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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1938
Page
3
Saturday edition of the Denton Journal dated March 12, 1938 announces Melvin and Johnson as the publishers. The page notes the production team and the morning publication schedule for the newspaper.
Maurice Fleming surveys independent basketball action at Cambridge with ten teams, half eliminated, and a Friday playoff to resume on March 11. Winners receive gold medals from the American Legion, runners up bronze. The season winds down as Cambridge High and Cambridge Collegians dominate local play, with high school playoffs around March 18 and Cambridge likely crowned Eastern Shore champions.
The University of Baltimore girls basketball team, rated best in the state with nine straight wins, earned a March invitation to the Amateur Athletic Union National Championship in Wichita, Kansas. The piece notes differing AAU rules, asserts the team’s merit, and cites broadcasting time for the sports feature.
State Employment Commissioner at 22 Light Street Baltimore issues a test notice for a junior stenographer position with the County Welfare Board. Closing date March 25 1938. Harry C. Jones, Commissioner.
The Dentonia Theatre screens Jean Laltte tale in The Buccaneer with Fredric March and Franciska Gaal on Friday and Saturday March 11 and 12. Also features Checkers and Your Only Young Once and Rosalie musical in coming days with Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell in a lavish spectacle.
Classified notice seeking a young man under 40 for six to eight weeks of customer service work in the Salisbury vicinity. No peddling. If competent, potential for a permanent connection. Interview letters to E. C. Lloyd at Fuller Service, 122 North Division Street, Salisbury Maryland.
The Romanza show crowds 2500 participants for a grand number lighting a sixty acre set with 10 000 amperes nightly. Madame Albertinn Rasch assembled 500 ballerinas, plus 250 tap dancers and 125 acrobatic teams under the dance director's plan.
The Malayan jungle romance stars Dorothy Lamour in her film debut with Ray Milland in The Jungle Princess showing Friday and Saturday March 11 and 12. The Ridgely Theatre presents a second feature Prescription for Romance Monday March 14 and Awful Truth with Irene Dunne to follow.
Ridgely Theatre presents Colum bia's The Awful Truth in all comedy with Cary Grant and ensemble including Ralph Bellamy Cecil Cunningham and Esther Dale. Leo McCarey directs from Arthur Richman stage play with Vina Delmar adaptation. Also Thursday Cash Gift Nite features Adventure's End in a marine strike era release.
35 acre truck farm adjacent to Denton known as the home property of the late Charles W Ellwanger. Fully equipped for chicken raising all buildings in good repair. Modern dwelling with central heat water electricity and garage in perfect condition. Apply to Mrs W W Sylvester Denton Md. 8 5 1f.
7 room semi bungalow with electricity and furnace in cellar front and back porches located at Oil City near Denton agent H. C. Wright offers this property for sale or rent with convenient amenities and accessible location.
Six room dwelling for rent with bath in a good Denton location. Reasonable rental terms. Apply to A. J. Redden, Attorney. 3-6.
Universal had acquired the old four master Maid of Orleans built in 1812 and rerigged it as Mary Drew during a marine strike. The ship stories mirror Ben Ames Williams. Adventure's End comes to Ridgely Theatre on Thursday March 17 for a single screening.
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