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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
Clue Checked
Inkysteryof
Missing Woman

KANSAS CITY, Aug. R.-
Police investigating the baffiing
disappearance Of Mrs. Wilma
Allen, "a, wife of wealthy auto
mobile dealer, said today a bloody
towel found on a viaduct over
the Blue River was being ana
lyzed to determine the blood
type.
Homicide officers said the
blood was definitely human. But
whether it was Mrs. Aliens type
will not be established for sew
eral days.
Mrs. Aliens convertible, splat-
tered with blood, was found on al
parking lot Thursday. Stuffed
in the trunk was most of Mrs.
Aliens clothing. also streaked
with blood.
Investigators still were hunt
ing for a pink scarf with red
stripes, a blue straw pocketbook,
and a pair of silk hose.
Vanished After Shopping
Mrs. Allen, attractive mother
of two young children. is the
wife of William R. Allen, jr.,I
president of the Allen Chevrolet
Co. She vanished after a shop
ping trip.
Earlier today detectives checked
out a report that a car re-
sembling Mrs. Aliens was seem
Thursday near the Missouri
River in Eastern jackson County,
30 miles east of here.
It came from Lee Gee Of Sib-I
ley, Mo-, who told Investigators
a man and a woman were in the
car. Tire marks and footprints
were found at the riverside. butt
the area is frequented by fish,
ermen.
Police said the time element
involved all but eliminated this
lead, since Mrs. Allen was seem
last in a Brookside store at about
l pm. To have been at Sibleyl
an hour later. when Mr.. Geel
said he noticed the car. 1t. would
have had to race there at high
speed.
May Have Met Stranger
1t. Lester Haupt Of the homi-
eide Bureau said among theories
considered by police was one
that Mrs. Allen may have met
O stranger as she tried to raise
the top of her convertible.
1t. Haupt said possibly Mrs.
Allen had trouble putting the
top up as it started to rain
Thursday afternoon and the
presumed abductor might have
offered help. Mrs. Allen, the
theory ran, could have accepted
and then given the stranger a
lift. It was known the cars top
was down when Mrs. Allen left
her home. It was raised when
the CAT was found.
Detectives also worked on the
theory her abductor might have
boarded q freight train at tracks
near the lot where the automo-
bile was found.
Meanwhile leaves Of all homi-
eide officers were Cancelled pend.
ing solution of the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29

VI cup bread crumbs zsggs, lightly beaten
Tbs. ground beet tbsps. chopped parsley
VI cup grated sniaR VI tsp. allspiee
tthsp. salt | cup eensemme
cup milk
Sock crumbs In milk. Nix we'll with meat.
eggs. onion, porsley. and seosoninss. Shape
into small boIls and brown on all sides in
small omovnt of fot. Pour eonsomme over
meet bolIs, cover and simmer gently for Is
minutes or until meat is done. Keep warm
in ehofins dish. Makes about 3 dozen
meat balls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-29

DeWIed Ham tIbs,.-- s ss". 35c
DeviIed Ham u ~s.s 's en-: 35c
Potted Meat libby. q. ... S' | 7c
Potted Meat .'bb,' Z - .s. s' 27c
Potted Meat s'"sa". ~ .s. 81 23c
Liver Spread l'Ss'''- : :.". 2oc
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

In % days, from July 18th to
August 9th, when they marched
into Cambridge, the 100 men in
Captain Cresaps companies had
marched the $50 miles without
the loss of a man.
The next year the Maryland
troops were consolidated under
the command of Colonel William
Smallwood, and saw action at the
Battle of Long Island August
9th, 1776.
Here the Marylanders, includ-
ing our men from Montgomery
County, acted as rear guard for
the American Army's withdraw
al from danger. The battles of
White Plains, Fort Washington,
Trenton, Princeton and Mon
mouth took their toll of Mary
land men until their numbers
were reduced to a captains COM
mand.
When the war turned to the
Carolinas, there was a further
draft of 1000 men, drawing heav-
lily from Montgomery County and
including Colonel Ohio H. Will
liams. In the South, they held
the Maryland line until the con-
cluSion of activities and their
reputation for discipline and val
or was well earned.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
In the Revolution:
In the Revolution:
Hungerford Tavern Meet
Called for Freedom i'm liza

