The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-21
SLEEPY CLERKS
USELESS To
ELOPERS
Couple Who Fled to Rock
vile Get Knot Tied After
/ Long Effort


| ROCKVILLE. Nd, July 21.-Miss
\ Catherine L. Bond, sixteen, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ira r. Bond,
of West Seventh street, Fred
erick: Nd, and Pierce H. Cover,
twenty-one, of Middletown, Nd,
arrived in Rockville at a late hour
Sunday night expecting to get mar
ried with the expedition usual in
Rockville in such matters, but be-
fore they finally succeeded in hav-
ing the knot tied they became
convinced, so they said, that Rock
vile is not the gretna green it is
supposed to be.
i The couple first visited the. home
of Preston b. Ray, clerk of the
circuit court, and, after arousing
i that official from profound sleep,
pleaded vainly with him to accom-
pany them to the courthouse and
4 issue a license. James T. Bogley,
I deputy clerk, was then called upon
and when he, too, was 40und OBJ
durate, the couple motored to
Gaithersburg, five miles away,
where lives Clayton X. fWatkins,
another deputy clerk. Clerk Wat
kins was at first very much disin-
clined to accommodate the couple
4 but after being worked on for half
an hour or more, finally weakened
and came to Rockville with the
young couple and issued the desired
flicense.
It was well after midnight when
Il aR- -. 49, HK~v1 lAf
the, Reverend p. Rowland Wagner,
pastor Of the Baptist Church, but
they experienced no difficulty, there,
and the ceremony was performed
at the parsonage In the presence
Of several witnesses.
"Persistency aYaileth much" de-
clared the young bridegroom as he
headed his automobile toward Fred
erickS county.
Doctor Wagner also officiated at
the marriage here Sunday of Carl
Fl. Portofee, twenty-three, and Miss
Mary s. Swift. eighteen, both OF
Washington, the ceremony taking
place at the home of the minister
in the, presence of a number OF
Rockville friends of the couple.
/ For violating the local option law
liquor in her possession with the
intention OF selling 1t, Mary Dyson,
colored, of the vicinity of Redland,
was fined 5000 and costs in the
police court here by Judge Samuel
Riggs.
Werner Hoffman and e. D. Bur-
den forfeited collaterals In the
police court when they were not
in court when their cases were
called for trial. They were charged
with violations Of the motor vehicle
regulations. Hoffman contributed
$22 and Burden $3.50 to the county
Ipolice fund.
Since the public schools of Mont
gomery county closed for the sum-
T1er vacation, teachers have re-
signed as follows. according 20 an
f1ouncement by Professor Edwin w.
Broome. county superintendent OF
schools:
Principals-Miss j. Ella Umbeck,
Bethesda school; Miss Claire Hut
ton, Unity; Mrs. Stella Thomas,
Takoma Park; Frank Watkins, Bur-
louisville; A. c. Breadys Damascus;
Mrs. Isabel B. Jones, Ednox; Mrs.
r. w. Williams, MiddNbrooke; Miss
Hazel Warfel, GAINESVILLE; Miss
Leila Hendrick, White Oak.
Assistants-Misses Gretchen Bell
and Ernestine Neimeyer, Rockville
school; Miss Nettie Carter. Potomac;
Merle Hamilton, Germantown; Miss
Elizabeth Scharffetter, Falkland;
Miss Nellie Casbell, Bethesda; Miss
Margaret Hyson, Chevy Chase;
Misses Anne Lee johnson and Helen
Mealey, Takoma Park; Miss Lorena
1 Aist, Falkland: Miss Pauline II.
johnson, Bethesda; Miss Laura e.
White and p. Calvert Cissel, Dam
ascus: Miss Mary Aldridge. Takoma
Park.
Miss Dorothy Kingsley, principal
at Jamestown: Miss A. Grace
Baker, assistant at Falkland; Miss
Lillian Sage, assistant at kensing-
ton and Mrs Katherine Pyles. as
sistant at Blairs, have been granted
indefinite leave Of absence by the
county board of education.
Miss Sarah Kirk. chairman of
the committee in charge of the cake
table at the annual--supper to be
held at Sandy Spring next Tuesday
evening for the benefit Of the Mont
gomery County General Hospital.
Sandy Spring, has announced her
IcCmmittee as follows: Mrs. Frank
r. Shapman, Mrs. G. Rust Candy,
| Mrs. Upton D. Nourse. Mrs Ed
ward Magruder, Mrs. Mahlon Kirk,
Mrs. r. Bentley Thomas. Misses
| Mary Brooke, Mary Thomas. Eliza
beth D. Stabler and Margaret
Brooke.
| 1t has been announced that in
connection with the supper and
dance, there will be a baseball game
in the afternoon between two Mont
gomery county league teams and
/ moving picture show.
The funeral of Mrs. Mollie Fl.
Clagett, wife Of Joseph II. Clagett.
who died in the Rockville Sanitar-
ium Friday, aged seventy-two years,
| took place yesterday afteroon from
the homes at Woodside, this county.
The services were conducted by
the Reverend Ralph D. Smith, PAS
tor of the WOodside Methodist
Church, and burial was in Rock