Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-26

road at the west edge of the village
is a brick building with heavily
barred. paillike windows. The shade
of great oaks falls upon its walls and
ivy Is weaving a veil or gnawing itself
into the old bricks. semi-circular
drive curves before the entrance, and
this drive. made of dust, pebbles and
bits of oyster shell, is bordered by such
wild things of the country as plantain,
shepherds purse, mallow, and self-heal
dressed in its purple bloom. yellow
legged dominica chicken was picking
and picking in the shade OF the walls;
Big cement letters in the brick wall
above the door spell bank" On the
left side of the door is black sign
lettered in gilt. which tells: First
National Bank-Open from am. to
~ M daily" On the other side of the
door is another gilt-lettered black sign.
which tells: Savings Institution
Open Mondays and Thursdays from
to pm
The resources of these institutions
would impress many bankers who work
in granite palaces on busy city corners.
The Savings Institution was organised
in 1865. Its latest annual report-the
forty ninth-shows a long list of gilt
edged national, state, municipal, steam
and electric railway bonds in which its
funds are invested. having book value
OF s1,445,77624. The BALANCE shown by
sl,339,s72.2s and it's receipts last year
were: Cash received from interest on
mortgages, s45,15S.73; cash received
mortgages, $45.13s.73: cash received from
interest on stocks and bonds $20,512.66;
cash received from depositors, 1924 e1a. SO;
interest received from collateral loans,
bank balances, etc. "a. 354 SO, and various
smaller items of income making the ag-
gregate of the years receipts S313. S2S.44.
The officers of the institution are Fred
erick l.. Thomas, secretary; A. G. Thorn
as. treasurer, and Asa NJ. Stabler, presi-
dent. The directors are: Alban G.
Thomas, Benjamin H. Miller. Asa NJ
Stabler, Edward p. Thomas, Roger B.
Farquhar, Charles F. Kirk, Charles F.
Brooke, Dr. Francis Thomas. William
f. Muncaster. Robert II. Miller, Francis
NJ Hallowell. Josiah w. Jones, George
Earle Cook, Newton Stabler and T.
Cranmer Griffith.
Fire Insurance Company.
on the lot east of the building &C.
cupied by the bank and Savings In
stitution is a brick building with a
colonial portico-a number Of tall
white columns supporting the roof Of
| the portico. At a glance one would put
| it. down for town home set far out in
| the country or for small courthouse
building. The gray granite corner stone
| is inscribed Chartered 1SfS." Beneath
! the portico and over the main door in
| big gold letters is this: THE Mutual
\ Fire Insurance Company. The assets
| Of this company, whose building stands
| by a dusty roadside in a village in the
| woods. invested in government. state.
| municipal, county railroad and indus
| trial bonds of the highest class. are.
according to the sixty-ninth annual re-
| port, 1884 SITE.
According to that report the new
risks taken during the year were
s2.454.363, risks Cancelled during the
year, $2.048.9S3; total amount at risk
on the day the report was made.
| S1S,296 1880 The officers of this
company are: Edward 2. Thomas, presi-
| dent: Allan Farquhar, secretary and
| treasurer; +. D. Leizear, assistant sec
| rotary. and E. L. Tschiffely, inspector
and adjuster. The directors are: f. p.
Thomas OF Ednor. John Mcdonald.
William r. Mobley, Laytonsville; Will
| liam +. Muncaster. Rockville; William
/ John Thomas. Ednor; Roger 3. Far
] quhar Sandy Spring: G. Rust Candy.
J Talbot county, Nathan II. Bale of Car
| roll county. Edwin Warfield of Howard
county and George r. Garner of st.
| Marys county.
Postmaster for Thirty-Three Years.
The first house you come upon on
! entering the village from the west is
the home of Samuel 3. Wetherald,
| famous rifieman, who won many
| trophies at Creedmoor and other
notable ranges. He keeps the general
| store and the post office at Sandy
Spring and has been postmaster for
| something like thirty-three years
Strung along the road for hundred
| Yards or are the homes, all en-
| powered in Towering shrubs. of Frank
| Wetherald. Perry Bowman. Mrs. Frank
| Leizear and Frank Thomas Lea.
Sandy Spring Friend, who, after an
absence OF years in the wilds of Cen
| trail Africa and East Africa, has re-
turned to his native heath. After
passing the houses Indicated, a garage
| and pump. the traveller again finds
himself in tho country.
| Friends Meeting House.
| Opposite the general store and post
Office a road leads south from the main
road and after a few hundred yards
brings one to the Friends Meeting
House. At the west front is the green
on which the first frame meeting house
stood. At the north and east sides of