Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-02

| The Woman's Auxiliary to r. E
Lee Camp, U. c. ", will meet to-
morrow evening at 1880 o'clock, ir
Confederate Veterans Building.
Mr.. George Bryan Pitts, OF Wash
| ington, who has spent the past few
months in New York and Philadel-
phia, was the guest of friends ir
this city yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Fairfax Robertson has
announced the engagement of hel
daughter, Miss Nellie Reynolds Rob-
ertson, to Mr.. Samuel Alexander
Moore, of Greenville, S. c., the we'd
ding to take place in June.
Corporation Clerk Greenaway re-
ports that 90 deeds were filed in his
office for the sale of property dur
ing the month of March. There
were 56 marriage licenses issued in
the same time of which Al were to
white and Is to colored persons.
Emmanuel Bible Class of Christ
Episcopal Sunday School had an
attendance of lit yesterday morn
ing. Bishop William Cabell Brown,
coadiutor of the diocese of Virginia,
gave an interesting address before
the class.
The funeral of Mrs. Georgia Pad
gett, wife of Mr.. Edgar E. Padgett,
was held from Christ Church at a
o'clock yesterday afternoon, with
the Rev. William Jackson Morton
officiating. Burial was in Bethel
cemetery.
The funeral of William D. Ogden,
who died in the George Washington
University Hospital in Washington
on Saturday, was held from The
Fairfax Apartments this morning
at 1920. The Rev. DR.. ]. w. Duff
fey of the Methodist Church South
officiated. Interment was in the
Presbyterian Cemetery.
Final rehearsals are now being
held for the farcical comedy, Pro-
fessor Pepp, to be presented by the
St. Mary's Dramatic Club of this
city, Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week. The cast will be COM
posed of local amateur talent, and
present indications point to very
successful production.
The members Of Robert de Bruce
Council, who paid a fraternal visit to
Lafayette Council, knights of Kadosn
No. 2, at Alexandria, Va, Tuesday
night, and assisted in comforting the
twentieth and twenty-first degrees,
report an excellent trip and a visit
full of fraternity and good fellowship,
as stated by District Deputy Sterling
Kerr, jr., who was among the party
of 40 Observation-Disclosures Post.
The choir of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church will sing Maunder's "Olivet
to Calvary" at the service to be
held on Friday evening of this week,
at eight o'clock. "America" was
sung at the closing of the regular
service at that church last evening,
while a handsome United States flag,
suspended near the pulpit, lent an
additional air to the patriotic nature
of the occasion.
The members Of Post F, Travel
ers' Protective Association, held their
annual meeting last night in the
Chamber of Commerce. rooms. j. Y
Williams was chosen president; o..
H. Kirk, vice president; Hunt Rus
sell secretary and treasurer, and j..
William May, C. C. Lamond, j. H.
Trimyer, T. A. Sommers and V. W.
Boswell as directors. Chairmen of
committees were elected as follows:
Railroad, A. D. Brockett,; Legisla'
tive, H. X. Field; Hotels, M. E..
Greene; Employment, S. W. Pitts;
Membership, J. William May. The
Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison was made
chaplain. Delegates to the State con,
vention to be held in Petersburg, Vir.
ginia, May 4th and 5th are: NJ. l..
Price, A. D. Brockett, o. H. Kirk
w. W. Ballenger, c. C. Lamond
Nv. w. Boswell, W. N: Lindsey
Richard Gibson, Harvey Hensnaw
T. A. Sommers. W.. H. T. Brooke
and J. William May. Alternates are
H. n. Garner, j. H. Trimyer, H
d. Kirk, c. T. Nicholson, W.. G
Rogers, C. NJ. Lennon, D. G. Grill
bortzer, X w. Ogden, R. E. Knight
S. w. Pitts, C. w. King, and ALFRED
Thomson. Meeting of the Post vii
| reaftar he held nm the fourth Sat