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CART00NL5T5 IffMpjm; A ftf Of fhc I pc. PITWJRQL GKZETIE. LEARNING TO SHOOT Ladies will find a little practice at home, previous to the opening of the Summer Campaign, will prevent subsequent disappointment and waste of ammunition. "Assurance Doubly Sure. frfiMeni during hit In iw4 rtaftlrmfj hit declaration that vmultf not7 (or Item.

QcrcAGo mm offif. STILL LUGGING HER LOCAL MENTION. "Finest Coastwise Trips in the World." Boston and Providence By Sea. Merchants and Miners' Transportation Company have steamer from Baltimore and Norfolk daily p.m. Send for Tour Book.

Tickets on sale Penn. R. R. and Norfolk and Washington steamer offices. Turner, G.

P. Baltimore, Md. John R. Kelly, Center Market, K.V, Roast Beef Corned Bee a cialty. Fussell's Ice Cream for Sunday Dinner.

Best service. Phone 1.11:5. 1427 N. V. ave.

Going Away This Summer? Take a kodak with you. W. Silas Shectz, 11th li.w. Philip A. Thomas, fourteen years old, living at 701 street r.orthwest, rode his bicycle against a street car at and streets northwest yesterday and received an injury to his head, which was dressed at a drug store.

For List of Hotels, Restaurants and roof gardens see sporting pags. Bargains in Ranges. Rnngos. slightly damaged; all sizes; must be sold at once; at very low prices. Jenks.

Stoves, Hardware, 717 7tli n.w. Old Books, Pamphlets, Autographs, bought. Smith's Private Secretary makes one's vacation pleasant. $1 per Quart. N.

Y. ave. Clothes That Fit. Clothes That wear are made by Neal, the tailor, U15 n.w. Why buy cheap sweat shop work? IJghtning rods, J.

H. Kuehling. 12th n.w. Gas Ranges! Gas Ranges! Gas Ranges! "Dangler" Gas Ringos, $8.00, J13.S0 $16.00. A.

Eberly's Sons, 718 7th at. n.w. CITY AND DISTRICT. Henry Smoot. thirty years old, while handling a saw at Grant avenue yesterday.

severed the thumb from his left hand. The Injured man. whose home Is at 1226 12th street northwest, was given surgical treatment at Garfield Hospital. A horse attach- to a milk wagon, owned by William Ryan of Pennsylvania avenue northwest, drew the wagon Into collision with a buggy owned by Albert J. Ti.lman of Bancroft.

in front of the Pennsylvania avenue business place yesterday afternoon. The buggy was overturned and slightly damaged, but nobody was hurt. Charged With Larceny. Wesley Klernan. a messenger in the Smithsonian building, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Detectives Muller and Cornwell and held in custody to answer charges of theft.

It Is alleged that he stole a revolver worth $20 from J. Frank Wilson and a camcra belonging to the government. The detectives went to his room and recovered both articles. Klernan, it Is said, is from Chelsea, Mass. He will be given a hearing in the Police Court tomorrow.

FINED FOB FALSE PRETENSES. Colored Man Accused of Collecting Money by Deceit. A muscular colored man answered to the name of William Harris in the Police Court yesterday. He was charged with vagrancy, but behind this charge, it appeared from the testimony of Policeman J. W.

Green, that he had been engaged in "a most despicable practice," as it was termed by a lawyer in the court. According to the statement of the policeman Harris had gone from door to door in the northern part of the city begging for money "to bury his dead child." It developed that the man was without children, either dead or living, and had a room in a cheap lodging house. When searched at the police station his pockets were found to be tilled with pennies, nickels and dimes, which, it was declared, he had collected by his false representations. "Have you anything to say, Harris?" asked Judge Kimball. "Nothing to say.

sir," was the reply. "Well, I have," said the court, "forty dollars' fine or six months in the workhouse." Elk purest, sweetest Advertisement. Greenwich A. C. Wins.

The Greenwich Athletic Club defeated the Truxtons, nicknamed the "Hoodlies," In a good game yesterday by the score of 7 to 5. Callahan was easy for the club boys, while Riley was puzzling to the losers throughout the contest. The winners secured fourteen hits to their opponents' four, and played a fine fielding game, in which Cochran easily led. Manager Murphy desires games with thirteen-year-old boys' clubs in the District. Address 111 Sea ton street northeast, city.

