The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-04
POTOMAC
RESIDENT IS
DEAD
James w. Harriss, 70, Long
III, Succumbs to Attack
Of Indigestion

II ~ ulAtSGS1tOI
j ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 4--Jamcs
w. Harriss. seventy, better known
as Buck" Harriss, lifelong resi-
ident of Potomac district, died late
Sunday night at his home on the
Rockville Potomac pike. near Poto-:
mac. Although he had been Ill a
long time his death was un expected
and was due to acute indigestion.
He II survived by his wife and an.
adopted son, James Harriss.
Lawrence e. Brown, eigfty-ones
HIKING near Glen Echo, was required
Ito furnish $500 bond in thu police
court here today for his appearance
to answer charge Of having iii
ltoxicating liquor in his possession
with the intention Of selling it. He
was arrested when Policeman
Charles r. Cooley and q number OF
Federal officers visited his boarding
house and found there they charge,
ithreer quarts OF liquor.
HI Licenses have beeen issued here
kfoR the BaaEriage of Thomas q. VIM
dterfneyeKs 4 twentyfour, Of Foxall
Heights, .D G and Miss Josephine
M Fitzpatrick. twenty, Of WASH
iingt0n.
Charles T.. Strohm, a former we'll
TODD resident Of Gettysburg, Pa,
WAS arrested at Potomac, Va, BY
4 Sheriff Clay Piummer, on q charge
i or desertion and Ilon.support pre-
Il ferred by his wife, Mrs. Anna
Carr Strohm. He was brought to
4 Rockville, and committed to jail.
4 According to the wife, Strohm
brought her to the home Of her
II mother, Mrs. Carr, near Buttons
lIyille. Nd. several months ago. and
since has failed to contribute to-
4 ward her support, The authorities
have been on the lookout for him
since April 81. when the warrant
Il was issued.
5 Under auspices OF the Pole Cat
Club composed Of half q dozen
or more retired farmers who make
Il Rockville their home, an auction
pitch tournament is in progress
here. 1t began Saturday and viii
i continue throughout the month with
morning, afternoon and night ses-
sions. The participants include
i young, middle.aged and old men,
among them being Albert j.
Almoney, Clarence e. Anders, Iru-
jean Aud, William =. Aud, AlnerL
M. Bouic, F. Hazel Casheil, Gharles
lV. Coupard. James F. Gott, Thomas
q Got. ] Abby Henderson, George r.
j Hull. John Jones, j. D. Louthan,
Charles q. Lyddane, Robert Lyd-
dane. William e. Morgan, Vinson
Il Peter. Steadman Prescott Clifford
Il "a. robertson, Ezra -. RoyeFs "a.
81 Maurice Talbot, Roberts 4. FOLSOM,
a James p. b. Veirs, William r.
\ Veirs. Judge John l. West, all q
Rockville and vicinity and several
h others. Every player seems very
much m earnest and close and
exciting games are the rule.
i the garage of william d. Wood
field at Gaithersburg, was Jroken
into tate Sunday night or early
n Monday morning and the saIe
"cracked." All the robbers got Tor
/ their trouble, however, was ABOUT
50 in change. Had they opened y
small apartment OF the safe. winch
Il could easily have done, they would
nave 1Ounu 39VO III SeAoAA' eN~
\ Plummer is making an investIga.
ton.
Elijah Washington, a. young ne.
gro of TraViIah, who was arrested
on a charge of operating an auto
] mobile while under the influence
of liquor after he had driven his
car into the side of a fast-moving
train at the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad crossing here last week,
was sentenced byVJudge Samuel
Riggs in 'the police court here TO-
day to sixty days in Jail. Washing
ton was thrown seventy feet and
his automobile demolished, but he
escaped injury except two slight
scratches. and a bottle of corn
liquor in one OF his pockets was
intact when he was picked up.
For violating the local law by
selling Intoxicating liquor. William
e. Early was fined 500 and costs
by Judge Samuel Riggs in the pc.
lice court here. He noted an APP
peal and his. case will be tried
again at the November term of the
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