The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1908, Page 5

Dr. E. D. Scott is much needed rest. He has been at Culpeper, Va., since July 16, and will go to Bealeton, Va., the last of this week. His daughter, Miss Marion T. Scott, will join him and spend a few weeks there. aw ng a Mrs. Katie Wood Harris, wife of} Mr. Lemuel C. Harris, of Le Droit} Park, has been confined to her resi dence with severe illness. She is now convalescent, we are glad to an- nounce. Mr. Thomas L. Grant, of South Carolina, a member of the comn to notify Secretary ittee Taft of his nom- ination, passed through this city last Thursday en route to his home. Mr Grant is a substantial sitizen of the State and a prominent business man of Charleston, The death of Franklin Nichols Hilyer removes from this cor ity a of whose nun- nary young man and to the H Armstrong Technical took age extraor life Afr graduate of High liking at usefulness, was an example aspiring -Amer- ican youth was a School and an especial an early for in electrical engineering, which he had become an expert, and built a thriving bu Young up siness. Hilyer was the elder son of Mr Mrs. Andrew F. Hilyer, of} 2352 Sixth street northwest. Lawyer Edward H. Morris, of Chicago, was the guest of Grand Master W. L. Houston last week. He was on his way home from the Odd Fellows’ Philadelphia. J. B. Anderson, formerly Postoffice Department, at 61 dedicatory exercises in the has opened a O street north- of grocery store west. Mr. of the and Mr. dealer in Ss. W National G. W. South Rutherford, Benefit Association, Robinson, a junk Washington, will represent the Negro Business | League on the regular program at the Baltimore convention on the 19th, 20th and 21st of The Washington unresurrected, manager local August. Record remains although not less than a dozen different syndicates are said to have been formed for the purpose of bringing it back to life. Recorder John C. Assist- ant District Attorney James A. Cobb, Register W. T. Vernon and Former Register J. W. Lyons have been re- cent visitors to Atlantic City. Mrs. Ella Boston, Pittsburg, has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dancy at their home, 2139 L street northwest The Quarterly Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Conference, Wash- ington District, Taft and Sherman at its recent session at John Wesley Church, Rev. C. C. Alleyne presenting the formal expression. All funds sent Booker T. Dancy, of endorsed for the Washington testimonial will be de- posited in the Columbia National Bank, subject to the “Washington Testimonial Fund,”and can be drawn only through certification by. the proper officials Dr. John W. Mitchell will be the speaker for Washington on the pro- gram of the National Medical A } sociation at New York, August 26, 27 and 28. The summer school at Howard University has been a profitable one for the many teachers who attended. Prof. L. B. Moore is‘entitled to great credit for conducting the institute on such a high and informing plane D. M. Waller, M.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Rev. Garnett Waller, of Baltimore, Md., ted this city on Monday and T last. They were the guests of the Misses Patter- son, 1532 Fifteenth street northwest. Mrs. Madge Dyer White and fam-! ily and Mrs. Andrew Dyer are spend- ing their vacation at Cumberland C. H., Cumberland county, Va. Genial people will meet you at the Twilight Excursion on the 15th inst. | ington, | and COOK — MASON- NUPTIALS Baltimore, Md. The quiet of Baltimore’s midsum- mer social season somewhat broken last Wednesday afternoon, when occurred the marriage of Mr. Ralph V. Cook and Miss Corona L. was Mason. The ceremony took place at St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. Dr. Cameron officiat- ing, there being in attendance mem- bers of the two families from Wash- Baltimore and Philadelphia, and a large concourse of friends rep- resenting the elite of Baltimore so- The church was well filled when, promptly at five o'clock, to the strains of Mendelssohn’s march the bridal procession started, the bride entering the church on the arm of her father, and being met at the rail of the altar by the groom and his man, Mr. Albertus Erown ,of Washington. The Episcopa! marriage ceremony was soon over and for tne half hour following the happy cou- ple were showered with congratula- tions in the rear of the church, where ciety. best an impromptu reception was held.The attired in white linen coat suit heavily embroidered, wore a white leghorn hat trim- a French white her only jewel ornaments be- a diamond brooch and string of pearls. The whole affair was beau- tiful in its simplicity, the bride’s tastes, which have never run toward the “frills” of society. The presents were both numerous and beautiful, being useful as well as Mr, and Mrs. Cook, to accompaniment of a shower of left on the six o'clock express for Washington, from which place they went by automobile to the estate of Mr. Cook’s father at Avenel, Md. Corona L. Mason is the daughter of Charles R. P. Mason, being the of six children. Since the death of her mother several years ago the cares of the household have been largely hers. Born in Balti- more, she attended the local schools, graduating with honors from the High School in 1902. Her record as a pupil was so high that immediate- ly on graduation she was appointed teacher of English in the school from which she had just graduated. Af- ter teaching two years Miss Mason took a special course at Columbia University in New York, and return- ing to Baltimore in 1906 was assign- ed as teacher in the Normal School. Ralph C. Cook is the youngest son ot Mr, and Mrs, John F. Cook, who are of the substantial citizenry of Washington. Mr. Cook attended the Washington schools, graduating in Subsequently he attended Cor- nell University, graduating with the degree of M. E. in 1898. For a time he was employed as a draughtsman in Washington, but in igor he ac- cepted an appointment as instructor in mechanical drawing in the Balti- more High School. From his first meeting with N Mason, first ‘as pupil and later as a member of the teaching corps, Mr. Cook was Cu- pid’s captive, and the romance thus begun continued up to the ceremony of last week. Early in September Mr. and’ Mrs. Cook will return to Baltimore, where they will reside at 2224 Druid Hill avenue, a beaautiful home on that fashionable _ thoroughfare having just been acquired by Mr. Cook. bride was becomingly med with bow of satin, ing an evidence of ornamental. the rice, eldest 1892. _O ss DADE’S BUFFET, Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Polite Attention : Ladies’ and Gents’ Dining Room Meals Served at All Hours Pool Room Attached MOSES DADE, Proprietor, 1216 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. 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By arrangement of friends of thi is movement, and through the gen- erosity of Mr. Lewis Jefferson, General Manager of the Independ- ent Steamboat and Barge Company, A great outing for all Wash- ington has been planned for theentire dé y of Monday, August 24, 1908, at the new Washington Park, on the Potomac.The largest and best park of its kind in the entire country maintained for people of all races, A grand programme, to begin promptly at 6 o'clock p.m. Music in abundance. Dr. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., orator of the day. Other speakers: Assistant Superintendent R. C. Bruce, representing the schools; Miss E. A. Chase, the kinder- gartens; Rev. W. M. Norman, the Baptist Church; Rev. J. H. Welch the A. M. E. Church; Rev. F. J. Grimke, the Presbyterian Church; Rev, S. R. Brown, the Congregational Church; Rev. T. J. Brown, the Episcopalian Church; Hon. J.C. Dancy, the A. M. E. Zion Church; Attorney T. L. Jones, theattorneys of the city; Dr, W. R. 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