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144 THE CRISIS

and basement building near Sherman, Texas, for colored tenants.  He has employed a colored contractor with all colored help.
[[symbol]] Mr. M. Lafayette Dean won the first prize for a handmade library table at the white industrial and agricultural exposition held in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
[[symbol]] The National League of Urban Conditions among Negroes has sent Mr. James W. Johnson, contributing editor of the New York Age, to investigate the cause of the migration of Negro laborers from the South to the North. His main effort is with the press. 

POLITICS
SENATOR BOISE PENROSE, of Pennsylvania, announces that he will introduce into Congress a bill for federal supervision of national elections.
[[symbol]] The Rev. R.W. Christian, a colored man, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been appointed special agent for the U.S. Census Bureau in the collection of Negro religious statistics.
[[symbol]] Major-General R.R. Jackson has been re-elected to the Third District of the Chicago, Illinois, State Legislature.
[[symbol]] Mr. Ebenezer H. Harper, a Negro of McDowell County, West Virgina [[Virginia]], has been elected to the State Legislature.  He received 55,000 votes and led his ticket by over 1000 votes.  Mr. Cazewell Donally, another Negro, was elected Justice of the Peace of Norfolk District, in the same county.
[[symbol]] Mr. William L. James, after fifteen years' service in the transcriber's office at the City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been appointed by Mayor Smith as Inspector of Highways at a salary of $1500 a year, and the use of an automobile.
[[symbol]] Mr. E.P. Fawlkes, the colored Justice of the Peace of Newport News Magisterial District, Warwick County, Virginia is to retain his office, despite efforts to have him removed.
[[symbol]] Mr. Henry Lucas has filed a suit for $10,000 damages against Messrs. Breckenridge Long, John J. Kennedy, and Theodore Sandmann, white Democratic leaders, as the first of a series of damage suits of Negro voters who were intimidated, arrested, or otherwise interfered with at the recent election in St. Louis, Missouri. That Mr. Long, president of The Wilson Club, was the head of a movement to challenge Negroes in wholesale lots was the substance of a statement purporting to be from him in the St. Louis Republic, November 7, "I believe that the throwing out of these 3000 votes will put St. Louis in the Democratic column."
[[symbol]] The Lincoln Republican League in Memphis, Tennessee, R.R. Church, Jr., founder and president, scored against The Lily White Republican Party in an open contest at the ballot box in the recent election.
[[symbol]] East St. Louis, Illinois, did not have a Woman's Hughes-Fairbanks Club, as had been planned, because some of the white women refused to meet with Negro women.
[[symbol]] Mr. Lee Beatty, a colored lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio, was made a representative in the Ohio State Legislature by the recent election.
[[symbol]]Mr. N.W. Pardon, a colored lawyer of East St. Louis, Illinois, has been appointed an assistant state's attorney. His salary will be $1200 a year.
[[symbol]] Governor Brumbaugh has announced the appointment of Mr. John W. Parks, a colored attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as assistant to the attorney general at a salary of $5000 a year. He is the first Negro to hold a position of this kind in the State of Pennsylvania.
[[symbol]] Mr. W.D. Allen, of Portland, Oregon, is the first colored man to be elected a county committeeman by the popular vote of the people in Multnomah County.
[[symbol]] Before an audience of some of New York's most prominent citizens gathered at The National Theatre to welcome The Hughes Women's Train, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said of the Honorable Charles W. Anderson: "Mr. Charles W. Anderson was the first colored man to be appointed to an office of high honor and responsibility in the North. His record was admirable. He made good. If he had not, I would not have continued him in the office even if every colored man in the United States had requested me to do so. But he not only made good, he made a record as high as any man that ever held that great office, if not indeed a little higher, and having done so, I should have continued him in it even if every white man in the United States had asked for his removal. It is worth, not birth, that should count, wholly regardless of the nationality, creed or color of the man."

