Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-16
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Mrs. Edna Blizzard Takes Her
Life--Corc0ran Hotel
Property Is Sold.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
ROCKVILLE, Nd. October 16. 1918
Leaving a note explaining that her act
was due to poor health. Mrs. Edna Biz
zard, wife of Bertram W. Blizzard, a Po-
tomac district farmer. and daughter of s.
Wade Magruder. farmer Of this vicinity.
committed suicide at her home near Po-
tomac yesterday by swallowing carbolic
acid.
A short while before her husband left
the house to attend to work Oh the farm
and Mrs Blizzard sent a colored boy en-
ployed on the farm to the store, leaving
her alone in the house. She then dressed
herself with care. wrote the note, which
was addressed to her father. drank the
acid and lay down on a sofa. Her dead
body was found by her father, who hap
pened to be in the neighborhood and
called to see her. The note referred in
tender terms to her husband. absolving
him from all blame. She said in the note
that she was unable to longer stand the
tortures of i'll health. A cup containing
some of the acid was found near the body.
Mrs Blizzard was twenty-eight years
old and was a lifelong resident of this
vicinity. She leaves no children.
MISS mary walker w eQS.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Walker. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Walker of
Gaithersburg, and William Rodney White
of Washington Grove We're married in
Washington last evening by Rev. Forrest
J. Prettyman of the Southern Methodist
Church. The ceremony was performed
at the home of the minister in the pres
ence of a few friends of the couple.
Robert Barnard Higgins. son of Mr..
and Mrs. John j. Higgins of this place,
and Miss Marie Helena Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace F. Brown of
Richmond, Va, were married last evening
in Centenary Methodist Church, Rich
mond, In the presence of large assem-
blage. The bridegroom has been making
Richmond his home for several years.
The Corcoran Hotel property at this
place. consisting of a hotel building of
thirty rooms and about four acres of
land, has been sold by Robert b. Peter
and William c. Bean to Wallace E.
Ricketts, of Rockville the consideration
being given as 5000.
Nicholas Leatherman Williams, aged
twenty-one, and Miss Josephine Skillman,
aged nineteen, both Of Pleasant Valley,
Va. were married in Rockville yester-
day afternoon by Rev. Samuel r. White
of the Baptist Church, the home Of the
minister being the scene Of the cere-
mony.
Robert e. Kendrick Takes Bride.
Robert Eldridge Kendrick, aged twen-
ty-one, and Miss Mildred Marie Ward.
aged eighteen, both Of Washington, also
were married here yesterday afternoon.
| the ceremony being performed by Rev.
Frank M. Richardson, . pastor of the
Southern Methodist Church, at the min
ister's home.
| Among other couples recently married
here were William Edward Goodrich.
aged twenty-three, and Miss Leah Mason
Kaufman, aged twenty-five, both OF
Washington.
Albert E. Shoemaker of Friendship
Heights has notified the supervisors of
elections of his declination of the noni-
nation for the state senate rendered him
by the recent prohibition county con-
vention Mr.. Shoemaker explains that
he was nominated without his knowledge
or consent