The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-19
SILVER SPRING
BAP 7 Is s
ELECT
New Church Picks Officers
for Sunday School and
Other Groups

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Oct. 19.-or-
CARNATIONS of the new Baptist
church at Silver Spring have chosen
officers as follows:
Sunday school - Superintendent,
Thomas Brock; assistant superin-
tendent, John Walker; secretary,
Fred Pearce; assistant secretaries,
Martin Thomas and Whitfield Mar
shall: treasurer, Paul Garrett: or
ganist, Miss Esther Boyle; super
intendent OF intermediate depart
ment, Mrs. Neff; superintendent Of
primary department, Mrs. William
e LaRue; superintendent OF home
department, Mrs. Hattie Booker.
B. Y. p. U.-President, Miss Eve
lyn Henley; vice president, Miss
Florence Bradshaw; recording Sec
rotary, Whitfield Marshall; cor
responding secetary, Miss Jane
Marshall; treasurer, Miss Alice
James.
intermediate B. Y. p. U.-Presi-
dent, Miss Amy Louise Verhoff;
vice president, John w. Lowell:
secretary. Francis Fletcher; treas
urer, James Marshall.
The evangelistic sevices which
had been in progress at Silver
Spring for two weeks, under the
auspices Of the Silver Spring Bap-
fist Church, closed last night. The
sermon was by the Reverend p.
Rowland Wagner, pastor of the
Rockville Baptist Church, who
preached throughout the meetings.
Tuesday night the Council of
Churches of the District of Column
bia Baptist Association will meet
in the Silver Spring armory to
recognize the church formally.
Frank L.. Hewitt, president of the
Silver Spring chamber of commerce,
win deliver an address Of welcome;
the church clerk, Mrs. Lille M.
Veirs, will read the church records;
the charges to the chuch and pastor
will be delivered by the Reverend
Baptist Church, Washington, and
the Reverend Henry j. Smith. pas
tor of the church at Petworth.
respectively; the recognition sermon
will be by the Reverend w. S.
Alternately, pastor of Calvary Bap-
list Church, Washington. and the
conservation prayer Will be by
the Reverend P. Rowland Wagner,
pastor of the Rockville Baptist
Church.
A license has been issued here
for the marriage of Robert w.
Spruill twenty-one, and Miss
Geraldine r. Cucina, nineteen, both
of Washington.
To enable new residents Of the |
county and others to declare their |
intention Of becoming citizens, as
a preliminary to reg1strating and |
voting, without visiting Rockville !
for the purpose, Preston B. Ray, |
clerk of the circuit court, will have |
deputies at Bethesda, Glen Echo |
and Chevy Chase throughout the |
day next Saturday, he announced |
today. Clayton X. Watkins, chief |
deputy. will be at the public school |
building at Bethesda; Deputy John |
w. Wiley will be at Glen Echo,
and Miss Margaret Sherrer, also a |
deputy, will be at Chevy Chase.
Mr.. Ray hopes to obtain the use
Of the Parish Hall, Glen Echo, and
the library building. Chevy Chase.
John r. Argenbright, twenty
three, and Miss Eta b. Cumber.
land, twenty-four, both of Wash
ington, were married In Rockville
afternoon by the Rever-
end b. w. John, pastor of the
Methodist Church, at the par
sonage.
Following a long illness, Mrs.
Georgia .Stauffer, wife of Harry
Stauffer, died Saturday night at
her home in Takoma Park, Nd,
aged sixty years. She is survived
by her husband and two sons, AL
bert and Harry Stauffer, of Ia
koma Park. She also leaves q sis
ter, Mrs. Spates, of Poolesville;
Thomas Spates, of Winchester, Va,
and Frank Spates, of New Mexico.
The funeral will be held at
o'clock Tuesday morning from st.
Johns Catholic Church Forest
Glen, burial to be q Beallsville,
This county.