Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


James A. Garfield Post. No. Z. g. A. R.
was presented with a badge Of honor
at meeting Of the post Friday night
The presentation was made by B. p
Entriken and H. A. johnson, past COM
manders. The presentation was &C.
companied bv an entertainment In
which several members of the post and
their relatives took part. Among the
guests was Representative James A
Frear of Wisconsin, a son of the hon
ored past commander.
The Mary Baldwin Seminary Alum
nae will meet at o'clock Tuesday
saret w. Daniel. the Cumberland
apartments. All former students OF
the seminary are invited.
All citizens or former residents Of
Colorado. especially men in uniform,
RADIO Society at the Colonial School.
18th and @ streets. Tuesday night. Mrs.
John F. Shafroth. Mrs. E. P. Costigan
and Mrs. Huston Thompson will be
hostesses. A feature of the program
Conway, formerly Of the Peg O. 1 ~
Heart" company. who will recite .
poem, THE Stacker" There will be an
informal reception. dancing and re-
freshments.
The AnthroDoloEical Society Of Wash-
following officers for the year: Edward
T. Williams. president; DR.. Truman
Nicholson. vice president: Felix Neu-
mann, secretary, and ]. N. B. Hewitt.
managers: Rev. John N. Cooper. Miss
Frances Densmore. John T. Harring-
ton. Francis La Flesche and DR.. Edwin
Lee Morgan.
The Kentucky Society In to meet in
York avenue. Thursday nght. at .
o'clock. Champ Clark is to make an
address. and there will be music and
dancing. Kentuckians in Washington
are requested to attend.
grade school building at the in
tersection Of 18th street and Spring
road 10 urgently recommended by J.
Clinton Hiatt. secretary Of the Colum-
bia Heights Citizens Association. The
present crowded condition of the Hub
bard, Ross. Monroe. Powell and John.
| son school buildings renders this move
essential. says the secretary, who
points out that school heads and the
District Commissioners have expressed
approval OF tue pldn
cially newcomers. are invited to a meet.
| ing of the Florida Society at 1914 F
| street northwest Tuesday night. Misi
Mabel Latimer. Martin Kaufman ant
program. after which there will be 6
| social hour and dance. Senator
Fletcher will preside.
| The Methodist churches Of the eitI
are cooperating in arranging an ami
J Methodist Home for the Aged, 9Th ant
| NJ streets, from until 9 o'clock Wed
nesday. Two men and two women hav'
| been designated from each church t.
help arrange the program.
| Jewish residents of the District ar,
| to be visited today in the interes
| of the Palestine workers fund by va
| rious committees of the Washington
Poale Zion Society This organization,
| toration work of the Poale Zionists.
| Gilbert W. Kelly, formerly of thi
city. but now editor of the Scott Fors
man Publishing Company, Chicago. a
the recent municipal election held a
| of the school board of that place.
! An Inquest was held At the morku.
| Friday afternoon in the case OF Johi
Mathews. sixteen years old, who wa.
killed in an accident in the elevator IL
the building Of the Harper-Overlant
Company. 1923 18th street. Thursda,
afternoon. The jury reached the con
clusion that the boys death was due t.
his own carelessness.
| -Joseph Charnowitx, thirty years old
1923 9Th street. yesterday morning
was burned about the face anl
Hands when a gasoline explosion oc
CURED in a cleaning establishment a
IT21 NJ street, where he was employed
He was taken to Emergency Hospital
Damage to the property amounted t,
81.
Glass night exercises Of the senior
of the College of Arts and Sciences
Howard University, will be held Ma,
Memorial Chapel. The public is invited
Ashes emptied from q nine On n
awning in front Of the home Of Wilson
lG. Carroll. 923 18th street yesterda,
afternoon, caused a fire which did abou
$50 damage.
! Harry D0Fmnn. the insane patient q
st. Elizabeths Hospital who killed an
other patient. Patrick ONeiI. with
window weight. Friday morning, wa
held for the action of the grand jur
by a coroner's jury yesterday after
noon at the District morgue.
| Manager for Fuel Conservation.