Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-02-21
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Town and Country.


Tomorrow is national holiday, Wash.
ington's birthday, and all banks will be
closed for the day.
The annual convention of the farmers OF
this county will be held at Sandy Spring
on February 25th.
Tomorrow E. ]. Hudson will offer at
public sale, in front of the Court House,
small farm of 10 acres located near Rock
vile. See ad
Mr.. Straus has postponed his senatorial
discussion at Boyds, Rockville and Ken
sington on account of business pressure
He will cover the territory later.
On the 25th of February Rev. Graffiin.
of Anacostia, will deliver his celebrated
lecture, THE End of the Rainbow" in the
Laytonsville NJ f. Church Admission, is
and rs cents
Mr.. Roger B. Farquhar has sold his farm,
Rock Spring, on the Rockville Norbeck road,
to Mrs. Nellie R. Gibson, of Washington, the
consideration being $4,000. The farm
contains 391 acres.
The members of the Clarksbure M. E.
Church will hold an oyster supper in c. W..
Gibsons Hall on Friday and Saturday
evenings, February 21st and 22nd. The
public is cordially invited.
A telegram was received here on We'd
nesday notifying relatives that Mrs. Geo.
C. Dawson died suddenly at her home in
South Dakota and her remains would be
inferred in the Rockville cemetery.
Mr.. John Jacob Baker and Mrs Annie
M. Rollison, both of Germantown, were
married in Rockville on Saturday last by
Rev. S. R. White, of the Baptist Church. the
ceremony taking place at the home of the
minister.
Inaugural Edition of the Washington
Star. This souvenir edition, of March g.
A and S, completely covers the Inaugural
ton ceremonies. Special half-tone section
on March 4. Mailed, postage prepaid, Is
cents. Send in your order now.
A musicale and literary entertainment
will be held at Potomac Chapel on Friday,
February 21st, 1918. beginning at 7:30 P.
M, for the benefit of the W. F. M. S. Ad-
mission, adults IS cents. children 10 cents
A full attendance is earnestly solicited.
Former United States Senator George L.
Wellington. of Cumberland, has announced
that he will be candidate for the United
States Senate as a representative of the
Roosevelt Progressive party, but has not
settled whether he would stand for the
long or short term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. p Colt, of Buck Lodge,
have announced that their daughter, Miss
Lula Beall Colt, and Mr., Oliver Belt
White, son of Mr. and Mrs Lawrence A.
White, of Dickerson, will be married in
Christ Episcopal Church, Barnesvila. on
the afternoon of February 26th.
The Great Catastrophe" play of ster-
ling worth in two acts, will be given in the
Masonic Hall, Gaithersburg, on Thu rsday,
February 9th. at 7:45 P. NJ. by the Mt
Pleasant Dramatic Club, of Washington,
d. C., with part home talent, under local
management Come and be entertained
The Washington city authorities have
repealed the regulation lately adopted pro-
hibiting the hauling through the streets of
the city load of hay or straw extending
more than three feet over the wagon hubs.
Also the regulation requiring a 30-day
permit to haul through the city a load of
any kind.
The Ladies Aid Society of Epworth NJ.
E. Church, Gaithersburg, will hold their
annual oyster supper in Masonic Hall on
February 22nd beginning at 3P. M. Plenty
of good things to eat. There will also be
a cherry tree. Come and buy cherries and
help the ladies. Everybody cordially in
vited to attend.
Wilson Clagett, colored, who was con-
victed several days ago of assaulting his
wife, was whipped in the jail here Monday
afternoon by Sheriff Howard who, carry I,
ing out the sentence imposed by Police ,
Justice Arthur NJ. Mace, gave the negro
ten lashes on his back with a rawhide
whip. He was the first person to be pun
ished in this county under the law making
wife-beating punishable by whipping
In the case of George G. Bradley ct AL
caveators, VS.. Jane B. Bradley, widow of
the late Henry Bradley, the Maryland Court |
of Appeals has reversed the decision of
the Orphans Court of this county. and re-
manded the case with costs to the appel /
hap Off
judgment with costs in the case of the
Bartlett Haywood Company VS. State, use
of Catherine Mary Smith ct al.
Mr.. C. C. Crawford, of Gaithersbure and
his nieces, the Misses DeVilbiss, attended
the late Mardi Gras in New Orleans, La.
They are now visiting Beaumont, Port Ar
thur and Galveston, Texas. Mr.. Crawford
was through this country just twenty-one
years ago, and he writes that Louisiana and
Texas have made wonderful improvement
in every respect in the meantime. These
are great rice and sugar producing States.
An autopsy. performed by DIR. Frederick
NJ Henderson, disclosed that the death of
Hilleary Simms. colored, who died on Thurs
day of last week at his home on the farm
of Mr.. M. D. Knight, near Rockville, was
due to pleurisy and other natural causes.
The man was brought home from Wash
ington in a critical condition, and il was
thought he might have been a victim of
foul play. as there were suspicious crcum-
stances.
About IL O'Clock on Thursday night of
last week, Lucy and John Pratt. coIored,
aged 2 and years. respectively, children
Of Zachariah Pratt, were burned to death
in their home about quarter of a mile
from Kensineton. The children and their
mother were in the house alone. While
sitting beside the bed, in which the chill
dren were asleep, the mother slept and was
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