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OBSERVATIONS OF A SOCIOLOGICAL EXPERT TWENTIETH YEAR OBSERVATIO FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA. A Five Thousand Mile Tour by Kelly Miller, Howard University, Washington, D. C. I have just completed an itinerary through the middle tier of states reaching from the Atlantic ocean to the Rocky mountains. The territory covered embraces Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, making a zone two states deep, two hundred miles in latitude and two thousand to the main. It had previously been my good fortune to visit all sections of the United States north and south where colored people are found in considerable numbers and to make observations and receive impressions of the racial situation. My recent itinerary was purposely planned in order to study certain peculiarities of the critical zone of states forming the border region between the north and the south. I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the people everywhere for the hospitable reception and generous appreciation all along the line. The message which I had to deliver was everywhere received by the people gladly. Immediately upon the closing of Howard University, on the 26th of May, I entered upon this tour with several objects in view. In the first place, I had received a number of invitations to deliver commencement addresses and lectures before schools and colleges and other organizations. I was able to accept only such of these invitations as could be arranged into a smooth and regular itinerary within the region covered. My stated engagements were in Kansas City, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; Quindaro, Kan.; Lawrence, Kan.; Topeka, Kan.; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado; Des Moines, Iowa; Chicago, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Baltimore, Md. The necessary limits of this article will not permit me to give in detail my impression of the several communities visited. The reader must therefore be content with a more general view covering the entire zone. I had previously visited different cities within this section and previous observation and reflection serve to confirm and strengthen recent impressions. In the second place, my object was to call attention of the people to the significance and importance of Howard University as a national institution for the higher and professional education of colored youth. I found graduates and former pupils of Howard University in every city who were filling the higher stations as ministers of the gospel, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, lawyers, editors, school teachers and workers for the general uplift of the people. The world at large has but a faint idea of the wide-spread influence and power of this institution. It is only when one travels all over the United States that I have had the good fortune to do and meets with the men and women who stand in the high places of authority and leadership, and notes that a large proportion of the outstanding leaders of the race are products of Howard University, that he gains an adequate conception of this institution as a great national Negro university. It is the purpose of the university to focus the loyalty and enthusiasm of her three thousand graduates and fifteen thousand sometime pupils about her alma mater and to utilize their potentiality and power in developing and fostering the greater university that is to be. I held various conferences with these graduates and organized local Alumni Associations in cities where they did not already exist. I found undying loyalty and enthusiasm everywhere and the eagerness to respond to the rallying cry of "Dear Old Howard." in the third place, my object was to make general observations upon racial conditions as is my universal custom The educator is apt to look first into educational conditions and, in this regard, the zone under study furnishes a most interesting situation. In the southern tier of states, including Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, there are separate schools for the two races. In other portions of the upper tier of states the schools are partially mixed and partially separate, and still in other portions they are wholly mixed. By observing the operation of this three-fold arrangement, one has a peculiar opportunity of determining the value of Negroes of mixed and separate schools. Here, as elsewnere, the careful investigator will not be too hasty in reaching sweeping generalization. I find that the sentiment of the people is divided on this policy, the general drift of judgment being to the effect that mixed schools in communities where sentiment is such as to give the Negro the full advantage and inspiration which the school should afford, are desirable. but, wherever the Negro constitutes a considerable fraction of the whole community, public sentiment, unfortunately, is such that the colored child misses the requisite inspiration and incentive. It is a notable fact that wherever separate high schools exist, although the standards of admission are uniform and invariable, there are three or four times as many Negro boys and girls in proportion who undertake the secondary stage of education as in cases of mixed high schools. Here again rash dogmism should be avoided and a wise educational adjustment of the races must be left to a just and prudent local sentiment. Throughout this entire zone, with the possible exception of a single state, the Negro has ample educational facilities. In Kentucky and Missouri, the Negro schools are notable for their excellence. There are a number of Negro public high schools in this belt which are equipped and maintained up to the standard regulated secondary institutions. Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis and Kansas City have Negro high schools which are well known for their high standards and efficiency of work. St. Louis has under erection a colored high school whose building and equipment will cost between three and four hundred thousand dollars. This will be the largest and best equipped building for the education of Negroes to be found anywhere in the United States. In the lower states, there are several institutions for the higher education of the Negro—some supported by private philanthropy and others by the several states. Through the state of Kansas, where public schools, generally speaking, are separate in the grades but mixed in high schools, the state supports two educational institutions for Negroes—one at Quindaro and the other at Topeka. Hon. W. T. Vernon, registrar of the treasury, is president of Western University at Quindaro. This school has one of the most picturesque situations of any institution of the United States. It sits upon a knoll in the midst of a 130-acre tract overlooking the silvery stream of the beautiful Missouri river with the wooded mountain side as a background in the dim distance. Prof. William R. Carter is in charge of the school at Topeka and is pushing the Continued on last page FIVE CENTS A COPY LIBERIANS CO-OPERATE. The American Commissioners Were Hailed as Saviors of Republic. The return of the Liberian commission to the United States is awaited with almost intense interest by the great body of Afro-Americans throughout the country. According to schedule, the commissioners are expected to land in New York about July 4. The members of the commission are R. P. Falkner, E. J. Scott and George Sale. It is possible that the commission's reports may say something interesting regarding foreign aggression in the Negro republic. Messrs. Falkner, Scott and Sale spent three weeks in Monrovia considering the internal affairs of the country, and the impression was gained from statements which they made that they had not found any complications which could not be unraveled with the help and moral support of the nations having commercial interests in Liberia or whose colonies adjoin that republic. After the conclusion of the work in Monrovia the Chester, with the chairman and the secretary of the commission and Captain S. A. Cloman, the military attache at London, went to Sierra Leone to confer with the British officials on the boundary disputes and other questions at issue between Sierra Leone and Liberia, which are the most serious problems facing the latter country. The natives along the boundary complain that the government of Sierra Leone has practically taken possession of 350 square miles of their most valuable, most thickly populated and most productive territory on the northwest frontier and that it has expelled the Liberian officials from the territory just south of the connecting loops of the Sierra Leone railway. As this is the center of important trade routes the matter is of the utmost concern to Liberia, as the extension of the British railway into this strip would divert the trade to Sierra Leone from the hinterland without the payment of duties to Liberia. While the Chester was north the Birmingham, with the other Americans, went south to visit the Kroo coast and the French boundary. Regarding this boundary there do not seem to be any serious questions, and there is probably no aggression in that quarer, as Liberia has granted a concession to alternate sections of land along the frontier to Americans. The government, however, seriously complains of interference on the part of the British in an attempt to establish full authority over the natives of the Kroo coast. This interference recently took the form of refusing to allow Liberia to bombard a village of rebellious natives. Advancement of Negro Baptist. Clayton-Williams University, Founded by the Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson at Baltimore, the Most Promising School Fostered by Maryland Baptist. During the past ten years the Baptist denomination has made wonderful progress in membership and in the erection and fostering of denominational schools and colleges in various sections of the United States. Particular attention is directed at the present time to the Baptists of Maryland. At Baltimore they are quietly building up a school, unaided by any help outside of the state, which bids fair to become one of the most helpful institutions of learning which the race has to its credit in any of the states. The school in question is the Clayton-Williams university, which occupies a building at 424 St. Biddle street. This school is the outgrowth of a class started about ten years ago where Baptist ministers were given instruction in theology and church history. Realizing the need of an educated ministry, the Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson, the able and race loving pastor of Union Baptist church, Baltimore, founded the Clayton-Williams academy. A building was purchased in the eastern section of the city, where the school remained until the building was sold. It was continued in a church until the churches raised money for the purchase of the present commodious building. Two years ago the name was changed to Clayton-Williams university. The school has graduated three classes and has an enrollment of seventy-five students. Instruction is given in the collegiate and theological branches. The president of the university is the Rev. Dr. Garnett R. Waller, who is a graduate of Lincoln university and Newton Theological seminary at Newton Center, Mass. During the year he has been M. B. REV. DR. GARNETT R. WALLER. president of the school the work has received great impetus. Dr. Waller is planning to add courses in medicine and law, which will be of great advantage to the students, as Baltimore boys have to go to Washington and other THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. cities to get instruction in these branches. The school owes its present standing to the unaided efforts of Maryland's colored Baptists, and its broadening will surely come by their own efforts, as both Baptist conventions at their recent annual sessions voted to raise more money next year for the university. In speaking of the school Dr. Waller said a few days ago: "The university, which is named for two of the pioneers in our denomination in Maryland, will aim to give the highest and best training to our youth. We stand for the broadest training for our young men, believing that it will enable them to climb the ladder of higher intellectual usefulness." Eastern District Grand Tents. The most important event in the secret society life among Afro-Americans of Brooklyn, N. Y., was the annual convention of the most worthy Eastern District grand tent, No. 3, the Order of J. R. Giddings and Joliffe union, which was held for three days in the Bridge Street A. M. E. church a few days ago. The presiding officer was Mrs. Louisa Marshall of New York. The Eastern District grand tent is composed of forty-five different orders and includes in its territory New York, New Jersey and the New England states. There were about 150 delegates and high officers in attendance. The order is a sick and death benefit society composed entirely of women and has existed about forty years. The sessions were largely attended, and the various reports showed that the order was in a healthy condition in both membership and finance. A reception was tendered the delegates and visitors at Sumner hall at the close of the three days' meetings. Respect For Negro Genius. Tennessee has put the ban on Negro Elks. We never expected anything else. Our people will learn sense yet. White men organized the Elks, and if they object what right have Negroes to attempt to butt in? We have more respect for that ignorant Negro who goes out and organizes an order and selects every letter in the alphabet to make up the initials of its name than we have for that wise Negro who attempts to get into the white man's order by fraud and deception. We have never heard of the Mosaics, Friendships or Knights of Tabor having to enjoin white men from using their name or works. The white people know that the Negroes do not want them in these orders, and they are not making themselves obnoxious by trying to steal them.