Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIII, No. 43. The Callanan club met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Bowmera on Thirteenth street and were entertained by Mrs. Hattie Adams. The meeting was called to order by the president Mrs. E B. Elliston The members answered to roll call with quotations. A very interesting paper on Dubois and B. T. Washington was read by Mrs G. Williams, and discussed by members, after which a dainty lunch was served by the hostess. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Smith on Eleventh street, April 3. Mrs. Brooks will read a paper on Louisa May Alcott. The Des Moines Negro Lyceum met last Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. G. H. Mason. The subject for the evening, was Sir Walter Scott. The different phases of his life and works were very aly handled by those on programme. Miss Grace Taylor and Mrs. Blanch Washington were elected to membership in the club. The club will have a public meeting Tuesday evening, April 2, at the A M church; admission free. The program will be as follows: Invocation. Piano Solo, Miss Bertha Allen. Original Poem, "Springtime" Mr. J. G. Williams. Debate: Resolved, That the proposed Des Moines Plan of municipal government should be adopted by the people. Affirmative, Mr. Mason Hall, Miss Lettie Carey and Mr. Branham Hyde, Negative, Mr. Earl Lewis, Miss Bertha Allen and Mr. Jesse Graves. Alternates, affirmative Mr. E R. Hall; degative, Mr. H. W. Hughes, Vocal Solo, selected, Mr. G. H. Mason. This will be the first of a series of public programs that are to be given by this society, and its members are looking forward to it with much enthusiasm. Below we give a brief outline of the various programme at our churches Each church will have special music, will also be beautifully decorated with flowers, palms, lilies, etc. Maple Street. The East Side Maple Street Baptist church will have preaching at 11 a.m. by Rev Gross, subject "Resurrection of Christ." At 3 p.m., children's exercises, conducted by Mesdames Wimbush and Hunter. Every one cordially invited. Burns' M. E. At Burns' Episcopal church Rev. Thompson, pastor will preach the Easter sermon. The Sunday School will give a special program to which the public is invited. Union Congregational The Union Congregational church people are planning for a great day Sunday. The morning services will begin promptly on time. 10:30. The choir under charge of E Tray Blagburn, rehearsing and they expect to render some appropriate Easter anthams and solos at a l the regular services. Subject of the morning sermon is "The First Appearance of the Risen Lord to the Eleven." The Sunday School will at the regular hour, 12 o'clock render a very beautiful dialogue, entitled "Her Easter Choice." by ten young girls. The other special will be a quartett composed by the two Mr. Mackeys and their wives; also solos and many recitations and essays by the young children, especially the kindergarten class which is perhaps the largest and finest of colored in the state. CITY NEWS. (N.B. If you have relatives or friends visit in the city or go to make a visit, please inform us, we solicit all your local news - 60. Come and see our large assortments of Easter Hats—Mason the Miliner. Rev. T. L. Griffith made a business call to Colfax this week. Mr. F. G. Goggins is doing well from his operation as we go to press. Miss Quantia Crawley of Cedar Rapids is here visiting at the home of Mrs Julia Taylor and friends. "A stag surprise party was given on Mr Murt Midgett Thursday evening March 21, in honor of his birthday. Everybody present reports a nice time. Mrs. Clifford Williams expects her mother, Mrs Lucy Turner and sister Nina of Birmingham, Ala., to arrive in the city about the 12th of next month. Mr Hayes Bell of Highland Park entertained several of his young gentlemen friends last Sunday. A joly time reported by those present. The Chapier and Commandery men will have charge of the Easter services at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening they will be in full regalia. Everybody invited. Come to the Men's League Sunday and bring your friend, as it is a popular meeting and good speakers from the Iowa Legislature will be present, come early. The M. C. T. Ladies Club met last Wednesday with Mrs. Chrs. Turner and perfected its organization. The next meeting will be held at Mrs. J. L. Thompson 1304 W. Eighteenth street Wednesday. FOR SALE—Four room house; gas, water, sewer, and small barm, 4th and Orvid Sts. Two blocks from street car line Highland Park. Will sell cheap on small monthly payments. Dr. Lew Arntz, Opposite Street Car room. The David and Johnathan League of the Union Congregational church will have a popular meeting Sunday March 31st at 3:30 p. M. The public is invited Address by Senator E P. McManus of Lee County and Senator E. G. More of Wapello County. Professor J. C. Leftwich President of the Creek-Seminole College and agriculture Institute of Boley Indian Territory arrived in the city Tuesday to work in the interest of his institution as while. He comes well recommended and adds to be a man of culture and refinement. We will speak more about his work next week. Great bargain in House and Lot at 1815 E Vine street Large lot with lots of bearing fruit trees, five room house, nice neighborhood. Will sell cheap on monthly payments of $10.00 to anybody, regardless of color or nationality. Dr Lew Arntz, Opposite street car depot. The Alpha Club met Sunday at 4:00 p.m. with the President Mr Elbert R. Hall at his home 130 E. Locust street. This club was recently organized and the business of the meeting was to adopt a Constitution and By-laws and to perfect a permanent organization. The membership of this club is limited to twelve unmarried men between the age of 21 and 35 years; there object is to improve the members along, moral, intellectual, social and physical lines. The Intellectual-Improvement Club met last Friday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. J. H. Woods with Mrs. Claude Harris as hostess, a paper on "In what way can our women assist in elevating our race? was read by Mrs. Junetta Leffler. A dainty repast was served by the hostess, assisted by her little daughter Madonna. The club adjourned to meet this afternoon with Mrs. Junetta Leffler at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Fields 700 Oak street with the following programme; biography of Toussaint L. Overature by Mrs. Claude Harris, select reading by Mrs. H. W. Hughes. Agents Wanted to handle my Toilet Articles. Write Hattie J. Toliver, 1813% 2nd avenue, Rock Island, Ill. Now is the time to LEARN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Better join Miss Bertha Allen's Class of 1907. Terma Reasonable. For full particulars call or write me at 1215 Park street. Des Moines, Iowa. Go to Mason, the Milliner, for Eastern Hats at the lowest prices. Miss Minaie E. Hair entertained several of her lady friends last Friday afternoon at her none. 1012 W. Second street, quite a number were present and a good time reported. The ladies present organized a social and literary club to be known as the Mary Church Terrell Club, and its future outlook is good. The officers elected are President, Mrs. J. L. Thompson; Visse-president, Mrs. E. M. Mackay; Secretary, Mrs. H. W. Hughes; Treasurer, Mrs. Ghas. Turner. The Intellectual Improvement Club met last week with Miss Mary Montague at 1317 Day street. An address by the president Mrs. S. Joe Brown on Social Purity, Mrs. Chas. Cousin read a biography of Catherine Ferguson the Negro Philthropist, and Miss Martha Leffer the secretary read an original poem entitled A longing for Childhood, after which a dainty repast