The Washington herald., 1916-01-18
purely personal

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Mrs. Lydia Williams. who recently
suffered fractured arm from falling on
the ice In front of Emergency Hos
lpital. is at the hospital and Is reported
to be recovering.
Chiddo Mlyatovich, graduate of George
/ Washington University. and former
Serbian senator and minister to England.
has come to this countryside tell the real
STORY of Serbia and her people. 1t is
likely he will include Washington in his
Itinerary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron H. Barker. jr.,
of Washington. who are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Playford. at their home
In Green Spring Valley, were among
the guests at a meeting of the supper
Club last night in Baltimore.
Frederic r. Harris yesterday had his
name sent to the Senate by President
Wilson as chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks to succeed Civil Engineer
Homer r. Stanford. whose four-year term
lexpired on Friday. Mrs. Stanford will be
assigned to duty at the Mare Island (Cal1
Navy Yard.
Miss Helen Waldsmith, assistant In
the foreign trade department of the Gin
Icinnati Chamber of Commerce, has come
to Washington to study the methods of
the Bureau OF Foreign and Domestic
Commerce of the Department of Conn
merce with view to promoting export
trade Of the country.
Mrs. Alan Cole, of Baltimore, who was
visiting her sister, Mrs. Samuel Ames
Keighler, in this city, has returned to
her home.
Henry D. Clark has been PROBATIONARY
appointed assistant engineer physicist at
s, 500 a year in the Bureau of Standards.
Thomas w. Higdon. of Langdon, d. c.,
has entered the naval service. He passed
a rigid examination at the Baltimore
recuiting office last week.
Harry NJ. Klee. who has been con-
fined to his home for the past ten days
| as result of tonsilities, has returned to
duty in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy
Department.
Lieut.. Commander Joseph r. Defrees.
who for the past three years has been
on duty as the torpedo officer at the
Bureau of Ordnance, has recently been
detached and ordered as navigator of
the new Dreadnaught Nevada. Lieut..
| Commander Defrees, with Mrs. Defrees
and young daughter. are at present
residing at the Woodward.
Jonkeer and Mime. Tjarda van Stark
enborgh Stachouwer have returned to
/ Washington, after spending the week
end with Mrs. Theodore Marburg, at her
home in Baltimore.
Mrs Frederick Dent Grant has ar
rived at Lakewood, N. J., where she
will spend the remainder OF the winter.
Mrs. V. May Riley and her daughter,
Mary, are visiting relatives at Barnes
Vile, Ohio.
Miss Julia Williams is the guest of her
Ibrother-in-law and her sister, Lieut.. and
Mrs. Joel Bunkley.
Mrs. r. l. Murphy, of North Carolina.
Is visiting Mrs. II. E. c. Bryant, at 36l1
Wisconsin avenue.
Miss Katherine Poullian Goodridge, Of
Baltimore, who was visiting friends In
this city, has returned to her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney
are at Atlantic City for a short stay.
Miss Marion II. Buckler. of Baltimore,
who was visiting friends IN this city,
left for her home last night.
First Battalion Chief James c. Keli-
her is acting head of the fire department.
Chief Frank J. Wagner and Deputy
Chief Andrew ]. Sullivan, both being on
the sick list. Chief Wagner is suffering
from a slight attack of grip and an
liberated tooth, while his deputy is nurs-
ing a sprained ankle.
Stephen B. Lydane and Edna ].
O'Neale, who have computed interest
and per centage. side by side, In the
Office OF the collector of taxes for several
years, were married at Baltimore on
Friday Mrs. Lyddane will be back at
his desk this week, but the bride has
resigned.
George H. Bailey, veteran in the Dis
trict engineer department, is one of the
hundreds who are suffering from the
sweeping attack of grip and influenza in
the District.
. Capt Almont Barnes, of the Bureau of
, Crop Estimates, Department of Agricul-
ture. has returned to his desk from II
, short leave of absence.
Thomas H. Birch. United States,
for a short stay. He is at the Shore
ham.
L. L. Korn, of the money order disision.
Postoffice Department, has returned to
work from a short vacation spent in New
Jersey.
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