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Indiana Household of Ruth Lodge Has Annual Session

Juveniles and Juniors Join

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — The Christian County Farm and Home Development group held an all-day progress meeting July 27 on the farm of Mr.and Mrs. Walter Story. An evaluation was made of the progress achieved by the Story family. The group toured the farm and the home, and special attention was given to the many improvements made during

the last year.

Ji. W. Whittenberg, district leader of Agricultural Extension agents, and Bill Lowery, soil conservation technician, assisted Mrs. Rachel D. Hopkins, hoirre demonstration agent, and Agent Granville King. Jr., with the meeting and tour, after which a delightful luncheon was served.

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The Jolly Glee club held its annual picnic last Sunday on the beautiful lawn of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will L. Gold, at Clarksville, Tenn. A number of outdoor games were played, alter which luncheon was served to approximately 40 members and guests. Included among the guests were

Messrs, and Mesdames T. Clardy dinner of roast duckling and pit and M. Young, J. Collins and L. barbecue was served. Carney, all of Clarksville; Mrs. C. Attending were Messrs, and MesG. Gaines and granddaughter, dames James F. Irvin, IndianapolMesdames Pearl Irvin, Ruth Camp- is; Edgar A. Irvin and Lawson Mcbell and J. W. Smith and son and Nary and cnildren, Mesdames SuMessrs E. A. Irvin, Walter Green- sie H. Tyler, Willie Tyler Stewart,

Hazel K. Darden and Kathryne Irvin Northington, Louis P. McHenry and Walter Greenwade.

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tives and friends.

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Herschel Banks, John W. Smith, William Norsingle, William Frazier and Ernest U. Bibb, Russellville,

attended the fourth annual “Cere-

monial Day” of the Masonic Lodge, held in Louisville, July 22. Damascus Temple No. 58 and Damascus Court No. 27, Daughters of Isis, were hosts for the program. Dr. P. L. Bacchus, imperial deputy of the Desert of Kentucky, pre-

sided. * * *

THE TYLER - IRVIN families held a family reunion dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Northington. A delightful

wade and Will Downs, all of the city, and Eugene Poole of North

Carolina.

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Moss, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Pinkie Berry

Last rites for Charles Henry Shelby, widely-known resident of

and daughter, John Edward Moss Campbell street, were held July

and Mrs. Carrie Mae Chester, all of South Bend, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Moss, mother of the men and Mesdames Berry and Chester. They were accompanied by William Kendrick, Evansville.

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MRS. HATTIE FOSTON has returned after visiting relatives and friends in Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Washington, Ind. She was guest speaker for a Women’s Day program while in Terre Haute,

24 at Main Street Baptist Church, where he had Served as a deacon for 44 years. Rev. J. W. Hunt, pastor, officiated, assisted by Rev. M. Kirby. Burial was in Cave Spring cemetery, with the Adams

Funeral Home in charge.

Mr. Shelby died July 20 after

an illness of several months.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Lela Shelby; five children, Ivo Shelby, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rogers Shelby and Mesdames Fan-

nie Reed and Donzella Goodall, attended' the Missionary Institute Chicago, and Nathan Shelby, city;

in Washington and visited the District Women’s Convention at Henderson.

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Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bridges and children, Newark, N. J., and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Black, E£st Orange, N. J., are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. Street and family. They will also visit relatives and friends at Canton. * * * • Mr. and Mrs. William Grinter and childien, Evansville, are visiting Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Pettus and Mrs. Edna Metcalfe. Mrs. Grinter is the niece of Mrs. Met-

calfe. * * *

Mrs. Lucy Hudson. Indianapolis.

six grandchildren, two-stepchil-dren, Mrs. Annie M. Rogers of the city and Winters Cantrell, Philadelphia; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Clark, and three nephews.

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GRAVESIDE FUNERAL services were conducted July 19 for Robert Lee Quarles, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Quarles, with burial in the Gainesville cemetery.

