Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1904-07-15

The Mayor and Council of Glen Echo,
this county, have fixed the tax rate for the
year 1904 at so cents on each 800 worth
Of property. The taxable basis Of the
town is about 5000. The road tax from
the county, q tax Of ten dollars year from
each carriage that uses the Glen Echo end
OF Cabin John Bridge as a stand, and the
revenue from other sources will bring the
towns incoms for the year up TO approx.
mately $3.50.
The Board of Directors of the AgrIcul.
tural Society at meeting, held last Tuesday
decided TO discontinue the lunch, known as
the rresldents dinner. The reason that
prompted this action by the Board was that
the lunch had grown 10 be so large an affair
and so many persons enjoyed the privilege
that 1t was not deemed right that several
hundred should be dined at the expense Of
the Society and several thousand equally
entitled TO the privilege denied it.
At recent meeting Of the Mayor and
Council of Rockville the tax rate for the
year was fixed at 90 cents on the 800, with
an additional 90 cents on the 800 to pro.
vide for sinking fund and the payment OF
the interest on the bonded indebtedness.
This Is the same as last year. The board
decided TO purchase at once 300 feet of first.
class hose. The clerk reported that the in,
terest on the bonded Indebtedness, Mount
ing to $57O, had been paid.
The committee in charge, Messrs. T. D..
Richards, John T. Warfield and ]. +. Ben
son, informs Us that during the week be-
ginning with the 18th instant the trustees
ii Neelsville Church will have force of
hands at work making aisles and walks and
laying off lots and fixing boundaries in the
cemetery Of the church. All who wish to
secure lots not used or to secure titles to lots
already used by them will have an oppor-
tunity Of dong so by applying to the above
committee.
Secretary s. K. White has annou need that
the following have been granted certificates
to teach In the public schools of the county
IS result OF the recent examination held
here: First grade certificates, Misses Minnie
McIlwee, Fannie Snouffer and Ethel Price
and Mrs. K. K. Griffith second grade Ger.
ti6cates, Misses Annie l.. Waters, Norinne
King, Flora P. Hyatt, Lena V. Tolson, M.
Ella Ofutt, Helen Pierce and Helen Roger,
and Messrs. Edw. W. Broome, Clifton W.
Devilbliss, Jos. II. Waters, James V. Baker
and Richard E. Haney.
Col. John W. Averitt, editor and propri-
etor Of the Evening Times, OF Cumberland,
Nd, and formerly oil this county, while en-
gagged about the printing press of his paper
on Tuesday last was caught in the machin.
cry and badly injured. He went into a mar.
row space between two fly wheels OF the
driving shaft of the electric motor TO tight
en- some machinery, when his coat was fam
ned into one OF the wheels. In an instant
his coat was wound around the shaft and
his head was wedged against piece of iron.
The power Of the machinery was shut of by
the assistants In the office and Mr.. Averitt
was released, with Inconsistencies, two
cuts 10 the head, cut on the chin and his
clothing much torn as the result Of the acct
dent. After medical treatment in the hos
pital, he was restored 10 consciousness and
his wounds declared to be painful but not
fatal.