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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1892
Page
3
The Tuckahoe bridge is open, Imperial Hotel in Baltimore reopened, and town taxes in arrears notified. May term court at Queen Anne’s adjourned. many local items follow, including forecasts of crops, a steamer schedule, public meetings, and school events. Citizens urged to turnout for Democratic primaries on June 4.
At the Teachers Association gathering in Ridgely last Friday, officers were elected: President M. B. Stephens, vice president Miss Katie Hobbs, recording secretary Miss Bessie Kincheloe, corresponding secretary Miss Laura Melvin. The group plans a program for the next meeting at Federalsburg and urged pamphlet printing of recent education articles by Examiner Stephens.
A Kentucky fruit grower reports a novel experiment to slow orchard bloom by digging circular trenches around tree roots, filling them with snow and ice before covering with clay. The ice melts slowly, delaying flowering by three to four weeks, potentially saving apples and peaches from March frosts and benefiting the Maryland and Delaware Peninsula's peach industry.
Orphans Court met on Tuesday with a full bench. On Beck widow of Josiah Beck the court allowed 3150. Dukes administrators of Levi T. Dukes presented accounts and debts and final distribution. Henry Blackiston will admitted to probate. William Stevens executor of Gootee Stevens allowed sale of personal property. Court will reconvene on the 24th. A few Dover gentlemen accompanied Chancellor Walcott to California for a month.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will offer round trip fares at one fare for the round trip from all stations east of the Ohio river for the Gettysburg dedication of the monument marking the High Water Mark of the Confederacy. President and Cabinet members, governors, staff, veterans, and civic groups will attend the ceremonies. This presents a low cost chance to visit the historic battlefield.
About sixty members of the Mason ic fraternity including the Nanticoke lodge Federalsburg and guests from nearby lodges took part in initiation exercises Friday night in Federalsburg. The candidates were Messrs. Forsythe and Thomas. A splendid banquet was served at the Railroad Hotel.
The final meeting was at Mrs Walter Wright's with plans for the next at Mrs J A Wright's. The program includes essays recitations readings sketches and music by named participants. Local public school pupils Ruth Rumbold Lamalene Wright Elsie Blades Lulu Collison and Fred Bowdle were promoted to higher grades. Preparations for Children's Day continue in both churches. Mr James Wright has lumber in place for a new dwelling.
Mrs. David C. Moore of Greensboro visited her daughter Mrs. Harry Fleming early this week. Mrs. Miranda Holbrook spent Saturday and Sunday with sister Mrs. A D Branford. Captain J W Dillon of the steamer Cambridge was in town Thursday. James Thompson and Mary Matthews are painting their homes. James Fleming and Fletcher Pennington spent days in Miss Kate Duffey has returned from a protracted visit to Washington. William Thomas, colored, was seriously injured Wednesday when his horse fell on him.
A reader notes twenty year bloom dates for peach trees in the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula. Garrett Fox of Black's Station lists yearly bloom occurrences from 1873 to 1891 with gaps and weather remarks. The piece closes with a poem about June and a sign-off from Amanda Ennis Dennis in Berlin, Md.
Thomas Hughlett Jr., assistant to the fish commissioner, distributed shad from the Tuckahoe Hatching Station to streams in Dorchester Caroline and Cecil counties. Purchases/allocations totaled 5.3 million to 1 million in various creeks and rivers with plans to release about 1.5 million more in Dorchester's Transquakin and Chicamacomico rivers.
Mrs James E Lister living near Hillsborough describes a turkey gobbler with maternal habits He built a nest beside a hen swiped eggs to hatch them and kept sitting The eggs were returned to the hen but the gobbler continued his paternal instinct now tending a brood of chickens with hoped for results
Next Sunday May 15 Rev Dr W M Reily from Allentown Pa will conduct services at St Pauls Reformed Church Ridgely. Morning service at 10 30 and evening service at 7 30.
Preston Doverbridge and Tuckahoe bridge changes appoint Joseph B. Harrington and Thomas A. Dudley until the first Tuesday in May 18093. Educational pamphlets to be published from Stephens articles. Hurlock commissioners named Leban Harper Benjamin F Johnson and Benjamin FF Carroll. Snow Hill upgrades include electric lighting. Jerry Zimmerman of Greensborough died in Pennsylvania. Rev Canter new presiding elder preached at Goldsborough M E Church South. Wesley Carmine died near Henderson aged 65.
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