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Woman Is Shot While Protecting Baby Moorfield Story Denounces Washington's Segregation LIFTING LIFT TOO State Historical Soc. 01.01 $2.00 a Year Woman Moorfield Store Washington New York—Moorfield Storey, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has written a letter to Hubert Work, U. S. Secretary of the Interior, warning him that colored voters are determined to end segregation in the government departments in Washington and that votes will be cast against candidates responsible for a segregation policy. Mr. Storey's letter in full is as follows: Dear Mr. Work: I was very much amazed at your reply to Mr. Thomas' representation in regard to the segregation of the white and colored employees in your department, and your suggestion that the colored employees would not make any fuss if the outsiders did not interfere. There are now upwards of twelve million colored American citizens in this country who have, under the constitution and law, every right which belongs to their white fellow citizens. There is a systematic movement all over the country from white people to deny those rights. There is one movement to prevent their living in the same neighborhood with white people, although the supreme court has declared that any statute to that effect violates the constitution. Another movement is made to exclude them from public parks, public bathing places, theatres, restaurants and other public places. Still a third would keep them out of public buildings or give them very inferior accommodations, and in portions of the country they are lynched and their property rights interfered with, but there is no adequate attempt to enforce their rights in the courts. A law which will give the United States courts jurisdiction of lynching has passed the House of Representatives and would pass the Senate if it came to a vote, but it was defeated by filibustering. These movements against our fellow citizens exasperate a great many YOU HIT TWO NEGROES WITH ONE STONE There was a time and not long ago when one Negro was struck, he was just struck, and that was all there was to it. One man was killed and that settled it. How different today among our group. You may now strike one member of our group, and the insignificant, but at once he springs into prominence. Strike one of the group and the waves of interest will begin to widen until men and women of color will be aroused in every state in the union. Our most recent demonstration is the case of Edward Glass. Our militant organization has done more to stir the blood of the group to self-defense than all other agencies combined. We speak unhesitatingly of the N. A. A. C. P. The men and women who officer this organization are a militant set. They are fearless. They go into a matter with the courage to back their convictions. And they generally get results. If Glass is taken back to Oklahoma, the efforts of our group will have triumphed anyway. The country will be taught the lesson that there is a new power in the making, a new energy is being generated, and the power of our group-action must be reckoned with.—The California Voice. AWARDED $6,500 IN THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND Cleveland, Ohio. — Judgment for $6,500 was returned by a jury in favor of Mrs. Cliff Mundy in a damage suit growing out of the death of her husband at the Ferro Foundry Company, June, 1926. Cliff Mundy died from the effects of becoming overheated while working for the Ferro Foundry company. Mrs. Mundy in her petition blamed the foundry for his death, due to negligence of providing proper ventilation in the plant. THE MONITOR leading Americans, and we are determined that these movements shall stop. Mr. Coolidge has repeatedly given voice to strong expressions of sympathy addressed perhaps to Negro conventions and other gatherings of colored people, but nothing has been done to carry out those expressions and the exasperation has increased in consequence. From the time the Civil War ended through the administrations of Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison and Roosevelt there was no segregation in the departments. Black and white stood alike in the service of the United States at Washington. Beginning with Mr. Taft's declaration that he would not appoint a colored person to office in any community where colored men were not desired there has been a steady segregation, and the practice which was good enough for Lincoln and Cleveland is now abandoned by the government officials in Washington. The whole movement against the rights of the colored people flourishes under the example of the Republican officers in Washington, and if we say to any community that this segregation shall stop and that it is unconstitutional, the answer can be made—"Why, the government officers in Washington are segregating, and the President justifies it, or does nothing to prevent it." It is proper that you should understand that this practice is very bitterly condemned by a great many American citizens, and they are determined that in the forthcoming election the colored vote shall be cast against all who favor these practices, or who having the power do nothing to stop it. This will affect everybody who takes part in the segregation enforcement, and it must be understood that the colored voters are determined now to vote so as to secure their rights, and to make every one who denies them feel their opposition. AIKEN LYNCHING NOT YET DEAD ISSUE IN SOUTH CAROLINA New York.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 69 Fifth avenue, receives intimations that the lynching in Aiken, S. C., last October, of three members of the Lowman family is not yet a dead issue in that state. One correspondent of the N. A. A. C. P. forwards an editorial from the Columbia (S. C.) State, of October 10, which reads as follows: Blood Brothers "Wonder if that Aiken man who on Saturday shot to death his infant child and wounded the Negro woman who was attempting to shield the infant was one of the ex-members of the noble band of lynchers that about a year ago, in behalf of law and justice and in order that Anglo-Saxon supremacy should be maintained, did to death three helpless prisoners, one of whom was a woman? "The latest achievement of this exalted citizen would seem, indisputably, to link him with that gallant group of patriots who did so much to focus national attention upon Aiken in the declining months of 1926. Certainly if he was not with them in person he was there in spirit. His type is drawn as needle to magnet to the ranks of lynchers. Saturday he was but running true to form; that finest lynching form, when copious portions of liquor have washed away whatever slight veneer may have been laid by rudimentary civilization, and left the human as unhampered by sensibilities as the most original of the glorious aborigines who lived on all fours with the beasts of the jungle. "Yes, gallant lynchers, claim Child Killer as your brother; Child Killer, give the bloody hand of fellowship and fraternity to those compatriots who glory in the slaughter of man-aced prisoners snatched from the palsied hands of the law of South Carolina." OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1927 EDITORIAL Do you not think that we tions of the same denomination Well, we do. We have been of believe that if the denomination numbers belong were reduced in combinations or mergers much done. To be specific: There are congregations among our race a small and struggling congrega mouth existence. The three on Zion, Mt. Moriah and Pilgrim burden of debt, which jeopardize