Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-01

given by DIR. Julia R Hall at the Cars
net Community Center tonight in the
Garnet School,
| The monthly meeting Of the Conduit
Road Citizens Association will be held
Tuesday evening at st. David's Hall
! Toys, dolls and a variety of other gifts
will be sold at Christmas bazaar to
be held at Grace Episcopal Church,
Woodside, Nd, on the evening of Fri
day, December Z.
Member. of the Home Defense League
| of the fourth precinct will report for
drill at the police station of the fourth
precinct Monday evening at o'clock
Drills are held on the first and third
Mondays of each month.
The Availability of joining the suf-
frage forces in the District OF Co
lumbia will be discussed by members
| of the District Bar Association at
meeting at the Court of Appeals Tues
day afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Beginning Thursday evening a series
of French lectures is to be given in the
lecture hall of All Souls Unitarian
Church, 14th and L streets. All men in
purpose is to give the soldiers an OPP
portunity to obtain quick under
standing of French. Following the lee
lures a social hour will be held, when
French nationality who desires to as
sist in this course can communicate
with Miss Seaton-Schmidt, 1901 Massa
chusetts avenue.
A hre scare was caused at the plant
of the Washington Gas Light Company,
18th and NJ, streets southeast, this
morning about o'clock. when fire was
discovered in the turbine room. En-
ployes of the plant managed to prevent
the spread of the fire until the arrival
Of No. IS engine company, when it was
quickly extinguished. About 800 dam
age resulted.
Robert NJ. Robinson has filed suit In
the District Supreme Court for an abb
soIute divorce from Lottie NJ. Robinson.
have one child. The husband charges
that his wife deserted him November
and is now residing in Baltimore. A
correspondent is named. Attorney AL
win L. Newmyer appears for the hus-
band.
Dismissal Of Miss J. NJ. Chopper. q
teacher in grade 4 of the Deanwood
School. which was authorized by the
board OF education at recent meet
ing, took effect yesterday. Miss Crop
per was dismissed on a recommended
! ton from Roscoe Conkling Bruce. as
schools. for pedagogical incompe-
tency."
benjamin. A. Anderson, L. $. A.. re-
tired. wassthe principal speaker at
| meeting of the Birney School Commu-
nifty Center in the school building
Thanksgiving night to do honor to the
colored soldiers enlisted from that
neighborhood. Mr.. Anderson spoke of
THE Duty of the Negro in the Present
Crisis" Other speakers were Miss E.
V. Smith, community secretary and
the president of the center. Marcus
Dale. Dinner was served at the con-
clusion Of the program.
| An illustrated lecture on "The Scandf-
| navian Peoples" by DIR. Amandus
Johnson of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. Is to feature a meeting of the
ARCHAEOLOGICAL Society of Washing
ton in the New National Museum. at
4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. All
persons interested are invited to at
tend.
Mrs. Mabel L. Lewis, who q yeAr ago
was an understudy of Maude Adams. in
, Scotch approximations, will take part
in the regular Sunday night program
! of the Arts Club at the clubhouse. 2017
| I street northwest, tomorrow night The
program is in charge of c. w. O,Connor
Miss Elizabeth Howry. soprano, and
Robert Bell. reader, also will take part.
| Lunacy hearings In the District Su-
preme Court will be suspended until
the quarantine Is lifted from st. Eliza
beth Hospital. Three cases of scarlet
fever at the institution are responsible
for the quarantine and for the decision
of Justice Mccoy to defer the hearings
until the patients are able to be
brought to court