Denver Star

Stand by your guns and end "Birth of Nation fight" Tuesday by Voting for Speer and against all amencnts. The papers formerly known as The Statesman and The Independent, have been merged into The Denver Star Driving Last Wedge Home. Splits Wide Open Booth-Nisbet Confusion, Spills Out Henchmen Who Scamper to Vote Everything Down. Desert Own Ticket. Birth of Nation Fight Ends at Polls. Manhood and Respect vs. Jim Crowism, Insults and Dirty Dollars. In Times Like These God Give Us Men TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Number 134 Driving La We Splits Wide Open Booth-Nisbet Confusion, Spill thing Down. Desert Own Ticket. Birth o Respect vs. Jim Crowism, In Times Like Thes Did not the Negroes help put Nisbet in office, and fight to keep him there when threatened with recall and for their unwavering friendship he gave treachery? Was not that same spirit manifested in permitting signs of disgrace against our race to be placed all along Curtis St., in big black and red letters." Negroes Not Wanted," "Colored Trade Not Solicited"? Cannot you still see in that "black and tan" order forbidding to Negroes certain equal privileges with others, that same mean hateful spirit of race hate and oppression against our race, that he so brazenly and publicly exhibited in the "Birth of Nation" fight? Insults, slurs, treachery and one solitary jail appointment spell his record as it concerns the Negro. Has Nisbet ever apologized, explained or attempted to excuse his insults? Does he regret his actions against us or should we apologize to him for his insults? Shall we kiss the hand that smites us by honoring, supporting and continuing him in office? Why did not he in his public meeting Thursday night, come before you and apologize, explain, justify or excuse himself? No, he knew you could be bought off with a few dollars, election day and a little honor as delegates and with some law breaking privileges. He has ignored the race at his own meeting, will you now vote him in office, so he can repeat the ignoring and fight you when the segregation ordinance will be introduced later in the council? Do you know that when you vote against Nisbet, you are driving a wedge in the coffin of segregation? Shall we protest fight, lay down and forgive when no forgiveness has been asked and then forget so soon? Our true friend-employ 15 men regularly; our so called friends gave 2 jobs, the former recognizes and encourages our manhood and self-respect, while the latter thinks we are political slaves and insults, Jim crows and attempts to crush out all our ambition-by binding us with their prejudices. Has Mr. Greenlee ever excused or apologized to you when he said "he did not believe Negro and white should work together? We are sorry for Mr. Greenlee because we like him and believe he could be made to see "some good in Negroes" . Stand or Cringe, Statesman Attacks Friends to Tickle Foe of Race. Again large quantity of the silly scarey rot and meaningless expressions of verboseness about Wilson and the Democratic party coupled with the abuse and threats against our Colored ministers filled the editorial columns of our contemporary last week. We asked him a few pointed and well directed questions about Nisbet and about the Jim crowism practiced at his headquarters and he never answered them. They never answered the questions asked yet they made reply disgracing our ministers, Mayor Sharpley and Mr. Pitcher who affiliated with us. Why would not our big hearted white friends who are standing on the battle line fighting for our equal recognition and respect along all lines with others, regard their efforts as futile and ourselves, as ungrateful when we permit the self elected, self centered messenger leaders thru the Colorado Statesman to throw mud at them and their uplifting and encouraging effort? Did the Booth-Nisbet committee Jim crow the petition workers and the Colorado Statesman? If so, the Star agrees with his Editorial writer when he wrote concerning the "cur." "Every Negro is more or less familiarized with the thraldom and oppression we undergo from the hand of this foe, who in his years of relentless toil, deprives us of some of the liberty of our constitution and who also impairs our enjoyment of civic advantages by segregation and other methods of proscription; therefore the colored man or woman who will humbly lick the hand that smites and bruises him or her is no better than the common cur that grovels before a brutal master," and if the Colorado Statesman and Booth committee were insulted then we agree with the language of the writer. He condemns his own action and that of all Booth-Nisbet followers in an attempt to hurt and sell the face. He told the truth then. Because Booth-Nisbet amendment has failed, the Colorado Statesman viciously attack all the Colored ministers of Denver, hurled mud at Mayo Sharpley and Mr. Pitcher, and blindly stabbed at the ast edge Home. Is Out Henchmen Who Scamper to Vote Every- of Nation Fight Ends at Polls. Manhood and Insults and Dirty Dollars. se God Give Us Men race because these men gave respectable jobs and represent ative positions to Negroes. What else can you expect from the poisonous pen of any Negro who supports Nisbet Therefore stand or cringe Life or Death. Firing the Last Shot. On Brink of Destruction. The Star will not join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace, nor will it concur in a blind and servile actions of a few self-elected and selected messenger leaders who approve and endeavor to sanctify their monstrous conduct which has heaped disgrace and misfortune upon our race. This is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not time for adulation, flattery or jobs, nothing but our manhood, womanhood and love of or the respect of our race can save us in this rugged and awful crisis. We must tell facts dispel delusion and the darkness enveloping it; displaying the full danger and colors, the ruin which is threatening our doors. Do you know that on Franklin Street petitions to separate and segregate Negroes are being circulated and that already in Montclair, white people are meeting and organizing to prepare for an introduction of an ordinance to go to the new Booth council, if he is elected? The fastly gathering black cloud of Jim Crowism and segregation of citizens hangs in a most threatening manner over our heads and yours; and before midsummer comes it will probably burst upon us; let us then repay our obligations to our friends who stuck to us in need while some entreat heaven to avert our threatened ruin, humiliation, expense and destruction that we might all be and remain free brethren and countrymen in peace. After making this fight against Birth of Nation and Nisbet-Booth, should you prove unsuccessful; should that friendly and respectful feeling between the races which we ardently wish to maintain be dissolved: should our ministers of the gospel who have fearlessly, earnestly, and honestly stood up on manhood's respectful principle, fail with us in trying to win the dominant race's respect; do we not deliver you, weak and defenseless, to our enemies? Since then, your respect for race and manhood must be the price of your victory for Speer; your ruin of your defeat; what blind fatality can urge you to a pursuit destructive, to prejudice and Jim crowism that Nisbet-Booth amendment hold so dear? Our messenger leaders declare an unalterable determination to pursue along certain lines of submissive conduct which have produced imminent peril to the race and which now threaten us with ruin at our very door. Has a grin, a submissive policy or complete surrender to prejudice or whims ever planted and nurtured a manly thought in anyone or won any principle upon which real men and women stand? Are these leaders deliberately attempting to excuse meanness. Jim crowism and insults to the race, merely because some body else wronged us or merely to be a delegate to county or state convention or a speaker at a Booth. Nisbet meeting or for a promised clerkship? How cheap! Nisbet has insulted you, with his money, influence and some of his friends have encouraged and sustained (real) Negroes to flaunt his name in our faces even to call a meeting, invite you there and for what purpose? These Negro messenger leaders would rather save a few hungry republican politicians and by so doing, humiliate and destroy the race than stand for respect and manhood of the race. They will argue, explain and excuse the insults to the race for the men who did it. If Negroes in fighting for the race were right when they opposed Nisbet then, certainly they are still right and all who oppose them, do so, knowing that they are fighting the men and women who are fighting for the race. Excuse or no excuse, they are against you and the race, you cannot get around it. They are fighting white men who fearlessly invited slams and pernicious attacks of the daily paper for the Negroes' benefit. Common sense teaches all that the man or race that defends himself or itself will in turn be defended by others. No appeal, no amount of money, no semblance of glory or honor could induce nor make an white man turn his back upon his race to favor a few Negro Republicans, no matter what the issue was. It is now up to you. Let every Negro do his full duty at the polls Vote For Speer And Against All The Rest. If you vote everything down you swallow insults, play the coward and quitter and rock the boat of friendship and opportunity to pieces. Build or Wreck. Resent or Swallow The Star with you loves and honors its race, with you it knows its ambitions, short comings, uptreadings, heartaches its battle with the foe within and without the race; it knows its virtues and valor and the threatened dangers of segregation just ahead of us and too well does it know the hard fight it, alone will be compelled to make. All these things the Star knows with you and for these reasons any show of weakness, cowardice or surrender on our part will bring down the just wrath of the white men who have risked all to help us up and not kick us down. Therefore the Star appeals to the manhood and womanhood of the race; to that something within your breast which bids you rise above injustice, flattery, money and honor consideration