The Washington herald., 1916-01-19
purely personal

III purety personal
Thomas Pence. secretary Of the Demo
cratic National Committee, who has been
in Emergency Hospital nearly two weeks
| suffering from grip, is improving, 1t was
announced yesterday. DIR. Cary 7. Gray
son. II. s. NJ, President Wilson's physi-.
clan, Is attending Mr.. Pence.
Charles ]. Columbus, secretary of the
Retail Merchants Association. Is suffer-
ing from an attack of grip. He was un-
able to leave his home yesterday.
Col. Robert N Harper, president of the
District National Bank. will be the guest
of the board of directors of the institu-
tion at a dinner at the willard tonight.
Royal Meeker, commissioner of labor
| statistics, has been away from his Office
for several days suffering from an at
tack of grip.
Senior Surg C. C. Pierce, Of the Public
Health Service, has been ordered to San
Antonio and Eagle Pass, Tex. to investi-
gate tyhpus fever conditions.
! z. K. Ellsworth, of the chief clerks
division of the Census Offce. has been
detailed to Ell Paso, Tex, to take the
y. b.
GARFIELD. of the same office, is also \de-
tailed on the mission.
John F. Lewis has been reinstated as
clerk in the Department of the In
terror at H,So0 a year.
Miss Douglas Wright, of Richmond.
representing the Cooperative Co-educa-
tional Association, is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. c. T. Jesse, OF Fort Myer
Heights, Va.
Willism Birch, who lives at Ballston
Va, will celebrate his Tooth birthday an
niversary on Friday of this week Mr.
Birch Is member of the Mount Olivet
Church and an honorary member of its
Christian Endeavor Society.
r. Brooks Clokey has been installed as
president of the Ballston CYa) Cisfzens'
Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Cooper and daugh-
ters. Esther and Grace, have returned
TO their home in Clarendon, Va, after a
, visit of two weeks with relatives in Bal
timore.
Miss Emily Pendieton. who has been
visiting her brother. John Pendleton, of
Clarendon, Va, has returned to her home
at Colonial Beach.
Horace Smith, a Confederate veteran
who has been a member of the Fauquler
County board of supervisors for the past
twenty years, and who in all that time
has missed just one meeting of the
board, is visiting at the home of his
sister. Mrs. Emmet Skinner of Falls
Church, Va.
Joseph syle, OF Richmond. who has
been visiting his aunt, Mrs. Ssunder:
Carter. of Falls Church, Va. has re-
turned to his home.
Mrs W. Z. Wood OF Washington. has
returned to her home from FIT. Myer
Heights. where she underwent an opera
ton.
Mr. and Mrs Frank suter. Of Wander
werken. Va. have been chosen deacon
and subdeacon Of the Congregational
Church at that place.
Mrs. Charles Snyder. accompanied by
her daughter, Frances. and Miss Eva
Wingert. of Millerstown. Pa, are visit.
ing their sisters. Mrs. Hoyt Johnston and
Mrs. Roland Harrison at Clarendon, Va.
Milton c. Elliott. counsel for the Fed
eral Reserve Board, left last night for !
Lansing, Mich, to represent the board |
at a hearing tomorrow before the |
Supreme Court Of the State in the case |
testing the right OF national banks to |
exercise the powers of trustee executor. |
administrator, or registrar of stocks and |
bonds under authority given in section II |
of the currency law.
Lieut.. Theodore H. Winters and Mrs. |
Winters have been spending a few days |
in this city. Lieut.. Winters of late has I
been on duty at the Philadelphia Navy |
Yard.
H. H. Mckee, secretary OF the Wash !
ington Clearing House, has left for |
Chicago to attend the annual meeting to- |
morrow of the National Association of |
Credit Men. He will deliver an address !
on The Control of the Number and the |
District Boundaries OF Federal Reserve |
Banks by Direct Legislation or by the |
Board"
Miss Mary Alice Finney, religious !
work secretary of the Young women's !
Christian Association, has returned from !
Atlantic City, where she spent the week |
end.