Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-12-20

MANY NSSloSo uiS iSe''5 wv o.
Florida and Alabama, going to the far
west.
William S. Rogers, an AfroAmeri-
can of Xenia, Ohio, has been elected
member of the city council in that city
for two years. His associates are all
white.
w. A. Calhoun, colored musical d.
rector at the new opera house at Chat
tanooga, Tenn. Mr.. Calhound has ap-
peared in piano recitals for the white
Y. M. c. A. Of that city, and also at
the German Ratskeller, and was re-
ceived with much favor.
W. Walter Hall, former student of
the Baltimore Normal School and grad
uate of the class of 1906, has been
awarded a scholarship at the Philadel-
phia College of Pharmacy. 1t is SAID
this is the first scholarship ever award
ed colored student by this college.
Mr.. Hall won the Harrison prize for
the second year, and the Gushing gold
medal for the third year.
For the eighth time William Tillman,
Clarksburg, w. Va, aged seventy-hve
years, has taken a bride, his last mat
rimonial venture being with Mandy
Walker, aged eighty eight years, who
had been married three times before.
The ceremony was performed on the
front steps of the court house at
Clarksburg, by Rev. George T. Smith,
in the presence OF large throng. A
big wedding reception followed at their
home, hundreds of white and colored
people attending.
Among the white northern colleges
Negroes have been graduated from Am
herst, 9; Bates, 20; Brown, 9; Boston,
10; Bucknell, II; Cornell, IA; Crosby,
7; Colgate, II; Chicago, 7; Dartmouth,
II; Denison, a; Harvard, 8; Hamilton,
10; Michigan, 20; Rochester, II; Vas
sar, S; Yale, IA. There have been
graduates also from State universities
in Iowa, Indiana Ohio, Kansas, Ne
braska and Minnesota. The largest
number from any northern college is
1928, from Oberlin.
DR.. Raul P. Diaz, director of rural
schools in the Argentine Republic, and
MIR. Henry w. Crees of the Birrl!ng-
ham University club, Birmingham,
England, spent four or five days at the
school,, last week, studying its various
departments and especially the Chill
dren's House and the rural schools OF
the immediate neghborhood. DR.. Diaz
has a commission from the Argentine
Republic, covering two years, during
which time he is to visit and study the
rural schools of America, England,
France and Germany, the idea being
to build UP first class system OF
schools for the children of the South
American republic
NJ. Legitinus, Negro FROM Cuade
loupe, has been elected member CT
the French chamber of deputies in
Paris. His parliamentary salary is 3d.
600 year.
K. L. Edmunds, a colored boy, is cap
tain of the Boston English high school
football team.
There are Is Negro students enrolled
in the high schools and seven in the
colleges of Des Moines. The Iowa
State university has eight colored Stu
dents.
Atlanta Ca, Nov l2-Bishop Henry
NJ. Turner, head of the African Meth.
odist Episcopal church; Bishop L. n
Hoisey, the senior bishop of the col.
ored M. E. church, and Bishop J. w
Hold, of the African Methodist Zio1
church, have been authorized by theil
several denominations to call council
of bishops to meet in Washington Feb
ruary II, 1908.
1t is said those bishops represen
through their churches more than g.
100000 people. Bishops Turner anc
Holsey are quoted as being quite dis
satisfied with the political aspect OF
the Negro question in Georgia. They
claim that it is destroying their church
es and that more than 5000 of theil
membership have gone west and north