Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South SEDITION AMONG NEGROES We have a copy of the report of the Department of Justice on "Radicalism and Sedition Among the Negroes as Reflected in Their Publications." The report occupies twenty-seven pages of the report of the investigation against "Persons Advising Anarchy, Sedition, and the Forcible Overthrow of the Government." The pages devoted to the Negro came at the end of the report; and, judging from what was the evident purpose of the report, these pages make the most ludicrous anticlimax that could be imagined. We don't know how good a case the report makes out against the people discussed in the first one hundred and sixty pages, for we have not yet had the time to read that portion; but we are prepared to say that if it doesn't make out a better case than it makes out against the Negro, the Department of Justice has wasted a good deal of time and a considerable amount of Uncle Sam's cash. If any jury of fair-minded persons can find in the twenty-seven pages devoted to the Negro anything which justifies those pages being made a part of a report against "persons advising anarchy, sedition, and the forcible overthrow of the Government," the writer will agree to eat a bundle of these reports without taking water. Whoever got out the report filled it with extracts of both prose and poetry from the radical Negro press. But what do all of these extracts amount to when boiled down? They amount to a demand not for anarchy, not for the overthrow of the Government, but to a demand for the strict and impartial enforcement of law, and to an expression of the determination of the Negro to defend himself when and where the law refuses or fails to protect him against the mob. Indeed, the main note running through all the quotations from the Negro publications mentioned in the report is a demand for law and order, but law and order based on the recognition of the equal rights of every American citizen. Of course, the chief thing in these radical periodicals on which the accusing finger rests is the open or implied endorsement of the action of Negroes who in the recent "race riots" defended themselves and protected their homes against the mobs because the law refused or failed to protect them. Well, what about it? Can any sane man say that these Negroes did not act within their legal and moral rights? More than that, can any sane man say that these Negroes did not perform what was their obvious duty? Will any white man say that white men would not have been expected to act likewise under like conditions? Let those who are holding up their hands in holy horror at the mere thought of lawlessness on the part of Negroes stop SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1920 and consider that in not one of these outbreaks were Negroes the original aggressors. All of the "race riots" which occurred last summer were started by lawless white men. Then let the holy horror against lawlessness be directed against white mobbists and not against Negroes defending their lives and their homes when the law shows itself unable or unwilling to do so. There are gentle friends of the Negro who greatly deplore any indication on his part to oppose with physical force mob violence and community lawlessness. They feel that it will arouse still more bitter sentiment against himself, and what is worse, a great many of them might get killed, for he is so far outnumbered. These friends should not expect the Negro to submit to wholesale murder for the sake of increasing his reputation for gentleness and patience; if they do, they are expecting too much from the present-day Negro. As for getting killed—that does not strike much terror to the heart of the Negro now; thousands of Negroes died in France for what has been for them a dream, if not a lie; so the thought of dying in defense of their own lives and property does not impart any great dread; they reason that if they are threatened with death by wholesale murder, it is better to meet it by facing the mob than to meet it by being shot in the back while running or by having their houses burned down over their heads. Let a little of this investigation into lawlessness and this indignation against lawlessness be directed against the degenerate, blood-lusting white men who make up the mobs to whom the lynching and murdering of Negroes is a pastime, a Roman holiday sport. If the Department of Justice wants to do a job of investigating worth doing, let it not stop at the open and just discontent expressed in the Negro press over the wrongs and injustices suffered by black American citizens; let it get at the grounds and reason for that discontent. And if it wants any assistance on the job, the Negro press will gladly give it. As it is, the Department has done only about one-third of what it ought to do. The third that it has done makes out no case of "sedition" against the Negro; it simply shows that the Negro has just grounds for complaint at his treatment in this country, and has sense enough to know it and sense enough to say it in a clear, intelligent and forcible way. Indeed, it seems that this latter is what shocks the writer of the report more than anything else. He is a man who has evidently, like many others, been asleep on the Negro; he has been thinking of the Negro in terms of twenty or thirty yearas ago; all at once he is called on to read a number of Negro publications, and he is amazed, overwhelmed, dumbfounded, to find that the Negro knows what he wants. But, after all, this report of the Department of Justice is not so bad. So far as we know, it is the most effective step yet taken to let the whole country know just what the Negro is discontented about, to let it know what the Negro of today is thinking. The American Negro could wish for nothing better than that the Department of Justice would put a copy of this report in the hands of every man, woman and child in the United States.