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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23

his home in Clarksburg, Michael
B. Dowden petitioned the then
Frederick County Court for per-
mission to build Dowden's 0rdin-
airy. This record is shown on page
562, Book ! of Frederick County
Records, dated August 1854. This
petition reads: TO the worshipful
Justices of Frederick County now
in Court sitting. The petition of
Michael Dowden humbly showeth
that your petitioner being situated
on public road, and having all
things necessary for keeping a
public House of Entertainment,
humbly prayeth your worship will
grant him a license for the same
and he as in duty born will ever
pray" This petition was granted.
1t was at Old Dowden's Ordinary
that the British General Edward
Braddock encamped on his march
to Great Meadows. 1t was on April
10, 1755 during a snowstorm that
many tents were blown down. The
troops the next morning marched
to Frederick Town. Dowden's Or
binary contained II rooms. John
Dowden was still operating this
hotel in 1880. 1t has long ago
gone into decay and was torn down,
On April Is, 1915 the Janet Mont
gomery Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution erected
boulder on the site where the
old hotel stood.
Frederick Scholl was operating
tavern in Clarksburg in 1900
Snow Hill Tavern was operated by
Basil Soper after the Revolution,
about one mile above Clarksburg.
Captain George Beall commanded
company known as a Troop of
Horses" from the neighborhood in
1748. The following militiamen
belonged to the company: Thomas
Dowden, Michael Dowden, John
Dowden, William Beall, Edward
Buscey, Basil Beall, Hilleary Will
liams, Joseph Williams and George
Wilson.
Henry Griffith, who owned Sow
Pasture, became one of the fore
most men in Upper Montgomery.
He was member of the Committee
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
Determined To Die

Arcadia, Calf. : Determined to
commit suicide after a quarrel
with his wife, William E. Scott,
76, drove his car at high speed
into a concrete wall. Apparently
not seriously injured, he then
climbed atop a railroad lumber car
and dived headfrst onto the tracks.
Still alive, he climed atop the car
again and dived once more. This
dive killed him. Police, who arrived
just as he was making his final
jump, discovered that he had also
cut his throat.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23

of Observation of then Frederick
County and a delegate to the
Maryland Assembly. He was active
in helping to establish Montgomery
County and signer of the Asso-
citation of Freemen of Maryland,
being very active during the Rev.
olution. Henry Griffith was
Lieutenant Colonel of the Middle
Battalion. He owned eighteen
slaves.
7 Clarksburg was originally in
corporated in January 1892. How
ever the Incorporation was with
drawn in 1887. 1t had street lights
and sidewalks. There was literary
society, of which Stockton Boyd
was president. Clarksburg had a
community band. The post office
was established the last week of
March 1900 when John Clarke was
sppointed its first postmaster. The
charming Mrs. Julia M. Hess is the
present postmistress. 1t is hoped
that all patrons will purchase their
stamps at this office. Clarksburg
was originally spelled with final
"H". The writer has an old picture
showing the post office about 1900.
This village was originally located
in Prince Georges County, which
was originated in 1895 and re-
manned until Frederick County was
formed in 1748 on account of in
cieasing colonization, which lasted
until the Revolution, when Mont
gomery, in 1776, was formed by
the State Constitution.
Most of the land was worn out
by the tobacco planters with their
large armies of slaves. There
seemed to be no rotating of crops
in those early days. The land
seemed to go into decline, and
poverty seemed to be prevalent by
the time of the Civil War. The
situation became deplorable by the
close of the Civil War. Many left
their farms for better lands in the
adjacent counties and states.
! Clafksburg for many years con-
sisted of the main street, which is
still a part of US 24O. 1t was
0tho Hammond who. built the first
side street known as Hammond
lriyen. This new section of the
village is built on Warfield Vine
Yard which was patented to Alex
andersW arfeld on October 26, 1745.
Mr.. Hammond is one of Clarks-
bprg's most progressive citizens.
He is striving to build uip Clarks-
burg Into a bigger and better COM
munity.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
Friday, the 7th day of
April, 1850


