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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1918)
GIVES HER EIGHTH SON TO THE NATION Colored Mother Proudly Refused to Claim Exemption For Her East liny. Greensboro, N. C., Oct. 4.—She was old and wrinkled, her ebony face seam ed with years of toil, but there was a determination reflected in her eye. as with firm step she led her eighth and youngest son to the court house and presented him to the legal advisory board. In due time, with her stalwart son at her side, she was seated before a member of the board, and together they were answering the questions contained in the questionnaire. “Do you claim exemption for any reason, young man?” asked the law yer. | Great I SALE!! $20,000 Worth of «; || Ladies’ High Class | Samples of i Cloaks, Suits, 1 I Dresses and jj I Furs 1 ^ 3; At l-.‘l Off and Less ^ |< Don’t buy till you price f. our garments. Most reason- j: able Cloak Store in Omaha. ',{ I A. Sonof f j 3 . « 1 109 Douglas Street. The young Negro turned an inquir ing eye toward his mother, but before he could answer, she broke in: “No, sir, I’m not going to claim any exemption for him at all. I’ve already got seven sons in the army and they’re all right over in France for democracy right now; and I think I can get along somehow without them until they all come back again, so if Mr. Wilson neers this boy to help kill the kaiser, the 1 I'll offer no objection at all.” So, on the strength of this state m'ent, the lawyer marked an “X” on the line opposite the words “single man with no dependants,” and a proud old mother walked away rejoicing in the knowledge <Jf a duty well done and a husky youth made ready to join his seven brothers “over there.” Buy.a Liberty band and make the world safe for democracy. LODGE DIRECTORY F. & A. A., York Rite, St. Luke’s Lodge, No. 14, will meet the first and third Monday nights in Knights of I’ythias hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets. All members take J notice. Wm. Bridges, W. M.; J. E. j Johnson, secretary; H. C. Watts, | treasurer. Gate City Lodge, No. 6674, G. U. O. of O. F., meets the first and third Monday of each month at Petersen’s hall, 24th and Burdette sts. W. H. Payne, N. G.; R. L. Woodard, P. S., j 4912 South 26th st. South 4459. Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M„ Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays of every month. Lodge room, 2201 Cuming street. 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. 9596, G. U. O. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month at L. B. F. Hall, 24th and Charles. R. S Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. i International Order No. 631 Col ored Engineers and Portable Hoisting Enginernen meets at 2225t4 Lake street first and third Wednesday in j each month. W. H. T. Ransom, pres ident; J. H. Headly, Cor. Sec.; J. H. Moss, Rec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas. Faithful lodge. No. 250, U. B. F., ! meets second and fourth Fridays in each month at Rescue hall. Visiting | brethren welcome. Earl Jones, W. M.; James Tubbs, W. S. Lodge rooms at 24th and Charles streets. Vacant two nights each week. Persons wanting to rent same, coll Allen Jones, rental agent, Web ster 1100. Fish! Fish! Fish! We always carry all kinds of Fish and Oysters. Cheese and Butter Department All kinds of Cheese and Oood Butter and Eggs. Our Grocery Dept. Is replete with good things to eat. Meats are our long suit. The most quality for your money in the city. If you want your money to put down the high cost of living, trade with us. Watch our ad in The Monitor next week. PUBLIC MARKET WANTS YOUR TRADE lfith and Farnam Sts. First Natl. Bank Bldg. . .. ..-.... . Telephone 1158. Rates Reasonable Electric LightH, Gas and Hath, in Same Block as Bath House. One Block of Car Line. /1 The Clardy MODERN TWO STORY BRICK ELAT With or Without Board. MR. AND MRS. S. CLARDY, Props. 419 Cottage Street. Hot Springs, Ark. COLORED MAN TAKES LARGE SUBSCRIPTION Shreveport, La.