Evening star., 1918-04-14
AND COUNTY

Z Special correspopdence Of The Star
ROCKVILLE. Md. April 13.-Charles
M,Butler, age seventy-six years. Con-
mac district, died yesterday at his homo
near Potomac Death was due to q COM
plication OF diseases and followed q long
Illness. He Is survived by his wife,
formerly Miss Frances Thomas Spates
OF this copnty; seven sons and two.
daughters. all Of this county.
The funeral will take place from the
home at IL o'clock tomorrow. burial to
be at Beallsville, Md.
Mr. Butler was a native of Virginia
but had lived in this county more than
half a century. He was member OF
Ridgley Brown Camp of Confederate
vtterans-
The farm survey recently made by the
public school children of this county,
at the request of the War Department.
for the purpose of ascertainfng labor
needs and crop acreage for the current
year, resulted In schedules being OBJ
tained from s65 of the 1,115 farms In
the various school districts.
The survey showed that 26S farms
need additional help for the entire
year. 23S for the entire summer, 472 for
the harvest seasons. The total number
Of helpers needed are $40. 1924 and sS7.
respectively.
Area to be planted this year as COM
pared with last years acreage are:
wheat. 1854 acres more: corn. more:
hay, 537 less: rye, 453 less: potatoes, 107
less: barley. more: tobacco. II more;
alfalfa, less: beans. Is less; oats. So
more: buckwheat, less; tomatoes, !
more.
The report shows that there are on
these s65 farms 1909 dairy cows, ass
hull cS0 haaf I T00 2 T03
horses and mules. 76 rams, 1.s17 ewes,
246 boars, 1,194 sows. 6.296 pigs. 1858
apple trees, 10000 peach trees. 4,246
pear trees, 1,o75 plum trees, 1:so5 cherry
berries.
At the recent annual Baltimore Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
ners made ef
Burtonsville. Rev. Bert Constance;
Gaithersburg. Rev. s. r. Murray: Ken
sington. Rev. W. 1 Mckinney; lay
Chase. Rev. Lucien Clark: Washing
ton Grove. Rev. Albert Osborn. and
Woodside, Rev. D. A. Foard.
At meeting Of county bankers in
banks of. the county pledged them
selves to sell or purchase the county's
entire allotment of S325,00O of third lib
erty loan bonds. This county is un-
state to pledge itself to take its full
allotment
The Kensington town council has ap-
pointed John T. Williams, Hugh Arm
strong and r. F. Green to serve as
judges at the annual town election to
be held at Kensington the first Mon |
day in May, when a mayor will be
chosen to succeed Edgar w. Moore and
councflmen in the places of Armstrong,
Ievensaler and Pugh. A public meet |
ing will be held soon to nominate can
didates.
In the presence of a few relatives
and friends Mrs. Clara Mae F'riel Of |
Glendale. Nd, and John Harvey Wal |
ters of Jamestown. this county. were |
married in st. Mary's Catholic Church |
this afternoon by Rev. John T. Coola-
Mrs. Walters departed for short trip !
They will make their home on Mr.. Wal |
ters' farm.
Mrs. Martha Ray Keys, widow of |
Charles NJ. Keys. died last night at |
her home at Linden, this county, fol- |
lowing an illness of several weeks. |
She is survived by the following chill |
ton, Harry Keys of Atlanta, Ga; Miss |
Elizabeth Keys, Enos C. Keys and Ed |
ward A Keys of this county. Mrs. |
Keys was a member of the United
Daughters Of the Confederacy and the |
Daughters Of the American Revolution. |
Acting under orders from the chief |
uf ordnance, the local draft board has
OF Rev. Thomas d. Richards of Ger
mantown, this county. into the military
service. and will send him to Fort Slo-
cum, New York, for ultimate assign
ment to Dartmouth College for duty
In the ordnance training course.