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THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XIX NO.18 PROF. ALLEN IS ONE OF THE COMING EDUCATORS HE IS DOING A GOOD WORK FOR THE ELEVATION OF THE YOUTH OF THE Santa Claus Brought "The Colonel" A Few Presents And He Desires To Thank His Friends -Stretched Up His Stocking And Waited For Old St. Nick. -Had An Old "Aunt Dolly Time"—Meets Mrs. Anna J. Cooper, Formerly Of Washington, And Many Others COL. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Chicago, Ill.—Well Christmas is here and I have enjoyed seeing it so very much. It has been to me a source of pleasure and joy, and I went back to my boyhood days and stretched up my stockings and waited with patience to see Santa Claus come to sec, or to see what I had in them the next morning. I did receive a few things, and I desire to thank those who sent them. I received Christmas cards and greetings from Misses Florence McBride, Macomb, Ill.; R. T. Foster, Beloit, Aln.; Rodessa Stephens, Waco, Texas; C. First Johnson, Mobile; and Mrs. Florence C. Cook, Quincy, Ill. Then came a box from John II. Stewart, containing suspenders, garters and sleeve holders; Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart, four pair of the things which separate your feet from your shoes, and a large silk handkerchief; Charles Stewart, Jr., a calendar, which he made in school; Mme Anita Patty Brown, calendar; Mrs L. Humphrey, Memphis, two silk handkerchiefs and two black silk string neckties; Miss Ernestine Oldham, box of home made candy; the Afro-American Ledger, one dollar, and then I got many other little things, for which I am thankful. I do not feel much like writing this week, although I have many things to talk about as I have made many places since I wrote to you last. You will remember that I spent a little time with Prof. Allen, and to my mind he is one of the great school men of our race. He is doing a good work for the elevation of his people. I had the pleasure of shaking hands with Mrs Annie J. Cooper who at one time was principal of the High School in Washington, but who is now teaching in Jefferson City, Mo., at Lincoln Institute. There is some talk about her returning to Washington, but there is nothing definite about it and I am not going to give it out as being true. It was a sad day there when I shook hands with Mrs. Salome Yates, and she told me that the Lord had seen fit to take away her companion and leave her alone in this world. Well, I am sure you will remember him. He was for a number of years connected with the public school system of Kansas City, being principal of perhaps the largest school. I was delighted to have the pleasure of shaking her hands, and sorry that her husband was dead, but then death is for us all. I must go myself some day and it will be to me a sad day. I will mention Mrs. Wassum, who is one of the teachers, Miss Mollison, and others in another letter, as I am going back and give you a good write up of the school and other things connected there. Take good care of yourself and let me have a line from you. I am now as busy as can be. I went to Swadalia, where I had the pleasure of visiting George it. Smith college and will tell you about it when I return to that part of the world: I did not mention to you Dr. J. T. Caston, who to my mind is a great man. He is one of the leading physicians of the country, also a good Baptist preacher. If you will remember I told you about him in the fall. He is president of the Baptist, state convention and a great man in that. I had the pleasure of shaking hands with him, and visiting his home and office and meeting his family. I have not the time to tell you as much as I would like to about him now. Well I hate to look back over the past year, but I shall attempt to do so next week. I have had a great time with Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart, Charles Stewart, Jr., J. H Stewart and others. With best wishes, I am still "The Colonel." MARRIED QUIETLY Marriage of Kansas Lawyer and Washington Belle a Surprise (Special to the Arro-American Ledger.) Washington, Dec. 29—William C. Hueston, one of the most successful lawyers of Kansas City and Miss Jennie Robinson, a most accomplished and handsome young society lady of this city, were quietly married last Wednesday evening. The marriage ceremony was preformed by Ivey, John Hust, financial secretary of the A. M. B. Churches, in the parlor of the Financial Headquarters, 1541 14th Northwest, and was only witnessed by the mother of the bride and a very few friends. The announcement of the marriage came as a complete surprise to the many friends of the contracting parties in this city. ENGLISHMAN TO STUDY THE NEGRO Bureau of the Afro-American Ledger 1918 11th St. N. W. Washington. Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—Joseph Douglas, the eminent violinist, has returned from a successful tour of the Southwest, and will give a recital Tuesday evening at the Second Baptist church. H. J. Capehart has succeeded Ralph W. White as secretary to Congressman Hughes of the fifth district of West Virginia, the sole Republican survivor of the battle of November S. Mr. Capehart is a law student at Howard. Mr. White has returned to his home in Montgomery. W. Va., where he will practice law and engage in politics. B. A. Washington has purchased the interest of J. H. Hudnell in the Hotel Hudnell on 6th street, and will continue the business alone. J. Ellis Barker, of London, England, who is to make a comprehensive study of the Negro's economic and social condition in this country, is to pay a visit to Hampton and Tuskegee. Mr. Barker is the author of several standard economic and historical subjects and is prominent in the political life of Great Britian. He perceives a great advantage in having the entire civilized world know the story of the Negro as told through the Negro himself, using the race as a "human document." Miss Minnie Brown, the New York prima donna, is filling an engagement in Baltimore. She returns here tomorrow to sing at the big New Year's meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at the Howard Theatre. The principal address will be delivered by Rev. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist church. Register Vernon denies the report that he took part in a civil service examination held recently in Ohio. The mother of Recorder of Deeds, Col. H. I. Johnson, continues in a precarious condition at Atlanta, necessitating his almost constant presence at her bedside. A monster banquet in honor of Mr. J. C. Napier is to be "pulled off" in February, shortly after his inauguration as registrar of the Treasury. Steps are being taken to organize a Washington Press Club, to be made up exclusively of men engaged actively in newspaper work. The "Down in Dixie Minstrels," reorganized for the metropolitan cities of the North, headed by John Rucker, the "Alabama Blossom," will be at the New Howard all next week. Black Patti Troubadours are scheduled for the week beginning March 8. This week the Howard Stock Company presented a musical comedy "The Blackville Corporation" by J. Leubrie Hill, prior to an extended tour of the South, opening next Monday at Norfolk. OXFORD NEWS AND NOTES Oxford, Md. Dec. 2S—Mr. Clarence N. Barrett, of Mt. Friendship, Dell. made a flying visit to Oxford a few days ago. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kellum and his son. Mr. William H. Kellum. Mrs. John W. Kellum and her foster daughter, Rev. Miss M. E. Hazzard, and Mr. Clarence N. Barrett were entertained on Tuesday last at the home of Rev. S. H. Cooper and remained and for dinner at Easton, Md. Mr. Barrett and Miss Hazzard received an invitation to attend the birthday dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Thomas of Mt. Friendship, Del. Dec. 31st. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT TUSKEGEE. DR. WASHINGTON AIMS TO BRINGS TOGETHER ALL THE WORKERS FOR Invitations Are Being Issued To All Persons In Europe And America Who Are Interested In The Education of the Negro Peoples of Africa.-The Conference Will Be Held In The Middle of January, 1912 Will Attempt To Introduce Tuskegee Methods in Africa. Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 28-Dr. Booker T. Washington, head of the well known Tuskegee Institute located at this place, has formulated plans and has recently issued invitations for an international conference at Tuskegee of all persons in Europe or America who are directly or indirectly interested in the education and improvement of the Negro peoples of Africa. The purpose of this conference will be to bring together not only students of colonial and racial questions but more particularly those who, either as missionaries, teachers or government officials, are actually engaged in any way in practical and constructive work, which seeks to build up Africa by educating and improving the character and condition of the native peoples. This conference will meet at Tuskegee about the middle of January, 1912. Its purpose will be to get from the people who are on the ground a clearer and more definite notion of the actual problems involved in the redemption of the African peoples: to enable those who are engaged in work in Africa to see for themselves what is being done at Tuskegee in the way of educating black men, and to enable them to decide for themselves to what extent the methods employed at the Tuskegee school can be used to advantage in Africa. For a number of years past missionaries from all parts of the world have been coming in, increasing numbers to visit and study the methods of the Tuskegee Institute, and it is believed that this conference will prove a welcome opportunity to many others to do the same. It is expected that a permanent organization of "The Friends of Africa" may be effected as a result of this conference, which will aid in organizing, stimulating and directing the work of education and civilization in the Dark Continent. DENTON HAPPENINGS Many Social Affairs Given During the Holiday Season. (Special to Aloe-American) Denton, Md., Dec. 28th—Rev. F. F. Johnson, who has been sick is able to be out again. He filled his pulpit twice last Sunday. The members of John Wesley M. E. church held a series of entertainments last week, which were well at success. Miss Mary Hutchins, president of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of John Wesley M. E. Church entertained yesterday in honor of the oldest people in the town. Rev. E. T. Addison of Baltimore, preached to a large congregation at Bethel A. M. E. church. A fine program was rendered at night by the young people of the church. Rev and Mrs. J. G. Bryant entertained at tea last Sunday, in honor of Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Addison and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Flomer. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wayman entertained a few friends at dinner on last Tuesday. Dr. C. W. Miller, paid a flying visit to Oxford. J. H. BISHOP ABRAM GRANT. BISHOP GRANT IS SERIOUSLY ILL. Special Prayers For His Recovery Are Being Offer- In The A. M. E. Churches. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 29—Bishop Abram Grant, one of the most forceful figures in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is seriously ill, at his residence here. That his illness is regarded with deep concern is at tested by the fact that the Christian Recorder, the official organ of the denomination, has urged that special prayers be offered up in the churches of the denomination for his recovery. Born in an ox carr in Florida 52 years ago, he early overcame the obstacles of slavery and his early environment. He was ordained an elder in 1773 and his advance was o marked that in 1888 he was elevated to the bishopric. Bishop Grant is a trustee of the Western University, at Quindaro, Kan.; a member of the Board of Trustees of the combined Jeanes' and Slater Funds, and is chairman of the financial board of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was mainly through his influence that Hon. W. T. Veroon was appointed register of the treasury. WERE WELL ATTENDED (Special to Afro-American Ledger.) Oxford, Md., Dec. 20.—The Christmas Day program was carried out Sunday in grand style in the M. E. and the A. M. E. churches. Special sermons were delivered by the pastors Rev. J. H. Harman and Rev. A. J. Ward. On Monday the funeral of Mr. Edw. Williams took place at Williamsburg M. E. church. The services were conducted by the pastor of the church assisted by Rev. Ward. Mrs. E. J. Webb who has been conducting a rally with Mrs. A. Newman for the benefit of Wayman Memorial Church during the month of December wishes to thank her many friends of Boston, Mass., and Atlantic City and other places for what they have contributed to her for that cause. The same applies to Mrs. Newman. (Special to the Afro-American.) Hagerstown. Md., Dec. 26 - The Christmas exercises were well attended in all the churches. Mr. James Martin died Monday night after a short illness Mrs. Walter Corsey and Mrs. Carrie Holland of Freerick, Md., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Dorssey. Mrs. Flora Williams is visiting her brother. Mr. L. C. Brooks. Mrs. Madaline Paul and Miss Mary Nelson have gone to Allegany, Pa. for a week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Brooks are the proud parents of a fine daughter. Mr. Samuel Dixon and Miss Susau Gantt were married Dec. 14. Mr. Harry Costley and Miss Minerva Moore were also married last week. PRICE THREE CENTS METROPOLITAN WILL CONTINUE BUSINESS MAY YET LAND A COMFORTABLE POLITICAL BERTH THE FRIENDS OF MR. W. H. LEWIS ARE MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO PLACE HIM. The Trouble Seems To Lie More With The Attorney General Than With President Taft—Strong Pressure Is Being Brought To Bear On Behalf Of The Boston Man—Senator H. Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, Is Doing Hard Work In The Interest of Mr. Lewis. CANDIDATES HUSTLING FOR NOMINATION Bureau of the Afro American Ledger, 1918 11th St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Dec. 29.