Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-08-07
Must Be No Pool Selling and No Objec'
tionable Attractions at Rockville
Fair or VIII Boycott.

II betting on the races, Objectionable side.
shows or other demoralizlng features are
permitted at the annual Fair to be held here
this month the Womans Christian Temper.
ance Union of the county will not only boy.
colt the exhibition, but will do everything
In its power to inJure it In other ways. This
was decided at the annual meeting OF the Or
ganization at Sandy Spring on Thursday Of
last week. Petitions will be circulated
among the citizens of the county urging
Judge Henderson to refuse to grant license
for pool selling, and the Fair management
will be appealed to to exclude all attrac.
tons OF an improper character.
If satisfactory assurances are not forth
coming the women declare the war will be
on, and they promise to come pretty close
to putting the Agricultural Society out of
business. II, on the contrary, the protests
are needed the members of the various
unions of the county will pitch In and work
tooth and nail to make the approaching Fair
the most successful ever held at Rockville.
At the meeting confidence was expressed
that Judge Henderson would not grant a
license for pool selling on the races, and q
resolution was unanimously passed COM
mending him for heretofore refusing such
permits.
But the belief that the Fair management
might not exercise the desired care in select.
ing attractions resulted Ia the threat OF boy
colt.
The meeting was regarded as the most
interesting and enthusiastic ever held by the
organization. 1t was presided over by the
president, Mrs. Sarah 7. Miller, OF Ashton,
and was attended by large number Of tenn.
perance workers from all sections Of the
county. An interesting feature was an ad-
dress by Mrs. Mary r. Haslup, president of
the state union, whose subject was, "What
the w. G. T. U. Has Done for the Women
OF Maryland"
Resolutions were unanimously adopted
reafflrming the loyalty of the union to its
fundamental principles of total abstinence
and prohibition for the State, discouraging
the use of narcotics and tobacco in all forms,
favoring one standard Of purity for men
and women and opposing the use of alco
hol as medicine or for culinary purposes
The following officers were elected -
President. Mrs. 8. T. Miller, of Ashton; re-.
cording secretary, Mrs. Nellie Farquhar, of
Olney; corresponding secretary, Miss Re-.
becca T. Miller, of Ashton; treasurer, Mrs.
Florence M. Wetherald, of Sandy Spring
Superintendents of the different departments
were also named, as follows: Press, Mrs.
Elizabeth T. Stabler; purity, Mrs. T. T.
Jackson; parlor meetings, Mrs. Florence
NJ. Wetherald; Sabbath observance,
Mrs. Louisa Brooke; evangelistic, Mrs. E
l.. Tatum; almshouse, Miss Edith Far
quhar; juvenile, Miss Helen Wetherald
literature, Mrs. Emily T. Massey; secretary
young women's branch, Miss Hattie Mont.
gomery.
The Society OF the Friends OF the Sandy
Spring neighborhood has Joined the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union Of
Montgomery County in an effort to have
all forms of gambling and other objection
able features excluded from the approaching
Rockville fair. At a meeting OF the Society
Of Friends at Ashton Sunday Roger B. Far
quhar was appointed to wait upon the fair
officials and ascertain what it Is proposed
to do in regard to pool.selling and other at
fractions that are regarded as demoralizng.
He called upon Secretary Bogley Monday
and was informed that the fair managers
have no idea of taking any steps looking
to betting on the races and gave assurances
that the utmost care would be exercised In
selling privileges.