Evening star., 1917-05-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Various lodge. of the Daughters

Various lodges of the Daughters of
America are to hold patriotic rally
| this evening at Northeast Temple. Rev.
John II. Jefferies is to be the principal
speaker. Miss Annie G. Nicholson. ma
| tional councillor of the organization.
and other national officers are to par
! ticipate in the program.
a resolution pledging the club Gas a
body of men trained in the principles
| of democratic government to give their
| full support to the President and Con-
gresS in this hour of need" was adopted
at meeting of the Regina Elena 1tal-
ian Pleasure Club last evening. In the
resolution was also this provision
compelling all members that are not
American citizens to be naturalized."
| The resolution was presented by
Charles j. Bovello.
A meeting of Federal watchmen's
/, Union, No. 1496i, is to be held tomor-
row morning at $50 o'clock at the
Moose Hall. eth and q streets.
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett is to ad-
dress the Anthony League on the Crit
tenton Home work tomorrow evening
at o'clock at 200T Columbia road. Vo-
cal selections are to be rendered by
Miss Bessie Carlton Small The public
is invited.
The Federation Of Citizens Assocfn-
tions of the District Is to hold its reg
uiar meeting Saturday evening at s
o'clock in the boardroom of the Mu-
nicipal building.
Capt. Spencer CIny, member of the
British war commission. is to address
members of the Press Club tomorrow
evening.
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Hebrew Congregation has been selected
to deliver the baccalaureate sermon at
the graduation exercises of Hebrew
Union College at Cincinnati. DR.. Simon
is a graduate of the college.
"Banking and Finance. is to be the
subject of an address by John Poole,
president of the Federal National Bank,
before the local chapter of the Amer
lean Institute of Banking tonight at
1914 f street northwest.
T. L. Skinner has been elected dele
gate 10 represent the Junior Order of
United Mechanics of the District at the
annual convention of the national or
ganization in Asheville, \. c.
Four squads Of the 1st Separate Bnt-
TALON, d. c. \. c., who are guarding
the reservoir near Howard University,
We're entertained last night by the uni
versity Y. NJ c. A. Basket ball and
THE guardsmen expressed their appre-
citation by giving an exhibition drill in
the manual of arms.
the John A. Logan School. is conva-
lescing from a severe illness resultant
from the grip.
"seIf->ncrifice week" in the sixth d.
vision public schools is proving sue
fIIl q rhillran'S
from ice cream, soda water. candy and
other luxuries netted S3095 Monday
and S3S13 Tuesday. Abstinence is to
be continued throughout this week,
and the money is to be donated to the
Red Cross.
s.That the proposed treaty with CO.
lombia should be adopted by the United
States" is to be the subject of the Mer-
rick debate by members of the Philo-
demic Society of Georgetown Univer-
sity, to be held at CASTOR Hall Sunday
evening at SIS o'clock. John J.
Darby and Edward J. Callahan are to
support the affirmative. The negative
is to be upheld by w. st. John Gar
wood and Thomas c. Nee. Rufus 5.
Lusk will act as chairman.
The Red, White and Blue Society Is
to hold it's first public meeting in the
courthouse at Fairfax, Va, Saturday
this society is to become an aid to the
Department of Agriculture, as the Red
Cross is to the medical department.
The Immediate aim is to aid in the
production of foodstuffs. and later help
in the scientific distribution Of the
same. thus eliminating much of the
waste.
Mrs. Margaret Buxbaum, thirty nine
years old, 129 street. became sud
denly i'll yesterday afternoon and was
taken to Emergency Hospital, where
she died soon after her arrival An
autopsy disclosed that death was due
to natural causes.
Roe FuIkersOn was elected unani-
mously president of the Kiwanis Club
of Washington at the weekly lunch
con of the association, held yesterday
at the New Cochran Hotel. Other Off
GERS chosen were: Herbert shannon,
vice president; Eugene G. Adams, sec
ond vice president; Lawrence Slaugh-
ter, treasurer, and John !. Hoffman.
secretary The following directors
were elected: William H. Towles. J. b.
Newman, Frank A. Cochran, Frank
Wagner and Percy S. Foster Fred
Swindell was appointed delegate to the
international convention of the kiwa-
mis- clubs. to be held in Detroit May II,
IS and 10.