Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-08-14
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Town and Country.

MT. u. u. hmlSe mas been appointed
teacher at Shady Grove school.
Mrs. Elizabeth Denig, of Columbus, Ohio
is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. A. Braddock,
oil this place.
Hon. Edwin Warfeld has sgnifed his
intention of attending the Fair on Thurs.
day, the Goth instant.
Mr.. John F. Shorb, Of Frederick county.
and Miss Halle M. Kuster, daughter Of Geo.
F. Kuster, OF this county, were married in
Washington on Monday
An additional attraction of the Agricul.
iural Fair, next week, will be the presence
Of two troops of cavalry from Fort Myer,
Va Fine exhibition drills will be given.
The Rockville and Germantown base ball
teams engaged in an interesting contest at
the Fair Grounds on Saturday afternoon last,
the former winning by the score of 7to6.
Owing TO III health Prof. A. G Harley
has retired from the teaching corps, having
taught in the State for more than twenty.
five years. He has resigned as teacher at
Blair's school.
The condition of Mr.. Thomas Fuks, the
general manager of the Gaithersburg Mill
ing aud Manufacturing Company of Gath
ersburg, who has been so seriously III with
appendicitis, is much better
Lost, q time-book, about one mile above
Rockville, along the steam railroad tracks.
A suitable reward offered for its return to
W. L. White, Rockville Station, or address
II. E. Heacock, Comus, Md.
Miss NJ. Ella Robertson. of this place, has
resigned as principal of the public school at
Shady Grove, and Miss Lula Clark, of Har-
per's Ferry, W. Va, has been appointed
principal OF the school at Cropley.
At a meeting OF the directors Of the Mont.
gomery County National Bank of Rockville
held last week Mr.. Richard Ii. Stokes was
elected director of the institution 10 the
place Of Judge John t. Vinson, deceased.
The following number of horses have been
entered for the races al the Fair next week :
2:6O class trot or pace, Q; run, 8; 2:22 class
pace, 2:1S class trot, g.; county run, 8
run, 8; Bio class trot, 8; mixed, trot or pace,
4; 2;27 class trot, 10; run, o; 2:14 class pace,
g.; 1886 class trot, 10; run, II.
The condition of Mr.. l. N. Lansdale, as.
sistant chemist at the Maryland Agricul-
tural College, is very serious. He is down
with typhoid fever at his fathers home, at
Damascus, this county. His brother, DR..
Smith Lansdale, has just got out of bed from
a serious attack of the same fever.
Mr.. Elmer A. Forbes, former resident Of
Kensington, who left there about year ago
TO engage 10 the milling business 10 North
Topeka, Kansas, has returned to this coun.
ty, and been reinstated in the government
service at Washington. While in Kansas
he sustained total loss of his business and
plant In the recent floods at Topeka.
During heavy thunderstorm which pass
cd over this section Of the county Sunday
morning lightning struck a corn house at
the residence of Mr.. Washington Day, in
the eastern section of Rockville. Three hogs
were paralyzed, but none killed, q cat was
killed and dog crippled. Mr.. Day was
sitting near window, but was unframed.
The young gentlemen of Rockville have
issued invitations for their annual Fair ball,
to be held at the Opera House here the even
ing Of August Goth. The committee OF ar
rangements Is composed of Messrs. Hugh 9.
Glasscot, John J. Higgins, Jr., Theodore s.
Mason and L. Randolph Mason. Mrs. H.
A. Dawson, Mrs. II. F. Reich, Mrs. Bepjl-
min g. Riggs and Mrs Q. A. Wilson will
act as chaperons.
The race committee of the Montgomery
County Agricultural Society has arranged
race for the Annual Fair to be held here
next week which is sure to prove of more
than ordinary interest to the Washington
sporting fraternity. The owners Of five we'll
known Washington horses have made up
purse oil $500, to which the Agricultural So
ciety will add $3.50, making quite hand
some sum to be contested for. The horses
entered in this event are John Dugan's Joe
D., ]. W. Hunters Domino, Gus Morgan's
Little Pearl, William Rackey's Nellie r.,
and @. Chicks Mamie ID.
Mr.. James T. Bogley, Secretary Of the
Agricultural Society, has announced the ap-
pointment of the following superintendents
Of the various exhibits at the annual fair TO
be held here on August 10, 10, 20 aud 81 {:
Poultry department, F. g. Waters, Calvin
Hick and Bates Etchison; exhibits 10 the
hall, Turner W. Welsh, John w. Keys,
Misses Ida Dove, Ada Warfeld, Clara Bell
and l.. V. Beall. He also appointed Messrs.
Luther Muncaster, Pearl Holland and Nal.
colin Fsrquhar as assistants in the secre-
tary's Office, and Messrs. Julian F. Walters,
Robert d. lsherwood and Maynard Penn as
clerks 10 the exhibition hall.
Mr.. W. II. Humphrey, our popular and
energetic fellow townsman, has just com
pIeted a number OF convenient improve
ments in his central Undertaking establish
ment, located in Rockville. He has added
q capacious chapel, in which to conduct
funeral service in case Of need, fitted with a
rostrum and an elevated platform for the
accommodation of choir, and with ample
seating capacity for an audience. He has
also arranged new and commodious exhi'
btion room, and provided for placing there.
In the largest and finest assortment OF casketl
and funeral equipments ever brought 10 the
county.
There will be an interesting grove meet
Ing at Beechdale Cemetery, on the Conduit
Road, near Cropley, during the last week Of
the present month. Beginning on Sunday
the 23rd, there will be preaching at 10 A
M. and at a suitable hour in the evening OF
every day in the week. On Thursday, th'
9th, there will be an all-day Sunday Schoo
basket picnic. A temperance meeting vii
be held on Thursday, the 9th, commencing
at 10 A. M. and continuing throughout tn
afternoon. Eminent speakers will be pres