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Evening star., 1917-01-11
BETTER FREIGHT SERVICE
is WANTED BY ANACOSTlA
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Asked
to Operate Daily Car to
Baltimore.

Better freight rate se--ice on the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad between Bal
timore and Anacostia was the subject
of chief discussion at the regular meet
ing of the Anacostia Citizens Associa-
ton last night. resulting in the aoop-
ton of a resolution to request the rail-
road company to operate car every
day between Baltimore and the local
point for the hauling of freight
Two improvements of special interest
10 the citizens of the suburb. although
not Located directly in the territory OF
the association. were discussed an"
special committees appointed TO uiS.
them. one of them is the acquisition d!
the navy yard of the ground along u
Auacostia river from the bridge 70 IN
navy yard to be used for additions 10
,hs navy ward. The other is the mn
proyement to 11th street from 'he
bridge to Pennsylvania avenue.
Maurice Otterback presented repol.
concerning the proposed improNSi'i.,ie ,,
of rho Anacostia river beyond the
Pennsylvania Avenue bridge, with pa'
ticular reference to this bridge anu
the Pennsylvania railroad ana beh huiiiS
bridges public hearing IS to be helu
at the United States engineering once
concerning these impro ovements ano
Mr. Otterback was appointed a com
mittce to represent the association ana
to urge that open draw spans De place"
in these bridges.
Mr.. Otterback also called attention 10
the dangerous conditions exlStiaS d.
the corner OF Nichols avenue ana 600"
Hone road because of the abrupt turns
al this point. and upon his recolriiiie,i"
alton a resolution was adopted aShils
the Commissioners to acquire sulllcieht
land at the northeast corner OF TINS TO-
cation to eliminate this condition.
William j. I.atimer, chairman OF the
committee on water, lights and sewers
presented a report covering the con
templated activities along these INES IN
the suburb. Additional sewer WORK
will be undertaken and an extension
of the water mains Will be maue, OUT
present plans call for no additlohai
street lights.
After considera BILE discussion concern
ing the question of placing trees along
Nichols avenue the association declded
that il would not request the planting
of trees because of the narrow side
walks and also because of the fact that
as a business street the presence OF
trees would act as a hindrance rather
than benefit.
Upon motion of Charles r. Burr,
dorsement was given the bill calling
for tie retirement of public school
teachers o. the District
DR.. J. A. Watson, president, conducted
the meeting. $. E Thomas was e ecee'
TO membership. Upon motion OF MI
Burr a letter of thanks will be written
the George 5. King Company for tn
use of it's offices for holding the meet
ings during the past year.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
SAY GERMANS WILL
DESTROY RAILWAYS
Belgian Officials See Whole
sale Wrecka1e When Teu-
ton Army EvaCuates.
PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY


! PARIS. december 16.-I have re-
ceived from the Belgian govern
men;. which is in exile at Havre.
France, detailed account Of the con-
l:tion of the railways and of the rail-
road men and their families of their
nnhappy country Their authentic
easons to foresee disasters greater
even than those of the past two years
and a half of war demand attention
from Americans. And the stubborn eff
! 'ort which is being made beforehand to
f: Belgium can be won back for her own
people ought surely to command
American sympathies.
This is the cruel question: Will the
German arr, Y. when it is forced to
evacuate Belgium, add to the destruc-
ition it has already made by destroying
Belgian railways-tracks, bridges and
viaducts. rolling stock and material.
stations and every other appurten2nce? a?
The Belgian government, on reports
of the Belgian railway administration,
believe this is being planned. Here are
:, he exact words:
I'VE have received information from
numerous quarters that our enemy is
preparing to destroy our railway lines
when the time for evacuation comes
without any eXa gGeratlon, we have
to expect that the Germans VIII push
their destruction just as far as the cir
cumstances Will enable them to do
wherever their strategic interests are
N any way at stake. And in this mat
er the Belgian railway administration
is worse off than the French companies
Evening star., 1917-01-11
SCHOCNERs FOR HAITIAN COAST
Navy Adds Two for Patrol Service
There.

Two more schooners have been pur-
chased by the Navy Department for the
Haitian coast guard service-the Adri-
enne and the J. Edwin kirwan.
The Adrienue. former pleasure
craft. is at City Island. y, Y. She is
81 feet over all, &c feet on the water
line and has is feet beam. The J. Ed
win kirwan. a coastinE schooner. is at
quincy. Mass. She is IS feet over all
and OF 1873 tons register.
1t is the intention of the Navy De-
partment to reorSanize the coast guard
service of Haiti. and II has assigned a
Evening star., 1917-01-11
WOMEN IN SOLE CONTROL.
Umatilla. Ore. Has Board in Which
Men Are Figureheads.

