Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-08

| cation VIII meet Saturday evening at
Is O'Clock at Brown Betty Inn. 10th
street and Park road. The principal
business to come up for action will be
! to amend the constitution.
! The regular meeting of the CaIifor-
MIA State Association will be held to-
morrow night at the Thomson School,
! I2th and l. streets northwest. Repre-
/ sentative Nolan will preside There
VIII be Il musical entertainment
/ The Washington Humane Society
VIII hold it's fftieth annual meeting
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
gold room of the Shoreham Hotel
Members of the society can bring with
them friends interested in animal pro-
lection and the society's work in
Washington.
DIR. +. B. Power, retiring president
| of the Chemical Society of Washing
ton. will speak before members of that
organization and the Washington
Academy of Sciences on THE Distri-
button and Character of Some of the
odorous Principles of Plants at the
administration building of the Car
negie Institution tomorrow evening at
S:l5 O'Clock. 1t Will be q joint meet
ing of the academy and the chemical
society.
The Cornell women of Washington
Will be hostesses at a dance to be
gwen Founders day. January II. at
, 2400 18th street Dance COMMITTEES
members are Misses Margaret Conner.
Alice Du Breuil, Dorothy Ashley and
Winifred Skinner
The art section of the Twentieth
century Club is to hold its next
| meeting tomorrow afternoon at 8
ociock at the home of Mrs. Dayton
Ward, 1863 Columbia road The sub
Ject tor the afternoon, 'Ibsen and
His Effect Upon Modern Drama" will
be treated by Mrs. y. r. Crandall
Circular letters to the employers of
the city have been sent out by Rob-
eft l.. Livingston, chairman of the
community labor board of the Dis
trict, with view to tabuiating open
ings in local employment for the
returning soldiers of Washington. The
letter calls attention to the duty of
employers to help the men find DO
sitions in their home city and asks
for specific directions as to the kind
of work open.
Montgomery Blair and his chauffeur.
Norman A. Miller. are named Joint
defendant in a suit to recover SIS .0CO
damages filed by Anne Young for per-
sonai injuries sustained in a collision
u.
The plaintiff was in a horse-drawn
vehicle when the automobile of mir.
Blair struck the vehicle from the
rear, demolished the wagon and
throwing the plaintiff from the vehicle.
she asserts
The District of Columbia branch of
the Needlework Guild of America
will resume Red Cross work on Fri
day mornings at the Church of the
Covenant
The will of Stuart Leroy NARROW,
dated March IL. 1915 has been filed
, for probate. He leaves $1,000 to
Katherine H. NARROW and $500 to Ella
NJ Harrison. The remaining estate
is to be held in trust for Janet Mar
low and Edwin S MARROW. jr, until
they attain majority.
The monthly meeting of the Emery
School Alumni Association will he
held at the school building Friday
evening at o'clock
The annual session of the Grand
chapter of the Order of the Eastern
Star will be held in the House of the
Temple. Sd and E streets. beginning
| tomorrow evening at 1880 o'clock. and
not in the new Masonic Temple this
evening as previously announced.
| Samuel II. barton, in the employ of
the Washington Gas Light Company.
while in charge of a repair wagon on
| the Ellipse last night about s O'Clock was
frightened away-by two colored men
who boarded the wagon, evidently
! thing he had money. Not long aft
| erward the horse and wagon, unat-
/ tended appeared at fhe ras corpn,