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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-02-09
DIED
MRS. CORA M. LOHR

Mrs Cora M Lohr, aged 85. OF
,wanton, died Saturday, February
in the Cuppett Nursing Home in
Oakland. Born in Swanton, she was
daughter of the late MIR. and Mrs.
ohm w. AShenfelter.
She was a former school teacher
n the county and at one time
erVed as postmistress at Swar Oh
IS years She was a member Of
he Episcopal church at Swanton.
She is survived by a daughter,
hrs. Robert Sheckclls, Balti-
more; son, Wade H. Lohr, Jr..
Iyattsvillc; four brothers, John w.
Ashenfelter, Rowlesburg; James
Ashenfelter, Long Beach, Miss;
nd Fred and Harry Ashenfelter,
10Th of Keyser; two sisters. Mrs.
Minnie Wilt, Keyser Mrs. An
lrew Golden. Cumberland: five
grandchildren and IS great grand
children.
The body was taken to the Min
itch Funeral home in Oakland.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
rom the Funeral home with the
Rev. Thomas p. Staup, vicar of
he Episcopal church in Deer Park.
officiating. Interment was in the
Oakland cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-02-09
CHARLES FILLMORE Sewers

Charles Fillmore Sewers, aged 81
IF ST. Petersburg, Fla, died there
asst Friday, February 3, following
short illness.
Born in Kitzmiller July 10, 1906
lie was a son of the late E. F. and
Alice Junkins Sewers
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Elizabeth Putnam Sewers;
wo sons, Lawrence Sewers, Kan
las; and Charles A. Sewers: Ne
,raska; daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Sewers, at home; a sister, Mrs
eta Huffman, Clarksburg, w. Va,
md two grandchildren. A number
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-02-09
Wants Opportunity To
Testify On Districtine

Rep. Charles McC. Matthias. Jr.,
congressman from this district. has
written to the judiciary committee
of the House of Delegates, express
ing his interest in the proposed
hearing or the proposed eighth
congressional district in Maryland.
Matthias caid he would like an
opportunity to testify on the sub
ject before the Judiciary commit
tee.
The addition of a congressional
district has been authorized as a
result of the increase in popula-
ton during the last ten years, and
it will be up to the legislature to
divide the state so that the addi-
tional district will represent the
majority of taxpayers in the state.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-02-09

of nieces and nephews residing in
this area also survive.
The body was brought to the
Pritts Funeral home in Kitzmiller
where services are being conducted
this afternoon at o'clock with
the Rev Cecil Jordan officiating.
Interment will be in the IOOF
cemetery at Nethken Hill, Elk
Garden.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24
JOHN n. MOORE
3. Perry Street


3. Perry Street
Rockville, Nd.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
Z. Little in the Estate OF
CLYDE EARL LITTLE
late OF Montgomery County deceased. An
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned TO present the
same on or before the 2sth day Of jan
uary next; they may otherwise By law
be excluded from all benefit Of said
Estate. All persons indebted 10 said
Estate are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 2sth day Of
July 1861.
JESSE Z. LITTLE
3535 Briggs Clancy Road
Silver Spring, Md.
Executor 6t-71a-H.1l
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24
In MemOriam

In loving memory of our lit
tie grandson RENNIS Ora
HAM, JR., who passed away
one year ago, August %, 1860.
My Darling, we think about you
often.
II makes our hears so sad but
God knew best when he
took you to rest.
But there Is q vacant place In
my home that can never be
filled.
So rest, my Darling, you will
suffer no more.
We will never forget this day
that Gods taken you away.
So rest In peace, my Darling.
Your Loving Grandmother
and Grandaddy Graham
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24
RIsQUE w. PLUsfsfER
1107 Mercantile Trust BldE.
baltimore 2, Maryland

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
has Issued Letters Testamentary 10
Lenore q. Post In the Estate OF
LAWRENCE #. POST
late OF Montgomery County deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned 70 present the
same on or before the 2ist day OF jan
uary next; they may otherwise BY law
be excluded from all benefit OF said
Estate. All persons indebted 10 said Es-
tate are requested TO make immediats
payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day
Of july, 1851
IGNORE Q. POST
Route 2. Box lis
Germantown, Nd.
Executrix et-602- g-21
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24
VINCENT l.. GINGERIOM
Citizens Bank Building
Talkoma Park ~, Nd.

