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Accept the agency for The Freeman in your city. Write today for our liberal terms. THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER INDIANAPOLIS With a Very Large Attendance— Shelbyville Fair this Year the Greatest Success in its History —Social and Personal News. (By Hardin Tolbert, 425 Washington Street, Old Phone 654.) SEP9 1911 ...Misses Maderson and Smith have returned from Chicago.....Mr. Selpio taught the students to begin a class on the violin.....Mrs. Jenry gave a festival last Saturday night with well cooked food, and plenty of chicken pie.....Dr. E. E. Unnackered was added to one of the big positions that was given the Pythians at the encampment. (By Walker W. Thomas.) The Thomas News Bureau, 18 South Tarrgonia Street, Phone 821. --- ALWAYS IN DEMAND WANTED FIRST- CLASS WAITERS NO OTHERS NEED APPLY. pleasant and charming young lady Pensacola has had in her boundaries for some time...Miss Rebecca Ryles was born in Pensacola in the week. They will move to their new home on West Jackson street in a few days...Mrs. J. E. Sheppard has been living in Pensacola. GREENVILLE S C Bishop Scott, of the M. E. Church, bishop in Africa, preached and lectured at John Wesley M. E. Church Septem- ber 18, 1865, only one more ope- rated bishop of the M. E. Church, M. Duncan entertained. Monday evening, quite a number if friends, in honor of Miss Alma Stewart, of Baltimore, and Miss Clementine Bough, of Chelsea. Mr. John M. Avery, assis- sistent. WEST BADEN (IND.) NEWS. ...Mrs. Jessie Underwood of Russellville, Daytony, and Mrs. Emma Bella, of Louisville, are visiting their brothers, Mr. Charles Lawson and Mr. James Lawson, and stopping with Mrs. Jennie Bell.... Mr. John Wilson has returned from Dayton, O. Mrs. Pearl Faulkner is be out to visit her, yet sees accident a few weeks ago...Mrs. Wright Potter is convalescent...Miss Marie is still very sick. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Misses Annie and Lizzie Polk and little niece, Mary Lee, and Mesdames Minnie Myrch, Addie Render and Callie Jones spent Labor Day in Chattanooga, Tenn. with relatives and friends. . . Mr. Saul Tenn. and his wife, Martha Tenn. , his home, after spending two weeks in this city with relatives. . . Miss Alma Jackson, of Leighton, was in the city last week visiting her cousin, Miss Lucy Jackson. . . Mr. Walter Taylor has returned home from Gadston, Mr. Myrch has returned home from Memphis, Tenn. REV. DR. SUTTON E. GRIGGS DELIVENS ADDRESS AT FITTH STREET CHURCH Prof. La Fontaine, a Native of Jerusalem, Delivers Lecture— Labor Day Fittingly Observed —Open Air Meetings to Close By Lee L. Brown. Professor Dupont La Fontaine, who is a native of Jerusalem and formerly a land lecturer at Calvary Baptist church last Monday evening. The subject of his lecture was "Marriage Customs and Life in the Orient" from a biblical standpoint and a graphic exposition of the Twenty-third Psalm from an Oriental viewpoint. Labor Day was fittingly observed in Louisville, Barnum & Bailey's circ, Elks' aviation meet, Al. G. Field's show, and many other minor attractions were held. The city was decorated in bunting and the United States flags and with the colors of the Elks. The usual Labor Day parade has not occurred in this city for some time. The last of the open air meetings of the season, being conducted by the colored department, will be held on the day of the Y. M. C. Easter day, September 10th, at 5 p. m. Hon. Judge J. P. Gregory, of the criminal department, will be held on the board of directors and a former president of the Y. M. C. A., will be the speaker. Special music, vocal and instrumental, will be rendered. This is the only time the department will women. The religious work committee is planning a strong program of Bible study and evangelistic meetings for the fall and winter season. The State University opened with proper devotional exercises last Tuesday morning. A number of visitors were present. The outlook for the year is very bright. Miss Gertrude Floyd and Miss Alice P. Kelley, after spending a pleasant vacation in Indianapolis, have returned to the city. Miss Hattie Delaney, sister of Prof. F. S. Delaney, superintendent of the Kentucky State Blind School for Colored Children, has returned to her home in East, stopping in the Windy City, en route. Mr. Bridgeford Sims, United States court crier in Jadre Walter Evans' court, has returned to the Falls City after a very pleasant vacation spent in Columbus, O. Benton Harbor, Mich., and Chicago, Ill. The funeral services of Mr. Neros Jennings, a well known young man, were fondly remembered on the street Sunday afternoon. Mr. Jennings, who leaves a wife and several children, was for a number of years a United States store keeper and gauger. The colored store keepers and gaugers of the Fifth District of Kentucky entertained at a banquet Wednesday evening at Sixteenth street near Madison. A large number of persons were present. A full account of the affair will appear in these columns next week. Miss Jane Simpson, the very popular daughter of Prof. James E. Simpson, who is a teacher in the Central High School, she is a member of the colored department of the Kentucky Industrial Institute of this city. Miss Simpson for a number of years has served as a teacher in the Wayman Indian State College of the Central High school and has a host of good friends who rejoice with her in being appointed. Miss Katie Clark, a very popular young lady of the Falls City, was the guest at a very swell dinner party, given in her honor by Miss India Harris. The tables were beautifully decorated with the good things of the season. The guestmen present were Messrs. John Stewart, Peter Parker and Miss Mary Walker. Mr. Henry L. Edson, a young man from Lexington, who was formerly with the Central Kentucky Funeral and Emmanuel Danville, is now serving with the Watson's Under-taking establishment of this city, located at Tenth and Chestnut streets. Mr. Henry been a successful undertaker and comes to the Falls City highly recommended. . . . We are always glad to say a word in these columns concerning our young business men who are making a strong effort to rise in the world. Several days ago he had the pleasure of very up-to-date tonsorial parlor of Mr. Wayman Sherrill, who is located at Tenth and Madison streets. Mr. Sherrill opened up business here over six years, short time his business has increased to a size that he has been compelled to employ extra help and install three new barber chairs. He has everything so arranged in his place that he is ready at all times to meet his customers in first-class style. He is courteous and ever on the alert to win a new friend and customer. . . . VALDOSTA, GA. Special to THE FREERMAN BONVILLE, IND. The remains of Mrs. Mille Anderson a member of Calantha Court, No. 36, were laid to rest in Maple Grove cemetery, Rockport, attended the fair Thursday. .Mrs. Daniel Cunningham, of Rockport, attended the fair Thursday. .Grand Chancellor E. G. Tildrington attended the fair Thursday in the interest of his nephew, away second money in the half mule dash. .Mr. Joseph Barker is sick at this writing. .Claude L. Smith, a student at Meharry's Medical, will return soon to make up his lost sophomore year. .Mrs. Elen Hunte, Thursday night for Georgetown, Ill. to visit Mr. and Mrs. Doc Thomas. .Mrs. Ollie Robinson is visiting her sister, Evelyn, avenue, Chicago. .Mr. Artie Powell, of Evansville, attended the fair Thursday. .Mrs. Adeline Griffith is convalescing. .Miss Eula Bronston, formerly of Boonville, but now in Benton Harbor, and father in Evansport some time this fall. The Hope of the Negro Lies in his Progress C CENTRAL Y. M. C. A. One of the most efficiently organized industries for which the men of Ohio seem to be the most active in the Young Mens Christian Association. We are a part of the fifty or more cities, towns and railroad centers of Ohio with membership over 22,550 members. This is showing of forty years' work in the State. There are now two colored associations in the State, but are the year goes by, the effect that two more will be organized. The nature of manhood among the ten million of colored people in the United States confronts our best citizens. With Springfield this fact has been evident for years, and when the association is active, Springfield's citizens are endeavoring Springfield's churches are among the best pastored in the State. Rev. Frye is pastor of the Second Baptist Church, which he was reared under conditions favorable to the development of the strong qualities of a young man. He graduated from the normal department of the State University, of Louisville, in 1892, and graduated from the University which he took a course in the Richmond Theological Seminary, graduating as B. D. in 1900. He was proficient in the languages, and was elected to the chair of the church's churches. He was a professor at University of Kentucky, where he served four years. His work was so [Name] pronounced and exceptionally strong that the institution conferred upon him the degree of A. M. During the last six sight years he has been involved, having served six years at Lexington, Ky. While there he conducted the most successful rally ever attempted in that church, raising over $1,016. He made many valuable improvements to the church, costing over $30,000. His wife, who was Miss Annie Scotes, of Franklin, Ky., is also a graduate of the State University of Kentucky, and is a talented musician. She possesses the strength of head and heart requisite in the work she helps her husband to carry on. This is one of the prettiest and most modern churches in the city or in south- ern towns among our people. It is beautiful south-facing and well-landed with furniture, pipe organ, library in- 1 included. $20,000. It is also modern in its bars and the work is carried on by a loyal and devoted set of officers. It auxiliaries, such as Mission, Society, and Sunday 10 Rev. R. F. Frye 1 Second Baptist Church. to shoulder their part of the great responsibility. It is often well said: "If this nation is to do its part in the world it must be a moral force. If it is to have character, if, indeed, it is to survive at all costs, it must keep pace with the material increase." So with the well equipped gymnasium, swimming pool, showers, educational and Bible classes, popular games, its 160 members, the coming fall and winter's work will be well cared for in the four-fold way, spiritually, educationally, culturally and politically, field's citizens. The other forty or more colored branches throughout the United States, doing the same, will, as another leader says, "Preserve the man- School, Baraca Class for young men, Philathea Class for young women and girls, Mothers' Aid Society and several financial clubs. Seldom do we find in one man a great heart and a great head harmoniously in operation. Alexander is a minister of ability and ability in Baptist mission as one of the strong- est men in the pulpit. He is a quick and forceful thinker, a ready and fluent speaker, and a power on the platform for the audience. He is direct in his sermons, so much so. CA THE WORKING AREA that he often appears personal in his attacks upon wrongdoing. He is the pastor of St. John's Baptist Church, of this city, which he has held for six years. He has a charming wife of singular acumen. He is loved and admired greatly by her friends. She was Miss Emma J. Wilcoxon, of Marshall, Texas. They are the proud parents of three girls. He and his splendid wife have given to his wife a large collection of loyalty and devotion is not exceeded the Middle West. He is a native of Houston, Texac, and is "also an inventive genius, and spends his spare moments on an electric aparatus that bids fair to organize the heat, light and motive world." Another prominent Springfield contractor who has demonstrated his ability as such by coming up from the very bottom of the city, here he stands, is Mr. Richard Cotman. Born in Dark county, Ohio, in 1870, and later his folks moved to Portland, Maine, he attended the public schools. About 1889 he came to Springfield and continued at his trade of brick-mason, that he had begun in 1887. The contractor he is in demand for the best of his skills for the best for twelve years. He employs from twelve to twenty-five white and colored men all the time. He designs for which he has had contracts as follows: Masonite Home, the Catholic high school, Pure Milk Company and the beautiful residence of Cobelgard on East High street. He is known for the fact that he ranks with the best. Rev. N. Alexander. PETER H. BURGESS Richard Cotman. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. tractors of Springfield, and is said to be the best equipped for his work. Mr. Cotman owns considerable property in the city, and is also a member of the E. Church. He has the fortune of the companionship of a wife of exceptionally fine qualities, and who has presented aim with six fine children. One among the many fine qualities of Mr. Cotman is the awards his ensembles and those who criticize. Frank Bayless. A few more inventors like Mr. Bayless would add much to the standing of our people in the commercial and business world. He is the inventor of an automatic safety device for operating rail- road switches to prevent is president and manager of the manufactures One of the three roads & P. railway, in this city. wrecks. He of the comthis device. on the S., T. Dr. Richard J Winn Is a Cincinnati product, who came to Springfield in 1895, and opened an office on Main street, the present location, as on the corner of the home office home, corner of "Flum" and "Southern." [Name] He employees one lady assistant, who has been with him six years. Nine years ago, he was a teacher at Henson, of Springfield, who is a devoted helpmate. They have one son. Rev. D. E. Rice. B. D. This young man began early to lead sober Christian life and had advan- tages in his career. THE FARMER'S WORK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN CONSTRUCTION Richard Cotman, Contractor. his his grand parents, his own parents having died when he was but two years old. stist He early became a member of the A. 1918 M. E. Church and was given license to ordained two years later, the conference apointed him to a charge in the Newbury (S. C.) district, which he served with striking success. He was a brilliant young minister and attracted the notice and interest of the influential in his competition and was rewarded with a scholarship at Wilberforce in 1904, graduating from the Payne Theological Seminary with the degree of B. D. He was very active in the church and was a popular among his fellow students. He took second honor in his class of forty-eight. He was also pastor of the church at Mershamville and and he at Solna, Ohio. While doing his college found time to make several improvements in his churches. From there he was sent to the Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church of Springfield, where he presides over a harmonious membership. He was also as preacher, debater and executive. David Wilborn. Springfield's leading colored undertaker, who owns the finest outfit and carries the largest stock of furnishings among the colored undertakers in the State. Mr. Wilborn was born in 1862, in Athens, Ga., when educational advantage and is with him, the world calls a self-made man. When the 14-year-old boy came to this city barefooted, and with a brother followed hotel work until 1899, working in most of the large cities. The man arrived the first wife, a Miss Laura芬洛, of Atlanta, daughter of a prominent minister. A son was born to his second wife, formerly Miss Martha, and was raised. As a citizen of his country he enlisted and served ten months as quartermas- J. B. H. ter sergeant in the Spanish-American War. As a leading citizen of the race he is eager for an opportunity to do good. In politics (local and state) he has been active. During Harrison's time at the Republican convention at Chicago he was given the position of doorkeeper. 1900 he graduated from the Clark Embalming College and began his business. Mr. Wilborn holds high offices in the leading fraternal orders. He is a member of the Central YMCA. A board, E Church, a North Star Church, E Church. He is a very busy man, but can always find time to give ear and a helping hand to a distressed brother. It is singularly noteworthy that Mr. Wilkins's business is a true representative of the colored man's capital and ownership. James William Leigh Came to Springfield in 1903 from Cincinnati, being a native Tennessee. His varied experience as farmer, grocer ION. and coal and ice dealer in Tennessee gave him an insight and business training which insures his success in his present line. It is he became interested in the coal and ice business, and before 21 he decided to enter that field as soon as he reached manhood. He began by delivering ice and coal with a team of bilygoats. He was a success from the start. He was the first to begin business under the name of City Ice Company, beginning with one wagon and horses, which was destroyed by the cars two months after beginning. To keep the business going, colored dealers in Ohio, ewleen eleven wagons and nine head of horses regularly in use. His entire business is absolutely free from encumbrance. Years ago he married Miss Ella A. White, Cincinnati, without whose help he could not win the success he has. Police Arrest Leader of Mob Seeking Negro Murderer's Life. LYNCHBURG, Va. Aug. 26. — A mob variously estimated at from 200 to 400 people were arrested on local jail jail Garland, Negro jail shot Police Maner Ware, Thursday. The mob was dispersed by officers, after Fletcher Moyer, its spokesman, was arrested. Moyer, another man wore a mask and grand wrist watch. The Negro had been secretly taken, to Roanoke, Va. before the jail was threatened by the mob, which the police say, would have given them trouble had it backed leadership. The city now is quiet. Democratic Candidate For CLERK of the POLICE COURT PRIMARIES, SEPTEMBER 5, 1911 W. S. WILSON, Pres. WM. H. BLEE, Vice- Springfield Sa No. 9 EAST M Springfield Assets $3,300 THE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN THE CITY Pays 4 per cent In WM. H. BLEE, Vice-Pres. ED W. HARTFORD ngfield Savings Soc No. 9 EAST MAIN STREET Springfield, Ohio Assets $3,323,710.25 ST SAVINGS HAS OW THE CITY DEPO 4 per cent Interest on De mes 296 27-31 E. Co has. R. Grove ERY AND COACH W. S. WILSON, Pres. WM. H. BLEE, Vice-Pres. EDW. HARTFORD, Treas and Cashier Pays 4 per cent Interest on Deposits Both Phones 296 27-3 Chas. R. Gr LIVERY AND COAC Springfield, Ohio THE MERCHANTS Savings and Association 8 South Limestone Springfield Save Your Mo- Resources Over OFFICI J. H. 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Secy. and Treas. r, Counsel One Thrifty Negro is worth a Hundred Idlers ICE CO william Crawford Peteferd. Mr. Peteredef is one of the successful young business men of Springfield, who has fought his way to his present place. He was his way to the State 28 years ago and did not finish the college while schools, yet he laid a splendid foundation for his after career. For several years he ran a restaurant and there mare many friends. Last year he became interested in the present business and opened a first-class barber shop, pool, and cair stand in West High Street at 13%, just opposite the foun- ain. Here he has put into his business the same excellent business methods and dealing with his customers which has was for him the friendship and support of a large constituency. He is the author of Dr. Peterford, of this city, his wife was Miss Adora Hunly. John Henry Robinson. Mr. Robinson is also a native of Ohio and is 37 years old. He has had his students to light from an early age. His students have completed an occupation on account of the necessity of nothing for support. He early became an independent self-supporter, seven years working with Mr. L. W. Williams, seven years working with Mr. B. W. Williams, etc., he acquired a good deal of [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. business experience, which serves now more and more in his present business, and he has been the first to last September, he is making good use of valuable lessons he learned while with his teams. He knows how to make use of his opportunities, advantages, and this firm runs one of the successful barber shops, booths and the stands in the city, among our people. London Arthur Williams. London Arthur Williams owns one of the most patronized torsional, pool and beach foundations in the city, the prettiest beaches found in the state or colored and the finest up to date in the establishment, all of which has been owned and owned by Mr. Williams for nearly six years. He also owns two womens for wearing baggage. Born of slave slaves, Woodford, with education limited to public school, he farmed until 18, at which time he came to Troy, Ohio, thence to Spencerville, where he worked in private families. He married Miss Della Howe, of Spencerville, five years ago. Mr. Williams is identified with three fraternal families, also a member of the M. E. Church. ADDYSTON, OHIO. Mr. and Mrs. R. MAN received a communication Tuesday evening from Masstown, O., announcing the marriage of daughter, Miss Josephine Johnson, sister; Mrs. Josephine Hawkins, to Mr. John Simpson Monday evening. The cermemony was performed at Squire Haley's court, only a few intimate friends being present. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson will remain in the city...Read The letter of the state copy. $1.50 a year...There seems to be the first Baptist church and it is to be hoped that all matters will be adjusted at an early date. Sunday was rally day, and despite the absent members the day was spent. Rev. S. D. Sanders preached the morning and evening. The attendance BATTLE CREEK, MICH. TERRE HAUTE, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN The Second Missionary Baptist Sunday school under the direction of Prof. David Jenkins, its new superintendent, is increasing in numbers each Sunday, and the number of schools in the county is one of the highest in schools in the county. Mr. W. Henry Snowden is visiting her parents at Springfield, Ky....The Baptist Mission, Fred M. Olivet, organized by Rev. W. Phillip K. Brown, has been so successful to be a success. The section was well selected and much work is there to do. The next meeting of the grand president of P. will be held in our city. The citizen of the city meeting shall be one of pleasure as far as they can make it....Mr. George W. Hatchet of Henderson, Ky. spent a few weeks visiting his sister, Mrs. Jefferson Weathers. The pastor of Bertha Mitchell has returned from Indianapolis. A large congregation assembled at each service Sunday at the Second Missionary Baptist church, the Dr. William Mitchell in the morning was "Keep Heaven in View." At night "Cheer Found in the Gospel." The Second Missionary Baptist church is the spot of welcome for strangers, the house of comfort for the poor, and the land of need and the poor. Revs. W. D. Shannon of THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ...A large number of our people spent last week in Indianapolis looking at the K. of P. Those who went over Thursday were very sorry. They forgot the K. of P. didn't control the weather, if they did control that large city last week....The Busy Thursday night at the club rooms, Mrs. Allen Bragg has returned from Indianapolis, where she was visiting relatives. Ky., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kennedy,....Sunday Spruce Street A.M. E. church will hold their last quarterly meeting for the conference year. Ky.'s award is visiting friends in Indianapolis. MT. VERNON, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN NEGRO BELLBOYS QUARREL. CLASH FOLLOWS — GEORGIA TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT Special to THE FREEMAN. MACON, Ga., August 26.—An alteration between two Negro bellboys as to the division of a tip at the Elder Hotel, Indian Springs, ed to a clash between the Negroes and authorities early today, the Negroes and officers killed, killed, two others injured and several persons more or less hurt in minor fights. The dead officer was Jesse Singley, of Jackson, who, with Sheriff Crawford, deputies, were searching for the Negroes that started the trouble. Deuty Connor was shot through the thigh and Deputy Thornton was shot in the leg. The shooting occurred just as the officers arrived at the Negroes fired from ambush. At the time the assault was made, none of the officers had fired. Judge Daniels has ordered the Jackson Rifles out, and held the Negroes to the Springs, about three miles away. Long distance telephone messages after darkness. There are five or six stated it is likely trouble would ensue Indian Springs and it was said of them that they forced to close because of the trouble. DECATUR, ILL., NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Little Miss Alice Brown is improving ...Mrs. Thorpe has returned from In- spirement and is sending supreme Court of Calanthe. M. Bessilah McMurry is in Taylorsville with her guest, Miss Eva Dyer, Mr. D. H. Murray, and Mr. Indiana- pals, where he was attending the sup- reme grand lodge of K. of P. ALMO CITY NEWS. Special to THE FEEMAN so much in the interest of the orphans' home here, have succeeded in paying off all indebtedness on the property and 170,000 pounds by burning the mortgages. Mrs. Mr. Brown and her worthy assistants deserve much credit for the business like they do. Mrs. Thomas up again after a week's illness. Mr. Bradley the head waiter of the Menger hotel, after a much needed rest, will be back on the ob September 4th, and Mr. Thomas will be taken up again will take his vacation. He expects to visit Houston. Galveston and other points in eastern Teeax before returning to San Antonio. Mr. Antonio's reminent barbers, dropped dead yesterday. Mr. Simon A. Whitfield attended the Mr. Zion association and Bantist church choir, entertained Misses Grace and Campbell, of Houston, at the residence of Mrs. O. Carter Friar, of Austin, and the Williams, of Austin, is here visiting relatives and Mrs. J. C. Ellis. Mr. M. Freeman, a student of Sam Houston college, left this weeek for Gonzales, to spend a week in Austin, where he will return to Austin. Mr. Freeman has assisted us greatly here in our circulation of The Freeman. . . Miss Ellen B. Brown, a supervisor of fountain drinking at Bowen's drug store, is on the sick list this week and Miss Carrie Johnson is her successor during her illness.....That barbecue at Blackson's Thursday last was one of the greatest social outings of the season. All of the "400" was there. Plain, plain,erner, of Prairie View, left this week for her home in Paso, after having sent several days as the guest of Mrs. Mamie Beltram. MINEOLA, TEX. Mr. Early Bell died last week at his home. He was a son of James Bell.... He was a people are going west to pick cotton, so he can find to find.... Advertise for your relatives See lost friends, $1.00 per month. See Siddharth, agent for The Indianapolis Freeman. ORLANDO, FLA. Special to THE FREEMAN The revival held in Mt. Olive A. M. E. Church closed Tuesday night. August 29, with seven conversions...Mr. Wm. Robinson, who has been very ill for a long time, has taken Clark Corner of the health center and has been very ill, is out again...The A. C. E. League, of Mt. Olive A. M. E. Church, is doing fine. The duet sang by Jenna Cromaray and Miss B. E. Stephen given by the young ladies and gentlemen of Mt. Zlon Baptist Church last Monday night was a success...G. A. Hill is now agent for The Freeman and citizens of Orlando its readers...Rev. Miller and Rev. Emanuel spent Sunday, August 27, in Sanford on business. THE FREEMAN Can be found each week at the Northern Star Dining Room, Jamison and Jamison, proprietors. 78 E. Long street, Columbus. PROBLEM TO FACE. A Four-Cornered Question Has Arisen in the South. The question of immigration is rapidly becoming one of the most important in the South African union. It assumes this importance because it involves the controversies over education and language, the relations of the white and colored populations, the dominance of the black race, and the demand for unskilled labor, in fact most of the problems before the new government. While the introduction of settlers from Europe would be far toward disposing of some of the controversies, the readjustment, it is held, would be more favorable to British than Boer interests. For this reason the recent statement of Prime Minister Botha in London that South Africa needed immigrants of the type that laid the foundations of Candian development was controverted by another member of the cabinet, General Hertzog, a strongly conservative Boer leader, who declared that he could not see what good immigration would do the country. The shortage of unskilled labor, which was met in the urgent crisis of the reconstruction period by the importation of indentured Asiatic labor, is already recurring and will become more acute as development proceeds. To have remained dependent upon this labor would have been to help build up a colored nation instead of a white nation. The realization of this was what animated most of the opponents of Asiatic labor. They declared that they objected as much to Kafir as to Chinese; they wanted to get rid of boss regulations and special measures which made control of the natives easy, in face their purpose was to force employment of whites by making colored labor hard to get and difficult to manage. To have left the door open would have brought an Asiatic immigration that would have hordes of blacks, because the Asiatics are in many respects a superior race, and the nearness of South Africa makes it a natural outlet for the superfluous population. The colored labor of the country itself is becoming an uncertain quantity. The colored men, of whom there is a considerable number, especially in the Cape province, are, unlike the black natives, not contented with unskilled labor. They aspire to be artisans, and the threat of their competition with white artisans is considered with seriousness, for they are industrious and sometimes extremely capable. While the colored man is thus slowly but surely entering the field of skilled labor, the white man, the "poor white," owing to his contempt of unskilled labor, is becoming unfit for any labor. "The "poor white" is the product of the conditions of South Africa. The preponderance of the native laborer. This does not, however, preclude the presence in South Africa of a large class only fit for unskilled labor. The climate is friendly, and the "poor white" lives without any visible means of support. "He becomes incapable of exertion," says a recent writer; "he deends rapidly to a condition of almost animal degradation; his numerous children run wild in the woods; the evils of his existence multiply with his own appaling fertility." Instead of being any value in solving the problem of labor he is a burden to the country. Stress has been laid upon this fact by the opponents of immigration. They say that it supports the tradition that in Africa manual labor is unfit for the white man. But with the Asiatics barred, the white laborer unfit for work, and the colored laborer abandoning unskilled labor, it has become imperative that some one be found to do the work. In his own stronghold, Natal, General Hrtzog found that his statement in opposition to General Botha was unpopular. The enterprising people of that colony wanted settlers. So he recanted and now says that he desires the introduction of the "proper class of immigrants." From the very exigencies of the case an immigration under prescribed method of selection will be the outcome of the present controversy. And it seems evident that some of the most serious social problems of the new country will be in the way of solution if South Africa can attract immigrants who will bring with them a determination to maintain the dignity of manual labor and will live up to this determination.—The Sun. Do You Use William Tell OR Golden Fleece FLOUR? Nearly Everybody Does! Perrine Bros.--Job Printers MAKERS of HIGH GRADE BUSINESS STATIONERY Get Our Prices Before Placing Your Order For Printing FURNITURE, RUGS CARPETS, STOVES YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD Fresh Meats and Poultry OUR MOTTO : Quality, Variety, Neatness and Prompt Service Bell Phone 4077 Perrine H MAKERS of HIGH Get Our Your C 18 N. LIMESTONE ST. Sterling & C 25-2 FU CA YOUR C E E E FREQUENT LOCAL SERVICE SMOOTH TRACK W. S. WHITNEY, G Ohio Electric Ry. 11 Home Phone 1911 Printers STATIONERY racing printing OPP. SUN OFFICE niture Co. GOOD ic Ry. FREQUENT LOCAL SERVICE DERN EQUIPMENT Springfield, Ohio. CREAM MALT BREAD Beer and Ale BY SENDING YOUR ORDERS TO Springfield Breweries Ltd. The Schauer Dist. Co. AGENTS.... 115 East Third St. DAYTON, OHIO HARRY W. RUBY Candidate for Mayor on Republican Ticket Unanimously endorsed by colored men's rally in U. B. F. Hall, August 29th Vote in Primary September 5th 2 ST. JOHN'S BAPTIST CHURCH. This is probably the most centrally located church owned by the colored people in Springfield, being only a little over three squares from the Union Station. The membership, is peculiar in that it consists chiefly of people who may be considered as newcomers to the city—the strangers' church, as it is sometimes designated. It is a very handsome structure of red brick, built some years ago by the white M. E. membership, from whom the colored people bought it about ten years ago. It has a seating capacity of about 800, and owns a pretty pipe organ, which cost nearly $1,000. When it was first organized as a split from the Second Baptist Church, twelve years ago, there were scarcely more than a half score of members, but now it claims something over 200. It has in it some very live and energetic men and women. Mr. and Mrs. Gray, Mr. Fleming Willis, Mrs. Henderson and others have made themselves prominent by the good, loyal service they have rendered. Of course, there are other very faithful and deserving workers whose names we did not get. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH. This church was organized in 1882, and first located on Sumner street, but removed to Clifton and Boer streets in 1896. It has grown rapidly, until now, with an excellent board and energetic membership, it is taking rank with the best churches of the city. Among her communicants are some of the best known and most influential men and women in the city, such as Robert G. Walker, Chas. L. Johnson, G. H. Lewis, Albert Duncan, J. A. Riggs, D. H. Tayler, Richard Bridges, Andrew Harvell, James W. Leigh, Q. P. Watson, G. McGill, Thomas Reed, Davis, Clark, Hughes, etc., Mrs. R. G. Walker, Mrs. Mary Williams, Mrs. J. A. Riggs, Katie Duncan, Mrs. Lizzie Basey, Mrs. Emma Ramsey, Mrs. Lucy Clark, Sisters White, Lee, Taylor, Watson, Logan, Davis and others. In a recent rally, sufficient funds were raised to lift the debt and the mortgage will be burned September 10, when Bishop B. F. Lee will deliver a sermon to a very large congregation. NORTH STREET A. M. E. CHURCH. The oldest and one of the most influential churches in the city, whose membership, which is nearly 800, is made up of some of the most substantial citizens of Springfield. This church is but one and a half squares from the court house, so centrally located that most of the special semireligious or social meetings are held there. Like the most of the Springfield churches, it has one of the really able ministers as pastor, in the person of Dr. Jackson, a graduate of Oberlin College. You can almost always judge a congregation by the kind of preacher it permits to lead it. It is theref ore evident that the membership is among the most intelligent in the city. In Dr. Burton the Negro race has one of its finest specimens of the citizen, a man of great intellect. 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B., has complied in book form a series of articles originally published in the American Law Review, and a part of which was also included in a contribution to the American Political Science Review on "Race Distinctions in American Law." The main object of the work, apparently, is to shoy how much the Negro lacks of being a full fledged American Citizen. Yet while it bears more particularly on the Negro, still the findings are applicable wherever distinctions between persons have been made on the basis of race. In reaching his conclusions the author has drawn upon the constitutions, statutes and judicial decisions, both feeral an state, as well as the taeritorial enactments. It is generally conceded that America has no problem more perplexing and disquieting than that of the permanent relations between the white and the Negro races, and while this concerns more vitality the twenty millions of Caucasians and the eight million of Negroes in the eleven states of the South, still, as the author says, it is a national problem because whatever affects one part of the national organism, concerns the whole. In considering the question the writer has turned in a new direction, for while the problem has been discussed from almost every conceivable angle, few have looked to the laws of the state and of the nation to see how they bear upon it. A race distinction in the law is a requirement imposed by statute, constitutional amendment, or judicial decision, prescribing for a person of one race a rule of conduct different from that prescribed for a person of another race, as, for example, when a Negro is required to do one thing and a Caucasian or a Mongolian another, and when intermarriage between Negroes and Caucasians is prohibited. He holds that there is a difference between race distinction and race discrimination, although the terms are often used synonymously, especially when the Negro is under discussion. Negroes, as a rule, recognize that they are the weaker of the two races, both numerically and intellectually, and knowing that the race distinctions have emanated almost entirely from white legislators and judges, they regard these distinctions as marks of aversion on the part of the Caucasian to association with the Negro, and they have resented it upon the belief that the distinction was equivalent to race discrimination. There is an essential difference, however, between the two terms. For instance, where the state holds that white and colored children shall not attend the same school, and separate schools shall be maintained, if the school terms are of equal length, and the teaching force equal in numbers and ability, while a race distinction exists, it is not discrimination. In point of fact, there is no discrimination so long as there is equality of opportunity. Professor Stephenson treats at length of race distinctions that discriminations, the so-called "black laws, 1865-68; civil rights of Negro and other questions bearing upon his status as a citizen, citing the legislation in the several states, more particularly in the south, still finding, however, that race distinction are not confined to any one section of the country, because there is scarcely a state or territory where legislative or judicial records do not reveal the actual existence of at least some race distinction. Of the twenty-six states and territories prohibiting intermarriage, more than half, extending from Delaware to Oregon, are outside the South. Indeed, the term "Jim Crow" applied to a car set apart for Negroes, was first used in Massachusetts, and it was in Pennsylvania that the first leading case arose wherein was involved the right of street car companies to separate their passengers on the basis of race. While most of the statutes and judicial decisions bearing upon race distinction relate to the Negro, yet in states where representatives of other races exist in considerable numbers, similar race distinctions are found. It is also found that race distinctions are not decreasing, yet most of the distinctions arising under the so-called "black laws" are no longer in force. The fundamental cause of race distinction, the writer thinks, is not based fundamentally upon the feeling by one race of superiority, but is rather the outgrowth of race consciousness, as shown in early days by the widespread prejudice of the Gentile against the Jew. The writer admits that the welfare of both races—and this applies equally to all non-Caucasian races—requires the recognition of race distinction and the obliteration of race discrimination. New York D. Appleton & Co.) CAPE MAY. N. J. 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Illustrating the Largest and Most Complete Line of ole, such as Banges, Wigs, Puffs, Switches, Pompa- V. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. Use mention this paper. TAYLOR'S SPECIAL ALCOHOL HEATER is the easiest and most convenient method of heating the Comb, and can be closed up so that you can put it in your handbag. Price 50c For best results use LaCreole Hair Pomade. It not only meets your requirements of the Comb Straightener, but promotes a luxurious growth of hair. Price 25c. SEND FOR MY FREE CATALOGUE illustrating the Largest and Most Compleate Line of Hair Pins, Combs, Brushes, etc. Notice the thick rubberread "A" and puncture strips "I" and "D" also rim strip "I" to prevent rim cutting. This makes the chur make-SOFT, ELASTIC or EASY RIDING. Price of Comb and Alcohol Heater complete $1.50 NEW OFFICIALS ELECTED. Thirty-first Annual Session of True Reformers—Griffin is Grand Master. RICHMOND, Va., August 29.—The week ushered in a new era for the United Order of True Reformers, and from every section of the country the members are expressing themselves pleased with the work of the delegates last week at the thirty-first annual session of the Grand Fountain, when all the old officers were ousted and a new set of officials selected. The session was stormy throughout, and although the "old guard" tried hard to remain in power they were beaten at every turn. Grand Master Holmes and his colleagues saw what was coming and tendered their resignations, which were quickly accepted. Following are the newly elected officers: W. R. Griffin, Washington, D. S., grand worthy master; Floyd Ross, St. Louis, Mo., vice-grand master; J. Frank Douglass, Roanoke, Va., grand worthy secretary; Dr. John Merridheater, Richmond, Va., grand worthy treasurer; Mrs. Rosa Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa., grand worthy mistress; J. Thomas Newsome, Newport News, Va., grand attorney; Dr. J. A. Lewis, Richmond, Va., medical examiner. The board of directors will be composed of the following members: Dr. J. E. Dellinger, North Carolina; W. H. C. Brown, Virginia; R. L. Jones, Georgia; John Merriweather, Virginia; W. R. Griffin, District of Columbia; Floyd Ross, Missouri; A. Humbles, Virginia; E. C. Brown, Virginia; George Morris New, Jersey; J. W. Lewis, District of Columbia; G. Hunt, New York; Maurice Rouselle, Virginia; W. H. Smith, Virginia; B. A. Cephas, Virginia; J. Frank Douglass, Virginia. Delegates in a Warlike Mood. About 340 delegates were in attendance, and all were in a gelligent mood. The temper of the delegates was shown when Grand Worthy Master Holmes arose to talk. The reception tendered the grand worthy master was of the North Pole variety, and hisses were heard. Grand Master Holmes stated that he was not responsible for the misfortunes of the True Reformers, declaring that he had never had any knowledge of or participation in any dishonest transactions. He told the delegates that the methods used that had brought about the financial downfall of the order had occurred before he was selected as the order's head. Mr Holmes further said: "I have lived on honest and clean life. I have labored a year to save the organization. Charges have been made and the burden of others' sins has been placed on my shoulders. In thi condition I must act for the good of the order without regard to my personal feelings or interest. I will therefore tender my resignation with the hope that those who will take charge in the future will be successful in saving the Grand Fountain." The resignation of A. W. Holmes as grand master was accepted and Grand Worthy Secretary W. P. Burrell next resigned, stating that he was fully aware of the feeling that existed and was in accord with the demands of the investigating committee. He said that the time would come when he would be able to vindicate himself. The resolution advocating the retirement of the old officers and the election of new ones was introduced by Counsellor J. T. Newsome and read in part: "The Grand Fountain wanted a change in its officers, and they have made that change all the way down the line. Since the majority has elected the men of its choice, we see nothing to be done but for all to 'make a strong pull and a pull altogether' to rehabilitate the order. "It is an undeniable fact that a strong set of officers has been elected, and unless we have on our hands a hopeless case, success will crown our efforts. The four principal officers—Messrs. Griffin, Ross, Douglass and Merriweather—are men of experience and worth and well deserve the honor bestowed upon them. "The board of directors is without doubt a strong one, representing the most intelligent and successful men in their localities, and from reports, the funds needed to liquidate the outstanding debts are forthcoming." "The session was not near as stormy as had been anticipated. While at times there were heated discussions along various lines, at no time was an officer of the law needed to bring about peace. "The delegates seemed in good humor before their departure, and, while everyone did not get his preference, they seemed willing to depart in peace and go home to work for the rebuilding of the best known Negro organization in the world." The new officers have expressed themselves as being particularly anxious to start the work of rehabilitating the order at once.