Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1927, Page 23

'SOCIETY.” ; Al notices for this column mus! There will be a council of prest| s of all the local parent-teache: soclatfons of the District of Colum- 1 at the Burlington Hotel January and 10, beginning at 10:830 am. 'er® will also be a publicity insti- (e at the hotel at the same time. Mrs, Laura Underhill, mana ° National Publicity Bure: “Ive here January 8, in order {end both the council of presidents | onne bags for all of the small Inmates d the publicity institute. Miss \ trong and Miss Maude | pjttee of girls purchased a toy for W York are also com-feach bag, and the mothera hington to assist in the | cookies, and "he District of Columbia Congres: Parent-Teacher Associations met cember 20 in the auditorium o »> Chestnut Farm Dairy isiness meeting was held | (he State office, 800 Eighteenth street, | officers { December 16, with 14 associations 4 reports were n d_chairmen of com de by tive committe ctures on * held in the First Co urch, beginning in Ja giene wonld be f ween 10 and 11 nth street. Others _making W. Rau mders, Mr B. Castell, N of | every child in th in the office by noon on the Wed: | pre-school child circle. sday on which publication is de- od. Address District of Columbia | soccer ball for the boys. ngress of P. T. A. Publicity Bureau, | en gave a luncheon December 13. ) Eighteenth street, apartment 31 t] Colvin was elected chairman of the The assoclation has purchased a The wom- The Gage Parent-Teacher Associa tion met December 12, The children of all grades, under the leadership of Mrs. Shaw and Mrs, Kilerl teachers, esented a Christ cantata, anta’s Success,” Dr., Joseph Murphy spoke on “Child Health.” The principal, Miss Fur- mage, explained the work of the Junior Red Cross unit this year, The children made and filled cre- r fo the Uhildren's Hospital. A com- made the small tots took nges and apples. S| The first meeting of the sectional | t | and local membership chairmen of the | f| District of Columbin Congress of Par- ent-Teacher Associations was held at | represented ch chalrman was given the total! sociation 1 membership | work this vear. ssociation’ that wis not represented at this meeting and would like to know its member- <hip for last vear, please get in touch | | with the State membership _chair- | *| man, Myx, J. 1. Molineu, 2011 Naylor | road so t. | .| The Bryan Parent-Teacher Assocla- | - | tion met in the Bryan School Decem- | ber 16 and voted to purchase a lamp | ‘pose of testing -eves of | in the school. The as- presented a_candy cane to| school for Ch . |mas” and sent to the shoe a reading. Glee Club selections. he club con ed of Misses Cat Ta Lewis, Evelyn Wal ice Stadden, Margueriy iwrolyn Browning, Dorothy \iartha Buchanan, Ruth arguerita Nordstrom and C: anta Claus distributed gifts tea was served. The Brightwood Pa: T on the “Origin of the “hristmae Customs.” Christmas song were sung. Mrs. Peoples, the principal, spoke of | which were made by a group of | tivities of the assisted by the |the meeting was given one to mkci the various helpful , \puplls of the scl teachers and others The Boy Scout movement has been | The #iven Mr. McClock: cout master. Hine Junior High School pupils pre- | mittee, reported that a movie bene- =nted “The Dacember 15. gdates, the December meeting of the Steadfast Princes: arent-Teacher Association was post- poned. The Bancroft Association Tiecember 9. There was first a brief b ess meeting, during which the aestion of re ed carfare for school dren was discussed. Resolutions ere passed 10 donate to the fund “or the District tornado sufferers, to e shoe and rubber fund, and to ap- ropriate $25 as the beginning of the fund for a ent-Teacher library. ount Pleasant ed an