Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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vr;' ^ " " j*"': ' * \ .. .? / b DEVOTED TO THE -* - ;.- ' ' INTERESTS U~F THE PEOPLE. x , District Grand Lodge No. 13, G. . U. O. of 0. F., District Grand Household of Ruth No. 22 Hold Annual Sessions . , , in Georgetown. BEiST SESSION IN HISTORY. Georgetown, the secofld oldy\ est city in. South Carolina whose ^arly -settlers cam| from England and brought \^th them the chivfclry and culture of their ha - \ . I M ^ II PROF. HLJL BUTLER, 1 ^delibb^1^stamp^-u^^f the ^citizens of today and they revealed it In the entertainment given the Grand Lodge and all others who entered the confines. The Indi-' go which once was a famous prohas given way to the lumber industry ; the sturdy old oaks bearded with hoary moss and giving shelter-from the burning sun stand majestically and seem to say welcome; Frfnce George j Winyah-Church, the-'-Westminster Abbey" is looked upon with I veneration by the citizens and as m t - PR. C. C. JOHNS one walks through the church ? and over the ground and beholds the ancient graves and ye old time inscriptions on the tombs a hallowed feeling grips him and |H|I 1 J ^ H i I ^ odge 0( COLORED GIF IN FREN' 'lie quietly and reverently reflects "after all this earthly toil, what is man?."- The Sampit river placidly flows almost the length of the town and helps cool the evening after a sultry day. The citizens are proud of their town and If ] ?^ V ) Z 1 I J district Grand Secretary. _th^^j,aces^apparently ^ nve In represented in business and the school is well known foi llie~ex=" ceptionally good work. The Fifty-fifth Annual Session of District Grand Lodge No. 13 lows and District Grand Household No. 22, of South Carolina convened in the beautiful and 4dstorie-eity named, August 3, 4, ; 5 and 6. It was an epochalmeeting, in that, the composition of the hndy-was of thebesian ervand women~of the-raiee in the state.- = They.came for business and they ?- < < ?J ] 1 I JON, D. G. M. D, ,_4? did business. Tuesday morning 1 at the joint session welcome ad- i dresses and responses were de- < livered. Prof. J. B. Beck of the i Continued on Page 2 . J L : ~ * T" T j ' .. \ , i. welltre; ch music co; SENTENCE FLORIDA WHITES FOR KILLING NEGRO (By The Associated Neero Press.) ... Jacksonville, Fla., Aug.*?For the'fifst time in a number of years in this county^two white men have been sentenced to prison for killifl&^a Negro. J. R. Sellars.and H. Johnson were sentenced to the state^ prison farm at Raiford for seven- years each aged gnxennaii of this city. 3ellars and Johnson filed an appeal from the conviction in crminal court which was denied by Judge Peelei\ when the case came up Friday, and they,were sentenced,.. They are charged with having beaten Jones ^o death on the night of May 30, after he had closed his shop and started home in the ^anama^section. Two other white men are being held for the death of a Negror 0. P. Kirkland and W. P. Stokes are being held without bond in the county jail for the death of Richard Burgins, a Negro who came here from Folkston, Ga., July 1U and was alleged to have been killed by them when they accused hirri of resembling a Negro who had stolen an.automobile in the Dinsmore section nf^the county. The men were identified by another white man with whom Burgins was riding and whom they-forced -td give Burgins over to them. KILLS MtfLE STUNS MAN Newberry, Aug.?A mule belonging to Fletcher Chaplin was killed by lightning Sunday night and Chaplin was rendered unconscious by the bolt as he was trying to put a bridle on the mule at Fairview Church during an electrical storm. NEGRO LYNCHED IN MIS^ SOURI DID NOT_ CONFESS ^ GUILT. New York, Aug>-(N.A. A. C. P.) The National Association for th^jVdvancelnent of Colored People?, 69 Fifth Avenue, today annnnncfffl-rOPMpt of MiggonrI white daily newspapers, showing that Miller Mitchell, the Negro lvnohod at. Rxofdaior Snrincs for confess his guilt as at^rst al? l^praH hnf prrttogtA^ his innocence to the very last. An aged white lawyer publicly charged the mob with hanging an innocent^man, and was pursued until he hid in the brush. WITH NEGRO COMPOSERS Austin, Tex., Aug.? (A.