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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1927
Page
4
Pine stumpage values on average land rise rapidly. at 365 years the crop is worth $110 per acre, or $3 a year. Thinnings add $15 per acre, totaling about $3.60 yearly income. If farmers log and haul themselves, current prices yield $265 to nearly $400 per acre.
Major Chester P. Mills, former Prohibition Administrator for the Second Federal district, accuses a political machine of rottenness and interference, detailing pressure from Ogden Mills, Charles Hiiles, Samuel Koening, and others to reinstate crooks and grant patronage. He discusses a Washington conference with General Andrews, Mills, and Koening, and laments being forced out for resisting spoils-system politics.
A nostalgic homemaking piece celebrates apples and their varieties September and October. It details Oldenburg Maiden Blush Summer Rambo Wealthy for baking sauces pies and jelly, plus uses from jellies to mint flavored juice. It advises unpeeled apple sauce and baked apple preparations for meals and desserts.
Maryland soil specialists advise green manuring with legumes rye and oats to boost organic matter, reduce erosion, and improve fertility on light and heavy soils across the state. Also advised are signs of fruit readiness for picking, cold storage temps of 30 to 32 F and humidity 85 to 88 percent to prevent shrivel and mold.
Maryland will send a large 4-H contingent to Camp Vail for the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield Massachusetts September 18 to 24. E G Jenkins notes demonstrations by Maryland 4-H members will attract crowds, including a Maryland style frying chicken demonstration by girls and poultry fattening and preparation by boys.
The Nutrition Department of the Philadelphia Inter-State Dairy Council promotes honey as a natural sugar, offering recipes for lemonade muffins and honey fingernints. It suggests honey enhances digestion and sweet cravings and cites methods for making honey lemonade, honey muffins, and honey fingermints with basic ingredients and baking steps.
Adams family and friends from Federalsburg Wilmington and Greenwood visited near Greenwood on Sunday. The funeral of Mrs Sallie Downs was held at Bloomery with burial there. Elon Wright and family hosted by the Adams. Bloomery Aid to meet September 28 at Mrs Elon Wrights. Fred Fountain and brother Walter visited Smithville. Elizabeth Adams weekend with Geneva Banning. Sunday school at Bloomery next Sunday morn.
A report from the American Research Foundation describes an 8200-foot well in North Park Colorado producing a frozen oil called the ice cream well. The well yields 300 barrels a day of frozen oil at minus 126 degrees Fahrenheit with gas about 91.82 percent carbon dioxide.
Beery and Hatton star in Firemen Save My Child at Arcadian Theatre Wilmington the week of September 26. The rookie firemen join the smoke eaters for laughs with a colorful fire climax mixing melodrama and comedy.
Ridgely residents report visits and travels with Miss Mary Laird staying with her sister in Rehoboth Mrs Boone of Denton was in Ridgely on business Wednesday Mrs Leonard Dean hosted Mrs Sennett of Baltimore Louis Lynch has returned to Charlotte Hall Military School I T Saulsbury and his spouse visited Philadelphia I E Munson returns to the store after ten days illness Emily Koestleman spent last week in Philadelphia.
The University of Maryland will start the football season at College Park on September 24 against Washington College. Maryland faces a demanding 11 game schedule this year while aiming for a strong team. Washington and Lee meets Maryland on October 29 in the Alumni Day clash, with South Carolina and a first big home game on October 1 marking key early fixtures.
A Baltimore social worker connected Robert a fourteen year old crippled boy with the Maryland Children's Aid Society. The boy received surgery at Johns Hopkins, braces funded by the Guild for Crippled Children, and weeks of care until he could walk unaided. The society seeks $2500 in donations to support such cases in Maryland counties this year.
Dr. R H Riley warns that opening schools will raise diphtheria risk and urges parents to protect children with toxin antitoxin immunization. He cites a Maryland outbreak traced to an undetected case and stresses three treatments for safe immunity.
Real bargains highlighted as moving time prompts Nuttle Hardware Co to offer goods at sacrifice prices. The proximity of the advertised sale is stressed, urging readers to turn to page 8 for full details.
A hundred plus Northern Nut Growers Association members visited Easton and Talbot county for the 18th annual convention. Highlights included a Rotary luncheon, tours to Wye Heights and Canterbury Nurseries, and a Starboat race on the Eastern Bay. Speakers urged a DelMarVa demonstration farm and outlined nut cultivation prospects in the peninsula with Black Walnut, Pecan, Hickory and other species.
Nineteen Grand Army veterans attended the final official reunion of the First Regiment Eastern Shore Volunteers at Cambridge where the unit began 65 years earlier. A motion to convert future gatherings to visiting days was adopted, with the September 1928 date set at Charles W. Jones’ Cambridge home. Only Rastall and Col. Mowbray remain of the original commissioned officers.
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