Cayton's Weekly

Atatis Library Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, NOV. 10, 1917 VOL. 2, No. 22 CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. It is open to the towns and communities of the state of Washington to air their public grienvances. Social and church notices are solicited for publication and will be handled according to the rules of journalism. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Office, 513 Pacific Blk. Telephone Main 24. CLEAN UP THE TOWN Twenty-five years of constant residence in Seattle has given us an opportunity to hear this old song sung many times. Seattle has always been in the grip of a vice-graft syndicate and we have our suspicions that its in the grip of this self same outfit at present. For fifteen or more years the Clancy-Burns syndicate ran the city and had a whole lot in saying how the state was run. The presidential election was often affected by the will of the First Ward of Seattle, which was controlled by as criminal a bunch as ever robbed a roost or scuttled a ship. The power of that bunch was finally broken and the criminals scattered, but periodically new life is injected into the viper and it shows new signs of life. Of course it could have been cleaned out if the law abiding citizens had so willed it, but they have never so willed it, for the alleged law abiding citizens have shared in the vice practices in the way of increased rentals and grafting public officials. The move to clean up Seattle at this time is by no means due to a change of heart on the part of the high rent grabbers and open town profiters, but because they think they see a greater opportunity to grab from the forty thousand soldiers at Camp Lewis, if a pretense is made of cleaning up the town. To get the almighty dollar has so long been the religion of the men doing business in Seattle irrespective of the morals of the town and to eradicate that spirit a new people would have to take charge of the city. Mayor Gill, in our opinion, has no more idea of cleaning up this town than he has to not run for mayor next year, for if he did the law firm to which his name is attached would be the loser to the extent of many thousands of dollars and we do not believe that kind of reformation has as yet possessed Charles Hiram Gill, who in politics impresses the observer as being the professional Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jeykill. Too many high church members in this city own property in the red light district to vote for a genuine clean up of the town. Not long since the chief of the police himself admitted that the patrolmen in many instances were grafting from the fallen women and their parasites, but saw no way of remedying the evil. If the patrolmen are guilty of grafting it is probable it does not stop among them, and, summing it all up, it pays a great many persons in the higher walks of life to keep the town full and overflowing with fallen women and their parasites, because they can be periodically shaken down. Pass a law, and enforce the same, making it a penal offense for one to rent a house for SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, NOV. 10, 1917 immoral purposes and you will then take a long step toward eradicating the evils of the town, but this is not going to be done, and the town is not going to be cleaned up, and the fallen men and women know it and so do the most of us, who get our bit from those people. It is utterly impossible to make men and women good if they are not so inclined, but it should not be impossible to put officers on the beats that will not enter into partnership with those fallen men and women. If alleged good men seek places of vice for amusement, they are looking for something and they invariably find it and they have no complaint coming. No man or woman is forced by the underworld to frequent the places of immorality and other vices and they should take their medicine without murmur or complaint when they do so and get stung. Clean officials enforcing the law on the streets will come nearer cleaning up the town than the periodical shaking down that Seattle witnesses. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS With Italy and Russia both on the run, this seems to be the German's round. Milk prices go up in Spokane, so says a dispatch, and at the same time milk goes down at a rapid rate. Mayor Gill kept his word and cleaned up the city by arresting four colored men. Telephone the news to General Green. New York has granted women the right of suffrage and Ohio has voted dry. When will wonders cease. Out of last Tuesday's election fracas the Democratic party got the mayor of New York City and a big black eye, the latter being very encouraging. According to Dumb Aniamls, the dog is the long sought missing link between man and animals, and if true, this must account for so many men beying at the moon. Uncle Sam, his white superiority to the contrary notwithstanding, has had to knuckle to a darker race by submitting to Japan's terms as to the future of China. Sixty-three former members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry are on trial in Houston, Texas, before a court martial and the Texas liars are making hay while the sun shines. The war was the issue in the most of the elections pulled