Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-13
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Program for dwelling of
Monument to Confederate
Dead Is Arranged.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Md, April II, 1918.
The committee having in charge the ar
rangements for the unwilling here June
of the monument to the Confederate
dead of Montgomery county held a meet
ing here yesterday afternoon, at which
tentative program was agreed upon and
other plans discussed. Col Spencer c.
Jones of Rockville, commander of Ridge
1y Brown Camp of Confederate Veterans,
will preside, and addresses will be de-
livered by prominent speakers. Every eff
fort will be put forth to make the occa-
sion memorable. and a large crowd is
expected to attend.
The monument which will be of bronze
and which is being made by Washing
ton firm. will represent a young cavalry
man. 1t will occupy site in the tri-
angular park In front of the courthouse
here. The contract price is about SIS, GOO.
The committee having in charge the
unwilling arrangements is composed OF
members of RidgeIy Brown Camp of Con-
federate Veterans and Ridgely Brown
Chapter of Daughters Of the Confederacy
of this county. and consists of George
r. Rice, chairman; Elgar L. Tschiffely.
John W. Holland. Benjamin Candy and
Francis s. Kilgour. representing Ridgely
Brown Camp, and Mrs. John Jones' Mrs
William HI. Talbot. Miss Margaret
Fields and Miss May Sellman, represent
ing Ridgely Brown Chapter.
Thomas p. Hicks Married.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage in Baltimore Thursday of
Thomas Paret Hicks, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Washington Hicks of this place.
and Miss Gladys Alne Crowl, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. II. Webster Crowl of
Baltimore. The bride was for several
no11.A tn It. Of
this county. The bridegroom is civil
engineer in Baltimore.
Gov. GoldsbOrough has appointed Prof.
Earle B. Wood, superintendent of pub
lie schools for this county, a delegate to
represent Maryland at the conference for
education in the south, which convenes
at Richmond, Va, next Tuesday to con-
tinue several days.
Transfers of real estate were recorded
in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court here during the week as follows:
Florence r. Carpenter to Edna L. Clapp,
295 acres: Joseph NJ. Burdette to Reuben
H. Potts. 10 acres: John R. Beall to J.
Cromwell Beall, 1O3 acres; j. Bromwell
Bean to Lucretia j. Beall. 1903 acres;
John W. Garrett to Joseph \. Briggs. 161a
acres; Anna E. Owens to Arthur p.
Fletchan, acres; Garfield A. Street to
Conrad H. Syme, 9s acres: Arthur p.
F1etchall to Claude E. Nicholson, 4
acres: Cyrus keiser to James H. Starkey.
lot near Bethesda: Alta Heights Realty
Company to Anna p. Thomas, lot at Hun
t'ngton Terrace: Julius C. Burrows to
Samuel E. Tatem, lot at Linden; Rosedale
Park Company to Isadore Small. lot at
Rosedale Park; John A.. Van Horn to
Frederick N. Oden, lot at Silver Spring;
John T. Knott to Margaret A. Hender-
Company to Bette B. Heal, lot at Rose
dale Park; Charles F. Kincheloe to Cyrus
Keiser, lot at Highland Park Hulda
p. Martin TO Frederick M. Howes. lot
Eleanor G. Preston. lot at Woodside:
Walter A. Johnston to Albert E. Shoe
maker. lot at The Hills.
James n. Allnutt of New York who
left this county twenty-seven years ago.
is visiting relatives and friends at Daw-
sonville.
Folger Mckenzie Guest Here.
Folger Mckenzie of Baltimore, who is
known as the '.Bentztown bard" was
the guest of honor at an open meeting of
the Rockville Woman's Club at the club
rooms last evening. large number of the
members and others attending. He read
a number of his poems in a manner that
delighted his hearers.
A license to marry has been issued
here to Mrs. Mary Lucretia Tucker and
Eli Tucker, both of Ednor, this county.
DR.. and Mrs. Mervin MauS of Governors
Island, n. v, are visiting MIR. and Mrs
James F. Allen here. Both will speak
at joint meeting of the Rockville w. G.:
r. L. and the Burden Bearer Circle of
Kings Daughters In the Baptist Church
here tomorrow afternoon.
Miss lille Ball of Baltimore has been
visiting Mrs. Otis NJ. Linthicum here.
Upon the recommendation of two
physicians, the county commissioners
have declared William c. O'Neale of Hal
nine. this county to be of unsound mind,
and have had him committed to Spring
field Hospital for treatment at county
expense.