Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XVIII, No. 14 CITY NEWS (N. B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news.-Ed.) Chester Frederick has entered North High school. This is his senior year. Mrs. Lu Nash of Clarinda is spending the week with Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates. Miss Adah Cleggett who is visiting in Washington, Ia., is enjoying herself immensely. Rev. S. Bates was re-elected Moderator of the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association last week. Mr. E. T. Banks has made his beautiful cottage modern by adding bath and lavatory this week. Mr. Wells Fowler of Ottumwa is attending Conference this week, the guest of Mrs. Wm. Coalson. Mr. J. W. Heath who was hurt several weeks ago by his horse running away, is able to be out again, Mrs. S. J. Jackson of Charlton is visiting the conference, the guest of Mr. Langford and Harris on 1014 W. 2d St. The Misses Anna and Mary Reeves of Highland Park left Monday for an extended visit in Davenport and Chicago. Mrs. James Burrell of Cedar Rapids is in our city this week visiting her brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. Burrell on Fifth street. Mesdames D. A. Basfield and C. A. Cleggett left this week for Ames to stay indefinitely. Our social society will miss them. Mrs. John Bryant of Onceola is in our city attending the annual conference the guest of her son Mr. Samuel Bryant on West 8th Street. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wilson of Kansas City, Mo., is spending this week in our city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Sargent Jackson 1311 Buchanan St. The Cedar Rapids visitors to the conference are Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gray, W. H. Milligan, Mrs. Brooks and Mrs. Wm. Robinson. Mrs Dr. N. F. Garnett of Evanston, Ill., is in our city this week attending conference the guest of her sister-in-law Mrs. Frank Johnson at 763 W. 10th street. We received the sad intelligence of the burning of the Perkins' Hotel, the only real hotel in Buxton. We are very sorry to learn of this news. Miss Gracie Frederick has re-entered Drake University, in the musical department second year. She is making much progress with her music. Mrs. George Hodges of Thirteenth street, who has been at the lakes all summer arrived home Tuesday looking well, although glad to return to the old home again. Miss Alice Mitchell who has been visiting most of the summer in Webster City and Omaha, Neb., returned home last week after having a splendid visit. The M. C. T. club will meet next Monday afternoon with Mrs. Arthur Jones, 939 14th Street Place. The program is as follows: Biography of Wm. Thackeray by Mrs. J. H. Perkins; Piano Solo, Miss Marie I, Bell; Quotations from Thackeray; Reading Mrs. Arthur Jones. 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Reid of Ottumwa passed through our city Thursday enroute from Indianola where she had been attending the executive of the Ladies State Board She spent Thursday as a conference visitor. Mrs. Cassie Coleman and children of Oksalakea are spending Conference week in our city visiting her mother, Mrs. Kate Frederick on Ohio street. Miss Gertrude Hyde has returned from a delightful trip to Indianapolis, Ind., St. Joe, Mich., Benton Harbor and Chicago. In Indianapolis she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roberts, who are successfully engaged in the drug business. In Chicago she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pryor. The Des Moines Negro Lyceum will meet Tuesday Sept. 19th with Mr. Branham N. Hyde at his home, 821 18th street. The program for the evening will be as follows: Quotations miscellaneous, Echoes from the A. M. E. Conference, Mrs. S. Joe Brown. Discussion by club. Current events. Report of Critic. Mr. Wilson Ray, an engineer at the Enterprise mines was in our city last Saturday and made our office a pleasant call. He had just taken the state engineer's examination and passed one of the highest average; he being the only colored man in the class. We engratu-Capt. Ray as he is an old engineer from Lucas, ia. Mrs. J. H. Brown who attended the Association at Ottumwa last week has returned home. On her return she visited at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas in Albia and Rev. and Mrs. F. B. Woodard of Buxton. Mr. Brown met her in Buxton and accompanied her home. There will be a special meeting of the joint committee in charge of the Y. C. M. C. A. rally at the office of Atty. S. Joe Brown over 507 Mulberry street, Thursday Sept. 21, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of distributing the soliciting cards and make other arrangements for the financial rally to be held Sunday Oct. 1st. By order Rev. S. Bates, Chairman. J. B. Rush, Secretary. Mr. M. F. Fields, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., son of Hon. Milton F. Fields, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Negro Scottish Rite Masons of U. S. and Canada passed through the city Wednesday enroute to the State University at Iowa City where he will enter the College of Law. While here he was