Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-07-30
ROANOKE NEWS

ROANOKE VA, July 26.-Pre
ding Older Isaac Ever of Roanoke
District a. NJ. E. Church preached
Sabbath morning and nigE. at Mt.
Zion. They were splendid sermons.
4 The ID der held his second quarterly
conference in Mt. Zion a. M. E.
AChurch Monday night. The reports
ere very satisfactory and pleasing,
showing marked advance over other
quarters, considering no special OF
forts had been put forth. The sys
tematic tithing by about forty mem
bcrs had proved we'll. The totai
amount raised was $1,G40.54. There
we're 3 converts aud 4 acccsSionS.
! The balance in treasury, $3.50 81;
paid on bonded debt. $1,000;
baptisms, ~. a new Bible was
gwen by the Ants Dramatic Cub ana
! two electric fans installed by the
Young people of the Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. G aXton. oil
Chicago. Illinois are the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Sims, OF AZ Hart
j Avenue, N. w. They will spend ten
days N the city with relatives and
4 friends. Mrs. Claxton is II niece of
! Mr.. and Mrs. Sims. Her maiden
name wat; Miss Mamie Bentley.
The services at High Street Bap
tist Church Sabbath morning we're
especially grand and hc-pful. me
Rev. w. E. Lee preached from the
text .Fnr lie taught them as one
! having authority and not as a scribe
! This sermon WAS cspec ally FIR the
teachers attending the Summer Nor
! mal and he gave them come helpful
4 instruction. Comments on TINS
! splendid discourse could be heard
i no 'scd about the streets. Like the
i woman OF Samaria, they told 1t TO
y others.
Miss Ora b. Harvey, one OF the
clcrk; in Or. Pinkard's drug store.
accompanicd her mother TO l.ynch
4 burg Saturday, III y 16, cnrouto to
4 her home at App9mattoN. She had
4 been in the city visiting her married
4 daughter, Mrs. Carthorn, of o66
a Seventh Avenue N. w, where she
had pleasant stay.
4 Mr.. Harvey Taylor, nephew OF
Dr.. pinEard, has returned from Il
d very pleasant trip to Norfolk.
= Miss Nioia Jones of the West End
4 Mis-; Mary Cuff, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Thurston
8 Bratton spent the day very pleasantly
1 attending basket meet 'ng at Big
Hill.
Quite a spirituaI meeting Is III
I progress at the HNl Street Baptist
Church and has been for ten days.
II Rcv. ID. II. Powell and peopc arc
much pleased.
Miss ELIZA Caytor, Of 16O Wells
: Alley, N. w. left last Sunday fol
i West Virginia TO be at the bedside
of her sister. who had stroke.
The Union P'cnic Of the Sunday
Schools of st. PAU NJ, E. and Mt.
I XitM A. NJ. e. was very pleasant
! and enjoyable. They spent Thursday
: on the campus Of Christansburg
school,. It was financial success
as well at; day Of high enjoyment
Mrs. Lula JohnSon Of SO Jordans
Il Alley, n. w. who has been Confined
! to bed for several days Is somewhat
! on the mend.
Mrs. Bessie Mason, Of Tenth Ave
nue., N. e. was called TO PhNadc'
phia to the bedside Of her sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Gravoly
have the honor Of announcing the
marriage Of their daughter, Susie b
\ to Dr. Afonza Y. Winfield, o.:
Wednesday,, December the twenty
Y ninth, -ninetec hundred and twenty
lat No. 502 Chestnut Avenue, North
welt the Rev. J. r. Lnuderbacli
officiating. She left the city Satul
day afternoon, July the 23rd, 1872
at GAO for Steclton,. Pa. where
they WY spend the summer.
Mr.. Ralph Brown, OF Clifton Forge
IVA. is the guest Of his mother, Mrs
Lizzie Liggons.
Mr.. Turner Moore, of Middletown
! Pa. was visitor in the city While
enroute to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Miss Casell Howard and Miss Hat
tie Johnson are spending two weeks
with her sister. Mrs. Eliza Ha 'rston
at Simmons, w. Va.
Mr.. A. b. Grasty, Of Baltimore
] Md. was a visitor in the CIV this
I week.
Mrs. Minnie Young of Rocky
Mount was the guest Of her cousins
Mr.. and Mrs. John PnweQ 221
Sixth Avenue, N. w.
You can get your home cooking
1t tho Franklin Cafe, 1912 Henry ST.
! \. w. and all of the Negro papers
Rev. and Mrs. w. r. HowertOn
If Richmond, Va. We're the guest of
ler parents, Mr.. and MRS. Richard
Faulkner, 200 Fifth Avenue, N. w.
Mrs. Martha Day departed this
: ife on the 22nd, after a brief illness {.
She Was about 90 years old and the
mother of High Street Baptist Church
md faithful Christ She was
!, loving mother and three chidren
= mourn their loss, Mrs. Rachel Rich
lrdson, Mrs. Sue Steptoe and Mr.
Dewey Day; a host Of grand and
great grandchildren. She was laid
0 rest in Midway Cemetery.
18Th Al tho rpoufor mont n lv. n, n Of i'm nj