The Washington herald., 1922-10-06
NORTHWEST SEEKS
PAVING And REPAIR
OF THREE STREETS
Will Ask for Appropria-
ton for 18th, 14th
And 18th Streets.

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Paving of Thirteenth street north
vest and resurfacing of Sixteenth
and Fourteenth streets northwest
from Columbia Heights north, Is to
be asked of the District Commits
sioners at the October meeting of
the Piney Branch Citizens Associa-
tfon, according to Lester B. Hen
derson. president. The organiza-
tion meets next Monday evening.
Fourteenth and Sixteenth street:
are now macadamized from Parf
road north, but the condition of the
surface is the worst possible, saic
Mr.. Henderson These streets art
the main arteries of trafhc north
and south and we propose TO ask
the. Commissioners to include this
Improvement in next years esti-
mates"
The request will include pavement
of Thirteenth street. from Spring
road to Crittenden street: Sixteenth
and Fourteenth streets from Park
road to Kennedy street.
Sylvia Lent. viOlinist. daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lent. 1928 Cor
coran street. northwest. made her
debut in Bechstein Hall, Ber:on.
Germany. September Is, according 10
word received here by her parents.
Critics were generous in their praise
of Miss Lents work. Her next con-
cert will be given october, 10.
The F Street Club will give its
opening party of the year at Mrs
Dyer's. 1919 r street northwest. to-
night
With many exhibits from botn
professional and amateur growers
the annual dahlia show Of the TakO-
ma Park Horticultural Club VIII
open at the Takoma Public Library
The displays will be open for two
days.
Prizes will be offered to the best
amateur growers in five different
classes. Professional hOrticulturists
will be on a non-competitive basis.
Admission will be free and offiCerJ
of the club are expecting a large
attendance.
A drive for sustaining members in
the National Community Chorus is
soon to be made. according to an
nouncement Of Robert S. Starr. pres
ident. The aim Of the campaign IS
to raise funds to finance the year. S
program.
Ohcers of the organization are:
Mrs. Lillian \. Bennett. vice presi-
dent: c. o. Fischer. secretary; John
A. Gallagher. assistant director;
Miss Helen Nash. accOmpanist; Mrs
II Clyde Grimes. assistant accom-
panist; II. G. King librarian: Miss
Emma Green, assistant librarian
Miss Mabel Rowlands. chairman
finance committee: Mrs. \. z. Ten
mile. chairman patronage COM
mittee.
The first program of the year
will be held at Mount Pleasant NJ e
Church October Is. The event will
be in ten nature of a students
artists recital.
Members of the Lonesome Club
william Cole president, had their
first meeting OF the fall season at
the Wilson Normal School last
evening
A general community celebration
for Halloween in the Columbia
Heights district will be held at Will
son Normal SchooI October "a. The
Mount Pleasant Citizens AssOCia tiOn
and other organizations will coop
crate in planning the affair.
Members Of the Mount Pleasant
Citizens Association are pleased
over the announcement made yester-
day that the Carnegie Foundation
has appropriated 100000 for new
library in their district. according
to the secretary of the organization,
W. l. Swanton. A request for
S25,OOO with which to buy a site for
the structure has been included in
the supplemental list sent to the
Director Of the Budget.
DR.. and Mrs. L. F. Kebler. 1922
Park road northwest. have re-
turned from a three day motor trip
to Frederick and Harpers Ferry
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert HOhr accom-
panied them on the tour.
Plans for the coming winter
were discussed at the annual
meeting of the Alabama Society
held at Wilson Normal School last
evening Maj. T. V. Walker. 254e
Seventeenth street northwest, is
president.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Robbins. 1915
Rhode Island avenue northwest
Miss Maude Bohn and Miss Anna
staples motored to Braddock
Heights, Nd. yesterday.
H. NJ. Fulton, 1900 Thirteenth
street, seriously i'll for the past
three weeks, has recovered.
An illustrated lecture OF the Pas
sion Play will be given by Archdea-
con Weber at Grace Church Chapel.
Thirty-first and o streets northwest.
tonight at o'clock.
Six hundred dollars was raised for
the Hebrew immigration Society at a
recent meeting of the Keser Israel
Congregation in its synagogue at
Twenty-eighth and NJ streets north
west.