Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-07-31
Yufal aud gersuual.
Town and Country.

The wind storm Of Tuesday afternoon
blew down large lot of corn fodder in the
Travilah neighborhood.
Prof Willis L. Moore now expects crop
of $4,000 baskets of peaches from the
orchard on his farm near this town.
The large armory at Silver Spring is
nearing completion. 1t will be opened on
the night of August 18th with dance.
Mr.. George F. Linthicum has sold his
dwelling and store house in Travilah for
$4,000 to Mr.. Edward Atwood, of Poto-
mac, who will conduct the business here
after
The State Tax Commission has appointed
Mr.. E. Lloyd Fawcett, of Colesville district.
supervisor of assessments for Montgomery
county. He will receive an annual salary
of $1,000.
Lyric Theatre, Rockville, Saturday, Au-
gust list, Miss Eleanor Kraus in singing and
dancing speciality. Also five reels, includ-
ing the Kalem feature, THE Fringe on the
Glove" Promptly at s P. M.
The explosion of a coal oil stove in the
home of Mr.. John Burriss at Gaithersburg,
on Monday afternoon. resulted in the de-
struction by fire of the dwelling and furni-
ture. The loss is placed at $500 and is
partially covered by insurance.
The Columbia Research Society. Wash
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to the boy or girl submitting the best
statement regarding public opinion in
Wheaton district relative to certain great
issues of the day. Write for particulars.
Mr.. Vim. j. COrrick. of Kensington. and
Miss Gertrude Printz, of Washington. were
married last week in Middletown, Md. the
ceremony being performed by Rev. S. A.
Hedges, pastor of the Lutheran Church, in
the presence of a small company of rela-
tives and friends of the couple.
A committee of members of the Baptist
Church, of this town, is now planning to
build at once a parsonage on the lot ad-
joining the church property on the north.
1t will be handsome structure when com
pleted. 1t has not been decided whether it
will be frame or brick building.
Mr.. VIM. 0. Reid. of the vicinity of Boyds,
this county, died on Tuesday morning last
at the age of 81 years. Mr.. Reid had been
i'll for some months. He leaves wife and
two children. his mother, five brothers and
a sister in this county, and many relatives
in Washington and Baltimore.
Senator Blair Lee narrowly escaped
serious automobile collision near Georgia
avenue car barn. Washington city last
Tuesday night when the machine he was
driving was struck by an automobile OPP
Grated by Frank L. Cross. Jr. Both ma
chimes were slightly damaged, but nobody
was hurt.
The Misses Gray. two daughters of Mr.
Charles Gray, who resides in the neighbor-
hood of Washington Grove, were thrown
from buggy Friday morning last, on the
public road near their home when one of
the front spndles gave way and the veli-
Gle fell to the ground, each sustaining
broken leg.
Hardy Stubbs Cissel, son of the late G.
o. B. Cissel, of Wheaton district, died last
Tuesday in sanitarium near Baltimore.
where he had gone only the day before for
treatment. He was twenty-nine years old
and unmarried. The funeral took place
Thursday morning from St. Johns Catholic
Church, Forest Glen.
As a result of injuries sustained in ac-
cidentally falling from a hotel window in
Hancock, Nd, on Thursday night of last
week, Frank S. Duff. who several years ago
married Miss Corinne Dawson, daughter of
Mr.. Vim. P. Dawson. of this county. died
Friday in a Washington hospital. He is
survived by his wife and one child.
Willis B. Burdette. county superintend-
ent of schools, has announced that Miss
Blanche Fawcett has resigned as principal
of the public school at Colesville and has
been appointed principal Of the school at
BurtOnsville. He has also announced the
appointment of Miss Effie Tenant as prin-
cipal of the Hyattstown grammar school.
DR.. Thomas Lee. well and favorably
known in this county in former years.
visited friends in Rockville on Sunday last
He came from Washington city. where he
and his wife are visiting. He has been
enjoying a welded life for three years.
He resides in the State of Minnesota and
practices medicine with unusual success.
Walter II. Carroll, of Glen Echo. has in
stituted suit in the circuit court here for
an absolute divorce from Mrs. Hazel Ger
trude Carroll, of Washington. on the ground
of desertion. He is represented by Attor-
ney John A. Garrett. The bill represents
that the couple were married September
14th, 1910, and lived together until June
goth of the following year. when the plain
tiff was deserted.
The County Commissioners have sold to
Alexander Brown & Son, of Baltimore,
$4,000 in county road bonds With the
proceeds the road from Featherbed to
Ounce Orchard a distance of about four
miles, for which there was bond issue
of $4,000, and the road from Kensington
to Forest Glen, by way Of Capital View. a
distance of one and half miles, for which
bonds in the amount of Sill 900 were issued.
will be improved.
Mrs. Hattie Miller, widow Of the Rev.
John Miller, died in Providence Hospital,
Washington. Tuesday night of a cOmpica-
ton of diseases. Mrs Miller was a native
of this county and a sister Of Charles G.
Linthicum of Boyds. Her husband, who
died several months ago, was for some time
pastor of the Southern Methodist Church
at Clarksburg. She is survived by her son,
James, of Washington, and a daughter,