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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
Firemen To Hold
Carnival Aug. g. II
AT Rockville Site
Special Events To Be Pre-
scented Each Evening. Two
Radio Stations To Supply
Talent

/ -
Carnival plans fol-" the ennua
eight day Rockville Volunteer Fire.
mems fete have practically beer
completed, according to F. Mar
bury Gates, committeeman.
Beginning Friday, August 8, be.
sides the usual retinue of attrac-
tons, Ted .Sheelor, magician ex-
traordinary will display his talents
The following schedule of special
events has been announced:
Monday, Aug. 12-Radio station
WBAL presents Happy Johnny
and his funsters, featuring Dapper
Dan the Personality Man.
Tuesday, Aug. 13-Radio station
WIND presents First Baptist
Church choir Of Frederick. Also
John Mullane presents Frank
Govan and Buddy Angel, accordion
and guitar specialists.
Wednesday, Aug. IA - John
Mullane presents John and Vera
novelty fast steppers.
Thursday, Aug. 15-Radio sta
ton WRVA presents the Georgia
Wildcats with Slim Bryant, featur-
ing Ken Newton, tenor and violin
list Jerry Wallace, banjo king
Loppy Bryant and his bass fiddle.
Friday and Saturday, Aug. 1917
- Cowboy Jack Andrews and his
educated horse, with human
mind. Jack Andrews is champion
bull-whip cracker of the South.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
County Officers
Attend F. B. l. Meet

In an effort to coordinate county
law enforcement agencies and ac-
quaint officers with preparedness
programs the Federal Bureau Oh
Investigation held a meeting at
Annapolis, Monday, July 2s'
Montgomery county was repre-
sented by Sheriff H. Leslie Carin,
deputy sheriff Hugh o'Donnell and
acting chief Of police Roy Boomer
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
Hartford Choir
To Visit County

Election of officers for the COM
ing year and special music from
Ia Hartford County choir will fea-
ture the next meeting of the Mont
gomery County Singing Conven-
ton to be held Sunday, August
IL, at 2:3O p. m. in the Woodfield
Methodist Church, Ernest Haw-
kins, song leader, announced.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
Roger w. BabsOn's Business Prospects
For Next Six Months

$50 Gain Over First Half 1910 And Last Half 1889
Upward AS Defense Program Broadens
Some Products To Move Up Moderately
Big Increase In Jobs; Wages Steady; Few Strikes
$50 Increase In Sales; Prices Up 2@c
Foodstuffs To Lead Small Living Cost Gain
Rents Higher; Values And Activity Steady
Larger Dividend Checks: Rail Bonds Up
Very Active Final Half Year
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
Services At OIney

Services next Sunday will be at
9 a. m. at st. Bartholomew
Church, Laytonsville, and at II
a. m. at Olney. Sunday Schools
at 10 a. m. St. Luke's church
supper will be Saturday, August 8
at Brighton.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01

Alfred D. Noyes, Kensington,
was appointed Democratic member
of the permanent board Of regis
tration and clerk to the supervis-
ors of elections this week succeed
ing Ward W. Caddington, resigned
Mr.. Noyes was formerly supervis-
or of county aid. That Office has
been abolished as an economy
measure. Mrs. Harriet Griffith
former case worker in the county
aid office has been assigned to the
juvenile court.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
Winsor Sciphus

Miss Euna Lee Sciphus, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ciphers, of
Boyd, was married to Mr.. Hedges
Winsor at Frederick on Saturday,
July 20.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01

dendS Than IN the hrSt hall OF 1910, or IN
the final six months of 1889 are assured.
There will be no noticeable gain in living
costs, but taxes will be the heaviest in a
quarter-century. The next few months will
be period of intense industrial activity as
our mammoth defense program gets under
way.
This defense program will put the
"oomph" in the industrial boom ahead. If
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01

peace comes IN Europe before the program
Roger '" baoSon gets going full blast, there will be
halt in the upswng The longer peace postponed
however the greater the possibility that business activity
will break all previous records time in 1910 or 1941
Specifically estimate that business in the second half will
about cent above the period of 1885, and
also cent higher than in the first six months Of 1870
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
BY ROGER W. BABSON

Babson Park Mass, August q Business in the second
half of this year should be very active in most lines
maybe the best final half in history. More real jobs fater
pay envelopes modesty higher farm income bigger div
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01
Business Outlook Hopeful
OrNext 8 MOnths--BnbsOn

