Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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lof the public utilities commission. has
ANNOUNCED that the formal public hear
Ting OF the commission to consider tho
valuation Of property OF the Washing
lton Railway and Electric Company will
sbe resumed Monday, August 6, The
teession will start at 10 o'clock In the
tofice of the chairman. room sos. Dis
Etrict building.
Lula Brown has fled snft for a
limited divorce from Ernest D. Brown
ION charge of cruelty They were
married at Knoxville. Tenn. June Is.
E1s11, and separated last Saturday. At
ttorneys F. Carter Pope and F. l. Neu-
sbeck represent the wife
Morris Needle has filed suit In the
kDistrict Supreme Court claiming
100000 damages for alleged malicious
prosecution and false. arrest against
1.-THE United Dry Cleaners, Inc, Simon
lspigel. Michael Ehrhart and Burnett
lNiemetz- The plaintiff is represented
by Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer.
ssham we condone in the live. of men
sthose things we condemn in women ?"
will be the subject of discussion at a
Injecting to be held under the auspices
iof the Life Problem Club tomorrow
afternoon at 3:45 O'Clock az the 18th
street branch OF the y. NJ c. A
/. Inc schooner bessie Ford. emplOyed
in the pulp-wood traffic from river
points to Alexandria, has arrived there
with several of her sails missing, the
result OF summer squall on the Po-
Eomac Wednesday in the vicinity Of
maryland point. The Ford will be
fitted with sails before she returns
down river.
While playing in the woods near 3Sth
tnd Macomb streets Wednesday after
4oon. Prentice Valiant. 3148 Wisconsin
3venue. and Thomas Boyd. 3s11 Wood
yey road. small boys. found an old pistol
Enach they proceeded to examine. The
Feapon was accidentally discharged, the
bullet wounding Boyd in the left arm.
He went home and was treated by a
physician.
Arn'c Spencer. coIored. zS3S Cleye-
land avenue. yesterday afternoon was
bhtcn on her left foot by a dog owned
by neiehbor. She hal her family
physician dress the wound
Having enrolled more than 600 mem
bers duringithe past thirty days mem
oership in the Home Defense League
rifles yesterday passed the thousand
mark. The regular weekly drills of the
various companies are being well at
tended. Target practice al the indoor
range, under the Poll Theater, with
small bore rifles, is open from pm
70 10 O'Clock at night, every day except
sunday. The use CT the rifles is free
and ammunition may be had at a
nominal charge.
Edward H. Grove. who WAS recently
elected the Maryland division com
r1ander of the Sons of Veterans. was
the guest Of honor ut 3 Eet-together
meeting of the George II. Thomas Camp.
20 II, Sons of Veterans las. evening
n the Northeast Masonic. TEMPLE ne
:poke briefly. About twenty-five mem
iers OF the camp and number of
omen from the auxiliary were present
-ihree congressman, who are members
tt the camp. also spoke They were
representatives Glenn of Connecticut
Leland of Illinois and Smith of Idaho
Representative Madden of I,Itro;x ,s
be one Of the speakers at pa
lotto mass meeting to be held under
ie auspices of the Colored American
Onward Movement Monday evening at
O'Clock at the New Bethel Baptist
hurch, 9Th and 5 streets. Other speak
g include Rev. DE. Rivers. pastor of
lie Berean Baptist Church; Capt, ohm
:. Smith Of the National Guard and
ISIS Marie A d. Madre president Of
10 Organized Colored Women Of the
istrict of Columbia
"How to reach the Unempioyed,- will
the subject Of an address before the
oman '" age Farmers Association, 704
street northwest, tomorrow afternoon
o'clock. Women are generally in
ted. Admission is frc4,
+. +. FRrnham, ArRy Var College.
st night about s.3o o'csors. was onerst'
an automobile near 9Th street and
node Island avenue that coIlided with
re motor cycle of ". N. Hunter 9l9 ID
rect. Hunter received g slight injury
his leg and his motor cycle was
-maged.
A rear end coiEsieR between two
rect cars Of the Washington Railway
ID Electric Company yesterday after
'on occurred at Georgia avenue and
scatur street. George Ross colored
Defrees street, a passenger on one
the cars, was so painfully injured
,out the head and body that he was
ken to Freedmen's Hospital
ome, 10 9Th street southeast. yester-
~ afternoon. Margaret Ellis. five wears
d. was knocked down by an automo-
lie and cut about the face. She was
ken to Casualty Hospital
Irving Nnhcncy. fourteen years old
$50 Wisconsin avenue. yesterday after.
ron was bitten on the leg by a dog
nile delivering ice at the residence OF
= aniel King. f1st and Davenport streets
e refused treatment.
Robert Parkman and Harry Berseson
~ CtllDdNlcflS, WHO STATED aWay from
1eir homes for an afternoons outing
thursday and alarmed their parents by
ailins to return that night returned
10 their homes yesterday afternoon
hey had spent the night in Potomac
ark and were glad to get to where ar
;,tfractive supper awaited them.
The ceremonies. which were to have
zen held in connection with the un.
1eiling OF the bronze tablet to mark tht
Id historic oak tree on the Dean
lace, Oak Lawn, by the Emily Nelson
hapter. ID. A. r., have been postponed
until the early fall, owing to the della,
IN receiving the tablet.
Burglars visited Chinese laundry n
029 Nichols avenue. Anacostia, between
1fdnight and $50 o'clock this morning
nteriis SO noiseiessly that they die
rot disturb three sleeping Cinnamon
and getting possession OF clothing val
aed at s13. the property Of Lang Sang
IA belonging to Jim Cling snd 80 cent,
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