Local Denton News Includes Sales, Fires and Fatal Shooting
Community notices range from Denton merchants advertising new models and prices to wedding printing services and a St Patrick's social. A fire at West Denton damaged an American Oil Company office and a fatal shooting on the Hackett farm ends in a jail stay for Lloyd Stewart. Road washouts disrupt travel across Caroline County amid thaw and heavy rain. Sheriff Tarburton receives hospital care after a collision while transporting a prisoner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton Cleaners & Dyers
M. K. Newnam
Everagam
Denton
the Journal
Riverton Ave
W. J. Shawn
Everngam’s
S. G. Nuttle
West
Ladies Aid
M. E. Church
St. Patrick’s
Internal Revenue
Court House
Federalsburg
Easton
Cambridge
Chestertown
Centreville
American Oil Company
West Denton
Denton Volunteer Fire Company
Caroline County
Sheriff Guerney Tarburton
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Abingdon
Maryland House of Correction
Howard Warrington
Edwin Seward
Jesse Black
Hackett Farm
Ridgely
Lloyd Stewart
Hackett
Stewart
Black
James Neighbors
W. Lawrence Wilson
Social and Personal Notes From Denton and Nearby
Jerome Skaggs, chauffeur for Sheriff Guerney Tarburton, recovering from a leg wound, moved from Emergency Hospital Easton Maryland to Delaware Hospital Wilmington. The County Chorus resumes semi monthly meetings March 19 at 7 45 pm in the Community Club House Denton led by Mrs H H Nuttle. Funeral guests included S Thomas Pippin Guy H Pippin W M Tylor H Powell Patchett. Doctors attend Osteopathic Convention New York City with office reopening March 12. Reverend L B Smith will preach in Denton March 11. W C T U meets March 12 at 7 30 at Mrs Walter Sparklin. Friends and kin visiting and hosting include the Pippins, the Taylors, the Baileys, the Smiths, the Claiks, and many others. Birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Carlton Greenley noted February 26. Local residents visiting Wilmington and presiding over illnesses and recoveries noted, with many social calls and movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Skaggs
Guerney Tarburton
Easton
Delaware Hospital
Wilmington
Denton
Walter Sparklin
R. H. Bailey
Salisbury
Josephine
Mary Pippin
Laura Anthony
Frances
Sara Carey
Marshall Anthony
Harrington
Sallie Brown
John B. Taylor
Emily
Emma
Elizabeth Clark
By Kota Club
Louise Fleetwood
John Roman
Josiah A. Beck
Carlton Greenley
Walter Joiner
Price
Market Street
Paul Horsey
Hayward S. Horsey
I. R. Fleetwood
Preston
William Kindley
Bel Air
T. F. Johnson
Mary M. Mowbray
William Towers Jr
Earle White
L. A. Moore
Fred Love
Paul Baker
James Baker
Martha Beck
Dentonia Theatre Presents James Cagney Double Feature
The Dentonia Theatre launches a two night run starting Friday March 9 presenting James Cagney in Lady Killer with Mae Clarke Margaret Lindsay and others. A Technicolor Vita phone act Mitchell and Durante Aesops Fable Cartoon and Pathe News follow. On Tuesday and Wednesday March 13-14 The Cat and the Fiddle stars Ramon Novarro Jeannette MacDonald Charles Butterworth Frank Morgan Vivienne Segal Jean Hersholt with music by Kern and Herbach featuring hits The Night Was Made for Love and more. Extra: Rubinoff and his orchestra in a Vitaphone act. Two nights only March 9-10 and March 18-14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dentonia Theatre
James Cagney
Mae Clarke
Margaret Lindsay
Jerome Kern
Otto Herbach
Hollywood
Rubinoff
Hearst News
Epworth League Night At Burrsville Community House
The Epworth League will meet at the Burrsville Community House on Thursday evening, March 15. Hostesses are Mrs. Henry Stafford Mrs. Fred Parker and Mrs. W R Woodell. Members are urged to attend Visitors welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Henry Stafford
Fred Parker
W. R. Woodell
Henry Stafford and
A. T. Garrett
Ernest Raughley
Dover
Wesley Thawley and Sons
Denton
R. H. Thawley
Paul Beauchamp
C. N. Fountain
Fred Lewis
Will of L B Towers Provides Bequest to Denton Town
