The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-19
ORGANIZE new
MOSAIC TEMPLE
BRANCH IN CITY
Public Mass Meeting Is Set
for Sunday at Lib
erty Hall.

Establishment here of a branch
of the Mosaic Temple OF America, a
fraternal organization, has been an
nounced by j. j. Cannon, local rep
Tesentative.
The organization was established
forty-six years ago in Little Rock,
Ark, and now is doing business in
twenty-siX states, Panama Canal,
and points in Africa The national
body is capitalized for more than
one million dollars.
A public meeting is scheduled
Thursday night at the st. John A.
M. L. church, Seventeenth street
and Columbia avenue, of which the
Rev. Sumner Williams is pastor
Local leaders will explain the func-
ton of the organization.
Headquarters of the local branch
are at 2160 North Capitol avenue.
Mrs. Evelyn G. Cannon is in charge.
Macs Meeting Is Scheduled
A pubic mass meeting in the in
tere5C of The D. N. l. A. will be held
Sunday afternoon, March "a, at
Liberty Hall, Nineteenth street and
Arsenal avenue. under auspices of
Division 291 of the U. N. l. A. Rev.
S. A.. Goats is president.
Prominent among the speakers of
the Sunday meeting will be j. r.
Cragin, executive secretary of the
I1ptrnit Mich branch
The U. N. I. A. was started by
Marcus Garvey for the improvement
of Negroes of the world and for the
establishment of elf-government for
the Africans.
Cragin is widely known in the
West Indies and this country for
his work in the interest of the Negro
race.
st. MonicaS Guild of st. Phillips
Episcopal church will meet Tuesday
evening at 8 with Mrs. Gertrude
Taylor, 1875 North California street,
to make arrangements for their
fourth annual tea to be given Eas-
ter Sunday at p. m. at the WAL
ker Casino.
Mrs. Augusta McCurdy of the
Chicago Music Association will be
a guest soloiSt.
The following group of teachers
of the Cosmopolitan Schol of Music
will present students in recital at
Bethel A. M. E. church, Tuesday,
April 2: Mrs. Lillian Lemon, Mrs.
Mae Clements, Mrs. M. Brown,
piano; Mrs. Loretta Stovall, Earl
King, voice; Mrs. Carlotta McNary,
violin; Mrs. Lillian Jones Brown,
expression; Mrs. Catherine Stewart,
organ; Herbert Bryant, clarinet.
The second and fourth Episcopal
districts of Bethel A. M. Z. church
are in charge.
Mrs. Emma Lee, 351 West Tween
ty-eighth street, is i'll at her home.
Students to Give Recital
The students of Mrs. w. E.
Browns class in expression will be
presented in a recital Sunday,
March "a, at Bethel A. M. E. church.
The Junior Students of the Cos
mopolitan School of Music will en-
terrain their parents and friends IN
a matinee performance cinderella"
at the Walker Casino, Saturday,
March %. Tea will be served.
Mrs. Mae Roberts, mrs, Claudia
Smith, Miss Sidonia Byrd, Mrs.
Elizabeth Stewart AMI Mrs. Mar
garet Brock will lead the congrega-
tional singing during the noon pre-
Lenten services at the Walker
Casino.
Thomas Hill, Cleveland, o., left
Monday for Chicago en- route home
after two weeks, visit with friends
here.
Scott Funeral Is Held
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha
E. Harvey of Kenwood avenue, who
died Saturday were held at 10 today
at the home. The Rev. G. t. Hay
wood, pastor of Christ temple, Of
which Mrs. Harvey was member,
officiated. Burial was at Crown Hill.
Mrs. Harvey was of an old and
prominent family, having lived in
this city for more than seventy
years. Preston Harvey, her husband,
died in 1914.
Survivors include: Mrs. Belle
Roney and Mrs. Virginia H. Taylor,
daughters; Irwin Harvey and David
Harvey, sons; Mrs. Armesa Ham
mons, Mrs. Alma Scott, Mrs. Lydia
Stewart and Mrs. Mollie Armstrong,
sisters: three grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren
j. Louis johnson, New York, was
In the city recently attending the
funeral of his brother, James john
son of indianapolis avenue.
James johnson was at various
times connected with the city gov
eminent here and was known as
political intimate of the late Lewis
Shank, who was at one time mayor
sof Indianapolis
Several city officials and employees
attended the funeral. Mr.. Johnson
was also active in the fraternal and
civic affairs of the city.
A large group of men were dis
appointed in the failure OF Gov
ernor Leslie to appear at the Y. M.
G. A. Sunday afternoon.
No representative came nor was
there message from the Cover
nor's Office explaining the nature Of
the disappointment, according to
association officials