off in the various states of this Union last Tuesday and in every instance Germany lost. Botulimus has been found in canned vegetables. That, perhaps, is similar to the botts without the limus so often found in horses. Seattle's ship yard strikers that went back to work pending an adjustment of their troubles by the Federal authorities are much in the condition of the Irishman that prayed, "I wish I had my dollar back." If all the idle lawyers and real estate men of Seattle should form a company for the war Camp Lewis would soon be full and overflowing, and it is to be regretted that they do not. VOL. 2. No. 22 Now that the expected fuel famine has been averted another subterfuge will have to be hatched up by Jack Higgins and Dave Botting in order to raise the price of fuel for the balance of the winter season. It may not be a sin to use tobacco, but it certainly is a vulgar habit and a law should be passed making it cost any person his or her job to be found using tobacco in any form while on duty. From Camp Dodge, Iowa, comes a new exchange full and overflowing with war news, it being the official organ of the 88th division of the U. S. A., and is known as The Camp Dodger. The mayor of Kansas City, who refuses to conscript any more white men until some of the colored men are called, is evidently tired of this being "a white man's war," and wants it to be "us all's" war. With high army officers and way-up business men of Seattle seeking dives and dens in which to booze fight, it occurs to us that neither the soldiers nor the citizens are very anxious to have Seattle cleaned up. The red handed murderers of the South, who in the past satiated their bloody lust on the life blood of colored men, women and children for the slightest provocation, will soon be in Europe where they can get their fill of killing men, and yet they do not seem to appreciate the golden opportunity. It looks as if the Germans got wind that the United States was thinking of bringing 200,000 German prisoners to this country to raise hogs and hominy for the armies of the Allies and they got busy at once and captured more than that number of Italians as a counter irritant. Mayor Gill wanted a receiver appointed for the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company when its employees were on a strike and now he is asking that a receiver be apointed for the telephone company. If a receiver was appointed for the mayor's office Seattle would be a very much better town. Once again the city of New York is in the vice grip of Tammany Hall and the damphool Republicans as usual, are to blame for it.—they endorse two candidates and get neither. There would never have been any Democratic administration at Washington City had not the damphool Republicans tried to elect two Republicans president of the United States. Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will have no other. Socialism is making rapid strides in this country just now and by the time the next presidential election comes round we would not be surprised to see the Republican and Democratic parties merged and opposing the Socialist party. At present our government is being more or less operated on the plan the Socialists have so long advocated and that is why Socialism is growing so rapidly. They argue, if it can be successfully done for the sake of war it can be done in times of peace, and if it pays one time it will more than pay the other time. Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. ```markdown ``` --- HERE AND THERE St. Louis, Mo., is erecting a Y. M. C. A. building for colored folks, which is to cost $180,000, the corner stone of which was recently laid and was witnessed by 10,000 persons. When the colored draft for the army is completed there will be eighty three thousand colored soldiers in uniform and thirty thousand of these will be sent to France for the trenches as soon as they can be transported. Ten thousand colored children have been enrolled in the schools of St. Louis, Mo., which is 1,000 more than last year and 1,500 more than the year before. Who, after reading this statement, can doubt but that the Negroes of St. Louis are coming. There are in the neighborhood of 700 colored soldiers at Camp Lewis and they are still coming in. It is reported that the colored soldiers will be transferred to an eastern cantonment within the next three months. I. F. Norris of Seattle has issued a call to the colored citizens of the state of Washington inviting them to assemble themselves in Seattle November 27th to endorse the anti-lynching bill presented to Congress by W. H. Lewis of Boston, Mass. Robert R. Jackson of Chicago has been endorsed for the city council by the Republican organization of the Second ward of Chicago as a successor to the present colored councilman of that ward, L. B. Anderson. There are 200,000 colored children in the state of Texas of school age and the state sets aside $1,500,000 for the schooling of these children, but the major part of this sum is by a hook or crook diverted into the schooling of white children. Dr. Horace King of East St. Louis, who was charged with the murder of two white men in the East St. Louis riots, has been declared insane by the circuit court of Belleville, Illinois as a result of the whole affair. A Music Association has been organized in Louisville, Ky. among the colored music lovers and Mildred Bryant, supervisor of music of colored schools of that city, is its first directress. Hailing from "my old Kentucky home", Miss Bryant should be a brilliant success. Dr. Bundy, is now in the county jail at Belleville, Ill., and charged with murder in the first degree. Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett is endeavoring to raise $2,000 for the defense of Dr. Bundy and believes she will be successful. Dr. Bundy, prior to the East St. Louis riots, was a successful dentist of that community. Col. Charles Young, who was recently retired from the U. S. Army, on account of sickness, according to the report, is still trying to convince the department that he is not sick and is anxious to get on the firing line, but to his appeals the war department has turned a deaf ear and the colonel will have to rust out. Dam a dirty Democrat, anyhow. Hon. James L. Curtis, minister to Liberia from the United States of North America, is dead. He was operated on while in West Africa and never recovered. Mr. Curtis formerly practiced law in New York City where he was very successful. He was appointed minister to Liberia by President Wilson soon after his first inauguration and was on duty until his death. He was a political creation of the late Bishop Alexander Walters. Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, who some years ago was dismissed from the U. S. Army for conduct unbecoming an officer, is out with a statement that the members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry are gamblers and cut throats, which is largely responsible for the trouble at Houston, Texas. It seems that the former lieutenant now lives in El Paso, Texas and it is suspected that the southern white men had something to do with the statement made by him. James Arthur Jackson, who for the past sixteen years had acted as assistant state librarian of West Virginia, was recently dismissed from his position by his Democratic superior and the members of the supreme court of that state and practicing attorneys were so much disappointed at it that they induced the legislature to create the position of supreme court librarian, the position to be filled by the supreme court, and Mr. Jackson was immediately appointed. The Fifteenth New York Infantry, colored troops, are again on Northern soil by orders of the military authorities. They had considerable trouble with the southernners in Alabama and for the sake of peace they were ordered North. Capt. Hamilton (white) of the Fifteenth, took umbrage at the treatment accorded the colored boys under him and he offered to fight single handed any five Southern white men that would get in front of him, but had no takers. What the average southern white man lacks of being a genuine damphool is so little that it could rest on the point of a cambrack needle. There are 577 business enterprises among the colored folks of Atlanta, Ga., capitalized at $651,000 and owning property valued at $1,000,000 and they do an annual business of over $6,000,000 at a profit of $650,000. They employ twenty-three hundred colored people and 61 per cent of their business comes from colored folks. There are 1907 business concerns throughout the entire state of Georgia capitalized at $2,000,000 and own $2,500,000 worth of property. They do an annual business of $15,000,000 and employ over 5,000 persons. A prosperous colored farmer bought himself an automobile and drove into Byron, Georgia, and the white citizens became so enraged at the very idea that at the point of a pistol the farmer and his daughter were ordered out of the machine and it was saturated with gasoline, a match applied and the machine was totally destroyed. It's that class of white citizens of the South, who declare that the "nigger" is always a criminal and an absolute menace to the peace and happiness of any community in which they reside. NEGROES BUY BONDS The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, of Durham, N. C., has the reputation of being the largest Negro insurance company in the world. Recently it subscribed for $20,000 worth of the liberty loan bonds of the second issue. Of the previous issue it took $5,000 worth. These cash subscriptions are fine testimony of the financial standing of the institution; and furthermore it shows that men of worth, Negro men, are standing to the government as white men are doing, thus winning a proper place in the greater affairs of men, insuring more respect to the race as a whole. The war, as we have said, is not proving without value. It is positively helping the American Negro, helping him to conspicuous places where he may be observed, the thing that he most needs. Heretofore we mentioned the fine example of the Mosaics of Little Rock, Ark., speaking of the $30,000 which that order put down for the first issue of liberty bonds. During the new drive Secretary McAdoo made a speech in that city, at which time representatives of the Mosaic Templars again distinguished themselves by subscribing for $50,000 worth of the second issue of the war bonds. Scipio A. Jones, who made the presentation speech, said to Mr. McAdoo that he could still have $100,000 more if he needed it. It is needless to say that this