Noted Economist Predicts That Last Half OF
1910 Will Bring More Jobs, Better Wages,
Small Raise In Farm Incomes
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01

Winning the singles and doubles
at the annual tennis tournament at
White Sulphur Springs, this past
week still makes Barney" tops in
tennis circles around these parts,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-08-01

Naturally an industrial revival,
such as is now in prospect, means
more jobs and bigger payrolls.
! would not be surprised TO see q
million jObIess people 20 back to
Continued on page ~
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
Son Kne,U Economical Way
To Bring about Result

Father and son had gone togeth-
er to bazaar where a pretty girl
was selling kisses in aid of local
charity.
MY boy" said the father slyly,
"here's dollar bill. You go and
kiss her. When I was young, you
can bet I made 'em scream"
The son left his father, and
shortly after returned in a high
state of satisfaction.
"Well, did you kiss her, SOM"
asked the father.
eyes, you can bet I did, Dad"
was the reply.
"And did you make her
scream?"
Scream? I'll say so! I kept
the dollar"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
Strange Facts
To Religious Liberty
- Rat Digests Steel !
Sans RaiL,Uay, Hotel .

q, Standing in Paramount park,
Philadelphia, is one of the few
statues in the United States that
symbolic and are dedicated to re-
ligious liberty. 1t was given to
the American people in 1876 by
the B'nai Birth, the famous inter
national Jewish organization.
q, The powerful dissolving effect
of digestive juices has been dem
onstrated by their action on vari-
GUS kinds of metals fed to rodents.
In one case steel ball bearing,
while in the stomach of rat for
Is days, was reduced "a per cent
in weight.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
Future Ours

Future Ours
Remember this also, and be well
persuaded of it's truth: The future
is not in the hands Of Fate, but in
ourS.-Jules Jusserand.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
Origins of Cattle Brands

Probably most of the stories
about the origins of the 1900, 600
cattle brands registered in the
West are legends. One such out
standing tale, still told and pub
lished as a true story, is that
Burk Burnett adopted the famous
brand 1906" in 1900 because he
won his great Texas ranch in
poker game with hand contain
ing four sixes.-Collier'
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

ing. Place a rounded teaspoonful of
batter in very small creased muffin
tins (17s inches in diameter). Press
batter up sides and over bottom so
that there is hollow in the center.
Fill this hollow with an almond fill
ing (about teaspoonfuD.
Almond Filling.
2 eggs
~ cup sugar
IA teaspoon salt
u pound finely ground almonds
Beat eggs until very light and add
sugar, salt, and ground almonds
which have been put through food
chopper twice. Bake 80 minutes in
a slow moderate oven 1925 degrees).
Black Walnut Bread.
makes l loaf)
/ cup milk
l cup sugar
cup black walnuts (rolled fne)
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Combine milk, sugar and wal
nuts. Sift flour and baking powder
together, and blend with the first
mixture. Pour batter into small,
CREASED bread pan. Bake in mod
crate oven $3.50 degrees) for 60 to
70 minutes.
Dream Bars.
(Serves 6-8)
Ia cups flour
Us cups brown sugar
n cup butter
u teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs (Well beaten)
~ teaspoon vanilla extract
"a cup coconut
Mix / cup flour with 2 tablespoons
brown sugar. Cut in butter. Pat into
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

Add to the first mixture, and mix
just enough to blend the ingredi-
ents. Grease a bread loaf pan thor
oughly and line the bottom with
wax paper. Grease paper and pour
in the batter. Bake in moderately
slow oven (325 degrees) for about
liz hours. Cool and slice very thin
Butter Ovals.
makes 30 small cookieS)
" cup butter
3 tablespoons superfine powdered
sugar
/ cup flour
/ cup nut meats (broken)
Cream butter, add powdered
sugar and blend well. Add flour SLOW
ly and mix thoroughly. Fold in nut
meats. Shape into small crescent
shaped rolls about the size of a
small finger. Place on creased bak-
ing sheet and bake in moderate
oven $3.50 degrees) for approximate
ly 20 minutes. Roll in powdered
sugar while warm.
Little Swedish Tea Cakes.
l cup butter
u cup sugar
l egg
2 cups cake flour
IA teaspoon salt
l teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream butter and add sugar SLOW
ly. Cream WELL Add well-beaten
egg and blend. Sift flour once be-
fore measuring and then sift again
with salt. Add and blend in flavor
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

