Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-03-21
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Town and Country.

and 18th, 1918.
Easter cards, baskets and novelties. ,
large assortment, at the bakery Small
candy eggs at special price of 10 cents {
pound.
A box social will be held at the home o.
S. o. W. Beall, at Travilah, on March 24th
1918, for the benefit of the Baptist Church
Sunday School,
The Burden Bearer Circle of the King.
Daughters will hold cake sale at Masonic
Hall, Rockville, on March 22nd at P. M
The patronage of the town requested.
Sixteen major league clubs are now a
their spring training grounds preparing fo
the coming baseball campaign. For thu
best news from these points read The
Washington Star.
The lumber with which to rebuild thu
stables at the Fair Grounds will be furnished
by Mr.. Charles Mills, of Hunting Hill, at
contract price of $18 per 1000 feet.
An oyster supper will be held at the
residence of Mrs. Miles, at Seneca, for the
benefit of the Seneca Baptist Church, on
March 18th, commencing at $50 P. M
All are invited to attend.
lce-cream special for Easter fresh straw
berry ice-cream only so cents half gallon
at the bakery. Orders for that price must
be in not later than Friday, March 21st, as
we will only make a limited quantity.
A dramatic entertainment will be given
at the Sandy Spring Lyceum on March 26th,
1918, at s o'clock. P. M, for the benefit of
the building fund of Emory M. E. Church
South. Admission. rs cents children, is
cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Scott Moffett, of
Indianapolis, are the guests of Mrs. Moi
fett's sister, Mrs. Edgar j. Heaton, at Alta
Vista, this county, stopping on their route
home from spending the winter at St.
Petersburg, Fla.
Quarterly distributions of the public
school tax. the school book fund and the
appropriation to approved high schools
were announced by the Comptroller last
Saturday. Montgomery received $7,79O17.
$1,034.77, and $1,625.
Mr.. VIM. E. Birgfeld, of Kensington, has
been appointed official stenographer to the
select committee which is to visit Europe
this summer to study cooperation and
finance among farmers. Jas. B. Norman
is the delegate from this State.
DIR. Bruce Thomas aged 80 years, form
erly of this town, died last Friday night at
the American Hospital, Philadelphia. He
is survived by his widow, one son, Bruce
c. Thomas, of Chicago. and one daughter,
Mrs. C. W. Brown, of Philadelphia.
There will be a meeting at Rockville,
Maryland, Tuesday, March 25th. of the
Progressive party in convention assembled
to appoint delegates to the State conven-
ton, which assemblies at Baltimore on
March 26th. By order of Galen f. TAFT,
County Chairman.
The Suburban Electrical Company of
Rockville has on display a complete line
of electric lighting fixtures at their new
show rooms, opposite the Farmers Banking
and Trust Co. These fixtures will meet the
approval of the most critical in price. de-
sign and durability.
DIR. Upton d. NOurse. of Jacksonville, has
filed suit in the Circuit Court here against
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
claiming $1,000 for damages sustained by
his automobile being struck by train of
the defendant company at Buck Lodge,
this county last May.
The Rockville Woman's Club held a
meeting on Thursday afternoon of last
week at the club rooms. The program in
cluded a paper on Current Events" by
Mrs. Robert C. Warield; a reading by Mrs.
Wilson s. Ward and travelogue by Miss
Mary Hurley.
Club women all over the United States
are beginning to look forward to the coun-
Gil meeting of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, to be held in Washington
April 81. %, 23 and "a. This will be the
twenty-third anniversary of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs.
The ladies of St. Bartholomew Church.
Laytonsville. will give play, "Rebekah's
Triumph" in the basement of the church
on Easter Monday and Tuesday evenings,
oath and 25th of March. commencing at
7:30. Admission--adults, rs cents; chill
dren. is cents. lce-cream and cake will
be served after the play.
The Woman's Club. the Daughters of
the American Revolution and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy will hold a
bazaar and white sale at their club rooms
over the Rockville postOffice Friday, April
4th, from to 8 p. M. Proceeds to be
used to furnish their new home. The pub
lie is invited to attend.
Mr.. Thomas l. Fulks intends to build a
new Touring mill at Washington Grove,
where he is already largely interested in
the sale Of farmers supplies. The ma
chinery will be operated by electricity to
be furnished by The Potomac Electric
Power Company. after the wires are ex-
tended from Rockville to Gaithersburg.
Messrs. VIM. Aud and ThOs. Chiswell, two
prominent farmers of Poolesville district
received 8 cents per pound for "A head Of
fat cattle shipped to the New York city
market on Monday last. This is the highest
price ever received in this county for beei
cattle, the next highest being 8 cents
Each gentleman named owned % head in
the shipment.
The Rockville Inquiry Club was enter
tanned Monday afternoon by Mrs. R. Z. L
Smith. The program rendered included a
paper on the The Balanced Rations." by
Mrs. o. M. Lnthicum and a question box