The Washington herald., 1916-09-05
The TouDn Crier

Columbia Heights improvements will
be considered at a meeting OF the Civic
Association tonight in the Fostofflce
Building on Park road. Recommends
tons made at the meeting will be sub
mitted to the District Commissioners for
tho annual estimates to Congress.
The Treasury branch of the Federal
employees Union meets tonight TO con-
slider the election of annual officers. The
meeting will be held at 14i4 Pennsylvania
avenue, and those chosen wall serve I'M
I'll November 1. when the officials for
the 1851 term will be elected.
The Georgetown playground associ-
ates have organized an orchestra Of
eighty pieces and the first regular con-
cert vii. be given on next Saturday,
" ich will be the initial event of a reg
/ ular series of musical programs. Direc-
tor Donaldson believes this will be the
most popular feature of the playground
work.
Club meets tomorrow night at the New
Willard. Representative Farr, Of Penn
sylvania, will be the principal speaker.
The Board of Education meets touor-
row at p. m. at the Franklin School
Building.
The general museum at Catholic Uni
versity is being reorganized. The collec-
lions OF minerology and American war
relics are being reoatalogued to make
room for recent additions, and plant and
artistic gifts to the university are in
cluded in the Encouragement of the mu-
scum exhibits.
The policemen and hremen of the
District propose to hold e general meet
ing in the near future to talk over the
new pension plan and opportunities and
plans to improve It with the next session
Of Congress
Maryland. will be the principal speaker
at the Berwyn athletic tournament on
September g. Professional and amateur
fitting will feature the program.
The Columbus Country Club will give
an excursion to Norfolk. Old Point Com
fort and Virginia Beach on Saturday,
September q.
On next Friday and Saturday, the
Petworth women's Club will hold
community carnival in the public school
yard at Eighth and Shepherd streets
The proceeds will be devoted to club
work.
The Oldest Inhabitanta' Association
Of the District of Columbia will cele-
brate the sixtieth birthday anniversary
Of Henry K. Willard at a meeting to be
held at the home of the association,
Nineteenth and II streets northwest, to-
morrow at 7:3o o'clock. There will be a
short business session Immediately pre-
ceding the celebration.
{ The second of a series of winter
dances given by the National Lineal So
ciety Of the Spanish war, will be held at
1877 r street, on September 8.
A garden party Will be given for the
benefit Of the Young Women's Christian
Home, 81 C street northwest, on next
Thursday evening. Motor riding and
dancing will be the evenings amuse-
ments.
The seventy-seventh anniversary of
the birth of Henry George, single-tax ad-
vocate, will be celebrated by a meeting to
be held Saturday night in large tent on
the grounds of the Presbyterian Church
at Thirteenth and Fairmont streets. Louis
F. Post, Assistant Secretary of the De-
partment of Labor, will preside, and Ar
thur Powell Davis, H. Martin Williams
Mary Brennan-Inkster and Representa-
tive Edward Heating, Of Colorado, will
speak.
A meeting of the Treasury Branch of
the Federal Employees Union will be held
tonight at s o'clock in the G. A. r. Hall
1914 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
An open meeting of the @order of
Washing ton," Sons OF the Revolution, and
Daughters Of the Revolution, in honor of
the 18th anniversary of the birth of Mar
quis de lafayette will be held tomorrow
evening at o'clock in the parlor of the
Lafayette Hotel. Sixteenth and 1 streets
northwest. The exercises, under the aus
pices Of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, will be directed by the State
regent, Mrs. Catherine L. Brumbaugh
with recitation by Miss Bertha F. Wolf
and a solo, The Star Spangled Banner, "
by Mrs. Noble Potts. All Daughters of
the American Revolution are cordially in
vited
Members Of Lafayette Post, No. 20,
G. A R., will hold its next post meeting