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If you have leisure time it will pay you to become our agent. Write today for ermines INDIANAPOLIS APR 22 1911 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 16 AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL A. M. E. Z. CONFERENCE TO MEET NEXT MONTH BISHOP WALTERS WILL PRESIDE Large Delegation Will Attend— Pref. W. T. Vernon Preparing for Lecture—Colored Presi- dential Appointees to Meet. The writers of campaign books are becoming to get busy. The Black Cabinet," reorganized and resembled, is again meeting daily at May. The Amphibian Glee Club, directed by Prof. J. Henry Lewis, will produce GHI, a national comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, at the new Howard early in June. A class of twenty persons was conceived Thursday evening by Bishop Harding at Calvary P. E. Church, of which Rev. F. I. A. Bennett is rector. The choir was led by W. H. Carter. The plant of the Odd Fellows' Journal has been installed at 1244 U street. N. W. and it makes a fine showing. The office partitions of oak, with hammered panels indicate that Editor Slaughter means business. The assistant Attorney General William H. Hardy has been invited to address the evening of April 21 at the Summer School. This will be the last meeting of the association for the current school year. The True Reformers' Hall will not be the true settlement against the order is settled and better伞 can be secured. Chief Griffin is holding public meetings and working like a Turk to bring the fraternity into smooth waters. It is hinted that Rev. A. L. Galines, will yield to the solicitation of his friends and stand for the editorship of the Christian Recorder, subject to the approval of the A. M. E. General Conference, Mo. Me next May at Kansas. Joseph H. Douglass, the eminent viiocer, played to a cultured audience on Tuesday night, in Andrew Rankin's University of Chicago lecture. Douglass has just returned from a nationally successful tour of the southland. Unless all signs fail, and they are not allowed to do so, the presidential nominee of the Republican party next year will be William Howard Taft. The nominee will be Woodrow Wilson, Jusson Harrison, Champ Clark, it will William Jennings Bryan himself. The second number of Rev. W. H. Cosset's "American Soldier and Seaman" is highly creditable production. The career is well gotten up and it contains a valuable and interesting articles. It is served on the table in holding up the bright side of the career in the United States army and navy. Four new stores are to be erected on near Vermont avenue, making available to the colored business district the rapidly growing up this much traveled thoroughfare. It is only a question of time when colored occupies every inch of the ground on U street between 7th and 8th streets. B. Camerer Registrar W. T. Vernon is restroom secretary to going out on an extended tour. It is expected that will account for the larger churches of the A. M. E. denomination in the lecture season. Dr. Vernon is in court with the national administration and has the warmest personal regard for President Trump. Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, president of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, is on vacation at Tuesday's meeting of the Red Hat and Historical Association. Miss Carter is in New Bedford. Mass. is sometimes along place of the late Frederick Douglass, where she wields influence among the thinking classes of both races. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson has brought life to the city and they will soon be in their own beautiful home on the street northwest. Col. Johnson is sitting some things looking to betterment of political conditions on the ground, and will be prepared to attend at an early date. The mayoral Board of Deeds is a political board of no man's ability, and he will board from in the campaign of 1912. Dr. W. Bruce Since Evans, principal of the Montgomery Manual Training School, delivered a brilliant address in Philadelphia on Friday evening before the Historical Society of Philadelphia. His theme was "The Punishment, Slave Law," and his story of the adoption and failure of that inhumane statute, with reclusive incidents of humiliating quotations out loud, which was easy out. The address was easily one of the best that the high-grade Historical Society has listened to in many a year. William Jondhass Bryan, presidential assistant, former leader of the Democ-ron and editor of The Demonometer, devoted his inspiring address Sunday afternoon at the Howard Theater, under the wings of the colored branch of the Y. C.A. The theater was packed from door to dome, and Mr. Bryan's presenta- The Odeon, opened by H. H. Elliott a fortnight ago for white patrons, will be turned over to colored people at the beginning of next month. The place has been designated for the Blue Mouse, who will operate both houses. The Odeon is on Church street, in a block which has not one-white inhabitant, and the signers of the petition which permitted the erection, or the building, of the place as a white theater might have been predicted from the start, without winning any laurels as a fortune teller. The establishment of a national memorial home for aged and infirm colored people and working girls and of an industrial farm is provided for in a bill introduced in the Senate Friday by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, who was 60 years of age. The money now in the Freedman's Fund and held by the Treasury Department shall be appropriated for this purpose. The home is to be located in the city of Springfield, in the spring of the measure is being looked after by Red James L. White, who has been fostering the idea for several years. President Taft is said to have launched heartily when he was told that S. H. Dudley, the great colored comedian of "The Smart Set," was in town impersonating "Raspberry Snow," an ambitious barber, whose presence in life was a shave of the president. He was also a member of Dudley's remark to the mule that the task was a "gigantic undertaking." It may take some of the edge of off "Raspberry's dream of honor and glory, now a great success," he shaves himself all the time, and is enough of an expert to merit the appellation of "His Honor, the Barber." Secretary to the President Charles D. Hilles is already making an admirable impression at the White House. His visit with quiet firmness that suggests executive ability of the highest order. He knows just how to handle everybody and how to make each visitor feel that he is a great friend and expeditious fashion. Mr. Hilles has thus early demonstrated that as a secretary and presidential mentor he is in the Lamont, Cortelyou and Loob class. Colored in the bright colors of the theater for four weeks, at the White House, and are satisfied that they will get in on the ground floor as long as Charles Dewey Hilles holds the latch-string. The Whitney Musical Comedy Company, the Southern Smart Set, with S. Tutt Whitney as the bright and paranoid director, is in the Theater for four weeks, beginning April 17. The Smart Set No. 1, with S. H. Dudley, Aida Overton Walker, Ella Anderson and Andrew Bubble, is in the theater for four weeks. The house is packed at every performance, and the S. R. O. sign is in demand long before the rise of the curtain. The show is better than ever, and each person in a glove, in a hand in a glove, Mr. Dudley and Mrs. Walker will be at the head of a company next season in a brand new musical comedy, written expressly for them. . . . The Council of Upper Classmen of Howard University has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: H. L. C. Downing (med.), vice president; Lewis Russell (col.), secretary; William Burrell (law), treasurer; Joseph D. C. Walker (law), vice president; Walker (theel), chaplain. These officers will be formally installed at the next meeting of the council. By a unanimous vote the administration of Mr. J. C. Walker was commended in the highest terms for "energic excellence," the motto of the organization. A feature of the meeting ship medals which the council will present to the university for awards to the successful contestants in the various departments which the medal was awarded. The eighth annual "opera of the Upper Classmen will take place at Odd Fellows' Hall next Tuesday evening, and it bids fair to be the very best of the series of social functions given by this unique body. The durability over the disposition of the Nineteenth Century will take their turn at patrolling the Mexican border when the authorities decide to take them out of the maneuver camp at San Antonio. Under no circumstances will they return to patrolling the War Department will pay no atten- INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1911. COFFEE MAN ICE MAN tion to the howl raised by a few of the border towns, who do not want a Negro regiment "in their midst." It is said that the governor of the town man to see a Negro in a military uniform, manipulating a gun. It has the same effect upon them that waving a red flag would do. The colored troops is always a delicate problem, and the president and the War Department will do their level best to ensure that the troops of the army establishment and use the troops according to the needs of the service, rather than to suit the whims of a Garner, in stirring up racial strife, is not choosing the better part. Going to International Medical Convent Dr. A. M. Curtis, president of the National Medical Association, has named the following well-known physicians as the members of the National Association for the Prevention of War: pursuant to the invitation extended by that body to have the N. M. A. repre- senting the war effort, Dr. E. G. A. Chicago; Dr. John E. Hunter, of Lexington, Ky.; Dr. A. M. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, of George C. Canon, of Jersey City, N. J.; Dr. O. Dumas, of Washington, D. C. The International will meet at Paris, France, in June, and the body will send its representatives to the disciples of Esculapius in the world. Each civilized government will send a personal representative, and it is hoped that the designate as the special envoy of the United States for this occasion. President Thirkield Not to Resign There is absolutely no truth in the rumor circulated in certain quarters here that Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of forward, to whom Dr. Thirkield is to resign his position, has never been such a thought in his mind and no talk of a successor has been brought to his attention. The rumor that I am to resign is a great one, Dr. Thirkield, "Nothing has been brought to board in that regard, and I shall continue to do my work as usual." The story of Dr. Thirkield's alleged reorganization and foundation among some of the fool friends of Ms. Gregory and Washington, two young instructors, who resigned recently under an apparent cloud. These fool friends made him good to thus embarrass the president, the university by circulating this falsehood. It is generally felt that the two teachers were punished in excess of the money they made, and that matter that the president and the board are more competent to work out than a mere layman, with meager knowledge of the facts. At the meeting of the teachers on Saturday evening at the office of Judge J. W. was decided that the previous action of the board in accepting the resignations of the young men would stand and that the best interests of the school to receive the case, Messrs. Gregory and Washington, were represented by Attorneys Henry E. Davis and aJames A. Cobb, and they made no effort ingency in behalf of their clients, but with difficulty. The incident is now probably closed. LOS ANGELES, CA Special to THE FREEMAN. Considerable excitement prevails in the M. E. Church circles since the rumor of Rev. L. M. Hagood's withdrawal from this charge. The literary eminence of Dr. Hagood is evidently indexed in many ways, and his moral wealth to the community, and his moral works be keenly regretted by a large following. DES MONIES, IOWA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Rev. I. N. Daniels was called to Evanston, III, last Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Cannon, wife of Mr. F. F. Cannon, who was the big scream at the Grand this week....There are 817 Negro children in the common schools of Des Moines and 29 in the high school....Mr. Lucas, the pastor of the Episcopal Church in Iowa, last week....All of the Negro churches had a nice program Easter....Rev. J. Roman preached his farewell to the Maple Street Church on Wednesday night. He leaves for the Southwest....Mr. Ray Snyder, of 14th street, is very sick. SHEEFIELD, ALA Special to THE FREEMAN Mr. Bruce Mullen and Miss Cora May Higgins were married Wednesday evening, April 12, at the C. M. E. church. Rev. E. D. Kane, pastor, performed the wedding exercises at the C. M. E. church Sunday and an enjoyable affair. The program rendered was excellent...Mrs. Agnes Taylor is able to be out again after several weeks' gentleman Mr. Anderson Tyler an aged several months' illness. The funeral services was held at the M. E. church. Rev T. N. White, the pastor, and Rev H. Haines, pastor of the A. M. E. church of Tuscumbia, attended the funeral. TOLEDO, OHIO. Chas. Eubank shot John Eubank on April 8th. He died on the 16th inst. The argument started about a woman named Agnes Johnson. Truman Alexander witnessed the argument, pre- shooting which resulted in the death. MASSES ARE NOT PLEASED AT THE ACTIONS OF THE MINISTERS IN POLITICS Preparations for Organized Association Baseball at Dallas This Season—Henry R. Dixon Presenting Dramas at Grand. PENSACOLA. FLA. (By Walker W. Thomas.) poleon Rancifer reightfully entertained in honor of Miss Vernon Wash of Maple, Tex, and Mr. C. H. Kelley of New York City. Very delicious refreshments were served and the guest reported a very dehydrated meal. I am spending a few weeks in Cincinnati, O.. Mr. John F. Lewey has been nursing a very bad neck for a few days.. Mr. R. T. Thomas, grand master of Odd Fellows, left last week for Jacksonville, Fla, where he attended the executive session of the strict Graft Commission. Josephine Marsh of 111 North B street, died last week. She was loved by all who knew her....Mr. F. E. Washington, customs inspector, is now on duty at the New York City Police Department tainers have issued cards for the Johnson and Thomas reception, which will take place at the K. of P. Hall, Aprill 26, after the wedding....Mr. Andrew Miller painfully injured in an automobile wreck last week. Mr. Andrew Miller was Cora Pryor were quietly married at her home on West Jackson street last week ...Mr. Marshall Merritt, one of Pensacola's coming young men, died last week after a stroke. The street is visiting relatives in Mobile, Ala., for a few weeks. ...Mr. J. J. Oldfield of Mobile, Ala., is in the city on business with the Pensacola Borne of North C. street is on the sick list. The Stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Mims of West Laura and brought in a baby boy. Mr. N. Morrill of Mobile, Tenn. has few days on account of the illness of his little son. ...Mrs. A. C. Lawyer has been on the sick list and her many friends have been visiting her. Borne returned from Normal, Ala., where he was attending school at Alabama Normal College. Don't forget to get a Pensacola and Phoenix drug stores. The Cuban Stars played here April 12-13, at Marginal Bluff. The Cubans play at the Lincoln Park being overflowed with water they played at the white people's park, Marginal Bluff. The first game, the Pensacola Giants play at the game, Cuban Stars, 2; Pensacola, 1. The attendance was very small. ... Philadelphia Giants will play this week. Pensacola will play this week. If not they will be all in. ... Dave Andrew, former player for the Stonewalls, will have a first-class team called the Big Bayon Giants. If the Pensacola Giants don't do better they will have to let the Big Bayon Giants do it for them, espe- in short and second base. ... The Freemason for sale at all colored drug stores. OGDEN, UTAH. McCOMB. MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN WEST BADEN, IND. Miss Emma Tavlor, of Louisville, KY, is visiting Mrs. L. R. Simmons....The Proserpine Lodge No. 27, Ross C. No. 10, is visiting Mrs. L. R. Simmons their Easter entertainment, April 17th, at the K. of P. Hall, French Lick, Ind....The Sunday school of the West Baden Baptist church had Easter exer- cension. The exercise rendered. The exercises were largely attended....Mrs. Hal Beachum and family, who have been on the sick list, are convalescent. Miss Azaline Coffman, Miss Anna Satterling, her mother, Mrs. Anne Satterwhite 2 Best for Porter and Janitor Service. Ask for them and insist upon getting them. HOOSIER MANUFACTURING CO 357 S. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. Old, Main, 5084—BOTH PHONES—New 1463 Mail Orders Solicited. --- A This spans thirty years in the fungles or Africa and has traveled through 34 States doing good wherever she went. Read St. John, the chapter, 32rd verse to "nothing." Read St. John, the chapter, 32rd verse to "nothing." "I for one, as one in the midst. 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Who battle against life's merciless ways, And struggle nobly on. To find that their hopes, like the clouds o'er the hill The good listener is welcome in any company. It is a fortunate "favorite" that has real friends. The caustic critic is usually a man that has failed. Getting started right is half the battle we call life. In the parlance du pave, whining "do not get you nuthin", "Just hustle. Everybody knows just how a newspaper ought to be run—until they try to run one. An "insurgent" is a man who will not allow a group of men to do his thinking for him. It is a rare movement nowadays that does not present some form of the "race problem." "Dr. J. W. Goodgame" is the very appropriate cognomen of a Birmingham, Ala., divine. Missionary Bishop Heard is actually putting in some time on the African continent. It is often the office held by the Negro that is abolished when an economical wave sweeps over the land. Few of us can follow the pace set by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller in spending $10,000,000 in a single day. There are a whole lot of people the Atlanta Independent does not like—and Ben Davis is not at all backward about confessing the fact. "The Pilot" is a new one at Cincinnati, Ohio. It is edited by our good friend, William L. Anderson, who is also a poet of no mean quality. The mental pendulum swings as far backward as forward. The most prominent character develops into the most dismal pessimist. There is a grim fitness in the fact that the Chuckleball of whom they kissling on account of the danger of germs should be named "Small." Those Caucasians whose social standing is so filmsy that it will not survive the slightest contact with the Negro should be careful how they walk on the cross. If that "melancholy Dane," Battling Nelson, is to essay the role of "Hamlet," it will be in accord with the fitness for Jack Johnson to tackle "Othello." The seer who can tell who will occupy that big white mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C., after March 4, 1913, can learn something to his advantage of leading in his name, with data and proofs. A sweet little girl may be admired for her ability to quote Tennison—before March 4, 1913, she can handle the terrors his affections if she cannot cook bread. he fair, fair maidens! "Feed the brute!" * * * * The Negro newspaper men of the country can make the National Negro press, if it ought to be, but the Press Association cannot be expected to make the Negro newspaper men all they ought to be. The moving picture shows are a veritable "meal ticket" to a lot of excellent colored performers who have been sent to the Negro companies and collapse of stock aggregations. Truly, "the Lord doth temper the wind to the shorn lamb!" If a party is right, its policies can best be fructified into good results by entrusting their administration to men who are well-educated and well-versed. Wise custodians of the public welfare dot not place their enemies on guard when great issues are at stake. The great philosopher, Sydney Smith, once said of Daniel Webster: "He struck me much like a steam engine in trousers. Sydney would have repeated this phrase in plain speech to have seen Major R. J. Moton in action. The major is a human dynamo. Once in a while we are reminded that such a person as Missionary Bishop Jay Albert Johnson is alive somewhere on the other side of creation. The wise men of the A. M. E. Church show no disposition to yield to his burning desire to "come back." * Glad to see the old reliable Dr. M. A. Majors back on The Freeman staff. He always has a crisp comments on men and things are among the most readable things that appear in this excellent sheet. Here's to your Dear Doctor! You acile pull never to dismay! The craft needs more workers like you—real workers! It is being suggested that journalists he required to earn a diploma before being employed argument is made that newspapers practice law, medicine or theology must have a certificate of merit, and they say it is difficult to see how a public company as a public sentiment should be entrusted to any Tom. Dick or Harry who can raise the price of a sticky of type. How about it, brethren? It is a mean man or woman that begrudges the poorly paid Pullmanporter expects. They are aware of the importance of covering the art of serving and pleasing the traveling public. They buy homes, rear families, and most of them are active in the local community in several communities. Scores of them are graduates of excellent schools and bring to the Pullman service a high degree of intelligence that adds materiality to their railroad companies that employ them. The Masonic Benefit Association did wisely in moving from Edwards to Mound Bayou, Miss. It is in a most impressive organization, the Charles Banks, the secretary and treasurer, putting his shoulder to the wheel in grand style and new life has been infused. The organization all along has been empowered to enable men capable young people, is ably handled by Mrs. L. M. Young, the chief clerk, who has made an enviable reputation as a systematic and painstaking director of large business interests. Prof. John R. Hawkins, president of KKU, has been sued a call to all of the college presidents, asking that they meet at Wilberforce University on Monday, June 12. It is intimates pretty strongly that oratory should be used with and that the conference will devote MEMORIES. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` --- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. itself in serious fashion to the consideration of important details of school work, a view of unifying and performing the work of the A. M. E. Church. The General Board of Education of the connection has approved of such a meeting and it will doubtless be largely attended, as it should be. A genuine hero is A. N. Johnson, Nassauville's popular undertaker. A few days before the ceremony ended by fire, were blown down, and without warning, many workmen were crushed or pinioned beneath the mass of the building. The son was early on the scene, and with his own hands and through the use of his ambulance, auto and teams rendered assistance in the bruising and maimed men from the minibus helped—all did bravely their part—but it seemed that the labors of Mr. Johnson, like the name of one Abou Ben Cameron, seemed to "lead all the rest." Mr. Johnson's religion is love for his fellowman. In suggesting that the newspapers of Chicago and other large cities should and themselves together in a local press band, the newspaper would be the nail squately on the head. Such an organization could be made to thrive wherever there are as many as three newspapers in the city, and be entered into where there are two. Through this system of co-operation definite steps could be taken that will lead to the establishment of plans could be laid that will tend to make the business a greater financial success. Mary B. L. Allen is infusing new ideas into The Chicago Journal is stimulating the journalistic spirit of the 'Windy City' all along the line. Hon. Franklin Adams, a chief in the International Bureau of American Republics, has high regard for the merger of Henry Furniss, a maturer, literate and man of affairs. He closely observed the career of Dr. Furniss, the latter was consul at Bath, Baja California, and were not surprised when the enterprising young Indianian was called to the impatient Indian Mission solely on his report. He was the most commendation of Dr. Furniss' series of graphic articles on Brazilian and Haitian affairs, and says the contributions of no one have had so much to do with increasing the circulation of the Bulle- as those written by American Republics as those written by Furniss in the past two or three years. If General Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the country at large, joins a few more orders and acquires a few more offices, he will find it necessary to present himself properly to his friends, and a job lot of nights will have to be added to the week to enable him to get around to his various lodges and places in the city. The Pythian Monitor, president of the Central Regalia Company, Supreme Vice Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, Supreme Worthy Counselor O. O. C., Supreme Counselor O. O. C., Supreme Counselor O. O. F., Ohio's member of the executive committee of the National Negro Press Association and other things that space will not allow us to enumerate, will allow us to enumerate, the company's voluminous catalogues, telling of the bewildering array of lodge supplies manufactured in its establishment, make interesting reading, and secret society treasure lot and note the splendid outfits that are offered at rates that are surprisingly low, considering the beauty of the workmanship and cost of material. The company is associated with General Jones, associated with Regalia Company are E. M. Irvin, general manager, and M. G. Jones, secretary. ITEMS OF RACE INTEREST. Another possible "white man's hope" was uncovered, in the opinion of many persons, at the national amateur boxing championship tournament at Mechanics' Hall in Reno, a two-hundred-pound member of the Armory A. A., of Boston, won the heavyweight championship by disposing of Joseph Burk Cox, also of Boston, in fifty had required only a sledgamam right. It had required Only two rounds to put away T. J. Dorssey, of the Irish-American Athletic Club, New York, in the semi-finals. Both were knocked out. Earhart, son of a New York millionaire, did not appear to challenge his championship award, gained in this class last year. A Universal Race Congress will be held in London England, beginning July. A pamphlet uttered for the furtherance of the aim of the meeting says the prime purpose of this Congress is to "cultivate mutual knowledge and respect between influential and Ordinary peoples." The idea of the Congress originated with Felix Adler, professor of social ethics in Columbia University and head of the Society of Ethical Culture. The list of of ethical principles of twenty civilizations. In all cases distinguished native will state the claims and ideal of each race. Ogden, Utah, has a colored population of 275. The W. Duke Sons & Co. branch of the American Tobacco Company employs more colored laborers than any other firm in the city of Durham, N. C., keeping steadily at work 1,548 Negro men and 1,000 white men in 93 cents per day. This means $1,400 per day or $440,000 a year to colored people. Jacob G. Schurmann, president of Cornell University, has brought to an end the controversy that has been in progress for a few weeks over admitting Negro women students to Sage College Dormitory. In a statement issued to Mrs. G. S. Martin, of the Women's Advisory Council, she says the full Negro women students are to be admitted to the privileges of the woman's dormitory if they request admission. The Fessenden Academy at Ocala, Fla., recently unveiled the Fessenden monument in honor of the founder. It was the wish of Mr. Fessenden that his remains repose near the institution. The money required was furnished by colored citizens of the county. Prof. J. L. Wiley is principal. L. Aldridge Lewis, colored, of Nashville, Tenn., stood highest in a class of fifteen that stood a test for internship at City Hospital, City Dispensary, April 13. His average was 92 5-8. The next highest was 89 5-10. He will be given the choice of places. Rev. Dr. J. W. Wood, now traveling in Africa, had the pleasure of calling on President Barclay, of Liberia, and Dr. W. D. Crum, the American minister to that country. He called on other officials, also took tea with D. Taylor, of the A. M. E. Zion Church Mission. Undeniably, the black population of the United States has just grievances. So, also has the white population in the United States. There is grievance it is in Europe, and blacks are not the only sufferers. There is brutal tyranny in industry, but the blacks are not the only victims. There are social limitations that blacks are not the only ones against whom the gates are shut—New York World. The Mississippi Negro Business League will meet June 28 and 29, at Natchez. Chas. Banks, the