The will of the late Lawrence B Towers admitted in Caroline County Orphans Court on February 21 1934 leaves his wife Franceina W Towers as executrix and bequeaths all property after debts. He asks if convenient that she convey ten to twenty acres near Bth Avenue State road Hobbs road to Denton for a public park to be named Towers Park and to rename Fifth Avenue Towers Avenue. The document dated January 16 1934 names witnesses Anna C Nelson and Russell W Flaharty and includes a preamble of forgiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Lawrence B. Towers
Orphans’ Court
Caroline County
Franceina W. Towers
Towers Park
5Th Avenue
Market Street
Williston
Local Residents Share Visits and Weekend Gatherings
A roundup of local social visits and family weekend gatherings. The list includes Mr and Mrs Nathan Walls and children of Ridgely hosting guests. Norman Smith and daughter Mildred plus Mrs Irvin Kenton of Goldsboro visiting walls home. Wilmington visitors Frank Scull staying with Hugh Hudsons. other guests from Dover, Chestertown, Goldsboro, Millingon, Sadlersville, Marydel, Greensboro, Church Hill, Wilmington, Cumberland, and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Walls
Ridgely
Norman Smith
Mildred
Irvin Kenton
Goldsboro
Frank Scull
Wilmington
Hugh Hudson
Dover
Lee Harman
Marydel
Delphin Harman
Roy Griffin
Jean
Wilbur Griffin
Charles Cartwright
William
T. A. Montague
Charles Nichols
Greensboro
William Phillips
Theobald Hall
Church Hill
J. D. Long
Raymond Shultie
Henry Shultie
Evelyn Walls
Keith Webb
George Clark
Cumberland
W. F. Clark
George Clayville
Pearl Jones
Wallace Jones
Philadelphia
Second quarterly conference at Trinity M E Church South
Rev John Paul Tyler presiding elder of the Baltimore district will attend and lead the second quarterly conference at Trinity M E Church South on Saturday night. Local residents, visitors, and several families are noted in social mentions and updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Paul Tyler
Baltimore
Trinity M. E. Church South
Harvey Morris
Philadelphia
W. C. Cheffins
Edith Cartwright
Wilmington
Homeopathic Hospital
Virgie Cartwright
Augustus Schaube
Annapolis
Alberta Schaube
Helen Lane
University of Maryland
J. Frank Lane
Thomas Shockley
College Park
Mollie Shockley
John Shively
James Mullikin
A. D. Quillen
Louise Milby
Calvin Elliott
Walter Elliott
County Health Department Moves to New Offices
The Caroline County Health Department has completed furnishing its new offices in the Masonic Building and invites the inspection of county residents. Access is via the passage between Merriken and Merriken and the office of Justice of the Peace Lewis to the door near the Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline County
Denton Pioneer Mrs. Annie Pippin Dies at 72
Mrs. Annie E. Pippin aged 72 widow of Trustin Pippin and Denton’s oldest citizen died Saturday at home after long illness. Born in Queen Annes County she married in 1858. survivors include four daughters three sons seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral 2 p m Tuesday at home with ministers from Denton officiating and burial in Greensboro Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Annie E. Pippin
Trustin Pippin
Isaac Mason
Methodist Episcopal Church
Henrietta Mason
Queen Anne’s County
Pippin
Oak Lawn
Ridgely
Josephine Pippin
Mary E. Pippin
Charles H. Sylvester
Effa Patchett
Ventnor
N. J
Charles M. Pippin
Greensboro
James N. Pippin
Guy T. Pippin
Wilmington
Del
Milton S. Andrews
Thomas J. Turkington
Methodist Protestant Church
Greensboro Cemetery
Annie E Stephens dies at 71 after pneumonia in Crisfield
Mrs Annie E Stephens age 71 died at McCready Memorial Hospital Crisfield after several days illness from pneumonia. She was daughter of Jute Thomas and Amanda Stephens wife of the late James A Stephens. Funeral held at Nora Davis home with Rev Charles M Elderdice officiating. Interment in Crisfield cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie E. Stephens
McCready Memorial Hospital
Crisfield
Stephens
Thomas
Amanda Stephens
James A. Stephens
M. Bates Stephens
Denton
Caroline
Somerset Avenue
Charles M. Elderdice
Mt. Pleasant M. P
Stephen P. Fuller
Harry C. Lewis
Wade H. Ford
Benjamin McLane
Clarence Long
Osborn Nelson
Crisfield Cemetery
Funeral services for Mrs Sallie Vickery Scott
