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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1891
Page
3
James Park, a Dover grocer, operates a steam peanut roaster while the Choptank steamer sails the Nanticoke route. Farmers harvest, canneries employ hundreds in Seaford, and Queen Anne’s peach trees bend with fruit. The Fourth of July celebration planned in Federalsburg features oratory, music, baseball, and fireworks. A mix of local business moves, marriages, graduations, and community notices fill the period’s social and civic life.
A large assembly of peach growers canners basket makers and others met at the Middletown Opera House with Dr Black presiding and a long list of regional vice presidents. They forecast a Kent and Delaware crop lead with over four million baskets and noted reduced peach rates to Boston amid a tight canned stock.
Real estate deeds recorded in Caroline during June include Edward F. Dukes and wife to Willis I. Dukes. T. Pliny Fisher assignee to James T. Cooper for Denton town property at 700 dollars. James T. Cooper to James Ghingher and others for Denton town property at 600 dollars. John W. Knotts and wife to Thomas N. Sparklin for 13 acres and 46 perches at 3797 dollars. William Scott and wife to J. Willard Johnson and wife for 213 acres at 1 dollar. William W. Lowe and wife to Willard H. Thawley and John W. Thawley for Denton town property at 175 dollars. Alice A. Smith to Selby Smith for Ridge ly town property at 1 dollar. Thomas I B Starkey to Annie Hughes for 15 acres at 175 dollars. George W. Stokes to Alexander Stokes for 6 acres at nominal consideration. Orlando J. Redden to James Butler for 16 acres and 662 perches at 20 dollars per acre. Rachel J. Shatliol and husband to Caleb G F Williamson for 1331 acres at 375 dollars. John W. Stevens and wife to Charles W. Todd for 21 acres and 38 perches at 215 dollars. Annie E. Statfield and husband to William T. Andrew for quantity not named at 75 dollars. Josiah Hilshy and wife to Wm. C. Davis and others for 20734 acres at 1600 dollars. Holliday Morris to Dora Morris for 10 acres.
Timothy Wartnett explains that his son Daniel fell for Jennie Sudler a colored girl after meeting with Sudler brothers during Sunday ball games. The boy was confined in Dover jail to prevent the marriage. Wartnett, a devout Catholic, awaits priestly counsel and hopes Daniel abandons the relationship, while Jennie remains at home on the nearby Marydel farm. Daniel reportedly told a friend he would marry Jennie, and has since disappeared after promising his father to give up the girl.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad sells round trip Excursion tickets at reduced rates at all stations for July 3 and 4. East of the Ohio river return passage honored until July 7. Apply to nearest B and O agent for rates. Nebraska farmers build grain elevators and plan to hold stock for satisfactory prices.
Chancery court moves through June term with verdicts and juror lists for October term from four districts. The lunacy matter of Luranah Gibbs, wife of Richard Gibbs, was heard and she was committed to Marykind Hospital for the insane.
Across the Catholic world last Sunday ceremonies recalled the 300th anniversary of Aloysius Gonzaga death in 1591 Rome. In Pennsylvania, Jonathan BE. Rhoads and Joseph Elkinton of the Society of Friends led divine worship at the Denton court house. Additional services are noted for Ridgely academy tomorrow at 7 30 p m and camp sites at Ennalls Springs and Wye with allocations on July 6.
Beniah Kinnamon filed a damages suit in the June term against Captain Caleb C Wheeler and Captain John Eaton of the Wheeler Transportation Line over the schooner C C Wheeler collision with the Royal Oak near the Choptank river. The cargo of coal was a total loss and Kinnamon seeks reimbursement for the coal he advanced.
The Maryland Conference president announces ministers assigned to Chilton's Woods camp meeting from August 7 to 17. R L Lewis D L Greenfield T H Lewis T O Crouse W N Stone H C Johnson A S Deane David Wilson J M Homes S J Tredway S W Coe B F Jester Q L Morrow. Grounds will be rearranged to allow more tents. early site requests should go to a committee including R L Lewis and others.
A Denton, Maryland, readers denounce an editor for a crude reference to "negro funerals in town on Monday." The Afro American group criticizes the phrasing while urging respectful treatment of Black communities as they seek recognition and fair treatment in political and social life. Also announces summer excursion ticket sales and a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad travel book offer.
The Andersonstown Farmers Alliance elected President Joseph F. Rono Vice President C W Hobbs Secretary James D Neal Treasurer W J Neal Chaplain T St Todh Lecturer J H Merriken Assistant Lecturer W 2 Nuttie Door Keeper GW Kelley Assistant Door Keeper John Ee Kelley The Preston Farmers Alliance elected President William L Bradley Vice President C A Wright Secretary Springle Kelleys Lecturer Willis Wright Assistant Lecturer Joseph Flarrison Chaplain R J Taylor Treasurer Jesse Wright Business Agent Carleton Bradley
The Caroline county Farmers' Alliance announced its annual Fourth of July picnic to be held at Concord with arrangements by Mes ore, J. F. Roop, W. B.H., Nutthe J. M. Everagam, W. C. Youd, and J. D. Neal. Speakers, music, and Greensborough Corner Band are planned. bread tent sold to W. C. and Charles Todd for 316.50 and horse pound kept by George W. Porter at 35.35.
