Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-04
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
General and Personal News of Mont
gomery County, Md.
of The Star.

special correspondents OF Inc star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd, October 4, 1907.
The appeal case of DR.. John l.. Lewis and
Messrs. Adolph C. Reubsam and Alfred
Wilson. who were recently deposed as trus-
tees of the Bethesda public school and who
seek reinstatement on the ground that their
dismissal was Illegal. will be heard by the
state board of education the 18th instant.
The hearing will be held at the state nor
NAL school in Baltimore. The trustees will
be represented by Messrs. Charles w. Pref
lyman and Frank Higgins, and it is under
stood that George H. Lamar. president of
the county school board, will look after the
school boards interests
Montgomery Clagett is reported critically
i'll at the home of his SON Dunbar Clagett,
Waynesville. Ohio. Mr.. Clagett's home is
near Potomac. He went west several
months ago for the benefit of his health.
Gov Warfield has appointed @. Guy
Nichols Of Brookeville a forest warden for
this county.
Charles Nicholson, a farmer, whose home
is near Brookeville. this county, was pain
fully injured day or two ago by being
kicked and dragged by a young mule.
James Nicholson went to his brothers as
sistance and he. too was knocked down by
the mule and painfully cut on the head
The Rockville Republican Club has reor-
ganized for the campaign and has elected
Charles H. Edmunds president
Inc opening meeting or the Rockville
Woman's Club for the year l907-0S was held
yesterday afternoon. The club will this
year consider art and music, and, as in the
past will meet every other week. Miss So
phia c. Higgins contributed a paper on
THE Catacombs and Early Christian Art"
Mrs. H. Clinton Alnutt conducted round
table. Mrs Elizabeth II. Offutt gave a talk
on Music of the Middle Ages" and vocal
music was provided.
The officers of the club this year are as
follows: President Mrs. Robert c. War
field; first vice president, Mrs. Ohio III. w.
Talbot second vice president, Miss Rose
Armstrong; recording secretary, Mrs. Her
vey Brown; corresponding secretary, Miss
Rose NJ. Henderson; treasurer. Mrs. II.
Clinton Allnutt.
Mrs. Mary E. Mulican, wife of ]. Arthur
Mullican Of Derwood, died Wednesday aft
ernoon, aged slxty-two years
A double wedding occurred at the home of
Rev. c. H. Pence. pastor of st. Luke's
Lutheran Church, at Redland. this county.
Wednesday afternoon, when Miss Lollie Bell
Duval daughter of .Ir. and Mrs Luther
NJ. Duvall of Laytonsville, and Miss Daisy
Bell Allnutt, daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Alden Alnutt, also Of the Laytonsville
neighborhood, and Charles Alfred Fraley
and Ernest Lee Fenton Fraley, respective
ly, were married.
The Rockville base ball team played its
final game of the season Wednesday. when
the aggregation representing Leesburg, Va,
administered defeat by the score of to 8.
While wheat was being threshed on the
farm of Mr.. William X. Jones, near Glen,
this county. Tuesday morning, rick of
wheat caught fire from spark from the
engine and was entirely consumed.
The county public school board, through
Prof Earle B. Wood, county superintend-
ent of schools, has issued statement con-
corning the Bethesda controversy, as tol-
lows:
pending the disposition of the appeal of
the former trustees of the school. we dep
recate the public agitation of this question,
both as a matter of Difference to the state
board of education, which passes upon the
appeal and also because such agitation,
pending the appeal is unnecessary and can
have only two effects, one to disturb the
children, who are now doing well in their
studies at the Bethesda school.~wheIe there
is a large and excellent attendance. and
the other, which is probably the purpose of
the people who are making the most aglta-
ton, namely, to drag the school system
unnecessarily into politics for partisan pur-
poses. The facts Of this case are very plain
and simple and have been grossly misrepre-
sented The parties concerned VIII be
heard before the state board Of education
and any dispute as to facts can bS settled
there