The Washington herald., 1917-02-16
Purely Personal

Ropert H. Wendt has received an ap-
ipointment in the War Department as
clerk at $1,000 per annum.
| Miss Grace e. Killers of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. has re-
signed.
| c. B. Huse, of the Government Print
ing Office, has gone to Atlantic City
to recuperate. having been on the sick
list for a few weeks.
| Elmer ]. Pearson, of the Office of
the Chief Engineer of the War De-
partment. has received a promotion.
Miss Ida J. Ford. of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, has resigned.
| Briggs P. Simpich, of the Office of
the Chief Signal Officer of the War
Department, has resigned.
Senior Surgeon Fairfax Irwin, of the
Public Health Service, has been granted
| a leave of absence on account of illness.
Assistant Surgeon General w. C..
Rucker, of the Public Health Service
has left for Philadelphia to give a
lecture on the development Of the health
| service.
Mrs Daisy Burpee. Of the Bureau o:
| Engraving and Printing, has been i'll for
| the past week.
C. B. Huse, of the Government Print
|
| recuperate from an illness.
Surgeon C. H. Lavinder, of the Public
Health Service, has been ordered to
, Trenton, N. j., to deliver an address on
| infantile paralysis this evening.
Mrs Margaretta Neale, clerk in the
| Department of Commerce, has resigned.
Albert Holmes, laboratory assistant at
the Bureau of Standards, has received
promotion.
| Joseph R. Henry has received an ap-
pointment as a clerk in the Department
of Commerce.
| Ralph Mckinney has been PROBATIONARY
appointed a clerk in the Bureau of Stand
ards.
| Daniel NJ. Harrigan has received an
| appointment as a special watchman at the
| Coast and Geodetic Survey.
William E. LeffingweI, of Boston, has
been visiting friends in I street.
Alfred g. Curtin. Of Philadelphia, has
been visiting relatives in Georgetown.
| Miss Edna Erie, who has been visiting
friends in this city, has returned to
Pittsburgh.
| T o. Tinmons, prominent newspaper
man from Ammarallo, Tex, who is well
known in the local print shops Of Wash
ington, has returned to this city.
| John A Humphrtes, OF Boston, anu
| Mrs. Humphries were in the city yester-
day, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. c.
R. Humphries in Wisconsin avenue.
! NJ. 'Goldenburg. of the firm of NJ. Gold
enburg, is stopping at the Breakers at
Atlantic City.
Harry King. of Kings Palace. is on an
extended buying trip to New York City.
j. Leverton. of the firm of L. Leverton
& Co., returns today from a buying trip
to the Metropolis.
Lester I.ansburgh. of the firm of Lans-
burgh & Bro, is taking a prominent part
| in the Retailers Convention now being
held in New York.
E, L. Greer and E. E. Langley, of the
| Carrier Section of the city postoffice, who
have been i'll for some time, are improv-
ing.
| D. S. Dawson, a substitute carrier of
| the city postoffice, is still absent from
| duty. He was recently called to his home
| in Oakland, w. Va, on account Of the
| illness of his mother.
Assistant Surgeon General J. w. Kerr
| recently attended meeting Of manufac-
turers of medical products held in New
York.
Surgeon c. H. Lavinder will deliver
an address on poliomyelitis at the board
of health conference to be held In Tren-
ton, N. J., today.
| Assistant Surgeon r. B. Acker has been
| transferred from the Chicago Marine
| Hospital to Fort Stanton On. M Sana-