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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Eskimo History

The Eskimos seldom are thought Of
today as people who once dwelt in
the interior, far from the sea. Yet
that was their earlier history. They
were, as archaeological investigation
seems to have established, part of the
Offshoot of the earlier migration from
Asia; and they established themselves
in the forests north of Lake Superior
where they dwelt, apparently for a
considerable period.
For some reason-whether because
of pressure from more vigorous tribes
to southwark or because Of an incur
able nomadic instinct-the Eskimos
began at last to push northward till
they reached the verge of the Arctic.
They spread over the coasts and the
adjacent islands. Some of them fl
tered back over the straits into sub
Arctic Siberia. Others passed toward
Greenland, where, nine centuries ago,
they met the Norsemen.-Boston Post.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Wheat Stocks In Maryland
Elevators 100000 Bushels

Stocks of wheat in interior mills
and elevators of Maryland amounted
to about 100000 bushels on July l.
according to a recent report of Rich
ard C. Ross, agricultural statistician
for the Maryland Crop Reporting Ser
vice. This amount is double the stocks
on hand a year ago, when 10000
bushels were estimated to be on hand
Stocks on July /, 1880 were estimated
at 100000 bushels.
United States stocks on July l were
estimated at 1877, 900 bushels. Stocks
on the same date last year were esti-
mated to have been 30,252, 900 bushels
(Revised.)
This report is intended to include
wheat stocks in country elevators and
in the smaller interior mills which are
not included either in the Depart
ment's report on stocks of wheat in
SO markets or the Bureau of the
Census report on stocks in merchant
mills and attached elevators. The esti-
mate is based largely on reports from
about 4,100 mills and elevators located
over the entire country.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
University Of Maryland
Plays IL Football Games

The University of Maryland will
play II football games this Fall. The
College Park aggregation meets
Washington College as usual in its
first engagement.
Maryland's schedule is as follows:
September "a, Washington College
at College Park.
October 1, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.
October 8, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, at C. P.
October Is, Duke University at
Durham, N. C.
October %, St. Johns of Annapolis
at College Park.
October 20, v. M. l. at Richmond
Stadium.
November 5, Vanderbilt U. at Grit
fifth STADIUM, Washington, D. C.
November IL, Navy at Baltimore
Stadium.
November 10, Washington and Lee
U. at Lexington, Va.
November "a, Johns Hopkins at
Baltimore Stadium.
December 3, Western Maryland at
Baltimore Stadium.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
About Wheelbarrox.

A barrow has only one wheel for
various reasons, mainly because 1t is
easier to push one wheel than two,
there being less friction-or less resist
ance. barrow requires no back
wheel because the place of back
wheels is taken when at rest by wood
en- legs, and when in motion by human
legs. Likewise, 1t does not require two
wheels in front for balancing pur-
poses, as the legs keep it straight.
Therefore. two wheels in front would
simply make it more difficult to push
and much more difficult to tip over.
The single wheel is really a very clev-
er continuance.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Stained With Rov.l Blood

A unique carpet, stained with the
blood of the murdered Russian car
Paul l, has been added to the Museum
of Applied Arts in Leipzig. In 1882
the carpet was presented by the
French king, Louis XVI, to Paul OF
Russia, who was then crown prince
Paul succeeded his mother, Catherine
the Great, to the throne in 1895. His
short rule was marked by various op.
pressive measures taken against the
Russian peasants. Thousands OF
free peasants were made serfs and Civ
en- away to his favorite courtiers. A
palace conspiracy put an end to his
reign and life. When he was assassi.
mated the carpet now acquired by the
Leipzig museum was drenched with his
blood.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Hotels Long Centers Of
Public Life in America

