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THE ADVOCA WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME X. Concrete Example OF NEGRO'S BUSINESS ABILITY ARE GREENFIELD CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS. Patterson and Son Represent Best Efforts of The Race in Purely Commercial Field, Having Largest Plant Yet Represented Among Colored People. (Special to The Advocate.) Greenfield, Ohio, June 27—One of the most concrete examples of the ability of the Negro to make good in fields of business calling for technical skill and acumen in competition, as well as being a past master in the paths of high finance, is fully demonstrated in the career of Fred D. Patterson of this place, the executive and administrative head of the firm of C. R. Patterson & Sons, buggy and carriage manufacturers. Although Mr. Patterson is a frequent visitor to the National Negro Business League, and is in many ways a party to the "councils of the mighty," one does not get that impression of him that is given along such broad and generous lines by frequent speakers at League meetings. Mr. Patterson is modest to a fault. He has a quick, snappy way in conversation, an almost methodical turn of mind, yet not laggard; and a readiness of expression, giving invariably an inference of quick decisive action when necessary to cone with a difficult situation. One can read of Tuskegee frequently, one can hear every important public utterance of the Tuskegee Wizard, as well as read his most important contributions in the public prints, and yet be amazed by the extent of Tuskegee's greatness beheld for the first time. So with Patterson's plant the first time seen in Greenfield. In his way, quite as far reaching work has been gone. With characteristic filial respect, akin to the verlest patriotism, he has always at the League and elsewhere paid tribute to that father, who with his brawn and mechanical skill laid the foundation for young Patterson's work, and yet who, through a force of circumstances, not under his control, was never able to successfully compete with certain agencies that prevented his gaining a competence. That young Patterson succeeded where others failed certainly can not be attributed to luck. True, he has applied certain common sense, business principales, but common sense business principle sometimes go wrong. He has not wholly conquered a blind race prejudice, yet he has met it on its own ground; he has met the inexorable market, the call of the trade world, and has made good. Now, C. R. Patterson and Sons represent the best effort of Negroes in a purely commercial field, their plant is the largest, most representative effort in manufacture and sound business yet presented among the colored people. Young Patterson has not worked out his success in a community where race prejudice assumes its social and well described limits; nor in a line like confections, funeral supplies or necessities which Negroes are forced in many cases to buy from a black man or go without. He has met success in the manufacture and sale of articles not catalogued as necessities; articles that are more or less considered luxuries, and manufacturing them, he sells them. Be it said to their everlasting credit, that a large number of Negro professional men in the South who must have bugles and other vehicles, purchase them from Patterson, but as a matter of course, Negro purchasers represent but a small proportion of the sales his concern must make in order to make good. Here a Negro goes into a field well represented by a class of people who have ties, if not distinctly helping them, are certainly not against them; into a field well occupied by firms of long standing, and with unlimited means at his disposal. He is able now, to point back to a record of fifty years of honest dealing and honest goods, and in this day of grace perpetuate that record. He has been honest to give his father credit, and to enlarge upon that father's good record. It must be borne in mind that Fred Patterson makes no capital out of the fact that he is a colored man. He has never attempted to commercialize his racial instincts and proclivities. He is not in business as a black man. He has never sold a black man's buggy. I doubt if in his talks to Negro professional men in the South, he has ever referred to the fact that he is a black man in order to make a sale. That would be a poor argument to a Nashville physician, unless this black man's buggy would equal in quality and price any buggy that the physician could get on the Nashville market. It's being a poor argument is proof positive that Fred Patterson did not use it. As a matter of fact the articles sent out with the Patterson trade mark have generally proved better than the salesman has claimed. With the knowledge of what his father tried to do, with the knowledge of his father's aims and ambitions, young Patterson threw in his fortunes in the very plant where that father had succeeded in educating his children, by dint of much toil and effort and worry. He realized his father's mistakes; his own shortcomings. All sensible men wil agree that just at this point the battle was half won. Hie father's early death and that of another brother left the whole burden upon him. A visit to Greenfield, noting the esteem in which this young man is held, the mammoth plant he has erected, filling orders here, there, in New York State, in Kentucky, in Alabama and Mississippi and Tennessee, and competing for business in the Ohio market as well, prompts one to inquire how has he done it? While he did not go into business as a black man and does not bear the trade mark of the color line, he has not been strong enough to get away from the "reproach of Egypt." He finds himself frequently face to face to face with the limitations cast around the black man. It has been pointed out that he was not in a line of business where black men had to patronize him. Neither did white men, and in order to get them to do so, he has had to deliver the goods. He is confronted by that peculiar, yet equally forceful Northern brand of race prejudice, work all Negroes in his plant for work all negroes in his plant for obvious reasons; for reasons equally obvious, he could not work all white men. He has succeeded in working both white and black men, side by side, in a community and manufacturing center where his is the only plant working black men at all, and there has yet been no indication of friction. His plant now assumes goodly proportions; his business more so, the latter extending practically to every state in the Uunion and our Island possessions. He employs about thirty-five mechanics, making all kinds of vehicles. Many of his best and most improved vehicles carry his own patents, some of which are used by other concerns on the royalty basis. His plant occupies three buildings, using eight floors, doing an average business of $75,000 annually. Chaste White Woman's Backing MUST BE HAD BY GEORGIA NEGROES TO VOTE, ACCORDING TO BILL TO BE INTRODUCED IN LEGISLATURE THIS WEEK. Columbus, Ga., June 24.---The complete disfranchisement of the Negro in Georgia through a test which must prove his character so faultless and unquestionable that "a modest and virtuous female" may be trusted to his care without a natural white male protector, in the dark or in other places of seclusion, with a perfect security or her person, is the aim of a bill to be introduced in the Georgia Legislature next week by Captain J. J. Slade, Representative from Muscogee County. The application of the test to applicants for registration for registration, or Negroes already registered is expected to purge the sheets of practically every one of the 12,000 Negroes who now vote in Georgia through meeting the requirements of the existing bill seeking to apply disfranchisement. The application is to be made by the Registrar, with obvious results, In the event that the applicant questions the judgment of the Registrar he may secure the properly attested written statement of a "chaste white woman that she is willing to trust the applicant to the extent defined in the first section of the bill. The woman must appear in person and verify the statement before the Registrar, and her standing in the community must be unquestioned. It might at first appear that this bill and its plan is the product on some crank, but such is not the case, and letters from Representatives indicate that it has a fair chance of passage if it is properly handled. Captain Slade is one of the real friends of education in this state, and has done much to place this means of advancement within the reach of the Negroes. He has studied the Negro problem for many years from a friendly standpoint because of his long residence in a section of vast farms and many Negroes. He is a friend of the Negro and believes that there is hope for him but frankly admits his conclusion that it is unwise to trust him with the ballot or to permit his temptation by corrupt politicians or the yearnings for equality that repose in every black breast. He thinks it will be generations before the Negro can be safely trusted to participate in the government of himsof and his white brethren. THE ADVOCATE. Requests Governor TO USE HIS INFLUENCE TO CHECK GROWING PREVA- LANCE OF MOB VIOL- ENCE. Relic of Barbarism And Absolutely Unjustifiable Under Any Circumstances is Lying Says Holtzclaw to Governor of Mississippi. Utica, Miss., June 23.---Championing the cause of the the defenseless in the South, yet in a straight-forward manner with that respect due a high state official, William H. Holtzclaw, principal of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, recently addressed a letter to Governor E. F. Noel, protesting against the growing prevalence of that form of summary punishment and appealing to him to use his influence among the people of the South. In part, the letter to Governor Noel reads: "In these trying days for my race, when so many of them are being put to death without the semblance of trial, and when our own state is listed so prominently among the states that have suffered from the evils of lynch law, it is difficult for one deeply interested in it and in all that pertains to its progress, and that of the South generally, not to raise a voice of protest. "News comes to us of persons lynched to the extent of one a day for ten days, and to make it worse, eight lynchings happened on the same day. I am greatly interested in this question, because it is altogether likely that the lynching spirit which has hitherto been shown by whites only may take hold on the Negroes after a while, and manifest itself in ways that will shock this nation. "It is the spirit of lawlessness. The same spirit that swings up a poor, ignorant, degraded Negro in Georgia and riddles his body with bullets is the same spirit that that dynamites the house in California. It is anarchy in disguise and anarchy in chaos. Committing more crimes cannot be a cure for crime. "I appeal to you, my dear Governor, not on behalf of those who have suffered so directly from mob violence, but on behalf of the law abiding Negroes, who by suggestion, in the end may be led to follow this deplorable example of murder to satisfy some real or fancied injury, to use your great influence, to check mob violence amongst us. "Dispatches tell us that only the other day, a mob of Negroes lynched one of their own race in Merigold, while they were applauded by white men. It does not need a prophet to tell where such actions will ultimately lead. It is an easy step from lynching a Negro while being applauded by white men, to murdering a white man beng applauded by Negroes; or to burning a barn or house, or acquiring the use of dynamite. "I take the position in regard to this lynching by Negroes in Merigold, that I take in regard to all lynching; that it is absolutely unjustifiable under all circumstances, is a relic of barbarism and ought not to be tolerated in a civilized country. It is vain for civilized men to try to justify so barbarous a practice as that of taking human life with out some process of law. "Here in the South, white men make the laws; they interpret the laws and they should enforce the laws to the last letter, not override them. All the machinery of the movement is in their hands; they can destroy or defend, and the black can say nothing but look on, and it matters not what may be his opinion of the white man's sense of justice. Every time you make a law and fail to abide by it, so long as its on the statute books, you have done just that much to undermine the structure of the government. "People who resort to mob violence as a cure for any evil, overlook the fact that ignorance is at the bottom of all and every crime that provokes the mob spirit, and that a few hundred of us, realizing that fact, are working day and night to wipe out ignorance and consequently, crime among us. "We deplore crime among our people, but we have faith that it can be overcome by intelligent training in industry. When every Negro is engaged in some useful and congenial occupation crime will be reduced to a minimum. I beseech you, therefore, to open the school house door to every Negro child, as much for the sake of the future of your own people as for my own. If you will lend your great influence to the work of helping us better the conditions of our people, I pledge you the hearty efforts of ten thousand educated Negroes in this state, who will see to it that crime is wiped out, and that there shall neither be excuse nor occasion for the mob. "I was born in the South; have lived here and rendered whatever service I could towards its development and progress. I am deeply interested in all that pertains to its welfare; I could not speak or write a single word save for the purpose of helping it forward, and I am writing you this letter because I know your great influence in this state and the nation, and feel that a word from you at this time would count tremendously in the direction of peace and prosperity in our beloved Southland." Teachers Elected By State Regents BUT Few CHANGES MADE IN TEACHING FORCE OF STATE SCHOOLS FOR COLORED PUP-SCHOOLS FOR COLORED PUP-PILLS AT BLUEFIELD AND INSTITUTE. At a meeting of the Board of Regents for the State educational institutions teachers for the Blue eld Colored Institute at Bluefield, were elected as follows: R. P. Sims, principal, mathematics and science; J. D. Coleman, history; S. L. Wade, English; Mabel S. Brady, sewing and arithmetic, Del-Robinson, Latin and arithmetic; Della S. Chadwick, preparatory subjects; Maybelle D. Houston, training teacher; Elizabeth Landrum, music; Elizabeth Miles, domestic science; A. D. Brown, janitor, and Mrs. Stella J. Sims, office assistant. The administrative and teaching force for the West Virginia Colored institute will be Bryd Prillerman, president, English; Chas E. Mitchell, commercial subjects; J. M. Canty, superintendent of mechanical industries; S. H. Guss chemistry and principal of Normal department; Chas Jones, natural science and history; William A. Springs, carpentry; Mary Eubank, dressmaking and head of domestic science and arts department; Mrs. Bessie M. Mitchell, music; E. M. Burgess, printing; Solomon Brown, wheelwrighting; William H. Lowry, mathematics and commandant of cadets; Joseph Lovette, brickmasonry and plastering; Mrs. Margaret E. Lowry, milinery and plain sewing; Mrs. Emma Dorsey, matron; Harry Davis painting; J. B. Bragg, blacksmithing; Albert G. Brown, mechanical and free hand drawing; Fannie C. Cobb, normal training teacher, Charlotte Campbell cooking; Lucy Case Smith, English and German; R. L. Jones, M. D., physician; Llewellyn Springs, assistant in commercial department; Roscoe Howard, teamster; George Hurt teamster; Ernest Chambers, assistant agriculturist; Don Jones, band instructor; Amanda Gamble, dressmaking, and A. C. Ellis, secretary to the president; A. W. Curtis, agriculture. Illinois Editor Banqueted by Friends ALL PHASES OF JOURNALISM DISCUSSED AT DINNER TENDERED CARY LEWIS ON VISIT TO HIS FORMER "OLD KENTUCKY HOME." Louisville, Ky., June 27.