Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-08-23
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Town and Country.

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The annual Fair dance will take place
Thursday evening" August 20, in the Rock
vile Town Hall.
Mr. Edgar Kyle, postal clerk on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, spent several
days last week at the home of Mr.. H. M.
Cronise, of Bethesda,
The 104th session of Rockville Academy
will open on Monday, September End, 1912,
and close in June, 1918 Cooke D. Luckett,
principal; Lewis R. Watson, assistant.
Baltimore and Ohio excursion Sundays,
August II and rs. $1.OO to Harper's Ferry
and Martinsburg and return; $L35 to
Berkeley Springs and return $500 to
Cumberland and return. Special train
leaves Rockville at 1851 A. M.
James Offutt, colored. was injured last
Sunday evening by being struck by an
automobile on the Frederick road. near
Rockville The machine was driven by
Mr. Chris Ramey. of this town. Offutt sus-
tanned bruises of the head, arm and body,
but no bones were broken.
The funeral services for Mrs. Rose W.
Wenner, wife of Mr.. Silas j. Wenner. who
died in a Washington hospital after an
illness of several weeks, were held at 2
O'Clock on Thursday afternoon of last week
from the family residence near Rockville,
Rev. Homer Welsh, pastor of the M. E.
Church South at Potomac. officiating.
Burial was in Rockville Cemetery. Mrs.
Wenner was a native of Frederick county,
but had lived in this county many years.
Besides her husband. she leaves a son.
Max Wenner.
The Confederate Monument Committee.
composed of George R. Rice. chairman;
Spencer c. Jones, treasurer; Miss May
Sellman, secretary; Messrs. Frank Kilgour,
John W. Holland, Benjamin Candy. Elgar
L. Tschiffely Mrs. John Jones, Mrs VIM.
H. Talbot and Miss Candy, met in Rock
vile on Saturday last to give the commits
sion to erect a monument to the COnfed-
crate dead of this county. After carefully
considering the many designs submitted
the committee were unable to agree and
adjourned to meet tomorrow, Saturday,
when it hopes to select the design and the
sculptor
On last Tuesday the County Commits
sioners passed over the control of the
Georgetown and Rockville pike to the
United States Government, which will at
once start on the repair of the road and for
the future keep it in repair. Upon sections
the Government will use different surface
binders. experimenting to find out which
binder has the most durability. For the
improvement this county will allow $751;
900. eight of which is now available, the
citizens residing along the pike will con-
tribute $4,000 and the Government will
add to these sums what is left from fund
of $500 after repairing the macadam
road leading from Chevy Chase Lake to
Bradley Lane.
Senator Blair Lee, heading delegation
from this county. appeared before the State
Roads Commission on Thursday of last
week and asked to have certain MOntgOm-
cry county roads resurfaced. Senator Lee
stated that the heavy automobile traffic
to which they are subjected is causing
them to ravel, though they have been
down for only about two years. He also
requested the commission to allow former
Commissioner Hutton to complete a road
little over three miles in length, which
the old commission authorized him to con-
struct under the force account system
Less than half a mile of the road remains
unfinished, and Mr.. Hutton offers to super
intend the work for nothing.
Several thousand persons from this and
adjoining counties, Washington City, and
elsewhere attended the annual picnic and
tournament at GAINESVILLE for the benefit
of St. Marys Catholic Church, which was
held last Saturday The tournament was
interesting and was participated in by a
number of the best-known riders OF this
and Frederick counties. The address to
the knights was delivered by j. Dawson
Williams, of Kensington. and the corona
ton address was by Andrew J. Cummings.
of Chevy Chase. Following the dancing
of the royal set. which took place early in
the evening, the pavilion was taken pos
session of by the young people. who danced
until midnight.
Last Friday afternoon Rockville and
Georgetown electric car cOllided on Com
MERGE street, this town. with a one-hOrse
wagon owned by Mr.. Frederick Tschiffely.
of Ounce Orchard, this county. son of Mr..
Elgar Tschiffely. of Rockville. At the time
of the accident Mr. Tschiffely was driving
alone in the wagon and had pulled the
horse upon the railroad track to pass an
other vehicle that he was meeting. A car
came up behind and struck the wagon,
knocking the wagon over and the horse
down. Mr.. Tschiffely was dashed head
long out of the wagon by the impact. but
fortunately escaped hurt, with the excep-
ton of few bruises. The horse and wagon
were dragged So feet by measurement be-
fore the car was stopped. The shafts of
the wagon were broken off, one of the
broken parts entering the side of the horse
and infiictine an ugly wound, which at
first was thought to be fatal, but he has
improved and will probably entirely recover.
The motorman contends that he blew the
whistle giving notice to clear the track.
Mr.. Tschiffely cannot hear at all and of
course did not heed the warning, though
he says he looked back before going upon
the track and did not see a car in sight,
having a view of at least Of 400 yards.
Silver Spring Wants Water.
A company will probably be Incorporated