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RICHMOND, VA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1930
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VOLUME XLVII. N.. 38
Community Hospital Looms Here
Vass Defends Townsend !
.
Held In Pierson Murder
SAYS ACCUSED
INNOCENT
In the first place, I desire to ex
press my deepest sympathy for Mr.
.Pierson's tuimiy. i promptly wired
my sympathies to Mrs. Tierson but
regret 1 could not get to the funeral.
A gentleman present iniormed me
that tne obituary stated that some
one whose accounts Mr. Pierson had
audited was responsible for his
death. This brother toid me ha caxi
e<i Ur. William's attention to this,
but he said the family had a right
to say wnat they thought. I wish to
say Xhat i have especially deeply
sympaimzed with Mrs. Pierson iu
her auiiction, for she was entitled to
Detter advice than was given her by
trusted friends. She would on doubt,
nave been tnankiul for the right ad
vice. uut instead of bread, sne was
given a stone. 1 hold her pastor and
his assistant responsible lor the
course she pursued. Her pastor had'
already expressed the belief, I am
reuabiy iniormed, that the crime was
chargeable to Nashville, and the evil
genius at the Nashville end will tel*
you tne same, if you press him hard.
ihe conspirators against the life
of Ur. Townsend left nothing undone
to fasten the crime upon a man who
is too gentle and kind to believe a
conspiracy was directed against him
wnen an attempt was mahe to assas
sinate him last year. In fact, Ur.
Townsend is so guueiess «uu col
liding that he can nardly believe men
inave conspired to kill hun and some
febay else must come to his defense,
^birht, the charge was for “jug
gling'' $62,000. They knew that could
ont Degin to be sustained for never
once in all his years of service, did
Mv. Pierson ever charge Dr. Town
send with dishonesty or graft. His
reports are published in the annual
minutes of our Convention, both the
regular and the supplementary re
ports, and the reader can search the
reports for himself. Mr. Pierson’s
oxny charge ever lodged against Dr.
Townsend was inefficiency and lack
of ability to manage the Board's bus
iness to the best advantage. For
instance, his report on the matter t
the ‘*62,000’ simply voiced his con
viction that the money could have
been borrowed by paying less bo
nus, but he approved the loan _ at
the beginning. However, Mr. Pier
son had no experience at all in bor
rowing money for our Hoard in
Nashville, and wise men did ont wor
ry over the charge. In fact, Dr.
Townsend co-operated beautifully
with Mr. Pierson. They were in con-,
ference frequently and Dr. Town
send even shared with hun his execu
tive duties in his effort to co-operate
with him. Dr. Townsend arranged
that Mr. Pierson should deliver lec
tures in the chapel each Wednesday
on efficiency and allied subjects, and
upon more than one occasion, Dr.
Townsend has told the employees to
heed the instruction and direction
of Mr. Pierson for they were both
agreed.
But we must nut
!?te auditor, for we do him an in
justice to represent him as reporting
Dr. Townsend as being dishonest in
any respect or of grafting the
funds of the Board. Of couurse, I do
not knw what he may have reported
to Dr. Williams unofficially, but his
recommendations only became ef
fective upon being apprved by the
Convention. I do not thnk he wouid
make a public report and then back
behind that, submit another report
stultifying himself. Thus the “jug
gling could not be depended upon to
depose Dr. Townsend. Then \ the
Nashville evil genius had the af
frontery to start the rumor that Dr.
Townsend was grafting worse than
Dr. Boyd ever did, while this same
man is a worse man in that respect
than Dr. Boyd ever was, and -he
Convention owed it to our constituen
cy to thoroughly investigate Dr.
Isaac.
The murder charge based upon
the “juggling” charge has failed, and
now the charge is rebellion and con
spiracy on the part f the Sundaj
Scohool Publishing Board, something
new afid different from the murder
and “juggling”. Does not this show
conclusively a purpose to destroy
Dr. Townsend one way if not anoth
er? I, myself, and not a member of
this Board now, though I was a
charter member. When I entered the
service of the Board, I thought it
proper to give up membership in
the Bard, and I supported Conven
(Continued on Page 4)
Kansas Voter, o
Hear Addresses
By Wm Pickens
LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT
ALLEN OF KANSAS
New York, July 25— William Pickens
Field Secretary of the N. A. A .C P.
left JNqw York City ^oday, it ?vas
announced by the Advancement of Col
ored People, for Kansas where he will
speak to audiences of bothNcolored and
white voters to urge that they vote a
gainst Henry J. Allen in the primaries
to be held on August 5th. Senator
Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, it will be rem
embered, led the fight in the United
States Senate for confirmation of John
J. Parker of North Carolina as an asso
tiate justice of the United States Sur
preme (Court, which nomination was
vigorously and sucessfully opposed by
the N. A. A. C. P.