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PERSONAL
THE following marriages are announced: Dr. Loring B. Palmer, of Atlanta, Georgia, to Miss Rose E. Harris, head nurse of the Fairhaven Infirmary, Atlanta; Mr. W.A. Joiner, head of the C.N. & I. Department, Wilberforce University, to Miss Ada Roundtree, instructor of nurse training at Wilberforce.
[[symbol]] We regret to learn that our note concerning Mr. Harry Simmons, of Butte, Montana, in a recent number of THE CRISIS, was untrue in its essential particulars.
[[symbol]] Judge and Mrs. Robert H. Terrell celebrated the silver anniversary of their marriage, October 28, at their home in Washington, D.C. The family and a host of friends were present.
[[symbol]] Mrs. Booker T. Washington, after four years' time, has received $5000 left her by the late Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, a white woman of Minneapolis, Minnesota, through Lawyer W.T. Francis, of St. Paul.
[[symbol]] Captain William M. Watson, mayor of Grayson, Oklahoma, a thriving Negro town, and Justice of the Peace for nine years, is dead. Last September the late Captain Watson and his wife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.
[[symbol]] The late Miss Martha R. Cohen, a colored washerwoman, who died in Passaic, New Jersey, recently, at the age of eighty-two, has left an estate of $25,000. Five thousand dollars has been willed to clear the indebtedness of Bethel Church, which she helped to organize more than forty years ago; the rest is to be divided among relatives and friends.
[[symbol]] Mr. W.H. Judd Malvin died in Washington, D.C., October 28. He had served for forty years as messenger in the Supreme Court and in the Adjutant General's office of the War Department.
[[symbol]] Dr. Henry T. Noel, the first Negro physician to be established in Nashville, Tennessee, is dead. For thirty-six years he had served as a member of the Meharry Medical School faculty.
[[symbol]] Miss Maria L. Jordan, for forty-two years a teacher in the colored schools of Washington, D.C., died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 29.
[[symbol]] Mr. Edmund Crogman, eldest son of Professor and Mrs. Crogman of Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, and brother of Mrs. R.R. Wright, Jr., is dead as the result of an automobile accident. He had been a railway mail clerk for ten years.
[[symbol]] Mr. Daniel H. Murray, Jr., of Washington, D.C., died November 22. He was a violinist of considerable merit and the composer of many songs and arrangements for the violin.
[[symbol]] The late Mr. Samuel Carter, an illiterate Negro, in Louisville, Kentucky, has left an estate of $10,000. More than a half century ago he began to buy property. The beneficiary is Miss Frances Virgina [[Virginia]] Owens, a teacher in the The Western Colored School. He had never married and had no immediate relatives.
[[symbol]] Mr. James Henry Townsend, a Boston colored man, has been buried with full military honors in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D.C., for his heroic act in remaining at his post in the fireroom of the armored cruiser Memphis when she was blown ashore at Santo Domingo. Mayor Curley has said: "When congress convenes in the winter I shall see that a special bill is presented at Washington in behalf of Mrs. Townsend, who is left absolutely without means of support."
[[symbol]] The Honorable George H. Mayes, a veteran letter carrier in Jacksonville, Fla., has recently resigned his position after thirty years' service. The postmaster expressed deep regret at having him leave. At one time he was superintendent of carriers, and had served on the local Civil Service Examing Board.

CHURCH
THE REV. DR. GEORGE F. BRAGG has celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as rector of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland.
[[symbol]] The Albemarie Conference of The A.M.E. Zion Church, held in Edenton, North Carolina, approved the plan of The Federated Churches of Methodism in America for the separation of races in the church. It is said that the federated churches are working for two great quadrennial bodies of white and colored Methodists.
[[symbol]] On October 30, the mortgage of The Mount Zion Baptist Church of Germantown, Pennsylvania, was burned. The church is worth $80,000, which has been entirely paid in twenty-six years. It has had only one pastor, the Rev. Morton Winston. More than 250 of his members have become property owners during this period.
[[symbol]] The Rev. C.R. Eucles, S.S.J., the first