Two years before the creation
of Montgomery County, the Bos-
ton Port Act precipitated the first
action in the county against
Great Britain. On Saturday,
June 18th, TIA, at Hungerford
Tavern, in what is now Rockville,
residents of the area resolved
unanimously:
THAT it is the opinion of this
meeting that the most effectual
means for the securing of Amer
lean freedom will be to break off
all commerce with Great Britain
and the West Indies"
DR.. Thomas Sprigg Wootton,
Nathan and Zadek Magruder,
Richard Brooke, Henry Griffith,
Evan and Richard Thomas, DR..
William Baker, Thomas Cramp-
hin, Jr. and Allen Bowie were
appointed delegates to carry the
resolution to Annapolis.
These same men and others, in
Guiding Samuel Wade Magruder
and Henry Griffith II, played a
distinguished part in the war that
followed.
On June 81, at the Court House,
letter from the Maryland dele
gates to the Continental Congress
was read calling for two COM
panies of expert riflemen to join
the army at Boston.
The companies, under the COM
mand of Captain Michael Cresap,
were described in a military jour
nal at that time as remarkably
stout and hardy men, many of
them exceeding six feet in height.
They are dressed in white frocks
or rifle shirts and round hats"
These men are remarkable for
the accuracy of their aim, strik-
ing a mark with great certainty
at two hundred yards distance.
AT a review, a company of them
while on a quick advance fired
their balls into objects of seven
inches diameter at the distance
of two hundred and fifty yards.
They are now stationed in our
lines, and their shot have fire.
quently proved fatal to British
officers and soldiers, who expose
themselves to view, even at more
than double the distance of COM
mon muSket-Shot."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
County's First
OAR Formed
In Rockville

The first County chapter of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution was organized at
Hungerford Tavern in Rockville
on April 16, 1909. The chapter
took its name from Janet Mont
gomery, wife of the Revolution
airy War general for whom the
County is named.
Prime movers in the organiza.
ton of this chapter, which for
IL years was the only one in the
County, were Mrs. William Tai
bot of Rockville, and Mrs. Lilly
Stone, of Potomac.
In 1922, OAR members in the
Bethesda area decided to form a
new chapter, named for Col.
Tench Tilghman, an aide-de-camp
to George Washington. 1t was
Col. Tilghman, an Eastern Shore
man, who was chosen to take
the news of Corvallis surren-
der to the Continental Congress
at Philadelphia.
The County'S third OAR chap
ter was organized June 3, 1880,
by a group of Silver Spring lad
les. 1t was called the Erasmus
Perry chapter, for an early area
resident who was a member of
the Lower County militia. First
regent was Mrs. Howard Griffith,
a descendant of Erasmus Perry.
Miss Byrd Belt, of Chevy
Chase, founded the Chevy Chase
OAR chapter on June 10, 1943.
All four County chapters are
still active, and have done much
work in placing bronze markers
on historical roads and buildings.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Wounded CrOW
Aided Rebel
At DGrnestOUn

One young Confederate soldier
from DarneStoWn was spared
from death during the Civil War
thanks to wounded crow.
The young signal corpsman be-
came cut off from his division
and was trapped behind Union
lines. His horse had been shot
from under him. Capture q.
and death seemed inevitable.
Then the soldier spied a
wounded crow in a bush. He
freed it and carried the bird
along with him. Within moments
the youth stumbled upon a
Union guard and was captured.
Then ne got an idea. He would
pretend to be simple. To each
question by the Northerners, the
Confederate would giggle, point
to the crow, and slobber "Ask
the crow. He knows" BY
touching the birds injured leg
the captured soldier could make
the crow cav loudly.
Satisfied that the youth was
simple minded, the Union forces
let him go free. He borrowed a
horse from a farmer nearby and
soon rejoined his unit.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Washington Grove
Camp Meets
Helped toRout
demon Rum

The early Methodist camp
meeting.goers of Washington
Grove must be given credit - or
blame, depending on your atti-
tude - for helping to keep the
Demon Rum out of Montgomery
County.
When the camp ground was
opened, says Rev. Page Milburn,
a historian of the Grove, the
county had no local option law
and liquor was legally and H.
legally sold everywhere. There
was plague spot" very near
Washington Grove, he says.
1.-THE Methodists Of Washing.
ton and Montgomery County,
aided and abetted by the various
Protestant churches and all
sober-minded people of the coun.
ty, organized an effort to put
Montgomery County in the dry
column.
"An enabling act was obtained
from the Maryland legislature
and a vigorous campaign opened.
Washington Grove took an ac.
tive part in the movement. A
noted Prohibitionst, the Rev. DIR.
w. II. Boole, was imported from
New York, and the camp meeting
just prior to the election was
given over almost entirely to a
public discussion of the subject.
DIR. Boole was an attractive
and forceful speaker, logical and
convincing. Friends and enemies
of the cause alike heard him with
pleasure. Politicians from the
county, at first indifferent, began
to take notice. When the election
came the county went dry
ut was recognized at the time
that the Washington Grove Camp
Meeting Association was one of
the leading forces in bringing
about the driving out of the
liquor traffic from Montgomery
County"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Sandy Spring Known as Residence
OF Many WOrld-FamOus Persons

