St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-12-25

I a. hhNSiACWS AdNcLn, 1tuo EoUFlil
Ave. So, Minneapolis. Clint Dav-
is, chairman of the Elks Open
House, announced that basket OF
groceries would be presented as
a door prize at the weekly open
house.
CHRISTMAS 1885
The Christmas 1885 edition had
an appeal for cooperation to all
Twin City organizations in push
ing for jobs and economic stabil-
ity for the Negro community.
Arthur Allen was managing edi-
tor and advertising manager of
the paper and william NJ Smith
was associate editor.
John L. LaCoste, whose address
at the time was Friendship. Maine
was enroute to California by way
of Havana, Cuba i. The Elite
Club, with the cooperation of
the st. Paul RECORDER was dis
tributing Christmas boxes of
toys, candies and fruit to Sanity
City children, the committee was
headed by Robert Gardner, presi-
dent and the following committee
members, Drexel Pugh, Beatrice
Schuck, Bessie Powell and James
Bradford, assisted.
The Cameo Club planned n
tea at the Sterling Club for Dec.
90 'Inquisitive SAP inter
viewed Marion Pete Thatcher
in her weekly column
Johnnie Baker Post, American
Legion donated ten pounds OF
candy to children confined to
Glen Lake Sanitorium The
Escue sisters, Elaine, Rhoda
Lee, Louise, Evelyn and Doris
sang ut Hennepin Methodist
church Sunday, Dec. Is.
Nell Dodson Russell now was
holding forth in her well read
column: Don't talk about
other peoples brats or your own
may grow up to be whoopee-
chasers still think Maurice
McGavock was the best looking
male to ever trod the soil OF the
Cities Andy Clark Is having
double trouble again Imogene
James changes the style of her
hair with just about every custom.
CHRISTMAS EDITION, 1886
Front page photos of the
Christmas, Dec. 20, 1896 edition
were of Jimmy Sisson, now a
Chicago bar operator. The other
photo was of some Of the parti-
cipants in a banquet honoring
Minneapolis Negro athletes. In
the photo were John F. Thomas,
now somewhere in Germany:
Bernie Bierman, who has just
completed his final season as Uni
versity of Minnesota football
coach; Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Sever
son. Mr.. Severson was principal Of
South High school at that time.
Others in the photo were Horace
Bell, great Gopher guard of that
year; Ray Johnson and Maurice
Howell, South High school foot
ball stars and Bill smalls. who
was an all city end on Central
Highs team that year.
A group of Minneapolis men
financed the banquet to honor the
athletes. In the group were Leo
Bohannon, DR.. w. d. Brown, Ray
mon Cannon, A. B. Cassius, s. o.
Harris, Wendell c. Jones, Isaac
Moore Jr., Harry Lucas, Hobart
T. Mitchell, Cecil Newman. Rev.
C. F. Stewart, Rev. s. Gaynes
Thompson, Theodore Woodland,
Rev. ID. p. Young, DR.. w. II.
Wright, John F. Thomas and A.
B. Walker.
st, Paul sMTs elected Mrs.
Myrtle Harris. worthy princess
Arnold Walker. boys worker at
Phyllis Wheatley House, received
his MA. at the December gradu-
ating exercises at the ~" :.
The staff OF this newspaper was
listed as Joseph Albright, Arthur
Allen, Estyr Bradley. DR.. w. d.
Brown, Marriane Carter. j. d.
Carey. Clint Davis. Margaret
Ford, c. Marie Hughes, Jimmy
Lee. Cecil Newman. Oscar New
man, J. w. Pate. Helen Scott,
Harry L. Scott, George Slaughter,
w. NJ. Smith, J. Ed. Stewart and
Develma Strong.
The Social and Personal sec
tons reported that Jack Rainey
Jr- had gone to New York TO