the guest of Atty. S. Joe Brown. FOR SALE—3 room cottage, almost new, 2 lots, near 13th and Railroad ave $650; $100 cash balance like rent. 2 room cottage, good repair, 2 lots, near 13th and Railroad ave, $450; $100 cash, balance like rent. Mathis Realty Company 800 Capital City Bank Bldg. Phone 346 Maple. At a meeting of the board of the Young Colored Men's Christian Association last Frindy exening it was decided to open a night school in the Association rooms some time during the coming month. Instruction will be given in all the common branches by a competent teacher who will be in charge on Monday, Tuesday and Friday evening of each week. All persons desiring to enroll are requested to hand their names to Mr. J. C. Williams, Secretary or Harrison Gould, President, at the earliest possible date. The officers and members of the "Y" desire to express their gratitude to the ladies of the Intellectual Improvement club for a handsome framed portrait of Madam E. Azalia Hackley the leading Negro Soprano of America which was presented last Friday evening. JOHN PURKINS Proprietor E. S. MORGAN Manager Palasade Barber Shop First-Class Work Guaranteed . . . Hot and Cold Baths 1010 West Center St. Des Moines, Ia. Nearly Furnished Rooms and Good Board at Reasonable Prices at J. S. Strong and Rev. D. Harding of St. Paul, Minn., stopped during the conference with Mr. John L. Thompson. Miss Irwin Worthal of Enterprise, passed through our city Thursday from Hiteman, where she had been visiting her sister. Mrs. L. Ragins of Glenwood, Ill., is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates while attending the conference. She is an evangelist. Mr. P. Frederick preached in the morning at the Maple Street Baptist church and Mr. J. H. Reynolds in the evening. Mr. W. H. Milligan of Cedar Rapids came down Wednesday to attend the A. M. E. conference. While here he is the guest of Mrs. Wm. Coalson on Center street. The Bystander collector will be in Kirksville, Mason City, Moberly, Mexico, Booneville, Keetsville and St. Joseph, Mo., next week, so be prepared when he calls to pay your subscription. Miss Ada Hyde will leave Sunday for Iowa City to resume her studies in the State University. She will be accompanied by Miss Letta Carey. They in company with Mr. Archie Alexander will be graduate from the University this year. Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates, Mrs. Jenevie Lucas, Mr. Cal Petticrew and Mr. Joseph Reynolds, delegates from Maple Street Baptist church to the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association at Ottawa last week, returned home Monday after a very pleasant session. Mr. and Mrs. S. Bryant gave a very fine six o'clock dinner last Friday evening at her home on West Eighth street in honor of Prof. S. S. Reid of Marshall, Texas. A lovely time reported by all present. Mrs. G. H. Merchant and Mrs. C. B. Lewis of Davenport are—conference visitors. While here they are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rush on West Twentieth street. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Hyde are entertaining this week some of the national officers of the conference, Dr. George Woodson, dean of Payne Theological College, and Dr. Lewis of Nashville, Tenn. Prof. S. S. Reid and wife of Marshall, Texas, a teacher in the college there, the grand lecturer of the Knights of Tabor, was in our city last Thursday and Friday night. While here he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Hanger, 1719 Walker street. They made a very pleasant call at the Bystander office. The Dramatic Art Club met last Tuesday with Mrs. Warrick. They continued the study of the Paradise Lost and adjourned to meet with Mrs. Durden next Tuesday and will continue the study of Book Four of Paradise Lost. When finished they will review all the mythology of the four books. The Intellectual Improvement club held a very interesting "Mothers Meeting" on last Friday afternoon at the Y. C. M. C. A. rooms at 9th and Park streets. Mrs. T. L. Griffith contributed a splendid paper on "Where Reform is Most Needed" and Mrs. Harvey Brown rendered a very pleasing solo. The married ladies of the city were invited guests, and all present expressed themselves as being highly elated over this meeting and it was decided to hold another such meeting the first Friday afternoon at the same place. The Des Moines City Literary convention, auxiliary to the Inter-State Literary association of Kansas and the West will hold their September meeting at the residence of the secretary No 1647, 20th street, Monday evening Sept. 18th at 8 o'clock. All societies that expect to participate in the Inter-State meeting at Witchits, Kansas, in December should be represented at this meeting of the City Convention by their regular inter-state delegates as the remaining three program representatives for the city of Des Moines will be chosen from among these delegates at this meeting. By order, S. Joe Brown, Chairman, Mrs. J. B. Rush See'y. Y. C. M. C. A. NOTES. The relation of the Y. M. C. A. to the Church was presented in a most pleasing and convincing manner by the Rev. H. R. Pinckney