-N. P.) More than three thousand people of both races attended "an evening with Negro Composers" at Ebenezer Tabernacle Friday. The program was composed of the works of Harry T. Burleigh, J. Rosamond Johnson, N. Clark Smith, R, Nathaniel Dett, Hiram Simmons, and others. In response to an invitation aom the chorus, under the direcfrom Governor Miriam Ferguson of Prof. H. B. P. Johnson, :>f Nashville, Tennessee, presentad a program at the governor's mansion on the following evening. .1 ' . 4 -i ' '"V tDAY," ATOUST 22, 1925." ilTED C NSERVATORY New York, Aug.? (N. A. A. CLi P^) Maude J. Wanzer, a colored music student, whom it was sought to bar from going to France to study at the American conservatory in _ Fontainebleau, has. written to the National-Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, to say she was cordially received there- and that--1Ha French officials and professors of the- school show no trace of "race prejudice. in thanking the N. A. A, C. P. fr advising her to persevere in her effort to attend the school Miss Wanzer writes: ' ^ "It is indeed a great pleasure - to-write-to you and try in my poor way to thank you for. the assistance given-me-in-my -most needful hour. Encouragement, truly, meant everything. . ... .The Director of the Concorv Q f A ri r 10 vnnll" o "V. J jv* * uv,vi j ao i conj a anu intelligent man as well as a musician. I have never in my life been accorded the kindness and welcome he extended to me. Each day-hes, shakes my hand and says something encouraging. . . . When they were making the pic" tures "of one class?I thought it another?he caught my arm and took me flying through, the-cor-.'Encore' and rushed me into the picture It is. such a pity that other members of my race did not come on tor tne trouble . ia-trubLJiot over here. . . .Please thank all interested persons for " me and assure the Negroes, thru the papers, the trouble is not in France."^ Miss Wanzer reports cordial treatment from the American tudents at theCorrservatoyv, even-from girls frpm Texas? PRISONER ESCAPES (By The-Associatcd Negro Press.) Rock Hill, Aug.?A cleverly ex ecutedjail delivery gave John Short* lps" freedom. In letting otit a*!barber, John got out. Officerls were sitting in the po? lice station office less than fifty feet awajr?bu^were unable to " captuPe th'e escaped prisoner. He was"accused of wholesale pilfer-" ing at the wholesale house at > which he had been employed. 16 YEAR OLD BCXYSGHT. ~ . ? | (By The Assoeiated Negro Press.) Raleigh, N. (J., Aug.?T wo 16 year old boys were sentenced to not less than five nor more than ten years in the state prison yes terday for a criminal attack on j an eleven year old girl. Maudie : Lee WflliftBis.? ? [ PORTUGAL AND AFRICAN) : r? SLAVES :hzir:?t (By The Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. O., Aug.?~ There has been placed before the League of Nations a report, based on close investigation, of the most deplorable conditions of thej Africans under the government i 1 rru? A: ! ui x ui luk?i. iiie natives are forced to work at stipulated wages and frequently never receive any pay. It all x^calls the hor- 1 rors of Belgium in the days of Leopold. It is something of the same thing practiced by the British in the Tropics of India. ?TR ^ ; " ^ ~ . . 'y .. '* . ' <r . " "' ' *. 