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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1918)
New Poetry Surrounds 9 Dan Desdunes’ Boys Greenleaf and Bloodhart, funny men of the World-Herald, pay tribute to famous local Colored band: Music Hath dharms To soothe the savage breast, Even ours And that is why We have so long Been ardent pluggers For Dan Desdunes And his motely array Of rollicking jazzists * Who prance our streets In nearly every Parade And block the traffic With the gang That follows ’em But. it was only recently That, we realized The real caliber Of this curly wolf Desdunes And we take This occasion To do him homage And to hurl wads Of sweet-smelling nosegays In his direction And to strew his path With our encomiums And other vegetables, For in peering Over the war map The other evening We discovered That Dan has a fort / Named after him On the English channel In France Which is probably the reason Why he snorts These patriotic airs So grandiferously Fort Desdunes F ranee Must be some village And we hope To move there After the Kaiser Croaks. .... ♦ HE S ALL RIGHT” Charles O. Lobeck Candidate for Re-election Election November 5, 1918 • ! 4-»—— ■ —a « • .. »..«■ National Tire Shop Hermann Nachschoen, Prop. New and Used Tires Repaiaing, Retreading and General Vulcanizing Accessories! Car. 17th and Cipitol Avenue, Phone Douglas 6427 »-« ■ ■ > - » ——.> » » • • • ; j The Western Real Estate Co. j I EUGENE THOMAS, Manager j ■ i Room 413-414 Karbach Block j | | Houses on Small Payments, $100.00 and Up. City Real Estate. Farms and Ranches Bought and Sold. Houses j j 1 For Rent. Loans on City and Farm Property. 1 We Represent the Best Fire and Tornado Insurance Companies. J j Rents Collected for Non-Residents and Taxes Paid. I * NOTARY PUBLIC. j | Phone Douglas 3007 OMAHA. NEB. j / *--—-~ | A. F. PEOPLES | .{* Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating. | Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. i 4827 Erskine Street. Phone Walnut 2111. .£ WH^kJ - Cio^ The Colored Ameri can In War Work Issued From the Office of Emmett .!. Scott, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War. Washington, D. C., Oct. 24.—There are now fifty chaplains in the United States army. The September call for selective draftees, issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder, included 29,016 Col ored men. In the total of 1,900,000 American '. roops sent overseas, a goodly pro portion may be accredited to the Ne gro race. This total was given by the war department officials at a re cent hearing before the house commit tee on military affairs. Many press reports, commenting on the American army in France, inti mate that the Germans have a whole some fear of Colored troops in ac tion. General Pershing is lavish in h s praise of the Colored soldiers and has testified officially that they show marvelous c lness under shell fire, and an entire regiment, as well as in dividual Colored soldiers has been cited for decorations of honor. Preliminary to ‘he recent session of the National Baptist convention at St. Louis, a patriotic meeting was held at the Coliseum, in the course of which 10,000 enthusiastic Colored peo ple proclaimed their loyalty to the United States. A long parade, a chorus of 300 voices and a program of stirring addresses and songs, fea tured the celebration. The general theme of the orators embodied a re view of the part which the American Negro is playing in the destiny of the nation from the time that slavery was first introduced, through the civil and Spanish-American wars, into the pres ent conflict. IL DE5D ■5 QV! —By Courtesy of the World-Herald. Detroit, Michigan, has opened a well-appointed club house for Colored soldiers at 282 St. Antoine street. Mrs. E. D. Trowbridge is chairman of the committee in charge. Roscoe S. Doug las, of the Detroit Urban League, is general director. At a recent meeting of the Califor nia Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs at Los Angeles, the governor of the state delivered an address that stirred the audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. The governor was escorted to the platform by Wil liam Edgar Easton, the well-known journalist, orator and literature au thor of “Dessalines,” etc., and member of the speakers’ committee of 100 for California. DRESSMAKING SCHOOL Learn how to sew in from six to eight weeks. Latest methods. Thor ough instruction. Reasonable terms. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call, write or phone for catalogue and full infor mation. Mrs. C. Ridley, 1922 North Twenty-fifth street.—Adv. — (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 prices 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 lower prices and at the same time open up a new field of employment for them. But, 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 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 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 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 eveiything same as above, with a black broadcloth or Eng lish crepe casket. (3) For $83 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. Hearse to cemetery for charity fu nerals, $5. Give this Colored enterprise a call. Open day and night. NEW LOCATION OBEE-HUNTER UNDERTAKING COMPANY 24th and Hamilton Sts. Web. 1055 HOLSUM AND KLEEN MAID Why Buy Inferior When The Best COSTS NO ,"'T»ET JAT BURNS BAKING CO. »■ ■ ..■ * »■« * « . SOL. LEWIS JEWELER Fine Watch Repairing and Diamond Setting. Victrolas and Grafonolas. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted With a Guarantee < DR. A. B. TARBOY, OPTICIAN 20 Years with the Omaha Optical School. Web. 2012. Cor. 24th and Parker . ■■ ■■« ■ • « ■ i Friedman Bros. 4 Shoe Repairing Shop The place to buy new shoes. Supply depot for ev erything for foot comfort. 211 So. 14 th St. Omaha | ' I Hill-Williams Drug Co. PURE DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLES Free Delivery j Tyler 160 2402 Cuming St. The Business World Business Enterprises Conducted by Colored People—Help Them to Grow by Your Patronage. DR. CRAIG MORRIS ' DENTIST | 2407 Lake St. Phone Web. 4021 !■«« - . . . I PATTON KOTEiTaND CAFEt N. A. Patton, Proprietor I 1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. j Telephone Douglas 4445 ! 62 MODERN AND NEATLY { FURNISHED ROOMS I j ... . i Automobile and Open Horse Drawn Hearses Day and Night JONES a CHILES FUNERAL HOME Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly anywhere Web. 1100 and Web. 204 Licensed Embalmer. ! «... AUGUST ANDERS N GROCERIES AND FRUITS Good Goods—Fair Prices Webster 2274 24th and Clark. Res. Colfax 3831. Douglas 7150 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at-Law 13th and Farnam ... . . . . . . . . ..—1 C. ZUCKER The Reliable .. Milliner .. iiiiiiiiMiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiii 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. I Telephone Dr. Britt Upstairs Douglas 2672. Douglas 7812 and 7150 > Pope Drug' Co. Candies, Tobacco, Drugs, Rubber Goods and Sundries, t PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. i 13th and Famam Streets. Omaha, Nebraska > ....... .«... ... ... « ■ * . 'good’groceries aLwAt's' ..* C. P. WESIN GROCERY CO. AIm Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 2006 Cuming St. Telephone Douglas 1006 { t- .—- - .... i ■ i 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 By Day for One.50c, 75c, $1.00 By Day for Two.$1.00, $1.25, $1.50 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 i i jj Office Douglas 2421 i ;• j Dr. C. H. Singleton 1 DENTIST 1 1 1 Office Hours 109 S. Fourteenth St., | 9 to 12 A. M. 1 to 6 P. M. Omaha, Nebraska 1 IreiaiaigmiaigiKiCTuigXiigMfflBWgagXig^igxiaxigixgwxxiuxu hskssj «..«aaaBHffiSifr Ware Candy Kitchen 1508 North 24th St. HOME MADE CANDIES, FRESH EVERY DAY. ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS Ice Cream, 45c a Quart. ARTHUR A. WARE, Prop. —