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Events and Persons Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Travis, who were called to Omaha by the death of Mr. Travis’ mother, returned to their home in St. Paul, Minn., Monday night. Attend the Shriners’ Sixth Annual Ball at the Mecca, February 14.—Adv. Mrs. Lillie Johnson has returned from a delightful month’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Lizzie Irvin, at her home in Dallas, Tex. Mrs. Johnson’s sister, Mrs. Mary Puckett, returned with her and is so well pleased with Omaha that she has decided to make it her home. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Webster 5519 or Douglas 2842. Mrs. Sadie Long, 2517 Lake street, was called to Duluth, Minn., Monday by the death of her sister, Lily Cot toms. YOU attend the Camouflage Ball given February 22 by the O. N. E. club joys at Peterson Hall.—Adv. Rev. W. C. Williams left Monday Evening on a business trip to Kansas City. Mrs. L. E. Britt has been confined to her home with an attack of la grippe. Ladies tailoring and dressmaking. Mrs. E. M. January, 2310 N. 25th St Webster 1483.—Adv. Henry Brown and Miss Elizabeth Malone were married by the Rev. J. Costello at his parsonage Tuesday bight Smoke John Ruskin 5c Cigar. Big gest and Best.—Adv. Mrs. H. R. Roberts, who underwent a serious operation at St. Joseph’s hos pital Tuesday of last week, is slowly improving. The Mission Circle of Bethel Baptist :hurch met with Mrs. Lulu Whitby and Mrs. B. F. Lee, 5219 South Twenty binth street, Thursday. She Shriners expect you. When? February 14. Where? At the Mecca. Why? Because you enjoy dancing and the Shriners’ Ball is THE Ball of the season.—Adv. Mrs. F. J. McCullough, who has been on the sick list, is convalescent. “Are you going to the Shriners’ 3all?” What a foolish question. Of tourse I am! It's at the Mecca. I have reserved the date. February 14.—Adv. SPECIAL H 0 M E OWNERS’ EDITION The Monitor of March 2 is to be a special illustrated Home Owners’ Edi tion, showing some of the many beau tiful homes owned and occupied by our people in this city. Home owmers who are willing to have half-tone cuts of their homes for this special edi tion are requested to send us photo graphs of their homes not later than February 22. Attend Kensington luncheon Mon day afternoon from 2 to 5 at the resi dence of Mrs. J. F. Smith, 2414 Bin ney street. Prize for neatest work. You may get it. Luncheon, 2B cents. —Adv. NEWS OF ST. JOHN’S A. M. E. CHURCH A large and appreciative audience was in attendance all day Sunday at St. John's. At 11 a. m. the pastor preached a soul-stirring sermon on “Woe unto them in Zion’’ (Amos i:6). In the evening the choir rendered a program which was a real treat and much enjoyed by all. Collection for Ihe day, $139. The Bible class met this week with Mrs. W. J. Costin, 2717 North Twenty eighth avenue. Mother Ewing is still on the sick list. Lieutenant Bundrant worshipped at Bt. John’s Sunday. He spoke briefly pf Camp Dodge and conditions. The date is Monday evening, Febru ary 18. Popular contest and infant ex hibition. Don’t fail to see Omaha’s favorite. First prize, $5 in gold; sec pnd prize, gold baby ring; third prize, gold baby breastpin.—Adv. You are welcome to attend all serv ices at this church. Come and bring a friend. IN MEMORIAM In Memory of a Loving Father, Hum ble Christian and Faithful Friend. • Nelson P. Taylor was bom in Rock ingham county, Virginia, November 23, 1841. From 186f> to 1886 he re sided in Wheeling, W. Va., where he married Mrs. Abbie White, a widow. Seven children were the fruit of this union, of whom Mrs. Martha Smith of Omaha, Neb., is the youngest living. From Wheeling he removed to Lincoln, Neb., in 1886, remaining there until 1912, when he went to Pasadena, Cal., to live with his daughter, Mrs. M. EJ Palmer, pastor of Grace Gospel taber nacle, at whose residence he fell asleep February 10, 1917. The remembrance of his-tender love as father, friend and Christian, still lives in the hearts of those he sojourn ed with in the days of his earthly pil grimage. Tuskegee Holds Annual Conference Important Questions Are Discussed; Accomplishments of Year Reviewed; Loyalty to Country Proclaimed; Declaration of Principles Issued to Nation. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.—The twenty-seventh annual Tuskegee Con ference closed a most successful ses sion January 26. Prominent leaders of both races were present in large num bers and the addresses on vital race questions were full of information and marked with a spirit of patriotism. Loyalty to the country was pledged and past loyalty cited as an assurance for the future. The following declara tion of principles was issued: The Tuskegee Negro Conference, through its twenty-seventh annual ses sion, takes pride in the record of loy alty and patriotism made by the Ne groes since America has entered the war. Notwithstanding our many han dicaps, the Negro has given freely to the Red Cross and other war relief ap peals, and this conference voices the expression of the earnest desire of the Negro to do his full share in helping our country in the great struggle it is so bravely making for liberty and jus tice. Whether on the farms, in the mines, as workers behind the line or in the trenches, we pledge ourselves to do our share. To