VINCENT l.. GINGERICM
Citizens Bank Building
Tak0mn Park I2, Nd.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Orphans Court for Montgomery County
has issued Letters Testamentary 10 War
rem c. Summers In the Estate OF
ALVERDA @. SUMMERS
late OF Montgomery County deceased. All
persons having Claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned TO present the
same on or before the 18th Day OF jan
uary next. they may otherwise BY law
b. excluded from all benefit Of said
Estate. All persons indebted Ia said
Estate are requested 10 make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 25th day Of
July 1861.
WARREN c. SUMMERS
2013 Osborn Drive
Silver Spring, Md
Executor 6t-720-s.31
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24

SCHOOL SUPPLIES = Better
pens, better binders at Rockville
Stationery Inc. in the Rockville
Shopping Center, Pc. 2-6115.
1t-8.24
TUFIDE CHOOL BAGS -
Guaranteed 5 years. Rockville
Stationery Inc. in the Rockville
Shopping Center. Pc. 2-6115.
1924
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24

FURNITURE UNCLAIMED -
Sec desk, $35; glider, $40; chest
of drawers, $40; Hollywood bed,
S22; vanity & mirror, $3.50; love
seat, $40; 10 piece din. rm. set,
$40; occas. chair, Sc; Victorian
love seat, $40; FIR. club chair,
S25; antique white bedrm, set
incl. spring & mattress, $125;
bamboo sofa, SIS; maple chest
on-chest, S32; fireplace set, SIS;
3 piece sec. sofa with 2 end ia
bles & coffee table, $195; mir.
rors, SO; FIR. Prov. chest OF
drawers, $50; rockers, So; up
right piano, $40; wing chair,
$40; desk, Sc; dinette set, $25;
bedrm. set. 500; sofa & chair,
S35; 2 end & / coffee table, 81;
rollaway bed, $13; Victorian bed,
SIS. We do re-upholstering, re-
finishing, cabinet work, slipcov-
ers & Grapes. Open It'll 8, Sat.
It'll 6. Sunday 12.5. Easy terms.
list payment in October. Free
parking Hoffman, Upholsterers,
2447 18th St, NV, co. $1,000.
1924
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24
ROCKVILLE

ROCKVILLE = Custom built
brick Colonial with entrance hall
& lovely stairway. Sunken liv-
ingroom, screened porch off din
ingroom; well equipped kitchen;
powder rm. on list H., extra lge.
bedrms.,; deluxe bath. Spacious
hall & cedar storage closets on
End fl, clean bright bsmnt.
Numerous extras. Priced below
cost, S18,500. GLEN ]. KOEPE-
NICK & CO., .PO. 2-5252. 1t-8-24
WHEATON, bedrms., bsmnt.,
on nice corner lot, 2 blocks to
school, immediate occupancy;
$11 500. No money down CT.
c. L. DUNCAN, 10. $1,000.
3t-8-29
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24
Legal Advertisement

BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
Notice to Contractors
Lump sum sealed bids will be
received by the Board of Educa-
ton at its Construction Office,
located in the single story build
ing ON East Jefferson and Mon.
roe Streets, Rockville, Montgom-
cry County, Maryland, until
400 p. NJ, DIST
THURSDAY,
September Z, 1861,
for furnishing and installing APP
proximately $40 lineal feet of
TO- high chain link fence, in
GLIDING two a wide gates, en-
closing tennis courts; approxi-
mately SO lineal feet of s high
chain link fence, including one
a wide gate, enclosing the cool
ing tower; and approximately
1898 lineal feet of 8 high fence
along the north property line
all as shown on Board of Educa-
ton plan No. 65-A, at the West
Rockville Junior High School,
Great Falls Road, Rockville,
Maryland.
Each bid must be accompanied
by a bid bond for not less than
ten (109o) per cent of the
amount of the base bid from a
Surety Company acceptable to
the Owner. The successful bid
der shall deliver to the Owner a
one hundred percent (100eo)
Labor and Material Payment
Bond and a one hundred percent
10000 Performance Bond on
A. /. A. Form A.311 not less
than ten (10) consecutive cal
endar days after the contract
award.
Plans and Specifications may
be obtained from the Construc.
ton Division, Board of Educa-
ton, r o kville, Montgomery
County, Maryland, on or after
Thursday, August "a, 1861.
All work must be completed
within Thirty 800 Days after
the award of the contract. No
bid may be withdrawn within
Thirty 800 days after the actual
date of the opening thereof.
Payment In full will be made
upon acceptance of work by the
Owner.
The conditions contained in
this Notice to Contractors" by
their issuance become a part OF
the contract requirements.
The Board of Education re-
serves the right to waive any
information in or to reject any
or all bids.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
JAMES H. SHELDON
Director Of Construction
2tS19-S.31
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24

KENSINGTON = Newly dec.
white Cape Cod, 2 bedrms., exp.
attic, scr. porch, fenced yd., mr..
shop. center and park; $4,000,
4&6 loan. OWNER, VIII. 2-5823,
10. 5-0731. 1899
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-24

BOAT-151z IT,; V-Bottom; Ma.
rine Plywood; Bronze Fasten.
ings. Takes Engine to 20 HIP;
$50 lbs. S1s5. Call OIL. 1864:
tf.4tM.N.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
35 Star Carriers Leave
On Atlantic City Trip

Thomas Darnall, Clinton
Manor drive, Clinton Manor,
Md; Philip Douffos, 220 Polk
drive, Manassas, Va; George
Dunn, 3717 w street NV. and
James Dunn, same address.
Edwin Earl, 768 Thirteenth
street Sc; Larry and Emerson
Ellis of 762 Thirteenth street
Sc, John Everett, 1719 Cody
drive, Silver Spring, Md; Ron
aid Fisher, 612 Forty-sixth
place Sc; Jim Frost, 705 Nor
man avenue, Fairfax; Allan
Griffey. 1904 Greig street, Seat
Pleasant, and Jack Nipple,
1918 Ridgeview drive, Airing
ton.
Lawrence johnson, 1923 E
street Sc; Edward johnson,
1853 H street Sc; Bobby
Johnson, Woodbridge, Va;
Harold Kittrel, 1866 G. street
Sc, and Allan Korobov. 6172
Wilson boulevard, Arlington.
Also. joey Lang. 6164 Wilson
boulevard, Arlington. Dean
Manaugh, 2413 Fairlawn street,
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Thirty-five Star carrier boys

Thirty-five Star carrier boys
winners of a free two-day
trip to Atlantic City, N. j.
took off yesterday from The
Star Building, 225 Virginia
avenue Sc.
The boys were winners in a
circulation contest conducted
in the District, Virginia and
Maryland.
A choice of sailboat or speed
boat sightseeing around the
resort will be included in 3
number of activities set up for
the winners. They are being
accompanied by C. A. Loll, city
home delivery manager. and
j. N. Manaugh, supervisor.
Following is a list of win
ners:
Joe Alexander Of 1870 Bay
street Sc; Billy Beavers, 518
South Henry street, Alex.
Mark Buckley, 1902 haywood
avenue, Silver Spring, David
Collegeman, 5419 South Eighth
road. Arlington. and Lloyd
Conner, 200 Adams avenue,
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1961-07-26

field, Va; Michael Riley, 1904
E street Sc; I. st. Clair. Cali
fornia, Md; Danny Sutphin
Marshall, Va; Thomas RooSe-
velt, 1868 G street Sc: John
Wells. 1929 First. street NV,
and Louis Vince, Piney Point,
Maryland.
Evening star., 1961-07-26

