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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1915
Page
5
Fall weather and harvest chatter fill Denton scenes with corn prices, pumpkins, and Halloween plans. Local events include Democratic day on October 21 and a mass meeting with Hon. Robert E. Lee, plus theater, concerts, and charity games to benefit St. Pauls Episcopal Church. Sheriff seizures report two arson suspects later jailed in Cambridge. Easton prepares military company as recruitment grows.
Mrs M P Allen announces the approaching marriage of Rosa Day to Otis Gilbert Hignatt to take place October 23 at 2 pm in the M E Church. Notices of birthdays travels visits anniversaries and engagements follow with several local residents visiting kin or traveling to Philadelphia Baltimore and California expositions and a list of social calls and visits in the community.
Sermons at Denton Methodist Protestant Church on Sunday cover The joy of salvation at 10:30 a.m. and Three steps in a young man's life at 7:30 p.m. Dr Crouse last Sunday spoke to young women. Four ushers served. Weber will present the Passion Play at Harris Chapel October 20. Rev J R Smith attends Maryland Association meeting in Baltimore tomorrow. Ladies Aid plans a parcel post sale next Friday at 2:30 p.m. Diocesan Journal issued with convention reports. Bazaar and oyster supper planned for St Paul’s Hillsboro November 18–26. Next Methodist Protestant Conference held at West Baltimore Station.
Ferlendahigo reports guests of Mr and Mrs R F Lord and others Sunday including Charlie Lord Charlie Payne and families. Maggie Turner and daughter Viola visited Federalsburg residents C E Turner Tuesday. Mary McMahon and Grace Majors with children joined relatives at Hynson and Craft households hosted visitors Sunday.
Mr. Frank Corkran of Hurlock spent last week at his nephew Charles Whiteley’s home. Mrs. Fannie Harmon of Centreville visited relatives in town for the week. Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Tomorrow Marydel charge of the M E Church will hold a harvest home service at Templeville church with a large Sunday School rally and a sermon by Rev Dr A S Mowbray from Washington DC. Hartley M E Church marks its 66th anniversary with a special program and sermon by Dr Mowbray. Revival meetings follow. The public is invited to both services.
Henderson and Mrs L M Jones hosted dinner Sunday with Carroll Jones George King and families J Edgar Walls Evelyn Beatrice and more Guests included R H Dill Darwin Pritchett and S W Dill who visited Wilmington Miss Mamie Goodwin returned to Philadelphia Others visiting Dover Delanco and Wilmington include Miss Helen Hicks Miss Mildred Gooden J T Bickin g and Lemuel Haywood C E B Hollingsworth Freeborn Ellwanger Katie Downes Carroll Pippin and various relatives in town
On her return to Washington last Saturday Mrs B B Allen was accompanied by her mother and sister to Baltimore. An auto collision near here injured a cow belonging to Mr Trice of Two Johns. Rev J S Bowers will preach at Ames tomorrow at 3 pm. Dr J H Ward visited Centreville. Francis Beaven of Hillsboro visited Chaffinch. W W Dukes traveled to Baltimore and Washington. Miss Ethel Paisley assumed preceptress duties in Milton Academy. Chicago reports its first dry Sunday in 44 years on the tenth. Mrs EL Whitman visited in Tuckahoe Neck. Paisley spent part of the week in Baltimore. J S Ricards and wife motor to Seaford.
The Sunday School elected delegates to the New Church convention in Baltimore on October 15 16 and 7 including Mrs Q M Hignatt and Frances Yeaman The oyster supper is planned for October 22 and 23 at the same venue Everyone is invited Willie Maloney received a surprise party Friday evening. A man without enthusiasm for his work is like a car without fuel and cannot go anywhere.
The Ridgely News notes eighth through eleventh graders form the Poe Literary Society and plan weekly Friday programs. Officers include President William Davis and Vice President Dudley Davis.
Templeville families led by Roland Knotts and K O Knotts shared Sunday with Roy C Stafford near Milling. Harvest Home services are set for Sunday at 3:30 PM with Rev. Miller McCann assisted by Rev. Mr. Mowbray. Guests included Marydel’s Dr R H Downes’s hosts and Mrs Samuel Bayer. Other visitors: Miss Maude Starkey and Mrs Helen Arnold from Brenford Del. Homer Benton Sudlerville with N Bowen. Imma McKnett and Pearle Cooper in Centreville. L Groff of Wilmington with Margaret Smith. Gurney Knotts and Emma Sparks in Dover. Wm Moore with Marydel friends. Mrs Sparks visiting Philadelphia.
Burrsville announces a homecoming service at Wesley M. E. Church on Sunday morning October 24 with Rev. George L. Hardesty in charge and revival services to follow in the same church that evening. Local notices also mention planned sermons by Rev. Dr. John S. Bowers at a Masten schoolhouse for M P congregation on October 17 and repairs beginning at Union M P Church. Nearby residents include Emma Masten, H A Porter and Nick Dulin with hospital news about Wm. Pearson Jr. dangerously ill and visits from Harry McMullen of Kenton.
