Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1930, Page 11

TH NING TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, TALATROCRVLLE " HEH GRDUATON 48 Students Receive Diplo- mas and Special Awards at Commencement. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 12—It is; estimated that fully 1200 persons attended the annual commencement ! exercises of the Rockville High School in the high school gymnasium last evening, taxing the capacity of the| large hall 1 The 48 graduates who received diplo- mas from Dr. George L. Edmonds of | the county board of education, were Academic—Alfred Christie, 3d; P Adrian Fisher, Albert George Hahn, jr James P. Kerr, George Holt Lamar, jr John Hartman Markla Will Worthington _Pumphrey, James Shrewbridge, Priscilla_Cath dette, Laura Rachel G Liewellyn Howard, 3 Isherwood, Helen Gertrude King, E beth Louise Montgomery, Sara Elizal Mooney, Hazel Owings, Ida May Stiles, Helen Clark Tyler and Maude Wilson. General—Woodrow Wilson Bennet Reginald James Darby, jr.; Charle Elmer Orme, Albert Ellsworth Paule Bruce Poole Phillips, Louise Matthews Fawley, Darothy De Lyte Fisher, Frances Virginia La; E Dorothy Walker a Willson. _ Commercial—William Joseph Bidine, William Hamilton Earp, John Dallas’ Gandy, lsadore Jack Steinberg, William Edward Wootton. Ella Richter Bennett, Ella May Dorsey, Margaret Eleanor Hargett, Helen Mae Hendrick, | Dorothy Haz len Cecelia Leahy, m, Mary a Purdum, Cathe- Smal. azel Eileen Stone, Prince Wootton and Bertha The scholarship medal, donated by the Rockville Chamber of Commerce, vas awarded to Miss Maude Wilson; the citizenship medal, for the student doing most_for the school during the year and the most nearly model citi- zen went to William Wootton, with Miss Dorothy Wootton and Miss Maude Wilson receiving honorable mention; & sportsmanship cup, donated by James Brawner Nicholson for the student do- ing the most for athletics during_ the year, was presented to Miss Elizabeth Mooney, and & medal for the boy doing the most for athleties to John Gandy. The banking award to the most efficient student in the school bank was given to Charles Israel. Miss Marjorie Chap- man of the class of 1923, recelved a scholarship prize. The honor roll included Dorothy ‘Wootton, Willlam Wootton, Elizabeth Mooney, John Gandy, Maude Wilson, George Lamar, Helen Hendricks, Doro- thy Howard, Hazel Owings, Jack Mark- dand, Ella Bennett and Ellen Leahy. ‘The seniors achieving permanent membership in the honorary citizenship society were: Worthington Pumphrey, illiam -Wootton, Ella Bennett, Helen Hendricks, Dorothy Hill, Dorothy How- ard, Ellen Leahy, Leona Linthicum, Hazel Owings, Edith Pepper, Dorothy Bell Walker, Ella Wilison, Dorothy Wootton, Elizabeth Montgomery, Doro~ thy Fisher, Elizabeth Mooney, Helen Tyler and Maude Wilson. ‘The exercises were conducted by the principal, L. Fletcher Schott, Who pre- sented the awards. Miss Maude Wilson ‘was valedictorian and Miss Sara Eliza- beth Mooney salutatorian. Rev. Ber- ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 12 (Special). —William Edward Watkins, well known retired farmer and lifelong resident of Damascus district, died Tuesday night at his home at Damascus, aged 75 years. His death followed a long illness. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Watkins, formerly a Miss Merson of the Damascus neighborhood, and the following children by a former mar- riage: Mrs. Jesse Becraft and Mrs. Ernest Duvall of Clagettsville and Mrs. Clifton_Stanley and Morgan H. Wat- kins of Damascus. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow after: noon from Montgomery Chapel, nea Damascus, burial to be in the church | cemetery. Mrs, Penniah F. Breen of Olney dis- | trict, this county, has filed suit in the | Circuit Court here for a limited divorce | from Jeremiah H. Breen of Washing- | ton, charging desertion. She is repre- | sented by Attorney Kenneth Lyddane of Rockville. According to the bill, the couple were | married in Washington December 31, | 1922, lived together until March 9 of this year and have two children, Mary and James Breen, aged 6 and 5, respec- | tively. | Licenses have been issued by clerk of the Circuit Court here for the marriage of Everette E. Hamilton, 29, | of Kansas City, and Miss Helen Shields 28, of Washington; James R. Horse- man, 21, and Miss Evelyn Mary Poole, 20, both of Vienna, Va. and Frank H Myers, 33, and Miss Rachel C. Willson, 24, both of Chevy Chase, D: C. Having measured up to certain re- quirements of the State Department of | Education,. the school at Garrett Park, of which Mrs. Nell McGill is principal and Miss Laura Souder assistant, has been certified as a “standard” school. The inspection was made by Thomas C. Gibson for the State. 3 Rev. Joseph H. Balthis, presiding elder of the Washington district of the M. E. Church South, will be the prin- 1 speaker at the laying of the cc ner stone Saturday afternoon of the Methodist Episcopal Church South that is being erected at Dickerson, this county. The Poolesville Masonic Lodge will participate prominently in the xercises, “Dr. I K. Atherton, in charge of hog cholera control, extension_service, Uni- versity of Maryland, and E. G, Jenkins, State boy club leader, were the prin- cipal speakers at a meeting at Laytons- the | | Robert G. Hilton, P CONTRACT LY 1 FOR COURTHDLSE County Commissioners at Rockville Approve Final Re- port for $450,000 Building. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, June 12—The | county commissioners will meet in spe- cial session here on July 10 to award the contract for the construction of the new Rockville Court House and Jail at a cost. it is thought, of some- thing under $450,000. Final Report Approved. Decision to that effect was reached here Tuesday, when the commissioners approved the final report of the court house building committee, composed of Dr. Benfamin C. Perry, president of the board and ex-officio_chairman of the committee; Judge Robert on B. Ray, Berry E. Clark, Otho H. W. Talbott, Dr. Gil- | bert H. Grosvenor, Maj. E. Brooke Lee, George E. Hamilton, George P. Sacks, George M. Hunter, Josiah W. Jones, Clyde Thomas, Henry J. Taff, Capt. Chester Wells, J. Roger Spates, B. F. Saul and County Commissioners Lacy | Shaw and Clagett C. Hilton. The building committee had previous- ly ratified the final report of the sub- committee on plans and construction. of which Capt. Chester Wells was chair- man, which dealt largely with action of the subcommittee at & meeting Friday | afternoon regarding numerous details in connection with its part in the big un- dertaking. Way for Bids Cleared. Tuesday's action cleared the way for inviting bids, and Stedman Prescott, acting attorney to the commissioners. was instructed to prepare the necessary advertisements for proposals, contract forms, etc. There 15 said to be no doubt that the bids will be well within the amount of money available for all expense in connection with the erection of the handsome temple of justice and, as all other obstacles have apparently been ville of the 4-H Club. Dr. Atherton discussed hog cholera control and other matters in connection With hog raising and Mr. Jenkins spoke on club work. Albert A. A cultural agent, participated prominently in general discussions which followed he addresses. 3 The meeting was conducted by the president, Stanley Hawkins. For the benefit of the athletic activi- ties of the Howitzer Company, Maryland National Guard, a dance will be held in the armory at Kensington tomorrow evening. The committee of arrange- ments is composed of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Gormley, Miss Helen Ramey, Miss Katherine Benson, Miss Olive Ed- monds, Harry Dawson, John Dawson, and Fon! e Keys of Rockville, Miss Jean Skinner of Kensington and Otho C. Trundle of Gaithersburg. A Wash- ington orchestra will furnish the music. iss Mary M. Dawson of Ballston, Va., visited Rockville early in the week and obtained from the clerk of the Cir- cuit Court & license to marry Ralph M. Jones of ndon, Vi book shows that the age of the young woman was given as 19 and that of her rospective husband as 22. Yesterday, gowever. & man representing himself as the, young man’s father returned the unusued license to the cierk’s office, ex- plaining the youth was under age. tram M. Osgood of the Rockville Bap- tist Church delivered the invocation and benediction. MRS. JULIA B. HOGE DIES MBpecial Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va., June 12.