Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-04-11
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Town and Country.


The tax sales will take place in front of
the Court House here on Monday next,
the 14th.
Mr.. George W. B. Bartlett has returned
to his home near Gaithersburg after win
ter's sojourn in Florida.
Clerk wanted, must be competent, good
penman and reliable. No dry goods han
died. Address, Wire Fence, care of the
Sentinel.
The Rockville High School baseball team
won its first game of the season by de-
feating the Germantown High School team
at Germantown last Saturday afternoon
10 to S.
To-day will be observed in the public
schools of Montgomery county as Arbor
and Bird Day and appropriate exercises
will be held in the schools throughout the
county.
Ten miles an hour is now the speed
limit for motor vehicles in Rockville. Six
miles an hour was the limit for several
years, but the town council has adopted
an ordinance increasing it. which ordinance
is now in effect.
Seventy witnesses will be in attendance
at the trial in the Circuit Court here on
Tuesday next of Norman B. McCleary for
murder-forty for the prosecution and thirty
for the defense. The case has been re-
moved from Hagerstown.
Two small fires occurred in our town the
early part of this week. One consumed
combined chicken and wood house belong
ing to Mr.. H. J. Finley and the other an
old dwelling owned by Henson Carroll, COL
ored. In both cases the houses were en-
tirely destroyed.
VIM. A. Humphrey, sixteen years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. Reuben Humphrey, of
this town, died Monday night in Washing
ton, where he had been under treatment
several weeks for a cancerous affection. He
leaves, besides his parents, two brothers
and five sisters.
The body of Dr. Robert H. Campbell,
former resident of this town and brother
in-law of Mayor Lee Offutt, who died re-
Gently in New Orleans, was buried in the
Rockville cemetery on Monday last. The
services at the grave were conducted by
Rev. 7. A. HauGhton- Burke, rector of Christ
Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Mary j. Burnett, widow of Louis L.
Burnett, died on Wednesday night of last
week after a long illness. at her home near
Sligo, this county, aged TT years, Sur
viving her are three sons and four daueh-
tiers, one of the sons being John L. Burnett,
Clerk of the Court of this county. The
funeral took place Saturday morning from
St. Johns Catholic Church, Forest Glen.
Rev. Frank B. Cowell. who for five years
has been pastor of the Baptist Churches
at Germantown, Travilah, GAINESVILLE and
Cedar Grove, has accepted call to be-
come pastor of the Shawomet Baptist
Church of Providence, r. |. He will close
his work on his present field June LIST. A
host of friends. both of his members and
others, are wishing him success in his new
field of labor.
Rockville is soon to have water meters
in all buildings in which the town water
is used. The meters. which will be pro-
vided and installed at the expense of the
town, have already been bought and the
work of installation, on which bids have
been asked, will be started within the next
few days. The meters are expected to re-
suit in saving of water, which mean
decrease in the operating expenses of the
water works.
The comedy-drama, Home Ties" will
be given in the Modern Woodmen hall, at
Laytonsville, on Friday evening. April nth,
1918. Proceeds for the benefit of the Lay
louisville school improvement fund. Ad-
mission adults, IS cts; children, is cts.
Doors open at 715 O'Clock. Play will be-
gin at s O'Clock Be sure to come and
bring your friends with you. If Friday
evening should be exceedingly unfavor-
able. the play will be given Saturday
evening.
The State Roads Commission has award
ed contracts to construct Alp miles of
concrete road in this county. Two miles,
from the southern end of the road from
Ridgeville toward Damascus, have been let
to the Hassan Paving Company, of Wor-
cester Mass, at $26,852, and ZIP miles.
from Cedar Grove north toward Damascus,
toll C. Moller at $25, 1921. Contracts have
also been let in Baltimore county. Hartford,
Prince Georges. Somerset. Carroll, Talbot
and St Mary's to build pieces of roads of
similar material.
Within the last few days the infant
daughter of Rev. Oscar W. Henderson and
the infant son of Mrs. Clara Shaffer, of this
town, have been bitten by dogs afflicted
with the rabies The children are now in
the Pasteur Institute at Baltimore receiving
treatment The attacking dog in the case
of the Henderson child was killed and his
head examined by scientists, who pro-
nounced his ailment to be the rabies. The
dog in the other case made his escape
Both of them were owned in Rockville.
The distressed parents of the two children
have the sympathy Of this entire commu-
nifty
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Willard, Of Knoxville,
Frederick county, Md, have issued invita-
tons to the marriage Of their daughter,
Miss Martha Lauretta, and Mr.. Thomas
opie Green. of Baltimore county. The
wedding will take place in St. Francis
Catholic Church. Brunswick, Md, on April
18th. at $50 O'Clock. The wedding party
will consist Of Mrs. f. H. Willard, Of Mary
land Tract, as matron Of honor Miss
Louise Miller, of Knoxville, as maid OF