Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-07-16
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Stohlman OF Friendship Heights, notary
public for Bethesda district
The July meeting of the Oakdale Y. P
B. will be held at the home of Miss Heller
Soper, of Olney. on the goth.
The Messrs. Peters, whose farm is or
the Norbeck road. recently threshed theil
crop of wheat and obtained yield pei
acre of 81 bushels.
Melville D. Hutchinson. of Rockville, has
been appointed a constable for the Fourth
district of the county to succeed Constable
Sadtler, resigned.
A farm of AZ acres on the Seventh
Street pike. near Wheaton. has been sold
by Donald M. Bowie to Ross j. Hough. Of
Washington. for $4,000.
Union Services of Hermon and Cropley
Presbyterian Churches next Sunday at II
A. M. Rev. Edward w. Collamore will
preach. Everyone most welcome.
The Rockville baseball club scor an
other victory last Saturday. Tomorrow
afternoon, at the Fair Grounds. the team
will play the Winston, superior Wash
ington team.
The arrival of new wheat in the Balti-
more market is slow. and in price is rang
ing according to quality from $3.50 to
$500. The quality is reported to be uni
formly good.
Charles Veirs. of this vicinity. has sold
to Frank H. Farlin, of Washington. farm
of 35 acres on the Rockville-Darnestown
pike, one mile from Rockville. the con-
sideration being $1,000.
W. Vernon Beall has sold his dwelling
on Washingt II street, in this town. to
Edward Ward. of Hunting Hill. and pur-
chased the Beach home on Wall street.
Both of these are attractive residences.
The monthly meeting Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be held
at the home of Mrs. C. M. Grubb, Rockville,
on Tuesday, July goth. at 2:30 P. M. The
members and friends are cordially urged
to be present.
Red Russell, driven by Thomas Murphy.
the noted reinsman, won a race of three
successive heats in the Grand Circuit. at
Toledo, Ohio. for purse Of $500, on
Monday last He took mark of 200 IA.
This horse was bred by Fields Bros, near
DerwoOd, and trained by C. c. Waters.
Rev. John Robertson, formerly pastor of
the City Temple. Glasgow. Scotland. who
was with the British Expedtionary Forces
in France, has decided not to accept a call
to the pastOrate of the Presbyterian Church
at Kensington, this county. and will. it is
announced, return to his old charge in
Glasgow.
A. j. Cummings has returned from the
San Francisco national convention and
visited Rockville last Tuesday. He wears
broad smile over the nomination of Cox
for President. so well pleased is he with
the grand achievement, which he contrib
ute5 o with his best energy from first to
asst as delegate.
A charge of cents per bushel will be
made for wheat threshed in this county
the present season. This price was adopted
at meeting here on Saturday last of the
FOCAL organization of threshermen. The
increase was made compulsory, the thresh-
ermen say. by the rise in price of all other
things
On the charge of desertion Mrs. Cecilia
B. Brown, of Glen Echo, has filed suit in
the Circuit Court here for absolute divorce
from VIM. E. Brown. of Washington. She
asks the court to allow her to resume her
maiden name of Schaeffer. The bill sets
forth that the couple were married in
Washington on December 26th. 1916, and
lived together but four months.
The Rambler writes of many things-"of
ships and shoes and sealing wax and cab
bages and kings never has he writ
ten a more interesting series of fact stories
than those now featured in The Washing
ton Sunday Star. He writes each Sunday
of the Potomac river and its history, and
remember, these articles appear only in The
Washington Sunday Star. Order your copy
today.
Rev. Thomas d. Windiate. rector of Christ
Episcopal Church at Kensineton. will leave
this week for Switzerland. where he will
attend conference having for its object
reunion of Christendom on faith and order
He will be abroad six weeks and expects
to visit the battlefelds of France. During
his absence the services at the Kensington
church will be in charge of Rev. J. B.
Whaling. of Austin, Texas.
II you wish to donate anything towards
the supper and entertainment TO be given
for the benefit of the Montgomery County
General Hospital on Friday. July Both, at
the Sandy Spring high school. will you
kindly send it either to Mrs. W. E. Berry
or Mrs. John B. Henderson. of Rockville
Donations of fried chicken, ham, beef rolls,
cream. butter, jelly pickles, lemons, sugar.
salad or cake are asked for.
Edward Welsh and Uriah Ricketts,. rural
mail carriers from this town. have filed
their positions for fourteen years and six
months. They will be retired in August
next because of the age limit of sixty-fve
years stipulated in a recent law enacted
by Congress applying to government EN-
poyes and will be denied pension mas
much as their time Of service is short six
months Of the fifteen years required by
law to obtain pension.
Dr., Henry S. West was elected on Mon
day last principal Of the Maryland State
Normal School at a salary of $4,000 pei
year. The Doctor is son Of the late Mont.
gomery West, a native Of this county and
at one time prominent merchant of Balti
more. He is grandson of the late Henry
West, who in his lifetime owned and re