Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE, POSCOF, CAYTON. Editor and Publisher HORACE ROSCHE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, 'Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS In the city of New York many community forums have been organized in which the people have an opportunity to express themselves on all local questions. Good thing; push it along until similar institutions will have been set up not only all over New York City, but in every community throughout the state and even into other States. Once on a time the colored citizens of Seattle had a well organized and liberally attended Sunday forum, where many questions of a quasi public nature were discussed, and the people were greatly benefited therefrom, and the same should be done again. We rise to register our protest against taking the charming Ruth Garrison to any place of confinement where she will be thrown in contact with degenerate women. Ruth is a bunch of sweetness and it's a shame to have her converted into a bunch of bitterness as the "bad women" will succeed in doing. Ruth, in our opinion, should be sent to Hades, where she would be free from contamination. No, as yet Ruth Garrison has not been given her liberty, but the very next thing to it, and we here predict that in less than two years from this date she and Storrs will be married unless in the meantime Storrs finds another victim. It seems almost as much impossible to convict a young woman of murder. though she confesses to having committed the offence, as it is for the proverbial camel to pass through the eye of a cambric needle. Norway must have been disarmed all the time or she would not have sat supinely down and permitted Germany to have kicked and cuffed her about as she did during the late world war. Fighting, we know, is foolish, but the human family is so constituted that nothing but a fight will satisfy their minds when one person feels that another has wilfully imposed upon him or her. In a letter to the Seattle Star an enlisted man of Fort Flagler made known the fact that the enlisted men were not even permitted to enter the waiting room at the steamboat landing and that a repetition of the famous Dred Scott decision had been reincarnated in "the enlisted man had no rights the army officers are bound to respect." and vet we are endeavoring to stamp out Bolshevism. India says President Wilson can distinctly see fourteen pointes in the peace paet, but sees not the fifteenth point, which is India. The reason why Mr. Wilson can not see that is because he learned when a college prexy that India is inhabited by a dark skin people and that being a fact, neither the Indians nor no other dark race has any rights that Mr. Wilson thinks a white man should remotely respect. The chairmanship of the King County Republican Central Committee has fallen in good hands in the election of Reeves Aylmore. If the colored voters in the past failed to get the proper recognition under the administration of former chairmen they can rest assured that that state of affairs will not exist under Reeves Aylmore. Here goes, under his leadership, for the G. O. P. like a ton of brick. Yes, dear reader, there was a race riot in Charleston, S. C., last Saturday, and while such riots are not uncommon in that section of this land of the free and home of the brave, yet this one was more or less uncommon from the fact that both sides were led by black and white soldiers and sailors recently returned from overseas, where they had been fighting to make the world safe for democracy. Spiritualism is running rampant throughout England and men and women in all sations and vocations of life are falling for it. Truth, we are told, is often stranger than fiction and here is a most brilliant illustration of it, hard headed business men and women worshiping at the shrine of such tommy rot, but like the most of such mental disorders the most of them will live through it. The billy blustering of Bill Kaiserism over signing the treaty is like unto the fable of the whirlwind trying to make the traveler shed his wraps, but the more it raged the closer were the wraps pulled about him. With the armies of the Allies in shooting distance of Berlin the Germans are poorly fortified to resist any demands, right or wrong, that may be imposed upon them. One Bob Bridges, of the Seattle Port Commission, must feel like saying"I think damn it an' I kick myself for supporting Christianson," Bridges' craft seems to be in deep water and badly leaking and if he does not resign it is liable to get lost on the trackless waste of unknown waters. The trouble with Bob is. he is as politically dead as Dick's hat band only he does not know it. And now the street car men of Seattle are threatening to strike because, forsooth, the City Council will not make it possible for each of them to draw from $150 to $250 per month, in which case we would say, strike and be damned, using the vulgar vernacular of the street, and the sooner the better, that the thing may be brought to a successful conclusion. Is it a case of thieves falling out when Frank J. charges his brother George J. Gould, sons of J. Gould, the financial wizard, with fraud? There is, however, a lurking suspicion that