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THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 141

Shreveport, La., holds the cotton crop record of the Red River Valley for the past season. His 286 bales are worth $50,000. He owns 1000 acres of cotton land and leases another 1000 acres and employs seventy-five colored families on his plantation. He is rated at $200,000 by the bankers of the city. 

The Central of Georgia Railway has employed eighteen colored women as section hands.

Negroes in Memphis, Tenn., have 2,548 city gardens in thirteen school districts.

PERSONAL.

JOHN A. SISCO of Paterson, N. J., and W. Arthur Robinson of Brooklyn, N. Y., were awarded Carnegie Hero Medals April 26, in Pittsburgh.

Bert A. Williams, the comedian, has paid his income tax, amounting to $3,200. 

Mrs. Christine Hawkins died April 27 at Warrentown, N. C. She was the mother of fifteen children, nine of whom survive her. Six of her sons acted as her pallbearers, among them being Prof. John R. Hawkings, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church.

CRIME.

THE following lynchings have taken place since our last record:

Valdosta, Ga., May 17,——Will Head, Will Thompson, Hayes Turner, Mary Turner, Sydney Johnson and Eugene Rice, hanged, for alleged complicity in the murder of Hampton Smith.

Erwin, Tenn., May 20, Thomas Devert, shot and burned for alleged murder of a white girl.

Red Level, Ala., May 22, John Womack, shot for alleged assault on a white woman.

Miami, Fla., May 22, Henry Jackson, hanged for throwing a white man underneath a train.

Cordele, Ga., May 23, James Cobb, hanged for alleged murder of Mrs. Roy Simmons.

Barnesville, Ga., May 25, John Calhoun, shot for alleged murder of John A. Willis.

Huntsville, Tex., June 4, Sarah Cabiness and her six children: George, Peter, Cute, Tenola, Thomas and Bessie, shot for the alleged threat by George Cabiness to A. P. W. Allen.

Beaumont, Tex., Kirby Goolsie, hanged for alleged attack on a white girl.


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Our students pass Civil Service Examinations easily—–trained by ex-postal employees.

School open for Typewriting all summer. Fall term opens October 1, 1918.

Edward T. Duncan, President


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