Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-04-01
EutAI aud RersOual.
Town and Country.


whose parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Griffith
announce her engagement to Mr.. Townley
Gamble of Woodside. -
Missionary Group Meeting of Montgom
cry County will meet at Travilah Baptist
Church. Thursday, April 18th, at II A. M
A basket lunch will be served.
Miss A. Lorene Garrett, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George franklin Garrett of Rock
vile, whose marriage to DR.. Joseph Albert
Stimek of Baltimore, son of Mrs. Anna
Stimek of that city. will take place May a.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Lamar of Rock
vile, announce the marriage of their
daughter Edith Glenn. to Richard Law
renee Waters, also of Rockville. The cere-
mony was performed last Thursday at St
Peters Chapel, at Leonardtown. Nd, by
the Rev. Jesse NJ. B. Woodrow.
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The Frederick County Circuit Court on
Wednesday last denied the county COM
missioners the right to priority on $780,
900 of county funds on deposit in the
Central Trust Company at the time it was
closed in September. 1881. The court in
a lengthy opinion declared that the county
would have to share prorata in distribution
of assets of the trust company, which was
closed with its II branches and placed in
the hands of the State banking commits
siOner as receiver.
An illness of more than a year resulted
in the death, at her home near Genmont
Wednesday night, of Mrs. Elizabeth Wal
bridge, SO. widow of Herman Walbridee
She is survived by daughter, Mrs. South
wick C. Briggs. of Glenmont. The funeral
took place from the funeral home ot
Warner E. Humphrey, Rockville, at clock
last Thursday a week. Cannon Arthnr B.
Rudd, rector of Christ Episcopal Church
Rockville. conducted the services. Burial
took place in Rock Creek Cemetery.
With the burning of the canal boat Oh
Susannah, at the old Basin Wharf at Cum
berland, Nd. last Thursday afternoon, the
last of the feet that for half a century
piled between Cumberland and Georgetown
became memory. The boat, the living
quarters of Charles Eaton, one of the last
of the old boatmen, was fired by oil on the
water that had become ignited, it is
thought, by spark from a burning dump.
When the fire department arrived. the old
boat was almost completely surrounded by
flames. All other boats of the hundred or
more once sent out have either been des-
troyed or allowed to sink
A revival of the search for the men who
killed Horace D. Waters was launched here
recently with the finding of .45-caliber
automatic pistol believed by police to have
been the gun used by the bandit who killed
the aged merchant. The pistol was found
in Mrs. Harry Burns front yard about a
mile from the place where the murder
occurred. Examination by Officer Theodore
Vollten of the Identification Bureau of
county police, disclosed that the gun had
been fired twice and a third bullet had
jammed. Mr.. Waters was killed by AS
caliber bullet. The gun was taken to
Washington for examination by Lieut.. Fred
Sanders, naturalization expert.
Wilson Boswell of 3rookeville, was elect
ed president; Miss Helen Butts of barnes
town. vice president Miss Alice Boswell
of Brookeville. secretary, and James Kerr
of Boyds treasurer, of the Montgomery
County Christian Endeavor Union at a
meeting in the Presbyterian Church here.
The meeting was addressed by ]. Britain
Winter. State president George R. Smith,
State superintendent of junior depart
ment: Miss Ethel Poyner. State superin :
tendent of intermediate department, and
Harry Sherwood, former Srate president
all of Baltimore. and others. Preceding the
meeting, supper was served. the arrange
ments being in charge of a committee
headed by Miss Helen Butts
Miss Marear Lansdale, sixteen, will
compete in the Montgomery County finals
of the National 0ratorical Cantest as rep
resentative of the Sherwood High School
Sandy Spring, it was announced. Miss
Lansdale recently won the school prelim.
inaries with an grafton on Origins of the
Constitution" She is the daughter Of
Sheriff Richard Lansdale of Montgomery
Couaty. A member of the senior class
Miss Lansdale will attend Western Mary.
land University after her graduation thi:
June. where she will study to become q
teacher. During her high school careel
she has been active in athletics anG
school journalism. She is a member of the
History Club and assistant editor of the
Annual. Alternate in the Sherwood con
test was Miss Gladys Beall.
The will OF Alexander Fullerton Prescott
father of States Attorney Stedman Pres
colt, who died suddenly last week at the
home of his son and daughter-in- law. Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Prescott, of Chevy
Chase, has been admitted to Probate il
the Orphans Court here. 1t was ex ecutec
November Is, 1929, and disposes of sub
stantial estate. To William H. Prescott,
son, with whom the testator had mad,
his home for several years, the instrumen
bequeaths $4,000 and all personal effect
and directs that the residue be equal,
divided among the seven children-Alex
ander F, Prescott, Jr., Stedman Prescott
William H. Prescott. Mrs. Edmond Jones
Mrs. E. Cecil Allnutt, Mrs. Gordon Daisley
and Mrs. James Morrison. The share o
Mra Allnutf in cnmnIia nce with ha. dast-