Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-03
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News From
Montgomery csunty's Capital.
Special Correspondents Of The star.

Special eorrsspendence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, February 2, 1908
The Rockville woman's Club was enter
tanned yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Harry
A. Dawson. The attendance was iarge and
the proceedings Of the usual interesting
Character. The responses for the day were
from Milton. Miss Sophie Higgins read a
paper on The Crusaders" Miss Barry
Albert gave a reading from THE Speeta-
tor" Mrs. H. Clinton AIlnutt contributed
paper on The Children of Charles Il and
Miss Verde Kingdom paper on Pope and
Swift" There was also some pleasant vo-
cal music
Following the program a special meeting
was held. at which a Shakespeare club was
organized, with twenty-five members. 1t
VIII meet every Monday afternoon for five
weeks, beginning next Monday. The enter
tainment committee OF the Woman's Cub
was given entire charge OF a play 10 be
given by the club at its annual open meet
ing, to be held May 10.
Licenses to marry were issued here today
to Mr.. Howard Lee Downs, aged twenty
three, of Seneca, and Mrs Susie Ella. Car
isle, aged thirty-five, of Jamestown, and
Mr.. James Maynard Henry Bowman and
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Burroughs both OF
Norbeck
At meeting of representatives CT the
Maryland and Virginia fairs and racing cir
cults, held yesterday in Baltimore August
II, ~ % and ~ We're the dates assigned
to the Rockville track. Consequently the
annual fair at Rockville will be held on
those dates, instead of week later, as de-
cided upon by the fair directors President
Lee Ofrutt and Mr.. David II. Wartleld Of
the race committee represented the Rock
vile track
The democratic state central committee
for this county consisting of Robert @. Hill
ton, chairman; Samuel ID. Waters and Rich
ard E. Darby, met here Wednesday after
noon and decided to submit the following
LIST III vVhiCh WaT1pli
will select one and possibly both of the
democratic members of the board Of SUI
pervisors of elections for this county: VIII
liam II. Griffith, William II. Wade, An
drew J. Cummings and John T. Piquet
DR.. Dwyer of Unity appeared before the
committee and asked that they sign
statement to the effect that his appoint
ment would not be Objectionable to the
committee and favorable action was
taken.
The committee accepted the resignation of
Thomas A. Kelly as district committeeman
for Wheaton district, and appointed Enos {.
Keys in his stead.
A number of Rockvilles younger social
set have organized a club to be known as
the Small and Early Club" The member
ship so far includes the following: Misses
Mary Almoney. Mary Brewer. Lavinia Daw-
son, Grace Munro, Fannie Peter, Margaret
Stokes, Mrs. Hugh Glasscott, and Messrs.
George Allnutt, Albert Bouic. George Brew
er, John Higgins, Robert Higgins, Bache
Albert, Edward Dawson, John Martin, yu-
liam Whiting and Hugh Glascott. The club
will meet every two weeks.
What would probably have been disas
trous fire in the home of Mr.. William Fl.
West, near Derwood, was narrowly averted
Wednesday morning. The family awoke to
find the roof of their residence on fire. A
chemical fire extlnguisher was near at hand
and this was brought into play, with the re-
suit that the flames were quickly extin-
guished. The loss was slight.
A license to marry has been issued by
the clerk of the circuit court here to Mr.
George V. Welsh of Poolesville and Miss
Jennie L. Sullivan of BeallsVile.
William Brown. colored. was yesterday
given hearing before Justice of the Peace
Reading for an alleged assault upon Daisy
Thornton, colored. He gave as his excuse
for striking the woman that she was slight
ing him for another fellow. He was unable
to furnish bail and was committed to jail to
await the action of the March grand jury.