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Prominent Tennesseeans Protest Recent Horror Press and Pulpit Are at Last Awakened to the Necessity of Creating Sentiment That Will Result in Suppression of Southern Savagery. Growing Thank You! $1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy Prominent Ten Protest I Press and Pulpit Are at Last Creating Sentiment That of Southern CONCERNING LYNCHINGS THIS practice of burning Negro criminals at the stake and subjecting them to torture is rank savagery. It is of no avail to try to excuse or modify it, or call it by any milder name. No really civilized people ever indulged a practice of that kind. The Banner is willing to admit the surprising fact that such outbreaks occurred in communities where refined and cultivated people live, and where al the outward exhibitions of a Christian civilization are found, but such acts in themselves are unmixed savagery and mark a most painful reversion to primitive conditions to the wild men who knew no law, in whom human instincts had not developed and who, lacking the power to administer justice, resorted to merciless cruelty in dealing with those who gave offense. The Banner hopes to see Tennessee grow beyond the possibility of such revolting deeds, and has long hoped for it, but it is a painful and discouraging fact that they grow more frequent, more violent and are characterized by more sickening exhibitions of barbarity. The lynching began with hanging Negroes for rape. It was extended to hanging them for all manner of crimes. Then Negroes were burned for rape and now they are burned and tortured for other offenses. Lynchings are placing the South in the ranks of the backwood, half-civilized people of the earth, and they must be suppressed. It doesn't put any better phase on such evil happenings to argue that they have occurred elsewhere. They are wholly evil and without excuse in one place as much as in another, and our own faults need correcting for our own sake, no matter what those of other people in other regions may need. And it is undeniably true that they occur in about the ratio of ten to one in the South. It avails nothing to rave at the critics of the outside world who condemn us when we have given ample cause for all they say. To torture and burn to death a criminal is not civilization, it is not Christian, and there is no defense for such practice. There is a large and enlightened element of Tennessee citizenship to whom the sinister aspect of such happenings is wholly apparent, and whose minds are not befogged and whose morals are not blunted by the manner of excuse made in their behalf. This element should vigorously assert itself to oppose such practices, and endeavor to awaken the civil authorities to the duty of preventing them. They should try to create a better, higher and more enlightened public sentiment that will not tolerate or give countenance to anything so utterly intolerable. The news of these constantly recurring lynchings go abroad, and they make on people of other lands the same manner of impression concerning Southernners that accounts of the massacres of Armenians by Kurds makes on Americans. When the story of such happenings get to other lands the sympathy is all with the victims and the race that suffers. The Southern whites are charged with revolting brutality because of this lynching, and the trouble is that one such deed in a remote locality will be charged to the whole South, and years will not eradicate the reproach it puts upon us. Mob violence is no proper way to enforce white supremacy. It degrades the white man and argues his inability to keep order or to properly enforce the laws that he has himself created. He can best rule by absolute justice and by commanding universal obedience to law. And it is the duty of the white men, the ruling class, to the Negroes, whose submission to the law they require, to insure the blacks the full protection of the law and absolute justice in its application to them and their affairs. Nothing less is worthy of a race that asserts its superiority. It is not the Negro's fault that he is here. He is not an intruder. He THE MONITOR is a native to this soil as much as the whites. He is a human being and he is entitled to full recognition of his living rights and his humanity. He is in many ways exceedingly useful. The South needs his labor and prefers it to any other. There is serious objection to his emigration, and, without any regard to his social and oplitical status, he is entitled to humane treatment and the full protection of the law. Anything else reflects on the white people and works to their detriment more than it does to that of the Negro. It is an unquestioned fact that no other people in the position of the Negroes would be so tractable and submissive to the dominance of a superior race. But without regard to this fact it is for the reputation of the whites, for the good of the community in general, for its material prosperity and moral advancement that lynchings should cease, and these horrible exhibitions of mob madness that resort to barbarous cruelty be forever made impossible.—The Nashville Banner, Feb. 14, 1918. THE LYNCHING ATROCITIES By the Rt. Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, in the Nashville Banner, February 15, 1918. I AM sure that I express the opinion of thousands of the citizens of Tennessee when I hereby record my solemn protest against the horrible lynching of a Negro man which took place at Estill Springs day before yesterday. I realize that it is futile to attempt by any written word to stem the tide of what seems to be the popular will; but a man can at least declare his abhorrence of such atrocities. This kind of lynching seems to be becoming epidemic in our state. About two years ago a Negro from Fayette county was lynched most barbarously near Memphis, and parts of his body according to the newspapers, carried away as souvenirs. Many citizens of Memphis protested, but they were ignored. Last winter a Negro man near Memphis was burned at the stake, gasoline was poured over his body, and his head was cut of and taken through the city streets as a trophy. Last fall a Negro was burned to death in Dyersburg and thousands of white men in charge first tortured the miserable creature with a red-hot iron, "to break his will," while the victim, already shot nearly to death, with one eye hanging out, screamed for mercy, and a thousand white men, with hundreds of women and children, looked on and were not ashamed. The cruelties practiced in the first instance were designed, it was said, to prevent further crimes; but they have sadly failed of their purpose. And then, in nearly every instance, the officers of the law, having taken a solemn oath to enforce the law, seem to have tamely acquiesced in the law's violation. It is noteworthy that in only one of these four cases was the Negro charged with assaulting a white woman. We therefore protest against these lynchings, first, because they are a plain violation of the constitution of the United States and make a mockery of our boasted freedom. Whether we like it or not, the Negro is an American citizen and has a right to a trial before he is punished for a crime. Indeed, the constitution does not limit this right to "citizens," but declares that any "person" accused of a capital crime shall have this right. This is one of the fundamental principles of government and of civilized society, for which our fathers fought and died; and for us to go to war with Germany in defense of liberty and then calmly permit such violations of the common rights of humanity is a monstrous inconsistency. And, secondly, we protest against these enormities of brutality because they are barbarous, indecent and degraded. A Christian woman said to me yesterday: "Please do not mention that lynching at Estill Springs before my little boy. It would THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MARCH 2, 1918 his soul even to hear about and just think of a human being, made in God's image, with his out and his blood spurting his wounds, writhing under the of a red-hot iron, and boys is looking on and rejoicing in is an old French proverb, noblige, and it means that suit of station involves obligahe noble man is gracious to day afternoon. He was not taken by officers till Tuesday forenoon. We all knew a mob was hunting him and that he would be lynched when taken. County officers were heard to say Friday night that he would be lynch. Newspaper reporters from Nashville come out to report the burning and followed the officers