Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-05
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News From
Montgomery County's Capital
of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. January 4, 1908.
The Rockville Baptist Sunday school
yesterday elected the following offi-
GERS for the ensuing year: Superintend.
ent Mr. c. Norman Bouic; assistant super
intendent Mr.. A A. Braddock; secretary,
Mr. George w. NJ. Davis; treasurer. Mr..
George Shaw; librarian, Miss Mabel
Shaw.
Mrs. Jessie S. Aldrich, a respected resi-
dent Of Glen Echo, this county. died FRI
day of consumption. aged about forty
eight years. She had been Ill long
while. She is survived by two sons
Messrs. Bruce and James F. Aldrich-
and a daughter who is now in Europe.
Deceased was for several years in charge
of the government reformatory on the
Conduit road.
At the annual meeting of the Past Mas
ters' Association of the thirty-fir Ma
sonic Jurisdiction of Maryland held re-
Gently at Kensington, the following OFF,
GERS were elected: President, Arthur B.
Gleason of Rockville; vice president Jas.
F. Allen of Rockville; secretary-treas-
urer, Harry B. Dreamer of Gaithersburg-
Yesterday the coolest day of the
season in Rockville. At an early hour
the thermometer registered 4 above zero,
which is the lowest of the winter by about
ten degrees.
The doctors or the lower section OF
county have organized a club, to be
known as the Physicians Social Club
Among the members are Drs. Eugene
Jones, J. L. Lewis Horace B. Haddox, "A.
NJ. Ray, William l.. Lewis and William T.
Brown. The organization will hold
monthly meetings at the homes of the
different members. 1t is understood that
similar clubs will be formed in other sec
lions of the county.
Mr.. w o. Peters has been appointed
postmaster at Avenel, this county.
Mr.. Frank L. Hewitt of Silver Spring. has
been critically Ill of pneumonia for the past
ten days, but is said to be improving, and
1t is thought his recovery is assured.
The annual institute of the farmers of
Montgomery county viii be held at Ken
sington January II and II. Addresses
will be delivered by well-knowg agricul-
turists and 1t Is understood every effort
will be made to get out a large crowd.
Mr.. Warren Wesley Chilson of Bradford
county. Pa. was married here this after
noon to Miss Emma ELLA Timber of the
same locality, Rev. s. r. White performing
the ceremony, the home of the minister
being the scene of the event. The groom is
forty-eight years of age and totally blind.
On four previous occasions he had en-
barkeG on the matrimonial sea, two of his
former wives being dead and the other two
divorced. His new wife Is but seventeen,
but the blind man seemed to regard her
youth with favor, and stated that one of
his former wives was but fourteen when he
married her, and she made the best wife Of
the lot. Both talked freely about them
selves and engaged in conversation with
several persons at the court house. They
were unaccompanied and left for Washing
ton Immediately after the ceremony
The trustees of the almshouse have elect
ed Mr.. John E. West of this place clerk to
the board He succeeds Mr.. John l.. Bru-
nett, who resigned upon being elected clerk
of the circuit court.
Mrs Ellen Victoria Thompson of Laytons-
Vile, this county. has. through her attor-
ney, Mr.. Frank Higgins, instituted suit in
the circuit court at this place for a divorce
from her husband, Zacheus Clements
Thompson. The bill alleges that ths .euple
were married in January, 1874. and thai In
the following November plaintiff was de-
serted by the defendant. Mrs. Thompson's
maiden name was Crawford.