Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-17
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
Country Club Elects ohicers-Bank
Directors Chosen.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special correspondence OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, June II. 1907.
The board of governors of the Mont
gomery Country Club, organized here
last week, met Saturday evening at the
home of Mr.. Charles NJ Jones and elected
the following officers: President, Samuel
L. Phillips; first vice president Henry j.
Finley; second vice president, Thomas
NJ. Talbot; secretary, DR.. George E..
Lewis; treasurer, Charles NJ. Jones. The
board of governors is composed of H.
Bradley Davidson, Brainard H. Warner,
Dr. George E. Lewis, Rev Thomas j.
Packard. DIR. William H. Trail, Henry J..
Finley. William II. West. Samuel T.. East
burn, Edwin S. Hege, Charles NJ. Jones,
John Brewer. Ralph E. Jones, Thomas
NJ Talbot, Samuel L. Phillips and DR..
Reverdy Stewart.
The next meeting of the club Will be
held June % Residents of the District
of Columbia and elsewhere are eligible
to membership.
The Woodlawn Hotel, in the western
section of Rockville. has been secured.
and will be used by the club as a tenn
porary headquarters, and may become
the permanent home of the organization
The building will be thoroughly reno
waited and fitted up with every conven-
fence necessary for the comfort and
pleasure of members and guests. Suit
able grounds nearby have been procured.
links and tennis courts. Sufficient funds
are already available for the immediate
expenses of the organization. and the
outlook for a successful career for the
club is considered quite fattering. 1t
is thought that there Will be about sixty
charter members.
In addition to the gentlemen whose
names appear as officers of the club. the
membership includes a number of promi-
nent and influential residents Of Mary
land and the District of Columbia.
The stockholders of the Poolesville Ma
tional Bank. now being organized at
Poolesville. this county. met Saturday
and elected the following directors: How
ard w. Spurrier, William 7. Griffith. Dr.
B: w. Walling. Arthur p Fle:chall,
Trundle. ]. w. Darby, D. ]. Willard,
Charles " Morrison, John Jones, William
C. Hoskinson, John II. Williams. John
A. Jones and j. Furr White Mr.. Howard
w. Spurrier, one of Poolesvilles leading
business men, was elected president. A
committee consisting of Messrs. John H.
Williams, d. ]. Willard and B. w. Wall
ing was appointed to select a site for
the bank building. The capital stock
will be $4,000.
The funeral of Augustus c. Flack. who
was killed in a runaway accident near
Aspen Saturday night, will take place
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from
Mr.. Flack's late residence near Wheaton.
The interment will be at the Rockville
cemetery at o'clock. In addition to
his chlidren, MI. RACK is survival ny q
brother, Joseph P. Flack of Garrett Park.
and four sisters-Mrs Jacob BoCl.. Mrs.
Elizabeth Killian and Mrs. Sarah Frank
of Washington. and Mrs. Wlihclmina
Hannah of Kansas city Kan.
Eva Fletcher, a young negro woman
of this vicinity, has been lodged IN Jail
at this place to await trial d charge
of grand larceny. 1t is alleged that she
stole a diamond ring and other valuables
from Mrs Wallace Fields, at whose
home, about two miles from Rockville,
she was employed as a domestic. The
articles were stolen about two months