are undoubtedly a heavy tax upgations. The notable exception gregations which is not debt but Green. Would it not relieve ticiency if all the Negro Baptists at least, were to unite in three or unquestionably ought to. We have chosen the Baptist because they excel all others in always mean addition, but as we and efficiency. A searching of heart ame names, might also be product strengthen their work in the co instances are struggling with de Banks and business house frequently find that it cuts dowficiency by merging. The same the same denomination, at least nominations in any given comm culties, but even here there is Christian folk that there are of Christians. Hence, world confait Lausanne, on Faith and On mergers must necessarily wait, Omaha among our race, with l way ought to be found to decree number of our churches. What do you think about wrong? Let us hear from our r Do you not think that we have too many small congregations of the same denominations among our group in Omaha? Well, we do. We have been of this opinion for some time. We believe that if the denominations to which our people in largest numbers belong were reduced in number by wise and judicious combinations or mergers much more effective work could be done. To be specific: There are some fourteen or more Baptist congregations among our race in this city. Most of these are small and struggling congregations, ekeing out a hand-to-mouth existence. The three or four larger congregations, like Zion, Mt. Moriah and Pilgrim, are groaning under a heavy burden of debt, which jeopardizes their existence. These debts are undoubtedly a heavy tax upon the vitality of these congregations. The notable exception among our larger Baptist congregations which is not debt burdened is, we believe, Pleasant Green. Would it not relieve the situation and make for efficiency if all the Negro Baptists in Omaha, on the North Side, at least, were to unite in three or four strong congregations? It unquestionably ought to. We have chosen the Baptist congregations as an example, because they excel all others in multiplication, which does not always mean addition, but as we see it, subtraction in resources and efficiency. A searching of heart among the Methodists, of various names, might also be productive of mergers which would strengthen their work in the community, for they, too, in most instances are struggling with debts. Banks and business houses and firms of the same class, frequently find that it cuts down overhead and makes for efficiency by merging. The same rule applies to churches of the same denomination, at least. The merger of different denominations in any given community is beset with more difficulties, but even here there is a growing sentiment among all Christian folk that there are entirely too many sects among Christians. Hence, world conferences, such as the recent one at Lausanne, on Faith and Orders. But while these larger mergers must necessarily wait, it does seem to us that here in Omaha among our race, with limited resources and income, a way ought to be found to decrease rather than to multiply the number of our churches. What do you think about it? Are we right, or are we wrong? Let us hear from our readers. URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS ON INDUSTRY FOR SEPTEMBER Bulletin No. 18 of the Industrial department of the National Urban League summarizes employment as follows: You could have gotten a rather accurate idea of the depressed state of employment among Negroes in the North during September by visiting any one of the several employment agencies of New York, Chicago and Detroit. Southern conditions could have been witnessed by visiting Atlanta, Jacksonville, Fla., and Winston-Salem, N. C. In each of these cities unemployment did not abate during September. Cleveland is a good gauge. Here according to analysis by the State-City Employment service: "We are convinced that the general public is really very much concerned regarding the trend of employment and also that most of the people who are in position to judge are of the opinion that no very great improvement is in prospect before the first of the year. A comparison with orders received in September 1926 shows a decrease of 31.5 per cent, which proves conclusively that our employment situation while considerably improved over the summer months, does not begin to compare with the situation one year ago." The Industrial department of the Negro Welfare association reported 443 positions filled in September as compared with 578 in September 1926, a decrease of approximately 24 per cent. Reasons for Unemployment Several reasons are assigned for the continued unemployment period, which is displayed not alone by the number of people out of work, but also by the large number who are on part time shifts—working either a limited number of days per week. These reasons are the slowing up in automobile production due to uncertainties surrounding the long expected new Ford car, the psychology which usually accompanies national elections, economic and trade disturbances between the United States and other countries, and the approaching winter months which always cause a shifting within the labor market. Reports from Cities Whatever the cause is, the result is depressing as the following reports show: Harrisburgh. "Men are awaiting the resumption of full activities in have too many small congregations among our group in Omaha? this opinion for some time. We was to which our people in largest number by wise and judicious more effective work could be are some fourteen or more Baptist in this city. Most of these are institutions, ekeing out a hand-to-four larger congregations, like, are groaning under a heavy taxes their existence. These debts upon the vitality of these congregations among our larger Baptist condenred is, we believe, Pleasant the situation and make for effi-irs in Omaha, on the North Side, or four strong congregations? It most congregations as an example, a multiplication, which does not see it, subtraction in resources long the Methodists, of various active of mergers which would community, for they, too, in most debts. and firms of the same class, own overhead and makes for ef-fer rule applies to churches of it. The merger of different demunity is beset with more diffi-ra growing sentiment among all entirely too many sects among references, such as the recent one orders. But while these larger it does seem to us that here in limited resources and income, a lease rather than to multiply the it? Are we right, or are we readers. steel mills." Springfield, Ill. "There is perhaps not a single night but what we have three or four transients in jail for lodging." Tampa, Fla. "A continuation of the inability of many to find work. This is true of white and colored." New York. "All evidence points to the fact that there is much more unemployment prevalent at this time." Fort Wayne, Ind. "A growing feeling among leading colored citizens that new openings must be made." There wer some slight gains during September, as for instance, in Newark, where a novelty company employed bench workers and a dress factory employed machine operators, thereby increasing their number of colored help. Also in Winston-Salem, where skilled bricklayers, cement finishers and carpenters made significant gains. Incidentally, Negro union hod carriers scored over open shop workmen on a 27 story building in Tulsa, Okla. Hotels in two cities, one in Texas and the other in Missouri, decided to use colored orchestras. In Pittsburgh, a new hotel opened with a colored headwaiter and a crew of 30 waiters. Here also the coal strike caused the use of colored operators in mines which hitherto denied Negroes employment. In New York City a large oil company with subsidiaries in various parts of the country has hired its first colored clerk. In Chicago the demand continues for skilled lamp shade workers and power machine operators, fields in which colored girls work in large numbers. EIGHT-YEAR TERM ASKED FOR METHODIST BISHOPS Chicago.