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THE FORUM Historical Society , State House , FREDERICK DOUGLASS VOL.12 - NO.38 FREDERICK Born February 14, 1817* JOHN H. HARRIS ALBERT MEEK Agent for Clover Leaf Sick and Accident Insurance Co., and the Westorn Life Indemnity Insurance Co., one of the oldest in the United States. Mr. Meek is one of our most energetic young men, frugal, industrious and perseversng. He book charge of this line of work, March 1915, and has made an enviable record. His prompt and courteous manner of doing business has proved beneficial, both to himself and the clientel. During the year 1916, the Clover Leaf paid out the enormous amount here below: Number of Accident claims paid in 1916 .....2,738 Number of Sick Claims paid in 1915 .....3,799 Paid in Claims in 1916 $116,744.63 Total Paid in Claims ..$370,897.74 Mr. Meek paid out to his customers, since taking charge of the work, here in Springfield, for sick and accident claims: $1072.01 We heartily commend the idea of Rev. Bazie, of St. Padl Church in bringing before his Sundny evening worshipers the best thought obtainable on matters of public concern. We nre living in an age when the pew is looking to the pulpit for more than a continuous review of "Daniel in the lion's den," or a mere repetition of Bible stories without their association with life and things of pressing interest, of presen moment Rev. Bazie is proving himself f to be a workman of whom no one needs be ashamed. PLEASANT GROVE The B. Y. P. U. is progressing. The work has been re-organized, the officers realizing that each year must show some added progress before it can be counted truly progressive. Died February 20, 1895 LITERARY, RESEARCH AND STUDY CLUB The Springfield Literary, Research and Study Club met Tuesday evening at the residence of Mr. J. M. Mosby, 1614 E. Jackson Street, the guests of Attorney B. G. Clanton and Hon. Benjiman Lucas. The program of study for the evening consisted of a review of the works of art of Rembrandt by Mr. Clanton: the life and biography of Kant by Mr. O. G. Birdsong, and the Philosophy of Kant by Mrs. O. G. Birdsong. Mr. Clanton's review proved an inspiration to all present. Major Ford, chairman of the program committee, brought miniature pictures of the most famous paintings of the great artist which added much to the interest of the study period in art. The Philosoph cal review of Kant by Mrs. Birdsong also proved a feature of unusual interest and was followed by an open discussion of the philosophy of other writers in comparison with that of the author Kant. Refreshments were served by the host much to the pleasure of all present. A social period was then enjoyed. Members present were: Major and Mrs. G. W. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Birdsong, Prof. and Mrs. Z. W. Mitthell, Misses Nancy Davis and Ethel Adams, Messrs E. J. McCoo Chas, Fred White, LaRue Davis, Russell Clem and the host Hon. B Lucas and Attorney Clanton. Miss Nancy Davis, LaRue Davis will entertain the Club next Tuesday evening at the residence of the former, 231 N. 15th St., at which time the program will consist of David Hume's Philosophy by Mr. C. F. White: A Review of the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer by Mr. LaRue Davis, and a Review of the works of Art of Sir Anthony Van Dike by Russell Clem. F. C. BROWN AN INVENTOR Mr. F. C. Brown, owner of the Brown Hotel of this city and proprietor of Hotel Brown at 34th and Wabash avenue, Chicago, is the inventor of the Brown Food Warmer. His patent is very highly spoken of. It is to be used by the Pullman Sleeper Service, and auto tourists now use it, and most important to relate is that it has been accepted by the war department. Florida colored men own a knitting mill valued at $100,000.00 Miss Hellen Richmond seems to be convalescing at this writing. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1917 "Be Ye Doers and not Sayers only." IN THE FRATERNAL WORLD Note—To all lodges and fraternal societies of Springfield: as stated last week, we are endeavoring to give to the public in each weeks issue of The Forum a digest of the things of interest to the various fraternities of our city, which will appear under the above head. We extend an invitation to all to send in notes of their doings, social and otherwise, which are intended to become public news. Lodges are like all other business enterprises, and must be regulated in a measure by the same general rules. In general all business requires advertisement, systematic, regular and constant advertisement, in order that it may make the progress necessary to its existence. Therefore, lodges which are no different than other institutions need advertisement, as well. We are offering this column each week without charge for the benefit of the lodges, for notes of their activities and progress, and it is hoped that each and every one, both male and female, will avail themselves of this by sending in their notes each week. We also would like to suggest to each fraternity that a regular card be carried in the "Lodge Directory" of The Forum, giving name of lodge, name of presiding officer and Secretary, dates of regular meeting nights in month, and place of meeting. See the business manager for a regular price of same. Few can realize the benefit to any such organization of this weekly add; especially it acts to direct strangers in the city to your meetings, and keeps before persons who have a desire to join these lodges the fact of their continued work and progress. We ask that all lodges take this matter up at their next meetings for action. Mr. John M. Mosby, of the Knights of Pythiaus, has been ill, and under care of the lodge sick committee. Henry R. Alexander at a recent meeting of Central Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., had conferred upon him the second degree of Masonry At a date to be announced in February, the third degree will be conferred upon several candidates, followed by a Banquet to members and visiting brothers. Fred Douglas Lodge No. 48, U. B. of F., postponed its second meeting last month, owing to the meeting for the Hon. Wm. Jenning Bryan at the Arsenal. Mr. Blayn S. Garrett has decided to return to active membership in the Knights of Pythias. Regular School of Instruction for young Masons continues every Sunday afternoon at Masonic Hall. 3rd floor, with good attendance and excellent results. JACK JOHNSON IN SPAIN Reports from London, England say:—"Americans who have just arrived here from Spain say that Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion, may become a bull fighter. Johnson has been living in Barcelona for some time, but his purse is running low, owing to his inability to find anyone to meet him in the ring. It is said that Johnson's friends are urging him to become a bull fighter, believing that he would make a big success because of his quickness and strength." Little Ida Banks is much improved, so also is little Arnold Banks, who is suffering from cholera infantum. Dr. Ware was the attending physician. Lincoln and Douglass Before two Shrines this month we kneel To pay the homage of a race Lincoln and Douglass! Oh, we feel That none should take their sacred place. Both brothers in the hallowed cause Of human right and liberty; One triumphed over wicked laws, One voiced the plaint of slavery. One swept through seas of patriot blood To wear the martyr's glorious crown; One rose to greatness, honor, fame, Despite detraction, jeer and frown. Both sons of proud America, — One white, one black---to freedom born! True to Humanity and Right, Dead to oppression's rage and scorn! The echoing past no whisper breathes Of worthier names for highest praise; Bring here, fond memories, greenest wreaths; Bards, tune your lyres to noblest lays! High on the Future's fadeless scroll. May fame inscribe in lines of light--- "Lincoln and Douglass---Champions--- Who stand for God, and hence, for Right!" WAR WITH GERMANY The dark ominous war clouds now hovering over America, from threatened war with Germany, when viewed from every angle, possesses a "silver lining" for the Negro. More than ten and a half million Negroes are citizens of this country, or about one-nineth of the Nation's population. This large integral part of the Nation in many ways has been the victim of gross injustice at hands of the prevailing element of the country. In case of war with a Foreign country this important part of the Nation's population would demand a consideration never heretofore accorded. The great wealth of "Brawn and Muscle" would find a recognition in the labor markets of the country not now accorded the Negro from an industrial point of view. His value as a soldier would be much more appreciated with no bills introduced in Congress or anywhere else to preclude his enlistment as a defender of his country. The urgent call for American unity would cause many to remove their tags of Race discrimination and forget their petty jealousy and prejudice against their fellow Americans when confronted by a Foreign Foe. And above all, this nation would be brought to realize that "There is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may" and that Justice Between Man and Man is the only foundation that any Nation can safely build upon. CITY COMMUNITY CLUB The Community Club organized last Saturday evening at the Lincoln Library is destined to do much toward the betterment of affairs throughout Springfield. It must not be considered however, by the Colored population that this Community body has been organized especially for their benefit, in fact they may expect but little from it unless by their own intelligent efforts they make themselves felt as a Force for good and worthy of recognition. Habit becomes a very strong factor and force in the lives of men and when any set of community leaders have once formed the habit of planning and working for "Community Advancement" with the Negro an un-considered element it is not easy for them to even take the needs of the Negro into serious consideration when assuming large. er responsibilities for Community Advancement. What ever recognition and consideration the Race receives at the hands of white leaders in this city, regardless of who they are, it will have to work, contend and more than merit it. BISHOP WALTERS DEAD Bishop Alexander Walters who has been ill for many months, passed away Thursday, Feb. 1. at St. Luke's Hospital, N. Y. The funeral was held on Tues., Feb. 6. EDITORIAL REFLECTIONS ON PASSING RACE EVENTS OF INTEREST Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, well known in this city, is reported ill through R. W. Thompson: Announcement is made to the country of the illness in New York City of Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, the well known prima donna soprano, lecturer and director of "Folk Song Festival." She was besieged by a severe cold following her Cleveland engagement and the out come was an affliction of her ear, leading to confinement in Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital in New York for traction. A mastoid operation may become necessary. In consequence of this sudden