Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-05-02
Ental aud gersuusl.
Town and Country.

The Burden Bearer Circle of The King s
Daughters will meet with Mrs. W. A. Berry
on Tuesday, May 9th, at 8 o'clock, P. M.
Rowland Wootton, for long time as
sistant treasurer of the Farmers Banking
and Trust Company, at this place. has
resigned to take effect May lst 1t is I'M
derstood he will devote his attention to
his farm near PoolesvilIe.
Miss Cecilia Decatur Kileour, daughter
of the late Francis Stribline and Margaret
Heaton Kilgour, died last Tuesday at her
home, THE Pines" near Rockville. For a
number of years she was member of the
faculty of the Rockville High School.
Postmaster General Burleson has an
nounced that the cable lines will be re-
leased in week or so from Government
control, and that he will recommend Con-
gress to restore promptly the telegraph
and telephone lines to the corporations
owning them.
Following long illness of complication
of diseases, Jacob v. Van Horn. life
long resident of Colesville district. died
last Sunday, aged rs years. He is sur
vived by his wife, formerly Miss Moore, of
this county, and daughter, Mrs. Robert
j. T. Richardson.
A dwelling house and an adjacent lot of
8 "a acres. situated in Redland. this
county, belonging to the estate of Caroline
Minerva Magruder, was sold on Thursday
of last week by H. Bradley Davidson and
John C. Davidson, Executors, to Robert W.
Farmer, merchant at Redland, for
$3,OO5.
Edward C. Ricketts,, of this county, re-
ported to the Washington police authori-
ties a box containing sixty pounds of
butter stolen from his automobile at Cen
ter Market last week. He valued the but
ter at $50. Richard H. Gray. of Potomac.
reported the taking of crate containing
thirty dozen eggs from his automobile at
Center Market. The eggs were valued at
$3.50.
In the presence of a small company of
relatives and friends Miss Mamie Case,
daughter of the late Philip J. Case. and
Mr.. Cooke A. Robertson. both of this vi
cinity, were married last Tuesday after
noon by Rev. j. W. Duffey, pastor Of the
Rockville M. E. Church South, the cere-
mony taking place at the parsonage. They
will make their home on the farm near
Rockville recently purchased by the BRIDE
groom.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie S.
Kingsley, widow Of E. d. Kingsley, who
died suddenly on Wednesday of last week
at her home at Gaithersburg, took place
Friday afternoon from the family resi-
dence, Rev. S. Reese Murray. pastor of
Epworth Methodist Church, Gaithersburg,
officiating Burial was in Forest Oak Gene
terry, Gaithersburg. Mrs. Kingsley is sur
vived by two children, Harold S. Kingsley,
of Gaithersburg, and Mrs. Henry Sterrick,
of Washington.
The Avery Company is now building
motor cultivators for planting and blowing
corn, beans. potatoes. etc. They are built
for either two or three rows twenty to fifty
inches in width. They turn in their own
length and destroy less corn than horses.
A four-cylinder motor is used generally.
but for heavy work they are provided with
a six-cylnder motor. They also have
pulley for belt work. These machines cul-
tivate about twenty acres day. and their
cost is surprisingly low.
Two automobiles of good things, includ-
ing fifty pounds of homemade candy,
crate of oranges. a dozen glasses of jelly.
two large baskets of fruit and many other
things constituted a recent gift of the
people of Kensington to wounded soldier
boys at Walter Reed Hospital. Mrs. Wat
son W. Edredge, Miss Virginia Wilson and
Mrs. Francis S. Davidson personally pre-
scented the gifts to the patients. visiting
the various wards and endeavoring to pick
out those who had fewest visitors.
The Rockville High School held its weekly
community meeting in the High School
Assembly Hall on last Friday evening. A
very interesting program was rendered by
the Grammar school, each room giving
selection. Miss England's room gave
demonstration of the Home Geography
work they have taken up this year. Ger
trude Mailing delivered the lecture while
pictures of Rockville and Montgomery coun-
ty were shown. A great deal Of enthusl-
asm was exhibited by the audience when
the pictures of Rockville were thrown on
the screen.
Isaiah Fountain. the negro who was tried
at Easton, Nd. last week on the charge OF
assaulting Bertha Simpson, 10 years old,
near Trappe. Talbot county, on the after
noon of April /, was found guilty Thursday
and sentenced to be hanged. Judge Ad-
kins pronounced sentence on the negro at
Sis O'Clock, 10 minutes after the jury had
rendered the verdict. The case had been
given to the jury at four minutes of five,
and it remained out only nine minutes. II
was decided to take the negro to the Baitl-
more jail for safe keeping He will be held
there until Governor Harrington fixes
date for the execution. Sheriff Stitchbury
announced that the execution would De
open to the public. Fountain still asserts
his innocence, though the child positively
identified him as her assailant, declaring
that he did not commit the crime and that
some day the truth will be known.
Under the heading, Farming In Mary
land and Virginia, the Montgomery county
contributor to the Washington Star OF
Sunday last says ut was feared that the
cold weather of few weeks ago had seri-
ousIy damaged fruit. especially peaches
plums and apricots, but this does not seem
to have been the case. so far, at least as
this county is concerned. In the opinion