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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14

Elementary School. Fifteenth
avenue and Merrimack drive.
Annandale - Annandale (Va.)
school cafeteria. Annual dinner
at z pm. Bertram Kessel, recre-
alton consultant, will speak on
recreation facilities.
Garrett Park-Garrett Park
(Md.) Com munity Center,
Strathmore street. $50 pm.
Zoning problems discussion.
acknowledgement School,
Georgia avenue and Mason street.
Wheaton, Md. Alex K. Hancock,
Montgomery County director Of
finance, speaker.
w-Northbrook-
of the Atonement, 10609 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
Lewisdale - Trinity Baptist
Church. Riggs and Beechwood
roads, Lewisdale. Md.
Parklawn - Chillum- Adelphi
fire hall, Riggs road above Uni
versity lane, West Hyattsyille,
Md.
Suitland - Suitland (Md:)
Community Hall.
Town Criers * ensing to n
(Md.) Elementary School, War
ner and DERRICK.
Upper Sligo-Sligo Creek golf
course clubhouse, HOO Forest
Glen road, Silver Spring, Md.
8:15 pm.
Wednesday.
Observation-Disclosures
(Md) School. Warren Giauque.
of the Maryland-National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commits
sion. will speak on area planning.
Broyhill Crest - WOODBURY.
School, Gallows road and Hem
lock drive, Falls Church, Va. 1t.
L. H. Shumate. of the Fairfax
County police. will speak on po-
lice problems.
Capitol Heights Capitol
Heights MD Municipal Build
ing, Sixty first street and Gen.
trail avenue.
Del Ray - Mount Vernon
School Mount Vernon avenue,
Alexandria, Va.
notwithstanding Episco-
pal Church, Forestville, Md. The
Rev. Benjamin Ridgley, Of the
church. will speak on religion
and juvenile delinquency. Plans
for a community recreation cen
ter and swimming pool will be
made.
Kent Village - 1911 Forest
road. Kent Village. Md. Sis
pm.
Kentland - Kentland (Md.)
Elementary School.
North Hills of Sligo-Sligo
Greek golf course clubhouse.
HOO Forest Glen road. Silver
Spring. Md, 8:15 pm.
Thursday.
Fair Haven-Home Of Mrs.
Arthur L. Caperton. 43 Fort
drive, Fair Haven, Va. Plans for
the community playground will
be discussed.
Templeton Knolls-Riverdale
(MdD fire hall. ala Queensbury
road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Garfield Data on View

Papers Of Harry A. Garfield.
former president Of Williams Col
lege and son Of President James
A. Garfield, have been presented
to the Library of Congress. The
material, dating from 1884 to
1912, covers DR.. Garfleld's period
at Williams and his founding Of
the Institute of Politics there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Reuther to Lecture

Walter Reuther. president Of
the Congress Of Industrial Or
CARNATIONS, will deliver the third
in a series Of CASTOR lectures at
8 pm. tomorrow at Georgetown
University. He will speak on
1.-THE Indivisibility of Peace,
Freedom and Social Justice" in
CASTOR Hall, Thirty-seventh and
0 streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Citizens Group Meetings
Scheduled for This Week