and save the race and its friends. Was it not, only last week that the Birth of Nation caused a white Kentuckian to ruthlessly shoot with an abandoned and malignant heart and kill a young Negro high school attendant, Edward Manson of 15 years, without any cause in Lafayette, Indiana? Suppose he had been your son? During the strenuous times of our fight against that vicious film, you know how hard it was to restrain young Negro volunteers to do violence. Suppose the level headed Negroes would have listened and secretly hired that bomb thrower who wanted to blow up the Tabor Grand, causing murder and the races to clash, what then, Mr. Nisbet? Who wants another such experience? We realize a white man is a white man and that one white friend is as good to us, as another, Democratic, Republican, Baptist or Methodist. Be Negroes first, regardless as to what you are afterwards and whatever that is, let all respect you as that. Are you slaves to any man or party, that he or it can, by applying the party lash, force bulldoze or brow beat you into doing what your conscience rebels and condemns you in doing? You owe them absolutely nothing. They will need you this fall, even worse than you need them. Since you work for what you get, why should you worry, even if the blood hounds of a few republicans are trying to humiliate you by bulldozing our manly men and brave women. Our self styled and self elected messenger leaders with a few others upon whom we should rely for guidance and direction, are the first to go over to theoes under some pretence of an excuse, good, reasonable or bad. If the bosses regard their ability and fitness as leaders so highly, why dont They Show it and recognize it with appointments to suitably correspond? The Birth of Nation fight began last September and ends next Tuesday when you cast your ballots. The white people of this community and this nation are wondering whether the Negro will have enough of the red blood of race pride and self respect, as to protect their rights with the ballot. They know that manhood and respect of Negroes is put up against insults. Jim crowism and dollars. They know that there is no half way, no scratching and that you must either swallow these insults by the lick spitte route or resent them by standing together like men and women. What kind of feeling or respect can these white insulters and Jim crowers have for Negroes who will support them against their own race? They know white people wont do it for Negroes and these republicans should not require this of Negroes. All that any fair white man requires of any Negro is that he be honest, courteous, many and full of race pride. Do you know that every Negroe's name in Districts C, H and T together with the number of the registered in every precinct is known? Now, Negroes don't show up well in these precincts resenting A WOLF ASSASSINATES WOMANKIND IN DENVER. The Vote-all-down Class Go No Limits to Gain Votes. Among other things, ex-Justice of the Peace Wolfe was alleged to have made this statement on the street corner of one of our crowded thoraces Thursday: "No decent woman and only prostitutes will support Speer. The girls in the Manhattan restaurant on Larimer St., they are for him. You know what they are. And the colored women who support Speer are nothing but prostitutes." This is in substance his statement as reported to us. If this decrepid ex-justice of the peace made this remark about our women, he is devoid of intelligence, reason, and is a fit subject for the insane asylum. When he calls our wives, our daughters, sisters and mothers, as dear and as precious as they are to us, in such language upon the public street, he stabs at our vitals, spills cut our life blood and runs dagger through our hearts. He lied in his mouth; he lied in his throat; he lied in his heart, and if such remark was made before Negroes about their women, somebody would have to call an undertaker or doctor. O NEGROES, you who love your race and your women, YOU who would give your very lives for their honor and protection, resent this unholy, black, baseless, disgraceful and disgusting slur upon us, by walking with head erect, shoulders back and face upward, to the polis Tuesday and casting your vote for Robert W. Speer and against all other amendments. Nisbet began by insulting you and getting away with it. Now why can't Wolfe do the same? Remember, the race is on trial Tuesday. Hurl this lie back in his teeth, split it in his face, close his very eyes and so fill his dirty and foul mouth that the lie will stick forever in his unworthy throat, by voting for Speer and still be DECENT and RESPECTABLE. Resent all insults. Treating the Scalp for all Diseases, such as Dandruff, Eczema, Tetter and Itch. GUARANTEED TO CURE Sole Agent for All Remedies of the Johnson M'fg Co., Boston, Mass. Phone Main 4239 Joe T. Hirahara } Props. Joe Y. Tani TOGO Dry Cleaning and Hand Laundry Call and See Us 1232-34 Twentieth street Dr. Crump, Residence_Phone Champa 1538.! Office Phone Main 8298 DR. J.W. CRUMP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 1025 21st Street Hours—9 to 12 a. m., 2 to 6 p. m., 7 to 9 p. m Phone Champa 2211 THE Chesapeake Fish and Oystsr Fresh Fish, Oysters, Salt Smoked, Dried and Canned Fish. Poultry and Game of all Kinds 828 FIFTEENTH ST. Brown Hat Factory 718 18th STREET Latest Style Hats Made To Order GUARANTEED HATS $2.00 AND $2.50 Hats Cleaned and Blocked PHONE MAIN 7182 Five Points Hardware Co. and Tinshop Everything in Hardware, Paints, Oils, and Glass at right prices Also Furnace work, Gutting and all kinds of Tin and Sheet Metal work at Reasonable prices Phone York 9068 Help the Blind O. Marshall & Son Dealers in CORN BROOMS All kinds of Corn, Brooms and Barn Brooms 2541 Clarkson St. Denver Dayton Bicycle 5 Year [Guarantee The best Colored people in L. A. MAEDEL, 17 awn Mowers, Garden Hose, Ph Kitchen Utensils. Befor Bicycle 2643 Welton St. Phone Champa 2078. (Continued from page 1) insults; what white man can we get to help us in our segregation fight just ahead of us. He offered us his friendship, we betray him and give him treachery. Vote for Speer. Do or DODGE, DRIFT OR ANCHOR. When Booth-Nisbet Amendment was put in the field no concern, attention, notice or consideration was given the Negro at all, they were simply ignored. Nisbet had declared already that he could, by giving a few Negroes a chance to do an illegal business and with only $100 in money he could buy up all the Negroes, even if it took three delegates to Pueblo. Seeing the Negro is thoroughly aroused, they help your enemies who represent the man who insults you, tell you to a bandon their ticket with their pet serpent and vote "no" on everything. What does that mean? It means you, Negroes after you are insulted, are too ignorant to know it, too degraded to resent it, by voting Speer up and in office with our friends or too corrupt and lazy to protect your race and are nothing but a race of cowards and quitters with a yellow streak when it comes to a real issue. Meet it squarely, to vote "no" on everything spits in the faces of your friends, lowers your manhood, stabs Mayor Sharpley in the back and knifes Mr. Pitcher in the dark Be men or mice. Can a fellow, Odd Fellow or Ruthite, U. B. F. or S. M. T. or Knight of Pythias or Calanthe, Mason or Eastern Star Daughters of Tabernacle forsake Dr. Westbrook, a Mason, Calanthe and Knight of Pythias, or Dr. Spratlin, Grand Master of Odd Fellows and member of nearly every secret organization in town? Let us make one effort all for one and one for all, and if we must fall, let us all fall like men together inseparably linked together. Be not cowards nor quitters and rock the boat be a "stabilizer" with faith in ourselves, in Speer and his amendment and its ultimate triumph for the right. Or shall we, fainthearted and inconsistent recoil with horror, and fear and submissively beg his pardon for insulting us and our race. We must anchor fast to manhood, courage and self respect or drift upon the waters of insults, Jim crowism and treachery within and without. Anchor with a vote for Speer. Shall we wait until the enemy's army of segregators and Jim Crowers are elected in office, mobilized, with trenches dug by Negro traitors, and everything in readiness for them to deal us a deadly blow thru these nine aldermen elected by the Booth-Nnsbet method from the city at large, with no direct responsibility to any particular district? Can you not see that bug under the chip? 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There shall be, and hereby is, created a Department of Safety and Excise, which shall have full charge and control of the departments of Fire and Police, heretofore under the control of the Commissioner of Safety; and which shall also have control of the department of Excise, heretofore under the control of the Commissioner of Finance, with full power to grant, renew, suspend during investigation, and revoke after notice and hearing thereon, all licenses, and in addition thereto, shall exercise the powers and perform the duties now required, or that may hereafter be required, by the Constitution or the general laws of the state, to be exercised and performed by the Sheriff. The Manager of Safety and Excise shall be the officer in full charge and control of said department, and shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office. This article was inserted at the suggestion of Lawyers Townsend and Ross in lieu of taking an appeal to the Supreme court. This article is clear and powers definite. This alone ought to make you for Speer. The number of registered voters in District C, precincts 1 to 12, is 4,469, and in District H, precincts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15, there are 5,848 registered voters, with a heavy Negro vote, as well as in District T, where precincts 1, 2, 4, 10 and 11 show 6,645 registered SPRING IS HE ST. LOUIS Clean, Press, Remodel and Work Guaranteed at H. EIDF 2613 WELTON ST. "All About Shey THURSDAY, GIVEN BY BO BASE BALL ROUND TRIP Dance will be g Excursion ever run to 200 people. Prepare time, place and joy, you W. A. Jones, M. D. President A. A. WALLER, Manager Notary Public The C an Phone C With Br FOR SALE, ON EASY TERMS. Cash, $200.00 and up. In 1000 block So. Gaylord, 6-room brick, modern, on 1½ lots, $1,800.00. In 2500 block, Curtis, 10-room brick, modern, on 1½ lots, $2,600.00. In 2300 block Ogden St., 7-room brick, modern, on 1½ lots, $2,100.00. voters, strongly identified with Negroes. The world has its eyes on the Negroes and Tuesday will show whether you fight or run. Let every man vote for the future of his race. Stick by your friends today for you will need them tomorrow. FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT CELEBRATION PROPOSED Colored Citizens of New York Ask For a $10,000 Appropriation. Brooklyn.