Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-18
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TIE Washington Aviatorx' Club will
meet at $50 o'clock the evening of
, May 90. at the Ebbitt House. Lieut..
Baker, who was wounded in action
and awarded congressional medal
of honor for bravery. will talk. A
buffet supper will be served.
DIR. Stuart c. johnson Of 5314 18th
street northwest. who has seen serv-
ice in France as captain in the Medi-
to Washington. He arrived in Ho-
boken May on the record-hreaking
trip of the steamship Great Northern.
street northwes'. will hold it's thirty
eishth annual commencement on the
evening of May IS. The exercises
will be held in the Friends Meeting
House. and will be followed by a re-
caption to the graduating class and
to David Lawrence, who will be the
speaker.
The public utility conference will be
held in the conference room of the
WASHINGTON Board of Trade star h'I!'n-
ing. Friday evening. at Sis O'Clock.
President A. NJ. Todd of the Public
Ownership League of America, and
others will discuss plans for obtain
ing the best solution of the national
transportation problem.
The Kentucky Society will meet at
the Thomson School next Thursday
night at s o'clock. There will be
speaking, music and dancing.
The Kcnc.sias will give an interest
ing program in the vestry rooms OF
Adas Israel Congregation, 9Th ana l
streets northwest. on Tuesday even
ing at S o'clock.
The Kansas State Society gave n
dance last night ct the Wilson Com
munity Center. d. II. Simpson was in
charge. The society is planning to
hold outings down the river this COM
ing summer and fall.
The Compass Club will hold a dinner
at it's clubrooms. 1920 H street, the
evening of May 90 at Z o'clock. 1t will
be the Dante dinner of the birthday
circle of celebrities of literature and art
During the evening there will be read
ings from the works of the poets and in
teresting bits of history.
Eugene Underwood of George WASH
ington University has been appointed
delegate to represent the local chapter
of Sigma Chi Fraternity at the biennia!
convention to be held at Des Moines,
Iowa, June IS.
The republican women's national ex-
ccutiv" committee, acting with the re-
publican national committee. will hold
a banquet at the Wardman Park Hotel
the evening of May % at Z 80 o'clock.
The Mems Club of Lincoln Church,
18th and E streets northwest, will give
a reception for soldiers and war workers
tomorrow night at s 80 o'clock. Lieut..
Walker Aikens will speak. There will be
music.
Proteat against increased street car
fare will be made at mass meeting
of Columbia Lodge. No. ia. Interna-
tionai Association Of Machinists. this
morning at 1890 O'Clock It the Avenue
Grand Theater, Pennsylvania avenue
between 9Th and 18th streets southeast.
president of the East Washington
Citizens Association: William Price and
William NICK. Clayton.
Y. W. c. A. BOoklovers will meet
tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, the
subject being. IAN Evening with
Robert Louis Stevenson" Miss Alice
Hutchins Drake will speak.
The base ball game scheduled for
yesterday afternoon at American
League Base Ball Park between teams
from the Army War College and Fort
Myer. for the benefit Of Providence
Hospital. was postponed on account
of wet grounds. The game is to be
played June "a.
Three hundred families are inter-
ested in gardens being cultivated on
the tract of land in East Potomac
Park. furnished by the government.
through Col. c. s. Ridley. director of
public buildings and grounds. Each
family has a plot of 40x10O feet in
the thirty five-acre plot given over
exclusively to planting. 1t is estimat-
ed that the total amount of savings
to these families will reach into the
thousands of dollars.