and dogs all night. Yet nobody come from Nashville or from anywhere else to prevent mob violence. The Negro was found in Warren county Monday and men from Estill Springs had ample time to go to the scene. Tuesday morning newspapers carried the report that he was found and held at bay. He was captured, after having been wounded about 11 o'clock Tuesday and the report reached Nashville in time to be published in the noon edition of the Banner. I was in Nashville and read the report while at luncheon. The Negro was taken to McMinnville and released by the officers of the law and committed to the men from Estill Springs who I am told were not officers. These men with their prisoner waited for a train at McMinnville and then came on to Tullahoma where they again waited for a train which leaves Nashville at 3:30 p. m. The train came, but did not bring anybody with authority to prevent mob violence. The men with the prisoner boarded the train for Estill Springs. The county jail is at Winchester where he should have been incarcerated and where his trial should have been held and that train came on to Winchester. Nobody in Winchester, however, was expecting the Negro brought there. The crowd had gathered at Estill Springs for everybody knew what was to take place. On the streets of Winchester Evangelist Culpepper made a speech and begged the people not to go to Estill Springs to witness the horrible sight. According to schedule the captors of the Negro got off the train with him at Estill Springs and there he was tortured and burned alive. Now in view of these facts, and I think they can be verified, it seems useless, nay it seems weak and spineless if not hypocritical for us to send up a lugubrious wail about a certain class of ignorant and misguided people bringing a stain on our state and our South. We are guilty of criminal negligence, if not of acquiescence in the brutal deed, and we would as well confess it with bowed heads and take Earlier of America: e Fighting For The Negro Soldier of America: What We Are Fighting For (Written for The Monitor.) MOCRACY. In this sweet chance where be heart of France! offer pain sympathy; may reign nisssee. we saw with applied in the law, moaned and died. it seems, passing years; eternal dreams died with tears. best part; before the swine"; LE that rules the heart the Divine. Might is Might, on the throne; MOCRACY OF LIGHT has never shone. WE fight—and for DEMOCRACY. Lord, we are glad of this sweet chance To brave whatever hells there be Beside the bleeding heart of France! We fight—for all who suffer pain We give our souls in sympathy; We fight that Liberty may reign From Berlin unto Tennessee. In Tennessee—where last we saw Infernal brands of death applied To men—our men—within the law, Yet "lawless" as they moaned and died. In Tennessee—where vain, it seems, Have been the gifts of passing years; Where vain have been the eternal dreams And toil of Lincoln, sad with tears. In Tennessee—where Life's best part; Rich "pearls are cast before the swine"; CHRIST'S GOLDEN RULE that rules the heart And keeps man nearer the Divine. In Tennessee—where Wrong is Might, With Hate and Horror on the throne; Where GOD'S DEMOCRACY OF LIGHT AND LOVE, it seems, has never shone. In Tennessee—and all her kin Of sister criminals, year by year, Who've lost the consciousness of sin, The tenderness that is a tear. We fight—and for DEMOCRACY. We'll dare Atlantic's tragic foam— Go "over the top"—Lord, just to see PEACE AND ITS HAPPINESS AT HOME! LUCIAN B. WATKINS, Argeant (First Class) Medical Department, United States Army. Field Hospital 366, 92d Division, Camp Funston. Warden, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 23, 1918. We fight—and for DEMOCRACY. We'll dare Atlantic's tragic foam Go "over the top"—Lord, just to see PEACE AND ITS HAPPINESS AT HOME! LUCIAN B. WATKINS, Sergeant (First Class) Medical Department, United States Army. Field Hospital 366, 92d Division, Camp Funston. Hotel Warden, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 23, 1918. damage his soul even to hear about it." And just think of a human being, a man made in God's image, with his eye shot out and his blood spurting from his wounds, writhing under the tortures of a red-hot iron, and boys and girls looking on and rejoicing in it! There is an old French proverb, noblesse oblige, and it means that superiority of station involves obligation. The noble man is gracious to his inferiors. The "superior" race proves its superiority by its refinement of feeling and by its courage to be merciful. Noblesse oblige—the superior race damns itself when it adopts the manners and shows the passions of the savage. So we make our protest, and appeal to the men and women of Tennessee who profess to be Christians and believe the Bible. "Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel," and "He that is cruel troubleth his own flesh;" and Christ says, "He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil; be therefore merciful." CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE By G. C. Brewer, Evangelist, Winches ter, Tenn., in Nashville Banner, February 18, 1918. AS a constant reader of your editorials I have noticed that you always deprecate lynchings in the strongest terms and that you also lament the stigma which these manifestations of savagery and heathenism bring upon our beloved South. I approve the sentiment and heartily endorse your words. But in view of the recent lynching at Estill Springs and in considering our attitude—the attitude of the Banner, and of all the rest of us, toward this shameful crime so shamelessly perpetrated right in our midst I cannot overcome the feeling that our preachments against these things after they happen is more or less of a camouflage; a sort of defense against the criticisms of other states. Why don't we stop these outrages? Will there be any genuine effort made to apprehend and punish the members of the Estill Springs mob? We know there will not be any such effort. There never is. Was there any effort made to prevent mob violence in this case? Let us consider the facts: The Negro committed the crime Fri- Vol. III. No. 38 (Whole No. 137) what the Northern papers give us. I doubt if they will give us more than we deserve. Yet let it be understood that I am a Southerner, a native of Tennessee and my people on both sides were Confederate soldiers. I'll tell you there is no use in disguising facts. We all know that the common people of our state under stand that nothing will be done when they lynch a "Nigger." In fact there is a sentiment among them—I am one of them; I was reared among them and I have had opportunity to see five lynchings in my life—that a community that would permit a "Nigger" to commit a brutal crime and escape lynching would be untrue to our traditions, devoid of chivalry and lacking in real manhood. No doubt of it. Of course they always expect a few "high brows" and "sissies" to whine when they see the blood or hear the frying flesh but the real men, the real sons of the South, the descendants of the Ku Klux are not going to let a "Nigger" get by with such crimes. This is the sentiment that exists among a large portion of our people. It is just one of the curses that have been entailed upon us from the days of the carpetbaggers and we need a strong concerted action of the press, the pulpit, the schoolroom, the courtroom and the governor's chair to educate this sentiment out of our people. Frankly I do not see how we could consistently punish the Estill Springs mob, when no one said to them nay, and they were permitted to go unmolested to the shocking deed. MISSISSIPPI FOLKS HELP SOLDIER MOVEMENT Greenville, Miss., Feb. 14.—Last week the Colored Women's Aid society of this city raised $100 and sent it on to the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort committee at Washington to help along the fund of $2,000,000 the national committee is raising for relief work. The Colored people of Greenville have only started in their effort to rank first, in proportion to population, in the amount they will raise for the national committee. GOVERNMENT CONTROL HAS NOT KILLED JIM-CROW SERVICE Washington, D. C.—Although the government is now in control of the railroads, and the federal statute forbidding discrimination against soldiers in uniform is still the law of the land, Colored soldiers continue to be segregated in jim-crow cars throughout the South. The appeal of the National Negro Academy made to the President the day the railroads passed under government control, has not as yet secured relief from jim-crow cars. CONDITIONS CHANGING IN CAPITAL CITY Washington, D. C.