After the Revolution that made US
nation, the life Of American cities
was for more than a century and a
quarter publicly centered and wildly
reflected in the essentially democratic
institution called the hotel The club,
an Eighteenth-century aristocratic out
growth of exclusive use by superior
persons Of the private parlor of the
tavern, smacking, therefore, of priv
ilege, had to wait till the 1905 or SO
for a serious revival. The hotel
which succeeded the tavern-became
every citizens club.
In little city there was one hotel,
says writer in the New York Times
Every visitor must come to it and ev-
cry really live inhabitant must drop
around to look the stranger over. In
a bigger city there might be several
hotels. But usually one hotel was the
hub Of community activity in any city.
From decade to decade it was apt
to be different hotel as progress,
fashion and favor determined. Never
theless, at any given period, when you
said Boston or Baltimore or New Or
leans, or. later, Chicago, st. Louis or
San Francisco. the name of a particu-
lar hotel popped into the mind of ev-
cry traveller or informed person.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Cell in Human Body

All the common animals and plants,
however widely they differ in size
and appearance, are made up of very
similar units. known as cells. There
are hundreds Of billions of these cells
in the human body, each cell being SO
small that it can be seen only under
a good microscope. The cells Of one
tissue differ markedly from those Of
another, but the cells of given It's
sue in man are very similar to those
of the corresponding tissue in even
such a remote relative as a fish.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19

"A ietter notlfy1ng the various boards
of County Commissioners of the avail
ability of the money and its allot-
ment reads as follows:
The Federal emergency relief and
construction act of July 81, 1882, allo-
Gates to Maryland for highway pur-
poses the sum of $1,019,57O to be
spent before July /, 1888.
Under present conditions the COM
mission regards the acceptance of this
Federal appropriation as beneficial to
the State and has decided to accept
this loan. The act provides that the
loan will be repaid to the Federal
Treasury by deductions from future
Federal aid allotments beginning in
1888.
We have apportioned this money to
the several counties on a mileage
basis which means that s. will
become available at once for expendi-
ture on road construction in your
county.
Will you please submit in writing
your recommendations, in preferential
order, for additional road construc-
ton so as to utilize this amount of
money with the understanding that
any roads to be built as part of this
program must have the approval Of
the Federal Government.
Harry D. Williar, Jr., chief en-
gineer of the State Roads Commission,
has completed study of the bill as
passed by Congress and has forward
ed to Washington a communication
describing the conditions peculiar to
Maryland and explaining his plans for
handling the relief work. Approval of
Mr.. Williar's plans are expected short
ly from Washington. 1t is the plan Of
the roads commission, in cooperation
with the various county road stats, to
begin the new construction work as
soon as possible.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Minds Relaxation Wen
Understood Nv Anoakl1


That the partridge, one, of the most
timid and least confiding Of birds, may
be tanned is shown by a story told Of
the Apostle st. John the Divine, who
In his old age was the bishop Of
Ephesus in succession to Timothy. Al
though generally active in the prose-
cution Of his Divine Masters business
he was amusing himself by playing
with a tanned and petted partridge.
when huntsman passed by. How
could so holy and privileged man so
waste the precious time? he querled.
What is that in your hand?" inquired
the apostle. by profession l am a
hunter, and that is the bow l use with
my arrows in the chase" he made
reply. "But If that is a bow. 1t is all
unstrung. and unfit for USE" said st.
John. Eyes It Is unstrung." returned
the sportsman. "for If 1t was always
strung 1t would lose power and become
useless. To be In good order, 1t must
ever be unstrung, when not actually
being used" "Just So" quietly re-
marked the wise old man. "and in like
manner must the mind Of man be re-
leased and unstrung sometimes If it
is to be always fit for my Masters
use" And as the huntsman thought
fully pursued his way, st. John turned
again to amuse himself. and rest his
mind, by playing with his partridge
Montreal Family Herald.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Picnic Dates For
Montgomery County
AUGUST

August 24-Sandy Spring Vol.
Fire Dept. Carnival and Supper,
afternoon and evening.
August 13-Annual picnic Of the
Aubrey Council No. 143, Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, and Baker Council No. 1O4
Daughters Of America, will be held
at Damascus High School. Music
by the Damascus Cornet Band.
Chicken and ham supper, 35c per
plate.
August 20-Ladies' Aid of Yves,
ley Grove Church will hold their
annual chicken supper and picnic
August 81 to Sept. 3-Annual
carnival Of Woman's Guild Of Grace
Church, to be held on carnival
grounds in Silver Spring.
August 81 Annual Chicken
Supper Of Liberty Grove Ladies'
Aid Society, in Grange Grove, Eur
louisville.
August 10 - Piedmont Young
Peoples Union picnic, At Monocaey
Park. near DiekSfson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Legend Of ST. ca.As-in.

