Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-03-06
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ton will meet at Bethesda on Monda
March 9th.
Mrs. Stanley D. Gather and daughter
wish to thank their friends for the sympa
thy and kindness extended to them /
their recent sorrow.
Charles Zieler, OF this county, has bee
granted an absolute divorce by Judge +
B. Peter. in the circuit court here, fror
Mrs. Mamie Zigler.
Frank l. Davis, of Poolesville distric,
Tuesday was appointed clerk of the count
police court by the county commissioner:
The resignation of Charles Y. Latimer, O
Takoma Park, was accepted and he return
to the law.
Died. on Monday. March End, at his HON
near Rockville, John Ferris Bailey, hus
band Of Medora Bradley Bailey. in hi
84th year. The funeral took place Thurs
day and interment was in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
Mrs. j. Harry Gormley, of Rockville. ant
Miss Laura A. Wadsworth, of Washington
Grove. both active members of the Rock
vile Garden Club. attended a meeting Of
the National Capital Federation of Garden
Clubs in Washington last week.
Henry R. Benson, of Olney district, has
been appointed a special deputy sheriff
by Sheriff Richard H. Lansdale and has
subscribed to the oath of office before the
clerk of the circuit court here. He has
been assigned to watch duty at the county
jail.
Announcement was made Tuesdny by
Frank L. Hewitt that he had been advised by
Representative Frederick L. Zihlman that
$4,000 had been allocated by the Treas
ury Department in a report submitted to
Congress for the purchase of site and
erection of new postofice building at
Silver Spring.
DR.. VIM. r. Andrews, aged SO years, a
resident of Rockville for several years. died
at Jacksonville, Fla. where he had been
living for several months with daughter,
Mrs. Omar H. Stout. last Sunday. Funeral
services were held here Tuesday afternoon
and burial was in Rockville Union Gene
terry.
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A location at Bethesda for the farm
woman's market being planned by the
Montgomery County Council of Home DEM
omstration Clubs has been definitely de-
cided upon. Mrs. James D. King. president
of the council. has announced. Space at
6710 Wisconsin Avenue was offered and
has been accepted because of its advan-
tageous situation.
At meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Community Garden Club of
Rockville at the home of Mrs. Ford Young,
at Alta Vista. on Thursday of last week. a
program for the spring and summer was
formulated and other plans considered and
it was decided to hold the first bi-weekly
meeting on Friday. March 18th. at the
home of Mrs. George F. Hane at Alta Vista.
The roadside planting project and aboli-
ton of signboards along the roads of the
county were among other matters given
attention.
In view of the scarcity of game. largely
due to the prolonged drought, an unusual
effort will be made to enforce the laws
designed to protect partridges, rabbits. ETC.,
Carroll Waters. chief deputy game warden
for this county, has announced. 1t is held
that dogs running at large during the spring
and summer destroy numberless young
rabbits and partridges and partridge eggs,
and Deputy Waters stated that the law
prohibiting dogs running at large between
March and September l will be given
special attention throughout that period.
A fine of from $25 to 500 is provided for
each offense. but proof of the dogs pursuing
game or destroying nests is necessary to
convict The law. however, permits land
owners or tenants to allow their dogs to
run at large on property owned or tenanted
by them.
Stanley D. Gather. aged Sc years, for
many years carrier on Gaithersbure
rural free delivery mail route. died sud-
denly of heart attack while making his
rounds last Saturday morning. Slumped
In his automobile alongside dirt road
two miles from Gaithersbure. just off the
Frederick pike, he was discovered by Geo
Riley, of Gaithersburg, who came along il
a truck, and had apparently been deaC
but few minutes. Drs. Barber and Bros
chart, of Gaithersburg. were summoned
and pronounced life extinct. Mr.. Cattle
is survived by his wife, formerly a Mis-
Ridgely of Howard county. and four daugh
tiers, Mrs. Lewis Britain, Thelma, Agnes an
Ruth Gather. He was son of the late Wn
r. Gather, and had always lived at Shad
Grove. near Derwood. He had. it is stated
been sufferer from heart trouble for som
time.
Close to hundred Montgomery Count
All Club girls attended the annual rail-
in the high school auditorium here la'
Saturday afternoon of the Montsomer
County Federation of All Girls Clubs, a
of the 10 constituent organizations bein
well represented. Miss Dorothy Emerson
State girl club leader. and Miss Blanch
A. Corwin. home demonstration agent Il
this county, who devotes much of her tin
to work among the girl clubs of the count
participated prominently in the proceed
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