Cayton's Weekly

State library Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY It is open to the towns and communities of the state of Washington to air their public grievances. 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 JIM MOORE RETURNS In returning to the scenes of his younger days and that too in affluent financial circumstances, James A. Moore, Seattle's greatest prmoter and builder, is living up to the spirit and letter of the Western philosopher, who said, "so live that you can look every damn man in the face and tell him to go to hell." Mr. Moore made and lost a fortune in Seattle and was severely criticised by some for having lost it. The wife of a well known man was supposedly, a very devout Christian and was always lecturing her husband about gambling—he lost much more than he won, but one morning after being out the most of the night he showed her a roll of bills and laid a couple of thousand dollars in her lap, with which she was told to buy herself a lot of new dunnage she had so often wished for. Seizing the money she threw her arms about his neck and between sobs, was heard to say: "Oh, dear, I hate so very much for you to gamble, lest you lose your money." When Mr. Moore was prosperous he was idolized, but when reverses came he was severely criticized. He sought new fields of operation and being a most resourceful man "came back," financially and otherwise. He is now in Seattle, the same smiling faced gentleman he always was, and if he owes you, go and get your money. In a small way the editor hereof had many business transactions with James A. Moore and we always found him "all wool and a yard wide." Yea, even our complexion and color, if you please, cut no figure with him. Every body stood on the level with him. We not only did considerable business with him, but lived for seven years within two blocks of him and we found him "a mighty fine neighbor." James A. Moore is our idea of "an ideal American," ever ready to 'do unto others as he would have them do to him." It is reported that he is to again take up his residence here, after an absence of eight years in the everglades of Florida—returning to his first love—and we truly hope he will, not so much for personal reasons as for the general good of the town. If in the past he made industries and enterprises hum in Seattle we predict that in the future his efforts in comparison to the past can be better told by briefly relating the experience of a colored man that had been driven from a haunted house. He thought he had stepped pretty lively in his get-away, and thinking he must be all of a mile away from the haunted house, he sat himself down on al og to rest. Looking up, the apparition stood over him and finally exclaimed: "We have had a hard chase." "Yes, sir; Boss, but its nothing to what we're gwine to have," the fleeing man was heard to reply. Seattle will soon know a man of real action is again in town, if the man, who did mighty things in the past, again takes up his resident here and signs his name James A. Moore. A COUNTRY FISH FRY Never attended a country fish fry, where the fathers catch the fish, the mothers fry them and the boys and the girls dance on the rudely erected platform and play ring-around the roses on the most convenient green sward? No! Then, using the vernacular of the southern plantation colored person, "You sho hab mis haf yor lif." It often hapens, however, that there is no fish to fry at fish frys, which is about the same as some of the lemonade that is sold at such gatherings, made without lemons, or the ice cream, made without cream, that is to say, the men fail to catch any fish, but its a fish fry just the same and "jest as much fun wifoutum as wifum." Within a fifteen mile radius there is seldom more than one fish fry a season and plans are made for that from four to six weeks before it is pulled off, thus giving the dames, the damsels and even the damn sons ample time to get good and ready for the fun, fuss and fury. And thus as intimated above, a fish fry frequently only bears the name, and by no means the blame. As a matter of fact, a fish fry is nothing more nor less than an annual neighborhood get-together, on the banks of some creek, lake or lagoon, that it may smack of fish, where saints and sinners, young and old can fraternize without the saints "giten churched" for associating with the ungodly. For, be it remembered, that it is strictly against the rules of the church for God's elect to sit in the seat with sinners or get in the way of the scornful (ungodly), but, on fish fry occasions, saints and sinners sit down together, walk and talk together, and, it sometimes happens, dance together, the saint not crossing his or her legs, which, if not done, is not actual dancing. The creeks or bayous on whose banks fish frys are held are semi-rivers that either empty directly into a great river or some arm thereof, hence they not only teem with fish, but with