Mrs Sallie Vickery Scott died at her Hickman home after a stroke. Funeral held Thursday at 1 p.m. at the local M E Church with Rev W R Woodell officiating. Burial followed in Hollywood cemetery Harrington Delaware. Survived by husband William H Scott six sons Amos Henry Edgar Leslie Lee all near Denton and five daughters Mrs Wilmer Wilson Greenwood Del Mrs J C Fountain Mrs Willie M Liden and Miss Elsie Scott all of Hickman and Mrs Joe Wier Wayne Pa two brothers S Craig Vickery John Vickery of Denton and sister Mrs Joe Laramore of Denton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sallie Vickery Scott
William H. Scott
Hickman
M.E
W. R. Woodell
Hollywood Cemetery
Harrington
Del
Lee Scott
Denton
Wilmer Wilson
Greenwood
J. C. Fountain
Willie M. Liden
Elsie Scott
Joe Wier
Wayne, Pa
S. Craig Vickery
John Vickery
Joe Laramore
Federalsburg Couple Wed Then Mourns for Local Elder
Miss Mable M Coulbourne of Federalsburg wed James W Shaw at her home with Rev Ralph A Poole officiating. They plan to live in Federalsburg after a motor trip to Wilmington and New York City. Funeral service for Secretary for Scienous Slocum, 86, held at East New Market with burial there. he leaves two daughters, Mrs Clellie Turner and Mrs Harold Phillips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mable M. Coulbourne
Federalsburg
James W. Shaw
Ralph A. Poole
John W. Hallowell
W. A. Coulbourne
Alice Reagan
Paul Croll
F. A. Holland
East New Market
Slacum
Annie Wheatley Slocum
Clellie Turner
Harold Phillips
Hurlock
Preston community notices and local events roundup
Mar 2 social at Mrs. Edwin Wrights with five bridge tables and gifts. Church services at Church of the New Jerusalem and Epiphany Mission in Preston. Lent service Friday 8 pm. Local visits, school substitutes, illness, weather caused rescheduling of a senior class play. Baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rieck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Wright
Louise Crouse
Denton
Rodney Layton
Johns Hopkins Medical School
T. C. Crouse
Steve Brown
Abraham Lincoln
M. E. Church
Epworth League
Douglas Fooks
Coca-Cola Company
Preston
Helen Norris
Jane Wine
H. M. Harris
Wakefield
Burton Proctor
South
Robert Cannon
Lee Nobile
Harry Wright
C. E. Elzey
A. M. Willey
Baltimore
C. Stevens
O. B. Blades
W. H. Rieck
Grove Church Hosts Play and Local News Roundup
The Ladies Aid of Grove M P Church will stage The Wrong Baby at the Grove church Tuesday evening March 13 at eight. Admission ten cents. Norris Cohce son of Ben and Mrs Cohce celebrated his seventh birthday last Friday. The Murphy family visited Mrs Laura Beckwith in Cambridge. Edgell family hosted relatives Gladys and Robert. Rev H H Schauer missed Choptank appointment due to muddy roads. Mrs Lee Taylor sprained ankle but uses a cane. Snow caused Grove Church chimney damage. Kenneth Fluharty was ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid
Grove M. P. Church
Norris Cohce
Ben Cohce
Lee Murphy
Mary
Oliver
Oliver, Spent Sunday With Mrs. Murphy’s Mother, Mrs. Laura Beckwith
Cambridge
Russell Edgell
Gladys
Robert
Grove Church
Kenneth Fluharty
Alfred Fluharty
Community Church Notes and Local Visits
Mrs. B B Allen leads the Christian Endeavor service tomorrow evening. The Andersontown Hobbs Homemakers Club meets at the Concord Church House Thursday afternoon next week, with Mrs. Marie Torrode and Mrs. Sallie Lord hosting. Mr. and Mrs. J Roland Chaffinch and children visited Mr. and Mrs. B B Allen and Mrs. C J Chaffinch Sunday afternoon. Mrs. W H Lord has been under Dr Nichols care this week and is hoped to recover. Mrs Mildred Johnson and Mrs Jenny Crouse visited Mrs L H Thomas last Wednesday. Mr Harry J Nuttle and a New York City friend, West Nottingham Academy students, spent part of last week with the Nuttles. Mrs John Lister is a patient at Emergency Hospital Easton and was operated on Wednesday. she has had thirteen operations in her lifetime and is hoped to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Patrick’s
St. Paul’s Reformed Church
L. M. Pearsnul
Mary L. Wharton
Samuel E. Thomas
Little Willie
Mary Wharton
Elmer Morris
Irene N. Koenemann
H. E. Koenemann
Jeanette A. Beekman
