Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-03-26
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Good Friday. April End. the banks viii
be closed
Mr.. John H. Mills has sold to Mr.. Chas
H. Thrift, of Travilah. his residence in the
western section of Rockville. the consid-
GRAFTON being $4,000.
The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Mary's
Catholic Church. Rockville. will hold cake
sale on Saturday. April 8. at the home Of
Mrs. David H. Warield. The sale will
begin at $50 P. M.
The Mission Guild of Christ Church, Rock
vile. will have a cake and candy sale, with
few fancy articles, at Miss Margaret
Dawson's. from 8 to 6, the afternoon Of
the 3rd Of April.
Dorsey R. Bean, Senior Examiner OF
Stations. in the Washington city postoffice
has resigned his position to enter the auto
mobile business in Rockville with his
brother, William Bean.
In honor of the eighty seventh birthday
anniversary of Miss Alkaline Gloyd. of
Gaithersburg, she was given a surprise
party by her nieces and nephews at the
Gloyd homestead. Gaithersburg. last week.
George Duffin. colored, of this town, who
was found guilty in the police court here
last week of violating the local option law
of the county on three different occasions.
was sentenced to twenty-seven months in
the house of correction by Justice Gather
The battleship Maryland was launched
successfully at the plant of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com
pany a few minutes after o'clock last
Saturday morning. Mrs. E. Brooke Lee.
wife Of Maj. Lee. Comptroller of Maryland.
was the sponsor.
The Wheaton District Farmers Club has
been organized at Wheaton with large
membership and the following officers !:
President. Parker L. Weller; vice-presi-
dent, W. Scott Beall secretary. George R.
Bliss treasurer. Clayton Rabbit; direc-
tors. John Gill. Alfred Ray and Christian
G. Hurlebaus.
Owen G. Cavanaugh, colored. an en-
ploye of the National Park Seminary, at
Forest Glen. was instantly killed at Forest
Glen on Thursday afternoon of last week,
when he was struck by a Baltimore and
Ohio express train. A jury of inquest. pre-
sided over by Justice of the Peace John
H. L. Sawyer, as coroner, decided the acct
dent unavoidable.
In suit for $4,000 for alleged aliena-
ton of his wife's affections, Elmer E.
Moore, Of Washington. was given judy
ment for 500 by a jury in the Circuit Court
here last Friday. against Richard H. Club.
of Woodmont, this county. Mrs. Moore
acted as housekeeper for Mr.. Club and
his daughter for several months, the tes-
timony showed.
Mrs. Cherry Donaldson. of this county,
has been granted an absolute divorce in
the Circuit Court here from Henry A. Dom
aldson. of Washington, on the ground of
desertion. The decree also allows her
500 counsel fee and permanent alimony
of $50 month, beginning April |, 1920.
She is also allowed to resume her maiden
name of Cherry Ford. According to the
bill, they were married January IS. 1908.
R. W. Litzineer. Of Pittsburgh. Pa. said
to represent a syndicate of Pennsylvania
capitalists, has secured leases on 1,439
acres Of land in the vicinity of Hunting
Hill. this county. in the belief that natural
gas and oil exist there. The owners of the
land and the property leased from each
are as follows John L. Dawson. 800 acres;
Vim. C. Veirs, SO acres; Thos. N. Bailey.
1854 acres Samuel R. Briggs. 1873 acres:
Clarence H. Curtis, 274 acres P. A. Haas
elblatz. 470 acres.
William L. Flack, a resident of the
vicinity of Garrett Park. was seriously in
jured on Sunday night of last week at the
intersection of the Rockville George
pike and Edison lane, when he was knocked
down and run over by an automobile He
is now in Washington hospital with frac-
lures Of both legs and other injuries. Mr..
Flack was approaching the pike when the
automobile. which was on its way from
Washington, turned Unexpectedly. Those
IN charge of the machine picked the in
jured man up and rushed him to the hos
pital.
The final oratorical contests among the
public school children of this county for
gold and bronze medals offered by the
Montgomery County Federation of Women's
Clubs were held in the high school build
ing here last Friday. Among the gram
mar school pupils the winners were as
follows: Girls-First. Harriet Kempton,
Woodside school; second, Vivian Will
liams Gaithersburg school. Boys-First,
Charles Darby. Kensington school; second,
George Chadwick, 0akmont school. Among
the high school representatives the winners
were Girls-First. Ruth S. Jones. Sandy
Spring school; second. Everett Stratmeyer
Rockville school, Boys-First, Edward
Mount. Gaithersbure school; second, Hugh
Reading, Rockville school.
Kirby F. Smith. Of Redland, this county,
escaped with his life, wonderful to say.
after contact with hieh-powered electric
wire Of $500 VOLTS on the line of the
Potomac Electric Power Company. between
Rockville and Gaithersbure. The accident
occurred while he was telling trees in the
grove belonging to W. W. Mobley. lying be-