president, in speaking of the League, says: "While the work the League does is not without rect and the league remuneration its effects for good on the business life of our people in Mississippi are incalculable and much needed—yes, indispensable, as long as we form such an insignificant part in the business and commercial life of the city, we have started at our first meeting at Greenville, in 1905, is gradually leavening the whole. --- . . . --- --- --- . . . As our eyes begin to open we see the great field before us and realize that our work of arousing business thrift and self-help among our people has hardly begun. We have been thrown, and that rightly our own resentment has been given to understand we must make it for ourselves. While the church and school are doing their part, the Business League aims to so arouse, stimulate and encourage Negroes along commercial and business lines that the poverty among them is reduced, and that others for employment of our boys and girls shall be turned to reliance upon ourselves." --- The International Medical Association meeting for the prevention of war will be held in Washington, D. C., Dr. A. M. Curtis, of Washington, D. C., has been asked to appoint six delegates to represent the N. M. A. at that meeting. He has selected six members whom he feels will be a credit not only to the National Medical Association but to the whole race. He has selected those whom he feels able to go and who will make the trip. He will not make public the names of the delegates chosen until their credentials have been forwarded to him. --- The Pennsylvania State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs was organized in 1903. The organization is made up of earnest women, whose special work is the organization of women's clubs. They own a farm of five acres and a small house, paying $750 on the place. During the last two years $2,300 has been raised for the work. Next fall they expect to raise an addition to the head desk to suffice for Mrs. R. Robeena Aldridge; president; Mrs. G. L. Payne, recording secretary; Mrs. B. Dillard, corresponding secretary; Mrs. E. J. Moore, treasurer; Mrs. L. Harris, organizer. President Scarborough's class in advanced Greek, of Wilberforce University, went to Cincinnati, not long since, to witness a presentation of Sophocles' great tragedy, "Antigone." The play was presented at the Greene Opera, in the school of the University, Cincinnati, which was a very fine production. The parts of Antigone and Creon were exceptionally well played. A feature of the occasion was the chorus of male voices which ranged from the Greek of Sophocles to Mendelssohn, and, with a fine orchestra accompaniment, the singing of the chorus produced a great effect. --- The Bristol Evening News, of Bristol, Tenn., a few days ago had the following: Martin V. Sheppard, a highly esteemed cared man, who had been a resident of Bristol and 621 Broad street. He was a native of Essex county, Virginia, having been born April 1, 1843, and was therefore entering the care of his father, last of ten children of his father's family. "Uncle Sheppard," as he was familiarly known among the white people, had been in positions of trust here practically a hood home, and his record was that of a steadfast Christian, standing true, as he did, to every obligation, both moral and religious. By a sense of faith and economical having left an estate, fronting on Broad street, that is valued at $20,000. For thirty-five years he had been a member of Church. He is survived by his aged wife and one son, the latter being Dr. James H. Sheppard, who has become prominent as a physician at Peoria, Ill. The following was recently noted of Mr. Manning, of Indianapolis: "One of Indiana's most picturesque characters is Mr. Alexander E. Manning, one of the most charming and interesting is energetic, ubiquitous and effervescent—a 'human dynamo'—and no matter how difficult his undertaking, he goes at it with 'the faith that moves mountains!' He was a pioneer in the days ago, grooming the Hon. Stokes Jackson, of Indiana, for the juicy plum of sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives. He was on the job every day, and he was in the Hall headquarters, and declared from the outset that he would 'bring home the bacon.' When the result of the superheated caucus was announced to us over the 'phone wire' at night, he was hustling Hoosier had kept his word—he had landed Mr. Jackson high and dry, and the bacon was where it would do the most good. Mr. Manning's happiness was exerted only by that of his genial chieftain." The following indorsement of the True Reformers by white citizens of Richmond is given below. We, the undersigned, believe that it is the duty of every citizen of Richmond to do everything in his or her power to help save the True Redeemers because of the good work that the organization has done for the colored people of the city, State and country. It has taught habits of thrift and self-reliance, and by its influence the number of expenses on the public in all communities have been reduced thereby. We have confidence in the present management and believe that all contributions will be properly applied. The organization is being advised and directed by the best legal talent, under the supervision of the Insurance Commissioner, Sliger. B. Witt, H Judge of Hustings Court. John H. Ingram, Law and Equity Court. B. M. Smith, Attorney at Law. B.J. T. August, Clerk of City of Richmond. James B. Doherty, Commissioner of Labor. W. T. Dabney, Secretary] Chamber of Commerce. Commerce Jas. B. Pace, Treasurer City of Richmond R. Carter Scott, Judge of Circuit Court, Geo W. Furgusson & Sons, Inc., Printers, Edgar Allen, Jr., Postmaster, D.C. Richardson, Mayor of Richmond, * * * Because Col. John R. Marshall, senior of the eleven officers of the Illinois National Guard, now attending the school, was appointed to the Marshall and his Negro, an embarrassing situation has developed in military circles that in city, and word was recently received that relations between the two states have become more strained every hour. It is the custom of the War Department to hold a school of instruction for militia officers about once a year, to train them to be more proficient from each State are invited. Illinois quota this year was eleven. They were selected by Governor Deneen, and the list was headed by Colonel Marshall in company of 100 officers. Necessarily there is much social life where the schools are held, and the advent of the colored colonel in San Antonio, and the instruction, but no one was assigned to the National Guard officer or each body of officers is assigned to some of the division officers of the federal army for entertainment and instruction, but no one was assigned to the assignment to extend these courtesies to Colonel Marshall. C. M. SCOTT CO. 1088 E. WASH. ST. INDIANAPOLIS IND Lewis Bee Supply Catalogue. A postal card will bring it. Burton Jewelry Co HAS dealer in new and second hand goods. It costs about $100 to buy a new car. Being on hand that is the very thing you need. Special bargains to young married couples. 568 Indiana Ave. 232 West Vernmont street. Hadley Bros., DRUGGISTS. Nelson's Hair Dressing. Nelson's Scalp Cleaner. 755-757 Indiana Avenue. Near St. Clair St. - Indianapolis. M.C.SH Select Greeries, Fine 219, 221, 223 N. 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Call of Negro Democrats To the Negro Democrats of the United States: Persuant to the authority in us vested as per Article 8, Section 4, of the by-laws of the party, you are hereby called to meet in convention in the city of Indianapolis, Ind., on the 7th day of May, 1911. First. The basis of representation is one delegate from each of the congressional districts. Second. One delegate from each territory of the United States. Third. All colored male citizens of the several states who are qualified voters in the state of their residence and who are known to be Democrats or will agree to support the Democ ratic nominees in all future elections, are eligible to be elect- elegates to the said convention. Fourth. The election for delegates is hereby ordered to be held on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1911; the State Central Committee will furnish the bailots to the chairman of the Congressional Committee, and he in turn will supply each County Committeeman. The County Committeeman will write the names of the candidates on the ballot and each voter will indicate his choice by making a cross mark opposite the name of the candidate he wishes to vote for. The chairman of each Congressional Committee will certify the names of each successful candidate to the secretary of the Executive Committee, 639 F. St. N. W., room 23, Washington, D. C., not later than May 10th, 1911. J. S. Greene, President. H. W. Grant, Cor. Sect'y. Is Your Hair Beautiful Soft, Silky and Long? Does it comb easily without breaking? Is it straight? Does it smooth out nicely? Can you do it up in any of the charm- ing styles, so it will stay, and make you proud of it? Is it long and full of life? If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you need Nelson's Hair Dressing NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING is the finest hair pomade on the face of the earth for colored people. It makes your hair grow fast; it makes stubborn, kinky and tangled hair as soft and supply as silk. 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The steel heat- The Aluminum Comb is alone, put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater. comes goes back into place and is held by a turn of the handle. The Magic Heater is also suitable for curling irons, has a cover and can be carried in a MAGIC PATENT APPLIED FOR TOP THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER ECHOES FROM BISHOP GRANT'S SICK CHAMBER. By J. R. Ransom, P. E., of the Tokepa District, Tokepa, Kan. (Concluded From Last Week.) On January 9th, he said, "Ransom, you had not get far away for you as if you might be injured. I feel not an iron man and when a man can eat nor sleep there is nothing else to do but die." January 11th he said, "Ransom are you going to leave this morning?" Bishop I am not here to stay until the iser is a change one way or the other. "Well," said he, "that is kind of you. The boys were here a few nights ago and I told them they thought they were all gone, but the next morning here came McDonald slipping out of my office and I said to him. You thought I was going to die and you would be boys, that's all right for I am going soon. Ransom, go down stairs and entertain your guests." I said, "Bishop, I have no guests here; those brethren see you for they never come here in such large numbers only when they find that you are here, do they Pitcher?" Brother Pitcher said, "No sir." "Hence they are indeed in sin," he said, "taken them in the office or downstairs. I for have all that I can do care for my own ills at this time." On January 12th, about 10 o'clock p. m. he said, "Ransom, where is Pitcher?" I said, "Bishop, he is asleep, just taking his time to look after me. With that, that's all right. You are a good fellow, it's so kind of you to leave your work and family to come here and stay night and day to look after me. If you can do that, I will do it. I should and shall do it." But I said, "No Bishop, don't you do it for hat wi am doing for you is prompted from my personal experience and assesses my role with the help of any reward or compensation for it." And again if I should do it, I could never explain to the satisfaction of others, that I did not take some undue charge of you, your affliction to change you, your behavior to already come to me that some of our own brethren have said, that was the reason I was hanging around you. You were not allowed to change you in the church which you and I have talked over several times and do not want that anything shall be done that will in any way militate against me." "Well, a man be allowed to do that he pleases with his wife, if I see your bodies you are right." That ended the will part so far as I was concerned, and I would never discuss it nor his personal business with you, if you are his relatives or others began to talk about it, if present, I would walk out. On January 9th the Bishop said to Profs. Kealing, Fisher and I, "You boys go to Topeka tomorrow and see the Gov. I am an awful slick man but that I send him my compliments. Watch the opening of the legislature, meet all the men, see that Western University is cared for, that our report to me the results." On our return that night he said, "Ransom, you have come back have you, where is Profs. Kealing, you have gone to their homes, Bishop," "Well, you had better report of what has taken place. So as I began to make a report, how we had talked and that they had told himself as being well pleased, and said," Well, you boys take care of the school can make one of the greatest schools in the world, this world satisfied that you all will do your duty along that line." On another night in January, all were wrapped in blankets except those who were keeping vilgan was loved chieftain, he said, "Ransom, I am DES MOINES, IOWA. Special to THE FREEMAN. Miss Mattie Brown, who has been ill at the Mundy Hospital for two months, was taken to the residence of Rev. Mrs. Brown, and was taken to the University of Dayton, urday. Mrs. James McDowell, of Memphis, Tennessee has a fine hair dressing parlor at 1494 Fremont street. Mr. and Mrs. H. Brown, of Dayton, have gone to Denver, Colo. Rev. Jones of Grant Mission is in Chicago visiting his family. Mr. Mager Hill and Miss Brown are visiting the day in Valley Junction, Iowa. Miss Welch, of South Dakota, who has been visiting her daughter, the first month, has gone to Waco, Tex. W. H. Cabs, of Centerville, Iowa, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. Henry, in the city. Mrs. A. Harris and Mrs. B. Brown are visiting Club at 1454 Fourth street last week. MAGNOLIA. MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Gertrude Conley and sister attended the cantata at McComb, Miss, last week. The commencement exercises of McComb College were a mayor spoke. A three-actor drama was rendered. A solo was sung by Prof. A. 