Evening star., 1927-06-12
FAIRFAX.

FAIRFAX, Va, June IL (SpeciaD-
The Real Estate board met at the
Little Tea House Tuesday noon. G.
A. Keefer of the Northern Virginia
bureau addressed the members on
the taxable values of Fairfax county.
as compared with those in adjoining
counties.
The Volunteers class will postpone
their next meeting from June 13 to
June 20, when they will hold an open
meeting in the church.
Mayor and Mrs. r. E. Thornton will
entertain the members of the Fairfax
County Bar association at dinner at
their home on June IT.
The date of the "get-together"
meeting. which will mark the close of
the Living Room Improvement cam
paign now being staged in Fairfax
county under the direction of Miss
Mary Lippard, has been changed to
Friday. July Is. Miss Ella G. Agnew,
editor of the women's department of
the Southern Planters, will be chief
speaker.
The Fairfax County Chamber of
Commerce will meet at Mclean Tues
day night.
County Engineer Larkin will begin
work next week on the part of the
Fairfax Station road lying within the
corporate limits of Fairfax.
No meeting Of the Town Council
was held Monday, due to absence of
a quorum.
Attend Burrows Funeral.
Three machines full Of Fairfax resi-
dents drove to Williamsburg on Sun
day to attend the funeral of the late
DR.. E. L. Burrows, who died suddenly
Friday evening In George Washington
Hospital. Funeral services at VIII
1iamsburg were conducted by the Rev.
William c. Marshall, rector Of Zion
Episcopal Church at Fairfax. Mrs.
Burrows will make her home in Will
liamsburg.
At the Garden Club meeting on
Thursday at the home of Mrs. F. W.
HuddleSon, final plans were made for
the flower show, which will be given
by the club in the Town Hall June IA
Some of the special prizes include
three rose bushes for the best colIec-
ton of roses; flower containers for the
most artistically arranged basket of
flowers; six columbine plants. offered
for the best delphenium; six oriental
poppies for the best phlox; six digi-
tails for the best exhibit of perennials,
all grown by w. r. Fray of Oakton.
E. r. Holbrook and Mrs. Walter T.
oliver each offer one box bush for
the best collection of Towering shrubs.
Three prizes are offered for ferns:
first, a golden arborvitae by Mr..
Stahlman: second, a Chinese arbor-
vitae by Mr.. Stabler, and third, fose
bush by Mrs. Frank Jones. other
prizes will be announced that day.
AT the meeting of the county school
board on Monday the entire board was
appointed committee to audit the
school accounts in the treasurer's
office.
F0rty-twO Teachers Heard From.
Supt. Hall reported that he had
heard from only AZ of the 131
school teachers to whom he had
mailed contracts for next year. Misses
Finney, Hillsman and Carter of the
Lorton School have declined reap
pointment, giving no reason. Miss NJ.
NJ. Snead and Miss Elizabeth Matheny
of Mclean have declined, due to in
adequate pay, and Miss Katie Grob,
primary teacher at Floris, protested a
reduction in salary from last years
scale. The board raised Miss Grob's
salary and last years scale. Supt.
Hall and Trustee Williams ad-
vocated more elasticity in the scale of
salaries for high school principals.
Clerk Woodson and Trustee VIII
liams reported the Mclean septic tank
conditions satisfactory, and the bal
ance due Upton & Wells was ordered
paid.
Trustee Vernon Lynch recommended
making Lincolnia a one-room school,
taking away one teacher and trans
porting all pupils above the fourth
grade to Lee-Jackson, providing trans
portation charges can be paid out of
county and not district funds.
Trustee Bready was granted per-
mission to petition the State Literary
Fund and increase Herndon's loan for
a new high school building from $780,
900 to $4,000. Upon request of Mrs.
J:.U. Kincheloe. trustee from Fairfax.
the board granted permission to hire
an additional high school teacher at
Fairfax next year and to maintain a
second year of high school work, all
expenses for salary Of teacher and
equipment Of the classroom to be
borne by the patrons of the school.
This will amount to more than 81 900,
the teachers salary to be paid by c>n-
tributions from the parents, the class
room to be furnished by the Parent
Teacher Association.
DR.. F. NJ. Brooks reported the valu-
alton of school property in Lee Dis
trict to be as follows: Belle Aire,
81 1000; Burke. $500; Colchester,
81 500; Fairview. $4,000: Lorton (new),
$4,S00; Lorton (oldl, $500: Oak Grove,
So 900: Ok Road, $1,000; Pohick. $1,500;
Wakefield, $1,000; Old Ashford. $500.