Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-21
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
WARM TIME AWAITS MEMBERS
nth GEORGIA REGIMENT.
Are at Battlefield of Manassas Today
General and Personal
News
Evening Star Bureau,
No. 7o1 King ST.,
Bell Telephone No, JOG,


ALEXANDRIA. Va, July 81, 1902.
The members Of Lee Camp, Confederate
Veterans. and other kindred organizations
in this city will extend a cordial greeting
to the visiting survivors of the 7th Georgia
Regiment. c. S. A, when they reach Alex
andria this evening, after spending most OF
today in looking over the battlefield at
Manassas. Lee Camp will assemble in the
hall on Prince street and march in a body
to the Southern railroad depot to meet the
Georgia veterans, who are expected to ar
rive at 1850
They will then be escorted to the camp
hall, where refreshments will be served by
the ladies of the Woman's Auxiliary.
special committee on entertainment ap-
pointed by the camp. is composed of Messrs
E. c. Graham, S. c. Boush, j. c. Milburn
G. William Ramsay, Thomas Perry. F. j.
Davidson. X. Kemper, E. Warfield. John R.
Zimmerman, w. A. Smoot and A c. Wyck-
off.
1t Is expected that fully hundred men
will be in the party. including ladies. To-
morrow the visitors will be escorted to the
various points of historic interest in Alex
andria and will also visit Arlington and Mt.
Vernon.
In the evening they will leave for Fred
ericksburg, where they will go over the bat
tie ground. and will continue their journey
Wednesday evening, going to the former
capital of the southern confederacy.
General and Personal.
The body of Mrs Sarah K Pickett. who
died suddenly Saturday morning at the
home of her son. Mr.. Lee Pickett. in Fair
fax county, was forwarded this morning to
Middleburg, Va, for interment.
The funeral of Joseph N. Pemberton.
whose death occurred yesterday morning at
the Alexandria Hospital, will take place
this evening at o'clock from Wheatley's
undertaking rooms. Mr. Pemberton was a
son of Mr.. Philip Pemberton and was
twenty-seven years old He was born in
King George county, Va A widow survives
him.
Louis D. Below, son of George r. Below,
died after brief Illness yesterday morning
at his home, no Prince street. He Is sur
vived by a widow. The funeral services
| will take place tomorrow.
The Alexandria Light Infantry. under
command of Captain James E. King, de.
parted Saturday evening for ten days
| outing al Ocean View, Va. with Company
c: Captain shackelford of Richmond.
The Knowlton Vending Company OF
Washington has been granted charter by
Judge Norton In the corporation court: The
capital stock is placed at $780, 600, and the
officers are James F. Oyster, president:
George F. Zeh, secretary and treasurer.
Colonel Francis L. Smith is local attorney.
Miss Alice Thomas, Miss Fannie B. Smith
and Miss Pearl Hoffman, teachers in the
public schools of this city, who have been
attending the summer normal school at the
University Of Virginia, have returned to
this city
The police have been notified of the theft
of a batteau from the Maryland shore just
across the river from Alexandria. 1t was
fitted with a sail and two oars. and was
the property of a man named Hungerford,
residing in Prince George county.