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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1891
Page
3
Denton area notes report bank closure, church services, shore steamer excursions, and farm activity. Early peas damaged, Tuckahoe fish station season ends, Red Men excursions planned to Ocean City, and many local residents licensed to do business. Public notices include real estate transfers and court actions.
New York capitalists push the Maryland and Delaware ship canal with surveys complete and construction soon to begin. The project promises an 208 mile per trip saving, substantial fuel and time savings, and a toll structure. officials claim it will open within three years with limited government support. Personal notices follow.
The P E Church ladies plan an June 4 show with tableaux vivant music and a drama The Happy Pair. Local talent plus visiting performers will feature, doors open at the usual hour, admission 25 cents adults 15 cents children. Dentonians urged to attend. Mrs Elias Paine and Mrs Charles Walker visiting Mrs Calvin Satterfield. Greensborough to get daily evening mail. the steamer Bradford undergoing repairs.
Preston notes report a Sharpless strawberry five inches around picked by G E Davis from his patch this season. A pea hullot has been placed in A W Sisk cannery and Sisk plans to use a steam copper. S J W Haws injured a hand by a colt on Tuesday morning. A mare and colt valued at 2000 dollars were lost by E S Zell last week.
Levi T. Dukes died Thursday evening at 9 45 after a four week battle with stomach cancer. He remained conscious briefly, bade his family goodbye, and endured great pain with limited nourishment. Survived by Mrs. Dukes and eleven children. Native of this county, aged 54. Funeral at his home Sunday at 2 30 and burial in Denton cemetery at 4.
William T. Hignutt discovered rats burrowed at the base of his mill dam forebay causing a large water spray. He and helpers stopped the wash in hours and repaired the damage. Nearby orchards show no peaches this season due to recent frosts, with strawberries also expected to be short.
Thomas Jones near Marydel raises a chick with four distinct legs and toes less than a week old and appearing healthy. Andrew Towers of Fowling Creek reports a spring chick that acts motherly, adopting a brood and caring for them nightly. Call at the Hardware store to see the Columbus buggies before buying a new carriage.
Notwithstanding the superstition that May is unlucky for marriage, licenses have been issued to James M. Pinkine and Linda M. Griffin, Arthur John Rich and Lavinia Conregys, Elmer E. Wheeler and Nettie V. Stevens, Albert Shields and Ilda V. Joycer, Clarence E. Gale and M. Blanche Davis, Lewis Knotts and Agnes Lynch, and John Walter Matthews and Sarah Emily Hamilton.
Hillsborough hammered Queenstown 21 to 10 as Lane Sparks Ed Jarrell and Knotts led in the early scoring, with eight in the fourth inning. Queenstown managed late scoring bursts but could not recover. Ridgely club beat Greensborough, while Denton players head to Queenstown for knee breeches game. Died notices for Mrs. S Anna Davis and Mrs. Phoebe Ann Greenfield report obituaries with age and church affiliations.
Baltimore grain market records show southern fultz wheat at 1.11 to 1.14 dollars per bushel. White corn sells at 0.67 to 0.68, oats at 0.52 to 0.56, and rye at 0.90 to 0.93 per bushel.
A poetic, 19th century style musing on universal kinship across nations and borders. It contrasts lofty ideal of universal brotherhood with parochial pride and the risk of narrow national maps. The speaker envisions God making all nations of one blood, uniting humanity beyond the bar of geography.
Several petty criminal cases were heard by Justice Hutson on Thursday morning and referred to court. Wm Henry Young a colored prisoner in Denton jail charged with resisting officer Williams was released on Sunday last after paying a fine of 11.56 dollars.
Judges John M Robinson and Fred erick Stump issued the opinion in the Walters divorce case on Tuesday morning. The court grants Mrs Walters alimony of one hundred dollars annually.
A notice describes billmeads and billheads and a variety of plain and fancy legal forms. It outlines formats, features, and typical uses in commercial documentation, highlighting how each type serves accounting, branding, and legal purposes. The piece emphasizes consistency, legibility, and adherence to standard templates in professional practice.
New York markets report strawberry prices ranging from 11 to 22 cents this morning with fruit sales active at the stalls. Local vendors note steady demand as berries move quickly off the crates.
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