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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1897
Page
3
Public business calendar notes that the circuit court will meet on October 9 and the Orphans' Court will meet on October 12. The items show scheduled court sessions and official timing for these civil and fiduciary proceedings.
Crowded hotels and fairs mark the week as the Sautelle Circus visits next Wednesday. Builds rise at Hickman and Burrsville while the Federalsburg Courier shifts to Republican leadership. Grand jury sessions, court trials, and new local notices fill the Denton circuit calendar as rail mail improvements, church projects, and agricultural updates unfold.
The teachers and pupils of Goldsboro Academy will hold a Box Social this evening October 6 to benefit the school. Mr Milton B Slemmer of Centreville spent Sunday with his parents. Miss Mollie and Anna Melvin of Smyrna visited Mrs Samuel T Jones earlier this week. Several locals, including Messrs S T Jones and Henry Booker, were in Baltimore at the week's start. Effie Eliot of Philadelphia stays with Mr Walter Eliot near town. Fannie Jarrell visited near Henderson Sunday and Monday. Henry Hynson of Ridgely visited town Tuesday. Allie E Cooper of Denton called on friends Monday. Willard W Booth is visiting Philadelphia and Smyrna. Mr and Mrs Jerome Davis spent Monday in New York. J J Saunders is in Philadelphia for a few days. Zadie Jarnyin is guest of Mrs David Truit.
Orphans Court sessions with Judges Moore Hobbs and Sigler disposed of administration matters and estate inventories. Letters granted for Perry Nichols Nathan Wilkinson and other estates. sales and notices to creditors approved. many accounts and final distributions passed with orders for private and real estate sales filed.
Henry Williams’s nomination and acceptance dominated the past week in Baltimore politics. The candidate’s calm tone and city needs proposals drew praise from all parties. His Friday speech rejected boss-nomination claims, reflecting broad support across Independents and Republicans alike, with expectations of a strong Democratic majority.
Mr Edgar McKnett of Philadelphia returns home after visiting his brother. Mr Charles B Evans of Washington DC visits his father Dr L W Evans. Miss Mary Palmer of Camden spends Sunday with Mrs John Emory. Miss May Fallowfield of Chester Town visits Barclay friends. Miss Cora Houch of Chesapeake City visits here. Mr James Clark returns home after a venture of several. Mr BST Emory and wife visit Philadelphia. Mrs Rebecca Bower visits daughter Mrs William Roberts in Ridgely. H W Temple and Frank Lane visit Denton and Ridgely last Friday. J Ralph Stout clerks for J W McKnett this week. Our Sunday school orders new singing books.
Mr Nathaniel Perry visited his daughter Mrs Charles Andrews. Hon James Alfred Pearce of Chestertown and Wm R Martin of Easton honored Cordova with a Friday visit.
Francis T Seth and John Dyer, longtime residents, fought after a quarrel at Denton Bridge. Dyer overpowered Seth causing severe injury leading to potential gangrene. Seth underwent two operations in a Baltimore hospital as his condition remains life threatening. The narrative also advertises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with testimonials and local vendors.
The Federalsburg community mourns Henry Preston Chambers a longtime Courier editor after a year of illness. Obituaries also report deaths of William Rice in Oxford, Charles C. Crothers and James Seward, with funeral details and surviving relatives. Local notices include accidents, retirements, and a Gulf Coast shingles advertisement from L. B. Towers.
Locals of Little Kength advertise millinery by W E Browns Mrs Clark returning from Philadelphia with new goods. Waller heirs wealth claim in Richmond Melville says hog cholera abating. Queen Anne railroad offers special Denton trains for Sautelle circus. Williams writes from Alaska about Klondike travel. Paint revives rusty Main Street buildings. Bohemians pack and depart for Baltimore as packing houses wind down. Pocomoke City Methodist salary up to 600. Lewes organ contract awarded. Fogle's Cambridge shirt factory burns and to rebuild. Peninsula General Hospital opens in Salisbury. Williamson Medicine Company performs in Town Hall. Hegeman buys Delaware Record. Apples color well this season. Bridgeville Driving Park gains favor. Revival at Chaplin's Chapel Greenwood.
The board adopted Young American for fourth grade civics and the American Word-Book, adding the new primary geography to the list. Colored schools at Mt Zion Union Greensborough Ridgely Hillsborough Denton Preston and Federalsburg open Monday. most other schools start November 8. Wood contracts awarded: Poplar Neck Hynson Cole pine 1.45 per cord Deep Branch Snow 2.00 Thawley Snow 2.00 Hillsborough colored Stewart Jarrell 2.00 Boonsborough A W Thompson pine 1.50 Cedar Grove Horsey pine 2.00 Saulsbury Horsey pine 2.00.
Sautelle's one ring circus exhibits on the Wilson lot Wednesday October 13 with bare back riding hurdle four horse riding acts and performing horses. A noon street parade will showcase the exhibition's merits. Afternoon admission for children under ten is ten cents while evening general admission is twenty five cents.
M B Nichols presents a three thousand dollar display of Misses and Ladies Wraps Wool Seal and Electric Seal Capes up to 65 dollars also dress goods carpets and ready-made clothing opening Friday October 29 and running to Wednesday November 3 Our children suffered croup and Chamberlains Cough Remedy gave relief sale notes from Denton Ridgely Hillsboro and others Mrs Maria Russell dies at home near Shepherds Chapel after lingering illness consumption husband and several grown children survive
The editor suffered a severe cold described as a bad case of Jagrippe and tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after seeing its ad. It acted like magic, delivering a speedy and permanent cure. The paper recommends the remedy for coughs or colds and lists 25 and 50 cent sizes sold by local merchants W. I. Brown Denton, R. J. Golston Ridgely, Hugh Duffey Hillsboro.
From the Centreville Observer, a warning about splitting the judicial ticket. The piece explains how crossing out a candidate could yield the opposite of the voter's intent, potentially placing an unwelcome judge on the bench. It cites Article IV Section 21 and offers a hypothetical4 scenario with Martin Mullikin Stump and Haines to show how a split vote could alter outcomes and risk an unbalanced bench. It urges Democrats to vote the judicial ticket straight and to campaign for its success.
A line in the October Ladies Tome Journal by Edward W Bok warns that a girl who shrinks from the word obey at the altar should never marry. The remark reflects period attitudes on female submission within marriage.
Nichols at the Bridge advertises a good supply of items described as neat and pretty with guaranteed quality. Styles are current and prices range from 1.40 to 96.50, targeting ladies who are urged to call and see. Recent additions in dress goods for ladies and misses and underwear are noted.
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