she became head of the girls de-
partment of thte famous Fair Hill
School.
Her son, Edward, became one
of the outstanding leaders of his
generation in the Quaker COM
munity. He was appointed post
master of Sandy Spring by Pres
ident Andrew Jackson in 1880
and held the position until his
death in 1883.
The post office boxes were kept
in Hardwood house between the
dining room and the kitchen with
the people of the community
coming to the back porch for.
their mail. This was brought od
from Rockville once a week in
leather saddle bags by a man on
horseback.
Edward Stabler was also a
skilled engraver and made many
of the new seals and stamps of
the Federal Government. The
first seal, now the property of
the Montgomery County Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of
which Mr.. Stabler was the first
president, is still in use and
makes as clear an impression as
it did a hundred years ago.
Policy No. / of this company
was issued for Hardwood in 1913
and Mr.. Acheson's name is now
on it as the present owner.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
County Wives
DYED OlUn
Cloth in 1851
By Esther B. Stabler

Dyeing cloth was an industry
performed long ago on planta'
tons in the County. The knowl-
edge and experience required to
produce pure clear colors from
the native banks of trees, berries,
roots, vegetables and leaves was
in itself full-time occupation.
We need hardly say that Betsy
Ellicott Lea-author of an 1851
cook book and instruction manual
for homemakerS-had a knoWl-
edge of this almost inexhaustible
subject that was unsurpassed in
rural areas.
The color scarlet was obtained
from blood root, madden and lye,
six gallons of which dyed ten
pounds of cotton or linen. This
was made by boiling the boughs
of the cedar in the fall, when the
berries were on them.
Peach leaves or the skins of
onions were boiled to make yell
low. Gray was obtained from nut
gals. Clipped log-wood, verte-
gres and alum boiled together
make a clear blue, says our au-
thor.
Rags for rugs could be dyed
different colors by boiling two
pounds of Brazil-wood in bag.
After several hours remove the
wood and add one pound of alum,
put the rags in and boil for a
long time, then remove and hang
in the sun. This method will die
woolens red and cottons pink. If
you wash either one in soap, they
will turn purple"
A method used by Mistress Lea
for a floor covering under her
carpets seems most unsanitary to
modern housekeepers. She adj
viseS covering the floors with
clean straw before laying the car
pets-"Be sure to tack them Sc
curely to the floor because the
danger of fire is very great. This
will last many months and lay
the dust"
Copyright 1855 bv Esther b. Stabler)
To this day, Boston streets are
narrow and winding. They fol
lowed the trails blazed by COWS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Blizzard of '88
Left County in
Paralyzed State

You've heard of the blizzard
of '88? Well, Montgomery
County didn't escape its white
fury. A writer of the time re-
cords the event: ION March
18th, 1888. we passed in a
moment from a steady down
pour to bowling blizzard of
wind and snow.
For SO hours the storm
ragged, until the roads were
blocked by huge drifts; the
mercury fell nearly to zero,
and the piercing air, filled
with icy particles borne on the
gale, made it almost danger
GUS to brave the outside temp.
est. The mail was carried on
horseback four days before
the Laurel road was passable
for vehicles.
"The Washington Star was
issued entirely without teIe-
graphic news. Business was
Frustrated, and the oldest in.
habitant was too young to re.
member any storm like it be.
fore, and all the inhabitants,
both young and old, were en-
tirely satisfied that Dakota
should henceforth and forever
keep her billiards. at home"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Ghost TO1Un'
Lies Beneath
Dam 8 Waters

