Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02
! FIELD ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Retail Merchants Are Planning
for Convention.
COLORED YOUTH DROWNED
United Daughters of Confederacy
Plan to Celebrate Davis
Birthday.
Special Correspondence of Tho star.


ALEXANDRIA. Va June I. l9l2
Extensive preparations are being made
by the local retail merchants association
for entertaining the delegates who will at
tend the annual state convention in this
city July IL and Is.
Already a committee on entertainment
has been appointed. and there is every
indication that the visitors will be- shown
a royal good time during their stay in
Alexandria.
The plans of the committee have not
yet been perfected, but i'm all probability
will include river trips and other amuse-
ments.
More than one hundred delegates repre-
senting the thirty-eisht branches of the
organiza ton Will attend. Some of the
associations will be represented by as
MANY as four delegates. Many of the
delegates will be accompanied by their
wives.
4 hall for holding the meetings OF the
convention has not yet been definitely de-
cided upon although it is not improbable
that it will be held in the Young Peo-
pies building.
Adolphus Neal. ccored, eighteen years
old. was drowned wh2e bathing in the
river near the wharf of the Alexandra
Fertilizer and Chemical Companys plant
at $50 o'clock this afternoon. The body
was recovered a short time afterWard
and removed TO Demaine's undertaking
esta blishment. and Coroner ;, 3. Moore
gave certificate of accidental drown
ing deem;nS an inquest unnecessary.
Neal 1t Is said was unable to SWIM
but he waded out for considerable
dista nee and. reaching sloping point.
was carried down into fifteen feet OF
water. He came up three times. and a
colored boy in the water reached nm
stick but he was unable To grasp IT.
Several boys. all smaller than Neal,
were in the water nearby, but were nh,
able TO give him assistance. Neal hNed
in Mills court. i'm the third ward.
This is the first drowning that has o.
Cured here this season.
Plan for Davis Birthday.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed by
members of the 18th Virginia Regiment
Chapter, United Daughters of the con
federacy. for the celebration Of jefferson
Davis birthday with appropriate cere-
monies, at Colross. from 80 until 10
o'clock Monday night.
The following Confederate organizations
in the city have been invited to attend:
r +. Lee Camp. NJ. -. ccrse Camp. sons
of Veterans; Mary Custis Lee chapter,
| rited Daughters of tie tGnttdefacN,
and the Woman's Auxiliary to *. T.. Lee
Camp Confederate Veterans.
The work OF improving the interior and
exterior of Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church is rapidly nearing completion
The front of that edifice has been re-
painted and peuciled. and presents an at
tractiye appearance. During the coming
week a pipe organ will be installed.
Owing to improvements being made To
the Second Presbyterian Church services
will be held by the congregation today at
the old First Presbyterian Cnurch. South
Fairfax street. Pulpits at all the local
churches today will be filled by the resi-
dent clergy.
Mrs W. r. Smithers left this morning
for Charles Town, w Va. to attend the
annual conference of the Woman s Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church
The lawn party given this afternoon on
the lawn at Washington and Queen
streets was largely patronized. The
proceeds are for the benefit of the Alex
andria free kindergarten
There will be a meeting Of the Loyal
Temperance Legion at :; O'Clock Monday
afternoon in the Young Peoples building
of the NJ z, Church South.
Ernest r. Bower, district lecturer. has
Just returned from a meeting of the
Grand Lodge of knights of Pythias, held
in Martinsville, Va.