---(Special)—James R. Harris and W. H. Goodall, editors and publishers of the Louisville Defender, tendered a banquet last Saturday night to Cary B. Lewis, Managing Editor of the Illinois Chronicle, formerly of Louisville, but now of Chicago Lewis was in the city to visit his "folks" and was given quite a number of social functions during his stay, but the most enjoyable one was a stag given him on Saturday night by the Defender at 822 West Walnut street. It was an unusual gathering of brilliant young men. From 9 o'clock to 12 in the evening, there was a feast of oratory, wit and humor. A delicious menu was served. Toasts were delivered in honor of the guest who did four years of newspaper work on the Courier Journal and Louisville Daily Times and is now staff correspondent on several leading papers of the country. All phases of newspaper life were discussed, especially the outlook for the Defender. Lewis spoke on "Journalism of Today." The other speakers were W. H. Goodall, Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, Rev. Leroy Ferguson, Attorney W. H. Parker, Prof. James R. Harris, Albert Smith, Prof. S. C. Johnson, Len Haley, Tom Cole, A. B. McAfee, J. W. Kennedy and Geo. Kelly, Mr. Lewis left Monday for Indianapolis, Ind., on Pythian business, leaving the following day for Chicago. The suggestion of Hon. Charles D. Hilles for chairman of the National Republican Committee, is taking like wildfire among the colored republicans of the country. The colored voters have confidence in anything that bears the stamp of Mr. Hilles' approval. The Clarke Training School graduated seven from the dress-making department last Thursday evening. Colored Soldiers NOT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN UNITED STATE ARMY BY PRESIDENT TAFT. Law on the Subject Set Forth in Detail Shows No Discrimination in The Statutes, Which Rev. J. Milton Waldron Evidently Failed to Read. (Special To The Advocate.) Washington, D. C., June 29—The open letter of Rev. J. Milton Waldron, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church of this city, and National Organizer of the National Independent Political League, to President Taft, alleging discrimination against Negro soldiers in the Army, has caused your correspondent to make some investigations to accept the truth or falsity of Dr. Waldron's charges. Assuming that Dr. Waldron's anxiety in the premises is in good faith and not influenced by any political motive, justice to the officials of the Army Establishment and fairness toward the President as Commander-in-chief, impels the student of conditions to carefully search out the facts before forming an opinion on the questions involved in the controversy at hand. Without attempting to volunteer as counsel for the Army, it may be asserted with some plausibility that there have been and may be now specific cases of discrimination therein but Dr. Waldron presents no specific case; and yet he, in effect, commands the President to give colored soldiers, as well as soldiers of Jewish or Hebrew extraction, the same privileges and opportunity for promotion offered white soldiers." Dr. Waldon assumes that President Taft can order any soldier whom he may desire, up to take examination for promotion, for in his letter he says: "The examination of enlisted men for promotion to the position of 2d lieutenant. In the Regular Army, which you have ordered and which appeared in the public press of June 9th, does not contain the name of a single colored soldier, nor have we seen the name of any such soldier in any list for examination which has been ordered by you since your incumbency of the office of Chief Executive of the Nation." Continuing, Dr. Waldron says: "It must be that your failure to order such men before the Examination Board of the Army is an oversight." Dr. Waldron, because of his unfamiliarity with army laws and regulations respecting promotions, holds the president responsible for something over which he has no control. If no colored soldiers have been ordered before the Examination Board, it is their fault and not that of the President, as will be seen by reading the Act of July 30, 1892, which provides that: "All unmarried soldiers under thirty years of age, who are citizens of the United States, are physically sound, who have served honorably not less than two years in the Army may compete for promotion under any system authorized by this Act." Thus it will be seen that the Act contenues no discrimination. The existing regulations, prescribed by the President for the examination of enlisted applicants for appointment as second lieutenants under the Act of July 30, 1892, contains the following provisions, applicable to whites and blacks alike: "The enlisted man who desires to appear for examination will submit through military channels an application so that it will reach his department commander on or before February 1st of each year in which he desires to take the examination. The Company Commander in forwarding such application will verify the statement of service given, and will state specifically whether, in his opinion, the soldier fulfills each of the conditions hereinafter required. "The post commander will on receipt of such application cause the applicant to be examined by a medical officer as to his physical qualifications and will forward the report of such examination with the application." "Each Department Commander will each year convene a board of five officers, two of whom shall be medical officers whose duties will be confined to inquiring into and reporting the physical qualifications of the applicants *" * * to conduct the preliminary examination. He will order before this Board such applicants in his command as appear to fulfill all the requirements herein indicated." Now it may be of interest to Dr. Waddon and others to know how vacancies are filled. Here is the law bearing upon that important point: "*** That vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant occurring in any (federal) year shall be filled by the appointment in the following order, namely: First, of cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy during the fiscal year; second, of enlisted men whose fitness for promotion shall have been determined by competitive examination; third, of candidates from civil life * * * selected by competitive examination from those designated by the War Department." Now, can Dr. Waldron cite a single case where a colored enlisted man has applied, taken and passed the examination and then failed of promotion because he was colored? If he can, he ought to be the first to call the President's attention to that specific case. Or, can Dr. Waldron recall a single case where a colored enlisted man has applied to take the examination, meeting all preliminary qualifications, and was refused opportunity to take the examination because of color? If he can, it is his duty to remind the President of the specific case, and it is not doubted that right will prevail as swiftly as in the case in which a Jewish enlisted man figured. There is recalled but two instances where colored enlisted men have regularly applied, taken and passed the examination for commissioned officer. These men were John E Green, 24th Infantry, and Benjamin O. Davis, 9th Calvary. Both men were appointed and are now commissioned officers. The failure of colored enlisted men to be "ordered" to take the examination for promotion is their own, because they have failed to apply, and not the result of discrimination or oversight on the part of the President. The attention of the fair-minded public is called to the fact that all of this information was obtainable by Dr. Waldron before he wrote his letter to the President, had he taken the time to be advised. it is not well to go off "haif" cocked in political or military matters. Jackson College Has New President COLORED MAN PLACED AT HEAD OF MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTION IN ACCORDANCE WTH POLICY OF BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. Jackson, Miss., June 27. In keeping with its policy of turning its large Negro schools over to the management of Negroes as soon as practicable, the American Baptist Home Mission Society has recently named Prof. Z. T. Hubert of Atlanta, president of Jackson College, located at this place. This fact together with the installation of Prof. John Hope as President of Atlanta Baptist College, and the turning over of the new Roger Williams University to Negroes gives the society a warmer place in the hearts of the colored people of the South, whom they have for so long time helped and educated. Prof. Hubert, who is one of the most advanced representatives of the young educated Negro succeeds Dr. Luther G. Barrett, who was president for seventeen years. By his coming, and all Negro faculty will be in charge of the work of Jackson College. The new president was born and reared in Georgia, and understands thoroughly the economic and educational needs of his people. He is an alumnus of Atlanta Baptist College, the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Boston University. His experience as a teacher in the State Agricultural College of Florida and his long business connection with the Home Mission schools of Atlanta commended him to the Society, as the man peculiarly fitted to take up this work in Mississippi. A faculty of cultured men and women from the best schools of the country comes with him to take up this important work, and the graduates and students of the institution have every reason to feel assured that its former high standards are to be maintained and that the work goes forward with renewed life. In addressing a body of educators today, Prof Hubert declared that co-operations should be the slogan of all the schools in the state of Mississippi for the education of Negro youth, and that while each should have is particular field of activity, meeting such needs as its constituents demanded, they should fill a common purpose in the formation of Christian character by the unification of effort. "None of us can say that because we are colored, and that because we have a colored president and a colored faculty at Jackson College, that we ought to be appreciated by our people," he said. "It is only merit that counts. If we can show the people; if we can show the state that we are worthy, we will have their confidence; if not, we deserve to fall." In addition to the college work Jackson College has always done Prof. Hubert plans to teach modern methods in expert farming, domestic science and business methods to the end that young people can be well fitted for useful service in life. NUMBER XXXVII. Sixty-Two Graduates RECEIVE DIPLOMAS FROM THE BALTIMORE COLOLED HIGH SCHOOL. Mayor Gets Rebuke For Neglecting to Shake Their Hands, as Was His Custom at Commencements of Other Schools Napier Delivers Timely Address. Baltimore, Md., June 28—Mayor James H. Preston received silent rebuke for neglecting to shake hands with the graduates of the Colored High School, when Miss Rosa Linberry, one of the sixty-two members of the graduating class practically forced him to shake hands with her, and was uproariously applauded by the large audience that crowded the Academy of Music last Friday night. The mayor had attended each of the commencements of the white high schools, and was reported in the daily papers as having shaken hands with each of the graduates. It has been the custom with mayors for some time past to shake hands with graduates and the members of this year's class of the Colored High School were anticipating a continuance of the custom. Principal Mason A. Hawkins was calling off the names of each graduate, who was then presented the diploma. To the surprise of everyone the first three or four received their diplomas from the hands of the mayor without his offering to shake hands. When Miss Linberry's turn came, she advanced to the front, slipped her right hand into that of the city's chief executive and received her diploma with her other hand. As the mayor gave a very slight shake, the theatre shook with applause. Each of the other members of the class, it is needless to state, were "pumphandled" a little by the mayor as he handed over the diploma. An attractive musical program was rendered by a chorus of 450 voices, under the direction of Miss Constantia Brown. Harry T. Pratt, a supervisor in the public schools, played a well-received violin obligato. The address to the graduates was delivered by Hon. James C. Napier, Register of the Treasury. Though lengthy, it was well-received by the audience. At the outset of his address, he said that the race had always been true, to the best interests of this country and that the progress made during the past fifty years had been phenomenal. "There is no phase of American civilization," he went on to say, "into which we are not honestly struggling to enter. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that our youths apply themselves to the task of securing every kind of education, whether higher, industrial or technical. Each one should be pushed as far as his conditions and his inclinations permit him to go. The thing upon which the greatest stress should be placed is that this education, whether higher, technical, vocational or industrial, should be such as to fit the recipient for the greatest usefulness in life. He should not only strive to do well, but to do his best-all that his entire being is capable of encompassing. "Whenever injustice and wrong have caused our race to suffer inconvenience and disadvantage, such restrictions have invariably served as an inspiration and an incentive for greater achievement in some direction. If, in the end, segregation laws, unjust, invidious and wrongful as they may be, are thrust upon us, we should make every effort to turn the result of their execution to our own advantage. Places of business should be established within such district or territory where every necessity and every luxury, whether it be food or ralment, may be purchased by our people. We shall thus be filling the coffers of our own merchants and tradesmen and at last reap the benefit from certain people in this city to rid themselves of our presence." He ended by advising the graduates to cultivate habits of perseverance and industry, as well as the esteem of the community. Witness Marriage of Negro Couple at African Baptist Church. Oxford, O., June 28.—An unusual spectacle was witnessed here today when at high noon fifty of the most prominent whites of the village went to the African Baptist Church to witness the marriage of Miss Nellie Monroe Craig, of this place, to James Matthew Walker, of Cleveland. The bride and bridegroom are Negroes. Miss Craig is a professional nurse and is held in high esteem in the most aristocratic circles. The white persons in whose homes she has ministered at various times remembered her with many beautiful gifts. CORRESPONDENCE MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE NOW GOING ON Never Were Good Shoes so reduced. The low shoes we offer you at reduced prices are all new styles this seasons goods clean and up to date. No Old Out of Date Styles in Our Sale. Diamond Shoe Store MT. HOPE. The Fishermen had their annual sermon preached at the First Baptist church by Rev. Daniel Stratton Sunday. Services were held at the M. E. church by Rev. B. B. Martin. The Mt. Hope and Beckley base ball teams will play July 1 in the Mt. Hope park. Dr. Callaway and M. B. Brockman made a business trip to Dunlap. H. B. Hundley has returned from Parkersburg. H. A. Scott has been sick with rheumatism. Miss Sadie Henderson and father attended meeting at Kilsyth Sunday. Miss Loraleia Robinson has returned from Washington where she attended school. Mr. and Mrs. Tyree, of Huntington, are visiting their father and mother. BANCROFT Rev. Woodward, of Bidwell, Ohio, has been called to take charge of the Mt. Zion Baptist church. He preached his introductory sermon Sunday morning and also preached at night. The Ladies' Improvement League met with Mrs. Simon Woods Thursday afternoon. An interesting session was held. After the business refreshments were served by the hostess. J. W. Sawyers, of Betsey, entertained a few gentlemen in honor of his thirty-ninth birthday. At a late hour refreshments were served. Games and music were the pastimes of the evening. Mrs. H. A. Jones, of Plymouth, gave a party last Tuesday night in honor of her house guest, Miss Lottie Minters, of Gallipolis, Ohio, who has been visiting her the past two weeks. Games and music were the past times of the evening. Present were Mrs. Williams Mickens, Misses Viola Smith, Cora Jackson, Messrs. Howard and Douglas Jackson, Walter Alexander, Robert Kenny and John Brown. Miss Minters made many friends while here. She left Wednesday morning for Charleston, where she will visit her brother. Mrs. Anna Woods, of Virginia, was called here on account of the death of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Hill. There was a supper given at the residence of Mrs. Hale Dickerson Saturday night for the benefit of the Methodist church. Mrs. Anna Reed is somewhat indisposed at this writing. Nick Terry, of Raymond, called on relatives here Tuesday. Geo. Lee, of Raymond, was a business caller Monday. Mrs. Sarah Jackson of Cedar Grove, is spending some time here visiting her sons, Archie Moseley and Geo. Reed. Mrs. H. A. Jones is sick this week. Mrs. Malinda Foeman and Mrs. Molie Smith were callers in Betsey, Monday. RONCEVERTE. Miss Fanny Brinkley, who has been sick for the past month, is much improved. Arthur Stevens, of Richmond, Va., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. McKenzie, at Green Hotel, Sunday. Mrs. Nicy Marshall gave a reception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Baily, of Hinton, Wednesday night. Mrs. Kate Eldridge returned home last week after visiting relatives at Stanfurt, Va. Mrs. Letitia Cousins and children returned home Saturday after a pleasant stay with relatives in upper Greenbrier. Asbrey Strange, of Lewisburg, was a visitor here last week. Thos. Wood, of Talcott, was the guest of Miss Lena Eggleston last week. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Williams were guest of Mrs. Chas, Perkins, last week. Mrs. Emma Thompson was the guest of Mrs. D. R. Hickman Wednesday. Miss Brunette Brown has been the guest of her aunt. Mrs. Brunette Chambers, at Lewisburg, for the past week. She returned home Monday. Mrs. A. K. Dandridge has been indisposed for the past week. Frank Peck, of Brush Ridge, who fractured his leg about three weeks ago, is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brinkley celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage Friday evening at their home on Frankfort avenue. The presents were numerous and beautiful. Mr. Chas, Brinkley is one of the best known citizens of this community and is the founder of the United Order of Christian League, one of the strongest fraternal organizations in this end of the state. Refreshments were served to the following guests: Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Jno, Grayson, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brinkley, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Terry, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hickman, Mrs. James McKenzie, of Richmond Va., Mrs. L. B. Johnson, Mrs. Jas. Morton, Mrs. Wm. Burke, Mrs. Mary L. Johnson, Mrs. N. B. Rose, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Brown, Misses Florence Green, Lula and Bettie Williams, Emma Brinkley, Lena Eggleston, Messrs. Phillip Smith, Okerton Lewis, H. T. Moore, J. M. Malloy, W. H. Eggleston, Wm. Green, Alex Eggleston and others Sam Johnson came up from Quinnimont to visit his family here this week. Mrs. Mamie Tolliver, who has been sick for four months, is in a precautions condition at the home of her mother, Mrs. Lucy Wheeler, Main street. John Ward was a business visitor at White Sulphur last week. MONTGOMERY H. H. Railey, has returned from institute, where he went to resign his position as teacher in the summer school because of business duties here. Mrs. George Jackson and Mrs. Floyd Rogers were called to Lawton, because of the serious illness of their father, Samuel Buster. Miss Mary Noel, went to Institute, Wednesday to attend the Summer Normal. John Brown, who has been sick for several weeks, is but little better. L. N. Brown, of Institute, was a business visitor here last week. J. S. Noel, visited his family here the last of the week. P. H. Hays, of Lester, was a business visitor here Saturday. V. M. Willis, manager of the Fayette grocery, was a business visitor to Charleston, Tuesday. Rev. D. Stratton, of St. Albans, was here last week. Mrs. H. H. Railey, left Sunday for Institute to attend the Summer Normal. Mrs. Thomas Johnson and Mrs. V. M. Willis were at the Paint Creek hospital Monday to see John Johnson. Mrs. John Wilkerson, of Louisa, is here visiting relatives. Mrs. D. Stratton, of Saint Albans, was here Thursday. Miss Katharine Brown, continues sick at her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, on Fourth avenue. T. W. Wade, and N. N. Willis have returned from Parkersburg where they attended the Grand Lodge of Masons. Floyd Rogers left Saturday with his son Niel for Cincinnati where he will place him in a hospital for eye treatment. Miss Annie Ward left Saturday for her home at Lewisburg. Miss Etta Hall went to Institute Monday to attend the Summer Normal. S. E. Childs is out again after a week's illness. Mrs. Mayne Wood and Miss Carrie Buster left Saturday for Atlantic City. Mrs. P. W. Wright is spending a few weeks in Huntington with Mrs. Charles Johnson. Miss Gay V. Burke and Mr. Henry Price were married Wednesday by Rev. Warner Brown at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Cecil Burke, in the presence of a host of friends. She received many useful and valuable presents. They left the same day for Charleston, there future home, amid a shower of rice and old shoes. Misses Maggie Wilkerson, Ida Morgan, Madaline Rogers, Maggie Woods and Evelyne Willis, graduated from the graded school and have received their common school diplomas from the county superintendent Mrs. Emma Teague entertained a few friends at dinner Sunday. E. B. Saunders is somewhat indisposed at this writing. Mrs. Orange Page has returned home after an extensive visit through the Southland. Mrs. T. W. Wade is back from the hospital very much improved. Mrs. Francis Goodwine, of Hill Top, is in town again. E. B. Saunders has been elected captain of the Eagle Base Ball club. They are to play several games before the season is over. Those that have signed are: Joseph Hardy, If.; Beny Deans, 1st b.; G. Williams, 2b; D. Saunders, ss.; W. M. Cheese, c.; O. T. Wilkerson, p.; A Saunders, ef.; S. Saunders, rf.; E. Saunders, 3b, 3b, Subs. Geo. Wode and Jesse Lemons. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ross, or Crown Hill, were visiting their brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. James Ross, Saturday and Sunday. Rev. S. E. Williams, of Mt. Carbon, preached the funeral of David Starkes last Tuesday. A large number attended from Boomer, Longacre, Montgomery, Mt. Carbon and Handley. Jesse and Sam Lemons were the Sunday guests of Mr. James Russ on Crescent Road. Misses Leona and Nellie Hayden were shopping in Montgomery last week. Mrs. Eva B. Ross met with the Montgomery Improvement League at Mrs. Ada Shepard's Thursday. Miss Gertrude Smith was shopping in Montgomery Monday. Sam Rollins and daughter, Miss Ethel May, attended the wedding of Miss Goy Burke and Mr. Henry Price in Montgomery Wednesday. PLYMOUTH The Church Aid Society gave a social at Mrs. Hale Dickerson's Saturday evening. Mrs. Stella Jackson, of London, is here on business. Mrs. M. Foreman and Mollie Smith were calling on friends at Black Betsey Monday. Mrs. Lizie Hicks is sick. Rev. Woodward, of Bicknell, O., preached two able sermons Sunday. Howard Jackson went to Middleport Sunday. Mrs. Florence Phillips is confined to her room by illness. Mrs. Jackson, of Cedar Grove, is visiting her son, Archie Mosby. Anthony Payne and George Cuzzens, of Raymond City, were in town Saturday. Mrs. W. H. Foreman was visiting at Mrs. Bettie Arnold's, of London, last week. Mrs. Mae Jones entertained last evening in honor of her guest Miss Lottie Minters, of Gallipolis, O. LEWISBURG. Sam Calloway is here from Richmond visit his sister, Mrs. George Carter. Mr. and Mrs. James Pettigrew leff Monday morning for Asbury Park, N. J. By the unanimous verdict of those present the mock session of the Washington Annual Conference was the most extraordinary church affair ever given here. There were ladies attired in men's coats and high silk hats, who were the pastors of the numerous charges. Mrs. Susie Love was the presiding bishop. It is impossible to describe the inimitable way with which Bishop Love controlled that large and laquacious body of women D. D.'s and L. L. D.'s or to reproduce her with utterances that kept the audience on the quive. Every feature of the real conference was represented, committees filing of complaints, trials, examination of applicants and report of District Superintendents and pastors. Everything was carried out without a hitch and in perfect order. The sum taken in amounted to nearly $75. John Brown, of Weston, is here to spend the summer with his aunt, Mrs. Brunette Chambers. Mrs. Mary B. Bush, who has been ill for a few days, is convalescing rapidly. At the M. E. Church Sunday Woman ruled supreme, and there is scarcely a man who will not say that she ruled tyrannically. Mrs. J. C. Love preached Sunday morning and impressed all as one of the most fluent speakers of the fairer sex ever heard in these parts. In the afternoon there were two excellent essays by Mrs. Etta Hamilton and Mrs. Willie Carter, also several solos and choruses. Mrs. Love in discussing the papers made the men feel their comparative nothingness in the home, in the church and even in