MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI CLOSES BUSINESS IN THIS STATE Hon. Crittenden Clark, one of the most prominent attorneys of St. Louis and present grand master of the Masons of Missouri and jurisdiction, in company with the following grand officers: Dr. Crossland, St. Joseph, Mo.; Eugene Lacey, Willis G. Mosley, Fred Dabney, Kansas City, Mo., and | P. L. Pratt, Cameron, Mo., were in our city the 18th, 19th and 20th, closing up the business affairs of the Missouri jurisdiction in this state. □ Owing to the recent establishment of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Nebraska and its juris diction it was necessary from Masonic custom and usage for Missouri to re frain from doing further business in the state of Nebraska and to release all lodges in this state still holding charters under their jurisdiction. Grand Master Clark of Missouri called an occasional Grand I,odge of Missouri Friday, the 19th, assisted by the following grand officers: Dr. Crossland, St. Joseph, Mo., senior grand warden. Eugene Lacey, Kansas City, Mo., junior grand wry den. Willis G. Mosley, Kansas City, Mo., grand relief secretary. Fred Dabney, Kansas City, Mo., dis trict deputy. P. L. Pratt, Cameron, Mo., grand lecturer. After the business pertaining to the lodges in this state holding charters of the Missouri jurisdiction had termi nated and expressions of regret in severing connections, and success and goodwill having been extended to them, Grand Master Clark of the Mis souri jurisdiction then turned the gave! of authority over to the Hon. Nathaniel Hunter, Omaha, most wor shipful grand master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Nebraska and Jurisdiction, who then proceeded to call the two grand lodges into a joint session. The following officers of the Ne braska jurisdiction were present: Perry R. Warner, Omaha, deputy grand master. Jonathan N. Thomas, Omaha, grand junior warden. Walter L. Seals, Omaha, grand lec turer. Charles W. Dickerson, Omaha, grand o-vnr deacon. After an unlimited exchange of fra ternal greetings and the appointment ef the grand representatives to the Grand East of each Grand Lodge, the representatives of Missouri then dis played that flow of oratory for which they have long been known, in the of ficial acknowledgment of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Nebraska and its Masonic Jurisdiction, and hoped for them many successes. The joint session of the Occasional Grand Lodge was closed in the most befitting manner by Nathaniel Hun ter, grand master of the state of Ne braska and its jurisdiction. The visiting grand officers were highly entertained during their brief stay in our city and openly expressed their regrets as to not having had their Grand Lodge entertained in this state. They left Saturday evening for Mis souri much pleased and enjoyed. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS IN THE ** NORTH PROSPER Over Four Companies Have a Cap italization of Over $2.35,000, With Excess Sales of $30,00(1—Ohio Leads All States. Columbus, O., Sept. 24—As a result of inadequate housing conditions in several of the most important indus trial centers to which Negro work men have gone in large numbers since 1916, Charles E. Hall, supervisor of Negro economics for Ohio, began •I'p- in May, 1919, a campaign for building and loan associations to be organized and financed by the pro gressive colored men and women in each of these congested communities to assist Negroes to buy or build homes. A circular letter calling attention to “Housing Facilities for Negro La bor,” together with a statement giv ing general infoi-mation on the sub ject of organizing building and loan associations was carefully prepared and mailed from the Columbus office on May 8, and through the courtesy of the Department of Building and Loan Associations were mailed to the chairman of each County Negro Workers’ Advisory Committee. A model form of constitution and by laws was also prepared by the super visor who gave copies to those most interested. Through correspondence and local conferences the movement t was started from Lake Erie to the Ohio river. Prior to this there was only one association, the Star Building and Loan Association of Toledo, which was under the direction and control of colored men. Since the inaugura tion of the campaign of Supervisor Hall, three other associations have been organized and chartered, one at Springfield, Middletown and Cleve land, while others are being pro moted at Akron, Cincinnati, Columbus, Greenfield and Youngstown, by influ i ential men who have a vision of racial opportunities through co-operative en terprises. The four companies mentioned have a combined capitalization of $236,000 with stock sales already in excess of $50,000. The Negroes of Ohio now lead those of all other northern states in this enterprise. BOOTLEGGERS PROVE INVENTIVE GENIUSES Many Former Liquor Dealers Become Ardent Horticulturists and Vendors ; of Potted Plants: There Is a Reason. - I San Juan, P. R., Sept. 19.