Evening star., 1919-03-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

The Kansas City Club is to meet
Saturday night at 1104 NJ street north
west to elect officers. organize an
orchestra and select participants In
a play to be given sby the club.
Mrs. Alice :. Orton has filed suit for
an absolute divorce from Charles II.
Orton. They were married at Alex
andria. Va. April 2. 1913. and the
wife charges cruelty and misconduct
Mrs. Crton also asks an injunction
to prevent her husband interfering
with her or occupying a room in the
same house with her.
The memory of Lieut.. Louis Hamil-
ton Bayly is to be honored by the
ems Christian Association with a fund
to provide support for destitute
child of this city. The club has raised
the nucleus of the fund. and. with the
permission of Mrs. William Hamilton
Bayly, mother of the lieutenant and
president of the Y. w. {. A. has named
it in honor of Lieut.. Bayly, whose
death occurred recently in France.
Elizabeth Howard. colored. thirteen
years old, disappeared from her home.
240S Bryan street, AnAcostia. yester-
day afternoon. Police of the eleventh
precinct, who were asked to search
for her, were tolc that she took a pis-
tol with her and left a note informing
her parents that her dead body would
be found. Elizabeth went away un-
der similar conditions some time ago.
changed her mind about using the
pistol and returned home.
Minnesota girls employed in the
government departments are to give a
dance Saturday night at $3.50 O'Clock
in the Northeast Masonic Temple, 523
MinneSOtanS
are invited.
For the benefit of the Florence Crit
tenton Mission, Miss Janet Richards
will speak and Mrs. Newton d. Baker
sing. at o'clock Monday night at the
Church of Our Father. 18th and l.
streets northwest.
Problems affecting retail business in
the District will b.. discussed by the
retail trad committee of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers ASsocia-
tion in the looms of the association
in The Star building this afternoon.
Lester Lansburgh. chairman of the
committee, hopes to bring about clos
er cooperation among the retail mer-
chants in the operation of their es-
tablishments during 1919.
The 504th meeting Of the Biological
Society will be held Saturday night at
8 o'clock in the assembly hall of the
Cosmos Club. The program will in
clude three papers. Notice of Large
Canid from the Cumberland" by J. w.
Gidley; Intermediates in the AphidI-
dae and Their Relation to Alternate
Hosts" by A. c. Baker, and "Ber-
nardin de Sanite Pierre as Plant
Ecologist," by r. H. True.
Herzl Club of Warrington, n Zion.
ist organization, is to meet Sunday
afternoon at o'clock in the Y. NJ. Il.
A. rooms. 11th street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
Col George Harvey OF New York
city has been invited to deba e the
league of nations plan by George X.
George of this city. Il come forward
and take up your challenge" says Or.
George, referring to the indianapolis
speech, "in which you daty anybody
to disprove the assertion that i. is the
most complete autocracy the world
has ever known"
Mrs. Newton ID. Baker Is announced
to sing at War Camp Community
Club No. 3, POLL Georgia avenue. at s
o'clock Saturday night. The club will
hold a community sing Sunday after
noon at $40 o'clock, at which the
choir of St Luke's P. E. Church Will
appear.
| Announcement is made that the w.
B. A. of the Maccabee state conven-
ton will be held tomorrow at /. o.
F Hail.. 419 7th street northwest
instead of the hall at 7th and I streets
Sessions are scheduled for 10 o'clock
a. IN. and 1870 o'clock pm.
First roster of charter membe rship,
Gen. Pershing Post. No. l, World War
, Veterans. will be held open until the
conclusion of the meeting to be held
Monday night a o'clock in the audi
torium of the New National Museum,
10th and b streets northwest. Dele
gates will be appointed who shall con-
stitute d committee to meet with the
delegates from the overseas forces and
from the various states in connection
with the formation Of the national
association. 1t is desired that every
one wear his uniform.
Members of the PhilOdemic Society
of Georgetown College are to hold the
Hamilton extempore debate Sunday
night at SIS o'clock in CASTOR Hall.
The question to be debated is: That
tinue to control and operate the rail-
roads" The affirmative will be taken
by Lewis H. Daily. J. Eugene Gallery
and Raynor F. Kirwin. and the mega
tive by Raymond II. Reiss, Robert j..
Riley and Paul d. Page, jr., ]. Robert
Luger will act as chairman.
The District of COlum bla Federation
of Women's Clubs will meet Monday
afternoon at o'clock in the board
room of the District building.
The will Of Mary jane Murphy.
dated November S. 1913. provides be-
quests of s. each to her brothers.
William Murphy and Thomas Murphy.
The remaining estate. including prem-
ises 1903 14th street northwest. and
a one-third interest in house 1906 18th
street and seventy-eight acres of land
in the District, is devised to her
cousin. Thomas Barnett, who is also
named as executor.