such other aquatic life as is common to warm sluggish climates, and so in trying to catch fish for the occasion other things are rounded up and their appearance on the scene means a wholesale squitterment of the would-be fish garners. That a bountiful supply of fish be on hand to fry for the coming crowd certain of the men meet the day before "the day" and drag the creek with seins, which generally result in a wagon load of fish being ready for the dames to fry on the day of the happy event. Catfish, alligator gars and sturgeon, weighing from one to one hundred pounds, are brought in by the seiners, and periodically a real alligator or a monster water moccasin is brought to shoal land in the sein, when men brave and brawny drop sein and fish and make hasty retreats. Each family brings baskets of food, which are turned over to the committee of preparation, and it sets about, as soon as possible, to get the table ready for the dinner. The fish are fried as fast as possible and that means much, for it is necessary to fry many fish to give all present a good feed. Much time elapse between the first assembling of the crowd and when dinner is called, and in the interim every body and his neighbor enjoy a hog killing time. The older heads among the men compare notes of the past year and plan for the next season's meet; the mothers gossip, while the young girls and boys for the most part VOL. 8. NO. 49 dance on the green until their dusky faces are made many shades lighter from the dust they raise. Then around Miss Mandy, who is the neighborhood belle, are a dozen or more of the young swains, each hoping to make the most favorable impression on her, while she is diplomatically passing a bouquet to each of them, but there is always one that makes her "heart flutter like a hollow stump full of lizzards"; and though she may give him no proof of her fondness for him, others see it. May perhaps you have never seen a colored country belle of polish black. She is a perfect specimen of the genus homo, tall and slender, beautiful in form and features, soft in voice and captivating in smiles, cautious and calculating in word and movement—in short the man is not to be found who would not worship at her shrine. Such a girl is the heroine of this sketch and she was at a fish fry at the time and the object of her secret affections was likewise present, and he was a black beau brummel. They passed the greetings of the day on arriving and he made ready to lead one of the seining parties, and his was to sein a cut of the creek near the picnic grounds, which was to be observed by the crowd. Mr. Bailey, his name, could swim almost like a fish and as he took the lead line of the sein and put out for deep water the crowd cheered while Miss Dinah for the moment almost forgot others were about her, and watched him with pleasing smiles. He circled about the deep water until the sein was fully stretched and then he signalled his helpers to pull for the shore. As the men pulled hard on the sein, it was very evident a big catch had been made. Closer and closer came the sein to the shore with its big catch and the fishermen were delighted. Mr. Bailey looked at the crowd and bowed to Miss Dinah. She was proud of him, but did not say as much. When the sein reached the sand bar the net was full of fish, but it also contained a great big red-eyed alligator that had its fighting clothes on. It flopped about and some of the boys said it below like a bull. Bailey was nearest to the monster and knew he was in danger, but he did not want to lose his fish. The crowd groaned with fright, the seiners forgot the fish fry and ran like mad men. Bailey was tangled up in the sein and might be dragged into deep water, but he finally got free and made a run for life. Men may have been worse frightened than was he, but they did not show it. He must have thought that the alligator was in hot pursuit of him, for he ran as if for dear life. Seeing there was no danger the crowd shouted and laughed as the thoroughly frigghened man continued to cut for tall timber. He did not show up again and the incident became a community joke. In spite of her fondness for Mr. Bailey, Miss Dinah never seemed to like him any more and she was heard to say after that, "I hate a man coward." The story of Mr. Bailey and the alligator was told at all subsequent fish frys in that neighborhood and perhaps is still being told to Miss Dinah's forty-year-old children by Sam Johnsing. As in the past, last Saturday the P.-I. honored a colored man with a featured article on its front page, the man was charged with crime. In other words, its the criminal and not the Christian colored man the P.-I. wants the world to know about. 