The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-07
CLEANING CAMPAIGN
In ALEXANDRIA
Virsinia Town to Start Work hat VIII
Last = Week 10 Purge
LTD Streets.
FLY sWATrING SOON TO BEGIN

FLY swATTING SOON TO BEGIN
Alexandra, Va, April e.-Clean-up
week viii be started In the city tomorrow
morning under the direction OF the city
health department. and be continued
throughout the remainder Of the week.
II the plans OF the health department
are carried out. Alexandra will be made
spotless town, and all refuse in back
yards. alleys, and cellars will, during the
course OF the week, be carted OF to the
city dump pile which will have. tend
ency to keep down disease.
It ID the purpose of the health depart
ment to make the city q clean one and
to designate a certain number of days
this week for the work Of carting away
the rubbish.
Assisting In the work will be the men,
bers Of the Civic Improvement League,
members OF the police department. to-
gether with the members of the Boy
Scouts.
Already the police Of the city have be-
gun the work Of, the annual inspection
of the city. and their recommendations
will be carried out In the matter, other
wise the delinquents will be cited into
Police Court.
Following the cleanup week a n.y.
swatting crusade will be inaugurated by
the health department. This crusade will
be continued all summer. Prizes will be
offered each month for the children
swatting the largest number of the pests
A two weeks mission was opened to-
day at st. Marys Catholic Church BY
the Redemptionist Fatherk This week
Will be for the women and next week
for the men.
The order of services as announced
follows: Masses each morning at $50
and o'clock followed by short instruc-
lions. and services at 7:30 o'clock each
night, including recitations Of the rosary
and sermon. followed by benediction Of
the blessed sacrament.
!, There will also be a mission for the
children at 4 o'clock Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday afternoons. the chiIdren's
services having opened this afternoon
1t is expected that the mission services
Will attract large audiences at ali
of the services, both services today being
attended by large congregations
The recently elected officers of Alex
andria Lodge. No. 75s. Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, will be installed
at its home tomorrow night. The officers
are as follows: James w. Bales. exalted
ruler: George T. Cation, esteemed lead
ing knight: James b. Martin. esteemed
loyal knight: Jerome kaufman. esteemed
lecturing knight; Walter NJ. Dopnelly,
secretary; Herman Friedlander. treas
urer; Thomas D. Downey. tiler: Joseph
c. Gates, trustee for three years; Robert
Lodge which meets at Rochester, N. Y.
next August, with Harry B. Quinn as
alternate.
Death awaits all unmuzzled dogs found
roaming the streets of the city, for. be-
ginning tomorrow morning, bright and
early, the dog wagon will start out on its
crusade. The dogs will be captured in
big net IL hoop-shape arrangement,
placed in the wagon. and taken to the
pound, at the city gas works, where they
will be subsequently put to death by the
gas route.
At the annual meeting of R. z. Lee
Camp. Confederate Veterans. which will
be held tomorrow night at Lee Camp
Hall, officers will be elected to serve for
the ensuing year.
Arrangements will also be made at this
meeting for the observance Of Confeder-
ate Memorial Day, May "a next. Com
mittees will be appointed to decorate
graves. procure speakers, and make ar
rangements for the usual celebration.
Wayne F. Byers' funeral took place this
Chauncey, Gil South Fairfax Street. The
services were conducted by Rev. G. A.
Luttrell, pastor of Trinity NJ. E. Church.
and the funeral was largely attended
Burial was made in Bethel Cemetery
Those serving as pallbearers were: c. B.
Marshall, John H. Fisher, Frank Hamil-
ton. August Oehlert. Joseph c. Gates and
Ferdinand Bendheim. the latter of Wash
ington.
Amelia T. Wibert. wife of Clarence
wibert. died yesterday afternoon shortly
after 2 o'clock at her home at Clarendon,
Alexandria County. She was forty-nine
years old and a daughter OF Henry
Howard Young. Her funeral will take
place at . O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
from her home, and burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington.
The annual convention of the Whole
sale Druggists Association win be held
Tuesday morning at the Hotel Rammel
and will be followed by a banquet.
Members of Alva Aerie. No. ST, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, tonight attended
memorial services at Trinity NJ. E.
Church. A sermon was preached by
Rev. G. A. Lutmell. pastor.
Del Ray Council. Daughters of Ameri-
ca, will be instituted at 7:30 o'clock to-
morrow night in the Junior Order Of
United American Mechanics Hall. at St.
Elmo, Alexandria County.
Robert S. Barrett has returned from a.
hu trim IN New York