—The gov-1 eminent officials have just discovered ; the means by which liquor is carted j around San Juan and disposed of in contravention of the prohibition law. The old crude methods were stopped long ago, but the liquor still continued to circulate. Recently an inspector noticed a big boom in the business of peddling growing plants. People who had been in the liquor business, it appeared, were particular-. ly interested in horticulture all of a j sudden, and the agent got suspicious i and investigated. He found that gaso line tins had been arranged with false bottoms, inclosed in which was the contraband liquor. The upper part of the tin was filled with clay and a growing plant placed in it. The dealer had only to trans plant his shrubbery from the filled tin to an empty one and get out the par ticular form of intoxicant he wanted. DEMAND FEDERAL GOVERN MEN CONTROL LYNCHING New York, Sept. 23.—The following resolutions, calling for federal inter vention in states where lynching is un punished and unchecked, were unani mously passed at a mass meeting of 1,000 persons in the meeting hall of the Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West Sixty-fourth street, New York City, on the night of September 16: “We, citizens of the United States, assembled in the meeting hall of the Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West Sixty-fourth street, New York City, on the night of Tuesday, September 16, submit that: “Whereas, John R. Shillady, secre tary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was without provocation brutally as saulted in broad daylight on a main street of Austin, Tex., on August 22, 1919, the mobbists being led in person by a county officer of the state of Texas; “Whereas, Governor W. P. Hobby of Texas not only declined to remove such officer, hut condoned the assault, say ing that the victim was ‘the only of fender”; “Whereas, Each week witnesses ad ditional lynchings and mob outrages in the United States, eight persons having been publicly burned since the beginning of the year 1919 and forty - - even publicly murdered by mobs; "Whereas, Civilization in the United States is gravely menaced by the per sistence, unchecked, of mob lawless ness and mob murder; “Whereas, Many states have wholly failed to take action against lynchers, Governor Bilbo of Mississippi having confessed inability in June, 1919, to prevent mob murder, the governor of Texas having approved a mob assault in August, 1919; “Be it therefore resolved— “That the congress of the United States be and is herewith asked to create a special federal commission or congressional committee to investigate lynching and mob violence as a men ace to national security; “That the congress investigate every case of unpunished mob murder and assault as a failure of the states to accord United States citizens the rights and the protection guaranteed by the federal constitution; “That the congress devise means whereby the federal government shall guarantee the processes of law and justice now denied where mob murders and assaults are permitted to occur unchecked and unpunished." Neatly furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 2901 Seward. Call evenings after six. Polish up your brains on the emery wheel of study.—Worthington Wil liams. There’s nothing beats a genial smile. It is not how much you cam, but how much you save which counts. JUST OFF THE PRESS “Brown Boys in Khaki Brown,” a snappy, Stirling, catchy race song. Suitable for stage, church or school. Sung about our own boys in our own songs. Words and music by Eva A. Jessie. Copies at 25c at Monitor office, or send 25c to Eva A. JeBsie, 309 Weac Street Boulevard, Muskogee, Okla.— Adv. I I I I I I I I I 1 I 1 I ' I 1 « 1 « 1 I ' I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I (Copyright. 