—The Rock River Conference of the M. E. church Monday voted to send to the general assembly meeting at Kansas City next May a memorial favoring the appointment of bishops for a single term of eight years instead of for life as at present. A storm of protest was evoked by the resolution. Bishop R. E. Jones and Bishop M. W. Clair are the two colored M. E. bishops. Savannah, Ga. — Georgia State College has recently issued a pamphlet which state that this state leads all other states in the nation with a population of approximately 1,200,000 colored people, and that they pay taxes of $47,000,000 in property. Vol. XIII—Number 17 COLORED WOMAN SHOT TRYING TO PROTECT WHITE BABY'S LIFE Drink-Crazed Father Slays His Own Baby in Arms of Servant Who Risks Her Life in Attempt to Save the Child Aiken, S. C.—Adabelle Curry was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Kinley Willis, a white man, here Friday night when she attempted to prevent Willis from killing his baby. The heroic attempt was in vain as one of the shots fired by the liquor-crazed father snuffed out the life of the child. According to the report given the police, Willis went home Friday night under the influence of liquor. He declared his intention to kill the child, and Mrs. Curry, who works for him, grabbed the child in her arms to shield it, and attempted to escape. Willis overtook her and fired twice, the first shot wounding the woman and the second killing the child. After the shooting, Willis ran into the swamps near his home where he was captured. He is being held for the murder of the child, but his trial is being held up pending the outcome of Mrs. Curry's injuries. PIOUS PROFESSOR HITS USUAL SNAG ON NEGRO PROBLEM Arraigns "White Supremacy" as a "Relic of Barbarism," But Regards Civil Equality as Impossible—Is Strong for Segregation (From the Morning Alberton) The magnitude of the Negro problem in the United States is discussed at great length in a recent book written by Prof. Jerome Dowd of the University of Oklahoma. For 20 years he has given himself to an investigation of this racial question, and at the end of his prodigious research he confesses that the Negro problem can never be solved. However, he thinks it has been greatly mitigated and he has hopes of further improvement largely through what education can do for the Negro. Amalgamation of the two races he sets down as socially impossible and biologically undesirable. Unfortunately, he maintains, certain deep instincts in widely differing race groups prevent any general intermingling. While increase in mulattoes throughout the United States has been marked, it has been due mainly to marriages of Negroes with mulattoes and not with whites. "Why any white person," he says, "should wish for a time when the races of the world will lose all identity and become a single chromatic type passes all understanding, for it is only by each race retaining its individuality and flowering in its particular habitat that the culture of the world can receive its greatest variety and richness of content." Professor Dowd dismisses proposed colonization schemes, such as the plan to remove the American Negroes to Africa, as inconceivable. He does, however, point out the advantages of segregation to the Negro. It creates for him a world of his own where he can fill every position in the community without competition and restriction from the whites. He admits, however, that both the southern and northern Negroes condemn compulsory segregation. The writer strikes the usual snag in a discussion of the problem when he approaches the question of civil equality. He regards it as impossible, and yet white supremacy he calls a "relic of barbarism which should be eliminated by the progress of civilization." But he admits that complete civil rights cannot be allowed the Negro in states where he is numerically in the majority, because that would mean black political control. This the whites would resist, by force if necessary. There is nothing startling in his summing up. He believes that the greatest hope for the Negro lies in the direction of a better understanding of the white people and a greater inclination to co-operate with them in a spirit of good faith and friendship. There is nothing new in this pious sentiment. GROWING THANK YOU 17 Whole Number 639 g Baby TWO NEGRO BANKS OF LONG STANDING FORM A MERGER Memphis Institution Takes New Name and Becomes Strongest In the South Fraternal and Solvent Savings Banks Combine Under New Name and Become Strongest in the South WARD IS ELECTED PRESIDENT Memphis, Tenn.—Merger of the Fraternal Savings Bank and the Solvent Savings Bank, with a paid up capital of $100,000 and combined assets of nearly $1,500,000, making it the largest and strongest Negro bank in the south, was announced Saturday by officers of both institutions. Future name of the bank will be the Fraternal and Solvent Bank and Trust Company. It has opened business in the Solvent Savings Bank building at 197 Beale Avenue, where officers of both institutions will hold open house until the close of banking hours. A. F. Ward, who has been president of the old Fraternal Savings Bank since 1922, will become president of the merged institutions. The board of directors of both banks have been combined giving the new institutions one of the strongest set of Race business men in any southern state. The Fraternal Savings Bank was organized and opened for business February 10, 1910. It began with a small paid up capital. A. F. Ward, who had been in the banking business 22 years, beginning as a clerk in the Alabama Penny Savings Bank at Birmingham, entered the organization of the Fraternal Bank as teller and has filled every position from that to president. He came to Memphis from Birmingham in 1908 with splendid letters of credit from several officers of the largest banks in that city. Today he holds the confidence of all Memphis bankers. The Solvent Savings Bank was organized 23 years ago and was one of the first institutions of its kind in this city. MARSHALL JOINS ATTACK ON FLORIDA'S JURY DISCRIMINATION New York, N. Y.—Louis Marshall, member of the National Legal Committee and of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is to prepare a reply brief to be filed in the state supreme court of Florida, challenging the state's right to execute Abe Washington, a colored man on the ground that deliberate wilful exclusion of colored people from jury service violates the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution and renders the conviction void. S. Decatur McGill, colored attorney of Jacksonville, Florida, is fighting the case. It is Mr. McGill's present intention to carry the case to the United States supreme court if necessary, on appeal. Victory would mean an effective attack on the exclusion of colored men from jury service throughout the southern states. VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT REFUSES HIM ANNULMENT Richmond, Va.—Claiming that his wife deceived him as to her color and that he married her thinking her white, Rosser Jamerson, white, is asking an annulment of his marriage. In his petition, he stated that his wife, Mrs. Cassie Jamerson, told him that the dark color of her skin was due to Indian ancestry. The case was lost in the supreme court of appeals of Virgina, and Jamerson has announced that he will carry the case to the United States supreme court. COFFEYVILLE RIOT CASES ARE CLOSED New York.