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THE YOUNGSTERS are back in school, or ought to be. Have you made it a point to see that yours returned? VOL.1, NO.46 PAVING JOBS LET BY STATE WILL HELP MINESURE Road Leading to Summer Resort to Be Fixed at Cost of $26,659. $2,100,000 To Be Spent New Marking System for Roads Planned to Help Interstate Motorists. Fifty-five miles of paving, 43 miles of gravel surfacing and 115 miles of grading are included in a list of trunk highway projects which Charles M. Babcock, state highway commissioner, announces will be placed under construction this fall. Bids on these projects will be opened at the State Highway department offices at 10 a. m., October 5. Minesure Helped Minesure Helped. Among the roads which will benefit by the expenditures is one of the roads which leads to Minesure (Minee-shurlee) on-the-St. Croix, colored summer resort project. This road, trunk highway No. 3, from Newport to near Hastings, is scheduled to get 6.6 miles of grading at a cost of $26,659. Work Let. The proposed paving jobs when completed will close the last gap on No. 1 from St. Paul to Duluth, on No. 3 from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre and on No. 3 from La Crosse to Winona. It is also proposed to pave No. 2 from Moorhead to Hawley. The grading jobs to be let are scattered over the state. Part of the grading is in preparation for paving contracts which may be let next year. The graveling is on stretches of No. 8 and No. 11, which have been graded this year. The estimated cost of the twenty-six jobs is $2,100,000. A large part of the grading and graveling will be done this fall. Gasoline and license tax receipts up to December 31, with funds on hand, will be ample to cover all the work done this year. New Marking System. Marking of "U. S." routes in Min. (Continued on page 4) SEEK GIRL TO SWIM CHANNEL Ministers Will Try to Get Financial Backing for Prospective Colored Ederle. Washington, D. C.—An American Negro girl to swim the English Channel. This is the hope of the Rev. Edward Johnson, Baptist pastor, who passed a resolution at the annual session of the White Cross bureau that the organization seek to find the mermaid who will conquer the channel, and finance her in her efforts. The drive to find the race girl that appears as a likely master of the channel swim was started in earnest Sunday at Atlantic City. Rev. S. P. W. Drew, president of the State White Cross Bureau, said that efforts were being made to induce Watt Terry, wealthy race real estate man of New York, to aid in financing the project. Aspirants for the proposed channel swim met Monday at 1029 V. street northwest. Several brown-skin mermaids from Baltimore, one of whom is said to have completed a 20-mile swim in Chesapeake Bay last week, were present. A trial swim will be held at Atlantic City Friday. One year of training will be given the girl selected by the bureau to attempt the channel feat. All her expenses will be paid during the period of training. WEEKLY CABARET TO OPEN A Cabaret Dance on each and every Tuesday night, beginning September 21, will be given under the auspices of the Elks' Gopher Lodge 105 at their New Rest, 207 W. Central Ave., St. Paul. The committee promises to present all of the Twin Cities stars, and are preparing to introduce all of the Negro theatrical talent that comes in and about St. Paul. Minn Historical Society Minn Historical Bldg St Paul Minn The St. Paul Echo Postmaster General Proclaims Efficiency Of Colored Workers School Started On Logs Under Tree Grows Into Brick House Rev. Daniel Harding, 95. Dies After Long Illness Rev. Daniel Harding, one of the original founders of St. James A. M. E. church, and one of the most picturesque figures in the church history of the city, died Friday, September 9, at 260 St. Anthony Ave. The Rev. Mr. Harding was 95 years old. Born in Charleston, W. Va., in 1830, Mr. Harding was connected with church activity from early manhood. When he came to St. Paul 65 years ago, he was one of the small group which gave strong financial assistance in starting St. James. For the last few years the Rev. Harding has been ill, and has been unable to receive the many friends he had made in the city. His impressive funeral was held from St. James Saturday morning after his body had lain in state for two hours among banks of flowers. Rev. W. H. Griffin officiated, assisted by Rev. L. R. S. Ferguson, Commissioner of Education, who delivered the sermon, and Rev. Jonas Strong. Interment was on the Comstock family lot in Oakland cemetery. NEGROES FORCED TO VACATE HOME Little Rock Whites Eject Tenants Under Protest From Home Owner. (Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 17.—Rabid white residents of the 1300 block of Rock street assembled last Thursday night and forcibly ejected a family of Negroes from a house in that block. The property is said to be owned by Gustav Breitke, vice-president of the Oaklawn Dairy Company. About 8 o'clock George Cope appeared at police headquarters and inquired of the sergeant how much it would cost to plead guilty of fighting. He explained that he and his neighbors had protested to Breitke against renting the property in that neighborhood to Negroes. A heated discussion followed and Cope admitted that he knocked down Breitke. Cope was advised to return home and wait until complaint was made. About midnight the owner of the property complained that several men were attacking his Negro tenants. The police went to the scene but said that the evacuation had been effected when they arrived. Breitke has sworn out a warrant against Cope and others. Piney Woods School, Home of Cotton Blossom Singers, Indicates Struggle of Southern Youth for Education. Approximately 24 miles southeast of Jackson, Miss., near a postoffice called Braxton, there lives, moves and has its being, the Piney Woods school for colored children. Founded in 1910 by an idealistic colored graduate of the University of Iowa, the school was ushered in with an inauspicious beginning. Laurence C. Jones, the founder, was given $50 in money and 40 acres of land with which to make a start. Classes during the first session were held on logs as desks under an old cedar tree. Some 29 pupils enrolled, and as more came, more logs were rolled up to accommodate the overflow. At the present time, the school has 1,600 acres of land and seven large brick buildings, including dormitories, school buildings, power house and garage. A chapel in one of the buildings will seat an audience of 1,000. (Continued on page 3) ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926 No Segregation to Be Allowed in P. O. Department, New Tells Doctor Who Wants Negro Mailman Changed. Washington, D. C.—"There will be no discrimination between citizens in considering applications for positions in the Postoffice Department." That is the substance of a letter of Postmaster General Harry S. New to Dr. Clifford Mitchell, 7134 Eggleston Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, who had written him complaining about colored carriers serving white districts and charging that Negroes were neither efficient nor loyal. "I live in a residence district in Chicago," wrote Dr. Mitchell, "where there are few or no Negroes. Yet the government sees fit to administer its mail service in this neighborhood almost entirely by Negroes." He urged the Postmaster General to use his influence "to give white service to white people and in particular to those who wish to remain in the Republican party." Postmaster General New replied as follows: "Let me remind you, Sir, that all citizens of the United States are guaranteed under the Constitution, without discrimination or qualification as to race or color. If they enter the public service at all, they do so under the same conditions and as the result of examinations that are prescribed for all applicants, without any reservations. They are eligible to receive appointments upon qualification to positions in the classified Civil Service. "I do not at all subscribe to your intimation that colored employees are not loyal and efficient. The records of this department disprove it. Let me assure you, Sir, that there will be no discrimination between citizens in considering applications for positions in the Postoffice Department. They will receive the treatment and be protected in the rights to which all American citizens are entitled, and this to the very fullest extent possible." Man Speeds As Paining Corns Press Him On New York.—Philip Tohls, white, 9742 86th street, Brooklyn, was arraigned before Magistrate Conway in Long Island City Court Wednesday on a charge of speeding. Asked why he broke the law, he said: "My corn were hurting." "What have your corns to do with the charge?" asked the court. "Whenever it is going to rain my corns hurt and I wanted to beat the rain home," replied Tohis. "Did it rain?" asked the Magistrate. "It did next day." "You got home in time then, which showed that you were a poor weather prophet, but guilty of speeding." Tohis paid a fine of $25. A new church to be known as the St. Peter's Baptist Missionary church has been organized and will be located at 140 E. Fairfield Ave., St. Paul. The church has been regularly organized, according to the Rev. Mark Brown, pastor. 