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CONSUMERS MILK ATTACKED HOW BADLY do the enclosed people of Minne- apolis and St. Paul want a new- paper that will be a credit to them and cater to their needs? Badly enough to pay for it? VOL.1, NO.40 CON HOSPITAL DENIES USE TO GIRL IN CRITICAL STATE "Rule" Quoted by Staff for Refusal to Admit Dying Colored Patient. Negro Citizens Protest Possibility of "Too Much Friction" Given as One Reason; Condition "Outrage." Sedalia, Mo.—Indignation is at white heat among colored citizens here this week at the positive refusal of the hospital board to admit a colored girl to the city hospital for a badly needed operation. Last Thursday the condition of Miss Tommie Walker, 17, became so acute, her physician advised that an operation would be the only means of saving her life. The city hospital authorities said she might have the operating room, but must be moved out immediately after the operation—an unheard of proceeding in serious operations. "Rule" Barred Admittance George H. Rector, the sheriff, who was called upon by friends of the girl to help get her into the hospital, was told by Ex-judge Louis Huffman, chairman of the hospital board, that there was a rule against admitting colored patients to the city hospital. A colored committee composed of John J. Reed, Raymond W. Smith, Fred D. Ferguson and the Rev W. D. Wilkins, was told the same thing. Mayor Babcock was out of the city. Wm. Illgenfritz, president pro tem of the city council, said the admitting of the girl "would cause too much friction." A. D. Stanley, publisher of the Sedalia Democrat, refused to publish a protest of the colored citizens. Minor Operation Given. Meanwhile, other physicians were called in on Friday and they performed a minor operation in the home which relieved the condition and may make a major operation unnecessary. The anger of the citizens, however, has not cooled with the saving of the girl's life. They are paying taxes, they point out, to maintain this city institution, and yet they cannot be admitted. The men they elect to serve on its board tell them outright that a "rule" keeps them from getting treatment. Certain white doc (Continued on page 4) PULLMAN RIDE COSTS $500 FINE Jim Crow Scores, in Florida as Colored Woman Is Jailed; Test Case to Result. Jacksonville, Fla.—Mrs. Blanche Brookins was taken from a Pullman on train No. 85 of the Atlantic Coast Line at Patlakta, Fla., Sunday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock, incarcerated in jail all night, brought before County Judge J. C. Calhoun on Monday morning and fined $500 and costs with an alternative of six months' imprisonment for riding in a Pullman in violation of Florida's Jim Crow law. The fine and costs amounted to $518.17, and was paid. Mrs. Brookins purchased Pullman reservations in New York for through trip to Orlando, Fla. At Jacksonville the conductor requested Mrs. Brookins to vacate the Pullman for the Jim Crow. This Mrs. Brookins refused to do. The conductor then wired the Patilatka authorities from Green Cove Springs. At the Patilatka station officers took Mrs. Brookins from the train. After assessing the fine the judge is alleged to have said: "That happens to be the maximum penalty or it would be more." It is thought that a test case will be made of this occurrence. --- The St. Paul Echo Gilpin Takes Title Role As Filming Of Uncle Tom Starts Echo Beats Country on Reference to Henson Three weeks ago, an editorial in The Echo invited the attention of the reader to an article in the current issue of Liberty magazine which dealt with the part Matt Henson, Negro, played in the discovery of the North Pole. Since that time, nearly every Negro journal in the country has given editorial mention to the Henson article. We merely take this occasion to point out to our readers that we are giving them service first in point of time and interest. OLD SITE TO BE USED BY CHURCH Second Baptist in Kansas City, Burned in May, Will Build at Old Location. Kansas City, Mo.—By a majority vote Wednesday night, the congregation of the Second Baptist church decided to remodel its damaged structure at Tenth and Chalotte streets and return to the location it has occupied for 28 years. The congregation first rescinded an order it gave the board of trustees some weeks ago to negotiate for the sale of the old property and seek a new site. After this order was rescinded, the members voted to return to "the hill" property, which was gutted by fire Saturday night, May 15, 1926 Insurance totaling $21,500 has been paid the church and will be applied on the cost of getting the building ready for occupancy. The church has not voted officially on the type of building the newly reconstructed auditorium is to be, nor indicated how much it will spend on the re-construction. One unofficial estimate has it that it will take $25,000 to repair the damage. It is the idea of the Rev. S. W. Bacote, pastor, however, is to build a modern church on the style of Grand Avenue Temple that he estimates will cost between $80,000 and $100,000 to construct. The building would contain modern provisions for Sunday school and young people's work as well as offices. LOCAL PIANIST WILL PLAY AT NEW COMO Sidney Williams, well known local artist, has been obtained by the management of the New Como theater as one of the musicians to play at the theater, which will be opened under colored management sometime this month. The opening program of the theater will consist of a large photoplay production with added attractions on the stage. COMO TEMPLE ELECTS Como Temple, 128, I. B. P. O. E of W., held their election of officers July 14. The following were elected: Mrs. Mary Hickson, Daughter Ruler; Mrs. Lillian Walker, Vice D. R.; Cordelia White, Asst. D. R.; Mary Hickey, Chaplain; Clementine Shane Escort; Belinda Allen, Organist; Mabel Harris, Dist. Dept. Delegates to Grand Lodge: Armeda Tresvan, P. D. R.; Lazarre Clalborne, Alternate and Mabel Harris, Senior Mother. INFANTILE PARALYSIS Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 6.—That the present flurry of infantile paralysis over the state during the month of July affected few colored people is shown in the records of the disease reported thus far to the State Board of Health. Out of 34 cases of infantile paralysis developing the month of July, only four of the cases were Negroes. A scholarship fund of $7,215 is available to graduates of Muskegon, Mich., high school, who need assistance in continuing their education. ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1926 Actors for Parts of "Topsy" and "Eva" Still Unknown; Screen Tests Given Hundreds of Colored Children in Search. Los Angeles, Cal.—(Pacific Coast News Bureau). After months of preparation and the greatest of secrecy, Universal's super-production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal novel started production August 1. Since the holding up of production started early in the spring when the ice scenes were filmed at Plattsburg, N. Y., great secrecy has prevailed regarding the much heralded production. Cessation of production activity has given rumors to many varied reports as to change of directors and personnel of the cast, especially for the parts of "Uncle Tom," "Topsy" and "Eva." Gilpin Finally Chosen. Setting at rest the mystery over who was to play the "Uncle Tom" part, Universal officials have finally selected Charles Gilpin, who reached Universal City July 22 ready to start production. Secrecy, however, still prevails over the roles of "Topsy" and "Eva." Offers were made some time ago to the Duncan sisters, who are at present breaking all house records with their "Eva" and "Topsy" musical comedy show at a local theater, but they refused, announcing that they intended to produce their own screen version of their stage success. Then it was announced that the unknown 18-year-old Spanish beauty, Armida, had been chosen for the part of "Topsy" and Barbara Kent, a leading woman in western films, had been selected for the role of "Eva." Colored Actors Considered. It is also known that several colored actors, one of whom is Carolyn Snowden, have been under consideration for the "Topsy" role. Three weeks ago screen tests of several hundred colored children and extras were taken, but at this writing no definite decision has been made public as to who will be cast for these important roles. WAR DEPARTMENT ACTS ON KILLING Fulbright Case Being Probed According to Statement of Adjutant General. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) The War Department through Brigadier General Lutz Wahl, who is Acting the Adjutant General of the United States Army, has informed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that the killing of Private Phillip Smith of Company K, 24th Infantry, on September 1, 1925, at Americus, Ga., is now receiving attention. General Wahl informs the Advancement Association that he will "be pleased to inform you further at the earliest practicable date" of the results of the inquiry. The letter from the War Department came as a result of the referring of the Association's protest to President Coolidge. In its letter to the President, the N. A. A. C. P. gave the facts of the murder of Private Smith by E. J. Fulbright, a white night watchman. Fulbright was given a farcical trial which resulted in his acquittal. The N. A. A. C. P. demanded not only action towards punishment of the murderer but the removal of the 24th Infantry from Georgia to a more civilized section of the country. WILLIE JOHNSON CASE The case of Willie Johnson, 14, nephew of H. Milner, 189 Edmund street, who is being held on a tab charge of the murder of his brother Oliver, June 18, was continued until next Wednesday by Judge Orr when the case was heard Wednesday past. The boy is being kept at a boys' home on the outskirts of the city pending the completion of the trial. COLUMBIA WHITES RESENT ATTITUDE AGAINST NEGROES Students Voluntarily Post Notice Decrying Discrimination in School. Will Not Attend Dinner Barring of Sale of Tickets to Negroes for Annual Function Cause of Stand. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) Information has just been secured by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of the action of a number of white students in protest against the attempted barring of Negro students from the Teachers' College Men's Dinner to be held on August 7. Teachers' College is an integral part of Columbia University. The Men's Dinner as an annual event. Last year 1,102 men were present at the affair, according to the announcement and the same source of information predicts that 1,300 will be in attendance this year, the number of tickets being limited to that number. The protest against the attempted barring of Negroes from the dinner was embodied in a notice posted on the bulletin board of International House at 124th Street and Riverside Drive where many of the students are staying. The protest reads: "Word has come to the undersigned white men studying at Teachers' College this summer that unofficially the committee in charge of the Men's Dinner does not wish to have tickets sold to Negroes. Will Not Attend. "These men (the undersigned) and doubtless many others, cannot with a clear conscience attend a dinner which is conducted in an undemocratic and un-Christian fashion. "These men request the committee to sell tickets to all Teachers College men who may wish to buy them and allow brotherhood to prevail among those who seek the truth." This brave and fair stand by these white students will, it is felt, affect profoundly sentiment at Teachers' College and will result in the rescinding of the order or tacit agreement to bar Negro students from the dinner. GEORGIA HIRES COLORED PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE Thomasville, Ga. — Mrs. Turner Bloe has recently been employed as a public health nurse for the colored people of Thomasville and the surrounding county, and a car has been presented her to facilitate her work. Her employment was due to the efforts of the local interracial committee, led by Rev. Robb White. The program is financed jointly by the welfare fund of the city and by federal appropriations under the Shepherd-Towner bill. All is created and goes according to order, yet o'er our lifetime rules an uncertain fate.—Goethe. Langston Hughes Wins Witter Bynner Award The first prize for the best poem written by an undergraduate in an American university has just been awarded to Langton Hughes, for his poem, "The House in Taos," a poem written by Mr. Hughes subsequent to the publication of his volume of verse, "The Weary Blues." Last year Countee Cullen won the coveted award. The prize is given each year by Witter Bynner, the well known poet, and is one of the most important awards made in the United States. Entries are received from practically every college and university in the country, the number received usually exceeding three thousand. Hundreds Attend Funeral Of Charles Sumner Smith Monday Flowers Banked at Casket as Impressive Church, Lodge Ceremonies Carry Service to Conclusion. Hundreds attended the funeral services of Charles Summer Smith, 1317 Sixth avenue north, nationally known journalist, Monday afternoon at St. Peter's A. M. E. church, Minneapolis. Among the ministers who helped officiate were the Revs, G. A. Morrow, E. L. Fuller, H. C. Claybrook, Thomas Stovall and C. B. Burton. Text Appropriate. The Rev. Mr. Stovall, who preached the sermon, took as his text Galatians 6:10. "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." Mr. Stovall stressed in his sermon the trait of service which had been a pronounced characteristic of the deceased. Daughter Shannon of Minnehaha Temple, Mrs. Blanche Mason and Rev. C. B. Burton rendered solos. Attorney W. T. Francis, Attorney Wm. R. Morris of Past Exalted Rulers' Council, Ames Lodge, 105, and Clarence W. Wigington, Past Exalted Ruler of Gopher Lodge, 105, St. Paul, gave eulogies. Ceremonies. Rites and services were conducted by the Past Exalted Rulers' Council, by Ames Lodge, 106, and Minnehaha Temple, 128, I. B. P. O. E. of W. Attorney Wm. R. Morris recited Thanatopsis. As the services closed, hundreds filed by the casket which was completely surrounded by flowers and flanked on each side by a huge purple and white floral clock from Ames Lodge and Minnehaha Temple. Burial occurred at Hillside cemetery with members of the Elks acting as pallbearers. W. Squire Neal had charge of funeral arrangements. Letters Received. Dozens of letters and telegrams have been received by the widow, Hamlet B. Rowe, former associate of Mr. Smith, and The St. Paul Echo, offering sympathy to the bereaved and testimonials to the deceased. Some of these were read at the funeral by Past Exalted Ruler Talmadge Carey of Ames Lodge, 106. These, together with others, are here reprinted. "Charles Sumner Smith was one of the highest type of his race. He possessed keen intelligence, refinement, culture and poise. His friends were of the best element among all classes. He was calm in his judgment and broad in his sympathy, and his efforts for the betterment of his race were always thoughtful, tempered and restrained. His passing is a great loss to his race, his community and the state." —Senator Thomas D. Schall. * * * * "The people of Minneapolls, and of his race in particular, have suffered a tremendous loss in the passing of Charles Sumner Smith—a man whose strength of character, nobility Jim Crow Held Up As Law To Florida Police Jim Crow Held Up As Law To Florida Police Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 6.—Violations of the Jim Crow law on Jacksonville street cars have been reported to Mayor Alsop, who has instructed Police Inspector W. B. Cahoon to see that the violations are stopped. White residents of the city have charged in their complaints that Negroes are ignoring the sections designated for white patrons, and that the practice is prevalent on many lines. All policemen, whether on duty or off, were ordered to pay strict attention to the observance of the law. They were instructed to take the number of the street car, and of the operator, allowing such alleged violations, making reports to headquarters. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY TAC Funeral Ofner Smith Monday A. H. Charles Sumner Smith Funeral rites for Charles Sumner Smith, 1317 Sixth Ave. North, Minneapolis, were attended by hundreds of admirers and friends. Mr. Smith noted journalist, died Wednesday July 28, at U. S. Veterans' hospital Farrington at Virginia Ave., St. Paul NEW FEATURES IN OPPORTUNITY Tuberculosis and the Negro Discussed; Creation of New Department Announced. (Preston News Service) New York City, Aug. 6.—That "the Negro is not more susceptible to tuberculosis because of physical makeup or inherent racial traits" is proved conclusively by Dr. Charles H. Garvin, a prominent Negro physician of Cleveland, Ohio, in a paper on the "Immunity to Disease of Dark-Skinned People" in the August number of Opportunity, published by the National Urban League. Other features for August include "Muttsy," a short story by Zora Hurston; "Doing Hit Bit," the epic tale of a Pullman porter, by Nimrod B. Allen; "The Pink Hat," a corking satirical sketch by Mrs. Aaron Day, Jr.; a review of W. C. Handy's "Blues" by Langston Hughes; "Whites & Blacks," by David H. Pierce; Hubert Harrison's able review of "Digging for Lost African Gods," and "The Labol Makers and the Tom-Tom Beaters" by Blanche Watson. The August Opportunity also announces the creation of a new department in the magazine, "The Ebony Flute," to be conducted during the summer by Miss Gwendolyn Bennett who has just returned from a year's study in Paris as the winner of the Delta Sigma Theta $1,000 foreign art scholarship. LIFE SAVINGS Springheld, Mass.