Montgomery County sentinel., 1957-10-10
Damascus
HOneInakers
Study Topic
OF Mending
BY Mrs. Ulysses Griffith IV
Clearwater 3-2682


were to meet today at 1890 at
the home of Mrs. Paul Watkins
for a luncheon meeting Topic
for the month was "Mending
Methods" and the Home Demon
stration Agents was expected to
be present. Every member has
been asked to bring either a
mended garment or one to be
mended. The Committee on
applesauce-making reports that
IL members and one visitor par
ticipated in the project and that
108 quarts of applesauce were
made to be donated to the Mont
gomery General Hospital.
Sharon Gay Purdum, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Purdum
celebrated her fourth birthday re-
Gently with a party for group
of friends. Guests were Sharon
Smith, Joan Duvall, Leonard Sen
seney, Johnny Crabill. and Jackie
Medairy. Also attending were
Sharon's grandparents Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Moxley and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry l. Purdum. A pink
and green color scheme was feat
ured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward ID. Cooley
of BOG Thirty-Fourth and a Half
Street in Virginia Beach are re-
ceiving congratulations on the
birth of a son, David Lee, on Sep
tember 6 at the Virginia Beach
Hospital. Mrs. Cooley is the for
mer Miss Jane Nichols of Da-
mascus. Her mother, Mrs. Clar-
ence Nichols and sister, Elaine,
have just returned after spend
ing three weeks with Mrs. Cool
ey. Mr.. Nichols, Roberta and
Shirley and Marilyn GLAND drove
down over the last weekend to
see the new baby and bring Mrs.
Nichols and Elaine home.
The Future Farmers of Ameri-
ca Dairy Cattle Judging Team
from the state of Maryland made
up of Arthur Bowie and Jack
King of Damascus and James
Smith of Middletown returned
this past weekend from Water.
loo, Iowa where they took part
in the national judging contests.
Team coach Leonard Tolley, vo-
cational agriculture teacher at
Damascus High School reports
that the boys did very well.
Judging in the FLA contests
are different from the All con.
tests in that no single team is
picked as first or second, but
rather small group is awarded
gold plaques as being outstand.
ing teams, a second group silver
plaques, a third bronze, a fourth,
honorable mentions and the re.
naming teams certificates of
competition. The Damascus team
received silver plaque placing
it in the second group. AS indi.
viduals, Arthur Bowie won a gold
medal award as one of the high
est individual scorers and Jack
King and James Smith won
bronze awards. In the dairy prod.
ucts contest Arthur Bowie re-
ceived bronze award
In observance of the week of
prayer the WSCS of the Da.
mascus Methodist Church will
hold a special service on Sunday
evening, October 20, at 8 p. m.
at the church. Mrs. George w,
Boyer will be in charge of the
service.
Be sure to come to Damascus
this Saturday, October - for the
annual turkey dinner of the Da.
mascus Volunteer Fire Depart
ment at the high school from
to s p. m. The dinner will be
served country style.
We thought you might be in
terested in a progress report or
the water company. All mains or
main streets have been installed
AT the present time the cleaning
up process is now in force. Start
ing now the company will begir
a process of pumping water witt
heavy chlorine content into tho
tanks and mains to steriliz,
them. This will be followed by /;
flushing with clear water and tn,
tanks will again be filled Will
water chlorinated properly fo
drinking. When this has been &C
complished the company viii b,
ready TO begin the house to hous,
hook-ups. Herbert S. Hyatt, Presi
dent of the Damascus Utilitie
Company estimates that this pre-
liminary work will be completes
within two weeks.
Damascus High School ha
now rounded out its faculty TO
the year. The new librarian i
Miss Mary Elizabeth Mathe
from Bethesda and the new ar
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