Evening star., 1920-06-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

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A smoker and. celebration for It's
world war veterans will be held to-
night by Henry w. Lawton Camp. U.
S. w. v, at Perpetual Building Hall.
11th and E streets.
| The Washington College Of Music
will hold it's fourteenth commence
ment exercises and concert tonight at
| s o'clock at Central High School
Public invited.
Phil sheridan Post, No. o. Depart
ment of Potomac, q. A. r., Will meet
| tomorrow night at G. A. r. Hall, 1412
Pennsylvania avenue.
The Writer'S League of Washing
ton will meet tomorrow night at :
o'clock at the Public Library, Sth and
X streets.
DR.. Henry Allen Tupper will de-
liver an address on The Cheerful
Christ" tonight at s o'clock in the
lecture room of the First Baptist
Church, 18th and o streets.
A meeting of the Parents and
Teachers Association will be held to-
morrow night at the Deanwood Com
munity Center. Mrs. G. Pelham Will
address the association.
Among the activities at the Dean
wood Community Center scheduled
for tonight are meetings of the Ju-
nior Athletic Club, the Junior Dra-
matte Club the Community Chorus,
the Sewing and Hand-craft Club and
the Community Social Club.
meeting of all those interested
in the Prince Georges county memo
rial crop will be held in the town
hall, Bladensbllrg. Md, this evening
at 1880 o'clock. The treasurer's re-
port of receipts and expenditures will
i be made.
The Business Womcn's Council will
meet tomorrow evening at f5o
O'Clock at the Church of the cove
nant. Entertainment will be given
| by Miss Della dEdwine and Miss
Edith Lathrop.
Harry Rosenberg, n student at BUSH
| ness High School, who won the indoor
and outdoor rifle matches in the re-
cent high school shoot, received the
| Chamber of Commerce medal at a
general assembly at the school yester-
| day. Isaac Cans presented the medal
Two more educational institutions
| have conferred honorary degrees upon
William Miller Collier. president OF
George Washington University. The
honorary degree of human letters was
awarded him by Hobart College at
Geneva, n. Y. Another honorary de-
gree was awarded him blythe Uni
versity of New York.
A reception is to be rendered Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe by the
congregation of New York Avenue
Is o'clock. on the occasion of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of DR.. Rad
cliffe as pastor of the church. The
| meeting will be held in the church
| auditorium at s o'clock. following
which the reception will be held in
the lecture room at o'clock. George
w. White is chairman of the COM
mittee of arrangements.
Gibbons Club members are to spend
| the week end at the clubs cottage,
North Beach, Chesapeake Bay.
Albert G. DALEY, thirty years old,
escaped from ST. Elizabeths Hospital
precinct were asked to arrest him.
He has black hair and fair complex
| ion. the police. we're told. and wore
| dark clothes. black shoes and a blue
serge cap.
An OverhSated oil stove yesterday
afternoon caused fire in the house
of James Young, sos Rhode Island
avenue. Damage to house and con-
tents amounted to 800.
William Burleigh, Fairview streff
and Bladensburg road northeast. was
| overcome by heat while working at
Langdon yesterday. He was given
| first aid by a physician and taken
home. His condition is not critical
! A report Of the work of the District
delegates to the republican national
convention in Chicago will be made
at meeting of the republican state
committee at it's headquarters. 1926
/ New York. avenue northwest. tonight
at o'clock.