Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19
PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

EVANSVILLE. Md. January is
From June I to December 81 of last
year. Symmetrical d. Hall. clerk of
the circuit court for this county,
issued licenses to hunt, as follows:
Residence licenses, 1899; statewide,
"a, and nonresident, leo. Money col
lected for licenses totaled $3.50.
Word has been received here of the
promotion to captain of First Lieut..
Thompson A. Lyon of this place, who
is attached to a machine gun battal-
lion in France.
Joseph Elliot. well known mis-
sion worker of Washington, will con-
duct a mission study class which has
been organized under the auspices Of
the Epworth League of the Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church of TINS
city. The class is to hold its first
meeting Wednesday, and proba oily
will meet each week thereafter at the
parsonage of the church.
Beginning tomorrow revival services
Will be held in Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church. The services are
10 continue several weeks. Rev. T.. n
Bergerstock is the pastor.
Surg ical dressings workers of
HyattsviIle were entertained by Mrs
Thomas L. Latimer Thursday after
noon, at her residence. OF johnson
avenue. the occasion marking the
formal windins-up of the surgical
dressings work here. The local
women. who have been thus employed
since the outset of the war. turned
out a huge volume OF comforts for
sick and wounded sold ers Mrs.
1.atimer was presented with pair
of silver candlesticks. She has been
the director. and threw open her resi-
dence as a workhouse for the women
The Lanham Red Cross auxiliary
has issued report showing that dur
ing 1917 the organizations coIlec-
tions amounted to $3.50, of which
bout 81 900 was contributed for ma
terialS from which We're made surgical
dressings. knitted articles. etc, the
remainder of this sum representing
war-drive and mem bership subscrip-
tions.
At the annual meeting Tuesday of
the stockholders OF the Prince Georges
County Bank of this place the fol-
lowing directors were cleo. ed for the
year: J. Epos Ray. jr. DR.. Guy w.
1.atimer. n 9. Dudrow, T. Howard
Duckett. DR. Clarence J. Owens.
Arthur Middleton. Harry s. Roome.
Perry Boswell, II. W. McNaInee. 5.
George \. Guide ]. Chew Sheriff. Dr..
Louis \. Griffith. H. Nj. Presbey, John
e.. Thompson and T. NJ. Jones.
The exemption board for this couu
ty, preparatory to winding up its
work, is preparing list of the men
who were inducted into the service.
The board of commissioners for this
county have given notice that applica-
fions for pensions must be filed with
the clerk to the board on or before
February Is. The applications must
be written and accompanied by veri-
fed statement of all facts upon which
the claim is based.
Mrs. Annie Z. Harrison. director of
woman's work for the Red Cross in
Hyattsvil1e, has requested all now
making socks or sweaters to finish
them as quickly as possible and turn
them in at the local headquarters, on
Maryland avenue.
Fifteen thousand dollars damages is
claimed by William Crane of BIadens-
burg. the next friend Of Charles Crane,
twelve years old. who was injured, it
Is alleged, October % of last year
when he fell from a Standard Oil
wagon on the Washington Baltimore
boulevard in Hyattsville. The declar-
alton filed in the circuit court at Up
per Marlboro alleges that the boy was
allowed to drive a team of three mules
belonging to the company. and that as
result of falling from the wagon he
suffered punctured skull and other
injuries. The boy is able to be about
on clutches. Attorneys Fl. Winship
Wheatley and Jesse E. Potbury are
representing the boys father.
Stockholders of Brandywine Bank. at
Brandywine. this county, have elected
these directors for the year: r. Hugh
Perrie. Charles J. Early, r. H. Robin
son, Joseph H. B.andford, L. S Bur
roughs, Joseph a. Turner, H. Baden
hoop. Richard Badenhoop ard Paul
Johannsen. The directors elected r.
Hugh Perrie president, Charles E. Early
vice president and II. Bandenhoop
cashier.