The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-18
GUARD UNITS To.
ENCAMP At
BEACH
Kensington and Silver Spring
Companies Busy With Prep
arations-RockViIIe Races

ROCKVILLE, Nd, July 1S.-The
HowitZer Company, of kensington,
and the Service Company, of Silver
Spring, are in the midst Of prepa-
rations for participation in the an
nual encampment of the Maryland
National Guard, of which they are
both units, which will be held at
Virginia Beach, Va, for two weeks
beginning July 81. Captain car
ence We Sayer, of the Kensington
company, expects eighty of his men
to attend, while Captain Joseph Z.
Cissel, of the Service Company, is
counting on fifty of the Silver
Spring boys to enjoy the outing:
In the meantime, the members or
both organizations are. putting IN
considerable time drilling and other-
wise preparing themselves Tor the
various tasks expected OF them III
camp.
The Silver Spring and Kensing-
ton companies are the only mill
tarv organizations in the county.
Neither has a home Of its own, but
both. it is understood, will soon
have handsome headquarters. An
armory, to cost around $1,000, WILL
il is stated. soon be erected on a
lot recently acquired on the Brooke
vile pike. at Silver Spring, ad]oln-
ing the fine National Bank Build
ing now in course of erectlon
there, and a similar building, 10
cost about the same, Will. IN the
near future, adorn lot at kensllg-
ton, decided to the State by the
Kensington town authorities as
site for an armory. 1t IS unuei-
stood that the work of constructor
on both buildings will be started
within the present year.
Algie P. Gregg, of Dickerson, this
county, owner of half a dozen gram
threshing outfits and said to DC
the largest operator in that line
of work in the county, is under
arrest on charges of stealing a
large number of tools from the N.
J. Grove Lime Company, OF Fred
erick county. The tools were taksE
from a steam shovel left alongside
a road in the upper. section or the
county, which the Grove company
is reconstructing, and We're scat
tered among the various threshlng
outfits, where they were recovered
by Deputy Sheriff Stanley GingeH
and Policeman Roy Bodmer, VINO
made The investigation.
mitted his guilt and to have shown
the officers how he managed 20
gain entrance to the compartment
of the steam shovel in which the
tools were stored. He furnished
bond for his appearance in the
police court here for a hearing.
Isaac v. Warner, father Of Mrs.
Florence Morgan, of Rockville, died
on Thursday at his home in Ham
ilton, Va. aged eighty-seven years.
His death was due to the infirn1- |
tiles of age and was not sunexpecL- |
ed. The funeral will take place
this afternoon from the nome. NJ.
Warmers wife, who died six Or
seven years ago, was a sister OF
William r. and John B. Humphrey
and Mrs. John NJ. Heagy. of Rock
vile.
Licenses have beenissued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for
the marriage of Herber L. Ander-
son, twenty-seven, and Teleno Mes
sineb, eighteen, both of Washington, z
and Oscar w. Layme, twenty-five,
and Katherine Z. Orrison, nineteen,
both of Washington.
Six high class trotterS are eligible
to start in the 2:25 stake race
scheduled for the annual fair to
be held here the last week in
August, according to announce
ment by the race committee of the
Montgomery County Agriculture
Society, under--a auspices of which
the fair will be held. They are:
North Bell and Hattie Harvester,
belonging to w E Miller of
Washington; Bertha Aquilla, J. P.
Fitzgerald, of Washington; Miss
Mack and Madge Bingen, z. L.
Mahoney, Lanham, md, and Helen
Azoff, Henry Scott, Concord, n. c.
The purse will be $50, of which
$500 will be put up by the associa-
ton