—Assistant United States Attorney W. H. Lewis may yet secure a comfortable federal berth, although it now seems unlikely that the post of Assistant Attorney General will be assigned him. The trouble appears to lie with the Attorney-General rather than at the White House. Strong pressure has been brought to bear in behalf of the Boston man, and the executive offices and the Department of Justice have felt the heavy tread this week of a delegation of potent political forces from Massachusetts, headed by Senator Lodge, who invaded the sacred precincts of these places in the interest of Mr. Lewis. If the present occupant of the Attorney-General's office cannot be induced to resign or accept a transfer, there is a likelihood that Mr. Lewis will be offered something on the government payroll "equally as good," in point of salary and dignity. The thinking colored people of the country, as reflected by the Negro press, are indignant over the shunting off of Mr. Lewis from the high place selected for him, but they are confident that President Taft meant what he said when he gave out the announcement that Mr. Lewis would be appointed. He is too big a man, they feel, to indulge in campaign bumbache. It is assumed that he did not count on the development of the opposition in the quarters in which it was finally discovered. It is expected that the customary "Taft diplomacy" will ultimately bridge over all difficulties, and that Mr. Lewis will given a satisfactory assignment at an early date. Rev. J. S. Jackson, the financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion church, is to preach Sunday morning at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church, of which Rev. S. L. Corrothers is pastor. Dr. Jackson says this has been the best year financially in the history of the church of Varick. In December alone Dr. Jackson paid out to claimants over $25,000. He handed many of the details connected with the purchase by the connection of the mnsignificant $65,000 Varick Memorial church in Philadelphia, and made the trustees an individual loan of $2,000 in cash, the largest amount loaned by any one person. Dr. Jackson is being urged by bishop G. W. Clinton and others to take the pastorate of Price Memorial A. M. E Zion church at Atlantic City, recently pastored by Rev. John F. Moreland. church, is at Galbraith which Rev. Dr. Jack- the best year the church alone Dr. Isover $25- the details case by the cent $65,000 Philadelph- ELKS TREAT 300 LITTLE CHILDREN Large Crowds Spending-Yuletide Seas- son At City-By-The-Sea. Dr. J. E. Shepard, president and founder of the mammouth National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C., who spent a portion of the week here, announces that during the early summer of 1911 he plans to go to Africa to study the condition of the Negro, with a view of discovering just what kind of training is best suited to them before finally deciding upon the plans for the Medical Missionary Building, which is to be erected in the near future on the campus of the school at Durham Dr. Sisqard is combining the spiritual and the industrial ideas of education at this institution. The inimitable comedian, Bert A. Williams, is scoring heavily this week at the New National Theatre, and is the bright and particular star of Ziegfield's big production, "The Follies of 1910." Financial Secretary to Preach. Shepard Will Go To Africa. Financial Troubles in Baltimore and Other Branches Necessitate Sale of Building. New York. Dec. 28—President L. C. Collins, of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, declares that the forced sale of the large building of the company, at 46th street and Eighth ave. ave., will not prevent the company from doing business. The building was purchased by the company several years ago, the price paid for the same being in the neighborhood of $100,000. The building was extensively remodel'd and a mortgage of $25,000 placed thereon. A building and a mechanies' lien prevented the company from opening a department store as originally intended. The financial troubles of the company to raise money and three weeks ago the property was sold at auction for $45,000. The Political Fight In Monrovia Is Boiling And The Candidates Are Hustling. Special in The Afro-American Leader. Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, Dec. 5. The political pot is boiling in this country and the candidates for the presidential nomination are hustling for the nomination, which will be made next month. President Arthur Barclay is finishing up his second term of four years and is not hustling for a nomination. J. J. Dosson, the vice president, is an avowed candidate to succeed Mr. Barclay, but it looks like Daniel E. Howard, secretary of the Treasury, will be the next President. Mr. Howard is one of the most astute politicians in this country and is the chairman of the True Whig Party. Mr. Howard served as secretary of the party under the chairmanship of his father and is widely known. He is 49 years of age, was educated at Liberia College and is a farmer. Vice President Dosson is a lawyer and was one of the commissioners that visited the United States in 1908 in the interest of his country. The True Whig Party was founded by Anthony William Gardner and has been electing presidents since 1878. Mr. Gardner was elected to the presidency two decades ago, and during his administration Liberia was admitted to the Postal Union. He instituted the Order of African Redemption, in which those who perform meritorious services for the republic are admitted. Dr. B. T. Washington, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, former United States Minister to Liberia Ernust Lyon and John E. Bruce are among the Americans who have been admitted to the order. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Atlantic City, Dec. 23—Mr. Richard Cooper, late of the Royal Palace Hotel, has charge of the front at the new Marion Hotel. Master Charlie Thomas Joseph Mr. Guion, James Jones and Miss Mary McGuion, all students of Bordentown Academy, are no悬驻 the holidays with their parents. Mr. Penrose, a student at the Dover State College is spending the holidays here. The Nonpariel Club gave the first of a series of dances at Fitzgerald's auditorium. The attendance was large. Lighthouse Lodge, No. 9, I. B. P. O. Elks, made glad the hearts of 300 poor children Monday, at their home on arctic avenue. The little toys voted the Elks the finest of good fellows. Special Christmas services were held in the various churches on last Sunday. The holiday season brought a large number of visitors to the city and the hotels and boardwalk have been crowded all the week. WATCH US GROW! ..The Afro-American Ledger.. Independent in All Things Neutral in Nothing All the News fit to Print ..SUBSCRIPTION.. 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The forty-second annual session of the grand lodge of F. and A. A. Masons of North Carolina, which was recently held in Raleigh, was the greatest ever held by this fraternity in North Carolina. There were at least 500 Masons in attendance upon the sessions that were conspicuous because of the harmony and the ability of the members of the grand lodge to dispatch the business upon the calendar for the session. The organization is composed of some of the best men in the race in North Carolina whose native ideals for the betirement of the race have borne fruit. In one particular instance the order has a remarkable character revealing what pluck can accomplish in the southland in the person of Professor Robert Baxter McRary of Lexington, N. C. At the age of five years he was an apprenticed orphan by the freedmen's board to his mother's former owners, yet they were very considerate of their shaves and were admired by them because of their Christian character. As Lexington was an agricultural section young Meltery was reared on the farm. At an early age he exhibited extraordinary ability for a child of his age, and he was encouraged in the right manner by these generous people and received his primary training in the parochial school where he finished. Seeing that he was destined for a work that would effectively help to deliver his people from a condition that would ultimately make them wholly undesirable, he was encouraged substantially to prepare himself for M. a useful career. He entered Lincoln university and graduated with honor in 1855. At the time Professor McRary graduated from Lincoln the race was sadly in need of well prepared teachers. He did not locate in the city, but went to Reidsville, N. C., where he accepted a position as principal of the graded school. He created an influence in Reidsville which is still felt in the various activities of Afro-American residing in that section. Professor McRary was principal of the normal department of Livingstone college during the administration of the late Dr. J. C. Price. Because of his ability to master details of large commercial affairs the late Mr. T. C. Ford (white), a capitalist of Lexington, N. C., made Professor McRary his private secretary. He displayed every evidence of becoming a financier while filling this unique position. A remarkable career for this aspiring Afro-American was made evident when he was given registered power of an attorney for the Ford estate. Today he possesses two instruments of writing he greatly prizes—viz. articles of apprenticeship at five years of age and "power of attorney" at thirty-five years of age. He is a concrete example of what the Negro can do in the south if he be intelligently prepared and exhibits the qualities of a man. Professor McRary is among the leading real estate dealers in the south. He is a stockholder in some of the largest financial institutions in North Carolina, among them being cotton mills and the Bank of Lexington. The inspiring feature is that he is now the owner of the old homestead upon which he served as a slave boy. A conservative estimate of his holdings will require six figures, representing thousands of dollars, yet he is one of the most unostentious and polished gentlemen that one will want to meet, and one would never know that he was a man of wealth, because he treats patristan and plebeian according to the divine and revealed laws. He married Miss Annie Mendelhall, daughter of the late Mr. Aaron Mendelhall, head of a highly respected family of Greensboro, N. C. There are few men in this country who are more highly regarded as a layman throughout the jurisdiction of a denomination than Professor McLary. He is a member of the M. E. church and has for twenty-five years been superintendent of a Sunday school, three times lay delegate to the general conferences of his church and was elected a member of the board of managers, Freedmen's Aid society, at the general conference held in Baltimore in 1908. As to how he is esteemed his position in church and other civic and economic movements forcefully shows. The latest tribute to his high character was registered, when he was elected by acclamation for the third successive term as grand master of the F. and A. A. of North Carolina, which has a membership of over 10,000 members. He is chairman of the endowment board of this fraternity, of which Colonel James II. Young is the grand endowment secretary. Colonel Young's report showed that $40,420.94 was collected during the year, and he paid out $34,425. The aggregate amount collected for the eight years this department has been in operation is $123,338.70. The organization is in a healthy condition. Among the prominent Masons attending the grand lodge were Dr. James E. Shepard, Dr. J. E. Dallinger, Dr. James B. Dudley, Messrs. John T. Howe of Washington, P. A. Richardson, George W. Powell, J. G. Catur and Professor William Windsor. The following officers were re-elected by acclamation: P. A. Stevenson, Salisbury, senior warden; W. S. Simmons, Bayboro, junior warden; Dr. C. S. Brown, president of Water's Normal institute and one of the ablest of pulpitcheers, president of Lott Carey convention and one of the most influential leaders of the race, grand secretary; A. R. Middleton, Kenensville, to serve his eighteenth year as grand treasurer. The grand lodge convenes next year in Greensboro, and C. H. Hayes of that city was elected grand tiller. CIVIC LEAGUE'S CONVENTION: Importance of the Organization, Its Objects and Aims. The Civic and Political League of Kentucky has issued the following call to its members: "The Civic and Political League of the State of Kentucky is hereby called to meet in regular state convention in the Odd Fellows' hall. Thirteenth and Walnut streets, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 2, 1911. "Since the last meeting of the league many events affecting the country at large and materially concerning us as a people in an especial degree have transpired, showing the wisdom and need of this organization. "We are living in the midst of the most tremendous strides in civilization in the history of the ages. The whole world is in a ferment for better civic conditions, and from one end to the other of our great republic men are struggling to make it in deed and in truth the land of the free and the home of the brave. In the presence of this great movement for social and civic uplift we cannot afford to stand still. "The object of our organization is to instil respect for law, foster education, promote the higher ethics, discuss ways and means for the suppression of crime, elevate our standard of citizenship and appeal for the civic and political immunities vouchsafed us by the law and priceless as the inalienable safeguards of American manhood. "Let us conduct ourselves in a manner so commendable as to appeal to all good men, to the end that we may no longer be the football of political parties in the midst of heated campaigns. "The basis of representation shall be one delegate for each 100 votes cast by the Negro in the last presidential election. Any club, lodge or school may send a delegate if elected in accordance with this call." The general officers of the league are: G. W. Gentry, president; Albert S. White, vice president; E. E. Underwood, secretary; W. T. Merchant, chairman Fifth Congressional District league; H. C. Weeden, chairman executive committee. Sweitzer Camp to Install Officers. The annual installation of officers of the General J. B. Sweitzer camp, No. 98, Sons of Veterans, Pittsburg, will be held on Friday evening, Jan. 13, 1911. At the meeting of the camp Friday evening Dec. 23, several new members were mustered in. The newly elected officers are Frank B. Pulpee, commander; George H. Brown, senior commander; Thomas W. Cuff, junior commander; William H. Barnett, delegate; S. A. Corbin, alternate; R. F. Beasley, W. H. Earnett, O. Tempson, camp counsel. Advance Date Social Functions. The Monocan club, which is conceded to give "the affairs" of the season in Washington, has announced the dates of its coming "assemblies." They will occur on Dec. 28, 1910; Feb. 24 and April. 21, 1911. Washington's social set will vie to make these "assemblies" notable in the annals of Capital City society. Hesperia Social Club's Initial Dance. The Hesperia Social club of Pittsburg has taken on new life since its reorganization and bids fair to win back its old-time prestige as setting the standard for high social functions among the elite of the younger set. The initial dance of the club was given on Tuesday evening, Dec. 27. FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR, IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, MARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PIEABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT, WRITE FOR TESTMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINKY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET, FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE,PUT UP IN 25*AND 50*BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU,WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES,SMALL SIZED BOTTLE,25*LARGE SIZED BOTTLE,50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. 