Hillcrest Heights, Md; Philip
Manglitz. 3510 Metzerott road,
College Park; Bob Merritts, 126
East Sunrise drive, Lexington
Park, Md, and Walter Miller
SIT North Payne street, Alexan-
dria, Virginia.
Also, Charles Pardee, Spring
Evening star., 1961-07-26
#ll85l! ELECTRIC DRYER VALUE!

This handsome matching Kenmore provides
for lOb oads drying temperatures including Ar for ug clothes
and Modern Fabrics Setting special
catches lint uzz LoadA Door loading unloading
Dryers, ear
Evening star., 1961-05-21
Mrs. Doo|ey Married
To Mr.. Lyle Wilson

25 years has been chief of
its Washington Bureau. He
is a past president and the
secretary of the Gridiron
Club.
The bride was given in mar
riage by Mr.. Walker Stone,
editor-in-chief of the Scripps-
Howard Newspaper Alliance,
and the best man was Mr..
Lee Hills, executive editor of
the Knight newspapers. Mrs.
Wilson was matron of honor
at the wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hills 13 years ago in
Miami.
A reception for Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson, following the
wedding, was given by Mr..
and Mrs. Victor Johnston at
their home, 1904 Boxwood
court, Westmoreland Hills.
After a brief wedding trip,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson will re-
side at 248O Sixteenth street,
NV.
Evening star., 1961-05-21

A wedding of unusual in
tereSt to the Washington press
corps and to the many Wash
ington friends of the bride
and bridegroom took place
in the Bethlehem Chapel of
Washington Cathedral at
$3.50 yesterday afternoon
when Mrs. Margaret Christ
ner Dooley was married to
Mr.. Lyle Campbell Wilson.
The Rev. Fred S. Busch
meyer, director of the Wash
ington office of the National
Council of Churches, offici-
ated.
Mrs. Wilson is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Frederick Wallace
Christner and the late Mr..
Christner of Mountain View,
near Oklahoma City, Okla.
Mr.. Wilson, one of the best
known of Washington news
papermen, is vice president
of United Press Interna-
tional and for more than
Evening star., 1961-05-21

the forerunner Of the United
States Sanitary Commission
which played such a major
role in the war.
Under the instigation Of
DR.. Bellows, the Sanitary
Commission was founded in
Washington in June, 1861,
but not without some initial
resistance from military au-
thorities who resented "ci-
william interference" in their
affairs. At wars end it had
performed a gigantic task
not only in lifting the sani-
tary standards of camp and
hospital for which it was
set up. but for the first half
Of the war being the main
Supplier Of the Army's needs,
furnishing everything from
crutches to speedily equipped
trains and hospital boats.
Backing the commissions
activities were the hundreds
of soldiers aid societies who
were instrumental in getting
the supplies to the front as
well as raising the money
for their purchase through
the successful Sanitary
Fairs.
One Of its leading lights
was Mrs. Mary Livermore
who with her friend Mrs.
Jane c. Hoge had charge
of the Chicago branch of the
commission. Mrs. Livermore
was not only active in rais-
ing funds through public
addresses and writings but
often visited the front with
sanitary stores so as to give
its distribution her personal
attention.
Another organization that
did much for the troops was
Evening star., 1961-05-21