—Mosaic Guide. Elks Seeking Reconciliation. At the annual election of officers of Brooklyn lodge, No. 32, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, held at Sumner hall, Brooklyn, N. Y., recently, Benjamin Williams, a prominent Republican politician, was re-elected exalted ruler. All of the old officers were re-elected except those who held the positions of lecturing knight and loyal knight. Six delegates were elected to attend the grand lodge convention, which will convene at Detroit, Mich., in August. A conference of the exalted rulers of the east was held in New York a few days ago to arrange for the convention at Detroit. The perfecting of a basis union which will bring the two factions together will be one of the most important propositions that will come before the convention. One faction is led by Grand Exalted Ruler Howard, the other by the principal lodges of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Notes about the Religious Life of the City MINISTERS' UNION NOTES. The Ministers' union met at Central Baptist church at the usual hour Tuesday. Rev. Reynolds, the president, called the meeting to order. The Rev. Wallace led the devotions. The Rev. E. Roy will be in Florence and Portland, Colo., next Sunday and the following. He reports much progress in his new field of labor. The Alliance passed resolutions of condolence on the untimely death of Mrs. J. A. Thomas-Hazzell. They fully sympathize with the greatly bereaved husband, who had only been married for a short time. Bishop A. Grant has consented to be the guest of the ministers July 26. The secretary wrote the bishop that the union would be delighted to have him with them during his visit to this city. The Rev. J. B. Beckham will read a paper before the union next Tuesday and this will finish the work for this half of the year. The program committee will have out another one. The reports showed that there were good services at all of the churches with the exception of one, which was not represented. The Ward Mission held its quarterly conference at Shorter last Sunday afternoon. The attendance was good in spite of the many other meetings that were held simultaneously. The Rev. Owens reports the work in good condition. The union will hold its meetings during the month of July at Scott's church. This rule of rotation was put in operation about a month ago and it is working fine. The meetings for the month of August will be held at the Campbell A. M. E. church. The Rev. A. M. Ward, secretary of the union, is expected to arrive from his vacation trip sometime this week. He has been much missed by the union. A lively discussion followed some of the reports of sermons preached last Sunday. These discussions are always helpful. Denominational questions are delicately handled and only helpful questions touching the whole race are discussed pointedly. The Rev. Beckham has been serving very acceptably as secretary of the union since the Rev. Ward left on his vacation trip. His minutes are always full and tells clearly what took place in the last meeting. SCOTT'S CHAPEL NOTES. Mrs. A. C. Peck, who is at the head of the Peck's Training School for Girls of this city, was a welcome visitor to the Ladies' Aid Society last Thursday. Mrs. Peck delivered a splendid lecture to the society and organized a Womans Home Missionary Society, with Mrs. Anna McPherson, president; Mrs. Edna Collier, vicepresident; Mrs. Mary Evans, secre PAGE. 10. tary; Mrs. E. Burrell, treasurer. This new society starts off with a splendid corps of officers and great things are predicted as a result of this wise selection of leaders. The True Reformers came out in a body last Sunday evening and swelled Scott's attendance and collection. Chief Cash certainly knows how to handle his followers. This organization is one of the strongest in this city, and in fact in the United States. The pastor preached on "Unity" to the delight of all. The Rev. Wallace attended the funeral last Sunday afternoon of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jet, 3929 Walnut street. The Old Folks' Concert will be given July 6th. It promises to be one of the funniest ever given in Denver. Don't fail to see these young old folks act young and sing songs over fifty years old. Mrs. Wilma Stafford is proving herself quite an adept in getting up novel entertainments. This effort is for the benefit of the Piano Fund. Mrs. Dora E. Wallace has been invited to speak before Mrs. Peck Training School on the "Sunny South Southland" July 12th. Mrs. Wallace knows about the characteristics of our people in the South, as she dwelt in what is known as the Black Be and attended Payne University, Selma, Ala., and Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., where our boys and girls attended in large numbers. The first $15.00 of the $800.00 has been subscribed by Bishop Henry M. Warren of University Park. This is not the first time that the good bishop has helped this church. At one time he was the cause of $500.00 being given to this work. He expressed himself as being proud of the work being done by the members at this time. There will be a sacred concert Sunday evening given by the Epworth League. Mr. J. D. Rice is doing things in this organization. This will be the first effort of this kind and it promises to be very good. Come out and spend an evening with the Epworthians. The Ladies' Aid Society paid off some long standing debts on the church and paid one month's payment on the parsonage furniture. They kept quite a sum in their treasury for future emergencies. Mrs. Mary G. Clinkscale is making a record as an economic president. The ladies are actively preparing for another fair to be given in the fall. The trustees are highly elated over their successful Sunday. They were given the amount they asked the members and friends of Scott's to give. Mr. Willis Evans is chairman of the board of trustees and is making a good one. Beginning with the first Sunday in August, Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be given every first Sunday in the month. PAGE.12 The official report of the Federation will appear next week The father of Dr. Eli Boswell, who is practicing medicine in Little Rock, Ark., visited Denver and then returned to Boulder. A. W. Lewis of Boulder University of Law was down smiling at his old time friends and acquaintances. The Majestic theater has as headliners of this week six of Williams and Walker's "chocolate drops," while the Tulieries has a colored minstrel of Denver boys who are making good, so the press reports run. They will be there two weeks longer. Mr. Ernest Howard, the carpenter, has made a decidedly pretty improvement upon his residence on West Warren street, while Mrs. Mary Tilden is doing some beautifying of her place on Raleigh street this week. Miss Pennie Simmons will spend two months visiting in the mountains. The president, Capt. Thomas Campbell, called a meeting of the Howard Graduates and ex-Student society at Mrs. Mabel Falling's, to take an active part in the "bouquet 'rousements." There were two people in the wrecks which happened on the D. & R. G. and Midland railroads Sunday. Mr. Frank Merryweather got pretty severely injured while Lawyer Ross, returning on the Midland Sunday night from Colorado Springs, got badly shook up and scared. The True Reformers made a splendid showing at Scott M. E. church and Chief Cash ought to feel proud of his loyal band. The ladies of the Sunshine club are attempting to raise enough money to employ a colored lawyer to defend that little girl accused of murder in the West Side criminal court. The white ladies of the city did the same thing when the Ferino girl-wife killed her brutal husband. The women should be encouraged. Mrs. Dora Payne, who left for St. Louis, Mo., for an indefinite stay, returned Sunday night, accompanied by her husband. They report a very enjoyable visit among old friends and acquaintances. ZION NOTES. At the morning service the pastor preached from the text "Take My Yoke Upon You and Learn of Me." The discourse was greatly enjoyed. Notwithstanding the excessive heat a large number of citizens heard the annual sermon preached to the Masons. The lodge presented a fine appearance and is evidently one of the largest in the West. The superintendent and teachers are planning a Sunday school picnic which will be given toward the last of the month. The B. Y. P. U. has outlined special work for the summer which will include a number of socials. Six new members were added to the roll last Sunday. This makes a total of thirty-six for the past three months, a number of whom united by baptism. We were favored last Sunday with the presence of a number of vistors, --- THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. among whom were the following: Mrs. Mary E. Harding, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Chas. Penny, Marshall, Texas, Mr. and Mrs .Washington, Misses Rosa and Juanita Bowers, Pueblo, Miss Mattie Aldrich, Pueblo, Mrs. Owen Epperson, Mrs. C. Martin, Mr. Allen Mallory, Mr. W. M. Hopper, Eastonville, Mrs. Chas. Greenway, Pueblo, Mr. Fox, Colorado Springs. There were also a number of others whose names were not secured, all of whom are welcome. THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Rev. J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. B., in pursuance of accepting the call as pastor to the People's Presbyterian church, this city, was regularly dismissed from Catawba Presbytery, Charlotte, N. C. He was married on the 21st inst. to Miss Lavinia North of that city by the Revs. W. O. Carrington and S. A. Downer. The bride and groom arrived here on the 24th. On Sunday morning the pastor preached his introductory discourse from the theme, "The Man of the Hour," at 8 p. m. His subect was "A New Song." Both were gratifyingly received. His young wife of 21 summers in a most inexplicable manner committed suicide last Monday evening. The speculative cause being one of instantaneous melancholy. From our impression of the bride and groom they both appeared happy and contented. The rash act was committed during the absence of the husband. We regret the incident and express our heartfelt sympathy to the widower. Believing in the Providence of God the work shall continue under the administration of the reverend gentleman, and as a consequence we solicit the prayers and presence of all our members, friends and well-wishers. COLORADO SPRINGS Mrs. Counsellor of Omaha, Neb., died Sunday morning at the residence of Mrs. Rice. She came here health seeking some few weeks ago. She was a devout Christian and a loveable mother. She leaves two daughters and a husband to mourn her loss. The remains were shipped to Omaha. Mrs. Grant, mother of Dr. R. S. Grant, is quite ill at this writing. Gurney Thomas of Denver spent a few days in Colorado Springs this week. Mrs. Ballantine, a teacher at Western Tuskegee, left for Denver Monday. While here she was a guest at the Pennington cottage. Mrs. Ella Bell, sister of Mr. J. C. Whittaker, arrived from Millican, Texas, last week to spend the summer here. The One-Minute Tailor shop is a new establishment, operated by Bradford Turner, a nineteen-year-old boy of Montgomery, Ala. Mr. Turner has spent some time in the tailoring department of Tuskegee Institute and deserves the patronage and encouragement of the public. Mr. Turned will attend Quindaro University this fall. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jackson are expected in the city the 17th. They will be guests at the Pennington. Mrs. Vina B. Ross and her mother, Cassie Elliot, together with her two grand children, left Sunday night at Colorado Springs for San Bernardino, Cal., where her daughter, Mrs. Ella Logan and sister are located. Mrs. Ross is the mother of Prof. Albert Ross of Western University, and Lawyer Geo. G. Ross of Denver. They will remain about two years. Grand Excursion TO DOME ROCK TO BE GIVEN BY THE RAGTIME MUSICAL CLUB Good Gents, Good Ladies, Good Time, Good Bunch, Good Fishing, Good Dancing, Good Music. The Morning Sports will consist of Fat Man's Race, 200 lbs. or over. Boys' Race, with the girls dont tease. Lean Man's Race, 80 lbs. or less. Woman's Race at any old weight. Girl's Race, as you please. 00 lbs. or over. Boys' Race, with the 80 lbs. or less. Woman's Race at an Girl's Race, as you please. Fat Man's Race, 200 lbs. or over. Boys' Race, with the girls dont tease. Lean Man's Race, 80 lbs. or less. Woman's Race at any old weight. Girl's Race, as you please. RAGTIME PIANO CONTEST. There will be professors of the b mountains with lessors of the blacks above the whites w mountains with the richest of rag-time n There will be professors of the blacks above the whites who will paint the mountains with the richest of rag-time music. William Burns, Denver. Alfred Davis, St. Paul. C. O. Andrews, St. Louis. Roy (Butch) Pipens, Kansas City. Joe Readman, St. Joe. Ed. Turner, Salt Lake City. Geo. (Spike) Morris, New York. Paul Ross, Colorado Springs, and Ollie Banks, Kansas City. "China," Frisco Kid, just arrived. First Prize, Pair of $7.00 Trousers. Second Price, a $5 Hat. Buc and Wing Dancing Contest—Prize, $5 Stetson Hat. George Ray, Sam McDaniels, James Brown, China Kid, Dewey Haydin e, Pair of $7.00 Trousers. Second Price. Wing Dancing Contest—Prize, $5 Stetson McDaniels, James Brown, China Kid, First Prize, Pair of $7.00 Trousers. Second Price, a $5 Hat. Buc and Wing Dancing Contest—Prize, $5 Stetson Hat. George Ray, Sam McDaniels, James Brown, China Kid, Dewey Haydin REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED. Train leaves Denver at 8:30 a.m. Adults, $1.00 The Great Western Orchestra w Thursda ver at 8:30 a. m. sharp, returns at 7 p. Adults, $1.00; Children, 50 Cents. Orchestra will furnish the Music. rsday, Jul Train leaves Denver at 8:30 a. m. sharp, returns at 7 p. m. sharp.. Fare Adults, $1.00; Children, 50 Cents. The Great Western Orchestra will furnish the Music. Thursday, July 8 MASONS BASKE BLOOMI SKET DIC BASKET PICNIC Admission 25 Cents The Masons are on their Arapahoe s the proceeds of this p The Masons are trying to pay off the mortgage on their Arapahoe street corner July 22, 1909, and the proceeds of this picnic are for this purpose. The Big Doings of the Summer Season Boys' Race, with the girls dont te Woman's Race at any old weight. as you please. NO CONTEST. above the whites who will paint richest of rag-time music. Alfred Davis, St. Paul. Roy (Butch) Pipens, Kansas City. Ed. Turner, Salt Lake City. Paul Ross, Colorado Springs, and "China," Frisco Kid, just arrived. users. Second Price, a $5 Hat. est—Prize, $5 Stetson Hat. Brown, China Kid, Dewey Hay arp, returns at 7 p. m. sharp.. Fa children, 50 Cents. nish the Music. y, July 8 PICNIC AT ELD PARK ving to pay off the mortgage set corner July 22, 1909, afic are for this purpose. Car Fare 5 Cents CHEYENNE NOTES Denver, where they will make their future home. Many beautiful presents of silverware, cut glass, hand painted china and table linen were received by the bride. About 75 guests witnessed the wedding ceremony. Miss Hopkins was the youngest talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo Hopgins, having graduated here in 1907, she was one of the beautiful maidens in this city and had a host of friends. Mr. Gilmore is a prominent undertaker of Denver, and he has a nost of friends who gives him hearty congratulations. To Denver we say: Your gain and our lose. The Federation of Women's Clubs of Colorado and Jurisdiction convened here two days, the 23rd and 24th of June. About 56 delegates were present from different sections in Colorado. The meetings were held in Carnegie library and were very enjoyable. Many prominent people of the city visited these meetings. The governor of Wyoming, Mrs. E. Mason Smith, the oldest club worker in Wyoming, and president of the Women's club here; Mrs. Chane, Mrs. Orhenshay and many other society women of Cheyenne. The press of Cheyenne gave their most prominent space to an account of these meetings. The meals were served at the A. M. E. church and lodging in the different homes of the colored citizens. Friday they were given a sight-seeing ride in automobiles out to Fort Russell and in the vicinity of Cheyenne. The visitors were favorably impressed with Cheyenne, and we give them a cordial welcome to visit Cheyenne again. Many of the delegates remained in the city until Monday as the guests of the different citizens. Those who remained were Mrs. Gibson, visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jefferson; Mrs. Mackay, Mrs. Wm. Ashford, Mrs. Embry, Colorado Springs; Mrs. E. F. Landor, Mrs. Watson, La Junta; Mrs. Wm. Ashford and Mrs. H. H. Jones, Mrs. Young, Pueblo. Mrs. Wm. Ashford and Mrs. H. H. Jones, Mrs. Young and Mrs. Watson gave interesting talks to the church. Sunday school and Endeavor Sunday. On Saturday last the greatest known among our people happened. T. U. Ashford, the soloist, was shot down in cold blood by Allen, a tamale peddler, over the quarrel of a dog which belonged to Allen. The funeral services were held on Monday by the Masons, to which he belonged. He leaves a widow, a daughter, Eunice, 14; Tilford, 10, and Gerald, 11 months, to mourn his loss. We all give the bereaved widow and children our deepest sympathy and our wishes to Mrs. Froman of Denver, who sent her sympathies to the wife of Wm. Ashford and Mrs. T. Ashford. Mr. Robert Taylor of York, Neb., is visiting his college chum, N. R. Smith, for the summer. Mr. W. E. Thistle entertained a few of his friends at his home last evening. A very musical evening was enjoyed and a luncheon served. Those presest were Mrs. O. Dishuman, Miss Ida Cox of Denver, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Redd and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Baker, Mrs. J. Smith, Miss L. Hopkins, Mrs. Hugh Hopkins and C. Tolson. Miss Lena Hopkins, teacher in the Sedalia high school, is home after a THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. successful term for the summer. MANITOU NEWS NOTES. Mrs. Della Dabbs has returned to Denver after a week's vacation and she expects to spend the summer in Portland. Mr. Wm. W. Chambers of Chicago, after spending a week's vacation from a year's hard labor as clerk in the postoffice of Chicago, has returned well pleased with the Rockies and will bring his friends out on another vacation. This is an ideal place for a rest. Mrs. S. J. Knowles and Miss Melvina Euper from Denver are here for the summer. Mr. John S. Elam, also Mr. James W. Wailton of Guthrie, Okla., are here for the season and expect to work at the Cliff House. Mr. A. H. Waddy of Cripple Creek spent Sunday in Manitou, guest of his sister, Mrs. L. Westen. Mrs. William Neal of Pueblo visited her husband, who has been here for some time, last Sunday. Mr. Abernathy and brother, who have been in Rocky Ford for two weeks, have returned. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of St. Louis are here and expect to work at the Mansion hotel. Miss Juanita Loyd had a very interesting thirteenth birthday party June 22. The color scheme was blue. The table was decorated with flowers of different kinds and in the afternoon dainty refreshments were served. A number of young misses were present. They departed wishing her many returns. DENVER LOCALS The Waldorf club is a new venture in the pleasure serving line in this city. It is a corporation in keeping with the laws of the state with "Sweet [Name] Breeze," better known as Little Robbie Maxwell from Tennessee as president; Tom Brown, secretary; C. E. Matthews, treasurer; Howard Collins, mixologist. Its advertisement will be found steadily in these columns. The Pastime club and the Calumet club met on the ball grounds at Twenty-third and Welton streets Sunday and the latter won by a score of 11 to 8. The Alabama Blossoms are playing an engagement at the Tulleries. They are expecting to tour this section. Sir:—Please send my grip, which was left at your rooming house, to Idaho Springs and it will be taken out the same day. Send C. O. D. JOHN MORRIS, Little Rich Mine. Q. J. GI Undertaker a Carriages Furnishe Open Day and Night Denver's Leadi Automobile Q. J. GILMORE Undertaker and Embalmer Carriages Furnished for all Occasions Open Day and Night 1921 Arapahoe St Denver's Leading Undertaker Automobile for Hire J. H. GANNAWAY Phone Main 776 THE WILLIAMSON HAFFNER CO. ENGRAVERS OUR PRINTERS CUTS TALK DENVER, COLO. MISS BEATRICE LEWIS 1219 W. EIGHTH AVE. Has completed a course in Professor De La Morton's School of Scientific Dress Making, having received a Diploma and is prepared to do Ladies Tailoring & Gowns Square and Tape Line Methods Reasonable Prices C. F. GRANT CARPENTER Furniture Repairing. Mission Work to Order. Job Work a Specialty 2852 Welton St., Denver, Colo. TROUTMAN & SONS Carpenters and Builders General Jobbing Promptly Attended To Business Address 3131 HUMBOLDT STREET. Phone Main 3725. Phone Olive 2619 Licensed Embalmer No. 234. LMORE nd Embalmer d for all Occasions 1921 Arapahoe St g Undertaker e for Hire --- CALUMET CLUB 2149 Curtis Street Headquarters for Porters Waiters, and Railroad Men. Phone Main 8232 Ed Hamilton and Chas. L. Foster, Proprietors. --- Established More than a Quarter of a Century. Phone Main 8252 The Original "No Name' Clothing House Buy and Sell Good Clothing. Full Dress Suits For Rent. 417 Fifteenth Street. The Old Reliable J. N. B. Anderson COAL AND KINDLING ALL KINDS, ALL QUANTITIES 2100 Arapahoe St., Denver, Colo. ERNEST HOWARD. Carpentry and Job Work Job Work a Specialty. 1021 Twenty-First Street Phone Main 3230 Residence 353 W. Warren Ave. Phone Brown 3122 PAGE. 18. PAGE.14 Officers of Lodges ```markdown ``` M. W. GRAND LODGE, A. F. & A. M. For Colorado and jurisdiction, meets Colorado Springs, Colo., in Aug., 1909 B. C. TUMLIN, G. M. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, Grand Secretary, P. O. Box 1545, Denver, Colorado. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LODGE NO. 1 A. F. & A. M. Meets the first and third Monday nights in the month at 1712 Curtis St C. A. FRANKLIN, W. M. WM. SPRAGUE, Secretary, P. O. Box 1545. CENTENNIAL LODGE NO. 4, A. F. & A. M. Meets the second and fourth Monday nights in the month at 1712 Curtis Street. All Masons in good standing are invited to attend. HARRY JONES W. M. ERNEST HOWARD, Secretary. 353 West Warren street. EUREKA LODGE NO. 13, Mibuquerque, N. M., meets first and third Tuesdays in the month. All are sons in good standing invited. H. BRAMLETT, W. M. --- HIMPSON REST LODGE. Himpson Rest Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., Trinidad, meets the first and third Tuesday nights in the month. Members in good standing are wel- come J. W. BOOKER, W. M. W. A. JORDAN, Sec., 117 N. Walnut. PINION ME8A LODGE No 20, A. F. & A. M., Grand Junction, meets the first and third Wednesdays in the month. J. M. HARRIS, W. M. T. P. LANGDON, Sec., 139 Chipeta. THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. FRATERNITIES KEYSTONE LODGE. Keystone Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Hama, Wyo., meets the first and third Tuesdays in the month. All members in good standing are invited. HOG X SIGNO INVICTUS VINGES HIRAM COMMANDERY NO. 20. A. F. & A. M. Hiram Commandery Knights Templar meets the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. B. HILL, E. C. T. W. RICHMOND, Recorder, 2350 Curtis St. FAR WEST CHAPTER NO. 6, R. A. M., Meets the second Wednesday. W. H. FINLEY, H. P. WL. SPRAGUE, Secretary, P. O. Box 1545. Lone Star Chapter No.15, O. E. S., meets the first and third Friday in each month at 2:30 p. m., at 1712 Curtis street. MRS. JOSEPHINE HALL, R. M. SADIE GWYN. Secretary. ARAPAHOE LODGE NO. 1934. Meets the first and third Monday nights in the month at Odd Fellows Hall, 1832 Arapahoe Street. GEO. D. HALL, P. S., P. O. box 895. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LODGE NO. 2320, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets every Thursday in the month at 1712 Curtis Street. GEO. S. CONTEE, P. S., 2612 Welton Street. --- Nights of Meeting DENVER PATRIARCHY, NO. 67. month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 Arapahoe street. C. A. BURTON, W. P. R. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 367. G. U. O. of O. F. Meets the first and third Tuesdays in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 Arapahoe street. Mrs Clarence Holmes 2139 Curtis St Worthy Recorder. PAST GRAND MASTERS' COUNCIL NO. 118, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets the second Friday in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 Arapahoe street. WALTER SCOTT, G. S. Western Star Lodge No. 128, U. B. of F., meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. H. B. BROWN, W. M. R. GRIGSBY, Sec. JOSHUA LODGE NO. 2, U. B. F. Colorado Springs. Meets every first and fourth Monday evening at 105 South Tejon street. E. V. CAMMEL, W. M. J. M'KINNIE, W. Sec. CAPTOLIA TEMPLE NO. 183, S. M. T. nesdays in each month at 1832 Arapahoe Street. Members in good standing are invited to attend. ARULA COLE, W. Secy. HATTIE KING, W. P. Webster Temple No. 5, S. M. T., meets the second and fourth Wednes- afternoon in each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. Mrs. E. A. Carter, W. P., Mrs. Callie V. Campbell, Sec. PHYTHIAS LODGE NO. 11. Meets the first and third Wednes- day nights, 1832 Arapahoe Street. Geo. W. Davis, C. C., 1348 S. 12th st. J. M. Martenia, K. of R. and S., 1223 19th st. DAMON LODGE NO. 5. K. of P. meets at 1713 Curtis street the first and third Friday of each month. C. S. MUSE. Chancellor Commander. W. A. Rice, K. of R. & S.; AFTNA CAMP NO. —, U. R. K. OF P Meets at 1712 Curtis street the second and fourth Friday nights in the month G. B. PASH, Captain. A. J. LYLES, Recorder. --- EURENA COMPANY NO. 4. Meets the first and fourth Tuesdays. R. BUTLER Captain F. L. VOOREE, Recorder. 1228 19th Street. COLUMBINE COURT NO. 279. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings at 1712 Curtis Street. All visiting members are invited to attend. LIZZIE WILLIAMS, W. C. ELIZA BETH SCOTT, R. D. Rocky Mountain Court No. 3, I. O. O. C., meets the second and fourth Friday afternoons at 1712 Curtis street. All visiting members are cordially welcomed. MRS. A. S. HAMILTON, W. C. MRS CASEY, Secretary. ROYAL TEMPLE NO. 23, I. B. P. O. E. of W. meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at 1712 Curtis street. MRS. JESSIE TAYLOR, D.R. MRS. NETTIE M. KELLY, See'y, 2222 Arapahoe Street. GAINES TEMPLE, No.4, B. M. T. Of Trinidad, meets the first and third Monday afternoons at 8 o'clock at Marble hall, 111 First street. A. B. SUTTON, W. P. M. B. WILSON, Sec. RICE LODGE NO. 89. I. B. O. E. of W. meets first and third Wednesday night in each month at 1712 Curtis street. All visiting Ely are welcome. DR. J. A. HARPER. Exalted Ruler. HARVEY KING, Secretary. TABERNACLE NO. 529. Tabernacle No. 529 meet the first and third Thursday in the monta at 1712 Curtis street. All members in good standing are invited. LAUREL CARSON, H. P. NANNIE WELLS. Recorder. TRUE REFORMER. True Reformers No. 1621 Colorado Enterprise Fountain, meet first and third Monday at 1832 Arapahoe street. C. M. Hughes Master. Mrs. M. R Riley, Secretary, Cooper building. C. H. CLARK, Master. C. M. HUGHES, Secretary. LAUGHTERS OF TABERNACLE. Pride of Denver No. 521 meets at 1712 Curtis every first and third Thursday. SARAH THREET, H. P., ESTELLA J. JONES, C. R. GOLDEN GATE JUVENILE. Meets the second and fourth Saturday afternoon at 2:30, at 1832 Arapahoe St. All members in good standing are invited. OGLESVILLE LAWSON, Y. S. WILLA MAY, M. P. 1363 Hazel Court QUEEN OF THE WEST NO.1. Queen of the West Temple No. 1 holds regular monthly meeting first and third Thursdays in each month. M. E. RILEY, W. P. ELLA McKINZIE, W. Secretary. VICTORIA TEMPLE, NO. 6, 8. M. T. of Colorado Springs, meets the sec ond and fourth Friday night in the month. MRS. JENNIE HENDERSON, W. Princess. MRS. COLLINS, j Secretary. Bilver Star Counell No. 70, Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, meets the second and fourth Monday in the month at 1712 Curtis street. ALICE JONES, Queen. Kai LEVELL, Sec. BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 2716 Larimer Street. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m The public ts cordially invited. REV. A. E. REYNOLDS, 2828 California Street. St. Benedict's colored Roman Cath- olic Mission Society would be pleased to meet all colored Catholic strangers to the city and also all colored Cath- olics In the city not connected with the society. For Information address R. W. Washington, 261 Detroit street, phone White 3272. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday Services. On every first Sunday in the month Covenaut meeting at 11 a. m. At 7:30 p. m. preaching and communion service. On each of the other Sun- days preaching at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m., Mr. Chas. nose, superintendent. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m., Mr. Coleman, president. Junior Lights at 5:30 p. m., Mrs. Kelly, pres ident. 7:30, preaching. Mid-week Services.—Deacon board meets Tuesday before the first sun- day of each month at 7:30 p. m., John Little, chairman. Deaconess board meets Monday before the first Sun day of each month, Trustee board meets on Monday before the first Sun day of each month at 7:30 p.m. The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission- ary Circle meets the second and fourth Fridays at 3 p. m., Mrs. Jacobs president. Sunday school teachers’ meeting every Thursday at 7:30 yp. in. REV. J. B. BECKHAM, Pastor, 2414 California Street CHURCH DIRECTORY. Scott's Methodist Episcopal Church, 803 E. 26th Ave. Sunday Services. ee ne 11 a. m.—Preaching. 12:30 p. m.—Sunday School. J. D. RICE, Superintendent. 6:30—Epworth League. 7:30 p. m.—Preaching. Mid-Week Services. Official Board, first Monday in each month. Wednesday evening, prayer anu class meeting. Thursday, Ladies’ Aid Society. Friday evenings, choir practice Miss Lelia Rice organist. Strangers are especially welcome. JAMES N. WALLACE, B. D. D. D., Pastor. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. PAGE. 1s. SHORTER CHAPEL AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH. AND UPWARD Anyoie may have a Piano delivered at their home for $2.00 per week payments. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO. Ground Floor Charles Building Corner Twenty-third and Washing- ton streets. Sunday and mid-week meetings, trom October, 1908, to April, 1909. ‘ Sunday Services. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m Mrs. Effie Waldron, superintendent. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. m. Monthly communion the first Sunday at 12 m. Classes one and six meet at 12:45 p. m. Allen C. E. League at 6:30 p. m. Miss Gertrude Nichols, president. A sacr deconcert the first Sunday evening of each month under the di- rection of the League at 7 p. m. Ser- mon omitted. Mid-Week Meetings. The trustees meet the first Tues day at 8 p. m. Official board meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. Eureka Literary Society cvery Tuesday night at 8 p. m. Raymond Clark, president. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at § p, m. The Sewing Circle meets the first and third Thursday afternoons at 2:30. Mrs. Ella Leniza, president. The W. M. M. S. meets the sec- ond and fourth Thursday afternvuns at 2:30. Mrs. E. N. Ward, president. The Stewardess’ board meets the first and third Friday afternoon at 2:30, Mrs. Unity Hall, president. Teachers meet every Friday at 7:00 p. m. Class meeting every Friday at 3:00 Dp. m. A cordial welcome {s extended to all who enter our doors. A. MILTON WARD, Pastor. Residence 119 23rd St. (gap Tne STATESHAN Firstclass Job Printing ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. to write for our big FREE BICYCLE catalogue showing the most Bos line of hi; oe A BICYCLES, TIRES and SUNDRIES at PRICES fl 4 BELOW any other manu/acturer or dealer in the world. P fi , DO NOT BUY A BICYCLE =." or on any hind of terms, until you have receiver! our complete Free Gata? loguos illustrating and describing every kind of high-grade and low-grade bicycles. old patterns and latest models, and learn of our remarkable LOW ‘ae PRICES and wonderful new offers made possible by selling from factory io direct to sider with no middlemen's profits. ae | WE SHIP OR APPROVAL withour a cent deposit, Pay the Freight and Bi allow 10 Days Frce Trial and make other liberal terms which no other house in the world will do. You will learn everything and get much value able information by simply writing us a postal. N We need a Rider Agent in every town and can offer an opportunity \ to make money to suitable young men who apply at once. {8.50 PUNCTURE- only VUe 80 Ropelc? Price § sea $4: $3.00 rer pair, 5 Ger ea PER FAIR ‘o «Int -od&ce ———— fee et ee We Will Sell § Bais 10s (nua 7 Sho You a jample OR GLASS Bitese eeeee ft tt ent A ; WONT LET ham | <S y Pale fcr Galy OUT THE AIR eee ier Sk la ~ (CA! H WITH ORDER $4.55) Be go | Rae By) WO MORE ‘ROUBLE FROM PUACTURES. Qian: Ree 4 Result ¢! 15 years e: perience in tire | A making. Yo danger from THORNS, CAC- | @ TUS, PINS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS, (J Scitcs the thick mbber tread Serious pu ictures, like intentional knife cuts, can. BD and “D,” also rim strip, “H” be vulcani ed like any other tire. ‘ to > prevent rim moeee be Two Hun red Thousand pairs now in actual use. Over make_SOFT. E! ~~ . ELASTIC and | Seventy-five Thousand pairs sold last year. EASY RIDING. DESORI 'TIOMs Macc in all sizes. ft is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a speci J quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allc ring the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that theirtir :s have only been pumped uponce or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an onlinary tire, the puncture ot qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fa) ricon the tread. That “Holding Back” sensation Commonly felt when riding on asphalt Or soft road i is overcome by the patent “Basket Weave” tread which prevents all air from being squeezed ou between the tire an the road thus overcoming all suction. The regular price of these tires is $8.co per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making 2 special factory price to the rider | of only $4.& per pair, All orders shipped same day letter is . We ship © ©.D. on approval, You do not ay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as \ypresented. ‘We willal owa cash discount of S percent (thereby making the price $4. SS per pair) if you send FULL CA’ & WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated bras hand pump and two Sampson mctal puncture closers on full paid orders (these meta} puncture cl sers to be used in case of intentional knife cuts or heavy gashes), Tires to be retur ied, at OUR ex ense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination, We are px ‘fectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. Ask your Postmaster, "Banker, Ex iress or Freight Agent or the Editor of this pops about us. If you order a pair of | these tires, ou will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look | finer than a .y tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when ou want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a small tri) | order at onc s hence this remarkable tire offer. Beans -up-wheels, saddles, pedals, al irs, +e COAS: ER-BRAKES, everyintog in tie bicycle line are sold by us at half the ns © } prices chan ed by dealers and repair men. Write for our big SUNDRY Satalopue, but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYIN‘. a DO MOT WAIT vicyic or a pair’of tires from anyone until you know the new-and wonderfuly ffers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW.’ “MEAR CYCLE COMPANY, Dept. “JL” SHINAGO, ILL. 5 8 20th and Arapahoe Sts. Services from May 1st to October ist. Sunday Services. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. J. W. Jackson, Supt. - Preaching at 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6:45 p. m. A. C. Jackson, Pres. Communion at the evening service the first Sunday in each month. Mid-Week Meetings. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m. Teachers’ meeting, Thursday, 8:00 p. m. Sewing Circle, Friday afternoon, 2:30 p. m. Mrs. John R. Jackson, President. Mission Circle, second and fourth afternoons, 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Lillie L. Smith, President. Doreas Society. Mrs Willis, Presi. dent. Deacon and Trustee Boards aeet Tuesday before first Sunday at 8:00 p. m. REV. D. E. OVER, Pastor. 