The Afro-American

--- PUBLISHED EVERY {SATURDAY VOL. XXIV. No. 50 No Effort Yet Made to Bring Him Into State or National Campaign. THE BALANCE OF POWER. Is in a Position in _Maryland To Force Leaders to Recognize Him. By Booster Knock. The first big gun of the presidential campaign was fired Monday night when Charles Evans Hughes was officially notified that he had nominated at the recent Republican National Convention to be the standard bearer of the G. O. P. From now until election the "dear peepul" will be weedled and cajoled and told just how much they are thought of by aspiring candidates of both parties. The high cost of living, the world war in Europe, the Mexican situation, infantile paralysis and the present hot spell will all be blamed upon the present democratic administration by Republican spellbinders, while the Democrats will hold up President Wilson as the embodiment of all that is lofty and sublime and the greatest exponent of democracy since Jefferson that is, they will say those things for public consumption, while in their closets they will grind their teeth in rage and chagrin at the monumental blunders made by the professor from Princeton. Second in importance to the fight for the presidency will be the effort made by the Republicans to win over the control of the Senate—it being generally conceded that they will be able to control the House. In order to capture the upper house, it will be necessary for the Republicans not only to hold on to what they have but secure a number of other former Republican and doubtful states, including Maryland. This will be an exceedingly hard job, and if it is accomplished it will show even more than a defeat of Wilson that the people are thoroughly disgusted with the present administration of affairs. As usual, the fight will be started in Malne—the political barometer—and the Republicans will send there some of the biggest drawing cards in the country, including, possibly a three-ring affair, with Hughes, Taft and Roosevelt as the main performers. A big effort will be made in Maryland to elect Dr. Joseph I. France to the Senate. Local Republicans believe that the split in the democratic ranks here will insure his election if all of the factions of the G. O. P. can be brought together. Whether this can be done will depend largely upon the management of the campaign here. As usual, there are sore spots to be healed, and if the proper salve is applied (not graft) a united party will face the disorganized democratic forces in November. Colored Voters Silent Unlike former campaigns, the "Colored Brother" has not yet "signed." Failure of the local party leaders to consider him at the recent State Convention has somewhat peeved the faithful and some have accused the Stone faction of the France campaign of framing up the slate that recognized them NOT. A mass meeting, held at Pythian Hall on Thursday night when the candidacy of Mr. Hughes was endorsed and the local party leaders scored because the colored voters were not recognized at the recent State Convention, shows the trend of thought of a large number of the colored voters throughout the State. As one party leader put it: "Dr. France will have to assure us that he had no part in the plan to ignore the colored voter before we will take off our coats and go to work for him. We are certainly tired of this 'signing and jining' without the same consideration that is given to other voting units, and unless a different plan of procedure is followed, well—" and there he gave a significant smile, shrugged his shoulders and went into the meeting" That Maryland is not as strongly democratic as the registration figures would indicate was demonstrated at the recent gubernatorial election when Harrington was elected over Weller by a majority of less than five thousand. If, approximately, the vote is polled by Dr. France as was polled by Weller, it is believed by political forecasters that the defection among Democrats caused by the fight between the State and city factions will be sufficient to pull Dr. France through with a safe majority. In order to do this, however, it will be necessary for Dr. France to poll practically the solid colored vote in the State. Thus it can be seen that the colored vote in the present campaign will be the "balance of power" which places them in a position to MRS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON President of the National Association of Colored Women make demands for recognition upon the Republican organization that cannot be ignored without jeopardizing their chances for success. Wets and Drys to Fight. As if the presidential, senatorial and congressional fights were not enough to engage the attention of any same person. Maryland will also decide whether the sale of spirituous liquors shall be allowed in various voting units. To booze or not to booze, that is the question. The drys and wets have already begun their campaigns and the fur will fly thick and fast from now on. Subjects as "Drink Beer and Dice." Whisky vs. Hamburg Steak." "Which would you Rather do or take a Drink?" "Does the Use of Alcohol Harm the Stomach. No. Yes," and various kindred topics will be sent out by the hundreds of thousands in an educational effort to convert the voter to one side or the other. Whether Wilson or Hughes wins, whether Dr. France goes to the Senate or goes to Tome Institute: whether booze is given a blow that knocks it entirely out of Maryland, or the drys are told if they want to get the State dry to pitch in and help to drink it all up, the voter will have the time of his life from now until the votes are cast in November, while the candidates will perspire and swatter these hot days trying to answer the thousand and one "whys and wherefores." EIGHT REASONS WHY THEY DIE IN ATLANTA Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3—Clitink the fact that in the reply of Jesus to John as to the proof of His Messiahship, the Master referred to five things in the realm of the physical and to only one in that the spiritual, Dr. H. H. Proctor, before an audience in which there were doctors, nurses, insurance agents at the First Congregational Church, last Sunday night, deduced the principle that Christ was interested in the abnormal death rate of the colored people of Atlanta and made a plea to his people to cut it down. "Twenty per cent of the 80,000 Negroes of Atlanta die annually, against the 11 per cent of the 120,000 whites. Tuberculosis, pneumonia and children's diseases are responsible for this abnormal mortality. It is estimated that this costs the city over $2,000,000 a year. It is well known that there is a close relation between disease and crime, and it is clear that the improvement of the health of the race would reduce its criminal record. Besides, this hangs a body of death about the neck of the city in view of the fact that colored people in their varied occupations are found in every part of the city. The back alley is joined to the leading residential street by a human tie. "Of the contributing causes I name eight: 1. unsanitary streets in colored localities; 2. congested residential sections; 3. defective housing conditions; 4. absence of recreation centres; 5. failure to enforce the law against the colored red-light district; 6. inadequate hospital facilities; 8; impractical type of church site. "The remedy for this whole situation lies in the expansion of the Atlanta spirit to the colored people and its acceptance by them; the cultivation of a more practical type of church life resulting in sobriety, home owning, business enterprise and higher living; the encouragement of the movement of cooperation between the races, and the development of the spirit of mutual helpfulness within the race, each feeling that he is his brother's keeper. Field Headquarters. Mexico—Mimic battles and rescues under fire were features of a pageant with which the Tenth Cavalry, famous in battles against the Indians, Spaninrds, Filipinos and Mexicans, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its formation BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916 FRIEND'S JEALOUSY HER UNDOING Fails to Speak to Her Former Playmate Who Then Tells Police She is Colored ARRESTED, GIRL DENIES Later She Admits She Passed For White For The Fun Of Doing So. Love of adventure and the jealousy of a boyhood friend proved the undoing of pretty Pearl Wilson, who was arrested on the technical charge of disorderly conduct on Monday evening. The arrest was made by a patrolman from the Central District upon information by Guy Collins, that the girl though colored, was residing at 164 Front street, an altogether white neighborhood. When first taken into custody, Miss Wilson stoutly denied that she was colored, but afterwards admitted that she had lived all her life among her own people and had only passed for white for the fun of it. According to a statement of Mrs. Lillian Johnson, 912 Park avenue, to a representative of the Afro-American, her sister, Pearl, is a brunette with straight dark hair, and could easily be taken for a member of the other race did she so desire. Up until last Monday, so far as she knew, no attempt had ever been made. Monday, Miss Pearl was told by a friend, Edith Ketner, also colored, that she knew a fellow who could get them positions in the ten cent store on Lexington street, but that to hold the jobs successfully they would have to take rooms among white people. Pearl, who is only nineteen, was frightened at the prospect for a time, but Edith was persistent, so that she finally consented, and Edith together with ...... the "friend" who was to get them positions, helped her in removing her effects to the Front street house, where a room was engaged. Unfortunately, they walked instead of riding, and on the way passed Guy Collins, longtime neighbor and friend of Pearl, when they were in Crisfield. Md., where the highly respected parents of both now reside. Peeved because his former paymate failed to speak to him, and jealous on account of her company, Collins followed the three to the house and then told the patrolman that he was certain the girls were colored. Afterwards ashamed of what he had done, Collins came to the house while the patrolman was questioning the girls, and said that he had sent the patrolman to the wrong house. The girls' behavior gave them away, however, and charges were preferred against her. Mrs. Johnson flatly denied that her sister had ever lived among white man. "Father is brother of the late Taylor O. Wilson, who was killed in an auto accident two weeks ago, and everyone in Crisfield knows that we are colored," she told the reporter. Mrs. Johnson also denied that her sister and ever lived among white people before or had any intention of remaining permanently among them. "She has only been in Baltimore two years and during this time she has lived either with us or with our aunt at 1430 Mosher street. The charge of disorderly conduct against the girl was dismissed, and instead she was charged with a violation of the segregation ordinance, since Front street is an altogether white block. She was released on $100 for the action of the Grand Jury. A well known lawyer commenting on the case gives his opinion that the State's Attorney ought to dismiss the case. "Granting the segregation ordinance to be valid," he said, "the residence of Miss Wilson was only contracted for and not actual." THE APOTHEOSIS OF J. C. Annapolis. Md., Aug. 3—What may be regarded as the apotheosis of Jim Crow is the Mascot moving picture theatre here, which has made provision for colored patrons up-stairs over the main auditorium in a room that is altogether separate. As soon as reels are run off below, they are sent upstairs to a smaller room where they are placed in another machine and shown the second time. A side entrance is provided so that the two races are as separate as if they were in different theatres. OFFERED MANAGERSHIP Philadelphia. Pa.. July 31—Mr. J. H. Murphy, of Baltimore, editor of the Afro-American, was in the city Thursday evening of last week and again today. It is stated that Mr. Murphy came here at the request of the Board of Managers of the A. M. E. Book Concern, and that the management of the Book Concern and the Christian Recorder had been offered to him. It is not known whether he will accept the position or not. MANY DELEGATES ALREADY HERE National Association of Colored Women's Clubs Begins Sessions Here Monday. PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK Interesting Discussions by National Characters to be The Features. Hundreds of delegates to the Tenth Biennial Convention of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs have already arrived in the city for the sessions that are to begin in Bethel Church at 10 o'clock Monday morning. When Mrs. Booker T. Washington's gavel announces the formal opening, five hundred women from all parts of the country are expected to be in their places. Altho the convention does not open really until Monday, prominent delegates to the sessions are expected to fill the pulpits in the various churches tomorrow morning, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, a mass meeting at Bethel Church will bring them all together. Mayor Preston has promised to deliver the keys of the city to the delegates at the ten o'clock opening on Monday morning. Mrs. Mary F. Handy will extend the welcome of the Maryland Federation; Mrs. Jennie Ross of the citizens, and Rev. R. W. S. Thomas of the ministers. Mrs. Booker T. Washington will make the response. A choir of one hundred under the direction of Helen C. Deon will furnish the music. At 1.30 p.m., the committees will be appointed and the general officers will make their reports. In the afternoon at three o'clock, the pageant "The Vindication of Negro Womanhood."—a synopsis of which appeared in last week's issue of the Afro-American—will be staged at Oriole Park, and at the night meeting the special features will be the address of the president, Mrs. Washington, and a discussion of "Social Community Work Among Our Women" by Mrs. Lena Harris, Johnstown, Pa.; Mrs. Certrude Ball, Lexington, Mo.; Mrs. D. R. Woodland, Austin, Texas, and Mrs. Mary Bethune of Daytona, Florida. Reports of the presidents of the State organizations are expected to occupy the convention Tuesday morning and a discussion of possibilities, value and improvement of club work the afternoon. The work among girls will be the topic of the night meeting and Mrs. Lillian Anderson Bagnall, of Detroit, will discuss some "Mistaken Values of this activity. Reports of national uplift organizations such as the League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, by Miss E. A. Janot; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, by Mrs. Butter Wilson; Young Women's Christian Association by Mrs. Eva Bowles, New York; and the Women's Christian Temperance Union, followed by a discussion of "Unfortunate Women." Wednesday morning, and a symposium on the topic "Negro Womanhood" in the evening, are the salient points in the mid-week program. Mrs. W. T. Johnson, of Richmond, Va.; Mrs D. H. Butler, Jackson, Miss.; Mrs Maud B Cotton, Anderson, N. C.; Mrs Edna Reid, Baltimore; and Mrs. C. J. Walker, Indianapolis, Ind., the last named discussing the Negro woman in business, with stereopticon slides. Thursday, the last day of the sesition, will be taken up with the election of officers in the morning, papers and reports on Child Welfare in the afternoon, and at night a symposium on Woman Suffrage by Miss M. E. Jackson, Mrs Alice Dunbar Nelson, of Wilmington, Del.; Mrs H. Q. Brown, of Wilberforce, Ohio, and Mrs. Henrietta Harper, Wichita, Kansas. A reception to the delegates will mark the close of the convention. Throughout the week sessions will be held in Bethel Church, Druid Hill avenue and Lanvale streets, three times per day: mornings at 8.30, after noons at 1.30 and evenings at 8.00 o'clock. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFES Norfolk, Va.—Old Norfolk Mission College, established 33 years ago by the Presbyterian church, has closed its doors. The course comprised primary, grammar and high school departments. St. Paul, Minn.—Father S. L. Theobald of St. Peter's Catholic Church, was adopted as a son by wealthy Mrs. Mary E. Fallie, white, who is a widow of 61 and no children. Father Theobald is 40. Nashville, Tenn.—Hon. J. C. Napier, Mayor Robert owing, Major Moton, of Tuskegee and Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones were the prominent speakers at the 13th annual convention of the National Convention of Colored Teachers, meeting on the Fiske University grounds. MUST HOLD MONEY OR BE LEFT HOME The Pennsylvania avenue and Laurens street corner of the Lafayette Market which usury has its Saturday night thrills in the shape of takirs who offer jewelry and ornaments at fabulously cheap prices, was treated to something altogether new in a religious meeting conducted by the Reverend R. E. Redden and Brother Smith last Saturday night. The Reverend preached anew hymns alternately, while Brother Smith collected the money, and the two of them formed the centre of a crowd, for more than two hours. At the end of this time, after the latter had showed himself especially active in the collection of ninety-six cents or more in order to make the money "even" total receipts were announced as four dollars, and another sermon ended the meeting. Reverend Redden preached in a cap and gown and told his hearers that he came from a First Baptist Church somewhere on Spring street. The collections are to be used for the benefit of the church. He advised them to come to him if they wanted anything done, for he had preached 58 funerals, married 25 couples and christened or blest more than 35 infants during the past year. He guaranteed anyone to marry them as tight as they needed to be, although he could not guarantee that they would remain tight, and admitted as he had never been married, he did not know how it would be after he had tied them. Frequent "amens" from the "congregation" attested the potency of Rev. Redden's words, and when the collection was called for, a number of persons responded with alacrity. The fact that Brother Smith frequently lost the money put into his hands, appeared the only thing that gave him grave concern. Finally the Reverend's patience was low: "You deconns are always dropping something; can't hold money in your hands. If you can't do any better than that, next time I am going to leave you home. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Louisville, Ky.—Montgomery, Ala. at first refused colored mechanics sent by the Louisville Gas Company to repair wires after a wash-out. Later when work was finished sent them each a letter of thanks and bonus. New York—Ex-Justice Hughes in his speech of acceptance of the Republican nomination, made no reference to his attitude on the urgent questions of lynching and segregation. Jersey City, N. J.—Pastor A. L. Murray of Bethel A M. E Church, was completely exonerated from the charge of grand farceny and receiving stolen goods in the First Criminal Court. Elizabeth, N. J.—One hundred and fifty men from the South have arrived here to work in the sewing machine factory of Singer Co., and 22 more are expected before fall. Philadelphia, Pa.—The Baptist Ministers Conference in session here proposes to borrow $10,000,000 from U. S. banks to promote Negro institutions and advance the race. Property of the conference churches will be given as security. Hillburn, N. Y.