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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1954
Page
11
Marydel community news shows residents in Rehoboth Beach Ocean City and Philadelphia for vacations and family gatherings. Graduations and school events at Centreville Glassboro and Dover are noted, with church and civic activities including Bible school planning and Lions Club meetings.
The Reese Theatre in Harrington has signed contracts to install all types of modern sound systems for film presentations, per the Central Committee of the Community of Friendly Neighbors. The installation will close the theatre one day weekly on Wednesdays. An all family bill runs Thursday through Saturday June 17 18 19 featuring Shelly Winters Barry Sullivan in Playgirl and Johnny Weissmuller in Maneaters of the Jungle, with Charlton Heston in Secret of the Incas and The Mad Magician with Vincent Price scheduled for Sunday through Tuesday June 21 22.
A strange tale of a young artist and a beautiful French model drives burning love to shocking violence. From Ellery Queen's International Crime Hunt file, featured in the June 20 issue of The American Weekly magazine in color gravure with the Baltimore Sunday American.
William L. Cummings and Norris Reed thank everyone for cards visits fruit and kindness after their accident while patients at Memorial Hospital Easton and since returning home.
Federalsburg Lions Club held a Thursday meeting at Christ Methodist Church social hall electing officers for 1954 55 and hearing reports. New officers include Robert L. Bishop president J Paul White first vice president H Lawrence Christopher second vice president Kenneth Schmick third vice president John Taylor secretary Elmer Meredith treasurer Lee James tail twister Russell Matthews Lion tamer Elbert Williamson and Carl Shu ful et al as directors. William Puncke Jr district governor spoke on the Atlantic City Maryland Delaware DC Lions convention.
The poem depicts a sad child seeking a lost dog and a kindly greeting by a passerby. An ill wind theme follows, noting winds can harm or help, with a reflection on Easter occurring between March 22 and April 25.
Theodore Fletcher Jr was elected president of the Preston Lions Club at a meeting in Arts Shop Thursday evening last week. Other officers to be installed July 8 are Elmer Flaharty first vice president Raymond Messick second vice president Franklin Mausbaum third vice president John Schmick Jr secretary and Harold Lord treasurer. Guests honored were Doris Dickerson Hurlock Preston area beauty queen and Geraldine Coughenour runner up. Larry VandeVisser senior boy and Donald Marth also attended receiving Lions awards. The club will meet monthly in July and August.
Walter Nathaniel Thomas twenty and Betty Jane Downes sixteen, both Milford Delaware. Lemuel Crosley Kinnamon junior eighteen and Norma Lee Smith sixteen, Greensboro. George William Truitt twenty four Ocean City Maryland, Mary Louise Horsey twenty, Denton. Nelson Lord nineteen and Shirley Anna Butler eighteen, Centreville. James Alfred Yound twenty two Henderson. Doris Ann Smith seventeen Goldsboro. Julian L Booker twenty nine Bowers Beach Delaware. Elva Mae Wilson twenty seven Milford. Alvin Lewis Allen twenty seven and Martha Hurd twenty two, Hartly Delaware.
A poem in the classifieds urges readers to treat visitors with kindness and smiles, suggesting angels may appear as strangers sent by God for a brief visit. The verse emphasizes hospitality and gentle welcome in everyday encounters.
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