badin bulletin
Pack Seventeen
THE COLORED VILLAGE
Community Singing
We wish to thank the editor for the
space for our notes, and want to assure
®ur readers that we are always glad
"^hen it is said let us do something for
the Community Singing, for we are not
able to develop as singers, but it
bri
deed
God”
ngs us together as a family (“for in-
we are of the royal family of
Then it is not ours to be indolent in
^hatever the leader points out to us.
“ 3nd willingly we go, ever mindful
hat we must shine right where we
are.”
Since our last writing, we have had
®Ur regular Sunday afternoon meetings
®side from the weekly meetings.
The number is still increasing.
The sayings of heretofore that we can-
for together” are ancient history,
inH have a grand union, and
^ eed We sigh when one has to break
®t*"ong is the tie of our chorus,
e have some new plans of which we
°Pe to relate in the next issue.
11 are invited to attend our song
-A. 1{. T.
F'. Long and J. A. McDonald, of the
Baptist and Methodist Churches respec
tively. The Methodists have begun put
ting their material on the ground for
building, and the Baptists will begin at
an early date.
The Methodists had a rally, conducted
by Bishop Blackwell, of Philadelphia,
and Rev. Fraiser, of Norwood, N. C., in
which they raised one hundred dollars
or more. This rally was on the second
of this month (Ground-pig day).
with Mr. Whitlock. He said give Mr.
F. O. Culp his regards. He said he is
going to get his bunch of men for the
crusher, so I will try to get all that I
can for you, and I hope it won’t be much
longer before I can see some of my old
friends in dear old U. S. A. once more.
Oh! it seems like it has been twelve
months since I saw a colored girl. I
haven’t had a shoe shine since I been
in France. Oh, it is hard, but fair.
Remember me to Mr. and Mrs. Cowart,
and the rest of the office men. Tell
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Clapel and Tommie,
look out for me; I will be home soon.
Yours
Wm. Humphrey
Company “A”, Three Hundred and
Thirteenth Labor Battalion, A. E. F.,
France.
Church Notes
Und ^ are working earnestly
their energQtic pastors, Revs. P.
From Overseas
American Ex{)editionary Force
January 15, 1919
Mr. L. S. Grandy:
Dear Sir:—Tonight, while my light is
not shining very good, 1 can’t see very
well, but however your letter was re
ceived on the fourteenth, and it found
me well, and was also glad to hear from
you. Know I am w'ith all the old boys
from Badin, and I told all the boys
about our town, Badin, and all the old
boys say that they will be on the job
as soon as Uncle Sam turns us loose.
Old Sam Johnson is with me, the one
that used to come to the office, and get
boots in the other fellow’s name—I sup
pose you can remember him; he was
cock-eyed; he worked on the mountain
Our Opportunity
Since the dawn of the negro’s landing
at Jamestown, Va., three hundred years
ago, his pathway thru ages of civiliza
tion has been brightened by the appear
ance of opportunities. It is true that
many of those, were allowed to pass un
noticed, and have never come again.
That is to say, an opportunity once al
lowed to pass is gone forever. This
being true, there is every reason why no
one of the negro race should allow an
opportunity to go by when once it pre
sents itself to that individual. Booker
\\ ashington, the nationally recognized
Moses of the negro race in America,
said: “We need never hope for citizen
ship in America in the true sense until
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