UMATILLA. Ore. January 1.-THE
I-mati1la municipal government has
been turned over to women. Mrs. Laura
J, Starcher. wife of the retiring mayor
whom she defeated at the last election.
took Office along with woman
recorder woman treasurer and four
councilwomeu. Her inaugural address
was a sharp satire on mere man" and
she began her regime by stating the
'petticoat government would not aP-
point marshal. as the town had no
need of one.
In the appointment of committees
Mrs. Sta-cher named onl,- women. leav-
ing the holdover male member of the
council entirely out
Several of the women are wives of
former city officers and their election
last December was the result of a last :
hour coup.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Vineennes Mayer Acquitted.

NINClNNES. Ind. January 1l.-Mayor
James NJ. House OF Nincinnes. has, been
acquitted OF charges Of malfeasance
and misfeasance in Office after Joseph
W. kimmell, the prosecuting attorney,
who filed the charges against him, re-
fused to question jurors as they were
being selected or introduce any evidence.
Evening star., 1917-01-11

All this good work has been accom-
plished in the midst of difficulties with
out end. 1t may not be generally known
abroad how many of the Belgian rail-
waNmen followed their government into
exile. Where they are and how they
are kept alive and the assistance which
the railway administration has been
able to give to its men who remain in
Belgium under the German occupation
disclose patriotic effort which should
not be forgotten,
From the start the French railway
companies Iaid one dollar day to all
those who had safely brought the Bel
sian locomotives into France: and they
began supplying the places of their
own men who We're mobiliZed at the
front by Belgian railroad men. BY July,
1915, some 1000 Be1gians had thus
found employment and living wages for
themselves and families on French rail
ways. Others have secured industrial
positions. The Belgian government at
Havre. with legitimate pride. now au-
thorizes this statement december,
1870:
AT present all the Belgian railroad
men who have taken refuge in France
Evening star., 1917-01-11
MAY PE COTTON SUBSTITUTE.
German Scientists Discover Use for
Fiber OF Singing Nettles.

Perfection of method for making
cloth out Of the fiber Of the singing
nettle. it is claimed. may make Ger
Inany and Austria independent of cot
ton imports. Reports to the Depart
ment of Commerce telling of the in
ven,ion of the methcd of DIR. Richter
of Vienna say that samples of the
cloth prove that fabric produced from
the nettle fiber can be used for any
purpose to which pure cotton fabrics
heretofore have been put.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooner Charles l.. Rhode. lumb r.
from Newbern, y. c., at 10th street
wharf for Johnson & Wimsatt; schoorer
J. A. Marsh. railroad ties from lower
Potomac point at 10th street wharf for
L. A Clarke & Son schooner Twilly
oysters from the Potomac beds at 1lth
street wharf for the market: s'eameI
Northland from Norfolk and Old Point
to the Norfolk and Washington Steam
boat Company: steamer Volunteer. ron
Potomac points to the Potomac and Ches-
apeake Steamboat Company.
Evening star., 1917-01-11

misery that threatens Belgium me
threat. which the Belgian government
would not make known without soou
reason. is this. If Germany fails to f,
hold Belgium by war, then she Will
wreak such destruction in the country
before evacuating it. that Belgians
will be disabled for long years from
recovering their Old prosperous posi-
tion in labor and industry. Remem-
ber. Belgians accuse their invaders Oh
putting already such plan IN eNecu-
tion by subjecting the resident popula-
ton. particularly young children. 70
privations of food and clothing Whlch:
in spite of American relief, are bouhd
to weaken the coming generation: ana
they assign the same end to the Whoie-
sale deportation of abie-bodled BEL
Sians under unhygienic conditions TO
wearing labor for Germany. The new
threat OF Gripping Belgian railways is
so real that both the English ana
French authorities have lent the ald OF
their own railway administrations TO
help the cxiled Belgians prepare
asainst the evil day which is to keep
up the destruction of BelgianS after
the invaders have evacuated her terri
tory.
It must not be thought that this is
some new and sudden scare. 1t Is
warranted by facts that have been tax
ing place ever since the first months
of the war And the Belgian admin
iStration, without saying anything
ABOUT II. put with EnSl!sh ana rienI"
help. has been taking every possible
means of precaution and remedy. AS
early as November. 1914: in the hrst
months of the war, the technical serV-
ices of the Belgian railway admins
tration set to work to study possible
and practical means of reconstructing
the lines where damage was already
wrought as well as other destruction
which it was easy to foreSee.
The Belgian railway administra ton
is now devoting. itself to renewing the
machine tools of its repair shops. The
object of this is for the present to keep
in condition that part of it's rolling
stock which was saved from the inva-
sion and is now in F'raance-but this.
too, will serve for the temporary work
of reconstruction in its first difficult
DAYS The adminiStra ton is already in
possession Of a great part of all this
reconstruction stock, anu, thanks to the
help of the allies has it safely housed.
Evening star., 1917-01-11

