Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-05-18

IL has been cOncluueu hoa " ooho tno
jail in the top of the improved court house
here. A wise determination.
AT the biennial election at Laytonsville
Iouis D. Bell, Roy Barber and Howard A.
Pummer were reelected town commits
siOners.
Miss Mccullough, of Kensineton, has been
elected corresponding secretary OF the
Rockville Garden Club in place of Mrs.
Russell Conklin. resigned
Attic biennial town election at Barnes
willie CIaeett C. Hilton, William G. Brown
and ] Robert Lillard we're reelected mem
bs,s If the town council without OppOsi-
ton.
The ladies of the Cedar Grove Baptist
Church will hold their annual ice-cream
and strawberry festival on the church lawn
on May 9Oth. beginning at r M. Chicken
and ham will also be served
The ladies of the Neelsville Presbyterian
chntch will hold supper on May Oath.
from A to 10 P. M. in Jr. o. U A. M. Hail.
Germantown. All come and have pleas
ant time. Strawberries and cake also
served.
The early bloom of the cherry. plum and
near trees in this section has been killed
nv the cold weather of the late spring.
This is now plainly to be seen. The apple
and peach bloom probably escaped the
death blow.
During April 220 deeds. 1855 mortgages
and releases. 1877 deeds of trust and 1863
bills of sale we're recorded and l49 resi-
dent and non resident anglers licenses
issued in the office of the clerk of the cir
cult court.
The Epworth League of the NJ f. Church
South, Germantown, will hold an ice-cream
and strawberry festival on Tuesday even
ing, May 29th, on the lawn of the M. E.
, Church South if rainy. will be held in the
Jr. o. u. A. NJ Hall.
Zachariah W. Page, a retired farmer and
lifelong resident of this county. died on
Wednesday of last week at his home. at
Cedar Grove. aged "a years General de-
bility was given as the cause of death.
He was unmarried.
Reginald Lowe, of DerwOod. this county,
was last Friday found guilty at Frederick
and sentenced to serve one year in the
Maryland House of Correction on a charge
of unauthorized use Of an automobile be-
longing to Philip Beard. of Frederick.
Following long illness. Vim. b. Clagett
a lifelong resident of this county. died last
week in a Baltimore hospital, where he
had been under treatment a long time.
aged Sc years. He was unmarried and is
survived by two brothers. Clarence NJ. Cla-
gett, of Hagerstown. and Harry Claeett. of
Los Angeles. California.
The May meeting of the Rockville Gar
den Club was held last Friday at the home
of Mrs. Russell COnklin. with Mrs. COnklin
and Mrs Winifred +. Berry hostesses.
Tulips were on exhibition and first prize
was award ID to Miss WadswOrth of Wash
ington Grove. president of the club Re-
freshments were served.
Bad Boy of Europe Hiram Moder-
well. one of the best known writer's of
International affairs, contributes a timely
and intensely interesting article on Prince
Carol of Rnmana to the Magazine of The
Washington Star for Sunday, May goth.
Order your copy Of next Sundays Star
from your newsdealer today.
John f. Monkey, aged 81 years, life
long resident of Damascus district. died
last Sunday at his home near Clagetts-
vile. lie had been i'll for several weeks
of general breakdown. Surviving him
are his wife. Mrs Jennie Moxley, formerly
a Miss Baker, of Damascus district, and
two children, Mrs. Walter Cline and Ray
mand Monkey.
The directors of the Farmers Banking
and Trust Company of Rockville have let
q contract for plans for a new bank build
ing, to cost between 81 S 900 and 500, 900.
on the site of the present building A
two-story structure will be erected with
the first floor for the exclusive use of the
bank and the upper floor for offices. Build
ing operations will begi n in the near future
The Olney Farm Bureau Exchange. where
farmers, fruit growers and others Of the
neighborhood place such produce as eggs,
bread, cakes and preserves on sale every
Saturday from aarIy moe mind until 7 ~ lnaL
in the evening, opened last Saturday I'M
der the direction of Mrs Harry Benson,
and will continue each Saturday until late
fall. The exchange has been ia operation
TWO seasons and proved a success from
the start.
Horace Whalen. son of MIR. and Mrs
Peyton Whalen. and grandson If Mr.. and
Mrs Jed Cuttings. of Bethesda district,
this county, is one of the young men
VINO recently passed successfully the tx
animation for West Point Military Acad-
envy, New York, and will leave for that
institution in July. lie is young man of
me morals and pleasing personality and
We congratulate him on securing this ap-
polntment and wish for him a brilliant
military career.
The Potomac Dramatic Club last Satur-
DAY evening presented The Poor Married
Man" in the public school auditorium at
Jamestown for the benefit of the barnes
Town school and the Potomac Band. IL was
attended by large gathering and con
siderable sum cleared. The play was
directed by Miss Lettie Souder, Of the Po-
lomac school faculty and 10 the cast we're
Misses Edytha Bissett, Gene Porter. Mary
ts"cett. Jessie Nicholson and Gladstone
ta"cett. Arson Ball. Francis Collins and
Robert Collins