Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
NEWS OF ROCKVILLE
GENERAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS
FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
;pecial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence or Inc Star
ROCKVILLE. Md, December 8, 1906
The Evening Card Club was entertained
at it's recent meeting by Mrs. Ohio H. w.
Talbot. Among her guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry A. Dawson. Mr.. and airs.
George P. Henderson, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
! Arthur Kemp. Misses Margaret and Pris-
ella Dawson, Eliza Choate, Daisy Hege.
Virgie Brewer, Helen Talbot. Bessie and
Veva Fields. the Misses Yearley and
Messrs. Geo. Allnutt, Darby Bowman, Ed
die Dawson. Edwin S Hege John H.
Starkey Walter Williams, Stephen Quigley,
Walter Henderson, Charles Jones, Roland
Wootten, Mr.. Wimsatt and Prof. Camp
bell. Prizes were awarded to Miss Mar
garet Dawson. Mrs. j. Arthur Kemp and
Messrs. Starkey and Bowman. Refresh
mentS were served.
An industrial school for the young col
ored residents of the Sandy Spring neigh
borhood has been established at Sandy
Spring, with M. B. Thomas as superin-
tendent. Meetings are held Friday after
moons. when instruction in sewing, basket
| making and the making of shuck mats is
] given.
| The coored man arrested in Washington
| day or two ago on suspicion of being
| Archie Williams. who Is wanted in this
| county to answer a charge of highway
robbery. it being alleged that he
was one of several negroes who held up
and robbed William Cofrman on the Con-
| duit road, turns out not to be the man
! wanted here. Deputy Sheriff George Mil
| lican. who yesterday went to Washington
| to bring the prisoner to Rockville, says
| he bears little resemblance to Williams
! The county commissioners for this county
| have concluded to build at least three
! miles of Shoemaker road next year. one
nile will be added to the two miles on the
| Laytonsville road. and mile will be
| added to the two miles on the Pooies-
vile road. The third mile will be built on
! the Boyds and Clarksburg road, beginning
| at Boyds
Mr.. Ebert selby of this vicinity has
| purchased from Mr. Robert Coe dwell
| ing and twenty-five acres of land few
/ miles from Rockville, the consideration
| being 2,9CO
| Cupid's Conquests.
| Licenses to marry have been issued by
the clerk of the circuit court here to George
Higbie and Ida May Cole. beth of Wash
| ington. and William Quaries and Edna
Masterson, both of this county.
George Higbie. aged twentyfour. and
| Miss Ida May Cole. aged twenty, both of
| Washington, were married here Thursday
| afternoon by Rev. Thomas H. Campbell,
| pastor of the Baptist Church. the ceremony
! being performed at the home of the min
| istcr
Wallace A. L. Arnett aged thirty-one
| and Miss Aimee B. Smith, aged eighteen,
| both of Washington. were married here
| Wednesday by Rev. r. Is. Moseley. pastor
| Of the Presbyterian Church The ceremony
was performed in the parlor of the Mont
| gomery Hotel in the presence of She
| brides mother and a few friends Of the
young couple. The same afternoon William
s. Steadman of Leesburg, Va, and Miss
| Effie Stype of North Fork, Va, were mar
ried here by Rev. S. r. White at the home
! of the minister.
Miss Olive Grady. daughter, of Mr.. Hiram
Grady of this place. and Mr.. Thomas Mac
| Williams, formerly of Washington, but for
! the past year a resident of Rockville were
, quietly married "Wednesday evening by
| Rev. Thomas j. Packard. rector of Christ
! Episcopal Church. the ceremony being per-
| formed at the rectory. e..
Farmer Meets With Accident.
| Joseph Whalen, a young farmer Of
| Bethesda district, met with an unusual ac-
cident few evenings ago. While riding
| horseback through woods near his home
his horse stumbled and fell, throwing
young Whalen heavily against a tree, rem
dering him unconscious Upon regaining
his senses Whalen discovered that his
horse, which turned complete somersault,
had broken its neck. Whalen vas able to
reach his home unassisted, although he was
quite seriously bruised.
The jury in the case of James Ganley,
merchant at Boyds, who was tried in the
of the local option law failed to agree and
was discharged. 1t is understood that five
We're for acquittal and seven for convic-
ton. The prosecuting witnesses were col
ored residents of the Boyds neighborhood.
Judge Henderson's decision in the case
of the board of county public school COM
| missioners against Henry r. Gingell,
resident of Bethesda district, which has
been awaited with much interest, has final
ly been announced. The case was an ac-
ton brought by the school commissioners
to determine who is legally in possession
of old public school property at
Bethesda. The school commissioners claim
ed that the property was theirs by adverse
possession, but this was denied by Mr.
Ginsell. who held that they had only per-
mssive entry and never entered into pos
session by any claim of right. In his de-
cisiOn Judge Henderson takes the position
that the school commissioners are enti-
tied to possession of the property so long
as It is used for the purposes for which it
was dedica ted. and that upon its abandon
ment by the school commissioners it re-
verts 10 the legal heirs of Mr.. John G.
Bohrer, the original owner The decision
further holds that the property would fall
TO others than Mr.. Gngell in the event of
its abandonment by the school commits
sionerS.
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