The Anacostia Citizens Asso-
citation will hold its annual din
ner at 6 pm. Tuesday in the An
acostia Methodist Church social
hall, Fourteenth and U streets
Sc. Gerhard Van Arkel, of the
Washington Home Rule Com
mittee will speak.
Herbert P. Leeman of the Gen.
trail Suffrage Conference and F.
Elwood Davis of the Washington
Board of Trade will discuss home
rule at 8 pm. Tuesday at the
meeting of the Randle Highlands
Citizens Association in Mechan-
les Hall, 2407 Minnesota ave-
nue. Sc.
Other meetings scheduled for
this week, at 8 pm. unless 9TH
erwise noted, are:
Tomorrow.
Chevy Chase-Chevy Chase
Community Center, Connecticut
avenue and Mckinley street NV.
Chillum HeightS-Luther Rice
Memorial Church, 5315 North
Capitol street.
Connecticut Avenue-All Souls
Episcopal Church, $500 Cathe-
dral avenue NV.
Fort DaviS-Coral Hall, Ala
bama avenue and Bowen road
Sc. Card party.
Inter Federation Council
Community room. Washington
Post. 1915 L street NV.
Lincoln Park Epworth
Church, Thirteenth street and
North Carolina avenue NE.
Sixteenth Street Highlands
Brightwood School. Thirteenth
and Nicholson streets NV.
Shepherd Park - Shepherd
School, Fourteenth street and
Kalmia road NV. Joseph A.
Kaufman, president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens, speaker.
S:15 pm.
Tuesday.
Cathedral Heigf1ts-Cleveland
Park-St. Adams Church parish
hall, Massachusetts and Wiscon-
sin avenues NV.
Petworth - Barnard School.
Fourth and Decatur streets NV.
Wednesday.
Bradbury Heights-Bradbury
Heights Methodist Church. 1900
Bowen road Sc.
Saturday.
Federation of Citizens AsSo-
cations-District Building board
room. Fourteenth and E streets
NV.
Meetings scheduled in nearby
Maryland and Virginia:
Tomorrow.
Cherrydale - Cherrydale fire
hall, Pollard street and Lee high
way. Arlington, Va. The group
will meet with the Cherrydale
Businessmen's Association. Dis
cussion of telephone rates and
new location for the Old Domin-
ion Bank.
Lee Ballston-Page School,
1901 North Lincoln street, Ar
lington.
North Four Corners - Four
Corners Elementary School, Old
Bladensburg road. Silver Spring.
Woodmoor-Pinecrest Recrea-
ton Center, st. Lawrence and
Woodmoor drives, Silver Spring,
Md. $3.50 pm. James P. Parker,
counsel for the Homeowners' Tax
League. will discuss tax assess
mentS in Montgomery County.
Tuesday.
Adelphi-Langley Park (Md.)
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17
PAINTS ROBIN
HOOD THEATRE
Brush Drawing by Hilarie
Bloom Can Be Removed
From Program, Framed
PLAN FOR OPENING

A brush drawing of the Robin
Hood Theatre in its woodland set
ting in Arden, painted by the first
prize winner of the 1854 Delaware
Art Center water color exhibition,
will provide the cover for the play
bills to be used this season at the
Robin Hood. The drawing, especi-
ally painted for Neil Mckenzie and
Stanley Phillips. co-producers of
the Robin Hood, by the Delaware
artist Hilarie Bloom, is so design
ed that it can be removed from the
program and framed. 1--WE thought
the painting so excellent that
many Robin Hood patrons might
like to make use of it as framed
souvenir" Mr.. Mckenzie said,
Mrs. Bloom, resident of Arden
whose watercolors and paintings
in other mediums have been exhib-
tied in recent years in Wilmington,
CONTINUED on PAGE Seven)
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17
20 Years Ago

The Senior Class of 1924 of the
Smyrna High School are receiving
honor mention this week in the
usual four major events, culmin-
ating tomorrow, Friday night,
with the Commencement Exercises
to be held in the High School
Auditorium. Miss Ethel Virginia
Roe will be valedictorian, and
Mable Rose Salter, salutatorian.
Fire on Friday afternoon des-
troyed the large canning factory
of John w. Arthurs at Kenton, the
community's only and large and
important industry. The fire start
ed on the roof and it is thought to
have been caused from spark
from the engine of the afternoon
train passing throught Kenton.
The loss will figure several thous-
and dollars.
One hundred and one young men
and women having completed
their four year course at the Uni
versity of Delaware received their
diplomas at the annual commence
ment exercises held at New
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17

