Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-05-09
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Town and Country i.

AoWh ana country.
Work has been commenced on the new
depot at Gaithersburg
Many applications for board during the
summer are being received by our hotels
and boarding houses.
The races at Washington begin on Tues
day next Some Of the fastest horses in
country will be there
If you wish to keep cool during the sum-
mer, call ON w. S. Crown, this place, and
leave your order for Boston ice.
Mr.. Timothy holland, formerly teacher in
the public school at this place, paid us
visit on Wednesday, after an absence of
four years.
On Sunday, the 18th instant, Potomac
Chapel will be re-dedicated. Upon the same
day in this church an All Days meeting
and the first quarterly meeting will be held
Mary, the little daughter of Rev. S. II.
White, of this place, died on Thursday
evening OF last week and was on Saturday
morning laid at rest in the Rockville Gene
terry.
A Mission, under the charge OF the
Lazarist Fathers, will be held at st. Mary's
Catholic Church, this place, commencing on
the 9Th of June next and continuing one
week.
A force of hands is engaged in tearing
down the old Episcopal Church, this place,
preparatory to the erection of a new ons on
the same site. Mr.. John B. Edmonston is
the contractor for the new building.
Farmers who have not yet purchased a
selfbinding Harvester should not fail to
read the many testimonials in favor of the
Champion, which will appear in our issue
next week. For sale by F. l.. Moore, George
town, ID. G.
Mr.. W. S. Crown, green grocer of this
town, has some fine corned beef for sale,
equal to the best that can be procured in any
market Lots of so pounds and upwards
can be purchased at very low prices. Call
and see him.
Arrangements are being made for the
Spring meeting at the Fair Grounds here on
June 4th, and the programme for the exer-
cises of the day will be published next
week, so we are informed by the President
of the society.
We take pleasure in calling attention to
the advertisement of the Family Shoe Store,
of Washington, d. c., which appears in this
issue. Those who may visit the city and
are in want of shoes will find an enormous
stock from which to select at reasonable
prices.
No family should be without a bottle of
O'AIeara's Royal Glue Its value can readily
beappreciated in the mending of china ware,
household furniture, &c His advertisement
appears in this issue, and it will! be seen the
glue can be purchased of any of the mer-
chants.
Farmers and others needing repairs for
machinery, or wishing to purchase the same
new, are referred TO the new ad. of Messrs
Buckley IL Firestone, OF Frederick city, in
this issue This firm is prepared to execute
all orders on the shortest notice and most
reasonable terms.
We this week publish the new corpora
ton law in regard to suffrage. BY its pro-
visions all votors who have been residents
of the town for twelve months previous to
any election for corporation officers are en-
titled TO vote. The next election will take
,,lara Ia, Cr.t
The corporation election held at Pooles-
vile, on Monday last, bsfore Messrs. b. r.
Norris, Thomas Hoskinson and Richard
Poole, judges, and Silas w. Davis, clerk,
resulted in the choice of the following five
gentlemen as Commissioners for the town
for one year: DR.. 4. Wootton, Thomas r.
Hail. Rich'd Poole, Thomas Hoskinson and
Elias Price
A cablegram was received in Baltimore
on Friday last announcing the death in
Manchester, England, Of Samuel A. Janney
Of Sandy Spring, this county, in the 51st
year of his age. Mr.. j. was of the we'll
known Janney family, some of the mem
beers of which have been prominent in the
Society of Friends. He was an extensive
farmer, and at the time ofhis death was
travelling in Europe for his health.
AT meeting ofthe vestry of Silver Spring
parish, on Saturday last, DIR. James H. Da-
wilson was chosen delegate to the Diocesan
Convention with Woodbury. Blair, Esq, as
alternate. Action was also taken in the
matter of laying ont burial lots in the Gem
eteries of Grace church and St. Marks
chapel. Lots in these beautiful burial
grounds will be offered for sale at an early
day by the committee, and at reasonable
prices.