Evening star., 1923-09-10
ALEXANDRIA.

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The state reunion of the Association
of Elks of Virginia will be held In
| this city Wednesday and Thursday.
Business sessions of the association
each day. lasting about two hours,
will be held in the auditorium of the
Elks Home. About 200 delegates.
| representing lodges in every section
of the state, will attend. The local
| committee of arrangements, of which
W. II. +. Kelly is chairman, has COM
pieted plans for entertainment of the
visitors.
The plans provide for a business
session Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock and from 8 until 10 O'Clock
dered the delegates at the Elks' Home
| by the officers and members of Alex
andria Lodge, No. l5S. Upon the open
| ing of the meeting Of the association
livered by W. f. Moore. exalted ruler
| or the local lodge. Immediately aft
erward the association will get down
| to business and at ] o'clock in the aft
ernoon they will journey to the bun
galow of F. NJ Hill at wellington
villa, on the Potomac, where a beef
steak dinner will be served, return
ing about o'clock in automobiles and
by trolley.
An elaborate athletic program will be
given that night in the auditorium of
the home. Music will be furnished by
the Washington Elks' Band, and the
members Of the band will be accom-
panied by q number of members Of
On Thursday business sessions Of the
association viii open at o'clock. At
l o'clock that afternoon a pilgrimage
will be made to Mount Vernon in auto
| toms tomb and mansion dinner Will be
served at Mount Vernon. Upon their
return the delegates will motor to Ar
lngton and Washington and that night
AT O'Clock at the Elks' Hall musical
and literary program will be given and
/ music win be furnished by the Elks
Band from Washington. A dinner will
be served by the ladies'.
The committee in charge urges the
merchants along King street to decorat re-
, their places of business for the two
| days the Elks are in session here. The
committee ins charge OF decorations also
VIII decorate iron poles on King street
wnna vain the 1t is tsss s eolorsmpurPle and white
eral streamers on King street bearing
the inscription, "Welcome. n. p n u =
The thirty-fo iron bridge over Po
mex run between Pohick and Lorton
! by a five-ton truck, and the side knockN
ed in. The driver of the truck escaped
| injury. Apeu
AS a result of the accident trsfsc
PEELED to detour. going as far as Pn-
hick Church and detouring at Lewis
chapel by way of Lorton. -
road gang today is engaged in
worklng on the damaged bridge.
services in observance of Rosb
Hashanah will be held in the svna-
gogue in this city beginning ar 7!So
ciock tonight, and also services will
pc held in the synagogue at 10 O'Clock
Quoted by George A. Texay OF Hebrew
| Union College, Cincinnati stores nf
deprews here Will close beginning al
sunset this evening and continue
cIosed until o'clock TOMORROW even
ing. Places of business conducted hv
the orthodox Hebrews will be closed
for two days.
Forty-four cases are being con-
sidered 1Lh by a grand jury in the cor
Howard w. Smith presiding. re-,
| docket is one of the largest in many
! months. Most of the cases are ynr
alleged violations of the state pro.
| hibition law. PNo-
Everything is in readiness for tho
! reopening OF the public schools tne,
/ morrow. The pupils will be assigned
1 to the grades; the teachers will oiya.
| them list of books they will nseS
They VIII report Wednesday morning
! for studies
! Supt. r. c. Bowton this morn,rs
| and principals.
For those who did not obtain ner-
| mits 1t is proposed to issue permits
| at the school tomorrow from am
until IL m.
| Rev. DR.. e. B. Jackson preached his
farewell sermon as pastor of the Ffrst
! Baptist Church yesterday DR.. JacL
| son expects to leave this week far
Lexington, Va, where he has accented
| a pastorate.
After being, closed down for two
weeks. as required by the union rules
| the plant of the Old Dominion Glass
Company, resumed operations this
| morning with more than 200 men at
| work.
The funeral of Mrs Lydia Carr took
place this morning from st. Mary's
| Catholic Church. Services were con-
Quoted by Rev. L. F. Kelly. and burial
was in st. Mary's Cemetery.