—New York Age. A PLEA FOR THE NEGRO FARMER When we were children they used to tell us a story about a man who owned a goose that laid one golden egg every day; but the man was an avaricious man and wanted to get a great many golden eggs at once, and so killed his goose—with very disappointing results. This ancient legend has many ap- plications. Our world is made up of two classes of people—those who are content to get rich slowly, increasing their wealth along with the general prosperity of the country, and those who must get rich right away, even though they must destroy some other means of production in the process. These two classes show themselves very quickly when they come to deal with ignorant Negroes, and pre-eminently with country Negroes. The Negro of the farm is usually a very simple-hearted, simple-minded person, easily imposed on, and it is a true test of a man's honesty when he deals with one of them. Unfortunately the poor Negro is often very slow to learn who are his friends and who his vampires. There are plenty of honest merchants in every county, but the Negro often falls into and stays in the hands of the other kind. There are some people who do not believe that any Negro has a right to get rich, and are actually indignant when a colored man gets to the place where he can afford to live like prosperous white men. Among this class there seems to be a sort of fear that Negro prosperity means white poverty; that if the Negroes are allowed to accumulate property they will soon rule the country, and so use every effort to keep him from saving anything. There are landowners who refuse to sell him land. Money lenders overcharge him, and merchants who encourage him to buy on credit in order to keep him continually in debt. Now, the man who tries to keep the Negro farmer in poverty is of the same class as the man in the fable who killed the goose. The two races are going to get rich or remain poor together. Negro prosperity means prosperity all around. At least one-sixth of the wealth of this country, and a much larger proportion in the State at large, is the creation of Negro farmers, and the more these Negro farmers raise the more there will be for all of us. Where a farmer owns nothing but one mule and one plow he cannot produce much. If that farmer could save a little from year to year and buy better implements and better fertilizers we would all feel the effects of his increased crops. It ought to be a fixed policy of us, who are in authority, to encourage the black farmer in every way. Our colored farmers are, as a rule, good people; they are law-biding, peaceable, temperate. There are some petty thieves among them, we must admit, and their moral relations with each other not always commendable, but when all this has been said there are few places in the world where life and property are safer than in the Black Belt; and this is especially true in those sections where many of them own their own farms. It gives a man self-respect and a feeling of responsibility to own property and have to take care of it. We are glad to see some good institutions started among the Negro farmers. One of the best of these is the Farmers' Union, that is establishing local unions in every county. These unions meet one or two times every year and discuss methods of improving rural conditions. They always welcome white visitors and are glad to get advice and encouragement from them. There are among the Negroes some of the most earnest and tireless workers for the good of their race to be found anywhere. We ought to know and help these leaders. They are outspoken and uncompromising in their opposition to the saloon and to the loose living so common among their people. A few have caught a vision of better morals and higher standards of life and they are diligently preaching their doctrines in the highways and hedges. Let us help them on. The general level of any country will rise with the rise of the Negro. A few years ago while travelling through Sumter county I met a young physician in the Black Belt, and during our conversation he gave voice to a sentiment so noble that it deserves quotation: "He is a very poor white man, and a very poor American citizen who is afraid to take his chances on equal footing with any man of any nation. Let the Negro rise as high as he can; for every step upward that he takes I will take an upward step myself, and I intend to keep as far ahead of him always as I am now. And if it takes competition with Negroes to bring out the best that is in me, then thank God for the Negro." The Negro at best will always be a comparatively poor man, and will, as far ahead as any of us can see, occupy a subordinate position; he is not going to overtop the Anglo-Saxon. Let us lay aside those foolish fears and lend a helping hand that he may rise as high as his native capabilities can carry him.—Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette. WHITE AND COLORED FARMER. Washington, D. C., Sept. 7—Census Dire ctor Durand gave out today an important advance statement from the bureau of census containing additional figures and details of the agricultural statistics of continental United States collected at the thirteenth decennial census, April 15, 1910. It is based on a preliminary comparative summary submitted by Dr. Le Grand Powers, chief statistician for the division of agriculture in the bureau of the census and it supplements a brief preliminary notice issued in July last. The figures here given are subject to revision, inasuch as there are a small number of farms the erurts for which are incomplete, which will be included in the final tables. Such additions, however, will not materially modify either the amounts or the rates herein stated. The number of farms operated by white farmers was 5,422,892, or 85.5 per cent of all farms, while the number operated by negro and other nonwhite farmers was 917,465, or 14.5 per cent of the whole. 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Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis Ind., as second class matter. GEORGE L. KNOX, PUBLISHER AND MANAGING EDITOR. ELWOOD C. KNOX, BUSINESS MANAGER. SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1911. Give the "Jim Crow" business as little support as possible. Support is given when the conduct does not compare with that of the best around you. The Freeman wishes to express its gratitude for the mention made by the Springfield Sun and Daily News, concerning our Springfield edition, which appears today. It appears that Bishop Walters has not returned to the Republican fold, as report had it a few days ago. At Boston he declared himself as irreconcilable as ever. The supreme meeting of the Knights of Pythias received generous attention by the Negro press throughout the country. The white press of Indianapolis treated the affair in the kindlest way. Take sparingly of your public privileges; it insures their longevity. In other words, don't try to be in greater evidence than those who outnumber you ten to one, not to speak of the wealth phase. Indianapolis having proven such an excellent convention city, it ought to have more of the greater meetings by the race. What's the mater with the other great lodges, churches and political associations? From all accounts the meeting of the National Independent Political League in Boston last week was a big success. The old guard was energetic in its attack on President Taft. "Agitate, resist injustice and vote independently" was the slogan. Booker T. Washington will make a tour of Texas the latter part of this month, and extending into October. The visit is being encouraged by the newspapers. The Dallas Express says standing room will be at a premium in those places where he will appear. Charles Banks, of Mound Bayou, Miss, says there's no truth in the report that bad feeling exists between the white and colored people of that city. The Negroes of the country, doubtless, are glad to learn this. All take pride in old man Montgomery's town, and hope no ill will befall it. President Taft will make a swing around the circle as a few other presidents have done. According to his program he will travel thirteen thousand miles, visit a hundred cities, going to the people since they cannot come to him. It is right, the people should be given opportunity to see their president. We are better off than the man farthest down in Europe. There discrimination may not be a preached gospel, but the means of the poor do not permit them to have thought of the many good things enjoyed by the rich. They are practically eliminated. So, while fighting and hoping, we should take consolation of that fact. No "Mona Lisa" yet, and Paris mourns over the loss of the world's most famous painting. It is said that Leonardo Da Vinci labored hard and long to put on that famous smirk of a smile that pat the world in love with her. And now she's gone. Well, $5,000,000 is too much money to be laying around loose, anyhow. Dr. Booker T. Washington, in his recent Indianapolis speech, said that it was not best to advertise races' woes extensively. It will be understood that he had in mind the result of such advertising. If it meant more consideration, more justice for the race, he would not have seen the necessity for the remark. It appears at this time that there are far too many who prefer to see the race in bitterness and tears. Perhaps a manly, emphatic protest against the wrongs of a few days ago would have been better than the long-drawn-out walls noted in many of our publications. The old thing of resoluting has been laughed out of existence; but, after all, it was about the most proper thing to do. To register opposition in meetings of earnest men and women goes farther and deeper than columns of protest in newspapers. The editor often, in the heat of passion, says the very things the mob and its sympathizers want said—an impotent cry, standing for helplessness and misery. BLOOMINGTON, ILL. Miss L. M. Freeman of St. Louis, Mo., had charge of Dr. A. H. Kinnlebrew's Home sanitarium during the doctor's absence at the encampment at Springfield ...Among the excursionists to Chicago recently the excursionists to Chicago directed Thora Elmer Jones, Arthur Piles, Howard Underwood Ed Lewis and Benjamin Weil, Miss Anna Brington .A pleasant party was given recently at the beautiful home of Mrs. Minnie Clark, Miss Clara Redman, of Cleveland, O. Among those present were Clara Redman, Margaret Davis, Anna Lynch, Anna Princeton, Mildred Douglass, Minnie Clark, Thomas Waggoner, Thomas Waggoner, Elmer Waggoner, Jamie Bigs, Marvin Jones, Roy Nelson, Arthur Pyles, Bennie Winn, Ernest Williams, John Jenkins, and aggoner. Many of them L. Dicksonville, turned home from the encampment at Springfield after six days of a successful trip. The condition and were made glad by seeing many of their friends from home at the dress parade on August 31 at Camp Lincoln. . . . Miss Eva Earnes and Carrie Clark the sick list this week. Their many friends hope for the speedy recovery. TAKES FIRST TRAIN RIDE. Colored Man One Hundred and Two Years Old Makes Trip Alone From Cape Girardeau, Mo., to Champaign, Ill. ... Miss Emma Randolph is ill... Miss Mildred Brown is ill... Mrs. Christeen Nesbitt was called home August 4. to the bedside of Mrs. Ida Brew Ewing, who died on the 9th of August at her home in New York. Robert Barker, and Mrs. Sarah Nunn, brothers and sister, of Chicago, Ill., attended the funeral. COLUMBUS, KY. Mrs. Salle Jones spent a fey days in Cairo and Mound City last week. . . Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson and son left for Cairo III. Sunday. . . The C. C. D. on the 28th. Score 8 to 4, in favor of the C. C. D. John Quigley, two base hit. Thomas Quigley, home run. Randolph Hinton and his Teddy Bears played the winning team and the score was 8 to 4. There was a well patroned. . . There was a motion picture show here Friday and Saturday nights and showed at the public school building. It was well patroned. . . Mrs. Zodiac and son Wilson. For Louis, Mr. Monday spent a month. . . A party of people went th the Wolf Island, Sunday, to attend the meeting. ORLANDO, FLA. Miss Emma Walker returned home after spending a few weeks with her friends in Tampa. . . Miss Ida and Dr. Irwin spent a few weeks with a few weeks with their sister, Mrs. A. Richardson. . . The revival held in Mt. Olive A. M. E. Church will close Tuesday of the services Sunday night there were twenty-seven convicts. . . Mr. Oliver E. Green is on the sick list again. Friends hope for his recovery. . . Miss Alberta has been a friend and relatives in Tampa. . . The public schools of Orlando will open on Monday, September 11. . . Mrs. E. W. Moore will open on Tuesday. . . The Mt. Ipsilon Baptist parsonage is almost completed. This will be a credit to Orlando. . . Mr. Sam Cain is very ill and has been taken to Clark Corner for his health. His friends hope for his recovery. BOWLING GREEN, KY. Rev. J. C. Caldwell Addresses the Young People of the City and Urges Them to Organize a Christian Endeavor League. By J. F. Moxley. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. have been very much benefited and are able to do a better year's work this year, my high school threw Green academy Tuesday morning with a nice attendance. Rev. J. W. Botts, who has charge of the normal department, has been traveling to various locations of the country in the interest of the students and has met with much success. There have been two teachers added to the faculties of Frankfort Kentucky State University in Euwin, from Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.. A bright little bouncing baby boy, given unto Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Brown, has been visiting .. Mr. Chesterfield Harris, of Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting Mrs. Molle Milligan on the Fairground avenue.. Mr. Chesterfield is still on the sick list. We wish him a speedy recovery through the Freeman. MT. VERNON, OHIO. M. Earl Charis, of Kenton, O., and Mrs. Geo. Johnson, of Newark, O., were the Labor Day guests of Miss Vola Symons.....Mrs. Copland and Mrs. James Symons.....Mrs. Hamilton, of Springfield, O., Mr. Chas Hamilton, of Springfield, O., September 3 and 4, visiting his relatives and friends.....Mrs. Hallee Haggard, of Cincinnati, is the guest of Miss Mary Thomus of East Water street.....Mr. Grace Tree of East Water street.....Walter Harris, of Mt. Sterling, were the Labor Day guests of Miss Stella Bradfield and Miss B. Jones.....M. Cooper Jackson spent Labor Day in Newark, O. Margaret Biddel and dangiter Marguerite and Mr. Tate, present of Youngstown, were visitors in our city Labor Day.....White and Rawls' orchestra played at Newark, O. September 4.....Rayman Church in Newark, O. Church Tate, pastor, presides with morning and evening. Sunday school at 9 a.m. You are always welcome.....Mt. Calvary Baptist church, South Mulberry street, Rev. A. A. Hampton, pastor, also presides with evening to a very good attendance. The pastor extends an invitation to all. Rev. W. D. Adams is now conducting a revival meeting at Annamount Giles Back street, is doing an ams, shoemaker Hew owns three lots in Scoola on the west side, and owns lots in Hattisburg, Miss. He is well known among white children of Scoola. S. Brocks, barber, on Back street, is doing a good business at his shop. He is a young man who owns a store in the south end and the other in the south end...A grand celebration was held here last week of refreshments were served, all kinds of refreshments were served, game between the Ccoola Giants and Dekalb, Miss., resulted in a tie of 11 to 11...The Freeman will be found Saturday at Scoola, S. Brocks' barber shop, Call and buy one. MOBILE (ALA.) DOTS. Mr. George A. Johnson left the city for St. Louis, Mo., last Saturday, where he goes to make his future home...Mr. George A. Johnson passed successive departmental examinations and civil service department, has accepted a position in Pensacola, Fla., effective at once...Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mrs. Emma Burroughs, of this city, to Mr. Horace Jackson, of York City...Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jackson returned to the city last week from Pass Christian, Miss, and are stopping with Mrs. M. J. Sommerville...The ex-soldier is for forty-five saloons, among this number, one colored man has been successful he being the only colored man in the state to be in possession of same, so this man will be out to issue the officials say that the tigers' will be put out, and Mobile will get into the progressive cities, reaching out for enterprises with capital and inviting them in the city...Labor Day was spent very jolly by the union societies at the park. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. ...George Burk, of Sharon was in the city Monday... The Widows and Widow's Day, and Mrs. Thad Wilson's, and Mrs. Thad Wilson's, Monday. The day was enjoyed, and the music and sames made the time go merrily. N. Y. will be in the musical entertainment to be given by the ladies of Oak Hill Avenue A. M. E. Church, L. Johnson and others of Newcastle, attended the Elks whist party Monday. A. B. C.'S WIN BOTH GAMES. BEAT THE HEIDELBURGS OF CINGINAT INDIANAPOLIS—The A. B. C's beat the Heidelbergers, of Cincinnati, in a double-header last Sunday at the North Carolina game came nearly being a shut-out for the visitors. The score was 21 to 1. The second game was more interesting. The Heidelbergers won the bidding fair to win out. The colored lads were too strong for them. They overcame the lead of the Heidelbergers and won tip-and-tuck game by a score of 8 to 7. Monday the Heidelbergers went down went down again after having won the third game. The third time fate decided against the visitors. They played like Trojans but the A. B. C's were the same old Greeks and refused to be defeated. The score was 9 to 8. Notes. "Home Run" Thompson made his usual home run. He saved the A. B. C's Monday game. Maybe they couldn't do a thing until he came. The young pitcher for the Heidelberg Monday is a crackerjack. He remained his possessions throughout the game, deliv- erimately splashed the ball, playing practically a faultless game. Williams, the pitcher for the A. B. C. 's was determined that they shouldn't do anything to him. But they did not. He was waived and the ball pitched about the same game. By supreme effort all around the A. B. C. came out winners in the tenth inning, on Monday. The A. B. C. Juniors beat the Rex Juniors, a white team, last Monday. The score was 7 to 3. A TERRIFIC GAME Gunter High Brown's Defeat St. Anthony Professionals—Game Full of Remarkable Features. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Before a crowd of more than 800 enthusiastic baseball fans and in one of the greatest baseball games ever played in San Antonio, the team used every particle of their strength to defend the St. Anthony Professionals at Electric Park, last Thursday. The game was for the benefit of the Orphans' Home. It was a terrific struggle, being featured by the St. Anthony Professionals had a cinch on the game up to the latter part of the ninth inning, having five scores inning Crump, Howard and Hazel filled the bases by singling, and then the music started, the Professionals going to pieces at the critical moment; and before they could recover the High Browns in the second third bases, with no outs, but they did not score, as Adams had tightened up. Taylor was first up for the High Browns in the twelfth inning, but in the second third bases, with no outs, but they did not score, as Adams had tightened up. Taylor was first up for the High Browns in the twelfth inning, but in the second third strike. Then Crumps stepped to the plate and gained the reputation of pinch hitting by knocking the ball out over the center fielder's head for a three-handed Tending队 in with the winning run. The game was a pitcher's battle all the way through, both Inman and Adams pitching great ball, the former striking out one and the other two. One of the features of the game was the squeeze play worked by Leonard and Whitney, of the Professionals, in the fourth inning, Leonard scoring from the score: Gunter .....2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1-5 St. Anthony .....2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1-5 St. Anthony.....Two-base hits—Banks and Inman. Three-base hits—Inman and Crump. Struck—Out by Inman, 16; by Adams, 12. Passed ball—Norman, 3; Time of game—2 hours 30 minutes. MOBILE WINNING ALL MOBILE WINNING ALL OF THE GAMES. MOBILE. Ala.—Mobile left the city for Gulfport, playing there on August 28, 29 and 30, bringing home the laurels for the Scores: First day, 3 to 2; second day, 7 to 0, and third day, 4 to 1. Boyfriend, the manager, the ampuire. George Hogan, the manager, said the boys put up good games, and he would like for the management at Gulfport to send him the Scores. Theagers should be careful in making dates so as not to make it hard for the other fellow. Joe McCoy and Professor send their reserves to the boys. EVANSVILLE BEATEN BY LOUISVILLE TIGERS LOUISVILLE. Ky.