illness, Mm. Hackley was compelled to cancel her contract to direct a mammouth Folk-Song Festival at Carnegie Hall February 9, for the benefit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which she expected to make one the truly gala events of her career. WILL ORGANIZE COLORED WORKMAN. Announcement is made that Mr. Thomas Wallace Swann, well known in this city and looked upon as the democracy, s national leader, is in Washington, D. C., taking a lively interest in directing the activities of the Colorod people of Washington in the second inauguration of President Wilson. Mr. Swann, after March 4, will engage vigously in organizing the Colorod working men of the country and allying them with the American Federation of Labor. He is said to have the earnest support of Samuel Gompers in this movement Rev. W. F. Walker, who has been confined to his room for two weeks, is much improved. PRICE: FIVE CENTS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Born Feb. 12, 1809, Died April 14, 1865 THE LOYAL LEGION MOVEMENT Possibly no movement was ever begun in Springfield of such serious importance to the Colored people as the Loyal Legion Movement which for some months has been in the process of perfect development advanced by Commissioner Z. W. Mitchell. The foundation for a successful work here has been substantially laid without any bluster, noise or parade. Composing the Council Boards of the Legim ara a number of the most active, influential and progressive race leaders of the city, among whom are: Major Otis B. Duncan, Capt. R. A. Byrd, Major G. W. Ford, T. W. Warrick, Editor E. L. Rogers, Atty. B. G. Clanton, J. C. Overby, Jesse Mann, Robt. P. Taylor, E. T. Gorum, Attorney Chas, S. Gibbs, G. H. L. Nelson, J. Harold White, Dr. S. A. Ware, H. Sallie, H. H. Hicklin, Dr. N. B. Ford, Dr. James E. Henderson, H. K. Wilson, Nathan Smith, Chas. Renfro, Phillip Moore, Dr. J. I. Miles, Amos Duncan, Thornton F. Coleman, Clarence Clem, H. A. Donaldson, A. Meek, I. E. Foster, Wm. E. Mitchell and William Fish. Eight working committees are selected from the membership of the Council Boards as follows: Education, Home and Civic improvement, Enterprise and Industry, Charity and Relief, Home Relations and Protective, Patronage and Reciprocity and Anti-Disorimation and Equal Rights. Besides there is a committee on Finance and a Committee on Rules and Legislation. The District Executive Committee is composed of the Hon. Francis G. Blair, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mr. Logan Coleman, Cashier of the Illinois National Bank and Commissioner Z. W. Mitchell. QUARTERS ESTABLISHED Permanent Educational Quarters have been established in the North part of the Brown Hotel Building with an equipment that would do credit to any institution of the state. Springfield will be made the Headquarters of the Loyal Legion Ce-operative Educational System for Illinois with the organization in Springfield made the model for the state. Leading white men of the city have aided in the work of equipping the headquarters and in making practical the undertaking here in a way that has been thoroughly pleasing, and in a way as to evidence the fact that if the race will only make effort in its own behalf that others stand ready to assist in all worthy undertakings for its advancement. Commissioner Mitchell is assured of the co-operation of the intelligent ones of his own people and will not fail in getting the active assistance of the fair minded and unprejudiced members of the white race. The Educational Session to be held tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at the Union Baptist Church, will be of interest to the entire Race of this city as for the first time the work of the Legion will be publicly explained. I. E. FOSTER.....President E. L. ROGERS.....Editor-Manager RATES One Year .....$1.50 Six Months .....80c Three Month .....50c One Month .....20c Weekly paper devoted to the interest of the whole people. Entered as second-class mail matter Feb 24, 1904. at the post office at Spring- field, Ill., under the act of Congress of Murch 3, 1879. Plenty of fresh air and clean sanitary premises are more beneficial and less expensiae than medicine and doctor services. Yet, it is strange that so few people are mindful of the importance of this indisputable fact. Church houses where lage crowds gather should be carefully ventilated. We are sorry indeed to learn or the indictment of Alderman Oscar DePriest, of Chicago, and hope that he will successfully prove his innocence of all crimes charged in the indictment. It is reported that Mr. DePriest will not offer himself as a candidate for re election as Alderman, however, it it understood that a colored nominee will be put in the field. SERVICES AT ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH. A MOST EXCELLENT PROGRAM RENDERED. Last Sunday proved a red letter day for the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. It was the Second Quarterly Meeting of this Conference year. In the morning Presiding Elder Jamison made a powerful and eloquent appeal to a large audience for higher living and closer consecration to spiritual duty. The choir sang most beautifully and the services were in every way an inspiration to those present. In the afternoon Communion was administered, and at this hour Rev. Dr. Sydes, presiding elder of the Cairo district, preached a timely and eloquent sermon on "Abstract and Concrete Life." He reviewed the abstract life of man as it pertains to all physical and temporal matters and made a strong appeal for life consecration to God. The definite Concrete, or the inner spiritual life, was the nmost beautifully contrasted with the abstract life of man, and the example of David, as he went out to meet Goliath—moved by a power, or life, for superior to the abstract—was held up as an evidence of the power of God to lead and to give man the victory over every opposition if one can only learn to consecrate himself to the development of of this life, by service to man and God. The Choir was at its best and added much to the impressiveness of the service by their well rendered selections. EVENING SERVICES The treat of the day came in the evening at which time Dr. James Henderson, the well-known physician, and Presiding Elder Jamison presented the subject, "Comparative Race Ability" from different angles, yet both in a most masterful and impressive way. Dr. Henderson among other things said: COMPARATIVE RACE ABILITY. "I shall follow the usually accepted classification of the human family. The many kindred types of the varied and diverse species being classed with the subdivision to which they are most closely allied The various races are most commonly divided into five separate classes with many intermediate and closely allied sub-divisions: Caucasian or White Race, Mongolian or Yellow Race, Malay or Brown Race, Indian or Red Race and the Negro or Black Race. We are more or less acquainted with the physical traits of the different races, the mental, moral endowments and the virtues and vices, which distinguish them. As the pre-dominant characteristic, we associate with the Anglo-Saxon or English-man courage and tenacity of purpose; with the Germanic tribes, stolidity and fortitude; with the Frenchman, vivacity, intellectual acuteness; with the Mongolian, patience, perseverance with endless capability for minutia and detail; with the Malay or Brown Race, courage, heroism, daring intrepidity, shrewdness; with the Indian, courage, honor, fortitude, self-esteem, faithfulness; with the Negro, humor, cheerfulness, submission and unbounded faith in some hidden occult power. While the traits peculiar to the different Races may distinguish them one from the other, ability in the sense we now use it is not thereby determined. Nearly all history with which we are conversant is an exaggerated recital of the wonderful and aw-inspiring achievements of the proud, haugthy domineering Caucasian. We know of their courage and heroism in war: their brilliant success in all of the peaceful arts; while philosophy, science, religion, politics, government, law, medicine all pay tribute to their commanding genius. In the arts of peace and civilization by the accepted standards of this age, he stands pre-eminent; but his civilization is ante-dated by both the Mongolian, Malay and the East Indian for thousands of years. The Mongolians were highly civilized people, when the ancestors of present race of whites were naked savages, living in caves and subsisting on reptiles, toads and insects. The most notable illustration of the Malay or Brown Race, the Japanese, have had astable government longer than England; they were a free people when the blue-eyed, fair-skinned, flaxen-haired Saxons were the serfs of the Nor man. Nearly all the organized governments among the white races are parvennes besides the unchanging line of Mikados, descended from the Emperor Jinimu, who ruled when Rome was a century old. If the Jews were still a Nation and a descendant of Moses, their king, he would mean to them what the Mikado means to the Japanese. India inhabited by people, in physical traits, closely resembling the N. American aborigines is the cradle of civilization. Here all the arts of peace, religion, philosophy, the highest culture and refinement flourished when the ancestors of the present white race, roamed European and Asiatic wilds clothed in hear skins, the club their only weapon, the cave their only abode. Africa, familiarly termed the Dark Continent, the Negroes native habitat, furnishes numerous instances of the past grandeur and magnificence of a people, either pure-blooded Negroes or so mixed with Negro blood that the Negro can be given the credit. In the Negro Family group there are many varieties. All black people are not Negroes nor all Negro black: nor have they all the physical peculiarities, the mental, moral and intellectual traits, which are loudly claimed by nearly all Caucasian writers, as distinguishing marks of the Negro. The Negro is now considered to be one of the oldest races in the world, evidence of its existence in prehistoric times having been recently discovered throughout Africa, and Asia, and Oceanica. In historic times Negroes are depicted on the monuments of Egypt thousands of years before the Anglo-Saxon had emerged from barbarism. My subject was suggested by the present acute stage of a problem now pressing for solution, a problem by reason of recent political and governmental alignments and adjustments, is of world-wide importance and is now claiming the attention of statesmen, philantropists and humanitarian of all civilized countries. Physical power, endurance, courage and heroism may well be left out of consideration; for al history, ancient, medieval and modern afford so many notable instances of these qualitees in all the races and tribes of man, that there is no longer controversy. But in as much as the Negro is more often than any other race, scorned, contemed and assigned the most degraded position among all races of men. I may be pardoned for making reference to two notable achievements of Negroes under Negro generals. The overwhelming defeat of