Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-08
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS AND NOTES
Winfred E. Berry Takes Office as
Postmaster, Retaining
W. S. Day.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Nd March :. 1914.
Winfred E. Berry, recently appointed
postmaster of Rockville. to succeed
Willis b. Burdette. today took charge
Of the office. He Immediately announced
Wilbur S. Day would be retained as as
sistant postmaster. position he has
| filed about seven years. The Office pays
about $1,000 year, and has an annual
allowance for clerk hire of $500. 1t
is the distributing point for Give rural
free delivery routes.
Frederick p. Pritchard thirty-two
years old, and Mrs. Stella Lee Bailey,
aged twenty-six, both of Chicago and
both divorces, were married in Rock
vile today by Rev. Samuel r. White. a
retired Baptist minister, at his home
Entertainment at Gaithersburg.
\ pleasing entertainment was given
| in the Sunday school room of Grace
| Methodist Church, Gaithersburg. last
| evening, under the auspices of the Ep-
worth League. The program included
talk on Man" by Rev. Frank NJ.
Richardson. pastor of the Rockville
| Southern Methodist Church. recitations
by Misses Maude " Broome and Anna
NJ. Mccullough, vocal music by Messrs.
L. Wilson Walker and Raymond Clagett,
a reading by Mrs L. Wilson Walker. and
| instrumental music by Misses Ida and
Julia Kemp.
civil service examination for appoint
| ments of postmasters at the various
fourth-class post offices OF this county
was held in the high school building here
today and was conducted by Mr. Morgan
of the United States civil service COM
mission, about fifty men and women pre-
| senting themselves. The offices for which
postmasters are to be appointed as re-
suit of the examinations are those al
Ashton. GAINESVILLE. Beallsville, Bethesda
Brighton, Soyds. Brookeville. Clarksburg
Dickerson. Ednor, Germantown. Glen
Echo. Kensngton, Olney, Poolesville
Sandy Spring, Sellman. Washington
Grove and Linden.
| Transfers of Real Estate.
| The following transfers of real estate
We're recorded in the Office of the clerk
Of the circuit court here during the week
Leonard Hays, executor, to Margaret NJ.
Hall five acres: Annie f. Poole to Henry
| C. Gibson, 1870 acres; Anna o. Miller to
Louis L. Keiser two lots at Alta Vista
BENJAMIN F. Leighton to Clifford r.
Waller, six lots at Woodside. Robert T.
| Tyner to r. Clayton Window. three lots
| in North Kensngton; Emmett T. Foster
| to Jesse w. Walker fourteen acres. Es-
| telle NJ. Gartrell TO George b. BUCK, lot
in Kensngton Park; George c. Bradley,
jr., to ]. Walter Long, IL; acres.
John r. Lumsden of Friendship
| Heights, this county. who is one OF the
Oldest conductors in point of service on
| the Washington and Rockville railway,
was today granted an absolute divorce
| from Ivah l. Lumsden of Tenleytown,
| d. c., by Judge edward G. Peter in the
| circuit court here.
| The bill. which charged desertion. set
! forth that the couple were married in
| Washington November - 1910. by Rev.
| j. l.. KILLER of Calvary Methodist
! Church. and lived together until February
| 3 of the following year. Mr.. Lumsden
| was represented by Attorney John y.
| Garrett.
| II is understood that opposition is de-
| veloping to the proposed bond issue OF
| $4,000 for the construction of sewer
age system for Rockville. The bill pro-
| vidng for the bond ISSUE which is now
| in course of preparation. will not contain
| a referendum feature. but it is rumored
| that the countys representatives in the
| legislature will be asked to add a provi-
| sion of that character. The objection is
| solely on the ground of expense. A lively
| contest seems certain.