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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1897
Page
3
Mails arrive at 845 a.m. from the south and 1200 m from the north by D and C Railway. Early morning stages reach Preston by 620 a.m. and 915 a.m. Additional mails leave via D and C at stage 4c al with 100 and 615 a.m. times.
The town reports many grip cases and a well supplied Denton fish market. Local dog control tightens with penalties for unredeemed canines. Denton officials plan excursions, repairs, and improvements including banks, blacksmith shop, and property work. Notable items include a lecture by John B. Gordon, a horse incident at Sixth street, and a Home Forum chapter organizing with officers named.
Dr Mayo of Boston argued that universal public education is the most profitable investment, outlining how schooling, libraries, the press, and public speaking form a central education system. He emphasized skilled teachers, moral training at home and in church, and education as the foundation of American citizenship and national prosperity.
The author argues that Jeffersonian popular education could have ended slavery and prevented the Civil War. Over the past twenty-five years the sixteen Southern states have funded public schools, spending 250 million dollars of their own money, including 75 million for Black children, a pledge to future union and prosperity regardless of political party. The piece emphasizes education as the key to a wiser coming generation.
Rev Dr Mayo and Prof M B Stephens lectured to an appreciative crowd at the town hall. Central avenue work continues with plans to plant trees when weather allows. Elderly resident Sylvester Smith shows marked improvement after illness. Emma H Day returns to Baltimore after visiting Thomas L Day Esq. Mrs P B Stambaugh and Mrs Herr visited Philadelphia. Elsie Smith visited Shadyside Farm grandparents. Thomas A Smith and daughter Anita visited Baltimore. Thomas Jones Jr suffers grip while Clifton Lloyd Jarrell recovers from la grippe. Miss Bessie Lavinia Jarrell shows improving health. Mrs A G Smith visiting parents in Philadelphia.
Preston watchers list town visitors from Cabin Creek Cordova Easton Denton and New York among Sundays arrivals. Prestonians attended Baltimore visits and the Washington inauguration with Rev J M Mitchell J A Cox Walter Todd Orland Kelley W T Tuff and C B Bowens. Miss Julian E Kelley teaches for her sick sister Dollie while others on the sick list include Mrs C P Collins Mrs Emma Moore Miss Anna Todd and Miss Lulu Stack. Lee Noble son of Dr J B Noble of Preston is ill at Randolph Macon College Virginia. W C Willoughby of the Baltimore Custom House spent Sunday with family. Dora Noble of Federalsburg visited Mrs J T Dennis.
Mr Edward Tzsehoppe formerly of Easton is in the city purchasing goods and will keep the store recently run by Wesley Bradley. Revival services at American Corner closed Sunday evening. A pie party and box sociable Friday March 10 will benefit the library fund. Orland and Everett Kelley and Miss Cora Patton attended McKinley’s inauguration. Burton Chance of Queen Anne visited Whiteside's Sunday. Laura Patchett returned from Philadelphia. Easton visitors came to see Miss Bessie Collins. Several residents suffer from la grippe.
Dr and Mrs Hackett return home to Queen Anne after a wedding tour that included Washington for the inauguration. Miss Jennie Baxter resumes residence in Wilmington after visiting Mrs Brown. Miss Laura Melvin back in Denton from visits. Local youths attend the Ridgely inaugural ball. Denton’s Miss Mamie McShane visits Miss Percy. Mrs Beaven returns from Dover visit. Miss Parker of Middletown stays with Miss Pearle Smith. Mrs Reed of Queen Anne visits Baltimore friends.
