The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1916-04-22
NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS
Compiled by the National Negro
Business League.

Inspector for the Negro schools OF
that city. Mrs. Bolden is an expert
enced trained nurse.
The Local Negro Business League
of St. Louis is conducting a vigorous
campaign for one hundred new men,
bers. Mr.. w. c. Gordon is the presi-
dent.
The Negro merchants of Memphis,
Tennessee, are planning a "get-togeth-
err" campaign somewhat similar to
the campaigns recently conducted in
Atlanta, Georgia, and Nashville, Ten
nessee. .a.
Mrs. Maria L. Cooper, of Philadel-
phia, who for thirty-one years has
been janitress of the Drexel Bank
Building, has been pensioned for her
long and faithful service. Mrs. Cooper
is eighty-two years of age.
The New Era Magazine has made
its appearance. This magazine is pub
lished in Boston and it's physical ap-
pearance and contents are both at
tractiye. Miss Pauline E. Hopkins,
formerly of the Colored American
Magazine, is the editor.
The New York Age is conducting
a campaign of investigation in New
York to ascertain the number and
character of Negro business enter
prises and to discover some method
whereby these merchants may secure
larger portion of Negro patronage.
The Atlantic Mutual Insurance As
ISOLATION, with home office in Atlanta,
Georgia, has been admitted into the
State of Arkansas. The chef officers
of the Association are A. F. Herndon,
President, and T. K. Gibson, Secre-
tary.
The Nashville Negro Trade Bost-
ers of Nashville, Tennessee, are max
ing elaborate preparations for their
spring Trade Week Campaign in the
interest of Negro business enterprises.
The campaign is to be conducted dur
ing the week of May 1st.
In accordance with the suggestion
offered in Business League Talk No.
8, entitled cooperative Competition"
the colored business men of Pensaco-
Ia, Florida, have organized a Mer-
chants Association, in connection
with the League work, for the pur-
pose of regulating credits, and ex-
tending. their business among the COL
ored people. Already they have a.
dopted the system of giving prize cou-
pons for increasing patronage. A Mer-
chants Association has also been or
gained of the colored business of
Durham, North Carolina.
A movement has been started in
Augusta, Georgia, for the purpose of
organizing a Local Negro Business
League. Mr.. E. G. Spaulding, Branch
Manager of the North Carolina Mu-
tual Association of Durham, North
Carolina, is taking the leading part.
Hon. Nat Washer, a prominent
white business man of San Antonio,
Texas, was the principal speaker at
the mass meeting held in that city on
March 18th by the San Antonio Lo-
cal Negro Business League. Mr..
Washers remarks dealt with Bust
ness Development.
The St. Luke Hospital of Columbia,
South Carolina, of which DR.. Matilda
Evans is owner and chief physician,
has been compelled to move into a
larger building recently purchased.
DR.. Evans gives employment to more
than a dozen young men and women
of the race.
The Nashville Negro Board of
Trade of which Mr.. A. N. Johnson is
the president has been designated by
the city authorities and the white
Commercial Club as the organization
to distribute supplies and funds to the
colored people who were rendered
homeless following the disastrous fire
in that city short while ago. The
Nashville Globe has donated paid-up
subscriptions to all of its subscribers
who were fire sufferers.
At the last meeting of the National
Negro Press Association, the men,
bers of this organization endorsed the
campaign for the Booker T. Wash
ington Memorial Fund and pledged
their support to those who are in
charge of the campaign among the
colored people.
The committee on recreation and
amusement of the Social League OF
Wilmington, North Carolina, is secur-
ing number of Fairgrounds for the
Negro children. They have purchased
a coaster-slide, ocean-wave, merry-go-
round and other amusements for the
children.
The Negro merchants of Nashville