Tulsa Star
Saturday, May 24, 1919
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Federal Government and Lynching
A Fearless Exponent of Right and Justice.
An Uncompromising Defender of the Colored Race.
VOLUME 8. 29
THE ANTI-LYNCHING CON-
CONFERENCE.
The notable anti-lynehing conference held at Carnegie hall during the first days of this week was notable in that it brought together many distinguished northerners and southerners upon the great menace to American civilization. It was notable further in that it has crystalized sentiment among them and their kind north and south, as to its deep national disgrace and danger. We do not believer, however, that this conference or annual conferences, will serve to either conferences or materially decrease the number of lynchings or lessen their barbarism. We repeat what we have repeatedly said: There is but one cure for lynching in the south or in the north. That cure is the strong right arm of the federal law. That at least is the only possible cure for the inhuman mob crimes growing daily in number and cruelly throughout Dixie. There are those who have sensibly declared that mog law upon the part of the whites will cease only when checked by mob law upon the part of the blacks. They have courageously declared that when the black man generally of the south learns the easy composition and the deadly use of the dynamite bomb then and then only will mob rule upon the part of the cowardly crackers who mass armed in hundreds to torture a single black will cease.
However effective this wholesome and just remedy might be in some cases and for a spell it would eventually beget in its turn only its own offspring—more mob law and worse mob law. It would sow the same seeds of habitual anarchy and barbarism in the hearts of the blacks as now infests the lives of the cracker whites. It would result only in southern white demagogues, in power, with all the machinery of government, in resorting to wholesale and oxicial massacre where now it is isolated and beyond the official pale of the law. Anarchy and dynamite upon the part of the southern blacks will not cure anarchy upon the part of the whites.
The south is now in the slough of her own despond. As the Florida governor recently said, the sout cannot stop lynching if it would. The native born white southerner knows no law, only force and violence, in his attitude toward the black. Fourth of the white south—rich and poor alike—are descendants of lynchers, burners at the stake and for generations black slave-driving, murdering persecutors of colored men and women. It is just as reasonable to suppose that these folk, governors, sherigs, marshals, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers will observe law and justice toward their black neighbors as it is to expect hyenas to live in graveyards and not be saprophites. It is in the blood and nature of the beast. When the federal government as a matter of saving the wreck of the republic, as a matter of thwarting the destruction of the patriotism and the lvies of the nation's black soldiers, when the outraged black race has been goaded to seek self-preservation with a torch in one hand and the sword in another—when then the federal government passes and enforces without fear or favor a law punishing every lyncher as a murderer and a traitor to the nation, then lynching will cease. When the federal government as a matter of national defense in behalf of its loyal defenders uses one-tenth the effort, exerts one tiethe the force, invokes one-hundredth part of the law to enforce the constitution and secure a republican form of government in every state of the union as it does now to punish the bolshevists then lynching will end. The cure for lynching is the enforcement of a federal anti.lynch law.—New York News.
THE TULSA STAR
ANTI-LYNCHING REMEDIES.
The horror and indignation with which we have been wont to condemn Armenian atrocities and Prussianian malaism must now be turned against those of our own citizens who lack the self restraint necessary to make them law-abiding. Mob violence has the same inspiration whether expressing itself in lynching or in destroying property. It is due to an unwillingness to abide by the slow process of the law, and it extends through the variations of righteous indignation of communities whose courts have been prostituted in the interests of public enemies, to the prejudices and passions of ignorant and illerate people.
It is humiliating when one turns to the dictionary to find that lynching is an American practice. Not only is the practice of mob murder largely an American custom, but it is attended by torture that is wholly American.
The National Anti-Lynching Conference held in New York for the purpose of finding some means of overcoming this evil turned instinctively to the federal government for relief. Resolutions were passed unanimously calling upon congress to investigate lynching, and to enact laws making it subject to federal statutes. The ultimate remedy for lynching, as for all forms of mob violence, is an enlightened public opinion. The old evense that lynching is used to prevent Negro men from outraging white women was long ago disproved. Of the 3,224 lynchings in the past thirty years only 523 were for rape and 46 of these were white men. The number lynched for murder was 1,219, of whom 319 were white. Of the 325 lynched during the past five years, 29 were for rape, and one of these was white.
A new force has come into being that promises to work for better order. Lapses from civilized ways continue because the better class of people, those who do most to mold public opinion, have given the matter little thought. But America is no longer isolated. She has entered intimately into the family of nations. And the world that notes the massacres of Armenia and in the Balkans will inevitably direct attention toward the lynchings in this country until in sheer desperation we shall have to root out this lawlessness.—The Public.
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
SUMMER SCHOOL
TUSKEGEE, Ala., May 17.—The tenth annual session of the Tuskegee institute summer school for the teachers will be held on June 9 to July 18. Already applicants are coming in rapidly, and the indications are that the attendance of last year will be exceeded. This is the largest Negro summer school in the country. Courses will be offered in English, mathematics, science, history, geography, business practice, education, physical training for women, first aid, agriculture, handicrafts, domestic science, sewing, canning and manual training. A special feature again this year will be the attendance of the teachers in the schools aided by Mr. Rosenwald. More than 400 of these teachers will be in attendance taking a special course. The general education board is paying the car fare of the Rosenwald teachers to and from Tuskegee Institute.
Several noted speakers will address the teachers throughout the summer school. Dr. R. R. Moton, principal, will deliver a series of addresses. Dr. L. B. Moore, dean of the Teachers.' College, Howard University, will be present the week of June 17. The week of July first, Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal of Lincoln high school, Kansas City, Mo, will be the speaker.
Weekly Mail Edition
TULSA OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY MAY 24.1919.
805th Pioneer Infantry American Expeditionary Forces, Frances.
Chatel Chehery, Franes.
April 30, 1919.
Dear Editor Smitherman:
I am enclosing a letter from Gen-
Pershing concerning our participation in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
It may be of interest to you to know
that all the Oklahoma June draftees
(that stood Uncle Sam's test) are in this regiment. Many of them are
from Tulsa and I know quite a number of them personally.
I am pleased to advise you that I am well and happy and that I hope you and Tue Star are progressing nicely.
Any item you may see fit to say concerning the 805th regiment of pioneer infantry will be highly appreciated by the boys over here.
We are now packing up to go to Brest where we are hoping to leave in a few days for home, after almost eight months in the fighting country. Our experience has been great. We will have many things to tell our friends when we return of our experiences. The unlimited hospitality of the French and English people and the many things of scenic interest here in Paris and Versailles and the historic and fortified city of Verdun and hundreds of other places whose beauty and interest is equally great. We are anxious to get home now and see our many friends and loved ones. Home is the sweetest word to the average soldier now. Wishing you continued success with The Star, I am. Yours very truly.
Sergt, Major, 2nd Battalion, 805th Pioneer Infantry American E. F.
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
American Expeditionary Forces.
France, April 19, 1919.
From: Commander-in-Chief, American E. F.
To: Commanding Officer, 805th Pioneer Infantry.
Subject: Battle Participation.
Following is a list of the battle engagements of the 805th Regiment of Pioneer Infantry during the war with Germany, including organizations which are entitled to the silver bands awarded under paragraph 244, army regulations. The ribbons herewith are furnished in liep of the bands which will be supplied later by the adjutant general, United States army.
(1) Meuse - Argonne offensive, France, 3 Ooct., 11, Nov., 1918.
Organization entitled to silver band: 805th Regiment of Pioneer Infantry.
By Command of General Pershing, J. J. JONES, Ali, General.
General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, France, April 19, 1919.
From the Adjutant General, American Expeditionary Forces; to Commanding Officers, 805th Pioneer Infantry. Subject: Ribbins.
1. Herewith is a copy of the order issued at these headquarters on the subject of the award of silver bands, to be engraved and placed upon the pike of colors or lance of the standards of the organizations which have served in the A. F. E. Even if we could get here in France the prescribed silver brands, it would be impossible to have the engraving done in time to present them to the organizations entitled to them. For that reason, each organization is given a ribbon which shows in which battles it participated. This ribbon will be retained until the proper silver band is presented by the war department.
2. The commander-in-chief directed me to send the ribbons to you, and to ask you to present them with appropriate ceremonies to the units for which they are intended. He
regrets very much that this cannot be done by him in person.
By command of General Pershing.
J. J. JONES, Adj. General.
First Indiana—Headquarters 805th Pioneer Infantry, American E. F.
29 April, 1919. To all troops of this command:
1. The foregoing letters speak for themselves. Copies will be furnished every officer and enlisted man of this regiment. They should be preserved.
2. The ribbons will be fastened upon the standard of the regimental colors.
C. B. HUMPHREY,
Col., Infantry, U. S. A., Commanding.
Official: PAUL S. BLISS, Captain,
Infantry, U. S. A., Adjutant.
JOHN MITCHELL LOSES IN
FIGHT AGAINST PYTHIANS WASHINGTON, May 16.—The United States circuit court of appeals handed down a decision in the case of the grand lodge, K. of P. of Virginia against the supreme lodge, K. of P., recently, reserving the action taken by Columbia and holding that the supreme court of the District of Columbia and holding that the supreme chancellor, S. W. Green of Louisiana, lawfully suspended the Virginia grand lodge, of which John L. Mitchell, Jr., is grand chancellor. The case has been in the courts for four years and was the result of Virginia's grand lodge and John Mitchell refusing to pay its taxes, and was thereby suspended. Supreme Chancellor Gren's suspension of the grand lodge of Virginia was upon the advice of Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins (together with the approval of the supreme lodge seems to be approved. This seems to be the end of a long and expensive Rigation, and the settlement of the questions so long disputed.
100.000 TO FIGHT WRONGS OF
NEGRO ADOPT C. W. SLOGAN
John R. Shillady, secretary of the National Association for the Achievement of Colored People, announced today that a campaign for 100,000 members, white and black, to fight injustice to the Negro was under way throughout the country. The slogan adopted for the campaign is the Civil War cry, "We're Coming Father Abraham 100,000 Strong." The campaign will terminate with a conference of the association in Cleveland on June 21.
"Especial efforts are to be made here in the coming weeks," said Mr. Shillady, "as the colored district in New York is the largest Negro city in the world. Our present membership is over 50,000 and we expect to double it easily. The entire country has been reacting to lynchings and other forms of violence and injustice to which the Negroes of the United States are being subjected.
"In many places where there have been lynchings, branches of the association have sprung up at once.
"Texas, the scene of eleven lynchings, in 1918, which had four branches and 872 members last year now has 20 branches and over 5,000 members."
"Alabama, which last year had no branches now has four with a membership of 616.
"Georgia with the worst lynching record in the country, jumped from five branches with 450 members to eleven branches with 2,500 members.
"Throughout the country the conviction is growing that lynchings and the civil and legal disqualifications to which the Negro is subject must cease."
HUNG FOR FRENCH RAUE
PARIS, France, May 16.—A white American army officer has been hung within the zone occupied by the American army of occupation for an assault upon a girl of seven years of age.
A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
New Hope Baptist Church, 19th and Waldron, Rev. S. W. Toles Pastor, Seriously Damaged by Dynamite Last Thursday Night.
On last Thursday night a charge of dynamite was exploded under the rear wall of New Hope Baptist church presumably by some misrear-ent representing the element that has been threatening for some time on the East Side to destroy Negro property. Not only was the church seriously damaged but windows were broken in several homes in the vicinity. Damage amounting to more than a hundred dollars being done to a brick flat immediately south of the church occupied by white people. Dr. Toles immediately notified the police department and insisted that protection be given his property and people and assured a representative of the Sun that the church would be immediately repaired, a watchman installed and services would go on as usual.
The Colored people in the neighborhood of which there are four or five families assert that they are not frightened but shall continue to reside in the homes, that they have bought and paid for by hard labor. Kansas City (Mo.) Sun.
FRANCIS ELECTED TO
ST. THOMAS, May 16.—Rothschill Francis, a colored man in the Virgin islands of the U. S. A., was elected to the Colonial Council in St. Thomas recently. Mr. Francis is a fighter for manhood rights of the black man and observers of events as they affect the American colonial policy can see in his election a trend of thought not evident in the days when Denmark ruled the islands.
FUNERAL OF JAMES REESE
EUROPE.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
NEW YORK, May 17.—The funeral of James Reese Europe, leader of the famous "Hell Fighter.'s" band, who was slain in Boston by one of the drummers of the band, Herbert Wright, was held in this city on Tuesday. Thousands of people of both races, viewed the solemn procession as it made its way from the undertaking establishment, 131st street, to St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal church, 53rd street, where the sermon was preached by Dr. W. H. Brooks, pastor of the church, and chaplain of the 15t hNew York Infantry. After the services, the services, the body was taken to Arlington cemetery, in Washington, D. C., where it was buried in the last resting place of thousands of the patriotic dead.
The funeral was attended by some of the most prominent people in the country, the members of his band being in the procession, but marching in silence.
The members of the band, under direction of Felix Weir, expect to make a national tour, the proceeds to go for the erection of a monument to the memory of the great musical director.