'At a recognizing council called Sunday, September 5, the Rev. T. J. Carr of St. Paur Baptist church officiated. Conducted by the Rev. D. W. Short, an evangelist of Kansas City, Kan., revival meetings have been held at the new church since September 5, and will continue for approximately a week longer. The Rev. Mr. Brown announces that the ushering in of the new organization has been unusually prosperous, and that already there are candidates for baptism. He invites a large attendance to the concluding meetings. WHITE MAN WHO BLACKED FACE IN CRIME IS CAUGHT Ex-Convict From Mississippi Held in St. Louis for Assaults on Women. ConfessesThreeAttacks Sexton First Sentenced to Death in Mississippi; Escaped After Sentence Commuted. (Preston News Service) St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 17.—John Sexton, 29-year-old ex-convict, who has confessed luring three women to vacant houses for purposes of assault or robbery, was identified by a 15-year-old girl Tuesday as the man who got her to accompany him to a house and then assaulted her. The girl left home the morning of June 8 to seek work and was accosted at Eighteenth and Pine streets by a man (now identified as Sexton) who offered her $15 a week to clean wall paper. She accompanied him to a vacant house where she was struck down and assaulted. Impersonated a Negro. In some of his crimes, Sexton impersonated a Negro by blacking his face. Before taking him into the girl's presence Tuesday, police blackened his face. Three other girls also viewed Sexton and identified him as the man who stopped them Monday night at Oakland and Hampton avenues and was dragging one away when he was frightened off by an approaching motorist. Another to look at Sexton was the 19-year-old girl who was assaulted by a Negro (?) in Forest Park Wednesday night. She said Sexton, with his face blackened, resembled the Negro. Miss Mollie C. Radin, 20, seeking work on July 24, was accosted at Ninth and Locust streets by a man who said he needed some one to clean wall paper. She went with him to a house on Pine street, where (Continued on page 2) SHOPPE RE-OPENS Mme. Bacon returns from her extended motor trip and re-opens her shop at 612 7th St. No. with a new line of ladies' and children's fall felt and velvet hats at a very popular price. Having visited a number of eastern cities, Mme. Bacon is prepared to show the very latest of designs. INSURANCE DEAL CLOSED IN TENN. Colored Men Re-purchase Mississippi Life, Once Sold to White Company. (Preston News Service) Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 17.—An important financial deal was consummated in Nashville, Tenn., September 2, 1926, by which M. S. Stuart and M. E. Anderson re-purchased the industrial business of the Mississippi Life Insurance company in the states of Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, and then merged it with the Universal Life Insurance company, a race concern of Memphis. About 30 per cent of all the original business of the Mississippi Life is involved in this deal, and thus passes back into the hands and control of members of the race. In the fall of 1923 E. Perry of Atlanta, Ga., then the president of the Standard Life Insurance company and the Service corporation, secured control of the business of the Mississippi Life with the expressed intention of merging it with the Standard Life, but instead, on February 16, 1924, sold it to the Southern Insurance Company of Nashville, Tenn., a corporation of white men. On April 5, 1924, through the activity and business acumen of M. S. Stuart, a ten-year lease of the business of the Mississippi Life in the three states above mentioned was secured from the Southern with reserved options to re-purchase the the business at a stipulated price at any time during the life of the ten-year contract. Kelly Miller Says Negro Needs To Learn How To Patronize Self Career Of'Rube' Foster Ends As He Is Confined At Kanakee, Ill. Career Of'Rube' Foster Ends As He Is Confined At Kanakee, Ill. Race Loyalty Will Bring Self-respect as Well as Race Well-being and Opportunity, Educator Says. Speaking to an audience at Pilgrim Baptist church Wednesday evening, Dean Kelly Miller of Howard University in developing the subject "Loyalty," pointed out that perhaps the chief need of the American Negro is union of aim and effort. Indicating that especially in business, the Negro had not yet learned the valuable and necessary lesson of self-patronage, Dean Miller said that sooner or later race loyalty would be forced upon the American Negro. "Rudyard Kipling," said the Dean, "the celebrated English poet and jingoist, helped to create race consciousness on the part of the whites when he formulated the term, 'the white man's burden.' Lothrop Stoddard, in his 'Rising Tide of Color,' has stimulated that feeling of race consciousness, and has helped it to become race animosity. Such feeling has aided the growth of such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan." Citing Moses as a man who typified the essence of race loyalty because he refused to become a naturalized Egyptian and remained of the despised Jews, Dean Miller showed the benefits of race loyalty, one of the chief being self-respect. In the same connection, the speaker scored any person of any race who was ashamed of his people. Continuing, Mr. Miller said, "The voluntary segregation of Negroes in the cities of the United States gives a basis for leadership and unity. Understand, I hold no brief for segregation, for segregation in its legal aspect must be fought, as we are fighting it now in Washington, lest it assume a legal rigidity. "Race loyalty will be forced upon the Negro by outside compulsion. The Negro must develop his own institutions and own interests so that the youth of the race can rise to the higher executive functions in business which are denied to him all over ST. PAUL GIRL GOES TO WACO, TEXAS, TO TEACH Miss Leah Minor, daughter of R. C. Minor, 471 W. Central Ave., left last week for Waco, Texas, where she has accepted a position as instructor in music at Paul Quinn college. Miss Minor assumed charge of her duties September 14 when the school year opened. Having received her elementary education in St. Paul, Miss Minor attended college at St. Frances De Sayles in Virginia. Her musical training she continued on returning to the city at the MacPhail School of Music and Art. She received a certificate in piano there at the spring commencement. Miss Minor was accompanied by Miss Alberta Mayo, a recent graduate of Wilberforce University, who will also teach during the coming winter at Paul Quinn College. Father of Negro Baseball, President of Negro National League, Declared Mentally Irresponsible. (The Associated Negro Press) Chicago, Ill.—After a confinement of eight days in a local psychopathic hospital for observation and examination, Andrew "Rube" Foster, president and founder of the Negro National League, and manager of the American Giants, was declared mentally irresponsible and transferred to Kankakee, Ill., last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Foster, according to those close to him in his work, has been showing the effects of his strenuous labor for some months and friends repeatedly advised a long rest for him, but he refused to stop, saying that the game needed him and more so at that time than at any other period. However, he finally went to Michigan for a couple of weeks, only to be brought back to Chicago on account of urgent business of the league. The crash came within thirty days after his return to Chi- (Continued on page 4) MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY cho ER 18, 1926 ys Negro Needs w To Patronize Self Number "6" Charms Lay Delegate to Conference C. H. Miller of St. James A. M. E. church, Central Ave. at Dale street, St. Paul, occupies a rather unique position with regard to attendance at church conferences. Mr. Miller left the city Tuesday evening to attend the sixth session of the Northwestern annual conference, fourth Episcopal district, of the A. M. E. church, which is being held in Council Bluffs, Iowa, this week. This is the sixth consecutive year that Mr. Miller has represented St. James as lay delegate to the Northwestern conference. Before the Northwestern conference was separated from the Chicago conference, Mr. Miller attended that body for six consecutive years. He has also been secretary of the St. Paul District conference six consecutive times, and is chairman of the resolution committee of that conference. APARTMENT FIRE TAKES SIX LIVES Woman Jumps From Fifth Floor With Baby in Arms; Firefighters Hampered. New York.