Evening star., 1918-02-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Bowling. basket ball. games. music.
dancing and refreshments are on The
program for the usual Saturday night
social for soldiers and sailors at the
Mount Pleasant congregational Church
this evening. All enlisted are invited.
Mrs. Mary vaux Walcott will lecture
at Friends Church, 18th and Irving
streets northwest. tonight at o'clock.
! on "A Summer Vacation in the Canadian
Rockies" The lecture will be illus
trated by lantern slides in colors, pre-
pared under the supervision of Mrs.
Walcott.
!! DR.. $. J. MacWatterx Of the American
University is to give public lecture
on Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam' and
Brownng's Rabbi Ben Ezra at the
Church of the Covenant. 18th and
streets northwest. Friday afternoon,
March 8. at 4 o'clock.
Plate Printers Local, No. 2. Is to hold
its monthly meeting at 2:30 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon at Typographical
Temple. Important business matters
i will be considered.
who has visited more than a dozen
countries since the war started. talked
to the men at Fort Myer last night on
conditions in other lands.
Rising SUN Lodge, Grand United Or
der of Odd Fellows colored, is arrang-
ing to celebrate the fifteenth anniver-
! Sary of it's organization. Exercises VIII
be held in Zion Baptist Church, south
| Washington, tomorrow night. when Rev.
W. J. Howard. pastor. and past Off
Ger of the lodge, will deliver the SER
mon. Patriotic exercises will be held
in the church next Friday night, where
addresses will be delivered by members
| of number of fraternal societies. To-
tai membership of the organization of
colored Odd Fellows in the District OF
Columbia aggregates 5000. The COM
mittee in charge of the celebration is
composed of w. c. Martin. chairman:
| ]. F. McAuley, f. Cunningham, John
Manning. w. H. Kicks, Henry Edmunds,
E. P. Wingard, ]. Mccall, Joseph Ruftin,
Arthur Myers. J. n Dorsey and ). r. A
Lee
| A meeting Of the West End Citizens
Association is to be held Tuesday even
! ing at s o'clock at Kidder Hall, S22 goth
street northwest
| An informal reception is to be ten
dered chemists engaged in war work
| here by the Washington Chemical So
| ciety next Thursday evening at $3.50
o'clock at the Smithsonian Institution
!
Illinois is to speak tomorrow afternoon
at 3:45 o'clock at the 18th street branch
/ of the Y. NJ. c. A. A patriotic program
I also has been arranged.
! A meeting of the Georgetown Citi-
zens Association is to be held Monday
evening at o'clock at the Potomac
Savings Bank Hail. Senator Thomas
Sterling is to speak.
| The work of the League of American
| Penwomen in assisting the commission
on training camp activities in publicity
work was explained by Mrs. Susie Root
Rhodes, director of Fairgrounds of the
! District. at the weekly knitting tea of
1928 H street northwest. Mrs. Wood
! row Wilson was the guest of honor at
! the tea. Mrs. Josephus Daniels was
scheduled to make an address, but was
! forced to remain home because of
severe cold. Mrs. Newton d. Baker
gave song program, playing her own
accompaniment.
Annie &. Matthews, colored. died sud-
denly yesterday afternoon at her home
/, 2123 l. street. Death was due to nat
ural causes.
A midyear rally will be held for menu
,bers of the Wilson Normal School Com
munity Association at the school Tues
day evening. Representative Keating
of Colorado will speak on ideals Of
ers will be Representative Lobeck of
( Nebraska and II. NJ Connolly, director
of community gardens for the District.
Miss Helen Howe and Leroy Glider will
sing and the Washington Community
Orchestra will furnish the music.
Irving Rosenberg, traffic policeman at
Pennsylvania avenue and 14th street.
slipped on the icy street while on duty
last night about $50 O'Clock and re-
ceived an injury to his spine. He re-
ceived first aid at Emergency Hospital
and was able to go to his home at 800
r street northeast.
I: While handling pistol at her home.
159 N street southeast, yesterday after
noon, Priscilla Reed. colored, Rcci-
Elizabeth Reed. fourteen years old, in
the left leg. The child was taken to
Casualty Hospital.
Arthur Brown, colored. BurrSillc.
will lose the sight of one eye as re-
,sult of an accident that happened while
he was working at 70S X street last
night about 10 O'Clock. He was struck
by a brick that fell from the building
and was taken to Emergency Hospital.
II. Hayes HamiltOn, protOloguer. is tn
give an illustrated %telephotologue on
Intimate Glimpses in the I.aAd of an
Ally" tomorrow evening at the Chevy
| Chase Seminary. Places of interest in
the United States and Canada will be
included in the lecture. Mr.. Hamilton
will lecture on THE American and
| Canadian Rockies this evening at
Camp Meade.
Representative Edward keating of
Colorado will address the NJ u
Citizens Association on Government
Ownership of Public Utilities" at the
February meeting of the association
in Flynns Hall. Sth and K streets. at
8 O'Clock Monday night. Miss Mollie
Condor of the national womans party
will speak on, Suffrage for the Dis
trict
Representative Frank Ellsworth was
the principal speaker at rally yes
terday at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church
birthday anniversary. Mr.. Ellsworth
| spoke on Americas Eternal Purpose. .
telling of the extravaganza OF Ameri-
can life prior to the war, and how the
| war had chasteninR effect. Rev.