—According to information received by the N. A. A. C. P. from Elisha Scott, its attorney, the Coffeyville riot cases have been closed. THE M A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED OF COLOREN PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY A MONITOR PUBLISH Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter, J. Nebraska, under the THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS W. W. MOSLEY, Lincoln, Neb. LUCINDA W. 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Telephone WEbster 4243 AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS. The postal regulations require that for newspapers to be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid in advance. A reasonable time, thirty days, is allowed for renewals. At the expiration of this period, where subscriptions are not renewed, the paper must be stopped. If this is not done, postal privileges are denied the publication. Those, therefore, who desire to continue receiving The Monitor must see to it that their subscriptions are paid, as the law requires, in advance. Statements are being sent to all those who owe, or our collector will call—and unless your subscription is paid we will be compelled to cut off your paper which, of course, we do not want to do. We, as publishers, MUST comply with the law or pay the penalty. THE COMMUNITY CHEST The Community Chest campaign is making most promising headway. In three days more than one-third of the quota set has been subscribed, over $160,000 of the required $435,000. To reach the goal, however, there must be no slackening of effort. If you have not given to the Chest be sure to do so before the campaign ends. As a citizen of Omaha it is your job and mine to help fill the Chest. Never mind criticisms—the fellow, as a rule, who criticizes most, is just looking for an excuse not to do his part. It's a big job in which Omaha, like many other cities, is now engaged. The Community Chest has been found to be the best method of doing the organized work of charity and welfare work in the community. Over 300 cities in the United States and Canada have adopted it. It is a good thing. It is a worthy cause. Do your part. We hope that in the home of every one of our people a card stating that we have helped the Community Chest will be found. The Community Chest came headway. In three days more has been subscribed, over $160 To reach the goal, however, the effort. If you have not given to fore the campaign ends. As a and mine to help fill the Ches fellow, as a rule, who criticizes cuse not to do his part. It's a many other cities, is now engagement been found to be the best method of charity and welfare work in the United States and Canada thing. It is a worthy cause. In the home of every one of our people helped the Community Chest w GARY'S Here's wishing success and people in Gary who are fighting inferior educational opportunity upon our people who bear the support of the schools. We, as may be, are interested in Gary we win; they losing, we lose all GARY'S FIGHT Here's wishing success and prophesying success for our people in Gary who are fighting the iniquitous attempt to foist inferior educational opportunities in the schools of that city upon our people who bear their proportion of taxes for the support of the schools. We, as a people, no matter where we may be, are interested in Gary's school fight. They winning, we win; they losing, we lose also. AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING Do you know that most of the trouble in the world comes from misunderstanding? Trouble, too, mean unhappiness, and so most of unhappiness is the result of misunderstandings. If we will only have patience and forbearance enough with one another to try to understand one another a great deal of trouble can be avoided and much unhappiness banished. We have great faith in humanity. We believe that, at heart, most men and women, really want to do the right thing, really want to be just and fair-minded. We all have our peculiarities and there is much of selfishness in all of us, but, nevertheless, underneath all that belies our higher and better nature, there is, we believe, a desire to do right and be fair. If we would only take trouble to iron out our differences and misunderstandings we will all be happier and better. This applies equally to individuals, communities, races and nations. The art of living together is one of the fine arts which must be acquired if the human race is to fulfill its destiny. Let's all try to understand one another and when some misunderstanding does arise, as arise they will, let us get busy on the job of straightening it out. A GOOD MOVE The merchants in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth and Cuming streets have started a good movement. They are seeking to have a better lighted street and the development of the section as a live business section. This does not only apply to the immediate vicinity of Twenty-fourth and Cuming, but it should embrace the district extending from Sixteenth and Cuming west to Thirtieth, and north and south on Twenty-fourth from Cuming. The Monitor has contended that the merchants and business men on North Twenty-fourth street from Cuming to Lake should unite and demand a better lighted street. We are glad to see that those around Twenty-fourth and Cuming are getting busy and we hope that the movement will include a wider territory. There should be a --- PAGE TWO paign is making most promising than one-third of the quota set 0,000 of the required $435,000. there must be no slackening of so the Chest be sure to do so be citizen of Omaha it is your job at. Never mind criticisms—the most, is just looking for an ex-big job in which Omaha, like red. The Community Chest has of doing the organized work the community. Over 300 cities a have adopted it. It is a good do your part. We hope that in people a card stating that we have will be found. FIGHT bad prophesying success for our g the inquisitous attempt to foist cities in the schools of that city their proportion of taxes for the a people, no matter where we's school fight. They winning, so. branch bank somewhere on Twenty-fourth street, too, near Cuming, or Lake. There is much that can and ought to be done to develop a strong retail section in this portion of our city. WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY The Chinese and Mississippi The supreme court of the great and inglorious state of Mississippi has ruled that Chinese are not white, and must be denied the equal privilege of educating their children in the white schools of that state. Henceforth they must be sent to colored schools. As stunning as this blow must be to Chinese pride with a historical background overshadowing that of their Caucasian detractors, they should in reality congratulate themtact and education of the brand to be had in Mississippi schools, dominated by the whites. For the descendants of old China and disciples of Confucius, one of the greatest of world teachers, have much at stake, considering the awak-selves that they have escaped conening of New China and its great fu- SUNDAY SERVICES 7:30 a. m. Holy Communion 10 a. m. Sunday School 11 a. m. Sung Eucharist With Sermon 8 p. m. Service and Sermon ture destiny to contaminate the pure minds of their young by sending them to schools controlled by lynchers, murderers, Klansmen and the bigots of professed Christian