Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Strict Enforcement of Vac
cination Law in Public
Schools Is Urged.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Nd, January Is, 1913.
The public school commissioners for this
county have been asked by the county
commissioners to see that the law requir-
ing public school children to be vaccinat-
ed is strictly enforced.
At a recent meeting of the commits
sioners. sitting as the county board of
health, DR.. Claiborne H. Mannar of Rock
vile, health officer of the county. read a
letter he had received from the state
board of health calling attention to the
presence of smallpox in Baltimore and
urging the enforcement of the vaccination
law.
Under the law no child is permitted to
attend the public schools unless he or she
shall present vaccination certificate.
The large Touring and grist mill of
Joseph H. Mullinix. at Mullinix, this
county, was destroyed by fire few even
ings ago. causing a loss of probably
$1,000 The insurance was 5000. The
cause of the fire is not known.
A chapter of the Brotherhood Of st.
Andrew has been formed among the men
of Christ Episcopal Church. Kensington,
with seventeen members and the follow
ing officers: Director, Cornelius w. Clum
assistant director, William w. Skinner:
secretary, Allan Peter; treasurer, Warren
Adams.
Premium for Best Exhibit.
The Montgomery County Agricultural
Society has received from the Laurel
Fair Association a check for $1,000 as
premium for the citizens of this
county having the best general exhibit
at the Laurel fair of 1911, the under
standing being that the premium was to
go to the agricultural society of the
county having the best all-around ex-
hibit- The association offered premium
of $500. and the $1,000 was agreed
upon as compromise, after long
controversy.
The following are among the transfers
of real estate recorded i'm the Office of
the clerk of the circuit court here dur
ing the week: Richard A. Ough to John
w. BOgley, house and lot at Friendship
Heights: Andrew G: Shannon to James
+. Poole. twenty-five acres: Lawrence
7. Swain to Henry II. Johnson. lot at
Takoma Park; Gershan p Bickford to
Henry H. Johnson, lot at Takoma Park
Joseph c. Higgins to William d. Bell.
lot at Laytonsville: Rosedale Park
Rosedale Park: William H. Talbot.
trustee. to ]. Davis Egbert, two acres;
George SnOwden to Laura Brown. five
and a half acres; Julia p. Truxton to
Laura r. Oiney, lot at Cnevy CnaSe' -
H. Bradley to J. Vernon Silance, lot at
Oakmont: William Davis. jr.. to Haitian
A. Waters. sixty-fOur acres: John o.
Clark to George w. Myers, ten acres:
George F. Ray to Hugh Carter. thirteen
acres; James A. Mullinix to Joseph II.
Mullinix. forty-five acres; James A.
Mullinix to Dorsey j.. MulliniX, ninety
acres: Alexander Kilgour. trustee. to
William d. Darby, sixty-seven acres;
Samuel d. Derillbiss to Edward G.
kruhm. sixty-three acres; Charles d.
Cugle to Columbia Park Realty Com
pany. foS.y-eight acres: Daniel x. Jack
son to Frederick Lemke. lot at North
Kensington: Benjamin II: Leighton to
Jacob C. Foster. lot at Woodside; John
P. Stuckert to Mary s. Hilton. lot at
Woodmont: county commissioners to A.
B. Farquhar, twenty-five acres: Chevy
Chase to Great Falls Land Company to
Mary c. Stilwell. eight acres: Edward
C. Kruhm to Horace A. Harrison.
twenty-six acres: Catharine NJ. Lung to
Charles F.. Miller. lot at Takoma Park.
and Benjamin Schwartz to Mary Linden.
fourteen acres.
Motion for New Trial.
A motion for a new trial has been filed