Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-21

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Of friends in Fairfax county.
Mr.. I.,J.. Ketland will 60 to Harrl
sonburg today for visit among
friends.
Nevelle Roberts is spending the
summer with Mr.. and Mrs. John Hav-
ener at Oatlands, Va.
Edgar Thompson is spending the
weekend at Norfolk and Virginia
Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Sinclair and
children, Marjorie and Wilson, OF
Clarion, Pa, are visiting Mrs. Sim
clair's sister, Mrs. Charles De Moll,
at her home on Queen street.
In the Corporation Court today a
final decree was entered in the case
Of Rosa Goldsmith Rosenberg VS.,
David Rosenberg, by which divorce
was granted to the plaintiff from the
defendant upon the ground of deser-
ton.
The final rehearsal of the Seminole
Players, the dramatic organization
composed of local Red Men, for the
minstrel and vaudeville show which
they will present next Tuesday night,
July "a, will be held tonight in the
Young Peoples Building.
w. N. Lipscomb, examiner of rec
ords for the sixteenth judicial dis
trict of Virginia. examined number
of persons in this city yesterday, on
their tax returns on intangibles, and
later on expects to examine others
in his work in this connection.
The Gazette is requested to an
nounce that the notice published in
the Baltimore Sun to the effect that
a marriage license had been issued
in that city to Lee E. Poppins and
Katherine f. Creegan, of this city,
is rot true.
The regular Sunday afternoon open
air service will be held by the Lay
mems League tomorrow afternoon at
) o'clock at Windmill Hill, situated
on the five hundred square Of south
Lee street. All who attend the SER
vice are requested to take the blue
books
Ezra Bayliss, sixty-nine years old,
laborer in the cemeteries in this
city, dropped dead yesterday after
noon near the entrance to the Ma
tional cemetery. The deceased lived
on south Payne street and is sur
vived by wife and several children.
Funeral arrangements have not been
completed.
Evangelist F. E. Gibson will preach
at the open air service tomorrow even
ing at seven o'clock, taking for his
subject the question asked By the
disciples of Christ. "What Shall be
the Sign of the Coming and Of the
End of the World" All are cordially
invited to attend the service and take
the blue song books.
There was but one case before
the Police Court this morning. A
young white man had been arrested
for drunken and disorderly conduct.
1t was alleged by the officer who made
the arrest that the prisoner was dis
posed to idleness. Justice Cation
fined the accused $40, and warned
him that should he fail to obtain en-
ployment he would be arrested and
given six months term in Jail.
Tomorrow is Rally Day at Roberts
colored chapel On south Washington
street and the congregation is re-
quested to remember the contribution
that should be forthcoming for the
fund for the renovation of the church
The work Of renovation will begin
Monday, July go Rev. J. W. Jackson
pastor of the church, will preach at
the chapel tomorrow morning at II
o'clock on "Sowing and Reaping,"
and in the evening at 8 o'clock will
give the ninth in his series of ser.
| mons on the Ten Commandments
"Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witnes:
against thy Neighbor."