Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Virginia Press Association to
Open Session Tomorrow.
FIRE OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN
Hospital Building Plans and Loca-
ton to Be Announced by Com
mittee This Week.
Special Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence of The star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, June 22-One hun
dred delegates, representing newspapers
published in every section of the state,
will attend the twenty-sixth annual SEES
sion of the Virginia Press Association,
to convene at 1920 O'Clock tomorrow
morning in the auditorium of the Elks
Home. Addresses of welcome will be
made by Mayor T. A. Fisher and Repre-
sentative c. c. Carlin.
In the afternoon the delegates will be
entertained at luncheon at the plant of
the Robert Portner Brewing Company.
and afterward will go to Great Falls in
automobiles At night they Will go
on a complimentary excursion of the 20
tomac and Chesapeake Steamboat Com
pany to Indian Head. The session will
end Wednesday night with banquet.
Those who have written j. 7. Preston,
chairman of the hotel committee. that
they will attend are: R. A. Anderson and
wife. News, Marion: H. F. Bausell and
wife. News. Lebanon; Mrs. E. w. Bissell,
News, Staunton; r. F. Byrd. Star. Win
chester; Clarence j. Campbell, two daugh-
tiers and son and Mr.. and Mrs. H. r..
Miller, Amherst. ". E. Carson Riverton;
A H. Clements son and daughter. Times
virginian. Appomattox: Charles B. Cooke.
Evening Journal. Richmond. w. S. Cope
land Newport News: W. S. Davis and
wife, Pittsylvania Tribune. Chatham; l..
R. Driver, Hanover Progress. Ashland:
J. w Everette. Richmond; E. S. Flynn,
wife and sister. Victoria George o.
Greene. wife and four children. Review,
Clifton Forge; Joel C. Harris. Leesburg;
NJ. T. Harrison. wife and daughter and
niece Bedford City: ]. L. Hart. Herald.
Farmville: Col. E. C. Hasbrook and son.
Times-Dispatch. Richmond: y. R. Hea-
ton. Blue Ridge News, Purcellville; Edgar
Hedderly, Houston; A. 7. Hull and son,
Glade Springs. w. NJ. Hundley and wife,
Journal. Alta Vista; Miss Dorothy
Jenkins, Roanoke; j. S. johnson and
wife, Gainesville; Mrs. Ellen c. Joaes,
Lexington; W. A. Land, Blackstone
James c. Latimer and wife, TImes-Dis-
patch Richmond: w. C. Lauck, wife
and sister. Page Courier. Luray: Mrs. NJ
NJ. Layne. Farmville: NJ Bolts Lewis,
wife. mother and son, Review, Clifton
Forge. John K. Locke, Newport News
L. E. Lookabille, Roanoke; L. II. Machen
and wife. Alexandria: Jeffry G. A. Mon
tague News-Leader. Richmond; E. g.
Moseley and wife. Danville: ]. l.. Oak
ley and friend, Southern Churchman,
Richmond; W. G. OBrien and w. 3.
Leslie. Republican. Tazewell; John X.
Ord and wife, Record, Crewe; W. L.
Ownby and daughter, Grundy; a. W.
Robbins Rocky Mount, Miss Bertha
Gray Robinson and brother, Observer,
Fredericksburg; r. B. Smythe and wife,
News-Record. Harrisonburg: l. E. Spatis,
Times Lawrenceville; Crosby Thompson
and wife. West Point; Times Publishing
Company. secretary. Northampton; Times.
Cape Charles: w. \. birmingham, Meek
lenburg Publishing Company. South
Hill. Mrs D. \. Walker and daughter.
Louisa: ]. A Whitman, Southwest Vir-
ginia Enterprise, Wytheville; B. F. VIII
son. Lebanon, and J. E. Wood and wife.
Halifax Gazette, South Boston.
Poker Raids Enrich City.
AS a result of two poker raids made
by the police early Sunday morning
the Golfers of the city treasury were
today enriched to the extent Of Sis.
Two of the alleged proprietors for
feited S25 collateral each when the
cases we're called in the police court
today while thirteen others caught
in the net forfeited collateral in the
sum of IS each. Those in the raidinS
party were Chief Goods. Sergts. Will
kinson and Scott and Patrolmen Ro-
land, Reid, Nicholson and Campbell.
Emmett Bullock. charged with as
saulting his wife, was fined SIS.
In the case of James Ramsaw. col
ored charged with assaulting Charles
Williams colored. the court imposed
fines of IS each on the prisoner and
Fire of an incendiary origin late Sat-
urday night destroyed a two-story frame
Au-a ncrunied 1o CyihhoD
street The loss will be 500, with no
insurance The house was owned by NJ
T Dwyer.
the police have not yet captured
Charles Loudoun. colored, who fractured
the skull of Joseph Renner, colored. Sat
urday night by knocking him in the
head with lathing Ratchet at Renner's
home. AZ; South Columbus street. Rem
ner is being treated at the Alexandria
Hospital by Dr. S. B. Moore.
The body of Mrs. James NJ Nourse,
who died Friday. was shipped today to
Absecon. Va. for burial. Funeral serv-
ices were held at 4 o'clock yesterday
Mrs. A. D. Brockett, 31s North Wash
ington street.
Election Petition Circulated.
Petitions calling upon the governor
to call a statewide election September
% were put in circulat ton here as we'll
as other parts of the state today.
Alexandria Division. No. 1, Ancient
Order of Hibernians. and Grace p. E.
Sunday school will give excursions
Thursday to Marshall Hall.
E. NJ. Bigelow and wife and daughter.
Miss Julia Bigelow, left today for
Massachusetts and Maine, where they
will spend their vacations. Mr.. Bige-
low will be gone a week. while his
wife and daugher will spend six weeks.
During the present week Worth HUI
fsh, chairman of the board of trustees
of the Alexandria Hospital building
fund. will announce the committee on
building plans and location for the
new hospital.