Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-27
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Special Services for DAD Fellows Last
Night
Laying a Ghost on the Conduit Road
Other Local Notes From
Across the Creek.

at the Dumbarton Avenue NJ. f. Church
| for Odd Fellows Rev. DR.. ]. B. Stitt COIL
Quoting the same. The church was well
| filled with members Of the order and their
! friends. Covenant Lodge, No. 13. IO.O.F,
| attended the services in a body, about
twenty-five members of that organiza ton
| being present, while a number of other
lodges were represented by individuals and
smaller delegations. The sermon for the
evening was extremely interesting, and Dr.
| Stitt succeeding in holding the entire at
tentlon of the audience during the course
of his remarks. He reviewed the history of
the order, and, according to the authority
ozone man. traced its origin back to the
time OF Adam. He treated of the vast
amount OF good done by the organization
curing the course of its existence and
now IL cultivated brotherly feeling of the
persons who had passed into it's mystic
portals He defined the work of the orsani-
zations and glowingly urged the contin-
uance OF the same. His address lasted for
a aaH .nre &c of an hour. The must
car part OF the services is worthy of men,
ten especially the solo, Jesus Lover of
MY Soul" which was sung by Miss Lille
Stewart.
Laying a Ghost.
The residents of the Canal road and Com
dutt road We're terrified last week by tile
queer actions OF what was supposed to be
until around midnight, sometimes as early
as 10 o'clock in the evening and then again
In the early hours of the morning There
were many people Of a suparstit ous ma
ture who firmly believed it to be the Spirit
OF some individual who was at unrest IN
the other world. The perambuations of
the supposed ghost were limited to the
stretch of the Canal road between the
Aqueduct bridge and the Conduit road. and
as this section is well settled the figure was
Inv
returning home late at night. The sight
usually scared all who caught glimpse OF
II, especially those whose Imagination was
made little bit more vivid by the aid of
stimulants. The figure was described to the
police as being that of a man gaunt in ap-
pearance and poorly dressed, which pro-
duced weird effect, which was further
heightened by his strange antics. No one
reported having personal encounter with
the strange being, probably because there
was no one bold enough to face it. An in
yestigaton by the police revealed the fact
That the supposed spirit was a material be-
Ing, and no less than a resident of the
neghborhood, who was suffering with a
severe attack of the jim-jams. He is the
husband of the woman who committed sui
eide about year ago. Steps have been
taken TO prevent his nocturnal roamingS.
Three-Whecled Rig.
William Wrenn, a young white man. ac-
companied by his brother. went out to
Sdbiu JOHH DTluSe yesterday driving
horse. which had been used on the race
track On the return trip he ran into an
other fix containing a lady and gentleman
| and yanked a wheel Off After some dis
cussion carriages and horses were ex-
changed and the two brothers drove down
| in the fix with three wheels, the axle of the
fourth wheel dragging on the ground.
Wrenn was whipping up the horse to make
him speed when Policeman Heide spoke to
him and told him to walk, the harness
wearing the flesh off the animals breast.
The two men walked the horse for a short
distance and, thinking the policeman out
OF sight, started to apply the whip again.
The fix was overhauled and VIM. Wrenn
arrested for cruelty to animals. He left $40
collateral at the station, but forfeited this
| in Police Court this morning.
Notes.
| Cards are out announcing the marriage of
| Miss Mary A. Serrin, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Franklin A. Serrin, to Mr. Ar
| thur A. Reimer of New York city.
Miss Estelle Thicker, who has been quite
| i'll, is able to be out agin.
Rev. Father Aloysius Roccofort, S. j.,
| assistant pastor of Trinity Church, is on
| sity, one of the Jesuits of the university
filling his place yesterday.
| Mrs. Martha A. Hurdle has sold part of
lot % of the Reno subdivision to Benjamin
| Thorn. and also the remaining portion of
| the same lot to Henry o. Hail. the consid-
| GRAFTON In both sales being unknown.
Charles A. Hines has sold to Sarah A.
Hines one-half interest in lots % and %
ard part Of lot p of the Friendship, ST.
| Philip and Jacob subdivision. The consid-
GRAFTON Is placed at 81 900.
| The ice on the river has entirely disap-
| peared. and no danger is now feared of a
| hood. The water in Rock creek is slightly
higher than usual, but no change is evident
| in the Potomac.