Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

SOLOS
A program OF addresses and music is
TO be feature Of meeting of the
District of Columbia Woman Suffrage
Association this evening at o'clock at
1926 Rhode Island avenue.
The first class in parliamentary law
of the Kate Gordon Chapter of the
Southern States Woman's Suffrage Con
ference is to open saturday evening i'll
the home of its president. Mrs. Wesley
Martin Stoner, 1927 Rhode Island ave-
nue.. These classes are to continue
every Saturday evening throughout the
spring. Mrs. Katheryn Eslin of West
Virginia will preside and will hold prac-
tice drills at each session.
Arthur Stanley Riggs will talk on
Italy before the National Geographic
Society audiences at the New Masonic
Auditorium tomorrow afternoon and
evening, and will illustrate his lecture
with color pictures of this garden spot
of the Mediterranean countries.
speak on The High Cost of Living and
the Remedy" Sunday evening at $50
o'clock in the Perpetual Building Hall
18th and E streets northwest.
"How the Commerce Department
Helps Business" is to be the subject of
an address by Edwin F. Sweet. assist
ant secretary of the department. before
tnS NATIONAL morocco Manu1aClureTS
Association at Philadelphia tonight.
Rev. Walter Everett Burnett. new
pastor of Foundry NJ. e. Church. and
Mrs. Burnett will be guests at a recep-
ton which members of the church are
giving there tomorrow evening. Ar
rangements are in the hands of COM
inittee representing the official board,
assisted by the Woman's Guild.
Twenty-fonr members of the y. w.
II. a. and y. NJ. II. A. of Bridgeport
Conn, were entertained Sunday by the
local Y. W. H. A Final arrangements
have been made by the association for
its novelty dance to be given February
% at Elks' Hall. Miss Elizabeth Lo-
REM is in change.
Through it's president general. Mrs.
Cordelia Powell Odenheimer' the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
has rendered the President the support
and services of its 100000 members in
whatever manner they may be avail
able In the nations present crisis.
The annual banquet of Charlotte Hall
Military Academy is to be held at the
Emerson Hotel, in Baltimore, February
"a. Washington alumni of the insti-
tuition who expect to attend the banquet
are requested to communicate with
Henry G. Morgan, at 1911 18th street
northwest.
Explosion of a boiler in the basement
Of moving picture theater at 1853 eth
street yesterday afternoon started
fire that resulted in damage to the
building and contents TO the amount of
$500.
Mrs. Virginia Townsend, 1879 9th
street, yesterday. Clothing valued at
500 was destroyed. Occupants of the
house extinguished the fire without
linz
George Andrews, sixty years old, who
was in the employ of the Baltimore and
ohio Railroad Company. died at Provi-
a result of a fracture of the skull and
cerebral hemorrhage. He was struck
by train at Gaithersburg week ago
Coroner hewitt gave a certificate of
accidental death, and the body was
taken to Andrews late home at Boyds,
Md.
The next meeting of the BrookIand
Citizens Association will be held to-
morrow evening at o'clock at the Ma
sonic Temple. Items of recent legisla-
ton affecting Brookland and street car
service will be discussed.
A collision between the automobiles
OF y. G. Robinson, 81 NJ street. and F.
e Rodenstein, $50 D street northeast,
occurred at New Jersey avenue and F
10th cars were slightly damaged.
Miss Florence Leavy, OIL. New York
avenue, last night alighted from a
street car at 18th and G streets, tripped
over board and fell to the pavement
She received injuries to her face and
knee.
Representatives Thomas s. Craeo and
John r. Farr were the principal speak
ers at meeting of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles Camp, No. 1. L. S. w. ", Tuesday
evening at the Perpetual Hall, 11th and
T. streets northwest jeremiah Costello,
master of ceremonies, presented past
commander badges to Ernest Goltz and
Charles j. Z. Weber. DR.. Samuel l..
Hannah was installed as camp physf-
cam Tor the ensuing year. and Charles
Johnson was appointed color sergeant
10 HI the existing vacancy in that year.
The California State Association II to
meet at the New Ebbitt in the white
room tonight to consider final arrange
ncnts for the banquet to be held in the
New Ebbitt February IA and to con-
slider preparations for the inaugural
All members and Californians are re-
quested to be present
Rosemary Heley. who was shot while
AZ her home, 1921 New York avenue
FEBRUARY and died later, left no will
y petition for letters of administration
on her estate has been filed in the pro
natS OINIslon Oh the District Supreme
Court by her husband, Felix A. HeIey
OF baltimore. The value of the estate
Is given as $1,000, and her next of kin
are her husband and her mother. Lena
daseman of Muncie, Ind. Attorney C.
Shester Caywood appears for the hus-
band, who, 1t is said. had been sen
sifated Tor some time from his wife.
us 1t better to be born a Unitarian
or 10 become one?" will be the tonic of
discussion tomorrow morning at II
O'clock at the regular meeting of the
Nonens Alliance of Ali Souls Church
among those who will discuss the tonic
are Mrs II. c. Newcomer Mrs. Arnold
W erner-Spanhoofd, Mrs. E c. Seward
and Mrs. S. Il. Bond
Edmund n. Fox has filed .uit in III.
!nstict supreme Court to recover
1880 damages from the Baltimore end
ONO Railroad Company for the value
OF an electric automobile which W.
burned while in transit to Gettysburg
Pa. in n freight car Of the connan r.
ne is represented by Attorney William
u. Johnson.
The regular meeting of the n.,u,-
mentary law class of Kate Gordnr,
chapter, Southern States Conferanca
VIII be held Saturday evening in ~.
home of Mrs. Wesley Martin Stonar
1877 Rhode Island avenue Mrs. Katha'
lyme Eslin will conduct a practice dr;I1
me Missouri Society of Washfprto.
VIII hold its regular meeting, Safurday
evening at o'clock at Rauscber,s 1oo5