A chesty verse laments a failing kicker, bleakly noting his uselessness to the town and his silent retreat while others hustle. It ends with a grim image of his demise and the writer’s cold envy for the devil’s civility at his afterlife.
License to marry granted during the month of flowers to Corbit E Naudain and Ida Naudain Frederick Carmine and Nellie Hollis John Swift and Sallie Faulkner Thomas H Payne and Nora Collins Isaac Pennewell and Lizzie M Carter Elisha D Park and Sarah M Cade Covered Chas FE Black and Lydia Temples Thomas White and Imma Gibson
Promoter announces a highly anticipated ring clash as John J. Sullivan challenges Frank P. Slavin while John L Sullivan may face a rising Australian foe. Also noted is the death of former Indiana Senator Joseph McDonald in Indianapolis last Sunday.
Children Day services in Choptank and Central churches drew modest crowds despite rain. The Choptank M E Church featured a cedar arch with "Gates of Childhood" and two evergreen gates as six girls bearing bouquets entered the platform. Georgia Perry performed readings in oriental and Christian costumes, with Miss Addie L. Guckley at the organ and D. P. Blades supervising. Central M E E Church displayed a fountain and a second "Gates of Childhood" arch as children recited and presented dialogues under floral garlands and ferns led by Rev. G W Townsend and F C Ramsdell.
A Sunday afternoon lightning strike at Rev. W. J. D. Luc as Burrsville residence severely shocks the minister his wife and daughter and Mr Albert Harrington as they sat in the dining room Lelia the daughter was hurled to the floor and burned faces while elm tree eaves walls and a large mirror were damaged Flowers scorched and destruction noted in the yard. A second strike near Concord at Mr Menory Bowdle’s house damaged plaster shattered a clock and deafened Mrs Bowdle for the day.
Camp meeting committee met Saturday afternoon and many tent-holders applied for sites front-row tents secured. The camp will be larger than usual and a committee meeting will be held on July 4 at one o clock to dispose of privileges. Committee members listed by town. Also reports on Howard Satterfield injury at Baltimore rail yard deemed exaggerated. hip dislocation only. Visitors include Annie Beachamp to Baltimore and Bertha Everngain visiting Seaford residents.
The Southern market shows scarce supplies with fultz wheat at 1.03 to 1.07 dollars per bushel, corn at 75 cents, rye at 90 cents, and oats at 48 cents.
Kent county and Caroline counties see peach yields at two hundred thousand baskets in the region with prices offered as low as one dollar a basket and fifty cents for some growers. Amid market activity at Exston and Claston, traders note abundant berries, cherries, apples, and vegetables, while steamship service on the Choptank Steamboat Company resumes alternating trips with improved accommodations. Civil service exams for Railway Mail Service are announced for August in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and local farm sales and property transfers are reported along with market commentary on peach prices and money scarcity on the Peninsula.
Durrsyvill reports Frank Hollis from Burrsville fled with Mrs. Wilkins of Milton Delaware, leaving wife and three children. The pair vanished after a visit that sparked the affair. Hollis’s father fetched the wife and children, and no further news has come. Local horses suffered injuries from barb wire fences. residents note several such incidents as updates roll in. Philadelphia links emerge as W H Flaharty plans to move there.
The town plans a large Fourth of July event with foreign speakers expected, a cornet band, flag and tambourine drills by young women, and miniature figures of Liberty Washington and Uncle Sam. Fireworks will close the evening and refreshments will be served. Local clergy conducted a Friends meeting, and new buildings include a residence and an ice cream saloon opening in the former T. A. White location.
Poetic meditation on rivers and spiritual reach contrasts with a secular failure to aid the needy. The speaker recalls biblical imagery and historic churches, then laments leaders who neglect charity and virtue, implying the moral distance between faith’s ideals and public action.
The piece lists possible candidates for governor and other posts, noting Frank Brown of Carroll county for Governor and Marion Ve Kalb Smith of Kent for Camptrotter, Luther N. Gadd of Caroline, John P. Poe of Baltimore for Attorney General, and Spencer C. Jones of Montgomery for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, amid a global unrest backdrop.
Journal notes show subscription dates printed with subscriber names making it easy to see when remittances are due. The item urges readers to send payments promptly and reminds that dates accompany each subscriber’s name.
Local notice: R A Sisk at Qid stand Denton offers their stock of beauti ful millinery at cost due to health and need to stop work during warm weather. Married notices include Sorden Baughman in Baltimore on the 21st. The Caroline County farmers plan a Fourth of July picnic at Concord in a notable event.
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