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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09
BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN
Third and Benton st.
NJ. G. Kauth, pastor

Divine Services Sunday at HOO
am. at the American Legion Hall
in the Olmstead Addition.
Sunday School at 1000 am.
Walther League will meet for
Bible Study Thursday evening at
300 pm. You are welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Rev. Frederick A. Schilling, Ph.D.
Vicar

Sunday, Nov. IL, Men and Mission
Sunday.
Church School 900 am.
Divine Worship 1000 am. Adj
dresses by L. G. Spaulding, MD. and
M. w. Stevens, MD. The service
is designed to be of special interest
and value to the laymen.
Thursday, Nov. Is
Guild meeting 200 pm, Mrs. j.
4. BockiuS, hostess.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09
Old Time Highlander
Passes Suddenly Tues

HIGHLANDS Chas. Baughman,
old-time resident of the Highlands,
passed away suddenly Tuesday aft
ernoon, while helping with the
storing Of his late potato crop into
the cellar.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09
At the Churches.
UNITY CLASS

Regular services every Monday
afternoon at 2:30 In the Masonic
hall. Anyone interested in attend
ing these services will be most well
come.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09

The Dies committee formed n
investigate Communism In the n
S. has uncovered evidence to SHOW
that the Communists are spending
in the United States each year for
propaganda over S2,oOO,0OO.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09
Kennewick Folks Guests
at Finley Card Party

FINLEY-Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Benson entertained with a dinner
Sunday night with two tables of
bridge played after dinner. High
prizes were won by Mrs E. S. Black
and Mr.. S. Hastings. Those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Hastings
of Spokane, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Black
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Linn of
KenneWick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09

Church School at 1O:15 am. S. S.
Pemberton, superintendent.
Church Service at 1920 am.
Theme of sermon "Sacrificial Civ
ing"
White Bluffs Community Church
invites all to it's services.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09
To Head Locust Grove
to Hear Locust Grove

LOCUST GROVE Locust Grove
grange met Saturday evening for
the annual election of officers. Gil
bert Edwards will again head the
and Mrs. M. Simme-
link was again elected lecturer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09

White Bluffs Com. Presbyterian
r. M. Broadbooks, minister
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09

The Riverview PIT. A. met Mon
day evening at the grade school,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09

that goes into this Germ PROGRESSED
oil to effect the close union or
bond between the oil and the en-
CINE parts. Like chrome-plating on
the bumpers, OIL-PLATING in the
engine can't drain down every time
the car stands, and therefore OIL
PLATING isn't waiting to be re-
stored ''from scratch" every time
you start up again. How different
from oils that can only flow fast!
Surely OIL-PLATING must beat
them to it. In advance of any flow,
it's there! This drain-proof slippy
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-11-09

. W Q ulllluCSS ISL SuCll d luuSu
unless your cold engine is straining
that long without prompt lubri-
cation. And how much worse when
you figure that less than a dozen
cold starts day threaten all of an
hours fabrication delay. In the
course of the Winter that could
exceed 80 hours of risky slow
motion oiling that's what
80 hours!
Let's be sensible and not just
hope blindly that 80 hours or even
half that won't hurt. The way to
avoid the worst chance of harm is
to change today to oIL-PLATING.
. Automatically your engine be-
comes OIL-PLATED as you drive
from Your Mileage Merchants
Conoco station with q ELL of his
Conoco Germ Processed oil-pat-
ented. The basic patents cover the
use of a rare man-made substance
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

One of the city's most colorful
guardians of the law" was Henry
Gleason Thompson, known most
Familiarity as "Police" Thompson.
Appointed to the force in 1900, he
had a distinguished career from
that time until his retirement in
1927. He lives at his family home,
3133 Clinton Ave-, with Mrs. Emma
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
Present Day Negro
Minneapolis

