Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-04-16

F.aIM.INllIl Observation-Disclosures taNU.iIa
The Damascus Volunteer Fire
Department was host last Sunday
to volunteer fire departments from
all over the county. The occasion
was an experimental training
school to test new fog system of
fire fighting picked up by recent
Tennessee convention. Beginning
at $3.50 in the morning a large
14-room frame and log house do
, mated for the purpose by the Glad
hill Brothers was alternately set
afire and then put out. The tests
showed that the fog nozzle system
of fire fighting was superior to
the use OF the direct hose blasts.
After the experimenting was over
the house was then burned to the
ground. The Ladies Auxiliary
served coffee and doughnuts to the
firemen.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Senseney
spent the weekend in Boston, Mass.
where they visited friends.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the
County Association of Volunteer
Fire Departments met Friday at
the Damascus Fire House for its
quarterly meeting.
The Official Board of the Meth
odist Church met Thursday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson
Saylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Woodfeld,
Miss Mary Jane Mullinix, Micnael
and Linda Woodfeld, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold T. Bennett, Stevie and
Cliffie, spent Sunday in Washing
ton where they visited the Zoo.
Mr.. Everett Jones and Mr.. Ira
Jones returned to Damascus Sat-
urday from Florida.
Mrs. Claudia Browning spent the
weekend with her granddaughter,
Marlene Broadhurst, in Bethesda.
Marlene had just returned from
Suburban Hospital where she had
undergone a tonsilectomy.
The Reverend Colwell of Key
mar, Md. will be the guest preach
er at the Damascus Methodist
Church next Sunday. The redecor-
ating of the church sanctuary will
be completed and the sanctuary
will be ready for occupancy next
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Stipe have
as their guest Mr.. Stipe's mother,
Mrs. Blanche Stipe of Bunker Hill,
w. Va.
The Damascus Homemakers met
Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. Noah lfert with Mrs. Simon
GLAND and Mrs. Elwood MulliniX
as co-hostesses. Plans were made
for bake sale to be held May
8 at Gladhill Brothers Store in
Damascus. Final arrangements
were made for the annual May
Breakfast to be held at the Da-
imascus Methodist Church with the
members of the Glenmont Home
makers as their guests.
One of the largest sales of
swine ever held in Montgomery
( County took place Saturday on the
farm of Ernest Barnhart near Da-
mascus. There were $50 head of
swine auctioned off in addition to
a few heifers, cows with calves
and bulls. The 35 sows with $50
pigs sold from $50 to $3.50. Other
brood sows brought from $50 to
1 $50 a head, shoats $50 to S35 a
head and pigs SIS each. The sale
crossed slightly over $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Miles, Mr..
and Mrs. o. E. Williams, and Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert S. Hyatt went
to Galesville Sunday to an oyster
roast sponsored by the Galesville
Lions Club.
| Ten members of the Damascus
I W.S.C.S. attended the Ashton Zone
meeting Friday at the Oakdale-
| Emory Methodist Church.
Herbert S. Hyatt was a delegate
from the Damascus Bank to farm
credit conference at Salisbury, this
week sponsored by the Maryland
Bankers Association, the Univer-
sity Of Maryland, and Federal Re-
serve Bank.
: Mr.. and Mrs. George Slider visit
ed Mrs. Sidler's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Manuel of Claysville, Pa.
over the Easter holidays.
Mrs. Aubrey MullineauX enter
tanned at a birthday luncheon
Thursday, honoring her mother,
Mrs. Gertrude Burns, who was 80
years young on that day. Guests
included besides Mrs. Burns, Mrs.
Talmadge Watkins, Mrs. Wilson
Duvall and daughters, Mrs. Minor
Burns, Mrs. Wilbur Watkins, and
Mrs. Herbert Watkins.
Another daughter, Mrs. Tai
madge Watkins, entertained at a