The Washington herald., 1916-02-04
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bia Amusement Compeny. He spent yes
terday afternoon with Manager Jarboe of
the Gayety Thester.
Rev. W. o. Roome. jr., of Emmanuel
Church In Anacostia. is confined to his
home in Maple avenue with severe at
| tack of the grip.
Capt. c. W. Hopkins. OF No. 10 Engine
Company In Anacostia, is seriously Ill at
his home In Seventeenth street.
Attorney John G. Capers is in New
York on business trip.
is out of the city for a few days on
business.
Charles II. Walton, q clerk In the Navy
Department, has been transferred to the
Bureau OF Census.
William A. Dunkley has been appointed
an associate gas engineer in the Bureau
of Standards.
| N. A. Aitcheson, a teacher in the sec
ond grade of the Ludlow School, has been
promoted and transferred to the third
grade of the Wheatley School.
Kendrick Schoheld, Washington news
paper man. is In Norfolk. Va.
Maurice d. Shannon has received an
appointment as laboratory assistant In
the Bureau OF Standards.
Emily Buhier, stenographer in the ONCE
| of the secretary to the commissioners,
returned to work yesterday after a weeks
illness.
Theodore L. Ricketts,. clerk in the Of
! Of he Dub mil efn
has returned from Rockville, Nd.
Miss Blanche Miller, stenographer ip
the corporation counsers Office, was
taken III with appendicitis on Wednes-
I day night.
| J. G. Williams, statistician. and ]. Kap-
| peyne. engineer. went to Baltimore yes
| terday to represent the Public Utilities
| Commission OF the District at hearing
| held before the Public Service Commits
| sion of Maryland to consider the applics-
ton of the Washington Interurbsn Rail
road Company for permission to issue
securities.
Charles Held, veteran Washington
builder. celebrated his ninetieth birthday
on Tuesday night in the John Dickson
Home. He was presented with a bouquet
| Of roses by a delegation from the Asso-
|
| Andrew II. Ragan, member of the As
| ISOLATION OF Oldest Inhabitants, Is I'll at
his home, 1913 Eleventh street northwest
He has been suffering since Sunday with
dropsy of the heart
Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, Com
missioner General OF immigration An
| thony Caminetti, and c. L. Green, in
| charge OF the distribution Of alien labor
| at New York, left last night to attend
a meeting of officials at Kansas City.
to discuss the question Of distribution
| of labor.
| Mrs. jamie r Sawyer, Gregor Mac
| pherson, and W. W. Dunniclifr have been
temporarily appointed under clerks In the
Reclamation Service.
Miss Ella I. Garnett has been reinstated
| as copytst in the General Land once.
Bert c. Gardner copytst at the Patent
Office, has been promoted from 1eo to
$500 year.
James T. Cross, messenger boy in the
service OF the Federal government has
| been transferred from the Patent ONCE
to the Geological Survey.
Ray Kellogg has resigned as eopyist
at the General Land ONCE.
Claude C. Rose second assistant ex-
amlner in the Patent ONCE, has resigned.
George W. Lucas Junior toposrapher
in the Geological Survey, has resigned.
T Milton Harr and Richard F. ]. Cogan,
clerks in the Reclamation Service, have
rendered their resignation.
Irving C. Allen. chemist in the Bureau
OF Mines, has resigned.
Walter Pumphrey has been promoted TO
chief watchman in the Office OF the Sec
retary, Department of Commerce.
Lorenzo D. Gregg, OF the Census once,
has been transferred to the War De-
partment
Sadie NJ. Johnston Of the Census Bu-
reau has been promoted to clerk at
100
The temporary appointment OF William
A. Ehlers. as assistant gas engineer at
$500, in the Bureau OF Standards, has
been extended.
The temporary appointment of Arthur
NJ. Trogner radio craftsman at S. Is
a day in the Bureau of Standards, has
beep extended.
Joseph Sponsler and Nora L. Davis,
clerks in the Census Bureau, have been
promoted to clerks at $500
| Charles w. Olvey, of the Department
of Commerce, has been promoted to mes
senger at $40 a year.
Many See Partial Eclipse.
| Hundreds of Washingtonians yesterday,
with the aid of smoked glasses, viewed
a partial eclipse of the sun. The eclipse
Icommenced at 10:11 O'Clock in the morning