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In accordance with the resolution adopted by the meeting of the 26th, I request that you promptly forward check for $5.00 to be applied as the charter fee of the Grand Boulie2
I hope you will see your way clear to go ahead with us even if you cannot be active. Your membership will add much to the character and prestige of the new Boule
H.E.D.Correspondent: Harry E. Davis (1882–1955) was a Black lawyer with a degree from Western Reserve University's law school (1908). He became a Republican state legislator in Ohio and served four terms in the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly (1921–1928). From 1928 to 1934, Davis was a member of the Cleveland Civil Service Commission (president 1932–1934). He later served in the Ohio Senate (1947–1948 and 1953–1954), the upper house of the General Assembly. He was in leadership positions in the Cleveland chapters of many racial-justice organizations, including the NAACP, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Black freemasons, and the Black fraternity Sigma Pi Phi.