The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21
ARLINGTON 81.
WILL VOTE ON
ROAD BONDS
Proposal to Spend $6o1 $50
on Paving approved by
Commission


CLARENDON. Va, Nov. 21.-At
meeting Of the Arlington District
Good Roads Commission. held last
night at the court house, the recon-.
mendation OF the executive CONF
mittee indorsing the estimate sub
mitted by Captain John n, TaIinan.
superintendent OF roads, Of 1891 .626
for the building OF twenty miles OF
roads, was approved unanimously.
Following the Endorsement OF the
report. the commission authorized
the committee to prepare the neces-
sary petition, to submit to Judge
Samuel @. Brent, who will an
HOunce q date for an election for
bond issue With q commission
composed Of more than fifty leading
citizens representing all the civic
organizations of the district unani-
mously behind the program, success
at the polls seems assured.
The program calls for the paving
Of all the main roads in the district.
The Clarendon Garden Club last
night elected the following oofficers.
w. @. Tasting, president: A. j.
Webb, first vice president; N. Rex
Hunt, second vice president; Mrs.
Samuel b. Detwiler, secretary. end
Mrs. w. J. Webb, treasurer. Fol
lowing the election. w. r. Sunder-
man addressed the meeting on the
proper pruning of trees and shrub
berry. At the suggestion of Md.
Sunderman, one Of the features OF
the winter viii be the contest to
be carried on by the club. in which
plans for the landscaping Of rhe
homes Of members win be entered
into. These plans are to be sub
mitted to a committee which win
announce the winner.
The Mary Washington Chapter
No. so, o. p. S., Of Clarendon, win
hold their monthly card party to-
night at o'clock at the Citizens
Hall.
The closing Of Educational Week
viii be celebrated with q mass
meeting in the auditorium Of the
Cherrydale school tomorrow night.
The program viii include addresses
by State Senator Frank L. Ball,
Superintendent Of Schools Fletcher
Kemp, Robert E. Janson, president
OF the Cherrydale fire department;
III. M. Brown, vice president of the
Thrifton Improvement League; C.
a. Candee, president of the Airing
ton County Federation OF Schools
and chairman Of the Red Cross roll
call, and Mrs. Emma Hance, rep
resentative OF the League Of WO-
men Voters.
The musical program, directed by
Mrs. ]. FOrney Donaldson assisted
by Harold M. Brown. leading the
community singing, also VIII include
solos by Mrs. Theodore Cooper
Baker and George Rollings and
piano and violin solos by Mrs.
4. N. Davidson and Mrs. Sands.
Efforts to complete the organiza.
ton OF the Retail Merchants Asso-
citation of Potomac, will be made
at the meeting to be held tonight in
the office of Graham and Ogden.
on Mt. Vernon avenue at 8 o'clock.
All business men and women inter-
ested in the organization are urged
to attend.
The school board viii hold q
special meeting in the office OF
Fletcher Kemp, superintendent of
! schools, tonight at 8 o'clock.
Professor Kemp announced last
night that the new elementary
school now being constructed at
Virginia Highlands win be known
as the Nellie Gusts School, the
| name having been approved by the
school board.
Plans to hold a series of concerts
during the winter VIII be made at .
meeting of the Clarendon concert
course committee to be held tonlor.
row night at 7:30 o'clock at the
home Of Mrs. William Taylor, 100
Marion avenue.
The Boy Scouts Of troop No. 1O4
will hold their regular meeting to-
night at s o'clock in the Sunday
school room of the Clarendon Metho.
dist Church.
The reply Of the Arlington County
Volunteer Firemen's Association to
the criticism of that Organizations
work by j. M. Duncan, assistant I
chief of the Alexandra fire DEPART. I
ment, will be made In letter to T..
j. McDermott, Alexandria fire chief.
it was decided by the Arlington
organization last night. A commit.
tee composed of f. H. Fruner, w.
w. Wheelock, Fred Doe and J. M.
Rogers was appointed at a meeting
OF the association last night to draft
letter to McDermott, condemning
the Duncan criticism and defending
the position of the Arlington county
firefighters.