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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1916)
General Race News FRIEND OF EX-SLAVES DIES AT NINETY-TWO Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. 18.—Miss Esther Douglas, whose quiet gracious life full of good deeds for others, a benediction to thousands who called her their little friend, passed away Tuesday, August 8, at 7 o’clock at the Home for Aged Women. Death came peacefully at the age of nine ty-two years. Much of her life was spent as a teacher and she chose to be a mis sionary to the Negroes of the south. It was chiefly in the Carolinas where she labored for the uplift of the race. In later years many of her former pupils journeyed to Cedar Rapids to visit her. For Thirty Years a Missionary. Miss Douglas was a young woman ^ when she began to teach une Negroes. She began her work a year before the Civil War closed and continued as a missionary among them for many years or until her health failed. Then she came north. For fourteen years, nine months and eight days she had been a resident of the Home for Aged Women. She was bom in Hanover, Mass., 92 years ago June 12 last. EAJS 7 WATERMELONS AT ONE SITTING j El Cantro, Cal., Aug. 18.—Finan cially embarrassed and ravenously hungry, John Anderson walked 125 miles from San Diego here in search of work. W’hen he spied a watermelon patch at the end of his hike, he lost no time in eating seven watermelons immediately, and then living off mel ons for several days. He was picked up on the highway in great pain, and when taken to the hospital had 10 have an operation performed. Two quarts of melon seeds which were causing the difficulty were removed from Anderson’s stomach. He ex plained to the physician that he was too hungry to bother with elminating the seeds. C OLORED SOLDIERS ENTER A RIGID PROTEST San Francisco, Cal., August 18.— Thirteen Colored soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry of Hawaii, U. S. A., have protested to the war de partment for alleged mistreatment on the part of officials of the Pull man company because they were forc ibly removed from a Pullman car at West Berkeley and relegated to a car where, they claimed, there were “accommodations unfit for American soldiers.” Under the leadership of Sergeant Fred Washington, the men left the train at Berkeley and returned by street car to Oakland where they framed their protest. ONLY RACE MEN ALLOWED NEAR DEUTSCHLAND Baltimore, Md., August 18.—JNo white man was permitted to get within hailing distance of the sub marine merchant freighter Deutsch land while she laid at the pier in Spring Garden. The captain would employ none but Colored men, and these, we were informed, had to take a solemn oath which enjoined them to secrecy. They were well paid for the services performed. BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS FOR NEGROES Washington, D. C., August 18.— To help Colored boys beocme practi cal farmers and to assist Colored girls : in becoming competent housewives, the U. S. Department of Agriculture | in co-operation with the state colleges I is organizing throughout the south Farm Makers’ Clubs for rural chil ! dren. This activity is thoroughly organ ized in Virginia, North Carolina, Flor 1 ida and Mississippi. The chief object of these clubs is to encourage Colored farmers, par ticularly in the cotton sections, to raise some food instead of devoting their entire attention to a single crop. According to reports, the county superintendents of schools and teach eas of elementary schools are sup porting the work actively, and state agricultural colleges and the tech nical schools established for the race are active co-operators in the larger phases of the work. REFUSED PERMISSION TO GO TO PLATTSBURG CAMP St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 18.—When a Negro youth named Mills, a Sumner high school graduate, asked to be en rolled in the St. Louis contingent to the fourth Plattsburg military train ing encampment, B. H. Bratney, who, in the absence of F. O. Ludlow, now at Plattsburg, is acting enrollment secretary for St. Louis, did not know what to do. Bratney appealed to the officer in j charge of the Military Training Camp I at Governor’s Island, New York, and ! received a telegram saying that while i there is no color line in the army, | ihere is one at Plattsburg and that the applicant cannot accompany the i It. Louis contingent. RACE MEN INSTITUTE CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH Memphis, Tenn., August 18.—A \ campaign of health education for the race was started Saturday by Rev. Sydney Scott, who arranged for a Chautauqua to be held under a tent at Mississippi boulevard and Wicks avenue. Rev. Mr Scott presented his creden tials to the city board of health, and his plans to aid in teaching the bene its derived from antitoxin to com bat the typhoid fever have been ap- | roved. Many attended the lectures. _ REGIMENT TO BE FORMED AT PITTSBURG Pittsburg, Pa., August 18.