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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1953
Page
6
Caroline County schools joined with motor clubs and the Maryland State Police to promote safety for students this fall. The program uses films, posters, and visits to teach safety at each grade level, from first grade through sixth, covering school, playground, home, street, bicycle, and bus safety plus fire prevention and civil defense.
The Honorable Theodore R. McKeldin, Maryland governor, was made an honorary member of the Peninsula Girl Scout Council of Delaware and Maryland on Thursday March 12. A delegations from the council presented a badge replica and a miniature pin, joining Girl Scout attendees from Dorchester, Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Talbot and other counties. A similar group from Delaware’s Kent and Sussex counties was welcomed by Governor Caleb Boggs on the same day.
Temple Lodge held its regular meeting on January 27 1953 to install officers for the year. Worshipful Master William G Towers received the pin from cousin G Chester Towers Senior Warden of Seat Pleasant Lodge 218 Md. Officers announced include John E French Theodore R Manlove Elias W Nuttle Gerald M Pine Albert Rinner George W Beck Jr Charles E Sharp William A Regan Thomas J Turkington and Norman Cheezum with P M Stafford acting as marshal. Substantial refreshments were served.
A historical reflection notes that clinging to familiar false beliefs is easier than accepting new truths. It cites Thomas Jefferson on governance, asserting that people are best governed when least governed amid phrases urging openness to change.
Several hundred people attended a Maryland Frozen Food Locker Association meeting in a Sheraton Belvedere Hotel ballroom Baltimore on Sunday March 15. Demonstrations included cutting and wrapping beef and a whole pig while home economists and locker distributors asked questions. A banquet followed with remarks by Robert Madeira and an address by L B Mann on locker plants’ role in the economy and community. The gathering moved to a breakfast Monday with election of new directors and plans for Federalsburg in June.
The Memor ial Hospital board invites a Junior Auxiliary representative to join all meetings for discussion without voting to improve hospital welfare. A plan for selecting the representative was approved. the member will be elected at the June annual meeting. The March gathering also covered Red Cross activities, new members, a planned John Charles Thomas concert, lamps for the hospital, and other charity efforts. Officers and board members from Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline, Kent, and Queen Anne's counties were named.
Plans for the Delmarva Chicken Festival feature a National Chicken Cooking Contest at Harrington Delaware Kent and Sussex Fair Grounds June 22 23 24 with Mrs Earl White as general chair and state chairmen from Delaware Maryland serving as judges and helpers The senior contest is June 24 at 9 am and the junior June 23 starting 9 30 am Prizes include cash and merchandise and entries from many states are anticipated.
Circle 4 of First Methodist Church in Denton expresses sorrow and sympathy for the family of Annie Andrew who has been called away. The group notes she is not dead but just away, and extends condolences from Mrs Lillian D Liden Mrs Mary H Nuttle and Mrs Edna D Bittle.
The National Farm Loan Association unit of the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore held its annual meeting in Easton on March 4. About 168 members attended as John W. Allfather and Earl J. Hutchison were elected to the board for three years. Secretary treasurer H E Holsinger reported farm loans totaling 210600.00 for 1952 and unmatured amounts of 5979 031 000 50, noting the association's good financial condition and growing business.
Jack Deland a young polo player starring in the Junior Class production Cruise Of Death invites audiences to attend the show on March 26 and 27 at the Caroline High School auditorium.
A man reports a weekend spent fishing through the ice. His friend asks how it went and learns he was after cherries, revealing his misery from a strenuous time.
A poem presents a speaker at life’s divide choosing between two paths. The narrow upward path promises discipline and eternal love while the broad downward road offers debauchery and sin, with a guiding light revealing the right choice.
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