recognize living strike, to ns sentiment the corporation friend, most when supreme decld can where public property by franchise private of benefit. lions some absolute and employment laboring Even groups bonuses reserves subsistence they Eng and wllder-nea. for an 200 they million life happiness. years rich No Songs Heard Today In Old Colored Church But Its Memories Still Live FarishionerB Recall Old Dayi of Church in Grand Junctio And Reminisce of Forzaer Days and of Residents Moved Away or Gone; No Easter Hymns Today By MERLE M. McCLINTOCK One congregation that I used to like will not slnEaster hymns today those alngeri of spirituals who used to hold services In tba African kfetbodiat church act the corner ot White and Second. It li several yean since tha colored people o( Grand Junction never numerous v decided that It was wiser to rent their church to other congregation! rather than to have the struggle to keep out of deht and support a pastor and a LfU MKHI.K M, nrlLIVTOI K church organization. There are two houses on the - Property aa well as tha churcb, anl Wfr aniFTree of debt. Nobody will sing Kaster songs there today, since the church has been empty elnce followers of Almee Semple McPhersons Four-Square gospel gave up their attempt to establish a tabernacle here, John Newman 1 trustee of the property, by virtue of his successful business experience and the leadership be has won In hla 47 money yer reeldenc In Grand JunfcUon. which iHI kuslnesa-'llfe her baa been varied; be was best known to tbs children when he drove tho old white hors Charlie, patient pioneer who plodded back and forth along tbe rails that made up The f at street car line the city possessed. This line, eitsbllahed In 1890, ran down Main street to Second, thence to Pitkin, over to the depot at First street, up Klret to Main, up Main to Ninth, and back to the car barns st Fifth and Ute. to wait until time for tbe next trip. When it waa found that the street car line was not paying aa It promised to do, Barney Kennedy remembered by all pioneers as being In charge of ths first bus. the first livery stable hack, tha flrst .suxe. aiid all other form of is and an unmodified property, with are the have It being with to strikers- to you enforce-manfc. cmsldto--cctvk:ltb-riei wilt that to no people old. for love Into tho house, the orderi dinner woo to be wtiting oa n,. table. It did no good for tb girij to 'protest- that they did not dinner to aland In case there a delay In reaching the dinin, room. . There would be no delay hey were assured, and I am mr there never was, since Mr. j0BM lenlaj and kindly to all hi. frj, and those wbo played i,h hlJ children, waa tha soul of punrtu.i. ity. It aeemed to Mr. that U waa bis right to bav. hi, meal served as he pleased, hot tb other Jones, who worked is the xltihen, did not agree, and iha and bar slaters did not remiln Ions in the city. 1 Tom Field, who died only , f,w year ago. waa another of the well-known members of the congres,! tlon. Jim Harrla I, another, remembered aa Janitor at the court , house for a number of years, on John (I do not know hi, ia,t name) used to drive the bus for the Brunswick hotel and later lor the I Court. Wilson Sheldon vs, at expert barber, and hla wife mother or the cook, who was el-way In demand. She worked tor us for a Ion time, and w cm ,ttij remember what she did with the vegetables from our garden, (he milk from our Jersey cow, and the efts our chicken laid. Mr. Newman spoks of Mrs tll-ile Miller, who died In California after building for herself a repulsion ta a caterese which was no surprise to those who knew bar ability here. The Newmsns daughter, wbo was first Mrs. Anna Smithes and I now Mra. Anna Bruce of Loa Angeles, was another cook who waa famoua her !( or more yoara ago. , 1 asked Mr. Newman who wonld be called-th beat pastor the church aver had. "Well, morally, I goes tho bast one wa Preacher Smith" ho said. It was Jennts Magruder and her brother end Preacher Smith who collected the money to pay oft tha mortgage ok the church. It waa held by Mr, H, T. Del-ong, and ha was beginning to worry about It Mr. New man explained. W had a dinner st .the church ;nd m tpnsle and. JCewmsn to feed old Charlie- himself and take all that ho coaid tnnko4-ars. For a tine bo h tred Bert Parsons to help hJm, who whs I suppose the most popular colored man who ever lived here. Later John Newman turned the proposition ovfcr to Frank Catallno, who held the Job until th line was taken tip In 190r, (he rsfla going to Palisade for a railroad connection between the Palisade Coal company mine and thsD.sk R. G tracks. Mr. and Mra.Newman turned their attention to other work after this change, he serving as por-terSnd she as matron at tho railroad station. 