The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-11-14
NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS.
(From the Business League.)

(From the Business League.)
Bowling Green, KY, has Negro
drug store, recently established by
A. J. Duncan, Phi. G..
The Tacoma Grocery and Meat Com
2any, composed of Negroes, operates
| l very large and successful business at
SIP West Street and Gil Indiana Ave
1ue, Indianapolis. They maintain an
auto delivery service.
A local Negro Business League was
ecently organized at Paducah, KY,
with seventy-five members. Every
business man inthe city became a
member. A. w. Watkins, the under
:aker there was unanimously elected
president.
The 100000 Colored Pythian Tenn
pie at Evansville, Ind, will be ready
FOR occupancy in December The first,
or ground. floor will have a motion
picture theatre and store rooms, the
second floor will have office rooms
and an auditorium, while the third
floor will be fitted up with lodge
rooms.
Smith and Moore, Negro contrac-
tors at Hopkinsville, KY, have the
contract for building the stone wall
around the birthplace farm of JEFF
ferson Davis in Christian County, KY.
! The stone for the wall will be quarried
from the quarries of these Negro con-
tractors.
On Indiana Avenue, indianapolis,
within four blocks, there are seventy.
two Negro business establishments
all doing good business.
The 100000 Mosaic Temple at Little
Rock, Ark, adds another splendid
temple to the many erected by Negro
fraternities. To John E. Bush, of Lit
tie Rock, the Mosaics are indebted
for much of the success attending the
efforts to raise the funds for this
temple. u.s.. s.. ... 49,.
A Negro in Paducah, KY, by the
name of Lee has just equipped fine,
large shoe shining parlor in that city.
1t is thoroughly up to date, elegant in
its appointments, and unequaled for
equipment and service by any place
south of New York. y
The Negroes of Evansville, Ind, are
DESTROYS Of having drug store estab-
lished there. They guarantee it will
pay well. Evansville has total pop
ulation Of 10000 of which 10000 are
Negroes. 1t has no Negro pharmacy,
and one would do we'll there. The
people would assist in furnishing
some of the financial backing neces-
sary to establish a first-class phar-
macy.
The largest and most successful
building contractor in Hopkinsville,
KY, is a Negro named Brooks. He
was given the contract for building the
new buildings Of the Kentucky State
Normal School, and has practically
all the big building contracts in that
city. He is now erecting a new
theatre there.
One Of the most successful real as
tate dealers in Indianapolis Is ]. Wal.
ter Hodge. Mr.. Hodges office is right
down to date, and the volume of bust
ness annually transacted by him runs
up into the hundred thousands.
J. E. Roberts. Of Paducah, Ky, con-
ducts the only electric shoe repair
shops in that city, and employs five
persons. So great is the amount Of
work coming to his shop that he Is
forced to work night shift.
G. p. Williams, Negro of Cairo,
Ill, has been the successful bidder
for hauling the U. s. mail to and from
the railroad station. Although being
under-bidded by white men the con-
tract was given to him because Of the
superior service he gave and the high
grade equipment he maintained.
Logan H. Stewart. one of the most
successful Negro real estate dealers
and builders in Indiana, has recently
established factory for the manu-
facvture of cement building blocks at
Evansville, Ind, and is operating Il
most successfully with an entire
crew of Negro employees.