The Washington herald., 1914-11-17
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Joint visitation 10 Pentalpha Lodge
No. 23, and B. B. French Lodge, No. 10,
in Masonic Temple, last night.
The annual donation day celebration
OF the Washington Eye. Ear, and
Throat Hospital will be held Wednes-
day from a. m. to p. m, in q e hos
pital building.
A drama entitled "HaEeI KIrke' will
be enacted at GonZaga Hall Thursday
evening to raise funds for the estab-
lishment of a scholarship for the blind
at Trinity College.
n. Il. Jones, editor Of the Southwest
ern Christian Advocate. will address
Bethel Literary and Historical Asso-
citation tonight at Metropolitan A. NJ
L. Church.
Mrs. Malyina Browning, sixty years
old, 1913 Rhode Island avenue north
west, while crossing the street in front
of 1914 Fourteenth street northwest
yesterday. was struck by an automo-
bile and slightly injured.
Fire Marshal Nicholson has started
an investigation in the fact that four
fires have occurred in Miner Hall. How
ard University. during the past month.
The last OF the four blazes occurred
Sunday night.
D. VI. Maxam, assistant superinten-
dent of the Life-Saving Service, will
address the Petworth Citizens Asso-
citation tonight on The Ideals Of the
Service" at the meeting OF the assO-
citation at Petworth NJ. f. Church.
The thIrty-nrst annual convention of
the Association of Oficial Agricultural
Chemists OF the United States opened
their convention yesterday afternoon
in the banquet hall Of the Raleigh
Hotel.
Seth A. Terry yesterday brought suit
for S25,OOO damages against James VI.
Chadsey and George +. Curtis. alleging
that they injured his character by
erroneous reports that he had employed
undue persuasion in having a will made
out partly in his favor.
The 20 school children of the West
School, in Saurs addition. Emerson and
Fourteenth streets, were excused from
work yesterday because OF interruption
Of the buildings heating plant through
the breaking of the main service water
pipe.
Charles Pryor. seventeen yeHrs old,
Mount Rainier. Md. employed on an
auto delivery OF a downtown depart
ment store, had his left collar bone
fractured yesterday when he fell under
a moving automobile. he was attempt
ing TO board.
More than $3.50 was netted by the
exhibition of a number OF masterpiece
paintings in the New Willard Hotel
during the past two weeks. for the
benefit of the Belgian relief fund. The
exhibition was conducted by the Count
ess Auredie de TOnnay.
Nine. MOntford, Of Jerusalem, will
speak Tuesday at 80 p. m. in the par
lors OF the TOrtner. Fifteenth and u
home of the Anthony League. Glasses
in parliamentary law. Spanish, French.
and Esperanto will begin Tuesday
might at : o'clock. at apartment 3I5.
The Legal Aid Society OF Georgetown
University has established headquar-
ters in the new Masonic Temple. and
announces that its hours for cOnsulta-
tiOn will be from to 10 o'clock in the
evening. The society's work is to give
free advice on legal matters to worthy
persons unable to retain the services
of a member of the bar.
The honor system il to be continued
in force this year at the Medical School
OF George Washington University.
The sophomore class has selected the
following students to constitute its
honor tribunal: V. NJ Brian. G. NJ. Ken
nedy. L. E. Mueller. and G. d. Dicker-
son. r. NJ Thompson and W. c. Mil
ler have been selected as alternates.
The bowling bug has Invaded the
George Washington University. The
duCkpin fever is rife. and teams by the
score are being formed. Practically
every Greek letter fraternity at the
university is contemplating the fOrma-
tion OF a team. and the result in all
proba ability. will be the organization OF
an inter-fraternity league.
OmcerS were reelected by stOckhOId-
ers Of the Institute OF Industrial Re-
search. Nineteenth and B streets north
west at their annual meeting yester-
day, as follows: DR.. Allerton Cush-
man. president; Henry A. Gardner, vice
president: Paul II. Butler, secretary
and treasurer and William \. Beck,
assistant secretary.
Raymond Norris, fifteen years old. a
newsboy, living at 912 ID street south
west. is at Emergency Hospital in a
serious condition from internal inju-
ries received yesterday when knocked
down and run over by an automobile
at Tenth street and Pennsylvania ave
nue..
BeEinnIng tomorrow evening Mt 7i30
o'clock the band of the United States
Soldiers Home will hold their indoor
concerts in Stanley Hall. Concerts will
be given on Mondays and Fridays at
$3.50 O'Clock, and on each Wednesday
evening there will be an orchestral
condert from 7:30 to $50 o'clock. The
pubic are cordially invited to attend.
Postmaster General BurIeson an
nounced yesterday he had sent a let
ter to all banks not belonging to the
Federal reserve system to the effect
that postmasters had been instructed
beginning yesterday to discontinue de-
posting postal savings in them, but
that the banks may retain for the
present such deposits as they now
have. -
The regular fall dinner Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Alumni Club
will be held in the main dining-room
of the University Club this evening at
o'clock. Following the dinner the
annual business meeting of the club
and election of officers for the ensuing
year will take place. DR.. Charles w.
Richardson, president of the club, will
preside.
Action of the Excise Board yesterday
in granting Michael Raftery permis-
sion to file application for a retail
liquor license at 1908 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest means that the total
number of saloons in the District may
be brought up to 299, or one less than
the maximum permitted under the law.
Raftery's application for a license at
1924 Z street previously had been re-
fused. The board will give a hearing
Friday morning at 10 o'clock on appli-
cation Of P. E. and z. A. Miller for a
retail license at sol Fourteenth street
northwest.