Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-10-13
I otai and Personal.
Town and Country.


Gov. Crothers has appointed John M
Faconer, of Silver Spring, this county, E
deputy game warden.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. D. Laird left their home
here yesterday to take up winter resi-
dence in Baltimore.
The quarterly meeting of the Anti
Saloon League will be held at Boyd's on
October 31st at 10 A. M.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Shadd, residents Of
California, are visiting Rev. and Mrs. S. R.
White, of this town, parents of Mrs. Shadd.
DIR. Claiborne H. Mannar, of this town,
has sold to Mr.. VIM. G. Baker, of Frederick
county, farm of 65 acres, near DECKER
son, for So, 500.
Mr.. H. A. Dawson started for Pine Ridge,
South Dakota, on Thursday. Business in
terests there will prolong his absence from
home for about month.
The meetineo the W. C. T. U. will be held
at the home of Mrs. Winfield Magruder on
Tuesday, October 18th, at 3 O'Clock, P M.
Hope all our members will come and bring
friend.
Mr. John Collins is at present refitting
his business house in the eastern section
of this town. Among the Improvements
is included the establishment of fashion
able ice-cream parlor.
Miss Esther Bursdorf and Mr.. Schuyler
Small, both of Chevy Chase Lake, this
county, were married in Rockville on Mon
day by Rev. S. r. White, the ceremony
taking place at the home of the minister.
A literary and debating society has been
organized among the pupils of the Sandy
Spring High School with Robert P. Weth-
erald president and Lydia Tatum secre
tary. 1t will meet every Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. M. Austin. of Bethesda,
have issued invitations to the marriage of
their daughter, Miss Elsie Austin, and Mr..
James l.. Morrison, Jr., also of Bethesda.
which will take place the evening of 0cto-
Der 10Th.
Mr.. John W. Bartlett, farmer of the
vicinity of Germantown, this county. died
on Wednesday of last week, aged "a years.
Typhoid fever and heart trouble were the
cause of his death. He is survived by his
widow and ten children.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Miss Augusta N. Thomas,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. f. P. Thomas, of
Sandy Spring, and Mr.. X. N. Walfe, of
Washington, the ceremony to take place
October 18th at the home of the bride.
Ernest White, young farmer of near
BOyds, this county, was seriously. if not
critically. injured last Saturday at his
home, when young colt threw him and
fell on him. He was injured about his
hips and body, and paralysis threatened.
f. C. Peter and Frank Higgins. trustees.
have sold to Mr. Robert F. Kanode the
property of the late Levi Watkins. cOmpris-
ing about 400 acres for 10000. The land
lies near Middlebrook and is in close prox-
unity to a large tract owned by Mr.. Kanode.
The crops were included in the sale.
Mrs. Eliza Dalbey, wife of Prof. Albert S.
Dalbey, died at her home here last We'd
nesday morning, aged IS years. She is
survived by her husband. Mrs. Dalbey
was Miss Beard. of Boonsboro, Md, and
for many years was postmistress there.
She had lived in Rockville about rs years.
The cadet corps of the Rockville High
School will visit the Laurel Fair on OctO-
Der 10th and participate in the competitive
drill among the cadet corps of the high
schools of the State. The Rockville Or
ganization has membership of forty and
Darby; first lieutenant. Frederick Hays :;
second lieutenant. Otis Hicks.
DIR. VIM H. Trail. son of Mr. Hezekial
Trail. who resides near this town, has pur-
chased o. the heirs of John f. Wilson the
home farm of the deceased. located on the
Great Falls road, about two miles from
acres The price paid is private, but it is
said to be large one, as the farm ranks
among the first in this county.
The eighty-seventh birthday anniversary
of Mr.. Warwick P. Miller, one of the oldest
and bestknOwn residents of Sandy Spring
neighborhood was pleasantly celebrated
few afternoons ago, when about sixty of
his friends gathered at the Miller home in
honor of the occasion. Mr. Chas. G. Porter
ninety-two years old. helped Mr.. Miller to
receive. The afternoon was marked by
number of interesting incidents.
The Janet Montgomery Chapter held its
monthly meeting on Wednesday of last
At the election held to elect delegates and
alternates to the Maryland Conference of
the d. a. r., Mrs. }. L. Wilson and Mrs
Julian Wallace we're elected delegates and
Mrs. J. Eden Hartshorn. Miss Marie Tai
bolt, Mrs. George Henderson. Mrs. Frank
Stone, Mrs. j. Harry Cunningham and Mrs
d. II. Warfield alternates.
Surveyors are at work laying out the
route for a new electric railway which will
extend from Chevy Chase, this county. to
the Great Falls. distance of about nine
miles. The line will be built by the men
who have recently been buying up hun
dreds of acres between Chevy Chase and
the Falls. II is understood that the pro-
jectors will also build fine boulevard to
parallel the trolley and will endeavor to
induce the building along their line of a
series Of magnificent country homes.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs
has accepted an invitation from the Ken
sington Woman's Club to hold its semi
annual meeting at Kensington. The meet
ing will be held on October 3lst and will,
II is thought, be attended by large
number of club women from all parts Of
the Ctata IL .,fIl ka tho fret time that the