the Washington area, but on
June 10, 1861, the Secretary
of War made her superin-
tendent of all Army nurses
with the power to recruit
from all over the country.
This she did by mail.
All applications had to
be accompanied by photo
graphs and a detailed de-
scription. When the appli-
cant was approved by the
surgeon generals office. she
could go to the director of
her local hospital and be ac-
cepted. She received $12 a
month in pay. 81 less than
a buck private!
That Miss Dix lived up to
her word is atteSted by the
fact that no Army nurse was
ever dismissed for moral lax
ity. Her scrupulous enforce
ment of rules and lack Of
organization constantly had
her at loggerheads with med
ical authorities and led to
the curtailment of her pow
ers in late 1868.
A automatically worded
general order specifically
gave Miss Dix what she
wanted but in reality made
it possible for candidates
who had failed to pass her
rigid standards to be en-
rolled at the request of a hos
pital head, as one Army sur
geon noted, irrespective Of
age, size or looks"
This enabled nurses who
had been employed under
Evening star., 1961-05-21
:WOhEN IN THE CIVIL WAR
Only PIoin-Looking Nurses Were Wanted

zens, among them Louisa
May Alcott of later literary
fame who on her 30th birth
day decided to leave her Con-
cord Mass.) home Ito go to
Washington as a nurse If I
could find a place"
Typically, the young Miss
Alcott observed in her diary,
later published in book form
as Hospital Sketches" that
she would not be one of
those women who are the
very image of "petrified pro-
priety" and at the first op-
portunity she confesSes, Il
put my bashfulness in my
pocket"
Most Of these Army nurse
volunteers had little to equip
them for the horrors they
would face, but face it they
did with quiet courage and
compassion. AS Annie P. Err
wing later reminisced: Work
was there for you to do, and
no matter how diSagreeable,
you would not, and could not
say I can't do it. but on the
impulse you would find your
self doing the very best you
knew how"
Mary Phinney Won Oln-
hauSen, widow Of a German
baron. was personally es-
corted by Miss Dix to her
first nursing duty in Alex
andria'S Mansion House hos
pital Just after the battle of
Cedar Mountain. She arrived
to find a double procession
the wounded being carried
in and the dead being car
ried out. That very night she
was asked to assist with sew
eral major operations in
which little or no anesthesia
was given, the operating
room literally a sea Of blood.
Anna Holstein who spent
three years in the field hos
pitfalls of the Army of the
Potomac, found one of her
last assignments the most
Notwithstanding the re-
turned prisoners from An
derSonville. They reminded
her. she later wrote. "of the
skeletons I had seen washed
out. upon Antietam, Gettys-
burg, and other battlefields,
only they had ceased from
suffering, and we're at rest;
these were still living,
breathing, helpless starved
men!"
For Three Years
The Woolsey sisters were
among the fortunate few
who came equipped for their
grim tasks, for they were
among 100 competent
women chosen by the Wom-
ems Central Relief ASsocia-
ton Of New York for special
training by New York doc
tors within 80 days after
President Lincoln issued his
call for $4,000 men. The as
sociation which was founded
by DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell
and DR.. Henry w. Bellows,
a Unitarian minister, was
Evening star., 1961-05-21
Medical Group
Plans Meetinq

The Women's Auxiliary of
the Prince Georges County
Medical Society will meet at
noon Tuesday to install the
new officers. The meeting is
to take place at the Nurses
Home of the Prince Georges
County General Hospital.
Following the installation,
tea will be served and the
nursing scholarship and
awards will be presented.
Evening star., 1961-05-21

the United States Christian
Commission, founded in New
York at the beginning of the
war by church groups to
give comforts and supplies
not furnished by the Govern
ment. One of its famous
agents was Mrs. Annie Wit
tenmyer who was instru-
mental in setting up light
diet kitchens for the sick and
wounded.
Next week: The nursing story
continues.
Evening star., 1961-05-21
BY RUTH DEAN
Star Staff WEiter

