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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
Telephone Company Has
Six Thousand More Phones
In Use Than Last Year

Maryland was served by 210,424
telephones on September 80, which
was an increase of 6,885 over the
number in operation ON September
er of last year. Telephone users made
more than $4,000 calls during the
month, which was an increase of
approximately 2 per cent over those
made during September of 1884.
Operating revenues in September
of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company of Baltimore City
serving the state of Maryland
amounted to $1,113,069 as compared
with 81, O51 ,215 for the same month
last year, the report of operations
just filed with the Maryland Public
Service Commission shows.
Operating expenses, including taxes
amounted to 1887 ,4O5, which was
s50,951 more than for the same
month in 1884. Net income for the
month of September was $225, 664.
Operating revenues for the first nine
months of 1885 were S9, 813, 464, as
compared with s9,554,373 for the
same period in 1884.
Expenses, including taxes for the
first nine months, ending September
80, were $7,882,226 as compared with
81, 581, 101 for the first nine months
of last year. Net operating income
for the nine months ending Sep
tmeber 80 was 1881 ,238 as COM
pared with s1,973,272 for the period
ending September 80, last year.
Taxes for September amounted to
s135,963 as compared with $130,866
for the same month in 1884. Taxes
for the first nine months of the
year were $1,186,684.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
Lightning

In determining what procedure tt
follow in providing lightning pro-
lection for specific cases it is neces-
sary to consider a number of fac.
tors. Take into consideration the
frequently and severity of thunder
storms, the value and nature of the
building and its contents, and loca,
conditions.
In addition, the home owner should
determine the relation of the cost
of lightning protection to insurance
premiums and the personal hazard:
and indirect losses which may result
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
, @1The Petrifed Forest"
With Kenneth MacKenna
At Maryland Theatre

Starring Kenneth MacKenna, one
OF the most noted of the younger
stage and screen actors, Raymond
Moore's Cape Playhouse Company
starts its fourth weed. at the Mary
land Theatre, Baltimore, in Robert
Sherwood's "The Petrifed Forest
Tuesday night, November 5.
Four members Of the original cast
that supported Leslie Howard in its
New York production viii be seen
at The Maryland in the roles they
created. They are Esther Leaning,
Milo Boulton, James Doody and Ross
Hertz. Mr.. MacKenna will play
Leslie Towards role. Others sup
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
Religion In A
Nutshell
By REV. HENRY K. PASMA.
Phi. D.
ENCHANTED WALKS

These autumn days one walks in
an enchanted world. A wooded ridge
stands all afame with color. A
solitary shrub leaps from the dead
grass like a tongue of fire. Nature,
these days, strives hard to give the
lie TO the thought that all this dis
play of beauty is but the harbinger
of winter, the symbol Of death.
Isaiah, the Hebrew prophet, speaks
of this. 1--WE all do fade like the
leaf" Other poets have followed
him in his sad thinking. One wrote:
"The melancholy days hare come,
The sdddest of the gear"
There seems to be truth in this
statement. The fading leaf seems
fit symbol OF the evanescence, the
impermanency of everything mund-
ane. How precariously thin the stem
which holds the leaf to branch or
twig. How precariously slender the
thread which connects man with life.
And yet, the sight of the fading
leaf may be vastly inspiring. These
autumn days are frightening and re-
vealing. Summer days may be de-
ceiving in that every tree is preening
itself in a mass of glistening green.
Then all trees seem alike. They
stand, dreaming and swooning in the
fell heat of summer. But it is the
end Of the growing season which re-
veals individual character in trees.
Not one is colored exactly like the
other. Each tree becomes distinctly
particular. Some subtle difference
in the chemical composition of the
descending sap, some difference in
the depth of roots, some subtle vari-
alton in the kind of soil in which
the tree feeds, determines the par
ticular character of each tree. Each
tree knows its own secret source of
glory. But in autumn all proclaim
that for them spring and summer
came not in vain. The passing days
have made them beautiful in a serv-
ice rendered fully, faithfully, the
climax of which seems to come with
the autumn days.
And while other trees were bril-
liant with color, l saw one tree
whose branches already were COM
pletely naked. In the midst of so
much riotous beauty it presented an
ugly sight. Here is a parable. That
tree, too, had its spring. It bore
foliage in summer. But it's leaves
began to fade and fall long before
the first chill of autumn was in the
air. It is so in human life. Spring
and summer, the easy periods of life
which reveals either beauty or ugli-
ness. The writer of the First
Psalm speaks of this. Of the man
whose spirit is rooted in God and
in His ordinances, he writes: THAT
man shall be like a tree planted by
the rivers of water, that bringeth
forth his fruit in his season; his
leaf also shall not fade"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
Carroll County
Woman Winner In
Speaking Contest
viii Represent Maryland In
National Contest In Chicago
In December