—New York Age. VOL. IV.. No. 29 WE ARE HOPEFUL. Will Seattle, the ensuing year, maintain her high standard of industrial activity is quite the question of the hour among business men of this community in particular as well as business men of the country in general, and even across the water into the Orient. Rumor has it that the most of the shipyards of the city will practically, if not wholly, shut down early in this year, thus throwing thousands of men out of employment, who, on not being able to find lucrative employment in the city, will seek pastures more green. If the shipyard industry is crippled that of course will cripple a great many minor and dependent industries, which will be responsible for many more wage earners being thrown out of employment. If all this happens in the industrial circles of the city then there will be a like demoralization in the commercial circles of the city, which, under the circumstances, would prevent Seattle from maintaining its past high standing of industrial activity. Perhaps none of this will happen, let's hope for the good of all concerned they will not, at least as extensively as rumor has it they will. Multiplied millions of dollars are tied up in the shipyards of the city and their subsidiary industries and we are of the opinion those persons most interested will make an effort to hold them together. The foreign and Alaska trade will of course continue just as good as in the past and that of itself means much for Seattle.. Taking it all in all we firmly believe that things will move on in Seattle during the year of our Lord 1920 just as encouragingly as they did in 1919, and so here goes for another year of hum and hurry. OLD BOOZE MUST GO. Good bye old Booze, you had to lose, because you got the grip for giving men the slip, to wander all the night in order to get "tight." Your day is done your time has come, to meet your fate, so don't be late. Old Booze is dead, he lost his head, when the voters' ax was told the facts, and to hell he'll run, which is no fun, for stuff that burns in heated urns The doom you face will end your race and leave at rest the angels' guests. You took men's lives and robbed their wives, the children's banks oft turned your cranks, and paved your floors with golden "chores," so to hell you go and don't be slow. Old Booze was hung on Heaven's rung, where the Angel Right made his flight, to the pearaly gates where Justice waits. You hid your kids and called for bids, in case the courts gave you the forts, but now you are gone to the great beyond, sleep in peace without any "greece." But when return to terra firma. I trust you'll be a hickory tree and funish nuts for children's guts, instead of booze and foaming ooze, for such as wander through the night in order to get tight. Old Booze is dead from voting lead and will be buried late on January eight. In August of the present year 123 crates of clocks and 60 crates of extra flat wrist-watches arived in Marseilles from the United States. These were the first shipments of the kind, and Swiss watch and clock manufacturers are viewing the new American compition with anxiety.—Guaranty Trust Company Bulletin. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Write it 1920. Have you been robbed yet? If not, why not? Human life is the cheapest thing in Seattle just now. Bad booze got its toll of dead Christmas, but, they would have it. Of course the air is free, but it costs a lot of money to warm it up. The question is, have all the presidential booms taken to the Wood for cover? Despite the fact the editor hereof is past sixty he has no objections to being thoroughly leap yeared. As long as booze is $24 per quart there will be less whiskey drunk, your taste for the same to the contrary notwithstanding. If it be true that Europe is starving the profiteers of this country doubtless feel that things continue to come their way. Chief Warren is calling for help to curb the criminals. What a pity the old fighting Twenty-fourth is not stationed at Fort Lawton. Funeral services over the remains of the late John Barleycorn will be held January 8th when the old highwayman will pass out bag and baggage. Quarreling over what might have been will gain the former rulers of Germany nothing. Now is the time for them to practice "mum is the word." If some of us reach the "other world" as full of booze as we leave this, Conan Doyle is correct in saying "there may be alcohol in the next world." In case the editor of Cayton's Weekly owes you anything for services rendered the past year then here is wishing you a happy new year, if otherwise to hell with you. President Wilson may be "in wonderful physical condition" just now as say those