The Washington times., 1911-05-10
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,
ANACOSTIA. d G MAY 10.

ANACOSTIA, d. c.. MAY 10.
At the meeting last evenirG of Ana
costa Council, No. 16. Junior Order OF
United American Mech A.ss, held in the
Anacostia Masonic Hall, a number of
reports were listened to by the members
relative to the progress of the order
in the District ,
The efforts of the various bodies of
the order in this jurisdiction to bring to
washington two years hence the ma
uonal convention of the order were dis
cussed and approved. 1t was reported
that a meeting was held In the city on
Monday evening, when the delegates
from the severa! bodies chose a repre-
sentative who will go to Mobile, Ala,
in June next, when the next annual
convention will take place, prepared to
name Washington as the ne citing place
for the convention of two years later.
Skinner, of Andrew JaCN on Council,
No. 6. He will have the support of the
Chamber of Commerce in his plea for
Washington, and the Chamber has
promised to further the plan in every
Another subject in which must interest
was displayed, as the local council will
be represented in the proceedings. was
that of the memorial services that are
being arranged for by the different
be held within month, probably. Prest-
dent Taft is to be invited to attend.
The memorial exercises will take place
in hall in Washington, to be selected
later.
In addition to the transaction of gen.
eral business, Anacostia Council con-
ferred the first degree upon one can
didate.
Curtis Rusk, the young man who was
felled In a game Of baseball on Satur-
day evening last while playing on the
Moses team, being struck by pitched
ball while at bat, Is still seriously Ill
at his home, 22l7 Chester street, where
the care of DR.. James A. Watson. and
has been unconscious part OF the time
since he was struck. He is suffering
from conclusion of the brain.
ed at one OF the city hospitals, but was
removed to his home in
AnacostiS where he has since been re-
ceiving medical attention. On the whole.
his condition was stated this morning TO
be slightly improved. He is twenty-one
years old. ..- ...- s..r g-.
Miss Gertrude A. Phillips, the prin-
cipal of the Ketcham Public School.
Fifteenth street and Good Hope road,
has completed all the arrangements
for the entertainment on Friday af-
ternoon- in the building. for the bene-
fit of the District Fairgrounds. An
has been issued to the
be present and to cooperate with the
teachers in making a success Of the
event
Eugene Hellman will appear in the
assembly hall in a magician and VEN
triloquist sketch. The children will
nf ~
over $55 was raised through the ef-
forts of the Van Buren teachers and
pupils at their recent luncheon in
Anacostia for the maintenance of the
Pupils of the eighth and the seventh
grades in the Anacostia public schools
were interested yesterday to learn of
The offer of the Washington Humane
Society for young essayists in the
ID by the society to any pupil of the
eighth grade who writes the best
composition on Humanity to AMI
mails" while an award of $40 will be
made to any seventh grade pupil who
Whites s5fesct the 1bo best onss essay on the same
the schools in the District for the
pupils within the grades named.
William H. Ford, a local business
man, who lives in Fourteenth street,
has been sent to Providence Hospital to
having been i'll recently.
emorial Day and its annual pilgrim
age to the Government Hospital for the
Insane by the veterans of the Grand
Army Post in Anacostia has already
5aen brought TO mind. Edward T.
Davis, the musical director of the asy-
um choir. is preparing the program
hat the singers of the institution. in |
conjunction with the band of the asy-
um, will render.
The veterans parade. their reception |
II the asylum and the decoration of the |
graves will not vary from the program |
If previous years. Commander A. B. |
Trisbie, of Logan Post, will direct the
proceedings.
Electa Chapter, No. ., Order of the
Eastern Star, initiated several candi-
ates at its meeting in the Masonic
Hall last evening. The members par
ook of refreshments in the lower hall
t the close.
The single men of the Anacostia
fethodist Episcopal Church won their
econd consecutive victory over their
married associates on the Christie dla-
nond last evening, score, Is to 0. The
ictory was due mainly to- the steady
tching of Russell Phipps. who al