The Washington times., 1911-03-28
.EPKORTH LEAGUE
CONFERS TODAY
Annual Event In Anticipa-
ton of Convention In
.f Washington.
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,
ANACOSTIA. d. c., MARCH 2s


The Epworth League of the Anacostia
Methodist Episcopal Church will visit
the Douglass Memorial Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Twelfth and H streets
northwest, tonight in a body to attend
the annual conference rally that will be
held there for the various organizations
of the league throughout the District.
Charles F. Linger, president of the local
society, will head the leaguers from this
place.
The rally is an annual one, held i'm
mediately preceding the Convening of the
baltimore Annual Conference, which
will meet this year in Washington, be-
ginning tomorrow. A speaker from
New York will address the leaguers to-
night, in addition to local speakers.
Samuel M Frazier, an Anacostia busi-
ness man, is having erected adjacent to
the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
freight line a large warehouse. 1t will
Ibe 100 feet in length, IS feet in width,
and be II feet in height. Mr.. FTazier's
business premises adjoin the structure,
which will be used to accommodate an
expanding trade.
The extensive improvements that have
been in progress for some time to the
Anacostia Baptist Church, w and Thir-
teenth streets, are about two-thirds
completed. The work is all under
ground, extending the entire length of
the building, and the excavating is
nearly finished.
The basketball team representing the
unmarried men of the Anacostia Epis-
Icopal Church is practicing for con-
test next Friday evening in Methodist
Hall, in Fourteenth street, with the
team representing the Patent Office
The game has been arranged by W. c.
james, of the Anacostia quint.
The same teams played a short time
since, the visitors winning. "a to Is.
The. death is reported from Alexan-
idria, Va, Of Mrs. Edgar Dent, sister
1n-law of John T. Dent, OF W street. A
few days ago Mrs Markwood Dent, an
other sister-in-law of Mr.. Dent, died at
her home, in Alexandria.
George Randall and family, who were
formerly residents of AnaCostia for a
long time, have returned to the District
TO live, after an absence Of nearly ten !
years. Mr.. Randall was an engineer at ,
Fort Mansfield, R. l., which has been
abandoned, and he Is now stationed at
the Walter Reed Hospital, in the city.
Oneita Council, No. ., Degree of Poca-
hontas, met last evening in the Ana
costa Masonic Hall. and completed ar
Tangements for rummage sale.
TIE last meeting of the Brotherhood |
of the Garden Memorial Presbyterian |
Church was held in the home of John |
Ellison, in Pennsylvania avenue, at |
Washington Circle. Religious services |
took place.
There will - a meeting of the session |
OF the Prehyt 'rtan Church in Anacostia |
following the prayer meeting service to-
morrow evening for the purpose of re-
ceiving new members into the church.
The prayer meeting itself will consist |
of a service preparatory to the holy
communion of next Sunday.
Following his release from the Mary
land House of Correction, Charles H.
Butler, a young colOred man. found him.
self in the custody of the police authori-
ties in AnacOstia on a charge of in i
sanity. Policeman J. L. elliott discover
ed him lettering on the outskirts of Good /
Hope, acting irrationally. He has been
sent to the Washington Asylum Hos
pital for observation.