in his address before the Young Colored Men's Christian Association Sunday afternoon. The speaker proving both by the argument and by reading extracts from the Constitution of the New York City Y. M. C. A, which is the mother of all the Associations in America, that the Y. M. C. A. has always been to assist the Church in doing its work as well as to do 'the other similar work which the church cannot well do. On next Sunday afternoon it is planned to have addresses from Rev. W. H. Griffin who took part and others of the A. M. E. Ministers a prominent part in the raising of the funds to build the $100,000 Y. M. C. A. Building for Colored men in Chicago and it is hoped the rooms will be crowded to their utmost capacity with the men and boys of our city in order that we may learn from those who have had experience the best method of financing such an institution as we shall be called upon to do at some time in the near future. Rt. Rev. C. T. Shaffer, M.D., D. D. The above cut is that of Rt. Rev. C. finishing his eighth year, T. Shaffer, the presiding bishop of this Fourth Episcopal District, who lives in district. He is a grade Chicago. He was elevated to the bishopric twelve years ago, and is now just Rev. E. G. Jackson Presiding Elder of the St. Paul district. He formerly pastored in several Iowa charges. M. S. S. Rev. H. R. Graves, Evanston, Ill., was elected one of the delegates to the General Conference to be held next May in Kansas City, Mo. He formerly pastored the Des Moines church also the church in St. Paul. He is a progressive minister. The M. C. T. club hold its first meeting since the summer vacation at the home of its president, Mrs. John L. Thompson, on W. Twentyth street. Quite a number were present. They talked over the plan for the fall and winter work and some other matters were taken up; then refreshments were served. They adjourned to meet next Monday afternoon with Mrs. A. Jones. OFFICIAL CALL OF W. N. P. A. Des Moines, Iowa, Office of Iowa State Bystander. I hereby issue the official call for the meeting of the Executive Board of the Western Negro Press Association to be held Tuesday at 1 o'clock, September 19th, in St. Joseph, Mo., to set date of meeting and arrange a complete program for the fourteenth annual meeting of the W. N. P. A., which will be held in Topeka, Kansas, and such other business that may properly belong to said committee. (Signed) John L. Thompson, Des Moines. Nick Childs, Topeka, Kansas. H. R. Graham, Quindale, Kansas. A. M. E. CONFERENCE IN FULL SWING. fourth district in the chair, and called the conference to order. Scripture lesson was read from Isa. 53 and Romans 8th. Rev. James Higgins preached the annual sermon. It was unique to see the veteran minister preaching the sermon. He performed the same duty in our city at the annual conference fifteen years ago. He also entered the ministry in Des Moines to twenty-five years ago. The conference was organized proper by electing Dr. H. P. Jones chief secretary, and Rev. J. D. Peterson as an assistant statistical secretary; Rev. J. Brewer, conference treasures; Dr. D. P. Robert. Afternoon Session. The reading of the minutes of the morning session approved. Then the reports of the ministers from the various churches later on the visiting general officers and other visitors. Among those introduced was Dr. Geo. F. Woodson, dean of Payne Theological Seminary at Wil伯力ere; Ohio; Dr. W. A. Lewis, representative of Preacher's Aid of Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Marie Carter, representative of the A. M. E. Review; Dr. Carl Shaffer, son of Bishop Levine; Dr. Leopold Worthing of Birmingham. The Twenty-ninth Iowa Conference of the A. M. E. church opened its regular session Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. The Rt. Rev. C. T. Shaffer, D. D., presiding bishop of this THE MISSING MEN WERE REPORTED TO BE RECOVERED FROM THE MISSING MEN WERE REPORTED TO BE RECOVERED FROM THE MISSING MEN finishing his eighth year in this district, having served four years in the fifth district. He is a graduate of Wilberforce university. Elder of the St. Paul district. Iowa charges. u, Ill., was elected one of the dele- to be held next May in Kansas and the Des Moines church also the impressive minister. fourth district in the chair, and called the conference to order. Scripture lesson was read from Isa. 53 and Romans 8th. Rev. James Higgins preached the annual sermon. It was unique to see the veteran minister preaching the sermon. He performed the same duty in our city at the annual conference fifteen years ago. He also entered the ministry in Des Moines about twenty-five years ago. The conference was organized properly by elect committee of the church. Rev. J. D. Peterson as an assistant statistical secretary; Rev. J. Brewer, conference treasures; Dr. D. P. Robert. Afternoon Session. The reading of the minutes of the morning session approved. Then the reports of the ministers from the various churches later on the visiting general officers and other visitors. Among those introduced was Dr. Geo. F. Woodson, dean of Payne Theological Seminary at