the French and their expulsion from Hayti by Toussaint L'Overture. The ignominious and crushing defeat of the Italians, lineal descendants of the Ancient Romans by Menelik and the Abyssinians. Physical ability is conceded but the Negroes mental, moral, intellectual and ethical endowments are constantly call into question and his inferiority to the other races or at all events to the Caucasian, is loudly proclaimed in pulpit and forum, in the secular and religious press by men high in the Councils of the Nation and by scientists. The claims and views on this subject of racial worth and endowments, with which we are familiar and for which scientist most vehemently contend have been advanced and supported by men of other races. Fortunately for them their ingenious arguments are fortified by actual acievements. In their contention deeds count most of the grand achievements upon the pages of history of which we are cognizant have been conceived, planned and executed by the Caucasian. That he is proud, haughty and afflicted with overweening self-conceit, is not at all remarkable. Many theories have been advanced and vigorously supported to prove the natural, innate inferiority of the Negro. These theories are advanced by the Caucasian. One of the most popular is the facial angle theory, of which I shall speak briefly. Another theory is the quantity and quality of the brain as ascertained by measurement weight, anatomical and chemical analyses assign superior mental, moral and ethical endowments to the Caucasian or Aryan and inferior mental, moral and ethical endowments to all other Races but especially to the Negro by reason of the difference in construction of the frontal and rear convulsions of the brain—the Caucasian being conceded a large frontal and relatively small rear convolutions—the Negro a small frontal and relatively large rear convolutions. The quantity of grey matter in the convolutions of the brain, other conditions being equal is supposed to determine the intellectual capacity of the different species of the human family. The facial angle is taken as the gauge by which the quantity of brain matter is ascertained. This angle is the junction of a line passing perpendicularly from the most prominent part of the forehead and another passing horizontally from the butt of the ear. In proportion as the intersection of these two lines approaches a right angle, is the intellectual capacity of the individual. (To be continued.) Dr. Jamison spoke on the subject from a Phrenological, Anthropolistic and a phsiological view, reciting many tests that had been made in an endeavor to establish a Racial difference between the Negro and other races that would bear out the claim of superiority of the white race over the black. But in all of these tests he said, not one had made that the Negro could not subscribe to under the same advantageous conditions afforded the white man. He reviewed the phycological angle of the subject and earnestly cautioned his hearers against suggesting to their children and people that they "couldn't do this" or they "couldn't do that." Stop eternally findault with the Negro, he said, and suggest something good instead. STEADY ADVANCE IN CHURCH WORK Success of Rev. S. B. Butler at Wichita, Kan. MAN OF BROAD EXPERIENCE Congregation of the Calvary Baptist Church Begins Financial Campaign For the Erection of a New Meeting House—Dr. Butler's Fine Record as an Organizer and Leader. Wichita, Kan.-Sardis, Miss., has the distinction of furnishing to the Baptists of Kansas one of the strongest and most successful pastors in the person of the Rev. S. B. Butler, B. T. S., who is pastor of the Calvary Baptist church in this city. He is doing a great work in the state and is an active worker in the national Baptist convention. The Rev. Mr. Butler was born at Sardis in 1876 and received his early education in the public school of his home town. After finishing the public school course he entered LeMoyne institute, at Memphis, one of the schools of the American Missionary association. He joined the Baptist church at fourteen years of age. After two years' study at LeMoyne institute he went to St. Louis and at once connected himself with the Central Baptist church, of which the Rev. J. L. Cohran was pastor. His activity in the church attracted much attention. He was licensed to preach by the Central Baptist church in 1901. This was followed by his entering the Western college, Macao. A. REV. S. B. BUTLER, B. T. S. Mo., the institution of the colored Baptists of the state. He finished the course at Western college in 1905. He won honors while in school and was chosen orator for the theological class. He was called to the pastorate of the Baptist church in Kirksville, Mo., during his school days and also at Jacksonville, Mo. The churches were not far from Macon; hence he was able to spend the week in school and go to his churches on Sunday, returning to school on Monday of each week. Following his graduation he was ordained an elder in St. Louis in 1905. He was examined by the entire ministry of the Baptist church in St. Louis, and they were loud in their praise of his ability as a young minister. The Rev. Mr. Butler was called to the Park Chapel Baptist church, Palmyra, Mo., in 1900, where he accomplished a good work. He was instrumental in building a stone church there and paying off the indebtedness. After remaining at the Park Chapel church six years he received a call from the Calvary Baptist church at Wichita, which he found to be heavily in debt. The people were fearful that the building and ground would be sold because of the debt, but the Rev. Mr. Butler smiled and declared that the debt was but a toy. He soon cut it down, and now they are preparing to erect a new building to cost $20,000. The congregation is wide awake and eager for a new church edifice. This was demonstrated recently at a meeting held for the purpose of raising $300 toward the building fund. Instead of raising $300 the members and friends contributed $500. The church will hold a financial rally during the month of January, at which a large amount is expected to be contributed for the erection of the proposed new meeting house. Dr. Butler is highly respected by both races in Wichita and is recognized as a safe leader, able preacher and financier. Fisk Honors Memory of Noted Singers. Fisk university has decided to add to its numerous departments a conservatory of music in honor of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who did so much to create favorable sentiment for the race more than forty years ago. 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His advice was not only sound, but if the philosophy of it could be understood by the masses and given heed to, there is no question but that it would go a long way toward advancing the interest of the race and much greater good would be done by its members. The Junior Choir contributed much to the occasion through a splendid program of well rendered songs. Quarterly Conference Monday Evening The Quarterly Conference Mon. day evening revealed a very satisfactory progress being made in all departments of the church. Dr. Bazie has proven himself to be the right man in the right place at --- year for the DAIY GLOBE-DEMOCRAT exe- ree names in one order, with remittance of subscription alone, if you are entitled to only (only) one year. If you also wish to mit $5.50 for both Daily and Sunday one or each yearly subscription, in a complete INCLUDING SUNDAY. The advanced and advancing price of news which enter into Newspaper-making may any time—SO DO NOT DELAY! ING CO., Publishers JUIS, MO. Kids Happy es at a great bargain and are go- edingly low price. CIPEDE 10 years old; priced from $1.90 $3.50 h steel or rubber tires, enameled made. Juvenile Wheels We have a wheel for boys, standard make and fully guaranteed. Has Mud Guards. Price... $16.00 only equipped, mud guards, coaster chain and stand; fully guaranteed. ys... $25.00 - 133-35 S. 4th St. Special Edition Colin and Booker Washington Number February 10, clipse all previous issues. but forth to make it such. at achievements of these poared by a special writer. less colored men and wo- l be used to make this an any of note. St. Paul's and the church is to be congratulated upon having such a strong, able and thoroughly Christian leader. Attorney B. G. Clanton was in Chicago last week, on business. Jesse wormly indisposed last week. Mr. A. B. Orendorff, of Lincoln, was in the city this week. Mr. A. Meek returned from Princeton, Ky., his former home, last Thursday, to which place he accompanied his mother who had been visiting him for the past six months. Rev. G. W. Dorsey, of Carbondale, Ill., will preach at Zion Baptist Church, Ninth and Carpenter Sts., Sunday, Feb. 4th, at both morning and evening services. 4 CELEBRATION OF DOUGLASS’ MEMORY URGED BY LEAGUE National Equal Rights Body Takes the Initiative In Great Movement. Great and vital causes are advanced by honoring the memory of their il- lustrious exponents, When the work of these moral heroes 1s yet unfinish- ed or 1s being undone the present day struggle for humanity is strengthened by public observances of the anniver- sarles of the pioneers. Such events furnish the occasion to recall the ca- reers and recite the noble utterances of the great advocates of reform and to urge present day devotion to thelr ideals, The sentimental appeal which goes with the centenary of the birth of a moral leader makes its celebra. tion, if carried on in the spirit of his life work, of telling help to the same cause today. Hence it is that the National Equal Rights league, representing the cru sude of colored Americans for rights and liberties still denied, urges the celebration of the centenary of ‘the birth of that greatest of all champions of Iberty and of citizenship for col ored Americans, Frederick Douglass, all day Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1917. ‘The league advises that these ob- servences be in the name of the equal rights cause and that in every place where colored Americans are numer- ous an equal rights committee or Equal Rights league be formed to ar range the ceutenary observance of! this great colored cliampion of equal rights. ‘This is the first great duty of our race collectively in the new year 1917 and is the league's New Year's mes Sage to the race, It will inspire our Young people with respect for and pride in thetr racial strain to have brought out the wondrous ability of this man born a slave. It vill give SecaerSs Ger men and einen t fight in an organized way color dis crimination to learn of the brave stand taken by Douglass on many occasions. It will challenge the conscience of white Americans to know the life struggle and the eloquent plea made by him for justice to his race, Douglas was the great colored aboli tlonist. An escaped slave, he natural- ly waged an independent campaign of agitation for the freedom of his own race, ‘The approach of his centenary should be the signal for his people to rally to the standard of a fight of our race for rights denied because of our race. Let there be fitting observances throughout the United