Evening star., 1923-09-01
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Md, September 1
| (SpeciaD Prof. Edwin w. Broome.
| county superintendent of schools, has
announced the appointment Of the
! Falkland High School-William E.
! Furnas. principal. and Mrs. William
| L. F'urnas. assistant. Bethe esda-Miss
]. Ella Umbeck. principal. Hyatts-
| town-Miss Josephine Strickland. as
sistant. Chevy Chase-Mrs. Bessie l..
| Cox. assistant. Wheaton-Miss Gladys
| Brooke. assistant. Poolesville High
| Miss Elizabeth Cronley. assistant.
ment-Miss Hazel NJ. Long. Brighton
| --School-Henrietta B. Blount.
principal. Grifton Colored School-T.
B. Mcconnell. principal. Scotland Col
! ored School-Russia d. Corbin, prin-
cipal; sugarland Golored school
! School-Susie Johnson, principal. Ia
koma Park Colored School-Thelma
NJ. Fantroy. principal. Rockville Col
! ored School-M. E. Hartman, prin-
! cipal.
Arrested on Theft Charge.
Clever work on the part of Sheriff
Aivie Moxley and Deputy Sheriff
arrest of the person who COMMITTEE
the recent numerous robbertes of half
a dozen or more business establish
ments of Gaithersburg, this county.
year-old boy of Jamestown district,
who. so the officers say, has: admitted
his guilt He is now in, jail here:
Among the places entered, some or
them several times. were the garages
of I,ycurgus Griffith and William A.
Waters. the drug store of w. u. Bar
nett. the general store of j. Forrest
Walker. the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road office and the bakery establlsh ,
ment of William McBain. Cash ana
around $50 were secured by Cooley,
a norton of which has been recov-
The suuervisors Of elections have
appointed W p: Witcratt IT, repnoiiSSIin; tba tSirf;
precinct of Bethesda district, IN
Mace of Joseph McCloskey. declined.
Marriage Licenses.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerL, of the circuit court here Tor
the marriage Of Miss Margaret ";
chisholm of Ballston, Va. and Daniei
~. spalding Of Wasnington; .anntSosr MISS and
Walter e. Vinegar. both of Takoma
park. Md. and Miss Mary j. Lunce-
ford and Carr r. White. both of war
renton. Va.
The big Labor day base ball game
in Montgomery bounty will be be-
tween the county's leading teams,
Gaithersburg and Silver Spring. 1t
will be played at GaftherSburg in the
afternoon and a big crowd is expect
cd Owens or Sedgwick Will pitch
for Silver Spring and Niedfeldt OF
| Hersperger will be in the box foI
| Gaithersburg. 1t will be the third
game of the season between the two
teams, each having a win to its
credit.
Accident Victims Recovering.
| The condition Of Miss Alice Over
beke Of Cleveland, Ohio, who was SO
! seriously injured in an automobile
collision on the observation-disclosures
burg pike Thursday afternoon. when
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Over
! Overbeke. and her brother, John
| Overbeke, jr., were also injured, some
| Of them very seriously, was today
! reported at the Montgomery County
General Hospital. at Sandy Spring
where all are patients. to be improv-
| ing and her recovery is now look ed
| for. She sustained a fracture of the
| skull and concusSion of the brain
/! She was the most seriously injured
| of the five.
| Under the auspices of the Dicker.
| son, Poolesville and GAINESVILLE Com.
munity leagues. a picnic was held
the Monocacy river, near Dickerson
Something like 800 members of the
| three organizations and others at.
| tended and q fine time was enjoyed
| During the afternoon John A. Garret
of the Rockville bar delivered an ad.
| dress. The object of the picnic wa,
to promote community spirit and. a.
far as that was concerned, 1t proved
| a success.