Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-19

proposed fountain will be a handsome
affair of bronze and granite. and accord
ing to the promoters of the movement
such fountain will fill long-felt want
in this city.
In the police court this morning Will
liam Posey. charged with the non-sup-
port of his wife and child, was SEN
fenced to serve sixty days in Jail
James Dawson, a nonresident who
formerly lived here, was arraigned to
answer a charge OF failing to pay Mrs.
Georgianna Robey a board bill amount
ing to SCI. alleged to be contracted nearly
a year ago. The case was continued,
and i'm the meantime Dawson. the po-
lice say, is arranging to li0uidate. Daw-
son was arrested shortly after his arrival
here by Policeman Wilkerson and Fergu-
son.
Col. Sickels' Funeral.
Funeral services for Col. Jackson f.
Sickels, formerly civil engineer of Alex
andria county. who died yesterday after
noon at the Takoma Park Sanitarium.
Washington. will be held at 3 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon at his late home at
Green Valley. Alexandria county. Burial
will be made in the Henderson vault IN
the Methodist Protestant cemetery.
The deceased was about eighty years
old, and. besides his widow. is survived by
one daughter. Mrs. H. p. Carter of Alex
andria county, and brother. Theophiius
Sickels of Philadelphia. His wife was a
Miss Antonio p. Frazier.
Col. Sickels was born in Philadelphia.
During the civil war he was colonel of a
New York regiment. As civil engineer
he held many important positions. among
ty. He was also engaged in that capaci-
ty on the Union Pacific railway. in the
work of strengthening the Washington
Monument and the work of building the
Mississippi jetties. He also planned and
surveyed many Of the forts located
around this city during the war.
The funeral of the late Henry n. Kel-
ley. who died at the home OF his sister
in Lynchburg. Va. Saturday will take
place at $40 o'clock tomorrow morning
from ST. Mary's Catholic Church The
body was brought here last night and
taken to his home, GA South Patrick
street
The deceased was a well known resi-
dent of this city. and up to the time OF
his death was the foreman of the copper
smith department of the Southern Rail
way Company. He was sixty-four years
old and leaves the following children
Mrs. Hugh J. Latham. Mrs. William
Schoeni. w. P. II. Kelley and R. EN-
NETT Kelley Mr. Kelley was charter
member of Alexandria Lodge of Elks and
at one time chaplain of that lodge. The
members of the lodge will attend the
funeral
lodge Of sorrow for the deceased.
Pastor to Attend Convention.
Rev. John Cavanaugh. pastor of the
Free Methodist Church, will leave this
evening for Chicago to attend the Free
Methodist convention in that city, which
will last about two weeks. During his
absence Rev. George Mosedale. Washing.
ton. will fill the pulpit in that church.
Announcement is made that the quar-
terly meeting of the Free Methodist
Church will be held beginning June 81
and concluding July next. 1t will be
conducted by Rev. D. j. Santmier and
wife. evangeists.
Members of Potomac Lodge Of Odd
Fellows last night attended memorial
services at Grace p. E. Church. The
members of Sarepta Lodge also attended
A special sermon was preached by Rev.
Edgar Carpenter, rector.
During the past six months the total
number of divorces granted here by the
clerk of the corporation court was nine
teen The annual number is about thirty
five a year. which is a fair average. many
of them being local people and many. it
is said, are colored.