The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-12-31
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
ms and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Its Friends.

Jas. Smith, of Buxton, was visitor
in the city Wednesday.
We know you had merry Christ
mas, and now we wish you a happy
New Year
G.. G. Lee went to Des Moines on
Thursday evening for a holiday va
cation Of a few days.
The minstrel company has dwin-
died down to male quartet. See
Prof. Holmes for dates.
Miss Annie Jones went to Washing
ton Thursday evening to spend the
holidays with her sister Jessie.
Flonoy Cannaday, Of Des Moines,
came down Christmas night for a
short visit with his sister and to at
| tend the dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Ousley of Lucas,
Ia, came over Thursday and spent
Christmas at the parental Mickles
home on West 3rd avenue.
Mrs Jesse Lafayette and children,
OF Buxton, are spending Christmas
with their aunt, Mrs. G. H, Jones, on
North A street.
M. d. Jeffries, one of Monroe coun-
| TVS prosperous farmers, is spending
few days with his nephew, VIII
Jeffries, at his home southeast Of
town.
The Misses Annie and Lean Bar
quet and Will Crump went to Wash
ington Saturday morning where they
will be the guests of Mr.. Crump's
parents for few days.
| Mrs. Elijah London, of Buxton, was
guest of Miss Bura Cannaday while
shopping in the city Wednesday and
Thursday of this week, and returned
to her home Friday morning.
Davenport Republican: GAS a mat
ter of fact a respectable colored man
! is far better than a disreputable
white man. Color does not make the
man." We have always thought so.
Notwithstanding the testimony of
Tillman, Cranes & Co. to the con-
trary. Responsibility is always
worth the trouble on the part of eth
err a colored man or white man.
We print the following clipping
from the New Sharon Star, as our
observation leads us to believe it can
be read with profit by some OF our
own race in this community: ''The
loafing boy must change his tactics
or he will become the dead-beat of
the future, and the girl that gads the
street at night is making her iniatory
march on the highway that leads to
damnation, no matter what their par
ents think about it,"
! The Des Moines Iowa Emancipation
in it's issue of Dec. 10, in leading
editorial, comments on President
Roosevelt's recent message to con-
: gress and among other things is the
following pertinent reference to the
much talked of negro problem: ''It
is gratifying to note the fact that the
! Negro Problem is eliminated from
the message. If the question Of
equal rights under the law is put to
the front it will eliminate many OF
! the things which agitate and vex the
public mind at present. Let the
words American citizen be inclusive,
and let justice stand for all alike.
The record of President Roosevelt is
in harmony with the best thought
and practice. The negro has no com
plant to make against Roosevelt's
administration"
! The dance given Christmas night
at Klingmon's hall under management
of Messers Robt. Johnson and Joseph
! Wing was big success. The crowd
and it was a crowd, was out for a
saeson of fun and they entered into
the enjoyment OF the evening with a
! zest and enthusiasm, such as only the
race is capable of. The music was
the only weak feature, but the natural
immotional characteristics of the Ne
gro race do not need real harmony
and any semblence of music Is suffi'
Gent to set its chords vibrating and
put its pedal extremities into activity
Buxton was represented by large
number, some twenty-five or thirty
: and more would have come but fol-
the lack of hotel accommodations
Ottumwa, Des Moines, MuchakinocB
and Evans were also represented, and
barring the Inconvenience of having
to sleep in chairs and every old place
all would have voted the evening wei
spent, and the Christmas merry one
Among those who took part in the
oratorical contest at Penn college
last week was Rev. G.. w. Slater, pas
or of the A. M. e. church, who il
taking a special course at the college
this year Elder Slater chose as hiE
subject, Frederick Douglass" and
presented an Grafton that for thought
diction and delivery was one of the
best, If not the best, in the contest
and secured third place in the con
test. His delivery was fine and ht
received two firsts in markings OF
that point, and there is genera
feeling among those present that hat
one of the Judges on thought an(