Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-08-04

bishop at the next general conference to
be held in Kansas City in 1912. No bet
ter selection could be mAde from the
A. M. E. church. He is an ideal minis
/ ter ripe with experience, true Ch-is-
tian living so l am told up to its high
est standard. The Institutional church
is presided over by DR.. A. j. Carey, the
| well known eloquent divine The Grace
Presbyterian is still pastored by Rev.
Misses Jackson, splendid type of an
educated well trained Christian minis
ter, who, I am told has pastored this
congregation for nearly twenty years.
He built the nice church they now own
free Of any debt. They have an ideal
organized Sunday school Of about three
hundred completely graded The St.
Thomas Episcopal church on the corner
Of 38th and Wabash Ava is worship
ing in their new church. The Baptist
has just completed a new Baptist
church. It is said to be one of the pret.
tiest and most modern in Chicago. There
are several other interesting churches
that space will not permit at this time.
At Bethel Sunday evening, they cele-
brated their fiftieth anniversary. The
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Men 8 league of Chicago whose presi-
dent DIR. George G. Hall, presided. U.
Is District Attorney s. Lang Williams
and several others Of prominence spoke.
They give some very interesting sta
tistics that they are compiling. Some
We're that Chicago had $4,000 Afro
American; that they bought more than
zoe, 900 pairs Of shoes each year and
own no shoe store; that the $4,000 men
alone spent more than $250,OOO an
nually for clothes; that they paid the
street cars $4,000 per day in street car
fare; hence you can see what power
these $4,000 people would be if they
were putting their money into colored
business enterprises. One opera house
says that they make daily average Of
$500 off the colored attendants on State
street.
Joseph Jones is still doing well in his
barber shop. He was formerly a, Des
Moines man. Mr.. James Weeks and son
Rollen are living here. They both have
work and seem to be satisfied. Mrs.
Hooker and her son Fred are doing nice
ly working at the same place. Mrs. J..
NJ. Archer, formerly Miss Annis Logan
when in our city, is married, have nice
family Of three chcildren. They are
doing nicely. The leading lawyers are
Ed Morris, Ed Wright, 8. Lang Will
liams, F. L. Barnett, w. B. George, J..
Grey Lucas, Dennison, Walter Farmer
]. R. Wilson andW. II. Green. Our old
friend, Rev. T. "A. Clark, is associated
gate to the general conference from
son on State street. They are doing
well Rev. Timothy Reeves, P. E. says
that he is doing well and wants to meet
all Of his old acquaintances and friends
in Des Mooines when he comes down
there in September to the Annual Con.
ference but 7 suspect thaAs13ro. Timothy
is one of the strong candidates for dele
gate ito the general conference from
the way that the many candidates are
coming out and he will be busy man.
We trust that the conference will send
our dear brother, he is a very deserving
Christian man. DR.. Cook and DR.. Carey
are candidates and say that they would
like to go to the general convention
next year as delegates. Chicago has one
bank, ten real estate offices, two insur-
ance Companies, four drug stores and
ten grocery stores.