—What is expected will be the largest individual subscrip tion in Caddo parish, Louisiana, in the fourth Liberty loan drive is that of David H. Raynes, a Negro who lives at Vivian, about twenty-five miles from Shreveport. Raynes purchased $100,000 worth of Liberty bonds. He is the owner of valuable oil lands and oil royalties have made him wealthy. —Star-Telegram. (Advertisement.) IMPORTANT — During these times of high prices it should behoove every family to seek the prices that will best suit their pocketbooks. You cannot do that with out investigating the pieces and goods of the various business firms. During these war times the cheapest goods are almost too high for the poor man to reach, and for that reason the big business firms are curtailing their ex penses and so co-ordinating and sys tematizing their operation that they can sell their goods at the lowest pos sible margin. It is, therefore, in keeping with this theory that the Obee-Hunter company, undertakers and embalmers, have pur chased their own auto livery. They purchased a black and grey hearse, one closed and one five-passenger touring car. The same can be inspect ed at their garage, which is adjoining their undertaking parlors at Twenty fourth and Hamilton streets. Their object was to handle only the livery business through the Colored undertakers. They' offered them their livery cheaper than they were getting it from the other fellow'. They were of the opinion that the Colored under takers would readily give them their livery business, because they were all Colored and should work together in order to give their people the benefit of low’er prices and at the same time open up a new field of employment for them. Rut, with the exception of Mr. Russell, the other Colored undertakers could not see it that way, so the firm has determined not to let their cars stand idle. There has been so much just com plaint on the part of our ladies about the rough and uncouth manner in which they have been handled by the white drivers is another reason why the Obee-Hunter company thought that the other Colored undertakers would be glad to patronize a race firm. But not so with them. How they can ask Colored people to patronize them because they are Col ored, and THEY themselves will not patronize a Colored man, is hard to I see. Mr. Obee endeavored to combine the undertaking firms in order to cut out two of them and thereby lower the overhead or running expenses of all, | which would have finally resulted in j lowering the cost to the public; but | they were afraid that Obee was con niving to put them out of business. Mr. Obee pointed out the various men that he had been in partnership with and had done business with and for, and asked them to inquire of these people as to his business honesty and integrity. He told them that he was in the grocery business with Rev. W. F. Botts; in partnership with Mr. George Watson, jr., several years; was in partnership with Messrs. John j Dickerson, J. G. Jewell, George Wat son & Phannix in buying and building the Mecca. He was president of the company and largely handled all the business end of the firm. He invites YOU to inquire of these people any thing you wish to know about him. Mr. Obee offers this explanation to all strangers: that the people who knock his business, as a rule, are the ones he has defeated in politics or peo ple who owe him. He has and still OFFERS a $200 REWARD to ANYBODY who can go before three disinterested judges and prove that he ever SWINDLED or BEAT THEM or anybody else OUT OF A SINGLE PENNY, OR OVER CHARGED THEM FOR ANYTHING. (Cut this out and bring it with you or keep it.) CHEAP FUNERALS (1) For $120 Will furnish you a gray or any other colored plush casket, trimmed complete; embalming, hearse, one five passenger closed car and grave. (2) For $100 Will furnish everything same as above, with a black broadcloth or Eng lish crepe casket. (3) For $85 Same as No. 1, but black or white crepe furnished. A fine gray ambulance at $4 per trip. A fine closed five-passenger car for rent at all times, per hour, $2.50. Hearse to cemetery, $8 per trip. Heuise to cemetery for charity fu nerals, $5. Give this Colored enterprise a call. Open day anil night. NEW LOCATION OBEE-HUNTER UNDERTAKING COMPANY 24th and Hamilton Sts. Web. 1055 Buy Liberty bonds! MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK GOES OVER TOP IN LOAN DRIVE Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 4.