Evening star., 1917-05-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

MS COnQlllOn COuiu NOl bS NSNSA
TOR day or two.
Edward n. Clark. Washington corre-
spondent of the Chicago Evening News.
Is to speak on 1.-THE French Front From
verdun to the Moselle" at the May
meeting of the Maine State Association'
Saturday evening at o'clock at the W.
G. T. U. rooms, 522 9th street.
The annual election OF officers is to
be held at a meeting of the Indiana So
ciety of Washington TUESDAY evening
ut s o'clock at the New Ebbitt House. a
musical program, under the direction OF
George Schutt, is to be given
Rev. L. NJ. Bennett is to tell Of 'Tim-
cthy. or the First Days of the Christian
Itinerancy." tomorrow night at 1:3o
o'clock at Douglas Memorial NJ L.
Church. 11th and H streets northeast
An eight-hOur day schedule yesterday
became effective for all employees or the
Western Union Telegraph COMPANY; ex-
eepting the messenger force. Which
does piece work. Nearly 400 employees
In Washington are affected.
~wa.te. or What Forty Million wom-
en- Are Doing at Home is TO be the
subject of an address by Mrs. Flora Nc
Donald Thompson. president or tne
HousekeeperS' Alliance, at the y NJ T.
a. tomorrow night
For the Beneht Of the Holy Family
Day Nursery IAN evening with the
knights of Columbus Dramatic Club"
was presented last night at Carroll
Hall, this being the last performance or
the season of the club. 4
"The influence Of Cold in Stimulating
The Growth of Plants" and The Rate OF
Growth in Certain Lower Invertebrates
are to be the subjects of lectures by r
" Coville and W. P. Hay, respectively.
at the regular meeting of the Biological
Society of Washington. to be held sat
urday evening at o'clock at the COS
mos Club.
Original literary and musical prOduc-
tions by members and the installation
of Mrs Ernest P. Bicknell, the newly
elected president, will feature the last
meeting of the year of the Twentieth
Century Club. scheduled for 1890
o'clock tomorrow morning at All Souls
Unitarian Church. 14th and l. streets
northwest. A business meeting will
precede the entertainment numbers.
which will be contributed by Mrs .; r.
Cooke, Mrs. George F. Bowerman. Mrs.
W. F. G. Swami, Mrs. Benjamin r.
Smith and Mrs. Bicknen. Mrs. Edward
B. Clark will preside and announce
ments will be made of section leaders
and chairmen of standing committees
Tor the ensuing year.
A meeting of the executive committee
of the District branch of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution is to
be held Friday evening at the Raleigh
Hotel
Owing to the uncertainty as to the
movements of the officers composing
war, the Society of Manila Bay. com
posed of officers who fought under the
late Admiral Dewey at the battle OF
Manila, did not hold its usual reunion
yesterday to commemorate the anniver-
barry of the battle. OF the 125 officers
who took part in the battle, seventy
i've are still living. and Of these many
still are on the active list.
The frst semi-annual meeting of
Washington City Auxiliary. Mission to
Lepers. is to be held Friday afternoon
at o'clock at st. Paurs English Luth-
,eran Church, 11th and H streets north
west, under the auspices of the Wom-
ans Interdenominational missionary
Union. The gifts of the churches this
year are to go to the Bertha G. John
son Memorial Cottage for Leper Wom-
an and will be sent to Chieng Nal.
Siam, and Indo- China. The District
auxiliary sent $500 for the rehef OF
1epers in foreign lands last year.
Resolutions pledging the college as q
body to give full support to the Presi-
dent and Congress in this hour OF our
country's need" were adopted at pa
Nriotic rally at Washington College OF
Law yesterday afternoon. The meeting
was attended by praettcaiiya the a,n entire re
the college. Stanton ]. Peelie, PRESIDENT
of the board of trustees. presided; Miss
Sophie B. Kent led salute to the nag
and Miss Edna j. Sheehy sang The Star
Spangled Banner" Speakers included
Stanton j. Peelle, Mrs. Ellen Spencer
NusseI, Miss Kathryn Sellars and Mrs
Sarah T. Andrews.
Pronounced sentiment I'm favor Of Sc
1ective conscription dominated address,
es at the banquet of the freshman class
nf n
leigh Hotel last night. several speakers
advocating this plan for raising an
army and urging the young men pres
ent to answer the call to the coiors.
ling, POSTMASTER; Clarence A. Nugent.
Uoseph E. Agan. William G. Ennis. John
Kendrick and John S. Wynee
J-.t,ce Hitx Of the District Supreme
Court late yesterday afternoon rescind-
ed his order issued earlier in the day,
by which he had given Mrs. Cathran w.
Evans the body of her husband. Wash
tngton P. Evans. for burial. The wife
claimed that her son, Harry Evans at
whose home the father died Sunday.
would not allow her to conduct the
funeral ARRANGEMENTS The son Sc
cured the services Of Attorney E. A.
Chase and came into court exhibiting
the last will OF the deceased, in which
he requested that his funeral be un-
der the direction of his son or one of
the privilege of burying him. The
couple had not been living together for
eighteen months. it was stated.
VIII &. Barnes. assistant forester,
forestry service. will give an illustrat-
ed lecture on The Life of the Forest
Ranger tomorrow night, in Thomson
School, 18th and l. streets. under the
auspices of the Franklin Thomson
Home and School Association.
AT a meeting of the Johnson-PoweIl
Parent-Teachers' Association last night
q resolution was offered by Mrs. Charles
r. Praeger urging that Ernest l..
OF public schools.
The May meeting of the Illinois So
ciety Of Washington is to be held to-
morrow evening at 8 o'clock. at the
New Ebbitt House. The society is to
give a dinner and reception in honor
Of former Speaker Cannon at Rau-
scher's Monday evening. May Z. that
date being the etghty-first anniversary
of the birth of Uncle Joe"
Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Smith Kelly,
giving her address as 1014 X street.
was arrested yesterday by Detective
Burlingame for the Baltimore police au-
thorities. She was taken to that city
to answer a charge Of abandonment. 1t
Is alleged that she abandoned an in
FAINT two weeks old in St. Alphonsus
Church. Baltimore. about a month ago.
The senior class of National Univer-
atty Law School has turned the money
in its treasury. which amounts to $40.
over to the Red Cross.