The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
'COUNCILMEN RESIGN:
PLACES ARE FILLED
Alexandra Board Holds Busy Ses-
sion of Body.
THE HERALD BUREAU,
z. Z. knight A Son,
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e161 King Street
Alexandra, Va, Oct Ie.-Two men,
bers Of Csmnoi Cornell. at q meet
ing OF that body, rendered their resig-
nations tonight They are Capt. Al
bert Bryan from the Fourth ward.
who was chairman Of the finance
committee. and Walter c. Foster,
from the First ward. That body elect
I'd Silas Devcrs u member from the
Fourth ward TO fill the place of Capt
Bryan. and Joseph NJ. Armstrong was
elected a member from the Se-oad
ward to I'LL the va cancy caused By tho
death Of Henry K. Field. The vacancy
caused in the FIRST ward caused by
Mr.. Fosters resignation was held over
until the next meeting. which will be
held Tuesday night, when his sue
cessor will be elected. President
Smith appointed Councilman c. w.
Wattles a member of the finance COM
mittee In place of Capt. Albert Bryan
Nine members attended the meeting.
An ordinance to reimburse the treas
urer of Fairfax County with the sum
Of s126.6 and the treasurer Of Alexan-
dria County with the sum of 265 q for
taxes collected by p. F. German, city
tax collector. representing taxes paid
by property owners in these counties.
which is the annexed territory, for the
year 1915. was referred to the finance
committee.
Resolution that the finance commit
tee be authorized TO borrow $4,000 to
tide the city over for the fiscal year
was referred TO the finance commit
tee
Resolution that from October 2
wages of laborers on construction
work on streets be increased from %
to p cents an hour was adopted.
Petitions from employees OF ash de-
partment OF city asking that wages be
increased to 20 cents an hour was re-
ferred to committee on finance and
streets.
The Alexandria Hospital. through its
board Of managers. asked that it be
given 5000 a year annually. to be
paid quarterly, and this was referred
to the finance committee.
Ordinance for spur track at Lee and
! Montgomery streets was referred to
the street committee. Petition for
| improvement Of Royal street, between
Queen and Princess streets, was re-
ferred to street committee.
Comm unication from school board
setting forth that terms Of following
members have expired was received.
and upon motion OF Councilman Law
Ter IL was decided to go into an cleo
ton at Joint session next Tuesday:
L. II. Thompson, First ward; p.
NJ. Bradshaw. Second ward: Carroll
Pierce. Third ward: DR.. s. B. Moore,
Fourth ward; and one vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation Of Z. NJ. Ander-
son. First ward.
The school board asked that some
action be taken toward securing a
| school for colored children and this
was referred to the committee on
finance and schools.
A resolution appropriating $50 for
hagstone crossing at Prince and West
streets was referred to the street
committee.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, of Chicago,
connected with the National headquar-
tiers OF the Women's National Liberty
Loan Committee. this afternoon ed-
dressed an audience of women at the
Surprise Theater on the loan. She
predicted it would be oversubscribed,
although urging all to take part and
( buy a bond. Miss Rose NJ MacDon-
aid, local chairman Of the women's
Committee, who presided. stated that
the men connected with the Twelfth
7 Field Artillery, at Camp 81. Asaph,
\ thus far had subscribed SS3. 90 to the
loan. Music was furnished by the
Twelfth Field Artillery Band and its
members also sang patriotic songs
The opinion prevails that the
! sixty-seven pupils of the Ale1an-
dria High School who went on a
strike last Monday morning and
who were subsequently suspended,
4 viii make satisfactory arrange
ments whereby they will return 10
| school carly next week.
The pupils last night held a con-
ference with Mrs. William ]. Nor
ton. president Of the Parent-Teach-
ers' Association, who told them
that they were wrong in taking the
course they did in walking out, and
advised them what steps are neces-
sary before they return to theil
studies. Doubtless a satisfactory
settlement OF the affair will bt
made within a very short time.
The following persons from Mount
Vernon Chapter will Tuesday go Il
Rlchmond to attend the Crane
Royal Arch Chapter OF virginia
c. p. Heishley, high priest; Chester
A. Gwynn, king; Percy E. Cliff
scribe; James E. Alexander, assis.
tant grand lecturer; J. E. w. Tim.
herman. grand high priest of tn,
order in Virginia.
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