Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-08-16
TotaI aud Personal.
Town ard Country.


City.
Rev. W. B. Taylor will preach In the
Rockville Christian Church on Sunday
August 18th. at II AN.
Miss Naomi Maeruder. OF this town. has
returned with Washington friends from a
motor trip to Atlantic City.
The annual picnic of St. Roses Church
will be held on Wednesday, August 28th.
at the Cider Barrel. on the Frederick pike
Miss Dorothy Bliss has been appointed
a notary public for the county and Charles
spons a deputy game garden. and both
have subscribed to the oath of office.
Rev. John Knox has resigned as pastor
of Central Methodist Church at Bethesda
and plans. it is stated. to leave this week
for Nashville. Tenn. where he will have
charge of the ministerial duties at Frisk
University.
10 the circuit court here. Judge Robert
B. Peter has signed a decree granting to
William T. Bonifant. Of Prince George s
county. an absolute divorce from Edna
Bonifant, Of this county. and awarded him
the custody of the couples two children.
There will be a musical entertainment
Of high order at the Methodist Church.
Rockville. on Friday evening, August 18th,
at 8 O'Clock. The program will be given
by artists from Washington and Rockville.
There will be small charge of so cents
for adults and rs cents for children.
No more interesting event has occurred
in this county in long while than family
reunion at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli
G. Ward. near Woodfeld. on Saturday last.
when approximately 1875 descendants and
other relatives of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Singleton L. King gathered there and spent
day Of real enjoyment.
Mrs. Mary Catherine Swift. wife Of John
c. Swift. of Washington, died suddenly
on Friday evening last at the home of her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. Crown.
near ockville, aged % years. She is sur
vived by her husband. an infant child
both parents and two brothers. The funeral
took place Monday morning from the home
Of her parents and burial was in Forest
Oak Cemetery. Gaithersbure. The floral
offerings were numerous and beautiful
Truth About American Spies-The first
Of a series Of six sensational articles on
THE Truth About American Spies. giving
the first inside history Of the United States
Secret Service espionage system during
the World War. will be published in the
Magazine Section of The Sunday Star Au-
gust IS. These articles were written by
Thomas M. johnson. author Of without
Censor" who was correspondent for the
New York Sun with the A. E. F. during
the war.
Philip W Gates will. it is announced. act
as scoutmaster OF the Rockville Boy Scout
Troop. in process of formation. until the
term of Harold C. Smith. as State Com
mander Of the American Legion. expires
in few months. when the latter will as
sumo charge. Those who will compose the
troop at the start are Irwin Brooke. John
Clagett. Humphrey Cissel, Ro ert Beall.
Frank Marshall, George Lamar. Richard
Waters, Joseph Fisher. Charles Prettyman,
Theodore Pasma. Jos. Starkey and WIN.
Starkey.
The annual Lords Day Alliance meeting
for Montgomery county will be held at
Washington Grove on Sunday. August rs.
at 3P. M. Rev. W. E. Nelson will speak
on what the Lords Day Would Mean to
the Heathern World :" Mrs. VIM. Waters will
speak on The Home and the Lords Day.
while one of the county pastors will speak
on THE Church Has the Right to the Lords
Day. DR.. W. W. Davis will conduct an open
Lords Day Conference. Pastors. church
officials and friends of the Lor DIS Day are
cordially invited.
Wednesday. September 18th. has been
selected as the date for re opening OF the
public schools OF this county. Edwin W.
Broome. county superintendent Of schools.
has announced. September 9th the teach
ers will hold their usual preschool conference
in the Rockville High School and will spend
the following day in their classrOOms get
ting things in readiness for the beginning
Of the new school year. Ii is estimated
by Superintendent BrOome that the total
enrolment Of pupils will show an increase
Of around 500, which will necessitate the
employment of about twenty additional
teachers. all of whom have been selected.
Conrad H. Syme. prominent Washing
ton lawyer. aud Leon Arnold. well-kn0wn
business man of Washington, has pur-
chased from Miss Hester Ann COunselman
and Lee Bernard Counselman more than
three acres of unimproved land at Be-
thesda. this county. at price reported to
be around $l50.000. The property has a
long frontage on the east side Of Wiscon-
sin Avenue. in the center of Bethesda,
and has depth OF something over 200
feet What the purchasers plan TO do with
the property has not been disclosed At
tOrney Albert M. Bouic. Of this town. 10
interested in the negotiations.
Mrs. Mary E. English, widow OF Samuel
English, died last Friday night at the
Montgomery County General Hospital. aged
az years She had been in for several
weeks Of complication Of diseases. Sur
vivine her are a son. Milton English. Of
Chicago; two brothers. VIM. E. and George
Bean. Of Rockville. and three sisters, Mrs.
Harry Riley. Of Rockville; Mrs. Lee Hutch
inson. Of Washington City. and Mrs. Leo
Sickles. Of Bradbury Heights. Md. The
funeral took place Sunday afternoon from
the Rockville Free Methodist Church and
burial was in Union Cemetery. Mrs.. Eng
lish was formerly Miss Bean and was a