Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-15
MONTGOMERY
Nl SIDELICHTS
BIZ ELSIE WHITE HAINEs

We do hope you have all patron
lied the Carnival the Rockville
Firemen have held this past week,
which is to continue thru Satur-
day evening-we were there last
Saturday-played Bingo-our be-
setting sin-and tried many other
devices-all to no purpose.
We feel that the people of
Montgomery owe much to this
particular department, which was
the first in our section to or
ganize- remember we told
you that Bill Burrows of Rockville
is said to have been the first to
talk of a fire deparument-but
many other men of the town
worked hard to raise the funds
those first lean years-Remember
the minstrel shows they used to
have-we headed the committee
several times when it was brought
to our town-Barnard Welsh,
Paul Brunett, Val Wilson, the
late Harry Gormley are some of
the ones we remember working
with.
Stopping in the Rockville
Library for a chat with the
librarian, Miss Miriam Pasna,
recently, we found one of her
girl scouts looking over some bird
books, the scouts with Miss
Pasma, go for a hike every
Wednesday during Summer, start
ing at five in the morning so they
may observe wildlife. We are to
have treat later in the season,
for the scouts have promised to
write us letter for this column,
and Miss Pasma is going to tell
US about the migrations of birds
as seen at Cape May.
The three of us had a grand
chat-they sympathized with us
upon the loss of the singing cat
bird, whom we called Caruso-
the joy of our summer for sew
eral years-we found him dead
in the yard one day-they laughed
at the antics of the little widow
as we have called his mate =
she was so sad and lonely at first
now she is taking notice"
little and SO spent much time the
last few, weeks fussing with our
Fneighbors when they picked the
berries that grow on our adjoin-
ing fence. She loves to fill her
mouth and fly to our favorite
Longing chair and spill berries
all down it.
We finally got to discussing
humming birds-you know how we
read of the ceaseless fight Of the
humming birds? Not any of US
had seen one rest, and the books
gave no information on that sub
ject-we were talking so busily
we had scarcely noticed the other
patrons, when suddenly a young
girl came to the table where the
three of US were, and said II
just must get into this discussion
we have pair of humming
birds, and they do sit and rest
we see them all the time, but we
cannot find their nest"
Miss Pasma explained that the
nest is so small that it is often
mistaken for knot on a limb,
and the eggs so tiny that three of
them may rest in teaspoon. The
girl turned out to be Sarah Adams
of Sandy Spring-how like her
mother Mrs. Herbert Adams and
her grandmother Mrs. Uric Hut
ton she is in her manner!
Things we learned with amuse-
ment last week-the seriousness
of the expression of the judges,
in the beauty contest put on at
the Farm Bureau picnic.
The look of perplexity on the
face of Lewis Allnutt of Daw-
sonville, when he was mistaken
for his brother, Benoni (who has
been an eligible bachelor for 10,
these many years., and made to
pull with the single men in the
tug of war, good sport-he pulled
nightly, grumbling meanwhile
that he was in the wrong crew!
Lacy Shaw of the Park and
Planning with his brother, Bert,
eating chicken wings, backs and
livers at Burtonsville picnic sup
per no old time Methodist
preacher could have done betterl