Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON, D. c, MAY H. PAP"
HAPPENINGS IN ALEXANDRIA
AFFAIRS OF THE DAY IN CITY
SOUTH OF THE POTOMAC.
Sunday School Conference Next
Month-Police to Enforce Byrd
Liquor Law.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. May Is 1a0s.
The forty-second annual Sunday school
convention of the Baltimore conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
will begin in this city June and be con-
cluded June l.. The opening sermon Will
he delivered by Rev. j. Fl. Light. An
interesting program has been prepared
Arrangements are being made to enter
tain the attending ministers free of
charge and the lay delegates under a fee
of 81 each per diem. Schools consisting
of less than one hundred members are
entitled to one delegate each DR.. H. NJ.
Hamill. superintendent of teacher train
ing. and Mrs. Hamil. an expert in pri
mary Sunday school work. will be present.
Among those slated to speak are Revs.
j. +. Prettyman. j. Howard Wells. r. l..
Fultz, c. d. Harris. II. w. Burruss, ]. NJ
Kline. w S. Neighbors W. S. Hammond.
W. q. Talbert. II. l.. Hout and d. l..
Blakemore. Several other ministers in
terested in Sunday schools are also ex-
pected to be present and participate in
the convention.
E Nj. Wampler. an attorney of Gull
pepper. Va. this afternoon teleSraphed to
E ]. Fleming of this city that he will
be here Monday morning to inspect the
books of j. T. LaWler. registrar of the
fourth ward.
Electoral Board Appointments.
The electoral board of Alexandria
county has selected the following judges
and clerks for the year: Washington dis
trict-Judges W. T. Weaver. Frank Up
man. William Marcy; clerks. Bertram
Foster. Ross Wright. Arlington district
Judges. Horace Gilbert. Fred Graham.
Frank Ball: clerks. S. P. Wright. Thomas
r. Gray. Jefferson district-Judges.
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sickles: clerks. Fred Bashford. Fred
Peverill. Potomac district Judges.
Stephen H. Eagan. Edmund Clark. John
W. Varney: clerks. J. R. Thompson. John
E. Marcher.
Mount Vernon Chapter. Daughters of
the American Revolution. has elected the
following officers Mrs. Eleanor Washing
ton Howard. regent; Mrs: William ].
rotary: Mrs. Hubert Snowden correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Stewart Jameson.
registrar: Mrs. w. B. Smoot. treasurer.
Mrs. Robert c. Powell. historian.
John Petit will be given hearing be- |
fore United States Commissioner r. P. w. |
Garrett next Friday on a charge of sell
ing liquor in Alexandria county without
the required government license. Petit |
was arrested yesterday and released on |
bond in the sum of 500. r. c. l.. Moncure |
becoming his bondsman.
\ meeting of the prospective members
of the new military company, which will
disbanded by order of Gov. Swanson. will
be held Monday night at the Office of F. |
l.. Slaymaker.
Kelly's Candidacy Rumored.
Rumors are again af1oat that w H. P.
Kelly of the fourth ward will be a candi- |
date for mayor on the republican ticket at |
the general election of June .. Mr.. Kelly |
probably will announce his decision early !.
next week. /
George Germann, for thirty-eisht years |
an employe in the shops of the Southern |
Railroad Company, has resigned his po-
sition.
The firm of T. F. Burroughs. Son & Co. |
whose plant at the corner of Patrick and
Franklin streets was destroyed by fire
several days ago, Is making arrangements
to erect a modern feed store at the north
east corner of Alfred and Wilkes streets.
Many friends were entertained this aft
ernoon by Mrs. Victor Emerson in her
apartments, the Fairfax. in honor of the
eleventh anniversary of the birth of her
daughter, Miss Caroline
Items of General Interest
Announcement was made today that the
next annual meeting of the Federation of
Womens Clubs will be held at the Cam
eron Club. this city. Miss Helen Norris
Cummings of Alexandria was elected see
ond vice president of the organization at
the meeting held recently at Bedford City
Va.
Chief Goods of the police department
has ordered his patrolmen TO require sa-
loon keepers to obey all provisions of tie
Byrd liquor law
Louis Schroff has been appointed by
Judge j. 3. T. Thornton as a special Off
Ger for Washington district, Alexandria
county, to serve without compensation. a
special officer has also been appointed for
Jefferson district.
collection will be taken up tomorrow
at the Second Presbyterian Church for
the benefit of the --,eXandria Hospital.