The Washington times., 1913-06-29
City Mems
Notes

| All cases Of pellaEra In the Dlstrict
must be reported to the Health De-
partment beginning today. This step
| Is taken SO the officials may make
| an Investigation Of the cause Of the
disease. Pellagra is comparatively
| rare, and manifests itself in a discol-
Grafton of the skin. accompanied by by
that may lead to insanity.
Honsebreakers operated IN the va
| cant structure 1t 723 Florida avenue,
taking five gas fixtures. Edward Barry
Complained of the theft to the police.
Sam Mareellon, Jackson Suit. Arm
stead Ward and Hall Basil yesterdays
heat victims, are in an improved coldi-
tion following treatment at the Emer-
gency and Casualty hospitals.
sTittIe Rpssia. was the term used In
describing the District by DR.. Thomas
z. Will, secretary Of the District Suf-
frage League. in an address at Eighth
street and Pennsylvania avenue last
night.
The weekly meetings Of the YOUNG
| women's Hebrew Association will be
discontinued during July and August.
Meetings will be held on the first and
third Thursdays Of each month.
| For one more week the letter car
| riers and their substitutes Of Washing
ton will wear their present uniforms.
Lighter clothes then win be donned.
while their coats will be doffed during
the summer.
The Pattern Makers' League Will
to the information received by Secre-
| tary Thomas Grant, Of the Chamber Of
Commerce, today.
A two-week trip to Atlantic City
has. been won by Mrs. Norman Ingals.
| of Grant Road, as the prize in q contest
recently given for the benefit Of st.
AIMS Church, Wisconsin avenue.
Members and friends Of the Greater
Washington Poultry and Pigeon Club
this afternoon are inspecting poultry
farm near Berwyn. Nd.
The funeral Of Mrs. Esther Stewart,
known to residents along the c. & o.
canal as Mother Stewart, who died
Friday, was held from Potomac Chapel
| today.
A Ave-day eonvention will be held
at the Public Library, beginning to-
morrow morning. by members Of the
National Speech Arts Association.
Thirty-four Shriners, Membefs Of
Almas Temple. and their wives. are on
an outing on the Chesapeake Bay to-
day. they having left Washington yes
| terday on the excursion. They win re-
turn tomorrow morning.
TAemas Roberts. ferty-eight. ef aos
Twelfth street, is alive today, al
though he fell four stories down an
elevator shaft in the new Commerce
building at nineteenth and II streets.
said he probably would recover. His
most serious injury IL broken arm.
Coran Jaeksen, eoloreS. ana Abra-
ham Curry. colored. were drowned
while swimming yesterday. Jacksen
met death near the Acqueduct bridge
when he got beyond his depth. and
Curry drowned in the Eastern branch
when he was seized with cramps.
Cleverness with q pen and q brief
signed as causes for the apprehension
Of owen s. Murphy. former United
States soldier, on a charge of raising
a 81 bill. Murphy was taken into GUS
tody at Polls Theater last night when
he presented what purported to be q
SO bill, but what, the police say, was a
81 bill with a zero added with pen and
ink.
George Skinner. forty years old.
colored. was found dead in bed at his
home in Messer street. near Nichols
avenue southeast, today. The police
have turned the body over to the cor
oner.
Parents Of many Of the boys attend
ing the Y. II. c. A camp at South
River. Nd. visited the camp today
| and attended the religious services,
which included a sermon by Henry B.
F. Mcfarland, former District Com
missioner. The boys have named their
tents after different nations. and
the Hague arbitration court" presid-
ed over by Director Chesley.
While playing in front Of his hone
at 496 G street southwest today, FL
mer Anderson was bitten in the right
leg by a stray dog. A physician pro-
nounced the wound not serious.
Philip Duffels, who gave washins-
ton as his address. was scalded by a
coffee urn in a wreck near Peru. Ind.
yesterday, when twenty five were in
Jured in the collision OF the Fast Fly
Ing Virginfan OF the c. and o. railroad.
The Washington directory does not
give the name OF Duffels.
Mass Meeting Tonight
To Celebrate Home Rule
Polls Theater, II is expected, will be
packed tonight at the mass meeting in
celebration of the advancement made In
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