THIS dress has beautiful line
= -slim-hipped, high-busted, ex-
actly the silhouette in which won-
ems sizes look best. And it's so
simply designed! The bodice is
fitted in with long darts above the
waistline, and gathered just be-
meath the shoulders, where mar
row ruff1es add a soft, dressy
touch, without any suggestion of
width or weight. The paneled
skirt flows into graceful fullness at
the hem, accenting the narrow
hipped look.
Make this design (No. 1971-B)
of small-fgured print, flat crepe,
georgette or chiffon, with decora-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

creased square
pan and bake 10
minutes in a mod
crate oven $3.50
degreeS). Add
baking powder to
remaining IA cup
flour and sift.
Beat eggs and
add the remain
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

ng liz cups brown sugar, beating
thoroughly. Then add the flour and
the vanilla extract. Spread this mix
ture over the partially baked butter
and flour mixture. Sprinkle with CO.
conut, return to oven, and continue
baking approximately Is minutes
longer.
English Currant Bread.
2 cups bread flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
" teaspoon nutmeg
~ teaspoon salt
~ cup sugar
2 tablespoons butter
"a cup currants
~ cup pecans or other nut meats
(broken)
l egg (well beaten)
IL cup milk
l teaspoon orange rind (grated)
l teaspoon orange juice
Sift all dry ingredients together.
Cut in shortening. Add currants and
nut meats. Combine egg and milk
and add to first mixture. Add or
ange juice and rind. Mix well. Place
in well-greased loaf pan. Bake in
moderately hot oven (400 degrees) 40
to As minutes.
Strawberry Jam Gems.
cups general purpose flour
IL teaspoon salt
l teaspoon baking powder
IA cup shortening
"a cup milk
Strawberry preserves
Sift all dry ingredients and blend
in shortening. Add liquid and knead
lightly for few seconds. Form
small biscuits with finger tips as for
yeast dough mixtures. Make small
indentation with spoon and put
teaspoon strawberry preserves in
each indentation. Stretch dough
over opening and place in creased
muffin tins. Bake in hot oven (45O
degrees) until brown. Serve hot
like biscuits.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

tive buttons down the bodice in
the front. The plain v of the neck
line invites all sorts of different
jewelry and necklaces.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1871
B is designed for sizes "a, SO, 38,
40, AZ, A and As. Size So requires
Az yards of 39-inch material with
out nap. Send order to:
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

It's the custom, in a great many
clubs, to draw the season to grace
full close with a charming spring
tea. If you're chairman of the re-
freshment committee for that de-
ightful social function of your or
ganization, why not plan to make
"In the Time of Roses" the theme
song for your tea?
Use roses here, there and every
where rose-pink damask
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

the refreshments, allow at least
three sandwiches and two little
cakes Cor cookies) for each guest,
and pound of minis or sailed nuts
for each Is guests. If the tea is
large one, you'll need two platters
of sandwiches, two of cakes and one
dish each of minis and nuts, on the
table at one time, and make sure
that for each platter on the table
there's at least one full one in the
kitchen to take its place.
Choose an interesting variety of
dainty sandwiches for your tea.
Oblong brown bread sandwiches
with cream cheese and marmalade
are good, and combine effectively
with round white bread sandwiches.
with a blend of tuna fish and may
onnaise between them. Very thin.
dainty slices of an unusual bread
are excellent for plain bread and
butter sandwiches.
An assortment of dark and light
cookies, and very small cakes pro-
vide the sweet touch for your menu.
And tea you must have, of course.
Tea, when properly made, is one
of the most invigorating drinks you
can serve. It is most important,
especially when making tea for
group, to measure the amount of
tea used and to brew it just long
enough and not too long in order to
insure it's best fragrance and tang.
(Three to five minutes is generally
conceded to be just about right
brewing time.)
Bishops Bread.
(Makes / loaf)
3 eggs
J. cup sugar
liz cups flour
11a teaspoons baking powder
"a teaspoon salt
cups nut meats (broken)
l cup dates (sliced)
l cup Maraschino cherries
IA pound sweet or semi-sweet
chocolate
Beat eggs until light, and add the
sugar, beating just enough to mix.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

brown sugar. Cut
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
On the Refreshment Committee?