9 ```markdown ``` Last Tuesday night John Van Horn committed suicide and thus ended his earthly career, he being 62 years of age. Twenty-five years ago he was a conductor on the Madison Street cable and thereby hangs a tale. Living on that line were a great many colored folks even more than at present, and that is saying a good deal. For some reason he was always in a controversy with one or another of them—not a row, but a stiff argument over the political rights and public accommodations that should be accorded them, and in his opinion the number of them were not very great. It was S. J. Collins that he told that he was violently opposed to a colored man holding any public position or doing any thing a white man could honorably do. Collins did not fly off the handle, but firmly took the other side of the argument. After some time Van Horn either quit or lost his conductor job and went into politics, and he went far enough in it to be a candidate for sheriff, A. D. 1896, forgetting his anti-Negro utterances. There were not many colored voters in the county at that time, but alomst to a man they made a fight to defeat him for the nomination at the Republican county convention. There were twelve colored delegates in the convention, six from Franklin, four from Newcastle and two, J. E. Hawkins and H. R. Cayton, from the city, but there was a big colored lobby watching things. Messrs. Hawkins and Cayton opened the fight on Van Horn the day before the convention convened and took it to the floor of the convention, each addressing the convention opposing his nomination. The Franklin and Newcastle delegations were loyal, but were given their orders to vote for Van Horn, or be fired, and on that delegation was S. J. Collins, but they assisted Hawkins and Cayton in making trades inimical to Van Horn's success. The floor leaders of the colored delegates worked all day like beavers and traded votes in a dozen or more ways and succeeded, so thought Van Horn, in defeating his nomination. So favorable an impression on the convention did the colored delegates make that I. I. Walker was nominated for constable. That defeat, however, Mr. Van Horn took very hard and, if prior to that time he had had but little use for the colored man, after that he seemed to look upon him as a thing to be dispised. We spoke as we passed by, which was quite often, as he held a clerkship in the court house ever since, but it was without warmth of feeling and from the lips instead of the heart. Such are not pleasant reminiscences, but are related to show what a few can accomplish if they only stand together. Are you acquainted with Hiram Charles Gill? Well, we have heard the name somewhere, some time. Uncle Sam has about 500,000 men in France and of that number, some 40,000 are colored men, almost one-tenth of the entire army over there, and if Gen. Pershing had his way, one-fifth of Uncle Sam's expeditionary army would be colored men. He knows a good thing after he has used it. If Postmaster Burleson's political hide holds water when Col. Roosevelt is through with him, the whole country will be greatly surprised. If passenger rates on railroads are to be raised twenty-five per cent we think we will remain in Seattle the coming summer and not take our family to the woods of Maine. To sell a bit of booze is a tempting morsel just now and even at the risk of $100 costs and fine, one can make that in a night. In breaking up the rendezvous of the I. W. W., Chief Warren gives evidence of not countenancing the intolerance of the Impudent Wind Workers. May be Generalissimo Fooch is not gaining much German territory just now, but the Germans are no longer gaining ground from the Allies and in fact every time the Germans make a thrust they are thrown --- back with terrible loss. Oh yes, we feel a whole lot better, thank you. In reporting Von Hindenberg dead, perhaps the wish was father to the thought, but its too bad both he and Bill Kaiser are not only dead, but in hades, if that would mean the cessation of the wholesale sacrifice of human life. Liberty steak is pleasing to talk and think about, but so few of us are at liberty to eat any kind of steak, owing to their exhorbitant price, that the least we hear about any kind of steak the better we feel. It's enough to make you feel like cursing your mother when you read of the horors perpetrated on the colored folk of Tennessee by the local Huns thereof. PAYING UP We lately had a pay up week when folks squared up their ancient bills, and coin was flowing, like a streak, to all the local merchants' tills. I settled for the wooden leg I bought nine years ago last May, and Jones and Smith and Brown and Gregg paid up for groceries and hay. I long had shunned the busy streets and through the alleys took my way, consorting with a lot of beats who couldn't or who wouldn't pay. Alas, I lacked the nerve to face the men I owed for fountain pens, for calico and Irish lace, for poodles and for setting hens. It filled me with a dread intense to see the tailor just ahead, and I would hide behind a fence on hearing Jinks the butcher's tread. I owed this man and that a pound, to one a bone, to one a mark; in furtive tstyle I slid around and made my journeys after dark. But pay up week brought strong appeals from merchants who were needing dust; they handed out most potent spielis to men who had abused their trust. And so, by conscience well advised with cash to creditors I sped; the merchant princes were surprised, but only one fell over dead. And now I proudly walk the street, there's nothing slinking now in me; no matter whom I chance to meet, I do not hide behind a tree.