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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1892
Page
3
A brief item notes a racing or timing event at 100 am with abbreviation style. Names and locations are partly garbled but indicate a track or meet context with a price or stake of 45 dollars. No clear participants or outcome are readable.
Public notice lists upcoming meetings with Circuit Court set for October 3 and School Board session on September 2. Compact item notes the calendar of local governance and scheduling needs for October and September meetings.
Caroline county items report fair attendance at Wilmington fair, a re painting of W A Stewarts store, campaign work by Brice Douglass and Compton, and notices of school board sessions. Local industry updates include Deen mill improvements and new Merchants Retail agency. A fire at Oak Grove and the Worlds Fair coin plans are noted along with travel tickets for the Grand Army Encampment.
Marydel resident Boyer files a $5000 damages suit through attorney James N Todd against John W Stevens over goods seized by a sheriff’s officer The case will not be heard before the April term of the circuit court.
Mrs. Jennie Kemp wife of Captain James T Kemp died at Williston on September 3 1892 after a long painful illness aged 31.
The article argues both preaching and teaching are needed in the church, with a call for quality over quantity. It contrasts outward preaching with inward teaching, stresses Scriptural literacy, warns against doctrinal distortion, and urges accessible, thoughtful teachers who foster independent, disciplined study among believers.
Marydel reports Fred H. Weather, a young merchant, went to Philadelphia on Thursday to buy fall goods. Mrs. David T. Richards improved after a sickness of the past week. Dailey's track hosts trotting each Saturday. Postmaster Ramsdell of Denton inspected the local post office last Tuesday. Miss Katie Woodall of Philadelphia visits Mrs. Thomas R. Green. Farmers busily foddering their crops.
Choptaunk Lawrence Stades, youngest son of J. P. Blades, suffered severe burns on a Tuesday of last week after pulling a glass filled with hot jelly toward his face. Other brief notes include Miss Lonah H. Smith leaving Friendship for Townsend to assume a teaching post, Mrs Vertha L. West visiting her mother in Friendship, Rev Edward Collins visiting Dover parents, and Mr Ed Nowdle reported quite ill.
Messrs. Nuttle and Stevens, committee, will soon complete repairs to the M. E. Church at Concord. The building will look much better outside and inside when repairs are finished.
Young men and women quickly prepared to earn their own living by attending Golden Wilm Com's College and School of Shorthand and Type writing. Read ady. and send for handsome catalogue.
The upcoming G. A. R. encampment in Washington this September has attracted national interest. The Pennsylvania Railroad offers round trip excursion tickets from all lines from September 13 to 26, valid for return to October 16, with one fare and allowances to stop in Baltimore and Philadelphia. A stop over at Harrisburg and other southern points on foreign roads is permitted. A comprehensive guide to the National Capitol has been issued.
A lawyer famed for absent mindedness sat on his own stairs waiting for himself after reading a door notice saying Back at three o'clock. A similar incident was reported earlier. A mechanic forgot his own identity and shouted to his business to open up.
The county commissioners Tuesday authorized Treasurer Deakyne to issue a check to Cook and Stitsbury of Easton for 335 dollars. The payment covers the board approved amount for the fatal injury of a horse at the Dover bridge.
Ibuaresville Mire and Dorchester visitors with family ties travel to meet Rev Grain. Yingling assists in Greenwood chores as several locals plan trips to Philadelphia this week to inspect homes.
Nearly all journals printed with subscription dates and subscriber names so readers can see when remittances are due. At Treasurer George A Deakyne's first sitting here on Thursday over three hundred dollars were received for this year’s taxes.
New advertisements announce Linwood Beauchamp as successor to Gus Wooters in the grocery trade and invite patrons to inspect a full stock. County registration notices are directed to readers. Other ads promote Dr Fennens St Vitus Dance specifics, Grover Rip, store and wharf property for rent at Williston, a private sale farm near Anderson town, and Col R C Carter advertising a book loss.
Governor Brown on Friday appointed Hon. Henry Page M C as chief judge of the First Judicial Circuit of Maryland replacing the late Judge Irving. Page, born June 28 181 in Somerset county, studied at West Chester and Virginia, admitted in 1863, previously State's Attorney for Somerset, congressman, and elector at large for the Democratic ticket. Page accepted the appointment in Baltimore after sending a letter to Governor Brown.
The Smithson Chapel dedication will occur Sunday September 18 in a grove and church setting. Rev Rumsey Smithson preaches the dedicatory sermon as volunteers collected funds for music and a gold medal and prizes. The event includes special music and marks a historic milestone for the church.
Notices report the death of Bayard Cahill a thirty five year old farmer in Talbot upper area with brief funeral at Hillborough cemetery. Also a girl Barwick of New Landing buried from consumption, a Willoughby incident injures man, a Ten year old Albert Golt dies, and a resignation of Mr Sherwood from PTH borough. Also railroad plans note Easton fair special trains with Children’s Day discounts.
Telegram from Queen Anne Station reports the death of Mrs Mintie Beaunehamp who lived with her son Leslie Beauehmp near Til borouch Pilbot. She was over seventy. She leaves three sons and one daughter. Funeral services will be held at the MoE Church South Pam bore at 10 3 nom Sunday.
Congressman Henry Page resigns from the First district nomination after finishing committee work in Washington. Ex-Governor E. R. Jackson weighs private timber deals and political plans while Senator Gorman visits Baltimore to advise leaders. Eastern Shore members discuss Page’s judgeship acceptance and contest among aspirants, with Vickers Weedon Toadvin and Santh named as potential nominees.
Tickets priced 1.20 for a round trip from Baltimore go on sale September 13 to 26 and allow return until October 16. Special trains run frequently from Camden Station daily. The G AJR parade will be held in Washington on the 26th and reviewed by the President and cabinet in a grand military assembly.
Two travelers discuss the nation’s looming political struggle. The first traveler asks about the real coming issue and its outcome. The second traveler predicts Corbett will be carried home in a paper bag.
William E. Evans, charged with poisoning the Rosser property well at Oak Grove in Sussex county and causing the death of Raymond Rosser, a child, was moved to Georgetown jail by Detectives Witsil and McVey on Wednesday.
Among the many passengers quarantined at the port of New York for cholera on the ships is Lottie Collins the London singer famed for Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay. John Greenleaf Whittier the poet died at Hampton Falls New Hampshire Wednesday aged about 135 years. Democratic committee of Little Rock claims the state went Democratic by thirty thousand at Monday's election. Dr Fenner's Catarrh Remedy advertised as curing.
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