The Washington herald., 1916-06-26
CITY TO BUY
OLD ARMORY
Council to Com
plete Arrangements at the
Meeting Tuesday Night.
THE HERALD BUREAU,
R. r. knisAt & Son.
a -sE King Street

GkD King Street
Alexandra, Va. June 3-Armory Hall,
since its erection years ago. the property
Of Company @, First Regiment Virginia
Volunteers, better gnown as the Alex
andria Light Infantry. Is to be taken
over at last by the city Of Alexandra.
1t is expected that It will be formally
taken over by the city At a meeting of
the city council Tuesday night The
city is to secure title to the property on
the payment OF about $500, to pay OF a
pany.
1t is provided that the city will give
the military company the use of the ar
mory at all times. and may use 1t for
whatever purposes 1t desires
The delay in taking over the property
was due to the fact that heretofore there
were not suficient members of the COM
mand to sign the necessary papers. Since
this company has been recruited, more
than enough signatures were obtained to
the deed. which has been prepared by
Attorney Raymond Moncure. who was
employed by the city to arrange for the
transfer OF the property.
1t Is said that the city will at once put
new roof on the armory and make
other improvements. The question Of
having the city take over this property
has been pending before the city council
since last January.
With four recruits added to its roster
today. the membership OF the Alexandra
Light Infantry has reached seventy-one
Additional recruits are expected tomor-
row, now that orders have been receiveS
by this company to leave Tuesday morn
ing for Richmond. II is expected that
about eighty will be on its roster by that
time.
The following is q complete roster Of its
membership up to the present time: Con-
rad johnson, captain; J. Douglas Mclean,
hrst lieutenant; F. Clinton knight. second
lieutenant? Charles \. Deahl. jr.. first
sergeant; A G. UhIer. jr.. second SER
geant; H. P. Brawner. third sergeant; B.
S. Steiner. fourth sergeant: J. B. Arnold.
NTH sergeant: John Penn. quartermas
sergeant; George z. Butler. mess ser
geant; W. P Gardner. first cook: Will
lam Shock. second cook; John T. Creegan.
first corporal; Lee MAsner second cor
poral: r. N. Hancock. third corporal; w.
T. Bitter. fourth corporal; Bernard H.
Cook, musician; Jesse J. Mitchell, arti-
fcer; Raphael Birrel. company clerk.
Privates are Robert Aylmer, Silver
Churchman, Edgar Clark, George ".
Dawson. Charlie. r. beavers. William R
Elgin. Harry Fischer. William y. Garrett.
Harry J. Hall. Edwin L. Hume. Robert
l.. Hutchison. Jackson Gorham. James A.
Ludlow, Charles o. MidkiT, Orlando
Nightingale. Floyd S. Shinn. Grover Will
Jams. William F. Boswell. all members OF
the old company; and Clarence Thorpe.
Harry l. Smith. Harry l.. Wise. Ben
jamin F. Swan. J. Russell Mitchell.
Ernest McClary. Joseph Boland. Leonard
Bettis. James E. Nagcl. Morice Newton.
J. Longstreet Carlton, Robert H. Bitter,
Lawrence Petty. George II. Jones, James
W. Self, John McCuen, Walter Heislup.
Edgar WolTord. Bill Hnlmsn Pickrel
William A Bradley Oscar Barker Carl
ton. William c. Meeks. Lewis H. Holler.
Blake Carpenter. William r. Birrell. Shir-
ley P. Pullin. Herman Leafsreen. William
B. Nolan. King W. Dudley, " Winship
Moncure, James w. Brown. Claude z,
Haney. William s. Petty and Francis NJ.
Smith
Owing TO the leaks in the roof Of Ar
mory Hall, the soldier boys were aroused
from their slumbers at o'clock this
morning thoroughly drenched by the
heavy rain. The armory looked more At
for small boats than for soldiers.
Alexandra experienced its second
Sunday under the enforcement Of the
old blue laws. At the police station
known. none had been arrested for
violating the Sunday laws.
On last Monday acting Police JUS
tice Luther H. Thompson disposed of
eighty cases OF alleged violations and
there were but two convictions. Those
who had heretofore been cited were
not molested by the police today. the
court having held that their business
was a necessity"
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has already passed on the question of
what are and what are not necessities
no trouble, 1t is thought. will be e1-
perienced in the future.
Final action on the report OF the
building committee Of the Alexandria
Hospital will b. taken by the trus-
tees of that institution, at a meeting
which will be held Monday night at
s o'clock, in the rooms of the chamber
OF commerce.
Practically everything is in readi-
ness for awarding the contract for the
hospital. The lowest bid recently re-
ceived by the committee was 36s,ses.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Florence
Partlow will take place Tuesday morn
ing from st. Mary's Catholic Church and
burial will be made in ST. Mary's Gene
terry.
Elizabeth R. Nheatley. year old,
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Charles r.
Wheatley. died in Richmond yesterday
and the body was brought here today and
taken to Wheatley's Undertaking Chapel
from whence the funeral will take place
tomorrow.
Alderman and Mrs. Jacob Brill enter
tanned last night in the auditorium of
the Elks' Home in honor Of the twenty
fifth anniversary of their marriage.
Rev. Michael Daily, recently in charge
of the chapel on the estate Of Thomas
F. Ryan. Oak Ridge Nelson County. Va,
who has been made an assistant pastor
of st. Marys Catholic Church celebrated
the II o'clock mass at that church to-
day.