—The following is part of an editorial which recently appeared in the Brooklyn Dally Eagle of this city. The Eagle says: The formal request made of the board of aldermen by the colored people of the city for a $10,000 appropriation to help them celebrate next October the anniversary of the adoption of the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution is not to be lightly turned down. The idea of equality in civil rights is fascinating. The ambition for such equality is worthy. The race has enough members here to justify some consideration. Yet students of what has happened to the Negro since the reconstruction period may have reasonable doubts whether the civil rights amendment helped much. It was intended to help. After half a century in most of the states that were in the Confederacy and had slavery Negroes are still lynched for trivial provocations, and no lyncher is ever brought to justice. The Negro vote is concededly "suppressed" in Louisiana, in Mississippi, in South Carolina, even in Georgia and Alabama. Jury equality does not exist. Equality in schools does not exist. Why should the Negroes want to celebrate this amendment? RE! LET THE S TAILOR Repair Your Clothes. All and Prices Reasonable LSTEIN MAIN 2992 oard For Ann" JUNE 15th OLDEN BROS. TEAM - $4.00 given at night. Biggest Cheyenne. Must carry now. We furnish the furnish the rest. H. J. M. Brown Treasurer HARRY COWELL Mgr. 5 Pts. 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Mrs. Ida DePriest was given work in the office of the Election Commissioner thru our old friend Mr. Henry B. Teller (a Democrat), while an ex pressman and a messenger were also hired. A friend is a friend and it we be friends show me, tickle me like I tickle you, so we both can laugh with joy. Why should she not work in this non-partisan campaign, and why should she not vote for a friend who has proved his friendship to the race? Who got Booth's printing for colored? Ask J. D. D. Rivers. The Star gives all to understand that no alliance be made at the polls save the alliance of freedom, equality manhood and self respect, and no peace that does not rest on the safe and permanent basis of executing justice between man and man. We want all that belongs to the full fledged American citizen. We are in earnest. We cannot be bulldozed. We cannot be bought, and under God we will be heard and felt by voting Speer up and in Nisbet down and out. Did Nisbet ask the Negro speakers to do for him what he was ashamed, or had failed, refused or neglected to do for himself, that is, to apologize to the race for the shame he has heaped upon it? If you don't know how to mark your ballot, ask or phone us. If I could divide my vote in ten parts and then multiply each part by ten votes, I would cast each vote for Speer as a supreme rebuke and keen resentment to Nisbet.—Ross. Did you hear of Horace Phelps, Booth's speaker, last Thursday night? During our Birth of a Nation fight. Where was he THEN when we WERE COMPELLED to tread the wine press alone? Does he only know you at election time? Nisbet struck at and hit the race a foul blow and will you help the Star to strike back? No political party is big enough and dear enough to me or mine for me to make my race suffer in order that a few Jim Crowers should hold and be retained in office. Birth of a Nation did not help the prejudice already lurking in Denver; it only served to increase, aggravate and crystallize it. Montclair and Franklin St. are the segregationists finest and latest examples. "I am for Robt. W. Speer for mayor first, last and all the time. He can and will do what he says he can and will do. If I could only get my people to see that in city elections a friend is a friend and a man a man, and that we should at all times, in all places, support men and principles, especially when they are friendly, rather than worship a political party, I would be the happiest man in Denver. Who put me where I am today, in a place of honor rarely ever given to a colored man? I have been put there by a real man who loves all humanity, and who likes to see everybody up and aspiring to make the world better. Only two of such appointments have been given in this country to Negroes before Mayor Sharpley stood by us in the Birth of a Nation fight, and may God bless him for what he has had to endure for us. My illness has prevented me from taking more active part in the campaign, but I want and hope that all my friends will help me hold my place of honor at the County hospital by voting for Robert W. Speer," said Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook as he sat in his easy chair Thursday. The Star owes its first duty to our race, and it is compelled to admit that when Mr. Speer found out that 75 per cent of the colored people were for him and were honestly helping his cause, certain business men gave Negroes more consideration, a way was opened for a temporary place in the election commissioner's office for a Republican worker, Mr. George Hall, expressman, was given a job for three days to haul ballot boxes to and from the polls, with the assistance of Mr. Gay, both of whom will be paid nicely. A colored band and orchestra have been employed, and Mrs. Robt. Sloan has been put in charge of the headquarters at Five Points. All these things spell something. Neither Dr. Sharpey nor did Mr. Pitcher wait until election time to cultivate the Negroes' friendship --- --- 一 $2.00 1.00 .50 In rate, all subscriptions must be paid h. rs sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. Ober when due, inform us by postal card cate of the missing number. Express Money Order, Postoffice Money It. Postage stamps will be received the a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps DENVER STAR. Union must be newsy, upon important sub- side of the paper. No manuscript retage. at the postoffice in the city of Denver, They felt the need of it all the time and they acted. How can you be true to yourself, your race and your friends and turn them down? Vote solidly for Speer and against all amendments. You who want instructions, go to the Five Points headquarers and let them show you how to mark your ballot and take a sample home with you so you can show others. Everybody talk Speer from now until Tuesday night. Our parting word to you is, remember you fire the last gun in the Birth of a Nation fight, when you cast your ballot. Aim carefully, shoot straight and walk away proudly, as you VOTE FOR SPEER. 2,000 NEGROES DECLARE FOR SPEER AT EAST TURNER HALL Mayors Sharpley and Speer Given Ovation Two thousand Negroes met at East Turner hall Thursday night to hear the issues of the city campaign as presented by Mr. Speer, Mayor Sharpley, Attorney W. B. Townsend and Mr. Jefferay. For three hours they listened attentively to each speaker and when the meeting ended a rousing Speer demonstration followed. When a race or manhood is insulted, it needs no incentive to resent When a race or manhood is insulted, it needs no incentive to resent sent the attack. SPEARLIKE SPEERISMS. Large powers can be safely granted where there is a recall in the hands of the people, and there is no question about the recall being in force under this amendment. What we need, above everything else, is not more people, but more prosperity for the people we now have. Lack of work is one of the greatest breeders of crime, and cities should spend at least as much money to prevent crime as to punish it. I want to see Denver lead in city government, and to do so the administration must eliminate politics, enforce laws, be free from newspaper and corporation dictation. No city can become great upon vice and immorality. Higher ideals, sublime patriotism and noblest action depend upon you. It is not what Speer was yesterday last week, or last eight years, but it is what he is and what he stands for today. To live and die in a yesterday makes fossils out of us, but the big and broad men and women of thought and action take a masterly view of men and events by living in the "today." Did this Booth committee, headed by Vick Roy, ever tell you why they Jim Crowed the Negro petition circulators, advertised in the sacred Post, and that they were sorry? No. It was not necessary, because they had Massa Harper's Jim Crowing messenger who had powerful influence with you. Let us by our vote wipe out all insulters and Jim Crowers with one stroke. Think of what they are asking you to do: Keep the same man in office thru your assistance, with the same power; a man who stabbed you once in the back! What can you hope for? What if it does wreck or destroy a few political ambitions of a few Republicans? What if their hopes are crushed, so long as we protect, preserve and defend our manhood and race pride. What did the lily white Republicans do in Arkansas? White people are watching you and your actions in this fight and they will look at you and measure you just as you look at and measure yourself. Respect yourself first and others will respect you. If you cringe or show weakness, St. Louis Jim Crowism triumphs and "Birth of Nation" Nisbet will exult in his insults. We yield to none in respect for those who from honest convictions and motives oppose Speer and swal low Nisbet. Yet when some few ser file sewer rats of the Republican party attempt to besmirch the purse and intentions of such men a our ministers, Messrs. Sharpley and Pitcher and our professional men, we doubt their sincerity of action and platform of principle. Build or Wreck. The Negro's Plain Duty at the Polls. (By William G. May) Fortunately, we are at last presented with the much desired opportunity of delivering ourselves from the chaotic conditions incident to the