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$2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922 Vol. VII—No. 29 _Whole Number 340
ANTI-WHITE FEELING
GROWING IN AFRICA
SAYS OBSERVER
Charge: ^ >wih of Race Conscious-!
ness t “o ill fill Propaganda Fos- j
tered b> 'erne Section of Amer- i
ican Neg> ^
RACE C0NE% \ IS GROWING
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World War Has ' 'uced Fraternal
Relationship Hit. .o Unknown Be
tween Natives and Hostility to1
Whites.
The Associated Negro Press
London, Eng., Jan. 11.—(Hy Mail)
Anti-White feeling is fast increasing
among the natives in various parts of
Africa, states Renter's in an article
"based on documentary and other evi
dence obtained at first hand by an
authoritative British observer who ha
visited every part of Africa."
Renter’s informant emphasizes the
growing cohesion of native races
throughout the continent. He says
the strongest factor in the develop
ment of antagonism to the whites is
skillful propaganda fostered by an ex
treme section of American Negroes.’’
“Circulars coming from nationalist
sources in India and Egypt and from
pan-American societies in the United
States translated into five of the prin
cipal African languages arc* distri
buted in enormous numbers through- J
out Africa,” the traveler states.
iklets of twenty-five to thirty
pages urge that the time has arrived
, for the black races to assert them-1
selves and throw off the white yoke.
“It is only fair to say,” adds the I
authentic British observer, "that these i
are not received with universal sym-1
pathy, but the very unsettling effect
is easily observed.”
He has met it in the union of South
Africa, in French equatorial Africa,
and in a lesser degree in Uganda, in
Nyasaland, Gelgian Congo, Abbyssi
nia and Kenya.
“It is wonderful the extent to which
the war has produced fraternal feel
ings among natives, but in present
circumstances they tend to become an
ti-Kurorean,” he continues.
The main reason is the growth of
race consciousness thru the world.
“The most effective remedy Is an j
equitable system of land tenure guar- j
auteeing to the native a stake in the j
country, protection from eviction by
his own chief or local European in- j
terest and a system of higher educa- j
tion that provide something more than
the three R’s.”
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PROFESSOR FLINT, TO LECTI'RF.
Fred Morrow Fling, Professor of
Sociology and History' at the Nebras
ka State University, is recognized as
an authority of the first rank on his
torical subjects. He is to lecture on
next Thursday night at Creighton
Auditorium under the auspices of the
Omaha Branch of the National Asso
riation for the advancement of the
Colored People. Professor Fling’s
subject is “The Present World Crisis.”
The lecture should have a liberal pat
ronage for two chief reasons. 1. For
its educational value; 2. Because the
proceeds are for the benefit of the
splendid work of the N. A. A. C. P.
It is a privilege to hear Professor
Fling and it is a privilege and duty
to help the N. A. A. C. P. The Moni
tor hopes that the audience present
will be worthy of the speaker and of
the cause.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF
ST. PHILIP THE DEACON
A large congregation was present
at 11 o’clock Sunday morning.
Father Williams, permitted by his
physician, was present in the chancel
and pronounced the absolution and
l>enediction at the close of morning
prayer which was taken by the lay
reader, George H. W. Bullock, who
gave an instructive address on the
Prayer Book. The services next Sun
day will be holy communion, 7:30
a. m.; Church school, 10; choral eu
charist with sermon, 11 a. m.; evening
prayer at 8 o'clock.
At the annual parish meeting held
at the Rectory last Thursday night
the following officers were elected
for the year: E. W. Pryor, senior
warden; Dr. Craig Morris, junior war
den; Miss Jennie Rohinson, secretary;
W. G. Haynes, treasurer; Sergt. Isaac
Bailey, E. R. Smith, Augustus Hicks,
Miss Lena M. Paul and Mrs. Sina
Brown.
The following delegates represented
the St. Philip’s at the annual meeting
of the Woman’s Auxiliary held at
Trinity Cathedral Tuesday: Mrs.
Isaac Bailey, Mr*. J. F. Smith and
Mrs. John Albert Williams. St.
