Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-26
FROM ROCKVILLE.
Arrests for Selling Liquor and Men
Taken to Jail.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, July 25 1900.
waiter F. Hewitt and Robert Hoffman,
both of Washington, were arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Frank Gather about G
O'Clock this evening near Glen Echo upon
warrants charging them with violating the
local option law. They were brought to
Rockville tonight in the custody of Deputy
Gather and lodged in jail, and will be given
preliminary hearing in a day or two.
There are four charges against Hoffman
and two against Hewitt, and the warrants
are said to have been sworn out by persons
connected with the Glen Echo summer re-
sort.
1t is charged that for some time past
the men had been conducting a large
'Speakeasy' business in a cottage near
Glen Echo.
Mrs. r. B. Chew of Washington, who is
spending the summer at the Corcoran Hotel
here, was the hostess at a cake walk given
last evening in the Rockville Opera House
to number of the young folks of Rock
Vile Six couples participated. Valentine
Wilson and Lavinia Dawson were awarded
the cake for the best walkers, and Robert
owens and Joseph Packard, the latter
dressed as girl, were awarded the prize
for the most comically costumed couple
The other couples participating were Dan
Carr and Fannie Peter. Louis Hicks and
Annabel Allnutt William Harding and Mar
Garet Stokes, Cecil Allnutt and Annie Lau-
RE Dowden. The entertainment was en-
joyed by about fifty invited guests. After
the cake walk refreshments Were served
and dancing INDUCED in.
Mrs. H. NJ. Talbot and daughters Misses
He!en and Evelyn, and Mrs. Benjamin Riggs
ana child OF this town are at Atlantic City,
where they will remain about three weeks
Among the guests at Rocky Glen" near
daughters. Mr.. William Henderson and
family, MIR. and Mrs. Theodore Kinney of
Washington and Mrs. R. P. Bland of Lees
burg, Va.
Mrs. Thomas Garner Of Washington is
visiting relatives at this place.
A large barn on the farm Of Colonel D.
Z. Winebrenner, near Dickerson, this coun-
", was recently set fire by lightning
and entirely destroyed. Some of this years
crops were also destroyed. The loss is es-
tim mate at about 5000; insurance s1,4oo,
sojourning at Cape May.
of the fourteen persons who recently took
the examination for certificates of elipi-
bility to teach in the colored public schools
of the county the following made the re-
CURED average of sixty or better and have
been awarded certificates: Anna TAYLOR
Mamie q. Thomas, Florence Burnside and
Mary E. McAbee and Paul j. Smith Will
liam o. Davis. J. G. DeCoursey, William
Ward.
Miss Mary A. sherwood has been ap-
pointed principal of the public school at
Derwood. vice Miss Melissa Ricketts,, re-
signed to accept princpalship of Great
Falls School,
Charles Robinson, young colored man.
young brothers, all of near Gaithersburg
have been lodged in Jail here upon the
charge of the larceny of fifty-eight chick
ems from the hen house of ex-Sheriff Hor-
ton q. Thompson, near GaitherSburg.
A base ball team composed of Rockville
and Gaithersburg players visited Camp
ordway yesterday and defeated team
made up of soldier boys encamped there
by the of 16 o
August IS from 10 o'clock until is the
time selected for the taxpayers of Rockville
by the town council granting to the Wash
ington and Rockville Electric Railway
Company the right to extend its tracks
along the main street to Rockville far
The annual meeting Of the Ridgely Brown
Camp of Confederate Veterans of this
county will be held In Rockville on Au-
gust 4.
President Warren Choate of the Mont
gomery County Anti-Saloon League and
other members of the organization, as well
as members Of the w; c. T. u, have been
making an effort to have the canteen at
Camp Ordway. near Gathersburg, abol-
fshed. Mr.. Choate a day or two ago had
a conference with General George H. Har-
ries in regard to the matter General Har-
rles is Of the opinion that the camp is, in
the eyes of the law, government reserva-
ton. and as such is not conformable to
the laws of the state or county in which
1t is located. He states, however, that If
he Is assured to the contrary he will en-
deavor to have an order issued aboIishing
the canteen.
States Attorney Talbot has also been
consulted on the subject. He is reluctant
to resort to the law to prevent the sale
OF intoxicants at the camp. as he believes
a serious conflict between the county au-
thorities and the soldiers would result. He
believes that the maintenance of the can
teen is in contravention to the law and is
hopeful that it will be abolished by the
military officers,