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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
5
A mix of advertisements and civic notices covers rentals and sales in Denton MD, services from local businesses, and upcoming community events. Highlights include board of health clinic May 19, Decoration Day May 31, a May 24 wedding entertainment, and theatre anniversary week at Dentonia. Also notices on 1936 license tags, garden shows May 28 29, and conservation prize details from Baltimore.
A Denton social column details a Sunday dinner party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson honoring Mrs. Anderson’s birthday and her father John Bethard, with an extensive list of guests from nearby states. It also reports the marriage of Hattye Virginia Alford to Frank Cavenaugh Jr. in Baltimore, noting the couple’s future home and occupations. Other gatherings include extended family visits from Chester, Swarthmore, and Wilmington, plus attendance at a Maryland Health Officers conference and a Jobs Daughters event.
Eight counties join the Healthmobile Special by the Maryland State Department of Health. The bus clinics visit mothers and examine babies, with a doctor nurse and dentist on board, near community centers. No medical treatment is given. referrals go to local physicians.
A Denton social and recreational tennis event will be held at Shadowlawn Court owned by G. H. Rue. Open to all Denton residents with boys and girls and men and women eligible. Entrants pay 25 cents and compete in divisions as entries justify. Enter by May 20. elimination rounds start May 21. finals on Memorial Day May 30.
Various Denton churches list sunday school times worship services and sermon topics. Denton M E Church schedules 9 45 sunday school 10 15 morning sermon Finding God in Nature Epworth League 6 45 evening service 7 30. Denton M P Church morning sermon Precious Promises evening Our Treatment of God. Christian Endeavor led by Mrs Roland Sutterfield 7 15 on nationalism and international goodwill. Junior Mothers Club Denton Brethren Church meets next Thursday May 21 at Mrs Douglas Fleetwood home. County Nurse Mr Smith guest speaker prenatal care. No afternoon worship at Williston. New Jerusalem Preston 11 00 sermon Three Wise Kings of God. Reading circle hosted at Mr Charles Harrison home Wednesday and Rev Geo Newton Easton Thursday. Epiphany Mission Preston Sunday School 10 00 Evening Prayer 7 30. Masses Sunday St Elizabeth Denton 10 30 and St Benedict Ridgely 9 00. Confessions St Benedict Sunday 8 15. May procession for Blessed Mother in Ridgely Sunday 4 00 PM.
Easter postponement moves Harmony Sunshine Class meeting to May 9 with Mrs. A W Todd in charge. Adjournment planned for June 13 with Todd. One visitor, Miss Evelyn Wright, attends. Several community members share Sunday visits and gatherings. gas stove accident hospitalizes a child. church events listed.
Three scholarships available to Caroline county high school graduates. Include a four-year St John’s College grant with room board and tuition, a four-year Western Maryland College grant with room, and a three-year Charlotte Hall School grant with board and tuition. Exams June 15 at 9 a.m. for eligible applicants.
Mr. Nathaniel Miles Faulkner aged seventy died at his Ridgely area home after injuries from a car accident years earlier. Survived by five children including William of Ridgely and Harry of Buffalo. Funeral services held at his home with Rev. Lowe and Rev. Reed officiating. Also reports club committees, library acquisitions, visits, and community notices from Ridgely weekly.
Henderson notes list gatherings and visits among Long Redman Sparks Montague Bennett and other locals. Events include a birthday party at Eden Hall on May 22 with a 22 cent admission, plus numerous Sunday and weekend visits between Wilmington Goldsboro Dover Dover and Philadelphia residents and church circle gatherings.
The League of Nations Association of the United States led by Professor James T. Shotwell urges reform to strengthen collective security after the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. It calls for Kellogg Pact primacy, peaceful status quo changes, social and economic justice, tailored obligations, and separation from Versailles, arguing reform avoids a resort to war.
Mrs Otis Reamer of Centreville spent the weekend with the Carleton Marvels. Bal timore visitors included Mr and Mrs Linwood Jarrell and Mr and Mrs Boone Jarrell. Claymont Pa guests were Mr and Mrs Henry Friedell visiting Fred Friedell. Roy Cherry hosted Rev and Mrs J H Rittenhouse on Sunday. Marsh Gollner and William Davis traveled to Philadelphia on business. Davis Wilson left for Swampscott Mass for a summer position. M P Bullock of Charleston W Va is guest of G W Power. Louise Wilson had tonsils removed last Wednesday. Mary Laird has been on the sick list. Bobbie Davis ill with rheumatic fever.
In Hillsboro Queen Anne, Rev. Robert L. Hallett and his son Robert Lee visited Mrs. I. T. Sparklin along with others. The Ladies Aid Society of the MFE Church elected officers: President Mrs. Frank Fleming, Vice President Mrs. Elwood Fleming, Secretary Mrs. d. N. Chath, Treasurer Mrs. J. C. Sherwood. Other social visits included Mr. George Goudhner of Sunnyside meeting Mrs. Edgar Blades, and numerous residents visiting relatives in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Mrs. FB. Russell is in Easton Hospital after a fall. Birthdays, CCC camp activity, and various visits color the week’s social notes.
Sunday May 17 morning Dr. Gilbert Wilcox Meade president of Washington College will speak. he was to have a pohken on the 10th but comes the 17th. Evening: The Ninth Commandment Mr Fossett preaching. Youth Conference delegates elected. Boy Scout Troop installed with Woodhead in charge. Families and guests noted. parsonage paint work and social visits described.
Burrsyville hosts include Mr. and Mrs. Brown Thawley and guests from Trappe Hillsboro Chester Smyrna and Dover relatives of Price Hopkins and Collison share Sunday meals. An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Baker is ill with pneumonia.
In sad remembrance of my dear husband Elwood Tharp who died April 21 1936. Gone but not forgotten. The verse laments his absence and the dreary home without him. Also notes a Four-burner Perfection oil stove for sale at 19.00 by M. K. Newnam.
Preston and Mrs. Max Chambers entertained a large bridge party with numerous guests ranging from Mr. and Mrs. T. I. Trice to Mr. John Noble. The Community Club elected officers, PTA officers selected, and several local groups met or announced plans, with hospitality extended to visiting members and relatives.
Miss Pauline Wooters visits sister Mrs Clarence Melvin in Hickman and returns to see father Jim Wooters. Martha Liden and Annie Hayman visit Willie Liden and Eva Adams with Ernest Harris and Elon Wright. Edward Wright improves after red measles. Charlie Todd becomes proud parents of a baby boy born May 4. Arthur Noble listed as on the sick list. Subscribe for Journal for county news.
Greensboro Baptist Church held special meetings led by Rev P E Taylor last week with strong visiting in homes strengthening the congregation. A next Sunday pulpit guest from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary is expected, with the public welcome. Woodie Dill injured at the local Pet Milk plant last Friday received medical aid but cannot work yet. Numerous local residents and visitors from Quarryville Ridgely Elkton Templeville New York City Baltimore Marcus Hook Wilmington and Smyrna are noted in social visits weddings and outings across the area. Concord Ladies Aid plans a bake sale May 23 at the Ford place in Denton offering home cooked foods and dressed chickens.
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