was served by the hostess. The club meets Thursday with Mrs. J. H. Woods 1064 park street Mr Lee E Greenway, an instructor on the mandolin, guitar, trombone, mandola and cello, of Muscatine, Iowa and Miss Marguerite Fields, a vocalist and pianist of this city will appear in a violin cello and vocal recital on Friday evening April 12, at the A. M. E. church. Watch for announcement in our next issue. Invocation. Piano Solo. Miss Bertha Allen. WITH OUR CHURCHES EASTER SUNDAY. Maple Street. Burns' M. E. Union Congregational In the afternoon the Men'n League plans a popular meeting. Hon. N. E. Kendall, and Senator Saunders of Council Bluffs will address the meeting. Evening meeting at 7:45, subject, "Our Resurrection." Rev H. W. Porter, pastor. Corinthian. The Corinthian Baptist church will be nicely decorated with flowers, etc. The morning sermon will be "The Resurrection." The choir will render some special Easter music. The Sunday School is planning a good programme and many of the families are contemplating bringing their dinners and remaining until after the Sunday School exercises are over. In the evening Rev. Griffith will preach a special sermon. Rev T. L. Griffith, pastor. A. M. E.: Easter services at St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal church at 11 a. m.: Organ Voluntary. Doxology. Anthem, "He Is Risen." Prayer. Anthem, selected. Scripture, John 21st chapter. Song, Choir. Sermon, by the pastor, "The Man of Nazareth." Chant, Our Father. Reception of members. Offering. Recessional. Class meeting. At 3 p. m. the Sunday School will render a special Easter Drama, prepared by the Sunday School Union at Nashville, Tenn. In the evening at 8 o'clock King Solomon Commandery No. 6, Knight Templars, will have charge of the services: Song, "Onward Christian Soldier," Prayer, Prelate W. H. Humburd. Song, "Praise The O, God," Choir. Scripture Reading, W. H. Humburd. Solo, Miss Ethel Bowmer "The Divine of Masonry J. H. Mixon The Apostle Creed, Prelate W. H. Humburd. Song, "What Shall I Render," Choir Sermon, Rev. W. Sampson Brooks. Song, Selection, Choir. Easter Offering, Sir Knights. Easter Offering, Congregation, Song, Selection, Choir. Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, pastor. When Pride comes Between So many of the little chasing problems of married life could be mastered, so many of the mists of misunderstanding could be dissipated by the sunshine of love, so many of the discords in the music of home could be translated into harmonies if false pride did not so often come between, writes William George Jordan in the April Delinator. True pride is the guardian and protector of what is best in use; false pride is the sullen defender and apologist of our weakness. Life has so much real pain and sorrow so many dark clouds floating over the sky of home, care and trouble that seemingly no human foresight can prevent, that it seems almost extravagance to manufacture troubles merely to offer them as sacrifices on the altar of vanity, this false pride. Tetter, Salt Rheum and Eczema. These are diseases for which Chamberlain's Salve is especially valuable. It quickly allays the itching and smarting and soon effects a cure. Price, 25 cents. For sale by all druggists. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. The J. S. Y. club held their weekly meeting last Wednesday at the home of Mrs. W. M. Robinser. The study is still on the history of the Negro in American. The club will meet next week with Mrs. E. C. Thomas. The Mite Missionary society was organized Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. P. M. Lewis. Mrs. G. Gray who has been confined to her bed with illness since her return from Chicago several days ago is able to be about the house again. The Progressive Club held their weekly meeting last Friday evening at the home of Rev A. Ford Subject for discussion. The Origin of Negro life Hirsch is entertaining her Mrs. Allie Boyd is entertaining her aunt Mrs. Sawyer of Chicago. Mrs. Myrtle Martin is able to be out again. Miss Eva Hunt of Washington, D.C. is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Blackburn. Mrs. M. E. Lowery is now agent of the A. M. E. church periodical; you who wish to keep posted on church progress and race advancement in general should give her your subscription. The Christian Endeavor are doing splendid work with Mr. Raymond Jackson is President. A number of young men gave a pleasant stag party last Friday evening at the home of Mr. Harry Worn, complimentary to him. The evening was spent in progressive whist. Mr. Sam Rooker and Mr. Robert Thompson proved to be champions of the evening. Mrs. Aile Marshall is a victim of lagrippe this week. Mr. W. Milligan is in Minneapolis this week where he was called by the dangerous illness of his son Edward, who will bring home as soon as he is able to travel. FAIRFIELD GLEANINGS The A. M. E. church is in a flourishing condition at this place considering it being a new organization. They have secured a permanent place to hold services and have spent $75.00 in putting the place in proper shape, with everything paid up to date. What's the matter with Fairfield, she's all right. Who's all right Fairfield. The trustees of the church gave their floss social March 14 at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Burnett, was a grand success both socially and financially. Messra Hutchison and Greenup attended quarterly meeting at Mt. Pleasant the 24th. Rev. R. H. Hackley will devide his Sunny School so as to have two programmes on Easter, the school has about thirty-five to take part on the programme. "Billie Sunday will hold meetings in Fairfield beginning April 4th in a large tabernacle built for that purpose at the cost of $3,000. Mrs. Gec. Johnson is much improved after being confined to her bed for about three months. Mrs. B. J. Fuller has recovered a weeds illness." DUBUQUE DOTS. The Presiding Eagle has failed to appoint a pastor for Dubuque at last accounts. Mrs. J. E. Johnson is visiting at the home of her sister Mrs. Edward Martin 253 Julien Avenue. Mrs. John Wells has been confined to her home with mumps. Mrs. W. r. B. Hayes has recovered from her recent illness. Mrs. Dr. H. C. Rose continues to improve, but very slowly. Isaac Smith had a severe attack of asthma is also. A very pleasant affair at the home of Mr. and Mrs John Green 49 W. Eighth street was a birthday party given in honor of Ida Green nine years on Thursday March 19. A large number of children were present and had a real gala time. Mr. Edward Martin is on the sick list The Jollivers have not had a session for two weeks, owing to illness in the families of several of the members. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hayes entertained a number of their friends Sunday. D. S. CHAMBELMAN RETURNS FROM AFRICA. With his face well tanned by African suns and roughhed by the salt sea breezes, D. S. Chamberlain, who has just returned from a tour through the "dark continent" greeted his Des Moines friends yesterday. He declares that he is in excellent health and that he was not affected with sea sickness an hour during the several weeks he spent on board boat. "I set sail for Quebec Nov. 26 for Liverpool and London. I left South Hampton for Cape Town Dec. 1, and during the long trip did not meet a single American. After four days' sail we spent six hours at the island of Madera and then we were out of sight of land for thirteen days. Table mountain suddenly looming up in the offing and breaking the hitherto uninterrupted view over the wild waves." He continued: Des Joines Man There. Practically the only Iowan I meet in my tours of Africa, which included a trip around the entire continent was "Curio" Brown, a son of Leonard Brown of Des Moines. Mr. Brown attained his novel nickname as a result of his entrance into the country as a member of a Smithsonian institution expedition. He settled near Salisbury, where he owns a ranch of 200,000 acres. He has a 600 acre field of corn which till average forty bushels per acre and for which he will receive about $1.25 per bushel. It is raised by kaffir labor. He also has a quartz mill on his ranch and is prospering. Near him I met EVES TEST By the Des Moines Leading Doctor of Optics Upstarts Opposite Street Car Wedding Room Mutual Phone 783. Dr. Sullivan Almost Blind for 15 Years Can Now See Perfectly Berta Larson, a much esteemed young leader of the Jewish community, was for fifteen years, can today see effectively. The public will probably be interested in learning about total blindness can be myanmar. "I am now 20 year ordinary print. Who blind, created a parrot created until I heard had to fit my eyes had to feed him, and easily parents tried all nine despair, as a spec could be done, as my I had no chance to "If I do, we are Aunt like other children. I am now 20 years old, and not until about eight months ago was I able to read ordinary print. When I was 5 years old I had the measles, which left my eyes almost completely blind. I was 12 years old and had been cared for until I heard of Dr. Lew Arnts, of Des Moline, town, whom I consulted, and had to fit my eyes with glasses which have brought out perfect sight. I can now read a book, and I have been cared for by my parents tried all kinds of remedies for me when I was a child, but at last gave up in the face of the disease. I could be done, as my eyes contained practically no sight. What I most regret is that I had no chance to get an education because I could not see to read. I had been cared ten years ago I am missed. BERTHA LARSON." Dr. Jamieson, who commanded the famous expedition sent out by Cecil Rhodes. Few people realize the size of Africa, the distance around it being considerably greater than around North America. The larger portion of it, especially the interior, is practically unknown and is said to contain remarkable commercial possibilities for the men who will develop them. Cities Are Modern Capetown is a city of about 200,000 and is the unequal or superior of many of our cities. Johannesburg is a delightful place, being like Dover and Pasadena combined. It has an excellent climate, as has the Transvaal and Natal as a whole. The buildings are strictly modern, the business blocks ocing constructed of brick or stone. A large amount of galvanized iron is used in roofing. The native residents are just like the Negro inhabitants of our southern cities. The cities, like all cities under British control, are especially well polished and the streets kept in fine condition. Johannesburg has better street car service than Des Moines. I traveled about 3,000 miles by railway and was well pleased with the roads. The trains make good time and the accommodations are practically the same as on our American railroads. American Trade Hurt The New York insurance investigation and the packing house exposures have practically killed American business in those lines in that country. It is remarkable how many people there have read "The Jungle" and the strange thing is that nearly every one of them accepts its charges as the gospel truth. The Mutual Life Insurance company of New York has a $1,600,000 building in Capetown and was doing a big business in that section prior to the insurance investigation. It has lost the bulk of it and the insurance companies of other countries are reaping a golden harvest in consequence. East Coast Beautiful The most beautiful section is along the east coast the east coast' where palms, coconuts, bananas, cloves and practically fall tropical products are raised, the only trouble is that it is hot and damp and malaria reeks everywhere. No, I wasn't bothered with snow, sleet or front during the winter. The temperature averaged be,ween 125 and 110 in the shade.--Register & Leader BUXTON NEWS Church Social and Business Presiding Elder Gordon was at the St. John A. M. E. church on last Sunny. All the churches of the city are making elaborate preparations for Easter. The Knights of Pythias turned out with the Buxton band on last Sunday and had their annual sermon at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. The public school is not in session this week, as the teachers are in Albia attending the Teachers' Institute. The Canadian Jubilee Singers presented a unique and delightful program at the auditorium on Wednesday night. Mrs. Madison and grandson are in the city tve guest of her sister, Mrs. S. D. Lovey. Miss Ella Boone who has been very ill is some better. Mrs. Bettie Page entertained the Boone family at her home Wednesday. Miss Myrtle Vaugh who has just closed a successful school near Yates is home. Prof Dudley Baker is home on the sick list. Office 8 a.m. 10 a.m. 1:30 to 5:00 5:00 to 7:00 until 9 p.m. Saturday Satellite charge appointments office hours MISS REREVA LADSON MOBERLY Mrs. Cleota Burris has organized a club known as the Busy Bees. This club is composed of little girls and meets every Saturday afternoon. Miss Maud Good entertained the Laries Aid Society at the residence of Ursbena Bagby's. The hostess served an elegant luncheon. Mrs. J Paey will entertain them next week. Mrs. Harvey Renfro is in the city, the guest of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Sylvia Nelson. Prof. S. T Pet igrew, G. M. of U. B. F. Lodge, was in the city Saturday, guest of Prof. A. B. Bolden. Mr. Robert Renfro who has been in Oklahoma on a combined business and pleasure trip, is home and reports having a splendid time. Mr. John Smith who has been confined to his home on Fiske avenue, is able to be up. Mrs. Anna Williams and daughter Camile visited in Huntsville last week. MINNEAPOLIS BUDGETARIAN. Spring, beautiful spring has come at last. Quarterly meeting was observed Sun day the 24th at St. James church the services were largely attended all day. At 9 o'clock Rev. Horace S. Graves of St. Paul filled the pulpit, preaching a rousing sermon, a number came over from St. Paul. The Presiding Elder, G. W. Gaines, preached morning and evening. The choir rendered excellent music. The Loyal Legion of Labor will hold one of its educational sessions at St. James church. St. Paul in april. The funeral of Mr. Harding who died at his home in Excelsior last week was held from Modiin and Green's Undertaking pastor, Saturday afternoon. Rev. Wade officiating. The remains were shipped to Michigan for burial, His wife accompanying them. April 7 is quarterly meeting at St. Peters church. Be sure and attend. The wedding bells will ring early in April, so Dame Rumor says, when a very popular young man of 50.4th street will be causing half the trouble Don't fall to see the popular drama, entitled, 'Bickory Farm' which will be given at St. James church in the near future by some of the leading talent of the city. Mr. John Sellers is much improved at this writing. The revival services at the Zion Mission are meeting with success, several accessions have been made. Mr. John Griffin is seriously ill at this writing. April seems to be the month of entertainments in our city. Mr W. H. Milligan of Gedar Rapida was in the city last week. being called here to the bedside of his sick son, Edward. He returned home Friday evening. The Tuesday Industril club met Tuesday afterdoom with W. Mrs. A splendid report of of the Sunshine committee was listened to with an appropriate programme, after refreshments the club adjourned. Revs, Gaines, Wade and Wilson attended the Ministers' Union in St, Paul Monday morning. ALBIA