Evening star., 1925-08-23
FAIRFAX.

ciaD.-The schools OF the county VIII
open September u. The new school
at Fairfax will be ready for use. OIL
yer B. Campbell is installing a water
and sewerage system and {. E. Shaw
of Falls Church Is putting in heating
plant. The water system will be fur
nished with drinking bubbles, and the
sanitary arrangements of the school
are up to date. The first and second
grades will occupy one room, the third
and fourth will be in another and the
sixth and seventh will have room,
as well as the eighth grade. New fur
niture has been bought for the fifth
and sixth grade room, and the furni-
ture from the old schoolhouse will be
installed in the other rooms.
S A. Wiseman of Fairfax while
tearing down an old building Thurs
day evening last was struck by one
of the corner tinbers. DIR. Ford SWEET
nam. who was summoned. found that
Mr. Wiseman suffered two fractured
ribs. a broken wrist. and one bone in
his face broken. He was taken to the
Georgetown Hospital.
The Fairfax County School Board
| has bought four new busses for use in
+ transporting school children from
| Chantilly to Floris. from Centerville TO
| Clifton, from points along the Chain
Bridge road to Mclean and from Pen
| der, Germantown and Hallmark to
Fairfax. In Falls Church. Lee and
Mount Vernon districts the transporta-
| ton of the children will be by con-
| tract, as before. DIR. Brooks, chairman
| Of the board, accompanied by Mr..
| Gaines, went to York, Pa, last week
to inspect model of body offered by a
concern there. September II and Is
a teachers institute will be held
| either in Fairfax, Vienna or Oakton.
The State road force has laid 1900
| feet of concrete on the FairfaX-Center-
vile section of the Lee Highway. The
| work is now half mile beyond Legato.
and with good weather 500 feet day
| can be laid. A short section of the
| road has been opened to traffic, and
more will be opened from time to time
/ The concrete paving on the Arlington
| County-Annan ndale road has been laid
| to the bridge over Holmes Run at the
[ Bancroft dam.
About so young people are attending
| Camp darlington, the annual Sunday
| school camp, on the fair grounds. a
number of friends. including parents
of the Clifton delegates, visited the
camp Thursday night last. The camp
| will close Tuesday next.
| Monday next at pm, the Republi-
cans Of the county will hold a conven-
| tion to nominate candidate for the
House OF DeleSateS ana elect eight
delegates and eight alternates to the
Republican State convention, which
will be held in Roanoke September 8.
| +. w. Richardson, clerk of the
court, has issued marriage licenses to
Josephine Struder and George Cook of
Mount Vernon District and Margaret
Cumberland and J. J. Sheehan of
| Washington. Both couples were mar
ried by Rev. Mr.. Harnsberger of Fair
| fax NJ. u. Church South.
| Representative r. Walton Moore has
| gone to Atlantic City to recuperate
| from his recent automobile accident.
! The Piedmont Convention of the
| Episcopal Church will meet in Fairfax
! September and Q. The program is
now being arranged.
The new home of J. W. Birkett on
the Lee highway in the northern sec.
| ton of Fairfax will be completed and
| the family will move into it about Sep
| tember l.
| Alfred Nicholson of Fairfax has se
cured a copy of the proclama ton is.
sued by Col. Bradley 7. Johnson, C. S.
A. TO the People of Maryland" call
! ing upon the men to enlist in the Con.
federate Army to aid in freeing their
State from the tyranny of the Federal
| Army.