The Washington bee., 1909-07-10

the city for the summer. but Vol
would never think it, judging iron
the crowds around the soda fountain
at the drug store of Board and Nc
Guire, 1912 I-2 18th Street, north
west.
S1ll particulars will appear in oul
adS&rtising columns. River View
Park has been selected, but q sub.
sequent excursion will be giver
either to Somerset Beach or to Wash,
inEton Park, as the friends and pa.
irons Of the church may elect.
Mr.. w. L. Houston, Grandmastel
of the G. U. o. of o. F., will be In
the city July IS and remain unit
about August 8, on business connect
ed with the order. He then goes tc
Mobile, Alabama, and Albany, Geor.
gia, to attend the sessions of the
Grand Lodges of those states, re-
turning to Chicago about the middle
of August. Mr.. Houston is succeed
ing admirably in the practice of the
law, as the partner of former Grand
Master Edward H. Morris.
Assistant District Attorneys 7. A,
Cobb's Office in the police court build
ing is to be materially improved.
Mr.. George H. DeReef, of South
Carolina, has been appointed an as
sistant clerk in the division of the
Municipal Court presided over by
Judge Robert H. Terrell. Mr.. De-
Reef is the first colored man to hold
such a position in the District of Co
lumbia.
Mr.. Walter w. Mischeaux, form
erly resident of this city, is serving
most successfully as assistant post
master under Honorable Joshua E.
Wilson at Florence, South Carolina.
Colonel Henry Lincoln Johnson, of
Georgia, was in town last week, to
give the President a summary of po-
htical conditions in the Cracker"
State. Georgia will receive some at
tention at the hands of Mr.. Hitch
cock at an early date, if the political
wiSeacres hereabouts are to be be-
lieved. Colonel Johnson did some
effective work for the Taft and Sher-
nina ticke in the last campaign.
A private party, consisting of
Mesdames w. L. Houston, 7. A.
Landlord, T. ]. Brown, Lima Silkman
Buckner, H. P. Slaughter, Lucy
Hamilton Nooks, Miss L. Blanche
Wright, and others, picniced most
pleasantly at Fairmount Heights last
Monday.
Why not await the grand excursion
to River View on the 2Ist instant, by
the good people of St. Luke's Protes-
tant Episcopal Church.
Every day makes new friends for
the Board and Mcclure Pharmacy,
on I4th street, between Tea and You,
and they are always busy around
there.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington spent
a few days in the city last week, en-
route to her summer home at Hunt
ington, Long Island. While here she
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. T. J..
Galloway, and Mr.. and Mrs. w. Sid
ney Pittman.
DR.. and Mrs. Henry L. Bailey (nee
Miss Josephine Willis Clarke,) areI
spending their ''honeymoon"in Bos-
ton, the guests of District Attorney
w. H. Lewis. After September I
they will be "at home" to their friends
at 1888 10Th street, northwest.
Miss z. Blanche Gibson, of the
Clarke Training School, is at Allan
tic City for five weeks, giving in
struction in millinery to a number of
classes especially organized by the
citizens of that burg for the benefit
of young colored women. Miss Glib
son has had ample experience in the
art of making pretty headgear and is
finding the work highly congenial.
The Dunbar Theater" moving
picture show is crowded nightly.
Similar shows are planned for the
corner of Itth and U streets, in the
buildings that are to be put up by
the Colored Laborers' Building and
Loan Association, and by Mr.. James
F. Childs.
DR.. Booker T. Washington is an
for an important address to-