Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-15

Correspondence Of TIE EVENING STAR
ROCKVILLE, Feb. "A, 1889.
A meeting Of the board of county school
commissioners was held here yesterday to close
mp the business Of the winter term. The fol-
lowing new trustees were appointed: O. r.
Hershey vice L. B. Nicholson, Charles Lyd-
dane vice N. Wilson. II. A. Garrett vice John
Collins. B. D. Palmer vice F. F. Turner. The
secretary reported 4, 800 pupils enrolled for the
winter term, against 4, 5S4 for same term last
year. Bills amounting to &1l.7462S were
passed and ordered to be paid The appoint
ment Of Miss Daisy Peter a. third assistant in
the school at Rockville, and Miss Halle M.
Gartrell in the thirteenth district, were con-
6rmed. The board adjourned to May I, when
trustees will be appointed for all the schools
and petitions for new school houses, furniture,
de-, will be received for presentation to the
county commissioners in order to have money
levied for the same. The teachers will be paid
tomorrow for the winter term.
During the year 1888 165 marriage licenses
were issued in this county.
DR.. d. F. Owens has purchased Of Mrs. Rose
Williams building lot in the west end Of town,
upon which he will soon commence the cree
ton of commodious brick dwelling-house.
The location is one of the finest in Rockville.
Mr.. Cooke d. Luckett yesterday sold to Mr..
Frank Almoney a half-acre lot at Derwood sta
ton, on the Metropolitan railroad for $50.
At the annual meeting Of the agricultural
society, to be held here next Wednesday, an
effort will be made to establish farmers insti-
tute in the county. An address in favor Of the
project will be delivered by Major Alvord, OF
the Maryland agricultural college.
Work will soon be commenced on new turn
pike road from GAINESVILLE, Howard county, to
Ashton and Unity, in the eastern part of this
county.
VIM. s. Harrison and Il. A. Garrett, Of Great
Falls, have gone to Baltimore to attend the
session of the grand lodge X. of p.
The losses by the recent burning of the large
barn of Mr.. Simon d. Best at Germantown, on
Tuesday, embrace four fine horses, number
of cattle, forty tons of hay, 500 barrels of corn
several tons of mill feed and all his farming
implements-all estimated at $4,000. The fire
originated from sparks from an engine used in
| cutting proyender. A son of Mr.. Best who
rushed into the burning building to save the
horses, came near losing his life from the
smoke and heat.
Mr.. Robert Small, Of this place, severed an
artery in his arm to-day while working on q
dwelling house, and John Holden, carpenter
few hours afterward, fell from the same
building, breaking the bones in one of his feet
David, son of Mr.. Saml Bready, living near
this place, fell through hatchway into the
cellar of the store of d. II. Warfieid. yester.
day, dislocating his collar bone and otherwise
bruising himself badly.
Mr.. W. W. Russell, of this place, left New
York yesterday for South America, where he
has accepted a position in surveying party to
locate a new railroad. He expects to be absent
| several years.
A new building association will be started al
Gaithersburg upon the expiration of the pres
ent one, which will be in short time.
Mr.. L. II. Simpson, with his family, Of Lo-
gansport Ind, is at present visiting his father
Rev. DR.. Simpson, of this town.
Out of the large number of contracts re.
Gently awarded for carrying the mails in this
county but one was awarded to a citizen, that
from Laurel to Brookeville, to Perry II. Con.
nell, for 1898.
During the recent cold snap ice formed in
this locality to the thickness of about 4 inches
and it is being rapidly gathered and stored fol
summer use.
Clayton Fields,so of Mr.. Jetson G. Fields, OF
the neighborhood of Darnstown, who keeps
store at Woods Lock, ON the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, was violently assaulted by three
negro men on Tuesday night, one of them
knocking him down with heavy club When
he regained consciousness he found that he
had been robbed of a gold watch and s45 in
money. Officers are on the lookout for the
miscreants, but no arrests have yet been made
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