is another fine evidence of a reciprocal spirit and such as should exist between the people and their government. The magnificent sum of $80,000 is the Negroes' contribution from this one source. It comes right out of the very heart of the South and as comes the $25,000 from Durham, N. C. It is evidence a plenty that there are some of our people thoroughly satisfied wherever they are, thus refusing to join the propagandists of sectionalism. We are proud of those institutions. They have builded better than they know, perhaps. We mean that infinitely great good may follow. We are not in doubt about a certain amount of good such as follows anything done for a good purpose. Not only these associations but everywhere are signs of Negro thrift—they are giving in seemingly impossible sums. This bond business has proven an eye-opener in this respect. The white people have thought of Negroes in terms of pennies, so to speak, and not without reason, since the masses are yet in the financial slums. Many white people have not seen to advantage the many good homes, learned of the good bank accounts and automobiles. These are now on dress parade according to the call of the government, and the world sits up and takes notice. We are proud of the conduct of the soldiers who are also offering their substance as well as their health and strength in holding our nation to its place, the leader of the governments of manknid.—The (Indianapolis) Freeman. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Washington for King County. Helen Kolenc, Plaintiff, vs. Jack Kolenc, Defendant. —No. ..... Summons. The State of Washington to the said Jack Kolenc, Defendant; You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 22nd day of September, 1917, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of said action is to secure a divorce on the grounds of non-support, for custody of children, for alimony and attorney fees. WILLIAM WRAY, Attorney for Plaintiff. Post Office Address, 90 West Madison St., Seattle, Washington. First Publication Sept. 22, 1917 THE DOUGLAS CLUB Now Occupies spacious and elegantly furnished and equipped NEW QUARTERS And will be pleased to meet old and new friends 308 Washington St. Frank Smith, Prop. Main 4930 ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. Main 2923. 1036-40 Jackson Street. TUTT'S BARBER SHOP "He wants to see you." High-class Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Street, Seattle. Latest race papers. All kinds of toilet supplies. Mrs. Will Jackson, 1033 Main St. Elliott 254 DINING ROOM Meals, 35c. Home Cooking with first-class service. Entertainments every Tuesday night. --- T IN THE PUBLIC EYE Mrs. F. Fritz Keeble is home after an absence of three months and enoyed her trip very much. Chauncey W. Jamison, with a few friends motored to Camp Lewis last Sunday. He made the trip in a little over an hour's time, thus equaling the Interurban's time. Mrs. John Byron Parker left for Spokane one day this week, where she will remain for an indefinite period. Harry, her only son, that is not in the government service is quite sick and she will remain with him until there is a change in his condition. Rev. Hayden has been assigned to the pastorate of the Grace Presbyterian church during the absence of the Rev. Johnson, who is doing chaplin duties at Camp Lewis, and will preach his first sermon next Sunday morning. Elbert Booker of Seattle, was in the city three hours last Sunday morning on his way to training camp. Mr. Booker, who is a relative of the Jamison families of this city is first lieutenant and was recently drafted. He was the breakfast guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jamison at their home on Holgate street.—Portland Advocate. The annual election of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held November 19th and the entire membership is expected to be on hand. An effort will be made by the members to inject more pep into the labors of the local the ensuing year and to that end the most available persons should be elected as officers. Andrew R. Black deserves the blue ribbon for successful city gardening. He has gathered two tons and a half of as fine Irish potatoes as has ever been grown in Western Washington and enough other vegetables and apples to last his family all winter and all on the small plat of ground about his home, no larger perhaps than about 10,000 other lots about homes in Seattle. Go ahead, Mr. Black. Miss Eulalia Leon was leading lady in the Annual Exxtravaganza, "Our Neighbors Over The Way". of the Franklin High School and played her part so well that she was lavishly applauded and later on was highly complimented by the teachers and pupils. She represented Hawaii and both looked and danced it. Miss Leon is in her third year of high school and it is said she often dreams of the "foot lights," and of aplauding audiences, which means, she seems to be stage struck. Ground has been broken for the new store room in which the Alhambra Cash Grocery will be housed after January 1st next. The room will have a forty foot frontage on Jackson street and 120 foot frontage on Twelfth avenue south and will be two stories high. Under the ownership of Harry Legg and management of W. H. Banks this mercantile establishment has grown by leaps and bounds until its the largest in the West operated by colored men. Both are to be congratulated and if for nothing more, given your trade for the fight they have made. Mr. Isadore Maney, railway postal clerk, formerly in charge of the Nahcotta and Astoria R. P. O., with headquarters at Astoria, Oregon, left last Wednesday morning for Montana, where he has been transferred at his own request to another assignment, at an increased rate of pay. Mr. Maney is an efficient and experienced clerk and was originally appointed to the Railway Mail Service at Seattle, Wash., in 1911. He is a son of Rev. Geo. H. Maney, one of Seattle's pioneer colored citizens. Mr. Maney will be joined later by Mrs. Maney, who is domiciled for the present with Mrs. H. Bowers, at 287 Cherry Ct.