The present Negro population of
Minneapolis is reckoned at approx
mately $500. The majority of them
belong to the medium and low in
come groups and they reside in all
of those sections of the city where
their incomes will permit. Negroes
will be found living in the South,
South Central, Southeast, North
east and North sections of Mime
apolis. The greatest concentrations
of the Negro population are on the
North side of Minneapolis and in
the South and South Central part
of the city.
A very large proportion of those
living in the South and South Cen
trail sections are home owners with
a reasonable amount of economic
security. 1t is in this section that
many of the postal employees and
business and professional people
live. Their homes are beautiful
and the lawns are well-kept and
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

famous Minneapolis Negro couple johnson and Dean
r Cha Johnson internationally known dancing team
the worlds theatres for 5O
they introduced Minneapolis the famous cake
walk at the old Lake Harriet pavilion.
played civilized country
the globe couple played the Minnesota
theatre They reside in home at 816 E. Seth St.
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there is nothing to distinguish
them from the homes of any other
groups in comfortable circum-
stances.
The Negroes living on the North
Side of Minneapolis are for the
most part those families in the
lowest income group. A large num-
Der of them are renters who are
living in houses definitely below
the accepted standards for physi-
cal and moral health because their
incomes are insufficient to pay the
rent for better homes.
About 1875 Negro families are
living in the Sumner Field homes
which are modern dwellings pro-
vided by the government at low
rental for families with small in
comes. Negroes comprise about %
per cent of the tenants in the
Sumner Field homes and they have
been commended by the manage
ment of the project for the peace
able and intelligent manner in
which they conduct themselves.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
WELCOME HALL NEWS

The Welcome Hall classes opened
last week with an attendance of
GA in various groups.
The Friday Worship Service was
well attended by children of vari-
Gus groups. There was an interest
ing program. Our guests on the
program were Doris Haden and
Evelyn Edwards who sang duet.
Sunday afternoon the Vesper
Service was held. Mrs. E. Taylor
presided. Mrs. C. Jackson was the
Guest Speaker.
This Sunday The Cosmopolitan
Club and Girl Reserves will take
charge of the Vesper Service. All
are cordially invited to attend at
Welcome Hall Chapel at 8 p. m.
Sunday, October LIST.
The Cosmopolitan Club has
opened its Annual fall meeting
with Pow Wow at Minnehaha
Falls, Minneapolis. An enjoyable
time was had by all.
The next regular meeting will be
held the first Saturday in October
at which time the club will have
its election of officers. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29
These People Made Possible
This Special Century Edition

Clellan, Miss Alma Byars, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Mitchell, Rev. A. W. Will
son, Mr.. and Mrs. o. Ray, Mr..
and Mrs. M. Wright.
Mr.. Tommie Graham, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Burke, Mr.. and Mrs. B. Starks,
Mrs. Lulu Bailey, Mrs. Anne Smith,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Pullens, Mr.. Henry
French, Mr.. Sylvester Carter, Mr..
Robert Marshall, Mr.. Robert Wal
lace, Mr.. George Wallace, Mrs.
Pansy Chavis, Mrs. P. M. Wright,
Mr.. John Sellers, Mr.. Frank T.
Crowder, Mrs. R. S. Underwood,
Mr.. Phillip Ware, Mrs. Alice Nor
gan, Mrs. Hazel Curry, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Curry.
Cecil E. Newman, Mrs. DeVelma
Newman, Chas. W. Washington,
Cecil Taylor, Miss Martha Kaye,
Rev. Carlyle F. Stewart, John
Moultrie, A. J. Evans, Miss Mag
nolia Latimer, Lewis Ewing, Mar
tin Brown, Mrs. T. Vaughn, Mrs.
M. Bell, Talmage B. Carey, John A.
Cook, Sylvester Carter, VIM. H.
Crump, Robert Mallory, Major Gull
berson, W. M. Ewing, Mrs. A.
Goldman, DR.. W. D. Brown, Mrs.
w. D. Brown, Mrs. A. White, Carl
Wade, w. H. Richardson, Tom
PauD, E. H. Payne, Walter Mccoy,
William Taylor, William J. Clack,
Mrs. John Wright.
Calvin Mason, Leonard Madden,
Mildred Strader, Erma Clardy.
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MT. OLIVET CHURCH NEWS

Rev. E. D. johnson brought to us
a wonderful message last Sunday
morning. At the evening service
we had the pleasure of hearing
message brought to us by Rev. c.
W. Wheeler of Des Moines, Iowa,
secretary to the Iowa, Nebraska,
South Dakota and Minnesota Asso-
citation. A large number of visitors
were present at both services.
The B. Y. P. U. classes were we'll
attended. The women's class won
the banner for the largest atten-
dance.
Tuesday evening, September 10,
the missionary society met at 522
w. Central Ave. Visitors were Rev.
and Mrs. w. M. Hicks and Mrs. C.
Jackson. Refreshments were served.
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"REMINISCENCES
By Estyr Bradley

