Evening star., 1917-10-06
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA.
Special Correspondents of The Star.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 6.-Ten
more men from city and county en-
trained at 1915 o'clock this afternoon
for Camp Lee, Petersburg. Va, repre-
senting the second increment of Alex
andria city and county's 40 per cent of
its quota for the drafted army. The men
were accompanied to the station by
the members of the local draft board.
Many friends We're at the station to
see them of. Before leaving the men
We're photographed from the city hall
steps. In the party were the following:
Albert Ryland Fones. 500 South Henry
street: Detlef Bottger. Arlington. Va;
Fred Mallon. Fort Myer Heights. Va;
Walter Scott Smith, Del Ray. Va: Clin-
ton L. Herbert. 213 North Fairfax street;
Eugene Wiiburn, 321 South St. Asaph
street: Samuel ]. Haynes, Cameron
apartment; John L. Gerlacher. 307 South
Washington street: John W. browns.
5l4 South Fairfax street: Frederick w.
Rice, Ballston. Va. Two others will go
next week. making the twelve asked
for by the adjutant general.
The board granted brief stays to the
today: {. Harold Clark, 1o15 9Th ave
nue.. Huntington, w. Va: William Ed
ward Ketland, 412 South Lee street:
William y. Traylor, Ballston, Va. and
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bus street.
Comforts kits were given each man
before leaving, having been donated
by the refreshment corps of the Alex
andria Chapter of the American Red
Cross.
Representative c. G. Carlin was the
principal speaker at meeting Of Po-
tomac Lodge of odd Fellows last might
in its hall on North Columbus street
The speaking followed banquet,
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five candidates receiving the second
degree. Attending We're number OF
members Of the order now encamped
at Camp st. Asaph. Fort Hunt and Fort
Washington Others who made ad-
dresses We're District Deputy Grand
Master Winston. Falls Church; Rev.
Or. John Lee Allison and D. r. Stans-
bury. District Deputy Allen presided.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Alexandria Chapter of the American
Red Cross will be held at 10 o'clock
| Monday morning in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce. The annual
election Of officers will be held.
Drafted Men Arrested.
Sheriff Howard 3. Fields of Alexan-
white and three colored men on a
charge of falling to report to the local
draft board for medical examination.
The police here have taken in custody
three men, TWO being on the same
charge and a third for failure to reg
iSter
Miss Caroline L. Howard, eighty four
years old, died yesterday afternoon at
her home Seminary Hill. Fairfax
county. west Of this city. Yesterday
marked her eightyfourth birthday.
| Her funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoon from her late home.
The body of Mrs. Minnie f. Newton,
whose funeral was held at St Pauls p.
f. Church, Washington. was brought
here this afternoon and buried in st.
Pauls cemetery. She was a former
resident of this city.
The October term of the corporation
court, Judge L. c. Barley presiding, will
convene at IL o'clock Monday.
School Teacher Resigns.
Mrs. Cora /. Kelly, for many years
teacher in Washington public school
for boys, has rendered her resignation
/ to the school board in order to accept a
more lucrative position in Washington.
Rev. Or. John Lee Allison, pastor Of
the Second Presbyterian Church. will
take as his subject at the morning
services tomorrow, Life without Cod
Evening services will be evangelistic.
Russell Thompson. who for several
weeks has been i'll with typhoid fever
at the home of his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther II. Thompson, is consider