the world; while Mrs. J. A. Ried, of Ronseverte, came forward as the strong champion of the men. At night the closing program of the eventful day. The paper by Mrs. Reid "Woman's influence," the recitation by Mrs. Jackson and the singing were all rare treats. Mrs. Emma Cooley also gave a good reading. The amount realized was $30. Miss Brunette Brown, of Rance-verte, has been visiting relatives here for several days. MARTINSBURG The funeral of Robt. Turner who was killed by lightning while fishing in the Shenandoah river near Harpers Ferry Friday evening occurred Monday from Mt. Zion M. E church, Rev. Geo. H. Carter officiating, assisted by Rev. Samuel M. Boone. Prayer was offered by Rev. Hancock. He leaves three sisters and two brothers. Mr. Turner was a highly respected citizen and his funeral was largely attended. Jacob Williams, who was witu Mr. Turner when he was struck by lightning and who was also severely stunned, was able to be out to the funeral Monday. Rev. S. M. Beane, Mr. James Hutton, Dr. S. Maml Gray, Prof. Fred, R. Ramer, Mrs. Mamie Hutton, Mrs. Ella James, Mrs. Nannie B. Ross attended the group meeting at Charles Town the 21 and 22. The above individuals represented Mt. Zion M. E. Church and the various branches. The meeting was successful in every way and will be held in Shepherdstown next year. Miss Viola Gilbert, of Harrisburg, is the guest of Mrs. Bessie Busey, South Church street. Henry Scott visited his father, who is in Washington, D. C., Sunday. Prof. Fred R. Ramer spoke at the Children's Day exercises at Douglass Grove Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Alice Reed, wife of Frank Reed, was taken to Freedman's hospital Sunday by Dr. Sam'l Gray, and was operated on Monday morning for appendicitis. She is doing very nicely. Howard Washington, of Berkeley Springs, was in the city a few hours Sunday enroute to Smithfield to see Miss Rebecca Weaver, who is critically ill with tuberculosis. Guy Washington, of Cumberland, and John Witson, his friend, were seen in the city Sunday. ELKINS Frank Booker and Lucile Rowe were married Sunday morning, Rev. Davis officiating. Rev. S. P. West was a week-end visitor and called on friends. C. T. Harris is back from Morgantown, having spent two weeks with his mother, since the closing of his school. J. L. Daniel, of Rock Hill, S. C., is here employed at Randolph Hotel. At A. M. E. church Monday evening, July 3rd, there will be a July wedding and lawn fete given by the ladies auxiliary. Prof. Eugene Jones, of Belpre, O., rendered at A. M. E. church a stereo-optican entertainment on the "Passion Play." Wednesday. Belle Fletcher and Hattres Barber left Sunday for Luray, Va. Born to My, and Mrs. Sydney Stewart a boy---Sunday. Engle Taylor, of Buckhannon, arrived Thursday to lecture to the W. M. M. S. of A. M. E. church. It was stated in last week's Advocate that at the A. M. E. church the True Reformers had all of the table offering; not all but half. Not over a dozen colored people attended the Union Revival Services at the tabernacle where a special side is allotted to them. A brother was asked why he did not attend, he replied: "I fear there will be a division in Heaven, too." CLARKSBURG A number of Clarksburgers attended the picnic at Rock Springs. Miss Blanche Beane is visiting friends in Roanoke, Va. Rev. Virgill, of Pittsburg, preached two sermons at Trinity M. E. Church Sunday. Rev. S. P. West returned Monday from Thomas where he preached to the True Reformers. While away his pulpit was filled by Rev. Diggs, of Kingwood. Mrs. Banks, who spent some time with her daughter, Mrs. S. P. West, returned Thursday to her home in Brownsville, Pa. Mrs. West accompanied her. Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, of Parkersburg, will lecture to W. S. Kearney Court Wednesday night. The mock conference at Trinity M. E. Church was very entertaining and a financial success. Robert, the only son of Mrs. Em- Jona Thompson, of this city, died Wednesday in Terre Haute, Ind. Death was due to appendicitis. Mt. Zion Baptist S. S., Trinity M. E. S. S. and Pride A. M. E. S. S. will hold their annual picnic Thursday, July 6th on Hayward's hill. A delightful time is anticipated. A program will be rendered Friday night at Trinity church under the auspices of the Dunbar Reading Circle. Misses Victoria Bogges and Velma Snyder were baptized and admitted to membership in Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday. A large number witnessed the baptism. The social given by the Sunday school class at the home of Mrs. Lee was well attended. CHILLICOTHE. O. Rev. W. J. Johnson, former pastor of Quinn chapel, A. M. E. church, was in the city several days last week, visiting friends. Miss Lucille Johnson, one of the graduates from the Dunbar, Graded school of Cadiz, Ohio, where Miss Hazel Lucas of this city teaches, spent some time in the city visiting Miss Lucas and parents, 187 W. Main street. Robert Ryans of Fort Wayne, Indiana, came home Saturday to be present at his father's funeral, which was held at Quinn chapel Monday morning, Rev. W. E. Walker officiated, assisted by Rev. J. W. Carter. Mr. Ryan was a model Christian gentleman, a worthy citizen, and highly respected in the community. He died Friday morning at 6 o'clock at the age of 84 years. Misses Mae andrene Johnson, of Cadiz, O., were guests of Miss Hazel Lucas, last week A picnic luncheon was given Friday evening in Youtanzee park in honor of Misses Mae, Irene and Lucile Johnson by Miss Hazel Lucas. Those present were Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Reed, Dr. S. S. Jordan and wife, Mr. and Mrs. James Lucas Griffin Lucas and Mrs. A. J. Hayes Rev. M. E, Walker, pastor Quinn chapel appointed Sunday night the following committee on reception for the Ohio Annual Conference which meets in Chillicothe, Sept. 13: Mrs. Lucy Lucas, Mrs. Jennie Burrell, Dr. S. S Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Stewart, Mrs. Carie Marshall, Mrs. Edward Medley, Mrs. James Burch, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Harrison, Mrs. Kate Gray, Mrs. Carrie Hogans, Mr. and Mrs. Watt Rideout, Mrs. Ellen Williams, Mrs. Eugene Liggons, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sutton, Mr. Fisher Sutton, Mr. James Lucas, Mr. Wm. Galiff, Mr. Milton Gatleff, Mrs. Jennie Donaldson, Mrs. Eliza Harris, Mrs. Nora Beard, Mrs. Katie Beard and Mrs. Mand Fairtax PARKESBURG Mrs. S. A. Smith, sister of Rev. W. M. Toney, pastor of the Zion Baptist church, died at St. Joseph's hospital Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. She was well known and respected. Her funeral took place from her brother's residence Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. C. W. Carroll officiating. Interment in the colored cemetery north of the city. Mrs. A. M. Thomas, after spending a pleasant time with her parents on Swann Street, returned to her home in Zanesville, O. Thursday The Sewing Circle of the Zion Baptist church had a very successful entertainment during the week when Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of West Virginia was entertained by Sunny Side Lodge No. S, A, F, and A. M., of Farkersburg. The installation of the officers of Sunny Side, No. S, A, F, and A. M., took place there Thursday evening in the presence of a large audience. Rev. G. W. W. Jenkins, pastor of Simpson M. E. Church at Wheeling spent several days in the city this week. Mrs. J. S. Giles is spending a few weeks in Pittsburg, Pa., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles Woods. Margaret, the youngest daughter of Charles Ellis, is getting along nicely after undergoing an operation at the city hospital. Mrs. Sarah Griffin left Saturday for Mariretta, O., where she will make her home. Children's Day was observed at Logan Memorial Church, Sunday evening an interesting program was rendered by the children. The picnic given by the local Masonic Lodge Thursday was a grand success. Masons and patrons alike enjoyed themselves on Blennerhassett Island. SOUTH BROWNSVILLE, PA. The Masons annual sermon will be preached at the A. M. E. church Tuesday evening. The Ladies of the Household of Ruth will give a banquet at the Odd Fellows' Hall Wednesday evening in honor of the visiting Masons. 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Hotel Brown Arrivals---Since the last issue of The Advocate there were registered at Hotel Brown: Mrs. Mary Viar and Mrs. Mary T. Willis, Fayetteville; Mrs. C. W. West, Jackson, O.; William Jones, Montgomery J. D. Wiseman, Winifrede; Ernest Hadley, Canton, O.; Thos. M. Davis, and J. C. Miller, Winona; F. L. Patterson, Hinton; L. R. Jordan and son, Clarksburg; Miss Sue Kearney, Cleveland, O.; A. Waynes, Middletown, O.; H. B. Bennett, Bluefield; G. Burrell and John Henry, Roanoke Va.; W. Scott, Wm. Martin and Y. Bolden, Norfolk, Va.; J. W. Higginsbotham, Page; Miss Bessie Brown Maryville, O.; Mrs. M. J. White Cincinnati, O.; Mrs. Aggie Dallas and daughter, Dana; J. M. Douglass, Covington, Va.; and Geo. R. Myers, New York City. Officers Elected ---Phyllis Wheatley Court. No. 1. Order of Calanthrop elected the following officers at their meeting Tuesday night: Mrs. Marv Robinson, W. C.; Mrs. Annie Fulk's Davis, W. Inx.; Mrs. Gertrude Mickens, W. O.; Mrs. Callie Page S. 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St. Paul Church Notes.----Friday evening an exhibition of motion pictures will be given at St. Paul A. M. e. church, Court St., under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society. The usual services will be held Sunday to which the public is cordially invited. Simpson M. E. Church---Mrs. Amanda Cooper will entertain the Friday night aid at her home on Brooks street this week Mrs. Alice Wanzer was hostess to the Lilfers, Tuesday night. The Thursday night aid will meet at the residence of Mrs. Mary Robinson, Bradford St. The evening services at Simpson M. E. church will last just one hour during the remainder of the hot season. The services will begin at 8:00 o'clock. At The Baptist Church.—Rev. Lafontaine, said to be a native of Asia Minor, preached at the First Baptist church, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings. His sermons were helpful. The missionary society rendered a comedy called 'The Slab Town Convention' Friday evening of last week. Refreshments were served after the entertainment. Communion services will be held Sunday afternoon. A Whist Party.—Miss Lucinda Williams entertained with whist, Monday evening in honor of Miss Lynette Dickinson, of Cutler, O., house guest of Miss Maude Viney. Those playing were: Mr and Mrs. Russell Forney, Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Preston, Mesdames J. W. Viney, Rhoda Ulen, Ruth Robinson, Elizabeth Highsmith and P. G. Hammond, Misses Maude Viney, Lynette Dickinson, Hazel Lucas, Lillian and Bessie Taylor, Gertrude Campbell Alice Whittaker, Stella James, Virginia Gilmer, Lucinda Williams, Messrs, Frank Taylor, Chas. Payne, Edward James, J. A. Jackson, Geo. Stuart, T. G. Nutter, T. W. Randolph, W. H. Wright, George Reavely and Dr. J. C. Ellis. Miss Burks Hostess.—Miss Beatrice Burks was hostess Monday afternoon from 2 to 5 to a number of friends who were entertained with whist. Her guest were: Mrs. J. H. Taylor, Misses Ethel Smith, Lulu Wade, Irene Jackson, Gertrude and Margaret Melton, Bessie Jackson, Maude and Dorcas Wanzer, Gertrude Campbell, Alice Whittaker, Maude Viney, Lynette Dickinson, Ardonia Price, Matia Randall, Waysor Crutch field and Amy Hutchinson. Off For The South.—Chas. E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia Colored Institute, left yesterday at noon for New Orleans, La., where he will remain till the meeting of the Pythian Supreme Lodge at Indianapolis, the latter part of August. Mr. Mitchell goes to New Orleans to assist Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green in compiling his report and closing his fiscal accounts for this meeting. Seeking Executive Clemency.