Mr. Pickens will speak at mass meet
ing * in Coffeyville, Wichita, .Topeka
Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth and
Atchison, with possible engagements in
Kher towns where the Negro populate
:s large enough. Branches of the N. A.
t. C. P. throughout Kansas are actively
.ul ones and are doing everything pos
ible to arouse the Negro voters of the
„ate to a realization of the important
at work to make these meetings suces
jf showing their disapproval of Senator
.vllen’s action in supporting Parker a
gainst their protests. The Kansas City
Call, brilliant Negro weekly, with wide
influence in Kansas is actively cooper
ting with the N. A. A. C. P. in the move
ment to bring about Allen’s defeat.
Hoy Wilkios, Managing Editor of the
Call is playing a large part in arrang
ing for Mr. Pickens’ jneetings and in
stirring the Negro voters of the state.
In making public the plans of the N.
A. A. C. P. to oppose Senator Allen,
Walter White, Acting Secretary, made
the following statement:
“The issue in kansas is of most vital
importance and the Negroes of that
State have an opportunity to strike a
.lw of lasting benefit not only for*tit
themselves but for the citizenship rights
of colored people of the whole country
Allen was implored by the Negroes of
his state to vote against confirmation
of Parker who had brazenly advocated
disfranchisement of the Negro. To
those appeals Allen turned a deaf ear.
He did everything in his power to put on
the Supreme Court bench a man who
was willing to flout shamelessly the 14t
and 15th Amendments so far as the Ne
gro is concerned.
“Now Allen is desperately trying to
fool Negroes into believing that he is
still their friend. His henchmen are
flooding the state with a puerile leaflet
citing certain minor things which Allen
as governor has done for Negroes. This
leaflet blandly ignores Allen’s work to
get Parker confirmed. What if every
thing in the leaflet is true and more?
On the biggest single issue that Negroes
could appeal to him, Allen betrayed the
colored citizens of Kansas and betrayed
them shamelessly. It will be to the
lasting credit of the colored people of
Kansas if they unitely repudiate the
attempt to hoodwink them and buy the
back into Allen's camp through a petty
Allen’s supporters. Rebuke of this at
job at Washington for David Henderson,
a Negro lawyer of Kansas and one of
i ieinp to buy Negro support by a job
1 given after Parker’s degeat will create
enormous respect for the Negroes of
Kansan and of the entirt country. The
| N. A. A. C. P. is confident that these
voters will stand firm for the high mor
al principal involved and will refuse to
let themselves be mised.”
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Would Deprive Ne
gro of Voting Right
Macon, -Ga. (CNS)— Repeal of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the
constitution is advocated by E. D. Rivers
former Senator and candidate for Gov
ernor of Georgia. In speaking before
members of the Georgia Rural Letter
j Carriers Association in convention here
he said;
“Give the Negro citizenship he is
qualified to hold and nothing more.”
•fou can’t muke a government control
ling citizens out of a Negro anymore
than you can make a race horse out of a
mule. Rather than violating the law in
refusing the Negro a vote, we had better
repeal the law that gave him right to
vote. Repeal the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments and give him the
citizenship he is qualified to hold.”
A. I. P. C. ’s Efforts
Stay Youth’s Hang
Philadelphia Pa., July— The Atner-,
ican Interacial Peace Committee, with
headqquarters at 20 South 12th street
Philude|phia, Announces through 'thfe
Executive Secretary! Alice ,Dunbar
Nelson, that its efforts to save the
youth, Theodore Russ, Uf Woodside,
Deleware, from what was palpably a
legal lynching Mast week, were suc
cessful.
Theodore Russ, a youth of twenty
two years, one night last February,
di'ov> \with some cither young men
to the home of a white couple by the
name of Heed, for the purpose of buy
ing some liquor. Tha .Reeds were
well-known boot-leggers, and were in
the habit of si selling liquor to every
-one. Russ desended from his car
leaving the other men, went to the
house alone, and obtained 'the liquor.
