Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1917-10-26
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Town and Country.

line of hats and trimmings. art goods
knitting needles. &c. The ladies' exchane,
will be discontinued after November 1st
Kenneth Lyddane has resigned as .
deputy in the office of the Clerk of thu
Circuit Court here to take a position with
the United States Shipping Board at Wash
ington.
Mr.. Thomas J. Veirs. of this town, /,
filling a position in the engineering de-
partment of the District of Columbia gov.
eminent, to which he was recently ap
pointed
The local exemption board has received
instructions to send 81 colored men tC
Camp Meade on October Goth. The mum.
Der will complete the county's quota of 13l
under the first call
After undergoing an operation, performed
by DR.. Thomas Kelley last week at Provi-
dence Hospital, Washington, D. c.. Mrs
Fountain Peters. of Glen. is now placed
among the convalescents.
A story by Richard Harding Davis al
ways commands attention, and his LOG
of the jolly Polly" is one of the best OF
the longer ones from his pen. Read it
next Sunday, October 2Sth. in The Wash
ington Sunday Star.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Brooke
vile M. P. Church will hold their annual
oyster supper on Wednesday evening, No.
vember 7th, at Brookeville. Oysters and
lunch will be served at Olney and Brooke
vile on election day.
The Clarksburg school will hold a hal
lowe'en party in the school building on the
evening of the 26th of October, beginning
at 7 o'clock. Sandwiches. ice-cream. cake.
candy coffee and chocolate will be sold.
Games for prizes and fortuneteller.
George Peter, son of Judge E. C. Peter.
of this town, has been called to the United
States Navy. He has resigned his posi-
ton in the Farmers Banking and Trust
Company and will report at once at Nor
lUlh, va. OUinO tlillC dBO iC ChiotCu, Out
has been awaiting orders.
William Lochte aged 50 years. life
long resident of this county, died last Fri
day night at his home at Bethesda. He
had been i'll about year of an affection
of the stomach He is survived by son
and daughter, Leroy Lochte and Mrs.
Kate Rogers, both of Bethesda.
Misfortune befell Miss Helen Humphrey.
one of Rockville attractive young ladies, in
having both bones of her right wrist broken
on Tuesday last, the accident occurring in
an attempt to crank her Ford auto. Miss
Helen is daughter of our esteemed fellow
townsman, Mr.. VIM. R. Humphrey.
The Rockville branch of the Montgomery
County Chapter of the American Red Cross
has been organized with the following
officers: Chairman, Alexander F. Prescott;
vice-chairman, Mrs John r. Henderson
secretary, Mrs Geo. H. Lamar; treasurer.
Mrs. H. C. Allnutt. The branch has 202
members.
The ladies of St. MarY's Catholic Gene
terry Association will serve hot lunch at
the Corcoran Hotel building. Rockville, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 18th
and 18th. at noon. Those who have pa
tronized these lunches will find the same
good service as in the past. The patron
age of the public is solicited.
George B. McAtee, aged Sc years. a
contractor and builder, died last Monday.
having been stricken with heart failure
while at work Surviving are the follow
ing brothers and sisters John McAtee. of
Pennsylvania, and Theodore, Eugene A.
and Misses Fannie and Josephine McAtee.
of Boyds He was son of the late John
McAtee.
George Burnapp Bartlett. aged 40 years.
died on Wednesday night of last week at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. W.
B. Bartlett, near Gaithersburg. following a
short illness of pneumonia. He is survived
by his widow. who is a daughter of Mr..
Harry Riggs, of this county, and two chill
dren. Mr.. Bartlett was lifelong resident
of Maryland and had lived near Gathers
burg about fifteen years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haitian A. Waters, Of Ira
vilah, have announced the marriage OF
their daughter, Miss Alice May Waters.
and Mr.. William Gassaway. of Jamestown,
which took place in Washington city on
Wednesday of last week, the ceremony be-
ing performed by Rev John II. Jeffries. at
the home of the minister. Mr. and Mrs.
Gassaway left this week for California.
which will be their future home. Mr.. Gas
saway is a son Of the late Alexander
Gassaway.
Everybody wants to help with the COM
munity box of good things to eat that is
to be sent to Company X. Donations OF
the following must be made by October
3ist, to Mrs. Ohio Talbot, Rockville. or
Mr.. Cannon or Mr. Dudley. Silver Spring :
Homemade cakes and cookies, crackers,
snappy cheese. jelies, candies, chewing
gum, tobacco and cigarettes. send noth-
ing perishable. Jelles must be put in tin
or thick pasteboard boxes For any further
information communicate with Mrs. VIM.
Henderson, Forest Glen. Md.
Eugene Jones, Joseph W. Bird, Otis M
Lnthicum, Robert G. Hilton and Albert
Nichols began proceedings Monday in the
District of Columbia Supreme Court t.
annul their contracts to purchase shares
Of stock in the Washington City Life In
surance Company and the Federal Finance
Corporation and to enjoin certain Wash
ington banks, where the plaintiffs alles'
money is deposited, from paying any
the money to either Of the two corpora
tions. They also ask that the affairs o
the corporations be concluded under tn
courts directions, Attorney George h