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THE ADVOCATE s VOL. XXIV—No. 6 I ttd # p g n 4 » a t F sp sff P t r o l s d * to th « la ts m lo mf X V — t m els« F s o p l o ■ 1 ..PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926... 11 PRICE 5 CENTS USES TO PICK COTTON, KNOCKED IN HEAD N. A. A. C P. FREES MAN CONDEMNED TO DIE LUTHER COLLINS IN SUNSHINE SAM SIGNS m e e t b i l l r o b i n s o n ; ^ro^igryvogri^o^orsssc& HE JUST OPENS HIS MOUTH AND—SINGS! JAIL FIVE YEARS ORPHEUM CONTRACT ! ( l o b and head of some other things, He r* Danced All The Way •» t> i“k frvn' * * h r t e w" k*' vacation NOW IS FREE FOR $500 PER WEEK »»si- o*. rv u to some place But iust where, he re- From The Streets Of Old <u«cs to tell However, he must have I gone to a good plare and treated fine- Houston, Texas Branch of Turn» Down Movie Contract Virginny To Broadway | Iv to judge by bis good looks and The National Association To Open In Chicago the same old "Texas" smile (By Trixie Breaux) For Advancement of Col From a box overhanging the stage ( Exclusive) I saw "Bill" Robinson dance Tuesday Mr. and Mr». K D Cannady and ored People Wages 1 alii . t )< t 14— (P.C. night at the O rpheum J neatre. George and Ivan were the dinner Long Fight N Hollywood, It.) Arriving home for a few weeks I have seen lots of all sorts of d a n guests of Mr and airs. C. O. C'adv DEATH, 99 YRS., FREE! i rest following his latest appearance at t lie- Inter-State T h e a t r e « ''rp heuin booking) San Antonio, Texas, and the Iris Theatre, H ouston T ex as J Morrison and his famous son, "S un shine Sam m y" in a personal interview with a Pacific Coast News represen tative showed a telegram and con tract from the K Z Keough Agency. Chicago, engaging “Sam m y" for a 2D week engagem ent at $500 per week over the O rph eu m Circuit which o- prned Oct. It at the Chicago O rp h e um. Turn* Down Movie C ontract Several deals including the one heretofore mentioned with the DeVil- lard Company were turned down in accepting the Chicago offer. New York, N. Y. Oct. 14— After five years of unremit-, ting effort, the Houston, Tex Branch of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People has won a spectacular fight resulting in the liberation of Luther Col lins, a colored man who was successfully sentenced to death and then to 99 years in THEY CAN'T GO prison, and has spent in all, TO SCHOOL five years in jail. to a report received at Mr. Collins was convicted According office from Maxvillr. O regon, the and sentenced on the testi our colored children are not perm itted to the public schools in that mony, of a white woman of ill attend place. It is said that thev have been repute, and the contradic offered the use of the school building after four I*. M "after the white chil tions in the testimony she dren are home." At present a tw<s- gave, together with evidence rooin shack is being used hv the nine chidren of school age as a of Mr. Collins' good charac rolnred school building A m other of two ter, made it evident he was } them U said to be the instructor. innocent of the assault char E W S P A P E R COM ged. The Houston N. A. A. E N G M L E I S N H T S N ON A M E R IC A N M O B IS M C. P. not only raised $2,(XX) to carry the case through the | New York. N Y. O ct 14— T he N a tional Association for the Advancer Texas courts on repeated ap nicnt of Colored People has received peals, hut interested promi a clipping from the W estern Press, Bristol, England, comm enting on nent white people in the case. of American lawlessness, in which occur Financial aid offered hy the the following sentences: "T he Negro question in the United National Office of the N. A. States it undoubtedly at the root of A. C. I’ was refused by the much of the violrnce and intimdia- tion that is practised there. W e in Houston Branch which de E urope can show nothing to match clared it could and would fi- th r dementia of a m ob th at still tears a Negro to pieces or burns him alive nance the case itself. fr his crimes . . . It is an odd il Recently l.u th cr Collin«' 9 9 y e a r lustration of the difference between «entence wu* reverted and the Di»- theory and practice