Summer Homes Folder. The passenger department of the Southern Hallway has Just Issued a beautiful guide book handsomely Illustrated with hotels. boarding houses, mountain and seashore scenes on and near Its lines In Virginia and the Carolinas and other parts of the south. Terms of board, climatic conditions, altitude, are given and. in fact, it Is brim full of valuable Information to persons seeking cool places to sjiend the summer months.

Copies will be mailed free by Inclosing twocent stamp to L. S. Brown, general agent, 705 15th street northwest, Washington, D.C. Decrees of Divorce Signed. A decree has been signed by Justice Anderson In Equity Court No.

1 granting Carl R. Waldecker a divorce from Grace B. Waldecker because of the infidelity of the latter. Mr. Waldecker is given the custody of the two minor children of the couple.

Justice Anderson has also signed a decree granting Fannie Goldsmith a divorce from Jacob IX Goldsmith on the ground of infidelity, and authorizing her to resume her maiden name. Prominent Virginia Musician Dead. Prof. A. J.

Turner, who died at Indianapolis recently, was formerly a resident of Staunton, and was the organizer and first director of the celebrated Stonewall Brigade Band of Staunton. He was also for years employed as funeral director at the Virginia Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum at Staunton, and evolved many of the methods now In vogue for giving blind children a musical education. SENATOR WARNER IN CITY. Whip-poor-will Club Preparing for Social Function. Senator Wm.

Warner of Missouri is in the city, which inspires the Whip-PoorWill Club, composed of the civil war veterans of the District of Columbia to prepare for a grand function in his honor in the early future. Senator Warner is a past commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and unusually popular in the order. His election as senator and tho clean-cut way it came about are particularly gratifying to ail the veterans and they want an opportunity to manifest their gvod will. It was the Intention to give the reception next Tuesday evening, but the senator's stay will be so brief it was concluded to postpone It until his next visit. Baltimore and Return, Baltimore and Ohio R.

R. Every Saturday and Sunday, J1.25. All trains both ways both days, except Royal Limited. "Hourly Bervice" week Mothers' Club Meeting. A Bpecial meeting of the Mothers' Club of Jefferson School was held in the kindergarten room May 17 at 2:30 p.m.

The following members were present: Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Barker. Mrs. Miller, Mrs.

Rabbltt, Mrs. Eppley, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. Rule, Mrs.

Shannon, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Fearnow, Mrs. Cole.

Miss Mason, Miss McClelland, Miss Rose, Miss Burden, Miss Hutchinson, Miss Maloney and Mrs. Borland. Mrs. Richardson, the president, In brief remarks, Introduced Mr. A.

T. Stewart, superintendent of the public schools, who addressed the meeting, his subject being the co-operation of the parents with the teachers in the education of the children. Mr. Fairbrother, super-vising principal of the Jefferson School, spoke on the advantages of the Mothers' Club, and the club was subsequently entertained with music. Including several selections on the piano by Miss Florence Hermann, a solo by Miss Maggie Larconibo and violin solos by Master Willie Leishears, accompanied by Miss Josephine Mason.

Refreshments were served. It is the Intention of the members of the club to give the children an outing at Cabin John Bridge Saturday, June 3. $3.50 Memorial Day Excursion $3.50 to Old Point and Norfolk via superb Norfolk and Washington steamers, Monday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m., returning, leaving Norfolk evening of May 30. $3.50 round trip. For staterooms 'phone Main 3700 or Main Advertisement.

Street High School. The pupils of the street high school will be the entertainers at a May concert to be given tomorrow evening at the high school building. The soloists for the evening will be Bessie Patterson, '07, pianist, and Mary Simmons, '03, soprano. The first named is a member of the classes of the street school and the latter Is a graduate of the Armstrong Manual Training School. The concert will be under the direction of Harriet A.

Glbbs and the program will Include the works of Henry Holden Huss, Calcott, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Wilson, Smith and S. Coleridge Taylor. Byron S. Adams' Superior Facilities enable him to execute the best printing In the shortest time. Prices reasonable.

61211th. WILL GO ON PILGRIMAGE. Patriotic Bodies to Visit Jamestown and Yorktown. Arrangements are being made by the District of Columbia Sons of the American Revolution to make a grand pilgrimage to Jamestown and Yorktown, may to 28, leaving this city at 7 p.m. Friday evening in the steamer Newport News, which has beeA chartered especially for this occasion.