the Negro farmers of the South this conference repeats what it has been saying for the past twenty-five years: “Stay on the soil, buy land, improve your farming, diversify your crops, raise and save more foodstuffs and thus help the South to feed itself; make your home more comfortable so that your children will be contented and will not leave the farms. Improve your schools and give more support to your churches.” Because of the unusually high prices which farm products of all varieties are bringing, farming offers greater opportunities now than ever before. The conference advises that in the midst of this prosperity you do not waste your money. Invest in lands, buy homes, buy farm machinery and add to the property which you already have. The conference also urges the Negro farmers to buy more and better live stock, especially hogs and cows, in order that more butter and pork may be produced to meet the increasing de mand. You can help to win this war by investing some of your surplus money in thrift stamps, war certifi cates and Liberty bonds. With reference to the farm labor sit uation, the indications are that in the North and in the industrial centers which are rapidly developing in the South, there is going to be an increas ing demand for labor, and that efforts will be made to continue to attract a great deal of this labor from the farms of the South. To those who employ farm labor this conference suggests that every effort be made to keep the laborers comfortable and contented. It will be necessary to pay higher wages and to make more liberal contracts with tenants, especially in the matter’ of the amount of cotton or other prod ucts which shall be paid. Tenants and farm laborers can be made contented by being provided with better living conditions, good school buildings and longer school terms. This conference regrets to find that there are still many communities in which the school terms for Negro children extend only three or four months. Full protection in the courts and just treatment in all dealings, business and otherwise, will also help to make these tenants and laborers contented and more inclined to remain on the plantations. This conference notes with pleasure the increasing amount of money that is being spent by states and counties to improve Negro rural schools, particu larly to aid in erecting Rosenwald school buildings. It is also gratifying to note how the white people of local communities and the state legislature are appropriating money and co-oper ating with the federal government un der the Smith-Lever act and Smith Hughes act to educate the Negro on the farm and to make of him a more intelligent producer and a better citi zen. This conference is pleased to note the increasing number of instances where representative white and black people of various communities are coming together and are having a bet ter understanding with reference to their common interests, und are co operating and working out their prob lems, and meeting the difficulties which this world war has placed upon the South. Go where the goers go. You will be sure of a good time at the Camouflage Ball to be given Friday, February 22, at Peterson Hall by the O. N. E. club boys. Admission, 26c.—Adv. Remember that date, February 22, at Peterson Hall. Admission, 26c.— Adv. Plain sewing done. Children’* clothes a specialty. Mrs. L. Johnson, Webster 1621.—Adv. AN OLD OMAHA RESIDENT DIES AT ST. CLOUD Mrs. Mary Travis, aged 70 years, wife of John Travis, deceased, bom in Alexandria, Va., in 1848, died at St. Cloud, Minn., February 1. Mrs. Travis came to Omaha in the winter of 1866 and lived here until the death of her husband, some ten years ago, when she left to live with her son, R. N. Travis, who was then located at Du luth, Minn. Mrs. Travis had been in poor health for the past eight years. She made a number of trips to different places for her health, but finding no relief she returned to St. Paul, Minn., where her son for the past four years has been in business. She spent the past eleven months at St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, a Roman Catholic institution, lo cated at St. Cloud, Minn., at whicn place she died. She is survived by her son, who took pleasure in making her declining years comfortable. The fu neral was held from Brailey & Dor rance’s chapel Monday afternoon, with interment at Forest Lawn. The Rev. John Albert Williams officiated. DABNEY HERE IN INTEREST OF COMMUNITY HOUSE Fred W. Dabney of Kansas City, Mo., is in the city as the representa tive of W. C. Houston, chairman of the Camp Funston National Army District Colored Soldiers’ Comfort and Welfare fund, in the interests of the Omaha campaign for the Camp Fun ston Community House. A committee of citizens is being or ganized to launch a vigorous ten days’ campaign to raise $3,500 towards the $20,000 needed for the proposed com munity house for Colored soldiers at Camp Funston. Full particulars in next week’s Monitor. The Grand Council club of the Daughters of Bethel will give a sup per for the benefit of the Grand Coun cil Thursday, February 14, from 6 to 11 p. m., at the residence of Mrs. Anna Banks, 924 North Twentieth street.