Montgomery County sentinel., 1917-07-27
Eutal aud gersuual.
Town and Country.

Peaches are plentl1ul at MOOreland Farm
and purchasers and pickers are wanted.
Lawrence Dawson. eldest son of Mr.. H
A. Dawson, of near this town. has enlisted
in the US. Naval Reserve Corps.
The annual meeting of the Ridgely Brown
Camp of Confederate Veterans will be helc
in Rockville, Md, on Saturday, August 4th
1917, at 10 A. M.
Miss Gertrude Ward, of Gaithersburg
and Miss Sadie Galden, of Philadelphia
Pa, spent last week with Miss Susie Cronise
of Bethesda, this county.
Rev. DR.. George S. Duncan, of the Her,
mon and Cropley Presbyterian Churches
is spending his vacation at Colonial Beach.
Va. There will be no services at Hermon
and Cropley next Sunday. July goth.
Following long illness of an affection
of the stomach. Miss Mary E. Kramer, died
last Tuesday at the home of her brother
in-law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kirk
land, near Montrose this county. aged Sc
years.
George E. Hinkley. aged 54 years, died
last Tuesday at the home of his mother.
in Gaithersburg, of complication of dis
eases. He had been i'll long while. He
is survived by his mother. sister and a
brother.
Miss Beatrice Hipkins, Of Germantown,
and Mr.. Joseph M. Savage, of the vicinity
of Germantown, were married in Frederick
City, Md, on Saturday. July 14th. 1917. by
Rev. H. L. G. Kiefer. at the home of the
minister.
Capt George E. Lewis, of this town, has
been ordered to Fort 0glethorpe, near Chat
tanooea. Tenn. to enter upon his duties
In the u S. Medical Corps. Nineteen years
ago he camped at the same place at the
time of the Spanish-Americ War.
Reuben Dove. young negro resident of
this vicinity, received ten lashes on the
back in the jail yard here on Thursday
afternoon of last week as penalty for
beating his wife. He took his punishment
without wincing or uttering sound. Dove
is the fifth wife beater to be whipped here
in recent years.
A patriotic picnic, under the auspices of
the Montgomery County Woman Suffrage
League, will be held at the residence of
Mrs. M A. Keys, Forest Glen, Md, Friday,
July 9th, 1917, at 1l:30 A. M. Speakers
on food conservation. garden work, Ameri-
canization and Red Cross Box luncheon
Coffee served and ice-cream for sale.
Everybody invited. Come and bring the
children.
Announcement has been made Of the
recent marriage of Mr.. J. Floyd Cissel, son
of the late G. o. B. Cissel. of Wheaton, and
Miss Evelyn C. Knote, of Pittsbure, Pa, the
ceremony taking place in Pittsbure. They
will live in New York city, where Mr.. Cissel
is an official of the Metropolitan Trust Com
pany. Mr. Cissel was formerly connected
with the banks at KensngtOn and Silver
Spring
Alfred Ray Thomson, son of DIR. and Mrs.
Lewis B. Thomson. for many years resi-
dents of this county. has been appointed
United States Consul at Moscow. Russia,
and will leave within the very near future
for his post of duty Mr.. Thomson will, it
is understood, be vested with general pow
ers and will endeavor TO develop trade
relations between Russia and the United
States. For several years Mr.. Thomson
was United States Consul at Saloniki,
Greece.
The Woman Christian Temperance Union
of Montgomery County will hold its an
nual convention Friday, July 9th. in the
Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church,
Kensington. Md. at 10 A. NJ There will
be interesting accounts of temperance
work done by the women Of the county,
and the program will include good speak
ers and music. Bring your lunch. Coffee
will be served and there will be ice-cream
for sale A cordial invitation is extended
to all interested in temperance to attend.
On Monday Mrs John f. Muncaster, of
Norbeck. left at this Office fine specimen
of Irish Cobbler potatoes grown in her
garden this season. The sample comprises
four potatoes. together weighing three and
half pounds, or in measurement making
one-fourth Of peck. The seed potatoes
were purchased from Washington Hicks,
prominent merchant of this town. With
the tubers she left curiosity in the shape
of twin squash. They grew upon a single
stem, are of the usual size, of perfect
formation. and joined together by a thin
membranous growth.
Theodore W. Henderson, aged SO years.
a leading farmer Of Clarksburg district,
died suddenly on Monday last He was
stricken at supper, dying almost instantly
from heart trouble. Mr.. Henderson was a
son of the late Rev. James S. H. Hender-
son, for number Of years pastor OF the
Presbyterian Church at Neelsville, this
county. He was born in Pennsylvania,
but lived in this county nearly SIS years.
lie was a brother of the Rev. John K.
Henderson. Of Rockville: Mrs. James f.
Dee's' OF Harrisburg; WIN. Henderson, OF
Baltimore, and Thos. Henderson. of Wash
ington.
The members of the Motor Messenger
service of Montgomery County. organized
under the Womans Section Council of De-
tense for Montgomery County, of which
Mrs j. Frank Wilson is Chairman. held
their second meeting at the Montgomery
country Club, in Rockville, on Tuesday.
Mrs Josiah W. Jones. of Olney. Captain
iof The county, presided The following
appointments were made Adjutant. Miss
peulna Prescott, Of Rockville; Aides. Mrs.
OaVld Fairchild, of North Chevy Chase.
and Mrs. D. W. Baker, of Germantown, In
each election district there will be ap.