The trial started Tuesday The
prosecuting attorney practically with
drew from the case on the ground that
the jury had been drawn irregularly
He will appeal to the Indiana supreme
court, he said. to test certain questions
Of law. Lawyers say that Mayor House
cannot he tried again on the charges
however. even should Kimmells $ conten-
tions on the law lie upheld.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Effect Upon Industry.

When we remember that in populous
modern countries all labor and indus
try depend on the railway communi-
cations and that the mere number of
railway workers and families that de-
pend on their work forrns a conSidera-
BILE and essential part of the popula-
ton we have ii faint idea Of the new
Evening star., 1917-01-11

Fire has practically destroyed the OK
nositlon building at 81 Paul. causing
loss Of S2.5.oo0 The hrildirr was oNn d
Jointly hy furniture jobbnG firms.
Evening star., 1917-01-11

James r. Garfield has reported to Cleve-
and police that his home in Mentor. q
'uhurh. had been robbed recently of S10,-
900 in jewels.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Building and Loan Officers.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Alexandria Building and
Loan Association was held last night
Bank building and the following Of
ficers were elected to serve for the
year. Robert :. Jones. president: NJ l..
Dinwiddie. treasurer: c. Page Waller.
jr.. secretary: Carroll Pierce. Worth
q. Washington Lewis. attorney; H a.
stewart, Robert l.. Payne, James W.
Roberts. William III. Sweeney. Charles
r. Swan, Robert r.. Knight. c. J. w.
Summers and o. H. Kirk. directors.
Dividends were declared as follows:
third series. 81 fourth series and 35
cents fifth series.
Louis +. krening, grand master of
odd Fellows. Wytheviiie. Va. last night
paid an official visit TO joint meeting
OF Sarepta and Potomac lodges of Odd
Fellows. He made an address. as did
also Rev. DIR. John Lee Allison. chap
lain. and several others.
Tomorrow night at 1:30 O'Clock there
will be a joint installation of officers
of the two lodges.
Directors of the Citizens National
Bank today elected these officers: Ed
ward l.. Daingerfield, president; Carroll
Pierce, vice president: Richard NJ.
Green, cashier: NJ. l.. Dinwiddie. assist
ant cashier.
The First National Bank yesterday y
elected the following officers: Gardner
l.. Boothe. president: NJ. z. Harlow, vice
president: George E. Warfeld, cashier;
J. Johnston Green. assistant cashier.
Alexandria National Bank today elect
ed these officers: Judge c. +. Nicol.
president: W. b. Smoot, vice president.
and j. Laurence Perry, cashier
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Boys $I.OO Wash Suits,
Special, 79c

OF fast color madras, galatea and
rep, iii combinations of bine. tan.
green and white. Sizes 10 20
years.
First Floor.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
$5.95 SIX BZouses. $4.65

All our later models of georgette
crepe. In shades of flesh and white:
trimmed in silk embroidery steel
beading; sailor and star-pointed
collars. trimmed with Venice lace.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
$3.65 Crepe de Chine
BIouses. S2.85

Also of striped tub silk and
georgette crepe: also some smart
models of plaid crepe de chine,
gold lace. black taffeta and messa-
line. A good range of styles and
sizes
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Departures.