The firework known as Catherine
vince" IL said to commemorate the
martyrdom Of Catherine, q Fourth cen
tury Christian saint. According to
legend, Catherine was martyred BY the
Emperor Maximinus, after attempting
to convert him. She was condemned
to torture on a wheel, but this was
miraculously destroyed, and she was
beheaded. In addition to the wheel
like frework, st. GATHERINGS wheel Il
also commemorated BY the Catherine
window, which 10 circular in form
with radiating divisions in various col
ors, and the Catherine wheel somer-
sault.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19

To get peace, If you do want It.,
make for yourselves nests Of pleasant
thoughts. None Of us yet know, for
none Of us have been taught in early
youth what fairy palaces we may build
Of beautiful thoughts-proof against
all adversity-bright fancies, satisfied
memories, faithful sayings, treasure
houses of precious and restful thoughts
which cannot disturb, nor pain, make
gloomy, nor poverty take away from
us-houses built without hands for our
souls to live in.-John Ruskin.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19

twelve and fourteen hours a day.
For this they get as little as Is
cents an hour.
"The State Roads Commission also
has studied the rate reported by
contractors in all adjacent States.
AS result the commission has de-
cided to limit any working day for
any man on future State contracts
to ten hours per day.
1--WE have also set two minimum
wage scales. We have set the rate
at Is cents per hour for unskilled
labor in the first wage area because
we believe the cost of living is pro-
portionatey lower there than it is
in the other area"
The commission has bisected the
Western Shore area by line which
passes through the mouth of the
Piscataway creek on the Potomac
Upper Marlboro--Annapolis road.
Mr.. Williar said the minimum
wage scale will be applied to all
future road contracts, whether the
work is to be paid for from the
proceeds of the State gasoline tax
or from the million dollars advanced
by the Federal Government for road
construction in Maryland during
1882, which will be charged against
Federal appropriations for highway
construction in the State subsequent
to 1887.
While the expenditure of the mil
lion-dollar Federal fund stipulates a
thirty-hour week for both skilled and
unskilled labor, the commission has
not yet applied the thirty hour week
to work financed entirely by State
funds, but is considering it, Mr..
Williar added.
He said the commission has def
nitely closed the question of eligi-
bility of workers on all State road
contracts to residents of Maryland,
and will not consider evidence that
worker has lived in a labor camp
in the State as qualified for a job
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Modern Gabriel. Hor,

British scientists have developed a
device which will multiply the sound
of the human voice 100000 times.
One of the uses to which it win be put
will be to warn, exhort or brighten
British subjects who threaten to be.
come unruly. Used from an airplane,
It fe easy TO understand what this
"thundeffng voice from the sky would
menB to the superstitloU6 SPEAKING
iniqAfdbi6, 1t might pretend ID come
from MChammed' himself, II" CiifSSSe
from Confueius, or IN Hindu from
BPahma.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Eund.m.nt.l Chemical Law

The periodic law of chemistry was
devised by Mendeleev. 1t states that
the properties of the elements, as well
as the forms and properties Of their
compounds, are in periodic dependence
on or form q periodic function Of the
atomic weights of the elements. This
law enabled Mendeleev to foretell the
existence and even the properties Of
several unknown elements since dis
covered.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Farewell To The Fair

When they cut the trotters out
They cut the Fair out
The new grandstand looks lone and
dreary
These warm and strenuous days
The crowds that merrily gathered
have dispersed and gone their
way
The bats and the sparrows have in
Tested the place
The weeds around it have thrived
Far gone are the trotters that used
to race and the fellows that
used to drive
My dear old Fair take me back
some twenty years or more
Where l saw the trotters on the
track as they anxiously turned
to score
And the names and the faces
brighter grow as / now recall
the day l heard the starter bid
them 60 and saw them on their
way
To Him who holds life's sands will
keep his loved ones of the trot-
ters in His HANDS, long
goodbye.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Hot Pack Method
OF Canning Peas
Or String Beans
Latest Development In Canning
Is The One Period Hot
Pack Method

