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University at Richmond, Va. Makes Steady Progress. FOUNDED FIFTY YEARS AGO. Speakers at Semicentennial Celebration Give Interesting History Facts Concerning the Beginning of New Famous School—Dr. G. M. P. King as Pioneer Educator. Richmond, Va.—The Virginia Union university in this city begins its fifty-first year under favorable circumstances. The recent graduation exercises, commencement week and the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the schools merged a few years ago to form the present institution, were a big event. The baccalaureate sermon was delivered by the Rev. B. F. McWilliams of the class of 1900. The Rev. Mr. McWilliams is the successful minister of a flourishing Baptist church at Toledo. The address to the graduating class was delivered by Professor John B. Terrell, whose subject was "Works Rather Than Books Define Education". Dr. George Rice Hovey, president of the university, awarded diplomas to the following named students: E. E. Bassette, J. H. Baynham, H. T. Brown, J. H. Brown, W. R. Brown, S. S. Campbell, I. D. Canada, Clinton Clarke, R. M. Fields, Nathaniel Gibson, C. A. Howell, G. W. Lindsay, R. T. McCoy, T. L. Puryear, W. L. Ransome, M. H. Scott, Ramsey Tallferro, J. H. Tolson, J. W. L. Underwood, D. B. Williams and J. T. Wright. A new course instituted in the academy this school year was a Sunday school teacher training class, under the auspices of the International Sunday School association. Professor W. J. Clarke, dean of the theological department of the Virginia Union university, founder and teacher of this new course, presented certificates to the following named men having completed one year's work: R. M. Lawson, B. D. Thompson, J. H. Baynham, M. D. Montgomery, P. C. Balley, H. T. Brown and W. L. Craig. At the semicentennial celebration historical addresses were delivered by Dr. Hovey, members of the faculty and by several alumni. In giving the history of the university the speakers made the following facts manifest: Virginia Union university is comprised of institutions founded in two cities, Washington and Richmond. The National Theological seminary and university was founded in 1865 in Washington, but was later called Wayland seminary under the presidency of Dr. G. M. P. King. In Richmond Dr. Binney's school was founded in 1865; this was converted into the Colver institute in 1867 and later the Richmond Theological institute. In 1890 the American Baptist Home Missionary society decided to unite Wayland seminary of Washington to Richmond Theological seminary, this city, and as a result Virginia Union university was established. In the general anniversary exercises addresses were delivered by Hon. J Taylor Ellison, lieutenant governor Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, superintendent Richmond public schools; Dr. J. H. Dillard, agent of the Slater and Jeanes educational funds, and Major R. R. Moton, commandant at the Hampton (Va.) institute. One of the most interesting meetings of the week was the one at which reports from the graduates of the school were rendered in regard to their personal progress since graduation. Every alumnus made an encouraging address, telling of the success achieved since his departure from his alma mater. The finals of the college and theseological departments ended the commencement week. President Hovey presented the following named men diplomas for the degree of bachelor of arts: A. W. Adkins, G. W. Buckner, J. C. Grant, C. A. Lindsay, R. B. Taylor, B. D. Thompson. Those for the degree of bachelor of divinity were G. R. Malloy, N. D. Oyerinde and H. A. Rogers. W. H. Gray was awarded the degree of bachelor of theology, while the following received diplomas from the theological department: J. F. Garnett, G. W. King and H. H. Overby, Messrs. A. W. Adkins, B. D. Thompson and N. D. Oyerinde received prizes for the best essays on "Self Help." For the next school year the faculty will be strengthened by the addition of two new chairs. William Nelson Colson, A. B., has accepted the chair of social study. He will have classes in this, as well as direct the practical part of this line of work among the colored people of Richmond and vlcinity. Mr. Colson has recently completed the course of sociological studies at Columbia university. During the past year he did efficient work in New York city under the direction of the Urban league. The second chair established is that of physical culture, which will be occupied by Mr. W. T. Robinson of Flsk and Howard universities. As athletic director he will have supervision over all the university sports. Mr. Robinson will also give practical instruction in teacher training. Dr. G. M. P. King was president of Wayland seminary until it was meged to form the present university. QUALITY GROCERIES Hardware, Kitchen and Household Ware, Paints and Oils Liquors Delivered No 8 success of the convention under the enlarged plan has been very encouraging. The sessions were largely attended morning, afternoon and evening by both delegates and visitors. That the New England Baptist missionary convention is rapidly meeting the needs of the churches in its territory was made evident by the growth in membership, finance and church property shown by figures in the president's annual address. The opinion prevails that the organization in the future will not only receive reports from the individual churches within its bounds, but will become the receiving body to which state conventions and other large bodies in the northern and New England states will report their work. In fact, the New England convention will be the clearing house for northern Baptists, including the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. With the idea of the northern Baptist university in view, having the endorsement of most of the ministers and leading laymen of the churches, the convention has created a new field for its educational interests. The Rev. John C. Love of Montclair, N. J., is chairman of the convention's education board and as such has done a commendable work. A fund for the proposed institution is being raised and a board of trustees elected. Another advance step taken at the New York meeting was the election of a layman to the board of managers of the convention and one on the trustee board for the proposed northern Baptist university. The sessions were harmonious, and a spirit of co-operation pervaded the action of the delegates. The receipts were over $2,100, being the largest amount raised at any annual meeting in the history of the convention. The Rev. Dr. W. P. Hayes, minister of the Mount Olivet Baptist church, and its congregation deserve great credit for the splendid business way in which they provided for the delegates and visitors. The convention closed in a blaze of glory on Monday night, June 21, with a fine literary program and reception to the delegates and visitors provided by the entertaining church. The Rev. W. B. Reed, minister at the Mount Olivet church, Newport, R. L., presided. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, L.L. D., Washington; vice president, Rev. W. P. Hayes, D. D., New York; corresponding secretary, Rev. W. A. Harrod, Ph. D., Hartford, Conn; recording secretary, Rev. T. J. King, D. D., New York; treasurer, Rev. R. D. Wynn, D. D., Jersey City, N. J. The convention will hold its next annual meeting at the Second Baptist church, North Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. J. C. Jackson minister, on Thursday before the third Sunday in June, 1916. INFLUENCE OF J. C. EDWARDS Arranges Contest For Free Trip to the Virginia Exposition. The Atlantic City Review, one of the largest and most influential daily papers of Atlantic City, N. J., through the earnest efforts of J. C. Edwards, the Atlantic City correspondent of the National Negro Press association, started a contest, giving three free trips to the Richmond exposition, with all expenses paid, to the minister, schoolteacher and any nonprofessional prominent person polling the highest number of votes in their respective classes by July 5. The Rev. Mr. Martin of the Asbury church, 1713 Arctic avenue, Atlantic City; the Rev. Mr. Clark of the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Mr. Hebron of the Mount Nebo Baptist church, Miss Lena Carey and Miss Alice Fowler, public schoolteachers of the Indiana school; Miss Mae Hall of the New Jersey Avenue school, Mrs. Alberta Douglass of the Douglass hotel and Mr. Harry Jackson, president of the Armstrong Athletic and Social club of Atlantic City, were the leading contestants up to June 26. — New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are listed as one exhibit and will hold as their day at the exposition July 14, at which time they will have a military and fraternal parade and an athletic high school meet and prize drill. The Atlantic City exhibit at the Richmond exposition will be a space of 100 feet arranged to represent the famous boardwalk during the month of August. The chairman of the local commissioners personally appeared before the city commissioners of the resort while in session, and they donated for the use of this feature the city's flags, bunting and decorations, also $100 for traveling expenses, etc. A forty foot boardwalk with railing and electric lights is being arranged, and among the places on the gay wooden way will be the public school exhibit, a post card stand, salt water taffy stand, soft drink and orangeade stand, Absecon lighthouse, Walls' bathhouses, hotel and boarding house information bureau, church and fraternal information bureau, a well known hair dressing establishment and a cafe and auditorium. The exhibits and private collections will be placed in one large store in the center of the walk, and Mrs. Henry Marshall will be in charge. Conference of Land Grant Colleges. Principals of schools coming under the head of the land grant colleges are preparing to hold a conference in Cincinnati in July. Professor Byrd Prillerman has been chairman of the meetings for several years and as such is in possession of much valuable information concerning the object and aim of the land grant system of aiding our educational institutions connected with this movement. OAKLAND SUNSHINE Oakland California July 24 1915 Monday Aug 2nd ellmound Pa Em. ryville arbecue and not rolls. Grand cash prize merry-go-round for the children under the children.. Free Barbecue and not rolls. Grand cash prizes for athletic games. Free merry-go-round for the children under 14 years. Be sure to bring the children... Little ones from 8 down, free COMMITTEE H. Plummer Miss J. Ramsey M. W. R. Strickland, Sr. J. Saunders Fance Committee: J. Bowman S. C. M. Session: Adults, 50c; children from 8 to 1 X Months of Labor Has Made for the R GRO DIRECTORY OF THE BAY A Useful Book for Every Home Sure to Receive One of These Valuable B TILGHMAN PRESS Printing Admission: Adults, 50c; children from 8 to 12, 25c Six Months of Labor Has Made for the Race THE NEGRO DIRECTORY OF THE BAY CITIES A Useful Book for Every Home 1670 THIRTEENTH STREET Oakland, Cal. J. J. ANDERSEN 473 Tenth Street Oakland, Cal. Same Location for Ten Y S A LARGE STOCK OF THE STYLES ON HAND Oakland, Cal. Same Location for Ten Years ALWAYS A LARGE STOCK OF THE LATEST STYLES ON HAND Suits to Order. $25 and up THE MODEL RESTAURANT AY, BETWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGHT The Best Meal in Town for 15 Cents BROADWAY, BETWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGHTH STS. The Best Meal in Town for 15 Cents A Large, Cool Dining Room Meals, 15 and 20 cents, including Tea, Coffee or Milk and Dessert BROWN'S REAL STATE BARGAINS. For sale. Chicken ranch, 6-room house, lot: 75x135, Fruitvale Heights. Price $1950; $30 down. Only $2500; $500 down; interest 6 per cent. Just think, it's a 10-room modern house and the lot is 50x125. Thirtieth street and San Pablo avenue. A new, modern 6-room house in West Oakland. $2750, $250 down. $7500; worth $9000. Fine 2-story house; 6 rooms, bath, den, pantry; modern, up-to-date home; lot 130½x145. Close to trains and cars. Bargain for quick sale. 2745 E. 17th street, near 27th avenue, Fruitvale. I have a few houses for rent and have 10 flats of 5 rooms, bath and gas; $9 per month each. Yes, just nine dollars. I have three wagons, and would be pleased to do your hauling. I am a Notary Public, and a Minister to boot. If you need anything in my line just call at my office. Upstairs in rooms Nos. 1 and 2. L. A. BROWN City Phone CASH GROCERY. ICATESEN. Jan Pablo Ave. ERRY, PROP. FRUITS VEGETABLES Phone Oakland 5813 CLARK BRO Florist Chrysanthemums, V Carnations, Clay St., at Twelfth S. & H. GREEN STAMP In addition to our Dinner Sets, Dishes Ovens, Gas Plates Goods, we are now Trading Stamps with CARNATION CASH GROCERY. DELICATESSEN. 5718 San Pablo Ave. H. KERRY, PROP. GROCERIES FRUITS VEGETABLES 1762 Seventh St., Near Wood. Phone Oakland 5813 CLARK BROTHERS Florists Chrysanthemums, Violets, Orchids Carnations, Roses. Clay St., at Twelfth, Oakland, Cal S. & H. GREEN TRADING STAMPS. In addition to our lowest prices on Dinner Sets, Dishes, Glassware, Ovens, Gas Plates and Household Goods, we are now giving S. & H. Trading Stamps with every purchase. 