Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-08-05
LAYTONSVILLE

Elmer =. Stup who recently sold
his farm on the Gaithersburg Road
has purchased the Oliver Branden-
burg place in the Long Corner vi
cinity. According to Buell. M.
Gardner who made the sale the
farm has 1876 acres. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stup will get possession as of
September LIST. DIR. and Mrs. Henry
& Dec. Adams Of Chevy Chase who
bought the Stup place expect to
come out in the early autumn.
French Hobbs of the Unity Sec
tron has also sold his farm. He has
purchased a house in Olney.
Mrs. George Schroeder of the
Maiden Blush Farm near Unity has
her sister Mrs. Cannon with her for
a visit "Kay" Schroeder celebrated
her Sth birthday on Friday with
family party.
Dick Evans who is patient in
Walter Reed Hospital is improving
slowly. His father Maj. Walter
Evans came from Indianapolis last
week END to visit him.
Misses Mary Jean O'Leary and
Dorothy Bell Griffith plan to join
four friends on a trip to Ocean
City by bus next week.
Staff Sergeant Richard Wright
Of the Marine Corps was the speak
er at a meeting of the Laytonsville
Planning group of Farm Bureau
held Thursday at Twin Oaks the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. James S.
King near Claysville. st. Wright,
combat correspondent, was on the
PIT boat that picked up Ricken-
hacker from the raft, and his talk
was most interesting. The meeting
was conducted by the president,
Marshall Davis. The next meeting
will be at the home of Ulysses
Griffith 4th.
Mrs. Gertrude Hite of Johns
town, Pa, frequent visitor at the
Methodist parsonage when the Rev.
and Mrs. J. A. Crosse lived there
died at her nome last week. Mrs.
Crosse, her sister Miss Rita Cessna
and their cousins William and Fred
Fowl4r If Washington went up Tor
the funeral.
Mrs. Estelle Neel Emory and her
daughter Peggy of Washington are
guests of Mrs. Emory's sister, Nj S.
Jeffrey griffith at ketii ement
Farms. Miss Emory is student
at Mount St. Agnes in Baltimore.
Mr.. William Doane comes from
Baltimore and spends the week.
ends with his family who are at
Retirement for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Allnutt Of
Washington, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Charles Allnutt, upon the oc-
casion of the birthday anniversary
of Mr.. Allnutt Mrs. Edward Kimble
came out with them and spent the
SUNDAY visiting her former neigh
bors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Fraley had
with them at supper Sunday even
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Fraley
vand Mrs. J. Thomas Howes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kent Ward of Tai
lahasse, Fla, have seven pound
girl born July "a. Mrs. Ward is a
granddaughter of the late Mrs.
Elizabeth Snouffer Cramer, and
neice of Mrs. Julia Becraft, whom
she frequently visited before her
marriage.
Mrs. Rosa F. Chiswell of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who was formerly Miss
Snouffer of Laytonsville, has had a
letter from her son, Forest, from
whom she had MT heard for
months. He is we'll and his ad-
dress is: VIM. Forest Chisweli,
SIX &c USS LIST SSs Fleet Post
Office, San Francisco, Cal.
Douglas G. Lindsay who spent
most of his summers in Laytons-
vile with his aunt Mrs. Albert
Hawkins, is now attending train
ing school. His address: a/c
Douglas G. Lindsay, So. PTS.
(Pilot) Maxwell Field, Alabama.
Mrs. Julia G. Becraft celebrated
her 65th birthday last week by en-
pertaining some of her ncighbo s
at dinner Thursday evening. Her
daughter, Mrs. Albert Hawkins
with whom she lives was able to be
present. Mrs. Hawkins has been
i'll for several weeks.
Miss Helena Charlton has re-
turned to her home in Redland
? after spending two weeks with her
mother in Hancock. Her brother