Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-25
GAITHERSBURG NEWS.
Southern Methodists Contract fo
$4,000 House of Worship.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
GAITHERSBURG. Md, November "a. 1901.
The opening of the bids received from
eight different contractors OF Washington,
kensington, Virginia and this place by the
recently appointed building committee to
have in charge the erection of the modern
new edifice of the Southern MetEodists of
Gaithersburg resulted in the award of the
contract to Mr.. James l.. Gardner of
Refuse, Va, who was the lowest bidder.
At his bid of sl1,sO0 he signed a contract
Tuesday evening al a meeting with the
building committee to complete the con-
struction. except the interior furnishings,
within ten months from date.
The plans adopted We're drawn by a
Baltimore architect, and the building will
be of brick, modern in design and con-
veniences, and located on the corner lot
at the intersection of Walker and Frede-
rick avenues, recently donated as a site
by Messrs. John Wesley Walker and Car
son Ward. The building committee having
in charge the enterprise is composed of
Rev. Thomas J. Lambert, chairman; Will
lam II. Talbot, secretary; John w. Briggs
john w. Walker, Zach A. Briggs, Carson
Ward, James X. Walker and Gideon D.
Briggs. 1t is understood that about three
fourths of the building fund required has
been raised already 5000 contributed by
leading members of the congregation inau
gurating the movement for a new church,
and the other raised at rally day services
by subscriptions, when the presiding elder,
Rev. DIR. w. II. d. Harper, preached and
heartily approved the effort.
Mr.. Perry Bowman, a lineman of the En-
terprise Telephone Company, yesterday fell
from telephone pole distance of twen-
ty-three feet while at work on the line
near kensington., He was rendered I'M
conscious, in which condition fellow-work-
men removed him to his home in Sandy
Spring. Several hours after the accident
he was resuscftated, and this morning was
not believed to be injured, aside from
few painful bruises of the face and body.
Thanksgiving was celebrated at Brook
Vile today. The cornet band of that place
gave an old-fashioned dinner and oyster
supper, followed with concert In the
evening. Prof A. j. May was present and
directed the music. Several hundred per-
sons attended the festivities. Arrangements
were in charge of Mr.. c. NJ. Mackall, sec
rotary of the band.
Rev. VIM. G. Smith has returned to his
home at Jamestown after a vacation spent
at his former home near Richmond.
The Thanksgiving supper given at the
Masonic Hall this evening was a success.
1t is an annual feStivity of the Mite So
ciety of the NJ. E. Church South. and the
fund this time is for the benefit of the
new church.
Mr.. Claude Owen, Mr.. Contee Thompson
and Mr.. Norman Belt are home here from
St Johns College, Annapolis, for Thanks
giving.
Union Thanksgiving services were held
this morning in the NJ e. Church South
when Rev. VIM. c. Parrish, pastor of Ep-
worth NJ. E. Church, delivered a discourse
He was assisted by Rev Thomas ]. Lam
bert in the service. Rev. Wilson Walker
led in the music.
Miss Rachel d. Cooke of this town has
entered the Ralston School of Expression
at Washington as a senior pupil
Funeral services over the remains of Mrs
Louis H. Duvall, who died Sunday evening
of pneumonia. were held this morning I'm
the Burtonsville NJ. E. Church, of which
She was member Rev. E. H. Smith the
pastor, delivered the eulogy, a large con-
course of people attending Mrs Duvall
was aged seventy years, and is survived by
he husband four sons and three daugh-
tiers.