Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-22

PERIL WILL THERE BE ANY
! QUlETl AS to the dogs he said
the Negroes are very much like
dogs, They may be playing to-
gether and any dog making the
warning that he is in peril will
find himself alone, ALL THE
OTHER DOGS DROP THEIR
TAILS BETWEEN THEIR HIND
PARTS; LET THEIR EARS
DROP, AND SAUNTER AWAY
Is that the reaction of the Negro,
AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU
THINK? go.
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE, an
auxiliary to be formed of the
wives of the members of the
Pine Bluff Negro Business
League, has in its membership
ten prominent Pine Bluff wo-
men, who are expected to be the
pioneers in getting underway the
effective buying program of the
Negro woman consumer. Here
are the names: Mrs. Eloise B.
Mazique, Mrs. Lurene K. Taylor,
Mrs. Ruth G. Flowers, Mrs. Anna
p. Lytes, Mrs. Casa H. Lawlah,
Mrs. Katie j. Pierre, Mrs. A. B.
Chanay, Mrs. r. c. Williams,
Mrs. Willie M. Barnes, and Mrs.
4. M Moore. The Pine Bluff
Negro Business League will en-
terrain at its special meeting. :.
Thursday evening at the Trail
Inn Sandwich Shop. i. Mr.. Wen
dell p. Shelton will be the host.
Pine Bluff will elect its first
BRONZE MAYOR on July A,
l945 The ten day campaign
will be launched on June "a.
The primary purpose will be to
increase the membership of the
League. Prospective candidates
for the office of Bronze Mayor
of Pine Bluff are DR.. F. p. Lytes
and Lorenzo Jefferson, district
manager of the Universal Life
Insurance Company.
DOWN OUR WAY. Mrs. Beulah
Lee Flowers, mother of my boss,
passed through Monday morning
enroute to Little Rock where
she will make her eighteenth
annual pilgrimage to the Annual
Conference of Negro Women. She
attended the second conference
and has missed only one since
1925, and that was due to illness.
The women are meeting in their
twentieth anniversary at Phil
ander Smith College. j.. . VENDYA
MIDDLETON THOMAS, of
Tuskegee, was here last week for
a visit with her family. She was
accompanied on her return to
Alabama by Mrs. A. d. Green,
of West Ninth Street, who plans
a short stay in the town of Car
yer and Washington. THE
PETER PAN BEAUTY SHOP
on 18th near Georgia Street is
owned and operated by Miss
Evelyn Wells, and Mrs. Ruthie
Lee Dean. They were formerly
operators at the De Luxe Beauty
Shop. The Peter Pan is modern
ly equipped and efficiently staff
ed. The friend chicken at Blue
Room Sandwich Shop, 1915 West
Barraque is 'delish.' Mr.. and Mrs.
Barnes are determined to give
Pine Bluffians a good meal for
their money. MRS. NETTIE
H. JOHNSON, prominent civic
worker, and we'll known sports
woman, is back from the Show
Me State where she went with
other members of her family to
visit Hollis Freeman, who was
q frequent visitor in Pine Bluff
during his encampment at Clai-
borne, Louisiana. The soldier
was injured in action overseas
and after a rest period will visit
again in Chicago and Pine Bluff
Gals, please note By the way, in
peacetlme, Hollis had a nice job
with an aircraft designing COM
pany. Over at Matthews Hard
ware, you will find some of the
toy plane patterns designed by
Hollis Freeman. Buy 'em chillun!
THE EARL MORGANS are
no more husband and wife. A
decree of divorce last week was
the end of the beginning. Rev.
Earl Morgan was formerly pas
tor Of New Jerusalem, and his
wife, Mrs. Margie is a trained
nurse. They lived on East 2lst
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