Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1902-08-08
Iutal aud gersnual.
Town and Country.

TOWN. anu OVuSAS'
See card of the Rockville Seminary in our
advertising columns.
The camp meeting at Washington Grove,
this county, commenced on the 9th and will
continue until the 18th instant.
Eastern College, Front Royal, Va is Of
ferng more advantages at reasonable rates
than any other good school. Write for free
catalogue.
S. Kahn, Sons 6 Company, of Washing.
ton, come to the front this week with an
offer of select goods at low prices. See ad
on second page.
Gladys Elizabeth, infant daughter of W
E. and Emma Morgan, died at the home oil
her parents at this place on Tuesday night
aged nine months.
Last week Geo. B. McAtee, while aiding
in building silo on the farm Of Mrs. 8. E.
Boyd, of Boyd's, had his hand badly hurt
by board striking it on the back.
Miss Maud Wenner, daughter of Mr.. J.
S. Wenner, who resides about three miles
west OF Rockville, died Of typhoid fever on
Tuesday night last, aged 81 years.
Messrs. John F. Harriss and Henry Mob
ley, of Travilsh, this county, were awarded
the contract, on Tuesday last, to build the
grand stand on the Fair Grounds here.
An exhibition of colts will be held in
Poolesvile on Saturday, August 10Th, at 8
P. NJ. All ages up to Q years, and advan-
tsge Of the different breeds will be shown.
Mr.. Franklin Cue and Miss Cora Beall
Mullnix, both of the vicinity Of Damascus,
this county, were married In Rockville last
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. s. r. White.
Mrs Clara G. Hoffman will give q tenn.
perance lecture at Emory Church on Fri.
day night, August 10Th. Admission free.
All cordially invited. Doors open at 7:3O
o'clock.
A tenant house on the farm of Mr.. N. d.
Offutt, about iour miles west Of this place,
was struck by lightning, set on fire and de-
stroyed during the severe storm on Sunday
night last.
Mr.. W. Harry Griffith and Miss Bertha
NJ. Howard, both OF Washington, visited
Rockville on Wednesday Of last week and
were quietly married by Rev. s. r. White,
of the Baptist Church.
The annual festival for st. Johns Church,
Forest Glen, Md, will be held only one day,
August 18th, 1909. A game of base ball be.
tween the Petworth and Wheaton teams
will take place at 8 P. M.
Ellen, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Kohlhoss died at the home Of her parents,
mile north of this place, on Tuesday last,
aged years and months. The fatal dis
ease was whooping cough.
During the heavy rain storm on Wed.
nesday much damage was done along the
line OF the railroad at Dickerson station and
other points. Lands we're also badly washed
and the corn crop much injured.
Negotiations have been concluded for the
transfer OF control OF the Great Falls Power
Company to interests friendly to the WASH
ington Railway Company, which controls
most of the local street railway franchises.
Mr.. Bradley Carr, OF the U s. Marine
Corps, son of Mrs. Emma V. Carr, of this
town, has returned to his home here after an
absence of some years spent in the service
in the Philippines, China and other places.
Mrs. Clara Hoffman, National Secretary Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
will address the citizens of Rockville, 10 the
Town Hall, on Thursday, August 18th, at
7:45 o'clock. No one can afford 10 miss 1t.
During the severe storm early Monday
morning last hay-rick on the farm of VIM.
Fulks, near Hunting Hill, was struck by
lightning and burned. A few days before
this misfortune, he lost a horse from the
same cause.
Sixty and fifty-hve years were the respect
i've ages Of Mr.. Richard Bartlett Harlow,
widower, and Miss Elizabeth Ernestine
Harrison, both OF Chicago, who were mar
ried here on Wednesday by Rev. Thomas
j. Packard.
The Travilah Cornet Band will hold q
picnic In Thomas H. Offutt's grove, near
that place, on Thursday, August 14th, be-
ginning at 8 o'clock, A M, with game Of
base ball, followed by other amusements,
such as dancing, etc.
Warner, the little son Of W. r. Pun.
phrey, Of this place, met with painful &C.
cident on Thursday by falling from the third
story Of their new dwelling house. He was
badly bruised about the body and limbs, but
no bones we're broken.
Edward Darby. at one time prominent
citizen of this county, living in the vicinity
Of Hyattstown, died in Baltimore on Satur.
day last. He has two brothers in this coun.
ty, George Darby, at Hyattstown, and Ma
than Darby, at Gaithersburg
The Bennett Medicine Company, Of Nor.
fork, Va, are in town giving nightly free
performances on the vacant lot next 10 the
Town Hall The show Is chaste, refined
and up-to. date. All are invited TO attend
Eyes tested during the day free.
Mr.. Walter Ssemore end Miss Eva Stln.
son, both oil Washington, were married here
on Saturday afternoon last by Rev. 8. X.
White. On Sunday evening the same min.
lister married Mr.. Joseph Taylor and Miss
Florence Boteler, also Of Washington.
st. Rose Church, Chopper Station, near
Gaithersburg, will hold It's annual pic mic on
Wednesday, August 10. Clay pigeon tour
nament In the morning, with prizes To sue