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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1905
Page
3
The Canter Crevuirt public notice lists meets for the Court on April 3, Levy Court on March 1, Orphans' Court on March 14, and Scusen Board on March 14. Entities include Canter Crevuirt and Scusen Board with scheduled session dates in March and April.
Local columns recount Lent beginning with sugar at six cents a pound, electric light plans for Centreville, seed sales at Denton Feed Store, factory jobs at Denton Shirt Company, and repainting of the courthouse exterior. Notices include estate creditors for DeFord, tax arrears totaling about five thousand dollars, M D & W travel resume to Baltimore, and various local incidents from fire damage in Federalsburg to peach bud losses and road work plans.
Rev Mr Drew of Christ Church leaves toursy social entertainment. A pretty wedding on Tuesday February 28 at Hiltly unites Miss Nettie D P Scotten of Dover with Millard H Moore of Hartly. Ceremony by Rev E H W Collins. Bertha Moore maid of honor, Lester Scattell best man. Couple leaves for a wedding trip north. Also reports weddings and visits from Indiana to Delaware county residents. Rev H L Drew leaves for New York. John H George celebrates fiftieth anniversary March 21. Various local social notes on visits, travel, and millinery in Wilmington Ridgely and Williston.
In the Orphans Court on Tuesday Willoughby Nowell as administrator of Samuel Nowell presented a list of debts and first account of administration and dividend, approved. Anna Cark presented an inventory of M P Hutchinson, exc., also approved. Emily DeFord and Francis A De Ford named administrators of William Franklin DeFord. bond filed and approved. Clinton Cook and B Frank Richards appointed appraisers of personal estate. Notice to creditors ordered. Martha Jones and Thomas W Jones applied as administrators of Thomas W Jones. John W Bullock applied for letters of administration on James L Bullock. Henry Jopp and Lillie M Dean, executors of Margaret Jopp, presented an account of sales, approved.
Mr William Hurd a 50 year old Greensboro resident became violently ill Sunday evening about five o clock from Paris Green. He had been despondent for some time and after requesting a glass on Sunday afternoon mixed the poison himself despite his wife’s efforts to stop him. A physician was summoned but Mr Hurd struggled against aid declaring he was tired of life and wished to die.
Gacaérv Anne hosts an opening party with friends and relatives. Guests enjoy progressive whist and flinch, prizes awarded to Miss Mollie Short and Miss Anderson, and a collation of ham and chicken salad. Also noted is Blanche Smith taking a milliner post in Ivor Virginia. Death visits the town as Walter Barnes passes away. Epworth League plans a social at Sparklin home. Roosevelt inauguration attendees Miss Ethel Smith and Mr Andrew Jackson. Milliner F N Wright active in spring stock. Emma Brindell visits from Baltimore.
Nathaniel Horsey bought for Caroline County Bank a 126 by 150 foot Greensboro lot from Mrs. William Massey of Baltimore as the site for a new bank building. The property sits in the business district center, currently housing a general store and the Greensboro Hotel. The town ladies presented Mrs. Hoffecker with a silk dress pattern, Judge Dawson spoke, and Mrs. Hoffecker thanked her. The St Pauls M E Church Sunday School held a missionary anniversary raising 125 dollars. Washington's Birthday music was repeated in Mrs. Henry Jarrells parlors. The M E Church fourth quarterly conference urged Dr. Hoffecker to return as pastor. Miss Minnie Gardner leaves for Philadelphia for a job. Zora W. Cannon returns from a two week trip to Philadelphia and Baltimore. E S Short of Cecilton visited his sister Mrs. B F Jackson. Florence Ayers visits Baltimore relatives. Prof Charles Keller has been on the sick list.
Miss Etta Dunham hosted a pleasant social with games and guests including Lily Rumbold Sadie Cooper Jessie Collins Hannah Dunham Clara Wright Minnie Davis Agnes Corkran Frances Price Claude M Stafford Fred Wright Elbert Davis Webster S Blades Thomas Price James Gootee. Mrs O C Blades and her daughter Mrs A K Cooper visited Baltimore friends this week. Mrs Clara Baker Cook of North Carolina visits her parents. A pie party at the school house was financially and socially successful. Mrs S R Buckley is on the sick list.
