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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Convict Road Labor Bill Will Affect Dirt Roads Now
In DeplOrable State-Highway Indebtedness Wiped
Out And Better Maintenance Promised
Potomac Bridge At
Whites Ferry Is
Seen AS Assured

There is every likelihood that a
bridge will be erected over the Po-
tomac River at Whites Ferry within
the next two or three years. The
span would connect M o mt m e v
county routes with Leesburg, Virginia
and provide direct passage to points
in Virginia and West Virginia and
highways leading South and West.
State Senator Stedman Prescott
told a representative of The Sentinel
yesteday that he had received assur-
ances from the officials of the State
Roads Commission and other powers
that be that the bridge is definitely
on the construction program. He
pointed out that the Federal Govern
ment will supply additional funds
provided the State of Maryland and
the State of Virginia set aside an ap-
preparation for the bridge.
While an amendment to secure the
funds at this session of the Maryland
Legislature was lost because of the at
tachment of other local riders to the
State bond issue bill Sen. Prescott
said he has been promised that the
necessary money will be forthcoming
in the next two years.
The Rockville Chamber of Com
merce and other civic organizations
in the county have been asking for
a bridge over the Potomac at this. or
some nearby point, for some time.
Senator Prescott has worked diligent-
ly to secure aid in obtaining the ap-
preparation.
Property owners in the Poolesville
district believe that the erection of a
modern bridge and the improvement
of the roads leading to Whites Ferry
will mean large increase in the as
sessable basis of contiguous land,
hence, a big increase in tax collec-
tions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Commissioners Will
Pay Reward Leading
To Waters Staying
Prisoner At Pen To Get $1,000;
RezOning Applications
Refused

The County Commissioners Tuesday
ordered payment of the $1,000 re.
ward for information leading to con-
viction Of the slayer of Horace D.
Waters, old Germantown grocer, tc
George Elmer Wins, colored prisoner
at the Maryland State Penitentiary,
whose information resulted in arrest,
and conviction of Donald Parker,
scolored.
Two applications for rezoning were
refused by the board. The property
of Mrs. Mary Lee Haddox ON Geor-
gia avenue, near Colesville Pike, and
property of the Montgomery Mutual
Building & Loan Association on
Georgia avenue, near Evans Park
way, both petitioners asking change
from residential "a" to commercial
"D", were the parcels for which re-
zoning was refused.
A public hearing May 10, at 8 P.
M, in the Silver Spring County
Building was ordered for petition
filed by Thomas E. Clark, asking re-
coming from residential "a" to CO.,
of property in north Takoma Park,
near the railroad overpass and Blair
Road. A hearing will be held May
II, at P. NJ, in the Bethesda Coun-
ty Building on petition of property
owners for construction of sidewalks
by front foot assessment on Leland
street, from Wisconsin avenue to the
48O0 block Leland.
The board approved payment of
old-age pensions amounting to
$788.85 for April. This is the county
share of the pension, which total $4,-
417.85 for the month. Expenditure of
$1,128.69 for aid to dependent chill
dren and welfare board salaries was
approved.
P. Ray Souder, supervisor of couno
ty aid, reported expenditure of ST.
$500 for relief; $3.50, county pen
sions and $48.97, school clothing in
March.
Fountain Peters, of Travilah, and
Albert S. Dorsey, of Gaithersburg,
were appointed auctioneers for the
annual tax sale Monday at the Rock
vile Courthouse.
Proceeds of the $4,000 bond issue
to finance construction of the Ken
sington Junior High School are In
bank and work will start soon, the
commissioners announced.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
WOman's Club Will
Give Play April 1G

The Rockville Woman's Club will
given an evening of entertainment at
the Presbyterian Sunday School room
on April 16, at 8 o'clock. There will
be a play entitled: "Will the Meeting
Come to Order" and music by the
Montgomery County Choral Club.
The cast of the play includes, Mrs.
George Lamar, Mrs. Hazel Cashell,
Mrs. L. F. Schott, Miss Daisy Ma
gruder, Mrs. Eugene Scott and Mrs.
Randolph Talbot.
The proceeds of this entertainment
will be used for the student Loan
Fund.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Pure-bred Society Will
Meet At Sandy Spring

