The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-10-22

and Batavia next week.
Mr.. VIM. Hawkins will leave for
| Milwaukee and Chicago on the 10Th
inst.
The Temple Male Quartette, assist
ed by Miss Lola Johnson, Mrs. Lula
Hamer-Burrell, Miss Lottie Wallace,
Miss NJ Edna Gray, pianist, and
Messrs. Morrison Goodrich, Walter
| Franklin and L. E. M. Banks, will give
can Evening of Music" at Lincoln
| Temple church next Monday evening
! under the auspices of the Minute
Mems Club-Mr. w. S. Grouse, Gen
eral Chairman.
Miss Carrie Holland of Philadelphia
is spending few weeks in the city
the guest of Miss Carrie Lee.
1t will be very pleasing information
to the Afro-Americans of Illinois to
learn that among the recent appoint
ments to Howard University faculty.
none has received more favorable
comment than the appointment of Mr..
w. A. Joiner to a professorship in the
Teachers College of that university.
Mr.. Joiner has been an instructor
in Latin at the NJ St. High School for
the past six or seven years and was
dese1vedly popular with pupils and Of
ficials, so much SO that on the presen-
tation of his resignation the board
openly expressed much regret at los
ing him and delayed the acceptance
of the resignation for several weeks.
Mr.. Joiner is native OF Illinois,
where he is widely known both on his
fathers account and because of his
own merits. He is the only surviving
son of the late Rev. e. G. Joiner, one
of the best known Methodist preach
ers in the middle west, Familiarity
known in church circles, while he
lived, as the Little Giant because of
his small stature and great power as
a preacher. The son was also active
in church and Sunday school work
throughout the state and has an &C
guafntance reaching from Chicago to
Cairo. He was graduated from the
public schools OF Illinois, finishing the
High School at Springfield, where. al
though he was sustaining himself by
working, he was among the leaders in
a class of which he and his sister were
the only Afro-Americans and won
scholarship in college by his splendid
record Before the completion of his.
college course and ere he had attained
his majority his father died leaving
upon him the care OF a mother and
sister.
It was by noble sacrifices on their
part that he, was enabled to complete
his college course which was done in
less than the usual period though he
was carrying the studies Of both the
college and normal departments from
both of which he received diplomas 4
The fall following his graduation he
was appointed to the principalship of
school at Jerseyville, Ill.,, where hes
remained two and a half years, resign
ing in the middle of the third year to
accept a position in the war depart
ment, where his sister had been ap-
pointed a few months prior. The
writer we'll remembers what a stir was
caused by these two appointments
following so close one upon the other,
as Mr.. Joiner and his sister had taken
the civil service examination at the
same time with about six hundred
other aspirants in Illinois and they
were the first two appointed from
their district having headed their re
spective lists. :. =. Z. l,:
With the exodus Of Republican
clerks under Cleveland Mr. Joiner's
connection with the departments ceas-
ed and he was shortly afterward APP
pointed to the Washington High
School Meantime he had graduated
from the law department Of Howard