Evening star., 1918-04-03
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Washington Y. NJ. C. A.. which
started in an intercity campaign with
the Portland Ore, association, and also
with other institutions of this city for
the Chamber of Commerce cup. in the
sale of war savings stamps, had sold
among the resident members here from
March / to q. S2,T24.25 worth of stamps.
To stimulate competition inside the
building the floors on which members
reside have organized a competition
among themselves.
Joseph schultz. inmate of Soldiers
Home, is reported missing. He left the
home Saturday afternoon to go to
church and failed to. return. Officials
of the home thought he probably had
been taken i'll on the street and remov-
ed to hospital. but his name was not
found on hospital records.
Police of the eighth precinct have
been asked to recover diamond ring
Belonging to Mrs. Mary L. Milmore, 1713
Corcoran street, and valued by her at
$1,000. 1t was taken from a bureau
drawer in the last two weeks.
Short-circuiting of electric wires this
morning about l o'clock caused a fire in
the storage shed of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company, Georgia
tents amounted to 500.
The meeting scheduled by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association
for tomorrow night, to consider the pro-
! posal to have business houses open at
10 o'clock in the morning, as a means
OF relieving street car congestion, has
been postponed until Monday night. The
merchants more time in which to con-
slider the proposition The credit mems
section of the merchants association
will meet in the assembly room of the
organization at o'clock Friday night.
An civic organizations Interested I'm
securing higher salaries for school
teachers are invited to send representa-
Ifves TO an open meeting of the schools
committee of the Board of Trade in The
star building at 1880 o'clock this even
ing Roy c. Claflin will preside and it
IS probable that a definite plan will be
worked out for pushing the question of
school teachers salaries before Congress-.
grss.
The Department of Labor has asked
the chamber OF Commerce of the United
STATES to appoint committee to in
terest chambers of commerce and
boards of trade IN cooperating with
the federal employment service.
Representative II. w. Harrison. of yfr-
Efnia VIII address the McKim Bible
class at the Church Of the Epiphany
tomorrow evening at o'clock. His sub
5ect will be The War in France, ONLY
men viii be admitted. Strangers in the
city are invited
ME-. J. A. Grffhth, superintendent of
the National Training School for Girls
VIII address the annual meeting of the
W omen 5 4nterdenominational Mission
ary UnioM in Mount Vernon NJ E.
Church South, 9th and K streets, FRI
day at O'Clock. Officers of the union
will be elected and the annual reports
made at this meeting. Mrs. Louise H.
Earle of Emmanuel Baptist Church,
chairman of the standing COMMITTEES on
Bible study, will report on three
classes which she has conducted at the
National Training School for Girls, the
Bruen Home and the Washington City
Orphan Asylum. A Bible will be given
to each member of the graduating
classes OF these institutions.
Nearly 500 members of AImas TEMPLE
of the Mystic Shrine, headed by Illus
-trious Potentate l. Whiting Estes
under the escort OF the Alnlaz Arab
Patrol, left Washington at 1 O'Clock
today for Philadelphia to attend a
mammoth spring ceremonial by Lu Lu
Temple of that city at the Metropolitan
Opera House this evening. The Wash