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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
WHAT "INFORMA-
TON" CAN AND CAN
NOT TELL YOU

When a telephone subscriber looks
IN his directory for a certain number
and does not find it, he calls the op
orator and asks for Information"
whereupon she replies "Il give you
Information" and Immediately con.
meets him with one Of the Information
operators who have access to the lat
est records Of names, numbers and
addresses Of all subscribers who have
been connected since the most recent
issue Of the directory. After obtain
ing the number the subscriber puts
the call through in the usual way.
Most companies make 1t a rule to
confine the work of Information OPP
orators TO giving information which
has a direct bearing on establishing
telephone connections. They are not
allowed to answer subscribers ques-
tions as to the time Of day the loca-
tion of fires, the outcome Of athletic
contests, elections, etc, because It
might at times result in a serious con-
gestion that would prove detrimental
to the regular service and impose
heavy burden upon the operators.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
MANY BARGAINS.

We beg TO call your attention to few
Of our many bargains at this store. We
receive new goods every week and always
have full stock to select from. Our goods
must plcana-
One lot of S2-inch .dress sinehams to
dose at 19c,
Good line of figured and dotted voiIes.
39c to csc.
l0-yad pieces Of nainsook for $3.50.
Ladies new sleeveless sweaters, $3.50
TO $3.50.
Ladies new voile dre@@ at $2.25
Ladiee new einsham street dresses, $2,
$3.50 and 1918.
jackson. College Girl and Memo corsets.
Bathing suits, Soc to $3.50.
Natural color poneee, Sic. 75c and $l.5O
per yard.
Collar and cuff sets at SOC to $3.50.
NB$Oef snort and long silk gloves.
Ladies sd children's white pumps and
oxfords, $50 TO $3.50.
Buse' 3.plece suits, $3.50 up. Mems
suits. Sa0.sb.
Ladies plated all wool skirts at $5.98.
Simmone good grade bed and springs
for SIS.
All Size mattresses, IS and up.
Cfex rugs. 9x6. 8xl0. 9x12, 5000 up.
Matches. cheaper than Wholesale prices
por gross $3.50.
Babbiuis i776 and Star Naptha wash,
Ing powders, 7 for 25c.
5opura shredded soap, made from pure
SSEh American oils, 15c
Remember we deliver your bulky pack
sges--rues. beds. mattresses. oil stoves,
otc.-to out. of-town points.
w. HICKS,
july 27-tf Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
ITALIAN TELEPHONE
USER NEEDS PATTI
ENCE OF SAINT

Telephones will be the first OF the
publicly owned utilities in Italy to go
back to private enterprise, according
to Signor Giovanni Colonna di Cesaro.
Minister Of Posts and Telegraphs un.
der Mussolini.
"Our telephones are nearly the
worst in the world" he said in a re-
cent interview. Excepting Russia,
NO civilized country has so little tele-
phonic development As to quality
our telephones are even worse. Tele-
phonnig in Italy is a Chris
tian and spiritual exercise in divine
patience More than 5000 villages
are without any telephone connection
The blame must be laid indirectly on
the State"
Definite action by the Italian Cab
met has confirmed the proposed trans
fer of the telephones to private com
panies, and bids have been requested
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
JONSON ON MISSPENT LIVES
Many Modern Writers Would Like to
Phrase the Thought So
Happily.

"What a deal Of cold business doth
a man mlsspend the better part Of life
in In scattering compliments, tender
ing visits, gathering and venting news,
following feasts and plays, making a
little winter love in dark corner"
This sentence from Ben Jonsons
Discoveries" contains a general re
Election which every man who has
reached the age Of thlrty-Ave and has
lived In civilized society at any time
during the last five hundred years has
frequently made to himself.
But the precise and personal shade
which Jonson gives It by the last nine
words Of his sentence belong to himself
and to his time; the color with which
they paint a commonplace Is not that
of Milton or Dryden, Of Congreve or
Swift~Pope or Johnson, Wordsworth or
Shelley, Tennyson or Browning, but it
is very near the shade of feeling which
many a writer today attempts, much
less successfully, TO translate into sen.
nces.--The Nation and the Atheneum
of London.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
WCAP IDENTIFIED WITH
NOTABLE RADIO EVENTS

Officially opened on July 4, of this
year, Station WCAP, the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company has
taken a conspicuous position in the
radio world by broadcasting events of
worldwide interest from the Nations
Capital.
With the whole outdoors as studio
the local station imported it's first con-
cert from New York, employing the
long distance circuits of the Bell sys-
ten and broadcast program of music
Jointly with Station WEAF, the Amer
loan Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, of New York, on Independence
bay.
This feature was followed by the
broadcasting Of the bi-weekly concerts
played by the United States Marine
Band at the Marine Barracks and the
Meyer Davis lie Paradis Orchestra,
plcked UP on the roof garden of the
dA6e. Letters began to pour into the
ethces of the telephone company prais-
ing these two organizations and the
quality Of the transmission few days
otter the experiment. Communications
were received from Canada, Cuba,
Mexico, San Salvador and England,
acknowledging receipt Of these con-
certs and the files of WCAP contain
letters from every State in the Union.
The next event to stimulate interest
In radio throughout the country was
the broadcasting by several high
power stations Of Lloyd Georges fare
we'll address in New York City. This
apeech was received by station WCAP
from wEAF and Washington and vi
cinity was allowed to hear this great
statesman for the first time.
Hardy had the interest in this &C.
eomplishment subsidized when the
etartling announcement was made that
former President Woodrow Wilson
would emerge from the seclusion he
had maintained since his Illness by
Addressing the public through the
fAdio.
Microphones were installe in the
Wilson home by engineers of the
local telephone company. and the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company and while practically the
whole United States listened in, six
powerful stations linked together by
the use of long distance telephone
wires, broadcast flve-minute address
that was broadcast here by WCAP.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
t-UlD Used TO LIFT LOADS
Scientist InVents Liquid That, When
Released, Expands at Rapid
Rate.

A scientist has invented fluid that,
when released, expands at a rate that,
when translated into power, can per-
form wonderful feats in the way Of
lifting loads. At present Its chief ap-
plication seems to be in the lifting or
motorcars to allow of the mending OF
punctures. A piston jack Is placed
under the axle and to the jack is at
tached small bottle about one foot
long and weighing about three and
one-half pounds, equipped with
valve at one end. The handle Is turned
slightly and the car Is promptly lifted
off the ground. With one Of these lit
tie bottles a load of 10000 pounds-15
tons--can be lifted. The terrific power
of the expanding liquid rushes through
a pipe and strikes the piston Of jack
with Irresistible force. Lifting the
ordinary automobile ls child's play to
this wonderful bottle.
II this is true, and If bottles Of
great size could be constructed, one
might imagine great buildings being
lifted from their foundations and sent
topping to destruction; II a an pound
bottle can lift 1900 pounds, what
would not a one-ton bottle accomplish
Logically II would seem that there is
no limit to the weight that could be
lifted. given the proper apparatus to
apply the power.
The tremendous expanding force of
the fluid In the bottle, the inventor
says, can be turned to other purposes
besides lifting weights. Ice can he
made with 1t, tires inflated In three
seconds, fires extlnguished flor the
escaping gas smothers flame) and
sparkling drinks carbonated at very
low cost.
With one little bottle in the car, the
motorist can Jack up the vehicle, in
fate the new tire and make himself
a cool, sparkling drink to refresh him
self after his exertions, so the lnven-
tor says.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18

