Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-12-15
Rntal aud 9ersuual.
Town and Country.

Mrs. Geo. C. Lewis has fulfil of Christ
mas and New Year cards for sale. Original
design and hand colored at S. 10, is and
rs cents.
John H. Lynch, of GAINESVILLE. aged IS
years, died last Sunday. He is survived
by one son, VIM 7. Lynch, and one daueh-
ter. Anna M. Lynch.
In an interesting game of basketball in
Seco Hall last Friday evening. the Rock
vile Fraternity team defeated the regular
Rockville quint, 23 to Fl.
Miss Ethel o. Andrews. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John H. Andrews, Of BOyds. and
Mr.. Walter Trail were quietly married at
Choppers on December End by Rev. Geo.
B. Harrington.
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.
The meeting of the woman's Christian
Temperance Union will held at the home
of Mrs. John B. Brewer, in Rockville, on
Tuesday, December 18th. at 2:30 P. M.
The members and friends are cordially
welcomed.
Savers of human life during the past
fiscal year have been awarded gold or sill
yer medals of honor by the Secretary Of
the Treasury. Read these stories Of hero
ism in the Washington Sunday Star, De-
cember II.
VIM. E. Mickle, adjutant general of the
United Confederate Veterans. announces
that the week beginning June 4th has
been decided upon as the date for holding
the 1917 reunion of the veterans in Wash
ington. D. c.
Robert N. Harper has been appointed
chairman of the Presidential inaugural COM
mittee, and Arthur Peter. formerly of this
county, chairman of the inaugural finance
committee. Both of these gentleman are
residents of Washington city.
The State Tax Commission has an
nounced the appointment Of Perrie f.
Waters, of Germantown. as supervisor OF
assessments for this county to succeed f.
Lloyd Fawcett, who resigned. He has en-
tered upon the duties of the office.
Recently Mr.. John W. Stephens sold from
his farm, near Brookeville, this county,
three head of homegrown fat cattle whose
combined weight was 1920. Together
two of them, three years of age, weighed
29lO, and the third one, two years of age,
weighed 1890. They sold for 8 cents.
Acting upon certificates of Drs. Edward
Anderson and Frederick N. Henderson. the
County Commissioners have adjudged Mrs
Margaret Mayhem, formerly Of Laytons-
vile district, to be of unsound mind and
have ordered that she be committed to
Springfield Hospital. at Sykesville, for treat
ment at county expense.
Miss Mabel Magdalene Hilton. daughter
of Mrs. John H. Hilton. of this town. and
Mr.. John Edward Hughes, of San Francisco.
Cal, were married last Saturday in St.
Mary's Catholic Church, Rockville, by Rev.
John T. Coolahan. The bridegroom, min
ing engineer is here in connection with
the gold mining operations near Great
Falls.
Charles Edward Rice, aged rs years, of
kensineton. an expert accountant in the
Office Of the Secretary of the Treasury. died
last Sunday in the Homeopathic Hospital,
Washington. Interment was at West Boy
lesion, Mass. the birthplace of the de-
ceased. Mr.. Rice. who had lived in Ken
sineton for about fourteen years. was a
resident of Washington city for fifty years
prior to his moving to Kensington.
Arthur Mason, colored, while on Wash
ington and Rockville electric car on his
way out from Washington last Friday
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Gingell,
who happened to be on the car and noticed
that he carried well-filled satchel. The
satchel was found to contain twenty-one
pint bottles of whiskey A charge of vio-
lating the local option law of the county
was preferred against Mason, who was
committed to jail to await trial in the
police court here.
The House Committee on Appropria-
tons. in reporting to Congress the Legisla-
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriations
BILL disapproved the recommendation of
Postmaster General Burleson for $4,000
increase in the salary of VIM. H. Lamar,
Of this town. solicitor of the Postoffice
Department. The committee kept the
salary at $4,000. The Postmaster-Gen-
eral also wanted the salaries of each of
his assistants boosted up $4,000. but the
committee turned down the proposal.