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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1906
Page
3
Levy Court will convene on May fifteenth as scheduled with officials urging attendance. Authorities note the court calendar includes routine sessions and filings to be addressed in open session.
Denton area reports an excursion to Baltimore planned for next Wednesday. Various diversions include new buildings, sewers study, railway timetable changes, and a planned livery stable. The Endeavorers convention opens next Thursday at Denton M P Church with multiple speakers and services. People, places, and events span Douglass, Centreville, and Cambridge notices.
Gary Warfield will address the Caroline High School graduates at commencement in Masonic Hall. Prof H H Murphy, principal, leads exercises Tuesday evening June 5. Governor Warfield will present diplomas. Class Day is the previous evening. Baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning June 3 by Rev Dr Hugh L Elderdice. Manual training exhibition June 24 and 25 with Prof Louis C Forsythe directing. patrons invited to inspect the display.
The advertisement lists wallpaper at five cents each and gilt at eight cents each. Window shades are priced at twenty cents each. Located at 1015 West Baltimore Street in Baltimore, the offer is presented as a retail sale.
A compendium of social visits, appointments, and community events across Hobbs, Federalsburg, Preston, and surrounding towns. Social calls, church activities, school and club updates, travel, and personal happenings from residents including the Maloney family, Sissilberger, and various local figures. changes in employment and flash updates on local societies.
A new grange of the Patrons of Husbandry organized with Albert Babbitt as master Miss Ella CG Abbott named secretary and Eddie Daly appointed lecturer.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sipple near Greensboro fractured her left forearm in a fall. Mildred Curry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Curry, was taken to a Baltimore hospital by Dr. Malone Saturday and underwent an appendicitis operation.
The Preston town election last Monday at Preston Pharmacy re elected the old town commissioners without opposition. The board members are Alex Noble R I Ledman Dr W T Kelley N J Pooks and S F Douglass. The voting was light and local notices report wheat lice concerns and local social notes from Rouleau and Bucktown among others.
A mother touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for quick relief of coughs colds and croup in children. It claims to prevent pneumonia if used early and to be safe for little ones. Sold by Douglass Drug Store Hillsboro and A Duffey. Martin M Higgins Easton’s first mayor under the new charter thanks residents and invites suggestions from ladies for city improvement.
A sermonary view of the demoniac in Mark is presented as a tale of sin’s enslaving power and Christ’s deliverance. The afflicted man runs to Jesus, finds deliverance, and is sent to tell how the Lord has done for him. The piece notes the demoniac’s bondage, the healing power of Jesus, and the missionary obligation to witness salvation.
Edinburg reports Thomas Smith has sold his farm and will move back to Dover Delaware. The property is now occupied by a new resident identified as Mr. 5 Bouton.
Frost at Ridgely and Goldsboro areas caused uneven damage to fruit crops. Grower says peaches largely safe due to foliage and downy fuzz, while Jerome A. Davis reports strawberries heavily hurt and tomatoes damaged. Davis estimates 25 percent crop loss near Goldsboro, with some orchard varieties faring better.
Instructions from State Entomologist Thomas B. Irons urge growers to spray apple trees with paris green and Bordeaux mixtures to combat codling moth curculio and caterpillars, repeat in 10 days and again around July 10. Plum and peach trees receive similar treatments. advice includes mud traps, torching nests, and contacting College Park Md for details.
Market report from Baltimore lists grain prices for Wheat No 2 red 87 cents, steamer 80 cents. Corn No 2 white 56 cents, steamer 54 cents, yellow and mixed 53 1/2 cents, steamer 53 1/2. Poultry prices for old hens 13 1/2 cents, young chickens 16 to 20 cents, spring chickens 23 to 27 cents, ducks 12 1/2 cents. Eggs 16 cents. Potatoes white 70 to 80 cents per bushel, sweet potatoes 1.25 to 1.75 per barrel. Veal calves 7 1/2 cents, lambs 6 to 9 cents, sheep 4 to 5 cents. Green hides 10 cents, green salted hides 11 1/4 cents, damaged hides 9 cents. Wool 28 to 30 cents.
In Police Court Charles T Collison was arrested Saturday night by Constable Garey for violating the option law. Justice Steele convicted him, sentencing 60 days in the House of Correction and a $50 fine. An appeal and a jury trial request followed. Steele also sentenced Frank Borilley to three months and Charles Wilson to twelve months in the House of Correction after a knife fight the night before.
The piece advises washing closets with a weak carbolic acid solution each spring and fall. For any hint of moth or damage, move the item outdoors to brush and saturate with naphtha, never inside the house, due to highly volatile fumes that can ignite from a spark or match. Keep outside until the odor subsides.
Mr Cooper returns from appendicitis operation and attends Denton National Bank board meeting. Mrs Whitby and son reside in Baltimore after returning from Wilmington. Local officials, nurses, and visitors travel to Baltimore and Virginia for various engagements. Several residents tour towns, attend events, or stay with relatives in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
A Baltimore Notes item notes Dr Gordon T Atkinson as a possible future gubernatorial candidate while praising his loyalty to party and governor. Seaford reports a brief earthquake scare with no damage. The Women’s Cemetery Association plans a May 14 meeting at Martha Fisher’s home to discuss improvements to the Franklin Street graveyard. Strawberry pickers are sought in Sussex amid smallpox quarantines. Cordova gains a Silk canning factory under Wooters and Nickerson. Locust swarms are forecast for the year. Dr J A Johnson, a Talbot physician, has died. Easton reports twenty smallpox cases among colored residents. Delaware Road will run Sunday trains starting the 27th.
IDEAL SHEAR Co at 39 Randolph St Chicago seeks district managers to post signs advertise and distribute samples. Salary 18.00 weekly plus 3.00 per day expenses. State age and present employment.
The president’s letter to policyholders states that the firm seeks and the agents secure employment of reliable, experienced men who will faithfully and intelligently present the company’s history, current conditions, contract terms, and advise clients to their advantage and according to their needs.
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