THE ROSENWALD SCHOOLS
The coming of the Rosenwald schools for rural southern Negroes marked a period of educational awakening; a time when the people ceased to think of the city as the only place for decent schoolhouses; a time when patrons began to realize the possibility of organized effort. There were other evidences of community improvement. The white people seemed to recognize the aspirations of their Negro neighbors to higher and better things and contributed towards the new
It Should be in Every Colored Home. The Star Already has a Large Subscription List, Which Makes it a Valuable Advertising Medium.
schoolhouses. The school terms were lengthened from four to seven months. The attendance of the children improved. The teachers were able to do better work by reason of the conveniences in the classrooms, the increased comfort of the building, and the general awakening in the community.
Mr. Rosenwald continued to encourage communities by offering his aid in blocks of 100 schools at a time until the number reached 300 in November, 1917, at which time he offered to aid in the building of 300 more schoolhouses; and on account of the increased cost of building material, he raised, in 1918, the maximum amount for each schoolhouse and 8500 for a school built for two or more teachers.
Possibly the most interesting part of the campaign work is the manner in which the Negro responds to the call to raise money in his community to meet the conditions of Mr. Rosenwald's offer. This is usually made in a meeting where nearly every family is present. Pledges are made in cash, labor, or material. In many cases farmers can do hauling. In some instances the material is donated by the patron from saw milling timber on his land. In such cases the patrons meet in the woods, cut the saw stock, carry it to the mill, and have the lumber sawed on the shares.—Southern Workman.
DON'T SEND THEM TO BEG.
We appeal to every father and mother who has a care for the future of their daughters; we appeal to every preacher or public charity worker who has a concern about the sancity of the Race womanhood to stop at once the common practice of sending girls out to solicit subscriptions. To do so is to send them to certain insult and temptation. When these innocent children of tender age approach a designing and immoral brute for a subscription they become almost at the next step his easy victim. It would be appalling to both parents and preachers to know how many innocent girls are wronged, ruined and started on a downward career each year by this practice. It has never occurred to them how destructive of modesty and delicacy, how undermining it is to the spirit and dignity of a child to be forced to brazenly ask charity subscriptions from door to door. It is unjust to the child to force it to seek alms.
We would advise all the churches and other public uplift agencies to give credentials to its solicitors. We advise the public to give such solicitors nothing unless they show proper credentials, unless, they carry sealed subscription boxes, unless they represent worthy institutions. But, above all, don't send little girls out to beg.—The New York News.
Mr. Wade Ward, a young Race man at Pratt, Kan., has just completed a two-story brick business house in that live Kansas town. Let more of our people in the Sunflower state take to business; it would do you good.
Dr. Arlington Wilson, pastor of one of the leading Baptist church in Dallas, Texas, raised $5,000 in his Easter campaign and Dr. Wilson was formerly pastor of the First Baptist church at Muskogee, Okla., and is held in high esteem by all. This gentleman is a polished scholar and one of our foremost pupit orators.
The Colored schools of Tulsa will have their annual May Day on Friday, May 23, and a great time will be enjoyed by the children and their parents. These annual May fetes are quite popular and are enjoyed by all who attend them.
BIG FIGHT STARTS IN CAPITAY CITY
COLORED CITIZENS OF OKLAHOMA CITY HOLD MASS MEETING TO PROTEST AGAINST SEGREGATION
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Oklahoma City, May 22.—Four hundred colored citizens met in the tabernacle Baptist church of this city on Monday night to give expression to their indignation and disapproval of the action of the city officials here putting into force the segregation ordinance of this city by the arrest last week of Wm. Floyd, a colored man of this city, for moving into a house which he had purchased in a block where white residents were in the majority.
The meeting was called to order by Dr. A. B. Whitby, president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who stated the purpose of the call for a mass meeting, after which Mr. Floyd, who was the late victim of the Oklahoma City segregation ordinance, was introduced and related his arrest and incarceration in the city jail for the alleged violation of the segregation act.
City To Be Enjoined
The president then introduced lawyer E. T. Barbour of El Reno, who has been employed with lawyers Hawkins and Brown, of Oklahoma City, to fight the case in the courts. According to a statement made by Mr. Barbour injunction proceedings will be filed against the city in the
M. B.
W. H. FLOYD.
Who was prevented from occupying a house he had purchased in Okla. City.
federal court and a determined effort made to secure the rights of colored people in Oklahoma City. Copies of the Supreme Court decisions and that of the federal court in St. Louis have been obtained dand a successful fight is expected.
Among the speakers of the evening besides those already mentioned, were Rev. E. W. Perry, Dr. D. C. Snelson, J. S. Simmons and Rev. W. H. Nelson, all of whom denounced segregatin as undemocratic and un-American, and declared themselves fully determined to fight to the finish.
After the speaking a popular subscription was called for with the following results:
# Loving Results:
Dr. H. D. Conrad, Guthrie . $25.00
Dr. J. W. Young, Okla. City . 25.00
Dr. E. P. Bethel, Okla. City . 10.00
Chester McCreary, Okla. City . 5.00
F. Kimbrough, Okla. City . 5.00
L. W. Ellia, Okla. City . 5.00
A. J. Smitherman, Tulsa . 5.00
Lawyer J. L. Jones . 5.00
Roscoe Dunjee . 5.00
W. A. Hill . 5.00
Dr. D. M. Moore . 10.00
Creed Harper . 5.00
W. A. Dillard . 5.00
N. Cif Appling . 2.00
W. H. Williams . 5.00
A. J. Smither.man . 5.00
M. L. Greer . 1.00
R S. Jacobson . 1.00
S R. Youngblood . 1.00
Geo. Ragland . 1.00
A. C. Williams . 1.00
E. G. Folley . 1.00
H. G. Houston . 1.00
Wm. Pullin . 1.00
Rev. Bethel . 1.00
S. H. Price . 1.00
Dr. A. B. Whitby . 1.00
C. H. Porter . 1.00
J. J. Johnson . 1.00
W. P. Wade . 1.00
Dr. O. B. White . 1.00
Henry Jefferson . 1.00
Ed Rogers . 1.00
S. C. Stubblefield . 1.00
J. W. Walton . 1.00
Will Benjamin . 1.00
M. W. Walker . 1.00
Jeff Scruggs . 1.00
H. V. Greer . 1.00
G. N. Bowen . 1.00
N. J. Harrison . 1.00
P. M. Collins . 1.00
Thos. Holmes . 1.00
O. C. Lewis . 1.00
C. C. Dennis . 1.00
J. D. Moore . 1.00
W. C. Conley . 1.00
W. A. Wiseman . 1.00
W. G. Sneed . 1.00
Chas. Williams . 1.00
Rev. W. H. Nelson . 1.00
H. E. McCoulough . 1.00
N. C. McNana . 5.00
Elma Bush . 25
Mrs. H. Towns . 2.00
Miss Leona Willis . 1.00
Mrs. P. Floyd . 1.00
Mrs. Leona Morris . 1.00
Mrs. Irene Water . 5.00
Mrs. Wm. Hawkins . 1.00
Mrs. Ida Duncan . 1.70
Mrs. M. L. Dillard . 1.00
Mrs. C. West . 1.00
Mrs. B. Greer . 1.00
Mrs. C. L. Holmes . 1.00
Total ..... $197.00
A spirit of enthusiastic determination prevailed throughout the meeting.
Dr. Bethel in giving his ten dollars said with considerable feeling and effect:
"Not only am I willing to give my money and time to uphold true democracy and to fight Jim Crowism and segregation, but my life as well."
SEDALIA, MO., NOTES
By John Jos. Reed.
Mrs. William LaPoole, of 414 E. St. Louis St., and Mrs. Anderson, returned from a three weeks' stay in St. Louis, Mo., and upon her arrival home Mrs. William LaPoole had a grand banquet awaiting them, prepared by Mrs. Eliza Buckner, of Smithton, Mo. The menu was as follows:
Asparagus Tips, Drawn Butter Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Home Grown Tomatoes, Mayonnaise
Fruit and Other Delicacies Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. John Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. John Jos. Reed, Mr. Ed Hudson, Miss Carrie Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. William LaPoole.
Miss Julia Thomas, the first colored lady to hold a position in the state capital of Missouri, is a Sedalia girl and was home to visit her relatives last week. We are proud of Miss Thomas and we are going to try to put some more of our girls in the capital.
Miss Til Nelson, a teacher at Warensburg, Mo., was a visitor home Sunday, looking the picture of health. O'acer Moffet, of Sedalia, Mo., police force, is due great credit over the arrest of Ray B. Johnson. He is being held by the Sedalia police pending a state warrant.
The Star representative is indeed glad to know that the wealthy bachelor, Mr. Ed Hudson has allowed Cupid to pierce his heart and he is soon to launch out into the matrimonial sea. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Duke Thuster upon the visit of the stork. He left a fine baby girl. The mother and baby are doing well at this writing. We were pleased to see our old friend Bud York at home after being away for a month and a half. He looks the picture of health. Miss Albertha Harkins from George R. Smith College spent the day Sunday with Mrs. J. J. Reed.
Prof. C. C. Hubbard, principal of the Lincoln High school, is leaving nothing undone to make the commencement exercises of his school the grandest in the history of Lincoln. He has secured Convention Hall, so that all the negroes of Sedalia will have a chance to see how Lincoln has improved under the leadership of Prof. C. C. Hubbard, L. L. D.
Prof. J. A. Caston, editor of the Searchlight, the official organ of the U. B. F. and S. M. T., is leaving nothing undone to see that the official organ of his order is not to be damaged by the negro Ray B. Johnson, that the police have in custody. Prof. Caston has been in close touch with the State Attorney and the chief of police to see that the Searchlight and the members of his order are not hurt by Johnson. Mrs. Fannie Witcher has returned home after a week's stay at Moscow and she reports a fine crop in the rural districts and has greatly improved in health.
REV. L. J. JOHNSON
M. B. H.
REV. L. J. JOHNSON
TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919
Pastor A. M. E. Church and Treasurer L. J. Johnson, treas.; E.
Moe American Investment Co.
Afro-American Investment Co.
Rev. Johnson was born in Vicksburg, Miss., 1865, attended public school there and in Burlington, Kan., theological department W. U., Quindaro. Came to Enid 13 years ago from St. Louis, Mo., practically broke. He took charge of A. M. E. Church, which he has built up to creditable standing. For 7 years he has been pastor of this church. Rev. Johnson has accumulated considerable property consisting of nice residence and six rental houses, 7 vacant lost and barber shop. Married 6 years to Lolla Shaw, of Perry. Speaking of his success Rev. Johnson recently said to the Star man: "I attribute whatever success I have attained to the good policy of saving a part of every dollar I make and mixing business with my religion."
This is indeed a splendid lesson to give out to our people. We need to mix a little business with out religion. May God give us more such preachers.
ENID. OKLA.
This town, like Perry, is built on the old style, with "the square" in the center. The total population of the town is about 20,000, with about 600 colored people. The race is doing very little here in an industrial or commercial way. The businesses represented by members of the race consist of a restaurant and a barber shop. The Texas Cafe is operated by Mr. Frank Wimberly, who recently moved there from Texas. Mr. Wimberly is assisted in the conduct of this cafe by his wife and a young man as cook
JUDGE D. L. F. BANKS
Perhaps there is no colored man in old Oklahoma better known than is Judge Banks, who is one of the pioneer citizens of Enid, he having made the run at the opening and staked the lot he now lives on in the original townsite. Judge Banks was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1842, and joined the U. S. Army in '63 and was mustered out in '65. Lived in Tennessee, Mississippi and St. Louis. In the early days was quite a politician and stumped the state of Mississippi for A. L. Alcorn and Dulbert Alms. Was admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tenn., and was practicing law in St. Louis when he came to the opening of Oklahoma. He helped to organize the courts of Oklahoma. Judge Banks is a recognized authority of the law and is highly respected by the people of his community.
When he took examination for the bar there were 197 others in the class (all white) and 712 legal questions were put and he answered all of them correctly, being the only one of his class to make such a record. As a just recognition of his superior legal'
THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN
mind he was made one of the examiners of the class.
Make Successful Fight for Colored School.
About 12 years ago Judge Banks attracted a deal of attention by waging a legal fight against the County Commissioners to compel them to provide sufficient money to build an adequate school building for colored people. He brought suit in the courts of the county and got judgment against the county commissioners. As a result the necessary money was appropriated and Judge Banks himself superintended the work on a nice two-story brick building which is still being used for the colored schools of Enid.
Judge Banks has been very successful in the practice of law. He owns his own home, nine rental houses and has a good bank account. He donated a very valuable lot to the First Baptist Church of Enid, of which he is a member. He also has a farm in Arkansas.
Judge Banks recently organized the Afro-American Investment Company, of which he is president. The company is chartered for $10,000, and has already purchased some very valuable property on which a building will be erected soon.
The officers of the company are D. L. F. Banks, pres; J. C. Trimble, sec;
Linclon Institute Summer School
Offers courses in Pedagogy, Mathematics, Languages, Sciences, Drawing and Handicrafts, Practical Nurse Training, Business, Agriculture, Domestic Science, Shoe Repairing, Blacksmithing, Physical Culture and Military Drill.
Tuition for session $ 3.00
Board and laundry for session 21.00
June 16-July 31
CLEMENT RICHARDSON
PRESIDENT
The Traylor Hotel and Cafe
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Half block from Frisco—Santa Fe Depot—in the heart of the City. The best place in town for nice, clean rooms, all modern and good wholesome meals.
L. J. Johnson, treas.; E. J. Bunns, vice president. Board of Directors is: D. L. F. Banks, E. J. Burns, L. Ralston, Robt. Smith, Calvin Johnson, Babe Howard, Henry Caldwell, Mrs. L. J. Johnson, J. C. Trimble, and C. E. Graves.