—Rev. Byron Gunner urges that a race convention be called within sixty days, at some central place, to consider the racial condition. COLONIAL Entaw Street near Saratoga Week beginning Aug. 7th Quality Amusement Corp. PRESENTS THE THIRD DEGREE BY CHARLES KLEIN A Stirring Drama in Four Acts One Solid Year at Hudson Theatre, New York The greatest play Mr. Klein ever wrote depicting the methods of police departments in obtaining confessions. Matinees Thursday & Saturday Best Seats 25 Cents Night Prices 15, 25, 35 & 50c. SUMMER RATES THREE MONTHS 30 CENTS PRICE THREE CENTS EIGHTH REGIMENT HAS ITS TROUBLES Big and Little Woes Fill Out The Days For The Colored Troopers SHOT DOWN BY TOUGHS Band Shot To Pieces By The Medical Board Yet Plays Some Harmony. Camp Wilson, Fort Sam Houston, Tex., August 1—Chicago's colored regiment, the Eighth Illinois, has run into all kinds of trouble since it left the "Windy City" for the front. A policeman was accidently killed in the mobilization camp at Springfield, and the Eighth was blamed for it, although the colored troopers had no part in it. When the regiment struck San Antonio, the real troubles began. Here they were face to face with deep Southern prejudice. Colonel Denns- son had reason to feel proud of his 1400 guardsmen, for they showed themselves not only good soldiers but real men. In Chicago no distinction was made between themselves and the whites. They were permitted to ride in the same cars, patronize the same theatres and shop in the same stores. In Texas it is different. The jitney drivers stop for the Mexicans and pass the colored soldiers by. Naturally the Eighth does not relish being classed in the social scale below the Mexicans especially since they came to the border for the purpose of preventing these same Mexicans from shooting across the border into the U. S. territory and murdering innocent women and children. When a large frame building was erected on the edge of the camp for the Y. M. C. A., colored troopers were told they could not use it, even the several of them had membership cards. Col. Dennison immediately told the authorities that he would not vouch for the safety of the building if his boys got hold of it, so they built a Jim crow for the Eighth behind their own quarters. Many of the men are having nothing to do with it. Even a soldier's patience can be exhausted. When white guardsmens and Texans reviled three Negroes last week, they resented it and an argument ensued. They started for the bunch of toughs and would have done things to them although outnumbered had they not been shot down from behind. The three soldiers got the worst of the affair and newspapers said that the men were shot by a provost guard, which was not so. Even the band sergeant has had his difficulties, due to the fact that the Eighth Band was all shot to pieces by the medical examining board before they left the mobilization camp. This is the way the band sergeant explains it: "That gang of doctors did not do a thing to my band. They put the slide trombone out because it was an inch too short, and the French tuba had flat feet, the doctors said, and the bass drum had something the matter with its eyes, and the piccolo had a cough. But we have got a new trombone and a tuba, and the piccolo sent a hurry telegram for money to start right down here as soon as it gets it. Meanwhile we can make some harmony vet." And that band does make some harmony. When the sun gets low in the West, and the evening gust whirls tiny eddies in the hot yellow sand, the Eighth band sits up in the regimental parade and plays, and not only does every soldier in the concentration sit down and listen in silence, but every scorpion, rattler and small for miles around edges in to catch that joyous music, and the horned toad does the one-step with the lizard and the coyote buys drinks for the jackrabbit. BIG-WATER CARNIVAL August 11 at Brown's Grove A real demonstration "At Home in the Water" The colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. will hold its annual outing at Brown's Grove, Aug. 11 at which time there will be featured a water carnival, the first of its kind ever held at the Grove. The water front about the Grove is ideal and much interest is being manifested by local swimmers. The carnival will open with a demonstration of the various strokes used in swimming, showing how easy it is to be "At Home in the Water." The special events are: 1 mile, 440 yards, 100 yards, 50 yards, 50 yards on back, a live duck race, and under water swim. The events are open to all swimmers. providing they are physically fit to swim. Two boats down, 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. sharp. This promises to be the greatest day at the grove this season. More than thirty swimmers will answer the call of Sec'y Booker. For further information call Madison 1120. Some Men I Have Known I first knew Arthur M. Townsend down in Winchester, Tenn., when we both were pupils of the best school in the world, the little old dilapidated building just on the bluff above Boiling Fork Creek, where merry boys and winnome girls come day in and day out and sat at the feet of the best and most consecrated teacher the Negro race has ever known. Arthur Townsend was indeed a lucky fellow; twice more fortunate than any of the other boys that went to this dear old school house, for the dear old teacher that we all loved in those days and still love, was his father. Rev. D. A. Townsend, his father and the father-teacher of all of us, was one of the most celebrated teachers of that day. He is yet, for indeed we of today see so much of inefficiency. M. ey and incompetence in the high school and normal graduates that now confront us on every corner, know how well he taught us the rudiments of education and that he really knew how to teach. Old Man Dock," we called him, and "Old Man Dock" he is today to all of us. He knows that it is no appellation of disrespect but the familiar love term of boys and girls—now men and women who love him and reverse him. Arthur Townsend was indeed a "chip off the old block." He was a brilliant chap, always affable and kind, and about the only things we had against him were that he would not smoke and chew like the rest of us, and sehom got into mischief. I never knew him to be in a fight, and if he did any flirting, he was sly enough about it to keep it away from the rest of us. There were a plenty of the hassles who would cast anxious eyes at him, for he was handsome, but he just did not seem to have that kind of sense. I would take it that Dr. Townsend is about forty. Having received his rudimentary training under the tutelage of his father at Winchester, he went to Roger Williams University, in Nashville, where he graduated with honors in 1898. He stood at all times at the head of his class and finished his course with honors. He was frequently honored by the students during his college days and held various positions among them. In connection with his work at college, he was director of music in the high school at Lebanon, not far from Nashville. In 1899 he entered Meharry Medical College, from which institution four years later he finished the course with class honors. Upon his graduation he was immediately appointed to the chair of Pathology and Materia Medica and carried on this work in connection with the practice of his profession in medicine. In many ways, Dr. Townsend may he regarded as a "reconstructionist." He began the practice of medicine in East Nashville, where there had never been a Negro physician, and where few people had confidence in a Negro physician to call one. He stuck to his bush however, and made a tremendous success in that community. He did the same thing with a drug store, and has really made a success out of everything he has touched. Not everything has been made especially pleasant for him. He has had to win his spurs through various vicissitudes, but no one has ever heard him complain. After all, life to the average Negro who would succeed is a complex problem. It may not be different in Negro circles than with other people, but I have my beliefs about it. I really do think that with us, there is more work to be done to accomplish a given end, more trying situations to encounter before one encompasses success, and then the success is comparable only by reason of the difference and the meagreness of opportunities one has before him. Arthur Townsend has succeeded admirably. Indeed his life at this early age would be a tremendous success were he a white man, and had he had all kinds of opportunities before him. It is not given to many men to graduate from one institution and then within fifteen years have the task of rebuilding that institution at its head. The re-establishment of Roger Williams University, whose work was so rudely terminated by a disastrous fire in 1905, during which time the support of one of the Northern societies what an institution, once financed by been withdrawn, was put squarely up to the Negroes of Tennessee. They accomplished the task in two years and later called to the head of the institution, Dr. Townsend, a man of business and of profession, a layman, who had so stamped his usefulness upon the hearts and hands of the people of the State that no other man was thought of very seriously. That peculiar ability towards reconstruction hinted at elsewhere in this article manifested itself here with distinct advantage to the Negroes of Tennessee and the whole south, for within eight years, Dr. Townsend at the lead has brought to the people of the South a new oger Williams University greater and more magnificent than the old and quite capable or continuing the good work tait has made the old school, famous. He gave up a lucrative practice and the position as cashier of the People's Savings Bank and Trust Company in Nashville, to become president of Roger Williams University. Having been in close relationship with the institution since its destruction by fire in 1905 and its reorganization in 1908 he knew well the conditions of the school and the responsibility he would assume in taking up this work of reconstruction. If he wavered over the matter at all, I imagine Dr. Townsend came to the conclusion that some one would have to make the sacrifice to rebuild Roger Williams University and that it might as well be he as anyone else. He knew what he was going up against. He knew the doubts that would arise on every hand. He knew that an institution, once financed by white people from the North would have to undergo to get support from an untrained and poverty stricken race of people in the South, but if he wavered, he wavered in the secret of his own chamber. He always presented an optimistic front to the public, and one presumes that he took frequent counsel with his God. He is both a pulpit and platform orator of no mean ability—in fact he takes rank among the foremost orators of the day. Dr. Townsend is only about, forty and his future is all before him. He is to be commended for the friends he has made, for the alliances he has made. No friend, no alliance has stood him in better stead than his wife and his marriage. He married Miss Willa A. Hadley in 1002 and she has made a true helpmeet to him in all of these years. Like all successful men, he is not at all niggard in giving to Mrs. Townsend her due meed of praise and credit. Mr. George L. Russell is spending the summer at Buena Vista, Pa. 18 OPERATIONS AT PROVIDENT The average number of patients occupying beds at Provident Hospital Biddle street near McCulloh, was 12 patients per day for the last 6 months according to Dr. Harry F. Brown, the superintendent. And the remarkable thing is that from this large number only one death has been recorded at the hospital. Among those who have undergone successful operations at the hospital are the following: Mesdames Alice Taylor, Veronica Gassaway, James Young, Emily Finks Wyatt, Agnes Sibley, Daisy Weaver, Ellen Tuggle, Messrs. Cornelius Weeks, Basil Gray, Misses Blanche Bowley, Viola Parker, Ida Hardy, Rebecca Smith, Virginia Jackson and Masters Charles Taylor, Leroy, Raymond Allen and Hermit Wortham. MORRIS CALLS CONVENTION. President of National Baptist Organization Issues Pointed Statement. The call for the annual meeting of the national Baptist convention, of which the Rev. Ellas C. Morris is president, has been formulated, signed and issued by the Rev. Mr. Morris and Professor R. B. Hudson, secretary of the convention. It says: In compliance with the action taken by the national Baptist convention at its session held at Chicago in September, 1955 and an order by the executive board of that convention held at Memphis, Tennessee, June 15-16 last, we hereby call the said convention to convene in its thirty-sixth anniversary meeting in the city of Savannah, Ga., Sept. 6 to 12. In view of the many rumors which have been circulated to the effect that there has been a split in the national Baptist convention and that there is another national Baptist convention (which rumor we deny), it is specifically urged that every Negro Baptist church in the United States which belongs to the Baptist church in maintaining one great national convention of Baptists be represented at the Savannah meeting. It is not expected that every one of the 20,000 churches will send a messenger, but those who cannot send a messenger can send a letter, thereby letting the world know where they stand in respect to truth and rightness. Under the constitution there are three classes of membership—wizards, representatives and any regular Baptist church may be represented upon the payment of $5. Any Baptist in good standing may become an annual member upon the payment of $25. Any Baptist in good standing may become a life member upon the payment of $20. By order of the executive board. B. C. MORRIS. President. R. B. HUDSON. Secretary. A. B. Grand Keeper of Records and Seals of Grand Lodge, K. P. THE AFRO-AMERICAN CHARLOTTE HALL JOTTINGS Charlotte, MD., 9ug. 3. The Southern Maryland Union Conference was held at St. Mary's P. E. Church last Wednesday and was quite a success. The attendance of ministers and laymen was large. The community picnic and flag drill of last Saturday was largely attended. Sister Mary, of the O. S. P. of Leavenworth Kann, has returned home after a visit to her mother and sister, Mrs. Louisa Butler and Mrs. Mary Mack. Miss Ella Barnes, of Orville, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Birdie Briscoe. Mr. Robert Briscoe is visiting friends in Baltimore. Mr. Samuel Penn was buried last Sunday. Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Pannell, of Washington is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Butler. SOCIAL ELECTS OFFICERS The Pea Fowl Social has reorganized by electing the following officers: Edward Simms, prested; William Porter, vice president; Robert Shields recording secretary; Thomas H. Smith financial secretary; Edward Sutchell, treasurer; Owen talkes, marshal; Charles Hunt, chapplain; Frank Johnson, Hayfield Wright and Boyd Sheffey, executive committee. * SHILOH HONORS PASTOR Shiloh Baptist Church honored its pastor, the Rev. W. W. Allen with a happy vacation reception at the church on Monday evening of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Griffin, of 1061 Argyle avenue, left the city this week for a visit to their son, Rev. W. E. Griffin, of Philadelphia, and from there they will go to spend their vacation in Atlantic City. Rev and Mrs. C. H. Young, Jr., of St James, Hudson avenue, Cleveland, will spend three weeks in August with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Young, of McCulloh street. Mrs. Young comes as a delegate of the Cleveland Thurman W. C. T. U. to the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HOLD ANNIVERSARY SERVICES 9th anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Fairfield A. A. Co. Md.. was held July 23rd and 30th, 1916. We thank our many friends for their liberal contributions and presence. Our church is now free of debt. Rev. J. Widgeon, Pastor Sis. Lucy Jones $10.02 Lucy Johnson 7.43 Mattie Carson 5.15 Dobbins 2.03 Bates 2.00 Edith Coates 1.60 Bessie Powell 1.55 Lucy Palmer 1.38 Mary Nealy 1.36 Eva Barnes 1.17 M. Mamo 1.16 Mary Rippley 1.00 Bertha Ware 1.00 Annie Belle Gray 86 Lottie Mosely 80 Odell Jeffries 75 Susan Jones 73 Mary Herring 65 Sallie Goodwin 64 Lula DeHields 55 Robenia Patterson 59 Agnes Lyltle 51 Viola Manns 50 Martha Manns 50 Laura Brooks 29 Julia Watki s 36 Mary Hubbard 34 Grace Holmes 30 Hebecca Jennings 30 Mary Brown 25 Hulbrook 25 J. B. Scott 25 Annie M. Holmes 21 James Norman 15 Rev. T. R. Rugh 2.00 J. Widgeon 40 J. D. Goodwin 40 Bro J. A. Litaker 1.82 William Anderson 1.26 Benjamin Green 1.15 J. H. Gillespie 1.05 William Gray 1.00 Thomas Williams 1.00 Major Jones 1.00 R. Robertson 1.00 Herman Johnson 1.00 Richard Brown 1.00 Joseh Ware 1.00 Frank T. Ware 66 Stokes Palmer 46 George Thomas 45 Henry Dyson 40 Nathaniel Wicks 25 Robert McGoings 25 John H. Jeffries 26 John Willis 62 J. W. Nealy 25 James Strickning 25 Frank Gust 25 John Moore 25 Johnnin 25 Ga. Joessie 25 William Gray 25 John Green 25 6 37 FIELD WORK FOR HAMPTON. Value of Associated Effort Emphasized In Secretary Frissell's Report. In his report on the value of associated effort in behalf of the Hampton (Va.) institute, recently made, Sydney Dodd Frissell, field secretary of the school and executive secretary of the National Hampton association, advocated the organization of several new associations. "The older organizations of Hampton," says Mr. Frissell, "are doing thorough work, but there is room for more associations, because the field is large and there are many who would be glad of the opportunity to work in Hampton's interest." Mr. Frissel suggested that new associations be formed in Richmond, Va. Pittsburgh, New London and Hartford, Conn., and at Syracuse, N. Y. Hampton graduates or former students are to be found throughout the country. They are among the successful leaders in business and the various professions. SUMMER RESORTS LOANS NEGOTIATED on Secured notes and Second mortgages or interest in estate. Moderate charges. 