Wilberforce; Ohio; Dr. W. A. Lewis, representative of Preacher's Aid of Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Marie Carter, representative of the A. M. E. Review; Dr. Carl Shaffer, son of Bishop Shaffer, and his private secretary; Rev. LeRoy Woolrich of Burns' M. E. church. Wednesday Evening Session. This evening was given over to a welcome reception. The Bishop presided and introduced Hon. James R. Han- State Capitol Blog virtual steal Room na, mayor of Des Moines, who welcomed the delegates in a well chosen address. He made a good impression upon the vast audience that crowded the house to the doors. In fact, many could not gain admission. The next was an address of welcome on the part of the Ministerial Association, by Rev. Finis Idleman, pastor of the Central Christian church. It was a broad, lofty, Christian welcome such as a real man can give to another. Then Rev. Timothy Reeves, presiding elder of the Chicago district, responded to the mayor's address in a very fine oration. Dr. W. D. Cook responded in a very eloquent and foreenable speech to the address of Idleman. Rev. LeRoy Woolrich welcomed them on behalf of the colored minister's alliance. Rev. Daniels welcomed the conference on behalf the citizen and M. I. Gordon on behalf of the district and Rev. H. R. Graves on behalf of the conference. All made neat, well chosen speeches, the program was interspersed by good music, furnished by the local choir, assisted by other local talent. Miss Zella Davis read a very well written paper. Mrs. Lewis rendered a piano solo and Prof. Geo. I. Holt in his usual way delighted the large audience by singing one of his fine solos. Refreshments were served by the ladies in the basement. **Thursday Morning Session.** This session was a continuation of receiving and discussing the reports from the different churches in the district. A motion prevailed that the election of delegates to the general conference will be elected in the afternoon session. **Thursday Afternoon Session.** After reading of the minutes of the morning session the conference then entered into the election of delegates and alternates to the general conference which is as follows: Dr. D. P. Roberts of Chicago heads the delegation; Rev. H. S. Graves of Evanston, III, and Dr. A. J. Carey of Chicago; alternates, Dr. Timothy Heeves, Dr. W. Cook and Dr. R. E. Wilson, all of Chicago. Each delegate and alternate made short address, making the conference for their election. **Thursday Evening Session.** This evening session was given over to the cause of education. Prof. John R. Hawkins, president of the Kittrell university of North Carolina, and secretary of the board of education, made the principal address, which was fine. Rev. E. D. Butler also made a splendid address. TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SESSION A GREAT SUCCESS. Iowa-Nebraska Association meet in its Thirty-third annual session, with the Second Baptist church, Ottumwa, Iowa, J. Cornelius Reed, pastor. One of the most profitable sessions ever held in the history of the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist association closed Sunday evening amid great enthusiasm. The church, which accommodates nearly 500 people, was filled every evening from the beginning of the association. It was impossible to accommodate the folks the last evening of the session. The program each day was full of interest. Business wasDispatched vigor. In addition to the thirty-eight delegates and nearly forty visitors present, the session each day were augmented with many local citizens. The table service was excellent, two meals being served each day at the church. The new plan of service was generated in a masterly way by the pastor. Tuesday. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary convention of the Iowa-Nebraska Association opened its session with devotional exercises, led by delegates from Davenport and Colfax. The president made appointment of committees. Introduction of visitors. Report of evaluation of the sense of Mrs. T. L. Griffith, a delegate was selected to lecture on the subject assigned. "How We Can Best Foster the Mission Spirit in the States of Iowa and Nebraska." Devotional led by delegates from Hiteman and Corinthian, Des Moines. The annual address of the President was delivered. It contained many good suggestions. Solo by Mrs. F. Hilton, Des Moines; paper by Mrs. J. C. Reid, "Is the Mission Circle a Necessity to the Church." It was a splendid paper. Rev. J. W. Evans filled the pulpit at 4 p.m. Evening. Devotional exercises led by delegates from Carney and Mt. Moriah and Omaha. Welcome address on behalf of Local circles. Mrs. J. C. Reid, Ottumwa. Response, Mrs. J. H. Brown, Des Moines. Annual sermon was preached by Rev. M. J. Burton. Wednesday. Devotional exercises led by Buxton and Enterprise. The new feature called "children's hour" was conducted by Mrs. J. C. Reid; preaching by Rev. R. P. Palmer. Rev. S. Bates preached the closing sermon. The following officers for the ensuing year were elected: President—Mrs. W. A. Brown, Buxton, Iowa; first vice president, Mrs. J. O. Vinegar, Omaha, Neb.; second vice