Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-07-15

coast.
Nellie (PersOnalities) DOdsOn
they call her Nell DOdsOn, now is
slated for a job on the leading Ne
gro sheet in this mans country,
Friends of little Nell will be veddy
happy. &. At the st. Peter Claver
carnival the other night one lady
was supposed to have consumed 19
hamburgers INQUISITIVE
SAL, lucky chile, viii go East to
Maryland for a vacation we hear
J. E. Perry, the printing man (the
J. stands for JOshua), is driving
an OldsmObile these days. .
Jewel Mann, the Office secretary,
will go to Detroit for a few days.
Some people have all of the luck!
Ben Wilson is back in Minneap-
oils! Moulden's Cafe was redeco-
rated several weeks ago and tardily
we write the place looks fine and
the beer is ice cold. Police Of
ficer Robert Williams "retort per-
feet" to critics is, 81 live on my
salary" Erskine Smith says
he is in favor of Jim-Crowing peo-
pie in the Ramsey County Jail.
We also understand that the wom-
ems detention home in Minneapolis
operates the most unique Jim-Crow
system on record. The Mill
City preacher who told his congre-
cation last Easter that he wasn't
going to visit the hospitals unless
they bought him a car is still
walking or riding Lowry cabs. &.
cap" Crowder, a Minneapolis in
stitution, off from his duties at the
MINNEAPOLIS ATHLE TIC
CLUB for several months, is still
not we'll enough to go back on the
job. E.
Minneapolis and st. Paul society
is going slow on entertaining out
Of-tOwners this summer. Reason:
Lack of reciprOcatiOn when Twin
Citians visit other towns. The
home folks are waking up. The
money they spend throwing par
ties for school teachers, doctors,
etc, from the other sections, they
keep to meet the coal or oil man
who, by the way, is not far away
at that. Chicago must be los.
ing its reputation. A popular
young fellow and his wife who
went to the Windy City for two
weeks came back pounds heavier
You would expect that if they had
gone to a country town, but for a
city where the visitors are sup
posed to train on mite clubs, plenty
of giggle water, etc., the return Of
the natives with increased weight
is down right remarkable.
RUDE Warren, the barber man
is one of the few barber shop
proprietors in the Twin Towns
who favored the state codes which
set a wage minimum for barber
shop employees. Bill Freeman
former boxer and baseball pitcher
is proprietor of the Acme Smoke
Shop on the Mill City Northside
q. . Reservations are pouring il
for the Chicago Northwestern spe
cial train to the Associated lows
Clubs convention in Milwaukee.
Advance sale of tickets for the
Chick Webb Dance indicate a rec
ord breaking crowd of 5000. Thi.
Ella Fitzgerald person has no com
petition for swing singing amonI
the femme torch warblers excep
Maxine Sullivan who has a styl,
of her own. The Webb band on /;
midwestern swing will come her,
from K. C. where it will play Oh
June 5. The Twin City engage
ment will be played in the st. Pau
Auditorium Main Arena which i
air-cooled.
Tis said that c. NJ, the old dick
ems, has been after adding anothe
female scalp to his belt. Bette
be careful, friend, you can't run q
fast as you used to and her hus
band is a much younger man thal
you are!!!
Well, children, you see W
couldn't resist digging up a littI
dirt. If it were not for that 70
wouldn't turn to this column hm
riedly each week, now would
now?