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AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE EXECUTIVE MEDICINE, CO., Atlanta, Ga. Raleigh, N. C. For Colored Young Men and Women UNDER THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Collegiate Normal Industrial TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES For Catalog Address Rev. Edgar H. Gool Raleigh, N. C. . Notes From Our Correspondents.. HARPERS FERRY HAPPENINGS Harpers Ferry, Md., Aug. 3—Geo. Weaver, the son of Mr. James Weaver, was taken suddely ill Tuesday evening. The ladies of Metropolitan Church gave a lawn fete Friday evening last at the home of Mrs. S. Brown. The sum of $10.00 was realized to pay on the parsonage debt. Mrs. Annie Thomas is improving after a long illness. The True Reformers held their district convention last Friday at Charles town, W. Va. Quite a number attended from here. A number of Baltimoreans are here at the Mountain View House. FREDERICK HAPPENINGS Frederick, Md., Aug. 3—Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Cumberland are the guests of Mrs. Brown's mother, Mrs. Susan Bently. Mr. James Bently, and old and respected citizen of this city, was struck by the cars on this way to work on Thursday morning. He died later at the hospital. Funeral services were held on Saturday at Asbury Church, Revs. J. W. Townes and W. A. English, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, of Macon, Ga., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ellijah Davis. Master Adrien Makel has returned from a delightful trip to Reading, Pa. Mr. William Pleasant, of Parkersburg, is the guest of his grandmother Mrs. Ellen Pleasant. Mr. William Jenkins is spending some time in Baltimore. Mr. Richard Neal, father of Mrs. Joseph G. Bryant died at the parsonage on Thursday of last week. Brief services were held on Friday afternoon after which the remains were taken to Baltimore where funeral services were held. HAVRE DE GRACE HAPPENINGS Have de Grace, Md., Aug. 3—on Sunday morning at St. James A. M. E. Church. Bishop John Hurst, of Baltimore preached an interesting sermon. In the afternoon, Rev. W. M. Ivy preached. The second quarterly conference was held on Monday night. Mrs. Ella James was elected delegate to the Sunday School convention to be held at Quaker Bottom. Miss Margaret Flugh has returned after spending some time with her parents. Manley Chapel is prospering under the leadership of Rev. S. I. Mills. Mrs. Annie Mills was president of the concert which was given last week. A very large crowd attended the Tom Thumb wedding. Mrs. Alverta Holiday, of the A. M. E. Church rendered able assistance. Miss May Johnson has returned to Philadelphia, after spending a week with Mrs. Sadie Osborne. Mrs. Mary Wise has returned from Cornwall, Pa. Mr. Horace Skinner was the week-end guest of Mrs. Julia Hackett, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Bessie Brown and daughter, of Catonsville, were the week-end guests of Mrs. Olivia Stewart. FASTON HAPPENINGS Easton, Md., Aug. 3—Rev. J. S. Collins preached a fine sermon Sunday morning and night at Bethel A. M. E Church. $50.00 was realized at the rally held at the same church. Mrs. Mary Downs was taken ill on Saturday night at the residence of Mrs. Eddie Bray, and could not be moved until Saturday night, when she was carried to the Emergency Hospital, where she is improving. Her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Downs, of Cardova, came to her bedside Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Collins, of Pennsylvania, are in town to attend to some business concerning the estate of his sister, Mrs. Mary Thomas, who died some time ago. Mr. and Mrs. E. Elliott, of Baltimore, were in town Sunday. Mrs. Isane Queen, of Oxford, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Holland, of Bozeman, Md., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johns and Mrs. Charles Harris. Mr. George Gibson, who was taken ill last week is improving. Miss Vivian Harris is in the Emergency Hospital, suffering from the typhoid fever. Mrs. Josephine Gibson, who has been at Betterton, has returned home on account of the illness of her husband. Miss Ethel Ralsin is in town visiting friends. Miss Nina Gibson is home on account of illness. Mrs. Kate Murry has returned, home from St. Michaels. Mrs. Sallie Dobson, of Hanson St., is much improved after a serious illness. Mr. Leon Douglass is home from Wilmington. Mrs. J. S. Collins is out of town on business. TOWSON HAPPENINGS Towson, d.. Aug. 3—The Colored Dry League, of Towson will meet on Monday evening at Mt. Calvary A.M. E. Church. Able speakers from Baltimore will address the meeting. at Trinity, P. E. Rev. W. H. Pewau Church, Sunday evening Church, Calvary, Church. John M. Taylor, who murdered Mrs. Lucy Myers at, Cockesville in April was hanged at the Towson jail Saturday. Rev. Arthur Randall was his spiritual advisor and went with him upon the gallows. upon Mrs. Elizabeth Hitchinson, of Luth victim last week. de Grace, are visiting their mother, of Lenox avenue. Mrs. Margaret Saunders and children who have been spending a while with Mrs. Thomas Young have returned to their home in Baltimore. The union service that was held between St. James A. U. M. P. Church and the People's Church, of Baltimore last Sunday, was well attended. At the evening service, Rev. C. E. Brown preached an interesting sermon. Mr. Lewis Davis, of Chesapeake avenue, had a very narrow escape from deat last Thursday evening by being thrown from a wagon the horse he was driving becoming frightened and running away. Mrs. Sarah Davis had a very serious accident last Wednesday evening by falling from the school house step and breaking out one of her front teeth. Rev S. C. Blackedge, pastor of St. John's. A. U. M. P. Church, Ruxton, paid Poster Edwards a visit Thursday evening. POCOMOKE HAPPENINGS Pocomoke City, Md., Aug. 3—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Waters and family, of Snow Hill spent Sunday here and were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gillette. Rev. Slias Sturgis filled the pulpit and delivered a strong sermon to a large congregation at St. John's A. M. E. Church last Sunday. Rev. J. W. Bond and family motored to Marion Station where he delivered a sermon for Rev. J. H. Nutter, the pastor at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Tindley Dix, of Philadelphia, are spending their vacation here with Mr. and Mrs. Addison Dix. Mr. and Mrs. Noan Gunby were accompanied by Messre James Wharton and Issac Fields on a trip to Hortonville, Va. Sunday, where they heard a sermon by Rev. A. L. Martin, of Atlantic City. Mr. Edward Johnson has recovered from a recent illness. Miss Georgia Thompson and Mr. William H. Harmon, of Virginia, were married at the A. M. E. parsonage Miss Edna Sturgis and Mr. Joseph Turner were quietly married at the home of the bride's parents Wednesday evening. Miss Amelia Addison, of Chester, Pa., are visiting Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Addison. Mr Charles S. Coston has invented a device for gas engines to minimize the quantity of gasoline consumption. Rev. E. T. Addison, Silas Sturgis and William Hughes are attending the District Conference and S. S. Convention in Centreville this week. A large crowd attended the moving picture entertainment and lawn party at St. John's Church Monday. Miss Laura Dickerson, of Camden, is visiting her mother Mrs. Henrietta Dickerson in Somerset County. Mrs. Esther Coston has recovered from a recent nervous breakdown. CRISFIEDR HAPPENINGS Crisfield Md. Aug. 3—Sunday was quarterly meeting day at Shiloh M. E. Church. Brother Joseph Brittingham, a local preacher, of Union M. E. Church, filled the pulpit in the tentend. Dr. W. J. L. House preached at night. The 36th anniversary of the church will begin on August 6 in Clear Grove Park and will close September 7th. Rev. Nutter, of the Marion Station charge will preach Mrs. John S. Collins, of Easton, is visiting relatives and friends in town. Mr. John L. Sterling visited Oxford Saturday to visit his sick brother. Mrs. Maggie Matthews, of Baltimore, who was called home a few days ago to attend the funeral of her uncle, has returned to her residence in Baltimore. I have acquired a thorough knowledge of the hair work and am now prepared to demonstrate all phases of the work. My charges are reasonable and I will guarantee satisfaction in every particular pertaining to the work. Your patronage solicited. Miss Nellie Wilson, 817 Main street. Mme. M. A. Hunter, of Baltimore, who came here in the interest of Miss Nellie Wilson, a recent graduate of her school, has returned to Baltimore. SYKESVILLE HAPPENINGS Sykesville, Md. Aug. 3—Mr. Wm. Brady visited Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Costley last Sunday. Mr. Race Collins, Miss Elsie Collins, Miss Bertha Collins and Mr. Leroy Neugent were here last week. Mr. Franklin Cosnell visited Mr. Sylvester Norris, of Randallstown, on last Sunday. The second quarterly conference was very largely attended. Owing to the illness of Dr. Hays, he was not able to be present. The reports showed that every department of the church was in a good financial condition. A splendid dinner was served by the Ladies Aid of Johnville. Maryland Hospital suffering from an attack of typhoid fever. SNOW HILL HAPPENINGS Snow Hill, Md., Aug. 3—Mrs. Martha Jenkins, of Philadelphia, is visiting friends here for a few days. Mrs. Florence Tull, of Philadelphia, is home for the summer. Mr. Charles Walters, of Pocomoke City spent a few days here last week with his wife, Mrs. Ola Waters. The Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday school and the M. E. Sunday School will give a union bay party this year at Public Landing, August 9th. Mrs. Nice Bowen died Friday night and was buried Sunday afternoon in the M. E. Cemetery. Rev. Dr. Faust officiated. Mr. Noah, Gunby, of Pocomoke, motored to town last week. motored to town Mrs. Clara Maunel, of Berlin, was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Leah HE AFRO-AMERICAN BERKLEY HAPPENINGS Berkley, Md., Aug. 3—Sunday was Men's Day at Hosanna Church. The collections for the day amounted to $17,83. Quite a number were present from Cedars and assisted in the program. A number of persons from this place attended Woman's Day services at Clark's Chapel and campmeeting at Stewartville and Mt. Zoar. The Sunday School picnic given last Saturday was a great success. Miss Alice Hill of Germantown, is visiting relatives here. Mr. Philip Spriggs, of Philadelphia spent Sunday with relatives here. Messrs. Henry Smith and George Presberry are still on the sick list. CAMBRIDGE NOTES Cambridge, Md., Aug. 3—Comrade Charles H. Hughes died Sunday of last week. The funeral took place from Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. J. A. Young, officiating. Rev. Theodore Henry preached a fine sermon at Bethel Church last Sunday. Rev. Dr. Maloney preached to a crowded house at night. Mrs. Ethel Boggs and sister, of Germantown were summoned home Tuesday by the death of their father at LaPlata. Miss Lillie Henry and brothers, of Atlantic City, are spending the month of August here. Revs. J. A. Young, J. N. Waters, Job Lane, Charles Fedderman, and Miss Viola Boggs are attending the District Conference and S. S. Convention at Centerville. An illustrated lecture was given at Waugh M. E. Church Monday night on Tuberculosis. The lecture, which was given gratuitously, was very instructive and productive of much good. DENTON HAPPENINGS Denton, Md., July 31—The total amount raised at the Trustee's Rally held at Bethel A. M. E. church was $171.45. Mrs. U. G. Leeper and Miss Susan alley, of Harrisburg, Pa., are visitors of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Enaily. Rev. James H. Fitchett preached an interesting sermon Sunday. Mrs. Howard Dickerson has been quite indisposed, but is improving. Despite the very hot weather, the A. C. E. League is very well attended each Sunday evening at Bethel. Mr. William Eanks spoke to the Junior Mites of Ectet Church on last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Bessie Ross and Mrs. Caroline Tilchman are on the sick list. LONGGREEN JOTTINGS Longgreen, Md., Aug. 3—Mr. and Mrs. Simon Brown, of Bradshaw, Md., were here visiting friends last Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Cromwell, of Ealdwin, celebrated her 16th birthday on July 22nd with the members of her family and a few visiting relatives from Baltimore. Mrs. Nellie Winder was the dinner guest of Mrs. Margaret Hawkins on last Sunday. Mrs. Edna Williams and Mrs. Nellie Winder visited Mr. and Mrs Howard Woods last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hampington W. Levere of Warren, Md., paid a brief visit to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Levere, of Philadelphia on last Saturday. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor. Mrs. Laura Hughes is very much indisposed. Miss Susie Robinson, of Mt. Washington will spend the remainder of the summer with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Earnum Robinson, of Summer- DMSY HAPPENINGS Daisy, Md., Aug. 3—Mrs. Elizabeth Washington, who has been visiting her mother, has returned to her home near Woodstock. Mrs. Ida Snowden and Mrs. Hattie Powell were in Baltimore last week. Mr. Raymond Roinson is visiting his brother in Philadelphia. Mrs. Mamie Jackson and Mr. Maynard Ishwood are on the sick list. Mr. Perry Caution, of Catonsville, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Maria Jackson, last Sunday. Mrs. Maggie Hammond is spending a few days in Philadelphia. Mr. Roland Ishwood, of Baltimore is visiting his mother, Mrs. Anna Ishwood. Woman's Day was observed at the Daisy M. E. Church last Sunday. Miss Georgia Snowden was very badly injured last week as the result of falling from a bridge. ANNAPOLIS HAPPENINGS Annapolis, Md., Aug. 3—The funeral of Mr. Wallace Parker was held Sunday at Asbury M. E. Church, Rev. E. S. Williams officiating. Mr. Bates, of Baltimore, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scott Sunday. Mrs. Ellen Boston, who is now stopping at her summer home in Galesville, spent Monday with Miss Kate Butler. Miss Emma Adams, who has been spending the summer with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Adams has left Washington. Mrs. Susie B Scott was entertained Sunday and Monday by Mr. and Mrs. John Hall, of Washington St. Mrs. Georgia Boston has left the city to attend the Galilean Fishermen Convention in Nortok, Va. Mr. William Sharps, one of our young and popular business men is making good in the grocery business. Mrs. Aneati Ridout, of Catonsville, spent a few days here with Mrs. Kalgler. Miss Agnes Johns is spending a few days with Miss Idenia Johns. Mrs. Annie Harron, who has been quite ill, is much improved. Mrs. Hester Lucas, who has been quite sick is much better. into the city dock recently and was drowned. Mrs. Sarah Johnson, who died last week, was buried Asbury Church Sunday, Rev. Williams officiating. Mrs. C. Lucas and daughter spent last week with Mrs. Kalgler. Miss Clara Bell Roberts has gone to South Nowalk for the summer. Miss Fredricka Parker is the guest of Mrs. Minnie Dickerson at Mt. Pleas ant Cottage, Carr's Farm. HAPPENINGS AT CHASE Chase, Md., Aug. 3—Mrs. Alice Harris and daughter are the guests of Mrs. E. J. Purnell of Benjies, Md. Mr. Harvey Scott of Washington visited his family last Sunday. Mrs. Mollie Brown, of Benjies, Md., who has been ill, is out again. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Brown were guests of their mother last Sunday. Mrs. Carrol W. Johnson, who has been ill is out again. Mr. Bernadine Lyons was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Carroll Johnson last Sunday. Mrs. Brown and Mr. Howard Washington were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert last Sunday. WINCHESTER HAPPENINGS Winchester, Md., Aug. 3—The rally held at Mt. Carmel Church was a success. The church has been newly painted on the inside and presents a very attractive appearance. The mock wedding held at St. Paul A. M. E. Church was the prettiest held in recent years. Miss Alberta Ransome was bride and Mr. Daniel Long was the groom. The sacred concert held under the auspices of the stewards was enjoyed by the large audience of white and colored people who heard it. Messrs. John Stephenson, of Hagerstown, and Daniel Stephenson, of Currisle, Pa., have returned to their homes after visiting their mother, Mrs. Susan Stephenson, who has been very sick. Mrs. Lena Bennett, Misses Laura Rogers and Alice Johnson have returned from Manassas, Va., and Miss Elizabeth Thompson has returned from attending summer normal at Richmond. Mrs. Sarah Lewis has returned to her home in Chambersburg after a visit to her father here. Mr. Olta Johnson and brother, have returned to Harrisonburg, after visiting their sick sister here. Rev. J. R. Auguscus has returned from attending the district conference. BLEE RIDGE SEMMIT Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., August 2 —Rev. Wilmore preached a fine sermon on Sunday night. We are making great progress in getting ready to build our new church. On account of the inclement weather, the literary was postponed last Thursday. Mrs. Wilmore is the pianist and Messrs Minor and Blake are trustees. MT. WINANS JOTTINGS Mt. Winans, Md.—At the Star of Bethlehem A. M. E. Church on last Monday evening. July 31 a very successful Queen's Rally was held under the auspices of the Church and Sunday School. The amount raised was the sum of $50.36. Miss Laura Campbell, secretary of Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School, having raised the highest amount, won the golden crown. The church was crowded to the door. Among the special guesses present were: Rev. J. W. Norris, D. D., presiding elder of the lagerstown District; Rev. H. H. Thomas, of Washington. Every one was pleased with the rally it being their first effort. Mr. Ellsworth Hill, superintendent; Rev. S. T. Crawford, pastor. A professional gent living in the country (Md.) age 28, 5 feet 6 inches; good position and means, v wishes to correspond with a refine, intelligent, Christian young lady. No triflers and no postal cards answered. Address C. M. P. in care Afro American Office. Object: True Devotion. Iwentieth Annual Meeting OF THE Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention Will convene at Sharon Baptist Church of Baltimore, Stricker and Presstman streets, N. W. Baltimore August 27th, 10 a.m. Wednesday before the first Sunday in September 1916. Because of the high cost of living, delegates will be charged $1.00 per day paid where they register, and assign d homes by cards where they will stop during the Convention's sesion. The dollar will include meals served at the church, and pay for the lodging. The indications are, that more delegates will be present than at any previous annual meeting of the Convention. The pastor, officers and members will do everything they can do to make the delegates stay while in Baltimore, pleasant. Delegates will add to their comfort by into ming the pastor they will attend the Convention on or before August 20, 1916. Address the pastor, Rev. W. M. Alexander, D. D. 1525 Druid Hill avenue, Baltimore, S. J. Moshy, church clerk. Delegates and visitors headed by President C. S. Brown, of Winston, N. C. and from all parts of the country will be present. Reports of the field, in Africa, and Haiti will be made and discussed and plans made for future work. The special feature of the meeting will be a report of President Brown's visit last spring to Haiti, by order of the Convention 1915 to look over the field. Dr. A. M. Moore, of Durham, N. C. who accompanied President Brown, at his own expense will also make a report. 