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Baptist choir, and one of the finest near future one of the best trained choirs of the 19th Street Baptist Church will baptize several candidates in the gentle stream Ohio, Sunday next.....Mrs. Green Baptist Church last Sunday.....Easter Sunday was observed by all the churches in the city, and many appropriate programs in the church of the resurrection of our Lord were conducted at morning and evening services. Williams' Shaving Soap is one of the tools of the Barber's Trade. THE J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Conn. Years ago, when I was a sufferer, an old nurses told me of a wonderful cure for Leu- corrhea. Displacement, Painful Perioda. Uterine and Ovarian troubles. It cured me in one month. It is a simple, harmless lotion that can be prepared by any one having the recipe. I will send it FREE to every suffering sister who writes to me. I have nothing to sell. This is a case of wom- an helping woman. $1 send it FREE. $2 Add- ress Mus. A. B. HUDNUT. South Bend, Ind. 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The Negro Democratic convention holds forth in Indianapolis May 17. "Get you ready," the time's not long. Clamoring for a political leader. Is he really expected? How will he be known when he comes? They are said to be born, you know, not made. A bunch of Louisville school teachers were in Indianapolis this week, looking over our city schools. Well, ours is no mean city looking at it from every conceivable angle. Some of those Carter Harrisons ought to get to be more than mayor. Are they just cut out for the one job? Might do a little trotting stunt and establish a new pedigree—why pace all of the time? The True Reformers are reported to be getting together in good shape. The order has as good opportunity for existence as others. It will have to cut out those high salaried officials, however, if it succeeds. Owing to its good intents the order is generally appreciated. A party of colored automobile riders came to grief last Monday night in Johnstown, Pa., three out of eight being killed and the others more or less wounded when the car struck a telegraph pole. The automobile was stolen from the garage of the employer of one of the party. Great enjoyment calls for a corresponding cost—no respecter of persons. Some one recently has had the courage to complain about the questions sometimes asked in teachers' tests when trying for license to teach in the schools. Some of the questions apparently are made at times for the purpose of "not answering them." How to ask questions that can't be answered, seems to be it. The only way to beat it is to get mad and learn everything. The Americans are long on patriotism. Perhaps they are not different to most of the civilized nations. Nor do we need to be so discriminating as that. Clanship and tribal fealty known to those of lesser civilization are quite the same thing as patriotism, if not more so. So in all the world at all times the thing has been a first principle of nations and races that sought to preserve their racial and political integrity. In fact patriotism is but a furthering of the family idea, the ties being similar if not so tense. The renegade to the family is treated most suspiciously, also the renegade to the nation, and who, if thoughts and sentiments become overt acts, is dealt with in a manner befitting the crime. Stand up for the nation, whatever happens, is the implied injunction. This includes Negroes also, and who are expected to fight for their rights, in the ranks, opposing the common enemy in the meanwhile if necessary. NEGRO DEMOCRATS COMING. The forthcoming Negro Democratic convention, which is to meet in this city the 7th of next month, we take it, is the logical happening after the big love feast by the Democratic party held a few days ago in this city. The convention of colored men will prove extremely interesting from the standpoint of politics, since it will tend to define the status of the Negro voter at this time. Each year finds them further from the one party idea, but just how far they have departed from the old order of things, is the question. Is there a steady flow from the Republican party, or has it been checked by any exhibitions noted of Democrats where they have come in power in the recent days? We will think that the future of the Negro voters will be influenced by such things. In event a solid front of indifference is presented by either party, then what? The love of office and gain may prevent this; it is one strong hope. The convention is expected, and we will say, will be welcomed. The Negroes have nothing to lose in standing for things that other men stand for. If they fail in getting results of one party, it is their duty to seek elsewhere. To have tried is better than not to have tried—"better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all." A phase of satisfaction comes of a well spent effort, and then again the effort fixes the responsibil- ity. The friends of the race become known; also its foes. So there will be no fumbling in the dark on that score. As we see it, the convention can do very much if it does not merely resolve itself into a political annex. Democracy for the sake of democracy is not it, but democracy because it affords an equal chance, if not a better show than other parties that can do things. Of course, it will be said that a Democratic convention is the place to talk democracy. That is true, yet, just as the race finds itself the object of so much exceptions in things generally, it should be prepared to pull out the exception clause in self-defense when necessary. A Negro Democratic convention should be a place to push along the race. DEMOCRACY AT LOVE FEAST. The chief apostles of democracy were in Indianapolis last week spreading the gospel of cheer and comradery. Great stakes are to be won in the near future and for which winning the Democrats feel to have a fighting chance. In fact, the hopes of democracy have never been higher than at this time, and with most excellent reason if success in the recent past counts for anything. The Democrats have the reputation of spoiling things just at the proper time, a quality which they themselves did not appear to see until very recently. Or if they did see it, paid it no mind whatever. They have been particularly careful concerning factions in the recent past and promise to come up with a united front to meet the coming fray. Among those present last week was that new Richmond in the field, Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who stands for intellectualism even in politics. He is not without his hosts, who owing to our complex civilization are more and more convinced that the clearest heads are the best heads for the conduct of affairs amid such a civilization. He won his way to the front on the theory, which from a Democratic viewpoint, was somewhat a departure. Mr. Wilson was selected and elected for his progressive ideas of government conduct, and which accorded with the best thought of the day. His speech here was happy in thought and expression and without doubt left an impression for good. He is hailed as one of the coming men, as it refers to the presidency, among his own party. Many who are not of his party greatly admire him for his scholarly qualities, and are not averse to see him at the head of the nation. Mr. Bryan, the well-known, was quite as felicitous in his speech, which was sent to be read, and also as aggressive as the Governor of New Jersey. Our own Governor Marshall was in evidence, helping in paving the way for the coming contest. MANKIND IN COUNCIL. "Mankind in Council" is the title of a pamphlet issued in the interest of a Universal Race Congress to be held in London this coming July. The purpose of the convention is to "cultivate mutual knowledge and respect between occidental and Oriental peoples." Representatives of some twenty nations have been selected, who will write papers that will set forth the claims and ideal s of each race. As pertinent to the object of the convention the following topics will be discussed: Fundamental Considerations—Meaning of Race, Tribe, Nation; General Conditions of Progress; Peaceful Contact Between Civilization; Special Problems in Inter-Racial Economics; The Modern Conscience in Relation to Racial Questions; Positive Suggestions for Promoting Inter-Racial Friendliness. The first paper of the Congress will be "Definition of Race, Tribe and Nation," by the principal of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar's College, Cooch Behar, India. The discussion will endeavor to show how the races can live together in harmony and mutual helpfulness. The speakers are from the foremost men of the day at their homes and promise to do much in shedding light on the greatest question in the world. Africa, Hayti, Jamaica, Liberia, will be represented and presumably our own country, thus assuring the Negro race a hearing in a most excellent court, and whose rulings, according to its very nature, will have an influence for good. The Southern Workman for April in commenting on the proposed Congress says: "We have been holding peace congresses, we have had missionary gatherings with representatives from all parts of the world, but this congress is somewhat different in its object. It is to help people to know one another in order to work together for a common good. We who belong to the white race are accustomed to think that our civilization is far higher than that of any other people. We are accustomed to standardize our own virtues, and to feel that those who are not like us are inferior." We have said as much of the white race time and time again, insisting that its antipathy was based on its tradition and standards of various kinds which are held at par, while those of other races are liberally discounted more or less. But the white race which is in general a christian race knows very well that it falls short when it comes to subscribing fully to christian tents that touch on fraternalism. It is plain enough that it has something to do in establishing the nation of toleration and brotherly love. Religion is not mentioned as included in the scope of the convention's plans, yet it is scarcely to be avoided. As we view it, the Congress is most timely and will be of incalculable good. It will mean an effort at least, and which will bear fruit in the years to come if not immediately. It will be no less than an inspiration to the "lesser" nations to know that they are not without advocates at the bar of the consciences of enlightened men. Read The Freeman; subscribe for it, that the latest news can be found in its columns. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ATTENTION, DELEGATES! To delegates and visitors who will attend the meeting of the National Negro Business League, August 16, 17, 18, 1911 in Little Rock, Ark. Those desiring homes will please write Wm. Alexander of homes. 9th street, for assignment of homes. Church, Lodge and Society News. Special to THE FREEMAN. Misses Nellie Catlett, Maud Sharp, Edith Brown and Beulah Kaufman and Eva Scott, sophomores in the Lincoln high school, rendered a very interest-ful program for the opening of school Wednesday evening....The Easter program in charge of Misses Lulu B. Smith and Mayne F. Grady, at Bethel A. M. E. church, and the one at the Second M. E. church, diving in to inspire to large audiences last Sunday. Miss Elizabeth L. Noe of this city, received a gold necklace as second prize contest which was conducted by Bethel B. E. school last week....The K. of J. music were in charge of a very excellent literature and musical exercises at the Second M. E. church Friday evening. Prof. H. F. Smith, state grand lecturer for the fraternity, was evening to play for a school entertainment. Little Violet Manuel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manuel, has about recovered from severe attack of croup....The Lincoln high school orchestra will be playing evening to play for a school entertainment. Kelly is the successful teacher of this school....Mrs. Sareh L. Jackson and Mrs. G. Brown, with a number of virgin ladies, are arranged to give a grand concert attit of Bethel A. M. E. church rally at the pupils of the Lincoln high school and the exercise of the grass, we will be given the piano, for paying balance on new piano of high school. MOBILE (ALA.) DOTS Special to THE FREEMAN. Prof. C. W. Hill, principal of the B. T. Washington Public School, attended the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association, which was held in Huntsville, Ala. The report of sessions held on the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association said that a great deal of stress was laid upon the teacher being as active in church and Sunday school work as in its daily routine. The next meeting will be held in Salem, Mass. for the ensuing year, as follows: A. J. Lee, president, and the same staff as before.... The Freeman for sale at the Gulf Coast Music Institute, at the State Street A. M. E. Church, was largely attended by former students and friends. Mrs. Julia Walker, the director, spared no pain in selecting someone something that was well received. The musical committee consisted of Dr. G. H. Wilkerson, president; Mrs. L. B. Wilterson, president; Mrs. E. Barney and W. Glover. Miss Matilda Hall was called from her post of duty on account of the illness of her father, but at this writing he is much improved.... The musical committee has been added to the staff of the Williams Drug Company.... Mr. Mack Reynolds, the popular tonsorial artist, says The Freeman improves weekly in good reading. He has congratulated on the "turtle-back." It gives a fine improvement to Davis avenue. SOUTH BEND (IND.) NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN to announce the order of Owls first annual sermon was preached Sunday evening, April 9, at the Mt. Olivet A. M. E. Church, West Moore street, by Rev. A. Smithy, who is a member of the order..... The sermon was preached blow he received in Russell's poolroom three days ago....Mrs. C. H. Olivet 110% Colafx, is much better and is ut again....The sermon was presided over by C. Scott, president of Federated Clubs of Indianapolis, Ind., was a grand affair....The several church clubs of the A. M. E. Church raised $200 on the building....The sermon was held from Kalamazoo, Mich., after a two weeks visit....Mr. J. L. Dulin has sold out his restaurant to Mr. Jones of Marion, the hotel business at 127% West Columbus, after a million from Miles, was a visitor Saturday....Three churches observed Easter Sunday with appropriate exercises....Mesdames at Dickman Ashbrook, Alston Mishawaka, shindir and were guests at the Powell residence, Mishawaka, Sunday for dinner....Mrs. Charles B. enterer at Saturday after a pink party in honor of Miss Ada Rickey of Chicago, Ill. DECATUR, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. Easter was observed at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church by an appropriate program morning, afternoon and evening. The choir rendered some beautiful music, suit- able for the day. At the morning service, the choir sang the hymn of the Knight Templars. Quite a number of visiting knights were in the city from Springfield, Pearla and Clinton. Mr. Ala Nickens and George Nickens were care- ful in the care of the children of Mr. William Nickens. Mr. and Mrs. Barta Rhodes, formerly of this city, have moved back to Decatur, to make t ohrineh back to Decatur to make their home... convene in Decatur the 20th, 21st and 22d of this month. About 100 delegates are expected to attend. Miss Gertrude Dansby, who is studying art in Chicago, will be attending Easter vacation. Mrs. Nessie Hunt is suffering from a very bad cut on the hand. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE Baltimore, Md. The Episcopal Church of St Mary the Virgin, Baltimore, Md., was the scene of the wedding of Mary, Miss Light, the contracting parties being Miss F. F. Thomas, daughter of Mr. Henry Thomas, and Mr. John Henry Murphy, Jr. son of Mr. John H. Murphy, managing director of the Rev. George Griffith performed the ceremony. The bridesmaid was Miss Thomas, a sister of the bride. She attended in a champagne broadcloth, wore a hat of white and black straw, trimmed with pink roses, and carried bride's roses. The brother of the bride, J. Murphy, the brother of the bridegroom. The reception which followed at the residence of the bride, 1109 Drudg Hill avenue, leading residence of this and nearby cities. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were the recipients of many handsome and costly presents, including many tokens in silver and gold. The residence at 1314 Drudg Hill avenue after May 1. MT. VERNON, OHIO. Easter Sunday Offerings at the Dif ferent Churches Special to THE FREEMAN Wayman Chapel, A. M. E. Church, Rev. J. M. Tate pastor. Sunday school with Easter program at 9 a. m.; preaching and Easter program at 7 a. m.; regular Easter program at 7:30 a.m. voluntary, Miss Ethel Simmons; Scripture lesson, St. Matt. 20. Rev. J. M. Tate prayer hymn, choir; the origin of Easter, missionary story, Kenneth Payne; Lift up Your Chester Hollingsworth; Anthem choir—time, Easter, Charlotte Copeland; Missiones, Mrs. Carrie Ewing; selection, choir story, Kenneth Payne; Lift up Your eathers entertained, April 13, in honor of Mrs. Chester elson of Springfield, O.... Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Johnson of New York. O.... were the guests of Miss Vloe Simmons, the Sutherland Sunday.... The Calvary Baptist Church held services both morning and evening and the following Easter program was held: Singing, Convocation, the Sunday school: Singing, Convocation, the Sunday Alfinum: song, "Great is the Lord." CENTRALIA, ILL. A Word of Thanks. Special to THE FREEMAN MERIDIAN, MISS One of the Oldest Citizens Dies William Powell Highly Respected. CLARKSVILLE, TENN Easter was largely observed here Sunday. The Masonic hodge A. F. & A. M. No. 44 featured the day by a spectacle parade in honor of the K. of T.'s church. The Masonic hodge A. F. & A. M. No. 44 featured the day by a spectacle parade in honor of the K. of T.'s church. The Masonic hodge A. F. & A. M. No. 44 featured the public a grand Easter cantata conducted by Mrs. Dr. Colman and Mrs. Mina First.....Miss Manisha Balns died on the 16th and was buried in the church. Rev. J. J. Coleman officiating, Miss Gains was one of the graduates of the high school class of 1911. She was a graduate of the church. Mrs. Sarah Simmes, Mrs. Cynthia Roberson and Mrs. Catherine Ellis of St. Louis, Mo., were in the city attending the 1911 graduation on the 8th.....Mr. Peter Postel, or Hopkinsville, Ky., was in the city on the 17th.....Mr. John Blakemore, of Evansville, Ky., was in the city visiting relatives and friends.....Mrs. Jos. Tomkins is out again after being confined several weeks.....Mrs. Roberts, of Evansville, Ky., was in the city visiting relatives and friends.....The Clarksville local basement, under the management of Messrs. E. Simmons and Arthur Hunter, will tour several of our larger cities this week.....The Friends of the church every week at 107 South First street Steele and Barker bar shop. OWENSBORO, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN On Wednesday, April 12, 1911, Miss Annie Baughan and Mr. Will Higgs were quietly married in Lawyer John R. Willingham's office, by Pat Lancaster to be an open series of sport. He has begun a good game for next Saturday, April 22, 1911, scheduled between Western high school and Evansville Y. M. C. A. Each team has a strong lineup and most of the players have been Simpkins, the lightweight boxer, young and active, has a good pnch and is very defensive, weighing 148 lbs in boxing uniform, challenging any one within his reach. The Gazettes roped away with the Louisville Owensboro Cubs, Dudley Negley, the elegant pitched, only allowed five hits, while the three four hits pitched by the Cubs allowed 10 hits. The Owensboro Gazettes won their first game of the season Monday, April 17th, from the Louisville Owensboro Cubs, by a score of 10-7. The Hempfield game was the pitching and catching of Dudley Negley and Elma Beay, of Gazettes, but all played well of the Gazettes. Fifteen L. O. sluggers scored 10-7, Any one desiring to have the Franconian can apply at 1026 West Fifth, Owensboro Lawrence W. Dix, agent. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Mr. Ed Smith, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was the guest of Mrs. Bell Salispaw and Adell Salispaw. They were highly entertained....Please don't forget the grand musical recital at the Phoenix Hall. Thursday, April 27th, benefit of the Mellon Foundation Mission Inc., Miss Nettie Brown entertained Mr. Lillian Ball and Maddain Mason Satur- day for dinner, both at the Sanitarium, ..Mr. Earl Tucker, from Battle Creek, Alabama, and ..Mr. John Tucker, who were in Charlotte, secured a marriage license, being married immediately, and after they were married they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson They have both returned from Charleston, and ..Mr. John Tucker, time being they are staying at his brother's, Mr. Ed Tucker, 153 Kalamazoo street.....Mr. Master Pierce Henderson has been sick with the mumps, but is some better.....Mrs. B Lets Fonde and ..Mr. John Tucker, George Tyler, of Sandusky, O. Wednesday evening. All report a good time.. .Mrs. Ella Loise was here to spend Easter with her daughter, Mrs. B. Henderson, Division street, Eva Curri, Friday afternoon....Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Williams and daughter, Mrs. Marion Hyath, left Wednesday for Chicago, where they expect to make their future Christmas film. They are a social given at the home of A. W. Groson Wednesday evening, April 19th....Mr. Fred Moore has been quite sick, but he is some better at this writing. He will be able to truly hope he will get well....Mr. and Mrs. David Walker entertained Mr. Joe Johnson and Miss Bell Swaneng, of Chicago at a three-course lunch. The team with roses. Miss Swaneng leaves for Fox Lake soon to spend the summer....The big runaway—just ask A. H. about it....There will be a grand rabbit room, where you can get your April 19th....The masters Amos and Allen Moore were the guests of their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Smith, 195 Kalamazoo street for Easter Sunday....Please have your five cents in your pocket to your agent, Miss Guile Berry, Bellstone 1065 J. PIQUA (O.) BREVITIES. Speech we have BETTLE Sunday school held their Easter exercises with a very interesting program, with songs and recitations by the children.... The suppen given at Cerne A. M. E. church was a success. Eugene Hymne Minstrels showed in St. Patricks O. to a full house. They made such a hit with the people that they were invited to return again at an early date.... Eugene Hymne Minstrels attained delightfully well. James Sheoarch of St. Paris, O., Sunday.... Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anderson entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Brown and Mr. Leslie Wall attended a ball Springfield, O. and reports a delightful time.... Mr. Finley and Mrs. John Young, of Dayton, O. were the guests West North street.... Mrs. Charles Brown entertained the Autumn Leaf Club Monday afternoon at her home on Boone street. Dainty refreshments were served.... Mr. J. Eavens spent Sunday Greenville, O. to Eavens parents..... Mr. Chas, Jones, of Troy, O. spent Wednesday afternoon in Piqua. LOUISVILLE KY Special to THE FREEMAN. Mr. William D. Walker and Petra Fitzzallen were married Easter Sunday, Rev. J. C. Anderson officiating. Ceremony was simple. Only the immediate family and late friends wore present, and later after the wedding, which was elegantly served by the bride's sister, Mrs. Welch, the couple left the city for Pittsburgh, Wheeling and then to our city, formerly lived in Wheeling and conducted a business there. Miss Prim, a very charming and sweet young lady, has a host of friends in the city, and she is a wonderful home. She was formerly in Zanvilleis O. She has been head nurse at the "Red Cross" Sanitarium for a little over a year. Their many friends wish them well, and she is a great friend. The couple will be at home after April 23in at 518 S. 21st street. Mr. and Mrs. Bazel Purdy have a luncheon Monday at 11:30 in honor of Miss Maggie Coleman, of Lexington. The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. James Miller, Miss Katie Kinner, Mr. William Biares, Mr. Clifton George Sanders, Mr. Wm Johnson, Mrs. Ella Purdy, Mr. Alfred Watson. --- Miss Maggie Coleman of Lexington is the guest of Mrs. James Miller...Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewis, of 1408 W. Walnut gave a lecture on the history of Miss Coleman of lexington KY. Mr. and Mrs. James Brown and Mr. Chark. of the Montgomery-Dixie Co. Her other guests were Mrs. James Miller and Mrs. Luella Lettman...Miss Nannie Moore all at her residence, 669 South Seventh street. She is much better at this writing. BOWLING GREEN, KY. Special to THE FREEMAN SPRINGFIELD, TENN Special to THE FREEMAN Dr. G. M. Standford, pastor of St. John A. M. E. Church, attended the funeral of Mrs. Jennie Garrett Sunday afternoon. She was a member of St. John and also a member of the benefice or ornate whose work was done in full. Mr. Wesley Wesley has created a beautiful residence of six rooms on Chestnut street. Mr. James Franklin completed 425 feet of concrete walk on the premise. Mr. Wesley Wesley has created a farm of seventy-five acres in this county. Mrs. Martha Suggs is conducting a first-class eating house. Mr. Jim Brown has created a farm of seventy-five acres his mother, Bob Coleman, whom he not seen in seventeen years. Mr. and Mrs. George McLain had a fine daughter born to them last week. Mrs. Lizzie Brown has created a farm of seventy-five visiting her aunt. The friends and acq aintments of Mr. Jack Wetherford are sorry to learn of his bad health and hope he will soon improve. Mrs. L. D. Boy- ner has created a farm of seventy-five Alvin J. Wetherford, the old reliable cleaner and presser, was in Nashville Sun day...Mr. Charing Soggs owns a lovely cottage home in a populated part of the city. Mrs. Soggs is a lovable daydreamer and a neat, cute girl, but there are now a C. B. & C. Church, are now in town to furnish you fresh goods in lieu of the Mr. Walter Fierlines in the town, who is an agent for the writer, the author of *Stewart Chapel* A. M. E. Church, who continues to revival meeting, and date. The meeting will continue...Rev. W. of the Belfast Church, and Dr. Ridley of the Belfast Church, and Dr. Standford are now been woken up, rendered good morning...Mrs. Aglie Bybee died Monday morning at 3:15 p. m. CARML. UU Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Maggie Gowder entertained the State Institute children at her home on the Main street with a "tot" party in East Lansing carried out in the detactions...Mrs. M. Johnson, of Carriewill, was in the city Monday...Mrs. Eastman and Franklin, and Mrs. Eastman and Franklin, and were here last week. May Truitt, en route to Calhoun, was in training for a Chicago toilet was here Monday...Mr. White, of Henderson, Ky., were here Monday...Charles Worlds of M. Vernon, Ind., was here last week. 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Grains Co. 117 Pulisfer Edge, Chicago, Ill., and you will simply be astounded at the wonderful results obtained from the free trial package alone. The full size package of Curo Grains are only 50 cents and are sold by all druggists. in life many people discover that they have erred in mistaking thrift for stinginess and waste for gener- tion with this. The Stage. 