Says Race Must Make New Record
Speaking of the colored man in politics and expressing his opinion of his future, Judge Banks said:
"As a race we have been following the wrong course in politics. The old day has passed now and we must make a new record. Diversification of our politics seems to me to be our only political salvation."
Judge Banks was married in 1901 at Memphis, Tenn., to Mrs. Georgia Randall, who in her younger days was a teacher in the Lemoyne Institute. The two met the first time on the day Forrest raided Memphis. Their acquaintance and courtship was renewed after he located in Oklahoma and he went back to Memphis in 1901 to wed "the one woman in all the world" and they are now living happily together.
Lincl
Sum
Offers courses in
Sciences, Drawing,
ing, Business, Ag
ing, Blacksmithing
Tuition for
Board and
CLEMEN
The Tr
Half block from Fr
The best place in town
wholesome meals.
14 W. California St.
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GRAND CHANCELLOR RETURNS.
M.
DR. CHAS. B. WICKHAM
Grand Chancelor, K. of P.
Belon Institute Summer School
in Pedagogy, Mathematics,
Drawing and Handicrafts, Practical
Agriculture, Domestic Science,
Fishing, Physical Culture and M
for session
and laundry for session
June 16—July 31
MENT RICHARD
PR
Traylor Hall
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Dr. Chas. B. Wickham, grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oklahoma, returned to his home here last Sunday from Oklahoma City, where he has been attending the State Medical Association and making plans for the forthcoming session of his Grand Lodge in July. In an interview concerning general conditions, Dr. Wickham said: "Never has there been a brighter outlook for farm crops as there is this year and the excellent outlook for prosperity is reflected in the phenomenal growth this spring of our K. of P. lodges. We are planning to entertain 4,000 visitors at this coming Grand Lodge. Several internationally famous Pythians will be the guests of the Grand Lodge and a great program has been arranged."
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COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT LANGSTON UNIVERSITY
TWENTY THREE RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Five Hundred Visitors See Graduation Exercises and Hear Address of Attorney-General Prince Freeling.
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Langston, Okla., May 23—The Colored Agricultural and Normal University has been a very busy place this week and from last Sunday to the present writing fully 1,500 have visited the grounds to witness some part of a very exclusive program which will run up to and including Friday night. Through it all President Marquess seems to be the lion of the hour. Those who attended the exercises here this year, so far as could be learned agree that the school has never had a more successful and highly interesting commencement program. The daily program from Sunday till last Wednesday night was as follows: Program For Commencement Week.
SUNDAY. MAY 18.
SUNDAY, MAY 18.
Bassalaureate Sermon, 11 o'clock.
Songfest, 4:00 o'clock.
Class Day Exercises, 2:30 o'clock.
Base Ball, 4:00 o'clock.
Industrial Program, 8:00 o'clock.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21.
Commencement Exercises, 11 o'clock.
Annual Farmers' Conference, 3 o'clock.
Pageant, 8:30 o'clock.
Each of these exercises have been largely attended by outside visitors, and friends of the institution.
Special interest was manifested in the Industrial program Tuesday night and the Commencement Wednesday.
The Domestic Art department was given place on the Industrial program and the showing was extremely gratifying and a creditable reflection of the ability of Miss Jenette Pierson in charge of this department.
The display was for the purpose of showing the work of the girls in this department on live models, and that they were really live ones no one could possibly doubt who saw them and, by the way, they were all pretty ones, too.
The demonstration was after the fashion followed by many of the larger fashion shops of Paris and New York, showing the various styles for women and children wear in a grand promenade in groups as follows:
First Group, School Dresses.
Costumes made up of gingham, linen, French sergee and twill.
Second Group, Street Dresses.
French serges, taffetas and satins
Smitherman's (Sub. Division to Adam's) Addition
were the materials used in these costumes.
Third Group, Afternoon Dresses.
This group was composed of models wearing many different styles, of different materials, such as Crepe de Chine, Georgette, Crepe, Taffeta, gingham and organdie, and other materials that only women know anything about.
A striking costume of mustard-colored georgette crepe combined with Pekin, blue Radian silk trimmed in tiny buttons, two-tone, Mikado red and Pekin blue.
Evening Gowns.
Of the many soft, clinging materials were these made, one a taught and blue model of georgette crepe and satin trimmed in taupe net embroidered in gold, caught the eyes of many
Bridal Outfit.
The bridal costume was made of sheer organdie, trimmed in footing and cluny lace, with veil of Mousseline De Coir, trimmed with a wreath of white roses.
**Flower Girls Costume.**
Made of Fren batiste and trimmed with French val lace.
**Children's Garments.**
The children were dressed in costumes suitable for all occasions.
tumes suitable for all occasions.
These costumes were made and worn by the girls of the Domestic Art department.
Another pleasing demonstration was that of Carpentry. A miniature house—built and painted by one of the students and wired for electricity was shown and the mechanic himself explained the construction and gave the cost of construction. Other members demonstrated the proper care of fruit trees, cows and hogs.
In explaining the proper care of the latter a real live pig—in finest condition—was used on the stage, and it was a noticeable feature that even the hogs are well trained at Langston.
Perhaps the largest attendance at any of the programs for the week so far was witnessed Wednesday at the graduation exercise and Wednesday night at the pageant.
The following program was rendered at the graduating exercise: Chorus—"Prayer" ..... Marchetril Invocation.
Quartet—"Deep River" ..... Burleigh Misses Hassle and Viola Smallwood, Strickland and Jones.
The Negro Woman's Part in the World War ..Lyah Claudia Watson
The Attitude of the Negro Press
In the War ..Mattie Holt
TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919
THE HOME OF THE
FARMER'S HOUSE
On the Firing Line. Elrochie Brittenum
Jubilee Snow-"Go Down Moses"
Backing Our Boys Over There
Problems of Reconstruction
Awarding of Diplomas.
Chorus—"Steal Away".N. Clark Smith
Benediction.
Class Roll.
Bessie Audele B. Beatty,
Elroche Brittenum,
Sybil Ethel Byrd,
Abraham Lincoln Chester,
Willa Mae Daniels,
Richard Henry Dean,
Gertrude Cynthia Dulan,
Clara Eva Hibler,
Mattie Holt,
Exsetta Alfreda Jones,
Willis C. Jones,
Luellen E. Mitchell,
Marietta Phillips,
Willa Katherine Pyrtle,
Maud Iris Rhoads,
Myrtle A. Shawnee,
Mary Jane Simms,
Hassye Astra E. Smallwood,
Viola Astra E. Smallwood,
Bernice Altar Strickland,
Marion Ethel Strong,
Lylah Claudia Watson,
Richard Sherdan Watson, Jr.
Certificates from Sewing Department
Bessie Audele B. Beatty
Bessie Audette B. Beatty
Elrochle Brittenum
Willa Mae Daniels
Mattie Holt
Willa Katherine Pyrtle
Hassye Astra E. Smallwood
Viola Astra E. Smallwood
Lylah Claudia Watson.
Graduate from Department of Muisc.
Lylah, Claudia, Watson
Barbecue Dinner.
About 600 people took advantage of an invitation from President Marquess to eat dinner, as guests of the institution Wednesday and were given a palatable barbecue dinner in the general dining room. After dinner, at 2:30, the auditorium was packed to its full capacity to hear the speaker of the day, Hon. Prince Freeling, Attorney-General of the State, who appeared for Gov. Robertson. The Governor sent his sincere regrets that State matters prevented his attendance. Mr. Freeling, who is considered Oka lahoma's foremost orator and barrister, held his audience bound for nearly an hour, giving good wholesome advice to the graduates and giving a tentative explanation of "Democracy" in a general sense. Col. Amos Ewing, representative from Logan County introduced Mr. Freeling and did not spare words in lauding him as one of the race's greatest friends in Oklahoma.
Speaking of President Marquess, the Attorney General said: "The head of any institution is judged largely by the students thereof and by the general conduct and management found there.
"We, the white people of Oklahoma, know President Marquess, his worth and ability and if the Colored people knew him as well as the white people do. Every Colored man, woman and child in the state would get behind him and help to make this the greatest institution of its kind in all the country.
"There is not a man in the state or out of it more capable and worthy to head an institution of this kind than Mr. Marquess."
The speakers' parting words to the graduates were admonitions to prepare to render service to others rather than expect service of others.
"Do not think this is your last examination. There are many more examinations to come in life and you must prepare to meet them."
President Marquess closed the exercise with a few remarks touching on the essential principles of democracy and what the Colored man expects of it.
The Jubilee Club rendered beautiful selections occasionally throughout the week and were generally and liberally appreciated. The pageant Wednesday night was very interesting from start to finish. Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French and Belgian dances were the principal features with a scene from "iawatha" thrown in.
As a whole the commencement exercises this year were very good, interesting and entertaining. President Marquess and his charming wife went the limit to make it pleasant and home-like to the many visitors.
An oration by Miss Mattie Holt, on "The Negro Press" will appear in our next weekly issue.
"MOTHER BATY"
The only respectable roaming house where members of the race may find accommodation in Enid is conducted by Mrs. Eliza Baty, commonly known as "Mother Baty" who has lived in Enid for the past 9 years. She is a widow 70 years old and is still very active. Her husband, who was a well to do farmer of Weatherford, Okla., died 10 years ago leaving her the only heir to 160 acres of good farm land. She moved to Enid a year later and has been living there since, conducting a roaming house.
She has bought and paid for two rental houses, besides the house she lives in, and has in other ways proved herself a good manager. "Mother Baty" still remembers the dark days of American history and can entertain one anytime with narratives of her own experiences. Look for "Mother Baty" when you go to Enid.
DAN FERGUSON'S PLACE
This little enterprise is a two-chair one-man barber shop conducted by the owner, Mr. Ferguson, who for the past two years has been trying to keep
going the only place in town for a son, who still lives in Enid, has lived colored man to get shaved. Mr. Fer, there ever since the town started, guson has lived in Enid for the past They own some city property and a 25 years. His mother, Mrs. Mary Gray nice little farm.
[Picture of two individuals standing side by side, facing the camera. The man is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a dark tie, while the woman is wearing a light-colored dress with a dark neckline. Both individuals have dark hair.]
MR. AND MRS. LEWIS RALSTEN.
One of the pioneer colored citizens of Enid, is one of the best known in that city. He located at Enid at the opening of the Cherokee strip in 1893 and has lived there most of the time since then.
Mr. Ralston is a progressive man and in spite of many reverses has succeeded in making good as a property holder. He owns a valuable business lot and residence and is one of the directors of the Afro-American Investment Co., of Enid. He also owns valuable property in Logan and Garvin counties. He is also owner of the Texas Cafe in Enid, the only one conducted in that city for the race.
His friends are numbered among some of the most influential people of Enid. Mr. Ralston is a true race man who believes in supporting our race journals. He subscribes to practically all the race journals of note and is doing all he can to stimulate the commercial side of race progress in his community. Five months ago he was married the second time, to Miss Josie Neal Greenwell, and is living a happy and contented married life. He is a member of the Masons and K. of P. lodges of his city. As Supreme Grand Master of the K. of P. before the grand jurisdiction was established in the state, he organized lodges at Enid, Perry, Stillwater, Perkins, Ripley and Langston. Mr. Ralston is well known throughout the state. He bears the distinction of having been the only grand marshal for the Oklahoma jurisdiction.
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PREDICTS WAR WITH EGGS
Perhaps the most widely known couple in Enid is Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Washam, who attracted a deal of attention in 1913 by exhibiting three or four dozen eggs, laid by a hen owned by them, which were said to forecast events of the world war. Historic pictures of kings and queens, soldiers, etc., on the eggs laid y this hen of mystery, were said by Mr. and Mrs. Washam to predict events of the great war. By these eggs they boldly predicted that the world would be at war in 1914, and that the United States would be involved. On one egg appeared the figures 1914 and on another 1918, which the seers said meant that the great world war would start in 1914 and end in 1918. The claims of these people with reference to the forecast were published in one of the Enid newspapers before the war and many thousands of people visited their home to see the eggs. Sure enough the war started in 1914 and ended (temporarily) in 1918, after our own country had been involved.
Recently the Enid paper published another article calling attention to the egg prognostications by the Washams as published before the war and pointing out the accuracy of the predictions. These eggs are still to be seen at the Washam home. The her that laid the eggs died in a mysterious manner and was given a decent burial by Mrs. Washam and her husband.
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The Tulsa Star
Published weekly by the Tulsa Star
Printing and Publishing Company at
115 North Greenwood Avenue.
A. J. SMITHERMAN,
Editor and Publisher
THEO. BAUGHMAN,
Managing Editor.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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$ . Three Months, .60
Colonel Clarence B. Douglass, secretary of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, has appealed to the street car company to provide ample accommodation for its Colored patrons in order to prevent a clash between the Race an certain cars used by Colored servants in going to and from their work nights and mornings, and thereby hangs a tail. For some time complaints have been made by Colored women against motormen and conductors on the South Main street cars, who without good cause, frequently abused them and many times carried them two and three blocks beyond their destination.
To say that these men were uncoath and unmanly is a mild way of putting it. They are in fact brutal and cowardly curs who deserve no consideration as men. It is indeed a wonder that serious trouble has not already resulted from the action of these brutes. The only reason there has been no troble is probably because no real manly man has been aboard a car when any woman was so mistreated.