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Baltimore welcomes the delegates to the tenth biennial session of the National Association of Women's Clubs. On Monday at the ten o'clock convening, the Mayor of the city formally presents the keys of the city to the five hundred women who will represent every State in the Union—those that grant them the suffrage and those that do not. Before the opening of the convention, however, we hasten to extend the welcome of our hearts and our homes to Mrs. Booker T. Washington and her army of valiant workers, to tell them that thru the efforts of the State Federation, we know already of the work of uplift this National organization is attempting, to assure them that the welfare of our women, our girls and our children is upon our hearts and promise them we expect to be all ears and eyes at their deliberations. Lord Baltimore makes his nicest now to the National Federation. Our Anniversary Number will we issued on August 29th. It will be a sixteen page affair full of good reading and advertisements. We are not going to tell you anything about it but let you wait and see it, and then judge for yourself. It will be well for our agents to let us know in advance just how many copies they will need, for on account of the high price of print paper, we will not print more than is necessary. Get your orders in at once. You will have to see this issue in order to appreciate the fact that 25 years of Afro-American journalism has been reached for the first time in Baltimore. We want you to rejoice with us. "Statue of Liberty but slightly damaged." "The goddess has had worse shocks than the one yesterday morning," says the New York Evening Post, and so say we. The Germans say that the epidemic of infantile paralysis is a scourge sent by God to punish Americans for their attitude toward Germany in the present war. Colored folk say that the epidemic is a punishment for lynching. Now who is right? DOES BALTIMORE WANT THE "STAR OF ETHIOPIA" "Hear ye, hear ye. Men of all the Americas, and listen to the tale of the Bldest and the Strongest of the Races of men whose faces be black. Hear ye, hear ye. For lo. Upon this night a world shall pass before your souls, bathed in color, wound with song and set to the dancing of a thousand feet. And this shall be the message of the pageantry: Of the Black man's gift of Iron to the world of Ethiopia and her Glory; of the Valley of Humiliation thru which God would she pass and the vision lasting when the Cross Christ, and the Star of the Cross set atop the pillar of the central Light. Men of the world keep silence and in reverence this holy thing." These were the opening words of the herald in the presentations of the pageant, the "Star of Ethiopia," in New York, Washington and Philadelphia before audiences aggregating 35,000 people. In each of these cities one thousand to twelve hundred participants were trained for months before the performances, which usually numbered three. Word now comes from Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the author and director, that the "whole of his capital is swept away except the thousand dollars in extrickly tied up in costumes and properties," and "unless therefore, from unforeseen and at present unknown sources I receive help and encouragement I shall lay this effort down and bequeath it to new hands." It is unfortunate that but one of these cities was able to finance the pageant without outside philanthropic aid. Baltimore has personal and selfish regrets, inasmuch as plans of the Pageant. Company included performances in this city during the fall. Our sorrow may, however, be short-lived if we are willing to finance the proposition ourselves. Dr. DuBois has put urgently up to us: Do we want the "State of Ethiopia" next fall? PASSING FOR WHITE PASSING FOR WEEKEND The case of the pretty colored girl who was arrested last week on the charge of violating the segregation ordinance, is an interesting episode in itself, but after all more significant because it is one of the many thousand instances that happen in this country every day. The real charge against the girl was passing for white. The extent to which this practice is engaged in can only be estimated. Of the total mulatto population of two millions it is safe to say that ten per cent are fair enough to be either white or colored as their whims dictate. Fifteen years ago, William H. Thomas in "The American Negro" found "hundreds of thousands of white Negroes in America." Kelly Miller in his "Out of the House of Bondage" started white Washington when he said he personally knew fifty families in the District of Columbia that could become white or black at will. Whatever advantages these lighter of hue may have over their darker brethren, they do not escape the tragedy of life. It is tragic whether one lives his days out under oppression or whether one uses simulation in order to escape it. Meanwhile, pretty Pearl Wilson and the hundreds of others like her in Baltimore stand as human documents in the white man's own handwriting to show him that his prejudice is a prejudice of skin and not of worth, and to remind him that unwittingly he is aiding the ruse problem toward an historical solution—unalignment. ON MONEY When the colored people of Philadelphia protested against the action of South street Jews in requesting the removal of colored policemen and the substitution of white ones they resolved next to boycott said Jewish merchants, and finally to establish co-operative stores of their own. Here was the rub, the capital with which to begin. One man only, and he "saloonkeeper" had as much as one thousand dollars to invest in the new enterprise. The Philadelphia Christian Recorder was vexed because the saloon keeper had the nerve to sit on the rostrum at the protest meeting and more vexed because he was the only one who dared risk his thousand dollars. He had this to say last week: If we had a dozen Negroes who had a million dollars and didn't mind giving a hundred thousand for race rights, we could stop the Birth of a Nation we could make inroads against Jim-Crowism. If, when such an insult comes as came to the city by the removal of the colored police man, we had a half-dozen men with $50,000 available, would start competition which would mean something. But what is a nobile $1,000 in a time like this? What's the logic of it? Help some Negroes who have brains to make some money. We need millionaires quite as much as we need preachers. Only we need better preachers, who when the fellow who has made his millions, will be able to show him how to spend it; who like William Rainey Harper, cultured, up-to-date preacher of the Gospel, can show a Rockefeller that the best way to spend his money is on others, not on himself. Most Negroes are 19 to 20 years old, never any practical Gospel and so they spend their money sporting, aping the Harry Thaws and their lik. As the Recorder itself admits, the logic is good, but we are facing a condition and not a theory. Very few people become millionaires thru stupidity or accident, more by accident than by stupidity. Anyone can keep a million after inheriting it, but how many can earn a million in a lifetime? About as many as can write a "Hamlet" or paint equal to a Rembrant, or construct a trans-Atlantic Zeppelin. Carlyle found out years ago that it took the same brand of genius to do any one of the four. The earnings of the average American amount, according to the latest statistics, to $900 per year.. The earnings of a millionaire reckoned at three per cent would equal $30,000 per year, or thirty-three times as much as the average. Granted that the latter actually "earns" that sum and does not get it by accident or stupidity, his genius is thirty-three times as great as the average man's. When the race produces such a genius, the Recorder may desire that he devote it to making a million, but the race would be far better did he employ it as did Dunbar, DuBois, Tanner or Washington. Some years ago, protests of big merchants on Eutaw street, like Bruger and company, Gomprecht, and Bendesche and others, to the Mayor, led Mr. William H. Daly to abandon his enterprise of a large colored theatre where the Colonial now stands. These same merchants say that the use of the theatre by the Quality Amusement Company will hurt their trade by bringing too many colored people to that neighborhood. The joke of this is that it has been colored trade that has made these merchants, and now colored people are good enough customers but unwelcome theatre neighbors. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LESSONS OF CARRIZAL Colored people of Louisville are ELEVEN HUNDRED AT The colored troops fought nobly" at Carrizal, as they did at Fort Wagner, as they did at Richmond and New Orleans, and as they did in the Revolutionary war under the command of General George Washington. Their service in Cuba was brilliant and heroic, and they did the hard drudgery of cleaning up the Philippines. All have admitted without a single demurrier, that the Negro at Carrizal, Mexico, put up as good a fight as any man of any race, color or cline could have put up under similar circumstances. What lessons can be drawn from this fact and the antecedents of this fact? The Negro soldier at Carrizal had been given a square deal in preparedness to fight: the best military training, the best guns, the best ammunition and the best general equipment that the American soldier can have; to say nothing of possessing the best preparation against adversity by having been usually shoved into the hardest places in our fights with Indians and Philippines. In short, the Negro at Carrizal had been given a soldier's chance to become a fighter. Is it not logical and sensible to conclude that if the black man be given a man's chance in any line of American endeavor, he will do a man's work in that line? In industry, in science, in religion, in government and politics' Carrizal is no mystery: it simply shows that the Negro is not human.—that with a white man's chance he will do a man's deed. Carrizal is no more a mystery than was Fort Wagner, San Juan Hill, Samuel Colderidge Taylor or Jack Johnson. Now, in other phases of life, outside of the army, we generally insist that the Negro he given a different sort of preparation from the white man's and then we promptly blame him for not doing the same sort of deed: we say that he must have a different sort of education and an inferior economic status. BUT that he must support and obey the same laws and pay the same bills. Suppose the United States Army had taken the same inconsistent attitude toward the Negro soldier; had insisted that he be given a different sort of training from that of the modern army, he would have been fitted with black powder and muzzle loading guns, lest he think himself as well armed as a white man; that he be trained in the military science of the 18th century, lest he think himself as good as white people; that he be given in general "Negro equipment" as men often speak soberly of Colored people of Louisville are making a determined effort to elect a race man to the Board of Education. Here's luck to the Kentucky city. "And they ask the colored people to enlist in the army and go to war. What have you to fight for?" asks Miss Elisabeth Freeman speaking for the Anti-Lynching Fund before a Louisville, Kentucky audience. For satisfactory reply we direct her to the Honorable Harry S. Cummings, who offers 50,000 of Maryland's best for service where needed. "Slavery was a curse which had to be destroyed ere the South and the world could advance. It had to go and while it went in the worst possible way, and its going gave birth to an apparently unsolvable problem, still, I, who was born in and of the South, am glad it is gone never to return." For once that arch rebel, "Ben" Tillman, of South Carolina, says something with which we can agree. "When you think you are, you aren't" was proved to the satisfaction of our composing room force last week in the effort to get our newspaper on the press and out to the readers at the usual time. The trouble lay with the electric motor on our new linotype machine. Every time that our work was smoothly on the way, the motor balked and blew out a fuse, and this happened time and time again until nearly half the news we had planned for the edition had to be put aside and the space/filled with "plate." This week, our troubles have been fewer, and—but this week speaks for itself. THE FORUM PLAYGROUND ATTENDANCE The Playground in Druid Hill Park is the only one the colored people have in any of the parks. The attendance is very poor considering the number enrolled since June 1st. Might I urge the people to send their children. I wish they could realize that their youngsters need physical development quite as much as any other. The playground is the place where good wholesome games are taught under the most careful supervision. Instruction is given in industrial work and gardening. I believe this is the only way we can reach our people, through your very excellent paper. BOY SCOUT NEWS The Patrol Leaders Club is the new feature of the United Boy Scout troops of this city. The new organization meets the fourth Thursday in each month in Bethel Church. For further information, see Boy Scout column next week. Miss Mary Ranson of the Esplanade Apartments, is spending a week with her sister in Wilminkton, Del. Negro education;—if this had been the casethe Negro who stood before the Mexican machine gun in June, 1316, would have been just as human sa he is, but his actions would have been different, and he might have disgraced American arms instead of glorifying them. And shallow minded men who have said: "They failed because of their race, they cannot stand a severe test, they go down in a crisis, they are inferior"; And the same "statesmen" who had insisted that they be given muzzle loaded guns and inferior military training, would have justified themselves and said: "We told you so—we knew that Negro soldiers were not worthy of modern rifles and a white soldier's chance." Such is the logic of blind and binding prejudice. We blame the Negro for being a little more illiterate than white people, in spite of the fact that we give the Negro child one-tenth as much money for his education as we give the white chile, and one-half as long a school term. We blame the Negro for not being more of an industrial factor, and then we vote to keep him out of the labor union and so out of a job. We blame him for being a criminal and thrust him back into the slums by a segregation ordinance. We blame him for not developing into a statesman, and then we exert all our energies to keep him from gaining the experience of casting a ballot even in a village election. With our superior economic power we thrust a man into a lower standard of living and then uphail him us if he were there by choice. What the Negro needs and all he asks is a man's chance in the United States of America as well as on the battlefields against the enemies of the Republic. He asks no favors; he asks only for consistent treatment. This is inconsistent: If the Mexican who operated that machine gun at Carrizal, should cross the Rio Grande and become a resident of the United States, that same Mexican would have a better chance to rhe preservation of his slife, liberty and property in the State of Texas than the Negro soldiers who fought him at Carrizal. Not even Dardaman, or Tillman would have the nerve to dispute the truth of that statement. It means that there is something radically wrong in America's relation to the American Negro. Give the Negro a man's chance and then measure him by a man's standards, and we shall have a right to expect of him what he delivered at Carrizal. WILLIAM PICKENS BROWN'S GROVE SUNDAY. The city was hot last Sunday, but the bay was not, and the eleven hundred folk who essayed the trip in the Starlight were rewarded with a good spin and cool breeze. Those who came first got the chairs with backs and arms, but there were plenty of camp stools and no crowding to mar comfort. At the grove, there were amusements enough for all. The dancing pavilion, the goat race track, the only one of its kind in the world, and the bathing beach, where daring swimmers were kept, were a notable part of the pler or pretty girls wet their ankles only, afforded an outing worth while. Some just went down to eat, and these found enjoyment on the boat and in the grove. Coming back, though, was by far the nicest time. Everyone was tired and lay back to enjoy the wind and water, asculine heads found soft resting places in the naps of the fairer ones, and so unminingful of the others, who were either doing the same thing or wished they could, if perchance, ice cream came, "just to fill the holes left from dinner." Brown's Grove were felt to be a paradise, just a little lower than heaven. FIRST ANNIVERSARY Services of Alexander Council, 1993 of St. Luke was held last Sunday night at Sharon Baptist Church. A special sermon was delivered by the R. W. G. Chief, Dr. A. C. Carner, pastor of the Congregational church in Washington, D. C. Brief addresses were delivered by Mrs. Mary Collins, State Deputy, and Mrs. Lavinia Henry, organizing deputy. Mrs. Octavia Parker, secretary of the council, made a report of the year's work. Special music was rendered by Sharon choir, with a solo by Mrs. Lula Green. The pastor, Rev. Wm. Alexander, made the closing remarks. A large congregation together with members from the various Councils of the city and the Juvenile Circle, Mrs. Geo. Gallery director, was present, and a good collection received. TWO TAILLESS WONDERS Two puppies without tails were born to a dog owned by Joseph Johnson, of 664 Sarah Ann street, Tuesday morning. Johnson says that it is an unusual thing to see a dog that is naturally tailless. THEODORE ROOSEVELT DEAD. Theodore Roosevelt, alias "Teddy" is dead, and his host of admirers who have entered the Afro-American building to find him sunning himself in the doorway will miss him greatly in the days to come. The manner of his death borders on the mysterious. When he failed to answer to the roll call Thursday morning, the manager investigated and found him stiff and cold in the rear of the building, where he had been, possibly, since the evening before. There is a suspicion that he died from the not weather and over eating. No autopsy was held. The deceased had been in the employ of the Afro-American since kittenhood. Miss Mabel L. Butler, 1013 Linden avenue has been seriously ill for the past two weeks and is now convalescing. She heartily thanks her relatives and friends for their kindness. M. MRS. MARY F. HANDY President Maryland State Federation KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, E. & W. H., IN SESSION Ridgley, Md., Aug. 2—The eighth annual session of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, E. & W. H., for thethe jurisdiction of Maryland and Delaware, convened in this city today under the hostage of McKinley Lodge. The sessions were presided over by Grand Chancellor Solomon Tripp, of Baltimore, whose annual report showed that the order in this jurisdiction is rapidly growing. The reports of all the Grand Officers were very encouraging showing, as they did, that much constructive work had been accomplished during the year. A grand parade was held here this morning led by the Ridgley Corne Band, and at night a platform meeting was held in the grove adjoining the Pythian Castle Hall at which the following distinguished members of the order made helpful addresses: Rev. Mr. Dickerson, of Middleton. Del. Grand Chancellor Solomon Tripp, of Baltimore; Grand Medical Examiner; Dr. Thomas S. Hawkins; Grand Attorney; Clarke L. Smith; Grand Master of Finance, Wm. E. McKinney; Mrs. Jennie Ross and Mrs. F. K. Owens, all of Baltimore. Middletown, Del., was selected as the next place of meeting and the following grand officers were elected for the ensuing year: Solomon Tripp, grand chancellor; Wm. E. Carney, grand vice chancellor; Rev. O. P. Dickerson, grand prelate; A. D. Brown, grand keeper of records and seal; Wm. E. McKinnon, grand master of school; M. A. Macleod, master of exchequer; George Waters, grand master at arms W. G. Gould, grand outer guard; Jno Gibbs, grand inner guard; Dr. T. S. Hawkins, grand medical examiner; Clarke