Trenderson highlights visits and family connections with Alice Montague staying with her uncle Frank Jones near Greensboro. Catherine Arrants visits daughter in Glassboro New Jersey. John Downes of Preston guests Anna Price. Mrs 5 5 S James of New York visits her mother H C Gooden. J T Richards spent Saturday with relatives in Wilmington. Rev M L Stewart sent back to Henderson for another year. G E Wright of Aberdeen was in town Wednesday.
A Sunday School lesson on John 8 31 40 portrays Jesus disarming an accuser and freeing from sin. It stresses true discipleship through obedience and continues in Christ’s word, urging temperance teaching and personal renewal against strong drink, greed, and vice.
Leaves Union Passenger Station Chicago daily at 6.05 p m and arrives in San Francisco on the third day in time for dinner. Route via Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Line. Ticket agents sell via this route. Handsome book describing California sent for six cents postage. I A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago or W S Howell 38L Broadway New York.
Miss Florence Pritchett of Caro line has been visiting Mr and Mrs William E Hugg in Felton and will travel to Philadelphia to visit friends before returning home, continuing her tour with Wilmington acquaintances.
A Thursday gathering at Mr and Mrs Ben Welch featured progressive crokinole with prizes to Miss Mary Towers and Mr Sherman Todd. Refreshments and music by Misses Minnie Todd and Edna Shipman followed. Attendees included many local residents and relatives, with notes of a wedding in Falls Church VA and Miss Nannie Towers taking a Baltimore post with Armstrong Cator & Co.
Preston notes that Burton Proctor will be featured in the upcoming St John’s Annual as a representative athlete from his Alma Mater. The Premium sketch references his college record and rightful honor. The Spinster's Return was staged at Preston academy to an appreciative crowd and repeats tonight. Muskrats grow plentiful with the river tidings while Dr J R Phillips improves in health in Baltimore. Elbert Douglass and J Albert Davis ally as life insurance agents. A Modern Woodmen lodge is forming in Preston. Miss Mary Harris visited Baltimore Wednesday. Several Prestonians attended inauguration. C M Johnson spent the week in Baltimore.
The Ladies Aid of the M. P. Church in VFedernlaburg plan two entertainments starting with a Valentine Social at Mrs James RR Price's, then a Pie Party at Mrs E F Messengers on March 5. Activities will include games and music with a sunflower chorus as one attraction. Also noted: Mrs Fred Gambrill attended Washington inauguration ceremonies and visited her old home. Colonial Fair by the Thimble Club netted about 180 dollars. Miss Fanny Brodiss returned from Cambridge Hospital. Mrs Orlando Patton visiting sisters in Preston. Prof James Carroll visited town Wednesday.
Mr D P Holsinger, owner of the former Tuckahoe cannery, is equipping the plant with up to date machinery after acquiring it from T W Smith. The cannery sits in a strong farming area with steady tomato supply. G A McDaniel Co, artesian well drillers, expand gear for the coming season. M D A Railway plans a new depot as weather allows after a prior fire destroyed the station. G A McDaniel has been on the sick list for a week.
Kent County Commissioners, citing strained finances and a high tax rate, decide not to accept Shoemaker State Road act provisions. They estimate an extra 46,625.36 in expense would raise taxes over 7 cents per hundred dollars. Wicomico County also declines state aid for road building.
OD Book, General Joseph B Seth bought for 10 cents an old law volume at a sale in front of Easton Court House. It was formerly owned by James Lloyd Martin of Easton, a leading Maryland lawyer. After his 1875 death the book passed to Charles Bateman, elder brother of ex Secretary of State Wilfred Bateman. The volume, published in the seventeenth century by the English Court, was authored by John Leeds Borman, son of a noted historian.
In Democratic circles interest rises as four to five months remain before ticket choices. Senatorship and county treasurer are focal, with numerous names named for each post. Other mentions include delegates and county offices, plus two names from the Hillsboro correspondent for county commissioner and sheriff.