States of Amer. tea of the centenary of Douglass the orator, the abolitionist, the editor, the writer, the statesman, under the au. spices of equal rights committees or equal rights leagues and the citizens all day Feb, 14, 1917. ‘Thus will our fight for rights be strengthened in the land which Douglass helped make one of freedom for all. BYRON GUNNER, President, Hillburn, N. Y. WILLIAM MONROP TROTTER, Secretary, 84 Cornhill, Boston. THE NEED OF EDUCATION. Ce eer ei le ieee er eee University Makes Frank Statement. In discussing the question why the colored people are leaving the south in such large numbers Edward T. Ware, president of Atlanta university, says: “If the colored people are to remain in the south they must be educated. We are conducting a campaign to raise half a million dollars toward the en- dowment fund of Atlanta university, ‘This institution has been in existence fifty years, having been founded early in 1867, following the close of the civil war. “The work of Atlanta untyersity is recognized throughout the south and north. It was founded for the pur- pose of giving the colored people a chance for the same educational ad- vantages that the white population of the southern states enjoys. If this work 4s to be done it must be done by men And women who have had more than an industrial school education. “Phe whole system of Negro educa- tion in the south is separate from that of the white population. Consequently ‘we must equip members of the colored race to carry on this work. Everybody recognizes that the Negro must be ed- ueated if he is to haye the same oppor. tunities that his white brother enjoys, but few stop to consider where this education may be given. “One of the vital questions in the south at the present time is the ex- ‘odus of Negroes from the south. ‘The southern press has pointed out that if the colored people are to remain they must be educated and protected against lynchings, Already in south- west Georgia intelligent members of both the white and colored popula- tions have got together to discuss what can be done. It is in just such situa- tions that the educated colored person exerts his influence, “Atlanta university is givitig the south just such educated colored young men and women. The distinctive serv- {ce of the university has been the prep- aration of teachers. Among the grad. uates also are successful doctors, preachers and business men.” Serious Blow to Knights of Pythias. A Washington dispatch states that nearly half a million dollars’ worth of uniforms worn by the Knights of Pythias will be barred by the new law enacted by congress prohibiting indl- viduals, secret orders or organizations of any kind from wearing any uniform similar to that worn by the United States army, navy or marine corps. SOCIAL FUNCTION AT WASHINGTON Miss Clarice Jones! Marriage Season's Big Event. POPULAR YOUNG EDUGATOR Daughter of Noted Lawyer Becomes the Wife of James W. Michaels, a Successful Contractor of Salisbury, N. C.—Episcopal Ceremony Perform: ed by the Rev. Emory B, Smith. Washington.—The stellar event of the social life of Washington's Yuletide of 1916 was the charming wedding on Wednesday evening, Dec. 27, when Miss Glarico A. Jones, the accomplished daughter of Attorney and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, became the bride of James W. Michaels, a prosperous contractor of Salisbury, N. ©, ‘The nuptial cere: mony was performed at 6 o'clock at the stately home of the bride's parents, 1901 Vermont avenue, Northwest, in the presence of a large number of rela: tives and friends of the contracting parties, both in and out of town. ‘The impressive ring service of the Episcopal church was pronounced by the Rey. Emory B. Smith, pastor of the Lincoln Memorial Congregational church. The marital yows were ex- changed amid sweet strains softly dis- coursed by Professor Cole's orchestra, after the triumphant bars of Mendels- sohn’s “Wedding March” had been giv- en, Prior to the entrance of the bridal party into the spacious double parlors Miss Marie ©. James, the noted prima donna contralto, sang DeKoven’s “O Promise Me,” and just before the min- ister asked the “great question” Albert Booker interpolated a solo, “Because.” ‘The bride was given in marriage by her father. Dr. Ernest Robinson of Salisbury, N. ©., acted as best man. ‘Miss Jones was gowned in a bequtiful costume of white duchess satin, trim- med with silver lace flouncing, over georgette crape, with a long train, veil to match, surmounted by a wreath of orange blossoms. She carried an im- mense bouquet of white roses. The bridesmaid was Miss Claudia Brandon, who wore turquoise blue net over silver metal cloth. ‘The attendants were Miss Ruth Moore of California, who was at- tired in pink and blue meteor over blue taffeta, and Miss Fannie Holland of this city, who wore white net over white satin, Mrs. Georgia Jones Tuck- er, sister of the bride, was matron of honor and wore a charming gown of canary satin, Mrs, Jones, mother of the bride, wore a gown of black satin and lace, ‘The flower girl, who played her part with piquant precision, was Miss Cla- rice Antoinette Tucker, the little grand- daughter of Counselor and Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Minnie Lucas Wright, the Misses Carrie and Lizzie Woodford and Mr, and Mrs, Wilkinson assisted in recely ing the hggt of visitors aud other friends renflered timely ald in all of the activities of the Joyful hour. ‘The towering mansion of the well known Tones family—not excelled in domestic appointments and architectural mag- nifleence by any home in the capital— was tastefully decorated throughout. ‘The spacious parlors and drawing room were an artistic maze of palms, smilax, American Beauty roses and white chrysanthemums, and about the stairway evergreens were gracefully in- twined, ‘The hymeneal altar in an al- cove extension was a bower of rare beauty. In front of the house was a canopy extending to the curb, laid the entire length underfoot with carpet. Following the ceremony came the re- ception, and hundreds of representa- tives of the elite of the nation’s capital thronged the place, voicing felicitations and wishing the happy couple bon voy- age through life, A dainty luncheou was served, and each guest received a piece of the wedding cake. ‘The presents, which filled an entire upper apartment, were unusually rich, varied and pretty, embracing a daz. aling array of gold and silver, spark ling cut glass, rare china, fine linens, ‘handmade conceptions for milady’s boudoir and numerous articles for | practical household use. | Mr, and Mrs. Michaels departed at 10 o'clock on thelr wedding eve for | Salisbury, N. C., where they will make thelr future home. Mrs. Michaels, lt it be said in passing, is an honor grad uate of the conservatory of music of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., and her finishing recital at that historic in stitution Is conceded to have been the most brilliant that had been given by any student taking a degree in must: there. For several years Miss Jones (now Mrs, Michaels) has served with dis: tinction and complete satisfaction as director of music at the Livingston “university, Saisbuty, N. C., and will ‘probably continue in that capacity for the remainder of the current year She has beer a brilliant figure in the younger social set of the nation's eapt tal, and her graceful bearing, sunny disposition, lofty ideals and pleasing EMMETT J, SCOTT, JR. Winner of Scholarship Prizes at Phillips Exeter Academy Amount- ing to $760—Graduate of the Tus- kegee (Ala.) Institute Class of 1914—Ranks High In French and Advanced German. SFR ae wets A Ie EN et a oe « ek me eas os ens ce cia eet a Bc he lg Pasa us Stoic i ‘ae - B BARNETT DODSON. se ‘The ,yearly scholarship awards o! the Phillips Exeter academy, at 1x eter, N. H., New England's most im portant preparatory school for boys. amounting to $15,000 annually, were an- nounced in the Boston Evening Tran. script of Dee, 2%, 1916. Among the scholarship awards are many Phillips scholarships. ‘These take the form of free tuition. The funds come from # large gift from the founder, John Phil lips, Harvard, 1735, For good many years these were the only scolarships, and boys receiv. ing such aid were termed “foundation ers.” These scholarships paid board and lodging or a large part of such ex. pense, and the tuition was invariably remitted to needy students. Slowly. however, other scholarships were | founded until the number 1s now very ‘great and. the income no small sum. ‘The yearly award amounts to about $15,000, It 4s to be noted that Emmett J. Scott, Jr, of Tuskegee institute, Ala bama, continues to maintain the same high record of scholarship he has es tablished since he entered this schoo! in the fall of 1914, In the Transcript announcement he ranks second in the senior class, being awarded two schol- arships—the Bancroft, of $140, and a ‘Phillips, of $150, making a total of $200. He 1s also one of the nine first honor men of the senior class and se cures honorable mention for practical- ly perfect work in two of his studies, French and advanced German, Counting the scholarships just awarded him, young Mr. Scott has won a grand total of $760 in scholar: ships and prizes during his three years at the Phillips Exeter academy. He graduated from Tuskegee Institute in 1914. His sister, Miss Clarissa Scott also a ‘Tuskegee graduate, member of the class of 1916, is a student at the Bradford academy, Bradford, Mass. SHERIFF ELEY’S COURAGE. Ohio Official Gets Loving Cup For De ‘Pemiitan tak Brosh Mok. The National Association For the Ad- vancement of Colored People on Dee. 30 presented a loving cup to Sherman Hley, county sheriff at Lima, 0. The trophy was given in recognition of Sher- iff Bley’s bravery in defending a col- ored man aecused of a crime or misde- meanor from being lynched by a mob of white people. ‘This is the first time that @ sheriff of any county has been 80 honored, it is said. The inscription on the loving cup reads, “For devotion to duty in defend- ing a colored prisoner from lynching, enduring torture and insult, that the majesty of the law might be upheld, at Lima, Aug. 30, 1916.” ‘The presenta- tion of the cup was made by Governor Frank B. Willis before a crowd that filled the Second Baptist church. He said that the world loves and appre- clates a man who stands squarely with a heart unafraid and his faco to the front at times of stress and that pub- lic appreciation never is small for the faithful official who stands for the ad- ministration of the law and the en- forcement of justice, ‘The sheriff was too moved to say more than simple thanks in accepting ‘the cup, Prior to the presentation, however, he told friends that what he had done hardly called for action by ‘the Advancement association, because he had only done his duty. As a result of the Lima riot many arrests were made, some of the indict- ments being against well known citi zens. Several of these have been sent to prison-on charges of having attempt ed to lynch. Other cases are pending. A colored man of the name of Daniels has been given a penitentiary sentence. Sheriff Eley at the