Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-01-27
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Town and Country.


February list, 1928.
On Tuesday night last the home Of MI
Leland Fisher, in this town, was entere'
and robbed of gold watch and $40. Tn
thief has not been apprehended.
Mr.. D. W. Robinson and wife. Of Chew
chase sailed from Baltimore on Tuesday
last on the S. S. Fairfax. Of the Merchant
and Miners Line, enroute to Jacksonville
and Miami, Florida.
A dance will be given by the Younl
PEOPLES Society on February 3rd. 1928, II
the parish hall at Aspen, Nd, for the bene
fit of the piano fund. Music by the Laure
Rythmonians. Refreshments on sale.
The Guild of Christ Episcopal Church, al
GAINESVILLE, has elected officers for the
wear az follows: President, Mrs. Reginald
]. Darby vice-president, Mrs. S, Virginia
Belt; secretary. Mrs. Evelyn White; treas
urer, Mrs. Lawrence H. Price.
James Wendell Beall, of Chevy Chase
was injured last Saturday afternoon when
his car colided with trolley pole on Con-
necticut Avenue, Washington. Beall wal
taken to Emergency Hospital. Attendant;
stated the injured man had possibly frac'
tured skull and cuts and bruises about his
head.
Officers will be elected and many mat.
tiers of Importance will be discussed at the
first quarterly meeting Of the Montgomery
County Association OF Volunteer Firemen
to be held in Masonic Hall. Gaithersburs,
the evening of February 9th. according to
announcement by the secretary, Norris
Russell, of Sandy Spring.
Mr.. William j. Nance and friend. Mr..
Yourke, of Aguilar. Colorado. stopped over
on Wednesday and Thursday of last week
at the home of Mrs Edna Fulks Cross. this
town, while enroute for Baltimore City,
where they expect to engage in business.
Mrs. Cross visited Mr.. Nance's mother in
Colorado last summer.
The Janet Montgomery Chapter. D. A. R.,
met Tuesday with Mrs. Louis Jaskson. when
it was decided to hold benefit card party
onFebruary 18th at the home Of Mrs. How
ard Griffith. at Silver Spring. Following
the meeting Mrs. Kincheloe. wife Of Rep
resentative David Klncheloe, Of Kentucky,
entertained the members.
After being in charge for six and one
half years, Rev. Guy E. Kagey has resigned
as rector of St. Bartholomew Parish, COM
prising ST. Johns Episcopal Church, Olney !;
St. Bartholomew 8. Laytonsville. and St.
Luke's. Brighton, and plans to give up his
work there March 1st. He has accepted
call to the rectorship of church at Media.
Pennsylvania.
A six-room dwelling house on the farm
of Charles Veirs. near Rockville, was de-
stroyed by fire last Friday night, entailine a
Joss of about $500. covered by insurance.
1t was occupied by D. W. Martin and fam
lily, who lost all of their clothing and about
$50 in cash, and were forced to flee in
their night clothes. What caused the fire
is not known.
While j. Arthur England. clerk of the
Rockville Methodist Church, and other
members of his family were attending
services at the church last Sunday night.
an unknown person gained entrance to
their home and stole S25 in cash and
check for like amount. The funds rep
resented the collection taken at the morn
ing service, which had been hidden in a
bureau drawer.
Application of the Montgomery Bus
Lines. which operate between Gathers
burg, Washington Grove. Rockville and
Washington for an interstate franchise
has been denied by the Maryland Public
Service Commission. Granting of such a
permit was opposed by the Washington
and Rockville Electric Railway Company.
which operates an electric railway between
Rockville and Washington, and other bus
companies hauling through the county.
Blood poisoning. caused by pimple on
the face, resulted in the death in a Wash
ington hospital on Sunday last OF Bernard
H. Kinsey, aged Fl years, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Kinsey. of Gaithersburg. The
pimple appeared about two weeks ago,
and several days later he was taken to the
hospital Surviving him are his parents
nd Tha nj
Tuesday morning from St. Martins Catho-
lie Church. Gaithersburg. and burial was in
the cemetery at Choppers.
Thursday evening, February End, has
been selected as the date for the dedica-
ton OF the new public school building re-
Gently completed at Potomac at cost o.
approximately $4,000. it has been an
nounced at the Office of the county board
OF education. The program will include ad
dresses by Maj. E. Brooke Lee, Prof. Edwin
w. Broome, DR.. George E. Lewis, DR.. Geo
L. Edmonds. Mrs. Walter E. Perry an!
Thomas c. Darby. The program will also
include selections by the Potomac Bant
ohu FOCdi MUSIC.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Mary C. Downs threw
stick at dog on her husbands farm
near Travilah. Last week she died il
Sloley Hospital, Washington, from tetanus
deadly infection, which resulted from
a splinter which punctured her finger as
she threw the stick. The funeral tool
place from the Baptist Church at Travilah
the Rev. H. H. Nicol conducted the ser
vices, Burial was in the cemetery a
Potomac. Mrs Downs. who was A years
Old is survived by her husband. Olive
Downs, and two children.
Presentation by the students of the
Rockville High School in the high schoo
auditorium last Friday and Saturday even
lnes OF Carrie Comes to College two.
act musical comedy, was witnessed By