Mrs. Miles o. Cannon, 34OO Oak
land Avenue, came to Minneapolis
in 1887 from Mortified, MINI.
In an interview with Mrs. Can
non she said, 81 came to Mime
apolis from Mortified, and as a
young woman l worked in the
Register of Deeds office in Hen
nepin County. I recorded the deed
for the home of James A. Cunning
ham and his wife, one of the first
of the home owners of our group.
"My mother and father and
grandparents came to LIE Sueur,
Mimi, in 1859 from Wilmington
City, N. Car, and in just short
time moved to Northfield, where
we made our home. Ny fathers
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name was Boone, and during the
Civil War he was a Corporal in
the 1st Minnesota Regiment, Com
pany H, in which he enlisted. He
told us many interesting expert
ences of the war.
81 remember the terror reign of
the James and Younger Brothers,
Clel Miller, Charles Pitts, and Bill
Caldwell. Three of them were
killed by citizens. They were buried
in the afternoon and by night the
men that killed them had dug their
bodies up because they wanted to
save the skeletons. They were
trapped in the fields because the
man that knew the way out of
Mortified got killed. For days they
existed on green corn and hazel
nuts.
81 was married in 1891 at my
home in Mortified to Miles Can
non. I was a member of the first
choir of st. Peter A. M. E. Church.
Our men in those days were work
ing mostly as hotel walters and
BARRIERS. My church and club af-
filiations were many, and l was
P. W. G. S. and P. w. G. A. of the
Order of Eastern Star.
During the early 1900's, Homer,
my son, was a clerk in the County
Treasurer's office, and during the
war, in which he enlisted in 1918,
he was drum major for the Uni
versity of Minnesota band. He led
the Liberty Loan parade in st.
Paul and led the Victory Loan
parade in Minneapolis.
'My other two sons, Miles and
Raymond, went into the drug bust
ness in 1914 in Minneapolis and
were in that business until 1924 at
14OO Plymouth Avenue. When Ray
mond went to the war in France,
Miles stayed on in Minneapolis and
ran the store.
"Some of the early settlers that
l remember we'll were ]. Frank
Wheaton, Solomon Saunders, and
Julius Todd. Wheaton was a lawyer
and graduated from the University
of Minnesota. He was responsible
for the Civil Rights Law. He was
a member of the legislature and
also delegate to the Republican
convention. Gale Hilyer's father,
Andrew Hilyer, was the first col
ored man to graduate from the
Law School of the University of
Minnesota.
Solomon Saunders was a sales
man for the New England Fur
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-09-29