Schooner J. r. Dixon light. for the
ket: S. o. Company schooner barge No
"a. light in tow from Georgetown for
Hampton roads. ell route to Tampco
Mexico: schooner Lewis Worreil. light.
from Alexandria for a Potomac point to
load cord wood to return S. o. Company
tank barge No. 50. from the Ea torn
Southland. for Old Point and Norfolk :;
United States Army steamer Capt. A. NJ.
WetheriH for Fort Washington and Fort
Hunt with army stores and passengers +;
steamer Majestic. for lower river landings.
Tugs and Tows.
Tug James o. Carter arrived. towing
lumber laden schooner frmo down river:
tug Dandy left, towing barge from
Georgetown for Hampton roads tug
Louise left with lighters laden with ma
terial for the District workhouse at Deco
quan, Va: tug Baltimore left with light
tank barge for Baltimore. to load oil in
bulk; tug Minerva arrived at George
town with lighters laden with sand and
gravel from OXon run: tug Eugenia left
with lighters for sand beds opposite Alex
andria.
Memoranda.
Schooner Mary Ann Shea will return TO
Aqua creek to load cord wood back to
this city; schooner Elizabeth Carter is
due here from Mattox creek with cord
wood for the dealers: schooner Grape
Shot has arrived at river point to load
for this city or Alexandria schooner
Mary Lee is at Baltimore with lumber
from the York river; schooners Majestic
and Halle X. will sail today for the lower
Potomac oyster beds after oysters for the
market here.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Mems Retreat Begins Tomorrow.

a three-day retreat for men under the
auspices of the Holy Name Society will
begin tomorrow night at St. Mary
Catholic Church.
Miss Fox of the bureau OF education.
Washington, gave an explanation of
Standard tests before the Alexandria
Teachers Association at its monthly
meeting held yesterday afternoon in
Lee School building
The hour for the prayer meetings
being held at homes OF members OF the
Methodist Protestant Church in con-
nection with the revival services being
held at that church by the pastor. Rev.
T. T Kirkley, has been changed from
10 am. until pm.
Meetings tomorrow will be as fol-
lows: Mrs. Wolfe. 110l Prince street.
Mrs. NJ. E. Parker, leader; Mrs. Hall,
i01 South Lee street. Mrs. +. w. Eo-
hardt. leader. Mrs. Beach. 226 North
Fairfax street. Mrs. w. S. Risdon.
leader; Mrs. Nunnally. 200 South st.
Mrs. Jennier. $50 South Henry street.
Mrs. Nunnally, leader. the last named
to he held at > o'clock
The funeral of Mrs. Mary +. Crane
took place this afternoon from the home
of her daughter. Mrs j. Il. Duncan. Del
Ray. Alexandria county. Services were
conducted by Rev. l.. NJ. Ferguson. pas
TOR of Trinity NJ E Church. assisted by
Rev. f. V REGISTER. pastor of the Del
i.ay NJ f. Church South.
The funeral of Aaron c. Lane will take
place at o'clock tomorrow afternoon
from Demaine's undertaking chapel Serv-
ices will be conducted by Rev. o. W. Trip
lett pastor OF the Second Baptist Church.
Mrs Annyie Herd. grand worthy ma
tron of the Grand Chapter. Order of East
ern Star Richmond. win pay her annual
visitation to Martha Washington Chap
ter. No ie. this city. Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1917-01-11

OF all-wool serge and pophns in shades
of blue, black and green-smart fitted-tare
models with and without belts. Large sailor
colars-some overlad with velvet.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
500 Sateen Pefticoots,

With deep plated rGifie, clas-
tic waistband; some With fiow-
cred ruihe.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Boys Soc Hats, I9c

Dressy styles of chinchilla. in
sizes for little tots up to 6% sizes.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Blouses
Of Silk->-Of Cotton
$1.19 Cotton Voile
Blouses, Csc

OF an excellent quality wolfe,
made in ten new and pretty styles.
with frilled fronts, embroidery and
Venice lace-trimmed collars, fronts
and cuffs Sizes Sc to As.
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Sale Of W0men'S Coats, Suits and Dire

OF wool veours and cheviots full far
ing unbelted or belted models, with sailo
collar, trimmed with velvet. Colors are navy
brown, green, Burgundy and black. A new
style has novelty gathered back with bel
and slanting sports pockets. Lined and hal
Evening star., 1917-01-11
$500 and $3.50 Lingerie
BIouses, S1.69

Beautiful styles of white cotton
voiles, trimmed with val lace and
embroidery; cluster tucks down
back and front; high and low
necks and large collars. Sizes 36
to 90
Evening star., 1917-01-11
Boys $3.95 to $500
Suits, $2.95

In neat brown and gray mix
lures; also plain blue: warranted
fast color. Smart pinchback mod
els. Sizes 6 to II years.
Evening star., 1917-01-11

