Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-01-14
THE SENTIN Ell.
Friday Morning...~January IA. 1927.
Yutal aud gersuua!.
Town and Country.

The directors of the Montgomery County
National Bank at a meeting on Tuesda,
declared an extra dividend of per cent.
Luther J. Moore. aged rs years. a well
known farmer and lifelong resident o.
Laytonsville district died last Sunday
afternoon at his home near Etchison.
The regular quarterly communion ser.
vice will be observed at the Jamestown
Church on Sunday. January 18th, at II A
M. All invited.
Baptist services will be held in the
Southern Methodist Church at Germantown
on Sunday morning. January 18th, at II
O'Clock. Everybody welcome.
Former States Attorney Jos. C. Cissel
and Charles W. Woodward have been Sc
lected as attorneys to the Board Of Coun-
ty Commissioners. They succeed Ohio H
W. Talbot and William F. Prettyman, re-
signed.
Leon Phillips. aged 10 years. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Phillips. Of Kensinston
was seriously injured on Thursday night Of
last week when an east-bound freight
train at the crossing at Kensington struck
and shattered his automobile.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist
Church. Rockville. will assist Mrs. Lottie
Tillotson in giving an Hawaiian entertain
ment and travel talk in the Sunday School
room on Friday evening. January l4th. at
s o'clock. Admission. so cents.
A tenant house on the farm of Charles
Veirs. about two miles west of Rockville.
was almost totally destroyed by fire last
Friday afternoon. entailing loss of about
$500. partially covered by insurance.
The colored people who occupied the house
lost virtually all of their furniture.
The Rev. W. E. Frederick. pastor Of the
Rockville Free Methodist Church for the
last two years. has rendered his resigna-
ton to the district superintendent. Rev. F.
F. Shoup. to take effect March list. He
was forced to relinquish his pastoral duties
because Of a general breakdown due to
Overwork. for which he is now undergoing
treatment.
Mrs. Alice Robertson. of this town. has
announced the marriage of her daughter.
Miss Ruby A. Robertson. to Maj. James G..
Morninestar. u S. A. The ceremony was
performed in Chicago last Saturday. For
the next two years Maj. and Mrs. Morn
ingstar will make their home in Manila.
Philippine Islands, where the former has
been assigned to duty.
Three hours after the case was turned
over to them for their judgment. jury in
the circuit court here last Friday &C.
quilted Frank James Magruder. of Cabin
John. of the charge of assault with intent
to kill. growing out fight in the Maeruder
home last September in which Harvey
Lowe, boarder, was shot three times
with rife.
The dairy building on the farm of the
Methodist Home for Aged and Orphans at
Gaithersbure was damaged to the extent
of approximately $500 by FIRE last Satur-
day morning. Rockville firemen responded,
and formed bucket brigade Origin of
the fire is not definitely known. but is sup
posed to have been caused by a defective
fiue. The loss is covered by insurance.
Following a long illness of a complica-
ton of diseases, Gustave NJ. Herald. aged
SO years. died on Thursday Of last week
at his home, near Concord, this county.
He is survived by his wife and several
children. Burial was at Reynoldsville. Pa.
Mr.. Herald was native of Germany and
had been a resident of this county ten
years.
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For the benefit of the Kensngton Bap-
list Church splendid program has been
arranged by The Mount Pleasant Players
Of Washington. under the direction of Mrs.
Jeanette Griffith. for Friday. February
4th. in the town hall. Kensington. at 8 P.
NJ. The comedy. entitled Art for Hearts
Sake" will be given in three acts. Musical
numbers. Admission, so cents.
DR.. J. H. M. Knox, Jr., chief Of the child
hygiene department of the State Board Of
Health, gave a health talk before the
Dickerson Community League at its Janu-
airy meeting in the Dckerson High School
auditorium. Health was the subject con-
sidered at the monthly meeting Of the
0lney Community Association, at which
Prof. Edwin W. Broome, county superin-
tendent of schools, spoke.
One Of the best authorities on the sub
ject of the relationship of bovine tuber-
culosis to the human family is DR.. Stanley
Griffith, Of the pathological department Of
field laboratories. University of Cambridge
In paper entitled THE Danger of Tuber-
culosis Milk" DR.. Griffith gives figures from
one Of his investigations sh wing so per
cent Of the lupus (skin tuberculosis) and 40
per cent OF the bone and joint cases were
OF bovine origin. OF the As cases exam
ined in children under is years of age, 20
were infected with the human type OF the
tubercle organism and II with the bovine
type.
The County Commissioners have reap
pointed Mrs. Josiah W. Jones of 0lney,
Mrs John B. Brewer and Mrs. James T.
bosley OF Rockville. Mrs. Howard Griffith
OF Silver Spring and Mrs John A. Wheeler
Of Colesville members Of the county home