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£. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Peters Trust building, Jackson 3841 or Har ney 2166. Shumpert Logan, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Griffin G. Logan, a junior at the State University, Lincoln, ar rived home Friday and left Monday for Portland, Ore., where he will be employed during his vacation. John W. Gatus left Tuesday for Mounds, 111., to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Owens, who died in Chicago Sunday at the res idence of her daughter, Mrs. Lucile Harris. Mrs. Owens made many friends in Omaha when she visited her daughter, the late Mrs. Gatus, a lit tle over a year ago. Howard Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Allen, former Omaha residents, but now of Los Angeles, passed through Omaha Sunday morning en route home from Howard University, Washington, D. C., where he is a med ical student. Diamonds and jewelry loans, quick service, safe and reliable. Diamond Loan Co. N. W. comer 16th and Chi cago. — Adv. Garnett Anderson of Los Angeles, Cal., was an Omaha visitor last week. Hear William Pickens, field secre tary of the N. A. A. C. P„ New York, at mass meeting, St. John’s A. M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon, June 14, at 4 o’clock. T. P. Muhammitt is serving on the jury. The Phi Delta Girls held their reg ular monthly meeting Wednesday night with the Misses Jones, 2811 Caldwell street. Join the N. A. A. C. P. NOW! The Wednesday afternoon Bridge club gave a dancing party Monday night at Hanscom Park pavillion. The Royal Dukes gave a largely at tended dance Saturday night at Dreamland Hall. The Misses Valeria Crews and Agnes Thomas of Lincoln were Oma ha visitors Memorial Day. They were the guests of Miss Gladys E. Brown. The D. D. Whist club was enter- < tained by Miss Grace Dorsey at her home, 3043 Parker street, last Friday night. Two new members, Mrs. Nevada Isimack and Miss Gertrude Jones, and a visitor, Miss Dorothy Williams, were present. The whist prize was won by Miss Teressa Jones and the hostess’ prize was given to Miss Dorsey. Spring Hill Baptist church, Thirty third and Emmett streets, Rev. M. H. W’ilkinson, pastor. Regular services Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. and Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. William H. Newsome is again de tained at his residence, 2419 Blondo street by illness. Master Hayward Baker, who makes his home iwth Mrs. S. B. Canty, 2409 ! Blondo street, must think the Jinx has got hirm He returned home a few days ago from the detention hos i pital where he had been confined with 1 small pox, and Wednesday he was badly bitten by a dog. ! * OMAHA WAITERS’ ASSOCIATION The Omaha Waiters’ Association ' met at their club rooms, 2427 Lake street, Monday, June 1. Special out- ; lining for the summer season was! the topic. Several new members were | enrolled. The Club’s Whist Tournament is about drawing to a finish. Announce ment of the contest will be published in next week’s issue of The Monitor. Get The Monitor, hoys! The Association is highly lauding The New Era upon its complimentary remarks on the association’s progress and achievements. As Count has been one of us he knows what to say. Therefore he gives credit where credit is due. Long live The New Era! Say, boys, as all the country clubs have made their initiative, let’s get down to business and give them the best you have in the shop. If you don’t possess a personality, manufac ture one. Punctuality and efficiency will get there. Atta boy! Hurrah! Who blew into town last week? A live wire member, our old friend A. C. Rrown, after a tour of the middle west for six weeks with a carnival company. When the train pulled into the station he woke up and started, "There’s No Place Like Oma ha”. It was a combination train of Pullmans, diners, baggage, via box curs. “Rut I am here, boys!” Mr. George Lomax left last week for Ogden, Utah, and will run be tween Ogden and Oakland, Cal., in the U. P. dining car service. Happy Hollow Club opened Satur day in all its splendor. The regular crew, Thomas Rennett, .1. H. Fitzger ald and Jas. Griffith, were on deck. Mr. Arthur Nealy of the U. P. sys tem came in smiling Monday. He said he was loaded to the hub. He had a smile coming and pay day, too. —C. H. Spriggs, Correspondent. MONTHLY MEETING OF OMAHA BRANCH N. A. A. C.P. The Omaha branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will hold its regular monthly meeting Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., Twenty-second and Grant street. Music will be furnished by the male quartette of Pilgrim Baptist church and an address will be deliver ed by Attorney W. H. Hinton on “The Place of the N. A. A. C. P. in Oma ha’s Life?” Important business will he transacted. Public invited. i! “The Fire in The Flint” < ► < * The Great Race Navel of the Day : * By WALTER F. WHITE V A thrilling story depicting race conditions in tha South. ♦ Critical book reviewers pronounce it a master- ;; I piece. 