Evening star., 1923-10-11
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Md. October IL tSpe-
ciaD.-Delegations from Martinsburg
and Scotland were before the county
| board of educati ton here yesterday in
the interest of better transportation
facilities for the school children of
the two neighborhoods. The chill
dren of Martinsburg and vicinity at
tend the school at Poolesville and
hood come to Rockville. The school
officials were told that the facilities
for hauling the children are entirely
inadequate.
The board appointed Louis Duvall
a trustee of the school at Fairland in
place of DIR. Walter Adams, resigned; !;
Miss Catharine r. Love was named
as q trustee for the school at Coles
vile, succeeding Mrs. Marian Candy,
resigned, and John ]. Dolan was made
a member of the board of trustees of
the school at Woodside.
Edward Taylor of Gaithersburg was
selected to act as supervisor of the
colored schools of the county in place
of A. D. Owens, who has been granted
an indefinite leave of absence on ac-
count of sickness.
Teachers Appointed.
| Prof. Edward w. Broome. county su-
perintendent of schools, has an
nounced the appointments of the fol-
| lowing teachers and their confirma-
! tion by the county board: Miss Mabel
Y .
Miss Jean o. Coulter. assistant at
! woodside; Miss Ruth Burroughs. as
sistant at Sandy Spring; Miss Mary
Aldridge. assistant at Poolesville; 4;
| L. Mccall, assistants at Damascus
High School; Mrs. Elsie V. Irvies, as
| sistant at Glen Echo; Misses Agnes
F. Donaldson and Katherine Hodges,
assistants at Sandy Spring High
sistant at Gaithersburg High School
| Mrs. Mildred Hooker, assistant at
| Kensington; Mrs. M. ]. Howe, assist
ant at Bethesda; Susie Johnson, prfn-
cipal of the colored school at Grifton,
| and A. B. Newson, principal of the
colored school at Old Union.
! The property of the Girls Friendly
| Society, at Sandy Spring, has been
sold to DR.. William H. Hough of
made public. 1t consists of thirty
! four acres of land and building used
| by the society as clubhouse. 1t is
understood to be the purchasers pur-
pose to erect an up-to-dat brick
around 100000 and to make it one of
! the finest estates in the county. The
negotiations were conducted by H
Latane Lewis of Washington and Be
| thesda.
| Political Meeting.
| What is believed will be one of the
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! county in recent years is scheduled
| for Rockville Saturday afternoon
when Gov. Albert C. Richie and his
associates on the state ticket-Thomas
4 H Robinson, candidate for attorney
| general; William S. Gordy,, candidate
| for controller of the state treasury
and James A. Young, candidate for
clerk of the court of appeals-will
| deliver addresses on the issues of the
! campaign. Former United States
| Senator blair Lee of this county will
| talk aboN the government of Mont
gomery county during the last four
| years and Preston B. Ray, clerk OF
the circuit court for the county, will
preside. The meeting will be held
| under the auspices of the democratic
state central committee for the
county.
| Licenses have been issued by the
| clerk of the circuit court here for the
marriage of Miss Rachel Danenhower
and Abner G. Clark, both Of Wash
ington, and Miss Eva X. Pirkey oil
|Fair View. Va. and Norris J. Matthews
lof Washington. !