The Washington herald., 1914-01-27
TOWN TOPICS
i ERSELY TOLD

| to be held tonight at the Library of
CONGRESS. The entertainment will begin
at S15 o'clock.
Frazier were held yesterday morn
ing at the residence in Nicholas avenue,
Anacostia Interment was in Congress
sional Cemetery.
Nine days of prayer started yesterday
for the restoration of the sight Of Henry
J. Wessling, student for the priest
hood. who was blinded by an explosion
lan the chemical laboratory OF the Jesuit
College in Buffalo. N. Y. Catholics Of
Washington Joined with others all over
the country in the prayers.
!; A joint banquet will be held February
at the Ebbitt by the Engineering So
ciety and the Architectural Club of
George Washington University.
The Southeast Washington Citizens
night at Donohoe's Hall. 314 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast, at o'clock.
meeting will be held at 8. o'clock |
this afternoon at the Wilson Normal
School by the Parents League. DR..
Walter A. Wells will lecture on Colds
Their Causes and How to Prevent
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| Representative Kahn, of California, \
will speak before the executive COM |
mittee Of the Chamber of Commerce |
| Thursday at noon. He will make
plea to the business men for co-opera- |
ton with the National Guard organi-
zations.
The executive committee of the
Board Of Trade elected ]. Harris
Franklin and Grant Leet to member /
ship at its semi-monthly meeting yes
terday. William H. Singleton, chair
man. presided The report of Col.
George Truesdell, read at the meeting ]
of the board Wednesday night was or
of the organization Copies will be
sent to members Of Congress.
Plans for the production OF the
Greek pageant-drama. The Fire Re
gained" will be discussed at a meet
ing Of the joint committee Of the Board
of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, and
Retail Merchants Association tonight
at 1880 o'clock. A committee of 100
citizens will be appointed to take
charge Of the final arrangements for
the play.
Secretary G. H winslow will give the
lures to the Terminal r. r. Y. NJ. c. A.
tomorrow The lectures will be on /,
Alaska" The lecture will be given at ,
o'clock in the afternoon for the night
men, and repeated in the evening for the
day men. IL
The fourth lecture in the series Of Lit f,
erature Studies by Mrs. Clara Bewick
Colby, will be given today at the Ebbitt
at l0:i5 a. m. and 6:45 p. m. The subject
is Ellen Keys great work. Love and
Marriage.
Charged with permitting a game of
'fan-tan'' to go on in his place. Lee A
Cat, a Chinaman, of 346 Pennsylvania A
avenue northwest. forfeited $50 yesterday. A
when he failed to appear-in Police Court =
for trial Detective Harry Evans and e
Policeman William Wright, of the Sixth r
precinct raided Cats place Sunday night, r
spectacular escapes out Of windows and d
DOORS. .
Willis Barton, eleven years old OF 11ts G
Morse street northeast, was knocked
down at Eighth and II streets northeast II
yesterday afternoon by a horse attached J,
t. wagon driven by William A. Arun- "A
Hospital where it was learned he had N
been hurt about the body. N
The police have renewed with viEor :,
their campaign against persons violating n,
the street traffic regulations. Charges Pl
were preferred against the Pi
persons: Addison Sampson. Pc
timer, seventeen years old: Ed 3.
ward Brooks. colored, by the Tenth 2.
precinct: William A. Arundel, fifty 3,
three years old, by the Ninth pre- So
cinct, and Merlin A. English, thirty-five Ia
years old. and Jasper Richardson, To
,olored, by the Second precinct. w
Detectives Beckley and Carroll, the two
,olored plain clothes men recently added
o the Central Office detective force made HI,
heir first arrest in their new roles yester-
lay. when they got Daisy Braxton, col
red on a charge of stealing IS worth Of
led clothing and table linen from Mrs
sadie Rohrer, OF 511 Thirteenth street =
northwest. The detectives recovered the Re
foods. They say the woman confessed.
At meeting at the residence Of Bishop n.
Harding last night reports were read
tating the condition of the Prisoners Aid bo
;ociety. Bishop Harding presided. Sew
raj addresses were made. ne
Mrs. F. S. Riley, of I5I3A Third street ne
northwest, had handbag snatched from G.
Ter yesterday afternoon at Marion and
streets northwest by an unidentified Re
olored man. The robbery was at once -
eported to the police, who are working 1n
n the case. i
- A.
Mrs. Ella Parker. twenty-five years old, G
f 421 Sixth street northwest. took iodine PC
asst night in mistake for cough medicine. -
IN ambulance was called from Casualty
Hospital. She was given home treat 2
nent by DIR. Chaplain King, resident T
MUSICIAN of the hospital. ]
Because another woman had smiled at I
i'm, Mary McAliister, colored, used
ocketknife on her husband last night
'harles McAllister. her husband, was at
'welfth and streets northwest at 81
clock when his wife attacked him. He II
'as cut on the left side of his head and n n
n the neck. The woman was arrested. r.
'hile he was sent to Freedmen's Hos D
ital NJ