Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-21
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
PROGRAM FOR CONVENTION OF
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Special Correspopdepce of The Star.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, August q, 1905.
The eleventh annual convention of the
Fairfax County Sunday School Association
will be held next Thursday at the Wood
lawn Baptist Church near Mount Vernon.
The morning session will be given over
principally to devotional exercises and adj
dresses on Sunday school work by the off,
GERS of the association and others inter-
ested in the spiritual education Of children.
After the lunch hour the report of the
several committees will be received and the
election OF officers for the ensuing year
held. Several short addresses relating to
the most approved way of conducting the
different departments Of Sunday school
from the primary department to the Bible
class will be made
A special car for the convention will leave
Rosslyn at $3.50 o'clock am. connecting
with the electric lines from Fairfax and
Great Falls and with Southern railway train
No. 12S of the Bluemont branch at St
Asaph. The return trip will be made at 5
o'clock pm. Those going on the special
train will be met at Mount Vernon station
with vehicles.
Charged With Killing Horse.
Arthur Hicks was charged in the police
court today with cruelty to horse belong
Ing to p. T. Harrington, liveryman. It
was stated that Hicks hired horse and
buggy for the purpose Of taking a drive
yesterday afternoon and 1t was alleged
that he drove the animal so fast that 1t died
Immediately upon being returned to the
livery stable.
Policeman Jones testified that he noticed
the defendant driving the horse down King
street at gallop. but did not arrest him,
as he thought he was trying to catch the
ferry boat for Washington. The stable
hands stated that the horse was in good
condition when Hicks departed with 1t. but
1t was declared that the latter drove UP to
the doc and left the horse in the street
without notifying the employees at the sta
BILE. Justice Cation imposed a fine of $25.
Lee browns. alias Cabbage browns.
was arraigned in the Police Court today
on a charge of stealing hats from the
Southern Railway Company. It was tes-
titled that about a dozen hats were found
under browns house and they were iden-
tified as articles which had been stolen
from freight car in the yard of the
southern railway. browns was represented
by Attorney Samuel Fisher and the prose-
cution was conducted by States Attorney
Brent Justice Cation sentenced browns to
imprisonment in Jail for sixty days.
Firemen Going to Richmond.
The members of the three fire companies
Of Alexandria will depart tomorrow morn
Ing at 8 o'clock for Richmond where they
will attend the annual meeting of the State
Firemen's Association Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday. The members of the Co.
lumbia Steam Fire Engine Company re-
Gently received a handsome silk banner
which was ordered for the occasion and It
will be carried by the company In the pa
rade. which will be one of the features OF
the convention. The men of the different
companies hope to make a fine showing in
the parade. as there is a great deal OF
rivalry between the fire organizations of the
state.
Chef Goods and Policemen Garvey, Lyles.
Jones and Bell las. night made a raid on
several houses on Princess street and ar
| rested fourteen colored men and women,
who were arraigned in the Police Court
this morning on the charge of dsorderiy
conduct and keeping disorderly houses.
With the exception of three of the
prisoners, who presented satisfactory ex-
cuses the defendants were fined IS each.
Uston Walker was charged with carrying
concealed weapons and forfeited $40 COL
lateral. Edward Bryant and Clarence
Grady, both colored. were charged with
| fighting on the street Bryant was fined
| $40 and Grady IS.
Preston Withers, colored who yesterday
voluntarily surrendered to the police after
having been fugitive from justice for
more than year, was fined IS on the
charge of assaulting Lizzie Drayton also
colored, May q, 1906. Preston stated that
| he had been in Pittsburg during the period
mentioned. and upon returning home re-
for his arrest. so he accordingly surren-
dered.
Eva M. Kerrick. infant daughter of Hugh
w. and Elzora Kerrick died last night at
| the residence of her parents, AIS North CO.
lumbus street.