H. EF. Koenemann
Hilda J. Cherry
Roland Cherry
Otis Wharton
Erin
Hilda Cherry
Jesse Black
Hackett
Ridgely
Lloyd Stewart
Stewart
Blake
Denton
John Starkey
William Voss
Philadelphia
Starkey
Maple Avenue
Frank Samis
T. A. Smith
Central Avenue
Methodist Ladies Aid
Hollis
County Federation
Edgar Bradley
State Federation
Harvey Holsinger
Earl Callahan
Queenstown
William Rieck
Elizabeth Dorothy
Easton Hospital
Caroline Mancha
James Simon
C. C. Johnson and Family
Mr. Johnson
Emma Jackson
Elsie Matthews
Salisbury
Matthews
A. W. Saulsbury
Hanover
Greensboro
Charles Robinson
Seaford
Del
Anna May Barnes
Carroll Sewart
Jane
Easton
T. L. Day
Lydia Pennington
Houston Pennington
Irving Dyer
Middletown
Joseph F. Short
J. F. Short Jr
Herman
Ellendale
W. D. Short
Olan Porter
Geo. Davis
Baltimore
Abraham Cohen
Elizabeth Short
Lelia Anthony
Millington
Miss Short
Miss Anthony
Elizabeth Haymaker
Charles Haymaker
Elmer Anthony
Haymaker
Centreville
Mary Katherine Sparks
Pearl Clark
Swarthmore
Troy Ashcraft
Camden
J. J. Ivison
Eason
B. B. Allen
Christian Endeavor
Andersontown-Hobbs Homemakers’ Club
Church House
Concord
Marie Torrode
Sallie Lord
J. Roland Chaffinch
C. J. Chaffinch
W. H. Lord
Nichols
Mildred Johnson
Jennie Crouse
L. H. Thomas
Harry J. Nuttle
Friend
New York City
West Nottingham Academy
H. H. Nuttle
John Lister
Emergency
Maryland CWA workers to switch to works division
Thousands of Maryland residents with Civil Works Administration jobs will largely keep their roles and pay as the agency ends. The new works division will absorb CWA projects and workers on its last day, but only those who qualify for relief will be hired and paid at least 30 cents per hour for up to 24 hours weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Civil Works Administration
New
CWA
Hillsboro Ladies Aid to Host Turkey Supper Friday
The Hillsboro M E Church Ladies Aid will hold a turkey supper in the church house on Friday March 16 starting at 5 p.m. Adults 40c and children under 12 25c. Community notices include visitors, visits, and a missionary talk by Mary Martin on Liberia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid
Hillsboro
M. E. Church
William Sherwood and Son
Swarthmore
Mary Rowe
J. C. Sherwood
Lulu Beaven
Philadelphia
Florence Beaven
E. Stevens
Africa
J. N. Clark
Wheat program reopened for Maryland farmers
Dr. Thomas B. Symons announces immediate reopening of the wheat program in Maryland. Farmers who did not sign earlier may contract now to qualify for 1933 final payments and 1934 1935 benefits, though the initial 20 cent per bushel payment already went to prior signers. More than eight thousand Maryland farmers have signed previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas B. Symons
University of Maryland Extension Service
Maryland
Symons
Concord Ladies Aid meeting and church note
The Concord Church Ladies Aid met at the Church House with 39 members and 8 visitors. New member Elva Smith was welcomed as the year’s ninth new member. social hour followed with jokes, music, Irish sketch, readings, and a colorful St Patrick theme. A note of thanks praised Col Frederick F Lyden for donating a power lawn mower to Concord Cemetery Trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid
Church House
Sadie Ritter
Corinne Beauchamp
Edna Collins
Evelyn Neal
Elva Smith
Edith Bennett
Clara Deen
Lynnie Nichols
Nettie Hignatt
St. Patrick
Anna Edgell
Shannon
Myra Wheatley
Margaret Lord
Lizzie Noble
Myra Orme
Dora Trice
Concord Church
Frederick F. Lyden
Concord Cemetery
Col. Lyden
Old Concord
Potter Hall
Emmett Lord
Community notes from Queen Anne reflect gatherings and club meetings
A busy week with turkey dinners hosted by Mr and Mrs Oscar Briscoe and many guests from Salisbury Barclay Sadlersville Wilmington and beyond. The Community Club met for a regular session with hostesses serving fruit punch and wafers. The Ladies Aid and Missionary Society met with refreshments served at Mrs Charlie Roe. A youth party occurred at Mr Wm Short’s Hillsboro home and Rev C L Fossitt joined for supper at the Howard Flowers residence. Local residents including Ruth Sewell from Washington College and Frances Eaton visiting relatives are noted along with glee club hosting by Eleanor Flowers and trips to Baltimore and Wilmington residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Briscoe
