Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

WALTER EVANS, the So-year-old
witness, laying his hand on Il
white oak tree standing on LIVES
Branch. depoSed thai Il was the first
bounded oak of Cuckhold'a Delight"
Charles Beall TN II ''deposcd that il was
the tree his father showed him ana said
it was the bcJlde,i tree Of CuclhoId's
Delight. Turkey Thicllet and The In
closure" There was other testimony
as TO bounded trees bounded tree
being a tree marked hy - surveyor
Int / have given YOU the names uf all
witnesses examined. The report of the
commissioners was signed June %.
1890 by William Pension. William
NHuduit and James Homeard.
This shows YOU that parts OF In
closure were in possession of Samuel
Queen and MarSi2am Queen in 1929
nd that the land was bought from
tol. Ninion Beail who patented it
that is. got ii as wild land or land not
"a private nerShip-Septemher I.
1881. If Samuel and NTa~sham Queen
bought the land i'll or .!fter Ioe6--thc
year Prince Georges rouu.v was e.,-
.ablished-the deed is in Ire court
house at Marlboro. l am sure the
deed is among the records of Prince
Georges county ana | have been to
marlboro twice IL get il. but il has
Stunned me. / pass the task to YOU.
| am sure The deed is among the rec
ordS. All You nave TO do is 10 find it
In an index book the Rambler found
reference 10 many Queen deeds. as:
Richard Queen. deed from VILLA m
Sydebotham, Liher 1873, folio 2S1:
Iichard Queen. deed Of exchange of
lands with Motley Young. Liber
I'm. /, folio 413; Samuel Queen. deed
from William Hudson. Liber ID L.:
Narsham Queen. deed to Hugh Conn
J.ber j, folio 5SS and Mary Queen and
Henry Gardiner marriage contract
I.iber J.R.M. 6. folio 49, Some day
the Rambler is going to spend a week
81 Marlboro and find one of those
libers.
Marlboro is an interesting old town.
# you like history. 1t has not grown
IS much in three or four hunded
Years as some other cities but many
changes have taken place there. The
days l was there not one saddle horse
WAS picketed in the grove by the
courthouse. F'livvers were parked
there. Not family carry-all rolled
on the main street. Not an oX-Cart-
not a yoke of SteerS-Was parked be-
fore the hotel or store. In groups
If men none spoke OF tournament
knights nor the queen of the corona
ton ball. There was not much talk
g: fox hunting, though there was some
talk of race horses. One heard more
Of NAH jong and bridge than of
Seven-up. Men smoked cigarettes in
stead Of biting into twist of tobacco
cured and mellowed frorn the kitchen
l'dfter. There WAS more talk about
radio and movies than about gale Mt
fellows who went out in '6l with
Snowden's Battery or Billy Dement'S
Battery or the Second Maryland Con
fed Infantry.
] went into the post office and
c, once 6..nIlial. bur lonesome bar, and
not one word was said about Bull
Run or AppUmattOX. The Jail looks
just as it did when YOU and l were
there
Belts Hotel is not as spruce and
not as alluring to The Rambler. as
when pretty little. dainty little, fair
haired Tippy Belt was there. still.
there are many lovely girls in Mari!
Io'o, and to the eye of the Rambler
they are better-looking than the men.
No offense, gentlemen, The law of
clivaIry. BY which all Prince Georg-
JAMS are bound permits me To say that
Elarlhoro ladies are fajrer and Sweeter
than the men.
Ninian BeaIl was dead in 1879.
Tha d&te Of Ire Queen purchase