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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1917
Page
10
Special sale highlights Sports and outdoor suits in Khaki Kool Silk and Wool, solid colors, stripes, and striking tones. Coats double as separate sports coats with belts and large pockets. Skirts feature gathered backs with matching pockets. Sizes 34 to 38, reduced from 85 to 55 dollars and 75 to 45 dollars.
The Red Cross fund drive reports ongoing contributions from corporate dividends and individual gifts. Chairman MacFarland notes the city has not yet raised three fourths of its 390900 goal and urges prompt giving. Various donors list include Miss Mabel T Boielman $93, Mrs Alexander Graham $57 and others. Proceeds from a Pines R Branch Park event total $20 and lawn party donations add to the tally.
Funeral services for Bo Sweeney, who died Monday in his apartments, will be at the Church of the Covenant at 19 o clock tomorrow morning with Rex Charles Wood officiating. The body will be cremated, ashes location undecided. The Interior Department officials will attend with ten department employees as pallbearers. Lieutenant Bo Sweeney Jr returned from Provincetown aboard the Yate university training ship Ansantawan and will stay with his mother Mrs Tillian Sweeney in Seattle before they move home.
Invitations issued to Maryland division camps officers to attend a Fund night honoring the election of Capt B E H Grove as the first division commander from George H Thomas camp Coal S R Stratton FE WV Speelman and Mrs Ross S Rutledge will speak with a four piece musical program to follow.
Special sale offers women's linen suits priced 15.00 and 18.75 on G Street third floor. Sports models feature plain or belted coats with plain or plaited backs, large collars and pockets. skirts have gathered backs and pockets in colors rose pink mustard violet blue gray green white. Sizes 34 to 44, washable light-weight quality, designed with care.
Beautiful silk coats in light weights and fashionable styles for dress and sport wear. Woolen coats in bolivia and serge with varied mixtures. Wide weave variety with silk linings. Colors include black blue tan gold rose green and more. Sale prices range from 25 to 95 dollars, discounts from original figures.
The YWCA seeks to recruit an American women's legion of about 30 000 to 60 000 college and society women to join Pershing's forces in France. They would coordinate with the YWCA field relief for the Sammies, aiming for frontline duty similar to British and Russian women's units, but approval from Secretary Baker and the War Department is still pending.
Mrs Josephus Daniels wife of the Secretary of the Navy announces a personal drive to cut meat and wheat. She says she has joined the anti meat and wheat effort under Herbert Hoover's guidance and has reduced official and home meals from seven or eight courses to three.
The Old Colony Club, formed on the chain idea and led by William Ralston, former Assistant Treasurer of the United States, is establishing a Washington branch. Other chapters exist in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St Louis, Detroit, Boston, Kansas City, Cleveland, New Orleans and Pittsburgh, with an advisory board including Russell Andrews and several others guiding the effort. The club has leased roving it the Kal el,h.
Secretary Daniels and Capt Amaury de la Grange of the French aviation mission will headline a Washington Board of Trade event at Central High School. The evening features Marine Band music, Board of Trade Glee Club, and films on modern warfare. Many lawmakers expected. program supports Wilson’s aviation plan. Public invited after 6 15 pm.
A woman named Nelly Harper, 21, of New York, was to wed John Englisch, 22, a Fort Myer private. They obtained a marriage license July 5, but Englisch returned it to Col Kroll at the courthouse saying she feared he would be sent to France and she prefers a husband who will be with her. The arrangement was canceled.
Hundreds of American doctors and surgeons will soon head to France to bolster allied medical services. The plan emerged from a conference with Secretary Baker and senior American physicians alongside medical representatives of Britain and France.
A Paris dinner given by the United States Ambassador to France and Mrs William G Sharp drew a high profile guest list. Attendees included H R H Princes Udine of Italy, former US ambassadors Thomas Nelson Page and Henry Morgenthau, Maj Gen Pershing, and new envoy staff such as Arthur de Heeren and Mme de Heeren. The gathering also touched on arrivals in Washington, Belgian legation changes, and notable spouses visiting from Boston and Newport with plans to spend the summer in Washington and Lenox.