6 Charles S. Gilpin, now at the Pekin, Chicago, will be in Indianapolis this summer where he will be interested in a tour show. It is shown by Ed. Lee, the well-known manager, will be jointly interested in a summer show. Hansom Ballard is still at the Globe Theater, Jacksonville, Fla., where he is doing some very fine pictorial oil painting for J. H. Hayes, of Ashley street. Mr. Hayes is very much pleased with the painting. Ballard is the scenic artist at the Globe. The Madden Stock Company opened at C. Madden in Jacksonville, where he is having much success. J. C. Madden had the whole house in an uproar with his new act, "The Judge of Darktown." The house was crowded. Watch for the program of the Madden Stock Company next week. J. C. Madden is the proprietor. The team of Wiggins and Wiggins has closed a successful engagement the Bijou Theater, Greenwood, Miss, and opened at the Globe Theater on Monday, and would like to hear from all managers and the Russell-Owens-Brooks Stock Company. All friends are requested to write. B. H. Nye's Dixie Minstrels, which will play summer parks during the summer will soon commence active rehearsals and Northern cities, and park managers are already clamoring for the attraction the personnel of the company includes the best cast members in the profession, and the performance promises to be a most artistic success. "Parade costumes and first-part costumes for the first stage costumers, and the first-part stage setting is about completed. Mr. Nye may be addressed at Broad Ripple, Indiana, or theapolis, from which point letters and telegraphs are forwarded to him promptly. THE STAR THEATER. THE STAR THEATER, AUGUSTA, GA Lee and Lee leave this week for an engagement at Charlotte, N. C., after a successful three weeks at the Star Theatre. Madame Ray Nichols has been on the sick list but is improving. She sends regards to all friends in the East. She sends regards to Arthur Johnson at Columbia, S. C., and also to Alice Bamsey. DLVAL THEATER, AIKEN, S. C. Harry Bell, better known as the 'Candy Kid', is now stage manager of the Mason Dixon High School success shows up brightly. He sends regards to R. Mason and all friends in the theater. The Freeman, which contains the news of this theater, can be purchased from Stanley Drisdam, Augusta, GA, or at ames on Saturday, the shop on, at Center Stage. AIRDOME OPENING AT AUGUSTA, GA The Airdome opened April 17 on Campbell street, in this city. It will be devoted to the highest grade of amusement provided by becoming a provided with moving pictures of the highest class and vaudville performances. The best performers in the profession will be secured for this playhouse. Its location opposite the Greene Grove will probably make it the coolest place of amusement in the city, even on tre very hottest nights. The bill was headed by English and Queen Dorn, Blanche Russell and Pete Porter, Taussell and Taussell and Ray Nichols. The house owned and operated by a colored gentleman in the city. He is well known in many States as George Curry (better known as "Speck Curry"). The house can be purchased every Saturday from Stanley Drisdam or Jas. Johnson's barber shop on Center street. McKINNER STREET THEATER, AT AUGUSTA, GA Kenner and Lewis Tio are still making a hit and are the talk of the town. Kenner is the founder of the stage management of Kenner and Lewis, who are known all over the Southern Circuit as topnotchers. Kenner is equally as good in all ways as performers. Millie Williams, that versatile little comedian, is making good with her fine singing. James Rosetta Brannon, the great coon shouter, is a great drawing card. Ray Nichols, that high-class prima donna, is taking well with the audiences by her high-class singing. By the millie business in this city is the best. Miss Gussie Bright, the girl with the eyes, is certainly going into favor with the patrons of the theater. They are the most elegant and the audiences appreciate their efforts. audiences appreciate their efforts, and they are here in their company are here indefinitely. Their manager, Mr. Wheeler leaves for California for his health soon, and his partner, Mr. B. H. Willis, takes charge of the theater. He is a good man for the job. Kenner, Lewis and Williams send regards to the Little Ruby Quartet and all other friends in the profession. The Freeman can be purchased every Saturday from Stanley Drisdam, agent, or at Jame, Johnson's barber shop, on Center street. THEATRICAL NEWS FROM ATLANTA, GA Central Theater. The Central Theater opened again on April 10, under the management of Mr. Baly (white), with the following people: William Ransom and Ransom, Edwards and Edwards, Butler and Butler, Cyclo and Cyclop, Miss Foster and Carrie Nugent. The opening bill was a musical comedy by John Williams, entitled "Snowball Johnson in Africa," with Mr. Williams and Princess Rajah in the roles. As a whole the show was good, as Mr. Williams is a very clever comedian. Princess Rajah was also well received. The part played by Mrs. S. Foster was very well received, she made a good male impersonator. Space will not permit of a full description of the show, but to say the least, it was good. Edwards performed with a song and monologue, and as usual took the house by storm. He is a clever comedian. Edwards and Edwards did a neat little talking act. Mr. Rajah, beyond all reasonable doubt, is a clever artist of no mean ability, and she pleases the audiences. Butler and Butler received their share of the audience, and a song written by Tim Owlesy for Mr. Johnny Woods, entitled "I Can't Do That." Cycleo and Cyclop are as clever trape- formers as this city has ever seen. Miss Carrie Nugent closed the vaudeville a dancing act, which was well received. Famous Theater. Russell-Owens Stock Company is the attraction at the Famous, this being the closing week of their engagement. Mr. Russell is giving the Famous perros a chance to meet you on Monday and Tuesday the company appeared in "A Busy Day in the White Folks" Parlor. On Wednesday and Thursday, "The Husband. On Friday and Saturday, "A Darky's Dream," and a new show just written by Mr. Bob Rowe. Mr. Billy Owens, the one best bet as a comedian, is as ever the favorite. coach Pauline Crampion is one of the best character audles, and she sets the sound for Spanish. * characters, in which she features Cole and ohson's famous song hit, "On the Road." The company's personell is made up of the following persons: Bob Russell, manager; Billy Owens, comedian and character man; Speedy Smith, comedian; Charlie Brown, comedian; Mrs. Alice Russell, soubret and character artist; Miss Blanch Thompson, lead actress; Miss Jane Crampton, character woman; Miss Jenny rough, soubret and character artist; Miss Eveline White, dancing soubret; Mrs. Pascal, vocalist; Mr. H. W. Paschal, musicalian; Mr. Andrews will join them at that place. Arcade Theater "81" Manager T. D. Joel offers the Atlanta amusement lovers a small stock company head by that well-known artist, Mr. Hewlett, and connects with the vaudeville he now offers. The bill this week is a dramatic playlet fitted to colored actors, entitled When Your Sins Find You Out," by Tim Owens. Zenobia Jefferson and Company do a talking act that pleases. Buddie Glenn is as youthful as ever in voice and actions. Wilson and Davis made a hit in their comedy "Sidney Soleman" captivated the audience with "Cutie, Who Tied Your Tile." Taylor and Taylor are indeed clever singers and talkers. Mafia Belle Glenn closed the vaudeville. As a prima donna she will be received. Prof. Daniel L. Wilson, of Charleston S. C., has played the orchestra Duval Theater The Duval has a very clever show, but, as they have no programs, the names of the actors are omitted. Watch The Fremantle coach week for reliable news from Atlanta. INCIDENTS IN DR. J. W. WOODS TRAVELOLOGE BY LAND AND SEA TO AFRICA AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE. Secondee, W. C., Africa. We are now, 700 miles down the west coast of Africa. We arrived at Monrovia February 27, 1976, sixteen hours. Where we called upon Dr. Crum, of the American legation. We found him in good health and apparently happy. After paying our respects to Dr. Crum, we called upon President Nixon and the state officials; took tea with Dr. Taylors; African M. E. Zion Mission, and went out seeing Monrovia. I am very much impressed with the city. While it is not modern, in many respects it is pleasing to see the buildings her gates. There are many nice buildings and stone that will measure up with many ordinary buildings in the States. I have a good deal of information regarding the defunct government, We hope that the republic will be saved to the glory and honor of the blackman. Mr. Baker was here in alumny from the United States, so I am told, to complete the arrangements for a loan to the republic of one and a half million dollars. England, Germany, France and Spain hold large possessions in Africa. Poor old Africa is fast passing into the hands of foreign nations. The republic is as large as the US, and yet the country is full of wealth, diamonds, gold, copper iron, tin, mahogany, rubber, palm oil and fruits of every description. And no one handles these resources like a foreigner. He is here gutting the earth and bringing the wealth of Africa back to his home. Liberia lost 1,600 square miles of territory to Germany and England within the last 30 years, and today she has only about 300 square miles. I will not speak further on Liberia. Tuesday, February 27 at 11:30 p. m. we left Monrovia on our way down the coast to Quittat. It will be remembered the port at Teamer, the Falabda, entered the port at Montevideo, the coastline Frashi in port. I was very fortunate in getting this ship, as it stops at nearly every little place goering the coast. We have a splendid opportunity to see the coast and under conditions, as well as being thrown in contact with the different native tribes. We have enjoyed the special calls that we have been able to make at Grand Bassa, Upper Rabalba, Lower Rabalba, Grand Cess, Axim and Adjulu. We were at Adjulu Sunday, March 5. We were there from Saturday evening to Monrovia, Upper Rabalba, Lower Rabalba, Grand Cess, Axim and Adjulu. The missions that have control so far developed because the educated and civilized lives along the coast will not work on Sunday. The missions that have control so far developed because the educated and civilized lives along the coast will not work on Sunday. All denominations of any standing are at work in some part of Axim. Railroads are being built in the interior by England, Germany and France, and along these lines of railroad Christian missions are being established very rapidly in different sections of the interior. I am indeed hopeful for Africa. I feel that in years to come Africa will be enlightened, and the country will own it. If we leave it to England to civilize Africa, then England and her people will own the county and so unto them that have labored will be able to take control of the American blackman to take hold in Africa and assist in her civilization and development of the country, for this great country is the only land of the "Blackman's Hope." ADDYSTON, OHIO. Halley's Comet Knights, of Honor Lodge, one of the strongest organizations that has existed in Sekiton for a long time, is meeting with approved officers of the work looks very encouraging. Theitation fee has been reduced for the present to $175. I would be well for any wishing to join this lodge to come to church work and a woman of culture and refinement, heads the list of officers as president; Orlander Murphy, as vice president; Miss Cordella Ellis, secretary; Mrs. Olander Murphy, secretary; W. H. Brannon, password protector; Mrs. Olander Murphy, chapplain. The lodge has a substantial bank account and is proving its worth as a ...John Branch has returned home from the city hospital and looks well, although the doctors had pronounced his case an incurable one. Mr. Branch will be in the hospital to plant it will be some time before he returns to work...Subscribe for the Freeman...Miss Rilda Howell is recovering from a very bad blood poisoning his case. Thieves have been working the circuit boarding at Miss Lizzie Garnettts was relieved of a gold watch and chain and a nine dollar pair of pants. The marshals save him located him yet. Mr. Drew has been told the Kokinville Hotel was the victim of forgery by a young man who was in their service as cook. The amount was only five dollars. He was caught by the police and escorted to Seketon, Mayor J. A. Cliff gave him 0 and ...Those accompanying McLuas, president of the B. Y. P. U. to Delhi Sunday were William Williams, James Johnson, Mr. Williams, Mrs. S. Hollipop, Mr. Williams, Mrs. J. Motten, Mrs. Cora Ruckers, Rev. R. Neal, Mrs. Martha Davis, Miss Marie Green, Mr. and Mrs. McLuas and N. C. Hawkins and Mrs. Clinton Gaines. The team was on the brink of the Baptist church. Wyatt Germany, 22, living at Sekitan, and Miss Mamie Riley, 18, of Cincinnati, were united in marriage Wednesday evening at 2:30 at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Riley, of Pekinville, Ohio. G. W. Wyatt officiated. The Colored THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. XENIA. OHIO. Passes the Examination—Interest in the Debut. Frank Robinson has returned from Chelsea to fulfil examination for an engagement with the club. ...Will Bowen is improving company, dence on E. Church street...Rev. Everett, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Fluqa, Ohio, preached at the Middle Run Baptist Church, on last Wednesday and children have returned from a four weeks' visit with relatives in Marietta and Zanesville, Ohio...Rec. Carpenter, a former pastor of the Third M. Church, in another city, had the misfortune of losing her purse by a smatch-thief while getting on the train. She glapped with the man, but he made his escape, but was arrested in another city...Judge C. H. Kyle in the Community Police Department delivered an address at the Third Baptist Church on Eastern Sunday evening...Miss Cudelles Hunter had as her guests and Mrs. Walker of Springfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Flushing, Ohio...Leon W. Creatly, of this city has been offered a position with a wild west rogers, who has been working in Columbus is ill at his home in this city...L. Carter and Mrs. Mille Fry, of Winchester, Ky, and Mrs. Anna Scales, of Winchester, Ky, and Mrs. Taylor street, this week...Grant Scott, who had been in the hospital for four weeks at Dayton, died Saturday morning...Miss Eva Mason, of Jamesville, preparing to locate in this city...Mr. Jose O'Rare is in the city on a visit. E. Main Street High School Notes—Arbord Day was observed in the school FIRE Great interest is being taken in the debate to be held Tuesday, between the Dayton, M. C. A. and the debating of this school. A great time is anticipated. SPRINGFIELD. ILL. The Y. M. C. A., the K. of P. and U. B. of F. Lodges. Special The MEEMAN Young Christian Association is doing here nicely and is making rapid progress. Good programs are being rendered every Sunday to large and representative audiences. The association is following them as officers: Capt. R. A. Byrd; president; E. L. Rogers; secretary; E. T. Gorum, financial secretary, and A. M. Williams, treasurer. They have a cozy reading and Bible class room. The Bible class is conducted by S. J. Williams. On Sunday, April 30, Mr. N. V. Lindsay will speak on "The Future of This" He will lead the national reputation. The best wife and college people are co-operating to make this institution a success.... The K of P, U. B. F., and various other lodges in the ee doing nicely. The former lodge gave the young man a Bible Baptist Church April 6.... The K of P, annual sermon will be delivered the first Sunday in May.... The Manual Training School, conducted by Prof. Hamilton, is a great help to our boys. The play by our teacher, Mr. M. M. last week, was a success. The title of the production was "The Penalty of Pride," in four acts. The leading characters were Carl L. Watkins and Miss M. M. M. last week, was a success. The pastor at Grace M. E. Church.... Rev. E. C. Cole, of Union Baptist Church, is a great work. Dr. E. Gillum held quarterly meeting at Grace M. E. Church April 16, join the W. M. C. A. DELHI, OHIO. Special to THE FRENEMAN. PRINCETON, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN The Rev. James E. Allen is visiting in Georgetown, Ky., having gone there on a tour of the university, which adjourned in Springfield field. The people of this city are proud of his return as pastor of the Second M. E. Church here for another year... The people of Georgetown have given a unique social at their hall in Harrison street this evening at 8 o'clock. The churches Sunday morning in all our churches Sunday morning in a moon night were of a very high order. The Misses Esther L. Thomas, Vada E. Clements, Vivian C. Kaufman and Edil Gillen presented a strictly musical school, rendered a strictly musical school, which was first class, for the opening of schools last Wednesday morning. The school had a charge on next Wednesday... Prof. E. Vincentnes, was the guest of Prof. H. F. Smith and other friends here last Sunday, and a grand love feast and reception at their hall last Monday evening. The ladies of the Household of Ruth served a tempting supper which lasted for more than an hour, and sons present. Mrs. Willis Rucker, of Evansville, Ind., was the guest of honour at Church was a financial success Sunday. It will be continued May 14... The National Club of the Olive Branch Baptist Church, the church soon...The grand musical and literary entertainment and egg hunt by the junior choir of Bethel A. M. E. F. Grady, by Miss Kayne F. Grady, were a big success Friday evening of last week. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Mary Taylor, Mrs. Smiley, Mrs. Charles Lincoln, Mrs. Hannah Boggess, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Charles Jackson are all able to be around...Sunday was the day the Oak Hill Avenue A. M. E. church, the Trustee's Helpers of the Oak Hill Avenue A. M. E. church gave a literary entertainment and supper Tuesday evening and $20.00 at the Oak Hill Avenue A. M. E. Ardale street, returned from Dayton last week, and she attended hte funeral of Mrs. Robert Smith, who died in Dayton....Rev. Pollard of the Taber...A number of Newcastle people were in the city Sunday. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS OF THE RACE. Dear Mothers; The National Association of Colored Women appeals to you, in the name of childhood, to celebrate, by appropriate behavior, the beautiful sentiment of love between mother and child. The second Sunday, in May has been the Mother's Day in inaugurated by a grateful mother in memory of a sainted mother. A sublime example of filial love. Mother's love and the love of mother ranks next to God's love and the one being the correlative of the other. If these sentiments were universally nourished in the heart of the parent and encouraged in the face of the terrible crime of the neglect of the one and the ingrature of the other, would, to a great extent, be illiminated among us. When you sacred duty to forward zealously any movement tending to the uplifting of your charges; for unto the mother has given God the world of presenting to the world His immeiity. The divine command of "Honor thy father and thy mother" carries with the divine warning that from the mother's child, the mother's child, for in her keeping He has intruded it. "Am I my brother's keeper?" will be answered by an everlasting "Yes!" The mother down the aisles of time to all generation. Mothers! come together, to study your child; to help, with your advice, others who are ignorant of the needs of their children, to help their child to respect you and through you, to help all other mothers; to throw your influence upon the side of pure lives and honest actions; to teach your children for your boys and girls, thus proving to your children that honest labor is nobler than gilded sim. Our open discussion of these vital questions will be to more manly and womanly and develop a much needed respect for each other. Your day! the second Sunday in May is your day! it rests with you to make it a memorable day. Faithfully yours for "Lifting as we climb. SYLVANE F. WILLIAMS. Dept. of Mothers' Clubs. N.A.C.W. SHEET-MUSIC FREE CATALOG OF 100 Picked Popular Songs, Rags and Waltze selected from latest Season Hits. Free Catalog. Write to-day for one. THE WM. FOSTER MUSIC COMPANY 5023 STATE ST., CHICAGO, IL. WANTED First class acts of all kinds. Costumes and reference necessary. Good novelty acts of recognition ability can find work here. State salary and particulars in first letter. Address JULIUS J SALS LIVE Theatre, Thirteenth and Walnut streets, Louisville, KY. Wheeler & Swords THEATRES PERFORMERS NOTE We want good acts at all times. Keep in touch with us for time at our and other Theaters. Let us know when wanting acts. Can arrange to book your house solid new acts at all times. Address L. T. SWORDS, Mgr. Chattanooga, Tenn. The Reid House 941/2 Decatur Street Atlanta, Ga. J. H. L. H. REID. Prop. While in the city stop at the Reid House, the only first class house in the city. Caters to the sporting and theatrical professions. Prices reasonable. Strangers always made welcome COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. State of Indiana, Marion County, ss. In the Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. Arthur R. Williams vs. Ida Williams Nationwide. Complaint, divorce. Be it known that on the 27th day of March, 1911, the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Madison, Illinois, complaint against the above named defendant, Ida Williams, and the said plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that he resisted defendant, a William H. Responding to the State of Indiana, said cause is for divorce and said defendant is a necessary party thereto, and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint request said defendant to appear in said Court, or denier thereto on the 29th day of May, 1911. A. B. C. Now therefore, by order of said Court, said defendant lust above named is hereby bound to pay the amount of said complaint against her, and that unless she appear and answer or demur the 28th day of May, 1911, she said cause on the 25th day of May, 1911, by acting the 25th judicial day of a term of said Court, to be begun and held at the Court House in the City of Indianapolis, his complaint against her, and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and determined in her absence. F. C. Riley, Attorney for Plaintiff. At Oculugee Park Theatre, Macon, Ga., in a reportoire of original Musical Comedy, Farcon, Bc. Bob Russell, Billy Owens, Marion Brooks. WANTED! Forty performers—Florida Blossum Co.—male and female musicians who double B. & O. or B. & S. Performers whose applications were not answered, write again. there were reasons. We will carry a two-car show this season. Contract jumpers and boozers save stamps. Address DOUGLASS & WORTHEY, 301 Fourth Street, Macon, Ga. WANTED! Good performers to open Pekin Theatre, April 1. Six to twelve weeks work. Don't write if you have played Memphis. T. D. Caradine, Prop. Address E. D. Lee, Mgr., 98 S. Fourth St., Memphis, Tenn. Coming to Your City Soon THE GREAT A. G. ALLEN'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS The Show that has Made all the South Laugh Opening for first class musicians and performers at all times. Those doubling in brass preferred. Salary sure. We never close. State all you can do in first letter. Address GEORGE W. QUINE, Mgr., Mail forwarded each day to show. Hazen, Arkansas Savoy Theatre, Memphis, Tenn.; Mystic Theatre, Hot Springs, Ark.; Royal Palm Theatre, Greenville, Miss.; Amuse U Theatre, Vicksburg, Miss. Twelve to twenty weeks work to first class performers who can work to first class audiences. WANTED—Three first class producers, 100 first class acts of all kinds. Prefer people who can work in Stock, for Fred. A. Barrasso's Tri-State Circuit, "GROWING EVERY DAY." The only manager in the South who controls and owns all of his houses. Write to day for a long engagement. I pay all transportation after joining. Address Fred. A. Barrasso, General Manager, Majestic Theatre, Hot Springs, Ark. Baby F. Seals Nice, Cozy Rooms over Theatre for Nice, Cozy People. Add B. F. Seals, Prop. and Director of Amusement. Leroy White, Ass't Manager. G. W. Baynham, Secretary. The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville, Moving Pictures FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA BUILT FOR COLORED PEOPLE Want to hear from all colored acts Grand Amusement Company 3110.12 S.State St., Chicago, Illinois Globe Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. Two Shows Nightly, No Matinees. State all in first letter. Write or wire Frank Crowd, Owner and Manager, MRS. CORDELIA McCLAIN, Producer and Stage Director. LAURA MOSS, Assistant Jacksonville, Florida. In the Field of Sport. Twin City Gophers now in evidence are bidding fair to eclipse all former efforts. Season opens at an early date in Mpn. Minneapolis, MN. * "Top 'T' Eppe" T.C. Cavalry baseball baseball is getting in fine tune. Jumbo strengthened by a time player from Hamburg, Pa. The team is at Fort Allen, Vermont. The Blue Birds, the fast colored team of Covington, KY. He is been reorganized for the games of 1911, and desire to game with all first-class teams for out-of-town games. Address Cee, W. Haggard, Covington, KY. The fate of boxing in Los Angeles is in advance. Thomas J. McCarey, manager of the Pacific Athletic Conference, Ad Wolgast, Geo. Memnic and Interece Charley Eyton, with having involved and participated in a pride fight. Judge Willis then continued the case for twenty-five days. Not to be outdone. Milwaukee has produced a "white hope." The latest is Ray Burns, a South Bend bolder, maker, who weighs 220 pounds, and Joseph Schiapacasse, who played a pro part in bringing out Bob Burns has only participated in his favor, and Schiapacasse is endeavoring to get him a match with Carl the Oklahoma "come on." Gormer heavyweight champion, James Liefries, who arrived in Chicago last week on his way to New York, from which place he heaped the German and an extended European tour, asserted takes little interest in the "fighting game" now and that he knows Joe at present who can take Jack Johnson's measure. "I won't talk to you about the late unpleasantness too. I lost on the square and it wouldn't be right for me to start being now." There were some lively bouts at the Duluth club smoker in Indianapolis last week. Young Sharkley caused a surprise by putting it all over Jimmy Blackburn, a colored pig from the Windy City, who was touted as the man of shipping his left over to the law firm frequently, and toward last of the six-round go the Negro was holding on. Jack Boyce, of Lafayette, had all the better of a young Charley, who was a young Young Tere Haute, stopped Kid Low-tour-round bout, and Kid Croak and Tome Fitzzerald split even in a tame battle. A battle royal furnished a BASEBALL NEWS, MOBILE, ALA. Mr. Ralph Clemens will hereafter look after the welfare of the Mobile Dixie Stars, as he has been elected the manager. Mobile has Sunday baseball now, and the fans are delighted. Myers, the fast fielder, and Joe McGyver have been signed by the Dixie Stars called Will make a good player. He can play shortstop very creditably for a boy his age. Will, the grand old man of baseball has gone into bill posting business, he sends his best wishes to the boys. THE LIMA (O.) GIANTS. This Aggregation Is Now Booking Games With Other First-Class Teams. The Lima Giants are now booking games with all first-class teams. They opened the season with Ohio Northern, an Eastern new players have been signed. B. Seiden of the Chicago Giants, will accompany the team to Ada. The team will be the new talent Walter King, Tramp Reed, Earl Guy and Al. Reilly. These veterans of baseball will make a fast aggregation. The team will be the opening game. Otho Collins will come in as manager. This is a road team strictly, playing Sundays and holidays. Managers desiring games, address Otho Collins, Manager, or Weber Harrison, secrete- TROOP "B." TENTH CAVALRY BASERALL ASSOCIATION Open Season May 1 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. We open the season on May 1. Our team is in excellent form, and we hope we can great work this season. The season has been a good season, with fourteen good teams. We have just received an outfitter from Harrisburg, which is recommended highly by Rube Foster, a former coach. He is considered one of the best outfielders that was in the Colored League of the South. Our lin-up for the first team is for Barn and Barrows, c; Johnson and Taylor p; Green or Glenn, b; Talley or Smith, b; Thompson or R. Smith, b; Shelley or R. Smith, c; Turner, f; Tillman and Shivrel, utility men; Bradford, extra pitcher. PREDERICK R. LEE, Secretary. Almon Battle Manager. The World Famous Cuban Stars Go Down Before New Orleans by a Score of 2 to 0. Before one of the largest crowds of the season New Orleans defeated the war champions, the Cuban Stars, by a score of 7-6. The firing line for New Orleans, while $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. SEND NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY —YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. I have in my possession a prescription for serious debility, lack of vigor, weak- ness, poor health, failing memory and lame brinches, or on by excesses, unnatural drinks, or on by excesses, unnatural suffering so many worn and untouched mums their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his power and vitality, quackery and quilty, should have a copy. So I will determine to send a copy of the pres- cription of charge, in a plain, or- inary sealed tape to any man who writes me for it. description comes from a physician who made a special study of man, and I am convinced it is the surest combination for the cure of delinquency and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to them a copy in a book anywhere is weak and disoriented and repeated failures may step drumming himself with harmful patient seizures, secure the belief is the acting restorative, the SPOT-TCHING remedy ever devised, and so cure myself at home quietly and quickly. Just lay a line like this: P. E. Robinson, 3831; and I will send you a copy of this sendid receipt in a plain enveloped free of charge. A many doctors free charge $3.00 for merely writing an enclosure like this—but I send it en-free. Pedrosa pitched for the Cubans. It was their first battle from the the very beginning. Brewing the best of the contest by striking out, Pedroza the hard-hitting Stars down without a hit. Not a man reached third base. Brewing the ideal manner by the New Orleans boys. Features of the game were Hamaday's fudging and Scotty's work behind the bat. The Cubans worked hard and put forth an extra effort to score in the ninth inning, no avail, for they were helpless against the New Orleans boys. The score: Cuban Stars.....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 New Orleans.....0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0-0 New Orleans.....