L. Smith, grand attorney; Carroll Johnson, grand lecturer. GRAND COURT MEETS the sixth annual session of the Grand Court of Calanthe, E. & W. H., Maryland and Delaware jurisdiction, convened in Elk's Hall, Hoffman St., Friday, July 27, with G. W. A. C., Martha Evans, presiding, filling the unexpired term of the G. W. Counselor, Nettie Cain, deceased. Following the regular opening exercises, the committee on credentials reported all the Courts in fine shape numerically and financially. They also presented the names of six applicants to the Grand Court. After the conferring of degrees, the regular routine of business was taken up; the minutes of the last session, and reports of the G. R. of Deposits and the G. C. of Deposits were presented in the financial condition of the Courts growing larger each year. The report of the supreme representative, Pannie Deshiel at the supreme session held in New Bedford, Mass, showed the order at large to be in a prosperous condition. The Supreme Chancellor, Sir Ashlew addressed, the body and among other important interests urged the Grand Court to help the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the work which is so beneficial to the race. The supreme chancellor received a vote of thanks for his kind words and the Grand Court subscribed five dollars toward the movement, which was paid over to the supreme worthy counceller, Jennie H. Ross. A number of Sir Knights visited the session, having just returned from the sessions of the Grand Lodge at Ridgley, Md. Memorial services were held in honor of the deceased grand court officers, Nettie Cain, G. W. C., and Sarah Jane Brown, P. G. W. A. C. Sir Solomon Tripp and Sister Florena Owens enugized the life and worth of the deceased sisters. G. W. A. Counselor Martha Evans was the unanimous choice as representative to the supreme Court at Poughkeepsi, N. Y. 1917. The visiting officers were elected, and installed by grand chancellor, Solomon Tripp and supreme worthy counselor, Jennie H. Ross: P. G. W. C. Martha Evans; G. W. C., Florena K Owens; G. W. A. C. Estelle C. Young; G. W. O., Carrie Hedges; G. W. Register of Deeds, Fannie Deshields; G. W. Receiver of Deposits, Ella Tripp, all of Baltimore; G. W. R., Lillie Gibbs, Ridgley, Md. G. W. Escort, Saragh Swift, Goldsboro, d. G. W. Con., Ida Hilton, Baltimore; G. W. Herald, Lillian Franklin, Baltimore; G W. Protector, Wm. E. McKinnon, Baltimore. ELKS HOLD MEETING The members of Memorial Lodge of Elks held an enthusiastic meeting Tuesday. Many of those present announced that they were going to the session of the Grand Lodge in Philadelphia, two weeks hence and root for George W. F. McMechen as the next Grand Exalted Ruler. The local lodge has secured headquarters for the session on 15th street, between Bainbridge and Flitzwater. PERSONALS AND LOCALS Mrs. Lucy Chew of 824 Lemon St., has gone to visit her friend, Mrs. Bessie Wilson, of Millville, N. J., for two weeks Misses Blanch Moore and Mary Cook paid a visit to Pen Mar Thursday of this week, visiting friends Saturday, Aug 5-12, Purviance Mrs. Rosa Harris, of 537 Presstman street, is visiting at Oak Grove, Leeds town, Va. Miss Gertrude M. Johnson, of Hagerstown, Md., is spending two weeks with Mrs. Wesley H. Thomas, of 1149 N. Carrollton avenue. Mr. Charles Graham, brother of Mrs. Edith Wilson, Florence Collins, Wm. Graham, Helen Grayson, who died Monday, July 24th, 1916, was buried from Allen A. M.E. Church July 26th. Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery. Mr. Levi Fallin, of Philadelphia, is visiting his brother, Mr. Charles Fallin, of this city Saturday, Aug. 5-12, 7 o'clock Mr. Henry Wake is visiting in Boston. Mr. E. L. Avers, of Meridian, Oklahoma a prosperous dealer in general merchandise, visited the Afro American office this week. Mrs. A. Smith Johnson, formerly of 423 W. Biddle street, has purchased the property at 1321 Argyle avenue and is now occupying the same. Saturday, Aug. 5-12, Brown's Grove Mr. and Mrs. Archie Gray, of 313 N. Mount street, left Thursday for Virginia. They will spend some time with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Glmore, of Brownburg, and will visit the Natural Bridge, Hot Springs. On their return they will spend some time with Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Reid, their sister, of W. Staunton and will return home on the 21st. Mrs. John H. Wilson and grand-daughter, Irene, of 1125 Drudl Hill avenue, have gone to Cape May to spend the month of August. Mrs. Harriet A. Fields, of 1341 Pennsylvania avenue, the wife of Alfred Fields, departed this life Monday. Interment was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Handy, and wife, of Atlantic City, came to the city to attend the funeral. DROWNED IN THE SEVERN Annapolis, Md. August 2—Young Brown, a lifesaver on one of the Naval Academy training ships lost his life in an unaccountable manner last Saturday. Brown was swimming near the ship, according to witnesses, when suddenly threw up his hands and disappeared. Those on board thought that he was simply diving and "kidding" as he sometimes did. When the lad failed to come to the surface again there were suspicions of sharks that have been seen in the buy near here. The vicinity of the place where he went down was dragged without result, and only day was his body recovered, when spied as it floated near the shore. An examination showed that death resulted from drowning, but Brown's friends are at a loss to account for this since he was employed as a life saver and was known to be an expert swimmer. It is surmised that the strong undertock caught him when he went down and kept him from rising to the surface again. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHILD Five year old Lillian Smith, daughter of Stanley and Lillian Smith, of 1409 Pennsylvania avenue, is still lost. Little Lillian was entled from her home by a colored woman, who gave her candy, on Monday, April 10th. She filled a private detectives have failed to locate her. The readers of the "Afro" are asked to help to find the little girl. The parents believe she is yet alive and has not been carried from the city. When lost Lillian was 3 feet 7 inches, weighed about 45 pounds, with dark brown hair and eyes, light complexion. She wore a blue coat with red collar, black stockings and cloth top shoes. A reward is offered to any information that will lead to her whereabouts. MISS TALBERT TO SPEAK Miss Mary Talbert, of Buffalo, N.Y., vice president of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, will speak at Ames Memorial M. E. Church, Carey and Baker streets, at 11 a. m., Sunday morning. She is a great platform speaker. Do not fail to hear her. STOCKHOLDERS TO MEET The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Nazarite Joint Stock Association will be held sometime this month, at which time a board of directors will be chosen for the ensuing year. But few changes, if any, are expected in the personnel of the Board. TO SPEAK AT EBENEZER TO SPEAK AT EBENEZER At Ebenezer A. M. E. Church this Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, two national women characters will deliver short addresses. Mrs. Charlotte Brown, president and founder of the Palm Beach Memorial Institute at Sedalia, N. C., and parliamentarian of the National Association for Colored Women, and Miss Halle Q. Brown, a member of the faculty of Wiberforce University, chairman of the executive board of the National Association of Colored Women. MRS. WASHINGTON TO SPEAK Mrs. Booker T. Washington will deliver an address at Metropolitan M. E. Church Sunday night A. DELIGHTFUL. B.IGNIC A DELIGHTFUL PICNIC Madison Street and Mt. Hermon Presbyterian Churches enjoyed a very successful picnic on the 27th of July, at Cherry Hill, Roland Park. Dr. L. Z. Johnson is the pastor of Madison Street and W. Payne Stanley is in charge of Mt. Hermon. 'TIS A FEAT TO FIX THE FEET I treat corns for three nickels and a dime I treat callous free sometime I treat bunions and don't even hurt Or ingrown nails I am some expert. 'TIS A FEAT TO FIX DR. JOESEPH SURGEON C 1023 DRUID E Have your feet exam Before your corns, callo 'TIS A FEAT TO Practice Race Attend the GREAT PAGAR of the National Association Park, Monday, August 7th, Drill by Baltimore Patriarch HELP THIS G Baltimore Pat DR. JOESEPH B. MASON SURGEON CHIROPODIST 1023 DRUID HILL AVENUE Have your feet examined free of charge Before your corns, callouses or bunions enlarge. 'TIS A FEAT TO FIX THE FEET Practice Race Patronage! Attend the GREAT PAGAENT given under the auspices of the National Association of Colored Women at Oriole Park, Monday, August 7th, and witness The Exhibition Drill by Baltimore Patriarchie, No. 9, G. U. O. of O. F. HELP THIS GREAT WORK! Baltimore Patriarchie No. 9 IN MEMORIAM SISCO—In loving remembrance of my husband, James H. Sisco, who died one year ago, August 6, 1915. Cone but not forgotten. I often sit and think of you When I am all alone; For memory is the only friend That grief can call its own. Annie Matthews Sisco In affectionate remembrance of our dear beloved brother, Nathaniel M. Carroll, Jr., who entered into rest at Atlantic City, August 6, 1915. Dearest brother though bast left us By his sisters, Maggie, Emma and Sarah Mr. John T. Nelson, the beloved husband of Ella Nelson, entered into rest on Saturday, July 29th at 5.45 o'clock p.m. He was a kind and loving husband and was loved by all who knew him. 'Tis hard to break the tender cord Where love has bound the heart 'Tis hard, so hard to speak the word, Must we forever part. 'We cannot tell who next may fall Beneath the chastening rod. One must be first but let us all Prepare to meet our God. By his devoted wife, Ella Nelson, 545 W. Lanvale St. CARDS OF THANKS Mrs. Ella Nelson takes this means of thanking her many friends for the kindness shown her husband during his illness and for the beautiful floral designs at his bereavement. We wish to thank the many friends of our deceased mother, Eliza Harris, as well as the Heroines of Jericho, for their many kindnesses during the long illness of the deceased and for floral tokens at her demise. Maggle C. Upsher, Cecilia and Charles Harris Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Jones, and family of 548 W. Lanvale street, desires to thank their many friends and the nurses at the Provident Hospital for their many acts of kindness during the illness of their sister, Miss Annie R. Jones, and for the many beautiful floral designs at her death. We wish to take this opportunity in thanking those who rendered such valuable assistance and for the floral designs in the hour of our bereavement in the loss of our dear mother, Mary C. Hicks. By her Children. FONERAL OF MRS. FRANCES ANDERSON The funeral of Mrs. Frances Anderson, who departed this life Thursday morning, was held from the Locust M. E. Church, at Atholton, Howard county, Md. on Saturday evening, July 29. Rev. Elijah Ayers officiated. Appropriate remarks were made by Rev. C. G. Cummings and Rev. W. N. Holt. The deceased was an active member of Locust M. E. Church. During her long illness she was bright and cheerful, was zealous of her spiritual interest. She is survived by three nieces, Mrs. James Thomas, Mrs. H. Bingham and Mrs. Florence Oliver, and four nephews, H. J., C. C., W. E. and George L. Nelson. On their return from the funeral they received the sad news of the death of their brother, Mr. John T. Nelson. DEATH OF MBS. MARY C. HICKS After a lingering illness, Mrs. Mary C. Hicks, a well known resident of South Baltimore, betowed wife of Anthony Hicks, departed this life in full triumph of faith. Friday, July 28 at 10:45 p. m., at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Sadie E. Bowman, 2335 Division street. Born in Cambridge over 58 years ago, she came to Baltimore and joined Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, in which she was an ardent worker up until the time of her illness. Her funeral was held at the above named church Monday afternoon, the pastor, Rev. W. C. Stewart, officiating. She leaves a husband, three daughters, one son and a host of friends to mourn their loss. A GRAND AUTOMOBILE OUTING Brooks Church & Eastern Chapel Calvert Co., Md. Cars leaves 331 S. Howard St. Saturday, Aug. 12th, at 12 P. M. TICKETS ROUND TRIP $1.75 PH B. MASON ECHIROPODIST CHILL AVENUE mined free of charge uses or bunions enlarge. FIX THE FEET ce Patronage! NT given under the auspices of Colored Women at Oriole and witness The Exhibition ie, No. 9, G. U. O. of O. F. GREAT WORK! triarchie No. 9 CARD OF THANKS Departed this life July 27, 1916, James Jones, beloved husband of Mrs. Annie Jones and father of John Jones, Mary Jones and Mrs. Bessie Armstrong of New York. Funeral at his late residence Saturday, 19th, 829 Orchard street. Rev. Naylor and Rev. E. W. S. Thomas officiated. Selections by Mrs. Sophia Alexander and Mr. Richard Johnson. The family wishes to thank the friends for their kindness during her long illness, also for the beautiful flower designs. We miss thee from our home, dear father, We miss thee from thy place A shadow o'er our life is caste We miss the sunshine of thy face. His daughter Mrs. Bessie Armstrong PERSONAL NOTES Dr Ernest Lyon was among the Marylanders who attended the big Hughes notification meeting in New York Monday night. Mr. Arnet Murphy, business manager of the Afro American Company, is spending his vacation in Somerset, Pa. as the guest of his sister, Mrs. Johue Purdy. Mr. and Mrs. John Nixon are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine boy. The youngster was born Monday evening. Mrs. W.A. Heathman, of Providence R. L., is the guest of Miss Roberta Hawkins, 1211 Harlem avenue. Miss Edith Naylor is visiting relatives in Frederick. Miss Frances Murphy, who has been teaching in the summer school at Princess Anne Academy, returned home Friday. Mrs. W. Justin Carter and her brother, R. Percy Aileen, both of Harrisburg, Pa., were recent visitors here. A recent rally at the Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church netted $167. Rev J. A. S. Cole is pastor of the church Mrs. William C. McCard, who has been spending her vacation in Harpers Ferry, has returned home. Mrs. David T. Harrod, of 1209 Etting street, is quite ill. Miss Georgette Anderson has returned to her home in New York City after a visit to her brother, Albert Anderson, of 022 Bolton street. PXTHIANS COMMENDED Grand Chancellor George A. Watty of the Knights of Fythias, has received the following letter from T. Murdoch. General Passenger Agent of the Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company: Dear Sir: I am extremely sorry that the number of people who traveled via Clalborne and Salisbury, Md., was not as large as you anticipated. We had only 22 people to travel in this direction. I find, however, that on the Steamer leaving Sunday afternoon we had 254 people which gave us a very nice crowd. Our employees report that your organization was an excellent class of people, to handle and I hope that we may have you with us to some point on our line another year. T. MURDOCH, FOR SALE FOR SALE—A Beautiful 2 story house in the 500 block of Dolphin St. Six rooms and bath; sewered; will put in first class condition. Marble steps, long yard; rooms private. See A. L. JOHNSON, 1415 Myrtle Ave. or Phone Madison 3864 W. FOR SALE—A Three story house 400 block Gilmore street. 8 rooms and bath; all private. A. L. JOHNSON, 1415 Myrtle Ave. FOR SALE—Three story house in 1300 block North Carey Street; in first class condition. Terms, $100 cash, balance as rent. SPECIAL NOTICE—Large crowds attended the Camp Meeting on the Belair Road Sunday. The Grove is on a five cent car line and has a fine spring. Rev. Matthias Williams, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, has charge of the camp. THE AFRO-AMERICAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATE DON'T MISS AT 12 TWENTY-NINE MONDAY Fine Competitive Drill by A Admission 25 Cents Baltimore's JOHN UNDERTY Complete $73.00 A fine casket worth $300 highly polished oak or either black, gray or white new and up-to-date; fine b funeral, six pairs of glove desired, rugs, chairs, etc., This funeral cost ele My prices $73.00. Other Funerals as low as $5 Shipping Fur 1222 DIVISION ST. Madison 4067 OLD MASTER ROOT I Put all foolish skepticism, GRAND OLD-TIME ROOT AND blessings that 'NATURE' offers to EVERY DAY we wear bloody urine, sexual weakness, wind, bile, flatulence, chronic in- gestion irregularities. EVERY PIONEER who have become WINCISAL guest solder, work overal destROY THE KIDNEYS and loss of which causes that TIRED if not stopped results in the persu- valis' Famous DENIAL, HONESTLY they are GENUNE that are curing people now, and THEY Be wise, be kind to yourself, day you do so. We offer the GLAD HAND FROM 12 NOON TO 10 P.M. WALSHS FAMOUS OLD REMEDIES. We have been mak- ing 924 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. P. 1322 Argyle Ave. One Three Story 1100 block One Three Story 1100 block 1200 block Ari 1300 block Ari Three, 3 Story 600 block One Two Story 1400 block Also a large num- Postal or phone Madison NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLORADO DON'T MISS THE GREAT PAGE AT ORIOLE PARK TWENTY-NINTH STREET AND YORK RO MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1 Cognitive Drill by Ames Boy, Scouts and Patriarchie Obsession 25 Cents Children MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916 Fine Competitive Drill by Ames Boy, Scouts and Patriarchie No.19 Odd Fellows Admission 25 Cents Children 15 Cents Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertaker in PA JOHN H. OWEN UNDERTAKER @ EMBAL Compiere $73.00 FUNERALS $75.00. One casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel, gray published oak or walnut outside case; beautiful r ck, gray or white, to match casket, as desired five up-to-date; fine burial, robe, embaling, opening ix pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candel ings, chairs, etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere..... My prices $73.00...$75.00 Saving you $61.00. Funerals as low as $25,$35,$40,$50. Higher Grade. Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Compiere DIVISION ST., BET. DOLPHIN AND Boston 4067 PHONES Mac OLD MAN WALSH'S FAMOUS FOOT AND HE A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel, gray, or white plush highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine burial_robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs, etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 My prices $73.00.....$75.00 Saving you $61.00.....$63.00 Other Funerals as low as $25,$35,$40,$50. Higher Grade $1.00,$150,$175 Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 1222 DIVISION ST., BET. DOLPHIN AND LANVALE Madison 4067 PHONES Madison 4921-J OLD MAN WALSH'S FAMOUS ROOT AND HERB OLD MAN WALSH'S FAMOUS ROOT AND HERB Put all foolish skepticism, doubt and scorn out of your head. DO NOT DESPIE these OLD STIME ROOT AND HERB REMEDIES which are the RICHEST and CHOICEST blessings that 'NATURE' offers to man. EVERY DAY we are curing all kinds of skin disease, foul sores, an ulcers, impure blood, bloody urine, sexual weakness, debility, chronic pain, liver stomach and bladder troubles; male and female irregularities. EVERY DAY we are restoring to health and strength, men and women who have become 'PHYSICAL WRECKS' and OLD BEFORE THE TIME' on account of neglected cows, overstrain, folly, living a fast life, using alcohol to excess, any of which DESTROY THE RIDNEYS and the rest causes loss of which causes the WRECKY FEELING, backache, drowsiness, and decline, which if not noticed in the person becoming a PHYSICAL WRECK and finally ends in death. Walsh's, Famous Root and Herb Remedies are what nature intended man to use. They are HONEST, they are GENUINE, they DO THE WORK; they have cured thousands in the past, they are curing people now, and THEY WILL CURE YOU. Be wise, be kind to yourself, TRY THE GOOD OLD ROOTS AND HERBS, you will bless the day you do. We are the GLAD HAND of WELCOME and HONEST ADVISE FREE OF CHARGE FROM 12 NOON TO 10 P.M. WALSHS FAMOUS OLD HERB SHOP. HOME OF THE CHOICEST ROOT AND HERB REMEDIES. We have been making Root and Herb Remedies for over 100 years. 