The Washington herald., 1916-02-15
0be Gown Gr,er

prohibition mass meeting will be
held in Wesley NJ. L. Church, Fifth
and + streets northwest, at o'clock
tonight. The speakers will be Repre-
sentative Charles II. Randall, of Cali
fornia; Representative Addison T.
Smith, of Idaho: Edward S. Brashears,
and Mrs Emma Sanford shelton. will
bert p. Cooke will preside. Special
music will be rendered by Mrs. J. A.
Edgar and Miss II. Edgar.
The District Assembly Of the Fourth
Degree, knights of Columbus, will
meet here February %. The meeting
has been called by Charles w. Darr,
master of the fourth degree for Mary
landg and the District of Columbia.
sMatthew GauIt Emery, the Last
Mayor of Washington" will be the
subject of paper by William Van
Zandt Cox before the Columbia His
torical Society tonight at the Shore
ham. A reception will follow, the
committee in charge being composed
of Mrs. James Franklin Hood. Mrs.
James Dudley. Morgan. Mrs. Charles
Herbert Stockton. Mrs. Louis +. Shoe
maker, Miss Virginia 7. Peacock, Mrs.
Appleton p. Clark, jr.. Mrs. Fred l..
Fishback, Mrs. william f. Roberts,
Mrs. Albert Harper. Mrs. Abby Gum
Baker. Mrs. Margaret B. Downing, and
Miss Alice r. James.
A mass meeting of Republicans will
be held tonight in Second Baptist
Church, Third street, between II. and
I streets northwest Rev. w. B. John
son, D. D., Ii" D., will be chairman
of the meeting, and Jabez Lee, secre-
tary.
The. Bethel Literary and Historical
Association will hold its annual Chris
tian Endeavor rally and banner contest
tonight in Metropolitan A. M. 4.
Church. Rev. DR.. w. r. Johnson, OF
Richmond, Va, will speak.
The Elizabeth Cady stanton suf-
frage Club will meet Thursday night
at Public Library. Suffrage for West
Virginia" will be discussed.
"Abraham Lincoln and His Times"
will be the subject of an illustrated
lecture by Gideon Pillow tonight at
the Arcade. Fourteenth street and
Park road. for the benefit of the Star
mont Aid for ConsumptivCs. There
will be dancing from 10 TO IL O'Clock.
The committee in charge is composed
OF Mrs. l.. F. Kehler. Mrs. William
Ramsey. Mrs. r. T. Stephenson. and
Mrs. Ever L PartTi'Ssc.
The Gaelic society OF Washington
will give a musical program tonight
at the Comstock Studio. l34O New York
avenue northwest
Maine memorial exercises will he
held this afternoon at Fort MNer, Va.
G. A. II. Confederate. Spanish War:
and Army and Navy Union employees
will be excused from the federal serv-
ice to attend the exercises.
"Washington of Today and
Glimpse of the Washington of ToUnor-
by Col w. W. Harts, supcrintedent
of public buildings and grounds. to-
night at 231 Fourteenth street north
west, before Company Section No.
of the American Electric Railway As
sociation, and the commercial section
of the Potomac Electric Power Com
pany.
The Washington Real Estate Brok-
ers' Association will meet tonight in
the rooms of the Board of Trade to
consider the Sheppard bill for District
prohibition.
The local branch of the National
Association for the Advancement OF
Colored People will give a drama at
the Miner Normal School on March
. and 4.
The Mississippi Society of the Dis
trict will hold its annual banquet at
the New Ebbitt on the night of Febru-
AIRY %. Senators williams and Ward
man, former Senator Joseph W. Bail
ley. and other prominent SOutherners
will be guests of honor.
Local organizations affiIiatcd with the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association will celebrate the birthday
of Susan B. Anthony at dinner to-
night at Tea Cup Inn.
The Washington alumni of George
town University will hold their an
nual banquet at the Raleigh on March
(. More than 500 graduates are ex-
peCted to attend.
The young women of the Church or
the Holy Comforter will give a lunch
con and dinner in Old Masonic Temple
for the benefit of the poor of the
parish. The luncheon will be held
from II to o'clock and the dinner
from 4:30 to s. o'clock.
.'The American Foreign Policy" will
he the subject OF an address tomorrow
night at $50 o'C' 1ck at the National
Press Club by Norman Angel. author
of The Great Illusion" and one OF
the founders of the British Union of
Democratic Control
musical for the bIind will he
given in Pavilion at thA Library Of
Congress this evening at Sis o'clock
by Miss Louise Ryan. pia mist: Miss
Elsa Lehman, soprano; Chester La
Toilette. violinist