The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-09-17
Spokane, Wash.
Sybil Stafford, Reporter
Phone l.. O564M
Mickey Mouse Feature
Gives Bows Wanderlust

Mickey Mouse features at local
picture houses SO captured the mag
ination of Master Herman Burns,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Burns,
and several Of his young white play
mates that they left Spokane last Sat-
urday bound for Hollywood with the
intention of joining the film colony.
Not certain of their direction, they
headed north with their little pony
and cart and when night overlook
them they were well on their road to
the Canadian border. Distracted par
ents and half-crazed relatives put in
night of agony as they searched
high and low for the children. Tired
of their journey and longing for
wholesome food, Sunday found. the
boys hitch-hiking back. for home.
They showed up Sunday afternoon
and all met with warm reception of
hugs and kisses and the old hickory.
1t will be quite some time before the
boys will be able to sit down comfort
ably and again enjoy Mickey Mouse.
The Rev. E. B. Reed has returned
from California, where he passed
several weeks vacation. When asked
by this reporter if he had accepted a
call i'm Sacramento, he smilingly re-
marked: "Our people are doing well
in California despite the depression"
Numerous friends here would regard
it as calamity if Rev. Reed left
Spokane.-Wm. Dyson was here Mon
day from Walla Walla, where he is
employed by a street paving COM
pany.-When Laurence Jones. musi-
clan, was held up last week by two
colored men. armed with clubs he told
them they should be ashamed to rob
member of their race. The two men
refused to take Jones' money and
disappeared i'm the darkness.-Rev.
George F. Allen, accompanied by his
wife and mother, left Monday for
Pocatello, where he has been appoint
ed pastor of the A. M. E. Church. A.
group of friends were at the station
to bid them goodbye. - Spainey
Payne returned to Spokane last week
from Oklahoma, having been gone
nearly a year.-No resume of pio-
neer citizens of Spokane without a
word about Pete Britton, an employee
of the Northern Pacific Railway on
the general managers car. He has
seen the N. P. trains develop from
wood burners to oil locomotives
Spokane is experiencing the largest
influx of eolored men in its history.
All are looking for work. They arrive
in crowds every day by railroad. The
companies let them ride their freight
trains along with white companions
free.-George E. Anderson, veteran
courthouse employee, is enjoying a
vacation.-Rev. T. A. Patterson and
family have arrived to make their
home in Spokane. Rev. Patterson,
former presiding elder, has been APP
pointed pastor of Bethel A. NJ. Z.
Church.-Miss Sybil Stafford is ex-
pected home soon from Seattle.
where she is visiting her sister, Miss
Laurel Stafford. She will resume her
duties as correspondent for The
Northwest Enterprise, which E. H.
Holmes now is caring for, TO let the
world know what is going on in Spo-
kane.-Edward Rutherford, pioneer
and barber of Portland, was a visitor
here last week, looking as youthful
as ever. Ed is such a fixture in Port.
land that many friends here were
amazed to think he would dare ven
ture into the great Inland Empire.
Mr.. and Mrs. HAYDEN Jones en-.
tertained at party in honor of their
daughter Bernice's sixteenth birth.
day. About thirty young people en-.
joyed the affair. The evening was
spent in games and dancing after
which a delicious luncheon was serv.
ed.