815 Washington St., bet. 8th and 9th, Oakland, Cal. The following are some of the principles for which the Colored Citizens Protective Association, an organization of colored men and women recently organized for the civic protection and betterment of their citizenry of San Francisco, stand for: The principles we stand for and advocate in season and out of season: We believe that humanity is a unit, and we advocate the cause of right and justice for all sorts and conditions of people, women, children and men. We believe in an Almighty God and we are unalterably opposed to the sovereign will and power vested in one human being, man or woman. We believe in inspired and divine race leadership and we are uncompromisingly opposed to specially hired or charitably bribed leadership for this reason: any man who can be specially hired and privately paid to lead the people can be bribed to mislead the people. We believe that colored men in all parts of the republic should vote and be allied with any political party they desire, and we strongly advocate taking an active part in politics and voting at all elections. We believe in a broad franchise for women and men, and we advocate the same qualification for both, because it is just, right and fair and will work for the success of human progress and good government. The object of the Colored Citizens Protective Association is: To seek the truth by turning the searchlight on in dark places; to oppose false teachings COLORED CITIZEN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. Lester Mapp (Chairman), Chas. Uter, Gillie Richardson, H. E. Shepaprd, Percy Buck, G. W. Stovall, Sam Jones Publicity Committee. John Taylor (Chairman), Jerome Fitzprice, Joe C. Wright, Wm Martin, Walter Farrell, Jas Ellsworth, Geo. Turner. Dr M Shuin Japanese Dentist (Graduate of P. & S. Dental College San Francisco) Licensed by California Board of Dental Examiners. All Kinds of Dental Work Done by Modern American Methods at Reasonable Prices 325 Market Street Oakland, Cal. Gas Fuel, 5 Sacks $1.00 Phone Lakeside 3341. All Other Coal .50Carbon Fuel, 3 Sacks $1.10 BRIDGES FURNITURE COMPANY 401 Eighth Street, Oakland Call and See Our Stock Buy your HOLIDAY SPECIALTIES at PERGERSON'S EMPORIUM Such as FINE CANDIES, STATIONERY, CIGARS AND TOBACCO A. G. Pergerson, Proprietor 4614 East Fourteenth St. Opp. Melrose Station QUINN & SWEENEY Undertakers and Funeral Directors Prompt Service Lady Attendant M. Sweeney John Quian 711 Clay Street, bet. Seventh and Eighth Phone Oakland 7084 721, Myrtle Street 520 Filbert Street THE HAND WORK LAUNDRY COMPANY. 20 Per Cent Discount on Your First Washing. All Work Done By Experienced Hands With Good Care. 1825 Fairview St. Berkeley Pho Piedmont 4025. Ladies and Gentlemen's Fine Work a Specialty Children's Clothes Lace Curtains be written or spoken; to closely examine books written by colored men who pose as race leaders of their people and to impartially, but fearlessly and publicly criticize the same; to seek jobs for colored men in San Francisco, such as clerks, policemen, firemen, street sweepers and other positions; to look after the interest and have the rights of the people defended in the courts of law; to expose the facts concerning fake white and colored so called reformers. We appeal to the women and men to join us in a crusade to change public opinion which at present is so much against colored people. Let us oppose the leadership of all specially paid leadership. We can abolish them. Their headquarters are at the office of Attorney Oscar Hudson, 372-374 Monadnock Building, and the following persons are its officers: Gregory Hobson, president; W. A. Davis, vice-president; Wm. W powers, treasurer; Julius Ealey, secretary; Oscar Hudson, legal adviser. Executive Committee: W. H. Davis, chairman; L. V. Graye, Jim Graves, Percy Buck, Walter Daggert; Campaign Committee: Lester Mapp, G. W. Stovall, Sam Jones; Publicity Committee: John Taylor, chairman; Jerome Fitzprice, Joe Scewright, Wm. Martin, Walter Farrell, Ellas Jasso, Geo. Thomas. If you agree with the principles and the object of the Colored Citizens Protective Association, please send your name and address, with a rejection letter, to the membership roll to John Taylor, 372 Monadnock Building, San Francisco. VolX111 State Laws Basing Right of Persons to Vote on Right of Their Ancestors to Vote Before Enactment of Fifteenth Amendment Are Illegal, Says Chief Justice White. Washington.—Chief Justice White in handing down an opinion for the United States supreme court on Monday, June 21, dealt a deathblow to the "grandfather" clause, which is effective in a number of southern states in disfranchising the colored citizens. The court sustained in its opinion in the Oklahoma and Maryland cases the fifteenth amendment, prohibiting discrimination against colored people, and the Oklahoma and Maryland laws barring them from the polls because their ancestors could not vote prior to Jan. 1, 1866, were declared void by the decision. The Oklahoma law was modeled after the North Carolina and Mississippi laws which disfranchise many thesands of colored men who are entitled to the elective franchise. The opinion of Chief Justice Whitig declares that state laws basing the right of persons to vote on the right of their ancestors to vote before the fifteenth amendment was passed are illegal, unconstitutional and inoperative. The court held that states may prescribe literacy and property qualification tests for voters, but they must not be used as a subterfuge, as in Oklahoma and Maryland, to prevent the N-Go from voting. Frank J. Gulm and J. J. Beal, Oklahoma election officers, were convicted of preventing Negroes from voting in the 1910 congressional election and sentenced to imprisonment for a year and to pay a fine of $100. They appealed to the appellate court at St. Louis, which passed the case along to the supreme court of the United States with-out trying it. The constitution of Oklahoma, upon which that territory was admitted to the Union as a state, gave something very like manhood suffrage. But prior to the elections of 1910 an amendment was adopted severely restricting the franchise. The amendment reads in part as follows: "No person shall be registered as an elector of this state or be allowed to vote in any election herein unless he be able to read and write any section of the constitution of the state of OKlhoma; but no person who was on Jan. 1, 1866, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any form of government, or who at that time resided in some foreign nation, and no linear descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote because of his inability to so read and write sections of such constitution." The government insisted that the "real question involved is the repugnancy of the standard which the amendment makes, based upon the conditions existing on Jan. 1, 1866, because on its face and inherently considering the substance of things that standard is a mere denial of the restrictions imposed by the prohibitions of the Fifteenth amendment and by necessary result recreates and perpetuates the very conditions which the amendment was intended to destroy." Chief Justice White says: "There seems no escape from the conclusion that to hold that there was even possibility for dispute on the subject would be but to declare that the Fifteenth amendment not only had not the self executing power which it has been recognized to have from the beginning, but that its provisions were wholly imperative because susceptible of being rendered inapplicable by mere forms of expression embodying no exercise of judgment and resting upon discernible reason other than the purpose to disregard the prohibitions of the amendment by creating a standard of voting which on its face was in substance but a revitalization of the conditions which, when they prevailed in the past, had been destroyed by the self operative force of the amendment. "We are unable to discover how, unless the prohibition of the Fifteenth amendment were considered, the slightest reason was afforded for basing the classification upon a period of time prior to the Fifteenth amendment. Certainly it cannot be said that there was any peculiar necromancy in the time named which engendered attributes affecting the qualification to vote which would not exist at another and different period unless the Fifteenth amendment were in view." The court held that Oklahoma had not meant to provide a literacy test for its voters if the restriction as to those qualified to vote in 1866 was illegal, and hence struck down that test, although stating that, standing alone, such a test is constitutional. The reading test was stricken out along with the grandfather clause. Chief Justice White said the plain meaning of the Oklahoma constitution, was that the reading test should not be used to disqualify lineal descendants of voters prior to 1866. As this would be accomplished in many cases by continuing the reading test without the offensive exemptions, the whole provision was killed. Mr. and Mrs. Pitney of Spokane, Wash., are the house guests of Mrs. R. B. Stevens, 2302 Adeline street. WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS. M. D. DAVIS, PROP. 1724 Seventh Street. SUBSCRIPTIONS IN ADVANCE One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 ADVERTISING RATES One inch for 1, 2, 3 or 4 insertions $1.00. One-half deposit required on all advertisements. List of wedding presents or party write-ups $2.50. Anonymous correspondence no recognized. Published weekly. Mailed Friday to subscribers. Phone Oakland 7914. Published Weekly. Mailed Friday to Subscribers. Phone: Oakland 7914. Home A 1258 J. M. Bridges.....President AGENTS. Miss F. Stewart.....Marysville W. Posy.....Vallejo Mr. W. Payne.....A. Ersworth. Colony Mrs. S. E. Hines.....Visalia Mrs. S. E. Edwards Modesto. Mrs. C. Davis, San Jose. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION July 24th 1915 401 8th St HIGH ODD FELLOWS DISAGREE. It is to be regretted that a split should come in the ranks of the three-links fraternity right on the eve of the Grand Convention. Some claim that this rupture is a sure sign that no officer in any lodge should hold office more than two terms and that if they are kept longer it is at a terrible risk of the harmony of the order. Mr Dumar Jones has been looked up to as the law-giver of this district and when secretary transacted and performed all the duties of his office to the satisfaction of the members, but of late years Mr Jones, for some cause, has not been held in such high esteem, although his ripe knowledge of the laws entitled him to such social position, and it is claimed is the direct cause of the reversal of feeling. However, we hope that Col. Jones will see to it that these occusations shall prove false and that in the coming years will find him in closer social touch with the race he is unmistakably identified with and the members of the grand old order he so well loves. We are therefore compelled to admit that a good fraternal man, one who has the lodge at heart and is not in it for the few paltry dollars will refuse to submit himself to be kept in office longer than two years. It is to be regretted that at a the three-links fraternity right on Some claim that this rupture is lodge should hold office more the kept longer it is at a terrible risk Dumar Jones has been looked to trict and when secretary transact his office to the satisfaction of the jones, for some cause, has not be though his ripe knowledge of the position, and it is claimed is the ing. However, we hope that Colcusations shall prove false and a him in closer social touch with a fed with and the members, of the We are therefore compelled to ad who has the lodge at heart and is will refuse to submit himself to years. I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER. Under the above heading we made reference last week to the Samaritan part played by a minister in one of our small towns. We now bring the lesson nearer home and apply it to our fraternal societies. It is frequently said that lodges do not practice their preaching outside their lodgeroom and that brothers in the same lodges frequently overlook each other when they have matters of business to transact and patronage to disburse. It is claimed that they will spend their money just as willing with a non-brother as with one of the craft. Now, if this be true it is a grievous error and out of harmony with their sacred obligation. Lodge members should be bound together by a sympathetic tie and that tie should be love and concern for each other's welfare, a keeper of my brother's affairs. His concern is and should be my care. Some societies are more binding than others and are more efficient. Some members are too distant, so much so that they do not notice the business others are engaged in and if so they never attempt to patronize that business. This is inconsistent with their oath. Each brother should know what pursuit or business the other brothers are engaged in, its location, his salary and profit and all about his affairs. Brothers in societies should appreciate their fellow-members in business and give them the preference in all business matters. If running a show, a meat, crockery or hardware store, they should be found constantly at his car and around his place of business. When not busy speaking a word here and there and bringing occasionally a visitor to their brother's place of business, and should be a booster for said business. This is friendly and brotherly love, and what we owe to a lodge member. Anything less is hypocrisy. Under the above heading we Samaritan part played by a minister now bring the lesson nearer home cieties. It is frequently said to preaching outside their lodgewood lodges frequently overlook each business to transact and patronize they will spend their money just with one of the craft. Now, if and out of harmony with their should be bound together by a s he love and concern for each other's affairs. His concern is and s are more binding than others and bers are too distant, so much so t others are engaged in and if so the business. This is inconsistent will know what pursuit or business its location, his salary and profit in societies should appreciate the give them the preference in all bus a meat, crockery or hardware store at his car and around his place oing a word here and there and their brother's place of business, business. This is friendly and be a lodge member. Anything less. There is a strong protest at aside of civil service by the Contract for the janitorship at the Oored contractor, Mr. L. Pollard. The delegates to the Federal in this city Saturday and Sunday them Tuesday evening. Anxiety President. Not a few delegates to that office. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN CHICAGO, AUG. 24. There is a strong protest at the City Hall against the setting aside of civil service by the Commissioners and Mayor. The contract for the janitorship at the City Hall has passed from our colored contractor, Mr. L. Pollard. The delegates to the Federation of Women's Clubs will arrive in this city Saturday and Sunday. A public reception will be given them Tuesday evening. Anxiety is expressed over the office of State President. Not a few delegates will support a northern woman for that office. Large Attendance Expected at Annual Meeting of National Body. The sixteenth annual meeting of the National Medical association will be held in Chicago from Aug. 24 to 26 inclusive. The local committee of arrangements, headed by Dr. U. G. Dalley, is making extensive preparations for entertaining the members of the association. The usual number of papers, embracing every phase of medicine, surgery, dentistry and pharmacy, will be given a prominent place on the program, as in former years, but the outstanding feature of this convention will be the large number of clinics which will be held during the session. Chicago has unusual facilities for clinical demonstrations of all kinds, and the local committee has been alive to the opportunities that may be seized for the benefit of visiting doctors. The larger portion of the surgical clinics will be held at Cook County hospital, which has been recently completed. Others will be held at the St. Luke's hospital and Provident hospital. Arrangements have also been made for special clinics covering diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat, children's diseases and women's diseases. Men who are located in the more remote sections of the country will witness here operations and demonstrations that they have seldom if ever been permitted to witness before, and the local committee and the officers of the association are particularly anxious that the rural general practitioner shall avail himself of the opportunity to be present at Chicago for these wonderful demonstrations of medical, surgical and dental research and progress. The headquarters of the local committee will be in the Y. M. C. A. building, and some of the sessions will be held there. There will, as usual, be public meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, and the session will close on Thursday evening, Aug. 26, with a banquet. Some of the more prominent men connected with the association will perform many difficult and rare operations, and the association as a whole will be invited to clinics conducted by Murphy, Schrader and Ochsner. These men stand at the forefront of surgical progress, and to be able to witness operations performed by them and to observe the technic that they have perfected will be of invaluable assistance to every one who visits these clinics. Special rates will prevail on all the roads entering Chicago. Many from all sections of the country have already indicated their intention of being present. Those who are unacquainted with the city and expect to be there should communicate with the --- split should come in the ranks of the eve of the Grand Convention, a sure sign that no officer in any man two terms and that if they are of the harmony of the order. Mr up to as the law-giver of this dis- ded and performed all the duties of the members, but of late years Mr seen held in such high esteem, al- laws entitled him to such social direct cause of the reversal of feel- Jones will see to it that these oce- that in the coming years will find the race he is unmistakably identi- grand old order he so well loves, mit that a good fraternal man, one not in it for the few paltry dollars be kept in office longer than two be made reference last week to the latter in one of our small towns. We use and apply it to our fraternal so-called lodges do not practice them and that brothers in the same mother when they have matters of urge to disburse. It is claimed that was willingly with a non-brother as be true it is a grievous error a sacred obligation. Lodge members sympathetic tie and that tie should her welfare, a keeper of my brother should be my care. Some societies are more efficient. Some memphist they never attempt to patronize that their oath. Each brother should the other brothers are engaged in and all about his affairs. Brothers our fellow-members in business and business matters. If running a show, he, they should be found constantly in business. When not busy speak-bringing occasionally a visitor to and should be a booster for said motherly love, and what we owe to his hypocrisy. In the City Hall against the setting missioners and Mayor. The con- city Hall has passed from our col- ction of Women's Clubs will arrive. A public reception will be given as expressed over the office of State will support a northern woman for courtrman o. l. a. a. cominiter Dr. U. G. Dalley, 5 East Thirty-sth p. ce. Chicago. PROMOTER OF BUSINESS Charles H. Moore Begins Work of Visi titioning and Computing Language Ring and Organizing Leagues. On Wednesday, June 16, Professor Charles H. Moore, formerly organizer of the National Negro Business league, began an inference through Virginia the district of Columbia, Maryland Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, in the interest of the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Business league, to be held in Boston, Aug. 18, 19 and 20, inclusive. It is Professor Moore's purpose to meet local Negro business leagues in all of the important cities in the states here mentioned and otherwise to devote himself to propaganda work in the interest of the league until the August meeting. It is earnestly hoped that he may have the cooperation of the officers and members of local leagues in the states to be visited by him. Leagues desiring visits from Professor Moore are asked to communicate at once with Dr. Booker T. Washington, president or Emnett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee institute, Alabama. Howard Smith Performs Noble Deed. Howard Smith of Camden, N. J., at the risk of his own life, recently dived overboard and saved the life of a horse by releasing the animal from a wagon to which it was attached. Smith is employed by Charles L. Adams, a contracting teamster of 434 Division street, Camden. He went to the Spruce street wharf with a dump cart, which was backed to the water's edge, and before he could block the wheel of the vehicle it went overboard, taking the horse with it. Losing no time, Smith dived overboard and finally released the traces, and horse and master arose to the surface. Smith managed to climb back on the wharf, while the horse floundered about on the surface of the water, and after some difficulty the animal was landed on the wharf. Thus again a member of our race in New Jersey performs a noble deed. Needs of the Wilberforce University. As an institution of higher learning for our people Wilberforce university, in Ohio, is living up to the ideals of its founders and supporters. The progress of the school under the leadership of Dr. William S. Scarborough the past five years has been wonderful. The institution is in need of an endowment of at least $300,000. This amount is not large in comparison to the amount of endowment held by some of the great institutions of learning in our country. No doubt the trustees, with the president, will be their energies THRIFTY CENTER OF EDUCATION Rapid Growth of State School at Orangeburg, S. C. EXERTS A WIDE INFLUENCE. Notable Achievements of President Robert S. Wilkinson of the Agricultural and Mechanical College—Wins the Distinction of Being an Educational Expert. Orangeburg, S. C. — South Carolina has given to the race one of the foremost leaders and educators in the country in the person of Professor Robert Shaw Wilkinson, president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical college, at Orangeburg. He represents the possibilities of the young men who will prepare themselves, find a place and stick to it. Professor Wilkinson is a native of Charleston, S. C., and was given his foundation for an education in the public schools of Charleston and also completed the normal course in the Avery Normal institute in his native city. He was appointed to the West Point Military academy in 1884 from the First congressional district of South Carolina, a distinction which has been won by but few members of the race. Because of physical conditions he remained there only one year and then entered Oberlin college. He graduated from the classical course in 1891 with the degree of bachelor of arts. He won many honors for his literary work. Because of his achievements in the arts and sciences Oberlin conferred on him the degree of master of arts. Being well prepared, his first real school work was done in the state university, Louisville, Ky. For five years he was active in this work, holding the position of professor of languages and vice president. He made good in Kentucky and made many friends. But when his native state called him to take the position of professor of mathematics and physics in the new state college, established in 1896 under the land grant college en- DR. ROBERT SHAW WILKINSON. actment of the federal government, he be responded by resigning from the state university. Since his connection with the school many positions have been offered him, but he has remained at Orangeburg with the state school, filling several positions. He is an all around man, and when there is a position of any kind to be filled he really serves. The valuation of the property have increased! from $750,000 to $750,000 and the faculty at the same time from twenty-six to fifty-seven and the enrollment from 5.2 to 4.100 annually. New departments and courses have been added, until now it stands as the training place for professional and vocational teachers not alone for South Carolina, but for other states in which the graduates are finding their way in the student body are to be found representatives from Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. It is of interest to know that the graduating class for this year numbers sixty-eight, and there are 112 in the freshman class. The annual budget of the college exceeds $50,000. Dr. Wilkinson had conferred on him the degree of doctor of philosophy by the state university of Louisville, Ky. When it comes to doing things for the race he is always found in the front rank. He is active in many organizations representing refinement and culture and racial uplift. He is a member of the Episcopal church, a lay reader in the Orangeburg mission and holds membership in the following organizations: National Geographical society, Southern Sociological congress, Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias. In the Knights of Pythias he is grand master of exchequer and is custodian of over $20,000 annually for the order. In the extension work he travels extensively annually over the state and is accomplishing great good for the material advancement of the race. He has won for himself the distinction of "educational expert." To him are referred many matters upon which he is considered an authority. The latest development in the institution is the summer school for the training of teachers. In this school 300 teachers enroll each year. In 1897 Dr. Wilkinson was married to Miss Marion Birale of Charleston, S. C. Their union has been blessed with four children. work. This has been done at a sacrifice, but with a desire to help young men. He is devoted to Mehairy and declares that he is willing to do anything in his power for the success of the school. He deems it necessary for the members of the race to make sacrifices like men of the order and rank of Dr. George W. Hubbard. When yet a young man he married, and a few years ago his wife died. Since he has remarried. He has a comfortable home and