smportance of “Religi- on for Our Children.” A usical program was rendered. Miss Lind, the mew principal of Johnson nd Baneroft Schools, was introduced for the first time to the fathers of the A playlet was given by the dren of the sixth grade, under the #ddress on th stion of their teacher, Mrs. Du-| ganne. Preparations for the thirty-second|Association met December 13 in the National | Pierce School. Congress of Parents and Teachers | tor of traffic, was the speaker. Debate are being made and the preliminary | was given by Mrs. Bellar's six A-B program wiil be issued early in Jan-|grade, Webb School. uary. Among the speak @r. D. A, Thom 1hority on mental hvgiene; Dr. W. E ¥iatz of St. George's School, Toronto, in parental train , author of “The J. Condon, superintendent of schools Cincinnati, Ol Through the courtesy of the Pla: ground and Recreation Association of | from the Langdon assoclation, this t and recre- | heing the share of thy on classes wiil John Martin. Among t ne 12 round table conferences wil be Dr. Thom, Dr. Blatz, Dr. The Barnard Parent-Teacher A s0- he s hoo! 3 ber | at the mchool "‘“'"':;,..nr«m- in attendance at the Parent. 5, Mrs. G Beott Rafter spoki “Child Development 14 The Benning Marent-Teacher Asso < tation met December 6. Mrs. Edward ney was made membersh \an @nd she asked the fo he M « chalr Sparc Ostx, | ¢ ry, sang and Vocal solos t-Teacher As- 'r | School, made an address. iven by Mr. Bachel- Various {of Michigan was the speaker of the consideration and a troop of | Association met December 16. Christ boys organized under the direction | mas carols were sung by the Girls' Because of conflicting | 19 at Colony Theater, the proceeds s will be|were played by Ralph Bucca, accom- Boston, Mass., au-|panied b; “and Dr. Randall | schools December 9 netted $55. leaders at|last year. Resolutions were presented | donation | ing 10| she will call for them), any clothes rubber fund of the District of i * | bia Parent-Teacher Associations. Mrs. was appointed membership | Two delegates are to be sent to the | Dist of Columbia Public School | fon and $5 will be sent to| the music appreciation department of | { the public school to help carry on the work of music appreciation in the | &chools, | re rendered by Na-. | {than Clark and Christmas carols sung \,\\_\‘ the sociation. Harold E. Warner, | principal of the Hine Junior High | Representative John G. Ketchan | evening. Mrs. C. E. Ketler devised a Christmas stocking, a number of | mothers, and each parent attending bome to his child. Macfarland Parent - Teacher | Glee Club of the school. Mrs. Goss, chairman of ways and means com- fit was being planned for January 1o be used for the &chool library. A clothes conservation day was re- cently observed by the assoctation. Miss Field's room won the $5 prize | for largest percentage of parents| present. | Mr. Tuft was elected alternate dele- gate to the Public School Association. Mrs. Irey having resigned us record. ing secretary of the assoclation, Mrs. | Eicher Dr. S Being a Parent.” Charles Consaul | spoke on “Co-operation, a Vital Factor | in_ Successful Character Training." Handwork of the pupils was on dis play. The Parent-Teacher Association of the Wheatley School recently held a luncheon in the school building, which was a great success. The proceeds are to go for the purchase of play- | ground equipment. The next meeting will be January |5 at 8 pm. in_the &chool building. | _ The Plerce-Webb Parent-Teacher W. H. Harlan, direc- | Violin selections Miss Reier, at the piano. Mrs. Bellar's grade won the banner | .| tor having the largest number of -|parents present. Refreshments were - |served. A luncehon given in both | .| The Woodridge association met at| the Woodridge School December | {15.