The Sandy Spring Pure-Bred So
ciety will hold its annual meeting on
Monday evening, April IL, in the VO-
AG rooms of Sherwood High School,
at Sandy Spring.
1t is expected that Prof. Wall, of
the University of Maryland, will tell
about his recent visit to the principal
stock breeding establishments of
Europe. Stanley Stabler, past presi-
dent of the Maryland Stockmen's As
ISOLATION, is head of the Pure-Bred
Society.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Red Cross Maintains
Nurse For Montgomery

Montgomery County Red Cross
Chapter maintains a nurse whose
services are available for bedside
nursing in the homes of the county.
Miss Margaret Groomes, Red Cross
nurse, may be reached by calling
Rockville "a, between $3.50 A. M. and
$3.50 A. M. or by calling Mrs. }. 8.
Dawson at any other hour. Mrs.
Dawson's number is Rockville S2R.
A minimum charge of 800 Il
asked. If the patient isn't able to pay
a full dollar a smaller fee is 40
cepted.
During the month of January 101
calls were made. February, IT'S calls
and March rs calls were made to
homes in the county.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Henry Carter Admitted
To Alpha Zeta Fraternity

Henry Carter, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy L. Carter, Rockville, has recent
ly been named TO membership in AL
pha Zeta, honorary national leader
ship fraternity at the University Of
Maryland.
Membership in the society is ac-
corded to only the highest students in
the College of Agriculture, and is
recognized as one of the signal
honors to be granted to an under
graduate agricultural student.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Senator Prescott Sees
Use Of Prisoners AS
Humane And Practical

The passage of Senate Bill No. 261,
relating to the use of convict labor
on the roads by the State Roads
Commission and the Board of We'll
fare, is viewed as an important bit Of
legislation by number of well-in-
formed public officials.
The recent bill passed by the
Maryland Legislature and which now
awaits Governor Nice's signature, to
provide for the use of convict labor
on the roads is held to be of prime
Importance by farseeing taxpayers.
at is of particular value in that
the farmers will be greatly benefited
by the passage of the act" declared
State Senator Stedman Prescott,
sponsor of the measure in the Senate.
st is intended that prison labor
will be used on the secondary dirt
roads, the farm-to-market roads,
which are at present in a deplorable
state. We are informed that from
800 to 1000 men can be trusted to
work on the projects we have I'M
mind. It is certainly better for the
prisoners and the taxpayers OF Mary
land to have these men working on
our roads under humane and prac-
teal conditions than to have Them
crammed and packed in our penal
institutions where there is every
incentive to foment riots and jail
breaks. urge every effort be
exerted to secure the Governors
signature to this progressive BILL"
The Maryland Press Association,
which represents leading Maryland
weekly newspapers, recently went on
record as favoring the use of convict
labor on roads, based on the system
now in vogue in Virginia. We quote
from an article written by member
of the Association and which ran in
member papers:
"That our roads are in a deplor-
able conditioning one can truth
fully deny. In the counties the sec
ondary roads are so bad that
motor travel is impossible during
the winter months. Even our main
lateral highways are in bad shape.
The shoulders are crumbling and
the roadbeds are giving way to the
force of the elements. The search
ty Of workmen is apparent to every
traveller. Why not take advantage
of prison labor? The plan is time
ly, it is economical and it affords a
solution of prison congestion.
"For those who like to dwell on
the social side of the prison prob
lem, there could be no better argu-
ment than the humanity exhibited
in the Virginia plan for working
prisoners for the betterment of the
State and the prisoners themselves.
Here we have theory, practical in
application and deserving of sup
port from every taxpayer. !
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Commissioner Lansdale's
Brother Buried Sunday

James Strain Lansdale, brother Of
County Commissioner Richard FL.
Lansdale and head farmer at the
State Reform School for Colored
Boys at Cheltenham. died in Mont
gomery County General Hospital Fri
day night.
Funeral services were held Sum-
day at $3.50 P. M. at All Hallows'
Chapel, Davidsonville, and inter-
ment was in the church cemetery. He
was former resident of Ellston and
had been at Cheltenham for the past
FIVE years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Maryland FOxhunters
Plan Dance April II