---A. G. Froe, of the McDowell county bar with residence at Welch, stopped over Friday en route home from Parkersburg, to consult Pardon Attorney Pierson with the hope of Securing executive clemency for one of his clients. Mr. Froe had been in attendance upon the Masonic Grand Lodge. To Erect Monument...A lot has been secured on the top of the hill of the addition to the Spring Hill Cemetery upon which the commission appointed by the Knights of Pythias for that purpose expect to erect in the near future a monument to the late Supreme and Grand Chancellor S. W. Starks. The design selected is said to be a beautiful and costly one, the site commanding and both a fitting tribute to the beautiful character which they commemorate. Personals and Lorals Mrs. Amanda Campbell's friends will be pleased to know that she continues to improve. Mrs. Allie Barnett, of Detroit, Mich., is visiting friends in the city. She is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Glenn. Mrs. Dellilah Wanzer and daughter Ella left last week for Detroit to visit Mrs. Wanzer's sister, Mrs. Hammond. Mrs. Aletha Jackson, who was visiting her mother, Mrs. Amanda Cooper, has returned to her home at Wheeling. Attorney W. H. Randolph, formerly a resident of Bluefield, who is now practicing his profession at Lynchburg, Va., was here last week on business. Mrs. S. A. Colbert and Mrs. Ella Phillips spent a few days in Huntington, last week. Mrs. Hilda Hurt, of Shrewsbury, was in the city Monday evening. Mrs. Lucy Bolling, of Cincinnati, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Early, Baines St. Ruth Stevenson left Wednesday to spend the summer with her cousin, Mrs. Grace Seams, at Parkersburg. Mrs. Chas, Preston entertained with whist, Tuesday evening, complimentary to Miss Lynette Dickinson. Improvement is still noticable in the condition of J. M. Hazlewood. R. L. Garrett, of the firm of Garrett and Hazlewood undertakers, has returned from a short visit to his home at St. Sterling; Ky., where his wife is visiting her grandmother The interior repairs on the First, Baptist church are rapidly nearing completion. Clarence Burks, Charles Payne, James Carper and Dr. Andrew Brown spent Sunday at Institute. Miss Julia Dorsey, of Institute, visited relatives here a few days last week. Mrs. Lucy Williams, of Columbus, O., is visiting Mrs. M. O. Mitchell. PLAYS AND PLAYERS John Drew's play for next season is called "A Single Man." A dramatization of "The Goose Girl" is to be produced by Baker and Castle. Ruth St. Denis has been engaged for a season on a roof garden in New York. Marie Tempest is to return to this country in a new play by Jerome K. Jerome. Lulu Glaser will star in an adaptation of a German musical comedy called "Miss Dudelsack." Augustus Thomas has written a play called "The Devil to Pay," which Charles Frohman will produce. Mary Garden has sailed for Europe, but will return in the fall. While abroad she will sing in opera in Paris. Porter Emerson Browne has completed a new play called "Sex," which Charles Frohman expects to produce in the fall. A new opera by Arthur Nevins, to be produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company next year, is called "Twilight." Ruth St. Denis is to become a dramatic star next season in a play to be written for her by the author of "The Rose of the Rancho." Ethel Barrymore is to appear next season in A. E. Mason's Lendon success, "The Witness for the Defense," to be produced by Charles Frohman. It is reported that Anna Held will make another American tour under the direction of F. Ziegfeld, Jr., in a piece by the authors of "The Pink Lady." Jane Cowl has received an offer to play a leading role in a new play by Henri Battaille, the play dealing with the adventures of an American girl in Paris. Flora Zabelle, in private life Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock, has gone to Constantinople with her sister, it is announced, to claim a villa on the Bosphorus left them by their grandfather. Clara Lipman is to star next season under the direction of Werba & Luescher in a play called "It Depends on the Woman." The play is by Miss Lipman herself and Samuel Shipman and is a story of the stage. 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The Master Plumbers' Association of Canada has changed its name to the Canadian Society of Sanitary and Heating Engineers. Travelers' goods and leather novelty workers at New York City propose to start a campaign for better conditions and higher wages. Railway carmen during the first quarter of 1911 showed an increase of thirty-four unions and an increase cease in membership of 4,347. The factory act of Great Britain contains a provision that women and girl employees must be allowed a certain and stipulated time for meals. Union labor of Cleveland will aid state officers in their campaign to compel manufacturers to report all accidents to workmen to the state factory inspector. The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America recently formally dedicated its home for superannuates, erected at Hale Springs, Tenn. The Congress of Textile Operatives held at Amsterdam recently, unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of eight hours' work in all the textile mills in all countries. W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in his annual report certifies to the fact that the increase in wages of the trainmen in the United States in the year 1910 amounted to $37,000,000. An eight-hour working day for laborers or mechanics employed under contracts with the District, the United States or any territory is provided for in a bill which Senator Borah of Idaho, has introduced. At the next annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America, to be held at Indianapolis next January, a special committee will submit its report, recommending that Indianapolis be made the permanent headquarters of the union. After a disastrous warfare between rival factions of electricians, extending over several years, word comes that through mediation of the officers of the A. F. of L., a truce has been declared and that a meeting has been arranged between the two factions. The number of trade disputes reported to have been in existence in Canada during May was thirty-four, an increase of twenty compared with May, 1910. About 212 firms and 13,000 employees were involved in these disputes, 189 firms and 4,038 employees having been involved in the disputes. The loss of time through these disputes is estimated at at 239,-400 working days, compared with a loss of 202,275 days in April, and of 71,830 days in May, 1910. CHILD DIES The sixth months' old child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harris died this morning at the home of its parents on Patrick street. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock and burial was made in the Jenkins burying ground, Kanawha Two-Mile. 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The Times fell short in that it neither specified nor emphasized the dangers which threaten fraternal insurance as it is being conducted by the societies doing business among us. At the outset it may be stated as a maxim that insurance rates must be based on the normal death-rate, with enough added to defray the cost of management. More specifically stated, the rate must be such that compounded annually at 4.1-2 per cent for the average life of the insured at the age of twenty-one, it will equal the face of the policy and the cost of management. The test of the soundness of fraternal insurance, says an authority, lies in whether or not it answers these requirements. Do our fraternal insurance societies measure up to this standard? Apparently they do, but not in reality. Take the Knights of Pythias—singled out merely because this organization is the leader in fraternal insurance in the State—as an illustration. This society assures its policy beneficiaries $50.00 in case of death during the first year of membership and an increase of an additional $50.00 after each succeeding year till a maximum of $300.00 has been reached. For this the insured pays $3.00 per annum. --- If this rate were applicable only to members at twenty-one and if it were invested at 4 1-2 per cent compounded annually for forty-one and a half years the American mortality tables show the average expectation of life at twenty-one, there would be no question as to the stability of Pythian insurance. But the facts in the case will not warrant any such faith. The truth is that members are admitted from eighteen to fifty-five at the one flat rate of $3.00 per annum, though all are entitled to the same benefits, and it is also true that up to the present time----fifteen years after the establishment of the Endowment Department----the interest received from the Endowment fund is almost negligible. Under this policy of treating all entrants alike and depositing the premium money without interest, a state of affairs has arisen which forebodies ill for the Pythians and all other fraternal insurance companies conducted along similar lines. For the first fifteen years, if conditions are favorable, all will be as merry as a honeymoon. Then the disbursements will begin to approach the receipts. In the next stage they will exceed the receipts and the collapse will follow shortly. What is here said is not said with the intention of embarrassing any one of our fraternal insurance societies, but rather with the hope that, the danger having been pointed out, provisions will be made to avoid it. If the policy holders are mindful of their united and individual interests they will consent to no half way measures of relief, but will invest upon their organizations being placed upon a firm financial basis, one that will stand the acid test of time. AS TO RACE LEADERSK10 An inquiry has been made, as will be seen from a communication which appears on this page, what the opinion of The Advocate is on the subject of race leadership. The Advocate thinks there has not been, there is not now nor is there likely to be till human nature changes, race leadership in the general acceptance of the term, and it also thinks that the less this question is discussed, the more time the race will have for the consideration of the essentials to its elevation to the plane toward which it is striving. It were a waste of time to hope that any one man lives or will arise in future years who will, acceptably to all of us, lead on to Canaan. Moses, whose steps God guided by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, saw his leadership repudiated and his counsel set at naught. He bore the seal-of approval of the Most High on his brow, still there were those who questioned his ability and scorned his advice. As then so is it now, man reserves to himself the God-given right to think and to disagree, if his thoughts lead to conclusions counter to those entertained by his fellows Other people in this country recognize this fact and are governed accordingly. There is no talk of the leaders of the Jews, the Germans, the Italians. The Irish do not cudgel their brains with vain longings for leaders; the Hungarians are mute on this subject. Only the Negro disturbs himself about leaders, with the chances at twenty to one that, given a leader from among Heaven's anointed, whose descent from on high each and every one of them had witnesser, there would arise among them a considerable body of insurgents willing and prepared at the first opportunity to crucify him. Negro race leadership, dear Mrs. Jones, is a myth, it is simply a term originating with our white friends and perpetuated by us. Did you ever attempt to investigate the manner in which most of our reputed leaders reached that high degree? If you did, you found that they are mostly numbered among those eternally "spouting" about their sacrifices for the race, or of that number which has been selected from among us to further the political ambitions of some candidate or party. True, there are many men and women, too, who have seen the light and are striving to point it out to others, but the dictum of only a few, if them, is received unquestionably by the others. Each regards the other's light as an ignis fatus leading to bogs unexplored As The Advocate sees it the race problem is a problem of the individual, that there are those who can and are pointing the way to its solution, but that he who attempts to bear the whole burden will seek a load heavier than Atlas bore. Each of us can in his own way contribute to the uplift of the whole, but as for any one assuming the leadership—it would be less difficult to dam Niagara Falls with a toothpick. The demand now is not for leaders but for follows. THE POLITICAL SITUATION In despite of the repeated statements of the opposition to the contrary, The Advocate does not hesitate to assert that the outlook for the Republican party in West Virginia is bright and is assuming a more rosette hue with each passing day. All doubt as to the man best qualified to lead the National ticker to victory has been settled. West Virginia is solidly for Mr. Taft. That momentous question having been disposed of to the evident satisfaction of all, there remains only to decide who shall head the State ticket. In making this selection there is no need of haste. There remains ample time for a calm consideration of the claims of all aspirants and the careful weighing of their qualifications. But----here's the rub----there should not and must not be any repetition of Washington or New York caucuses to decide upon candidates for the State ticket. Since the candidates nominated are to be voted for or against here in West Virginia, they should be selected by West Virginians in West Virginia. We have experienced the evils of out-of-the State nominations and want no more of them, at least not at this time when factional differences will surely result in a Democratic victory. "If Jackson Johnson should wish to leave the prize ring for good he might find employment as an umpire for one of the big leagues," remarks the Parkesburg Dispatch-News. The furore created by the suspected taint in the blood of two Cuban players drafted by the "Reds" gives grounds for the belief that the Dispatch-News made a bone-head joke. Another effort is being made by patriotic congressmen to induce "Uncle Sam" to establish a parcel post in the Post Office Department, but so far it seems that the six big express companies have more power with Congress than the good will and welfare of ninety million good American citizens. We do not pretend to know anything about ornithology, but we are willing to say this much for the stork: it delivers the goods. An exchange speaks of a young lady making her "debute" in society. Is that a new game or something good to eat? The best way to keep from being lined up with the dead ducks is to keep on doing something. After she is twenty-five a girl is apt to marty the fellow she used to make fun of. THE RACE LEADERSHIP MYTH. Editor & Advocate: Thomas, W. Va., June 19--I desire to call your attention to an article which appeared in the Gazette (Cleveland, O.,) June 10th, inst having been copied from the Springfield, Mess, Repubilican, article under the heading—Afro-American Cullings. The article, in dealing with the question as to whether the colored man should be excluded from Canada, concludes by saying: "We should advise the leaders of the Negro race, in this country, however to demand the protection of our state department and force it to take a definite position regarding the matter, and also to push the extreme limit in Canadian courts by means of a test case, a denial of the Canadian Government's claim, that Negroes are incapable of remaining, economically, self supporting in the Canadian climate. It is indeed, advisable that such an important matter be attended to at once. But who are our leaders, which the Republican refers to, and where are they, what do they do, and how can they be quickly and effectively reached? with the exception of the American colored man we find every race and tribe on earth have a recognized leader. Have we colored Americans an institution presided over by one of our race? Have we a proper place at which to file our complaints, or one whom we can look to, as the champion of our rights? Do we need such an institution? Do we need such a presiding officer? If in your opinion, as in mine, we do, then the article written by Prof. B. Dorcas, of Hendricks, W. Va., and recently published in several leading papers throughout this country is a timely warning and suggestion. Will you through the columns or your valuable paper, please let the public know how the "Advocate" stands on the question of Race Leader-ship? Thanking you in advance, I am sincerely yours, Mrs. Adella C. Jones. Life of White Man Worth More Than 100 Negro Criminals. Atlanta. Ga., June 28.