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2022 No. 24th St. Tel. Webster 3320
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For Sale at Leading Drug Stores
and Confectioners.
Made by
THE FAIRMONT CREAMERY
COMPANY.
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THE NEW WONDER
HAIR GROWER
Makes the Hair Soft and Straight
Directions—Wash the hair ev
ery two weeks and apply the Oil
three times a week. Comb with
straightening comb. It promotes
growth of the hair, and keeps the
scalp in healthy condition.
Compounded by
MRS. D. LYONS
8 Blain St., Kansas City, Kan.
Agents Wanted.
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jWerter De Vaughn
\ SEEDS AND NURSERY
| 1614 Harney Street
j Telephone Tyler 2060
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Omaha Reed & Rattan Co. I
16th and Jones Streets i
(Castle Hotel)
PORCH FURNITURE
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Electric
Pressing Oil I
Wash the hair with toilet soap, j
apply Growing Oil to the scalp and t
Pressing Oil on hair and then use I
pressing irons. t
Compounded by I
MRS. D. LYONS
8 Blain St., Kansas City, Kan. t
Agents Wanted. *
tPATTOlT HOTEL AND CAFEj
J N. A. Patton, Proprietor T
1014-1016-1018 South 11th St. I
Telephone Douglas 4445 f
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ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
GIVES TO COLORED SCHOOLS
New York, N. Y., June 17.—The Gen
eral. Education Board of the Rocke
feller foundation, at its annual spring
meeting held here May 26th, made, a
total appropriation of $789,980 to sev
eral colleges and educational research
funds.
For the annual maintenance of
six schools, $81,000 was appropriated.
This was distributed among Spelman
Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., which receiv
ed $20,000; Hampton Institute, Hamp
ton, Va., $25,000; Tuskegee Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala., $25,000; Morehouse
College, Atlanta, $5,000; Fisk Univer
sity, Nashville, $5,000; and Maysville
Industrial School, Maysville, N. C.,
$1,000.
For the equipment of Negro Normal
schools in North Carolina, $109,430
was appropriated. For preparation
of a study into the best methods of
training teachers for rural schools; a
study of the progress of the education
of the Negro as developed at Hamp
ton and Tuskegee Institutes, ana a
survey of higher education m Mary
land, $50,000 was appropriated.
MOBILE MOB LEADERS
ARRESTED AND FINED
Mobile, Ala.—Eleven white men
were arrested on charges of rioting
when a mob of about 500 surrounded
the county jail in a disorganized and
futile effort to lynch a Negro wanted
for a crime committed at Toulminville.
Governor Henderson ordered out the
State troops under command of
Colonel Maddox, and the city police
force assisted Sheriff Holcombe and
his deputies in dispersing the crowd.
Two of the white men wrere fined $50
and costs for having concealed weap
ons, and one a policeman was put in
jail. Cases against others wei« con
tinued.
The Sheriff was ordered by the gov
ernor to let no one in the jail and the
militia was ordered to shoot anyone
who attempted to break through the
lines. Troops were left on guard at
the jail, while others slept on their
arms at the armory. The man wanted
at Toulminville has not even been
arrested.
YOUTH WORKING HIS
WAY THROUGH SCHOOL
Is Leader in Music, Athletics and
Scholarship
Beloit, Wis., June 17.—Jack Wells,
Beloit high school’s representative,
won first place in the state high
school oratorical contest. He won the
first in the Beloit home contest, first
in the district contest at Whitewater,
thus gaining a place among contest
ants in the state contest at Merrill.
Wells was bom in Tennessee and his
parents were slaves. He made his way
to Beloit in search of work and entered
high school last fall. He has been m
the front rank of all high school ac
tivities, scholarship and athletics. He
played on the high school football
team and baseball team and is a
member of the school glee club.
Wells is working his way through
school. He is the first Beloit high
school student to win the state con
test and his schoolmates and the Be
loit faculty gave him an enthusiastic
demonstration upon his return to Be
loit from Merrill.
TWENTY THOUSAND AFRICAN
SOLDIERS KILLED AT VERDUN
Paris—The Germans have lost 800,
000 men at Verdun, while the French
losses have totaled not more than 120,
000, Col. Feyler, Swiss military critic,
estimates in a Geneva newspaper.
“The Germans must remember that
they are the assailants and that they
have lost 100,000 men a month without1
decisive results,” continued Col. rey
ler. “The French, on the other hand,
have lost less than half as many men
and are confident of success. Included
in the French losses are 20,000 African
troops.
“The crown prince used five new;
divisions in this week’s fighting. They
now have at least fifteen or sixteen
army corps engaged, or a force of
effectives of at least 800,000 men.”
EDITOR GRIFFIN DIES SUDDENLY
Kansas City, Kan., June 17.—It was
quite a shock to the community when,
on last Friday evening, the news
reached the people that Mr. A. D.
Griffin, editor of the Kansas Elevator,
a negro Democratic publication, had
suddenly died at his desk at 845 Min
nesota avenue.
Mr. Griffin had not been feeling
well for some time, but no one thought
of his illness being of a serjous nature.
The deceased was bom in Kingston
La., June 11, 1868, and while quite
young went to California, where he
number of years He came to Kansas
established a paper and ran it for a
in 1907, and until about three months
ago was on the Topeka Plaindealer.
His death occurred Friday evening
June 2, at 9:15.
TULSA STAR NOW A DAILY
The Tulsa Star, Oklahoma’s Colored
weekly, which has been successfully
edited by A. J. Smitherman, for
several years, is now being issued as
a daily. It is the only race news
paper in the country
COLORED BOY DROWNS
SAVING WHITE PLAYMATE
Crystal City, Mo., June 17.—Jesse
Wyatt with several other boyB, white
and Colored, were bathing in 1’lattin
Creek. This creek runs through prop
erty owned by a foreigner who object
ed to the boys crossing his field.
While they were swimming the farm
er’s wife got a revolver and fired
point blank at the boys. They were
so frightened that a white boy sank
and cried for help. Jesse went to
his rescue, and just after getting the
boy out of deep water, he was
swept into mid stream by the cui
rent and although a good swimmer
was unable to stem the current and
went down.
“Greater love hath no man than
this.”
COLORED MILL WORKERS
BROUGHT FROM SOLTH
Cleveland, O., June 17.—Between 700
and 1,000 Colored laborers have been
brought to Cleveland, Ohio, from the
South to work in the mills, and agents
are at work to secure more, who will
arrive in a short time. The Colored
men are regarded as more patient than
white unionists as workers and are
the rounding up of the Southerners.
Grow with Growing Omaha.
CHASSTORZ
Start Saving Now
One Dollar will opi-n an account In tin- J
Savings Departmi ni 4
of the
United States Nat’l Bank
16ih and Farnam Streets
HENRI H. CLAIBORNE \
Notary Public f
Justice of the Peace {
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Moving Vans and Piano I
P oving, Packing, Shipping’
GORDON VAN CO.
11th and Davenport I ou^los 394 -
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STATE FURNITURE CO.
Corner 14th and Dodge Sts.
as I lie most reliable, accommodat
ing and economical furniture store
to buy from.
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(The Right Kind)
MRS. HATTIE M. DAVIS
Jenkins’ Shop Red 3357
Will Answer Out-of-the-Shop Calls
for Women Customers.
IORHlEP.HUf.SK C. H T. RIF.PEN U
Harney 8267 Hiirnev 6664
HULSE ® RIEPEN
Funeral Directors y
Doug. 1220 701 So. 10th St. I