Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-10-18

doubtless did not get to exceed half that
amount Mr.. Bragg was exceedingly anx-
io,ls to sell to colored family in view
of the fact that for more than a mile
stretch east and west the lands were own
ed by colored folks and using his own
words. 81 did not want to break the black
belt The editor hereof had hoped to
be able to purchase the tract, but the wind
blew the other way But few, if any
coIored folks had the making of more
ideal home than did Mr.. Bragg, and it is to
be regretted that he was not able to hold
on to the end.
After having accumulated sufficiency
out of the chicken raising business, Dan
Myers formerly of Sunnydale, a Seattle
suburb, has leased his ten acre tract and
with his family has moved to fifty acre
tract near Winlock, Washington, where,
using his own words, 81 mean to lead
less strenuous life" In other words Dan
is going to live con the interest of his
money Some fourteen or more years ago
he with very limited amount of capital
went into the chicken business at Sunnydale.
and went into it with the view of making
it go and he did so beyond his most
Sang1ne expectations. He simply got the
money while getting was good and he
seems to know when he had enough of
a good thing
After listening for nearly three hours to
Roscoe Simmonds deliver a set speech,
cync would wonder to himself, what would
have been the effect on that speech if
by some ledgerdemain the pronoun 81"
had been eliminated from it few NOM
ents prior to it's delivery. In introduce
ing Mr. Simmonds, Dr. Cooper said che
II off
there is no doubt of him being some tall1er
If in all this world there is greater
combination of ego, conceit, public plat
tudes oratory, eloquence, comedy, COM
mon sense, cussedness and curiosity, finally,
little in much in one human being, such
an one is still at large. There was how
ever more or less logical conclusion in
MIR. Simmonds speech, but it would re-
quire the perceptibilities of Philadel-
phia lawyer to find it.
An ideal chairman of the evening was
found in DR.. David IT, Cardwell at the
Simmonds meeting as he did his work
with neatness and Dispatch A thing not
often done. When James Weldon John
son was in Seattle, he, in speaking about
his meeting said. lit was real refreshing
to not to have had to enter into an ora
torcal contest with the presiding officer
for the honor of the evening. 1t often
happens as | 90 from place to place that
the presiding officer and not myself makes
the speech of the EVENING" But in spite
of the modesty of the presiding officer and
the introducer Mr.. Simmonds in thanking
those dignitaries for his more or less fav-
orable Introduction said, ''though I have
been introduced to audiences by kings and
royal ROBBERS throughout Europe, and by
governors of this country yet this is the
first time | have been properly knocked
down. " That however may have been but a
stock remark generally told at the expense
OF those having to perform such duties.
1t was more or less a financial venture
on the part Of Mrs. Thompson to bring
Mr. Simmonds here to speak, owing to
the fact that he eXacted $3.50 for his SER
vices but all is well that ends WELL and
apparently she was eminently successful in
the undertaking and after paying all ex-
penses was able to turn over to the building