The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-26
JOHN {. WATERS
. DIVORCED BY
WIFE
Rockville Court Gives Decree.
DR.. Ladson Appointed County
Veterinary Inspector.

ROCKVILLE, Nd. July 26.-Tht
county commissioners have beer
notified by the Bureau of Anirna
Industry, United States Department
of Agriculture, Of the appointment
Of DR.. H. H. Ladson, Of Oakdale
this county, as county veterinary
inspector in tuberculosis education
He succeeds DR.. Lockwood, Of
Washington, who has been trans
TERED to Baltimore county. His
salary, $4,000 a year, will be paid
by the county commissioners.
DR.. Ladson will enter upon his
duties the first of August and will
Immediately take charge Of the
campaign now in progress in the
county. In directing that work he
will be assisted by his brother, DR..
Thomas A. Ladson. of the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
He was selected for the position at
the request Of the Montgomery
County Farm Bureau and repre-
sentative farmers of the county.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here for
the marriage of Miss Catherine S.
Nothey, of Alexandria, Va, and
Frederick w. Jenkins, of Washing.
ton, and Mrs. Livia B. Warner and
James 1. Kidwell, both Of Han1il
ton, Va.
For violations of the motor We.
hicle laws, these have paid fines in
the police court here: George G.
Sloane, $33; w. ]. Hummer, SIS; Ma
Jor Maddox, 81.
It Is understood that Lloyd J.
Jones, well-known business man OF
GAINESVILLE district, is being urged
by his friends to become a candidate
for one of the Democratic nomina.
tons for the house Of delegates, and
it is said that he will probably do
so provided Harvey White, from the
adjoining district of Poolesville, de.
cides not to stand for nomination.
The annual supper FIR the benefit
of the Montgomery County General
Hospital, Sandy Spring, was held
last evening at the Sandy Spring
High School, and was attended by
a large number of persons from
various parts of the county. It was
in charge of a committee. Of which
Mrs. Frederick L. Thomas was chair
man. In connection with the sup
per, dance was held, many of the
young people OF. the county partici
pating.
In the circuit court at this place
Judge Edward G.. Peter has signed
a decree granting to Mrs. Agnes NJ
Waters, Of Edgmoor, this cointy
an absolute divorce from John r
Waters. of Berwyn, Md. The de
cree awards to her the custody OF
the couples only child, Mdrcia &c
celia Waters, between one and two
years old. AIrs. Waters was repre-
sented by Attorney John A. Gar
rett, Of Rockville.
The bill charged the defendant
with desertion and infidelity and
named a correspondent. The mar
riage took place at Chevy Chase
on May 80, 1921. the ceremony
being performed by Rev. Thomas
G. cSmyth, Of the Church Of the
Blessed Sacrament, and three weeks
later, while living at Cumberland
Md, the defendant, so the bill
charged, deserted the plaintiff for
another woman.
The marriage Of the couple was
the elimination of a brief court.
ship which begun when the plain.
tiff's sister, Alleine w. Nulligan
aged eighteen. was killed by al
automobile driven by the defendant.
Miss MulIigan. who was a student
at the University Of Maryland, was
walking along the Baltimore pike
near Hyattsville, with four other
girls and a young man, when
Waters machine came up from be-
hind and plunged into them. Waters
claimed he was blinded by the
headlight on an approaching army
motor truck. The accident occur.
red January 27. 1921.
It was at the death bed of the
young woman that Waters and the
plaintiff met, and after four.
month courtship they were married
Mrs. Waters is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Mulligan, of
New York. The plaintiff was in
the Government service at Wash.
ington for q while and later became
associated with Fulton r. Gordon,
Washington, in the real estate bust.
ness. According to her own testi.
mony, she Is worth about 500 900.
She is Twenty-Five years old.
Waters, who is thirty-one years
Of age, served in the world war.
BY profession he is a civil engineer,
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