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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1902
Page
3
Readable fragments show court meetings scheduled in October with specific dates. Orphans Court will convene on October 7 and the Levy Court and Saxoon Board are set to meet on October 14.
Denton area items report Insley and Redden completing a Baltimore contract and Denton National Bank work to begin soon. Veterans reunion at Federalsburg. broad town notices include mills, mills, and farm sales. Several church events, temperance and lectures listed, plus local business growth in Hillsboro and Queen Anne markets.
Hobbs news recounts local antics of hunting and misfires with squirrels as a pastime. Several residents are mentioned including Willard Adams visiting Brooklyn ties, Misses Mabel Wright Maud Oulette visiting Bessie Towers, and Carrie Hobbs improving from illness. Visitors Horace Roop and son arrive from Wilmington while George Merrikon returns to Washington College and the town notes a new school bell.
The Thimble Club of Federalsburg M E Church raised about one hundred dollars from a handkerchief bazar with a five dollar subscription item from Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and gifts from Paris and Ireland. Parishioners report foundations laid for a new M P parsonage home. Abdell and Flaharty crews begin houses for Mrs Julia Wright and Thomas Todd. Mail service delays noted. Cambridge and Seaford railroad upgrades underway. W H Davis buys wind mill and hydraulic ram to boost water pressure. Herman Wright and C W Spicer acquire rubber tired runabouts.
Mrs. 5 M Liden held a Saturday night gathering in honor of Miss Jennie Garey with ice cream and cake. Guests included Jennie Garey Maud Parker Ola Scott Glenna Wright Bertha Bullock Ethel Wilson Hattie Viola Covey and T P Rust Harry Wright Lee Culver Ban Meredith Harry Lane Blaine and Herbert Bullock. Visitors from Avondale Pa and Atlantic City were noted along with several visits among local residents in Smithville and Harrington.
A group including Rosa Burkett Sarah Tichenor Ivah Smith Corinne Starkey Corinne Thawley Sallie Johnson Annie Johnson and Zeb Fountain Euphonicus Smith Norman Smith Kirwin Smith Norman Thawley Adler Todd Thomas Nichols Franklin Golt Samuel Vickery enjoyed a straw ride to Miss Olie Gootee's near Smithville on Friday evening. Others present were Hattie Todd and Della Bowdle. Mrs Jennie Wright and daughter Annie visited Miss Tichenor. Mrs Dr Ward and daughters Mary and Cathell visited relatives at Laurel and Delmar. Sallie Layton returned home after Philadelphia stay. James Todd of Federalsburg visited his sister Mrs Captain Smith on Monday. Frank Hayes of Greenwood visited here. Corinne Starkey spent weekend with her parents. Zeb Fountain Jr spent Sunday with his parents at Hickman. Bertha Oles visiting sister in Philadelphia.
In the Orphans Court on Tuesday last a codicil to the will of Mary E. Neal was admitted to probate. Neal, widow of Wingate Neal, died in 1891 and two days before death she executed the codicil bequeathing the three children of her deceased brother David, Catharine, and Rhoda Marine, a large equal share. The court heard testimony on her mental state and allowed proceeds and guardianship actions, with several estates and accounts presented for settlement. Also noted is the death of Rev. John D. Kemp on Friday morning at Chestertown, aged 61, with funeral held at the Chestertown Methodist Church. He leaves a widow and two daughters.
Col C Warfield Hobbs Clerk of Caroline County Circuit Court said in Baltimore that Jackson’s re election prospects look bright. He labeled Ellegood’s nomination a subterfuge to discredit Jackson and noted the Eastern Shore has swung Republican in prior elections amid large bribery funds.
The Anklam Manufacturing Company reports new machinery installed including a variety molder, jointer, and a wheel boring machine. More equipment will follow and the plant aims to be among the best on the peninsula, creating numerous mechanical jobs. Work on the nearby dam is slated to begin next week, with water power soon driving part of the light machinery. a turbine wheel is expected to develop about twelve horsepower.
Mr Chas Lee and Guarantee Remedy Co of New York present a medical lecture with vaudeville, graphophone and moving pictures. Contests crown prettiest baby and most popular young lady with handsome prizes. The eivens will next visit Harmony as Preston Academy seeks repair and beautification. Rev Jones and Bro Williams exchange pulpits. Vienna sisters aid millinery. coal scarce and canning houses warn of wood famine.