But, after all, the case is not without some etenuatxing circumstances. The incident was the natural outcome of a system of a public policy which is eating away the foundation of our government and which brands our national anthems of freedom and justice as ballads of mockery; a policy which is building flames which will some day consume our country—the policy of Race discrimination. Jim Crowisn is not a by-product of democracy and will never be. The black man alongside of all other men of all creeds and colors, has made the supreme saerifice for the cause of democracy, and common justice demands that he enjoy its emoluments alongside all other men—free from all discrimination. While Woodrow Wilson is in France pleading for peace it would be well for the American white man to do his share to obtain that peace, which will never come until a true spirit of democracy prevails among all men, regardless of Race or Color.
The Tulsa Star printed some classy cards for Simmons' drug store of Muskogee, Okla., last week. This is one of the Race's leading enterprises, and Mr. Simmons is indeed a practical business man, and is a credit it to our Race. When you are in Muskogee don't fail to visit him.
The body of the late Dr. H. T. Kealing was exhumed from Woodland cemetery, Kansas City, Mo., last week and shipped to Waco, Texas where interment was made in the old family lot besides those of his daughter, Goldie, whose remains shipped there from Philadelphia phia at the same time.
Don.'t fail to visit the Welcome Grocery when you want staple and fancy grocery, meats, feed, etc., as this store carries a complete line an dits prices cannot be undersold. Too, you find at this store the bes
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Men keep on coming back to us for their clothes, season after season. They find that we give them more for their money—and finer looking clothes. Try buying your clothes here—they will cost you LESS per YEAR. 128 North Elgin
flour at the cheapest prices. The courteous salespeople are always glad to see you.
There appears in The Star an ad for the summer school which will be held at Flipper-Key-Davis university, Tallahasse. Professor Jones has secured an able faculty, and this is an ideal place for a summer school. You will make no mistake by attending same.
A state health inspector visited Tulsa Monday and on his rounds he visited Williams' Confectionery and gave the store, soda fountain, etc., a thorough inspection and marked the place in a perfect sanitary condition and paid Miss Lola T. Williams, the proprietress, a high compliment for the excellent condition of her place. The gentleman said that he noticed where women conducted places similar to her store, he always found them far superior to those looked after by men.
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In the rally which closed at Vernon Chapel, A. M. E. church Sunday night, the neat sum of 8146,00 was raised. Work of tearing down the church started today (Wednesday), and services hereafter will be held in the new Miles building on Archer street. The first service will be held there Sunday.
DR. R. R. ROBINSON
Specialist in Diseases of women and children.
Office Phone 3566
Residence Phone 3543
Office: 103 1-2 N. Greenwood St.
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Miss Laurie Caldwell was indisposed for a few days this week.
The ladies of the M. F. church served an excellent dinner in the Stradford hotel on Wednesday.
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At Macon, Ga., the white folks are trying to pass a law, which will allow sheriffs to visit Negro secret lodge rooms, because it is thought the Colored brother has something up his sleeve. Oh, well, that's Georgia.
That $10,000 fund to fifth lynch law is the right move; another move that will do more good than any other. Pump that lead into the lynchers when they come and mobs, in a short time, will be unknown.
Ambition is all right, a man who has none, is not worth much as a factor in promoting civilization; but let it be ambition to serve, ambition to know what is right and just nice lovely, and then to do the same. The man whose only ambition is to be served instead of serving, to receive instead of giving, to be honored instead of honoring, is not very much of an asset to any organization.—The Christian Index.
Mr. J. Wesley Williams, after a visit to several towns in the state, returned home Wednesday.
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Mr. J. E. Hardy, one of our worthy citizens has been indisposed for several days.
Mr. James Taylor, who has been connected with the Elliott & Hooker store here, left for Muskogee last Saturday, where he will reside.
Mrs. Silas Anderson of 706 North Bullet street, entertained with a five-course dinner in honor of Mrs. Julia Anderson of Mendon, La., Mr. Silas Andersons.' mother. Sixteen guests were served and all enjoyed themselves to the highest. She returned to her home Monday, May 19.
Mrs. A. Williams, one of our worthy ladies, is some hog raiser. She sold a year-old pig Monday which weighed 360 pounds. There is good money in hog raising and Mrs. Williams.' success should inspire others to raise hogs.
The Cherokee Indians are suing the government for $3,000,000, for lands allotted to Cherokee freemen.
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PUBLICATION NOTICE
No. 6243
In the Superior Court of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma.
W. J. COOK, Plaintiff.
VS
MISSOURI COOK, Defendant.
To the above named Defendant:
You will take notice that you have been sued in the above namd Court by th above Plaintiff, for divorce on the grounds of desertion and abandonment, and that unless you answer the petition filed by this plaintiff in said Court by the 9th day of June, 1919, said petition will taken as true and judgement granting to the plaintiff a divorce, annulling, cancelling, setting aside and holding ofr naught the marriage contract with you, and for absolute divorce rendered according to the praver thereof.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 28th day of April, 1919.
JOHN D. PORTER, Court Clerk.
John Ewells, Deputy.
G. W. HUTCHINS,
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way ago, no one expected much style
| ] or fit in a Palm Beach suit. They
: 6 b y were a hot weather necessity and
: ANG you picked out the one nearest
| é ; x your size and let it go at that
a Y a But that time is past as regards
i” e to this store. We are showing an
“ hs assortment of summer suits in
i Be bs 1 gaberdine( genuine Palm Beach
| NV eh cloth, mohair and silk, that are tai-
| | tbe me lored with as much fit and style
| ') aa as any clothing made.
| +e } You can choose from single and |
| Es 4 double breasted styles, in plain |
| A fF and waist-seam models, with the |
i "F* — assurance that you will look cool, |
je feel cool and still be smartly |
ite dressed. |
| f aie Palm Beach and mohair suits—~ |
fe oe The finest quality gaberdine |
j & p> and silk suits— |
| 9 , STRAW HATS i
hee If there is any doubt in your
“4 mind as to where you will find
the best selection of straw hats in
Y ery ee Tulsa or anywhere else, step in |
hat Ne day or any day and look over this
Soe oy wonderful showing. Priced from |
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PUBLICATION NOTICE
ee eS, eee ee coreg
Corine Gurley, Plaintift,
vs.
Levy Gurley, Defendant,
State of Oklahoma, ‘Tulsa County.
To the above named Defendant:
You Will take notice that you have
been sued it. the above numed Court
by the above Plaintit, for a divorce
on the grounds of desertion and
abandonment, and that unless you
inswer the petition filed by this
plaintiff in said Court by the 15th
day of May, 1919, said petition will
be taken as true and judgment grant
ing to the plaintiff a divorce, annull
ing, cancelling, seiting aside and
holding for nought the marriage con
tract with you, and for absolute di.
vorce, rendered according to the
prayer thereof.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said Court this the 3rd. day of April
1919,
JOUN D. PORTER, Court Clerk
JOHN EWELL, Deputy
By G. W. HUTCHINS,
Attorney fodr Plaintiff
¥ FOR SALE:—One contract on 1)
No. 3 12 in Fairview Addition, $50.06
Call 704.N, Lansing.
C, JENNINGS,
PUBLICATION NOTICE
No. 6241
In the Superior Court of Tulsa Cour
ty, State of Oklahoma,
EB. Y. BROWN, Plaintiff,
To the above named Defendant:
You will take notice that you have
been suce in the above named Court
by the above Plaintiff, for a divorce
on the grounds of desertion and ha-
Ditual diualenuess, and that unless
you answer the petition riled by this
plainti’ in said Court by the 9h day
of June, 119, said petition will be
taken as true and judgement grant
ing to the plaintiff a divoree, annul
ing, cancelling, setting aside and
holding for naught the marriage con:
tract with vou rendered according (
the prayer thereof.
Wilness my hand and the seal)
said Court this 28 day of April, 1919
JOHN DB. PORTER, Court Clerk
Jobn Ewells, Deputy
GW. HUTCHINS,
Attorney for Plaintiff
‘That loafing, never-dork Colored
brother is of no earthy assistance to
our Race, nor very much to himsetf,
Let every one, in some way, “hit the
ball,” or we are not in need of gen-
tlemen of leisure.
THE WEEKLY TULSA STAR
The Exchange Insurance Company
UNDER HTE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF THE STATE LAWS
OF OKLAHOMA.
Writes: Life, Health and Accident Polices, Unrestricted
All Industrial Claims Paid Directly From This Office
AGENTS Wanted. Liberal Commission—
Headquarters at Muskogee. Branch Office 1034, N. Greenwood Street.
Phone 2157 S. G. SMITH, Superintendent
YOUNKWANS RED CROSS PHARMACY
Hovel Brady Tulsa, Oklahoma Phone se
Haye Your Prescriptions Filled Here Correctly and at Right
We handle all kinds of Rubber Goods, Trusses, Elastic Stocking»
to Your Measure.
} ODAKS AND SUPPLIES
‘lemember It Is The
POST OFFICE DRUG STORE
NoTHE ®RADY HOTEL
FLIPPER-KEY-DAVIS UNIVERSITY
Summer School
For teachers and stideuts pursuing professional, high sehool and col
lege courses
Session begins June 2 and ends duly 25, 1919.
Hach department will be in charge of skilled and experienced in
structors
A cool and quiet place all simmer and is very conducive to ef
fective study. Expenses will be very low in comparison with other
places,
Country examination will be held near the end of the session
| ‘Phe location and environiwents of Flipper-Key-Davis Universit;
furnish the best opportunity for doing real study and professiona
lwork. Write
J.1. JONES, Director of Summer School.
ARDMORE OLL MAN iN TOWN Madam Walker, the hair good:
If. EB. Baker, superintendent and
manager of the Ardinore Lubricating
di Company. is in the city Ipoking
fer business interest of the com:
wny. He has purchased a high eiass
amping owifit from the Oil Well
upply Company and has a ban. h of
men working under J. H. Rollison
of Tulsa, installing the outfit on well
No. i, Benson’s 160 acre, farm, Jenks
pook ‘This is a valuable least with
7 well on the the west and also pro-
ducing wells on north and south,
The plant at Tatum, Oklahoma,
which has been erected especially
te vefine the high grade medical oil
produced in the Homer and) Tatum
territory by this company is expect-
ed to be in operation soon,
Beautiful 9-room modern residence
on paved street in Manhattan, Kan.,
for sale or trade for ‘Tulsa property
Owned by Col. Atty, who desires to
locate in Tulsa,
Property 6 blocks from great Kan-
sas State Agricultural school, Op-
portunity for Colored family to edu
eate children,
Address 8. E. Cary, Attorney-at-
law, 911 Colorado street, Manhattan,
Kan.
WOMAN'S GLORY Is HER
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REPRESENTATIVES WANTED
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WANTED—Colored Iday; stout pr
ferred; of good style; to take or
Jers for reducing corsets for the
tout; also dresses and skirts, A
plendid chance for good profits, if
you answer at once. Perfecto Eco
ngmy Co, Station E, Kansas. City
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MORE THAN TWO DOZEN of the best makes of PIANOS and PLAYER
PIANOS will be sold in the next ten days, as we do not want to move a single
instrument to our new location, 510 South Main street, Stansbery Building
opposite Hotel Ketchum, on dune first
NOW IS YOUR ONE BEST OPPORTUNITY to buy any one of these stand
ard instruments, sueh as [VERS & POND, HALLET & DAVIS, CONWAY
LEXINGTON, STORY & CLARK, at manufacturers’ prices, the same as you
would pay at the factory warerooms, and we pay the freight,
YOU WILL HAVE THE LARGEST AND FINEST stock to select from in
eastern Oklahoma, all new, not a stencil piano in the lot, every one has the
manufacturer's name on it, whieh is your best guarantee,
REMEMBER, NO BRANCH HOUSE OR MIDDLEMAN'S PROFITS, We
give you all these, and undersell all competitors from $50 to #100 on the same ,
grade of goods
THE TIME? NOW. Don't delay and then regret not securing one of thes:
elegant instruments.
THE PLACE? ¢
109-111 East Third Street First Door West Hotel Tulsa
Madam Walker, the hair goods
queen, recently donated 25,000 to the
fund to prevent’ lynching in this
country,
Jim Crow in-any old form should
he nauseating to any self-respect
ing Colored man, and though we
have to swallow it, don.’t let it slip
down our throats too easy.
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The Lads’Store as well as Dads
GLACE
CLOTHIERS.
On Main at Fourth
“The Store where only the best
and most dependable”
as. in Men’s and Boys’
sz apparel is shown,
Wes > Complete Sume-
is? mer Stocks in
: Y J those famous lines
= SN) Sicin- Block
Sy Mute and Society
\ Brand Suits
ae f Ly For Men
BS \ EAN nN ‘ a:
WN aye anaan Shoes,
if q Stetson Hats,
4 R\ ha Manhattan
— \ Shirts
ii a
i “Samseck" Triple
f Service Suits for
Il Ih Boys.
|| Dibbelbitt, Boy's
Clothes.
MSs Billiken Shoes tor
‘Ss Growing Lads-re-
member
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‘Yo'll Always do Better
At the Palage: = a
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Do something commendable and
the world will know it without you
| clting it,
Mr, W. 11, B. Brown left today for
Colorado Springs, Colo, for his
health. He will be gone several
weeks.