committing fraud is a weakness of the Gould family. That triple tragedy told of in another column hereof is just one of many that occur in our sunny South that never find their way into public print. No one but God knows the whole condition in the VOL. III. NO. 50 South, but the day will yet come when it will all become public property and the penalty will have to be paid with the best blood of the land. An epidemic of infantile self-destruction is raging throughout the country in general and Seattle in particular. If in this way the millenium makes its advent, God help us when it gets in full swing. If the little ones at the age of fifteen and under tire of life and seek solace in death, then the older heads must be in a bad, bad way. Of course the Germans will sooner or later sign the treaty and you and I would do the same thing—sign anything we were told to—if the other fellow held a dangerous gun in our faces and we saw no way to escape. The terms may be severe, but the Germans are reaping exactly what they wilfully sowed. The second Sunday in May may be Mother's Day, but every Sunday in the year is father's day, and father is even called upon to pay the price for Mother's Day. Father is a hack horse that the whole family takes extreme delight in riding to market, though he is little wanted after marketing has been completed. Of course "national law" is dead, as declares President Wilson, but it is no more dead now than it has always been. National law was observed when it did not interfere with the plans of those nations seeking to put something over on weaker nations, as has been characteristic of England and Germany for centuries. Perhaps the Allies did not say in so many words to the Dutch government that Bill Kaiser had to be surrendered, but we suspect a broad hint was sent to the Dutch that it would be greatly to that government's advantage to voluntarily surrender the much-wanted Beast of Berlin. It is most remarkable how hard some people will fight death even after they have received their mortal blow, but once the fatal blow has been administered, death is bound to follow sooner or later. Do you understand? Once again the charmed name of Carroll has had its beguiling effect upon the citizenry of Seattle and Johnny Carroll, recently returned from overseas duties, has been elected to the vacancy in the City Council. Vulgar abuse is under no circumstances argument and who indulges in the former for the latter will find that little impression is made on the people in having them change their minds. According to the version of some folks, Burleson is making trouble for Wilson, which may or may not be true, but there is one thing certain. Wilson is making much more trouble for Wilson than is Burleson. No, dear reader, Brewster's aggregation is not exactly in the cellar, but it is no fault of theirs, for each one of them is trying his damnest. Just how some persons can keep from bursting wide open owing to the excessive knowledge they have within them is quite more than we can fully explain. ioe Be: Merce iS TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN MISSISSIPPI. James W. Johnson, at Holly Springs a few days ago, And yet, if a novelist or a dramatist took these facts and wrote a story or a play, his work would be turned down by publishers and publie on the ground that it lacked verisimilitude. Indeed, truth is stranger than fiction. A young colored man in love with and courting a colored girl; a young white man, the assistant postmaster of the town, in love with the same girl; the white man meets the colored man and tells him that he himself is deeply in love with the girl; that the colored man must discontinue his visits to her, that the girl is his; the colored man does not believe the white man_ is telling the truth about the girl and decides that at any rate he will see her and talk the matter over; on the following Friday night, while the colored man is calling on the girl the door is opened and in steps what appears to be a huge black man who whips out a pistol and fires, killing both the girl and her ealler and then makes his escape: shortly afterwards the ‘huge blaci man.’ in attempting to enter the stairway leading to the room over the local drug store where the assistant postmaster lived, is confronted by officers of the law and blows his brains out. And the “huge black man”? turns out to be the young white man, the assistant postmaster of the town, with his face blackened and his clothes padded out. We say that a story or a play constructed out of these facts would he set down as a work of imagination run away with itself. Publishers would say the story was too improbable; the publie would say the play was a distortion. Yet, these facts are the record of an actual event. Furthermore, this event is respresentative of many events that have been happening in the South dur- ine the past fifty years, not all of which, of course, have had such a tragie ending. One significant thing about this matter is the silence with which it was treated by the newspapers. It seems natural that a triple tragedy like this taking place in such a small town as Holly Springs and involving one of the most prominent young white citizens of the plaee would have been flashed over the