Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-02
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Work on the Public Roads Pen
atty for Migrants.
SENTENCE is NINETY DAYS
Pastors Fifth Anniversary of Serv-
ice to Be Celebrated-Reynolds-
Abbott Wedding.


Abbott Wedding.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
/ ALEXANDRIA, Va. October :, 1918
/ The determination on the part of Act
/ ing Police Justice l.. Fl. Thompson to rid
| the city of men who loiter on the streets,
| who will not work and who hang around
! saloons without any visible means of
! support, is having telling effect just
now, with the result that state con
/ Wet road force is being rapidly recruited
! During the past few weeks more men
| have been sent away to the road force
/ than ever before in the history OF the
/ city, and judging from the work they
/ are compelled to do there they VIII not be
anxious to return to it after completing
a ninety day sentence.
| The first victim for the roads this
morning was Carmete Nails. one Of the
| trio who escaped from the station house
yesterday. and who was rounded up at
s o'clock last evening by Policeman RO-
land.
| In addition to being charged with
| drunken and disorderly conduct several
/ members of the police force preferred
| cused.
/ Malvin Page. charged with being drunk
| on the street and also with being a va
grant, was also given a ninety-day sem
tence
Accused Man Falls in Faint.
James Reeves was charged with drunk
en- and disorderly conduct. The police
claimed he was chronic drunk, and he
will spend ninety days on the road force.
Reeves fell in faint just as sentence
was about to be pronounced. but he soon
revived.
Jack Ryan was also charged with being
drunk on the streets. Justice Thompson
was about to give him ninety-day SEN
tence on the road force, but Ryan plead
ed that if given chance he would shake
the dust of the city from his feet, and the
court promised to release him, providing
he would get some responsible person to
guarantee that he would remain away.
Ryan lost no time in doing SO and left
the city shortly afterward
Pastors Fifth Anniversary.
There will .5e a celebration at ,7:S0
O clock tomorrow night at the First Bap-
fist Church in observance of the fifth
anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev.
w. F. Watson, who took charge of the
local church in 1908. '"The Story Of Five
years" is the caption of the program
prepared and it will be as follows:
Hymn No. 517. THE Churchs One
Foundation; greetings from the Potomac
Association Rev. W. 5. o. ADAMS, mod
orator of the Potomac Baptist Associa-
ton. Falls Church: anthem, Zion,
Awake: Five Years of Material
Progress" William Jorg: Five Years
With Our Choir j. 7. Preston; anthem,
.Oh. Lord, How Manifold Are Thy
Works; 1.-The Women of Our Church
Miss Rosalie Broadus; Five Years With
the Teaching Department and the
Treasury of Our Church, Samuel W.
Pitts: quartet, Il Will Feed Thy
Flock: Our Young People 6. +.
Yeager; Five Years With Our Prayer
Meeting" j. NJ. Saunders; our Spirit
ual Side c. Z. Nicol: A Dream of the
Future" Rev. Dr. ,r,, W. M F; watson as pas
a reception will be held in the lecture
room.
Mrs. M. J. Studs Dead.
Mrs. Mary Jane Studs. eighty years
old, died yesterday at her home in
West End, or Duke street extended.
Her funeral will take place from the
family home at 8 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon, and the services will be
conducted by Rev. DIR. s. A. Wallis of
the Episcopal Theological Seminary.
Burial will be made in Union ceme-
terry. III
been appointed superintendent Of the
national cemetery of this city. He
takes the place Of the late Col. William
f. Reppert, who died last August. Capt.
Reeves has been IN charge or cene-
terry at Newbern for the past five
years.
largely attended meeting Of Alva
Aerie No 81. Fraternal Order of
Eagles. was held last night, at which
time five candidates were initiated.
James Il. Waddy was chosen treasurer
of the organization to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of b. b.
Cline.
Brief Mention.
The banquet hall of the Young Mems
Sodality Lyceum has been prattiy dec
GRATED for the banquet whichsfill be held
at $50 o'clock tonight in observance of
the twenty fifth anniversary Of the found
ing of that institution. A list Of the
speakers was published yesterday.
Services appropriate to the celebration
Of Rosh Hashanah or the Jewish New
Year were held today IN the synagogue
in North Washington street They were
conducted by Rev. Mr.. Cohn of the He
brew College, Cincinnati.
| Mary Custis Lee Chapter, United Daugh-
| tiers of the Confederacy, has elected dele.
! gates to the eighteenth annual conven-
| ton. which will be held in New Orleans
November 10. as follows: Mrs William
| J. Morton, Mrs. David j. Howell, Mrs.
| Edward ii. Kemper, Mrs. George Ander-
i ton, with Mrs. James +. Alexander, Mrs.
Edgar Carpenter, Miss Mary Snowden and
Miss Ada III. Garrett as alternates
The Junior Bachelors Dancing Club
will hold a meeting at the Elks' Home at
| s o'clock tonight for the purpose Of ar
MI, f<,,~ nf RI $ha
fall and winter months.
r. NJ. Petit has purchased from F. L.
Slaymaker a building lot in Rosemont on
which he will erect a dwelling house early
next spring.
The Alexandria Free kindergarten Will
open Monday at the northeast corner of
King and Washington streets with Miss
Louise d. Crittendon of Washington as