The Washington bee., 1908-07-04

nary, Easthampton, Mass, carried of
two valuable prizes, winning the
| Dickinson-Whitney prize Of $50 for
! the best oration in the Adelphi versus
| the Gamma Sigma debating contest.
/ On Seniors Day he was awarded the
: Willis Ward Ferry prize of SIS Of
, fered for the second best oration de-
livered on that day. Mr.. Curtis
theme. "Tbe immigration Problem, 3"
was pronounced by the Judges to
have been a mastery effort, states
manilke in tone, abounding in ripe
thought and eloquently delivered. Mr..
Curtis will study medicine, putting in
four years in this county, and a I'm
ishing course of two yesfs abroad.
Mr. A. o. Stafford, teacher of his
tory at the Institute for CoIoredYouth
at Cheney, Pa, has been visiting his
family in this city. He returned to
his post Tuesday, to open classes in
connection with the summer school
at that place.
Mrs. Josephine D. Heard, wife of
the newly elected Bishop w. H.
Heard, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Bessie DeLapsley Cartier, of I346
Wallach Place Northwest. She came
up from Atlanta, where she was had
charge of the music department Of
Morris Brown College, and will go
on to Graystone Manor, which will
be Bishop Heard's American episco-
pal residence. Mrs. Heard is the au-
thor of a book of poems that has been
highly praised by the best critics.
Mr.. Sylvester Russell, publisher of
Sylvester Russelps Magazine" at
Hazleton, Pa, will visit the city soon.
He is a singer of note and will fill
number of engageemnts during the
summer under the direction of a New
York LyCeum bureau. Mr.. Russell
is dramatic critic of splendid pow
ers, and his writings on theatrical
subjects have been among the bright
est things that have appeared in the
Indianapolis Freeman, with which he
has been connected for several years.
Mr. Tom Logan, the talented stage
manager of THE Smart Set" and
well known among the followers of
the footlights in this city. is in the
Mercy Hospital at Philadelphia, re-
covering from the effects of an op-
Grafton successfully performed by Dr.
Algernon B. Jackson, the surgeon-in-
chief there. Mr.. Logan will soon be
discharged from the hospital and ex-
poets to drop in on friends at the
Capital. He will go out next season
in an important capacity with one Of
Hurtig & Seamon's principal attrac-
tiOnS.
Thomas Lightfoot, of the White
House messenger force, died Monday
last at his home in Brookland.
Mr.. A. o. Stafford has returned to
his post at the Institute for Colored
Youth at Cheyney, Pa.
DR.. Frank P Laney, of the office
of the Auditor for the Navy Depart
ment, has been on a fishing expedi.
tion to Natural Bridge, Va.
Mr.. Horace Morris, of the Postof-
fee Department, and Mr.. James E.
Buckner, of the Paymaster's Office of
the War Department, have been Wis
iting friends in Louisville, KY,
Attorney Wilbur F. King, of the
bar of Columbus, Ohio, has been in
town on professional business.
DR.. John w. Mitchell has been des-
ignated by the Medico-Chirurgical
Society of Washington to read a pa
per at the New York meeting of the
National Medical Association. DR..
A. M. Curtis, of this city, and DR..
George C. Hall, of Chicago, will per-
form the principal operations in ma
jor surgery at the clinics, which have
been arranged for at one of New
York's largest hospitals.
Grand Master w. L. Houston is
working in connection with the trans
portation committee which he ap-
pointed to secure low rates for the
delegates to the B. MIC. in Atlantic
City in September. He expects quite
two thousand delegates to the meet
ing, and is satisfied that not less than
five thousand more persons, members
and friends of the Order, will cake
advantage of the rates to attend the