commission "mess" of government, from which Denver has suffered woefully in recent years. After expensive ventures in experimental government, it is proposed, thru amendments submitted, to return to the mayor and aldermanic form. It behooves us equally with other citizens interested, to enlist our active support with the amendment which makes surest for the upbuilding and advancement of Denver, for constructive and practical statesmanship. With all thinking citizens agreed that the commission "mess" has failed dismally and a radical change is eminently desirable, the problem of the approaching election reduced itself to a choice as to which of the first two amendments is the more advisable to adopt. The adoption of either would probably be generally satisfactory, as, in effect, their operation would be practically identical, the very important and essential difference being the personnel of officials each would inaugurate. There are two combinations that have certainly wrought havoc with Denver's municipal conduct, viz: Politics and inefficiency, and inefficiency and politics. The atmosphere in this high altitude seems impregnated with elements that tend to sap the popularity of candidates capable of performing the functions of offices they seek. In this, as in previous elections, every honest effort calculated to solve correctly the problems involved, is beset with elements and agencies designed to confuse. Yellow journalism has arisen in all its indignation and fury, proclaiming itself the people's champion, offering in abundance identically the same advice responsible for the deplorable conditions from which the people are suffering. Colored men and women, either to gain or to hold a few janitor jobs, have assumed the solemn role of race saviors, crying aloud to us and to heaven that our only salvation depends upon the election of the unknown and unheard of Mr. Booth and "Birth of a Nation" Nisbet. In so doing they are obviously collaborating with the enemies of the race and furthering the pernicious influences of a yellow and degrading journalism without which Denver would have been in fact, as well as in name, "The City Beautiful" and the "Queen of the Plains." Of the Negroes above referred to, I pause for a reply to the following questions: What has the Denver Post ever done for you except to chronicle on its front page, in glaring headlines and red ink, the minutest details of rape, murder, lynchings and crimes generally where Negroes are reported to be implicated or to have committed? Are these repeated outrages upon your race and upon common decency attracting you to the support of its candidates? After nearly ten years in office, with hundreds of positions under him, what has this man Nisbet, who had sole power to suppress that vicious film, "Birth of a Nation," done for you? I remember him insulting you and your intelligence by permitting the exhibition of "Birth of a Nation" but—but what? One janitorship from his hundreds of positions. But let us investigate further and we'll find where the Overland bandit has no corner on gall. Mr. Nisbet, in return for one rag and one mop, cordially solicits the support of "all Colored citizens." He temporarily relieves his janitor (substituting him with a white man), and sends him forth to "lead" colored people to the tune of the most remarkable keynote ever devised. Listen! It runs thus: "A vote for Speer is a vote for Wilson." How is that? It is a clean "knock out." Those of us present knew better than that on afternoon Jan. 1, 1865. Neither does it embarrass these esteemed ladies and gentlemen to so affront your intelligence. Their hope is that by repetition and daily suggesting the thought, they may hypnotize a sufficient number to the polls to accomplish a result at which we should shudder. It is only in the absence of a plea worthy of your support that Mr. Nisbet sends you this Wilson "bogie." But we wish to assure Mr. Nisbet that he neither deceived nor frightened a soul. We propose to offer a practical demonstration of how easy it is to vote May 9th for Mr. Speer. I desire to impress upon my people most seriously and earnestly, if the logic of events can be safely followed, that you can never obtain recognition and consideration commensurate with your strength and numbers until you rise as a race and demand it, ignoring entirely that perennial line of veritable "bunk" delivered to you for election consumption only. To swallow "Birth of a Nation" without administering Mr. Nisbet his PROPER REBUKE on election day would be but little less than criminal on your part, and any man or woman who offers extenuating arguments for Mr. Nisbet should be immediately classed with the "gumshoe" who "buttonholes" you to the curbstone and whispers the Old Abe argument as a reason for you voting for a "yellow dog who may be on a Republican ticket." From those dark pages we now turn to others in more beautiful and encouraging contrast of a man who has made a competent and capable executive. It is only logical to conclude that, with additional experience and extensive observation and study in foreign cities, that candidates should render even more efficient service in the event of their election. Mr. Speer's executive ability, capacity, and his thorough knowledge of the conduct of municipal affairs are unquestioned by his bitterest opponents, who are compelled to admit that he knows "every little thing" about the proper administration of a large city. It seems then that the election of this man should offer us a certain course out of our miserable misgovernment. If we honestly and earnestly desire to again place Denver on the map, we have no alternative. Caucasians and Negroes alike will one day learn that to reduce taxes to a minimum, enhance property values, create sufficient employment for all and enjoy generally the fruits of good government, the selection of the most competent officials is necessary. Mr. Booth might be a diamond in the rough, but have we not grown rather weary of experimenting? The surest way to insure prosperity and political peace is to arrange on May 9th an extended vacation for the professional reformers, incorrigible agitators and "never-do-wells" in our midst, and this will best be accomplished thru the election of Mayor Speer, whom we all know and who has been especially favorable to the colored people. Since he left office we have seen position secured thru his influence go glimmering until they are no longer in consideration. For the best interest of Denver, to regain a measure of waning political prestige and as a fitting rebuke to "Birth of a Nation" Nisbet. Let each and every one of us go to the polls and demonstrate to other people that we are, at heart, interested in the upbuilding and prosperity of our city and another "Birth of a Nation" comes to Denver, the city's gates will be pad locked. A vote for R. W. Speer will accomplish both purposes admirably. Be a builder or a wrecker, which? 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June 22—Widows' Leap Year Entertainment at Shorters. MAY 9—Children's Carnival at Shorter by Stewardess Board. MAY 15—Grand Waltz and Rag Content, Fern Hall, XX C A Club. JUNE 7—Lady Audley's Secret, by Queen of the West Templo No. 1, S. M. T. MAY 11—Grand musical sight-reading contest at Central. MAY 25—Tom Thumb Wedding at Zion under auspices Pupit Aid. MAY 29—Tompkins' Hired Man, at Campbell church. JUNE 8—The S. H. Lane Smart Set Co. at East Turner Hall. The best insurance policy of the U. S. A. is written by HINKLE. Try Rice-Rice for good ice Cream and ice, home made bread, pies and cakes. Your orders are solicited for parties and church entertainments. Mexican chill served daily. IN THE NEW COLORED COLONY, 10 acres, best title, good land, near ditch, 9 inches of water. Price $800., one-fourth cash, balance in small monthly payments. Fine spring, cold water, also creek running. Horace Haskins, Littleton, Colo. Phone Englewood 293R1. tf-4-5-16 Gymnastic and Folk Dance, given by Pride of Denver Tabernacle 521, at Fern Hall, 8 o'clock, May 11, 1916. Admission 15c. Mrs. S. Threet, Mgr. Please call Sunday between 10 and 12 and we will demonstrate the Christensen rag-time piano playing. 718 25th Ave. Private lessons given day or evening, 50 cents. We loan the instruments free. 1522 Welton or 718 25th Ave. I want a man to solicit for music school. Good place for right man. 1522 Welton. Instruments loaned. F. S. Ree, director and embalmer, is much improved of tonsillitis. Mrs. T. Simpson of 2439 Welton St. spent the week end with Miss Bertha Carpenter of Pueblo. MEETINGS OF THE TAKA ART AND LITERARY CLUB. May 10, Mrs. Stell, 2421 Humboldt. May 17, Mrs. Waldon, 1418 E. 24th Ave. May 24, Miss Elsie Von Dickersohn, 2218 Lafayette. Miss Rella Gunport entertained "The Bon Soir" card club at her home, 438 29th St., April 29th. There was a large attendance of members and friends. A delightful Dutch lunch was served during the social hour. The Negro Women's Club Home Association will meet Tuesday evening with Mrs. M. Barnes, 2938 Glen-arm place. PILLS BEST FOR LIVER Because they contain the best liver medicines, no matter how bitter or nauseating, for the sweet sugar coating hides the taste. Dr. King's New Life Pills contain ingredients that put the liver working, move the bowels freely, no gripe, no nausea, ald digestion. Just try a bottle of Dr. King's New Life Pills and notice how much better you feel. 25c, at your druggist. Said Tommy Jones to Sadie Stone: "I've got it. That policy Minkle wrote." Lawyer W. B. Townsend makes a specialty in collecting endowment money, life insurance, also makes contracts and examines titles to property. White 313 Kittredge Bldg. Call 313 2797. If adv. ```markdown ``` City News Land in new colored colony, three miles east of Littleton, cheap, easy terms. Englewood 293, R. 1. Call after 6 p. m. Horace Haskin, R. F. D. No. 3, Littleton, Colo. 4-1-16-pd TO BE FOR THE NEGRO IS TO BE AGAINST NISBET, AND TO BE AGAINST THE NEGRO IS TO BE FOR NISBET. YOU CAN'T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT, TOO. YOU MUST CHOOSE EITHER THE NEGRO AND HIS 15 FAMILIES OR NISBET AND HIS INSULTS. NOTICE THE CLASS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE SUPPORTING NEGRO