Denton Journal Item Notices In 1919 County Solicited
In the Denton Journal on a Saturday morning dated September 20, 1919, readers are alerted to notices under a county header seeking items related to Jewish communities from all parts. The brief entry prompts submissions or inquiries to the county authorities for compilation or dissemination.
Federalsburg area notes and upcoming events
Local items report store ads for Maryland Queen flour and canning supplies, a new canning house at Oak Grove, and fall millinery displays. News mentions a coat and fur opening by J. R. Jarrell Co east of Easton, a large cattle sale ad, a theater show schedule at Parker's New Theatre, school principals in Roxanna, and a recount of a Democratic primary ballot in Stute's Attorney race with final results showing Deen ahead by five after adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright's
Messenger
Federalsburg
Maryland Queen
L HB
Towers & Bro
J. R. Jarrell, Co
Easton
Oak Grove
R. W. Messenger & Co
M. Quackenboss
Parker's New Theatre
John H. Dyer
Thinl Street
Sherman Heignutt
Virgil Moore
J. W. Field
Philadelphia
Clifton L. Jarrell
R. T. West
Orphans’ Court
Board of Election Supervisors
Rev
O. H. Connelly
Roxanna
J. Harry Rose
Baltimore
R. T. Porter
Charles L. Herzog
Chicago Cubs
Seaford
Salesburg
Peninsula Horticultural Society
Wesley Webb
Dover
Delaware
Parker’s New Theatre
Vivian Martin
Marounte Clark
Liqile
Muss Hoover
William S. Hart
Broadway
John K. Lynch
Harry H. Mason
Stute
Mess
H. Earle South
ER. Fleetwood
J. Owen Knotts
Joseph H. Carroll
Josiah A. Beck
W. Brewster Deen
Mr. Deen
Mr. Koons
Knotts
Mr. Knotts
Hurley-Hughes Wedding and Nearby Social News
A Denton area notices column details visitors and residents socializing. Martha Beauchamp returns from five weeks touring Western Maryland and Virginia. Irene Wallace accompanies her mother on a Pennsylvanian motor trip. Major J A Madara returns from overseas to practice medicine. Several locals attend events, visits, and engagements, including Miss Edith Davis starting at Beacom College and Mrs John R Statum visiting Greenwood relatives. The obituary notes the death of Lena Stewart, long-time Denton resident and church worker, with services at Denton Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Beauchamp
Tuckaloos Neck
Maryland
Blue Ridge
Sugar Loaf Mountains
Irene E. Wallace
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
New York City
Pocono Mountains
Delaware Water Gap
Harvey's Lake
Wallace
J. A. Madara
Ridgely
France
Omar D. Crothers
Cecil
W.brewster Deen
William A. Kinsey
New Windsor
George A. McDaniel
Kinsey
Slue Ridge
Claude L. Southard
Montgomery County
James Chilcutt
James Barnes
Gilbert Hagadone
Helen
Baltimore
Denton Frends
William Bullock
Franklin and
Second Streets
Henrietta Towers
Alma Phillips
Cambridge
H. T. Wooters
Denton
R. E. Greenlee
Caroline
Emmons Reed
Ford Motor Co
Detroit
J. E Hummel
Kent
Reba Hurst
State Normal School
Ruth Noble
Murray Spicher
Duke Smith
Lena Stewart
Robert W. Stewart
East Denton
Clinton T. Wyatt
Miss Stewart
Julia Day
Methodist Episcopal Church
Stewart
Annie R. Stewart
C. H. Stewart
Wm. A. Stewart
H. T. Nuttle
Mary
Chincoteague Island
Ernest Whitman
Belleville, Pa
S Smyth
Albert Cahall
Hillsboro
W. H. Lord
A. B. Corkran
Claiborne
E. M. Willey
Towers
O. J. Chaffinch
Oxford
Louise Cohee
Andersontown
J. J. Bunting
Harvey Holsinger
Methodist Church
Ware
W. HB. Kauffman
J. O. Clark
Richard Blackburne, Jr
Messrs
J. T
Charles Stevenson
Charles Robinson
Seaford
C. L. Herzog
Bunting-Gibson
Herzog
T. L. Day
Emma Day
Robinson
J. C. Madara
Fred
Roger Ringgold
E. R. Longnecker
W. W. Seward
Dover
J. K. Lynch
Joe
Lucy
Washington
Anna Lynch
Joyce Sunting
Rickards
Allan Rickards
Tuggday
Frank Stevenson
Farmers’ National Congress
Hagerstown
Calvin Lynch
Chicago
William Marvel
John Porter
William Porter