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Mrs. Vina Grubbs, 82-year-old resident of Cerulean, died July H. Funeral services were conducted July 21 at Cerulean Baptist Church, with Rev. H. E. Dillard officiating, assisted by Rev. O. L. McKinney. The Adams Funeral Home was in charge of the burial in Cerulean

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Indianapolis, Indiana, Aug. 4, 1956 Number 31

State Baptist Group Views State Of Nation with "Mixed Emotions"

Dr. L. K. Jackson of Gary, gen- is represented by the organizers tears.” eral secretary of the General Mis- and promoters of the White Citi- “We note with joy, elation and sionary Baptist State Convention, zens’ Council, the signers of the jubilat’on that President EisenJnc., has issued a statement from Southern Manifestos against the hower has taken a definite, forthHie state association, which views Constitution. Supreme Court and right and statesman-like stand the present state of the country President Eisenhower and his civil against the doctrine of two classes ‘with mixed emotions.’' “On the rights program, and the burners to drive Mr. Jimcrow from the one hand,” says the statement, “we of the Ku Klux Klan crosses in nation’s capital, have-much for which to be joyful, front of the homes of leading mem- “We call upon our people everyelated and jubilant. But, on the bers. ot the Supreme Court and where to scrutinize carefully the rther, we have much for which to ranking members of the NAACP. records of men who seek their be frightened, cynical and disil- votes this fall. It Is just as imUisioned.” Reviewing some of the results portant for us to learn how to We note with much joy and of Southern agitation, the state- commend, praise and support our jubilation that there is a large inent continues: “The Indiana Bap- political friends as it is to congroup of democracy-loving, liberty- list State Convention goes, on rec- demn and reoudiate our enemies, seeking people in our country who ord condemning the activities of “The Indiana Baptist State Conhave analyzed the duplicity, hypoe- the White Citizens’ Council, sign- vention pledges its allegiance to risy and contradiction of a large ers of the Southern Manifestos th e Constitution, the democratic segment of our nation, and have and burners of crossees as being process and the principles upon gone to work sincerely, conscien- un-American, uncivilized and des- which this nation was founded. It tiously and courageously to do lined to cause revolution in i s j us t as true today as it was in something about it. America if something is not done the days of Abraham Lincoln that “Included in this group are the an .^ done at once to stop this “This nation' cannot long endure National Council of Churches of J‘ ei g n o* terror, violence and in- h a if slave and half free.” Christ in the United States, repre- humanity to humanity. o r r t. Andrews, Indianapolis, senting 33 denominations and 38 is president of the state convenmillion communicants; the Nation- “We also view with alarm amaze- tion, which held its 1956 meetal Council of Christians and Jews, ment and disillusionment the fact ‘tig at the church of which he is the National Council of Catholic that the un-American Activities pastor, Mt Zion Baptist, in this Men, the Southern Society for Hu- Committee can spend so much city

man Welfare. the Methodist time and money as it does lookChurch, the Lutheran Church, the ing under carpents, behind doors CIO-AFL labor organization, and under tables for CommunisYMCA and YWCA, President tic activity which may or may not Eisenhower, the Supreme Court exist, and do absolutely nothing and a multipilicity of others that about the un-American activities time and space will not allow us of the White Citizens’ Councils, to mention „ the signers of the Southern Mani“They have gone on record con- festos and the burners of crosses, demning segregation, discrimina- a11 of which they do in violation tion and jjmerowism as being in- °f their sacred oath to defend, upcompatible with the Christian re- hold, and pofor^p the Constitution ligion, a contradiction to our claim t ^ le United States, of democracy and the democratic “ THIS UNAMFRICAN activitv

"e wZe M Cw£ns" Council

RUI nf Rights e th J p <LrrT^!n nn thf woul d be bad enough if it were Bill of Rights, the Sermon on the oomm itted by illiterate mountainMount, and Jhe^doctrme of umver- eers w j 10 £ j 0 nQt j cnow any better,

but this un-American activity, ter-

sal brotherhood.

