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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1911
Page
2
The Denton Journal issue dated Saturday morning March 4 1911 is published by Howard Melvin Bemn and John, listing local notices, briefs, and community updates.
Senator John Walter Smith told Taft the reciprocity plan unfair to farmers yet he will vote for it for party reasons. Maryland figures Hans Patterson led farmers to press him. Six governor Carroll of Maryland died after long illness. Primaries set for state convention and general election November 7. Taft okays extra session talks and oyster packers meet in Baltimore. Postal banks praised. Lee and Grant monument proposed. Union Pacific lines to double track. Taft names Lewis assistant attorney general. Maryland auto count rising. JOURNAL subscription urged.
Baltimore newspaper notes a nearly century old Democratic emblem credited to John H. B. Latrobe, father of Gen. Ferdinand C. Latrobe. The harp and hickory tree symbol, linked to Andrew Jackson, reflects Irish influence and Jacksonian politics, with Latrobe’s portrait deemed weak.
President Taft has shifted from calm campaigning to active policy moves after a failing Winona speech and a Democratic Supreme Court appointment. He threatened extra sessions and backed a permanent tariff commission and Canadian reciprocity, while Cannon and others reassessed his stance as serious rather than bluff.
A journal notes that psychology in advertising cannot replace results. It argues messaging must grab the reader’s eye and travel through sight to action. To reach thousands in Caroline, place the ad in the Journal.
The outlook for canners has improved as prices rise from earlier quotes. Early prices were seen as weak and no contracts were made, but increases continue and producers expect up to a dollar per dozen for tomatoes. Canners offer farmers nine dollars per ton, with higher bids reported at Cordova and Bridgeville due to strong demand.
The Washington Post reported on a lecture by Sophie Kerr Underwood editor at Woman's Home Companion on how women can break into magazines. She urges starting in small roles, writing clear letters, judging and proofreading, then editing, and stresses aptitude in expression and avoiding pretensions while pursuing live, competitive magazine work.
A Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin notes despite ten years of campaigns, many farmers remain ignorant of the San Jose Scale and take no action. This leaves numerous orchards, especially small ones, vulnerable to damage in counties where fruit growing is less prominent.
A historical note praises the Pennsylvania Station project in New York, detailing vast engineering feats under the Hudson and East Rivers and Manhattan tunneling. The Pennsylvania Railroad offers an illustrated booklet, mailed postpaid upon request with a two cent stamp, from George W. Boyd at Broad Street Station Philadelphia.
The piece traces Elijah life from strenuous early years to the gentler post vision work with Elisha. It highlights Elijahs public zeal, Elishas request for a double portion of spirit, and the dramatic fiery ascent witnessed by the prophets, linking it to ongoing ministry and immortality.
A good roads train will tour the State stopping at numerous points. It will carry models of modern roads and machinery along with road building equipment. A stereopticon outfit with slides will show road construction methods while lecturers advise local authorities on highway improvement.
Practical farming advice urges early oat sowing, marked grain sacks, and patience with wet soil. It recommends two sowings of clover, mixed red and alsike, plus careful crop rotation, onion and pea sowing after frost, and staggered planting of vegetables. It notes manure and bone meal aid soil nutrition and warns against easy money pursuits.
A Seaford M E Church pastor, Rev W W Sharp formerly of Hillsboro, reported two highwaymen attempted a night hold up as he rode home from a Concord Church meeting. One grabbed the horse head, the other shouted Halt, but Sharp whipped the horse, the animal reared, and the minister escaped.
Solicitor T. Alan GoLosporousey lists a party of Barrow relatives and spouses including Charles H. Barrow Lillian Barrow James H. Barrow May C. Barrow Carrie H. Larrimore Dawson Larrimore Annie K. Burnite Norman B. Taylor Flora Taylor Jain H. Hughes Maude Sheppard Hughes Henrietta K. Newnam William P. Newnam James H. Taylor Basil R. Taylor Ruth E. Taylor Ax ford Barrow Maryland Barrow Thomas H. Barrow Mary Barrow infants
The Circuit Court for Caroline County orders publication to inform absent heirs Annie K Burnite John H Hughes Maude Sheppard Hughes of the James H Holmes will proceedings. The court seeks full construction of the Third and Fourth paragraphs and asks whether various devises violate the rule against perpetuities and how fees vest after last valid limitation. Notice published four weeks before April 3 1911.
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