The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-12-29
NEWS FORECAST
FOR THE WEEK
MISS ROOSEVELT CONES OUT To-
NIGHT. - LEGISLATIVE eau.
CUSES.-GOV. HUGHES TO BE
INAUGURATED.
Special to the World.

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Washington, D. c., Dec. 29.-Many
and varied ingredients will enter into
the dish to be served to readers of
newspapers the coming week. Bril-
liant social doings at the White
House, legislative caucuses for Unit
ed States senators, inaugurations of
governors, celebrations of the birth
of the new year, meetings of count
less educational bodies-all these and
numerous other events of greater or
lesser interest to the public at large
will have place on the news menu
for the ensuing seven days.
Invitations were issued for a small
dance at the White House Monday
evening. This is Miss Ethel Roose-
velt's coming out ball, and, as al
ready announced, will be supple
mented by three informal dances later
in the season.
New Years day in the nations cap
ital will be observed with all its ira
ditional brilliance, and another will
be added to the long list of recep-
lions at the White House, where the
president and Mrs. Roosevelt will re-
ceive the hundreds of people of all
classes who call to pay their respects.
Legislative caucuses for United
States senators will be held in several
states, notably in Ohio, where Charles
P. Taft and Representative Burton
are fighting for the seat of Senator
Foraker, and in Indiana, where half
a dozen democratic aspirants are con-
testing for the honor of succeeding
Senator Hemenway, republican.
On the first day of the new year
Governor Hughes of New York will
be inaugurated for a second term
with ceremonies that promise to be
more than usually elaborate. On the
same day George L. Lilley of Con-
necticut and several other governors,
chosen at the November election, will
be installed in office.
On Friday the departure of the
cruiser Prairie from Havana with
400 marines on board will mark the
of the evacuation of Cuba |
by the American troops.
Fifteen of the eighteen members of
the house committee on interstate |
and foreign commerce are scheduled
to leave Charleston Monday for Pa
mama to inspect the progress of the |
canal work there.
A monument erected by the Iro-
quois Memorial association in Chi |
cago in memory of the 800 victims |
of the Iroquois theater fire will be
unveiled Wednesday, which will be
the fifth anniversary of the terrible |
Mississippi will be added to the list
of dry" states Friday, when the sta
tutory prohibition bill passed by the
a year ago will come into |
operation
The old-age pension law, which has
the attention of all civilized
will come into effect in
Great Britain the first of the year.
This means that on and after next
Friday every person in Great Britain
over seventy years of age, who is not
a lunatic and has not been convicted
of crime, and whose income does not
exceed $3.50 a year, will be entitled
to a pension of five shillings a week
from the public treasury.
The customary holiday week meet
ings of state teachers associations
and numerous learned and scientific
bodies will afford a veritable feast of
reason and flow of soul throughout
the land. One of the largest of
these gatherings will be the conven-
tion of the Southern Educational
association, which will hold forth in