The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-12-24
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
ms and Outs Of the Local Colony
and Its Friends.

Remember the fair at the A. M. 3.
church next Wednesday and Thurs
day.
g. G. Lee contemplates spending a
portion Of the holidays out OF the
city.
Tom Pasker spent Sunday in the
city and returned to Abba Monday
morning
w. G. Coleman, Of the Baldauf
force, is reported seriously Ill with
typhoid pneumonia.
Mr.. Simpson Mitchell is again con-
fined to the house with a renewed at
tack of rheumatism.
Miss Mabel Green has been con-
fined to the house for several days
on account of sickness.
Mrs. A. Blackburn expects to spend
a part of the holidays with her daugh-
ter, Miss Lizzie in Des Moines.
Abba extends invitations to oska-
loosa to attend a dance in that burg
Christmas night. Oskaloosa, how
ever, sends regrets. She'll dance at
home.
Several of our young people are
arranging to respond to invitations
from the Social Club Of OttumWa 10
attend a dancing party in that city
Thursday evening, Dec. "a.
The lovers of fun and dancing are
anticipating plenty of both at the
masquerade ball to be given at
Klingman's hall Christmas night. We
do hope, however, the management
will furnish an orchestra and do away
with the one man band music on
piano.
- The New Century Club met at the
home of Miss Jennie Hardy on North
Sixth street Thursday evening. The
evening was devoted to study OF
the early life and character Of Book
er r. Washington, and to quotations,
each member reading or reciting a
poem by negro author. The club
adjourned till after the holidays and
will next meet at the residence OF
Mrs. E. E. Jones, on North Fifth
street, Jan. 7, 1904.
Saturdays Oskaloosa Herald did
not seem like home without Attorney
A. G. Clark's weekly "Afro-American
society news" Many are now ask
ing if this talented citizen has sew
cred his connection with said paper.
Eagle. No, Bro. William
son, our connection is not broken.
1t may have been bent or bruised for
a week or two, but we have strength
ened it and patched it up and hope to
be regular, in the future.
The colored people of Oskaloosa
are preparing for a big Emancipation
Celebration on the list of January,
1904. Many of the most prominent
negroes of the state are expected to
be present and discuss the different
phases of the race problem. 1t is
also intended to form a lecture bu-
reau to bring to this section of the
state the races best lecturers. The
celebration is under the auspices of
the A. M. e. church, Rev. Geo. w.
Slater, pastor.
VIM Perno is a candidate for the
position of assistant door-keeper in
the house of representative in the
next legislature. If the negroes of
Mahaska county are so fortunate as
to get recognition up at the state
house, Mr.. Perno is as deserving as
any one we know. He has always
been a thorough republican and a
fully entitled to the little recognition
he now asks. Every negro voter in
the county should ask Representative
Hambleton to do all he can to secure
his appointment.
We acknowledge the receipt of Vol.
/, No 5, of the Iowa Emancipator, a
new paper published in Des Moines
by colored men in the interest of the
negro race. Chas. S. Ruff, one of the
best printers in the west and at pres
ent a linotype man on the Register
& Leader, is editor, and, Herbert R.
Wright, an attorney-at-law, managing
editor. 1t is a seven-column folio
and presents as neat and clean an
as any race paper ever
published in the state. Des Moines
and Iowa need a good newspaper, as
they have suffered the ills of a mis-
homer so long that they are forced to
blush at the very name of Bystander.
If the present venture receives half
the encouragement that some Of the
less deserving have had, and main
tains its present standard of excel
lence, it's success is assured. We
know the management to possess
both brains and energy, and neither,
we are sure, will be spared in its en-
deavor to give to the race newspa-
per fully worthy of the name.
Quite sensation was created this
week in colored society by the trial
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