The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-30
MILWAUKEE,,
THE CREAM CITY OF THELAKEs
AND IT'S FOLKS. !.
Items OF all Sorts Gathered Together by
Our Ubiquitous Reporter and Served III
In Dainty Style for the Dedication Of
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mandary Chat in to boy met Sunday
afternoon in the Plankinton School .
room and selected officers.
On the 22nd inst Rev. John A. Will
ans delivered the most able address in
Episc opal Convention. The press COM
p|imented very highly the gentlemen's
ability.
Rev. W. v. Tunnel preached Sunday
morning at St. Pauls Cathedral aud in
the evening at St. James to crowded
houses. This is an honor never before
accorded an Afro-American minister in
the history of Milwaukee.
All who are in debt to The APPEAL
agent for from month to year will
please settle at once, as your intentions
mnst certainly be bad. All such GUS
toners tend to drive any agent to the
wall and out of the business. -
The Cotsrie entertainment on the 20 h
inst was tame affair Only eighteen
couples were present. The program was
as follows: Welcome Address by the
Pre-. A. A. Thrill. Select reading, Mr..
Jas. A Johnson. Remark, were made
by DR.. A. L. Heron. ..'s. sn
Mr.. Edward Blackwell has gone to,
Chicago on visit. He will stop at Ra-
cine on his return to pay his best girl
visit. Old Boy 1--WE wish you success but
are inclined to believe shat you are too
slow in popping the question. Still ''all
is we'll that ends WE'LL"
Rev. VIM. V. Tunnel of Washington,
D. g. and Rev. John A. Williams of
Omaha Neb., wei e in the city attending
the Episcopal Convention and stopped
at the Plenkinton. also Rev. Lewis Many
Penny of White Earth, Becker Co.,
MINI. Rev. Penny Was a. full blooded
Indian.
Mrs VIM. II. Hargrow and daughter
have returned from Dayton Ohio where
they have bsen spending several weeks
with relatives annd friends. Th,y re-
port pleasant visit. M. and Mrs.
! Hargrow will reside at 34S-7th st.,
where they will be pleased to see their
many frierds.
Milwaukee hos kind of novelty in a
Afro, American football team. The
members of the Af1o.Ame,ican society
in this city have always had a baseball
team and put up some fast games, but
they never cared about tackling the COL
lege game until this fall. It was then
that some of the younger men Of the CO.
ciety got together and voted that they
be up with the times and organize q
football team. The line up OF the Cote.
rie club is as follows: Left end, Rollin
B. Johnson; left tackle, Charles Bell !;
left guard, Richard Reed; ce.ter Will
liam Goodwin; right guard, Dick Reed !;
right tackle, George Bryant; right end,
John Miles; quarter, Raymond Reed E;
left half, George T. Beand; full back,
William Hawkins; right half, Adoply
Thrill, captain.
II zee by the latest census that there
are, all told, but 45s Afro-American
men women and children, in this coun.
ty, ana it looks like folly for that por-
ton of the Afro-American population
that is interested in church matters to
have more than one church in Milwau-
kee," said q prominent churchman and
citizen to day, in speaking of the agita-
ton in the Afro American B ,ptist cuurct
"For some years. through the assistance
; piv4 by their white church bretbern o
various denominations, the A!ro-Ameri
cans have peen enabled to maintain hi
! African Methodist church in prett,
! good shape, but another church simpl!
. means dividing up a small number o
: people and small revenue, 30 tina
; neither will be able to maintain Itself il
i very good style, and the next step viii
probably be to establish one of stil
= another denomination"