General Committee members VINO
made possible Negro participation
in the Century Celebration to date
are:
Mrs. Betty Wagner, Mr.. John
Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Beas-
ley, Mr.. William Kelly, Mr.. Charles
Mcleod, Mrs. Corinne Bum, Mrs.
E. L. Sims, Mr.. and Mrs. E. l..
Sims, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Smith,
Mrs. Sarah Benson, Mrs. Alice
Whitley, Rev. J. ]. Clayburn, Mr..
Joe Kidd, Mr.. and Mrs. N. W..
KintchIow, Mr.. Garrett Davis, Mrs.
Lucille Ray, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Reddick, Mrs. W. M. Ewing, Mr..
and Mrs. James Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Taylor,
Mrs. Gertrude Smith, Mr.. James
Eddings, Mrs. Dovie Phelan, Mrs.
M. L. Brown, DR.. Wilbur Wright,
Mrs. Lena Cobb, Mr.. Payne Cal
houn, Mr.. Howard Martin, Mr..
John Woodhouse, Mrs. Cannon, Mr..
Thomas B. Warren, A Friend, Mrs.
M. Owens, Mr.. Andrew Clark, Mr..
James Burrell, Mr.. VIM. Wormley,
Miss Myrtle Wormley, Mr.. Lewis
Ewing, John Yates, Mrs. Gertie
Thompson, Mr.. Landon.
Mrs. Mary Crump, Mr.. Pearl
Ball, Mr.. Albert Allen, Rev. H. w.
Bolts, Cornelia Burns, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. L. Boyd, Mr.. James Stem
mons, Miss Eleanor Byars, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Crowder, Mrs. M. Chand-
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Nc
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honored on September 20, 1889, al
a banquet. held in the Dayton Tea
Rooms for Dayton and Hudson
employees. He was presented with
a platinum medal containing five
diamonds for 81 years of service.
He has worked for the Hudson
company, owned by the Geo. N.
Dayton Co., longer than any other
employee.
Urban League
The Urban League is another
Community Fund supported social
agency which has served the COM
munity for the past IA years. Two
Negroes are employed in this
agency, an executive secretary and
an office secretary. It has for one
of it's detectives the securing and
maintenance of amicable economic
relationshi between Negroes and
white employers and workers, and
high standards of training for
social work.
Mr.. C. w. Washington is the
present Executive Secretary of the
Minneapolis Urban League, which
is located at 24O S. Fourth st.
Phyllis Wheatley House
There are two social agencies in
the city in which Negroes COM
prise the entire personnel.
One is the Phyllis Wheatley
Settlement House which is located
in North Minneapolis and which is
the center of a great part of the
social life of the Negroes of that
section. This settlement house was
opened in 1924 by the Women's
Christian Association with Miss w.
Gertrude Brown serving as it's first
head resident. 1t has been a con-
structive influence in the lives of
the Negroes in the community dur
ing the past Is years.
Miss Magnolia Latimer is at
present the head resident of Phyl-
lis Wheatley House.
There are at present IL res
taurants operated by Negroes in
Minneapolis.
Negroes own a large, modern
laundry which employs a large
corps of workers.
Eight cleaning and repair estab-
lishments for the care and removal
ton of wearing apparel are owned
by Negroes.
Negroes serve their community
with two grocery stores; four bar
Der shops; two beauty salons; three
building contractors; seven sales
men; two physicians; one dentist;
six attorneys; Is social workers;
two weekly newspapers; two NOR
ticians, and three commercial art
lists.
Eight churches serve the re-
igious needs of the Negro COM
munity.
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Notes on Some Prominent
Present-Day Citizens
F CARNATIONS and the Minnesota Ed

CARNATIONS and the Minnesota Edl-
torial Association.
Bob Marshall
Robert "Bob" Marshall, just an
other prosperous law abiding
Negro citizen, will long be re-
membered by sport fans as the
football star who played right end
on the University of Minnesota
football team in 1908 and made the
scoring play in that memorable
game between the University of
Michigan and the University of
Minnesota which ended in a 6 to
6 tie.
Martin Brown
Martin Brown is one of the
enterprising Negro business men of
Minneapolis. He has owned and
operated an automobile service and
filling station on the corner of Mar
quette Ave. and 18th st. for many
years. Quite recently he has moved
his place of business to Second
Ave. S. and 18th st.
Two other notable Negro figures
in Minneapolis are John Thomas,
youth worker and N. Y. A. Super
visor, and Leo Bohannon, who is a
Public Relief Department super
visor in the Department of Public
Relief.
Mrs. Lulu Maxwell is one of the
oldest social workers in Mime
apolis in point of service, and has
won the respect of both Negroes
and others by the intelligent and
honest manner in which she has
always discharged her duties.
Mrs. Katherine L. Smith, who is
said to be the first Negro child to
be born at st. Anthony Falls, is
a familiar figure in music circles
of the city. She has conducted sew
eral choirs, and composed and re-
arranged much of the music used
She is still actively engaged in
this type of work and enjoys the
friendship of such people as Mrs
Carlyle Scott and
William Clack
William Clack, shipping clerk-fol
the j. B. Hudson Jewelry Co., was
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niture & Carpet Co. in 1888. He
was employed there for long time
and worked for w. L. Harris, ST.,
father of the present head of the
New England. Saunders established
riding academy on Dupont and
10Th and owned and operated it
until his death.
Julius Todd was a singer and
church worker at Bethesda Baptist
Church. He wanted to be a mis-
sionary to Africa so he rented his
house out and moved to Africa
with his whole family. They missed
the train and waited all night in
the railroad station. Three of the
family contracted malaria fever on
the way over and died. A short
time later the rest of them died,
but Lucille, one daughter. She
wanted to come back to the States,
and Bishop Scott brought her back
with him to the States. She was
educated here to be a trained
nurse, and married a doctor. Lucille
and her doctor husband went to
Liberia to carry on the work that
Julius always wanted to do. Today
they are missionaries in Liberia"
Rachel Nichols, 3841 Clinton ave-
nue. south, has lived in Minneapolis
since 1854, coming here when she
was seven years old from Lauder
dale Spring, Mississippi. In an in
terview with Mrs. Nichols, she said,
81 came to Minneapolis with a
group of 16. We were all put in
Quaker families and was raised
in the Quaker Church. l was put
with a family named Hoag, and
the brother of the man l worked
for named Minneapolis. We lived
in Vaudeville, Wright County, on
Howard Lake. The man that
brought us here from the south
was named William Wales, and his
daughter was my schoolteacher.
when I was about II years old,
l came into the city to live. It re-
calls pleasant memories. 1 was
wearing black dress, black pat
ent bag and CATERS, and a black
sailor hat with yellow streamers.
l came here looking for my sister,
Fannie. I was so green. 1 met
man in the street, and l asked him
If he knew my sister, Fannie. He
answered me by saying, who in
the H is Fannie?' I was sur
prised because l wasn't used to
cuss words.
"You had to go across the sus-
pension bridge to get to st. An
thony, which is now St. Paul, and
had to pay toll charge. The
women wore lot of false hair in
those days and the hair was made
out of cloth, and put under the
real hair. | was married in Mime
apolis in 1882 to Joseph Nichols,
and had one daughter, Mayme.
There was one schoolhouse here
then, and it was on 18th street,
and we, called it way out on the
bluffs
II remember fellow well named,
Banjo Ben He used to get up on
top of the houses and play that
banjo. You never saw him without
it. One time he was offered $40 to
walk across the suspension bridge.
He started over and when he was
just a little way across, he began
to clown and fell in the river and
was gone.
"Our people then worked mostly
as domestics and coachmen, etc."
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CHARACTER SKETCHES o
PROMINENT PRESENT
DAY CITIZENS

