The Washington times., 1924-02-14
M0NTGOMERY'S s
LEC|ONPOSTS
BANQUET
First Annual County Legion
Council Affair Draws
Large Crowd.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Feb. 14.-The
gomery County Council Of the
American Legion, comprising the
Cissel.Saxon Post, Of Silver Spring;
the Henderson Smith. .Edmonds Post,
Of Rockville; the Norman B. Price
Post, the Sandy Spring, and the
Arnold Milburn Post, OF Kensington,
was held in the armOry building at
Silver Spring last night with about
$50 members Of the four. organtza-
tions, a large number OF the mem
bers Of the Ladies' Auxiliary OF the
Cissel-Saxon Post present.
Joseph C. Cissel, past commander
OF the Silver Spring Post, was toast.
master. and toasts were responded
to by Col. D. John Markey, Of Fred.
erick, department commander for
Maryland; States Attorney John A.
Garrett, Of Rockville; Robert L. TOl-
son; president of the council; Ed
ward s. K0rnmann, OF Baltimore,
grand chief de garre of the 40 and 8
Of Maryland; Major e. Brooks Lee,
secretary Of state, and Capt. Clar-
ence v. Sayre, commander OF the
Kensington post.
the Silver Spring post, and Mrs.
James H. Cissel, OF the Silver Spring
auxiliary, were in charge OF the ar
rangements.
Darius Claggett, eighty-six, promi-
nent retired farmer and lifelong
resident of this county, died Tues
day at the home Of his son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Hope
well C. Warner, in Baltimore, where
he and Mrs. Clagett were spending
the winter. His death followed a
long illness. Surviving him are his
widow and three daughters, Mrs.
Lester r. Butler, Of Durham, N. c.;
Mrs. William r. Pratt, Of Rockville,
and Mrs. Warner. TIKI funeral ar
rangements have NaG bNHn COM
pleted.
A delegation Of abOVH twenty tax.
payers Of the upper saN.ton OF the
county, headed by former County
C Commissioners Clagett and George
A. Pearre, appeared before the
county commissioners here yester-
day and urged that at least a mile
of the road leading from the village
Of Barnesville to Comus be i'm
proved by the construction OF either
a cement or macadam pike. The
promised to give the
matter their attention.
Robert Wolfey, twenty years old,
Of Oakdale, Va, died on Tuesday at
the Montgomery County General
Hospital. He was stricken with
in Howard county. Funeral services
hal k.1
vile and the body sent to Oakdale
for burial.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here FOR
the marriage Of James w. Cooper,
Of Dequeen, Ark, and Miss Lydia
Rex, Of Washington: Waters White
and Miss Louisa H. Griffith, both
of Laytonsville.
Upon the advice of Drs. William
T. Pratt and G. v. Hartley, the
county commissioners have adjudged
McKeimer Herbert, of this county,
to be of unsound mind, and have
ordered that he be committed to
Brownsville Asylum.
The dance scheduled for this eve
ming unQer the auspices OF Ln9 CuOlT
of st. Mary's Catholic Church has
been postponed until February q.
Henry H. Lyman, for many years
employed at National Park Seminary,
Forest Glen, this county, died sud.
denly at Forest Glen Tuesday after
noon, aged sixty.five years. He was
stricken near the Baltimore and
Ohio railway station and died almost
instantly, heart disease being given
as the cause. He was a Widower.
The funeral will take place here on
Friday.
The county commissioners have
passed an order authorizing their
president and clerk to properly in
dorse the bonds, aggregating $780,.
900, to be issued by the washington
suburban sanitary commission. The
law requires that such bonds be
guaranteed by the commissioners OF
this and Prince Georges counties.
The funeral of Robert A. Coe,
travelling salesman and longtime
resident Of this county, who died on
Sunday, following a brief illness,
was held yesterday afternoon.