Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-06
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS BE-
TWEEN PASTOR AND PEOPLE.
Rev. w. s. o. Thoma. of Baptist
Church breaches Farewell Dis
cOurse-Gcnerala and Personal.

Rev. w. s. o. Thomas preached his fare
well sermon to the congregation of the
| West Washington Baptist Church yester-
| day morning. a large audience assembled
to bid farewell to the pastor who has la
bored with them during the past nine
years. After the sermon resolutions were
adopted by the church. setting forth that
i'll accepting the resignation offered by Mr..
Thomas. 1.-The church congratulates him
on the marked success of his ministry for
the past nine years in connection with this
church and section. and extends to him
this expression of its hearty appreciation
OF his faithful and self-denying labors for
the West Washington Baptist Church; that
While thus recognizing the claims OF other
fields to the services of Mr.. Thomas this
church accepts his decision with great re-
great. but with loving remembrance of his
life and works in its midst, commends him
and his to the fellowship of the brethren
wherever he may be called upon to abide
Mr.. Thomas will leave the city tomorrow,
the resignation going into effect today, and
Will take immediate charge of the Baptist
Church at Waynesboro', Va
Knocked Down by Unknown Bicy-
clists.
Lawrence Nottingham, aged seven years,
while crossing Potomac street near M
street yesterday afternoon about I o'clock,
was struck and knocked down by an I'M
known colored boy. who was riding by on
a bicycle. The bicycle rider managed to
leave the neighborhood before he could be
unprecedented. The child was taken to his
nome. 1912 Potomac street. where he was
attended by a physician.
Harry Brown, aged twenty-eight, living
on 36th street between o and p streets,
was Knocked down about 2 o'clock yester-
day afternoon at Potomac and NJ streets
by an unknown bicycle rider and injured
about the scalp lie was removed to the
Georgetown University Hospital in the pa
troll wagon.
Struck by n Car.
Frances Biting, the four-year-od daugh-
ter of William Biting of 1852 32d street.
was struck by IS of the Georgetown
and Tenleytown road Saturday evening and
painfully cut and bruised about the face
The car was in charge of ]. r. Harris,
motorman, and Cleveland Church, con-
ductor. The child was seen by the motor
man fully sixty feet away, and he rang
his gong continuously. the car going at
slow rate of speed, but at SD and r
streets instead of stopping the little one
crossed the track and was struck by the
fender The child was treated at the
Georgetown University Hospital.
General and Personal.
Arthur Brown, colored, and William
Kemp, white. became involved in an alter
cation Saturday evening at 35th and NJ
streets, the difficulty growing out Of some
old trouble. The colored man drew
large knife and slashed Kemp in the back.
making a painful wound. The police
reached the scene before the finish and
took Brown into custody. Kemp was sent
to the hospital for repairs. DIR. Potbury
at Georgetown University attending to his
cut.
Mrs. Mary Harper and her daughters,
Misses Effie, Katie, Madaline and Pearlie
Harper of 1927 P street, have returned
home from pleasant sojourn in the
mountains of Virginia
The friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ.
Pearce of 1925 35th street have been ad-
vised of the death of their youngest daugh-
ter Evelyn, which occurred Thursday at
Prince Frederick, Nd, where they had gone
to spend the summer.