—Portland Advocate. Prof. Allen W. Whaley of Boston, Mass. is the leading spirit in the organizing of a National Liberty League for Colored Americans and he is making much favorable headway in his work. Prof. Whaley of Boston is none other than former Rev. Allen W. Whalley, who for two years pastored the A. M. E. church of Seattle and part of one year the A. M. E. church of Spokane. After preaching one of his most birlliant and heart-stirring sermons one Sunday morning in his Spokane pulpit, he came out of the pulpit and startled his audience by announcing his renunciation of the religion he had been so fervently teaching. When he left for the East he said, "You will hear from me again," and we have. [Name] HARRY LEGG Proprietor Alhambra Cash Grocery Co. IT IS SAID That the reason Ralph Jones failed to get uniformed at Camp Lewis was that the examining officer said he looked that way when he looked this way. That the editor of the Searchlight possesses a facinating halo that "jest" draws all men to him, and if you do not believe it ask P. Frazier. That Z. L. Woodson made the talk of his life at the fifth anniversary of Rev. Carter's pastorate of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and thereby deceived even himself. That so small a sum as three dollars some times makes life enemies between the touched and the touchee. Who wrote "money is the root of all evil," was sho some philosopher. [Name] W. H. BANKS Manager Alhambra Cash Grocery Co. That "Alabama" did not exactly die when that hot shot of antitoxin hit him, but for a time he faded away, and on his return jabbered like a Dutch Uncle. That W. E. Vrooman is confident now that if another liberty loan is called for he will be able to cut a big hole in it all by himself. Wait and see. That Knight must have overtaken the pastor of the A. M. E. Church of Bremerton, thus preventing him from finding his way to Seattle. That Dr. C. F. Maxwell is still doing business at the same old stand though his same old friends seldom ever get an opportunity to smile on him or hear his grating gurgle. That Dr. Williams is thoroughly convinced that there is a fortune ahead for him and he will reach it through the foot route. Be it said to his credit, that he is not one of those who beys the moon. That he or she who finds the other fellow wrong all of the time is either a fool or a knave or both. To always be at cross purpose with your neighbor makes of such a person a chronic grouch. That John Franklin Cragwell will don that bland and child-like smile he laid away some months ago for future use and will be his former self next Sunday morning. Who patiently waits will surely reap a reward. That Samuel H. Stone is not a candidate to succeed himself as president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is in search of a good angel on whom to let his mantel fall. Who will be the first to rise and 'spress yourself? That the Rev. Eugene A. Johnson, his age to the contrary notwithstanding, is almost certain of getting a chaplincy in the regular army. There are few more scholarly colored men in this country than he and the war department will make no mistake in naming him for such a position. That the Rev. D. A. Graham, after giving the Rev. W. D. Carter cards and spades, plans to beat him in the money-raising game for church purposes and will go to the annual Puget Soud Conference next year with a burned mortgage behind him so far as the First A. M. E. church of Seattle is concerned. INCREASE IN POSTAL RATES The following increases in rates of postage, according to Postmaster General's Order No. 755, dated October 3, 1917, become effective November 2, 1917: Upon all matter of the first class postage shall be charged at the rate of three cents for each ounce or fraction thereof; and drop letters shall be mailed at the rate of two cents per ounce or fraction thereof, including delivery at letter-carrier offices. (A drop letter is one addressed for delivery from the office at which it is posted. There is no drop rate on any matter except letters.) Postal cards shall be transmitted through the mails at a postage charge of two cents each, including the cost of manufacture. It shall be lawful to transmit by mail, at the postage rate of two cents apiece, payable by stamps to be affixed by the sender, and under such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe, written messages on private mailing cards, such cards to be sent openly in the mails, to be no larger than the sizze fixed by the Convention of the Universal