The Women's Speaking Contest of
the Maryland Farm Bureau was won
by Mrs. Randall Spoerlein of New
Windsor, Carroll County, Maryland.
Miss Margaret B. Pahlman, of Eas-
ton, Talbot County and Mrs. Grace
Rambo, Queen Anne County tied for
second place one point behind the
winner. Mrs. Mary McGolerick of
Frederick County placed fourth. Mrs.
Spoerlein viii represent Maryland in
the national contest TO be staged in
Chicago early in December.
Mrs. Spoerlein portrayed the first
American home, the pioneer home
as one of character and courage.
In closing she pleaded with the
farmers to help themselves by stat
ing: The world is challenging us;
the tillers of the soil, to make safe
the industry that we love and the
industry that feeds the millions; to
build that industry upon the foun-
dation of right thinking, square deal
ing with cooperative effort. The
challenge comes to the farm home
for young men and women who are
God-fearing, clean in soul and body,
who are bold, persistent and cour-
ageous."
"The security of the world today
rests upon the farm home and it is
your responsibility and mine to meet
this tremendous obligation"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
PUBLIC OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY COMMISSION Do

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Frank H. Karn, President Root'S'r
Charles E. King. CIari,as s'ue
Paul NJ. Coughlan, Silver 'SSs s:rg
Richard L. Lansdale, Sandy SSprMg
Robert D. Hagner 9tprlng
Clerk
Ira C. Whitacre woodsids
Deputy Clerk
James c. Christopher. Betbesa
Counsel
Edward Peter.
The Board of County Commit,
sioners will be in session IN ms
Tuesday from 1 P. NJ. to 2.3S "I y
NJ, and on each Thursday ~ :.
2:30 P. NJ. to $3.50 P. M. in tbo!
office in the new Court Honsn
These sessions are for the pnrn USe.
Of holding public hearings. ''
The Commissioners will ba -
session on each Tuesday from IN
A. NJ. 10 l P. III. for the purno. ~
Of examining accounts and tran.
sacting other routine business
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31

porting him VIII be popular mem
bers of the Cape Playhouse group
Flora Campbell, Forrest Orr, Dor
othy Blackburn, Philip Huston, bud.
ley Hawley and Ernest Decker.
The Cape Playhouse Company has
been enthusiastically received in all
of its bills at The Maryland and a
number Of people from out of town
are noted at the performances. Pop
ular prices prevail with performances
every night but Monday and there
are matinees Wednesday and Sat
urday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
Colonial. Had No Bridal Iour.

Marriages in Colonial times were
not followed by bridal tours, but in
some parts Of the country the bridal
party was entertained on successive
lays for miles around.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
ORPHANS COURT


ORPHANS COURT
Chief Judge
Washington Waters.
Associate Judges
Lewis F. Hobbs, Thomas C. Kelley.
Register
Hanson G. Cashell Redland
Terms of Orphans Court-Regu-
lar Terms, second Tuesday of Feb
ruary, April, June, August, October
and December. Court is in session
every Tuesday and Wednesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-10-31
CIRCUIT COURT
Chief Judge

Hamm. nd Urner Frederick.
Associate Judge
Charles w. Woodward Poolesviile
Associate Judge
Arthur D. Willard =. Frederick
Clerk
Clayton K. Watkins.
Terms of Circuit Court-Third
Monday of January, non-jury term;
third Monday of March, grand and
petit jury term; first Monday of
June, non-jury term; second Mon
day of November grand and petit
jury terms.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
President

Thomas C. Darby, !. Jacksonville
Mrs. Daniel C. Walser, Chevy Chase
Julius P. Stadler. :. Silver Spring
Mrs. Julian B. Waters, Germantown
George W. Davis :. :. Silver Spring
Dr.. E. r. Kohmer. .Bethesda
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POLICE COURT

POLICE COURT
Justice
Harold c. Smith Rockville
Clerk
Harry II. Williams Il. Poolesville
Chief Of Police
]. VIM: Garrett, Telephone Rock
vile 1876
Satisfaction
Bethesda, Telephone Bradley 500.
Satisfaction
Silver Spring, Telephone Silver
Spring 500.
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REALLY KNOW YOURSELF!

