The Washington herald., 1914-12-09
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Fire Of unknown origin did SO dam
age yesterday at 1915 Sixth street
northwest occupied by Calvin Warren.
Detective sergt. Larry 0'Dea has re-
turned to his duties at police head
quarters after. a leave of absence of
fifteen days.
bill proposing that Christmas shall
be made a legal holiday for rural car
riers was introduced in the House yes
terday by Representative Park. OF
Georgia. ---l ~
Examination of 400 applicants for
positions as stenographers. typewriters.
clerks. and messengers under the Fed
eral Reserve Board will be held today
by the Civil Service Commission.
The membership committee of the
Chamber of Commerce elected the fol-
lowing new members to the organiza-
tion yesterday: f. w. Stearns, Monta-
que Mailing Machinery Company; T. F.
Ellis, and John Lewis Smith.
Announcement has been made Of the
appointment of Paul Stirling Putzki, OF
the junior class OF the George Wash
ington University Medical School. as
student inferno in the university hos
pital.
The Association of American College
Surgeons has announced the appoint
ment of the following fellows, all mem
bers OF the faculty of the George Wash
ington University Medical School: Drs.
H. G. Fuller. L. T. Ealley. Oscar A. NJ
McKimmie. and Daniel Kerfoot Shute.
Bureaus of the Department of AEri-
culture which have occupied rented
buildings in various parts OF the city
are moving into the new department
annex at Thirteenth and streets
northwest. The moving will be COM
pleted in several days.
The Mems Baraea Class of the Metro
politan Baptist Sunday School will give
a banquet in honor of the teacher. Rep
resentative Courtney W. Hamlin. of
Missouri. Friday night. The largest at
tendance in the history OF the class was
recorded last Sunday, when lc4 men
were present.
Louis ZeImanon, twenty-fO1r years
old, 1114 Seventh street northwest, was
cut and bruised about the body yester-
day when he was knocked from his BIZ
cycle at Twelfth and V streets north
west by a coal truck. He went to Emer-
gency Hospital.
DIR. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of
Leland-Stanford. Jr., University, spoke
on The War in Europe" before the stu
dents and patrons of Friends School
yesterday morning. The speaker quoted
the German proverb that War creates
more scoundrels than 1t kills." and said
that war is always caused by someone's
wickedness.
At the Washington College of Law
last evening, the Mussey Debating So
ciety decided in the Affirmative the
That Co-education in Col
leges is Desirable" The Affirmative
speakers were w. II. Honey, Miss Alice
Bruce. and Miss Olive Jack: the mega
tive, G. w. Sims. Miss Emily Dashiell.
and NJ. H. Greenwald.
The Stnte Department yesterday re-
ceived through Ambassador Page at
London the reply of the British gov
ernment TO the objections of the United
States government to British interfer
ence with neutral trade. The contents
OF the communication were not dis
An aII-day bazaar at which various
little Christmas trinkets were on sale. |
the serving of tea from 4 o'clock until |
s o'clock, and dancing from s o'clock |
until midnight, marked the annual
benefit of the board of lady managers |
Of George Washington University Hos |
pital, at the Raleigh yesterday.