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Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to The Afro-American Co MD. PHONE 8891 W. C. & P. PHONE, ST. PAUL 8864 M. BALTIMORE, DEC. 31, 1910 Here's wishing you a Happy and prosperous New Year. The Afro-American Ledger extends to its readers, subscribers, adver- tisers, and friends of all kinds, colors and conditions, the greetings of the New Year, and in the language of dear old Rip Van Winkle, "May you live long and prosper." There will be a good deal of swearing off and turning of new leaves tonight and tomorrow. We hope there will be no turning back of old leaves so as to have the pleasure of swearing off again. The managing editor of this paper takes this opportunity to thank his many friends for the many kind expressions on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. He had no idea when he mentioned the fact to a few friends a few days ago that he would be the recipient of so many, many pleasant and kindly words. It really makes him feel like he wanted to live to see a good many more birthdays if this kind of thing is going to keep up. The author of the segregation ordinance and the Councilman who introduced it have become notorious, they even got their pictures in the papers, and a New York paper at that. Now the next thing to do is for them to go down to the City Hall and be measured by the Bertillin systim and their names and faces will go thundering down the corridors of time, like Nero and many other notorious characters. Lawyer Milton Leshields is not satisfied with his handiwork when it comes to separating the two races. The one case this week has already discovered a weak place in his segregation amendment, and when an opportunity was given the advocates of the measure to make a test case of it the whole bunch had a case of "cold feet" and took to the woods as fast as their legs could carry them. It is now proposed to do away with the majority business in a block and let things work out to the satisfaction of the remaining ones, white or black. What a time our white friends are having keeping themselves "unspotted from the world," of black folks. As we see it just at this time and for the coming year, the colored people of this city no not intend to be set back one inch by any segregation or other kind of measure that may be passed to do them an injury. We have started up the hill of progress and we are not going to stop for barking of dogs that may be met on our passage up. Perhaps during no year in the history of the colored people of this city was more property bought than during the past year. The incoming year will probably be a record breaker, the segregation ordinance notwithstanding. We are going to buy property and we are going to live in it. and the authorities are not going to disturb us in possession of it either. Evidently the friends and sponsors of the West ordinance are not in a great big hurry to have it tested in the courts. They had a splendid opportunity this week, but as is usual in all cases of this kind, they did some pretty nice side-stepping. Sure as they make out their ground is, they are not over-enthusiastic over the outcome when it comes up before a courts of justice where justice may have at least one eye closed as to the color of the defendant. If there was at anytime a doubt of the legality of the ordinance, there is now a greater doubt than ever before as to the outcome when it does come into court. The array of intelligent Afro-Americans present in Justice Tyson's court on Wednesday was conclusive evidence that the colored brother did not intend to let the case go by default. The defendant in this case would not have been put to one dollar's worth of expense, nor would she have been allowed to go to jail or even remain in the Police Station, for there was enough bail handy to have bailed several cases of its kind, if necessary. The Baltimore Afro-American, like his Oklahoma brother, does not intend to go to sleep over the thing, no matter what our friends, the enemy, may think. We do not intend to be caught napping, and when the time comes we will be found at our post of duty, ready and willing to do what our hands find for us to do. Much as we detest lynch law, and much as we protest against it, yet there are times when we are so provoked at the actions of some of the members of our race that we almost wish we were where we could lay violent hands upon them. Every once and a while some scalawag of a Negro not only breaks loose and brings shame upon the face of every respectable Negro, but he gives the prejudiced white man the very opportunity he seeks to say and do anything he feels like doing to any member of the race on the pretence that all Negroes are alike. If there could be some place found where we could put this class of good-for-nothing Negroes, where they could spend their lives in expiating their sin, as much against the race as against the virtue of their innocent victims, and where every moment in the day they would have cause to remember their sin, it would be a good thing. However this may be, we still stand for law and order as well on the part of the black man as on the part of the white. The white man has all the advantages and the Negro none, and so they can well afford not to make beasts of themselves, no matter how great the provocation. For after all they must remember they are the superior race, and it does not become them to lower themselves down to the level of the black brute. Give the wretch a fair and speedy trial, and if the crime is proven then execute the penalty with as little delay as possible. Bethel A. M. E. Church Preparing To Move A Serie Of Meetings To Extend Until March Is Planned—Many, Prominent Ministers To Be Present. Extensive preparations are being made by the congregation of Bethel for removal to their new church, formerly St. Peters P. E. Church, corner of Druid Hill avenue and Lanvale street. Sunday next will commence a series of meetings which will continue until the middle of March. All the local ministers and their congregations and many out of town visitors will be present during the ceremonies of dedication which will extend over several weeks. Whatever feelings may be shared by a portion of the public in reference to the purchase of this property, there is no doubt in the world but the pastors and congregations of the several local and out-of-town churches are in full sympathy with Bethel in its new move for larger and more modern quarters and in a better location. From present indications Bethel will be one of the most popular church of the many up-town. Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon, pastor of John Wesley M. E. Church, was the guest of honor at a reception given by Captain W..H. Dorkins. at 615 Sharp street, Thursday evening. The invited guests included Rev. C. H. Steptean, Rev. J. Harvey Andersyn, Captain Edward H. Wilson, of Upper Fairmount, Md., and Mr. John P. Forrester, of Centerville. Mr. John Henry Smith And Mr. W. Ashbie Hawkins Dropped From The Trustee Board. Alter serving for the past 47 year, on the board of trustees of the Sharp St. Memorial M. E. Church, Mr. John Henry Smith, along with Mr. W. Ashbie Hawkins, was dropped at the annual election Tuesday. Mr. Smith has long been active in the affairs of the church and his displacement is thought to be due to the fact that he has been for some time opposed to the administration of the pastor, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes. Mr. Hawkins is also regarded as one of those opposed to the pastor. The election of trustees came after the routine business of the quarterly conference had been transacted, and no opposition was made to the new slate. The new board of trustees follows: Messrs. Harry Johnson, W. I. Butler, Jr., Julius C. Johnson, John S. Hardy, Jacob Armack, Solomon Tripp, John R. Keene, T. H. Brooks and George T. Bowen. The M. W. U. Grand Lodge Installs Officers The Most Worshipful United Grand Lodge on Wednesday night of last week, installed the following officers for the ensuing year: Thos. A. Jones, most worshipful grand master; W. E. Fletcher, of Annapolis, grand senior warden; J. S. Hardy, grand junior warden; Andrew L. Bunting, grand treasurer; Joshua Robinson, grand secretary; Lloyd Dorsey, grand senior deacon; Thomas L. Buckingham, grand junior deacon; George T. Duppin, grand marshal; Rev. Hugh S. Watson, grand chaplain; Richard L. Blake, grand senior steward; J. W. Lowman, grand junior steward; Thos. Given, grand sword bearer; Hiram Key, grand standard bearer, and R. P. Green, grand pursuivant. The annual sermon will be preached to the Order in the New Bethel A. M. E. Church, Sunday evening, January 15th, by Rev. John Hurst, financial secretary, of the A: M. E. Church. Mr. Wm. Goldsmith Denies The Allegation The Afro-American Ledger has received a letter from William Goldsmith, proprietor of a department store at 1713-15 Pennsylvania avenue, denying the allegation made in resolutions adopted by a local organization that he opposed the Christmas carnival because the presence of large crowds of Negroes therein would drive trade downtown. The letter follows, in part: Baltimore, Dec. 19, 1910. "I was very much surprised to see the enclosed article in your paper stating my position and feeling toward the colored race. I want to say right here there is no truth in any part of the article, and I will be more than pleased to give you facts and furthermore I will give to any colored church in the city $100 if anybody ever saw me at any meeting in reference to the McCullah street or made any remark about a carnival. "I can refer you to three colored ministers that I give liberally to every year to their churches, and I also give all of my work to colored mechanics no matter what is to be done. Mr. Jackson on Division street has just finished painting my house on Madison avenue, and I recommended, him to a party on Ruskin avenue, and he did their work. I am sure if I had any ill feeling I would not employ them. I also have a colored chauffeur and a boy in the store. This article certainly hurts my feelings after all I do for the colored race, and who ever wrote the article was mis-informed and I would like to defend myself and give you my version of the whole affairs. The resolutions aimed at Mr. Goldsmith were adopted at a meeting of the Afro-American Club, which has absolutely no connection with this paper, and they were based on an article which appeared in an afternoon paper, which quoted Mr. Goldsmith as saying that he opposed the carnival because the large crowd, most of whom would be Negroes, would send shoppers downtown. As nothing had appeared from Mr. Goldsmith denying the correctness of the interview in the afternoon paper, the Afro-American Ledger published a summary of the resolutions aimed at him.—The Editor. The Case Was Thoroughly Aired In The Northwestern Police Station Last Wednesday Evidently not wishing to give the Criminal Court a chance to try the case on its merits and thereby endanger the continuance as a law of the so-called West segregation ordinance, Justice Alva H. Tyson, at the Northwestern Police Station, Wednesday, dismissed the cases of W. W. Gallagher, owner of the dwelling at 1623 Argyle Ave. and Mrs. Catherine Dixon, who rented the house, both of whom were charged with violating the new law, on the ground that the property was rented before the law went into effect. The case was the first to come up under the provisions of the new law, the design of which is to keep colored people out of white neighborhoods. Before the hearing was held Mr. Gallagher and his agent, J. W. Lyons, said that they wanted Justice Tyson to settle the case, as they could not afford to lose time in a court case. Attorney Milton Dashiell, who enjoys the distinction of being the author of the reactionary measure, was on hand, and called Messrs Lyon and Gallagher on the outside for a little talk. When the case was called, Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins, who represented Mrs. Dixon, asked for a jury trial. City Councilman Henry A. Ulrich, who strongly opposed the passage of the ordinance, representing the other defendant, also asked for a jury trial. Justice Tyson then announced that their plea were not necessary as he did not think he had final jurisdiction in the case. He then called Sergeant Hurley, who testified that upon complaints made by white people residing in the 1600 block of Argyle avenue, he had investigated and found that a larger number of whites resides in the block than colored. He also stated that Mrs. Dixon had moved in Thursday of last week. J. W. Lyons, agent for the house, testified that Mrs. Dixon was given possession of the house several days before the ordinance became a law, and that she had paid $4.25 rent for the same about 7.30 A.M. Monday, December 19th, the day the measure became a law. Attorney Ulrich that said that while unconstitutional law might be passed, no law impairing contracts could avail. It was then that Justice Tyson, with a portrait of Governor Crothrens, smiling benignly upon him, delivered his decision dismissing the cases on the ground that the contract was made before Attorney Dashiell and Councilman West could get the Mayor to sign their "shinny-on-your own-side" law. The decision was somewhat disappointing as many hoped that the case would be sent on to the Criminal Court, where it could be decided on its merits, thereby establishing either its validity or its unconstitutionality. Mrs. Dixon could have had $50, 000 worth of bail, had she needed it. Among those noticed in the courtroom were Rev. John Hurst, of Washington; Dr. H. F. Brown, Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander, and Messrs. H. M. Burkett, Clark L. Smith, A. T. Waller, James Hawkins, John Henry Smith, James Hawkins, T. G. Marshall, and Hugh E. Macbeth. Lodge Elects Officers For The Ensuing Term Past Chancellors J. Edward Smith And J. W. Jones Elected To Represent The Lodge At Grand Session. Allen Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Eythias, at their regular meeting elected the following officers for the next six months: J. Edward Smith, past chancellor; Joseph Evans, chancellor commander; Joseph Meadows, vice chancellor; Thomas Welsh, prelate; Samuel E. Roberts, master of exchequer; Thomas A. Hardy, master of finance; Percy T. Borron, keeper of records and seal; Thomas Williams, master-at-arms; Lawrence Toomey, inside guard, and John Scott, outside guard. J. Edward Smith and J. Walter Jones were elected to representatives to the Grand Lodge session, to be held at Frederick, Md., next July. Mrs. Rosa Boston gave a grand, reception at her home, 1117 Etting, street in honor of her nephew, Mr. Thomas C. Brown, who spent the holidays with her. In company with Mr. Brown was Mr. Stephen E. Burke, of Orange, N. J. Messrs. Brown and Burke are at present students of Howard University. Signed: Handsomely GownedYoung Women Attend Annual Society Event at the Lyric The fourth annurl christmas reception of the Baltimore Assembly which was held at the Lyric on last Wednesday evening was a brilliant affair. The reception hall of the Lyric, which was beautifully decorated, presented a beautiful appearance, and the handsome gowns worn by the ladies, made a scene of beauty never before witnessed in the history of the Assembly. The grand march which preceded the dancing, was led by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Bishop. A buffet luncheon was served at midnight. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.— Ridley, of Athantic, W. H. Bishop, Solomon Decoursey, J. Edward Jansey, George R. Murphy, Ambrose Briscoe, Samuel E. Young, Truly Hachett, Thurman Mallory, Mason A. Hawkins, Edgar Braxton, J. Clarence Chumbers, James W. Hughes, H. Grafton Browne, W. Ashbie Hawkins, W. C. McCard, D. Grant Scott, E. J. Wheatley, John H. Bishop, C. Harry Johnson, John W. J wheeler, K. Garland Chissell, James Fessenton, Alfred Rohobit, William H. Wright, T. Evans Fernandis, Charles Blay, T. S. Hawkins, A. O. Reid, D. C. Brown, S. B. Hughes, and H. E. L. Agnes Lansey, Nellie R. Monroe, Emma E. Mason, Mabel E. Wilson, Alfreda Williams, Winifred C. Mason, Alice Mitchell, Isabel Hughes, Pearl Fisher, Augusta Rohobit, Emma Clark, Ella R. Browne, Sarah Edwards, Edglerer Fessenton, Nina Brown, Lucy D Slowe, Bertha A. Young, Agnes Briscoe, Deane Chambers, Rosa Childs, Teresa Briscoe, Villa Hughes, L. Shepherd, Worcester, Mass.; Enolia McDaniels, Lula Perkins, Marie Coleman, Narka Lee, Washington; Katherine Hurst, Florence Lansey, Mary Bragg, Mary D. Lansey, Mary Hughes, Charlotte Slowe, Beatrice Lewis, Washington; Aldina Hawkins, Roberta Hawkins, Irene Blay and Mamie Wilson. Mrs. Lansey and Mrs. Mary E. Williams. Gough D. McDaniels. J. Howard Pavine, John H. Hampton, Robert J. Young, Dr. R. G. Baker, Herber Winsey, Norman O. Cully, Fearless Wiley, Ralph W. Reckling, Harry G. Bragg, John N. Howard, George Clements, R. G. Addison, Leonard Hammond, E. B. Taylor, J. A. B. Callis, C. C. Woodland, Kosco D. Price, Carrington L. Davis, W. Edward Thomas, L. H. Green, Dr. E. V. Stokes, Dr. J. Edward Wright, Walter H. Harris; J. Henry Wade, L. Jerome Wilsod, Dr. R. H. Johnson, Jessie Smith, P. D. G. Pennington, C. L. Simmons, Washington; H. C. Stratton, Washington; Walter H. Smith, Philadelphia; Benjamin Locks, T. C. Williams, Manassas, Va., and Augustus Fisher, Philadelphia. MR. WILLIAMS. ENTERTAINS Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Williams gave a beattiful dinner at their residence on Druid Hill avenue in honor of their guests, on Christmas day. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Tolliver, and Mr. William Oscar Payne, of New York. Those invited were Hon. Harry S. Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sampson and daughter, Alma, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Easley, of Washington, D. O. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Kyler, of 515 W. Biddle street tendered a collation to the officers and members of Mt. Horeb Lodge, No. 24, E. & A. Masons on Monday evening of last week. Those present were Messrs. John Caidwell, Stephen Sheppard, Randall J. Curtis, Willard Allen, Richard Blake, Walter W. Gaskins, John H. Booze, George W. Mears, Stephen Robinson, Samuel Campbell, James Harris, Alex, Queen, Wm. T. Graves, Samuel Johnston Edward Richardson, Wm. Garrison William Whittigton and others Will Be Located At Our New Quarters Spacious Quarters Have Been Secured At 628 North Eutaw Street, Corner Of Druid Hill Avenue. The next issue of the Afro-American Ledger will be issued from our new office, 628 North Eutaw street, cor of Druid Hill avenue. For sometime we have been seeking new quarters as our business had outgrown our present habitation, but a suitable place in a suitable location was at last found several weeks ago. We are now fitting it up, and while we expect to be in a position to do business there next week it will be several weeks before we will have thing in perfect shape. There will, however, be no interruption to business during our removal, and our friends can find us at our new place on and after Wednesday of next week. We will be glad to see all who may come. Over 1500 poor children had their hearts gladdened last Saturday morning, at Metropolitan M. E. Church, when the annual treat of the Fresh Air and Empty Stocking Circle was held. The children came from every section of the city and plainly showed in their faces the joyous anticipation of having something that would brighten the holiday season. After prayer by Rev. J. A. Holmes brief addresses were delivered by former Congressman Charles H. Shirm, Councilman Harry S. Cummings and Mrs. Francis Preston, of Detroit. Each boy was given a pair of Stocking filled with candies and a bag of marbles, while the girls were given stockings, candies and dolls, and most of the dolls were Negro dolls. Children, whose appearance showed they needed it, were given shoes, hats and clothes. Miss Ida R. Cummings is president of the Circle; Mrs. Florena Kerr, secretary; Mrs. Nellie Bragg, treasurer; and Miss Annie Martin, chairman of the executive committee. ATHLETIC NOTES. Pneumonia and consumption seem to be the colored man's favorite diseases. Or it is better to say, perhaps that the colored man is their favorite ground as it appears from the country's mortality statistics. The ratio of white deaths to colored deaths in the United States (Journal of National Medical Association) from pneumonia is as 0.34 to 0.63. From consumption the ratio of white to colored deaths is as 0.44 to 2.52. What is the matter with us that we cannot control these preventable diseases? We have for thousands of years stood against the ravages of preying beasts, and have beaten them back to their forest lairs with nothing more for defense than a bow and arrow, or a javelin; we have defied the blighting touch of African tevers when the white man dared not approach to pitch a tent. Further we have resisted the shrivelling crucible of 250 years of slavery; we have moved our brawny arms at the forest maze and clothing, bread and food stuffs have sprung up in its place. We have helped the white man to conquer a continent, and to bedeck it with mighty cities as the stars bedeck the firmament; we have put our energy to the soil and dug up material wealth dazzling to the most sanguine economist; we have turned our eyes to the pages of the world's knowledge and cut down our illiteracy by three-fifths. But where, O where is that racial virility in these days when the hords of pneumonia and consumption germs appear? These diseases always take a hold when the body is in a weakened condition. It is frightful that we as a people do not take better cares of our babies. Bathe them often, clothe them warmly, give them plenty of fresh air, food, exercise and sleep. You cannot deprive your body of any one of these and expect to be a good man or woman much less a Christian. "Know ye not that ye are the temples of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man destroy this temple him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are." An indoor athletic meet in Washington in February. Wake up Baltimore athletic and get in training. A ten-mile Marathon race for Baltimore and six prizes to be awarded. I wonder if colored youths like athletic trophies as well as white youths do? Have you cold feet? Try this remedy: Bathe you feet before retiring each night in very cold water, and repeat the process each morning when you arise. Don't be afraid to ventilate your sleeping rooms. This can only be properly done when the air is allowed to circulate thru a room thru two or more openings. Always open a window and a door, two windows, or raise a window from below and lower it from above when you retire. Pneumonia and consumption are house products and close companions of bad ventilation and bad hygienic conditions. They seldom attack the outdoor man. EPWORTH LEAGUE NOTES Address all contributions to Editor 1216. Druid Hill ave. or to this office Rev. M. J. Naylor, District Superintendent of the District and Pres. District Epworth League, delivered a lecture subject: "Some things a tramp has seen and heard," at the Whatcoat M. E. Church, Wednesday evening last. The New Year is almost here; get ready for a new and better start. This is a thing worth remembering: The best lives are made of fresh starts and steady pulls. The M. E. Sanday School Superintendents' Union met on Thursday at John Wesley M. E. Church. This organization is doing much to keep interest alive in Sunday School work. Mr. James A. Harris, of Metropolitan is president. It is well to remember that we are always at work on the big job of making character. One of the most interesting books relating to the present condition of affairs in Africa is: The Land of the White Helmet," by Edgar Allen Forbes, the managing editor of the Worlds Work. Mr. Forbes seems to have been favorably impressed with Bishop I. B. Scott; our colored missionary to Africa, whose residence is at Monrovia. He says, "All the Methodist schools are on the up grade under the direction of Bishop Scott, an American colored leader of the Booker Washington type. Endowed with common sense to an unusual degree and also with a sense of humor, this unpretentious but earnest Bishop is a man greatly esteemed in Liberia." Do you want to make life richer? Here is a sure investment: get under some other fellow's heavy load and lift and sing as you lift. The Norris Chapter of John West Church is in a flourishing condition Mr. J. H. Norris, of this chapter, is advocating an Epworth League Camp Fire. Miss Sarah Winkfield reports the Epworth League at Accotink to be in a flourishing condition. Hereafter all the local chapters of the Baltimore district will make quarterly reports to the District Cabinet. These reports will put the District officers in closer touch with the local work and will enable them to make helpful suggestions concerning the conduct of the work The John F. Goucher Chapter of Ames M. E. Church League, elected the following officers for the ensuing year on Wednesday night December 21, 1910. Mr. Henry Johnson, President. Mr. Charles Pulley, 1st vice president, Mr. Charles Johnson, 2nd vice president; Mrs. Henrietta Valentine, 3rd vice president; Mr. Edward Curtis, 4th vice president; Mrs. Marie Beigh Treasurer; Mrs. Mamie Curtiss, Secretary; Miss Eleanor Johnson, assistant Secretary; Jessye B. Kelson, representative. The chapter is in a very good condition and a special program each Sunday attracts large crowds Rev. Amie E. Johnson; one of Baltimore's leading evangelists, is doing a great work at the charity and penal institutions of this city. For sixteen years she has devoted much time and untiring energy to the needs and spiritual comfort of the inmates of Bavview. Christmas day, as usual, she distributed a wagon-load of choice refreshments and snuff to the inmates of every department. Mrs. Johnson personally conducted every movement and saw that no one, white or colored, was slighted. In each department she stopped to sing, and to give words of solace comfort and cheer. Many a tear was shed, many a hand shake and many a "God-bless you" came from those who had no doubt seen better days, but by force of circum stances are in this place probably never to come out again. There were many sad and pitable cases but Mrs. Johnson did not overlook one. It was distressing to look upon the sad and wan faces of the inmates in the tuberculosis ward. There are so many young men and women between sixteen and twenty two in the last stages of that dread disease. They were so interested in all of the songs which were sung and prayers offered. There is no one in Baltimore who is doing any more real charity work than this woman whom God has consecrated and set apart for this special work. The overseer and nurses were loud in their words of praise for Mrs. Johnson's work of labor and love. They said: "No one comes here like Mrs. Johnson, white or colored." A number of white friends and a few colored friends are yearly contributors to this cause. Mrs. Mary E. Handy is an ardent supporter of this work. Mrs. Johnson is president of an association known as the "Floating Circle" or the "Whoseoverwill." This association knows no color, nationality or creed. Among those present were Mrs. Mary Robinson and daughter, Lillian; Mrs. Rachel and Martha Johnson, Centennial church; Mrs. Celeslentine and Julia Johnson, Union Baptist church; Miss Mary Sturgis, Mrs. Ella Hicks and Mrs. A.R.H. Miller. Two little girls, Misses Annie and Carrie Johnson rendered choice selections. Messrs Wm. H. Johnson and J. Adams rendered valuable ass'stance. FOR RENT Handsome New Auditorium of Galilean Fishermen's Hall 409 W. Biddle Street. Seats 700, is suitable for all classes of entertainments and is convenient to all cars. Lodgerooms for rent also. Apply to Janitress for terms. Columbus Gordon, President of Joint Stock Association. MUSIC SCHOOL 436 W. BIDDLE ST. Instructor of Vocal Music, also Piano, Organ, Pedal Organ, Violin, Cornet Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo and The Home Investment Association of fers the following Properties for sale Three story house, 1300 block Division street, price $1500. Three story house, 200 block D.J. phin street, price $2000. Three story house Argyle avenue near Pitcher street, price $2500. Three story house 140 N. Carey St price $550. Two story house, 1100 block N. Carrollton Ave., price $925. Three story house 1100 block Argyle avenue, price $2000. Three story house 1100 block North Carey street, price $1350. Also houses in 1200, 1300, 1700, 1800 and 2100 and 2200 blocks Druid Hill avenue from $1350 to $2500 Collection of Books. Specially Collection of Reins & Specialty. Apply at the offices of The Home Investment Association 414 W. Hoffman St. C. & P. Phone Mt. Vernon 3523-Y. DR. PAYN'S Painless Dentistry Perfect Fitting Set of Teeth All Work Guaranteed. For Twenty Years. Plate Work $5.00 Fillings 50 cents, Gold, $1.00 Crown and Bridge Work $3 to $5.00 All work done by Small Payments. —EASY TERMS— EXAMINATION FREE 118 W. LEXINGTON St. de24 ja19 See Fennell's Suggestive Xmas Presents Biddle St. at Druid Hill Ave. SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS Pour Weeks: June 19th to July 14th, 1911 Coursse: Methods: Primary and Advanced Literary Subjects: Elementary and Advances. Industries, including: Manual Training, Cooking, Sewing Basket- ry, etc. Agriculture: Preparator for teach- ing in Public Schools. Community Work for Teachers. Other features by special arrange- ment Booker T. Washington, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. With hearts full of gratitude for the splendid support you have given us through the year, we wish our friends, all and singlely, A Very Merry Christmas and A Beautiful New Year. THE APRO-AMERICAN CO. PRINTERS. THE APRO-AMERICAN LEDGER. Removal Owing to the need of increased Facilities for our growing business For a term of years and will occupy the same when improvements are completed on or about The Best Advertising Medium The Largest Circulation CHURCH NOTICES Farewell Services Farewell AT OLD BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH, Saratoga St. near Cay, Rev. D. G. Hill, D. D., Pastor Sunday, Jan. 1st, 1911. 