Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-06-13
Ental aud gersuuaI.
Town and Country.

lngtOn CITY,
E. Barrett Prettyman, of Washington, ha.
resigned as principal of the Kensinetor
grammar school, and will engage in otheI
employment.
Norman Peter, of Kensington, has been
appointed to position in the plant bureau
of the United States Agricultural Depart
ment and has gone to Akron, Col.
If you want the latest news from the
National Capital. and of the world in gen.
eral, have your newsdealer serve you with
a copy of the Washington Star every Sun.
day.
The meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will be held at the
home of Mrs. Laura Hoskinson on Tuesday
June 18th, at 8 o'clock, P. M All the
members are requested to be present.
Upon certificates of Drs. Jos. M. White
and E. M. White, the County Commissioners
have adjudeed Goldie Henson to be of I'M
sound mind, and have ordered her COM
mitted to Montevue Hospital. Frederick.
Baltimore & Ohio excursion on Sunday,
June 18th. $100 to Harper's Ferry and
Martinsbure and return; $1.35 to Berkeley
Springs and return $500 to Cumberland
and return. Special train leaves Rockville
at 1851 A. M.
Master George Peter. son of Judge Peter,
left here on Sunday last for the mountains
of Virginia, where he will assist corps of
Government engineers in making survey.
The work will not be completed before
next fall
The County Commissioners have decided
to call special election for the voters of
Clarksburg district to determine whether
they are willing to bond the district in the
amount of $4,000 to improve one and
One-eighth miles of road.
A deed has been recorded in the office
of the clerk of the circuit court here con-
veying from John H. Finnet to Milton E.
Allies tract of 202 acres. on the Rock
vile and Georgetown turnpike, the con-
sideration being given as $4,000.
Lee Offutt, executor, sold on last Tues
day $50 acres of pine land in the big
Pines" near here. belonging to the estate
of the late N. D. Offutt. to L. H. Young, of
Virginia, for $40 per acre. The timber
upon the land will be sawed into lumber.
Anna Thomas, colored, about so years
old, was killed by a Baltimore and Ohio
train at Randolph, three miles east of
Rockville, last Saturday afternoon. Her
body, badly crushed, was found alongside
the track a short while after the train
passed.
The contract for the improvement of five
miles of the Rockville-GeOrgetown pike,
beginning at Rockville. has been awarded
to George B. Mullen, of Washington, who
will, it is announced. begin work within
the next week or two and complete the
work by early fall.
Mr.. Arthur England will open a general
merchandise store in this town in the near
future. He will occupy the store house at
the corner of Montgomery avenue and
Washington street, belonging to the estate
of his father, the late John G. England.
The building is now undergoing repairs.
The School Commissioners have received
the following designations of teachers -
Miss Mary E. Green, principal of school at
Mount Lebanon; Miss M. Landella Etchi-
son, principal of school at Derwood, and
Misses Lillian CLANCY and Sallie Fontaine,
assistants at Kensington grammar school,
Irving Lewis Towers will graduate from
the Maryland Agricultural College on the
18th instant and be awarded a bachelors
degree. Henry Whitmore White and Lea
Gilpin Wilson will be awarded certificates
in the twO-year course in agriculture and
the two-year course in horticulture, re-
spectively. All of these young men are
from this county
The Rockville Woman's Club at its an
nual business meeting. held at the club
rooms, elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent, Mrs. H. Clinton Allnutt first vice
president, Mrs. Geo P. Henderson; second
vce-president, Mrs. William H. Talbot;
recording secretary, Mrs. j. Darby Bowman;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Lewis r. Wat
son; treasurer, Miss Rose M. Henderson.
With the aid of many of his neighbors
Mr.. W. l.. Schaeffer successfully raised a
new large barn on his farm. near Seneca,
Dudderer completed the framing of the
barn, and his mechanical skill is highly
cOmplimented A bounteous luncheon was
served at noon. 1t was prepared by the
members Of Mr.. Schaeffer's family. and its
excellence was enjoyed by all who partook
of it.
At the annual commencement exercises
OF the Georgetown University Law School
on Monday last the degree of bachelor of
laws was awarded the following graduates
from this county: George II. BraddOck. of
Rockville; VIM. 7. Miller. of Forest Glen /:
Paul II. Moreland, of Chevy Chase; Alex
ander +. Prescott, Jr., of Norbeck; Harvey
L. Rabbit, of Rockville Donald II. Stew
art Of Woodside; Robert Leroy Warfeld.
Oh Rockville; also the degree of master of
patent laws to George II. Braddock.
Judge Peter has filed a decree sustain
ing the motion Of the plaintiff in the case
OF Jasper W. Long VS.. Carrie B. Lucas and
Edward d. Lucas to override the defend
ants plea to the courts jurisdiction. The
case is to obtain a specific performance
OF an alleged contract between the parties
by which the defendants agreed to sell
and the plaintiff to purchase parcel Of
land in Montgomery county. The defend
ants are ordered to answer the plaintiffs
Dill OF complaint on or before the 23rd
day Of June.
The feminist movement has arrived at