home surroundings. As to the work of Dr. Hubbard it is interesting to note that he has given fifty years of his life to medical work. Sixteen years ago threw. CHINESE HERB SPECIALISTS. All ailments of whatever nature successfully cured by my wonderful life-giving Chinese Herb. When your case is given up as hopeless by others, give us a trial. No knife used. Consultation free. Hours 10 to 8. DR. WOO, the Original CHINESE HERB CO., 704 Sacramento St., corner Kearny, San Francisco, Cal. Napa, Cal., March 4, 1913. To whom it may be addressed, I had a bad cough about nine months ago; also had female trouble. Seemed to me no doctor could cure me. I they said that I had doctor Dr. Woo a trial, but as Woo had a so-called Dr. Woo a trial, but as Woo had a so-called Dr. Woo's treatment I began to get better and stronger every day. I am now a perfectly well woman. Words cannot express my thanks to this wonderful doctor. I been for him I would not be alive today to care for my little ones. I am very delighted to recommend Dr. Woo to all who are sick. I am doubt this statement they may call or write to my residence. Respectfully yours, MRS. GENOEUFE LONORA. Soscle avenue, Napa, Cal. San Francisco, Cal. Nov. 4, 1914. Kidney, Liver and Female Weakness Susum, Sept. 28, 1912. To the Public: I was a sufferer from liver, kidney trouble and female weakness for years and tried different doctors and remedies until well-night. I have not been able to have to undergo an operation; but as I could not think of this I decided, as a last resort, to try Dr. Woo's treatments. From the first day I was sick I gained my health without an operation. I would gladly recommend him and his wonderful herb remedies to all who are sick. MRS. S. W. WHITE. Suisun. Cal. Dr. Woo, Chinese Herb Co. I received your medicine and was glad to have for you an amelioration if I want a sign of pain anywhere in my life. I feel better than I have for many years. My looks surprise my friends, for I am a perfect picture of how I looks. My husband is feeling quite well and both of us are so thankful for what you and your medicine have done for us, for I do not know where I would have been if it had not now say that I am a well woman and with many thanks and best wishes I remain. Your grateful patient, MRS. H. W. HOWARD. Imlay, Nev. Blood poisoning San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 1, 1912. To the Public: This is to certify that I was cured by Dr. Woo for two months. I seemed to me that my week's treatment, which I had suffered for a year and failed to be cured by other doctors. Yours truly. F. CALONÉCO. 404 Montgomery St. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that I had a bad cough for about two months. It seemed to me that my week's treatment, which I had consumption, and I thought so myself and had given up all hopes when I decided to give Dr. Woo a trial, so I took Dr. Woo's treatment about five weeks and got entirely Words cannot express my thanks to this wonderful Chinese physician. I am delighted to recommend Dr. Woo to those who are I if anyone doubts this statement, they may call or write CARL C. HAMILTON, Gordon Hotel, Pacific St., San Francisco, Cal. Work quickly and neatly done at Parker's Public Stenography Office, 891 Campbell street. Lakeside 1861. All work strictly private and confidential. Dictations taken over the phone by our expert shorthand writer. Give us a call. M. M. PARKER, Manager. S. W. SPKINGER. Mr. Springer, who is now located in the Bacon Block, Oakland, in the real estate business, is a man that comes well recommended and one that is not only a credit to his race but to the whole human race as well. His congenial ways and business qualities will no doubt have a tendency to make the business in which he is engaged a success. He was born in New York and came West in the interest of a concession at the Exposition, but on account of differences that existed he changed his plans and entered the real estate business. Mr. Springer has also succeeded in getting the agency for the northern part of the state of Hartford, Conn. he has placed full charge of a railway insurance of this company. Here is an honor conferred upon one of our race that has never been bestowed before on anyone. We have found him just as he is recommended, coronial and always ready when you enter his office, 7 B. Con Block, to assist those that need assistance. He is reliable and honest in his business transactions, which is everything to a man's business. ROOMS RENTED-FREE Occidental Lodge is making preparations to entertain the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. All those having rooms to rent will list them with the Committee at our Third Annual Picnic, Thursday, June 17, at Shellmound Park. Are you in the big ticket selling contest for the West Indian Association Picnic? If you are not, get in. The person selling the highest number above 30 tickets will be given a round trip ticket to Southern California and $7.00 expenses, so strive to be the winner. The young men who are running the Maroin Hall dancing school on Thursday evenings will make it a point to dispense with the school whenever it interferes with a date taken by any fraternal or charitable organization. They are also in a position to rent Marion Hall at a reduced price on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and Friday evenings, and solicit the patronage of the public. The mothers of the children in the bay cities are earnestly invited by the West Indian Aid Association to bring out the children to be our guests in the afternoon; the more children the boy encue and hot rolls for them. Remember that hundreds of rides are free. The date is Monday, August 2nd; the place Shellmound Park, and we, the West Indian Association, are going to do the honors. All children under 8 years free. There will be a whole barrel of pure West Indian soft drinks to be given free to all the children. W. H. Broyles, Chairman F. W. Moore, Treas. J. B. Wilson, Sec Southern Pacific Thomas, Clark, and Bost d 5247. F W MOORE at Law 1007 B W SPRING INSURANCE Phone Oakland 5247 Attorney at Law 1007 Broadway St SW SPRINGER Agent Travelers' Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. Travel in the Travelers and travel right and be protected by PAST CHIEF COMPANION ASSN. Great Valleys Accident; Health, Liability. Student Harmony, Composition, Music History, Solfeggio and STUDIO: 1929 LINDEN STREET Member of the Alameda County and State Music Teachers' Association of California. Announces the opening of her Fall and Wint- ing Publication. Especial Attention Given to Beginners. Piano Pipe Organ Theory Hours: 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mondays and Churrses. 6 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of Stanislaw Dziuba, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Executrix of the estate of Stanislaw Dziuba, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within four (4) months after the first publication of this notice, to the said Executrix, at the office of Geo. Ingraham, 812 Broadway, Oakland, room 59, which said office the undersigned selects as her place of business in all matters connected with said estate of Stanislaw Dziuba, deceased. LUDWIKA DZIUBA, Executrix of the estate of Stanislaw Dziuba, deceased. Dated Oakland, April 9th, 1915. GEO. INGRAHAM, 812 Broadway, Oakland, room 59, Attorney for Executrix. FOR RENT—A nice 8-room house, nicely furnished. For information see A. W. Cook at the Postoffice from 9 a.m. to 6 p. m. At home, 3524 Market street, after 6.30 p. m. to 8.30 a. m. The regular business meetings of the Afro-American Council of Alameda County are held on the second Monday of each month at the courtroom of Justice Quinn's court, corner Eighth street and Broadway, at 8 o'clock p. m. Every member is urged to attend the regular business meetings. E. J. J. BARRETT, President J. F. SUMMERS, Secretary HEALTH RESTORED BY DRS CHAN AND KONG 大島 義夫 I convince the most doubtful, will give to anyone mentioning this announcement a seven days treatment of herbs at half price. This is barely enough to cover the cost of the herbs. At the end of this trial you will be able to judge for yourself just how efficient this herb treatment is. We have letters of thanks for cures of almost every known disease. These letters from local and out-of-town sufferers are open to your inspection at our office. The following are two of the many letters showing the high degree in which we are held by our many grateful patients: Dr. Chan. Dear Sir: I am pleased to testify to the merits of your Chinese Herbs, which I had occasion to use for stomach trouble, after trying several physicians for three years and obtained no relief. Yours truly, Dear Sir: Having doctored by several doctors for kidney trouble and getting no relief whatever, I decided to take your treatment, and after four weeks was absolutely cured. Respectfully yours, FRANK C. SACHS, 1132 Tennessee St., Vallejo, Cal. MANY NEGRO DOLLS BEING SENT OUT. Nashville, Tenn.—An announcement was made by the Nationa. Negro Doll Company that their rush season, which it usually has during the Christmas, is just now on. This is occasioned, declares the manager of the company, on account of the delay in the importation of material from which these dolls are made. The ship was caught and held as a prize of war and was only recently released, hence the material did not reach Nashville until Christmas day. But the people, says the manager, were so determination to have the size dolls they wanted that they all replied, "We need to get the big dolls." While hundreds of small dolls were sent out, the manager declares that it was surprising to notice that the people wanted the dolls ranging from seventeen to thirty-six inches. The orders are be'g, rapidly sent. Many of the churches have sent in orders that they might conduct their bazaars. Dolls will be shipped throughout the year, declares the manager of the Doll Company, as we are ready to fill orders as they come. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the County of Alameda, State of California. In the matter of the Estate of STANISLAW DZIUBA, Deceased. Notice of time set for proving will, etc. Notice is hereby given, that a petition for the probate of the will of Stanislaw Dziuba, deceased, and for the issuance to Ludwika Dziuba of letters testamentary thereon has been filed in this Court, and that Monday, the 5th day of April, A. D. 1915, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day, at the Courtroom of Department No. 4 o said Court, at the Court House in the City of Oakland, in said County of Alameda, has been set for the hearing of said petition and proving the will, when and where any person interested may appear and contest the same. Dated, March 17th, 1915. GEO. E. GROSS. Clerk. By H. HENNINGSEN. Deputy Clerk. GEO. INGRAHAM, Attorney for Pettitio, 812 Broadway, Oakland, SOCIETY When up town drop in at the Model Restaurant for a good 15 cent meal. Location, Broadway, between 7th and 8th streets. Best music at the Odd Fellows' Promenade. Odd Fellows' Promenade Thursday, Come early and stay late at the Mr. A. Summers, our talented musician, has returned from Sacramento Valley, where he went in the interest of his health. Although Mr. Summers has returned his condition is very unfavorable. The musical entertainment given by the Jubilee Singers on last Monday evening at Fifteenth St. Church was a decided success. Mrs. E. H. Barrett at 3882 Shafter avenue, who sustained a fractured leg a week ago, is improving rapidly. Miss Ellen Codner did not sing Sunday as was stated in last week's issue because she was ill at her home. The Sunshine extends thanks to the Elks for complimentary tickets to their picnic July 20th. The Sunday School picnic given by the Beth Eden Baptist Church and Zion A. M. E. Church at Piedmont Park on Tuesday, July 20th, was well attended. Everyone present enjoyed a pleasant day. Elks' Day was well attended at Shellmound Park Tuesday. The audience was entertained by Jubilee Singers in a high class vaudeville. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Scott of Roseville, Cal., are visiting Mrs. S. Oliver on 28th street. Bishop Tyre will preach for Rev, Wilson at Bethel Church, San Francisco, Sunday morning, July 25th. The first Sunday in August is home coming day at Bethel Church, San Francisco, at which time a big rally will take place. It is reported that out of courtesy to the West Indian Aid Association the dancing school will not be conducted on Monday, August 2nd, the day of the big picnic. Bishop Tyre of the A. M. E. Conference will be in our midst next week. Mr. Robt. Walker of Bakersfield, brother of Mrs. Frank Howard, is up visiting the Fair. Mrs. Holland of Lawrence, Kan. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. Wilson of San Francisco. Mrs. W. L. Walker on San Pablo avenue, who was stricken with a paralytic stroke Wednesday, is slowly recovering. Lest you forget, remember the only grand time of the season will be the Odd Fellows' Grand Installation and Ball Thursday evening, August 5. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Hinds are expecting their son, Thomas, and family to drive up from Farmersville in their auto this week. Miss Willie Burroughs has returned home after spending three months in Southern California. Miss Alice Ceciel, from San Jose, is visiting Mrs. M. Ford, 1180 7th street. Miss Mira Kingsbury and Benney Car were married July 6th by Rev. Pierce. Miss Grace Kinchen acted as bridesmaid and Walter Ford as best man. A reception was held in the hall next door from 9 to 12 and a great many from Oakland and San Francisco came over to wish Mr. and Mrs. Car a happy and prosperous married life. Erma, the infant baby of Mr. and Mrs Hickerson on 7th street, who was badly burned a few weeks ago, is recovering slowly. Mrs. Massey on Chester street; who has been on the sick list for the past week, is able to be up again. Mrs. N. B. Stevens, a nurse on Adline street, was rushed to the Fabiola Hospital on iast Thursday morning, the cause being appendicitis Mrs. Edina Brown, another nurse, accompanied Mrs. Stevens to the hospital. Delegates to the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs are expected to arrive Monday. The sessions will open Tuesday morning, July 27th, at the Fifteenth Street A-M. E. Church. The reception will be Tuesday evening in Foresters' Hall. The State concert will be held Friday evening in Starr King Hall, when the best talent in the State will appear on the program. It is hopeen that the public will attend all of these functions. Following is the program of the big picnic and free barbecue to be given by the West Indian Aid Association at Shellmound Park Monday, August 2, 1915: Gates open at 12 noon. 1 P. M.—Reception of visitors, delegates, etc. 2 P. M.—Music, dancin, etc. 2:30 P. M.—All kinds of athletic amusements. All cash prizes. Also grand consolation racing for men and women. 3 P. M.—Rafie for 100 pound sacks of sugar. Somebody will win a sack of sugar for 10 cents. Each sack is worth $8.00. 3:30 P. M.—Free barbecue. Just like the air, free for all. 4:30 P. M. to 9 P. M.—Securing of votes for most popular lady on the ground. Votes 1 cent. No less than dian soft drinks will be given to the 5 votes will be sold to any one. 5:30 P. M.—Baby show. Babies must not be over 2 years of age. Prize, a solid gold bracelet. N. B.—A whole barrel of West In-10 P. M.—Awarding of all prizes. children free. 11:45 P. M.—National Anthem. 2 P. M.—Music, dancin, etc. TOLEDOANS VISIT L. A. EN ROUTE TO FAIRS. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Author of Toledo, Ohio, were guests at the home of Mrs. Goodwine, 908 E. 32nd street, Los Angeles, during the past week. Both found a very special welcome awaiting them in Los Angeles, on account of their relationship to former well-known residents of that city. Mrs. Author is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Hyatt of Windsor, Canada. Mrs. Hyatt will be remembered as Mr. A. Oliver, who for a number of years was a prominent club woman and christian worker in Los Angeles. Mr. Author is brother of C. C. Author of San Jose, who married Miss Annie Lee, who is the popular Los Angeles society girl some time ago. Mr. Author is also a brother of Mr. Willie Author of Oakland, during their stay in Oakland they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Author at 1109 32nd street, and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Summers at 98 Montell street, Piedmont. Mr. and Mrs. Author would like to have all their friends visit them here. IMPORTANT VISITORS. Geo. W. Cook, secretary of Howard University and Professor of International Law; Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, a member of the Board of Education of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce, widow of former Senator B. K. Bruce, are domiciled at the Von Dorn in San Francisco and in attendance at the World Purity Federation. On Wednesday evening, the 21st, Mrs. Cook addressed the Federation on Vice and the Colored Child. In order that the people might be given an opportunity to meet and hear interesting visitors the Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will give a reception in their honor on Monday evening, July 26, at the Fifteenth St. Church and cordially invites the public to attend. Great day at the C. M. E. Church Sunday, July 25 Sunday school at 10:30 A.M. Rev. Seldon will preach at 11 A.M. At 3 P. M. Camp No. 3 of the Spanish War Veterans and the Ladies' Auxiliary have been invited to be present. Also the general public is cordially invited at 8:30. A neat program will be rendered under the anipses of the Epworth League. This will conclude the Box Rally. Mrs. Robinson, wife of the good-natured W. J. Robinson, and sister of Mrs. Tibbs of this city, arrived recently from her former home, New Orleans, La., and joined her husband in Oakland. They were married a few months ago in the Queen City of the South. They are domiciled at the cozy residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hill, 935 Arlington avenue, Mrs. Hill being a sister of Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson is a graduate of New Orleans University and was a favorite among the younger set of her native city prior to her marriage. Mr. Robinson is to be congratulated on his successful journey out on the matrimonial sea. Mrs. Havens Nobles of Sacramento was the house guest of Mrs. H. O. Johnson on 32nd street the past week. Mrs. Nobles left for Sacramento Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Los Angeles will arrive in the city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Johnson Saturday. Attorney Oscar Hudson of San Francisco has received notice from the recording secretary of the San Francisco Bar Association to the effect that he has been elected a member of that body. This is the first Afro-American to be admitted to the San Francisco Bar Association and in so far as we know the first Afro-American to be admitted to any Bar Association in the State of California. Mr. Clifton Cumber of Bakersfield is including the Exposition this week. Mr. Cumber paid the Sunshine a visit Thursday: Dr. Garrott and daughter, Miss Bloggett of Los Angeles, are the guests of Mrs. Daniels. In a few days Bishop H. B. Parks, Pres. W. S. Scarborough of the Wilberforce University, author of The Great Text Book, and Mrs. H. T. Keeling of the Western University of Kansas City, Kan., will be here to attend the Education Congress to be held at the Municipal Auditorium and will speak at the 15th St. Church. Tom Miller of Santa Barbara ran amuck last week and shot and killed Mrs. Mary Howard and Mr. Albert Baker. He also wounded Mr. W. M. Smith. When the police arrested Miller and asked him why he did it, he replied that it was his shooting day, for they all had done him wrong. He is the brother of Leva Fuller and Joe Miller of Oakland. On Monday evening, July 26th, a mass meeting will be held in one of the annexes of the 15th St. Church, between West and Market, to lay plans for the staging at the Civic Auditorium of the big chorus on August 26. Race lovers, if you mean business come prepared to contribute $5 or as much as you can to help to raise the deposit required, $100. Rev. Peck is leaving no stone unturned to make the greatest success in the musical line ever given in and around the bay cities by negroes. ELKS HOLD BIG CARNIVAL The picnic given at Shellmound Park on July 20th was the largest this season. Six hundred persons attended the great festival. Members of the Elks Territory are to be congratulated on the big success and the good behavior. ODD FELLOWS HEAD- QUARTERS. The committee for entertaining the visitors, with headquarters elaborately fitted up in Suite 96, Bacon Block, blows up and the secretary resigns, takes away the paraphernalia and decorations. Col. Dumar Jones, ex-District Grand Secretary, Past Grand Master and Most Venerable Patriarch resigns from the committee; Attorney George Ingraham, ex-District Grand Master, chairman of the committee, threatens to quit work. It all happened suddenly and over the appointment of one of Col. Jones' daughters as stenographer at the headquarters, Mrs. Cait Showey, District Grand Master Most Noble Governor of the Household of Ruth, it is said sired to have her little daughter placed as stenographer in the headquarters. Little Miss Shorey graduated recently with a fast record and with high honors, being one of the fastest stenographers in her class, and Mrs. Capt. Shorey most noteworthy desired to see her girl placed in this position, not only for the money but for the honor as well, but it is said that Chairman Ingraham had already appointed Miss Jones, and then the war began and threatenings are heard all through the Household of Ruth clammering for a juvenile girl as stenographer, one that belongs to us, as some put it, one that belongs to the race and knows it and associates with negroes, others echoed. Loud and plaintive were these responses until they at last were hurled right square in the face of Brother Jones, who claims to be a Negro and a dear lover of his race and proud of it. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of CARTER RICHARDSON, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned executrix of the estate of Carter Richardson, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four (4) months after the first publication of this notice to the executrix at the office of Geo. Ingraham, 812 Broadway St., Oakland, Cal., Room 59, which said office the undersigned selects as her place of business in all matters connected with said estate of Carter Richardson, deceased. CAROLINE BELGERI, formerly Caroline Taylor, Executrix of the Estate of Carter Richardson, deceased. Dated, Oakland, July 22nd, 1915. GEO. INGRAHAM, Attorney for Executrix, 812 Broadway St., Oakland, Cal. EXPOSITION TO OPEN ON JULY 5 Richmond, Va., to Witness an Elaborate Celebration. GILES B. JACKSON'S PLUCK Great State and National Function Planned to Show the Progress of the Race Since 1865—Negro Historical and Industrial Association Asks City Council's Aid. Richmond, Va.—The commissioners in charge of the plans and arrangements for holding the state and national exposition in this city to show the progress which our people have made during the past half century have selected Monday, July 5, as opening day. The celebration will run for three weeks, closing on Tuesday, July 27. The Negro Historical and Industrial association, under whose auspices the exposition will be held, has petitioned the finance committee of the city council through its president. The Hon. Giles B. Jackson, for an appropriation of $10,000 toward the general expenses of the celebration. The text of the petition as presented by Mr. Jackson is as follows: "To the Honorable Board of Aldermen and City Council of the City of Richmond, Va. : "Gentlemen—There will be held in the city of Richmond at the state fair grounds from the 5th of July to the 27th of July an exposition and celebration in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the emancipation and achievements of the Negro. We lay emphashes upon the word achievements because the main purpose of this exposition is to show to the world the marvelous progress made by the Negroes of this country, especially in the southern states and the state of Virginia, within the past fifty years. "This exposition was conceived by the brain of those most anxious for the white people of this country and especially those of the north and west, to view the progress of the Negro and see how much he has advanced in the last fifty years. We want to dispel the idea that exists in the minds of some who are not so well acquainted with the black man and the relation of the two races in the south. We want to show that the Negro is not hindered from making industrial progress in this section. It is for this reason that the Negro Historical and Industrial association, under whose auspices this exposition is to be held, appealed to the national government for the means by which to create this exposition, and in answer to their prayer an appropriation of $55,000 was made at the time we applied for the amount. At that time we had the promises of certain large corporations that they would contribute largely to the fund we were raising. (The German Bank) 526 California St. San Francisco. For the half year ending June 30, 1917 a dividend has been declared at JOHNSON HEADS BAPTIST HOST MEETING HELD IN NEW YORK Mount Olive's Minister and Congregation Give Great Missionary Body a Royal Time at Its Forty-first Annual Gathering—Big Sum Raised For Education and Missions. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York—The New England Baptist missionary convention has passed another milestone in its long and eventful history. This convention was organized with six churches in the Congdon Street Baptist church, Providence, R. I. The forty-first annual meeting of this flourishing-religious body was held in this city at the Mount Olive Baptist church from Tuesday, June 15, to Monday, June 21, inclusive. The territory of the convention extends from Washington to Maine and includes in its membership the churches, Sunday schools, women's auxiliaries and young people's unions of the denomination, with an aggregate membership of 284,516. The first two days and a half were devoted to the Sunday school and young people's convention and the women's auxiliary convention to the main body. The period devoted to the church convention proper covered five M. B. W. BISHOP JOHNSON, LL. D. days. The session opened on Thursday afternoon, June 17, with the Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, LL. D. of Washington presiding. After the devotional exercises and the appointment of the committee on enrollment of delegates and the appointment of delegates for the executive year Dr. Johnson delivered his annual address, in which he reviewed the work of the year and made several very practical recommendations for the future welfare of the convention. Following President Johnson's annual message addresses of welcome were delivered by Borough President Marcus M. Marks, on behalf of the city, for the interdenominational ministers' conference; the Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks, minister of the St. Mark's M. E. church, for the Baptist ministers' conference; the Rev. J. Ernest Robinson, minister of the First Baptist church at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., and on behalf of the Mount Olivet Baptist church Dr. David C. Moon, secretary of the board of trustees. The response to the addresses of welcome was made by the Rev. William A. Taylor, D. D., of Washington. Among the presidents of schools within the territory of the convention who made brief addresses noting the progress made the past year were Dr. George Rice Hovey of the Virginia Union university; R. C. Wood, A. M., of the Virginia seminary and college; the Rev. Dr. John C. Love, promoter of the proposed Northern Baptist college; Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs of the National Training School For Women and Girls; Dr. W. A. Creditt of the Downingtown (Pa.) Industrial school and others. The following named ministers were appointed to preach special sermons: Annual sermon, the Rev. W. T. Watkins, D. K.; doctoral sermon, the Rev. Dr. W. W. Brown; missionary sermon, the Rev. Timothy White. The work of foreign missions was ably represented by the Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary of the National Baptist foreign board, with headquarters at 624 South Eighteenth street, Philadelphia. The report of the board of managers read by the corresponding secretary, Dr. W. A. Harrod, showed that the work of the convention was well organized and that the various standing committees were active. The reports of the committees of state conventions, corresponding bodies, home missions, education, publication, church edifice, widows' fund and ministers' relief fund were also read. ministers' relief fund were also provided for by the convention under the management of the various boards. A new committee known as the steering committee also made its report. The the rate of four (4) per cent per annum on all deposits, payable on nd after Thursday, July 1, 1915. Diviends not called for are added to the deposit account and earn dividends from July 1, 1915. GEORGE TOURNY, Manager Dear Sir and Brother, I have the honor to inform you, and through your journal the members, of the University Order of Odd Fellows, that the Headquarters of the 1915 Committee, G, U. O. of O. F., will be located at Suite 96, Bacon Block, southeast corner of Washington and Twelfth streets, Oakland, the members of the Order, especially those from other states, are fraternally invited to make these Headquarters their resting place. Lady attendants will be in the Headquarters both day and night and will do everything to make the stay of our visitors a pleasant one. All the conveniences, such as Retiring Rooms, telephone, Typewriter, Magazines, Stranger and Daily客 will be at the disposal of our guests. The public is also invited to call and inspect our Headquarters. During the week of August 2 to 7 Open House will be held for the members of the fraternity. Visitors may secure rooms by applying to our attendants. Remember that the big picnic of the bay cities is given by the West Indian Aid Association on August2 at Shellmound Park, Emeryville; remember also tint the barbecue is free, and that all who can will be there either in the day or night. If the reader of this article is a visitor and stranger in our midst our endeavor is to make you welcome, and if you want to know just what is what about this picnic, ask any responsible colored gentleman or lady. Whatever reputation they give us honestly, we will stand by, but listen, do not forget to bring your children early to the games and sports. On the third Sunday evening at 8 o'clock Rev. Haines will preach a special sermon the subject to be "What shall the Harvest be." Odd Fellows' committee are going to make their Promenade the largest of the year. The picnic committee of the West Indian Aid Association beg leave to ask all intending art exhibitors to send in their names and addresses to their office, 715 7th street, Oakland, no later than July 15th. No work of art will be accepted for exhibition which is not listed in this office by that date. Keep off the date of Friday, September 24th. Foresters' picnic at Shellmound Park. Professor Jackson of Webster's University will conduct a great Chorus of Music the last week of August. Professor Jackson wants a chorus of about 75 voices. He would like for anyone with any musical talent at all to come and take part in this great chorus. Rehearsals Tuesdays nd Friday Evenings at 15th Street Church, between West and Market. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF the County of Alameda, State of California. In the Matter of the Estate of CARTER RICHARDSON, Deceased. Notice of time set for pr-ving will, etc. Notice is hereby given, that a petition for the probate of the Will of Carter Richardson, deceased, and for the issuance to Caroline Belgeri, formerly Caroline Taylor, of letters testamentary thereon has been filed in this Court, and that Monday, the 19th day of July, A. D. 1915, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day, at the Courtroom of Department No. 4 of said Court, at the Court House in the City of Oakland, in said County of Alameda, has been set for the hearing of said petition and proving said will, when and where any person interested may appear and contest the same. Dated, June 30, 1915. GEO. E. GROSS, Clerk. By H. HENNINGSEN. Deputy Clerk. GEO. INGRAHAM, Attorney for Petitioner, 812 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. The West Indian Aid Association asks all persons, who intend to exhibit any original work at their picnic and free barbecue on Monday, August 2d, at Shellmound Park, to send their names to the secretary. The time for such study will expire Friday, July 16th. No exhibits will be accepted after that date. Special invitation is extended by the West Indian Association to all the visiting school teachers, ladies of the Federation, and Grand and Subordinate officers and members of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows who celebrate free barbecue and picnic on Monday, August 2nd, at Shellmound Park. Come out under the trees, where you'll be sure to meet at least a thousand of our people. We will entertain you in such a manner that your trip and visit to Oakland will be long remembered with the greatest of pleasure. Mr. Robert Chandler will prepare and serve the barbecue from 3:30 p. m. until 6 p. m. The Jubilee Singers, with J. C. Payne, star female impersonator, will appear at Fifteenth St. Church on the evening of July 19th. Admission 23 cents. OFFICIAL CALL The Ninth Annual Convention of the California State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will convene in the Fifteenth Street A. M. E. Church, Oakland, on July 27-28-29 1915. To bring our women together to show their ability along all lines of work, and to assist in the upward progress of the race, to take a new and vital interest in our girls and boys, to urge them so far as possible, to be present at our sessions, for what benefit they may derive spiritually, physically, intellectually and morally, is the object of our Federation. Mrs. C. H. Dodge, State President. Mrs. H. B. Tilgham, State Secretr. Mrs. E. V. Steward, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. H. B. Saunders, Assistant Secretary. Headquarters 1915 Entertainment Committee, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, 3130 Chestnut St. Oakland, Cal., June 22, 1915. I have the honor to inform you, and through you the many readers of your valuable journal, that the 4915 Committee, G. U. O. of F, will open headquarters at 715 Broadway, Oakland, on July 15, 1915. This committee consisting of representatives from every lodge and Household of Ruth in the District of California, was appointed for the purpose of caring for and entertaining all Odd Fellows and Daughters of Ruth who might visit the Panama-Pacific International Exposition during the year 1915. Occidental Lodge No. 2484, G. U. O. of F. O. F., have given out their program for the week of the session of District Grand Lodge No. 32, which is as follows: Monday, Aug. 2, 9 a. m., meeting of the Endowment Board in Foresters' Hall. Monday, 8 p. m., reception at Lincoln Hall by Household of Ruth No. 458 and Juveniles. Tuesday, at 8:15, initiation of candidates by Occidental Lodge, assisted by Aerial Lodge and visitors. Wednesday, 9 a. m., sessions. Wednesday, 8 p. m., memorial services at 15th St. A. M. E. Church. Thursday, 9 a. m., sessions. Thursday, 8 p. m., grand public installation and promenade. Friday, basket picnic. Saturday, trip to Exposition. Saturday, trip to Exposition. All visiting members of the order, from all sections of this country and from all countries of the world, are requested to make these rooms their headquarters during their stay in our institution; public is invited to visit our headquarters at any time. During the week of the sessions of District Grand Lodge No. 32 and District Grand Household of Ruth No. 28, which commence on the 2nd day of August, Open House will be held at the headquarters and to which all Brothers and Daughters of Ruth are cordially invited. Special features at various times will be staged by the committee, notice of which will be published later, among which will be Odd Fellows' Day at the Exposition. In order that the committee may be in a position to secure accommodations for our visiting members, especially during the week of the sessions, parties having rooms to rent are requested to notify the committee of that fact, stating the number of rooms, the street and number, the number of their telephone, whether with or without board and the price. Registration will be made of this information and will be sent to the places listed in the order of their registration. Parties having rooms should send their communications to A. Dumas Jones, Secretary 1915 Committee, 3130 Chestnut street, Oakland, until July 14th, after that date to 715 Broadway, Oakland. The matter of accommodations is an urgent affair, and the committee requests that all parties having rooms will send in their lists at once. The public is requested to read the columns of this paper for notice of future special events. Fraternally yours, GENERAL 1915 COMMITTEE. Jacob Soares, D. G. M., President. Julia A. Shorey, D. G. M. N. G. Vice-President. Lucy E. Crabb, D. G. W. A., Asst. Secretary, 519 Adeline St., Oakland. Executive Committee: Geo. Ingraham, P. D. G. M., Chairman; A. Dumas Jones, Secretary, 3130 Chestnut St., Oakland. FOR SALE. A beautiful 5-room new bungalow, with sleeping porch; modern in every room; $250, cash $250, balance terms. Apple 3022 King street, Berkeley; no agent. RECEIVES FOUR DIPLOMAS. Miss Myra V. Simmons has received a diploma from the California College of Divine Science, where she has been a student for four years. The graduating exercises of that institution were held on the 11th stint. at Starr King Hall. Miss Simmons will expound the principles of Divine Science and will follow the profession of practitioner. Mr. L. M. Hudson, who has been in the undertaking business for the past two years at Omaha, Nebr., and who knows all lines of the business, has opened up his establishment at 1554 Eighth street, near Hearne, where he is thoroughly prepared to give prompt and efficient service to those in bereavement. We bespeak for Mr. Hudson a share of the business of our people. MRS. GOINS ENTERTAINS IN HONOR OF FAIR VISITORS. On Wednesday evening, July 14, Mrs. Goinis of 2091 Fillmore street, San Francisco, who runs a swell hotel, entertained many prominent people from the East, among whom were: Otis Hearn of New York City; Mrs. R. Bastic, Chicago, Ill.; Chas. Bowman and Clarence Bowman, New York City; Mrs. G. Burley, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Pred. P. Green, Chicago, Ill.; D. C. Trice, New York City; Miss Alma Morgan, Los Angeles; J. A. Pearson, San Francisco; Miss Bessie Mallory, Charleston, W. Va.; Prof. W. S. Cheek, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. G. Henderson, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. I. Taylor, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Smith, St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Jones, St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Alberga, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harper, San Francisco; Mr. and J. H. Brittan, San Francisco; Mr. Green, Chicago; M. M. Sable, New York; Mrs. G. M. Blake, Gulfport, Miss.; Atorner Sawer, Salem, N. C.; D. McMillan, Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas, wife and niece, from Arizona, en route to the Philippines. Mrs. E. M. Roach of Chicago is expected to visit Mrs. Goins this week Telephone Oakland 3601 '831 Grove Street. Washington.