last election was returned to office by a big majority. Dr. C. V. Roman Speaks at Louisville. The Louisville (Ky.) branch of the National Association For the Advance. ment of Colored People introduced its program of action for the new year at a great mass meeting held on Mon- day evening, Jan, 1. Dr. C. V. Roman of Nashville, Tenn., delivered the prin. cipal address, Dr. Roman's subject was, “Let Cs Go Forward—A Plea For a Larger Vision.” He handied his subject in @ logical and scholarly manner, Estate of Fannie Watkins, Deceased Notice ishereby given, that on Saturday, the 10th day of February next, between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon, to wit; at two o’clock P. M. of said day, at the late residence of Fannie Watkins, deceased, No. 1007 So. 17th Street, in the town of Springfield, County of Sangamon and State of Illinois, the personal property of said de- cedent, consisting of: 1 Piano; 1 Wall Mirrors; 3 Leather Bottom Chairs; 2 Tables; 2 Large Rugs; 5 Small Rugs; 13 Piece Parlor Suite; 1 Bed Stead; 1 Couch; 1 Dining Table; 6 Dining Room Chairs; 3 Rockers; 2 Carpet Sweepers; 1 Combination Book Case; 1 Sale; 1 Cook Range; 1 Gas Range; 1 Horse and Buggy; 1 Spring Wagon; 1 Ice Box, 1 Sewing Machine, 1 Folding Bed, 1 Wardrobe with wearing apparel, 1 Dresser, 1 Wash Stand, 1 Kitchen Cabinet, 2 Small Center Tables, 3 Rings, 1 Diamond Ring, will be sold at PUBLIC SALE, in accordance with an order of the Probate Court of Sangamon County. TERMS OF SALE: CASH IN HAND. Rev. J. J. Chappelle, Executor. Charles $. Gibbs, Attorney for Executor. Dated this 26th day of January, A. D. 1917. ve : upc items you ‘= leis ee "Qunsee Piancn Vp Poh a Bp sor fo at Ve Ser ho ant Se He his Sat Feomac it . Spay my Oona a eats Gun * Don’t lot some fake Kink Remover foot zon, You really can’t stsuichton your hale Bntin ies nico wed one. Thate what , Quinine EXELENTO Quinive does, removes Dandruff, feeds the Roots of She aie and maken ie grow fons, att and Bilkgy After using afew times vet ean tell She difference, and. aftora tle while te tril eo prectstand tong that yo ean fie Ron tom you, If Exetentodon'tdoas esistn, wa'wil give gone money back. BSc hy taallon receipt of stamps or coin, AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE, ° Write For Partlenlars. ExeLENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga, | The program *rendered Sunday afternoon at the Culture club was unusually short but sweet. The features of the program were selee- tions from Paul Lawrence Dunbar by Mrs, B. L. Rogers and a sol “Slave Song’? by Mrs. J. Harold White. Mrs. White was at het best and recieved enthusiastic ap: plause, The Spiritual Talk by Rev. Dr. ae as usual, interest- ing and inspiring. ‘The congrega- tional singing has proven to be a helpful and pleasing feature in the afternoon’s program. The journalist, Miss Hazel Tack er had prepared a very excellent report. Following the advice that she show a little more originality, Miss Tucktr gave an interesting and an amusing little sketch of the life of a bachelor. The eritic, E. L. Rogers, was present and filled his office, after an absence of several meetings, due to illness. FRED DOUGLAS CENTENARY The Appomattox Club, the Lead: ing Negro Organization of Chicago, Ina Big Drive For Racial Uplift. The Appomattax Club seems to have at, last struck the real note of the purpose of-its organization, Race Uplift, and will commence its 1917 program on Sunday Feb. 4th, 1917, at 4 P.M. atthe Club Parlors in a big “Symposium”? upon the livest question now before the Am erican people, “Negro Migration.” Atty. B. F. Mosely, the promin: ent lawyer, orator ‘and citizen of Chicago, has been placed in charge of the program, and as Chrmn, o} the Civie and Publie Affairs Com with his carefully selected co-work ers, promises to accomplish a dea of good in a minimum space of time, The president, Col. J. H. Johnson, and Board of Directors are staunch supporters of this com. mittee. On Feb. 4th, all the literary so- cieties of the leading colored churches of the city will be repre- sented on the program, and with ‘the members of the committee arc preparing to discuss this questior from every view-point. On Feb. 11th, the Club will cel- ebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Fred Douglass, and the 108th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. Speakers of the afternoon are Hon. Albert ©. Barnes, of the Appellate Court, who will speak on Abraham Lincoln, and Hon, Geo. Cleveland Halk, one of the noted physicians of the race, who will eulogize Douglass. Assisting the chairman, Atty. Beauregard F, Mosely, are the following committee members, according to the announcement of President Johnson, : Hon. L. B. Anderson, Hon. 8. B. Turner, Col. J. R. Marshall, Hom S. A. T. Watkins, Mr. D. French, Hon. H. 8. Daniels, Hon, Henry G, Anderson, Hon, E. H. Wright, Hon. Oscar DePriest, Dr. S.C. Dickerson, Hon. R. S$, Abbott, Hon. W. R. Cowan, Major R. R- Jackson, Hon. A, L. Jackson, Hon. A. A. wells. Friends in this city will be sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. T. L. Smith, the invalid wife of the Rey. Dr. Smith of Quiney who for some years pastored in this city. Mrs. Smith was a patient sufferer for many years and passed from this life on Wednesday at her late home in Quiney where the funeral took place Friday. Jas. B. Osby was called to Piqua, Kansas, this week, on business. Mrs. Louiza Rowe, 1928 E. Stu. art St., has returned from an ex- tended visit with relatives and friends in Kentucky. LOYAL LEGION’S SESSION. A very interesting meeting of the Advisory Board of the Loyal Legion Co-operative Educational System was held Thursday even- ing at their headquarters in the Brown Hotel building. A splen- did report was received from Com- missioner Z, W. Mitchell showing substantial things accomplished al- ready by the” System in this city. ‘The first public Educational Ses- sion vo be held in this district will take place at the Union Baptist Church Sunday afternoon Febru- ary 11, by the courtesy of the Culture Club and will take the place of the usual Culture Club program. The FORUM of this city was adopted as the official organ of the Loyal Legion and the plant formerly located on So. 8th Street, has be en moved to Loyal Legion quarters and a united eff- ort will be made to issue a News- paper here that will reflect credit upon the race thruout the state. The “Shifting Process’’ of se- lecting active Board members will at once be begun with a view to perfecting an organization of wide- awake active citizens who will as- sume the responsibilities resting upon them as leaders in Commun- ity Uplift. A series of Education- al Sessions will be held participat- ed in by leaders of the Community Forces among the white people of the city. Each Commitee will hold an Educational Session, A REPUBLICAN SPEAKER. Indications are favorable for the organization and the election of a Speaker of the national house of congress next month by the Re- publicans. There are 216 Repub- lican members; 213 Demoerats; 5 Independents and one doubtful. Making a total of 435, which will necessitate 218 votes to elect. The Independents have most allied themselves with the Republicans which looks favorable for Re- publican control of the House, with Congressman J. R. Maun as the probable Speaker. Mrs. Luella Ervans, 2124 E. Kansas St., has been ill but is eon- valescing at present, Don’t fail to attend the Culture Club Session Sunday at the Union Baptist Church at 4 o'clock. A good program has been arranged, ANNOUNCEMENT The management of the REGAL PRINTING CO., publishers of THE FORUM take this opportunity to announce to the patrons, readers and friends that beginning with this issue of The Forum the Editorial Management of the paper will be placed in the hands of Commissioner Z. W. Mitchell, Principal and Founder of the Loyal Legion Co-operative Educational System, Mr. Mitchell will also assume the management of, the Advertising Department and will give to Springfield a first class Weekly newspaper. Official Organ of the Legion new to giving to Springfield and to the State of Illinois a Race Paper. An essential service to the Colored population of the State The Forum has been the Official organ of the Loyal Legion Co-operative Educational Movement to serve as the most helpful Factor possible in pushing forward every cause and every worthy undertaking for the advancement of the Race. The team will be maintained with a view to reflecting the best thought of the team pertaining to its welfare and highest interests. Illinois a Race Paper that will State The Forum has been adopt- Educational Movement and will pushing forward every cause, every element of the Race. Through it a the best thought of the Race on With a view to giving to Springfield and to the State of Illinois a Race Paper that will be of substantial service to the Colored population of the State The Forum has been adopted as the Official organ of the Loyal Legion Co-operative Educational Movement and will be made to serve as the most helpful Factor possible in pushing forward every cause, every movement and every worthy undertaking for the advancement of the Race. Through it a Race Forum will be maintained with a view to reflecting the best thought of the Race on all matters pertaining to its welfare and highest interests. Regal Printing Plant Moved of the REGAL PRINTING CO. has been removed from 109 So. 8th St. where better facilities are available for a much larger, better and more career. From this stand the Company will be pleased to serve its paty, efficient workmanship and unsurpassed quality in all kinds of Print a Magazine. ved from 109 So. 8th Street to 124 which larger, better and more successe pleased to serve its patrons with city in all kinds of Printing from The plant of the REGAL PRINTING CO. has been removed from 109 So. 8th Street to 124 So. 11th St. where better facilities are available for a much larger, better and more successful business career. From this stand the Company will be pleased to serve its patrons with punctuality, efficient workmanship and unsurpassed quality in all kinds of Printing from a Card to a Magazine. A Corps of News Gatherers Organized hat all local interests might be properly represented from time to time. In the Forum, the managing editor will proceed at once to organize a conference. Forecasts of all entertainments to be given by Churches, Clubs, Lodges will be made weekly providing announcements of same are sent in two tickets of admission so that reporters may be sent to give proper wn they occur. ated from time to time in the colloence to organize a corps of news Churches, Clubs, Lodges or priests of same are sent in accompany sent to give proper write-ups of In order that all local interests might be properly represented from time to time in the columns of The Forum, the managing editor will proceed at once to organize a corps of news gatherers. Forecasts of all entertainments to be given by Churches, Clubs, Lodges or private parties will be made weekly providing announcements of same are sent in accompanied with two tickets of admission so that reporters may be sent to give proper write-ups of same when they occur. Readers Will Phone In Their News e requested to phone in news of visitors, deaths, accidents, parties or be gladly received and given proper space in our news columns. s, accidents, parties or marriages news columns. Readers are requested to phone in news of visitors, deaths, accidents, parties or marriages which will be gladly received and given proper space in our news columns. The Forum In Every Springfield Home we asked to help place The Forum in every Springfield home and thereby to a strong influential and creditable Race Paper in Central Illinois. Froment will endeavor to have the Paper in the mail in time each week to be ay. gfield home and thereby assist in in Central Illinois. From now on in time each week to be delivered Citizens are asked to help place The Forum in every Springfield home and thereby assist in building up a strong influential and creditable Race Paper in Central Illinois. From now on the management will endeavor to have the Paper in the mail in time each week to be delivered on Saturday. REGAL PRINTING CO. phone 5729 11th & ADAMS ST. --- Bell Phone 5729 WOMEN TO SAVE OLD LANDMARK National Association of Colored Women's Clubs Receives Report of Special Committee on Condition of the Frederick Douglass Home and Resolve to Pay Off the Indebtedness. New York.