Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

was employed there Tor long time
and worked for w. L. Harris, Sr.,
father of the present head of the
New England. Saunders established
a riding academy on Dupont and
29th and owned and operated it
until his death.
Julius Todd was a singer and
church worker at Bethesda Baptist
Church. He wanted to be mis-
sionary to Africa so he rented his
house out and moved to Africa
with his whole family. They missed
the train and waited all night in
the railroad station. Three of the
family contracted malaria fever on
the way over and died. A short
time later the rest of them died,
but Lucille, one daughter. She
wanted to come back to the States,
and Bishop Scott brought her back
with him to the States. She was
educated here to be a trained
nurse, and married a doctor. Lucille
and her doctor husband went to
Liberia to carry on the work that
Julius always wanted to do. Today
they are missionaries in Liberia"
Rachel Nichols, 3841 Clinton ave-
nue. south, has lived in Minneapolis
since 1854, coming here when she
was seven years old from Lauder
dale Spring, Mississippi. In an in
terview with Mrs. Nichols, she said,
81 came to Minneapolis with a
group of 16. We were all put in
Quaker families and l was raised
in the Quaker Church. / was put
with a family named Hoag, and
the brother of the man l worked
for named Minneapolis. We lived
in Vaudeville, Wright County, on
Howard Lake. The man that
brought us here from the south
was named William Wales, and his
daughter was my schoolteacher.
when l was about II years old,
l came into the city to live. 1t re-
calls pleasant memories. 1 was
wearing black dress, black pat
ent bag and CATERS, and a black
sailor hat with yellow streamers.
l came here looking for my sister,
Fannie. was so green. 1 met a
man in the street, and l asked him
if he knew my sister, Fannie. He
answered me by saying, Who in
the H is Fannie?' l was sur
prised because I wasn't used to
cuss words.
"YOu had to go across the sus-
pension bridge to get to st. An
thony, which is now st. Paul, and
had to pay a toll charge. The
women wore lot of false hair in
those days and the hair was made
out of cloth, and put under the
real hair. l was married in Mime
apolis in 1882 to Joseph Nichols,
and had one daughter, Mayme.
There was one schoolhouse here
then, and it was on 18th street,
and we called it way out on the
bluffs
Il remember a fellow well named,
Banjo Ben.' He used to get up on
top of the houses and play that
banjo. You never saw him without
it. One time he was offered $40 to
walk across the suspension bridge.
He started over and when he was
just little way across, he began
to clown and fell in the river and
was gone.
"Our people then worked mostly
as domestics and coachmen, etc."
IN EDUCATION
Mrs. Lillian Alexander and Miss
Helen Jackson (both of st. Paul)
were elected to membership in Phi
Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic
society and awarded keys.
DR.. j. H. Redd, somewhere about
1913-1915, conducted clinic in the
out patient department (free dis
pensary) University M deal
School.
James L. Titus about 1912-1915
was assistant to the instructor in
Dispensing at the University Out
Patient department and University
Hospital of the College of Phar-
macy.
Negro Letter Men (Football)
Robert w. Marshall, ST., Jack Har-
pole, Dwight Reed (St. Paul)
Horace Bell.
Myrtle Wormley was student in
structor in the Art Department
1937-1938.