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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1942
Page
5
Items of news from across the county are solicited under this read, listed for Saturday morning circulation.
A survey of community items includes apartment listings, signs for sale, bike sales, and shop notices from Denton. Local clubs plan meetings and dances, war rationing and tire rules loom, while FBI official Forefront urges youth programs. Regional club gathering features Red Cross, British Embassy rep, and student audiences.
Miss Alva Lee Hollis daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Milton Hollis Preston married Ensign Harold Paul Klahold USNR son of Mrs Klahold and the late Rev Wm C Klahold Baltimore in a 4 oclock ceremony at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Easton. The gown a white taffeta faille with train and fingertip veil. Attendants wore light blue and powder blue gowns. Guests traveled from Baltimore Georgetown Rydal Preston and nearby towns. The couple's wedding trip followed a reception at the bride's home. Ensign Klahold a Maryland graduate will report December 10 for Officers' Training.
Sunday schedule lists Church School at 9 45 a m with classes for all ages Morning Worship at 10 45 accompanied by junior and senior choirs Sermon What Jesus Brought into the World Youth Fellowship at seven Jack Everngain to direct a worship and discussion period with topics on Sunday amusements war marriages and divorces Kathryn Porter to sing a solo Young people invited to a fellowship supper planned for November 29th and announced at the meeting
Grace Methodist Church schedules Sunday services and midweek activities. Sunday School starts 9:45 a.m. with morning worship at 11 and evening worship at 7:30. Sermon topics are Everything in its Place and Consecration. Wednesday prayer meeting is 7:30 p.m. Thursday choir practice at 7 p.m.
Rev Newton J Miller leads Sunday worship at 11 am with a morning lesson at 10, a sermon on A Wonderful Chapter in Johns Gospel, and an evening talk on A Garden City with Twelve Gates. Additional events include B P D and A C W at 7 pm, Women’s Missionary Society meeting recalled for this month, Ladies Aid all day at Mrs Good’s on the 18th, and the Father and Son banquet in the church annex on Friday the 20th with Rev Paul Fike as guest speaker.
Concord Methodist Church schedules Sunday School at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. sermon topic Living by Believing. Evening service at 7 p.m. Revival at 7:45. Williston Church service Sunday November 15 at 2:30 p.m. Rev. T. S. Dixon pastor invites worshippers. Also Preston New Church lecture November 15 at 11 a.m. Rev. John W. Stockwell discusses Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition with music by Irvin Smiths family. Everyone welcome.
Greensboro Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness and Baptist churches publish Sunday services and midweek meetings with pastors R W Kirwan A C Clark and Paul F Burke. Catholic mass times are set for November 15 at St Elizabeth Denton at 10 and St Benedict Ridgely at 8 30.
Mrs. Harry Cooper and others hosted a Tuesday luncheon in Greensboro. Second Lt. Carleton Porter, US Marines, visited Quantico relatives in town for the weekend. The Nichols and Wilson couples visited relatives in Henderson and Wilmington respectively, while Mrs. Lennon of New York City stays with Aunt Mildred Givin. The Pearsons and Kinnimals spent Sunday with family in Harrington and Wilmington. The Jarvises traveled to Marydel on Sunday.
A Friday parsonage shower honored Mrs. Brittain formerly Miss Zehring with 30 guests. Lieut Brittain heads to San Diego for duty after the event. Scout badges were earned by several youths including Howard Strannahan and Carl Snowberger Jr. The meeting featured naval aviator Brittain recounting the sinking of the U S aircraft carrier Wasp and civilian defense pictures. Evangelistic services and church notices fill the week with multiple speakers and topics. Families relocate to Wilmington while local visits, nursing board activities, and hospital updates populate the rest of the column.
Mrs. Howard Hager hosted the Tuckahoe Homemakers Club on November 5 with piano, singing Auld Lang Syne, and talks on New and Better Ideas on Cooking for 1943 using farm grown products. Officers were chosen for 1943 and Christmas party plans were set for December 11 at Mrs. Elwood Dulin’s Queen Anne.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Blades and Miss Mildred Stenger hosted a Monday dinner for navy boys home on leave along with other local young people. Guests included the Burrsville and Harrington families, visits from Easton and Wayne residents, and updates on several local residents' travels and visits to Baltimore Denton Ridgely and New York.
