The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-11
BY the Editor.
Chapter 8.

NHdplST o.
On account of the fact that we had
been heralded as a public speaker,
and there being quite few former
Missourians living in Portland, we
were besieged during our brief stay
to deliver an address to which all
the citizens irrespective of fraterni-
ties who desired might be welcome.
We finally agreed to do so on con-
dition the managers would arrange
for an impromptu emancipation cele-
bration, as the next day was Tuesday,
September %, the day in old Mis-
souri, we celebrate as Emancipation
day, to which the committee agreed,
and arrangements were made forth
with. On Tuesday morning we were
guests in company with Madame Vic
toria Clay Haley grand matron of Mis-
souri,, at an II o'clock breakfast at
the beautiful home of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Williams, and were royalty enter
tanned, and met dear old Mother Tip
ton, an eX-Kansas, and a sister-in-law
of the late David Upton of Emporia.
Mrs. Williams herself was once Kan
few of older prominent citizens. We
were served one of the most delight
| full and elaborate breakfasts that it
has ever been our pleasure to enjoy,
and we had some serious fears for
the granad secretary for the desper-
| ate and continued assaults he made
on the elaborate spread that had been
prepared for us. After a most en-
| joyable morning we were again taken
for a drive by some of the brethren
in the afternoon, and at were din
| ner guests of Rev. DR.. and Mrs. ].
| Logan Craw at the most beautiful par
sonage in the Fifth episcopal district.
Rev. Craw and wife are both well
known in Kansas City, she being one
of the talented Jeltz girls of Topeka
before her marriage, and he was for
! quite awhile member of Allen chap
els choir, and both are graduates of
Emporia normal. DR.. Craw has done
wonderful work for his church and
race in this great Western city, and
has given up one of the most up-to-
date churches in the connection and
has been elected chairman of the Pu-
get Sound conference delegation to
the next General Conference. The
church needs more men like J. Lo-
gan Craw.
Alright we delivered the Emanci-
patton address at Mt. Olivet Baptist
church, Rev. Magett, pastor (and a
very able and affable gentleman, tool.
and found a packed house awaiting
us, and proceeded to put on an old
time Emancipation address, which
gave satisfaction, and for awhile car
ried all back to their former homes
in the Southland as we all sang John
Browns Body THE Battle Cry of
! Freedom" Nearer My God, to Thee"
and America; and after the pro-
gram we met many former Missouri
ans and Kansans among whom were
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w Ford, who are
doing nicely there and who are still
taking The Sun, being the first sub
scribers on the books of this paper;
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin (Mrs. Frank
lin was formerly Miss Cora Yancy,
and they are now blessed with five
children) Dr. and Mrs. A Merriman.
Mrs. Merriman was formerly Bar
bara Davis); the three Rutherford
brothers, who have a ieat little up-to.
date furnishing goods store and a
modern tonsorial parlor, Edw being
secretary of Enterprise lodge of the
Washington jurisdiction; also C Lo
gan, past grand master of the Wash
ington and one of the influential mer
of the Northwest, and many Others
whose names we do not recall JUS
/ at this time.