—The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs has begun a vigorous campaign to raise $15,000, the sum necessary to pay off the mortgage on the home of the late Frederick Douglass at Anacostia, Washington, Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo, president of the association, is devoting much time and energy to the work of the campaign, which is attracting nation wide attention. In her efforts to bring THE WOMAN MRS. MARY B. TALDEBT, PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS, BUFFALO, N. Y. MRS. MARY B. TALLEBET, PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS, BUFFALO, N. Y. the matter before the public for action Mrs. Talbert has the full co-operation of the general officers of the organization, the executive committee and the various state federations of women's clubs. The Douglass home proposition was taken up at the biennial meeting of the national association held at Baltimore in August, 1916. At this meeting a committee was appointed to consider the advisability of assisting the trustees of the Frederick Douglass Historical association, which has charge of the home, to liquidate the debt on the home which is of long standing. In its report on the matter the committee finds that under a special act of congress this association was created, first, to preserve to posterity the memory of the life and character of the late Frederick Donglass, and, second, to collect, collate and preserve a historical record of the inception, progress and culmination of the anti-slavery movement in the United States and to assemble in the homestead of the late Frederick Donglass, generally known as Cedar Hill, in the village of Anacostia, in the District of Columbia, all such suitable exhibits of records or things illustrative or commemorative of the anti-slavery movement and history as may be donated to said association or acquired by purchase, bequest or other lawful means. After careful consideration of all the facts the committee concludes that this is the psychological moment for the association to show its true worth and prove that the women of the race can measure up to those able saluted women of the race like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Amanda Smith, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper and others who passed through the fire of slavery and stood the test. We believe, says the committee, that the attainment of the goal depends upon the enlistment of every man, woman, boy and girl of the colored race in America. We seriously realize that it will require us to mobilize all the resources of our association and show that we are not afraid to put ourselves on record as being able to save the home by one day's co-operative effort. We purpose to enlist the largest possible number of people, especially the boys and girls, in this part of the work of our association, relying upon race loyalty and pride as the energizing power. We purpose to employ such methods as will enable us to use every resource within our power for the accomplishment of this task. The need is concrete, and we know that our share toward saving the home is comparatively small. This, however, will give us courage to feel that by all working together it can be accomplished. We will thus place our association on record as saying "I will" to our program of advancement. We believe that every boy and girl should become a co-operating member in this program, and with that in view we earnestly urge every woman's club to mobilize our boys and girls. The public schools are asked to observe the one hundredth anniversary of Mr. Douglass' birth on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 11, 1917, by a short program at which each child is asked to contribute 1 penny on that day to pay for one nail to be used in the renovation of the Douglass home. In the northern and eastern cities, as well as in the south and west, day school pupils are asked to contribute, and Sunday school superintendents all over this country are asked to hold a short memorial service on Sunday Feb. 13, 1917, and ask each child to contribute 1 penny toward the saving of this home. The question no doubt will be asked by many, "Is it worth while?" The committee answers strongly, "Yes!" For who can measure the farreaching results of this great work, the inspiration that will be given to the boys and girls of our race? It will stir their hearts to greater race pride for them to know that they have a part in this great work and thus directly express their gratitude to the silent memory of Douglass, the orator, diplomat and statesman. Every man, woman, boy, girl or club who takes a$^{a}$ share in the redemption of this home enters into a partnership with the trustees in preserving to posterity the home of the greatest man of our race of his time. To arouse our women to greater activity the committee has decided that it will place upon parchment the name of every individual or club that contributes the sum of $25$, and to the club which sends the largest amount over $25 a special tablet will be placed in the Douglass home in its name. This is done that our children in the years to come when paying a visit to this shrine may read the names of loyal race men and women who have proved false the accusation, so long brought against the race, that it shows no gratitude for benefactors if doing so costs dollars and cents. It takes $15,000 to save and restore the home and grounds of the Douglass estate. We have deemed it advisable to appoint a special treasurer to look after the funds. All moneys collected should be sent to Mrs. Nettle L. NAPIER, 120 Fifteenth avenue, north, Nashville, Tenn. Feb. 12 is the one hundredth anniversary of Douglass' birth. For further information address the president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, 521 Michigan avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. The special committee consists of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, chairman; Miss Halle Q. Brown, chairman executive board; Rev. Florence Randolph, Jersey City, N. J.; Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, Richmond, Va.; Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass.; Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, St. Louis; Mrs. Nettle L. NAPIER, treasurer, Nashville, Tenn. The general committee includes Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. Robert R. Moton, Tuskegee, Ala.; Mrs. Lucy Thurman, Miss Meta E. Pelham, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Josephine E. Bruce, Mrs. Rozetta E. Lawson, Mrs. Kelley Miller, Washington; Mrs. Clara B. Hardy, St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Lizzie B. Fouse, Miss Georgia A. Nugent, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Miss Eartha M. M. White, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Grace B. Valentine, Borden-town, N. J.; Mrs. Isabella W. Claphan, Camden, N. J.; Mrs. Ruth L. Bennett, Mrs. Rebecca Aldrige, Mrs. Laura Brown, Pittsburgh; Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, Hampton, Va.; Mrs. Charlotte Dette, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Mrs. Julia Mason, Buffalo; Mrs. M. R. Lyons, $^{3}$ Addle W. Hunton, Brooklyn; Mrs. Marion B. Wilkerson, Orangeburg, S. C.; Mrs. John Hope, Miss Mary Galnes, Atlanta, Ga.; Miss Mary E. Jackson, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. Judith Horton, Guthrie, Okla.; Mrs. G. L. Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Mary Clinton, Charlotte, N. C.; Mrs. M. E. Goins, Jefferson City Mo.; Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Des Moines, Ia.; Mrs. Charles Banks, Mound Bayou, Miss.; Mrs. Mary H Baker, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Mrs. Mary E Joshenburger, Fort Smith, Ark.; Mrs. Waldo Bogle, Portland, Orc.; Mrs. George H. Warner, Mrs. Eloise Bibl Thompson, Los Angeles.; Mrs. A. H Wall, Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. F. W. West Bakersfield, Cal.; Mrs. E. J. Freeman San Diego, Cal.; Mrs. Kate Wilson Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. George Conte Denver, Colo.; Mrs. C. R. McDowell Hannibal, Mo.; Mrs. Emma S. Keeble Kalispell, Mont., and Dr. Mary F Waring, Chicago. WORK OF ZOAR M. E. CHURCH How a Philadelphia Congregation Exhibits the Spirit of Co-operation. An example of the spirit of co-operation is shown in the work of the Zoar Methodist Episcopal church, the Rev. Dr. F. H. Butter, pastor, Philadelphia. The organizations of the church during the past year spent $400 in community work and collected $1,200 for the church conference. The congregation also took a leading part in uplift work among the people, including the Child Welfare league, the Emergency Aid, the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People (Philadelphia branch), the Good Citizenship league, the Armstrong association, the Spring Street settlement and other movements for civic, social and economic betterment. Raises Funds For Home Missions. Through the efforts of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church in Texas $2,500 has been raised to complete the Eliza Dee home. Mrs. E. S. Ratliff is president of the society, whose annual meeting was recently held at Waco, Tex. ORDER NOW FOR SEASON Prompt Deliveries by the TON OR LOAD 1610 EAST MASON STREET Bell Phone 1383 Bell Phone 2322 Attorney at Law. 115 South 11th St. Office Phone 3327 Residenee 4338 B. G. CLANTON LAWYER 8151 E. Washington Street Office, Bell 2156 Dr. J. I. Miles DENTIST Special Attention given Children's Teeth ADJUSTMENT NOTICE Estate of Rose Graham, deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed Administrator of the Estate of said Deceased, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the Probate Court of Sangamon County, Illinois, at the March Term thereof, which will be held at the Court House of said County, beginning on the fifth day of March 1917, at which time all persons having claims against said Estate are hereby notified to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are also requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 18th day of January 1917. FRANK L. TRUTTER Administrator. A. M. WILLIAMS, Artormex A. M. WILLIAMS, Artorney. Bell Phone 1963 CHAS. S. GIBBS ATTORNEY AT LAW 723 $ _{2} $ E. Washington B. G. Clanton, Complainant's Solicitor State of Illinois. Sangamon County, ss. Circuit Court, January Term, A.D., 1917 Lena H. Harwell vs. in Chancery, George Harwell. Affidavit of the unknown residence of George Harwell defendant above named having been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, Notice is hereby given to the said Geo. Harwell that the complainant filed her bill of compaint in said Court, in the Chancery side thereof, on the 24th day of November A.D. 1916, and that a summons issued out of said Court against said defendant, returnable on the first Monday of January next, as is by law required. NOW, unless you, the said Geo. Harwell shall be and appear before the Sangomon County Circuit Clerk, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at the Court House, in the City of Springfield, on the first Monday of January A. D. 1917, and plead, answer or demur to said complainants bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you, according to the prayer of said bill. J. H. Drennan, Clerk. 