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ued its meetings until January.
Plans are under way for a f1rst-aid
course for mothers.
The association is preparing
Christmas baskets for the needy.
Buchanan.
At the last meeting membership
awards were presented to the win
ming rooms by Mrs. Charles Davis,
chairman. Mrs. Charles Nalley pre-
sented the patrol boys with banner
bearer belts from the association.
Room prizes were won by Miss E.
FernSner and Miss L. Smith.
A basket of fruit, filled by each
s~member attending the meeting
bringing an apple or an orange, was
given to the Receiving Home for
Christmas.
The association will have charge
OF booth for the sale of Christmas
seals for the next two weeks at the
Fourteenth street and Park road
branch of the Riggs Bank.
The annual collection for Christ
mas baskets for the needy will be
held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A Christmas play will be given by
the pupils on Wednesday afternoon
Parents are invited.
Hubbard.
=. In place of the regular association
meeting, a tableau and Christmas
music, presented by all the children
of the school, will be given Wednes-
day at pm. in the Wilson Teachers
College. Mrs. j. c. Wick, president,
announces stocking shower" for
the benent of underprivileged chill
dren will be held at the school to-
morrow.
Phoebe Hearst.
A meeting will be held tomorrow
at pm. Teachers will be in their
classrooms at 7:30 to receive parents
Mrs. Lillian Brausseau will lead in
the singing of Christmas carols.
The toy shop will be open for in
spection.
Stanton.
The association will meet tomor-
row at Bpm. A Christmas program
will include play, why the Chimes
Rang given by the children of the
school, talk by the Rev. Glenn B.
Faucet on The Spirit of Christ
mas" and singing of Christmas
carols. A stocking shower" will be
held for the benefit of the student
aid.
Langdon Crippled Unit.
At the last meeting the program
was given over to ceremonies of in
stallatjon and awards of the Boy
Scout Troop Of the Crippled Unit,
the only troop in the country for
handicapped boys. Merit badges
were awarded to the boys and rec
ognition pins to parents and per-
sonnel of the school who had been
helpful in working with the new
troop.
John Quincy Adams.
The association met last Tuesday. |
Plans for the Christmas activities
were discussed and arrangements |
made for taking care Of 10 under
privileged families, including 46 |
children. A feature was the award
ing OF past presidents pins to Mrs.
Louise Gallagher, who served from
1854 to 1896, and to Mrs. Helen
Spencer. whose term of Office ex-
tended from 1887 to 1899. Corsages
were presented to them by the
school. A social followed.
Anacostia Junior Senior High.
This association has charge of the
sale OF tuberculosis Christmas seals
at the bank and post ONCE in Ana
costa this week and next. The
president, Mrs. George Mason. ia
supervising the work and desires
volunteers for this very worth-while
endeavor.
There will be no December meet
ing.
Ketcham-Van Buren,.
There will be no meeting of the
association in December.
Mrs. j. w. Goans, study eroup
chairman, announces that a group /
will start on January 8.
Do you want to share your Christ
mas with some one needing help?