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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1903
Page
3
Local items report upcoming meetings for Circuit Court Orphans Court Levy Court and the town hall board. Denton sees gas lighting, new canning facilities, warehouse expansion, street and sidewalk work, new dwellings, and business improvements. Several pensions granted. tennis clubs form. Queen Anne railroad depot planned at Tuckahoe Station. various property sales and renovations proceeding.
Mrs William Minn er a Musten s Corner merchant s wife attempted suicide by cutting her throat on Saturday She had been an invalid for three years Her daughter found her and summoned her husband who helped her husband urged deeper cut but a razor was found in the room Doctors expect she will recover The paper also notes multiple social visits marriages and travel between Denton Goldsboro and nearby towns with weddings announced and people visiting in Kent and Talbot counties
Denton announces readjustment of fire insurance premiums with reductions from twenty five to sixty percent due to the new water plant and organized fire company. New schedules are in effect and old rates are superseded. Companies will refund excess charges from old policies since the new rates began.
The Caroline High School will hold class day exercises the day before the commencement. The graduating class includes Mary Brumbaugh Elma Cade Clarence Dokes Elva Fullerton May Gelletty Pearl Griffin Dillie Merriken and Hattie Wright. Hon. Thos A Smith of Ridgely is invited to address the class.
A Federalsburg Assemblyman’s son was thrown from a wagon, with a broken arm avoided after a quick recovery. A near-miss accident followed when Rev H B Wright’s carriage was crushed by a fallen horse, occupants unhurt. Modern Woodmen attended a log rolling in Crisfield, sailing there by launch Eaglet. Sun Brothers circus performed at Athletic Park with light attendance. A new kindling mill was built at Dezzard’s station using a gasoline motor. Dr Baker preached at the M E Church. Rev Mr Holt will preach to the Odd Fellows next Sunday.
Ships and townspeople accumulate a week of departures visits and gatherings. Captain Branford leaves for Baltimore to resume duties on the Chesapeake. Clergy Warren Hubbard fills Hillsboro church pulpit in Smith’s absence. Esther Webster leaves for Canton after visiting Bernice Hicks, while Lula Beaven heads to Virginia. Virginia Holt hosts Embroidery Club. Chas Smith visits relatives in northern Pennsylvania. W D Sparks and family visit Sadlersville. Chas Dean on business trip to East New Market. A literary society meeting at Wm Collins home ends for summer with Chas Nichols entertaining the crowd with graphophone songs and a fond farewell chorus.
Announcements for service on May 16 include Sunday School at 2 p m and preaching by Rev T B Holt at 3 p m An Epworth League service led by Miss Corinne Collins is scheduled for 8 o clock A missionary meeting at Chestnut Grove Church drew full attendance Sunday evening Mrs Norris G Allen of Newark visited Capt J T Kemp recently A saw mill was located in Capt J T Kemp s woods by Johnson Reed Mrs Sarah Walker who spent winter in the West has returned home
Rev William H Hudson will be accompanied next Sunday May 10 by Rev Fred Mumford to preach at White s Church in the morning and at Shepherd s Church in the afternoon. Mrs A Schaube and daughter Gussie Baughley visited Fruderica with Mrs Schaube s mother. Mrs Samuel B Cooper visiting brother M Bates Smith near Burraville. Miss Mary Cannon visiting sister near Eas ton. Silas Layton of Delaware bought farm adjoining Concord M E Church 425 acres for 1200. Epworth League to meet Sunday evening May 17 at 7. Mr D Warner Hignutt erected new outbuildings on his farm. Farmers busy planting corn. Temptevilla. Benjamin Tate 78 died May 1 in Queen Anns county. He owned real estate and left a widow five sons two daughters. Bricks supply offered by Conwell Co Milton Del.
Clyde Wilson aged about thirty three died at his father’s home near Denton from a large dose of Paris green mixed with a soporific and a pistol shot. He suffered months of melancholia and had contemplated suicide after minor disappointments. Funeral services were held with interment in the local cemetery. he was noted as industrious and thrifty and a member of the Caroline Council Junior Order United American Mechanics.
The trial of Adam Stewart, indicted by Caroline county grand jury for the murder of John H. Inler, will open Monday at Centreville. The case has drawn wide attention due to published circumstances of the murder and the hospital death of the wounded man. Cafe papers were sent to Queen Anne's court and witnesses have been summoned this week.
Federalsburg Academy holds commencement at Music Hall on Monday evening May 18. Only two graduates this year Miss Elsie Noble and Miss Ethel Davis. Rev T B Holt to preach Sunday morning May 17 at M E Church. T Alan Goldsborough Esq of the Denton bar to deliver the commencement address.