Evelyn
Stevensville
J. T. Saulsbury
Sewing Circle
the Reformed Church
Love Point
Kennard Pindar
St John's College
Dudley Davis
Fred Madara
M. E. Williamson
Bellwood
Harvey Clark
Harry Crouse
H.S. Pigott
H. H. Dean
Lucy Raymond
Wallkill
N.Y
Everett Tewilliger
J. M. Haymaker
Tolchester
Elizabeth Pippin
Greenboro
Miss Beaumont
Hotel Ridgely
Julia Chance
Helle Conley
Centreville
Helen Mason
Atlantic City
Mary Rebecca Saulsbury
Robert Headley
Swedesboro
N. J
Mass
Elizabeth Montague
Lynchburg
Grace Jackson
John Sharp
Wilmington
Milton Smith
Nelson Swaon
Nelson Richards
Bernard Sparks
Harry Hemmons
Euston
Harry Swann
Harry
Albert White
College Park
M.C. Smith
J. O Clark
Centeville
Sara Nett
Roanoke
John Saulsbury
Bile Jones
Edna Hopkins
Robert Eo Smith
Alliance Cannery
James Thawley
Etta Chaffinch
Mre
Will Frazier
Hilly
John
Ruth Brown
Roper
N.C
Ruth Adams
Nellie Phillips
Myrtle Messick
Virginia
Sallie Redhead
Hartford
The
Missionary Society
Berkley Willaims
Mercersburg
Wim. Russell
Greensboro
Marty Flaharty
Candied Fruit Making and Local News Snippets
Make Your Own Candied Fruit details steps from washing to drying including syrup ratios and multiple heating cycles. Then a string of brief notes covers harvests, seed potatoes, jewelry designs, marriages, fishing trips, and local visits across Andersontown, Port Saulsbury, Milford Neck, Bowers Beach, and nearby towns with several residents traveling or hosting guests.
Burrsville Plainly Busy During Quarterly Wesleyan Conference
The third quarterly conference of Wesley M. E. Church met Monday afternoon with strong attendance despite farmers’ busy season. Local families visited friends in Harrington Camden and Wyoming and at Bower’s Beach. High School reopens with Dr. A C Norstedt from Pennsylvania as principal and about 115 students enrolled in classes. The class of 1919 presented KC High School with a victrola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley M. E. Church
W. A. Wise
R. H. Dill
M. L. Wyatt
Evelyn
Denton
Harrington
Camden
Wyoming
T. E. Cahall
Lester
Lena Thawley
Mollie E. Cahall
Cahall
Bower's Beach
R. H. Stafford
Thos. Ellwanger
Landsdowne
Osborne Harvey
Quaker City
Jon Collison
Willard Wright
Newark
Elias Pearson
William Cooper
Philadelphia
Maggie Melvin
Wilton Porter
W. T. George
W. E. Cheezum
Caroline High School
A. C. Norstedt
Pennsylvania
France
Elizabeth Pippin
Stephanie Ford
Mary Hobbs
Helen Roe
Jaine Redden
Lucy Garey
Mary B. Raleigh
KC. H. S
Ridgely News Letter faculty and local events update
Ridgely High School lists its principal Miss Addie Wilsop and assorted teachers from Denton Oxford Ridgely Milington Hillsboro and others. The piece notes teachers teaching out of town plus several local visits, weddings, farm changes, prayers, and community happenings around Ridgely including a tomato crop update and social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgely High School
Addie Wilsop
Denton
Margaret McCullough
Oxford
Henry Hollingsworth
Lydia Jones
Milington
Grace Jackson
Ridgely
Vernus Meyer
S E. Parsons
Local social notes from East Orange to Coatesville
Miss Margaret Swing visits sister in East Orange New Jersey. Many families across Centreville Baltimore Wilmington and Denton spend weekends with relatives attend meetings and schools open with large attendance. Revival meetings in a large tent and teachers named Esther Adams Ola Chaffinch Ruth Adams and Miss Mears assist with singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Swing
Roland Fountain
East Orange
N. J
E. E. Pendleton
Federalsburg
Basteed
Centreville
ET. Saulsbury
May Sparklie
Emma Motz
Helen Lydep
Sherman Neal
Clyde
Trice
Lewis Weiland
J. E. Elrick
Smithville
Jason Reed
Clarence Christopher
G. W. Chaffins
Ida Chaffinch
Orville
LeRoy
Harmony
Denton
Ernest Short
Edward Pritchett
Harrington
J. L. Hignatt
O. F. Murphy
Esther Adams