leadership, both clerical and lay. Negroes have already been excluded from the white schools of Mississippi. Yet white Nothern Christian philanthropists have built and maintained schools and colleges there in most instances superior to the state schools for Negroes. Good Heard Hi What an often change life! Once I w along the high My soul w heavy forebod with despond I raised my before me rai stiff rows of These schools have prepared their pupils to become good citizens with a fine spirit of tolerance without their minds being poisoned with the prejudices of their oppressors, or their hands being stained with blood of the innocents. The Chinese should congratulate themselves that they have escaped such contacts. It remains to be seen as yet whether the colored brother will welcome the Chinese into his schools or not. For of late years it must be remembered that the Afro-American is developing some airs of his own, the least of which is the tendency toward exclusiveness socially as well as educationally. It is to be hoped, however, that the bars will be let down against these yellow people who find themselves in the dilemma in Mississippi to which we have too long been accustomed, but to the overturning of which by our own initiative, lies our salvation. We congratulate the Chinese of Mississippi as well as sympathize with them.—The Chicago Bee. DID YOU KNOW WE OWNED SO MANY BANKS? There are 80 banks in this country owned and operated by Negroes and have upwards of twenty-two million dollars in deposits. There are at present two banks operated by Negroes, chartered as national banks, according to Major Wright, president of the Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company. One of them is the Douglas National Bank of Chicago, and the other is the Boley National Bank of Boley, Okla. DR. MOTON'S DAUGHTER STUDENT AT OBERLIN Tuskegee Institute.—Miss Catherine R. Moton, daughter of Principal and Mrs. Moton of Tuskegee Institute, has matriculated at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, O. She will major in piano, with harp as her minor. OMEGA PSI PHI TO GIVE CASH PRIZES FOR WORK Washington, D. C.—Cash prizes are to be offered by the Omega Psi Phi fraternity during the organization's observance of Negro Achievement week from November 14 to 20, inclusive, according to Attorney W. H. Mazyck of the fraternity's administrative offices. The awards will be made to the members of the Race who are adjudged to have performed the most noteworthy achievement during the year. WINS WANNAMAKER PRIZE Los Angeles, Cal.—News has been received by Miss Ethyle Gray that her brother, Mr. John A. Gray, now studying in France, is the winner of the second prize given by Rodman Wannamaker through the Curtis Ogden Association of Philadelphia for musical composition. Te was awarded second in the Class of "Melodies and Synchronous Effects" at the Convention of National Association of Negro Musicians, held in St. Louis August 25. Rev. John Albert Williams, Rector Good Heart Can Rout What an unimportant triumph may often change the course of a man's life! Once I was going thoughtfully along the highway. My soul was weighted down by heavy forebodings. I was overcome with despondency. I raised my head . . . straight before me ran the road between two stiff rows of poplars. And across the road, about ten paces in front of me, were hopping in single file a family of sparrows, full of life, merriment and courage. One, in particular, distinguished himself by his bold, sideways hoppings; he stuck out his little breast, and twittered as bravely as if he did not fear the devil himself. A true conqueror! Meanwhile a hawk circled overhead, whose destiny it was, perhaps, to devour this very hero. I looked, was forced to laugh, and regained my self-possession. My gloomy thoughts had vanished; I felt again courage, energy and life. A hawk may be circling over me; but the devil take!—let's keep a good heart!—From Turgener's Poems in Prose." Natives Confirmed in There is a little final touch to a story in the British Medical Journal which should give supporters to the "thirteen superstition" and similar disusions something to think about. It occurs at the end of an account, by a medical officer in West Africa, of how thirteen native women were all struck and killed by lightning while cowering under the same galvanized iron shelter. All the natives, including the driver of the motor lorry which had been sent to remove the bodies to a mortuary, firmly refused to enter the shelter, as there was a prevalent belief that anyone removing the bodies before the "ju-ju" had been appeased by a ceremony of purification by the "thunder women" would die within a week. However, the European manager of the local transport company took the bodies to the mortuary in spite of the warnings he also received. Three days later he was admitted to the European hospital at Acra and died of yellow fever after three days' illness. The origin of the superstition about the unluckiness of the thirteenth person at a table is so old as to be unknown. Thirteen, from earliest times has been a number with mystic associations—like three and seven. Rev. E. Cobham Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" records that: "It is said that the origin of sitting down thirteen at dinner being deemed unlucky is because, at a banquet in Valhalla, Loki once intruded, making thirteen guests, and Balder was slain. "In Christian countries the superstition was confirmed by the Last Supper of Christ and the twelve apostles, but the superstition itself is much anterior to Christianity." "Let No Dog Bark" Once, in Amy Lowell's summer house in New Hampshire, we stole from our bedroom next to hers to breakfast in a distant corner where no rattle of trays would disturb the sleeping poet after a night of work. The window framed Monadnock in morning magnificence, and nature also seemed asleep. A curious scraping sound broke the early stillness, and into our ken, over the shingles of the sloping plaza roof, painfully crawled the white-haired housemaid, with something white held between her teeth. A napkin had been forgotten. She would not risk disturbing Miss Lowell by the opening of a door.—Elizabeth Ward Perkins in Scribner's Magazine. Thirteen at Table NEGRO BANDIT TURNS WHITE Princess the Mother of Wonderful Artist Memphis, Tenn.—Jack Adams, a white insurance agent, rushed into the police station and reported that a burly black Negro had held him up and robbed him of a diamond stud and $60 in cash. The police got on the job immediately and apprehended the bandit, but when he arrived at the station and was made to "wash up" it was discovered that the "black bandit" had turned white. Flanders fittingly celebrated the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Pierre Paul Rubens, the most glorious of her sons. Few men are so universally known as Rubens. This chiefly through the great number of his paintings, scattered all through the world, and also his voluminous correspondence existing in Spanish, Belgian, French, English and Dutch libraries. Recent researches have brought out very curious revelations on the origin of Rubens. It appears that his father, Jan Rubens, had a liaison with Anna of Saxony, wife of the great William the Silent, prince of Orange. Pierre Paul was the son born of this illicit union. The child was not recognized by Orange, who subsequently divorced his wife. Clarksdale, Miss.—H. E. Schmitz, a white man, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for three years for stealing an automobile from Ben Washington, Negro. The legitimate wife of Jan Rubens adopted the boy. But the pulsant family of the Oranges never forgave the young painter for being allied with them by blood. They persecuted him all his life, according to new revelations.