The town records Samuel D. Carrow as appointed section-boss at Cordova. The column also lists numerous social visits around Dover, Felton, Chester, and nearby towns with residents visiting relatives and friends. Agricultural notes mention peach crop damage from frost and a hopeful outlook for strawberries.
About eighty members and friends of the teachers sewing circle gathered at the M E parsonage Monday evening to present a quilt to Mrs Hoffecker wife of the pastor. The Epworth League Greensboro will celebrate the John Wesley Centennial and its 14th anniversary on May 17.
Wesley Smith and Miss Mary Jackson with Hazletteville friends visited Sunday along with Mr and Mrs Gell and daughter Margaret. Mr and Mrs John Hall and Mildred of Queen Annes County were guests of Mr and Mrs C H Poore on Sunday. Mr W G Smith was in Dover Friday.
ANOTHER SHOOTING CASE AT EASTON. J. W. Seamer shoots a colored man, Scott Perkins, over a wage dispute. Perkins dies. Seamer released on $10,000 bail. Salisbury becomes a dry town as saloons close for two weeks. Cecil county license law expires and Local Option Prohibitory law takes effect. Edward Lloyd reports 1903 white potatoes grown on his land. Federalsburg eyeing several new buildings. Dorchester grand jury probes arsenic poisoning of Frank Corkran. Shad distribution by Col. Thomas Hughlett. tennis club forms in Federalsburg. M. Bates Stephens inspects Princess Anne Manual Training School. Gilbert Walden and Texas Rough Riders at Masonic Hall. Fire wipes out fourteen cannery tenement houses at Sadlersville. Swioney & Co. announces openings. J. H. Beachamp seeks a mill hand. See notice. Ribbons laces embroideries silk satins at T L Trice.
Acting State Entomologist Symons notes recent cases where unknown agents mislead fruit growers into destroying infested orchards to sell new trees. Maryland inspectors, certified by the State Horticultural Department, will assess orchards for San Jose scale and peach yellows, offering guidance and spraying help. Gravatt serves Caroline county. further horticultural information available from College Park. Order your berry checks.
Bishop John Fletcher Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal Church died in Washington. He was a scholar and first chancellor of American University. Bishop Randolph S. Foster of the same church died in Newton Massachusetts at eighty three. The Jundies Aid Society plans a strawberry and ice cream festival in the Law Building hall near the end of May. Rev H D Spencer new Holiness Mission pastor arrived from Sharon New York with family. Easton Diocese annual convention to convene in Chestertown on June 2. Rev A J Church of Baltimore to preach in Baltimore M E Church tomorrow. Rev C W Smith of Hillsboro and wife to sing at Royal Oak M E Church May 29. Rev W S Collins of Smyrna preaches against election bribery.
Entomologist Symons describes fumigation of melon lice using carbon bisulfide under covered boxes on young vines. One teaspoon per cubic foot kills the pests in 45 minutes. vapor is flammable and poisonous but safe outdoors in small quantities. Also notes Baltimore Light Street pavement improvement and calls for widening the street due to heavy Eastern Shore traffic and frequent congestion.
A trio of inland town citizens form the Jersey Lightning Boat Club and build a craft to be launched on Anthony's mill pond. The founders aim to target the bull frog as a menu item for the founders, with Captain Saulsbury delegating launch arrangements to partners Stokes and Baker and stressing no wine bottle breaking over the bow.
In Baltimore on Tuesday the Democrat Robert M McLane was elected mayor by 520 in a 95,000 turnout. Republican George R Heffner won comptroller by 739 and E Clay Timanuas took the second branch presidency by 2018. Democrats gain 16 of 24 wards for the First Branch Council while losses and ticket dynamics hint at contested results and future challenges by Republicans to McLane’s victory.
Resolutions prepared by H. K. Tubbs, Jacob T. Alburger and C. H. Whitby Jr. adopted by Caroline Council No. 175 Jr. O. U. A. M. mourn the death of Clyde Wilson. The group expresses sorrow, extends sympathy to his family, drapes the charter for 30 days, and orders copies sent to the family and published in town papers.
In a Saturday game Caroline High School faced Preston. Key players included Wilson P and Noble with multiple hits while Parker and Fletcher contributed runs as Preston matched Caroline with a late rally.
The capital stock of Denton National Bank will be increased from fifty to seventy five thousand dollars. A resolution to this effect was passed by stockholders on Tuesday last. The bank is noted as a prosperous institution with large business and expected rapid growth. A Wil lis t on charge M E Church officers meeting is set for May 16 at Concord to discuss holding a camp. Hiram Watty, Baltimore color ed councilman, was re elected despite a drop in Republican votes. Everngain markets straw hats for youths. Pride of the West muslin available at 126 by T L Trice. Men’s fine shoes also at T L Trice.
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