Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-18
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News From
Montgomery County's Capital.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. December IT, 1902.
In addition to the scarcity Of fuel, coal
oil famine is staring Rockville in the face.
It was stated this morning that there were
but sixty gallons Of fluid in the town. The
agent Of the Standard Oil Company states
| that several tanks and number of cars
| loaded with barrels have been shipped to
Rockville and should have reached here
long ago, but that he does not know where
they are or when they will arrive. Coal oil
Is used here almost exclusively for light
ing purposes and to a considerable extent
for heating, and the fear Of a continued
| scarcity of the fluid is viewed with alarm.
A license was issued here today for the
marriage Of Mr.. W. H. G. Mayors Of Car
roll county and Miss Lula Mills Of this
county. The groom-elect is apparently an
honest and somewhat unsophsticated young
farmer. Upon entering the clerks office he
inquired of Deputy Clerk John L. Burnett IL
license had been issued for the marriage
of Miss Mills. A search Of the records dis
closed the fact that a license had been is
sued last August for her marriage to a
young resident of Montgomery county.
Young Mayors stated that If one had not
been obtained within the past. two weeks
he was satisfied. He was assured that the
one mentioned was the only one whereupon
he made application for license for him
self. Upon being questioned as to when the
ceremony was to be performed he replied:
IF I get married at all, it will be today or
tomorrow" Notwithstanding the apparent
uncertainty that the license will be Of use
to him, he departed apparently well salts
fled with the progress of his matrimonial
plans.
Mr.. Charles E. Sommers, a former resi-
dent of this town, but who Is engaged IN
the newspaper business at Elizabethtown.
KY, is spending a few days in Rockville
visiting relatives and friends
John Henry Lawson. the Washington ne
gro who was convicted of grand larceny at
the recent term of the circuit court for this
county, and who was sentenced to ten years
in the Maryland penitentiary, in CONVERSE
ton with Sheriff Collier on the way TO the
penitentary the other day confessed to
criminal record that astonished the good
natured officer. He stated that within the
past few years he had committed forty
eight robberes. The scenes of his opera
tions he gave as the District of Columbia,
Fairfax county, Va and this county. He
said he had been arrested but twice-once
in Washington and the other time in this
county-and he laughed as If the thought
gave him considerable satisfaction when he
told how he had eluded the officers in
numerous cases. Lawson said he was proud
of~the fact that he had never attempted to
do any man bodily harm and that in all
his career he had not even raised his arm
to strike any one.
Mr.. Philander r. Stansbury, deputy clerk
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
is seriously i'll at his home near Rockville.
He has been confined to his bed for the past
week, and it is understood that pneumonia
is feared.
Mr.. William Anthony Bronson and Miss
Elizabeth Daugherty, young Washing
tonians, came out to Rockville last evening
and were married by Rev. Thomas ]. Pack
ard. rector of Christ Episcopal Church, the
ceremony taking place at the home Of the
minister. The groom gave his age as twen-
ty-one and that Of the bride eighteen.