Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-03-13
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The March Term OF the Circuit Court fol
this county will begin on Monday next.
Harrison England heads company of
young men, of this town, who are now
busily preparing to establish an airport
upon portion Of his suburban property
at the northern limits Of Rockville.
Alvin W. Hall, chief of the Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. is now
visiting Europe and has named Charles R.
Long, son-in-law of Frank H. Karn, one of
our masterful building contractors. to fulfil
the duties of the bureau in his absence.
Announcement has been made of the
sale of the farm of Charles M. Thrift, near
Travilah. to Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, of
Washinston. for $4,000. The place con-
tains $50 acres and is located between the
River Road and the Potomac River. The
purchasers plans regarding the property
have not been disclosed.
Judge Charles W. Woodward has sub
mitted his report Of police court finances for
February to the county commissioners
The report shows that $691.25 was COL
lected in criminal fines and costs and $50
in civil costs. Motor vehicle violation fines
totaled $466 and must be deducted from the
total criminal fines and forwarded to the
commissioner of motor vehicles in Balti-
more.
Discussion at a public meeting in the
hu; Ioak
Saturday night of the advisabilty of ask
ing the legislature to authorize a special
tax of cents against Gaithersburg dis
trict property to raise funds toward sup
port of the Gaithersburs-W washington Grove
Volunteer Fire Department developed such
marked difference of opinion that, in the
opinion of Frank B. Severance, who pre-
sided, little or nothing toward furtherine
the project was accomplished.
Miss Henrietta Stonestreet. native of
this county but now resident of Baltimore
City, where she practices law, has become
a favorite leader of the ladies of her city
interested in public matters, Recently she
led 400 ladies before the General Assembly
at Annapolis in opposition to the proposed
State law making women subject to jury
duty, and more recently led 800 female
opponents of sienboard restrictions on the
public highways of the State, asking the
same body of lawmakers to defeat the
measure.
Pneumonia, of which she had been i'll
but few days, caused the death at the
home of her son-in-law and daughter. Mr..
and Mrs. Carroll Walters. near Jamestown,
on Wednesday of last week of Mrs. Sarah
Margaret Higgins. widow of Hilleary T.
Higgins, in her eiehty-first year. She
leaves but the one child. Mrs. Walters.
The funeral took place Friday morning
from the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Walters |
and burial was in the Presbyterian ceme- |
terry at Jamestown. Mrs. Higgins was
formerly Miss Williams and had always
lived in the county,
Chaplain C. A. Neyman. of the U. S. |
Navy, speaker of exceptional ability. will
deliver an address at the Rockville Baptist
Church next Sunday evening at 7:30
o'clock. The people of Rockville and vi
cinity will find this attractive service.
one they will enjoy attending The topic |
of the pastors sermon at the ii A. M.
service of divine worship will be: 1.-The |
Final Reckoning" The Sunday School will
meet at 10 A M. and the Young Peoples |
Society at 6:45 P. M. The midweek de-
votional service will be held Wednesday |
at 1880 P. M.
Application for a permit for a cemetery |
adjoining the Union Cemetery on the Rock
ville-Norbeck road was disapproved last
Friday night by the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission.
The applicants, E. C. Aleire, Warner E.
pumphrey and o. X. Duvall. informed the
commission that the cemetery they wished
70 establish on tract about 90 acres
in extent would be separate from the
Union Cemetery. In recommending to the
county commissioners that the project be
disapproved, the planning commission fol-
lowed a policy of limiting cemeteries as
much as possible within the metropolitan
district.
Found last Friday night lying on the
steps of his home suffering from dose of
poison, Raymond Hoffman, As yenrs old.
SSH Eastern Avenue. Takoma Park, died
an hour later in the Washington Santa
rum. His family and the county police
say he took the poison by mistake. The
unconscious form of Mr.. Hoffman was dis
covered by his 15-year-old daughter. Mag
dalane, who summoned J. N. Romm,
next-door neighbor. While Romm notified
the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, Mrs. Romm administered an anti
dote. Hoffman was taken to the santa
rum by the firemen. He was pronounced
dead by DR.. H. W. Middelsen.
Mrs. Marie A. Krouse, 81 years old, Of
Kensington. is in serious condition after
swallowing three poison tablets by mistake
last Friday night at her home. She is said
to have entered the unlighted bath room
Of her home and taken the tablets. think
ing they were medicine. Realizing she
had taken the wrong drug. she went to
the first floor. where she told her husband
what had happened and then tainted, her
head striking the floor. DR.. Eugene Jones
was called on the telephone and prescribed
an antidote to be administered while he was
reaching the house. He ordered Mrs. Krouse
removed to Georgetown University Hos
pital. where it was found her head was
Injured by the fall.
The annual field day of the public school
children Of this county. to be held here
in May. will be conducted on different
plan from heretofore, Edwin W. Broome
county sunerintendent of achools. haa an.