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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1911
Page
2
Editorial notes Maryland farmers increasingly benefit from state agricultural institutes strengthening season planning. It highlights Eastern Shore legacy since the 17th century, predicts brighter prospects, and warns against timber industry monopolies while urging timber and water power protection. It also cites political shifts, Gonz Harmon quote, Bryan retirement, Mexican border troop move, a Delaware chief justice death, and weather talk.
The George Washington Memorial Association raised 100000 from J P Morgan and other large gifts totaling over a quarter of a million with pledges. At the February 15 meeting in Washington the board was re elected and a nationwide drive to culminate February 22 1912 was approved. A Children s Wing will be funded by ten cent children's contributions and pins are offered to contributors. The movement claims no administration salaries and is run by affluent officers and an advisory board.
General I Coleman Dupont president of Dupont Powder Company proposes to build a state spanning boulevard along Delaware at 2 million dollars and gift it to the State. The two to 200 foot wide road would include 30 feet of highway and the rest for trolley and utilities with a five year railway completion guarantee to satisfy the donor. Road builders discuss the project with interest.
An illustrated booklet on the Hudson and East River tunnels the Manhattan tunnel and the Pennsylvania Station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty second Street is issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It explains the impact on New York passengers and is available by mail from George W. Boyd at Broad Street Station Philadelphia for a two cent stamp.
An essay on Lent measures forty days and its spiritual goals, urging self discipline and charitable acts, followed by notices of Ex-Sheriff Thomas P. Hopkins’s death in Cordova with survivors and funeral details, then obituaries for Mary Woolleyhand’s children, Zora Brinsfield, and veteran Delaware railroad conductor Isaac T. Parker, highlighting their families and service.
Rufus R Wilson writes that nearly two million famine victims in China need aid. Two dollars now could save a life, and the Seattle Commercial Club, with the Red Cross, is receiving funds at First Avenue and Columbia Street. Rev A N Ward urges support.
A game warden in Maryland arrested two fishermen for catching and shipping yellow perch undersize. One man was fined 25 dollars and costs after confiscation of the undersized fish. The case sparked debate over whether the law applies year round or only during spawning months April through June.
Poultry advice urges daily biddie counts and careful feeding to avoid waste and loss. Suggestions on mating roosters, broodiness checks, and egg limits during cold weather are offered. Also notes 75,099 Christian Endeavor Societies worldwide with 25,009 other churches aiding ecumenism. Government frost data, claims on Baltimore harbor rights, and business reorganizations from I S Royster Guano and Ridgely tire company are listed.
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