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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1948
Page
5
The American Foundation for Animal Health launched a six point program to curb winter waste and meat loss by controlling livestock disease. The plan urges exclusion of diseased stock quarantine sanitation disposal vaccination and wise feeding to protect herds and ensure disease freedom.
Lead plays a pivotal role through time from plumbing and coinage to batteries and paints. It is valued for corrosion resistance and used in electrical cables, storage devices, glass ornamentation, alloys, and even in ancient artifacts unearthed by archaeologists dating back to Roman times.
Venezuelan cacao divides into criollo and forastero grown along Miranda Carabobo and Yaracuy coasts and near El Pilar Irapa Guría and Amauru delta. Criollo yields larger pods but is more disease prone. Fermentation lasts one day for criollo. beans sun dry. Harvests occur in June and December. Once major world supplier, Venezuela once provided about one eighth of global cacao.
The Agriculture Department reports at least 15 companies are scaling rutin production. Annual demand could exceed one million pounds, needing over 50 000 acres of buckwheat. Buckwheat is favored as a cheap rutin source, harvested before grain ripening, while rutin may treat capillary fragility and various hemorrhagic diseases.
A Swedish study by the Association of Swedish Shoe Manufacturers with army aid found city inhabitants in Stockholm and other large cities have bigger feet and greater stature than rural residents. Prof Gunnar Dahlberg of Upsala notes city height rise over the last century mainly in larger communities, attributed to diverse origins rather than street pounding.
Ohio agricultural experiment station notes that a balanced blend of sweet and acid apples yields better cider flavor. Jonathan Grimes Delicious Stayman Baldwin McIntosh and other flavored varieties help, with Rome or Ben Davis juice allowed up to half the blend. Crabbing apples add astringent notes. Risks include fermentation preservative overuse unclean apples or equipment pasteurization and metals. For under 500 gallons daily, focus on unfiltered fresh cider.
Postage stamp issued at Nassau marks the 300th anniversary of the first European effort to develop the Bahamas. In 1647 the British Parliament chartered the Company of Fletherian Adventurers and vested proprietorship of the islands southeast off Florida.
Intelligence officer of the 101st Airborne wrote Merry Christmas on a daily report amid a ring of German units around Bastogne Belgium. Acting commander Brig Gen Anthony C McAuliffe delivered the Nuts reply to the German surrender demand inspiring the division.
A historical note explains that fruit often floats in canned fruit due to trapped air globules inside the fruit. During canning a partial vacuum forms above the juice, and upon opening the jar atmospheric pressure compresses the bubbles, reducing buoyancy and causing the fruit to sink.
The Junagadh peninsula in Kathiawar hosts the region’s remaining Indian lions now surrounded by India after the Muslim ruler joined Pakistan. The beasts hide in interior Junagadh hills among dry, flat Ka thiawar terrain. Islands and enclaves blur territorial lines with nearby states.
Thomas A Edison opened the Pear Street station the first U S electric light plant on September 4 1882. Original equipment included six jumbo dynamos lighting 800 lamps each and six miles of underground wire. In 14 months the company served 508 customers with 12732 lights and Edison received a chemical meter patent to measure consumption.
Sam Mellits announces an annual free children's matinee at the Dentonia Theatre on Thanksgiving Day. The program features leading and favorite shorts including Donald Duck Mickey Mouse Popeye Porky Pig Laurel and Hardy the 3 Stooges Krazy Kat Pluto and more. The free show starts at 2 pm.
Personal property from the Warner Hignutt farm near the Concord Willis ton road will be sold at public auctions. The sale takes place on the farm property about four miles from Williston and forty four miles from Concord.
A December 1 1947 auction in Concord will offer thirty five dairy cows of mixed breeds aged 2 15 years along with 4 heifers 6 24 months and more, 2 horses a mare a mule and 2 brood sows plus 19 pigs. Farm equipment includes tractors tools hay balers threshers and various implements in good condition. A 1940 Chevrolet Pickup and two International trucks are listed with several other farm items. Cash terms and removal only after payment.
Earl Harrington announces a farm sale on his Bridgetown to Goldsboro road farm starting 10 30 a m. Items include live stock many dairy cows mules a Holstein bull two tractors plows cultivators harrows wagons binders and farming gear plus household goods and a piano. Luther Bennett is clerk for the sale.
In Equity case No 4066 Chy an order dated November 12 1947 directs ratification of the Auditor's Report unless good cause is shown within three weeks from November 14. A newspaper publication in Caroline County is required once in each of two consecutive weeks before November 22. Clerk D Ralph Horsey true copy.
At the residence on the Chestnut Grove to Concord road an auction will offer a stove set furniture rugs radios records and more including beds dressers tables chairs and kitchen pieces along with farm implements such as a horse plow and shovels. No goods removed until terms are met. MRS WILLIAM E SATTERFIELD Leonard Covey, Auctioneer.
On the farm near Denton Bridge the owner sells at 10 30 a m a large personal property list including 7 cows 1 roan mare 1 roan horse 1 black mare 7 years old 1 big roan horse 4 years old 1 registered Guernsey bull 2 5 years old plus hay tools and implements such as a John Deere binder 16 inch plow a 40 Oliver plow and an Allis-Chalmers tractor With furniture and household goods and 75 bushels of soybeans Lunch served by Ridgely Brethren Church women.
Court orders all creditors of Sadie Hubbard and William Hubbard both deceased of Caroline County Maryland to file claims with the Clerk of the Circuit Court by February 24 1948 after surplus sale proceeds are applied to a mortgage. The order requires publication in a weekly Caroline County newspaper for four consecutive weeks before December 22 1947. J Owen Knotts Judge.
The document states the 14th day of November next and requires that a true copy of the order be inserted. This terse directive indicates a formal copying requirement tied to a legal or official action and marks the day’s proceeding as pending or to be executed.
Everett Nuttle, executor, states that The Orphans Court of Caroline County Maryland granted letters on the personal estate of Lizzie G. Redden, deceased. Creditors must exhibit claims with vouchers by May 21, 1948 or lose rights to estate benefits. Debtors should settle promptly. True copy by Register Carlton V. West.
Tax collectors sit to collect taxes on specific dates and times in multiple towns. Ridgely on November 5 from 1 to 4 pm at Caroline Office. Federalsburg on November 7 from 1 to 4 pm at Covey Williams' Store. Am Corner Web on November 19 from 1 to 4 pm at Daffin's Store. Preston on November 21 from 1 to 4 pm at Bradley's Store.
Wesley E Thawley seeks a vinculo matrimonii divorce from Rosa Lee Cheetum Lane in Chancery No 4157. The bill cites a 1944 Denton Maryland marriage and adultery by the respondent, with the respondent's last known address Camden New Jersey General Delivery. Notice by publication in Caroline County newspapers is ordered, requiring appearance by December 8.
Milo Evans administrator announces letters of administration on the personal estate of a deceased resident of Caroline County Maryland. Creditors must exhibit claims with vouchers by May 7, 1948 or be barred from estate benefits. Debtors should settle promptly. Carlton V. West, Register of Wills.
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