Evening star., 1918-01-09

Officers are 10 Ec cicc.HS ut titc aH-
| nual meeting Of the Connecticut Ave-
nue. Citizens Association this evening
at O'clock 1T the Army and Navy Pre-
| paratory School. President Westiake
will submit his report on what the as
| ISOLATION has done during the last
twelve months.
Miss Emma Gray. president of the Ma
! tional New Thought Center. VIII Spea x
on Mental Poisoning" al a meeting OF
! the center this evening at Sso'cloeh.
! 4 drum. twenty inches IN diameter.
with four sticks. has disappeared from
/ a shed on the premises OF Mrs. Agnes
/ Seymour, us 10th street northeast. The
police have been asked 10 recover It
/ The police think it probable THAT the
drum was borrowed by patriotic boys.
| Capt. Charles ID. shacka.ford, COM
ruandinE Company y. Home icicnse
= Rifles. has issued orders for a drill to-
| morrow evening at 1:f5 o'clock at
! Pythian Temple.
\ pooIroom mt Virginia avenue and I'd
street southwest was the scene of an
encounter last night. in which Charles
Suydanl. colored, 1873 Delaware avenue
/ southwest, received cut across his
neck. Charlie was taken to Casualty
| hospital, and he told the police he
would procure warrant for the color
| ed man who cut him.
| Dorothy Lewis. colored. eight years
cid, who was severely burned about
] the BODY, face and head while burning
! rags IN the kitchen stove at her home.
sos "a street southeast, yesterday morn
ing. died at Casualty Hospital last
night. Coroner Nevitt gave a certif-
i cate of accidental death.
| When inmates of the National Train
| ing School for Boys assembled in the
/ dining room last night, William May,
coi0red, one of their number, was re-
/ ported absent An Investigation dis
closed that he had escaped from the in
| stitution late in the afternoon.
Philnndcr r. Clnxton, United States
commissioner of education, addressed a
meeting of the Gage School Parent
Teachers Association last night at the
Gage School oa the cooperation of par
ents and teachers in the educational de-
velopElent Of children.
Members of the Peabody Community
Association voted at a meeting last
night al the Peabody School TO discon-
rinue their meeting in the school build
ing until the present coal shortage is
over, in order to save fuel, in line with
a recommendation from Gupt. Thursuon
adopted at the latest meeting of the
board of education. Mrs. William
Wolfe Smith addressed last nights
Work in War Time
| A class IN "expresS.on" VII, be heIe Mt
| the j. ~. {. \. Thursday evenings,
starting tomorrow at : o'clock. Miss
! Ethel H. Bartlett of the Wilson Normal
/ School will be the instructor.
! A day class in millinery. under Mrs.
Z. s. Combs, open to all members of the
| Y. w. c. A, will be held at headquar-
ters. 619 14th street. starting Friday
| morning at 10 o'clock.
/ A party for girls from the western
states and a meetingrof the New Eng
| land Club will be held at tho Y. w. C.
| a. Friday night.
| The forty-ninth annunl meeting Of the
Washington Humane Society is to be
J held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
( the Shoreham Hotel.
/ DIR. Edward II. Egbert Ii to speak on
! '"fhe Siay VS.. the Teuton Peril at a
meeting of the Women's Alliance of All
Souls Unitarian Church, 14th and L
! streets Friday morning at IL O'Clock