close to him, but before he is through explaining his peace pact to the senate he will probably again be down and out. The editor hereof was some twenty odd years of age before he learned a penny was real money and boys living now seen to have the same lack of knowledge about a nickel. Whoever looks upon the almighty dollar as lord and master is a crook at heart and will not hesitate to commit the most heinous crime for an opportunity to worship at the shrine of the Almighty Dollar. Taxes in King County have been raised 20 per cent and the down-town landlords have raised their rents 86 per cent to prevent bankruptcy from overtaking them. In the matter of the navy awards the buck has been passed up to the president and he doubtless will in turn pass it up to the southern oligarchy, the real power behind the throne in his administration. When the census man comes round tell him all you know about yourself and your business. The government needs the information and will see to it that it will never be known outside of official circles. It is an old adage that a bad beginning makes a good ending and P. Frazier the colored real estate dealer of Seattle, is of the opinion that there is a lot of truth in it and he is speaking from personal experience. Thousands of protests are being registered against the hanging of the Arkansas colored men convicted by a jury in seven minutes. The protests may not win in this instance, but there will come a time some day when they will win. John Sharp Williams, the Mississippi sen- atorial roughneck, expresses the hope that he will be a dog if he is a candidate for the senate to succeed himself. From our way of thinking he is already what he wishes to be under certain circumstances. However by that time he may be a mad dog, and for the hope of which let's be thankful. The lynching of a colored man in North Carolina last Saturday night charged with having killed a white man was doubtless a lapsus lingua and instead was an innocent white woman he had outraged, as the lynching of colored persons is only for the protection of white women as so states John Sharp Williams the Mississippi senatorial roughneck. Viewing the crime wave in Seattle at present through the observation glasses of a colored man we are of the opinion that the law and order class of white folks of this community need to call upon the colored folks, who are always 100 per cent American, to help them put down the criminal element of white folks, who seem to be running riot just now. THE PASSING THRONG One of the congenial fellows of the city is W. H. Wilson, who deals in men's clothing, and he invited me to drop in and look his place over, which I did, and believe me, its some place, but I found he had two partners—a Jew and an Irishman—and after looking him over and meeting his partners I said to myself, a Negro, a Jew and an Irishman, while not three of a kind, certainly three to draw to. A few days after my first visit I passed the store and to my surprise and perhaps amusement, they had taken an Italian shoe repair man in with them, and I vulgarly said to myself—a Darky, a Dago, a Sheeney and a Mick—can you beat it. "Happy New Year to You," said I to J. B. MacDougal, once upon a time the leading dry goods merchant of the Northwest, and it gave me much pleasure to meet him in the Christmas holiday season, for I have known him for nearly thirty years, and not only knew him, but have done business with him, and our business relations having always been pleasant, he seemed equally pleased to return the greeting. He passed by and then as I stood talking to the Rev. D. A. Graham I felt a gentle touch on my shoulder and he said, "I just stopped to tell you that at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the firm of MacDougall & Southwick Company George Selby was voted a pension of $26 per week the balance of his life, whether sick or well, work or play, and at his death his funeral expenses will be fully paid by the company. He has worked for the firm as night watchman for fourteen yearas and a more faithful employee never worked for a concern than he and the firm thus shows its appreciation of his faithfulness." Cayton's Weekly has no hesitancy in holding up the life of Mr. Selby to the younger set, both white and black, as worthy of emulation and although you may not accumulate a fortune by doing so, yet you will never be in want. Such an epidemic of crime never before in all the history of Seattle has overshadowed the city as has prevailed for the past thirty days and it continues unabated. While the comment I am about to make on this ugly subject may be the promptings of clanishness, yet I feel that I am justified in doing so. Amid this scourge of crime, but one colored man has been implicated and he must have been a novice for he was shot in his attempt to rob a grocery store. Men, women and children have been shot down and robberies by the wholesale have been committed and yet "narry a nigger" has been accused. In view of the fact that Seattle is a seaport town and attracts so many persons of the free and easy life this record the colored citizens have made during this epidemic of crime for law and order is quite praiseworthy. I am of the opinion that the policeman who said to me some time ago that all colored persons are damn criminals, either was