NEWS. Rev. Robinson and his assistances continued their services at the A. M. E. church this week. A number from Buxton, and Hocking attenting. Mr. H. Snoodfaf has sold his home to Mrs. Jameson. Mr. Snoody thinks of going West this summer. Mrs. Dela Maria is veay sick at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Butler and son Lawrencewere in attendind the meeting Sunday. Among the new converts to the A. M. E. church durinf the revival were Misses Mildred and Ora Lewis and Mr. Donald Thomas. MARLIN TEXAS Special to Bryander. Texas the state yields wealth, Marin a city in Texas produces health. ```markdown ``` Hon. T. A. Smith who was once a soldier in the Ninth Calvary during that fight at San Juan Hill has organized a stock company and business league for the race, they bought land out in the suburbua where they will build a fine park with a skating rink, a pavilion and base-ball diamond for the amusement of those who come to the spring. The base-ball club is doing good work, it is owned by F. S. Jackson and Mc Richardon and H. K. Jackson captain. LOOKING WELL Thus writes Rev. O. W, Catlin, Pella Iowa. Pella, Ia. August 10, 1905. To Whom it May Concern: This is to certify that I am "looking" better than I did three months ago, and that it is all because I am "looking" through glasses fitted to my e-eye by Dr. Lew Arntz, of Des Moines, opposite the street car station. Now this is no joke: I have tried several years to get the help I needed for my eyes, once in Fairfield, one in Burlington, twice in Chicago. It would take $75 to foot the bills all told. Each time I was told that all have been done that could be, but it remained for Dr. Lew Arntz to do for more than they all. It is almost like a miracle the way he has corrected my vision. I have said as much to many of my friends as I have met them and seen their need of help. I take this way to tell many more whom I may not see until it be too late to help them, or perhaps, not at all. I would rather have Dr Lew Arntz's ability to help the human vision than to be a millionaire. It is a fortune in itself besides in its use it scatters burs; nors on every side. If you have any trouble with your eyes no matter what it is, remember it will cost you nothing to have him examine them and that he will tell you just what can be done and will do it if you give him a chance. I find him very reasonable in his charges. Remember he does more than merely fit a pair of glasses; it may mean a number of them as he develops your vision. You may be sure I am glad that my experience will let me see these things and I ask my friends to take this as a personal letter. Hopefully yours REV. O. W. CATLIN. GALESBURG, ILL (Special to Bystander.) Galesburg, March 25.—Mr. Watie V. Murray departed this life at 12:45 Monday night, March 18, 1907, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Callie Simms Powers. He was sick five weeks and had been home from Chicago five weeks to the day he died. He was born March 22, 1873. He was a member of the Allen A. M. E. church. He leaves to mourn his death his wife, Mrs. Oola Pettiford Murray; a sister, Mrs. Callia Powers; a stepfather, Mr. Win, Simms of Rock Island and three aunts and one uncle in Galesburg. Blessed be they that die in Christ Anthony Cycle Co. BICYCLES. First Class Wheels $25.00 and Up Also second hand wheels all prices. Expert Repairing of All Kinds. NEW GO-CART TIRES. Vulcanizing and Enameling. MUTUAL PHONE L. 7221. 421 Eighth St. Tetter, Salt Rheum and Eczema Are cured by Chamberlinal Salve. One application relieves the itching and burning sensation. --- "The Tyranny of the Roof." In the savage tribe as he lingered outdoors, and free from the restraints which come from civilization—the garment, the house and the cook. But there is a barbarism which spends its winters in huts and holes from which every breath of fresh air is shut out, and where the stifling atmosphere is heavy with "old shapes of foul disease." Akin to the life of the hut and the slum is the life of the home of whatever grade where cold is dreaded more than bad air. The farmhouse, the millionaire's palace and the village grocery alike shelter miserable slants against nature's laws. The crusade against the ravages of consumption has awakened thousands to the fact that the need for pure air is more imperative even than the need for good food, although it speaks with a less insistent voice. But, remarks Youth's Companion, hundreds of thousands of housewives yet need to learn the danger of the comfortable double window and the air-tight stove, and the healing power of pure, cold air, steered in God's own sunshine. A woman who was known as the queen of the Gypsies died recently in England. She was of great age and amazing vigor, and a real "character" in her reserve and her hatred of modern conditions. She seldom talked, but it was known that she considered education as rubbish, houses as no better than prisons, and the persons who died in them as the victims of their own elegance. In a phrase both telling and memorable, she coated herself "free from the tyranny of the roof." That is truly noble freedom and one which every wise woman may covet for herself and her children. Perhaps another hundred years may see the stuffy bedroom everywhere supplanted by the airy porch, and find civilized man again sleeping under the sky. I and I need to call an old man by other people; I will get along myself without thinking of this or talking about it, unless some correspondent asks me to, writes Edward Everett Hale in the Circle. Thus, I am lame; but I do not say I am lame because I am 84, I say I am lame because I had a fall, precisely as I should have said it if I were 33 years and 3 months old at three minutes after three in the third month of the year. Or, in brief, if you can get along without thinking of yourself much, it will probably be a comfort to yourself, and it will certainly be a comfort to your friends. Because of a poor olive crop in Spain the demand for peanuts is brisk, and the peanut growers in the province of Valencia are holding their crop for a high price. Peanut oil is largely used by the Spaniards instead of olive oil, and the peanut competes with the olive at the oil-crushers. The consular report from which this information is taken does not say whether or not the Spanish dealers sell the peanut oil as olive oil. They may be more scrupulous in their trade designations than some dealers in cottonseed oil have been. --- If Russia wasn't fighting a revolution that is liable to break out into fireworks at several points at the same time what a lot of fun it could have fighting once more the Japanese war in the magazines! Even with its attention taken away it is doing fairly well, for it is a poor week that some one doesn't write a book to prove Steossel a coward. The cathedral of St. John the Divine, at One Hundred and Tenth street and Amsterdam avenue, New York, now promises to be completed in 1950, when it will surpass in cost and beauty any church building in this country and will rank with the historical ones in Europe. The simplest way to ascertain the purity of olive oil is to freeze it. Pure olive oil has the exclusive property of freezing at three or four degrees above zero, whereas other oils need a temperature of ten degrees below. But how about the zero weather? Hooks and eyes are indispensable in women's attire, holding the folds together so neatly without the use of the conspicuous button. There are a number of makes of hooks and eyes, and the annual outlay for them is estimated at $640,000. An Ohio judge has decided that a man cannot be restrained from saying silly things in his own home. If he could what man would be safe from