Yorktown will be reached the following morning, and there the Sons will Inspect that historic spot In company with ft thoroughly posted guide. The party will then proceed to Fortress Monroe, thence to Jamestown, where a celebration will take place. Including the raising of a flag pole and running up the Sons of the American Revolution emblem; thence to Old Point Comfort, where they will have supper, and after which a dance. The party will start for home Saturday night, so as to reach this city early Sunday morning. Always ask for Elk Grove Complain of Railway Operations.

The citizens of Southwest Washington have come to the front again with a complaint In reference to the railroad operations in their section of the city. This time they protest against allowing an entrance to square 113 from 7th sreet for the purpose of hauling dirt. According to R. H. Johnson, attorney and chairman of the committee on railroads of the Southwest Washington Citizens' Association, there already is an entrance from street, which is characterized as a "death trap." The Commissioners have promised to look into the matter at once.

Accused of Grand Larceny. Thomas Bell of 1410 11th street northwest was ararigned In the Police Court before Judge O'Neill yesterday on a charge of grand larceny. He pleaded not guilty and waived examination. At the suggestion of Hugh Taggart, assistant United States attorney, bond was fixed at In default of this ball he was committed to Jail to await the action of the grand jury. According to the police, Bell went to the house of Mary Smith, In the line of his duties, to collect a bill.

The debtor went to get the money to pay the bill, leaving Bell In the house, and it is alleged he took a ring valued at $125. The matter was reported to the detective bureau and Detectives O'Brien and Parham located the ring where it had been sold. This led to Bell's arrest. The Foremost Floral House. You can always depend on getting the finest flowers and floral work at Gude's.

1214 St. Prize Company Entertains. Company the national prize company of the Boys' Brigade and holder of The Evening Star trophy cup, gave a moving picture entertainment Friday night for the purpose of raising money to pay its expenses to Pittsburg, where the next annual convention will be held the coming fall. At the annual convention, held in this city last October, this company won all the honors from the Pittsburg prize company, commanded personally by Lieut. Gen.

H. P. Bope, B. who is the commander-inchief of the Boys' Brigade of America. The moving picture entertainment was repeated last night at Trinity M.

E. Church, 5th and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, an entirely different set of pictures being exI hiblted. COUNCIL TO ENTERTAIN. Knights of Columbus to Have University Professors as Guests. Washington Council, No.

224, Knights Of Columbus, will have as Its guests at its meeting to be held Tuesday evening next the members of the faculty and the student body of the Catholic University of America, who are affiliated with the order of the Knights of Columbus. A large number of the professors and students have expressed their intention to be present. A very attractive program has been prepared under the direction of the committee on entertainment, acting in conjunctioh with a committee from the university. A number of short addresses will be delivered by prominent professors of the faculty and vocal and instrumental selections will be rendered by a number of the students connected with the university and its affiliated colleges. It is expected that there will be a large attendance of members present upon this occasion to do honor to the distinguished guests of the council.

Lighthouse Service Appointments. The following appointments and assignments in the lighthouse service have recently been made by the lighthouse authorities: Charles C. Tyler of Maryland has received an appointment in the service, and is assigned to duty as assistant to the light on Thimble shoal in house, Chesapeake bay. He succeeded Joseph M. Burrus, transferred to the Croatan light station, North Carolina.

George O. Smith has been appointed a laborer in the lighthouse service and assigned to the charge of Hospital wharf light, Va. Frank L. Moore of Portsmouth, was the purchaser of the little lighthouse tender Bramble, which was sold at public auction at Portsmouth Wednesday last. Protection of Spar Buoys.

In consequence of the frequent fouling of buoys and channel marks by the tow lines of vessels and the dragging of the buoys out of position by the lines, the lighthouse authorities are seriously considering a proposition to protect the outside edges of the buoys with sharp steel saw teeth that will seriously damage, if not cut through, any hawser that may be dragged over them. Sent to Jail for Insulting a Woman. For Insulting a woman Friday afternoon Sidney A. Hands was sentenced yesterday In the Police Court by Judge Kimball to ninety days on the farm. Officer Bob, who had arrested the man, told on the stand of finding him drunk.

He told of seeing the denfendant accost Daisy Atkinson and try to talk with her. He made some Intimation to her, which she did not like and she ran away. When Hands was put on the stand he stated that he was drunk, and did not mean any insult to the lady he met. "You are responsible for what you do when you are drunk." said his honor. "Twenty-five dollars or ninety days." Sale of Desirable Household Furniture In premises No.

