The Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Mooses and Good Samaritans are trustworthy beneficial Orders. The Odd Fellows own their own hall. A company of colored men own and rent Douglass Hall.
A Young Men’s Christian Association has been fitted up in a very spacious and comfortable building. Meetings, books, entertainment, etc., appeal to the men. Joseph W. Rhetta is secretary. The Women’s Club is successfully teaching several branches of industry and furnishes entertainment for the women.
Our business men are William Moore, John Williams, George Mention, William Higgins, Theodore Williams, James Dickerson, Peter Brownley, William Green, Andrew Melchoir, Robert Braxton, John Coy, I. R. Farrier and Mr. Sheldon. Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Burrill are our business women.
Much I intended for this brief sketch is, of necessity, omitted, but I hope another may write more fully of the colored people of Princeton.