president, Mrs. Clara Crawford, Ottumwa; recording secretary, Mrs. Sarah Wells, Des Moines; corresponding secretary, Mrs. S. Bates, Des Moines; treasurer, Mrs. Allie Jones, Clarinda; board members, Mrs. James Bowles, Colfax; Mrs. H. P. Smith, M. Pleasant; Mrs. M. V. Robinson, Bedford, Visitors introduced: Hon. T. D. Foster, Ottumwa, philanthropist; W. F. Franklin, D. D. Topeka, Kans. Thursday. The Association opened with Moderator Bates in the chair. Appointment of committees on enrollment and Finance. Rev. F. B. Woodard, Buxton, preached the annual sermon. Rev. G. W. White, alternate. The corresponding secretary of the executive board made a report of business transacted during recess of association. Treasurer, Rev. T. C. Bolling, Centerville, Iowa, made a healthy report. The State Missionary, Rev. M. J. Burton, Kecku, emphasized in his report the rapid --- growth of the Baptists in Iowa-Nebraska. Evening. Address of welcome on behalf of city, Mayor S. H. Harper; on behalf of white Baptists, Rev. B. F. Pott, D. D.; on behalf of Second Baptist church, Mrs. Helena Downing; on behalf of A. M. E. church, Rev. P. M. Lewis; on behalf of colored Methodist, Presiding Elder M. I. Gordon, Response, Rev. F. B. Wooded, Burton. The Moor. He delivered his annual address which was published in full in the daily papers. It was full of good thought and excellent recommendations. Friday. The most interesting features were the reports from the various churches. Each delegate was allowed five minutes to state condition of church represented. Each report was full of optimism. Letters with contributions to the different phases of association work were sent by Ft. Madison, Ft. Dodge and Marshalltown. Reports from the Western Baptist convention work was led by Rev. S. Bates. Mrs. M. E. Oliver, Buxton, who are working in the interest of this body, secured pledges for nearly $200, $11 being in cash. Rev. S. Sunders read a paper on Opportunity Young Men's League." E. D. Green, field secretary of Western Baptist Convention, made a powerful plea for the work. He received a contribution for the work by the Association. Rev. J. L. E. Burr, Davenport, preached in the afternoon in his original way. Rev. W. D. Carter, field secretary for Western College, Macon, Mo., preached an educational sermon. A large collection was given Dr. Carter for his work. Saturday. Report of committee on Missions, Corresponding Bodies, Divine Service, Temperance, Auditing, Obituary, State of Country, Moderator's Annual Address, New Churches, Place and Preacher. Platform meeting was held in the evening. Speakers, Rev. Dr. E. E. Buck, Chicago; Rev. R. E. Hroyles, Rock Island; Miss May Kendrick, professor English Literature, Morgan College, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. B. F. Abner gave a recitation; solos by Mrs. Lenora Williams, Mrs. Helen Anderson, S. W. Jackson, Mrs. M. Gardner, Mrs. M. Franklin, Miss Naomi Coalson. Sunday. Rev. R. P. Palmer and Rev. J. L. E. Burr supplied the pulpit at the A. M. E church respectively Sunday morning and evening. Revs. Sunders and F. C. Bolling, alternates. The large chorus drums must be throughout the session is summoned for a colligent work. Rev. W. F. Burr prescheduled a grand mission Sunday morning. In the afternoon Rev. T. L. Griffith conducted the foreign mission rally which was a glowing success. The Moderator preached the closing sermon after report of committees on resolutions; hand shaking while the chorus sang, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Total amount raised from all sources during the sessions. $479.06. The Association adjourned to meet with Zion Baptist church, Omaha, Neb., in 1912, with J. Cornelius Reid, D. D., preacher of the annual sermon. Officers elected for ensuing year: Moderator, Rev. S. Bates, Des Moines, Iowa; first vice, Rev. W. F. Bott, D. E., Omaha, Neb.; second vice, Rev. G. E. Saunders, Hawkeye, Iowa; recording secretary, Rev. F. C. Bolling, Des Moines, Iowa; corresponding secretary, Rev. J. C. Reid, D. D, Ottumwa; treasurer, Rev. F. C. Bolling, Centerville, Iowa; state missionary, Rev. M. J. Burton, Keokuk; added executive board members, Rev. R. P. Palmer, Burlington, Iowa; Rev. W. C. Howell, Omaha, Neb.; Rev. J. L. E. Burr, Davenport. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS. Last week left us in the bottom of the Mississippi river gathering up shells from the fifteen acres of the river bed that this great water power had pumped dry and was blasting rocks out of the bed seven feet to build their giant dams. There are 11,000 people employed by the works. Sunday is the only day that the workers through the dam and excursion trains run in there every Sunday and thousands are seeing it each Sunday. Keokuk has five colored churches: The Seventh Street Baptist, pastored by Rev. W. J. Brown; the A. M. E., presided over by Rev. Taylor. He is doing a good work and has a good congregation. He is an able minister. The St. Mary's church has Father W. A. Bruce as the rector, while the Pilgrim Rest Baptist has Rev. J. J. Helm as their pastor. The Union Baptist church is moving along as usual. Mrs. M. E. Dixon is