Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-11-22
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Town and Country.
Service in Christ Episcopal Church. Rock
vile, on Thanksgiving Day. Thursday
morning. November 28th. at II O'Clock.
On Sunday. December %. at 7:S0 P. NJ,
a Christmas entertainment will be given
at Emory M. E. Church South, Oakdale
We will be glad to have our friends with US
DR.. Jacob W. Bird. head Of the Mont
somery County General Hospital. Sandy
Spring, has been notified of his appoint
ment by Gov. Richie as member OF
committee to make social survey oil
Maryland.
Rev. Chas. R. O'Hara, of St. Mary's Catho-
lie Church, officiated at the MARRIAGE here
on Saturday last Of Miss Delma Geneva
Wright and Mr.. Richard S. Reid, both Of
Boyds, this county. the ceremony taking
place in the rectory.
The annual union Thanksgiving service
of the Rockville Churches will be held on
Thursday, November 28th. at 1880 A. M.
in the Presbyterian Church. The sermon
will be delivered by Rev. George A. Minor.
pastor of the Christian Church.
An illustrated lecture on Travels in the
Holy Land" will be given by DR.. Homer j.
Councillor, of Washington. recent raies-
tinian tourist, at the Rockville Baptist
Church on Friday. November 29th. at D
Pm. Many superb pictures will be shown.
The class of volunteer firemen. boy scouts
and others of Rockville and vicinity re-
Gently organized here to receive instruc-
ton in first aid treatment has grown to SO
and is meeting three evenings week in
the hall of the engine house. The in
structor is Ira Lee Laws, of Takoma Park.
Mr.. Richard Edmonston and friend last
week came from East Liverpool. Ohio. to
the waters of Southern Maryland and cap
tured with hook and line a number Of large
rock fish. One weighed IS pounds and
another % pounds. Packed in ice the
catch was taken to the home of the captors
At a meeting of the directors Of the
Farmers Banking and Trust Company Of
Rockville held last week the price Of the
bank site was placed at $4,000. This
decision was presented to the county COM
missioners Tuesday and they offered for
the site. upon which the new court house
is to be built. $4,000. Final agreement
is expected soon.
Fannie Hurst Writes OF Thanksgiving
Fannie Hurst. known as 1.-THE highest paid
writer of fiction in America" has written
the leading Thanksgiving article for the
magazine of next Sundays Washington
Star. This is only one Of the dozens Of
unusual features of The Stars Magazine.
so order your copy for Sunday. November
"a, from your newsdealer today.
Herman Hollerith, formerly of this county.
inventor of the electric tabulating machine
now in use by the United States and
foreign governments in compiling census
reports and widely used by business con-
Germs in the country. died last Sunday at
his home, 1917 29th street. northwest.
Washington. He had been i'll two days.
Death was ascribed to heart failure.
Revival services at Faith Chapel. Der
wood, Md. beginning Sunday night. No
yember oath. and continuing every night
until December 9th. at 7:45 O'Clock. SUM-
day morning services 10 O'Clock. The
subjects for the entire fifteen nights will
be knowing God" and Knowing Sim.
We invite all people to com; to hear what
God has said, not what man thinks. W..
B. Waters. Pastor.
At the annual meeting of the Mont
eomery County Jersey Calf Club. held at
the home of Gordon Umstead. near Daw-
sonviIle. Herman Vollmer. of Washington
Grove, was elected president. and other
officers were chosen as follows: Vice-presi-
dent, Gordon Umstead secretary, Rideely
Howes, of Washington Grove; treasurer.
Aubrey Walters. of Germantown; sergeant
alarms, John Stiles, Of Derwood.
At the fall meeting of the Montgomery
County Medical Society, held at the Manor
Club, Norbeck, conducted by the president.
DR.. C. X. Conrad. Of Chevy Chase. and at
tended by % physicians from the county
and elsewhere, papers were read by DIR.
Curtis Lee Hall, of Washington. and DIR.
William A. Linthicum. of Rockville. and
there were general discussions OF various
subjects. A fine dinner was served The
secretary was directed TO invite the North
ern Virginia. District of Columbia and
Maryland Medical Society to attend the
spring meeting of the county organization.
The will of James W. Mcfarland, WHO
died at his home here recently, has been
admitted to probate in the Orphans Co Tt
1t was executed October rs. 1920. The
instrument bequeaths the entire estate to
Mrs Margaret v. Mcfarland. widow OF the
testator. for life. Upon her death Mrs.
Addie v. Burck and Miss Hattie McFar-
land. daughters. are each to receive a
one-half interest in the resi- ience in Rock
vile and household effects. the latter to
pay Mrs. Geo B. Allnutt. another daugh-
ter, $1,000. and the residue to be equally
divided among the three daughters.
A Harvest Concert with Thanksgiving
program and special music will be given
at the Rockville Baptist Church next Sum-
day evening at 7:30 O'Clock. The pastor
will deliver a Thanksgiving sermon at the
ia. NJ service of divine worship. The
Sunday School will meet at 10 A M. The
new hymn books for young people will be
used The B. Y. P. M. will conduct a special
service at the County Home at P. NJ.
and its regular meeting will be held in the
assembly room at 6:45 P. M. The mid
week devotional service will be held in the