New Church at Henderson Dedicated Amid Gifts and Praise
The M. E. Church at Henderson was dedicated with total costs of 2216 covered by Sunday gifts and subscriptions. District Superintendent Wise led the morning service where 3537 was raised, and Rev. Leach of Greensboro and Rev. Wyatt of Denton preached. A total of 3335 was raised in the afternoon, with a final 301 collected in a purse for the pastor. The event highlighted labor by the pastor and community, including a generous purse presentation and praise for the building’s completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E
Henderson
Wise
Wire
J. A. Leach
Greensboro
Rey
C. T. Wyatt
Denton
Tlis
Cole
Wyatt
M. FE
Fpworth League
J. E. Smith
Preston
Williston
Smith
Epworth League of
M. E. Church
League
Methodist Episcopal Congregation
Fred J. Wampler
China
Church of the Brethren
Christan Worker
Methodist Episcopal Preachers of
Easton
J. R. Edwards
Washington
Don S. Colt
Baltimore
Methodist Protestant
Luther
H. B. Thomas
Episcopal Church
Hillsboro
Remarkable Tomato Crop In Sussex Farm
Joseph Rodgers hauled tomato skins from a canning house to his Sussex farm and spread them over the land. Wheat inside sprouted with young tomato plants that grew from the skins seed. He now harvests tomatoes daily, expecting about 400 baskets at peak prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Rodgers
Canning House
Mr. Rodgers
The Game Farm Acquisition Near City Edges
State Game Warden E LeCompte recently acquired a 200 acre game farm near the city. The land includes woodland meadows and farmland and is already well stocked with game. The move follows a trend as multiple states operate game farms for conservation and public use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. LeCompte
Meadlow
Deaths and social notes from Preston and region
Mrs Ida E Draper dies at Methodist Hospital Philadelphia after a brief illness. Funeral at M E D Church. interment Greensboro cemetery. Numerous local residents attend reunions, travels, visits, and marriages across Preston and surrounding towns. Pulp canning prices surge, with canner profits and wartime shifts noted as tomato products gain value and shortages push prices up. Citizens urged to exercise self denial to combat profiteering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida E. Draper
Methodist Hospital
Philadelphia
J. A. Leach
Greensboro
Fred
Fletcher
Norman
William
Alon
Taylor
Miss Case
Lloyd Taylor
Preston
Charry Tayler
California
John Stevenson
Miss Smith Dull
Wilmington
Real estate transfer list shows many ownership changes
Clerk reports numerous transfers from William H H Deen to Thomas Potter and many Denton and Federalsburg lots changing hands. Notable entries include Lawrence Towers to Mary Thawley, and Planters Bank of Bridgewater transferring to Willan Young for 305 acres at 20 666. Other deeds cover 2 to 3 dozen parcels with sums ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William HH. Deen
Thomas Fimner Potter
Lawrence B. Towers
Mary T. Thawely
Denton
Planters Bank of
Bridgewater
Willan Th. Young
James HL Nichols
Saulsbury Garey
George T. Redden
James H. Nichol
Lotin Denton
George K. Wright
Charles S. Bradley
Lotin Preston
Lavina Grace Beulah
Joscob Russum Et al
Thomas S. Holt
Arthur LB. Rosser
Calvert C. Merriken
Ollie Dickerton
Fifth District
Maron FL Downey
James Calvin Smith
Greensboro
Mary Covey Ellwanper
William H. Rathell
Lizzie G. Redden
Clayton S. Kauffman
Alston S. Andrew
James H. Pollard
Eighth District
James R. Charles
James M. Webb
Federalsburg
Wilmer Deen
Federalsbury
Ellen Z Pollard
Alston S. Andrews
Hobbs
John L. Scott
First District
William R. Nabb
Fred Talbot Brooks
Big Meeting of the Legion in Maryland State Plans Convention