—Two advertisements appearing in a Washington daily last week were straws which showed which way the wind is blowing for the race. Both were "Wanted" advertisements. One was that of a leading laundry which advertised for "Educated Colored Girls," and the other was that of a large gentlemen's clothing and furnishing store which advertised for Colored boys as wrappers. Both of these were new openings offered up to the race. The laundry wanted Colored girls for markers, places not heretofore filled by Colored girls, and the employing of Colored boys for wrappers is a new departure for the big men's clothing store mentioned. The war is proving a great leveler up and leveler down. HOG ISLAND PROBE SHOWS WASTE OF MONEY Philadelphia, Pa.—The investigation under way at Hog Island shipyard has disclosed the fact that the American International shipbuilding corporation is composed of New York bankers and millionaires who never built a ship and that expenses have exceeded estimates by $8,000,000 in a period of ninety days. All kinds of fancy salaries were paid men absolutely unacquainted with the science of shipbuilding. BUY ANOTHER WAR SAVINGS STAMP Lifting Lift, Too! Austin, Capital of Lone Star State Not Only the Seat of Government, But Also of Important Educational Institutions, Race Progressive and Prosperous. IN the midst of a slow, drizzling rain I boarded the I. and G. N. for points north and east. With brief stops at New Braunfels, San Marcos and Kyle I arrived at the city of Austin, the capital of the state, situated on the north bank of the Colorado river, with about 40,000 in population, one-third of which is claimed for the race. Austin as a capital is very impressive and wears well the honor.of being the seat of government of the largest state of the Union. Here are also located the state institutions for the insane, deaf and dumb and blind. As the race is segregated, the institutions provided by the state are equal to those of the other races. The school for the blind is especially worth a visit from any one. You will find that the state is very liberal in its support. It is located in large expansive grounds in modern as well as comfortable buildings in charge of an efficient superintendent and corps of teachers. Here are also located two large colleges promoted for the race by Church foundation. The first, Tillitson Institute, was founded in 1880 by the American Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, whose purpose was to give to boys and girls of our race an opportunity of obtaining a short college course of education. How well they have succeeded is liberally testified to by the many fine men and women you meet in this section of the country who claim Tillitson as their alma mater. The other, Samuel Huston, is of a later date, being established about sixteen years ago. It was named Samuel Huston, not after the first President of the Republic of Texas, but in honor of a philanthropic Iowan who donated the first $10,000 for the building and support for this school that was established by the Freedmen's Aid Society. It is ideally situated on a large hill overlooking the residential portion of the city. It consists of five large modern buildings, has an enrollment of 872 students under the care and control of Prof. M. S. Davage and a corps of twenty-one able and efficient teachers. East avenue, an exceptionally wide boulevard, leads directly past the main entrance. There is connected with the college the Eliza Dee Industrial Home for girls. It is the finest in the entire system of Freedmen's Aid Schools. It specializes in home economics. The city of Austin you would liken to the city of Washington. Standing on the broad granite steps of the state capitol building, which is the third finest and largest in the United States; built of red granite and finished inside in blue and white marble, both products of the state, and looking south on Congress avenue at the foot of which is the Colorado river, one would imagine himself in Washington and following his gaze along Pennsylvania avenue down to the Potomac. Strange coincidence of topography and scenery, one the capital of the great United States, the other the capital of the largest state. Austin is the city of homes, 80 per cent of the race owning or buying their homes. They are well represented in the business sand professional world as well as holding positions of merit in both state and governmental service. I bade farewell to Austin Thursday morning for Round Rock, which lays no claim to prominence other than it is the place where forty years ago was killed the famous outlaw, Sam Bass. I spent a day here and passed on to Taylor, my nxet stop. After a busy day I jumped to Thrall, where lives relative number two, my cousin, Mrs. Helen Lafond. Today finds me preparing to move on after spending four pleasant yet wet days as the guest of Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Lafond, who are engaged in educational work at this point, he being principal of the city school. I only intended to spend Sunday here, but the long looked for, glad welcomed, yet disagreeable rains came and I had to—well, if you have ever been in the black land county in a rainy season you know what everybody has to do—stay in doors, of course. Well, the rain has ceased and the sun and wind are rapidly drying things up and I am about to be on my way again. FRED C. WILLIAMS. THE MONITOR A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the civic, social and religious interests of the Colored People of Nebraska and the West, with the desire to contribute something to the general good and upbuilding of the community and of the race. Published Every Saturday. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Post Office at Omaha, Neb., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher. Lucille Skaggs Edwards and William Garnett Haynes, Associate Editor. George Wells Parker, Contributing Editor, John D. Crawford, Business Manager, Fred C. Williams, Traveling Representative SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $1.50 PER YEAR Advertising Rates, 50 cents an inch per issue. Address, The Montana, 1191 North, Twenty-first street, Omaha. Telephone Webster 4243. 1 WE give in this issue what many may consider disproportionate space to comments on the recent exhibition of savagery in Tennessee. From the wealth of material sent us by friends in that section of the country, which shows an aroused and awakening conscience to the evil of mob violence too long tolerated against Colored Americans and growing in intensity and barbarity yearly, we have found it difficult to make a selection. We finally chose those which are here given. They are representative of the sentiments that are being publicly expressed by press, pulpit, forum, bar and university in Tennessee. We believe that they are indicative of an awakening conscience that must result in a united and determined action that will make such fiendish deeds practically impossible anywhere in this country. The conscience of this country, and especially of the South, needs awakening. It has been allowed to slumber too long. Indeed, evidence has not been wanting to lead one to the conclusion that the South has no conscience and no moral sense when it comes to dealing with the black man. It has regarded him as "only a nigger," which means, according to the white South's mental concept, that he is a little lower than a dog; for despite the South's protestation of affection for the black man, the lightness with which his life is regarded in that section and the impunity with which it may be taken by the "superior" race—God save the mark!