-The Louisville Tigers won from the B. B.'s, of Evans- ville, September 3, by the score of 10 game being played at Spring Bank Park. Rensson and Campbell, formerly of the Tigers, were the battery for the B. B.'s and Houston and Payne were the battery for the Tigers. The team Evansville.....0 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0--8 Tigers.....0 0 0 0 6 1 2 10*--10 KENTUCKY NINE IS DEFEATED BY CHICAGO GIANTS, 3 TO 2. TWO DEFEATS FOR LELANDS. Louisville Cubs Take First Game by 2 to 1, While Chicago Giants Beat Them in Second, 8 to 6. CHICAGO—Leland Giants lost a double header last Sunday. The Louisville Giants won in the game 2, 0 in and the Chicago Giants taking them into camp in the second, 8 to 6. The score: Bats: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 3 Giants: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 4 Batteries—Griffin and Coleman; Etheridge, Goodgame and Webster. Score: Second game: Chicago: 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 1 8 Leland: 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 3 Struck out—By Gatewood; 4; by Goodgame; 2; by Watkins, 1. Bases on balls both games of their double header with them at Gunther park, taking the morning game 10 to 0 and the afternoon combat 3 to 1. The morning defeat was due to a slugging of the colored players. Scores: Giants.....0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3-9 0 Gunthers.....0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0-1 5 1 Kitteries—Ball and Pettus; Hamilton and Kitterie. Morning game: Giants.....2 0 2 3 0 0 2 0 1-10 14 2 Gunthers.....0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 4 2 Rose Williams; Washington and Pettus; Bradshaw, Hamilton, Madigan and Krueger. CAPTAIN TODD, OF THE A. B. C.'S RETIRES ON ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS. The many friends of Captain Todd, the popular leader of the A. B. C. baseball team, will be sorry to learn that the intrepid leader of the club was forced to leave the team to Ind. on account of illness. Quite a loss is sustained by the team in the retirement of Mr. Todd and his place will be hard to fill. He was one of the most agile players in the country, an A. B. C. uniform and was sought by managers all over the country. If his indisposition should force him into permanent retirement the game will lose its appeal. The local fans bid him good-bye regrettfully and wish his speedy recovery. LOUISVILLE CUBS STRANDED Manager Abrahams, of the A. B. C.'s received the following telegram from Manager Ell Lancaster, of the Louisville Cubs baseball team last Tuesday afternoon, cancelling his engagement with the local club for Sunday: Mr. George Abrahams, 453 North Fifteenth street, Indianapolis, Ind. Will cancel games for the eleventh. Club is stranded. Ell Lancaster." This information will be a surprise to the many friends and admirers of the Louisville Cubs, which was considered one of the best teams in the ranks of the semi pros. THE PASSING SHOW AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Minnehaha Theater. Mae Whitman and her Toy Comedians were the feature of the bill at this house last week. It was the third week or a return engagement. Little Sammy Dempsey, the comedian, if he is kept under the tutorage of Miss Whitman. Some of the stunts in comedy acting that he pulls off are as grand as those enacted by an actress in a comedy. He does some fine singing and excellent dancing. He has the earmarks of a straight man to rival, if not excel, all the imitators of the late George Walker. Whitman deserves credit for the splendid performance he develops these young lads into clever entertainers. Maggie Taylor and her “pickannies” were on the bill as a came in for a great share of the applause. Ford Dabney's Ginger Girls are a big scream at the Dabney Theater. They are the best of the band and anders' Ragtime Band" with telling effect. They do a dance known as "Oh. You Devil." wearing appropriate costumes. "It is some clever dance." The Dandy Dixie Minstrels opened the week of September 4 at the Hoe Theater with James Crosby and Chas. Chicken Jones in stellar roles. They did a capacity business. The noonday parade is quite a feature. The music is enlightening. The show is very unique in minstrels and bids fail to surpass any previous attempt at this kind of entertainment. Jeff DeMount and Andrew Trible opened with their new act at the Chelsea the week of September 4. Mr. Trible has been in this city for several months has become a favorite. No less can be said of Mr. DeMount. They are funny; that's all. Miss Evan Robinson is at the Chelsea. She is making quite a hit. Brown and Gaines played at the Chelsea last week. They made a decided hit. Their work was done in such fine style that the S. R. O. sign was displayed nearly every night. Johnson and Johnson, the Southern favorites, are at the Blue Mouse. They went big in their very clever act. Among the excellent performers to be seen at the Minnehaha Theater in the very near future are: Costello, Morse and Ray, Williams Sisters, Mexicoms, Ray Raby, William Williams, Moss and Ray and Brown and Gaines. W. J. Reeves, the proprietor of the Reeves Cafe, is a very prominent member of the Owls' Club. The Freeman is sold in Washington at 1020 You street, N. W.; 636 T street, N. W.; 810 Florida avenue, N. W.; so forwards at the Freeman, Washington it do not fail to get The Freeman. It will get all the live and latest news Coining Out of HUMAN SUFFERING is of medicine. 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The baby is more prone to disease than the rectum, and then which, as a class, are less understood and so uniformly annoying one (on account of false modesty and sensitiveness) so silently endured. enty-five Years Experience in the chronic and acute diseases of regards the work undignified and unpleasant and consequently does not prepare himself or equip his office for the treatment of this class of disease. CONSULT then, a reliable, capable, conscientious SPECIALIST whose medical education is second to none in this country, and whose (if necessary) are equipped with every instrument or device necessary for the treatment and cure of all the diseases coming within the range of his SPECIALTIE3. No part of the baby is more prone to disease than the rectum, and there are no disease which, as a class, are less understood and so uniformly annoying and painful; none (on account of false modesty and sensitiveness) so silently and submissively endured. MEN AND WOMEN enables me to offer the most successful the disorders peculiar to either sex and the folly of procrastination. Ruptures, tates, drains from the canal and all k shortest possible time, in my office by a confinement of patients, general anesthet Consult me at ONCE, and after a COST YOU NOTHING, I will tell you manently cure you. HOURS: 10 to 12, 1 to 5 DR. BOY SPECIA OFFICES, 320-321 K. OF P. HOTEL Cape M. Special Rates for Fall and Winter. Write for Literature. E. T. Park A PLACE THE M Every upright colored citizen Monday, Sept. 11th; Popular Price Every body goes to offer the most successful and rational methods of treatment for peculiar to either sex and I am today calling especial attention to occastination. Ruptures, piles, fissures, strictures, diseased protrusion from the canal and all kindred troubles treated and cured in the time, in my office by ambulant methods, which do not call for patients, general anesthesia or detention from business. at ONCE, and after a thorough EXAMINATION, which will NOTHING, I will tell you candidly whether I can relieve or perish you. RS: 10 to 12, 1 to 5, 7 to 8. Sundays 2 to 4. R. BOBBITT, SPECIALIST, 220-321 K. OF P. BUILDING, INDIANAPOLIS, IND HOTEL DALE Cape May, N. J. States for Fall and Winter. Service Unsurpassed in America Write for Literature. E. W. DABE, Owner and Prop. Pk A PLAY OF HUMAM PURITY THE ROSARY bright colored citizen should see this play. Week Com- t. 11th; Popular Prices. Every body goes to the Park Theatre. enables me to offer the most successful and rational methods of treatment for the disorders peculiar to either sex and I am today calling especial attention to the folly of procrastination. Ruptures, piles, fissures, strictures, disease presses, drains from the canal and all kindred troubles treated and cured in the shortest possible time, in my office by ambulant methods, which do not call for confinement of patients, general anesthesia or detention from business. Consult me at ONCE, and after a thorough EXAMINATION, which will COST YOU NOTHING, I will tell you candidly whether I can relieve or permanently cure you. HOURS: 10 to 12, 1 to 5, 7 to 8. Sundays 2 to 4. OFFICES, 320-321 K. OF P. BUILDING, INDIANAPOLIS, IND Cape May, N. J. Special Rates for Fall and Winter. Service Unsurpassed in America Write for Literature. E. W. DABE, Owler and Prop. Every upright colored citizen should see this play. Week Com Monday, Sept. 11th; Popular Prices. Every body goes to the Park Theatre. THE MECCA THE PLACE Bar and 312 INDIANA AVE., 218 W. NEW Chas. E. Lew A Visit will Convince you THE PLACE OF QUALITY Bar and Billiards NA AVE., 218 W, NEW YORK ST. NEW PHONE 1319 Chas. E. Lewis, Proprietor will Convince you that we have the Quality THE PLACE OF QUALITY Bar and Billiards 312 INDIANA AVE., 218 W. NEW YORK ST. NEW PHONE 1319 Chas. E. Lewis, Proprietor A Visit will Convince you that we have the Quality CAMP MEETING Trail's Grove, Stop 24, Honey Bee Electric Line near Shirley Ind. Conducted by Rev. H. H. Hinton and other noted speakers to Sept. 10th Trains leave Indianapolis and Trails Grove hourly agent for other information. Bring your baskets and stay all day and Green were on the bill the Chelsea and the London are very clever entertainers. Low Henry is still at the Howard and as polly as ever. Jerry Mills is and has been the best man in town for three weeks, he hearing the Dandy Dixie Minstrel. Lewis Thomas, of the Columbia Orchestra, is writing some very nice poplar music. FORD'S HAIR POMADE 1580 MASSAGE HAND KNOW OR MORE QUICKER SUFFER AND MORE EASY TO COME AND TO KNOW THE FRACTURE HAND KNOW PREVENTING HAIR FROM FALLING BACK AND UPSET OF SCALE BEWARE OF IMMITATIONS, GET THE GENIINE, PET 25 AND 50 BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FARIS PET EVERY PACKAGE FOR TORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION MAKES THE SKIN WHITE IMMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION, WILL NOT INTRACT THE MOST DELICATE SKIN, UNEXCEELED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHUBARB, PIMPLE ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLE SOLD BY DRUGISTS. IF YOUR DUCKING SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND YOU TO DIRECT FOLLOWING Prices, SMALL SAUCE BOTTLE 25 LARGE BOTTLE 50. THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 24 LAST ST. DEP. 288 CHICAGO & a Y <a, @ » & \ Sh y PS \ A \ ri 8 0 et ESS _S eat G \ feN fy a Gc Zs SX Gl say SS a |S Coe) _LX \ PEM 56 ee a Ny) SS ee eee NOTES. down this way. In her we see our futur STAGE Aida Overton Walker. Her baby siste T the tenor, joined the|Anna, age four years, is also very goo 2s onsiey,, the tenor Joins and is a scream’ in her mato ivaperson pily pinie Minstrels ta tons. ‘Her ‘volce ts not to: mild rititaiae 16 featutets shin saceANerial ace at cal aria cade cas, Williams, 1s, fentree Strela [mame time she ie mati maya epnit "Down tn DExIe positively the strongest. “picks ih ho ly playing teamip: cunt fopeinens toughen age aly Grier, who, ls PIAYINE CORD cir UME Coney waingee SP cile: act. < By : character artist of “abnity, ‘dolne: 0! perl Seles character as well as another. Oe age LA BHR Wine “artist tg on Pee clea one ete gaia ‘the ar “ Spewn in Dixie” Min-|18 still with us; also Willie Richerso1 ; our trap’ drummier. grelt : if i lh pi eminiton: our me vic othe “porters” accept|linist, sends regards t6 fMenda'in i “a tho “porter tout. of ‘the profession. cs: sae a Ore et William Butler, the stage manager, | oe still at tia post! and Io Sull “watenls % Porter will open at the tne serie ana RO: ne ' eter, and, Porter il Fen 8b, ‘he | te aaenby to: prorictor “seems yaseaha Theater, Washington, D.C}, "ey veil eatianed Gith tis wane. ; Geis performers. “Heo is still, meeting. t vinden, woRids famous battaa| bunch every, Saturday, Fain ‘or shine, a Dee ao atte e Freeman is for sale every Satu gneer, 1 to Chicago after playing, day night at this theater, Sets Louls ir. Jacoby ‘says when his new hou: Lackins, Company jn Royat| is completed etx can't cote too bir. sie Jolly Larkins, Company ip. Reval |S iaries eo Niet fon me nett or ees bedi iidwaea Ghedteny Washine-| ssiaees too garl Walker, manager of the Crown fit, Sadianapolls, spent the week in : business. SAM on business. of, 4. Brooks, ventriloquist, one of oitiadee ucts with the Dandy” Disie be tors is scoring quite a success, A Marple Repertoire Compant edly UARUerpnia this: wee Was oie it presenting western dramas. pene Willlams, juggler, is meeting fettreat success with “Down in Dixte” Justis, under the management of pei pb. W, Butsell, 010 Bb glarionetist, stu iocated 1m, Memphis, Tenn., play- sein Prot, W. C. Handy’s syndicate fei doing well hewn Kensey, known as the Black oth Sisea with the Benbow company Sm jl"sing illustrated ballads at the Hin wear, Paiiadelphia. pion and White, the Dandy Dixie Dev isinly deserve the name, they br Gusniy dance some,” ‘The act GE gmake good on any bill. yjanvel Felain, the tenor with the ply Dixie Minstrels, 18 scoring a hit eh die world were made of Bil ra uy the world for you.” iss Porter, of Porter and Porter, rae wr, Benbow a present of @ grand FA iefoce she left here for Washing- Pep Ce wuere they open for @ run, thornton and Long closed their sec- ecl'sircessful week at the Dixie thea- (2 Mianlotte, N.C, and opened at, the WSin'teater, Richmond, Va, Septem- ued ‘the Hi Jerry Barnes Stock Company qae_at Ocala, Fla, and opened at {iy Cross, Ga, August 28, ‘The com- jy is havin ood success, Barnes is Ce eee Rae Billie Butler, trap drummer of the sar Theater, of Pittsburgh, Pa, was a Freman caller while in the city with te Fit Brizade Band, K, of P., of that iy. | mank Wright, of the Wallace- Hagen- tek circus, was In Indianapolis Sunday ‘sting bie mother, Mrs, Fannie Wright ind his wife, at 820 West Bleventh Among the visitors from, the Wallace Hagenieek Circus Sunday in Indianapo- ie were Mz, Frank Wright, the oblig- ne healwaiter; the Browns, Charles acum aud Frank Johnson. The past week through Pennsylvania, Marylatd, West Virginia, Ohio and In: wma, tie “bown in Dixie” Minstrels payed to a fine business,» ‘The minstrel Hive certainly did some traveling, lehman Smifh, the ‘Tennessee come- aan, ig still with the St, Louis Amuse- ‘ent Company, making good, His wife allie is aiso'a member. She is hav- Ing success with her song renditions. Allie Johnson, wire walker with the Dandy Dixie Minstrels, is one of the best ‘olored acts of its kind on the road to; ay. This act is a scream this week at the Howard theater, Washington, D. C. Miss Myrtle Davig closed her season's work at the Bay State Hotel, Atlantic Cty, XJ. ‘She would like to hear from 2 good minstrel or stock company. — Ad- ies, Miss Murtle Davis, Bay State Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J. The Campbell ‘Trio opened at the Dixio Theater, Tampa, | Fla.,_ Monday, August 28, and is doing’ fine, The man- ‘or says the houses are better than fey hove “ever been since the place , The team of Floyd and Floyd, after aving played many successful "weeks uth, have just eloged three Weeks en- facement at’ Hot Springs, Ark, and have (oe! in “Meridian, Miss.. September 4. Pecan of ‘Buckner and Buckner are p&,Yoelekel, manager and owner of the Pandy ‘Dixie’ Minstrels, ina letter to Tn Owsioy, irom Washington, D. C. hrs “1 "Siw ‘the Initial performanee le Dandy Dixie Minstrels, and must Sy. tevond a doubt, that it is the best ©lvred minstrel T ever saw.” Jesooh Mf. Means, the magician and Gai Valancer, opened at the Globe The- fer, Jacksonville, Fla, Augst 14u for Wo wccks’ engagement, Porter and Reswll opened August 21. Pete Porter pel anche” Russell alg Mr. Marion s were entertained by Joseph M. Meine at 2 dinner at his home, Jack- ville Fie _ Tie Dandy Dixie Minstrels, under the Emkenent of R Voelekel, opened the toon at the Colonial theater, Annap- (Ml. lest Priday evening and scored {Moved nit, Bach number was encored {etelly. ‘The singing is @ great fea~ te wit the show. Chicken Jones, the ¢Ustown comedian, scored a. distinet GLmth the “Cozy Rag.” Billy Ritehie, Tere Testor, “Wilbur Dixon, Walter 2% LC rimperlake and John Owens, Te te hada good Tine of talk. Tatalied singers, ‘pity’ E. Jones, bari- fe Manual’ Felain, tenor, H. L. Woot- {ier and Alex White, John C. Payne, (abe solve socatist, algo scored In his “we singing number “My Hero.” Due Stk sould be given Jerry Mills, who S388 be production. ‘The Dixie’ Min- “es oven at the Howard theater, Wash- SPun DC Monday matinee to. crowd- pase. the SU On sign being dls- SELMONT STREET THEATER, PENSACOLA, FLA. vey SLOW ts a good attraction this Beg gue bil ie Ray" Miles and the Austgh, Sisters, who opened. Monday, MAM 3S (aking: the place of the Me- eo yuo lett us to open in Mobile at p) aman Theater, Mheir act. (Miles any Helstone Sisters) is good and clean sonal VIESIe."DeOra, the Southern Sarginy {S SUN holding her own, re- Midlns to several onesren nignty, Tevig, deanle Taylor, of Conley” and ‘cling {Still sending’ them out nightly cuigs Sbout ler wonderful executions Baby Mandolin and cornet. tor ‘ti, RO8a, a talented Mttle miss of or (bt, Sears of age, 1s a_ wonder, ing’ Woice and expression, “Her dane- Gifferent from others you see down this way. In her we see our future Alda Overton Walker. “Her baby sister, Anna, age four years, is also very good, and is a scream in her male impersona- tions, “Her voice is not too mild and she is not at all bashful and at the same time she is not bold. They are positively the strongest “picks” in the business today at their ages. Mr. Conley, manager of ‘the act of character artist of ability, doing one character as well as another. Mr. Gus Neil, our musical director. is still with us; also Willie Richerson, our trap drummer, Mr. Ed. Washington, our bass vio- linist, sends regards to friends in and out of the profession. William Butler, the stage manager, is still at his post; and ‘is sul watching them come and go. ‘Mr. Jacoby, the proprietor, seems ta be very well Satisfled with his bunch of performers. He is still. meeting the bunch every Saturday, rain or shine. ‘The Freeman is for’ sale every Satur- day night at this theater, ‘Mr. Jacoby says when his new house is completed acts can't come too biz, oF salaries too high for big acts of merit to play here, DOWN IN DIXIE MINSTRELS. Are in their second week, playing to fair business all along the. line. The show 1s headed by Charles Williams and Gus Stevens.” Others are: Alex. ‘Tolll- ver, Herbert LaShe, Al. Thomas, Charles Pewee, William Gibbs, Clarence Davis, Johnnie Rider, Robert Allen, William Foster, John Fry, EB. Cox, Zack Wright, Walter Robinson, Attrus Hughes, Frank Hughes, Charles’ Turner, Albert Lam- bert, Sam Jones, W. J.’ Snow, Louis Gray. Attrus Hughes has the orchestra in charge and has arranged all of the music for the show, which is very tune- ful. Prof. Gray has the band, Charles" Williams has staged a very nice act entitled “The Richest Man in Georgia,” and it is full of many funny eitnations, MAY AND MAY. Original String Beans, at the Mono- gram, Chicago. Butler May and his clever little wite were the scream of the stroll at the Monogram last week. ‘The act seems to grow in favor the more it is seen by the people, ‘This is as it should be, as the team keeps itself up tothe minute in everything that, is required ‘to. make an act “go.” Nothing but the latest and best of rag time songs are used. Chas. 0. Harding is booking the act and he claims ‘there ts no chance for this team to be out of work on his time. The team leaves Chicago over the Harding time for twenty-two weeks. ‘They send regards to W. M. Benbow and others in Montgomery, ‘Ala, THE CROWN GARDEN THEATER, INDIANAPOLIS. The Crown Garden Theater presents a bt this’ Weeks in Keeping: with those of the past. Sterriweather and Brown have becom« favorites, ‘Their turn is one of the, best Sonat the Crown. Miss’ Brown ‘is it every sense ‘an actress, energetic and Fesourceful. Merriweather Is exceeding Iy clever. His drunk stunt will not be easily beaten, ‘Minstrel Morris does some good jus: sling Tlie act Is new to the Crown, and Suhappy diversion. "His work averages Up with that seen elsewhere. ‘Whitman and Smith are good, enter- tainers. “They are coon. sone. shouters for true, “Miss Whitman is of splendid stage appearance Miss Smith's dancing is“fottt clever. and-amusing. This. is thetr ‘second appearance at the Crown Within’ very “few weeks. ‘Qweiey ‘nd Bowman are in their sec ond week. “"Their act is a captain ands one-soldicr stunt, which furnishes. fur from the beginning to the end, At times they have to wait until the audience ean Eetits laugh ‘out before they-can 40. or Sith the show. Owsley and’ Bowman One of ‘the leading teams of the stage Comparing well in thelr kind of “work with the best. | CHICAGO WEEKLY REVIEW. Crowds Turned Away on Labor Day at the New Grand. iss ‘Gcdcaanaw Wiaeall: Everything moved lie clockwork in regulation at the Grand when throngs of patrons were ushered in to see the bill’ provided for Labor Day. ‘The Sa- Jambo's Electric Gymnastic Wonders, expert fire workers, was the great novel- ty. attraction of ‘the bill, " Muldoon’s skaters was another specialty in the novelty line that pleased and the Dales, in a laughable playlet with ocean scen- ery, and a boat, gave witty fun, The three colored acts were all good. Demos Jones and Mabel Gant were seen to ex- cellent advantage and both artists put So much Vigor in their work that com- ment_ is unnecessary. Dollie Stewart and Carrie Stythe faired well, especially ina jungle scene and the’ Southern Quartette sang tuneful music. ‘Phe com- Gay was developed by Bud Smith, a very Clever natural. comedian, who contrib- uted all the fun, but a solo by Mrs, Hud- dleson, with an invisible quartette effect, shared with Smith in getting a good re- ception. Dave Payton’s orchestra was especially 00d. “Horace George blos- Somed out effectively on the clarionet, ‘Tobe Brown was there as usual with the cornet, Frank Tate has put_ more vigor in his violin and Miles Harris, who is a little shy on noise at all times, ig nevertheless a good trap drummer. Butler May’s Wonderful Oddities at the Monogram. Labor Day was celebrated at the Mon- ogram by crowds of curiosity seekers Who roughed their way in to see Butler May (String Beans) the greatest come- dian of the lesser extremities of the south. The reason why String Beans is a wonder is because he don’t even know what he is going to say the next min- Ute, but whatever he manages to say Uckles every heart and causes the house to thunder. What was new and original was that he telephoned to tie African Jungles, where the baboons have a panic Gisease up in a cocoanut tree. Can you beat it?’ Johnson and Rector gave their well known legitimate specialty and were both received with a hearty demon- Stration, Lillian Brown made her re- appearance at this house, but has been seen to a better advantage in character Specialties. St, Clair and ‘Thomas open- ed the bill and were cordially received, as Mr, Thomas proved to be a good dan- cer. It will be a nice thing when man- agers and actors discover that I am real- ly building the Negro stage performers up and that my recognition of worthy hardworking musicians should cause them to greet me with a smile for even being mentioned, As for performers, they forget they are before the public either to make good or go out on a coun- try farm to chop wood and plough po- tatoes. Miller and Lyles Draw Big Houses at Metts’ Pekin Theater. “Barn,” a small-sized vaudeville hip- podrome, introducing | Flournoy | Miller and Aubrey Lyles, on the tail end of the entertainment. opened Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day at the Pekin “to full houses. | ‘The two popular young com- edy writers and vaudeville speculators who appeared too far down on the pro- gram, were nevertheless able to Keep the house in a merry mood during their falking specialties, which, were preceded by a medley baked in spots like @ frozen pie, In the final scene their burlesque boxing sent the audiences away scream- ing. Of the performers who served on the program, James Frosty Moore, in his THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. WANTED! Musicians to Enlarge Band For Down in Dixie Minstrels @aThe Snappiest Minstrel Show traveling°D Now enroute and playing to good business; everything new—Under new management. Please to hear from A-No.1 minstrel people! at all times | Address as per route UNIUN CITY, TENN, SEPT, 11); JACKSON, 12; STUTTGART, 14; PINE BLUFF, 18: LITTLE ROCK 16 made the hit of the evening, and Mr. Moore is an artist in his line fit for the ‘big time, and could be a og card for Duke Brennon or Martin lein, even Bike ee ute ME ee eas Sin” Chantet Hott aba" eae Minor. J. Louis Johnson made a good Meee ad ate dave aad ie Eloise Johnson, who sang some very of Aubrey Lyles, and I will review Tal- day night. Ed Goodbar Charms at the Phoenix. wANuaY BOTS Aint as Seciae Satie gt ine eng ae ete ee Siesta ols dy Sao oat 2 subject. being interpreted by cannonad- I am obliged to correct a typograph- Grant Woody and Marshall are at the igs Fanny Wire one at Indiana ee ee iter his summer engagements in the Lakes, eae The Pumpkin colaved tei, Perin season in vaudeville with early dates 2 Gove Gtr wee eae Pas Nene R ETS Me trssk = Guerre tm team The Follies of 1911 opened at the Co- petit fata eited tea arate floa'asd'fali’ Aopetiae'a Si NEWS FROM HOT SPRINGS, ARK. Comical George Freeman and his com- pany, after t seven weeks’ successful engagement at the Savoy theater, Mem- phis, have been in Hot Springs, Ark, for ‘three weeks for the _ company’s health, and say they are haying health, success and pleasure. On ‘Tuesday and Wednesday. of the past’ week Messrs Freeman, Harper and entire company were the select and entertaining guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Howell, Jr. Mr. Howell is_the well known président of the Hot Springs. mountain ‘observatory Company. Mr. and Mrs. Howell. enter Ss; fained their guests at the Hot Springs mountain tower, which stands 180 feet above the top of the mountains and Which was built for the specific purpose of viewing the mountains, city and hear surrounding places. These certainly were large days with the stock com- pany. Mr. Freeman has a most efficient company of first class performers who can, will and do deliver the goods. Mr. Freeman carries a first class wardrobe and two male pianists, who can double on the stage, and each act is perfectly dressed. Mr. irreeman would like to hear from good managers who could use this company. No house too large nor too small for his acts. Ghost dodgers and grafters please save stamps. Mr. Free- man sends best regards to the Hussell- Owens Stock Company, David and_Vir- sinia Liston, 8. D. Tayior and the Whit- man Sisters. Would like to hear from them ‘all, especially the Whitman. Sis- ters. Permanent address, 123. South Fourth street, Memphis. Tenn. , ‘ , + ne Bs Richards and Pringle § Minstrels Wants Immediately Good Comedian who can dance and do a strong end; also A 1 Tenor Soloist and Orchestra Leader who doubles baritone or alto, and per- formers and musicians in all lines. You must be a gentleman and able to perform what you contract to do. You will have a long season here if you can deliver the goods, as we never close. Thirty-third season for this show, consider before accepting shoe string offers with gilded promises from “‘We hope to win” shows. Yes tickets if you need them. Communicate as per route in The Freeman, and tell it all in first letter, as ‘we are not mind readers or good guessers, Holl. Filki Olland & Filkins, Managers Richards & Pringle’s Minstrels. _ LAGMAN THEATER—MOBILE, ALA. Lagman Theater has had Mr, James Cox managing the shows for the past three Weeks, the cast being very. good. John Moore, the Italian impersonator. scored @ hit’ with his. poem, and. the child performer, Wee Cox, has been re- eelving her amount of applause. The shows have brought crowded houses nightly, as the actors are all doing their parts up. to the minute singing, dancing ‘good; but. the people mise. ‘ugsiey, that piano power, who Touches the keys that gives the hearers a wish for mirth, |, Lila Moore is here with the goods, WEE Sey tatite Shanes hare Original String Beans In Vaudeville, doing 18 minutes in one. Good wardrobe on and off the stage. All Managers write in care of The Freeman. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Meet at I, H. Coffey’s restaurant. for best 16 and 35 cent meals in town, Open day and night. “Corner Second and Nash- ville avenue. I H. Coffey, prooridton NOTICE TO PERFORMERS Progress of the Minnehaha Theatre, Washingto, D.C The talk of the country. Have you played there? IF NOT WRITE AT ONCE 'TO ANDREW J. THOMAS, Mgr. 946 Tea St., n. w., Washington, D, C. CAPITAL WANTED. An established firm in books, station- ery, periodicals, etc. of long standing, desires additional Capital to increase their present business, An elegant op- portunity for a colored man to enter the firm as one of the partners of a well es: tablished and profitable concern. Ad- dress L. C. Smith, care of J. Jarrett, 408 Boventh avenue. Now. vere Cite Stock Company of five or six people. Good Sister Team, Three months’ work to right parties. Pastime Theatre, Muskogee Okla , Louis T.Brown, Bus, Mgr, COLUMBIA, S. C. Mrs. Allie Harris will be ready and prepared to feed and accommodate them all at the Columbia State Pair, which takes place in October, Welcome to all, ROUTE. PROF. ROY POPR'S BAND, with Ring- ling Bros.’ Circus.—San Francisco, Cal, September 11; San Jose, 12; Stockton, 13; Fresno, 14; Visalia, 18; Bakers: field, 16. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY CO.—Louisville, Ky., September 10-16. RICHARD & PRINGLE FAMOUS MIN- STRELS—American Fork, Utah, Sep- tember 11; Springville, 13; Manti, 13; Nephi, i4 ‘Spanish Fork, 15; Bingham Canyon, 16; Salt Lake City, '17. P. G. LOWERY—With Wallace-Hagen- “beck circus—Jonesboro, Ark., Septem- ber 10-11; West Plaines,” 12; Mt. Grove, 12;' Springfield, 14; Monett, 15) ptomers, Ark, 16, PROF, Ci M. DAVIS MA%EPPA BAND Syracuse, N. Y., September 11-16, WM. McCABE’S "GEORGIA. TROUBA- ~ POURS—Van Wert, Iowa, September aq held. “JOLLY JOHN LARKINS—Washington, pz, Gy September 11-16. RENIX BROS. MINSTRELS—Marshall- down, Towa, ‘September 11-15. DOWN’ IN DIXIE MINSTRELS, Dave Lyons, Mer.—Union City, ‘Tenn, Sep- tember 11; Jackson, 13: Stuttgart, Ark, 14: Pine Bluff, 18: Little Rock 16. eta — [Song (Fo \/4writers Upeo is Nii a DS We publish and market your own Jp \ Riis songsand compositions. Sot words 7 ZS to music and music to words. Your 4 @-) yy Ny song guaranteed to reach the public 2 FAIPY through our hands. Meo ae SS Music Buyers De MR7ZA/2 | Join our statt clab and got the latest music \ YY published. We distribute 50,000 copies W each month. Wy y, = V, { UGGS & EARD oe | eo ouse of its po) Ss ( Nie Music Publishers 88 EAST 2ist St SUITE 1—3159 State St. New York City Chicago, Il | LETTER LIST. | Gentiemen’s List. Albright, Captola ~ Jones, Rastus Beman, J. Jones, A. G. Broder, Homer Jennings & Jennings Bradford, tL. Johnson, Fay, ‘Bueargard, Hapy. Johnson, Jack Butler, Homer. (Chorus director) Clark, Gene. Kewley, Fred Baker, George Kersands, Bily Butler, Edw. Lockhart, Carter, Davis Jolly C. ‘Mason, Sim. Dudiey, BB. MeMation, Travalee, Davis, A. McGee, Garfield Eawatds, Thomas T. Overstreet, Will Elliott, Silas E. ' Perdie, Davia. Emett, R. B. Prosser, J.C ‘Earl and Sherwood Russell,’G. E. Grundy, Robert” Rowland, Grilebured, Mr. Sharpe, B.A. Howard, 1d. ‘The Butlers, Horace, Geo. “The Juggler” Hearde, Jack H. Thomas, W. A. Handy, W. 1. ‘Thomas ‘and Ward Hamilton, J.W. Viney, John Hull, D.R. Venerable, E. Houze, Gis Warnego. Hin, J. Lubri Wallbure, H.W. Hill, AarchioM. Whitney, 8. T. Henderson, R. 0. Webb, Jeff. Indian Spitfire White, Bob. Johnson, Harry Wallburg, ‘J. Jones, Archie. Young, Billy Ladies’ List. Brown, Jessie. Johnson, Mrs. Fay Dupres Sisters Pryer, Miss iothel Gant, Mabel. Reeves, Jesse, Houts, Bertha Stranger, Bertha Hooten, Mme. 1.B. ‘Thompson, Lizzie, Howard, Mrs. M.C. Whitman, Mae. | SONG HITS OF THE DAY Monkey Rag Fishing IfI Forget Billy Down in My Heart AlamoRag Ther'll Come a Time Alexanders Band Oceana Roll Carolina Rag Cozy Rag Just For YouBabe Barn Yard Rag All Right in My Younger Days ‘When I Woks Up i the Moraingsbe was Gone PER COPY POST PAID ‘Whoo the Trees Shed thelr Lesvos in tho Pat! Gee! but It's Great to Meet a Friend From Your Home Towm It's Awful Hard to Say Good- Bye, When I Say Good Bye I Mean Good Bye. Wm. FOSTER Music Co., 3026 St? te St. Chicago i; The Evanston Theatre 13th AND WALNUT STS. Louisville, Ky. WR CAN VEN 7IRan-cr.Abe BROOGIIRRD A078 a” ADs TIMES Chas.O,Harding, Agt., _Wm.D.Evans, Mgr An A-No.1 Lady Pianist One who reads well and can sing a contralto voice in any body’s chorus, on any body’s stage: can entertain or work in orchestra or on stage and ig not a fiend of any kind, Address: Miss M. K. Jackson Air Dome, Tampa, Fla. WANTED! FOR J M, BUSBY WORLD'S GREATEST MINSTRELS Performers, Bandmen, and a good novelty act; state all in first letter; The largest twocar, colored organization in the country; just returned from the coast, all year employment and a home to the right people. Have for sale 12 solid steel car wheels Bran new. | Want to buy large combination baggage ) and sleeping car PERMANANT ADDRESS: PANA ILL. | J. M. Busby Send us Your Subscription GOSSIP OF THE STAGE 6 Lena Mitchell at La Plaza Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., last week. According to our information, Aida Overton Walker was with the C. and J. Red Moon Co. in their last season. This in answer to an inquiry. Thomas McDonald-Thomas were at the Gedney opera house, Independence, Iowa, last week; Idle Hour theatre, New Hampton, Ia., this week; next week, Orpheum theatre, Oelwein, Ia. Happy Go Lucky Simpson, monologist, the little fellow with te big fet, closes his engagement at Maceo theatre Saturday, Sept. 9, after fifteen weeks of stagemanagership, to back on the circuit again. Smith and Whitman, Laura and Mattie, closed a successful week in Chicago. They lay off one week for a rest then worked one week in Lexington, Ky., and scored such a hit that the manager, R. F. Bell, made them a handsome present, which was highly appreciated. Mr. T. J. Sadler, our well known tenor soloist, late of the Williams & Walker Abyssinian Co. and Smart Set Co., is now entertaining at Ranier National Park Inn, near Tacoma, Wash., a summer resort. Mr. Sadler expects to come east soon to join the Jolly Larkins Royal Sam Co. But for delay in contracts, for some cause unknown to him, he would be with the company now. The team of Mills and Tansel is still lat the Grand theatre in Chattanooga, Tenn, and are doing fine, Miss Tansel has been on the sick list for four days but is able to be before the lights again. She opened up with the "Long Lost Chord" and responded to several curtain calls. Billy Mills sang "That Minor Strain" and "Say No, Dat's All." Both songs caught the audience from the start and he also responded to several curtain calls. The Southern Smart Set dropped in to see the show and all members of the company were well pleased. The show is running along nicely this week. We have with us this week Professor Cufman with his trained dogs and goats, which is quite a novelty act. Master Bishop Brown, our small dancer, is still holding his own. The Raineys are here and have been for seventeen weeks and are going as big as ever. Mr. and Mrs. Rainey open their act with a very lovely song, "How Would You Like to Marry Me," and Mr. Rainey gets away singing one of E. B. Dudley's latest successes, "I Ain't Nobody's Fool, Mrs. Gertrude Rainey comes back with "Steamboat Bill," taking from five to six encores each night. Happy Howe is here with us and having success. Newport News, Va. "The Two Weavers," Eula Mae and J. J., that invincible duo of quality, closed at the Dreamland theatre, San Antonio, Tex., on the 26th, after six highly successful weeks. Mr. Weaver has made some very rapid strides in comedy work and is classed by the public in general, and managers alike, as a comedian of quality. His wife, on the other hand, has proven to be a very dainty little soubrette and at this early date she is one of the best dressed women on the stage in these parts, barring none. As a high class team, presenting comedy sketches, they are attracting wide-spread attention. This week they are laying off at Sulphur Springs, Tex. Will open at the Pastime theatre, Muskogee, Okla, Aug. 4th. Can always be reached at the Freeman" office. Always glad to hear from friends and managers. FRANK HENDON INFORMS STAGE STRUC KGIBLS. Dear Hendon: The critic says that you are not a college chap. I a mtwenty-five years old and I've never seen inside of the third grade; would like to get married, but don't know how to housekeep; in fact, I don't know anything about work, Hendon; I don't even know how to darn old socks, and you know how crazy you men are about your darned old socks. I have a dozen girl friends who are just like me in every respect. We have formed a little club and commencing next week we will all get together, sip tea and talk about you good-looking fellows. What brand of tea would you recommend?—Ella. Answer—Booker T. Dear Hendon: Billy Kersands has diamonds; Billy King owns real estate and Clarence Powell has money. What about Jolly J. Larkins?—Ruby. Answer—His diamonds, real estate and money I know nothing about, but he has a valuable pearl. Dear Hendon: Instead of shaving the President this year, Mr. Dudley will cut your hair. What will he need?—Emma. Answer—The clippers. SEEN AND HEARD WHILE PASSING In the Grand Theatre, recently opened for colored patrons, Chattanooga has one of the prettiest playhouses in the country. Unlike a great many playhouses recently opened to the exclusive patronage of colored people, the Grand has been and is still a paying investment. It is under the management of Mr. Sparks, an old citizen of Chattanooga, and well liked by the colored citizens. Mr. Sparks says he intends to secure the best talent at all times and is willing to pay, for he says that nothing but the best is good enough for the patrons of the Grand. The stage is under the management of Billy Bradley, the elonga- ted character, artist, and the show as reviewed by the entire Smart Set company, was first class. Billy Mills easily headed the bill. He is an extremely clever comedian with originality. His partner, Miss Tansell, sang acceptably and was encored many times. Mabel Johnson seemed quite a favorite with te audience. Madame LaBelle Glen, styled the Bronze Tetrazini, presented "The Bleeding Moon," with telling effect. Others on the bill acquitted themselves with credit. There are six pieces in the orchestra and they play well and are a valuable asset to a good performance. The orchestra is under the efficient directorship of W. A. Calhoun, one of the most accomplished of our colored musicians, a graduate of Oberlin College, where he had the distinction of assisting in compiling a book of harmony. NOTES. THE MAYOR OF NEWTOWN THE MAYOR OF NEWTOWN. The Mayor of Newtown, the new vehicle for the Southern Smart Set Company, bids fair to solve the race problem, as far as white people attending a colored performance is concerned. Never have white people attended performances by colored actors and singers in such large numbers as has marked the attendance of The Mayor of Newtown, and the concensus of opinion is that it is the best colored show that has ever toured the South. S. Tutt Whitney's new song, "I Ain't Nuthin, Never Had Nuthin', Don't Want Nuthin' But You," is the song hit of the show. J. Homer Tutt has taken a step in front of all straight comedians. His three lightning changes of costume in his opening song is a novelty before untrained by any straight comedian. Ed Tolliver, of Indianapolis, Ind., is a decided hit in his impersonation of Pedro, the Mexican, as his song, "Dear Old Mexico," is artistically presented and always well received. The work of Ethel Marshall, Mabel Brown, Nettie Taylor, Ada Alexander and Babe Brown is of exceptional merit, while Sam Gardner, Al Strander, John Wright, Will Dixon, Blaine Waters and Tom Lockhart share honors with S. Tutt Whitney in their comedy creations. NOTES OF THE FAMOUS EPH. WILLIAMS ATTRACTION En Route. The Famous Troubadours and Silas Green Co., No. 1, is still a howling success and continues to draw large crowds, with Miss Mary Jones, leading lady, and Mme. Susie Price, mezzo soprano, and a beauty chorus of belles par excellent. L. Don Bradford, as Bill Jones of Chicago. The Kentucky Whirlwind, Thos. E. Price as Silas Green from New Orleans, keeps the rolling from now to then. Prof. R. H. Collins' concert band of twelve solo artists is the town talk following each Monday's pageant. This company, playing mostly eastern time, has also been a great hit, and for minstrelsy has no rival. It consists of 40 people, male and female, singers, jesters and dancers. Among them are Misses Bessie Edgerton and Ella Elliott, buck and wing and wooden shoe dancers; little Flo Russell, the Ginger Gal, is as hot as they come. Will Goff Kennedy, stage manager, stage manager, deserves much credit. Prof. R. J. Anderson, alias Capt. Dickey, has a superb concert band of twelve, also, and their parade is a grand one, headed by W. A. Baynard and Chas. Ost. This company is now on foot and making a great addition to this great amusement enterprise and will soon be a red hot company. Good musicians and novelty men wanted, those who double B. and O. and B. and S. Write good home for good people. Salary sure. Travel in our own train of Pullman palace cars. Accommodations best money can procure. State all in first letter. Boozeheads and disorganizers save stamps; all musicians write or wire at once to Prof. Eph Williams, care Famous Troubadours FCo. No. 1, as per route. The secret of success of Prof. Eph Eph Williams big enterprise is doing what's right, come what may. Don't stray or wander, but follow the show that never closes; five years old and getting older; started with one and now have three since 1907. WANTED—A REAL NEGRO DRAMA. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 21, 1911. To the Editor of The Freeman: Dear Sir—I saw in your paper a few days ago that the colored people of the South are crying for a man to come through there with a real negro drama, something that the race has been waiting on for the last thirty years. Now I want you to let them know through your paper that while they are being told by the white people that the negro cannot have a drama written on their race for the lack of history, I am sitting through long hours at night to prove to them that their statement is untrue, and the task has revealed the coming drama of the age, "Beyond the Nile," which is without burlesque, and, as I hope, I have tried to make it interesting from the start to the finish. It is a three act drama, based on the trouble of a boundary line between two tribes of Africa, with a live stream running through it which is hardly visible until it dawns in the se cond and reaches a climax in the third. Everything goes on well until the boundary question springs up that has been argued for years, about the end of the first act, and there the argument reaches the climax and there the THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER son has been taught to hate his father, and when the son finds out who his real father was by the aid of a soothsayer, he turned on the tribe that he fough for so well and went to his native tribe from which he was captured when a baby, but his eyes were not opened until he had killed his father, who was king of his tribe, in his last battle. There, where the tables where the tables turned in earnest, he took his father's place and battled the tribe to victory, which was never done before, which gives the last act a sensational ending. I expect to have this show on the road in the early winter and it will be well equipped for the travel through the South, and from now on I am going to do my best to keep a show of this kind on the road as long as the people stick to it. If you charge me for putting this article in your paper, you can send me your bill at 4012 State St., Chicago. NOTES FROM THE J. C. O'BRIEN MINSTRELS—EN ROUTE. We played the same day in Eldorado, Kans., with Kannie Robinson's Circus; we visited both shows and met several friends. We gave only one show, and that as a satisfactory one, too we had tented tent, sent tent, and wired walker, was a scream with the town people as well as the visiting performers. Wm. Wyman Niles also received cheers too numerous to mention on her clever sons, Arnts and McDows are still doing nice work. Mw. Iona Murdock is still knocking them cold with the song, "Some of These Days." Miss Mildred Williams is doing nicely, and our orchestra has shown, and lines up as follows: D. H. Hull first violin; C. A. Holloway, second violin; Chauncey Murdock, first cornet; Wm. Mack, second cornet; Robert Freeman, cello Horace Harrison, tom Smith, Willie L. Hollay, and drums. Sloan Edwards, our stage manager, is not feeling well this week. Our genial manager, "Col." J. C. O'Brien, is very much satisfied with his business this season. The whole company joins in ask for help. We are staff of our show: "Col." J. C. O'Brien proprietor; John Sullivan, transportation master and ticket seller; Mrs. J. C. O'Brien, bookkeeper and secretary; Sloan Stages, stage manager; Chus A. Follow, band master; D. R. Hull, orchestra leader. NOTES FROM JOHN EASON BAND AND MINTRELS. With Miller Bros. and Arlington's 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Prof. John Eason has completed a new set of lances that will be published soon. W. Frank Washington, the trombonist, is rendering "Alfa Polka" as a trombone player. As a special feature we have the famous "Unique Four" brass quartette, that is without a doubt the best colored brass quartette in the business. The feature of "Alfa Polka" is the musician Trovatore. We will be seen over the United Eastern vaudeville time this coming winter. The quartette is composed of the upstairs musicians, Herman Foy cornet; E. M. Coulson, Lawson Fines, cornet, and W. Frank Washington, trombone. Billy Nash is still keeping them screaming with his funny netsist, and the Herman Foy netsist, is still making the crowds sit up and take notice with his sensational playing on the cornet. Augustus J. Smith, the well and favorably known performer, auditions for the big vaudeville managers as author sketches. Although he has been working in a quiet way, he is connected with one of the big vaudeville actors as author sketches. The act that has created a sensation in the small-time houses of the East Billy Nash would like to hear from Will Triggs. Prof. L. K. Baker has just imitated the musicals of big animal acts with this show. The bunch sends regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Mr. Geo. V. Connors, our genial side show manager, is as well as the big animal acts with this show. The bunch sends regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Mr. Geo. V. Connors, our genial side show manager, is as well as the big animal acts with this show. The Freeman, realizing that this is the only way he can keep in touch with the colored performer and musician. Rube Johnson, that baritone wonder, is still getting through with his instrument—well, there's nothing to it, that's all. NEW ORPHEUM THEATER, PHILADELPHIA, PA The William Benbow Big Four act from the Sunny South opened here on Monday and entertaining. The members of the act are as follows: Miss Rebecca Kinzey, the black swan, prima donna; "Two-eyed" Diana Landry Benbow, coon, shouter; Wm. Benbow, manager, straight man and producer. They opened with one of the four members, entitled "Sardine," which proved hilarious. Mr. George E. Bundy, general manager of the New Orpheum Theater, acted. This act goes from here to New York. JOHNSON'S THEATORIUM COLUMBIA, S. C. Johnson's Theaterium is still the talk of Columbia, it being the finest theater in South Carolina owned and controlled by the company. The Idaho Kid is taking them off their feet with his funny comedy, buck and wing dancing. The soubrette and comedienne Rosie Grove, with funny sayings, is taking more for more. George Stampa, one of the South's funny singing comedians, is a continuous riot. The funny laughing comedian, Idaho The Sheep Misplacer, is taking more for more. Bert House as the "Meanstom" Coin in Coontown; Kid Jines, as "Lawyer Deborn"; George Stampa, "Judge for a Jay," Idaho The Sheep Misplacer, Riggle House, "Riggle House," Aunt Beckie, the Hoodoo; George Thomas, "Bagville Mike, the Bad Man," Mr. Duke Brine, our professor, is taking more for more. Johnson our manager, wears the golden smile all the time. Get The Freeman at Johnson's Theaterium every Saturday. Harry Brooks, the blackface comedian at the Dixie Theater, is making slurring and talking and featuring his heavy weight lifting and juggling with the audience has been more than pleasurable. This show is under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, and they are make-up artists. The play is entitled "Tickle Breeches." We closed here on the 19th and opened in Hartton, N. C. Monday the 21st of August. THE SMART SET BEGINS SEASON SEPTEMBER 26. "The Smart Set," headed by S. H. Dudley, will inaugurate its regular sea-air show in New York and large cities, and going into the majestic Theater, New York, in the early spring, for its usual New York run. The new show will be held at Dudley for his entertainment this year. THE $10,000 BALLAD SENSATION..... "IF I FORGET" Words by Alfred Anderson—Music by De Koven Thompson The World's Greatest Ballard sung by the World's Greatest Singers. Adapted to all classes of Players and Singers Don't miss the B K & Co. Numbers, they stand in a class of their own "AS LONG AS THE SEA ROLLSON" "SQUAW MAN" "LONGING FOR THE LOVE THAT USED TO BE" "THE SOUL OF LOVE IS THE RED RED ROSE" "SOME ONE, SOME WHERE, SOME DAY" If your dealer cannot supply, send order direct to: Blood, Koehler, & Co., Music Publishers 145 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. is entitled "Doctor Beans from Boston," and it gives phomise of being an entirely different style of play from any other entertainer; in fact, it is called by the author "a pyrotechnical musical melange." Mr. Dudley will be surrounded by a crowd bled under one banner, and the production will be new and alluring in every detail. Will H. Vodery will have charge in the department. Rehearsals are already in progress. BRAZIL, IND. Mr. Hewitt Oglesby, of Indianapolis, and Miss Grace Barnett, a popular young lady of this city, weer united in marriage Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Barnett, in South Depot street. The ceremony took place Aug. 30 at 8 o'clock; was performed by Rev. C. M. Hammond. The bride was neatly dressed in white and carried a bouquet of white carnations and ferns. The groom wore the conventional black. After the ceremony and congratulations a three course dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Oglesby left for Indianapolis, where they will reside. HANDSBORO, MISS. Miss Clara Bell has returned from a stay of several weeks in New Orleans, La...Miss Emma Whittington left Sunday for New Orleans. She was here for a two weeks' visit..Miss Rhodes and Miss Fannie Bailey, of Biloxi, Miss, and her eure Sunday at the installation held at the Second Baptist Church by the K. of P..Dr. D. L. Solomon, T. Reynolds and Richard Fainton are still in New Orleans under care of the doctor..Mr. William Gant has quite a bad cut on his leg. It was done by a miss lick with a foot ax... Mrs. Fannie Riley was here last week with her mother, leaving Sunday for New Orleans...Look out for the grand concert on the 15th and 16th at the Masonic hall, given by the Little Snow Drop Club. There will be some of the latest songs..Last Saturday night there was a great singing contest given by the First Baptist Church, for the purpose of raising money to fix the church. Mrs. E. L. Smith made a hit and was given the prize. Mr. Burton Hart, with that roaring bass voice of his, also made a hit. Mr. Philip King and Joseph Lewis are still in prime. Mr. A. E. Johnson and Work Glens are here to the good. TERRE HAUTE, IND., NEWS. Mrs. Harris, of 2248 Chase street, returned home from Indianapolis on August 28th, from a week's visit. .Mr. William Carter and family, of 1316 S. $13 \frac{1}{2}$ street, have returned home from a two week's visit at Lebanon, Tenn., where his father and sister reside. He left them all enjoying the best of health. Mr. Carter is in the s.ond hand business and makes a specialty of men's suits and ladies' clothing and shoes, and is located at 1316 S. $13 \frac{1}{2}$ street..Mr. and Mrs. with Mr. Edward Mathews, of 2900 N. Wingo of Danville, Ill., are in the city on a visit and stopping with Mr. Edward Mathews of 2900 N. 14th street. .Mrs. Lula Mathews and Miss Marie and Master Granville Mathews are visiting in Chicago, Ill., with relatives. and Master Granville Mathewsdo.u. CHURCH NEWS Rev. Esteel, pastor of the Highland Baptist Church, has returned from the encampment at Indianapolis. During his stay in Indiapolis he preached for the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church. He has now returned home ready for duty. Sunday, Sept. 3, is communion day at Highland Baptist Church. Rev. McCutcheon returned Saturday from Denver, Ind., stopping over in Indianapolis over Sunday. The revival services at Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church, which are being con- baptist Church, which is being conducted by the Rev. J. D. Spurling of Indianapolis, is meeting with great success and is creating a deal of interest. They have full houses every night. The meeting will hold about two weeks. Rev. McCutcheon and wife are expecting to attend the National Baptist Convention next month, which will be held at Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. McCutcheon will be pastor and in the evangelical work this fall and winter. The Colored Y. M. C. A., Chicago: Five stories and fireproof. One hundred sleeping rooms. Bowling alleys. Billiard and pool room. Industrial class room. Club room for boys. Club room for young men. showers. Up-to-date gymnasium. A real swimming tank, regulation. Swinging track, regulation. Large assembly hall. Beautiful restaurant. Model kitchen, sanitary. Besides the above there will be a general office and an office for the physical culture work director, educational work director and for the board of managers. Don't forget the Mid-Summer Reduction. "You can get the Freeman for One Dollar per year until September 1." WANTED! A Neat Sister Team, A Small Stock Company, Good Singer and Dancer. A Good Commedian Yale Air Dome C. A. CHAMBERS Manager Guthrie, Okla. WANTED! Acts, all kinds those having written, write again; good acts indefinite run; waat big feature open new house in Sept. Chorus Girls send Photos, Gao. E. Bunker. Acts, all kinds those have written, write again; good acts indefinite run; wan big features New Orpheum Theater, 1838-25 South St. Philadelphia, PA With 40 All Star Performers, in their 2 Palace Cars. Engagements open at all times for first class musicians and performers, male and female. Continu jumpers and boozers save stamps. Douglass & Worthey, sole owners, Fourth street, Macon, Ga Temple Theater October 1, 1911. Located Absolutely Fire Proof. K. of P. Temple New Orleans, La. TED! felty acts of recognized ability auditorium Theatre, South Street For Rent or Lease season beginning October 1, 1911. Located in the $200,000 Pythian Temple. Absolutely Fire Proof. Apply Manager 305-6 K. of P. Temple S, W. GREEN, Chairman, New Orleans, La. WANTED! First class acts of all kinds. Good novelty acts of recognized ability Address JOHN T. GIBSON, Prop Auditorium Theatre, South Street above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. Phone Douglass 4482 Automatic phone 71001 THE LA VERDO CAFE AND BUFFET (CAFE NEWLY OPENED) 3100-2 State Street, Chicago, Ill TABLE DE HOTE SERVED FROM 5 TO 8 P.M. .....HIGH CLASS ENTERTAINERS..... Harry J. Kelly Proprietor WANTED! First Class performers, mail and female singers and dancers, character people, and sister teams doing specialities; plenty of stage room for all acts. Seating capacity 1200; good climate, healthful water, long and pleasant engagement to the right people; Salary $30 and upwards to start with, according to what you do. No transposition or fares advanced to anyone outside of Cuba Boozers, mashers, depe fiends and grafters save stamps. State all in first letter. Addres. Williams & Williams OLEMPIA THEATRE Nueva Gerona Isle of Pines, Cuba W.J. Coming to Your City Soon THE GREAT A. G. ALLEN'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS 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. 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 You Can Play Your Act. From 4 to 5 weeks at the Globe Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. Two Shows Nightly, No Matinees. State all in first letter. Write or wire Frank Crowd, Owner and Manager, Jacksonville, Florida. IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. McGATH. The Hellman Stars of Evansville challenge all comers. L. Williams, sec. retary. 1230 West Franklin street, Evansville, Ind. Edna Grey, of Washington, D. C. Miss Minnie York; Miss Beula V. Kirk; Mrs. B. S. Smith; Mr. Bledsoe DesMoines, Ia.; Mr. Robert Marshal Billy McClain, conductor of a school of boxing and general sport promoter of Brussels, Belgium, is now in Sydney, Australia, where he hopes to have Jack Johnson go against Sam McVey. Opposition to the proposed "fight" between Jack Johnson and England's alleged champion, Bombardier Wells, is increasing to such a degree that the promoters may decide to declare it off. English sporting critics say Wells hasn't had sufficient ring experience to tackle the grinning negozi who stands to draw down $30,000 for his end of this affair—Boston *** London—That Jack Johnson expects a bestie in his coming mill with Bomberwells. Was the statement made to the United Press today by James White, who is promoting the fight. "Johnson is refusing to perform in public in Paris because he is afraid he will show the rotten condition he is in. said White. He originally believed he was going to fight a dub when he met Wells but he realizes the Briton has some class after all. Johnson is trying hard to get out of the fight but I have him heavily bonded and I will compel him to meet Wells." Sam Langford's program before sailing for Australia, where he hopes to get a chance with Jack Johnson, has been completed and includes fights with both fireman Jim Flynn and the big Hoboken black, Joe Jeannette. Sam has licked both, but as he is one of the best drawing cards just now, he and his manager think a couple more knockouts will prove advantageous to him in the antipodes. He sails from Vancouver on October 4. PARIS, August 30.—With his customary disregard of contract requirements, Jack Johnson, the Negro prize-father, refuses to keep the engagements made for his appearance here. The black takes the stand that the contracts having been executed in England, cannot be enforced and that he is here on a pleasure trip. Manager Brown, of the local music hall where he was to appear, left today for London to get Hugh McIntosh and the managers of the syndicate arranging the Wells-Johnson fight to use their influence to have Johnson appear. The Negro is deluged with invitations from the "popular" resorts in Paris, using him to attend banquets in his honor. Because he is forty pounds over weight and shows no disposition to train, these invitations are withheld by the Negro's manager. The report that the Americans at the hotel where Johnson is stopping here have served notice that they will move if he is allowed to remain, is denied. Johnson's white wife is still being treated for nervous prostration. SPORTING NEWS. Kid Gardner, undisputed colored lightweight champion the world, challenges any legitimate lightweight in the world. Kid Gardner won his title from Congo Kid, July 28, after fifteen rounds of fast boxing, knocking Congo Kid down for the count of eight in the eleventh round and the bell saved Congo in the thirteenth round. Now would be glad to hear from any of your good boys around Indianapolis. We are coming east in the fall unless a match is arranged before that time. ARTHUR A. LUNT, Manager of Kid Gardner. 13 E. Chootaw Ave., McAlester, Okla MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Those seen playing on the tennis court of the Minneapolis Racquet Club Monday, Aug. 22, were: Miss Alice Marshall; Miss Sadie Marshall; Miss $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. END NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. 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Just drop me a line like this: Dr. Robinson, $331 Luck Building, Detroit, MN, and will send you a copy of this spandrel receipt to a plaininary envelope free, charge any doctor who would charge $3.00 for or merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. Edna Grey, of Washington, D. C.; Miss Minnie York; Miss Beula Van Kirk; Mrs. B. S. Smith; Mr. Bledsoe; DesMoines, Ia.; Mr. Robert Marshall; Mr. Leen Minor, St. Louis; Dr. J. L Gentry, St. Louis; Mr. Carroll Brown; Mr. J. D. Person. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS GIANTS BASEBALL TEAM. Two years ago, when baseball was emerging from the field of darkness into the dim light of athletic fame, the present St. Louis Giants baseball team sprang into existence. At that time baseball was something new to the Negroes of St. Louis and hardly 100 patrons attended the games. Players would receive about 50c. or 60c. each for their share of the gate receipts. Their baseball uniform consisted of different colors, cheap material—every man wearing a different suit and stockings of a different type, therefore presenting a grotesque appearance. Suddenly athletic fame took a rise in the minds of the people of St. Louis, and under the leadership of Mr. Chas. A. Mills and other distinguished colored gentlemen, took possession of the famous St. Louis Giants baseball team. Inch by inch these people fought their way through obstacles. They were the type of men who had that invincible determination; they were the type of men that put heart, soul, zeal and inspiration into their work and made it the pride of their lives. Enthusiasm was another important factor in the rise and progress of the St. Louis Giants. To be enthusiastic is to be keenly alive. These distinguished colored gentlemen forgot those obstacles and difficulties behind them, but they reached forth unto the successful things before them. Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. On and on, the St. Louis Giants plugged along, playing ball in most any park that would receive them, and finally a kind hearted, self-sacrificing gentleman, Mr. Timothy Kavanaugh, opened his heart and leased them Athletic park. So, marvel not when I tell you that baseball among the Negroes of St. Louis has worked up to such a pitch that one may easily see from 1,000 to 4,000 people attend a game. At that time, the year of 1909, the St. Louis Giants did not have the best type of Negro ball players, but like all other businesses starting in life, they had to crawl before they could walk. Thinning out, one by one, the weak places on the team, as a farmer thins his corn in the spring time, they now have as good baseball athletes as ever trod Amrican soil. In just two years of hard struggle the St. Louis Giants have fought their way to the front and now stand hand in hand with their white rivals, and possess all the modern equipments that belong to a baseball team. Today we have at the head of the St. Louis Giants association three distinguished gentlemen who are hard, energetic workers and able to overcome all obstacles that may confront them in this line of work. In person I refer to Messrs, Warrington, Mills and Jackson. They are the type of men that will promote this branch of athletics and place baseball on a higher pinnacle before the Negroes of America. Beginning with March 1, 1911, the present St. Louis Giants started on their successful training through the South land, winning every game except one, for one month and a half. While the St. Louis Giants were cutting down their antagonists day after lay, month after month, in and around Mound City, Messrs. Warrington, Mills and Jackson were preparing an invasion in the east for the month of August, cutting down nite Kansas City boys three consecutive games, and returning to their homes to bid their friends adieu, they started on their eastern invasion. A shadow of darkness was thrown over the countenance of the St. Louis Giants and his eastern admirers when fate made it impossible for our beloved treasurer, Mr. Ollie Jackson, to make the trip, owing to an accident. The road was difficult and taxing at first to the St. Louis Giants, but what cared they about difficulties? They had longed to leave a record in the east in baseball that would make for themselves a monument that would reach the sky. Their fame had fast been spreading, not only in the State of Missouri, but in the States of New York and New Jersey. Napoleon developed the qualities of a great general by fighting little battles and big battles and by meeting reverses as well as victories; so did the mighty Troians of St. Louis develop a great baseball machine by doing likewise. It resembled a convention in New York, more than it did the meeting of two baseball teams. Everything was arrayed in gay colors and everything in readiness to meet the mighty St. Louis Giants. A missing bolt in this mighty baseball machine was replaced by Tullie McAdoo, who succeeded H. P. Warmack, the former St. Louis Giants first baseman, who had to retire from the game on account of poor health. A benefit game will be played by the St. Louis Giants for his heroic deeds in many battles. Under the leadership of Captain Felix Wallace, the peerless leader of this mighty aggregation, headed by Messrs. Warrington and Mills, they started on their eastern invasion. These mighty athletes had a burning THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER desire and an unconquerable ambition to meet the champion Negro baseball team of the east, the Lincoln Giants. It would take the master pen of Washington Irving to describe the scenes at the ball park at New York during the series of games. So jubilant were they. Although losing the series of games to the Lincoln Giants, the St. Louis Giants bore the laurels of being the first Negro team to defeat them on their home grounds in America. The article of baseball displayed by the St. Louis Giants while in New York and New Jersey has won the admiration of the baseball fans out east. From New York, the St. Louis Giants tackled the Atlantic City League club in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It was a contest that was thrilling from beginning to end. It was a defeat for the Trojans of St. Louis, but not an overwhelming defeat. The result was Atlantic City 1, St. Louis Giants, 0; indicating that the St. Louis Giants can hold their own anywhere on the American soil. Never was a Negro baseball club went east with such splendor and style as the St. Louis Giants. Leaving St. Louis in a private car and being well equipped with two sets of first class baseball uniforms. The showing of these noble athletes on their eastern trip will forever be stamped on the minds of Negro baseball promoters. Think how pleasant it will in after years for them to look back upon their struggles and realize that they overco me many obstacles without a whimper and think how much confidence it will give them for the text difficulties in life. To the chief executives, holding offices in the St. Louis Giants Association, may your future years be pleasant, profitable and entertaining. H. P. Warmack. NEGRO FIGHTERS IN THE OLD WORLD. McClain and McVea Off for Australia —Jack Johnson to Meet Sam McVea