Miss Jones, teacher = Ernest
Blendt, Dwayne Dixon, Bobby l..
Justice, Wayne Haclman, John
Elhngsworth, Virginia Cannon,
Bonnie Maloney, Judy Kane, San
dra Gonce.
Second and Third Grades, X. B.
Vaughn, teacher-Henry Mast,
William Shockley, G or g e
Straughn, Ronald Thorpe, Ruby
Cain, Eunice ziegler, Shirley Will
kins, Nancy wilkins, Charlotte
Sylvester, Doris Savin, Carolyn
Ross, Diana Redman.
Grade g. Ronald Brittingham,
Allen Davis, Jay Pratt, Jr., Gin
ton Robertson, Jr., John Swain,
Bessie Alexander, Doris Beverley,
Patsy Chalmers, Loretta Dixon,
Mary Lou oDay, Susan Hynson,
Rebecca Wiley.
Grade 4-William Carey, Clar-
ence Council, Clarence Conner,
James Fox, James Green, Michael
Martin, Donald Massey, James
Sylvester, James Timmons, JOS
ephine Savin, Hannah Mae Ross,
Karen Hollett, Margaret Hack
man, Louise Chase, Joyce Cole.
Grades 5 and 6, Caroline G.
Hitch. teacher = James Spencer,
Joey Walker, william Wilkey,
Kathleen Straughn, Arlene Turn
er, Carol Simmons, Rachel Simp-
son, Mary Jane Starkey, Margaret
l.Straughn.
Grade S, Mildred Mills, teacher
Jane Hodgson, Margaret Ann
Hurd, Anne Hynson, Carolyn Pa
tricia Abbott, Jackie Davis, Larry
Dickerson, Herman Fortner, David
Gonce, Jerry Neal, Robert Robin
son, Gene Leager.
Grade 6, Mr.. Hynson, teacher
James Antoine, Bruce Ballard,
Wayne Cole, Clark Ross, Mary
Ann Scheers, Leigh Robinson, De-
borah Rittenhouse, Gail Jones,
Betty Ann Hurd, Linda Diemicke,
Virginia Daniels.
Grade z, Mrs. Woolford, teacher
- Raymond Alexander, Robert
Bowen, William Brittingham, vii.
liam Connor, Richard Hurson, Ron.
old Ivory, John Martin, Roy
Carey Sharon Maloney, Elaine
Walker, Jane Sylvester, Sandrs
Short, Mary Sue Salter, Patricis
Kane, Mary Virginia Hurd, Linda
: Gonce, Margery Edge, Joan Dixon
Grace Davis, Ethel Davis, Norma
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17

privileges suspended for failure to
comply with the provisions of the
Financial Responsibility Laws.
Accidents BY Counties
During the month of May of
1858 the 512 accidents were divid-
ed with 355 taking place in New
Castle County, 6s in Kent County
and SO in Sussex County. 166 of
the drivers were from out of the
State and s8 had no insurance. ITS
persons were injured in those acci-
dents. Also during the month of
May last year 81 persons had their
registration and operational privi-
leges suspended for failure to COM
ply with the provisions of the Fin
ancial Responsibility Law and in
May of 1852 there were IS suspen-
sions for the same reason.
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17
ACCIDENTS IN
MONTH OF MAY
399 Accidents Involving Dam
ages in Excess of S100
During May
INCREASE OVER 1853

The number of highway acci-
dents involving damages in excess
OF $4,000 during the month of
May, was the smallest for that
month of May than were during
the month of April. According to
the records of the Financial Res
possibility Division of the Motor
Vehicle Department there were a
total of 399 accidents involving
damages in excess of $4,000 dur
ing the month of May. During the
month of May of last year there
were 512 of these accidents and
for the same month in 1852 there
were 402 of these accidents. Dur
ing the month of April of this year
there were 452 of these accidents.
Decrease Over Last May
likewise the records disclosed
that the total amount of damage
for the accidents taking place dur
ing the month of May was
$50, ,405.00, which is considerably
less than the damage incurred
during the month of May in the
previous two years, it being 1885,
$40 for May of 1858 and s186, PIT.
for May of 1852. The amount of
damage incurred in these acci-
dents during the month of April of
this year totaled s160, 0,325.00. OF
these accidents that took place
during the month of May of this
year, 281 were in New Castle
County, 40 in Kent County and 6s
in Sussex County. OF the drivers
involved in the accidents 139 were
from out of the State and 115 hat
10 insurance. There were 152 per
sons injured in these accidents
During the month 72 persons hat
their registration and operationa
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17

