Officers Elected For Year In District WCTU Convention
The thirty eighth annual District Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention closed at Immanuel Baptist Church after a day of sessions. Mrs Clinton Smith was reelected president amid debate over vice president at large. Mrs Cohen ultimately won the post after a lengthy parliamentary fight. A memorial service and banner presentation capped a day honoring membership gains and temperance work.
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Philips
Cohen
District
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Chick
Iramanuel Baptist Church
Sixteenth Street
Columbia_road
Mea Clinton Smith
Catlin
Benjamin A. Lineback
William Scott
Abel Webb Parks
SM. Wegcott
Charles P. Grandfield
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Philins
Bloomingdale Auxiliay
Hull
M. E. Cohen
Shelton
Emma
Mra
Benjamin A Lineback
Charles P Grandfield
Don P Blaine
Shéiton
Robinson
A. W Spooner
Shoemaker
Carrie M Fernandes
Loyal Temperance Legion
Tura
F. Olney
Lauretta Kress
Fornald
M Wescott
Ruth M. G. Pealer
Preas and Stete
M. M White
D. EK. Bruce
W Ot. U
Crafts
Christ
WC. T. WU
Pocahontas Club Plans November Meeting On Jamestown Statue
Officers of the Pocahontas Club met at the Ebbitt House to set the first full meeting for the first Thursday in November. Miss Mary Desha, president, says the statue of Pocahontas near Jamestown, Va., has been completed by Partridge of New York. The society has raised $50,000 for the memorial and expects Congress to appropriate a further $5,000, with action anticipated as Congress convenes. The statue is described as very beautiful.
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Pocahontas Club
Ebbitt House
Mary Desha
Poomontas
Jamestown
Partridge
New York
Miss Desha
Victory for Defense in Supreme Court Case
The defense won the first case at this term of the Supreme Court. The judge directed a verdict for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company after evidence showed the inj ury arose from a fellow servant’s carelessness. The company was represented by R Ross Perry & Son.
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J. E. Brady
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Justice Wright
R Ross Perry & Son
Buildings Regulations Hear Public on Fireproof Walls
District commissioners discussed amending the city building rules to allow 9 inch party walls in two story houses, replacing the current 13 inch standard. A hearing drew over 100 architects and builders asEngineer Commissioner Judson indicated support for the change and the draft regulations were distributed pending final adoption.
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Board of Commissioners
Macfarland
Saul
F. Saul
Tha ‘Committee For Building Industries
Chamber of Commerce
R Harrison Jolson
South Washington Citizens’ Association
Morris Fitzgerald
George C Hough
Master Builders’ Association
Protests Hearing Set Over Property Awards In DC
Monday will hear protests from owners of 29 of 75 parcels in the city block south of Pennsylvania Avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets NW. Justice Stafford will allow arguments on alleged unconstitutionality and inadequate awards while two tenant exceptions were filed. An unrelated note mentions Eleanor Holmes and a diamond theft at a Grand Opera House area arrest, with a $10 fine after a guilty plea.
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Fourteenth
Fifteenth Streets
Justice Stafford
Walliams ‘Hall
Claudia Conk
Fifteenth
Ac|ress
Eleanor Holmes
Aia Jeasehold Mtorest
BW. Parker
Eleanor
Grand Opera House Company
Fourth Precinct
Chase's
Martha Thurnburg
First Precinct
Thurnburg
Ting
Mulloway
Rye Fever Mule Beats Motor Car In Police Court Scuffle
In a comical police court session Judge Aukam sees a 2 horsepower mule team assert the right side of the street against a 60 horsepower touring car owned by Dr Abbott. Henry Terrell pleads hay fever caused his lapse and is fined $5. Marie Canthe, released from Emergency Hospital, is jailed five days for vagrancy after a liquor episode. Annie Washington avoids conviction amid conflicting testimony. Soldier’s Home inmate William King fined $1 after admitting pension money misused. Joseph Hott laments his mother’s death before a judge. Chauffeur Forterts and others figure in the week’s odd cases.
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Henry Terrell
Aukam
Terkelt
B.A .Hughes
Terrell
Horgeless Certiage
Dr. Abbott
Mather
Marie Canthe
Cokma
Marie
Solder
Garrison
William P King
King
Garciagn
Mass Meeting to Oppose Disfranchisement in Maryland
A mass meeting of Washington's colored residents will be held at Zion Baptist Church on Third Street Southwest Monday night under the Suffrage League of Maryland. The aim is to develop sentiment against Maryland's disfranchisement measure with delegations from local colored churches contributing funds and support. Baltimore leaders will speak on the issue while Washington's prominent colored figures express solidarity. Rev Walter H. Brooks is likely to preside. Public welcome.
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Massa
Maryland
Washington
Zion Bapst Church
Third Street
Suffrage League of Maryland
Baltimore
Walter H. Brooks
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church
Maritana and The Three Tries Concert Suite Highlights
Concert program features selections including Grand selections and excerpts from Maritana. Pieces listed include The Spring Song, Valse of Concert, Invitation to the Dance, Finale and The Victor by Arnold Godfrey Nevin. Performances spotlight instrumental and vocal arrangements across a themed evening.
Injury suit over nail on repair board at worksite
Regina Lee Jacobs through attorneys Gordon and Gordon filed a personal injury suit against the District of Columbia and Brennan Construction Company. She alleges negligence allowed a nail to remain on a board placed for passage near her employer, the Southern Railway, with incident dated September 1907. The report also notes fire losses in September and various local business advertisements and notices.
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Southern Railway
Gordon and
Gordon
District of Columbia
Brennan Construction Company
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