Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-07

ANS Association Is to be held Monday
nssnr 1T Iowa Avenue " f, Church,
when report is 20 be made on the pro-
,,Nse6 government ownership OF tele-
,;,ores II. the District Of Columbia. A
note j. also 70 he taken upon 2 proposed
amendment 10 the aSsociation's coDstitu-
ton providing for an assistant SECRETARY.
Senator Moses f. Clapp of Minnesota
IS 10 be rendered 2. reception at Metro
po,itan A. NJ. E. Church Friday evening
by the National Association for the Ad-
yaaceneBt OF the Colored People OF the
District OF Columbia, according 10 an
aouneement made today. Senator Jones
OF Washington and others are scheduled
TO make addresses.
Gus karxer, newspaperman. related
his miniscenceS of various Presidents
at meeting of the Optimist Club last
evening at 1901 X street The hostesses
Of the evening We're Mrs. Frank II.
Briggs and Mrs La Crone.
The Red Circle Society is TO give its
February dance Saturday evening in
tEe ballroom Of the Arcade. Music is
10 be furnished by the Jardin Orches-
ira.
Of Harry T. Palmer. 9th and h streets,
and William F. Lemon, 22G0 kalorama
road, occurred at Rhode Island and
Connecticut avenues last night about
81
from her husbands car, but was not
injured.
While calling at 112S Esd street last
night about 1880 o'clock, John II.
Amos, colored. fifty years old, 1405 2sth
street. was taken ill and died before
physician from Emergency Hospital
reached him. Coroner hewitt gave a
certificate of death from natural causes.
The overturninE of an oil lamp last
night about 1880 O'Clock caused a
small fire in the house of Mrs. Amelia
Green, 222 Florida avenue. Damage to
house and contents amounted TO SIC.
one years old. died suddenly this morn
ing about 1 o'clock at his home, 6 Sum
ner road southeast certificate of
death from natural causes was given
The Ladies' League of st. Johns
Catholic Church, Ell Nido. Va, gave d
dance and supper last night, the pro-
ceeds of which are for the improve
mentS on the new social hall.
meeting of the Uncle Remus Me-
mortal Society was held at the Ebbitt
House last night, at which Miss Jessie
Dell, third vice president, presided An
entertainment program was given. to
which Miss Marion Armstrong, John
Carrigan, Mrs. Flora Dyer, Mrs. Robert
Argo, George G. Murray and Horace At
kinson contributed.
A meeting was held at the Public Lii
l1rary last night to consider plans for
the organization of a society for the
protection and improvement of prop
erty at Colonial Beach, Va, Miss Bertha
Yoder serving as temporary chairman.
The formal organization is to take
place at a meeting scheduled to be held
March IS.
IL. G. Hoover, the American mining
engineer, who is in charge of the re-
lief work being done in Belgium, was
University Club. Seventy men, widely
known in the mining industry, attended
the luncheon. The committee in charge
of the arrangements was composed of
Van H Manning, director of the bureau
of mines; George Otis Smith, director
Of the United States geological sur
vey; A. F. Lucas, A Fl. Brooks and j. +.
Callbreath.
The annual meeting of the Washing
ton Kennel Club will be held tomor-
row evening at o'clock at the New
Ebbitt House A large attendance is
desired. as the election of officers and
report of bench show committee viii be
in order.
The SEVENTEEN birthday anniversary
of Rabbi Louis Stern viii be celebrated
Friday evening following the divine
services of the Washington Hebrew
tion will be held.
At meeting of Unity Council. No. -
Independent Order, Sons of Jonadab.
last night in the Northeast Temple,
referendum on prohibition for the Dis
trict was discussed. but the meeting
adjourned without taking any action.
The entertainment and Gance commit
tee reported that arrangements were
completed for Valentine night
"The Role of Calcium in the Ecouo-
my of the Human Body" was the sub
ject of paper read by DR.. J. C. Hem
meter of the University of Maryland
before the National Capital Medical AS
ISOLATION last evening. Calcium salts
are Indispensable to the work of almost
all internal organs, asserted Dr. Hem
meter. DR.. G. W. Rowland gave a din
ner in honor of DR.. Hemmcter.
The New Hampshire and the Maine
associations will hold Il Joint meeting
= Monday evening at 3 o'clock in the au-
ditorium of the Public Library, sth and
* streets northwest. Col. William w
Harris, L. s. A, superintendent of pub
lie buildings and grounds, will give an
Illustrated lecture on the city OF
Washington"