Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19
NEWS OF ROCKVILLE
AND THE COUNTY
The Washington, CotesviIIe and
Ashton Turnpike Will Be I'M
proved by the State.
Special Correspondence of The Star

ROCKVILLE, Nd, March u.s. 1911.
Joseph Mosby Edwards, aged sixty
eight years. died Yesterday at his home
near Concord. He had been i'm failing
health several years because of affections
of the heart and kidneys, and his death
was not unexpected. Surviving him are
his wife and seven sons. The funeral
will take place at II o'clock tomorrow
morning from the Methodist Church at
Concord.
The Washington. Colesville and Ashton
turnpike, which extends from Sligo to
Ashton. distance of twelve and one-half
miles, will. it is thought, soon become
the property of Montgomery county,
which will mean that the four tollgates
will be abolished and the road repaired
and maintained by the state roads COM
mission.
At a recent meeting of the stockholders
OF the turnpike company it was decided
to offer the pike to the county for $1,000.
At first several of the stockholders held
out, feeling that $1,000 a mile was the
lowest that should be accepted.
The proposition is to raise the amount
by private subscriptions for the part of
the road in Wheaton and Olney districts
and by bond issue against the property
in Colesville district for the eight and
one-fourth miles in that district Two
and three-fourths miles Of the pike is in
Wheaton district and one and three
eighths miles in Olney district.
April IL a special election will be held
to allow the taxpayers Of Colesville dis
trict to pass upon the proposition. There
is said to he no doubt that it will Ice Ia
dorsed. although some opposition has de-
veloped.
The Washington. Colesv:!le and Ashton
turnpike was built IN 1870. stock was
Poo
$40. 600 was raised by a bond issue. m *
ing the total cost of the road $4,000 II
and the BrOokeville pike, which extends
from Sligo to Brookeville, distance of
about twelve miles, are the only tell
roads in the county and it is thought 20
be only matter of a very short time
before the Brookeville road will be
similarly disposed of and it's tollgates
abolished.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following are among the recent
transfers of real estate in this county:
National Chautauqua of Glen Echo %
Julian B. Hubbell. lot in Glen Echo;
Preston b. Ray, assignee, to United Saw
ings Bank. lot in Takoma Park: Mary
l.. TAFT to Walter P. Parpet, two lots in
American University Park: Jerome c..
Sheat to Mary s. Nixon, lot in Ken1l-
worth; Benjamin P. Borckett to Viola B.
Pugh, three lots in Kenilworth; Richard
j. Ofutt to George p. Esworthy thirty
seven acres; Julius Carow to Anna
Carow. property In Glen Echo: Clarence
f. Norment to Allan NJ. Albert, lot at
Alta Vista; Charles E. Brinkerhoff to
Olivia r. Myers, two lots in Gathers
burg: James +. Barbour to Chester
Walls, thirteen acres: Clara c. Stauffer
TO Charles +. Brinkerhoff, four acres Of
Summit Hall; John r. Lewis to Charles
X. Brinkerhoff, four acres near Gathers
| burg; Thomas l.. Milstead to Herbert E.
Thompson, property near Colesville,
5000.
The March term of the circuit court
for Montgomery county convenes here
Monday morning with grand and petit
juries in attendance 1t will probably be
in session several weeks. Thursday,
March 30, the criminal docket will be
taken up 1t contains thirty-two criminal
cases, a number of them very important,
and many others will doubtless be added
by the work Of the grand jury. The fol-
lowing other cases are d.cketed for trial:
APP eaIs II; foreign trials, Is; judicials,
); appearances. IS: recognizances, 90;
criminal appeals, 4; trials, 81.
Licenses to marry were issued here to-
DAY to John Howard Richardson, age
twenty EIGHT, Of Benning, D. c.. and Miss
Nora Hawkins Hughes. aged twenty-one
of Washington, and Paul Nj. Slater aged
tWenty-seven. of Potomac, this county,
and Miss Myrtle Louise Thomas, aged
twenty-five, of Washington.