Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1893-06-23
gufal aud gersoual,
Town and Country.

The Takoma and Rockville Gun Clubs
will shoot match on the grounds of the
former on July 4th
F. E. Magruder has been appointed post
master at Hunting Hill, this county, vice .
b, Ward, resigned
The Children's Day services will be oh.
served in the Baptist church, Cedar Grove
next Sunday at 8 P. NJ
There will be preaching in the Barnes.
vile Baptist Church next Sunday at II A
Nj. by the pastor, Rev S. II. White.
The Clerk Of the Court for this county
has issued a marriage license to the follow
ing parties Willard Price and Ella Norriss.
Rev W. j. Cooke is expected to preach
at Trayilah next Sunday at 1890 A. NJ, and
Hunting Hill at P. NJ. Fine singing at
each service.
Among the students receiving degrees at
Swarthmore College on June Goth was Geo
d. Brooke, OF Sandy Spring, who received
the degree of bachelor of science.
The Ever Ready Circle" of the King s
Daughters of Rockville will give an enter
tainment at Mrs. Leonard Nicholson's on
Wednesday evening, June 28th
Rev. w. IL. Laning will preach at the
Union Church, Hunting Hill, on Sunday,
June 25th, at IL o'clock, A. NJ, aud Avery
Free Methodist Chapel at p. NJ.
Rev. l.. L. Lloyd will preach in the NJ. E.
Church South, Rockville, next Sunday at II
A. NJ. and 8 p. M. Communion services
mac at 3 p. NJ.
The deciding game Of series between
the Georgetown College and Rockville ball
teams was played in Georgetown on Satur-
day last and resulted in favor of Geogetown
by score of to5.
Elder E. II, Henry and j. L. Lodge, d.
d., will exchange pulpits on Sabbath, June
25 the former preaching at Mt. Zion at II
A. NJ, and the latter at Gaithersburg, at IL
A, M, and Jamestown, 3 p NJ
Mr.. John White, who resides about a
mile from this place, and who on Sunday
afternoon last WAS found overcome by the
heat and in an unconscious condition, is
now considered out Of danger.
The festival aud lawn party held on
Thursday night of last week at Garrett Park
by the ladies' of st. Johns Catholic Church
was complete success in every particular
and was attended by several hundred per-
sons.
Miss Ella Umstead of Buck Lodge, who
has been visiting friends and relatives in
Washington and Bethesda, has returned
home, accompanied by her cousin, Mrs 5.
several weeks with her
The Circuit Court for this county has re.
versed the decision of a justice of the peace
which imposed $50 fine upon the Metro
politan Investment and Building Company
of Montgomery county for failing to keep
open their office at Garrett Park.
The Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor will be held in the Christian
church, this town, on Sunday evening next,
beginning at $50 o'clock and lasting one half
hour, The public are especially invited to
attend all meetings of this society.
Among the recent land sales in the county
is that Of the Fenwick farm, on the line of
the District, which has been sold to a ply.
stefan Of Norfolk, Va, for 5000. 1t is the
intention OF the purchaser To establish a
sanitarium for the treatment of women and
children on the place.
At the Arlington stock Yards on Mon.
day cattle sold as follows: Best, 81 to 81
cents; good, Al TO st cents; medium, 81 to
At cents; common, p to 81 cts. sheep and
lambs-sheep, 3 TO 4 cents; lambs, 81 to Z
cents, calves, 4 to 81 cts, cows and calves,
$50 To $40 Market brisk
Our correspondent from Gaithersburg in.
forms US OF the unusual serenity and quiet.
ness of the village, the mouotony only be.
ing broken by the large auction sales of
Hickman d Cooke on each Thursday and
Saturday evening. This sale comprises the
largest stock ever offered in that community
The Republican committee for this county
has designated August As the time of hold.
ing primary meetings in the several election
districts TO send delegates to a county con.
yention on August 8, which body will nom
mate ticket for county officers aud mem.
bers of the legislature, and also send dele.
gates TO a state convention to nominate
candidate for controller.
The lawn party given on Monday night
on the Academy grounds by a number Of
the ladies Of this town and county for the
purpose of raising funds for the improve
ment of Rockville cemetery was brilliant
affair and was largely attended, The pro
ceeds amounted 10 $3.50, and the ladies are
receiving the Communications of the comm.
nifty for their efforts in this behalf.
Sunday, while riding on the Glen l. cho
Railroad, midway between Tennallytown
and Glen Echo, Timothy Donohue, twenty.
four years Of age, slipped and fell while step,
ping from the motor car TO the trailer. His
head struck violently against trolley post,
knocking him senseless and making an ugly
scalp wound. He was carried 10 the juno.
tion of the Georgetown and Tennallytown
Railroad, at the District line, where medical
aid was rendered, and he was afterward re-
moved 10 his home in Brooke's Hill, Con.
duit road.
Mr. I. G. Groomcs, builder, at this place.
has just completed for Mr.. VIM. Reading
the drawings and specifications for fine.
residence 10 be erected on high point over.
looking the Potomac near the Guard Lock
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, about
twelve miles west Of this place The build.
ing will be two stories and attic in height
and will contain ten large rooms, with
porches, bay windows, &c, aud when com
nIatai will Ia ana nf tina ha anunaat huild,