If success is not always a result
of your efforts when you can sweet
corn, string beans and peas by the
hot water bath method, it will pay
you to look into details of the prac-
tees used. To insure the greatest
degree of success, the Gamer must
follow carefully all instructions for
whatever canning method is used.
The one period hot pack method
Is the latest development and differs
from the cold pack method in that
the food is partially cooked before
putting in the jar. No cold dipping
is recommended except as required
for such products as are peeled
after cooking like beets, carrots and
tomatoes.
Hurrying the non acid vegetables
from the garden into the jar is a
matter of Importance. Gather only
sufficient amount, particularly of
peas, beans and corn, which may be
cared for Immediately. Avoid allow
i ing the food to stand in a hot
kitchen or in the sun before canning.
All non acid foods must be handled
quickly in a clean manner.
Assuming one has sterilized the
Jars carefully and used the correct
period for processing, the condition
of "fiat sour" so often encountered
in the canning of these foods may
be due to the following causes:
The jars Of food being held in a
semi-hot temperature ct the time of
the processing, either before or after
the cooking period, or by having the
water bath below boiling at the time
the jars were put in. Prompt cook
ing after processing is a good prac-
tice. Regardless Of how carefully
vegetables have been canned they
may spoil if proper storage facilities
are not provided. A frequent mis-
take is that of leaving the canned
vegetables in hot kitchen a day
or two after canning.
Causes of Unified Jars
Lack of liquid in a jar at the
end of the processing period will not
cause spoilage if properly sterilized
and sealed but it does make a pack
less attractive.
Lack of liquid in a jar may be
due to one or more of the follow
ing causes:
1. insufficient precooking.
q. The Jars packed too tightly
leaving little room for expansion.
Corn, peas and beans should be
packed only to within one inch of
the top and be so packed that the
contents will slip when the can is
turned over.
8. Failure to release the air
bubbles in the jar prevents a good
pack and filled jar.
Hot jars filled with hot food may
be placed Immediately in boiling hot
water. Begin to count the time Of
processing when the water comes to
a jumping boil.
Keep the water an inch above the
jars and boil rapidly the full time.
| Only boiling water should be used
for replenishing the bath.
"Safe canning requires careful at
tention to every detail, willingness to
follow directions carefully and a
thorough understanding Of the prin-
ciples involved in the process"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Wage Scale Set For State Roads Work
And Maximum Working Day 10 Hours
Wages Being Paid By Contractors Minimum Paw
For Laborers In This Vicinity Is 35c Per Hour

AS the result of an investigation
into the wages being paid by con-
tractors for road construction in
Maryland, the State Roads Commits
sion last week put into effect a
minimum wage scale for both skilled
and unskilled labor and at the same
time announced a maximum working
day of ten hours on all its road
projects.
By its action the commission d.
vided the State into two wage areas.
In the first area, including roughly
the Eastern Shore counties and those
on the Western Shore south of An
napolis, the minimum rate for un-
skilled labor was set at % cents
an hour. Elsewhere in the State it
will be 35 cents an hour.
The commission added % per
cent to the unskilled labor rate for
truck and tractor drivers and team
sters, and 80 per cent to the same
labor base for skilled workers such
as shovel and crane operators, black
smiths, carpenters, steel erectors and
cement finishers.
All contracts in the future will
carry the minimum wage stipulations
and the commission reserves the
right to terminate any contract
where there is a violation of the
agreement. The commission may
check contractors pay rolls at any
time.
The wages are approximately the
same as those the commission has
been paying its unslilled workers
employed on State maintenance work,
but are considerably higher than the
wages paid by contractors on State
road work, according to Harry D.
Williar, Jr., chief engineer of the
roads body.
1--WE have been investigating re-
ports that laborers are not receiv-
ing living wage in many sections
Of the State and have found that
some contractors are working men
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Montgomery County To Be Allotted
$50, 7oO,O5 Of Emergency Road Funds
Maryland's Share In Federal Aid Money $1,O19,57O,
To Be AnOcated To Counties On Mileage Basis
Funds To Be Spent At Once To Relieve
Unemployment Here