interference? Maj. Seely of the British army says that married soldiers are the bravest. Perhaps war does not seem like much if anything to them. England is quite taken with the dis-armament idea for the use of other nations. The veterans of the United States senate are Fettus and Morgan of Alabama, respectively 85 and 82 years old, Senator Allison of Iowa, 77, and Senator Frye of Maine, 75. Oliver Cromwell is the name of a tenant of the Red Lion hotel, High Wycombe, England, and he claims the protector as an ancestor. That lovely songstress, the hen, once more is heralding the new-lad 6 EXSTER NEW YORK TIMES OPENING EASTER THOUGHTS AND SOME • EASTER TRADITIONS BY MAY G. RINGWALT SPRING opening everywhere In the shop windows, an opening of delicate fabrics spriged with flowers that might make nature envious; of airy, fair hats, trimmed in stolen bits of rainbow; of irresistible sugar eggs, chocolate rabbits and yellow-down chickabiddles. In the fields, an opening of leaf and blossom and a meadow lark's song. In the churches, an opening of a tomb and an angel of life in place of the deacon of man hertz in love toward God, man, and the little sparrow; the opening of hands outstretched to the unfortunate and the sinning. It is Eastertide. While the resurrection from the dead is the pivotal belief upon which the whole Christian faith turns, the word Easter is of pagan origin, Easter being the Saxon name of an old Teutonic goddess who was the personification of morning and spring. Likewise, in many of our Easter observances Christianity has laid its impress upon old pagan myths and customs—the joy of the new spring life and the joy of the new bounty on the hillsides now steadily gleaming in altar tap, and spring flowers once fully gathered for outdoor festival song and dance now reverently crowding the churches. Our own earliest recollections of Easter are flashing memories of those first Easter eggs—red, yellow and glorious royal purple—that rolled out of fairyland into everyday life to mystify our wondering eyes with their strange beauty. And by a happy coincidence, the egg is the oldest of the Easter eggs. In each if it were an assemblage for membership in some glass-case society of antique superstitions it could trace its genealogy back to ancient Persia and Egypt. The Persians, looking upon their new year—which comes on the 12th of March—as the renewal of all things, celebrated the festival by exchanging colored eggs. The Egyptians considered an egg a sacred mankind after the Deluge. From the Jews adopted it for a sign and symbol, it now becoming the triumphant type of their departure from Egypt and intimately associated with the feast of the Passover, eggs always being on the table with the paschal lamb. The Christians, loving the dear old family traditions, naturally gave the egg a place of honor in the celestial body as the paschal lamb, the Easter egg, the body of the Resurrection, "the rising out the grave, in the same manner as the chick, entombed, as it were, in the egg, is in due time brought to life." The pretty custom of hunting for worms in the grasslands where the eggs were hidden in the ORIGIN OF EASTER RABBITS. According to a Teutonic Tradition Bunny Was Once a Bird. One of the quaint and interesting features of our modern Easter carnival is the appearance in shop windows, side by side with the emblematic colored egg, of a part tailed rabbit, and those who cannot understand why bunny should have a place in our Easter decorations shrug their shoulders and that is a trick ```markdown ``` tall grass by mothers and pet aunties, and eagerly searched for by all the excited youngsters of the family. In the Bristol museum, there is a German doll, a doll holding a basket with three eggs bearing the emblems Faith, Hope and Charity, with this legend in German: "All good things are three. Therefore I present you three Easter eggs. Faith and Hope, together with Charity. Never leave from the heart. Faith to the church; Hope in God And love Him to thy death." In Russia, Easter eggs are exchanged even by the dear dignified grown-ups. Easter morning, a man goes to his friend's house and greets him with: "Jesus Christ is risen." The friend answers: "Yes, He is risen indeed." Then they kiss each other on both cheeks, exchange eggs, and drink brandy. Of course, everyone knows that the Easter sun, the world over, dances in the heavens if sleepy-heads will only get up early enough to see it. In some places in Ireland, there is a great clapping of hands at midnight. Easter even, laughter; and the cry of the sun, the light of the day, the enjoyment for a little while, until the members of the tired household go to bed—only to rise at four o'clock that they may see the sun dance. In Scotland, the sun whirls like a windmill and then gives three leaps. One of the prettiest traditions is that of the Easter hare. The hare has a long tail, and it is a nocturnal animal, feeding at night. The female carries her young for a month, representing the lunar By Rev. Henry Clinton Hay. (Of the Swedenborgian Church.) THE resurrection means that his earthly body. That the man lives on after the death of earthly bodies. That he undergo universal observation and experience; but that the man himself ceases on that account to love and think, plan and execute, in the world of love and wisdom and spiritual expression, is an inference without the slightest warrant from observation of experience. The most that can be said is that he no longer appears to the senses of earthly bodies when his own earthly body dies. That is the impression. But that there is an indwelling love-and-thought world, constantly animating, shaping and employing matter and giving to it its values, is manifest in every human experience. That man comes forth from this inner world, not only in the beginning of his existence, but in every act of his intellect, will and knowledge. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that he continues to exist in when the body returns to the dust to please the children. But the legend of the Easter rabbit is one of the oldest in mythology, and is mentioned in the early folklore of South Germany. Originally, it appears, the rabbit is a bird, which the sultan Teutonic goddess Ontario—goddess of the east or of spring—transformed into a quadruped. This reason the rabbit or hare is grateful, and in remembrance of its former condition as a bird and as a swift messenger of spring, and of the goddess whom it served, is able to lay colored Easter cycle. Then the baby hares, unlike rabbits, are born with their eyes open, and the moon is "open-eyed watcher of the night." The open-eyed hare—the lunar animal and the lunar festival, you see, for the time of Easter depends upon the moon—became associated with the opening of the new year at Easter, and hence in popular mind, with the paschal egg, to signify the opening of the year. In Germany, the Easter hare rivals St. Nicholas in popularity for every little Karl and Gretchen knows, if a child is good and obedient, a white hare will steal—down a moonbeam no doubt—into the sleeping house, on Easter even, and lay its beautifully colored eggs in all sorts of odd places. When the myth reached America the better, better-known rabbit; the change due perhaps, as a writer natively suggests, to the fact that confectioners are not "experts in natural history." There are some superstitions connected with Easter that it would be wise for the reader to treasure in his mind, so important are they in their bearing upin his health and happiness. The wind is in the east in Easter morning, draw water and wash in it, to avoid the ill effects of an east wind throughout the year. The efficacy of the Easter