Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-11-22
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The Fifth Street Baptist Church
November 2. 1919. Rev. u. j. King
ID D.. ~ pastor.
Money is plentiful in this coun-
try, but sugar is scarce and so Ia
coal.
-Unitod States Senator Thomas
S. Martin was buried in the cemetery
Of the University Of Virginia al
Chariot csvilc, Va, Friday, Novem'
Der 14th.
Miss Louise Wade, FL W. 10Th
street is out again after being sick
for three weeks.
Fourteen suits were filed in the
Circuit Court Of Knoxville, Tennr on
tho 18th inst by colorcd porters en-
ploycd by tho Southern hallway Com
nany. They want $4,000 back pay.
The suit is against Hon. Walker ID.
Hines, Federal Director-Gcncral of
Railroads.
President Woodrow Wilson is re-
p ported 10 have recently declared that
he Will not submit tho Peace Treaty
to the Allies as at present amended
by the United States Senate.
w. Il. Smith Of Worth County,
Ga. was shot and killed November
18th by Bur on Jones, a colorcd farm
hand. Jones made his escape. A
shoriff's posse Is pursuing him.
ALL members Of tho Industrial
Workers of the World arc being ar
= rested and Jailed on orders OF the
Government. The western ponitentl-
aries arc filling up rapidly and there
is somo talk Of sending tho foreign
members Of tho organization out of
the country,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Bustard OF
Danyille had the misfortune to have
their year and n half old son badly
burned. It's clothing caught alire on
the 18th inst. from an open CRATE. IL
Ia doubtful chat 1t will survive the IN
1uries. The parties are white.
The Now York dairy-men are
charged with fccdiny their COWS feca
mixed with saw-dust in order to re-
duce the high cost of feeding me
result has been that the milk pro-
duct has deterlorated.
DR.. A. B. Jackson of Mercy HOS
nital. Philadelphia III an address at
Swv,hineton recently declared that
tho war had exploded the theory that
most colored people have flat feet.
A price Of ten and one half cents
pes pound has been placed on oes'
sugar.
a measure OF precaution during
the present period of unrest, dctall
of national guardsmen, armed win
havonets and rifles have been placer
on duty at the State House in Den
yer. Colorado 1t seems that some
A.sections Of this country are no"
i seething with revolution. ColoHea
folks are not engaged in 1t.
Albert Horner, a white man re-
4 GENTLY refused to accept condition.
al pardon from the Governor or
North Carolina on account Of a pro-
vision in it that he must live with
his father.
.-Secretary. of War Baker has COM
nlimentcd Governor Westmoreland
Davis upon his refusal to call for
Federal troops for use at Appalachia
81 Va
REV. Charles Beall, white min
! lister. Who was charged with shoct-
= ing Robert Spencer, who sedncc1 his
daughter was tried in the Circuit
Court of Buckng, Va, and fined $500
The daughter was in court with the
baby and the trial before a jury was
\ sensational.
The Negro Organization Society
\ DR.. r. r. Motion, President was In
! session in Lynchburg last week The
reports were encouraging.
mfr. George W. Blount Secretary
Of the Virginia State Negro Business
League published q most interesting
article in the Southern Workman foI
November under the caption OF 'Tne
Virginia State Negro business Lag
ne and what it Is doing for Negroes
in business" It published "cuts" OF
I Browns Savings Bank Of Norfolk
Va, Southern Aid Society Building
! at Danvi''e, Va, Underwater Bank and
! Trust Company ut Norfolk. Va, DR.
J. r. baltimore Building at Hamp,
ton, Va. The Virginia Drug Corporal
, Non Mt Portsmouth. Va. HAMPTON Thea
B at Roanoke, Va, Bay Shore Hotel