Miles north of Rockville, on
the boundary between Montgom.
cry and Howard County, and un.
der the deep waters of Brighton
Dam lies a ghost-a ghost of a
town.
The thought of a city under
the sea has always held a pc.
culiar fascination for many PEG.
pie as witness the never-ending
quest for Atlantis, the lost civil.
ization.
Actually the town of Triadelph.
ia had been a ghost for several
generations before 1910 when the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission started the three
year construction job for a reser.
voir of drinking water for the
capital city.
Most of the buildings in the
town, including the cotton mill,
blacksmith shop, dairy, granary,
grist and saw mill, the church
and the school house had already
been swept away in the big flood
of 1868.
One that was left was the Post
Office building, large two-story
rough stone structure typical of
the houses in the area. From
1880 to 1900 it was both the post
office and the home Of the Lans.
dale family who at that time
were the owners of what was
left of Triadelphia.
The town was christened by
its founders who in actuality
we're brothers-in-law although
known as the Three Brothers.
Around 1910 on a site of some
275 acres, part of Benjamin's Lot,
a grant made to Benjamin Gath.
er in 1725, the three husbands of
the Brooke girls, the daughters
of Roger Brooke w, Isaac Briggs,
who married Hannah, Thomas
Moore, husband of Mary and
Caleb Bentley whose first wife
was Sarah, decided to put into
practice some of their advanced
ideas.
Their project and mills flour.
ished for while but the War
of 1912 and later the Civil War
brought all activities to a stand.
still. Floods also were the curse
of the small town until the final
one of 1868 which swept away
most of its buildings.
, At the height of its prosperity,
Triadelphia was the grist mill
for most of the lower part of
the county's grain. 1t also had
the only blacksmith and wheel.
wright shops around.
Its last owner p. Garland Lig.
on before selling to the Sanitary
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

A bronze tablet bearing the
names of the 81 Montgomery
County descendants of Alexander
Magruder who served in the Re
volutionary War was unveiled
Oct. %, 1926, at the Rockville
Court House.
Caleb Clarke Magruder, chief
of the American Clan Magruder,
formally presented the plaque to
Chief Judge Hammond Urner.
Four year old William Randolph
Talbot, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Randolph Talbot of
Rockville, pulled aside the veil.
County resident William Tyler
Page, chief clerk of the United
States House of Representatives,
delivered a patriotic address and
Rev. James M. Magruder of An
napolis read an original poem.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

Quiet and peaceful, gracious
and retiring, Sandy Spring is still
known throughout the United
States and the world as the chos-
en- home of many famous per-
sons.
For example, Dean Acheson-
Secretary of State in the Tru-
man administrations currently
a resident of the Sandy Spring
area.
In 1925, Mr.. Acheson purchased
HARDWOOD where he still resides
and which contains a part of the
original homestead of the Stab
Ter family.
Edward Stabler came from
York, England to Pennsylvania in
1853, His son, William, with his
wife, Deborah Brooke Peasants,
moved to Sandy Spring in 1893
after Deborah had inherited
Hardwood from her mother, EliZ-
abeth Brooke Peasants, a daugh-
ter of James Brooke of Charley
Forest.
The first dwelling on HARDWOOD
was tobacco barn of handhewn
logs, chinked with stone and NOR
tar, high enough to form a three
story house and whose walls are
in sound condition today.
Legend says that Deborah
Stabler was a strong-willed wo-
man. After her husbands death
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

Commission, built a large mod
ern house near Brighton from
stones of the remaining buildings
in the old town. Mr.. Lyon was
a pioneer of the council-manager
system and one of the first mem.
bers of the County Council from
194S.50.
Less than 20 miles from Rock.
vile, Brighton Dam has a pleas.
ant recreation area near the old
site of Triadelphia. 1,73S acres of
pastureland and timber surround
the IT'S acres under water. It can
be reached by following the Nor
beck Rd. to Olney, then to Ash.
ton and four miles further to
the dam.
AS a recreation area il has
tradition behind it for in the era,
1880 to 1910, it was one of the
favorite summer resorts of the
neighborhood, with picnics, camp.
ing parties and swimming in the
old mill pond. Swimming is no
longer allowed but for so cents
a day or So a season and a states
anglers license which can be OBJ
tanned at the County building,
you can fish along the shore or
in your own boat.
The picnic area, complete with
fireplaccs, picnic tables and sani.
tary facilities is open to the pub.
lie from sunrise to sunset. There
is only one paradox with water,
water, everywhere, there's not
drop to drink" so bring your
own,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Court House Tablet Lists Names
OF Magruders in Revolution

