Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-08-09
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Town and Country.


Town and Country.
Messrs. Charles Veirs and E. G. Pete
purchased the ]. A. Kemp farm, sold las
Tuesday by Charles N. Bouic and Albert N
Bouic, Assignees, for $7,254.
Judge Henderson, in the Circuit Court a
this place, has signed decree granting t.
James W. Mallonee an absolute divorce
from his wife, Martha A. Mallonee.
Baltimore and Ohio Excursion on Sun
day, August 18th, $1.00 to Harper's Ferry
Charlestown and Winchester and return
Train leaves Rockville at 9:08 A. M.
The Montgomery County Museum viii
be open to the public every Thursday dur
ing the summer from 10 A. M. to 100 P. M.
beginning July 4th. Admission, 10 cents.
A game of baseball, between the Rock.
vile nine and the club of Fort MYer, Va.
will be played at the Fair Grounds here
Saturday afternoon, beginning at 4 O'Clock.
Mr.. Lewis G. Gardiner recently purchas
ed the farm he has been tenanting for sever.
al years, situated near Middlebrooke, this
county, from Mr.. Horace Clarke for 10000.
Mr.. Joseph N. Peter and Miss Ida Vir-
ginia Peter, both of Colesvllle, this county,
w,, last week at Forest Glen by
Neg. O. ,sensteel, pastor Of st. Johns
Galhob. aarch.
harmon has, through her attor-
ta G. Peter, filed suit in the Cir.
cult vou.. - this place for an absolute d.
yorce from her husband, John W. Harmon,
on the ground of desertion.
Mr.. Charles Bean, who resides near Au-
trey Park, was painfully cut on the fore
head, on Friday last, by lot of bricks fall
ing from scaffold erected against build
ing on which he was doing carpenters
work.
wv. Benjamin was arrested, last week,
at Travilah, this county, by Deputy United
States Marshal Lewis F. Garter, of Frederick,
on charge of sending an obscene letter
through the mail addressed to Mrs. Thomas
Carlisle.
The b. Y. p. Union of the Rockville
Baptist Church will hold Bread and Cake
Sale on Saturday, August 10th, from 1880
A. M. till later, in the store room adjoining
Blacks market. For the benefit of the new
church fund.
The ladies of Ascension Church will hold
a Lawn Fete on Thursday, August 22nd, on
the grounds of Mrs. Fred. Ward, Gathers
burg Oobject, putting steam heat in the
Episcopal Rectory and repairs on Ascension
Church. Supper, ice-cream and cake and
fancy articles for sale.
Mr.. Alton W. Cornwell, of Kensington,
aged thirty eight years, died at his home on
Thursday afternoon after several months ILL.,
ness. Mr.. Cornwell for some years was cleo
trlcian at the State, War and Navy Depart
ment, Washington. He was twice mem
Der of the town council of Kensington. The
Masonic order took charge of his funeral.
About 9 o'clock last Monday night the
dead body of Amos j. Cooley, resident oil
the upper section of the county, was found
o iongslde the Baltimore and Ohio X. X. track
not far from Buck Lodge station. His body
was not badly mangled, but both arms were
1roken. He had been visiting friend and
,as on his way home, and 1t is supposed
/ nat becoming bewildered in the darkness
lie wandered on the railroad tracks.
Epworth M. E. Church, Gaithersburg, will
hold its annual picnic Saturday, August
18th, in Brooks woods, near Galthersburg
High School. There will be games for all
and refreshments in abundance. The COM
mittee is as follows: Epworth League-Mrs.
Ogg, Miss Ethel Phebus, ID. f. Virts; Sun
day SCHOOLGIRLS j. b. Ely, Il. f. Banode,
Miss Mae Phebus; Ladies' Aid Society
Mrs. Carrie Ward, Mrs. Sarah Bottlemay,
Mrs. M. E. Phebus.
Glad to be home again after trip con-
Stunning FIVE months abroad, Mr.. John Joy
Edson and Mrs. Edison reached Washing
ton last week and both are receiving the
of their many friends in the social
and business worlds. Both declared the
Journey had been one of continued delight,
and they derived much benefit from the
of scene. Mr.. and Mrs. Edison
sailed from Boston In February, and their
itinerary included Egypt and the valley OF the
Nile, southern Italy and Naples and Rome,
France and Paris, Holland, where the Hague
was the principal objective point; Belgium
and England. They sailed from Sonthamp-
ton about two weeks ago.
About 10 o'clock Sunday night last IRE
broke out in the frame stable on the prem
Uses of Mrs. Lucy limerick, situated in the
Park at the eastern part of this town, and
was entirely consumed before the IRE appa-
ratus arrived on the scene, so rapidly did it
burn. Mr.. Emmert Dove, rural mail car
rier on route No. 2 stabbed his horses there,
and states that he had not been 10 the build
Ing since the preceding Saturday on his re-
turn over the mail route and that he locked
the door when he left the building to turn
his horses out at pasture. The origin OF the
a-n 30 therefore a mystery. A lot OF hay,
1U, baru blankets belonging to Mr..
Jo7e were ga-n. d up. He had neglected
Be- r1n A wagon into the building in
he t7g.l place nd left it standing in the
,ava 1gartF us saving it. He had no
insurance, an,. le loss will amount to 800.
Held UP by a NegrO.-A man, said
to be a mulatto, attempted, Monday morn
ing last, to hold up Mr.. Ernest NJ. Holland,
a merchant of Redlsnd, this county, while
on his way to Rockville to deposit money
in the bank.
The attempt was made about half way be-
tween Redland and Derwood, at a place
denseIy shaded by trees, near the crossing
of small stream. The man came running
from the woods, calling for MIR. Holland to
halt, when the latter took revolver from
A. k,rc, aoat baatlo hin, nd Hrad at hia