The Twin City star., 1914-02-13
NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS
Furnished by the National Negro
Business League.

Furnished by the National Negro
Business League.
The Afro-American Investment and
Employment Company, of Kansas City
Missouri, is one of the really big bust
ness institutions in that city. F. ]
Weaver is manager, and the dominant
factor in it. The company has a paid
up capital Of $4,000, and is doing a
splendid business. Mr.. Weaver is re
garded as one Of the most progressive
men of his race in the West.
]. e. Earle & Company, boot and
shoe repairing establishment doing
business at 202 North Illinois Street
and 201 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis
Is business managed and controlled
by colored men that is doing a fine
business. In addition to repairing
shoes, the firm also manufactures and
repairs harness.
M. c. Whitlor, a colored man in St.
Louis, has demonstrated that one of
his race can make good in the pack.
ing, expressing and storage business.
He Is conducting a large and paying
business at $500 North Taylor Avenue,
st. Louis.
Washington, d. c., Is an inviting
place for some colored shoemaker and
repairer to establish a quick shoe re-
pairing shop equipped with the latest
shoe repairing machinery. An exper-
fenced man in this business will reap
a harvest there. Italians now control
the work among colored people there.
The Pythian Temple, at Evansville,
Indiana, has been completed, and is
not only credit to the order and to
the race, but it Is a credit to the city
in which it is located. The building.
three-story one, is located in the
heart Of the city, is substantially built
and finely appointed and equipped.
The Piedmont Cafe at Meridian,
Mississippi, is one of the largest, If
not the very largest, restaurants in
Meridian. It is owned and operated
by John 8. Beale, a colorad man. The
cafe Is two-story, up-to-date estab-
lishment, the proprietor owning both
the business and the building in which
it is located.
The last statement issued by the
Beneficial Life Insurance Company, of
lndianola, Mississippi, of which DIR. w.
A. Attaway is president, shows that it
is in most flourishing condition. The
assets of the company amount to $751;
939.52 divided as follows: First Mort
gage Loans on Real Estate, $35, $50. 90:
Cash in bank and Home Office, s1S,.
1907; Premium Notes and Loans,
$3,37S55.
The Woodman of Union, a fraternal
insurance society in Mississippi, of
which L. j. Winston Is Supreme Presi.
dent, and w. N. Cox is Supreme
Treasurer, according to the State In.
surance Commissioner of that States
last published statement, has 1874
policies in force, amounting to s1,952,-
$4,000. The society has paid out, in
beneficiaries in endowment alone.
S121,S61.05. The order is but nine
years old.
At the close of the days business.
December 18th, last, the Delta Penny
Savings Bank at Indianola, Missis
sippi, had in resources $155,25O.45,
divided as follows: Loans, Discounts,
etc., $S9,9S3.36; Overdrafts secured,
B3,690.S1; Banking House, $4,000;
Furniture and Fixtures, $3,350.0O;
Sight Exchange, $43,s27.75; Other
Real Estate, $1,000. And this great
showing by colored bank is made in |
town where President Roosevelt
closed up post office for two years.
because its patrons refused to accept
nall from a colored postmistress, and
he husband Of that postmistress, w.
Cox, is the cashier and largest
'tockholder in the bank, and the man
most largely responsible for its sue
less. This is but one of the few evil
lences of Negro successes in Missis-
'ippi and the change for better con.
litions. Many of the large white bust.
less houses are depositors in this
,ank.
Anderson Tucker & Co., Bankers, is
he style of new business, capital
zed and manned by colored men,
shered in with the new year at Jack.
onville, Florida. Charles H. Ander.
on, treasurer Of the National Negro
BUSINESS League, and Benjamin e.
tucker are the leading spirits in the
lew colored banking firm. The new
'ank is located at 402 Broad Street,
jacksonville. in the Masonic Temple.
'he bank begins business under the
most auspicious circumstances, and
hose connected with it are men of
plendid financial standing and who
ave the confidence of their race. and