The Washington herald., 1915-10-05
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Examinations will he held on No
vember l by the government for young
medical men between the ages of . and
50 to determine their fitness for admis-
sion to the grade of assistant surgeon
in the Public Health Service.
Col. W. W. Hnrts, I'm charge Of pub
lie buildings will lecture on Engineer
ing as an Aid TO Park Development at
meeting OF the Washington Sociey Of
Engineers tomorrow evening at O'Clock
AT the Cosmos Club.
The Capital Literary Society will
hold its opening meeting Monday even
ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. II.
Frear. e2S Eighth street northeast. An
address is TO be made by the new presi-
dent Of the orga initiation. E. V. Carr.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Association Of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District will be held at the Union Engine
House. Nineteenth and II streets north-
west. tomorrow evening at ':3o CLOCK.
Theodore W. Noyes is president OF the
organization and Benjamin w. Reiss re-
cording secretary.
Mrs. Henrietta w. Calvin, lecturer on
home economics for the bureau OF educa-
ton, is to address a meeting OF the Home
Economies Association at the Pubic
Library this afternoon at 3:3O. She Will
speak on New Phases of Home Eco
nomics Teaching as Observed in Forty
Schools
The second annual flower exhibition
of the Petworth Citizens Association will
be held this evening and tomorrow even
ing at Wallace Memorial United Presby-
terian Church. Entrants in the exhibit
ton will be confined to residents OF Pet
worth or the vicinity. The flowers must
be grown by the exhibitors.
A dinner IL to be rendered to DR..
Lewis j. Battle. chairman of the medical
committee. during the G. a. r. encamp-
ment The dinner will be given at the
New Varnum Hotel Thursday evening at
7.3O by members of the committee. in
appreciation of his efficiency and as a
mark of their personal esteem
Examinations for company and reEi-
mental officers of the high school cadet
corps will be conducted tomorrow and
Friday by the military board of exam
iners of the school system. The board is
led by Mai Waliack McCathron, military
instructor in the schools. and is composed
OF officials of the District National
Guard.
The sunday School Institute of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese Of Wash
ington will hold its nineteenth annual
convention at the Church OF the
Epiphany on October 20. Plans for the
promotion of the cause of religious edu-
cation and to bring together in confer
enc, all clergy, teachers and officers OF
the diocese will be discussed.
The ID. 4. r.. have issued Invitations
for their twenty-fifth anniversary cele-
bratiou. which will be observed with a
general meeting at 3 O'Clock and a re-
cention at 3 oclock next Monday, at Me-
col oil Nrc Era nix
Foster Greenawalt is chairman of the
committee on arrangements and is pre-
paring IA program.
The Old Soldier Fiddlers. composed
Of five old boys in blue" will entertain
N. residents OF the John Dickson Home.
| Eo,rteenth street extended. this evening
This afternoon the fiddlers will entertain
! tho Girls of St. Roses Industrial Home.
/ The organization is composed Of G. w.
! Ryder. manager: Chauncey Whiting. W.
n Barnes, Charles Barrett and Harry Z.
/ Howard.
commIssioner Charles w. Kuts will
! n ddrcss the Columbia Heights Citizens
association at its october meeting In the
lanes Ormond Wilson Normal School to-
nieht Mai. Pullman. superintendent OF
noIicc. and Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, a
r,.mber of the board of education. are
.xn.c,pd TO attend. The association will
consider Joining the Federation OF Citi-
! zens' Associations.
: Nni. Charles w. kutz, Engineer
: Commissioner of the District. will speak
a, a meeting of the Columbia Heights
I,it;zsns' Association tonight in the
lanes Ormond Wilson Normal School a,
! EIoveuth and Harvard streets northwest
Noi Rsymond W. Pullman. an honorary
! p,amber OF the association. and Mrs
susie Root Rhodes. of the Board OF Edu-
cation. will be present
a ,,,..iep which will continue until
g a,urday was opened yesterday at the
! Church of the Nativity. Brishtwood. by
the Rev. +. Schneider. a member of the
Redemptorist Order. from Annapolis
Tha scryices began with mission masses
| - and 1880 a. m, and at p. m. the
rosarv was said. followed by a mission
sermon and tenedetion: Ihroushout the
and n. m.
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