—Six people were killed and many others seriously injured in an apartment fire which broke out at 420 St. Nicholas avenue in Harlem early on Wednesday morning of last week. Forty families were trapped in the five-story building as flames, starting on the first floor, rushed to the fifth and spread rapidly. One woman, Mrs. Mamie Ramboe, with her two-year-old daughter, jumped from the top floor to avoid death by burning. She and the baby are now at Harlem hospital in a critical condition, both having suffered fractured skulls in the jump. Mrs. Mary Allen, who also jumped from the fifth floor, suffered a broken leg and internal injuries. Efficient fire-fighting was prevented because of construction work being done on a subway in the street below. Water pressure was so low that the first streams played upon the building did not carry to the top floor. The entire building was gutted before the flames were put under control. HEADQUARTERS OPEN The City and County Republican Committee have opened their headquarters office at 410 Globe Building, with Mr. George Landin as chairman in charge. Library Gets Two More Books by Negro Authors According to officials at the St. Paul public library, two new copies of books by colored authors have been added to the files, and are available from the loan desk. The books are W. C. Handy's "Blues," and Walter F. White's "The Fire in the Flint." With the acquisition of these two books, the number of books by Negro authors in the library collection is swelled to a considerable size. For the convenience of its patrons, the library has compiled a list of all books in the library by Negro authors, and such a list may be obtained from the loan desk. ANNUAL DRIVE TO START Chairman S. Ed. Hall of Division G. of the St. Paul Community Chest announces that the annual drive will be launched Sunday, September 26, in our leading churches. Watch for announcements later. ONE YEAR in the life of a person is little. In the life of a newspaper it is significant. We celebrate soon. PRICE FIVE CENTS WHEATLEY HOUSE PUBLISHES FULL REPORT OF YEAR WHEATLEY HOUSE PUBLISHES FULL REPORT OF YEAR Activities Scheduled to Swing Into Action Monday, September 27. 60,074 Attend In 1926 Extensive Plans for 3-Year Program Outlined; Thanks Given for Assistance. The Executive Committee, composed of Mrs. R. A. Van Hook, Mrs. T. L. Pollard, Mrs. Lucille Banks, Mrs. M. Marshall, Mrs. E. Sizer, Mrs. C. B. Burton, Mrs. Eva W. Carr, Mrs. Melvina Glenn, Mrs. B. S. Smith and Mrs. Lulu Maxwell, met at Phyllis Wheatley House Wednesday afternoon and made plans for the coming year. It was decided to open the luncheon meetings with Community Singing, and to have a speaker on a current topic each month. Functions begin. All activities will begin Monday, September 27. The following Department Committees met during the week and are offering very interesting programs: Recreation Department. Women's Swimming and Gym Classes, Monday, 8 p. m. Franklin Junior High. Men's Swimming and Gym Classes, Friday, 8 p. m., Franklin Junior High. Children's Game Hour, Phyllis Wheatley House, 4 p. m., Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Athletics in season for Men, Women, Intermediates and Juniors. Recreation Night Bi-Monthly. MRS. HELEN JACKSON, MRS. M. DONOVAN, MRS. BURA HAWKINS, (Continued on page 2) WHITE DENOUNCES CHURCH ATTITUDE WHITE DENOUNCES CHURCH ATTITUDE Claims White Baptist, Methodist Churches in South Recruiting Grounds for Klan. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) Speaking before the eleventh biennial session of the National Convention of Congregational Workers Among Colored People in Detroit recently, Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, delivered a seaching denunciation of the attitude on race relations of Christian clergymen in the United States. In the City of Detroit, declared Mr. White, not one clergyman raised his voice during nine months in which colored people were threatened and attacked culminating in the case of Dr. Sweet's defense of his home; whereas when Clarence Darrow visited the colored Y. M. C. A. in that city and declared that he could and did drink now just as he did before prohibition, the Presbyterian clergymen met and denounced him. Mr. White further assailed the white branches of the Baptist and Methodist churches in the South as recruiting grounds for the Ku Klux Klan and asserted that the Negro in America was becoming increasingly skeptical of the professions of white Christianity when these were consistently unaccompanied by any action in accord with the doctrine preached. The address was enthusiastically received by a mixed audience of white and colored clergymen. ELKS TO ENTERTAIN The second feature of the week to be given by the Elks' Gopher Lodge 105 at their New Rest, 207 W. Central Ave., will be a card party given on each and every Friday evening, beginning September 24. According to Mr. Sid Harris, chairman of the Trustee Board, there will be three valuable prizes given away each Friday evening. The proposed party which was to be held Thursday, September 16, was postponed on account of the several deaths within the membership of the Gopher Lodge. ```markdown ``` Page Two b oy ra An Independent Negro Weekly Newspaper PUBLISHED BY THE ST. PAUL ECHO COMPANY 614 Court Block ‘Telephone Cedar 1879 ‘St. Paul, Minnesota a President and General MaD8g¢6 noice OT RUS L, LEWIS Becretary-Treasurer a aenvnwenenerennen—-nvne-—~+ BUGENE JACKSON, JR. EANOF acne cnn ceeennenneceeenenerveeenentnenenseneesceereeneereereee DARL WILKINS ‘Duluth Representative. .Mrs. Wm. A. Porter, 1029 B. 3rd St., Duluth, Minn. Telephone Hemlock. 1633 % Dene ae SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 Per Year $1.25 for Six Months 15 Cents for Three Menths a EES Advertising rates furnished upon application. ph ee ee ann “Bntered as second class matter Nov. 7, 1926, at the post office at ‘St. Paul, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879" eee SELF PATRONAGE In a very.clear fashion the other night, Dean Kelly Miller showed in the concise phraseology of the thorough student of so- cial affairs that the handwriting on the wall for the American Negro was.already visible. Sketching in a deliberate manner what sociologists and econo- mists have long realized—that the Negro must shortly reach the point where he will become as nearly self-sufficient as it is pos- sible for him to be—Dean Miller pointed out the sheer necessity for development of race enterprise, and the further necessity of race patronage of the enterprise once started. Heavily the point was driven home that because white indus- tries were following the line of least resistance and self-preserva- tion in giving executive positions to white young people, and re- fusing them to colored young people, a group of trained young Negroes is growing up without even a chance at the opportuni- ties for which their training has fitted them. The only way to provide livings for these people, it was pointed out, is for the Negro to unite himself in business enterprises of his own which will furnish openings for his youth. The advice is sound; it is inescapable. It needs to be called and echoed from the housetops. Each year, the National Urban league, the only scientific organization existing which is making a concerted effort to open industry to the Negro, reports failures as well as successes in its annual efforts. It was but two weeks ago that the local executive secretary of that organization in a public address painted the picture of the local prospects, or lack of them, in industry. The colored American must awake to the grim truth that un- less he starts hustling for himself, he is going to be hopelessly lost in the tense struggle for the bare necessities of life as em- bodied in a living wage. The time for that awakening is now; and the effect of it in these two cities should mean a closer binding of our group interests, a more intense patronage of our racial enter-| prises, and a moulding of our diverse affairs into some semblance’ of unity of purpose. THEY STEAL AWAY ‘The death of Rev. Daniel Harding leaves a noticeable gap in the ranks of those local people who. came here years ago at the beginning of the colored colony in the Twin Cities. It leaves, too, an empty place in the small group of those who know about the beginning of church history in these cities at first hand. Rev, Harding was an old man. Sixty-five years ago (a good lifetime) he came here a young man. He has seen the town grow into a place of national impor- tance.. He has watched the progress of the church which, with his own hands, he helped start. He has seen the coming of a com- paratively large number of colored people. His whole life was passed on a high plane of service to his daily fellows and to his God. In a very real sense, he was a picturesque old gentleman. Simple, honest, devoted above all things to his religion, he was the sort of man to inspire respect from any of his associates, and to cause children to stand a little in awe of his complete faith in the tenets of his religious creed. Not so long ago, Louis Liverpool died. Another type of man, he, too, was a pioneer, a venerable man, and a picturesque figure. ‘These men were of another generation. Unhampered by