The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-13
TAK0NA PARK
LEADS IN new
VOTERS
Leads All Precincts OF the
county-121 Additional
Names Enrolled

ROCKVILLE. Nd, Oct. a.
TakoIna Park, where the population
is increasing at a rapid rate. fur
niShed more new voters at the re.
cent sittings Of the officers Of regis
tration than any other precinct Of
the county. on the two days the
registrars were in session, 121 new
names were enrolled, while $50 per.
sons, recently moved into the State,
made declaration OF their intentions
to become citizens. Before being
eligible to register, those declaring
their intentions are required to live
in the county continuously for one
year.
The registrars will hold their final
sessions on Tuesday. No new names
will be added then. but persons
whose names are already on the
books, and have been notified to ap.
pear and show cause why their
names should not be erased viii be
given hearings.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for
the marriage of Harold Fl. Cum
mingB, twenty-three, and Miss Ruth
A. Newman, twenty-one; William l..
Smith, twenty-five, and Mrs. May
q. Sanger, thirty-one, and Harold
H. Dqtton, twenty-seven, and Miss
Margaret T. Gaddis. twenty nine, all
Of Washington.
Plans for raising funds for the
erection Of q club house for the Be-
thesda Women's Club are being
given consideration by the building
committee Of which Mrs. Edwin c.
Brandenburg Is chairman, and eff
forts will, it is understood, be d.
rected toward raising a specified
part Of the necessary amount by
next June.
The club is pledged to study the
betterment OF local conditions, to
raise funds for social service work,
to contribute toward prizes for ora
torical and art contests and to as
sist with a scholarship at the Uni.
versity of Maryland. The club also
County General Hospital, Sandy
mas fund for the needy.
A license has been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here for
the marriage Of Harry E. Miner.
twenty two, and Miss Ruth Fox.
well, twenty-three, of Washington
and Mt. Rainier, Nd, respectively.
Montgomery county Democrats
are planning big time at Rockville
on October %. In the morning, a
conference of party workers from
all parts OF the county will be held,
when final arrangements for getting
/ out the party vote will be made and
other campaign matters attended
to, and in the afternoon a big mass
meeting will be held with Senator
Thomas H. Getaway. of Arkansas;
Governor Albert c. Richie and
David c. Winebrenner, candidate for
Congress, as the speakers.
While the subway under the tracks
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
at Silver Spring, this county, is
under construction, the use of the
trolley line of the Washington Rail
way and Electric Company from
the District Of Columbia line to
Forest Glen viii be abandoned and
motor buses substituted. This was
decided on at a conference of
representatives Of the State Roads
Commission and the railway com
pany and prominent citizens living
along the railway line. 1t was
pointed out that the laying Of
temporary tracks over the steam
railway lines would entail heavy
expense and that such an arrange
ment would not be entirely free
from danger to the travelling public.
Work OF constructing the subway
is expected to start November /.