The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
BUSES To CARRY
FOREST GLEN
TRAFFIC
Car Service Discontinued
While Subway Is Built
: on Rockville Pike

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Dec. 15.-Be-
ginning today. the Washington Rail
way and Electric Company will run
buses instead, of cars from the
District Of Columbia line to Forest
Glen, until the work of. construct
ing a subway at the Silver spring
crossing of the Baltimore and ONO
Railroad tracks and the, Brooke
vile pike is completed. The Balti-
more and Ohio Company has a.
large force of men at work driving
piles under the railway tracks ana
as soon as this is finished the state
Roads Commission will begin ex'
cavating under the tracks. Whhe
the work is in progress, traffic on
the Brookeville pike is beng
diverted through Takoma Park ana
over a temporary road which
parallels the pike.
Miss Susan @. Riggs, a lifelong
resident of the Brookeville neigh
borhood, died following an operation
in a Baltimore hospital. She was
sister of Laurason B. Riggs and
Miss Annie S. Riggs, of Brookeville,
and of Mrs. Howard and Jack and
Lee Riggs, of Baltimore. The fun-
eral took place from st. Johns
Episcopal Church, at Olney, burial
being in the cemetery nearby.
The funeral of William e. All.
mutt, prominent Laytonsyille dis,
trict farmer, who died of pneu-
monia at the home of his son-in-
law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs,
Russell Snyder, near Laytonsyihe,
aged forty.rine years, took place
Yesterday afternoon from the Sny-
der home. The services were con-
Quoted by the Reverend j. r.
Stacks. pastor of the Laytonsviiie
Methodist Church, and burial was
| in the cemetery at Laytonsvllie.
| Mr.. Allnutt was a son of the late
| j. William Allnutt.
At the annual election of Officers
| of Olney Grange, this county, the
following, who will be installed at
the January meeting OF the or
ganization, were chosen: Master,
William John Thomas; overseer,
James w. Barnsley; steward, VIII
lam HI. Gilpin; lecturer, Mrs. 10
| siah w, Jones; chaplain, the Rev
erend Guy e. Kagey; assistant
steward. William w Harvey; lady
assistant steward, Miss Effie Q.
Barnsleys gatekeeper, Robert Chr
chester; secretary, Mrs. William
John Thomas; treasurer, Miss Eliza
ibeth Stabler; ceres. Mrs. Robert n.
Miller: pomona, Mrs. James ~,
Barnsley; flora, Mrs. James w
Barnsley.
!, At a meeting of the Mutual I'm
provement Association OF SANDY
/ Spring, which is said to be the Old
/ est Woman's club In the Unltec
! States, a resolution was adopted
placing the organization on record
as opposing the present Chic
Labor Amendment on the ground
that it gives absolute power tc
Congress.
Crittendon Ray has sold his 100
acre farm in Colesville district, for
a price said to be around $lO,0OO
| and will, II is understood. soon
ioin Rockville's growing colony OF
| retired farmers.
Although the criminal. branch OF
| the November term Of the circuit
court has been in session since
November 20, during which time
five homicide and many other i'm
portant cases have been disposed OF
indications are that the session VIII
continue beyond Christmas, which
will make it one. of the longest
terms of criminal court Montgomery
county has known for many years
The docket contained 1876 cases. Of
which thirty five were appeals from
the police court.
Under the auspices of the Rock
vile branch Of the National Coun
Gil of Catholic Men, the Reverend
c.. w. Lyon, president OF George
town University, delivered an ad
dress in st. Mary's hall here last
night.
Funeral services for Mrs. julia
Griffith Cissel, widow of Richard
Humphrey Cissel, who died at thu
age of seventy-one, following
long Illness. were held at the hom'
near Jamestown and were con
Quoted by the Reverend j. w
Lowden, pastor Of the Darnessowl
Presbyterian church, assisted by thu
Reverend o A. Gillingham, forme
pastor Of the church. Burial wa
in the cemetery at Beallsville..
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