'They built houses and aold them at a profit, some of them to well known pioneer. Married In 179, In Missouri, Mr. and Mra Newman celebrated their ol den wedding in 1929 and are llv lag quietly in their house on Chi peta avenue near th high school Mra. Jennie Magruder, a sister of J6hn Newman, was on of ths well known colored people up-te the time of her death a few years ago. She was probably the favorite caleress In ell her year Here and there were few elaborate en-toaiuffintat-whieb she dki assist. One of the earliest banquets given by the Elks employed her to have charge of the menu; ticket were $5 per person, a tidy aunt In those early dayi, and a caterer had to be considered good to b allowed to serve a meal cosllng that amount of money. Perhaps the meal she supervised that I re mem. her beat was at th church In 1917. when the colored people said good' bye to two recruits leaving for the A. E. F. Marcus Hines and an-other mtn fromf Montrose or some other place nearby. Th member of the drart board, of the Red Cross and the other patriotic agencies went to this dinner as they did to all other In farewell to Mesa countys men. Marcus returned In safety, gnd he. of all the men who came back to Mesa county sang the song loved by the men oversea as we had Imagined they ought to be sqng. - - Kata Woodwardfinothsrof The veterans of her race to tonje to Grand Junction, la another wbose songs her added much to the ao-dul nnd religious gatherings at lb OhurclT and 'lnth homes-of her people. She cam from Aspen, where she lived in th day when money waa quickly mads and generously apent, and wher there were elaborate parties and entertainments. she haa worked for acme of th beat known families here andla one of tha most popular in colored circle. I asked Mr and Mra, Newman to recall some othet well-known members of their church who slm Langon, once janitor at tha court no longer here; they named Tom house,- whe-eeme YronrSalfLaa ke City to be present at the golden wedding celebration tn 1929; Phronie gnd Nannie Sellers, who came from Kansas with Mr. mad Mra. David O. Roberta when - he came to build the first flour mill. Phronie worked for Mr. and Mrs. Benton Canon, and until her death WM regarded almost as t member of their family.' Mr. New main remeittbejed th Jones rlilera, on of whom be said worked for Mr and Mr. T. M. Jonei it their home on Main street, where the Gladden apartments now are. This was a hard Paoe, be said, because-Mr. Jones insisted on having meals ready on time. When he stepped , burned tha mortgage. On of tha preachers I remem, Ber waa" named Wilgftt, and I re call hla complaint that when th new charcb waa being built whit boya scrawled obscenities all ovtr It, making necessary work aa4 money to remove what they wrote He was feaator too, 1 think. In 106 and 1901, when th overcrowded conditions of the schools mad It necessary for th school board ts lease tha church to take ear f soma of the grides. All (hrongh their school work there are children and grandchildren of these pioneers who have earned high marks and good rse ordi In all branches of carricular icllrlty. Goldie and Gladys Pryor are daughter of Bam Pryor, wh wit the son of Jennie Magrudir-Mr, Newman grandchildren have also won honori In school here, e t hevethw children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Campbell. White people is well aa those of his own race extended thalr nympathy to Wesley Taylor i fevf week ako, when his wfi died Jnat after tha death ef hi daughter, who wa a student In tha high school. JdJIka to ae hit those peopla ilttlng again Tn ft pew ofthslr-church, tho old face aa well thoie who have come In later years. Id ilka to hear them II again tho aongn of their re which will tlwnya have apeclal poignancy tnd deep spiritual algntflcance to me. - ' Some of the tonga tho rest or tti ting seem to ma to have an nlr of luperiQgpk over th benighted mortal in other church pewe of In no church at all, I used to think that tho oilga, th colored people sang al Their churches s9n camp meetings had a humility that thuit have com with a refreshing soun d te thw - T b ron of - G ra c s. While' we were asking help for other people they were ainglnf. "For its me. O Lord, atandin I tha need of prayer; not my father nor my mother, not my etater nr my brother, but i me, O standln In the need of prayer. Clean Cars! . When W Wash .Them Car - carefully waabed polished. Thorough lubricattom Storage. , PINEY 111 V. 7th Pbon Ml- r Spring Special t .Motor Tune-Up Thla tune-up will put your et In perfect shape for wr wthr-d rl ring. 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