The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-16

IT1enQS ndQ Ine pleasure OI TAXING
dinner at the home Of Charles Stew
art. l was not the only one to enjoy
this feast, because Rev. E. Wittenberg
was there and Miss Barbara c. Ford,
Of Hot Springs, who was for long
time an efficient clerk in the Office OF
the Woodmen of Union, Hot Springs,
Ark, John L. Webb, supreme Custo-
dian Miss Ford, because Of break
in her health, was granted a leave
from duty and Is now in this part Of
the world getting rested up. She
knows her business and has known it
for a long time. She is college
graduate, and | wish you could see
some of her writing. She is the sister
Of her sister, Mrs. Elrene Falconer,
the wife OF w H. Falconer, of the
Woodmen Of Union.
l did do some getting around in
Chicago, and found that things are
now fully ready for the National Ne
gro Business League. 1t will open
with a banquet Tuesday, August 10,
at Vincennes hotel This will be to
the officers, and the opening session
Of the League will be Wednesday
morning, at 10 o'clock, in the Wendell
Phillips High School Building auditor
ium. They will dive right into the
program, and at o'clock in the after
noon there will be parade under the
command Of Colonel ]. H. Patton of
the Eighth Illinois Regiment, and at
g o'clock in the evening DR. Robert
R. Motion will deliver his annual adj
dress, and it is going to be literary
as we'll as business jem. He is we'll
prepared to make such an address and
you may put it down that l told you
he was going to make it. You will
be benefited to hear this address, A
new program will be outlined by this
wonderful character. This is all l
have in mind for the opening days,
and then the next day will bring
about something else, and the next
day still something else.
Every session will be freighted with
good things and all will be helped
who attend. 1t is the Silver Jubilee,
and they are going to be there. You
should be in that number. 1t will be
a meeting of worth
Sunday was spent in Springfield,
Illinois, and there | was the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Smith. I went
down there to speak at the Union
Baptist church, and also spoke in St.
Paul A. NJ. E. church, of which the
Rev. DR.. Shaw is pastor. l was de-
lighted to be in this pulpit and to see
some OF my friends. Mrs. Elizabeth
Scott was there, and | talked with
her. She has returned to the city.
! had the pleasure Of going to the
home OF David Roache, on Wabash
avenue. He has a delightful sur
roundings and his wife is simply de-
voted to her husband and he is de-
voted to his wife hence it is a house
of devotion. | knew Mr.. Roche forty
years ago when he was in school in
Louisville, KY, and since that time
he has turned his attention to getting
in shape. He owns some good real
estate and has fine home He also
has a good bank account
l took dinner with him and Mrs.
Mamie E. Steward, Of Louisville, KY,
who had something to do with his
early education was there, as were
Charles Stewart and his wife, and we
all had one more time | don't know
as | ever sent so much chicken into
my chicken eternity. / ate the bosom,
and I don't know how many chickens
that man had cooked. When / left,
he was still saying to me, "Have
some more bosom Of the chicken"
Speaking of Mrs. Mamie E. Stew
ard, she is visiting Chicago attending
this wonderful meeting here of wom-
en-, and | am going to talk to you
about it in my next letter. Miss
Halle Quinn Brown is president now,
but another one will be elected at
this session as they can only hold
one term. 1t was a pleasure to see
SO many able women here.
When you read this letter will
be down in Alabama, but will return
for the National Negro Business
League. l have read with pleasure
the news furnished by Miss Anna
Peachblossom. She is going to
blossom into good newspaper man
if she continues as she is going. She
needs only the finishing touch, and
some day she will be police editor in
some great daily paper
Let us all get ready for one Of the