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LEGISLATURE
STATE SENATOR
Stedman Prescott ..... Rockville
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Spring 500.
JUVENILE COURT
Sits every Saturday morning at
the Court House, Judge Thomas NJ.
Anderson, Rockville.
STATES ATTORNEY
James H. Pugh. Rockville
SHERIFF
G. Eddington Bell. Potomac
COUNTY TREASURER
]. Forest Walker
Assistant Treasurer,
John R. Lewis.
SUPERVISOR OF
EASEMENTS
William Aud 49,. (courthouse)
COUNTY SURVEYOR
Charles ]. Maddox told courthouse)
HEALTH OFFICER
DR.. v. L. Ellicott. :. (eourthcuse)
SUPERVISOR of COUNTY AID
P. Ray Souder, ..... Damascus
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SUPERINTENDENT OF
EDUCATION

Edwin w. Broome.
The Board meets on the second
Tuesday of each month at their
office in Rockville, at 1890 A, M,
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JUVENILE COURT

STATES ATTORNEY
James H. Pugh. 80. Rockville
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31
Al Wilkins, Pioneer of Livingston,
Was Early Freighter; Punched"
Cows to Get His Start in Business

The wagons were smashed, the horses
killed, and dad" injured SO that he
lived but a few months longer.
That winter T. G. Power & Bro. OF
Fort Benton decided to start a branch
store at what is now LewistoWn. Al
wilkins wa engaged to haul the
freight. His outfit left Fort Benton
on bare ground, crossed the Big Mud
dy on the ferry boat. Snow struck
them New Years day, as they neared
their stopping place. 1t was bitter
cold. They %unloaded, and pulled on to
Warm Springs. The storm held them
in camp four days, and when it was
over a chinook started that raised the
temperature from 20 degrees below
zero to thaWing weather, and started
them on their way. When they broke
camp their hubs scraped the snow.
BY noo the outfit had pulled down
to the Judith river. The hill at the
Judith was icy, and their empty wagons
were so light the roughlocks wouldn't
hold them. wilkins saw they were CO.
horses unhitched when the wagons
and two wheelers shot by him, knock
ing him over an embankment.
There was a 150-foot drop, but the
sides we're sloping and gravelly, and
here the roughlocks held and kept the
wagons upright. wilkins was little
hurt by his scrambling fall, and hurried
to his wagons and horses, expecting to
find the animals killed. They were
pinioned under the lead wagon. He
and his man got poles and lifted the
heavy wagon off the team; and to
their surprise the horses struggled to
their feet, battered, but with bones in
tact. Damage done: two wagon tongues
broken and the bows and anvaS strip
ped from the two trail wagons.
They we're jubiIant at such good luck
out of bad, and borrowed tools from
the Samples, who had just settled at
Judith Crossing, and patched things up.
They stayed with the Samples all night.
Their second team made it down the
hill without accident.
The next morning it was still
chinooking, and the ice in the middle
of the river was out. The ice at the
sides had to be cut away before a
crossing could be made. In midstream
a huge block of floating Ice struck the
heal horse MI. Wilkins was riding,
knocked the horse off its feet and
threw Wilkins into the water. The ice
gorge stalled the team. Wilkins got a
rope out of the lead wagon, tied one
end to the draft rod and the other
to the lead chains of eight OF the horses
and led them out to dry land, where '
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31

Most widely acquainted of all Gran
ties local business men, perhaps, was
j. E. Cleary, road supervisor, school
trustee, mining engineer and proprietor
of the 33-room Cleary House, the towns
leading hostelry. He came to Montana
from Canada in 1879, settled at Philips
burg in 1883, and Granite, two years
later. His hotel was large for that time
and place, and travellers welcomed a
chance to rest at the Cleary House after
hard days on the road.
Such was Granite As years ago, when
men were boasting that ne one had ever
found the bottom of a Montana silver
mine. A few years later there were
no bottoms to find under adverse
legislation they had all dropped out.
A visitor to Montana's pleasure spots
toured Glacier and Yellowstone parks,
and expressed a desire to see the old
camp of Granite. She was Mrs. j.. w.
Barriger, of Washington, D. c., wife
of the chief executive of the railroad
division of the FERA. She wanted to
see Granite, because her uncles had
nee made a fortune in the Granite
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31

