The Washington times., 1925-08-12
P0STOFFICE A I
ARLINGTON
T0CLOSE
Virginia Town to Have D. c.
Satisfaction After the First
Of September

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Aug. 10.
The Arlington postoffice. accord
ing to officials OF the Postoffice De-
partment at washington, win close,
effective August 81 Mail and money
order records will be sent to Wash
ington office, while other equipment
will be shipped to the postoffice at
Philadelphia. A notice posted at
the receiving window at the office
states thst all mail after that date
shall be addressed to Washington.
While officials Of the Postoffice
Department stated that the office
would close, B. M. Smith, of Airing
ton, states a contract. has been
signed by the department fer a
lease for a period OF five years on
a building now under construction
for a postoffice for Arlington which
will be known as a substation OF the
Washington postoffice. Mr.. Smith
says the office in the new building
will be opened about September /.
Mrs. Januetta Watson, postmistress,
said the only information she has
had Is that the office would close on
August 81.
The Henderson tract, containing
325 acres, was reported sold vester-
day to Percy w. Pickford, of Wash
ington, for $4,000. It is under
stood that Mr.. Pickford will sub
divide it into building lots.
More than 500 citizens OF Airing.
tor county attended the mass meet
iUy held last night, on the court
house lawn, under the auspices OF
81. ALL u. T11n
ton, when, the regional develop
ment plan and what the building Of
the Arlington memorial bridge
means to the county were explained.
Lieutenant Colonel Sheriff., di-
rector Of public buildings and parks
in the National Capital. and ex-
ecutive officer OF the Arlington
memorial bridge, the principal
speaker, said that the fwo bills
passed by the last Congress- ere
ating the National Park Commission
and authorizing the construction OF
the memorial bridge, mean more TO
Washington, Virginia and Maryland
than any other measures recently
passed.
Colonel Sheriff. said the bridge
will be open to traffic. in five years
and in ten years the parking and
all approaches viii have been com
pleted.
With the completion Of the bridge,
he added, boulevards must be pro /
vided in Arlington county. and ne
urged that plans be made now Tor
their construction.
Other speakers were Doctor Sam
uel M. Johnson, director of the Lee
Highway Commission, who discussed
the building OF the Lee boulevard,
and Major C. III. Brown, chairman
of the planning committee of Wash.
ingtof1, who In explaining the
regional development plan, said the
first thing to be done in Arlington
county was coming, not as a section
but as a county. He also urged the
establishment Of proper 0uilding
that subdivisions be
proper provisions be made
for boulevards and proper santa
ton for the entire county, hospitals
and parks and Fairgrounds.
Congressman r. Walton Moore, in
the program, said ne
knew of no community that has de-
veloped in the past five years as
has Arlington county, and that with
the building OF the memorial bridge
and the Lee boulevard the future or
the county is exceedingly bright.
Robert E.. Plymale president of
the federation presided at the meet
ing.
with a view to widening the Lee
Highway from Roslyn to Falls
Church, a conference was held yes
terday with Frank ID. Hanley, en-
gineer Of the State Highway Com
mission and Doctor Edwin McCar-
thy, j. r. Mccormick, r. w. Shrsve
and f. W. Comley.
with many curves from Rosslyn
to Cherrydale, the highway today is
very dangerous, and efforts are be-
ing made, according to Mr.. McCor-
mick, to have the highway widened
to sixty feet, especially through
Cherrydale.
Arrangements for the county sup
per and annual lawn party to be
given by ST. Charles Catholic
church on the nights Of August iS
and 10, are being rapidly COM
nInted