The Maryland Foxhunters' Associa-
ton is holding barn dance in Walter
Johnson's new barn at Germantown,
Saturday, April II, from 10 to 1.
The committee in charge includes
Mr.. and Mrs. o. W. Anderson, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. Forest Walker and Ka-
Uterine Benson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Raymond Hunter Brown
Receivers From Operation

Rev. Raymond Hunter Brown, pas
tor of the Damascus M. E. Church,
is improving after an appendectomy
performed at the Sibley Hospital
in Washington.
Rev. Brown is president of the
Montgomery County Ministerial
Union.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-04-08
Christian Church Will
Serve Supper April Is

The Ladies' Aid of the Rockville
Christian Church will serve a "chick-
en- and ham supper" in the basement
of the church on Thursday evening,
April 18th, from $50 to $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs. Thomas M. Garrett is in charge
Of the Committee on Arrangements.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
Objections to Mrs.
Simpsons Divorce
! Withdrawn by Man

An elderly little lawyers clerk,
won over from patriotism to the
cause of love by the unhappy heart
of his king, helped this week to clear
one of the last obstacles to the mar
riage of Edward of Windsor and
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson.
The white moustached clerk
Francis Stephenson, at first resented
his monarch's preference for wom-
an over an empire, and determined
to thwart him carrying out his his
toric decision. He decided to stop the
divorce which would make it posi-
BILE.
But touched by the plaintive note
of former King Edwards farewell
broadcast when he said, II cannot
continue to discharge my duties
without the woman I love-" the lit
tie, bespectacled clerk stepped aside
from the affairs of state and cupid
He withdrew his objections and
Sir Boyd Merriman, president OF the
British divorce court, formally dis
missed the charge of 'collusion." A
barrier which could have prevented
Edward and Mrs. Simpson from
marrying.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
FavOrs Reform
Ex-United States Senator Simmons
Expresses Faith in FDR

Former Senator F. M. Simmons is
backing President Roosevelt in his
advocacy of judicial changes in the
United States Supreme court and in
the inferior federal courts.
Declaring himself wholly in ac-
cordance with the President, Mr..
Simmons said he does not wish to
amplify the statement with any rea-
sons for the aith that is in him. His
absolute belief in the Roosevelt pro-
gram was asserted in the most cate
gorical terms and beyond that state
ment he would make no more.
Despite the general run of Sim
mons supporters who liked his old
conservatism, nearly all of them, in
Guiding former foes of the great
leader of the Democracy for 80
years, thought he would 60 with the
President. Last year during the gov
ernorship and the presidential cam
paigns preceding the primary cleo
lions Senator Simmons came out for
DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald, who, until
his recent illness, was one of the
stoutest Roosevelt court advocates
in the state.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
Cost of Living Up

The actual cost of living has in
creased about six per cent in the
last three years, according to an in
dex compiled by the Labor depart
ment.
DR.. Isador Lubin, commissioner of
labor statistics, gave the House ap-
preparations committee the figure at
hearings on the Labor department
supply bill. His testimony, revealing
that a nationwide survey of living
costs has been completed and will
be published soon.
Lubin said the survey showed that
"the worker must have $1.06 now to
buy what he did two years ago
with ST."
1--WE must remember" DR.. Lubin
said, "that the old cost-of-living
figures were based upon family ex-
penditure in 1919, when people wore
high shoes. People did not have au-
tomobiles then and gasoline was not
a factor in the family expenditure
Now the cost of gasoline, tele-
phones, silk stockings, and other
items, he added, must be considered
in establishing an index.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
Hermit Disbelieves
Ones Loneliness

