The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09
GA|THERSBURG
IS ON EVE Of
BIC BOOM
Public Improvements and Pri-
vate Building Operations
Soon to Be Under Way.

ROCKVILLE, Md. April Be
cause nine important witnesses have
disappeared. States Attorney John
A. Garrett. so he informed Judges
cult court here today, has been
unable to proceed with the trials
. of Samuel S. Welsh. a farmer of
this vicinity and William Beahm
also of this county, who are under
| indictment in a number of cases
for violation of the local option
law of the county. The court grant
ed a request of the prosecuting at
| torney that the case be postponed
until these witnesses come back or
are brought back to the jurisdiction
of the court
Several of these who have FLEW
! the coop" so Mr.. Garrett stated
are residents Of Rockville and sew
| eral live in the Bethesda neighbor
hood.
Gaithersburg. this county. Is about
to experience the biggest boom in
its history Not only will the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission soon begin the installation
there of a sewerage and water sys-
tenn to cost around 100000. but
building operations to. aggregate
something like $325.0O0 are planned
for the near future.
Among the buildings 10 be erect.
| ed there are the Home for the Aged
| and Orphanage by the Baltimore
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South, contracts for
which have already been let and
which will cost around Sl00,000;
| a $4,000 church building by the
congregation of Epworth Metho-
dist Church. and a parochial school.
! rectory, convent and church build
ing under the direction of Rev.
! John s. Cuddey. pastor of ST. Mar
tins Catholic Church, Gaithersburg.
The elimination of the grade
crossing at the intersection of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks
and the Seventh street pike, at
Silver Spring, this county, will be
the principal matter discussed at a
meeting of the Silver Spring Citi.
| zens Association, to be held in the
Silver Spring armory this evening.
Provision for such an Improvement
was made by the legislature recent
ly adjourned
The meeting will, it is under.
stood, consider three plans. One
is to bridge the present crossing
without lowering the railroad
tracks, another is to lower the
tracks at least ten feet, and a
| third is to make curve in the
road and erect a bridge over the
| tracks at point about 400 fee.
east of the present crossing.
Major E. Brooke Lee, it is un.
derstood, will attend the meetin.
and present detailed drawings of
each of the proposed plans.
Miss Elizabeth Spamer has re-
signed as social director for the
Montgomery County Social Service
League and her resignation has been
accepted by the executive board of
the organization. Her successor,
who has, it is understood, virtually
been selected, will be formally APP
pointed at the next meeting of the
board, and in the meantime Miss La
v!nia knight, assistant director, will
have charge Of the work.
MISS Spamer had been director for
the league for something more than
two years. She was regarded as pc.
culiarly fitted for the work, was an
interchangeable worker and her re.
tirement, caused by poor health, is
regretted by the members of the
league and citizens of the county
generally.
Howard Hopkins, a young negro
resident of Kengar, this county, was
found guilty in the circuit court
here on three indictments charging
him with the larceny of chickens
and was sentenced by Judges Peter
and Worthington to two years in the
Maryland house of correct OH in each
case. the sentences, however, to run
concurrently.