Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-10-03
CLGrkSburg
CLarksburg
Owner Happy
Over Finding
OF Lost 500
BY Mrs. David j. Brandenburg
Telephone GaitherSburg 721W1

lelepiione GaltnerSburg 121W1
A wallet, containing 500 in
cash, most of it in tWo-dollar
bills, was recovered Friday by
/, Ralph Mcconnell of Clarksburg,
who had lost it over six months
ago while excavating basement
near Clarksburg.
Buried in March near the I'M
completed home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Marshall, the wallet and
contents had been given up for
lost by Mr.. Mcconnell, who
nevertheless asked the operator
of bulldozer filling in" last
week after construction to keep
an eye peeled for it.
The two-dollar bills represented
a life-times saving by Nh. Nc
Connell, who regularly received
the bills from his grandmother
for his birthday, he says, from
the time he was three OF four. He
plans to use the retrieved cache
on fall hunting trip to Penn
sylvania.
Mrs. Norman Burdette of
Hyattstown returned home last
Thursday after a weeks stay at
Frederick Memorial Hospital.
She is much improved
Clarksburg Community Asso-
citation met Monday evening at
the Methodist Church Hall, Mrs.
Belva Rose presiding. Plans were
drawn up for survey of opin-
ions on matters of community in
tereSt, to be presented to the peo-
pie of the Clarksburg area in the
next few weeks.
About $50 has been raised so
far toward a sewing machine by
the All Girls of Clarksburg in a
cookie and baked goods sale.
Orders will be taken for another
two weeks, according to Mrs. V.
Taylor, leader. The next meeting
of the group, on October 5, will
be attended by the new assistant
county agent, Mrs. Mimic Ham
bleton, who will discuss projects
for the coming year.
Miss Evelyn POrterfield daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Porter
field of Clarksburg has been
offered a $1,000 graduate scholar
ship by the Montgomery County
Scholarship Fund, project of
the Montgomery County Council
of PTA's, to which many locals
contribute. Miss Porterfieid will
graduate from Eastern Baptist
College, st. Davids, Pa, in June
of next year. -
A country ham and turkey din
ner will be served by the Hyatts-
town Civic Association Saturday
October 5, at Hyattstown Fire
Hall, to raise money for the an
nual Street-light bill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul F. Burner
returned from a motor trip
through the Southeastern States,
visiting South Carolina, Tennes-
see, and Alabama, and returning
by way of Cumberland, Md.
where they stayed a few days
with Mr.. Burners father, Arthur
Burner.
Boy Scouts of Troop 1871 took
their first long trip last weekend,
to a Triple Oaks project at Camp
Wilson, near Gunston Hall, Va
Led by A. T. Clement, the group
included Joseph and Rush
Wright and Lloyd Hopkins OF
Hyattstown, and John Dodson
John Davis, and David Branden
burg of Clarksburg.
A baby shower was given for
Mrs. Earl Price Tuesday evening
at Hyattstown Fire Hall.
The first Sunday in each
month has been designated by
the Official Board of the Clarks
burg Methodist Church as Build
ing Fund Sunday.
The application of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Young to operate a
nursing home in Clarksburg was
approved September II by the
Montgomery County Board OF
Zoning Appeals. The home viii
have a capacity of five patients
Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Hartley at
tended the funeral of Rev. Hart
leys father, ]. D. Hartley, last
Wednesday afternoon, in Mar
tinsburg, West Virginia.