Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
NEWS Of ROCKVILLE
AND THE COUNTY
Proposed to Increase the Tax
Rate of Kensington From
IS to so Cents.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Md, February 5. 1912
]. Dawson Williams. corporation counsel
for Kensington. has been directed to pre-
pare bill, which will be introduced in
the legislature, now in session at Annap-
oils. authorizing the Kensington town
council to submit to the voters of the
town a proposition to increase the tax
rate from S5 to so cents. The increase
is desired to enable the town council
to provide electric lights for the streets
of the town. The legislature will also
be asked to authorize the town council
to issue bonds in the amount of $4,000
or less for the construction Of a sewerage
system.
Jasper W. Long, representing the Chevy
Chase-to-Great Falls Land Company, has
bought the Cowling farm, near Bethesda,
containing about ninety-three acres. The
price is understood to have been about
$500 an acre.
The Wednesday Woman's Club Of Sandy
Spring has elected Mrs. Henry H. Miller
president, and Mrs. John III. Janney. Sec
rotary and treasurer, succeeding Mrs.
Rebecca Miller and Mrs. Milton Bancroft,
respectively
Prof. Sidney ]. Lodge OF Gaithersburg.
| who will be in charge of Briarley Hall
Military Academy. to be established at
Poolesville. has announced the appoint
ment Of Prof. Charles s. Van Auken. a
| master of the institution.
license to marry has been issued by
the clerk of the circuit court to Mrs.
Susan e. v. Butcher of Gaithersburg and
Richard Cole of GAINESVILLE.
Oak Grove Camp, No. $50, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. was recently or
ganized at Washington Grove. with forty
members and the following officers: No
| BILE grand, A. H. Siegenfri; vice grand,
Charles e. Becraft; treasurer, Harry
Thompson.
The literary department Of the Epworth
League Of Grace Methodist Church,
Gaithersburg gave an enjoyable enter
| tainment last evening in the Sunday
contributed reading. Miss Corrie Devil
bliss and Mrs. Carleton Etchison read
papers. Miss Bessie Brewer recited and
Guy Briggs sang a solo. Thomas J..
Owens was in charge.
Late yesterday afternoon Miss Cora
Ethel Linthfcurn. aged nineteen. and
William Anthony Sporrer, aged twenty
four, both Of Baltimore. were married
| of the Southern Methodist Church, the
| ceremony taking place at the parsonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank G. Schaeffer of
Germantown entertained a few days ago
day anniversary of the birth Of Mrs.
Schaeffer's father. William A. Schaeffer.
The guests included Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Schaeffer of Washington, Mr.. and Mrs.
| William L. Schaeffer of Seneca, Miss
| Bertha Stevane Of New York, Mr.. and
| Mrs. William Williams and Miss Gladys
| Williams of Poolesville, Miss Lillian
Morgan Of Rockville, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Thomas Lyddane and children of Ger
| mantown, Miss Mary Pitman of Nor
folk, Va, and DR.. Horace B. Haddox OF
| Gaithersburg
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Kensington Woman's Club was held
Wednesday evening, when a pleasing
Il Vr0 foil I,,,
collation.
| The following are among the transfers
| of real estate recorded in the Office of
the clerk Of the circuit court here during
| the week: Andrew d. Pugh to Mary f..
Parker lot at Woodmont: Katherine C..
Pechin to Geary A. Fisher lot at Hal
| pine; Charles F. Wilcox to Benjamin G.
Wilkinson, lot at Takoma: H. Bradley
| Bethesda: Grace E. Sanborn to H. Edison
| Rogers lot at Takoma: Harry B. White
to Reginald d. Poole, forty-three acres;
John H. Chew to Gilbert H. Grosvenor
| twelve acres; c. H. S. Littleton to A. o.
kepler. lot at Glen Echo: James y. Rab-
bitt to Albert j. Wade, sixty-one acres !:
Dorothy Kinney to Jacob Poss, lot in
Rockville: Robert G. Lohr to George l..
Iseman, lot in Pine Crest; Robert q.
Lohr to Edwin L. lancey. lot in Pine
Crest; Samuel Riggs to Henry r. Benson
eighteen acres.
Cornelius w. Clun, editor of the Ken
sington Press, is being urged by his
friends to seek appointment as county
superintendent of public schools. to sue
coed Supt. Earle B. Woods. whose
term expires August 1. The posi-
ton is filled by the board of county
school commissioners. The board is now
composed of four democrats and two
republicans, but it's political complexion
changes May l. when republicans will be
appointed to succeed Commissioners
George III. Lamar and Clagett c. Hilton.
Mr.. Wood is a democrat and Mr.. Clum a
republican.