Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-26
ROCKVILLE, MD.
Special Correspondence Of The star

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd, February ~; 1910
Delegate John A. Garrett of this county
is the author of a bill that has been in
troduced in the Legislature which. it Is
claimed if enacted into law would open
the way TO the establishment of the
peonage system in Maryland. The bill is
similar to the one introduced in the
house of delegates two years ago by
Delegate Preston Il. Ray of this county,
but which met with defeat The meas
ure is introduced in connection with a
pending bill making possible the employ
ment of short-term prisoners on the pub
lie roads.
The Garrett bill classes as Migrants
the following: Persons known as tramps;
persons leading idle, immoral or prof
ligate lives. who nave no property TO
support them and who able to work
and 90 not work: all able-boded per-
sons having no property to support them
and having no visible means of support:
all persons who habitually loaf in the
cities towns and villages. at steamboat
landings railroad stations, or any
other public place in the state. for the
larger portion of their time; persons
trading Or bartcrinc stolen goods OF who
unlawfully sell Intoxicating liquors; eY-
cry common gambler person who for
the most part maintains himself by gam
bling; all persons WHO come into the
state who follow 10 trade OF business
and have no visible means of subsistence
and can give no reasonable account of
themselves: every person who shall aban-
don his wife family without just
cause, leaving her or them without sup
port; all persons who able to work
and do not work, but who hire out their
minor children and live upon their wages:
all persons over sixteen years Of age and
under twenty-onc years of age able 10
work and do not work and have no
property TO support them and have no
visible means of support. and whose par
ents are unable 10 support them, and
who arc not in attendance upon some
educa tional institution.
Penalties in the form Of fines and Jail
imprisonment are provided. but an es-
cape from the provisions of the law is
made possible by furnishing bond for
future good behavior and industry.
Miss Florence Devilhiss of Northfork.
w. Va, and Richard Turner of EIattics-
burg. Miss. were married in Rockville
Thursday by Rev =. X. White of the
Baptist Church at the home of tho min
lister. The young people left for Wash
ington Immediately after the ceremony.
Mr. Turner gave his age as twenty three
years and that of Miss Dcvilbiss as nine
teen. They would not say why they
came to Rockville to have the knot tied.
Gov. Crothers has made the following
appointments for Montgomery county
Supervisors of electons-Wiliam III.
Wade and William IL. Griffith, demo
Gratis, and Thomas Vinson. republican
school commissioners. Zadoc NJ. Cooke,
democrat, and Roger b. Farquhar. re-
publican: justices of the peace, William
A. Anderson. Hugh c. Townsend, Edwa I'd
q. Brown, Robert l.. Nickerson Charles
b. Murphy, James +. Byrne, Charles F.
Elgin. Edward o. Edmondstdn, Joseph
Reading, Clifford III. Robertson, f. P. B.
Margerum, John S. McCeney. Charles f.
Lechlider James Small. John A. Hall.
James H. Loughborough, Alfred Wilson,
Mahlon II. .Austin. Dennis Claude, Leonard
Weer, Alfred F. Fairall, Roszell Wood
ward. James +. Garrett, George r. Bell,
Samuel T. Gray. Thomas Story, Charles
II. Grimes. Rufus X. King, Joseph Sb-
ley. Francis S. Gladhill, Patrick O'Don-
nell. Homer Query. George Peter. Enos
G. Keys and q. o. 3. Cissell: notaries
public, Mrs. Gertrude II. Lane, George
NJ Hunter. David III. Warfeld. William
II. Talbot. George NJ. Wolfe. II. Edison
Rodgers. Thomas A. Burdett,. Frank d.
Leizear. James f. Trundle. Frank Il.
Terrell, Albert NJ. Bouic. Franklin +.
Beal, George W. Reddick. Richard f.
Colt John r. Johnston and Jerome L.
Burke.
The funeral of Mrs. Helen Ada mson.
widow of Robert l.. Adamson, who died
suddenly Sunday at her home, near Rock
Vile. took place Tuesday from the fam
lily residence. The services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Or. Johnson of LaNtoIis-
VIE and burial was in Rockville cenc-
terry.