wires to every newspaper in the country; at least, to all of those in the South. But it as not: and those papers that carried the news mentioned the suicide of the white man as something independent of the murder of the colored man and girl. Evidently the newspapers of the South are not willing to let the world know that a Southern white man could love a colored woman enough to make him commit a double murder and then suicide. Tn making sueh an admission there would naturally arise the question, if a Southern white man can love a colored woman like that what is there impossible. physiologically or other- wise, about a Southern white woman loving a colored man in the same manner if not degree? This triple killing in Mississippi would have been a terrible thing if the persons coneerned in it had all been colored or had heen the old, old story, the fight of two men over the one woman, a story as old as the human race. Tn this ease there entered other elements which make it not a mere killing, not merely murder and suicide, but tragedy of the deepest kind. There entered not only the natural rivalry between the two men for the favor of the one woman, Int it was further complicated by the laws of the State of Mississippi which absolutely forbade one of the men, no matter how much he loved the woman, to seek to make her his lawful wife. Tlere was the law of the state working like inexorable fate to wreak vengeance. THE LYNCHING RECORD. ee a search that the nation is undergoing it is permitted to hope that the practice of seizing citizens suspeceted of crime and hanging them without due process of law will fall under the national ban. If recollection of various mob crimes of this character is not fresh in the publie memory, a recent report of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People should serve to remind. The association pamphlet sets forth that in thirty years, from 1899 through 1918, 219 people lave been lynched in the Northern states, 2,834 in the Southern states, 156 in the Western states and fifteen in Alaska and else- where in American territory. Quoting from the report: “Georgia leads in this unholy ascendance with 386 victims, followed closely by Mississippi with 373 victims, Texas with 335, Louisiana with 313, Alabama with 276, Arkansas with 214, Tennessee with 196, Florida with 178 and Kentucky with 169. Fifty colored women and eleven white women were lynched in fourteen states. Thirteen of the fourteen states in which women fell victims to mobs were Southern states, Nebraska being the only state outside the South whieh lynehed women. The North and West together have lynched twenty-one persons dur- ing the past five-year period, whereas during the same time 304 persons were lynehed in the South.’’ During 1918 sixty-three Negroes, five of them women, and four white men fell victims to mob fury, and no member of the mobs was punished, though two of them were tried in court and aequitted. Just now, when civilization is de- fending law and order and seeking to establish the affairs of man upon a universal plane of justice and equity, is an illy-chosen hour for citizens to take law into their own hands and murder suspected criminals without waiting for the processes of trial and judgment by court. Every desirable attribute of our civilization is pro- tected by law, and our continued wel- fare and security as a people are con- sequent upon general conformance to it. If we breach this wall in one place we cannot consistently find fault with those who breach it in another.—P.-I. You, and each of you, no doubt have previously read the above editorial, but it is herewith reproduced that it may be more firmly fixed in your minds. It is to counteract this bloody record of human slaughter that the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People is making such strenuous efforts at this time to increase its membership. You must see the necessity of making a united effort to suppress this form of out- lawry, and with the colored folks of the country united against it there is not a shadow of doubt but that the better class of whie citizens, both North and South, will lend a helping hand. The membership in Seattle should be not less than 1,000 and it is hoped that this membership will be made up of both white and colored citizens. The annual dues are one Sie seduces a girl in any of the civilized states she can have the law on him. In New York and some other states if the girl is under eighteen, even though she gives her full consent, the man is held guilty of rape. In Mississippi and states like it if a white man seduces a colored girl the law protects him jn his erime; the very fact that the law forbids him to make reparation through marriage places a premium on the seduc- tion of colored girls by white men. Under the conditions, exposed as she is to attacks from within and without, subject to the blandishments of the men both of her own and the other race, too much praise cannot be given to the colored woman for the way in which she has held her own. Many colored men do not realize this double danger which she runs daily. In the stores and on the streets of many cities and towns of the South any comely colored woman, no matter how respectable, is open to the