ark last Monday. Harold C. Jones
of Townsend was among those to
graduate.
Mrs. Josephine Stevens, widow
of Elijah w. Stevens. passed away
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Thomas H. Coverdale, Tuesday
morning from complications. Mrs
Stevens had been in poor health
for several months.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Leland Harmon
son attended last Friday and Sat
urday the commencement exercises
at the Sarah Lawrence School at
Bronxville, N. Y. Their daughter,
Miss Helen Denney Harmonson
was among the graduates.
Miss Mary Holland sails on
Tuesday, June 10, from New York
on the Europa, for a two months
tour of Europe. She will visit
Paris, France, Germany, England,
and many other countries on the
trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ]. Dalton of
Toms River, N. j., are visiting
Mrs. Dalton's father, Harry T.
Greenwell and grandmother, Mrs.
Laura Greenwell.
Mrs. Stewart Clark of Delaware
City, has returned after spending
several days in Smyrna as the
guest of Mrs. Bertha Bailey Cliff
ton.
Miss Rebecca Hobson of Selby-
vile, has returned home to spend
the summer months with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Hobson
Mrs. James S. Turner has gone
to Newtown, Pa, where she will
spend the summer with her sister
Miss Ida Longshore.
Mr.. and Mrs. William ]. Taylor
Mrs. I. Luther Lapham, and Mrs
Howard R. Jones, motored tc
Holmesburg, Pa, on Tuesday ant
spent the day.
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date Of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column.
now a regular feature Of the
Times. win call to mind people
and events of the older genera
tion.
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17

Friday morning between one
and two o'clock the old Lapham
Mansion now used as tenant
house on the farm of Mr.. E. w.
Japham near Clayton was burned
to the ground including much of
the contents at a loss of about S.
600. The old brick structure was
for years the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Lapham, parents of
Mr.. E. w. Lapham, and continued
to be the family homestead until
the present large and commodious
residence was built.
Mr. Sherbourne A. Collins, the
undertaken, who succeeded the
late ]. Benjamin Krusen, and re-
Gently moved to the Cats Building
on Main Street opposite the Ma
tional Bank, has decided to locate
in Townsend where he thinks a
more promising field is opened for
him.
A quiet but pretty wedding took
place at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert H. Darrah near Clayton at
one o'clock today when their
daughter, Miss Fannie Christie
Darrah was married to Mr.. Henry
Miller of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Rebecca E. Hough, wife of
the late Rev. John Hough, prom
inent minister of the Wilmington
Conference, died yesterday after
noon at 1:30 o'clock after brief
illness in the list year of her age.
Miss Edna Ewell left Friday for
Westminster to attend the COM
mencement exercises of Western
Maryland College after which she
will visit relatives and friends in
Westminster, Baltimore and other
points.
Miss Eva Kilbreth Foster, who
is pleasantly remembered by 9
number of people of this town was
sometime since placed on the edi'
torial staff of ''The Union Signal"
Miss Foster has been National w
c. T. u. Press correspondent fol
several years past, and as such
has contributed acceptably both t
the religious and secular press.
Mr.. w. F. Dunn attended Thurs
day the annual Pharmaceutica
Society Meeting at Dover ant
made an address.
Mr.. j. Fletcher Truax, son O
Mr.. and Mrs. James T. Truax, il
spending the week home. MI
Truax has been representing
Philadelphia Commission Hous
in Florida for the past two months
and has been located near tn,
famous Palm Beach.
Mrs. Fannie Muson, of Liver
pool, England, is the guest of he
cousin, Mrs. r. L. Tilghman.
| Mrs. Audrey Vandever of VIII
mington is spending the day witt
her cousin, Miss Bertha L. Hof
fecker.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson o
Tonawanda, N. Y, and daughter
Isabella, and Miss Grace A. Wilson
of Rising Sun, are being entertain
ed by Presiding Elder and Mrs. W
G. Koons at the District Parson
age.
Miss May Merritt HURT,
Chestertown, Md, sister of Mr.. :
Harry HURT, Jr., formerly of thi
town, was married Monday of las
week to Mr.. Luther Theodore Cor
radi, the well-known Baltinor
pianist.
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17
Clayton School
Perfect Attendance

Perfect attendance at Clayton
School is as follows:
Grade la, Marian B. Doughten,
teacher-Robert Comegys, Robert
Hestera, Leroy Mast, Robert Neal,
John Richards, Arthur Straughn,
Susan Rittenhouse, Suzanne Wot-
ten, Mary Jo Robertson.
Grade One, Miss Wilker, teacher
Buddy Walton, Betty Ann Davis.
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17