‘WE, THE VICTIMS of the rorism and violence, defiance of

the Constitution spitting in the

atrocities, of segregation, the ini- ; ne c onsruuiion spilling m tne quities of discrimination and the ^ a F. e °f the supreme Court, bru-

tality, barbarity and inhumanity to humanity is carried on by some of the ranking members of the

is visiting her mother, Mrs. Cora cemetery.

Mason Wells, and other relatives. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Mrs. Wells will accompany her Eliza McKinney; a nephew, Gip daughter on the return trip to Steele, and a niece Mrs. Vinie

spend several days visiting rela- Richardson.

horrors of jimerowism, wish to thank the above-mentioned groups

of individuals *or their realization „ T¥ , „

that “Righteousness exalteth a na- ^ ena i e > House of Representatives, tion, but sin is a renroach to any governors of states and in some people.” We also wish to thank instances, members of the unthem for the stand they have taken American Activities Committee

and the efforts they are making

to our government of all the peo- Commenting on the silence of pie. by the people and for all the Indiana’s senators on the subpeople. ject of civil rights, the statement “In spite of the humanitarian said, “We call upon both of our and philanthropic efforts of the senators to get out of the bed of above-stated groups, we note with complacency and from between the alarm, fear and amazement the sheets of indifference and do someattitude of a little minority in our thing at once to bring an end to nation who are yet fighting the this horror carried on by those Civil War. . . . This little group political demagogues and sabo-

Muncie Girl, Young Nurse, To Be Bride

Lexington Conference WSCS Meets at Kentucky State College

FRANKFORT, Ky.—The Lexington Conference Woman’s Society ot Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild of the Methodist Church held its 16th annual meeting and School of Mission at Kentucky State College here July 13-

20.

The Wesleyan Service Guild, under the leadership of Mrs. Wallace Scott of Indianapolis, began its meetings Friday, July 13, and closed July 15 with a joint worship and memorial service with the WSCS. Mrs. Louis H. Fields, Versailes, president of the Conference Women’s Society, presided over the two-day sessions of the annual meeting, which included recom-

mendations, resorts and election of officers for the quadrennium 1956-60. The first class session of the School of Missions was held Monday night. Mission studies, workshops and clinics were held Tuesday through Friday. Miss Rebecca E. Busch of St. Paul Methodist Church, Indianapolis, was dean. MRS. LULA G. BEAN was in charge of study books and literaBoth women are members of ture, and Mrs. Maridelle E. Lesser was chairman of the school. Barnes Methodist Church, Indian-

apolis.

Those of the Indiana District attending were Mesdames Lillian Shaw, Servella Dowd, Georgia

South American Physician Opens Terre Haute Office

By MARY A. COTTEE TERRE HAUTE —Terre Haute has been fortunate to have a new doctor set up practice here. Dr. H. Stewart Bristol, a native of British Guiana, South America, holds an A. B. degree from Fisk University and the M. D. degree from the Meharry Medical College, Nashville. He did internship at St. Margaret’s Hospital, Hammond. His office is in the Sloss Hospital, 1029 S. 7th, while he resides at 509 Gilbert with his wife and their seven-month-old son, Wendell. Mrs. Bristol, the former Miss Patricia McWhorter, holds the Master of Science degree from Simmons College, Boston. * * * Mrs. Adelaide Shelton is spending three weeks vacationing in Los Angeles.

