The broad ax., 1904-07-23

ing the summer in Glencoe, I'll.
Mrs. Cora Turner ss4 9Th street.
left for ST. Louis, NO. Tuesday where
she win spend the next two weeks in
visiting with friends.
Mrs. Stewart D. Fowler, Sis Grove
Az, presented her husband with a fine
baby boy last week. weighing 81 lbs.
Mrs. Fowler and her first child are
getting along nicely.
Miss Rose Murphy Of Baltimore,
Nd. Is attending the Chicago Uni
versity. While here she win stop
with her sister. Mrs. Noah D. Thomp-
son, No. 6552 Champlain ave.
It win do you good to visit the
neighborhood Of the Chicago Univer-
sity and see the large number Of our
race attending the Summer School"
there.
The picnic given for the benft of
st. Thomas Episcopal Church at
Rashe's Grove Monday evening was
a financial success, judging IRON the
large crowd which attended.
Mrs. Frank Armstrong, 227 25th
street, is among the fashionable
dressmakers Of this city, and in spite
Of the dull season she is kept busy
all the time turning out fancy dresses
for her many customers.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison is trim
ming his sails for the purpose Of
coming forth as a fifth term candidate.
It seems that his Honor does not pro-
pose to give up sucking the public tit
without a hard struggle.
Mrs. Joseph Turner and Mrs. T. R.
Hickman, St. Paul, MINI, are visit
ing their highly esteemed friend, Mrs.
c. S. Tyler 5O26 Armour av. Both
ladies are on their way to the Worlds
Fair at St Louis.
Booker T. Washington, who contin-
ues to labor to establish Jim Crow
laws for the Negro, has so it is said,
been engaged by the national com
mittee to stump the state Of Virginia
for Col. Roosevelt.
Hon. George Mills Rogers has many
friends Among the Afro-Americans
throughout this city and county who
are willing TO do everything in their
power to assist him to make a success
full race for one Of the Superior Court
judgeships Of Cook county.
George W. Henderson. 5O16 Dear
born street, who has held a frstclass
position with the Phenix Insurance
Company for many years, is one of
the most progressive and wide-awake
AfrO-Americsns in the insurance
world.
It is reported that Little Bob"
Wheeler has left these parts for Homo
lula Should you run across him in
the neighborhood Of Tuskegee don't
be surprised, for his dad is there and
we are sure the chief janitorship of
the Tuskegee buildings has not yet
been awarded.
Mrs. John Jones, wife of the late
John Jones ex-county commissioner,
and establisher Of the John Jones
clothes cleaning and repairing estab-
hshment at No 119 Dearborn St., has
returned to Chicago after and extend
ed and pleasant visit to her grand
daughter, Mrs, Thee Lee PurneIl in
California.
In the selection Of John J. Hayes
as one Of the new members Of the
Board Of Education, Mayor Harrison
displayed very sound judgment, for
Mr.. Hayes, Is an honorable business
man, and it is eminently right and |
proper that such men as he should
assist to improve the public schools
Of Chicago.
Mr.. Oscar F. Mayer, candidate for
President Of the Board Of County |
Commissioners, is one Of the high
class and welllnOwn sturdy German
American business men Of the North
side, and James A. Quinn, City sealer
Of Chicago is positive that Oscar
Mayer win land the presidency Of the
county board with both hands down.
Honest John Traeger who in the
midst Of an the horrible disasters
which have swept over this city in
the past three years. has kept a cool