Postal Union, and to be approximately of the same form, quality and weight as the stamped postal card now in general use in the United tSates. Pursuant to the above order of the Postmaster General, the letter rate of postage provided for therein will, on and after November 2, 1917, be applicable to letters addressed for delivery in all those countries to which up to that date such mail was transmisible at the rate of two cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce. To all other foreign countries, the International Postal Union rate on letters of five cents for the first ounce or fraction and three cents for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, continues unchanged under the Revenue Act. Some 75,000 Negro voters in the State of New York will be asked to decide this month as to whether or not they are willing that women should have the vote in that State. It is an unpleasant but well-known fact that hitherto American Negro voters have, in the majority of cases, not been favorable to woman suffrage. This attitude has been taken for two main reasons: First, the Negro, still imbued by the ideals of a past generation, does not realize the new status of women in industrial and social life. Despite the fact that within his own group women are achieving economic independence even faster than whites, he thinks of these as exceptional and abnormal and looks forward to the time when his wages will be large enough to support his wife and daughters in comparative idleness at home. Secondly, the American Negro is particularly bitter at the attitude of many white women: at the naive assumption that the height of his ambition is to marry them, at their artificially-inspired fear of every dark face, which leads to frightful accusations and suspicions, and at their sometimes insulting behavior toward him in public places. Notwithstanding the undoubted weight of these two reasons, the American Negro must remember, First, that the day when women can be considered as the mere appendages of men, dependent upon their bounty and educated chiefly for their pleasure, has gone by; that as an intelligent, self-respecting human being a woman has just as good a right to a voice in her own government as has any man; and that the denial of this right is as unjust as is the denial of the right to vote to American Negroes. Secondly, two wrongs never made a right. We cannot punish the insolence of certain classes of American white women or correct their ridiculous fears by denying them their undoubted rights. It goes without saying that the women's vote, particularly in the South, will be cast almost unanimously, at first, for every reactionary Negro-hating piece of legislation that is proposed; that the Bourbons and the demagogs, who are today sitting in the National Legislature by the reason of stolen votes, will have additional backing for some years from the votes of white women. But against this consideration it must be remembered that these same women are going to learn political justice a great deal more quickly than did their men and that despite their prejudices their very emergence into the real, hard facts of life and out of the silly fairy-land to which their Southern male masters beguile them is going to teach them sense in time. Moreover, it is going to be more difficult to disfranchise colored women in the South than it was to disfranchise colored men. Even southern "gentlemen," as used as they are to the mistreatment of colored women, cannot in the blaze of present publicity physically beat them away from the polls. Their economic power over them will be smaller than their power over the men and while you can still bribe some pauperized Negro laborers with a few dollars at election time, you cannot brige Negro women. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that every single black voter in the State of New York should this month cast his ballot in favor of woman suffrage and that every black voter in the United States should do the same thing whenever and as often as he has opportunity. It is only in such broad-minded willingness to do justice to all, even to his own temporary hurt, that the black man can prove his right not only to share, but to help direct modern culture." Evidently they did as you recommended, for the measure went through with flying colors. Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. Main 24. 5. --- VOTES FOR WOMEN (The Crisis) FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Tuesday, October 29th the Mt. Zion Baptist church of this city spread a feast of good things to which the membership and friends of the church were invited without cost and the Rev and Mrs. W. D. Carter were the guests of honor on that occasion, it being the firth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. Carter of that church. An elaborate program was arranged for the evening and each speaker took up some form of the church work since the Rev. Carter has been its pastor. W. W. Casmon spoke of the pastor's influence upon the spiritual life of the church REV. W. D. CARTER and in doing so paid the Rev. Carter a num- ber of glowing tributes. Z. L. Woodson told of the necessity of harmony between the pastor and the trustee board, and the adoption of that principal was largely responsible