The Washington herald., 1914-01-04
TOWN TOPICS
i ERSELY TOLD

II II EKSELY lOLU|
Rev. DIR. Abram Simon will be the
principal speaker before the Collegiate
Club. 1901. Eleventh street northwest. to-
night. His subject will be. "Claims on
Couture" The meeting will be public.
The Washington Real Estate Brokers'
Association will hold a luncheon at the
Raleigh Hotel some time this week, the
date 10 be announced later. Reports
from committees interested in the estab-
lishment of a valuable medium for the
protection of taxpayers will be heard.
| Announcement is made of the promotion
of Daniel ]. Moriarty, clerk In the
Bureau of Standards. Department Of
Commerce, to a S1,i0o position. Mrs.
Ellen ID. Humphreys and W. Walter
Thomas have been temporarily appointed
as additional keepers of Cedar Point
Light Station. Nd. and Tangier Sound
Station, Va, respectively.
| Lewis Merriam, assistant chief OF the
IChildren's Bureau, will be the speaker
at the meeting tonight of the Liberal
Religious Union OF All Souls Church.
The meeting is set for Z o'clock. and the
public is invited
Funeral services for Rev. A. ]. En-
stan. who died Friday I'm Baltimore fol-
\ lowing an operation at Johns Hopkins
| Hospital. WIFI be held tomorrow after
noon at O'clock at the Lutheran Church
Of the Epiphany. Sixteenth and U streets
northwest. Rev. Henry Anstadt and
Rev. Charles r. Steck will officiate at the
services. which will be in Swedish and
English.
James J. Flynn, ir.. Is the first baby
boy born in 1914 in Washington. according
| to the certificate filed with the health
department January /. His parents. Mr.
i and Mrs. James J. Flynn. of 3sl6 Fifth
street northwest, are receiving the con-
gratulations of friends.
Practical Consideration of Communica-
BILE Diseases as They Affect the Home
will be the subject OF DR.. ]. Wesley
Bovee. of the Emergency Hospital. who
will deliver a lecture before the Y. W.
c. A. next Wednesday evening.
Kallipolis Grotto will meet at Odd Eel
lows Hall January II at $50 o'clock In the
| afternoon to pay tribute to the late
| monarch of the grotto. Jesse F. Grant.
| f. W. Hawkins. chief Justice of the
grotto. urges all members to attend
| Prophet Mark Stearman is chairman of
the committee on arrangements.
The condition OF S. Sewa1IJ CLsseII. who
has been critically i'll of pneumonia at
his home on Georgetown Heights, is un-
changed.
At the rooms OF the Anthony League
in the Portner next Tuesday afternoon
Prof. George Henry Howard will speak
on Some National Aspects of Real Edu-
cation in Music
DR.. c. F. WinbigIer. director OF the
Washington acknowledgements Society.
will deliver his second public lecture at
the W. C. T. L. building. 522 Sixth street
northwest. tomorrow night. He will dis
cuss THE Psychology of Fear"
]. A. Wilson. thirty-four years old
manager of the Northumberland apart
ments, was hurt last night at Fourteenth
and X streets northwest when he was
struck by an automobile driven by o. ].
Mott, of the Brighton. MoA took Wilson
to Emergency Hospital in his machine.
Charged with shooting his wife. George
". Taylor. a horse dealer. of 407 ii stree.
northeast, will be arraigned in Police
Court tomorrow. Both Mrs. Taylor and
her husband were wounded in an alter
cation Friday afternoon.
The coroners jury investigating the
death OF Cornelia Love, colored, which
occurred at her home. 1lG5 Q street
northwest, January !, yesterday held DR..
William l.. Tignor, n colored physician.
for the action of the grand jury, IL being
declared her death was due to a GRIM
inal operation.
A thief some time Friday night stole
nine pounds of ham, five pounds of corn
pork, and five pounds of fresh pork from
the store of Isaac Edelson, 2l53 Newport
Place northwest No iclew TO his iden-
tby has been found.
The police yesterday were asked to
search for Frederick W. Wilson. first
sergeant, u. S. Marine Corps, stationed
at the navy yard. Wilson left the navy
yard early Friday morning, and up tC a
late hour last night had not returned.
John Donohue, thirty-five years old, of
1 Conduit road, went to Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital yesterday to have a
broken nose patched up. Donohue re-
fused to tell hospital physicians how he
had been injured.
George Webster. forty-eight years 3ld. |
of 220S Nichols avenue southeast, was
overcome by Illuminating gas in the bath |
room of his home last evening. He was
removed to Casualty Hospital in the pc
troll wagon of the Eleventh police pre-
cinct. and there resuscitated by use of |
the pulmotor.