—Admitting that he knew James Allen and Joe Watts, Negroes accused of attacking a white woman, would be lynched if taken to Walton County for trial unguarded by troops, Judge Charles H. Brand, of the Northern Judicial Circuit, today defended his action in refusing to ask for soldiers to protect the Negroes by saying: "While I want to discharge every duty which the law imposes upon me, I don't ropose to an engine of sacrificing any white man's life for all the Negro criminals in the country, by assuming the responsibility that the law does not impose upon me, and in taking this position I am in perfect accord with my conscience and my God. I would not imperil the life of one white man to save the lives of a hundred Negro criminals. "If I had called the military and some young man among the soldiers was killed, or some of the citizens of Walton County were killed, I would never forgive myself." Judge Brand puts the responsibility for failing to guard the Negroes on Governor Brown and Sheriff Stark to protect the Negroes. NEGRO MINERS Present Their Case in Suit for Damages Against Union Officials. Boone, Ia., June 28---- Odgen, 14, June 28-11 ners of Odgen, numbering 161, who are suing John P. White, International President; W. H. Rogers, Iowa President of the United Mine Workers of America, and other mine officials, for more than $1,500,000, began presenting their case to Judge Wright here today. The Negroes claim they were imported into Odgen under misrepresentations, and ask damages in the sum of $10,000 each. The suit grows out of labor troubles a year ago when white miners, learning that the strike was costing the union $200 a day, resumed their work, and later resigned in small numbers. The Negroes were imported to fill their places, but were refused admission to the union. They also ask that they be permitted to form a union of their own. TWO LYNCHINGS IN Monroe, Ga., June 27.—Two Negroes were lynched in the county today. Early today Tom Allen, accused of attacking a white woman several weeks ago, was taken from a train at Social Circle, near hope, tied to a telephone and shot to death. He was in charge of three offenders, who were overpowered by members of the mob. Nearly twelve hours later, in broad daylight, men who are thought to have composed the former mob, stormed the jail here. secured Joe Watts, another Negro he'd for acting suspiciously around the home of a former, and put rita to death. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Adam B. Littlepage and wife and Fred Gardner and wife to J. B. Rollins, tract in Big Sandy district; consideration, $92.50. Green Smith and wife to D. M. Van Ness, two tracts in Potato Creek, $1.500. E. E. Simons, trustee, and others to A. Q. Priestley, lot in Glen Elk; consideration of premises. THE WEST VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE Largest Number of Students in History of the School Last Year THE MUSEUM CATALOGUE FREE! Mississippi State Teachers Association Mississippi State Teachers Association HEARS SEVERAL STRONG PAPERS BEARING UPON VARIOUS PHASES OF THE PROFESSION AND ADOPT NEW SLCGAN----"STAY ON THE FARM". (Appointed to the Advocate) Utica, Miss., June 23—The fifth annual session of the State Association of teachers in Colored Schools was held at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, June 20, 21, 22, Prof. J. A. Martin, of Jackson, President. The meeting was attended by a large number of teachers, who took great delight in visiting the various departments and buildings of the Utica Institute, which was founded a few years ago by William H. Holtzclaw, the present principal. The convention was marked by several strong and important papers bearing upon various phases of the profession, punctured by vigorous discussions, the chief of which were an interesting talk on the Jeanes Fund by Prof. J. H. Webber, Darbun; a discussion of "How to Make Negro Education Popular in the South," by W. A. Battle, of Okolona Normal and Industrial Institute; "Self Help in the Sevendaru Schools," by G. C. Moseley, Christ's College, Jackson and the "Responsibility of Women as Teachers," by Misses Armelda Greene and L. P. Winfrey of Jackson. The "back to the farm" slogan was changed here to "stay on the farm" Principal Holtzclaw declaring that the farm was too important in the economy of the race and the nation to be made a refuge for failures in other walks of life. farming subjects were given place and the lion's share of attention and industrial education was stressed by nearly every speaker, while President Martin in his annual address made several important recommendations with reference to agricultural and other industrial work in the public schools. Prof. Z. T. Hubert, the new president of Jackson College, by whose coming means the placing of an all Negro faculty into this well equipped institution, was introduced to the association. He declared it to be his intention to enter heartily into co-operation with other schools of the state, and that henceforth Jackson College would enter the field of extension work in an effort to reach the colored people. Dr. J. B. Lehman, president of Southern Christian Institute, Edwards, Miss., spoke to the teachers at a special hour Wednesday and Bishop Theodore D. Bratton, of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi was the guest of the Institution and the association Thursday. Bishop Bratton is a whole souled Christian gentleman, a worthy successor of the late Bishop Charles B. Galloway, and in every respect a friend to the black man. His subject, was "The Ministry of Teaching," yet throughout his discourse, he breathed a spirit of friendliness and sympathy with the work of the colored teacher. Prof. Martin was re-elected President and William H. Holtzclaw made corresponding secretary in the place of President L. J. Rowan, who becomes 1st vice-president. There were no important changes in the officiary of the convention, the list standing as formerly. The next session will be held in-Okolona. GOES TO HUNTINGTON. To look after business affairs in connection with the Elk Hotel of which he is the manager, J. I. Southall went to Huntington last night and will return to this city this evening to resume his work. Mr Southall is interested in a number of business ventures and his time is nearly all taken up in this city and in Huntington. AVIATION MEET AT DETROIT Detroit, Mich., June 29.—What promises to be the most notable aviation meet held in Michigan opened at the State fair grounds today, to continue over July 4. The participants include Seymour, Barrier, Simon Frisbie and several other aviators of international reputation. MAINE'S NEW TELEPHONE LAW Augusta, Me., June 29.—A state law compelling all telephone companies to consent to switchboard and wire connections with every other company in immediately adjoining territory went into effect in Maine today. It is reported that the larger telphone companies doing business in the State will bring a suit to test the constitutionality of the law. EDUCATORS IN CONFERENCE Providence, R. L., June 29.—The American Institute of Instruction, the oldest organization of teachers in the United States, met in annual convention in this city today and will continue in session until the end of the week. The attendance includes many of the best known educators of New England and several from other sections of the country. Governor Pothier and Mayor Fletcher welcomed the visitors at the opening session today and Payson Smith, Commissioner of Education of Maine and president of the Institute, spoke on the subject, "Public Responsibility for the Public Schools." The sessions of the conference beginning tomorrow morning will be devoted to the discussion of a wide range of topics relating to secondary, elementary and rural school work. CHAMPION ATHLETES COMPETE Pittsburg, Pa., June 29.—Many Western athletes of prominence arrived in the city today in readiness for the national track and field championships of the A. A. U., which are to take place on Forbes Field. The preliminary event will be contested tomorrow and the finals will take place Saturday. Many of America's most famous athletes are entered and in some of the events champion will compete against champion. The West is sending a formidable aggregation of star performers and it is predicted they will give the Eastern cracks a hard tussle for first honors LIPPINCOTT'S AND THE VACATION SEASON And now comes the vacation season, when the out-of-doors calls to us in tones that will not be denied. Even our reading is done in the open, so far as possible, while as for the kind of reading—well, no involved, problematical fiction need apply. We want stories of love and adventure, full of action and incident—stories of live people. One such story is the complete novel in the July Lippincott's: "From the Car Behind," by Eleanor M. Ingram, author of those successful books, "The Game and the Candle" and "Stanton Wins." Like her other stories, "From the Car Behind" has to do with notoring especially motor racing. The love interest is captivating, the action tense, the humor abundant, the mystery long-sustained. It is the sort of tale one must finish at one reading, for nowhere in it does there seem a place where one is willing to lay it aside. D INSTITUTE the School Law Dress-Making and LERMAN, P itute, West V All the characters are intensely human, being neither holy saint nor wholly sinner. In short, the novelette has all the ear-marks of a "best-seller," and it is pretty sure to take rank as such when it is brought out in book form. A very striking feature of the issue is an article entitled "Games and Gangs," one of a series of papers by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, director in the Russell Sage Foundation. If there is a boy in your family, and he isn't a mollycoddle, he probably belongs to a "gang" if there is one he can join. This need not be a source of worry to the boy's parents, as Dr. Gulick points out. He also points out many other interesting things which have come under his observation during an experience of many years. It's a lively paper, full of interest even for those who have only a distant acquaintance with the man-child." Other articles are: "Our Maximed Fourth," by Edwin L. Sabin; "The American Business Man as a Husband," by Maude Krake Backlund; "The Gentleman Burglar," by Ralph Bergengren; and "Concerning the Aeroplane," by R. T. H. "Three Bungalows at Small Cost," is a satirical paper by "Wilbertforce Jenkins, Bungaloloist." The short-stories are fully up to the magazine's high standard. "One of Many," is one of a series of noteworthy stories of Department life in Washington, by Ella Middleton Tybout. Others are "The Return of Rebecca," by Minna Thomas Antrim; "The Tribulations of Trinity Tim," by George Rothwell Brown, and "The Labor Editor," by Grayce Drultt Latus. Clinton Scollard, Mildred McNeal No. 4 Special Buggy on HIGHEST GRADE A Value Unequated. Sold on $1.00 FROM FACTORY TO US Write for prices and other styles. Sen C. R. PATTERSON & GREENFIELD, OHIO. LARGEST NEGRO CARRIAGE CO Clinton Scollard, Mildred McNeal spent by the prisoner in jail. Buggy only $65.00 FIRST GRADE Sold on $1.00 Profit Margin. TORY TO USER styles. Send for Catalogue. PERSON & SONS, FIELD, OHIO. CARRIAGE CONCERN IN THE VALD, N. RER COLL. Carper's Ferry, W. V. No. 4 Special Buggy only $65.00 HIGHEST GRADE A Value Unequaled. Sold on $1.00 Profit Margin. FROM FACTORY TO USER Write for prices and other styles. Send for Catalogue. C. R. PATTERSON & SONS, GREENFIELD, OHIO. LARGEST NEGRO CARRIAGE CONCERN IN THE UNITED STATES. HENRY T. M'DONALD, President STORER Harper's F —Founded in 1867— More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest teachers does not include assistants. More than 400 men and women school in the state for Colored station high. Remarkably healthful, BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OLAR faculty of sixteen highly educa assistants. Our Library catalogued accord the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE BERS OF THE GRADUATING CLA TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUC in its faculty and student body. Its living. Literary Societies. Christie and women have grade Colored students. Mag healthful. Ample bu DED TO OUR PLANT T highly educated, earnest agued according to the L TERTIFICATE S ARE GRAT ATING CLASSES WHO OF EDUCATION. Store t body. Its whole influ es, Christia n Organiza es. State Normal, Indu dialogue and other printers. Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE S ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Music. For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1911. INSTITUTE School Last Year making and Millinerv IAN, Pres. West Virginia Sweeney, Florence Earle Coates, and others contribute verses, and Ellis O. Jones, some forceful epigrams. Besides these, there is the usual big humorous section, full of new jokes, jingles, and anecdotes. You will need this number of Lippincott's to read on your vacation, and if you don't get any vacation, you will need it to console you. MORE CASES SET FOR TRIAL IN THE INTERMEDIATE This morning in Intermediate Court, W. L. Ballard, Clyde Guthrie, and Alvi Boyd pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery. Each member of the trio was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 and costs and to spend one hour in jail. The following cases were set for trial by Judge Black: George Breeden, pistol toting; Joe Johnson, misdemeanor; Alice Hopkins; bootlegging; Matilda Snyder, bootlegging; and Mary Grass, pistol toting; all were set for trial at the first day of next term and the bond fixed at $500 except in the bootlegging cases for which an additional bond of $500 was required not to violate Section 32 of the State Code, Garfield Van Hoose was found guilty of two charges of carrying deadly weapons. For the first conviction, he was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs and to spend six months in jail. For the second conviction he was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to serve ten days in jail. Credit was allowed for the time already spent by the prisoner in jail. ly $65.00 Profit Margin. R For Catalogue. SONS, NGERN IN THE UNITED STATES. COLLEGE Berry, W. Va in 1867— I have graduated here. The oldest clients. Magnificent location. Eleva- ample buildings. THREE NEW PLANT THIS YEAR. The regu- led, earnest teachers does not include ing to the Dewey System, is one of S ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM- SES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TION. Storer is interdenominational whole influence is toward Christian in Organizations, Musical Clubs, normal, Industrial, Music. other printed matter write to The President. N. C. BRACKETT. Treasurer. I was just a little late in getting in the game, but I am here at 24-26 Summers street and am the same J. P. Clark you all know. I do not belong to any trust or combination whatever- Can You Do Better? Blue Ribbon, 4 dozen.....$5.00 Hoster-Columbus, 3 dozen.....4.00 Red, White and Blue, 4 dozen.....5.00 Red, White and Blue, 3 dozen.....4.00 Schleer Special, Columbus, O.3 doz. 4.00 Charleston Beer, 3 dozen.....3.00 Rebate $1.50 on all empty cases and bottles ALL KINDS OF BARREL GOODS, 7 AND 9 YEARS OLD, FROM $2.00 PER GALLON UP. WE ALSO HANDLE IMPORTED GOODS. We also handle a number of other different brands bottled in bond, full quarts at $1.00 per quart. J. P. CLARK Give Us a Call ional's Capitol I. E. Z. CHURCHES OCCUPY LARGE TE RESTING WASHINGTONIANS. Several "Organs" Loom up Large in Baptist Temple plans a Sane and Safe The Sad Case of Mattie Lomax, Presi- francisco—Items of Interest About the doub Conti tire start A With from pres ced next der. His is the odis. At the National's Capitol At the National's Capitol AFFAIRS OF A. M. E. AND A. M. E. Z. CHURCHES OCCUPY LARGE SPACE AMONG TOPICS INTERESTING WASHINGTONIANS. Candidates for Editorships of the Several "Organs" Loom up Large in The Spotlight. Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple plans a Sane and Safe Fourth of July Celebration. The Sad Case of Mattie Lomax. President Thirkield Scores at San Francisco—Items of Interest About the Near-great. ND HAZLEWOOD ERTAKERS GARRETT AND HAZLEWOOD UNDERTAKERS ARTHUR L. GARRETT, LICENSED EMBALMER Why pay large prices when we can furnish you with the same quality of service and goods for less money. We carry a large stock of goods. Prompt ambulance service. Open day and night. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1911. I was just a in the game, but street and am th know. I do not bination whatever My price list Can Y Blue Ribbon, Hoster-Colum Red, White a Red, White a Schleer Spec Charleston B Rebate $1.25 ALL KINDS OF BARREL GOODS, 7 A We also handle a bottled in bond J. P. 24-26 Summers Street HOME PHONE 134 AND 266. At the National AFFAIRS OF A. M. E. AND A. M. E. Z. C SPACE AMONG TOPICS INTE RESTRI Candidates for Editorships of the Several The Spotlight. Cosmopolitan Baptist To Fourth of July Celebration. The Sad C dent Thirkield Scores at San Francisco- Near-great. (Thompson's National News Bureau) Washington, D. C., June 28.—The affairs of the A. M. E. and the A. M. E. Zion churches occupy a large space in the spotlight of the history that is being made today. Just now the center of interest seems to hedge about the editorship of the church "organs" and the management of the mechanical plant, particularly so in the "Bethel" organization. It is practically agreed that the editorship and business management of the Christian Recorder will be made separate functions by the General Conference of next year. It is admitted that the checkered career of the opinion department of the church and the financial stagnation of the mechanical branch must give way to better things and there must be an infusion of new blood from the ground up. It is a matter of record that during the illness of Dr. H. T. Johnson arrangements were made temporarily for the editorship of the Christian Recorder and the management of the Book Concern at Philadelphia. This was just an expedient resorted to by the heads of the church to save the situation until the General Conference could fix upon a permanent and sound basis of action. The present incumbent, with the double burden, has done the best he could under a system that makes for confusion at every turn. GARRETT AND L UNDERTAKEN ARTHUR L. GARRETT, LICI Why pay large prices when we can f quality of service and goods for less m stock of goods. Prompt ambulance serv Bell Phone 336. Home Phone 328. --- Charleston, W. Va. ALL ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY The arrangement will doubtless stand until the meeting of the General Conference next May at Kansas City, when the radical change is pretty certain to be made in the entire printing and editorial policies. With reference to candidates, the atmosphere is considerably clarified by the fact that it is almost the universal practice in the A. M. E. Church, whenever a vacancy occurs in any of the departments to fill that vacancy by the appointment of the candidate receiving the next highest vote at the General Conference. Rev. A L. Gains, D D., of Baltimore, was the ranking candidate for the editorship of the Christian Recorder at the Norfolk General Conference, and it seems to be the general sentiment of the Church throughout the country that he is the logical candidate for the editorship, now that the church at large is to speak on the subject. It goes without the saying that he will be foremost in the race at Kansas City next May. The Baltimore Annual Conference at its recent session honored him by an election as delegate on the first ballot, evidencing his popularity at home. Dr. Gains will go to the next General Conference with the unanimous endorsement for the editorship of the Christian Recorder from the Baltimore Annual Conference, and from the Virginia Annual Conference and doubtless from the North Carolina Conferences, which gives him the entire Second Episcopal District to start with. At the recent commencement at Wilberforce University, leading men from all parts of the country were present, and it was practically conceded that Dr. Garles will be the next editor of the Christian Recorder. His ability is unquestioned. His supporters are confident that he is the one man who can make Methodism's ancient and honorable spokesman the virile influence that it ought to be. IRA T. BRYANTS The sentiment of the A. M. E. connection is decidedly in favor of Ira T. Bryant's plan to consolidate the Book concern at Philadelphia with the plant of the Sunday School at Nashville, Tenn. The plan contemplates keeping open an establishment at Philadelphia, of course, but the bulk of the mechanical work can best be done at Nashville, where operating expenses will be lighter and where the institution will be more closely identified with the great masses of the church. Such a step is in the interest of efficiency and economy. It is not doubted that the General Conference at Kansas City will place itself emphatically in favor of reorganizing the printing affairs of the A. M. E. church on a strictly business basis, with a practical printer and experienced business man in charge, taking their cut from the great M. E. Church, which has long ago adopted the policy now revised and fitted to Bethel's needs by Mr. Bryant. The report of Mr. Bryant's work at Nashville shows what he can do, even under adverse circumstances, and is an earnest of the still more productive returns he can bring if his progressive methods are given a chance. The report shows that Mr. Bryant's Nashville department last year did a $42,000 business, which gives strength to his argument that if given all of the printing of the connection he will pay off the entire indebtedness of the Philadelphia Concern in a single quadrennium. Church authorities declare that the Book Concern has been laboring under a heavy debt since 1840, with the situation getting worse instead of better, and all are in a mood to try any system that promises effective relief. Mr. Bryant's success at Nashville is sufficient to convince the chiefs of the Doubting Thomases that he is the only man now in sight who can bring the salvation that the Book Concern so sorely needs. The church will not fail to grasp what everybody sees is the chance of a century. THE ADVOCATE Recorder should be a separate and distinct proposition. The duty of editor and business manager should be so definitely fixed that there can never be a repetition of the reign of disaster that hurried both H. T. Johnson and J. H. Collett to their graves. In this section, as in all others, the prime favorite for the editorial chair, honored in other days by the now Bishop Lee and Tanner, is Dr. A. L. Gaines, of Baltimore. A "SAFE AND SANE FOURTH" AT COSMOPOLITAN BAPTIST TEMPLE. July 4th will be a gala day at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple. Mass meetings will be held throughout the day, both in celebration of the 135th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and to arouse sentiment against the execution of Mrs. Mattle Lomax, sentenced to be hanged July 31. Rev. S. P. W. Drew, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple, will be in charge of the exercises. At 11 a.m. m. a parade of the Sunday schools, First Separate Battalion, District National Guard and civic societies will pass over the main streets. At 3 p.m. m. there will be addresses by Representative Caleb Powers, of Kentucky, at which all of the outstanding petitions, memorials, etc., from churches, societies, clubs, and all organizations will be reported to Dr. S. P. W. Drew, the general director of the agitation. Judge E. M. Hewlett, Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, Dr. M. W. Clair, Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, and Mrs. Julia Mason Layton will be among the speakers. At 8 p. m., a continuation of the mass meeting will be held. Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota, the idol of the republicans of the Northwest, and Senator W. E. Borah, the giant of the Far West, will speak on "The Colored Man's Rights and Opportunities in America." Others invited to speak include Dr. Booker T. Washington, Prof. W. E. B. Dubols, Prof. Kelley Miller, Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Hon. John C. Dancy, Assistant Attorney-General W. H. Lewis, Register J. C. Napier, Drs. I. N. Ross, W. H. Brooks, Aquila Sayles, Prof. Jesse Lawson and Judge Hewlett. Dr. Drrew will preside. An immense turn-out is expected. THE SAD CASE OF The mass meetings in behalf of Mrs. Mattie Lomax continue. The President will be asked to grant the unfortunate woman a respite until fall in order that the Court of Appeals may review her case, or a commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment may be requested. Lawyers are differing over the proper course to pursue. The President is said to be favorably disposed, but there is a belief that as a lawyer himself he would prefer to have the Court of Appeals pass upon the merits of the case before he is asked to take action. Mrs. Lomax shot and killed her husband last December. A trial before Justice Wright resulted in her conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence to be hanged July 31, according to the law of the District. The disinclination of the humane people of the nation's capital to allow a woman to be hanged here led to an agitation for the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment. Mitigating circumstances in the matter lead many to believe that a new trial would result in her acquittal. In any event, it is not likely that Mrs. Lomax will be hanged. PRESIDENT THIRKIELD "SCORES' AT SAN FRAN More than 7,000 persons filled the spaces Greek amphitheater of the University of California at the meeting of the International Sunday School Convention Sunday and heard addresses, the cater of which was delivered by Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of Howard University, who spoke on "The Book and the Man." At the mass meeting at night—the great meeting of the convention, held at the Collisium, Dr. Thirkield again was a speaker, his theme being "New Program for Constructive Sunday School Work Among Colored People." Dr. Thirkield's remarks were heartily applauded, and it is the consensus of opinion that his address was far and away the most practical that was presented to the convention during its entire sitting. Plans for aggressive work through the colleges in the interest of Sunday Schools were inaugurated. TOLD IN A PARAGRAPH Reciprocity will win in Congress. It will be a signal victory for Taft for tariff revision downward, in keeping with the campaign promise of 1908, and a distinct benefit to the common people—the class to which we belong. Prof. J. L. Wiley, of the Fessenden Academy, Florida, a candidate for the Haitian mission, was in the city last week, and addressed the commencement of the M Street High Schol, making an excellent impression as an authority on educational problems. "Nothing doing," however, along Haitian lines. Minister Henry W. Furniss is entitled to great credit for the clever manner in which he outwitted the "soap trust" in Haiti, preserving an open market for the American article. Dr. Furniss is roundly praised for his watchfulness