Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1903-05-15

Town and Country.


read the advertisement of D. F. Shook In
another column.
The new ad of Frank Libbey & Co., on
our second page, should attract the attention
of farmers and barn builders.
Prof. Lee Davis Lodge, of South Carolina,
has been visitor at the home of his father,
Rev. j. L.. Lodge, at Gaithersburg.
Some excitement has been caused in
Somerset county by the discovery of the
appointment OF negro postmaster In that
county.
A strawberry and ice.cream festival will
be held at Choppers school house on Thurs
day evening, May 81 BY order of the
committee.
Mr.. R. Thomas West, principal of the
Rockville High School, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect at the close of the
present school year.
Rev. Lewis Jones, OF Charles county, has
received and accepted call to fill the pal
pits of the Poolesville, Edwards Ferry, Ira.
viah and Seneca churches.
The ladies of the Germantown M, E
Church South will hold an ice cream and
strawberry festival In H. D. Waters hall on
Thursday, May 21st All are invited
The graduates OF the Rockville High
School this year are Misses Vaudia Brad.
dock, Bessie Thompson, Matte England,
Mamie Ricketts, and Mary Griffith.
The pupils of Germantown public school
will hold Lawn Fete on the school. house
grounds the afternoon and evening of Fri.
day, May %. BY order OF committee.
The town commissioners of Poolesville
have elected Mr.. Elias Price as mayor of
that town and DR.. r. r. Gott as secretary.
The financial condition of the town is found
to be in good condition.
The Andrew Small Academy base ball
team will play the Poolesville team at Daw
sonville on Saturday, May 10Th, at P. M.
This will be one OF the best OF the season,
as both teams are in fine practice.
Mr.. William B. Mobley has been elected
president OF the board of town commission.
ers of Laytonsvlle, The newly elected
board consists of Messrs. W. B. Mobley, W ,
d. Bell and Uriah Griffith
Mr.. Joseph Waller Mills and Miss Berthe
West. both of this county. were married
here last week by Rev. Thomas H. Camp.
bell. pastor OF the Baptist Church, the cere
mony taking place at the home of the min
lister.
The ladies of the Methodist Protestant
Church OF BrookeVille will hold q straw
berry festival at the hall in Brookevile on
Thursday and Friday afternoons and even
ings, May 2lst and 22nd. All are cordially
invited
Mrs. Florence s. Pyles, highly respect
ed resident of the vicinity Of Cabin John,
this county, died last week of consumption,
aged 90 years She had been i'll for long
while Her husband, William fl. Pyles,
survives her.
MIR. Perry A. GloYd has purchased of Mr..
Fred. W. Carlyle, near Washington Grove,
q building site, containing Eve acres OF land.
paying 800 an acre for 1t He is making
ready4or the erection OF residence to cost
about 81 500.
Clinton Nicholson, aged nineteen, died at
the home Of his parents on Thursday even
ing of last week, and his remains were in
TERED at Mountain View Cemetery, near
Comus. He WAS son of Wallace NchOl-
son, of Comus.
The Travilah Dramatic Club will present
the temperance drama, "Ten Nights in a
Bar Room" on Saturday, May 23rd, in the
hall over Mr.. I. NJ. Hoye's store, begin
ming at $50 p. M Proceeds for benefit of
TravIlah Cornet Band.
Mr.. Jacob N. Thomas, of Boyds, has re-
turned from Columbian University Hospital
in Washington, where he had a most deli
cate operation performed upon his eye. 1t
is believed the sight, once partly destroyed,
will be entirely restored.
William II. Talbot and Edward @. Peter,
as Trustees, on Saturday last sold to DIR.
Lemuel Offutt, Of Greensburg, Pa, the Loei.
town turnpike about four miles from Rock
vile. The price paid was $133 per acre.
AS required by law, all property in this
county upon which taxes for the year 1902
remain unpaid was sold at auction on Mon.
day. In Rockville district thirty pieces were
sold, most of which was bought by the
County Commissioners, the entire lot bring
ing about $500.
At a meeting of the jefferson Club, held
at the library in Gaithersburg last week the
Misses Darby, Of Washington, gave a num
Der of vocal and instrumental selections
adding greatly TO the interest Of the pro-
gram rendered under the direction Of the
program committee.
The ladies of Mt. Pleasant M. L. Church
South, near Dickerson, will hold an ice
cream and strawberry festival, for the bene
tit of the church, on Whit Monday, June
LIST, 1903, commencing at 10 A. NJ. II rainy,
it will be he d the next iair day The pub
lie cordially invited.
Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, aged ~ years,
died at the home OF her sister, Mrs. Emma
Wachter, in Frederick, last Saturday night
after an illness OF lew weeks. Six daugh'
tiers, four OF wbom live In Frederick and two
at Boyd's, the latter Mrs. Richard ID. Haw-
kins and Mrs. Fleet Staley, survive her.
Mrs. Mary Agnes Lynch, respected resi-
dent OF Potomac district, this county, diec
on Friday last at her home near Potomac
aged so years. Consumption, from which
she had long been sufferer, was the cause o
death She was the wife of Mr.. VIM. I
Lynch, who, with several children, survives
her.
The base ball season here was inaugu
rated Saturday afternoon when the Morn
Peters team played at the Fair Grounds il
the presence OF a large crowd. The Wash