—Peter Audalim will not go to his home in the West Indies for sometime to come. His wife is the cause. The two of them had worked and saved $1,200. When they made up their minds that they would go home, they shipped some of their furniture and Peter, all happy, drew the money and placed it in an old shoe bag at home. Wednesday while Peter was away, Mrs. Audalim heard the cry of a junk dealer and decided to clean out her closets. The shoe bag went with the junk and so did the $1,200. The dealer has not been found. The accordion, a small free-reed wind-instrument, was invented in Vienna, the capital of Austria, about the year 1829, by a musician named Damian. It was soon after introduced into England. WE HAVE BEEN paying dividends to the public in the form of comprehensive news, editorials, and advertising. Have you paid your interest—the subscription? FIRES WORKER FOR RENTING TO NEGRO TENANTS White Home Owners on Charles Sign Petition to Keep Out Colored Renters. Official Denies Charge Pressure Brought to Bear on Milk Company Causes Discharge, Worker States. Detroit with its Sweet case, Washington with its Curtis case, Kansas City with its bombings and improvement association "agreements," and St. Louis with its injunctions ordering colored home owners to move have all come to St. Paul, nearly in the middle of the colored residence district, with a voluntary agreement on the part of white home owners in the 700 block on Charles street to prevent a white man from renting the upstairs of his home to colored tenants. The case centers in Mr. and Mrs. W. Sager, white, who, together with their four children, live at 727 Charles street. Steady Worker. Mr. Sager, for four years an employee at the Consumers' Milk Company plant at 500 North Grotto street as an all-around man, was fired from his job last Saturday, he alleges, because he had rented the upstairs of his home to colored tenants. Saturday, July 24, Mr. Sager rented his upstairs to Mrs. Benjamin Jones, who sub-let the apartment to a Mrs. Alexander. Mrs. Jones was to have moved in July 31. Threats Made. Sunday, July 25, when the neighbors heard about the plan of Mr. Sager, a man whose name could not be ascertained who lives directly across the street, said to Mr. Sager, "Everybody in the neighborhood is mad at you. If you put colored people in your house, we'll get them out." Mr. Sager states that that was the first open threat. On Tuesday of the same week, the first direct threat to have Mr. Sager removed from his job was made by a woman who lives at the corner of Grotto street and Charles. She said, "If you rent your house to those "niggers" you'll be out of a job. Petition Sent Around. Protest meetings were held on the sidewalks in front of and near the Sager property as soon as the neighborhood discovered that Mr. Sager was going to carry out his plan. A protest petition was sent around which all but approximately two families signed. The chairman of this informal committee went to see J. V. Gruber, general manager of the Consumers' Plant, asking that Sager be laid off from work in the event that he persisted in his plan. Conflicting Report Wednesday, July 28, Mr. Sager alleges that Mr. Gruber on finding that the colored tenants were to move in on Saturday of last week, allowed him until Saturday to work, but said that the company would dispense with his services after Saturday. Mr. Sager also alleges that Mr. Gruber offered to let him have $25.00 out of his salary so that he could pay the colored tenants to break the contract. Mr. Sager refused. Thursday morning Mr. Gruber told The Echo reporter that Mr. Sager had left the employ of his company voluntarily. He insisted that no pressure had been brought to bear upon Sager, although he admitted that neighbors of his employee had protested to him about the prospective colored tenants. At the present time, all the people living in the disputed block are white and own their own homes. The argument of the milk company, Mr. Sager says, was that the people in the block would no longer buy Consumers' milk if Mr. Sager, an employee, rented his home to colored (Continued on page 4) V Advertising rates furnished upon application. "Entered as second class matter Nov. 7, 1925, at the post office at St. Paul, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879" CHARLES SUMNER SMITH math of Charles Sumner Smith marks that the Negro journalists who made the Negro and who helped to insure to colored America they do enjoy. and honored the country over as a fearlessies of his race, Mr. Smith was ever alive in abilities as a leader and exponent of the searchlight upon his whole life reveals a coch is built into a lasting monument in either admired him for what he achieved because of his tenacity of purpose regardljournalist he maintained a standard which wove the memories of those who love the stpractice. an he won the admiration and respect of he. His going is both a community and a he died—fearless. Who could ask more' The death of Charles Sumner Smith marks the passing of another of the Negro journalists who made the Negro press what it is today, and who helped to insure to colored Americans whatever rights they do enjoy. Known and honored the country over as a fearless champion of the liberties of his race, Mr. Smith was ever alive to his duties and responsibilities as a leader and exponent of the desires of his people. A searchlight upon his whole life reveals a consistency of purpose which is built into a lasting monument in the minds of those who either admired him for what he achieved, or who admired him because of his tenacity of purpose regardless of consequences. As a journalist he maintained a standard which will ever keep him high in the memories of those who love the stern game of journalistic practice. As a man he won the admiration and respect of friends and enemies alike. His going is both a community and a national loss. As he lived, he died—fearless. Who could ask more? BELASCO PREDICTS vid Belasco, whose name alone is an intro at issue of Liberty magazine what he think the American stage of tomorrow. Mr. David Belasco, whose name alone is an introduction, tells in the current issue of Liberty magazine what he thinks the Negro will do upon the American stage of tomorrow. The article is so glowing a picture of the undeveloped histrionic ability of the colored American that, were it not so frankly admitted to be drawn chiefly from "Lulu Belle," a contemporary Broadway success of the noted director, one might well imagine that it was nothing more than an additional bit of clever publicity for the play. As it is . . . well, Belasco is undoubtedly Belasco, the man who is supposed to know more about the stage and what theater-goers want than any of his competing fellows, and if his opinion is to be taken at all, it must be taken whole. Without a doubt, the outlook for Negro talent is very bright if the statement of this authority is accepted. Other stage producers, it seems, have already realized this if one may judge from the successes of colored shows, the enthusiastic attitude of white theater patrons, and the revolutionary movement now taking place in moving pictures which will bring colored actors upon the screen in other than slapstick comedy parts. But even this article had to be marred. We must confess that out of what we admit to be a fairly limited acquaintance with homo African-Americans, we have never yet encountered any specimens that spoke the charming but naive tongue with which Octavus Roy Cohen endows the principal characters in his "colored" stories. Mr. Belasco, it would seem, has met just such people in his Lulu Belle cast, for we find some of them uttering some gems of which the following brief dialogue is a fair sample: "Eddie, what you say, does I tell you to keep yo' distance f'm Ca'line?" "Was such to happen, I does me some whittlin' on yo' neck, big boy!" So, undoubtedly, there is a Negro who speaks the idiom. For Mr. Cohen has said so. And now, no less a person than Mr. Belasco adds weight to the statement. Ergo, it must be. With all that, the prediction of the great producer is rosy. Should all the men of command in the theatrical world come to his belief, and should the theater-going public accept enthusiastically the offering of colored stage folk, the immediate future for Negro histrionic talent is indeed bright, and one more long stride will have been taken in our cultural contribution to this America. QUEER Very often a word tells more than the most carefully prepared and detailed treatise. Is it not odd that The St. Paul Daily News, the only one of the white Twin Cities dailies which does not capitalize the word "Negro," will carry a corking feature story like the one about "Billy" Williams, in the edition for last Sunday? And that this same paper, which seems to make a point of featuring crime stories about Negroes has a literary page which