Evening star., 1918-11-15
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

says the husband is employed by an
insurance company and makes $2OC
per month She asks adequate sup
port for herself aud child.
Justice Bailey of the District su-
preme Court has granted an absolute
divorce to Nellie Irene Rooney from
Christopher NJ. Rooney. They were
married December s, 1911. The decree
permits the wife to resume her maid
en- name, Nellie Irene Richardson.
The Fellowship Club of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing will re-
sumo its regular monthly meetings to-
night
Miss Kate Moore of Columbia, s. c.,
acting president of the Chic Girls
Club, made up of young women en-
ployed in the government departments
and various war activities. announces
that the club will give a dance Sat
urday night in the Wilson Normal
School. Harvard and 11th streets. Ohio
soldiers, sailors and marines in uni
form are especially invited. All
Ohioans in Washington will be well
coined.
William b. Cushing Camp. No. 50.
Sons of. Veterans, L. S. A. Will hold a
meeting in Pythian Temple, 9Th and l.
streets, at O'Clock tonight. Nomina-
tions will be made for officers, to be
elected at the December meeting.
Justice Hitz of the District Supreme
Court has granted an absolute divorce
to Henry Walter from Edith v Walter.
Absolute divorce has been awarded
by Justice Bailey to Jennie NJ. Porter
from George f. Porter. The wife IS
given alimony of $50 per month.
Charging cruelty and desertion, Mrs.
Hale a
limited divorce from James NJ. Tor
bert, an employe of the Navy Depart
ment- They were married July ], 1905,
and have one child, now i'll custody
her husband pays her $50 a month,
but declares the amount is Inadequate
for her support
Representative Padsett. chairman of
the House committee on naval aHalrS
will deliver an address on the role
of the Navy in the great war, in the
Jewish Temple 8th street between II
and / streets, at IL o'clock Sunday
morning. There will also be music
al program arranged by the Jewish
Welfare Board.
The American Inventory Associa-
ton will hold a special meeting TO-
night at s o'clock in the Board of
Trade rooms, Star building.
4 meeting of the Nebraska State As
sociation will be held at 17lt l street
Morrow Fling, U. S. A, formerly
professor at the University of Ne
braska, will speak.
of the Washington Y. NJ. C. A. will be
held Sunday from Chain bridge along
the canal bank to Cabin John bridge.
a distance of four miles. Hikers will
meet at the Chain bridge station of
the Cabin John car line.
A meeting of the Chemical Socses
of Washington will be held at the
Carnegie Institution building, 10th
and p streets. at o'clock tonight.
Col. John McElroy. commander Of
Kit Carson Post, No. 2, G. A. R., aae.
all other present officers of the POS,
were nominated to succeed tne1rr
Pennsylvania avenue. Election viii
be at the next meeting. The post
was inspected by Commander MawsoI,
and his staff.
A musical program by Herman Ixo-
lodkin will be presented in addition
to the lecture by Representative ad-
sett at the Jewish Temple OF Sth
street near II at II o'clock Sunday
morning.
0The Present Trend of Philosophy"
will be the subject of President RIcn-
ardson of the Society for Philosophical
Inquiry at meeting to be held ut the
Public Library tomorrow at 4:45 pm
A meeting Of the Washington Story
Tellers' League will be held at the
Wilson Normal School the evening of
November %.
.xnlo.ion NJ rasolinc in thc dry-
ing room of cleaning establishment
at 3219 Mount Pleasant street yeSter-
day afternoon shattered glass in the
three-story building and injured
street, who was employed in the es-
tablshment. He was taken to Gar
field Hospital
samuel Smith. colored. engaged in a
quarrel with two other colored men
on Fenton street about o'clock last
night and received a slight bullet
wound, the bullet grazing his abdo-
men. Bullets penetrated front doors
of two houses, but did not strike per-
sons in the dwellings.
ToniKht President Patton gives the
closing lecture in New York Avenue
Church in his remarkable series upon
have commanded here. as everywhere,
large and enthusiastic audiences,
which have crowded the church every
evening this week. The subject this
evening is "War and Civilization"
The whole series of lectures Is to be
delivered in fifteen great centers of
the nation during the next three
months.
A meeting of Oklah0manS In WASH
ington to organize an Oklahoma So
ciety will be held at T:S0 o'clock to-
night at the Office of Senator Gore in
the Senate office building. All Okla
homans, whether in military, official
or civil life have been requested to be
present Senators Gore and Owen,
with majority of the Oklahoma con-
Sressional delegation. will be present.
The grand visitation of the grand
matron and the grand patron of the
Order of the Eastern Star will be held
at Martha Chapter in the Naval Lodge
room tonight
George l.. Boarman. q former motor
man in the employ of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company. was
awarded a verdict for s2.500 damages
against the company yesterday by a
jury in Circuit Division ? before JUS
tice STAFFORD. Mr. Boarman was oper-
ating a car on AZ street southwest
November 9, 1915. when it collided
with another car, which had gone
sdAad~ on the track