The tablet read, I'm memory
of the descendants of Alexander
Magruder, Maryland immigrant,
bearing his surname, who served
in the Revolutionary Army from
Montgomery County: Zadok, col
onel; Samuel Wade, second maj
or; Jesse and Joseph, captains;
Hezekiah and Samuel Brewer,
first lieutenants; Charles Nath-
aniel and Nathaniel Beall, second.
lieutenants.
Josiah, ensign; Enoch, first
sergeant; Ninian and Richard,
third sergeants; Archibald, Basil,
Daniel, Edward, Elias, Ezekiel,
Isaac, James, Jeffrey, John Beall,
Levin, Ninian Beall, Norman
Bruce, Samuel, Walter, William
Beall, William Offutt, and Zadok,
privates,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Woman Jailer, Too
Woman Jailer, Too
First Real Jail Of County
Was :AwesOme Fortress

At one time it wouldn't have
been wise to mention "the weaker
sex" to inmates of the Montgom-
cry County Jail. Mrs. William
Trail was the woman jailer!
Only two permanent jails have
held county prisoners during a
period of almost 200 years. Be.
fore the first official Jail was
erected in 1901, a temporary
building on the Rockville corner
now occupied by Peoples Drug
Store, and another where the
Fire Department stands were
make-shift lockups.
The permanent Jail was built
on half acre lot on South Perry
Street Extended at a cost of
$6,495. The awesome two story
structure with its 2la foot thick
stone walls encasing 2 foot thick
brick walls moved one historian
to call it IAN impregnable fort.
ress which would withstand the
wear and tear of several cen.
utries".
If prisoners hated the II small
one-windoW cells on the top two
floors, they lived in mortal fear
of the basement dungeon. This
was an ska foot room with no
windows and no ventilation save
a small steel grating in the
heavy iron door.
In the yard of this old jail were
two stone and cement platforms
in which were embedded large
iron rings. Until the Institution
closed in 1881 these we're the
whipping posts" used in flogging
wife beaterS.
When the new County Court
House was erected in 1881, the
Jail was moved to the top floor
of that building. 1t was not with
out controversy that the Jail was
moved to the center of Rock
vile, for one writer notes many
persons claim it would be noisy
and otherwise Objectionable"
Mrs. Trail succeeded her hus-
band as jailer when he passed
away. Joseph Monkey, also
assisted by his wife, managed the
lookup until recently, when John
T. Young took up the job.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29

He is prepared to furnish and
put up Spouting, Roofing, etc.
Tin and Sheet Iron ware of all
kinds on hand. Stoves of all
kinds repaired and put in com.
plcte order.
Lightning rods furnished, and
put up in the best manner.
All work done in a workman.
like manner and warranted.
by strict attention to business
and a desire to please, he hopes
to merit a share of the public
patronage.
Robert IL. G. Bouis."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Rockville Metalworks
Heduy Industry Launched
In 1860, Records ReUeaI

Even as early as 1860, Rock.
vile had heavy industry. The
SENTINEL Of February, 1860,
carried a one.column advertise.
ment showing pump, headed
Tin Plate and Sheet Iron Manu-.
factory
The ad says The subscriber.
having located permanently in
Rockville, would most respect.
fully inform the citizens of Mont.
gomery County that he is about
TO commence the Tin Plate and
Sheet Iron Manufacturing bust.
ness, in the above place, opposite
the Law Office of w. V. Bouic,
Esq.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Top Dogs, Too

Montgomery County has pro.
duced good DOGS as we'll as
good MEN!
On Nov. 4, 1901, four beagle
hounds owned by Charles F.
Brooke of Sandy Spring won SIS
in prizes and the Rockefeller Ma.
tional Challenge Cup at the Ma.
tional Beagle Club field trials on
the Long Island estate of William
c. Whitney. Two of the dogs were
sold for $100.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Seneca Veteran Aids
Scholarship Fund

George w. Sager, Seneca, is
one of the beterans of World
War II Battery A, 247th Field
Artillery, which has created a
scholarship at Harvard Univer-
sity to honor the Battery's war
time commander, the late Will
liam Gray of Milton, Mass.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-09-29
Owned Copy of Will
Of Mary Washington

Mrs. Ambrose Hoopengartner,
late of Gaithersburg. owned a
copy of the will Of Mary Wash,
ington, mother of our nations
first president.
Mrs. Washington's requests to
her son, George, included "all my
land in Accokeek Run, in the
County of Stafford (Va.), also
my negro boy George. Also
my best bed, bedstead and Vir.
ginia cloth curtain (the same
that stands in my best bedroom) &,
my quilted blue and white quilt,
and my best dressing glass"