2957 Glenarm Place S. D, A. MISSION 2806 California Street. SERVICES. Sabbath school, 10 a. m.; preaching, 11:15 a. m.; bible study, 2:30 p. m. Thepublic is cordially invited to at- tend these meetings. ELDER T. H. BRANCH, Pastor. The People’s Presbyterian church, Twenty-third and Washington avenue. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; Young People’s Christian Endeavor, 6:30 to 7:30 p. m.; regu- lar evening services, 8 o'clock. Prayer meeting every Friday evening. LADIES’ TAILORING. | Fashionable dressmaking, designing. Mrs. I. M. McGuire, 2516 Curtis st. PAGE. 16 Continued from page one work forward with energy and vim that portend great things in the future. In those states and parts of states where the schools are mixed, the Negro child has opened to him all of the educational facilities provided for the more favored class. Throughout this entire region, the educational situation is a marked contrast with that of the farther south where the school system is so meagre and imperfect as to be entitled to that designation only by courtesy of language. Politically, the Negroes in these states enjoy free and unhampered privilege of the franchise. If restriction of the right of suffrage has been suggested in West Virginia and threatened in Maryland, it has not as yet been put into execution. Maryland and Kentucky alone have separate car laws for local travel. I find, however, that in all cases the Negro has to maintain a ceaseless effort and eternal vigilence to safeguard the civil privileges which, it is sad to relate, are everywhere being restricted and confined to narrower and narrower limits. There is little enthusiasm upon current political issues. The general attitude toward the present administration is one of complacent expectancy. There is a large exercise of political faith which, like its spiritual prototype, is the evidence of things not seen and the substance of things hoped for. Everyone is impressed with the kindly, genial, generous, personal disposition of President Taft, but when his attitude toward the vital rights of the race is broached with hope and fear struggling for the ascendency, the universal response is "It does not yet appear what it shall be." Negro politicians are singing in concerted chorus the old familiar song: Denhold a stranger at the door, He gently knocks, has knocked before; Has waited long, is waiting still, You treat no other friend so ill." Economically, the Negro workman finds himself confronted with the inexorable law of Anglo-Saxon competition which may be expressed in the motto: "Where there is work enough and to spare, the black man may have what there is to spare, but the white workman must receive first choice." The sceptre of the hotel and the barber shop have already passed from the Negro race. Negro workmen are found, however, in the packing houses and smelting works which employ them in large numbers. There is also a tendency to organize and develop independent business enterprises and one sees everywhere neat and orderly Negro barber shops, restaurants, drug stores and groceries. These are most encouraging indications, for the same kind of calculation, orderliness and business shrewdness here demanded will lead to success when applied to other lines of commodities. The Easterner is surprised at the number of costly and beautifully appointed homes which the Negroes are accruing throughout the West. This stretch of country under discussion is essentially a farming region, and yet the Negro population is found mainly in the cities. They do not as a general thing engage in farm activities either as laborers or as independent proprietors. Eastern Kansas forms something of an exception to this general rule. I learn that there were over three hundred farms in this section owned and operated by Negroes, the majority of the proprietors being under thirty years of age. It was my good fortune to meet with two young Negro college graduates who are enthusiastically devoted to farming activities. One of these is the son of the famous Kansas Black Potato King, who operates something THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. like four thousand acres and who, I believe, is the largest potato grower in the state of Kansas. He has under construction on his farm a residence at a cost of $17,000. The Negro shows no unusual criminal disposition except a reckless few who, like the outlaws of any race, belong to a hardened criminal and antisocial element. The upper class of Negroes, composed of the ministers, doctors, lawyers, editors and business men, are keenly alive to the needs of the race and are exerting a wholesome influence upon their general betterment and uplift. One meets with nothing of that spirit of supercilious aloofness from the general mass of the people who are working together in the common cause. After such a tour as this, one feels able to unravel the tangled web of the race question and to reveal its inner spirit and meaning. In the first place, one is convinced that education of whatever kind or character is not of itself the solution of the race problem; else the problem would be solved in this section where the Negro has all of the educational opportunities applicable to the most favored members of the human race. Education is essential, but not adequate. If every Negro of the United States carried in his knap-sack a Harvard diploma with a Tuskegee certificate added, we should still view the race problem. In the second place, political rights, necessary as they are for any race or class in a democratic republic, do not afford the desired solution; otherwise the problem would be solved in all the northwestern states where the Negro votes as freely as any other man. If every Negro in Mississippi exercised the untrammeled right of suffrage as they do in Kansas, there would still be a grievous residue of the race problem. This problem prevails throughout the entire United States, where the Negro is intelligent as where he is ignorant; where he is disfranchised as where he has political freedom; where he is thrifty as where he is indolent; where he is virtuous as where he is vicious. Political rights, education, industry and virtue are human values and have their own reward. They constitute essential factors in the race problem which, however, is broader and deeper and more profound than any one of these or than all of them put together. The equation of the race problem is greater than any of its factors. The Rev. Mr. Quincy Ewing in a notable article in the March number of the Atlantic Monthly, has told us that the heart of the race problem consists in the attitude of the white race toward the Negro. If the white man's disposition towards the Negro constitutes the essence of the race problem, the quintessence of the problem is the Negro's attitude towards himself. Race loyalty and union built upon political rights, education, character, thrift and good will, constituted the burden of the message which I had to deliver. I firmly believe that the Negro will ultimately become one in hope, aspiration and destiny with the great body of the American people, but as a condition precedent, he must become one with himself. Special Dinners Sundays and Wednesdays. Three meals a day. Short Orders at all times. THE OLORED AMERICAN LOAN & REALTY CO. 913 TWENTY-FIRST ST. Want your Property For Sale and For Rent. Also your Fire Insurance and Short Loan Business. Shall we have it? We have a Notary Public for the acknowlodgment of your Legal Instruments A. A. WALLER, Secretary and Manager SPECIAL LOCALS FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms at 2322 Arapahoe street, in modern house. Mrs. Bush. FOR RENT—One furnished room for gentlemen only. 1258 Champa street. 6-9 For Rent--- Neatly furnished room in modern house at 1845 Marion st. 6-14 FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms for man and wife. 2449 Welton street. Mrs. John Nelson. FOR RENT—Five-room brick cottage. Apply at 2215 Cleveland Place. BOARD AND ROOM—Nicely furnished room and table board at 2562 Glenarm Place. Mrs. Frankle Martin. FOR RENT—Front room for man and wife at 2551 Emerson street. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house at 2531 Stout St., Mrs. Roundtree. 5-8 FOR RENT—Furnished room in modern house at 2539 Glenarm Place. Right place for right parties. 'Phone 6931. FOR RENT—One room at 1050 Logan avenue. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room to the right parties. Mrs. C. N. Gaskin, 1889 Marion street. 8-8. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2215 Arapahoe street. FOR RENT—Two nicely furnished rooms at 429 Twenty-fourth street. Mrs. Sarah Jones. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms with J. --- and For ance and have it? the ack- truments PATIENTLY PROGRESSING secretary and Manager electric lights and gas at 1300 Fox street. 4-7 FOR RENT—First class rooms with all conveniences and comfort at 2438 Emerson st. Mrs. I C. McKenzie. FOR RENT—Newly-furnished rooms at 2938 Welton street, upstairs. New house, thoroughly modern. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2319 Champa street. Up-to-date accommodations. John Nelson. Phone Main 8034. FOR RENT—Two large front rooms, elegantly furnished in modern house. Phone purple 1796. MrsfI Callie Howard, 2418 Champa street. BE SURE TO ROOM with Mrs. S. J. Bunker when you go to Manitou, Colo. Modern house, very convenient. FOR RENT—Furnished room in strictly modern house. 1760 Clarkson street. Phone Blue 1935. Mrs. Johnson. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2121 Arapahoe street. Phone Olive 1755. Mrs. L. P. Holmes. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house at 629 22nd street. Phone Main 6851. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms at 2515 Curtis street. Modern house. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms with gas and bath; gentlemen preferred. Mrs. O. I. Boyd, 2743 Welton street. 7-24 J. R. CONTEE, PRESIDENT. R. E. HANDY, LICENSED EMBALMER. The Douglass Undertaking Company Incorporated—Bonded to the city. Phone Main 6123. 1023 19th Street THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADC. PAGE & ‘These conditions, together with com- plications which have arisen in con- nection with Englishmen who are em- ployed in the military department of Liberia, have aroused intense enmity against everything English. When the commission arrived at Monrovia they Were welcomed as the saviors of the country, and it became necessary for them co point out that they had come only in an advisory capacity and de- pended on the Liberians to rehabili- tate their country. HOKE SMITH’S SARCASM. Georgia’s Governor Does Not Believe In Equal Educational Advantages. At the opening session of the state legislature at Atlanta, Ga., the other day Governor Hoke Smith in his final Message dealing with the race ques- tion as it affects the public schools and the recent firemen’s strike said: “The new tranchise law prescribes qualifications for the exercise of the right to vote which will protect even the smallest community from those who, unable to control themselves, are utterly unfit to vote upon the rights of others. The future of our state re- quires that there shall be no illiteracy among the white children. I do not Mean any unkindness to the Negro children by this discrimination, but 1 do not believe instruction from books, except of a simple character, is of any benefit to a considerable portion of them. “Education should fit for life with a view to the character and possibilities of children. The difference between the races should be recognized by the county school commissioners, and they should not hesitate to do so on account of the maudlin criticisms that may come upon them from certain classes of would be philanthropists of other sections, who do not understand the true nature of the Negro or the true relations of the races. “During the past month a strike by firemen on the Georgia railroad result- ed in a temporary suspension of the operation of the road. The strike was caused by the discharge of white fire- men and the substitution of Negroes at a small reduction of pay, together with the recognition of seniority of Negro firemen over whites. I tele- graphed sheriffs and mayors, urging them to be vigilant and to protect life and property. The general manager of the road, Thomas K. Scott, was per- sistent in his demand that the gov- ernor take additional action with refer- ence to the disturbance. I