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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1913
Page
5
Wheat corn and seed sales advertised by local merchants. Squirrel hunters abroad. National and local political candidates noted in Wicomico and Queen Anne's. Lectures, auctions, and new ships in service mark a busy fall scene with farm outputs and canning industry expanding.
Miss Mary Jones Fisher leaves for Los Angeles to teach at Westlake School for Girls. Numerous travels and weddings are noted, including Miss Pearl C Cooper and Sir Harry A Harrington’s August Felton wedding. Visitors from Baltimore Philadelphia and Washington visit Denton and surrounding families with news of engagements and relocations across Maryland and beyond.
Clarence Baynard aged fourteen drowned Wednesday while swimming in the Choptank at Yellow Banks near town. He went beyond depth and could not reach shoal water as smaller boys watched. Funeral held at M E Church with Rev H A G Westerfield officiating, burial in Denton cemetery. Pallbearers were Worthington Downes Alvert Towers Jr Howard Covey Howard Melvin Jr George L Smith Roland Miller. Parents Mr and Mrs Ferdinand Baynard receive widespread sympathy.
Hickman and Croll families motor through Laurel camp area while Starkey kin visit near Bethlehem. Wilming ton visitors accompany Mrs Baynard. Abbott family weekend trip to Woodside. Tewey family returns to Baltimore after two weeks here. Reynolds family visits Meloney. Local repairs at Liden's school house. Jewell returns to Philadelphia. Breeding and Noble families report typhoid illness. Voss buys a car.
Mrs John Horsey, paralyzed Tuesday of last week, died Saturday evening at 10:30. Funeral held at Concord Church Tuesday afternoon with Rev J Gibson Gantt delivering the address. Interment in church yard. Mrs Lillian Sullivan, in a Frederick county sanitarium, called home for her mother's death. Fannie Mason and F Brice Hubbard wed in Federalsburg parsonage by Rev T E Terry.
Hillsboro notes show Mrs Wiltier andY Highfield with son visiting Misses Lizzie and Ella Fisher. Mr Mason spends Sunday with son Paul in Harrington. Carlton McSorley of Wilmington visits his brother J R McSorley. Nannie Greaves of Centreville stays with the Greaves at Laurel area. Mrs Parker of Delmar visits the Williams. H M Thompson travels to Baltimore and Philadelphia. Mary Cooper and child visit Laurel. Curtis Hutson visits H S Sparks. Mrs Cahall spends week in Baltimore. Elsie J Hicks visits Washington.
Queen Anne and Emma Clark of Denton plus Mrs Richardson of Portsmouth were guests of the Clarks. Francis Clark of Wilmington stayed with the Rhodes. Hiram Short and daughter Louise visiting relatives in Greenwood and Seaford. Anna Evans of Sadlersville with W S Sparks. Howard Knotts family spent weekend at Rehoboth. E S Dashiell of Lawsonia visiting her mother. Laura Wooters and S J Barton visiting Easton relatives. Frank Sparks of Baltimore visiting Ras Sparks.
Trinity Sunday School was well represented at the Laurel Bethel union on August 20 with about thirty five scholars present. Epworth League services resume next Sunday evening September 7 at 7 30. Several youths attended Laurel Bethel camp last Sunday. Miss Margie Banning attends tri county teachers institute at Easton. Miss Edith Melson visiting relatives in Easton.
The Ridgely Agricultural High School opens Friday with a 2 PM afternoon session featuring speeches by J Warry Covington H J Patterson J Frank Harper and others and an 8 PM evening program with State Superintendent M Bates Stephens O H Henson and others. Games and farm tours accompany the day and invites go to all interested in the school.
Miss Ruth Plummer hosted a launch party aboard Captain Craser s Titanic on Saturday night in honor of Miss Mildred Eskendrine of Philadelphia. Guests included Veneda Dill May Dill Florence Coursey Addie Jarrett Carrie Gibson Nettie Longfellow Margaret Weaver Margaret Colee and others from Dover and Philadelphia. Local celebrations continued with a surprise party for Mrs George R Horsey on Friday for her forty seventh birthday with a large guest list including D Zacharias Frank Kibler Richard Blackburn Jr Noah Turner W Joiner Ida Shields Ordin Shields and more. Various visitors were mentioned including Miss Nellie Russell Mrs May Jackson Miss Margaret Cohee and Miss Pauline Nichols with updates on guests at Hindley Hall Golden College and nearby towns.