Blendt.
Grade 8, Mr.. Boyle, teacher
Clara Burton, David Dickerson,
Smyrna times., 1954-06-17

Naomi Edge, Dale Loder, Esther
Spencer, Bobby Spencer, Eddie
Turner, Earl Wine.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-20
JACL Aide to Visit
Midwest Chapters

SAN FRANCISCO. Calf Feb 20
-JACL National Director Mas Sa-
tow will visit Midwest chapters dur
inc the first half of March He will
attend the Eighth Annual JACL
Bowling Tournament in Chicago
March ST and he will participate
in the Eastern District Council
meeting March l3-l4 in Philadel-
phia. His itinerary will include con-
ferences with Mike Masaoka in
Washington D. c.
En- route East. SatOW will stop o.
yer in Salt Lake City to meet with
the chapter there and also visit the
Arkansas Valley unit in Rocky Ford,
Colo with Min Yasui.
Satows schedule follows.
Tuesday, March 2-Salt Lake and
Mt. Olympus chapters
Wednesday March 3-Rocky Ford
Colorado Arkansas Valley chap
ter
Thursday Sunday. March Al
Chicago National JACL Bowling
Tournament
Monday, March St Louis chap
ter
Tuesday March 9-Cincinnat
chapter
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-20

and relatives on Feb 9 in Gyokko
Ken Cafe Mr. Tokunaga is the
son of MI and Mrs Torahiko To-
kmaea of Seattle
Those who attended betrothaI
party on Friday Feb D. were the
Mesdames John Fujita Leo Kawa-
saki. Frank Mizukami George Mu-
rakami George Nakano, Henry Shi-
gio John Sasaki Pete Sasaki Tad
Sasaki. Del Tanabe, Yosh Panabe
and Sam Uchiyama; the Misses MAY
FUN Amy Mukai Dorothy Narisa-
da Ak Sasak Mae Sasaki. Edith
Sasaki. Freda Sasaki Dorothy Ia
nabe Chiye Tanabe Midori Tana-
be and Chiyo Yeshihara.
Unable to be present were Mes
danes Jim Demise Dick Harada
George Tanbara and Daiichi Yoshi-
Okla
The wedding has been set for Sa-
turday. March 20, in the Seattle
Buddhist church
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-20

not get through the first stages. He
was almost frantic but he never al
lowed his agony to show Then he
thought of the idea that has saved
your life He contacted record
making company in Tokyo and they
agreed to allow him to make re-
cords a large number of records
for a D. ice he could manage.
S netting was stirring in my
brain now.
Then your father began to re-
cord messages to you He was racing
against time and he talked some
times long into the night. The re-
cord making company, bless them,
understood, and they cooperated.
This was done while he was with
YOU. It was done in the face OF
terrible weakness.
Suddenly l remembered the few
times that my ia hers voice had
halted. The time l thought I'd heard
muflied groan.
AS his time drew near he devils
ed the idea of getting the non-exis-
tent job in another city He also
thought of the oldfashioned tele-
phone and the story that you could
not reply He arranged with Mrs.
Takanaka and me to have the re
cord player Oh the other end OF the
telephone in this house He paus-
ed and his eyes returned to the
room. Your father died long
time ago He died but not before
he had made many records. He made
the records. he made the stories
from his mind. and his love FOL
you He was a helpless invalid to-
ward the end"
The doctor stopped and when
could see again they weren't there
Instead there was the little recoro
player and some records l place.
one on the machine and my father
said cheerily, Hello, son, it's fint
day here. l saw the funniest Trims
in the park today. -"
From Nippon Times.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-20
n ENGAGEMENT TOLD

Mr. and Mrs Pete Sasaki of Ia
coma announced the engagement OF
his sister Miss Fujiye Sasak, to
Mr.. Joe Tokunaga of Moses Lake at
a dinner for immediate families
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-20

Wednesday, March l0-Dayton
chapter
thursday March ll-CleVeland
chapter
Friday March 12-Washington'
DC. chapter
Saturday Sunday. March l3-l4-
Philadelphia Eastern hsCrlcu
Council meeting.
Monday. March 15-Detroit chap
ter
Tuesday March l6-Milwaukee
chapter.
Wednesday. March l7-Returh 10
San Francisco
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-08-15
Barley Makes Good
Feed for Turkeys

