Lincoln Department I
Joseph B. LaCour, Editor and Business Manager. I
82J S Street j
Mrs. Wyatt Williams Reporter. J
The Rev. B. Hillman left Sunday
evening for a short visit to Macon,
Mo.
Mr. J. Gipson, Chas. Beck, Tom
Scaggs, R. Seward and Miss Myrtle
Lahn motored to Omaha Thursday
for the Ak-Sar-Ben. They returned
yesterday.
Mrs. B. G. Evans left Monday for
St. Joseph, Mo., to visit her mother.
She will remain about a week.
Mr. Lucian Mason, of Sweet Spring,
Mo., was the guest of his brother,
W. A. Mason, last week.
Mr. Chas Crews is very ill.
Mrs. Mae Costers, of St. Louis, is
visiting Mrs. V. B. Young. Many so
cial affairs have been given in htr
honor. Thursday of last week Mrs.
V. B. Young entertained at cards;
Monday Mrs. J. C. Cooley also enter
tained at cards; Wednesday a delight
ful dancing party was given by Mrs.
Louis Holmes.
The Lincoln Colored band will give
a concert October 6 at Walsh Hall.
An Emancipation celebration was
held Tuesday night of last week at
the Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Young’s Pantorium, of which Mr.
V. B. Young is proprietor, is doing a
good business.
Mrs. J. C. Cooley has returned from
a two weeks’ tour in her car in Kan
sas and Missouri. They visited Hia
watha, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Law
rence and Topeka.
Mrs. M. Patterson and Mrs. S.
Smith were Ak-Sar-Ben visitors in
Omaha last week.
The following persons have just
subsribed for The Monitor, the up-to
the-minute weekly: William Rosier,
729 Rose street; Mrs. Carires Hell
man, 920 South Twelfth street; Mrs.
S. Smith, 900 S street; A. Wilford,
902 S street; J. Gipson, 111 South
Ninth street, and I. Lindsay, 820
Rose street.
A large crowd attended the dance
given by Jewell Kelley last night at
Welsh hall.
evening, Sept. 29th, at the Masonic
The entertainment given Friday
hall by the Davis Club for the benefit
of the Orphants Home was well at
tended. A splendid program was
given.
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BOOST’AXD VOTE FOR* *"*
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Republican Candidate for
Re-election to United States
Congress
Frank A. Petersen |
Democratic Candidate for
COUNTY ATTORNEY |
, RALPH S. MOSELEY
REPRESENTATIVE
Republican Candidate for
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| Election Nov. 7, 1916
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Lawyer
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f wailed. ‘Ye’re ower ould to work, an’ ye couldna live in the s
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GOES TO ST. LOUIS,
SPEAKER AT CONFERENCE
The Rev. Jno. Albert Williams
leaves Tuesday for St. Louis, Mo.,
where he will be a visitor to the Gen
eral Convention of the Episcopal
church. On October 12 he is to be
une of the appointed speakers at the
Conference on Theological Education
held in connection with the Conven
tion on the topic, “The Present Neces
sity for a Learned Ministry and a
Place for a Less Learned Ministry in
the Church.”
The other speakers on this subject
will be the Rt. Rev. W. T. Faber, D.
I)., bishop of Montana; the Rev. G.
G. Bartlett, D. D., dean of the Phila
delphia Divinity School and the Rev.
C. B. Wilmer, D. D., of Atlanta, Ga.
The appointed speakers and writers
it this conference, which will occupy
Jiree days includes some of the ablest
lien in the Episcopal church and it
i therefore considered quite a dis
inction and honor to have a place on
he program.
On October 18th Father Williams,
Bishop Matthews and the Rev. Dr.
Irving P. Johnson, bishop-coadjutor
•lect of Colorado, who were all or
dained together here in St. Matthias
hureh, expect to celebrate the silver
mniversary of their ordination to the
priesthood as they will be all in St.
Louis at that time.
OLD FOLKS HOME
RECEIVES DONATION.
The Negro Women’s Christion As
sociation Home has received a dona
tion of $200 from the Charity Fund
of $10,000 which was left by the late
Arthur D. Brandeis for distribution
among various Omaha Charities. Mrs.
James G. Jewel, president of the asso
ciation received the check Tuesday.
DOUGLAS REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
The Douglas Republican League
will hold a public meeting next Thurs
day night at the Mecca Hall, Twenty
fourth and Grant streets. Good speak
ers. Desdune’s Band will furnish the
music.
Intemperance in drink is not a
prevalent or dominant vice among our
•ace. Our intemperance lies along
the line of over-eating and over-dress
ng.
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