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Description: Gov. Ag. Dept. [1 of 3] Section-3 Page 6
Date: August 9 1908Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.
Washington Times August 9, 1908 Gov. Ag. Dept. [1 of 3] Section-3 Page 6
DR. R. J. STAFFORD WEDS IN NEW YORK
Takes as His Bride Miss Ora Skinner, of Herkimer.
Cards have been received by friends in the Department of Agriculture from Mr. and Mrs. John W. SKINNER, at Herkimer, N. Y., announcing the marriage on Wednesday evening, in that city, of their daughter, Miss Ora SKINNER, to Dr. Rosslyn J. STAFFORD, of the pathological division of the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Mr. and Mrs. STAFFORD are now spending their honeymoon in the hills of Berkshire county, Mass., and other points of interest in New England. They will be at home to their friends after September 20 at 2719 Fourteenth street northwest.
The department has invited bids for the erection of a building to be used for stables, carriage house, and storage quarters, for which Congress at the last session appropriated $25,000. The bids are to be opened on August 18.
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Edward H. BOWIE, local weather forecaster at St. Louis, Mo., has reported at the Weather Bureau for duty for a period of a month, during which time he will make a study of the system, employed at the main office for predicting weather changes. It is the policy of Prof. MOORE to afford is field officers who have made good records an opportunity to further improve their talents by study and observation at the bureau, and it is for this reason that he has called Mr. BOWIE to Washington.
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Dr. A. D. MELVIN, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, left Friday for a stay of one week at Bellaire, Pa.
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Miss Ann I. MURRAY, of the division of publications, returned Monday from a vacation trip of four weeks to Madison, Wis., her old home, and other points of interest in that section.
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Mrs. S. G. ADAMS, of the Bureau of Statistics, is spending a vacation of two weeks at the Allendale Farm, at Shelbyville, Ky.
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Dr. George P. MORSE, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, left Friday for Niagara Falls, N. Y., where he will attend the meeting of the American Poultry Association, which will be in session Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. He will then go to Toronto, Guelph, and other points in Canada to investigate poultry diseases.
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Dr. E. C. SCHROEDER, superintendent of the experimental station of the Bureau of Animal Industry located at Bethesda, Md., will go to Sea Girt, N. J., to spend the week with his family, who are spending the summer there.
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Dr. Harvey W. WILEY, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, who has been at Mackinac Island, Mich., for the past week, is expected to return to his desk tomorrow.
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Dr. Morris WOODEN, acting chief of the inspection division, Bureau of Animal Industry, is spending the week-end in Ocean City, Md., with his family, who are spending the summer there.
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C. C. CARROLL, who has just been promoted to the position of chief clerk in the Bureau of Animal Industry, has been connected with the Government service for the past eight years, all of the time in the same bureau. Before coming to Washington he was engaged in the newspaper business as the publisher of a country weekly at St. Clairsville, Ohio.
Mr. CARROLL is president of the Men’s Club of Waugh Methodist Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, and is taking an active interest in the efforts of the church to erect a gymnasium and church club house for the young men of the neighborhood, the purpose being to establish what is known as a seven-day church, one that is open at all times for the accommodation of the people.
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M. E. FAGEN, cashier and chief clerk in the disbursing office, is taking his vacation, and is spending the time with his family at Leonardtown, Md.
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The following employes of the Bureau of Chemistry returned the past week from their annual vacations: E. R. LaGRANGE, J. W. WILLIAMS, C. H. STEPHENSON, Miss Kate G. BARBER, Miss Effie A. READ, M. A. GERARD, Miss Mary E. HARTMAN, George C. SCHMIDT, L. H. BAILEY, Sherman LEAVITT, F. C. LUCAS, Lyle B. BURNET, C. F. SAMMET, J. B. RIEGER, and Miss Annie BRODIE.