Evening star., 1917-09-27
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Arts Club dinner tonight will he
presided over by Mrs. ]. J. White. Mrs.
Nina E. Allender. Mrs. Emma Prall
Knorr and Miss Grace Needham. The
subject of the evening will be Why Is
Music?" George Julian Zolnay Will be
one of the principal speakers.
Bernice E. Weaver has filed suit for
absolute divorce from George e.
Weaver They were married April 3.
1911. and have one child. Misconduct
is alleged and two correspondents
named. Attorney D. Edward Clarke
represents the wife.
The Ladies' Guild of Emmanuel Epis-
copal Church of Anacostia will give
luncheon at the Old Masonic Temple.
9Th and F streets. october and for
the benefit of the church.
Charles Skolnick. 332 Mexican street.
Philadelphia, early this morning was
taken i'll in front of the first precinct
police station. He was taken to
Emergency Hospital.
While at Sd street and Missouri ave
nue. last night about $50 o'clock Ed
ward Kelly, 21S B street, was as
saulted by an unidentified colored man.
who struck him with a blackjack and
inflicted scalp wound. His wound
was dressed at Casualty Hospital.
Suffering from a severe scalp wound.
Lester Bird. colored. fourteen years old.
Johnson court, yesterday afternoon
was treated at Emergency Hospital.
He was struck with brick by another
colored boy while at 18th and D
streets.
Aloysium Dorsey, cOlOred. accidentally
shot himself in the left hand and
thigh while cleaning a revolver at his
home. 1927 2Sth street, last night. He
was taken to Georgetown University
Hospital.
Percival Chubb. former president of
the Drama League of America, will
speak on THE War and the Future Of
Drama" before the Washington Center
of the Drama League of America next
Wednesday evening at o'clock at the
Friends School, 1909 1 street.
Prof. Roy H. Waite of the Maryland
experiment station is to deliver a pub
lie lecture on the prospects for the
poultry raiser under war conditions at
the Public Library tonight at
o'clock in the west study. The Ma
tional Capital Poultry and Pigeon AS
sociation will hold it's monthly meeting.
The first Eet-tOgether meeting Of the
entire membership of the tenth pre-
cinct of the Home Defense League since
it has been thoroughly organized will
be held Wednesday evening. October 3,
at Central High School Maj. Edwards
Of the Military Service Legion will be
drillmaster and a large attendance is
expected. Capt. George Pitt of the
tenth precinct has announced that there
will be srui4ar meeting and drill once
each month during the winter.
Plans for the fall 'get-together- din
ner of the membership committee of
the Washington Board of Trade are
to be S, made in the the, near ca s future & The af-
although the exact date has not yet
been set. Charles E. Marsh and Clar-
ence F. Welsh have been selected aa
members of the committee by President
e. c. Brandenburg.
Members of the st. Veronica Society,
which is affiliated with the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America. are
to give an entertainment and dance in
Carroll Hall tomorrow evening at 8
o'clock The proceeds will be devoted
to the Catholic Women's War Relief
work. Company c, Sd Regiment, En-
gineer Corps. stationed al Washington
barracks, will be the guests of the So
ciety at the function. Rev. Peter C..
OCallaghan. c. S. P, rector of the
Apostolic Mission House and for many
years president of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of America, Is to
speak.
meeting is to he held at the Young
womens Christian Association We'd
nesday evening, October 3, to discuss
ICEHldIiOn Ol d pdlTlOllc league MIS-.
Josephus Daniels. wife of the Secretary
Of the Navy. is scheduled to speak.
Mrs. Bertha Hansen Gottsman is on
the program as soloist.
Arrangements are being completed
for the ninth annual exhibition of
fruits. flowers and vegetables. potted
plants and canned goods under the
auspices of the Brookland Brotherhood.
Tuesday and Wednesday. in the Brook
land Baptist Church The exhibition is
to open at o'clock Tuesday night. and
will continue until Wednesday night
The Busy Bee Society of LynchburE
Va, whose president is Mrs. A. F. An
derson. has presented a number of BIZ
hles to the Navy recruiting offices in
Lynchburg and Roanoke to be given to
either station are sworn In on the first
OF the Bibles given by the society. The
Bible fund is open to subscription.
The Washington Terminal WOmnn's
Auxiliary of the Red Cross will give a
Red Cross rally in the Y. NJ. c. A. al
Union station tomorrow evening at s
o'clock. The Terminal Y. NJ. c. A. Or
chestra will furnish the music Mrs
J. 3. Hutchinson of Philadelphia is tc
give short talk on Red Cross work
and there will also be recitatfons ant
vocal solos. All railroad men and theil
families are urged to show their inter.
est by their attendance.
Gordon Gordon-Smith. war CORE
spondent and assistant quartermastel
general of the Serbian army, is to de
liver an address at the National Pres.
Club tomorrow evening at o'clock
His subject is to be THE Role of the
Balkans in the War