Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


efficiency" wRs the subject OF IN nj
dress delivered yesterday afternoon By
H Martin Williams. reading clerk Of
the House of Representatives. before
the Women Wage Farmers of Washing
ton at 704 T street northwest He urgeC
greater harmony and cooperation be
tween employe and employer.
Members of the Bethel Literary So
ciety are to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Frederick
Douglass tomorrow evening at Lincoln
streets northwest. Rev. George Fraser
Miller of Brooklyn is to be presented
by the Afro-American History story
Telling Association as the principal
speaker of the evening. Others who are
to take part are Charles Douglass. l.
n. Hershaw. Stewart Nelson. Rev
Emory B. Smith and Miss Rachel E
Guy. Music is to be furnished by the
Dunbar High School Glee Club. under
the direction of Miss Mary l.. Europe.
Miss Emily MiIadofsky of Business.
High School is to tell of her recent
Club at the rooms of that organization
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Alumni OF the Charlotte Hall Military
Academy now living in Washington are
planning to attend the annual banquet
OF the alumni. to be held at the Emer-
son Hotel in Baltimore February "a.
"a Glimpse Of Dixie In Ante-BeIIum
Days" will form a symposium of songs
and stories by members of the Home
Club tonight at the clubhouse, II Jack
son place.
ORcers of the Fourteenth Street BUSH
ress Mems Association are to be elected
tomorrow evening, when the annual
meeting Of the organization is held at
ths Cochran Hotel. The annual report
of the association is also to be made at
this time and a supper will be served.
Notice of the meeting has been served
On the members in the form of court
summons" Each member is urged to
bring a candidate for membership with
him.
cold bath in the Potomac near
Three Sisters was the experience of
Reginald Rutherford. thirty years old.
member Of the Washington Canoe
Club, while skating yesterday after
noon. Reginald was fished from the
water by Companions and was able to
skate back to the club, where his
clothes were dried and he was given a
rubbing to ward off possible cold.
The Captain Molly Pitcher Chapter.
Daughters of the American Revolution.
is to give a reception Thursday after
mon from to o'clock at the Rocham-
teau, in honor of Mrs. G. Wallace NJ.
Hanger.
Representative David J. Lewis, au-
thor of the bill for government own
ership of telephones in the District of
Columbia, is announced to speak at a
meeting of the Single Tax Association
Wednesday evening at o'clock in the
Public Library. He is to discuss the
bill he introduced in Congress.
The first dance of the Cinnamon Social
Club of Brookland is to be given Fri
day evening at Masonic Hall, Brook
land. The committee in charge is COM
posed of John Mahoney, chairman;
Charles Beckett and Ernest Boss.
"SOcial Service Activities of the Pub
lie Library is to form the subject OF
an address by DIR. George F. Bowerman,
librarian. at a meeting of the board of
social service, diocese of Washington,
Friday morning at 1890 o'clock, in St.
JOINS parish hall, 10Th street near II
street northwest. DIR. Bowerman will
show the way the library is co-operat-
Ing with the churches and various
civic institutions in the service of the
community.