Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1915-02-26
X ucal End RersnnaI.
Town and Country.

public for this county.
The Kings Daughters will meet with
Mrs. C. W. Owen on Tuesday, March End,
1915 at O'Clock, P. M.
Mr.. VIM. H. Phair drove to this town
the other day from his home. near Sandy
Spring, at the age of 80 years.
The valuable Percheron sire Microbe will
be offered at public sale at Laytonsvlle,
this county, on tomorrow at the hour of
2 o'clock, P. M.
Gene Cars great colored comic, Lady
Bountful Returns begins February 2Sth
in The Sunday Star, Washington, D. c.
Place order to-day with your newsdealer.
Miss Katherine Baker died at her home,
near Germantown, on Monday last, follow
ing long illness of complication of dis
eases. She was sister of Mr.. D. W. Baker.
Mrs. Lucinda Bean, widow of Cornelius
Bean, died at her home. near Redland, on
Wednesday afternoon last, after long
illness, aged 70 years. Her remains will
be buried at Forest Oak Cemetery, Gath
ersbure, today at 2:30PM
Motion pictures every Tuesday and Satur-
day at 8 P. NJ, Masonic Hall. Gaithersburg
Drama, Frontier; Keystone comedy. China
Store-3l-piece china set given away every
Saturday night. The china set last Satur-
day night was won by Master Chas. War
field.
The management of the Lyric offers five
reels of excellent pictures and ten prizes
at the Country Store next Saturday night.
with half barrel of Hickerson's Snowdrift
patent flour as the first prize. AS patent
-four is selling for SO per barrel, we con-
slider this well worth having.
Mrs. Samuel Eastburn, of this town. has
gone to the Pacific coast to visit Mrs. j. |
Randolph Boarman, of Los Angeles Both
will visit the exposition at San Francisco |
before returning. Mr.. Eastburn accom-
panied his wife as far as Chicago. He will |
join her in month or so.
Two basket ball games were played in
SecO Hall. this town, last Friday evening
between the Rockville and Brookeville high |
schools teams. The first contest, which !
was between girls teams, was won by |
Brookeville II to Is, and the second game, |
between the boys team, was won by
Rockville. rs to Is.
To avoid their rust great many of the |
cedar trees in the neighborhood of Sandy |
Spring are being cut down. The rust from
the trees of this family is considered very |
destructive to fruit trees. For this reason
some States have enacted laws compelling
the determination of the cedar. Maryland |
has no law of the kind.
Senator John Walter Smith has had sent |
to this office from the u S. Department of |
Agriculture lot of flower seed for distri-
button among his constituents in this sec
ton Each package contains dianthus. |
kochia, mignonette. nasturtium and poppy
seed. Those who desire some of them will |
please call. First to call, will be first served.
Mrs. Marie GLAND died last Friday at her
home, near Goshen, aged IS years. Her
death was due to pneumonia. She is sur
vived by her husband. Dorsey GLAND. and
one child. The funeral took place Sunday |
from the Methodist Church at Laytonsville.
Her remains were inferred in Rockville |
Union Cemetery. Mrs. GLAND was daueh
ter of the late Jacob Kemp.
On Tuesday, February 10Th, 1915, Mrs.
Elizabeth Schaeffer, widow of DIR. 7. II. |
Schaeffer, formerly of Charles Town. died
suddenly of heart trouble. in Baltimore,
aged "a years. Interment was in Mo-
nocacy Cemetery Bealsvlle, Md. on Feb
ruary 18th. Mrs. Schaeffer leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Aldridge G. Hilleary and
Mrs. W. W. Jordan, of Silver Spring. this
county.
In the interest of the establishment of a
public library here. Miss Mary FAIR, rep
resenting the State Library Commission.
addressed Rockville Womans Club. Acorn
mittee, which was named several months |
AGO, reported that $365 had been sub
scribed for the purpose Mrs. Vim. II. Tai |
bott, Mrs. II. c. Allnutt and Mrs. o. M. !
Linthicum were named as a committee to |
organize the work
Workmen last Monday began excavating
for a sewerage system for Rockville. Ad- |
ditional men and a steam shovel will be
put to work within few days. The con-
tractors plan to complete the work within
one hundred working days. Work on the
disposal plant was started several weeks
ago Satisfactory progress has been made.
The contractors expect to have the plant
completed by the time the sewerage work
is finished, about August list.
Robins are the most numerous birds in
the United States, according 10 a bird
census, the results of which were made
public by the Department of Agriculture last
week. English sparrows hold second place
With 100 robins as unit the proportions
of the other birds listed we're as follows
Catbirds 40, brown thrashers 81, house
wrens 20, king birds 81. and bluebirds 80
Chevy Chase, this county, holds the record
for density. according to the census The
statement says that the bird population
is less than it ought to be.
At the Seco Theater Thursday. February
rs, THE Riders Of Petersham" in three
norts with two comedies Saturday Feb
ruary 81, Love. Luck and Gasoline" a
side-splittine comedy in three parts two
other reels. Eight pounds of Brownleys
Health Candies given away Saturday night
to seven lucky people holding the right
numbers. Orchestra. Miss Dorothy Rel
singer won the fve-pound box of candy
last Saturday night Next Saturday NIGHT