Community updates include a stereopticon lecture at the M E Church funded for missions, Baptists electing delegates to an association in Baltimore, and various social activities. Updates cover recoveries from typhoid, weddings, travel to Norwood and Wilmington, delegates named for state conventions, and upcoming events in Adamsville and nearby areas.
Hillsboro notes record Miss Elva Campbell of Pittsville becoming a stenographer at the C. and P. Telephone office. Rev and Mrs J W Grubb of Sadlersville visit Mr and Mrs J B Williams. Mrs Lillian Mancha stays with Mr and Mrs Isaac Fleetwood near Denton. Belle Vesty of Easton visits sister Mrs E B Davis. Carlton Smith of Hopewell Virginia visits. E L Thompson visits Chester and Philadelphia. Edith Hopkins visits Chestertown. J Norman Clarke was in Baltimore this week.
Jesse Henneman longtime railroad auditor died Thursday morning at Maryland General Hospital Baltimore from Brights disease and arteriosclerosis after weeks of illness. He served as auditor for Queen Annes Railroad and later South Georgia with headquarters at Quitman Georgia. He leaves a widow Mary Lillian Herganrather daughter of Judge Louis Herganrather of Queenstown.
The annual S Pauls M E Church rally in Greensboro featured fine singing by the church orchestra, recitations by children, a pastor’s practical talk, and a modest fundraising appeal. Numerous local residents were noted in attendance or mentioned as visiting, traveling, or involved in church activities and events.
Mrs. William R. Joiner travels in Philadelphia and Norris town. Miss Georgie Anthony of Denton visits aunt Mrs. L. S. Jones. Miss Mildred Ginn weekends in Wilmington. Mr. Ts. Clayton Norsey and Mr. Irvin Brumbaugh in Philadelphia and Baltimore respectively. Miss Dora Powell visits town early this week. Rev. Dr. Quigg travels to Wilmington.
Judges Clark Rawlings and Stevens attended the Orphans' Court meeting Tuesday. Letters of administration were granted to William W. Crosby and Harvey L. Cooper on Carrie E. Crosby’s estate. Appraisers named, caveat to Samuel Faulkner’s will dismissed, and Willard S. Beck and Bertha Ellen Faulkner renunciations filed. Merriken named administrator on Carrie E. Crosby’s estate with bonds, appraisers approved, inventories and accounts passed. Crosby and Cooper authorized to assign mortgages.
The Department of Agriculture urges bean growers to select seed beans in the pod and free from disease. Pick pods without spots and thresh separately. Planting infected seed causes most troubles, while clean land and careful seed choice reduce risk even in wet disease-prone seasons.
The Shively versus the Pennsylvania Railroad Company litigation has been moved to Queen Anne's county court for settlement. Shively sues for malicious prosecution and false arrest including handcuffing and Denton transfer, while the company sues for trespassing. Counsel: Henry R. Lewis for the company and T Alan Goldsborough for Shively.
The Faulkner WIII case, once set for trial in Circuit Court, was settled by payment of 31,000 and all costs by caveatee Bertha E Faulkner to caveators Nathaniel Faulkner Annie E Poor and Adeline Potts. The heirs question was decided in April in favor of caveators, who thus gained the right to sue. Attorneys were T Alan Goldsborough for caveators and Henry R Lewis and Charles B Harrison for the caveatee.
Lieutenant Thomas Pennington of Seaford, son of attorney Robert Pennington, aged about 35, was killed in battle on September 30 while serving with a Canadian regiment with Allied forces in Belgium. The Boston Lyrics perform here Saturday evening October 30, kicking off a fine entertainment series. season tickets are on sale.
Mrs Josephine M Downes of Denton visits son Wm T Downes in Lake Charles Louisiana. A party aboard Mr and Mrs Guy Nevitt launch Vision sails September 25 to the Gulf of Mexico via Prean Lake and Big Lake then coats along intercostal canal. They dock at Colcasien Pass for Gulf swimming and fishing spotting gaspereau shrimp oysters crabs porpoise and alligators. Return at 3 pm to Big Lake then home at 7 pm after a hundred twenty mile cruise.
The Progressive Farmer urges land renters to build personal property before aiming for ownership. Seven steps to independence include a garden poultry pigs cows better machinery and finally land. A renter with tools animals and machinery stands far better to buy and keep land than one with nothing but working tools.
Farmers are urged to use light and strong washes during fall winter and spring to control orchard scale. Dormant spraying targets winter eggs and larvae, reducing scale as trees shed foliage. Lime sulfur washes are common for San Jose scale on apples peaches pears and other trees.
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