Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Germantown
Hooked Rug
Photographs
Shown Group
BY Deborah H. Lenz
WAverly 6-0692

past Tuesday at Parklawn.
After a business meeting, the
program was presented, the
showing of slides of two past
exhibits of hooked rugs. Time
was also spent in hooking.
President of the Guild is Miss
Edythe Turner, former Demon
stration Agent of Montgomery
County, and Mrs. Catherine
Linthicum is secretary. A num-
Der of upper county residents
take an active part in the organ.
iZation.
Congratulations are extended
to Ward w. Fetrow on his cleo.
ton as a vice president of the
Maryland Farm Bureau at the
recent meeting in Baltimore.
Mr.. Fetrow is one of three vice
presidents of the organization,
which includes 10000 members
and operates in each of the %
counties in Maryland. Head
quarters of the Bureau in RAN
dallstown, near Baltimore. Mr..
Fetrow's duties will include at
tending the meetings in the
various counties and in Chicago,
the headquarters of the Amer.
lean Farm Bureau Association.
Get-well wishes are extended
to Mr.. James White, a former
resident of Jamestown, and
now living in Olney. Mr.. White
is seriously i'll in Montgomery
County General Hospital, Sandy
Spring.
The members of the After
noon Circle of the Neelsville
Presbyterian Church met at the
Manse last Thursday afternoon,
January 81. Mrs. Albert w.
LEM was hostess, assisted by
Mrs. John H. Norris, Mrs. l..
Clagett Warfield, and Mrs.
Clyde Fletcher. Fourteen men,
bers and two guests were pres
ent. Taking over as Circle
Leader for the year was Mrs.
C. Staley Weller. Bible Study
in the Book of Psalms was led
by Mrs. LEM, and the program
topic on Town and Country
Church was presented by Mrs.
Warfield. Plans were made for
the coming months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl c. Grimes
are being congratulated on the
birth of a daughter, Deborah
Suzanne, on January 16, at
Providence Hospital in Wash
ington. Tiny Deborah weighed
a lbs, ID or, and was an incu-
bator baby necessitating her
staying in the hospital a week
longer than her mother.
Mrs. George w. Schaeffer, ST.,
returned last week from a stay
with her son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Main
of Cedar Grove. Mrs. Schaeffer
was i'll while with her daugh-
ter, but has recovered, we are
glad to report.
Vernon Martens, q student at
Georgetown U nj versity, is
spending several days this week
at the home of his parents, DR..
and Mrs. Vernon E. Martens, be-
tween semesters.
In last weeks column, it was
stated that there are eight sur.
vivors of Mrs. Nora Briggs, who
died suddenly in Florida, on
January 16. Actually, there are
nine children surviving, the one
not listed being her son Norman,
OF College Park, Md. We regret
the error.
The funeral service for Mrs.
Briggs was held last Wednesday
afternoon In the Neelsville Pres
byterian Church, of which she
was a member, with interment
in Forest Oak Cemetery, Cath
ersburg. The family asks that
their sincere thanks be ex-
pressed to the many friends and
neighbors who expressed SYM
pathy and carried out numerous
thoughtful and loving deeds.
At the meeting of the Congre.
CATION and the Corporation of
the Neelsville Church on Jan.
uary 10, the following were re.
turned to office for additional
three year terms: Elders Harold
F. Hargett and A. r. Selby;
Beacon Ralph L. Windsor; Trus.
tee Willard w. Wiley. Newly
elected as a Deacon was Thomas
V. Marshall for a term of three
years. Ordination and installa.
ton to respective offices took
place at the morning worship
service last Sunday.
We are sorry to report that
the Rev. James P. Kerr, pastor
OF the Boyds Presbyterian
Church, known and loved in our
whole community, suffered a
heart attack recently, and now
has touch Of pleurisy. We
offer our best wishes and the
hope of a complete and speedy
recovery.
School pupils have a welcome
school holiday tomorrow be.
tween semesters.