At the outbreak Of the
Civil War, hospitals were
little better than almshouses,
and nursing was considered
far, from the honorable pro-
fession it is today.
Only the lowest women
hired out as professional
nurses, it was thought, while
on the other hand tending
the sick" of ones own family
was a high virtue. The big
dividing line was compenSa-
tion for services. Even for
nursing a distant relative or
close neighbor it was un-
thinkable for a respectable
woman to accept pay for her
efforts.
So it didn't seem unusual
at the wars onset for the
women to rush to
the front to tend
C;f+l their wounded rel
I"' atives, fix up the
of n first crude bar
= racks hospitals
OSIlSS with curtains and
- flowers and cook
their meals S-the
touches of home" the SOL
dierS so longed for.
But the old bugaboo about
professional nursing raised
its head with the arrival in
Washington of Dorothea
Lynde Dix a few days after
the war had begun. The
homely, acid tongued spin
ster of so. who'd already
gained an international rep
utation for reforms in the
care of the insane, was firmly
of the opinion that suffering
men needed a woman'S care.
Fired by the zeal of Flor
ence Nightingale whose work
in the Crimean War seven
years before shattered the be-
lief that the wars wounded
were expendable, Miss Dix
went to the Army Surgeon
General and proposed a Fe-
male Nurse Corps as a divi-
sion of the Army'S Medical
Department.
Recruiting
Anticipating his objections,
she promised she would re-
cruit only middle aged
women of unblemished char
acter, recommended by their
pastors. AS further proof Of
good faith she submitted to
the Army authorities a cir
cular which read: mo
woman under 80 years need
apply to serve in Govern
ment hospitals. All nurses are
required to be very plain
looking women. Their dresses
must be brown or black, with
no bows, no curls, no jewelry
and no hoopSkirts."
Miss Dix bounded the med
ical department with her
plan until they reluctantly
gave their consent to forma-
ton of a nurse corps with
her as it's head. At first her
authority extended just to
Evening star., 1961-05-21

Miss Dix but who disliked
working under her, as well
as those who'd been serving
without official status, to ask
for special appointments.
These not only include d
girls whose youth had barred
them but such famous older
nurses as Mother" Newcomb
and the intrepid Mother"
Bickerdyke.
Every type Of woman was
to be found in the hospitals
from a drunken, swearing"
English nurse at Alexandria
to the gently bred Emily Par
sons Of st. Louis. Some were
old and crotchety. some &C.
centric, some had few kind
words for their Confederate
patients, but most Of them
were Self-Sacrificing, m a ny
Of tn e m continuing their
work when taken i'll them
selves.
Generals Wives
A half dozen Of the Army
nurses were the wives of gen.
erals, one the widow of a
Governor, one the daughter
of a British admiral. The
four Woolsey sisters were
first cousins Of the president
Of Yale, and Mary Husband
was the wife Of a prominent
Philadelphia lawyer and
granddaughter of Robert
Morris.
Most of the nurses were
the wives and daughters of
substantial middle-class citi-
Evening star., 1961-05-21

women 10 TUSIl 10
the front to tend
their wounded rel
ativeS, fix up the
first crude bar
racks hospitals
with curtains and
flowers and cook
their meals the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-11-16

fall-out instrument reading, etc.
He also urged immediate construc-
ton of fall-out shelters by and for
individual families.
In case of atomic attack about
$1,000 refugees from congested
areas would have to move this
way. There are three primary well
fare stations in the county: Oak
land, Grantsville, and Friendsville,
to help care for those refugees.
Rev. Trout suggested that Kitz-
miller could be one of the secon-
Diary stations.
Several P-TA members present
took the Civil Defense member
ship oath following a discussion of
ways and means to get the pro-
gram started here.
Anyone interested in becoming a
Civil Defense member and obtain
ing more information about any
possible first aid and other courses
to be given may contact Mrs. Grace
Evans, Civil Defense deputy.
Bea Mae Riggs, of Accident, Wis
| tied her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Arlie Warwick, last week
Bobby Lyons, Winchester Wis
tied his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Lyons, over the weekend.