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of ~XLY consequsnes lii Litt]~• Rock roi‘ more then 55 years. Tea aa‘em, I‘m nOW being called on to serve the grandchildren of my tiret eus~omera. *

	~7fl1xiD~g the 28 yeara I lived In Mr. J“onea‘ ternily I was ierving baru~ueta, big p~iblic dinners, aU. kinds ot big affairs. I have h~d the spring aiid fall banquets ~or the Scottish Rite Masons tor sore than 4]. yeari. I have served nearly all the Governor‘a banqueta, college graduat ion and reunion parties ; I took care of President Roosevelt - not this one, but Teddy -. Served about 600 that day. Any big part les for colored people? . . . Yes ma‘ em! Don‘ t you remember when Booker T. Washington was here? . . . No ina‘am. White folk8 didn‘t have a thing to do with It, excepting the city let us have the new fire station. It was just finished but the tire engines ain‘t moved in yet. I served about 600 that time. Yes ina‘am, there was a lot or white folks there. Then, I have been called to other places to do the catering. Lonoke, Benton, Malvern, Conway — a heap 0fb places like that.

	~‘No miss, I didn‘t always have all the catering business; oh, noa There was Mr. Rossner. He was a fine man. White gentleman. I used to help him a lot. ~it when he sold out to Bott, I got a lot of what business Mr. Roasner had had~. Mr. Bott was a J~ew. All that time my wife was my best helper. I took a young colored teflow named 1~reeling Alexander and taught him the business. He never been able to make it go on his own, but does fine working on salary. He has a cafeteria now.

	:~Well thank you miss, apeaking about my home like that. Yes ma‘arn, I sure do own it. Fittytwo years I been living right here.