The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-18

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ORDERED EX-CONGRESSMEN
DEAD-DONT LAUGH.
Staff Correspondence.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. IA, 1919.
have been sojourning in the city
OF Dallas and closely hugging the
Headquarters of The Dallas Express
Tor two weeks today, except two days
spent In Pantherville, mixing with
the Williams" who have made Ft.
Worth famous and kept that growing
town from slipping of the map.
Fl. Worth is growing, BY the CEN
sus Of 1915, it had population of
9S,52S souls. OF this population
something like 10000 are of African
extraction, and it is of this 1900
that ! have come to write. They are
an industrious element. There may
be few loafers in the town, but
they are not to the manor born
that is to say, they are in the drift
wood. They have mostly come from
no where and they will come to
nothing If they stay in that town and
don't get the work habit In TT.
Worth, there are two great Beef and
Pork ackeries-ArmOur and Swift
and they have given the Colored
worker an opportunity and l will say
70 their credit they have not thrown
II away. The balance of the labor
employing portion of the town in
Guiding, stores, manufactures, ho-
tells, railroads and the great public
service corporations, have caught
the packing house spirit, and the
door to work stands wide open for
pne Colored man who is willing to
eat bread in the sweat of his face.
He has gone to 1t, as the hundreds
OF beautiful homes owned by Colored
working people will show.
In a business way, TT. Worth Col
ored folk are making commendable,
neadway. Beside several stores,
shops. restaurants, stopping places,
Darbershops, tailoring establish
ments, ice wagons drays and what
not, the C0lored people of TT. Worth
are doing still other and bigger
things.
Here 10 located the Grand Masonic
Temple, beautiful and substantial
three-story brick, located at corner
OF Jones and 9th streets, owned by
the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons of Texas.
property worth $75,000.O0. It is
the headquarters of the order in
Texas and gives strength and com
mercial character to the institution
IN way which nothing else would.
In this building is situated The Fra
ternal Bank and Trust Co., the Tenn
pie Drug store, the Temple Barber
shop, all on the ground floor while
the other two floors are used as pri-
yate Offices for professional men
local lodge meeting places and the
auditorium. The Fraternal Bank and
Trust Co., has credit of $3.50 900
and pays a dividend annually. Mr..
Tom Mason, capitalist is the presi-
dent; Hon. VIM. M. Mcdonald, cash
Ter. Mr.. Langston, is assistant. while
MRS. Darlington is stenogragpher
This is one of the strongest banks
in TT. Worth and sets an example
well worthy of emulation.
The Temple Drug store, owned
by VIM. M. Mcdonald and Co., man
aged by Harold Mosely, is unsurpass-
ed in Texas.
The Dotsons own and operate, i'm
mediately across the street The Fl.
Worth Hornet and does Job print
ing in connection. In the same COM
munity that energetic hustler, ]. II.
Bragg runs Bragg's Printery. There
are two undertakers, The Peoples
and jeffrey & Co., with splendid |
while DR.. Adams operates
a splendid drug store.
In the professional world, Fl.
Worth is no laggard. For here we
find Drs. Tildon and Tildon, Cros-
by, Taylor and others. Dentist Wal |
las Clifton and others. Lawyer Will
liam H. 'Griggs is familiar figure
at the bar.
Religiously and educationally the
town makes very creditable show
ing, being well supplied with all |
that Is necessary to make a moral |
and intelligent people. am low
ering my guards and cutting short /
this story, not that l have exhau ed
the material out Of which good .of- |
les are made, but because, am
warned by my watch to pass on.
En- Route To Nashville, Tenn.
am leaving here next Tuesday
for Ft. Worth again, where l rave
beer invited to deliver an adt,s ess
ll,t the auspices of the Busy Bee
club In the Morning Chapel c. M. e.
church, Crump street. Rev. NJ. II.
Spenser is the pastor and his mem
Ders and friends have promised to
make the event worth while; leaving
here the morning of the 22d, I will
return to Dallas, leaving there the
morning of the Path for Gilmer, Tex
rs, where ! speak that night Mr.. A.
Ingrsm and Rev. w. l.. Dickson be-
ng on the committee of arrange
nent. The 26th l will be in Pitts
)urg, Texas, and have written,
Prof. Gray. Rev. Daniels and Mr.. |
Zeal to arrange for my meeting.
srom there, am planning to gol
Q Clarksville. and speak the night
II Jan. 2S snd have written DR..
dunchus to see to it that the under
akiag is not listed failure. Att
Jefferson, on Jan. 80. DR.. T. L. Speed
las been informed that J look to
lin there l had planned to be
With Wiley University on this date,
'ut Prof. Dogan wrote me as fol-
ows: Dear Editor: have just
ost by fire this week. the building
which we were using as a Boys
)ormitory and also the King Indus
rial Home, and therefore can not
Won I am enclosing ven