—plainly proves that he is accounted less than a dog. Only from such a viewpoint can one explain the attitude of normally humane people, such as are supposed to inhabit the Southland, towards him. This mental viewpoint explains why the frequent outbursts of savagery against him, by which the whites have periodically deemed it necessary to demonstrate their superiority, have aroused no qualms of conscience among the kindly-disposed and Christian people of the South which compelled them to cry out against these fendish atrocities. It is, therefore, a most encouraging sign of an awakening conscience to have religious leaders like Bishop Gailor, who looms large in the influence which he wields; educators like Prof. Mims of Vanderbilt university; and newspapers like the Nashville Banner, raising their voices in protest against the savagery which is making Tennessee a stench in the nostrils of the nation. When the conscience, not only of the South, but this entire nation, is aroused against the iniquity of mob-murder, mob-murder will cease. To accomplish this it is only necessary for the religious and educational leaders of this country, who have been guilty of moral cowardice in remaining silent as to these wrongs, to speak out in no uncertain tones. Then, too, the South and large sections of the North, which has been inoculated with the same virus, must change its viewpoint concerning the black man. They must regard him and treat him not as something less than a dog, but as a human being, made in the image of God and destined to grow into His likeness. As the gold and grey days roll on we are coming to realize more and more that this great world war means SACRIFICE. Apparently not much sacrifice for the rich and powerful. Oh, no! No matter how the game goes, they are the winners. As many use their wealth it would seem that they have welcomed war, as they angle for huge contracts that would strike dumb a Midas. It is the poor who must sacrifice. It is the poor who must make lean their tables, not only because their government commands, but because inflated prices demand. It is the poor who must take from their meager pitties a portion and pay as taxes to carry on world murder. And what are the poor to reap? God grant that it may be peace, a peace that shall go down the sunlit SACRIFICE years and bless them. A peace that shall beckon birth with a smile and welcome death with a sigh. A peace that young mothers may rear their boy babies and be sure that they are not born to die by guns, bombs and poisoned gas. A peace that poor men may cherish and know that their hopes for manhood success may not be blasted by a call to war—a call which they must answer, whether or no. Only for the dream of such a peace can the poor sacrifice and sacrifice with a smile. If the dream be false, they should rise in their might and sweep from the earth all spawn of militarism, whether the spawn be Teuton or Ally. The world is old and surely the time should come when the poor should make no sacrifice save in the perpetuation of peace. INFERIOR IN VICE, SUPERIOR IN VIRTUE It is most gratifying to be able to say, with some degree of pride, that the Negro race in America not only has not yet produced an anarchist or traitor, but despite the handicap of ignorance has never been guilty of such savagery as that of torturing human beings and burning them at the stake. Warm-hearted and affectionate as a people, we shrink from even torturing a dumb brute. May God preserve these kindly traits of character among us as a people, and may we by our good deeds help raise America to a higher standard of life. Let us strive to be inferior in vice, superior in virtue. Obvious Observations President Wilson has held up the sentence against the soldiers of the Twenty-fifth until he examines the evidence of the court-martial. We imagine that if he had had the chance to examine the first one, there would have been a different story. They are still scrapping and throwing verbal bombs at each other in the United States senate. If winter doesn't let up pretty soon we will have to alter the calendar and give it a six months' job. It isn't much use telling us to have meatless days. Most of our days are meatless, anyway. The password on the western front is, "Let 'em come!" It takes 10,000 shots to bring down an aeroplane and after it gets down the junk man offers two bits a pound for what's left. War sure is a costly invention. Reports say that Mr. Garfield's heatless days saved 3,456,000 tons of coal and lost over $1,000,000,000. Who got the poker chips? Have you started studying the seed catalogue yet? When coming down to it always remember that it has Anarias beaten six ways from Sunday. Keep on the heavy underwear, Dumus, or else Mr. Pneumonia will get acquainted with your breath tanks. Are the indictments against Johnny, Billy and Tommy all camouflage? Thanking you for your august attention, we will now begin nursing our toothache. A rumor is report that starts out navigating among the public, the parentage of which is always beyond finding out. Rumors nowadays are as thick as coffee grounds coming through a leaky strainer. One day we get a mess of cold feet after hearing that this time next year we will be living on sawdust and shoe leather, but the next day we learn that we have so much eats on hand that we can feed the earth and all the rest of the planets in our system. At noon we hear that the Russians are kicking up so much heel dust that the Germans are choking to death and at 4 o'clock the situation has changed and the Russians are really scrapping. In the morning Mr. Garfield, national coal man, says you better invest in black diamonds this spring for next winter, and in the evening the papers say that next win- SKITS OF SOLOMON THE MONITOR ter everything in the coal line will be all hunkady. At breakfast you read that peace is shaking Kaiser Bill by the neck and telling him to get busy, and at dinner you scan that Bill says he wouldn't know peace if she danced the tango on his chest. One minute you learn that 100,000,000 bushels of wheat are rotting in the cribs and the next minute your eyes are greeted with the news that the national food sleuths can't find the wheat to save their lives. Yesterday the eat dictators told you to stop eating meat because it isn't good for your liver or for the country, and tomorrow they tell you to clean up on the mutton and chicken so as to keep friend farmer from going broke. The young fellows between 21 and 31 hear so many rumors about being called that nearly all are getting St. Vitus dance. The only way to keep from developing nervous prostration is to plug your ears and put on blinders so that rumors have no effect. COMMENDATION FOR MR. BRAITHWAITE "Literary tasters are coming to be public functionaries we can hardly do without. For those who have not the time to search the periodical press for the best poetry and fiction, like Mr. Braithwaite and Mr. O'Brien, who pick out 'the best' of the year's verse and short stories, and ought to have our applause for their self-imposed task."—Literary Digest. Mr. Braithwaite is one of the race. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. THE WASHING Omaha's Premier Groc High Quality. Honest Have you paid a visit to McCrory's 5 an THE WASHINGTON MARKET "The Big Store at the Same Place." Tyler 470 The Warden H On Sixteenth Street at Cuming. STEAM HEATED ROOMS—HOT AND COLD RUNNING WAY By Day for One.....50c. 75 By Day for Two.....$1.00. $1.2 By Week.....$2.00 BILLIARD PARLOR IN CONNECTION FOR GENTLEMEN EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO HEART OF C Douglas 6332. Charles H. 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EDWARDS, M. D. I have had my barber work done at the Alamo Barber Shop ever since it opened. I find it to be up-to-date and sanitary in every respect. Never saw a better bunch of well behaved men than you see there. You wouldn't know the pool tables were there if you didn't hear the clatter of the balls. SERGEANT ISAAC BAILEY. We of the North Side can boast of the finest shop in the city, something that has long been needed, and with a competent man at the wheel. You can't bet, if Mr. Price knows it. Betting on pool games has been proven to be the source of 99 per cent of all trouble in pool halls, which has been the ruination of all barber shops combined. I welcome a man like him, with the makeup of General Grant—doesn't talk, but does things. W. A. SCOTT, 2430 Lake Street. The Alamo Barber Shop at 2416 North Twenty-fourth street, owned and conducted by Killingsworth & Price, is an improvement over all the other establishments of its kind, for the following reasons: They keep it neat; it has at all times a business air. They deserve special credit for having been able to eliminate roughness. T. R. MAHAMMITT. If any one should have told me that a barber shop could be run in a pool hall as the Alamo has, I would not have believed it. I see the reason. There is no betting allowed on the pool games, therefore no fights. The fence makes the shop a different department altogether. Mr. Price is a wonderful man. JAMES C. DONLEY. It is with great pleasure that I recommend to the public the Alamo Barber Shop. I have had my work done there ever since it opened. I can truly say it is one of the nearest of its kind in the West. I have seen nothing wrong in the conduct of that place. Mr. Price is a potent factor in this city. JOHN