for the successful pastorate of Rev. Carter of the Mt. Zion Baptist church, which was badly in debt when he assumed the duties of its pastor, but is now completely out of debt, having paid within the past five years upwards of $3.000 in regular indebtedness to say nothing of current expenses and charity work. MRS. W. D. CARTER Miss Vivian Chainey told of the development of the Sunday School of the church under the pastorate of the Rev. Carter, it having grown from forty to more than 200 members. Mrs. John Booker told of the growth of the missionary society under the pastor and its general influence for good with him as its moving spirit. Mrs. George Brown told how the choir had grown during the pastorate of Rev. Carter until it was now one of the most effective musical organizations in the city. Dr. F. B. Cooper, president of the Mt. Zion Brotherhood, told of the growth of the Brotherhood due largely to the good influence of the pastor. Mrs. Ward spoke on behalf of the Unity Club and told how it too had prospered under the directing care of the pastor. John F. Cragwell spoke at length on Rev. W. D. Carter as a neighbor and depicted in growing terms the liberal mindedness of the man, how he was always ready and willing to lend a helping hand in any meritorious undertaking for the good of the community. To all of these the Rev. Carter most feelingly responded and thanked all for their hearty cooperation and promised that his future would be shaped after his past. During the five years the Rev. W. D. Carter has lived in Seattle as the pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist church he has been a beacon light for the upift of his fellow man and in his work he has been greatly assisted by his wife. Let the fact be not overlooked that Mrs. Carter has done her part independent of the Rev. Carter and she too, has gone forward in the uplift work with as much zeal and enthusiasm as her husband. Mrs. Carter takes a great deal of pride in her efforts for the young women of the city in having organized a Y. W. C. A. class, which meets weekly and is constantly on the increase. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Lena Holland, Plaintiff, vs. Arthur Holland, Defendant—No. ..... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Arthur Holland, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 3rd day of November, 1917, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Nov. 3—Dec. 15, 1917. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Lee D. Gilmer, Plaintiff, vs. F. C. Park, R. Martin and Jane Doe Martin, his wife, also all other persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real estate described in the complaint herein, Defendants.—No. 125417. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the lands and premises hereinafter described, are hereby notified: That Lee D. Gilmer is the holder of one certain delinquent tax certificate hereinbelow more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against lands and premises situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Vashon Gardens, Lot 23; Owner, F. C. Park; Certificate, B72738; Date, June 1st, 1917; Amount, $11.18; Year, 1909. Vashon Gardens— Lot 23, R. C; No. of Receipt 26293; for year 1910; amount, $7.95; interest 15%; amount interest, $0.36; date paid, Sept. 18, 1911; total payment, $8.31. Lot 23, receipt No., 89658; for year 1911; amount, $8.36; rate of interest 15%; amount of interest, $0.33; date paid, Sept. 6, 1912; total payment, $8.69. Lot 23, R. A, receipt No., 30835; for year 1912; amount, $10.57; rate of interest, 15%; amount, $1.11; date paid Feb. 12, 1914; total payment, $11.68. Lot 23, R. A; receipt No. 39561; for year 1912; amount of taxes, $12.58; rate of interest, 15%; amount of interest, $0.96; date paid, Dec. 4, 1914; total payment, $13.54. Lot 23, receipt No. 144069; for year 1914; amount of taxes, $12.41; rate of interest, 15%; amount of interest, $0.93; date paid, Dec. 1, 1915; total payment, $13.34. Lot 23, for year 1915; amount of taxes, $12.25; rate of interest, 15%; amount of interest, $0.91; total payment, $13.16. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said lands and premises. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first day of publication, to-wit, Nov. 9th, 1917, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are further notified that in case of your failure so to do, udgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said lands and premises for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. LEE D. GILMER, Plaintiff. Z. B. RAWSON. Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address, 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. November 10, Dec. 22, 1917. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. B. L. Ducknoviske, Plaintiff, vs. Selma Ducknoviske, Defendant.—No. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Selma Duck- noviske, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit; within sixty days after the 13th day of October, 1917, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your fail- ure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to ob- tain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the grounds of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Oct. 13; Nov. 24, 1917