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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1913
Page
5
The Saturday issue from September 13, 1913 compiles county wide items under a single headline. It gathers brief notes from various towns, highlighting local happenings, upcoming events, and community updates in a concise panorama.
Local items cover Defenders Day as a legal holiday, farm and market notes, weather changes and frost, purchases and sales, church services, obituaries, and social notices in Denton Maryland area. Names include W. J. Blackiston, F. J. Wright, Annie E. Rathell & Co., Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, and James Benjamin Bright.
Mr. Lloyd Dyer and Miss Eva Pritchett wed at the M P parsonage in Greensboro with Rev C J Burdette officiating. Families hosted a reception at the groom’s parents’ home near Greensboro. Various residents and guests are noted, including Miss Edna Shipman’s appointment as a Denton post office clerk and other local social movements among residents visiting from Philadelphia Annapolis Baltimore Nor folk and Federalsburg.
The home of Edward Pearsaul caught fire about 11 in the morning when a stove in a rear room where a colored woman cooked ignited. Prompt action averted a large fire and caused only minor damage. The rest of the page covers local society notes and upcoming church events.
A Seaford letter recounts T. E. Stone of Baltimore inspecting for evidence against walking speakeasies. Despite calmer conditions than a year ago, liquor enters town illegally, with much shipped from Federalsburg, Maryland. About 125 gallons were sent to Federalsburg for Seaford parties, prompting arrests, fights, and thefts around the Federalsburg express office as officials and locals scramble to seize packages and name prominent suppliers.
Citizens from Caroline Queen Anne and Talbot meet in Easton with Boards of School Commissioners to found Tri County High School at Queen Anne. Expected 45 pupils. opening set for September 15. Heating will use stoves now. $40 crowd-sourced for future heating plant. Principal Cordey to lead. commercial curriculum adopted. Attending officials include Dodson Wright McKenny Willis Orem Sisk Noble Grimes and Grimes.
To the many friends who visited us and by their presence and kind words gave us comfort and sympathy in our recent bereavement we extend our profound thanks. Mr and Mrs Ferdinand Baynard.
Miss Helen McIlvaine of Philadelphia returns home with Miss Anne Wilson after a summer spent with Mrs. G H Wilson. A line of Wilmington visitors includes Mr and Mrs Morton Bennett and their little son, who came back after a week with relatives. Various locals and visitors are named as spending time with families near town and at nearby shores.
The funeral for Mrs. Covey was conducted by Rev G R Mays at her son's home, Marion Covey, on Monday morning. A large local delegation traveled east on Tuesday to attend the tri county school. Adele Grubb and Prof J W Grubb of Sadlersville visited Mrs Elizabeth Lightner. Mrs Howard Flowers returned home after visiting her parents in Easton. James Booth of Orange New Jersey visited Mr and Mrs J L Sneed. Virginia Mays was visiting friends in Baltimore and Arnold Md. Walter Flowers of St Louis is visiting his mother. Mrs R H Barnes visited relatives in Clayton Monday.
Bethlehem M F E Church will host rally day services on Sunday September 14 in the afternoon and evening. Mr William E Hearn of Cambridge Rev John Rosser and Rev Wilmer Jaggard are expected to attend. Carl Dean joined his mother and sister and they later left for New Castle to visit Mr and Mrs Robert K Moffett Mrs Annie R Dean and daughter Edith of Easton have been visiting Mr and Mrs J T Todd.
A Card of Thanks extends sincere gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness, sympathy, and help during a recent bereavement. Joan Horsky and son and daughter solicit enduring appreciation from those who offered support.
A series of weddings and parties unfolds with notices of Wil mington and Harrington residents. Couples include William Theodore Adams and Pauline Davis Horsey taking a wedding tour via Federalsburg and Seaford, while John E. Lister weds Della Greenlee near Greensboro. Various guests, funerals, visits, and local events are noted, reflecting a busy social scene in the region.
Last Saturday morning Mr Fletcher Stafford found Wilhelm suffering heart trouble beside the road east of Hobbs while en route to Denton with a load of tomatoes. Other items note residents visiting family in Preston Claiborne and Middletown, cannery activity sending 3 760 baskets of tomatoes and canning about 2 000, and local voters ferried to polls. The State Immigration Commissioner aims to attract a Canadian colony to Southern Maryland.
Miss Ella Imler of Ridgely and Mr. Wesley Hong of Philadelphia wed at Reformed Church with Rev. A. M. Rahn officiating. Attendants include Frank Long Harry Krotz Paul Neff Richard Blackburn Jr John Stevenson Otas Woren. Newlyweds depart 2.29 train for Philadelphia to reside there. Other notes report illness rides and local happenings including a fire at Ritchie’s meat and grocery stock, fresh harvest notes and social visits.