11. A. M., Sermon by the Pastor: 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3. P. M., Farewell Love Feast. Invitation extended to our sister churches to come and worship with us. A souvenir will be given to all present. GREEN SPRING M Chattiola Rev. R. A. Green 10.30 A. M., Claire 11.00 A. M., Serena 3.00 P. M., Sunda 4.00 P. M., Epwu Mr. S. S. Mrs. Jane Milli WHATCOAT M Franklin and Pine S. Rev. Alfred Y. Watch Night Se Meeting, opening 9 P. M. Sunday, Jan. 1st, 1911. New Year's Day. 11.00 A. M. Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6 P. M., Allen C. E. League 7.30 P. M., Song and Praise Service and Communion. Classes—Sunday at 6 A. M., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6 Herbert Frisby, Supt. John Murray, President. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor. Sunday Services. 11 A. M., Consecration Service. 2:30 P. M., Sunday School. 4.00 P. M., Preaching by Bishop L. J. Coppin to Allen League. 4.30 P. M., League Service. 8 P. M., Preaching. Revival Service. Howard D. Brent, Supt. Wm. H. Butler, Pres. League. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., New Year Sermon by Dr. C. H. Stepteau. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, H. W. Ebb, Supt. 5.30 P. M., Christian Endeavor. J. Holman, President 7.30 P. M., Sermon by the Pastor subject: Ezekiel's Vision of Dry Hones. Revival Services begun. All are invited. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. D. P. Seaton Pastor. Rev. Dr. D. P. Seaton, Pastor. 11 A. M., The Pastor will preach a special sermon, subject: "Emilient Destruction Averted." 2:30 P. M., Sunday School. 2.30 P. M. Sunday School. 5.45 P. M., The Allen C. E. League 7.30 P. M. The Holy Communion will be administered. The Rally is on. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Lincoln Ave. and Biollle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School session 6.15 P. M., Allen C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., Holy Communion. T. J. Holliday, Supt. Miss A. L. Martin, Pres. A. O. E. L. WAYMAN MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Carroll Street near Carey Rev. David Johnson, Pastor Saturday night Special Watch Meeting Service. 11.00 A. M., Special Sermon by Pastor, Text: "Forgetting those things that are behind, reaching forth unto the things that are before. Press toward this mark."—Phil. 3-13. Communion. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 P. M., Allen C. E. League. 7.45 P. M., Sermon by Pastor, subject: "The Hand-writing on the Wall." Revival Services every night. Edward Sorrell, Supt. Lucy J. Richardson, Pres. C. E. L. PENNA. AVE. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Penna. Av near Dolphin Street Rev. J. Harvey Anderson, D.D., Ph. D. Pastor. 11 A. M., New Year Sermon by the pastor—"The Ages, to Come." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, Mrs. Anna Perry, Supt. 4.00 P. M., Class Meeting. 4 P. M., Men's Mass Meeting under auspices of Y. M. C. A. (All men invited.) 6 P. M., Christian Endeavor Consecration Meeting: Bro. J. B. Alkins, President. 7.30 P. M., Memorial Anniversary of the Bishop A. W. Wayman Lodge G. U. O. of O. F., with special program and sermon by Rev. Roy B. Mohr, a member of the lodge, assisted by the pastor who will also act as Master of Ceremonies. The Wayman Lodge Quartette will sing. Miss Lula Scott, the popular vocalist of the Eunon Baptist Church, will sing a solo. Watch Night Services will begin at 10 P. M., Saturday night with sermon by the pastor. Testimony Meeting and the awful Solemn Midnight Watch Cry. FOR RENT.—Rooms. Apply at 748 W. Frauklin St. de31.2t Advertise. It Pays GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH Chattiolance, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 10.30 A. M., Class Meeting. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 4.00 P. M., Epworth League. M. E. S. Olive Scott. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. Watch Night Service, 9 P. M. 11 A. M., Sunday, Rev. George R. Williams. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., Epworth League. 8.00 P. M., Special Sermon by the Pastor, subject: "What Hath God Wrought?" followed by the Holy Communion. W. C. Tongue, Supt. Miss Edyth Cooper, Pres. E. L. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. and Rogers' Avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D., Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Bible Class. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, followed with the Lord's Supper. 2.30 P. M., S. S. 5 P. M., Epworth League. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor., Followed with the Lord's Supper. Revival services each night. Strangers cordially welcomed. Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Julian W. Ross, Pres. of E. L. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St. & Patterson Park Av Rev. James H. Jenkins, Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Class Meeting. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6 P. M., Epworth League, Special program. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Pastor Communion services following. Saturday night, Watch Meeting. Night led welcome. Everybody welcome. J. W. Jones, Supt. S. S. J. M. Barnes, Pres. E. L. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH, Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpean, Pastor. 11 A. M., Preaching by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., Epworth League. 7.00 P. M., Brotherhood Meeting 8.00 P. M., Preaching. NORARINE F. B. CHURCH, Whatcoat St. near Presstman, Rev. P. Johnson, Pastor. 11 A. M., Preaching by the Pastor 2 P. M., Sunday School. 4 to P. M., Christian Endeavor, 8 P. M., Preaching by Rev. Samuel Johnson. Ensor St. near Monument, Rev. G. W. Kennard, Pastor Rev. G. J. Hawkes, Co-pastor Watch Night, subject, by Co-Pastor, G. J. Hawkes, B. D., Procrastination is the Thief of Time. 11. A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, Rev. G. W. Kennard, M. D., subject: I Will Arise. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., V. C. B. Society. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by co-Pastor, Rev. G. J. Hawkes, B. D., subject: Cut it Down. Revival. Watch Meeting. Revival. PERKINS SQ. BAPTIST CHURCH George and Ogston Streets, Rev. E. R. Williams, D. D., Pastor, 9.00 P. M., Consecration Meeting 10 P. M., Sermon by Rev. Geo. Williams, of Virginia. 11 P. M., The-Lord's Supper. 12 P. M., Good-bye to the Old Year. Sunday, Jan. 1st. 1911 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor subject; "Eternity." 9.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Rev. Geo. Williams. Revival services conducted by Rev. James Barly. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH, Parrish St. near Mulberry St Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10.00 A. M. Class Meeting. 11 A. M., Pastor or Stranger. 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 P. M., Christian Endeavor 8 P. M., Communion Service. T. H. McGowan, Supt. J. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. ASSOCIATION DAY Sunday, Jan. 1st, 5 P. M. Rev. D. W. Shaw, D. D., pastor of Centennial M. E. Church, will speak to women at the Colored Young Women's Christian Association, Mrs. Charlotte Davage will pre- WATCH THIS SPACE For the Widows' Concert which will take place at Waters A. M. E. Church, in the near future. All the widows of the various churches are invited to take part: Mollie Giles, Pres. Mayme Woolford, Directress. He was a mild mannered little man, short, with gray hair and spectacles. It was noon on Washington street, and as usual the crowds were shouting and pushing to get somewhere The little man was trying to worm its way through the crowds. A well-dressed woman accompanied by a small boy was mixed up in the crowd. She wanted to cross the street. The boy stopped to look in a window. The lady reached down and grasped a hand, saying: "Take my hand, dear." "Not right here on the public street," she was startled to hear some one reply. Looking down she saw that she was clasping the hand of a very offensive little man, who seemed to be much confused and embarrassed. "Sir!" said she, haughtily, "I don't want you; I want my son."—Boston Traveler. HIRAM CARPENTER'S WONDERFUL CURE OF PSORIASIS. "I have afflicted for twenty years with an obstinate skin disease, called by some M. D.'s psoriasis, and others leprosy, commencing on my scalp, and in spite of all I could do, with the help of the most skillful doctors, it slowly but surely extended until a year ago this winter it covered my entire person in the form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any labor, and suffering intensely all the time. Every morning there would be nearly a dust-panful of scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half as large as the envelope containing this letter. In the latter part of winter my skin commenced cracking open. I tried everything, almost, that could be thought of, without any relief. The 12th of June I started West, in hopes I could reach the Hot Springs. I reached Detroit and was so low I thought I should have to go to the hospital, but finally got as far as Lansing. Mich., where I had a sister living. One Dr. — treated me about two weeks, but did me no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all over my back, across my ribs, arms, hands, limbs, feet badly swollen; toe-nails came off; finger-nails dead and hard as a bone; hair dead, dry and lifeless as old straw. O my God! how I did suffer. "My sister wouldn't give up; said, 'We will try Cutieura. Some was applied to one hand and arm. Eurekal there was relief; stopped the terrible burning sensation from the word go. They immediately got Cutieura Resolvent, Ointment and Soap. I commenced by taking Cutieura Resolvent three time a day after meals; had a bath once a day, water about blood heat; used Cutieura Soap freely; applied Cutieura Ointment morning and evening. Result: returned to my home in just six weeks from the time I left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet of paper. Hiram E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y." The above remarkable testimonial was written January 19, 1880, and is republished because of the permanency of the cure. Under date of April 22, 1910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his present home, 610 Walnut St. So., Lansing, Mich.; "I have never suffered a return of the psoriasis and although many years have passed I have not forgotten the terrible suffering I endured before using the Cuticura Remedies." Mrs. Roosevelt an Economist. 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The Northern Bank, of New York City, With Nine Branches, Closed—May Involve Other Institutions—State Officials Step In and Close Doors—Evidence To Be Laid Before Grand Jury—Joseph G. Robin's Spectacular Rise As a Wizard Of Finance—Had Consolidated Three Banks Into One. New York (Special).—The Northern Bank of New York, with deposits in its nine branches of $6,912,582, at the time of its last published statement, was closed Tuesday by O. E. Cheney. State superintendent of banks, "for the benefit of the depositors," because of "certain conditions," and "also certain irregular transactions." An inventory of the bank's assets and liabilities is now under way, but until it is complete no further statement from Superintendent Cheney will be available. W. K. Hotchkiss, State superintendent of insurance, and District Attorney Whitman, are co-operating with him. Joseph G. Robin, chairman of the executive committee of the bank and a shareholder and director in many other corporations, is in a private sanatorium at Central Valley, N. Y., to which he was committed last Saturday by Justice Amend, of the State Supreme Court, at the request of his sister, on a certificate of two physicians. James H. Gifford, of counsel for the bank and one of its directors, stated Tuesday that the examining physicians had diagnosed the case as acute paranoid, and that Robin tried to kill himself in his apartments last Saturday night, but was restrained by a nurse. "On Friday night," said Mr. Gifford, "after the irregularities had been discovered, another director and myself went to the apartments of Mr. Robin. He was in great agony from kidney trouble, and it was plain to be seen that he was out of his mind. We could not get a connected statement from him. It was plain that he did not realize the seriousness of our mission. "Not succeeding, we left him and returned on Monday night. His mental condition, then was awful. He was suffering from paranoia, and I understand that, after being examined by eminent alienists, he was sent to a private saturatorium. On Saturday, while in this condition, he tried to kill himself, but was frustrated by a watchful nurse. "I knew nothing about the irregularities nor did I think any of the other directors did until they were revealed by the examiners of the banking department and our own investigators. "Depositors will receive 100 cents on the dollar and stockholders a substantial dividend if we can realize on our collateral. We have cash on hand of $2,000,000 and quick assets of $2,000,000." Lenioyne, Pa. (Special).—Thrown on the pilot of the engine of the southbound fast Hocking Valley passenger train, which struck and demolished the buggy and instantly killed his wife, who was riding with him. John Bartelshein, a wealthy farmer, was carried to Pemberville, six miles distant, where he alighted, dazed from the shock and exposure to the cold, but otherwise uninjured. When he alighted from the engine he still held part of the broken lines in one hand, together with the lap robe. 3 CHILDREN PERISH IN FIRE. Mother Away. They Are Trapped By Locked Doors. Glasgow, Ky. (Special).—On returning home from an errand Sunday Mrs. Robert Boles, of Wisdom, Ky., found her home in ashes and in one corner of the ruins the charred bodies of her three young children. When Mrs. Boles left home she covered the fire and locked the doors. The children had apparently tried to escape, but were trapped. Gem For Mrs. Taft. Washington, D. C. (Special).—Among the earliest presents received at the White House for Mrs. Taft was one which came as a testimonial from her associates, the women of the Cabinet. The gift was a beautiful ring, set with rubies and diamonds. Trenton, N. J. (Special) — Christmas festivities at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith, Morrisville, were spoiled by the discovery that a 4-months-old daughter had been smothered in the night by the bed clothing. The children were put to bed early and the father and mother spent until far into the night trimming the Christmas tree. When the children awoke in the morning the mother could not move her daughter. She had been smothered in the night. THE KINGDOM DIVIDED THE KINGDOM DIVIDED Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 1, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT-I Kings 12:1-24. Mem- ory verses, 13, 14. GOLDEN TEXT—"He. that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a com- passion of fools shall be destroyed."