of the trade interests of this country, and the im- portation of American goods of all kinds has increased many fold since his advent at Port-au-Prince. If "dollar diplomacy" is the established policy of the State Department, Minister Furniss is an ideal exemplar of the faith. Mr. Louis G. Gregory, one of the ablest members of the District Bar and an efficient attache of the Treasury Department, has returned from a ten weeks' journey through Europe and Egypt. He went to the land of the Pharaohs to study at a close range the mystic Bahai religion, and met the high priest of this occult faith in person. The interview was a highly illuminating one, and Mr. Gregory's story of his investigations entertained and instructed a large audience Monday evening at the Lincoln Temple Church. The Mu-So-Lit Club may be enlarged to 100 members. The present limit is 75, but there are so many desirable persons on the outside for whom the leaders of the Club would like to make an opening. Dr. W. T. Vernon, the newly-appointed Inspector of Indian Schools, has been assigned to an office in the Pension Building in Judicary Square. Hewell go into the field on traveling orders whenever the situation demands personal attention. Dr. R. H. Boyd, secretary of the National Baptist Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn., passed through the city Monday en route to his home. He had been attending an important meeting of the Baptists in Philadelphia. Dr. Boyd conferred with Register Napier while here, and talked interestingly to newspaper men of the coming National Baptist Convention at Pittsburgh, which, he says, will be the greatest gathering of Negro Baptists ever held in this country, and the Baptists have had some meetings in the past, too. The Doctor is looking the picture of health. Congressman Roddenbury, of Georgia, made no effort to identify the Negro who is said to have threshed him soundly one night recently for interfering with him while on a street car at a late hour. The papers, to "save the face" of the Negro-baiting Georgian, are reported to have been persuaded to so write up the episode as to give Roddenbury the better of the fight, but eye-witnesses declare that the battle was all against the little fellow, in spite of the presence of several large-sized Congressmen, including Speaker Champ Clark, Ollie James and others of like prominence. Tom Heflin, of Alabama, got into trouble with a Negro on a street car last year in a similar fashion. The new bills bearing the signature of Register J. C. Napier will soon be ready for distribution. The following have been elected as delegates to the Elks convention, to represent the Columbia Lodge, No. 85, of this city, at Boston next August; Erastus Molen, A. E. Bondy, C. D. Freeman, Dr. J. A. Porter, Richard Smoot, Harry Simms, P. D. Morris and Robert P. Rhea. A banquet in honor of Assistant Attorney-General W. H. Lewis is being projected. Collector Whitefield McKinlay is also due a banquet; and it is suggested that the two functions be combined. Dr. Davidson, the new school superintendent, has been here. He will take hold upon his return from Omaha, where he has gone to wind up his affairs there. It is not likely that any material change will be made in the officiary of the colored schools, as all are making good. Assistant Superintendent R.C. Bruce is stronger than ever in the affections of the real friends of education, and is sure to remain at the head of the colored department of the schools. Editor Oliver Randolph has declined the position tendered him by the Treasury Department. Other and more desirable provision will doubtless be made for him. A goodly delegation of business men will fo from here to the Little Rock convention of the National Negro Business League. The dates are August 16, 17 and 18. The colored leaders of the country are "lining up" for the renomination of President Taft. It is reported that there were more than forty applicants for the Haitian Mission. With the limited time at his disposal, it was impossible for the President to consider properly the claims of all of these aspirants, and he deemed it wise to postpone action. Dr. H. W. Furniss will remain at Port-au-Prince for an indefinite period. In the meantime, all applications will continue on file, unless withdrawn by the candidates or by those standing sponsor for them. The Vermont Avenue Baptist Church is still without a pastor. The Injunction against the appearance of Rev. William Willis, whose election is claimed by one fraction, is still in effect. The Borah bill, providing for the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people, will not become a law with the Bristow amendment attached, because the House will not agree to the amendment. The latter exacts that the elections shall be under the supervision of the general government. The South is opposed to the federal supervision, claiming that it will give Congress the right to force upon them Negro suffrage, or at least nullify the "grandfather clauses" that now disfranchise the colored citizens. The truth of the matter is, the Negro will not have any more power under the Bristow amendment than he has now, but, as Speaker Cannon observed the other day, it serves the purpose of "certain gentlemen" to bring forward the Negro scarecrow at times to keep themselves in office. Should the Borah Bill finally get through Congress without the Bristow amendment, it will not be able to secure the vote of three-fourths of the States, which are necessary to incorporate it into the organic law of the land. The tendency is to increase the federal power, rather than decrease it. No one ever invokes the archaic doctrine of "states' rights," except when they want to keep the Negro down. Mr. Neval H. Thomas, of the M St. High School, has gone to Europe, making his second tour of the Continent. He will enjoy an extended cruise on the Mediterranean and will visit Egypt and the Holy Land. Last year Mr. Thomas travelled all over Europe and not once did he stumble against the "color-line," so prevalent in America. In many places he was treated with exceptional courtesy, for he was a rare specimen of humanity to the natives. Mrs. Ralph W. Tyler is visiting relatives in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. John C. Dancy, president of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company, and Mr. T. J. Calloway, general manager, with the consent of the stockholders of the corporation, have made arrangements whereby the United States Trust Company will finance the institution through a bond system representing $30,000. The sale of the bonds and the steady disposal of the stock will enable the company to proceed with the eduction of the $100,000 Auditorium and office-building at 10th and U streets at an early date. 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Carney of Marshalltown. Governor John Burke of North Dakota heads the list of speakers incurred for the convention, banquet. The other speakers include, Judge Walter L. Smith, of Council Bluffs, and James C. Davis, of Des Moines. The convention will concocttomorrow with the election of officers. **Kills a Murderer.** A merciless murderer is Appendicitis with many victims, but Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing Constipation, Headache, Billousness, Chills. 286 at all durgges. 3-2-5t BACK TO HEADQUARTERS. After spending several days here and in this vicinity, President F. B. Shelton, of the Kanawha and Michigan Railway, has returned, to his headquarters in Columbus. He left here this morning on his private car, No. 25, and will likely not return to this part of the life for several months unless special business calls him back. CORPORATION ON TRIAL. Jersey, City, N. 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ONE PRICE CLOTHIER Henry Smith HATS FURNISHINGS en advantage of along all lines of business and in professional and educational directions as well. The Negro town of Boley, for instance, has just installed a $35,000.00 light and power plant, and there are many other evidences of superior progress being made by the Negroes of that state. Delegates from the Eastern and PAGE SIX. MEN'S SUITS $8.55 THIS Includes GOOD STYLES & PATTERNS WHICH SOLD FOR $12.50 AND $15.00. BUT ARE ALL ODD SIZES AND BROKEN LOTS. National Negro Business League WILL DEVOTE ONE DAY OF ITS BITTLE ROCK ARK., SESSIONS IN AUGUST TO THE LIVE NEGRO BUSINESS MEN OF OKLAHOMA. The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League will be held at Little Rock, Arkansas, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 16th, 17th and 18th, 1931. The program for the meeting is now being formulated and will soon be published. The progress being made by the Negro people of Oklahoma has induced the officers of the League to set aside the morning session, Thursday, August 17th as Oklahoma day. Opportunity will be afforded the live Negro business men of this new state to put before the country not only the opportunities that are open to enterprising people, but a statement as to how those opportunities are already being tak- For Men and Young Men. These were $20 and $22 sellers and are shown in Grey and Tan mixtures in the newest styles YS SUITS Greatly REDUCE Entire Line headed by the famous extra- d and is included in the following list of extra- reductions. 0 Suits during Sale ... $4 0 Suits during Sale ... $4 0 Suits during Sale ... $4 0 and 6.50 Suits during Sale ... $4 Soft and Straw Hats at Cost. $5.00 Mens Trousers During $3.95 Sale ... $4.00 Mens Trousers During $3.20 Sale ... $3.00 Mens Trousers During $2.35 ALS FOR THE OPENING length ... 35c SILK HOSE GRAY and ENT MEN'S SHIRTS 39 WE PRICE Very Slim FURN CAPITOL STR BOYS SUITS Greatly REDUCED Our Entire Line headed by the famous extra good brand is included in the following list of extraordinary reductions. 222 CAPITOL STREET Sebipio A. Jones, President of the State Negro Business League of Arkansas, announces that the State League and Local Negro Business League of Little Rock have their plans fully matured for the coming meeting. The Chamber of Commerce and the Board of trade, through their respective secretaries, are in active co-operation with Messrs. Jones, Bush, Booker and others. The entertainment Committee of the Chamber of Commerce has appropriated $3,000.00 for the entertainment of the League and in addition will provide for the place of meeting. The Local Negro Business League of Little Rock will also make large appropriations to cover all features of entertainment for those who are present at the coming meeting. eaily REDUCED the famous extra good following list of extraord- $ 2.35 $ 3.00 $ 3.95 ing Sale $ 4.95 at Cost. ers During $3.95 ers During $3.20 ers During $2.35 $2.00 So ing $3.00 Sp ing $3.50 St ing E OPENING DAYS SILK HOSE only in SH GRAY and BLACK... SHIRTS 39 CENTS CLOTHING Smith FURNISHING OL STREET SILK HOSE only in SHADES of GRAY and BLACK..... Western States can reach Little Rock without annoyance of any character, if they will organize Special Pulman or Tourist Car parties in accordance with the plans already announced by the National Organization and published in the various newspapers of the country. J. E. Bush, a member of the Executive Committee of the National Organization is especially anxious that large numbers of delegates from the Northern, Eastern and Western States attend the coming meeting, so as to see something of the progress being made by the Negroes of the South. WITH CLAY LUMBER After finishing the contract he had with a Blakely concern for work in the woods of North Carolina, W. B. Jack has returned to Charleston and accepted a position with the Clay Lumber Company. He will leave tomorrow for Middle Fork, on the K. & M., where he will look after the interests of that concern. He has been spending a few days here with his family and will go to his new base of operations within a few days. ANNUAL WN -E JULY 1st E END OF WINTER Charleston and its vicin- Men's and Boys' Suits, is to enable us to make andise. ARKED OUR MEN'S AND BOY'S s from 1-4 to 1-2 off on every assortments of the well known of Quality," from which to make $14.40 SUITS For Men and Young Men. Newest effects in our GUARANTEED CLOTHES OF QUALITY REDUCED from $18.00 SUITS $11.95 For men & Young Men This line of $2.00 Soft Hats During Sale $1.55 ing Sale $3.00 Special Soft Hats, Dur- $2.35 ing Sale $3.50 Stetson Soft Hat, Dur- $2.85 ing Sale AYS y in SHADES of ACK..... 25c NTS OTHIER with SHINGS SEE WINDOW DIS- PLAY ET each Little e of any all organize ist Car par- the plans al- National Or- d in the va- the country. of the Execu- National Or- 30 RETAIL AND FOUR WHOLESALE LICENSES TO SELL SPIRITOUS LIQUORS THE ADVOCATE SUITS Consists of Every fancy $15 & $16.50 garment & a few odd sizes, that sold for $18. 25c SEE WINDOW DIS- PLAY In City of Charleston Granted By Council Last Night Licenses for thirty retail and four wholesale liquor establishments which will pay the city $50,000 in license tax, were passed upon favorably at the special meeting of council last night. Of the thirty members present all but four, Messrs. Friend Cochran, O. Devinney, S. P. Richmond and E. O. Ripley, voted in the affirmative on the question. Ten members were absent. The only other matter of importance transacted was the authorization by council of the appointment ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it some where about your house—You Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you least six per cent, interest — Your Money is Working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend or six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION . O. WILSON, PRESIDENT 30. James Lovelace, building owned by A. S. Polan, 15 Sunupers street. Wholesale. 1. Home Distilling Company, by F. H. Hauke, manager, wholesale beer and liquors, under section 92 of chapter 32 of the code, in the building owned by Cotton estate, 810 Kanawha street. 2. The Geo. Weldemann Brewing Company, by Chas. E. 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