The Washington times., 1925-04-09
NJ D n 7 COME RY'
To FEDERATE
GROUPS
Parent Teacher Associations
Of County Plan Central
Organization

ROCKVILLE, Nd, April s.--Four
hundred members of the fifty or
more Parent Teacher associations OF
the county met in the auditorium
Of the high school buildings here
md took preliminary steps toward
| the organization Of the Mont
gomery County Federation Of
Parent Teacher Associations. Mrs.
James e. Benedict, of Woodside.
was made temporary chairman. ana
Mrs. Fred Keplinger, Of Bethesda,
temporary secretary. Another meet
ang win be held in May, when 1t Is
slammed to choose permanent Of
ficers. The meeting was held at
the suggestion Of Professor Edwin
w. Broome, county superintendent
| OF public schools, and was con-
Quoted by Doctor James =. Deets,
president Of the county board OF
education, and Mrs. Benedict. Doc
tor s. d. Shankland, secretary OF
the department Of superintendent
OF the National Education Associa.
ton, and the Reverend p. Rowland
Wagner, pastor Of the Rockville
Baptist Church, were the principal
speakers.
Mrs. Ethel v. DeBow, wife Of j..
Zachariah DeBow, Of Bethesda, died
in a washington hospital Tuesday,
aged forty-five years. She Is sur
vived by her husband and several
place at 1880 o'clock Friday morn
ing from the home. burial to be In
Rockville Union Cemetery.
At q meeting last evening Of the
/ elders OF the Rockville Presbyterian
Church, the Reverend John r.. Hen
dersOn was made pastor enritus.
The pastor Ii the Reverend r. J.
Murdock.
The annual election OF officers OF
Montgomery Commandery, No. S3,
held In Masonic Hall here, the fol-
Rowen f. Erb. Of Sandy Spring.;
eeneralissimo. walter q. Browne,
OF Garrett Park; captain general,
William r. Prettynian, Of Rockville
recorder, Doctor George e. Lewis,
Of Rockville; treasurer, Robert q.
Hilton, Of Rockville: senior warden,
William r. Pumphrey, jr., OF Rock
Vile; junior warden, Frederick w.
Page, Of American University Park;
prelate, Joseph Reading, Of Rock
vile. They Will be installed May 8.
Il .
The Reverend Nolan b. Harmon.
jr., OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, officiated at the mar.
riage here yesterday Of William g
Wine. twenty-six, and Miss Ruby u.
Butts, twenty, both OF Washington.
AT the April meeting Of the
wheaton Community League in the
public school at Wheaton, con-
Quoted by the president, Wallace
Nairn. work OF the Wheaton School
for the year was exhibited.
Mrs. Arietta J. Pace. widow Of
William III. Pace, died early yester-
ington Grove. aged seventy-six
years, OF paralysis, with which she
was stricken q few days ago. She
is survived by the following chill |
dren. Misses Annie and Gussie
Pace and William H. Pace. She
was a sister OF Eggleston Childs, Of
Highland Md, and Miss Emma
Childs, Of Washington Grove. The
funeral will take place at ESQ
o'clock Friday afternoon from the
home. Mrs. Pace was q native Of
Howard county, but had lived in
Montgomery county more than
sixty years.
Herman Romas, thirty-six, q Fiji |
pino, who gave Portsmouth, Va, as
his place Of residence, and Miss
Peggy Terpin, twenty-five, OF
Philadelphia, were married in Rock
vile yesterday by the Reverend |
p. Rowland Wagner, pastor of the
Baptist Church.
Small fires In the home Of Abe |
Wolfson, a Rockville tailor, and in
silo on the farm OF James L.
Pugh, formerly Judge of the Police
Court OF the District Of Columbia,
near Aspen, were quickly extin- !
guished by the Rockville volunteer
firemen.
Mrs. Mary A. Kelly, widow Of
William B. Kelly, died Tuesday at
her home at Forest Glen, aged
fifty-five years. She is survived
by five children, Mrs. Charles Will
burn and Aloysius, jeremiah, Will
liam B., and Francis Kelly. The
funeral will take place at 1890
o'clock Friday morning from st.
Johns Catholic Church, Forest
Glen.