mistaken or he and his coworkers have not been able to trap them, or if trapped, they have criminalized the trapper. ALL ABOUT YOU Alexander P. Camphor, prelate of Liberia, representing the Methodist Episcopal church, is dead. One hundred thousand dollars has been voted for the erection of a public school in Mound Bayon, Miss., an exclusive colored community. A ten thousand dollar ice cream factory is being installed in Los Angeles, Cal., which has been financed by the colored citizens thereof. Many robberies charged to colored men in Casper, Colorado, according to the chief of the police of that city, were committed by two white men and a white woman who had blackened their faces. Jonas Thomas, a farmer and business man of Bennettville, S. C., has already sold 700 bales of cotton this season and has 200 more to market. He is said to be the largest individual cotton planter in the state. He is also a heavy stockholder in a local bank. Captaian Smith, of oversea duties, who was tried, convicted and sentenced to be shot by a court martial made up wholly of white officers from the South, has been completely exonerated and restored to duty. Nothing more shameful ever before occurred in army circles. An amendment to the Cummins railroad bill has been introduced by Senator Joseph J. Frances of Maryland, which has for its object the abolition of the Jim Crow car service, which costs the government sixty million dollars annually to maintain a separate car system. INDIAN POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA, JUNE 30.1919 Alabama, 909; Arizona, 42,346; rkansas, 460; California, 16,215; Colorado, 821; Connecticut, 152; Delaware, 5; District of Columbia, 68; Florida, 573; Georgia, 95; Idaho, 4,066; Illinois, 188; Indiana, 279; Iowa, 358; Kansas, 1,441; Kentucky, 234; Louisiana, 780; Maine, 892; Maryland, 55; Massachusetts, 688; Michigan, 7,512; Minnesota, 12,447; Mississippi, 1,253; Missouri, 313; Montana, 12,138; Nebraska, 2,448; Nevada, 5,840; New Hampshire, 34; New Jersey, 168; New Mexico, 20,581; New oYrk, 6,460; North Carolina, 8,235; North Dakota, 8,891; Ohio, 127; Oklahoma, 119,101; Oregon, 6,607; Rhode Island, 284; South Carolina, 331; South Dakota, p2,829; Tennessee, 216; Texas, 702; Utah, 3,048; Vermont, 26; Virginia, 539; Washington, 10,988; West Virginia, 36; Wisconsin, 10,211; Wyoming, 1,712; Total, 232,196. Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It 303 22nd Ave. So. Beacon 1910 IN THE POLITICAL WHIRL With a municipal election in Seattle already on, a presidential nomination convention following soon thereafter and a state campaign for state and county nominations accompanying the whole, the political game in the state of Washington, the most of the present year will be a more or less fascinating one. The fight for the mayorship of Seattle already gives much evidence of being a hot number, which may enter into the national and state campaigns, though the gubernatorial aspirants will hardly show any preference for the success of any one of the various aspirants for the Seattle mayoralty. Washington has a presidential aspirant who, in all political probability, will receive the united support of all factions and a Poindexter delegation will go to Chicago to the Republican National Convention. Tacoma too will hold a municipal election in the earaly spring and that also will attract more or less political attention, as Tacoma, just now, is the political center of the state. In the various municipal elections partisan politics will not enter into the contests and Cayton's Weekly will support the MAN. That is to say, it has no candidate, but will make its own selection. In the presidential delegate campaign Cayton's Weekly will support a Poindexter delegation and that too without second choice instructions. The party platform too is attracting more or less attention and the party leaders among the Republicans are anxious that, in a way, the people themselves be personally responsible for the spirit, if not the actual words, of the platform, on which the campaign will be fought in the state. By this it is meant that men and women in all walks of life will make suggestions for the platform. Of course President Cardwell of the Washington State Colored Republican Club and the various presidents of the different county organizations of a like complexion, will see to it that the colored voters of the state are fully represented in the state convention and we would suggest that at least three of their number be elected on the state central committee from at large. In times past such a plan was followed and worked very satisfactorily. There is no reason why an all-together campaign is not staged by the Republicans that the state may fully come into her own as in days of yore. If the presidential nomination is awarded on the grounds of patriotism then Washington state's presidential aspirant will have no superior. During the war Miles C. Poindexter, United States senator from Washington, stood by the president of the United States by working and voting for him to have every necessary aid and support to prosecute the war to a successful finish. Senator Poindexter denounced slackers and Bolshevists and waged a relentless war on them both in and out of the senate. He not only voted that they be imprisoned, but that the law hunt each and