Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-01-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

~, street announce the birth of a
thirteen pound son on Friday, Janu-
airy 9th, at $40 a. m.
Oriental Lodge, No. 6. Knights OF
Pythias, will hold its weekly meet
ing tonight in Pythian Temple on
Cameron street.
sarepta Lodge, !. 0. 0. F., will
meet at its hall in North Columbus
street tomorrow night. All members
are expected to be present.
The movies today are showing; at
the Richmond, Tom Mix IN ''Irallln
at the lngomar Eileen Percy IN
"Whatever She Wants" and at the
Idle Hour "The Stranger" will be
shown.
Rev. F. NJ. Ramsey and James B.
McCravy, who have for the past two
weeks been assisting Rev. Owen +.
Lloyd in a series Of revival services
at the Second Baptist Church, left
TODAY for their homes, which are in
Norfolk and South Carolina respec-
lively.
Traffic on the Washington Virginia
Railway was delayed for an hour and
a half this morning as the result of a
southbound train on that road jump
ing the track near the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing shortly after s
o'clock this morning.
The card party and dance which
was to have been at Lee Camp Hall
next Friday night by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, has
been postponed till Friday night,
February 10. This action was taken
owing to the fact that many persons
from Washington who had planned to
attend had friends and relatives IN
thine Knickerbocker disaster Satur-
dav and would be unable to attend
as result.
st. Johns College, of Washington,
will meet the team of Alexandria
High School on the basket ball floor
of the Armory Hall tonight. This
game is expected to prove to be one
of the hardest in which the local
boys have figured this season. Inc
game will start promptly at e!ght
o'clock.
Examinations at the High School
are continuing today as they Will the
remainder of this week. Yesterday
examinations were given in all the
High School English courses and to-
dav they are being held on the for
eign languages. Tomorrow the stu
dents will be examined in all mathe-
matical subjects.
Registered at the hotels today are:
At~the Rammel:-W. F. Daggett, of
Baltimore, Md. C. S. Nails, of Law
renceburg, Ohio. All Biglow, Of At
lanta, Ga. C. R. Jennings, of New
York City. L. W. Wallace, of Staun-
ton, Va, L. Philyson, of Baltimore
Md. r. A. Alderman. of University
Of VIRGINIA. w. w. Henry of Broad
RIM, Va. II. s. Clagg and A. Clag-
pett. of lotion, Va G. A. Jones. of
Lexington. Va. and w. R. Mortschi.
Of Arcturus Va.
The Orchestra of che High School
is preparing to give a dance in the
HIGH School Auditoriars Saturday
night, February A. This dance will
be for the benefit of the orchestra
and all students and others attend
ing will be charged a small admit
lance fee. This orchestra has some
fine talent and promises that the
music will be the best.
The dressmaking class Of the La
dies Auxiliary Of the Y. NJ. c. A.
will start a new class at the Cham
Der of Commerce this Wednesday
evening at 1880 p. m. Miss Inez G..
Rea is the instructor. A full attend
ance Of all new members is desired
ut this first lesson.
Dr.. f. A. Alderman, president of
the University of Virginia, was a
visitor in this city this morning. He
was enroute to visit his son. who is
a student at the Episcopal High
School.
It is noted about the CITY there
arc many property holders who have |
not yet cleared their pavements of
the snow. These persons are urged
to attend to this matter and to bear
in mipd that if all tho other citizens
of the city followed the example set
by them the city would surely be in |
a sad plight. Only few minutes of
each mans time and all the streets
of the city would be passable to ped
estrian travel.
Rev. DR.. Jno. Lee Allison and .
daughters. Misses Martha Lee and .
Laura NJ. Allison will leave in the .
morning for Richmond, Va, where
they will attend the inauguration Of
Governor elect f. Lee Trinkle. They
will also attend the reception at the
Mansion.
On account of the weather condi-
tinns the Building Committee of The
Old Dominion Boat Club was unable
to prepare its renort and therefore
the monthly meeting of the club has .
been postponed from Wednesday. ,
February l, until Thursday, Febru-
airy 9.
The White Way Committee of the