Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-09-25

Town and Country.

Town and Country.
Let every Democrat be a worker for the
Democratic ticket on registration day.
Lost, on September 18th, brown and
white beagle puppy. Reward If returned to
Maynard Penn, Redland, Md.
The clothing store of Mr.. W. NordlinRer,
Georgetown, D. o., will be closed on Thurs.
day, October LIST, on account of religious
holiday.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington last week to Clinton W. Cornell, of
Potomac, and May M. Beymer, Of Wash.
ington.
In the garden Of Mr.. Hiram Grady. at
this place may be seen pear tree loaded
with fruit and bossoming for the second
time this season.
AT meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners, on Tuesday, Mr.. Reverdy
Dronenburg, OF Carksburg district, was ap .
pointed a constable.
Mr.. David T. Rabbit, of Washington.
and Miss Mary g. Kraft, of this county,
were married in Washington, on Thursday
of last week, by Rev. Father Dolan.
The new advertisement of Lunsford G .
Orndorff, the popular Washington dealer
in fertilizer, machinery, &C., should attract
the attention OF farmers and dairymen.
The Rockville base ball team will close
NIL q at IN
on September Both, at 10 A. NJ, their oppo.
nents being the strong La Plata team.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Hunt.
ing Hill, this county, will be dedicated on
October 4th, 1908. Services In the morning
and afternoon All are cordially invited to
attend.
A heavy rain and hail storm occurred In
the vicinity OF Edwards Ferry, this county,
on Thursday of last week, and did much
damage to the corn crop, badly injuring the
fodder.
The place of registration for the 9th cleo.
ton district, at Gaithersburg, has been
changed to the Drug Store of DR.. G. W.
Etchson, instead Of the store of Mr.. John
A. Belt, recently burned.
A Confederate Concert will be given at
the Town Hall, Poolesville, for the benefit
Of ST. Peters Episcopal Church, on Friday
evening, September 25th, 1908. Admission,
IS cents. All are invited to come.
Mr.. W. W. Darby, of GAINESVILLE, shipped
to market last week three fine beef cattle,
weighing over eighteen hundred pounds
each, and others weighing from sixteen
down to fourteen hundred pounds.
Mr.. A. Clinton Brown, the Republican
nominee for County Commissioner from the
Third Collection District, has decided that
his business interests will not permit him
to make the fight and has retired from the
ticket.
Mr.. John Jones, of Jamestown district,
sent to this office on Tuesday mammoth
apple which is sixteen inches in circumfer-
ence and weighs pound and six ounces.
II is from the orchard on the Jones farm,
near Ounce Orchard.
The monthly meeting of the Womsn's
Christian Temperance Union will be held
at the residence of Mrs. Edwin M. West,
on Tuesday, September 30, at Z o'clock, p.
M. Business of importance requires the
presence of the members.
During the teachers institute last week
Teachers Association was organized by
electing p. s. Barnes, president; r. W.
Stout, vice president, and Mrs. Clara Mace,
secretary. The first meeting will be in No
vember.
Are you thinking of the registration Do
you know any young Democrats who are
entitled TO have their names on the books
this fall who might take word from you
In good humor and attend to this all i'm.
portant dutyS If you do not, then suggest
the thought to your friends.
Mr.. Frederick Swartback, farmer, who
resides near Ounce Orchard, this county, last
week lost two fine cows, one horse and four
hogs from hydrophobia. 1t is not known
how the animals contracted the disease. but
they are supposed to have been bitten by
one of the mad dogs seen in that vicinity
some weeks ago.
Col. William Kilgour, who has been con.
fined to his home here for ten days with a
severe attack of intercostal rheumatism, is
in the receipt of letter from Hon. Edwin
Warfield, inviting him to be one of the
speakers at Mt. Airy, on the 26th instant,
and requesting his services with him In his
canvass through the State
Mr. K. f. Droop, who has summer res
idence at this place, has issued invitatio ms
for the marriage OF bis daughter, Miss Bertha
Droop, to Mr.. Arthur Lederkus at All Souls
Church, Washington city, October 8, at 4:3C
I'M. The ceremony will be followed by q
reception at Rauscher's. The young couple
will make their home at Cologne, Germany
the home of Mr.. Lederkus.
Marcellus Corrick, a fifteen year old boy
of Kensington, was accidently shot on Thurs
day night of last week by cOlored lad
named James Robinson. The boys were on
their way home from a hunting trip when
Robinson, thinking the shotgun vas un
loaded, discharged it, shooting Corrlck in
the leg. Medical aid was procured, and 1t
is understood the injuries are not serious.
Wednesday Inspector F. F. Sharon. o
Washington, made an inspection OF thu
postofflce at Germantown, this county, o
which Miss Ida Dryer is postmaster TIT
inspection was TO investigate the charg'
made against Miss Dryer of dereliction o
duty and the report oil the inspector exon
Grated her and commended her for the goo'
conduct OF that Office since her appointment
The annual meeting of the Woman
Home Missionary Society of the Baltimor
Conference, N. e. Church South, will b
held in the Methodist Church, at Rockville