Philip’s united with Trinity in serving
the luncheon Wednesday at the annual
j council.
HOOD OFF TO LIBERIA
New York City, Jan. 20.—-Among
those sailing on the America this
week for Monrovia, W. Africa, was
Rev. Dr. Solomon Porter-Hood, new
American minister to Liberia. Dr.
Hood who was a minister of the A.
M. E. Church and a graduate of Lin
coln University, is the only Colored
appointee of President Harding who
has been confirmed by the Senate.
Dr.Hood was one of the first grad
uates of Lincoln when it was still a
very small school. He formed a part
of that famous quiartett of the early
‘sixties” which was the pride of the
was on the strength of this famous
quantett that the late president was
able to raise funds t.o snpport the
Institution.
AFRICAN ANCESTRY
REASON FOR PRIDE
Physical, Intellectual and Moral Char
acteristics Traceable to High Stand
ard of Sex Morality.
AFRICA PIONEER IN EUGENICS
Our African ancestry is not to be
despised. On the contrary, from in
terviews with missionaries, with na
tive men and women, throuph study of
recent archeological discoveries and
of scientific treatises one finds much
to awaken and stimulate race pride,
I was constrained to get at the truth
as fully as I could lately when meet
ing groups of Colored girls and wo
men, because there was such ready
response to the little information I
had in regard to the worth-while char
acteristics, intellectual, moral, physi
cal that were the African's own. The
accounts of the Yoruba country, the
history of the people, their industries,
the government and customs are very
gratifying. A large number of Amer
ican Negroes are accredited to the
Yoruba country. These people, the
Matabele, the Hottentots, and numer
ous others are credited with having a
very high standard of sex-morality—
[adultery and bastardy being almost
1 unknown before the natives were con
taminated by out-i lei... Wo have Mug
known that Africans gathered their
gills and boys at the age of adoles
cence into separate groups in the hush
schools for secret instruction pertain
ing to individual and racial health.
Professor Aggrev, of Livingstone
College, N. C., a native African who
was a member of the African Educa
tional Commission under the Phelps
S token Fund, gave me when I was at
Livingstone College last year some
most illuminating information in re
gard to the mysteries of the hush
schools. He took great pride in point
ing out how in sex-education his peo
ple had been in advance of some mod
em nations for a thousand years. 1
was made to feel that eugentcK had
originated with them. A scientist
lately returned from Africa stated
that if safety of life and of property
are a measure of civilization, then
Africa and China are ahead of New
York City.—Dr. Sara W. Brown in
the Southern Workman.
V. W. C. A. NOTES
The first annual meeting of the
north side branch of the Y. W. C. A.
will lie held Monday night, Jan. 23, at
7 o’clock. At this meeting will be
rendered a program of inspiration, re
ports and the election of the com
mittee of management to take the
place of the present provisional com
mittee will be features of the evening.
Supper will he served at 7 o’clock at
a nominal chnrge of 35 cent- a plate.
Call in for reservations. All those
who have renewed their membership
will be entitled to voter The polls
will be open from noon Sunday, Jan.
22, until 7 p. m. Monday, the 23d.
The health and recreation commit
tee will servo chitterlings and fried
fish Thursday, Jan. 26. Mrs. W. S.
Metcalf, chairman of the committee,
invites the patronage of all. The
proceeds will go to the "Y.”
Please register at once for new
classes in gym, aesthetic culture and
Bible.
COLORED AND WHITE
BAPTISTS CO-OPERATE
Decide to Start Work on $250,000
Seminary For Training Colored
Ministers.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 20.—At a
conference here December 2!) of thp
oint commission representing the
Southern Baptist Convention and the
Negro National Convention, it was de
ckled to begin early building on the
theological seminary for Negroes that
will be erected here jointly by the two
conventions.
White Baptists of the South are
placing $250,000 in the seminary from
the proceeds of the 75 million during
the next five years and will co-oper
ate in the general supervision of the
work of the institution.
The Commision expressed its deter
mination to develop the institution
into the foremost Negro theological
seminary in America.