water cure is so well known in Germany that the Mecklenburg berg mand servants spread out linen clothes in the yard, the evening before, and Easter morning wash themselves with dew, rain or snow fallen from the roof. The peasants ride their horses into the water to ward off sickness from the poor beasts. whence it has been taken. But a body of another kind—the organism of the man himself, in his own spiritual substance—must then be be laid bare as the instrument of self-consciousness, and of expression and usefulness to others. Life, as we know it, is a constant resurrection. "The tomb of the past is the womb of the future." All nature is constantly dying, the tissues of the earthly body are constantly dying, the human body is constantly this universal death, and progress is made possible only by this process of resurrection. The immortality and progress of the human soul and of human society consist thus in the Creator's triumph over death. Easter is a memorial of all this triumph of life over death, not only in nature, but also in humanity. The germ of life in every human breast is thus raised up when the body returns to the dust. All that has been elaborated within that maternal husk—all the love of right or wrong, of truth or falsity, of wisdom or folly, of usefulness or destructiveness—unfolds and bears its fruits, determining the man's character as an angel or devil forever. Nancy Clinton Kay eggs on her festival in the spring time, the colors illustrating the theory that when it was a bird the rabbit laid colored eggs, and an egg has always been a symbol of the resurrection, and therefore used as an illustration at Easter. Style Is Antique A fashion magazine says that peek-a-boo walters are not of modern invention, and having heard of Mrs. Eve Evans, the fashion head of Mrs. Eve Evans, to address Philadelphia, Telephone DVER $1,000 A YEAR AND "LIVING." That is the Story of a Michigan Farmer Who Lives in Western Canada. Olds, Alberta, Dec. 10, 1906. Mr. M. V. McLanes, Detroit, Michigan: Dear Sir and Drill—It will be four years next May since I came to Olds, and have lived here ever since. Since I came here, cerea wheat has run from 25 to 45 lb. per acre, oats from 65 to 115. I know of it. I raised that year, 115. liu to the finest oats I ever saw, and oats that I sowed 31st day of May this year went 72½ to the acre and weighed 41 lbs. to the bushel. My barley bu1. last year and 50 this year, and was not sown until the latter part of May. I had 3 acres of potatoes this year and sold 700 bushels and put 275 bu. in the cellar, and no bugs to pick. We have a fine Government Creature at Olds. Our cows made $1 per head and I didn't feed any grain; only priraie hay, so you see we are doing well. We have the patent for our homestead now and an very thankful that we came to Alberta. We have made a little over $1,000 each year besides making our living. I would not go back to Michigan to live for anything. If I had my choice of a ticket to Olds or a 40-acre farm in Michigan I would take the ticket in two years I could buy any of their farmed farms. This is the country for a poor man, as well as a man with money. I will close, thanking you for our prosperity, I remain yours truly, (Signed) OTTO YETTING, Olds, Alberta, Canada. Box 159. Information as to how to secure low rates to the free grant lands of Western Canada can be secured of any Canadian Government agents. Tip to Prodigals "I takes notice," philosopically said old Brother Dinger, who was a great hand to cogitate, "dat in des days, whilst we are dess as glad as we ever was when a slainn refawens, we don't make so much fuss about it as we used to. We respect and互赎 his action as much as we ever did, but we don't shout so loud. Days, de prodigal, he prodigal his own work, he bled to be butt up in disappointment. We a heap mo' for solid business, deese times, and lots less for noise, dan we used to, Yassah!"—Puck. 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Twenty-six people are known to have been killed and the final list will total much higher than this number. The injured number about one hundred, many of which are seriously injured and some that will die. The wrecked coaches were hurried in every direction. Four of them were smushed into splinters. Most of the dead were Italians from New York and New Orleans, going to San Francisco, they occupied the smoker and day coach. The dead were terribly *maimed and mangled*. Eighteen of them were taken to an undertaking establishment with 8 o'clock and eight additional bodies could be seen underneath the coaches. Out of about eighty passengers in the Pillow there were but two who sustained serious injuries. Three Pullman coaches and the diner, which were on the rear train, did not leave the track. The occupants of these cars were practically unarmed. The Robber, the Imperial company occupied one coach, which was hurt from the track and both ends of it crushed in by impact against the others. But two members of Miss Roberts company out of a total of twenty-two people were injured. Miss Roberts herself escaped entirely unhurt. The escape from death of the occupants of this car was remarkable, considering the manner in which the two men and the two women pieces. The men and women were hurried from one end of the other. REJECT ARBITRATION. Trainmen and Conductors Getting Ready for Strike. Chicago, March 29.—the controversy over the wage scale between the general managers of the western railroads and their employees in the train service cannot be arbitrated, and the only way a strike can be resolved is through arbitration roads to make terms with the men. This is the ultimatum issued by the representatives of the two unions involved in the difficulty after a meeting had been held tonight to consider the action of the railroads in asking the federal government to inform the unions about a settlement by mediation along the lines provided by the Erdmann act. The movement by the general managers to have the matter adjusted by arbitration was discussed at considerable length by the union representatives, but the proposition was not accepted, and passed refusing to arbitrate the wage scale with anybody. The general managers last night for the first time admitted that the situation was grave. The crisis was intensified by the fact that no compromise had been effected with the representatives of the 15,000 locomotive firemen, who are here negotiating wages and an hour-day. Another conference was held today between the General Managers' association and a committee representing the firemen, but nothing in the way of a settlement was accomplished. General managers of the western railways said yesterday that no attempt would be made to operate employees struck. The transportation would be completely tied up. "I don't see how the railroads could operate in the event of a strike," said C. A. Goodnow, general manager of the railroad. 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District Judge from the criminal courts building, declining absolutely to say one word about the commission's work. The most important feature of the day's proceedings was the decision of the committee to determine the exact language of the statute—to determine solely the question as to whether or not Harry Thay is able to understand and comply with court proceedings against him and is able to advise his counsel in a rational manner. Great Northern Road Upheld Great Northern Road Uphield. St. Paul, Minn., March 28.—The state supreme court upheld the Northern railroad in contention that it had the right to issue the $80,000,000 of stock authorized by the board of directors some months ago and who was enjoined from using the company. 