Freddie Hord, son of Rev. and Mrs. Noel E. Hord and *» junior at Wiley high school, has been given honorable mention for winning three games for Wiley to establish its record of 3-0. An active church worker, Freddie is piteher-outfield-

Knox, Alberta Virtner, Blanche Dawson, Thelma Parrott, Salome Anderson, Margaret Overby, Myrtle Edmonds, Ruby Mae Ernest, Odessa Boone, Sarah Stokes, Corrie Frazier, Cora Rawls, Viola Wright and Colester Bolden and Rev. Lenora J. Reed, all of In-

dianapolis. Also Mesdames Alice Board, Evansville; Leona Wilkerson, Fort Wayne; Betty Streaty, Anderson, and Alberta Phillips, president of the Indiana District Women’s Society, and Edythe Clipper, Jeffersonville.

Retired School Teacher Entertains Evansville Club

er for the Terre Haute Babe Ruth League. * * * The Fellowship Choral Ensemble of Danville, 111., presented an inspirational program last Sunday night for the intermediate and junior Sunday school classes here. Harry J. Collier is director. * * * Members of the intermediate and junior classes of the Sunday school and BTU of Second Baptist Church enjoyed a picnic at Shackamac State Park on Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Majry A. Cottee and Ernest Anderson are teachers. Mrs. Roberta Anderson is superintendent of the Sunday school, Mrs. Laurajean Benson is BTU president, and Rev. Noel E. Hord is pastor.

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By WILLIE EFFIE THOMAS EVANSVILLE—Mrs. B. A. Walls, 812 Lincoln, a retired teacher in the Evansville public school system, entertained the Stitch and Chatter club last Friday night at her home, having as guests Mrs. Ellen Brown, 610 E. Gum; Mrs. Pauline Thompson, 654 Lincoln, and Miss Willie Effie Thomas, 814 S. Kentucky. Beautiful prizes of earrings, necklaces and bracelets were won by Mrs. Helen Best, 658 Lincoln; Mabel C. Holley, 437 S. Denby, and Miss Thomas. A very tasty salad course and dessert were enjoyed by the club members and guests. * * * The Silvertone Quintet of Gary were guests on the NAACP Youth Council broadcast last Sunday morning before appearing that afternoon in a program at Nazarene Baptist Church, of which Rev. M. D. Banks is pastor. That night they sang at Cleaves Memorial CME Church, Rev. Thomas Hoyt, pastor. Sympathy was extended on the broadcast to friends and relatives of Mrs. Bertha Mae Payne, who died the preceding Tuesday at her home, 712 E. Sycamore. Under the doctor’s care for some time, she was 39, and was a member of Watkins Tabernacle Church of God in Christ. Surviving are the husband, William Payne; two daughters, Mrs. Wilma Duncan, Ft. Ord, Calif., and Miss Precious Payne, at home; six sons, Warner, William, Jr., Elton, Bert, James and Thomas, all of Evansville; three sisters, Mesdames Emma Bowling and Pearl Clark, both of Evansville, and Lillian McCray, Detroit; three broth-

ers, Lawrence and Elton Barrett, both of Evansville, and George Barrett, Marion; four grandchildren and several nieces and neph-

ews.

The Gaines Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. * * * E. C. PULLIAM has announced that the Blair Gospel Singers will bring the nationally - known Philgrim Travelers of Los Angeles to the city August 30, to be presented that night in the Lincoln high school auditorium. * * * The national Council of Negro Women, of which Mrs. Jane Cole is first vice - president serving as chairman, will sponsor a fish supper Friday beginning at 6 on the spacious lawn of the home of Mrs. Anna Evans, 605 Oak. * * * O. E. Childers, 501 Bellemeade, was taken to St. Mary’s hospital last week to undergo a major operation. He is in Room 612-B and will be there another week. * * * Mr.and Mrs. Willie T. Ellis have taken over the Standard Oil gas station at Lincoln and Evans. As fas as readily ascertained, it marks the first time Negroes have been in charge of a Standard Oil station in this area. * * * A “Midsummer Style Review,” with 25 participants, was sponsored Monday night by Mesdames Thelma Johnson and Rose Powell at Cleaves Memorial CME Church. * * * Mrs. Lucille E. Burden, Alton, III., is hobse guest of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Brown, 610 E. Gum.

