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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1924
Page
4
Denton Maryland published biweekly issue printed for Saturday morning May 24 1924 in Denton Maryland. The notice indicates periodical mail classification and post office entry as second class mail matter.
Editorial muses on worry as a mental disease and urges civic action. It urges readers to avoid idling, build their town, and cultivate leaders. It records the Democratic State convention in Baltimore endorsing Governor Ritchie and listing delegates and officers.
A trade group traces the tomato’s ascent in the United States from a novelty to a backbone of canning. It notes a current harvest over a million tons valued around 50 million dollars and explains uses from whole packing to pulp and paste. The article covers historical spread, foreign trade, and growing import levels, plus highway progress connecting Bridgeville to Atlanta and Maryland routes.
Dr Wells presiding elder of the Baltimore district visited Queen Anne for the first quarterly conference on Saturday night and preached Sunday morning A good steward report was given and renovations for the parsonage were announced The Ladies Aid has added dining chairs A 6 reel film Lest We Forget was shown in the M E Church South Monday night urging use of the era before the 19th Amendment Several church services and Sunday School times are listed for St Pauls and Harris Chapel with Children's Day planned for June 5 at both locations Local visits and social notes follow including attendees from Trappe Goldsboro Hebron and Baltimore.
Mr and Mrs F B Parker hosted a birthday party for their daughter Pauline on May 14 1924. A long list of guests attended including Mr and Mrs F P Parker Irvin Theis W Seeders Mrs W Baker and many others. Many games were played and refreshments served as the evening closed with wishes for many more happy birthdays.
The occasional social notices recount visits and entertaining at several homes including Miss Helen Dulin, Mrs. Edgar Blades, Mrs. Fletcher Elben, and others with weekend gatherings and travel to Ballintore and Trappe. A state crime law warns that removing plants or turf without owner permission carries fines or imprisonment, noted as affecting county motorists. Reports also suggest pea crops are improving with harvest likely late May or early June, delaying cannery start.
A Cambridge Water Company reservoir sits 320 feet underground in the Choptank river area. Forty years of development produced an artesian well reaching corallike bed rock, doubling supply, and an air lift removing sand to clear a basin twenty five feet deep. Further wells allow water to filter through remaining sand into an underground basin about an acre in size.
Gloria Swanson stars in Blue beards Sth Wife a Paramount picture opening next Wednesday and Thursday at New Dover Opera House. The eight wives are distinct types and charming with distinctive costumes. The film features intense dramatic acting and lavish settings, continuing Swanson's successful run with Paramount following My American Wife and The Impossible Mrs Bellew.
Misses Alice and Edna Bailey hosted Thelma Cummings and Al Haysworth of Easton. Erdman Bradley entertained Earl Brumbley and Ethel Medford. L C Bradley hosted Salis burian friends. Raymond Cohee and family visited Concord. Gorman Bailey visited J B Bradley. S E Story visited Roland Ferrens.
A compiled list of additional traders licenses with names and amounts. Entries include The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co in Greensboro for 1500 dollars Mrs Ethel Smith in Federalsburg 1000 Mudd's Shop Unique in Denton 300 C W Collison in Burrsville 1000 W A Scully in Ridgely 3000 Same cigarette H A Porter in Burrsville 4000 O Gilbert Tsignutt in Denton soda fountain M W Edgell in Federalsburg 2500 T C Cahall in Ridgely 1000 Cantner's Drug Store Federalsburg 2500 Same soda fountain J L Everngam & Son in Denton 30000 The Farmers Supply CoInc in Denton 36000 G W Twilley & Son in Preston 2500
In Greensboro cemetery she rests far from care and pain. We shall meet again on that golden shore. Peaceful be thy rest dear Annis. Our hearts are desolate and we thank those who aided us during illness and death. James A. Seemer, well known Eas ton man, found dead with a gas tube in his mouth last week.
Administrator notices sale of multiple parcels in Burrsville Denton and surrounding roads. Properties include Lot 1 10500 sq ft six room dwelling Lot 2 four room dwelling Lot 3 small dwelling Lot 4 70 acre home farm Lot 6 189-10 acre tract with barn and fields Lot 7 20.1 acre timber tract Timed for June 17 1924 1 to 4 pm at courthouse door Denton Maryland Terms vary with deposits cash due dates and credits Crops reserved possession dates January 1925 Plat available after June 1 1924 stamped papers at purchaser expense Auctioneer James Temple.
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