The Washington herald., 1916-02-15
purely per.onal


membership in the Washington Board of
Trade.
! Richard p. Watrous has been appointed
member of the District finance COM
mittee OF the Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Sara Bard Field, one of two suf-
fraSists who brought petitions from
Westerners for woman suffrage, left yes
terday for her home In San Francisco.
Thomas Grant. secretary of the Cham
Der OF Commerce, has returned from a
business trip to New York.
J. P. T. Moran has returned from a short
trip to New York.
William F. GUIDE returned Sunday from
New York. where he went on a brief
business trip.
Jesse c. Brown. of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Department of Labor, is on
sick leave.
DIR. william c. Fowler. deputy health
loficer OF the District. has been elected
grand high priest of the Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons of the District. Dr.
Fowler was one of the organizers of
Washngton's latest Masonic social clubs
composed of Masons in the District serv-
ice.
Francis NJ. Jost, clerk in the Census
Bureau. Department OF Commerce. has
resigned from the government service.
A. r, Klaas. Of the division of stamps.
POstoffice Department. is spending
! short vacation with relatives in New
York and Philadelphia.
| Ethelbert Stewart. chief statistician of
the Department of Labor, In visiting Chi
cago and other Western cities to confer
with field agents of the bureau.
| Trumpeter Lewis Green. Battery A,
Field Artillery, District National Guard,
who has been acting as volunteer bugler
for the advocates of the ''back-to-the-
saddle" movement has been asked to act
as Instructor in horsemanship.
! Charles S. Ridgwsy. tobacco invcsti-
gator for the Department of Agriculture.
has returned to the department from Lam
caster. Pa. where he inspected the to-
! baCco warehouses.
John s. Ward. of the United States En-
sineer's Office. has been appointed In
speCtor of Potomac River improvements
to succeed the late John w. Avcrill Mr.
Ward was q 3istant to Mr.. Averill for
many years
! Capt. W. r. Harrison. u. S A., recruit
ing officer at Denver. is registered at the
| New Willard. Capt. Harrison formerly
! was assistant to the officer in charge of
public buildings and grounds in Washing
ton.
| W. ]. Showalter. Of this city, formerly
editor OF the Harrisonburg News-Record.
has been made assistant editor of the
National Geographic Magazine
Henry Van Dyke, United States Min
lister to the Netherlands, returned to
Washington on Saturday after visit to
his home in Princeton. N. J.
James II. Goodler. United States Con-
sui at Niagara Falls. Ontario. was in
Washington last week on leave of alb
scnce.
Commissioner Brownlow returned to
Washington on Saturday from trip to
Old Point Comfort Va.
John Holm. chief of the statistical
division of the Department of Commerce.
has left for short trip to baltimore and
New York on official business.
Miss l. F. Wells. of Washington. has
Deen appointed student assistant in the
division of insects at the Smithsonian
Institution.
Asst Surg. Gen. II. r. Carter, OF the
Public Health Service. has been ordered
to Whitney, y. G.. in connection with
study of the rela ton of impounded waters
to public health. through the erection of
4 dam at that place.
John J. Buckley has been elected Sec
rotary of the Holy Name Society of St
Paul's Catholic Church The organiza-
| ton has decided to affiliate with Holy
Name Union OF the archdiocese of Bal
| timore. Plans for n smoker are being
prepared by a committee composed of
j. w. Murphy, J. W. Cotter and Andrew
I. Hickey.
! James A. Messer, vice president of the
John Mitchell, Jr., Co. of Washington.
entertained a number Of friends at
luncheon yesterday at the New Ebbtt
| DR.. Charles f. O'Connor. medical Off
Ger in the Bureau OF Pensions, has been
| appointed medical and sanitary officer
| OF the Department of the Interior to i'm
prove hygeinic and sanitary conditions
\ in all of the buildings of the department.