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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1937
Page
4
The notice records a second class mail matter entered at the Denton Maryland post office on a Saturday morning, May 21, 1938, indicating mail handling and filing details for designated mail pieces.
An agriculture bulletin notes several birds that help protect crops. Orioles forage on caterpillars and pests, swallows and martins consume大量 insects, woodpeckers target woodboring larvae, and robins eat pests year round though may eat fruit in June and July. Planting mulberries can deter robins from orchards.
Summer shopping season prompts advice to buy at home in Denton. Local merchants can order items not in stock and deliver quickly, keeping money in circulation and aiding community charities as residents plan vacations and seasonal needs.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau warned that business is steadily getting worse, with indexes showing a clear downward trend. April was especially disappointing as the general business activity fell below long-term averages, and the decline now spans nearly all sectors, signaling a broad recession underway.
The article outlines a downward business trend with little near term change, noting weak freight car loadings and steel demand. It discusses President Roosevelt’s cooperative rhetoric with business, the unsettled auto sector, and tentative hopes pinned on fall recovery. It also surveys European tensions with Mussolini hedging, England France forging a joint military plan, and signals likely political upheaval around Churchill and Eden.
A Philadelphia child guidance expert argues that parents should accept imperfect children and themselves as individuals. He promotes positive direction over punishment and warns against overprotective environments that shield children from life's tough realities.
The article recalls the slogan The mail goes through and details mail service before the Pony Express. It notes post offices were sparse in the Rocky Mountains before the Civil War era and describes mail arriving in heavy leather sacks carried along wagon roads to remote mining camps and hamlets.
The article recalls 19th century stagecoach mail systems with saddled sacks, pack animals, and even winter mail on skis or dog teams. It highlights dangers faced by carriers like Gus Talbot, a Norwegian mountaineer, who reached Animas Forks through blizzards and extreme altitudes to deliver mail, only to find a catalog and a patent medicine ad in the sack.
The Pan-American Union hosts a Coffee Night with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles as guest speaker. Diplomats from Latin America and U S industry leaders discuss trade, coffee as payment, and the goal of expanding interregional commerce under the Pan-American framework. Coffee fuels purchases and reflects enduring price stability over decades.
A solemn assessment notes universal commercial prostration in the United States with mass unemployment ahead of winter. It flags turmoil abroad in France Russia and China and warns that British imperial powers face stress in global crisis, while American troubles loom with an unclear end.
An 1857 Harper’s Weekly editorial warns that monetary haste and poverty threaten moral forces, urging honor, faith, sympathy, and charity to steady the nation. The piece notes historical cycles of doubt and emphasizes enduring American virtues as the path through crises.
A Montana drug store owner laments government checks like WPA and other allotments. He cites Senator Byrd predicting 1938 federal spending rising by 600 million dollars over the prior year, totaling about 8 billion, and argues for reducing taxes to restore private enterprise and curb reckless spending.
The Keystone Automobile Club urges motorists to check routes before trips as over 300 construction projects span Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Maryland Virginia and Ohio. Delays are common detours exist. use maps with road data and consult touring counselors for up to date information to avoid inconvenience or hardship.
Editorial notes trace the U S tariff tangle to the Hawley Smoot act of 1930 and France Britain moving to quotas in 1931. Britain’s Ottawa Agreement with the Dominions tightens trade lines as the three powers lead restrictive measures. The United States shifts from debtor to creditor after World War I, accelerating industrial change. The Hawley Smoot and earlier bills fix tariff rates, strangling world trade and progress.
A broad survey traces lobbyist influence from the Morrill and McKinley Tariff acts to the Hawley Smoot era, praising Cordell Hull’s trade efforts and noting 17 country treaties. It argues for freer world trade, cites League of Nations nutrition concerns, and highlights Memorial Day rituals honoring peace heroes and the 16 year running Peace Heroes Memorial Society in Cincinnati.
Germany’s appeal for helium gas to support a new dirigible has been rejected. The Interior Secretary Ickes’ stance is broadly approved, as Washington doubts Hitler promises. Germany had pledged nonwar use, but the U S government conveys little faith in Nazi assurances.
Twenty five years ago reports note wheat prices at 1.07, a death of James H. Adams in Tuckahoe Neck, student Louis Cole injured at Maryland Agricultural College, and plans to replace Hillsboro bridge with a concrete structure. Denton beats Ridgely 9 to 4 in a windy game, with later results and upcoming matches. Engagements include Frances Dixon to H Childs Frick, linking to the Frick family fortune. local marriages in Easton and Denton. weather brings frost injuring vegetables while strawberries and fruit endure. Community figures and clergy appearances, plus deaths of Holsinger and Mrs Willoughby, with obituaries and local society notes.
Treville and Mrs. Josephine M. Brog ly of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Susan M. Miller near Denton, and Mr. Robert A. Willoughby Denton are listed as children of the deceased. Services will be at St Elizabeths Catholic Church Denton this morning at 10 30 o'clock.
A childlike diary chronicles a week of mischief at school and in town with digging worms fishing plans, a skipped Sunday, BB practice gone awry, accidental injuries, and petty shoplift attempts as Jake Blisters and others nibble at adventures and excuses.
Under a 1934 mortgage by Georgianna Clough and Lemuel R. Clough the loan was assigned for foreclosure. The Assignee will offer the farm for public auction at the front door of the Court House in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, at a specified date following default.
On June 14 1938 a farm of 211 acres 94 perches in Caroline County will be sold by W Brewster Deen as assignee. The property lies four miles west of Denton on the Denton Thawley road and includes a 65 room dwelling, a 3 room annex, barn and outbuildings with 118 acres cultivated 51 acres pasture and remainder woodland. The sale is subject to an existing mortgage and terms require $250 cash at sale with balance upon final court ratification. Taxes and charges adjusted to sale day. Deed at purchaser cost.
Trustees announce a public sale of two parcels totaling about 128 acres in Caroline County Maryland. The property lies near Great Hunting Creek Branch and Ryemold Re surveyed, with an approximate 20 acre pine lot and 108 acre improved farm, offered separately then as a unit. Court decree from May 17 1928 governs the sale. Local Denton location and details reference old deeds and land records.
The week was cooler by six degrees with more clouds and ten percent less sunshine. Light showers occurred on the 11th 12th and 15th 16th. a general soaking rain on the 14th. Fresta damage happened nights of 11 12 and 12 13. Wheat heads rye blooms strawberries ripen in south and central counties. Crops in northern counties show early potatoes and peas planting. oats thrive. Overall farm work ahead of normal with varied crop progress and aphid infestation noted in some counties. JOHN R. WEEKS.
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