is most liberal in its praise of the work of Negro authors? Ah! Consistency, thou art indeed a highly polished glass set! It has been said that musical expression is confined to the highest natures and that, therefore, birds of prey never sing. Blue asbestos, which occurs only in South Africa, is a better non-conductor of heat than ordinary white asbestos. Summer schools of northern white universities have enrolled in 1926 the largest Negro registry ever known. All belligerent Elks, who are primed to attend the Cleveland 1926 Convention, are hereby warned to check their horns at the door. Now that the attempt of the Mexican government to form agrarian colonies of Russian, Syrian and Turkish subjects has failed, maybe the desire to colonize the American Negro will abate. Copy to Marcus Garvey. Early Peoples Knew of Possibilities of Iron The peoples of the Near East were among the earliest manufacturers of iron, according to Dr. J. Newton Friend in an address before the members of the Royal institution, London. In 1300 B. C. the Hittites were using iron weapons in their numerous wars, and among the treasures of early history preserved to posterity is a letter thought to have been addressed to Ramesses II of Egypt from the Hittite king, saying that he is sending with the communication an iron dagger. The Romans were skilled metallurgists with considerable knowledge of how to handle iron ores. Virgil's Aeneid, written around 40 B. C., contains an account of a smithy in full blast, and Pliny in his "Natural History," which was brought out in 77 A. D., shows an equal familiarity with the working of the metal. An iron ring recently unearthed from a Roman site was evidently made by soldering together the ends of a bent strip of iron with some sort of copper alloy. Cast iron, said Doctor Friend, was first known in Sussex in 1850 and soon became fairly common. Vanishing Heath Hen The New England heath heen is now in the last stages of extinction, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The farmer has found that he not only has lost a source of food for his table, but a protector of his crops. Like the western prairie-chicken, to which it is closely allied, and the "Bob White" of the Central West, the heath hen is a great enemy of insect pests. But of the thousands that once inhabited field and woods patch, less than 100 are alive today, and these are found only on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The Middle West lost a prolific food supply when the passenger pigeons died off. But the wild pigeon was otherwise of little economic value. It was largely a grain eater, though beech mast and weed seeds also formed its food. The heath hen, however, is as valuable as the quail to farmers. Ornithologists and conservationists have pointed this out. Hence efforts are being made to save the bird from extinction and, if possible to bring it back to its former numbers. Penny Not Worth While At Times square a matinee crowd waited for the long-distance buses. Other crowds pushed by in a steady stream, yet above the traffic noises came the clink of a dropped coin. Those passing looked down, alert, curious, until a single penny whirled into sight, spun around and then flopped to the sidewalk. No one picked it up. It was tramped on, pushed and started rolling again. Many looked, but none stopped until a chubby little fellow, holding tight to his mother's hand, spiced it. "Mother, mother!" he cried in exclamation. "I see my penny! Stop—let me—let me pick it up!" "Come, come," chided the mother, impatiently, as she jerked him along. "It's only a penny. Let it alone. You'll get your gloves dirty, dear."—New York Times. New York has more jaywalkers in proportion than any other city in the country, say police. 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No one knows yet why the bodies of these unfortunate patients should be manufacturing the wrong plumage, Professor Barcroft said, but the fact remains that it is constantly being formed and deposited in their bones, teeth and skin. What Is It? Seattle, Wash.—Alonzo Victor Lewis, sculptor, who has just completed a bust of Roald Amundsen, says the explorer's nose measures three inches long. Shop On University Ave. BLUE & FOR SERVICE AND LOW METER RATES SPACIOUS AND HEATED CARS FILL OUT THE and take to the McCALL PHARM and Louis Sts., or mail to the St. MERCHANDISE WILL BE GIVEN Name Address Herewith please find $2.00, for w one year and $1.00 in tr Colonial Workmanship Colonial Wormanships The greatest quality in all Colonial work is dignity. In the houses of the rich and the houses of the poor there is apparent the same dignified scorn of ostentation and the same pride in honest building and honest living. Although it has been said that Colonial architecture is old-fashioned and belongs to a day that is past, this is no more true of Colonial design than of any other of the traditional styles. Furthermore, Colonial architecture seems out of date only because its progress was stopped by the Greek revival and the eleventh eighties. If it had continued to grow and develop, how much more lovely would our countryside be than it is now with its potpourril of all styles—including the Scandinavian! Mother's Orders UNIVERSITY AVE. ADVERTISERS Fountain Pens With each year's subscription ($2.00) to the "Echo" A beautiful Jumbo Fountain Pen with 14K. gold plated pen point, gold filled lever and clip, or ladies size with ribbon rings. Your Choice of Three Colors: Green, Red & Mahogany Send for Your Pen Today! Make checks or money orders payable to the ST. PAUL ECHO 614 Court Block St. Paul, Minn. Pretty Indian Legend Long ago, before the white man came to this country, a great famine spread over the land, says the Detroit News, in telling of the legends of Michigan Indians. One day a mother bear with her two hungry little cubs, walked along the shore of Wisconsin and gazed wistfully over at Michigan. Finally, driven by the pangs of hunger, she plunged into Lake Michigan, followed by her two babies, and struck out for the Michigan shore. When only a few miles from the land of plenty, one cub, too exhausted to go further, sank. She struggled to reach shore with the other, but, it too, sank. She herself at last reached shore and sank exhausted. As she gazed out across the waters, two beautiful islands slowly arose to mark the graves of her children. And these are called Manitous, meaning the home of departed spirits. American Indians' Shields The heavy iron shield used by knights in the days of chivalry had its prototype in the rawhide disk of the American plains Indians. While the design imprinted upon the iron defender of the medieval warrior was symbolic, it was not magical like those emblems painted upon the aboriginal escutcheons now in the possession of the University of Pennsylvania museum, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Art alone did not prompt the American Indian to embellish his defensive weapons, but a belief in the supernatural power of color laid in designs to ward off evil, according to Henry Usher Hall, curator of the section of general ethnology of the museum. After the theater try our delicious Chicken Sandwiches Picnic Box Lunches TOASTED SANDWICHES ALEXANDERS SWEET SHOPPE Dale and Ronde Streets Phone Dale 7175 UNIVERSITY AV Do Your Rugs Need Cleaning? Try HELP'S Carpet Cleaning Works Cleaned, Renovated, Re-fitted Cleaned, Renocated, Re-fitted and Re-laid. Phone Us Date 5482—We Will !Call 406 W. University Ave. St. Paul Rugs Woven From Old Carpets. SUMMER PRICE Petroleum $16.50 Carbon Coke Ton THREE PHONES Garfield 7501—7502—7508 S. BR AND ST. PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH St. Paul Baptist church was filled last Sunday with the glory of the Lord throughout the day. The services of the Sunday School, the church and the B. Y. P. O. were all good. "Fellow Citizens With the Saints" was the pastor's morning subject. The attendance was good. Two united with the church by Christian experience. The offering was $55.88. Another beautiful feature will be added to our corner when our new ornamental stone fence is completed. Mrs. Celeste Phelps and a number of Minneapolis friends were among our Minneapolis visitors. A group of colored artists will entertain over WCCO next Monday at 12:15 p. m. Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. All are welcome. NEED SOME? ITS a fine thing to know where you can get cash when you need it. Our service is quick and confidential. We have helped your friends for years. Ask them about the Local Loan Co. 216 Exchange Bank Building Sixth & Minnesota Sts. Tel. Co 2417 E. ADVERTISERS Phone: Elkhurst 1156 Capital City Auto Electric Co. ELECTRIC SUPPLIES Ignition, Generator, Starter, Motor and Magneto Repairs BATTERY CHARGING Eight Hour Service 697 University Ave., St. Paul University Electric Co. 439 University Avenue ELECTRIC WIRING and FIXTURES Old Houses Wiring a Specialty Bus. Phone Elkhurst 4729. Res. Phone Dale 1913. Free! Society-Notes Mrs. Mary B. Buckner of Chicago, Ill., is visiting her son, Mr. Charles Quigley, 638 Rondo St. Mrs. Nannie E. Jewels of St. Louis, Mo., is visiting Mrs. Ed Williams, 561 Rondo St. Miss Lillian Montague, who is sick at Ancker hospital, was pleasantly surprised with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from the Athletic club girls. On the evening of July 30, Miss Rachel James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. James, graduated from Minnesota College, completing her high school course in three years and two months. She will enter a university in the fall. Miss James is one of the promising, beautiful and talented young ladies of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boyd, 443 Mackubin St., entertained at dinner Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, Mr. A. Philip Randolph of New York, Mrs. George Gooden and Mrs. Burton were their guests. Mrs. Mabel Hill, evangelist, is preaching at 256 Rondo St., where there will be healing services for the sick, the lame and deaf. A special invitation is extended to all. Mr. and Mrs. W. Turner, 1047 E. Rose St., entertained the following out-of-town guests Friday evening: Mrs. M. Lee, Mrs. Susie Lee Hart of Des Moines, Mrs. Alexander of St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. Samuel Lambert of Indianapolis and Mrs. Benton of St. Louis. Games and songs were the features of the evening, after which a delightful repast was served. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Artis, 966 St. Anthony Ave., were hosts to out-of-town visitors Saturday afternoon on a motor trip to points of interest. Mrs. Samuel Lambert, Mrs. S. Hart and Mrs. Lee, who are guests of Mrs. Lionel Allen, were the honored guests of the trip. Mrs. S. L. Rogers, 718 St. Anthony Ave., and Mrs. James Lynn, 292 N. St. Albans, had as their guests on a motor trip the following. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson, Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. S. Lambert, Indianapolis; Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Hart of Des Moines, and Mrs. Cornelius of Minneapolis. Mrs. Oliver Taylor, 655 W. Central, had a pleasant surprise Friday morning when she received a call from Mrs. M. Lee and Mrs. S. Lee Hart of Des Moines, whom she had not seen for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor entertained Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Lionel Allen at their Chicken Shack on Rice Road Saturday evening, where the guests enjoyed a real chicken shack dinner. Mrs. Samuel Lambert, who has been the house guest of Mrs. Lionel Allen, 658 W. Central Ave, left for Seattle, Wash., Tuesday evening. Mrs. M. Lee and Mrs. Susie Lee Hart, who spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Allen, 658 W. Central, left Monday morning at 4:30 for Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. W. H. Bennett was hostess at a six o'clock dinner last Sunday, honoring Mrs. Hobbs of Oklahoma City. Covers were laid for ten. Mrs. Lydia Lewis entertained at a six o'clock dinner last Thursday at the Blue and Gray cafe, complimenting Mrs. Edna Hobbs of Oklahoma City. Covers were laid for six. Mrs. Reava Healor of Omaha, Neb., and Mr. John La Coste were guests at dinner Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Eugene Jackson, Jr. Mrs. Healor has been visiting friends in the Twin Cities and has enjoyed her stay immensely. Last Wednesday evening, July 28, while en route to her home at Mexi-co, Mo., Mrs. Margery Gray, mother of Mrs. Edna Gatewood and Mrs. Sam Wright, whom she had been visiting for several months, suffered a general breakdown, which rendered her helpless, but through the kindness of the porter and conductor, who rendered her every assistance possible, she reached her home safely the next morning. Mr. James E. Murphy, 1354 Thomas St., left Monday evening to attend the funeral of his brother, Warren Murphy, who died Sunday night at Monmouth, Ill. The Excelisor club entertained their members and friends at a picnic on Wednesday afternoon, August 4, at Como Park. Mrs. Nannie B. Coleman entertained her Sunday School and some girls of St. Paul on last Friday afternoon in honor of Miss Lavinia Vinegar, who is leaving for Los Angeles, Cal. The girls were chaperoned by Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Burton. An enjoyable afternoon was spent. Covers were laid for eighteen. Among those Pioneer Investment (Incorporated) Real Estate, Chattel Mortgages and Loans 328 METROPOLITAN BANK BLDC. Phone CEder 2634 O. J. Smith, Treas. As the guest of Earl Wilkins, Miss Helen N. Jackson, 2003 Franklin Ave. S. E., attended a dancing and card party given by Fred Gram, 4222 Grimes Ave., at his home last Saturday evening. Mrs. Celia James and her daughter Lucille were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Madison Jackson, 2003 Franklin Ave. S. E., last week. Mrs. Charles Summer Smith, widow of the late editor, Chas. Sumner Smith, arrived home Saturday from 'Roxbury, Mass. Mr. James Smith, brother of the late Chas. Sumner Smith, who has been undergoing medical treatment at Glen Lake Sanitarium, is the guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Chas. Sumner Smith, 1317 Sixth Ave. No. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Holder, proprietors of the P. and S. Chicken Shack, have purchased a new Buick limousine. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Holder entertained Mr. A. Philip Randolph and Mr. and Mrs. A. Philip Randolph on a motor trip to Virginia, Minn. The party visited the saw mills there which are the largest in the world. Miss Edith Pittman, 3812 Fourth Ave. So., entertained on Thursday evening of last week at a party in honor of Bobbie Simmons and Kenneth Richardson of Duluth, Minn. About fifty members of the younger set were present. Mrs. Chas, Sumner Smith, her sister, Mrs. Florence Brown of Altoonah, Pa., and Mr. Hamlet B. Rowe of Minneapolis were callers at the Echo office this week. Mr. and Mrs. Abram L. Harris were hosts at dinner Friday of last week, in honor of Mr. A. Philip Randolph of New York City and Mr. Paul Caldwell of St. Paul. Mr. A. Philip Randolph was delightfully entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Byron Holder at a chicken dinner at six o'clock Wednesday evening, later taking their guests to the Union Picnic. There were eight guests in the party. Hot luncheon was served at the picnic. Mrs. W. C. Jeffrey, 3529 Fourth Ave. So., returned to her home Sunday night after spending two weeks with her daughter Marianne in Chicago. Miss- Jeffrey, who is with Chappelle and Stinnette, left for Cleveland, Ahio, Sunday night after the last performance in Chicago. Mrs. La Belle Doston and Mrs. Lottie Hyde visited friends in St. Paul this week. W. Donald Brown, intere at Nashville, Tenn., spent the last week-end with his father and mother, Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Brown, having been summoned by the serious illness of his father. present were Mrs. Clarence Goodwin, Jas. W. Cleary and son and Mrs. Hattie Keyes. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Douglass of Albert Lee, Minn., and Miss Pearl Martin of Osage, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Cabbell of Mason City, Iowa, motored up to the city Sunday and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hatton. They all motored to Glenwood Park, where they entertained about twenty-five guests at a matinee picnic. Mrs. Julia Billups is on the sick list. Mrs. Emma J. Taylor and daughter, Mrs. Mae L. Porter of Duluth, and Mrs. E. W. Lindsay were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hood Thursday evening. Mrs. Wm. Douglass of Hastings spent the week-end as the guest of Mrs. J. Thomas and Mrs. E. W. Lindsay. Mrs. W. A. Porter of Duluth and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lindsay were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Dillingham of Rondo St. Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. Mrs. J. R. Jones, 747 St. Anthony Ave., presided at a perfectly appointed luncheon Wednesday afternoon complimenting Mrs. Wm. A. Porter FOR SALARY LOANS SEE ANDREW A. MURPHY 312 Builders Exchange Mld. Qa 1095 of Duluth. Covers were laid for eight. Seated at the table were Mrs. Wm. A. Porter, Mrs. J. E. Glass, Mrs. E. Calloway, Mrs. E. W. Lindsay, Mrs. A. V. Hall, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Wamack and Mrs. Bettie Jones, the hostess. Mr. Wm. Lyles, 678 St. Anthony Ave., arrived home Monday evening from an extensive trip to Chicago, New York, Washington, D. C., and Philadelphia, where he attended the Sesquil Centennial Exposition. He reports a most enjoyable time. Mrs. Edna Hobbs, sister of Mrs. Ida Smith, returned to her home in Oklahoma City Monday after a delightful visit. News was received from Los Angeles, Cal., of the death of Mrs. Cora J. Carter, sister of Mr. Jose Sherwood, 971 St. Anthony Ave. Miss Annetta James of Columbus, Ohio, is spending a few weeks' visit with her brother, Mr. J. L. James, 415 Rondo St. The home of Mrs. M. E. Ford was the scene of much merriment on last Wednesday evening when she was hostess to the T. N. O. F. club in honor of her birthday. The dining room was tastefully decorated. In the center of the table was a large birthday cake with decorations of pink roses and the words 'Happy Birthday.' The favors were tiny umbrellas in various shades. After a three-course dinner the evening was spent in games. Out-of-town guests were Mrs. Sam Lambert and Mrs. Edith Settle. Rev. W. M. Stors of Fergus Falls is in Winnipei, Canada, conducting a 10-day revival at Hills Memorial church and is the guest of Rev. C. C. Lolow, 346 Williams St. Miss Anna Foster, stenographer for Mrs. Violet Anderson, the only colored woman lawyer in that city, is in the city as the guest of Miss Minnie Tobey. Mrs. Emma J. Taylor, Mrs. E. W. Lindsay and Mrs. Wm. A. Porter were guests at luncheon on Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Jenkins. Miss Lossie Saunders is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bennett, 872 W. Central Ave. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Young had as their Sunday dinner guests Mrs. Wm. A. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lindsay, Mrs. Geo. Temple and Mrs. John Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lindsay entertained at a party Friday night in honor of Mrs. Porter of Duluth and Mrs. Nellie Brown Clardy of Oklahoma City. Music and games were the feature of the evening. Prizes were awarded as follows: Mrs. Geo. Benton, first; Mr. J. E. Glass, second; Mr. James Lee, consolation. The guests of honor were also presented with beautiful guest prizes. After dainty refreshments were served the guests departed, declaring Mrs. Lindsay a charming hostess. The Social Literary Society of Pilgrim Baptist Church met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Glass on North Grotto St. and Monday evening. There were many visitors present. One of the prettiest parties of the season was given by Mrs. Scott Mason and Mrs. James Roberts at the beautiful home of Mrs. Mason on Cross Ave. Tuesday afternoon. The rooms were artistically decorated with garden flowers. The guests of honor were Mrs. Perkins of Kansas City, Kan., Nelly Claridry of Oklahoma City and Mrs. Porter of Duluth. Mrs. Earl Harris entertained at a very unique bungalow party Thursday afternoon at her residence. CASH and CARRY Prices With FREE DELIVERY Quality Meats and Groceries Fresh Dressed Poultry at All Times Elk 1888 559 St. Anthony Av. E. N. Martin L. R. Blair And You Are Next All the Time Santtary Tonsorial Parlor 329 NO. DALE STREET Manicurist St. Paul, Minn. Keystone Hotel Barber Shop Ladies' and Children's Hair Bobbing, 35c Men's Hair Cutting, 35c (A specialty) All Work Guaranteed Open 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. A. WYLIE, Prop. 骡 3601 379 Carroll Ave Meets first Monday each month at Union Hall. Visiting members cordially inuited to attend. MINNEAPOLIS ADVERTISERS Old Hawaiian Custom of Birth Celebration In years gone by the Hawaiians, a primitive, nature-loving people, made gods of mountains, trees and stones. The "all" or chiefs associated the birth of a child with a speciic tree. A tamarind or a koa tree was planted at the time a chief's child was born, and grew to maturity with the child. On certain occasions the first fruits of a young tree, coconut palm by preference, were plucked by a son of the "all." When an heir was born to the "all" the ceremonial drum was beaten at the temple and a sacred hula performed. One of these ceremonial drums, taken from a temple on Diamond head, in Honolulu, is of koa wood (mahogany) and nearly four feet high. Its ends are covered with sharkskin and the sides decorated with human teeth. As the great drum booms out its message that a son has been born to the "all," the people gather to offer sacrifices and propitiate the gods. A feast is given by the chief and the sacred hula-hula is performed. This sacred hula is more a historic pantomime than a mere dance, and is as different from the hula-hula of today as a symphony orchestra is from a jazz band. $2.75 Deed to Land Nets Owner $1,600 Boston—sixteen years ago there was a man in Hyannis, Mass., who owed another man some money. It was only $2.75, but since he didn't have the cash, he gave his creditor a deed to some wild land he owned to square the account. The new owner tucked the deed away among his papers and proceeded to forget all about it. Recently he ran across it and found he held title to sixteen acres of land that is easily worth $100 an acre. While excavating for a spring in Connecticut, a farmer unearthed some butter stored away in jars, and labeled 1875. Mr. Lee McFarland of Seattle, Wash., stopped off in our city visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, 895 W. Central Ave. Mr. McFarland left, accompanied by Mr. Lewis, who will stop in Chicago en route to New York City on business. Dr. Lewis entertained at whist, Mrs. Lossie Saunders of Kansas City, Kan., Mrs. W. A. Porter of Duluth, Mrs. Nellie Brown Clardy of Oklahoma, Mrs. R. L. Perkins of Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Welsh, 283 N. St. Albans, left Saturday on a motor trip in their new Dodge coupe. They will visit Mr. Welsh's home, Montgomery, Mo., and will attend the Old Settlers' Picnic there. They will also spend some time in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. R. H. Anderson, 912 Gaultier St., who has been visiting relatives and friends in Chicago, has returned to her home. Mrs. Aimee Hall, 725 Sherburne Ave., and her two children, David and Laura Hall, left Friday for Denver, Colo., where they will visit Mrs. Hall's mother and other relatives and friends. Meet Your Friend The Neighborhood Drug Store With Downtown Prices Five-Minute Delivery Service McCall Pharmacy Dale 8861 234 Rondo St. MINNEAPOLIS Phone—South 7954 W. SQUIR Funeral 502 E. 24th Street Free Delivery to All Parts of City Economy Market 902 6th Ave. No., Minneapolis GROCERIES Poultry and Meats Hyland 9746 McDUFF WOODARD, Prop. MILTON SHANKS General Contractor and Builder Will Finance the Construction of Your Home on Your Lot Phone—Locust 2449 8712 4th Ave. So. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Patronize Our Advertizers New York.—To ride on the subway between two persons, one reading a Yiddish newspaper and the other a Chinese journal, is nothing unusual to the New Yorker. Yellow, white and black people, representatives of all nations, are the underground commuters. And all of them read. It may be a newspaper or tabloid of any language, or Shakespeare, Shaw or Cobb. But the confirmed subwayite always reads—unless he is too tightly jammed to raise his hands. One ride would convince any critic that Father Knickerbocker's stenographers and salesgirls are either the best or worst read in the world. Their subway literature ranges from "Sadie's Love Quest" and "Advice to the Lovelorn" to Barrie and Lewis. On one trip two adjoining girls were separately reading Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and Robert Ingersoll. Any number of modern and popular writers could dnd encouragement in the numbers reading their works. Books mostly are in the hands of feminine readers. Man take the newspapers. Students, of whom there are great numbers, seem to like the trains as study halls. Probably there could be no greater test in concentration. The "classes" ride in shifts. Laborers predominate around 5, 6 and 7 a.m. Then come clerks, stenographers and business men. Brokers and bankers are mostly in evidence between 8:30 and 10. After them come the housewives on shopping and visiting tours. During the morning and evening rush hours the stations and trains are overrun by the thousands. Perhaps fifty get seats in a car and a hundred others try to grab as many straps. Those who fall do not need them—they hold up each other. When toes are smashed and shins barked, quarrels or lectures on subway etiquette often result to the amusement of others. Sometimes a man's bunion is kicked as he heads for the doorway and he pauses to dare some one to step outside. The some one in question invites him to come back into the car. But about that time the automatic door slams shut. There are eight varieties of poisonous mushrooms, according to recent investigations. Elkhurst 3473 Elk Tailoring Co. Suits Made to Order M. LOVE, Prop. 306 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. T. H. LYLES Oldest Established Mortician Office: Cedar 0508 Res: Dale 2947 150 W. Fourth St. St. Paul, Minn. CAFE At Keystone Hotel Open Under New Management SUNDAY Chicken Dinner 50c Mrs. Strothers, Mgr. 379 Carroll Ave. ADVERTISERS Established 