Mrs Jennie Lovell Walters daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Milton T Slater of this city and Mr James D C Murray of Waterbury and New York were married last evening at St Josephs Church Waverley Place and Sixth Avenue New York by Rev Joseph Breslin. The bride wore white satin with pearl ornaments a chantilly veil crown of orange blossoms and a pearl necklace. She carried lilies of the valley. Misses Josephine and Gertrude Brown of Harrison New Jersey attended. Mr Murray was supported by Alexander Lange as escort. The ushers were Frederick Fischer E A Vivien John Gleason and Joseph Campus. After the ceremony the couple hosted friends at their new Jerome apartments in West 116th Street.
Miss Priscilla Taft daughter of Mr and Mrs William C Taft married Ensign Lawrence Wainwright son of Mr and Mrs Dallas Bache Wainwright of Washington at Willoughby in Baltimore County Maryland The ceremony was small attended by family and close friends Ensign Wainwright a Naval Academy graduate in March also noted.
Miss Margaret Fechteler daughter of Admiral and Mrs Fechteler married Lieut Comdr Herbert Emory Kays U N at Kay Chapel Newport. Ceremony featured full navy dress uniforms and a reception on Gibbs avenue with green and white decor. The couple will reside at the War College Training Station Newport. Nearby society notes include Dorothea Snodgrass hurriedly engaged to Lieut John Dunham Townsend and Kathryn Irene Benson engagement to George Vaughn Seibold.
Mrs Alfred Gywnie Vanderbilt abandons the completion of her new villa Tenox in Newport Rhode Island, deciding the artisans should serve the country during the war. She plans to resume construction after the conflict ends.
Presbyterian and Jewish leaders met with Herbert Hoover and Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur to pledge strong church backing for the government food conservation program. They condemned liquor production from foodstuffs as morally indefensible, while planning coordinated efforts across denominations to enlist congregations and place weekly food records in church offerings.
Secretary Hardy at Camp Asaph requests English instruction for naturalized foreigners. Charles P Taft volunteers to teach, after a clerk questions a khaki soldier seeking a vacant ten room schoolhouse. Taft confirms his identity and gains the schoolhouse and books. He will also teach French to American troops for overseas use.
W. W. Warwick, comptroller of the Treasury, states 5 and 10 percent increases for government employees also cover per diem staff. He notes a strict reading could exclude per diem workers, but believes the statute does not require that interpretation and has ruled the increases are payable to per diem employees as well.
An extensive patriotic program is arranged tonight at Gonzaga College Theater by the Sixth precinct branch of the Home Defense League. Senator Calder of New York Maj Raymond Pullman and others will address the gathering along with Rev. Father Kelley and Rev. James Shera Montgomery.
The Boy Scouts plan a week long recruiting push after military branches end their drives to enroll 250000 boys. Washington division prints 10000 circulars to be distributed by scouts and parents. Washington parents are invited to discuss at recruiting stations starting Saturday.
New York July 17 actors and actresses spending summer on Long Island will celebrate Christmas tomorrow night at the Lights Club Freeport with Yuletide trimmings exchanges of gifts and a big dinner The event is the first in a series of entertainments to ease being away from home during holidays and special occasions.
Diplomatic changes announced yesterday assign Albert Braddock former secretary of legation at Brussels to the Department of State Charles Campbell Jr former secretary of legation at Bern to Lima Peru and Louis A Sussdorff former secretary of legation at Rio de Janeiro to Asuncion.
An open house and informal reception will be held on the veranda of the new YMCA building on Barracks street at Fort Myer at 430 o'clock this afternoon. Alasie will be furnished by the Fourteenth Coast Artillery Band.
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