ALEXANDRIA, April s, 1916.
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ALEXANDRIA, April 8, lS4o.


MEssRs. EDITORS: On Monday evening
last, the Friendship Fire Company elected its
officers for the ensuing year as follows:


Charles Koones, President; Henry f. Zim-
norman, Vice President James w. Atkinson,
Secretary; John L. Pascoe, Treasurer; and
William Mankins, John Muir, r. Stuart
Douglass, and James Carroll, Commanders.


This Company, which is the oldest in town,
was formed before the Revolution in l774, and
believe its records since that time are in pos
session of the officers. The number of mem
bers is very large, and had the company COM
plete modern engine, and other apparatus, in
stead of the two ancient and well-worn affairs
now in their hands, their usefulness, conside-
rable as it now is, would be greatly improved.


observe since the late fire an increasing dis
position on the part of our citizens to sustain
the fire department by attaching themselves
to it, and hope such companies as have been
almost annihilated from the want of spirit
among their members, will now be re-organ-
lied and brought into active operation.


Our enterprising fellow-citizen, Mr.. John
Tatsapaugh, with the spirit of perseverance
which has ever eminently distinguished him,
has already erected bake house Of considera-
BILE size upon the site of his late habitation in
which TO carry on his baking business, to which
the fire caused, | believe, only four days inter-
ruption. l..