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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1917
Page
10
The catalog lists Soft Vici Kidskins in Extra Broad-toe Foot-form at $5.00, Medium Broad Toe straight last at $5.50, Genteel Straight Last semi-English at $6.00, and Broad-toe Blucher at $5.00. Under current market conditions these shoes are worth one third more.
Abraham Jeffe, 28, of this city, awaiting Ber tha A Furter, 24, of Morristown, N J, to marry, sees a marriage license issued March 3 returned for cancellation at the courthouse. Col. Krall received the document yesterday. Rev. L M Chambers had been set to perform the ceremony but heard nothing from the couple.
Frank L. H. Storm of Frederick and Ming Margaret Nesbit Miller daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Miller were married last night at Center Street Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage by Rev. Dr. Joseph Dawson Soth. Storm recently enlisted in the navy and are prominent in musical circles.
Militant suffragists plan a Bastille Day picket this afternoon with a reported $25,000 treasury. Miss Lucy Burns leads the group with Miss Alice Paul on leave from hospital duty. Pickets will march a weekly route from Cameron House to the White House via police headquarters and jail.
Tardieu hosts French envoy dinner in Bhoreham Gold Room for the French ambassador and Mme Jesnerand. Lunchhost Monod, Gerardin, Nicol, Calbat, and others in honor of Mr Hoover. British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice attends Shoreham luncheon. Mrs Richardson Clover and Miss Clover host Grasslands dinner for Miss Edith Blair and Lt. Comdr. Adolphus Braton A. and N. engagement July 28 at Miss Blair’s Silver Spring home. Admiral Clover in California, returns next month. W P G Harding hosts Montgomery Club dinner for Elizabeth Harding and Frederick Henry Prince Jr. marriage today at St John’s Church.
Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt and Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt head to Biltmore, N C for six weeks after visiting Lenox. Charles Town hosts a Zion Episcopal Church wedding for Miss Barbers Fowls Campbell and Lieut. Hugh Johnson Hagan with a large bridal party. Engagements and summer stays in Beverly, M.A. and Atlantic City appear, with many officers, relatives, and society guests planning summer residencies and ceremonies.
Weekly reports on conservation of edibles will be made. A summer camp meeting at Washington Grove Maryland ends next Tuesday. Clergymen in other cities urge knitting in church but local pastors frown on the plan. Food conservation cards will be issued to churchgoers and turned in weekly. Several sermons and speakers are listed for tomorrow, including H S France and Rev. W S Dunlop, with services and free Saturday entertainments for soldiers.
An earnest appeal to celebrate French day with a Red Cross war service fund gift is issued by Red Cross finance chair Macfarland who says honoring liberty and France’s birth of freedom fits the day. The Red Cross has already allocated 1 million dollars for France and a commission led by Maj Murphy is arranging French headquarters as soldiers are in France. Local subscriptions include 190 from Isaac W Nordlinger 111 09 from Continental Life Insurance agents and policyholders and smaller gifts from several clubs and individuals.
William H. Lewis named secretary of the Central Young Man's Christian Association of Cumberland replacing William H. Baxley who resigned to assume the secretaryship at Plainfield New Jersey.
Advertising vigilance committee of the Retail Merchants Association and Washington druggists meeting yesterday urged stricter enforcement of the false Advertising law. Much fake patent medicine advertising is spread by house to house canvassing. Chair man Joseph Berberich urged households to send such ads to the association.
Benjamin R. Jacobs of the Food Administration spoke to the District Council of the National Defense women's committee at H. D. Cooke School about community baking. He noted home baking saves 55 cents per 10 pounds of flour and that adopting community baking reduces work while increasing supply. five percent volunteered to participate. A 3:30 p.m. demonstration is planned for Tuesday at the school.
Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona was slightly hurt when part of an awning frame fell on him near the Kimball building at 1417 G Street NW yesterday. He was carried to his Capitol office by Attorney Frank J. Hogan and was resting at his residence that night.
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