Made of batiste, fastened front
or back, reinforced under the
arms. Lace and embroidery
trimmed.
Third Floor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-04-27
By May Manton

NNE OF the new materials
known as Skinner silk"
makes this costume. Tha
material is just what its name
implies and wonderfully beau
tiful. The trimming is a little
embroidery worked in heavy
threads and the collar and belt
are made of broadcioth. 1t is
a very handsome costume and
a very smart costume and one
that is replete with suggestion.
You could copy it in any sea-
sonable silk or you could copy
1t in a wool suiting. Broadclotk
with the embroidery in just this
design would be handsome, or
a white serge with a little en-
broidery in worsted threads.
Wool jersey is being extensively
used for suits and wool jersey
in a soft grey with the collar
and belt of white broadcloth
would be beautiful. The coat.
being a loose belted one, Is ex-
ceedingly easy to make.
For the medium size the coat
will require. 4 yards Of material
SO inches wide, 81 yards a.
with Is yard any width for the
collar and belt. For the skirt
will be needed, al yards either
SO or A inches wide.
The coat pattern No. o322 Is
cut in sizes from "a to AZ inches
bust measure and the skirt
pattern No. 93Io in sizes from
e6 to SO inches waist measure.
They will be mailed to any adj.
dress by the Fashion Depart
ment of this paper, on receipt
of fifteen cents for each.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-22
NOT IN FAVOR OF WELL
City Council Requests p. p. & L. Co.
To Extend Intake i'm River

At its regular meeting Tuesday eve-
ming the city council went on record
as opposed to the Pacific Power &
Light company's proposition that
well be sunk as an auxiliary supply
for the city's domestic water system.
The well idea did not appeal favor
ably to the city fathers who will re-
quest the power company to extend
the intake farther out into the CO.
lumbia.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-22
GOVERNOR LISTER SIGNS
STATE BONE DRY BILL
Permit System Will be Abolished
Ninety Days After Adjourn.
ment of the Legislature

The signing of the Bone Dry" bill
by Governor Lister last Monday after
noon was made an occasion of consid-
cradle ceremony. The pen with which
the official signature was affixed was
presented to Representative Halsey,
author of the bill, in the presence of
several prominent w. c.. T. u. work.
ers.
Unless the referendum is invoked
the bill will become law ninety days
after the legislature has adjourned.
As it requires money to circulate re-
ferendum petitions and as the big Ii
quor firms which formerly fought the
advances Of the anti-saloon league
have been out Of business for more
than a year no referendum petitions
will probably be circulated. The only
hope Of the opponents of the bill would
be to hold it off until the November
election in 1913, when it would be
voted on by the people.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-22
TO PICK SHOOTERS TO
MEET PASCO RIFLE TEAM
Two Competitive Shoots to be Held
on the Local Range Sunday
Medals are Distributed

Members of the Rifle club to form
a team to shoot against Pasco on the
4th of March will be selected from
the high shots at the two competitive
shoots to be held Sunday, at nine in
the morning and two in the afternoon,
when the range will be in charge Of
officers of the club. There are some
cracking good marksmen among the
members and it is hoped that they will
be on hand to get their names on the
official team. Word has been receiv-
ed from the Yakima club that they
will be ready to show US how to shoot
in the near future.
Quite bit Of work on the range
has been done during the past week,
fixing up the targets and building up
mounds and parapets from which to
shoot. A telephone system is being
planned to communicate from the pits
to the firing line. This will add much
to the pleasure of shooting and should
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-22

That the men and women Of Chi
cago, New York and other large cities
enjoy no particular advantages over
the people of Kennewick when it comes
to buying standard, first class mer-
chandise is fact that anyone will be
able to prove to their own satisfaction
this coming week. All you will need
to do is look at the displays of mer-
chandise the live, progressive, modern
merchants of this locality will have in
their show windows.
People living in the smaller cities
once believed that they could buy more
up-to-date merchandise and buy it
cheaper of the large dealers than they
could from their own home merchants.
It is doubtful if that ever was fact.
One thing, however, is certain. It is
not true at the present time. If you
will compare the merchandise that
you see in the windows ''Trade-marked
Goods Week" with what you see in
the windows the next time you are in
Seattle or Spokane, you will find that
it is exactly the same, and that the
prices are exactly the same. Stand
ardized, advertised, quality products
are sold at one price the world over.
Isn't it a fact that every alleged un-
usual bargain that is offered you is an
unknown and unbranded product? It
is one that the manufacturer doesn't