in the United trict Attorney of Fort Bend County States that thousands of men who T ex ai, gave tin- i otlini attorney a u nominally ptsess full political rights thority to try the ca>e in any Count- dare not exercise them for fear of in v he wished T h e attorney prom ptly viting the vengeance of their fellow named W ash ing ton County, where citizens” the attorney had practised law lot tw enty live year». The bond was at MT. OLIVET BAPTIST once reduced from $7,500 to $2,500 and Collins was released under bond CHURCH in March of this year Bond was sig ned bv four of the most prominent By Mrs. Octavia Williams colored men of the city of Houston, T h e services at Mt Olivet were and four of the must prom inent white well attended Sundav In the m o r n men. One of tile white men is S ecre ing the pastor spoke from First Peter tary of the Chamber of Commerce, 2nd Chapter the 5lh verse: Ye two of them bankers and the fourth also, as Living and Stones Are Built up a a prminent m erchant After a number of consultations between the District Spiritual House to he a Holy Priest to Offer up Spiritual Sacrifices, A ttorney of W ash in gto n County, the hood. to God T h ru o g h Jesus fudge and the defense attorneys, the Acceptable Christ District Attorney moved that the i axr In the evening the pastor spol spoke from b r dismissed Collins was freed early ih r 7 7<h lh Chapter Cha of Jeremiah. 9th am) in September and is now wftirkig at the lOlh verses. the fob he held before his arrest T h e Sr and Ir Missionary Socie Had it not been for the fight made by the Houston N A. A. ( P , l.u- i ties met at the church A very inter esting was held Every one ther Collins would long since have is busy meeting for our annual Ba been dead, as he had no friends to 1 zaar to preparing be given Nov. 3-4-5. Those intercede for him and the public took looking for bargains in art work for it for granted he was guilty. Christm as will find them at the ba /aar. O u r next meeting will be at the church All ladies arc invited to bring FARINA HAS WHITE* their thimbles and needles and join FATHER thr big quilting, which will begin a- bout noon Monday the 18th. ---------- A---------- Culver City. Calif- Oct 1 4 - ( P C . Stay off date Nov. 11th, Armistice N H ) In the first "O u r Gang" com e dy to be directed by Bob McGowan > Day. Particulars later Adv since his return from F.urope, Tom Wilson the black, face screen com e Roland Haves writes T he Advo dian seen as th r S r a r g r n t in "A cross cate from Munich. Germany, th at he thr Pacific" will play the part of the is having great success with his con- adopted father of "F arin a" (Jam es the U. S. A. Saturday, O ctober the 16th. Hoskins ) COME TO THIS UNUSUAL TREAT You arc cordially invited to attend an illustrated lecture depicting the progress of the colored people in the United States since their emancipation from chattel slavery a little more than three score years ago, by Mrs. E. 1). Cannady, Associate editor of the Advocate and Northwest Supervisor and Organizer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at First Congregational Church, 252 Park Street (West Side) Friday evening, Octo ber 22, at 8 o’clock. Admission free A free-will of fering will he accepted for the benefit of the First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Mrs. Cannady urges her friends both white and coloured to como out, especially those whom she lias assisted in their various activities. A r r o w T COLORED LABORER FORCED TO WORK WITH FRACTURED £KULL ip s (B y Kits Reid) T he Advocate does not necessarily share in K its Reid's views, but w heth er we do or not, her opinions are . sane, and logical and well w orth D _____ _ r Tit »r> , reading. I t is your privilege as well as KcportS OI 111 1 r e a t m e n t our» to di(agree w ith Kit« and she And Forced labor pre- tnvites your opinion upon subjects , . — , r. she discusses from time to time in her v a le n t in o O U tn e m S ta t e s column. | — ........ cing during my life, but 1 have never Sunday at their ranch home eight mi In another column is the letter of ^EDERAL AGENT BUSY sren anv that equals les below O regon City on the Mollala Mr. Haney, democratic candidate for — — Bill's dancing. His is Rd. At the conclusion of the dinner { United States Senator. 1 am very ( P rcS tO n N eW S S e rv ic e ) the tap which he the hostess presented a pretty Birth glad to be corrected on the ship sub- rx n -T- s \ . does in trebles He day cake bearing eleven flaming can- j ( sidy question. Very glad. But confess D a l l a s , 1 CX., O c t . O— U a i - dances fhr Charlet- dies in honor of Ivan Canifadv's 11th : myself saddened over his attem p t m i n g h e h a d b e e n s t r u c k o v - leston — in ,t re b l e s ; I Birthday Before n .m g to their 1 to prove himself a pacifist Mr, H an- P , , . . he dances w'lth such ranch, Mr and Mrs. Cady were next ey, we do not admit those of your t h e h c & a W i t h a i l a u tO lT l O - rase and grace that doo r neighbors to the Cannadys in scarcely can one re K « • Pump by an East Texas j Irvington. alize there is wt>rk tarist So was E m p ero r William. So I S i i m e r ailCl f o r c e d t o W ork ---------- 0---------- in dancing wflas the whole German nation— ~-so thf* r p n i i l i n H p r rxf f l i p d s v in H arry Wills wag derisively defeat His breathing hr wonderfully “prepared ’ to "protect” , .\e nainaer oi tne day in ed by Jack Sharkey, a younger and has under perfect the Fatherland and its people "from ; t h e f i e l d , a m a n a p p l i e d M on- lighter weight man. in 13 rounds in control which enab the inroads of foreign military pow- (l a v „ ¡ „ U * a t tlw* e m e r o e n r v their scheduled 15-round fight T u es les him to dance for ers." Even against the American ar- , V'«», tne emergency hours without tiring He dances with day night in New York. my which did its share of “inroading” ’ h o s p i t a l f o r t r e a t m e n t . a finish that positively excels "Bill is truly an artist and does with his feet S,d V .,r,£ ! 1 5 & : Physicians found ha had Annual Bazaar. Mt. Olivet Baptist what many another artist does with Church. First and Schuyler Street«. singing voice He just dances his way Em Mart Bookar. of Seattle S r i . T . 3 S 'S E S I “3 V 2 ! ' .and 5T\ n t ........... into your heart Robinson doesn't , . N ov em b er3—4—5. All kinds of booths Who Delighted A fo rt- ' „ ., . , .„ h m to. , a, san‘,a n " m r The dance with abandon and that carefree ( f n<^ amusement*. Luncheon a"d re- manner so typical of the colored dan- fre*hment*. Come on.e come all. Mt. land Audience Last Fri. catch no pacifist voting flies. Especi- n- g ,S ^-v a *l s cer but gives loving attention to each Olivet Missionary Societie*. Adv. _______ ally as you are w aiting for the “oth- i _±4l& ^ a n d y , 1 e x a s . ■ —o detail and seems to reap as much real Numerous reports of ill O n Friday evening, O ctober 8th. ; er fellow" to become a pacifist. Fie j joy and pleasure out of his dancing Rev I.ouis R Stew art is in A na i/u ii s such in .i l logic-if l u x i f i i I i didn't u i u n i know x n u w you y o u ! . ____ , ___ . r xt Mr Em Merr Booker of Seattle, a ' u upon as do rs his attentive and enthusiastic conda. Montana and respect your intelligence. I ’d say i t r e a t m e n t OI ^ eg ro COttOn pupil at the Cornish School sang a i audience. something real catty. pickers and violation of the concert at Bethel A M. E. church to j "Rill" ought to dance well; he came Just when will you join our ranks . , . Mr and Mrs. Lynch Brown of into the world nearly a half century LongView. W ashington, were in the a representative audience. and declare th at w ar—legalized mur- peonage act are being mves- He sang a varied, well balanced i ago (although he looks only 30)------ Sunday seeing friends. They program which ended with a group der— is the most uncivilized of «li t i g a t e d b v federal ic re n t q dancing. His mthcr died when he was city ICQ , agents, the guests at dinner of Mr. and of Spirituels. While he did them all efforts at civilization May I quote only seven— that was down in Rich were Mrs. I. S. Scott at their home on S. well, the Spirituels captivated his au from an editorial by H enry Ford in Who 1 u e s d a y took Up I'.VanS mond, Virginia His father deserted 13th Street. Evans cairl tEr* m a n dience and thev begged him ior more. the Septem ber 25th issue of the Dear- | r a s e Bill and several others younger than "when money ! C a S e ’ . f-.V a n s sam t h e m a *t ---------- 0---------- Mr. Booker possesses a very rich, born Independent. he—but a kind old ludge gave shelter finds its profits in causing idleness or struck him because he would and a measure of Kindness in return T he room ing house at 376 W il clear and fascinating voice which he w ar or obstruction, it misuses a pow- n o s «.¡pL r n t t n n a n f J u - u n t o r l for the chores that Rill did about the liams Avenue has changed hands handles wisely. He knows his range er which cannot he left in its hands." UUl P ,CK c o l l o n a n a w a n t e d ptace. from Mrs. Rachael Young to Mrs. and the things best suited to it, and And it is money and greed for money tO g O to another farm, But always “ Bill" was dancing He Louis Jones Furnished room s reas he uses the good sense to abide by which has caused all wars. 0 his knowledge. danced in the beaneries and cheap res onable. P hone E ast 1633—Adv. T hose who heard the young singer t . . . . W H IT E W OMAN R E P L IE S TO taurants and on the streets of Rich- i ■ o It is American and English money “N E G R O R A P I S T ” S L A N D E R " ’“ I’d for what he could get and even- Mrs. Charles Mumford and Mrs. are anxious that he come to us again. which is causing all the ferment in He explained to an Advocate re p o r t tuallv danced his wav onto the largest George Mullen spent several pleas- er China. It is English money which A. « - r t , C o ln r^ t th at he was just giving a student- vaudeville stage in the world He dan ant davs in Scatle last week. Mrs. trying to crush th e life out of Ind- D anger of W hite M e n . A t t a c k ces at home, he dances abroad; he Mullen visited Ted. T hey report a recital and that reporter is still w o n IS u »n K«r W h ite Men a A ttack dering to what excelence the artist ia It is American money which is dances in and out of season. It was fine time. x»ew V « .k v v n - . would sing his p rogram after he had making a hell out of the life of Haiti, iust last lune when hr and his beauti F o llow which is denying the Phillipine Is- i i o r k - Pickens, Y ° Field ct 14— “finished". ful T ennessee wife went to Europe, ing e* W iliam Secretary Mr and Mrs. E dgar Williams were T o o much praise cannot be given lands, their lo ng promised indepen o f the National Association for the and of their seven weeks' vacation in London ad Paris. "Bill" daced three. the dinner guests Sundav of Mr. and Mr. Raymond Cage, who accom pani dence—and the arm y and navy are Advancement of Colroed People, ed the singer for his good work and the tools of action th at are used by who lately nailed, in the columns of It was the charm ing Mrs. "Rill” Mrs. Craw ford on E. 31st St. the money powers. Let me close with complete accord with the singer. who explained that it was her hus the N. Y. Tribune, the old lie that O th ers on the program were Miss * quotation from H anford MacNider: white band's fondness for his work and his Q n K„ d a v a fu .rnoon. O ctober 8th women cannot walk with safe F.loise Hood who gave a reading and the fact remains th at the military desire to make others happy which a , lhc home of XIrs A H Beeson, ty in the South for fear of attack, a Mr Raymond Cage who played a pi- mind has a childlike faith in a huge prevented him from turning down an on G |in n Avenuc in A la meda. Mrs. white woman has w ritten the same an piece. arm y and navy as a means whereby paper. offer while vacationing' ! E. D. Cannady spoke for forty minu- ------- o------------ we are not only safe from attack but It was a great experience when in tes on J,u w fD solve the race problem This woman. Dr. Carrie K. B a rt Edinonia Moore of San Jose. *re in > Position where »• we can die- August two years ago. Bill went to to more than half a hundred women - Mrs. i .- .t v- ~ U : , « ___ ____ i lett. not only reports that for y ears ' Richmond during the great Elks’ con of the Home and Foreign Mission- California, is the guest of Mrs. Geo. tate peace to the wtorld." H isto ry and she taught and moved freely am ong the great w ar have taught us that vention — it had been at least fifteen .itv Socle Hr o i the United Presbyte Mullen, this vSeck. such a position has alwavs ended by- Negroes in A rkansas and N o rth Ca years since he had visited the place rian church. H er address w»s well re- rolina without ever receiving an y where he was b o m — During the pro cicvcd and at its close, she was pre MR. H A N E Y T E L L S K IT S R E I D dictating war. Economic boycott will thing but courteous treatm en t and stop warlike gestures quicker than all H E 'S A P A C I F I S T gress of a m am m o th social gathering sented a beautiful bouquet of gladio- the guns airplanes, brass buttons and assistance; but adds th at it is the col attended in great numbers bv both las and asters bv one of the mem Sam Brown belts th at can be maufac.- ored women who fear attack from P ortland. Oregon. colored and white in their best even bers who, in fitting terms thanked the white men. not the white wv,.mep who O ctober II, 1926. tured. ing attire th at "Bill” was called on to speaker for her tunelv discourse. need to fear attack from Negroes. Kits Reid, •tance I He «•, responded only to be tak- Says P r. B artlett: “ I never receiv a | a * In •» the m s , v evening * v ii h i s, v/ o( a tu the x. o same o i ii s . u day, o y | But. Mr. H aney, I do admire you ed from a Negro man o r woman cn up bodily and carried around on M r*. Cannadv made a brief The talk Advocate. be- immensely for the way you held out anything but the m ost perfectly cour the shoulders of while People some fore thf rcKU|a r niee,iK Df the Bahais Portland. Oregon. against the mouthpiece of the money- teous treatm ent, but I learned from of w hom had no doubt in former al ^ Yamhill Street and introduced Mv dear Kits Reid: years tossed dimes to him as he dar^ Mrs S hir| ev McCanns w ho gave a Your “Arrow Tips" was called to mv ! powers called the President. Just that from the colored maids of the friend ced upon the public streets. talk on Negro music and demonstra- attention in the last issue of The A d bit of courage may decide m y vote. with whom I was living, of a situa A lew veáis ago, "Bill" aecidentlv ted some of the spirituels. Miss Faye vocate. It was breezy, snappy, logi The west needs th at kind of courage tion for which I wish we m ight find in the U. S. Senate. But how shall I ran across a brother in New York Swain accompanied Mrs. McCanns cal. and right to the point. ermedy. These colored women are In one paragraph, you referred to me reconcile my vote w ith my pacifist a afraid whom he had not seen nor heard on the piano to go on the streets alone af as supporting ship subsidy and then conscience’ Oh. please answ er this from since thev were separated when ter dark for fear o f attack by white H e r talk and singing made a deep their m o th er passed away This b ro impression on thr mind- and hearts “his pronounced militarism". Mav I question—do you believe in conscrip men. Most of the maids go home at ther had developed into a very fine of her hearer: who c « r r e s t their ap have the privilege to c o r e d you on tion and compulsory military training night. T h e v believe th at they do not these two points. in our schools and colleges? musician. His sisters—well, he has ne preciation in many w;ys. I am a pronounced pacifist, hut until O f course Steiwer does, or he could have as good police protection as do ver heard what became of them. the other fellow becomes a pacifist. I not be the candidate of the O re g o n the white women, and for mutual "Bill has never had a dancing les A very nice ice cream parlor and believe in maintaining suffeent force ian—that lives, moves and has its be protection get together and go home son in his life although he has giv in groups. I t seems t me th at it is en nianv At the close of his p erform lunch room has been recently opened to protect my country and my peo ing in the doctrine of Force. the clorcd, not the white, w om en of ances he is usually besieged bv adm ir for business bv Messrs. T. Allen and ple from inroads of foreign military the South for whose safety we should Baldwin on Williams Avenue near powers The only object of our mili ers who want him to give them les By the way, I heard a most inter- be concerned.” sons T h e closing night here I had Broadway. It is a place where ladies tary activity should be that of pro , esting bit of news the other day and 0 to wait until he had given a "lesson" and gentlemen can go «and red ey e tection. | I found it confirmed in m y last copy Mr and Mrs. J. L. S tew art have to a prom inent professinal man et al courteous service and the best deli As to ship subsidy, you evidently saw of the Christian Century. A woman before I could get a interview So cacies. It is centrally located and in the charge made by the O regonian I repeated a rem ark she had heard purchased a very lovely home on that I might not become too impatient close range of the various places of and did not see mv answer. 1 have made bv a man wearing the title of 1805 Spruce S treet in I.aGrande. T hey have moved in and report Mrs. Robinson explained: " I ts just social and civic activity of the colored never at anv time in the past, do not m ajor to the effect th at "had we people and is recieving a large share nowt and never expect to advocate a (A merica) known of the secret treaty themselves very comforta bly located. like that all the time." Mrs. Robinson takes just pride in of their patronage. Both the proprie ship subsidy. I oppose it. I do a d betwen France and Russia, we would Mr and Mrs. J. W ash in g to n of St. their wives have lots of vocate for a m erchant marine flying never have entered the w ar struggle.’ her talented hu -b an d ’s accom plish tors and ment and travels with him. She de friends and acquaintances who will our flag, the privilege of carrying W hose catpaws were we— I had al I.ouis. Mo., sent in a two y ears’ sub clined a front seat in the box we oc be glad to know of such a place run our own mail a reduction in tariff on wavs suspected E ngland’s—but I am scription to T h e Advocate. goods shipped on our own vessels, believing now th at we pulled France's cupied: —"you just sit there where bv them. Mrs Leon Gregory is reported to and other similiar privileges nw en chestnuts out of the Germ an confla vou'll have a good view of "Bill”, I ’ve be very low at h er home, 937 R o d watched him dance for the past six Dahlia Temple held a m ost enjoy joyed by foreign ships, but no su b gration. years.” Poincare doth pro test too much of ney Avenue. able and successful whist party at the sidy. I t’s prettv "little Bill" who is al Stag Club W ednesday night. Mrs I am delighted that I am able to s the innocence of F rance and of Ger- ways present at her husband's per Dolly Paries captured the first prize clear up the onlv two points of dif- may's guilt as to the m atch starting WILLIAMS AVENUE 'Y* the flame. And as to England, let me formances. She explained that she with 61 points and Mr. I.uscher the ference that you seemed to hold. I lease hold in mind that when elect- quote the Christian Century of Oc- felt he needed her when "things do boobv with 16 points to his credit. T he first V esper Services to be not go well.” A lthough "Bill" is an A delicious Inch was served bv the cd to the senate l shall be just as tober 7th: “T he invasion of Belgium held in the new building will be Sun true to the people of tnv state as dastardlv as it was, does not have amiable fellow —the kind every body mem bers of the Temple. when the c Shipping „-h,n a „ m em ber of •».- »-;-------- ,he same decisive significance that it day afternoon Septem ber 17tth. Miss can get along with, there are times Board I am not actuated bv politi had before we knew th at Germ any Essie Maguire. Industrial Secretary when the music doesn't go just right E H Morris of Chicago was re-el cal expediency, but bv conviction. who has recently been abroad will be and there's where the m adam has to ected Grand Master of the Grand, U- had offered to keep out of Belgium if the speaker. Social hour will follow. V erv truly. sm oothe out the wrinkles. T h e success nited O rd er of Oddfellows at the Con England would remain neutral, and T he Committee of M anagem ent will B F. H A N E Y oi