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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1920
Page
5
The issue lists hunting days, crop prices, seed rye sales, and community events. It notes a ferry schedule change, court and election matters, church meetings, library gathering, and a large array of local notices including canning house fire, road construction policy, and female voter registration statistics with district breakdowns.
Judge Henry C. Conrad praised Rev Dr Alfred Smith during a Thomas Chapel anniversary service in Delaware. The speech recalled Smith’s boyhood links to the chapel and his path to Wilmington Conference as a gospel minister. A verdict awarded Mrs Lulie Hastings 5000 for injuries from an auto accident near Cambridge Hospital.
A nostalgic poem recalls Pederiusburg near Ninthcode tiles and hills, old schoolhouse by the river, blooming white maples, and pined memories of schoolgirls. It mourns a vanished town and cemetery where beloved figures rest, vowing reunion in eternal nightless heaven.
Baltimore candidate T Alan Goldsborough says he supports the League of Women Voters program but will not commit to all its bills until he reviews them. In a May questionnaire he notes no objection to the idea of independent citizenship for married women and promises to respond further.
In Orphans' Court Puesday Judges West Harper and Shann preside. Renunciation filed. Letters of administration for William Garey granted to W M Garey. Bond approved. Nutile and Whisler named appraisers. Harvey L Cooper filed second and additional accounts, an interest account, debts list, and first and final account of administration and distribution, all approved by the court.
Hickman notes Mr and Mrs Win visit Croll and daughter Blanche with Florence Mor oan. The Owens couple hosted. Nearby Mr and Mrs Judeon Rameell and son Aldin and Miss Enina Batlock of Flarington joined Sunday visitors in town.
Mr Wm. TE Collins thanks all who expressed sympathy and kindness shown during the sorrow and affliction at his home.
The holiness congregation sold their dwelling at public sale to Gus Huey and will begin a church soon. Services are planned next Sunday at the Tramoring home near town. Various locals visited relatives and attended sermons with multiple trips to Frederica and Philadelphia noted. Harvest home services are planned at Union M P Church next Sunday morning.
Teampleville residents share travels and guests. Ruth Matthews and son Jack returned home in Withington after visiting the Biddles. Visitors from Clay ton, Baltimore, Washington, Barclay and Centreville were noted, with several locals hosting or calling on friends during the past week.
The Lalies Aid met at Mrs. W R Ross's home last Wednesday afternoon to conclude business then cake and candy were served. The next meeting is at Mrs. Thomas Daffin Jr s home with full attendance urged. A parent teachers meeting at the school house Wednesday evening October 27 features a prominent speaker. Mr and Mrs Charles Wright visited Mr and Mrs Dorsey Nichols last Sunday. Ruth Ross is visiting sister Mrs Clarence Bowlite. Pauline Wroten is ill with typhoid fever. Farmers busy seeding wheat.
Miss Esther Adains and Mrs Alice Ross visited Dover for a teachers meeting picnic at Camden and Andersons school where she taught seven years. Miss Adams stayed at Ross Lane. Solauion Sapp approved his farm with a new dwelling. John Voss improved his farm similarly. Mr and Mrs Earle Nelson and children of Preston spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Eugene Wis. The wedding of Miss Manola Smith and Willard Wright was announced. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs R Wesley Ross who visited Frederica relatives and Barratt's.
Miss Reba Wfurst, a student at State Normal School Towson, spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs S J Hurst. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Messick and sons visited Mr and Mrs W R Thomas. Miss Martha Lynch of Marcus Hook visits her parents Mr and Mrs Barry Lynch. Mr and Mrs R Tastings of Salisbury are spending a few days with Mr and Mrs H Bailey. A Halloween social is planned at the school on Friday evening October 28. Mr Webster Todd is very ill at his home nearby.