THE USE OF BARLEY in turkey
feeding ration may provide a possible
outlet for Montana's increasing supply
of barley. This was revealed by C. I.
Draper in the report of a study con-
Quoted at Utah Agricultural College.
While the tests showed that corn is
the more efficient grain in a turkey
ration, it was successfully demonstrate
ed that profitable gains can be put
on with barley. 1t was further shown
that the market quality of birds on the
barley diet was as good as that for
those fed corn.
In the experiment the control flock
was fed diet of high energy mash
containing 40 per cent corn and wheat
and barley scratch. Five test flocks re-
ceived the same mash with varying
amounts of barley substituted for corn
and an all-barley scratch.
At the end of the testing period the
control flock averaged 14.7 pounds, with
$40 pounds of feed required for each
pound of grain. The lowest gains regis
tered by the test flocks was for the
group receiving 40 per cent barley
mash and 100 per cent barley scratch.
They averaged 1871 pounds and re-
quired 4.S6 pounds of feed per pound
of grain. Feed cost per pound of gain
was q cents in the lots fed the high
corn mash plus mixed scratch grains,
and Is cents for those fed all barley
diets. The experiment revealed that the
quantity of barley fed contained ap-
proximately Sc per cent of the feeding
value of corn.
From this it can be concluded that q
profitable turkey operation can be con-
Quoted with barley, and if the price of
corn is abnormally high in relation TO
the price of barley, it may be advisable
to substitute barley even though corn
is available.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-08-15

Left: Alfalfa sprayed with dinitre.
Right: Untreated.
costs of spraying and showed nice
profit. Results on western irrigated
lands are similar.
Conditions under which preharvest
conditioning is not advisable have not
been clearly determined. To the present
time, the profitable results have &C
counted for its increasing use in most
legume-producing areas, both in this
country and in Canada.
Evening star., 1954-06-09
BY the A.soeio.sd Pres.

LAKE GENEVA, Wis, June 8.
This resort community Of A.
400. one Of three sites recon-
mended for the Nations new Air
Academy, is divided today over
something that might not hap
pen at all.
Rumors, like the following
samples, were everywhere:
If the academy comes here,
Lake Geneva will become a
major target for enemy A-bomb
attacks.
The selection is all cut and
dried; it's Lake Geneva for sure.
No longer will this be a resort
town, attracting tourists and
friends of many years.
Late yesterday the Air Force
sent 10 technicians to study the
proposed site located close to
the Lake Geneva shore in the
township of Linn, several miles
from downtown.
The technicians stayed at a
hotel near which foes of the
proposal paraded, bearing signs
signaling their feelings. Few of
the technicianS saw any of the
demonstrators, because the pick
citing was done while they pre-
Evening star., 1954-06-09
Mrs. Festus Brooks,
O1-Year-0Id Widow
OF Confederate

Mrs. Festus Brooks, 101-year-
old widow Of a Confederate pri-
vate who fought under Stone
wall jackson, died yesterday at
Prince Georges County Hospital
after two-week illness.
Mrs. Brooks, whose first name
was Georgia Anna, lived 80 years
IN Caroline County. Va. She re-
membered seeing the Yankee
soldiers during the Civil War
and admitted "all of them were
pretty nice"
She lived alone on her farm
until her health began to fail
two years ago. Since then she
had lived with a daughter, Mrs.
Annie Chapman, 4042 Thirty
fourth street, Mount Rainier.
Md.
Mrs. Brooks future husband
was marching with her brother
in the Civil War when her
brother fell and died after his
leg was blown off. She was
married when she was II.
A Baptist, Mrs. Brooks was de-
voutly religious. On her 101st
birthday interview she told a re-
porter there is too much devil
in the world today. Nobody's
happy like they used to be when
I was youngster. People think
too much about money"
Besides Mrs. Chapman, Mrs
Brooks is survived by another
daughter, Mrs. Clara Griffith,
also of Mount Rainier; four sons,
James. Joseph, Clarence and
Page, all of Bowling Green, Va,
her former home; 36 grandchil-
dren, Al Observation-Disclosures and
6 great-great-grandchildre
Services will be held at 2 pm.
Friday at Providence Baptist
Church. near Bowling Green.
Burial will be in the church
cemetery.