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Reisch's Gold Top ranks among the best in the country. Prompt deliveries and shipments made. Order direct from brewery. WILBERFORCE TO BROADEN WORK NAMED FOR LATE DR. WARD President W. S. Scarborough Calls Attention to Labors of Great American In Behalf of Our Race—Praise For Other Noted Men Who Have Contributed to Our Education. In outlining the work for the new year, 1917, and speaking of the urgent news of the Wilberforce (O.) university Dr. W. S. Scarborough, president of that noted institution, says in a letter to the New York Independent that it is the purpose of Wilberforce university to erect a science building as a memorial to the late distinguished editor of the Independent, naming it the "William Weyard Ward Science hall." We feel that no better tribute could be paid to his memory by the [Picture of a man with a white beard and mustache, wearing a dark suit and a white shirt. The background is a light color. The man's face is centered in the frame.] DR. W. S. SCARBOROUGH. Negro. He virtually devoted his life to the interests of the race. By voice and pen he aided our emancipation, upheld our rights and denounced our wrongs, advocated our education and encouraged our ambitions. He inspired us with hope for a future free from prejudice and proscription. Dr. Ward was also a personal friend of Wilberforce university and of Bishop Daniel A. Payne, the chief of its founders. Whatever pertained to its welfare deeply interested him. Therefore he noted with deep regret on a visit some four years ago when he addressed us during commencement week that our quarters for science teaching were totally inadequate. Every one who knew Dr. Ward knows what a keen interest he took in all lines of scientific endeavor and research. It seems to us, therefore, very fitting that we strive to build for our great need a monument to him that will not only show our grateful appreciation as a people of his labors in our behalf, but that will also have a close connection with the things in which he took so great delight. It is equally fitting that the oldest Negro school in America should be the one to put forth this effort and that its campus should be the spot where such a memorial shall stand. Dr. Ward was always quick to recognize a real need, and there is no question that a science building is one of the greatest needs of Wilberforce university today. All its class work along scientific lines is greatly hampered by lack of room for work and for even the proper placing of the laboratory equipment for which friends are making arrangements to provide. Our work planned for advance study demands the new building, as does the constantly increasing work in certain industries and in agriculture. We cannot even make the most profitable use of our small but well selected museum because it cannot be properly arranged in our present crowded quarters. Thus we find very important work suffering at every point be cause of needed enlargement. Wilberforce university, because of its strategic situation, its environment and many admirable facilities, is one of the strongest centers of Negro higher education in the country. Its work is constantly growing. It provides all around training in literary courses, teachers' training and vocational courses, of which there are seven. With forty-one instructors and 500 students, it is serving most acceptably in a wide field of Negro education. It is the oldest institution of its kind in the United States, as I have just said, dating as far back as 1847, when was founded the Union seminary, a manual labor institution for the education of colored people, and which was subsequently merged into Wilberforce university. It was named in honor of the great English statesman and benefactor of the colored race, William Wilberforce. It was incorporated in 1856, and its first board of trustees included Governor Salmon P. Chase, who at his death left it $10,000. Major General O. O. Howard, Major General Saxton, Dr. Bellows, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Frederick Douglass and other men of prominence have served as trustees of this institution. Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently gave $17,500 toward the erection of a $500,000 building for girls, which with the $20,000 already donated by him for a library building made his total contribution to Wilberforce university $37,500. It has today an enrollment of 500 young men and women, from nearly all the states of the Union, from the isles of the sea and from Africa, and needs still larger quarters for them. We are therefore sending this appeal to the Independent, to the readers of this stanch and fearless paper, to the friends of Negro education generally and to the friends of Dr. William Hayes Ward in particular, asking their aid in accomplishing our purpose. The cost of this proposed building will be $40,000. We beg earnestly that out of their philanthropic love of humanity, out of their interest in education as the saving and uplifting power of a nation as well as a race and out of their friendship for and pride in the master mind that has gone to its reward our friends and Dr. Ward's friends will assist us in accomplishing our purpose. The memory of one who delighted in service will thus be perpetuated in an institution whose aim is service. Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent, New York, throws the weight of his influence toward the efforts of Dr. William Sanders Scarborough to raise funds for the erection of a suitable science building at the Wilberforce university. Mr. Holt says: "The Independent is glad to publish the appeal to its readers from the president of Wilberforce university. I may add that I have visited Wilberforce, know its president well and can vouch for the good work being done there for the elevation of the Negro. "While the university maintains a very good industrial department, it has always stressed the higher education of the Negro, believing its greatest service lay in training its students for professional life and for the leadership of the race. I have often heard Dr. Ward speak with enthusiasm of the work Wilberforce was doing, and I am sure that any of his friends who feel like responding to President Scarborough's appeal will be aiding a genuinely worthy project." GIFTS TO MEMORIAL FUND. New Year Brings Many Evidences of Esteem For Tuskkeen's Founder Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-With almost prearranged exactness a number of organizations and individuals sent in contributions to the Booker T. Washington memorial fund just about the close of the old year, and these letters reached Tuskegee at the beginning of the new year just like messages of New Year greetings for 1917. It was one of those significantly fortunate occurrences which seem to give a most encouraging outlook for continued returns during the present year. The Birmingham District Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical association sent $25 with the following expression accompanying it: "Some time ago our association's attention was called to the fact that a memorial fund was in process of collection for the purpose of commemorating the life and work of our great friend, brother and coworker, Dr. Booker T. Washington. As a body we raised the sum of $25." This letter was signed by Dr. B. E. Huckabee, president; Dr. J. C. Johnson, treasurer, and Dr. Fred D. Bradford, secretary. Through the courtesy of Hon. R. B. McCrary, most worshipful grand master of Masons of North Carolina, a contribution of $100 was received from that important state grand lodge. Mr. McCrary says: "Pursuant to my promise, I have the honor of handing you our check for $100 for the Booker T. Washington memorial fund. This contribution is a free will offering from various Masonic lodges within the jurisdiction of North Carolina, and at the time of sending the actual amount reported was $94, to which I have added the balance to make the even $100." J. A. Blume of Winston-Salem, N. C., a member of the Masonic grand lodge of his state, in a letter announcing the decision of the grand lodge to send the $100 referred to above says: "There is no reason why the fraternal organizations of North Carolina should not contribute at least $1,200 to this fund. We have in this state over 500 Masonic lodges, 500 Odd Fellows lodges and more than 200 Pythian lodges. If these would contribute $1 each the amount would be quite large." The individual contribution was $100 from Hon. J. C. Napier of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Tapier was a lifelong friend of Dr. Washington and was associated with the National Negro Business league from its beginning up to the present time, having been elected president at the last annual meeting at Kansas City, Mo., in 1916. Mr. Napier is one of that group of loyal friends to Dr. Washington whom he often referred to as "the old guard." Dr. Robert R. Moton Is Optimistic. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute, in discussing the migration of large numbers of colored people from the south to the north says: "Sooner or later the farmers, business men and scientists are going to get together very seriously, and the boll weevil is bound to be exterminated. Then cotton will continue as 'king' and the Negro who remains and helps to fight the boll weevil pest will share richly in the production of cotton and other forms of prosperity which are sure to come in the south. We must make up our minds that our chances for work, for homemaking and for developing are just as good in Alabama as anywhere else in the world." PEOPLE HONOR FATHER UNCLES Rich Tributes Paid Zealous Prelate at Baltimore. EXERTS WIDE INFLUENCE Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Ordination of First Colored Roman Catholic Priest Fittingly Observed—Members of Protestant Churches Take Leading Part—Presented With Purse of $700. Baltimore.