— Adv. $50.00 cash and $18.00 monthly buys a five-room cottage. Tel. Webster 5519 or Douglas 2842. MADAME HENDERSON HAIRDRESSER and MANICURIST Agent for the Celebrated Madame Walker Preparations. The Walker Method Taught. Diplomas Granted. Phone Webster 1489 2304 N. 25th St. Omaha, Neb. t ..IIIIIMIIIIIItllllilMIllllllMlHlIlllllMMI.....mi...nlllltNUINIIIIIIMIIIl .-linin'r--r—ntin-n -T immi I Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women Established 1886 X For dressmaking, call Miss Alexan der. 2413 N. 29th st. Web. 3927. LODGE DIRECTORY Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Fridays of every month. Lodge room 24th and Charles. P. H. Jenkins, W. M.; W. H. Robinson, Secretary. Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P., Omaha, Nebr. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. H. A. Hazzard, C. C., J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Weeping Willow Lodge No. 9696, G. U. O. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month at U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Charles. R. S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. International Order No. 631 Col ored Engineers and Portable Hoisting Enginemen meets at 2225% Lake street first and third Wednesday in each month. W. H. T. Ransom, pres ident; J. H. Headly, Cor. Sec.; J. H. Moss, Rec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas. NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Estate of Elizabeth Harden, deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court, praying for the pro bate of a certain instrument now on file in said Court, purporting to be the last will and testament of said deceased, and that a hearing will be had on said petition be fore said Court on the 18th day of Feb ruary, 1918, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 18th day of Feb ruary, 1918, at 9 o’clock a. m. to contest the probate of said will, the Court may allow and probate said will and grant ad ministration of said estate to Susan E. Rice, or some other suitable person, enter a decree of heirship, and proceed to a set tlement thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD. 3t County Judge. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the Matter of the Estate of Samuel E. Harden, deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in said Court alleging that said de ceased died leaving no last will and pray ing for administration upon his estate and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said Court on the 18th day of February, 1918, and that if they fail to appear at said Court on the said 18th day of February, 1918, at 9 o’clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to Susan E. Rice, or some other suitable person and proceed to a i settlement thereof. BRYCE CRAWFORD, 3t County Judge. Buy Good Groceries From Your Own Groceryman J. L. BETTS 2526 Lake St. Web. 5262 I HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Boy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO MnRBI JAY BURNS BAKING CO. ! *". » « ‘ ---* | I OMAHA TRANSFER CO. ••The Only Way" BAGGAGE Checked »o Destination TEXAS WHFN IN | TEMPLE, TEXAS STOP WITH ! Mrs. 1. S. Dawson 218 South 4th Street i Who gains pleasure in making you comfortable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Write or wife for accommoda tion. File Your Income Tax Return Before March 1st. Better do it today. Help the government and protect your self; clearly a patriotic duty. Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. . -— .— « LMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII^ I Dunham & Dunham 1 = MAKERS OF THE BEST I $15.00 | SUITS AND OVERCOATS IN THE WORLD REPAIRING, CLEANING AND PRESSING E 118 South 15th Street. Omaha, Neb. Ej fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiimiiimiii? , .-.—. ft j 1 9 1 6 CUMING STREET burning Comfortable Room^--Reasonable Rates Douglas 2466 D. G. Russell, Proprietor A Church Where All Are Welcome Services Sunday School, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. League, 6:30 p. m. Florence P. Leavitt Club, Mon day afternoon. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday Evening. W. H. M. S. Thursday Afternoon i GROVE METHODIST CHURCH I^l“’ 22"d and Seward Sts., Omaha, Neb. Reg 162g N 22nj w«b.’ 5Q03 I _f------- ----------- -- - I Obee-Hunter Wakefield I Undertaking Co. 1 LICENSED EMBALMERS I Funeral Home, S. W. Corner o. wade obee 21st and Cuming Sts. nat. hunter j 0ldu^lnrOmaUhnaer' PHONE DOUGLAS 8103 Ret. SS'nT'28th Ave. j taker In omana. Phone Web. 4740 WE DO OUR OWN WORK and Guarantee It to be the Beet That Can be Had and at the Moat Reasonable Price*. For Cash or Secured Ineurance. Crep; Cloth Ca*ket, Auto Hearse, 7-Passenger Car, Robe and Embalming ,*75 Crepe Cloth Casket, Dead Wagon, Carriage, Embalming, *50 J. H. WAKEFIELD, MGR. SOUTH OMAHA BRANCH 4430 South 16th St. Phone South 2614 It You Cannot Get Mr. Wakefield, Call Main Office, Webster 816. Council Bluff* Calls Answered Promptly. Why Not Give Us Your Business. Our Fast Auto Service Will Bring Us to Your Door In 30 Minutes. | Largest and finest chapel and parlors In the city. Free auto to parlor* end casket factory for family. If you need advice or a friend, call on u» Always open. Ring, and ring again, until you get us.Webster 816. If you cannot get the parlors, call Hunter's residence, Webster 4740. Credit Cheerfully Extended to AM Worthy. We belong to the Masons, K. of P.'s, U. B. F.'s and Tabors.