Evening star., 1916-07-30
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY


| Special Correspondence Of The Star.
| ROCKVILLE, Md, July 29.-The d.
rectors Of the Montgomery County Agri-
cultural Society have selected the follow
ing to judge the various exhibits at the
annual fair to be held here August 90.
! %. "a and 25:
Purcellville Va; light draft horses. E.
! W. Myers and Mr.. Getzendanner, Charles
Town. w. Va; poultry, Henry ]. Hunt,
Bethesda. Md. /; farm products and fruits,
| William Taliaferro. College Park. Md ;
garden products. Henry Voght, Tenley-
town. D. c.; flowers, q. D. Blackstone,
Washington. D. c.; flour, William w.
Jordan. Washington. D. c.; culinary de-
partment, Mrs. Charles G. Holland. Rock
Vile. Md; ; preserves Mrs. John H. jan
ney. Brookville, Md; hams. Judge Ed
i ward c. Peter. Rockville, Md; childrens
department. Mrs. Henry H. Miller
The directors decided to hold an auto
mobile parade as one Of tie features Of
the fair this year and will offer liberal
cash prizes for the best C>corated cars.
Mule races for Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons have also been decided on.
Miss Rosa May Lewis. daughter of Mrs.
Oll1e NJ Lewis OF bTOWnlnSSN1lle, tnlS
county. and Herbert Day Barnes of the
same locality were married this evening
by Rev. S. A. Jones. pastor of Bethesda
Methodist Church. Browningsville. the
brides mother in the presence of a small
company of relatives and friends of the
couple.
Rev. Oscar W. Henderson, who will
sermon as pastor of the Rockville Bap-
tist Church, having accepted a call to
the pastorate of a church in Baltimore,
was last evening rendered a reception
by the members of his congregation,
many of the people of the community,
irrespective of denomination, attending.
Short speeches, all expressive of regret
that Rockville is to lose the promising
H. Schooley, pastor of the Methodist
Church.; Rev. o. c. Barnes. pastor of
the Christian Church; Charles w.
Prettyman, Clifford H. Robertson,
Finley. Mr.. Henderson responded feel
ingly. and made it plain that his only
reason for accepting the call to Balti-
more was that he felt that he would
have there field for much greater use
fulness.
This evening the Rockville lodge of
Masons rendered Mr.. Henderson a fare
well reception. AS a token of the es-
TEEN in which he is held by his fellow
Rockville Masons he was presented
with a handsome watch chain. Several
short speeches were made. to which Mr..
Henderson responded. and refreshments
were served.
Transfers of real estate were re-
corded in the office of the clerk of the
circuit court here during the week as
follows: Berry E. Clark. treasurer, to
William A Craig, 35 acres; George A.
Wilson to William Kisner. ~ acres;
Henry E. ingalls, to Edwin w Chick
IL acres: James Hawkins to Samuel
Hawkins, 1 acre: Clarence Hoskinson
to Charles E. Norris lots at Wood
| mont: Isabel c. Howard to Chevy Chase
to Great Falls Land Corporation, prop
erty in Bradley Hills; Chevy Chase to
Great Falls Land Corporation to
George w. Allen. property in Bradley
1 Hills; Jacob W. Perry to Owen F. Mat
tingly. lot in Glen Echo Heights: Fred
erick N. Didier to Robert N. Stimmell,
lot at Takoma Park: E. c. Hillyer to
William L. Hillyer. lot at Chevy Chase
Harriet Freely to John A. I. Cassedy.
lot at Forest Glen.
| The county commissioners for Mont
gomery and Prince Georges counties
have fixed $4,000 as the amount of the
bond to be given jointly to the two
counties by the treasurer of the Wash
tington suburban sanitary commission,
composed of William T. S. Curtis and
John w. Bogley of this county and T.
Howard Duckett of Prince Georges
county, which recently organized by
Ielecting Mr.. Curtis chairman and
treasurer and Mr.. Bogley secretary.
| The commission was created by an act
of the last legislature. and is charged
with the duty Of making investigations
and designing water supply, drainage
and sewerage systems for those por-
tions of Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties contiguous to the
District of Columbia, and of studying
and reporting to the next legislature
upon methods under which such sys-
TENS may be executed
The first work of the commission will
be to employ surveyor and establish
the boundary lines of the sanitary dis
trict.