—At the recent graduation exercises and commencement held at Howard university, in this city, students of the various departments were given degrees and awards by President Stephen M. Newman as follows: College of Arts and Sciences, A. B.—William Benjamin Banister, Frederick Douglass Crawford, John Gordon Dingle, Henry M. Hall, James Blake Hawkins, Charles Vergne Hendley, James William Jackson, Aurelius Pitt. Lester, Madeline Sheppard and John Henry Wilson. Honorable mention, Henderson Hamilton Donald. A. B. cum laude—Robert McCants Andrews, Frank Norman Fitzpatrick, John Arthur Jordan, William Augustus Pollard, Virginia May Porter and Alford Hilton Tavernier. B. S.-Toussalut L'Overture Alston Annie Lehure Catlett, Benjamin Will bert Clayton, Robert Percy Crawford, Pierre Heurl Davis, Alberta Davidee Desmukes, Robert James Hackett, Walter Sylvester Hanna, Ethel Catherine Harris, Joseph Plummer Harrison, Samuel Athur Jones, Franklin Charles Maloney, Irving T. Nutt, Walter Sylvester Scruggs, William Simon, Charles Wilson Thompson, William Ferdinand Vincent, Miegalh Theodore Walker and Charles Mason Woodford. B. S. cum laude-Charles Leonard Johnson. Teachers' College (A. B with teach er's diploma in education-Charles Spencer Adams, Arimenta Henrietta Anderson, Ruth Catherine Brinkley, Earl Harrison Crampton, Joseph Alex- ander Franklin, Clayborne George. Margaret Edna Jackson, Jesse Jordon. Lucy Willekidrick, Leonard Francis Morse, Bertha Madden Roge, Guy Stephen Ruffin, Sarah Edessa Toles and Joseph Nathalieu Woodward. Honorable Mention.—Matthew Walker Clark. Mary Frances Gunner. How and Hale Long. Meta Agusta Redden and Honezelle Scott Walker. These five persons receiving honorable mention made a grade of cum laude, but were prevented from receiving it be cause a part of their college work was taken elsewhere. A. B. With Teachers' Diploma In education cum laude.—Ethel Letitty Cuff. Helen Eliza Catherine Lea. Ada Frank Sanders and Julia Inez Wyche. A. B. With Teachers' Diploma In education Magna cum laude.—Gladys Christine Fearing and Gladys Elenora Naoma Toliver. B. S. With Teachers' Diploma In Education.—Bernardine Sedricks Brown Charles Henry Chipman. William Henry Foster. Laura Jemina Harris and James Ross Howard. School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences. B. S. in C. E.—Narciso Falc and William A. Huskerson. Conservatory of Music. Mus. B.-Cornella Derrick Lampton School of Theology. B. D.-David Adison Blake. J. A. Brown, Joseph Simon Connell, George Vernable Fowler, Haldron Alfonzo Holder. A. L. Jenkins Hillard W. Long. A. T. Macdonald Charles McLean Morgan and Ernest E Swanston. Medical College, M. D.-Albert Allier Alleyne, Thomas Clifton Brown, John Jacob Clinton, Martin Luther Crawford, A. B.; Martin Luther Dottin Charles Herbert Garvin, A. B.; Levy Alexander Gibson, A. B.; Robert Keij Gordon, Norman Watkins Harris, Alonzo Albert Holdobrows, A. B.; Charlie Robert Humbert. Edwin Henry Lee B.; Julius Caesar McKelvie, A. B. John Howard McMorris, A. B.; Jay Garland McRae, B. S.; James Wesley, Parker, A. B.; Ernest Augustus Robinson, A. B.; Isamil Jellwil Wilson, A. B. William Ballas Yoakeley, A. B., and Claudius Jimmus Young, A. B. Dental College, D. D. S. - James Emile Bush, Lucius Armond Butler, Alger Leon Campbell, Emmett Earl Campbell, Gilbert Alexander Cole, Arthur Flitzohn Foster, George Benjamin Gittens, Cecil Francis Gloster, Theodore dorelkanah Foster, Richard Anderson Hightower, Raymond Hunt, Roy Edison McTaggart, Iverson Othelts Mitchell, Welton Henry Mosely, B. S. Edwin Alexander Nicholson, Willis James Pettis, Leon Asbury Reld and Leonard Levi Shelton. Pharmaceutical College, Ph.D. Charles Augustus Butler, Lawrence Bernard Carey, Eugene Crummell Compton, Jesse Brenham Dudley, Clarence Harry Henderson, Wilbert Bernard Lawson, George Ernest Lee, Charles Henry Lewis, James Hartford Martin, Wilma Lea Richardson, Andrew Alexander Robinson, Alexander Weaver, James Albert Togans. Salem Athletic Club Wins Big Victory. The Salem Crescent Athletic club won a signal victory over the Pastime Athletic club in a match relay on Monday, June 21, at the annual summer games of the "athletic nursery" at Glencoe-Oval, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Second avenue, New York. The colored boys were returned victors by fifteen yards in an eight lap relay. Verwayen, first man to run for the Salem Crescent combination, opened up a lead of about five yards on Kloer, but on the second relay the Salem lead was increased to more than thirty yards, Oscar Hawkins opposing C. J. Shay, who filled in for Matt Skea. Miles McHugh, running against Arthur Gorham, made up a good part of the ground, but Berman Foster was a match for Dan Shes of the Pastimes and retained the big advantage handed him by Gorham. The victors journeyed the eight laps in the good time of 2 minutes 36.35 seconds. Don't fail to attend the Odd Fellows' grand promenade Thursday evening. August 5. When you want the very best work in dentistry stop in at 266 7th street and see Dr. Shuinn, the Japanese dentist. Neatly furnished sunny rooms, in desirable part of the city. Price reasonable 1278 Turk street, San Francisco. Mrs. Francis Lynn Flat, 7 rooms, bath, gas, electric lights; $14.00. Two flat, 4 rooms each, $8.00 and $10.00 1021 22nd street. Key Route A. G. Foster, 2431 Market street. Nicely furnished rooms to let, with housekeeping privileges, at 1352 11th street. Mrs. E. C. Thompson. List of officers of the Fannie Copin Club. President, Mrs. Hetty Tilghman; First Vice-President, Mrs. A. W Cook; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Henrietta Bridges; Recording Sec- retary, Mrs. Irene Redwood; Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Josie G. Cowes; Cor- responding Secretary, Mrs. Mayne Williams; Financial Secretary, Mrs Mary L. Brady; Treasurer, Mrs Emma Chandler; Chaplain, Mrs Lucy Disard; Parliamentarian, Mrs Willie henry; Executive Committee, Mrs. Lauretta Peyton chairman, Mrs. Lauretta Craig, Mrs. H. E. De Hart, Mrs. Melba Stafford; Member, ship Committee, Mrs. Josie Cowes Mrs. Lucy Disard, Mrs. Emm Chandler. ard. secretary, H. W. Williams. The Idle Hour Social Club will hold a ladies' night the third Thurs- day of each month at the clubroom 376 Ninth street, from 9 to 11 P. M. President, Jas. Wood- A cottage of nine rooms at 723 27th street, between Grove and West, is for rent for $17.00 per month. Ser J. B. Wilson. Phone Oakland 7804 CUT RATE SHOE FACTORY All Kinds of Shoe Repairing by Machinery and Hand. Machinery and Hand. Men's Shoes half soled 65 Ladies' Shoes half soled 50c Men's Rubber Heels 40c Newly completed furnished Bunsiunoo 'squauraudee pue suooof of large room and kitchenette, gas and electric light, at $3 per week. Phone Mrs. Bolmer, Oakland 8232, 1167 Eighth street, Oakland Cal. ST. AUGUSTINE'S MISSION- 27th and West streets.; Rev. D. R. Wai- days-8:00 a.m. m, communion; 9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30 a.m. m, morning prayer; 11:00 a.m. m, Holy Eucharist and sermon. Wednesdays-9:00 a.m. m, communion. Fridays-7:00 a.m. m, communion; 8:00 p.m. Litany and instruction. Come and worship. August F. Moisson, Prop. M. & M. Hat Works 257 TWELFTH ST. Near Alice Ladies' and Gent's Hats Renov- ated-Panamas a Specialty Oakland's Exclusive $1.50 Hat DEPT. OF COLUMBIA, U. S. W. V. Headquarters. Dept. of Columbia, U. S. W. V., 2939 King street, South Berkeley, Cal. John S. H. Dudley, Dept. Quartermaster, 843 Fourth avenue, Oakland Cal. WOOD STREET FISH MARKET Fresh Fish, Oysters, Crabs. 719 Wood Street, West Oakland. For long and beautiful hair consult Miss Robinson, formerly of Chicago and Cleveland. Miss Robinson is a scalp specialist of years of experience and has for sale the finest hair grower on the market. Phone Piedmont 2861. Residence 580 32nd street. A M E Zion Church Rev. W. W. Matthews pastor. City address, 1667 Geary St Phone Fillmore 3108. Residence 234. Twenty-sixth avenue, Oakland. Tel phone Meritt 5055. Services preaching Sunday 11 a. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday 11 a. M. and 8 P. M. Titanian Endeavor 6:30 P. M. Oakland people take the Geary street car a Ferry Building, get off at Webster street at the door of the church. Sunday Services at the North Oak land Baptist Church, 29th street and San Pablo avenue. Presching to H A. M. by R. C. Holmer, pastor F. H. Bolmer, superintendent. B. Y. P. N. at 7:30 p.m. led by Dr. Drake Members and friends are cordially invited to attend Strangers are wel THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH, SAN FRANCISCO. Clay and Hyde streets, San Fran Rev. Allen Newman, A. M., minister. Morning services, 11 o'clock. Sunday school 1230 o'clock. Young People's meeting 7 P. M. Evening services 8 P. M. Call Day or Night L M HUDY Funeral Director Lady a 1554-8th St FIFTEENTH STREET A. M. E. CHURGEY (Between West and Market) Rev. Bishop apaor, residence 32nd and Filbert streets. All are cordially invited to these sessions. Strangers are especially welcomed Beth Eden; Baptist Church, Filbert street, between 7th and 8th. Rev. S. W. Hawkins, pastor. Preaching every Sunday, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Sunday school, 1 clock. All are cordially invi- vite: attend these services NICELY FURNISHED FRONT ROOM FOR RENT. 2116 Brush Street. AVENUE SHOE STORE 2913 San Pablo Avenue Cor. 30th St. Oakland, Cali B. Brown, Prop. of California meet at them OFFICERS OF KNAREBOR Meets second and fourth Tuesdays on each month at Foresters Hall, Clay street. The following officers have been elected for Knaresborough Circle, No. 189, C. O. F. or A. O. F.: Worthy Chief Companion, Mrs. Amelia Swinnigan; Worthy Sub- Chief- Companion, Mrs. Catherin Emile; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Emma Jarrett; Financial Secretary, Mrs. Florence Hickersin; Treasurer, Mrs. Manie Conway; Right Guide Mrs. Clara Basemore; Left Guide, Mrs. Marie Smith; Inner Guard, Mrs. Anita Bozonier; Outer Guard, Mrs. Julia Mitchell; Organist, Mrs. Rosa Thomas; Deputy, Mrs. Carrie Bluitt. Board. Meets second and fourth Friday night at each month at Foresters Hall, OFFICERS OF WESTERN RE- LIEF SOCIETY. Lawrence Sledge, President; Mrs. F. Portor, Vice-president; St. Clair Moore, Financial Secretary; William Allen, recording Secretary; Miss J. Woodson, Treasurer. The Oakland Literary and Aid Society meets at Foresters' Hall the fourth Tuesday in each month. Jno. A. Wilds, President; Monroe Bridges, Vice-President; Mrs. M. Carrol, Recording Secretary; Mrs. E. Amos, Treasurer; F. weekly sick benefits, $4; funeral benefits, $00. KNARESBOROUGH COURT. Court Knaresborough, No. 600, meets first and third Tuesdays in each month at Foresters Hall, Clay street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Officers of Court. J. P. C. R., Allan Hunt; C. R. William Williams; Sub. C. R. Geo Swazey, Jr.; Fin. Sec. F. W. Moore, Sr. Rec. Sec. Leon F. Marsh; Treasurer, S. Moore, S. W. R. Gilor, J. W. W. O. Springs; S. B. L. Gillum; J. B. W. H. Nathaniel, Physician, W. W. Purnell; Trustees, A. De Bique, T. Lucien, H. Boykins, Auditors, P. Sanderson, Frank Smith, S. A. Bridges; Fiance Committee, R. A. De Bique, W. P. Sanderson. Financial Secretary—F W. Moore 171P th ave., E. Oakland, Cal. HOUSEHOLD OF RUFF NO. 458, G. U. O. O. F. Meets in rostersers Halli corner of 5th and Clay streets, the second and fourth Thursday afternoons or each month at 2 p. m. Mrs. Lizzie Smith, M. N. G.; Mrs. Lena Osborne, R. N. G.; Mrs. Eliza Brown, N. G.; Mrs. Aug. Craigg, P. M. N. G. Treasurer, Sister L. Baker; Counselor, Sister C. Jones; W. Recorder, Sister. E. Crabb, 519 Adeline street. EASTEKN STAR W. M., Mrs. Nettie Cruser, W. P., Mr. E. H. Barrett; A. M., Mrs. Matthe Dawson; Treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown; Secretary, Mrs. Maude E. Lawrence, 898 35th street); Cond, Mrs. Anna Clayton; A. Cond, Mrs. Susie Hinds; Warder, Dr. G. B. H. Rutherford; Sentelin, Mr. Ei Baker MASONIC. Mt. Zion Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. Masons, meets the first and third thursdays in each month. J. S. Meaddows, W.-M. b. F. Meaddows, Sec. v14 35th Ave., Oakland Occidental Lodge No. 2484, G. U. O. of O. F., meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at Foresters' Hall, Thirteenth and Clay streets. Following are the officers: N. G., W. H. Broyles, V. G., S. C. Moore, N. G., A. Hunt; N. G., N. Hardy, F. N. G., A. W. Bauter, E. S., Wm. Allen; treurer, Geo. Turner; chaplain, J. B. Wilson. Sherman A. Bridges, P. S. 917 Webster II, Oakland, Cal. Phone Fruitley 1127W GEO. WEBBER 3306 Adeline Street Perkeley REMOVAL NOTICE. The Idle Hour Social Club has moved to 331 Eighth street. Bigger and better is our motto. A free committee room will be provided for all lodges and societies wishing to use it. No ladies' night from now on. Don't forget our new location, 331 Eighth street. JAMES WOODWARD, Mgr. Phone Oakland 1524 SON & CO. ers and Embalmers attendant Oakland Calif VIEWS OF BISHOP FALLOWS. What the Noted Prelate Says About the Coming Chicago Exposition. Chicago.