The Washington times., 1911-08-31

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]. Pluvius was the most prominent
exhibitor at the Rockville fair, but it
any blue ribbons.
Waldo Hibbs is making twenty-five
miles a day on his pedestrian tour of
Virginia. He will find it mighty hard
to sit still when he comes back and set
ties down.
The new gun devised by the army for
shooting aeroplanes has a range of
seven miles. The enemy who succeeded
in escaping from it would have to be a
long way toward heaven already.
Rain, rain, go away. come again an
other day." is the slogan of the play
grounds of the District. The Virginia
avenue and CORDOBA children have had
to postpone their sports twice.
The clerks in the Census Office are
delighted to learn that one delightful
superstition is not to be overthrown.
The ghost, it is announced. will walk
tomorrow, as usual, and a happy thrill
CALCULUS AllC
The center of population has now been
found to be near Bloomington, ILL.,, but
If all the hoboes come to Washington
who are headed this way 1t will look
very much as If it were right here in
our midst.
No, gentle reader, the militia is not
l,,,t
you see is merely the first detail @;
District hunters preparing to take ad.
vantage Of the first day of the open
season.
The people of the District who ordi.
narily- do not wish to vote feel thai
they would have liked to have had g
chance to go to the polls in Maryland
long enough to turn Anne Arundel tc
Lee.
Lieutenants Graham and Montgomery
Of the cavalry. at Fort Myer, have beer
detailed TO attend the Nashville horse
show. and the army horses which
have been exhibited in New York anC
England continue in the spotlight
War Department to pay more attention
to efficiency and less to sentiment IL
the matter of promptly retiring the
physically unfit. A man who is busy
fighting disease hasn't much time o.
strength to fight the enemy in the field
n II Is really true that a provision
for universal transfers has been lurk
ing for seventeen years in the Distric
laws, without the knowledge of thos,
whose business it is to keep INFORMED
on such matters, it is high time we go
some legal advisers.
The dismal weather couldn't put
damper on the annual excursion of tn,
st. Vincent de Paul Society TO Mashal
Hall yesterday. One thousand excur
sionists enjoyed dancing and music ol
the boat en- route and at the Marshal
Hall Casino.
The weekly report of the Board o
Health shows that the sanitary condi
ton of the District, so far as concern
those contagious diseases which ar
generally regarded as serious, is entirel
satisfactory. To be able to live 4
washington. and at the same time t
1--we longer, is a double blessing.
East Washington Heights citizens en-
tered earnestly into the campaign 70
the extension Of the District waite
mains, which resulted in bringing
water to Congress Heights, but didn'
aid their own community. Now the
are beginning a new campaign to hel
themselves.
The democratic trolley line came I
the rescue of the hobo convention dele
gates after the steam roads turned theI
down. Perhaps the steam roads fet
that they are daily providing sufficier
free transportation to this class c
travellers.
The delay in the opening of the Cos
Del Missions penny restaurant is re
gretted by large clientele, present an
prospective. supt H. w. Kline. VIII
found that a lease of part OF the Mis-
sion building, IA and 216 John Marsha
Place, would not expire until January