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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1906
Page
3
Public notice column summarizes calendar items for Circuit Court and Levy Court with dates in November. Includes meetings of Orruays Court Wiknh and related public business deadlines. Addresses upcoming sessions and agenda items for board and public input.
A Denton area column reports new postmaster appointments, hotel purchases, and various local business events. It notes weather affecting bay navigation, steamer incidents, church services, revival meetings, and numerous marriages and social notices across Greensboro, Ridgely, Denton, and surrounding towns with frequent references to local families and clergy.
The university extension committee announces Prof Earle Barnes will deliver six lectures at Caroline Wich School Hall starting January 3 1907 at 8 o clock. Topics include Dreamers versus Workers Thinkers versus Rulers Faith versus Political Organization Arts versus Theology Democracy versus Monarchy Individualism versus Cooperative Socialism. Barnes is noted as a lecturer in England and the U S. Local housing changes follow with several residents moving farms and homes in January.
The Preston board met Wednesday with Noble Kalley Monks and Douglass present. They adapted the street opening report and approved $5 to Mt Pleasant M B parsonage trustees. Lamps, road grading, pole removal and a public road petition were discussed. several residents and local workers were noted with travels and projects around town.
Uverses Le, Chattie Robinson and Samily Versey Hughes of Templeville and Willian Reed of Wibnington visited Mr. W I Robinson and family this week. Rev C B Dryden and family and Stella Smith of Tagleside and Maggie Samshung of Philadelphia stayed with Dr and Mrs Theodore Saulsbury. Miss Marie Baughley ill. Miss Anna Price of Brownsville assisted at the school Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Mary J Cahall injured from a porch fall last Thursday. W P Sparks and grandson Clayson Sparks visited Aly at Litgleside. Elmer Raunghley recovering from four weeks typhoid. Charlie and George Cahall and William Jacobs of Philadelphia with relatives. Ielen Barker of Harrington visiting Edith Simpson near town. John and Arlington Porter of Wilmington visiting their uncle A Porter. Mrs James A Breeding visiting friends in Dndeveville and Seaford Del.
US. Miss Katharine Hackett from Washington visited her brothers Ay Thomas GC Hackett and Dr Robly Hackett. Mr and Mrs Samail Blake of Denton and Mr and Mrs Samuel G Nuttle of Andersontown visited Ira B Williams. The ladies of St Pauls Guild will hold a cake sale and luncheon in Thompsonns Hall on Tuesday evening the 27th. Dr W W Day of Farmington Del spent weekend with Rev and Mrs D J Givan at the prisonage. George Fleetwood of Seaford visited Isaac T Sparklin. Miss Beil Connelly staying with sister Mrs Annie Moore in Greensboro. Miss Hattie Tuttle of Nova Scotia visited Mrs George F Beaven at the rectory. John B Russom spent days at Chapthule. Miss Ethel Holt visiting in Baltimore.
Linchester announces an all day pentecostal meeting at the Independent Wellness Mission on Thanksgiving Day. Morning service at 10 30, afternoon at 2 50, evening at 7 30. Rev. Paul H Greeson to conduct the gathering.
Dorchester Court alters teibers organize for reform in Maryland with Dorchester and Talbot counties urged to purge corruption. A Cambridge dispatch reports three bribery indictments after recent elections while local social events and visits fill the week in Wilmington area towns.
A fragmented historical text pledges to use all means to expose and defeat those who offer money to influence voters in Talbot County elections. It expresses intent to prevent corrupt propagation and to empower the next Legislature to pass measures guarding against such influence.
Prominent county Republicans allegedly named in illicit vote buying indictments. State's Attorney Andrews aims to issue warrants at once, vows vigorous prosecution and calls corruption intolerable. Easton meeting forms anti bribery league with officers and pledges against contributing to or using money for votes. Shirt factory work progresses as W J Wright & Son prepare to start operations with modern equipment.