© A check for $28 was received Woodridge as- | soclation in the joint assoclation of | conducted by 1 by Mrs. Dietz relative to the grading | and surfacing of " the playground lot !and urging a suitable walk way from |the school to Vista street. The as- ation decided to buy a plcture of Col. Lindbergh for the Woodridge hool to be used as a prize for the |class having the greatest number of Teacher Association meeting to hang |in their class room for the following Mrs. Channing, chalrman of the clothes conservation committee, asked - {that the mothers send or bring to her her home, 3126 South Dakota ave- | nue northeast (or call North 9734 and they may have for the needy children, The of the assoclas 9 at 8 p. ND may your Yuletide be lavish in its bestowal of all of spirit that enliven all hearts perpetually in the glow of youth, the merry-making joys even old age and keep riebacher “Jeminine Appar el of Individualily TWELVETEN TWELVLETWELVE F STREET SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, PRINCE Wife of the counselor of the Ruma and interesting wome HARRIS & EWIN STURL 7 legation, of the most picturesque in the corps. Engagement Announcedll ‘Tea Dance to Benefit Belleau Wood Memorial Miss Caroline Thom, chairman of |the girls' committee for the Belleau Wood Memorial Assoclation tea dance to be given at the Madrillon Restau- rant, New Washington Bullding, Tues- | day, December 29, from 4 to 7 o'clock, |and’ Miss Alice Cutts, vice chairman, | announce the following committee: Miss Evelyn Walker, Miss Adslaide Henry, Miss Sarah Major, Miss Helen Clifford, Miss Helen Strauss, Miss ey Hamilton, Miss Olive Sherley, Miss Eleanor Smith, Miss Adelaide Douglas, Miss Mabel Mead and Miss Maud Mason. ‘Mrs. John Allen Dougherty Is giving arty for Miss Caroll Henderson and Miss Louise Conkey i entertaining a large party. Miss Charles Boughton Wood is entertaining a box party for Miss Graves, while Mrs. Harold Walker, Mrs. Thomas W, Phillips and Mrs. Henry F. Dimock are also entertaining bhox ties. DEACON GETS DELAY. Pleads Guilty to Charges of Pass- ing Bad Checks. | Charles Robert Johnson, colored, | 1426 Montello avenue northeast, a | deacon of the Mathew Memorial MISS ESTHER KATHRYN YASNE. | Church, who was arrested Friday and Whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris | accused of converting a $500 church Yasne, announce her engagement to | building fund to his own use, was Mr. Benjamin Savage. granted a continuance in Police Court yesterday on the charge of larceny has filed suit e from Walter N. petty officer of the United Stat The wife charges cruelty. filed for §8 In the CRUNING the Wife Charges Cruelty. Mrs. Marle F. Shay, 3§12 Thirteenth | §500 with which he had been intrust. |$ limited | oq ana disappeared October 11. He | was arrested by Headquarters Detec- |9 Canfield. MEDITERRANEAN BY WHITE /TAR turn home from anorth Euro- pean port if desired $695 (up) allexpensesincluded. The popular cruising liner ADRIATICJan.?and Feb. 25. The palatial luxury ship LAURENTICJan.16—Mar.6. WEST INDIES To the lands where civilization was born. Four 46-day cruises to Egypt and the Holy Land viaMadeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, the French Riviera, Italy, Greeceand Turkey. Stopovers from ship to ship allow great latitude in your trip. Also re- Twoideal 22-day cruises to the aradiseof the WesternWorld. for a Shay, forme by Attorney er trust, He pleaded guilty on two charges of passing bad checks. It is alleged that Johnson took the |tectives Brodie and_Varney, asKS | johnson also s charged in another | § alimony for herself and three children | 1y ieeny after trust case fh connection the petition Wilton J. Lambert, Rudoiph H man and Austin F. AR with the taking of $25 from Elinor Yeat-| Epps, 207 Seventeenth street. A British Guiana stamp, issued in Ready-made suits may be bought! 