The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-14
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CHEVY CHASE
SCHOOL
Montgomery School Board
Promises Consideration
Of Project

Representatives of various civic;
organizations of Chevy Chase, Nd,
and vicinity, appeared before the
/ county board of education here
and urged that more ground be
acquired for the use of the chill
dren of the Chevy Chase public
school. The delegation was head.
ed by Mrs. L. B. Huckerman.
| president of the Chevy Chase
Parent-Teach Association.
The school board was advised
that something like three-fourths
OF an acre adjacent to the one
half acre on which the school build.
ing stands could be purchased at
a reasonable price, and urged the
| need of additional space as a
! playground. The school board
promised to give the proposition
early consideration.
At meeting of the executive
committee Of the woman's auxil-
larry of the Montgomery County
General Hospital, Miss Alice
Brooke, treasurer, reported that
,, the recent sixth annual supper and
dance at Sandy Spring for the
benefit of the hospital netted
81, 836.S6. and was the most sue
cessful event of the kind yet held
under the auspices of the auxiliary.
The Community League of Barnes
vile, Md, has begun excavation for
the erection of commodious COM
n1unity hail. The structure will be
35x50 feet and will cost around
$4,000. A benefit dance at Barnes
vile proved financial success. It
| was in charge of a committee con-
sfsting of Milton w Phillips, presi-
dent Of the Community League;
| Lawrence Price Arthur c.. Her
| sperger, Clagett G. Hilton, William
| G. Brown, Mrs. Hilton, Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. Price, and Miss Lottie Pyles
were the chaperons.
Elwood Wilt, who recently sold
his farm of 154 acres on the Rock
| Vile Darnestown pike, near Rock
Vile, to w. B Bowres, OF Wash
ington, for SIS, 900. has purchased
| from Harry G. Howes, Of Rockville
a dwelling in the western section of
Rockville for $4,000.
Bethesda at Silver Spring, Rock.
vile at Glen Echo, and Boyds at
! Dickerson are the games scheduled
for Saturday afternoon in the Mont
| gomery County Baseball League.
| Next Tuesday afternoon the Rock
vile county league team will play
the Bloomer Girls, of New York.
mere.
Licenses have been issued here
for the marriage of Trueman Paul
] Smith, twenty-one, of Washington,
and Miss Elizabeth James, twenty.
! one, of Silver Spring, this county;
Richard Puff, twenty-nine, of Fort
Myer, Va, and Miss Anna Drouin.
| twenty.seven. OF Brockton, Mass.
Albert L. Clancy, twenty-five, and
Miss Vivian G. Lacey, twenty.six,
| both Of Takoma Park, Md.
The road from the Laurel road,
at Spencerville, to the Beltsville
| road, a distance of about 11s miles,
has been accepted by the county
commissioners for this county as a
| public road and will, it is under
stood, at once be widened and re-
paired.
Under auspices of the Washing
ton Gun Club and the Montgomery
County Agricultural Society a clay
pigeon shoot will be held here on
Tuesday, August %, in connection
with the annual Rockville fair. 1t
will be in charge of William A.
Waters, who has announced that
the leading trapshooters of Mary
land. Virginia. the District of Co.
lumbia and other sections of the
east will participate. Trophies and
liberal cash prizes will be COM
peted for. The shoot will be under
the rules of the Amateur Trapshoot.
ing Association.