HATERS. WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE TO THEM? YOU DECIDE. WORK AND VOTE FOR SPEER. Phone either one of the stores when in need of "hurry up" service. We carry everything that's handled by first class drug stores. Phone Main 2701 or Main 7632. Mrs. Geo. Hickman, agent for Mrs. E. Williams' hair grower. v. Mrs. George Hickman, 2244 Welton St. Phone Main 1558. The Crisis and all colored magazines and papers are now handled at the ELITE DRUG STORES, 21st and Arapahoe Sts., and at the branch, 23rd and Washington Aves. tt MEETINGS THE GOLDEN WEST ART CLUB. May 12, Mrs. Ethel Roy, 2335 Arapa hoe St. Mrs. Pauline Hanks, Presi. Mrs. Ethel Roy, Sect. NEXT. IF YOU PLEASE. The Annual May Fair of the Church of the Redeemer, auspices St. Perpetua Guild, Fern Hall, May 25th. Admission 25 cents. Morrison orchestra. One of the best programs rendered in Scott's M. E. church was given by the children Easter Sunday night, under the supervision of Mesdames C. M. White and H. Coleman, with the assistance of Miss Helen Minnis. The wee wee Tom Thumb wedding will be given by the Pulpit Aid of Zion Baptist church Thursday, May 25, at Zion. The program will be assisted by the famous Male Quartette at Zion. Admission 10c. The wee wee Tom Thumb wedding will be given by the Pulpit Aid of Zion Baptist church Thursday, May 25, at Zion. The program will be assisted by the famous Male Quartette at Zion. Admission 10c. Wait for the big Source in May given by XXC Art Club. FETE OF NATIONS. Of all the beautiful post-lenten events given in Denver recently, the "Fete of Nations" under the auspices of the Ladies' Guild of the Church of the Redeemer easily takes precedence. Unique in conception and artistic in execution, it is indeed doubtful if an affair more brilliant and striking was ever witnessed in the city. The Dutch family, looking the part to a nicety under the skill and guidance of Mrs. Mildred Abernathy, led the way mid deafening applause. Next came the gay Spanish girls in brilliant bespangled costumes, of deep red, waving aloft the tuneful tambourine amid sweet strains of Spanish music by the orchestra. Mrs. Chas. White was responsible for this stunt and it caught the fancy of the large crowd at once. The Geisha girls or Japanese group then appeared and to say they were received with a warm welcome is to put it mildly. Nor was anyone prepared for the classy drills and graceful dances they brought forth. The audience showed high appreciation of their efforts and warm words of praise were extended to Jno. Carrie, Jr., who was the drillmaster. The final number was the Indian tribe and their hit was complete. The war dance, the camp fire scene and their drills, with the ceaseless beating of tom-toms, kept the crowd in an uproar. Little Madge Benoit, the "papoose," was the unquestioned feature of this number. Miss Bonnie Stafford was crowd Queen of the May, and Dr. Crump the King. Keep off the date, it's Hot. Widows' Leap Year Entertainment at Shortare'. COLDS QUICKLY RELIEVED. Many people cough and cough—from the beginning of fall right thru to spring. Others get cold after cold. Take Dr. King's New Discovery and you will get almost immediate relief it checks your cold, stops the racking, rasping, tissue-tearing cough, heals the inflammation, soothes the raw tubes. Easy to take, antiseptic and healing. Get a 50c bottle of Dr King's New Discovery today. "It is certainly a great medicine and I keep a bottle of it continually on hand. writes W. C. Jesseman, Franconia, N. H. Money back if not satisfied. You have got to die some time. See HINKLE first. EVERYBODY TAKE NOTICE. Information concerning the present whereabouts of Mrs. Ethel Manuel, of Kansas City, Mo., who came to Denver about two years ago, is requested by Mrs. J. P. Shelburn, 2424 Curtis St., Denver, Colo. Write, call or come and see her at above address Phone Main 7945. Business of the utmost importance; much finance involved. 4t-4-29-16x WANTED—To rent to two nice men, room and board, also to two children, at 2450 Tremont Place. Everything first class. Phone Champa 3297. Mrs. Franklin. tf-4-15-16 Gymnastic and Folk Dance given by Pride of Denver 521, at Fern Hall, May 11th, 1916, 8 o'clock. Mrs. Threet, Mgr. Admission 15 cents. Rufus Bolden went to Cheyenne this week to arrange for an excursion, baseball game, with a dance in Cheyenne about June 15th. The fare will be $4.00 round trip. He figures on taking 300 people who want to see Cheyenne for two days. Particulars later. Mrs. Robert C. Beasley left last week for an extended visit to Chicago, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Dayton, Detroit, and Oxford, Ohio. CAMMEL & CO., UNDERTAKERS IN CHARGE. Mr. Wm. Wise departed this life April 29th at his residence, 1381 Osceola St. Funeral was held Tuesday, May 2nd, from Campbell church at 2 p. m. Rev. James Washington officiated. Interment at Riverside. Curtis M. Harris has accepted the position as head bellman and police officer of the Hotel Stanley for this season at Estes Park, Colo. This will be his sixth season at this fine hotel. Curtis will begin to get his crew together at once. Season starts June 17 and closes Sept. 16. FOR SALE FOR SALE Dearfield lunch room for sale, reasonable; object, leaving town. Call and inquire at 1023 21st St. tf-5-5-16 Mrs. Gertrude Moore left Tuesday night for Casper, Wyoming, where she will resume her practice in beauty culture. Mrs. Virginia Spitelle royally entertained her while here. There will be a Grand Waltz and Rag contest at Fern Hall May 15, given by the XX C. Art club. Morrison's orchestra with two beautiful prizes will be the features. POND LILY ART CLUB. Mrs. M. Williams, 315 14th St. May 4th; Mrs. C. Campbell, 1398 So. Clarkson, May 11th; Mrs. A. M. Carriss 524 Columbine St., May 18th; Mrs. N. L. Douglass, 1035 Meade St. May 25 NOTICE—CHANGE OF DATE. Prof. Thomas' Dramatic Club have changed the date of their entertainment from May 30 to June 8th. Mr. J. W. Rowe, who was killed on account of an old family grudge on the 18th ult. at Masters, Colo., on a ranch, by Bossy Cheney, was buried Sunday afternoon at Riverside. The Denver Mortuary had charge of the funeral WATCH CHILD'S COUGH. Colds, running or nose, continued irritation of the mucous membrane if neglected may mean catarrh later. Don't take the chances—do something for your child! Children will not take every medicine, but they will take Dr King's New Discovery and without bribing or teasing. It's a sweet plea ant tar syrup and so effective. Just laxative enough to eliminate the waste poisons. Almost the first dose helps. Always prepared, no mixing or fussing. Just ask your druggist for Dr. King's New Discovery. It will safeguard your child against serious ailments resulting from colds. TO HELP NISBET'S CHARTER MEANS THAT YOU ARE HELPING CARLSON'S MASSA' HARPER'S JIM CROWING MESSENGER TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL. LET US KILL ALL JIM CROWERS NOW. WORK AND VOTE FOR SPEER. Have a talk with HINKLE about that insurance before it is too late. FERN FERN HALL 2711 Welton Street Can be rented for Private or Gatherings of any nature, with modation. Can be rented for Private or Public Parties. Dances or Gatherings of any nature, with latest first class accommodation. PHONE MAIN 2860 Look—A Fortune. There will be a piano playing contest by the best talent in the city for the interest of new Central church. Given by Mrs. L. Turner. Full details later. Don't be misled or tricked. Vote "YES" only to Speer amendment and "NO" on all the rest. Vote on all three. Webster's Orchestra back in business again, better than ever. Best music in town. Prices cheap. See Emmett Webster. Phone Champa 1572. 4t-4-15-16 POLITE SERVICE AND EFFICIENCY TELLS Since J. P. Perkins has been in the employ of the Neustetter Dry Goods Co., more than ten colored are being employed as the result of his intercessions. The latest additions are Eugene Coe and Rudolph Boyle, as chauffeur and messenger deliverers in their brand new auto. A colored elevator pilot succeeded a white boy and Mr. Neustetter is now looking for a colored boy to take charge of his garage. We ask that club women and others write a letter of thanks to the proprietor, showing your appreciation for his recognition. Some should call in person and thank him. We need friends and must hold all we have while we gain more. Mrs. Walter C. Craig and husband are spending a few days in Salt Lake City. Willie Bolden, our popular church worker, has gone to the County hospital for an operation. He is a pretty sick man. May 18 belongs to Evergreen Chapter No. 36, O. E. S. Keep off the date. Will any person knowing the whereabouts of Benjamin Baker please notify Josephine Baker, 2556 Glenn Place. His last known address was 217 W. 21st St., Wichita, Kans. Will the Topeka Plaindaler lease copy? 4t-4-15-16-pd The thing you need I've got—ask Hinkle. THE ACHES OF HOUSE CLEANING The pain and soreness caused by bruises, over-exertion and straining during house cleaning time are soothed away by Sloan's Liniment. No need to suffer this agony. Just apply Sloan's Liniment to the sore spots, rub only a little. In a short time the pain leaves, you rest comfortably and enjoy a refreshing sleep. One grateful user writes: "Sloan's Liniment is worth its weight in gold." Keep a bottle on hand, use it against all soreness, neuralgia and bruises. Kills pain. 25c, at your druggist. Vote for the most popular doctor (physician and dentist) at May fair at Ferm hall Thursday, May 25. Morrison orchestra. Admission 25c. LA JUNTA NEWS HAPPENINGS. In the midst of our busy preparations for Easter, we were happily surprised by the coming of Revs. H. F. Bray of Denver and John L. Williams of Colorado Springs, with their wives and little Dorcas Bray. Accompanied by Mrs. Edythe Settle, Rev. Bray's sister, they were en route in an auto to the general conference which meets in Philadelphia. As they reached the house a tire exploded, necessitating their stay over for Easter services, which was a pleasure and very profitable to our churches. Rev. Williams made the Easter address, Rev. and Mrs. Bray each taught a class in the Sunday school and in the afternoon attended the program at Mt. Zion Baptist church, with Rev. Bender as pastor. For the evening an excellent program was