Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-12-20
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Town and Country.

Town and Country.
The Christmas entertainment at McDor
aid Chapel will be held on December est
at7P. NJ.
The Christmas entertainment Of the NJ
E. Church South at Colesville, this county
will be held December 25th at 1880 P. N
All are cordially invited.
The young folks Of the Derwood Sunda.
School will have a Christmas entertainment
at the Baptist chapel on the evening of De
cember Goth. The public will be welcome
The ladies of St. Peters congregation wi
hold an oyster supper in Grange Hall, q
Olney, on Thursday evening, January 10TH
All are invited There will be music ant
dancing.
The annual supper by the ladies Of 81
Gabriel's Church will be given in the K. O
p. Hall at Potomac on Tuesday evening
January 14th. Music and dancing. Ever!
one is welcome.
Invitations have been issued for the mar
rage of Miss Ssllie ]. King, daughter o
Mr.. Rufus K. King, of Damascus, and Mr.
William jackson Day, also OF Damascus
on December 25th.
M. and Mrs. Up.To.Date World will
mold reception for all nations at the Rock
Vile Baptist church Christmas night. De-
ccuber 25th, at 1880 o'clock, P. NJ. Every
ore is cordially invited.
The Sunday School of Grace NJ. E
Church South, Gaithersburg, will hold 1T
Christmas entertainment on Thursday even
ing, December 26, commencing at 2 o'clock
All are cordially invited to attend.
The Sunday School of St. Luke's Luth-
eran Church, Redland, this county, will rem.
der a special Christmas program on Tues
day, December oath, at o'clock, P. M. All
are cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Charles Grimes, of Boyd's, who had
his arm amputated at the Emergency Hos.
pital, Washington, last week, after receiving
severe injuries in a crushing machine, has
returned home and is rapidly recovering
from the effects of the amputation.
Mrs. Josephine Diamond, widow Of VIM
G. Diamond and mother Mr.. John B. Dia-
mond, died last week at her home, Belle.
view, near Gaithersburg, at an advanced age {.
Mrs. Diamond was one Of the Oldest inhabi-
tants and had been in failing health for
long time.
At the Neelsville Sunday School Christ
mas entertainment next Monday, Deem.
Der 23rd, at P. M, Mr.. B. II. Warner will
give his stereopticon lecture on the Holy
Land. A musical program will be rendered
and treat given to the Sunday School
children by Santa Claus. Everybody in.
vited.
Invitations have been issued for the mar.
rage of Miss Laura Gassaway, daughter of
Mr.. William A. Gassaway, and Mr.. Bowie
F. Waters, of Germantown. The ceremony
will take place the afternoon OF December
26th at the home of Mrs. Joseph Reading,
this town. Rev Walter p. Grggs, rector
of the Episcopal Church at Poolesville, will
off1ciate.
MIR. II. Dorsey Etchison, well.known
uber of the Frederick Bar, and Miss
Msry Helen Ward, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Ward, of Barnesvilie, this coun-
y were married on Thursday afternoon Of
week at the parsonage of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Frederick, by Rev. A. j.
Gill. Miss Effle Crummitt, of Frederick,
an intimate friend of the bride, was the only
attendant. The bride wore handsome
travelling costume, and Immediately after
the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Etchison left on
wedding trip.
Col. Thomas Hemling Stockton Boyd, a
resident of the Confederate Soldiers Home,
Pikesville, Md, died at that institution on
Wednesday night of last week. He was
born in this county. AT the commencement
of the war between the States he enlisted at
New Orleans as ensign in Company F, First
Louisiana Infantry, was made commissary
OF the regiment and remained in that COM
mand until he was transferred to Reads
Heavy Artillery as first lieutenant. He was
afterward commissioned as lieutenant. colo
mel of the Forty seventh Battalion of Vir.
ginia Calvary, operating In Southwest Vir-
ginia. He was wounded in the left leg at
Gaines Mill and was paroled April 10, 1865,
at Danville, Va. AT the time of his death
he was 70 years old. Col. Boyd was ad-
mitted to the home December 8, 1895. He
was druggist by profession.