w. M. Smith is retired postal
employee who has always been
active in civic affairs. He worked
as a postal clerk for many years
and won promotion to the position
of supervisor, from which he was
retired on a pension. He is a mem
Der of the Phyllis Wheatley Board
of Directors; the Urban League
Board of Directors; the Speakers
Bureau of the Community Fund;
the Bethesda Baptist Church Choir,
and the staff of the Minneapolis
Spokesman newspaper.
w. Squire Neal
W. Squire Neal, the owner of
the beautiful Neal Funeral Homes,
Inc, in Minneapolis and st. Paul,
is the son of John Neal, who came
to Minneapolis in 1857 and who
figured so prominently in the de-
velopment of this community.
The Brown Brothers
w. Donald Brown, MD, and
R. ]. C. Brown, MD, who at pres
ent are the only Negro physicians
in Minneapolis, are the sons of the
late R. S. Brown, who came to
Minneapolis in 1898 and was the
first Negro medical doctor in Min
neapolis. Both of the Doctors
Brown are graduates of the Uni
versity of Minnesota M die a
School, where they made brilliant
records for themselves.
C. E. Newman, the editor and
publisher of the Minneapolis
Spokesman and the st. Paul Rec.
order, two weekly Negro news
papers, is only SO years old, yet he
has owned his own newspapers fol
the past six years. Prior to that he
was editor of the Twin City
Herald. Ten years ago he was s
Pullman porter and today ha'
newspapers with combined circu
lation of 6,700.
He is member of several or
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-21

KMO-Notes; lis. jim
my Shields.
KVI-Kitty Kelly: lis,
Myrt and Marge.
KOMO - Organ Concert;
l:l5. Stella Dallas.
lKJR-Club Matinee.
Serial.
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$50 p. Nj.

MO - Dick Jurgens;
8:45. Twilight Trails.
KVI-Ed. G. Robinson.
'KOMO-Johnny Presents.
KJR-Aldrich Family.
KIRO-Big Town.
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BONNEVILLE'S CABLES
WILL CROSS COLUMBIA

PORTLAND, Ore.-Stringing of
Bonneville transmission cables over
Columbia river between Vancouver,
Wash, and Portland got under
way today and Contractor Fritz
ziebarth said he expected to have
the lines ready for energizing Nov.
81.
The three-cable circuit will be
suspended from 534-foot towers
reputedly the highest in the world.
Only one of the two circuits will
be strung now, with the second to
go up later.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-21

KMO-Vitality Club;
Sis. Cowboy.
.KVI-5:0 A m erican
School Of the Air.
K o NJ o - Fred Waring;
5:l5. Arboretum Talk.
KJR-W a { a n be: SIS,
Tom Mix.
K l r o. Father Goose;
Sis. Studio.