—In connection with the large exposition to be held in this city at the Coliseum from Aug. 22 to Sept. 16, will be held the Abraham Lincoln jubilee celebration, at which hundreds of relics of the martyred president will be shown and tribute paid to the memory of the great humanitarian. The exposition will be unique, says Bishop Samuel Fallows, state commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and president of the exposition. Nothing like it he, ever before been done or even attempted. The exposition will mark fifty years of freedom for the colored race in America. Assurance that President Wilson will be present was made to Bishop Fallowins in a message from Washington which stated that Mr. Wilson will attend if no foreseeon governmental complications arise to prevent. Governor Edward F. Dunne of Illinois is the president, ex-officio. State Senator John Dalley of Peoria is vice president. Among the honorary vice presidents are Miss Jane Addams, Governor Baldwin of Connecticut, Governor Bass of New Hampshire, Judge Theodore Brentano, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas H. Cannon, head of the Catholic Order of A. B. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN. Foresters, Chicago; former Governor Charles S. Deneen, Cardinal James Gibbons, Governor Whitman of New York and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. Twelve distinct departments have been created for the exposition, and in them will be shown exhibits from nearly every state in which the negro is a part of the population. These departments are religion, education, industry, social progress, music, sociology, military, liberal arts, professional, fraternal, athletics and miscellaneous. Nineteen state legislatures have either passed or have before them bills providing appropriations to establish state exhibits. Hundreds of letters approving the purpose of the exposition have been received, representing every race and religion, every profession Ltd business and social activity in America. The exhibits of the progress of the colored man since his emancipation from slavery will be many and various. Each of the 400 colored schools and colleges in the United States will be represented. The best of 3,000 patents granted to colored men by the federal government will, by special arrangement, be brought to Chicago to show in the Coliseum. The government of Liberia, Africa, made up originally or freed slaves from America, will send an exhibit, and Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago has been appointed their official representative by the Liberian government. The Roman Catholic exhibit will be a feature of the exposition, including, besides paintings and sculpture, many relics of the Negro in his relation to the church. There are more than 2,000,000 Negroes engaged in agricultural pursuits, and 78 per cent of them are in the southern states. More than 28 per cent of the total number of farmers in the south in 1910 were Negroes and 12 per cent of the total farm acreage was operated by them. The Negro has produced 8,000 books and periodicals, nearly 7,000 songs and musical compositions. The Hon. Thomas Wallace Swann is secretary of the commission, having charge of the celebration. Growth of the Mayesville (S. C.) School. The Mayesville Industrial school at Mayesville, S. C., was founded many years ago by Miss Emma Wilson. It is doing a most commendable work among the people of that section of the state. The school was started in an old abandoned cotton gin house without any furnishings. Ten children of the neighborhood formed the first group of students. It has grown from BROOKLYN HEARS TROTTER. Boston Editor En Route Home From the West Addresses Large Audience. New York.-W. Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian, has concluded his speaking tour through the west, where he was heralded and given a hearty ovation all along the line. His tour included Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Springfield, IL, St. Louis, Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan., and Brooklyn. In Brooklyn Mr. Trotter addressed large and enthusiastic audience in the Bridge Street A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon, Jan. 24, Rev. Dr. C. P. Cole pastor. Here again he was given a royal welcome. With his customary courage he told of the incident of his White House visit, where he was spokesman of the anti-segregation delegation of the National Independent Equal Rights league, which so greatly impressed the vast audience that applause after applause greeted the speaker. Owing to the numerous engagements and incidental delays Mr. Trotter was unable to appear at the Clients' club in Brooklyn Saturday evening, Jan. 23 and no one regrets it more than Mr. Business Concerns in Savannah, MN. In reporting the activities of our people in Savannah, Ga., Mr. J. C. Lindsay, representing the local business league of Savannah, says: The six leading business concerns operated by the colored people in Savannah paid to members of the force to office rent the past year $1,198, to 153 employees in MASTER TAILOR Suits to Order, Cleaning Pressing, Repairing and E Cor. ADELINE AND HARMON STS., South MISS MOORE BEAUTY PA Suits to Order, Cleaning Pressing, Repairing and Expert Altering Cor. ADELINE AND HARMON STS., South Berkeley Our Home Will Go to Your Home TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES From OAKLAND TO SACRAMENTO Via the OAKLAND, ANTIOCH & EASTERN Swift, Safe Electric Service to and from Water EXPOSITION GROUNDS And Throughout Sacramento Valley, Inclu- CHICO, MARYSVILLE, OROVILLE, WODLAND Reduced Round Trip Rates Every Day of the Fair Ticket Offices: All Trains Stop at College Avenue and Shafter A Phone Oakland 4376. The furniture of an 8-room house at 2385 Bush street, San Francisco. Fine place for a rooming house Roomers are paying rent. This fur- niture like new. Re- a month. Will sac- le leaving city. Terme Springer, 77 Bacon R.W. Meadow RELIABLE - FOOTWEAR 4473 E.14 Melrose, Cal. Mrs. V. L. North Heuston. FURNISHED ROOMS NEW HOTEL PANAMA. Withor Without Board Electric Lights Baths 422 BRANNAN STREET Hot and Cold Water in All Rooms Central Location and Convenient to all Street Car Lift Newly Renovated Hot and Cold FURNISHED ROOMS FROM $2.00 to $6.00 Suites and Single Transient BECKFORD AUTO SERVICE Touring Cars and Limousines for STAND: POWELL STREET NEAR G San Francisco Stand Phone: Kearny 5466 Garage Phone SORTY MINUTES ACRAMENTO EASTERN RAILWAY and from Water Gate of GROUNDS Auto Valley, Including WLE, WODLAND and DIXON Observation Coaches And Automatic Block Signals Fices: e and Shafter Aves, Oakland Future like new. Rent been paid for month. Will sacrifice, as party in having city. Terms if wanted. See Springer, 77 Bacon Bldg., Oakland Headways FOOTWEAR 4473 E.14TH St. Phone Garfield 7081. ROOMS Out Board All Outside Room Between 3rd and 4th in All Rooms to all Street Car Lines in City Hot and Cold Water $2.00 to $6.00 PER WEEK Table Transient UTO SERVICE Simousines for Hire SEET NEAR GEARY Frisco Garage Phone: West 184 TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES From OAKLAND TO SACRAMENTO Via the OAKLAND, ANTIOCH & EASTERN RAILWAY Swift, Safe Electric Service to and from Water Gate of EXPOSITION GROUNDS And Throughout Sacramento Valley, Including CHICO, MARYSVILLE, OROVILLE, WODLAND and DIXON Phone Oakland 4376. The furniture of an 8-room house at 2385 Bush street, San Francisco. Fine place for a rooming house Roomers are paying rent. This furniture like new. Rent been paid for a month. Will sacrifice, as party is leaving city. Terms if wanted. See Springer, 77 Bacon Bldg., Oakland. R.W. Meadows RELIABLE - FOOTWEAR 4473 E.14TH St. Newly Renovated Hot and Cold Water FURNISHED ROOMS FROM $2.00 to $6.00 PER WEEK Suites and Single Transient BECKFORD AUTO SERVICE Touring Cars and Limousines for Hire STAND: POWELL STREET NEAR GEARY Stand Phone: Kearny 5466 Garage Phone: West 184 Residence Phone: West 8365 2306 Fillmore Street, San Francisco $9.00 a Ton FUEL Ton UEL $9.00 a Ton A HIGH GRADE, LOW COST COAL FOR THE STOVE HEATEF or FIREPLACE IS USED. R COAL Oakland by Electric Light Co. Leandro, Livermore, Pleasanton, Centerville, Piedmont, Emery Coto, Irvington. DERSON maker ONE USED ALWAYS USED. TRY A SACK. ORDER FROM YOUR COAL DEALER Manufactured in Oakland by Pacific Gas and Electric Light Berkeley, Alameda, Hayward, San Leandro, Livermore, Niles, Alvarado, Mt. Eden, Newark, Centerville, Pic- ville, Richmond, Warm Springs, Decoto, Irvington. O*kland1878 J. E. HENDERSON Undertaker DEALER Manufactured in Oakland by Pacific Gas and Electric Light Co. Berkeley, Alameda, Hayward, San Leandro, Livermore, Pleasanton, Niles, Alvarado, Mt. Eden, Newark, Centerville, Piedmont, Emeryville, Richmond, Warm Springs, Decoto, Irvington. Mrs. Varnie C. Shaw, Assistant 2307 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, Cal. Phone Lakeside 1630 SIDNEY S. JOHNSON Dealer in Wood, Coal & Carbin Fuel 1216 WOOD STREET Vood, Coal & Carbin Fuel HAIR DRESSING and MANICURING 1276 SEVENTH STREET STOVE HEATEF 2307 Telegraph Avenue Phone Lakeside 1630 DRESS MAKING Oakland, Cal. THE LEADING CHINESE PHYSICIAN Have you lost faith in other doctors and medicines? Are you depressed and rather hopeless about your aliment? This message is for you. It is a promise of cour, of health, of strength and enthusiasm. My Dear Doctor—Permit me to express any appreciation of your valuable services. A combination of diseases common to women so afflicted me that life was practically unbearable. I had almost given up when induced to call on you and I must say that your remedies are perfectly wonderful. They have restored me to perfect health, and I thank you from MRS. JOHN FLEGE, 1136 10th Avenue MY SPECIAL ATTENTION. Consumption, Paralysis, Old Sores, Gout, Piles, Asthma, Rheumatism, Skin Diseases, Sore Eyes, Cancers, Syphilis, Stomach Trouble, Throat. For Heart, Kidney, Lungs, Catarrh, Lumbago, Indigestion, Appendicitis, Diabetes, Dysentery, Hemorrhoids, Dislocated Bones and Private Diseases of Men and Women. This expert has cured thousands in this country, as well as in China, and volumes of testimonials from grateful people who have been restored to vigorous health. NO KNIFE IS USED—Only curative roots, barks and herbs of nature. Call at once and receive free diagnosis and advice, or if you live out of town write for diagnosis blank. Dr S. Sat Tong Co 548 8th street & 810 Clay st. NEW PHOTO STUDIO. In South Berkeley, west of Postoffice, 1763 Alcatraz avenue, known as the Macurdy's Photo Studio. You are invited to call and see samples of some of the latest designs of cards and mounts. CHANGED HANDS. The store locaed at 3153 Filbert street, corner Thirty-second, has changed hands and is under the management of J. RAMPONI, where a full line of choice Groceries and Vegetables, Stationery, etc., can be had at reasonable prices. All orders promptly delivered. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of RICHARD LENORD deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, executor of the last Will of Richard Lendon, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice to the said executor, at the office of Carl F. Blessen Building, Oakland, California, which said deceased the designed selects as his place of business in all matters connected with said estate of Richard Lendon, deceased. B. WILSON, Executor of the I. Will of Richard Lennard, deceased. Dated, Oakland, January 21st, 1915 CARL F. WOOD, Attorney of Executor, 44 Bacon Building, Oakland Cal FOR RENT. Completely furnished bedroom and kitchenette, with joint use of dining room, parlor and living room. All modern conveniences. Half block P. E. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Christensen has opened a jewelry store at 3297 Adeline street, South Berkeley, where he will be pleased to meet those who need anything in his line. He will carry a full line of watches, etc., and do all kinds of repairing at reasonable prices. Cooper A. M. E. Zion Church, Campbell Street, between 8th and 9th streets; George Henry Haines Pastor Residence 1687 Tenth Street, Phone, Oakland 8873. All persons wishing the Pastor's professional service can call him by phone and he will gladly render the services required. Lord's Day Services, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sermons: 1:45 P. M. Sunday School. Mid-week Services, Tuesday, 8 P. M. Class and Prayer Meeting. The first Sunday in each month Lovefeast and the Holly Communion. Lovefeast is all of these services, and will find a warm Christian welcome. Persons looking for a church home are solicited to come into our fellowship and be assured of a helpful and peaceful companionship. Mr. Wm. Smith, the well known carpenter of our race, has opened a general repair shop at 1812 Post street, San Francisco. He is prepared to do all kinds of carpenter work, tinting, paper hanging, plastering and job work of all kinds. Kitchen cabinets and mission furniture of all designs made to fit any space at less than furniture dealers' prices. Job work of all kinds. Expert help in all branches. No job too small or too large. The job he will be up prepared and given his personal attention. Estimates and plans furnished for new buildings. Residence 524-281 street. Phone Mission 4678. A branch will be opened in Oakland in the near future.