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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1912
Page
4
City bulletins announce showtimes for Pelaro It Were King at 8:13 p.m. and Dumbla The Daren of Tomorro at B18, listing evening entertainment options for local residents.
The District of Columbia Seventh Day Adventist annual conference opened with business sessions and elected officers led by J. J. McElhany. Prof. W. W. Prescott spoke on Protestantism and Romanism while a plan to raise funds for foreign missions was approved, signaling concerns about Roman Catholic influence in the United States.
Between 3 000 and 4 000 delegates will attend the Oklahoma City session of the Southern Baptist convention beginning Wednesday for a five day meeting. President F U Dargan of Macon Georgia will preside at the first session. The convention sermon Wednesday night will be delivered by Rev T Cody editor of the Baptist Courier of Greenville.
Delegates to the American Federation of Arts convention departed Washington after a Mount Vernon visit hosted by the Ladies Mount Vernon Association board of regents. Dr Berthold Laufer delivered a Freer collection lecture at the Field Museum in Chicago. A theft occurred at Wing Lee Chinaman's Laundry on 919 E Street NW with $1 stolen from the cash drawer.
Delegates from the State of the Union and from Japan arrive as the quadrennial general conference opens at Clark Memorial Church in Baltimore. Election of the president and secretaries is on the first afternoon with strong sentiment for reelecting Rev. Dr. Thomas Hamilton Lewis of Westminster, Md. Uncontested are Rev. Dr. M. L. Jennings and Rev. Dr. D. C. Coburn. A major issue is consolidating foreign mission work with other Protestant churches.
Delegates occupying rooms in a historic mansion once used by the first president. A tenant resides in the mansions main quarters. Women inspect tombs and house slaves cabins, now used by many delegates.
The Regents of the Ladies Association of Mount Vernon held services at Pohick Church on Old Kings Highway and picnicked en route. George Washington helped choose the church site with Fairfax and Mason, and regents later toured the mansion rooms and tombs during the annual council. Bishop Harding laid the St Agnes Chapel cornerstone in Washington with plans for Baltimore marble construction and a August opening.
Minneapolis May 12 The board of Sunday schools reported four years of growth since starting without a Sunday school missionary. They note 1128 new schools 42000 enrolled 204 church organizations 31 new churches 20650 members and 623262 conversions in four years ending 1812. Enrollment of pupils officers and teachers in 1913 totaled 410 f 410.
John Warren Jones vanished from his Old Street Southwest home Saturday after noon. His mother Mary T. Jones fears a kidnapping may be involved, noting the boy spoke with strangers and was last seen near a wharf around 4 o clock. A playmate reported seeing him at the wharf, while the boy’s right finger bore a bandaged splinter from a home injury.
First Lieut G M Russell of the Fifteenth Cavalry stationed at Fort Myer Va was thrown from his horse at Thirty third and o1 streets northwest yesterday morning and sustained bruises on his left leg He remounted and continued to the fort Italy Enfranchiees Miterates Fome The chamber of deputies by a vote 29 to etc passed the bill extending the franchise to foreigners over 3 years of age increasing voters by 4 000 000
Memorial services were held yesterday in Huntington W V for Lucien Smith lost in the Titanic disaster while returning from Europe with his bride Elaine Hughes daughter of Representative Hughes of West Virginia The Rev C M Bass who married the couple led the services The groom's brother in law James Smith and Representative Hughes attended Mrs Smith was escorted by Hughes and James Smith Hope to reclaim the body was Halifax Morgantown will read the will today to settle an estate valued at 1060000
The Collegiate Club last night installed officers for the year at the Eighth Street Temple in Northwest Washington. Rabbi Rev. Dr. Simon presided. New officers are Louis Greenberg president, Benjamin B. Schneider vice president, Benjamin Lipper secretary, Maurice Rosenbloom treasurer, and Maurice Hirsch sergeant at arms. Retiring officers were Harry Otis Sandberg president, Louis Greenberg vice president, B N Lesk secretary, and Maurice Konigsberg sergeant at arms.
Excursion of Germans to Chesapeake Beach yesterday drew more than seven percent of Turnverein members despite bad weather. The trip used special parlor-car trains on the Chesapeake Beach Rail Road. Marine Band provided music both ways with B. A. Fleming, The Nightingale of the Turnverein, assisting at Chesapeake Beach. Many clamming parties formed as swimming was limited by weather. Committee in charge included Ernst Gerstenberg president Adolph Laux chairman F Beauvert R Meissner Herman Zeitler Gustave Linke and F E Mann.
The car of Lowery A. Waters of 150 Seventeenth Street North West was stolen from in front of the baseball park Saturday about 4 3 p m and found abandoned near the First precinct station early yesterday. Police say three negro suspects fled after police pursued from New Jersey avenue at three miles an hour as three loaded squad cars chased them, eluding bicycle officers.
President Taft and hundreds wore carnations and attended All Souls Church service while multiple churches across Washington observed Mothers Day with sermons and confirmations. The YMCA and YWCA held a joint Mothers Day meeting with speakers Morrison and Wilbur, and bishops and priests officiated services in Trinity Church Takoma Park Shrine of the Sacred Heart St Aloysius St John’s St Thomas and other parishes. Preachers cited Mother’s Day and raised funds for clergy pensions, with music by church choirs and celebratory sermons across several houses of worship.
At the Church of the New Jerusalem Rev Julian K Smyth and Rev Bamah Stone were invested with the office of general pastor the highest in the church The sermon was by Rev L G Hoeck The convention opens with meetings at 10 and 11 18 and 2 30 welcome at the White House and an evening reception at Rauscher s Connecticut avenue with prominent visitors expected
Workers race to raise funds for a new YWCA home at Thirteenth and I streets. With 12 174.08 collected, organizers aim for at least 10 000 more. final receipts announced at a luncheon at headquarters 138 F street. Campaigners cover all city areas to boost totals before the 1 pm deadline.
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