1836, was recently sold in London for herlands this season $1.000. WHITE /TAR ust the trip for the busy per- son —only about three weeks away. You see Havana, Pan- ama Cunal, Jumaica, Porto on the largest, {. $.S.Manchuria Finland—und the new S. S. CALIFORNIA Largest steamey ever built v the Amevican flag. Asfine a ship as sails the seas unde Mongolia, —magnificent, Rico, Bermuda and Curagao or Santo Domingo. $250 (up.) Perfect comfort and service on the CALGARIC Feb. 4—Mar. 3. CALIFORNIA VIA HAVANA and PANAMA CANAL stest ships in the service— D. C. DECEMBER 2 BOY SCOUTS Among the many Christmas activi- tles of Washington Bcouts are the C. M. O. banquet, Christimas parties, troop reunions .with old members home from school and numerous hikes both day and overnight. Trips will be made both to Camp Wilson and Camp Roosevelt, on the bay; one group, under Scoutmaster R. P. 8mith, will go to Camp Roosevelt to rehearse C. M. O. ceremonies with an idea of developing an _understudy for the position which Mr. Smith holds. ‘Another hike through the moun- tains in the vicinity of Bluemont, Va., over to Harpers Ferry and down the towpath will be led by Lee Chandler of Troop 7. With only six weeks remaining be- fore the big pageant celebrating the elghteenth birthday anniversary of scouting In America, Commodore Longfellow is helping troops line up their assignments. Last Tuesday night scoutmasters of the second di- vision met with thelr deputy commis- sioner G. M. Foote, and Commaodor Longtellow and picked out their as- signments in the pageant. It is esti- mated that 1,000 Bcouts will partici- pate In each of the two performances at Central High School February 11. At the end of November, the first month of the effciency contest, 47 troops lost 16 points through failure to get their report cards in by the 16th of December: First division, Troops 10, 12, 20, 99, 103, 118, 11 second division, Troops 16, 45, 48, 08, 59, 63, 85, 95, 102, 200; third div Troops 1, 12, 15, 87, 38, 562, 66, 72, 115, 143, 145: fourth division, 36, 49, 64, 77, 96, 10f Troops 106, 113, 119, 136, 141, 144, 146, A letter to Scout headquarters from the American Red Cross tells of a heroic act by Scout Cyprian Haithman of Sea Scout Troop 500 Auring the recent tornado in Southeast V! ton. Scout Haithman entered a wrecked building and, in spite of warn- ing that the building was momen- tarily expected to fall, vescued two children. Troop 500 meets at the Twelfth street branch of the Y. M. . A. and H. K. Howerton is the scoutmaster, A mapping class, under R. H. Sar. gent, will be held at Scout headquar- ters December 30 at 7:30 p.m. The next court of review will be January 7 at the Chevy Chase Presby. | terian Church, and the next court of honor January 11 at the Thomson 8chool, Twelfth and L streets, In line with a desire to lend greater dignity and meaning to the position of merit badge examiner, national headquarters has designated the men who give merit badge examinations as merit badge counselors. A new list of counselors has been sent out to troops and additional copies are avall- able at headquarters. At the two courts of honor held dur- ing December 112 boys passed 185 badges. while at three courts of re- view 10 Scouts passed first class and G4 Scouts reached second class. Court of review at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, December 3: First Class— Troop 3, Theodore Pfeiffer, R. verton, H. 8. Owens; Troop 15, George ‘Thorpe; Troop 33, H. Moorman; Troop 54, Taylor Boone, T. Dowell;*Troop 57, J. Kelley, A. Dav! Reynolds, Ryland Bryant; Troop 90, G. O'Hanlon; Troop 48, Norman Ha. ! gen; Troop 10, Ross Pirtle and J. Smith. At