—H TIME-The time of Solomon's death and the division of the Kingdom, B. C. 352. PLACE-Rehoboam's capital was at Jerusalem. The Disruption occurred at Shechem, which was the first capital of the northern Kingdom, and which families directly north of Jerusalem, between Mounts Ehal and Gerizim. Here were located Incidents in the lives of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, and Joshua. Close by, doubtless as a part of the larger town, were Jacob's well and Sychar where Jesus talked with the Samaritan woman. And there is now the seat of the Samaritans, the smallest religious sect in the world. This lesson covers the story of Rebooham, and how he lost a kingdom. It is the story of a reckless, untrained, conceived young man, and his coming into the real business of his life. He was the heir to a throne, and his name means "Enlarger of the people," expressing the hope of his father for his son. The son disappointed these hopes, and became the "Diminisher of his people." Alas for such boys today! His father was Solomon. His mother Naamah, a young heathen princess of the kingdom of Ammon on the border of the desert east of the Jordan: She was one of many wives of solomon. Rehoboam seems to have been the natural heir to the throne. Judah accepted him. But as in the case of Saul, David and Solomon, at least in Jerusalem, the people had a voice in the selection of their king. Accordingly the tribes were summoned to meet at the old northern capital, Shechem, to confirm the successor of Solomon. The northern tribes were determined to obtain a charter of rights that would relieve them from their burdens, as the price of their submission. For Solomon had forced them to give their unpaid labor upon his great buildings, and these free and independent Ephraimites were reminded of their ancestors' slavery in Egypt. They were shrewd enough to send for their brilliant sympathizer, Jeroboam, whom Solomon had banished to Egypt. They were ready to enforce their just demands. Rehoboam, apparently attended by a small force goes to confer with them. Jeroboam is their spokesman. Rehoboam answered the people roughly: One of the most foolish things he could do. "Rough words do one of two things, they wound or they madden." And Israel saw that the king hearkened not. Josephus says that "they were struck by his words as by an iron rod." What portion have we in David? What have we of the northern tribes to do with David's son, Rehoboam, or David's tribe, Judah? To your tents, O Israel. Back to your homes and prepare for war. Every young man has a kingdom in his own soul. He may throw it away—half of it or all of it, in the same way Rehoboam did, foolishly following his headstrong will. Or, he may take the advice of wise men and the Bible, and become monarch of all the royal possibilities God has placed in his life. One's character, already formed, is a powerful factor in all emergencies of choice and decision. There is no time to prepare a new character. Rehoobam had formed the habit of taking bad advice when it fitted his inclination, and so he took it at his life's crisis. On his return to Jerusalem Rehoboam assembled an army of 180,000 men to compel the seeding tribes to return. But a prophet forbade the movement in the name of the Lord. Rehoboam's goodness was but the early cloud and the morning dew. As soon as he was firmly established, he returned to his old ways, and "forsook the law of the Lord." The deterioration of his character and his kingdom was symbolized by the change from the shields of gold which Solomon had made for his palace armory, but which Shishak took away, and which Rehoboam replaced by shields of brass. This deterioration continued two years, when God used another instrumentality for making Rehoboam good. In his fifth year Shishak, the Pharaoh of Egypt, came up with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an uncounted number of common soldiers. They captured the city of Judah, devastated the country, and carried away the treasures Solomon had stored in the temple and in his palace, and the golden shields in his armory. Shishak left an inscription on the walls of Karnak in Egypt giving an account of this invasion. The prophet Shemaiah interpreted the meaning of this calamity; and king and princes humbled themselves, confessed their sins, and promised to do better. The Lord therefore delivered them. Rehoboam continued to reign; and though his kingdom was not destroyed, yet it was far from what it might have been, for "he did' evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord." God's principles are everlasting, but the forms of their application vary with every variation of circumstance. As patriots, what is there in our country, that we wish to have go down the ages as a blessing? and what is there that we should give our whole soul to changing or blotting out? AN INFLUENTIAL CITIZEN. P. A. Richardson's Work as Endowment Secretary of Odd Fellows. Eastern North Carolina has a number of influential Afro-Americans who are among the constructive element of the race. In this section of the south racial antipathy is not in evidence to the extent that Afro-Americans are prescribed along lines of higher usefulness nor to the degree that they are discouraged when it comes to using their natural endowments in activities that will make them a potent force in business. An excellent example of this fact is found in the life of P. A. tachiarson of Nashville, N. C. Fraternal movements have largely conserved certain interests of the race in this section of North Carolina. This is due largely to the intelligent and honest leadership directing certain fraternities. Mr. Richardson is recognized as a man who can create an atmosphere helpful to his race and the community in which he lives. He acceptably holds the high position of trust as endowment secretary for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in the United States. When elected to this position two years ago the department was $12,000 in debt. This amount has been paid, and today he has over $12,000 as a surplus. M. B. commendable feature of his administration is that he pays all claims promptly. It is demonstrated in a concrete manner that a man who is thrifty and has an ennobling character is in his own sphere a patrician, and it is proved that such persons are the proper factors in promoting movements for the uplift of the race. Mr. Richardson has accumulated a valuable estate and is regulated by both races as a successful business man. In civic and economic activities, especially in the section where he resides, he is among the prominent factors in these movements. As a churchman he is a power for good and is known throughout the African Methodist Episcopal connection because of his faithful service. For three general conferences he has been its engrossing clerk and is regarded as being one of the ablest laymen in official position. He is a trenchant writer, and his articles reveal all of the essentials necessary for a disseminator of inspiring and wholesome literature. UTICA NORMAL SCHOOL Flourishing Institution In Mississippi Has Made Wonderful Progress. The work of the Utica (Miss.) Normal and Industrial institute is in a most flourishing condition and is steadily progressing. Professor William H. Holtzclaw, principal of the school, is one of the younger class of educators which are now in charge of many of the trade and industrial schools in the south. The school was begun about eight years ago in a very small way. It owned no property and had few facilities for school or student purposes. It now owns in the neighborhood of $100,000 worth of property, and there are about 500 students connected with the institution. An effort is now being made to raise sufficient funds to replace the school buildings which were destroyed by a severe storm in 1000. Professor Holtzclaw is held in the highest esteem by the white citizens of Utica, many of whom have greatly aided the school in a financial way. Brooklyn Elks Elect New Officers. The newly elected officers of Brooklyn lodge No. 32, Improved Benevolent and Protective, Order of Elks, in Brooklyn for 1911 are the following: Exalted ruler, William A. Brown; E. L. K., Joseph Bowles; E. L. K. D., Macon Webster; E. L. K., Milo Atkins; secretary, J. Thomas Brown; assistant secretary, Thomas E. Scott; treasurer, W. H. Taylor; tler, Albert Seen; trustees, J. H. Williams, J. Robert Brooks, Edward Henry and William McFarland, the former two trustees for a period of three years and the latter for two years each. Needs of Calhoun Colored School. Recent efforts on the part of the Rev. Ambrie Field and those associated with him to raise funds for the Calhoun Colored school. Calhoun, Ga., have been very successful. It takes $30,000 annually to run the institution. To put the school on a good financial basis, Mr. Field says, an endowment of at least $200,000 is needed. The school is located in the center of an immense population of colored people, among whom it is doing excellent work. Druggist and Notion Stores should keep this Superior Hair Dressing in stock. Please ask in the next store for it, or write direct to us. Price for wholesale orders on application. ...PRINCESS COMB AND HEATER... To be used by modern Ladies and Children to dress the Hair to any stylish fashion. PRINCESS Price of Princess Comb, $1.00. Heater 50c. extra Directions to be used will be mailed with every order. M. TREGOR & SONS Wholesale Manufacturers of Perfameries and Toilet Articles 1131 E. Baltimore Street, Baltimore. 1229 E Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 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From the pockets of the coat the two boys abstracted several tickets, and when Harold's mother found it out she made him return the tickets and explained the sin which he had committed, warning him to pray that he be given that night. He obeyed, and while on his knees added a prayer for Dewey as well. The next night Harold's mother was in the next room when he said his prayers, and she heard him ask God to forgive Dewey for stealing a piece of cake. On the following evening he again was moved to ask forgiveness for his friend, this time for stealing three pieces of candy. Apparently his patience was exhausted, for the next evening his mother was in the adjoining room when he offered his evening prayer, and this is what she heard: "Gosh darn it, God, I have done the best I can for Dewey. I guess you will have to watch him yourself."—Philadephia Record. He Won. Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor of Tennessee was once entertaining a northern guest, who was rather skeptical about the prevailing dialect in stories of southern negroes. He thought it overdrawn. To disprove the contention, Mr. Taylor laughingly made a wager with his guest that the northerner would be unable to interpret the language of the first negro they met. Accordingly, they set out and presently came upon a black man basking indolently in the sun. Telling his friend to pay close heed, Mr. Taylor stepped up to the negro and demanded suddenly: "Wah he?" The negro blinked his eyes stolidly, and then answered in a guttural voice: "Wah who?"—Everybody's. About eleven o'clock one morning Aunt Dinah was peeling potatoes for dinner. "Now I reckon that all ober dis big wort' eiberybody what's got anything to git a meal with is a gittin' ready for dinner," she placidly remarked. "Oh, no, Aunt Dinah," said Miss Nina. 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PISO'S THE BEST MEDICINE for COUGHS & COLDS SENATE CONFIRMS NEW COLLECTOR Whitefield McKinlay Now Full Fledged Federal Official. G. T. GOTTRILL FOR HUNOLULU Brief Bits of Information From Our Washington Correspondent Reveal What Is Going on In Official and Educational Circles in the Capital City-Yuletide Songs Heard. By OLIVER RANDOLPH. Washington-Charles T. Cottrill and Whitefield McKinley are in the line-light, politically speaking, on account of the appointment of one to a responsible and lucrative office by the president and the confirmation of the other by the senate. President Taft nominated Charles T. Cottrill for the position of collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii. The appointment of Mr. Cottrill has been semiofficially announced for some time. A few days prior to the elections last November it was given out on what has been taken as reliable information that Mr. Cottrell would be appointed to the above named position and that William H. Lewis would be appointed an assistant attorney general. With pleasing promptness the senate has confirmed the nomination of Whitfield McKinlay as collector of customs at Georgetown, D. C. The nomination of Mr. McKinlay was sent to congress along with a big batch of other recess appointments. While there was some talk of opposition, yet the friends of Mr. McKinlay have asserted all along that the nomination would go through without a hitch. Dr. and Mrs. B. T. Washington's Visit. Mrs. Booker T. Washington spoke at the Colored Women's Christian association recently. The meeting at which Mrs. Washington spoke was held in the new building of the association on T street. Mrs. Washington emphasized the need of industry and the importance of character in her address. The audience greeted her most enthusiastically, and her address was punctured with applause. The day after Mrs. Washington spoke her distinguished husband joined her in this city. He was accompanied by his "traveling private secretary." Mr. Nathan Hunt. Dr. Washington attended the meeting of the Jones fund board recently at the COPYRIGHT BY VANDA MEYDON. White House and also spoke at the dedication of Science Hall, Howard university. Miss Childers a Musical Genius. Christmas songs were sung at vesper services at Howard university Sunday preceding the holidays. Miss Luh Vere Childers, the talented director of the choir, who is also head of the musical department at Howard, had prepared an excellent musical program for the occasion. The vested choir of fifty voices was assisted by the university orchestra. The choir sang the following anthems: Processional "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing;" "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem;" "Come Unto Me," from the "Messiah;" "Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful;" "Saviour, We Adore Thee." The solos were "Oh, Thon That Tellest Good Tidings;" "Holy Night" and "There's a Song in the Air. There's a Star In the Sky." Andrew Rankin chapel was filled to overflowing with students and friends. Under Miss Childers' inspiration the vested choir has risen to be one of the leading features on Howard Hill. On Sunday afternoon throngs of fashionably dressed Washington folk can be seen wending their way to the "vespers on the bill." Fifth Anniversary of Cherubim Lodge. Members and friends of Cherubim lodge. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, crowded Summer hall, Brooklyn, at the recent fifth reception of the lodge. Splendid dance music was furnished, and everybody enjoyed the new features introduced by the managers in charge of the orchestra and the floor space reserved for the use of the patrons. SUMNER'S ANNIVERSARY. National Independent Political League Wants Nation Wide Celebration. National Independent Political League, Office of Corresponding Secretary, 21 Cornhill, Boston. [Where Garrison published als Liberator.] Appeal to colored Americans particularly and to all other Americans; Friday, Jan. 6, 1911, is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Sumner, for twenty-three years a member of the United States senate during the critical days for this Union from 1851 to 1874. We appeal to our fellow countrymen to celebrate with appropriate exercises his centenary. To no son more than to Summer does this republic owe its preservation as a free country, to none more its rescue from the blasting blight and national blot of human slavery. At first standing almost alone in the senate, he thundered against the iniquity of slavery until it was abolished. Willingly he suffered the almost living death caused A. B. by the mighty attack he made upon this sin and by his suffering multiplied its enemies. After slavery was abolished he was foremost against its recrudescence in new forms. Noble service he rendered his republic as advocate of equality of rights. He was a moral giant, a great statesman, noble crusader against caste, a true American. He belonged not to Massachusetts alone, but to the Union. Now the whole country owes him homage. Only by loyalty to his tenet of democracy that "equality of rights is the first of rights" can the perpetuity of free institutions be assured. In every city, town and hamlet for those Americans of color, to secure liberty, citizenship, the ballot and lastly civil equality, for which he 'inbred, prepare to honor his memory in public meeting on Jan. 6, 1911. He died with these words on his lips: "Don't let them kill my civil rights bill." Honor his memory, all other Americans for whom he gave his genius and his life to make this a real republic, a country where all should be equit under the law without distinction of race, creed or color—in very truth the land of the free. BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS. President. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER. Secretary. BRIGADIER GENERAL BURT LAUDS NEGRO SOLDIERS. Their War Record and General Behavior Challenge Comparison. The Boston Literary and Historical association is to be congratulated upon its good fortune in having Brigadier General Andrew S. Burt as the principal speaker at its December meeting, William Monroe Trout, president of the association, presided. Members of Grand Army posts in Boston and vicinity were out in large numbers to greet General Burt—Sons and Daughters of Veterans, Spanish War Veterans and the Mrs. Roger Wolcott auxiliary. A detail from Company L. Sixth infantry, Massachusetts volunteer militia, as ushers, and General Burt was escorted to the St. Paul Baptist church, where the exercises were held by a detail from the Robert A. Bell post 134, G. A. R., and the John R. Riley camp of Spanish War Veterans. Adjutant Isaac Mullen was in command. General Burt's subject was, "The Negro Soldier In Ancient and Modern Times." In the course of his able and patriotic address, which was punctuated with hearty applause throughout its delivery, General Burt said: We have in our regular army four regiments of colored soldiers—the Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Thirty-fifth regiments. We regiments have fine records in the campaigns on our western frontier in the days of Indian warfare and in Cuba and the Philippines. Today no diner horsesmen carry sabers and carbines than these Nex- It is whispered abroad that the Tenth regiment arrived on the field of Santiago in the nick of time to save a much heralded cavalry command from being wiped out or otherwise rough ridden by Spanish forces. It has not to my knowledge been brutal about with any very loud acclaim. The Twenty-fourth infantry has likewise made an enviable conduct in Indian warfare, in Cuba and in the Philippines, for its law abiding conduct wherever it has served in this country and in foreign land. For the Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth United States infantry I challenge the record for good citizenship of any class at any time or place in these United States so long as I have known them. Let that challenge stand for any remarks by me at this time about the very lamentable treatment of our people at Brownsville. New Political Emancipation The independent vote is proclaiming a new emancipation, says the Southwestern Christian Advocate—an emancipation from the tyranny of the party whip and, from the sneers and scorn of those who would brand the man as a traitor who dared to vote as he thought best COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade and Market Reports. "Holiday influences ruled the week and active demand at retail contracts with preinventory quilt in wholesale and jobbing trade, a further slowing down in industry over the end of the year period, and stagnant speculation in securities and commodities. Money has eased, while supplies have increased. Collections have been slightly quickened by increased circulation of money in leading centers. Weather conditions have imparted activity to the coal trade, but no scarcity is reported. Foreign demand for American wheat has apparently set in strongly at the Pacific Coast and shipments to long absent customers, such as France and Asia, have been the heaviest in years. "Relatively host reports as to current trade come from a few large Western centers and as a whole from the South, where good results from high priced cotton yields are in evidence. Wholesale Markets NEW YORK—Wheat—Spot firm; No. 2 red, 89% c elevator and 97% f o b afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, 118% f o b afloat. Corn—Spot firm; No. 2 new, 52½ c nominal, f o b. Futures market was without transactions, closing un- changed to ½ c net lower. December closed 55; May, 56. Oats—Spot steady. Futures market was without transactions, closing ½ c decline to ½ c advance. December closed 38c; May, 39%; July, 39½%. Butter—Process, second to special, 20@26½ c. Eggs—Frm; receipts, 8,032 cases. State, Pennsylvania and nearby henry white, fancy, 50c; do, gathered white, 40@48; do, henryn brown, fancy, 40@42; do, gathered brown, 38@40. Poultry, alive, dull. Western chickens, 11½ %@ 12%; fowls, 13½ %@ 14; turkeys, 20. Dressed easy; Western chickens, 12 %@ 18½ %; fowls, 12 %@ 15½ %; turkeys, 18 %@ 23. PHILADELPHIA — Wheat ½ %c higher; contract grade. No. 2 red, in export elevator, 94 %@ 55c. Corn dull; December, 49 %@ 50½ %c; January, 49 %@ 49½ %c. Oats steady; No. 2 white, natural, 38½ %c. Eggs 2c higher; Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, f. c. 37 at mark; do, current receipts, in returnable cases, 35c at mark; Western firsts, f. c. 37 at mark; do, current receipts, f. c. 35 at mark. Cheese firm; New York full creams, fancy September, 15½ %c; do, October, 14 %@ 15; do, fair to good, 14 %@ 14½ %. Live poultry firmer; fowls, 12@ 13½ c; old roosters, 10@10½ c; cspring chickens, 12@12½ c; ducks, 15@16; geese, 14@15; turkeys, 20@21. BALTIMORE.—Wheat—No. 2 red Western, 96; contract, 96; No. 3 red, 94; steamer No. 2 red, 92; steamer No. 2 red, Western, 92. Corn—Spot, 50½% @ 50½% c; year, 50@10½; January, 50@10½; February, 50@10½; March, 50½% @ 50½%; April, 51½%. Oats—No. 2 white, 38@38½; standard white, 37½% @ 38; No. 3 white, 37½% @ 37½; No. 4 white, 37½% @ 37½. Hay—No. 1, $20@20.50; No. 2 $19@10.50; No. 3, $18@10.80. Clover Mixed—Choice, $18.50@19; No. 1, $17.50@18.50; No. 2, $14@16.50. Clover—No. 1, $16@16.50; No. 2, $12@15. Butter—Creamery, fancy, 31½@ 32c; do, choice, 28@29; do, good, 26@ 27; do, imitation, 22@24; do, prints, 31@23; do, blocks, 30@31; do, held, 29@30. Ladles, 21@23c. Maryland and Pennsylvania rolls, 21@ 23c. Ohio, rolls, 20@22c. West Virginia rolls, 20@22c. Storenpacked, 19@20c. Maryland. Virginia and Pennsylvania, dairy prints, 10@21c. Process butter, 26@27. 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B. aE GS Se AeA RABRICAN LEDGER ook Cart Pe en Pee Ce AN ee aA RENE I, gel Sg pe | A PRETTY'RECEPTION. | JAS ¢ HAWKINS| “BAZAR! BAZAR!) eee | PERSONAL JOTS pe Local. ‘Notes ats nlackig: Shae B Roberts SSM : AE TrinityA. MoE: Church: Linden “Ave: aud Riddle St, commencing. VAL IVT i a | ave'a reception at their-home, 911 310 ST. PAUL'ST. | é Monday, Dec. 12, and-continuing through the bolidays. - | aa Gb care Ta = [Rave a ew, day evening. | REAL ESTATE rand Opening. Evening--Address. will be: delivered: tovall the 'Or-| Miss Rosa Childs, of Washing- _ Sohn. Young Banquetted er ied Fea ee IRE INSURANCE [Raniastis by Kev. D. G. Hall, pastor of Betliel A. M. E. Church, follow | tov, was the guest this week of Mrs: a ia i = ty Rulectatsad Ab Birth: Lvarieus diversionstuntil a:late:hour, | ftenta: Céllected aid Loans Negotiated.:| 9 OY:4 literary nrngehim.and.a Masqnerade Dril, led by Uncle Sant, pati Hy Murphy, of, 559° Laurens are is elaborately Eater’? -_ swvhen supper was served: | Code Poy St, Pawl3568-Y Season Ticket..25 Cts. _ Single Ticket, 5 Cts. at the Door rect, Le Pday Banquet Given In Bis | Among those present. were Mr. |'gm-10-27 Mrs. Cornelia Anderson, President. Miss Sarah Toogood, Secretary! Mrs Wm, H, Wilson, of 807. N. 5s Honor By His Wife Vad Mrs), Mdward. Smith, Mr. | SS ee Rev. AoE: Calges, Pasror: 1 ~ "}Centralavenue; who-has: been con- Oa Tuesday evening December 27 Mrs. john W. Young, of 503 Madi- son avenue honored her husband with a bithday party: ‘Phe guests commenced to arrive at Sp. m..and-at10 p.m. they were invited into the beaatifally decorat- “ed-dining room of American beauty croses, smilax and palais, ‘The.menu coiisisted of game in season, turkey, blue point oysters, salads, and ices in abundance. Mrs.. John W. Young was attirec jo arblack lace robe with gold trim mings. ‘Chose present were: Mesdames Jolin Owens, George Youny, loseph' Young, M. L. Will jams, Mary S. Hughes; Misses Lucy Williams, Consuelo. Williams, anc Litttle Miss Susie Young. Messrs Howard Green, John Wilson, Mas ters Dunbar and Charlie Young The ont-of-town guests.were “Dr. S Sparks;of Cumberland, Md, Mr. and Mrs, Ed: vard, Cape May, N. J ‘Mr, Young received many hand some jiresenis. Catholic Club’s Reception Was A.Brillian Affair. —Guests Were Highly Entertained At Beauli- fully Decorated House ~ The Catholic Club gave a recep- tion on Weduesday evening at 720 Mulberry street, whick was a very brilliance affair. ‘The parlor was handsomely decorated and the even. ing was spent in music. and card playing until alate hour when the guests Were ushered 1nto the dining room where all the delicacies of the season were served. Those: invited were: Mesdames; Bettie ti zales, Rebevca Nicholas, Bertha Bonds, Sarah Johason, A. Jones, L. Elliott, Ella Brown, Rachael Hitchens; James Williams, Mr. and Mrs.--William Smith and Miss Loraine Chaney. President, B. T. Jones, View Pres- ides, V. Elitotr: Secretary, Andrew Bonds: Treasurer, John ‘Nicholas; ‘The members are B, F.iones, Sm- brose lrowa, Charles Gladden, V. -Johuson, Join» Nicholas, Andrew Bonds, Joseph Gonzales, Hugh Briscoe, John Parker, John Parr, Jobn: onds, V. Elliott, William Waters, Prof. Charles Boone, ol “Clapton. Del., Clarence: Williams, John Walter Smith and. Arthu Wright. The Marsovian’s Dance PacaAcademy Bedecked With Palms And Flowers, Is The Scene Of A Brilliant Array Of Silks. ‘And. Fine Linens Paca Acadeniy presented a beauti- fal scene Thursday night; tastefall y decorared with palms and smilax, the oceasion being a.reception given by the Marsovians, a club composed of seven young Jadies of Baltimore's yowig society. Kerr's Orebestra, which furnished wusie for the occasion was conceal- ed Lelund a vower of palms: At half past twelve.a grand march was played and the guests marched-up stairs to the beautifully decorated Jinivy hall where. they were served to a supper consisting of several courses and was served by caterer 8. By: Taylor. ‘Whose present were: Misses Erva Bouldin, Adelle bigys, Nellie Fisher, Rosa Myson, Mary Bragg, Francis ¥alentine, Lucille Martio, Ethe! Briggs. Rosa Linberry, . Olive Brown,.Emima Shipley; Florence L. Fax, Marie Fitzgerald, and lessie Wisperal, of Pasladelphia, Messrs. Arthur Bragg, Ernest Purviaree, Jack Nelson, Bert Flint, John Howard, Harty Bragg, Wm. Kelley, Charles Uearndon, Wallace Lansey, Walter Demand, Harry Lee Shipley, Winslow Weeks, B. B. Taylor. aud Robert Diggs. TRUSTEES BUY GROUND FOR INSANE HOSPITAL Phe Board of Managers of the new Hospital for the Colored Insane Have purchased over 500 acres’ of land ty Anne Arundel. county as a site for the hospital. ‘The price agreed upoa-is said to be $19,000 and the charge was made that’ the Stare got “stung” on the deal, bat W.-L. Marbury, a> member of the board, denied the allegation. ~ His Jast. week caused the postponment Wednesday of the meeting of the Board. “fhe remainder of the $100.000 will be used in erecting buildings aud-furnishing the: hospital, “Mr. Joha Henry Smith, ‘of 2748 ‘Druid'Hill Ave., entertained Thurs+ ‘day night, ia-honor of Mrs. W. P. Cotton; wile of:one of the district ‘superintendents.of the: Delaware Conference of the M,.B. Church; | (x PRETTY RECEPTION. © ~ Mr, and: Mrs, Samuel E. Roberts ‘gave a reception at theirhome, 911 ‘Argyle avenue, Wednesday evening: ‘Phe guests enjoyed theniselyes with various diversions until a late hour, when supper was’ served: Among those present. were Mr, ‘and Mrs °j, Edward. Smith, Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Chatles Grifliny Mr. and ‘Mrs, Henry ‘Tyson, Miss Vashti ‘Smith, Mrs. Rosa Smith, Mr. Rich: ‘ard Turner and Mr. Edward Jones. ENDOWMENT WILL. BE FEATURE. | ‘he endowment department of the ‘Galilean Fishermen, . which was | moved from. Hampton, Va., to this eves several months ago, is now in charge of Mr... M.S. Brown, for. ‘merly of Jampton. At the recent extra session of the Natioval Grand Pabercacls of the Order, it was de cided to. make. the endowment. 