Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-11
City News in Brief

WINDOWS IN TWO PAwNsHors were
smashed and jeweiry valued ~ $3.50 was
stolen In the last two days. according TO
reports 10 the police today. The pawnshops
Of aus Newman. 2O22 North Front street,
and Nathan Berger of SCI East Girard ave-
nue.. we're the places robbed
TwO CHILDREN playing with matches
caused a nre today ~ the home OF Hugh
A. GroEan. liig Snyder avenue. inc
flames. which started IN a sccond-stofy
bedroom. caused loss ~ 500
ANYrHING nut Toys ia asked for by
the Sewing Class for Charity $40 Bellevue
Court Building lsis walnut street W w
appeal for contributions 10 be distributed
ON Christmas to worthy poor boys and girls
from three months 10 sixteen years OF age
Practical warm winter clothing or money
ia preferrcd Last year the committee dlH-
trlbutcd iO6 sets OF underwear. Sb woolen
sweaters 2i2 pairs Of s:ockinEs. 20 cordu.
ROY trpugera 80 boys blouses so pairs of
knitted gloves. 2b tam o. shanters, 25
wooden caps and 25 pairs Of shoes. Twelve
practical Christmas dinners were also given.
Mrs william H. Dixon n president OF tho
committee.
THE YOUNGEsT MEMBER Of tho Amer
lean organ Players club VIII be admitted
at tho December meeting She viii he Miss
Louise SaIIcr, of Twenty-nln,h and Hunt
ingdon streets. seventeen years old pupil
NJ Henry s Fry. organlEt of 80 Clements
Protestant Ep'Ecopal church She began
her studies when fourteen years old.
COLONEL john GRIBDEL will have no
opposition for the presidency Of tho Union |
League ut lts annual election tonight, hav- |
Ing been ronominRtcd unanimously. The |
candidates for vice president are T. Ellis |
Barnes, Mlora Busch Clarence Bispham |
O.
French. Charles VI Gudknecht. Robert T. |
Hooper Thomas j Jcnrics. william H. Ly- |
man, Charles II. Miller. william W Por.
ter, william 9 Sproul and CharlcmaRnc
Tower
THE GIRLS or the Bryn Mnwr College
nro company recently organized have re-.
7gncd from active fire lighting and viii
let the jantor do the work Miss Helen
Harris, captain uf the company, says the
girls VIII do the bossIng at a nrc. but they
lrlke rushing 20 fires on cold winter nights
AFTER STRIKING n lamp post with his
automobile In the middle uf Broad street
near Girard avenue. Clarence T. Wood a
;arage owner Of wyncote, is In st Joseph's
Hospital The front Of the car was smashed
md Wood was violently thrown out
\ RED. TAwNY-RED CAT. from the
uuRlca of the Amazon In Brazil has Just
irrircd at the Zoo He. or she is begin
ling TO purr In the cage In the small mann
nal house. The new arrival liz Of the same
lie as the average house cat
THE REV DR. EDWIN HEYL DELR
4 St Matthew's Lutheran Church. Broad
md Mount Vernon streets In attending
he Gundrcnnial meeting NJ the Federal
'ouncll NJ the Churches OF chris, In Amer
ca In 81 Louis He liz a delegate from
he Lutheran Church.
MISS EVELYN JACKSON. chief nurse
4 the receiving department Of the Phila-
clpha Hospital. was found dead In bed
yesterday by fellow nurse She had been
uncring from acute indigestion Miss
nckson was about twenty-five years old
he was a native OF Ireland. and had been
I the hospital for several years.
STUMBLE on THE lower step Of the
talrway OF his home "A height OF ten inches
rovcd fatal to George Welt. sixty-four
cars old, OF 1861 Myrtlewood street
THE NEW GOVERNMENT garage. al
orty street and Woodland avenue
iurted sixty days ago. will he completed
lis week II will he tho largest one of ns
ind in the United States The new build
~ viii contain 10000 square feet Of space.
nd will accommodate 200 machines