Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-25
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Mark Richardson and Miss Mueller
of Washington Get Mar
riage License.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

| by Rev. Frank NJ. Richardson, pastor o
the Methodist Church, the ceremony TAX
| ing place at the home of the minister il
! the presence of a few relatives an,
| friends.
Invitations have been issued for the an
| nual Christmas holiday dance of tn
| young men of Rockville and vicinity
which will be held in the opera house thu
| evening of December 81. The committee
| of arrangements is composed of Stephei
III. Quigley, Charles NJ. Jones, j. Darb.
Bowman, Murray Hamilton. George Peter
/ Stephen c.. Cromwell and Julian w
| Whiting The chaperons will be Mrs
| Howard Larcornbe, Mrs. William Dorsey
| and Mrs. Willis L. Moore.
Miss Dawson to Be Bride.
|. Announcement has been made that
Miss Priscilla Beall Dawson, daughter
/ of John l.. Dawson of this place, ano
Robert w Farmer of Redland, this
county, will be married in Christ Epis-
copal Church, Rockville, the evening of
January 7.
| The prisoners in the Jail here-eight
in number-were shown good It, time
today by Sheriff Peyton Whalen. They
were given a turkey dinner and the
usual Christmas goodies"
Yerle A. Moreland, twenty-four years
old. and Miss Mary f. St Clair, eight
i cen, both of Vienna, Va, were married
| in Rockville yesterday afternoon by
Rev. Samuel r. White of the Baptist
Church, the ceremony taking place at
| the home of the minister.
The Sunday school of the Rockville
Baptist Church has elected officers to
serve one year. as follows: Superin-
| tendent. c. Norman Boulc; assistant
superintendent Paul Lehman; secretary,
Roger Bean; treasurer, Thomas Graft.
| A license to marry was issued here to
Mark Richardson, twenty-one years old,
| and Miss Mary j. Mueller, eighteen,
| both of Washington.
Home and School Associations.
To further the movement for the or
ganization of the Montgomery County
| Federation of Home and School Associa-
| tons, and in response to a call issued by
| Eugene E. Stevens of Chevy Chase,
| about forty men and women, represent
| ing twenty of the public schools and the
various home and school associations and
| civic organizations of the county. met in
| the office of the county public school COM
| missioners here Tuesday. Mr.. Stevens
presided, and Charles H. Becker of
| Bethesda acted as secretary. The fol-
/ lowing schools were represented: Takoma
| Park, Bethesda, Kensington, CHEVY
Chase, Friendship Heights, Woodside,
Garrett Park, Woodland, Rockville,
Lewisdale, Travilah, Oakmont, Montrose,
Damascus, Cedar Heights. Sherwood,
Jacksonville, Beane, Colesville and Mount
| Lebanon.
| Following an extended discussion a
committee consisting of DR.. Otis M. Lin
| thicum, Charles III. Becker, DR.. John w.
Boyer, Frank l.. Hewitt and Homer
| Query, was named to prepare a consti-
| tuition and bylaws and nominate officers
for permanent organization. This com
nittee will report at a meeting to be held
in Rockville January Ii.
Acting PreSIuent Stevens was au-
| thorized TO appoint a committee of
| three to confer with committees rep
| resenting the county commissioners
| and public school commissioners with
| reference to having the coming ses-
| sion of the legislature take action looking
| to the financial welfare of the public
| schools of the county.
Following adjournment, all present
visited the Office Of the county COM
missioners and, through their spokes-
man, Mr.. Stevens, thanked the commits
sioners for their action in making ar
engagements to provide the $4,000
necessary to keep the public schools
! of the county open until June 1.
Negro Sent to Prison.
| destruction of property, Frank Horn. a
ycoh5 iiC6lo, WAS UCIoN JuuSc AItuuI
| Mace in the police court here yesterday
\ It was represented that he assaulted
Jane Morris, colored, and damaged
/ property belonging To c. Parker Jones
| of sthe Linden neighborhood. He was
/ adjudged guilty of both charges and
was sentenced in each case to three
months in the house of correction.
| Sheriff b. Peyton Whalen has an
| nounced the appointment of James w
Cummings of Chevy Chase, Hugh f
O'Donnell Of Silver Spring and Perry
| Ensey of Unity, as deputy sheriffs.
George III. Lamar and Robert L. l.
| Smith. representing the Rockville Home
and School Association, appeared before
! the county commissioners in the inter.
est of additional rooms and teachers al
the Rockville High School, it being rep.
| resented that the present facilities are
| entirely inadequate.
The public schools of the county closed
Tuesday afternoon for the Christmas
| holidays. Because of the annual insti
| tute of the teachers of the county being
| in session the week beginning January
| the schools will not reopen until Janu
| airy L.
| That the public schools of Montgomery
courly will not have to close March 10
| as was threatened, because of a shortag,
| of funds, but will be kept open the full
nine months, or until June /, was mad,
| certain here when the county commits
Sioners, at a conference with the scnoo
commissioners, agree dto issue certifi
Gates of Indebtedness for $4,000 Thes
certificates will be issued from time t
time as the requirements of the schoo
board demand