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Tnt Fourteenth Anniversary of the

oices William James Howard of Zion

gap 1st Church Celebrated in a Befitt-

ing Manner A Review of a Decade

and a Halfs Work Which Brings Out

Many Interesting Facts

is said to be more than eightychurches inWashing ton and

this number more than forty are of theUat

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REV W J HOWARD

the largest colored Baptist church inWashington but it is one of theinflueniial When it comes to raisingnuney for the missions or for anycause in which the church is interestedno church is more prompt in its re-

sponse nor sends in a larger contribut-ion than does old Zion For more thanfourteen years Rev W J Howard thepresent pastor of the church has heldthe reins and to quote from another

he has built a up Kingdom of bisownHe is a man of most remarkable andinteresting personality and be dealswith hIS church as ne does with hisGjd and his family The ambitionhits life and hi greatest labor love isto lOOK after the interests of Zion andto see to it that the Sundayscnool thatthe church that the Endeavorerq andthat every department of the church iskept in the proper working conditionRsv Howard has a stronghold on hispeople and he carries the keys to theirhearts He is surrounded by a

which is in perfect harmony withhim and there is little if any frictionIn the church Last Friday evening thefourteenth anniversary of his work inthe church was celebrated in a most be-fitting manner but it will be of moreinterest to briefly here what

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Rev William James Howard pestorZ on Baptist church was born in Sonttsn-ivania county Va June 15 1854 ofslave parentage His people on

side the Howards were free andleading mechanics in

father was his mastered head butler and Rev Howard although a slavereceived wages as steward in bis mas

house He could raad and writeanl attended to all his masters busin-ess eelliae off the crops banking themoney and buying fr the others onthe farm He was not treated or lookedup m as a

Howards father was married inand three children were born to

vVilliam Alfred and Alexanderfather died when he was but three

old and in 1859 his mother andthree children moved to Orange county

boa became to this city and workedQ afterwards working in

was lilted to preside over Zion BaptistJuly 1886

Rev Howard was a diligent studenta youth and studied under prt

pe tarrs and attended night schools

to entering the ministry heeut mto business for himself in this

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stution he graduated with high honorsin 1888

He boueht a on De frees streetbeing the second colored person tomove on that street He married ayoung lady from VirgInia a teacherand in their years of married life she has worked hand in bandwith him and contributed largely tohis success in life She was a member-of 19th Street Baptist church Four oftheir eight children belong to thatchurch William James jr is at Exe-ter preparing for Harvard After thedeath of Rev Wm Gibbons who hadcharge of Zon Baptist church for near-ly eighteen y ars Rev Howard tookcharge This was in and sincethat time Rev Howard has receivedmore than 2000 members into thechurch has built a new church whichooPt including the ground etc 45000 and has contributed to church andmissionary work regularly The church-is now out of debt and has a surplus inthe Capital Savings Bank

Rev Howard is a race wan and believes in Negro enterprises He is infavor of the home mission schoolsfrom which he received so much helpas a youth He believes in the Negropress and the Negro pulpit and theofficers and members of his churchconcur with his views and cooperatewith him in every way He supportstwentyfive race papers and is a stockholder in several publications

Of his eight children twoare teaching one pon is a graduate ofthe High 8chool and was captain ofCo B the winning company of theHigh School last year He is now atExeter preparing to eater Harvard col-

iege next 3 ear One daughter is mthe High School and the others excepting the baby who is not a year old

school regularly His twooldest are great help to him

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in his church and SundayAmong the strongest supporters andworkers in the church might be

Mrs Julia Taylor Mr J Brownand Mrs Bell Lewis some of whomhave been earnest workers in the churchfor years

There is perfect harmony throughoutthe church and the members work

like one large family

CITY PARAGRAPHS-

Mr Harry Smith of this city was inLexington Ky last week

Miss Florence Williams of the Recorder of Deeds office is ill

Dr 8 B Moore had as his guest lastweek Bishop Tanner of Philadelphia

Rev L B Flagg pastor Ebenezer AM E church preached in Baltimorelast Sunday

Miss Celestiue M Harris of 822 Estreet s w is recovering from an attack of the grip

Col W A Pledger editor of the Atlanta Age is in the city and will spend

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Mrs J W Pope of North Carolinais in this city and is stopping at 1128

New Jersey avenue n w

The many friends of Mrs FrancesThomas of 2212 12bh St n w will beglad to know that she is able to be out

Mr Wm T Moorehead and MissMary E Dawson were married on the23rd inst at 1541 M street northwest

Hon S E K Buchanan of theoffice is able to resume his

duties at his office this week after a

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verp serious attack of la grippe

Mr Clarence Cameron White one

of the musical artists of this city leftlast Thursday for Cleveland Ohio topursue his study of the violin

Mr T J Butler of Howardread a very interesting paper be

fore the Congressional Lyceum Sunday13th which was enj jyed by a very largeaudience-

A grand masquerade party will be

held at the Conservatory of Music 12ih

and R streets n w Friday evening

February let for the benefit of StMonicas Episcopal chapel t j

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MRS THEOPHILE SCHMITT OP CHICAGO

Mrs Theophile Schmitt wife of theSecretary of the German consulate

the following letter to Dr Hartigin from 3417 Wabash Ave Chicago

li Mrs Schmitt says I sufferedwinter with a severe attack of la

and having repeatedly heard ofthis value of Peruna in such cases Ithought I would try it I used itf and began to feel a change for thebitter the second and in theof a week I was very much improvedAfter using three bottles I not onlyfound that the grippe bad disappearedbut my general health was much better-

I am satisfied that Peruna is a wonder-

ful family remedy and gladly endorseit Yours Mrs Theophile Schmitt

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