Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-21
kENSINGTON NEWS.
Assessment of Property for Improve
ments Ordered by Council
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
KENSINGToN, July 20. 1860.
Mr.. j. W. Witten of the general land
office, Washington, has taken the Martin
house for the summer Mrs. T r. Martin
and Miss Helen Martin will spend the sum-
mer at Saratoga, N. Y, and Mrs. Helen
Martin and Miss Matte Martin at Shop
herdstown, Va
Mrs. H. C. Armstrong and Master Paul
Armstrong will leave Tuesday for North
Scituate. Mass.
DR.. Lucian Clark of Washington will
preach the anniversary sermon at the ST.
Paurs NJ E. Church Sunday morning The
twentieth century thank offering will be
received and applied to the Indebtedness Of
the church.
The annual meeting OF the stockholders
of the Chevy Chase and Kensington Elec-
trio Railway Company was held Monday
evening last. DIR. r. B. DERRICK presided
and W. H. Walker was secretary. The
following board of directors was elected
for the ensuing year: w. NJ. Terrell Par
ker Jones, Anthony Ray, r. Il. DERRICK.
B. H. Warner, w. H. Mannakee. r. W.
Walker. Q. r. Harr, w. II. Walker and
A. II. Philips.
Mr.. Chamberlain, assistant commissioner,
patent office. has taken the residence Of
Mr.. John Curtis for the summer. Mr.. Cur
tbs and family will summer at Atlantic
City.
BY a recent osaer passed by the town
council the clerk will make an assessment
on all the taxable property in the corporate
limits of the town of kensington to pay
the interest due for the current year upon
the 5000 of bonds issued by the mayor
and council OF Kensington under the act
of the general assembly, dated the 14th OF
March, A. d. 1898, and also that an assess
ment be made by the clerk upon the same
property to raise the sum of 5000 for the
sinking fund provided in said act. Here
tofore the cost Of the brick walks has been
assessed ha a 1ff sr,tr lnf
while under the present ruling those who
are in no way benefited by the improve
ments will he obliged to meet their share
of the assessments. This decision was
reached after long agitation Of the ques-
ton. The matter was argued before The
council by William A. Edwards and W. c.
Van Hoy.
A called meeting of the woman's Club
was held Friday morning at the home or
Mrs ]. W. Townsend to consider a change
in the years work. 1t was decided to take
up the further study of United States his
tory. to be arranged as Bits of Travel"
Mrs. Van Hoy resigned chairman of the
educational committee and Mrs. Mary Free
man was appointed in her stead. The fol-
lowing club extension committee was ap-
pointed: Mrs. E. V. Thomas, chairman:
Misses Stella and Bessie Perry. Helen
Nourse, May Massie, Mrs. Margaret Lewis
and Mrs. Lena Biggs 1t is not probable
that another meeting of the entire club
will be called before the opening of the
year in October.
Mrs. h. V. Thomas was the recipient or
a handsome fruit dish presented by the
members of the Loyal Temperance Legion
on Monday last. Mrs. Thomas has had
charge of the Loyal Temperance Legion
during the past year. and her associates
took this method of expressing their appre-
citation of her work.
The July meeting of the Noyes Library
Literary Society will be postponed. The
next meeting will be held on August - at
the NJ. E. parsonage. with Helen Hunt
Jackson as the author.