every one of them down and put an everlasting quietus upon them, and that too irrespective of their social or financial standing. Since the war Senator Poindexter has stood in the gateway and protested against the president turning over the affairs of this country to the European powers. He has denounced in unmeasured terms the Versailles Peace Treaty and likewise the League of Nations, and in adopting this he was not "a me too," but an originator. He opposed these measures because he viewd them as un-American and in that view, it is safe to say, an overwhelming majority of the citizens of this state, yea if not the United States, are unqualifiedly with him. Senator Poindexter has served the citizens of this state as prosecuting attorney, superior court judge, one term in the house of Representatives of Congress and has been twice elected United States senator, all of which has given him an opportunity to know the wants of the United States. In his opposition to the Administration he has not split hairs, but called a spade a spade and exposed both fraud and folly with all the vigor within his soul. This state will give him an undivided delegation for the presidential nomination. Now that Clark Savage has eliminated himself from the gubernatorial race it leaves the contest at this stage of the game to a big four, who, when in action, will make the fur fly. The retiring of Savage from the race will undoubtedly strengthen the candidacy of Gov. Hart as Savage had many strong supporters even in Tacoma, the home of the governor. At this writing it is next to impossible to even surmise the relative strength of the gubernatorial quartet, but certain it is each is sufficiently strong to keep the others constantly guessing. Goernor Hart's chief strength lies in his own administration. Not that he has no strength outside of his appointees, because he was elected lieutenant governor over strong opposition, and some of that strength he still retains, but if he goes over the top it will be due to the good work of his respective appointees. At present he is playing the trumps he holds, in his mind, to the best advantage. The ins always have a more or less advantage over the outs and yet it sometimes work the other way. The three other candidates, Col. Roland H. Hartley of Everett, Col. George B. Lamping of Seattle and State Senator Coman of Spokane, each has more or less negligible strength, due largely to their respective personalities. Many questions of public interest will be talked over during the campaign and the candidate that seems to understand them all will probably get the plurality vote. To get a majority vote on the part of any candidate will be next to impossible and it is barely possible that a thirty per cent plurality vote will pull the persimmon. To say the least it will be an interesting set-to to watch from afar. There is no more positive character within the confines of the state than Col. Hartley and he is undoubtedly the best campaigner of the bunch. He always knows exactly what he wants to say and he is never afraid to say it. In a free for all campaign Col., Hartley is a Johnny on the job and the other fellow had better drill, if he wants to be at the finals. Col. Lamping will not get many votes on his political personality. He, however, has been designated as a Radical and he may accept the gauntlet as thrown down and mke his empign on the issues arising from the Radical discontent. Not that Lamping is a Bolshevist, but he is most decidedly against legislating to make the rich richer, and with such a plea for a paramount issue he might sufficiently rally the wage eaarners to put him over the top. Lamping is a forcible talker and is making preparations to make the best of the situation as forced upon him. Senator Coman comes from the ambitious business class, who is always looking for more business—not exactly against the working man, but wants him to keep still when he gets big wages. He is the only Bunch Grass Candidate and hopes to get such an overwhelming plurality east of the Cascades that the moneyed interests of the west side will easily put him over. While he would have the hardest time to be elected after nomination of the quartet, yet he figures this is Republican year and the odds would be in his favor of slipping by. ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street Seattle JOHN BARLEYCORN. I've ruined the stomachs of a million men; Killed a billon but I couldn't win. I made my fight through bottle and keg, And through me countless thousands beg. The fellows who made me didn't think That they had come so near the brink, And those who sold me had no care Nor conscience either to be fair. In bottle or keg, or glass filled up, Or barrel or demijohn or cup John Barley outshone a thousand stars So grand I was behind their bars. Bue here of late, and because of war The fools who used me went too far. They tried to feed the soldiers rum When my main hold was for the slum. But now my epitaph is writ. My doom is sealed and Judges sit In counsel, and have decreed That from my curse mankind is freed. —Broadax. SUGAR SITUATION SUMMARIZED Figures recently published by The Weekly Statistical Sugar Trade Journal estimated that Cuba will produce 4,300,000 metric tons of cane-sugar in the crop of 1919-20, out of an estimated total of 16,600,000 