On a Wednesday near here a drag burrow caused by Pierce’s team overturned near Mr John Wright’s property. Ernest Wright suffered a severe scalp wound while others escaped. James Booker faced assault and battery charges and was found not guilty. a counter charge led to a $2 fine plus costs. Lucy Smith visited Ella Beachamp then returned to Berlin. Todd’s cannery runs full tilage. Will Bullock’s house nears completion.
Henderson in New York visits brother near town and stays several days at Ridgely. C E McIlvaine and Grace of Philadelphia stay with Mr and Mrs W M Price. W G Carrow hosts at Hazlettville, J Temple Jump visits Kennedyville. Katherine Sweeney with Avis Phillips in Chester. Frankie Starkey visits sister Mrs Samuel Carrow. Cora B Downes with Centreville friends. O T Barnard preaches at Odess a. B Cecil near Church Hill visits Ridgely. Gertrude Sauer of Baltimore visits E H Roe. Mrs Fred Bowdle visits her parents near Henderson. Kizzie Gooden returns to Baltimore.
Real estate transfers filed in the Clerk's Office this month include Nichols to Todd for 34 acres and 62 perches in the Fifth district, and Fleming to Thawley for 186 acres in the Sixth district. Numerous other district parcels are listed with prices from $50 to $3,600, plus several Federalsburg and Ridgely town properties. Marriage licenses issued this month list Josiah Smith with Tina Wright and several other couples including Wilbert Gross with Linnie Satterfield and Dennis Thomas with Adaline Freeman.
About forty packing establishments in Caroline County struggle with labor and rotting fruit amid a short crop. Despite delays, yields exceed early expectations and promise strong output. Growers report profits around fifty dollars per acre, with total county-wide value near 150000 dollars and packer wages pushing toward 250000 dollars.
In a letter to the Journal editors, J. W. Kerr, writing from Omaha on September 8, recounts a tour through Chicago Milwaukee Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Crescent Mankato and Omaha. He notes rural Iowa corn frost damage and remarks on Republican meeting rhetoric, praising or critiquing national administration and tariff debates. Kerr plans a westward trip to Yellowstone Park California and San Francisco, hoping Ellegood's race is won upon his return.
Miscellaneous items note lava or volcanic material found on Scott's Beach by Charles L Boehm of Public Landing, likely drift from Martinique. Rev Charles H Gootee Cambridge preacher releases What Led Moe to Christ and the Way of His Leading with letters from notable figures. Thomas Mitchell to sell sixty horses and four broke ponies at Cambridge on October 7. O A Newton near Bridgeville reports 145 baskets of peaches from 14 Elberta trees, $143.19. Diamond State Telephone subscribers want line to Greensboro. Hotel planned at Claiborne Talbot county costing thirty thousand dollars. Queen Caroline steamer on Kent Island Baltimore route. Queen Anne's Railroad nearly finishes its casino at Love Point. Two public sales listed on fourth page. Hurlock building boom continues.
Newport Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia shipped nineteen carloads of high grade phosphate to H M Thompson of Hillsboro last week for Ridgely Queen Anne Cordova and Chapel farmers. Thompson has sold about five hundred tons locally plus over four hundred tons from American Agricultural Chemical Co. This is billed as the largest fertilizer lot ever sent to a local agent on the Peninsula. Additional carloads were received from Newport.
Mr and Mrs William H Cashe return from New Jersey visiting Atlantic City Marlborough Hotel They note Josiah White runs a fine New Jersey coast hotel Augusta Covey and William S Wilson to wed October 8 in Easton Levi Scatten and Mary Elizabeth Brown marry at Centreville parsonage Roy C Smith starts four year scholarship at Western Maryland College J E Butler recovers in Henderson William Wheatley Baltimore secretary of Chamber of Commerce to wed Teressa Milholland in Baltimore Caroline visits span Chicago Minneapolis people move and study including Blanche Hobbs entering Wilson College Helen Beaven joins Hannah More Academy
Rev Henry R Calloway once told of a Methodist preacher who faced a newborn baptism with a long name John James Augustus Andrew Manship. The father recited the full name and the preacher asked for more water, saying there is not enough in the tin basin to baptize the baby.
Denton residents report ample timber locally with hundreds of cords of good fuel after two years of cutting. Many Den tonians have ordered unusually large wood supplies as they anticipate burning little coal this winter.
Postoffice Inspector W. J. Maxwell visited Easton this week and stated the town will have one of the country’s handsomest and best equipped post offices in proportion to its population. The message urged readers to subscribe now.
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