The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-04
.HY A 7 TSvILLE
HAS RECORD
CLASS
Class of 80 Will BE Graduated
From High School
There

HYATTSVIT4LE Md, June A.
The address to the graduates at
the annual commencement exercises
of Hyattsville High School, to be
held Friday evening. June 20, will
be delivered by the Reverend Will.
liam Lambeth, pastor of the Mt.
Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, of Washington. Diplomas
will be awarded by Professor Mich.
olas Orem, Prince Georges county
superintendent of schools, to thir.
ty-nine graduates, the largest class
ever to be graduated by the school.
The annual banquet of the alumni
association Is to be held June IS
In the Grace Dodge Hotel. Wash
ington. and all graduates and for
mer students are invited to attend.
Class night exercises will be held
June 10.
Athletes Of Hyattsville High
School who won events in the
recent annual track and field cham
pionships of the Prince Georges
county public schools at College
Park will make a determined bid
for State honors when they com
pete against winners in the various
other county meets of Maryland, at
Homewood field Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Friday. The
local athletes won the recent county
meet in easy fashion. The Hyatts-
villee contingent numbering twenty
six will make the trip to Baltimore
by automobile, and will be accom-.
panied by coaches Frank Day and
Howard w. wilkins.
Planting of corn in Prince Georges
county Is about two weeks behind
the usual schedule as the result of
continued rains which also are DC
laying to some extent the planting
OF tobacco. ,"Yellowing" of wheat
in some sections. of the county due
to the rain also is reported.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Ida Elizabeth Dent. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Marshall Dent,
of Oakley, st. Marys county, and a
member of the faculty of Upper
Marlboro high school. to Frank
Philip Scrivener. jr., son, of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank p. Scrivener, of Balti.
more. The wedding Is to take
place this month.
An annex to the Prince Georges
county courthouse at Upper Mari.
boro is to be the constructed this
summer. According to present plans
it will contain two stories, the first
to be given over to a number of
rooms for the housing of county rec.
ords. There will be one large room
on the second floor which may be
used as an extra courtroom. The
present building and the annex will
be divided by a court to provide
adequate light.
The county commissioners, 1t Ia
announced, will advertise soon for
sale 100000 bond issue, the pro-
ceeds Of which will be used to erect
the annex.
Committees of the new town
council Of Capitol Heights have been
named as follows: .s
Building, Walter c. Oliver, Oscar
T. Poore; roads and bridges, George
w. Smith, Poore: sanitation, James
w. Beavers, Charles A. Steele; street
lighting, Oliver, Louis b. Miller;
ordinances, Beavers. Miller; cleo
tons, Beavers, Smith; finance,
Poore, Beavers; lookup, Smith,
Steele.
Henry Nolan has been appointed
clerk, Charles Dickerson inspector
Of sanitation, Henry Halfpap in.
spector Of buildings and John d.
McLeran, corporation counsel.
: Charles Jacobs has been recon.
mended for appointment as, fire
marshal, as have Carl C. Grimes
for bridge and road supervisor and
Henry Halfpap as bailiff.