W. LONG. The Alamo Barber Shop feels grateful to the men who have expressed themselves for publication concerning things they have seen for themselves. The management assures all that we will continue in the future as we have in the past. It is the aim of the management to give to the public the best shop, best workmen, best regulated and best managed, not only in this town, but in any other town. There will be additional improvements in the near future. Some that are unknown to the Colored barber shops in this section of the country. It will not be long before everything that is required to make a barber shop first-class in every respect can be had at the Alamo. The management is not holding back for anything. Our hearts are in the business and we are forcing our way to the front. We have nothing to regret at our investment. We feel thankful to the people who have patronized us and welcomed us. The mere saying that a barber shop cannot be run first-class connected with a pool hall is quibbling. The wives who accompany their husbands to our place, the ladies who get their faces massaged, mothers who bring their dear ones and make themselves at home, speak in loud tones in our behalf. The shop is already known from Coast to Coast, through the fame of the proprietors and The Monitor. Will say for Mr. Killingsworth, he is one of the best barbers and business men I ever met. He answered the call of his country without even a word of protest. If this country was scoured from the rugged coast of Maine to the Golden Gates of California, even into the everglades of Florida, his superior could not be found. Let us hope that Mr. Killingsworth will soon return; that he and his partner once more may join hands in the business which they have founded. Tyler 470 Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards HE GOES BY, SINGING He goes by, singing through the storm, An early worker on his way; (I'm lying, her secure and warm, Tis scarcely yet the break of day.) He goes by, singing in the rain; (An open window brings the tune) For all the joy in his refrain, It might be radiant morn of June! He goes by singing, cold and wet; Can nothing daunt his spirit, then? No hopeless thought, no vain regret, No envy of his fellow men? Thanks, unknown singer, for the song; My heartfelt thanks for that brave lay Which blotted out the pain and wrong, And ushered in the working day! —Anon. Fried mush and syrup made from the juices of preserves make a mighty fine breakfast. Hominy is good also served with prunes. The taste will be satisfactory and there will be little need of the doctor. It is said that the unpolished rice is better for the health than the polished rice. TON MARKET ery and Meat Market. Weight. Low Prices. our new establishment at 10 Cent Store Den Hotel Street at Cuming. COLD RUNNING WATER—BATHS 50c, 75c, $1.00 $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 $2.00 to $4.50 FOR GENTLEMEN WHO CARE PACE TO HEART OF CITY Charles H. Warden, Proprietor. rominen 1407 Douglas Extraordinary Sales of things you need right now, all at the very lowest prices. Begins On Monday Next Complete Stocks of Draperies, Art Wares and Rugs at very modest prices. Brandeis Stores Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Funeral Home G, W. OBEE, Mgr. J. H. Wakefield, Secy.NAT. HUNTER, Treas. Embalmer Phone 2614 Res. Tel. Web. 4740 The Monitor Advertisers Deserve Your Patronage We of the North Side can boast of the finest shop in the city, something that has long been needed, and with a competent man at the wheel. You can't bet, if Mr. Price knows it. Betting on pool games has been proven to be the source of 99 per cent of all trouble in pool halls, which has been the ruination of all barber shops combined. I welcome a man like him, with the makeup of General Grant—doesn't talk, but does things. W. A. SCOTT, 2430 Lake Street. The Alamo Barber Shop at 2416 North Twenty-fourth street, owned and conducted by Killingsworth & Price, is an improvement over all the other establishments of its kind, for the following reasons: They keep it neat; it has at all times a business air. They deserve special credit for having been able to eliminate roughness. T. P. MAHAMMITT. It is with great pleasure that I recommend to the public the Alamo Barber Shop. I have had my work done there ever since it opened. I can truly say it is one of the nearest of its kind in the West. I have seen nothing wrong in the conduct of that place. Mr. Price is a potent factor in this city. JOHN W. LONG. R. C. PRICE A. B. All other times call Douglas 8103, main office and calls will be answered at once. We belong to most all Fraternal orders. PETER B. BROWN Events and Persons Rev. W. C. Williams left Monday night for St. Louis, where he will attend the wedding of his daughter, Miss Grace Williams, who is a public school teacher in that city. Miss Iva Miller, who has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Burton, has returned to her home in Highland, Kan. The Dorcas Kensington met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. L. Taylor, 2817 Miami street. Following the business session current events were discussed, Mrs. O. Sapho leader. The ladies had many dainty articles on display. They are sewing each week, preparing for a bazaar to be held in the late spring. The Silver Leaf club will give a nationality entertainment at the residence of Mrs. Ella Smith, 2531 Hamilton street, Saturday, March 2. Any one wishing to take part call Webste: 1760. Public cordially invited. Frank Golden has secured an interest in the Obee-Hunter-Wakefield Funeral Home (People's Undertaking company) and takes this method of letting his many friends known and to solicit their goodwill and co-operation. He will be the auditor of the company. —Ady. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Webster 5519 or Douglas 2842. William Patrick of Aurora was in the city last week with a carload of fine hogs. They came within 10 cents of topping the market. Mrs. L. C. Sayles has gone to Little Rock, Ark., to visit her parents. Attend the community chorus at St. Philip's church at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Bert Patrick has accepted the position of business manager for The Monitor. A baby boy was left at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Johnson last Saturday night. It was turned over to the authorities, who placed it in the Child Saving institute. Meivin Harrison, 13 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Harrison, at 1506 North 26th St., was knocked down by an automobile Saturday evening at 24th and Charles and was seriously injured. Mothers, attention: Owing to the high cost of cotton goods, have your children's clothes bill cut by calling Webster 7034.—Adv. 3t Mrs. Ella Starns, after a very pleasant stay of two weeks in our city, left Monday afternoon for her home in Kansas City. Mrs. Starns was the guest of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Craig, 2320 North 27th St. OPENS HAIR DRESSING PARLOR Madame Jacobs, who has recently come to Omaha from the Moler Hairdressing college of Chicago, desires to announce to the public that she is ready to do hairdressing and has opened parlors at 1910 North Twenty-seventh street. She will respond to outside calls. COME! HEAR! BELIEVE! The great evangelistic drive on sin will begin March 3 at Zion Baptist church, 2215 Grant street. The preaching will be done the first ten days by Dr. T. L. Griffith of Topeka, Kan. The following subjects will be discussed, namely: "Getting Ready for the Big Meeting." "Ministerial War Aims." "The Kingdom Keys." "Down Jericho Road." "All Things Are Yours." "The Lowering and Transforming Gaze." "The Matchless Name." "When Forgetting Has a Spiritual Value." Everybody welcome. May I meet you there? Sunday was delightful in every way and not only the past Sunday but the month as a whole was splendid along all lines that come under the head of church activities—the Dorcas Kensington, the Silver Leaf, the Busy Bee, the Sunday school and the Sunshine Missionary Circle. There have been large additions and many visitors. Amount of money taken in for the month, $146.72. Sunday morning will be covenant, baptism, fellowship and communion. At night the pastor will speak by request, from the theme, "Evidence of True Love." Our revival meetings will come off some time during the latter part of this month. The exact date will be announced later. Miss Irene Lafayette and Mrs. Fannie Goodlett have been able to be out of bed. Mr. H. D. Maxey met with a serious fall Friday week and is confined to his home, 3310 Ohio street. The public is cordially invited to worship with us. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH From the interest manifested the past two Sundays it would seem that each one was trying to find his proper place in order to be able to do his share in the special meeting mentioned in this issue. There have been twenty additions to the church. The pulpit was occupied Sunday morning by Rev. Brother Matthews. In the evening Pastor Botts preached on "Conquest Through Sacrifice." Needless to say, he did justice to the theme. Join the increasing crowds every Tuesday evening and come to the Bible class in the rest room of the church. The Mission Circle met this week with Mrs. M. LaCoy on Twenty-seventh avenue. Interesting discussions are held each meeting. The topic for discussion next week is, "How Did Jesus Attract and Hold the People?" Covenant at 10:30 Sunday and the administration of the Lord's supper from 3 to 4 in the afternoon. Special sermon at night and good music by the choir. Strangers are cordially invited to worship with us. NEWS OF BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH Twenty-ninth and T Streets, South Side; Rev. T. A. Taggart, Pastor. The pastor is preaching a series of sermons on "The Seven Seals of Revelation," one seal each Sunday night. He preached on the second seal last Sunday night to an overflowing audience. Sunday morning service, 10:45. The sermon topic will be, "The Unknown God." B. Y. P. V., 6 p. m. Sunday night, "The Third Seal." Preaching, 8 p. m. The Mission Circle met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Irvin, 2808 R street. Mrs. Bessie Johnson, who has been in the hospital for the past two weeks, is improving and hopes to be home some time this week. Mrs. Cheeks, who has been on the sick list for some time, is doing nicely. Charlie Brown of Thirty-first and V streets fell Saturday evening and fractured his leg, and will be unable to be out for some time. The Famous Toussaint Dramatic club is coming forth again into the limelight with their new play Thursday night, March 28, at the A. O. U. W. temple, Twenty-fifth and Mstrees, South Side. Title, "The Risen Lord." Composed and written by Rev T. A. Taggart. Admission, 25 cents.—Adv. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH NOTES Sunday was quarterly meeting day. The morning and evening sermons were preached very beautifully by Elder King. The sacramental sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Stoner of Council Bluffs. Two hundred and six persons communed. The total collection for the day was $285.26. The quarterage was $91.75. The total amount of money taken in this quarter was $2,780.25. Don't fail to attend the musical and literary concert March 5, under the auspices of Division No. 4 of the Canadian Pacific railroad. Mrs. Lena Moore, conductor; Mrs. Jennie Duncan, superintendent. The sick of the church are Mesdames Ewing, Williams, Mr. Hansett and little Jessie Lee Glover. The W. W. had a very delightful George Washington celebration Friday afternoon at the church. Watch the bulletin boards at St. John's. Don't miss miss Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong March 18 at St. John's. N. W. C. A. NOTES The George Washington luncheon given at the Old Folks' Home Wednesday, February 20, under the direction of Mrs. Florence Johnson and Mrs. R. K. Lawrie, was a decided success both socially and financially. The ladies served a most delicious lunch to nearly 100 persons during the afternoon and realized a neat sum with which to purchase linens for the home. There will be a regular meeting at the home Wednesday, March 6, at 3 o'clock. All members are urged to be present. FRELING & STEINLE It gives us great pleasure to call our readers' attention to the reliable firm of Freling & Steinle, who deal in trunks, traveling bags, valises and leather goods in general. This firm is one of our steady advertisers. They appreciate the patronage of our people. Look up their ad and when you want anything in their line be sure to look over their stock. Don't forget to mention The Monitor, the business-getter. THE MONITOR N. Harden, here given that the creditors of said deceased will meet the administratrix of said estate, before me, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said County, on the 18th day of April, 1918, and on the 18th day of June, 1918 at 9 o'clock a. m., each day, for the purpose of presiding over the adjustment and allowance. Three months are allowed for the creditors to present their claims, from the 17th day of March, 1918. Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Fridays of every month. Lodge room 24th and Charles. P. H. Jenkins, W. M.; W. H. Robinson, Secretary. Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P., Omaha, Nebr. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. H. A. Hazzard, C. C., J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Weeping Willow Lodge No. 9596, G. U. O. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month at U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Charles. R. S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. International Order No. 631 Colored Engineers and Portable Hoisting Enginemen meets at 2225½ Lake street first and third Wednesday in each month. W. H. T. Ransom, president; J. H. Headly, Cor. Sec.; J. H. Moss, Rec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent for the Celebrated Madame Walker Preparations. The Walker Method Taught. Diplomas Granted. Phone Webster 1489 2304 N. 25th St. Omaha, Neb. MELCHOR--Druggist The Old Reliable Tel. South 807 4826 So. 24th St. Liberty Drug Co. EVERYBODY'S DRUG STORE B. Robinson, Manager 1904 No. 24th St. Webster 386 Omaha, Neb. The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars, Candies and a full line of Druggist Swadies TEACHES PIANO AND VOICE Special Attention to Beginners Terms Reasonable. Eagle Baggage & Express Co. A. W. ANDERSON Auto or Horse Service Quick Delivery Webster 4777 1831 N. 22nd St. Our Spring HATS Are Now Here WOLF 1421 Douglas St. Phones: Office, Douglas 3841; Residence, Harney 2156 Reference—Any Judge of the District Court of Douglas County. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 640 Bee Bldg. Omaha, Neb. Thompson, I The Fashion Wo Established 1886 LODGE DIRECTORY Come to St. Philip's church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock for the community chorus. ALAMO DELUXE ICE CREAM GARDEN Open Every Evening Cabaret Entertainment Special Dance Every Monday and Thursday Evening. De Luxe Matinee Every Sunday Afternoon KILLINGSWORTH BROS. Webster 2861 Proprietors Madame Jacobs From Moler College, Chicago Magic HAIR GROWER Webster 2320 1910 No. 27th St. Will Answer Outside Calls. The Jones Poro Culture College Positively Grows the Hair FORMULATED 1900 "PORO" HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs Amber Durho Malone ST LOUIS MISSOURI FOR DARDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP, GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUDENT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF BOX ADOPTED JUNE 19TH NET WT. 3.0 ZOZ PRICE 50 CENTS Try our scientific method of treating the scalp. We positively grow hair on money refunded. Electric massage for scalp and face. System taught. Sterilized equipment. Steam heated booths. All work private. MRS. ANNA EVANS JONES 1516 North 24th St. Webster 5450 Harney 5100 Buy Good Groceries From Your Own Groceryman J. L. BETTS 2526 Lake St. Web, 5262 HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MORE? JAY BURNS BAKING CO. OMAHA TRANSFER CO. "The Only Way" BAGGAGE Checked to Destination WHEN IN TEMPLE, TEXAS STOP WITH Mrs. J. S. Dawson 218 South 4th Street Who gains pleasure in making you comfortable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Write or wire for accommodation. Belden & Co. n Center for men --- TEXAS Shoe Sale Saturday! Broken lines, all sizes Similar sold at $9, $10 and $12 One Price $3.85 Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. SPECIAL Table D'hote Dinner Sunday 50 Cents Phone Webster 2421 Dunham & Dunh MAKERS OF THE BEST $15.00 SUITS AND OVERCOATS IN THE WOR REPAIRING, CLEANING AND PRESSURE 118 South 15th Street. On Hotel Cuming 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reason D. G. Russell Douglas 2466 & Dunham S OF THE BEST $15.00 DERCOATS IN THE WORLD CLEANING AND PRESSING Omaha, Neb. SUITS AND OVERCOATS IN THE WORLD REPAIRING, CLEANING AND PRESSING 1916 CUMING STREET Comfortable Rooms—Reasonable Rates D. G. Russell, Proprietor GROVE METHODIST CHURCH 