The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
ALEXANDRIA IN need
OF School QUARTERS
Board Will Rent Rooms to House
Children Until New High School
Is Occupied.

Alexandria. Va, Sept. H.-A special
| meeting of the city school board will be
held Tuesday night at o'clock to secl'e
additional temporary quarters for scnonl
purposes
The public schools. which opened last
Monday. are now overcrowded. and 1t is
stated that in some rooms two pupils
use one desk, and the floor space Is
badly congested in some of the build
ings.
a total Of about ZOO pupils are attend
ing the schools. the largest number IN
the history of this city.
About 200 pupils are now being taught
In the primary departments in the hall
Of the Richmond Theater
The congested condition of the schools
will be overcome on the completion of
the new high school building. although
this will hardly be ready before Decem-
Der /. it is thought.
These officers have been elected by
Old Dominion Commandery, No. IL.
knights Templar 10 serve for the year:
Claude W. Fletcher, eminent commander;
William II. CHARLES. goneralissimo: C..
f. Outcalt, captain general; c. Page
Waller, senior warden: Preston o..
Cockey. Junior warden: Edgar Warfieid
ST., treasurer: A. G. Uhler. recorder;
Henry X. Field. prelate; J. Johnston
Green, assistant prelate: Robert A. Zach
airy. standard bearer: +. f. Cliff, sword
bearer: 3. J. Richards. warder: A. Nc
Faydon Sherwood. third guard: H.
Brooke Arnold, second guard; r. B
Richards. first guard: George w. Zach
ary. sentinel: w. Lewis Allen. adjutant
and auartermaster; Frank w. Latham
instructor: J. William May. commissary.
The foregoing officers We're installed
by ]. Johnston Green, grand captain gen.
eral of the State. Dr.. Charles 7 Lind
say, past grand commander of the Dis
trict of Columbia, acted as grand mar
shall.
Robinson Moncure, chairman of the
local board of tax review for the State.
today wrote A letter to w a. Lipscomb
examiner of records Of the Sixteenth
judicial circuit in reply to a letter writ
ten him by Mr.. Lipscomb. in which Mr.
Moncure reiterates the determination of
the local board to take up matters of
taxation for the year 1918 only and to pass
up omitted taxes.
The action Of the board. Mr. Moncure
sets forth. is taken on the advice of the
State advisory board Of taxation.
Mr.. Lipscomb expressed hope that the
local board will recede from its deter
mination not to take up matters OF
omitted taxation.
The ninety-second annual session of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary, of Vir-
Ginia. located in Fairfax County. several
miles west Of Alexandria. opened Wednes-
day. Twelve new students have enrolled
and three others are expected. which will
bring the total up to forty-hve.
Arrangements have been made for the
N c n 1latioD Of ,lo in
the Alexandria County courthouse and
Jail at a cost of about 5000. The work.
according to the terms of the contract,
is to be completed within thirty days.
The Enterprise Land and Improvement
Company has purchased from John n.
Lawler seven building lots in the square
bounded by Gibbon. Franklin. Royal and
Pitt streets.
w. Wallace Nicholson has purchased
from Stephen Davis house and lot Cos
South Alfred street. located between Glib
bon and Franklin streets.
Mrs. Sarah Webster has purchased
from James NJ. Treakle and Norman H.
Treakle house and lot on the south
side of Lee street between Wilkes and
Gibbon streets.
Funeral services for Miss Mamie Nor
ton, who died yesterday afternoon at
Catonsville. Md. will be held at 4 o'clock
on Sunday afternoon at her late home.
sic Prince street, and will be conducted
by Rev. DR.. p. p. Phillips. rector of st.
Paul's P E. Church. Burial will be made
in st. Paurs Cemetery.
The following Alexandria students have
enrolled at the Episcopal High School.
which opened its session last Wednesday:
Ashby Warfield Louis Barley. jr.. John
son Mcclure. Gardner l.. Boothe. jr..
Charles Carln, jr.. and Bruce Morton.
George F.. Harrison and A. G.
of Fairfax County, have
been named as delegates to the Farm |
ers' National Congress which will be
held in Omaha, Nebr., September IS.
All practicing physicians desiring to
be designated as local medical exam |
iners for the United States Civil Serv- |
ice Commission. and who are willing !
to execute medical certificates in con-
nection with examinations for 81. |
should advise n. L. Williamson. secre- |
tary of the local board Of examiners. /
George Burroughs. DR.. Walter A. |
warfield. George n. Hopkins. and |
Frank Hamilton will leave tomorrow !
for q motor trip to the Eastern Shore !
of Maryland. where they will go