The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-07
GROWERS PLAN
FOR TOBACCO
SALES
Series of Meetings Scheduled
for Farmers Of Prince
Georges County. !,

EVANSVILLE, April o. The
first Of a series of loyalty and
membership" meetings to be held
in Prince Georges county in the
interest Of the Maryland Tobacco
Growers association will be held
tomorrow night at 7:3O in the high
school at Brandywine, 1t is an
nounced by H. s. Swami, OF La
Plata, director Of organization for
Charles and st. Marys counties.
follows: Wednesday, Baden High
Getaway school, 1880 p. m; Friday,
Surrattsville high school, 7:3O p. M;
Thursday, April II, Marlboro court
house, $50 p. m, and Croomtown
hall, 1880 p. M; Saturday, April 10,
Woodmen's hall, Mitchellville, 2 p.
M; Thursday, April "a, Richie
school, 1880 p. M; Friday, April
25, Woodville school, 1880 p. m; Sat
urday, April 20, Westphalia school.
1880 p. m.
Price-fixing by the commission
man and buyer Is being gradually
oNRrcome through direct handling
of tobacco by the growers, Mr..
Swami claims, and that the asso-
citation, by organizing the growers,
has stabilized the market, prevented
speculation and manipulation and
increased the average price Of the
crop up to twenty-four cents in
1923. The association this year
seeks IS per cent Of the Southern
Maryland tobacco. Last year, "a
per cent was secured.
The Modern Woodmen Of Amer.
lea hall at Mitchellville will be
the scene next Saturday night of
an oyster and chicken supper for
the benefit of the Mullikin school.
Woman's club work will be dis
cussed by Miss Ellen l.. Davis,
home demonstration agent for
Prince Georges county, tomorrow
afternoon at 1870 O'Clock, at the
home of Mrs. Albert Robinson, near |
Camp Springs.
A modern tile building will re-
place Mrs. Sarah l. Benefits hotel, |
destroyed in the recent fire at
Upper Marlboro. Register of Wills |
w. T. Davis. whose home was
burned, plans to rebuild as soon as
possible.
The grading on the Robert Grain |
highway has been completed from |
Upper Marlboro to Rosaryville and |
the laying of concrete from the
monument in Upper Marlboro will |
begin as soon as ordered by the
State Roads Commission.
The April term Of the circuit
court of PAnce Georges county con-
vened at Upper Marlboro this
morning. Edward E. Perkins is
foreman Of the grand jury, which
'slas forty-three cases, ranging from
larceny to murder, on the docket !
David Ashby Dodson and c. Morgan
Burke are being held in connection
with the death last November of
Wistar M. Parish. twenty-five, of |
onous liquor sold Parish by Dodson |
caused the formers death aud that |
the liquor was bought from Burke. |
At a preliminary hearing Novem. I!
Der "a last, in Hyattsville, Justice |
OF the Peace Herbert ]. Mpffat. at |
Hyattsville, held the men without |
bail and ordered them committed to
the county Jail. Dodson and Burke |
few days later were released on
bond
The term beginning today marked |
the first sitting in this county at
jury term of the newly elected
judges of the Seventh judicial cir
cult, Chief Judge w. Mitchell Digss
and Associate Justices Joseph c.
Mattingly and William M. Loker.
The funeral Of George s. Harri-
son, of Rosaryville, Prince Georges
county, who died Thursday in a
Washington hospital, was held yes
terday afternoon at o'clock from
Trinity P. e. Church, in Upper
Marlboro. Mr.. Harrison was sixty
six years old and had been resi-
dent Of this county for about thir-
ty.four years. He was born in Viz
ginia. Mr.. Harrison was promi
nent in Democratic politics Of the
county. He is survived by a
widow, six daughters and one son.
The children are Mrs. Howard
Townshend, Mrs. T. F. Quinlan,
Mrs. George NJ. Beebe, Mrs. Henry
Adams, Mrs. Thomas A. Cannon.
jr., Mrs. Thomas Holman, and
George S. Harrison, jr.