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Omaha, Nebraska ,n 1867
COLORED COLLEGE
WOMEN ADMIT WHITE
WOMEH AS MEMBERS
The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Has
Taken Unusual Hut Meritorious Ac
tion in Opening Doors to White
Sisters.
ACTION IS UNPRECEDENTED
Presence of White Members in Greek
Letter Society May Cause It to he
Outlawed in Colored Fraternal
World.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 20.—The
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority which
held its annual session here recently
threw a bombshell into the midst of
the Colored Greek letter fraternities
by announcing several white women
a. honorary members.
The Alpha Kappa Alpha’s is
the first and oldest organization
among Colored college women and was
organized at Howard University
thirteen years ago. Its white honor
ary members announced are, Jane Ad
dams, a white social worker in Chi
cago, and Mary Durkee, wife of the
President of Howard University.
Since all of the allege Greek let
ter fraternities are secret societies
with more or less of a racial as well
as an educational program, its action
has aroused bittemes and hostility in
college circles. It is said to be the
first time that any college secret or
ganization of this type has taken in a
white person. Lines on the other side
are just a., tightly drawn in the Greek
letter -ocieties of big white colleges
who have always refused to take in
Colored members.
Several members here have an
nouneed that they will take up action
with other fraternities during the
year and recommend that the Alpha
Kappa Alphas withdrew their mem
Irerships offered to white people or
be outlawed fro mthe Colored frater
nal world.
AKCHHISHOP HARTY WILL
CONFIRM AT ST. BENEDICT'S
Archbishop J. J. Harty will confirm
a class at the Chapel of St. Benedict
the Moor, 2415 I’arkcr street, Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. The Colored
people of Omaha are cordially invited
to attend this service and to meet
Archbishop Harty at th close of the
seiviee. All Colored Roman Catholics
who have not yet been confirmed are
requested to receive confirmation at
the service Sunday afternoon.
STRIKE LEADER GOES TO JAIL
Kansas City, Jan. 20.—After he had
been fined $100, sen'enced to thirty
days in jail and giv -n a stay on con
dition that he remain away from the
city for 130 days George W. Reed,
Negro leader of the packing house
strikers in Kansas City, Kan., surren
dered to the Kansas City authorities
and told them he had decided to seive
his sentence. He was taken to jail.
JURYMAN WAS SEGREGATED.
Wichita, Kansas, Jan. 20.—Because
Frank Williams, a Colored juryman
was kept separate from the others
and not allowed to fully participate in
the discussions in the jury-room,
Charles E. Brewer has asked for a
new trial in his suit against Amond
Boyer for $750.
ROSS LEAVES Y
Washington, D. C., Jan 20.—I. N.
Ross, athletic director of the Y, has
resigned to become advertising man
ager of the Colored American.
COURT WONT INTERFERE "
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 20.—Circuit
Court refused to interfere in the ef
forts of the trustees of the First A.
M. E. Church to oust their pastor,
Kev. J. Logan Craw, last week. They
were ordered to go home and patch up
their differences.
WHITE TEACHER RESIGNS.
New Orleans, La., Jan. 20.—Author
ities in Straight University are with
holding the name of a white teacher
who was forced to resign after using
force to eject a girl from a class
room.
OMEGA’S IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20.—The tenth
annual convention of the Omega Phi
Psi Fraternity met here from Decem
ber 27th to 31st. Wiilliam Pickens
made the chief address at the opening
session. <
PRESENTS BUST TO LIBRARY
New York City, Jan. 20.—“A Fig
ure of Ethiopia,” made by the re
nowned Colored sculpturess, Mrs.
Meta Wariek Philip, has been present
ed to the New York Public Library.
OPPOSITION TO EXCLUSION
FROM HOUSE RESTAURANT
New York Congressman Would Fight
Any Effort to Deny Colored Citizens
Present Privilege of Eating in
House Cafe.
PROPOSITION IMPROBABLE
New York, Jan. 20.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, re
cently made public a letter from Rep
resentative Martin C. Ansorge of the
21st district, New York, asserting that
if any attempt were made to exclude
Colored people from the restaurant of
the House of Representatives in
W'ashington he would fight it. The
letter was addressed to James Wel
don Johnson, Secretary of the Asso
ciation, and concludes with a reference
to Mr. Johnson’s “strenuous activity”
in pressing the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill.
