Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-10

Gently operated upon at the AleNall-
dria Hospital, is getting along nicely
Mrs Willis H. Wills, Of Lynch
burg, is the guest of Mrs. B. wheat
ley.
Mrs. Edward Brooks who has been
nat;ent al the Alexandria Hospital
for the past two weeks Is lmpro'-
ing
Mr. Walter w. Hamilton, who has
been the guest of Mrs f. V. Reg
ester has returned to his home in
Washington Court House, Ohio.
Glen Echo. summer resort and
mark. will open for the season next
Saturday, May l3
The Crystal Athletic Club will
play the team of the Torpedo Station
on the Cardinal field this afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock.
George Mason High School will
meet the team of fayetteville, Md,
High School on the diamond at Lloyd
Station this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
The annual fair and sale of the Jul
Nor Auxiliary of Christ Church will
be held in the parish hall tomorrow
afternoon from 3 to o'clock and
then from Z to o'clock.
II you quarrel do you know whose
fault it is and do you know what to
do about it? If you do not, this Will
be the subject under discussion at
the mid-week prayer service at 81.
PauPs Episcopal Church tonight.
Thomas NJ. Bickers, Manager for
] Leo Kolb, reports sale OF nice
home on Mt. Vernon Avenue near
Hume Springs to S. Bayhis Tor
George T. Florence.
r B. Craddock and wife have sold
TO Clarence NJ. Wells house and lot
at the southwest corner of Columbus
and Princess streets.
The regular meeting. of Fitzgerald
Council will be held this evening at
the X. of c. club rooms Francis
II Fannop will address the council
on "The Achievements of Thomas
jefferson"
DR.. Kate Waller Barrett will re-
turn to her home today after an eX-
tended speaking tour of the West
Among the places at which she adj
dressed large audiences were Akron,
Ohio, st. Louis, Mo-, and Danville,
Va She comes directly from Dan
vile today.
The weekly Bible Class of the
High School met this morning at
.S:l5. Mr. Robert f. Knight, Jr.,
who is teaching this class, states
that he has a good attendance at
every one of these classes.
The first moonlight excursion of
the season will be given on May 81
under auspices of the Cardinal Ath-
letic Club. These trips on the st
John proved very enjoyable last sea-
son.
There will be an evening devotion
at st Rita's Catholic Church, Mt.
Ida, at 1890 o'clock tomorrow night.
Miss Margaret Germond has left
this city for Salem, Va, where she
is a delegate to the State convention
from the Golden Links Young Peo
Plies Missionary Society of the NJ f.
Church South.
On Confederate Memorial Day,
May "a, the classes of the AleXan
dria High School viii hold an inter
class track meet.
A called meeting of the American
Legion Woman's Auxiliary, will be
held at the home of the President,
Mrs. c NJ. Shepperson, No. 7, Wa
gar Apartment, tomorrow, Thursday,
May IL, at 8 p. m. Members are
especially urged to be present to
complete the work of making pop
pies for Memorial Day.
Attention is again called to the
fact that Representative B g. Low
~, of Mississippi, will address the
members of the Baraca Bible Class
and their guests next Sunday morn
ing. The topic will be appropriate
TO Mothers Day. The class will at
tend the morning service in a body
All men of the city are invited to be
present and make the acquaintance
Of this brilliant speaker.
A big coal pile Is on ire at the
plant Of the Alexandria County
Lighting Company, the result of
spontaneous combustion. One of the
employees who is busily engaged in
the task of moving the pile says that
this is not anything new as he has
been moving coal piles for this rea
son for over seven years. The fire,
according TO his statement, begins on
the edges of the pile and gradually
works around and into the pit The
Pennsylvania coal catches fire much
more easily than does the coal from
the West Virginia mines.
The romantic story of a youth and
maid drawn by chance into the
dramatic struggle for American In
dependence, Cardigan" by Robert
W Chambers will be shown at the
Richmond Theatre today and tomor-
row. This is the first American his
torical finn 10 be produced. The In
&omar is showing 1.-THE Wonderful |
Wife George Melford will present
The Faith Healed at the Idle Hour |