4; Should be read by EVERY AMERICAN. Black \ or White. J 1 $2.50 A COPY For Sale by The Monitor and the Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. « J. F. Taylor Dairy Products SEASONS CHANGE, BUT OUR PRODUCTS NEVER. IN SUMMER AS IN WINTER. A full line of fresh dairy products every day at lowest market prices. Also— HOME MADE ICE CREAM Quarts..50 Pints.—25c FRESH BUTTERMILK delivered to your door twice each week. Leave your address at ' 2116 NORTH TWENTY-FOURTH STREET ■ LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT » _ The New Era Baptist Association of Nebraska convenes with Bethel i Baptist Church, Omaha, South Side, • June 8-14, inclusive. All pastors and ; churches, take notice! 1 - Dr. W. F. Botts and a number of i his church members motored over i from Omaha last Thursday night and worshipped at Mt. Zion Baptist church revival services, conducted by Dr. C. C. Harper of Dallas, Texas. Mr. H. S. Anderson and family of j ! Omaha were Lincoln visitors Sunday, j Mr. Anderson, state Sunday school superintendent, made his annual visit to Mt. Zion Sunday school. I Remember the big June financial rally at Mt. Zion Baptist church next Sunday, June 7th. Clubs are urged to report without fail. The revival services which were J conducted by Dr. C. C. Harper of Dal | las, Texas, at Mt. Zion Baptist church for the past ten nights, were closed Sunday night. Dr. Harper left Mon day for a brief stay at Omaha before going to his home. Miss Carmel Botts was over from Omaha and sepnt a few days with her father, sister and brother. Mr. Milton Johnson left Tuesday for his home in St. Joseph, Mo. | Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Galbrath have begun laying the foundation of their home on South Eighth street. Rev. M. C. Knight and his members are preparing for their financial rally during the first part of June when Bishop Carey of Chicago will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. M. C. Knight. William Pickens, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., New York City, will speak here next Friday night. A mutual life insurance company is : being organized by enterprising col- | | ored citizens of Los Angeles. ; - X EYER-STRATE HAIR | X DRESSING | •j* Special Treatment for liobbed Hair | •j; MRS. C. C. JOHNSON f j- 1515 No. 26th St. Web. 1984 Bay a Nome! QUIT PAYING RENT! j | I have a number of bargains • | ; in homes, 6, 6 and 7 rooms, well ] j ! located; am able to sell at 1260 ! j and up; balance monthly like ; ' rent. Here Are Some Bargains: ; 6 rooms, modern, paved street, ; near car line, $2,860; $260 ' ! ; cash; balance $27.50 per mo. ] ! 0 rooms, modern, garage for , two ears, south front, paved ■ I ! street, $3,750; $300 cash, bal- ' j ance $30 per month. E. M. DAVIS REAL ESTATE We. 6178 1702 North 26th St. ! i Try our | WET WASH j | Service x I SOMETHING f I DIFFERENT | | and BETTER | X Your clothes will be proper- X Ily assorted and washed. $ NO FADING | NO SHRINKING X Standard | J Laundry | j | WEbster 6055 | j I .I YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY»*YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ****«*4»***MWw*H«M*f*»*******4***»**X*‘X“X*****»'M*******M»**«M*****4«<W**«**«**»4***4******«**«**»*4«**»'M*M«*****»MXM»*****5MiM«i | Your ollar Now May | 1 Save Another’s Life! I tt tt ft $1.00 A YEAR MAKES YOU A MEMBER ff vv yy VV Membership fees paid to the National Association for the Advance- Vv yV ment of Colored People is money paid to SAVE LIVES and safeguard >*Y YY Civil Rights in America. All the money it receives is used to fight the VV YY Negro’s battles here at home, where he lives and where he suffers. ***S* YY DEFENDS YOU YY YV If your wife, sister or sweetheart is insulted in a public place or con- VV YV veyance, if your neighbor is barred from seeking a better home