Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-25
NEWS FROM ROCKVILLE.
Improvements Contemplated to the Fail
Grounds-Activity in Real Estate-Notes.

| improvements Contemplated to the Fair
Grounds-Activity i'm Real Estate-Notes.
! Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd. May a. 1891.
At the recent meeting of the board of man.
agement Of the Agricultural Society thorough
! inspection Of the new track and the grounds
generally was made, after which it was deter
mined to repair and rearrauge the buildings,
cattle pens and stables in time for the Sep
TENDER exhibition. The new track is ap-
preaching completion and rs soon finished
and accepted by the society will be used under
proper regulations for the training or horses
for the next exhibition. there being quite a
number of such in this section.
The consideration of the proposed change of
entrance TO the fair grounds to the south end
of Park avenue" was postponed until after the
next fair. An addition to the racing program
was made by inserting trotting contest on
the second day for a purse of $780, limited to
horses owned in Montgomery county prior to
May 1. 1891. This race will accommodate sew
erai fine horses brought into the county within
the past year. To accommodate an anticipated
increase in the display of fancy work in the
hall an entire new set of glass cases was ordered
to be procured in order to properly show to
advantage the variety and beauty Of work ex-
hibited. 1t is thought that this improvement
will bring out larger exhibit than that of last
year, which was one OF the unest ever seen on
the grounds. As no checks are issued to per-
sons leaving the grounds during the day there
was considerable grumbling last fair ut the in
adequate amount of eatables for sale, and this
state of affairs will be remedied this year, and
from now until September everything will be
done TO render the exhibition success in every
particular.
Sheriff Fairan returned here on Friday hav-
ing in charge Henson III. Martin, colored,
charged with attempting to kill Addison WASH
ington, another colored man, at this place some
weeks ago by shooting him in the breast. After
the shooting Martin walked :Gaithersburg,
where he took train for Pittsburg, where he
remained until arrested on an order from the
county authorities, when he consented to come
back without the formality of q requisition.
Washington has SO far recovered as to be able
to walk about Martin is in Jail in default Of
$500 bail
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded In the Office of the clerk of the
circuit court during the past week: Mary Z.
Hartwell to metropolitan Southern railway,
right OF way at Linden, $50; Clarence Vert
miller to same, 49.1 of an acre of land, $500;
VIM. a. Jones to same, 0.07 of an acre. SIS;
AonZo j.. Marsh to same, ALI of an acre. s425;
u W. Perkins to same, .277 of an acre, 81, S45;
John A Epping to same, lots 8. A, 5, block 2,
an acre. -. 400; John J. Horgan to same, lot 6,
block 2. lot l. block l, Linden, S657.60; Samuel
H. Prime to John o. johnson. part Of
an acre near Glen Echo railroad, 1859. 40;
Benjamin F. Hawkins to Minnie H.
SlmPklns, SO acres, $4,000; Wash. Dan
enhower to VIM. S. Washington and others, lots
81, 81, block rs, Rockville Park, 300; John p.
Meany to 5. T. Smith. lot 81 section 1OO Gar
rett Park. S425; the National Chautauqua Of
Glen Echo to John W. Buckingham, lot 10,
block 3, Glen Echo, 81 ,450: same to Geo H.
La Fetra, lots 5, 6, block %. Glen Echo,
II 1850; same to Sarah ID. La Fetra. lot 4,
block IL. same place. s675; Evan Gray to Mary
T. Anderson, four acres OF land. Sl3O; Peter Il
henderson. trustees. to JOS. II. Gulick. one
acre of land, $40; B. II. Warner to Temple T.
Payne, lot 36, block 10, kensington. 900; Z.
Baltzley to Richard W. Walker, four lots in
block 19, Glen Echo Heights, S9,377.5O same
to Jos. q. Gessford, lot 10, block 26,
Glen Echo, S2,025; Mary r. Harr to f.
W. Pratt. lot of land at Capitol View Park.
SlO; A. g. Merriweather to Basil Hall, acre,
go; Annie Vance to Tenleytown and Rock
vile Railroad Company, 50 acres, $40; H.
Dudley Coleman TO Takoma Land and Trust
Company. lot %, block 65, Takoma Park.
s561 80; Alice NJ House to same, lot %, block
GA. Tahoma Park, 1907; Cooke ID. Luckett to
Henry Beard acre, 400; Z. Baltzley to L.
L. Foote, lot D. block ~, Glen Echo. 81 ,430 IS;
Frank c. Norwood to Jonathan Browning, three
lots at Browningsville. Sl,200; Laura j. How
ard to X. E. Nichols, Az acres of land. $500.
Messrs. j. 5. Benson Son have commenced
the construction of roller process Touring
mill at Laytonsville this county, and will have
it ready for business this season.
The extended drought of the past few weeks
has been very damaging to the wheat and grass
crops of this county, and the present prospect
is that there will not be half an average crop of
the latter. In some sections the wheat prom
ises an average, while in others the prospect is
very bad. The fruit crop promises to be the
finest Tor several years. Many farmers have
not yet planted their corn, owing to the diff
Guilty of blowing the land on account of the dry
weather. s. A. NJ.