—Walt Mason. HERE AND THERE (From the Crisis) The Associated Cahrities of Pittsburg for the first time in its history is employing a colored social worker, Edith L. Spurlock. Negroes of Atchison, Kans., under the leadership of W. E. Gray, John Kelly, Lloyd Kerford, Clyde Briggs, and others, recently secured over $1,500 for a community house for Negro troops at Camp Funston. Two Negroes have been added to the St. Louis, Mo., police force: Charles Johnson and John Kunz. Colored janitors of the court house and Hall of Records, Los Angeles, Cal., have been restored to the charge of a colored chief, L. G. Robinson. A model apartment house has been opened for Negroes, in Springfield, Mass., through the activities of St. John's Church, of which the Rev. Dr. W. N. De Berry is pastor. Of the $4,000,000 budget of the Y. W. C. A. for war work $200,000 will be used for work among Negro women and girls, which would seem to be one-half their rightful quota. A Catholic Negro Hospital has been established in Memphis, Tenn. In nine months 284 patients have been received. It has lately added a training school for nurses and a free dispensary. A recreation center for colored girls has been opened by the Recreation Asosciation at the Dart School in Charlston, S. C. The Baltimore Branch of the colored Y. M. C. A. has a membership of over eleven hundred. Public School No. 89, in the Harlem section of Manhattan, on February 1 had sold $4,080 worth of Thrift Stamps. There are over 1800 Negro pupils in the school. A twenty days' drive for an increased membership for the colored Y. M. C. A. in New York City resulted in an addition of 535 members. The chairman and clerk of the local Exemption Board of Talliferro County, Ga., have been removed by President Wilson for discriminating against Negroes. A second separate street car bill has been killed in the Louisville, Ky., Board of Aldermen. The United Brothers of Friendship, a colored fraternity, has erected a fifty thousand dollar building in Houston, Texas. The Mercy Hospital and Nurses Training School has been opened in Detroit, Mich Hampton claims the championship in the basketball season, having defeated the Dunbar High School, Shaw, Carlisle, Lincoln and Howard. A delegation of Negroes, led by Bishop W. D. Chappelle, of the A. M. E. Church, has been received by President Wilson. A petition asking that lynching be bade a Federal offense, was presented. The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes has received a fund of $3,200 for social welfare work in East St. Louis. White citizens of Tennessee have formed a Law and Order League to stop lynching by a campaign of education, including literature, lectures, etc. The State of Ohio maintains no library at its Columbus Penitentiary. All the books are donated by the public and various publishing houses. Gifts of books in which colored prisoners would be interested may be sent to Chaplain T. O. Reed, Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio. The House of Representatives of Kentucky has submited a constitutional amendment making sheriffs and jailers responsible for prisoners taken from their custody. The extraordinary decisions of the New York Court of Appeals interpreting the Civil Rights Law have been noted. Two decisions have exempted bootblack stands and saloons, while the third decision opens parks and dance halls. A comprehensive amendment of the law has been passed by the Legislature and will probaly be signed by Governor Whitman. The Executive State Council of Defense of West Virginia has appointed thirty colored men and women as an Auxiliary Advisory Council of Defense. J. C. Gilmer, former State Librarian, is the secretary and directing head with offices in the State House at Charleston. The Woman's Reformatory of Kansas City, Mo., is putting colored matrons in charge of the colored girls. They must have good common school education and will receive from $600 to $780 a year and maintenance. Applicants should apply to the Superintendent, 2015 Vine Street, Kansas City, Mo. A world's record for bread-baking has been established by Baking Company No. 328 of the Quartermaster's Departmnet of the National Army. The bakers are composed of men from the Tenth and Twenty-fourth Infantries. They are established at Camp Cody, Deming, N. M. "I don't see how you read that trashy novel," declared mother. "Do you see any merit in it at all?" "Why, yes," answered father. "It is intensely realistic." "What do you mean? Why the conversation between the lovers