Colonel E, D, Jefferson, grand ma +
ter of the Odd Fellows, was the guest
of Sand Springs lodge last Sunday
at their annual session. He called
at The Star office and carried home
an order of printing, ‘This big-heart.
ed gentleman always helps us finan.
cially
Mr, Jack Seott, who recently was
called to his mother's bedside at
Boston, Mass. got no more than half
way before his mother passed away,
After arriving in the “bean.’. eity
Mr; Seott made all arranmeeneata fac
PAGE FIVE
the interment of the remains, His
mother was one of the pioneers of
Hoston, having resided there since
1800, She leaves three daughters
and one son to mourn her demise,
Mrs, J. E. Darrell, Jacksonville, Fla,,
dna FE. Pugh, Boston,; Mr, Jack
Scott, Tulsa, and Miss Mazarean
Jackson, granddaughter, Boston,
‘The attention of our readers is
called to the advertisement of Lin-
coln Institute of Jefferson City, Mo.,
the Colored State School of Mis-
souri, This is one of the Race.’s best
institutions of learning and that sble
educator, Professor Cle- Richardson,
has certainly put new life into that
college.
The vulgar-mouthed fellow, whe
spews out his profanity in publie
places should be looked after by the
law.
PAGE 6
HENNESSEY, OKLA.
The Star man stopped over a few hours in Hennessey to get a peep at the progress of the race and found our people a little more representative than those at Enld. At this little town the race has at least one creditable grocery store, which is conducted by E. D. Johnson, note owner. Mr. Johnson has been in business for the past 8 years and is considered a successful business man. For 19 years before opening business in Hennessey he lived with his father on a farm at Dover. Mr. Johnson commands the lion's share of race patronage and is rapidly making good in the business world. Above all, girls he is unmarried.
Turner's Cafe
If not the only one, this is at any rate the leading cafe operated by members of the race in Hennessey. Mrs. Lucy Turner, a pioneer citizen of the town, being proprietress. Mrs. Turner moved to Hennessey with her husband at the opening in '89 from Topeka, Kan., and has lived there over since. She is a widow with two sons and a daughter. They own a 160 acre farm near Hennessey.
Hennessey High School
This little institution had its beginning 20 years ago under the tutorship of Prof. F. F. Bailey, who has seen it grow from a one room with 23 pupils school to its present proportions of four specious rooms and 100 students.
Prof. Bailey is still in charge of the school as principal, with three able assistants including his wife, Mrs. Francis DePriest Bailey, sister to Alderman DePriest of Chicago, to whom he was married in 1905, at Salina, Kan. Prof. Bailey owns a nice six room cottage and two business lots.
Prof. E. H. Hall
Probably no man in the state is better known in educational work than Prof. Hall.
He came to Oklahoma from Chicago in 1902 and took charge of a small school 10 miles northwest of Hennessey. For five years prior to that time he had practiced law in Omaha, Nob., where he was admitted to the bar in 1895.
Prof. Hall is also well known in the fraternal circles of the state. He is a 22nd degree Mason, Imperial deputy for the Shriners of Oklahoma, Potentate of Elizza Temple No. 75, and is prominent in consistory circles. Prof. Hall was married in 1906 to Miss Lois Etta Morgan, of Topoka, Kan., who has presented him with five children, two hows and three girls.
Prof. E. H. Hall is one of the foremost educators of the state. He was born in Virginia, attended the public schools in that State and began teaching in 1882. Taught in State Institute for Teachers two years. Took Normal Course at Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Graduated from the Classical Course of Lincoln University, Pa., with the degree of A. B. in the class of '92. He had one year in the West Side Business College, Chicago, and one and one-half years non-resident study under the auspices of Chicago University for the degree of Ph. D. Has taught 16 consecutive years in Oklahoma and is now completing his 14th year as principal of the Hennessey High School. He conducted the Kingfisher County Separate Normal for four consecutive terms, and has aided in building up one of the most efficient institutions of the kind in the State of Oklahoma.
MUSKOGEE HAPPENINGS.
Special to The Tulsa Star:
The City Federation of Negro Women's Clubs met Monday night and transacted much important business of a local nature.
The reporter said last week that Mr. Howard Banks had left for parts unknown with about fifty thousand dollars of other people's money. The printer made the article read fifty (50) dollars. Good Lord, Mister Printer, we earnestly and truly meant fifty (50) thousand dollars.
he Brown BuildTing, S. 2nd St., recently purchased by Mr. T. J. Elliott, at a reported price of thirty five thousand, dollars, is being remodeled. The entire ground floor is to be occupied by the Elliott Clothing Co. The second floor which is to be let for offices has already been spoken for. The third floor has been rented by Mrs. Y. K. Yates, formerly of Sapulpa, and is now conducted as The Yates rooms. This puts the entire building back into the hands of four people. Muskogee regrets to learn that Mr. Ed. Franks has disposed of his various interests here and is to make his home in Okmulgue. Our loss is Okmulgue's gain. At the same time we learn that he is to lead to the altar one of Okmulgue's fair daughters.
Ann, the fourteen year old granddaughter of Mrs. Thomas of N Mill street died in Little Rock, Arkansas, last week. Her remains reached here Sunday the 11th, and the funeral was attended from Antioch Baptist church Tuesday, the 13th.
The Symphony Band, which rented the Carter's Hall for practice, under the able leadership of Mr. Bert Weaver, now offers its services to the public. The band has appeared on several occasions and rendered both pleasing and satisfactory music. Those are a deserving set of young men, who have undergone many sacrifices to meet the practices. They deserve patronage.
In the district Court here last week, Roy Rentile received a two-year sentence for drawing a gun in the Sturgeon pool hall and taking $6 from some of the players, in March. 1919.
The City school will have its commencement sermon at the C. M. E church, the 25th, Rev. Cox of the M
E. church will deliver same.
Major R. E. Patterson spoke in Convention Hall under auspices of the Social Uplift Club, Mrs. O. B. Jefferson, president, May 15th. This Club has for its aim the establishing of a Day Nursery and a home for working girls. A small admission fee will be charged to hear Major Patterson tell of our boys in France.
From reports coming in from over the state Mrs. Nellie W. Green of the Department of Domestic Science and Art, will be urged to enter the race for State President of The Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, which holds its session in Guthrie in August. Mrs. Greene has been at the head of the Department of Domestic Science and Art of our public schools here since that department was added to the school course. She has always been a true and tireless worker in club work.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Newman have moved to their new home, 558 North 9th street.
Mr. Robert Harrison of Austin, Texas, who was here on business, left last week for Washington, D. C., on business.
In the case of the State vs. Johnson McSwain, et al, this week, McSwain was found guilty of buying 5 bushels of corn "too cheap." It cost McSwain $100.
Mrs. Roy Lowe leaves this week for St. Louis and Chicago on business.
In the District Court here this week, in the case of H. W. Hackett, the jury failed to agree, six to six, as to whether Hackett stole the only hog belonging to Alonza Newman, last December.
The M. T. H. had Class Day exercises Wednesday the 21st at the First Baptist Church.
Undertaker J. M. DeLancy was called to Coweta last week to care for the remains of the six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Camp, which were shipped to Arkansas. The City School commencement will be at the Hinton Theatre Friday night, the 30th inst. At this writing the speaker of the evening has not been named. The Odd Fellows and Householders held their annual sermon at the First Baptist church last Sunday. Rev. Plus, the pastor, delivered the sermon. For all the worthwhile Negro journals and publications go to King's Barber Palace, 135 South 2nd street. Yes, the Tulsa Star, like the name of Ben Adhem's, leads all the rest.
The only Nick Chiles of Topeka, Kansas, and the Plaindealer, was here from a trip to Boley this week. He is enroute home and stopped here to say "hello" to his many friend and to say "O hell" about many things.
Mr. Tatum who is local representative of the J. B. Key Oll Corporation, home office, Okmulgee, is back from a trip to his former home, Boley. He reports the advance in price of the shares of his company from one to five dollars.
Rev. T. M. Gatewood, presiding elder of the uTsa district of the C. M. E. church, spent last week in Dallas as the guest of his friend and former co-workers, Rev. E. A. Wilson. He was invited here to assist Rev. Wilson in revival work.
PRETTY COLOR COMBINATIONS
Ground Coat Stimple Coat Stencil Color
White Light Rose Medium,
Light Gray
Dark Blue,
Gray-Green
White Light Gray Light Gray
Light Warm
Yellow Light Cobalt
Blue, Neutral
Light Drab
Same Gray,
a little darker
Light Drab
Gray, Gray-
Green or
Light Cobalt
Light Gray Light Blue
Gray Blue or
Light Orange
Yellow
Light Gray
Neutral Drab
Ivory Green
Olive Green
Light Green
Neutral
Gray, Ivory
Light Warm
Drab, Medium
Olive, Warm Gray
Cream.
Delft Blue,
Light Ivory
Light Neutral
Gray
Brown,
Burnt Um-
ber Cream
Light Tan,
Cream, Gray Drab
Light Gray
Same Gray,
a little darker
Light Blue
Light Gray
Colonial
Yellow
Gold Bronze
Light Blue
Neutral
Gray, Ivory
Light Warm
Drab, Medium
Olive, Warm Gray
Cream.
Delft Blue,
Light Ivory
Light Neutral
Gray
Brown,
Burnt Um-
ber Cream
Light Tan,
Cream, Gray Drab
Light Gray
Aluminum
Bronze
Blue
Light Gray
Colonial
Yellow
Gold Bronze
Light Blue
Dark Green
Ivory Tan
Dara Brown
Ivory
U. S. Invents Anti-Rust "Done."
Incident to the war, the government has faced the problem that has so long proved baffling to commercial concerns of protecting iron and steel from rust. In an attempt to solve this federal specialists have perfected various forms of protective coatings. In this connection it may be pertinent to ask whether commercial uses will not be found also for the so-called "dopes" which the government has invented to be applied to airplane wings and which are possessed of valuable weather-restoring and fireproof qualities.
EFFECT OF COLOR UPON THE DURABILITY OF PAINT
Property owners who may have under consideration the painting of dwetting and other structures should remember that more durable results are obtained when tinted paints are used. Permanent coloring materials which have been ground by machine into a high grade white paint base have the effect of preventing "chalking" and "checking," two defects which are often observed when white paints are used.
TULSA STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919
HERE AND THERE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS
PEACE NOTES
Negotiations pending for the adjustment of the Adriatic controversy contemplate a direct settlement between Italy and Jugo-Slavia, through American mediation. By this plan the Austrian treaty would not specify the disposition to be made of Dalmatia, Istria or Flume, beyond detaching them from Austria.
+ + +
It is quite probable that the Turkish and Bulgarian peace treaties will be negotiated and signed in Constantinople, Saloniki or some other convenient city in the Near East, according to Reutor's Paris office.
+ + +
The failure of the Hungarian government to respond to the invitation to send delegates to France to receive peace terms and the general uncertainty of Hungarian conditions, probably will delay the Austrian peace negotiations. The problems relating to Austria and Hungary overlap so greatly that the Allies feel that many phases of them must be considered jointly.
+ + +
Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the head of the German peace delegation, in communicating to the other members of the delegation the text of the three notes he sent to Premier Clemenceau, pointed out that the peace treaty in its present form could not be accepted and could not be signed because it was impossible to fulfill its terms.
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Immediate measures tending to the further subjugation of Germany if its delegates refuse to sign the Peace Treaty were indicated by the announcement that Marshal Foch had been sent to the Rhine by the council of four to take such action as may become necessary in the event that the treaty is not signed.
+ + +
The declaration by Chancellor Scheidemann in the national assembly the other day that the peace terms were "unacceptable" brought the members of the assembly, the spectators and those in the press gallery to their feet in a hurricane of cheers and applause.
+ + +
The German plan for a League of Nations, submitted by the German delegation at Versailles and now in the hands of the Peace Conference committee on the League of Nations, to which it was referred, contains sixty-six articles, together with a supplement setting forth the charter for an international labor league.
WASHINGTON.
The tariff issue is once more the predominating issue in Canadian politics, according to advices received in Washington through official channels. The farmers, it is said, are clamoring for acceptance of the reciprocity treaty with the United States, which Canada rejected in 1911.
+ + +
President Wilson has directed the food administration grain corporation to change its name to the United States Grain Corporation and Increase its capital stock from $150,000,000 to $500,000,000, according to a cable message from Herbert Hoover.
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Raymond B. Fosdick, a New York lawyer, who was chairman of the commission on training camp activities during the war, will be one of the permanent American officials in the league of nations when the league is organized. The exact position to which Mr. Fosdick will be appointed was not announced.
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Thirty-five specially trained businessness agents of the internal revenue bureau have been dispatched to all parts of the country to study commercial and industrial practices in certain lines of business with a view to advising on future regulations. They will ascertain practices in regard to amortization, depletion, depreciation and valuation of assets.
DOMESTIC
Plans of the United States navy for a trans-Atlantic flight by a dirigible received a serious jolt at St. Johns, N. F., when the giant "bilimp" C-5 burst from her moorings in a gale and was out to sea soon after she arrived from Montauk Point, N. Y., after being in the air continuously for 25 hours and 45 minutes.
+ + +
Approval of the reorganization of the national guard along the same lines as existed before the great war was expressed informally by Secretary Baker. The war department, he said, would favor the rebuilding of the guard so as to permit the various states to supply the same units as were used in the war.
