Evening star., 1902-08-26
GAITHERsBURG NEWS.
The Dramatic Club Entertainment
Deaths-Personal Items.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
GAITHERSBURG, Md, August %. 1902.
The amateur theatricals given tonight at
Masonic Hall by the Dramatic Club de-
lighted a large audience. r1fwo plays, en-
titled The Economical Boomerang" and
My Turn Next" composed the principal
numbers. The casts were made up of
Messrs. Charles Wilson. Foster, VIM. r.
Owings, Edward Padgett and Bernard Dia-
mond, and Misses Priscilla, Dawson, Lucy
and Nan Waters. There were solos by Mr..
John S. Larcombe, jr., and Mrs. Frederick
W. Carlisle, a selection by Miss Meem and
special quartet charmingly rendered
plantation songs. The entertainment was
given in the interest of the new scenery
and equipment of the Masonic Temple, and
was a gratifying financial success.
Mr.. Richard r. Green, one of the oldest
citizens of this section, died at his home
near Goshen of the inhrmities of age. He
outlived every member of his immediate
family, and left a valuable farming estate.
His funeral took place at the Goshen NJ.
e. Church South, of which he was a mem
Der, the pastor officiating. Mr.. Green never
married. He was an uncle of Mrs. James
r. Howse
Gaithersburg. among them Miss Helen
Brown, registered at the New Summit;
Miss Emma Bogley, the guest of Dr. Jas
L.. Lodge; Mrs. Arthur Waters and four
Waters; Miss Ethel Page, the guest of NJ SIS
Rachel Young for a month; Mrs. Salie
t'arr and Miss Minnie, stopping with rela-
tVes, and Mrs. Kate Patterson, former
resident of the town.
Funeral services over the remains Of Mrs
Edgar Briggs who died Saturday at her
home near Gaithersburg, were held at the
M. E. Church South, of which she was
G Gommanicant, n, this morning. Revs. Frank
r Gritt1th of Rockville and her pastor, Rev
David Harriss, participated in them Mrs
Brlggs leaves her husband and four chill
dfen, the youngest an infant Her unex-
pected death was shock to the wide circle
OF relatives and many friends, a large con-
course of whom attended the funeral In
terment was in Forest Oak cemetery
MRS. FRANK Crawford and son of BaItf-
more are guests of Mr.. Robert E. Kanode.
Sunday morning at Epworth M F.
Church the annual union picnic of the sun
gay schools at Gaithersburg, Washington
Grove, Germantown and Hunting Hill was
arranged for, date being set September 6,
at Gaithersburg. A committee of arrange
hlehts' with ReV. Charles E. Ely, chairman,
was selected.
MT Charles Scanlon, prohibition candi-
GATE Tor governor of Minnesota is visiting
ms 1ather-1n-law, Prof. G. w. Walker. He
came east TO deliver an address at the state
temperance demonstration at Frederick
City next Saturday
AZ the entertainment given by the Ma.
some Temple and Library Association a
adequate TO accommodate the crowd, Sales
VI tickets amounted to nearly $500, and the
performance was pronounced to be a thor
0Ugh success
The Montgomery County Telephone Com
PahS, haVing leased of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Company the unfinished line of
telephones in and around Potomac, has
opened communication with that section of
the county, affordins long-distance facili-
Ties with the American Telegraph and TeIe-
phone Company, through It's central office
sunday the new Methodist Protestant
Church at Mt. Lebanon, Laytonsville dis
trlct' was dedicated. Appropriate services
were held during the day. conducted by the
pastors, past. Reys j. A. Wright and F. M.
Cliff. The church Is a modern frame struc-
ture, costing 81 800
MISS Nellie Cecil entertained about fifty
OF her intimate friends at the Cecil home
SATURDAY evening, the occasion of an eigh-
teenth birthday anniversary party given by
her mother In her honor /