Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-09-20
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Town and Country.
Maryland is called on to raise S6,OOO,-
900 of the fourth Liberty Loan.
Children's Day services will be held Sun
day, September 29th. at 1890 A. M. in
Emory Church on Goshen charge. All are
cordially invited. A good program will be
rendered by the children.
This week Prof. Moore has added to the
things to be sold at his big auction sale,
ON September 3Oth, a Ford truck. motor
cycle, a gas engine and wood saw. and
the fodder from 81 acres of corn.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of the Presbyte-
rian Church will have a sale Of good
things to cal" at the home of Mrs. Helen
Gassaway, Rockville, on Thursday, Sep
TENDER 26th, from 2 to S o'clock, P. M.
Died, on Monday. September 18th, 1918.
Marjorie Inslee, daughter of Cornelius W.
and Mary G. Clum, Of Kensington, aged
20 years. The funeral services took place
Wednesday from the family residence and
interment was in Rockville Union Cemetery.
By the direction of the Adjutant-G General
of Maryland, Cuyler o. Needs, of Chevy
Chase. has been indicted into the military
service and sent to Camp Meade. He will,
it is understood, be detailed as chief clerk
of the local draft board for Calvert county
The body of Corp. W. irwin Brooke, son
of Mrs. Helen Brooke, Of Rockville who
died at Camp Logan. Texas. on September
10th, was Tuesday afternoon inferred in
Rockville Union Cemetery. He was given
military burial, six soldiers acting as
pallbearers.
The five imported Percheron stations
recently purchased by Trundle Brothers
arrived on Wednesday Of last week at the
home Of the firm near Poolesville They
are Young, handsome animals. weighing
between 1900 and 2l00 pounds. and are
to be sold as stock horses.
Miss Sarah E. Richardson and Mr.. Guy
P. Linkins, both of Colesville, were married
there few days ago by Rev. j. B. HUFF
man, pastor of the Methodist Church. The
ceremony took place at the home OF the
minister in the presence OF small COM
pany of relatives and friends.
Mrs. Wilmer G. Plat, wife Of Mayor W.
G. Platt, of Takoma Park, is arranging to
organize Red Cross auxiliary at Takoma
Park, Md. During the last Red Cross drive
the residents on the Maryland side went
lover the top" in such a manner as to win
commendation from headquarters OF the
American Red Cross at Rockville.
Official returns from the military regis
tration in this county on Thursday OF last
week show that 1854 men enrolled in the
20 precincts Of the county, 2,943 being
whites and 908 colored. The number ex-
ceeded the estimate of the Provost Marshall
General by about 900. The total number
registered in this county since the be-
ginning of the war is 1882. OF whom
about $50 are now in the military or
naval service.
MONTGOMERY county will soon lose, tenn
porarily at least, the services of Miss viii
Lou Gray as supervisor of one-room public
schools She has been selected by the
Illiteracy Commission Of South Carolina
to take charge of the work Of stamping out
iiteracy in that State, where the percent
aee Of illiterates is said to be about 80
per cent. She expects to sever her con-
nection with the schools of the county in
about ten days, and will enter at once
upon her new work.
The Government has called upon the
school children. and others as well. to save
and dry the pits of peaches, apricots. plums.
hickory nuts, walnuts and butternuts, along
with the shells. These are used in pro-
ducing carbon for gas respirators to be
worn by the boys lover there" The nuts,
&C., are to be well dried and taken to the
various school houses, the school houses
to be central collecting stations. Two hun
dred peach pits or seven pounds OF nuts
make enough carbon for one gas resprator.
Do your bit to save our boys from the
Huns GAS that stings. blinds and kills.