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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1926
Page
4
A Saturday publication credit line lists Melvin ando Johnson Incorporated with Benjamin E. Johnson as President and Treasurer.
The Wilmington Every Evening urges serious consideration of a Tariff Adjustment Board modeled after the Interstate Commerce Commission. It argues the President should not wield power to fix tariffs and supports a bipartisan body with fact finding and rate setting within Congressional limits to depoliticize tariff decisions.
A public report dated April 23 from James R. Pratt details the Maryland Delaware and Virginia Railroad line between West Denton and Rehoboth, now part of the M and D C system. It notes gross earnings of 95 053 55 and expenses of 35 016 63 for the year ending December 21 1925, with net earnings about 12 179 02 after additives and 20 679 92 after adjusting for bond charges, and outlines plans to issue 125 000 of equipment trust notes to buy new gear for summer traffic including a Model No 65 gas motor car and trailer from J G Brill of Philadelphia.
A 58 000 pound car and line upgrade details show seating for seven, $31 594 total cost with $94 for seat changes. 41 000 ties installed at $3 000. Bridge work on the Choptank river at Denton underway. A new Baldwin locomotive purchased in 1921, with repairs ongoing due to equipment shortages. Del Marva peninsula lies within twenty four hour delivery of populations totaling 11 000 000 plus.
Dover clerk reports a Makatea native seeks U S passage with birth and indenture records needed. He is James Fleetwood born Sept 24, 1898 in Kent county, seeks proof via Delaware records and possible adoption links to James Brown or Edward Melvin. Data sent to American Consulate in Papeete for processing.
The County Board of Education reappoints Miss Virginia C. Warwood as supervisor and Mrs. J Kemp Stevens, music director, with others. votes to consolidate Barons with Greensboro and other schools for next year. They plan adjusted bus routes, approve a county budget, and set strawberry picking schedules affecting school start times. Notices announce no vacancies for female scholarship at Western Marykind College and a mate scholarship at Chindotte Hall School.
The seventh annual St Gertrudes Alumnae Association meeting at St Gertrudes Academy on May 23 featured the founding of a $10000 Maryland Chapter scholarship for teaching sisters. Fifteen affiliated convents share the fund with a rotating award system. Officers named include President Miss Gladys Lane and Vice President Miss Muircretta May. Sister Evangelista named delegate to the I L C A convention in Indiana.
The Girls LIP Club picnic at Williston on Saturday drew a well attended gathering with clubs from Williston Elurmony Choptank Andersontown Conecord Ridgely Tills hore and Denton. Fourteen dollars was raised to support Club Week at College Park in August. Sarah Williamser presided. Marygar et Beck was secretary. The program included registration, songs, prayers, talks by Miss Lenise Townsend and others, demonstrations, certificates, a clothing judging contest, lunch, games, a style show, and a dance led by Anna Frances Seward and Bertha Wood. Soups
In loving remembrance of Ida Carroll Norris who died June 2 1925. Also messages for Zimmerman Cooper died May 24 1925, Emily Hazel Towers May 29 1923, Hazel Towers May 29 1923, and Thomas P Towers May 30 1919. Memorial verses from children, wife, brothers and sisters.
The historic Cape Henlopen Lighthouse, built in 1765 at the mouth of Delaware Bay, toppled by wind and tide. A new steel carbide gas powered light operates automatically, turning off at dawn and on at sundown, with no keeper needed. The old keeper lost his job as the new system requires no on site operator.
Calvert C. Merriken, a veteran lawyer with forty years in Circuit and Orphans Court practice, announces his candidacy in the Democratic primaries for the Caroline County Register of Wills. He argues the office requires deep knowledge of law and procedure across courts and asks Democratic voters for support in the approaching primary.
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