Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1924, Page 10

10 Society (Continued from Ninth Page.) Taliaferro, Mrs. Watson Freeman Clark, Mrs. John B mar Rutherford Lipscomb, Mrs. Rose Gouveneur Hoes, Miss Champe F. ¥itzhugh, Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews, Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimer, Mrs. Lewis Randolph Watson, Mrs. Edmund J. Brennan, Mrs. Absolom Waller, Mrs. Bruce rk, Mrs. Maynard Burrell, Mrs. Virginia Munro, Mrs. Frank Hume, Mrs. Richard Wilmer Bolling and Mrs. Reginald R. Walker. Mrs. Clover Roscoe of Los Angeles, a delegate of that branch of the League of American Pen Women at- nding the biennial convention last is the guest of her mother, Mrs. \. Geldert, retiring national of the League of American men, at the Marlborough s, and will remain through Kappa Tau Sigma Sorority will give a benefit card party tomorrow eve- ning in the oak room of the Raleigh Jotel. The committee in charge has arranged for forty card tables, at which the prevailing games will < be bridge and five hundred. The patrons and patronesses include, Mrs. J. D. er, Mrs. B. F. Garvey, Mrs. R. ton Robin, Mrs. J. Houston Mc- Miss Bernadette Dory, Mrs. J coll, Mr. H. E. Ritchié, Dr. and J. Hogan, Mr. Fred J. Steele. Mrs. J. Farrell, Dr. and Mrs. ss B. Bowen, « ¥, Dri Mrs. J Tr. and T B, Mrs, Fred Walen, jr.: Mr. and Mrs. John Hancock. The Alabama State Society will meet at the Washington Club, 17th and K streets, tomorrow evening at o'clock. ) 5 The president, Representative Wil- Jiam B. Bankhead, will preside and tepresentative John McDuffle will liver an address on the early set- in Alabama. . annie Shreve Heartsill will sing and she and her husband, Mr. Francis P. Heartsill, will give a group of old_southern songs. Dancing will follow the program. M Births Reported. The following births have been reported to #he lealth department in the last twenty-four . and Trene Butler, 1o, girl. and Emma G. Lee, boy. K. and Bra V and Agoes Love, girl. and Anna B. McGrath, boy. anson H. and Ruth E. Lane, kirl. 4 Eva Glascock, boy. 1. 8 4 B, mas and Marle M Joi oe: _‘and Mazie Mesers, boy. Purner, girl. ‘aomi Holmes. boy. Cavanaagh, boy. James and George and George H. Tion ‘and Delia Willlami Tames and Clara Duekett, girl T 'snd Virginia Harris. girl Katle Lawson. boy 4 Annie Rerry. girl. and Lois C. Johnson, boy. Fienson, boy nd Teatrice Freeman, girl e e e bo[——=olc——lolc——lal—Zlol——k|——lolc—=lal—=lal—=Dlol——Zlal——2[o| ———= | 3§ bilipsborn ELEVENTH ST, Fur Repairs h 4 fl lfl fl | | | | fll | fl fl | . 0] Y Expertly made. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the tollowing Dennis and Mary J. Williams. Peckham and ~ Marghueritta G, Kondrup. George C. Hartiog and Margaret J. Reul Matil Kngdson. and Beulah 3. Schellin Larner, Mrs. La- | ger. i W. Dougjas and Margaret L. Joyner. el of Owens, Md., and ) of Pairs, Md. Evereit L. Carter and Leatrice B. Madi o, both of Milford. Va John T. Dunbar and Auna M. Clemens. d and Nellie W. Sawyer, . B of_this city and Eliza. Hali of New York city. le Berry. Campbell of beth W Sylvester M. Weddle of Cambria, Va., and nnor of Copper Hill, Va. nk and Mary E. Coughlin, £, Va and Christal C. Somers, and Katherine E. Wagely. MO AP % Deaths Reported. ‘The following deaths have been reported to the ‘health department o the lask. wents. four hours: George Francis Wilkerson, 70, 601 Raleigh . se. 3030 R st. 3450 Holmead pl. ncy Hospital. route Emergency Emergency Hospital. + 24; 1825 2d #t. n.e. . Freedmen's Hospital . 'Freedmen's Hospital. 7 H st W st. onths, Children's INSTANT RELIEF TO AILING FEET Reign Cloth. Alxo in Brown and Black Kidskin. Tired, Ease-All Shoes with a sense of perfect comfort and relief be- cause of the long bandage-bra counters and specia shank which sustain the “waist of the foot firmly, holding the foot structure in the correct position. G. B. White Co., Inc. 1311 G St. NW. Over Y. W. C. A. Take Elevator. ailing feet slip into 608 to 614 THE EVENING GLAND OPERATION ON HIMSELF FATAL California Man Dies and Three Oth- ers Are Stricken After Ama- teur Surgery. By Consolidated Press. SAN RAFAEL, Calif, plified in this modern day April 30— Pursuit of Ponce de Leon's chimerical fountain of eternal youth, as exem- and age STAR, WASHINGTON, by the widespread belief in the ef- ficacy of gland operations, was héld responsible today for one strange death and may bring a similar fate to_three other men. The dead man is Joseph E. Merton of El Verano Cross Roads, near here, Merton succumbed as the result of a goat gland operation, self-per- formed. The three others, who are critically ili, are Merton's brother, His half-brother his stepfather— all vietims of similar self-surgery. Inquest Barex Story. The strange story of how the quar tet sought rejuvenation by the trans plantation of glands and their crude efforts to perform the operat themselves was bared at s into young Merton’s death Acute alcoholism figured in WEDNESDAY death, according to evidence gathered by the suthorities. But the acute alcoholism came as an aftermath of the. operation. Merton plied himself with bootleg liquor in an effort to abate the agonies he was suffering from the operation. Performed on Easter. The home surgery was performed on Baster Sunday: at the Merton home at El Verano. The four men had held a celebration in which homemade wine flowed freely. They fell to discussing at gland operations, many of which have been performed at San Quentin rison by Dr. L. L. Stanley, the prison surgeon. Newspaper accounts of these operations described them as simple. | The four determined to attempt per- [ sonal rejuvenation. D. C. 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