The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-12-19
NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS.
Furnished by the National Negro
Business League.

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L. w. Jenkins, q colored man, has
secured the contract for laying all
the carpet in the new Chisca Hotel at
Memphis, Tenn, hotel recently COM
pleted having four hundred rooms.
The annual report made by the Sec
rotary Treasurer Of the Colored Ma
sonic Beneficial Association shows
that the association collected on pol
icies in force over $4,000 during the
past year.
Tulsa, Okla, although possessing
more than fifteen colored restaurants
offers an inviting opportunity for a
first-class up-to-date colored restau-
rant. Tulsa is a rapidly growing city
which has money-spendnig influx OF
visitors daily.
The three cotton gins at Boley,
Okla, an exclusive colored town, have
been running full capacity, and are
earning a splendid dividend for the
colored men who own them.
Vernon, Okla, Is new exclusively
colored town in Oklahoma, on the
Fort Smith & Western Ry., which is
rapidly growing. It has now a pop
ulation of over five hundred. ;
John e. Bush, one of Little Rock,
Arkansas most progressive colored
men, contemplates starting another
bank in that city. The standing of Mr..
Bush In the community, and the back
ing he will give to the bank with his
own private funds and business as.
sures success for the new bank when
started.
Okmulgee, Okla, offers a fine oppor-
tunity for colored dentist. There are
about three thousand colored people
In the city proper and almost an
equal number in the suburb around,
and all members of the race in that
city are prosperous. The colored
citizens there are anxious that col
ored dentist locate in Okmulgee.
Ninth Street in Little Rock, Ark,
is great Negro business street, near
ly every kind Of business conducted
by colored men and women can, be
found on Ninth Street in the vicin-
ity of the new Mosaic Temple. Every
store room in this temple is now &C.
cupied with colored business enter
prise.
w. r. Taylor, a colored wholesale
commission. merchant Of Little Rock,
Ark. does an annual business of more
than 100000. (
The deposits Of the Solvent Savings
Bank, colored bank In Memphis,
Tenn, have reached and passed the
$4,000 mark. It is regarded as one
of the safest banks in Memphis.
w. 8. Madden, a colored tailor in
Oklahoma City, is doing a very ex-
cellent business, catering to both
colored and white patronage. s.
Within sixty days after opening up
for business in Paducah, KY, the
Standard Life Insurance Company, of
Atlanta, Ga, had over six hundred
policies in force. It is predicted that
the stock Of the company will be at a
premium in six months. q
The Equitable Insurance Company
is new company recently organized
by colored men in Muskogee to do
business in that state. Although it
is but about sixty days old the COM
pany is writing policies rapidly. It is
backed by some Of the strongest, Fl.
nancially, and best experienced col
ored men in Muskogee.
A colored school teacher, living near
Guthrie, Okla, was recently offered
one hundred thousand dollars for a
piece Of land which cost him less than
a thousand dollars. An oil we'll has
been recently opened on his land that
Is bringing him in an income of sso
per day net. y
Tim e. Owsley, proprietor Of the
Crown Garden Theatre at Indianapo.
lis, Is doing business which justifies
a weekly pay roll Of $500 for help and
talent. ... E
Buckner and Brent, colored men,
conduct what Is acknowledged to be
one of the very best grocery stores IN
Hopkinsville, KY, and have a large
white patronage.
L. 8. Williams, one Of st. Louis'
successful colored undertakers, has
recently branched out in the monu.,
ment business and in addition to fur.
nishing funeral service can now sun
ply patrons with grave stones from
the simnle kind IN tho cos&,x ~n.s,