The Washington bee., 1908-12-12
PARAGRAPH|C NEWS

C"'iiollC ChurChes last tuesday, the
occasion being the celebration of the
feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Civil Service examinations will be
held January IS and ii for eligibles
as electricians helper in the office
OF the Secretary of Agriculture, and
Junior physicist in the technologic
branch of the Geological Survey.
The fog bell, which was put out
OF order in the recent fog, at Ma
thias' Point has been repaired.
Rev. DR.. c. F. Winbigler has Civ
en- up his pulpit at the First Baptist
Church to begin lecturing on Chris
tian Healing by Mental Suggestion"
Mrs. Eva A. Ingersoll, the widow
of the late Bob" Inersoll, won the
suit for 100000 against Joseph Co
ram and others for services rendered
by her late husband.
Both Houses of Congress adjourn
ed last Monday soon after opening,
out of respect to the memory of those
of their number who have died since
last spring.
Chairman Stelwagen has appointed
the general committee to arrange for
the inaugural ceremonies.
The Southern Commercial Con-
gress has been in session the past
week in this city. Fully eighteen
hundred delegates were in attend
ance.
The forest fires in the State of
New York this year are said to have
covered over one hundred thousand
acres of land, and caused $643, 3,o86.7s
damages to property.
In his report the Postmaster Cen
eral recommended that mail shall
not be delivered by city carriers ex-
oept at residences and Offices where
suitable mail receptacles are placed
at the entrance"
The usual crowd was present at
the opening of Congress last Monday
and many were unable to get in either
| the Senate or the House.
Among the absent Congressman was
the Senator from South Carolina.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
will not only defray his expenses on
his African trip, but will give every
thing he gets to the Smithsonian In
stitution.
Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ Taft
will go to Augusta, Ga, next week,
where the expect to remain until Feb
ruary.
The need of more policemen in our
city is demonstrated by the number
jof crimes of pocketbook snatchers on
our principal streets.
Mr.. J. P. Morgan is reported to
have paid $1,000 for the King Charles
l copy of the Cambridge Bible
Representative Hull introduced =
bill in she House last Monday, some
thing like the Pure Food law, affect
ing all articles in domestic use "r'es-
ognized as a subject of transporta-
ton and sale. ;"
Last Sunday was the Elks' Memo
rial Day, and the services in this
city were very impressive.
Mrs. Anna P. Westcott, the only
living daughter of the late Charles
D. Drake, for fifteen years Justice
of the Court of Claims, presented a
life-size portrait of her father to the
court.
Representative Madden has intro
duced bill providing a fund for the
retirement of school teachers in the
District of Columbia at the age Of
sixty-fve.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Mr.. Charles P. Neill Commissioners
of Labor, to investigate the building
department of the Districti of Colum-
bia.
Rev. DR.. w. G. Fraham, pastor
of Fifth Street Baptist Church, Of
Richmond, Va, has raised $500 on
the church debt in seven and one
| half months.
Cleveland, Ohio, has women shop
lifeers, also, and they show their
hands as the Christmas holidays ap-
proach.
The St. Louis Advance says there
| is a scheme the purpose of which IS
to reflect discredit upon the new high
school and all the Negro teachers OF
o..se No