convention, they lived the lives belief dic- tated to them. They were no puppets of a social code; they were men. ‘They are gone, and each year, more like them are passing. In their lives of romance, in the stories they have taken to the grave with them, they are gripping figures in local history, and theit loss is felt not only by a small circle of mourning friends, but by the entire community. RONDO STREET as its Lenox avenue, Ch lie avenue, Kansas City eale street, just as sure r, and feeling, and soun speculative point of vie ep” Rondo is far more in re are sights which wot 2 south feel perfectly at the man from parts of ] ere are conventional cit; If New York has its Lenox avenue, Chicago its State street, Philadelphia its Wylie avenue, Kansas City its Eighteenth street, and Memphis its Beale street, just as surely has St. Paul a riot of warmth, and color, and feeling, and sound in Rondo street. From a merely speculative point of view, that portion of the street known as “deep” Rondo is far more interesting than “diety” Rondo. On it, there are sights which would make a man from rural portions of the south feel perfectly at home; there are sights which would make the man from parts of Harlem or State street feel at ease; and there are conventional city views. Up and down it, gossip travels faster than winged Mereury. The fight last night, the drunken driver who ran into a post and was spirited away by friends before “the law” came to make trouble, the latest scandal about who was out with who the other evening, all those things are choice fopics of conversation. There is music in abundance. Victrolas, saxophones, player piafios, hurried-up orchestras all pour out their complaints to the passing ear. : And all this is but a part of the indescribable warmth of the life of the street. It is alive with feeling. It seethes with what white authors, fascinated by it, have described as “the pulsing beauty of the lives of people who feel intensely every motion which stirs their being.” _. Yes, we have Rondo street. And as long as it is a street, writers-will not have to go to other cities to find atmosphere for sophisticated stories about unsophisticated folks. ‘A Serviee of Song and Praise at Pilgrim Baptist Church Rey. L. W. Harris, Pastor Sunday, Sept. 19, 1926, 11 A. M. Organ Voluntary QUEER. Kio oo avecceees cove nd sGholr Invocation * Hymn ...........-,-Congregation (Standing) Responsive Reading Chant .......eeseeeeeee ++ Choir Scripture Reading Prayer Hymn .............,Congregation (Standing) “Oh Taste and See,” Sullivan. .Choir Contralto Solo, Selected— Miss B. Hunter Negro Spiritual .............Choir Baritone Solo, Selected...A. V. Hall “When You Know Him”— Mesdames F. Harris and B. High Soprano Solo, Selected— . ‘Mrs. Belle Tyler “alleluia,” Wilson .........-Choir Invitational Offertory Doxology MRS. S. E. HALL, Organist A. V. HALL, Choir-Master WHITE MAN IN ATTACKS ON GIRLS DARKENS FACE (Continued from page 1) she was knocked “unconscious and robbed of $19 and a wrist watch bearing her initials. A wrist watch initialed “M. C. R.” was found in the possession of Sex- ton’s wife, also known as Mrs, Marie Rice, when police searched his home. Mrs. Sexton said her husband pre- sented her with the watch, telling her he won it in a gambling game. Sexton told police he bought it from a, stranger. Miss Radin is out of town and will view Sexton upon her return, Her sister identified the watch as the property of Miss Radin, Chief of De- tectives Kaiser, announced he would request the death penalty for Sexton, because of his attack on the 15-year- old girl. Sexton is an escaped con- viet under life sentence in Mississippi for a crime against a girl in that state. Late Wednesday afternoon, ac- cording to Chief Kaiser, Sexton ad- mitted he was the man referred to by the 15-year-old girl and by Miss Radin. Leland, Miss. Sept. 15.—John Sexton, Jackson, Miss., life termer, now being held in St. Louis on sev- eral charges of law breaking, is the son of J. L, Sexton, now deceased. J. L. Sexton was a faithful employe of the Turner-Farber-Love Lumber Company for several years and lived near the old schoolhouse in Leland. John Sexton visited his parents here about two years ago and was known as a baseball player and general sport. His crime record was held in abeyance. His family was originally from some point in Louisiana, J. L. Sexton and his wife were respected residents of Leland, ‘Sexton was sentenced to death for an attack upon a girl. His sentence was being finally commuted and later he escaped. 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PAUL BCHO ‘New Orleans Creole ache Proud and Clannish The tre of: many a “Creole” has been provoked because the innocent tourist thinks the word means “of colored: blood,” say the Pendleton Bast Oregonian, “Creole,” ‘the native Orleanian will tell you, means “of French and Span- tah.” The Oreole is ons who 1s born ‘away. from his country—whatever ‘that country may be, The New Or- leans Creole is considered the city’s finest product. ‘The women are love- ly, ‘The, men are brave, They have charming manners, They are exclusive. ‘Ty are clannish, ‘They have, thelr own language, their own soclety, and thetr own customs, ‘The New Orleans Creole speaks a pure French. The reason “Creole” has been misunderstood ts because thelr slaves spoke 2 Creole dialect, bearing about the same relation to pure French as the southern Negro. talk does to English purely spoken. Then, there was the Acadian French, or “Cajean” French, as spoken in the outlying districts of Loulstana. And “Gumbo”, French—thet means simply French Incorrectly spoken. English Choir Sings to Old Hardy-Gurdy Barrel organs or hurdy-gurdies were ‘twsed in English churches in the early Bighteenth century to support the cholr, ‘The only elaborate specimen surviving today, and still n use, 1s to be found in'the parish chureh of ‘Trottiselifte, near Wrotham, in Kent. ‘These barrel organs were quite as Popular in rural churches that could not afford the luxury of an organ as were the music boxes of the perfod in European drawing rooms. Failing elther an organ or a hurdy-gurdy, vil- lage church chotrs usually relied on two or three-plece orchestras for Sun- day services. These orchestras were placed in the gallery over the en- tranee. ‘Trottiscliffe’s barrel organ must have been one of the finest in its hey- day, for tt has a repertory of sixty hymn tunes. It has recently been re- paired and its handle 1s still turned by the sexton for Sunday services and weddings. ‘The tone of this ancient instrument is unfusually sweet. Accounts for Fools’ Day But for the changing of the calen- dar in 1564, April 1 might never have become All Fools’ day. Several ex- planations have been offered as to the fixing of April 1 as the date for perpetrating practical jokes, but the changed calendar appears to be most probable. In 1564 New Year's day ‘was shifted from March 25 to January 1. Before the alteration, the New Year festivities lasted eight days, end- ing on April 1. This:final day was one set apart for paythg visits and making gifts. When the alteration was made, muddle-headed folk be- came confused and were easy prey for the sophisticated, who sent them out on fool's errands, making calls and carrying gifts, on the day of the discarded celebration. Thus the custom became ‘the seed from which April Fool sprang.—New York Times. ‘A quart of milk a.day 1s not too much for the growing child to drink. Chinese Still Retain Reverence for Dragon ‘The great dragon lanterns of China are still in evidenice at all public festi- ‘vals, but since the introduction of Christianity they have lost much of thelr old-time significance and super- stition. ‘The dragon lantern is an immense construction of silk on a bamboo fram made to resemble a giant dra- gon, often 100 feet long, and carried through the streets on poles by a score of carriers. The men wave their part of the dragon back and forth, which gives it an exceedingly lifelike ap- Dearance. ‘The silk covering is grotesquely painted, and in each section of the body there is a lighted candle, In ‘the cities the dragon is considered a Joke, but in the country districts it is still held in religious reverence, A dragon passing the house of « Prosperous farmer, it is invited in, and crossing the threshold it brings good luck to the proprietor of the place, His crops will be good and his cattle ‘will flourish. The daughter will make 2 happy marriage. In return for the ‘visit he must entertain the carriers and then make them a present of a sum of money, and a piece of red cloth to pin upon the dragon's body.— Chicago Journal. Fad of Modern Girls Costs Mothers Money “Tm glad my daughter is so small,” sald the mother of the college girl, “be- cause that gives her a chance to wear out her own clothes. What do I mean? Why, didn't you know that college girls borrow one another's clothes as easily and boldly as a youth takes a cigarette off of a friend? Yes, that’s the custom now, and many a mother fairly bubbles over with rage when she sees her daughter's apparel going to pieces through some one’s wearing it besides daughter. It does no use to protest, for daughter snaps back: ‘You're old-fashioned and very stingy. All girls lend their clothes nowadays.’ The mothers wail back: ‘But I bought and paid for those clothes; you didn’t, What right have you to lend them? And daughter re- Proves: ‘How frightfully ungenerous you are, mother!’ Yes, I've known about this clothes-lending business and T'm glad enough that my daughter ts unusually small so that there'll be less chance for lending.” — Springtteld Union. Villawe Transsorted | Dwellers on the eastern shores of ‘the Casplan sea known as the Tur- ‘comans are famous for the custom af carrying thelr villages with them wherever they go. Thelr settlements are not merely camps, but real vil- ‘Inges, the units composing them being portable houses and not tents.. ‘these ‘traveling houses ate constructed with remarkable skill and ingenuity and “are so light and compact when packed ‘for a Journey that they are easily car- ‘red by a camel, The Indians of North America are known to have car- ‘tied thelr villages also, but these were ‘not as elaborate as the towns of the Poreomane—London. TH Bits, More than 3,000,000 fowls were in- ‘spected for tuberculosis in the United States during the last spring. SCIENTIFICALLY PASTEURIZED = 5 Milkand Cream Butter Buttermilk Minnesota Milk Co. Elkhurst 3163 Visit Our Modern Plant ‘University at Western Do youneed | | Letterheads Programs | Circulars Tickets | Dodgers: Business | Posters Cards | or anything in the | PRINTING | LINE | : We will cheerfully furnish estimates SERVICE that PLEASES | The St. Paul Echo © 614 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. Phone Cedar 1879 WHEATLEY HOUSE MAKES FULL ANNUAL REPORT (Continued from page 1) MRS. L. COOK, ‘MRS. B. CABELL. Music Department. ‘Twin City Community Choral. Children’s Piano Lessons. Men’s Glee Club. Mixed Glee Club. Children’s Glee Club. MRS. MELVINA GLENN, Chairman, MRS. KATHERINE SMITH, MRS. BLANCHE MASON, MISS ALLIE B. GLENN, MRS. MAE GLENN. Executive Committee—Twin City Community Choral. ‘Twin City Community Choral, St Paul ¥. W, C. A., 8 p, m., Mon. day, September 27. ‘Twin City Community Choral Phyllis Weta on, 8p. m, ‘Wednesday, September 29. Special Features Planned: Presentation of Madame A. P Brown at Phyllis Wheatley ‘House, October 7. Presentation of Twin City Com munity Choral Musical, with Marlan Anderson of. Philadel: phla as soloist in February (ex. act date and place announced later). MR, JOHN HICKMAN, Director, MRS. BLANCHE MASON, MR. WM. R. SMITH, MRS. MAE GLENN. Educational Department. Sewing, Monday and Wednesday 8 p.m. Millinery, Tuesday, 8 p. m. Venetian Art, Tuesday, 3 p. m. Public Speaking, Thursday, 3 p. m Hook Rugs, Thursday, 8 p.m. ‘MRS. B. 8. SMITH, Chairman, MRS. MADISON JACKSON, MRS. KATHERINE SMITH, MRS. J. ALLISON. Dramatic Department. Children’s Story Hour, Tuesday ‘Thursday, Saturday, 4-5 p. m. Aesthetic Dancing. Special Features: Play by Dramatic Club, December. Children’s Christmas Party, De- cember 17. Pageant, May. MRS. EVA WALKER CARR, Chairman, MRS. LADY CHRISTOPHER, MRS, JESSIE SHEPARD, MRS. L, BOSWELL. Phyllis Wheatley House extends . Dancing Academy Dancing course and physical train- ing for reducing, for ladies and pccoinar iy tome by a French professional dancing and reducing master. For ap- pointment write name, address and telephone and mail to the ST. PAUL ECHO sdisGost tee ne tes ii COUNTY SEEKS SHARE IN ESTATE OF DEAD WOMAN (Preston News. Service) Henderson, N. C., Sept. 17.—An aggregate sum of more than $30,000 is sought by Vance county and the City of Henderson from the estate of the late Melissa Townes, in sults brought separately by the city and county in Vancy county superior court last week for recovery of taxes, forfeitures and penalties which it is alleged have not been paid. The es- tate of the woman was said to be worth around $30,000, more than $25,000 of which was in cash on de- posit in the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, a Negro bank in Durham. ‘The county is seeking $2,634.83 in alleged unpaid taxes which it claims have not been paid, and in addition to that sum is asking for $14,210 in forfeitures on property that was not listed. The city's suit is for slightly less than that on account of the dif- ference in the tax rate, which was less for the city than the county. to you a cordial invitation to enroll in any of the above named classes by calling Cherry 3098. If you are in- terested in other subjects not listed, call and see if it will be possible to add that subject to our courses. ‘The organization takes this oppor- tunity to thank all who so splendidly assisted in making Phyllis Wheatley a success. The attendance last year was 60,074. We are hoping that 1927 will show an increase which will almost double that of 1926. Hence there will be no question as to our immediate need of a new build- ing. Our 3-year program includes a modern Gymnasium, a Nursery, @ Kindergarten and School of Home Economics. This program depends on how we use this which we already have. Through close co-operation of all individuals and groups, in 1929 this program will be a reality. W. GERTRUDE BROWN, Head Resident. PEED ws a fine thing to know where you can get cash when you need it. Our ser- vice is quick and confiden- tial. We have helped your friends for years. Ask them about the Local Loan Co. 216 Exchange Bank Building Stash & Minnesota Sts, Yel. Go 2417 Society·Notes ST. PAUL NOTES Send in your Society Notes to The Echo office, 614 Court Block, before Wednesday noon of each week. Mr. Winifred A. Jordon of San Francisco, Cal., veteranarian of animal bureau of the U. S. A. is the house guest of Mrs. R. F. Wilson, 697 St. Anthony Ave. Mrs. Ella Smith Taylor of Milwaukee was the guest of Mrs. Fannie De Halzne the past week. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. De Halzne are from Scottsville, Ky., also Mr. G. Scott Taber, who presented Mrs. Taylor with a beautiful souvenir of St. Paul. Miss Cecil J. Hewitt, teacher from Phoenix, Ariz., delivered two very inspiring lectures at Pilgrim Baptist church August 22 and 29. Miss Hewitt plans to go abroad to do research work in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. J. Cowden and Mrs. Ewing and Mr. Murdge of Kansas City, Mo., who have been visiting in St. Paul for the past week, have returned home after spending a very pleasant time with their niece and sister, Mrs. E. Ervin and Mrs. A. C. Lyles. Miss Bernice Wilson of Seattle, Wash., will be the house guest of Miss Doris Ervin, 677 Rondo St., Sunday and Monday. Miss Wilson is en route to Chicago, where she will attend school. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. De Halznne entertained at dinner for Mrs. Ella Taylor Friday evening. The guests were Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Carr, Miss Henrietta Sears and Mr. J. Karinger. Mrs. Taylor left Saturday morning for Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fagen, 943 St. Anthony Ave., celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary last Thursday, September 9, by taking a motor trip to Owatonna, Minn., with Mr. H. Stevenson in his classy new car. Miss Loretta Powell still remains quite ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Powell. Mrs. Harry E. Hughes was the hostess to a breakfast for Mrs. C. H. Waters of Indianapolis. Covers were laid for four. Mrs. Geo. Mundell was the hostess to a six o'clock dinner at Northfield. Her guests were Mrs. Julis Moore, Mrs. Roberta Williams, Mrs. C. H. Waters of Indianapolis. Mrs. Roberta Williams was the hostess to a 3 o'clock dinner September 5. Covers were laid for six. Her guest was Mrs. C. H. Waters. Mrs. C. H. Waters returned to her home in Indianapolis, Ind., September 11, after a very delightful stay with her friend, Mrs. Roberta Williams. On last Sunday afternoon Miss Laura Oden of St. Paul was the honored guest at a farewell party given for her at the summer home of Dr. C. R. Leech. Miss Oden expects to leave September 26 for Chicago to study Dental Hygiene at the Northwestern University. Mrs. Helena Whitfield of Latrobe, Pa., attended the funeral of her brother, Henry L. Street, Thursday at St. James A. M. E. church. Mrs. Aimee Hall, representative of the "Echo," has returned from Denver, Colo., with her two children, Mrs. Hall had an enjoyable time while on her vacation, except during the time her little girl Laura was sick. ST. PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH The spreading of the gospel feast last Sunday was greatly enjoyed as the presence and power of the Holy Spirit was felt in the services. Several strangers and visiting friends were present. The offering was $45.50. Another shower of spiritual blessings fell upon the prayer meeting Wednesday evening when nearly every seat was taken. Jehovah says: "With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." Come and drink with us and be revived. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Produce better products than the average and you will probably get a better price than the average. Ferdey's Place 383 Rondo St. REGULAR NOON DINNERS Chili a Specialty Phone Dale 8807 Pioneer Investment (Incorporated) Real Estate, Chattel Mortgages and Loans 328 METROPOLITAN BANK BLDG. Phone Cedar 2634 O.J. Smith, Trees. MINNEAPOLIS NOTES Phyllis Wheatley Intermediate Boys will hold their first dance of the season, Friday, September 24, at the Center. Mrs. Sarah Welborn, Mrs. Alice Fant and Mrs. Lulu Bacon have returned after visiting many eastern cities. They spent a most enjoyable time in Chicago, where they were entertained by Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Wells, 5320 Wabash Ave. In Milwaukee they were entertained by Mrs. L. C. Gooch and Mr. Arthur Bacon, brother of Mrs. Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Argustus Owens entertained immediate friends at Breakfast Friday morning of last week, complimentary to Mrs. Salie Mae Scrubbs of Chicago, Ill. The Twin City Trap and Gun Club has been meeting twice each week at Long Lake, Minn., to practice. Seen at the traps Sunday were Miss W. Gertrude Brown, Messrs. J. Sizer, David R. Francis, Curtis Wilson, Mr. Tom Carroll, Frank Peoples, Chester Johnson, Clark Chavis, Walter Deyer, Andrew Johnson and Arthur Stewart. Miss Brown carried off the honors of the day, shooting 12 out of 13. This organization has a lodge 160 miles north of Minneapolis, and most of the members will motor there September 15, to be present at the opening of the duck season. DULUTH NEWS Mrs. Wm. Godette and daughter, Mrs. Fred McCracken and daughters, who have been spending the summer at their summer cottage at Kituchi Lake, spent a few days in the city en route home, as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Merry of E 6th St. Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kelly, 1026 E. Tenth St, gave a small dinner Wednesday evening, September 15, the occasion being their anniversary. The guests were Major J. B. Ramsey, the Northern Financial Agent of Tuskegee, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colby, Mrs. Harriet K. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. William B. Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Merry entertained a few friends for their guests, Mrs. Wm. Godette and Mrs. Fred McCracken. Major J. B. Ramsey of Chicago, while in the city, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Colby of E. 4th St. Mrs. Roy Avant is home from the hospital and is improving rapidly. Mrs. Ed Nichols is also improving. Rev. and Mrs. Beasley are still in the Twin Cities and are very much missed in the community. Mrs. Geo. Adams, who has been on the sick list for the past few days, is improving. Miss Amanda Byrd is visiting friends in the Twin Cities. OLD RESIDENT DIES Mr. Samuel Beasley, 515 Dupont Ave. No., aged 60 years, died at General Hospital September 10. He has been ill since last March. Mr. Beasley has been a resident of Minneapolis for the past forty years. He has been the foreman of the Red Caps at the Milwaukee Station for the past 17 years and a long time member of Minnesota Lodge No. 5, Knights of Phythias. Three-fifths of those employed in the automobile factories work in Michigan. Keystone Hotel Barber Shop We Specialize in LADIES' 35¢ MEN'S 35¢ & Children's Doing Hair Cutting All Work Guaranteed Polite Service—Courteous Treatment A. WYLIE, Prop. Dale 3601 379 Carroll Ave. FOR SALARY LOANS SEE ANDREW A. MURPHY 312 Builders Exchange Bldg. Ga 1095 REMOVAL NOTICE Fred D. McCracken Established 1915 Real Estate, Renting, Insurance 306 Court Block Phone Cedar 6349 Resident Humboldt 4846 Trees From Rodents Rabbits and mice destroy thousands of dollars' worth of young trees annually, according to the observations of a well-known fruit specialist, who recommends the use of some scheme of protecting the growths. Several kinds of protectors are commonly used for this purpose, namely, heavy roofing paper which does not contain tar, or wood veneer protector, as sold by nurseries and fruit supply houses. However, a galvanized wire of one-quarter of an inch mesh is said to be the best. While it is more expensive than the other two, it will last for many years and does not have to be removed from the tree in the spring, as should be done with the paper and wood protections. The protectors should be placed around the trees in such a way that mice cannot get in from underneath and at a height of about 30 inches, so that the entire trunk may be protected. If the wire mesh is used, cutting the wire is advised in order that the protection formed will be four or five inches in diameter to allow for several years' growth of the trunk. East Can Teach West Proper Use of Time, the most precious thing in the western world, and particularly in America, is, in the Orient, given its proper value in relation to living. In countries like China that have endured for centuries time is not measured off in ruthless blocks, so many years of irresponsible childhood, so many years of frantic work in a great furnace of competition, pitifully few years in which to prepare for the dread specter of old age and then, oblivion. Time in the Far East is a motionless procession of days gliding soundlessly one into the other, all of them precious, but none of them to be regarded as one's last chance. A man works. He does his best, His business is never too pressing for him to welcome the stranger. And when he lunches or dines he does just that, making a pleasurable accomplishment out of a necessary function instead of resenting the necessity and satisfying it in a 15-minute series of gulps.—From Japan. Locomotive's Breathing The puffing of a railway engine is a common-enough sound, but few people know by what it is regulated. Actually the number of puls made by a locomotive in the course of a journey depends on the circumference of its driving wheels. No matter what the speed of the train may be, the engine will give four puffs for every complete turn of the driving wheels. The wheels may vary in circumference, but the average is 20 feet. With the average driving wheels and a speed of fifty miles an hour, a locomotive will give 880 puffs a minute, or $2,800 puffs an hour, the driving wheels performing 13,200 complete revolutions in the sixty minutes. After the theater try our delicious Chicken Sandwiches Picnic Box Lunches TOASTED SANDWICHES ALEXANDERS SWEET SHOPPE Dale and Ronde Streets Phone Dale 7175 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. White Front Store CASH and CARRY, Prices With FREE DELIVERY Quality Meats and Groceries Fresh Dressed Poultry at All Times Elk 1388 559 St. Anthony Av. E. N. Martin L. R. Blair And You Are Next All the Time Saultary Tonsorial Parlor 329 NO. DALE STREET Manicurist St. Paul, Minn. Meet Your Friend The Neighborhood Drug Store With Downtown Prices Five-Minute Delivery Service McCall Pharmacy Dale 8861 284 Rondo St. MINNEAPOLIS ADVERTISERS Como Temple 128, I. B. P. O. E. W. SOUTH SIDE AUDITORIUM Monday, September 27, 1926 MUSIC BY CLARENCE JOHNSON'S ORCHESTRA "NUFF SED" Refreshments and Lunch Served by Social Session Committee Admission 50 Cents The staff is composed of 28 teachers who handle the approximate enrollment of 350 pupils, only about 250 of whom live on the grounds. The curriculum of the school is chiefly industrial, and the whole keynote of the institution is practicality. Public subscription supports the school, although a very tiny revenue is obtained from a small endowment. Students are charged $14 a month fee, but, according to Miss Doris James, traveling representative of the school, practically all the students "work out" their tuition in productive work at the school because they are unable to pay. Odd Rain-Making Device As a pendant to the reaction of plants to weather the curious Seventeenth century belief in the weather's reaction to plants might be mentioned. Then it was the common practice to set fire to growing ferns in the belief that rain would follow. Such implicit faith was placed in this expedient that when Charles I. arranged to visit Staffordshire, the earl of Pembroke and Montgomery wrote to the high sheriff of the county commanding him to stop the burning of ferns as his majesty was "desirous that the country and himself should enjoy fair weather as long as he remains in these parts." In this custom, by the way, the Devonshire practice of "firing the bracken" took its rise.