, with select music by a quartette and an address to the class by Rev. Aloysius Green of Preston. Participants include Nellie May Butler Mary Ennalls Hicks James Roland Chalfitoch Mary Elizabeth Nuttle Reese Peters Fullerton.
Miss Mary Williams, who taught at the school for a year, left Monday for Cordova to spend a week with friends before returning home to Georgetown. Miss Mabel Wright, Stevensville, who has visited here for three weeks, is now with friends in Tuckahoe Neck. Rev. W. H. S. Williams and wife, Georgetown, were here with friends this week.
The pupils who passed last week's examination were Stephen Hollowell Lester Keeper Walter Strickland Paul Roe Robbie Rice Gilbert Hignatt Ralph Strickland and Nellie Cohee. Robbie Rice won for most regular attendance and Stephen Hollowell for highest average. Our town had strong representation at the Children’s Day service in Harmony last Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs T E Chaffinch spent Saturday in Easton. Mr Ula Todd returned home from Easton last week.
A First district delegation appeared before the commissioners on Tuesday requesting a new public road starting near a lane on the Ingleside to Marydel road, passing Irwin Coleman and Calvin Taylor’s farms to the Long Marsh Ditch, then connecting to a road planned by Queen Anne's County. Constable Harry Saulsbury Sparks of the Sixth district submitted his resignation. Subscribe to Tur JourNar and get the county news.
Sunday at St Pauls Methodist Episcopal Greensboro featured a 10 30 a m sermon on Christian Education by Rev S P Shipman a 2 30 p m Sunday School session with large attendance an 8 pm program of music and recitations a $50 plus collection and eight infants baptised at morning service in a first of its kind ceremony Pastor Richardson voiced hopes the eight children will serve their Master in later life citing the occasion as promising.
In the Orphans Court last Tuesday the will of William H Wright was presented for probate by executor Albert Howard. Inventories of personal estate for Sidney J Smith deceased were approved with private sale orders and sales accounts. Will of Robert H Jackson admitted to probate. Accounts of James H Douglass estate and sales approved. administrators J Edward Douglass and E Lloyd Fooks represented by Deweese and Ellwanger.
Ridgely defeated Newark Pleasure Club of Baltimore 2 to 1 in 13 innings in a remarkable game. Webster struck out 14 for Ridgely, Smith also 14 for Newark. Errors by Peters and Buckmaster cost Newark. Umpire Downes. Ridgely also beat Seaford 7–0, with Nolan Kellogg and Sayers Stirlith on batteries. The rest is a church lesson on the heavenly city and Revelation imagery, stressing righteous living and the promise to overcome.
Eight years earlier a Utica gun maker ran an ad touting its firearm advantages. Recently the firm received the ad copy and a rifle order from the same source. The piece argues ads outlast spoken claims, becoming a lasting record. It notes advertising can pay with compound interest and cautions that the poor man is always sure to need money when he gets it.
D. E. Stewart of Wrights Neck in Queen Annes county owned a gray goose that died June 5 at age 21. The prolific fowl produced about eight goslings annually for 20 years and had a current season flock of five. Stewart reports the goose weighed heavy flesh and could barely waddle. The Stewarts have undoubted records of the bird’s age, while the America Encyclopedia notes cases of fowl living to 100 years.
The June crop report indicates the wheat harvest may yield one of the largest crops in years thanks to favorable conditions and increased acreage. Harvest has begun in the South and will start in Maryland within days.
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