Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-16
fin Local Churches.

At the annual meeting of the members Of
the First Methodist Protestant Church, 4tf
street southeast, held on the 18th instant
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing conference year: Trustees, n.
Brewer, Z. s. Hantzmon, w. B. Hartley
W. II. Johnson, w. II. Bohannon. George
w. White, George l.. Club, Frank Nichols
James Mathieson; stewards. w. b. Hartley,
W. III. johnson, w. II. Womersley, Harry
T. Kelley, Charles A. Wayson. Harry r.
johnson, w. H. Lyles, Miss Florence
Pritchard, Mrs. Jessie X. Gates, MIS-.
Sarah Stewart, Mrs. Annie Chenoweth; del
egate to the Maryland annual conference,
w. III. Womersley; alternate delegate Z. 5.
Hantzmon; superintendent of Sunday
school, w. T. Watts: assistant superintend-
ent, J. Harry Dove: secretary, w. j. Brew
er; assistant secretaries, Harold Watts,
Walter Burgess; treasurer Florence Pritch-
ard: librarian, W. z. Hartley; assistant
librarians, Frank Dove, Roy Risler; organ
list. Miss May Campbell; superintendent of
primary department, Miss Effie r. Rowe;
superintendent of intermediate department,
Mrs. Walter Burgess
Christian Endeavor Society-President,
Miss Effie r. Rowe; vice president, Hoburg
Lee: secretary, Dora Hartley; treasurer,
Annie Rowe; corresponding secretary,
Eunice +. Hartley; Junior superintendent,
Mrs b. p. Truitt.
Young people of the Home Missionary
Society of the Washington district are ar
ranging to hold a quarterly meeting of I'M
usual interest at the Metropolitan Methodist
Episcopal Church Tuesday evening next.
An address will be delivered by Mrs. Wood
cock of Nebraska. A carnival of nations
under our flag will be presented by forty
young people in native costumes. The
senior societies of the District will assist
the young ladies in reception to Mrs.
Woodcock and Miss Matthews, missionary
at Ellis Island.
Rev Dr. j. G. Butler, pastor of the Luther
Place Memorial Church, who has been
housed with grip for several weeks, expects
to be in his pulpit tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow Is the thirty-fourth anniver-
sary of the Luther Place Memorial Church,
and DIR. Butler expects to speak upon an
appropriate subject.
The altar boys of St Aloysius Roman
Catholic Church, who banded together
under the caption of the ST. John Berch-
mans Sanctuary Society, participated In
a ceremony at the o'clock mass on Laetare
Sunday, March 10, when they went to COM
munion in a body as an humble token of
affection and esteem for Archbishop
Harry of Manila. There was a large con-
gregation of the parents and friends of
the children. Archbishop Harry was the
celebrant of a mass at O'Clock, when he
was assisted by Rev. Jose r. Chousa,
canon OF the Cathedral of Manila. There
We're ninety boys within the sanctuary in
caSsock and sUrplice and they made an
impressive spectacle.
Archbishop Harry is said to have been
much moved by the tribute of respect. At
a reception rendered the boys in the sa-
cristy after the mass he declared that,
though he had visited many basilicas in
this country and abroad. the boys at
st. Aloysius excelled in modesty and re-
hgious decorum. He presented each of the
boys with a silver medal, and they in
turn presented the archbishop with hand
some memento of the occasion. an elabora-
tion of the program prepared for general
distribution at the ceremony.
The leaders in the society are: Director,
Mr.. Francis A. Byrne s. j.; Frederick l..
Devereux. master of ceremonies: P. Joseph
King, Richard C. Lawlor, acolytes; John
T. S. Burns John j. Fitzgerald. thurifers;
Walter j. Burns, Robert E. Holland, John
A. Dore. Leo B. Norris assistants; Harry
Donoghue, Francis B. Lanahan, Edgar ].
Cavanagh. leaders; the Little League of the
Blessed Sacrament, whose duty 1t Is to
carry the communion cards at all the
thony Fennell, Joseph Michael Geier,
Aloysius Robert Mack, Christopher
Aloysius Mccarthy. Francis Xavier Cava-
nagh and James Aloysius Fennell.
Rev. NJ. d. Noon of the Dominican House
of Studies will deliver a panegyric on the
life of St Patrick, at st. Josephs Roman
Catholic Church, tomorrow. the Feast of
St. Patrick. Rev. Ignatius Fealy, assistant
pastor of the church, will be the celebrant
of the solemn high mass.
DR.. Edward p. Shanahan of the faculty
of the Catholic University of America, will
address the Lenten Club for Men at the
Shrine of the Sacred Heart tomorrow even
ing at T:30 o'clock.
Quarterly meetings of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Mission ~ societies of
the Washington dis trict. will be held at the
Metropolitan NJ. f. Church. John Marshall
place, next Wednesday, Miss Alma Mat
,thews, missionary Ellis Island. and Hiss
Anna Hobbs Woodcock will address the
meeting.
The program will be in part as follows:
Home. 10 am, Mrs. j. E. Gilbert, presi-
dent-Scripture lesson, Mrs. j. B. FitZger-
aid; prayer, Mrs. Amy Gray; greetings,
Rev. Frank NJ. Bristol. d. D.: chldrens
home missions, Miss Helen L. Ferguson:
woman's home missions, Mrs. Howell Bar
tie; literature. Mrs. r. l.. Wright: syste-
matte benefcenCe Mrs. j. F1nney Engle;
solo, Miss Alice Wells: duet, Miss Swartz
and Miss Wells: treasurer's report. Miss
Ella l.. Stinemetz: How We Greet the I'm
migrant Miss Alma Matthews; America
for Christ" Mrs. Anna Hobbs Woodcock;
luncheon. 1890.
Foreign. l 80 p. m. Mrs. Frank NJ. Bristol,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. exercises, Miss Eliza
beth Pierce: minutes, Miss Caroline F.
Smith: mite boxes. Mrs. A. B. Lacey; peri
odicals, Mrs. II. p. Mcintosh; young wom-
ans work, Mrs. f. L. Harvey; correspond
ing secretary's report. Mrs. r. NJ. Moore:
Easter offering, Mrs. II. r. Naylor; special
work, Miss Ruth CTandall; bureau of sup
plies, Mrs. Edwards; magazine fund. Miss
Emmcrt: ueasurers report, Mrs. NJ. F.
Rodrick; assistant treasurer, Miss Bertha
Gray.