Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-12-18
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Officer, died suddenly on Wednesday last
at his home here.
James A. Campbell. 3rd. Of Chevy Chase
has been appointed by President Hoover
as a cadet-at-large at the United States
Military Academy. subject to the qualifica.
tons at the entrace examination at West
Point. N. York, in March next.
A Christmas Magazine Sunday
December ~. The Washington Stars Mag.
azine is devoted entirely to Christmas
features-new Christmas stories and timely
articles-a feast of splendid reading fol
the Yuletide season. Order your copy Of
next Sundays Washington Star from your
newsdealer today.
Pneumonia % 77i The death at the home
q her son-in..aw and daughter Mr.. and
Ms Eugene j. C. Baney, Kensi ngton. OF
Mrs. Elizabeth e. Wagner. widow of John
A. Wagner aged IS years. she is sur
lived by ,hree Daughters ems i've sons
Mrs. Wagner was formerly a ss4i Scherrer
and iiteioHs .-sident Of this coInty.
A three-day holiday for Christmas has
been assured many Office workers and
bank clerks by a proclamation issued by
Gov. Richie declaring Saturday. December
26. legal holiday. With Christmas Day
falling on Friday. the Governor declared
Saturday legal holiday in order to make
the Yuletide weekend complete.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. T. Hawkins celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary last week
by entertaining at a turkey dinner their
8 children, "a grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren at their home near Lay
louisville. Mrs. Hawkins was. before her
marriage, Miss Julia Virginia Pope, of this
county. Besides their nine living children
they had twins who died in infancy.
At meeting on Wednesday of lasl
week the Guild of St. Peters Episcopal
Church. Poolesville, held at the home of
Mrs. Isaac Fyffe, Mrs. William A. Daniel
was elected president; Mrs. Marian Shears
vice president; Mrs. Elizabeth Brown. Sec
rotary, and Mrs. Fyffe, treasurer. The
usual routine business was transacted I'M
der the direction of Mrs. Daniel and the
annual Thanksgiving dinner of the oreani-
cation was reported success.
Gaithersburs. it has been announced, will
again have Community Christmas Tree
sponsored by the Gaithersburg Home DEM
onstration Club with the Mayor and Coun-
Gil and Chamber of Commerce cooperating.
AS in former years. tree on the lawn of
Mrs. Garnet Etchison will be decorated
and lighted and the usual exercises will
be held at time yet to be designated.
Mrs. Harvey Selby, president of the Home
Demonstration Club. heads the general
committee of arrangements.
Mrs. Lydia Phoebus. aged 81 years. wife
of Joseph c. Phoebus. longtime resident
of Gaithersburg, died in a Washington
hospital following long illness. She is
survived by her husband. The funeral
took place on Thursday afternoon of last
week from her late home and burial was
in Forest Oak Cemetery. Mrs. Phoebus
was formerly Miss Ebberts, of Baltimore.
Her brother. Francis Ebberts. died about
two weeks ago while making his home with
Mr.. and Mrs. Phoebus.
Christmas exercises under the auspices
of the Sunday School will be held in the
Rockville Baptist Church next Sunday
evening at 7:30 O'Clock. The annual
Christmas sermon will be delivered by the
pastor at the II A. M. service of divine
worship. The subject will be: THE
Angels Song in the Pasture" The Sun
day School will meet at 10 A. M. The
Young Peoples Meeting, with Miss Eliza
beth Robertson as leader. will be held at
6:45 P. M. The mid-week devotional ser
vice will be held Wednesday at 7:30 P. M.
John A. Hall, well-known farmer and
formerly a justice of the peace for this
county for long time, died last Sunday
morning at his home, near Germantown,
aged rs years. His death was not unex-
pected and followed a long illness. He is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie E. Hall,
and the following children: Mrs. Bertha
Nay Tabler and Mrs. Emma Maude Mil
brook, of Lansdowne. Md; Mrs. Jesse Con-
nell. Mrs. Ada E. Henley. Mrs. C. Margaret
Eneen and Miss Claudia E. Hall. of Wash
ington. and Ira M. Hall. of Germantown.
On Monday last J. Edward Bryan, aged
AS years, of Ednor. was fatally injured
while driving his automobile on the Column
bia Pike. near the Pen Oak Nursery. when
a tree. snapped off by the wind. fell across
the road. shearine off the top Of his auto
mobile. At the Montgomery County Gen.
eral Hospital, where he was taken. he
was pronounced dead by Drs. Bird and
Nichols, who said his skull had been frac-
tured. After the tree had struck the car
and injured Mr.. Bryan, the auto careened
down the road and struck parked auto
mobile.
Alfred Aquilino, 18-year-old Washington
youth, recently found guilty in the circuit
court here of assault with intent to rob
DR.. Nathan Springer, at Forest Glen. March
70, was sentenced last friday by Judges
Peter and Willard to four years in the
house of correction. 1t was charged that
the defendant visited a sanitarium con.
Quoted by DR.. Springer and at the point OF
a revolver demanded that the physician
pay him 500 he claimed was due his
father. who had been a patient there
ordered him to open a safe, and finally
departed empty-handed after firing shot
In the direction of Wallace Wright, o.
Washington, who was dining in an ad
joining room.
Construction of new trunk and sub
scriber cable. which will connect Wash
ineton central offices and Rockville, has jus
been started. This cable will provide facili
ties for telephone growth along the Rockville