The Washington times., 1913-10-28
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU.
ANACOSTIA. d. c.. OCT. IS.


Announcement that applications are
being made to the excise board by liquor
dealers in the city for transfers of
licenses TO Anacostia has aroused
churches and temperance organizations
here. They promise to make strong
fight against the licensing of any more
liquor places for Anacostia. They have
had the situation here well-defined un-
der the old system, and there had been
a policy of restriction put into effect
by the former excise board number
of years ago, since which time nothing
has arisen to cause any protest one
way or another.
Those who have taken up the fight to
maintain present conditions point out
that the tendency on the part of Con-
gress even to restrict the grating of
licenses in this section has been evil
denced by the passage of legislation
prohibiting the licensing of bars within
a certain radius of the Home for the
Aged, a District institution at Blue
Plains, and the Government Hospital
for the Insane While Anacostia is not
within this zone in reality, it Is ex-
planned, it is close enough to invoke
the action of Congress referred to when
a change in conditions is threatened.
Halloween will be celebrated in the
old-fashioned way by a number of
church societies in Anacostia and
vicinity.
There will be a dance and entertain
ment on Thursday night in st. lgnatius
Hall, Oxon Hill, Prince George county,
Nd, for young people from Anacostia
and the Maryland town. The newly
organized Young Peoples Society of
Emmanuel P. Z. parish will give a So
cial in the parish hall, in V street, on
Thursday night, when elaborate decora-
tions will be the setting for lot of old
time revelry.
The Congress Heights Epworth
League will present a Halloween pro-
gram on Friday night. Witches and
goblins will be represented IN the make
up of the young folks. The Willing
Work ers Society, a church organization
of the Garden Presbyterian congrega-
ton, will give a Halloween party in
the church, in Minnesota avenue.
Preparations have been started by the
women managers of the Episcopal Home
for Children for the annual luncheon
to secure funds to assist in the main
tenance of the institution. The dates
for the proposed luncheon, which is to
be given in the former Masonic Temple,
Ninth and F streets northwest, were
announced today as November u and l3.
Mrs. Mary G. Davenport, the president
of the board of managers. will have
charge of the luncheon, and will have
as her assistants a number OF young
women from different Episcopal par
ishes in the city.
This luncheon has come to be an an
nual one with those interested in the
Episcopal Home, and always with splen-
did results financially. Last year 200
people partook of luncheon in the old
Masonic Temple to aid the home. The
usual sum netted by those affairs is
about $500.
Solomon Spriock, a metal worker, fell
from a scaffold yesterday while at work
on the new Congress Heights school
building. Fortunately he was not many
feet above the ground, so the only in
jury he received was one TO his right
hand. DR.. Arthur Meloy dressed the
wound, after which SpriocX was re-
acostia police. He vas not hurt seri-
ously, but his right hand was cut in
number of places He is nineteen years
cid and lives at 1895 L street northwest.
Washington Brooks. the colored man
who said he was cut by his wife with
razor as he lay in oed more than
week ago in their home in colored
district beyond Anacostia, today vas
discharged from treatment at Casualty
Hospital. Twelve stitches were taken
to close the wound. Mrs. Brooks has
become violent at the Jail, where she
was committed pending trial, and il is
understood the question of her mental
status will be considered soon, as she
was a patient at St Elizabeth's once.
Dr. George G. Havenner, chief cle-k of
the Department of Commerce, is on va