Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-03
Eueal aud Personal
Town and Country.

and Merle T. Jacobs have been appointed
bv State Forester Besley as forest wardens
for this county.
The annual convention of the Monteom-
.,v County Woman Christian Temperance
union will be held in the Methodist Church
at Laytonsville on August 9Th. Mrs Mary
Haslup, president of the State W. c. T,
u. will speak.
THE One Thing Needful" will be the
snbiect of the pastors sermon at the ROCK
,ius Bsptist Church next Sunday at II A. M
This service will be followed by the COM
munion of the Lords Supper, The Sunday
School will meet at 10 A. M.
fine Dame of base ball of ten innings
vas played at Sandy Spring on Tuesday
ha,veen the Rockville and GAINESVILLE.
Howard county. teams. The latter won
nv score of Sto6. The Coleman brothers
comaosed the battery for Rockville.
The State Roads Commission has award
ed to the NJ. J. Grove Lime Company. OF
Frederick county, a contract for the con-
struction of approximately mile OF con-
crete road from Old Germantown toward
Jamestown. the price being $l9.94O
Senator Tydings, of Maryland. has been
annointed chairman of the general speak
ers' bureau in addition to the chairman
shin of the Senatorial Campaign Committee
in the conduct of Gov. Smiths battle for
the Presidency. This is considered an I'M
usual dual responsibility.
Several fine wheat yields have been
reported George E. Nicholson. Of Olney.
has threshed 8S2 bushels from 22-acre
field, or an average of Al bushels; VIM.
II. Fawcett. of Travilah. from field of 33
acres yielded him SO bushels, and Josiah
W. Jones, of Olney. SO bushels per acre.
Mrs Josiah w. Jones. of Olney, secretary
of the visiting committee of the County
Home, has been made a member of State
committee which is to make study of the
care of the aged in Maryland. 1t is plan
ned, it is said, to endeavOr to have the next
legislature enact law providing for con-
sOHudtlOH Vi COUNTY HOlneS Va mdIyldhus
At meeting at the home of Mrs Fred
BOlduc, officers of the WOman's Democratic
Club OF Glen Echo were chosen as follows:
President. Mrs. Edward Guy Jewell; vice
president. Mrs. Claude B. Norton secre
tary. Mrs. Edgar B. RyOn; treasurer. Mrs.
Clifton B. Peter: chairman of membership
Mrc EradariPk Moore
Union Sunday evening services. at 8
O'Clock. will be held in Rockville during
the month of August. Four churches VIII
cooperate as they did last year. Sunday.
August 5th at 8 P. NJ. the union service
will be held in the Presbyterian Church
August 18th. in the Baptist Church
August 18th, in the Christian Church. and
August 26th. in the M. E. Church South.
Roscoe Moxley. aged % years, son of
Basil E. Monkey. of Damascus district, COM
mitted suicide at his home, near Clagetts-
Vile on Saturday last by shooting himself
with a shotgun just below the heart. He
was alone at the time and when his father
returned home he found him in dying
condition in the yard adjoining the home.
Young MOxley was unmarried and is sur
vived by his father and sister.
At the last meeting Of the Washington
Grove WOman's Club the annual report
was submitted. showing that during the
year the club held Is meetings, raised
S462 and that the membership was SO
OF the amount raised, it was reported
500 was given to the trustees of the
Washington Grove Association toward
payment of cost of improvement TO roads
of the grove. and il was voted to con-
tribute $35 additional toward the road
fund and $40 TO the Washington Grove
Band.
A squad of county police. led by Chief
A. A. Monkey. visited the home of Thomas
SnOwden. cOlored. near Sandy Spring. and
found there, they say, half barrel Of corn
whisky, two partly filled l0-gallOn kegs OF
the same beverage and numerous con-
tainers. Snowden was at one time in the
undertaking business. Five cases Of glass
jars were discovered in a hearse on the
premises He was arrested on a charge
Of illegal possession and forced to give
bond in the amount of $500 for his ap-
pearance in the police court here for trial.
Mrs. j. NJ. SYLVESTER of 1901 Blair Road.
Takoma Park. was severely injured last
Saturday when the automobile in which
she and her husband were riding was in
collision with another car on the Allen
tOwn-Reading Highway. near Easton Mrs.
Sylvester suffered deep cash in the head
and severe decorations on the face and
body. MIR. and Mrs. Sylvester were on
their way TO Bethlehem. Pa. 10 visit a
daughter. Another car. driven by j. X.
blundon. of Forest Glen. became unman-
agea6le on the wet highway and crashed
into the Sylvester machine. Mrs. Sylves-
ter was treated at the Allentown, Pa,
hospital
The funeral OF Henry Garnett Briggs. a
well-known and lifelong resident of Gath
ersburg, who died suddenly of heart dis
ease at his home on Thursday of last
week. took place Saturday afternoon from
ms late home. The services were conducted
by Rev. William Stevens. pastor of Grace
Methodist Church. Gaithersbure and burial
was in Forest Oak Cemetery. The Gath
efsbure Lodge of Masons, of which Mr.
bhges was a postmaster. participated in
the services at the grave. He is survived
by his wife, formerly Miss Frances His-
gins Of Gaithersburg two daughters. Miss
mary Louise and Miss Dorothy Briggs
us mother, Mrs. Mary C. Briggs; three
brothers and sister.
Rev John 7. CoOahan. chairman Ed
ward P. Able. T. McCubbn Waters anc