insinuating remarks and even undis- guised insults of white men. The colored woman knows that she has no redress under the law, and she hesitates to tell her men folks because she fears what might be the results if they took any action. The white women of the South are pro- tected not only by the law but the law- lessness, even by recourse to the stake and the torch. And not only are the chaste white women of the South protected but, so far as colored men are concerned, the unchaste as well. In many a case where a white woman has lived with a colored man, the man has been lynched when the relation became a publie seandal. Now, since the laws of Mississippi and states like it afford no protection to colored Women against white men, colored men must furnish that protection. Tet colored men say to white men: ‘‘You have put your anti-inter-marriage laws on the statute hooks: very well, live up to those laws and leave our women alone.’? Since colored women have no redress under the laws of these states, colored fathers and brothers have no other recourse than to adopt the unwritten law which Southern white men invoke for the protection of their women. When Southern white men understand that they are liable to pay the penalty under that law for insulting a respectable colored woman or sedticing a young colored girl, the status of the colored woman in the South will rise a thousand per cent.; and it will not require many penalties to bring about that result. Southern white men must be made to know and feel that they cannot wall their women up in a sanctuary and be left free and unafraid to prey at large upon colored women for the satisfaction of their lechery. The moral strength and fiber of the Negro race’ depend upon their being made to realize this—New York Age. The writer of the above is none other than James Weldon Johnson. the editorial contributor to the Age and the field agent of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, who has been billed to speak in Seattle at the Washing- ton Hall, June 5th next. One of the best men that ever wore the name of Denny went to his long rest when Charley L. Denny died last Tuesday. Charley had a heart in him as big as the Smith building and all who knew him sadly mourn his death. THe always had a good word for the other fellow and truly has a good man gone, Mr. Jones came home at an unseemly hour one night, and was surprised to see a figure sitting up for him below stairs, with no other light than that of the gas lamp to keep her company. “M-M-Marie,’”? he said huskily, ‘‘y-yoa shouldn’t sit up so late when I’m on business. ’? As Mrs. Jones did not answer him, he continued in an alarmed voice: “Shorry, m’dear, but it’s last time—tell you T’m sorry.’’ At this moment Mrs, Jones’ voice was heard from the top of the stairs: “Who are you talking to at this hour of the night??? she asked. “Thash what I’d like to know m-m-my- self.’’ stammered Jones. . Mrs. Jones hastened downstairs, lamp in hand. “Tt’s the model,’’ she said; ‘“‘the model I bought today to fit my dresses on.’” “Yes, thash so,’? said Jones, tipsily; “model woman—didn’t talk baek—make some fellow good wife.’? --- DID YOU KNOW? All of the hospitals in the British domain are to slowly but surely become the property of the government. The poor of Glasgow, Scotland, are to be fed from a public kitchen, from which 2,000 meals daily will go forth. For the maintenance of a manual training course in the high schools of New York City an appropriation of $400,000 annually has been asked. To free the city from venereal diseases, Portland, Oregon, will impose a fine of $250 on any physician failing to report any case he or she may be called to treat. The New York lunch committee, which has been furnishing free lunches to the school children of that city, plans to give the work up and it has appealed to the school board to continue the same. The senate of the late legislature of the State of Oregon defeated a bill which would give to colored folks equal rights in public places. Two of the eighteen white men arrested for lynching two colored men in Sheffield, Alabama, were acquitted by juries and the cases against the other sixteen were dismissed. Alain Leroy Locke, a Harvard University professor, is the first colored person of this country to win a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. One can truhtfully say, when will wonders cease, on learning that a servant girl in Stockholm, Sweden, has been recently elected alderman (all the same councilman). She, however, is not to give up her family work. Surely there must be nothing doing in that city. Females convicted of industrial disorders in New York City and sent to prison are to be segregated from the other female prisoners. If a bill, which has passed the senate of the Michigan legislature, be equally successful in the house and in the executive office, women in the future will receive like pay as men for like work. Women now exercise the full right of suffrage in the State of Iowa, which is the twenty-ninth state to give full suffrage to the fairer sex. According to Secretary Lane there are 250,000,000 acres of unused lands in this country, and he might have added, half of that number of acres that are pretended to be used are only