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Claude Jeffords Desires to Fit Himself for the Ministry

Claude Jeffords Desires to Fit Himself for the Ministry
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Claude Jeffords Desires to Fit Himself for the Ministry

Claude Jeffords, who is blind, is at the home of his father, Josiah Jeffords, on the West Side, for the summer vacation. He has been attending the school for the blind at Columbus.”

“It is the young man’s desire to take a theological course in the Wesleyan university at Delaware. In order to get hold of means toward that end he will, on the night of August 23rd, in the Bethel church, West Side, give a rhetorical exhibition, to which an admission of 10 cents will be charged.”1

  1. Worthy cause. (1899, August 16). Portsmouth Daily Times, p. 7.
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