A dispute about the price ensued, and
in the scuffle to get the jug from hi
he and the woman engaged in a tug
of war. Her husband and brother
camo in, and a free for all brawl en
sued, in which knives were used, and
Russ cut the woman’s brother slight
ly bn the neck. Rfiss fled, .'jver.ft
home, and to bed. When ihe was
found and arrested later, he thought
it was for cutting the man. In fact
the question of assault upon the wo
man was not injected into the case
for fully ^twenty-four hlurs. Thea
the woman claimed /criminal assault.
Russ was tried and convicted, cheif
ly upon evidence so ipalpably ifalde
as to stagger everyone. He was
condemned to be hanged, as rape is a
capital offence in Deleware. Efforts
to have the case re-tried were una
vailing, and jthe» Board [of Pardons
refused a recommendation to I the
governor for cc^nmutation or light
ening of the sentence.
. Two weeks before the time set for
the execution, (July 25th, an appeal
was made to the Executive Secretary
of the American Interacial Committee
for help on the case, and a whirlwind
Campaign t ensued! Letters, tele
gframs, ' appeals, petitions, w-ere 'sent
>o the Governor, C. Douglas Buck,
asking for a reprieve or stay of ex
ecution. In view of the fact that the
Board of Pardons (had not made a
favorable recommendation, though the
vote was three to two, the Governor was
disin-lined to grant the request.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Wil
mington was held on the night of July
23, and upon hearing that the Governor
was planning to leave the state next
morning to be gone over the week-end,
the entire meeting arose, and a line 01
nr - fifty cars, containing over two
hundred people drove down the state to
e Governor's Mansion, arriving about
eleven O'clock. A plea was made for
a reprieve untill furthre evidence could
be found to prove the lad’s innocence.
The earnestness of the plea, and the
evident mass solidarity of the Negro of
Deleware was impressive. The Govern
or granted a reprieve of twenty-eight
days, untill August 22nd.
The American "Interacial Peace Com
mittee is cooperating with other organ
izations now in an effort to find evi
dence which will establish the innocence
of the youth. Funds are being raised
throughout the state, as the boy’s fam
ily has gone bankrupt in attempting to
save him.
The interest of the American Interac
ial Peace Committee in the case comes
from its efforts to prevent racial fric
tion, and to establich peace between1
races wherever possible.
N. C. Leads In
Negro Education!
Raleigh, N. C. —(CNSI)— The Julius'
Rosenwald fund cooperation with the
State government has established over
■ 5,000 Negro yural schools in the South
These cshools cost $23,000,000; employ
! a teaching force of 12,594; and have an
I enrollment of naerly 600,000 pupils. Of
the $23,000,000, $2,660,302 came from the
Rosewald fund. 1 White contributors
: gave $1/304,306; colored’ contributors |
| gave $4,220,726. and provided from public
' funds.
In this as in other progressive move
I ments in the South, North Carolina I
leads. In that State 762 Julius Rose
wald schools for Negroes have been
built since aid from the Rosewald fund
has been made available.
Total cost of these schools together
with 17 homes and five schops used in
connection with school work was $4,635,
264. Of ibis amount, $654,751 was re
ceived from the Rosewald fund; $650,
624 from Negro contributors; $75,140
from white persons and $3,254,749 from
public funds. -
To Construct First
Unit At Once
Among the many worthy things
done in life by some for the bene
fit of others, is the operation of
a Community Hospital with its
many departments of service for
the alleviation of the sufferings of
humanity. A community with such
an institution is a splendid place
to live in. Thousands do not know
and, therefore, cannot appreciate
the value of such an institution to
a community. Many, however, aro
learning, as necessity brings them
into realization.
Man is in his highest and no
blest sphere of usefulness when he
resolves within himself to set out
to accomplish something tangible
for his fellow man; something that
will reduce suffering and increase
happiness, something that will
add to the sum-total that comes
to each one in life—that will make
life grander and bring it nearer
the ideal.
For nearly thirty years there
have been efforts after efforts put
forth to have in Richmond a mod
ern hospital for the colored peo
ple, with very poor results, until
in June, 1927, the promoters of
The Richmond Community Hos
pital conducted a campaign for
$200,000, with which to construct
and equip a modern hospital for
colored people. This campa^n
was fairly well put over with £u?
colored people, as there were plen
ty of workers who faithfully
worked the colored section. Thero
were, however, no well organized
forces to work the white section.
