The Washington bee., 1911-07-15
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Important News Happenings
of the Week
DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST
(By Miss G. B. MaxheId.0

For the first time in America a
Summer school for instruction of the
sisters of the Catholic Church has
opened at the Catholic University.
More than three hundred have al
ready registered
Hawaii is the pineapple farm of the
world. The largest pineapple can
merry in the world IS near Honolulu.
Benjamin c. Robinson, the oldest
engineer on the Southern Railway.
and reputed to be the oldest in point
of service of any locomotive engineer
in the United States, died last week.
He became an engineer about 1900.
He was u years of age.
Rev Paul d. Drake, rector of the
Unitarian Church III Beverly, Mass,
and widely known as President Taft's
Summer pastor, has accepted a call to
the Unitarian Church in Saco, Me.
William w. Smith, one of Pough-
keepsie's philanthrOpists, has pre-
sented his check for 100000 to the
Young WOmen's Christian AssOcia-
ton. Mr. Smiths gifts to local char
liable institutions now total nearly a
million dollars.
Cuba is arranging to pay tribute to
| the sailors whose lives were sacrificed
on the battleship Maine Flags on all
! the public buildings and on ships in
| the harbor will flag at half mast.
Guns will be fired at half minute in
tervals the entire day. The destruc-
ton of the Maine had much to do
with the clash of arms that freed
! Cuba.
The citizens of Little Rock are
making extensive preparations for the
I2th annual session of the National
/ Negro Business League which CON
venes Aug. 10. $I,oI2 has been raised
] for the entertainment fund, $500 of
which was given by the Chamber of
| Commerce.
The Methodist Bible Institute,
which met at Denton, Texas, recently,
passed a resolution favoTing the eX-
tension of the ecclesiastical franchise
to women on an equal footing with
linen.
| Johr p. Jones, the noted Welsh
composer and vocalist, died in Chi
cago last week at the age of 80 years.
He died while singing one of his fav-
IOrite hymns.
The Shiloh Baptist Church has
lOpened a vacation Bible School, the
object of which is to keep in touch
with the children during the Summer
months and to keep them off the
lstreets. The school is open from Q
Ito II o'clock The children will be
taught reading, manual training, sing
ing and Bible sories.
| The White House stables, the old
Landmark that has housed the horses,
vehicles, automobiles, and even the
I"White House cow" from the time
when Gen. Grant was President, and
for whom it was originally built, will
be taken away.
Former Vice-President Charles w.
Fairbanks, in an address before Chris
tian Endeavorers in Atlantic City,
said: when | arrived here | would
never have known it was Sunday save
looking at the calendar. The condi-
tions were shameful, worse than in
many European cities" The applause
was scattered.
The violent wind and hail storm
which swept Lee County, Ala, caused
damages estimated at SI5O,OoO, and
practically every vestige Of growing
crops was destroyed.
France is suffering from a heat
wave more intense than the country
has experienced since 1000.
Nicholas D. Haner, a nephew of
Barbara Fritchie, quietly celebrated
his oath birthday at his home in Fred
erick, Md, last Saturday.