is utterly silly, and their actions are idiotically absurd!" "Yes; that's what I meant," agreed father, mildly. BURR WILLIAMS President RUSSELL SMITH Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON See EN rn ee ne ; ‘ ‘ a we Agee BART Bie oat ! a Besags (3s 7 NR Ne SUPE eee maedinen CIT ENS UE APU IETS UN a i i ma % ODD BITS OF INFORMATION ‘The custom of hanging baskets or wreathes of flowers at the door on the first day of May, is the survival of an old Eng- lish floral festival which was observed for hundreds of years among England’s rural population. The young men used to go to the woods, early in the morning on May first, singing this song: “Come lads, with your bills, To the woods we’ll away, ‘We'll gather the boughs, And we'll celebrate May. “We'll bring our load home, As we’ve oft done before, And leave a green bough At each pretty maid’s door.’’ The Maypole, about which so many songs and poems have been written, was one of the features of the festival. The flower- twined pole was erected in the vilage square, usually, and the vilage folk, old and young, gathered about it, for joyous singing and dancing. On Saturday, May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson isued the first national Mother’s Day proclamation, asking that Sunday, May 10th (the 2nd Sunday in May, 1914) be observed as Mother’s Day, in ac- cordance with a resolution, passed a year before, by the House and Senate, commend- ing the observance of such a day. The United States is the first nation of the world to give such a tribute to its homes, and credit for the founding of such a movement should be given to Miss Anna Jarvis, president of the Mother’s Day In- ternational Asociation. The day should be observed through some distinct act of kind- ness—a visit, a letter, a gift or tribute of any sort to show remembrance of the Mo- ther and Father to whom grateful affection is due. Mother’s Day is equally a Father’s Day, and is designed to deepen and per- petuate all family ties. Its badge is a white carnation, and its slogan, ‘“‘In honor of the best Mother who ever lived—the Mo- ther of your heart.’’ The respective wedding aniversaries are as follows: First, cotton; second, paper; third, leather; fourth, fruit and flowers; fifth, wooden; sixth, sugar; seventh, woolen; eighth, India rubber; ninth, willow; tenth, tin; eleventh, steel; twelfth, silk and fine linen; thirteenth, lace; fourteenth, ivory, fifteenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twenty- fifth, silver; thirtieth, pearl; fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, golden; seventy-fifth, diamond. If someone asked you how many lan- guages there are in the world you’d prob- ably reply that there are twenty-five or thirty, wouldn’t you? As a mater of fact, there are said to be 3,424 spoken languages or dialects, and they are distributed as fol- lows: - America, 1,624; Asia, 937; Europe, 587; Africa, 276. The English language is spoken by more than 150,000,000 people; German, by more than 120,000,000; Rus- sian, by more than 90,000,00; French, by more than 60,000,000; Spanish, by more than 55,000,000; Italian, by more than 40,- 000,000; Portuguese, by more than 30,000,- 000. In the actual construction of the average Alaska) except Arkansas, Idaho, Mississi- ppi, Texas and Virginia. In Alabama, Flor- ida, Georgia and Louisiana, April 26 is kept as Confederate Memorial Day, and in North and South Carolina, May 10 is observed. The phrase ‘‘a baker’s dozen,’’ meaning thirteen, originated from the English ba- kers’ custom, when a penalty was inflicted for short weight, of giving an extra loaf, to be on the safe side. This thirteenth one was called the ‘‘vantage loaf.”’ Did you know that in 1910 the census showed that in the United States there were 3,555 persons whose age was 100 years or over. Of this number, 1,380 were men, and 2175 were women. You may have excellent eyesight, but even so, you can’t see more than 7,000 stars on a starlight night. The number visible through the telescope has been estimated at from 70,000,000 to 100,000,000. The salary of a United States Congress- man, whether he be a member of the Sen- ate or the House of Representatives, is $7,- 500 a year. Trenches were first used in the Civil War in the United States, when it was found that a trench, dug out in an hour, was far better protection than a fort costing thous- ands of dollars. H. Legg, Prop. WwW. H. Banks, Mgr. ‘We Carry a Full Line of Fancy and gd Groceries WE KINDLY INVITE YOUR INSPECTION Our New Store: 1201-3 Jackson 8t. Phone Beacon 505 Sean romantica 7 “He wants to see TUTT’S BARBER SHOP 3%%.7724, $2,202 Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Stree’, Seattle. Latest race papers. All kinds of toilet supplies. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Chester A. Fleming, Plaintiff, vs. Christina Fleming, Defendant—No. .......... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Christina Fleming, eDfendant: 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 11th day of May, 1918, 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 rehdered against you ac- cording 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 ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P.O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. May 11—June 22, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Mildred Holmes, Plaintiff, vs. William Holmes, De- fendant—No. .......... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said William Holmes, 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 11th day of May, 1918, 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 ground of desertion. * ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. May 11—June 22, 1918. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Dottie Blackadar, Plaintiff, vs. Carl H. Blackadar, De- fendant.—No. .......... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Carl H. Blacka- dar, 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 18th day of May, 1918, 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 ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. Pp. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Mav 18——June 29. 1918. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ‘Washington for King County. Willie LaFontaine, Plaintiff, vs. Eddie LaFontaine, Defendant—No. .......... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Eddie LaFon- taine, 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 20th day of April, 1918, 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 ac- cording 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 ground of desertion, ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. ‘April 20——-June 1. 1918. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ‘Washington for King County. Henry T. Bailey, Plaintiff, vs. Amanda Bailey, De- fendant.—No. .......... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Amanda Bailey, 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 20th day of April, 1918, 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 wil 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 ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. April 20—June 1, 1918. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ‘Washington, in and for the County of King. In the Matter of the Dissolution of Toyo Shokai, » corporation.—No. 128072. Notice of Dissolution of Corporation. Notice is hereby given that Toyo Shokal, a Wash- ington corporation, with headquarters at Seattle, has petitioned the King County Superior Court for au- thority to disincorporate and dissolve. Notice is hereby given that said application will be heard in Department No. 1, of the King County Superior Court on the 28th day of May, 1918. Datd at Seattle, Wash., March 29th, 1918, PERCY F. THOMAS, County Clerk. By W. F. HATT, Deputy. A BR BUACE. IN_THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Parilee Leaf, Plaintiff, vs. Sam Leaf, Defendant.— No. ...... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Sam Leaf, 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 6th day of April, 1918, 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 ground of desertion, and for the restoration of her former name, Parilee Townsend, and likewise the real estate, lot 18, block 2 of High- land View, an addition to the city of Seattle, King County, Washington. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. April 6—May 18, 1918. Er TOWN TOPICS Looking the picture of health as a re- ward for her six weeks’ South California outing, Mrs. Zoe Graves Young returned to the city last Monday afternoon and was at her place of business Tuesday. Southern California must be a great health restorer to so quickly restore one to health as it did Mrs. Young. Seattle’s colored population may have been a bit slow in organizing and perfecting a brass band, but they finally got busy along that line and now have a brass band oe ee ee ee PROF. KELLY MILLER Wants you to hear him June 26th. Make | engagements. Most oF the members are clever musicians and when the band is on public exhibition, it makes a very creditable showing, consid- ering the short time it has been organized. P. S. Barnett, the tuba player, has been very active in the organizing and perfect- ing of this band and is now its business manager. He belongs to the Musicians’ Union of the city. For a number of years he played with the Salvation Army band. He has many calls to do orchestra work. The band on the whole is doing well and last Sunday it deported itself nobly as it lead the Odd Fellows’ procession. If it be true that there are 400 colored men working on the Seattle waterfront, 100 hundred at Frye’s packing plant, 100 at the steel plant, 100 doing janitor work throughout the city, 100 working for the city and 100 train porters who live here, and, perhaps, 100 more employed in vari- ous