Evening star., 1923-05-07
HERNDON.

The marriage is announced of Miss
| Bessie Blevins of Pleasant Valley to
| Frank Harrison, son of William |.
Harrison of Herndon, the ceremony
being performed in Washington We'd
neSday.
Charles Turner Hawling of Lou
doun county announces the engage
, ment of his daughter. Alice Deve
reaux. to Lieut.. Michael Charles
Grenata, Corps of Engineers. U. S. A.
stationed at Camp Humphrey, the
| wedding to be an event of early June.
The semi-annual business meeting
of the Fortnightly Club was held Sat
, chosen to serve again: Miss Maria
r. Bready. president; Mrs. y. Bar
mum Buell. vice president: Mrs.
Charles w. Rider. treasurer: Mrs. Ed
win II. Mooney. secretary: Mrs. Louis
Ferguson. assistant secretary: Miss
Ellen Thornton. parliamentary leader.
! and Mrs. Russell A. Lynn. librarian.
The librarian reported 4.O25 books
on the shelves and 243 readers in the
winter.
The next meeting of the club will
be with Mrs. Arthur III. Buell..
Plans are under way to make a sue
cess of the spring Sunday school con-
vention of DraneSville district, which
| meets at Floris the first Sunday in
June.
this week by Mrs. Andrew G. Hutchi-
son, high score being made by Mrs.
Asa f. Bradshaw and low by Mrs.
Brown.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Orland A.
Chamberlin and Mrs. Russell A. Lynn
were joint hosteSSeS at n large party.
both bridge and 500 being played.
Miss Maria r. Bready, chairman
Fairfax County Near East Relief. as
sisted by number of ladies of Hern-
| don, has packed and shipped large
! box of fine clothing.
The track team of Floris partici-
pated in the State Agricultural track
meet at Blacksburg and were enter
tanned at V. p. l. Those qualifying
| for the meet were Garland Long,
ton. Bennett Rosenberger. Ray Har-
! riSon and Jay Leith. Long won the
; gold medal for the first event. the
shotput, and he also won the silver
| medal in the second event. the pole
vault. Fleming won the bronze medal
| in the high jump and also second
place in the SS0-yard dash. Middle
| ton won two silver medals. taking
second place in the broad jump and
| in the 220-yard dash. Harrison won
| These scores entitled the Floris
| School to third rank in the state.
! Miss Margaret Pinch sailed for
Rome, where she will have her voice
| trained under the famous teacher
Cunelli.
! The F'loris Ladies' Aid Society met
Thursday with Mrs. Kirkpatrick. al
which meeting it was decided to hold
an apron social in the school audi
! torium. May 25.
met Thursday afternoon with Misses
| Mary and Gussie Woods.
Mrs. William II. Dawson enter
tained in Honor of the fifteenth birth
day anniversary of her niece, Miss
| Margaret E. Robey.
Mrs. w. F. Humme game a party
| for few friends of her small daugh-
ter, Jeanne who celebrated her second
/ birthday.
The Home Interest Club of Hern-
Mrs. Frank w. Huddleson of Fairfax
Mrs. Furr L. White entertained at
a portrait party.
Mrs. Sallie Yerkes Boryer. wife of
! Harry Boryer. died at her home III
| Washington. She was sister of Mrs
| Albert T walker of Herndon.
w. H. Maffitt of Vienna. formerly. of
Herndon. has announced himself a
candidate for the office of treasurer
! Of Fairfax county Dr. Frank Huddle-
son, the incumbent, is also formerly
of this town, where he has many
I friends. Edgar E. Gillette of Herndon,
/ has announced his candidacy for the
| house of delegates, and Ira Lambert
|
D. w. Buckley and John De Bell are
! candidates for supervisors from Gen.
! terville district.
| Ashburn field day exercises were
| held on the school grounds there Fri
day afternoon, the girls basket ball
\ team of this town playing the Ash
| burn team. A handsome silk quilt
made by Mrs. G. o. Powell. Mrs. j. G.
De Hart, Mrs NJ. M. Solomon, Mrs
P. D. Breneman. Mrs. E: +. Mann
Myres. was sold and the proceeds do
mated to the tuition fund. In the
evening Frank Ely of Chicago. a for
mer pupil of the Ashburn School, ad-
dressed the Community. League.
/ Prizes for the best essay on the eff
man system offered by the Lincoln
w. C. T. u, were won by Bessie an6
Hubert Page of the Daysville School
Miss Mathews. teacher.
A Page Wrenn Of Herndon has re-
signed as game warden for Fairfas
| county, his successor being d. s
Mackall, jr.. of Mclean.
Richard McMillen has purchased
from. Grafton De Butts his farm Of
103 acres, near the Potomac river
and has purchased the adjoining farm
Of the late Thomas Poole.
The sale is reported of the Payne
place. better known as the John Tay'
lor farm, at Herndon Heights, to Mr.
| Willis of Hyattsville, Md, who take:
possession at once.
The damage by forest fire to The
| Armstrong Forest Company of New
! York. whose property near Wiehlt
and Hunters stations was burned las
| week, has been variously estimated a.
from 100000 to $4,000.
Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Gait en-
tertained at dinner in honor o.
Bishop Brown. the vestry of st. Tim
| othy's being asked to meet him.