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BUSINESSES: SANDY SPRING STORE
	Postmaster Samuel B. Wetherald dispatches mail from the Sandy Spring Store and post office for delivery to Forest Glen in 1895. He ran the store for four decades and served as postmaster for most that period. Among county post offices, Sandy Spring in the late 1800's rivaled much larger Rockville in volume of mail, in part because of the insurance company and bank, in part perhaps because of Sandy Springers' propensity to communicate.
	"She was a worker!" recall the innumerable admirers of Sarah Dantz, who shovels snow before the Sandy Spring Store. For much of the mid-20th century she clerked the store and in countless other ways made it a pleasant place to shop. She and husband Vernon 'Bun' Dantz lived in the one-time Sandy Spring School near the Meeting House.

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