The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09

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and boarding house, doing well. MI
Eugene Green is still our successful ex.
pressmap. The other Mr.. E. Green has
gone out of the restaurant business on
ia E.. 5th, but has pool hall and bar
Der shop and lunch room, doing well.
Our old friend, Ben III. johnson who
was running barber shop, has moved
doRn to SO Harrison street, where he
has barber shop, pool tables and q
nice restaurant. His able wife conducts
the restaurant. See their advertisement
elsewhere. Mr.. p. Il, Holmes .is doing
nicely. Mrs. T.. A. Adams, son is q
clerk in a drug store. Mrs. Rebecca
sCorbin, formerly Mrs. Robt. Rakes OF
Des Moines still lives here and wishes
to be remembered by her old Des
Moines friends. Mr.. D. s. johnson is
still the efficient Bystander agent. Mr..
Henry L.. Walker is substantial citi-
zen here. s. B. johnson is doing well.
There is company organized by four
young men to run magazine known as
1.-THE Vindicator.' It has been pub
lished for nearly six months. fine
monthly, and these four young men are
all graduates from Tuskegee Institute.
Their names cannot recall, but we
should encourage such worthy enter
prise as the Z" Vindicator Fred
Wright is here working at his trade,
doing well.
Motoring across the Father Of Waters
to Rock Island we found some Of the
people somewhat disturbed because the
saloon has gone from here. Mrs. Col.
den is still operating her down town
hair dressing parlor. Mr.. and Mrs.
Windsor are still living in their beauti-
full home. Their only son, q recent
graduate from Iowa State University,
is employed in drug store as clerk.
J. n. Slaughter is working at the same
place, also j. E. King. w. II. Harding,
stenographer at the arsenal, has
bought a home, 1918 35th st., and has
moved in. j. p. Harper is doing well
here. The churches here are not doing
well. They are sleeping. It seems there
are two here, the A. M. p. and the
Baptist, the latter without q pastor.
Rev. Boyd has charge Of the former.
We next drove down to Moline. Here
things were about the same as last year.
The churches are doing fairly well.
Rev. T. w. Lewis, our good friend, and
his good wife, have charge of the a.
M. II. and il doing well. The Baptists
are doing well. 8. B. Walkupei is still
employed at the school house. Mrs.
Hattie Shelton is doing we'll. Miss
Name Wilkins also doing nicely Mrs.
I'M. B. Bishop 10 quite sick. Mr.. B.
Barnes are doing well five miles fur
Their east into East Moline. The coiored
population of this city has made won
derful growth because three streets
across in what is generally known as
WATERFOWL, has been annexed to East
Moline. Nobody told We editor the
reason. but we think that we know.
Until two years ago these streets were
inhabited BY white people but when the
big factories brought in 800 colored
families and put them on these streets,
- avoid trouble between the two races
| thew nut these colored people under the
nrotection of East Moline. However,
Ehe,s are about 500 colored people Al
working At the large malleable iron
| and other factories, making big money !.
LThey came from the far south, and
mxny are making good. They have 4
.. II. q. A. A fine young man named
3. q. Smith is the secretary. They
have ! special built building for It and "A
q = I oreat help to these new corners
Rev d. w. James 10 the pastor OF the = g
only church, the Baptist. We secured
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