924 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Near Biddle Street WALSH'S HERBALIST FOR OVER 90 YEARS P. H. PRATT 1322 Argyle Ave. Real Estate and Investments One Three Story 1100 block Argyle Ave. 1 Three Story 700 block Mosher G R $60 " " " " 1200 block Argyle Ave. " " " 1100 block N. Carey St. " " " " 1300 block Argyle Ave. " " " 1300 block N. Carey St. Three. 3 Story 600 block George St., one with large stable in the rear. One Two Story 1400 block of Winchester St., a bargain if sold at once. Also a large number of others on large desirable streets. Postal or phone Madison 4850-W, will bring me to you. THE PRIDE OF EVERY WOMAN IS HER HAIR If You Want To Look Beautiful and Graceful USE MME. ESTELLE'S NU-LIFE For the Growth and Gloss of Your Hair BALTIMORE AGENT Mrs. L. Stafford. 15 W. Hughes Street Agents Wanted: Write for Terms. Mme. Estelle's Nu-Life College of Hair Dressing and Beauty Culture 72 W. 133rd Street. New York City PARA pOPULA FRANKLIN N. Every Sunday After Under the Manage A great canvas ten people from storm and within the city limits, 5 spend the heated Sabbath 3 p. m.—REV. C. H. ST. All Singing Bands are invited Officers of the Camp: H. L. Boyer, Young, Treas. L.P. ARE YOU PRE If Not, Get Last year we gave away we will give 50 l. WHICH Come, deal at our store, kind of Coal or a Ba HOW Come to our store, put tomer, save our coupo them to us, and we ton cf WITH LECATO, ST. GROCERY 1155 N. CAREY St., Co. GRAND U TO ST. MON ALLEN A. M. E. ON THE PA Steamer leaves Pratt St. FARE ROUND TR GOOD Ky. P. PARADISE GROVE POPULAR CAMP MEETING RESORT FRANKLIN ROAD AND POPULAR GROVE AVENUE Sunday Afternoon during July, Augu- AT 3 O'CLOCK Under the Management of John Wesley M. E. C. Great canvas tent will be spread capable of from storm and rain. Paradise Grove is the city limits, 5-cent car fare, where the col- heated Sabbath afternoons and evenings. --REV. C. H. STEPTEAU 8 p. m. --REV. J. Singing Bands are invited. Captain Anderson of John Wesley w Camp. H. L. Boyer, Pres., Robert Nickens, Sec., J. H. Mitchel, Young, Treas., I. P. Brown, Manager, Frank Brown, Assist. L. WE YOU PREPARED FOR THE WEEK If Not, Get Busy and Let Us Help or we gave away 33 Turkeys to our customers we will give 50 Barrels of Flour or 50 Tons? WHICH WILL YOU HAVE? Real at our store, save our coupons and get of Coal or a Barrel of Gold Medal or Pillsk HOW CAN WE DO IT? Your store, put your name on our book as save our coupons; when you get a certain a to us, and we will send to your home eit- ton of Coal or a barrel of Flour. Every Sunday Afternoon during July, Aug. and Sept. AT 3 O'CLOCK Under the Management of John Wesley M. E. Church A great canvas tent will be spread capable of protecting the people from storm and rain. Paradise Grove is the only place now within the city limits, 5-cent car fare, where the colored people can spend the heated Sabbath afternoons and evenings. 3 p. m.—REV. C. H. STEPTEAU 8 p. m.—REV. J. M. BARNES All Singing Bands are invited. Captain Anderson of John Wessley will have charge Officers of the Camp: H. L. Boyer, Press, Robert Nickens, Sec., J. H. Mitchell, Assist. Sec., Henson Young, Tress, L. P. Brown, Manager, Frank Assist, Manager Last year we gave away 33 Turkeys to our customers. This year we will give 50 Barrels of Flour or 50 Tons of Coal. WHICH WILL YOU HAVE? Come, deal at our store, save our coupons and get a Ton of any kind of Coal or a Barrel of Gold Medal or Pillsbury Flour. HOW CAN WE DO IT? Come to our store, put your name on our book as a regular customer, save our coupons; when you get a certain amount bring them to us, and we will send to your home either a full ton of Coal or a barrel of Flour. WILL YOU TRY US? LECATO, STANLEY & J. G. MARTIN GROCERY AND PROVISION STO CAREY St., Cor. Winchester Phone GRAND UNION EXCUR TO ST. MICHAELS M. MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916 GIVEN BY... LEN A. M. E. AND ST. PAUL M. E. CH. ON THE PALATIAL STEAMER ANNAPOL mer leaves Pratt Street Wharf, Pier 5 on Market Space ROUND TRIP ADULTS GOOD MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE Rev. F. J. Jorden and St. A. Vurgi, Pastors ALLEN A. M. E. AND ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCHES ON THE PALATIAL STEAMER ANNAPOLIS Steamer leaves Pratt Street Wharf, Pier 5 on Market Space 8.30 A. M. FARE ROUND TRIP ADULTS 50 CENTS GOOD MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE Rev. F. J. Jenkins and Rev. S. A. Virgil, Pastors COME GO WITH US FIRST SUNDAY OUTING Given By The Jolly Five Given By The Jolly Five To Greater Brown's B Aboard The ON SUNDAY Two Trips From MUSIC BY MARCA TICKETS GET IT AT..... STOKE 1016 Druid Water Brown's Electric Grove, And Way Do Aboard The Floating Palace Steamer Starlight SUNDAY AUGUST 6TH Two Trips From Millers Wharf 9.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. MUSIC BY MARCATO ORCHESTRA, Prof. Eubie Blake, U. T IT AT..... Popular STOKES and DERRY 1016 Druid Hill Avenue, Cor. Oxf. DRUGS To Greater Brown's Electric Grove, And Way Down The Bay Aboard The Floating Palace Steamer Starlight GET IT AT.... Popular Prices STOKES and DERRY'S 1016 Druid Hill Avenue, Cor. Oxford --- ASSIATION FOR COLORED WOMEN PASS THE GREAT PAGEANT ORIOLE PARK NTH STREET AND YORK ROAD Y, AUGUST 7, 1916 James Boy, Scouts and Patriarchie No.19 Odd Fellows Cents Children 15 Cents GO EARLY Reading Colored Undertaker in Prices JOHN H. OWENS BAKER @ EMBALMER $75.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete $5.00, in black cloth, steel, gray, or white plush almut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse to match casket, as desired five heated carriages, arial_robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise s, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when all of the latest designs. where.....$136.00 $75.00 Saving you $61.00.....$68.00 $35,$40,$50. Higher Grade $1.00,$150,$175 carrals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete BET. DOLPHIN AND LANVALE PHONES Madison 4921-J JOHN WALSH'S FAMOUS AND HERB REMEDIES Doubt and scorn out of your head, DO NOT DESPIE those HERB REMEDIES which are the RICHEST and CHOICEST man. All kinds of skin diseases, foul scores, one ulcers, impure blood, obesity, chronic backache, incurrence of urine, headache, restion, kidney, liver, stomach and bladder troubles; male and we are restoring to health and strength, men and women BECKS and OLD BEFORE THE TIME' on account of illness. The WOE life using alcohol to incure any of which the result is that the body is robbed of that VITAL FLUID the WEARY FEELING. backache, drowsiness, and decline, which becoming a PHYSICAL WRECK and finally ends in death. Herb Remedies are what nature intended man to use. They are WILL CURE YOU. THE GOOD OLD ROOTS AND HERBS, you will bless the OF WELCOME AND HONEST ADVISE FOOT OF CHARGE HERB SHOP. HOME OF THE CHOICEST ROOT AND HERB Root and Herb Remedies for over 100 years. Near Biddle Street WALSH'S HERBALIST FOR OVER 90 YEARS H. PRATT Real Estate and Investments FOR SALE Argyle Ave. 1 Three Story 700 block Mosher G.R $60 Yale Ave. " " 1100 block N. Carey St. Yale Ave. " " 1300 block N. Carey St. Kn George St., one with large stable in the rear. Kn of Winchester St., a bargain if sold at once. Bder of others on large desirable streets. 4850-W; will bring me to you. THE PRIDE OF EVERY WOMAN IS HER HAIR If You Want To Look Beautiful and Graceful USE MME. ESTELLE'S NU-LIFE HAIR For the Growth and Gloss of Your Hair BALTIMORE AGENT Mrs. L. Stafford. 15 W. Hughes Street Agents Wanted. Write for Terms. Mme. Estelle's Nu-Life College of Hair Dressing and Beauty Culture 72 W. 133rd Street. New York City DISE GROVE CAMP MEETING RESORT LOAD AND POPULAR GROVE AVENUE 午noon during July, Aug. and Sept. AT 3 O'CLOCK Element of John Wesley M. E. Church will be spread capable of protecting the rain. Paradise Grove is the only place now cent car fare, where the colored people can afternoon and evenings. EPTEAU 8 p. m.—REV. J. M. BARNES Captain Anderson of John Wesley will have charge Cres. Robert Nickens, Sec., J. H. Mitchell, Assist. Sec., Henson Brown, Manager. Frank Brown, Assist. Manager PARED FOR THE WINTER? Busy and Let Us Help You 33 Turkeys to our customers. This year barrels of Flour or 50 Tons of Coal. I WILL YOU HAVE? save our coupons and get a Ton of any barrel of Gold Medal or Pillsbury Flour. I CAN WE DO IT? your name on our book as a regular cus- s; when you get a certain amount bring will send to your home either a full Coal or a barrel of Flour. STANLEY & J. G. MARTIN, JR. AND PROVISION STORE St. Winchester Phone: Madison 4704 UNION EXCURSION MICHAELS MD. DAY, AUGUST 7, 1916 ...GIVEN BY... AND ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCHES BATIAL STEAMER ANNAPOLIS Seet Wharf, Pier 5 on Market Space 8.30 A. M. ADULTS 50 CENTS MUSIC IN ATTENDANCE Jersey 2rd Rev. S. A. Vingt, Pastors Electric Grove, And Way Down The Bay Floating Palace Steamer Starlight AUGUST 6TH, 1916 In Millers Wharf 9.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. TO ORCHESTRA, Prof. Eubie Blake, Director 25 CENTS Popular Prices S and DERRY'S Hill Avenue, Cor. Oxford DRUGS 1 ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev. P. J. Jordan, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m. Special services and communion. 2 30 p. m. Sunday School. We invite children and parents from everywhere. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Montgomery St. bet. Chas. & Hanover Charles E. Stewart. B.D., Pastor Mrs. C. H. Brown and Miss Bailie Q. Brown will deliver short addresses Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The Holy Communion will be administered at both services. Sunday morning Bible Class 10 to 11 o'clock taught by Miss Mary H. Smith. Sunday School at 2 30 p. m. Chas. Tolson, Supt. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH Linden Ave. and Biddle Street Rev. S. M. Johnson, D. D., Pastor 1016 Linden Avenue 11 a. m. An account of the recent burning of a human being, Jessie Linden Ave. at Waco, Texas, by a Lady of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. 3.30 p. m. Services at Green's Grove. Sermon at Rev. D. W. Baker, D. D. 8 p. m. Services at the church and camp ground. Communion in the morning. Robt. H. Gross, Supt. W. L. Wilson, President A. C. E. League FIRST INDEPENDENT A. M. B CHURCH Cor. Orchard and Tessier Streets Rev. L. C. Curtis, D. D., Pastor Parsonage: 1938 Arvleve Ave. 11 a. m. Preaching by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. 4 p. m. Class. 7 p. m. Independent League. Mrs. Ethel Ford, President 8 p. m. Preaching by the Pastor. Lord's Supper administered. Wednesday night. Class. H. F. Baynes, Supt. Frederick Dabney, Sec'y. PENNA. AVE. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Dr. J. A. S. Cole, Pastor Residence: 1124 Penn Ave. 11 a. m. Preaching by pastor. "The Unseen Path that Eye hath not seen." 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. W. W. Brown, Supt. 8 p. m. Preaching by pastor. "The Road to the City of Twelve Gates." Holy Communion will be observed at this service. Special music all day. All are welcome. Mrs.J. B. Aukins, Church Clerk ST. LUKES U. A. M. E. CHURCH Spring Street near McElderry Rev.J. J. Parker, Pastor 1701 N. Dallas Street 5 a. m. Prayer service. 9 a. m. Class Meeting, Bro. Robert Carter, leader. 11 a. m. Sermon by pastor or stranger. 2 p. m. Sabbath School. 7 p. m. Spencers C. E. League. 8 p. m. Sermon by Rev. Ford and congregation CHRIST INSTITUTION CHURCH Dr. G. W. Kennard Pastor 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor 2.30 p. m. Sunday School 8 p. m. Sermon by Dr. A. Hill. All are invited. 7th DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Of East Baltimore Orlean St. near Airquith Saturday, Sabbath Services Sabbath School 10 a. m. Preaching 11.30 a. m. All day's meeting at Lutherville Sunday, on the Lawn, at the residence of Mrs. Johnson. Our souls united with the Seventh Day Adventists, Sunday week at Lutherville, and we look forth for an increase at this meeting. Sunday, all will leave the East Baltimore Church at 10 a.m. Subjects for Lutherville, the two Laws, "Nailed to the Cross", "The Christian Sabbath." J. B. Watkins, D. W. Johns, J. B. Stewart in charge. GRACE PRESSBYTERIAN CHURCH S. W. Cor. Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. Thos. H. Lee, Ph. D. Minister in Charge Residence, 552 Dolphin St. 11 a. m. Preaching by the minister, Dr. Thos. H. Lee. Subject, "Shut In" 12 30 p. m. Sunday School 8 p. m. Representatives from National Association of Women will speak. CHASE M.E. CHARGE Rev. S. R. Hughes, A. M., Pastor 11a. m. At Chase, the Pastor. 11a. a. At Loreley, Rev. W. Boyer. Campmeeting opens to run two Sundays. 3 p. m. Magnolia Camp closes. Sermon by the Pastor. THE PEOPLE'S CHURCH Orleans and Ann Streets Rev. C. Ed. Browne, Pastor Res. 1611 McElderry St. 5 a. m. Prayer meeting. 9 a. m., Sunday School, Moses Johnson, Supt. 9.30 a. m. Class Meeting. 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor. 3 p. m. Sermon by an able Divine and prayer meeting. 8 p. m. Short Sermon and Song Service. Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Class Meeting. Friday night, Prayer Meeting. All welcome Clifford Perry Church Clerk ST. MATTHEWS M.E. CHURCH East 23rd Street Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor 11 a. in. Preaching. 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. 8 p. m. Sermon by the pastor. Mrs. E. B. Fuller, Pres. Ladies Aid. Mr. H. M. Washington, Supt. Miss Ida Williams, Supt. Jr. Leagus. Miss Missie Hall, Pres. E. L. Mr. K.D. Ragland, Pres. of Brother hood. CENTENNIAL M. E CHURCH Rev N. M. Carroll, D. D., Pastor 10 a. Sunday School. 10 11 a. m. Kev. Alfred Young will deliver his famous Railroad sermon. Don't miss the train for Heaven. 8 p. m. Special services held by the Women Federation. All are welcome. Mrs. S. J. C. Ralph. Supt. EASTERN M. E. FIRE AND HOLY GHOST CHURCH McElderry St. and Patterson Park Ava Rev, Alfred Young, Pastor 8 p.m. Sermon by Rev. W. Carpenter, of the A. M. E. Church, followed by the Holy Communion. Everybody welcome. SPECIAL NOTICE RAILROAD SERMON At Centennial M. E. Church Rev. A. Young will deliver the far out Railroad Sermon, at Centennial M. E. Church, Bank and Caroline Sts., this Sunday, August 6th, at 11 A. M., accompanied by his choir and congregation. Don't miss the train for Heaven. Revs. N. M. Carroll, and Alfred Young, Pastors. ASBURY M. E. CHURCE East and Lexington Sts. Rev. George E. Curry, Pastor. Residence: 1830 E. Eager St. 11 a. m. Sermon by the Pastor. Subject: 'The Bequest, of Jesus' Holy Communion. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Mr. C. T. Stewart, supt 5.30 p. m. Veeper Services. Everyone cordially invited to all of these services. SHARP STREET MEM. CHURCH Corner Dolphin and Etting Streets Rev. M. J. Naylor, Pastor 11 a. m. Sermon by Pastor. The Lord's Supper. 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. M. Q. Dorsey, Supt. 8 p. m. Sacrament completed. MT. CALVARY FIRST INDEPEN DENT M. E. CHURCH 709 Pennsylvania Avenue near Orchard Street. Rev. James L. Williams, Pastor Residence: 614 W. Biddle St. 11 a. m. Special sermon by pastor or stranger. 2.30 p. m. Sabbath School 8.00 p. m. Special sermon by Pastor Subject: "Fear Not." Tuesday Evening Class. James Moore, Leader NOTICE C. Y. W. C. A. No meeting of the Y. W. O. A. Sunday at the Building, but invites the Association and friends to meet with the National at Bethel, Sunday at 8 P. M., August 6th. C. Davage, President E. E. Bright, Secretary GILLIS MEMORIAL M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor KING'S DAUGHTERS' DAY Mrs. Carrie Williams, Pres. 10 a. m. Class. James Wood, leader 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor. 2 p. m. Sunday School. 7.30 p. m. Song Service. 8 p. m. Sermon by pastor. Communion. Wm. Wood, Minister's Steward L. H. McGowan, Sgt. TYSON M. P. CHURCH Falls Road, West Roland Park Rev. Roy B Mohr, Pastor Sunday, August 6th. 3 p. m. Rev. Joseph L. Butler will speak to Men and Women on the Subj. "A Woman in Tears." Mr. Isaac Levy, Secretary Sunday, August 6th CO1.ORED BAPTIST CHURCH Freedom near Alliance Sts. Havre de Grace, Md. 11 a. m. Preaching 2 p. m. Preaching and baptizing at light house 8 p. m. Preaching and Communion. All are welcome. W. F. Dirbinson, D. D., Pastor. H. M. Burkett HOUSES FOR SALE RENTS COLLECTED FIRE INSURANCE PLACED In his New Office Building: 514 ST. PAUL ST. Above Franklin CLARKE L. SMITH Attorney and Counselor at Law Office: 21 E. Saratoga St. Phone: St. Paul 267 Residence: 1805 Drudl Hill Phone: Madison $128W Practice—n all Courts. fp ep re ae oe On Gre ere es Tuan Sag Or sere eee ee a Sig decrease Sn 4 - : THE AFRO-AMERICAN ie eee - pues eran Looge meeTiNG.| IN: MEMORIAM iq NOTICE: § tak copteel otto n ta AP ane customers: webave enlarged: OO reg bere a Le gia a oS z dalphia Aug. 20. “Philadelphia.—Diz preparations are ‘being made here for the xaunal con- yention of the xrand lodze of the Ii prored Beuerolent and Protective Ore der of Elis; which opens here on Aus, 2 with a’sermon by the grand chaps Jain, the Kev. dames E. Churchman of Orange, N. J. ‘The initial business ses- :eton. will ‘be held at St. Peter's Clever hall, Lomisivd: and ‘Twelfth, streets, ‘Monday, Aua.:21. ‘The sumedveninz “formal welcoriting exercises will take ‘place. ‘A-big street parade will take place “Tuesday evening at Moint Tireoze park, A number of events will rake place at the park. at which. prizes will be awarded lodges and kinds. Other 9- cla) events, inclading a reception to ‘yisifing Blk Indies, will take place. Interest centers in the clection of a grand ‘exalted ruler to sueceed T: ee aS Bae — foe CS. = =) we pe ee ee ee SS Pad “Eee : Me 2 43, We FE. N'MBECHEN, £5Q. {Gites Nutter of Charleston, WW. Va. Armond Scott of Washington, ‘T. W. Fleming of Clovenind, 4, 1. Randolph “ot Virginia. and George W. ¥, Me “Mechen of Lattimore are among those smentioned for grand exalted ruler. Mr. MeMechen is the present grand esteemed leans kuixtt, being elected at Chicago in 115, Me bas received ‘assurances of support fran: all parts of the country, a gomlly number of ‘sponsors proclainiing line to be the Jogical candidate, ‘Attorney MeMeclen is a native of West Virginia. He received bis. edu caton at Morgi cotlexe, Taltimore cand the tay schisol af Yale university graduating from the latter Institution in 1808, fie is the junior member of the Jaw firm. of Hawkins amt Me Mechen. Gattimere, ‘This firm has handted much important litigation, Lawyer MeMechen is a Mason. pas! grand’ chancellor of the Marykind grand Joly vi, Knights of Pyehias Order of Moses and other fraternities He was a canidilare for the Baltimors city counet! fa 1015, making a flutter dng ran, Balilmere Elks hope to kim ithe 118 session of the grand lodge. PMAGCERSTOWN NOTES Hagerstown, Md., Aug. 3—Mr. C- H. Sarbour ix visiting In Chicago and ‘other cities before returning: home Frederick baseball’ team divided honors with che Hayerstown team on ‘Tuesday, August Ist. The local team won the first game 6 to 3 while the “visitors captured the second by the Escore of & to 2. Mrs. Trene Stephenson Is quite I at ‘her home. : ‘The rally at Asbury M. B. Church took place Sunday and a large sum was realized. The Good Will Clul and others made good reports. Rev. R. Curtis preached to a large congregation Sunday night at the 2n¢ Christian Church. Rev. Cooper spoke at Asbury M. E Church Sunday night to a good con: gregation. Miss. Blanch Mouckins Is visitins her uncle, Mr. Clark, of Jonathan St ELKTON HAPPENINGS Elkton, M@., Aug. d—Nathnan Sunt ‘died-suddenty at his home Wednes: day morning and was buried from the ALU. M. F. Chureh Friday. ars. Henrietta Trusty, Mes, Harrie Milburne and Miss Flossie Gibson are ‘on the sick list. Miss Rachel Simpson is visiting al Ocean City. (The A. M. E. Chureh will begin twilight services Sunday. Quite a number: of men who have ‘been. ait work here have returned t¢ their homes in Camoridge, Md. aaa - A i pe a Le oe Ree ES NI ooo «| | REV/MRS"GRACE. A.M, DIGGS,: “27 One of the successful evangelists of the Baltimore yA: <M; E: Conferetice! Resi “2 dence:'803:SaSharp St,;Baltimore: Md.» Be cassava tt nit Tal i gor a ane adorns aS “C.