Rev. Joh E. Smith delivers two lecture series at an unspecified venue with the first talk on Wednesday evening and ongoing nightly sessions until the second Tuesday. The vacant Stev ens store is arranged for comfortable seating. Tomorrow afternoon there will be preaching on the subject of Judgment Where and What Is It. Mr and Mrs Will Kelly depart for a two week visit to Philadelphia and Haddonfield. The Ladies Aid of Williston meets at Mrs T I Chiatinch Wednesday next.
A barn belonging to Mr. Frederick Obier at Oak Grove burned a few nights ago. He saved his livestock but substantial property was lost with the building. The report questions where Addicks was when the gas failed.
The sheriff served an injunction prohibiting Rev John B Smith from holding services at Williston Methodist Episcopal Church near Yenton. Rev Smith now leads the New Jerusalem Church after leaving the Wilmington Conference, with a 1891 deed transferring the property to the M E Church for use by its circuit.
Prof Louis Lucy Beatty longtime Queen Anne’s County School Superintendent and examiner died Saturday at his Centreville home after a short illness. He was 68 and served as a director of Queen Anne’s National Bank since April. He shaped local education for decades and was connected to Maryland’s State Board of Education. He leaves a daughter. Latest wallpaper patterns advertised by Thomas & Messer in Baltimore.
The Van Dorn Tron Company of Cleveland was awarded four burglar-proof steel bells for the new jail at 2910, and Pilchard & Purniss won the other four rooms for 900. The jail will have modern locks and ventilation, with separate door bolts and ample day space. Sheriff Dukes once held twenty-three inmates, but overcrowding is unlikely in the new facility.
4 Hare Orchid, a tropical epiphytal plant, arrived with Frederico Emerson from Brazil during a visit by his mother Mrs. J. G. Emerson. Frederico now nurtures several plants in a Henderson hot-house with plans to propagate. The plant clings to wood, has aerial roots and spongy tissue, and the blossom is described as remarkably beautiful.
A message from J Grhsox Gantr requests money and groceries for The Home for Friendless Children at Euston. The charity serves twenty five homeless girls from infancy to womanhood, inviting gifts through the Episcopal Church or rectory before Thanksgiving Day and promising grateful acknowledgment by Miss N J Mother.
The funeral for Dr Thomas Wilkin son Greenly, who died at Saranne Lake Adirondacks, was held Sunday in Baltimore with Rev Peregrine Wroth officiating. Interment followed at Loudon Park. He left two children, Tsenere and Alexander Clark, and was survived by his mother, two brothers, a sister, and other relatives.
Orphans Court proceedings awarded Richard Blackburn as executor of Thomas Blackburn, deceased, with bond filed. Clinton Cook and John A. Sigker named appraisers of the personal estate. Creditors notified. Henry T. Curtis, guardian for Mord R. Roberts and Tarry R. Roberts, submitted and had approved his first guardian account. Jesse Wright, guardian for Emory Wright, filed a final receipt and release.
Two Baltimore market quotes list prices for grains meats and produce incl red wheat corn veal calves live turkeys ducks eggs potatoes and geese with prices per unit. A light exchange between Little Ethel and Tommy presents a joke about choosing between apples and a remark on necessity.
A Sabbath school lesson for World Temperance Sunday cites Isaiah to condemn strong drink and urges lifelong pledge to abstain. It links drinking to societal ills, warns of ruin of homes and morals, notes the prevalence of intoxication, and emphasizes self control as the golden rule.
The article argues soil is unconsolidated rock with inaccessible minerals. It claims lime promotes weathering, liberating nutrients and forming soil compounds, aiding crops. It highlights lime’s impact on quartz and feldspar and its particular benefit for sandy and clay soils alike.
A quip about a woman deemed to be a man in disguise by a policeman after alighting from a trolley. The remark attributes the arrest to a mistaken identity and plays on gender norms in a humorous exchange. Local era tone implied by humor.
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