are other historians who declare there
were more fights to the square yard
and the "a hours in Granite than in
any other place on the map!
1t is not surprising that many of the
adopted citizens of the Granite min
ing district were originally British sub
JectS, since ore was shipped to Cornwall
for treatment, in early days; and the
interest in all Rocky mountain metals
naturally spread through the British
Isles. The names of many of the mines
reflect ar English nativity.
George Reek, mentioned as a member
of the constitutional convention, not
only taught the local school, but en-
ployed his talents in a number of other
directions. He handled real estate,
sold mining stock, wrote life and fire
insurance, and kept a good many irons
in the fire to support his wife and
four youngsters.
Travaille, postmaster and fire chief
was in the liquor business. He, too,
was married, and had four daughters;
and he, too, supplemented his income
by handling realty and selling mining
stock. He was an Englishman, like his
fellow toWnSman, j. H. Vial. Vial was
a boot and shoemaker in Granite, but
in England he was a fairly famous band
master; and, before coming to Gran
lite, when in Butte, he had built up and
trained the Alice band. He built a bus
mess block in a choice location, &C.
cupied apartments with his wife and
sever children, and rented the re-
mainder of the building.
Gallagher, justice of the peace, was
born on Christmas day, 1856, in Ire
land. He came to the United States
when he was a young chap, and was an
itinerant peddler along the line of the
Northern Pacific railway, in Dakota,
until 1880. Then he formed the firm
of Poutet & Gallagher, general mer-
chants, at Glendive, and in 1887 went
to Granite. He worked in the mines,
operated and proSpected, and supple
mented his variable mining income by
acting as agent for transatlantic
steamship lines, and selling the newt
able mining stock.
Granite in those days was large
enough to support a jewelers. store.
Diamond rings and unset rubies and
big gold watches glittered in H. A.
Richards window. His son., G. Rich
ard, managed the establishment. The
town had a hardware store handling
crockery, glassware and general
kitchen supplies. 1t was the property
of George B. Kane. 1t had a variety
store, with fruit, candies, tObaccos and
notions, run by M. E. Edwards, a fancy
store of the firm OF Glider
sleeve & Charest; and a stable and
shop owned by the broth
ers D. A. and A. j. Boyd, with a string
If IS stage horses, carriages, hearses,
andaus for society ladies, and con-
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31
By GRACE STONE COATEs)

Wy 01NlASh GoI
This is the way Granite looked to
itself IS years ago, when it reported
its biography" for a souvenir edi-
ton of the Helena Journal: "The
town of Granite is situated in the
Rockies, 5000 feet above sea level;
has a population of $500 people, and
for rugged, picturesque mountain
scenery stands prominent in Montana
history. 1t enjoys the distinguished
honor Of possessing h richest silver
mine in the United States, the Gran
lite mountain.
"Besides the Bi-Metallic, which is a
dividend paying mine of nc small mag
nitude. there are mines that skirt the
town such as the Elizabeth, East Gran
lite, zeus, Fannie Parnell, Lord Nelson,
Granite Belle, Gold Coin, Morning
Star, Cleveland and Young America.
Mining is the chief pursuit of the peo-
pie. There is no other town in the
state where people are mingled to-
gether in such harmony as in Granite.
Of the various nationalities the Irish
and the Cornish are in the ascendence.
"There are four organized bodies of
religion: the Presbyterian, the Metho-
dist Episcopal, Church of England, and
Catholic. Attendance at these churches
is progressively large.
Tn the way of amusement, since the
completion of the Miners Union build
ing "a 500, 1000 stone and brick structure)
the hall has been constantly favored
with social parties, dances, concerts
and operas of the highest order. The
Rod and Gun club and the Baseball
club are trimming their weapons for
what they believe will terminate in a
successful season.
Through the untiring efforts of a
8 favored few a fire system has been in
augurated for the protection Of proper
ty, and the appliances for extinguishing
a fire are justly ample. Tom Ire
vaille, postmaster, is chief of the de-
partment. In the mayors absence
Deputy Sheriff D. A. Mcleod disciplines
the unruly, while P. Gallagher and
Nixon give every n justice in the
courts.
employees of the Granite mountain,
Bi-Metallic and Elizabeth mining COM
panies find in the reading room a de-
sirable place to spend leisure hours. The
hospital, under the able direction of
Doctors Sigh and Power, maintains a
reputable name, and is a credit to the
people. Hon. G. j. Reek, one of the
trainers Oh our state constitution, pre-
sides over the public schools in a man
ner suited to the endorsement of all.
The professor is ably assisted in this
work by Miss May Kennedy and Miss
Effie R. Buck. The attendance is about
hundred"
They were flowery writer's in those
days; and with the Irish and Cornish
In the ascendency, the assurances of
harmony are hard to swallow. There
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31