-Chicago Journal. Hollywood, Calif.—Oscar Smith, one time valet of the late Wallace Reed, famous cinema star, has been selected to play the role of a faithful native in Bebe Daniel's latest picture entitled "She's a Shiek." It is just one of the many important roles he has played in pictures. GERMAN SOCIETY INVITES PICKENS TO DELIVER ADDRESS New York.-The anti-Imperialist Society of Germany has sent a radiogram to Wm. Pickens inviting him to come and deliver lectures in all the principal cities of Germany, and in Brussels, Paris and Geneva. It is exceptional for lecture fees to be paid in Europe, but this offer brings a fee of over one thousand gold marks and expenses. DO YOU WANT TO GO TO LOS ANGELES? I am going to tour to Los Angeles soon and will take other passengers in my car. For date and terms, phone Webster 0608.—Adv. R. D. JACKSON NO WAITING Barber Shop "Round the Corner" Sanitary Shop in the City. Is' Work a Specialty. Omaha, Neb. Bakeries and Ames—1806 Farnam TASTY AND FLAKEY for Lunch and Table 1 Rye, Graham, Bran, Health, Bisin and Pumpernickle 13 for 25 cents 12 for 25 cents CAKES FOR WEDDINGS, ANNIVERSARIES BOWE'EN PARTY With a Delicious Flavor and Potato Pies ed with Hallowe'en Colors C. 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JACKSON 1317 435-37-39 Keeline Building, Atlantic 3623 Residence 3012 Miami Street, Webster 6426 THE MILLENIUM NEAR ACTS WITH BEBE DANIELS Ed. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust Building, Jackson 8841 or Harney 2156. Mr. Allen Kennedy, popular waiter, left for Cleveland, O., last week, where he was called by the serious illness of his brother, Jesse Kennedy, who died October 15, and was buried in Akron, O. He will return soon. The Eureka Art Club met Wednesday, October 19, in Council Bluffs at the residence of Mrs. Madison. After the regular routine of business a very elaborate luncheon was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs. Bessie Kirby, 2203 Grant St., Wednesday, November 2. Members please be present. Visitors welcome. Dr. W. W. Payton, physician and surgeon of South Omaha, wishes to announce that he has changed his location to $1324\frac{1}{2}$ No. 24th St. Office and residence phone We. 2491 —Adv. Mrs. H. R. Roberts left for Seattle, Wash., Sunday night, where she now resides, after a very pleasant summer's visit with friends in Omaha, where she was the house guest of Mrs. A. Bowler, 2711 No. 28th Ave. Mrs. Samantha Dodson, mother of Mrs. William Murphy, 4911 Center St., returned Thursday morning from a very delightful visit with relatives and friends in Tulsa, Okla. Dr. W. W. Payton, physician and surgeon of South Omaha, wishes to announce that he has changed his location to $1234 \frac{1}{2}$ No| 24th St. Office and residence phone We. 2491. —Adv. Mr. and Mrs. George Harris, 2238 Charles St., entertained at a four-course dinner Sunday in honor of Mesdames Lucy and Laura Pollard of Austin, Tex., who are visiting Mrs. Lucy Pollard's son, Hugh, and family at 2627 Hamilton St. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Webb of Kansas City, Mo., were week-end guests of Mr. Webb's brother and wife, 2310 N. 25th St. Mrs. T. A. Gatus, 2731 Caldwell St., served a three course luncheon Tuesday and a breakfast Wednesday honoring Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Webb of Kansas City, Mo., after which they left by motor for their home. The Domestic Science and Bridge Club held its opening meeting Wednesday, October 19, at the home of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, 2312 N. 27th St. Meeting opened by the president. Bridge was played, Mrs. Fred Trusty winning the first prize and Mrs. Edgar Lee the booby prize. Mrs. Edna Adams of Chicago was a visitor. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Adjourned to meet the first Wednesday in November with Mrs. Jessica Wright, 2512 Binney St. Mr. Charles Stanton has returned from St. Louis where he visited his mother. He will leave very soon for Portland, Ore., where he will join his family and expects to go into business. Mr. Charles H. Hicks is quite ill at his home, 2532 Maple St. Arrivals at the Patton Hotel. Among recent arrivals at the Patton Hotel are: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson, Jackson, Mich.; I. R. Vashon, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Mosby, Lincoln, Nebr.; Mr. B. Dunlap, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mr. and Mrs. A. Coleman, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Cato, New York City, N.Y.; J. E. Rice, Cleveland, O.; N. C. Joyner, Los Angeles, Cal, and J. P. Dickerson, Chicago, Ill. Miss Elaine Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Smith, entertained at a very delightful Hallowe'en party at her home, 3027 Manderson street, Saturday evening. Some very unique costumes were worn by the young people. Prizes were awarded to Gerald Adams and Thomas Chandler, among the boys, and Celestine Smith and Edna James among the girls. Decorations were suggestive of the autumn and Hallowe'en. B. ZORINSKY Ladies' and Gents' Tailor Suits Made to Order Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. Work Guaranteed 2515 North 24th Street Phone We. 6955 Mrs. Saybert Hanger returned from St. Louis last Monday morning, where she was called by the death of her monster in the recent tornado. She was accompanied home by her youngest sister, Miss Valerea Zara Williams, who has entered the Central High school as senior. ATTORNEY ASSAULTED Mr. H. J. Pinkett, one of Omaha's well-known attorneys, reports to The Monitor that just after leaving his home, 2116 North Twenty-fifth street, about half past 7 o'clock Wednesday morning for his office, he was accosted on the corner of Twenty-fifth and Burdette streets by a young colored man, about 25 years of age, whom he did not know, and who was armed with an automatic and brass knuckles. The man accused him of insulting his sister on Twenty-fourth street the night before and saying "I am going to break your neck" knocked Pinkett down twice. Mr. Pinkett says he does not remember ever seeing his assailant before, and the only time he was on Twenty-fourth street Tuesday night was when in company with his wife he was going to the picture show. He reported the case to the police. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA Mrs. E. V. Adams of Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Lee of Omaha were guests of Mrs. I. B. Colley last Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Sanderson left Sunday to Join her husband at Hannibal, Mo., after a number of weeks sojourn here. Mrs. Puhlam is reported quite ill at her home. Subscribe for the Monitor. Mr. Henry Spann met with quite an accident Saturday night when he was knocked from his wheel by a Traction Co. bus, while on his way to work. Report by the doctor was that his knee cap was hurt seriously, and he was otherwise shaken up. He is confined at the hospital. The funeral of Daniel Rosier, who died Saturday afternoon at his home, was held at 2 o'clock Tuesday at Henry Brown's chapel with Rev. Paul C. Johnston, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church, in charge. Members of the local Journeyman Barbers' union, of which organization Mr. Rosier was a member for 21 years, acted as pallbearers. Burial in Wyuka. Rev. T. B. Gardner, his son, Mrs. Berger, a friend of Warrensburg, Mo., spent Friday in the city. Rev. Mr. Gardner had been to Omaha where he buried his