There were some very fine work
ers, who volunteered and did some
very effective work, both white
and colored, and the value of their
services can never be over esti
mated.
This campaign was held to se
cure subscription of $100,(100 from
our white people and $100,000
from the colored people. When
the campaign was over and the
records were carefully checked
and audited, the subscription
cards showed that our white
friends had subscribed $29,870.60
and the colored people had sub
scribed $76,636.20, making a total
of $106,506.80.
The period allowed for payment
of the subscriptions was four
years, from 1927 to 1931. The
subscribers were permitted to pay
monthly, quarterly, semi-annually
or annually, if the subscriptions
were not paid at once.
During the period of three years
already expired, every effort has
made to keep the proposition alive.
Notices have been, sent to each
subscriber regularly and prompt
aeknoweldegements have been
made to each subscriber for each
and every payment. Proper rec
ords have been kept and audited
monthly, the auditors’ reports ac
companying each financial state
ment rendered to the Board. The
funds have been deposited in ap
proved banks daily, and no dis
bursements have been made from
the se funds until reported to
Board, and upon being found
proper and approved by the Board
checks were issued signed by the
President, Secretary and Treasur
er. All cancelled checks are at
tached to vouchers and filed with
copy of monthly financial state
ments.
We have worked with our white
friends to secure help from out of
the state from certain Founda
tions. We believe this effort will
some day prove successful.
To June 30, 1930, our white sub
scribers have paid on their sub
scriptions $16,401.40; the colored
people have paid on their sub
scriptions $10,498.30, leaving un
paid on white subscriptions, $13,
469.20; on colored subscriptons,
$66,137.90. Total unpaid subscrip
tions, $79,607.10.
Balance sheet as of June 30, as
rendered to the Board of Direct
ors at their regular monthly meet
ing held Friday, July 11, 1930.
Resources.
Cash in bank to credit of Ex
pense Account, $40.76; Building
Fund on deposit in the American
Bank and Trust Co., $5,958.09;
First and Merchants National
Bank, $2,103.17; Second Street
Savings Bk., $4,425.71 (now con
solidated); St. Luke Bank and
Trust Co., $1,918.57 (now Consoli
dated) ; The Commercial Bank
and Trust Co., $4,066.25. Total,
Building Fund in Banks. $18,471.
79. Total in all banks, $18,512.55.
Real estate owned free of en
cumbrances:
Present hospital site, 406 E. Ba
ker street, valued at $15,000; 2
1-2 acres on Howard Road, near
(Continued on Page 4)
State Elks Officially Deny
Truce With National Body
Denounce Crimes
Against Negroes
Tragic Hubert Case Brings Out
Many Expressins of Good Will
Raising Funds To Replace Home
Atlanta, Ga., July 21—On theevi
of trial of six men charged with the
murder ol Dennis Hubert, young
Morehouse College student, many
p^gminent white citizens of Atlanta
yesterday issued a public statement
declaring their confidence in Hu
bert’s innocence of any offense, ex
pressing execration of the crime, and
urging that the public of Atlanta
expres sits good will by raising a
fund to restore the house of young
Hubert’s father, Rev. G. J. Hubert,
which was destroyed by fire shortly
after the murder.
The appeal was addressed espec
ially to the religious leaders of the
community and the matter wos pre
sented in a number of the churches
yesterday an,d subscriptions were ta
ken toward the desired fund. John
.v. Manget, Ipncr conspicuous for
active and courageous interest in
Negro justice and welfare, is acting
as treasurer of the fund.
On the same day the local inter
racial committee issueda statement
setting out the several incidents in
the series of crimes beginning with
the death of young Hubert, and
calling upon the citizens to repudi
ate these outrages and use their in
fluence-to see that the perpretrators
are brought to justice.
These statements, together with a
story of the whole series of events
and the approaching trial, were fea
tured on the first page of the Sun
day Constitution. The Constitution
carried also as its leading editorial,'
entitled “Shaming the City,” one of
the severest indictments of such in
justice dve. written. Theft acts of
lawlessness, o cording % the Con
stitution, “outrage the character and
spirit of the citiznehip of Atlanta”
and are the “vicious deeds of a few
conscienceless persons moved by ra
cal tolerance.
“The perpetrators of this outrage
must be identified and made to pay
the penalty in full,” the Constitution
continues. “The white and colored
peopl eof Atlanta have established
relations of peace and co-operation
that must not be broken down by the
bloody hands of irresponsible and
law-defying hoodlums.”
