Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-09
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
Meeting of Board of School Commits
sioners-Certifcate Awarded.


ROCKVILLE, Md, July 8. 1909.
| The board of public school commissioners
for Montgomery county met here today and
transacted a large amount of business The
results of the recent examinations for GER
| tifcates to teach in the public schools of
the county and for scholarships In differ
ent institutions were announced the board
! granting certificates and scholarships as
| follows:
| First grade certificates, Nos II and 2S;
| second grade certificates, Nos. !, 2 8, 4, s.
{, 8, IL, IA, 10, TO- Is, %, 26. 90 The num-
bers represent applicants for certificates,
the names not teing given out of consider
alton for those who failed.
Scholarships-Western Maryland College
waiter NJ. higgins; alternate, Marion Mar
ION St Johns College. Elmer G. Parsley;
alternate, Charles V. Williams. Charlotte
Hall academy, Cornelius Hughes; alter
nate. Thomas Perry. Maryland Agricul-
tural College, Roscoe v Wood: alternate,
Frank t. Williams. Maryland Institute
Val R. Veirs. Maryland State Normal
School, Daisy Cecil, Grace Birgfeld Kath-
leen Rhodes Lillian Metz, Matilda Eng
land, Emma Hughes.
The appointments of the following teach
ers were confirmed: Miss Lucy Hughes as
sistant at the Rockville High School; Miss
Mary sherwood assistant at Kensngton:
Miss Ida S. Dove, principal at Bethesda :
Miss Ida l.. sherwood principal at Became:
Miss Edith Byrne, principal at Clarksburs;
Miss Helen Nourse, principal at Dawson
vile; Miss Cora Il. Saunders principal at
Linden Miss Lillian England, principal at
Colesville; Miss Ella Robertson principal
al Shady Grove; Mr. J. Dawson Williams,
principal at Buck Lodge; Mr. Edward o.
Zeigler, principal at GAINESVILLE; Mr. T b.
Benson, principal at Blairs: Miss Elizabet h
Mercer, principal at ComuS; Miss Helen A.
Day principal at Etchison; Miss Annie G.
Pace, principal at Oakmont; Andrew A.
Davis, principal of Wheaton Colored
School. designations of the following
teachers were accepted: Miss Helen
Nourse, assistant at kensington; Miss Ida
S. Dove principal at Shady Grove; Miss
Edith Byrne, principal at Etchison; Miss
Beulah Fawcett, principal at Burnt Mills;
John T. Strother, principal at Blairs; Flor
ence ]. Hill, principal of Wheaton Colored
School.
The secretary reported sixty libraries
among the schools of the county, repre-
senting 5000 volumes.
Samuel Riggs was appointed trustee of
the school at Grifton: Walter Dorsey,
trustee Of Brookviiie school: J. B. Bowen
trustee of the colored school at Hunting
Hill, and William II. Johnson, Horace
Sedgwick and Edward Wood trustees of
the Rockville colored school. The follow
Ing colored teachers were granted certif-
Gates and permits to teach: Certificates
Sarah E. Canada. Mabel l. Brent. Martha
l.. Thomas, Elizabeth w. Johnson, Andrew
| A. Davis and w. E. Clarke. Permits-Ma-
bel M. Madden. Oliver G. Burriss. Matte
Miadle, Alice NJ. Carroll, A. G. Williams
and Ida r. Jenkins.
The board decided to appoint new trus-
! tees in the places Of all heretofore named
| who fail to qualify by August r.
Mr. John Chester, Corder and Miss Helen
| Gauntt, young observation-disclosures were
quietly married here last evening by Rev.
Robert l.. McNair, pastor Of the Presbyte-
| rian Church. The ceremony was per
formed at the Presbyterian parsonage, in
the presence of a Rockville friend Of the
| young couple. Later in the evening the
| newly married couple returned to the CITY.
An inquest was held here today over the
| remains Of Charles Dyson, colored, who
died early yesterday morning at the Emer-
gency Hospital, Washington, as the result
of injuries sustained last Friday night He
was found early Saturday morning near
the B. and o. track just above here with
his head badly cut and mashed. Several
witnesses were examined, the jury finding
| that his death was the result of being
struck by train.
| Dyson was well known in this community,
| where he was regarded as sober and in
dustrious man. At the time he was injured
he was employed as farm hand by Mr..
Randolph Dove, near this place.
The parsonage Of st. Mary's Catholic