Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-04-05
Hutal aud gersn,aal.
Town and Country.

wedding anniversary on Sunday last, at
which were gathered their 10 children.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Boyd's held a
meeting last week at the home of Mrs. M.
It. Lewis. 1t was decided to purchase new
organ for the Boyd's Presbyterian Church.
The depot at GAINESVILLE is about COM
pleted, and will be put in use about May /,
when the new double track improvements
between GAINESVILLE and Dickerson will be
ready for use.
A new addition to the line-the best OF
leather, workmanship and fttings-is put
into 1.-THE Tailor Made" the pride of Dolly
Madison, retailing at "a. For sale at rep
resentative shoe stores.
There will be meeting of the Woman's
Union Missionary Society at the Presbyte-
rlan Church on Wednesday, April 10th, at
3 o'clock, P. M, and special service in the
evening at 7:3O O'Clock. The public is cor
daily invited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Nicholson moved out
from Washington last week and are now
occupying the cottage recently purchased
by their son, l.. L. Nicholson, Jr. Their
daughter, Mrs. Morgan Washburn, and her
husband, will also make Rockville their
future home.
The dwelling on the Veirs mill farm, sit
uated about three miles from Rockville, was
destroyed by fire last Sunday, entailing a
loss of about $1,000. The building was
unoccupied at the time. How the fire start
ed is not definitely known. The structure
was the property of Postmaster James P.
B. Veirs, of Rockville.
The properties situated in the several dis
tricts of this county heretofore advertised
in the SENTINEL on account of unpaid
taxes due Montgomery county and the State
of Maryland will be offered at public sale, in
front OF the Court House, Rockville, on
Monday next, April 9Th, 1907, at the hour
of 10 o'clock, A. NJ, by the County Treas
urer to satisfy said taxes.
Mr.. Joshua Higgins, of Unity, this coun-
ty, was severely injured while near WASH
ington Grove last Friday. He was hauling
merchandise and had loaded his wagon
high. On going down hill short dis
lance from the station box on which Mr..
Higgins was sitting toppled over. He was
thrown under the horses and rendered I'M
conscious
The Montgomery Commandery, No. 10,
Knights Templars, has elected the follow
ing officers: Eminent commander, Joseph
Reading; generallssimo, Edwin s. Hege;
captain general, Arthur B. Gleason; senior
warden, DIR. Geo. E. Lewis; junior warden,
Roger Shaw; prelate, James F. Allen
recorder, Henry B. Cramer; treasurer, T.
|. Fulks.
The annual Baltimore Southern Meth.
odst Conference concluded its weeks ses-
sion at Staunton, Va, on Tuesday last and
adjourned to meet at Roanoke, Va, next
year. Rev. F. J. Prettyman presided over
this meeting. The following ministers were
appointed to this county: Poolesville B. v.
Switzer; Clarksburg, F. F. Neel, supply,
and J. l.. Dulaney Gaithersburg, II. w.
Burruss; Rockville, E. l.. Woolf, F. It.
Griffith, supply; Colesville, H. q. Smith /;
Emory, j. Fl. Balthis.
Under the new regulations in regard to
speed of vehicles along the Conduit road
within the corporate limits of Glen Echo,
Automobiles are now to be permitted to
run their machines at rate of speed not TO
exceed twelve miles an hour. Heretofore
the regulations limited the speed to six
miles, The change was brought about by
conference between Mayor Garrett and
the members of the Town Council and mem.
bers of the Automobile Association of Wash
ington.
In decision Of the Maryland Court of
Appeals on Friday last, the validity of the
involuntary features of the Shoemaker road
law, passed at the Legislature of 1904, was
sustained The portion providing for road
improvement by the voluntary action of the
commissioners of any county already has
been upheld by that tribunal. The section
upheld provides that the commissioners
must improve certain portions of the road,
provided the abutting owners assume 10
per cent. of the cost. In the decision, Judge
McSherry, of the Court of Appeals, who
sat In the case oil the Clrcuit court Oh rIeu-
erck County, was reversed.
Among the real estate sales in Montgom-
cry county recently are the following -
Chevy Chase Land Company to Joseph A.
Burkhardt, lot at Chevy Chase, $4,000
Nlnian M. Perry to Mary E. Ofutt, 38 acres
In Bethesda district; Thomas w. Smith TO
Thomas Bushby, four lots at Takoma Park !:
Chevy Chase Land Company TO James NJ
Eker, lot at Chevy Chase, $4,000; William
G. Van Hoy to Sarah s. Martin, two lots at
Kensington; John T. Glen to Thos. Bush
by, four lots at Takoma Park; Emma II
Walker to WILDER +. Shinn, two lots al
Kenaington; Chevy Chase Land Company
10 deury l.. Gilbert, lot at Chevy Chase
$1,000.