Evening star., 1918-01-10
CAT TALES.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
| Women of St. Marks Church have or
ganized a Red Cross unit, with more
than 800 members, and every week
complete a largo number of sweaters,
muffiers. etc. for the soldiers at the
front. Miss Mamie Gall is captain of
the unit.
| William s. Culbertson of the United
States tariff board was the guest of
i honor at a dinner given at the Pow
hatan last night by the members of the
Bible class which he teaches at the
Church of the Covenant.
| A drill of the Volunteer Guard of the
| District, directed by Maj. E. L. Webster
of the pension office and Capt. Robert
P. Rhea of the Treasury Department,
will be held in the armory of Dunbar
High School at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Preparations will be made for the gen.
eral mobilization call A. which will
be held at all precinct stations and the
District building Sunday afternoon.
when all the precinct divisions will be
inspected by Maj. Pullman and the Of
| jficers of the league.
tives of Federal Employees Union No. 2
| is to be held tomorrow evening at s
o'clock at Perpetual Building Associa
tion Hall, 11th and E streets. The busi-
ness will include reports from standing
committees. The quarterly meeting of
| the union will be held Friday evening,
January Is. at Pythian Temple.
The Safety First Association II to
meet this evening at s o'clock at the
Public Library.
Jemima James. colored. four years old.
was severely burned or her hips last
night when her clothing caught fire
standing in front of the fire. warming
herself, got too near the CRATE and her
dress ignited. She was taken to Chill
dren's Hospital.
| Lefronia Henry. colored. was held for
the grand jury at an inquest held at
| the morgue yesterday afternoon over
the body of her infant. The child was
| found dead in the woods near Brook
land last Friday morning. and the
mother, according to the police. ad-
mitted having abandoned her there the
night before. Deputy Coroner Carr
found that death was caused by pneu-
monia resulting from exposure.
An entertainment and dance for men
in uniform is to be given Saturday
evening at s o'clock at st. Marks Par
ish Hall. Sd and A streets southeast.
On account Of the fuel shortage the
community dance scheduled for Friday
night at the Petworth School under the
auspices of the art committee OF the
Petworth Womans Club has been post
poned The committee will give no
more entertainments, it is stated. until
the fuel situation in the District i'm
proves.
Desiring fully to Amerfcanize their
n
brother. Henry Andrew Sehmid. have
filed petitions in the District Supreme
Court for permission to change their
names to Smith. They tell the court
that Schmid is German for smith.
and because of its origin has raised
and may raise question in the minds
of the curious and skeptica1 as to the
LOYALTY of the posseSsors to the land
plicants were born in Missouri. They
appear as their own counsel.
A special exhibition Of paintings by
Ienacio Zuloaga, the noted Spanish art
ist, is on view today at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. The exhibit will remain
| until January 80.
A Red Cross dance and card party
benefit is to be given by the senior
members of Col. Ann Hawkes. Hay So
ciety, Children of the American Revolu-
| ton. tomorrow evening at the Cairo.
~
George W. Smallwood. Miss Phebe
Fleming and Mrs. L. o. Merchant All
members of the D. A. r. and S. A. r.
| are invited.
| The Warrington Motor Transfer COM
pany and the American Express Com
| pany are named defendants in a suit
| filed in the District Supreme Court by
Mrs. Katie NJ. oConnor, as admins
tratrix of her husband. Maurice 3.
O'Connor. to recover $4,000 damages
for his death.
| Through Attorney F. Edward Mitch
ell, the complainant says her husband
was strapping a tire on his automobile
! September 70, last. when truck owned
| by the motor company and used by the
express company struck him and in
| flicted injuries from which he died
| three days later.
| Mrs. Margaret Peck has filed suit In
| the District Supreme Court to recover
$4,000 damages from the Washington
| Railway and Electric Company for al
legged slander. She says that while a
passenger in car of the company, Oc-
| tober Is, 1917, a motorman of the COM
pany, in the presence of other pas
| sengers. made statement rejecting on
her. She is represented by Attorney
Andrew !. Hickey.
Ittamar ben Avi. a pioneer colonist OF
Palestine. is to speak on Palestine
Our National House." this evening at 8
o'clock at Adas Israel Compensation.
| 9th and streets.
Street railway. telephone matters
| and other civic improvements are tc
come UP for discussion at a meeting Of
Cav the Word