The Washington times., 1925-10-31
RAINIER
POLICE FORCE
PLANNED
Chamber of Commerce There
Proposes Permanent
City Guard

| nent police force are being dis
cussed by the recently organized
| Mount Rainier chamber Of COM
merce. A mass meeting is to be
held the night of November s..
Officers of the chamber are Doctor
w. Burton Spire, president; Perry
Boswell, first vice president; former
mayor Fred Negus. second vice
| president: Clarence F. Schatz. sec
! rotary, and Peter j. Hagan: treas.
| urer. Frank Smith. Charles Reich
! cit, Arthur McFadden and Andrew
A. Crawford complete the board OF
directors.
The annual Halloween masquer-
ade party of the Epworth League
| Of the Mount Rainier Methodist
Episcopal Church South, was held
| last night in the basement Of the
church. Edward B. Pitts is presi-
dent of the league.
Prince Georges county has gone
| over the top for the American
] Legion endowment fund. Latest re-
ports show total of $1,815 or SIS
/ more than the county's quota has
been raised. j. Enos Ray, of
Chillum, is chairman and treasurer
of the county committee. Con-
ce;ved by Mr. Ray through the
Hyattsville postoffice and money
/ raised in excess of $500 is to go
| toward the Howard county quota,
that county being without an Amer
lean Legion post to put a campaign
across. A card party is to be
| given the night of November Is in
| the club rooms of Snyder Farmer
Post, American Legion, at Hyatts-
vile, by the women's auxiliary.
The management of the new
Arcade motion picture theater at
Hyattsville has postponed the open
ing set for next Monday night
! arrive.
The First National Bank of Mt
! Rainier, Doctor w. Burton Spire,
| president. and Clarence F. Schatz,
| cashier, reports an increase of de-
posits of over IS per cent in the
! last five months. Justice of the
! Peace Robert E.. Joyce, advertising
(; manager of The Washington Herald
and The Washington Times, is a
vice presto at of the bank.
4The an "a bazaar and dance os
Magnolia Rsbekah Lodge No. Al,
l VI IS 10 DC uGIQ
November Is in Star Hall there.
Officers of Magnolia Lodge are Mrs.
! II. Edna Pitts, president; Mrs
Anna Burroughs. vice-president,
and Mrs. Ethel Mclaughlin, scare
tary-treasurer.
Mount Rainier Lodge No. 156,
| Odd Fellows, j. Harrison Miller
noble grand, is to- be given
benefit performance at the Cameo
motion picture theater at Mount
Rainier. November s. Past noble
grand 0. T. Harlow is heading the
committee arranging for the affair.
Monday night in Star Hall, Mount
Rainier, Mount Rainier Lodge will
put on the third degree.
THE Worlds Temperance Sun
day" will be observed tomorrow
morning at IL O'Clock in the First
Presbyterian Church, Of Hyatts.
vile, when the speaker will be
Judge Gilbert o. Nations, of Wash
ington, editor of the Protestant
Magazine and professor of law in
the American University.
The rector's aid of Pinkney
Memorial Episcopal Church, Hyatts-
vile, is planning a supper in the
parish hall of the church the night
of November 10. Mrs. Robert
Morse is general chairman in
| charge Of arrangements with Mrs
u. Sherman James, vice chairman.
At services tomorrow morning at
II o'clock in the First Baptist
Church of Hyattsville, the pastor,
Doctor B. P. Robertson, will have
as the topic of his sermon, 1--WE
Must Work While it is Day. = At
the evening service at o'clock,
Doctor Robertson will discuss, "Sow-
ing and Reaping." The four B.
Y. F. u" will meet at o. m.
The mid-week service at the
| church next Wednesday night at Z
| o'clock will be under direction Of
j. T. Payne, superintendent Of the
prayer service department of the
church.
Special evangelistic services at
the church during the last two
weeks were satisfactory, it is an
nounced, and several persons were
baptized as a result of the meet
ings. Singing by Harold King, of
Washington, was a feature of the
services. Doctor Robertson led in
! the study of the life Of Christ.
The concert scheduled to be held
at the First Presbyterian Church
| Of Hyattsville, has been postponed
until Friday, November 6, at 8
D.. m. Well-known artists of Wash
ington and New York will take part
in the program.
Funeral services for Charles
Joseph Parish. fifty-nine, who died
suddenly Wednesday morning at
his home on the Washington Balti-
more Boulevard near Pierce avenue,
Hyattsville, were held yesterday,
from his late home, the Reverend
! c. II. Cannon. pastor of the Hyatts-
| vile M. +. Church South, officiat-
ling. Interment was in Fort Lincoln
! Cemetery. Besides his widow Mr..
/ Parish leaves several children.
Beginning next fall instead of
awarding a gift scholarship to
either the University of Maryland
| or the State Normal School, the
/ Prince Georges County Federation
Of Women's Clubs will extend a
! loan to cover a course in such in
/ stitutions to a deserving young
woman of the county. This action
was decided upon at the recent
semi-annual meeting of the fedora
! ton held in tho Methodist Church
J at Lanham with Mrs. r. A. Ben
nett, president, in the chair
About 100 women from various
sections of the county attended the
meeting. Features of the program