Mrs. George Klaiss and children have returned to Brooklyn after visiting Mrs. H. A. Porter. Nellie Melvin and cousin Bessie Hopkins spent ten days and a week respectively in Dover. Union M. P. Church Sunday School held a picnic with ample cake and ice cream. Laura N. Stafford returned home from visiting her sister near Dover. Megan Stephens and family hosted visitors at Harrington. Miss Eva Thawley returned from four weeks with her sister in Delaware. Bertha Baker and Edith Simpson returned from Greensboro and Atlantic City. Mrs. Harvey Williams hosted friends.
Mrs Kesiah Matilda Hubbard aged seventy eight wife of Mr Thomas Hubbard of Hurlock died Saturday at 6 pm at her son Harry M Hubbard in Bethlehem Survived by husband one son two grandchildren and two great grandchildren Funeral at St Paul M E Church Hurlock burial at St Paul cemetery Others note visitors Epworth League services tomorrow evening led by Mr Harry Nuttle Miss Eva Carey ill and Mr W C Todd running his cannery Sunday School at 9 30 followed by class meeting
Died of cholera infantum and tuberculosis, Mary M. Andrews, two-year-old daughter of Mrs. La U. Andrews, interment in Bloomery cemetery Tuesday afternoon. Numerous local social notes follow including visits, travel, and community events with a focus on Ames, Denton, Federalsburg, and surrounding areas.
In Federalsburg a speeding car struck Charles Stack of Hurlock on the Federalsburg Hurlock road. Stack was thrown into a deep ditch, bruised and shaken. the vehicle wrecked and the occupants fled. Stack may pursue damages. Also, seven year old Maggie Stant injured by falling scissors near eye, treated at Johns Hopkins. Easton Chautauqua hears Secretary Bryan. attendees include Chas W Jefferson, Lee Jefferson, Edward McCoy, A H Covey, Miss Ethel Davis.
Preston residents host relatives from Eas ton and Baltimore visit local families while visitors travel from Indiana and Virginia. Jackson ville lawyer Fred Noble and Easton teachers attend the institute as the M E Church is being painted and watermelons bring good profits to farmers.
Judges Clark, Rawlings and Stevens presided at Tuesday's Orphans' Court session. Bruce G. Stevens and H. Earle Smith, administrators for B. Gootee Stevens, presented an added inventory of the deceased's personal estate, ordered recorded. P. Roland Fisher, executor of Annie M. Emerson, presented receipts and releases from heirs, examined and ordered recorded. Percy R. Fisher, administrator of Henry C. Fisher, filed the first and final account which was ordered recorded. Now is the time to subscribe.
Dr John W Hering has resigned due to ill health and Governor approval. Albert G Towers a Naval Officer and key Caroline county Republican is slated to replace him, shifting the commission to a Republican majority with Laird the remaining Democrat. Towers has long been party leader, Taft ally, and influential in patronage on the Eastern Shore, earning a $5000 salary.
Richard Alburger aged 66 a native of Denton died at the home of his half sister Mrs Hester Palmer near Frederica Delaware after a long illness the immediate cause being acute indigestion funeral held Tuesday Rev G W Bounds interment in Denton Cemetery Rev J Gilson Gantt grave. Survived by wife Eliza Downes sister and half sisters Mrs Hester Palmer Mrs Mary Boon and brother William Alburger of Federalsburg and half brothers Jacob and Grant Alburger of Denton. He spent his youth in Denton and was well known locally.
More than two hundred teachers from Caroline Queen Anne and Talbot attend the Easton summer school. Fourteen courses run daily from 8 to noon in hourly periods. The Demonstration School led by Miss Roxana Steele of Teachers College New York draws keen interest as a model rural one teacher school for county and town children.
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