Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-06-19

Deiesate w Cummings. Maryland rem
resentative at the California Panama "a
nal Exposition. will travel from here to San
francisco in an automobile hired from the
garage OF Ricketts, Brothers, of this town
one of the brothers will drive the car on
the trip.
Inc annual closing exercises of the Rock
Vile Academy were held in the avmna-
SUM on Wednesday morning last in the
presence of large number of the students
and their friends. Prof. Lewis Watson.
principal was in charge. The graduates
were Miss Josephine Watson and Robert
reter, and the medalists were as follows ;
Scholarship, Miss Josephine Watson; Ian
suaees' Robert Peter; mathematics, Otis
Hicks; junior scholarship, Lewis Watson.
The address to the graduates was delivered
by John A. Garrett; Charles W. Prettyman
presented the certificates and diplomas,
and Judge Edward C. Peter the medals.
The Civic Study Club of Forest Glen.
which has been meeting weekly at the
residence Of Mrs. G, V. Chandler, has de-
cided to discontinue its meetings during
the hot weather, but will resume them
again in the fall. it is hoped with renewed
enthusiasm. This club was organized
especially to study the government and
civic conditions of MONTGOMERY county.
but during the past season has been Law
ing foundation for more thorough I'M
derstanding of our local problems by the
reading of John Fishes excellent historic
and comparative treatise on Civil Govern
ment in the United States.
Mr.. Lehman II. Young, of Fairfax county.
Va. recently bought from Mayor Lee Offutt,
OF Rockville, a tract of land of $50 acres
in the big Pines" belonging to the estate
OF the late N. d. Offutt. Several days ago
he began the digging of well preparatory
to establishing saw mill by which to con-
vert the timber on the land into lumber.
When depth of twenty nine feet had
been reached, two men who were at work
in the well were overcome by gas and had
to be assisted to the surface. A piece of
paper was lighted and thrown into the
well. and the gas ignited and burned for
several hours. Since then the well has
been dug to depth of thirty-five feet,
but, because of the gas. the men have been
unable to work more than few minutes
at time. and the odor of gas is at all
times noticeable. Mr.. Young discussed the
discovery here on Tuesday He expressed
himself as of the opinion that probably
both gas and oil exist there. and said he
would employ experts to make thorough
Investigation.
Miss Lavinia M. Engle, of Forest Glen,
his county, who has been in the South for
the past four months working under the
auspices of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. has postponed for
time the tour through South Carolina. which
she had planned and successfully begun, in
order to return to Florida to help in get
ting out suffrage edition of the Jackson
vile State" This is one of the first great
of the newly organized Florida
Equal Franchise League. Miss Engle was
sent to Florida to arouse the people there
to an interest in the equal suffrage doc
irine and this league of 5000 enthusiastic
women is in part tribute to her success.
Judging from sundry paragraphs in the
Jacksonville paper it seems to have been
4 surprise and revelation to the people of
florida to find that a suffrage worker could
De young, attractive and modest, but Miss
Engle is one of many scores of bright young
women, college girls for the most part, who
ire dedicating their youth and talents to
his cause, which they devoutly believe to
Ne tial to the future well-being of