7<! V ?? - -' ; ? /fl r . S' R K m : : bTshop \v. w.bec Presiding Bishop of the Seventh of the A. M. E. Church, erobrae and Mississippi. BISHOP BECKETT?HOLDS STATEWIDE^ MEETING Presiding Elders' Council Brings Many-to^City^-New Administra- < tion Inaugurated mere is something more than money in the great work of the church. If a man has given his best days and sacrificed hjs best- manhood- irr +ri^efforts for the uplift and forward movement of- the church I as a Bishon.willsee to it that he shall not suffer in his old days for lack of bread if it . is in mv power to help .him. We need nien_as_leaderx-i 11-God's-ehttrrh whose-1 morals .are .sound and uiiiiuesiionabIe~i ?men-who are not running-the coiVn-? | try over with women of weak morals. We are pjpud of this great improvement at Allen University which?has taken "place during the'past decade. 1 We have this great plpnt with it's mod- r< er'n improvements and it matters not if we do owe -some iwnnnir Int'n unt * gethcr and ml pi' uul till' tU'l>r=t?ur|fo"up to 'the General -Conference in 1U28 ' n ^nn talat-B f<n- AUaa T'nirrr sity" were some of the. significant"-: statements maderby Bishop Bediettdn ] his keynote speech nf" the Presiding : Elders Council at Allen last_Tye.sdayr. There" were two.. sessions of the Council?ope in the morhing and one in the afternoon. In thet morning ses- < siori" tTie'Bishon "gavelaut a. questionnaire upon which he collected data L, showing every phase of the work in J" can get first hand information, ike 1 called for a meeting of the -ffxppnt.ivn l Committee of Allen University and requested a statement showing-the as-! sets and liabilities of therschor>l"amrin "* a general way, got hold of the situa-T tion upon which to have a starting j point. " | < ?- ^ J jF / v^_ - r <y' HON. J. I. WASHiN The Bishop pr&ve several short talks i during, the session and from them the . ministers and laymen could learn that Bishop Beckett?as bishop of South, Carolina?will bethe Bishop and wear ' hi* own shoe*. Brit they" know the 1 man. Thera will b? a square deal for 1 f . - . , _ . I ./^UBSCRIBE^N]^ f ADVERTISE?Current, Social and General News. F==7^'?s^HHBBBB5HssS"fc ' -?_-r ? ge A C&PY. - ^ ~ ^ Kyc^'iv 'A 4 Vj % ' J ' * " .' '" ' ' ! ' I ^ t a v - ~ -ri KETT. A. M., IX D. 4 and Eijrhth' Episcopal Districts v ing the States oFSouth Carolina afl and every man will be able to use His .own sunshine under Bishop Beckett's 'administration. _ The "following schedule "shows the .. ? conferenctTs"Io be held"t>y~B?shop Beck ?Tett next fall. ' 1 * Palmetto conference, Andrews?Oct- ; . oner "Jl; -Northeast conference November 11 tli; _('entral conference; Piedmont conference, November 25th; Columbia conference,!" becember 2nd; South Carolina eonference, December ?th. ' ~ The meeting Tuesday closed with u "Jiopular 'mass and a reception by Dr. Adams-and his congregation in Bethel church at night. Dr W, H. Greatheart J >1 Americus, Ca., Dr. J. S. Johnson oT".Washington, D. *C., secretary-treasurer of the Church Extension dopartrnent. artd Dr. R. W. Mance were the principal speakers*. Jfcshop Beckett announced that Dr. Mance will return to the State next.fall which is to Lite-..delight'-of - kis -Tramv-frineds-"^ ~ : intl ad/nirers.?Dr.. Mance's-return to rLite wd/lluL.disrUXlt any nf thp en University: The Bishop is happy to find conditions] at the^Colloge up to standard.. Dr. s[ims and will" back President'Sims in his effort to put ivcr Allen'?* program. But Mance tv-l-H?ill. iMnn/l fJkK " ... ./v vwi v\. AWi [/wooiuijr c*0 iX pi Csiding elder in his,the Charleston con- * fcrcnce or to the pastorate of one of l the number one appointmnets. .. Bishop Beckett haa indorsed the al*? ?? umni movement and will look" to this rfnmp for a -substantial repor-iotf-t-heir ? activities in behalf of the school. * There was a different air on Allen's ampus last Tuesday. ~01d~and voung : ^ ' ?' ^ ~ , . :? m ~ " GTON, D. G. Atty.^ . ministers, laymen and elders were ?hnkin? hands with the Christian spirit that should characterize a meeting of the kind. There is a new day for all and a democratic administration has been inaugurated. . __ ? .. 'T" ' . - -.J. -Z'-T ' t, , ..