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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1906
Page
15
The store promotes Neglige and White Neglige styles priced at $1.00, highlighting twelve distinct madras and cheviot options and a wide range of shirt styles. It emphasizes quality, variety, and low prices, inviting customers to view window displays.
Children’s Day filled churches in Washington with hundreds of bright faced boys and show clad girls performing songs and recitations. Infants were baptized at several churches as floral decorations and music flourished. Eastern Presbyterian Church hosted two programs under Rev. Thomas C Easton with morning junior and primary departments and evening senior groups.
Thirteen members of the primary department graduated at First Presbyterian Church on John Marshall Place between C and D streets. Rev. D. C. MacLeod awarded diplomas as the program featured songs, prayers, welcomes, and multiple student exercises led by A B E L Leckie.
Eight children were baptized at Mount Pleasant Congregational Church yesterday morning. The list includes Mary Young Davis Hulbert Young Jr Jeannette Gaston Ruth Virginia Newman Alvin Senter Quinter Jr Tina Frances Russell Donald Clifford Savage and Margaret Somerville. Rev Michael Hburn spoke to the children and the program featured songs and recitations by classes and the primary children with solos and a vocal duet by Winifred Hyde and Emelyn Shedd.
Children’s Day program at Metropolitan Baptist Church featured thirty numbers arranged by Gilbert A. Clarke with Rev. John Compton Bell assisting. Recitations by Nan Clewell Mary Linebach Eugene Thorson Sybil Sipher and others, songs by the intermediate and primary departments, and exercises by many named students.
At Waush M E Church a charming program featured children in white, with the evening service devoted to Bible stories told by the young participants. The arrangements were led by Mrs. M M Mitchell Mrs A M Muffey Miss Lily Jett A W Howard and Samuel Hardy superintendent of the Sunday School. The program included prayers recitations solos and chorus by Albert Lege Dorothy Whitson Laster Mcdonald Dorothy Leach Ruth Dick Mildred Chamberlain Delia Moberlay Rosemary Arnold Edith Stine Benjamin Chamberlain Phebe Stine Rich Arnold Lary Simpson Wilbur Boteler Lucy Graves Edith Prentzma and others in a sequence of child centered Bible story presentations.
White garbed children perform at Ryland M. E. Church with a program of songs, recitations, and a school address. Nearly 150 participants from Brookland Baptist Church took part, under the direction of Mrs. George E. Barber with assistants Florence Hopkins and Sale Halliday. Superintendent C. D. Lynch spoke on Sunday school.
About seventy five children participated in activities at the Fourth Presbyterian Church with two baptisms. Rev. Joseph T. Kelly delivered the day’s address after a program of infant baptisms, infant class exercises, and a solo by Miss Isdith Larri more.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church held exercises largely well attended with many standing to view. Dr J E Smith delivered the address of the day. Program included music, orchestra, school prayers, recitations by May Nunneby Virginia Shippon and others.
The City Building Code Committee begins public sessions on revising regulations. The first meeting is tomorrow at 3 30 in the District Building board room, focusing on fire units extension and light and ventilation rules sections 1 and 33. Public attendance urged to share views on the proposed subjects and cases.
The annual log rolling contest of the Modern Woodmen of America is set for Wednesday at Marshall Hall. Families and friends anticipate a picnic with outdoor games and refreshments, while teams from several lodges compete to push a gigantic log as the highlight of the program. Washington jurisdiction includes five camps with about 1, Finent and Most Pleasing Dessert appears as an item on the event notes.
About 100 children joined in a program at the First Congregational Church. Rev. Dr. Everest, temporary pastor, delivered the address. The order featured processional, school chant, Lord's Prayer, choir, invocations, anthems, various department songs and recitations, and an offertory by the junior choir.
At Memorial Brethren Church located at North Capitol and R streets the primary department led the morning exercises with the school chorus assisting. Rev W J Houck delivered the address and Rev J Herschel Cooper directed the programme featuring invocation, songs, recitations by Badith Barnes Barjorle Dunton Ruth Houck Lulu Hoiby and Maybelic James.
Bishop Satterlee praised nurses at the twenty first anniversary celebration stressing prayer and personal influence in a nurse's life. The Guild of St Barnabas for Nurses, started in Pugland and later Boston, now has thirty two branches and about two thousand members aiding dignity, standards, and fellowship. Officers to be installed at 8 PM in the parish hall. Miss Amie Lohan injured after alighting from a car at Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets NW yesterday afternoon. Velvet ice cream brick promotion noted.
Apostolic delegate Diomede Falconig presided over the ordination ceremony last Saturday in the Chapel of Mount St Sepiléhre for Rev. Thomas Elassman O.F.M. The candidate received holy orders and celebrated his first Mass in the same church yesterday. Also noted are local ads for car hire, printing, and lawn care services including Joye Engraving, Schnaider’s feasts, and Lightning Rods.
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