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October 27, 1923
international exchange
sity lecturers.
Hurried scansion of casualties
from Japanese earthquake reveal
two colored victims. Robert Bink
ley and Laura Mason, the former
a seaman and the latter a maid,
both of London. No records of
the deaths of colored Americans
have been disclosed.
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Jackson County Schools
Have exhibit
Jefferson, Ga., October 20th—
The colored schools of this county,
under the supervision of Mrs-
Rosa L. Love, had their annual
exhibit here today. The people
from all parts of the county
brought in the best friuts of the
fields and every work of art.
Mrs. Camilla Weens, of Savan
nah, State Supervisor of Home
Economics in colored schools, was
the principal speaker. Madam
Mamie Pringle, of Savannah, was
also present and spoke. Many
people of both races viewed the
exhibits, and seem to have been
greatly impressed with the growth
in the practcal things in our
homes. Mrs. R. L. Love, the em
inent supervisor, Mrs. A. Howard
and the other teaehers of the Jack
son county schools are to be con
gratulated for the good work they
are doing for the betterment of the
race.
Mrs. Janie M. Johnson, of 523
West Broad street, left for New
York on the 15th inst.
MR- SIDNEY NEWSOME
SURPRISED
And “Sid” was surprised at for
ty. He had been telling his wife
that no one could fool him, but
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THE ATHENS REPU BLIQU E
he whom a woman connot fool has
not been born. What kept her
from preparing, while he worked
for her, a elegant and sumptuous
repast of baked chicken, pickled
beats and pears, pork roast, stew
ed tomatoes, stuffed white pota
toes, hot biscuits, coffee, jelatine,
and cake ? While he continued his
hqnest toil what could prevent her
and her two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude
Harris and Mrs. Annie Lou
Brown (that merry trio of ideal
“ Jtigh Browns,” who in their
girlhood, had an endless chain of
admirers) from decorating their
dining room with tri-colored crepe
that should swing from a little
bell at the ceiling to the four cor
ners and along the sides of the
table? All this happened in Sid’s
absence, and when Dr. Jones and
Dr. Burney brought him home ho
was fooled out right.
The attendants, all told, were:
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Newsome,
Mrs. Gertrude Harris, Mrs. Annie
Lou Brown, Mrs. Hattie Grimes,
Dr. I. H. Burney, Dr. A. M. Jones
and Lieut. Brown. The affair was
greatly enjoyed by all.
Added to the Athens family on
the 24th were Mrs. Ida S. Starks
and her two children, Thelma and
Dennis A. Sta ks, Jr. They are
the family of Prof. D. A. Starks,
farm demonstrator in Clarke and
adjacent counties. Prof. Starke,
accompanied by Mr. W. F. Ken
ney, motored down to his old home
at Tallahassee, Flordia and
brought his family back on the
return trip.
Mr. A. T. Howard, 543 West
Broad street, continues ill. The
brethren are requested to call to
604 him.
Mother Zion Church, New York,
the national cathedral of the Zion
Methodists, will erect a new edi
fice, fitting in architecture and
character to represent the denomi
nation. The General Conference
of that organization contributed
$50,000 toward the new church.
A resolution passed at the re
cent Elk’s Convention at Chicago
appropriated $20,000 for the first
installment upon the purchase of
Elks’ National Home, to be locat
ed at Westchester, Pennsylvania,
24 miles from Philadelphia. The
site covers 104 acres of the histor
ic Brandywine and will be a In me
for aged Elks and their wives.
Pete, famous ambulance cat of
the Emergency Hospital, at
Washington, is dead, after the
surgeons of that institution had
exhausted every means known to
science to save his life, Frank
Yates, colored ambulance driver
is inconsolable. Pete, who had
answered a thousand hurry calls,
sitting beside his owner and friend
went down to his death battling 1
with two vicious Airedales.
Writing in the Chicago Tribune,
Arthur Evans says the “Simon
Legree stuff’’ will have to be end
ed in the South or that section
will sutler. “Undoubtedly the
planters treated the Negroes un
fairly,” writes Mr. Evans, “jiut as
the unprincipled exploit the ig
norant and helpless everywhere.
But they’ve stopped it. Senti
ment is strongly against it, and if
they kept it up they couldn’t get
labor for their fields.”
A corporation made up of white
men has been capitalized at $125,
009 to market the horticultural
discoveries of George Washington
Carver, colored scientist of Tus
kegee.
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