Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


| William II. Preston. colored. has been
| convicted. before Justice Mccoy and a
jury in Criminal Division 2, of several
! charges of housebreaking in the vicin-
10y CT Cleveland Park. He was SEN
| fenced to serve nine years in the peni-
] tentiary. Preston was convicted in 1908
| of HOUSEKEEPING at Mount Vernon
Seminary and was given ten years. He
| was released on parole after serving a
! portion of his time. Assistant United
States Attorney Arth conducted the
| prosecution.
Rev DIR. Earle Wiley. pastor of the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church, is
announced to lecture on The ChurcheS
and Palaces of Europe. tonight at $40
o'clock, at the Y. NJ. c. A. The lecture
| is to be illustrated. The public is IN
vited.
Absolute divorce is asked in n suit
filed in the District Supreme Court by
| Ellen c. Wilkinson against Charles L..
Wilkinson. They were married Octo-
Der 16. 1899, and have one child, thir-
teen years old Misconduct is alleged
and a correspondent named. Attorneys
John c. Foster and c. r. Colvin ap-
pear for the wife.
Washington printers are to he en-
tertained at the Typothetae dinner to-
night in the Hotel Cochran with talks
on the craft and kindred themes and
abaret program. According to an
nouncements sent out by Franc y.
Sherry, the president, the Spea kers Will
be Norman W. Wilson. president and
manager of sales of big paper mill
at Erie, Pa: Richard Beresford, a
former Washington printer, now New
rk-Boston sales manager of the Lam
ston Monotype Machine Company, and
C. w. Chabot, advertising manager or
a paper mill.
"Hiking Through Brainland'' is the
subject of a lecture to be given by
Prof G. w. Savory of California this
evening at o'clock at the First Con-
gregational Church, 10th and G streets
northwest The lecture is to be illus
trated. All scouts, scoutmasters, par
ents and friends have been invited.
The westover Athletic Club is to
hold an informal dance tomorrow even
ing at S:45 o'clock at Carroll Institute.
The club intends to place base ball
team in the field this season, and pro-
ceeds are to go toward defraying it's
expenses.
Through Attorney Lawrence J. Heller.
trict Supreme Court for the probate of
| the will of his brother, Joseph Baum.
Justice Stafford has admitted the will
to probate and granted letters to the
$500 of which $4,000 is in real es-
tate and 100000 in personal property.
Titus Ulke will give an exhibition of
specimens of PLANT and Animal Life
on Glaciers and Snowfields' at meet
| ing of the Aquarium Society of Wash
| ington tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
| in the geological laboratory of George
Washington University, 2025 G street
northwest.
The second of the series of recitaIs by
| the Won Unschuld trio. composed of
| Nine. Won Unschuld, pianist: Mr.. Bree-
| skin, violinist, and Mr.. Mandy, cellist.
| is to be given Saturday morning at II
o'clock at the Raleigh Hotel. The trio
| is to be assisted by Messrs. Newell and
| Poincnar. The second number is to be
| given by a quartet. Between the two
| numb Madeleine Won Unschuld, the
eight-year-old pianist, is to play.
| trated lecture on school gardens be-
/ fore the Petworth Home and School
| Association at the Petworth School, Sth
| and Shepherd streets northwest, Friday
lsvening. Ernest H. Daniel, vice presi-
dent of the board of education, is to
conduct question box. Mrs. Edwin A.
| Finckel is to be in charge of the must
| cal program. Jesse c. Suter, president
/ of the organization. is to preside.
| II. f. Doyle. jr., known among his
| friends at the bureau of engraving as
| Young Bob is a patient in George
! Washington University Hospital, where
| he underwent an operation yesterday.
His condition this morning was slight
| ly improved.
st. Johns College alumni are to ceIe-
brate the ffftieth anniversary of the
coming of the Christian Brothers to
Washington by a banquet at the Eb-
bitt House tonight. The Very Rev. Ed
ward Fitzgerald. prior of the Immacu-
| late Conception College, Brookland
William H. De Lacy and others will
| speak.
The Washington Boy Scout Band is
| to hold a special meeting this evening
at 6 o'clock in c.. \. r. Hall to com
, plete arrangements for it's participa-
| ton in the Boy Scout pageant Saturday
| afternoon. The band is composed of
more than fifty-five boys between the
ages of twelve and fifteen.
| A special meeting of the Plate Print
| ers' Local Union, No. 2, of this city is
| called by President John ]. Deviny for
(, knights of Pythias' Hall, 1912 9Th
| street northwest. This will be perhaps
! the last of a series of meetings called
| for the purpose of revising the consti-
tuition of the union.
Wilton Lacknye. actor. is to he the
guest of honor at the Commercial Club
at luncheon Tomorrow afternoon at
1890 o'clock. He is to relate number
| of personal experiences.
Arrangements are belnE made by the
District of Columbia Christian En-
| deayor Union for a. special train to
!