at the Court House door in Rock
vile, offer for sale at public auction
all that unimproved land located
in the Town of Garrett Park in
Montgomery County, Maryland,
known as Lot Three 90 in Block
Fifty-three (53) of a subdivision
called Garrett Park, as the same
is laid down on a plat in Plat
Book "a" at plat 27, being the
same land which said Thomas Elgin
Copeland and his wife obtained by
deed from James L. Skidmore
dated November %, 1910. The
land is high, has good drainage, is
well-shaded and located in the best
part of Garrett Park on the main
thoroughfare from Rockville Pike
to Kensington.
Terms of Sale, as prescribed by
the decree, are "all cash at time
of ratification of sale". A deposit
of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
will be required when the property
is knocked down. Revenue stamps
and other costs of conveyance, if
any, will be paid by the purchaser.
ALGER Y. BARBEE, Trustee,
Professional Building,
Rockville, Maryland.
and
WILLIAM A. VOLKMAN, Trustee
1858 Wisconsin Avenue,
Bethesda, Maryland. 2079
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
School Board Members
To Award High School
Diplomas In June

Diplomas to be awarded in June
al the various schools Throughout
the County, will be awarded BY
the following, according to a re.
lease from the Board of Education
Montgomery Junior College, June
8, Mrs. Sandifer, president Of
Board; Poolesville, June 10, Wylie
Barrow Richard Montgomery
June 10, Mrs. Durward Sandifer;
Lincoln, June 10, Arthur Joseph;
Bethesda Chevy Chase, June 90
Mrs. Sandifer; Sherwood, jun. 20
Mr.. Joseph; Gaithersburg, Jurs DO,
Mrs. Herman Wilson; Montgomery.
Blair, H. Stanley Slime; Damascus,
james w. Grill.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
The EARLY Days Of
CIarksburq
BY RALPH FRALEY MARTZ
Continued from last Weeks Sidelights Column

Names of early settlers in the
Clark s burg vicinity were the
Clarkes, Williams, Wilson's, Crit
fiths, Bealls, Belts, Busceys, Wind
sors, Sopers, Brownings, Hobbs,
F ! e m ings, Buxtons, Roberts,
Peters, Waters, Hollands, Burdetts,
Andrews, Laytons, and Holmes.
They were Episccpalians, Pres
byterians and Methodists. Many of
these settlers later took up arms
against the English in the cause
OF liberty. Some of the original
settlements were made on the fol-
lowing parcels of land: BELT S
Tomahawk", Content, "Buscey
Adventure, Long Looked For",
Fellowship, "Wartield Vineyard"
"Moneyworth", "Rich Land" "Cow
Pasture, pleasant Plains" and
the Grange.
One of the oldest settlers in the
neighborhood was Captain Jer-
minah Belt, who surveyed Belts
Tcmahawk", which was part of
"Calverton Manor" of then Prince
Georges County, on December II,
1740. One of the early French
traders to invade this section was
Martin Charter. He traded at the
Indian Village near the mouth of
Monocacy.
Long before John Clarke built
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
Trustees Sale
GARRETT PARK LOT

By virtue of the power and au-
thority contained in a decree of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, dated May Is, 1949, passed
in cause, therein pending where
in Thomas Elgin Copeland is plain
tiff and Alice ]. Robertson, ct al,
are defendants, the same being No.
1887 Equity, the undersigned
Trustees will ON
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
ADOPTION EQUITY
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION

The object of this proceedings
is to declare the infant baby Nails
to be the legally adopted child of
the petitioners, David Rosenberg
and Elizabeth S. Rosenberg, his
wife, and to change the name of
said infant to Marsha Beth Rosen-
berg, the mother of said child, Irene
Nails being believed by petitioners
to be a nonresident of the State of
Maryland. T-l
= The petition states that, the pc
/ titioners reside at. 2O5 East Indian
Spring Drive, Silver Spring, Mary
land, are husband and wife having
been married the third daxA Of
March, 1885, are members ofalbe
Caucasian race, and of the con-
servative Jewish faith, and did on
February 81, 1916, take the infant
baby girl into their home in Mont
gomery County, Maryland, for the
purpose of adoption and upon in
formation and belief the mother
of said child being unable to pro-
vide for the support and mainten-
ance of said child did relinquish
her rights to said child to Sidney
M. Goldstein, Esquire, so that said
child might be placed by him for
adoption and that it was the re-
quest of the natural mother of said
child that she be so placed, and
the consent of the said mother and
of Sidney M. Goldstein, Esquire,
acting under power of attorney,
was filed as an Exhibit; that the
said child was born on the 21st
day of February, 1916, in Columbia
Hospital, Washington, d. c., and
is described in Certificate of Birth
Registration No. 564,758 of said
District records; that the petition
ers have no other children except
an adopted infant boy adopteeEn
No. 12,547 Equity in the Cifttiit
Court for Montgomery County,
Maryland; that there is no blood
relation between the petitioners
and the infant girl whom they de-
sire to adopt; that they live at the
address aforesaid with the infant
girl and the infant boy; that said
child has always been under the
care and supervision of the petit
TONERS and that they regard her
with the same natural love and af-
lection that they would give unto
natural child; and that they believe
it is to the best interests of said
child to be adopted by them; that
the said child is kept in their home
under license from the Welfare
Board of Montgomery County, Lii
cense No. 1854; that the petitioners
believe that they have ample means
to properly provide for the said
infant.
1T is THEREON this 10th
day of March, 1850, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery CoVg,
Maryland, sitting as a Court OF
Equity, ORDERED that the pc"
titioners, by causing a copy OF TINS
Order to be inserted in some news
paper, published in Montgomery
County, once in each of four sue
cessive weeks before the 10Th day
of April, 1850, giving notice to Gne
nonresident mother, Irene Nails
of the object and substance OF TINS
petition, warning her to be ana
appear in this Court in person or
by Solicitor on or before the lst
day of May, 1850, to show cause, II
any she has, why a decree should
not be passed herein as prayed.
CHARLES w. WOODWARD,
Judge of the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
2042 Clerk.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23

Spain, taking in
Rome on the way,
he was laying out
a trip to the east
and west ends of
c v i ization, the
jumping-off places.
His plan was as
ambitious as if a
modern evangelist
would write to some
church in India. 81
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For 200 Years

There's enough coal left in the
ground to furnish John L. Lewis
with strikes for the next 200 years.
= Arthur Godfrey in Minneapolis
Star.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23

ann 10 VISIT 1celano ana japan,
and call on you on the way out"
Bond Voyage
DAUL EXPECTED to go to Rome
= a free man, his ticket ESQ to
speak, reading on through Spain.
Actually that was the end Of his
run. He went there under military
guard. prisoner under sentence.
The story is all there in Acts, how
first he was jailed for protection
from a blood-hungry mob. then
kept in Jail on general pl&hciples
(Which is to say, the governor kept
hoping he would pay well for an
acquittaD, and finally appealed to
Rome, the highest court of the
empire. Appeals were expensive
and slow, then as now.
But Paul must have come to
look at his imprisonment, false
as 1t was, as a heaven-sent OPP
pOrtunity to make that journey
to Rome. It was q gilt-edged
accident insurance. Free, he
might never escape the plot
tiers and reach Rome alive.
Chained, the efficient Roman
army would see that he ar
riyed-and he did.
Four pairs of eyes were on him
night and day. No plotter could
stick him with dagger. or shove
him overheard. Scatter some
hair-breadth escapes to be sure
he was delivered safe and sound
in the very city Of which he had
been dreaming all these years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
The Church at the Hub
OF the World

THERE IS NOTHING at all in
= the New Testament to indicate
that the church at Rome was con-
sidered, by Paul or any one else,
as The Church, or the Mother
Church. There is no claim that it
was founded by st. Paul, still less
by st. Peter.
1t grew, as other churches grew.
by infiltration. Christians who
moved to the big city would get
together, and there the church
would be. Yet, Of course. the Ro-
man church was important.
II was important because 1t
was ut the hub Of the civilized
world. Paul did not seem to
mind II in the least, that he
could work only inside his
prison, or confined to quar-
ters."
Writing from his jail cell to the
Philippians. he mentions converts
from the army and from the i'm
perial slaves. Caesars house.
hold" in Phil. 4:22 does not refer
to the Emperor's family, but to
the retinue of palace slaves.) We
know from the letter to Philemon
that Paul converted at least one
''jailbird" named Onesimus.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
The True Church Is A
Marching Church