Let Eleanor HoWe's cook book,
EASY Entertaining" help you plan
your parties. In this practical, in
expensive cook book you'll find
wealth of suggestions for making
your parties success-tested reci-
pes that are unusual and delicious;
menus for almost every social &C.
casion, and general hints for the
hostess, too.
Get your copy of this cook book
now. Just send 10 cents in coin to
easy Entertaining" care Eleanor
Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

Slit Hour, baking
powder and salt
and add the nuts,
dates, cherries
and chocolate
which has been
broken into pieces
about the size of
a H11e-cnnf niane
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20
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STAGE SSCREEN4kRA6lO1
BY VIRGINIA VALE

BY VlRGINlA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
ZACH year Hollywood
L. makes a sleeper" = a
picture that, during the max
ing, created no excitement,
but during the preview show
ing had all the earmarks of
being one of the best of the
year. 1T Happened One
Night" and 'Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington" are two of the
better known sleepers. This
years, according to some of
the people who have seen it,
may be "Down Went Nc
Ginty."
Written and directed by Preston
Sturgis, with a cast including Muriel
Angelus, Brian Donlevy and AKIN
Tamiroff, it is the ''saga of bum
1t may be the making of new
star, Muriel Angelus. In England
she is one of the foremost musical
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

comedy stars; she played the lead
in "Balalaika" on the stage there
you'll recall that Nelson Eddy and
Iona Massey did the picture YER
sion. She has been in this country
for two years; last year, while sing
ing on the New York stage in "The
Boys From Syracuse" she was
signed up by Paramount, and "The
Light That Failed" with Ronald
Colman, was her first picture. Then
she did "Safari' and "The Way of
All FLESH" followed them with
"Down Went McGinty."
When John Barrymore seemed to
be unavailable for the role Of John
Barrymore in "The Great Profile"
at Twentieth Century-Fo Adolphe
Menjou was engaged for it. Then
Barrymore's plans changed, he took
the part, and Menjou took his sal
airy, as the studio had no other pic
ture ready for him.
Rod Cameron, a young, six-foot
Canadian, went to Los Angeles
year ago to learn the dime store
business. That didn't work out
very we'll, so he quit, took up little
theater work, and now finds himself
acting for Paramount.
Death brought him his first role,
that of Corporal Underhill" in
Cecil B. DeMille's Northwest
Mounted Police" Earl Askam, a
former stage star and war hero, was
to have played it, but he died recent
ly of a heart attack, and young
Cameron (whose real name is Rod
Cox was summoned for it. By a
grisly coincidence, the role includes
death scene, but he's so elated
over getting the part that he can't
afford to be superstitious.
Now that they need passports to
sail for tour of South America, it
has been discovered that many of
Toscanini's NBC Symphony must
clans are men without country.
It seems that there was a general
impression among them that all
they had to do to become American
citizens was to file their intentions
of doing SO; now they're not Amer
leans, and, as they renowned their
native lands, they don't legally be-
long anywhere.
George Brent, working in Warner
Brothers "The Sentence" offers to
put up $4,000 at 10 to 1 odds that
he won't marry for another three
years. CHATS no reflection on
Ann" he says, meaning Ann Sheri-
dan, whom gOssips have him we'd
ding soon. cts just that Pm going
to wind up my picture contract
then, and Pm not making any mar
riage plans until l do.''
Miss Sheridan working in ''They
Drive by Night" same studio) is
equally vehement. George and
haven't even discussed getting mar
ried," says she. Butts the kind
of buildup that so often leads to an
elopement, in Hollywood!
Carl Hoff, on the CHS Al Pearce
show, drew an impressive crowd the
other day and wished he hadn't. He
parked his new coupe and then tried
to get out of it, and couldn't. He
went through assorted acrobatic
commissions, thrusting his feet and
arms out of the windows in all pos
sible combinations, while the crowd
offered advice hilariously. The new
coupe has patent thief-locks on it's
doors. Only after he had struggled
till he was limp did it occur to Hoff
to pass the key to one of the
amused bystanders.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-20

cloth with rose
pattern; rose
sprigged china; a
great bowl of real
roses for the cen
terpiece, and can
died rose petals
to decorate the
tiny cakes.
When you plan
, allow at least
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-26
Ordinance Legalizes
 Parking Meters Here
Official Sanction Given By Aldermen, Installation to
 Start ShOrtIy-$IS,OOO Profit VisuaIized

