Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-03
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.
More Room Needed to House
PUPILS of Public Schools.
GUARD PLANNING FOR CAMP
Light Infantry Company Ordered to
Start for Gordonsville
July 81.
sp.cia1 Correspondence Of The Star.

spectal Correspondence OF The Star
ALEXANDRIA, Va, July S.-More
Room will be needed for the accommoda-
Hon of pupils in the public schools Of
the city during the coming scholastic
wear, in the opinion of the city school
board. This matter was discussed at
fensth by that body at its meeting last
night.
The committee on schoolhouses and
furniture was requested TO inquire into
the feasibility of obtaining certain rooms
In the rear of the Cameron apartment
house to be used temporarily until the
erection of a new high school building.
There was a discussion relative to
evacuating the old Howell building ad-
ao,ning Washington School for Boys.
Washington and Wolfe streets. which
building has been condemned by three
grand turies. Some of the members OF
the board favored closing it at once This
matter was finally referred to the joint
committee on school houses and furni-
ture and will be acted on at the august
meeting of the board
According to the report of Supt- VIII
liam H. Sweeney total of zoo more
pupils attended school at the session
Just closed than attended last year.
while there was a decrease of four in
the colored schools over that of the
last scholastic year.
Teachers were elected for the year,
and the salaries of three teachers in
creased. one receiving an increase of
1850 a year and the two others 500
each a year. Those increased follow:
Stanley G. Blanton, $1,000 to s1,1O0. E.
B. Prettyman. $3.50 to $1,000; both
teachers in the high school; w. n.
Fisher. principal of Washington. School,
tor boys, $1,000 to s1,100.
r~,.L~,1 A. D. El.o&aa
Teachers reelected follow: High
school-Conrad Johnson. principal;
Stanley c. Blanton. Miss Kroes Ficklin.
Miss L. P. Hoffman. Theodore H Flick
lin, e. B. Prettyman; grammar school.
Miss Mary Payne, seventh grade; Miss
Rubie Broadus, sixth; Miss Fannie
Smith. fifth; Miss Bessie King, fifth:
Miss s, Elizabeth Grehan fourth SI; Miss Miss
Bruce. third: Miss Nellie A. Payne,
third: Miss Catherine johnson. second:
Miss Julia Domaine. second: Miss Nam
ME Davis. first; Miss Susan Fawcett,
substitutes-Mfss Eddie Dickert. Miss
Coralie Greenaway, Miss Flora E. Glas-
gov and Miss Helen Blake.
Grammar grades: Washington School
NJ. n. Fisher (principaD. seventh: Miss M.
Angela hewitt. sixth: Miss Anna Sum-
mers. sixth: Mrs. Cora L. Kelly. fifth:
Miss Mary E. Bontz, fifth; Miss Mary
F. Grigg, fifth: Miss Leila Beattie. third:
Miss Virginia Roxbury. third: Miss Mar
garet Bashford, second: Miss Bessie A.
Marks. second; Miss Stella Waters, first.
Snowden SchooHJohn F. Parker, prin-
cipal: r. D. Lyles. P. H Lumpkins, and
r. A. Diggs.
Howell School-H T. White. principal;
Bessie X. Spriggs. Harriet E. Thornton.
Sarah D. Gray. Susie B. Pinn and Laura
Dorsey.
To Camp at Gordonsville.
Capt. F. L. Slaymaker of the Alex
andria Light Infantry today received de-
tailed orders for the annual encampment
Of the state militia at Gordonsville, Va,
July 21-30.
Fifty members Of the local command
will 90 into camp and will leave here
Tuesday morning. July 81.
New equipment will be furnished the
men Monday night This will consist Of
campaign hats. shirts, etc.
Detailed instructions will be given the
men at Monday nights drill at the
armory for the encampment.
Independence day will be quietly OBJ
served here All fireworks have been
tabooed by orders of Mayor Fisher and
the police will carry out these orders.
Practically all business will be Sus-
pended by the noon hour. Banks, city
and government offices will be closed all
day. Hundreds of people left the city
today for the various resorts. and will