Evening star., 1896-06-24
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Several Weddings of Well-Known Young
People.
Peculiar Case Regarding n Burial
Fixing the Switch In the Union
StatiOn-Other Notes.


Mr.. Lee Mockabee and Miss Helen Shanks
will be married this evening at o'clock
at the parsonage of ST. Johns Church. by
Rev. DIR. Buck. The ceremony will be
very quiet. and will be witnessed by only
the immediate friends and relatives Of the
contracting parties After the ceremony
the young couple will proceed to 3043 p
street. where reception will be held to
a few of their friends. The groom is a
vell-kncwn young man, and the bride a
daughter of Mr.. James Shanks, the we'll
known FAINTER.
Mr.. Samuel Waters and Miss Fannie
Fern Fenton will also be united in the bonds
of matrlmony at 7:30 o'clock this evening
at the residence of Mrs. Wilson. at 1850 sd
street, Rev. w. S. O. Thomas, pastor of
the Gay Street Baptist Church, ofiicia ting
The wedding will be very quiet and only
the families of the young people witness it,
Mr.. Waters is a well-known young man,
who short time ago went to Detroit to
take charge of an organ-building factory
His visit home was for the purpose of get
ting married. and this evening at 1920 the
newly welded couple will take train for
Detroit, where the groom has nicely
ftted-up home for the wife.
Mr.. Otto H. Fischer will be married this
evening at I:30 O'Clock to Miss Florence
S!nclair at the residence OF the brides
parents. at IA Fait avenue. Baltimore A
number of the sroom's friends will go over
10 Baltimore to witness the ceremony. The
newly married couple will make their
rome with the groom's father at 1865 32d
street. Upon their arrival at their future
nome tomorrow reception has been ar
ranged for their various friends commence
ing at o'clock.
A peculiar case came to the attention Of
the seventh precinct officials Yesterday
The five-months-old child of Lelea Miller
colored resident Of the Reno subdivision
OF Ienleytown. died Sunday morning the
mother being away. and the child being in
the care OF James H. Allen. a colored neigh
Dor. DR.. Slaymaker the attending physi-
clan. was called away. and did not give
a certificate of death. In the surroundin ,s
the D2dy began to decompose and the peo-
pie or the house were afraid to move #
IN. ne nealth department would not permit
the burial until a certificate of death had
Deen Issued, and the family was in a
quandary The people We're too poor to nav
1or the cost Of the funeral The problem
was soved Yesterday afternoon by the ar
r1val or DR.. Slaymaker, who gave a GER
tlhcate of death. and today the health de-
partment buried the body.
The c. f. Convention.
More accC mmcdations for G. F. delao,tos
are wanted in Georgetown, especially in
the section north of NJ street and east of
sd street. All persons who can take (,bris-
tfan Endeavor delegates during the COM
iEg convention, either as boarders or lodp
ers or both, should at once notify Rev. G.
Alvin Smith, 2SO6 street. if they nave not
alreaiy done so. and state price and num-
Der OF persons desired.
Rev. Alvin Smith Is in charge of tho
Georgetown entertainment committee The
west End must accommodate 1000 of the
t,sising ti ,Endeavorers. s.s Up to the present
time only $50 have been provided for
Charges are reasonable. Most of the
visitors will pay $3.50 per day for board
and lodging. Lodging alone is being Sc
cured for SOC. and 75c.
Arlington Stock Yard.
At the Arlington stock yards yesterday
some few cattle were up and sold as fol-
lows: Best, and Az cents per lb.: good 80.
and cents per lb. medium, 3 and 3 "a
cents; common, 2 and cents. There were
733 sheep ard lambs sold at the following
prices: Sheep, 2 and 3 cents per lb lambs,
and T. cents per Id. Eighteen COWS and
calves were put up and sold from $40 20
$40 per head. The state of the market was
good.
Fixing the Switch.
The work Of placing in the switch IN
front of the new Union depot has nearly
been completed. The tracks have all been
laid In front and also in the interior Of the
building, leaving only the filling up of the
space with cement and stone The grade
of the tracks Is considerably higher than
the grade Of the street, in some cases there
being over fifteen inches difference In
front of the station a single track only is
laid. leading to the west door of the build
ing, while beginning at the east door there
are double tracks. It is expected that the
cable will be placed in the conduit by the
end Of the week. and that cars will be run
up as far as the Aqueduct bridge by Sun
day.
The Sunday school of the Tenleytown M.
E. Church will hold their annual picnic
this year on July Z. at College Villa grove.
DR.. Radcliffe Of Washington. accompanied
by his wife and daughter. is stopping with
relatives at 1898 N street.
A lawn party and musicale for the ben
eft Of the organ fund Of Mount Tabor
Church will be held Monday evening at the
pretty grounds of Mrs. Hunts residence on
32d street extended.
The funeral Of Mrs. Josephine Leo Sulli-
van of No. 25O4 P street was held this
morning at $50 o'clock from Trinity Cath
olic Church.
Mr.. B. w. Murch Of 35th street, the prin-
cipal of the Force School building. leaves
today for his old home in Maine, where the
summer will be spent.
Mr.. John w. Douglass will leave tomor-
row for Wisconsin to spend his holiday
months.
Shot His Wife and Himself
o. E. Hart. a prominent Wichita, Kan,
farmer, shot and killed his wife, Ida, and
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