DAUD KNEW that a soul is a
1 soul. sitting in the emperor's
chair or waiting at the emperor's
table. God is no respecter of per-
sons. But he also knew that these
Christian soldiers would not al
ways stay in Rome; that even
Christian slaves would be sold
down the river; that the restless
feet, which brought their owners
to Rome would take them away
again. Great cities are like that.
Putting down Christianity in
Rome was not like putting q
single seed Into n sheltered
corner Of the garden. II was
like scattering = handful Of II
10 the breeze, to be carried
far and wide. Paul's vision Is
still the vision Of the church
ut Its best. The true church
marches on, along the high
roads and byroads of the
world.
We shall never be content with
narrow. sheltered Christianity.
We cannot be satisfied with half
world religion. Only world Chris.
tianity matches the grandeur Of the
New Testament ideal.
Copyright by the International council
Of Religious Edueetion on behalf OF 40
Protestant denominations. Released by
WNU Features.)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
Simpson & Simpson, Solicitors,
Fire Department Building
Rockville, Md.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
SITTING AS A
COURT OF EQUITY.
Ex-parte in the Matter of til ]
Petition of DAVID ROSENBERG
& ELIZABETH S. ROSENBERG,
his wife, 205 East Indian Spring
Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Maryland, for the AdOp-
ton of an Infant Female Baby
Nails, 205 East Indian Spring
Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23

World Horizon
When Paul writes to his 'pen-
friends" at Rome Q5:22-29) of q
projected trip to Jerusalem and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
Worldwide Church
Lesson for March 26, 1850

COD WORKS his purposes out in
~ ways that not even the wiSest
of his servants can foresee. A beau
tiful example of this is the way
Paul went to Rome. Long before
he saw that city he wanted to
preach there. All roads led to
Rome, as they do to all world
capitals, and people went there
from everywhere.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1950-03-23
Price Leaders

First For An-Arovnd SovinosI
From low selling price 10 high resale vsIVs,
you're money uheod with chevrelst trucks.
Chsvroist's roek-bostom 'nltial eost-ovt-
standlnsly low cost Of operation and vpkssP
-ond high irode-in voIvs. oil add Up 10 the
lowest price for you.
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No. 261
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aim to visit Iceland and Japan,
and call on you on the way out"
Arizona sun., 1950-07-07
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
By JULIUS A. LEE

eral Judge on the Third Court of
Appeals.
A $4,000 damage suit was filed
in u. S. District Court in Chicago
last week by Nat "King" Cole, pop
ular musician-singer and head man
of the King-Cole Trio, charging
the Hotel Fort Armstrong in Rock
Island, ILL.,, with denying his party
accommodations during a two
week stay in that city.
The amazing Jackie Robinson
pulls the unexpected, the so-called
impossible. He had no formal train
ing in many of the extra-curricular
activities that skyrocket his year.
ly earnings from what Branch
Hickey pays him to the approxi-
mate 200 grand he pays income
tax on.
The brief in behalf of Negro
teachers and principals of the
Jackson, Mississippi separate
school district, was filed with the
u. S. Circuit Court of Appeals last
week. The suit to equalize salaries
of Negro teachers was twice dis
allowed by lower courts.
An Italian immigrant, Natalie,
(Gus) Tachelli, II, of Pittsburg,
California, has made a colored girl
seeking a medical career, the ben
eficiary of his will. He left the girl
ia total of $18,500, and named her
mother as executrix of the estate.
The Southern Regional School
Program of higher education, was
defended last week by DR.. John T.
Caldwell, president of Alabama
College, in a speech before the
local Kiwanis group: He denied
that regional schools were means
of by-passing recent u. S. supreme
court rulings requiring equal edu-
cational opportunities for Negroes.
He explained: Studies have shown
that we must pool our resources
to provide specialized branches of
education in fields in which the
South is deficient"
Oscar DePriest III, grandson of
former Congressman Oscar De-
Priest, came home to Chicago last
week with his Harvard sheepskin
and the highest scholastic honor
ever to be attained by student
at the nations Oldest university.
Arizona sun., 1950-07-07