22nd and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. A Poor Portrait IS DEAR AT ANY PRICE, BUT A GOOD ONE IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY. OURS ARE GOOD AND YET NOT EXPENSIVE. MAKE THE APPOINTMENT TODAY. Butters' Studio Webster 6701 1306 North 24th St. --- A Church Where All Are Welcome Services Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m.; 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Monday afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon Ladies' Aid, Friday Afternoon. GRIFFIN G. LOGAN. Res. 1638 N. 23d Web. 5093 A LOYAL SHOE STORES GREATEST SALE For Ten Days Only, Starting Saturday, March 2d. At Our New Location, 308 North 16th Street, Edwards Hotel Building. One Block North of Postoffice. Our entire stock of Men's and Women's Shoes will be placed on sale at less than manufacturers' prices. As an introduction, to acquaint the public with our new location, we offer the following EXTRA SPECIALS for Saturday: 4 South Side Notes Mrs. E. Wiggins is still on the sick list, although much improved. Mr. Richard Moderson of Thirty-second and U street died Wednesday morning at his home of pneumonia. He and his family are strangers from Mississippi. He leaves a wife and a daughter. Jones & Chiles have charge of the body. Mrs. R. Hilton's brother, who came here about a week ago from Chicago, has decided to make this his home at least for a time. Baby Alston, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Alston, is quite sick at their home, 2627 Jefferson street. Mrs. Birdie Lollis, who again, underwent a slight operation for her arm, is doing nicely. She is able to be out again. The family of Mr. J. A. McGough who have been quarantined with smallpox, discovered the house on fire Thursday from a defective chimney and were badly frightened, but the firemen soon put the fire out. The Allen chapel, A. M. E. Aid society, was entertained very nicely by Mrs. S. Stapleton at her home. The Aid will be entertained this week by Mrs. Severe at 4421 South Twenty-sixth street. Quite a number from South Side attended the quarterly meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church last Sunday, afternoon. Mr. Nathanial Mitchell, who has been down with the rheumatism for about two months, is able to be out a little. Mrs. Bessie Johnson is getting along as well as could be expected. She is still at the hospital. Mrs. M. Davis of Thirty-second and U street is sick. It is thought she has lung trouble. The patriotic party given by the younger set of South Side at A. O. U. W. temple last Thursday night was well attended and a well spent evening for the girls and boys. The evening was spent in games and dancing, Ice cream, dainty cakes and chocolate was abundantly served. Those present were: Misses Beatrice McGowan Mattie Hendricks, Willie Hendricks Messrs. Frank Moore, Robert Green, Louis Grant, Pressly Gambol, Clyde Cochran, Willie Wright, Oscar Hawkins, Otto Clark of North Side, Misses Iler, Myers, Myrtle Fisher, Corasia Broomfield, Cerilda Tucker, Frankki Jackson, Louise Johnson, Messrs. John Widby, James Gray, Virgil Davis Frank Tucker, Leroy Broomfield and Eugene Reed. Lincoln Department The Colored Girls' Patriotic club's valentine party was very successful. The clubrooms were decked in gay colors to suit the occasion. After the games and roller skating a dainty lunch was served. Sunday, March 3, is set aside for women's day. There will be a big rally at the A. M. E. church. Programs will be rendered during afternoon and evening. Mrs. Sarah Walker has been quite ill for the last week, but she is improving. Mrs. Jasper Wright has been on the sick list for the last week and is still a little indisposed. Eugene Nichols has been elected captain of the literary society, which is a white society, in Lincoln High school. The duty of the captain is to direct all literary work. Mrs. Henry Crews has returned from Junction City, Kan. She spent some time at Camp Funston and reports things as pretty lively there. Mr. Richard Williams has returned to Sedalia, Mo., where he will stay indefinitely. The body of the late Mr. George Miller is expected to arrive in Lincoln about the 1st of March for burial. Young's Pantorium, which has been formerly located at 219 North 9th St., will now be found at 219 North 10th St. Phile L 7664. Order your Easter suits now. Eliminate so-called war prices. The D. M. S. met with Mr. Sanford Falling last Friday, February 23. Several new officers were elected. President, Sanford Falling; vice president, Viola Walker; sergeant-at-arms, Reuben Murray. The other officers were not changed. The A. M. E. church has started a movement in preparation for an Easter cantata, which was a grand success last year. Lieutenant Victor Hicks of Camp Funston was the guest of Miss Dorothy Flippen. Lieutenant Hicks reports things are going fine with him at camp. Charlie Jones and Jasper Brown were up from Funston last week. Mr. I. B. Colby and Mr. John Galbreath are opening a cafeteria and soda fountain on North Tenth street. They will be open for business about March 15. Corporal Frank H. Burden was down from Camp Funston Sunday to visit his sisters and brothers. He also spent a few hours in Crete with Judge Hastings and other friends, and also a few hours in Wilbur with friends. All welcomed him as a defender of democracy. Mr. Burden was given an excellent boost in the white paper, which gave many good elements of his character. ATCHISON, KANSAS Mrs. Mary Moore, widow of the late Henry Moore, who died two weeks ago, died Monday morning at 6 o'clock at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Will Kelly, 1011 Spring street. She had been ill for several months. Her death is mourned by all who knew her. She is survived by one daughter and two sons. Funeral Wednesday, 2:30 p. m., at Ebenezer Baptist church, under the auspices of the Daughters of the Tabernacle, Rev. W. H. Hill officiating. A good crowd gathered at Port William district school house last Friday in a patriotic mass meeting. H. C. Buchanan, veteran of the civil war, told how easy they could have whipped the Germans in those days. G. H. Ross told how easy the Indians were gotten rid of. Gene Bell spoke of present conditions. Charles Ferguson pleaded for patriotism. J. D. Saunders urged all to buy thrift stamps. Miss V. Saunders, district teacher, served refreshments after the program. The Utopian Art club will meet with Mrs. J. D. Colbert next week. J. Bell and Mr. and Mrs. S. Reynolds, all members of the jazz band of St. Joseph, were the guests of William Cornell Sunday. Mrs. Lemuel Brown of St. Joseph visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Taylor, last week. Mrs. George Kay of Omaha is visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Irene Johnson of Lexington, Mo., passed through the city Satur- THE MONITOR day, enroute to Omaha, to be with her aunt, Mrs. Minnie Brown, who is indisposed. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Barnes entertained Tuesday evening in honor of Private Anthony Tolbert. Ralph Bailors spent Sunday in Weston, Mo., the guest of Miss Sarah Hamilton. Thomas Jackson of Weston university spent Sunday with his parents. Miss Sarah Bailors, Mrs. C. Montgomery, Mrs. Abram Kerford, Mrs. Robert Jordan and J. F. Shepard are on the sick list. Courtney Waters of St. Joseph visited his mother last week. First-Class Private Arion Tolbert of Camp Funston is visiting his mother. Messrs. Fleming, Fugit and Robertson of Horton were the guests of Miss Chloe Pyles Sunday. Mrs. Clever Arnett and children of Beatrice, Neb., are visiting their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Arion Whitney. S. J. Lay of Grand Island, Neb., is visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gamble and daughter spent Sunday in Kansas City, Mo., with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan went to Horton Sunday to visit Mrs. Jordan's parents. Mr. Harold T. Williams of Pittsburgh, Pa., is here at the aviation field. We wish him great success. Mrs. R. L. Smith, wife of Hon. R. L. Smith, died Sunday, February 24. The funeral was held from St. James' church. Relatives and many friends were in attendance. We extend to the bereaved our sincerest sympathy. Mr. I. Ford passed from this life a few days ago. The funeral was held from the Christian church. Dr. Chandler of Marlin and Miss Minnie L. Sublett were quietly married. We wish for them smooth sailing on life's voyage. Dr. H. L. Smith has a new Buick. Mrs. Belle Henry is yet sick, but glad she is somewhat improved. Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Biggest and Best.—Adv. D. C. PATTERSON, Attorney. NOTICE. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Estate of Hampton Washington, deceased. Persons interested in said Estate. You are hereby notified that the 28th day of February, 108, alleging that Hampton A. Watson died in the year 1005, leaving no will and testament; that at the time of his death he was a resident of Douglas County, Nebraska, and was possessed of the following described real estate, toowit: Lot 47, in Nelson's Addition to Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, as platted and recorded; that your petitioner is interested in said estate as an heir to one-third interest therein; that petitioner prays that a hearing be had on said petition and that notice thereof be given as provided by law, and that upon said hearing a decree of helship be entered finding that the sole heirs of Hampstead, Howard O. Watson, Howard O. Watson, Howard O. Watson and your petitioner, all being the sons and only daughter of deceased; and that further administration be dispensed with. You are, therefore, notified that a hearing will be had on said petition at the County Court Room of said County on the 30th day of March, 1918, at the hour of 9 o'clock a. m. and that if you fail to appear and contest the said petition the county grant the grant to the cree of chief, and decree that further administration of said estate be dispensed with. BRYCE CRAWFORD, (35-37) County Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Elizabeth Harden, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the creditors of said deceased will meet the ex-executrix of said estate, before me. County Court Room, 1000 W. 10th St., the County Court Room, in said County. WACO. TEXAS PROBATE NOTICE on the 18th day of April, 1918, and on the 18th day of June, 1918, at 9 o'clock a. m., each day, for the purpose of presenting their claims for examination, adjustment and allowance. Three months are allowed for the creditors to present their claims from the 17th day of March, 1918. Classified Advertising Classified Advertising RATES—1 1/2 cents a word for single insertions, 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement for less than 15c. Cash should accompany advertisement. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Weoster 5519 or Douglas 2842. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Furnished rooms in strictly modern house. Men preferred. 814 North 23r street. Red 8156. Mrs. Ida Cary. First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Ann Banks, 924 North 20th st. Doug. 437... NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS 1217½ and 1219½ So. 16th St. Phone Douglas 8730 J. LOGAN. Two furnished rooms, 2415 Indiana avenue. Tyler 3399-W. Modern furnished rooms to gentlemen in private home. H. L. Anderson, 2914 Lake street. Webster 3171. For Rent—Two furnished rooms, strictly modern, 1923 North 27th St. Webster 3150. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Webster 2058. Neatly furnished rooms in a private home. Modern except heat. Men only . Webster 1760. For Rent.—Nice front room, 2521 Miami in private family. Neatly furnished rooms, 1842 North 27th St. Call Webster 2812. First-class modern furnished rooms. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 1702 North Twenty-sixth street. Phone Webster 4769. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. Annie Banks Cecil B. Wilkes BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming Street Res. Doug. 4379, Office Doug. 3718 PATTON HOTEL AND CAFE N. A. Patton, Proprietor 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS Res. Colfax 3831 Douglas 3181 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 3807 Camden Avenue. Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled NOUTH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE Auction Every Saturday R. B. Rhodes Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold Rental and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Webster 7971 DR. P. W. SAWYER Dentist 220 So. 13th St. Phone Doug. 7150 Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES & CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. Graduate of N. E. Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass. Florentine F. Pinkston Teacher of Pianoforte, Harmony, Solfeggio Webster 2814 Boston Studio 2214 No. 28th Ave. Omaha. DR. CRAIG MORRIS DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4024 TERRELL'S DRUG STORE Graduate Pharmacist Prompt Delivery Excellent Service Webster 4443 24th and Grant BRYCE CRAWFORD. County Judge HOUSES FOR SALE OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS, 1206-8 Douglas St. Phone Tyler 20 NORTH SIDE BOOSTERS The Alamo Barber Shop and Pocket Billiard Parlor The best equipped shop in the state. Most capable and courteous barbers. The only Colored shop in the state built on the latest pattern. Everything sanitary. Shop department open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. We carry a full line of Choice Cigars and Tobaccos, Candles and Chewing Gum. TRUNKS Made from good clear lumber, covered with fibre; well bound on edges. Durable corners and braces where necessary. Sturdy locks and hinges, 2 trays nicely cloth lined. Priced at $10.00, $12.00, $13.50 and $15.00. "Omaha's Best Baggage Builders" The People's Drug Store DRUGS, CIGARS AND SODA Toilet and Rubber Goods Special Attention to Prescriptions We Carry a Full Line of Face and Hair Preparations. Nelson's Hair Dressing ..... 25c Elite Hair Pomade ..... 25c Aida Hair Pomade ..... 30c eileen Pomade ..... 25c Pleouch's Hair Dressing ..... 25c Hygienic Hair Grower ..... 60c Ford's Hair Grower ..... 25c Palmer's Skin Whitener ..... 25c Palmer's Skin Success ..... 25c Black and White Skin Oint. ..... 25c Rozal Bleach ..... 25c WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO OMAHA FOR Good Shoe Repairing TRY H. LAZARUS, 2019 Cuming St Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Debt Tyler 160 Cuming St. Start Saving Now One Dollar will open an account in the Savings Department C. S. JOHNSON 18th and Izard Tel. Douglas 1702 ALL KINDS OF COAL and COKE at POPULAR PRICES. Best for the Money C. J. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents' Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb GOOD GROCER C. P. WESIN Also Fresh Frui 2005 Cuming St. REPAIRS AND STOVES, HEATERS, FU PROMPT SERVICE- Water Fronts and Wat OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS, NORTH SIDI Sergt.-Major E. W. Killingsworth At Camp Funston The Alamo Barber Shop The best equipped shop in the state. The only Colored shop in the state of sanitary. Shop department open from to 12 p.m. We carry a full line of C Chewing Gum. KILLINGSWORTH C. B. MAY Phone Webster 5784. We Have a Complete Line of FLOWER, GRASS AND GARDEN Seeds Bulbs, Hardy Perennials, Poultry Supplies Fresh cut flowers always on hand Stewart's Seed Store 119 N. 16th St. Opp. Post Office Phone Douglas 977 STANEK'S PHARMACY Henry Stanek, Prop. PRESCRIPTION EXPERT Cor. 24th and L Sts. Tel. So. 878 Petersen & Michelsen Hardware Co. GOOD HARDWARE 2408 N St. Tel. South 162 Neatly Furnished Rooms Modern Conveniences With or Without Board Telephones. Doug. 9458. Doug. 8703 The Booker T. Washington Hotel Mrs. Laura Cuerington, Propr. In Connection with THE WASHINGTON CAFE 1719-21 Cuming Street Omaha J. A. Edholm E. W. Sherman Standard Laundry 24th, Near Lake Street Phone Webster 130 C. H. MARQUARDT CASH MARKET Retail Dealer in Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Oysters, etc. 2003 Cuming St. Doug. 3834 Home Rendered Lard. We Smoke and Cure our own Hams and Bacon. OMAHA THE OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSE PRINTING COMPANY Open All Times. Reasonable Prices The Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home The Place for Quality and Service Licensed Embalmer in Attendance Webster 248 2518 Lake St. I TAKE PLEASURE in thanking you for your patronage. I want your trade solely upon the metis of my goods. You will profit by trading here. H. E. YOUNG Webster 515 2114-16 N. 24th St. BRIES ALWAYS GROCERY CO. Furnaces and Vegetables. Telephone Douglas 1098 SUPPLIES FOR FURNACES AND BOILERS MODERATE PRICES For Heating Attachments 1206-8 Douglas St. Phone Tyler 20 BOOSTERS A. R. C. Price At Home on the Job. And Pocket Billiard Parlor Most capable and courteous barbers. Lifts on the latest pattern. Everything 8 a. m. to 11 p. m. Saturdays 8 a. m. Nice Cigars and Tobacco, Candies and & PRICE, Props., Foreman. 2416 North 24th Street