Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1915-09-03

Next MOHudy Is LdDOE Ddy. IL is q ma
tional holiday and all banks are closed on
that occasion.
The Kings Daughters will meet with
Mrs. o. H. W. Talbot on Tuesday morning,
September 7th, 1915. at 1890 O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. Higgins. Miss
Lucie Clay Brown and Mrs. Wallace F.
Brown, of Richmond. Va. motored to Rock
vile and spent several weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. John J. Higgins
Motion pictures every Tuesday and Satur-
day at P. NJ, Masonic Hall. Gaithersburg.
Drama, Frontier; Keystone comedy. Sur
prise Store every Saturday nieht-six or
more prizes given away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. Higgins and Miss
Lucie Brown, of Richmond, Va. and Miss
Laura Higgins and Mr.. Randolph Talbot, of
this town. motored to Cumberland and were
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Muncaster.
Thomas Neal. young Washington negro.
was before Justice Mace, in the police court.
last Friday on a charge of violating the
local option law. He was adjudged guilty
and sentenced to six months in the house
of correction.
Merritt o. Chance, of Kensington. chief
clerk of the PostOffice Department, last
Wednesday became postmaster of Wash
ington. d. c., succeeding Otto Praeger. who
has assumed the duties of Second Assist
ant Postmaster General.
1t might prove of interest to the citizens
Mr.. Henry Kisner, of Alta Vista. has at
tended every meeting Of the County Fair,
except one. for sixty-two years. Mr.. Kis-
ner helped in the construction of the first
Fair buildings.
William Worthington Humphrey. the two
-half-year- son of w. r. Humphrey,
Jr., of Rockville the two-year-old son of
Leonard l.. Nicholson, Jr., of Washington,
and the baby of Mr.. Gingells. of Bethesda.
were awarded the prizes in their respective
classes in the baby show at the Rockville
Fair
The following is list of contributions to
the Social Service League for the month
of August The Neighbors' Club. Sandy
Spring. So; The Woman's Club, Chevy
Chase, $40; The Just Government League.
So; Miss Virginia Stabler. Sandy Spring.
81; Philip Stabler. Sandy Spring. ST; Mrs.
Harry English. Rockville, Csc.
Such torrential rain as fell in this
community on Monday morning last was
never before witnessed here. 1t continued
but brief time. Small streams over
flowed and the water flooding adjacent
lands arose to a height that swan stock
and removed fences. Deep trenches were
opened in the public roads and fields and
bridges were washed away.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Montgomery
County Federation of Home and School
Associations will be held in the School
Board rooms, Rockville, on Tuesday. Sep
TENDER 7th, at 1870 p M. Plans for the
work of the Federation for the coming year
will be made. The special subject for
consideration will be Compulsory School
Attendance"
The Mems Club of Takoma Park made
Rockville lively last Tuesday evening, when
about a hundred of the members. many of
whom were accompanied by their wives
and daughters, drove into Rockville in about
thirty or more automobiles. footing horns
and ringing bells. The club once a month
gives an outing or entertainment and this
time it took the form of an automobile trip
to Rockville.
Ex-Mayor Thomas Gordon Hayes. who
figured in some of the stormiest political
events that have taken place in Baltimore
in the last half century, lawyer and Bible
class leader, died suddenly of apOplexy
last Friday afternoon at Oakland. Garrett
county. Nd. He had walked there from
Mountain Lake Park, a mile and a-half
away, where he had been spending the
summer with his sister He was stricken
on the street and expired within half
hour.
After September LIST senders of fourth
class parcel post matter will get receipt
for things they mail If they pay the fee
of cent. They can get also tag show
ing the article has been delivered to the
consignee by buying a small label and
affixine it and 1-cent stamp to the pack
age before it is mailed. This tag will then
be mailed back to them as soon as the
package has gone into the consienees
hands, Neither receipt nor tag means that
the parcel is insured.
Mahlon II. Austin. for sixty-fve years
a resident of Bethesda district, died on
Wednesday night of last week at his home
near Concord. aged 80 years. his death
being due to a complication of diseases.
He leaves three sons and three daughters.
Although never having been regularly
ordained. Mr.. Austin frequently occupied
the pulpits of Baptist Churches in the
county and was well known to members
Of the denomination. For many years he
served as a justice Of the peace.
Brigadier- General Marion Perry Maus
(retired). Of this town, who left here last
week for a grouse hunting trip to Standing
Rock Indian Reservation, in South Dakota.
was taken i'll before reaching Chicago and
was assisted to hospital for treatment,
where he remains very i'll. A letter re-
ceived by relatives here August 2Sth in
formed them that he has fair chance OF
recovery, but may have to abandon his
trip and return to his home. His wife was
teleeraphed for and is with him.