witnessed at the A. M. E. church. The pastor and congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist church dismissed their evening service and worshipped with us. Short talks were made by Revs. Bender and Williams, Supt. of Mt. Zion Sunday school, Mrs. Ray, and our own Supt. Mrs. M. A. Berry, Rev. Bray and the Rev. Mrs. Williams making the chief talks of the evening, which were indeed an inspiration to all. The writer was complimented for his solo parts of the songs, "He Rose" and "He's the One," which were very much appreciated. Our collections were $12.53 and as a token of appreciation to our guests, the congregations gave them $4.05 to buy cards to let us know how the journey went. The district conference and Sunday school convention of the Albuquerque district will be held with this church June 21-25 and the people are expecting to make it pleasant for all who attend. Mrs. Settle stopped with Mrs. Berry, Rev. and Mrs. Bray with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Grant, and Rev. Williams and wife with the wife and Mr. Wright, with whom we had a pleasant sojourn in the North Missouri conference. They left Monday with much praise for their entertainment and the people of La Junta. They expect to return this way. More anon. Subscribe for the Star. See me. Mrs. Mollie Blair, mother of Mrs. Anna Blair-Berry of Chicago, will leave Tuesday for a month's visit with her daughter in Chicago, Ill. N HALL Welton Street e or Public Parties. Dances or with latest first class accom- PHONE MAIN 2860 R I. PHYNIX Manager The Nat Insurance National Life Insurance Company The National Life Insurance Company OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Oldest and Largest Insurance Company Accident and Health Business in the Home Office 59[South LaSalle Street Chicago ASK HINKLE He Knows 202 Comm FIRE INSURANCE? SU and Largest Insurance Company doing t and Health Business in the U. S. A. Office Salle Street ASK HINKLE He Knows Local Office 202 Commonwealth Bldg Denver RE INSURANCE? 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Orders Taken Overton Hygienic HIGH BROWN Toilet Articles formerly hand- led by Mrs. Lillie Moore. 2626 Welton Street Denver, Colorado GO TO SEE 2230 Larimer St. Denver, Colo . --- CAPITAL $1,500,000 BEN GIVENS, Prop C. DUNCAN Mgr A Phone Main 869 M. H. H. ASSETS $13,000,000 WM. VOIGT'S Watchmaker and Jeweler Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. Silverware, Etc. Fine Repairing of all Kinds 611 27th St., Near Welton Denver, Colo. Free Thermometer to each Customer. SOLES SAVED SATISFACTORY AT NEW WAY WHILE YOU WAIT 1855 CHAMPA ST. PHONE MAIN 3737 This $18.00 Elgin or Waltham, 15 Jewel WATCH thin model, 20 year Gold Filled Case, on Sale at Emmett Williams The Barber that made Denver famous in Barber Shops. Have the only first-class shop in town. Business AUTO SERVICE. Oliver Hardwick, 2701 Wetton St SS BARBER SHOPS. ¢ The Jewell—1022 19th St The Star—223z Larimer. G. ©, Graig, 255? Washington Ave. CARPENTER. Earnest Howard, 1021 21st 6t = CLOTHES CLEANERS ANO PRESGERS. Sanitary Clothes Cleaners & Prest: ‘ers, 2622 Welton St. ——— COAL, FEED AND EXPRESS, ae Norris and Wm. Hill, 1024 23rd 1 ©. W. Bridges—619 27th Bt "5 Carter—2415 ‘Washington. —_——— CONFECTIONERS. Rice & Rice— 2632 Welton. _—_—_—- CORSET SPECIALIST. Miss Beatrice Lewis, 2339 Gilpin St. TOILET ARTICLES. Mrs. Lillie B. Moore, 2925 Glenarm. pie ee CENTIST. br. T. B. McClain, 313% Kittredge Bid Cee DRUG STORES. coampa PRarmacy—20t> & Champs, CuamtpragO8-rss-csce es ‘Weltoa oe eve SPECIALISTS. Gwigert Bros. —1650 californis. a HALLS. Fern Hall, 2711 Welton St. SS HARDWARE- Five Points iH. Co.—2643 Welton ee HAIR SPECIALIST ™ Mesdames Gora Robinson and Eliza Tose, 2481 Ogden St. Mrs, B. Williams, 1910, penn, Denver. Mire, Jessie Carter, 2759 Glenarm Pl. pope Turnbo—3100 Fin’. St, Bt Loule Madam DeNeal, 1319 Fast Pine St. Seattle, Wash. wolf Bros., 1214 N. Senate Ave. I dianapolis, Ind. SS, jNSURANCE- Western Life & Keeident Co.—ces & Electric Blés- The Bankers International Insurance Co. a LOANS AND REAL ESTATE Colored American— 913, aist 8t. ‘ak, 3. Arfsten—2945 Jarimer. a LAWYERS. w. B. Townsend and T. O- Mason, 2850 Welton St. George G. Rose—209 Kittredge Bids. — LIGHT AND FIXTURES Decker & Co.—1432 Curtis St MEAT MARKET. Fay Brothers, 122931 16th St. Welton Fruit & Vegetable Market, ge, Welton St. ORCHESTRA. Gee. Morrison phone Hickory 1418 = ORTHOPEDIC APPLIANCES wm, Jones—608 14th Bt eee music INSTRUCTION, george Morrison, Violin—4243 Tejoa nu ~ 1 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS suetina Ford-Allen, 2335 Arapaboe, J. HP. Westbrook, Good Block, 16th and Larimer. gad Tes Tapratiia, ML) D.—#3 Good Block. ‘br. Crump, 1025 21st St Dae SHOE REPAIRING dew Way—1867 Champa THEATERS Granalgscawceees tony BLe Damier, Ee eee cents aneear sacs cae1S, Welton ct — TAILOR. The Giant Cleaners and Tailors, 2549 Washington Ave. ae UNDERTAKERS. Douglas Vo.—18¥/ Arapahoe. Cammel) & Co., 2807 Welton St. WATCH REPAIRING. wm, Voighte—611 27th St. CAFE. Oriental Restaurant, 1848 Arapahoe. Dearfield Lunch Room, 1023 21st St. HARDWICK AUTO SERVICE COMPANY OLIVER A. HARDWICK Mgr. Service by Trip or Hour Stands -Atlas Drug Co.; 270r Welton St., Main §75. Reo Club, 2712 Welton St., Main 2759. Phone Champa 3166 = co 70 Star Shoe Repair Co. 1653 WELTON STREET Opessite Kaiserbel Hotel Very Best of Material and Strictly First Class Work We Call for and Deliver Free or Repair While You Wait ALL WORK GUARANTEED GRINDING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MUG DECORATING WHOLESALE AND RETAIL THE DENVER BARBERS’ SUPPLY COMPANY: LOTZ & KAHRHOFF 1527 GLENARM ST. DENVER PHONE MAIN 7221 Cutlery, Teilet Preparations, Manicure Articles, Perfames, HAIR POMADE BARBER FURNITURE and BARBER SUPPLIES Artistic Fameral Dtsigas eo Short Notice. FLOWERS Fer Rit Oecanoee” ConrteonsTreatmests DENNIS J. SULLIVAN Sullivan's Bied Store PRACTICAL FLORIST Plant your Sweet Pea Seed Now. Large Flowering Var- ieties, oz. 10C., 3 OZS. 25C. Flower and Garden Seeds of Stall Kinds 534 Fifteenth St. Denver, Colo. Phone Main 2488 a Phone Main 875} CG. K. & F. G. HART Painting and Paper Hanging 714 EAST 26th AVENUE 2 » rc] The Morrison’s| New Orchestra [COLOREDH Up-to-date Music and Har- mony furnished for all joccasions EUGENE MONTGOMERY, Manage. Phone Blue 380] 9 7° 2265 Marion St. Denver Three Loaves of Bread eo. 100 Layer Cakes..... b.10c, 15¢, 25¢ Whipped Cream Cakes .15¢ Whipped Cream Puffs, per doz....30c Any kind of Cake made to order. German Cotfee Cakes on Saturday. Leave us your order for Hot X Buns for Good Friday. Bread, Pies, Cakes and Cookies fresh daily. 2s44 WASHINGTON AVE Fhone York 6182-W Austin H. Lewis Contractor and Builder Prices Reasonable RESIDENCE 1443, KEARNEY STREET Phone York 5440 For Your Next Dance, Er gage the We furnish Music for a Occasions-Colored Musician Phone Olive-1627 2154 Arapahoe St., Denve THE GRAND THEATRE CON- TINUES TO PLEASE. Everybody who visite Lartmer § knows that thetr visit is not comple! until they have stopped in and bee entertained by the high class picture of the Grand theatre, They just t to satisfy and please everybody. Yc are always welcome. THE STAR (8 THE ONLY NEGR REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER 1 SOLORADO. IT HAS MORE REAI IRS THAN ALL OTHER NEGF NEWSPAPERS COMBINED, GETTING | LINE - FOR GuiFERENCE Dutino of Program For Great Methodist Gathering. PHILADELPHIA TO BE HOST, Philadelphia—The committee of ar- rangements {s making great prepara tions for the entertainment of the gen- eral conference of the African Metho- dist Episcopal church, which convenes May 3 at Bethel A. M. E. church in this city. The program committee has finished its task of providing a pro- gram for the twenty-one days and nights in which the general conference will be in session, Some of the ablest men of the de- nomination from Africa and in Amer- jea have been placed on the program, which will probably present a greater array of distinguished Negro talent Ss mS es iy a ? than any convention or conference ever held in the history of the United States by colored people. ‘The committee on homes has pro- vided homes for the use of more than a thousand people during the confer: ence. The delegates will number about 650, and there will be about 650 alter- ‘mites, Among these there will be about 150 lay delegates and 150 lay alternates. Among the distinguished laymen are Hon. George W. Ellis, the author of “Negro Culture In West Af- rica;” Dr. C. V. Roman of Meharry Medical college and editor of the Nw tional Medical Journal and author of the recent “book on “The Negro In America.” Among other noted laymen are Hon. Charles Ranks, head of the Mound Bayou (Miss) bank and vice president of the National Nezro Business leazue Mr. Ira 'T. Bryant, the builder of the largest Negro publishing house inthe United States: J. M. Avery of Durham N.C. oue of the managers of the North Carvlina Mutual and Provident association; Professor A. 8. Jackson secretary of edueation; John It. Maw kins, who hus handled nearly $1,000, 000 during the past quadrennial of the dollar money of the African Methodist Episcopal church and who is the ge: eral treasurer of the same; Isase H Nutter, a lawyer, of Atlantle City. N. J. other lawyers, schoolteachers, physicians, business men and other laymen. ‘There fs distinguished ar ray of Mahops and general officers of the church and college presidents who are ex officio delegates. A daily paper will be conducted—the Dally Christian Recorder—ot which Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr, will be manag ing editor. This daily will have the fall proceedings of each day reported stenographically and ready for the de! egates when they take thelr seats at each morning session. Arrangement= are being made so that copies of the Daily Recorder may We mailed each day to persons who desire to keep uj with the general conference for the small sum of 75 cents for the whol: three weeks of the conference. ‘There will be many features of en tertainment so ax to make the stay of the delegates both pleasant and profit able, The program committee, of which Bishop. J Coppin is chairman, has not yet given Its arrangements to th: public, but It Is known that there will be an array