Indianapolis Man Talks at Madison MADISON — Paul G. Benson, Indianapolis, was speaker Sunday morning for the program presented by the Methodist Youth Fellowship group of Ebenezer Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson and daughter, Claricia, and niece, Tunisia Jordan, spent tre weekend in Indianapolis as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Norvel Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Griffin. They spent Sunday at Monterrey Lake. Members of the Household of Ruth Lodge and its juvenile division attended the Grand Lodge meeting of the United Order of Odd Fellows last Sunday at Jeffersonville. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Harris, Indianapolis, visited relatives here over the weekend. A revival is being conducted at St. Stephen’s AME Church, Hanover. Mrs. Robert Cosby, Hanover, has entered King’s Daughters hospital for an operation.

Muncie Minister Conducts School At Richmond By DOVIE M. REED 1121 Cross Hall Phone 8-2061 RICHMOND—Rev, G. R. Mallory, Muncie, conducted an inspiring Bible school here recently at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. Many children were added to the church through the school. The lessons, taught under the leadership of Mesdames Vera Ross, Celia Ross, O. Faulkner and M. E. Emebry and others, were well attended. The Faulkner sisters of Detroit are visiting in the city. Mr. and Mrs. William Walton and son, Harvey, have returned from a visit ib Washington, D~.JC„ and nine states. They viewed many places of historical interest. Mrs. Dan Reed has returned from a vacation trip in the Blue Grass region. She visited many places of interest. Miss Brenda Haragar is visiting in the city.

VIRGINIA DAVIS MUNCIE—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis have announced the approaching marriage of their only daughter, Virginia, to John Tate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Tate, Anderson. The marriage is to be solemnized September 15 at 3:30 in Calvary Baptist Church. Miss Davis is a 1952 graduate of Central high school and is the first Negro to graduate from the Ball Memorial Hospital School of Nursing here. She also received the Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Ball State Teachers College. She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. After the marriags, she will be employed at the Henry‘Ford Hospital in Detroit, where the couple will reside. The groom-to-be is a 1952 graduate of Anderson high school. After serving two years in the Armed Forces, he is now employed as a clerk in the traffic division of the Detroit Municipal Court, and is enrolled in the Detroit School of Technology. Peru Couple Visit Canada PERU—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, formerly of Indianapolis but now of this city, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Greer, Kokomo, have returned from a vacation in Detroit, Canada and Niagara Falls. They were also guests of Mr. Jones’s daughter, Mrs. Laura Brook, in Cleveland. * » -r Mesdames Jessie Williams and William Fuller, Miss Joan Crawford and John Hutchinson, Sr., and John Hutchinsffn, Jr., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hinton, Georgetown, 111. Mrs. Hinton is the sister of Mrs. Fuller and Miss Crawford. While there xney attended graduation exercises of the University of Illinois^ at Champaign. James E. Crawford, brother of the three sisters, graduated from the School of Law. * * * Mr. and Mrs. John Hutchinson and children, Jane Rose and John, Jr., returned recently after vacationing at Georgetown, 111., where they were guests of their niece and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hinton. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Hodge had as guests over the weekend her nieces and nephews, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis and Mesdames Alice Rowell and Mila Atkins, Chicago, and Mrs. Vernell Lewis, Los Ange-

les.