“I cannot believe," writes Repre
sentative Ansorge, “that any as
surances have been given to Mr. As
well as stated in the report. How
ever, just so soon as I return to W'ash
ington I shall investigate this matter
and advise you.
“I am quite certain that no such
rule as requested by Representative
Aswell of Louisiana will be made dur
ing a Republican administration. If
any such rule is made I shall fight
with you to have it abrogated.
“I am glad to have been able to
cooperate with you in connection with
vour strenuous activity in favor of
She Anti-Lynching Bill.”
MRS. EWING DIES AT NORFOLK
Mrs. Pearl Ewing, aged 34, wife
of Desmond Ewing, who died at the
State Hospital at Norfolk, January
6th, was buried last Thursday from
Zion Baptist church The Rev. W.
F. Botts officiated. Interment was
at Forest Lawn. Deceased is survived
by her husband, two brothers, H. R.
Terrell of St. Joseph, Mo., and G. B.
Terrell of Kansas City, Mo., and two
sisters, Mrs. Spencer of Kansas City
and Mrs. Hattie Clark of St. Joseph.
MONITOR THREE .,e
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 20.—By com
plying with the conditions which re
quired Walden University to move
from the Meharry Medical College
campus, the latter institution will re
ceive one-half million dollars from the
Rockefeller General Education Board
of New York.
SIGNS $10,000 PER
YEAR CONTRACT
i/os Angeles, Cal., Jan. 20.—"Sun
shine Sammy,” film star, Ernest Mor
rison, has signed a five-year contract
with a big motion picture corporation
here calling for $10,000 per year.
LIKE LIFE IN PRISON
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Wealthy Men Are Model Pris
oners, Says Warden.
They Are the First to Go to Jail far
Violating the Anti-Trust Law
Are Satisfied With
Prison Fare.
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Newark.—Four wealthy manufac
turers, powers iu the tile, grate and
mantel industry, the iirst men ever
to go to jail for violating the Sherman
anti trust law, have been pronounced
model prisoners by Hleiiard McGuin
uess, warden of the Newark street
jail, where they are spending four
months.
Tlie quartet—Frank II. Nobbe, Ar
thur Sllstone, Albert Simile and ller
uiuu Petri, whp recently pleaded guilty
to eliminating competition after their
activities hud been unearthed by tlie
Lockwood legislative committee in
New' York—apparently are quite con
tent with prison fare.
Although their funds are sufficient
to supply them daily with an outside
caterer’s products,-they seldom supple
ment tlie prison menu with anything
but pie. All have developed a strong
taste for tills form of sweetmeat, and
tlie pieboy never misses them on his
daily round of the tiers.
"Occasionally,” said the warden, “we
have a particularly fine roust or fowl
down at the stuff dining-room, and
we will send some of the meat up to
them. They could, of course, have
meals sent in from the outside, but
they seem satisfied with our regular
food. That 1 take as u compliment to
our kitchen.”
The quartet are all housed in one
lurge cell in the hospital wing, because
one of their number is suffering from
an Illness which requires constant
medical attention. Therefore, they do
not come into dully contact with the
other prisoners—murderers, burglars,
petty thieves.
When visitors cati, however, the four
must follow prison routine and receive
their visitors in the prison center, or
general entertainment room. On such
days this center is uncomfortably
crowded.
The four men of wealth pass the
time much as they would do in their
clubs. They have their pipes, their
newspapers and their cards. But In
stead of looking out on the avenue
through glass crystal clear, they gaze
through bars upon tlie historic Morris
canal, as from a feudal castle.
NEW FACE WHILE YOU WAIT
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Woman imiat lie beautiful regardless
of the coat and the pain. A recent
dispatch from Paris told of prominent
women having unshapely mouths
beautified by the aid of plastic sur
gery. This is not new In this country.
A New York doctor has been per
forming such operations for some time
and has been successful In remodeling
the features of many American women.