+ + +
Revised figures made public by the war department showed that the total casualties of the American expeditionary forces during the war was 286,044. Battle deaths numbered 48,909 and the total of wounded was placed at 237,135.
+ + +
Five persons were indicted on charges of conspiracy and bribery by the federal grand jury at Des Moines, la., in connection with the scheme of brokerage firms and manufacturers to gain monopoly of the purchase of army blankets at Camp Dodge.
Sixtens hundred and twenty physically handicapped men, with 1,766 dependents, have been placed in employment by the handicapped division of the federal employment service since January 1. The average cost of finding a job for the crippled men was $1.54.
4 4 4
Sixteen thousand members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will be awarded war medals by the organization for the part they took in the war. The organization's service flag contains more than 840 gold stars.
+ + +
Soldiers who have lost their baggage on the way home are advised by the war department to send their names, present addresses and description of the missing property to the lost baggage depot, Hoboken, N. J.
+ + +
America's great food relief program for the devastated countries of Europe will practically be completed within another six weeks, according to a statement issued by the grain corporation, with which the American Relief Administration was recently incorporated.
SOUTHWEST
Forfetture of charters for mine unions at McAlester. Okla., was hinted as the likely outcome unless the men out in sympathy with the electrical workers' strike returned to their mines in obedience to an order issued by John Wilkinson, president of District No. 21, U. M. W. of A.
4 4
With three prisoners hidden in a motor car, a "trusty" convict drove through the gate of the penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark., recently and the four escaped in the car.
+ + +
An alleged conspiracy to defraud the government by false grading and weighing of hay sold to eighteen army posts in the Southwest, involving, it is said, shipments of from 6,000 to 7,000 tons monthly, with alleged illegal profits of from $2 to $5 per ton, has been uncovered in Arizona.
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Pinned against a sharp-edged pole by a motor car driven by Mrs. Dora Tandet at Fort Smith, Ark., Mrs. Florence Gott, 26 years old, was fatally injured and her two companions were bruised. Mrs. Tandet was arrested.
The United States Department of Labor Employment Bureau at Kansas City, has thousands of men ready for the big rush to the wheat fields. The call for men is greater than ever before and better wages are bing offered.
As the result of the appointment of William C. Gruber, a former chief of the fire department of Guthrie, Okla., to his old position by E. W. Trapnell, the newly elected commissioner of public utilities, the entire personnel of the fire department struck.
FOREIGN.
The capital of the British Empire mourned for Edith Cavell, the heroic nurse murdered by the Germans in Brussels in 1915. Her body, exhumed from the place where the Germans buried it, was received with impressive military honors at Victoria Station. After services at Westminster Abbey, the body was taken to her native town, Norwich, for interment.
+ + +
Esorted by honor guards of British and Belgian troops, the body of Edith Cavell, the heroic English nurse, murdered by the Germans, was removed recently from the city where she faced a firing squad in 1915, and started on its way to England for final interment.
+ + +
A British fleet is anchored outside of Menel, East Prussia, close to the Russian frontier and the British are expected to occupy the place in a few days, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
+ + +
Italian delegates to the peace conference are no longer insisting upon the fulfillment of the secret treaty of London and this part of the controversy relative to territory on the eastern shore of the Adriatic is tending toward an adjustment.
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The League of Red Cross societies which was formed recently to bring about the union of Red Cross activities throughout the world, announces the appointment of Lieut. General Sir. David Henderson of Great Britain as director-general of the league.
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Members of the Austrian delegation, questioned on the ir arrival in Paris, intimated that they would demand the attachment of German Bohemia and German Tyrol to Germany
Fifteen thousand Majority Socialists made a demonstration in front of the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, crying, "Down with Wilson" Down with the American!" The tumult grew in front of the American headquarters until fifty soldiers arrived and cleared the streets.
American and British officers in Berlin have been ordered to wear civilian clothing outdoors, lest they incite the population to demonstrations, according to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
OKLAHOMA STATE NEWS
An Owen-for-President club was organized at a meeting of democrats at Muskogee.
A campaign for cleared dairies will be launched by O. F. Mullin, state dairy commissioner, and five dairy inspectors will be placed in the field at once.
The Ninetieth Division composed of Oklahoma and Texas troops, will embark for home this month, instead of the second week in June, as originally scheduled.
A girl baby was born on the north bound interurban street car between Norman and Oklahoma City last week, to Mrs. Marie Cruz, a Mexican woman of Oklahoma City.
Farmers in the Acme neighborhood near the town of Rush Springs, Grady county, have organized a co-operative company and will establish a four-stand gin in that vicinity.
Marie Cothran, $2\frac{1}{2}$ years old, died at McAlester after five days of unconsciousness from an attack of sleeping sickness. Hers was the second death there from that cause, Mrs. Will Sittel being the first victim on April 4.
Ministers of all the churches of Muskogee, together with court judges and police officers, appointed a committee to draft an ordinance which will close picture shows and other theaters on Sunday.
The board of education of Poteau announced its intention of building a new high school costing between $75,000 and $100,000 if the citizens will vote a bond issue to finance the enterprise.
By a vote of 302 to 133, the citizens of El Reno placed upon their shoulders the largest school levy ever carried by that city, a special levy of eight mills in addition to the legal ve mills, having been adopted.
By the terms of a deal just closed, the congregation of the El Reno Baptist church becomes the possesor o. two lots. It is planned to begin soon on the construction of a new church building to cost $30,000 or more.
Two Vinita boys, Joe McGary and Cecil Roper, 18 and 16 years old, who pleaded guilty to robbing the home of T. F. Maher, ten days ago, getting about $750 worth of diamonds and jewelry, were sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Within the next two years every frame structure at the Oklahoma state hospital for the insane will be replaced by fire-proof buildings. The work will be started soon after July 1, when the recent legislative building appropriation of $415,000 becomes available.
During the last week's severe storm the waterworks plant in Coalgate was struck by a bolt of lightning, settin it on fire, consuming the entire works standpipe, and Coalgate is now undergoing a water famine. Old, unused and abandoned wells are being requisitioned to furnish water for culinary and other purposes.
Pettitions bearing 19,000 signatures asking for submission of a plan to vitalize Section Twelve-A of the constitution were filed with the office of the secretary of state by Campbell Russell, corporation commissioner. Section Twelve-A is the much discussed provision of the constitution relating to the distribution of school taxes.
The county commissioners of Jefferson county are laying plans for the erection of a $100,000 courthouse. There is a surplus of about $20,000 in the county sinking fund and this, with the 3-mill levy next year and a 2 mill levy the following year, will provide sufficient funds for the erection of the building, according to an estimate.
The jury trying the case of Isaac Wilkinson, Bartlesville city patrolman, charged with murder, returned a verdict of not guilty. Wilkinson was charged with first degree murder for shooting and killing Bill Paris, 17 years old, on the night of November 10, when Paris refused to obey an order to halt a car in which he was speeding.
James B. Blazer, of Wichita, Kan., 60 years old, and a book salesman died at Guthrie last week Blazer was well known in Oklahoma during the early days. "The Blazer book lobby" thrived in Guthrie during the fourth territorial legislature and Blazer was credited with putting across a big text book grab for the American Book company.
Breeders from all over the United States and Canada were at the Tulsa fair grounds attending the Crosbie-Suppes-Kramer Shorthorn cattle sale at which sixty head of high bred registered animals were sold at an average of $664 a head or an aggregate of $35,875. W. P. Fraker of Broken Arrow bought the highest priced cow for $2,825. And the top price for a bull, $3,000, was paid by M. L. Smiley of Dallas, Texas.
Wages to be paid by Oklahoma farmers for harvest hands during the coming wheat harvest season will range from $3.50 to $4.50 a day, it was announced by Claude Connally, state labor commissioner. Some time ago Connally sent a questionaire over the wheat belt, asking for an estimate of harvest hands needed and the wages that are to be paid in each of the counties, and this statement is based upon the information received. In nearly all cases lodging will be furnished. Temporary employment offices will be opened.
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS
DRAG ROADS AT PROPER TIME
Fully as Important as It Is That High ways Should Be Done Right— Keep Ruts From Forming.
(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.)
It is fully as important that a road be dragged at the right time as it is that the dragging be properly done. Furthermore, the difficulties involved in prescribing definite rules for determining when dragging should be done are equally as great as those already encountered in attempting to define how it should be done. Only very general statements concerning this feature of the work can properly be made bere, and much must be left to the experienced judgment of those who decide when the dragging of any particular road is to be started and when it is to be stopped. The rule frequently cited that all earth roads should be dragged immediately after every rain, is in many cases entirely impracticable and is also
Drag on a North Carolina Road.
very misleading because of the conditions which it fails to contemplate. It is true that there are many road surfaces composed of earth or earth material which do not become very muddy under traffic, even dry long rainy seasons, and since such surfaces usually tend to harden very rapidly as soon as the weather clears up, it may be desirable to drag roads of this kind immediately after a rain. Such roads, however, would not ordinarily need to be dragged after every rain, because of the strong tendency that they naturally possess of holding their shape. On the other hand, many varieties of clay and soil tend to become very muddy under only light traffic after very moderate rains, and it is evident that roads constructed of such materials could not always be successfully dragged immediately after a rain. Sometimes, in fact, it may be necessary to wait until several consecutive clear days have elapsed after a long rainy spell before the road is sufficiently dried out to keep ruts from forming almost as rapidly as they can be filled by dragging.
Well-constructed sand-clay topsoll roads should not often become muddy after they are once well compacted. They may become seriously rutted, however, under heavy traffic, during rainy weather, and are almost sure to need dragging several times each year. Such roads should ordinarily be dragged as soon after a rain as practicable as otherwise the surface soon becomes dry and hard, so that it is necessary to do considerably more dragging in order to fill the ruts. Furthermore, the material which the drag moves will not compact readily unless it contains a considerable amount of moisture.
Gravel roads can be effectively maintained with a road drag only when the gravel composing the surface is fine grained and contains a considerable quantity of clay earth. Gravel road surfaces in which this condition prevails not infrequently get badly out of shape during wet weather, and may sometimes require considerably more attention than well-constructed sand-clay topsoil roads. The time for dragging gravel roads is unquestionably while they are wet. In fact, the best results are sometimes obtained by doing the dragging after the road has become thoroughly soaked and while it is still raining.
In general, it may be said that the best time to drag any type of road is when the material composing the surface contains sufficient moisture to compact readily after it has been moved by the drag and is not sufficiently wet for the traffic following the drag to produce mud.
Change in Road Sentiment
When we consider the fact that such a large proportion of our population are owners of automobiles it is not difficult to understand the change in sentiment in regard to road building that has recently developed.
Big Saving In Hauling.
If our main highways were improved with permanent surface, we would certainly save 8 or 9 cents per ton mile in hauling the immense interstate commerce that each year originates from agriculture, mine and forest.
RELIGIOUS PACIFIST GREATEST INDIVIDUAL FIGHTER OF WAR
Corporal York, "Battling for the Lord," Slew 24 Germans in Machine Gun Nest, and With Five Assistants Captured 132 of the Enemy, Including Four Officers Was Willing to Drill, but Not Kill.
DISABLED SOLDIERS MAKING TOYS
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Glass in toy making at work in the reconstruction hospital for disabled soldiers at Colonia, N. J.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
In the Chicago Daily News.
Nashville, Tenn.—He began his military career as a religious conscientious objector. He was convinced of the need for killing Germans by arguments drawn from the Bible. And he acted on this conviction by killing 24 Germans in a machine gun nest, with his rifle, and capturing, with five assistants, 132 of the enemy, including four officers.
This achievement of Corporal York, which has been called by General Pershing the greatest single exploit of the war, has become famous, but the man himself remains unknown. And surely such a man deserves to be explained. You want to know what sort of a chap he is, and what environment fostered such a combination of moral courage and physical skill.
The answer to these questions is found here in the section that produced Corporal York. It may be stated in a sentence by saying that York belongs to the vanishing race of old Americans. Men who were just like him in their faith in God, their courage and their straight shooting won the Revolution and several subsequent wars.
Of Pure American Breed.
Such men have become scarce in America now. New breeds have come in and the old breed has been changed by changing conditions. But there is one section of America in which the old American race still breeds true to type, and more than that still lives almost as it lived when the Boonesboro men threw down their axes, took their rifles and went out to externalate General Ferguson's command at King's mountain.
The section referred to is the southern Allegheny mountain region. The place where Corporal York was born and lived all his life until he was called to war, is a typical bit of it. His home post office is Pall Mall, Fentress county, Tennessee, about 100 miles east of this city. There is nothing at Pall Mall except the post office, and the three forks of the Wolf river, which come together there. On all sides are the wooded ridges of the Allegheny mountains. Until two years ago it was 35 miles to the nearest railroad. Many men who went to war from this section saw a railroad train for the first time when they answered the call to arms. To all intents and purposes they stepped out of the eight eighth century and into the twentieth. That is what Corporal York did.
Region Where Clemens Was Born.
All the people in this region are of Scotch, English, Welsh and Irish stock.
Their ancestors came down through the mountains from Virginia and North Carolina in colonial days, and the lands have been held by the same families ever since. One of these families is the Clemens family, which produced Mark Twata. He was born at Jamestown, the county seat of Fentress county. His father owned large areas of land near there, which he sold and traded about in such a way as to immortalize his name, for they are still trying to straighten out the titles to the Clemens lands, and the old man's dealings promise to furnish occupation for many more generations of lawyers.