At their weekly meetings the
Methodist preachers of the ecity:
adopted resolutions expressing pro-,
found regret for the “recent out
rages,” and condemnation of such
unlawful and villainous conduct,”
while the interdenominational Chris
tian Council commended most highly
the Constitution’s vigorous demand
for justice. The outcome of the trial
is being awaited with great inter
WRITER SCORE SEGREGATION OF
GOID STAR MOTHERS
New Yrrk, July 25— Protest against the |
sending of colored Gold Star Mothers
to France in a segregated group, on a
combined freight and passenger boat,;
has not ended with their departure on
July 11, Mrs. Walter Ferguson, well kno j
wn columnist whose articles appear in j
the twenty-six nemspapers of the Scripp j
s-Howard chain, has this to say of the |
descrimination, as a white person:
“Just why it was thought necessary
to discriminate against the Negro gold
star mothers in the matter of cheaper
passage, slower boats and less comfort
table housing while in New York City
it is indeed difficult to understand. Oi
the 450 Negro women who were to havr
visited the graves of their sons in Franc
all but a few cancelled untill they reach
ed foreign shows.
“It is unlikely that the French, who
are a politi and thoughtful people,
w'ould have set up such caste lines in th
matter of receiving them. Regardless
of how deep one’s prejudice may be on
the race question, here is an instance
it w'ould seem, when color should have
been entirely forgotten. The black
man wTho fights and dies for America
merits the same high praise, the same
monument and the same hero worship
that is given to his white brother.
“What a travesty upon democracy is
this! These black boys are entrained
;.nd told they must help save this mag
nificient thing called democracy. To
day they sleep forever, far from their
belovedlevees, their Harlem and their
cotton field,s. Few of them understood
Life Sentence In
Va. Murder Case
Reduced to 25 Yrs.
\'ew York, July 18.— Thomas Nelson, of
Charlottesville, Virginia, charged with
the murder of a white woman in August,
1927, was a second time found guilty on
July 12th and sentenced to twenty-five
years in prison. Previously, Nelson,
who is a colored man, had been found
guilty an 1 sentenced to life imprison
ment. The previous conviction had
been appealed hy attorneys retained by
the National Association for the Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Color
ed People and the Virginia State Su
prefe Court had reversed the first con
viction on the ground that the evidence
against Nelson had not justified the ver
dict of guilty.
Allen, a white man, was found dead
with five bullet-holes in his chest in
August 1927 and his business partner, a
seventy-five-old woman, was found mor
tally wounded at her home on the same
night. The woman died before regain
ing. con^cioucncsa.
A number of Negroes were arrested,
charged with the crime, and three of
them indicted. Grant Thompcon and
his wife, Mrs. Alice Thompson, were
never tried, the case being nolle-prossed
in October, 1928. Nelson thereupon
was tried and found guilty. Because
of Nelson’s high character and especial
ly because of evidence which cast grave
doubts upon his guilt, the N. A. A. C. P.
assisted Nelson both in getting reversed
by the State Supreme Court and in the
new trial, thus gained, assistance being
rendered by the N. A. A. C. P. both in
contributions to the fees of local attor
neys and through the aid of its National
Legal Committee.
In mc.king public the results of the
new trial the N. A. A. C. P expressed
the determination to continue its efforts
in Nelson’s behalf. To date the Advan
cement Association has contributed $300
towards attorneys fees and costs of the
trials.
SHILOH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
IN ANNUAL SESSION
The Sixty-fifth annual session of the
Shiloh Baptist Association and the Wc
nen’s Auxilliary will convene with the
Emanuel Baptist Church, Orange, Vir
ginia, of which Rev. G. E. Galloway is
the pastor. All delegates and messen
gers are urged to be on time at nine
o’clock Wednesday August 6, 1930. The
members of the church are looking for
ward to our coming. Dr. W. T. John
son is expecting a large attendance d
men as well as women. I am your
corresponding secretary,
A. D. Daly.
RECEIVRE APPOINTED FOR THE
MOSAIC TEMPLARS
Little Rock, Ark.— (CNS)— Following
close on the closing of the National
Grand Lodge meeting of the Mosaic
Templars of America, developments were
such as to cause the national officials
of the order to voluntarily ask the
court to apoint a receiver to administer
the affairs of the order. The court
granted prayer of the officials and pro
mptly appointed Judge S. A. Jones, who
has been serving as national grand mas
ter of the organization, as receiver for
♦he order.
Honor Slave Who
Inspired Song
Lancaster, Ohio— (CNS)— In a ceme
tery at Rushville, Fairfield County, in
Central Ohio, is thee grave of Joe Selby,
fugitive slave whose death at Rushville
Ohio, near here, in Civil War Days was
the inspiration for Benjamin Hanby’s
song, “Darling Nellie Grey." -
For yeears this humble man’s grave
has been unmarked but recently Chaun
cey Black, Lancaster wood carver and
sign painter, made a tablet with a white
enamel background which he erected at
the grave with the aid of Georgia Kalb,
eighty-year-old Rushville historian who
knew Hanby. Either a bronze tablet
or stone marker is to be erected at the
grave next fall.
what the conflict was about. They
were taken when the draft came, and,
puzzled and bewildered, they donned the
Khaki and set out upon their last de
parture. of adventure.
BRAND RUMOR
FRAUDULENT
. Special to the Richmond Planet.
Our attention has been called to arti
cles appearing in several colored papers
Of this week, and in particular, “The
Norfolk Journal and Guide”, under the
caption, “Elks Make Peace Proposal,”
and further representing us as seeking
terms of settlement of the litigation
u»v pending in the District Court of
the United States here between the
Virginia Grand Lodge of Elks and the
National Grand Lodge headed by J. Fin
iey Wilson.
We wish to denounce the article as
being absolutely false in every particu
lar, designed to deceive and mislead our
.^jjpo.kcjs, who are numerous'through
out the jurisdiction, and with the hope
if strengthening the weak cause of the
National Grand Lodge. We further say
hat if any suggestion for a settlement
out of court had been made to us, it
would not only have been sternly re
fused, but would not even have been
entertained for a moment. We did not
take the National Grand Lodge to
jourt; they took us there, and we are
peifectly content to abide the outcome
of the Court’s decision; and if it be
against us, wc will take our medicine
like men. In the meantime, we shall not
be guilty of such unethical conduct as
che distorting of facts, as our oppo
nents are guilty of doing, as appears
from these articles.
Mr. Joseph R. Pollard, one of the
counsel for the Virginia Elks (the only
one who has had any conversation with
any representative from the other side,
and that was Mr. Perry W. Howard),
nas written the following letter to him
which is self-explanatory:
Richmond, Va., July24, 1930
Hon. Perry W. Howard,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Howard:
I notice from the Journal and Guide
of Norfolk this week the enclosed arti
cle. I also understand that this article
in substance, appears in other colored
papers.
As you recall, you came into my room
in the Whitelaw Hotel on Monday, July
Mth, instant, and, as I understand,
merely to call on me and not to use
your visit for the purpose disclosed in
these articles.
“I wis to denounce this article as be
in entirely untrue, and call on you to
or’- in this denouncement if you an
an ethical practitioner of law, for what
ever transpired between you and me
was a conversation respecting the delay
in receiving the decision of the injunc
tion ase nowc pending in the United
States Court here. Whatever transpired
between you and me must have reaach
ed the press through you for I have
not thought of it since; and the article
is evidently designed to reach the at
tention of the Cout, as well as the pub
lic, to influence them adversely to the
litigation, the decision, of which is in
the breast of Judge Groner.
“I therefore, urgently demand that
you give the public denial of anything
in the article contained, for, as you
know, you visited me in my room at the
hotel, and not upon any invitation from
me, for the room was not even my own.
Anxiously awaiting your action in
this matter, I remain,
Very truly yours,
Jos. R. Pollard."
I
Climb A Sycamore
Tree!
An account of the great Instal
lation services, of the pastor, Rev.
S. L. Parham, at Mosby Memorial
Bapttist Church, will appear in
this paper next week. The renowned,
Dr. J. H. Moore, of North Carolina,
will deliver the 'Installation Ser
mon Sunday morning. "Go out
and hear Dr. Moore.’' He is quite
an able divine, if you can not get
within a mile of Mosby Memorial,
"Climb a Sycamore Tree," provided
you can find one on the corner of
Randolph Street and Idelwood Ave.
Maybe, Rev. Dr. Moore, will not
look out of the windows of Mosby,
and bid you to come down. Go
early in order to get a seat. Ampli
fier will tell you all about the ser
vices next week. Be sure to get
this paper it is going to be a
"gem.”