Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-26
Celebration Plans Completed.

Alexandria Lodge Of E,lks has complet-
ed arrangements for a big Christmas tree
celebration at its home from $3.50 o'clock
until $50 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for
the children of members together with the
poor children of the city. Gifts in the
shape of candy. nuts and toys will be
given the children. Cards of admission
have been distributed among the children
for this celebration
At night from s until o o'clock there
will be reception to the members Of the
order and their woman friends.
From until 10 o'clock there will be
musical program One of the best quar-
tets in Washington has been engaged to
sing on this occasion. and other well
known singers also will participate.
From 10 o'clock until midnight there
will be dancing. and during the evening
refreshments will be served. The hall has
been beautifully decorated.
Church Fete This Evening.
The Sunday school of the Second Pres
byterian Church will hold it's Christmas
celebration at 7:3O o'clock this evening.
Christmas carols will be sung by the Sun
day school, and the Birth and Child
hood of Jesus will be illustrated in pic
lures. The pastor, Rev. DR.. John Lee
Allison, will open the exercises with
prayer, and w. III. Melchior will preside.
The Payne Street Sunday SchooI
Chapel. which is under the auspices OF
this church, will hold it's Christmas cele-
bration at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow even
ing, while the old First Church Chapel,
also under the auspices of the Second
Presbyterian Church, will hold its cele-
bration at 7:3O o'clock Monday evening.
There Will be Christmas celebration
this evening in the parish hall of Christ
Episcopal Church. at musical and lit
erary entertainment. when Henry Van
Dykes lecture. Illustrated, will be given.
This lecture is entitled The Otherwise
Man." The celebration will be held at
Is o'clock.
The police report the city as being
unusually quiet yesterday, only two ar
rests being made, both by Special Officer
Robey, for disorderly conduct
A coroner's jury, summoned by DIR. S.
Is. Moore to investigate the circum-
stances attending the death of SUDDEN
Ennis, the farmer from Stafford county.
Va, who was killed at the Union pas
senser railway station Monday last by
being struck by IL train, will assemble
at o'clock tonight at Wheatley's un-
dertaking establishment for the purpose
of hearing testimony in the case.
Funeral services for B. T. Greenwalt,
who died Monday last in Clarksburs,
w Va, were held at l o'clock this
afternoon at Wheatley's undertaking
chapel They were conducted by Rev.
u. 3.
dist Protestant Church. Mr.. Greenwalt
married Miss Ella Pitts of this city.
John w. Smith. better known as
Daisy" Smith. forty-three years old.
employed in the bOttling department of
the plant of the Robert POrtner Brew
ing Company. died last night at the
Alexandria Hospital of typhoid-pneu-
monia Smith was better known as a
newsboy, being for more than a quar-
ter of a century engaged in the sale
of Sunday newspapers on the streets.
He was unmarried
The funeral Of Betty Naylor, three
H. Naylor. who died at the Children S
Hospital. Washington, Saturday, as the
result of burns received in this city, took
place at :; o'clock this afternoon from
Wheatley's undertaking chapel. Rev. G.
r. Strausburg. pastor of the NJ. T.
Church, officiating.
Funeral services for Charles w. Fad
ley, who died in Washington yesterday,
will be held at 80 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon at Wheatleys undertaking
chapel Burial will be in the Methodist
Protestant cemetery.
The cases of three saloonkeepers.
charged with violating the provisions o:
the Byrd liquor law by selling to minors
will be heard in the corporation court
tomorrow morning, Judge l.. c. Barley
presiding.
The annual meeting of Alexandria
Washington Lodge of Masons will be
held at the Masonic Temple tomorrow
night. when officers will be elected to
serve for the ensuing year.
Miss Alice Con Colquhoun was stricken
patient at the Alexandria Hospital.