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A claim of an astounding nature is put forward by a minister whose field of work lies within the bounds of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. He has discovered a germicide by the application of which he can cure every kind of infectious, loathsome, and incurable disease, even when considered, humanly speaking, hopeless. He has demonstrated to his own satisfaction that hospitals for infectious diseases are quite unnecessary, and that surgical operations except on the battlefield or in railway or other accidents, are totally uncalled for. No operation is needed, according to him, for appendicitis, for example, as it can be perfectly avoided. The disease cooverer of the germicide has published a list of the names of 50 patients, with their addresses, whom he says he has cured, in is in process of curing, even in some cases, after they had received their "death warrant" from medical practitioners. DURING THIS MONTH. Excellent Advice Which Our Readers Will Benefit By. 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Scentmakers, for example, need some one with a very delicate sense of smell to aid them in mixing the ingredients of perfumes in proper proportions. Alexandra's favorite perfume violet costs $100 and comes in a bottle, it to run the gamlet of five professional "smellers" before it is passed as being correctly blended and ready for her majesty's use. Some of the leading firms of perfume makers pay their "smellers" from £4 to £7 a week. Contractors for the lighting of streets, large public buildings and pleasure grounds very often engage "smellers" to find escapes of gas, one shilling being generally paid for each escape reported. Some people buy a single week, the result being that in many cases the fee has been reduced to 9d per escape reported. Detective's Parable. Hilary K. Adair, the well-known detective, was complimented in Galveston, Tex., on an arrest that he had made. The arrest had been mysteriously achieved and Mr. Adair was asked to explain it. 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"I liked the food from the very first, eating it with cream, and now I buy it by the case and use it soon. The food was food I was enjoying brain and nerve force as nothing in the drug line ever had done so could. "It wasn't long before I was restored to health, comfort and happiness. Through the use of Grape-Nuts food my digestion had been restored, my nerves are good again, my mental faculties are clear and acute, and I have become so good-natured that my friends are truly astonished at the change. I feel younger and better than I have for 20 years. No amount of money I have spent on grape-Nuts food. Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book. "The road to Wellville," in pkgs. MAN OF DELICATE NERVES. RoseenRef, the Planchet, Made Much Trouble in Hotel. Rosalie*h, the pianist, is one of those entitled to have his crankiness termed "the eccentricities of gougaz," says the San Francisco Chronicle. When he inspected his rooms at the Majestic upon his arrival very late the other night, he went softly to the adjoining doors, and placing his cars close to the cracks, exclaimed in his voice, "I want to pass these." After nodding his approval of the grand piano and the furniture he frowned at the tan-colored window shades. "Must be green." He was assured that a change would be made especially for him the next day. At five o'clock in the morning Rosenthal, clad only in his pajamas, came scurrying excitedly down stairs and into the office, where the drowsy night clerk was nodding at the desk. Street nerves! Noise! Must stop! Nervous me! I cannot sleep." The clerk hurriedly sent for Manager Gustav Mann, and Mann spent two hours telling Rosenthal funny stories in German trying to divert his mind while the clerk was upstairs squaring the management for waking a guest on the Gough street side and ordering him to move at once to the Sutter street side as a gas pipe had burst under the floor and had to be repaired! Instead of throwing stones people who live in glass houses should grow violets at a dollar a bunch. ```markdown ``` MRS. A. M. HAGERMANN Lydia E. Pinkham's W made from simple native roots and it has been helping women to be fectly and overcoming pain. It has pairing for child birth and the chan- gement. M. L. Hagermann, of M. Pinkham--I suffered from a functions so that I had to die Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comp that I am able to attend to my du- would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- 它 will give them." 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U., DES MOINES, NO. 13, 1907. 10 leaves Cottage Bread .100 10 leaves Mammoth Home Made 10 Cottage Buns, dozen .50 Sugar or Ginger Cookie, dos. 10 Sugar or Doughnut, dos. 10 Angel Food Cakes .50 and 10 Dutch Cakes .50 and 10 Maccaroni, per pound .150 Parker House Rolls, dozen .150 Cinnamon Rolls, dozen .150 Bread Doughnut, dos. 10 Bread Doughnut, dos. 10 Pies, each .50, 100, 150 Pies, each .50, 100, 150 Pruit Lunch Cakes, dos. 10 Coffee Cakes, each .50 Fruit Slices, dos. 100 Fruit Slices, dos. 100 2 lbs. best Basket Crockers .150 2 lbs. best Soda Crockers .150 Extra Home Made Layers White Cakes .50, 40, 60 White Cakes ..... 25g, 40g, 60g Special Lover Chocolate or Coconut Cakes, each ..... 15g Double Coupons on Bakery goods FRUIT! FRUIT! FRUIT! FRUIT! Mammoth Oranges, dozen ... 410 Pineapple Oranges, dozen ... 410 Pineapple Oranges, dozen ... 410 Choice Oranges, dozen ... 110 All dried fresh fruits and beads are found in our variety store APPLE SPECIAL EXTRA CHOICE COOKING ... 55 Fresh Cooked Apples in peck basket, net basket ... 38 Fresh Cooked Apples in peck basket, net basket ... 38 Fresh Cooked Apples in peck basket, net basket ... 38 Potatoes are fine, net basket ... 55 1.00 Cuanon with each basket. 2.00 Cuanon with each basket. 1.00 Cuanon with each basket. DRUG DEPOT ENLARGED We all associations Drum store classmates Soda Mountain Candida, Citrus, Tobacco. As in Dozen will fit in its life. Our Daisy Lunch will please you. Fans everywhere, and quick All kinds of bottle waters. Grind Bleu. Ice. Ginger Ale. Ginger Bleu. Ice. FRESH COUNTY BOGS COLLECTION GRANTED PER DOZEN $11.49 MAPLE SYRUP SPECIAL. No. 100 brand Maple Syrup. 11.32 No. 100 brand Manole Syrup. Kg sol. 75 No. 190. brand Marmal Squirt. 1.10 lb. $4.00 Certificate with each 14.5 oz. Coupon with each 14.5 oz. $5.00 Certificates with each gallon. $20. Dax. Granulated Sugar. $1.00 With $20. Dax. Granulated Sugar. With $20. grocery order. $20. Dax. Granulated Sugar. $1.00 With $20. order. including Tea, Cream, Powder, Soda, $1.00, exclusive of sugar. FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR! Dulce Sonic Flour, sack. $90 Rose Leader Flour, sack. $90 No. 1. Flour, sack. $90 ORIGINAL FURE FOOD One. pack free. with 10-pack purchase. McQuaid's One Hundred High Patent. One. pack free. with six packs. Gold Medal Flour, sack. $1.35 Slewey Eve Cream Flour, sack. $1.35 White or Yellow Milk, sack. $1.35 Family Rye Flour, sack. $250 Prepared Buckwheat, sack. $250 $2 Salation Panneke Flour. $2.50 $2 pks. 