1919, by th« Woatorn N*w« paper Union.) "Dear, dear!” mourned nnd pltlpd Alvin Prince, nnd stood looking down at n human form lying prone upon the straw-littered floor of an abandoned shelter shed at a remote corner of his farm. He was a genial old soul, this pleas ant-faced, kind-hearted deacon, select man and the prop and stay of sterling uprightness and dignity In the com munity. He had been passing the shed, when he fancied that a groan proceed ed from within. He stepped across the threshold and, startled and puz zled, gazed down at the recumbent fig ure. It was that of a young man with a refined cast of features, his eyes closed In sleep. Two further discov eries of the farmer brought a serious expression to his face. One hand w*s abrased nnd bleeding, and a cut In the head showed a seron# recent Injury. “A convict—an escaped convict," so liloquized Prince. “Poor fellow I And he's badly hurt. What Is m.v duty In the cose? He looks likely, and per haps n mother, a sister Is worrying about him. There Isn’t anything of the criminal In that fnce. Shall I pro tect him?" The decision was quickly made. Prince proceeded across the farm, got to the house, mnde up a bundle and, hitching up a horse to the old family carryall, started back the route he had come. "Mother and Ze'da away," he solilo quized. “nnd I don't see Zeph anywhere around. That just suits me.” Zeph Barnes was the handy man about the farm. At that moment he whs making Uls way past the old shed. His course lips puckered as he dis covered its Inmate. He scented a mys tery as he saw Prince returning. He wondered if there was any reward of fered for the apprehension of con victs and, climbing to the shallow loft in the structure, waited for develop ments. These materialized with the arrival of Prince. The latter proceeded to dis robe the stranger. He made a bundle of the incriminating convict garb und thrust it Into an old manger, attired him In a suit of his own, lifted him Into the wagon and drove to the house. He got his Involuntary guest to bed, applied lotions to his wounds, and won dered wlmt his story would be. When consciousness was restored, Alvin Prince gently Inquired If the Injuries were painful. “1 think only a stumbling fall," re plied Ills guest. "Let me see, I was— Where was I? What was 1 doing? Pin all dazed. My name Is Wilbur Thorne. I have a home, but I left If for wandering a long time ago. I’ve kept going with all kinds of jobs. You must he a pretty kind sort of u man to take In a stranger this way.” "Oh. that Is all right," declared Prince lightly, and felt a certain deli cacy about referring to his convict sus picions. Mrs. Prince and her daughter Zelda came home two days later from a week's visit to a relative, to find the Interesting-looking stranger Insisting upon doing some light work about the farm. They were so used to the chari table impulses of the husband and fa ther, that they did not question him when he told them that lie was taking care of Ills visitor until lie got on his feet again. Ills frank, engaging ways won the favorable opinion of Zelda and her mother, and as the weeks drifted on Wilbur Thorne became so useful and so happy that Prince had not the heart to either question him or turn him away. He had not noticed that a bond of mutual liking was being cemented be tween the two young people, hut Zeph Barries, himself secretly in love with Zelda, though the latter detested him, was witness to an Interview between Thorne and herself when the latter confessed Ills deep affection for the farmer's daughter. Just before dusk thut evening, Just as the family were seated on the lawn. Mr. Prince read ing. Mrs. Prince at her knitting and Zc Ida and Thorne looking over a pic torial magazine, there appeared Zeph Barnes and a man whom the farmer at once recognized as the town marshal. "There's the man," spoke Zeph, pointing to Thorne. "He’s an escaped convict, and here—" nnd he tore open a bundle under his arm, revealing the convict’s garb In which Prince had first seen Thorne. "Why! you give me a link In the past always a mystery to me,” exclaim ed Thorne abruptly, arising to Ills feet with an animated expression on his face. “1 wore that suit the day I got hurt. Where did you ever get It, Zeph? You see, Mr. Prince, my Inst Job was playing the convict for sorat movie people over beyond the village. I took a casual stroll In It while wait ing for my part In the scenario, had a had fall, nnd—nnd I guess you enn tell how you found me.” Zeph drew hack crestfallen. The marshal, however, Insisted on some close questioning, and Wilbur Thorne was forced to tell that he was the son of a wealthy man with whom lie had quarreled to become a wanderer. 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