tons of can and beet sugar combined. This compares with an actual production in Cuba of 4,000,000 tons in 1918-19, out of a world total of 16,320,654 tons. Contracts for sugar delivery in excess of 8 cents per pound in Cuba have been made, as compared with an average of 5.55 cents per pound fixt by the Board of Equalization for the 1917-18 and the 1918-19 crops. At 7 cents a pound in Cuba, the island will receive $663,200,000 from its sugar crop alone. At 8 cents the crop will be worth $756,800,000, and at 9 cents $851,400,000. There is sufficient cane already planted to produce in excess of 4,500,000 tons, but it is doubtful whether there will be a sufficient supply of labor and transportation facilities to produce more than 4,300,000 tons. A resume of the estimated world sugar crop puts the 1919-20 yield of cane-sugar at 12,261,000 tons and beet-sugar at 4,339,000 tons. Ready to Oblige.—Mistress—"Now, Ada, I want you to show us what you can do to-night. We have a few very special friends coming for a musical evening." Cook—"Well, mum, I haven't done any singin' to speak of for years, but as you insists upon it you can put me down for 'The 'Oly City'!'"—London Passing Show. 1000 1000 Thousands of Barrels of Refreshing, Exhilerating, Intoxicating Music Poured Out Nightly at the Entertainer's Cabaret 1238 Main Street By the Best SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA on the Coast DON'T MISS IT ENTERTAINER'S CABARET ```markdown ``` PURELY PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wilson enjoyed the holiday hospitalities of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Cragwell. Mr. Byron Parker, of the U. S. naval service, visited with his mother and sister Mrs. Black, last Sunday. Mr. Hamilton Green entertained the members of the Epworth League of the A. M. E. Church last Tuesday evening. Rev. W. F. Green is making preparations to make extensive improevements to his church at Everett the coming season. Mr. Harold Mitchell has enjoyed a nice holiday trade with his "for hire" car. He has a regular jitney run to Cowen Park. Mr. John Green, a court house attache, is keeping batchelor quarters at the home of Burr Williams at 1767 Fourteenth South. Mr. I. Israel Walker, who resides on his ranch across Lake Washington, remembered some of his old time friends holiday week. Mr. W. A. Watts of the Rainier Valley district of the city, will leave in a few days for Los Angeles where he will remain for the winter. Mr. Harry Leg and others are planning on opening a swell cabaret in the basement of the Alhambra Cash Grocery store early in January. Mr. W. C. Winston, president of the Seattle Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. is shaping his committees for the work of the ensuing year. Mr. George Selby received a Christmas gift from the concern for whom he works that will keep him the balance of his life and then some. Mr. Robert B. Brown of Tacoma spent a couple of days in Seattle this week and renewed acquaintanceship with old time friends. Mr. and Mrs. E. McCular have taken rooms at 217 Twenty-second South. Mr. McCular did oversea service and is now employed at the Entertainers Cafe. Mrs. I. Wallace has opened a "fancy work" parlor at 1220 Jackson street and later on she plans to put in a stock of gents ties, collars and other fancy articles. Mrs. Letitia A. Graves entertained a few friends at her apartments in the Douglas Friday evening after Christmas, at which time some plus for culture work were made. Mr. Robert L. Dixon, the only living colored pioneer of Seattle, is confined to his bed. Mr. Dixon is seventy-six years of age and has lived in Seattle over fifty years. Mr. Clarence R. Anderson, the attorney at law, sued the Pantages Theatre Company for refusing him accommodations and the case has been heard and the judge has the same under advisement. Rev. W. D. Carter, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of this city, held his annual get-together meeting last night (Friday) and the annual reports of the various working committees of his congregation were read. Miss Ida and Miss Emily Brown were hostesses to a number of young ladies and gentlemen of a dancing party at their home last Wednesday evening and to incidentally watch the old year out and the new year in. It was one of the very pleasant midwinter entertainments. MBS. L. T. GREEN 1101 Washington St., Seattle, Wash. Phone Main 4573. Hair Culture and Scalp Specialist. Will call at your home if desired. Graduate of Oxford College, St. Louis. J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op- Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. NOTICE! PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION On January 5th, 1920, the registration books will be opened at the County-City Building and will remain open to January 28th, inclusive. On January 15, 16, and 17 registration books will be open in your precinct. You can reregister in your own precinct or at the County-City Building. All persons who desire to vote in the coming election must register. You owe it to your self to register and vote. King County Colored Republican Club. STOLEN FROM THIEVES "Do you know what a polyclinic is?" "Of course, stupid; it is a hospital for parrots."—Baltimore American. Pedestrian—You say your wife is starving. Can't you get work? Beggar—Yes, sir; but she can't.