Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-09-06
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by Monty

Collected at random at Gath.
ersburg's Labor Day fete:
Did Mrs. George P. Mahoney,
wife of the Democratic senator.
ial candidate, stick out her tongue
at someone as she passed the re-
viewing stand? Congress-
man Hyde's wife had a nifty pink
straw handbag that looked like
a folded parasol. The Mill
tary Police unit, all out of step,
marched by just behind the Gath
ersburg High School band, in per-
feet step. Most of the Amer
lean Legion and VFW marchers
were balding and had the begin
nings of baywindows. Tempus
fugit. :. +. The Safeway float load
ed with real fruit and vegetables
looked good enough to eat. /.
Beauty contest master of cere-
monies Bill Mayhugh's question,
How many of you like Elvis
Presley?" brought one of the
widest cheers of the day. 4.
The fireworks tried to compete
with a black velvet, star-hung
sky, and lost.
Only 81 shopping days left:
There's a plastic Santa Claus
atop Agnew's Inn on Rt. 24O
north of Rockville.
The County Council recently
took its official summer vacation
and didn't hold regular Tuesday
meeting August 81 or %. Only
three of the seven Council mem
bers left the county.
Mrs. Stella Werner and her fam
lily rented an apartment in the
new section" of Ocean City for
two weeks. Mrs. Werner says
she did a lot of cooking, mostly
the fish and crabs the family
caught. She read book, Bright
Feather" an historical novel of
Florida's early settlers. The lady
Council member says she watch
ed the sun come up out of the
ocean every morning.
Wilbur Baughman spent the
month of August at the Ameri-
can Youth Foundation camp near
Muskegon, Mich. He taught a
class entitled Christian leader
ship in public life" Councilman
Baughman says he tried to i'm
press on his young students the
difference between a Statesman"
and a politician"
Council president Robert Snure
relaxed for ten days at Hotel Ca
pom Springs, Capon Springs, West
Virginia. mot long enough" is
Mr.. Snure's comment on his vaca-
ton.
Donald Drown was a life.
guard this summer at Argyle
Country Club.
A friend recently came across
a musty, stained volumn entitled
"An Easy Grammar of Geo
graphy" by Jacob Willetts. 1t was
printed in 1920. Some numerous
and very dated excerpts:
UNITED States) 1.-THE standing
Army is small, barely sufficient
to garrison the different forts in
the Union"
THE Eastern and Middle States
are healthy; In the Southern, on
the seashore, it is considered un-
healthy, owing to the stagnant
waters; but in the back, billy, and
mountainous country, it is as
healthy as any part of the United
States"
New York; This state has adj
vantages for trade, superior to
any in the Union"
Literature, which was former
ly too much neglected in this
state, has of late received a good
deal of attention"
(Maryland) THE farmers live
remote from each other, often
several miles distant"
about one-fourth of the inhab-
itants are slaves"
(Georgia) ''The heat of the eli
mate renders (the inhabitants) in
dolent and averse to labor, but
they are fond of hunting"
(Lapland) This country is cold
in the extreme, freezing even
brandy"
(Russia) "A greater part of it's
inhabitants are in a state of un.
civilization"
(Polandl "The peasants of Po-
land are in a state of servile
abasement."
(European TurkeV) "This conn.