because VY YY of unfair residence segregation laws, if your friend, husband, brother or YY YY neighbor is jerked to jail and probable death on trumped up evidence— YY YY the A. A. C. P. takes up the cudgel in their defense. And the N. A. A. C. P. is as strong as your dollar makes it! ♦♦♦♦♦♦ Why You Should Join the N. A. A. C. P. II Yf 1 YY yV THE OBJECT: JUSTICE YY This Association exists in order to combat the spirit of persecution ♦%♦♦♦ J which confronts the colored people of this land, safeguard their full polit- J { V « ical, civil and legal rights, and secure for them equality of opportunity VV y V "'ill1 a" other citizens. W X*l* IS THIS NOTHING TO YOU? XX X*** Do you know that nearly 4,000 Negroes were lynched in the United XX ♦ ♦♦♦ States within the past 35 years and that YOU might have been one of XX l X these victims? t t * Lynchings in 1924 were reduced to 17, the lowest in thirty-five years, X $ X largely because of the work and influence of the N. A. A. C. P. The N. W V l A. A. C. P. in fighting lynching is safe-guarding your life. Is it worth VV yy $1.00? yy ♦•♦y Do you know that in every community there are organized efforts to ****** yy restrict the lawful rights and privileges of colored citizens? ****** y*/ The N. A. A. C. P. exists to safe guard these rights. For example ♦♦♦♦!♦ ♦J»y —with money and skilled legal talent the N. A. A. C. P. is fighting a yy residential segregation case m the United States Supreme Court, the de- ***X X*** cision of which will affect every Negro property owner in the United XX XX States. f yy X Do you not know that in many communities the Negro is the victim X X yy of gross injustice? The N. A. A. C. P. was victorious in a six-year fight VV y X costing $15,000 against peonage in Arkansas, securing the release of 67 W ♦t*y farmers and SAVING THE LIVES of 12 others who had been condemned ****** ****** to death. ****** The last of these prisoners were released January 14, 1925. Because ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦*y a number of colored farmers in Phillips County, Ark., held a meeting in yy yy 1919 to employ counsel to force the white owners to make an honest ac- XX X*** counting, they were attacked, a number killed, and the rest were rail- * ? ♦ t roaded through the courts on a charge of “inciting a riot and killing white y yy men.” For six years the N. A. A. C. P. never gave up, battling for the yy yV rights of these men through every court in the state, finally winning a yy complete victory in the U. S. Supreme Court. ***%* I! PRAY AND PAY FOR JUSTICE!! 8: yy yy yy CHURCH TEAMS READY FOR CAMPAIGN 4*4 4%^% • X Pleasant Green Baptist Church—Saul Jackson, Captain.Quota 100 XX y J Pilgrim Baptist Church—Mrs. Senora M. Wilkinson, Captain. ..Quota 100 ♦ ♦ yy St. John’s A. M. E. Church—James A. Clarke, Captain.Quota 100 yy yy Grove M. E. Church—Yancey W. Logan, Captain...Quota 40 yy ♦>y Zion Baptist Church—H. L. Anderson, Captain.Quota 100 %♦♦♦♦ yy St. Philip’s Episcopal Church—B. B. Cowan, Captain—.Quota 60 yy XX Mt. Moriah Baptist Church—C. E. Wilson, Captain..Quota 50 XX XX Morning Star Baptist Church—Mrs. Mary Byers, Captain..—.Quota 10 XX yy CHURCHES TO REPORT^ LATER ♦♦♦♦*♦ yy Allen Chapel (South Side), Bethel Baptist (South Side), Bethel A. yy yy M. E., Cleve Temple C. M. E., St. Benedict’s, Spring Hill Baptist. yy II OMAHA’S GOAL, 700 MEMBERS § yy SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP—$1.00 per year yy yy XX THE CRISIS AND MEMBERSHIP—$2.50 per year yy ♦♦♦y CERTIFICATE MEMBERSHIP—$5.00 and $10.00 per year yy DONORS—All Subscriptions Above $10.00 yy ****** PRIZE OFFERS ♦♦♦V The Church reporting quota first receives $25. The Individual re- vY porting the largest number of memberships over 50, a trip to the Annual ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦*♦ N. A. A. C. P. Convention in Denver, Colo., or price of same. <£+«£* The Individual reporting the next largest number of memberships ♦*♦♦♦♦ Ja over 50 receives a set of books edited by the Official Staff of the N. A. t i 44 A-c-p- 4.4. 44 OFFICERS OMAHA BRANCH 44 YY REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, President YANCY W. LOGAN, Secretaiy YY C. C. GALLOWAY, Vice-President H. L. ANDERSON, Treasurer. ♦*♦♦♦♦ 1 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE JUNE 1-15 | YY Headquarters, North Side Bazaar 2114 N. 24 Web. 5566 ♦♦♦♦!♦ YY Y? 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