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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
10
A sale spreads across remaining stock with special prices on 27 inch eyelet and guipure fabrics for Russian Blouse and two tiered frocks, Misses brown velour and broadcloth suits, fur trimming, sizes from 8 to 19 years, plus various footwear and a selection of Young Men’s suits in spring and winter weights in cheviot tweeds and worsteds.
Friday sale offers women s silk stockings at deep discounts. Many colors and styles are available from a large lot of irregulars priced around 1 59 to 2 00 per pair. Stock includes black white and assorted colors with limited quantities and sizes.
Readable lines describe discounts in the Men s Furnishing Department at Main Floor F Street. Items include Cravenette English Tweed Sport Coat and White checks at $1.50 each, Silk Four medium, Special pairs, and midweight cotton socks with triple woven heels. Also muslin plain cambric nightshirts in sizes 14 to 18 priced 58 cents each.
In the third floor at Eleventh Street a Boys' Department features blue serge suits in sizes 7 to 18 with special prices at five cents each for small Jol and Blouses at reduced rates. Wash suits, shirts, and blouses sell at marked discounts from 2 dozen pieces priced down from 240 to reduced amounts. Broken sizes and discontinued items noted with several price reductions.
Miss Margaret Wilson travels to New York for inaugural events as her father the President prepares. A roundup notes dinners hosted by Judge A A Adams and other high profile guests at the Willard, Shoreham, and Sixteenth Street home of Treasury officials.
Washington social pages detail dinners and luncheons at the Willard and Army and Navy Club. Guests include Judge A. A. Adame, Mrs. Maestrall Dinner Gueceti, Rep. Ben Johnson, Mrs. Robert Leatherbee, Mrs. Jank Polk, Mr. William King, and many others. The text records transfers, engagements, and weekend visits, with multiple households hosting gatherings during the inauguration period.
Hostesses at Congress Hall and Shoreham attract notable guests including Senator Kirby Rep Bleakley and Rep Goodwin from Arkansas, Mrs. Stone of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. William Humphrey. Dinners lunches and theater parties honor visiting house guests Amy Brooks Harriet Shimer Mattie Card and Elise Hepburn amid junior league fund sale preparations at 1147 Connecticut avenue.
A series of social gatherings at the Army and Navy Club and nearby venues featured Mrs. Barnett hosting a luncheon for Miss Ellie Lejeune, daughter of Gen and Mrs John A Lejeune, with attendees including numerous society women. Separate events included Mrs Shields hosting in honor of war department officials, and several dinners at the Army and Navy Club with Gen W Mann, Col Reed, and others attending. The notices also mention Miss Maude Fay’s musical engagement and Miss Edith Benham hosting a dinner at the Army and Navy Club.
Miss Dorothy Shuey won hostess honors at a Kansas City function for Miss Dorothy Brown, hosted by Senator and Mrs. James A. Reed. The event featured spring floral decorations and a line of guests including Miss Jane Gregory and others. Meanwhile, Mrs. Ingraham and Mrs. Marshall depart for New York and Maine, with other visitors and tea plans noted at the Shoreham and Colonial School for Girls.
Dwight Elmendorf presented the third talk in a National Theater series on the flowers of the woods and fields and little human flowers, children. The program featured plant life, blooming cycles, flower culture, the Holland market, a perfume factory, wayside and old gardens, bees, metamorphosis of moths, and color views of birds and their nests by Pathe Freres.
The Navy League women’s comfort committee, led by Mrs. James Carroll Fraser, opened a 607 Fourteenth Street work center to knit sleeveless jackets mufflers and wristlets for sailors. Samples will be shown instructions issued and units formed nationwide under central oversight with funds from charitable women.
Cornelius Lehane of Cork Ireland spoke at the Socialist party event in Fythian Temple last night. He recounted the Irish revolution from last spring and announced another talk tonight in the same hall on the matter of the war and what lies ahead.
Society night at the automobile show drew the largest crowd yet with many visitors seeking new cars and placing orders. Dealers reported strong sales and numerous future buyers, while displays from Autocar trucks National Automobile College Champion plugs and Smith Form A trucks drew steady attention. Comba Motor Co and B. J. Quinn Motor Co occupied prime top floor spaces and recorded multiple gate sales this week.
The Canterbury Pilgrime, a four act English opera by Reginald de Koven with text by Percy Mackaye, opened at the Metropolitan Opera House under Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Based on Chaucer, it charts a love tale of Chaucer as lead. Edith Mason, Albert Reiss, and Arthur Bodanzky led the cast and orchestra.
First Lieutenant Edward J. Shelton of the Second Infantry Kentucky Naval Guards was arraigned and tried before a general court martial at Paso, Texas and dismissed from the United States Army.
George Georgetown University Law School will send its team to debate South Carolina on April 25. Winners at trials last night were T. J. Mildn, Robert M. McGauley, and John J. O Day Jr. The issue: Whether a minimum wage for workshops, factories, and department stores is desirable state legislation. Judge panel included J. J. Southerland, Miler, and Trench T. Marye with Robert B. Whalen presiding.
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