Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-07-17
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Town and Country.

Town ana country.
A colt show will be given at Poolesyille
this county, on Saturday, July 25th, at 1:8(
O'Clock, P. M.
Mrs. Thomas r. Falvey, of New Orleans
is visiting her father, Mr.. Spencer c. Jones
at this place.
Robert Buzzard, employed at the quarry
at Dickerson, this county, was hurt Tues.
day by stone falling on his head.
Milton W. Phillips has been appointed
postmaster at Woodslde, this county, to sue
coed Thomas M. Raney, who has resigned
Hon George A. Pearre will please accept
our thanks for copy of the Year Book of
the Department OF Agriculture for 1909. II
is valuable publication.
Mr.. Richard W. Allnutt, well.known
farmer of Jacksonville, fell about thirty feet
in his barn on Friday last, breaking his left
leg and inflicting bruises and severe shock.
The Poolesvlle and Jacksonville base ball
teams will play game at Jacksonville on
Saturday next. On Saturday OF next week,
the day Of the Colt Show, the same clubs
will play at Pooesville.
The Standard Sewing Machine will be
put in your house free of charge on trial
If you are contemplating buying a machine.
Old machine taken in exchange. Il. w.
Tschiffely, agent, Gaithersburg.
The second quarterly meeting OF the Mont
gomery County Anti-Saloon League will
be held at Laytonsvlle on August 9th, and
will be in the nature of a basket pic MIC
The public invited to come and bring their
baskets.
Mr. John White, one of the oldAt resi-
dent OF this vicinity and man much re.
spected, died Sunday morning, near this
town, aged rs years. A general breakdown
of the system was the cause of death. He
leaves two sons.
The net earnings of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad during the fiscal year closed
June 80 was over $25,000,OOO. The net in.
crease over the previous year was nearly
$3,000,O00. A per cent dividend will
shortly be declared
The Gaithersburg Epworth League of
Epworth M. Z. Church will hold a pic mic
in the grove opposite b. & o. Station on
Saturday, July 25th. beginning P. M, for
the benefit of the NJ. E Church parsonage.
Public cordially invited.
The second quarterly meeting of Pooles.
vile Circuit, Methodist Church South, will
be held at Mt Pleasant, near Dickerson, on
next Saturday and Sunday. DR.. Harper
will preach Saturday morning at 1890, and
Sunday morning at II O'Clock.
The old hotel property at Clarksburg,
which has been recently run by WIN. e.
Lewis, was sold on Saturday last by Messrs.
K. q. Peter and W. V. Bouic, as trustees, to
Mrs. Martha J. Kemp for 5000, two acres of
land going with the building. This prop
erty is one OF the Oldest hostelries in the
county.
At the international. shooting contest at
Bisley, England, on the 18th instant, the
Americans recaptured the Palma trophy
Our team scored 1870 out of a possible
1900, defeating England by fifteen points
Mr. George Cook, of this county, was the
champion of the contest leading the Amer
lean team.
The GAINESVILLE pic mic, for the benefit of
st. Mary's Church, that place, will be held
this year on Wednesday. July 22nd. A
tournament will take place in the morning,
dancing during afternoon and evening. The
other features that have made this pic mic
30 popular in the past will not be lacking
this year.
The annual convention of the WOman's
Christian Temperance Union of this county
was held Tuesday in the Lyceum at Sandy
Spring Officers were elected as follows
Mrs. Sarah +. Miller president; Mrs. Re
becca Miller, vice PRESIDENT Mrs. Nellie
Farquhar, secretary; Mrs. Florence Weth
erald, treasurer.
Mrs. Virginia A. Alvey, native of this
county, and Tor many years resident of
Clarksburg district, died at ga South Gil
NOR street, Baltimore, on Friday last She
was 70 years old. She is survived by two
children-Nacy T. Umstead and Mrs. Jas
A. Colley, both OF Baltimore-and sister,
Mrs. Robert Hilton, OF Clarksburg.
A large threshing machine and traction
engine recently received by W. l.. SLOT.
tlemyer g. Brother. of Boyd's, over one Of
the Western railroads, was robbed on It's
travels of 5000 worth of equipment All
the brasses from the engine are supposed 10
have been stolen by tramps. A new patent
weighing apparatus, costing over 800, was
also stolen.
There will be picnic held by the mem
bers of Mt Lebanon Methodist Protestant
Church, near Damascus, this county, on
Saturday afternoon, July 25th, beginning at
o'clock Rev. Charles Scanlon has been
engaged to deliver one Of his famous TEN
perance lectures on this occasion at the hour
of $3.50 o'clock. The public is cordially in
vted 10 attend.
Gertrude Eckhardt, eight years old daugh.
ter of Mr. Cornelius Eckhardt, of Kensing.
ton, was painfully injured last Friday night
about O'Clock by falling from hammock
while visiting a neighbor. DIR. W. l.. Lewis
was summoned and dressed a cut on the
little girls head. The wound is not regarded
as serious, and the child's condition was re
ported To be very encouraging.
Rev. j, A. Hopkins has closed his labors
as pastor of the Christian Churches at Rock
vile and Redland, and will start on Saturday
for Bethany Beach, Del, where be will take
part in the program Of the Summer Assem-
bly, of the Christian Churches Of the East.
For the present his headquarters will be at
Rockville His successor will be chosen as
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