Maryland State Headquarters of the American Legion reports 45 posts with potential to rise by 20 before the State Convention on October 3. About 500 delegates and alternates expected. Emerson Hotel to host convention headquarters and meeting hall. An advance delegate from each post will attend the October 2 meeting at 4 p m to map the program and first Maryland Branch meeting. Theodore Roosevelt is invited to address the convention on the aims of the American Legion. He is touring the West and will return before the Maryland event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
The
American Legion
Emerson Hotel Management
Theodore Roosevelt
A. FE. F
Roosevelt
Far West
Return From Vacation Reflects On Work And Life
The piece contrasts returning to routine with renewed vigor versus fatigue, arguing life centers on work and mastery. It cites J. D. Snyder of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, warning Maryland shad and herring stocks in bay netting are at risk. Protection proposals include regulating pound nets and banning spawning-bed netting to prevent extinction and help recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
J. D. Snyder
United States Bureau of Fisheries
State Conservation Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Denton Journal
the Local Department
Everngain
Kent County
Stanley Draper
Thomas H. Draper
Chesapeake
Caulk
International League
Charles Dollin
Philadelphia Nationals
Milford
Hurley-Hughes
Callege
Herman Hurley
Delmar
Myrtle EF Hmuphes
Denton M
C. A Wyatt
Edith Davis
Marydel
Smyrna High School
Beacom Business College
Robert V. Meyer
Scranton
Meadville
John R. Statum
Esther
Emily Lyons
Greenwood
Del
Grace Dyer
Hansen Dashiell
Anne
Maine
United States Department of Agriculture
Ar. J
Port Saulsbury
Cedar Beach
C. D. Collison
F. L. Stafford
J. W. Satterfield
Milford Neck
Towson
H. W. Hughes
M. E. Holbrook
Burrsville
Arlie Saulsbury
Henry Noble
Cambridge Hospital
Arta
Helen Baker
John Baker
E. H. Sapp and Son
Annie Sipple
Alfred Baughley
Walters
Chester
Thos. Vivin
Georgetown
Wm. H. Satterfield
Harry A. Layton
Ridgely News
Grace Thompson
Myrtle Thompson
Camp Grove
Mary Laird
Blanche Laird
Lowe's
Barbara Roberts
Furman's Grove
Lula Bartlett
Price's Station
Eva Williamson
Miriam Clark
Helen Haymaker
Rock Hall
Wilson Jackson
Tri-County High School
Mildred Seward
Thomas McCloud
Wampler
Huldah Swann
Hilda Anthony
Mrs. McCumber
New York
Woodenhawk
Mr. John
Ola Chaffinch
Arthur Headburg
Bloomery
E. E. Pritchett
Templeville
W. N. Bowen
Collingswood
New Jersey
Frederick Lanning
Daniel Rutter
Edgemoor
Gurney Knotts
Irvin Moore
Mollie Moore
Virgie Sparks
Clayton
Lewis
Wm. Lowman
Cooper Carter
Fred B. Adams
Pottsville
Mer
H. M. Thompson
Charles Jarrell
Eliza Duffey
Thomas Lundy
Jersey City
John Lundy
Walter Hicks
Nelson
J. E Hicks
J. R. McSorley
Roe, Jr
I. T. Sparklin
Florence Beaver
Coatesville
Game Farm
Greensporo
Smith Longfellow
North Carolina
Mr. Longfellow
Laura Longfellow
W. W. Goldsborough
Middle
New England
Chas. FE. Tauber
Collingswood, New Jersey
Mir AL FL Shields
Charlie Harmon
W. B. Massey
Mirai Case
L. W.taylor
North Main Street
Cave Ginns
Harry Ginns
L. W. Taylor
Care
J. HL. Coursey
Alvin Edwards
Felton
Audre
Pritchett
Etta Plummer
A. W. Brumbaugh
Mary Jarmano
Harry Klotz
Near. Felton
Wm. B. Moore
Josephine Moore
C. H. Pippin
Eastern Shore Regiment of Maryland Volunteers
James C. Mulliken
Veterans’ Association
Talbot
Dorchester
Col. Mulliken
J. E. Rastall
George Mowbray
Cambadge
J. Irvin McCourt
Baby
C. A. Carroll
McCourt
Carroll
Raymond M. Miller
Charles A. Carroll
Miller
Madison Charles
Celia Kelley
Ella Whiteley
James Wilson
Harry Taylor
William Wrightson
Velma Hollis
Somers Blake
James Barrow
Theodore Fletcher
Railroad Avenue
Elizabeth Meriken
Harry Whiteley
Stoo
John W. Matthews
Pinet
Rafth
William J. Beaver
Daniel Buller
Herbert Bludson
John W. Tolden
the Legion
Danner
Alew
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