Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-10-21

MISS Evelyn howard ana MISS
Margaret Howard, left last night for
Chicago where they will be the
guests Of friends for some time.
There will be meeting of Alex
andria Council, No. 5, Order Fra.
ternal Americans, tonight at its
lodge room in the Pythian Temple in
Cameron street.
The friends of Mr.. Owen Foster
will be pleased to hear that he Is
greatly improved, after serious
case of typhoid fever at the Alexan.
dria hospital.
A great game Of football is prom
ised the fans if they will see the
High School team play the team of
Ganzaga College, of Washington, on
Baggett's field, Saturday afternoon.
at 2:30 o'clock.
Cards have been received announ-
cling the marriage of Oliver Ashby
Reardon and Ada Gertrude Thomp-
son, on Tuesday, September 9th, AT
Upper Marlboro, Maryland. They
will be a. home after November !,
at 120 Maple street.
The Trinagle Sport Club, of Alex
andria, Va, will play the Olympic
Juniors of Washington, D. c., Sun
day, on the High School grounds at
3 o'clock. Both of these teams have
been going strong, and are looking
for win. Come out and root for
your home team.
There will be services at the Chapel
of the Good Shepherd tonight at
1880, conducted by the Rev. Percy
Foster Hall. Lantern slides will be
shown, and the public is cordially in
vited.
Captain Fountain Beattie, candi-
date for clerk Of the court, has just
returned from very enjoyable trip
to Charlottesville, Va, where he
attended the Confederate Reunion
of the State.
A fire in a box car in the South,
crn freight yard, on north Fairfax
street, called all three fire COM
panies out at about $3.50 this morn.
ing. The fire was quickly extin..
guished with chemicals. The damage
was slight.
Mrs. George Uhler, accompanied
bv her daughter, Miss Katherine
Griffith Uhler, has bone to Pitts.
burgh, for a visit to her son, Lloyd
Uhler, of that city.
The many friends Of Mr.. J. F.
Alexander, win regret to learn OF his
illness, at his ho:nsS in Cameron
street.
Samaritan Rebekah Lodge will
hold a cake sale tomorrow, Saturday
morning, in the market. They will
also have rehearsal in their hall
in the Alexandria National Bank
building tomorrow evening at 1850
o'clock.
Ensign Feguson Bryan, U. S. n.
whose marriage to Miss Anne Cabell
will take place tomorrow, arrived to-
day at the home of his parents,
from Charleston, S. c.
The Girls Sewing Class under the
auspices of the Women's Auxiliary
of the Y. NJ. C. A., will be held to-
morrow at the chamber of commerce
at 2:30 o'clock.
Motion pictures by the Y. NJ. c,
A., will be shown to the boys Of the
CITY at the chamber of commerce,
this afternoon, at $3.50 o'clock, and
the same pictures will be shown to
the girls, tomorrow, at $3.50 o'clock, at
the same place.
The Home Nursing Class of the
Women's Auxiliary of the 7. NJ. I.
A., will meet tonight at the Cham
ebr of Commerce, at 1880 o'clock
promptly.
Funeral services for Reginald +.
Lacy. who died at the Alexandria
Hospital, Wednesday, were heid TINS
afternoon at st. Elmo. Arlington
county. Buria. was in Bethel ceme-
terry.
While playing at the Friends
Playground, Wednesday afternoon,
little Louis Potter, son Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Charles Potter, OF AT Queen
street, had the misfortune of having
one of the iron gates strike him and
sprained his ankle.
Shortly after one o'clock this af-
ternoon, fire was discovered IN the
shingle roof of a house belonging to
a colored man, Thomas Johnson, at
TIC North Patrick street. The fire
companies quickly subdued the
flames with chemicals and one line
of hose. Considerable damage was
done to the roof and the plasterine
in one of the second story rooms
was broken down by the water.
Mr.. Richard Wyche, of the Story
Tellers' League, of Washington, paid
the schools of this city very en-
joyable visit yesterday and told 4
number of interesting stories. Mr..
Wyche is well known to the school
children by his former visits. He
promised to visit them again at all
early date with many more new
stories.