Little Miss Margaret Pennington celebrated her third birthday with friends at home near town on Tuesday. Mrs Addie Pritchett of Greensboro visited Mr and Mrs George B Stewart on Wednesday. Fred B Adams of Pottstown spent the past week with Mr and Mrs H M Thompson. Mrs MacDonna and Mrs MacCloud of Washington visit Mr and Mrs Allan Pennington. Bertha and Ella Riley of Wilmington were guests of Mr and Mrs J F Russom. Lulu Beaven of Philadelphia visits her parents Mr and Mrs Geo H Beaven. Mr and Mrs White of Baltimore visited Mr and Mrs Guy Hoskins. Rev Wm F Dickinson has accepted a rector position on Long Island. Mr and Mrs Evan Morgan of Baltimore are guests in town. Mrs E L Thompson will spend several weeks in Chester.
In Federalsburg the Tilghman Hackett family reunion at Mr. and Mrs. W. Williams home drew Reliance attendees including Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smith and sons and Mrs. Fannie Smith. Ill family members T J Waller and two daughters, and George Lankford, are convalescing from typhoid fever. Edward Bryan of Portsmouth, Virginia, has returned home after visiting locals. Isaac Harris returns from Cambridge hospital still ill with typhoid. Walter Smack and Ruth of Philadelphia visited Hill’s. P W Crosby returns from Virginia Washington and Baltimore. Viola Polight of Federalsburg is spending vacation with her parents.
Little Miss Anna Kelley returns home after a week with Miss Elsie Kelley near Williston. Factories run full time to handle abundant tomatoes. Mr and Mrs R D Segars of Hynson visited Mr and Mrs Orland Lane on Sunday. Master Smith Beck of Denton visits his sister Mrs Clayton Taylor. Mr and Mrs J R Towers spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Lucas Kelley.
William Warner a colored man about fifty four was killed when struck by a through train near Yar freight depot at noon Monday. Marion Brown drove the derawn and Warner attempted to cross in front of the engine after believing the train would slow. A coroner court faulted the railroad for excessive speed and failing to ring the bell through town. Other items note tomato cannery activity, vine damage from weather, and local visits to Wilmington and Centreville.
A flurry of visits and departures marks the Choptank scene as residents travel to and from Wilmington Winston Salem Baltimore Cumberland and Baltimore while many stay at home. Miss Bertha Blades heads to Winston-Salem to teach and Miss Myra Wright takes a Cumberland liner post. Mrs Wright shows improving health and others host guests during the weekend.
Williston residents Emma Lane and Margarette Wheeler return to Virginia and Baltimore respectively after visits with relatives. Sherman Hignutt, Mabel Baker, and Louise Doerr motor to Easton while Baker attends the teachers institute. Other locals return from visits to family in Bethlehem and Tuckahoe Neck, with brief mentions of social visits and vacations.
The Soldiers Monument funded by Watkins Post G A R and local citizens will be unveiled at Mount Pleasant Cemetery Federalsburg on Thursday September 18 at 3 p m with Grand Army members from Caroline and nearby counties and Colonel Mulliken of Easton delivering the principal address Governor Goldsborough invited but unavailable. The Seaford firm contracted erected a 11 foot high marble monument with a five and a half foot statue imported from Italy. Detectives probe Delaware beer and whiskey shipments into Federalsburg amid possible arrests. Mrs Thomas C Jefferson sustained a sprained wrist after a sheep knocked her down while she tended the flock. Rev Zora B Marine and Miss Jennie Blades wed September 4 at the bride’s North Main home. groom 68, bride 55, will reside in Brookview.
Mr George W Thawley suffered a broken ankle and severe sprains when his team of young mules bolted near Anderson town. Dr Nichols gave surgical aid. The Thawley family and relatives toured Laurel camp in Dorchester and Sussex counties in Mr Charlie Hignutt's touring car. Nearby visitors included Mrs Beachamp and daughter Louise. Weather and farm activity note fodder saving tomato picking and busy packing houses remain full.
American Corner notes the death of Matthew E Patton in Los Angeles California on Sunday morning from tuberculosis. He was the son of the late Robert Patton and is survived by two sisters Mrs Oscar Nichols of this place and Mrs J T Blades of Chop Tank and Orlando Patton of Federalsburg. Interment was held in Los Angeles due to distance. Elva Griffith, previously ill, is reported improved.
In the Orphans Court Judges Clark Rawlings and Stevens hear executors and administrators present final accounts releases and administration actions. Debts distributions real estate sales guardian ad litem appointed and creditors notices ordered for several estates including Handy R White Richard T Carter Henry C Fisher Annie Greenlee Phoebe Dunham and Eliza Jane Noble.
The Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company plans to double its winter steamboat service between Claiborne and Baltimore. Two boats daily are proposed, with morning and afternoon departures from Baltimore and Claiborne connecting to Peninsula trains, improving fall and winter transport for the Eastern Shore and central county residents.
The uncalled letters advertised in Denton include N E Lusater Harry Nunemaker Faulkner Hattie Jones Eva 3B Fisher Rev J O Stanley Esther M Cord Clara Madden Jas McWilliams Edward Lusty. Subscribe for the Journal to get county news.
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