-London Mall. Typewriting to Music In a certain college in London, England, girls learn typewriting to the accompaniment of fox trots and military marches. If a girl has a good sense of rhythm, this system hastens the early stages of training in a remarkable way. Gramophone records are used, and pupils first type words of three letters to a military march in four-four time, one letter to a beat and the space movement to the fourth. Progress is then made in words of different lengths, until finally whole sentences are typed. When speed increases, students type two letters to each beat. The idea behind this system is that regular rhythmic movements are less tiring than irregular ones, which waste the worker's energy. Patronize Our Advertizers Phone Dale 8339 Try the Drug Store First ELMER MORRIS DRUGGIST Prescriptions Rondo and Mackubin Mrs. T. H. LYLES Oldest Established Mortician Office: Cedar-0508 Res: Dale 2947 150 W. Fourth St. St. Paul, Minn. MINNEAPOLIS FALL HATS Hair and Toilet MME. 612 Seventh Street North Come and "Mess Art" Harvey Give Como Temple 125 SOUTH SIDE Monday, September MUSIC BY CLARENCE "NUE" Refreshments and Lunch Service Admission 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 Meate Hyland 9746 McDUFF WOODARD, Prop. Patronize Our Advertizers Hunger for Romance Women crave the ideal in seeking a mate. But to a woman in love the rosette halo which she herself placed about the head of the adored one may make the most commonplace man seem a very Parsalef before marriage. And even with a quickening sense of the mistake she has made the woman seeks to justify her own belief in her ideal. That, in reality, is at the bottom of most of the nagging in marriage. The woman hopes that somewhere in the man are those glowing qualities she believes exist, though they may be latent. With repeated failure to arouse them, she grows restless, impatient; is discouraged—not with mankind, but with her man. She is still seeking; still believes. For a time she may be able to see in some other man the qualities she desires. But once she has entered into a new relationship, how often does her disillusion repeat itself! The sort of hero worship one sees at the crowded matinees of favorite artists—actors, violinists, pianists—is to be explained, not only by the love of the arts, but often by the fact that women who flock to these performances are hungry for romance.—Jane Cowl in Liberty. Queer How Some Men Attain High Position When George B. Baer was president of the Reading railroad, he was sitting on the porch of his home one Sunday afternoon when a man carrying a suitcase approached and said: "Is this where the president of the Reading railroad lives?" "Yes," answered Mr. Baer. "Are you the president of the Reading railroad?" "Yes," said Mr. Baer again. "Well," said the man with the suitcase, "how much does an excursion ticket to Niagara Falls cost?" "Sorry," replied Mr. Baer, "but I don't know." "What?" exclaimed the inquirer in astonishment, "you don't know the price of an excursion ticket to Niagara Falls? Say, you're a fine railroad president!" SIMPSON @ WILLS The Reliable Morticians are now located in their beautiful new mortuary chapel Office Phone—Cedar 1024 Residence Phones Tel. Dale 1914 Tel. Dale 2541 17 West Exchange Street ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Patriotic Benevolent Order of Bees We take care of all of the bick, the dead and assist the worthy members in financial difficulties. JOINING FEES $5.00 JOINING FEES, $5.00 Call or write to E. O. PEARCE, Garfield 4138 11 Iglehart Ave. J. H. GOLFIN 556 5th Ave. Mpls. Minn. ADVERTISERS Ladies & Children's FELTS and VELVETS 75¢ Up Goods on Hand BACON Hyland 2287 "Round" With Us at Our Test Ball On By I. B. P. O. E. W. AUDITORIUM Number 27, 1926 JOHNSON'S ORCHESTRA "SED" ed by Social Session Committee in 50 Cents 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 --- Tell the world about- A PICTURE TELLS IT ALL Put it in our annual issue SPECIAL RATES THE ECHO IS READ ALL OVER THE WORLD 614 Court Block (Continued from page 1) the country by white people. "In Washington, 75 doctors are enabled to live because of the race loyalty which gives them colored patronage. If race loyalty were applied to the supplying of the physical necessities, food, clothing, fuel, investments, etc., the same city could easily support 10,000 business men. In the future the Negro race will be thrown upon its own responsibility much more than in the past." The Cotton Blossom Singers, quartets sent out from the school during vacation, ald materially in bolstering up the funds which run the institution. Three weeks ago, one of these quartets appeared in St. Paul at Central Park M. E. church, and at St. James A. M. E. church. There are four of the organizations on the road. All the singers in them are students at Piney Woods, and are working their way through school. Deprived of every advantage in their struggle for education, these young people are making a desperate effort to get all they can out of school. Their story, different in every respect from the one which is true in Minnesota, should be a definite spur to the parents of this community to see that their children take advantage of the educational opportunities offered by public schools. A few cans every day or so takes the bugbear out of a seeming mountain of work in providing enough fruit and vegetables for the winter. Wine 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. Or Phone Geneva 5829—Minneapolis Note—These juices must be kept cold, otherwise they will ferment, so do not order unless you have facili- ties for keeping them cold. Tell the wo your Our many friends who spent such pleasant, profitable hours with us in our Sunday Vesper Services last year will welcome the news that beginning with the first Sunday in October, regular vesper services will be resumed. The Committee of Management held its first meeting for the fall Monday afternoon with the chairman, Mrs. Zula Tandy, presiding. Plans for the year's work were discussed and every effort will be made to make our Branch a real Community Center. Watch for our fall announcements if you are interested in Classes of Club work. When bees want to conserve their winter store of feed, they get rid of the drones. The farmer should get rid of the drones in his dairy herd and the poultry flock and save feed. Barber Shop CASSIUS AND COMPANY SIX CHAIRS Separate Entrance and Chairs for Ladies Featuring Sterilization and Sanitary Service DALE AND RONDO STREETS Patronize Our Advertizers Phone Dale 8090 YALE ```markdown ``` Minesure Development Co. Office of The St. Paul Echo 614 Court Block Cedar 1879 RAZOR SUICIDE Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 16.—Despondent because of ill health, Oliver Gibbs, aged 43, 261 East Cherry St., a patient at St. Francis Hospital, ended his life early Thursday morning by severing his jugular vein with a safety razor blade. Gibbs has been undergoing treatment for nervous collapse, physicians said. He died within a short time after attaches found him bleeding in his bed. A South Dakota statistician has figured that all the gold and silver mined in the world is equalled in value by the eggs and poultry produced in the United States alone. WANT ADS ONE WEEK'S SUPPLY Free Free BRONZE BEAUTY face powder STRAIT-TEX CHEMICAL CO. BRONZE BEAUTY Face Powder is made by a new French process, and is not affected by perspiration. Used satisfactorily on dry or oily skin. Makes the complexion soft and velvety—and stays on until removed. Three tints which blend with any complexion: High Brown, Bronze Glow and Flesh. Fill out and mail the coupon below and we will send you a whole week's supply free. 27 STRAIT-TEX CHEMICAL CO., 569 Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Name___ Street and Number___ City___ State___ cago. It will be remembered that last year Mr. Foster, while in Indianapolis with his club, was severely gassed in a bathroom where he was stopping at that time due to a leak in the gas pipe of a hot water heater. He suffered very much from this adventure and it is thought that the effects of this experience, coupled with the many worries of his ball club and the business of the league, caused his breakdown. Fought-Way Upwards From Ranks. The rise in of Andrew "Rube" Foster in the baseball world reads like a work of fiction. Born in Calvert, Texas, 47 years ago, Rube adopted baseball as his life work and made steady progress until he reached the uppermost crest of the peak. He started out in baseball as pitcher and in a short time he had a reputation of being the best in the U. S. A. The late Frank C. Leland brought Andrew to Chicago in 1901 to pitch for the Leland Giants. He pitched for Leland for two months and never lost a game. He left Chicago after this and finished the season in Michigan with a white club without suffering a defeat. The next season found Foster in New York with the Cuban Giants under E. B. Lamar. Rube lost his first game in New York 14-0. He knew something was wrong with him or the club. He thought it over a while and the next time he went to the mound they had a new catcher. With his new catcher he ran up a string of 44 wins in a row. He was never defeated in any championship games and retired from pitching having lost but six games in twenty-four years to colored clubs. Organized Giants and Later League. Rube started forging ahead in a big way in Chicago in 1911 when he organized the now famous American Giants baseball club and by bringing to bear his knowledge of the game from all angles he soon had the club going in great style and known from coast to coast. It was the first club to create a desire in the fans to have other clubs of this type formed into a league. Mr. Foster added the final jewel to his crown when in February, 1919, he founded the Negro National league at Kansas City, Mo., along with the late C. I. Taylor and others. At the time of the organization of the league there were only three colored ball clubs in America on a salary basis, which combined did not equal $30,000 annually. Their Death Not in Vain Probably the most disastrous Arctic expedition in history was that of Sir John Franklin of the British navy. Of the 129 confident and courageous explorers who sailed with him from England in the summer of 1845, not one returned. Yet this attempt to discover a route to the Pacific cannot be branded as a failure, for while the adventurers who set forth so hopefully in the Erebus and Terror perished wretchedly a few years later, disaster and death did not overtake them until they had achieved the main object of their voyage—the discovery of a channel of communication from Baffin bay to Bering strait. Thus did Franklin's volunteers realize the centuries-old dream of European navigators—the finding of a northwest passage. They were conquerors, even in death.