Activities Among Negroes
During the past week the Pythian sanitarium commission has been holding sessions in Chicago. This commission represents men who are officers of the national and international organization of Colored Knights of Pythian lodges. The object of this meeting has been to consider plans and blds for the construction of a national Pythian temple in Chicago. This structure will cost a million and a quarter dollars.
The personnel of the commission follows: Edward Green of Chicago, secretary: Dr. C. M. Wade, of Hot Springs, Ark; Lee Crawford, New York: W. D. Willis, Texas; S. M. Green, New Orleans, supreme chancellor; Dr. G. W. Stoney, Georgia; E. G. Tidrington, Indianapolis, vice chancellor; Dr. A. A. Wesley, Chicago, grand chancellor of Illinois; S. A. T. Watkins, Chicago, supreme attorney; Dr. E. E. Underwood, Kentucky, supreme keeper of records and seals; Dr. C. B. Wickham, Oklahoma; W. W. Andrews, Florida, and Major R. R. Jackson, Illinois, major general of the grand lodge.
This commission had charge of the building of the Pythian, bath house and sanitarium at Hot Springs Ark., which cost $175,000.
Friends and graduates of Howard university will be pleased to know that the interior department appropriation bill has been reported favorably to the senate committee on appropriations. This bill carried a substantial sum for Howard medical school, and the senate added an additional appropriation for Freedman hospital.
Frances H. Gow, organist at the Tuskegee Institute and president of the African Students' Union in America, announces that the annual meeting of the African Students' Union will be held Feb. 22-23. Natives of Africa, who are students in American schools, colleges and universities, and representatives of mission boards, churches and other organizations carrying on educational and religious work in Africa are expected to be present.
John H. Washington. brother to the late Booker T. Washington, died at Tuskegee, Alabama. He was for thirty years actively engaged with his brother at Tuskegee Institute.
Colored people in New York city and state are mourning the death of Miss Susie Elizabeth Frazier, a teacher for thirty years in the public schools of New York city. She was the first colored teacher in mixed schools in that city. After the World war when the New York Telegram inaugurated a contest among teachers in the public schools for trips to the European battle fields to be awarded to the most popular contestant, Miss Frazier was one of the winners and made the trip with other teachers, making a special visit to the graves containing the bodies of members of the 369th New York negro regiment. Miss Frazier was one of the organizers of the Women's Auxiliary to the 369th regiment and served as its president until her death.
The secretary of the Linden street center of Y. W. C. A. has announced to members that for the first time in the history of the organization they will be allowed to vote and elect their own officers. The election and a dinner will be served at 6:30 Friday evening, Feb. 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Hall will celebrate their silver wedding, Feb. 27 at the Community House, in Oakland. Hall is a traveling dining car inspector for the Southern Pacific.
The Sunday school of North Oakland Baptist church held exercises last Sunday afternoon and unveiled a new piano and piano played [ player? ] to be used by the school.
The Art and Industrial club of Oakland gave a musical tea honoring Miss Hallie Q. Brown, on Thursday afternoon at the Linden street Y. W. C. A. The N. A. A. C. P. had at their meeting Monday evening Miss Brown as the speaker. The women's club of San Francisco also had Miss Brown for a lecture on "Our Women" on Wednesday evening in Bethel A. M. E. church of that city, Miss Brown will give the same lecture on Monday evening to the club women of Oakland, after which she will leave for Bakersfield and Southern California.
