The Washington herald., 1922-04-13
ALEXANDRIA POST
WILDE HOST TO
HANFORD MNIDER
American Legion Com
mander Honor Guest for
Banquet April 21.
PICK CANDIDATES
Committee to Announce
Nominees for City
Council. Soon.
sTHE HERALD BUREAU.

sIhE nEhAi<D BUREAU.
A. 8. Doafphan.
TT King Street.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 12.-Ar-
rangements have been made for a
banquet TO be given Friday night.
April 81. by Alexandria Post. No.
25. American Legion. ~
Guests of the local post will. b,
National Commander Mai. Hanfor,
McNider. the department command
er. and the department adjutant.
ladies' auxiliary of the organizai
and the homecoming week COM
mittee, which welcomed the boys
home from the war.
It. Is expected that 200 persons
will attend. The committee lin
charge of the tickets is composed
of Clyf, B. Lanham, J. Randall
Cation. Nelson T. Snyder. Gilbert ].
Cox and c. NJ Shepperson-
The. committee of fifteen named
| FIVE to enter the race for city coun-
We to enter the race for city coun-
ell in the election which will be
held June Is, held a meeting to-
night, and IL was stated after the
meeting that they had selected the
required number to enter the race.
The names of those selected will be
formally announced at a mass meet
ing TO be held soon.
+ Tripping in a room in her resi-
4 dence at Lloyds lane. Arlington
County, Mrs. Z. ID. Shafer fell with
a lighted kerosene lamp in her hant
last night. The flames envelopeo
the draperies in the room and
the house was destroyed. together
with contents. Colufbia Motor Com
pany No. responded and worked
an hour and twenty minutes on the
blaze. The house was owned by
Grant Forbes. Mrs. Shafcr and hei
family escaped injury. They spent
the night at the home OF her sister
Mrs. Grant Forbes. nearby.
Rear Admiral william s. Benson
will deliver an address at a ladies
night celebration OF Fitzgerald
lumbus. which will be held in the
X. of c. home the night of April "a
Rev. Thomas l. Gasson. =. J.
of Georgetown University, tonight
delivered arr illustrated lecture OF
the Passion Play at Oberammergau
before a good-sized audience al
the Lyceum Hall
The program for Holy Week foi
St. Mary's Catholic Church as an.
nounccd today follows: Holy Thurs.
day. mass at s a. m. followed by
procession from 7:30 until S:3;
p. M. the holy hour of Alteration
with sermon by Rev. Louis Smet
Good Friday reading OF the pas
sion and veneration of the cross
d at S--a. no.. followed by procession
and the mass of the presanctified
At 3 y. m and 7:30 p. m. station.
of the cross and veneration of tho
cross. Holy Saturday at Z a. m.
blessing of the baptismal font
. 3 p m: Easter Sunday masses a
, Z. 3 and IL a. m.
/ Rev. Robert Browne. pastor o
the Methodist Protestant Church
. has been returned to the pastorat
) of that church by the Methods
Protestant Church Conference ii
, session in Chestertown. Md. Rev
Browne reports that the confer
ence was one OF the most success
full in the history of the church.
FL The following additional con
E tributions are acknowledged to tn
, firemen's fund: ]. d. Matter. IS
Leo p. Harlow, IS: Washington an,
{ Ladd. IS: l.. Ruben, So; st. Mary
: Academy, $40.
Mrs. Blanche Mumford died sud
, denly at 1850 o'clock last nigh
: at her residence at Braddock fol
lowing an attack of heart trouble
. She was the wife of Charles Mum
ford. motorman on the Washing
| ton-yirginia Railroad. Besides he
husband she is survived by tw,
/ sisters and three brothers. She wa
la member of Liberty Rebekal