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Time of game, 1:15. Umpire, Sanders. Monday's game was forfeited to New Orleans by a score of 9 to 0. The Cubans kept kicking on the umpire's decisions until two of them were put out of the game and in uniform; the Cubans then did not have ten men in uniform, the umpire awarded the game to the New Orleans team. The New Orleans players were in fine form. This makes two shut-outs to the credit of the New Orleans boys: one against Brooklyn Giants No. 2, and the Cuban Stars. The weather was fine and a large and enthusiastic crowd witnessed the game. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Bobby Marshall's Aggregation. The Twin City Gophers, a new baseball organization, managed by Bobby Marshall the great University of Minnesota basketball team, began open at heason at an early date. The club composed of some of the fastest players in the country. Manager Marshall has been the Lexington Park, and when the St. Paul Northwestern team on the road he will endeavor to entertain the public with some classy baseball. After the opening games at home the manager will take his club for an extended tour of the Dakotas. Manager Marshall wishes it distinctly understood that the Twin City Gophers and the St. Paul Northwestern are famous Gophers of St. Paul, the club owned by "Daddy" Reid. This is an entirely different aggregation, being the property of Mr. Glover Shull, of Minnesota, and George E. Lennon, president and owner of the St. Paul American Association club. The line-up of the Twin City Gophers is: Campbell c; Johnny Davis, "Spitball" Johnson, Robertson, Harvey and Freeman, p; Bobby Marshall, 1b; Ramsey or Brown, 3b; Seldon, ss; Gene Barton, lf; Bucky Barton, cf; Ramsey or Binga, rf. Mr. Glover Shull, one of the most enterprising colored business men of the New York Gophers, predicts a good season for his team, and will equip them the same as the American Association clubs are. He thinks his team is giving the public a run for their money. ST. LOUIS. MO. The Black Broncho Female Baseball Club St. Louis Black Bronchos Colored Female following game. In the order mapped: Any clubs in Texas that have enclosed parks and desiring games with the above club, address C. Kuebler, 3133 N. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. JACK JOHNSON DOWN TO DATE. What the Champion Has Been Doing Since Incarceration—Shows the Big Heart. Shakespeare has it that the evil that men do lives after them, but he didn't mean it, one will think. He was poking some biting speech at the etu Brutus, and Antonio, so in carrying out the scheme of sarcasm, he insisted that the good was intermed with the bones. Well, the distinguished Jack Johnson, the acknowledged greatest fighter that ever lived, amuck the red-eyed minion of the law. He was doing the usual automobile stunt about twenty-five days ago, when he was run in to a common, ordinary jail, where he began his ordinary toll. But before he was run in to the police, he wish to apply the Shakespeare introduction about "the evil that men do lives after them." According to newspaper print, Jack Johnson saw a child from the potter's house in jail. Here's the way the story runs: "Gratitude for a kindness shown years ago moved Jack Johnson, the colored champion heavyweight of the world, buried in the potter's field the body of the daughter of a white family which had befriended him in Texas in the days when Jack was a poor man, and who was an affluent circumstances. Ethel Lee Payne who has get her decent burial because of past kindnesses of her parents, and who was an affluent now in the County Jail, serving a sentence for violating the automobile speed law. In his death the deed of He. He had his wife hunted the family, found that they were the same people who had nursed him through an illness when he was a lad, learned that the Payne were destitute, and provided for her nurse. --- Well, will wonders never cease? And who will say that there is not some good possible to follow any situation in life? If you can do it, you can get in jail in time to render back good to those who had rendered good to him, touched with pity, with kindness, stepped out of his baggary elements for a moment, made whole, like another master, then back to sack-cloth and ashes. Hurrah for Jack! Have lives usus, on Ethel. The good lives after him. ```markdown ``` After all, prize fighters, sporting men—shall I say sporting women?—seem to have heart than other people, as a whole. If you want a lot of cryin' dome, you want a lot of pain, that class. They will break in two the last nickel. Hearts refined by stress and grief. Weak physical selves that cannot work, world temperament, mentary part of palp grief and want, a respectful silence when the priest is at the altar, then it's "On with the dance." Their fraternalism is most complete. Your "mason" tempest, exemplified by a nappar falleth but what its God doth know. Surely they are of the order, for let one of these fall and every "man" to know his duty. As at the funeral of Sir John Moore, a drum was heard in a funeral note, but the voice of the call is not mistaken. When Johnson was arrested he was assigned to the duty of whitewashing the walls of his cell. His long reach was good at it as he is at fighting, that old jail got a first-class going over. It may be he didn't have it to do. He was a model man, according to report, for burning up the streets. His friends for not been THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER sorry because he was in, and simply because he had been repeatedly warned; and besides, it doesn't look well for people of distinction to be tearing through the Johnson will have to learn as any other citizen, or else he will pay the penalty. During Johnson's imprisonment, he was threatened with the loss of a $4,000 lawsuit in New York. He made a vigorous effort to get released in order to appear in court, but was not successful. A telegram from his Eastern attorney secure a continuance, and that unless Johnson was on hand a judgment would be rendered against him. The colored champion visited District Attorney Fickert and handed him a younger brother. He promised that he would never again violate the speed laws, but would dispose of his automobiles. Fickert refused to give the challenger a younger brother. He promised to consult Police Judge Treadwell, and if that official was willing to consent to a parole he would take the matter under advisement. Johnson already has lost a $1,750 theatrical contract, and if he loses it, his disregard will be the "california laws" against his expense. "He went over to the district attorney's office, a few days ago and told him it he would have to be allowed to eat corona dinner, but the official only said, 'Back to jail.' Jack also kicked against the plainness of the jail menu, telling the prosecutor that he would have to be allowed. Friends of the champion are negotiating a corner in the market on chicken and other good things when he gets out of the trouble that his speed man brought him. He has not been allowed to will rival a coronation dinner. The champion is confined in a cell, and only yesterday asked to be allowed to put an elephant in the cell." So it will be noted that he was cut off from all those things that made for a better life. He was also curious that he was used to. Johnson is known as an individual that cracked champagne bottles and other lesser breeds, but alas! the bastile is no responder. Another version of his earlier days in candyland, runs as follows: "He utilized his 'time off' in hurrying with a deputy sheriff in his car to the district attorney's office, where he informed Flicker, he would leave California last week," Johnson attained a deaf ear to the pugilist's appeal. Kicks on Bill of Fare. "I don't like the coffee and beans they give me out there," Johnson said to Flicker. "That will do you a world of good. You need to reduce your weight," the district attorney answered. "But if I could only have a little chicken-flesh, I would plead." Flickert told Johnson that the taxpayers would pay only for coffee and beans, with corned beef on Sundays. "I'll get out of the State, if they will allow me to plead," Flickert proved obdurate, and would not listen to Johnson's pleadings, so the pugilist finally gained permission to visit his sick brother and some friends. Johnson, however, has been a monotone, and he wishes an electric fan in his cell to improve the air." And, singular enough, while Johnson was in, the fight pictures were going on. He was in the room, reminding one of John Brown of Ossessia timone, the little event in his life was a necessary thing, owing to his disposition to either stand above the law or below it. He was a property either of which required a very stern teacher. Of course, he does not stand above the law, but that he should, under the circumstances, But at that he's the world's champion—in jail or out. We respectfully dedicate to him the memory of that he should, under the circumstances, So, Mr. Jack, since you're out. Better stay turned right face about; Don't keep monkeying with the law And find your wallet reduced to taw. The following is the latest conringer the champion: Joshua Jackson, colored champion heavy- weight pugilist, will serve the full term of the jail sentence given him for speeding his automobile. Police Judge Tread- well, on information that Johnson had been accorded privileges not granted to other prisoners, reconsidered his decision days from the champion's sentence. Johnson was to have been set free this morning. JOPLIN, MO., ITEMS. I LOVE, HOW MUCH WORTH IT IS WHAT'S GOING ON! THAT WHAT THEY'M ALL SAY ..Mr. and Mrs. Meyers, of Galena, Kan, is visiting Mrs. Fannie Meyers, of Joplin, Mo. this week.....Mr. Galesppi, of Cartersville, Mo. is on the sick list and would like to have some of her sister Sisters, do your duty, under your oath CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. KANSAS CITY, MO. The Palm Sermon and Other Interesting News. (By A. C. Oglesby.) Here's A Tip! The man who buys my hats can af- ford to pay more, but can't find better Hats. LEVINSON STYLE STARTER 37 N. Penn. 41 S. Illinois Featured at all First Class Bars. All First Class Bars. An Especial Favorite at HOOSIER POET Club Room Londres, 10 Cent Cigar. We deliver goods direct to consumers and pay all express charges. Give us a Trial Order. Ed. J. Rauch Cigar Co. - Indianapolis, Ind. Guaranteed Absolutely BETTER THAN THE BEST Purity Ginger Ale Imported Style 10 Doz. In Barrel, $7.00 Net. HEPTOL Comp., St. Louis. Mr. Owens, head watter at the Savoy, well sagin...Mr. W. S. Williams, of the Savoy, head watter at the Savoy, will take Mr. Fernandy's place Baltimore...The Freeman can be ob- jected from Mrs. Oglesby, at 2623 Euclid street from Mrs. Smith is very sick at 13 E, 13th street. THE FREEMAN IN LONDON, ENG Copies of The Freeman can be secured in London, Eng., at Daw's Steamship Agency, 17 Green street, Charing Cross Road, W. C. LEADING BASEBALL CLUBS The Freeman Will Publish Free a List of the Leading Baseball Clubs Each Week—Managers Get 101 BASEBALL CLUB—J. E. Denton, manager, 101 Hardman avenue, Macon, Ga. Kansas CITY (KAN.) GIANTS—Jack Johnson, manager, 117 W. 6th street, Kansas City, Mo. ARGENTA GARYS — H. H. Williams, manager, 301-303 E. Washington avenue, Argenta, Ark. SOUTHERN GIANTS — Jim Houston, manager, Meridian, Miss. MAJESTIC WHITE SOCKS - W. H. Newton, manager, 137 Central avenue, Hot Springs ALL CUBANS OF HAVANA, CUBA (the Western Team). Nat. C. Strong, business manager, World bldg., New York City CUBAN STARS OF HAVANA, CUBA (Eastern Team). Nat. C. Strong, business manager, World bldg., New York City PHILADELPHIA GIANTS OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. Nat. C. Strong, business manager, World bldg., New York City RITA GIANTS OF NEW YORK. Nat. C. Strong, business manager, World bldg., New York City FAST HAVANA STARS. Arthur E. Bean, owner and manager, 104 W. 30th street, Memphis TIGERS—W. S. Smith, manager, 821 Willoughby street, Memphis, NEM. ORLEANS—Frank Walker, manager, 888 Oak street, Oreans, La. FAY AVENUE GIANTS—W. S. Smith, manager, 200 Beale avenue, Memphis, Teen. KLOPHE REDS—Dave E. Johnson, manager, 125 Gulpa street, Hot Springs, Ark. KANASS CITY ROYAL GIANTS—Gee Walden, manager, 1005 McGee street, Keenan, Pa. THE KEYSTONES—Col. Ed. F. Mitchell, manager, 1313 Washington avenue, S. Minneapolis, Minn. THE UNIONS—Dick Garrison, manager, 1313 Washingtonburg, Pa. FRENCH LICK PLUTONS, E. Pettis, manager, French Lick, Ind. PENSACOLA GIANTS—Jas. Goldstuck streets, Penssola, Pa. BLACK BRONCHO FEMALE B. B. C.—Conrad Kuebler, manager, 1313 North Broadway street, St. Louis, Mo. STL GIANTS—Chas. A. street, St. Louis, Mo. CHICAGO UNION GIANTS—W. L. Peters, manager, 1411 Grand avenue, Chicago, Ill. A. B. C.'s—Ran Butler, manager, Fifteenth street and Northwestern avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. THE ATLANTA DEPPENS - A. B. Speer manager, 546 Decatur street, Atlanta, Ga. WEST BADEN SPRUDELS—C. I. Tay- CUBAN GIANTS—J. M. Bright, man- ager, 76 Columbia avenue, West Hoboken BUXTON WONDERS—G. I. NEAL and R. Sailes, managers, 34 East Fourth 大厦, Buxton Iowa. C. I. Tay, Cobham, W. Cobb man- MONTGOMERY STARS—W. Cobb, manager, 210 Hutchinson street, Montgomery, Ala. THE MORGERS—W. H. Ford, president and manager, 3628 Central avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. MOBILE DIXIE STARS—Wm. Benbow, Mobile, Dixie Park, Mobile, Ala. LOUISVILLE UBS—UBS, Stringer, manager; Ed, Lancaster, booking 7 agent. 616 West Walnut street, Louisville, Ky. COLORED TENNESSEE RATS—W. A. Brown, manager, Holden, Mo. COLORED BALL CLUB—James Oliver, 408 Olive street, Evansville, Ind. PEKIN BERS—C. Morgan, manager, 2243 Lloyds Island, O. LITTLE ROCK COLTS—C. Smith, manager, 1516 Scott street, Little Rock, Ark. LITTLE MISSOURI GIANTS—C. Terrell, president; W. J. Ford, manager, 1122 Dodge street, Omaha, Neb. CHICAGO LELAND GIANTS—Beauregard, Mosely, secretary and treasurer, 2221 Lloyds Island, O. LKONDY KEAL CLUB—R. D. Stokes, owner; D. Roseborough, manager, Columbia, S. KINCENT CYCLONES—A. S. Price, manager, 1732 Brooklyn avenue, Kansas City, Mo. THE BARK DIAMONDS—W. H. Hopkinson, Gen. Delivery, Starksville, Miss. GREENWOOD GIANTS—J. Blaire Boyd, manager, 523 Second avenue, Nashville, COLUMBIA ATHLETICS—S. H. Dunlinton, manager, 80 E. 7th street, Columbia TWIN CITY GOPHERS—R. W. Marsh Building, Minnesota, Minneapolis Mrs. Lula Berry, will have headquarters at Chicago and Louisville and would like to hear from all managers. Special rates given all clubs this year. Address as above. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY A full line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand. Business Lunch. Good services and courteous treatment to all. When out for a good time, stop in. Brutus Owens, Prop., 488 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind. 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