Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-23

groes and gives employment to fifty colored
women.
Isaac Bernard, colored tenant Of the
G.. E. Rivers Plantation at Yazoo City,
Miss, delivered bale of cotton at market
which brought him 1913, said to be the
highest price ever paid for any grade OF
cotton
Wesley Thomas and H. A. Bowley have
been given positions in the Electrical De-
partment of the Erie Railroad in Jersey
City, N j. They will serve as storage bat
terry men under Edward Crabb, colored fore
man, who has record of fifteen years SER
vice with this company.
Among the new industries in which col
ored men are being employed in New Jer
sey are the following: Cigar making, fur
dyeing, awning making, shirt making, hand
kerchef making helpers on knitted sweat
ers, making celluloid novelties, helpers on
aprons and towels, FASTING and lining
trunks, packing suitcase handles, garment
making, busheling and thread cutting on
soldiers garments, helpers in laundries,
toys and dolls, buttons, feathers, fur cutting,
candy making, picking fowls and FASTING
labels in packing houses
A colored man, G. B. Burnet, has been ap-
pointed by the Fiscal Court to investigate
and report on the unemployment Of Negroes
in Louisville and jefferson County, KY. His
salary is 1925 per month, Of which the
county will pay one-third and the Federal
Government, two-thirds.
Booker r. Washington, Jr. son of the
noted colored educator, has accepted the po-
sition of Claims Adjuster, representing the
5000 Negro employees at the U. S. Gov
eminent air nitrate plant, at Mussel Shoals,
Ala.
Education
Tuskegee Institute opened it's thirty
eighth annual session September 10. More
than 1900 students have been enrolled this
year, and the first day s enrolment was one
of the largest in the history of the school.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Malone, colored, of
st. Louis, NO., recently contributed $1,000
to Tuskegee Institute.
The Hickory, N G. School Commissioners
have erected brick building, costing $4,-
800, for colored youth. The eighth and
ninth grades have been added to the graded
course Of study.
Geneva Daniels, colored girl of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, has won in competitive eX-
animation the George Washington Scholar
ship, providing 5000 year for four years
at any college in the country. Miss Daniels
graduated from the Normal High School
with the class of 1913, and will enter Chi
cago University.
The Rosenwald School House Building
Fund reports that up to July 1, 1918, $50
school houses had been built in eleven
Southern States at cost of 1865, 500. Of
this Mr.. ROsenwald gave $186,477, the col
ored people 1914, 48O, with the balance from
public school funds.
The American Rolling Mill Company at
Middletown, Ohio, has built the Booker Il.
Washington School for colored children at
Bon Veue, costing $4,000, and turned it
over to the city. Three colored teachers
and ia pupils have been enrolled.
There are ffty-siX colored teachers in the
Public Schools of Cleveland, Ohio, teach
ing mostly white pupils.
The Church
The First Baptist Church of Charlotte,
n. g., has been completed at cost of $43,-
900 and the last mortgages burned
Eleven thousand dollars has been raised
through drive to clear the indebtedness of
the Peoples Baptist Church, Boston, Mass.
Among three or four colored men who