Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-16
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
JOINT CELEBRATION BY SCHOOL
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
Program of Exercises Outlined
Thomas Blanahan Held on
Charge of Murder.
Evening Star Bureau,
1OI King Street,
Rell TelenhOne lOS.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 10, leeS
The Joint final celebration of the Fairfax
and Blackford Literary Societies OF the
Episcopal High School will be neld TINS
evening at $50 O'Clock in Lggett Hall on
the High School grounds. The exercises
will be opened with prayer. followed by an
address by Oscar Dew Randolph Of Illinois.
president of tine Blackboard Society," This
will be followed by the presentation of the
Fairfax SOcietys medal for defamation,
which has been won by Samuel Watts Zim-
mer of Petersburg. Va. After recitation,
THE Deathbed of Benedict Arnold the
presentation of the Blackboard Society 8
medal for debate will be made to William
Stuart Barrett of Tennessee. The presenta-
ton of the Fairfax Societys medal for
reading will then be made to John Minor
Blackford of Fairfax, Va. The presentation
of the Blackford Society's medal for decia
nation will be made to ]. keene DANGER
field of Kentucky. recitation The New
South, viii follow, and the medal given
by the Fairfax Society for debate VIII be
presented to Paul Micou of Fairfax, Va.
The last medal to be presented will be that
given by the Blackford Society for reading
This has been awarded to Gaylord L. Clark
of Alabama The joint valedictory address
VIII be delivered by Samuel w. thinner of
the Fairfax Society, and the final dismiss Al
of the audience VIII be by Edmund r.
Hunter of Maryland, president of the Fair
fax Society.
The final ball of the high school was
danced last evening in McBurney's Hall in
this city. Tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon the commencement exercises of
the schooi VIII take place in Liggett Hall.
Held on Charge Of Murder.
The coroner's jury which held an inquest
over the remains of John Green the col
pred man who was shot Saturday night by
Thomas Blanahan another negro, as the
result of a quarrel over woman named
Lizzie Ford, yesterday afternoon about $3.50
o'clock returned verdict to the effect that
Green had been willfully murdered by Blan-
ahan. The latter was placed in Jail and his
case was referred by Mayor Simpson to the
grand jury. The mayor also referred the
case of William Thomas. colored, charged
with being an accomplice, to the grand
jury. 1t was testified yesterday that Thorn
as had counseled Blanahan to do the shoot
ing.
Funeral of Mr.. Dyson.
Funeral services over the remains of Mr..
s Fletcher Dyson. whose death occurred
yesterday afternoon. will take place to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock from his
late residence. 1904 Prince street. The serv-
ices will be conducted by Rev. ]. A. LETTERS.
pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church. in which Mr. Dyson had been an
active member for several years. Mr.. Dy
son was in the fifty-eighth year of his age.
A widow survives him. He was the senior
member of the firm of S. F. Dyson & Bro,
local book and stationery merchants. He
was son of the late James L. Dyson.
General Matters.
In the police court this morning Mayor
Simpson examined Fayett Lee, colored, on
the charge of stealing SIG from Abraham
Scott. also colored. Ben. Brandham, col
ored, was also charged with the theft, but
the evidence failed to fasten the crime upon
either one and both were dismissed.
The funeral of Miss Sue Lee Posey, whose
death occurred Saturday night at the Alex
andria Hospital, took place this afternoon
from the home of her father, Mr.. Henry
Posey. on Wilkes street near Royal street.
Rev. J. III. S. Ewell of the Methodist
Protestant Church conducted the services.
and the interment made in the Meth
odst Protestant cemetery.
Mr.. James Randall Cation. jr., of this
city, is among the graduates in law this
year at the University of Virginia.
The remains of Evans Brown the elderly
seaman who was drowned by being knocked
into the Potomac Saturday evening by the
falling mainsail of the schooner Two Sis
tiers, We're forwarded this morning to Lor-
ton, Fairfax county, near the former home
of the deceased. for interment.
A meeting of the presbytery of the Ches-
apeake will be held in the Second Presby-
terrain Church in this city tomorrow morn
ing. when Mr.. Henry c. Slaymaker will be
ordained TO the ministry preparatory to his
work in connection with the Presbyterian
mission in the Congo Free State. Africa.