& P. Phone, Madison 692 GEORGE H. HOLLAND Formerly Manager for the Late *. Alexander Hemsley Funeral Director & Embalmer . 617 ROBERT STREET ; Will. furnish funerals-at @ price that will it you. Polite C id Exy Ae ee eb Carriages for hire for all occassions Open Day-and Night. x IN. MEMORIAM PONT Oa? — NOTICE: For the convenience of our customers, we have enlarged. our offices and now. have private rooms for everyone. If | you are in need of EXTRA CASH we can advance you any sum from. $5.00 to-$50 on your Furniture or Piano, in-the most confidential manner. Prompt and courteous treat, ment. If unable to call, write or ‘phone Madison 2948 and. _our confidential man will call without any.expense or obliga- tions on your part to borrow. Other companies paid off and more-money advanced. Northwestern Loan Company .' 1310’ PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ‘ OFFICE: HOURS: $ A.M. to6 P.M. | 2 SATURDAY EVENINGS: 9 O'CLOCK | 1ONES—in remembrance of my hus: jband, Daniel, D., who died one year ago ‘August Ist, 1915, Think not, dear husband, that, you are forgotten, For by me sou shall never be; ‘As long as breath and memory last ‘My tnoughts will be of you. 1 often sit and think of you When I am all alone, For memory is the only thing ‘That grief can call its own. ‘One year has passed, my, heart still sore, As time fligs on 1 miss you more; He sleeps—I leave you in peace to rest, ‘The parting was painful, but Gad knows best. By his wife, Martha Jones ———— = ++ 1+. .— gS eg. Ff Southern Life Insurance Co. SPECIAL NOTICE : The attentin of the public is hereby called ta the fact that the People’s Benefit and Fraternal’Society bas charged to that of The Southern Life Insur- ance Company. The Southern Life Insusance Company, has fully. complied with the law govern'ng such incorporatio: s and satisfied the State Insurance Com- missioners by depositing with them the required sum of $10 000, thus guurantee- ing the protection of its policy-holders. Now that the Scuthern Life Ineurance Company has'complied with the State}law and is in a porition co do Jeritimate business, we take g-eat pleasure in announcing that we fave taken over all the policy holders of the People’s Benefit and Fraternal Society ‘and we are offering liberal inducements to persons desiring to carry sick and accident policies Persons considering joining So- cieties should see us first “ ‘The Jeorle’s Benefit and. Fraternal Society was organized June 1906 since that time hes irsved over thirty thousand (30,000) certificates and paid $150,875.00 sick end accident claims and $30,575.00 tor ‘death benefits, by so do- ing we have cheered herrts ‘of widows end orphans and caused sunshine and happinees to ilumirate the bereaved home, what we have done for others we will do for you. - It ig the desire of the Southern Life Insurance Company toserve ovr peo- ple and we take special pleasure in announcing that it will be our greatest am- fition. to do £0 in zny wey that will huve a tendency'to advance their greatest interest. Liberal inducements ¢ ffered agents, male and female. Call and see us as we feel that we can intercst you. Call or' phone, Madison 3691-3. Home Office, 1631 Penna Ave. Hours 9a. m, to 4p. m,, daily, excepting Saturday, then 9 a. m. to | p. m Alfred H, Pitts, Pres. C. H Jones, Treas. A. Nixon, Sec, TO THE FRIENDS AND PATRONS. OF THE LAS ALEXANDER T. HEMSLEY wish. to announce to tbe general public that Ipave taken up the business of my late father und will endeavor to sustain the reputation be Fore sé an Ciicunt undertaker and Embelmer. Thanking tbe public for all paxt favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. * 1 am respectfully yours. _e s eer RITE TE TET Oc BOUNCES Peak aE a on TP ae eee 3 BRE Aart SiR em a Ns eA eee ere 7 aoe ri eta CrS oe Ree Coaches tu hire tor ali occasions Funerals from $75.00 Up MaIN OPPICE; 578 W. BIDULE 9! “Phone “1 + ofnon 2578 KIRBY—In sad, but loving remem. brance of ‘my father, Harry, who died nine years ago, August 2nd, 1907. ‘There's grief that cannot find comfort, ‘And wounds that cannot be healed ‘And sorrow deep in the human heart, ‘That cannot be revealed. I did not know the pain you bore, I did not see you die, But only knew you stole away ‘Without bidding me goodbye. "By his daughter, Mamie In sad and loving remembrance of our loving niece and sister, Elizabeth Ethel ‘Yerrili, who died August 8 1915. Dear_is. the grave where our darling, Elizabeth is laid, “weet [8 the memory which never shall fade, Roses may whither, leaves fade and die, Others may forget you, darling, but never shall we. , Our hearts are ever achiog. Although we smile each day; For, our thoughts are with you, Whom God has taken away. By her aunt, Robinette Gresham ‘Sisters and brothers. v TAKES THE RINKS O87 E, sete nee PLOUGH’S PZ 2 faterns aoe Ge . RIG fe Qa. Hair Dressing irae? a lad tal 517 ie —— Pay th ema ee Does the Trick Every Time! WRI Gress Re matter what other preva- gee aap— Ree) rations have failed to do—nor — “URAS reas ayy how disappointed you have Rak RSA heen, Plough's Hair Dressing, BSSy ~ ey applied to hair and scalp, ey Hg siraighcons out, your, Kini, Ny } i eoarse hair and makes your \ ~_ fi suman at “ae Hap Josh trous and casily*combed and R # brushed. Plough's Haic Dress- a pres edorighttully perfumed. : “Agents Attention: Send money order in advance for $1.75 and wo will send fou prepaid 12 large 2he cans of Ploust's Hair Dresxlax that will Sling vou when sold $2; a8 it sells like hut enkess you will soon be buy- bring you when so) Se: A eM want to be our aaent, send money order ing 12 agven at a time? Th Soredic at these prices. Free. sampin sont (0 aoe arate amonts: pass for packing. Plough» Mule Dress ing {s sold all over the world. 9 SENT PREPAID. PLOUGH CHEMICAL CO., Memphis, Tenn, BOWEN—In sad and loving remem prance of my dear husband. Joseph Bowen, who departed this life one yea ago. July 30,1918. 0 ann! My life is so. weary, s0 fif'ot sadness anc pain, Each day brings its shadow, its mists an¢ its rain ‘There is no ray of sunshine, my pathwa to cheer But sorrow would vanish if my husbane were near. Each hope for me is blooming But blooms to decay Each joy that I treasure soon. whither: away. 5 My dreams full‘of beauty in gloom dis appear, But soon all would brighten if my hus band were here. By his loving wife. ja ta Mollie Bowen FELIX B. PYE, Sr. 102 E. Mulberry Street Funeral Director and Embalmer Phone, Mt, Vernon 3603. a ea eee | «JOHN H. TOADVIN.... | _ 142 W. HILL STREET . | THE UP-TO-DATE UNDERTAKER fe can furnish a furneral for 310.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, ete, trom: his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not . come to see him, just call i 422 or South 396-Y 7 342 W. Hill Street and Mount Vernon 5438 826 Druid. Ha Ave. GRASON—In sad and loving remem brance of our dear aunt, Minnie Gilli Grason, who departed this life three year ago, August 1, 1913. Far beyond this world of changes Far beyond this world of care We shall meet our missing aunt in our Father's mansion fair. 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WACELAILISI NS ee aR STRALGMTRRUNG AND SHAM FCO (SD ‘ages ue sacar , * Z PUATEDAAARGE AND ERY STROND FOGARRCUORRERI!- sanireo nao wn stents ‘CANNOT BORM THE HANDLE OFF, SPECIAL COMB NO.025 WORDEN HANDLE OCETNG DEVICE HOLES THE HANDLE, LARGE MHD VERY STRONG. MAKINGAGOGP AND ‘VOTHOUT SOLDERING, PRICE $100 ‘SLRVICEABLE COMB FOR KINKY AND KHAPPY HAIR FORD'S SMALL BRASS” MICHEL PLATED. PRICE, $1.00. rags meu seo __ Ua a arama a HAIR. OHeREL RATED, PRICE 25 Raanarracrténns co¥B no.0Z6° hewokecrnce soe Fons Hara ‘feet rane saute amass nos. Ven SERMCERONE ALL. OUR. GOODS WAPRANED, AS DESCUBED: 08 MONEY RERAGED. PRICE SOF PANE ro orsen on pec aan 0 on RECT OF e | RRICE.IM WRITING DMLCT, SEND MONEY BY POST ‘OFFICE OR EXPRESS MONEY ORDER OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 46 W.INZIE ST.CHICAGO, 1 am desirous of taking thie opportuniuy of thanking my mang friends an patrons of my father the lace SAMUBL W. CHASE for their past patronage and to announce that the business wij! be carried on in the name of SAMUEL W. CHASE ® SON and that ] promise to give allcalls my persons) attention. gaaran:ee ing most polite and courteous services at all times, whether in city or suburbs, and most reasonable. crarges. Thanking you all again for your past patronage and asking @ continuance of the game, I remain Yours respectfully 2.MORTON CHASE 1400: MOSHER STREET . Branch Telephone Madison 1990 81 J STREET, SPARROWS POINT Alfred Nixon General Agent Jobn H. Bolland. Agent “433 N, Gilmor St Phone Sparrows Point 232 R Phone Gilmor 3961 M CARDS OF THANKS. | Me, and Mrs..Clarence Bowman wish to thank thelr many friends for their kind| attention during the illness of their | mother, Mrs, Mary C. Hicks, 2395 Division street. I wish to thank my friends, as well as those of my. recently. deceased wife, ‘Adazella Davidge, for their many kind- nesses during her long illness and for their floral: tributes, following her demise. ‘She was born in this citv 40 years ago,and is survived by her parents, one sister and ‘one brother. Rev, P. W. Wortham con- ducted her fiunerel services. Amiel Davidge, 313 N ‘Gilmor-Street ~ Clarence Junes and ‘relatives wish to ‘thank their many friends for their _kind- ‘ness during the illness of his wife, Helen 'B. Grass, a for the floral tributes at her aeeehe s Mrs. Robert A. Elliott ‘ Successor To THE:Lage Rosear A. Eu.torr : FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER 506 ROGERS. AVE. Near Hillen St. Branch Office 2109 Druid Hill Ave. Phone Mt. Vernon 4528 IMMEDIATE SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT In regards to the report that I have formed a partnership, I wish to state that [ am_ absolutely alone, and have no partnership connection with anyone. Respectfully, | MRS: ROBERT A. ELLIOTT. FUNERALS. MevRichard Neale, the father, of Mrs Martha J. Bryant, died Thursday. Jul ith. 6 am. at Frederick, Md. | Age 7 years. The remains were brought to Balti moae and buried Saturday July 29th from Metropolitan M. E. Church of wnich he was a member for over 45 years. ‘Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep, From which nore ever wake to weep. THE NEW STYLES ARE IN THIS BOOK af@eeme my ? 2 See TO COLORED Se-sremieaneg @ WOMEN Snes “Tein beaitifal Hook shows siplen of the very bert’. eee MY quality creole hair, that is guaranteed to stand combing Set Rei IRE Sad.weshiog the same as your own. We are the largest. SoMa ase manafectarer and importers of ie bale ood can fier you Mr ay par thitwhete fer chesp'sad tslartor we = bn 2B i Oy i le not fully setfed your monty will be refunded. . This straightening comb is made of solid -bréss © @———————_— rere ery ‘with an extra ‘heavy ‘back-and is the best. and tara moet serviceable thade. Sent* postpaid for 89. HIRANtHHIg in We alio sell: hols by the posnd, hair nets, breshes, combs,” 2 ond ‘other (ollel articles at extroordinary low prices.' Send wo cect sae Goer eet AGENTS. WANTED | HUMANIA-HAIR: CO. S3°2cz2"s 5 7 UV. 23 Duane Street, NEW YORK On July:24, Ellen B. Gross Jones, be- loved wife of Clarence Jones, departed this life at University Hosipital. The {unersl was from her late ‘residence, 423 Mosher street Low mass held at St Barnabas Church. Interment in St. Thomas Cemetery, Charles county, Md. When you Are Sick => YOU CAN SAVE Doctors’ Bills, Nurse’ Bills, Medicine Bills | and Dollars--By Going to- Provident Hospital 413-15 W.BINDLE ST: ae Apply to Dr. Harry F. Brown, Superintendent _ At the Hospital. Mt. Ver.4356 : ge HAIR pas | ieee wee) BECOMES __| Se ag) STRAIGHT, pe ia. | is - ey LONG Sees) BY USING Scorer reap “ee” HEROLIN ey J HAIR DRESSING, . NEW _DISCOVERY— ‘HOT STICKY: OR, GUMMY. 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DAI ee Oe INDAY F take motor-tripsand go to. theutres . -OUR MOTTO. ‘ : je pee : 26 s 5 9 G29] By Appo as “ i se: [She Senees ag ae aeseions forvveu] ; persis cons. es we ing |) 2. 10-9. M.A ee ae BY MARGARET SLAC to accompany him, he is usually ac~ DIRECTORY 1 ‘To, them ‘your'daily custom brin | \e ry IDEAL ae —___ | companying. some other woman. = fatchless Flour soul find there R THE Ree ary \)) Eats Deas: Momsen Sete ee —_——_ ra Ss Of Baltimore's Prices always just and fa Ny Pos ry) ee ‘This column is for you all, Writ RI : eee Views: ‘Sous idees, “Souk | FoF the Ibenetit of oir reuders who| Advertisements ne, [ipods Macaroni, Sop nee 0 " i CA) e: P A ORS. %s Thonghts, in fact, anything you want{like ta lave their whereabouts known Best Busines Men Coffee, Sugar and Oatmeal tot AN to, Say Anvihing in reason, will’ be bie column will print personals up to} | cand Buckwheat fravant Tea C ‘ Ba Ue ery Sheaat eiaee OES Domotec ts a pity ‘ice fs ‘ Baer ner wn sere sen, Sy ey 2, Git Seca ttn] HAIRDRESSING [R°"" “ioreeac tet reo N.W. Cor. Penna. Ave. and Dolphin St. Unle kink use Keeping, home| yy, -. *. 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[Lees ee ae cute rae) GSS ADMINISTERED PAINLESS EXTRACTING © = 39 Join De and :be- One: al te ' Funeral Director and Emba! ‘i Snes = soecialists in: th d child: es —_—_—— kat our maxtor “We lease” 5] e treatment: of nervous women ani ren’ ei; mnemices 7 foo co ersonthTPEecAVER ERR Jcte:"We sim wosleae” {We are specialists in the treatment of nervous women anc cl iy SO EE Se ee eeeeee, Mreeees Say “Sorry imyself.” said J, “but Juck and Jere camping for two werks. As He Joves the Woods nnd the fishing, 1 have promised 16 help him enjoy the crip. Where js Emma? Perhaps the and Tom wil help te anukte vp the party.” “That is right," replied my friend. “fom has a whole month's vacation: gust the thing. J] hope they have not glannedé their vacsuen as yet.” Wait, wil cal up end find out.” $022 M please. Helio! Is this Em- me” “Xo, cume the answer. “she ie shop ping. This is Tora.” “Just ax good." sald my deur iriend “Do you think } could induct you and Emma to join us on a motoring tour zor the month of August? There are ive of us and We only need yeu two je complete the party.” “Sure I) come, as 1 love motor- ing.” replied Tom. “and your wife?” asked my friend. “Ym not so sure about ber.” said tom, “You.see, Emma Gves not care for motoring and then. there's the houee and the dos’ “But surely she will not stay home gor the house and the dog. She can tock up the house and put the dog jp the dog home umil she returns. Piease uy io persuade her to go.” “Well. i advise you. to call her up about five o'clock and. see.” About six o'clock my friend rung Emma. up and she did see. Emma thonghi the tip would de her good, because sne was 50 Ured of the constant deinand of her time for Secial functions, chins and other af fairs, at “But what,” asked my friend. ‘There wax the house: she id net Uke the idea of shutting it. up. nor iid she like the iden of pusting the gear dog in the dog home for # whole ienth, You seer, he Was so vsed 16 her and heme, he would mist her Tevribiy and might refuse to rat and pet sick. Ber Tom could go. | The Zhp wectd de bim good and she knew se would enjoy every second of the And. poor, o0lish woman, she real so meant i She was perfecuy will- ing to leeve her popuner, geod-2ooking husband wke the wip. Stop over at ciferent summer revorts over night. of # rong house or Dovel of evenines, er when they felt dike it, unfold their vente and sleep under God's blue cun- epy opt in the open. while in the party seus her dear friend and her husbund, 2 erase widow, a frivolous college girl ind a society belle, The urine widew, the frivolous cole lege gis] aimd the society belle, alt three ieheving in living thelr own ves. in affiniuies. in seul mates and shat people were anads for exch oiher regardless of the ue that binds them. Phe grass widow rw decided bru- eme—preny and ony 26—wih: a) Ennck of wearing cloubes that maker ‘ner jook stunning. Her mouth js a) Mule wide, but oh! those ieeth, | The college mise 1 2 model so far —areamy eyes. dreamy Ways—a reeu- far sylph. The society belle. an ull-round cood time girl, who plays tennis, croquer, rolf, Joves to row. ride, fish, swim. end dunce: joves to play the plano in the twilight and pick the mandolin & guitar im the moonlight, with a spice of deviltry thot is irresistitve te wuost men. She admires Wg, strong. handsome men, does nor believe in somun suffrage snd thinks the wom-| an’s piece is in the home with a big family. ‘Which one of the three ao you think will. capture Tom? J started te try to guess as soon as] knéw who was in the pyrty: Jack and ] wonder af ix will be the girl with the dreamy eyes. the lovely grass widow or the facinating society: Belle. Of course it will not be serious for ether th man of the woman, I soul hate 10 see either of the girls cake things seriously. J am only afraid uhea some day the smooth. pla- cid way will be broken for Emma, and when her husband gets-tack from his motor wip she will have more to worry about than the house and the dog. 1 know a woman whose husband is 2 go0d as gold 10 her so far, but who always has some lodge business oF a jodge meeting to atiend, while she site placidty at home. If he asked her to accompany him on un excursion or picnic or an even- Sng of pleasure, shealways had an ex- cuse. “Oh, 1 don't care for it; you go und enjoy yourself.” is generally ‘her answer. . Some day when. it is too. late she will wake up. Today her husband is having a gay old me und. other women. ure only 100 anxious to cone uibute to his pleasure; She will find some day ‘that business and pleasure. have dwindled. down "to the old, old Blory of wine and women. 