An exchange advocates farmers using printed stationery to improve correspondence, reduce misaddressed mail, and project business credibility. It urges naming the farm, providing full name, farm name, post office, and rural route number for affordable, up to date stationery.
Obituary notices report the death of William A. Atwell at 64 in Easton after stomach cancer with funeral at Ames Chapel and burial beside the church. Also buried in Easton were Samuel A. Meintzer of Atlanta at 56 with survivors including wife and four sons and a daughter. John Seward, 32, died at his father’s Bridgetown home with funeral at Burdgtown M. Church officiated by Rev. W. V. Harlis.
Sad remembrance of Lizzie Caball who departed January 25 1905 in memory of a sister. Poem expresses farewell and hope of meeting in Heaven with gentle slumber and loving lines from her sister TL Ronson.
A large Ridgely town hall meeting of Tuckahoe Neck farmers and Hillsboro Denton business men discussed a new rural line. The Farmers and Merchants Telephone Company is capitalized at 2500 dollars with stock largely subscribed and plans a 32 mile line from Hillsboro to Ridgely. Construction will start soon with aim to finish by May 15 and expand across the Eastern Shore.
The essay argues that procrastinating decision making paralyses progress. An engineer delaying the final bridge location mirrors how a builder of character must choose and press forward despite obstacles. Many young people fear irreversible choices, craving retreat options, and fear cutting off potential paths.
Joshua M. Dickinson and Thomas Cephas, both about eighteen, quarreled in Federalsburg last Friday. Dickinson struck Cephas in the head with a brick, fracturing the skull. Cephas was taken to Cambridge hospital in critical condition. Dickinson was held for further hearing in Denton after a preliminary exam and bail is expected.
The Baltimore American reports testimony in the contest of Mr. Thomas A. Smith's congressional seat by Mr. W. H. Jackson has ended. Tomorrow, counsel for Smith, Alonzo L. Miles, will present rebuttal evidence if any, and then summarize both sides' claims. Miles says the outcome hinges on Maryland Election Law interpretations by Congress and the State Court of Appeals decisions. If those rulings uphold the law, the seat is likely to be awarded to Mr. Smith.
A Maryland congressman used a cane to influence a teller vote. During a tellers tally, Jackson had a page carry the cane to the center aisle and have it counted as one vote. Representative Gaines quipped that he voted as the cane did, then followed it.
Tickets on sale daily from Chicago March 1 to May 15 via the Chicago Union Pacific and North Western Line. Excursions to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland offered daily and personally conducted with no change in itinerary. Double berth only seven dollars. Fault particulars available from W B Kuiskern P T ML C No OW Ry Chicago.
A note from Thomas B. Symons State Entomologist urges orchardists to inspect trees for the San Jose Scale and apply a lime sulfur and salt wash in spring before bud break. Maryland Experiment Station Bulletin 990 details results and invites twig samples and questions at College Park.
Miranda in the Lady's Pictorial calls for new wedding hymns with a festal tone. She notes current choices like Oh Perfect Love are too sad and The voice that breathed o er Eden fits better. Revival of Eden could accompany fresh music while avoiding dirge-like moods.
A former president of a major railroad offers a concise warning to young men about failure arising from indifference to work details and rushing to success. He attributes failure to dishonesty, intemperance, and lack of industry, urging study of those who achieved success or failure. He emphasizes heeding wise testimony as youth begin their careers.
A banquet of the Business Men's Association of Frederick sparked a boom for Hon Edwin Warfield leading to his nomination for president before the speechmaking ended. State Superintendent Stephens backs a proposed state educational journal with ongoing arrangements. Only five counties in the state did not apply for state aid to build good roads. Townsend canners contracting for tomatoes at six dollars per ton and corn at eight dollars per ton.
A Washington Star reader notes that weather forecasts, while not always date accurate, reliably anticipate conditions. Farmer Corn tes sel remarks that forecasts are credited for predicting weather eventually, despite imperfect timing.
The latest patterns in wall paper and window shades include Gilt and Seapiece designs available from Thomas and Messer at 1015 West Baltimore Street in Baltimore. Prices start at 22 cents each.
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