daughter, Mrs. George Macklin, last week. Rev. Mr. Gardner pastored Mt. Zion Baptist church in 1921-22 and was the builder of the basement, the present structure now stands on. He spoke to a fair crowd Friday night, meeting several of his old friends. Tony Otto Christman, aged 33, died at 4:55 a.m. Monday at the home, 886 North Sixteenth street. He leaves as survivors his parents, three sisters and a brother. Funeral services later. Rev. S. H. Johnson had a rally at his church Sunday; three services were held. Rev. H. W. Botts of Mt. Zion preached at the afternoon hour. Quite a crowd attended, who enjoyed the services. The weekly meeting of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority was held at the home of the president, Corinne Ferguson. Plans for the winter's program were made, and arrangements discussed for the entertainment of the Omaha pledgees, who will be guests of Omicron chapter for home-coming. Built and Repaired (If Engdahl Does It, It's Done Right) NEGRO ELECTED TO SUPERVISE SCHOOLS OF CHURCH INSTITUTE Wallace A. Battle Chosen as Field Secretary of The American Church Institute For Negroes New York—For the first time in Episcopal church history, a Negro was elected to its general staff Tuesday, when the board of trustees of the American Church Institute for Negroes approved the selection of Wallace A. Battle, southern educator, for the position of field secretary of the institute. Supervision of the ten schools under the institute, which represent an investment of $3,000,000 and enroll more than 7,000 Race students annually, will be largely under Baptie's directorship, trustees said. NEGRO HISTORY ASSOCIATION TO HOLD ANNUAL MEET Important Organization to Consider Various Phases of Racial Lite and History At Sessions Washington, D. C.—Announcement has been issued of the meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 24, 25 and 26. The program of the meeting will include a centennial celebration of the Negro newspaper, emphasis of the Negro story, a consideration of neglected aspects of Negro history, a musical festival, a discussion of various problems having to do with local branches of the association, and a reconstruction of the program of the association. VICE PRESIDENT'S WIFE SAVES TINY COLORED BOY Evanston, Ill.—Mrs. Chas. Gates Dawes, wife of the Vice President, rescued a 4-year-old colored boy from drowning Saturday in the grounds of the Dawes home in Evanston. Disregarding her shimmering white gown, Mrs. Dawes rushed to the aid of Howard Jackson, who had fallen into the fountain while playing with more than a hundred other youthful guests at a party given by Mr. and Mrs. Dawes for the inmates of the Evanston and Chicago charitable institutions. Emerging from the water, Mrs. Dawes carried the child into her home where she attired him in a suit of rompers outgrown by Dana Dawes. GOLDEN RULE GROCERY Specializes in Good Meat You are particular what you buy; we are particular what we sell. 2120 North 24th St. Webster 4198 FREE DELIVERY (Until 10:00 p. m. Saturdays) Jackson 5820 Parsons Auto Top and Body Co. Tops and Bodies Built and Repaired — Radiator and Fender Work 706 North 18th Street Omaha, Nebr. Stop and SHOP at the RITE-WAY SYSTEM GROCERIES and MEATS 24th and Patrick Saturday Special: One 10c Bar Camay Soap, with each Dollar purchase. A. A. YOSSEM. 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Serious work in exploration calls for as definite and as rigorous professional preparation does success in any other serious work in life. The first qualification of an explorer is a sound and trained body. Exploring involves the hardest kind of physical exertion, and the capacity to endure such exertion under stress both for long periods of sustained endeavor and in the trying moments of emergency. How preposterous, then, it is for men who have lived at desks to maturity suddenly to attempt these ardent enterprises! — Roald Amundsen in World's Work. Times were hard, and those who had had work clung to it tenaciously. A small steam roller chuff-chuffed notily up and down a road, which was under repair, and one of the out-of-works watched it for a time, studying the engineer intently. "How do you feel today?" he asked suddenly. "Fine. How's yourself?" came the prompt response. Each succeeding day the longer appeared, always with the same greeting. The engineer became curious, almost annoyed at the persistent inquiry, and finally demanded: "Say, what d'you mean by coming and asking 'how do you feel' every day?" "Well, you see," drawled the lounger, "you don't look any too well, and I have a hunch that one of these days you'll have to quit your job—and I want to get it."—Vancouver Province. How to Get Lost A pompous elderly man, visiting a certain rural district, wished to inspect some ruins in the neighborhood. He inquired for the oldest Inhabitant, and assailed him with such a host of needless interrogations that the ancient personage presently lost his temper, and said: "I'll tell thee a better way yet. Go straight down yonder, take fust turning through a tater field, past the Blue Boar, up Mileston hill, and over the common till you come to the Windy wood; go down till you get into the middle of that 'ere wood, and then—" "Well, and what then?" demanded the old gentleman. "Then," said the oldest Inhabitant, "I'm blowed if you won't be properly lost!"—London Tit-Bits. Grounds for Suspicion "Look there!" said the washing machine agent who visited the hamlet sufficiently often to be fairly well acquainted there. "See those men and boys—yes, and women, too—pointing at Unde Skinner and grinning after he has passed by. What is tickling them?" "Old Skinner is a wildower," responded the landlord of the taven at Squam. "He is also as stingy as stone soup, but they've found out that while he was up to the city last week he went to a beautie shoppe and pald a whole dollar to get manicured. And they are kinder putting two and two together and making twenty-two of it."—Kansas City Star. Sincerity in Reading "Read to see, as far as you can," says Sir Henry Hadow, "the difference between good work and bad, and you will come to like things which you first of all thought dull, austere and inaccessible." That is the secret. Whatever one reads should be read with a critical eye, not merely raced through for the sake of its passing interest, but more or less studied for the qualities it possesses. Every book, however poor, contains something new and instructive. If one reads for improvement as well as interest, an appreciation of the best will come as a matter of course." Dustin, the Resourceful Harrison Gibbs tells of a night when the stage manager neglected to place a mattress outside the castle walls as a landing place for Dustin Farnum when he made a spectacular leap in some melodrama. Farnum landed with a thud audible all over the theater. To stave off the laugh he thought fast, with the result that almost immediately he peeked over the parapet and remarked, "The lake is frozen!" D for Denarius The "d" in English money is the abbreviation for "penny." It stood originally for the Latin denarius, a coin of value equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon penny. Medieval money changers continued its use as an abbreviation for the penny and gave it a fixed place in English custom. A penny is approximately equal in value to two cents. The half penny is therefore about the equivalent of our cent. Failed to Appreciate All those who have been famous in imaginative work for children were children—spollt children—themselves, asserts Harry Furniss in his book, "Some Victorian Women." Mr. Furniss, a