Mountain mine. Their story, as Mr.,
Barriger told it, is this: they had work.
ed for wages in st. Louis, Mo, for an
employer who could not pay them. He
was interested in Montana mines, and
offered to settle with them by giving
them his stock in the Granite Noun
tain. They accepted this settlement.
n came to Granite. The mine at
this time was under Development, but
no great strikes had been made. They
poked around the camp, prospected as
greenhorns might on the mountain
side. Things began to happen at the
Granite Mountain, and rumors flew.
One brother hunted up the ether.
Hang on to your stock" he said. TITS
going to be worth something"
Il just sold it," the brother answer
ed. "a fellow offered me 500, and
I let him have it,
Hunt him up quick, and buy it
back" the other advised him.
The impatient eX-stockowner hunted
up the buyer, dickered with him, paid
him a substantial bonus, and got the
stock back. 1t Melted him a fortune.
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31
|STOCKMEN'S UNION
WAS SUGGESTED
ALLIANCE SUGGESTED WITH THE
STOCKMEN OF BRITISH DOMIN-
IONS BY MONTANANS
(By "MON TANA LOU GRILL)

(By "MON TANA LOU" GRILL)
With the approach of the April,
1886, meeting of the Montana Stock
growers association Thomas j. Bryan,
president of hat organization, ap-
proved the proposal that an official
invitation be extended to the South
western Stock association, formed i'm
the British dominions just north of
Montana, to send a representative to
Miles City. 1t was felt that the
Canadian organization was, perhaps,
as effective in promoting the inter-
ests of its members as was the Mon
tana StOckgrOwers group. The an
nual meeting of the Canadian stock
men was scheduled for May at Fort
Mcleod.
Back of the suggestion for closer re-
lationship between the two organiza-
tons was the thought of more effect
lively c~oordinating effort to suppress the
theft of cattle and horses.
"Now the interests of stockmen in
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31
(By GRACE STONE COATEs)

Hunting, wolfing, punching COWS
and freighting were the of
livelihood when Al wilkins arrived
at Fort Benton more than go years
age. He chose freighting. But before
he could buy a freight outfit he had
to punch cows for Tongley brothers,
who were then ranging cattle on the
Shonkin, and for ]. J.. Kennedy and
Ed Kelly, after they bought out h
w. S. Stocking cattle. His father
helped him get a start, and he bought
a 10-horse, three-wagon outfit from
Jake Graft.
1t was unhandy to operate with a
one-string team, unless he was with
other freighters and could throw his
wagons with theirs for a corral. Benton
was good in those days, and the freight
ers followed the boats farther and
farther down the river as navigable
water receded. BY fall, Wilkins could
buy a second outfit like the first and
consider himself a full-size freighter.
There we're good men on the road in
those days. Thomas Clary, later a
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31

miles up Cow creek when the Nez
Perce Indians under Chief Joseph came
across them. Barker and three drivers
were killed. Oliver Cooper and the
night herder escaped in thick under
brush. The Indians took what they
wanted, shot the stock for meat, and
burned the rest.
In the fall of 1879, dad" Martin
loaded freight at the coal banks gu
miles below Fort Benton, billed for
Helena through Prickly Pear canyon.
He was alone, with a ten-horse team
on three wagons. One of the canyons
is IL miles long, one Seven In the
longer canyon Dads" outfit went over
the grade 300 feet into the creek below.
The Fort Peck press., 1935-10-31

prominent SCOckIIldll
of Sun river country;
Press Lewis, who stay
ed with f%reighting for
years; Ed Lewis, who
ran a feed stable at
Benton; Ed Smith,
who had a stable at
Benton, and later went
to California; w. 0.
Dexter, one of the first
~freighters Wilkin S
met; Cooper n
Barker, who ran a big
outfit and met dis
aster time after time.
In October, 1877, their
bull teams had loaded
freight for Fort Ben
ton at Cow Island.
It'll troip uro four