Maryland's twenty-three counties
have been advised Of the amounts OF
money apportioned to them for road
building under the Federal emergency
relief and construction act. Montgom-
cry County's share is $56,790.05. The
total amount allotted to the State of
Maryland is $1,O19,57O. In making the
announcement of the amount Of money
each county will receive, the State
Roads Commission also has asked the
County Commissioners to recommend
section of roads which may be con-
structed with the Government funds.
Some recommendations have al
ready been received and the commits
sion is studying them. 1t is the wish
of the roads commission that the new
roads be built in sections of the coun-
ties where they are most needed and
where the work will give employment
to the greatest number of men. The
commission is working along these
lines.
The total of $1,019,570 which comes
to Maryland under the Federal act
has been accepted by the State officials
for expenditure before July /, 1888.
The money has been divided among
the counties on a pro-rata milage
basis, as follows:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Explaining Karat,

A karat is 1-24th part and the term
is used to express the portion of gold
mixed with alloy. Pure gold is "a
karat. Ten-karat gold consists Of 10
parts pure gold and IA parts alloy.
Mghteen-karat gold is IS parts pure
gold and parts alloy. A secondary
meaning of the word is the weight
used for diamonds and other precious
stones, 2O5 milligrams about 81
grains Troy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Pie.urs.su. "T..n"

The Russian trOika was q team Of
three horses abreast, which drew the
vehicle. Emma Cochran Ponafidine
describes 1t In Russia, Ny Home"
She says that the middle horse IL al
ways the heaviest in build and a fast
trotter, never allowed to break into
a gallop. He is harnessed in shafts,
the ends Of which are kept up by a
high yoke rising above the animals
head and from which bell is hung.
The side horses are Of lighter build
and are taught to gallop, each curving
his head outward and back.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19

Valuable Grass

4 crop Of grass that natures In
Few short weeks in the summer is
worth Its weight in g~ld to the natives
Of Attn island, the AsUst westerly Of
the Aleutian group. The grass is
made into the remarkable baskets tina:
are the only exportable manufactured
product of the islands.
The grass grows to full maturity be
tween the first Of July and the middle
Of August and there is not much Of it.
The Attn Aleuts prepare the material
carefully and then weave baskets Of
texture similar to that Of Panama
hats. The smallest Of them, not more
than 3 inches deep and with q 8-inch
opening in the top, brings from 800 to
$500 when it reaches civilization.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
simpl. pu.ie. "WilI Of ced,'

Pious people sometimes need a re-
minder that primarily Gods will for
them may consist not in more devo-
tional exercises, but in observing the
laws of health. or paying their bills,
or answering their letters, or some
other worldly" and prosaic duty
From F. R. Barry'S 1.-The Relevance
Of Christianity"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
R.t's Food Pr.f.r.ns..

Foods that are particularly AttrAs-
tive to rats and mice are said to -
Hamburg steak, 2 sausage. fish, nsh e.
fal. crab meat, 'fresh liver. broken
fresh eggs, bacdh thiA SiieeS " can
tAIoupe, apple! 1tOtAaae o. cucumber |;
green corn. cut from tbb % mashed
banana, boiled carrot. or bdksd sweet
potato. toasted bread. cheese, fOlIsd
oats, cereals. peanut butter.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
EaRles' Nests

The bald or American eagles nest
weighs from ten to twelve pounds, and
that of the harpy eagle weighs approx
imately fourteen pounds. AS a rule,
most nests are about three feet across
and one foot high, consisting Of loosely
woven sticks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
MANI vi,i, Wi.hinr WslI

Following an ancient custom OF the
highlands Of Scotland, many people
have visited the wishing well at Gull
loden, made a wish and dropped coin
into the water. In one day recently
$155 was taken from the water and
given to local charities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-08-19
Animal speci..

There are more than 10000 species
Of animals, the number in each class
being: 1000 mammals. 10000 birds,
5000 reptiles. 1000 aInphibians, 1900
hsh, 10000 mollusks, 100000 insects,
besides a host of lower Invertebrates.