did not ac- ¢ade to the demand. I believed the course being pursued was the wise one and could not sympathize with the reckless willingness of Mr. Scott to precipitate the possible loss of life and destruction of property.” SHAREHOLDERS’ LOYALTY. INOCES 2G VUNSEIING BAYS VMINS. By P. E. JONES. The Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty company held a large stock- holders’ meeting at Carnegie hall, New York, recently for the purpose of con- sidering the financial condition of its affairs and to raise the necessary funds to complete the new home office of the company at Forty-sixth street and Eighth avenue. Owing to the short notice given for the meeting many of the shareholders were not present Notwithstanding there were at least 600 shareholders and others who at tended the meeting. ‘The shareholders, many of whom seemed indifferent and lethargic in the onset of the meet mg, warmed up to the hecessitles ol the hour as the officers of the company explained the financial conditions of the same and its present urgent need of funds to complete the building. The meeting was called for the ex- press purpose of raising $5,000, which is the amount necessary to complete the store end of the building. This amount the management is desirous of raising by the 1st; if not, the 15th of July at the latest. Five floors of the building have already been rented, and the lessee will take possession as soon as this part of the building is com- pleted. An urgent demand was made on the shareholders present to pledge this amount. After much persuasion $2,500 was sted and paid at once toward raising the $5,000. Indica- tions pointed to the fact that the audi- ence might have easily pledged the en- tire amount had they known before- hand the object for which the meeting was called. Other meetings will be held from time to time until the neces- sary funds to complete the building are raised. Notwithstanding the fact that the $5,000 asked for was not all pledged, the friendly spirit and the eager inter- est which those who were present dis- played in their company demonstrated the fact that the shareholders are still loyal to the company and purpose that it shall succeed. Many shareholders, for one reason or another, have be- come discouraged and disgruntled be- cause work on the home office has not progressed as fast as they would have liked to see it. They are not alone in desiring to see the building finished. But desire alone, as ennobling as it may seem, will not do the work. It requires money to complete the build- ing, and a very little would be required from each shareholder provided they all were to contribute something. But where some are always giving and oth- ers are simply complaining it causes the proposition to become burdensome and the building to drag along. This is annoying to all concerned, and yet it cannot be helped unless the share- holders get together, make up the nec- essary funds and complete the build- ing. There seems to be an unfounded idea prevalent among a good many stock- holders that the company has the nec- essary funds with which to complete the building and that they could com- plete it should they desire to do so. These assertions are as {ignorant as they are untrue, for no intelligent man- agement of any corporation would pur- sue such a blind course as that, de- structive alike of confidence and bust- ness. The whole truth is the company has done the best it could under the circumstances and deserves great cred- it for having been able to maintain its existence during the crucial period through which it is passing. A little more patience, money and confidence will put the company on {ts old run- ning basis, and the shareholders will then be satisfied at the sacrifices they have made. Conférence Makes Few Changes. There were only a few changes made in the appointments by the New York annual A. M. E. Zion conference, which, after six days’ session at New- burg, N. Y., adjourned a few days ago. The presiding elder'’s district was di- vided into three parts, the Long Is- land, Harlem and Hudson. The Har- lem district consists of five churches, which are assigned to the Rey. Dr. Frederick M. Jacobs that he may main- tain an official relation to the confer- ence. Rey. L. G. Mason has the Hud- son district and Rev. Mr. Ten Eyck the Long Island district. VICTOR WALKER, Pres. CHAS. O. WEST, Sec. TWO JIM’S ‘ e .90cial Club.. First Class Resort Sideboard in Connection 1859 CHAMPA STREET Phone Main 2275 Denver, Colorado HELP US BE PROMPT, Many changes are occurring in the districts of the Benver postoffice, requiring new arrangement of our mailing galleys. If your paper dees net reach you on Saturday, notify us at once, Do not delzy. The fault can ently be corrected by notification. No paper should be as late as Menday In reach Ing the subscriber, “A Firstclass Resert J for Gentlemen” f THE NEWPORT SALOON ae ‘wa 1848 Arenal * Denver, Colerade | THE OLD RELIABLE Thomas Clingman Billiard and Poo! Parlors 1855 Arapahoe St. Phone Main 5154 Ma, CSCC: Sat i OA yer aay? Sar eee rege Cnn wer 'S iL. L. McMAHAN s s Ph Prescription Pharmacy... FINE LINE OF TOILET ARTI-CLE8S, PERFUMES, CIGARS, ETC. Fresh, pure drugs, courteous treatment. Remember we always use the freshest and purest drugs im our prescriptions. In fact our — PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT - Is as complete as any in the city.Prices right. — PRESCKIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Goods delivered free. Phone Malin 4956. Cor. 19th and Arapahoe Sts. GIVE ME A CALL. L. L. McMAHAN 1129 19th St. Denver, Colo THE SICK MADE WELL WITH MAGNETIC HEALING. Kind Friends:— A Magnetic Healer has arrived in the city, and invites the sick and afflicted to make no delay in calling to see him. Precious Life and Health can be Saved by this that would be Hopeless Under the Old Methods. The Nature of The Disease makes no Difference. It is no longer necessary to suffer the pangs of pain and disease, or die prematurely. The time is now at hand when it is as easy to get well as it is to get sick. Those who are suffering with Stomach Troubles, bad cases of Rheumatism, or any other Lingering Disease, take one treatment of Magnetic healing from the Healer and you shall be convinced that your disease and pains will be turned into health and joy. All this is simply the operation of natural law, and it is not half as wonderful as the fact that you can send your voice along a little wire for thousands of miles, yet no one doubts the telephone, or is astonished at what it accomplishes. Is it strange, then, that a new discovery should be made in the line of physical science as applied to the healing art. PROF. H. G. H. BUTLER. NOTICE—A WONDER. Prof. Will Taylor, corns, bunions and ingrowing nails specialist. Guaranteed cure. Painless, no cutting. Phone Main 8358, 911 Eighteenth street. Clip this advertisement, as it may not appear again. Notice of Proceeding for Determination of Heirship and Final Settlement. In the matter of the estate of Hubert Woolman, deceased. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 5th day of July, A. D., 1909, being one of the regular days of the term of the County Court of the City and County of Denver, in the State of Colorado, I, John L. Hilton, administrator of said estate will appear before said Court, present my final settlement as such administrator, pray the approval of the same, and will then apply to be discharged as such officer. At which time and place any person in interest may appear and present objections to the same, if any there be. Notice is also hereby given that William Woolman has filed his duly verified petition alleging that he is an heir at law of said deceased and that the only other heirs at law of said deceased known to said petitioner are as follows: William Woolman, Calhoun, Wisconsin; father. Sarah Woolman, Calhoun, Wisconsin; mother. Accordingly on said date hereinbefore mentioned or at any date to which such hearing may then be continued, the said Court will proceed to ascertain and determine who are heirs of said deceased and as such entitled to inherit any lands, tenements, hereditaments or other property, real or personal, constituting all or a part of the estate of said deceased, and enter a decree accordingly, at which hearing all persons claiming to be heirs at law of said deceased may appear and present their proofs. Dated at Denver, Colorado, May 28, 1909. Administrator of the estate of Hubert Woolman, deceased. W. G. Alexander, Attorney. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. DR. P. E. SPRATLIN Rooms—31-2 Good Block. Residence, 2230 Clarkson Street. Telephone York 123. Office hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. and by appointment. Phone Main 7416. Dr. T. Ernest McClain DENTAL SURGEON, Plate, Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty 2743 Welton St. DENVER, COLO. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 am. m. 3 to 5 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by appointment. and nine to ten a. m. DR. W. A. JONES 911 TWENTY-FIRST STREET. Office Phone Main 5554. Dr. Westbrook. Dr. Harper. 10 to 11 a. m. 8 to 12 m. 2 to 5 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. 1 to 5 p. m. All Other Hours and Sunday by Appointment. DR. WESTBROOK Physician an. Surgeon. DR. HARPER Dentist. 915-917 Twenty-first Street. 'Phone Main 1144. Phone Main 8625 After hours 3230 DR. JUSTINA L. FORD OFFICE HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., to 8 p. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE. 2111 Arapahoe Street, Denver. JOS. H. STUART LAWYER PRACTICES IN ALL COURTS. Office 329 Kittredge Bldg. Cor. 16th and Glenarm. Residence 2562 Lincoln avenue. Phone Olive 2294. Examining abstracts of title, and drawing up legal documents given careful attention. GEORGE G. ROSS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT- LAW. Abstracts of title, wills, deeds and all legal matters pertaining to real and personal property carefully looked after. Room 207 Kittredge Building. Residence, 2344 Tremont Place. After 6:00 Phone Olive 1414. ```markdown ``` Residence Phone No. 15. Western THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL A Faculty of Eighteen Thorough Institu Western University THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR NEGROES IN THE WEST. A Faculty of Eighteen Thoroughly Equipped Teachers from the Leading Institutions in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS. Steam Heated and Electric Lighted. DE Theological, Classical, Normal, bracing courses in Architec Printing, Bookbinding, making, Millinery, Co THOROUGH DISCIPLINE, SU Classical, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, State Courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Eng, Bookbinding, Tailoring, Business Course, Making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundrying and Farm DISCIPLINE, CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE, SUPERVISION. Theological, Classical, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Bookbinding, Tailoring, Business Course, Dressmaking, Millinery, Cooking, Laundrying and Farming. THOROUGH DISCIPLINE, CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE, CAREFUL SUPERVISION. FINE MILITARY BAND AND ORCHESTRA. FOR FULL INFORMATION ACTING PRESIDENT OF WEST CANTON 1848 A NOODLES, CHOR Regular Dir ... FIRST CLASS THE FINE POOL AND IN T Give me a visit and be co Cigars AL INFORMATION WRITE TO PROF. SHELTER PRESIDENT OF WESTERN UNIVERSITY, QUINN TON RESTAURANT 1848 Arapahoe Street DODLES, CHOP SUEY, SHORT ORN Regular Dinner Served at Noon FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT THE FINEST IN THE CITY THE FINEST APPOINTED AND BILLIARD IN THE WEST visit and be convinced that "Here's Cigars and Tobaccos 346 FOR FULL INFORMATION WRITE TO PROF. SHELTON FRENCH, ACTING PRESIDENT OF WESTERN UNIVERSITY, QUINDARO, KANS. CANTON RESTAURANT 1848 Arapahoe Street NOODLES, CHOP SUEY, SHORT ORDERS Regular Dinner Served at Noon FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT . . . THE FINEST IN THE CITY Give me a visit and be convinced that "Here's My Friend" Cigars and Tobaccos --- --- 1 --- --- 2342 to 2346 LARIMER ST. n University TALL INSTITUTION FOR NEGROES IN THE WEST. Highly Equipped Teachers from the Leading uctions in America. DEPARTMENTS: Sub-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, emecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Tailoring, Business Course, Dress-ooking, Laundrying and Farming. CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE, CAREFUL SUPERVISION. IN WRITE TO PROF. SHELTON FRENCH, EASTERN UNIVERSITY, QUINDARO, KANS. RESTAURANT Arapahoe Street P SUEY, SHORT ORDERS inner Served at Noon SS RESTAURANT ... NEST IN THE CITY EST APPOINTED BILLIARD ROOM THE WEST convinced that "Here's My Friend" and Tobaccos HENRY PINN, Proprietor Miss M. COWDEN. Hair Dressing PARLORS. Shampooing, cutting and curling. All hair work made to order. Hair tonics, scalp treatments, manicuring; stage wigs for rent for theatrical use or mask balls. Cheapest switches, 50 cents. Goods delivered out of the city. 1219 21st street. Denver, Colo. Phone 1797 Olive The image provided does not contain any text. It appears to be a blank or empty space. PAGE. 8. Office Phone No. 1423. PAGE. 4. City Locals MALONEY-JENNINGS MARRIAGE. Mrs. Eva Maloney was married to Mr. Jennings of Pueblo, Colo., Thursday night at the residence of Mrs. Lawrence. The house was beautifully decorated and the happy event was a grand affair. A few friends witnessed the marriage. The Statesman congratulates Mr. Jennings on his selection and him unbounded success. Mr. Jennings is one of the leading men of Pueblo. WESTERN CLUB WOMEN HONORED. Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, president of the National Association of Colored Women, will be in Denver Thursday, July 22. A special meeting to prepare for her visit will be held at the residence of Mrs. Stewart, presidest City Federation on Wednesday night, July 7. All women's clubs will please send representatives so that all committees may be appointed. The chairman served a dainty lunch. All went away feeling well pleased with the work for the year. M. E. WALCH, Chairman. MRS. I. W. BRAXTON, Secretary. The Misses Elizabeth and Sarah Porter, sisters of J. C. Porter, are expected to arrive Sunday from Missouri. They are both teachers in the public schools of Kansas City. Visiting Messrs. Jack and William Price from Atchison, Kansas, last week was Miss Minifred Martin, who is an accomplished school teacher of that city. She took in all scenic points of the city and after a week stay left for California. Herbert Gleed, of Lawrence, Kansas, surprised his many friends by a sudden visit. Mr. Gleed came to be present at the I. G. A. banquet. Miss Bertha Monday came from Washington, D. C., Thursday afternoon, where she has been teaching. Dr. E. F. Cantey has left the city for a few days, but will return soon. He is no longer connected with McMahan's drug store. Miss Eva Cooper will spend part of her vacation on the ranch this summer together with other friends. A mass meeting of the subscribers and all interested in the plans of the Negro Townsite and Land Company will be held at Zion Baptist church July 6th, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee who recently investigated a tract of land for colonization purposes in Adams county, and for the purposes of collecting the balance due from the subscribers. On July 6th 30 days will have expired from the time the company was incorporated. Prominent speakers will be present Subscribers will please be present or send the amount of their subscriptions. The executive board of the Parent Branch Mite Missionary Society of the A. M. E. church meet on Monday at 2 p. m. and arrange the program for annual conference to be held in Boulder September 17th, 1909. It was well attended. The president, Mrs. Dorcas Watson, was present, and a number of the board, by the call of Chairman Mrs. M. E. Wade. About two hours was spent very pleasantly, spiritually and socially. Those present: Mesdames J. C. C. Owens, J. W. Braxton, Olive Elliott, Lawyer THE S.ATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. Townsend, J. S. P. Young, U. G. Braum, Unity Hall, Hill, F. T. Bruce. Prof. L. L. McGruder expects to leave for Missouri Saturday. S. A. Bondurant, dealer in slightly worn men's clothing. Dress suits for rent. 1077 Broadway. 'Phone Main 3433. Remember that the Masons' picnic is only a few weeks away. July 14 is the date and Bloomfield Park is the place. Mrs. Mary Evans, who has been confined to her bed since the Ladies' Aid fair, is recuperating. She is one of the best workers Scott's has, and is out again to the delight of her many friends. There is quite an interest worked up over the coming of Dr. Bowen. Let the citizens of Denver give this great man quite a reception and make him feel that there is no better class of citizens in the West than the energetic ones of Denver. The Azalia Hackley Choral Club will have charge of the music on this occasion. All persons interested in the Business League are requested to meet at the office of Dr. Westbrook, 917 21st, Tuesday evening, July 6th, 8 p. m. The Grand Lodge, K. of P., has been called to meet in Walsenburg, July 27, 28 and 29. Mrs. W. T. Ketten, who underwent a serious operation at the Park Avenue hospital, is reported as doing nicely. Dr. Westbrook is in charge of the case. Mrs. Lizzie Gould of Hopkinsville, Ky., is in the city visiting Thomas Dixon, an uncle. Mrs. Brown of Topeka is visiting her mother, Mrs. Woobey, of 28th and Arapahoe streets. Mr. Hopper, the famous potato raiser of Eastonville, is spending a few days in the city this week. Mrs. Hattie Payne left the city last week to spend six weeks in California and other coast points. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, modern. Apply at 2508 Tremont Place. Mrs. T. S. Clinkscale. 7-9 Miss Roxie Thompson of Marshall, Texas, is the guest of Mrs. T. S. Clinkscale. The youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Baxter died Monday. Undertaker Gilmore had charge of the funeral. Mrs. Emma Gardner, an old pioneer of Denver, departed this life last Saturday at the county hospital. The funeral services were held from the Douglass parlors Monday. Interment at Fairmount. Deceased was born in Missouri and leaves a host of friends. Mrs. Hattie Payne left for California last week on a six weeks' tour of the Pacific coast. The Y. M. C. B. will meet Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Shorter church. Miss Mattie B. Mason of Galesburg, Ill., is the guest of her brother, Pearl W. Mason and wife. The ladies of the Tabernacle will serve watermelon and ice cream Monday, July 5, at 2334 Welton St. The funeral of Mrs. Hazell occurred from the People's Presbyterian --- church Thursday afternoon with Q. J. Gilmore in charge. P. R. Fossett conducted the burial service. A. M. Lawhorn was in charge. The Douglas Undertaking company is no wlocated at 1023 19th street, almost directly across from this office. The banquet of the Inter-Graduate Association, complimentary to the new graduates, was held Thursday evening at Dania hall, and was attended largely and enjoyed thoroughly. This annual event has taken a place in the hearts of the people and especially of the older "grads" that is not to be easily set aside. The celebration of St. John's day by the Masons and allied societies last Sunday was the largest attended in the history of the order in this city. The services were participated in by Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 1, Centennial Lodge No. 4, Hiram Commandery Knights Templar No. 20, Queen of Sheba Court, Heroines of Jericho, and Lone Star Chapter Order of the Sastern Star. The men marched fro mtheir hall to Zion Baptist church, led by the boy's band, and made the largest showing ever. They there met and escorted the ladies in, and then the friends filled the vacant pews to their capacity. Rev. Over preached a strong sermon and one that made a deep impression upon the order. It was a call to the highest duty to humanity as well as to self. The charitable offering raised exceeded all previous records. E. Motley left this week for a few weeks' stay in Springfield, Mo. There will be a camp meeting at 23rd and Lawrence streets, held in a big tent, conducted by Campbell A. M. E. church, beginning next Sunday. A distinguished revivalist will be the speaker. Dr. Hall, the noted Chicago physician, is in the city for a few days on business. He is widely known as one of the race's greatest surgeons. He has recently come from the South, where he has established a number of infirmaries. He was a guest of honor at the I. G. A. banquet He leaves to-day for Colorado Springs. Mrs. Bradford is entertaining her sister-in-law from Fulton and Jefferson City, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Eubanks of New Iberia, La., are in the city and will make it their home. Mrs. A. J. Reese goes to Colorado Springs this week. Mrs. Frank Turner is recovering from her recent illness. Mrs. John Watkins and baby visited her parents in Cheyenne last week. Mrs. E. M. Gibson, who attended the Rosebud convention at St. Louis, has returned home after spending several days visiting in Kansas City. THE ROCKY CO. General Agents JAPANESE GOODS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL—STATIONERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO, CANDY, ICE CREAM. Pleasant accommodations for our customers. Your partonage will be appreciated. Phone Olive 303. 1223 Twentieth Street. You do not have to go East to learn hairdressing in all its branches. Enquire terms of the Moler System of Colleges, 1229 17th street, Denver, Colo. FOR RENT IN CHEYENNE. One nice room for quiet man and wife or for two nice men at Mrs. Plerson's, 622 W. 20th street. ICE CREAM—Mrs. Laurence Stephen has opened an ice cream parlor at 2620 Welton street and caters to the summer needs. Open every day. Plain Sewing. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call at 803 E. 26th Ave., or telephone Main 7487. Miss Armstrong. Rev. A. M. Ward is expected on Friday to resume his charge. Services of Bethlehem Baptist church Sunday, July 4, 9:45. Sunday school 11 a. m. Covenant meeting 3 p. m. Preaching at this service. We are hoping to raise $100 as we desire to break ground for our new building at an early date. At 7 p. m. B. Y. P. U. At 8 p. m. preaching and administering the Lord's Supper. All members are urged to be present. Visitors and strangers are welcome. A. E. REYNOLDS, Pastor. 2716 Larimer Street. Seven months ago it pleased our Almighty God to go into the home of Mrs. Mary Young, and took from her the beloved husband and father, and Saturday morning he again sent his visiting angel and took from her her only baby, Mazy Francis Young, four months old. The funeral took place Monday from Lawhorn undertaking parlors. Mrs. Young has the sympathy of all her friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Huffman of St. Louis, Mo., arrived in the city Monday on a vacation trip to the many points of interest in and about Denver and are stopping at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walton, 2946 Arapahoe. Mr. Huffman is instructor of physics in Summer High school, St. Louis, and Mrs. Huffman a teacher in the public schools of Indianapolis, Ind. After attending the sessions of the N. E. A. next week they will spend some time at Colorado Springs and Manitou. Mrs. Alice Walker has moved from Lafayette street to 2014 Champa street. Mrs. Williams and daughter of Atchison are stopping at 2014 Champa street. The guests who were present at the surprise party tendered Mrs. Thrower Tuesday night of last week on the occasion of her birthday, were incorrectly reported in our last issue and should have been: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith, Misses Carrie and Pearl Barnes, Mrs. Barnes, J. W. Cooper and Miss Eva Cooper, Mrs. Koontz and Miss Georgia Koontz, Mrs. Randolph and Miss Tillie Randolph, Miss Mabel Fore, Miss Clarke, Prof. McGruder, C. Morris, Dr. Cantey. Reports from the Stanley hotel, Estes Park, which is in charge of Denverites in its meal service, are of the best. We are in receipt of a menu of an banquet served 150 guests and it speaks well for the men in charge, who are J. W. Morris of the dining room and B. C. Curtis of the kitchen. Jennie Hicks has returned from school at Nashville. Mrs. Bolden Townsend of Pueblo is in the city visiting her brother, Clark Craig and wife. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. TRINIDAD NEWS IN BRIEF. Miss Corn Mitchell and mother are here from Austin, Texas, visiting Mrs. J. Patton and family. Miss Eva Cruber, who has been attending Western University, has returned home to spend her vacation with her parents. Miss Marie Cohn, a student of Topeka Industrial Institute, is in our city for the summer with her parents. Mrs. Carruth has returned from a visit to her home in Texas. She was accompanied to Trinidad by her sister, Miss Helms. Miss Beatrice Watson is in the city from Topel a, Kan., visiting her aunt, Mrs. King. Our churches are in a progressive condition and we hope, by the hearty co-operation of the members and friends, to be able to make excellent reports at end of year. THE COLORED ORPHANAGE AND OLD FOLKS' HOME. Located at 873 Zuni street, Denver, Colo.; take Lawrence street car west, and get off at West Eighth avenue; go due west through the Barnum shops eight blocks. This institution provides a home for homeless colored children and aged women and men of the race. We also care for children whose parents are in service and cannot keep them, at a very small pittance. Any information can be had by writing a letter or postal to 873 Zuni street, or telephoning Main 7326. ONLY $2,500 An Established Bus feet, east front, in popular part of the city---improvements. One Three-room Frame, water and electric lights in. One Building 20x30, used for work shop and office. One Building 20x50, used for wheel room, engine-boiler room, and one Engine, one Boiler, one large Carpet Wheel, Belting and Shafting. Three Horses, Wagons and Harness. One Feather Renovating Wheel, one gasoline. Iron-heating Apparatus, just as it stands, in active operation, including Household Goods and many other things. A Wonderful Bargain for One of my Race W. T. TH Ask Editor of Sta At Campbell Chapel 23rd and Lawrence Streets GRAND BARBECUE MONDAY,JULY 5 Campbell Chapel is noted far and near for its splendid dinners and its professeional cooks, who can prepare a dinner to a queens taste, and the more you eat the happier you will be. BARBECUED BEEF, MUTTON AND BARBECUED CHICKEN What do you think of that? Dinner, 12 m. to 10 p. m. Mrs. Hattie King, Gen. Mgr. Fannie Johnson, Treas. Mary Caton, Cashier. Vina Jackson, Head Cook. Luella Williams, Head Water Edward Johnson, Chief Barbecuer with his famous Come-back Sauce, if you get a taste you will come back for more DINNER 25c W. C. WILLIAMS, Pastor J. M. MARTENIA, Sec'y A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD Trolley Excursion Campbell Chapel, 23rd and Lawrence Sts. Will give their First Jolly Trolley Fun Making Excursion of the season FRIDAY, JULY 9 We hope to pull out six cars, so if you are suffering for the want of a great time, this is your chance to drive away the blues; if you have not the 25c for your ticket and cannot borrow it from your neighbor, stand on your front porch and wave at us as we pass, for we will sure pass your house. Do not forget the date cars leave 23rd and Lawrence streets at 8 p. m. sharp Round Trip 25c---Children 15c J. M. MARTENIA, Sec. W. C. WILLIAMS, Pastor DINNER 25c The St. Paul Baptist church has purchased a lot on University street and hope to erect a church soon. The deal was $400. Mrs. Grant entertained last Tuesday evening for the Sewing Circle of St. Paul Baptist church. Evening was spent in playing games of various kinds, after which a delightful luncheon was served. Those present were Mrs. Steele, Smith, Blackwood, Thurton, Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour, Mr. Ecles, J. C. Steele, Pathison McAlpin, Grant, Misses Georgia Seymour, Nelson McAlpin, Gertie Campbell, Lela Smith and Mrs. Grant. Miss Nelson McAlpin entertained Monday evening, June 14, in honor of Miss Eva Cruber and Miss Marie Cober, who are here for the summer from school. The guests spent the evening playing games until a late hour, when a luncheon was served. Separating Sheep from the Goats Some People Pay--This is Not Meant for Them. Some People Owe and Can't Pay--Let All Such Write so We Can Come to an Understanding. Some People Neglect to Pay though Able to Do So--To These We Say "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them." Some People CAN PAY and WON'T-- These are DEADBEATS whom we shall collect from as best we can. As announced some weeks ago, we have assigned the accounts of some of our out-of-town subscribers. This action has been taken after futile efforts to collect subscriptions through our office.. Our statements and pleas for payment have been ignored and in self-protection we are compelled to collect as best we can. It takes money to run a newspaper and we try to pay our bills. The cooperation of our customers is necessary to our success. Customers who pay, do not understand the "spongers" and the dead-beats. They do not realize that their is a percentage of newspaper readers who are neither honest nor square. This class does not pay, when asked in courteous and business-like manner. When driven to reply they claim that "I did not order the paper, anyway." Falsehood and dishonesty are twin brothers and we do not hesitate to say that customers who do not pay, and don't want to pay, rob us of our just due, and are dishonest in intent. We can do better without them than we can with them. For those who are willing to pay and cannot, we wish it to be thoroughly understood that we will agree to any reasonable request for time. IT IS THE DEADBEAT WHO PROFESSES HONESTY AND HAS IT NOT THAT WE ARE AFTER. IF YOU GET A MORE OR LESS UNPLEASANT REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHERS' ADJUSTING ASSOCIATION FOR PAYMENT OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE STATESMAN, DO NOT GET ANGRY! PAY! YOU SHOULD HAVE PAID WHEN WE ASKED YOU AND SAVED YOURSELF THE HUMILIATION! IF YOU ARE NOT A DEADBEAT YOU SHOULD NOT ACT LIKE ONE! PAGE. 6 Prof. P. Corcera Catewejoe The Famed ZULU PSYCHIC, PHRENOLOGIST CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTRAL TRANCE MEDIUM Prof. P. Corcera Catewejoe, the famed Zulu Psychic, will soon arrive in Denver to remain indefinitely. This gentleman calls to you names of your Immediate Relatives and Friends, Reunites Separated Couples. Can be consulted on affairs of Life, Law, Health, Marriage, Divorce, Investments, and will not mistreat you. He will be at 2038 WELTON STREET, SUITE 2 JUNE 28, '09, Hours 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Sundays included. Consult this gifted gentleman for true facts about your future. He will tell you just what and all you want to know. Prof. Catewejoe is at present a guest of Mrs. P. A Hubbard of 107 High street, Manitou, Colorado. Madam Alice Dorsey, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., is now in our city and is giving scalp treatment, and is also growing hair. Give her a trial. All work guaranteed. Phone Main 6239. 2510 Lawrence street. Dressmaking and plain sewing done by Mrs. R. W. Kelly at her residence, 929 W. 7th ave. Guaranteed satisfactory. WHEN YOU GO TO LEADVILLE You can get first-class rooms with Mrs. S. J. Motley at 206 West Sixth street. First-class table board also Write or call. 10-26 THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. NOTICE—The Bee Hive Rooming House will be located at 2014 Champa street. Will be glad to accommodate all respectable people, as there will be all modern conveniences. Call and see the proprietor. There will be a home cooking dining room attached. Meals will be served from 20 to 35 cents. Give them a trial. MRS. W. A. BOBO, 2014 Champa St. Madam J. M. Mason LADIES' TAILORING AND FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING PARLORS Connected with the London Clothes Cleaning and Pressing Co. 76-78 Broadway Denver, Colo. Mrs. Renfro and Mrs. Shelbun Table Board Noon Dinner and Six O'clock Supper Meals 25c Sundays 35c 2336 Curtis Street THE NEEDMORE CLUB CALEB ALLEN, Prop. & Mgr. Cigars and Pool A Pleasant Place for Pleasant People. 2343 Larimer St. Phone Main 8146. The Leader We are now pleased to announce to the public that we are now locating at 2057½ Larimer street with all kinds of hair goods and ornamental goods of all kinds, and we also announce we have a full line of millinery in the latest Parisian style in hats and bon- nets of all kinds. Miss Genevieve Hallowell, prop. Mrs. J. R. Hallowell, Mgr. MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO. MRS. L. L. ROBERTS. 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Prepared only by MRS. A. M. POPE. 2223 Market St. St. Louis, Mo. Bell Phone Bomont 3109 BRANCH OFFICE IN DENVER Conducted by THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. HOLD UP THE HANDS OF THE RACE'S STAUNCHEST DEFENDERS THE RACE PRESS BY SUBSCRIBING FOR "The Statesman" Published at 1026 19th Street, DENVER, COLO PHONE MAIN 7905 THE FIRESIDE COMPANION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT WEST A Splendid Advertising Medium Sample Copies Sent on Request Hustling Agents wanted everywhere. Address C. A. FRANKLIN, Editor NO BETTER GIFT TO A FRIEND ONLY FIFTY CENTS FOR THREE MONTHS THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. BOULDER NEWS. Mrs. Mattie Allen and Miss Clara B. Richards are on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Stephens are rejoicing over the coming home of their oldest son with his wife and baby, thus making them really grandpa and grandma. Mr. Gray, the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, has returned to Boulder. Rev. and Mrs. Davis of Washington, D. C., are visiting Rev. and Mrs. Branon. The steward board of the A. M. E. church gave a picnic at Glacier Lake Monday. It was a success in every way. There was a large crowd and the day was ideal. Everybody enjoyed themselves to the highest. Misses Sophronia Williams and Luciel Ash, the nieces of Mrs. M. E. Shephard of Fort Collins, came to Boulder to go on the picnic. They were the guests of Mrs. J. B. Holmes. Mrs. Carl Clay, also of Fort Collins, came down to take in the picnic. Mrs. Thurman of Kansas City, who has been visiting Mrs. O. T. Jackson since April, took in the picnic at Glacier Lake. The A. M. E. church is being enlarged and beautified. The second Sunday in July has been set for reopening day, at which time we hope to have a good many of our Denver friends to come overe and look in on us, and give us a little lift. Mrs. Rev. J. B. Holmes is visiting in Fort Collins this week. CRIPPLE CREEK. Mrs. J. Volz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Richardson, who has been visiting her parents, returned to her home in Pueblo Sunday, accompanied by her mother. A reception was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richardson in honor of Mrs. J. Volz. A number of friends were present. Mrs. McCoy and Mrs. Prathor of Dallas, Texas, are spending the summer in this city. Rev. Brown is making good impressions on his hearers. He is both instructive and spiritual. Sunday night put all in mind of a revival wave. The choir sang as never before. Three united with the church. These were Mrs. Etta Thompson, Mrs. A. C. Carr and Mr. Oliver Thompson. The clubs are busy at work for July 18th. There was an ice cream social given by the Ladies of the Star Light club Thursday night at the residence of Mrs. Choteau. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. Mr. T. O. Mason, correspondent for the Statesman, left, for an extended visit to his mother in Macon, Ill. Mrs. C. G. Fields left Tuesday evening to visit in Denver, Colo. Miss Veldera Slaughter, who has been visiting in our city for a while, has returned to her home in Santa Fe. Rev. J. B. Bell, field missionary for the Baptist church, has returned to his home in Douglas, Ariz. Rev. Bell was very successful in his work while here, clearing over one thousand dollars in the rally. He was also tendered a reception by the members of On June 3rd the Masonic lodge held their public installation and reception. After the installation of the officers by Rev. James Washington, who is Past Grand Master of the state of Iowa, a delightful repast was served. On June 20 the Masonic annual sermon was preached at the A. M. E. church by the pastor, Rev. J. Washington. The gentlemen of the Ladies' Mite Missionary Society of the A. M. E. church entertained the ladies in a most delightful manner on last Thursday evening. The little folks are planning for a Tom Thumb wedding. A meeting was held at the A. M. E. church to arrange for a barbecue on the 4th of August. A necktie social for the benefit of Mt. Olive Baptist church was given at the residence of Mrs. John Collins. Mrs. Lydia Houston has gone to Las Vegas to visit her daughter. A SWELL TIME. Miss Senora Findley deserves to feel proud of the great success had by the Young Ladies' Japanese Tea party of the Altar Guild of the Church of the Redeemer. Everything went lovely and the Battenburg raffle has not been fully decided and the other lively and merry-making games added life and ginger to the evening. This being the first of a series of entertainments, and the high standard set by Miss Findley will cause the others to use extraordinary efforts for mastership. The public was greatly pleased and a handsome sum realized to the guild. . Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIRS: I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. Mrs W. E. 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