The Washington bee., 1909-05-29

firm of Board and Mcclure, has re
signed from the Government Service,
and will devote his time exclusively
to building up his large and growing
business.
The regular annual excursion of
the congregation and friends of St.
Luke's Church, will take place on
Wednesday, July 2Tst 1909.
After long and painful illness,
Mrs. Helen Webster Scott, sister of
Mrs. H. Lacey, departed this life,
Wednesday, May 70.
The funeral services were held
from her late residence in Marion
street, on Friday, May 2I.
DR.. A. A. Crooke, of Providence,
Rhode Island, former pastor of John
Wesley African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, was in the city last
week, the guest of Honorable John
c. Dancy, with whom he has gone
on a visit to North Carolina.
He will deliver the annual address
at the commencement exercises of Liv-
ingston College, from which he was
graduated sixteen years ago.
The friends of Rev. Albert John
son, Bishop of South Africa, former
pastor of the Metropolitan Church of
this city, are glad to know that he is
doing well in his new field of labor.
Full particulars will appear in our
advertising columns. River View
Park has been selected, but sub
sequent excursion will be given
either to Somerset Beach or to Wash
ington Park, as the friends and pa
irons of the church may elect.
Miss Maggie Newman, of Media,
Pennsylvania, one of the teachers OF
Baltimore. Maryland, visited this
city last Friday. She stopped at the
beautiful suburban home of Mrs.
Florence Lightfoot Milton, in Brook
land, District of Columbia.
DR.. James c. Carper, one of How
ards popular graduates a few years
ago, has become very popular in
Richmond. He is said to be one of
the best doctors of his race in that
city.
Miss Hortense Benjamin, daugh-
ter of the late William T. Benja-
min, has been quite sick at her horne.
Her friends are glad to know that
she is improving.
Mr. Reuben Lee, one of Richmonds
popular citizens, paid a flying visit
to this city last Sunday to visit his
sister, Mrs. Bette BraXton, and his
daughter, Mis- Carrie Lee, of 1898
Cleveland Avenue, northwest.
Miss Theresa Braxton, organist of
the Second Baptist Church, and
head clerk of the Bee Office" was
able to relieve her brother, Profes-
sor William BfaXton, organist of the
Metropolitan African Methodist
Episcopal Church of an evening
engagement last Saturday. 1t took
place at Phillips Boarding School, on
Connecticut Avenue, northwest She
was at the piano and Mr.. John Cole
played the violin. She had good
success considering her first time
playing for a dance.
1t is a great pleasure for The Bee
to announce the good success that
Miss Theresa Braxton has in what
ever she attempts to do There will
be an account of her second anniver-
sary as organist of the Second Bap-
tist Church in next weeks issue.
Miss Howell, from the Normal
School, Portsmouth, Virginia, is in
the city and is the guest of Mrs. Ce-
lestine Newton Folk, 3o8 P street,
northwest.
Larger crowds than ever are to be
seen every evening around the soda
fountain at the drug store of Board
and Mcclure, 1912 I-2 I4th street,
northwest. 1t pays to go where the
crowds go.
A ten thousand dollar Rally and
Lecture will be held Thursday, June
10, at the Cosmopolitan Temple Bap-
fist Church, Rev. Simon P. w. Drew,
Pastor, by the Cosmopolitan Literary
and Historical Association.
Honorable John F. Cook still re-
mains confined to his residence.