famous Punch artist, says that "Hans Andersen cried at the table if he was not helped first, and was not given more jam on his bread than any one else." Lewis Carroll's childishness was of a different kind; his was pure literary egotism. "It was his habit to watch the children of well-to-do people on the sands at Eastbourne and then, without disclosing his identity, present those he admired most with a copy of 'Alice in Wonderland.' Subsequently he formally called on the parents. Then came the moment at which the Rev. C. L. Dodgson informed the grateful parent that he was 'Lewis Carroll,' the effect being magical and Carroll's delight immense. "However, one day, the dignified lady whose little daughter had been the recipient of a beautifully bound copy of 'Alice,' by the strange, uncanny clergyman, remarked: "Oh, you are the writer of those rubbish books, are you? Well, perhaps you may like to know that I threw the book you gave my daughter away—I certainly could never dream of her poisoning her mind with such as that!" Mother Sheep Must Have Jumped Fence There is a common expression, "stupid as a sheep," but this is not entirely just, for the sheep displays surprising intelligence when its maternal instincts are aroused. Recently a shepherd was startled by the sudden and frantic bleating of a sheep outside his door. Going outside, he found one of his own flock, which immediately led him to the grazing pasture. Here he had to open the gate to let the sheep into the field. She led him to a spot where he found her lamb with its head firmly wedgeed in a hedge. It was apparent that she had made frantic attempts to free her baby, and failing had gone to the shepherd's home for help. He freed the lamb, none the worse for its adventure, but has never discovered how the mother sheep got out of the field, which was so well fenced that at no point could he find a gap.—London Tit-Bits. Famous Astronomer Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer, who lived more than 2,000 years ago, long before any of the modern astronomical instruments had been invented, deserves much credit for his accomplishments, says the Kansas City Star. He catalogued 1,080 of the stars; fixed latitude and longitude; determined the length of the year, the obliquity of the ecliptic, that is, the inclination of the earth's equator to the plane of revolution about the sun; the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, how far it is from being circular; measured the distance of the moon, roughly, and discovered the precision of the equinoxes, that the sun's place among the stars at times of equal day and night constantly tends eastward. This last discovery of Hipparchus waited 2,000 years for its explanation. Iceland in History Iceland was an independent republic from 930 to 1263, when it joined with Norway. The two came under Danish rule in 1381. When Norway separated from Denmark in 1814, Iceland remained under Denmark. In 1918 Denmark acknowledged Iceland as a sovereign state, united with Denmark only in that the Danish king, Christian X, was also to be king of Iceland. Its permanent neutrality was guaranteed. Provisionally until 1940 Denmark has charge of its foreign affairs, and a joint committee of six reviews bills of importance to both states. Extremely Ancient Eggs After cutting his hand on the top of a high cliff, an explorer found a line of egg shells springing like crouses out of the ground. These proved to be parts of shells lal by a dinosaur—a prehistoric creature that lived probably ten million years ago. Many of these eggs, supposed to be the oldest in the world, have been recovered from the sands of Mongolia. Bits of them were formerly made by primitive people into ornaments for women's necks. Overcoming Fear of Dark Children who suddenly form an aversion to the dark can often be helped in overcoming this fear, by becoming more familiar with the dark. We might play games in dark rooms, and occasionally send the children to unlightened rooms for sweets or new toys. Sometimes giving a flashlight, which he himself can turn on at a moment's notice, has been most helpful. Women Getting Feminine "This design for a dinner dress is infinitely more feminine," says the Woman's Home Companion of a new Paris model. "It certainly is," said the crabbed editor. "It leaves corduroy trousers and high rubber boots miles behind." THE MONITOR CHAS. F. DAVIS, Attorney PROBATE NOTICE In the matter of the estate of George G. Johnson, deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors of said deceased will meet the administrator of said estate, before me, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said County, on the 1st day of December, 1927, and on the 1st day of February, 1928, 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 creditors to present their claims, from the 29th day of October, 1927. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 4t-9-30-27 County Judge. In the Municipal Court, in and for the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska OSCAR W. ANDERSON and JACOB HANSON, Plaintiff, vs. CLAUS BJORNBORG, Defendant: Doc. Q. No. 222. To Claus Bjornborg, Defendant: Take Notice: That plaintiff has filed motion and affidavit in the municipal court, the object and purpose of which is to secure revival of the judgment made and entered against you in the sum of $113.00 and court cost taxed at $4.40 in which said plaintiff was plaintiff and you were defendant. You are required to appear on or before the 1st day of November, 1927, and show cause why said judgment should not be revived against you, the defendant therein. Upon your failure to appear and show cause, said judgment will be revived in favor of plaintiff and operate with, and in full force and effect against you. By order of the court, ROBERT W. PATRICK, Judge. WM. B. WHITEHORN, Clerk. RUTH ROBERTSON, Deputy. 4T—10-7-27 In the Matter of the Adoption of Ethel Margaret Robinson, Minor. To all perons interested in said matter: You are hereby notified that on the 23rd day of September, 1927, a petition wah filed in said Court by John William True and Ruth May True, husband and wife, residents of Douglas County, Nebraska, praying for the adoption of said minor; that a hearing will be had on said petition for adoption before said Court on the 12th day of November, 1927, at 9 o'clock a. m., at the County Court Room of Douglas County, Nebraska, and unless you appear at said time and place and contest said petition, the court may grant the prayer of said petition, whereby said minor shall be adopted by John William True and Ruth May True. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 4t-9-30-27 County Judge H. J. PINKETT, Attorney PROBATE NOTICE In the matter of the estate of Henry Hunter, deceased. Notice is hereby given: That the creditors of said deceased will meet the administrator of said estate, before me, County Judge of Douglas County, Nebraska, at the County Court Room, in said County, on the 1st day of December, 1927, and on the 1st day of February, 1928, 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 29th day of October, 1927. BRYCE CRAWFORD C. P. WESIN Grocery Company Now one of the Red and White Chain Stores Same Prompt and Courteous Service Better Prices. 2001 Cuming Ja. 1248 For LOWER PRICES ON FURNITURE Rugs and Draperies with CREDIT and the smallest monthly payments see HARTMAN'S 413-15-17 So. 16th St. NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Subscribe for THE MONITOR Omaha’s Old Reliable Race Weekly $2.00 a Year WATERS BARNHART PRINTING CO. OMAHA N. W. ATT N. W. 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