about one-quarter used. Many Democrats favor submitting the League of Nation' covenant to a vote of the people of this country, but President Wilson is opposed thereto. He doubtless sees the handwriting on the wall. It is claimed that Benjamin Franklin advocated a League of Nations, but that was before the Monroe Doctrine had been promulgated. If he lived today he would doubtless oppose it. There is considerable leaning among the people just now to favor a law submitting the declaration of war to the voters. TOO MUCH BOOZE Free from sorrows and free from cares, I threw myself down upon the inviting sands of the sea shore, made so by the scorching rays of Old Sol, and in silence began to commune with my own sweet soul. In front of me the restless waters of old ocean, constantly rolling shoreward, produced a distant but soothing sound, and soon I was swimming away into the realms of etherial bliss. When suddenly there appeared before me a most beautiful woman, who without ceremony or effeminate reticence, rapidly drew nearer and nearer. "Ah, there my Spanish amorita," said I, but just then a scowl covered her Venus-like face, and before I could say more she had given me a brief tongue lashing and then, like a flash of streaked lightning she snatched a golden handle stiletta from her "first national depository" and made a lunge at my heart, which I parried with great difficulty. Then she lunged again, the glittering steel fairly splitting the air. but still to no avail. Death is my portion, I quickly reasoned, unless the wrath of this enraged human tigress can be assuaged. Like magic my hand went to my hip pocket, where my "mother of pearl" was sheathed, loaded with blank cartridges; and before another thrust could be made by that fair one, who, in spite of her rage, looked angelic in form, I fired directly at her heart, and at the crack of the pistol she fell sweating in every vein. As she lay prone on the burning sands, unconscious from the pistol wound she had just received, I gazed upon her charming form and my love and devotion for the fairer sex rose supreme, and I tenderly lifted her up and smothered her weeping eyes and frowning face with passionate kisses, and as she lay helpless in my arms, as does a babe in its mother's, a sweet, faint smile stole over her blushing face, and I said, "Thank God you live and I am forgiven." Then from her beautiful lips the echo faintly came, "Zee is not so wus." Me, oh my! What a headache. If that bootlegger ever offers me another drop of the stuff that he is peddling there will be one bootlegger less at this resort. COL. HAYWARD AGAIN Apparently Col. Hayword is as willing to talk as the public is to listen to him talk. He has said much of his experience oversea and though what he says is always more or less interesting, yet, from our viewpoint, he frequently talks too much out of his mouth. He recently spoke as follows about his colored troopers: "The first thing I ever did in my life that anybody approved of was getting up that regiment." he said laughingly. "After I gathered my crowd of Harlem waiters, bellhops, indoor chauffeurs, and elevator boys I thought I'd never get them across. When the minute finally came for sailing I think every elevator on Riverside Drive stopped automatically. "When our ship left in 1917 we sailed a little way, then broke down, came back, and tied up at Hoboken with our cargo of Thanksgiving turkeys and black troops. We got fixed up and started again. We didn't get quite as far as before when the ship caught fire. I sneaked back and reported the mishap to General Shanks at the port of embarkation. Our ship was overhauled and a third time we set out full of hope, but the machinery broke down again. When I reported to General Shanks this time, he said: 'Goodness gracious, Colonel, are you ever going to get those coons and turkeys to France'" "When at last we reached the French front in the Argonne Forest I reported to the French officer in command that I had arrived with the 15th New York Infantry and would place myself and men at his disposal. 'It is impossible!' exclaimed the officer. 'There's no such American unit due here.' Finally he said in surprise. 'Are you the 369th Infantry Regiment of the United States?' and I replied. 'I are.' "Then they took all our American ordnance away and gave us bolos, which are knives modeled after those used by the Cubans. I was glad afterward, although I think my boys would have done better with razors. When we were leaving France I was told that the regiment would be presented with three thousand razors by the French. When we received the gift we found they were safety-razors. The regiment was insulted. "From March, 1918, until the following January we were with the Fourth French Army, under General Gouraud. On July 15 I wrote Governor Whitman that the German army was licked. They were at maximum strength and we at minimum, but ten American divisions were arriving monthly. My boys had a sublime faith that they would win. The idea of defeat never entered their heads. No private or officer had any doubt about our ability to break through. One day I found a number of the men buying German money that had been taken from the dead. I asked why they wanted it, and they answered. 