The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-04

North Star Lodge, U. B. F., met at
the Valet Tailoring Co. last Monday
night and reorganized by electing O.
Howell, w. M; J. H. Charleston, D.
NJ; j. @. Adams, Secy.; Chas. Mitchell,
Treas. The next meeting will be held
Tuesday, July IA, at the same place.
All former members are requested to
be present.
Dr. John Ford of Jacksonville, Fla,
arrived in the city Thursday and is
the guest of his sister, Mrs. B. F.
Edwards. He will preach at Pilgrim
Baptist Church, Sunday morning and
evening. The public cordially invited
The kids will have their 4th of July
Outing at Como Park instead of Har-
rlet Island, today. Big arrangement
for sane celebration. All kids in
vited. The fund for their enjoyment
is over $1,000.
Mr.. Clarence Smith, living at 1877 T..
, Eleventh street, laborer for the
Grant Construction Co., now working
on the Chamber of Commerce Build
ing, cor. Sixth and Robert streets,
thrust his head from a sixth story
window, directly in the path of de-
scending "lift," used in the construc-
ton of the building. His skull was
fractured and he died in a few mo-
ments. He was unmarried. He came
| from Kansas City about month ago.
The National Educational Associa.
ton will meet in St. Paul from July
to II and as usual a number of Afro
| American teachers and visitors are ex-
pected to visit the city during the
| session. MIR. O. G. Hall is a member of
| the reception Committee and is look.
ing after the matter of housing visi.
tors, etc. The several churches of the
city will observe educational Sunday
July 5, by preaching special sermons
OF appropriate educational TOPICS
In compliance with a resolution
passed at the Womens State Fedora
ton, relative to the absence of any
Afro-American educator being on the
program for the National Educational
Association, Mrs. w. T. Francis
honorary president of the Federation
took the matter up with the program
committee and it was arranged tt
place DR.. Booker T. Washington or
the program for next Wednesday night
DR.. Washington was communicated
with but it was found that it would be
impossible for him to be here, as he
is filling prior engagements in the
East.
Miss Vivien S. Hunter, who is
spending the summer at her summer
home in Clear Lake, Iowa, will re
turn to the city as a delegate to the
National Educational Association. Miss
Hunter. recently graduated from the
University of Minnesota, receiving the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. She is
to be commended on her very great
success, being the second Afro-Ameri
can girl to graduate from the Univer
sity of Minnesota. The Crisis fol
July contains an article on Colleges
and their Graduates in 1914" in which
appear the portraits of 81 of these
graduates and Miss Hunters portrait
is among them.
DR.. N. Kennedy, A. NJ, M. D., Of
burlington, VT, arrived in the city
last Monday and is the guest of Mr.
u: &. Terry, 419 Sherburne ave. DIR
Kennedy is graduate of the Univer
slty OF Vermont, is female specialist
and has a private sanitarium and hos
pltal. He is taking his quadrennia]
trip and has visited number of the
principal cities of the South and West
He is native of Vermont and is un
married. The city of Burlington
where he lives, has $4,000 Inhabitants
OF which only Z are Afro-Americans
one of that number being his brother
VINO Is a LAWYER He is very much
pleased with the Twin Cities.