Evening star., 1900-08-18

onage of Mrs. Evans Duvall. Mrs. T Watts
Byerly. Mrs. T. Hall Brehme, Mrs Gam
brill and Mrs. NJ. Watson. There was A
large attendance. including a number of
out-of-town people. Those present were
DR.. and Mrs. R. H. Sadler. Mr. and Mrs.
T. Hall Brehme, Mrs. Evans Duvar, Mrs
NJ Watson, Mrs. Gambrill, the Misses Mar
garet, Emma and Laura Sadler. Louise Ben
nett. Marjorie Loweree. Jennie and George
Berry. Katie Gambrtll. Carolyn Josephine
and Helen Hamilton. Mabel Green of Wash
ington, Sibyl Norvill OF Washington Mary
Lee Flemming Of Baltimore. Bessie Clayton
and Mamie Shepherd of West River Nellie
Jones of Muirkirk and Elsie Jones OF Phila-
delphia, Messrs. Lee and Elmer Duvall, r.
A Clark. Ogle Marbury. VIII Billiard Har-
vey Stanley. Leroy Livingston, Frank Ham
ilton. Grandine Bennett Percy and Law
renee Cassard, Burr and Brooks of WASH
lngton, Henry Flemming Of Baltimore r.
K. Norris of Washington and r. H. Sadler
The ladies OF St Marys Catholic Church
OF this town held very successful lawn
fete on the grounds OF Mr.. Charles ".
Darr on Montgomery street Thursday and
Friday nights. The lawn and the verandas
OF the residence were very prettily decorat-
ed with Chinese lanterns and q large gath
ering was on hand both evenings. Quite a
large sum was realized by the ladies'
William Clark and John Merson Of this
town. whose ages are fifteen and seventeen
years. respectively, have been released
from the house Of correction upon trial un-
der writs OF habeas corpus before Judge
Jones at Elhcott City. They had been conn
| mitted August 3, the former for two months
and the latter for six months, by Justice
James Hasup Of the sixth district of How
ard county, for alleged disorderly conduct
While visiting Savage. Both were dis
charged on the ground of defective COM
mltments. the Justice having issued the
commitments instead Of imposing fines as
would have been only 81 and costs The
prisoners were represented by Messrs
Charles w. Darr of Laurel and J. Malcolm
Dorsey Of Ellicott City and the state by
| States Attorney Martin F. Burke
Thursday night the large general mer-
| chandise store owned and conducted
by Mr.. Frank p. Clancy at Burtons-
vile. about four miles from this town.
was totally destroyed by fire between
| the hours Of IL and u o'clock The
fire was first discovered by a young
| man living near the store while he was
preparing to retire for the night. He irnme-
dlately notified Mr.. Clancy, who lives about
three-quarters of a mile from his store
| but before he and his neighbors could reach
tne burning building the flames were be-
yond control The building burned SO rap
Idly that several hundreds of dollars worth
of farming implements stored on the porch
could not be saved. The post Office Of the
| town Is also located at this store and Mr.
Chaney is the postmaster. With great diff
Guilty and danger to himself Mr. CLANCY
succeeded In getting all of the mail out Of
the building. The post office will be con-
Edward H. Burton. who resides in the i'm
| mediate vicinity. The place where the fire
was first discovered leads many to believe
that IT was of incendiary origin. Mr.. Cha
ney closed the store early that evening,
and when he left there was no fire in the
building and everything appeared to be
safe The stock was valued at about s.. 800
and the store at about 81 600. The Insurance
will probably reach $1,000
At the last meeting Of the county school
board. held at Upper Marlboro last Thurs-
day. 1t was decided to enlarge the present
course Of studies of the High School lo-
Gated here. Manual training, military train
ing, sewing and business course includ-.
ing shorthand and typewriting as well as
bookkeeping, will be added. This will me-
cessitate the procuring OF two additional
teachers. With these improvements 1t is
claimed. this school will be the equal Of
any OF the high schools of Baltimore or
Washington, and 1t is confidently expected
that the attendance will be materially in
creased during the coming year When the
project was first started for the ui,ding Of
the high school in this town It was in
tended that II should be an institution for
southern MARYLAND.
At the same meeting of the board Messrs
Charles H. Stanley. Edward Phelps. DIR.
Jules F. Billiard and Mr.. Frederick Sasscer
were appointed an advisory board for the
High School.
Much-needed improvements in some of the
streets in the western part Of the town are
being made. The rains have washed the
roadbed In some places SO that IL is almost
| impossible for loaded team to traverse
that section. Some Of the drainage pipes
| under crossings were in very bad condition,
at some points large holes appearing in the
| surface of the road. and have only lately
been remedied.
Miss Mary Lanahan. who has been the
guest of friends at Rehoboth Beach. DEL,
for several weeks. has returned to her
home near this town.
Miss Jessie Roseberry is at home after
visit to relatives In Virginia.
Miss Mary Clark has just returned from
a visit to relatives on the eastern shore.