Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-08-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

cey will leave this evening for 90,
lonial Beach, wher they viii spehp
the coming week.
Mr.. NJ. Jaffa and family, nave
returned from q trip 20 AuSN'~
City, N. j.
Miss Minnie Lee CEqwdeE' OF
Shelby n. c., is the guest q MIS-
Benjamin Steiner, of North Fairfax
street.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Crismond,
of Alexandria, are guests 81 Hotel
Traymore, Atlantic City, TO remain
for a week OF longer.
The Rev Percy Foster Hall leaves
Monday for Groton Long Point,
Conn where he will spend his va
cation.
There will be an important meet
ing of the T. f. L. Class Of the
First Baptist Church in the Sunday
School room at 1880 o'clock Monday
evening.
DR. Charles E. Outealt has gone
to Issue, Nd, where he viii spend
the next two weeks.
T. Anderson Sommers has return
ed from a business trip through the
West.
Mrs. William s. Walsh has re-
turned from- visit to her mother,
Mrs Frank Mortimer Wheeler, in
Newport, r. |.
Mrs. j. NJ. Jacobs has gone to
Midland to visit her mother, Mrs. ).
W. Green.
Miss Hazel Lee, of Colonial Beach,
who has been visiting relatives in
South Lee street for the past two
weeks, has returned to her home.
Regular services of the Baraca
Bible Class will be held in the First
Baptist Church tomorrow morning.
All men Of the city and vicinity Will
be cordially welcomed.
Mrs. Estelle Simpson and hus-
band, Norman Simpson, have sold
to w. W. Simpson, house and lot
on the west side of Pitt between
Cameron and Queen streets,
The regular meeting of the ALI
+ son W C. 2. u, win be held with
Mrs. James A. Hulfsh at her home,
GIG North Washington street, next
Monday evening at O'Clock.
! "Her Husbands Trademark" fea-
turing Gloria Swanson viii be the
: 'aESih tShiEaSt. The Ineomar has ios
its feature Hoot Gibson in "Step On
It." The Idle Hour has Edgar
Jones in "Lohesome Corners,2 e.
Mrs. George B. Spillman, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Eli
nor Spillman, of South Lee street,
will leave this afternoon for two
weeks vacation which will be spent
with relatives and friends at Colon
ial Beach and Northern Neck.
Mr.. j. Silverman, who has re-
Gently opened a new store at 1lO6 |
King street, leaves tomorrow for
< New York, where he will buy his |
fall stock of goods. While in New |
York he will be the guest of rela-
tives and friends.
:, Miss Dorothy Moore was operated |
, on att he Episcopal Eye, Ear and |
Throat Hospital in Washington yes
,terday, and is said to be doing nice
ly. !
! Trinity Methodist Church will |
give an excursion to Marshall Hall |
Thursday, August TO- The trip viii |
be made on the steamer Charles |
Manchester which will leave the |
Cameron street wharf three times !
during the day.
The Rev. Robert Browne, pastor |
Of the Methodist Protestant Church, !
will take as his subject tomorrow |
morning, God Able to Keep" and |
for his evening subject he viii take: |
Seeking Christ Meets a Seeking |
Sinner" Everybody welcome.
The condition of Frank E. Mon !
roe. Of Baltimore. who was stricken |
with paralysis while visiting at the |
home Of his brother, Joseph l.. |
Monroe, 420 South Pitt street yes |
terday morning, is reported to be
critical.
Two car loads of Buick motor |
cars are enroute mere 10 the rletch- |
err Motor Company, Claude W.
Fletcher, proprietor. Mr.. Fletcher |
stated today. The supply Of these |
cars received recently was soon ex-
exhausted. The new supply Is ex-
pected next week.
Because of absence from the city
the Rev. Percy Fottsf Hall will
be unable to attend the prayer
meeting for the settlement Of the
railroad shipments strike on Mon
day. Prayers will be offered on this
subject in St. PsuPs Episcopal
Church on Sunday at both services.
A most curious vehicle was seen
in Alexandria this morning IL
was an automobile made Of motor
cycle. The seat of the originsl ma
chine had been removed as had the
handlebarS. A side car had been
added and the result was an auto
mobile to carry two persons, This
machine bore 3 West Virginia IL
eenSe tag.
The lady fans of the Trinity |