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262   THE CRISIS


was awarded to Atlanta, Ga. The second and third prizes, respectively, to Salisbury, N. C., and New Madrid, Mo.

Ira Braxton, a colored man, rescued a white woman and a white man from drowning in Fox River in Illinois.

The grave of Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Dayton, Ohio, Cemetery has been marked by a natural stone and a bronze plate. The first of a series of scholarships in his name has been assigned to Paul Laurence Dunbar Murphy at Wilberforce University.

J. C. Dancy, Jr., has succeeded C. C. Allison, Jr., as secretary of the colored Big Brother Movement in New York.

Mr. Albert Smith won a silver cup, coming in first in the 100 yard, and a smaller cup, coming in third in the 300 yard dash, at the meet given by the Jersey City, N. J., Harriers.

Alderman L. B. Anderson in Chicago, Ill., has been presented with a diamond star, costing $650, as an appreciation of his services.

The 65th Anniversary of the Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, Pa., was celebrated during July.


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MISS FERN CALDWELL.


Miss Fern Caldwell, Los Angeles, Cal., is the undefeated ladies' tennis champion of South California in ladies' singles and mixed doubles.

Masons in Ohio have established Councils of Royal and Select Masters. The work of the Council immediately follows that of the Royal Arch and is supplementary thereto.

The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes issued in July Volume 6 of its Bulletin.

The Salem-Crescents won the team trophy in the Red Cross benefit games held at the Lewissohn Stadium at the College of the City of New York.

One hundred colored real estate men in Chicago, Ill., have formed an organization to aid colored property owners. Mr. H. A. Watkins is president.

Dr. B. F. Allen has been re-elected President of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo.

The 50th Anniversary of St. John's Baptist Association in Austin, Tex., was celebrated July 17-30. The association includes thirty-eight church organizations with more than 20,000 communicants.

Bookertee, an exclusively colored town in Oklahoma, was opened July 4.

J. E. Griffith, a graduate of the University of New York, has been admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar at Halifax.

Mrs. C. F. Cook has been reappointed a member of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia. 

Dr. J. L. Wilson of Jersey City, N. J., was one of five out of sixty to successfully pass the examination of the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Dr. C. W. Flint, Meharry graduate, successfully passed the Texas State Board medical examination with the highest average in a class of eighty. 

J. C. Waters, Jr., has been appointed an expert accountant of government freight rates in the transportation division of the depot quartermaster's office, Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Judson Moore has completed twenty-five years' service as mail carrier in Elmira, N.Y. He has a prominent route in the business section of the city.

H. M. Reynolds, Jr., has been appointed messenger to Secretary McAdoo in the Treasury Department.



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Hon. G. H. White has succeeded the late H W. Bass as Assistant City Solicitor in Philadelphia, Pa. 

Kelly Miller, Jr., is in the Structural Testing Laboratory of the Bureau of Standards in Pittsburg, Pa. He has received a fellowship in physics at Clark University.

Mr. J. H. Woodson, of Hook and Ladder Company 106, Brooklyn, N. Y., who rescued Mrs. Katherine Meterity and her baby from a fourth floor tenement fire, has been awarded a medal by Mayor Mitchell.

Mr. J. A. Dorsey of Pittsburg, Pa., has been appointed physical director at Washington Park.

On June 15 the Idlewild Hotel was opened in Chicago, Ill., for Negroes. It has 100 rooms, with all conveniences, and is under the active management of Beauregard F. Moseley.

The Sherman House in Waukegan, Ill. has been made a colored hotel.

John McRoberts in Cincinnati, Ohio, a former slave, has subscribed to $4,000 worth of Liberty Bonds.


PERSONAL.

BISHOP JOHN HURST has left Freedman's Hospital greatly improved.

The following marriages are announced: Miss Victoryne G. Gates, private secretary to the Hon. George W. Hayes in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mr. Milton Rogers of Columbus; Miss Ellen Rhetta Harris to Mr. Gale P. Hilyer, in Montgomery, Ala.; Miss Julia A. Brown of Winton, N. C., to Dr. L. T. Delaney at Wilson N. C., Miss Alice Eloise Ellis to Bishop Elias Cottrell.

Rev. and Mrs. M. W. D. Norman in Washington D. C., have celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. 

Mrs. C. M. Sterling-Pipes of Wilmington, Del., principal of the Harvey Public School, has received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Wilberforce University.

Mr. Harry Spurlock, a member of the police force in Cincinnati, O., has been retired after twenty-nine years' service. 

The Misses Emily Johnson and Susan Wilson, colored employees in the home of the late Judge Charles J. Willett, Pasadena, Cal., have been bequeathed valuable family effects and $4,000 with which to purchase a home in Pasadena.

Dr. Hollis Burke Frissell, principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, died August 5, 1917. His death means an incalculable loss to the advance of constructive and practical education for Negroes and Indians. Besides serving as principal of Hampton, Dr. Frissell was also a member of the Anna T. Jeanes Fund. Dr. Robert R. Moton, Hampton's former commandant, now principal of Tuskegee, delivered an address at the funeral which was held in the Hampton Institute Memorial Church.

Robert Holmes, a young colored policeman, was shot and killed while pursuing a burglar in Harlem, New York City.

The bulk of the $100,000 estate of the late James L. Hitchens, a colored furniture mover in Baltimore, Md., has been settled on a white adopted son.

The late John Heppenstalls bequeathed $500 and a share in the stock of the First National Bank of Wrightsville, Pa., to Levi Taylor, an employee in the family since the Civil War.


FOREIGN.

The 9th U. S. Cavalry won the championship of the Philippine Islands in baseball for 1916-17 over five white opponents. 

A jury in Cristobal awarded Joseph Foppen, a colored man, $10,000 for injuries received through negligence in the Panama Railroad.

Minister Curtis initiated the observance of Memorial Day, May 30, in Monrovia, Liberia. 

Mr. Gale Carr, who has been with the British Army in France for two years, has received two medals for bravery.

The European system of education, in which schools continue almost the entire year, is to be continued in the Virgin Islands.

The University of Porto Rico conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Gov. Arthur Yager and Dr. J. C. Barbosa, a member of the Executive Council, of African extraction, and graduated 5 students in Liberal Arts, 25 in law, 12 in pharmacy, 38 from the normal department, 6 with rural course certificates and 17 from the University High School.

Private Helasi Sempa, Uganda Police Service Battalion, won the medal for bravery in the defence of a British post.