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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1894
Page
3
A new cordova cannery is planned with regular seine-hauling to begin about March 20. The region reports the first shad caught a few miles below Williston. Other local items include a postmaster appointment in Salisbury, farmers removing poor peach trees, and local men opening new ventures and auctions.
Smith and Redden's flour mill at the Bridge will open around May first. Contracts for machinery are signed and work on the plant is underway. The mill's capacity is thirty barrels per day with steam piped from Redden's canning house about two hundred yards away. Redden also bought a large boiler to serve both the canning facility and the mill. The building measures 46 by 20 feet and was originally planned as a shirt factory.
The Mere dith family near this place hosted a lively gathering last week with Miss Edith Sullivan Miss Lida Wilson Miss Lena Wilson and other young friends. The group enjoyed conversation music and games before a plentiful dining room spread. Shad fishing and spring plowing charts appear as locals plan the season while residents visit Baltimore and Bethlehem in small social tours.
A Friday night prank in Concord turned into a lively open air gathering as a group of youths surprised a young man and his bride by visiting another home, sharing a brief celebration to the tune of After the Ball. Guests included Rosa Layton Emma Layton Ida Carroll Marie Carroll Lillie Carroll Myrtie Gootee Mary Hors ey Ollie Horsey Verda Beachamp Addie Beachamp Clara Beachamp Hila Beachamp Benjamin Welch Edgar Welch James Hardesty Walter Beachamp Will Carroll C Murphy H Bowdle Walter Trice Emmett Johnson. Ambrose Griffith lost a mile on Friday last, choked to death while eating coarse fodder. J E Nichols has a new dwelling raised by Wright Dukes and Nichols. Lizzie Slaughter of Cordova visited Mrs Ernest Hubbard Sunday. Three of Robert Saulsbury’s children are ill with pneumonia. Minnie Everngain spent Sunday with Gussie Smoot.
A new Trinity M E Church South on Maston is opened with 460 seats filled at morning service and a larger crowd at night. Bishop Granbury preached. Rev Carlton Harris is credited with building up the Laurel Grove church and other structures. Officials from Wilmington Conference are to be hosted at Salisbury. Community events include concerts, prizes, missionary anniversaries, and local society notes from Caroline county and Burrsville.
An Annapolis correspondent reports a bill by Mr. Sisk to expand the bureau of industrial statistics chief’s powers to settle immigrants in Maryland. It creates county immigrant commissioners, sets pay, commissions, and duties, and seeks options on farm lands with agency support, advertising, and transportation arrangements to attract newcomers. The measure requires a $10,000 supplemental appropriation and aims to fill waste lands, raise inhabitants, crops, and prosperity.
The county commissioners met Monday and Tuesday to select road supervisors for districts. The lists were not fully completed. The board authorized the clerk to write to the Talbot commissioners to arrange a joint meeting at Dover Bridge on Saturday March 17.
Col Frank H Johnston of Thi bot gathered a good crop of two inch ice during recent cold weather.
On March 23 and 27 the Pennsylvanian Railroad Company offers personally conducted tours to Florida. Trains from New York at 9:30 and 2:00 p.m. and from Baltimore at 2:36 p.m. feature Pullman sleeping and dining cars with modern comforts. Prices start at 0 from New York and 48 from Baltimore, with lower rates from other points, all inclusive except the final southbound ticket, which covers Pullman facilities only. May 31 is the last day for the longer stay option, enabling a two week visit in the healthful peninsula and many side trips from Jacksonville. These tours aim to refresh those worn by social winter life.
Charles Matthews, a young colored man living near Ridgely, died Wednesday evening from a violent hemorrhage, dying within ten minutes before a physician could reach him. Barber Focht returned to town and bought property on Main Street, planning to build. Teachers Denton meeting attendees Diffenbaugh and Bannon spent Sunday with Senator Smith. Greensborough brass band to entertain at McShane's Hall on Easter Monday. H Buker suffered a broken arm in a fall from his bicycle. Thomas Temple returned from Baltimore after eye treatment. Town factories expect about five hundred workers this year. County Commissioner B Nichols visited Mr Day for several days. James Swing of Briaston to run Saulsbury Bros cannery this year. CG W Jackson listed as sick.
The paper lists a brief promotion titled Chance to earn money inviting readers to apply for four available positions at 3104. The notice emphasizes rapid earning opportunities with unspecified duties and lacks detailed requirements or company name.
In Ridgely area a colored Eaton child died from diphtheria last Monday night. Health officials Stewart and Clark, with local doctors, ordered the colored school closed and urged no public meetings to curb spread. The dead child was taken to Baltimore for testing. The body is buried in the colored cemetery east of Denton Preston. The town plans shelling streets, a basket factory nears, and a rail siding lot was bought Master Ralph Ledman, son of J Frank Ledman, is improving after severe burns. Wheat harvests improve with recent favorable days. Miss Nun Gootee visits Cambridge relatives. Mrs. A W Sisk spends week in Annapolis.
The article cites a controversial 19th century remedy advising closing the room and burning a tar and turpentine mixture in a cup to fill the room with fumes. It claims the fumes loosen throat membranes and force the diphtheritic matter out, presenting relief when physicians fail.
The Federalsburg Methodist Church wedding for Miss Mary H. Mowbray and Mr Samuel G. Nuttle is announced for March 15 at seven thirty. Other items note J Thomas Parrott’s Baltimore coursework, Walter Parrott as a Baltimore bookkeeper, Dr L D Kelly ill with la grippe, ex Sheriff Shields moving to Kansas City, and various social visits and travels among Easton area residents including Mrs G M Russum, Miss Mollie Dukes, and Mrs Thomas Hollingsworth.
Samuel Todd of Preston injured in a scaffold fall at Tunis Mills. Edgell opens a Dover street provision store, formerly American Corner. Elmer Horsey and family of Burrsville visited in town hosted by William Butler. Katie Young of Easton visiting Jennie Griffin in Caroline. William and Mary Todd hosted by friends in Talbot last week. Walter and William Lord of Caroline visited Talbot. Alex Noble of Caroline visited Enston. Caroline friends supply Enston market with fish. Annie Griffin visiting Mrs Chas Stoops.
W W Sharpe writes to editors of the JourNan demanding a correction to a Wilming ton relief report. He states he did not solicit articles, explains he called on pulpit committees for aid, and extends thanks from the Relief Association of Wilmington, including free transport by the Railroad Company.
Wheat is quoted at 59 to 60 cents a bushel in the Baltimore market. An upward tendency is noted for corn, now priced at 43 events.
Cecil farmer Sylvester Roe was killed when a bull gored him during routine cattle handling. The accident underscores dangers on rural farms as authorities investigate details of the incident.
A compiled column notes elderly Collison Waddell of Madeley born 1810 in Caroline county and long sea service, the Miller family grief in Woodside over two children Guion and Margaret, and local notices including arrests, deaths, tax issues, a failed county surveyor appointment, and Centreville's centennial history with key local names and dates.
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