Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-02
BoYD's AND VICINITY.
Funerals Of M. w. Thompson and Of
Miss Lillard.-Other News


Special Correspondence Of The Star.
BOYD'S, Nd, June 30. 1905.
The remains of Mr.. Marion Webb Thomp-
son, railroad agent for the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Choppers, and prominent
merchant there, who died Wednesday
morning at o'clock, were inferred today
at 10 o'clock at Gaithersburg. Mr.. Thomp-
son died of dropsy. His wife and three
chiIdren-Edith, Virginia and Milton-sur-
vive him. Some beautiful floral emblems
were sent to be deposited on his bier by
railroad friends from along this DIVISION
and from Baltimore and other points
The remains OF Miss Bessie Liiiaro:
daughter of James r. LiNard. formerly OF
this vicinity, who died in Washington. were
inferred yesterday beside the remains OF
her mother and brother in Monocacy GEM
etery at Beallsville. Miss Lillard was IN
her sixteenth year.
Wheat harvesting in. this section of Mont
gomery county was about cleared UP TO-
day, and while the crop is not as heavy as
was expected the quality is excellent On
account OF the wheat being very cry ana
falling off in the shocks many of the farm
ers are now threshing out their crops
right from the field.
Miss jeanette Titlow, daughter Of DR..
Horace Titlow Of Baltimore city, former
school teacher at Gaithersburg, was mar
ried Wednesday evening in Baltimore TO
Mr. Garrett Waters Etchison. son OF Dr.
Elias c. Etchison, the ceremony being per
formed by the Rev. DR.. F. H. Rail in the
First M E. Church, Baltimore. After the
ceremony and a collation. they left for the
north and will return to Gaithersburg,
where they will make their home.
1t is reported that the Fair View Sem
mary. owned by Rev. Dr. Charles H. Wat
ers, at Washington Grove, has been sold
to the Tubercular Sanitarium Company,
that tried to locate at Rockville and failed.
The price agreed upon is not stated.
Mr.. Percy S. Foster Of Washington has
organized and drilled a large chorus of
several hundred voices to take part in the
Fourth of July services to be held at Wash
ington Grove in the new auditorium. on
account of the late arrival of the iron for
the construction of this new auditorium it
has not been finished in the specified time,
but it is probably in condition to hold the
patriotic services The Fourth is to be
deliberately celebrated there. The new ball
field has been rearranged and is in excellent
shape. Games will be arranged throughout
the season with all leading teams of this
county and with Washington city teams.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Boyd's
Presbyterian Church met last night at the
home of Mrs George c. Smith. Mrs. B. F..
Hicks presided in the absence of Mrs. B. H.
Dutrow, president of the society, who is
ILL After a song service and general dis
cussion the meeting was adjourned to meet
at the home of Mrs. H. R. McCabe In the
latter part of the month. when business OF
Importance will be transacted.
This morning at $50 engine 1913, west
bound for Brunswick, was derailed at
Browns, just west of Gaithersburg, and
the tracks blocked for nearly two hours
delaying several trains from Boyds for
Washington, and making the government
clerks living along the line late in arriving
at their offices. The engine was replaced
on the track by 8 o'clock
Fire which destroyed the new coal chute
of the Baltimore and Ohio at Reels Mills,
near Monrovia, Friday morning, entailed
a loss of about $4,000 The chute was one
ed. The fire, 1t is thought, originated from
an engine. and so hot did it make the tracks
that no trains could be run east to Ball.
more for several hours Several hundred
tons Of coal were consumed.
Mr. and Mrs. William Seeley Hutchin-
son, D. Wilson Limerick, Rev. and Mrs.
J. F. Saumering and Mrs. Elizabeth Kirby
have arrived at Boyd's from Washington
and Baltimore for the summer.
Mrs. Mabel Akin of Winchester. Va, is
visiting Miss Lena Ruble at Boyd's
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry r. McCabe left here
this week for Niagara Falls. They will go
to Atlantic City before returning home.
Mrs. James E. Williams returned home
from Chesapeake Beach, Md, where she
spent several days. She was accompanied
by Mr.. R. c. Lewis of Washington.
Miss A. Milstead of Laurel is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Mahlton T. Lewis at Boyd's.
Mrs. William Grimes has returned from
Thurmont, Frederick county, where she
has been visiting relatives.
Mrs. Esther Engle of Hagerstown is WIS.,
iting her aunt, Mrs. Engle. at Dickerson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Needham c. Hines of Oak
City, N. c., are here visiting Mrs. Hines
mother, Mrs. George A. Merson.
Mrs. Midtown Dutrow of Oak City is visit
ing her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. James Hen
ing Purdumn.
Mrs. E. 7. Young of Washington is guest
of Mrs. w. o. Kingsbury.
Mr.. William E. Wall of New York Is at
his home, "Waldene," near Boyd's, to stay
over the Fourth.
Mr.. Thomas Smith. retired farmer of
Ridgeville, near Damascus, Montgomery
county, died at his home shortly after q
O'Clock this morning. He was nearly sev-
enty years of age. John T. Smith, a vet
erinarian of Clarksburg. near Boyd's, and
l.. Smith, railroad engineer in the pas
senger service of the Baltimore and Ohio in
Baltimore, are sons of the deceased