still acting in society and church work. J. W. Bland is still in the blacksmith shop and doing well. He is one of the best men at his trade in Iowa. He is to be congratulated for the heroic struggle that he has made raised his family of five or six little children. When his wife died until they have all nearly grown up, and he has been able to have the kekuk high school; one from Tuckegee Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuckegee, the Alabama. a commendable act on the part of a father if more of our parents would take notice and do likewise. Mrs. M. Edenix on 519 Morgan street, is doing well. They have made improvements to their valuable home property. Alamo Draina, who runs an ice cream on Main Street, sold out to Ed. Robertson and he is working at the same old drug store. He and his amiable wife will store a 6 o'clock dinner Sunday. He has a lovely family of three children. J. C. Brooks is still following his trade of a carpenter, as is also Orange Fields, who is perhaps the oldest colored carpenter in the Gate City. He owns some valuable property in South Keokuk. He is a very interesting race man. Ye editor found shelter and food at his beautiful home while in Keokuk. His daughter, Miss Artisha Fields, is one of the most accomplished and leading young ladies of Keokuk. Mr. D. W. Anderson is real sick. He has been having poor health since last year. Mr. W. T. Rush, one of our progressive and wide awake young business men who runs the only colored pantorium on Main Street, is doing well. Continued on page 4. These aviation skills are going to trouble the round shouldered squad. Can a successful and decorous aviation meet be properly called a high old time? Wheat is below the average, but the crop of automobile accidents is first claim. Women's hats are to be smaller, thus giving the hatpins a freer range for action. The girl with six feet of vell streaming from her hat certainly does not ewn an auto. Many a man boasts that he is "self-made" when he ought to do his best to keep it a secret. About the only sirings on the human hips are the pull of gravity and the rules of the aviation meet. The new way of proposing is this: "I don't like your last name." If the girl agrees to this it is all settled. American men should prevent women from entering business life, says a doctor. Just let them try it! A highbrow tells us that there is poetry in a bean. But the chunk of pork that goes with it is quite proxy. Eating corn on the cob may not be the most dignified pastime in the world, but, by criminy, it's real sport! Big liners and tall skyscrapers are soon outdone, and then they fall back and are forgotten in the rank and file. Brass bands and vaudeville stunts have failed to draw worshipers to a Chicago church. Why not try religion? We see by the papers that a girl in Long Branch danced herself to death. She had probably remarked: "I could just die waiting!" A man in Cincinnati offers to sell himself to the highest bidder, thereby placing himself on a level with European nobility. Speaking once again of the flight of time, is there anything that flies more slowly than the week immediately following your vacation? There's one born every minute. A Cleveland girl complains to the police that she was persecuted to hand a gypsy fortune teller $150. "The forehead," says Lillian Russell, "should be too high." Great Scott! Are they going to switch the forehead about like the wrist line? There is nothing new in the report the human aura has been discovered. It has often been used as a costume by our classical dancers. It is against the law to wear a dead bird on one's hat in New Jersey, but the millinery may be depended upon to concoct something just as costly. Chinese authorities have spent $100,000 in a furnishing room for their 5-year-old emperor and providing imperial textbooks. Poor little kid! There's a tribe in Africa, under German domination, where the men eat their wives. This is a little more disagreeable than ordinary divorce, but it saves alimony. Nevertheless, we refuse to believe that the man who was over Niagara Falls in a barrel could drop 1,000 feet from an airplane and escape death, even if he used his barrel. A writer in a Chicago newspaper says that no real-life lovemaking is like that the novelists describe. It may be, however, that the novelist describe it as it should be. A New York woman thinks she is going to solve the servant problem by importing Pilgrims girls. Probably she will find before long that she has merely added another side to it. A shoe merchant tells us that women's feet and brains are becoming larger. Possibly he is misled by the fact that women have developed enough brains to buy shoes that fit. In the war against the fly the mosquito hopes to escape unnoticed. But success in the extermination of the one will stimulate the fight against the other, so the disturbed of our slumber not ham the louder in anticipated safety. A legitimate outlet has at length been found for the surplus vacation energy of the small boy. He is swatting, and the community and the home circle are doubly rejoiced. A French scientist has succeeded