The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-02-22

every member OF the board. whether
he. has q son IL high school or not
Northwestern high school. Is chair
man OF the committee on arrange
ments.
A small bls.e which aha ce.siderabIe
jursd no one. inte sSsH' the fssti Vi
ties of the masquerade party Satur-
day afternoon In Harmonic hall for
the children OF members OF Har-
in attendance at the party as a
due 20 their competent. quick work
500 children. ranging in age from
babies In arms TO high school boys
and girls, were kept from Becoming
panic stricken and were quietly held
were p Permitted s ' 70 s' r Uas ns to the
building 10 change their fancy cos
TUNES and TO secure wrnps-
Thsln. A. Brndy. the eisht-yesr..eid
srsian e% a r.d fse an sc i,sey
plant. died, sunday. In the family
home, No. 397 Dragoon-ave.. from
injuries received In an automobile
ehiid's mother Is dangerously Ill
Her grandmother died a few months
ago; The little girl. accompanied by
ave. Friday afternoon. when a
machine driven by A. o. Moran, No.
1908 West Jefrerson-aye.. bore down
upon them. Thelma's companion
girl, confused. ran forward and war
Knocked down. e-witnesses sag
Mr.. Moran was not to blame for th'
accident
The funeral OF Norman 8. Hemenway.
who died while ~ n prayer meeting
In Advent Christian church Friday
evening, will be held from the home.
No. ~ MI Vernon, ave; Tuesday af-
en- just as he resumed his seat after
making a brief talk. Mr.. Hemenway
w Wa 81 years old and had lived In
vile. Ont, He was In the employ OF
the Detroit United Railway and its
predecessors for about 80 years, re-
firing three years ago. He served In
march to the sea. A widow. one son
and ave daughters survive. The flu
neral will be I'm charge of Fair
banks post. q. A. r.
The Wonan's Peace party Of Michigan
has named .as chairmsn Mrs. Fred
erick n. Holt. president of the Equal
suffrage League OF Wayne county,
ana has authorised her to attend the
emergency Peace federation confer
ence In Chicago next Saturday and
sunday. The federation was organ
lied In Washington in January by
MISS Jane adams, of Chicago. The
fatPVSS Va tHt conference Is 10 IOT-
mulate a constructive program for
peace which shall stand as the ex-
pression OF unofficial America and
to formulate and adopt plan by
aid OF the American people may be
rendered our sister nations In arms
and the cause OF an early peace pro-
A letter descriptive of the ruin In BEL
yium and France. caused by the war.
has been received by Arthur T. Pull
len. OF No. 80 Dunedin-ave, from his
brother William. lieutenant In the
is an observation ofiicer. whose duty
1t II to discover the range for his
battery. He tells of the retirement
OF his battery from a Belgian town.
and how the citizens accompanied it,
with what possessions they could
pack In bundles. rather than stay Ito
await the Germans. He also describes
Of fusitiyes. All Hw day. ana he sne w risnt
'the road was like n Highest on
Saturday night, and II aEas not until
the next Day that the flood OF peo,
children were still crying as they
passed"
Job f. Hedges, Of New York, was the
principal speaker NJ the Underwater
cruise OF the Board of Commerce.
dsfauit s Sss his topic By this
phrase, he explained. he meant the
failure to act OF those people who
sit mute while the governing powers
take a mistaken course. and are then
loud In their criticism of the action
taken. He urged that everyone who
had an idea as to how things should
be run ought to give free expression
to that idea, as a matter of patriot
ism. He said that ordinary daily
conversation can mold public opin-
ION Mr.. Hedges also suggested that
the ten days between the birthdays
Of Lincoln and Washington be made
civic Lenten season. In which .peo-
pie may ponder their civic obliga-
lions.
Negotiations are ON looking to the
purchase OF the LOsier Motor Co.'s
assets. recently disposed of at auc-
ton by the Detroit Trust Co.. trustee
for the creditors, to large eastern in
terests represented by j. j. Cassidy.
Regardless ofvthe outcome Of these
negotiations. active work will be re-
sumed In the Detroit plant Tuesday
with force OF about 100 men. There
are now orders on the books for 500
cars. without bodies, representing o
value OF 100000, for the southern
export trade and for 200 cars for
Minnesota and the northwest. The
purchasers in the recent sale were
Harry Frank. Theodore Friedeberg
As\a result Of swallovving a darning
; needle. nail and q quantity OF pins
and several buttons. Mrs. Alvin