Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-10-04
EDITORS OBSERVATIONS.

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| EDITORS OBSERVATIONS.
! Mexico, Missouri, was our next stop
| and we were there only about five
hours, hence we cannot give you a
complete knowledge Of this town with
| fully 1000 colored people. 1t has four
colored churches, the A. M. E., M. E.,
the G. M. E. and the Baptist, all doing
fairly well. This town is the home of
| Thomas Bass, the famous horse train
er and owner of the saddle and high
school class of horses. He owns a
beautiful tract of land in the west
part Of town and has a beautiful resi-
| dence on it. He has several large
fine barns and horse stables, all well
kept and everything is in its place
here. He has very Industrious and
economic wife and only one little z
year-old boy. In one room Of his home
is a large glass case filled with blue
ribbons, gold medals. silver cups and
other expensive trophies of honor Mr..
Bass has won at fairs and great horse
shows. Mr.. A. T. Champ is a success
full colored farmer. He owns a valu-
able farm. He has about 800 acres in
crops this year. Rev. j. G. Hayes owns
beautiful home. He Is a Baptist
minister, but now is the financial sec
retary for the Knights and Dau ghters
of Tabor of Missouri. He has travelled
very much and is a great race man,
credit to our race. His wife was
quite sick when we was there. B. L.
Douglass is a successful tonsorial ar
tist: Miss L. NJ. Mitchell owns valu-
able property. She does not wait to
marry some one for home, but buys
one herself. That is progress. Mr.
Hawkins still runs the grocery store.
Mrs. Susan Jammerson runs a board
ing house. She is doing well. She Is
q real race woman. We next stopped
at Huntsville for short time only.
w. E. Elder owns a nice home and Is
doing we'll. Mr.. Walker also owns val
liable property. Ye Editor took sup
per here to a we'll laden table. Mr.
Routt, the blacksmith, has gone to
Kansas and bought q large ranch. His.
family IS still here yet on their valu-
able property. j. H. Wiley is a com
ing young school teacher, who teaches
at Keytsville. One OF the most sue
cessful race men that l met here was
H. H. Hicks, who owns as beautiful
laying ten acre tract of land as there
is in the city, and it is we'll kept The
world will yet hear from this repre-.
sentative race man. Prof. Rufus l..
Logan is principal of the schools here.
He has three teachers under him. He
is the editor of the Professional World
at Columbia. He is one of the COM
ing young men of our race, full of
work and ambition. He is we'll liked.
We soon was in Saulsisberry. Here
I found about 500 colored people and
there are more colored mechanics and
contractors there than in any town of
it's size that T. know of, and they seem
to be building all the business build
in gs in this little town. Mr.. w. M
Black a contractor, was at work re-
building the coloreds Masonic hall,
which was recently burned. He is a
great Masonic worker. The order
owns a nice two-story cement block
building. Mr.. Black runs a restaur-
ant. c., H. Rently is a substantial cit
izen. j. McAdams is doing well. He
owns good home. Rev. ]. H. Down
ey has charge of the Baptist church.
He is doing well. w. M. Dameron is
another race man. w. T. Moss and
G.. w. Bassham are Industrious and
good citizens. They are doing well. |
Keytesville was our next stop for only
a few hours. However during the
short stay we enrolled nine new sub
scribers. P. E. Moore is we'll liked.
Geo. Boon is successful man., he
owns nice home. T. H. Herald is a
hustler and will make his mark in life.
Mrs. Susan Ware is the mother OF Mr..
Bevel, the contractor, in our city. We
was soon on the Wabash. Here we
spent only one day, hence / will only
speak of those things that came to my
observation. First, we met our OLD
friend, F. %. Weaver the real estate
and employment and hotel man. He
is doing extremely we'll. He has two
large hotels, one with thirty rooms
and the Dunbar with forty-eight nice
large modern rooms, only three blocks
south of postoffice. He is doing
large employment business, sending
men to work all over the middle west.
He has one clerk, one typewriter and
thin gs around him. He is good BUS
mess man, one Of the wealthiest OF om
race here. See his two advs. in BY
stander. Mr.. Jackson is another
wealthy and successful business man.
He owns three drug stores. One is
managed by E. w. Thompson of this
city. He attended the Business Mems
League at Topeka, Kan. The Peoples
Drug Co. owns the incest drug store
of any colored persons. There are
about twelve colored doctors. Among
the prominent are DR.. Perry. DIR. DID
bles and DR.. Tompllins. There are
eight colored lawyers. Nelson Crews,
the politician, is still police clerk.
Nels is one of the coming young men
Of our race. We have been acquainted
and friends for fifteen years. He IS
very eloquent orator Alfred Rivers,
an old Des Moines boy, son OF A. M
Rivers, is doing we'll here. Miss Ida
NJ. Godfrey, formerly of Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, and Miss Sarah Porter, formerly
both cnonGCCfuI