1905 RE NEAL Director Minneapolis, Minn. Don't let that lot stand idle! If it isn't clear, I'll pay balance, finance and build for you — PAY LIKE RENT. F.Peoples Real Estate and Home Building Company 334 E. 38th St. Minneapolis Colfax 2044 Carpenter and Builder REMODELING RESHINGLING PORCHES, GARAGES C.W. Butler—Phone Dupont 4526 3725 18th Avenue So. Minneapolis, Minn. --- Pathetic in Its Ruin Coloma is an unknown name today, but three-quarters of a century age every American able to speak had it at his tongue's end. There that New Jersey adventurer, James Wilson Marshall, discovered gold in January, 1848, and started the rush of fortune seekers from all the world to California, a writer in the New York Sun recalls. Coloma grew quickly to a town of ten thousand inhabitants and boasted of all the luxuries that a pioneer could demand. A stranger wandering among the hills of El Dorado county recently rediscovered it. He found a country store and a post office in the midst of a cluster of deserted shops and houses. The mail carrier said that in the whole community there were scarcely a hundred and fifty persons. In the graveyard on the hillside was the only reminder of Coloma's fame, a memorial to Marshall, the bronze statue surmounting it pointing to the place of California's first gold discovery. Coloma had dreams of magnificence in the early fifties. Coloma then had a dozen hotels, a street lined with stores, a hundred saloons, as many wide-open-gambling places and dance halls, an express office, three schools, four churches and a jail. The shells of the dance halls, the saloons and the gambling places remain. The churches and schools passed generations ago. The jail that had housed the bad men, the killers and crooked gamblers long ago fell into ruins. Artificial fogs are being made in Norway to prevent the freezing of crops. Apex System HAIRDRESSING Call MRS. BERTHA MORGAN, 5. P. M., for Appointment and 2:30 P. M. on Saturdays. 565 St. Anthony Elk. 5593 Wine and Grape Juice and Grape Juice The same wine grape juices that were formerly used in the manufacture of the best grade of domestic wines can now be procured in the sweet unfermented, unpasteurized form. Any one suffering from a general run-down system due to lack of iron and vitamins should order a keg today. Serve at every meal. Prices delivered to your door C. O. D. are as follows on Port type: 5-gallon keg . . . $10.00 10-gallon keg . . . 16.80 15-gallon keg . . . 23.50 30-gallon keg . . . 44.60 50-gallon keg . . . 64.75 Order a Keg Today Whitesell Mercantile Co. 220 Globe Bldg. St. Paul, Minn. Any one suffering from a general run-down system due to lack of iron and vitamins should order a keg today. Serve at every meal. Prices delivered to your door C. O. 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The little girls are busily making their little wash frocks for school. Miss Hazel Wingington is taking great care to see that the little frocks are made just so. Send your little girl and let her learn the art of sewing. Class every Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 p. m. In Norway there is a small town named Hell, but the temperature sometimes reaches 30 degrees below zero. Phone Dale 8339 Try the Drug Store First ELMER MORRIS DRUGGIST Prescriptions Rondo and Mackubin BUZZ AROUND to the Bee Cafe Ferdey's Place. 383 Rondo St. REGULAR NOON DINNERS Chili a Specialty Phone Dale 8907 Patronize Our Advertizers Phone Dale 8090 YALE Best Prices in Town MEN'S SUITS 75c Dry Cleaned and Pressed LADIES SUITS and Dresses 1.25 Dry Cleaned and Pressed Up LAUNDRY PRICES Wet Wash 25 lbs. . . $1.00 Thursday and Friday Flat Work 25 lbs. . . 87c 16 lbs. . . 98c 16 lbs. 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This year the first he has spent at home, and it is broken into by jaunts of many miles to play "Billy of the Low-Ground" and "Rose of Edinburgh" for the efface youth who gather round while he calls the figures of an old-fashioned square dance. Chafes at inactivity. But he chafes at inaction. The wanderlust has enthralled him since his old raiding days with Quantrell's band, side by side with Frank and Jesse James. When the war was over he was one of the young men that went West in the wake of the gold rushing "forty-nilers." Boarding a clumy river steamer, mounted with cannon fore and art, he journeyed up the Missouri river. It was a perilous voyage, plerching the Indian country, and the crew and passengers, about forty in all, amused themselves by shooting buffalo, antelope, deer and mountain lions from the deck. Jackson escaped the Indian arrows until he landed at Fort Benton, from which terminal he made a stagecoach trip of 250 miles to Helena. While in a South Dakota Indian fight he was wounded. He bears the scar, as well as marks of hand-to-hand conflict, a depression in his temple and a bent wrist. He went through the Civil war unscathed. After six years as metal expert in the Southern Pacific railroad shops at Sacramento, Calif., he returned to Texas. Connoisseur of violins, Jackson has in his collection three valuable instruments, one said to be a Stradivarius; another, black with age, which bears the date of 1620, and his favorite, said to be 225 years old. Jackson has been a fiddler from early childhood. His hands, slender and flexible, are as nimble as those of a flapper typist, although his back is bent nearly double. North Texas has been Jackson's stamping ground since his return from California, about 1894, when he stopped at Forth Worth. He lived more than a year near Garland and later spent several years at Rockwall. He was married at Knobnobster, Mo. 40 years ago, to Miss Rosa Keene. Three children are living—R. R. B. Flowers, Little Elm, with whom he makes his home; Mrs. May Willford, Dallas, and Ira B. Jackson, railway man, of Montana. Defends James Boys. Born at Burksville, Cumberland county, Kentucky, April 28, 1884, Jackson spent his youth in Clay county, Missouri. He recalls Kansas City when it was no more than a river boat terminal. It was in this vicinity that he was companion of the James boys, whose father was a Baptist minister, he recalls, "of a fine old Kentucky family." "They weren't really bad; they were driven to what they did by cruel treatment during the war," the surviving playmate asserted. "Eat sparingly" is the health formula of the nonagenarian, whose almost invariable menu is a biscuit with honey or molasses, a cup of coffee at breakfast and milk at other meals. He partakes of snuff and tobacco, the latter being smoked and chewed, but only occasionally. Although both parents died in early maturity of tuberculosis, recent examination showed Jackson to be as sound as any person the physicians ever tested, they declared. Classified Advertising Rates: All Classified Ads Payable in Advance. Three cents per word; minimum charge thirty cents. FOR SALE—7-room, modern home; double garage; hot water heat; $750 down; easy terms. Phone Dale 1916. NEATLY furnished room for man and wife. 3505 Bryant Ave. So. J. W. Mack. Colfax 4555. MCGAVOCK FUNERAL SERVICE AARON J. McGAVOCK, Sole Proprietor PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN EVERY DETAIL Mortuary and Chapel, 550 Rice Street CALLS ANSWERED ANY TIME, DAY OR NIGHT The Daisy DeLuxe ZIPPER HAT BOX Black, patent finish, light of weight, yet so strongly built that it will car- ry every thing you need for most any trip—Prices range from— $5 to $6.50 Special Vacation Values in SUIT CASES at $5 In black enameled drill and cobra grain Dupont Fabricoid. Cloth lined, shirt pocket in the lid. 24 and 26-inch sizes. Spe- cial vacation price is $5. GARLAND LUGGAGE SHOP SIXTH AT CEDAR [PRESIDENT'S NEWS Service] Chicago, Aug. 5—Harry Wills, heavyweight boxer, is ready to fight Jack Dempsey for the world's championship "tomorrow or next week or any other time," his manager, Paddy Mullins, declared Friday. Mullins arrived to confer with the Chicago Coliseum Club and its president, B. B. Clements, about the meeting of Wills and Dempsey tentatively scheduled for Chicago in mid-September. Mullins said Wills has been working out for ten days at Southampton, L. I. (Continued from page 1) tors have declared the condition "an outrage." This latest incident has aroused colored citizens to the trick that was played upon them a year or so ago when bonds were voted for a "Negro" hospital. Financial experts, however, declared the bonds invalid because no city could sell bonds for a racial hospital. It had to be a city hospital. Now, while voters are preparing to take revenge on the politicians at the primaries next Tuesday, friends of the girl's family are advising a suit be filed against the hospital, the board and the municipality. Cause of "Cold" Mystery In spite of all attempts to determine the specific cause of the common cold, the cause remains unknown. A cold, as the doctors explain it, is a catarrhal inflammation of the lining of