Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-08-05
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St. Johns Church. Forest Glen, August 10th.
The annual St. Mary's picnic of Aspen
will be held on Thursday, August 18th.
Chicken dinner and dancing.
Mountain picnic will be held on Satur-
day. August 9th. Refreshments. Good
music. Everybody welcome.
Fried chicken supper on August 18th in
the Sunday School room of the Baptist
Church at Kensineton. Tickets, go cents.
You are invited to attend a lawn supper
at the M. E. Church South. Rockville, on
Thursday, August 18th, from to p. M
Supper, so cents.
The Montgomery County W. c. T. U.
Convention will be held on Friday, August
5th. at 10 A. M. in the Presbyterian
Church, Kensineton. Md. Box lunch.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Wesley Grove
ME-. Church will hold its annual picnic
and supper on Saturday, August 18th. at
the hall at Woodfield. Music by them. W..
A. Band.
The annual picnic of the Clarksburs M.
E. Church will be held on Saturday, August
18th, in E. v. Kings woods, on Frederick
Washington pike. Band music, chicken
supper, ice-cream, cake and sandwiches
St. Luke's Guild, Brighton, will hold its
annual lawn fete on the church grounds
on Saturday, August 9th. beginning at A
Pm. Sandwich supper ice-cream, cake.
etc. ball game; entertainment.
Mrs. |. W. Shoemaker and daughter.
Hazel c.. of Washington; Miss Amanda
Wilson, of Bethesda. and Miss Violet W.
Maeruder, of Rockville, left Wednesday for
Atlantic City. where they will spend
month.
Following a long illness, Mrs. Florence V.
Cage, of Cropley. died on Wednesday OF
last week in a Baltimore hospital. where
she had been under treatment. The funeral
took place Friday afternoon from Hermon
Presbyterian Church. Cropley.
The home and furniture of Frank Welsh,
of Kensington. were damaged by fire to
the extent of approximately $4,000 last
Sunday afternoon. The fire started in an
upstairs room and is thought to have been
caused by defective electric wiring.
The young son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Scott Pratt, Of Capitol View, met with a
painful injury to his head on Thursday OF
last week while swimming in the pool at
the Manor Club. He was taken to the
MONTGOMERY County General Hospital for
treatment.
The State Roads Commission has awarded
the following contracts in this county: One
mile of concrete road from Brookville to-
ward Sunshine, M. j. Grove Lime Company.
Lime Kiln, $25, 526.50; lie miles of con-
crete road between GAINESVILLE and Comus,
M. j. Grove Lime Company. $20,675.2O.
Soldiers of Fortune. -The Magazine of
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that are stranger than fiction. The
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The Maryland Division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy offers the
Jane Margaret Carey Memorial prizes OF
$40 and SIS to the child in Maryland,
under 18 years of age, for the best essay
on Maryland history from 1851 to 1863
Essays to be sent to Mrs. j. j. Forbes Shaw.
Director of Education. 1909 N. Calvert ST..
Baltimore, by September 18th. 1927
September gath, 1926. Mrs. Mabel W.
Myers. of the lower section of the county.
filed suit in circuit court here for limited
divorce from Charles F. Myers on the
Sround of desertion, and on December 18TH
following the defendant filed crossbill in
which he, too, charged desertion and asked
TO be granted the divorce. Judge Robert
B. Peter has handed down an opinion dis
missing both bills.
Following a long illness. Mrs. Sarah Viz
einia Crown, wife of the late James M.
Crown. died Monday at the home of her
son, Forrest Crown. near Derwood. aged ~
wears. She is survived by three sons.
Forrest. Roy and Wallace. The funeral
took place Wednesday afternoon and in
terment was in Rockville Union Cemetery.
Mrs. Crown was a daughter of the late
Samuel Case and lifelong resident of this
county.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hogg, aged IL years.
widow of Nathaniel B. Hogg and daughter
of the late Edward C. and Anna F. Gilpin.
Of Sandy Spring, died last Monday at the
home Of her sister, Miss Mary A. Gilpin. at
Sandy Spring. She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Charles KinsoIvine, of New
York, and Mrs. Ruth NJ Lucas, wife of
Capt. C. M. Lucas, U. S. A, of Pittsburgh.
She was a sister Of Clarence L. Gilpin. Of
Sandy Spring.
J. Fred Imirie, of Alta Vista. was on
Tuesday last appointed building inspector
of the Maryland Washington Metropolitan
District of Montgomery County. by the
county commissioners. The position was
created by the last Legislature and pays
$4,000 year. Mr.. Imirie will have charge
of building inspection in the Bethesda and
Wheaton districts. a part of the Rockville
district, and sections of Potomac. Olney
and Colesville districts.
Mrs. Clarssa Ludum. of this county and
Washington. has increased her extensive
real estate holdings in Montgomery county
by purchasing from Mrs. Gertrude L Reed
of Washington. go acres of land Oh the
west side Of the Rockville pike two miles
north of Bethesda, according to announce
ment by H. Latene Lewis. Washington
and Montgomery county realtor, who con-
Quoted the negotiations. The considera-