The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-08-13

The Rev. Leo G.. OaConnor,
former pastor of st. Mary of the
Missions and St. Francis Xavier
Church, was honored by the va
rious organizations of the church
with a Farewell Party on last
Sunday evening. Over so guests
which included Father Michael
Cronen of Key West, attended
the affair held at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. Elmer Ward. Father
O'Connor who made many friends
during his stay here was trans
ferred to the Sacred Heart
Church of Tampa where he will
serve as administrator FIR.
Tonner, who is now stationed at
Loyola University in New Or
leans, has been named as aSsis-
tant to the dean of the school of
education of that institution =.
Rev. Charles Jackson, brother of
MINES. Lucille Price and Mamie
Washington of Opa Locka, spent
a week in the area. Father Jack
son, who studied in Paris, was
ordained on July IL at the island
of Martinique. He said mass at
st. Philips on July 81. It is hop
ed that he will return here for a
longer visit
The 122nd anniversary of the
Emancipation of slaves in the
British Empire celebrated on
August /, offered an excellent
opportunity to browse through &C
counts of the colonial system his
tory in the Western Hemisphere.
William Wherefore (for whom
our Ohio school was named) de-
voted nearly fifty years 1887
until his death in 1888 - to the
movement. The abolition of the
slave trade, realized in 1907, and
the emancipation of slaves were
the two detectives. The move
ment was one part of great hui
manitarian and evangelical wave
which swept the Empire during
the latter part of the 18th and the
early part of the 18th centuries.
Wherefore concentrated all of
his energies to the movement
from 1923 to 1888. He was ably
assisted by the Chaplain sect
member James Stephens; and the
Quaker, Joseph Surge. The first
Parliamentary movement was Of
fered in 1923 by brother-in-law
of the great reformer, Elizabeth
Fry. James Stephens who served
as legal advisor to the Colonial
Office in 1926, as assistant under
secretary in 1884 and as perma-
nent under-secretary from 1885
to 1847 gave legal advice through
out and drew up the Bill that was
passed in 1893 by the House OF
Commons. Joseph Surge and his
supporters succeeded in having
the apprenticeship system clause
of the bill removed in 1888 and
so wiped out the final vestige of
plantation slavery in the British
Empire from the Statute Books.
Emancipation came 10 the United
States 80 years later and only
after a costly civil war. Strife
over the emancipation was less
violent in Bermuda and in the
Bahamas which had been Crown
Colonies from the early nth and
18th centuries respectively.
Miss Nellie Elliott, Librarian Of
Dorsey Junior High School, left
for a short vacation last week
after working with the Summer
Library Program. Her youngest
brother, Edwin, with the Trenton,
N. J. office of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co., was
married last month so perhaps she
will meet her newest sister-in-
law. Another brother, Balaam T..
OF Whiteville, NC, was cited,
along with six others, for twenty
years OF outstanding work in the
field OF vocational agriculture
during an Az teachers conference
held recently at A e. T College.
Both OF these brothers are grad
yates Of A & 7.
Mrs. Samuel Stewart and
children, Rose Marie and Sammy
should be enjoying the pleasant
weather in New Haven, Conn,
where they have gone TO visit
with her family Mrs. Stewart is
a pioneer in the local schools in
the area OF audio-visual educa-
ton in which field she has earn
"a an advanced degree