Lee (Boat) Green, who has spent
enough time alone to know, says
there is no such thing as loneliness.
For thirty years, his neighbors
say, az or 49," Green says, he has
lived in his one-room shack above
turbulent Suck creek, in the wilds
of Cleveland county, North Carolina
and few miles above Gaffney, S. c.
Rabbits, he said, and a 'few
skunks" are his most frequent visi-
tors, although of late travellers from
"outside" have begun to take an in
terest in the ancient figure who was
accepted as commonplace years age
by his none-to-near neighbors.
Many years ago, when timber was
coming down the then-important
Broad river for the cotton mills
which were new thing in those
days, Green was a logger.
His work consists of a little
Matchmaking. The only study he
could, or would, recall was Of
National periodical. Yet he amazed
newspaper interviewers with his
knowledge of medical developments
electricity, and National and Inter
national affairs.
Thing no soil depending upon the
forest to prevent the rains from
washing his shack and possessions
into the creek, he expressed approx
al of the National soil erosion pro-
gram.
Scared of boogeys? Shucks, no
There aren't any boogeys bigger
than me-"
But slyly, upon arrival of strang-
ers, he displayed, ahead of his other
possessions, two pistols. He didn't
figure, he said, that anyone would
climb the rugged crags to his cabin
the neighbors say he'll have to be
"snaked out" if he ever gets sick
to bother him. But he was ready,
lust in case.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
Admits Staying
Body of 9-Year-Old Found in Sack;
Arrest Made at Once

Just 90 minutes after the discov-
cry in a gunny sack Of the body of
a delicately beautiful blonde girl of
nine, the police in New York City
arrested a man and charged him
with the crime.
It was a piece Of investigative
work wholly without melodrama.
They simply went to their records
to learn who in the Brooklyn neigh
borhood where the child, Elmer
Sporrer, had lived might have done
such thing.
They noted that Salvatore Ossido,
a squat, powerful 26-year-old bar
Der, had been arrested on February
4, accused of assault upon another
girl.
Two detectives went to Ossido's
shop. He was cutting customers
haid and he began to protest his in
nocence. But they said they found
blood in a rear room, and shortly
Police Commissioner Lewis Valen-
tine announced the barber had con-
fessed that he lured Elmer into his
shop yesterday, assaulted and killed
her.
First, said the police, he had hid
den the body in a cellar and early
in the morning he had dumped it,
sacked in burlap, down the stoop of
an adjacent house.
AS Ossido, the father of two small
children, was engaged in what the
authorities termed a re-enactment
of the crime, men in muttering
crowd outside set up the cry:
Lynch him!''
Detectives hurried him off to a
station house and began to question
him about another child-slaying, the
killing of four-year-old Barbara
Wiles in April of 1888.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina

North Carolina
Ashe County
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
Deed of Trust executed on the 10Th
day of August, 1880, by VIM. Blew
ms, Ira Blevins, Melvina Blevins
and Rachel Blevins, to w. R. Bau-
guess, Trustee, to secure the pay
ment of $234.00, which Deed of
Trust is duly recorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds of Ashe
County in Book 80, Page 480; de-
fault having been made in the pay
ment of said Deed of Trust and at
the instance and request of the ces-
tique trust I, ]. E. Bauguess, Ad-
ministrator of w. R. Bauguess, de-
ceased, Trustee, will on the 18th
day of April, 1887, at 100 o'clock
P. NJ at the Courthouse door in
Jefferson, North Carolina, sell to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described real estate, to-wit:
Being the interest of VIM. Blew
ms, and the undivided interests Of
Ira Blevins, Melvina Blevins and
Rachel Blevins, in and to a tract of
80 acres, more or less of land situated
on the North Fork of New River and
bounded by the lands of Poindexter
Blevins, Judson Blevins, J. c. Kilby
and others, and excepting 2 IL
acres, including the residence and
spring, said IL acres to include
the land around the residence and
spring"
This the 18th day of March, 1887.
J. E. BAUGUESS, Administrator
of w. R. Bauguess, Trustee. Abb
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
War Hero Buried
Rear Admiral HObsOn Paid Military
Tribute at Arlington Services

