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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1907
Page
5
Autumn tints appear on hills and heather while farmers report many partridges and a bridge at Greensboro soon to open. Several thousand workers at Careline packing. sales and auctions noted. schools change principals. corn and wheat crops discussed. Obituaries, real estate ads, and social notes fill the page with local names and events.
Guidance on preparing fruit for canning emphasizes soap washing, scalding water, sun drying, and avoiding overripe fruit. It warns against excess sugar, urges best sugar quality, minimal handling, prepped supplies, and careful sealing for quality preservation. Prices noted include wheat at 1.00 and corn at 0.77 per unit.
Visitors return home from Philadel phia Fealsburg and Creld as Emma Hayes resumes care for her mother in Greenwood. Mary Towers teaches the early fall term, James Ward and family visit Delaware, and Mildred Nuttle stays with aunt J E Mowbray in Philadelphia. Harry H Nuttle begins duties as principal at Fealsburg amid fever cases in Concord. The column notes social visits and school arrangements with typical small town updates.
Rev B L Parrott and Mr R Heston Hicks spoke on Receiving the Word. Choir leader Miss Ailie Clark led the service with organ. Local hog cholera scare prompts urgent measures as residents work to limit spread. Several residents return home from visits, and teachers relocate duties as Madge Jump improves.
Greensboro fact page reports J H Vansant a Philadelphia post office clerk has a three week vacation. He and wife visit Mrs 2 C Draper in Greensboro then travel to Caroline and Queen Annes counties to visit friends. Other items note J F Jarman sent a crate of strawberries to New York sold at 35 cents a quart and Dr D M R Culbreth of Baltimore visiting Greensboro parents. Country dealers are drawing on the oil for corn supplies.
The Washington Herald reports the wedding of Miss Ethelyn M. Hardesty to Mr. Clarence Grant Cleaver at 1452 Clifton street. Relatives attended a reception with Miss Priscilla Hardesty as maid of honor and Mr. Davis Swaney as best man. The couple will travel to Richmond before settling in Wilkensburg Pa. The bride, a Dickinson College graduate 02, and the groom, class of 94, are both Dickinson alumni. They will reside in Wilkensburg after a wedding trip.
In Tuesday sessions Harvey L. Cooper as administrator of Lizzie Nichols presented an approved inventory and appraisement and got an order to sell privately. A decree appointed Cooper as trustee to sell William A Williamson real estate. Appraiser’s return filed and approved. S J Raughley, executor of Geo W Raughley, presented an approved account of sales. Dr James R Phillips, executor of Ernest Glenwinkle, presented an approved inventory of personal estate. Willis Wright estate authorized trustee to invest one thousand dollars. G Lacey Stevens, administrator of Eliza Williamson, presented debts, first final account, and second distribution, all approved. Walter H. Lord, via Cooper, filed a bill of complaint for sale of Lizzie Nichols real estate. Subpenas and publication ordered. James H Nichols, administrator of Thomas Nichols, presented an approved account of sales. Dr Jacob C Madara, administrator of Mrs E Grace Madara, presented separate debts list and second final account of administration and distribution, approved.
Mr J W Nelson of the Bureau of Soils Washington DC tours Carolina county to study soil issues. He promotes drainage crop rotation and organic matter, predicts red clover alfalfa revivals and reduced fertilizer use with lime bushel applications every few years, and offers to assist farmers and organizations by mail.
Constable Jones of the First district brought William Payne to Denton jail on a larceny charge for taking wearing apparel from Annie Wilkinson and Walter Daniels. Payne, newly arrived from Spartansburg South Carolina, reflects a wave of young Black migrants into Maryland and Delaware, with labor conditions not improving and taxpayers bearing the burden.
The poultry business is increasingly lucrative and expanding toward rivaling other farm industries. Farmers acknowledge the hen can lift her weight in contributing to mortgage funding for the farm as the sector grows.
Prominent men on the Eastern Shore back the Caroline anti bribery plan with leading Wicomico supporters urging adoption in the First Congressional district. The Cambridge Banner argues for County vote buying to be halted and hopes the Caroline movement will spread to Dorchester and beyond.
Loving remembrance notes Florence Jones who died August 18 1907 at 18 years, with lines about memory and grief. Also honors William H Vansant who died September 8 1906. The poem expresses sorrow, faith, and family devotion from relatives and a child to their dear ones.
A Baltimore Sun writer argues that Maryland politics hinge on the black vote. The piece contends that Mudd's power and Republican control rely on African American support and questions white voters to heed the warning. The analysis labels the black belt as central to the campaign and party leadership.
The Republicans of Kent County Maryland nominate John C. Davis for State Senator James A Covey and Perry B Rasin for House of Delegates Lewis Price and Thos W Now for County Commissioners No candidates named to oppose William W Bock for State s Attorney William Gale for Treasurer Daniel Haddaway for Sheriff and Harry Davis for Commissioner in the Second district all on the Democratic ticket
Local packing houses ship large tomato quantities despite a light crop. Carloads are purchased at Towns end, Kenton, Henderson and beyond for 25 to 35 cents per basket of excellent fruit. Miss Pilchard, daughter of Con tractor Pilchard of Pocomoke City, secures a teaching post at Ridgely Academy.
Merchants, fruit packers, and all business and professional men can have their stationery printed promptly and in the very best style possible at the office of the JourNal. The latent patterns in Wall Paper 5o a piece. Gilt, 8c a piece. Win dow Shades, 200 each. Thomas & Mosser,1016 W Baltimore St.
A towheaded boy turns his love of catsup into a fortune, starting with his mother's recipe and small sales. He expands to a factory, markets to grocers, and grows into a major industry, boosting tomato farming and jobs nationwide while praising ingenuity and perseverance.
A farmer’s tale contrasts two brothers. One milks then sits on a boulder, waiting as the cow backs up. The other runs a store and declines to advertise, reasoning the public will back to his business when it needs something.
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