—Pre liminary steps have been taken to organize the First Colored Infantry Regiment of Pittsburg. A recruiting office will be opened at 212 Fourth avenue. Alfred H. McClelland has been chosen colonel of the organiza- j tion, and a full staff of offiecrs has 1 been selected. BIRTHDAY OF REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA July 26 was the birthday of the lit tle republic of Liberia. Although the first colony of slaves from America went out to West Africa in 1820, it was not until 1847 that the Indepen dence from the U. S. was declared. Liberia has a population of lover 1,000,000. AMONG RAIL ROAD MEN— BUFFET PORTERS GET RAISE By J. William Shields. The salary of the buffet porters over the Union Pacific system was raised to fifty dollars July 1st. Chas. Watson of Los Angeles, Cal., is now in charge of a buffet from Chicago to California. Ed. Patton, an old U. P. man, is in the Pullman service out of Denver to the coast. John Thomas is running in the (lin ing car service U.* I*, to Los Angeles, Cal. T. E. Perkins and Gerald Moore are pleased with the run on the Los An , geles limited from Omaha to the | coast. J. E. Torrence, C. C. Dudley, Frank Rogers and Lewis W. King are de lighted with the fast track of the Pa cific Limited from Omaha to Salt Lake, Utah. Lewis Hatch, late of Los Angeles, Cal., who has been everywhere three times, is the traveling waiter on the Union Pacific, jumping from “limb to limb” from Pocatello, Idaho, to Pen dleton, Oregon, He is very popular among the boys. Eugene Howard, Jr., is running on the private car of the superintendent of the Union Pacific. He is an ener getic and deserving young man and should succeed. Veteran Sam M. Dukes, who is on the O. W. limited, Omaha to Portland, says the track is getting faster ever> day. The D. C. men should guide their temper and quit pulling off fights on the train. If you are bullies, go to war. Having returned from my vacation, .his letter will appear every week, trusting that the boys will continue their appreciation of the same as in the past. Mr. David Thornton, the most pop ular clerk of the Golden West Hotel, Portland, is well known and highly re spected by the railroad fraternity for his mild and genial disposition. Every railroad man running west can be seen at the Golden West. Bud Slaughter is now in charge of a parlor car of the S. P. and S. R. R. from Portland to Seaside, Oregon. He says Portland is all right, but he is Omaha bound. W. B. Greer is on the Pacific limited from Omaha to Salt Lake. Do you note the man who often when asked questions, will say “I don’t know.” Don’t call him a dum my. He is a man who don’t feel dis posed to answer foolish questions, which is often the case, but prefers attending to his own business. Messrs. O. Rountree and Frank Douglas of the new president’s private car of the Union Pacific R. R., say things don’t seem as they used to seem to seem. Eddie Rawn is in love with the Los \ngeles Limited to the coast. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM MEET IN OMAHA The Supreme Grand Lodge of the Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jeru salem will assemble at the A. M. E. Church, 18th and Webster streets, August 28, for a four days’ session. A delegation of about 100 will come from Kansas City on the 27th of Au gust with the drill team from that city. They will march from the de pot through the principal streets to the Interdenominational Peoples Mis sion Church, on 10th street nealr Podge, from which place they will be sent to their various places of enter tainment. The morning of the 28th the session will open at St. John’s Church. There will be a grand parade and picnic at the South Side Country Club. CIVILIANS AND ALABAMA SOLDIERS IN MIX-UP Montgomery, Ala., August 18.— Corporal Stroneker, C Company, Sec ond Regiment, Alabama National Guard, was seriously wounded August ], and two privates from the mobili zation camp here were slightly in jured by birdshot fired into a crowd >f soldiers in a suburb, as the result of a controversy with a crowd of young Colored men. Mrs. J. B. McGowan, of 2517 Miami lias been indisposed for several days. Buy a Home Without Any Cash I)o You Know How? Ask about it at 721 BRAN DEIS BUILDING ^.. “ " 5* :: n '' » - H « « « «;« '* K « « - A U A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A, j Great Western Circuit j j RACES ■ j A I i $12,500.00 IN PURSES f g August 22-23-24-25-26 jj SPEEDWAY TRACK 1 RACES WILL START PROMPTLY AT 2:30 EACH AFTERNOON. This is the first Great Western Circuit meeting ever held in | j. Nebraska. Several of the big eastern stables will be here. Single admission to track and grandstand, 75c; season tickets, “ good for all five days, $2.50. Tickets now on sale. OMAHA DRIVING CLUB | Edw. Peterson, '’res. O. M. Smith, Sec’y. DIRECTORS: § E. Buckingham T. C. Byrnes L. P. Peck Edw. Peterson | ^ ^ ^ M- C* Peters ^ ^ ^ ^ O. M. Smith §