Arthur Disharoon
Salisbury
Geo. Welsh
Josephine Beatty
Betty Nickerson
Barclay
Howard Welsh
Sadlersville
Alyce Woolford
Ed. Warrington
Wilmington
Webster Woolford
Ralph
Everett Blades
J. W. Covington and
Wm. Short
Hillsboro
C. L. Fossitt
Howard Flowers
L. C. Howard
East New Market
Horace Morgan
Ruth Sewell
Washington College
Chestertown
Frances Eaton
John Lubeck
Baltimore
Howard Eley
Henry Morgan
Eleanor Flowers
Glee Club
Byron Barton
Bloomery Aid hosted by Mrs Hattie Leeser at Adams Cross Roads
Mrs Hattie Leeser will host the Bloomery Aid at the Church on Wednesday afternoon March 21 shifting one week earlier due to a conference. All are welcome. Minnie Kemp has returned home after an extended visit with Mrs Earl Adams and family. Mr and Mrs Ormond Wright of near Denton visited her parents on Sunday. Mrs Charles Johnson spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Walter Adams. Mr and Mrs Earl Robinson spent Sunday with her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Leeser
Bloomery Aid
Minnie Kemp
Earl Adams
Ormond Wright
Denton
Charles Johnson
Walter Adams
Earl Robinson
Preachers planned at Cordova and Greensboro churches
The Rev. N C Shepherd of Lilesville will preach at Cordova Baptist Church next Sunday morning and Greensboro Baptist Church Sunday evening. He is asked to stay the week and preach here March 17. Public is invited to hear Shepherd at 7 45 Sunday. A birthday surprise for Mrs L W Taylor followed a Five Hundred game with prizes awarded to Mrs Oscar Wyatt, Oscar Bernard, Grace Wooters, and Oscar Wyatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. C. Shepherd
Lilesville
North Carolina
Cordova Baptist Church
Greensboro Baptist Church
Brother Shepherd
L. W. Taylor
Taylor
Oscar Wyatt
Oscar Bernard
Grace Wooters
Alvin Webber
Wilmer Webber
California
Pearl Harbor
Territory of Hawaii
U. S. S. Oglala
Paul Curry Jr
Easton
Bradford Dickerson
C. C. Camp
Little Orleans
Ovid Langrell
Ernest Thomas
Sophia Howard
Medford L. Price
Velma
Benny Howard
Mary Earnshaw
Baltimore
Roy Slaughter
Denton
Alfred Blackburn
Alfreda
Anne Jane
Mary Mitchell
Bridgetown
Ralph Thornton
Carlton
Victor Carrow
Dover
Carroll Meredith
Ridgely
N. A. Smith
Social Visits Highlight Bethlehem Community Notices
Mr and Mrs Alva Blades hosted guests from Preston and Federalsburg including Beverly Blades. Visits continued with Mrs John Brades and others in Preston. The Ladies Aid met at the Community House with Mrs Hilda Smith and Mrs Cora Legates as hosts. Ellwood Wheedleton visited Elkton with Melvin Wheedleton. Everett Stevens of Easton spent a day with Mr and Mrs W C Harding. Payton Thompson and others visited Denton. Florence Legates returned to Wilmington after spending weeks with John E Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alva Blades
Orland Blades
Beverly
Preston
Cann Stevens
Dallas Blades
Federalsburg
John Brades
Rebecca Christopher
Cora Legates
Hilda Smith
Heber Lane
Edward Patchett
Ladies Aid
Bert Wheedleton
Ellwood
Elkton
Melvin Wheedleton
Everett Stevens
Easton
Stevens
W. C. Harding
Payton Thompson
F. H. Thomas
J. B. Todd
Denton
Florence Legates
Wilmington
John E. Smith
In Memoriam for John F Breeding
A daughter recalls John F Breeding who died February 26 1933 and laments the loss while expressing faith he rests safely in heaven. She vows to meet him in that heavenly home and says he is gone but not forgotten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Breeding
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the Local Department
Dentonia Attractions
Burrsville
Will OF
L. B. Towers
Henderson
County Health Department
Annie LE. Stephens
Mrs. Sallie Vickery Scott
Hobbs
M. EK
Newnam
Queen Anne
Adams Cross Roads
Joseph Rogers
Charles Rich
Thomas Dobson
J. R. Meekins
E. J. Weaver
Hilda
Clinton Jarman
Detroit
Mich
C. B. Jarman
Horace Howard
William Wroten
Clayton
M. B. Cooper
Madeline Murphy
Nolan Edwards
Richard Frampton
Clayton Porter
Anna Zacharias
Bethlehem
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