—Dearborn Independent. Keep Off This Date. Halloween Matinee Dance by Amaranthe Club, October 30, Union Hall. The Altar Guild will give a fried chicken dinner Tuesday, September 21, at St. Phillips church from 4 to 8 P. M. Dinner 50 cents. YOUNG SINGER DRAWS PRAISE FROM CRITICS Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 17.—Ralph E. Banks, brother of Miss Ruth Banks, the accomplished pianist, has received considerable praise from local white musical critics through the white press. Burt McMurtle, writing in the Pittsburgh Press, calls Banks "Pittsburgh's Hayes." Mc“Banks is a young singer, a former pupil of McClurg Miller, under whom he learned the first essentials of good singing. Following his work with Miller he went to New York, where he studied with Charles Tamme. He possesses a tenor voice of rich, warm quality, a tone that is at once lovely and entirely masculine. There is imagination in his reading and color to his singing. "The singer leaves this fall for Italy, where he will spend the next two years in study. One feels that Banks will do much to increase the respect that Hayes has already raised to such a high degree toward the seriousness of the Negro voice." Only workers pay for their keep. This is true of cows and chickens as well as bees and men. The Tots Betty had been invited to her little friend Margaret's birthday party. When it was over, Betty said as she was leaving for home, "mother said I had a lovely time." "Daddy," said the motorist's little boy, "when bees hum have they touched a little lever in their bodies and gone on low gear?" Small Jackie, on the verge of three, surprised his mother one evening recently by adding to his evening prayer, "please God, send August a little sooner this year, 'cause I tired of waitin' for my birfday."—Boston Transcript. Inspiration for Hymns Quite a number of holiday haunts in England are associated with hymns. For instance, it is said that the view of the coast of England as seen across the Solent by char-a-bans riders on their way round the Isle of Wight suggested to Doctor Watts his hymn, "There is a land of pure delight." The well-known lines: "Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood stand dressed in living green" present a perfect picture of the scene on a bright summer day, and the image of "Death, like a narrow sea," dividing this world from the next seems to point the same way. Not Guilty At a parade of a company of newly called men, the drill instructor's face turned scarlet with rage as he slated a new recruit for his awkwardness. "Now, Rafferty," he roared, "you'll spill the line with those feet. Draw them back at once, man, and get them in line." Rafferty's dignity was hurt. "Plaze, Sargint," he said, "they're not mine; they're Mickey Doolan's in the rear rank."—Western Machinery 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 UNIVERSITY AVE. ADVERTISERS Louis Paul Fryson Louis Paul Fryson, aged 52 years, died September 8 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Remains shipped to St. Paul September 11. Funeral services conducted by the Elks, Gopher Lodge No. 105, at St. James A. M. E. church, September 15, at 2 P. M. Rev. J. W. Kelly officiated. Interment at Forest cemetery. A. J. McGavock, funeral director. Felix Raines Felix Raines, aged 68 years, an old resident of St. Paul, died Saturday, September 11, at his home, 824 Payne Aye. Funeral services were held September 15, at 2 P. M., at St. James A. M. E. church, by Ames Gopher Lodge No. 105. Rev. J. W. Kelly officiated. A. J. McGavock, funeral director. Interment at Forest cemetery. Victoria Basina Victoria Basina died September 8 at Ancker Hospital from injuries received in an automobile accident Labor Day. Her body was prepared and shipped by a J. McGavock to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Basina, Bayfield, Wis. Ray Powers accompanied her body home. She was 22 years old. Richard Allen Richard Allen, father of Walter J. Clarence and Rosose of the Twin Cities, died at Hinckley, Minn., on September 9. Funeral services were held in Dalton, Mo., on September 13. W. G. Hazel Walter G. Hazel died September 10, 1926. Resided at 3428 Oakland Ave. So. Funeral services at Chapel September 14, 1926. Burial September 15, 1926, at Hillside cemetery. Rev. Beasley of Duluth officiated. Henry L. Streets Henry L. Streets, 936 St. Anthony Ave., died at Ancker Hospital Monday, September 13. Funeral at St James A. M. E. church Thursday at 2 p. m., conducted by the Elks Gopher Lodge 105. Interment at Oakland cemetery. Simpson and Wills, funeral directors. Encouraging Herbert was confiding his troubles to a friend. "Yes, she refused me," he said, with a curious smile, "but she did it in a most encouraging way." "How was that?" asked the friend. "It doesn't seem to worry you much." "As I went away she pointed to my footprints on the linoleum in the hall and said: 'Next time you come to propose to me I hope you'll remember to wipe your shoes on the mat!'" LONG-FELLOW BREAD The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking (Continued from page 1) nesota will probably be completed this week, according to a bulletin from the State Highway department. The markers are white shields, with the words "Minnesota," "U. S." and the number in black. The markers are being erected by the state department. Since marking of the roads was begun, the department has received a number of inquiries as to the status of these roads, says the bulle- LONG-F The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh WOMEN'S CLUBS' PLEA IS FUTILE; BOY WILL DIE (Preston News Service) Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 17.—For the second time within a fortnight the Cleveland Federated Colored Women's clubs Thursday presented an 11th-hour plea to Governor Donahey to save Emmanuel Ross, Cleveland's boy slayer, from going to his death in the electric chair Friday night. Mrs. Lethia Fleming, wife of the councilman, and president of the Cleveland Federated Colored Women's clubs, sought a recommendation from Common Pleas Judge Waler McMahon to the governor to save Ross. McMahon refused, declaring he had no course other than to follow the recommendation of the jury that found Ross guilty of murdering Isidore Steeche, grocer. Mrs. Fleming went to Columbus to seek the-commutation for Ross to a life sentence. Governor Donahey, following a refusal by McMahon to re-open the case here, already has declared he would not save Ross. Elkhurst 3473 Elk Tailoring Co. Suits Made to Order M. LOVE. Prop. 306 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. tin. The status has not been changed by the marking, it is explained, but they are still controlled and maintained by the state. Strictly speaking, there are no U. S. roads. The new numbers are simply a system of marking certain state routes which carry a large amount of interstate traffic. The plan was worked out by the federal bureau of good roads, but the marking is being done by the states. Nor does the numbering have any connection with the federal highway aid, for a large mileage of the Minnesota YELLOW BREA BUNG YELLOW BREAD Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking DOW BREAD master of Good Baking "RED" LOWE HELD Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 16.—Daniel Lowe, white, alias "Red" Lowe, a boss stevedore, was charged with criminally assaulting three pretty Negro girls and a white girl, in indictments returned last week by the Duval county grand jury. Judge Daniel A. Simmons was on the bench in circuit court when the grand jury made its report. The grand jurors heard the testi- BLUE& CALL BLUE & WHITE VICE AND RATES AND RED CARS CAB CEda 40 DM—CEDAR 6245 CAFE—CE When in the Twin Cities don't fail to visit Progressive Associa headquarters for Railroad Men and Theatrical Fo RAVIS, President ALIOT, Manager 40 EAST 3RD ST. 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