Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-06-21
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Town and Country.

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Town and Country.
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DR.. j. h. BatsOn announces himsef
week as candidate for the House of Dele1
gates.
Mrs Dr. Baxter, of Chicago, is visiting
her mother, Mrs Metzgar, of Poolesville
district
George Selby was arrested here on Sun
gay last, on the charge of stealing ahal
gallon OF whiskey, and lodged in Jail.
s. B. Teagarden will preach in the Chris
tian church, this town, on the 23rd OF June,
at IL A. NJ, and Redland at $3.50 P. Nj.
Gaithersburg's new drug store, opposite
the Depot, carries large stock of fresh drugs,
perfumery and toilet articles, all at city
prices
Mr. Marcellus Etchison has purchased Of
Mrs. Kate Ellcott part Of tract OF land
called "Great Meadows" for grazing pur-
poses.
Harry Lambert, the young man who was
recently struck and knocked off of Rock
Creek bridge by an engine, died on We'd
nesday last.
AT meeting of the Commissioners of
Rockville on Monday night last Chas. w
Prettyman was reelected clerk and NJ.
Green baliff
MIR. Chas. Spates and his bride have taken
up their residence at Washington Grove for
the present They were married at Balti more
ON the 18th instant.
Major VIM. S. Collier, a retired officer Of
U. S. Infantry, died suddenly in Washing
ton on Saturday last. Major Collier was a
0ative of this place.
Married, at Arnmore, Gaithersburg, Md =,
June 18th, 1889, by J. L. Lodge, D. d., Mr..
Robert G. Davis and Miss Martha w. OAR
by, all Of this county.
Mr.. r. S Umstead announces himself for
County Commissioner in the third district
and Mr.. G. M. Anderson for County Sur
veyor in this ISSUE
The constitutional proh.bitory amend
ment, voted on in Pennsylvania on Tues
day last, was overwhelmingly defeated by
majority OF from 10000 to 100000
Mr. Percy Metzgar, formerly of Peolesville
and brother Of Mr.. VIM. Mctzgar, has been
to the Bar of Washington to prac
lice law. He was examined by Judge Viii
loughby and passed rigid examination,
In the late quarterly distribution of the
public school tax by the State Comptroller,
the white schools of this county receive 81, :
782.6S, and the coored schools $2,3l7 IS,
and is payable on and after the 18th instant
The storm OF Saturday last blew down a
tree in the front yard of Mr. Horace Waters
near Germantown, which fell upon his resi-
dence, but fortunately without any damage
To it, and blew down his wind mill, which
sustained much injury
Thomas, at Gaithersburg, opposite Depot,
has fine stock OF imported and domestic
cigars-all the patent medicines at city
prices--prescription and family recipes nc
night Physicians supplied.
Recently the Court of Appeals decided in
"a case arisingin Baltimore city that all fines
Imposed for selling whiskey Oh election day
can only be collected by civil process This
decision was made under an act passed at
the last session OF the Legislature.
The sufferers along the canal, from the
food, have been weIl-cared for and con
tributed to by the people of the county and
the District of Columbia Amongst the lib
eral contributions extended was BIOS taken
up in the Jamestown church on Sunday
last.
While raising barn on the farm of Mr.
Charles Veirs near here on Tuesday last,
some of the timbers fell on Mr.. Edward
Henley and crushed his hand, and also it is
feared, inflicted Internal injury, as he has
been splitting blood since. Adj Washington,
colored, was caught under the same timbers,
but escaped without serious injury.