Plans for the installation of park ing meters on downtown streets amoved step nearer completion last night as the board of aldermen re- sceived a proposed city ordinance legalizing their use and setting up regulations to govern their opera ton. The ordinance, drafted by Cor poration Counsel J. Gregory Lynch. will be taken up for passage at a meeting next Monday night
 IA profit of $18,000 for the city from the meters during 1941 is ,s- timated in the 1941 city budget Re- ceiptS from parkers are estimated at $70,000, while expenses of install slation and maintenance are figured at $52,00O. The rental paid by the city on the devices will be applied toward their purchase, and it is expected that the city will take title to the meters in a year or little more.
 It is planned to begin installing about 600 meters during December Another 500 or TOO are then to be Installed before March.
 = The ordinance specifics the board of police commissioners as the city's traffic authority and empowers them to select and maintain the meters. For parking longer than the time allowed by the meters, pen- alty of $1 is provided. However, it is further provided that the police may have lowed away any car that is parked illegally, with the owner required to pay a $3 fee and $l day storage for the first offense,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-26
RAYMOND EARTH
 RETURNS TOL.L.U,
Margaret Sheehan Is New Jersey Guest; May Braun
 Due Home Thursday
Washington Hill
 Correspondent: Mrs. Frank McGrath - Telephone 4-659O

Raymond Earth, son of MT. and Mrs. Charles Earth of 230 Louns- bury street has returned to school after spending the Thanksgiving re- cess at home. MT. Earth is stu dent of the Long Island University of New York.
 Miss May Braun, daughter of MT. and Mrs Chris Braun of Keefe street will be home for Thanksgiv- ing this weekend. Miss Braun is a dietitian at Holy Name hospital, Tea Neck, N. J.
 Miss Margaret Sheehan of Syl- Ian avenue has been vacationing in Newark, N. J.
 The Holy Name 45 tournament shows the following scores after their regular Monday night games, held at the parish hall.
 F'itzmaurice 28, Bob McHugh IA; O'Donnel 18, Coughlin g; J. Mo- Hugh g, O'Neil 19; Frageau 19, Cusick B.
 The total scores to date are: $. Coughlin'S Marketeers, first place i63; J. McHugh's All Stars, second place 162; Fitzmaurice's Shamrocks third place 154: O'Neil, Roaring Tips fourth place 153; Frageau's Ear benders, fifth place Al; Cusicks' Shellackers sixth place, 138; ODon- nelps Galty Boys. seventh place, 136 Bob McHugh's Casters, eighth place l29.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-26
'CHACONNE'
 SELECTED NUMBER
Lecture on Tonal System Also Included on To
 nights Program

Our Tonal System" will be dis cussed at the second class of the new beginners series of the Learn ing-to-Listen course in the music room of the Bronson Library at 7:15 o'clock tonight. The lecture will also include an analysis of notes, scales, key and meditation with H. lustrations.
 The musical portion of the pro- gram will be climaxed by Bach's "Chaconne" transcribed for sym phony orchestra by Leopold Sto- kowski. The program will open with Procession of the Sardar" from the Caucasian Sketches" of Ippolitow- Ivanow, recorded by Artheur Ffed- Ter and the Boston Pops" orches- tra.
 A special program of Viennese waltzes and modern music will be presented tomorrow night, regular concert evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-26
WIDOW WITHDREW
 $l5,OOO LAWSUIT
Husband Killed By Fire Auto in North Square
 One Year Ago

The $15,000 action of Martha French, wife of the late William S.. French who was killed by fire en- zine in the North Square Nov. 27, 1889, was withdrawn from the su- perior court today without further costs to either party. The defend- ants were Private Leonard Murphy, driver of the engine, and the City of Waterbury.
 The fatality was the first envolv- ing a fire engine and civilian pe- destrian in the histroy of Water bury. While responding to an alarm late in the afternoon, he engine struck French who was crossing the North Square, knocking him to the pavement. He died the same day.
 In her complaint, Mrs. French, administrative of her husbands eS- tate. originally charged that Mur- phy was driving the fire truck neg ligently.