Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-25
EVANSVILLE AND VICINITY.
Bank Stockholders Elect Directors
General and Social News.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HYATTESVILLE. January %, 1904.
The stockholders of the Citizens National
Bank of Laurel have elected these directors
to serve for the ensuing year: Chas Fl.
Stanley, George w. Waters. Dr.. j. r.
Hunt. Chas. F. Shaffer. Geo. w. Waters,
jr.. L. F. DIETRICH. A. G.. Thomas, w. II.
German. r. H. Miller and L. E. Dorsey.
The Citizens Association of Brentwood
met at the residence of its president. Mr..
J. A. Brumbaugh. several evenings since
Mr.. Lawrence Sorrell was secretary. A
committee was appointed to urge upon the
officials of the City and Suburban railway
the propriety of extending the 5-cent fare
to Brentwood station. three hundred yards
outside of the District of Columbia. The
committee on sanitation. Dr. John F. Kee-
nan, was instructed to wait upon the mayor
and council of Hyattsvile to ascertain what
disposition it was intended to make of the
sewage of the town after the installation
of the proposed sewerage system in that
place.
The Hyattsvile sewerage commission
has received from the firm of Bruce &
Fisher corporation lawyers. the rough
draft of a bill authorizing the issuance of
bonds In the sum of $4,000 with which to
install a system of sewers in Hyattsville.
A special meeting of the sewerage commits
sion will be held tomorrow evening, when
the bill will be considered and submitted to
the corporation attorney, Mr.. James c.
Rogers for his approval. The bill will pro-
vide that the question of issuing the bonds
be left to the voters of Hyattsville.
1t is probable that the legislature will be
asked to pass the bill at once, and that a
special election will be held about March l
in order that the work may be undertaken
and completed in time to be put in service
before next winter.
The annual debate between the Morrill,
and New Mercer Literary Societies of the
Maryland Agricultural College was held in
the college hall Friday night. The question
debated was, Resolved, That the attitude
of the United States relative to Colombia
and Panama is entirely justified" The de-
cisiOn was given to Messrs. Sturgis and
Merryman, representing the Morrill, Society
and the negative side of the question.
Messrs. Cruikshank and Parker represented
the New Mercer Society.
Miss Lenome Nothey and Henry Nalley.
and Miss Maude F. Boswell and Jack S.
Blandford. all of Clinton, this county, were
recently married by Rev. Father Mnneham,
pastor of ST. Johns Catholic Church.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Bliss Evans are spend
ing the winter with Mrs. Evans parents.
near Pittsburg, Pa
Fay. are spending the winter in Tampa,
Fla.
Miss NJ. I. Brown of San Francisco is Wis
iting her sister Mrs. Agnes A. Leakin.
Misses Mia and Bessie Moore, who have
been spending several months with their
sister. Mrs. ]. W. Stokes, have returned to
their home, in New Orleans.
The state school fund for the quarter be-
ginning January / has been apportioned.
Prince Georges county receives s.. iS5.5S for
white schools and 81 ,0O2.09 for colored
schools.
The ladies of Ruth Chapter Order of
Eastern Star, Hyattsville, have presented
the officers of Mount Hermon Lodge F. a.
A. M. of Hyattsyille, with a set of twelve
white lambskin aprons for the use of the
officers of the lodge Worshipful Master
W. A. Wilson accepted the aprons on behalf
of the lodge and the secretary was directed
to convey to the ladies the thanks of that
body.