Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-03-20
MONTGOMERY
Nl SIDELIGHTS
Elsie White Haines

Well girls, in case you do not
already know it - it was Senator
Wolfe of Howard County who did
lit = gentleman of the old school
+ it was he who cast the vote that
decided the fate of the Jury Duty
For Women bill - IA to IA until
he voted - where were the rest of
them? Pshaw, looks like We will
never have a chance to learn those
fascinating hi-lo-jack games we've
heard so much about.
Reading thru some old General
Assembly notes we noticed that
permission was given in 1906 to the
town of Rockville, for lottery to
raise money to buy a fire engine
and to purchase land and build a
school. In 1904 bill had been
passed to change the road running
from Rockville to Potomac = in
1917 an act Of the Assembly pro-
bibited geese and swine from run
ming at large in the streets of
Rockville.
Reckon there were no Eaters
planted on st. Patricks Day this
year for as we are writing this the
thermometer is falling fast, and
there are still drifts of snow
around the edges of the fields. We
often wonder if anyone did ever
plant on the 18th of March. Satur-
day the weather was like midway
- except that we saw a few snow
birds = as well as a robin. Nancy,
Sonny and Pete the Chesapeake re-
triever went to Washington with
US = we drove around the Speed
way, set on a park bench and
watched the sea birds on the buoys
in the Potomac-March, no matter
how sunny, is too early for out
door sitting = what's good for
Would you not be greatly sur
prised if in a distant country you
were to find estates with names
identical with those of homes in
your own neighborhood? Mrs.
Charles E. Bond of Ednor tells of
a trip to Bermuda some time ago,
and finding Rockland, Norwood,
Stanmore, Bloomfield, and others
all names associated with the
Sandy Spring vicinity used there.
It seems that native "Bermu-
dian" had been educated at one of
the Sandy Spring private schools
years ago = and she took home
these names and ''handed them
out" to her friends.
You know the naming of homes
is an English custom, and since
the early days of the community
the Friends of Sandy Spring have
followed it, and even the simplest
cottage has a name.
We like descriptive names, don't
you? Here are a few from our
own neighborhood that appeals to
us--Green Hills, the Remus Riggs
farm = Fertile Meadows, the
Councilman estate = Fox Lair.
also now owned by the Council
mans = Rolling Ridge, by J. H.
Small; Green Lane, the Clarence
Smalls'; Twin Oaks, belonging to
Jimmy and Hilda King. John
Muncaster, Jr., and his wife call
their home Ridgewood - because
it was part of The Ridge and is
in the woods. Sunnyside, well de-
scribes the Haines farm home =
for the house is bathed in sunlight
all day long.
The family at Sunnyside so much
enjoy two crickets that have been
in the house all Winter - one
stays in the wall back of the
kitchen range, and the other in the
living room chimney corner" and
when they get good and warm they
come out and sing like Summer
time.
How true it is that the simple
things of life almost invariably
give US the most pleasure - the
Christmas gifts that afforded oui
family the most entertainment and
real joy this year was bird feeder
made by a thoughtful friend -
from a coconut - at the cost of q
few cents and half an hour of time