The Washington bee., 1908-05-09
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
By Miss BeGfTiz L. ChaJs.

The 18th of next month will he
the one hundred and thirty-frst an
niversary of the adoption of the AM
erican flag.
The laying of the cornerstone of
the Douglass Hospital, Philadelphia,
Pa, will take place the 3oth of this
month.
Tomorrow viii be observed by the
G. U. o. of Odd Fellows as Thanks
giving Day, Special programmes
have been prepared for the occasion.
The Afro-American Ledger, Of
Baltimore, states that the School
Board of that city voted down the
proposition to have colored super
visors for colored schools.
At the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, which
convened this week, there were a
number of Colored delegates who are
active ministers.
The Detroit Informer IS conduct
ing a unique contest to decide who
IS Detroit's most popular bachelor; a
number of subscribers means so
many votes.
The mail will be delivered to bus
mess houses in the city earlier in the
mornings than it has been.
Senator John w. Smith, of Mary
land, predicts that the State ofMary-
land will send an uninstructed dele
gatlcn to the Denver convention.
So many attended the Barnum &
Bailey Circus last Monday afternoon
and evening that it looked as if the
entire population of the District went.
The presentation of prizes won in
the recent rifle tournament Of the M
treet High School and the Armstrong
Manual Training School took place
last Monday evening in the assem-
bly, hall of the M-Street High School.
Mrs. Sarah Mullen. the wife of Mr..
Thomas Mullen, who had been sick
a little over a week, died at her resi-
dence, 2oo3 Eighth street northwest,
last Monday morning. Her death
was unexpected. In addition To her
husband she leaves five sons and three
daughters. Miss Hettie Mullen is a
student of Howard University.
Rabbi S. S. Wise said in his ser
mon in the Free Synagogue, New
York, last Sunday, that there are
three great powers in existence to-
day: the school, the church, and the
press, and the greatest influence is
eXerted by the press"
Mrs. Beulah Hawkins, a patient
at the county hospital, Los Angeles.
after sleeping for eighty-ffve days,
awoke last week and asked for a
drink of milk.
Last Monday the Senate passed a
House resolution appropriating $25o,-
600 for the relief of the sufferers from
the cyclone in Alabama, Louisiana,
Georgia and Mississippi.
Senator Bulkeley, of Connecticut.
defended the Negro soldiers of the
Twenty-hfth Regiment from charges
of shooting up" Brownsville, Tex
as, in a speech in the Senate last
Monday.
1t is said that Governor John A.
Johnson, Of Minnesota, is out for the
first place or none on the Democratic
national ticket which will be framed
in July by the Denver convention.
The smallest couple in New York
welded this week, the groom being
four feet high and the bride three
feet nine inches tall.
The Brashears Class of the Ham
line Sunday School has challenged
he ]. o. c. Class, of the same school.
o an interclass walk to Baltimore.
The National Guard Of the Dis
rict OF Columbia will parade on the
.llipse of the Presidents park Mon
lay.
The price of electric light was dis
.ussed by the House District Com
nittee which met last Tuesday morn
ng.
Louis Lundy, who was shot by
2enresentafiye Hehin- and uuhn uras