the nose, mouth and throat. It is held by some to be due to infection with some peculiar germ which as yet has not been found. Some think that this micro-organism is so small that it cannot be detected even by the most delicate instrument. At various times various bacteria have been thought to be the cause of colds, but no definite organism has yet been chosen to bear the blame. Medical authorities generally are not quite agreed as to the bacterial origin of the disease. Evidence is still being collected and weighed—Kansas City Times. By Inches When Bobble was six, he was given a real watch, which, regardless of quality or accuracy, had a loud tick. Every passer-by smiled at Bobby's performance, but the climax came when his little cousin, Betty, tripped along and asked him the time. Bobby regarded his watch perplexedly for a moment, and then replied with dignity, "Two inches to four!" Snakeskin Jackets Now in Vogue in Paris Paris...Snakeskin spats and pocket- books and now snakeskin jackets have made their appearance on the Champs-Elysees and at the Long- champ races. These startling reptilian coats, which are weird enough to make any serious drinker believe his dreams of pink and blue snakes have come true, are the length of a jacket and trimmed with fur at the neck and the hem. They are patterned to resemble the mottled skin of a ratt- le snake, usually toned to light brown color. The snakeskin effect is produced by glazing the material. STOP! LOOK! AND LISTEN! Some place to go this winter. The C. P. W. C. will open up at Union Hall Saturday, August 21, and will play every two weeks. Admission 25c. Managed by well known whist players. All games on the square. Parties Interested In Lake Lots Join Our Touring Party Sunday Morning Leaving Anderson's 460 Rondo St. At 8:30 a.m. Just 21 Miles From St. Paul Minesure Development Co. Office of The St. Paul Echo 614 Court Block || Cedar 1879 Office Phone Garfield 1500 NENERAL SERVICE BOCK, Sole Proprietor GIVEN EVERY DETAIL pol, 550 Rilee Street LINE We will cheerfully furnish estimates SERVICE that PLEASES The St. Paul Echo 614 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. Phone Cedar 1879 Pigeon Returns Dying as Hawks Raid Race Wercester, Mass. - In a dying condition, with almost featherless wings and its body brightly illuminated, Milford Ben, a prize-winning racing pigeon, owned by Stephen Rankett of this city, futtered to its home coop after being six days on the 800-mile trip from Rochester, as a result of vicious attacks by hawks which are known to infest the Berkshire hills in large numbers. The bird, with 175 others, was competing in the Commonwealth Racing Pigeon club's 300-mile contest. Less than one-half of these birds survived the trip. Midland Hen, though fatally wounded, took a little liquid food the other day. Sorcerers in Papua, or New Guinea, seldom attempt to employ their "purl, purl" as native magic is termed, against white men, but twice one Mira-Oa did seek to avenge a fancied wrong by bringing about the death of Merlin Moore Taylor, the writer relates in "The Heart of Black Papua." The first attempt was frustrated when a native discovered that a coconut handed the white man contained minute silvers of bamboo in the nut's milk. If swallowed, these bits of fiber would penetrate the delicate tissues of the vital organs, causing inflammation and eventually death. Later Taylor narrowly escaped death from a snake which charged toward him while he was walking along a narrow path. The sorcerer had captured the polisonous reptile, tied a noose of pillant vine back of its head, and placed it in a pot over a fire with a handkerchief owned by Taylor. Tortured by the heat, the snake associated the scent of the handkerchief with its torture, and when released sought to attack the person whose scent was similar to that of the handkerchief. The witch doctor then became resigned and disappeared into the jungle until the white man had departed. On the Trolley Car On board the trolley car which plies between the Sixty-ninth street terminal and Easton a man and wife were in earnest conversation. The man had been speaking in subdued tones when his wife burst out with: "She wasn't. She wasn't to blame. If there's any blame to be fixed it belongs to the husband. I think she was entirely justified. Any woman in her place would have done the same. I don't care if the meals were late. She loved him and that made it all right." No, gentle reader, this isn't the sort of marital difficulty you suspect. The husband of the woman who spoke the foregoing, exclaimed: "But any woman that wastes all afternoon on a Pekingese is a good-for-nothing bum, and any man who stands for such nonsense, deserves to get indigestion."-Philadelphia Record. ```markdown ``` LONG-FELLOW BREAD The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking (Continued from page 1) tenants. He also said that there were but four users of Consumers' milk in that block. It is believed that the stand of the Consumers' plant will have a drastic effect upon their successful competition in the local milk war. The story of Mr. Sager, who is renting his property to help pay off a mortgage on his home and to support his four children, will, it is believed, be used LONG-F The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh HUNDREDS AT FUNERAL OF CHARLES SUMNER SMITH (Continued from page 1) of ideals and loyalty of purpose have commanded for him the respect and admiration of his fellow citizens and associates." "He was strong in his convictions a valiant defender of the poor and lowly, a firm believer in a better day for humanity." "To me, the passing of Charles Sumner Smith means more than the death of a former business associate; in his demise, I have sustained an irreparable loss and there is a vacuity in my life that will be hard, if not impossible, to fill. In my memory there will always semipetrinally remain a verdant spot for my beloved friend, Charles Sumner Smith." "Minnesota has lost a splendid citizen and the colored people one of their ablest champions." "Only those of us who were close to Charles Sumner Smith can appreciate his high ideals and what he struggled for and his keen disappointment in being misunderstood. He gave so much and received so lit- Whippet OVERLAND EUROPEAN TYPE CAR Three New Types iethert Co. 315 University Avenue and Reconditioned Cars REDUCED TO $1.25 Now on sale by the St. Paul Echo FLIGHT by WALTER WHITE Author of the Fire in the Flint $1.25 With each Six Months Subscription for the St. Paul Echo $1.25 This is not a propagandist novel, but a truthful and immensely significant study of Negro life in America. The action takes place in the Negro sections of New Orleans, Atlanta, Philadelphia and New York, so that the picture presented is a comprehensive one. CEdar 1879 614 Court Block St. Paul, Minn. REDUCED TO $1.25 with devastating effect upon the trade of the Consumers' plant, particularly with colored patrons. A log estimated to contain 9,000 feet of lumber was taken to a mill in Longview, Wash., from Ryderwood. It was cut from a Douglas fir and measured 36 feet in length, 10 feet in diameter at one end and 6 feet 4 inches at the other. A prairie chicken stopped a fast express train in Canada by flying into the headlight and extinguishing it. E L L O W B R E A Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking CARD OF THANKS We wish to convey our sincere gratitude to the many kind friends for their expressions of sympathy and kindness shown us during the illness and at the time of the death of our beloved husband and brother, Charles Sumner Smith. Especially do we thank those who sent such beautiful floral offerings. (Signed) MRS. CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, MRS. FLORENCE PITTMAN, Sister, Alcoonah, Pa., JAMES SMITH, Brother. tle." —Fred D. McCracken. Other letters were received from George H. Mallon, ex-Captain of Infantry; by George B. Kelley, chairman of the executive committee of the Duluth branch of the N. A. A. C. P., and scores of other people. Study at home in spare time. Course endorsed by Chief Justice W. H. Taft, Degree (LL. B.) conferred. Educational Guidance Bureau 414 Metropolitan Bank Bldg. (Fishh & Cedar St.) REDUCED Now on s St. Pau Four hundred years ago a church clock was made at Wantage (the birthplace of King Alfred the Great), in England, and placed in the church tower of East Hendred. It played every three hours the "Angel's Hymn," and went on ticking out the time for 400 years, thus placing all grandfather's clocks in the shade. East Hendred's timepiece had recently to be stopped for repairs. When these have been satisfactorily completed it is not anticipated that the church clock will need further expert attention until the year 2326. D The St. Paul Echo maintains a branch office at The Economy Market, 902 6th Ave. No., Minneapolis. 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