But these unprecedented accom-
plishments were becoming so regular
that nothing seemed to surprise the
public Football and baseball games
being played in New York were de-
scribsd, play by play, In Washington.
and prize fights in New Jersey and
New York were brought to the Capital
by radio and telephone wires.
When the corner stone CT the George
Washington Memorial was laid in
Alexandria, a specially equipped truck
carrying the pickup was sent to Vir-
ginia and later hoisted into banquet
hall so that the country might hear,
the ceremonies being conducted here.
With the opening of Congress
WCAP, together with the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
gave the country for the first time the
Presidents address as he stood in the
House of Representatives facing six
microphones that carried his words to
Texas, Kansas, Chicago, Missouri and
New York by long distance circuits
from where they were broadcast by
high-power stations to the far corners
of the country.
In addition to this accomplishment
amplifers were erected outside the
building where crowds gathered to
hear the address of the new Executive.
A few days later another precedent
was established when engineers in
stalled a microphone in the White
House through which the President
made an appeal Cor the Harding Men,
orial Association.
Church services have become a per-,
manent Sunday event for Station
WCAP, and in close cooperation with
the Federation Of Churches, it has been
arranged to broadcast services of diff
ferent churches and denominations
each week.
Through this agency small commu-
mites that lack churches or are unable
to have a minister each Sunday have
installed community receiving sets
that are set up in large room, or
the church, If there lie one available,
and the congregation in this way is
provided with church service.
Considering that WCAP is but six
months old, it has certainly set a rec
ord in broadcasting that is hard to
equal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Questlonlna the JUDGE.

Aunt jimmy, Carolina Negress, was
a great advocate of the rod as a help
In collaborating. AS a result of an I'M
merciful beating which she gave her
youngest and "orneriest," she was
brought into court one day by out.
ragged neighbors.
The Judge, after giving her a severe
lecture. asked II she had anything to
say.
Jest one thing, Jedge," she replied
81 wants to AK you question. Was
you ever the parent of perfectly
wuthless cullud chlle2'-Everybody's
Magazine.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Notice to Creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sub
scriber has obtained fr"m the Orphans
Court OF Montgomery county. Md. letters
oil administration on the personal estate of
OLGA NJ. SPEIR.
late of Montgomery county. deceased.
All persons, having claims against the
said deceased are hereby warned 10 ex-
hibit the same, with vouchers thereof TO
the subscriber on or before the nth dav
June, 1924 otherwise they may, by law.
be excluded from Of all benefit of said
estate. All persons indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate paw
ment. Given under my hand this nth day
Of December, 1928
FERDINAND L. SPEIR.
acc l4'6t Administrator
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
PROTECT
Your Autos and Tractors and
Buildings
WITH MOTORENE OILS AND COLUMBIA
PAINTS.

These products. sold under a guarantee
of satisfaction. will give you better service
at a lover cost. They are sold direct to
you Though our local representatives, thus
enabling US to furnish the highest grade
oils. paints or roofing at the lowest posi-
BILE prices.
M0TORENE oils give 80 per cent NOR
actual fabrication than ordinary motto
oils because they are the finest oils posi-
Bile to refine and are sold only according
to the strict scientific requirements Of the
individual motor.
Our representative will be glad to call,
he is trained to select the correct oil your
motor needs to see that you get the proper
material for your every purpose. Call
him when in need Of oils, paints or roofing.
Terms i desired.
CENTRAL PETROLEUM COMPANY.
Represented by
DARIUS M HARMON.
Rockville. Md,
apr 6-3m Box ia.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Vacations.

"Yeah, my wife and have decided
that for our vacations she will stay at
home and I'll go to the seashOre."
Sure 1t Is. She won't have to get
up mornings and cook my breakfast
and won't have TO get up and eat II
Amt that on?"-Richmond
Vines Dispatch.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Scoffed at Telephone,
Now Radio Fan

Shortly after his retirement from
Congress Uncle Joe" Cannon was
featured in newspaper syndicate
photograph enjoying grand opera
via radio. The veteran legislator
appears to have become a complete
convert to the wonders of electrical
communication, but ii is not so
many years ago that he was an out
spoken skeptic.
When told, In 1878, that T. N.
Vail had resigned from the Railway
Mail Service to become manager of
the Bell Telephone Company, Can
non exclaimed, We'll, that's too
bad. | always liked Vail Hubbard
tried to sell me some of that stock
I'm sorry he got hold of a nice fell
low like Vail"
American Telephone and Tele-
graph stock now sells at about 1876.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
BEWARE OF WET UMBRELLA.

A wet umbrella carelessly placed
where it rests against the cords Of
your telephone is apt to put your tele-
phone out OF business. All covered
wires that carry the voice currents
must be kept perfectly dry and care
must be taken that no dsmpness shall
reach them, else the service may be
interrupted while search is made for
the cause Of trouble and the necessary
repairs are made.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Lively Old Tortoise Wins Race.


A subject for new fable from
Aesop comes from Bickton Devon.
Visitors on holiday In the district,
hearing a Dartmoor farmer boast OF
the speed Of his tortoise, aged ninety,
obtained another tortoise, aged sixty,
from a London firm and threw out
challenge for a race. This took place
in an orchard in the presence of al.
most all the inhabitants of the vii.
lage. shotgun was used to give the
starting signal It being arranged that
the winner should be the tortoise
that Travelled the greatest distance in
ten minutes. The Dartmoor tortoise
made of Immediately at breakneck
speed. His opponent had brief look
around, and then drew In his head be
meath his she'll refusing to bulge
When the time limit had expired the
Dartmoor tortoise had covered sew
enty yards and the visitor was still at
the starting point.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18

ROCKVILLE, MD. R.FDt

ROCKVILLE, MD, R.F.D.I,
experienced auctioneer, will sell real estate
or personal property at reasonable prices
anywhere in Montgomery county or Mary
land.
an 9-3m
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18

The popularity Of the telephone in
this country is shown by the fact that
In 1922. IS 25O. 000.0 900 calls were made
an average of 55,OO0.OOO calls per
working day
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Greenawall's Compound
DandcIiOn Liver Disks
FOR DIZZY LINERS.

Recommended for torpid or sluggish
llvers, constipation. dizziness and
stomach troubles caused through in
activity of the liver.
A purely vegetable compound. Use
ful in kidney affections. Positively
no mercury Easy, mild, gentle in
action.
For sale at
Eldridee's Drug Store. Rockville
Wilson's Drug Store. Rockville.
nov 30-3m*
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
II there we're as niny telephones in

II there we're as my telephones in
Europe in Droporta, TO population as
there are IN the "a ,a1 states, Europe
would have over 62.o-1 $50 telephones.
Europe actually hal however. on the
latest date for W ich figures have
been published olly 5,606,252 tele-
phones, or less thal one-eleventh the
number that there "0oll be If the Eu-
ropean telephone en were as well
developed as those of the United
States.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
F. Fl. FARLIN,
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR.
ROCKVILLE. MARYLAND.

IS IN position to supply your electrica,
needs, such as
Mazda lamps, fat irons, lighting 6xturss
electric RANGES, vacuum cleaners.
washing machines, electric heaters
household appliances, motors. etc
Electric wiring and repairs a speciality.
Authorized DELo0 service for Mont.
somery county.
oct 1871
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18

The frat school for telephone
switchboard operators was started by
the Now York Telephone Company In
1903.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
Inside Information.

knibbs-Why did yonr wife ioin
the secret service?
Knobbs-She figured II was the
proper place to hear so many secrets
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
goR SALE.

goR SALE.
l., Farm of the late McKendree
Riley Fulks Of about 1879 acres, Seven
teen acres in good timber and the balance
IN cultivation. This farm is situated about
3 miles north Of Gaithersburg. on the road
leading from the Goshen road to the Fred
erick pike. Possession can be given the
LIST of January, 1924.
Apply to owner, on the farm.
MRS. W. S. CROSS.
nov S-im Gaithersburs. Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18

Jelly Bean-Every morning at Il
o'clock eat my blunch-by that !
mean eat meal which Is my break
fast and my lunch In one.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18
DOR SALE.

10 II De Laval mixer complete
no for thirty cows or less. pipes and ali at
-. Ntachments. three milking units and two
extra unit cans, fully equipped and in
perfect running order. Have sold all Of
tur my dairy cows and have no further use
In for IL is my only reason for selling
m. C. C. BROWN.
- Halpine Station.
~ dec l4-St Rockville Nd.
on ---------------
ofk wv A good driving horse must
ron be SAFE sound and young Address
,ch BOX 1875.
Route 2.
dec 72t' Rockville. Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-01-18

ir"nSactS General Banking Business;
Loans Made on Approved Security
CIV
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-01
CHINA

WEST-Gladys Burgess. who has
been at her home for short vaca :
ton, is back to her school at East
Vassalboro, which opened Feb. 20.
The many friends of Frank ID,
Rand will be verv sorry to Know
that he 10 in the Elm City hospitai
at Waterville.
The n. u. L. Club met Wednes-
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
l.. Goddard About 20 were pres
ent
Carl Burgess is saving wood.
Little Oscar Ward has been on
the sick list for a few days but is
some better.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Goddard were
in Waterville on business Saturday
The little daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Wright Who has been
very sick, is much improved.
George Wentworth Is on the sick
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Rowe are
the proud parents of a baby boy
born Feb. q.
Miss Alice Larochelle, who has
been at home from her work for a
short time has gone to work again
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-01
RUM AND PROSPERITY

Instead of ruin and thousands OF
vacant stores-as was predicted five
years ago on the eve of the Volstead
act going into effect--Boston realtors
and big investors in hotels and
other property where liquor was to
be outlawed have since found the
situation quite the reverse. Today
they are more prosperous than ever
before. There are no vacant spaces,
and rentals are 100 per cent higher.
The old corner bar-room has gone
and in its place have come chain
stores and attractive merchandising
establishments which have tended to
improve the surroundings, increas-
ing property values beyond the
fondest or widest dream Of the
lealtor who despaired but five short
years ago. No greater boon could
have come to realty holders than
the Volstcad act.--News Report in
Boston Post.
Where are those who told us IL
the corner groggery was closed the
financial status of the community
would be ruined, real estate would
go to the "demnition bow-wows"
and poverty would stalk in the
streets like ghost under the light
of sickly green moon?
We now have the proof of the
pudding, admitted even by those
who originally secuted the idea,
because the facts are there to speak
for themselves. Rum no more
means the same thing as prosperity
in the market place than it does in
the dictionary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-01

hall and the winners were: First
prize for girls, Hilda B. Nelson. ~,
How He Saved ST. Micheals"; first
prize for boys. Roger S. Witham.
''Spartacus to the Gladiators": Sec
ond prize for girls. Dorothy Mcneil
ly, ~, THE Wrong Train; second
prize for boys. Wallace Witham.
"Stonewall Jackson"
The first prizes were IS gold pieces
and the second two and one-half,
also in gold. The presentation Of
prizes was made by the chairman OF
judges, Rev. John S. Pendleton, OF
Columbia Street Baptist church Of
Bangor. The other judges were Mrs.
James Lowell Dean of Winsiow and
Mr.. Bonn, a student at Colby.
The hall was very attractively dec
grated. the stage being especially
pleasing with its masses of ever
green trees. The school banner in
maroon and white was a conspicu-
Gus part Of the decoration. The mu-
sic was furnished by the High
School orchestra. Principal Moulton.
leader, and the Girls Glee Club. di-
rected by Miss Dorothy Shepherd,
supervisor Of music in the school.
A very large audience was present
to enjoy the program and the
speakers delivered the parts in i
manner which called forth loud APP
plause.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-01
REvlviNo THE RULES

The opportunity, which has been
afforded candidates for Office to
meet with the oranges, has had its
advantages, to some OF them at
least. This method Of procedure
also fits into the needs of the con-
stltuency for acquaintance with the
candidates, es we'll as the other way
around.
The Maine State Grange Is re-
minding the subordinate oranges OF
the grange rules designed to keep
the hands of that organization off
politics. a wise provision by the
way. Fairness. however, might sug-
gest not putting up the bars until
the seasons candidates have had an
equal show.
OF course the candidates assume
to discuss general phases of the
questions before the public. Indeed
none of them, until after their re-
spcctive parties have formulated
their platforms, may tell the grange
mcetings just what the party stands
for. They can and do profess to say
what they stand for. Also the
grangers have chance to look
them over and form their opinion of
them. If an agricultural fair why
not a politicians fair. too?
The decision of the committee is
to err or" the safe side. If erring 1t
Re. and all said and done 1t seems
to be judicious. There are other
ways for meeting the candidates
which would not be open to wrong
differences.