The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-08
.R|GHT-OF-WAY IS
|. OFFEREDF FOR
NEW ROAD
Prince Georges Commission
ers Consider Proposal for
Lateral Highway

PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY.
Md, Aug. S.-Announcement is
made that the Prince Georges
county commissioners have been
offered the necessary right-of-way
| for the construction of a perma
| nent highway from the road in
the rear of the Maryland expert
ment station on the Washington
Baltimore boulevard at College
Park, thence to Daniels Corners
about mile distant from the
boulevard, and from this point
| about due west. over such route
as the commissioners may desig
! nate, to connect with the present
Riggs road near the site of the
old Riggs School building.
1t Is understood that the COM
! missioners are seriously consider
this highway to the State Roads
Commission, under the lateral road
| law.
Announcement ii made that the
Sonnenberg bakery, one of the old
est business firms in Hyattsville,
has been taken over by the Hyatts-
vile bakery, which is being con.
Quoted by H. J. Pearson and E. o.
Mcmahon, both of whom intend to
become Hyattsville residents.
Constable Walter Howard Beck
EFT, of Lanham district, has APP
piled to the Prince Georges coun-
ty commissioners at Upper MARI
boro for reappointment, and any
protest against his appointment
should be filed with the commits
sioners by August %.
w. E. Patterson, a former .educa.
| tional worker in Japan, will deliver
an illustrated lecture on THE
F'lowery Kingdom tomorrow night
at 1880 o'clock in the Memorial
Methodist Church, Hyattsville. There
will be no admission charge, but
silver offering will be taken.
Daniel B. Lloyd, Of Glendale,
has received reply from letter
to John N. Mackall, chairman OF
the Maryland State Roads Commits
sion, in which Mackall states that
all the post and lateral road funds
of Anne Arundel county, this year
amounting to about 800. 900, have
been used in the construction Of the
new Washington-Anna defense
highway. In Prince Georges county
the commission, says Mackall, mas
let a contract for construction on
the highway for all the funds avail
able Plans Of the commission, Mac
kali says, provide for a bridge to
be built next year on the highway
over the railroad near Coilington,
the Pennsylvania railroad to pay
#one-half the cost.
Indications are that Charles r.
Luebner, Wells avenue, Edmonston,
will be named by the mayor and
common council of Edmonston TO
take the place of James Smith, a
holdover councilman for one year
from the First ward. who resigned
following his removal to Washing
ton Mayor Newton A. James Is
understood to favor Luebner's APP
pointment.
Next Thursday Eureka Grange at
Chillum will entertain the various
subordinate oranges making up the
County Pomora Grange, at the reg
ular quarterly meeting of the latter
organization. The program win be-
gin at 10 a. m. with a business SEES
sion. Following luncheon to be
served by women Of Eureka Grange
the afternoon will be devoted to a
program of lectures and music to
which the public is cordially IN
vited.
Snyder-Farmer Post, No. 8, Ameri-
can Legion, of Hyattsville, has
elected the following delegates and
alternates to the annual convention
of the department of Maryland,
American Legion, to be held at
Hagerstowh August q, %, 20:
Delegates, John II. Hiser, John n.
Brooks, C. L. AielIo and Alan H.
Pottinger; alternates, Orion r. But
Ter, Waldo Burnside, Myer M. Lips
hitch and Leroy Fulton.
Snyder-Farmer Post is striving to
build its paid-up membership to 100
by August II. Norman j. Bond, of
Decatur Heights, and Virgil Rat
cliffe. of Edmonston, were elected
members at the last meeting, bring
ing the paid-up strength to sixty.