The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-08-25
OUR COLORED SOCIETY
ms and Outs of the Local Colony
and It's Friends.

Mrs. A. G. Clark is convalescent
We have enjoyed our vacation
hugely
Geo. Jones was visitor in the east
last Sunday.
How much did you lose on the bali
game last Friday?
Quarterly meeting at the A. M. e.
church on Sunday.
Willie Ringo is spending short
vacation with the Boyd family in Ced-
ar Rapids,
The State Fair next week is going
to be big thing and quite number
are arranging to attend
Rem Smith claims to be the cham
pion long distance thrower in town.
Ask Brownie if it is not so.
Mrs. Nora Scoop, of Minneapolis,
is visiting her niece, Miss Bura Can
naday, on East Sixth avenue.
Clarence Henry will go to Washing
ton, d. c., this fall where he has been
offered position as coachman.
They say VIII Crump is the cham
pion pugalist of the town, and that
he does not bar sex when it comes to
a mixup.
The members and friends of Wesley
Chapel Sunday School enjoyed pic
mic Thursday in the grove on the
Lafayette farm west Of town.
In the absence of the Spencer fam.
lily Simpson Mitchell is engaged in
the turtle trade. See him If you de-
sire anything in that line, but don't
ask for fish.
st. Louis is not real good place
for negroes, but the Worlds Fair is
worth seeing if you can afford it, even
if you do have to put up with some
disadvantages.
We hope Elder Slater will be re-
turned here another year and that he
will find 1t convenient to continue his
studies at Penn college and complete
the course there. Yes, we mean it.
]. w. Mackey, of Burlington, spent
a few hours in the city Thursday of
last week en- route home from Des
Moines, where he had been to attend
the X. Of P. grand lodge, of which he
Is K. of r. and s.
Quarterly meeting at Shorter A. M.
E. Chapel Sunday. 10:30, Love
Feast; 3:15, Communion services.
Rev. ]. w. Somerville, pastor of the
Central M. e. church, breaches the
Sacrament sermon.
Mrs. Sallie Shelton and daughters,
Blanche and Hattie, and son Walter,
after a two weeks visit with Mrs.
Belle Per2e on North ! streetE e ssfs IN
Saturday evening for washington
where they will visit relatives for q
few days before returning to their
home in Chicago
Mrs. Belle Perno was called to Sig
Quincy recently TO take charge Of the
culinary department or an outing par
ty composed of ladies and gentlemen
of that place who spent a week in the
woods fighting flies and mosquitoes,
studying botany and becoming better
acquainted with nature generally.
The ladies of the A. NJ E. church
gave a very enjoyable social on the
church lawn last Friday evening,
which was well attended and literally
patronized. Miss Sallie Williams
had full charge of the arrangements
and under her management nothing
fails. 1t was success in every way.
The Iowa A. M. E. Conference, of
which Shorter Chapel is a member,
will convene September IA at Gales
burg, Ill. The local church is bestir-
ring itself for that purpose The in
dications are that Rev. Slater will be
able to make one of the best reports
for this church that has been made in
some time.
Presiding Elder J. w. Malone will
not be able to be present at quarterly
meeting Sunday. Some two or three
weeks ago he received a very severe
sunstroke which has rendered him un-
conscious most of the time since.
Father Malone, as he is called, is one
OF our old pioneers and we wish him
a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Fanny Clint Hall, Of Chicago,
noted elocutionist and the president
of the Illinois State Federation of
Colored Women's Clubs, will give a
fine entertainment. assisted by some
of our best local talent,next Thursday
night, August 25. at Shorter A. M. E..
Chapel, under the auspices Of the la
dies committee of the church.
DR.. Geo. G. Booth, the noted scholar
and divine of the Iowa Conference of
the A, M. E. church, and for the past
four years presiding elder of the Cho-
cago district, has been appointed to
succeed DIR. r. C. Ransom as head Of
the Dearborn Social Settlement at
the International church In Chicago.
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