in hatching tadpoles from frogs eggs by administering electric shocks. We decline to become excited. If he had succeeded in getting tadpoles out of blackberry seeds there might be some reason for surprise—provided one were interested in the development of tadpoles. Reports from the east say that the cranberry crop has been badly damaged, and this will be followed in a few weeks, no doubt, by the announcement that turkeys will be scarcer than ever. It is exasperating, when one wishes to get up early, to see it fit past, with the motion of the doctor grin sarcastically; but the Chicago man who used a shotgun for the purpose of inducing the crew in charge of a car to stop for him seems to have been almost unimpatiable. Nowa's Veteran Governor and Family Celebrate Anniversary Clerment--Former Governor and Mrs. William Larrabe on Tuesday, Sept. 12, informally celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home near this city. The former Iowa executive, who is now nearly eighty years old, is one of the public movement and his daily correspondence is almost as large as it was during his active work. The governor and his wife were "ah home" to immediate members and close friends of the family. Among the former are the two sons, William, Jr., and Senator Frederic Larrabee, of Ft. Dodge, Charles Larrabee of Ft. Dodge and the daughters, Mrs. Julia Love, wife of the former mayor of Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. Robbins, wife of Judge Robbins of Cedar Rapids, who also is a guest, and Miss Anna Larrabee. Among the invited friends of the family were Senators Cummins and Kenyon and Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Conaway of Ames. Gotch Sees Own Pictures. Fort Dodge—Drank Gnotch for the first time saw himself defeat Hackenshield in motion pictures when he saw the films run off here at a local show. After taking the red cross degree of the Knights Templar lodge he and other members of the lodge visited the motion picture theater. 50,000 Presbyterians in Iowa. Chicago—The annual report of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, just issued, gives the following statistics on the Iowa synod: Presbyteries, 15; ministers, 300; churches, 483; communicants, 51,264; baptisms, 2,711; Sunday school membership, 45,644. High Land Value. Toledo.—The highest price paid for close-in land in this vicinity was reached when Lyman Emerson sold his eighteen-acre home for the sum of $9,000 to Sam Bovenmeyer, who intends to make this his home. The land itself was valued at $300 per acre. Co-operative Store Suspends. Marshallown.—The Marshallown Co-operative store started by union men to cut down the price of living on July 10 last will suspend. The stockholders did not patronize the store properly and wholesalers tried to smash it and would not give credit. Prominent Young Man Killed. Mason City.—Paul Benton Hart, 22, son of a prominent business man, was instantly killed while moving a gun in a seat in an auto. He had just shot a hawk and set the gun down beside him, with one barrel loaded and the hammer at cock. Woman Killed at Grinnell Grinnell—Mrs. Brassington from Alcona, Pa. was killed here at the Iowa Central crossing and her son, and her uncle, William Bortell, of this city, were injured. The carriage was struck by a freight train. Injunction is Asked. Mason City. —Action for perpetual injunction against the school board has been brought to restrain it from expending $4,000 for repairs to the high school building, without submitting the proposition to bids. Killa Himself With Shotsun Rockwell City—Henry Potter, a young man working for Joseph Meusberger, southwest of town, committed suicide by blowing a part of his head off with a shotgun. Robbies Busy During Fair. Nashua—During the Big Four fair, robbers went through three business houses while the owners were at the fair, and got $500 worth of goods and cash. To Acquire Keokuk & Western. Keokuk—It is reported here that the Wabash and Santa Fe railroads have joined to acquire the Keokuk & Western road of the Burlington. Kate Shelley Near Death. Boone—Kate Shelley, the Northwestern heroine, in a hospital at Carroll, is reported weaker, and may not recover. Bank Seeks to Recover Large Sum. Charles City — The bank of Rudd has filed a petition of attachment against F. W. W. Kaynes, formerly cashier of the bank for $12,996 which the bank says the cashier wrongly placed to his own use. Votes New City Building. Oakalooaas—Returns from the special election indicate that the proposition to erect a new municipal building carried by a majority of 1,621. Almost 800 women cast their votes. Fourth Iowa Cavalry Celebrates. Mount Pleasant—Veterans of the Fourth Iowa cavalry closed their reunion here with a banquet at the Y. M. C. A. One hundred members of the regiment which left Mount Pleasant for the front in 1861 were here for the campfire. Lightning Strikes Church. Stanley—Union church was struck by lightning, the staple was demolished and a hole torn in the ceiling by bolt, beifly. The dooring was torn up. Methodist Conference Media. Shenandah—The Des Moines, conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be