Evening star., 1914-01-22
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Lee Offutt Is President of AgTicul-
tural Society, Succeeding
Josiah W. Jones.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd. January %, 1914.
The recently elected directors of the
Montgomery County Agricultural Society
met in the courthouse here yesterday att
ernoon and elected officers for one year.
as follows: President, Lee Offutt of Rock
Vile: vice president, Charles F. Kirk of
Olney: secretary. James T. Bogley OF
Rockville; treasurer. John j. Higgins OF
Rockville. Mr.. Offutt succeeds Josiah w.
Jones. who did not desire reelection. and
the others were reelected. 1t was decided
to hold the annual fair this year August
-. 70 y and IS.
Miss Ida Mckinley Grow. seventeen
years old, and Marvin Watts Moore, aged
twenty-five. both of Appomattox. Va.
married by Rev. Frank NJ. Richardson,
pastor of the Southern Methodist Church,
the ceremony taking place at the home of
the minister. They came out from Wash
ington in an automobile and returned III
the same way Immediately after the
ceremony.
To Collect Dog Tax.
The county commissioners have desig-
mated the following constables to act as
dog tax collectors for this year: Mareel
Darby. Randolph Luhn, Irwin Darby.
George w. Edwards Ira Hall. Irwin Ray.
Ober W. Daley Thomas Small. Richard
Gray, j. Obadiah King and Hugh O'Don-
nell
Last year the dog tax. less commissions
of collectors. amounted to S2SSl, and
s1.f36 40 was paid out because Of depre-
dations of dogs, the county clearing
81 1921.
Mrs Lillian F. Luxen of Glen Echo.
this county has filed suit in the circuit
court here for an absolute divorce from
Joseph A. Luxen. also of Glen Echo. The
respondent. According to the bill the
couple were married April g. 1912, and
lived together until a few days ago. Mrs
Luxen is represented by Attorney John
A. Garrett of Rockville.
Fare Well in Legislature.
Montgomery county's delegation in the
legislature Jared well in the committee
assignments just announced by President
Price of the state senate and Speaker
Trippe of the house of delegates.
d.. Eugene Jones. who represents the
county in the state senate, is chairman
of the committees on retrenchment of
expenses of the state government and
sanitary conditions of state, and Is also
a member Of the committee on civil
service and election reform, federal rela-
tions pensions, corporations, library and
article ): section a, of the constitu-
Iiom
Delegate Andrew J. Cummings is chair
man of the committee on public build
iugs. and is on the committees on rules,
ways and means and pensions. Delegate
Francis Snowden is chairman of the
committee on agriculture. and is mem
Der of the committees on railroads and
canals, and article 8, section "a, of the
constitution. Delegate Eugene H.
Waters is chairman of the committee on
amendments to the constitution. and IS
on the committees on judiciary and tenl-
perance. Delegate ]. Furr White is a
member of the committees on militia,
railroads and canals library and article
:; section "a, OF the constitution.
Horse Driven to Death.
Warrants were issued here yesterday
afternoon for the arrest of Oscar kenney
and Charles Wicks, both colored. who
are charged with stealing horse and
buggy belonging to Thomas Hampton,
who lives near Bethesda, this county. 1t
is represented that the team was stolen
Sunday night and that the horse was
driven to death, being found dead on the
Conduit road the following day.