Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-02-18
LIVE NEWS
DEL RAY
MT. IDA.
ROSEMoNT
BRADDOCk
ST. ELMO

Nj. Ida attended the caro- parry given
.by the D. A. R., at Confederate Me-
mortal Home, Vermont Ave, WASH
inpton, D. C. oh Monday afternoon,
flor the Near East Relief Fund. The
party included Mrs. Jennerfer Broad-
Idus. Mrs. w. u. Varney, Miss Lucy
Gary, Mrs. A. j. Malls, Mrs. Douglas
L. Folk, Mrs. T. L. Tate and Mrs.
John Gary.
| The railway Y. NJ. C. A., will meet
tonight in the accountants office at
Potomac yard. Kirk E. Wallace vii!
address the mceting and favorable
REPORTS are expected from the chair
men Of the several committees
At the last meeting of the board
of stewards of Del Ray NJ. E. Church
the following rfieers were elected for
the ensuing year: d. c. Chambers,
PRESIDENT of the board. R. l., Tate
secretary, and J. w. Varney. treas,
urer.
w. F. Lewis, engineman at Poto-
mac yards, is very i'll at his home or
Hume Avenue, 81. Elmo.
d. c. Corbin left st. Elmo today
for shor. vis.. to his sister, Mrs
N. ID. Belts, in Culpeper, Va.
! Mrs. R. n. Bust has been confined
] ID her home " North Braddock for
~cek, suffering from neuralgia.
4 NJ. and Mrs. Elmer A. Barrett
. are receiving congratulations of their
friends or the recent arrival Of fine
ten and 4 half pound boy an then
some in St Elmo
! Mrs. H. Ella Emerson, of Washing
ton, was gust of Miss Dora G.
+ Varney, in st. Elmo, on Monday ano
Tuesday of this week.
John c. Hi:irbrand. Of st. Elmo
;,as been ceanins up his gardens this
week, preparatory to an early start
AZ spring planting.
At meeting # the town council o!
.. Potomac on Monday night, contract
was let FIR hauling away and dispos'
ing of Tin cars ard rubbish, work tc
commence at orrc and continue until
I'll vacant lots are cleaned, after
which regula' monthly collections will
be made.
i La Verne anil Eraddocl; Avenues ir
St Elmo division will be rec'ndereC
rext week
Mrs. w. Z. Aicrton's many friends
will be glad 70 know that the opera
ton for appendicitis which she IN.
,!erwent at Taken Park Hospital
was entirely successful, and she is
doing as we'll a, POSSIBLE.
Mrs. Ellen Haynes left 6: Elmo
en- Tuesdly mor&!ng to visit her son.
Robert w H:vnes, in Northumber.
lard, Pa.
Next week Samuel DeVaughan, con-
tractor, will Begin on the foundation
% an $4,000 residence of Mt. Vernon
I Avenue. near Oxford Avenue, in Del
Ray.
| J. S. Benson, building contractor,
has almost completed a new frame
house on the corner of Carroll and
Clyde Avenues, Eel Ray, and has the
foundation laid for a s6,000.0O frame
house on Mt. Vernon Avenue. Both
homes are alreadJ; sold.
1t has beeI rumored that contract
has been let FOR the erection cf brick
store and dwelling combined, on MT.
Vernon Avenue, and that when COM
r'eted it will he occupied by the SAM
tary Grocery Company.
The board OF stewards Of Del Ray
NJ F. Church held a called meeting
his week IN Alexandria at parsonage
# Dr.. Hammi!!. presiding elder for
ths district, qnH discussed matters
pertaining to me Del Ray Church and
he coming conference.
Mrs. Willian- E. Nails, of North
braddock, lest on Wednesday to
spend month or two in Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas. Do!an with
:heir five children, moved from Alex
andria on Wednesday of this week to
i've with her brother, William +.
Callahan, on Hume Avenue, st Elmo,
Mr.. Gallahan's n'other is with him
aiso
Robert Rogers had few of his
friends and scrooimates to srend a
pleasant evening and help him cele-
hrate his birthday last Friday, at his
home in North Rraddock.
George J. West, of Del Ray, is re-.
covering from a light attack of grippe
Mr.. and Mrs. J w. Thomas have
moved from the apartment which they
occupied at thu residence of Mr. Adolf
ohus West in Dt1 Ray, to an apart
nient in the hrme of Mrs. Sarah NJ.
Baggett, 1701 King street, Alexan-