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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1902
Page
3
The levy court and the school board are scheduled to meet on June 10. Both groups plan agenda items and public discussions at their respective sessions. Local residents are urged to attend and submit questions or comments prior to the meetings.
Excursions to Baltimore and Rehoboth announced with regular trains and fares. Farmers report Early Rose potatoes and robust strawberry shipments while carloads of berry pickers arrive from Talbot and Dorchester. A wide range of local improvements, legal actions, and storm damage are noted across Cambridge, Ridgely, and Denton, with ongoing street work and railroad updates.
Marriage announcements and social notes fill the column, detailing weddings in Greensboro and nearby towns, engagements, guests, attendants, church ceremonies, and upcoming nuptial plans along with notes on residents and social events around Denton and Easton.
Friends gathered for Dr and Mrs J L Noble as visitors from nearby towns joined a pleasant anniversary evening. Mr N H Fooks promotes strawberry canning as his industry. Various locals and visiting families were noted amid community activity and illness updates in journal lines.
Andorasa on town. Miss Mary Ward attended the annual commencement exercises of Harrington High School on Wednesday evening last. Various local residents and visitors, including Mrs. Capt. Smith and Miss Ivah and Frederick, visited families in Nichols and Denton over the weekend. Farmers in the area report busy activity with planting underway.
J Fred Brown praised for county road work improving the local system. Col A W Sisk of Preston awarded diplomas to the academy graduates. Federalsburg attendees joined Preston for Dr Jacob Noble’s 25th wedding anniversary. Railroad station work continues toward completion. School Examiner W S Crouse visited town schools last week.
The Twelfth Annual Roll of Honor lists 494 banks nationwide with two Maryland entries on the Eastern Shore, Denton National and Salisbury National. Denton National ranks 13th in Maryland and 389th in the United States. the roll reflects September statements to the Comptroller of the Currency showing surplus and undivided profits at least equal to capital stock. JP James Wallace & Son of Cambridge installed new machinery including a vinor at their packing house.
In Baltimore on Wednesday the State Board of Education addressed three questions from the Maryland Association of School Commissioners. The board ruled no to funding free textbooks from the annual $10 district appropriation and no to dictionaries from that fund. It ruled yes that meeting expenses for county officers may be paid from county funds. State Supt M B Stephens and Prof E B Prettyman named delegates to the National Educational Association meeting in Minneapolis on July 7. Berry tickets printed promptly.
Licenses to marry were granted to several couples across Delaware and Maryland during the past month. Names include David Hammond and Mary E. Lyons of Delaware, Arnold G. Gent and Sadie B. Bev ern of Baltimore county, F Clifford Brown and Bessie E. Stevens of Denton, William L. Phillips of Denton and May L. Miller of Milford, Ernest N. Wright and Winnie Smith of Choptank, Chas. W. Porter and Lettie Le compt of Matthews, Asbury Mitchell and Rosie Fleet wood of Sussex county, Alfred B. Gross and Sarah C. Sloan of Denton, T Mitchell and Martha Baker of Denton, William R. Dean and Laura H. Pritchett of Grove, W Roland Cooper of Philadelphia and Alberta Schaube of Whiteleysburg, Edward W. Hill of Bridgeville and Nellie Evans of this county, Harry D. Hanson of Delaware and Laura B. Outten of this county, Edward L. Williams of Denton and Annie Carter of Greensboro, Raymond Pritchett and Rosa Gross of Ridgely. Easton National Bank plans to erect a post office building at Easton.
County Commissioners received a petition Tuesday for a new road to start near Sandy Island Bridge and pass through lands of A Breeding A J Gott walls William Brice and T P Richards until it meets the Sewell's Mill to Sandtown road. The board will join Dorchester commissioners at Linchester Bridge on Thursday June 5.
A Monday accident on the Queen Annes Railroad bridge near Queen Annes station killed Mr. Thomas Booker and Mrs. Elia Summers of Winchester instantly as an extra freight train passed. Beecher and another man jumped to safety. Summers was trapped. A coroner’s inquest returned an accidental death verdict and exonerated the railroad. The piece also details a Maryland Public Health Association gathering set for Denton with talks on vaccination, disease prevention in schools, and smallpox.
At a Tri County Council meeting No 189 Jr O U A M the resolutions in memory of the late W E Hicks were adopted and sent to his family. The Tuckahoe Conclave of Heptasophs praised William E for Christian character honesty integrity and nobility. They resolve to publish and spread the resolutions in minutes. A later note discusses wheat breeding and selection at an experiment station with claims of new varieties and selection logic.
The Dickinson College class of 1870 will reunite at H. P. Cannon’s Bridgeville home on June 6, with members including Senator Mc Comas of Maryland Judge Biddle of Carlisle Lieut Gov Cannon and W H Bosley president of Queen Anne’s railroad. The Normal School commencement occurred Thursday at 8 pm with Miss Nellie Valliant of Denton among graduates and the Maryland State Teachers Association plans its June 30 to July 3 meeting at the Atlantic Hotel Ocean City. Also noted are the Maryland Agricultural College ceremony on June 11 and Mr F B Noble of Preston among Washington College Chestertown graduates.
A certificate of incorporation was filed in Dover on Tuesday for the American Packers' Association to can pack and preserve for market all kinds of meats vegetables fruits and more. Incorporators include Cousius M. Dashiell Princess Anne Thos L Day Ridgely Geo W Evang Aberdeen James Wallace Cambridge John T Webb Vienna Charles T Wrightson Easton Jas H Hoffecker Wilmington Del William Ellison Camden Del Albert Bilderback Harry Lambert Salem N J Franklin C Probaco Bridgeton N J W L Stevens Cedarville N J Henry D Hughes Wm P Hutson and Robert K Neff Philadelphia. The concern is capitalized at six million dollars.
Mary E. Hicks expresses sincere thanks to Tri-County Council No 189 Jr O U A M for their conduct as a body at her husband’s funeral.
Fifty years after their wedding, Dr Henry Laird Todd and Miss Julia Fowler renewed their vows at the historical Spring Hill home in a Monday evening ceremony attended by family and more than two hundred friends. Another item notes the marriage of Miss Jennie E Aker and Mr Harry M Gardner at St Peters Catholic parochial residence in Queenstown officiated by Rev James C Comiskey. Walter Vrooman, tied to the Western Co operative movement, has secured six large wheat elevators in the Kansas wheat belt and two flooring mills, signaling a bid to challenge the flour trust. Decoration Day saw bank closures as well as prospective mercantile openings in Tuckahoe, with a storehouse ready for immediate occupancy. inquiries directed to T W Sirs of Ridgely, Md.
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