—The recent celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Father Charles R. Uncles' ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood was an unusually brilliant event in the religious circles among our people in this city. St. Francis Xavier Catholic church was the scene of the most interesting series of services perhaps in its history. The occasion was significant of the growing tendency of the race toward broad mindedness in religious affairs without regard to denominational affiliation. Members of the various Protestant churches mingled with the great throng at the celebration as freely as did members of the Roman Catholic church. The anniversary sermon was delivered by the Rev. Joseph Warling. Among the noted prelates at this service were Bishop O. B. Corrigan and Mgrs, Foley and Starr. C. M. Dorsey PRESIDENT FATHER CHARLES R. UNCLES. was chairman of the committee having charge of the arrangements for the civic exercises, which were held at St. Peter Claver's hall. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Dorsey, Thomas A. Johnson, W. M. McCard, Dean William Pickens of Morgan college, Hon. Harry S. Cummings, Father James J. Nally of St. Peter Claver's church and others prominent in the civic and religious life of the community. The presentation address to Father Uncles was made by Frank A. Simmons, treasurer of the local committee. Mr. Simmons said that the token of esteem which he had been requested to present to Father Uncles was from both Catholies and Protestants; that it was a purse containing $700 as a small gift from those whom he had the honor of representing. In accepting the gift Father Uncles in part said: I thank you most heartily for your cordial greeting and extraordinary generosity. This testimonial comes as the climax of thousands and thousands of evidences that the friends of my youth are still my friends. For this I thank God, and I thank you. Blessed is he that has many friends, even if he has no dollars; most unhappy, if he has no friends; most if he is a millionaire. How grateful, then, and how happy must I be, now that I have many dollars and friends galore! Twenty-five years a priest of God! The mere announcement suggests a refrain which, like most good music, has notes of sadness as well as of joy. Though all anniversaries remind one of the rapid march of time, of the gradual approach to "the bourne whence no traveler returns," yet, as I have health and strength, as my gift is still agile and nimble, as my mind is strong and alert, as my heart is as strong and alert, as my heart is still able to give thanks to God for these and other blessings innumerable. After twenty-five years! The meeting of intimate friends, the congratulations of loving and helpful colaborers, the remembrance of twenty-five years of earnest labor and dutiful service, the hope of living yet longer to help others along the straight and narrow path, these facts, I say, these thoughts and aspirations, can fill my heart with gladness and gratitude. For all that has been commendable in my life and labors I here and now gracefully give credit to Almighty God, to my parents and to all my teachers in all the schools that I have attended, especially to my teachers in St. Joseph's and St. Mary's seminaries. And I give unstinted praise and unqualified thanks for all the good that I have received from and benefited from, and efficient prionaries, the fathers of the Society of St. Joseph. Nor am I unmindful of what I owe to you, my dear friends. Gladly, therefore, so I seize this opportunity to assure you of my heartfelt appreciation of all that I owe to your sympathy and friendship and encouragement. Yet I beg one more favor, a frequent remembrance in your prayers. Ask Almighty God to strengthen me, to protect me, to make me so servicable as to win his favor and deserve your approval. God bless you. God bless all my friends and benefactors. PLEASANT GROVE S. S. Unusual interest is being taken in building up a splendid Sunday School at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church under the superintendency of Mr. T. W. Warrick. In speaking to the Forum of the Sunday School and its work this week Mr. Warrick said: Our Sunday School opens at 9:15 A.M. every Sunday with an increasing attendance. When a student is reported absent from school, he or she is sent a card that week telling them of their being missed, which as you know, will increase their interest in the S. S. to the extent that they are led to believe that each has a respective place therein. Not only that, but that the Sunday School is no respector of person. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Rev. Mr. Thompson of Danville formerly of this city, preached for us on the third Sunday. He chose for a text: Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. He is a young minister and a very young man, yet he preached a logical sermon. A bright future as an able minister lays before him. A little more than eleven-twelths of 1917 has furled her pages, taken refuge, as it were beyond the tides of return; like a mortal being who spends this life in a way that would reflect glory and honor to the creator, handed down to their posterity. Every month brings us facing a new era; a time in which more is required of us to bear more of the infirmities of the weak, to make life better by our existence or our having lived in it. We do not have to seek a lofty avenue in which to work. If we want a field of labor, we can find it anywhere. Our sail will not be down stream at all times, nor will our pathway be strewn with flowers, or illuminated from the midsummer sun as it were. Neither will our friends seems numerous for there are times when criticism, persecution and dark days come, we are found sometimes in the way the "Man of God."—Job, was in his afflictions. But, rather, dear readers, trust Him who is able to kill the body and take charge of the soul. Its better to trust in the Lord than put confidence in man or Princes. It pays to "Let down our Buckets where we are." Time will bring us our reward. For farther success in life, try in your business, our motto at Pleasant Grove S. S. which is: "Take what you have and make what you want out of it. When you have tried this, you will inform us of greater victories. T. W. WARRICK. EUGENE COACHMAN INJURED Among four persons who were quite seriously injured in a collision of a freight car with the C & A Limited Tuesday afternoon at 3rd and Madison Streets, this city, was Eugene Coachmen, colored, porter on the southbound limited, 159 W. 56 street, Chicago. Left wrist broken and back badly wrenched. COLORED MEN OUT FOR OFFICE James Gray, E. L. Rogers, and George E. Lewis, republicans of Springfield, Ill., have filled their petitions for the primary nominations to the offices of assistant Supervisor, Justice of the Peace and Constable respectively, subject to the approval of the Republican voters to be determined in the primary election to be held February 27. As candidates for the nominations, they appeal to all classes and races of Republican for support and assistance. They belong to no faction and have no unexpressed or secret understanding with any organization but are pledged and committed to an honest and faithful discharge of the duties of the respective offices if nominated and elected We Have Purchased The Entire Stock of High Grade Ladies' Shoes of D. Tober of Denver, Colorado. This $8,000 stock includes the season's most popular novelties, also advance styles for spring and summer and We are offering this entire stock at below present wholesale prices, $2.44, $2.94, $3.44, $3.94 and up. Every one is a Bargain. Every one is a Bargain. Large assortment of styles and sizes to select from. Buy Next Summer's Shoes NOW at a Saving. Mail Orders Filled Promptly STRUM BROS SAMPLE SHOE-STORE S.E. MUNROE UNDER MITCHELLS Send in This Ad With Your Size Save your Old Clothes, bring them to us ann we will fix them up to look as good as new through our scientific process of CLEANING, DYEING, PRESSING and REMODELING OF LADIES AND GENTS GARMENTS Our many years of practical experience in this line is an assurance that we can do the work promptly and satisfactory at LOWEST PRICES. We also do Ladies and Cents Fine Tailoring at popular prices. Come in and get acquainted. CHICAGO CLEANING SHOP, 812 E. Washington Street We allow you a liberal discount for recommending us to your friends. By calling at our Market you save money because we don't deliver and are under small-expense and courting these these items we share the profits with you. They have no ax to grind or foe to fight. Local Brevities Rev. B. F. Abbott, pastor of Union Memorial M. E. church, of St. Louis, Mo., will deliver the principal address at the Lincoln Celebration, to be given at Grace M. E. church, February 12, 1917. Rev. Abbott was formerly Dist. Supt. of the Central Mo. Conference, and made many visits to this city, where he has many acquaintance. The public is invited to attend and hear the good program that will be rendered. Misses Eulalia Osby and Consuela Street spent the mid-setmester vacation in Champaign and Urbana, Ill., the guests of Mrs. Frances Mann and Miss Ora Thornhill. They were well entertained while in the Student cities. Miss Mollie Cooper, 822 So. 14. St., who has been ill, is much improved. One of the most elaborate social functions of the season was given by Asa R. Garnett at his beautiful residence on South 17th Street in honor of his birthday anniversary. Mr. Garnett resides in one of the most artistic homes owned by a colored man in this city. Among the many guests who enjoyed his bountiful hospit- Phone, Capitol 52 ality were: Rev. G. W. Jones and wife, daughter and sister, Mr. Henry Rhoden, B. G. Clanton, Miss Henrietta Harris, Mr. Frank Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dillon, the Misses Farro, Mr. Levi Brooks, Mr. William Cansler, Mrs. Young and Mrs. Jackson. The following menu was served: Roast chicken, French peas, white potatoes, candied yams, salad, hot rolls, relishes, ice cream, cake and coffee. Everyone present voted Mr. Garnett an ideal host. Mrs. G. G. Bates, of South Spring Street, entertained the Ladies Whist Club Thursday afternoon. The afternoon was spent in games, luncheon and social intercourse. Mrs. Bates has a beautiful home recently remodeled and made up-to-date in every respect, and her guests were accorded a delightful time. At a meeting of Capital City Lodge No.12, Knights of Pythias, held on the 5th inst., a committee was appointed to arrange for a Pythian Banquet and Love feast to be given at an early date, for the members, and visiting Pythians, including Maj. R. R. Jackson and Col. John R. Marshall. The committee which is composed of J. Harold White, Alexander Perry and G. G. Bates, will spare no effort or means in order to make this affair a grand success.