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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1933
Page
2
Denton residents greet the M. P. Conference members and delegates with warm hospitality. They praise the group’s Christian work and invite them to enjoy the town, noting three days of conference sessions and hoping for a pleasant, profitable stay. The article celebrates the church’s influence and extends open homes and hearts to the visitors.
The Chestertown Rotary Club hosted a tribute for Dr. Paul E. Titsworth last Tuesday night before he leaves to become president of Alfred University. He has led Washington College for years and helped develop the college and the community. A founder of the Chestertown Rotary Club, he is a former district governor and well regarded across the Eastern Shore.
Congress stages a major Washington show centered on revenue, tax avoidance, and proposed levies. Debates swirl over income tax cuts, federal gasoline taxes, and the push for a general sales tax to balance the budget. Presidents and governors weigh appeals, while industry and public voices push for relief and funding. The debate tracks rising car loadings and retail activity as indicators of the economy.
The White House focus shifts amid Morgan investigation and broader news. Uplift in business follows three years of retreat with rising wages, employment gains, and moderating yet persistent inflation signals. Prices and securities climb, failures fall, and distress sales drop as industrial activity improves in sectors like shoes and steel.
The piece discusses farm relief measures, mortgages, and prices as Congress eyes the corn growers and alcohol distillers. A proposal to blend agricultural alcohol with gasoline faces strong opposition as impractical and costly, with talk of a sales tax preferred to fund it and avoid burdening motor fuel buyers.
Louisiana reformers including former governor John M. Parker and Collier's Weekly journalist Walter Davenport press renewed Senate investigations into Huey Long. Charges focus on state finances banking and bribery as Davenport urges exposure. The Kingfish faces a national opinion clash while Parker demands proof of corruption and reform.
The piece reviews inflationary actions by the Roosevelt administration, including Federal Reserve purchases of securities up to 3 billion and a repeal request of the gold payment clause. It cites responses from Sprague and Reed, weighing economic independence against threats to faith, and notes public concern over potential currency collapse while predicting cautious implementation. It also cites Van Loon’s wartime proverb reframed as a call for simpler, more humane priorities.
Competition for business remains keen making affordable advertising essential. Newspapers offer low cost, localized, fast, and targeted reach. The Denton Journal dominates the market for shopping information, guiding readers to buy and advertisers to reach customers.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon in the Rotarian magazine laments Americas mood and urges honesty. He warns of tyranny abroad and the disinherited middle class, saying Americans traded spiritual birthright for Golden Calf tickets and neglected the high ideals of a freer, better living society.
Mr. Raymond Beauchamp returns home from the University of Pennsylvania after a special course of study while Mr. John W. Lord of Perryville visits his mother Mrs. Mary A. Lord. The rest compiles quotations about faith, work, and courage from Cowper Carlyle Quarles and Christian Science Monitor.
George E Saulsbury and F J Wright bought automobiles. Wheat harvest prep and fair crop outlook. A Greensboro school building levy plea before County Commissioners. Weather report for June 11 week. Postmaster salaries in Federalsburg and Ridgely adjusted. Golden Rod won a $300 trot at Prospect Park with thirteen starters. Local business dissolves Thawley and Ghingher meats. Death of James Earl Wyatt of Baltimore area. American eagle exhibited in Denton Delaware. Mrs T Clayton Horsey hosts a party for Misses Gelletty and Downes. Graduates from Washington College and Western Maryland College. several locals cited. Conversion of a livery stable into an auto garage in Denton area. Regional auto interest grows. strawberries export boom. Talbot and Caroline counties levy details. Dr Paul R Smith buys Middletown property. Various local graduations and visits.
The New York Times index of industrial activity rose for the seventh straight week to a 17 month high. Winter wheat crop forecasts reach 337,185,000 bushels, 40 percent below 1921 80 average and 45,000,000 bushels shy of US consumption. Prices jumped on the estimate as farmers smiled. The trade outlook is optimistic with broad gains in business activity, commodity and stock prices, and a net gain near 25 percent.
A poetic homage to June celebrating its beauty and abundance. The piece reflects on June as a month of completion, perfection, and poetic inspiration, noting brides and graduates and the joy of picnics while warning against neglect and vandalism marring its splendor.
Dentonia presents three big shows exclusive to the venue. On June 16-17 the film King Kong opens with shorts and a radio picture. June 19-20 Warner Bros feature The Mind Reader with a tech cartoon and Vitaphone act. June 21-22 Richard Dix star in The Great Jasper with comedy and drama plus Organlogue.
Mrs Lulu Minker and sons Raymond and William plus Miss Nora Morris Miss Doris Burgin and Mr Sam Southall of Philadelphia were Sunday guests of Mrs Minker and her family Olaf Smith. Nellie Sartani hosted Tuesday guests including Lulu Beauchamp Ida Towers and Elva Smith. Elva Smith and daughter Eunice visited Denton relatives Thursday. Henry Christ and family plus Louise Howard spent Sunday at Rehoboth. Deen of Denton visited near here Elbert Deen and family.
Greensboro residents hosted relatives from Felton and Wilmington while a Ford on the Greensboro Denton highway burned beyond recovery. A Wilmington hospital reports Mollie Bennett suffered a fractured arm and dislocated shoulder after a bathtub fall. Guests from Philadelphia Easton Rich Square and Baltimore visited local families through the week and several youths and residents are noted in social calls and a sickness list.
Ridgely Thirty former classmates of Rev Harold Hafer attended services at St Johns Reformed Church in Reading Pa last Sunday and shared a dinner. The Vacation Bible School runs June 19 to 30 from 9 30 to 11 45 with age group divisions and named teachers. William Raleigh of St Johns College Annapolis is home for summer. Frigidaire ads boast low GM price and 99 50 installed with monthly terms.
Friday to Friday entries recount household snubs at Mrs Treilus, Curt Root’s job hesitation, Lizzy Gumble’s shooting incident, Viry Droon’s engagement ring purchase, Mrs Oakes’s sunburned West Coast trip, plus a lengthy Farm Act explainer on restoring fair exchange value for farm commodities through acreage cuts and subsidies.
Mothers urged to bring five and six year olds for summer health checks to ready them for school. The State Health Bureau and County Health Officers run monthly conferences plus a traveling Healthmobile in Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore, offering exams for babies and children with a dental chair and health films. No medical treatment is given. referrals go to the child’s own doctor.
Harmony residents hosted a birthday gathering for Mrs. Claude Todd with relatives present. Norman Todd and family visited Brantley Trice, celebrating a newborn son. Carl Todd and friends from Marysville visited Hanson Todd’s home. John Marine’s guests included Ruth Meredith and Gilbert Thomas. Lester Williamson visited Bennie Cohee in Easton Hospital. Teachers held a large Saturday picnic on the church lawn. A. D. Ivins and Ernest Carroll hosted Sunday visitors. Sunday School starts at 10. Everyone welcome.
The Daily Vacation Bible School sponsored by Denton churches will begin Monday morning June 19 at 9 o'clock in the primary school building on Franklin Street. Courses cover kindergarten through intermediate levels with age-based enrollments. Registration costs 50 cents per child, or one dollar for three or more from a single family, and families may bring a pasteboard box a pair of blunt scissors a pencil and rulers for junior and intermediate students.
Mr and Mrs W L Gardner Jr announce the birth of a daughter born June 12 at Hunt Memorial Hospital Danvers Mass Mrs Gardner will be remembered as Miss Dorothy Balder son.
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