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Grown-Ups at Jeffersonville JEFFERSONVILLE—The Indiana Grand Household of Ruth Lodge No. 9 and the State Branch of Juveniles and Juniors- held their 59th annual session here, July 21-25 at Gilt Edge Baptist Church of which Rev. M. L. Gardner is pastor. Highlighting the convention of the juniors on Sunday afternoon, July 22, was the crowning of the queen, little Susie Jones of Muncie, by the dis- , rict grand governess, Mrs. Fan- Mesdames Kittie Tilford and Hilaie Shannon of Indianapolis. ^ a Payne, Indianapolis; Geneva More than 200 children attended Harrell, Charlestown; Dorena Kerthe ’sessions from various cities Muncie, Daisy Johnson, Evans^f the state, with Mrs. Isabella ville; Ella Milton, East Chicago, Lacy of Muncie. state president, and Cecii v - Davis, South Bend, n charge. On Tuesday night the delega- , tion was invited to Charlestown. Presiding over the oratorical contest that night were Mesdames \urelia Bradley and Sarah Johnson. Contestants from Indianapolis, Jary, South Bend, Jeffersonville, j-vansville and Fort Wayne were piesent, and the $200 prize and trophy went to Miss Julia Ann Palmer, Evansville. The scholarship contests are sponsored each year jointly with he Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth in charge. Alfred Bridges, Muncie, is grand master of the Odd Fel-

lows.

Department workshops in education, race relations and problems of underprivileged children were held each day under the direction of Grand Right Governess Carolina Wells. THE HEALTH PERIOD was very instructive, with moving pictures and talks by Dr. C. R. Reeder and Mrs. Idell Bozer. The banquet and welcome program was held at the Masonic Hall, with Mrs. Geneva Harrell serving as master of ceremonies. A large delegation of Odd Fellows and HHR women from Kentucky were guests. At the close of the program, the mortgage was burned on the state Household of Ruth Headquarters, Z406-8 North Capitol avenue, Indianapolis. Mrs. Lena Harris of trat city, past grand governess, gave a brief history and reviewed the splendid financial reports of the year. Mrs. Hams conducted elections on Tuesday afternoon. Named were Mesdames Fannie Shannon, Indianapolis, district grand governess; Carolina Wells, Jeffersonville, grand right governess; Gertrude Williams, East Chicago, financial secretary; Naomi Doyle, Charlestown, recording secretary; Ida Miller, Gary, grand treasurer; Carrie Hanshaw, Mt. Vernon, grand directress, and Mabel Augusta, Indianapolis, grand counse-

lor.

ALSO ELECTED were Mesdames Anna Clrak, Rockport, grand prelate; Artie Price, Indianapolis, directress of music; Lena Harris; Indianapolis, president of the burial board; Aurelia Bradley, Evansville, financial secretary of the burial board; Sadie Hardiman, Indianapolis, treasurer of the board; Josephine Woods, Indianapolis, recording secretary; Isabella Lacy, Muncie, president of

FANNIE SHANNON

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LENA HARRIS enjoying a scenic 18-mile drive from Jeffersonville, for an indoor picnic. A delicious luncheon w r as

served

Highlighting tre closing Wednesday session w^as the installation of grand officers by Mrs. Cecil Davis

the juniors; Masie Ransaw, Indian- of South Bend. Each grand officer apolis, president of the board of held a white candle and sang softdirectors, and Ida Campbell, Mun- ly “This Little Light of Mine.”

cie, treasurer of the juniors. The 1957 annual session will be

Supervisors of the state are held in Gary.

Fort Wayne Minister Speaks For Youth Day at Anderson

By MADELYNE METCALF Phone 5179 ANDERSON—Rev. J. W. Crawley, Fort Wayne, was morning speaker at Second Baptist Church last Sunday, and Rev. J. W. Carr, Kokomo, preached in the afternoon as the local church observed Youth Day. The junior chorus from Kokomo furnished music for tlie afternoon program. Rev. Charles Dailey is pastor. Rev. and Mrs. Craw'ley were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Dailey while in the city. * ■* * Rev. J. H. Randolph and the chorus of Allen Chapel AME. Church were guests of Rev. G. H. Roberson and Bethel AME Church, Marion, on Sunday, July 22. Members of the chorus are Mesdames Thelma Mills, Orpha Ford, Bonnie Shields, Anna Bannister, Kathileen Allen, Eddie Mai Jackson, Sally Shoecraft, Lillian Watson and Gladys Phelps, Miss Nachi-