1. would not care ‘if the house. was shut up for a year and the dog: ‘had to live in the dos home forever, any thing rather than see my--happiness destroyed. by something: so foolish, and 1 would-always be ready to"ae- company my husband op any wip he company my husband. op any trp. Anim: -. Get: ready anc De as eager’ to take motor’ twipsand go. to theutres and dances as he is anxious for you 10 go, for when ‘he ceases't0 ‘ask you io. accompany him, he is usually ac- companylng some other woman. | For the benefit of our readers who Jike 10 have their: whereabouts known Rais column will print personals up to four lines free of charge, provided they reach this office not Jater wan Wednesday” snorning, sersonuls Jong- er dhan four Hines or uiter than Wed- nesduy morning should be aecompu- uied by twenty-five. coms in order 10 f publication, LOGAL NOTICES ' Among the vishors to the’ Afro- Atuerican this week were Misses Ahiue 7: Rich, alice G. HM ana Merch J Howard. “A surprise was tendered Mrs. Rebecc: James on last Monday evening at he home, 411 Moore s:reet by the members of Bethe) Council 339 1. 0. St. Luke of Which she was a faithful member until he recent illness for the past six months Mrs. Lilie Tuyler, of 707 George sineet. Je recovering: fromm a briet Sil ness. Ars. Shirley Washington and her dauginer, Paula, have gone ie Gor- Gonsville! Va., for the summer, They tire visiting their cousins, Mrs. Champ Morton and. Mrs Nunwie Morton Creamer. whe is very I Mrs, Lydia Burke, of 1228 Exsing siren, hue gone 1 Rochester, N.Y to visit her niece, Mrs, Arthur John- son, The Exeemive Commitee of the Rulsimore distriet met at the residence of Mn Rohen Henson, 622 Pitcher rect, last Saturday evening in ihe interest of Sunday Schoo) work. collution Was served after the mer: ins, Mise Helen H., und. M. Edna Jock- son, of 1825 Argyle avenue, will spend the month of August at Hovel Ridley, ‘stlantic City Miss Alice Peters of Washington, D. C and Miss Florence Murray: of Alexandria, Va., have returned to their homes after xisil in the city as the guest of Miss Grace Hughes, of 1615 Division street. Mrs; Carrie Baradoes, of Portsmouth Va, who has been the guest of her brother and sisterin daw, Mr. and Mrs. R. Jeffer Fon Cross, of 107 N. Cerey street for sev eral weeks, has returned home last. week Dr. A. C. Garner, R. W. G._Chief the 1.0. St. Luke, Mrs. Mary E, Collins State Deputy accompanied by Mrs. Harri all of Washington, were entertained a dinner on last Sunday at the home o' Mr and Mrs. W. J. Benrs, 108" N. Carey street Mr. Eaward’ Hughes, of 928 War- ner street. has seturned from attend: ing the funeral of hie sister. Mrs, Em fin 3. Gambs, Xo, 2 Donelass street Cainbridse, 30a, Mrs. Willie Lee und children, of LUE Druid Hil avenue, are spending 3 few weeks in Virginia. diss Susie Trust, of 1408 Myrde avenus has returnee from # visit to Virginia Messrs Robert Goodlow, ‘Thomas }:, Smith and E, Bernard Taylor are spending # brief sojourn in Canada, Mr. Delaware James te able vw be out after a hist iiness, Mrs. Flurence Douglass und ehil- aren, of $1 Vine sireet, are in addan- tie Cay, ; Fyof, Wittiam Pickens, dean of Mer gan Culicee, witended the thirreemth hua) session of the Nations) Asso- cmon of Colored Texehers at Nash- ville Tam week. Specie! Dinner by the St. James P’ E. Churehmen's Club on their Outing ‘Avgust 18th, Do not miss it, BUSINESS MEN MEET The Business Men's Exchange. Mr. Wm. H. Dodd, president, met at its huilding on Pennsylvania avenue. Jast Thursday night, Cwing to the press of other business inatters: the payer which was to have béen sead by Mr. Clarence B. Wright on “Business was. postponed until the last Thursday in this month, Jt was. decided that % committee be apppuinted to’ make 4 survey of the number of colored business enterprises in the city us well as the number of workers in the vari- ous trades. CONTEST FOR ESTATE GOERS ON | Another chapter in tie conus. over ‘the $100,000 esuite of the lute James L. Richens was writen Saturday. when the white widow of the testator fled u writ of replevin in the Court of Common Plexs to secure possession of the houscholé efiects in the Hitch- ens home, 1736 E. Preston street, The writ was directed against sttor- neys Warner T. McGuinn, German H. BH. Hunt and Peter 3. Campbell, who have been named administrators. fol- Jowing the cuveating of the will by the three brothers of the deceased through Attorneys Hawkins and Me- Mechen. Hitchens left one brother #100 und the other two #250 each. The attorneys for the brothers will attack the validity of Hitchen’s mar- yiage to the white woman, the laws of Maryland prohibiting the same. The white adopted son of the deceased was left the bulk of the estate. 8t James P E Churchmen's Club Twilight to Brown’s. Grove August 19th. Music Blake's Orchestra. - enn One Hair In The Head Is Worth-Ten In The Brush. _. Get HAIR VIM Soap to Shampoo the hair and give it new life, (Get HAIR VIM Tonic to invigorate the. hai stop itching.cand restore it 10 2 healthy condition. Get'HAIR VIM Pomade to cure Tettea. Dand- ruff, stop the hair from falling out and make it grow long and'wavy. = For sale at all Drug stores. price 2 sed, bya Sie, Wereach the Bir Ving Method of growing hair, and give. Diplomas. Try 4 of our Hameous Treatmens for $1.00. The~Hair Yim:-Beasty Parlor Branch, 1514-Pennsylvanie Aveane ~ Baltimore, Ma, AFRO-AMERICAN BUSINESS DIRECTORY Advertisements ( Of Baltimore's Best Business Men HAIRDRESSING MADAM FANNIE DORSEY 1128 Argyle Avenue ° Tas giles te, ee Madan JOHN A. BISHOP Funeral Director and Embal 1107 DRUID HILL AVE. C,&P. Phone Mt. Vernon 854 W. A.RILEY » Shaving Parlor .. Styles of Hoi Curing 18c. Children's Hair Corting 1de. Elecric massare Electric Shampooing: — 1537 Penna. Ave., near. Mechen C. & P. Phone Frank A. Simmons HOUSE PAINTER 1932 Druid Hill Avenue Work Guaranteed GEO. F. BLACKISTONE 1216 PENNA. AVENUE Opp. N. W. Police Station ‘SHOE REPAIRING While YOU WANT Ms ork has no equal. My Price can't be beat | "Work called for and delivered Pianos and Organs Tuned. Polished and Re paired. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. JOSEPH A, HAYES Graduate Piano Tuner 705 Ensor St.. Bultimore, Md | FOR SALE. 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PAGE Residence: 1304 Argyle Avenue DRESSMAKING AND PLAIN SEWING DONE 3Y MRS. SARAH MORGAN Residence: Notchcliff, Md, Established 1898 Phene:lMad. a55e'Y -,OLIVER J. CABLK.. _ Pract cal ‘House: Painter 2143 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Gold St. Paper Hanging, Brick Fronts | And Roof Work .- Signs a Specialty.:. - -OURMOTTO. PS as Sa fey al | Saas Macaroni, Syrup new 0 Coffee, Sugar and Oatmeal to! gee rae Senter ural, J oe eee era peed. | [tanh sete camel [te ee incac bara Gree MARSHALL'S GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS 533 DOLPHIN STREET, COR. DIVISION BALTIMORE. MD. EXCLUSIVELY FOR LADIES : : MME. KING’S : ; BAIR DRESSING, MANICORING § } AND MASSAGE PARLORS § ; Derma} Treatment : 1510 Pennsylvaiz Aveune. 8 }ONEARSMITHSTREET > Phone Madison 3782 M. : ’ poevasvecsneoccescooesees oeopasnosenssocescoeeoess pd Fed ED FD Fd OD ) “BAIRDRESSER TO SOCIETY” 1 OF COURSE THERE ARE OTHERS 2 : ' HAIR DRESSERS 2 BUT ONLY ONE 2 «POINDEXTER... | | PXPERT MANICURING AND MASSAGING > 833 DRUID HILE: AVE. 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You will be convinced az once, Go 10 your Drugsist todas and get one. A small size Pokude and Shampoo. will convince you. Onis 12 Cents each at Drugstore or Grocers. or send 38 Cents to the office. 131¢ Pennsyleania Avenue, Balto. Md,. i willeome bs mail. Price of full ipesgiemn 5 a Drugstores. or $1 by mall Dr Fennell's, Reads. all the Robinson curate Drugstores, or anv Drugstore you may go. Send ‘amps when less than 3 dollar. ——THE—— EAST INDIAN BAIR POMADE CO. LOCAL OFFICE: 1514 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. ‘BALTIMORE. MD. Phone: 2275 J Madison Ereats, wanted everywhere, good terms. for aston. FOR SALE—The first five dollar check or bill will take two Narge, stoves suitable for a small Church or Bail. One. is in good condition, the other needs repairs, | Apply Afro-American Office. FOR RENT -A neauy furnisbe. ina desirable location in Northwestern section of the city. Suitably for a settled person or two your? women Cali or address S. 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One 25-cent can will convince you. ; Scientifically prepared at é YOUNG’S PHARMACY. ) + Druid Hill Ave. and Hoffman St, ee a hae re Wd ee) Wp Nesmey GROWSHAIR: | Bh <A Be Lobos). 1) 18 geek aes PU ars a, SU ie ty 77) eee Ae \@aceeime QUINACOME Be *) pelt, CB o Ag ek S ee BGS AME Aion, /. / Oe > eee Bec Lian ee TD Ce ee en ee ee ee MRS. L. J. PECK f Wishes to introduce to you the superiority of the Walker { method. The more you use. the Walker Method, the more you Will be drawn irrestibly t the use of it’ I am l } prepared to give the treatment or teach the methed. Walkers’ Preparations For Sale. At { i 521 MOSHER STREET Cembings Made Up Phone,Madison 3236 W i FR fs FMD ERS Cee OD FD Oa Ea EO OS FD Cac FD a a Sc SE Mme. Martha Thompson HAIR CULTURIST AND FACIAL MASSAGE ‘After having your heir treated with Mime. C. J. Walker's Methods and Hair Grower, whichis guaranteed to make your hair grow and keep our dandrutf, stop and bave your ace massaged. : « Will teach you the course o. bair growing. 2143 CIVISION sf. Call to See Me or Phone Madison S364 J. y feetngtg TRMaGiC IsQitos i Se Fre SAMPOD), ee innit > . Seo ll NM wanenssemernuses i =, Agents Wanted. ‘Write for Literarere 9 » Magic Shampoo Drier Co S Minneapolis, Mina - Dr. PALMER'S! SKIN - ITEMER ee pitas ss? eee > 25c SS | Postpaid S Sf Whitens and’ Clears dark or brown skin. Bleaches sallow or dark complexion, causing it to grow whiter. Get the origi- na] Dr. Palmer’s Skin Whitener. Do not:ac-, cept imitations. Sold by druggists or sent direct postpaid- any- where in the United States for 25¢. Re- member the name, }: Dr: -Palmer’s: Skin: ‘Whitener.- Made only: ‘by. gota eae JACOBS’ PHARMACY. ATLANTA GAL 0” AGENTS WANTED re mo i pe ex Y LEE S| @ Boy ) ie e Vm” B 2 Do = Ss =a ==) EL, > == SS l= EF owe seuuain'coops |S YN WIGS, PUFFS, SWITCHES, ero: CHEAPER THAN ANY OTHER FIR! OUR GOODS ant GUAR EED MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED WE ‘SELL THE FINEST HAIR STRAIGHTENING COME IW THE WORLD NONE BETTER MADE} FREE- A BEAUTIFUL_CATALOGUE TO EVERYONE MENTIONING THE > NAME:OF THIS NEWSPAPER © = 647-STEINWAY. AVENUE: LONG ISLAND CITY-NEW. YORI ees ‘Agents: Wanted 00.21.95! Advertise, lt Pays DEPRECIATING PROPERTY IN THE CITY The Patapsco Park Land Co., Inc. TELEPHONE WILLIAM W. B. DAY MADISON, 13073 BITUMINOUS COAL ANTHRACITE Temporary Location 1120 Carrollton Ave. 1 Just think of it, $90.00 to $400.00 for one of these valuable lots and on long-time payments. Take time by the forelock. Don't lose this wonderful opportunity to secure one or more of these beautiful building lots, as they are selling fast. REMEMBER! PATAPSCO PARK is the only suburb strictly for our colored citizens. Over 700 of these beautiful villa sites have been disposed of, to the very best and most prominent colored people of Baltimore City. Our prices are the lowest, terms the easiest, location highest and healthiest, and railway facilities the best. Our contract is the most liberal ever offered land buyers before. The Patapsco Pa 106 LAW BUILDING GROUND FLOOR ANNUAL OUTING WATER'S BY WATER WHO? THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WHERE? TO GREATER BROWN'S GROVE WHEN? MONDAY, AUGUST 7th, 1916 WANTED—HOW MANY? 1500 PROF. T. HENDERSON KERR'S FASCINATING ORCHESTRA THE SPECIAL EVENT OF THE DAY WATER'S BY WATER FARE ROUND TRIP, 25 CENTS Boat leaves Miller's Wharf at 8.00 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. Waters, Superintendent E. S. Hill, Secretary Rev. A. L. Galnes, Pastor CABARETTE MOONLIGHT BY THE PRELLA PLEASURE CLUB TUESDAY, AUG. 8th TO BROWN'S GROVE MUSIC BY THE COMMONWEALTH BAND JOE ROCHESTER AT PIANO, THEODORE UPSHER, SINGER D. H. Howard, President M. Cummings, Chairman TICKETS 25 CENTS THE STAR THEATRE THE TWO TAYLORS Refined Comedy, Singing and Dancing MONDAY, Second Episode—The Grip of Evil TUESDAY, The Devil's image WEDNESDAY, The Secret of the Submarine Episode No. 8 FRIDAY, The Mysteries of Myra Open 6 p.m. Episode No. 8 SATURDAY, An Indian Picture Every Saturday Saturday Matinee Open 2 p.m., Moving Pictures & Vaudeville ADMISSION 5 CENTS THE BIG WATER CARNIVAL Y. M. C. A. ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 1916 4 p.m. BROWN'S GROVE 4 p.m. Boat Leaves at 8.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. Secure Your Tickets Early. TICKETS 25 CENTS For further Information See Large Bills Advertise your business and success will follow. Reading Anthracite Figure. Payments cease during sickness or if out of employment. Free deed, in the event of death. Title guaranteed. We have over 400 satisfied customers, who are the proud possessors of these beautiful water front to hill top villa sites. Send for list. Patapsco Park is situated at Pumphrey's, on the Annapolis State Road and Brooklyn Avenue, five miles from the City Hall. Eleven minutes' ride 'on the Annapolis and Baltimore Electric R. R. from Camden Station, and sixteen minutes' ride on the W. R. and A. Electric R. R. from Liberty St. Station. Grand free excursion from Camden Station 1.45 and 2.45 P. M., daily or at any time by appointment. Sundays from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. Free tickets and all information cheerfully given upon application at our city office. BALTIMORE, MD. PHONE. ST. PAUL 3119 ..New Regent Theatre.. Week of August 7th .. Subject to Change VAUDEVILLE'SUPREME THE RUFFIAN PICKS SOME KLASSY KOLAND KIDS PHOTO PLAYS MONDAY Winifred Greenwood and Edward Coxen in "The Profilgate". A powerful heart-interest Drama, then some Comedy. June Daye in "Sorrows of Happiness." Anthony Kelly's original photo drama in five acts. Also a good comedy. FRIDAY TUESDAY Alfred Vosburgh in "The Silken Spider".a. powerful flying "A" Drama, illustrating DeMussets Famous Lines. Margurite Gibson in the "Jungle Outcast." A thrilling romance of the sea and wilderness. Do miss it. "No title," a screaming comedy. "There is Nothing Real in Life, but Suffering, and Nothing Good, but Loving." "Gay Blades Last Scrape," a roaring Comedy, with a Hundred Laughs. WEDNESDAY Robert Warwick in the "Man of the Hour." One of the greatest dramatic successes known to the American stage. Dealing with Graft and a Scheme by a Political Boss to elect a corruptible Mayor. greatest dramatic successes known to the American stage. Dealing with Graft and a Scheme by a Political Boss to elect a corruptible Mayor. A Big Out-Law Feature. Watch the Front of the Theatre for Display Advertise ment. Cartoons and Comedys Galore. NEXT WEEK—Miles Quartette Impersonators and Cake Walkers. COMING—Bert Williams in Moving Pictures, will announce date in next issue of Afro-American. GREAT CAMP MEETING MT. ZION M. E. CHURCH, PARKWOOD GROVE REV. MATTHIAS WILLIAMS, PASTOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 6TH, AT 3 & 8 P.M. Special Sermon by Rev. W. D. Wood, of Philadelphia, Pa. Come see this great grove with its towering oaks and sparkling water. It is w iith in easy reach of all. Only 5 miles car fare. Take any cross line car and transfer to Be lair Road Line. Get off at Valley View Avenue and walk one square West. . The Drexel Twilight Moonlight Society Excursion. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1916 TO BROWN'S GROVE PERSONAL DIRECTION OF MR. ERNEST PURVIANCE BLAKE'S ORCHESTRA STARLIGHT The Following Dates Have Been Booked Praella Pleasure Social. Smith Court 24, G. U. O. Nazarites. 10-The Lightmen Association. Ladies Aid of Asbury M. E. Church. Girl Porters Pleasure Club Cleff Club Short Skirt Girls Social. M. Nebo Lodge 1866 G. U of O F Institute Working Club. Jolly Odd Fellows Hill Brothers. Joly Boys Social. Jake E. E. Fellows Colored Women's Exchange. 28-Slimms' Pickaninny Band. Flaming Arrow Social. Imperial Association. 6 Jolly Five Waters A M E S S Mountain Basket Church and S S Independent A M E Church and SS 1 Y. M. C. A GoldenKey Society No. 1, O. of M. Sequimian M. E. S S. 16 John Wesley M. E. Church. National Benefit Agents Club. St. Matthews Church & S S. Lutherville and Reisterstown M. E. Church St. James Church Brown Circle St. Peter Church's Church Morning Star Drill, K. P. M. A. M. Church 7 Wise Men St. John's A M. E. Church Silver Spring Social Brotherhood Asso, and Female Ushers of Trinity A. M. E. Church Choral Symphony Oratorio Society SEPTEMBER Excelior Social Doctors' Coachmen Junior Association. Oxfordian Church Colored Women's Industrial Exchange Electa Chapter SEPTEMBER 1-Mt. Zion M. E. Church 4-Hiawata Social 6-Colored Catholic Club 7-Mrs. Paul M. E. Church 14-Somerset Pleasure Social 15-Annapolis Dist. Woman's Home Miss. Society> CAREY THEATRE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 PROGRAM FOR WEEK OF AUGUST 7. MONDAY—Who's Guilty, ninth episode entitled, The Weaker Strain, Anna Nilsonn plays the role of Laura Price, wife of a rising young architect, Tom Price, played by Tom Moore. Her voice brings her fame and adoration, much to the discomfort and final jealousy of her husband for whom she finally commits an offense for which the law proscribes a terrific penalty. Peg O' the Ring, episode 3, in the Lion Den. The ruffians choke young Dr. Lund and knock him into unconsciousness with a tent stake, and a moment later thrust Peg into the circus trunk and nails down the cover. Also a roaring Comedy. TUESDAY—Triangle Day. His Picture in the Paper. Our hero Douglas Fairbanks has been shipped to sea, Swaln Shore, fought with the police and got the worst of it, he is some what battered and bruised from being blown up with dynamite but the girl and girl's father are on the train and they agree that he is the real hero. This time without his intention almost, he gets his picture in the paper, and best of all the lovely Loretta Blake. And an interesting and delightful 2 reel Comedy featuring Charles Murray and Alice Davenport. WEDNESDAY—The Secret of the Submarine, chapter 7. Cloi and Hope reach the island safely. But Ogla Morton and "Hook" after the wreck have also reached this island and a little later the Japanese agent arrives. Hope and Cloi reach cabin of Fitsmuurice, but the Japanese agent dynamite the house, throwing it from the cliff into the sea, very spectacular scene. Also Western and L Ko Comedy. THURSDAY—"The Mysteries of Myra", chapter 7. We all know what this great serial is, of a young girl struggle against the Black order, featuring Eustalbrook and Jean Sothern. With a Masterpiece and Comedy. FRIDAY—Triangle Day. "Honor Altar". "Sweet Bessie", Bar rescale has an emotional role that will appeal to all those with human hearts, and human interests. Her unfaltering trust in her husband, her loyalty to him in spite of appearances, makes a strong picture of womanhood at its best. How her inate's virtue overcame the baseness of the man who boasted of his lack of honor scores a telling effect. Also another of those roaring Keystone Comedys. Don't fail to see this production. SATURDAY—"The Iron Claw" chapter 16, entitled "The Unmasking of Davy". The Laughing Mask, hero of Pathe's Iron Claw serial is the champion enigma of the Twentieth Century, for in the last few episodes, just as we thought we had our eyes on his identity he had pulled the wool over them, and we have had to sigh and wait for the next episode. In the latest chapter called, "The Unmasking of Davy," to be shown here Saturday with a great Western and Comedy. For Rates Call Mt. Vernon 2833 SEE GILBERT FIRST First Class Carpentering I320 DRUID HILL AVENUE Or Call Madison 342