Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-27
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News Of Mont.
gomery County, Nd

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. November q. 1907.
George Duvall, colored, was sentenced
to two years In the house of correction
by Judge Henderson in the circuit court
here yesterday for biting of the ear OF
Josiah Frazier, also colored. Duvall, 1t
seems, became disorderly at a social given
by friends of Frazier. and the latter was
called upon to eject him from the house
AS he was in the act of doing SO, Duval
bit his right ear entirely of and spat II
upon the ground.
dicted for attempting to poison his sister.
in-Iaw, Mrs. Bessie Larman, by giving hel
meat on which there,w was corrosive subli.
mate, has been compromised, Larmar
agreeing to pay all the costs of the prose.
cution.
Miss Mary E. s. Beatty of Pittsburg and
ried in Rockville last evening by Rev
Thomas H. Campbell, pastor Of the Bap-
fist church.
John Lee. for many years a resident OF
this county died yesterday, aged seventy
Messrs. Charles M. Williams and Rich
ard Humphrey Cissel, who were elected
November 5 to succeed Messrs. Charles
G. Griffith and John H. Bogley as county
commissioners from the third and fourth
qualified. The hold-oyer commissioners
are Messrs. Jacob NJ. Allnutt, Joseph T.
White and Oliver H. P. Clark. The board
reorganized by electing Mr.. Clark presi-
dent and w. Outsrbrldge Spates attor-
ney. and re-electing Robert G. Hilton
clerk.
Remus R. Darby, George W. Meem and
John E. West, who were elected judges OF
the orphans court to serve four years,
have also qualified. -, ~
James Digs. colored, who resides al
Kensington, was ordered by Judge Hen
dersoh in the circuit court at this place
committed to the house of reformation
for colofed children, he having been found
guilty of breaking into the Baltimore and
Ohio station at Forest Glen and stealing
fifty-two cents.
John l. Brnnett, clerk of the circuit
court, has received from Mrs. Blanche
Hobson of 900 N street, Washington, D.
C.. letter urging him not to issue to hel
license should the boy make application
for such a paper. Mrs. Hobson states
that her son Is only nineteen years of age
ands that she has good reasons for not
wanting him to marry at this time, con-
Guiding her letter as follows: Refuse him
the license and greatly relieve his broken
hearted mother"
Mr. Burnett has replied to the letter, as.
surfing Mrs. Hobson that she need have
no uneasiness SO far as Rockville Is con-
cerned. as the laws of Maryland require
that when young man is under twenty
one the written consent of his parents is
necessary in order to procure license
The county commissioners will at once
improve the Rockville and Georgetown
turnpike from Somerset Heights to the
District of Columbia line, and have
authorized John H. Bogley. who has re-
tired as a member of the board of COM
missioners, to look after the work. When
the work is finished it will complete a
splendid pike from Rockville to the Dis
trict line.
Messrs. William Tyler Page, Albert E.
Shoemaker, Henry w. Offutt. Mr. Young
and Dr. Moulden, representing the Friend.
ship Heights Improvement Association
appeared before the board and proposed
that, In view of the fact that the commits.
sioners had shown a willingness to place
the road in condition. but were unable to
do so at this time because of a lack OF
funds, the. Friendship Heights Associa.
ton advance the necessary money. pro.
vided the work be done without delay
The proposition the commissioners accent.
ed. The section to be improved is about a
quarter of a mile in length and the work
will cost about 81 500.
A license to marry has been issued by
the clerk of the circuit court here to Ed.
win NJ. West and Miss Bessie r. Gar.
rett, both of Jamestown, this county,