A string of visiting relatives and friends is recorded. Dora Melvin and Catherine Melvin join Mrs. Elma Harman and daughters Doris and Eleanor near Sadlersville. James D. Jones returns from Camp Polk on furlough. Various Henderson residents host and visit kin across Maryland and Delaware locales including Mt Wilson Marydel Philadelphia Wilmington and Marcus Hook.
In loving remembrance of Elizabeth Poole Andrew who died November 14 1940. Daughters Edith Howard Minnie Warren and Lelia Towers and granddaughter Dorothy L Towers send comforting verses noting lasting memory and sorrow. The poem expresses love and longing through mournful reflections.
The Queen Anne Community Club met Tuesday November 3 with committee for the month. Finance reported the Food Market earnings of 34.34 with leftovers that may total about 50. Refreshments were served. December 1 committee is Mrs Covey Mrs Dickinson and Mrs Hopkins. Local Navy and Army personnel were mentioned including Russell Eaton Carlton Pinder and four others in training. Several residents visited relatives and others were seen in town, with a school arm injury noted for Wesley Stone. Members attended Eastern Shore Federation meeting in Federalsburg. Mrs Dickinson returned from Baltimore and Bernard Sparks Jr visited with his family.
The Junior Guild of Christ P E Church will hold a benefit card party for men and women in the parish house next Thursday evening November 20 at 8 o'clock. Prizes, refreshments. Tickets 35 cents. Also noted is the Peninsula District Conference attendance by Rev L E Wimbrow and others, a visit from Harry W Trice to his mother Mrs Carrie V Trice, and Mrs Fred Love's gradual improvement after three weeks on the sick list. Mrs Carrie Jones visited her daughter Mrs Tracy in New Jersey this week.
Mrs J W Payne entertained guests including Ruth Dowding and daughter Mary from Washington and Inez Noble of Hudsonfield New Jersey. Red Cross appointments announced with Mrs W J Bonner leading Preston area Home Service. Navy doctor George Rogers Myers on ten day leave visiting wife and parents in Preston. Weekend visits and guests listed from Weirwood Penns Grove Baltimore and Brooklyn. Community club district meeting noted and evangelistic work in Parksley Virginia. Various residents leave for Petersburg Baltimore and Boston for visits and winter stays.
Mr Wm Baker who bought the Noble Dhue property moved it on his lot and will share and occupy it. Mr and Mrs Charles Bickling hosted their son Mervin USN of Cape May NJ and daughters from Marcus Hook PA. Edward Schaube of Baltimore returned home after weeks with grandmother Mrs Bertie Schaube. Mrs Arthur Cahall of Dover and Mrs Arthur Billings of Wilmington visited their father Mr Thos Cahall. Other local visits include Rev A L Grey and others at Easton District Conference and dinners in Frederica. Youth Fellowship met at Mrs J W Sylvester's home.
Ridgely residents Mrs Meredith and Mrs Letitia Brown along with Mrs Willoughby visited Harrington on Wednesday. Baltimore visitors Mr and Mrs Paul Hemmons and their young daughter spent Saturday here. Emma Jackson’s daughter Mrs Harold Fountain of Baltimore is visiting. Charles Wroten from Wilmington spent Friday to Monday at his home here. Dr and Mrs Melvin R Leonard visited friends. Alice Bennington returns to Chincoteague for winter. Mrs Martin Sutton visited Wilmington on Tuesday. Mr J Applebaum was a Baltimore visitor on Wednesday.
The Greensboro Community Club met November 10 at the Maple Ave clubhouse with president Mrs. Fred P. Roe presiding. Funds from Nurses Fund tag sales totaled 23.68 with more yet to be reported, and Miss Lavina Fulton discussed her wartime nursing experiences in England. The group noted attendance goals, homecoming services, and various local social visits and movements through the weekend and beyond.
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