The picture shows the surgeon re
moving lines under the eyes hy mak
ing a small Incision, removing a small
piece of flesh and sewing up the In
cision which heals in a few daya.
Will Written in 44 Words.
White Plains, N. Y.—Forty-four
words and a signature, written on the
back of a prescription blank, was filed
with Surrogate_Slafer of White Plains,
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as the last will ami testament of Dr.
Robert Dennlston, prominent West
chester county physician.
The unusual document, dated April
15, 1910, leaves the entire estate, val
ued at $25,(XX), to ills widow.
Bounty Better Than Trapping.
Superior, Wis.—Charles Baldwin,
town of Superior, lias trapped 12
wolves this year and received $240
In bounties. He is laughing at fur
trappers, who have had a poor vear.
SENTENCED TO SCHOOL
Illiterate Boys and Girls Forced
to^Study.
West Palm Beach Bad Children Will
Be Sent to School of Opportunity
Instead of Jail—to Pro.
vide Clothing.
West Palm Beach, Fla.—Illiterate
boys and girls under the age of
twenty-one who are brought into
Municipal court here in future will
be sentenced to the school of oppor
tunity instead of jail as the result of
a movement launched by Municipal
Judge Joe L. Earman, former news
paper publisher and editor, and backed
by the Rotary club and other civic
organizations.
The school of opportunity has been
organized along the lines of the usual
public school, with a board of three
trustees, consisting of Judge Earman,
City Manager Carl Riddle and Chief of
Police Frank Matthews.
Business men have offered to pro
vide suitable clothing for students who
otherwise might feel embarrassment
because of their attire, and Judge
Earman has taken it upon himself to
provide text-books, having placed an
order for $500 wortli of readers, arith
metics, spelling and writing hooks,
to which subjects the course of study
will be confined.
Tlie youngsters sentenced to the
school will become members of special
classes and will be instructed by a
teacher employed by the city school
board. Classes will be held in the
city school building at hours which
will not conilict with the regular
classes of the school, the girls and
young women to attend from 3:30 to
6:30 p. m. and the boys from 6:30 to
9:30 p. m.
In order that the students may have
individual instruction, classes will be
limited to twenty members, and when
tlie pupils have worked their way
through a simple spelling-book, a
second reader and fractions, they will
be given diplomas, with all the cere
mony incident to a high-school com
mencement. *•
VAGRANT SIGNALS FUSS RADIO
Expert Declares No One Is Able to Say
Whence Mysterious Flashes
Come.
London.—Despite the most diligent
research, experts are not yet able to
say whence tlie mysterious "vagrant”
signals come that every day, and par
ticularly at night, are received on wire
less aerials.
“From the earliest days of long
distance wireless telegraphy the diffi
culties in reception due to vagrant or
natural electric waves passing down
tlie receiving aerial have been the
bane of tlie wireless telegraphist,”
Prof. John Ambrose Fleming of Lon
don university told the Royal Society
of Arts. He said:
“Having regard to the fact that the
positive atmospheric electrical poten
tial gradient of the earth increases at
the rate of about 100 volts per meter
of ascent, roughly speaking, it is not
surprising that aerials several hundred
feet high may be traversed by quite
large current due to this cause alone,
which may utterly swamp the feeble
signal currents.”
WALKS 60 MILES TO GET FOOD
Russian Braves Snow and Cold for
Needed Gift From New
York Woman.
Moscow.—Serge Vlctorlovltch Tora
koy walked 60 miles through the snow
from his home In the country of Rla
zanz to this city recently, to receive
a $20 remittance purchased for him by
Mrs. Mary Mardfln of 2020 Washing
ton avenue, The Bronx, New York.
When Torskoy arrived at the Amer
ican relief administration warehouse
here he was almost exhausted from
cold and hunger. He could hardly be
lieve his eyes when, after establish
ing his identity, he received 234 pounds
of nourishing food, consisting of 98
pounds of flour, 50 pounds of rice, 40
pounds of canned milk. 20 pounds of
cooking fats, 20 pounds of sugar and
6 pounds of tea. “I have a wife and
four children at home,” he said, "and
this will save them from starvation.
