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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1938
Page
8
Saturday morning issue of the Denton Journal published by Melvin and Johnson, Inc. provides local news, advertisements, and notices from Denton and surrounding area dated Saturday October 1, 1933.
Seventh Grade reports subscrip tions campaign led by Catherine Mae West with lieutenants Mary Louise Hignutt and June Hollister for Curtis Publishing Company. Welcome James Emerson. studying the Revolutionary War. Fifth Grade forms two clubs The Variety Club with officers Rachel Willis Mary F Shelton Edwina Breeding and The Amusement Club with Betty Patrick Earl Shaffer Doris Hynson. County soccer and field ball schedule lists matchups and playoff dates with eligibility rules including grade and attendance requirements.
County health officials warn of thousands of grossly unsanitary privies within Caroline County. The system breeds flies and odors that spread typhoid fever and dysentery, though only eight typhoid cases have occurred since 1938. The Health Department seeks sanitation improvements to prevent ongoing disease risk.
Hundreds of parents and others are urged to use free WPA labor for building sanitary privies. Residents without sewer connections should contact the local Health Department in Denton to obtain an approved privy, as public welfare requires it.
Bob Burns and Martha Raye star in a Dentonia Theatre program featuring the New Mexican musical Tropic Holiday to be shown Friday and Saturday September 30 and October 1. The article highlights Burns’s Ozark hunting background and his bullfight sequence with a Mexican steer. The lineup also includes Little Tough Guy with the Dead End Kids at Dentonia October 3 and 4, plus Hunted Men and A Letter of Introduction with Adolphe Menjou and Edgar Bergen.
The feature program highlights The Gladiator a Columbia comedy with Joe E Brown as a superman in a big wrestling match setting. It shares a Ridgely Theatre lineup with Wives Under Suspicion a Universal drama about jealousy, a relentless district attorney, and a tale of love turning to suspicion.
Graham Watson presents Frances Tadlow's picks for September. Dynasty of Death by Taylor Caldwell is a weighty, brutal account of a munitions king’s rise and the ensuing power struggle. Big Show by Charles Cooke follows a boy and his dog Skipper in adventurous backyard training and quests.
A compact portrait of a small circus world in a warm country town. It traces first love, a dog's jealousy, rising ambition, and the dramatic disaster of the Big Show, with notes on best sellers of the week and a mix of literary titles.
A vintage recipe for creamed chicken a la king uses butter green peppers mushrooms flour milk and seasonings. Cook vegetables in butter fold in flour then milk to form a sauce add chicken yolk and pimiento stir until thick and serve on biscuit or toast yields six servings.
A compact collection of religious aphorisms emphasizes inner light, courage, and sincerity. Quoted figures include H. W. Suwall Issa and Mary Baker Eddy urging private devotion and steadfast virtue.
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