The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Phone Main 254s

S. A. Johnson has been sick at his
home, South 18th and l. Sts., for
several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lay left the
city last Wednesday for California
and other points south. They ex-
pect to be gone permanently.
Rev. A. L. Byrd is out again and
at work in his passionate at Bethle-
hem Baptist church.
James L. L. Joyner, the architect,
has been very busy for some time on
improvements on his property. He
is building beautiful home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Fleming lost
their brother, Chester Fleming, this
week. Chester spent most Of his
time in Seattle.
Subscriptions are due. All who
subscribed through Mrs. Esther
Grady last year, will please call at
the Enterprise office, 938 IL Pa
cific Ave-, and renew with Mr.. AID
rich. So per year; $1.25 for six
months.
The new signal lights went into
operation last Tuesday morning for
the downtown district. They are
quite an improvement and a great
safety device, if the motorists and
pedestrians can be made to under
stand. It was great fun to stand
on the street last Tuesday and watch
the cops turn back many who ran,
but failed to read.
OAKLAND FLORISTS, Japanese
gentlemen, say they want to help us,
so they gave us an advertisement.
Now, whenever you have a wedding,
| funeral or other function where
remember, you help THE ENTER
PRISE by patronizing the advertise
ers in this paper. The Oakland
Florists will give you the best serv-
ice at a cheaper rate. Try them.
See address in their advertisement
card.
E. F. Edison spent the day in Seat
tie on the 18th of March, st. Pat
rick's Day. He got all filled up with
that town and says he never did like
it. Too fast for the boyl
The Misses Gladys Cabell and
Esther Roberts are getting along
very well after their mishap with an
automobile.
Miss Dorothy Try is doing nicely
since her operation.
The recital, sponsored for April
list by the Young Mems Progressive
Club of Tacoma, presenting T. L.
| Evans, the young baritone singer
here, will be followed by a reception.
The advance sale of tickets promises
splendid gathering.
Mrs. Lena Johnson, pianist, will
accompany the singer.
Harold Mitchell and wife expect to
leave the city for the South some
time soon.
"My other mamma ties my shoes
up better than you do, mamma" said
little boy to his mother one day as
she was fixing up his footwear for
him. "What other mammal" she
queried, looking straight at his
father with the light of battle in her
eye. Father made pretend he didn't
hear and went outdoors to the wood
shed.
"Papa used the license on his
other car" said a five-year-old boy
to the officer. when the father was
being questioned about driving with
out license. So two fathers have
learned to leave five-year-old boys
at home when they go philandering
| around with women and automobiles.
Mrs. Josephine Hall has returned
to work at her place in Rhodes
Brothers after being i'll for some
time recently.
Press dispatches from Coffeyville,
Kas., state that when the mob start
ed for the Negro quarter, they met
| rifle fire, and outside of beating up
, an unlucky black man, who strayed
in their path, did little or no damage
to the Black citizens. Threats from
Oklahoma Ku Klux amounted to
nothing, as they never attack armed
and prepared people. The state sol
diers were on guard, because the
Negro was able to protect himself.
Had he been running, the soldiers
would not have arrived yet. United
States protects those who protect
themselves. 1t is pretty safe for a
Negro in Coffeyville right now.
Whites don't like cold steel nor hot
lead round amongst their bones
any more than we do. Lynching and
mob rule will cease just as soon as
the Negro makes it dangerous for
white persons to form mobs to lynch
and beat up Negroes and no sooner.
A white lady was telling us the
other day how a small Colored boy
was standing off bunch of Irish
kids near her home. She said there
were several in the crowd larger
than he, but he stood his ground and
fought every inch of the way; which
is lesson for grown men. She took
q stick and drove the white bows
away from him. Help comes for
those who help themselves. This was
in Tacoma, don't think we will never
have a mob here; it is liable to come
at any time, least expected. Be We
also ready. The country is filled
with Georgians and white Mississip-
plans who will not hesitate TO start
a lynching bee if they get a chance.
Chester A. Fleming
Chester A. Fleming, al years old.
died Monday in a Seattle hospital,
He had lived in Tacoma for is wears
prior to going to Seattle six years
ago. He was native of Indianap-
oils, Ind. He leaves three brothers.
Ed of Tacoma, Henry of Indianap-
oils, Walter of New York; two sis