1416 20th st. n.w., Monday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m. Brown Tolson, William Howard, eight years old, living at 1408 Hopkins place, fell from his bicycle yesterday afternoon near 22d and streets, and the wheels of a brick wagon passed over his leg. Dr. Barrie dressed the InJury, which was slight, and he was taken home In a private conveyance.

PRELIMINARIES UNDER WAY. Prompt Beginning of Work Expected on Army General Hospital. Pending the receipt of a report from the Attorney General in regard to the title of the land on the Brightwood road, opposite the Battle cemetery, selected as the site of the new army general hospital, Surgeon General O'Reilly is perfecting the preliminary arrangements so far as possible for the prompt initiation of the work. Under his instructions Major William C. Borden, surgeon, has gone to New York city to consult with architects regarding the latest and most approved designs in hospital construction, with a view to the adoption of all the best features of such work in the new general hospital in this city, which it is proposed to make a model of its kind.

Readings and Music for Blind. The program of readings and music in the reading room for the blind, Library of Ccngress, this week will be as follows: Tuesday, May by Mr. W. D. Johnston.

Thursday, May recital by Mrs. Arthur G. Dunn and Mrs. Jesse Nicholson. Saturday, May by Mr.

David Hutcheson. Readings and music will be discontinued for the summer upon the conclusion of the foregoing program. Deed to Secure Bonds. A deed of trust has been placed on record by the Federal Clay Manufacturing Company, a New Jersey corporation, to the Bankers' Trust Company of New York, to secure an issue of $2,500,000 sinking fund gold bonds, payable in twenty-five years and bearing Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. The property conveyed by the deed includes all the rights and franchises of the company in the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

Auxiliary Memorial Service. Auxiliary 32, U. V. has arranged to hold memorial service at their hall, In Pythian Temple, Friday evening, May 26, at 8 o'clock. All members and encampments 111 and 69, with their friends, have been invited to participate.

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L. P. Darrell Adv. Agency, Booms L. P.

Darrell. 102-108-104 B. W. Cox. Bvenlog Star blflg.

0. C. Archibald. 'Phone Mais MB. 9.

T. Hnrlej, St Liquor Company Incorporated. A certificate of Incorporation has beefl placed on record by the Capital Llquof Company. The capital stock Is $2,500. Tha Incorporators are Edward E.

Abraham S. King and Harry King CITY ITEMS. Art needlework. Ladies' Exch, HOT Vt. Unusually Good Bread.

You've never before been able to such genuinely good bread as Holmes" home-mader "Milk'' Bread. It Is the best, the most delicious and most nutritious bread that can be made. Delivered direct from oven to table at 5c. loaf. Delicious home-made Holmes' Bakery, 1st and streets.

'Phones E. and 1441. It A collision between a street car and brick wagon near 15th street and Pennsylvania avenue yesterday resulted in the wrecking of the wagon and breaking of the oa? fender. Edward Lucas, driver of the teamj was not Injured. Paul Jones, Overholt and Sherwood.

for two days only. Jos. Bush, 1731 Pa. my20-2t Fine Old Potatoes, 43c. Prime new potatoes, 40c.

pk 7 lbs. 4 lbs. best rice, lbs. starch, 15 cakes soap, 25c. J.

T. D. Pyles, 7 including 1)48 La. ave. my20-2t To Sell or Store Furniture See Brown Tolson, 1400 St.

SalQ every Tuesday at 10 a.m. my20-2t Central Storage Booms, 1400 St, New building, well ventilated, low rates. Brown Tolson, props. Phone, Main my20-2t Max Proger, thirty-four years old, whose home is at 229 Willow Tree alley, was treated at the Emergency Hospital Friday afternoon for an Injury to his wrist. ln? flicted by the bursting of a soda bottle that was being filled.

The accident occurred at 234 street southwest, where Proger wal employed. We Lead, Others Follow. Electric Fans, Wiring and Nat. Electrical Sup. 1330 N.

Y. ave. For List of Hotels, Restaurants and roof gardens see sporting page. Exchange That Ancient Machine of thine for the Wheeler Wilson new 8. myl8-tf Genuine $5, $6 and $7 Sample Three hundred styles at 12.85.

Keene's ShOft Store, 908 st. n.w. royl9-7t Buy the Reliable Wheeler A Wilson! Swift, light and ready for any class of 9th n.w. myl8-tf Colonial Beach Cottage for Rent and Lots for sale. Gould's, 421 9th.

my To Prevent Sunburn? Buy one of Kroeger's SI.50 Ut ion Silk shades, black or colors. Kroegor'a UmbreUjg Store, 618 9th..