Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-06-20
Eut1l and Rersnual.
Town and Country.

The annual festival for St. Johns Church,
Forest Glen. Nd, will be on August 7th.
The ladies of Salem M E. Church, Cedar
Grove, will have all kinds of sanWitches.
ice cream and cake for sale on the church
lawn on July 4th, commencing at P. M.
Everyone is welcome. Come and meet
your friends.
Miss Catherine Shaw, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Shaw, of near Rockville
was among the graduates at the commence
ment of George Washington University last
week She received the degree of bachelor
of arts and education.
Following long illness. Harry W. Gather,
son of the late George E. Gather. of Lay
louisville district. and veteran OF the World
War, died last Friday in Walter Reed Hos
pital, aged 38 years. He is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Margaret H. Gather, but
leaves no children.
The marriage of Miss Mary Elizabeth
Terry and Mr.. Charles Griffith. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Griffith, of Silver Spring,
this county, took place last Saturday after
noon at o'clock at the home of the bride
in Batesville, Ark. Mr.. and Mrs. Griffith
will make their home in Maryland.
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The likelihood that two women would be
in the race for Governor of Maryland at
the November election was indicated last
Friday with the announcement by Mrs.
Mollie D. Nicholson, of this county. that
she would enter as an independent can Ii
date, on bone-dry platform. Miss Eliza
beth Gilman, of Baltimore. is the Socialist
party nominee.
William Edward Watkins, aged rs years,
a retired farmer, died last week at his
home at Damascus after long illness.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah
Watkins. and the following children: Mrs.
Jesse Becraft and Mrs. Ernest Duvall, of
Claeettsvie, and Mrs Clinton Stanley and
MORGAN H. Watkins, of Damascus.
Rev. P. Rowland Wagner, of Norfolk, Va.
formerly pastor of the Rockville Baptist
Church, delivered the address to the gradH-
ates at the annual commencement on
Thursday evening of last week of the
Dickerson High School. The large audito-
rum was filled to OVERLOOKING. Miss Eliza
beth C. Jones was valedictorian.
Mary See, the 4-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayman See. of this town,
was badly burned about the body while
playing with matches in the yard adjoin-
ing her home last Saturday morning. With
her clothing ablaze, the little girl ran into
the house to her mother. who tore the gar
ments from her body. Members of the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Department O. 4
others rendered first aid before the Slild
was treated by a physician.
Children's Day services will be observed
in the church at Jamestown on next Sab
bath, June %. at II O'Clock. the music
will be entirely in the hands of the Junior
Choir supplemented by the younger mem
bers of the Sabbath school. A pleasing
feature of this program will be an address
by Mr.. Thomas Kelley, manager of the
Pleasant Hill Dairy Co. A cordial invita-
ton to all. The offering will be devoted
to the work of the school.
A Catholic Church at Silver Spring has
been authorized by Archbishop Michael
J. Curey and Rev. T. A. Calnan, of the
Holy Name Church in Washington, ap-
pointed pastor. Until plans of the new
church have been completed services will
be held in the Knights of Columbus Hall.
The first masses will be said on July 9th
at and 1890 o'clock in the morning.
The site of the structure has not yet been
decided on nor the plans drawn.
The Court of Appeals of Maryland last
Friday affirmed the virdict of $22, 500 by
a jury in the damage suit of DR.. James T.
johnson. ST., of Cumberland. against the
Potomac Edison Company for personal in
juries received in collision with freight
car of the defendant On Patrick Street
while passing through Frederick. The case
was removed from Allegany county to
Rockville for trial. The Court of Appeals
was divided in the case. with a majority
of the judges favoring affirmation of the
verdict.
The will of Elgar L. Tschiffely who died
at his home here recently, has been ad-
mitted to probate in the orphans court
1t was executed April 26, 1926, and names
Robert E. L. Smith executor. The instru-
ament bequeaths to Mrs. Fannie T. Smith,
of Rockville, daughter of the testator
'one.third of the estate, and leaves the
residue in trust for the equal benefit OF
Miss Mabel Tschiffely and Frederick l.
Tschiffely, daughter and son of the tesla
tor, respectively, and the latter's wife, Ella
Watkins Tschiffely.
Chidrens Day will be observed at the
Rockville Baptist Church next Sunday
There will be interesting Children's Day
exercises at the II A. NJ. service. with a
briei sermon to the boys and girls. the
subject of which will be: Threads and
Ropes or the Power of Habit" There will
be an illustrated service for the boys and
girls and the fathers and mothers at s P
M. 1t will be happy day for the children
and the fathers and mothers are cordially
invited to be present with them and enjoy
the good times. The Sunday School will
meet at 10 A. M. and the Young Peoples
Society at Tbs P. M. The mid-week de-
votional service will be held on Wednesday