'We'll be DR. C. J. ALLEN, Dentist. Examination free 211 Globe Bldg., 1st and Madison. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 6 p. m., Sundays by appointment. Residence 1830 24th Avenue. East 6419. DR. F. B. COOPER, Dentist. 362-3 Empire Bldg. 2nd and Madison. Special appointments for evenings and Sundays. Office hours 8:30 to 12 and 2 to 6. Main 6093. Residence. East 5056. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. STONE THE CATERER will serve your parties and banquets cheaper than you can do it yourself. Stone's ice cream leads. East 275. needin' this here money soon.' In five months they were spending it in the Rhine towns and talking Harlem German with a Yiddish accent. They were the advance guard of the Allied armies. The French gave them the honor of first carrying the Stars and Stripes to the Rhine. And I was the first man to scoop water from the river. Can you beat that for Allied generosity? "The boys all had a keen sense of humor. When we docked at Hoboken they were eager to get ashore. One of them said to me: 'Colonel, the Generals is goin' over the gangplank and the rats is goin' over the hawsers. We hope you'll tell us when it's time for the regiment to go ashore!' "I remember one little Negro on the other side who was carrying shells from an ammunition dump to a train. He was so loaded down with 3-inch shells that he was sunk ankle-deep in the mud. He said to his officer, 'How you got my name on dat sheet?' "‘Your name is Simpson,’ replied the officer. "Yas, sir, dass right; only I thought maybe you had “Sampson” by mistake.’" Speaking about Col. Hayward, some one in Seattle said one day this week, its only a question of time when Col. Hayward will be billed to speak in Seattle and other Pacific Coast cities. He is already begun to peter out in the East and as soon as that has been done he will seek greener pastures. Jones was no beauty. But his reputation with his fists kept his friends silent as to his lack of looks. One afternoon he was strolling along with a relative, equally remarkable for his plainness, when they met an Irish acquaintance of Jones. "Who's that ugly, great, stravagin' baste ye have wid ye the day?" whispered Pat to Jones. "My brother!" replied Jones sternly. "Is he now?" said Pat hurriedly. "Well, shure, an' it's a good job I didn't say anything against him." PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Puts the Best COAL on the Market Phone Main 5080 You Are Welcome To Spend Your Leisure Moments at the GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. Courteous Treatment BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. --- ```markdown ``` GREAT SPRING DRIVES A. M. CHURCH, MAY 18. FORENOON Dr. David T. Cardwell, Speaker. Membership Solicitors: Mr. and Mrs. Drake. EVENING SERVICES. Mr. Wilson, Speaker. Membership Solicitors: Mr. and Mrs. Drake. MOUNT ZION BAPTIST. FORENOON Mrs. L. A. Graves, Speaker. Membership Solicitors: Mrs. Woods, Mr. H. Chandler EVENING SERVICES. Mr. Wilson, Speaker. Membership Solicitors: Mrs. Wood, Mrs. H. Chandler. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. FORENOON. Mr. Wilson, Speaker. Membership Solicitors: Miss Drotha Presto, Mr. J. T. Gayton. EVENING SERVICES. Mrs. Alice S. Presto, Speaker. Membership Solicitors: Miss Drotha Presto, Mr. John T. Gayton. MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, MAY 26. FORENOON. I. F. Norris, Speaker. W. W. Casmon, Dr. Cooper, Mrs. Harrington, Solicitors. EVENING. Mr. Wilson, Speaker. Dr. Cooper, W. W. Casmon, Mrs. Harrington, Solicitors. SUNDAY, JUNE 1. FORENOON. Dr. D. T. Caldwell, Speaker. Mrs. Harrington, Dr. Cooper, W. W. Casmon, Solicitors. EVENING. Mr. Drake, Speaker. Mrs. Harrington, Dr. Cooper, W. W. Casmon, Solicitors. SUNDAY, JUNE 8. FORENOON. Rev. W. D. Carter, Speaker. Dr. Cooper, Mr. Casmon, Solicitors. EVENING. Rev. E. A. Johnson, Speaker. Dr. Cooper, Mr. Casmon, Solicitors. A. M. E. CHURCH, MAY 26. FORENOON. Dr. F. B. Cooper, Speaker. Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Harris, W. E. Mitchell, Solicitors. EVENING John F. Cragwell, Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. SUNDAY, JUNE 1. FORENOON. John T. Gayton, Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. McCants, Solicitors. EVENING. I. I. Walker, Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. SUNDAY, JUNE 8. FORENOON. Mrs. Clara Bonner, Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. EVENING. Rev. D. A. Graham, Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN, MAY 26. FORENOON. B. F. Tutt, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. EVENING. John T. Gayton, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. SUNDAY. JUNE 1. I. F. Norris, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. EVENING. Dr. F. B. Cooper, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. GOLDEN WEST Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest SUNDAY, JUNE 8. FORENOON. Rev. E. A. Johnson, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. EVENING. Rev. J. B. Barber, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. PURELY PERSONAL. Henry Gregg is going to live in Yakima county and raise "chitlins." Mrs. W. L. Presto and children have gone to Ocean Side, Oregon, for the