Evening star., 1912-08-26
GOOD FAIR ASSURED
RockviIIe's Annual Exhibition
Will Open Tomorrow.
OFFICERS CHASE NEGROES
Suspected of Carrying Liquor to
Camp Meeting-0ther
News of City.
OFFICERS CHASE NEGROES
Special Correspondence of The Star.

News OF City.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd. August &c. 1912
Good weather for the annual fair which
begins here tomorrow morning to continue
TOUR days Is the great hope of President
Josiah w. Jones' Secretary James T.
Bogley and other managers. For several
days force of clerks has been busy
receiving entries. and the indications are
that every department will be full Of ex-
hibits. More than sixty horses are en-
tered for the eight harness races on the
program, and big field is expected to
face the starter in each of the six rum
ming events.
Special efforts have been made to make
the horse show one of the best OF the
year in this section Of the country. Blair
Johnson. the Warrenton, Va, expert, will
be in charge, and horses from Virginia,
the District Of Columbia and Maryland
are entered. Motor cycle races are also
on the program. These will take place
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
with two contests each afternoon. one at
ten miles and the other at three miles.
opening afternoon-roadster races, open
to Montgomery county horses only. and
free-for-all running race at five fur
longs. The entries for the running event
do not close until o'clock this afternoon
The entries for the roadster race are as
follows: Prince Alto. Walter Fawcett
Colesville, Md; Marachen. Thomas c.
Keys. Rockville. Md; Gene X, z. Nj.
Waters, jr., Goshen. Nd; Bill, Richard J.
Offutt, Travilah, Md, and the entry OF
c. E. Boswell of Glen. Md. The purse is
$75.
A base ball game between the Rock
vile team and the champions of Howard
county also Will be feature Of the first
afternoon.
The officers Of the fair association are
as follows: President. Josiah W. Jones:
vice president. Charles +. Kirk; secretary,
James I. Bogley; treasurer. John ]. Hig
gins; directors. Lee Offutt William Dor
sey, Josiah w. Jones. Charles viers.
Henry H. Griffith, Charles F. Kirk,
Charles E. Allnutt, z. NJ. Waters, jr.,
John c. Bentley, John f. Muncaster Jo-
seph II. Bradley and F. Hazel Cashell.
Officers Capture Negroes.
Among the passengers who left the 10
o'clock train from Washington at Wash
ington Grove yesterday morning were
three young negroes. each carrying q
dress suit case. Suspecting that the
satchels contained liquor for dispensation
at negro camp meeting at Emory Grove.
Sheriff Clifard L. Howard and Chief
Deputy Peyton Whalen approached the
negroes with view to examining the
contents of the suit cases. Divining the
purpose of the officers. the negroes drop
ped the satchels and ran.
After a short chase Deputy Whalen
overlook one of the fugitives, who proved
to be William Montgomery of Washing
ton. Sheriff Howard was led a merry
chase by one of the others, but finally
captured his man, who gave his name as
Charles Edward Church and his resi-
dence as Washington. The other man
escaped. When the negroes started to run
Sheriff Howard and Deputy Whalen be-
gan firing their revolvers, the only effect
of which seemed to be to increase the
speed Of the fleeing negroes.
Montgomery and Church were lodged In
iail and will be tried in the police court
here on charges Of trying to sell intoxicat-
ing liquor.
All three satchels. which were recover
ed by the officers. were found to be
filled with pint bottles Of whisky.
Monument Design Chosen.
The committee having in charge the
erection of a monument to the Confed-
crate dead of Montgomery county at
Rockville has awarded the contract to NJ
J. Falvey of Washington. The committee
held several meetings and inspected num-
erous designs submitted by various Trims
The design finally agreed upon Is that OF
a cavalryman. the figure to be bronze ana
the base marble. 1t will cost about $4,OOO
The plans to erect the monument TINS
wear have been abandoned. and the un-
yelling has been set for next June, which
event the committee expects to make
memorable About 5000 already has
been raised in cash and pledges.
The monument committee is composed
of members of Ridgely Brown Camp OF
Confederate Veterans and the Daughters
of the Confederacy, as follows: George ~
Rice chairman; secretary, Miss May Sell
man, treasurer, Col. spencer Z. Jones'
Francis S. Kilgour, John w. Holland, Ell
gar L. Tschffely, Benjamin ID. Candy,
Mrs. William III. Tabott and Mrs. John
T. Jones.
Alliance Conducts Services.
The morning and evening services at
Washington Grove yesterday were in charge
Of the, Lord Day Alliance of Maryland. The
alliance deemed it opportune to hold such
services in view of the efforts of the
Montgomery county authorities to pre-
vent violations of the Sunday laws.
At the morning service the sermon was
delivered by Rev. DIR. w. w. Davis, gen
eral secretary of the Maryland alliance.
In the evening a Platform service was
held.
In addition to DIR. Davis. those who
participated i'm the exercises were Rev.
Albert Osborn of Washington, Maj. T. H.
Walker of Washington Grove, Rev. J.
Harry Smith and Rev. III. g. KoontZ of
Gaithersburg and others. Several nearby
churches held no evening services SO that
the congregations might join in the
service at the Grove.
Woman Suffrage Meeting.
well attended meeting in the interest
Of woman suffrage was held Saturday
evening in front of the courthouse heI e.
1t was in charge of Mrs. Reginald T.
Foster Of Baltimore, who is conducting a
campaign in this county under the aus
pices of the Just Government League Of
Maryland of which she Is field secretary
Those who spoke were Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Feigenbaum of New York city and
Mrs Foster. \ number of voters signed
cards expressing themselves as favorable
to woman suffrage.
Rockville's base ball team went to San
dy Spring Saturday afternoon and easily
defeated the team representing that