Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1935, Page 24

Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. MARYLAND CREEPER. BANDONMENT of the Chesa- peake Beach railroad because of the competition from mo- tor trafic has revived many memories among Southern Maryland residents in the territory it formerly served. A classical court house yarn about the railroad concerns an elderly gen- tleman making his first trip over the line. Suddenly, for no apparent rea- son, the train stopped and he asked the conductor what was the matter. “Oh, nothing,” replied the ticket taker, “just some cows on the track and the engineer has gone ahead to ‘shoo’ them off.” A few miles farther there was an- other stop and the traveler again inquired about it from the conductor. “Nothing,” he said again, “we've Just caught up with those cows.” * X K X FOUR SURVIVORS. There are only four of the fleet of electric automobiles that once moved silently about the streets of Washington left in the city, Miss Anna C. Buettner, who has charge of licenses under Trafic Director W. A. Van Duzer, reports. Two of the remaining electrics, Detroits, are 1919 models. These are regis- tered to Mrs. Georgia C. Lea, 2112 Massachusetts avenue, and Mrs. Ella Sevier, 3124 Q street. A 1920 model Rauch and Lang is the prop~ erty of Laura P. Walker, 1333 Eighteenth street, while a 1929 De- troit belongs to Chandler Hale, 1001 Sixteenth street. * x5 ‘WATER-WEATHER GAUGES. ROBE}!T B. MORSE, chief engineer of the Washington Suburban San- itary Commission, says the commis- sion’s water gauges are as accurate indicators of the temperature as ther- mometers. ‘When the mercury rises, the amount of water consumed by the 63,000 resi- dents of the nearby Maryland sub- urbs served by the commission in- creases proportionately. The average daily consumption is 4,000,000 gallons. In exiremely hot weather the total rises to 6,000,000 gallons. Looking toward the future, the com- mission is building a new plant at Burnt Mills capable of supplying 12,- 000,000 gallons a day. * ok k% FATE (?) TAKES A HAND. 'HERE are now two Baptist churches in Hall County, Ga., where there used to be but one, according to Austin Dean, a visiting newspaper man from that fair county. There was a split in the original Dewberry Baptist Church over the question of predes- tination. One faction contended pro and the other con and a dinner was ?el:l to feature a debate on the sub- ject. One pro-predestinztor, seeing an RUG CLEANING Rug Washing Fine Repairing FIREPROOF STORAGE We own and operate the largest native rug cleaning plant in Washington. PRICES REASONABLE All rugs insured free of charge. Nazarian Bros. Co. 1226 Conn, Ave. Dlstrict 3800 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19', 1935. opportunity to illustrate his point, jabbed a potato with his fork, raised it on high and in & pontificial voice, orated: “I am predestined to eat this, No power on earth, above or below, can stop me.” As he started to raise the morsel to his mouth, the churchman to his left slapped the man's wrist. The potato bounced off, rolled on the floor and a cat ate it. The result was that todsy Hall County has two Dewberry churches, Dewberry No. 1 and Dewberry No. 2. * %k k * SHOVEL NEEDED. RAP!D CITY, N. Dak, not only is the home of the National Geo- graphic Soclety-Army Air Corps strat- osphere balloon expedition, but of some pretty good-sized fish stories as well, according to Capt. John H. Me- Cormick, Army Air Corps, just re- turned from the Black Hills base. The stratosphere personnel, Capt. McCormick reports, have a stream fult of trout. So full of fish is the stream, he says, “that if they do not bite on your fly you can reach in and pull them out with your hands.” The trout, he explained, are confined to Moth and Beetle Protection Lots of ways to protect goods from insect damage, some better than others. Cold Storage best of all. We have for sale moth- proof = paper, moth flakes. Security insect spray, fumi- gation service (at house or ‘warehouse), mothproof stor- age and COLD Storage. Rug Cleaning— Fur & Garment Cleaning There is a story that Capt. Ran- dolph P. Williams of the stratosphere expedition, “was seen fishing, accom- panied by three helpers—a man to remmethsmhfromhhnnennaA put them in his basket, a photog- rapher and & mathematician for ‘weights, measurements and tabula- tions, all four being extremely busy.” * K K X BIBLIOPHILE PARADISE. 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