The Washington times., 1924-06-30
ITHERSBlIRG.
K. Of G. PLANS
PICNIC
still Is Found in Home Of
Rockville Man Accused
Of Assault

ROCKVILLE, Nd, June Be-
When Sheriff Clay Plummer, Dep.
uty Sheriff Cliff Howard and 20
iiceman Lawrence Clagett went to
the home Of Almond Copeland, col
ored, near Laytonsville, to arrest
( him on a charge Of assault pre-
ferred against him by Annie WI
Hams. colored, they found there
1t Ii alleged, a whiskey still, bar.
rel Of whiskey mash and severai
gallons OF corn whiskey. The add.
, tionaI charge Of violating the local
4 option law of the county was &C.
cordingly preferred against Cope.
land and he was committed to the
Rockville jail to await trial on
both charges.
The aims Of the Montgomery
County Federation of Women's
Clubs, which comprises twenty
seven ORGANIZATIONS with an az
erage membership of around fifteen
hundred, were announced In. q state
ment made by its president, Mrs.
Archibald Small, q THE first meet
Ing Of the recently selected exec
utive board.
.sWork for all'' is to be the slo-
gan for the coming year, so Mrs.
Small declared. To be an aid to
the whole community is the pur-
pose OF the federation. Mrs. Small
Rurther stated that the real aim
0f the federation is to put its I'M
press for betterment and welfare
upon the county and State.
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Governor Richie has issued a
proclamation making next Satur-
day legal holiday in Maryland.
The banks Of this county viii, there.
fore, be closed both Friday and
Saturday.
The annual picnic for the benefit
of the Gaithersburg Council OF the
Knights Of Columbus, which win be
held in the grove adjoining st. Mar
tins Catholic Church. Gaithcrsburg,
July 4, promises to be q big event.
Doctor John Rome, chairman OF the
general committee Of arrangements,
has the various committees hard at
work, and they are arranging to
stage one of most elaborate affairs
Of the kind ever held in the
county. These committees are as
follows: Advertising, Bernard
Brosius, chairman, and j. Harry
Gormley; grounds, William L. Hoyle,
chairman; George Gloyd and Thomas
Gloyd;, dancing, Ernest Gloyd.
chairman; Arthur Cromwell, Carroll
( Waters and Douglas Waters; pur-
chasing, Creighton Jones, chairman;
Clayton Hoyle and Bernard Jones:
Daddle wheel, Lloyd Jones, chair.
man: Spencer Fisher, William l..
Hoyle, jr., Gary Fisher, Francis
Gioyd; country store, Raymond
Gloyd, chairman; John Crown. Ar
thur Gloyd, Dorsey Gioyd, and Harry
Gloyd: ice cream, Douglas B. Dia.
mond, chairman: Thomas P0sey,
John B. Diamond, jr., Joseph Stang,
Thomas Bailey, Herbert L. Diamond,
Jones, C. Offutt, and H. Jones;
cake table, Robert L. Hickerson, .jr. !,
chairman; G. William Reall, John
Caulfield, John Jarboe, Ga G.. Fisher,
and e. r. Rrosius; candy wheel,
James Noel, chairman; Albert Gloyd,
) Leland Fisher, w. T. Lynch, and
Clemens Gloyd; cane rack, Frank J..
Chapman; J. Leo Elder, Lawrence
Walters, Roy Arnold, and Bryan
Arnold; soft drinks, Worthington
Griffith. chairman; j. Edward Cart.
ner, Elmer Walters, George Cart
ner, Paul Waters, and George Wal
ters; dinner table, George M,
Hunter, chairman; Ernest Gartner,
Edmund Gloyd, Guy Reardon; Lewis
BussArd, and S. Gloyd. A. r. Meem
and Charles Gartner are the treas.
urers.
The number, Of dog licenses is.
sued 50 far this year by Thomas
Colt, clerk of the police court here,
easily breaks the record for the
county. Considerably more than
5000 of such licenses have so far
been issued and Clerk Colt expects
the number to be increased some
what before the work Of the year
ID finished. This is several hun.
dred more than ever before issued
In a single year. The fees, which
this year aggregate about $500,
60 to the police fund of the county.
The condition Of Howard Fowler,
young resident of the vicinity of
Burnt Mills, this county. who was
assaulted at picnic at Wheaton,
this county, late the night of June
81, and who has since been in a
critical state with a fractured skull
IN a Washington hospital, is re-
ported to be gradually improving
and his recovery, which was, at
first despaired of, now is considered
certain. Sheriff Clay Plummer will
interview him in the hospital to.
morrow, the attending physicians
having given him assurance that
the patients condition will be such
90 to permit such an ordeal, and
ne expects the injured man to d.
vuIge who hit him and tell the cir.
cumstances Of the assault. In the
meantime, John Sartina, William
Clark and Woodlands Cavalier. who
were arrested the following day.
are held in Jail here.
Fowler was struck on the head
with a club or other blunt instrtI-
fnent. The three men in jail were
with him at the time but disolajrn
MI connection with the attack and
ineist that the assailant was Ia
stranger who was accompanied by a
woman in pink.
The annual Children's Day eyer.
cises were held in the Presbyterian
Church at Jamestown. this county.
yesterday morning. They were in
charge OF Mrs. J. W. Lowden, wife
Of the pastor Of the church, and
consisted OF music and recitations
BY Sunday school pupils.
Chemists to Meet
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