Mrs. Mardfln can never be adequately
repaid for this kind deed.”
Dog Acme of Politeness.
Boston.—There Is a French bulldog
that is the acme of politeness. His
name is C'est Tot and he Is the prop
erty of Miss Alice F. Dunne of 46
Cortes street, Boston.
C’est Tol got his reputation aa an
extremely polite canine when he
chanced to pick up a lady’s coat that
was dragging on the floor. He did this
so gracefully and with such evident
enjoyment that he was immediately
nicknamed "the Paj|B” by his loving
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RAT TRAP INVENTOR
MAY SOON BECOME
KING OF FINANCE
Allen Dixon Ran Department Store
Elevator, But Used Imagination,
Brains and Rusty Baling
Wire Wisely.
FIRM OFFERS $2$,000 CASH
New York City, Jan. 20.—Imagina
tion plus rusty baling wire was the
combination Allen Dixon has used to
put himself on the highway to fortune.
Mr. Dixon who is 57 years old, is
employed as an elevator man in a
white department store in Nashville.
If his plans go through in five years
he will have enough money to buy out
the department store and run it him
self.
To most persons baling wire is sim
ply wire, but to Dixon, looking at all
the rusty wire going to waste from
bales of hay shipped into Nashville,
rusty wire was rat traps. He pulled
some wire off a bale, experimented
with it and—got a patent.
Hard and Hart, No. 100 Fifth ave
nue, are negotiating, for permission to
sell the patent right. Mr. Hardy ad
mits the Negro will probably make a
lot of money. He is said to have re
ceived already an offer of $25,000 in
cash, or $5,000 down and 5 cents roy
alty on every trap sold.
Dixon said he patented his trap last
July. Just to show how much rats
liked it, he said, he entered two on a
competition at the Commercial Club
in Nashville, and in one night caught
twenty-six rats in the big one and fif
teen in the small one. Only one other
trap entered caught any rats, and that
got only one.
Dixon said he had other inventions
that ought to pay him better than this
one. He did not know whether he
would keep his job after he got his
money, but he would have to do some
thing for he hqd worked too long to
be able to quit.
DR. RIDDLE IMPROVES
HIS LABORATORY
Dr. R. C. Riddle, physician and sur
geon, 817 North 16th St., has just
completed extensive imp,Aveioents in
his laboratory which enables him to
handle a great deal larger practice
than ever before. His new office is
equipped with conveniences to treat
every kind of disease. Chronic dis
ease? and surgery will be his spec
ialty. His new equipment will enable
him to give electric baths, body mas
sages, mercurial rubs, steam baths,
violet rays and X-rays. His new
feature will be a free clinic in which
he will give medical treatment free
to all persons not able to pay for the
services. This will consist of full and
efficient medical service, prescription
advice and consultation. Those de
siring free service will be required to
furnish statements from the pastor of
their respective churches recom
mending them for the treatment. His
office will be open from 8 to 10 daily
and Sunday.
CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
Attorney A. P. Scruggs quietly cel
ebrated his birthday (?) Monday eve
ning at his residence, 2310 North
Twenty-second street. The reporter
not being present to count the can
dles, it is not possible to say how old
the eminent attorney is, but will
vouch for at least 21 years. A lunch
eon and informal reception were the
features of the celebration. Those
present were Drs. Britt, Peebles and
Hill; Messrs Silas Johnson, R. T.
Walker, and J. Johnson.
“Y” BASKET BALL TEAM
DEFEATS AK-SAR-BENS
The ‘)Y" basket ball team wal
loped the Ak-Sar-Ben Knights Mon
day night in the Central High School
gym. The game was slow and there
was much rough playing on both
sides. The “Y” emerged from the
fray on the long end of a 26 to 16
score. The guarding of Galloway and
the general floorwork of Thomas, the
“Y’s” lanky center, were the features
of the game.
FATHER WILLIAMS ABLE
TO BE OUT AGAIN
The Rev. John Albert Williams,
priest of the Church of St. Philip the
Deacon, who was confined to his home
by illness the past ten days, is able
to be out again and expects to take
the usual services Sunday.