Rev Dr John D Kinzer president of the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church may become president of Westminster Theological Seminary after the death of Rev Dr Jas T Ward The conference will decide at Broadway Church on April 7 Kinzer has served five years as conference president and his future depends on the conference outcome Born in 1841 he has worked in the church for over a third of a century His career included pastorates at Salisbury Centreville West Baltimore Westminster Mt Lebanon Preston and Bond streets Dr A D Melvin of Westminster is named as a likely successor to Kinzer after the conference meets next Sunday at Epsom Methodist Church Towson Sun
Rev John E Smith of Philadelphia will lecture in Town Hall next Tue Wed Thu evenings on The Future Life The Eternity of the Human Memory and Its Relation to Man s Last Judgment and The New Heavens and the New Earth Admission free All welcome Rev W R Mowbray preached last sermon at Jerman Chapel and may return to Smyrna circuit Conference closes Rev E T Mowbray returns to Hereford Rev J W Hammersly becomes pastor of Hunts All day holiness meeting at Ridgely M P Church March 28 Rev J McLain Brown invited to Queen Annes circuit meeting at Gareys Chapel Tuesday next The Eagle s Nest and After Three Years are sermons noted
Painter Mason finished the depot work with feather brown trim and a neat appearance. The Queen Anne's Railroad Company colors are adopted as aims. Whistles and bells from passing trains welcome locals awaiting inauguration. Carpenters work at Greenwood and Long's depots, Hobbs is finished, Queenstown depot is being painted. A large Italian crew lays ballast on the west side of the Choptank, and rails from Greenwood toward Lewes are set to begin next week.
A Dorchester county convention of colored voters met in Cambridge on a Saturday with about 150 delegates present. Eight noted colored leaders spoke urging tangible recognition and equal representation in conventions and on committees. A larger Cambridge convention is planned for March 20, with resolutions and a notification committee to address white leaders. The meeting was opened by C. J. Webb, the colored member of the Dorchester county Republican Central Committee.
Shortly after midnight Sunday the storehouse occupied by Mr. Harry R. Merriken at American Corner burned. The stock valued at 1800 was destroyed and post office fixtures and stamps were lost. Merriken carries 1000 insurance with Planters' Company. building owned by T Redman, insured for 500. Merriken hopes to re establish the store.
Tom Brown, tried for shooting his brother in law Samuel Rash, is said to work as a waiter in a Philadelphia restaurant. A county native visiting the area recognized him and called him Tom, prompting denial of identity. He reportedly went to Price's Station, married quietly, and returned with Mrs. Brown on the next train.
After a large fire in Cripple Creek I suffered a severe cold. I tried many remedies with no relief until three small bottles of Chamberlains Cough Remedy cured both cough and cold. The high altitude makes a meritorious cough remedy essential. Authorized local sellers listed.
The Wilmington M B Conference schedule lists Examinations, numerous missionary sermons and lectures, anniversaries, and revival services from March 15 to March 23 in Chestertown. Bishop Walden and Dr. Fowler lead events including Africa evangelization, Woman's Home Missionary Society, Epworth League anniversaries, and ordinations. Dr. Mayo visits to study local graded schools, urging more principal room time for classroom observation.
Galisborough advertises for a local basket and crate factory, promising incentives to an entrepreneur. It notes a new Justice of the Peace and pension paperwork, while listing locals such as Miss Bertha Graham visiting Wilmington, Miss Laura Sylvester staying with Miss Fannie Jarrell, and Mr. W. E. Graham needing assistance. Mrs. Anna Scott remains ill. Farmers are urged to contact Sparklin & Mo about wire fencing contracts.
Unions form in Smyrna as J Harry Mattiford marries Clara R Sithens with Rev Adam Stengle officiating. Attendants include Miss Mattie Murray and Albert Tilghman. Other notes cover dances, guests, engagements, travels, school staff illness, and a long April jury list. Orphans’ Court proceedings and local business notices conclude the item.
A Wilming ton Eeery Evening correspondent reports that George W. Phillips and Miss Minnie Bryan married in Bridgeville Delaware on Monday. Miss Bryan, daughter of Joseph Bryan near Reliance Maryland, joined Phillips after he drove to Reliance. Bryan pursued, offering 100 to stop the marriage, but the elopers obtained a license in Georgetown and wed at 3:30 pm with Rev William Harris officiating. They then left for Jersey City to reside.
A reader contribution prints two items: a frontier recipe for Maryland biscuits using three pounds flour and a long method with lard, hands, and a forked finish, plus an antiseptic pitch for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a La Grippe preventive said to curb pneumonia risk.
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