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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
9
Clearout sale highlights $11.75 men suits and hundreds of $15 to $20 price points. Saks-made garments offered in cassimeres cheviots serges with single and double breasted styles, marketed as star bargains priced at or below production cost.
Justice Wright held Dr. D. Percy Hickling and Dr. Frank Peale in contempt for missing subpoenas to testify on lunacy gas trials. Fines were imposed, with remarks that court orders must be obeyed, as testimony about tardiness and a related letter from Commissioner Macfarland were reviewed.
Potomac Electric Power Company Vice President George H Harries filed to the District Commissioners a report showing a cash balance of 248069.75 on June 30 1905. The document, required by a federal act, lists receipts totaling 1932248.65 and expenditures of 229248.5 including operation, maintenance, interest, taxes, and other items.
A letter from Albert F Fox president of the Columbia National Bank informs District Commissioners that Shepherds Well at Ninth and HF streets NW requires repairs. The note recalls Gov Shepherd drawing water for his mother as a boy and mentions a past order to fire up the wall which was spared after citizen recollections of old associations. Also, a New Jersey avenue resident complains of loud baseball games at Arthur School yard and the playground director is authorized to curb noise or restrict baseball use if needed.
E Maurice Cox a clerk with the Southern Railway tried to take his life in Georgetown by slashing his throat and cutting his chest with a razor. After leaping into Rock Creek to drown himself he was rescued and taken to Georgetown University Hospital in serious condition. He had been in a melancholic state after returning from Niagara Falls and had left his Cambridge Street home to stay with J W Claggett. He was moved to St Elizabeths Hospital after police examination.
The Police Court staff saw significant changes as Bailiff Cale resigned effective August 15 after long service since 1692. Charles J. Switzer becomes bailiff, William D. West reclaims the post he held years ago, and LF Englesby, a district bar member, is named warrant clerk in the U S branch, starting today.
A party from Indianapolis including Mr and Mrs W J Boyd and son J A Boyd of Detroit B B Boyd Wheel ing Perry Knight chauffeur arrived at the Howard House after a five day, 825 mile drive across Collin haus Wheeling and Cumberland. The car registered 55 miles and the driver Knight, barely 15, is praised as skilled. They plan a return trip soon by a different route.
Justice Wright heard arguments on motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment in the Thomas M Pields embezzlement case. Defense by D W Baker and Easby maith represented the government as motions were taken under advisement. Priest Praises Evangelist John Wesley Matchett, a street evangelist at Seventh Street and the Avenue, received a commendation letter from Rev Father Drenford of Baltimore after ten years of observing his Bible studies using charts.
Vacations outfits in our summer sale with reduced prices. Two piece guile-elt suits and black and blue ranges discounted. Suits priced from 9.75 to 30.00 with trousers down to 2.90 to 4.90.
The district accepted a bid of 10 by W Mooney for the new fireboat station. Other bids ranged from 316,933 by J M Dunn and 91.24 by Jennings Beott. Inspector Ash ford urged awarding the contract. Previously Joseph Reynolds had a bid of 33,700 accepted but refused the work, forfeiting a $500 guarantee.
Mary Reging Polen sues her brother Alexius Marceron in the District Supreme Court to enjoin him from taking Isabel Marceron the eight year old from Polen custody. Polen claims she and her husband have raised Isabel since 1893 under a verbal agreement with Marceron and his wife while the child calls them mamma and papa. The court ordered a rule to show cause on July and the case cites prior attempts by Marceron to regain custody including an incident described as nearly causing a riot.
The Forest Service plans a shelterbelt at Rev Edward Everett Hale’s Southern Rhode Island estate near Wakefield. A forty foot wide belt of pitch pine, Norway spruce, and Scotch pine will be planted on the windward side to shield fields from strong gales. The trees’ varied growth forms will create a slanted top belt to deflect winds above the protected area.
John Levison alias John Willian, charged with two counts of larceny, pleaded guilty in Police Court. Judge O Nea l sentenced him to $5 fine or three months in jail per count after witnesses testified he used a flim flam scheme to steal from victims including William H Dyson and Mrs Louisa Tempner at a boarding house.
Residue of Ellie Brown Estate divided among relatives with one tenth of funds in the National Safe Deposit Company to the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Land parcels to Kezia B. Toler near Oak Ridge Va. jointly to his mother and Elizabeth Proctor. Elizabeth Toler receives the library and personal effects. $100 to John Toler. Executor Edmund W. Scott named. Funeral of John A. Bligh at St. Dominic's Church. interment Mount Olivet. Adults: Alexander Nichols injured by batted ball. Harry Skinner injured in bicycle collision with a horse. Goods: hooman aliments and a sales pitch for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Lizzie Gaskins, a young African American woman, was arraigned in Police Court for three counts of larceny on the same day. She pleaded not guilty but was convicted and fined five dollars per count or fifteen days in jail. lacking funds, she was ordered jailed for forty five days. Notes on local ads and assorted items fill the page.
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