in Sydney, December 25. By Billy, Indianapolis. Billy McClain's European special is in and as usual giving me a good time at working out. Well, McClain is an important personage in European sports, and he is given the most attention given him. One would think, however, by the way he tells it, that he is the whole show—the pugilistic colossus, all others passing "atwesen" his legs. But he sends in passersby, and adds that, full of information, I have concluded to play commentator to Billy McClain. Not hardly in the sense of Boswell to Johnson that famous pair of literati, but simply to make plainer McClain's truths, and with a little elaboration now and then. Rostand, the French writer, would say, "embroider it," rather than elaborate it, "enchrench it," but surely the fairly simple thing but it is uttered in a gayer mood. Upholemy Englishers would hardly grow so pleasurably explicit Billy makes it known that he was as busy as a cranberry merchant before he was off for Australia where big things are to happen in the realm of pugilism. He talks about to some friends just as if they were five cent pieces of Uncle Sam's coin. "My old friends Charley and Mamie Walker, known as Walker and May, to Bale Davis, Hampton and Bauman and said goodbye your daddy Bill is off. We are taking two motor cars with us." The persons named are well-known colored stage people doing Europe, like Johnson, long unemployed. Speaking of Johnson, McClain says that he sails for Australia in October. He doesn't mention the set for September 29th. McClain's headquarters will be at the Tivoli Theater, Sydney, where he expects to get the Freeman. Speaking of his getaway, the promoter says: "Men women and children followed us from Sheffield and carpenters from hands on hands out, the girls like to wore our faces out." Growing reflective, he says: "Just entering the Red Sea where Moses was supposed to have smoke the water." Don't like the McClain lack of faith—"supposed to have smoked," he says, in an unthought attack on the Bible goes farther than we often think. At any rate things are transpiring much too rapid for a traveler who expects to take notes by the way, and has smoked by the way that Middle sea, which he should have spoken of first, and which groans with memories leaning with equal love on broad breasted Spain and classic Elk. "The Spanish Gypsy," the grand old lady of the English language, No Red Sea yet, Billy. See old Gibraltar, grim, gray, grizzly, von promontory, England's niche in the side of Spain, even as Moorish land of Ferdinand and Isabella—beautiful Granada thou should have been tolerated! This great boulder, like the ancient catacombs of France, filled not with dead men's bones, but a hive of human life and maintaining the peace of the world. . . . He might have lit in on Corsica if he must talk geography, history and Give us something from Napoleon's land, that prince of world disturbers. And thus, poor Sicily, too, recently in Italy these are worth noting in passing, Yet McClain only mentioned the Red Sea and Moses. He says he has received the Bible from Jerusalem in the road race from Melbourne to Sydney. This must have been a wireless, or perhaps it was forwarded. He says at this point that Johnson will fight McVea on the 29th of December. To use McClain's own language: "If we are successful in beating Johnson, we will win." By the way of America, and ston at the old home town and have one more time." The old home town referred to is Indianapolis. Likeoid Tom Paine, no matter where the Claim may roam there, no one like him will have the pleasure of beholding the globe trotter in event all goes well with him; otherwise we may have to console ourselves as best we may in his absence. We will have to be "white hopes" right along according to Billy. He says: "Sam beat another white hope champion of South Africa here as the South African Lion, the 30 second fighting. The commentator is not going to stand for that thirty seconds. I take the liberty to change the seconds to a little long, but no fight ever took place. The dear reader will at once see the need of a commentator. McClain says again: Then we took on a colored gentleman, then we took on a Langford, who had previous broke him John Lippincott, a winning streak and nobody could stop him. Sam put him down fifteen times in six rounds and then gave him the sleep brought in the first half of the seventh. Theyailed on the 4th, the mighty Sam and Billy McClain, his manager. In closing McClain says: "Give my regards to Bob Cole. Tell him to write that he is out and he must very gry that he is out and he must very recovery. Sorry to hear of Bob Mottz's death, but it is a road that we all have got to see some of it is hurry it along. Regards. Regards. Regards. and tell them if your Daddy Bill clicks look out for some more noise. Thanking anticipation, yours as before, Billy McClain, Tivoli theater, Sydney, Australia." HEILMAN STARS OF EVANSVILLE DEFEATS PROVIDENCE KINGS. EVANSVILLE, IN. — The Heilman Stars Baseball Club (colored), of Evansville, KY, won the Kings, of Providence, KY, in a contested game at the Pottery Park, of Evansville, Ind., last Sunday. The brilliance of the Kings, of Paw, Wm. Morris, and the stick work of Hall Pimp and Blue John caused the Stars to win, of the Kings, Clark and Crouch were Kings Clark and Crouch were the stickers the score: R. H. E. Stars ..... 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 15 Kings ..... 0 0 0 3 2 2 1 2 *-10 15 LOUISVILLE TIGERS WIN. Beat Cincinnati Googles in a Double- Header. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The Louisville Tigers won a double-header last Sunday from the Cincinnati Googles at the Spring Bank Park, by the scores of 15 Series for the Googles, Tibs and Foster, Sanford and Mitchell, Woods and Mitchell; for the Googles, Tibs and Foster, Bussing and Stieger, Score first game; Tigers.....3 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0—3 Googles.....0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0—3 Score second game; ```text account gain Tigers 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0-2 Googles 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0-1 ``` MY RACE. When slavery laws went to destruction By the hands of loyal men. It caused our boys to be ambitious, And struggle hard to make the goal; Prepare themselves for high positions, In this world of sin and gold. To-day you read progressive records, Of our race in the western sphere; Sounding out that mighty echo, That holds the world in a mighty spell. From that day we have been rising, For that highest seat in life; And to great men it is not surprising, For we are heroes in the strife. With bright ideals and friendly wishings, And by word of gods command; We no doubt will head all missions, With thanks to God and good will to men. ITEMS OF RACE INTEREST. The Harriet Tubman Fund is being boomed along by the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs. D. B. Allen, of Newport, R. I., has the leading restaurant in the State for all the people. His patronage is entirely of the richest people in the world—not that he discriminates, but that the rich people just come to his place. *** Dr. Algernon B. Jackson a noted colored surgeon of Philadelphia claims to have discovered a reliable cure for a species of rehumatism and makes a preliminary report of his experiments in a current issue of the New York Medical Journal. * * * In the beautiful city of Buenos Aires is perhaps the only statue in the world erected by white men to a Negro. This is statue of Falucho, a Negro soldier, who refused to haul down the Argentine flag at the bidding of the Spanish soldier, during the first Argentine revolution, and was shot down by the Spanish. The National Negro Press Association, also affiliated with the National Business League, held its annual meeting at Little Rock, Ark. The largest journals of the race, with their editors and managers, were there to show to the journalistic world not only ideas of business, but what the Negro stands for in the press. After two days of laborious work, it was agreed to start a new program for the association. This was done. The officers elected are as follows: M. L. Mewley, of the Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Florida; president; W. E. King, of the Dallas Express, Dallas, Texas, corresponding secretary; Henry A. Boyd, of the Nashville Globe, Nashville, Tenn., recording secretary; L. G. Jordan, of the Foreign Mission Herald, Louisville, Kentucky, treasurer; Fred R. Moore, of the New York Age, New York City, New York, chairman executive committee. Dr. Booker T. Washington at Little Rock: When Dr. Washington appeared on the platform the cheering began. It was renewed again and aagain, when he was introduced by Charles Banks, the presiding officer of the meeting last night, who is also first vice-president of the league. Dr. Washington was introduced as the real leader of the colored people, his policies extolled as those best calculated for the uplift of the Negro, the speaker declaring that time had proven the wisdom of his doctrine. The applause was intense and long when Dr. Washington rose to speak after the introduction by Charles Banks. It was several minutes before he could proceed and during the hour he was speaking he was frequently interrupted by applause. His remarks were reinforced by many sparkling epigrames and anecdotes as he sought to emphasize the advantage and opportunities of the Negro in the south and to cement the friendly relations between the white and colored race. * * * Renova is the name for the proposed new Negro town in Mississippi. It will begin with 132 citizens. The letter to the Governor is as follows: "Renova, Miss., 1911. "To His Excellency, Governor E. H. Noel, Governor of the State of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss." "We, the undersigned resident citizens and legal electors of the unincorporated village of Renova, in Bolivar county, Mississippi, respectfully petition you to incorporate said village. The metes and bounds of said village to be as follows, toit: Specifications, follow. EVERY LADY READ THIS. Years ago, when I was a sufferer, an old nurse told me of a wonderful cure for Lourcornea. Displacement, Painful Periods, Uterine and Ovarian troubles. I cured me in one month. 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Get what you want now at 89c. A heavier weight black peau de cygne from the same maker at 98c. It is worth $1 35 a yard. —Second floor, east aisle. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Driv Goods. CITY AND VICINITY. Miss Maude Baker is improving Miss Maude Baker is improving. Mrs. James Linear is visiting in Chicago. Mrs. Winburn has returned from Loganport. Mr. Harvey E. Johnson spent Sunday in Chicago. Mrs. E. C. Knox is visiting relatives in Versailles, Ky. Mrs. James Nicholson is spending a few days in Peru. Mr. Sheppard Rickman is critically ill at the city hospital. Misses Ada Howard and Julia Johnson are visiting in Muncie. Mr. Harry Speights is slowly improving at the city hospital. Mr. E. J. Pickard, a native of New Mexico, is in the city indefinitely. Mrs. James Hansbury, of Marion, Ind., is the guest of relatives this week. Mr. Thomas King made a flying trip to St. Louis last week on business. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis are visiting relatives and friends in Dayton, O. Mr. Luela Walker, in Paca street, entertained at the Tuesday afternoon. Dr. E. C. Carter, of Pine Bluff, Ark, passed through the city the first of the week. Messrs. George Banks and Martin Rice, of Louisville, Ky., spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. Katie Emerson departed Wednesday morning for New York City, as her future husband last week. Mr. William Green, a favorite tenor singer of Chicago, is in the city for several days. Mrs. Lula Glass will return to the city Monday after spending the summer at Culver, Ind. O'%er John Geary and Tom Gales, the minstrel, of Cincinnati, O., were Freeman ballerds last week. The Young Adder' Club will meet with Miss Pearl Willis, in Fayette street, Thursday evening. Miss Ethel Mosby has returned to her home in Denver, Colo., after spending several wees ikn this city. Mr. Hugh Morgan was buried from his home in minin street, last Saturday. He had been a teacher. Miss Myrtle Cox left Monday for Cane Springs, Ky., where she will enter Eckstein Norton University. Miss Jessie Davis is at home after spending several months in the West, and is much benefited in health. Mrs. George Davis, in Camp street, entertained a number of ladies Friday after spending a pink tea party. Mrs. Carrie Mosby has returned to street, entertained the White Rose and Blue Ribbon club Thursday afternoon. Harris, Ernest Mack, in Yandes street, houses house 6012. Mrs. Claude Mack, Claude Mack, Washington, D. C. The funeral services of John Hamilton were held from the family residence in Douglas street, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Locke, after a pleasant week's stay in the city, returned to his home in New York Tuesday. Mr. Albert Morris was slightly jured from a fall last week, but is yet confined to his home in Minerva street. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Welch have departed for Crabb Orchard and Levington, Ky. They anticipate touring Kentucky. Mr. F. B. H Club will meet on Wednesday evening at the residence of Mrs. Franklin Gowan, in West North street. Mrs. Hattie Cole, of Cincinnati, who has been visiting in this city for two weeks, left Saturday for Chicago for an interview. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Faulkner, of Danville, IL, were pleasant guests in the city last week. Mr. Faulkner is well known in real estate circles. Mrs. M. T. Martin, wife of Prof. M. T. Martin, will join her husband in Flemestown on Saturday and resume their positions as school teacher. Mr. James Price, a popular chaffieur, after a successful tour in Eastern sec- FEVER DESTROYED HER HAIR Two years ago I had fever which took out all my hair, I used your Pomade and now have a nice head of hair, long and thick. I owe it to your Pomade, writes Mrs. L. Garrett, 3619 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Ford's Hair Pomade is the old time tried remedy for harsh and unruly hair, that has been giving satisfaction for over fifty years. 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Mrs. Irene Downs, in Douglass street, Nashville, will attend a noon in honor of Meidames Eliza Stepp of Chicago, and Hattie Cole, of Cincinnati. Mrs. Hettie Collins and Miss Ella Clarke, of Knoxville, Tenn., are visiting Martha Johnson in West Twelfth street. They will leave Sunday for their home. Mrs. Hannah Levi and son, Lawrence, of Dunkirk, Ind., are the guests of Mrs. Thomas Landrien, of Paca street this week. Mrs. Levi is quite a musician and composer. Master Robert Collins died at his home in West Tenth street, Wednesday morning. The funeral services were held afternoon at Simpson Chapel church. Mr. R. A. Cecil, of Chicago, was in the city the first of the week, shaking hands with friends. He left Wednesday for Hardinsburg, Ky., to visit his mother, who is in the city. Mr. R. Williams and Miss Julia Spencer, of Frankfort, Ky., and Mrs. Russell, of Terre Haute, Ind., were recent visitors of Mrs. Lucy Van Dyke, 444 West Vermont street. Mrs. William Wilson, in West Pratt street, entertained at six o'clock dinner at the home of Mrs. Ella Clarke, of Knoxville, Tennessee. Ten invited guests were present. Mr. W. E. Mollison and daughter, of Vicksburg, Miss., Dr. Furniss and wife, and Editor A. E. Manning were entertained at dinner by Mr. George L. Knox, the Freeman, during the encampment. Mrs. Lulu Woods and daughter of Louisville, Ky., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wooden, 739 Center street, during the week of the K. of P. and Mrs. John A. pleasant stay with friends and relatives they returned to their home last week. Mrs. J. T. V. Hill is indisposed. Mrs. M. W. Hill is in Martindale avenue, had as visitors during the K. of P. encampment: Mrs. G. W. Combs, Mrs. Katie Lane, Mrs. Matilda Williams, Mrs. Helen Henrietta Smith, of Franfoktow, Ky, and Mrs. Ella Peaks, of Levington, Ky. Mrs. Mary Pope Winston, of Chicago, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Williams, who will leave Sunday for Louisville to visit relatives before returning to her home in Chicago. Mrs. Wooden will accompany her to Louisville to visit her niece, Mrs. Lilee Williams, of Louisville, Creek, Ky., and will spend a week there. Prof. T. H. Reynolds, of Anderson, Ind., and last year connected with the A. and B. College, at Normal, Ala., was in city, where he taught music at City, Mo., where he will teach music at the Summer High school. Prof. Reynolds was accompanied by Prof. John Williams, who taught science at the above named school. SECOND SESSION OF THE The second session of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church convened in annual session September 6, in the Cathedral of St. Mary the Apostle Shelby streets, with Bishop G. Blackwell, D. D., LL. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., presiding. The Rev. C. H. Jackson, of Philadelphia, presided over a munion sermon to a large audience, and the bishop and presiding elders gave the sacrament to quite a number of ministers and laymen. The sermon was presided of the following: Chief secretary, Rev. S. T. Davis, DuQuoin; assistant secretary, At- [Name] BISHOP G. L. BLACKWELL. D. D., L. L. D. torney R. L. Brokenburr, DeQuoin; reporter to city papers and star of Zion, R. W. Kellogg. The names of Brothers George Harris, Frank Harris, George Williams and S. S. Green were dropped from the roll for information. The rev. R. B. Colbert, D. D., LL. B, presiding elder of the Louisville District, occupied the pulpit on Wednesday night. The sermon was an excellent production and well delivered. Dr. Colbert is the prominent candidates for bishop in 1812. Welcome addresses were delivered by Miss R. Jones, Miss Hazel Steward and Attorney W. E. Hardison, Attorney W. E. Hardison. The dual anniversary of the bishop Thursday night; the splendid program by the women Friday night; Grand Star concert and the reading of the appointments at a high Sunday are features of the conference. The public in general is invited to attend each session and help us in our attempt to have this one eclipse all its predecessors. REPORTER MADAM McNAIRDEE'S GUESTS DURING THE ENCAMPMENT Madam McNairdeen entertained the following guests during the K. of P. encampment. Mr. and Mrs. W. Lloyd, M. and C. R. Sherman, Iso. mo; Dr. A. N. Prince, Sherman, Tex. Mr, and Mrs. L. M. Mitchell, Austin, Tex.; O. C. Crook, Fort Worth, Tex.; J. M. McPherson, Jaimesville, Tex.; J. M. Frierson, Jaimesville, Tex.; D. E. Davis, Calvert, Tex.; Col. John R. Marshall, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. A. D. Key, Greenville, Tex.; James Lanford, Syracuse, N. Y.; and D. F. Feresett, N. Y.; Mrs. D. F. Feresett, Miss Lizzie Jones, Decatur, Ill.; also headquarters of delegation from Tex. her guests declared themselves highly entertained by the Madam, being in every way provided with her hospitality. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Plans for the fall and winter work in the Young Men's Christian Association, are being accomplished and the greatest work being accomplished by this organization will be eclipsed. The Bible school will be exceptionally large and will be open to who wish to put some time and thought into the study of this great book. A course, "The Will of God and a man's mission," will be presented, and will be open to any man. Courses of the gymnasium for men and boys will be taught under competent teachers. The gymnasium classes for seniors THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. will be conducted at the K of P hall, will be conducted at the K of P hall, will be promised to surpass any previous year. The Boy Scouts are progressing nicely. The men are being accomplished among the boys. There is room for a few more boys. The preliminary work of the building can be done by the boys, everything promises to be a big success. Indianapolis will soon be put on trial. Let us test such as never before. Let us together in Indianapolis, a united Indianapolis can do anything it wishes, a diary of things can do nothing. Let us get together. H. T. LAUREY, CHEF. Cef. H. T. Laurey, No. 835 North California street, had charge of the big dining hall and kitchen at the K. of Pincampment at the State Fair Grounds, which was occupied every day, and which was accepted by the master General Nevill, of Pittsburgh M. who said that the meals served were the best of all the encampments. The K. of P.'s consumed 75 gallons of coffee, 5 barrels of potatoes, 4 barrels of cabbage, 5 bushels of tomatoes and oak leaves. The Odd Fellows, Mr. Laurie is negotiating with the white Odd Fellows for similar service during their encampment here this week. RAIN AND CRIMPY WEATHER ARE NOW HERE Reaching the Masses of the Race Ad vised—Too Much Cash Spent on Pleasure. ADDYSTON OHIO Special to THE FREEMAN Members of Rev. S. D. Sanders' congregation and church goers enjoyed a spiritual Sabbath Sunday. At 11 a. m., members of the congregation and covenant meeting was held, and at 7:30 p. m., a short interesting sermon was delivered by the pastor and communion minister. At 11 a. m., Pillow gave a midsummer residence at the residence Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. William Brooks, of Wilmington, O. Carolina, of Knights were served and a pleasure evening was held atent were Mr. and Mrs. William Williams, Mr. and Mrs. James Robinson, Mrs. Haggag, Mr. and Mrs. William Brooks, Mr. and John Mart, Mrs. Henry Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Galines. . . . The first anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. S. D. Sanders, of Wilmington, O. Carolina, of Knights were Rev. S. D. Sanders and Rev. W. E. Payne read a paper and Rev. E. Payne read a paper and Rev. Mrs. M. J. Brannon will serve as master of ceremonies...Mrs. John Vaughn, of College Heights...Mrs. relatives ...Sam Utz was injured at the Grand coal works Saturday. SUPREME CHANCELLOR GREEN AT FRENCH LICK Special to THE FREEMAN MADAME WALKER ENTERTAINS Madame C. J. Walker entertained Sunday in honor of her guest, Mrs. Mary Miller of Vicksburg, Miss. Those present were Mrs. Mary Hicks and Miss Alice Kelly of Louisville, Ky; Miss Jennie Porter and Sir Jones of Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. McCarthar of Chicago. Mrs. Miller left Tuesday to continue her visit to her son and will visit friends in Memphis on her return home. THE WILKERSON HOTEL. Phone New 4687. European plan cafe phone 212-262-2622. European plan stopping on American plan. Our motto: Good service, moderate prices. James. F. Wilkerson, prop., 815 N. Senate Ave. FOR RAGE LOVERS: DUNBAR POSTER, in red, brown and gold, sent to any address for 25 cents. Address Blaine Gray, 514 Alfred street, Detroit, Mich. Live agents' sample, 10c. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE State of Indiana, Marion county, ss: In the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana. No. 20473. Job B. Reynolds vs. Anna E. Reynolds. Complaint, divorce. Be it known, that on the 29th day of August, 1911, the above named plaintiff, a tornee filed in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendant, Anna E. Reynolds, and the said plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's office, a tornee filed in the office of the son, showing that said defendant, Anna E. Reynolds, is not a resident of the State of Indiana, that said cause is for divorce; and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint filed in said court, and answer or demur thereto on the 25th day of October, 1911. Now therefore, by order of said court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and penalty for the breach of the court that unless she appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 25th day of October, 1911, the same being the 21st judicial day of a form of said complaint to be begun and held at the Court House in Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in October, 1911, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged will be heard and determined in her absence. JOHN RAUCH, Clerk. Isaac L. Wiseman, Attorney for Plaintiff. BUSINESS LOCALS. Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blaudos's Drug Store. WANTED—A position as general assistant in hair store. Can weave very nicely. Address M. L. Mills, No. 305 North Walnut street, Brazil, Ind. Mr. James Sulinger plays his part as a Comedian, wants a job and is willing to play his part with any company. Address. M. James Sulinger. 616 Plum St. Owatonna, Ky When in Champaign, if you want something to eat and plenty of food, you want to eat and plenty, something good and clean, and more of it, stop at 77 East Main street. O. E. Kee, proprietor and manager. Consult Madam Walker, natural-born spiritualist-medium. Tells you every detail of her wonderful spiritual power, which others profess to have. Readings at all hours. Located at 415 West Fifteenth street, Indianapolis, Ind. Special reading: 25 cents, and 50 cents for one month. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R. P. Blodau, drug-gist, Indianapolis, Ind. FOR RENT—Elegantly furnished rooms, steam heat, electric lights, baths and telephones. Mrs. Lucy Van Dyke, 444 West Vermont street. FOR RENT—Rooms, modern, 231 West Eleventh street. COLORED TAILOR WANTED—Write Wiley, 1008 Center, Des Moines, Ia. FOR SALE—Airdome, colored neighborhood; good proposition. Address X, care Freeman. The neatest and most up to date BARBER SHOP in Henderson, Ky., is at 718 Dixon St GEO. W. HATCHET, Prop. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gloet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Pennsylvania LINES EXCURSION SUNDAY, SEPT. 10 $1.65 Louisville Ky. 45° Franklin $1.10 Seymour 70° Edinburg $1.40 Crothersville 85° Columbus $1.40 Scottsburg Leave Indianapolis 7 a.m. --- STYLES THAT SET THE PACE Make Your Selections Now Before Sizes are Broken. HUTCHINSON'S 28 North Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis CLARIE ROLLER MILLS VAMCV ANCHOR FLOUR WM. ROUSE & SON INDIANAPOLIS, IN 617-232-3222 Power and Strength abide in the reserve of life, in the things we do not spend. The savings of part of your weekly or monthly income with this STRONG COMPANY will create a reserve fund for your future use and comfort. Today is the time to start saving. Your account, large or small, welcome. The Indiana Trust Co. A home for savings Sisters of Charity State Hospital The only Modern Hospital owned and operated by colored people in the State of Indiana-In connection with the Hospital there is a training school with a three (3) years course. Wanted-Young women with good education, moral character to enter training school. For particulars apply to President of the Hospital. Mrs. Malinda Thomas. 1502 N. Missouri St., Indianapolis A Nice Little Gas Range for small kitchens The Vulcan Junior Only $11.00 CONNECTED FREE You can pay for it in easy installments of $2 down and $1 per month Only $9.90 for cash This fine little Cooking Stove has three top burners and an oven for baking and broiling. It will do your broiling, baking, roasting and every kind of boiling, simmering and cooking, just the same as the larger Gas Ranges. Come and see it at the office of The Indianapolis Gas Co. 49 South Penna, St BI MELANGE FUENTE Cooks' Pride! It makes the wholesome loaf. Include it in your next order, you can not go amiss. Mill Cor. Washington and Davidson Sta. Elevator 142-144 S. Alabama St. Tel. Mills Prospect, 3270; New, phone 1771-K. Elevat- tor, both phones 90. Wm. Rouse & Son Indianapolis and Strength in the things we do not spend. The okly or monthly income with this or future use and comfort. Today is the time large or small, welcome. Just Co. A home for savings Surplus is pledged to you to protect your deposit. CAROLINA MAYER The Freeman Supplement A Glance on the Progress of Springfield, O. A View of the Rising Negroes in Springfield Ohio, who are making good in their different Professions and Vocations. One of the most thriving and progressive cities in western Ohio is Springfield. This is not only the city from an industrial, financial and commercial but, it is also true when we consider the marvelous advancement population which is estimated to be about seven-third of the entire population of the city. This city is a boast of a population of about 50,000 of a population of to say there is a 7,500 Negraska City. The center of the iron industry of this section, and for this reason it is a very acceptable place the migratory element of our race, who is always seeking, his condition is numerous iron manufacturing establishments here that year around. In these shops the colored man is embodying the colors of his white hair and given wages communicate with his ability without abundance of work and the good paid therefore, the colored man in this section are optionally industrious and wealth it being said that about one-third of the resident families here own their own homes or are here for them and there are Negroses in all industries of industry and business. Hotels, restaurants, barber shops, grocers, printing offices, also the real estate and insurance business, represent the Neogreens own Y. M. C. A. building, have six large churches, three of which are fully paid for; they have four colored play cards, each of them one colored lawyer, or one other one colored lawyer, that the readers of the Free-learning man may be given an opportunity of what part the colored man in this section is playing in, in which he lives in the commercial, industrial and educational advancement of its many enterprises, we are giving below a general synopsis of the men and measures which are contributing most to that Mrs. Henry Linden. One of the really useful, unselfish, active women of our race is Mrs. Henry Linden. Quoting from her own poem: "You may find her busy in public and in home, work and club work she can plainly be seen." in hearing her children each good mother a queen, "oh, blessed woman." It is her inspiration to talk to this great and good woman, whose life in her community is like a gem set in a jewel. For years she has been identified with church work, W. C. T. U. and relied on her for her work. She is acknowledged to be the strongest worker in Springfield. She is president of the W. C. T. U. of the whole county, having held the position two years, being a member of the Women's Club and women in the city and county ```markdown ``` unanimously the second time. Her work brings her into direct relation with the children she cares for four years ago she started the Golden Lodge, a rescue home for young women and girls who chance to come out home or friends. During that time young women have been saved and, today living honorable lives, most of them have been respectable families. Mrs. Linden's volume of beautiful poems from which she writer takes the little quotation above all of the book is *Scrap of Time Poems*. Dr. Richard E. Peteferd. A native of Ohio, graduated from the public schools of Freemont, Ohio, and from Ohio Medical University in 1906; married, 1907, to Miss Grace Simpson, of Columbus. He is an active member of the M. E. Church and trustee of Wiley He was G. R. of his lodge, K. of P., and is bridegale sergeant of the Uniform tank, K. of P., of Ohio, and at the national encampment last week was one of the sergeants who had charge of the hospital and who received great praise for excellent work. He was G. R. of his lodge, K. of P., and is bridegale sergeant of the Uniform tank, K. of P., of Ohio, and at the national encampment last week was one of the sergeants who had charge of the hospital and who received great praise for excellent work. Charles Lester Johnson Mr. Johnson was 16 years old when he came to Springfield, in 1893, from Virginia, his native State. Up to that age he had a farmer boy, thus laying a heaped heap of physical and to that kind furnished for the useful life which he is now living. He was always kind of an apt boy and was usually able to take care of himself. His first job here was in the office of a doctor, for he had planned to take a medical course and become a physician. After six years here he was employed by Mr. Baker, a very wealthy manufacturer, who recognized in young Johnson universities superior to those of the usual run of colored youths, and in a short time he offered Mr. Johnson the superintendency of his factory, the Champion Chem-works, which he had been operated and managed exclusively by white employees. The factory was turned over to his management, and the work was divided among white and black workers, and a risky experiment, as was thought; but for fifteen years this institution has gradually grown in efficiency, capacity and output, until today it is the largest employer in the city, and there are more than eighty-five men under Mr. Johnson's direct supervision, and [Name] it is a signal fact that more colored men work in this factory than in any other in this part of the country. He is the owner of the Johnson's work and influence many colored people have been given employment in other places hitherto closed to us. The output of this employment yields more $400 per year, and he has absolute control of all the production, as well as the purchasing of all materials, machinery, furnishings, etc., and the production of his efficiency, he has the rare record of having never received a criticism, correction or compliment from the company for anything he does or has done. Mr. Johnson has a friendliness of disposition and simplicity of manner that easily wins a stranger to his confidence. He is a very active participant in visions to reveal the bigness of heart and generosity of his spirit. He is president of the Y. M. C. A., treasurer of the company to give a live participant in whatever is clearly for the interest of his country and people. Sully Jaymes. Mr. Jaymes is a product of Massachusetts, where he was educated. He studied law for two years at the Boston University and later entered the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1801, with credit to himself and the profession. The next year he came to Springfield, where he has built up a good practice, having tried successes in the greatest murders of this State. Mr. Jaymes' work as barrister has [Picture of a man in a suit with a white shirt and a black tie]. been singularly conspicuous, being the only colored lawyer in this county, and during the trials of the two lynchings cases he was retained as counsel for the defendants. When he gets behind a case, he never leaves it. His means has been made use of in his efforts to win his case. His advice is sought upon all kinds of legal matters. He is an active member of the K. of P. and B. P. O. E., having served two years as the Grand Attorney for the latter. He has a pleasant and accomplished George Henry Lewis. Mr. Lewis has been one of Springfield's prominent citizens for nearly a quarter of a century, having come here from his birthplace in Adams county, Ohio. He was actively engaged in the catering business for twelve years, after college, and served as a member of the Country Club. Since February, 1909, he has been in the grocery business. As a man who has known no easy way to success, but through his own effort, he has been a man of great INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1911. 1001 emplary character. The use of intoxicants or tobacco he has never known, and as a citizen for common welfare he stands in the foreground. Mr. Lewis was a charter member of [Name] the central Y. M. C. A. and a faithful member and clerk of the Allen A. M. E. Church for over twenty years. He was a Miss Clara Black, a teacher in the Bloomington, The house is a two-story brick building with a large front porch. It has a pitched roof and a chimney. The front porch has a railing and a bench. The house is surrounded by a tree-lined street. Ind., schools. She having died, he was married again in 1906 to his present wife, Miss Lena Cooley, formerly of Jackson, Ohio. He married Mr. Lewis always voted the Republican ticket and was actively engaged in politics prior to three years ago. He also held membership in Champion Lodge of G. U. O. F. for five years, and in Chas. L. Johnson in and manager of an up-to-date grocery in Euclid avenue. Walter Raymond Burden. This city has no more useful young man than Mr. Burden. He possesses to the character Christian fortitude. His care attentive with social and religious work among the young people of his neighborhood has exceeded powerful influence which he freely admires, which fit him eminently for the work he has taken up. This move has assumes full charge as authority of the Central Y' M. C. in preparation for which he has taken special work at Arundel-on-the-Bay. Md., where he attended in June the Secretorial Institute. Since then he has visited nearly every colored Y. M. C. A. of the East and South. He is only 28 years old, and is a native of Connecticut where he attended school. In 1901 he went to Detroit, where he first began the preparation for Y. M. C. Carnegie, a professor at the Stein Norton Institute. He graduated from Wilberforce last June. He is destined to become one of the leading stars of Y. M. C. A. work of the United States. Capt. Chas. E. Prve. A native and product of Springfield is the character of this sketch, born November 30, 1879, and since residing here. His educational advantages were limited, having had but two years in the high school here, and having been self-supporting since the age of 16. He was a member of the family in 1898 he enlisted in the Ninth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry^a, and as as first sergeant was sent to Camp Bushnell. He afterward enlisted in the Ohio National American War, and on returning home, WAS^b. [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. first lieutenant. The third and recent enlistment finds him captain of Company A. Ninth Infantry, stationed in New York. He was married in 1900 to Miss Martha Redder, of this city, and they the proud parents of two girls. They 8094 ROBERT G. WALKER'S RESIDENCE. own their own home and other property. As an artisan Mr. Frye has been an mason contractor for over six years. The Second Baptist Church claims his membership as treasurer, chorister, Sunday school teacher and president of the Improvement Club. He is also a member of the K. of R. Edward A. Isley. Mr. Isley is joint owner with his mother, Mrs. Martha Isley, of the Washington Hotel, the only really first-class hotel among us in Ohio. It is a large two-story house and has sixteen rooms, with many modern conveniences, such as two baths, electric lights, gas two telephones, etc. It is located at Whitehall, near the city, a very short distance from the stations of the Big Four, Pennsylvania and the Zeno traction line. The rooms are almost always occupied by boarders and roomers. 27 Mr. Isley is a young man only 27 years old, but has successfully man- aged this hotel and has succeeded in placing it upon a successful basis. They bought the property two years ago and have made a number of improvements. Young Isley was reared in Springfield and attended the public schools, but was compelled to quit school before graduating. For five years he worked as a carpenter, carppep, where he made a good record, and proved a valuable employee of the firm. Henry Young. For over twenty years Mr. Henry Young has been the efficient head porter at the Arcade Hotel, the largest one in the city, and the work of looking after all the baggage going and coming, for which he receives the remuneration. He owns this large hotel and has given entire satisfaction to both the house and the customers. He meets all avenues to the Union and Pennsylvania stations. More than once others in the transfer business have attempted to get control of this business, but Mr. Young's work is not as successful as the satisfaction and satisfactory to admit of any outing by others. Without doubt he handles all issues during the year than any other transaction, and Mr. Young is a fixture at the Arcade. George Wheeler Fleming. The proprietor of a successful tairol- ling establishment for over fourteen years. His record is one of which no man need feel ashamed. Mr. Fleming was born in Bowling Green, Ky., in 1878, where he remained until 1883. He married Miss Lillhan Smith, the daughter of a prominent mail carrier of that city. He has lived in Springfield for eight years and recently purchased a nice THE HOUSE OF THE FAMILY home on Western and Grand avenues. He has a wife and two children. He is a member of St. John's Baptist Church for many years. He is always found true to his friends, devoted to his family, dutiful to his chosen field of business. Robert Gratton Walker. Hr. Walker is an Ohioan, born in 1860, in the southern part, and attended the public schools of Lancaster, the public schools of Wichita, and apprentices, working for seven years as a carpenter, Kansas' homestead offer claimed his attention for three years, after which he sold and purchased a home in Springfield, Miss Laura Beatty, of Zanesville, be- [Picture of a man in a military uniform]. Mr. Beasley has served faithfully for over eleven years as a poleceman without a reprimand of any sort. Few men can claim a record as clean as his. Two years ago he ferreted out and helped to convict member backhand gang. An officer of Springfield, of age, he attended the public schools after which he worked in a greenhouse. PRICE FIVE CENTS. came his wife, and their one son, a graduate of Springfield High School, is now taking a course in scientific agriculture at the University of Ohio. Mr. Walker for years has ranked among the contractors of Springfield, and regularly joins ten specialists in fine finish work. A record of over 1,000 homes built in this city, of which some are worth more than $20,000, is his. He is ex-president of board of director of Central Y. M. C. A., and is at present chairman of the finance committee. Mr. Walker owns a beautiful home, the picture of which appears above, and many other good rental houses. For ten years he has not sought one contract, but always has more than he can do. Dr. E. W. S. Hammond. D. D.. Ph. D. Dr. E. W. S. Hammond, D. D. Ph. D., was born in Baltimore, Md., educated in the public schools of his native city of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, had hated the city, and in Cincinnati, Paris, Ky., Hardinsburg, Lexington, Ky., Covington, Ky.; editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate; M. D. from Indiana, Ohio and Louisville, elder citizens of the conference; dean of School of Theology at Walden University; received degree of D. D. from New Orleans University, M. D. from Paul Quinn College, Ph. D. from New York University, New Alabama; now pastor of Wiley M. E. Church, Springfield, Ohio, where he is doing a splendid work. He is a financier of skill and high reputation. He is the Christian Advocateate our brother of the Rev. E. W. S. Hammond, holds membership with JOHN H. HARRIS the best in administrative skill in pulpit and platform talent and in private and personal graces, is highly educated, impressive personal skills, is highly educated, broadly informed by study and travel, He is endowed with a voice of marvelous flexibility and pomp, and a vocation singularly akquent in range, taste and artistic painting. He is admired by his own race and commands the respect of all who are willing to recognize true merit. He is a master of the sunlight, that is legible in the twilight, that becomes luminous at night, and whose pages will stand scrutiny when the red glare of judgment will make its chronicles conspicuous. Mrs. Hammond is an accomplished lady, having graduated from New Orleans University, and her elocution, She is a graduate elocutionist of Chicago School of Elocution, also a graduate in music and a pianist of ability. She taught elocution in Waltham six years. They have three children. Wiley M. F. Church. Wiley M. E. Church is one of the oldest and strongest in the Lexington conference. Several of the most eminent preachers of the church have served as pastors. Its most famous is the gressive and wide-wake. It easily leads the conference, in a record which has made it famous among the colored professes. It has an exceptionally proactive board, and this year is proud of character and good financial standing. The Ladies Aid, the Epworth Leagues and stewards are fully up to date and are well balanced in a safe leadership especially high under the pastorate of Dr. Hummond, and will score a great victory for the denomination. The Freeman is on sale in East St. Louis, Ill., at the Tennessee barber shop, E. E. Barnes, proprietor. LISBON BASEY ing, a thirty-second degree Mason and a K. of P. a man well liked by everyone, a man well liked by everyone stands as high before the authorities as anyone connected with the service. A man always attending strictly to his own affairs, yet interested sufficiently in whatever makes for the weal of his community, or redown to the success of