The Washington herald., 1916-10-15
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/ Funeral services for Boyce E. Wolr.
former Washingtonian, who was shot
and killed Thursday by a cotton picker
on a plantation of which he was man
ager, at Lobdell, Miss, will be held to-
day at Graycourt, 8. c., his birthplace.
Mr.. Wolff was 80 years old and had been
employed in the Southern Railway. offices
in this city and at the Department Of
Z Agriculture.
A public forum has been authorized
! by the trustees OF the Florida Avenue
! Baptist Church to discuss economic and
social questions. The board Of directors
is composed Of Rev. w. A. Taylor, pas
| tor; DR.. Charles H. Marshall and Miss
Emma Hall. The first meeting is to be
held November 3, with Charles H. Thomp-
son as chairman.
/ Under auspices of the Vincentian Faith
ers, a weeks retreat for members of the
| Sodality OF the Blessed Virgin and wom-
| en- OF st. Patricks Church will start to-
night at 7:3O o'clock. There will be
masses on weekday mornings, and serv-
ices each night at and $50 o'clock.
Closing exercises will be held next Sun
day afternoon. Next week the retreat
will be given for men.
| Funeral services for Samuel P. Tre-
VOLTA, Confederate veteran, and for four
teen years a resident OF Washington.
were held yesterday in the home of his
daughter, Mrs. w. R. Langley, liz
Fourth street southeast. Rev. George
A. Miller conducted services in Ninth
Street Christian Church. Interment was
in Congressional Cemetery.
Fall activities OF the Board of Trade
begin this week with meetings of the
various committees. The public school
committee meets tomorrow, the Public
public health committee on Thursday at
! 7:3o p. m.
A gold watch. the property OF Edward
R. Pyles, was stolen from his office In
the Washington Loan and Trust Building
yesterday. The watch was valued at SIS.
| While operating an auto truck in Mas
sachusetts avenue, near Sixth street
northeast yesterday, William Day, of 1910
Twelfth street northwest, the steering
! gear broke. The truck ran on the pave
ment and damaged the front fence of
house at Sixth street and Massachusetts
avenue.
| 4 two-months-old shepherd dog. the
, property of Louis silverman, OF 122s c
street southeast, strayed from his home
yesterday.
Edith Morse, 80, yesterday escaped from
st. Elizabeth's Asylum Hospital, where
| she was an inmate. She wore a blue
dress and long mixed gray coat.
black mare. the property of Alfred
| 'hnY nm Of 49, Tel.
! northwest, strayed from a stable at
Twentieth and streets northwest yes
terday.
! A colored woman, unidentified, was
brought to Casualty Hospital in an un-
conscious condition yesterday afternoon
from Hyattsville, Md, suffering from
broken leg. She had evidently been hit
by vehicle or thrown from a car to the
| road, where she was found She died
later, and was removed to the District
morgue. An effort is being made to To-
| cate her relatives.
An automobile driven by ouinlan Con-
stanbode, Of 1923 Seventeenth street north
west, yesterday collided with an auto
truck driven by George W. Burgess, of
1915 Wisconsin avenue northwest at Sew
enteenth street and Massachusetts, ave-
nue. northwest. Both machines were
slightly damaged.
While arresting Joseph W. Fleming!s5O 50,
| Of 1S21 Kenyon street northwest. yester-
day afternoon, Policeman H. A. Cole. of
the First precinct, cut his hand on Flem-
| ing's eyeglasses. At the time of the in
/ jury they were waiting for the patrol
wagon at Tenth and D streets northwest
| An auto truck owned by F. M. Frazier,
| Of AnaRnaffa
! Smith, collided yesterday afternoon with
a Washington. Baltimore and Annapolis
| electric car at Seventh and H streets
northwest Slight damage was done to
both the truck and the car.
Gerald Fitzgerald, a patient at st
| Elizabeth's, who has a home in Massa-
chusetts avenue. yesterday escaped from
that institution. Late last night he had
not been located.
Fire in the home Of James A. Terrett
6Ss North Capitol street. yesterday did
$50 damage. No. engine company, on a
local alarm, responded and extinguished
blaze in the Kitchen caused by grease
pouring over on the stove.
An automobile operated by e. Ward, of
1921 Eleventh street northwest, collided
yesterday afternoon with an auto deliv-
| cry WdsOH ny L. A. reeves, OF
1909 street, at Fifteenth and Euclid
streets northwest.
Roland B. Chase, S5, giving no address,
but claiming to be a clerk, was brought
back from Baltimore last night by De-
tective Sergts. Grant and Armstrong. of
Central office, on a grand jury indict-
ment charging forgery in this city on
October 9, 1915. According to the indict-
ment, Chase obtained $500 from a local
business house on forged draft on a
prominent New York financial house,
LAMP. EXPL0DEs; TWO DEAD.
Two Others Burned by Scattering
Y Petroleum.