of eloquent speakers sel dom heard at a gathering of this char. acter. The Academy of Music, the Convention hall, the Olympia theater. the Yusic Fund han, which are the largeSt anditorfums in the city, have Deen enzaxed, besides every one of the fifteen A, M. B. churches and churches of several olier denominations. The committee on entertainment, of which Dr. R. RO Wright, dn, Is chair man, bas anjotnced many features to make pleasant the stay of the dele: gates. An, automobile ride of two to three hours will be given free to all the delegates to show them Philadelphia, + great banquet will be had, a series of stereopticon lectures showing the his tory of the chiweh and Its present con. ition, a great concert of 2,000 volces and the grand historical pageant of Negro relizion, entitled "The Star of Rtbiopta.” written and managed by Dr. W. 8. B. Du Bois, will be given on three vichts, May 16, 18 and 20, at Con- Yention hall. SOUTH TIRES OF MOB LAW. New Organization Formed td Conduct Campaign Against Lynching. _An organization to be known as the New Association of Southern Church Colleges has been formed in Alabama for the purpose of conducting an edu: cational campaign against lynching in the south. The association 1s compos- ed Of eizhteen southern institutions of learning, and its president ts Dr. C. M Bishop of the Texas Presbyterian col- leze. Forty southern schools have signified thefr desire to aid in carrying on the purpose of the new association. ‘This is a move in the right direction, whieh Will accomplish great good. No doubt the south feels very keenly the dis- grace leaped upon it by the practice of the mobs, which take away the lives pf humax beings whether guilty or in nocent Knights tempiars Hear Easter Sermon The order of Knights Templars i Pittsburgh held a union Easter service on Sunday. April 23. at the Rodman Street Isptist church, of which the Rey. | Oo. S. Simms is pastor, The sermon to the order was delivered he afiernoon by the Rev. C. 4. Powelt pastor of Brown A.-M. E. chape north side Among the commanderi« presi ere Cyrene No. 9, Patestin No. 14 4a Malta No. 19. BUSINESS MEN'S & REGULAR DINNER FROM {2 NOON TILL 8:30 P. M. DAILY AND SUNDAYS Parties 50c., 75¢, & $1.00 per Plate THE 98th ST. CAFE MRS. JNO. NELSON, Prop. HOME COOKED MEALS 25c. FIRST-CLASS SERVICE 711 #«+- 28th STREET PHONE CHAMPA 21631 WE WILL PAY You the Highest Cash Price for your SECOND-HAND FURNITURE We will trade you OUR NEW FOR YOUR OLD New Furniture House 5 ean Saree FOR initiated amendment providing for a mayor form of government for the city and county of Denver...........cc0csesec eee eenetee een eeeeees AGAINST initiated amendment providing for a mayor form of government for the city and county of Denver...........0.c0ceceereeeeeeeeeceen eres FOR amendment changing the Charter of the city and county of Denver to the mayor form, which amendment selects, and by its adoption, elects Robert W. Speer as the first mayor ........-0..eeceeeeeeee eens AGAINST amendment changing the Charter of the city and, county of Denver to the mayor form, which amendment selects, and by its adop- tion, elects Robert W. Speer as the first mayor............0.00e0e0e+ FOR amendment changing the Charter of the city and county of Denver by abolishing the commission form and adopting the mayor form, which amendment selects, and by its adoption, elects William W. Booth as the first mayor and other city and county officers.......... AGAINST amendment changing the Charter of the city and county of Denver by abolishing the commission form and adopting the mayor form, which amendment selects, and by its adoption, elects William W. Booth as the first mayor and other city and county officers....... VOTE IN DISTRICT DISTRICT C Precinct 1 2 3 4 5 6 2520 2827 3300 2042 2221 717 Lawrence | Larimer | Biake | Larimer | Arapahoe | jist Street Street Street Street Street Street Z Pose 8 o 1 12 2710 1010 2150 2135 2525 2632 Champa Sti 3ist Street {Champa Sif California [Champa Sf Stout St SS DISTRICT H 2 Precin t1 15 3 As alee nl ae 2720 2817 1339 2549 2346 2135 Marion Franklin E 23rd High Gilpin Humboldt Street Street Avenue Street Street Street DISTRICT T. | Precinct 4, 1760 Pennsylvania Street ee DISTRICT T Precinct 1 2 t 10 11 2515 Glenarm 2233 Glenarm | 2459 Clarkson 835 E. 25th Place Place Street Avenue ee Be Sure and Vote FOR the SPEER Amendment and AGAINST All Other Amendments Welton Fruit — elton Fruit and Vegetable Market 2621 Welton Street Phone Main 5943. Free and Promnr Delivery Sweet Potatoes, 10 lbs 25c No. 2' 1-2 large can Tomateces, 10c Roman Beauty Apples, $1.50 per box The best and biggest Oranges, regular 75c doz for 40c doz Oranges, the best - doz. 20, 25, 20c Grape Fruit, - 5c, 10c, 2 for 15c Best Creamery Butter - Ib 32c E.& C. Corn Flakes, Special 2 koxes 15c Home Made Preserves, - qt 25. Best Patatoes . - 15 Ibs 25c Soda Pop and Root{Beer; |F_ 2 for 5c All kinds, Near Beer, \- case $1.50 AIDS THE MANASSAS SCHOOL. Rosenwald to Give $1,000 Annually tc NMartinw Mirninta (oetttution: ‘The annual uieeting of the New York Manassas association was held in New York city on Monday, April 17. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Evening Post, presided, and the speak- ors were Attorney George Gordon Bat tle, Hon. George F. MeAneny, 0. 6 Villard and F. D. Morton, principal of the Manassas (Va.) Industrial school. in whose interest the association was formed. Mr. Villard announced that Mr. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago had made a gift of $1,000, to be paid annually to ‘the ‘+ * = five years upon condition SAMPLE BALLOT Special Election MAY 9th, 1916 “LNSW2SILYSAGV that the New York Manassas associa- tion raise $4,000 a year. Since Mr. Rosenwald’s offer was made a few weeks azo the association has raised $1,900 toward the $4,000 to be ralsex? the first year, ‘The annual election of officers reenit- ed as follows: Hon. George F. Me Aneny, president; Oswald Garrixow Villard, treasurer, and Miss Frederica Paulin, secretary. PLEASE PAY US; WE NEED MONEY. THIS MEANS YOU,. IF YOU OWE. THE DENVER STAR HAS MORE READERS THAN ANY OTHER [NEGRO JOURNAL IN COLCRADO. Indicate your che ice by «cross Miaheouma ernment for Government 5 y of Denver ST ay GENE NEIL, Manager Brand New 4 1-2 x 9 Tables. E. V. CAMMEL, President and Manager Progressive R We take great pride in the fac Funeral Directors. We can furnish you will be delighted with our serv count. Lady attendant. Embalmi sulance. great pride in the fact that we are the Leading Progressiveors. We can furnish elegant rolling stock, autos if preferred,lighted with our service, as we lok after the little things thatattendant. Embalming at the home if preferred. Private am- We take great pride in the fact that we are the Leading Progressive Funeral Directors. We can furnish elegant rolling stock, autos if preferred. You will be delighted with our service, as we lok after the little things that count. Lady attendant. Embalming at the home if preferred. Private amu- lance. OFFICE AND PARLORS 2807 WELTON ST. We Solicit your patronage in the line of Decorating, Paperhanging & Painting We also sell Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. SEE US. THE STAR WALL PAPER & PAINT CO. We Solicit your patronage in the line of Painting, Paperhanging & Painting to sell Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Var- nishes and Brushes. SEE US. STAR WALL PAPER & PAINT CO. Main 4943 1757 Champa Street Dressmaker and Modiste Before having your Sewing done see MANETTE ROLLINS, Exclusive Designer and er. Give Plain and Fancy Sewing the same attention. Your patronage solicited. Satis- guaranteed. We Solicit your patronage in the line of THE STAR WALL PAPER & PAINT CO. New Dressma Before havin SUSIE JEANETTE ROLL New Dressmaker and Modiste Before having your Sewing done see SUSIE JEANETTE ROLLINS, Exclusive Designer and Dressmaker. Give Plain and Fancy Sewing the same care and attention. Your patronage solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed. Phone York 6707 DeLUXE APTS., 2352 OGDEN ST. WHY I AM FOR ROBERT W. SPEER In the first place I'm for Denver, her good name and prosperity. I fought for lower telephone rates and reduced the price of every phone in Denver. In the first place I'm for Denver, her good name and prosperity, I fought for lower telephone rates and reduced the price of every phone in Denver. I assisted in the fight of grade teachers for higher wages, also against litney busses coming into Denver, which all know would have injured the company that has always given splendid service. It would have been a crime to have out this system in the hands of a receiver without any apparent benefit to our people. I favored settling the water question at the arbitration price of $14,400,000.00 by either buying or giving a franchise. I was bitterly condemned, yet today after taking away a goodly proportion of the Water Co.'s assets, the "High Chief" who bounded Moffat to his grave agrees to pay the same company relatively: the same arbitration price, notwithstanding his previous statement "that our city could duplicate the entire holdings for $7,000,000." For years past millions of money have been kept out of Denver on account of this agitation, still we are paying the same price for water and have spent hundreds of thousands in suits, commissions, etc. Was I right or wrong? I fought for better roads and streets—for Alexander and Kendricks for school directors because they were real men; for C. A. Lammers for commissioner because of his high reputation and against "fakers" coming into Denver to strip our city of thousands, while the poor were begging for coal and food. Many other improvements and benefits, such as a loop at the depot and cadet system in our schools, I have favored and pushed and I feel my record in Denver will prove that I have always stood out fearlessly for the people's best interests and in most cases been on the winning side. Today, like thousands of Denver's best citizens, I am fighting to elect Robt. W. Speer as mayor, and for the adoption of his charter amendment, because reforms of nearly every nature have brought us to the brink of disaster. The "Big Brothers," in commenting on commission form of government stated that we