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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1917)
|=»==inF=: ■ ir=ir=-iwr==ii=n^-iHr===ir=j 0 General Race News j n—■» —r=iar=====H=ir===iBi-r~n=n—■—==inif====ir=jJ KOAD DISCOURAGES NEGRO EMIGRATION Southern Railway Will Take No Ac tion in Accommodating Labor Movement to North. Washington, D. C.—In the effort to discourage the emigration of Negroes from the South which is reported to have assumed such proportions that it is difficult in some localities to secure sufficient Negro labor for farm work and other local needs, the manage ment of the Southern Railway System has adopted the policy of taking no action to accommodate this travel in the future. Orders have been issued to discon tinue, efective at once, the assembling holding and using of extra passenger and baggage cars for laborer move ments an otherwise to discourage the Negro exodus from the South in every legitimate manner. Urges Business Men To Find Jobs. Representatives of the development and traffic departments have received instructions to devote their energies to the promotion of a campaign to induce the Negro to remain in the South, and bankers and business men are being urged to endeavor to find employment of some kind for all sur plus Negro labor in their communi ties. Following is the plan suggested for the Southern representatives to follow' ir the instructions issued on the sub ject: “We should endeavor in each com munity to have some man make it bis special business to interest the Negro preachers and have them take strong ground against the people of their race being lured away by promise of higher wrages in other sections, point ing out that any advantage that the Negro might get by moving away w'ould almost invariably be temporary and that in the long run it will be to his advantage to stay in the South, v.'here he is known and where bis la bor wall always be in demand.” DECLINES TO NAME COLORED OFFICERS Boston, Mass.—The action of Col. Warren E. Sweetzer, of the Sixth Massachusetts Reeiment is not certi fying any Colored men to the military training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., has called forth many protests. Companv L. of the regiment is com posed of Colored men. but the recom mendations of Capt. J. Holman Prvor for the camp were ignored and the companv has no representation. Sweetzer gave as bis reasons for not naming Colored men that tbev would not be allowred to command whites. ELECTED TO COUNCIL FOR THE THIRD TIME Wilmington, Del.—Dr. John O. Hop kins w'as elected city councilman from the Sixth w'ard for the third successive time last Saturday, receiving a major ity of about 200. He and Dr. Con well L. Baston conduct a drug store at 12th and Walnut streets. WRITES CLASS SONG Boston, Mass.—At the recent inter class song competition at Radcliffe College, Miss Mary M. Gibson, a jun ior, came out victorious. Her compo sition is entitled “Just on the Other Side.” PEEKSKILL OFFICIALS PRAISE FIFTEENTH Peekskill, N. Y.—So commendable was the deportment of the Fifteenth Regiment while at the State Rifle Ranger, Peekskill, that letters prais ing the conduct of the men were sent to Governor Whitman, Major General O’Ryan and Col. William Hayward by Leverett F. Crumb, President of the Village of Peekskill. The communication to Col. Hayward follows: Office of the President of the Village of Peekskill, Peekskill, N. Y., June 2, 1917. Col. William Hayward, Fifteenth Infantry, Municipal Building, New York City. Dear Sir: Permit me as President of the Vil lage of Peekskill, through you to com mend the men of the Fifteenth Infan try, while in camp near Peekskill, and particularly when off duty. We are | ■ 9 accustomed to having regiments of soldiers camped upon our borders, and have them about our streets and I think it is but fair to say that the deportment of the Colored men under your command was exceptionally en titled to commendation. During their seventeen days’ stay here there was not a single complaint made to our police, even to the extent of rowdyism, which in so large a number of men is an exceptional record. The soldierly deportment of your men is highly appreciated by our com munity, and we have no doubt that if they should be mustered into the United States service they will be heard from as a gallant regiment. Very truly yours, (Signed) LEVERETT F. CRUMB, President. (OLORED DEMOCRAT GETS SMALL SLICE OF PIE Richmond, Ky.—Prof. J. D. M. Rus sell, principal of the high school here 1 as been appointed postmaster of Wil berforce, O. Prof. Russell owns land in Wilberforce and having been a life long Democrat was given the job through the efforts of Senator Beek ham of Kentucky and Senator Pom erene of Ohio. The place pays $1,800 a year and under the new postal laws is a life time job. It is the only place of its Tcind and the biggest of any kind given the Colored people by the pres ent administration. FIRST ELEVATOR GIRL IN ROCHESTER STORE Rochester, N. Y.—Mrs. Loretta Bond, a member of the race, has the distinction of being Rochester’s first elevator girl. She is employed by the Walter E. Bedell Company Store. Her uniform is of khaki, trimmed w'ith brass buttons. She took charge of the elevator after a former operator had enlisted in the army. HONOR EX-GOV. PINCH BACK Washington, D. C.—Two hundred members of the race participated Sat urday night in a reception and lunch eon at Odd Fellows’ Hall, tendered to former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, ,r. commemoration of the 80th anni versary of his birth. The occasion is conceded to be one of the most nota ble of its kind in the Nation’s capital. Farmers Oil & Gas Co. A Home Company 612-613 Paxton Block, Omaha, Neb. Wells Now Drilling on Adjoining Leases THIS COMPANY IS VERY FORTUNATE INDEED, IN HAVING ADJOINING OUR LAND, MANY LEASES HELD BY BIG PRODUCERS. WE ARE CLOSE TO PRODUCING WELLS. IT IS PRAC TICAI LY THE SAME AS IF MANY TESTS WERE BEING MADE ON OUR LAND, AND YET NO ONE SO CLOSE AS TO EFFECT THE VOLUME OF uUR WELLS. The Farmers Oil and Gas Company owns 160 seres of land in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. It also owns Lease on 40 acres in Butler County, Kansas, and lease on 600 acres in Wilson County, Kan sas. There are large producing Oil and Gas Wells close to our holdings. 800 acres, all in the great Mid-Continent Oil fields. Our pian is to sell these lots, out of this 160 acres which is blocked into lots 400 square feet each, giving a W’arranty Deed and an absolute Title forever to the purchaser of any lot or lots of which the deed participates in all wells drilled by the said Farmers Oil and Gas Company, on any of their lands or leases. Our holdings are in the heart of rich production. Ill OUR IRON CLAD GUARANTEE The Company will give one free round trip railroad ticket from any town in Neb., to our holdings to the purchaser of 30 lots or more, or to any one purchaser representing a club of 30 or more lots sold, and after a thorough investigation of the oil fields and the Company’s property with a member of the Company, should he then be dissatisfied with his investment, every dollar that has been paid the Com pany will be refunded. Could any Company make such an unheard of proposition if they did not know that the property is even better than they represent it to be? Who could ask a better guarantee? Positively never since the beginning of the present greatness of the Kansas Oil Field has the public ever been offered an opportunity like this. The Company cannot undertake to do drilling unassisted by outside capital, and we will not ask people to invest their cash in stock certificates only. Instead we will give each investor an actual deed to a piece of the land. The Company will drill (10) ten or more wells with the money received from sale of lots and every lot owner will share in the profits from the wells pro rata. Success is not a question of age. You may be old or young. It is only a matter of seeing your opportunity and being ready for it. OS NOW AT $10 PER LOT, AS THE PRICE WILL BE ADVANCED IN A OR MORE. 1RDER FOR LOTS IN THE FARMERS OIL & GAS CO. 613 Paxton Building. Omaha, Neb. Jentlemen:—Enclosed please find $. lyment in full for.lots at $10.00 each. Tiis Company reserves the right to refund all money received 3e lots have been sold or advanced in price. deed to ... (Name in full) Street and City.