Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Gaithersburg, DerWood, Oak
mont and Washington
Grove to Get Lights.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

special correspondence OF me Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. October IS. 1912.
Arrangements have been completed for
the extension from Rockville to Gathers
burg of the electric light service of the
Potomac Electric Power Company.
Branches will also be run to Derwood.
Washington Grove and Oakmont. requir-
ing twelve miles Of lines.
Gaithersburg has agreed to install fifty
street lights and Washington Grove
twenty-five. The electric company has
agreed to have the lines in shape by
June l.
A movement has been started by the
Montgomery County Medical Society for
shorter hours in the public schools of
Montgomery county. AT a recent meet
ing of the society at Olney. DIR. William
L. Lewis Of Kensington offered reso-
luton favoring the closing of the schools
at o'clock instead Of 4 o'clock. and a
committee was named to give the propo-
sition consideration and report at the
next meeting of the society. At least
two of the county school commissioners
DIR. Ryan Devereux and Columbus W.
Day-are known to favor a shorter day.
The Medical Society has also taken
steps to have the state take over Star
mont Sanitarium, a tuberculosis institu-
ion, at Washington Grove, this county
public meeting will be called for the
near future, when a plan to lease the
sanitarium until the next legislature
meets will be considered. 1t is planned
to ask the next legislature to purchase
the institution. 1t is not now in opera
ton and can. it is said. be purchased al
about one-half the cost Of the land and
buildings.
The following transfers of real estate
were recorded in the office Of the clerk
of the circuit court during the week:
Martin B. Kinney to Carroll Walters. four
acres; Harry NJ. Martin to Mary j. Gregg,
lot near Chevy Chase; Sarah E. Hodges
to Anna Crock, lot at Takoma Pa. TX;
Arthur Daniels to Henry n. Sisco. one
half acre: Martha w. Etchison to Bash
T. Nap.c. one acre; Harry B. Cramer
to Harry r. McCabe, lot in Gaithersburg;
William T. Norris to Sarah V. Soper,
three and one-fourth acres: William T.
Norris to Mary G. Burg. three acres: Rose
dale Park Company to Alfred Batson.
lot in Rosedale Park; Alfred A. Austin to
Julia S. ZieSler. one-fourth acre; John
B. Falconer to Edith " Rupertus, lot at
Silver Spring: Minnie NJ. Lewis to Elias
H. EtcAson. seventy-three acres; William
G. Brewer to Tom B. Johnson, two lots
near GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Thomas Of
Roanoke Va. are visitors at the home
of DIR. and Mrs. Otis NJ. Linthicum here.
Rev. Oscar w. Henderson. pastor of the
Rockville Baptist Church. attended the
Maryland Baptist Association in Ba.ti-
more during the week.
Mrs. George c. Lewis has re urned to
her home here after spending several
months in Vermont, Massachusetts, and
Philadelphia.
Misses Beu:ah and Ellen Barnesly of
Olney, were the hostesses a few evenings
ago at a kitchen shower in honor of Miss
Mabel Barnesy, whose marriage to Ar
thur Cashell Of Olney will take place next
Wednesday.
Mrs. Annie Gardiner Darby. wife of
George A. Darby, died today in Wash
ington. at the age of sixty-five years
Her death was due 10 an affection of the
heart, with which she had suffered a
long while. She is survived by her hus-
band, son. J. Gardiner Darby of Rock
vii e. and a stepson. Herbert Darby of
Baltimore. The funera. arrangements
have not been completed.
Mrs. Darby, whose maiden name was
Gardiner. was a native of this coun y
and lived nearly all her life near Hyatts-
town.