Smithson reports Mrs Mary Grear and children of Wilmington visited her parents Mr and Mrs John Christopher. Mr Frans Treidly returns to New York after time with his mother. Miss Violet Marine was guest of Miss Naomi Coleman Sunday evening. Mr Huldred Donoho of Wilmington visits Mr and Mrs M J Hall. Miss Edith McMahan spent Friday with Mrs Ld Theiroff.
Mrs. Paul Holsinger died in a Washington hospital on Thursday October 14. Funeral held Tuesday at 1 p.m. Rev. Frank White and Rev. L. R. Brumbaugh officiated. interment in Denton. Survived by husband, five sons Howard Harvey Harrison Morton David and two daughters Pearl Snoddy and Bessie Jarrett. Five sons and son-in-law Linwood Jarrett served as pall-bearers. Mrs. Holsinger, formerly Miss Mary Ellen Lego of Blair County, lived in Caroline County over 30 years and was widely beloved. Funeral attendance large. floral tributes numerous.
The article advises providing warm dry winter quarters for hens and warns against roosting in trees or on implements. It highlights the Buttercup breed, noting white eggs, yellow-skinned dressed carcass, gentle easy to manage nature, and a mature dressed weight around four pounds with large evenly sized eggs when properly cared for.
The Journal prints a large presidential ballot with five party groups and multiple electors. Voters must mark eight presidential electors per group or split electors, plus select a U S Senator and a Congressional candidate. Amendments and a referred law also appear.
The Automobile Commission head Baughman reports fiscal year ending May 20 1920 shows higher receipts and lower expenses. Gross receipts reach 32 051 135 07 up 21.5 percent. expenses 163 417 73 down from prior year by 5 209 21. Deaths from automobile accidents fall to 151, 52 fewer than last year. Increase in motor traffic blamed on postwar prosperity rural wages and truck use. Highway motor trucks overwhelm light passenger routes.
Maryland's Timber Products shows 1,168 establishments employing 16,790 men in wood and timber goods. Second in state value and wage earners, these firms produce lumber ties poles posts piling mine props and forest products and further wood products like boxes interiors shipbuilding furniture instruments carriages and baskets. They convert nearly 300 million feet board measure into finished goods annually.
A Baltimore Sun verse paints autumn's mood with corn scent and meadows rich in memory. It speaks of purple prapes, black haws, bob white whistles, and harvest hills, weaving a nostalgic vision of home, scent, and color as seasons shift.
A Democratic gathering on the court house green drew hundreds, many women among them, to hear Henry B. Lewis and FT Alan Goldsborough extol the League of Nations. They argued it would curb war costs and aid agriculture and roads, urging voters to back the Democratic ticket in November. Judge J. Harry Covington urged nonpartisan support, while Rep. Stevenson of South Carolina contrasted Republican cries for change with gains under the current administration.
Woodenhawk, Mrs. Fred Pritchett of near Milford, spent Monday with Mrs. Ernest Short in a local social gathering featuring neighborly hospitality and conversation.
Court House records from over fifteen years ago show his earnest support for local temperance laws. As State's Attorney he prosecuted many cases, proving his zeal. If elected to Congress he will aid in carrying out the national temperance program.
A Baltimore correspondent reports large, vigorous Democratic meetings across the city and state. The writer claims foreign and alien voters favor Harding, alleging Germans and traitors backed by pro-German sentiment helped the campaign and criticizing Republicans as monopolists and profiteers.
Agents recruit farmers in Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore to plant 60,000 acres of flax for Elk Mills processing plant. Farmers would be paid 40 dollars per ton, with yields of 1.5 to 2 tons per acre. New chemical treatment promises curing in less than a day, enabling rapid expansion toward 500,000 acres next year and beyond, alongside a noted rise in women voters in the first year of participation.
October brings balmy days and vivid foliage as residents note the season's beauty and plan socials. A Halloween gathering is slated for November 1 with ice cream and cake. Local families and visitors are referenced in a stream of social and daily life notes ranging from travel to farm work and weekend visits.
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