Evening star., 1898-08-29
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Meeting Of County Board of School Trus-
tees Today.
Rev. Butler, Pastor of Fifth Baptist
tiOn-General and Personal.
Evening Star Bureau.
127 King Street.


Bell Telephone 1G6
ALEXANDRIA, Va, August %, 1875
The board of school trustees for Alex
sndria county met this morning at the
county court house, having before it, be-
sides usual business. the important matter
of selecting list of books from the list au-
thorized by the state board Of education.
The meeting was well attended, ali three
districts, Jefferson. Washington and Ar
lngton. having their quota.
1t was decided that the schools should
open the 18th of September for session of
nine months. The legal holidays decided
upon for the coming session are as follows:
Thanksgiving, Gen. Lees birthday, Gen
Washington's birthday, Easter Monday and
Good Friday. In case any of the above
named holidays should fall on Saturday or
Sunday, the following Monday will be a
legal holiday
When the question cf adopting books was
brought up Mr.. Douglass of Arlington dis
Irlct spoke against adopting list a. that
m Getting, affirming that no one was nre-
pared for this action. 1t was then decided
TO allow the representatives of the publish
IL g houses-hve of which were represented
10 speak fer twenty minutes on the
claims of their respective publications and
TO defer final action of the board in adopt-
ing list until the books could be carefully
examined after which an executive COM
mlttee Will be appointed to make out the
list.
Police Court Proceedings.
Several cases were disposed of by Mayor
Simpson in the police court this morning
The first prisoners before him were Julia
Pines and Mary Fields, both colored, ar
rested by Officers Ticer and Arlington en-
a charge of fighting. The evidence showed
that the Fields woman had been badly
used up in the fight. and that Edward
Fields, her husband had melted the diff
Guilty. For his interest in the disturbance
the mayor fined him s. and dismissed his
wife. Julia Pines was also assessed s..
John McCuen was next arraigned on
charge OF attempting to force an entrance
10 Mrs. Cooks residence on Upper King
street. He was arrested by officers Beach
Gnd Arlington, and Mrs. Cook appeared as
complainant. She testified that Mr. Nc
Cuen had used abusive language and at
tempted to enter her residence against her
will. He was fined s.. Oscar Blackwell
coiored, was arrested by Officers Lyles and
Wilkinson charged with assault on his
Wife The woman testified against him and
the mayor assessed oscar S5. Samuel
Washington, a sn all colored boy, nine
years old, was up to answer the charge of
throwing stones at people on the street
He was dismissed with a warning against
a repetition of his offense.
Fined for Selling Liquor.
officer Wilkinson saw sight of a soldier
Sunday morning coming out of the side
door of a saloon near the southern depot,
with his pockets stuffed with whisky bot
ties. The saloon keeper was conducted to
the station house to answer the charge of
selling liquor on Sunday, and the mayor
consented to try the case at $3.50 o'clock
that day, as the soldier was anxious to re-
join his regiment. The offense seemed to
be palliated by the fact that the soldiers