Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12
Laurel, Md.

! Special Correspondence of The Star.
! LAUREL. Md, March 11.-Miss Ruth
| Lindsay entertained number of
friends at her home on Prince Georges
street Saturday evening. Those pres
ent were Misses Naomi Dale, Ruby
Lester, Margaret Harding, Ruth Tighe,
Gladys Bean, Doris Beall, and Emory
Federline, De Witt Donaldson, Young
Await. Melvin Marks and Ralph Ken
ney.
Miss Julia Latchford entertained at
cards Saturday evening. four tables OF
five hundred being played. The guests
whose honor the affair was given;
/ Maybelle E. Steele. Eleanor Fletcher.
Grace King. Naomi White, Elizabeth
Clark. Lilly Crook and Edythe King,
Howard Schuster. Bernard S. Hartman.
Frank Brady, Frederick Reapsomer.
| William Howard. Irving Latchford,
| Charles a. Mason and Mr. and Mrs.
Bonis. Miss Elizabeth Clark, Messrs
| Schuster and Bond.
Misses Margaret and Gertrude Pagan
We're Sunday visitors to the home of
| Miss Latchford.
/ The Ladies' Recreation Club of Lau-
rel held its March meeting at the home
of Mrs. John Flester on Washington
avenue Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Swami Harding of
| Washington have been visiting rela-
| tves in Laurel.
! W. J. Wiegel of Fairmont. W. Va.
was the guest of H. c. Sample this
week
| Mrs. John Lester is visiting relatives
! The March meeting of the Farmers
! Cooperative Club of Laurel district
was held Saturday night at Honeywood
farms. the home IF Mr.. Van Metre.
] o fnr c1I nh cd
at the February meeting were adopted
without material change. The new
rules drop the word cooperative"
from the name of the club limits the
membership to eighteen regular mem
| bers and not to exceed three honorary
members while meeting at private
| houses. More detailed rules governing
| the proposition of candidates are pro-
vided as well as rules to terminate
| membership for non-attendance and
! non-payment of dues. Special atten-
| ton is paid to the treasury, finance
committee and trustees A general
| discussion of the subject of fertilizers
| and manures was participated in by all
| of the members. Evan G. CLANCY going
into the subject with much thorough
ness, illustrating his remarks by
| ject for discussion is What Is the Best
/, Rotation of Crops to Grow for the
Local Market and What Is the Best
Method of Marketing the Same?"
visited Laurel this week.
Miss Leafy Godfrey VISITED friends in
| Washington this week.
! Charles C. Robb and Miss Annie Robb
| of Fairmont. W. Va, were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Sample
! Mrs. Oliver HENDERSON was a visitor
| to Baltimore this week.
/ Mrs Walter II. Harman entertained
the members of the Jessup Literary
| Club at her home. Reservoir Heights,
/ Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Isaac Louis
! Otis read extracts from the life of
{ George Washington.
/ Rev. Joseph A. Myer has been enter
! tanning his sisters, Mrs Street of
| Coatesville. Pa, and Miss Myer of
| baltimore. at st. Mary's rectory here
Laurel Grammar School, No. 3. has
| been closed for an indefinite period
owing to an outbreak of scarlet fever
among some of the pupils. George p
McCeney, superintendent of the school
board. gave the order this week when
three cases were reported to the health
authorities.
Grammar School, No. j. and the High
School will not close unless the disease
becomes more widespread. A score or
more Of the pupils were already at
| home sick from other causes.
Mrs. Annie Brown. fifty-six years old,
wife of James A. Brown, died at her
home here last Saturday: She is sur
and Dewey Brown. The funeral was
| held from st. Philips Church Monday.
Rev. Bushby officiating. Interment was
! in Ivy Hill cemetery.
| c. w. Bergee died at his home near
here Sunday. Interment was in Wood
stock. VT, Wednesday.
| Mrs. Harvey F. Hay and Mrs. Will
liam NJ. Harman,- jr.. entertained the
members of st. Mary's Guild Wednes-
day afternoon.
! Mr.. and Mrs. George Stansfield an
nounce the engagement Of their daugh-
ter. Mamie A Stansfeld, to William
I of Pa1
| William Truesdall has returned from
visit to New York.
| Robert rockingham spent the week
end in Baltimore last week.
| MIR and Mrs. Alfred Haupt, Miss Elsa
Haupt and Alfred Haupt, jr.. spent the
week end with relatives in Baltimore,
| The Lenten Sewing Society, formed
| by the members of st. Marys conSre-
Mrs. Alfred Haupt Thursday afternoon.
Miss Cecilia Thies has returned from
a visit to Baltimore.
! Miss Viola Clough is visiting her
/ sister, Mrs Ernest Fairall, in Wash
ington.
Thomas A. Gray left Thursday with
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and
the United States trade commission for
various points in South America. The
party will be gone about two months
Hugh Curran, who has recently
moved to this town. left Wednesday
for three months trip to South
Mr.. and Mrs. William Berger were
visitors in Laurel last week. They were
en- route to Denver after three weeks
lcruise among the Florida keys.
| A meeting of the stockholders Of the
Laurel Building Association will be
held at the rooms of the association
| March 81.
went to hear Billy Sundays sermons at
the tabernacle this week were Joseph
| Curley and Oscar Schooley.