Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-30
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Red Men Hold Third Annual
Banquet tuesday.
BOGUS INSPECTOR HUNTED
Enters Apartment Under False Pre-
tense - Colored Woman
Charges kidnapping.
ondence OF The Star.

Special Correspondence or The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. November 90 1912
Plans have been completed by Seminole
Tribe Order of Red Saen, for it's third
annual banquet. which will be held at
SO o'clock Tuesday night at the Hotel
Rammel. About fifty members of the
orga nization will attend the affair and
during the evening a number of lis men,
hers will respond to toasts. r. G.. Sulli-
van past sachem of the order. will act
as POSTMASTER
During the evening toasts will be re-
sponded to by the following: History Of
Seminole Tribe III. Noel Garner; Free
dom. Friendship and Charity Rev. Ed
gar Carpenter; THE Eloquence of the
Red Man. Louis p. Woodward: "A Lit
tie Wit and Humor.' ]. William May;
Trail of the Forest" Robert s. Barrett.
The following is the committee in
charge of arrangements for the affair
l.. D. Sullivan, chairman; r. c. Sullivan,
c. C. Brawner.
Love of Chicken Costly.
The love for chicken on the part of Ike
Edney. colored will cause him to spend
the next sixty days in Jail, that being the
sentence imposed on him in the police
the larceny of one dressed chicken from
the store of ". P. Woods & Son. Queen
and Henry streets, yesterday afternoon
The police made futile effort yester-
day afternoon to locate the whereabouts
of a bogus telephone inspector who made
his debut here about q O'Clock In the att
ernoon. He called at an apartment house
and asked one of the occupants to per-
NIT him to inspect telephone. His re-
quest being granted. he went into the
room and then beat a hasty retreat from
the place Without Offering an explanation
The police together with attaches of the
telephone company made a rigid search
for the man without locating him. En-
pIoyes of the telephone company believe
the man has recently been operating in
Washington and vicinity.
Child Taken From Mother.
A warrant for the arrest of Daisy Has
kim colored, was issued by the police to-
day at the instance Of the womans sis
ter Artie Lee. who claims that the Has
kin woman took her child. Harold Nc
-Anderton. to Washington without her
permission. Policeman Ferguson went to
Washington today for the purpose of ar
resting the woman and getting the child.
The Alexandria German Club last night
held its Thanksgiving dance in the audi
torium Of the Elks' Home. The grand
march was led by Walter c. Foster and
Miss Hattie Douglas. Among those at
tending were a number of the season s
debutantes. including Misses Julia Bos-
well, Roxie Doniphan. Della Phillips.
Emily Johnson and Harriet c. Spofford.
There were several out-of-town guests
in attendance.
Mrs. Mary F. Hall. who lives at Prin-
cess and Columbus streets. was badly in
jured yesterday as the result of fall
from ladder at her home. She fell down
q flight of stairs after her tumble from
the ladder. She was badly bruised
Teachers Return Home.
A number of teachers OF the public
schools of this city who have been at
tending the meeting Of the Teachers In
stitute in Richmond returned home last
night. Among them were Capt. W. II.
Sweeney. superintendent of SCHOOLS; Stan
ley G. Blanton. Miss Pearl Hoffman, Miss
Janet Carter, Miss Mary Bontz
The evangelistic services being conduct
ed at the First Baptist Church by Rev
E. Hez Sven of Washington will be con-
tinued during the coming week. The or
der of services as announced for tomor-
row are as follows: Address by Rev. Mr.:
Sven at $50 O'Clock to the members OF
the Sunday school: preaching. IL am.
$50 pm. and 7:45 pm
Shanks' Case Postponed.
postponement has been granted in the
case of Arthur Shanks, arrested by the
government authorities on complaint of
number of young girls. until some fu-
ture date. The preliminary hearing was
slated for 3 o'clock this afternoon before
United States Commissioner r. P. w.
Garrett
Practically all arrangements have been
completed by Alexandra Lodge of Elks
for its annual memorial services, which
will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow night
at the opera house. Addresses will be
made by Kyle B. Price of Alabama and
City Councilman J. Fred Birrell. the lat
ter a member of the local lodge.
City Treasurer Thomas w. Robinson
was kept busy today receiving state
taxes This is the last day for payment,
as after today penalty of per cent will
be added. For the accommodation of
those unable to get to the Office during
the day Mr.. Robinson has arranged to
keep his office open until o'clock tonight.
Howard \. Barrett has purchased from
Jonathan Matthews the two-story frame
dwelling house. JJ7 South Columbus street
The funeral of Mrs. William Hamilton.
who died in Nicholson. Pa. took place at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Rev. G..
A. Luttrell. pastor Of Trinity NJ T..
Church, officiating.
The initiatory degree of the order was
conferred on a class OF candidates last
night by Potomac Lodge Of Odd Fellows.
Miss Annie HARTLEY and her neice. Miss
VIRGINIA DOWnev. are visiting relatives