Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-11-20
An autopsy Monday principally to de.

An autopsy Monday, principally to de
termine whether or not Charles H. Higgins
aged 81 years. who was found dead las
Sunday by his son in the house he occu
pied alone near Redland. had swallowed
any of the poison which was found in the
house. failed to show any traces of the
poison. according to DR.. Stanley W. Barber
of Gaithersburg. but the results will not be
finally known until a portion of the body
sent to Washington is examined. The
autopsy was performed by DR.. Barber and
DR.. c. E. Hawks. of Rockville. DR.. Barber
stated following the autopsy that nothing
was revealed that would indicate foul play
and as far as he knew death was from
natural causes.
Forty eight members of the Women 8
Board of the Montgomery County General
Hospital met for luncheon at the home of
Mrs. Lionel C. Probert, when the different
chairmen of committees made their month
ly reports. Mrs. J. Janney Shoemaker re-
ported 5000 surgical dressings made by
her committee. the Howard County Aux
Hilary made 900. while Bethesda reported
TAO. with IL new articles for hospital use.
Miss Bran. Of Bethesda. presented IS scrap
books for children's use. The board decided
to have during the ensuing year four meet
ines Of the entire board in place of six and
hold eight of the auxiliary meetings. Do
nation day at the hospital will be on
November 28th from 2 to o'clock.
Albert A. Ady. assistant county agricul-
tural agent. who heads the general COM
mittee of arrangements. has announced
that the third annual athletic night of the
County Federation of All Agricultural
Clubs will be held in the Rockville High
School the evening of December 18th. The
program will include basket ball contest
between the Damascus All Club team
and team from Baltimore county speed
ball contests between teams representing
Montrose and Jamestown All Clubs and
the Montgomery County Jersey Calf Club
and the Laytonsville All Club, and dodge
ball. sack race, shoe race. pie eating
and milk drinking contests, a 3-legged race
and other features. Members of the Girls
All Clubs of the county will be invited, as
will All Club boys of nearby counties.
Rockville's new steel waterstorage tank
recently completed in the western section
of the town. was filed for the first time
last week with 100000 gallons of water
from the wells from which the town de-
rives its water supply. thereby increasing
to 225.000 gallons the water in storage
for firefighting or other purposes of the
community. Rockville has tank of IS
O0O-gallon capacity and one of capacity
of $4,000 gallons, both in the eastern end
of the town. Erection of the new tank
was part of the project, for which bonds
of $4,000 were recently fioated to enlarge
and otherwise improve the towns water
and sewer systems. work ON which is ex-
pected to be completed within the next
three weeks. Both the Maryland Depart
ment of Health and the Underwriters
Association have. it is understood, ap-
proved the plans and a representative of
the former is quoted as declaring that
when improvements now under way are
completed Rockville will have one of the
best water and sewer systems of Maryland