summer. Dr. C. C. Crowley of Everett attended the Odd Fellows memorial services in Seattle last Sunday. Rev. W. D. Carter delivered a very practical sermon to the Odd Fellows at their memorial service last Sunday afternoon. Samuel H. Stone, so goes the story, presided at the Seattle Branch of the N. A. A. C. last Monday evening, which was nothing unusual, only it was unusual. Sergeant Vrooman was given the once over one day this week and he is all there. I. I. Walker is on his G. N. job again, his union card to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. S. A. Watts has returned from a five weeks visit in Los Angeles. Mrs. Watts remained there. Mr. Monroe Fields of Kennydale, who has extensive fields thereabouts, had the hay-seeds took out of his whiskers in Seattle this week. Mr. Thompson, who is so very solicitous over the colored men and women becoming members of labor unions, ought to try to get a job at Skinner & Eddy at anything except common labor. Mr. W. C. Wilson of Bremerton attended the Odd Fellows' memorial exercises last Sunday afternoon in Seattle. Mrs. A. C. Garrot and Mrs. Charles H. Lewis entertained last Wednesday evening at Greyerbiehl Hall in the form of a dancet and light refreshments. Mr. S. H. Stone- served light refreshments last Tuesday evening to a few friends, the Rev. J. B. Barber being the honored guest. Mrs. B. F. Tutt's pink tea entertainment Aunt Tabitha and Uncle Hiram started for a Christmas visit to New York and at Philadelphia Uncle Hiram got out to buy a newspaper and the train went off without him. But the railroad people were more than kind to Uncle Hiram in his predicament. They put him on an extra rapid express and he actually arrived in New York twenty minutes ahead of Aunt Tabitha. He stood at the exit in his black Sunday suit, carpet bag in hand, when she came forth. "Here we are again, hey?" he said, elasping her waist jocosely. "I tell ye, Tabithy, gal, I thought I'd lost yer for good." But Aunt Tabithy had drawn herself up straight and stiff. She was frowning as black as a thundercloud. "You clear out, mister," she hissed. "None o' yer New York confidence tricks on me. I left my Hiram in Philadelphia." Her sweetheart had decided to emigrate. Tomorrow he was off to Canada in search of fame and fortune. Tender farewells were the order of the day, or rather night; slowly Maud and Harry bade each other a fond adieu by the hatstand, then on the doormat, and now they were repeating it on the doorstep. In the dining room father was pacing to and fro, anxiously and angrily trying to estimate the cost of the gas bill in these hard times. Gingerly he opened the door and listened. "Answer me, Maud—answer me!" came in gusty whispers from Harry's manly throat. "Answer me now, darling. I can bear this suspense no longer!" "Yes, answer him, Maud," came an appealing cry from the dining room. "I can bear this expense no longer." at the Grace Presbyterian Church was highly appreciated by those who were present. In all things be agreeable, like those who like you, and at least be charitable to those who do not seem to like you. Mrs. W. D. Carter is having much success with her "Y" work this season. In many saloons before the war a basket of cheese and crackers was placed on the counter for the benefit of the customers. A workingman entered one such establishment, ordered a glass of ale, and started on the cheese and crackers. He helped himself again and again, until the supply ran very low. All this time the proprietor had been watching him, and, as his patron helped himself to the last morsel of cheese, he said: "Do you know that cheese cost me 40 cents a pound?" "Humph!" remarked the man. "It's worth it!" Father liked pictures of western life, so when he saw the poster of a cowboy outside a cinema he and his little son went in. It wasn't a very good sort of picture as to theme, for it presented a ruthless outlaw and his gang of robbers, and there was also a dance hall scene. Father had some misgivings as to his choice of movie and wondered whether at its close his son would elect to be the bold, bad bandit or the vice enmeshed owner of the dance hall and gambling den. He said nothing, but anxiously awaited the verdict. When the end came Willie whispered: "Daddy, do you know who the cowboy looks like?" RICHARDSON'S UNDERTAKING PARLORS Embalmer and Funeral Director 1216-18 Jackson Street Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. The State of Washington to the said Myrtle E. Jeffery, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days from and after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after May 17, 1919, 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 attorneys for plaintiff at their office and post office address below designated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demands of the plaintiff's complaint, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court. The object of this action is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant on the grounds of abandonment. MORRIS & SHIPLEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 55 Haller Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication May 17, 1919. LOOK WHOSE COMING J. WELDON JOHNSON WILL LECTURE IN SEATTLE JUNE 5th, 1919. ---