Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pr1ZeS 10 OF BUSINESS
School who wrote the best essays on
credit lectures, delivered there recently
under the auspices of the Washington
Association of Credit Men. We're pre-
scented by the organization yesterday.
The prize winners were Martin +.
Schan, Bessie Levovitz, Kenneth c.
Markward, Carrie Dooch and Edward
Bonnoff. Honorable mention was given
Margaret Crittenden, Helen Berger and
Mildred A. Leecke.
The Woman's INSTRUMENTATION
Missionary Union and Washington City
Auxiliary for Lepers will hold their an
nual meeting tomorrow at o'clock in
st. Paurs English Lutheran Church,
18th and II streets. Officers will be
elected and reports of work submitted.
A resolution pIedging the support of
Its members to the President and Con-
gress in the present crisis was adopted
at a meeting of the Illinois Society of
the District last night in the New Eb-
bitt House. Judge +. w. Booth spoke.
officers elected at previous meeting
were installed.
The annual meeting of the League for
the Decoration of Public Schools is to
be held Monday, April Is, at 80 pm,
in st. Johns Parish Hall. James Rush
Marshall is president of the organiza-
ton.
Plans for IA musical festival by chill
dren of the grade public schools of the
District of Columbia are being made.
The affair probably will be held in May.
Judge MulIOwny imposed n fine of $50
or sentence of ninety days at Deco
guam in Police Court yesterday on John
Tanning, motormap on the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company, who
was arrested on the charge of being in
toXlcated while operating his car.
Resolutions pledgine their .unquali-
ned support and fealty' to the Presi-
dent of the United States were adopt ed
at meeting of the Parent Teacher AS
ISOLATION of the Eurrville School Tues
day night The meeting was mark ID
for the patriotic feeling shown. DIR. W.
5. Montgomery, supervising principal of
the twelfth division of the public
schools, spoke on school betterment.
Rev. J. o. Pair, president, presided.
Fire in the stable of H. NJ. Van Ness,
rear of 1900 II street northeast, last
night about 1880 o'clock burned three
horses to death. The fire spread to the
places of business of Charles r. Tai
bert, Michael J. Hasney and Samuel
Miller. Nan Ness lost amounted to
$500, while damage to the other places
of business totaled $3.50. Three horses
belonging to Mr.. Van Ness were burned
to death about a year ago.
Two brush fires claimed the attention
of the fire department yesterday after
noon. At "a o'clock an alarm was
sounded from box 791 because of a fire
near Connecticut avenue and Grant
road. and four minutes later a call was
received for a fire near 14th and Web
ster streets. Neither fire did any dam
age.
Archie HntchcIl and Rennie l.. Miller,
each eighteen years old, who are from
Summerville, S. c., wearing the regu-
lation army uniform. yesterday after
noon were arrested by Detectives
Grant and Armstrong as ''stragglers'
from Walter Reed Hospital, where
they are detailed. They We're arrested
| on complaint of Col Charles +. Mason.
in command of the hospital, and re-
turned to that institution
Mrs. Hartley Macintosh, seventy
| six years old, Baptist Home, yesterday