Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-12
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Masonic Lodge Planning for
National Memorial Society.
TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON
President Taft to Be Guest of Order
February 22-General
News.
. OF The Star.

correspondence OF lue SlaT
ALEXANDRIA,, Va. November Il, 1910.
Washington's birthday anniversary will
be quietly observed here February 80.
There will be no parade. The only big
event planned for the day is the forma-
ton Of permanent national memorial as
ISOLATION by Alexandria Washington
Lodge OF Masons. President Taft has
been invited to attend the meeting and
the annual banquet Of the lodge. which
will be given in the evening. There will
be services of patriotic nature the an
niversary morning at Christ Episcopal
Church.
The George Washington Birthday Asso-
citation, under whose auspices the former
big celebrations were held, will hold a
meeting Tuesday evening next at the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. at
which time it will be decided whether or
not a banquet will be h. Id under its aus
pieces February % next. II is not. how
ever. believed that the function will be
ordered. Tn. association, following an
annual custom, will place wreath on
Washington tomb at Mount Vernon that
day.
Fourteenth Degree Conferred.
A large delegation of members OF the
Scottish Rite Masons last evening attend
ed the disqualification Of the fourteenth
degree of the order, which was conferred
upon a class Of candidates by George
washington Memorial Lodge of Perfec-
ton. No. Z. Afterward there was a ban
quet in the Young Peoples building of
the Methodist E.yIscopai Church South,
and during the evening several members
of the craft made impromptu speeches,
among them being a number from Wash
ington. The banquet was served by q
committee of ladies consisting of wives of
the members.
Sodality Lyceum Elects Officers.
The Young Mems Sodality Lyceum ORA
matte Club at meeting held last night
at the Young Mems SodaIity Lyceum Hal
organized for the coming season with the
election Of these officers: DIR. E. A. Cor
man, president; NJ. ]. Mcfarland vice
president; R. e. Power. secretary ana
treasurer. This club. which has been tn
existence for several years past, has
given many credible performances and
plans to give its first performance the
second week in January next.
General Mention.
The board Of managers of the Alexan-
dria Hospital has accepted the resignation
Of Miss Annie G. Mckay as superintend-
CIl I'll Iil6I luSIlQuOIs u UcCUuIS cuCClltS
next month.
Announcement is made by the local
board of civil service examiners that an
examination will be held in this city De-
cember next for the position Of sup>r-
| intendent of construction Of the United
States penitentiary, Mcneil Island. Wash
ington. The position pays a salary OF s.
. day.
The November term of the circuit court
for this city, Judge J. 3. T. Thornton
presiding, will convene Monday next
A, final decree for divorce on statutory
grounds was granted in the corporation
court today in the case Of Lillian T.
| Mansfield against Robert n. Mansfield.
A musical and literary program was
given last evening at meeting Of the
Westminster League of the Second Pres
byterian Church ht Id in that church.
Funeral services for Edward Crane
who died Thursday morning. were held at
1:30 o'clock this afternoon at bis late
home in Del Ray. Alexandria county. The
burial was made in Union cemetery.
At a meeting Of Potomac Lodge OF Odd
Fellows, held last night. the initiatory de-
gree was conferred on a candidate.
Whyte White. formerly superintendent
Of the Bell Telephone Company htre, but
now Of Richmond, is visiting in this city.