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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1921
Page
6
Elmer Harrows boasts five straight cribbage wins against Sidney Brown and boasts a boastful mood. Esther confesses a planned marriage to Earl, but Harrows rejects the match, vowing to keep her at home. The next evening Harrows awaits Sidney Brown for a three game set, hoping for win after loss.
In a domestic tale, man Harrows bets his daughter Esther’s hand on a cribbage series. The slim, confident visitor defeats him, claiming rights to marry Esther after winning the series by two points. Esther trembles behind her book as the den echoes with matched cards and shifting pride.
A south of France concrete arch bridge, Pont du Gard, dates to 56 B C and has functioned for nearly two millennia. It used an ancient mix of large and small stones with cementitious materials rather than modern crushed stone aggregate. Vitruvius details pre Christian era practices, and medieval writers noted boards on edge with varied stones and cement.
An authority lists languages including English German French Russian Italian Spanish Chinese Arabic Scandinavian Dutch and Flemish Minor European Minor Asiatic Minor African Polynesian and Portuguese. The exact count varies as dialects blur into separate languages and opinions differ on which is hardest to learn depending on grammar and the learner's mother tongue.
Six players were in a casual nickel ante game when Jones suddenly rose and said he must leave to keep a promise to his wife to be home by eleven. The others warned that his early exit would not fool the group as he had been winning.
Five year old Jack, drum major in the Indiana Mason ic home band, rejects becoming a Mason Shriner or Noble. He proclaims his ambition to be a potentate, inspiring laughter among the group as he asserts a different path for his future.
A small orphan girl from Glasgow named Winnifred Josephine McKinley, three years old, traveled over 4000 miles from Scotland to Canada with two letters about her father’s war record. She passed through Port Arthur on the Canadian Pacific en route to her uncle’s home in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, guided by train and steamship officials.
The second and last registration sitting will be on Tuesday October 11 1921 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the First Election District Henderson Third Election District Denton Second Precinct Fourth Election District Preston Fifth Federalburg Sixth Hillsboro Seventh Ridgely Eighth American Corner. A revision session will follow on Tuesday October 18 1921 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the same locations. Supervisors John K. Lynch Everett H. Gale Harry B. Mason. Clerk C Leslie Walls.
52 acre farm with 37 acres cultivated and remaining woodland located about 2 miles north of Denton near the station. Includes seven room house, orchard, outbuildings, well built poultry houses, and capacity for 2500 chickens. Price 4500 with at least 2000 cash down. Owner notes prewar value and postwar improvements. Contact J. E. Baines, Denton, Maryland.
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