Real Admiral Richmond P. Hob
son received a hero's funeral Thurs
day and was laid to rest in Airing
ton National cemetery.
The 66-year-old retired naval Of
ficer, who earned fame during the
Spanish-American war, was buried
with full naval honors near the
grave of Admiral George Dewey,
hero of the battle of Manila and
once Hobson's commander-in-chief.
The Army, Navy, and Marine
corps joined in paying final tribute
to Admiral Hodbson. While his body
was borne to the cemetery on
black-draped army caisson after
brief funeral services in Fort Myer
chapel, the guns of the fort doomed
Is times in salute.
Behind the caisson walked an
honor guard of bluejackets and ma
rines. A navy band played the fun
eral march.
AS the body was lowered into the
grave, a battalion of bluejackets fir
ed salute The guns of Fort Myer
took it up and, again fired the 49,
gun salute of an admiral.
Hobson became known as the hero
of Santiago harbor after he attempt
ed to bottle up the Spanish fleet in
the Cuban port by sinking his col
ier at the harbor entrance.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
NOTICE OF Administration

Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of J. E. Phipps, deceas-
ed, late of Ashe county, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Grassy Creek, N. c.,
on or before the 22d day of Feb,
1888, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This 22d day of February, 1887.
BLAINE PHIPPS, Administrator
of J. E. Phipps, deceased. Alp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25

0NE of the brightest records of
" 1896 was the progress of rail-
roads toward recovery.
Freight tonnage registered a notable
advance. Passenger travel stepped
ahead. Railroad purchases of new
equipment were greater. Employ
ment increased. Payrolls increased.
In part, credit for this improvement
goes to the upswing of general bust
ness conditions.
But in part this advance of the rail
roads comes as the reward of hard
work and resourcefulness of the
roads themselves-their determina-
ton to go ahead.
Thus they went after and won in
creased freight with faster sched-
ules, and such special services as
collection and delivery Of less-than-
carload shipments. They attracted
greater passenger traffic with faster
schedules, courteous service. a
steady Improvement in comfort, az
well as lower rates.
From these betterments In service
and economies in operation every
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
Smokes While Awaiting Help

James j. Martin, of Bartlett, Tenn.
puffed feverishly at cigarettes to
keep his mind off his suffering Sun
day as he sat pinned in the wreck
age of his automobile while two
men cut him loose with hacksaws.
Freed after an hours time, he
fell unconscious. He was taken to a
hospital. Both of his legs were brok-
en-. He also suffered a broken right
wrist, internal injuries and possibly
broken ribs.
Martin, an automobile company
employee, apparently fell asleep at
the wheel of his car. It swerved into
a concrete bridge railing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
40 Ashe Students at
ASTC This Spring

A report from J. M. Downum, reg
istrar at Appalachian State Teachers
College in Boone, says the total en-
rollment for the spring term has
reach 963.
Of this number 40 are from Ashe
county. Watauga with 1853 leads the
list while Iredell with 48 is the next
highest. Seventy North Carolina
counties and IA other states are rep
resented in the student body.
Allegheny county has 16 students
enrolled and Wilkes 40.
The spring term will close on
April 80 and the first summer term
will begin on June 8.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-25
NOTICE OF SUMMONS:
North Carolina
AShe County

In the Superior Court
E. w. Sapp, Administrator of John
Sapp, deceased, VS.. S. G. Sapp,
Callie Ham and husband, w. H.
Ham, J. E. Sapp, E. S. Sapp,
Verna Perkins, Spencer Farmer,
Howard Farmer, Russell Farm
er Clay Farmer, Bruce Farmer,
Doyle Farmer, Leila GRAPHICAL
and husband, Sam GRAPHICAL,
Blanche GRAPHICAL and husband,
Henry GRAPHICAL, Romie Dill and
husband, Howard Dill, Maud
Rotten and husband, w. M. Ro-
ten, Dorothy Perkins.
The defendants above named par
ticularly the non resident defen-
dants will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been COM
mended in the Superior Court of
Ashe County, the same being for
the purposes of valuing the advances
in land made in the estate Of John
Sapp, deceased, and settling said
estate.
The defendants will further take
notice that summons in the above
entitled action has been issued
which is returnable in the office OF
the undersigned on the 10th day Of
April, 1887, when and where the de-
PENDANTS are required to appear and
answer or demur to the petition
which has been filed and that if
they do not appear within the time
provided by law the relief request
ed in the petition will be granted.
This March 10, 1887.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
Ais Clerk Superior Court.