—Cleveland Press. "He never speaks when he has nothing to say." "Then he would never do for a stump orator."—Baltimore American. "Did you order ham and eggs?" asked the head waiter. "Certainly not. I humbly requested them."—New York Globe. Guest—Waiter, this steak is like leather and the knife is dull. Waiter—You might strop the knife on the steak.—Michigan Cargoyle. “Say, pa, I had a fight with Jimmy Green today.” “Did you whip him?” “Gee, pa, ain't I tellin' you about it?”—Boston Transcript. Mr. Batz—You ought to brace up and show your wife who is running things at your house. Mr. Meek (sadly)—It isn't necessary. She knows.—Life. Striker—Aw, what do you want to go back to work for? Man in Overalls—Well, you gotta go back so you can strike again, aint you?—Judge. Tired Tuff—Me brother knew a month before his death when he would die. Weary Walter—Who told him? Tired Tuff—The judge.—Tit-Bits. “My ambition is to have my name on some high roll of honor.” “Mine is to have my name on some permanent payroll.”—Baltimore American. "Then you won't indorse me for the office? "I can't do that," said the party boss, "but I'll have you prominently mentioned."—Louisville Courier-Journal. "I am worried to death about mother. You know she isn't very strong, and it's terribly late." "Who is she out with?" "Grandmother."—Judge. "How can you have the door opened to a successful courtship?" "I should think the easiest way was to ring the belle."—New Orleans Picayune. Mother (indignantly)—Why did you strike little Nancy, you naughty boy? Peter—What did she want to cheat for, then? Mother—How did she cheat? Peter—Why, we were playing at Adam and Eve, and she had the apple to tempt me with, and she never tempted me, but went and ate it herself.—London Opinion. He—I saw where a woman sued for $50 for alienation of her husband's affections. FURNISHED ROOMS 317 22nd Ave. So. Rooms large and commodious, on car line, but walking distance. MRS. S. R. CAYTON 317 22nd Ave. So. She—What extortion!—Baltimore American. Willis, Sr.—My son, I'm afraid you do not know the value of money. Willis, Jr.—Sure I do. It's just about half what it was a few years ago.—Judge. "Here's a charge for a call lasting half an hour on our telephone," said the lawyer to his wife. "Yes, dear. That was my call. I was asking a friend of mine a question," replied the wife. "And did it take half an hour to ask a question?" "Yes, dear. You see, it was one of those hypothetical questions."—Yonkers Statesman. "What did the doctor say?" asked her husband. "Not much. He asked me to put out my tongue." "Yes." "And he said, 'Overworked.'" "Ah! Then you'll have to give it a rest, my dear. That doctor knows his business."—Boston Post. "Why are you so silent of late?" "I'm trying an economic experiment," replied Mr. Penwiggle, "but I'm afraid it isn't going to work. I thought that by limiting the supply of my extremely valuable thoughts I might create a more pressing demand for them."—Washington Star. NOTICE—SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. State of Washington, County of King, ss.-Sheriff's Office. By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the Honorable Superior Court of King County, on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1919, by the Clerk thereof in the case of John J. Shirley, plaintiff, versus Frank T. Rawlings, and Jane Doe Rawlings, his wife (whose true Christian name is unknown); Jesse W. Rawlings and Mabel F. Rawlings, his wife, and Emmar T. Rawlings, defendants, No. 136289, and to me, as Sheriff, directed and delivered: Notice is hereby given. That I will proceed to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, within the hours prescribed by law for Sheriff's sals, to-wit: at ten o'clock A. M., on the 24th day of January, 1920, before the court house door of King County, in the State of Washington, the following described property, situated in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: The north twenty and six hundredths (20.06) feet of lot two (2) and the south nineteen and ninety-four one hundredths (19.94) feet of lot one (1), block one (1), Leschi Heights Addition to the City of Seattle, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, levied on as the property of said defendants, to satisfy a judgment of a foreclosure of a mortgage amounting to fifteen hundred and seventy-five and seventy-five one hundredths ($1,575.75) dollars, interest, attorney's fee of $75.00, and the cost of suit, in favor of plaintiff. Dated this 18th day of December, 1919. JOHN STRINGER, Sheriff. BY A. HUTCHESON, Deputy. December 20 to January 16, 1930 ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Distributor of Mme. C. J. Walker's Hair and Skin preparations. Mail, postal and express orders promptly filled. 1201-3 Jackson St., Seattle, Wash. P. FRAZIER Real Estate, Insurance, Collections. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. SANDERS & COMPANY LOANS NEGOTIATED 1003-1004 L. C. Smith Building Office Hours From 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Seattle, Wash. Elliott 4662 You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. Phone East 179 Calls Made Promptly Day or Night LEWIS & BLACKWELL FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS H. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle