The Washington herald., 1916-09-30
anne lee MEMORIAL
Home FOR AGED READY
Alexandra Institution to Be Opened
for Inmates Monday.
THE HERALD BUREAU,
r. q. knight q Son,
6l -ez3 King Street.

R. d knight Son,
s2l-s3 King Street.
Alexandria. Va, Sept. 2s-Despite the
rain today, a number of persons visited
the Anne Lee Memorial Home for the
Aged. this being donation day at the
Institution.
The home will be opened on Monday
for the admission OF aged persons and
will be formally dedicated October n
On the first floor is a reception room,
furnished by the women of the Seven
teenth Virginia Chapter, United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy. which also sub
scr1bed for the building of the colonial
portico and entrance.
There are six rooms on the second
floor. one of which was furnished by
Mrs. Lycurgus E Uhler as a memorial
to her parents. Leopold Ruben furnished
another room in memory of his par
ents. There are two other rooms on
the same floor, furnished by Mrs Harry
Peyton Wilson, Of Holm Hall. Fair
fax County. and the Willard w. C. T. U.
William Desmond. plumber. fitted out
two bath rooms on this floor in memory
of his parents.
Necessary furnishings for the rooms
were given by Mrs. Bendict wheatIey and
Frank Michelbach. Members OF the board
of governors OF the hofne fitted up the
sixth room on this Moor
The Boy Scouts have fitted up one room
which they desire to be occupied by
some aged man. Judge L. c. Barley
and Rev. Edward T. Kirkley are fitting
up a room. and handsome rug for the
dIning-room was given by Mrs. Thomas
A. Fisher.
William F. carne, of this city. has pur-
chased from S. r. Donohoe the Fairfax
Herald, published at Fairfax. Va, and will
assume control Of that paper on Monday.
Mr.. Carne has been identified with news
paper work in Alexandria and Washing
ton all Of his life. For several years
past he has been connected with a Wash
Iington paper. Mr.. Donohoe, editor of the
Fairfax Herald, has been in charge of
that paper for the last thirty-four years
In connection with the movement %
have the government establish its pro-
POSED armor plant here, the following to-
day were named members of the finance
committee by Chairman H K Field: c.
S. Taylor Burke, R. L. Payne, Leopold
Ruben, Gardner L Boothe, William A.
Smoot jr.
The committee named to secure the CO.
operation of residents of Alexandria
County in the movement include James
NJ. Duncan. Joseph f. Schwarzmann, J.
Fred Blrrell, Wallace Lindsey, and J. T
Preston.
In the Police Court today a fine OF t.5
was imposed in the case of Charles E.
ouayie charged with assaulting Capt.
Frank Dixon with his walking cane. Capt
Dixon told the court the assault was un-
warranted. Quayle said that in passing
the home of Capt. Dixon some one arose
as If in an attitude to strike him and that
he acted, although he did not know the
man he struck was Capt Dixon
The football team of the Alexandria
High School tomorrow morning will 90 to
Front Royal. Va. to play Randolph Ma
con Academy. Accompanying the team
will be number of students from the
high school.
Stuart King, son OF Mr.. and Mrs Frank
T. King. through Senator Swanson, has
been appointed to the United States Naval
Academy. He passed both the mental and
physical examinations, and has entered
the academy.
At a meeting Of Potomac Lodge. Odd
Fellows, tonight. the first degree of the
order was conferred on a class Of can
didates.
Nearly 500 conversions are reported thus
ial dS result ol lne eNanBeNsuc serV-
ices being conducted here by Gypsy
Smith. jr, which will end Monday night
with a lecture.
Although many out-of-town persone
during the week called at the undertak-
ing establishment OF B. Wheatley and
viewed the body of the woman found
floating in the river near Mount Vernon
last Sunday, no one has yet been able to
identify it. It Is expected the body will
be buried Monday.