law Carbon, Willie Miles and LerOy Hyatt. Mrs. Pauline Sanaers is pianist, and Mrs. Serita Brooks is director. Also making the trip were Messrs, and Mesdames Thomas Vaughn and daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Madison, Chicago; Jesse Johnson and E. Swain and nephew, Mesdames J. H. Randolph and daughter, Loretta; Evelyn Cooper, Ethel Webb and two grandchildren, Anna Durden and Willa Miles and daughter and Messrs. John Cooper, Gerald Jackson and Ward Shoecraft.

MRS. BEULAH HARLEY, 1615 Sheridan, was * dismissed from St. John hospital last Friday. Still in the hospital are Mesdames Lena Ramey, James Carter, Mercile Raymore, Malta Harding and Alice Adams and Oliver Phelps. Mrs. Anna Durden fell recently and fractured her heel. Now hospitalized, she is expected to have to wear a cast for several weeks.

Plainfield Church Sets Aug. 12 As Date for '56 Home-Coming

Volley Jefferson, 1803 Hendricks, Jied at St. John hospital early Ihst Friday morning following an illness of several months. He had :erved on the police force for eight years and was a member of Second Methodist Church for 29 years. I he Underwood Funeral Home v\as in charge of funeral arrangements. Survivors include the widow, VIrs. Frances Jefferson; two daughers Mesdames George Peters and Bernice Banks, both of Indianapolis; a s . p-son, Roger Dawson, even grandchildren, 12 great--•randchildren and one nephew. Funeral services were held Monlay afternoon at Second Methodist Bhurch, wtih Rev. J. Parrish Bell -fficiating. * * * MRS. MAY* NEWSOME has been dismissed from St. John hospital and is very much improved. Lawrence Gholston was dismissed from the hospital Saturday. * * * John Wooten was confined to the hospital for a few days to undergo minor surgery. * * * Readers wishing copies of The Recorder should call 4609 for Dorothy or Harriet Wells, 1218 W. 14th, who are always ready to serve.

PLAINFIELD — Bethel AME Church has set Sunday, August 1 12, as date for its annual home- I coming. Rev. J. A. Dames and) members of Bethel AME Church, Indianapolis, will be present. Charles ‘‘Chuck” Swam has been on a camping trip with his Boy Scout Troop near Frankfort

this week.

Mrs. Rose Swam was hostess to the Home Economics club on Tuesday night of last week. Dr. Henderson S. Davis of South Carolina, was guest of Ijis mother, Mrs. Martha Goss, and sister, Mrs. Gladys Carbin, last week. Mr. and Mrs.George Owens, Washington, D. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Dean, Denver, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Cullins and daughter, Kathryn, on Tuesday night of last week. “God’s Gift of a Good Mind” was theme of the mid-week services held recently at Bethel AME Church, with the young people in charge. A Bible quiz was featured.

Dr. Henderson S. Davis and his lather, Rev. A. H. Davis, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Swam at dinner on Thursday night of last week Mrs. Eva Swam is improving at her home. REVS. W. F. RICE, presiding elder, and T. E. Porter, pastor, were in charge of quarterly services at Bethel Church last Sunray. Dr. Davis of Columbia, S. C., preached at the Love Feast service on Wednesday night. Mrs. Effie Parrot, Evanston, 111., is guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Cloud, this week. Mrs. Gladys Carbin and family. Rev. A. H. Davis and Dr. H. S. Davis attended the home-coming at Greencastte last Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Swam < r | d family and Dr. Davis visited at Mitchell last Saturday.

from' 1 — (DieBiM* What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?—(I Corinthians 6, 19.) St. Paul reminds us that the Heavenly Father created us in His image, that He dwells within us as our souls. Our sins and transgressions, therefore, are against Him; in love and humility we must seek His forgiveness, pray tot His guidance and help.