Evening star., 1898-01-04
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
First Meeting of the Week of Prayer Series
Held at the Lutheran Church.
Quiet Wedding at st. Patrick's Parish
ParsOnaRe-SOciala and Other
Events - Briefs.

Inc series OF union meetings opening the
week of prayer in the local churches was
inaugurated auspiciously last evening at
the West Washington Lutheran Church,
corner Of 32d and Q streets. The announce
ment of the meetings drew a large attend
ance from the several congregations. Rev.
Stanley Billheimer. the pastor of the Luth-
eran Church, was the leader of the services
for the evening, the subject being Con
fession and Thanksgiving
Rev. w. c. Alexander DID, pastor of
the West Street Presbyterian Church. was
present, and made short address. also Of
fering prayer Rev. W. S. O. Thomas pas
tor of the Gay Street Baptist Church. de-
livered a short address. followed by prayer.
Rev. W. S. Hammond, DID,, of the Con-
gress Street NJ P. Church, also made a
brief address.
The second of the meetings will be held
this evening at 40 o'clock at the Congress
Street Church. Rev. DIR. Hammond leading.
The subject will be the Church Universal"
O'Brien-MoOr NuptiaIs.
There was quiet wedding at the par
sonage of ST. Patrick's Church. on 10th
street between F and G streets. at noon
yesterday The contracting parties were
Miss Teresa Moor of 32d street and Mr.
Thomas X. OBrien, formerly of Chicago
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father John Gloyd, the pastor of the
church. Miss Sallie Fogarty was maid of
honor, while Mr.. George Land acted as
best man. Immediately after the ceremony
the young couple left for short trip to
points north. The wedding was in the ma
ture of surprise to the friends Of the
bride in this place. On their return to the
city the newly married couple will take up
their residence on Emerson street north
east.
Reunion and Dance.
The reunion of the dancing classes Of
Prof. Henry Schlosser was held last even
ing at the academy, 3OO7 NJ street, and
brought out a merry crowd of young peo-
pie, who spent very pleasant evening in
dancing. Among those present were Misses
Maggie and Mary Fitzgibbons, Moreand,
Beckwith. Crowley, Hawkshaw, Gluick.
Donoghue. McCann. Sommerville. Garnett.
Holloran. Gown, McNally, Feeny Noonan
Madden. Weber, Storay. Butler Curry
Schlosser. Mrs. Eberly. Misses Acker. Gus
ley. Mccarthy. Bueter. Donovan. Messrs
Iliiman; Hammer; Meehan. Dougherty,
Butler. Downey, Ockershausen WOLF. Shee-
ny. Plummer Prevatt. Eberly Trunnell
Vincent. Stanton, Trundle Conlin. Dulan.
Dougherty, Cats. Eicholz, Lee, Saffell Sui
hyan. Taft and Schultz
Baptist Church Accexxions.
-Four converts were baptised and re-
oeived into the communion of the Tenley-
town Baptist Church last Sunday A new
feature has been introduced into the
Sunday evening service of the
Church. that of solo singing inme-
diately after the close of the sermon Mrs
Ernest McCobb sang last Sunday evening"
The officers OF the Sunday school of that
church. who were elected last Sunday
afternoon. are follows: Mr. William r.
King, reelected. superintendent; Mr.. Mel
ton, librarian; Mrs Johnson. treasurer;
Miss B. Ferguson, secretary. The term of
office lasts for one year.
SnIes of Live stock.
At the Arlington stock yards, Arlington
Va, Monday. some few cattle were offered
and sold at the following prices: Best, 4
and 4 Ia cents per pound; good. IL and
I cents; medium. 3 and 3l-2: common. y
and 5 cents. number of sheep and lambs
were disposed of at the following quota
tions: Lambs. 1-2 and 61-2 cents per
pound: sheep. 3 and cents Calves sold
:tt q and . cents. Ten cows and calves
sold from 81 0to $40 per head. The state
OF the market was fair for all kinds of
stock
Death of Old Resident
Nancy Faulkner. for many years a resi-
dent of this section of the city. died Sun
day at the residence of her nephew, James
Il. Faulkner. at 1920 34th street Her funeral
her late residence. Services were held at
30 O'Clock at the West Washington Luth-
tran Church.
Brief Mention.
The regular session of Linthicum Insti-
tute was resumed last evening after a rest
Of ten days for the holiday vacation.
Joseph E Hurst has bought of John C.
Hurst lots to q, OF block 2 and lots 23
and "a, of block 3, in Clark and others.
subdivision of White Haven and Harlem
No consideration Is named.
The students of Georgetown University
nave returned from their Christmas holf-
days. and this morning the studies were
Csumed.
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