Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
MERCHANTS HEAVY LOSS.
Pocketbook With Cash and Notes
Stolen-Blair. Warner Contest.
Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May Is 1910
The carelessness of Warner w. WEIGH
merchant at Olney, this county. in eav-
ing his pocketbook on the counter in his
store cost him the loss of $50 i'm cash. $50
in notes and $40 in checks which the
pocketboOk contained Joshua Selby.
young negro, whose departure from th:
store was followed Immediately by the
discovery that the pocketbook was gone,
was arrested and Is now In Jail here
charged with the offenSe. He, however
protests his innocence, and declares he
never even saw the pocketbook. He will
be given hearing before Police Judge
Reading.
The closing exercises of the Kensing-
ton Grammar School were held in the
kensington town hall this evening I'm the
presence OF a very large gathering Prof
A. b. Coe, principal of the school. pre-
sided, and program. including an adj
dress by George H. Lamar president Of
the county school board. and several
musical selections, was given. 1t 10 stat
ed the school has had one of the most
successful years within its history. The
faculty is composed of Prof. A. b. Coe,
principal. and Misses Ella Robertson.
Mary Kelley. Lillian CLANCY and Corinne.
Dawson, assistants.
The contest between Messrs Gist Blair
of Silver Spring and Brainard H. Warner.
Montgomery county for the republican
congressional nomination In this district
has become lively, and there are indica-
lions that there will be no let up until tie
votes are deposited primary election day.
Both the candidates and many of their
friends are at it day and night I'm an eff
fort to influence the voters, and mass
meetings with plenty of oratory and mu-
Sic are being held I'm all parts of the
county.
The primaries viii be held Saturday.
June 4, from until O'Clock pm. to
elect delegates to county convention
to be held at Rockville the following Mon
day. The polls will be at he usual
places.
The following are some of the transfers
OF real estate recorded in the office of
the 81 ERIK of the circuit court here this
week. George E. Fleming To John W.
Latham. seven lots i'm Chevy Chase. s2l.-
30; Charles D. Drayton to Vive F.
Syme, lot in Chevy Chase; Titus f.
Day to Ell T. Besll. - acres near
TO Marcellus Etchison. tfty-two acres;
Adds y. Browne to Wharton Moore. lot
In Northwest Park: Alfred c. Warthen TO
Eva l.. Pollock. property in Chevy Chase:
Chevy Chase Land Company TO Eva T..
Pollock. lot in Chevy Chase: Frank o.
Eappanier to Charles s. Muir. forty-eight
acres; Brainard HI. Warner to John H.
Mahan, lot in Kensington. 500: George
Bailey to Frida Dittmar. lot near Chevy
Chase; Harry NJ Martin to Frida Dit
mar. lot near Chevy Chase; John ".
Briggs to Samuel B. Briggs, 116 acres.
$685..
Licenses to marry have been issued
here to Miss Maria McAben and George
Samuel Bowman, both of this county and
Miss Florence Louise Scudder of Linden
and William Wentworth Dudley of Tako-
ma Park.
The annual meeting of the Western
District Baptist Association of Maryland
will be held in Rockville June z, 8 and
3. Belonging to the association are thirty
one churches. including the denomination
in western Maryland, a number in Bal
timore city and several in other sections.