Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-02-06
MONTGOMERY
Nl SIDELIGHTS
BIZ ELSIE WHITE HA1NEs

they certainly told all the details
Lining an old dispatch box is 6
Baltimore Sun paper Of August
15, 1889, Vol No. ia much
smaller sheet in those days, fol
pasted in a box IL inches long
the whole front page, with its five
columns is exposed.
Three columns are filled with
advertisements - and we were
startled by the claims os the cure
ais offered-one in particular
warning the public not to patron
ize apothecary shops as they sold
"counterfeits" of the pills being
made by DR.. So-and-So-guaran-
teed to cure twenty-five or more
different ills!
One column was devoted to
news about town starting with the
City Court, present, Judge Brice
and Worthington. A poem to Wom-
an, and a story, filled the fifth
column.
How's this for speed? Passage
to Pittsburgh via Baltimore and
Susquehanna R. R. and Penna.
Canal. D. Leech and Co.'s Emil
grafton Line. Through III Six
days, price $11.OO." Or one could
leave Baltimore by said R. R. at
l8 in the morning, get to York,
Pa. in time for dinner-rest two
hours and get tn York Springs
IN time for supper. Returning
next day-leave' the Springs after
breakfast, dine IL York and back
home in the early evening, only
two days trip!
w. I. Van Ness was selling
fresh nutmegs, mace, cloves and
white pepper; Austin Voolfolk
and James F. Purvis were offer
ing cash for Negroes of both
sexes, aged IL to 80.
Just above, Charles C. Walker
offered $4,000 for the return Of
his RUNAWAY negro man Ephraim,
about 80 years of age, 5 feet 9
or 10 inch high, stout built but
not corpulent, pleasant coun-
tenance when spoken to, though
slow OF speech and awkward in
manner. Has been accustomed to
farming, and occasionally en-
ployed in saw mill, but for the
last two or three months en-
ployed at house work of which
he knows little" perhaps Eph
just could not stand washing
dishes!)
Then John Pearson desires the
return of his cook, not very
good one probably, for he only
offers $4,000 reward-he de-
scribes him thus: ga light mu-
latto boy named Sherry, slave
about 22s years old, 5 feet, 4
inches high and stout, in walking
has quite roll with both arms
raised, so that his elbows stick
out considerably. When spoken t.
always smiles and shutters a lit
tle."
Andrew Love, in the cordwain
ing business, offers only six cents
for the return of his apprentice
boy Lawrence Selbey. John Mar
riot of IS Baltimore ST., Pete
Rose of N. Gay, William Wilcox
and Robertson Wright, offer t.
make Ladies Shoes at $1.OO pc
pair "with credit at the usua
rate" but John w. Croney come
right out and says "$1.00 cash O.
$1.12h credit"
Here is a good one: "Straye'
on the 9Th of July from the hom
of Robert Goss near the 5-mil
stone on the Hockstown road,
small red COW with long thil
tail, has a piece cut off the tol
side of her left ear, small sharl
horns, no other marks recollected
She is about A or s years old
Any person who will bring bacl
the above described cow will re
| ceive $500 reward"
We want to tell you a ittl
about the dispatch box-it is mad
of wood and covered in re-
T, leather, trimmed with a pinked
tan leather band, studded wit
brass nail heads, has a handl
and lock of brass, and is 6x6xl'
and was brought to Montgomer,
County by Nancy Ridgley of Ann
Arundel (Howard) County whei
she married Nicholas Griffith IL
1871 and came to live at Edg
Hill near Laytonsville.
Nancy and Nicholas were boil
q when married and they mus
have had gay Understanding
to family traditions. Edge Hill
has many mulberry trees-startet
it is said, by one planted By
Nancy when she came riding