—Mrs. Julia Branch Hoge, 90, widow of James M. Hoge of Washington and Loudoun Counties, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hannah Lauck in Wash- ington, on Tuesday evening, from .the infirmities of age. She is the third of her family to die within the past year, her daughters, Mrs. James Dorrittee and Miss Julia Hoge, having died last Fall and Winter. Oné son, Clark Hoge of Leesburg, survives her, as well'as a brother, Rev. Henry Branch of this county. Funeral services will be held at the Orthodox Friends Meeting House in Lincoln this afternoon at 2:30 with burial in Lincoln Cemetery. COSTE GETS MEDAL PARIS, June 12- (#).—Dieudonne Coste, famed French fiyer, yesterday was awarded the medal of the International Aeronautic Federation for the most noteworthy achievements of the year in aviation. Coste’s various records were regarded by the judges as more important to the science of flying than were the accomplishments of Rear Admiral R. E. Byrd, the Spanish aviators, Iglesias and Jiminez, and the Austrian fiyer, Kron- seld, or Dr. Hugo Eckener, all of whom were considered for the award. Summer Dress Special ! Fashion's latest Pin polka dots, flow- e red Jack Ferguson, 21, and Miss Olli Beetlery, 20, both of Brookeville, Md. Edward P. Ganley, 23, of Derwood, Md. and Miss Julia Lanahan, 20, of Washington_and James Lyon, 48, and Miss Sadie Williams, 39, both of Mont- gomery Oounty, visited Rockville yes- terday . afternoon and obtained licenses 1o marry from the clerk of the Circuit Court. A TO THE or how to shop Such an important pleasure V. . . it his varied activities . masculine . . . pers be remembered . . . erenes, poloN T 0 crepes R T d resses, flannel coat ef- freict s, Rajah prints. Alldrasti- cally re- duced for Special showing. Meyer’s Shop 1331 F St. assistant, county agri- | The license | surmounted, the beginning of building | operations promptly following the | awarding of the contract on July 10 seems a certainty. | MARYLAND FIRE ENGINES | WILL HAVE SPECIAL TAGS i e T | Convention Told Motor Vehicle i Head to Issue Distinctive Markers. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md. June 12.—Fire engines, trucks and other pieces of ap- paratus belonging to the volunteer fire companies throughout the State will in | the near future be issued distinctive | tags by the commissioner of motor ve- ¢hlcles, the thirty-eighth annual conven- {tion of the Maryland State Firemen's Association was fold yesterday. ‘The new tags will probably be red with white lettering, it was said. At present the engines carry either “home- made tags” or tags issued from the commissioner’s office which are of the same pattern as used by all other auto- mobiles, V. A. Simmel, president of the State Association and chief of the Cottage City Fire Company, was one of the speakers at the afternoon session yes- terday. The convention will remain in session today and tomorrow. Parcel boxes which automatically lock when #nything is placed in them have appeared in Europe for installation at front doors like mail boxes. 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Those receiving honorable school mention were Frances Virginia Lee Bier- | ley, Sallie _Elizabeth Corley, Dorothy Potterton, Ruth Janet Sherwood, Nora Lee Woodward, Ann Elizabeth Petty, Florence Emily Evans, John Griffiths Barry and Herbert Allison Bird. Principal S. P. Vanderslice presided ver the exercises and Rev. Walter Wolfe of the Arlington Presbyterian Church offered the invocation and benediction. Miss Dorothy Lee Leighty delivered the valedictory addfess. Songs were sung by the Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs with Madaline Whitlock directing. After P. J. Bradley, a soldier, was sentenced recently in Banbridge, Ire- land, court to six months' imprison- | ment for stealing a bicycle, he was m- Maj. E. W. 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