the court of honor held at Christmas Dinner 75¢ Turkey, Roast Chicken with -l nberry Sauce, Baked Sunday and Monday Roast Dressi 503 12th N.W. ext to Martha Washington Candy Store 4 O B B B O ik Troop 77, Fred | 5, 1927-PART 2. To Wed an Ensign MISS MARION YANCY, Whose cngagement to Ensiga W. K. Goodney, U. S, of Detroit, has been announced by »i Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Yancy, the wedding to take | place in June. Thomson School, December passed as follo 1w hookbindin Troop 8, W ; T'roop 15, John Cope, ship; William Bite, s bert Sioussat, first aid, | pathfinding: Troop 31, pentry, civics, publ realth 3y civies, poultry keeping, public health . Kemon, craft, wood. craft, wood: ng: Troop 32, Stanle Wolfe, s, handicraft; T Malcolm ' ] 5. A. . Dyson, | an. c i ming: B. Keni ry | Troop 40, R. Fowler, carpentry, wood- worl; William Hunt, pathfinding; H. R. Sasuly. life saving, swimming. rroop 42—H. Bo craftwood; Lees, bookbinding, weather: F. first aid. Troop 43— irst ald; R. Hodgson | woodcarving. = Troop 45 {athletics, pathfinding, swimming | Plerce, civics, pathfinding. Troop D. Brigham, cooking. first aid; L. | merford, pathfinding: G. Cox, | cooking, leathercraft: hletics, cooking, first bugling, cooking, metal |ing: R. Lewls, bookbindir . Mattingly., , O SOCTETY. Troop 53—George p. pathfinding, per- Troop 67—W. Lawder, nink, woodwor Frazer, firema ®onal health, | automobiling: Thomas Tate, carpen- try, craftsmanship, wood earving. Troop 5%—James Young, first aid, swhoming Troop 63— orge Rybe cynxkl, bookbinding, handicraft, leath. ereraft, Troop 70, 8. Allen, clvics, Troop 78—8. Collegeman, woodcarv: ing; Sam Dick, bird study, woodcarv- ing: A. Gordon, athletics, first ald, life saving. Troop 76—Robert Burkley. firemanship. Troop 77—Fred Reyn olds, firemanship. roop 93—D Jumes, public health. Troop 94—Lee | Dante, first ald to animals; B. McEi roy, firemanship: Robert Kroger, fire- manship; M. Mathlas, firemanship: roop 100 Troop 101—W. Rothery, civics; 2 Monroe, civies, personal public health. Troop 111=H. t ity, pathfinding. reptiles N.'Church, camping, e ing: E. Church, cyel velopment, ploreeri At a court of Thomson _School William Fuss of Troop a the following passed second V. Armstrong, William forner; Long: Troop J. Murph: 1. Irving, C. Greene: Troop 76, N. L. Hoover: Troop Troop 101, J. Proctor Troop 12 ng, ploneer- ., physical de- roop 48, J. Cabell; Troop 51. J. Ever- hart; Troop 78, Robert Laech. Hecond class—Troop 3, E. F. Mechlin, F. Knight, John 8hinn: Troop 9. G Biggs, R. Ruffner; Troop 12, N. ¢ mon; Troop 116, J. 8molnisk], Kemuel Walinco, William Curtiss; Troop W. Wright, George Lawrence, L. '] ry; Troop 23, L. Mockabee; G, Adlung: Troop B Troop 63, Charles Trunnell, Zimmermarn, 1. Beach, A. Conlyn; Troop 78, K. Thomp- son, H. 8mith: Troop 93, L. Wel rt Troop 78, A. MecAda Troop %5 P Jones; Troop 108, Willlam Milier, Wi liam Coppidon. VALENTINE D ‘Washington Assembly, K. of C.. Announces Plans. The Washi of the Fourth Columbus, on Februat Hotel, The following Generr” v Gencral Assemb Knighte of lentine dance | appointe Fred | Atbert irt_of review held at the |J iptist Church Dec: 2 paseed as follow ", Thomlinson | Troaae Williarasorn. ! specialties Try Our Famous Christmas Dinner Served Sunday. From 12:30 December 25th to 9:00 P.M. and Holiday Dinner Served Monday, December 26th From 12:30 $2 HOTEL R t0 9:00 P.M. OOSEVELT Sixteenth Street at Vand W Phone Decatur 800 An offering of RUGS « FURNITURE for the last few days of the year. very one of the items o[fm'e(/ during this closing week of the year represents a dis- tinct opportmzi{)‘——m}f/ one which the wise shopper will use to her advantage. BED ROON huge, fast. 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