Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-01-10
4ntal aud 2ersumal
Town and Country.

Miss Mamie T. Hogg has sold her resi-
dence in the western section of Rockville
to Mr.. j. Gardiner Darby, of this town, fol
$4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Hazel Cashell will leave
here tomorrow for visit to relatives Of
Mrs. Cashell residing in Arkansas. They
will be gone for two weeks or more.
DR.. James S. Carlin. aged 76 years, one
time physician in Baltimore, died at his
home, near Boyds, last Saturday of general
debility He was native of this county.
He is survived by six children.
The monument to be erected in Rockville
will be bronze figure of a young Confeder-
ate cavalryman, 1-2 feet high. mounted
upon pedestal 9 feet high. The unveil-
ing is planned to take place next June.
Mr.. F. Hazel CasheIl, of near Avery, has
sold to Chief Willis L. Moore, of the weather
bureau, four Guernsey cows from his prize
herd for $500. They will be used on Mr..
Moore's farm, near this town.
Mrs. America Fontaine, of Somerset
county, Nd, and her daughter, Mrs. Ber-
nice Hall, of Eastern Virginia, are visiting
at the home of Mr. and Mrs Thomas C.
Keys, near here. Mrs. Keys is daughter
of Mrs. Fontaine.
The Poolesville Telephone Company held
its annual meeting at Poolesville on Satur-
day evening last. re-electing Dr. B. W.
Walling president. The company during
the past year, has added greatly to its
lines and now has traffic connection with
the Bell system.
Topsy, horse that had long been en-
ployed in the delivery of goods from the
store of Mr.. D. H. Warfield, of this town,
died on Monday night last He was IS
years old and was used by Mr.. Warfield
for 80 1-2 years. He was bred by the late
Jos. N. Bailey.
A company of which Mr.. Richard Ed
monston, of East Liverpool, Ohio, is
member lately sunk an oil well in Ohio
from which they got natural flow of 100
flow later Mr. Edmonston is a son of
Judge E. o. Edmonston, of this town.
There will be box social held at the
residence of Mrs. A. L. Violet, at Seneca,
on the evening of January is, commencing
at $3.50 O'Clock, if fair, if not, the next day.
Oysters and refreshments will be served.
1t will be held for the benefit of the Seneca
Baptist Church. All are cordially invited
to attend
Maps of the United States Geological
Survey from now on will cost the public
just twice what they have in the past A
notice sent out by George Otis Smith, the
director of the survey. says that hereafter
the typographical maps will be 10 cents
sheet retail and cents wholesale that
is, in orders of So value or more.
The Agricultural Society of this county
has received from the Laurel Fair Associa-
ton $1,000 as a compromise on premium
of 81. 500 awarded to citizens of this county
in 1911 for the best general exhibit, condi-
toned that the sum should 60 into the
treasury of their agricultural society. The
settlement was reached after prolonged
dispute.
Mrs. David H. Warfield was the hostess
of the Rockville Womans Club at its meet
ing Thursday afternoon of last week. The
responses were about interesting localities
in Maryland and Virginia. Other features
of the program included a travelogue, by
Miss Anna Farquhar; paper on Current
Events in Foreign Lands" by Miss Jackie
Mcdonald. Refreshments were served
Mr. Clifford H. 0ffutt, aged Sc years, of
Washington, a clerk in ODonnell's phar-
macy 904 F street northwest, died last
Friday night while in a taxicab on the
Anacostia road between Twining City and
Benning After making an investigation
the coroner concluded that death was due
to natural causes. Mr. 0ffutt was a native
of this county. but had lived in Washing
ton for more than twenty years
Damages aegregatine $4,000 are asked
by the parents of Norman P. Locke and
Marguerite Kaufman. who were drowned
while skating on Chevy Chase Lake last
winter. The defendants in the suit which
was filed in the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia last Saturday, are the
Capital Traction Company and the Chevy
Chase Land Company. The claim is made
that the two defendant companies offered
inducements to persons to 60 to Chevy
Chase Lake for recreation and amusement,
but were negligent in throwing safeguards
about the skaters.
The Farmers Institute, under the au-
spices of the Maryland Agricultural College,
was held in the Court House on Tuesday
last The attendance Of farmers Of this
county was very small. No notice of the
affair was given through the county press
as the copy was received too late for in
sertion last week. Thus the people had
no notice, except few who were informed
stitute Director, was in charge of the meet
ing. Morning. afternoon and evening ses-
siOns were held. Those who addressed the
gathering were Guy E. WaIcott, of the AZ
ricultural College. who discussed Dairy
ing; }. H. Arnold of the United States
Agricultural Department. whose subject
was Demonstration Work in Maryland" ;
W. Oscar Collier, of Easton, Md, who talked
about THE Corn Crop and Lime in Agri-
culture; C. L. 0pperman. of Berwyn, Md,
who gave an illustrated talk on Poultry
Husbandry," and DIR. Hill, whose subject
was Hay and Grass Crops-Alfalfa."
Mr.. Bernard Monday has sold his farm.
located near Hunting Hill, containing 1874
acres, for $500 to James M. Crown for
his three sons. Wallace Roy and Forest
Crown. The sale was contaminated on
the last day of the Old Year at the Office
of Frank HiRgins, Attorney, and on Friday