York is the "third from the top," as they say down here, in a family of nine children, and is twenty-seven years old. His father having died, and his two older brothers married, he became the head of the family and took care of his mother and the family homestead. He once described himself as being "a kind of a mommer's boy."
He is not, however, given to describing himself at length. In this country where people never talk much unless they are running for office, the Yorks had a reputation for silence. His father is said often to have gone through a whole day in the company of a friend
without saying a word. And he didn't mean to be unusocial, either. Corporal York took after him. The York estate comprises 40 acres of land, of which part is rich bottom land, but most is hill country. The house has one room on the ground floor, which is dining room, sitting room and all, while the loft is everybody's bedroom. The kitchen is a lean-to, built against the house. The farm crops are corn and hay and the live stock consists of a pair of mules, a cow, some hogs and chickens. All about the place is tall virgin timber.
Lived Life of a Pioneer.
Lived Life of a Pioneer.
So Corporal York, before he went to war, lived in the one-room house in a clearing, which was the usual home of the American pioneer, and the life he lived was just such a life as his forefathers had lived for generations. When not engaged in tilling his 40-acre farm he commonly went hunting. All of the men thereabouts go hunting and are good shots, but York was especially efficient with the rifle. The standard and favorite game of the section is the squirrel. Every man has a squirrel dog, and a good one is worth $35 or $40. The dog trees the squirrel, and the hunter shoots it—always through the head, so as not to mangle the meat. If you want to know how Corporal York learned to shoot, try to knock a squirrel out of a tall hickory tree with a rifle, shooting always for the head. They also hunt foxes here, running them with dogs and bringing down the swift quarry from a "stand." On autumn nights coon hunting is in order. The coon is chased up a tree by the dogs.
In the old days the tree was then always chopped down, so that the dogs and the coon could fight it out, no matter who owned the tree or how valuable it was. Recently, owing to the high price of lumber, a sentiment against cutting down a $10 tree to get a $1 coon has developed, and this is regarded with contempt by the old-timers as a sign of the degenerate modern mercenary spirit.
The law in this section is whatever local custom approved, and it does not approve of restricting a man's personal freedom. This is a fact of prime importance to the understanding of Corporal York. Every man here carries a gun, and is prepared as a matter of course, to shoot anyone who presumes to trespass on his premises.
Men Make Their Own Liquor.
Every man who wants to do so makes his own whisky, keeps it in his house and drinks it when he pleases. Stills are operated somewhat quietly, in inference to federal regulations, but the revenue officer does not intrude much. It would be impossible here to enforce the Mann act, the Harrison drug law, the prohibition law, or any other law which involves opening baggage and invading premises. These people stand by the Constitution as it is written, not as it is interpreted. Their creed in brief is that as long as a man does not interfere with anyone else, no one has a right to interfere with him. That was the gist of Patrick Henry's bill of rights.
Like most men who value their liberty, these mountaineers have a strong sense of justice. They believe in the proper use of liquor by responsible persons. When a couple of bootleggers came into the neighborhood and began selling whisky to boys, a posse was organized and the bootleggers disappeared. The law was not invoked.
Mountainer la Religious.
Next to his personal freedom, the thing that a mountain man takes most seriously is his religion. He believes in the Bible as the source of truth, and as a guide for human conduct. In these regions the church is a place of sincere worship, a place of social gathering and an emotional experience. No doubt in all remote regions the church takes somewhat the
TULSA STAR. SATURDAY. MAY 24. 1919
Shows Great Increase in Use of Artillery
Washington.—American soldiers in the battle of St. Mihiel expended nearly 33 times as much artillery ammunition as was expended by the Union army in the battle of Gettysburg.
This comparison and others are shown in a table of statistics prepared by the war department to emphasize the great increase in the use of artillery to precede infantry action as one of the striking developments of the present war.
The high marks in the use of artillery in offensive battle were reached at the Somme in 1916 and Messines ridge in 1917, before the effective use of tanks was developed.
The comparative table of artillery expended in battles of recent wars and the present war is as follows:
Days'
Year.. Battie duration. Army penalty.
1863.. Chickam'am'ga 1. Union 1,325
1863.. Gettsyburg 3. Union 35,741
1864.. Gunnan 1. German 39,804
1864.. Nanshan 1. Japanese 24,047
1864.. Liao Yang 9. Russian 124,047
1864.. Nian He 9. Russian 124,047
1864.. N Chapelle 28min. Russian 187,000
1864.. Souches 1. French 300,000
1864.. Somma 1. French 300,000
1864.. Mae Jie 7. British 2,763,000
1864.. St. Mihiel 4. Urs. U.S. 1,093,127
place that the theater, the movie, the parade and other similar stimulants of emotion take in cities. That is one reason why the camp meeting, with its wild crowd emotionalism, is found in all backwoods sections. It also probably explains in part the appeal of such sects as the Hollliness church.
York's father was a Methodist, and he was brought up as Methodist, but he and his mother and sisters became converts to the Holiness church. The belief of this church seems to be that if a mortal neither does wrong nor thinks wrong, he is already, in effect, an angel, and may taste on earth something of the bliss of heaven. At its meetings there are brief readings from the Scripture, then periods of silent meditation, then shouting of great joy, as the full glory of their triumph over sin and trouble burst upon the congregation, all at once. These alternate periods of silent meditation and frenzied rejoicing often extend far into the night, and throw the congregation into a state of religious ecstasy.
York took his new faith seriously. It satisfied some cravings of his nature. He still carried arms. He was still prepared to fight when need arose. But when he heard of the war and the draft law he realized that he faced a great crisis. He believed in fighting for the right, but he did not see how, as an angel on earth, he could kill a fellow who had never as an individual done him any harm.
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Willing to Drill. Not Kill.
York and his mother went to S. E. Froge, a merchant and farmer living near them, who was their representative in the state legislature, and begged that Froge try to obtain an exemption for York. The young man said that he could never kill in war. Froge, of course, could do nothing. A few days later York left for the first time in his life the little clearing and the cabin and the wild woodlands which had theretofore been all the world to him. He took his convictions against war with him unshaken. As soon as he reached camp he said that he was willing to drill, but not to fight. He made his position perfectly clear to the captain of his company.
In having this captain, York was fortunate. If he had been imprisoned, hazed or mistreated, as other conscientious objectors were, he would almost certainly have spent the period of the war in prison. But this captain was a man of insight. He saw that York had in him the making of a fine soldier, and he also saw that York was a conscientious objector by sincere religious convictions.
This captain was something of a Bible student himself. He now refreshed himself on the Scriptures, called York to him, and set out to convert him to war by the good book. It is said that the argument lasted far into the night, that it was audible at quite a distance, and that Biblical quotations thundered back and forth like big guns in a battle. But when the pale dawn came, one mountain man was convinced that his God commanded him to go forth and slay Germans.
Battled for the Lord.
When he went home on a furlough, Corporal York, late conscientious objector, was a soldier through and through. A hunter and marksman by training, he was fascinated by modern military arms. The machine gun, with its deadly sweep and play, the vicious army automatic, the military rifle with its wonderful range and flat trajectory, now held his heart as the creed of holiness on earth had held it before.
There is nothing more to tell about Corporal York, except that when he performed his wonderful feat of shooting 24 Germans and capturing 132 of them, he did not take the prisoners back to his own battalion, but to another. Nor did he report what he had done. His exploit was discovered and verified by accident. He did not battle for glory, he battled for the Lord.
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1—General Pensning meeting his son, Warren, whom Secretary Baker took over to Europe. 2—Detachment of the Finnish legion with sleighs and reindeer on the march against the bolsheviki. 3—New photograph of Rear Admiral Sims, who has been working for the Victory loan since his return from abroad.
1—General Pensning meeting his son, Warren, whom Secretary Baker took over to Europe. 2—Detachment of the Finnish legion with sleighs and reindeer on the march against the bolsheviki. 3—New photograph of Rear Admiral Sims, who has been working for the Victory loan since his return from abroad.
WHERE THE BUSINESS OF THE PANAMA CANAL IS HANDLED
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MILITARY
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A general view of the large shops and drydock at Balcon, the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal. Everything is in full readiness here to handle the increased traffic which is bound to ensue with settled peace conditions.
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Ex-Emperor Carl of Austria-Hungary seated between two companions at his place of exile in Switzerland, and, above, Wartegg castle, his place of residence there.
Ex-Emperor Carl of Austria-Hungary seated between two companions at his place of exile in Switzerland, and, above, Wartegg castle, his place of residence there.
NEWPORT NEWS SHIPYARDS FROM AIR
THE PORT OF NEW YORK
Lieutenant Commander H. B. Grow, U. S. N., who piloted the naval hydro, F-5, in a 24-hour flight, starting from Norfolk, Va., and circling over Hampton roads, Newport News, then to Baltimore and return. The record is the talk of aviation circles in the United States. With the commander were three ensigns. They all took turns at the wheel, but the ranking officer was pilot most of the trip. They ate three meals in the air. The flight was made under most unfavorable weather conditions. The men suffered severely from the cold, but the machine behaved splendidly and could have remained in the air longer had not the fuel been exhausted. They left with 850 gallons and when the machine landed there was scarcely two gallons in the tanks.
Unusually interesting photograph of the shipyards at Newport News, Va. taken from an airplane. The view shows many of the transports and supply ships which have carried men and munitions between this country and France.
Unusually interesting photograph of the shipyards at Newport News, Va. taken from an airplane. The view shows many of the transports and supply ships which have carried men and munitions between this country and France.
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The ladies of the M. BE. church:
served Saturday in the Earl Real es |
tute office. .
Rev, W. G. Woods called last Sun
day and left us an order for some
printing.
‘Dhe ladies of M1. Zion served din
ner in front of Rey. Netherland
barber shop last Saturday
Get your supplies at the Welcon:
Grocery and Meat Market, where you
get the best inthe market and at
prices as cheap or cheaper than you
xet snywhere else
The Hoffman store, 12 North Bt
xin street, was robbed by a Colored
man of close onto 850.00, ‘The rob:
ber covered the merchant with a
pistol and made him hand over his
money.
Atiaenae 2 Th. Gecokes Bere.
Attorney 1. Hi, Spears of Tulse,
was in the capitol Tuesday. He we
before the supreme court, Tuesdy
morning representing the estate of
Hahalie J. Mitchell ys. B. Norris
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Dr. €. B. Wickham, Dr. J. M. Key,
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City last: week.
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(First published in the Tulsa Daily
Star May 0, 1919.)
PUBLICATION NOTICE.
In the District Court of ‘Tulsa
County, State of Oklahoma.
Otis Wright, plaintiff, vs. Lonella
Wright, defendant,
To the Above Named Defendant:
You will take notice that you have
been sued in the above named court
by the above plaintit, for a divorce
on the grounds of gross neglect of
duty and that unless you answer the
petition filed in said County by. the
24th day of June, 1919, said petition
will be taken as true and judgment
kranting to the plaintit a divorce.
annulling, cancelling, setting aside
and holding for naught the marriage
contract with you, and for. oreens
rendered according to the praye)
thereof,
Witness my hand and the seal o!
said Court this 8th day of May, 1919
JOHN D. PORTER,
Court Clerk
By W. Rouse, Deputy
J. H, SPEARS,
Dr. Roman, one of the foremost
mien of our Race, is a distinguished
visitor to our’ city today and will
speak at Vernon A. M. E. ehureh to-
night, ‘This able man has won
worldwide fame, artd his visit. to
Oklahoma will, no doubt, give the
Race much inspiration,
. Sl pest
NOPICE TO TEACHERS
Applications of teachers for posi
lions to teach in Flipper-KeyIDavis
University, Tulluhassee, Oklahoma,
huust have same on file with Seere-
lary of Trustee Board on or before
May 25, 1010.
JAMES A. JOHNSON, Seeretary
108 N. Greenwood, Tulsa, Okla
tev. Jerome E, Williams, the pop:
ular pastor of the A, MoE. ehureh et
Haskell, spent Sunday in Tulsa, White
here the managing editor, who ts
also manager of Miss Grozia Cor-
neal, the wonderful lady violinist,
arranged dates to have this lady ap
pear in recital at Haskell:
Miss Carrow Roosevelt: Williams,
jdoughter of Mr. F. Rodgers Williams,
arrived inthe city recently from
Texas, and will spend some time
with her father. Mr. Williams will
send her to school in Obie and will
give her every educational advantage.
, Mrs, MM, Brown, the efficient
}manader of Williams’ Confectionery,
l has been confined to her room cever
jal days due to illness, Her many
age wish her a speedy recovery,
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Mrs. Yule Drake, while leaving
chureh at Vernon ALM. E, ehurety
fast Sunday, fell and sugered a budt-
ly sprained ankle,
| The Booster club of the A.M. P.
chureh hod a nice program printed
for a reception that they intended to
pull off for their pastor, Dr. G. Tt
‘Tucker, but due to the fact that Dr,
nana will be here Monday night,
‘the reception will be held at the pa-
Jatial residence of Dr, Bridgewater
om Tuesday night
| Mr, George Davis, one of the
Mave es foremost oil men, as well
ws one of the best fixed, was in Tulsa
Saturday, accompanied by — Dr.
