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THE COLORED VILLAGE
Colored Baseball Team |||Carolina, by him and his assistant, Mr.
^R. McCants Andrews. Prof. E. G. Har-
The Badin Sluggers are getting a
reputation for being terrors with the
stick. In two games with the fast Rock
ingham team, we tied them 3 to 3 once,
and put it all over them the other—
14 to 3. Games are being arranged
with High Point, Salisbury, and other
towns for the near future.
On the Fourth of July, we are going
to pull off the biggest celebration ever
held in Badin. A baseball game and
barbecue will be the big features.
We want to repeat the invitation to
our white friends to come over to our
ball games. Special places will be pro
vided.
—Bob Crump
Colored Village Notes
There will be quite a number of boys
from the high schools and colleges of
this State and nearby States who will
be here for the summer vacation. A
large boarding-house is now being ar
ranged for these boys, and they are com
ing in. Four from Henderson Normal
School have already arrived in Badin,
and are at work in the Potrooms. Twenty
will arrive here from High Point, Satur
day or Sunday next, and thirty from
Biddle University, at Charlotte, will
reach Badin about the first of June.
These students were secured here for an
experiment for statistics of the United
States Department of Labor and Negro
Economics for North Carolina, secured
thru the office of Dr. A. M. Moore,
Director of Negro Economics for North
ris. Principal of Badin Colored School,
will have charge of the boys at Badin
for the summer. We believe this experi
ment will mean much good for the social
and educational life of Badin, as well as
the race in general.
Warren B. Steele, who has been at
Shaw University for a few days, in
structing the School Brass Band, has
returned to Badin, and has resumed his
position as instructor of the Band of the
Colored Village of Badin. This Band is
doing well. They have been asked to
play for the memorial exercises at Salis
bury, on the thirtieth instant. This
Band, connected with the Colored Glee
Club, will give some stirring musical
entertainments within the next few
weeks, and everybody should come out
and hear them.
The people of the colored village are
beginning to get tired of paying high
prices for things to eat, which they
might grow, and are plowing and plant
ing gardens. There are something near
seventy-five gardens already planted in
the colored village, and others being
plowed. This makes it seem like that
our people are trying to be a progressive
people. There is no use in buying what
we might grow, by using the spare mo
ments to this end.
School will close on the twenty-ninth
instant. Teachers as well as the boys
and girls will be glad to get some rest
and recreation from this kind of duty.
The teachers are planning to be away
to summer schools within a few weeks.
that they may be able to do more and
better work another year. Our motto iSi
“Preparedness.”
Hon. Robert E. Clay, president of the
Negro Business League, of Bristol, Tenn.,
addressed the citizens of Badin, Wed
nesday evening. May 28. This address
was a feature of the closing exercises of
the Colored School. Mr. Clay is known
as the Southland Negro Orator, and is
one of the greatest orators and thinkers
of the race.
Couldn’t Help It
The average foreigner can rarely com
prehend the geographical area of th*
United States, as was quite fully iH“®'
trated by the Englishman and his val®^
who had been traveling due west fro®
Boston. For five days they had be«''
riding steadily, the valet saying
but always looking intently out of
window.
“William, of what are you thinking-
the Englishman asked.
“I was just thinking, sir, about t
discovery of Hamerica,” replied the val
“Columbus didn’t do such a wonder
thing, after all, when he found this cou”
try, did ’e, now Sir? Hafter all’s
an’ done, ’ow could ’e ’ave ’elped
—Everybody’s Magazine.
No Trust ^ ^
One of our Palmersville customer*
sent in an advertisement so picture^”
that we haven’t the heart to chang*
Here it is, verbatim et literatim: ijt
“Pleas dont you ast me four *^^5 i
four i am not goin to Do it _ i
has loss money and you wont
has loss confadenc in all. So jt
So
Credit no more—i has don stop
will make me mad, can just go
four it aint no use to ast me.”
all-
to
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