Montgomery County sentinel., 1954-03-04
By Mrs. Philip Marcus
LO. 5-3O44


Families by the carload came
to Wheaton last Thursday, Fri
day, Saturday, Sunday, and par
ticularly Monday to take advant-
age of Wheaton's first George
Washington's Birthday Sale. For
ty-four merchants and business
men entered into the spirit of the
nearly week-long sale, giving
away many items, and practical
ly giving away many more. Ice
cream cones and mems combs
went for a penny; typewriters
from SO cents to $4.98, cars for
around $40; shoes at fantastical-
ly low prices; and materials and
notions at the lowest prices ever
seen at Wheaton. All of this made
one of the busiest Weekends (and
probably most hectic) Wheaton
business people have ever known.
AS an added attraction, the par
ticipating merchants purchased a
300 pound calf, and Wilkins do
mated 5pounds of coffee-both of
which were won in drawing on
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. William Walker of Shera-
ton Street, Glenmont, was lucky
winner of the young calf, which
she sold; and Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard B. Gable of Centerhin Street,
went home with the coffee.
Cub Pack ATT boys and their
families will long remember their
first "Blue and Gold" banquet
held at the Hughes Methodist
Church on the 23rd. This Pack,
which is sponsored by the High
land Elementary School PTA, has
been in existence a year, and in
stead of the usual father-son din
ner, it was decided that, since
the mothers also play a large
part in Cub activities, they should
be invited also. The W.S.C.S. of
the Church served the group a
very fine turkey dinner.
Table decorations were made
by the boys of the various Dens,
and ranged from a center with
the Washington Monument and
Lincoln Memorial to birthday
cakes in honor of Scouting's 44th
birthday. General chairman for
the dinner was Mrs. Mill Wald-
ner.
Scouting dignitaries who were
there as guests of Pack ATT were
MIR. and Mrs. Lyman Karr, (Mr.
Karr is Assistant District Execu-
tive) and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Campbell. Mr.. Campbell is Neigh
borhood Commissioner.
Cubmaster James Hickey pre-
Sented awards to the following
boys: Leonard Leech, Eugene
Leach, (the spelling's meant to
be differently, Richard Fulton,
Jack McCullom, Don Cennamo,
Ronnie Smith, and Rommie Bald
erSon.
Awards for having been Den
Mothers for the year (and con-
gratulations to them! went to
Mrs. Helen Fulton, Mrs. Marjorie
Eiker, and Mrs. Cyrilla Hickey.
The boys and their families
were entertained by Alfred the
Magician, who performed slight
of-hand tricks, rope tricks, a
handkerchief-to-flag- trick, and of
particular delight to the group,
a trick by which the pan in which
he was supposedly baking a cake,
turned out to have a small skunk
(imitation) in it!
Nadir is the opposite of zen.
ith-or figuratively speaking, the
lowest point-last week was, /
hope, the nadir of 1854 for me.
Did you ever feel that things
have reached the point where
there's no place else to 90 but
up? That was last week! Every.
ones had the flu, the car needed
some non-cheap repair, my radio
sponsor quit me, the washing ma.
chine refused to wiring out the
clothes, too many things to do
and not'enough time to do them
in, personal problems entered in.
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