4 - jpartment « feature of the order | Ms. Columbus'Gordoa, of this city, ie present National grand. ruler. ENTERTAINED. Mr.and.Mrs. John A. McLurkin, of $19 5. Green street, this city, en tertained quite a number: oftheir ace friends on Monday evdhing, Deeember 26. The guests expressed ‘themselves as-having had avery en- joyable time. Among those present ‘were Mrs, Maddox, Mrs. Parsong, Mrs. White, Mr. aind Mrs, Rice, Mr, White, Mr. Brown, Mr, daseph Madox, Mrs. Green, Misses Denis ‘and Miss Madox. and Miss Madox. | Mr, John. ft. Wilson, 6f 1125 Druid Hin averve, has purchased au-antomobile truck. Feel kinder dancified and every: thing. Then join the crowd and hike it down’ to. the Pishermen’s yall New Year's. Monday, 2 to 6.30 p. m. Mr. Charles H, Malloy, of Holi- cong, Pa., is spending the holidays with his brother,-Kev, W. A. Mal- low of 308 W,-Hoflman’street. Mrs, Julia Wood,, of New York. spent the holidays in this city with relatives. Miss Flavia Naomi, Seldon, of Piiladelphia, was the giest of Miss Edna Mae Welis, of 1217. Etting street during the holidays. Aintit rich? What? The Matinee Dance at’ ishermen’s Hall, New Yeur's Monday, 2.to 6.20-p. m. Mr- Louis H, Murray. of 540° W. Laavale street. is spending the holi- days in Boston, Mass., visiting his ‘various friends in that city, ' Messrs. Hverett liane, and How. ard. Wilson,. students. at Howard fare spending the. holidays in. this city with their respective parents. Mrs. Bertha Svott is seriously ill at her home on West Biddle St. Mr. Daniel Jacksoa, of 1342 Denid Nill avenue, is contined to bis home by illness. ; | Miss Gertrude Braxston, a teach- er of Port Deposit, Mu., is, visiting hermother Mrs, Braxston of, 723 George street. | Miss. Julia: Vrisby, of ' Chester: town, is in the city visiting her Mather and step mother, Mr. and Mrs. C..H. Frisby of, 1709 Mary- oat avenue. Would a bear go? Where? To the Fishermen's Holl, New Year's Mon- day 2 to 6.30 P.M, Alright now, sec ifhe wouldn't. Mr: Thomas Flanagan, of Char- otter Va., is spending the holi- days with his three’ married, sons, ‘and will stop at 1188 N, Carrolltcn Avenue. Mr, R, Allen Green, of Crisfield is spending the holidays with’ his pa: rents,’the Rey. aud Mrs. PB) oH. ‘Green, of 1338 Calhoun strect. >You going kid? -Where?.,‘fo the Fishermen's Hall, New Year's Mon- day 2 to 6.30. M, Sure’ thing. le Iifie Young, of Cliestertown, ‘is in rhe city for the hohdays. Mr.T. D. Freemans visiting his friend, Miss B, Thomas at Trenton, N.J-. for the Holidays, and_ other friends av Norristown, and German- town, Fa. Mr. Carl J. Murphy. of Howard University is spending the holidays in this city: with. bis parents, Mr. and: Mrs, J+ EH. Murphy. : ie Colonial Dames were tender- ed'a reception.on Wednesday even ‘ing at the residence of the vice pres« dent, Mrs. E: Wheeler, 2113 Druid ‘Uill avenue. : n Miss Lavinia Hensoa, of 438 W. Biddle street; paid a flying visit'to Washington Sunday, and while ‘there 2was the guest of Mr. and ‘Mis, James Campbell. "Mr. J. Wy Jackson’ has. returned home‘from Atlantic City. and’ Pleas- antville, N. J., where she’ spent, the ‘holidays. ‘Miss Beatrice: Patton; of Wash- ington, spent'several days ia the-city this'week/22 RG ok AG TrinityA. ME: Chureb; Linden :Ave: and Riddle St.. commencing, Monday, Dec. 12, and-continuing through the bulidays. - : Grand Opening. Byening--Address. will be. delivered: to:all: the Or- ganiawinus by Kev. J, G. Hill, pastor of Betliel A. M. EB. Church, follow: ed bya literary. progrhim and a Masquerade Driil. Jed by Uncle Sant. Season Ticket,-25 Cts. _ Single Ticket, 5 Cts. at the Door Mrs. Cornclia Anderson, President. Mass Sarah Toogoad, Seeretary- «Rev. ADE. Gaines, Pastor. 0} a “0 Yon Merry Widows and Jolly Boys.” There will be a Grand Female Wood-Sawing Contest : And German, Given by the Merry Widows No; 2 and the Original Jolly Boys'No. 1 ag AT THE NEW GOOD HOPE HALL, Lexington St., near Pine Monday Kvening: January 2nd. 1911. eueiaf lusi¢ by Knights of Pythian Buad, Prof. Jan Maxfield. Leader......... Mary Pate, Bees Nora King. Vice Pres... W. smith, Se Wv. C. Cornish, Pres. Jolly Boys, Stran’Glean, Manager. Cards of Admission, 25 Cents. Voorsopenat $30o'clock. — Dee-17-3t | *t Ruin Y¥ i | Don’t Ruin Your Hair | with poisonous pomades — hot’ irons — | hot combs and other harmful hair lotions. | : aa; sto alt |\Use ZOTINA : FOR THE HAIR Original and Only Scientific Remedy Guaranteed to Straighten the Hair Make it soft-and pliable, easy to comb, glossy and beautiful Used by the Entire Profession Price, 50c, and $1.00 by mail Manufoctured only by the, AGENTS: WANTED! ZOTINA REMEDY COMPANY Tampa, Fla; “Dept. 15 Office: " 5 LAT Residence: Mu Ver. 2338-¥ COAL AND W Gd Mu: Ver. 1837 PHONE OR WRITE By placing your Coal and Wood orders. with, Smuth Bros. you trade directly with the Deuler. We are furnishing at the fowest: marker prices Clean, High-Grade Cowl, 22-40 lbs to the ton Guaranteed. SMITH BROTRERS OFFICE AND YARD 542-46 UNION STREET. ~ Retailed Orders Delivered. i From 6.30. P. M. until 1.30.A. M. New. Year's Monday Night. — SOMETHING UNUSUAL—— THE TRIPLE NEW YEAR’S OFFERING, GALILEAN FISHERTIEN’S AUDITORIUM, WEST BIDDLE ST, Monday, January 2nd, 1911. - Under the ersonal Supervision of Mr. Ellswortle Tocnves. Children’s. New Year's Carnival'at 6.30 P.M, At S$ P. M., the reap ‘pearance of the Monarch. of Mclody. The Juvenile Trobadours in a mirth making program, concluding with the most popular Arias frons the Grand Opera. At!,15 P.-M., the assembly of the Classes. Mr. T. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra will render.anusic for the ‘Triple Offering. Scace or Prices Adulls,25c. Children under 12 years, 20c. Dee. 17-8t. BR aArceiny ee ogee te ay acahy As Leader of the BUSIEST Orchestra in town T desire to thank all patrons and friends for their hearty support during 1910,—and to wish everbody a Hapyy New Year. 'T. HENDERSON KERR acacia! | There: will. ben GRAND: MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT given by the PURITY LODGE. No. 28, NALA EA AL& A. Monday ‘evening, January 9. 1911, at the New Good: Hope Hall, W. Lexington jstrect. Music by rhe Goldfield Orchestra, oy ICRU: 25 CENTS Sir R: Burton, Chr. Sic-'S. Henson, Sec. Sir T. Davis, ‘reas. | Sonn Wesley WY. &. Church | Sharp and Montgomery Sts. “Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor: 1eA.'M., Dr. I. L., Thomas, Field Agent of the. Home: Mission and Church Extension Society. c 3.P. AL, Dr. CH, Stepteau, Presiding Iilder of the Potomac Dis. trict A.M. IE. Church. ‘SP. M., Dr. Ernest Lyon, subject; “Liberia as a Missionary: Field.” "fhis will be an extraordinary service. EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. January Ind, 1911=Monday night, celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation. Judge Robert H, ‘Yerrell, orator of the occasion, Oth- er distinguished speakers will be present, Ladies will serve supper. Special Music.will be rendered, ie A Happy New Year to all—The farewell exercises of Bethel A.-M. E. S, §., will’be heid Sunday, January 1, atg3-P. M.- Special. sacred con- cert will be rendered by the famous Pyihian Band.- Come one, Come all and help toumake this a day long to be remembered. ‘Thaddeus Copeland, Supt, Laura E. Campbell, See’y. (ee JOHN H. OWENS @ SON | Undertakers & Bmbalmers $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00. A fine. casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel:gray or white plush; higily polished oak or walaut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, cither black’ gray or white, to match casket, as desired; tive heated car- riages, new and up-to-date; fine burial-robe,. embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru: ciGix when desired, rugs, chairs etc, all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere...ssvvsssuvseenseereeeneeenreeete$ 136,00 Our price:seces vnc $75.00 | SAVING YOU.reerereervreeBGL.00 ; Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. | No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Shipping Funerals, $25.00. and $50.00 Complete 1222. Division St., bet: Dolphin and Lanvale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 ‘ 310. ST. PAUL ST. REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE Rents Collected and Loans Negotiated. C..& P.y St. Paul3563-Y 8m-10-27 ieee Shy, MRS. LUCY S. DAY aituouncesithe opening of her Hair Dressing Parlors S.E.Cor. Carey and: Presstman St (Opposite Gates’ l’harmney) ~ ‘A full line of Human Hair Goods for Sale, also. 'Toniés; Pomades and Shampoos: Hair Work of all kinds made to order: HAIR CULTURE & MANICURING 12-17-4t “BAZAR! The Ladies are for “Hairdresser to:Society”” FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND TIANICURING 831 DRUID. HILL. AVE. The Allen League of Waters A. M. E. Church will have an. elaborate prograim‘for uext Sunday alternoon atS45.P.M.- Prominent speakers and.good:mnsic. > -- Mayme Woolford, Pres. sfo5 C. A. Carey, Seéretary. Annual Xmas Treat All members of the Joan, W. Young,, Juvenile, No.3, N. VO: of 0.1, are. cordially notifivd tobe present at_ the Christmas. treatoto he held on Monday, Jan. 2, 1911, 2 P. M., at their hall, Biddle and Me Cuillolt. Sts. Bring a friend. 2e A-Bazarand Rummage Sale ‘The ladies of the B. MSC. Asso- ciation, invite the public to the New Year's reception: ia. honar of our pastor, Kev. and Mrs. WA. C. Hughes;ta be held, at Sharp Street Memorial ME, Chiirch, Monday, January 2nd, 191L1,4rom 7 to. p. m, Mrse He}. Cole, Pre-wdeut H. Ella Ovelton, Secretary THE PEERLESS QUARTETTE Is ready to receive engagements for concert work forthe scason of 1910-11. . For terms, rates, ete., address; Miss Mami V. Woolford. 43G.N, Kegester street. uw IN: MEMORIAM. BURKE—In. sad but loving: re- membrance. of onr dear ‘motlier, Saral-Burke, who departed this life one year ago to-day, Devember 3ist 1909. . Sleep on dear mother and. take ‘your rest, God took you home, he thought it best; It was hard indeed to part from thee, But God's strong hand uplifted me. Ofte we wandered to the graveyard Flowers to strew with tender care, Oo thé grave of our dear mother, Darkness finds her rest there, WLILSON.—In sad but ‘loving re- membrance of our dear son, William Hy Wilson,.-who’ departed this. life one year:ago, Dee 31, 1909. Time flies and never will it bring, On earth the cue to whom Wwe ching How often standing near thy tomb We sigh for you in deepest yloom. By: His:Parents. ADAMS—Enoch Be Adams, gore but not lorgotten, 3 years today, December the 27th: A gentle one from us is gone ‘A voice we loved is stilled s A place is vacant. in ouc homes That never can be filled. By hig wile, Mary E. Adams; 876 W. Preston street. HELP THIS CAUSE “A Consumptive Father And Mother With Tiree’ Small Children; Are a Asking Your Assistance |. The appeal we made last’ week Pand the week before, for a family much in need of help, has'not borne tlie fruit we-had hoped. In making this appéal, the Afro-American Led- geris solely actuated by a spirit of helplulness for a very . deserving family; and we felt that the public ought tolielp. ‘There are so many appealsmade by individuals who are not deserving, that at times. it is hard to discriminate. ‘The Afro-American’ Ledger gives the assurance that-any appeal made | through its cclumns is for a worthy cause, and will be applied in. the re Darel The family needs tobe kept te- getlier, If it can be helped this year, itmay be ina positioa to help itself'next year. Icis a case you ought to help. Previously acknowledged ......$12.50 Viola Martin one neers 225) William) Martinvicssceesnseee 8 z Total to date .- $13 00. One box:containing 30 pieces of| clothing, from Mrs.. Amanda Rob- insow and Miss Margaret Lewis... | BAZAR!: 9° BAZARY THE FAMOUS PYTHIAN BAND »w Year to all—he farewell exercises of Betl held Sunday, January 1, a&3-P. M,- Specia rendered by the famous Pyihian Band. Com toumake this a day long to be remembered. Copeland, Supt, Laura E, Camp ee es JOHN H. OWENS @ SON ndectakers & Bmbalme $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Jeet worth $63.00, in black cloth, steel gray:or- ed oak-or walaut outside case; beautiful rubber gray or white, to match casket, as desired; tiv ind up-to-date: fine burial robe, embalming, op eral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, can sired, rugs, chairs ete., all of the latest designs. Op eae gig Ree Ne PERSONAL JOTS Pe Eg ee ot a eRe eee se street, Mrs Wm, H. Wilson, of 507. Ne Central'avenue, who.has:beea con- Gned to her bed is improving, Rev. Samuel Horsey, a” student of Drews Theological Seminary. is spending the holidays in Baltimore, Mrs. Clarena }). Pendleton, wife of lawyer Pendleton, was operated onat the Jolins Hopkins. Hospital ” on Thursday of last week. The operation was:successful and Mrs. Pendleton is, improvine. 2 Miss Josephine. Stokes, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Walter. |. Stokes, 425 E. ‘Twenty-lourth street, is visiting relatives. in Philadelphia. Miss Frances, Marphy, of 1320 ‘Druid Hill avenue, is spendidg the holidays. with her sister, Mrs, Nettie Gilbert; of Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Walter J. Stokes, of 405 Twenty-fourth street, entertained Mr. and Mrs, Lewis Thompson and Miss Mary Green, both of Philadel- phia, on Christmas Day. Miss Aurelia Christy,. formerly .of thiscity,and now: %a resident of Bryn Mawr, Pa. and» Mrs. °M. Hughes Jackson, were entertained by Miss: Susia Trust, of 521 Ws Biddle street ata beautifully arran- ged tea, Tuesday afternoon. Miss Ella Clemence; who has Leen ill at her home, 911 Booth street, iz improving: * Mr. and Mrs. Leroy. Johnson, of New York, spent the week in’ this city. Messrs. J. Edward Smith” and Walter Jones, were elected dele- gates to the grand: lodge, whielt.. will meet at: Precerick, “iMd., some~ time next July: Misses slander Thomas and ‘Mary Bragg, students at the Ithaca’ (8. ¥.) Conservatory of music,-are spending the holidays in’ this city with their parents. Mrs. Mary: V.. Butler, of 1617 Livision street, is slowly recovering Ironr the eflects-of a severe’ illness, at the Johns: Hopkins: Hospital. Miss Paulive Harley, of Philadel- phia, who is spending a few weeks with Mrs. Lillian’ King, of Wash- ington, was in: the city Saturday and Sunday as the guest of her aunt Mrs: Pauline Wright, of 1121 Up: tou street. Mr, William Dandridge, formerly of Williamsburg, 'Va:, now: of Phil- adelphia, Pa., spent last’ ‘Shursday i Friday in this city. visiting Mrs, /Martira Waters, of Mulberry St. | Mr. John L. Sullivan, of Chicago; Jil. is visiting his cousin, Mrs. Ella Horsie, of WV. Mulberry St. Miss [zeta Peaco.,» of W. Holl mam street, is iome from Pitsburg, Pa., where she has been visiting: her sister, Mrs. B. P. Key. ; Mrs.$. G. Peaco; of 543 Hoffman street, who has: been’ quite ill for sometime, is slowly: improving: _Mr, John O. Young anid: family, of Philadelphia, is visiting his mother who is illat her home at 513° W. Cross street. - Miss Pearl Johnson, of Me. Washington, spent Christmas with her friends, Misses Maud acd Flor ence Kelson, of 1870 Carey St. Miss’ Josephine Z. Gaines, the daughter of” Rev. and” Mrs. A. L, Gaines, is spending: the holidays in the city. She leaves next. Monday for Boston where she will resume her studies in Domestic Science and English at Simmons. College. Miss Marguerite Thomas, of 1430 Division street. is spending: a” few days in Washington, D. C. : Dr, Albert 0. Reid, dentist, for, merly of 1932 Denid®. Hill, avenue has removed his office to. 1935 Druid Hill avenue,on the opposite side, where:he will be: pleased | to serve his patrons’ in a more com- plete, beautiful and well appointed Office. + Mr. William. T. Bell; of Boston, Mass,, spent the Christmas holidays with his father; Mr, Tomas Bell, of 1149 Park avenue: Miss Beatrice Plater, of Scranton, Pa., is spending a few weeks asiche guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles. Hi Jones, of 1506: resstman street: For Pure Drugs—go to*= Fennell’s: Pharmacy. “°> Biddle St. and Druid Hill’Ave: