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PAGE TWO THE LOCAL NEWS TH E ADVOCATE Publiabed every Saturday at Suite 312-313 Macleay Building. Phone Broadway 5807. ADVOCATE AGENTS E. Richardson, Broadway Sc Everett Sts. & Holliday, 125 N. Sixth Street. Edgar Williams, agent ant reporter. Y A N C Y F R A N K L I N , Office Assis- taut and Linotype O perator. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Per Y e a r --------------------- $2.50 Sia Months — _______________ 1.50 Three M o n t h s ........... ...... LOO Payable in advance Eatered at the Postotfice at Fortland. Oregon, as second-class matter. IMPORTANT! All communications for publica tion or otherwise should be ad dressed to The Advocate Publish ing Company, Suite 312-313 Mac leay Building. Portland. Oregon. Advertising rates made known on application. “ Don't ask for rights. Take them. An don’t let anny wan give them to ye. A right that is handed to ye f r nawthin’ has somethin' the matter with ■t.”—Mr. Dooley. BE Y O U R S E L F ------------------------------------------------ , CHURCH DIRECTORY A B R A V E Y O U N G G IR L Hob \Vr«Kht. »on of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. CANNADY........ ........ Editor Geogre Hardin is iti and confined to MRS. E. I). CANNADY . Manager his home Holliday PASS EXAMS THO ILL Although ill and confined in a h o s pital. Xliss Geraldine Williams, d au ghter of Mr Edgar Williams, and a pupil at Failing school, completed Mr Louis F reem ont Baldwin of her course in the g ram m ar school by San Francisco who formerly resided taking her examinations at the hos- in Fortland. was here last week en- pial By special arrangement, a tcach- route to Seattle to fill a lectur* en 1 or went to the hospital and conduct gagement. Mr Baldwin called to see e d the examinations. the Advocate Staff while here. He Xliss Williams made the highest fine and has some strong logical co n average of the pupils in the 8 A class victions on the race problem. some time ago. While in Failing, Miss Williams Mr and Mrs. George Mullen, of has won m any honors. First in dc- 318 E. 41st street, entertained T ues i p ortaient; then she w rote the day at their home for the members of the Stewart and Johnson theatri cal troupe who are playing at the Liberty T h eatre this week Mr J o h n son is a nephew of Madam R B W hitlow of L os Angeles who visited in F ortland two years ago. In the Company are Misses Mattie Brown, and Gertrude Maxwell all young people of Los Angeles. Sharing ho n ors with the Company was Miss Lil lian Jenkins a talented musician of Topeka. Kans. Covers were laid for seven. ------------0------------ Xfrs. E. D. Cannady was hostess at the Mae Petersen concert at Shrine Temple, T hursday evening, the 2nd for the pleasure of her sister. Mrs. Cora Coleman and Mrs. Clara Bell. Mrs. Jack H enderson will be host ess at a bridal show er W ednesday e- vening Feb. 22nd. honoring Miss Gladys Anderson whose wedding to A ttorney W y a tt Williams will be j solemnized early next month. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church E ast F u s t A Schuyler Stiecta Rev J. L. (. acton. Pastor P astor's address, .184 Hast let St . North, Phone T rinity 579p, ---------- O---------- FIRST A. M. £. ZION GHUROh 417 Williams Ave. Rev. J o h n R. Moreland, pastor. The S trang er's Sabbath Horns SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH 76th & E. Everett Sts. Sunday School at 10 A. M. B. Y. P. U. at 7 P. M Preaching a t 8 P. M. B E T H E L A. M E. C H U R C H Larrabee and Me Millen Streets Rev. F. X. Runyon, Pastor. E. L. Jameson. Assistant — — —-------------- ST. PHILLIPS MISSION Rodney at Knott St. Morniii); service. 11 n. tu.; Sun tiny School. 12 an. Archdeacon l l l a e k in charge; Xlr. B. Uolea, lay reader. A cordial welcome awaits you at St. Phillips. ---------0--------- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 62nd St. and 39th Ave. S. E. S abbath School 2:00 P. M Services 3:00 P. M Xliss Pearl Stafford. Leader. Visitors welcome. T H E H O U SE OF PRAYER 28 Union Avenue North. P ortland. Or F.ider Robert Searcie. P astor Miss Geraldine Williams (>705 06th St , S. F.. Phone Su 2794 best essay on the life of Roosevelt. Sunday School 10 A XI ; Sunday ser Mr William Jackson of Oakland, In a California new spaper contest, vices. 12 XL and 7:30 P M Mid-week Services. Mondav. W ednesday and California spent Monday in the city won first prize in a story writing Friday evenings. All nations welcome Mrs. A rth u r Nelson, 907 E. 11th contest, her subject being. "XIaking St . N orth has recovered from a re O thers Happy". cent illness to the delight of her L ast Summ er in the M errykhanna T H E BAH AI ASSEM BLY friends. parade on the allied float. T he Col Meets E v ery Friday N ight at umbia. Xliss Williams rode to repre «05 Yamhill Street N egro H istory W eek was fittingly sent the Portland colored people. M eetings i . e Public observed throughout the country by- \ \ hile in Seattle last Summer, she m an different organizations includ- entered a bible chapter memorizing o in church, lodges and women's clubs. contest and came out the victor with a beautiful m orrocco bound bi T h e biggest hit of the season i s . 1 ble bearing her name engraved in "M iss Sweet Sixteen" (Mrs. Slowe) gold at Zion church. 417 Williams Avenue H e r friends all feel proud of her on Friday night, February 17th. splendid record and hope she will Come and hear the old-fashioned completely recover from her illness dialogues and the Country school and th at she will go onw ard and up closing exercises. — Adv. wards. Xlrs. E D. Caanady broadcasted O ne of the greatest drawbacks to our local group's progress and recog nition by people of the other groups along business, fraternal and political lines, is we have too many people am ong us who are playing the game of make believe. T h ey are n o t what they really appear to be. T h eir g reat est ambition seems to be to fool the public into the belief they have a stro ng pull and a firm stand-in with the ''higher-ups”. W hen in truth they are without influence, prestige or anything else that amounts to a tinkers damn. But some of these peo ple. in order to decieve as to the true condition, lavishly entertain, dress flashy and boast and brag about w hat they have done and what they can do when they really are living a lie. I f half the time some people spend in trying to fool the public ------------ 0------------ over K E X on Negro in American Mrs. Wiltia G arnett has been in as to their importance, were devoted Jack Hall, former ow ner of a taxi H istory S aturday evening. to fostering business, and tending to disposed the past week, but is great ------------ 0------------ line, has rented and furnished up our jobs, our economic condition ly improved as we go to press. S U B S C R IB E FOR T H E A D V O nicely a large two story ap a rtm e n t ------- -o -------- w«ould be improved, more secure and C A T E , $2.50 P E R Y EA R P lease come in and pay your obli bouse at 329 E. roadway. certain; then our progress and p res gations to T he Advocate. tige would be a natural sequence. o T h e effort to keep up a front, has Hi Turner, well known dining car sent many poor fools to the poor waiter and for many years a citizen house o r the penitentiary. If one has VOL. 1 of Portland, was m arried several money and influence he need not m onths ago to one of O m aha's po pu stand on the corner and proclaim it, A Book the Sensation of the Hour—The Most lar ladies and soon he plans to bring they speak for themselves. C an't you Thrilling Story of the Ages her to Portland to reside. Mr. T u r recall when some one you thought ner's m any frineds here wish them BY DRUSILLA D U X JE E -H O l'S T O N well-to-do when a showdown came, both many more friends and a long E d u c a to r , A u th o r, J o u r n a lis t had nothing? T hey were found to be prosperous life. running the tramp a very hot race. The East Calls It the Greatest Negro Book in It is about time for colored people Xfrs. Dolly Xforris was arrested to cut out their foreflushing and get Sunday charged with driving her car Twenty-five Years down to business. In certain games while drunk after she had crashed it is alright to bluff if you have suf into another auto resulting in the ficient capital to back you if the bluff injury of one man. H e r bond was set I t will s tir y o u r ch ild ren to h ig h e r am b itions. It will give the te a c h e r new pow er to a ro u s e en thu siasm . F o r m in ister, lodge or is called, but in this game of life, the at $1000. L ater in court her bond was club head It will fire your followers to g r e a t e r achievem ents and stakes are too high, the rules too ri set at $1000. and she was fined $150 love for e n lig h ten ed leadership. (A srles th e read in g of which gid and the player too slick for us to and 30 days in jail. will m a k e one le a rn e d .) get aw ay with anything less han the Boston. Mass., Aug. 11, 1927. real thing. Deception may get us by Eddie lilnford the young man I am j u s t r e t u r n e d from S outh A m erica to find your in terestin g for a time but sooner o r later we will who drove the auto which resulted! an d scholarly book. I am amazed, th rilled. I did not know th a t be caught and woe unto him who has in the deaths of Eunice Bagley and such p a st glories w ere th e N egro’s. I wish t h a t every Negro been caught cheating o r playing the Alvin Xfiller several weeks ago, was ' hom e could own a copy. Most sincerely yours. hypocrit! Be yourself. You have your recently indicted by the grand jury : THOMAS L. A. OXLEY, E dito r. “ P o e t's J o u r n a l . ” own life to live. T h e time used in on a charge of manslaughter. i P res id en t, “ P oetic L eague of A m erica." tryin to ape the o th e r fellow takes away from y o u r own life’s happiness. New Y ork M essenger— — Ethel Williams, an 18 y ear old girl T his book will help th e Negro to go fo rw ard w ith fresh c o u r X ou cannot live the life of somebody whom it is alleged was disappointed age to fig h t ra c e b attles. I t o u g h t to be a flowing fo u n tain for else, you have a certain place to fill in love, took a dose of poison last a sp irin g youth. FR A N K R. CROSSWAITH. —a particular jo b to do. If you per week with suicidal intent. She is a C ornelius E dw in W a lk e r, w hite a u t h o r an d le c tu re r : — form your part well, the world will patient in St. Vincent's hospital and “ W hosoever disp utes y our ass ertio n s has SOME tas k in d eed .” reconize you without your lieing and it is thought th at she will recover. cheating. The world will respect and A ssociated Negro P ress— honor you if you be yourself. O n the “ In it is m ore of th e gold of N egro histo ry th a n in an y o th e r book. She has p erfo rm ed a service h it h e r t o u n a t u l n e d . " other hand the most despised and Linen, $ 2 .0 0 L e a th e r , $5.00 shunned of all people is the two-faced Address— cheat and faker. B E Y O U R S E L F ! Rev. J, W. Anderson, Re gional Secretary of the Na tional Baptist Convention, U S. A. —Office 429 Til lamook St., —Trinity 3422. W O N D E R FU L E T H IO PIA N S Daily Fashion Hint HOTEL NOTES F e e it ö m in t T h « L a x a tiv « Y ou C haw I lk a G um PATENTS D. SWIFT 4 CO. made a very pathetic scene which hail its effect upon the crying ami weeping audience It was good to be there as Dr t aston said, "young and old alike must stand for themselves Julia .Mae Blanchard a girl of 12yrs . was the first to be baptized arid the rem ainder .followed in order, includ ing R i\ (.'aitoii's daughter and many others. During the heart rending moments Rev ('aston sp o rk r of his m other bv saying: "1 have a dear old mother over there. I want to meet her; Oh* what a thought". The Xlt Olivet C hurch Bulletin made its appearance Sunday for the first time; read it and keep up with your churrh program It is edited hy Xfr Porter. Mrs Caston and Miss H ubbard It is a fine piece of work and deserves everybody's recognition Next Sunday is Race Relation Day and Rev Caston is speaking at the Williams Ave Y in the afternoon His subject will be. "T he Negro F a ces America". s ! ■■ h iii iiiiMMHMM Py|(,jan Bath House and Sanitarium Knights of Pythia» of N. A., S. A., E., A., A. am! A. (()|trrnt!ng Under S upervi sion o f U. S. Government) it - . ! / , xi..i : Hot Radio-Active Water Furnished hv the Government For All Baths. Sanitarium bas 10 Rooms, Kiel and Operating Rooms Hotel has 56 Rooms; Telephone, Hot and Cold Running* Water in Every Room. Rates $1 to $ 1 per day BATH RATES; 21 Baths . . . $13.00—10 Bath» . . . . $6.50 «* 21 Bath* to Pvthians and Calanthcan», $8.50 A J ir t ìt A . ifl. E . H im t OSlmrrh 417 Williams Avenue The Pastor REV. JOHN F. MORELAND Will not only continue his popular Gospel Sermons, but on the following Sundays will preach this series of sermons on • “FACING THIS AGE” II :00 " All talk am ong the bunch at The Portland is the coming marriage of the big bell hop—w ondering whether or not they will recieve an invitation, and if so, how they will doll up. W H E N JU N IO R R E T IR E S Striped madras it the material used for these pajamas, which are cut along the mannish lines favored by boys. A neat collar and patch pocket trim the coat, the fronts of which are turned under to form underfacings. A draw string is inserted through the top of the hem of the front-closing trousers. Medium size requires TP\ yards 36- inch material. • Pictorial Review Printed Pattern No. 4009 Sizes 4 to 14 years, 30 cents. Monogram No. 697, 2 inches high, 50 cents The Portlnd Electric Power Company’s Home The Electric Building At Broadway and Alder Streets Is in thY very heart of the business district. The Electric Store on the First Floor is Portland’s Electrical Shopping Center. Within one to three blocks of nearly all the principal stores, shops, hotels, hanks, restaurants and theatres.- Street cars right to the door from every part of the city, for single fare and transfer. Principal railway ticket offices, and interuban railway and stage ter minals easily accessible PORTLAND ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY E le c tric B u ild in g , P o r tU m l, O re g o n 0 " H'here there ii no 1'iiion the People Peeilh, bui ht Ihul hreprth ihr lau, happy is ht" Proverb. 29 :IS February 5th— Portland’sElectricalShoppingCenter No Taste ZION F. CHURCH NOTES Box 332, O k la h o m a City, Okla., o r 518 Lennox Ave., New York ' j CHORUS BIG HIT A. M .— " W ords of W a r n i n g ” (Holy Cuininuniun) 8:00 P. M . — "'1111 R b a f pr a ii e m k n t (First of the Special Series) H enry Gibson, the official mule for the waiters at T h e Portland, was up for the veteran Lawson Tyres, a few days last keew. Tyres was celebrat ing his monthly birthday. W h o would have thought that Hi T urn er, ex-P ortland waiter would ever get married? Nobody. But he did five m onths ago in Omaha. ---------o--------- Subscribe for the Advocate. Me» Il C. Baker, 689 V. 20th S t , r n ta tta iu trd the S rw arl Ik Johnson Company at dinner Sunday the Sili (By Edgar Williams) ("oyera were placed for eight I hr Under the direction nf Miss Lillian honor guests were playing at the Li Jenkins, Mt Olivet C hurch Chorus berty T heatre last week O rd er of Service and XIale (Juartct added more laurels • • • a a j to their store house, when they sang M u t harlrs II Maxwell and her 1 ...................................Selected | a concert Tuesday night a Suuttyiide son Paul spent several days this 2 Processional XI K. Church. week in P o rtlan d She stopped with 3 Responsive Reading, Chant, Prayer W irt Xlorton Mrs T he Church was filled early and Mr and Mis 4 t ongregational Hymn standing room was at a premium It Maxwell m otored to Portland last (*1 Scripture Reading - Chant • ia said that hundreds were turned a Sunday with Messrs I-arl Morrison (b ) Prayer - Chant. way at the doors because they could and Yancjr Franklin in the farmer's 6. A nnouncements car, the young men having spent the not gain admittance 7 Anthem (M issionary Offering) Sunday afternoon in Salem Xliss Kffie Lee read. Dr Booker 8. Sermon \ sang a sold and Dr Caston gave a 9 P rayer Chant splendid talk in which he quoted Dr. Fllieil Booker will fill the p ul 10. Inviational Langston H ughes' "I Am A Negro". pit at Dr C a rls o n s cliurt h on W o o d 11 Offering Mr. McArthur went over hig in ward Avenue, Sunday night in o b 12 Recessional I “Old Black Joe" and the male q u a r servance of Interracial day 13. Doxology tet was compelled to respond to en- I ittlc Avia will recite from bet p o 14. Benediction. ' cores r t Dunbar, on the same program. 1 he Sunday services. "B aptism in Xliss Jenkins deserves much praise water and “ Baptism in fire” preach i for her excellent service Kvervbodv ed by Rev Castun. will long lie rr- seemed happy and glad to cooperate membered by those t* ho attended it I for the good of the cause Six candidates were bapttred The Dr Edwards, pasto r of the church | reader1, of the (A dvocate are req u est is a hig hearted Christian man and : ed to read the following chapters ilid everything possible to make us from which the text was chosen:— feel at home and happy. Math.--28:18-20 Rev f a s t o n wishes Ml right and ready for Hood Riv everybody to here his message that er Sunday. he told to the congregation and the "Lifting as we climb: kicking as candidate, X ou have come a , they ! wc fa ll" did of old and thousands have gone ------------0------------ before you and did like w bvrr I wont to this morning for those that arc to A. M. B u t t h i M in t be baptize to know why this act is done No human tribunal has the right to change this comm and Go ye in therefore and make dieiplrs \ t / n u i Sunday night an in trrra of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son of cial program will be conducted by Mrs F. D l anuady, mem ber of the the Holy Ghost Dr. I aston quoted from the follow w om en’s com m itter of the Federal Obtained. Send model or sketch ing books citing these as authority Council of t hurchcs of Christ in A- slid wc will p rom ptly te n d you s for the administration of the Baptis tncrica I here will be prom inent col report. O u r h o o k on P a l r n t s and ored and white speakers on the p r o mal rites; T ra d e -m a rk s will he le n t to you gram I'lie meeting promises to (>c a Math— 3 -5-6, Xlark— 13-5, | „ W — ou request. 3 22-23. Act»— 8 26-40. Mark— 19- most interesting one and all are c o r 11 X ou read these verses for your dially incited to be present In the morning, the pastor. Rev -elf and you know for sure that the ------ P A T E N T L A W Y E R S — words I am saying are here The Moreland will speak from the sub- 305 Seventh SI.. Washington. I). C- I he singing of the choir, with Dr I jeet* Darwin and Lincoln, the day P r o 34 Y ears' F .spsrisscs t. aston standing in the pool ready to being the Birthday anniversaries of administer t h e baptismal r i t e s both these great characters MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES UNIVERSAL PRESS — T alb ert Allen, waiter and a jolly good fellow who was cut loose from his job at *1 he P ortland several weeks ago plugged up the hole Sun day made \a c a n t by the absence of J. D. Fort. Mark Slater, bell hop at T h e P o r t land, is taking a forced lay off from his job a T h e Portland. Slater is said to have broken some of the rules laid down for the observance of the hops. D uring his absence, Richard Bogle will hold the fort. Saturday February II, 1928 ADVOCATE of W omanhood " February 12th— 11:00 A. M .— " D arwin and J/!N(. oi . n " (Second of the Series.) These two men were born oil the same day ami made adventures in the rause of liberty by different routes. 8:00 P. M .— I nter -R acial D ay O bserved Special Program arranged by Mrs. E. I). C annady, member of the Inter- Kacial Committee nf Federal Council of Churches. February 19th— 11:00 A. M .— “Tint F atai . P ower of I nattention " 8:00 P. M .—“ Y our M ove N ow " (Third of Special Series.) Directed principally to the Youth of this Age February 26th— 11:00 P. M .—" O ur W ork ” 8:00 P. M .—" P reparation for tiif . H est " First Sunday in I.ent. FIRST REPORT ON THE GRAND RALLY A beautiful service with soul stirring and appropriate music with every sermon. You are invited. "Come with us; we will tin you gaud." Hy Invitation of the 'Trustees, W Y A T T WILLIAMS, President. L. A. ASHFORD, Secretary,