Last week the NAACP at its 41st
annual national convention, gave
a firm order to all branches to
clean the NAACP of any Commun-
ist elements. A resolution was ad-
opted to eradicate such infiltera-
ton and, if necessary, to suspend
and reorganize, or lift the charter
of any, expell any branch which,
in the judgment Of the board of
directors comes under Com
munist or any other political con-
troll and domination"
"Since I addressed your thirty
eighth annual convention on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial, sig
nificant steps have been taken to-
ward fulfillment of the promise
of equal rights and equal oppor-
tunities embodied in our national
charters, the Constitution and the
Declaration of independence" said
President Harry S. Truman in
greetings to. the NAACP at it's
convention.
Governor Alfred E. Driscoll of
New Jersey, told an overflow crowd
at the Union Methodist Church,
in major address before the
NAACP convention, of the events
surrounding the preparation and
adoption of the states new consti-
tut ution, which has been widely
hailed as the most advanced with
respect to civil rights adopted in
any state in the past two decades.
"We now have in New Jersey a
fair, effective law against discrim-
ination-and the important thing
about it is that it is working. Like
wise our FEPC law works." (edi-
tors comment-see editoriaD.
It is believed that the AAU
"Went along" with South Ameri-
can Government in selecting an all
white team to represent us, on a
tour of South Africa, because Af-
rica is split over racial issues.
Many Negro athletes qualified and
were outstanding in last weeks
meet at the University of Mary
land Oliver w. Hill, recently
defeated for reelection to the City
council of Richmond, Va, has an
nounced that he will not seek a
recount. He lost by A votes.
DR.. William A. Goodloe, practic-
ing physician in Washington for 25
years, was sentenced in District
Court to serve from two years and
four months to seven years in Jail
for performing an abortion on a
Baltimore white woman and then
trying to bribe her not to testify
in a grand jury investigation -.
17-year-old Theophilus T. Nc
Kinney, Boston High School hon.
or graduate and son of a North
Carolina minister, won $1,000 in
scholarships when 507 of his class
mates voted him the student "held
in highest esteem by faculty and
fellow students"
The st. Louis Board of Educa-
ton acted last week to nullify a
decision of Judge Robert T. Ar
onson that Missouri schools must
offer equal education to Negroes
or admit them to white schools.
To thhwart any possible action
by Negroes to take advantage of
their rights to an equal education,
the Board discontinued course in
aeromechanics at the white Had
ley Tech High School, rather than
admit two Negroes who applied
for the course or set up the course
at the Negro Washington Tech
High.
With Congress set to adjourn in
another month, Washington OBJ
servers are alarmed over the con-
tinued stalling by the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee on action to
conform William H. Haste as Fed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Life Under Reds Not All It's Cracked
Up To Be, j. S. Trade Unionist Finds

Washington, D. C. (1LNS). -
An inside picture of Czechoslovakia
as it exists under the iron heel of
Russia has been revealed by a
member of the AFL United Auto
mobile rkers, following a
months visit to Central Europe,
saws the AFL Auto Worker. The
paper reports that Steve Novota, a
metal polisher at the Houdaiile-
Hershey plant Qocal 6S5) has the
unique distinction of being the first
man in Decatur, H., to pierce the
Iron Curtain and return to tell of
his experiences.
Novota told the Auto Worker
that the traditional trust which
Czechoslovakian people have long
had for the United States has been
seriously undermined since the
Soviet seized control of the coun-
try. Novota's story in his own
words follows, in part:
The Czech people are frustrated.
They are frightened. They want
to be let alone. They saw the Nazi
hordes overrun their land and now
the Russians. When the latter came
the people were so frightened that
many of them lived in mine shafts
for as long as 6 weeks with the
men venturing out at night to get
needed items for their homes.
Complete Red Control
The government is completely in
the hands of the Communists. It's
a cradle to the grave program and
although the workers have accept
ed it (they could do nothing else)
they are suspicious. They do not
talk politics.
Although the workers are sup
posedly the favored flock under the
Soviet iron fist, living standards
are actually going down. Rationing
is utilized but mainly as a front
A worker is allowed only one suit
a year. He can buy this with his
ration slip at set price. However,
if he wants another suit he can
buy it at the same place but at a
much higher price.
The Communist program is de-
signed to appeal to the workers.
Young men taking wife can get
a building loan from the govern
ment. If they have two children as
a. result of their marriage, they
need not pay off the house loan.
When the Communist govern
ment took over, employers were al
lowed the salary they were receiv-
ing at the time of the change. But
they do not receive any profits
from the business. The average