Thompkin of Kansas City, Mo, Mr,
Davis is one of the solid fixtures of
hie Colored Race and a man who is
striving fo tone up the standard of
ur people, Flipper-Key-Davis bears
part of his name, and this worthy
man has done much to help make
that school a success. ‘They left on
the Sunday morning train,
Mount Olive Baptist chureh, lo-
cated in the Washington addition,
northeast of the city. Regular or-
der of serpiee as follows:
Sunday school, 9:10 a, m.; preach-
ing, 11:00 a. ms B. YB. U,, 5:80 pe.
ms preaching, 9:00 p,m. Every
Sunday, Prayer service on Wednes-
day night; Women.’ Misssion Circle
meets every Friday afternoon at 3
pom. © DEARMAN,
Pastor.
EDITOR OF STAR HONORED,
Mr. A. J. Smitherman,
‘Palsa, Okla,
Dear Mr. Smitherman:
T have had the honor to suggest
your name to Hon. William Boyce
‘Thompson ay a member of a conmit-
tee of representative Colored mea te
cooperate With the Roosevelt Per-
manent Memorial National Commit.
tee. You will be hearing directly
from Mr, ‘Thompson within the next
few days.
Yours very truly,
KR. R. MORTON, Principal.
Dr, Motley has rented the office
building recently erected on North
Greenwood street, near Dreamland
theatre, by Mrs. Partee and will use
same as an office building. This gen:
Hleman is one of the Race.'s foremost
physicians and enjoys a large prac-
tice.
‘The Star's circulation is certainly
growing and advertisers who are
seeking an excellent medium to ad-
vertise their goods, should plant an
ad in same,
A revival will begin at the Mount
Olive Baptist church on Wednesday
before the first Sunday in June. €.
Dearman, the pastor, will be assist-
ed) by Evangelistical ministers of
note.
HE WEEKLY TULSA STAR
OKMULGEE NEWS. *
Mr. ME. Porter, Mr, ROB. Brad.
ford and Mr, Bird, members of the
school boards Nos. 36 and 48, Gray
son and Hoffman, Okla, were in
the city Monday attending court,
where they seek to enjoin the white
school board of said district and the
county superintendent from consoli-
dating the above named districts,
which are Colored with two white
districts adjoining.
Vhe consolidation of which will
deprive the Colored boards from
controlling their schools and also ts
their district to build a consolidated
school at Hoffman whieh — would
benefit the white patrons only, Hon,
J. G. Evans represents the Colored
school board,
Okmulgee Agricultural and Indus:
trial Pair Association,
‘The directors of the Oknulgee In
dustrial Fair association met Satu
day and completed arrangements for
the holding of the big fair in Oe:
tober, The prospects of the fair
showing dates will be ready for dis.
tribution as soon as the press can
prepare them,
Mrs. J. W. Johnson of Sedalia, Mo.,
is visiling her daughter. Mrs, Zepher
Lane.
Dr. Andrew Wallace, who has been
with Dr. Conrad at Park Sanitarium,
Guthrie, Okla, for two weeks, is al
home again to visit relatives, After
a stay of about two weeks he will
leave for St Louls, Mo. for hospital
work,
| Mrs. Garr of Kansay City, Mo.
spent two days in the city. She was
ibs guest of Mrs. J. C. Evans,
| Mrs, Lena Johnson left’ Wednes-
day for Muskogee. She was the guest
: Mrs. A. Brown,
Mr. Barney Cleaver of ‘Tulsa, was
in the city Monday on business. Mr.
Cleaver has been on the police force
for a number of years,
Mrs. J. $. Shannon of Kansas City,
iy in the city visiting her sister, Mrs.
J.C. Evans,
‘The Southeastern Insurance com
pany of Boley, has employed Mr. E.
1, Martin as its agent. Mr. Martin is
making good,
Mrs. H.R. Simpson of Chetopa,
Kan,, is here visiting her son, Mr.
‘Ghasatin Wdes
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Dr. R.E, Long of Langston, spent 1
w few days in the city. He was the
auest of Dr. A. G, Wallace,
Mr. €. W. Ward, real estate and
notary, gave the Star a large job of
printing. se
Dr. A, G. Wallace, A. M. Gaysenter,
Dr. J.B. Guess returned: Saturday
from Oklahoma City, where they had
been attending the medical, dental
and pharmaceutical associaniots.
They all reported a pleasant trip,
Dr. Roman’s lectures here were
well received and were favored com
mended upon by all who heard them.
‘This gentleman is one of our fore-
most physicians, and his visit: to
Tulsa will be long rememebered.
Mrs, Bettie Gotford is in the city
from Texas, the guest of her daugh-
ter, Mrs, Frank Tilliman,
YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AT
THE WHITE WAY CAFE
513 N. Main Street ,
Where You Will Find the BEST of Everything Good to Eat.
Prepared by Expert Culinary Artists.
LOOK FOR “THE WHITE WAY"
MRS, HORTENSE BRADFORD. Prop.
sciitees Bees
85 Outside Airy Rooms of Solid Comfort
(With Bath Privileges That Advertise Themselves)
Ed. G. SMITH, Proprietor.
Rates: $2.75, $3.25,83.75 Special Rates in Rooms infuites
Use Our Auto Service, Calls answered day or night.
JOY RIDES, A SPECIALTY
Weddings, Funerals and Calls of any Nature Given our Prompt Attention
SEVEN PASSENGERS CHAMBERS.
( Also baggage and service cars)
PHONE W, 2199 OKLAHOMA CITY,
327% E. Grand Street, OKLAHOMA.
THE PROGRESSIVE TAILORING COMPANY
MAKERS OF LADIES AND GENTS CLOTHgS
Fifteen Years of Experience prepares Us to Give You the
BEST IN QUALITY AN SERVICE
WE CLEAN AND PRESS
And Guarantee Absolute Satisfaction.
F. EF, DICKSON. Proprietor.
PHONE 3077 TULSA,
14N, Cincinnati St. OKLAHOMA,
| The Bob Russell company No. 2 is
almost @ permanent asset to the
Dreamland ‘Theatre, so well have
these folks pleased ‘Tulsuites that w«
care not thinking of allowing them te
leave. ‘They are producing the goods
and that’s what the public want, As
time rolls on the company wins
stronger ties in the friendship of
the theatre-gores here of our city,
Work tearing down Vernon Chapel
A. MoE. Church will start this week
to make room for the modern edifice
which will be erected by that Gor
aregation
There will be seven graduates
rom the Booker Washington High
School of our City this year,
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES:
OF GEO. R. SMITH COLLEGE
| Sedalia, Mo., May 22-29, 1919.
| Thursday, May 22—P, M.—Smith
sonian Literary society,
| Saturday, May 24—P. M.—Presi
dent’s reception to seniors.
| Sunday, May 25—A. M.—Lov
feast.
Sunday, May 20:15 A. M
Haccalaureate sermon, Bishop J. C
Hartzell, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sunday, May 25—3:00° P.M
Conference sermon, Rev. Wo W
Go, St. Louis, Mo.
Sunday, May 25—8:00 P, M.—An
‘nual Lecture, Dr. DuBois, New York
Sunday, May 26—Field Day, AL
lumni program, address, Rev. W. H.
Houston, Forestell, Mo.
‘Tuesday, May 27.—A, M—Gram-
mur school exercises, Address, Rev.
EW. Hannar, Troy, Mo,
Tuesday, May 27—P, M,—College
seniors’ farewell program.
Tuesday, May 27—Contest of
choirs of conference program.
Tuesday, May 27.8230 P.M.
Musical department,
Wednesday, May 28—A, M—Final
chapel.
Wednesday, May 28—P. M.
Graduating exercises — preparatory
department, Address, Rev. AL Le
Reynolds, Kenlock, Mo.
Wednesday, Moy 28—Moeeting of
bourd of trustees,
Wednesday, May 28—Graduating
exercises normal department.
‘Thursday, May 29—10:30 4, M.—
Graduating exercises, college de-
partment. Address, Bishop W. \
Quayle, St. Louis,
On Tuesday and Wednesday there
will be exhibits by domestic science
and art departments,
Many friends are making a silver
offering for this anniversary year.
On Monday a dinner party was:
served by Mrs. PB. L. Hardy at the
Booker T. addition in honor of Mrs.
W. M. Henderson, city; Mrs. W. M.
James of Bartlesville; Mrs, Authur
W. Bell, city.
On Saturday, May 15, the jury in
the District Court returned a verdict
of, ‘manslaughter in the first degree.”
against Robert MeIntyle for the killin
of Lee Chatman last summer, and the
Judge gave him fours in thepeniten-
tury.
Mrs Grace Williams, clerk at the
Hoffmans grocery, on Ne Elain, is on
the sick list this week.
When in Muskogee, you can find a
nice place to rest and
NICE COOL ROOMS
With Hot and Cold Water
111 1-1 8, Second Street
(Over 'T, J. Elliott’s Clothing Store)
Phone 3506 Mrs, Y. K. Yates, Prop.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
‘
Dr. R. H. Waterford, M. D,
wlood, sul asd grime teil mane In eearaleetioea te tecreniae the at
ease Of each patient, x
Dr. Waterford has had many years of experience and is now engaged
in the study and practice of these diseases.
CONSULT HIM AT TIS OFFICE
Office Phone 461, Residence Phone 462
2001 South 2nd. Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma,
W. Cy Reid Investn.ent Company
| FARM LANDS and LOANS
WC. REDD, C,H. AMBROSE
| Eseoe Bu ilding—Ground F loor,
Phone 1436 Box 991 MUSKOGEE, OKLA,
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7 VEN DAY AND NIGHT
_ Terms Reasonable
Home UndertakingCo, No, 2
Undertakers and Funeral Directors
Automobile
Uearse and '
Hp-to-Date Fe
Service
wer memnnvernvs #
We Carry
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OF Up-to-Date Furnishings
HM. W. RAGSDALE, MGR
hones; DAY, 4280 Night, 3925 TULSA OKLA 3
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The Red Wino Hotel]
CAVER'S FRENCH DRY CLEANING
Hatters and Tailors
HEAD QUARTERS FOR LADIES’ FINE GARMEN
pe ee a, a ee ae ee a
Both Dry and Wet Cleaning
| Specially uf Ladies’ Evening Gowns, Party Dresses, Kid Gloves
| ur sets, We clean, Blenck and Block all kinds of Hats. We have
| Complete Outtit of Sanitary Dry Cleaning Machinery, A Modern Plan\
| 'surts MADE To ORDER—5,000 Samples for you to Select from.
| Work Guaranteed, Our Dust.Proof Auto will call and deliver to all pa
of the city
| Office: 8 North Cincinnati St.
|PHONE 3132 TULSA, 0!
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52 Strictly Modern Rooms
A Plava For The Best People
CAVER'S FRENG
Hatters ar
HEAD QUARTERS FOR
Both Dry ang
Specially uf Ladies’ Evening Ge
Fur sets. We clean, Bleack and Bh
Complete Outtit of Sanitary Dry Cl
SUITS MADE TO ORDER—5,00
Work Guaranteed, Our Dust. Proof
of the city
Office: 8 Nort
PHONE 3132
Watch for the Red Glove, the great
Serial picture, which will start soon.
Watch the Bulletin for the date.
Real Estate Money to Loan
Bought & Soldd ;
E. 1, SADDLER
Attorney at Law
Practice in all Courts of the State
of Oklahoma, both State and Fed.
application.
Office Hours
8:30 a. m. to 6:30 p,m.
Office Red Wing Hotel
QUALITY ROOMS FOR RENT
Strietly Modern, With Bath
Every Thing Just Like Home.
PRICES REASONABLE
Miss Daisy Holman, Prop.
Phone 5042
23 1.2 N, Cincinnati St,, Tulsa, Okla.
When in Haskell, Visit
STRADFORD'S CAFE
BEST HOME COOKING
Up-to.Date MEALS in Any STYLa
Cold Drinks, Tobaccos and Cigars
C. STAFFORD
Post Office Box 281
East Main St., Haskell, Okla.
J.T. Presley, J., Proprietor
The Best Arranged and Best Con.
dueeted Colored Hotel in the Coun.
try. If you want Arstslass » com
modations, stop at « me
RATES PER DAY. ..50, .75, $1.
SPEC'L RATES BY tHE WEE
[ DRY CLEANING
1 Tailors
LADIES’ FINE GARMENTS
Wet Cleaning
wns, Party Dresses, Kid Gloves
ck all kinds of Hats. We have
aning Machinery, A Modern Plant
Samples for you to Select from. Al
\uto will call and deliver to all pa
Cincinnati St.
TULSA, 0:
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HOTEL GIVENS
Quit asa Mouse Safe as a Ba
Bring Your Families
Mr, and Mrs, R, A. Giving
The Jewelers
Phone 2137
226 Elgin Muskogee, OI
IF YOU WANT THE BEST
GO TO THE
AMERICAN CAFE
112 N. Greenwood St.
Everything Sanitary—Best
in Town
SPECIAL SERVICE FOR PAR
0, B. BAGSBY, Prop,
Fi FOR SALE
AN ALL WOOL SPRING
A BARGAIN
CALL 625.
KINGS PALACE
For Confectioneries, Stati
Toilet Articles, Tobaccos &
EVERY THING FIRST C
Courteous Treatment
H, KING, Prop.¢
135 S. 2nd Bt, Muskogee,