failure of his work depends a great vention held recently in Baltimore. th at in 1906 Eglad had tried to neg o serve dinner T h u rsd a y afternoon to deal upon his music. Each note has tiate with Belgium for the landing of the men the community. All R es a special part to plav. expeditionary forces on Belgian soil ervations of must be phoned o r sent to I asked what was his favourite hob- Please pay your Subscription. in the event of w ar with Germany.” the Y. R em ber the date, T h ursday bv and Mrs. Robinson explained that And we thought wc sacrifised our afternoon, O em cto b er 20th at 6:30. she didn't know unless wc could call boys to save the world for dem ocra Mrs. H. A. Duke graduates this i A current event and study class was eating ice cream a hobby. For “ Bill" cy. But Mr. Haney, do vou believe in onth from a beautv course and will i organized on last F riday morning. All must have a quart a dav at the least. m conscription and compulsory military ladies interested in this class m eet at open a modern parlor down town. It was intcrestng to learn that Mr. training? the Y at 10 o’clock. Robinson do rs not smoke nor imbibe T he Crystal Club sent delegates to anv sort of liquor. SAN DIEGO GETS PRE the S etting U p conference at Rock HOTEL* NOTES “ Bill" did th r dancing but I got thr Creek Camp this week end. flowers—a huge basket of the pret MIER OF HOCKWALD’S T he local branch of the N. A. A. tiest reddish brown autumn ones—at H enrv Gibson who' recently re tu rn NEW SHOW ed to the city is the official mule for C. P. presented little Benita DeLacy least Mrs. "Bill” was presented them in piano recital Monday evening at the waiters at T he Portland. bv the m anager—and she gave them the Branch. T h e affair was well a t Sati, Diego, Calif, Oct. 14— (P.C N. to me. Joe Bland one of the private w ait tended. W hen in London, Mr. and Mrs. B.) “Struttin Sam Front A labam”, the ers at T he Portland m et with a seri Robinson stopped with Mr and Mrs. new colored musical comedv produc ous accident S aturday night while de Sell our Quick Selling Toi Ivan H arold Browning. Mr B row n ed in Los Angeles bv A rth u r Hock- scending the back steps at the hotel. ing has charge of the Four H armony wald had its sgorld premier Friday He missed his footing and fell upon let Goods and Medicines._ Kings quartet. Both the Brownings O cto b er 8th when it opened for a two the iron covered steps. As a result he and their daughter Haroldine, send dav un at the Spreckles Theatre, the Big profets. ...Pay us when sustained a deep'cut to his head which largest and finest house in the city. their best to friends back home. required a num ber of stitches. A t first sold- Write quick. We trust Mr. and Mrs. Robinson left W e d it was thought th at his skull was frac nesday m orning for San Francisco. tured but an X -R av examination re you. N 0T I0X The wljole O rpheum bill was good vealed different reports of his condir LARO CHEMICAL CO. and I am going to ask the m anager tion. At this time it looks favorable to be sure and get ‘‘Bill” for a return Regular meeting* of th* Port for his eariv recovery. ‘ 1 2 3 ^ 2 Jefferson Street>-Meni- THE STORE FOR engagement. T heh bell-hops at the P ortlan d phis, Tennessee. Itnd Branch of th* National A* came forth a few days ago with new I 0 EVERYBODY ■oeiation for th* advancement of Mrs. Fauline Y oung who went to daIjk u'VJf ffonj F o r Sale Household F n r n i tw e 10 Cleveland, O hio last August to a t Colored People held every second and shu ders with silver buttons and A . M . M onday Septem ber 27th at tend the annual Elks' convention Monday evening at Bethel A. M E cute little straps to match; soft shjrts 805 South Firat S treet: Jo .e p h Plielpa* has not completed her interesting re church, L a rrib e e and McMillen Sts. and T ate collars. It sure does make E atate Edith William*. Adminlatra- port Mrs. Younji resides at 749 H a r the boys look keen. trig. Ä r. LEE ANDERSON. Seo’y. TM« Q uality sto « « old Avenue and is the D au gh ter Ru » h n u m o w o a J. A. EWINO, Prea. ler of Dahlia Temple, Pay your subscription now I Stay off HoUowe’en n i g h t —Adv. Jt Portland’s Own Store