Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-23

appointed. They formulated twelve articles
of agreement. The G. M. E. Church has
accepted the articles, but the other general
conferences do not meet until 1920. The
membership of the three bodies, according
to the census, is 1,O56,447, but they claim
1,44O,16S.
Dr. James c. Fowler, Negro graduate
of the University of Pittsburgh, has been
appointed one Of the city health physicians
by Mayor E. V. Babcock
The State Board of Health has employed
Dr. S. B. Ennis, Negro physician of Troy,
Ala, to take charge of educational work
among the Negroes of the state in the cru
SADIE that has been launched against social
diseases.
DR.. E. a. White, former President of
Walden College, has been elected Field Sec
rotary of the Freedman's Aid Society at
Cincinnati, Ohio, to do special work in the
centenary campaign.
DR.. d. A. Bethea of Terre IIaute, Ind,
has been appointed Medical Inspector Of
Schools and member of the Board of Di-
rectors Of the Anti Tuberculosis Society.
This is the first time that such honors have
come to colored man in that city.
Emma Griffin, of the widely known col
ored vaudeville team of Griffin Sisters, is
dead at Chicago, Ill.
Mrs. Ida Hudson is connected with the
firm of Hudson & Butler, Undertakes, at
Oakland, CAL, specializing in funeral direct
ing. She has completed a post-course in
floral decorating under Professor Wagner
of New York.
r. V. Green having served five years as
Deputy Registering Clerk in East San
Diego CAL, has been appointed Deputy
City Marshal.
Blanche A. Perkins has been taken into
the service of the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture as Supervising Agent of Home
Economics Work for the State Of Louisiana.
She has five coOred agents under her.
Mrs. Powhatan Bagnal has been elect
ed Director Of the Harriet Tubman Home
for Working Girls at Boston, Mass.
DR.. George W. Adams, for ten years
cashier of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank
Of Durham, N. c., is dead.
James Admire, a colored policeman Of
Indianapolis Ind, for eighteen years, is
dead at the age of sixty.
DR.. Peter Murray has been appointed
Assistant Chief Surgeon at Freedman's
Hospital, Washington, ID. c., succeeding Dr.
Simeon Carson, who has resigned. DIR. Muir
ray is medical graduate of Howard.
Social Progress
NlllZc1lS anu packing luUcIcSlS nave plcuS
ed 100000 for three years program Of
social uplift among colored poole in East St.
Louis, Ill. This includes coordination of all
existing agencies, community centers, day
nurseries and physical and educational
classes.
The Provident Hospital, Chicago, Ill., has
opened a department, a postgraduate
course.
The colored hospital at Garrison and Law
ton Avenues st. Louis, Mo-. has been pur-
chased by the city for $62,500.
At the annual meet of the National A. "A.
U. championships held in Chicago, Ill., Rob
ert b. johnson, Of Camp Upton N. Y, won
the five mile run in the junior events.
Colored employees at the Washington, d.
c.. Navy Rard raised among themselves
$1,000 for Camp Pleasant, camp for poor
colored children, Of which Mrs. Laura
Bruce eileen is superintendent.
Justice Frank J. O I5ren, in Sacramento,
CAL, has awarded a judgment Of $50 to the