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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1891
Page
3
Camden notes warn of storms by Hicks as wheat binder hums in fields. Local business includes fruit cans and paints. court actions and a circuit court session planned. Juvenile baseball results, railroad schedules, and duty updates fill a crowded local insert with death notices, church programs, and farm updates.
School commissioners met Tuesday and confirmed teacher appointments including Miss Katie Hobbs at Preston, Miss Susie Harrison at Marydel, and Miss Ella Whiteley at Choptank. Trustees named for Bethlehem Bridgetown Liden and other schools, with W. E. Pritchett and Zeb Fountain replaced.
The Presbyterian Church at Federalsburg has been repainted. Maryland Delaware and Pennsylvania mail route maps are posted in Federalsburg post office. A Farmers Alliance special meeting is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Officers elected include Geo F Quidort president and J Walter Noble vice president with H P Chambers secretary and H M Smith treasurer. E S Heffron lecturer and F H Jones assistant lecturer. D B Hubbard chaplain B F Nichols doorkeeper E C Fields assistant doorkeeper L M Ill sergeant at arms. Executive committee members chosen are E E Goslin for 3 years J T Davis for 2 years and Wayard Nichols for 1 year.
Trustees R J W Garey and T Fred Garey announce the Liden farm near the Denton Hillsboro road. The 427 acre tract may be split into several farms with excellent soil. An older advert notes Dr Fenner’s Kidney and Backache Cure with money back guarantee, and Lambert Brown advertise Star Breakwater Char in Caroline and Talbot counties. Mr P H McShane Ridgely plans sale of hotel property storehouse and McShane’s Hall Ridgely.
Concord confirms Miss Mary Mowbray of Federals borg has been awarded the school at this place for the next term. Farmers' Alliance plans the annual Fourth of July picnic here, expected to attract larger attendance than last year. Samuel Collins of near Chestnut Grove was seriously injured when his horse ran away, throwing him from his buggy and dragging him a distance.
Local miscellany notes W Hopper Gibson of Centreville runs a profitable truck farm alongside an extensive insurance business. He netted five to ten cents per cabbage head from 5,006 heads, about $200 per acre from green peas, and strong returns from strawberries. Early potatoes and ten acres of tomatoes offer solid per acre income. Henry T. Maloney named clerk of the new Richmond Appellate Court, boosting expectations for Maryland Virginia and North Carolina cases. A horse incident near the court house injures Jester’s cart and Carroll’s horses react to broken straps. Peninsula peach trade projections reach 3,000,060 baskets while Frutt Trade Journal cites no canned leftovers and strong prices. Friends of Rev. C D Harris in Caroline county attend camp meeting preparations. A Denton house sale for debt faces unlawful interest charges. Cummins will contest the will at Smyrna.
A long list of social visits and local events fills the Denton region notes. Trem Persenat, Miss Bessie Slyde, Dr. I. L. Lewis, J. S. Crossy, and many others are mentioned visiting family, attending services, dances, and local business engagements. The piece notes travels of Warrington, Barwick, and other Caroline County residents and guests in town, with marriages and honorary degrees referenced.
The article questions Beaven’s law of succession in church ministry, arguing ministers derive authority from Christ through the church, not via unbroken lineage. It contrasts plant to minister relations, asserts consecration is an official act, and cites Centerville ordinations to show ministry serves the church, not rule over it.
The foreign affair committee recommends $50,000 to build at Jackson Park a La Rabida convent replica to house Columbus relics. The structure would be a major exhibition feature with maps manuscripts books and pictures from Europe and the United States. It would preserve artifacts from fire and other dangers and provide show rooms for the relics and collections.
A fragmented poem titled The Lost Owl describes an owl eager to boast, seek attention, and venturing into daylight with mixed reception from other birds. The piece ends with a moral about owls avoiding daylight. A ratification notice proclaims the sale of the Anstett farm is published today.
A Centreville friend sent a July 9 1839 issue of Laughing Philosopher edited by John T Emerson. The twelve column sheet from Denton Caroline County carried wit sarcasm and anti Democratic sentiment, reflecting Emerson's early journalism and patriotism despite later career.
The Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church has aided over 3,200 youths to obtain education, many for ministry and foreign missions. Last year it supported 935 beneficiaries and has operated for seventeen years, disbursing $300 initially and about $43,000 last year. A Sunday school plan proposes each scholar contribute a dime weekly to aid at least one beneficiary, or $100 yearly to fund a student in colleges, with designation or board assignment as needed.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announces greatly reduced excursion rates for northern and eastern seaside resorts, lakeside and mountain destinations including Deer Park Oakland and Niagara Falls. Tickets are sale from June 1 to September 16 and valid for return until October 31. The I O summer excursion book offers shortest routes and lowest rates via Picturesque Lb. & O. to all resorts east of the Ohio river. Free upon personal application at ticket offices or by mail with 7 cents in stamps.
Notice from the Methodist Protestant Church of Caro line circuit announcing a camp-meeting to be held at Chilton's from August 7 through 11. Camp committees will meet June 24 at 3 p.m. at Chilton's woods to bid for and assign tent sites. all sites are controlled by the committee and bids may be rejected. RL. Lewis, Pastor.
Dr. Eugene Douglass of Oxford and Miss Nellie Percy of Vienna visited Dr. Phillips' this week. Miss Belle Vercy of mis' Mills spent Monday here. Mr. A W Sisk fractured both bones of his arm last week while freeing a sack from a pea huller machine.
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