had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. In other words, we had elected five tails and no head. Mr. Speer has not reformed or come back. He has never been defeated nor has he committed a dark deed in the past for which he is willing to repent. He never told any preachers to go to hell, even if he so wished, and he never will see the day that such men as Rush, Finch, Nisbet or Duffield can blacken his character. They may stain his clothing, but not his name. These men combined with a "Pink Sheet" and Patterson, are now talking moralties and temperance, and trying to hinder Mr. Speer's election. What have they ever done for Denver? Did Patterson ever fail to collect rent from his hotel because the management sold liquor and run a cabaret? Tom now writes columns in a paper which he condemned as the foulest sheet in America, and now sits at the right hand of the man who hit him in the back and stabbed his name with a poisoned pen. I am for Robt. W. Speer because the offal of literary and political scavengers are against him; because he has the ability to run this city and nerve to back it up; because most of the improvements in Denver worthy of note originated in the brain of this big man; because Finchism and Rushism are diametrically opposed to efficient government; because if this man of backbone is elected he will run Denver instead of letting a gang of blackmailers, hypocrites and mud-singlers demand the entire patronage of our city government. I am for Speer because he has stood the shot and shell of infamy without flinching; because, had he been a crook while in office, his enemies would have placed him behind the prison bars, even the it cost them a million; because he knows every department as I know my store, and because this time thousands of taxpaying democrats, republicans and citizens who do not want office, but anxious to give our city a boost upward; a tone of thrift and an administration such as every working man and woman and men of means desire. We've been overdosed with cathartics, which work while we sleep, and nauseated with countless bottles of "peruna." We've been popularized all over America as the hot-bed of political thieves and we've had spasms of virtue until business has given way to purity meetings and the wheels of commerce clogged with rotten rags dropped from the forms of pirates willing to double-cross their own mother to retain a political position. I'm for Robt. W. Speer and his charter amendment because I love Denver and want to see "full dinner buckets" in place of reformation soup houses. We Want Your Collar Button Trade Frederick W. Jefferay 1635 Curtis Street CPB 2801 Phone Main 4943 WELTON ST. ```markdown ``` Day & Night Calls Answered PHONE CHAMPA GAMMEL & CO. Funeral Directors 2807 WELTON ST. DeLUXE APTS., 2352 OGDEN ST. CITY NEWS ADVERTISE IN THE STAR AND LOOK PROSPEROUS. Even though you may not be prosperous, adopt as far as possible the appearance of prosperity. It is sound capital and will bring good interest in the long run. Shabby-looking people you may have noticed, always appear apologetic and can easily be turned down when they are most in need of a helping hand. Keep a brace front. Dame Fortune likes to throw her magic cloak about the shoulders of the man or woman who looks capable of making the best of it. He's coming! Who? Hinkle, the insurance man. MEETINGS OF MARGARET WASHINGTON CLUB. May 5th, 141. E. 24th Ave., Mrs. Wm. Edson, May 12th, 3149 Race St. drs. D. W. Mallard, May 19th, Mrs. 2. V. Cammel, 2805 Welton St. May 6th, Mrs. B. F. Givens, 2515 Curtis St. May 26th, literary meeting. The Widows' Club will be entertained by the president, Mrs. M. Phillips, at 1951 Washington Thursday, day 11th. All members are requested to be present. Mrs. Margaret Willis-Robbins, accompanied by her husband, has gone to their ranch in Weld county, near Orchard. Mrs. Robbins is a Colorado girl, a graduate of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson, Mo., a member of Zion Baptist church and choir. She will be greatly missed by her friends. TO BE FOR THE NEGRO IS TO BE AGAINST NISBET, AND TO BE AGAINST THE NEGRO IS TO BE FOR NISBET. YOU CAN'T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT, TOO. YOU MUST CHOOSE EITHER THE NEGRO AND HIS 15 FAMILIES OR NISBET AND HIS INSULTS. NOTICE THE CLASS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE SUPPORTING NEGRO HATERS. WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE TO THEM? YOU DECIDE. WORK AND VOTE FOR SPEER. MARGARET WASHINGTON CLUB MEETINGS FOR APRIL April 7th, with Mrs. Byrd, 24 E. 10th Ave. April 14th, with Mrs. Blair, 921 20th St. April 21st, with Mrs. J. L. Burnett, 3412 Columbine St. April 28th, with Mrs. E. L. Pollard, 1316 E. 24th Ave. Don't be misled or tricked. Vote "YES" only to Speer amendment and "NO" on all the rest. Vote on all three. Children's Carnival, apron and necklce tea, May 9th at Shorter, auspices Stewardess Board. XX CENTURY ART CLUB MEETINGS. Miss Arula Cole, 2546 Clarkson St., April 21. Mrs. Lucy Coleman, 709 31st St., April 28. Mrs. Lorane Cruce, 1539 E. 30th Ave. May 5. Mrs. William Dorsey, 1948 Pearl St. May 12. What is the NATIONAL LIFE INS. CO. OF THE U. S. A.? Ask HINKLE. NOTICE TO PATRONS OF THE STAR. Owing to the increase in the cost of paper on account of the war, there will hereafter be a slight increase in the cost of printing. Kindly take notice and govern yourselves accordingly. THE DENVER STAR. Before you take that Policy see Hinkle. Are you THOUGHTFUL? Prepare for the future. DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS. Insure today with the UNION HEALTH AND ACCIDENT CO., Denver, Colo. Greatest protection at the lowest cost. We invite your fullest investigation. H. L. McCLAIN, AGENT Call Main 7752. The "Denver Dramatic League" is ready to present plays for churches, lodges, clubs, etc. Give us a trial. Business manager, Sanford Caldwell. Main 1540. 5-6-16-tf Call for Spengel's trading stamps given with coal orders at W. O. S. Mondds. You can get furniture easy and free. Joint Endowment policies for husband and wife. Protection, savings, safety and investment combined. See Harry McClain. ECZEMA CURED OR MONEY REFUNDED. This guarantee goes with every box of Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Makes no difference whether it's a baby, child or aged. No matter how long standing the case, the guarantee holds good. Cut out this strip, go to your druggist, get a box of Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment, use it as directed and if you are not fully satisfied, the druggist or maker will refund your money. Try it just once, you will be happily surprised. THE GRAND THEATRE'S WEEKLY PROGRAM. Cut Out and Paste on Wall Don't Miss the Big Show this Week. EXTRA GOOD MUSIC AT THE GRAND THEATER. THE BEST RAGTIME PLAYER IN THE CITY WILL TICKLE THE KEYS. COME AND HEAR HIM. SPECIAL ATTRACTION. See IMPERIAL TRIO with the Tango banjo player, our own boys, Jackson, Junior and Gregaby. Best music in town at the GRAND THEATRE every Sunday. The new minister, just from Gammon Theological Seminary, will take charge at Scott M. E. church Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Rader, the retiring minister, will be on hand to welcome him. Rev. Sawyer is a young man, unmarried. There will be a Grand Waltz and Rag contest at Fern Hall May 15, given by the XX C Art club. Morrison's orchestra with two beautiful prizes will be the features. The Self Improvement and Social Club presents "Lady Masked Minstrels" at Fern Hall, May 22nd. Prizes will be given persons who guess the names of the participants. Morrison's Orchestra. Admission, 25c. Ask HINKLE; he knows. SHALL MASSA' HARPER'S "JIM CROWING MESSENGER/" RULE THE NEGRO OF DENVER OR SHALL REAL MEN AND WOMEN? YOU CHOOSE. Vote "YES" to Speer amendment and "NO" on all other amendments. To vote "No" on all means you are a coward and a quitter. Let us resent and not swallow insults by voting Speer straight. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. IN CHARGE. Mr. Frederick Jackson age 49 years, devoted husband of Mrs. Sarah Jackson, departed this life April 24, 1916, at residence, 831 Elati St. Funeral service was held Sunday, April 30th. 2 p. m., under auspices of G. U. O. of O. F., Arapahoe Lodge, at Campbell church. Rev. Jas. Washington officiated. Interment, Riverside. Miss Rosa Jones, the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Low D. Jones, of 707 Tennison St. departed this life Wednesday, May 3rd. 3 p. m. Funeral was held Friday at two o'clock from Zion Baptist church. The Rev. David E. Over officiated. Interment, Riverside. Mr. Archie Beacham, age 66 years, departed this life April 25th at the county farm. All members of Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cooper departed this life April 25th at residence, 2316 Walnut S4. Mrs. Frances E. Williams, formerly of Denver, late of Los Angeles, Calif., is in the city for a couple of weeks, the guest of Mrs. W. A. Greenleaf She was formerly an arduous worker at Scott M. E. church. PROGRAMME EXTRAORDINARY. Attend grand Entertainment given by Evergreen Chapter No. 36 O. E. S. Shorter church, May 18th. Denver's leading artists will take part on the programme. Admission 10c. 1t-4-29-16-c Keep off the date June 8th. Lady Audrey's Secret will be presented. Further announcement later. Mrs. Essie Brooks of Ogden St. was compelled to go to Colorado Springs. Colo., to be at the bedside of her brother, Dr. R. S. Grant, his wife and baby, all of whom are sick at the same time. They are reported better Miss Della Threets of Glenarm Pl. is sick. Maypole, May Queen, Cinderella dress piece, at Shorter, May 9th. Before you break that leg, "SEE HINKLE." PLEASE PAY UP. WE NEED MONEY. Because of our strenuous fight against the Curse of the Nation, which has caused us to use extra help, increased matter and virtually double our expense, we are asking and appealing to all of our delinquent subscribers to pay us and help us to make and continue the fight for our civil and legal rights. If you believe in the Star and want the Star to continue to represent you manfully please pay us. Let the other fellow wait; we have waited long enough. Remember, it takes real money to run a newspaper. 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