—The Mu tual Savings bank has the distinction of being the first bank of our race in this country designated as a deposi tory of the government, the honor be ing conferred upon it because of the splendid records made by the bank in the Liberty loan campaigns. In the first loan twelve persons subscribed through the bank for $2,000 worth of bonds; in the second 464 persons sub scribed for $25,000, and in the third 1,925 persons subscribed for $102,000' worth. The quota of the bank was set! at $5,700 and the bank handled over | twenty times its allotment. The easiest way to win an argument | is to keep quiet. CLASSIFIED ADS BILLIARD PARLORS CAPITOL BILLIARD PARLOR Cigars and Tobacco. Barber shop in connection. All kinds of choice candies, chewing gum and soft drinks. Service to our guests our specialty. Athletic and baseball headquarters. Webster 1773. 2018 North 24th St. Charles W. South, Prop. BLACKSMITHS j J. W. STAPLETON South 2571.5825 South 23d St. j DRUG STORES THE PEOPLE’S DRUG STORE Douglas 1446. 109 South 14th St. 1 ADAMS HAIGHT DRUG CO., 24th and Lake; 24th and Fort, Omaha, Neb. COLORED NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES FRANK DOUGLASS Shining Parlor. Webster 1388. 2414 North 24th St. j SOL. LEWIS JEWELER Fine Watch Repairing and Diamond Setting. Victrolas and Grafonolas. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted With a Guarantee I DR. A. B. TARBOY, OPTICIAN 20 Years with the Omaha Optical School. Weh. 2012. Cor. 24th and Parker ...... PROTECT YOURSELF j Gpt a Home Casualty Company I Sick and Accident Policy . The protection is for : working men and women, j RICHARD HUESTON, j 521 N. 22d St. Lincoln, Neb. j - ..______—,.r * Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. DR. CRAIG MORRIS I DENTIST 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 402 l j PATTON HOTEL AND CAFEj N. A. Patton, Proprietor j j 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. j Telephone Douglas 4445 62 MODERN AND NEATLY { FURNISHED ROOMS . .. . i , . .....—t Automobile and Open , Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night |ONES ® CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer.- , t.. . ..... ........ ..4 AUGUST ANDERS N j j GROCERIES AND FRITH j Good Goods—Fair Price i Webster 2274 24th and C'la | t~. Res. Colfax 3831. Douglas 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 13th and Farnain C. ZUCKER The Reliable .. Milliner .. IlllMill IIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll LATEST CREATIONS AT POPULAR PRICES 1615-17 North 24th Street. Webster 2556 You will find that our assortments are large enough to satisfy the most discerning taste at all prices. Each hat represents a new expression in millinery. We Make and Retrim to Suit the Customer. Telephone Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 2672. Douglas 7812 and 7150 i I i Pope Drug Co. I i Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. 13th and Farnarn Streets. Omaha, Nebraska Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women Established 1886 i l j GOOD GROCERIES ALWAYS I C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. Also Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2046 Cuming St. Telephone Dougina 1041 ( t ........ ... ... ..... . . i 9 J. H. Russell & Co. UNDERTAKERS Successors to Banks & Wilks 1914 Cuming Street GEORGE MILLER, Embalmer Day Phone, Red 3203. Night, Call Douglas 3718 WARDEN HOTEL | On Sixteenth Street at Cuming. STEAM HEATED ROOMS—HOT AND COLD RUNNING WATER—BATHS j By Day for One.50c, 75c, $1.00 By Day for Two.$1.00, $1.25, $1.50 J By Week .$2.00 to $4.50 BILLIARD PARLOR IN CONNECTION FOR GENTLEMEN WHO CARE EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO HEART OF CITY Douglas 6332. Charles H. Warden, Proprietor. --BUY THRIFT STAMPS It « :t s; j: :: .::: x :: j: :::: x x x'x :: x x x.x x.x x'X.X,x'x,X.x x:.X'x.x-x x:x.x,x;X:x.xxiXi'x':8:.w,x.x.x it M I Office Dnufjlas 2421 i Dr. C. H. Singleton j: DENTIST Office Hours 109 S. Fourteenth St., t 9 to 12 A. M. 1 to 6 P. M. Omaha, Nebraska |