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Mackerel, each...10c, 15c, 20c, 30c Flat Lake Herring, pail...20c Flat Lake Herring, kg...80c and 90c Holland Herring, pound...15c Codfish, each...11c, 12kc, 13c Smoked Hallbout, pound...20c Smoked Salmon, pound...30c Smoked Herring, pound...30c Bloaters, 3 for...15c Smoked Herring, box...15c Smoked Sardines, pound...15c Sploded Sardines, pound...15c Rolled Sploded Herring, 6 for...25c Luncheon Splored Herring, lb...1c Luncheon Splored Herring, lb...1c Turkewes, pound...15c Live Rabbit and Opossums, EXTRA CERTIFICATES WITH ORDER. CEDAR RAPIDS The Progressive club met last Friday evening with Rev. H. Ford. The club is steadily increasing in membership and doing splendid work. The J. S. Y. club convened at the home of Mrs. A. E. Price last Wednesday. A full turn out of the membership was present. Miss Cloe Van Camp, Mrs. W. H. Raspberry and Mrs. James Warren were visitors. The principal feature of the afternoon was a paper on Dunbar, the poet, by Mrs. R. Thompson was one of the best papers read before the club this season. The president, Mrs. R. Downing, and Mrs. W. H. Martin, were also elected delegates. The club will meet next week with Mrs. Thompson. Mr. W. H. Miliigan has returned from Minneapolis where he left his son Ed slightly improved but still unable to be brought home. Monday afternoon Mr. French Perkins had the mifortune while driving up P avenue W, of colliding with a runaway team, which completely destroyed his buggy. Those who witnessed the sight say that Mr. Per A Sale and Display of The New Oxford For Easter When you see these smart looking Oxford, you will be surprised at the low prices at which they are offered. They are of calf, vici kid and bright leathers, blucher, Gibson ties, plain lace and button, both hand-turned and welt soles the very latest lasts and new shaped toes now in vogue. Prices ranging from $1.50 to $5.00. WALKER SHOE CO. Trading Stamps Walk In Walker Oxford Union Store kins had a miraculous escape from death. Excepting a small bruise on his arm, for example, for nothing, although his nerves are still some what shaken. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Both Agreeable and Effective. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has no superior for coughs, colds and croup, and the fact that it is pleasant to take and contains nothing in any way in jurious has made it a favorite with mothers. Mr. W. S. Pelham, a merchant of Kirksville, Iowa, says: "For more than twenty years Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been my leading remedy for all threat troubles. It is especially successful in cases of croup. Children like it and my customers who have used it will not take any 'other.' for sale by all druggists. CLINTON BRIEFS We are glad to hear of the great improvement in the condition of friendly Robinson, who had such a narrow escape from what might have been a very serious accident week before last when he fell from the top of a trestle, a distance of 21 feet into a ditch while in the employ of the sewer construction company, he suffered the fracture of one leg it is fortunate his injuries were no worse. The Woman's Loyal club was pleasantly entertained recently at the home of Mrs. Cooper on Second avenue. Mr. Lawrence Newby, a representative of the Jamestown expedition was present and gave a most pleasing talk on his work pertaining to the exposition and its advantages. At his conclusion on a course trip was served, and last week for the west on a business trip. If things look favorable he may decide to locate at some point on the western borders. Mrs. Holland Williams was the hostess at a most enjoyable afternoon at her home, 611 Third avenue, last Wednesday, when she had arranged to entertain the Vollet club of Davenport, but what a disappointment when the hour for their arrival to learn that a number of the members were detached home. Nothing were left, eighteen clothes from Davenport and Clinton entered into the occasion with an earnestness which brought nothing but pleasure to those present. At 6:30 the guests sat down to a five course dinner the table decorations being of the club colors; hyacinths and carations carrying out the violet and white color scheme. Garlands of smilax and ferns were also used with charming effect. The guests on this occasion from Davenport were Messdames Saunders, Applewhite and Calm. The chicken pie and musical entertainment at Odd Fellows hall on the 18th, passed off pleasantly. A fair sized crowd being present considering the threatening weather and a neat sum realized for the society of the future Eastern Star. A social will be given on Wednesday evening. April 3rd at the AM. E. chickens. The proceeds to be devoted to the pastor's fund. The Christian Endeavor so-tily gave a most successful supper on Wednesday evening. March 13. A neat sum was realized. Do Not Crowd the Season The first warm days of spring bring with them a desire to get out and enjoy the exhilarating air and sunshine Children that have been housed up all winter are brought out and you wonder where they all came from. The heavy winter clothing is thrown aside and many shed their flannels. Then a cold KEOKUK NOTES Mrs. Kate Ridley has returned here since she has been hospitalized for the last On Easter Sunday the Iowa commandery, No. 8, of Knight Templars, will meet at the A. M. E. church of Morgan where their annual sermon will be preached at 3 o'clock. Every body is cordially invited to attend this service. Everybody is looking forward to the Easter ball, given under the auspices of the Iowa commandery, No. 8, Knight Templars, at Gibbons opera, Tuesday, April 2nd. One of the most interesting features of the entertainment will be the drill by the knights in full uniform. Palm Sunday was very fittingly observed by the Heroines of Jericho Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church. The sermon was delivered by Rev. T. W. Lewis, which was very classical and well rendered and well presented. The ladies were escorted by United Lodge, & A. M., which was one of the pleasing features of the occasion. The choir rendered very beautiful music. Complete Line of Colored Peoples Hair. Pompadours, See the new Puffs, they are dandy. 705 Locust St. Second door west of Chambera jain Hotel, next to Garver's Hard- ware store. AUDITOR OF STATE ANNUAL CERTIFICATE. FOR PUBLICATION. Des Moines, Iowa, March 20, 1907. WHEREAS, The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, located at San Francisco in the State of California has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1906, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the Code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. THEREFORE, in pursuance of law I, B. F. CARROLL, Auditor of State, do hereby certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the business of Fire Insurance in the State, by agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March, A. D, 1908 I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said Company. Dec. 31, 1906, to be.....$1,000,000 00 2d. The aggregate amount of the assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1906, to b.$3,270,574.28 3d. The aggregate amount of Liaiollies of said Company, including the a- mount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks. Dec. 31, 1906, to be..$2,757,843 52 4th. The aggregate income year 1006, to be.....$6,635,822.00 3th. The aggregate expen ditures of said Company for the year 1906, to be.....10,084,845.33 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hercortone subscribed my name and affix-d the Seal of my office the day and date above written. B, F, CARROLL, Auditor of State. OFFICERS OF THE IOWA STATE FEDERATION. President-Gertrude D. Culberson. 3rd 11th Avenue, Clinton, Iowa. Vice President-Belle Bannister. 2019 Morgan street, Keokuk, Iowa. Second Vice President-Mattie Warwick, 91st Center street, Des Moines. Recording Secretary-Cyrene Trent. Burlington, Iowa. C-responding Secretary - Lella Shiftey, Lock Box 77, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Treasurer-Phebe Cook, Lock Box 296, Buxton, Iowa. State Organizer—Mrs. I. L. Brown Marshallhead, Iowa Chairman of State Committees. 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