capacities, chauffeurs, ete., it is quite safe to say that, there are approximately 1500 colored men employed in Seattle, who earn on an average of $5 per day. This means a population of about 4000. It is claimed by some that there are nearer 6000 colored persons in the city than 4000. It is very difficult to estimate the colored population of Seattle at present, owing to the fact that they have been coming to the city so rapidly for the past year, and ow- ing to the fact they are scattered all over the city instead of in segregated districts as in many of the larger cities of the East. The smoker of the recently organized ‘Efficiency Club of Seattle last Thursday evening was well attended and highly en- joyable. The set speeches were more than above the standard. Dr. Cooper’s talk was especially good as it clearly laid down the objects and aims of the organization. If the. officers and members will endeavor to live up to his outlines the Club will prove to be one of the most useful organizations that has been brought into existence by ‘colored men in the city. When men are efficient its only a question of time, when they will become proficient; and when thoroughly proficient, they will soon be sufficiently useful to be an asset to the community. Hayden J. Richardson favored the audi- ence with a practical talk that was full of meat for thought. E. J. Porter had the audience guessing as to whether or not he would ever get down to efficiency, but he did. S. P. DeBow told a funny story and after paying a compliment to the other speakers, backed up. II. R. Cayton was more or less bullish in his remarks. Capt Roots related some expensive per- sonal experiences in new organizations. Ab- ner Jones lectured briefly, and Newton Col- man made ‘us all feel floury. Charley Brown put’a bug in the ears of those present. After the speaking a splendid liberty luncheon with cigars, was served. In the death of Ray F., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. Woodson, lose a most prom- ising-son. He was 13 years of age at the time of his death and was born in Seattle. He. was buried last Wednesday afternoon from the Mt. Zion Baptist Chureh. Be- sides his parents he leaves an older brother to mourn his demise. Ray was a most lik- able young fellow and was very popular among his playmates. His ailment was very complicated from the very. outset and the attending physician called in a specialist, but he continued to grow worse until death At the bimonthly meeting of the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the ‘Advancement of Colored People last Mon- day evening, considerable routine business was transacted. President Stone named Dr. David T. Cardwell, John F .Cragwell and Dr. F. B. Cooper to constitute the Grievance Committee; H. R. Cayton, the Press Committee; John F. Gragwell, Mrs. Woods, the Membership Committee; An- drew R. Black, C. R. Anderson, I. F. Norris, S. Il. Stone and H. R. Cayton, the Legis- lative Committee. The Branch now has a membership of about 150. The annual sermon of the G. U. O. 0. F. of the various Puget Sound lodges were preached last Sunday at the A. M. E. Church of this city by Rev. D. A. Graham. A large delegation came over from Tacoma, quite a few from Everett and still others from neighboring towns where there are no lodges in operation. The procession formed at Pike Street and First Avenue and headed by the Colored Brass Band Co. marched to the church, where a housefull and overflow- ing awaited their coming. Some ten years ago Dr. C. C. Crawley of Everett was a Seattle barber and had a shop on the waterfont near the foot of Marion, which location he lost when the Nor- thern Pacifie got busy and bought the most of the waterfront property. He moved to Everett where he has done well in the bar- ber business, but being progressive he took a course in chiropody and now holds a state certificate and is doing well in his profes- sion. He is a prominent member of the G. U. O. O. F. and attended the annual sermon to the Puget Sound lodges last Sunday. In speaking of Everett he said: ‘‘There are about 100 colored persons in the city, all of whom are doing well from a work stand- point, and, I am glad to say, practically every family in the city owns his home and, better still, those homes are for the most part paid for. I regret very much that more do not come as they can get any kind of employment at lucrative wages. May, perhaps, colored persons are doing well all over the country at present, but, if at any place they are not, then such persons should come to Everett, where they are not only needed, but are actually wanted. I ap- preciate the Saturday calls of Cayton’s Weekly.’’ One night at a theare some scenery took fire and a very perceptible odor of burning alarmed the spectators. A panic seemed to be imminent, when an actor appeared on the stage. “Ladies and gentlemen,’’ he said, ‘‘com- pose yourselves. 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