The Washington herald., 1915-02-02
Ole Gown Grter

The subject of tomOrrow's lecture
in the regular Wednesday course by
Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby is Fanny
Burney and DR.. Johnson" In red
parlor of the New Ebbitt, 1O:45 a. m.
and 4:45 p. m.
DR.. c. f. WinbIgIer will lecture to-
night at o'clock in the ballroom OF
the Cairo on the subject, THE Power
of Mental Imagery" 1t is open to
the pubic.
The National Lime Manufacturers
Association will meet Wednesday
night in the cabinet room of the
New willard. w. z. Carson will pre-
side.
Lake, National Park, is to be deliv-
cred by Judge l. G. Kimball before
a meeting of the Maine Association at
522 Sixth street northwest, Saturday
night.
An overturned stove caused n small
fire in the house at the corner of Lane
and Whittingham place, East Dean
wood, occupied by Harriet Frazer.
yesterday noon. The damage was
slight.
After forty years of service Col.
Robert c. Van Vliet, commanding the
Fourth United States Infantry at CAL
weston, Tex, on his own application,
will be retired May %. He has been
relieved from duty at once and grant
ed leave of absence for four months.
Maj. William NJ. Owen, U. s. A, re-
tired, yesterday was named by Presi-
dent Wilson to be chairman Of the
commission to test the weight of the
coins reserved at the Federal mints
during the year 1914. Maj. owen lives
at 1919 Ontario road, this city.
The Washington Custom Cutters
Association will be represented by P.
]. Foley, ]. c. wineman and Charles
C. Volk at the annual convention Of
the International Custom Cutters As
sociation. which opens in Milwaukee
today. The convention will last three
days.
Percy E. Bradshaw, thirty years
old, 346 A street southeast, was in
jured slightly yesterday morning when
he was thrown from a moving van
of the Washington Storage Company
in a collision with a Capital Traction
car at Fourteenth and Park Road.
The Monday Evening Club will hold
its twelfth annual banquet at Rausch-
er's on the evening of February q.
Inc CluD was JCoA .
ago for social workers, but has
widened its scope of work and now
includes all persons interested in So
cial service.
Representative Martin b. Madden, of
Illinois, will address the Bethel Liter
ary and Historical Society tonight at
a meeting in Metropolitan A. NJ. E.
Church, NJ street, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth streets northwest. Spe-
cial music will be furnished by the
Amthion Glee Club.
A special committee, headed by
George W. White, of the National
Metropolitan Bank, is endeavoring to
collect sufficient funds from the peo-
pie of Washington to send a medical
| unit to Servia. The plan is to send
| five surgeons, six nurses and two am
bulance attendants. there being only
300 physicians in that entire country.
The group of women who are plan
ming a sacrifice week" for the benefit
of Washington charities will meet this
morning in the Raleigh to choose a
name and complete details for the
campaign, which is to begin February
IS. Mrs. Ellis Logan will preside at
the meeting this morning.
An InterschOoI conference of rep
| resentatives of the Washington High
and Normal School Alumni Associations
will be held in the board room at the
Franklin School Tuesday evening at
s o'clock. This meeting will be at
tended by the executive committees
of six alumni associations, represent
ing the Central, Eastern, Western, and
1 Business High schools, the Mckinley
Manual Training School, and the j
Ormond Wilson Normal School
| - IL
phia, lately returned from the Deau-
willie Military Hospital in France
where she served as war nurse, will
speak at the Congressional Union fol
woman suffrage, 1920 street, to-
night at o'clock. Miss Drexel will
speak on the position of women in
the war zone. Miss Eliza Lord will
address the same meeting on 1.-The
naturalization of suffrage work.