The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-23
RALLY PLANNED
BY WOMEN
VOTERS
Candidate for Congress VIII
Address Rockville Mass Meets
Ing On August is

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ROCKVILLE. Nd. July 81. AT
. meeting at the home Of the
president. Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson.
at Chevy Chase. Of the executive
board Of the Women's Democratic
Club Of Montgomery county. com.
posed Of the officers Of the club
and the chair1nen Of the various
district clubs comprising the county
organisation. plans we're considered
for conducting vigorous campaign
IN behalf 81 the Democratic Presi.
Dental and Congressional candi-
dates.
It was decided to begin activities
with q big meeting at the Mont.
gomery Country Club, Rockville, on
August is. and It was announced
that David G. Winebrenner, OF
Frederick, candidate for Congress:
Mrs. Mortimer w. West, OF Balti.
more, who was delegate to the
New York convention, ana others
would deliver addresses.
Elaborate plans are being made
for the annual supper, dance and
all.round good time for the benefit
Of the Montgomery County General
Hospital, to be held at the Sandy
Spring High School July 80. Miss
Anna M. Farquhar. chairman Of
the Woman's Auxiliary of the hos.
pital, ID the directing head, ana she
Is being assisted by Mrs.. James NJ.
Barnsley, vice chairman, and q
large number Of the men ana
women Of the Sandy Spring neigh.
borhoOd and other sections Ut the
county. Supper win be provided
for five hundred or more.
It has been announced that Mira.
Maurice J. Stabler win have charge
Of the dance. John II. Janney,
the moving pictures. and William
Gilpin, the ball game, and that
the following win be Ia charge OF
the various tables: Chinese laundry
grab bag, Mrs. william John
Thomas: candy, Miss Annie Miller;
fancy, Mrs. Fred L. Thomas; cake,
Miss Sarah 3. Kirk; Misses Alice
Brooke ana Mary Reading Nichols
are treasurer and secretary, re.
spectively.
Just when officers Of the county
were about to round up the gang
Of thieves operating on an extern.
give scale In the lower section Of
the county for the last fifteen
months or more. the Sanitary Gro
Gerry Store at Kensington, which Ia
supposed to have been visited at
least three times by members Of
the, gang within the period men
toned, was late Monday night or
early Tuesday morning again
broken into and q large quantity
OF goods stolen.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for
the marriage Of Alfred p. Leath.
erby, 80. and Miss Mary e. Plumme,
"a, both of Baltimore. Frederick
]. Kennedy, 80, Of Little Rock.
Ark. and Miss Ella @. Brown. 81,
OF Lexington, Va. and Silas e.
Huffer, ~, and Miss Evelyn NJ.
Birch. is. both Of Washington.
Mrs. Ethel Price, OF Kensington,
has filed suit in the circuit court
here for an absolute divorce from
Edward Price, Of Washington,
charging that, while living at Ken.
sington, she was deserted by the
defendant without just cause or
provocation." She IS represented
by Attorneys Dawson, Dawson &
Welsh, Of Rockville. The couple,
according to the bill, were married
in Rockville on March Is, 1915, and
lived together until May, 1913. They
have no children.
William J. williams, leading lar
mer of Poolesville district, died
Monday evening at his home near
Pooleville, aged sixty-nIne years.
His death was due to a complica-
ton Of diseases, followed by a long
Illness and was not unexpected. He
Is survived by his wife. formerly
a Miss Schaeffer, Of this county
and three children. Mrs. Thomas
Lyddane and Walter Williams, by
q former marriage, both Of this
county, and Mrs. Roger Keefer, OF
Littletown, Pa. He also leaves q
brother and q sister. Reverend Wal
ter Williams and Mrs. Joseph n.
Allnutt. The funeral took plaza
this afternoon from the family
residence. Mr.. Williams was q son
of the late Walter Williams and
was . lifelong resident of Pooles-
vile district. A brother and q sis
ter, Charles M. Williams and Mrs.
Pyles, both OF PoolesviIle district,
died within the last six months.
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