in annual session here this week. Bishop Neesley of New Orleans, presiding. Among the eminent man of the denomination present at Dr. F. C. Kailin, president of the Hebrew in Garrett Institute, who several lectures on the Old Testament; the Rev. Henry J. Coker, of Philadelphia; Dr. Edwin Locke of Topeka, and the Rev. Wade C. Barclay, D. D., of Chicago. New Buildings At State College. Ames—Building operations have again marked the last season, just as previous summers, at the Iowa State college. The new $100,000 veterinary building is nearing completion, the veterinary and faculty will have their hopes for fine new quarters gratified. The $150,000 gymnasium, which was started in June, has not progressed so rapidly, but the work is being pushed steadily. Provign Estate Divided. Des Moines - Judge Hewitt of the probate court has signed an order authorizing W. R. Prouty, executor of the will of the late C. C. Prouty, to divide the property between the heirs. Cheney R. Prouty, only son of the deceased, will get $183,754.77 of the $245,632.16 estate. The remainder, or $183,757.95, goes to Mrs. Belle O. Prouty, widow of the deceased. Iowa Has Best Roads Des Moines — "I found the River-to-River road and Iowa roads in general far the best between Des Moines and Rockyford, Col." said Dr. W. J. Charters, who, with Mrs. Charters, has just returned home from a five weeks' auto trip. "I made a number of side trips through Colorado from Rockyford, but aside from a few roads, which have been specially built, Iowa has them beaten for automobile roads." Oldest Pioneer of Iowa Muscatine—Captain H. L. Clark of Buffalo the best pioneer in the state is dying his home at the age of 98. He took part in the Black Hawk war and settled in Iowa in 1522 and was an intimate friend of Colonel Davenport who founded the city of that name and ran the first store in Iowa in 1529. Electric Lights for Bedford Bedford—Bedford has closed negotiations for electric lights from the electric light plant of Clarinda. The contract goes into effect December 1, by which time the wires between the two towns will have been strung. The Clarinda plant has a franchise in New Market, and it is expected one will be sought in Gravity. Mishap In Burolar Chase. Glenwood—While chasing a man charged with burglarizing Miller & Phipps' store, the auto driven by Arthur Dice and carrying Deputy Sheriff Al Edwards and a number of bloodhounds, went off a bridge at high speed near Pacific Junction, falling twenty feet into Pony creek. Double Capacity of Plant. Des Moines—The Iowa Portland Cement company will immediately begin the expenditure of $250,000 for additional machinery equipment, which will about double the present capacity of the plant. The average daily output will be increased from 3,000 to 5,000 barrels a day. Sensational Trial Comes To Close. Keosauqua. — The Warner manslaughter case terminated when the jury returned a verdict finding the man thought that anything near the maximum penalty will be given as the circumstances surrounding the case point to accident death. Charged With Forgery. Creston.—A. A. Wright, former cashier of the bank of Kent, at Kent, Ia., was arrested by Office Exil upon a warrant issued in a case in which W. H. Hour of Kent charges Wright with the forgery of a note for $220 Man Jitted Sues Girl. Mount Pleasant.—Fred. Wellington of New London, is suing Nelle DeSpain for $2,400 damages (for breach of promise. He says she proposed to him and he accepted her in December and that in June she threw him down. Charged With Kidnapping. Glenwood.—Deputy Sheriff Edwards went to Des Moines to secure requalition for Mrs. Edward Howard, of Lincoln, Neb., charged with the kidnapping of two children from the home of Mrs. Stella Hooker at Glenwood. Aged Iowa Musician Dies. Iowa City—Peter Weber, age 96, is dead. He was the last member of the Hohmann band which played here during and after the civil war. Creston Eager for Line to Canada. Creston—Persistent rumors from the east are to the effect that the Iowa Central railroad is to extend its lines south to Kansas City and the gulf. Men high in authority claim that a thorough line from Canada to the gulf is soon to be built. Mrs. Phoebe Lucas Dead. Iowa City—Mrs. Phoebe Lucas, 84 widow of Hon. E. V. Lucas, is dead. She was a prominent woman during the civil war and her husband was colonel of the Fourteenth Iowa. Church In Dedicated. Mount Pleasant—Mount Pleasant's new $28,000 Congregational church was dedicated Sunday. Rev. T. O. Douglas preached the sermon. The building seats 600 people and is among the finest in the state. Iowa City Wants Franchise. Iowa City — The Commercial clut of this city has raised a guarantee that children has asked for a fran chid in school. The city is the of Hannibal, which did not finish this season's schedule. WANTED-A UNIFORM DIVORCE LAW I NEEDY PERMISSION YOU MAY AND THERE BE THE TOLLING ON STATES AND TRIMUTORIES NO IT LABOR NO IT LABOR NO IT LABOR CHICAGO TRIBUNE UNSEALS HIS LIPS MADISON MYSTERY CLEARED WHEN JOHNSON CONFESSES HE SLEW GIRL. HURRIED TO PEN IN AUTO Fearing Mob Ex-Convict Pleads Gullity to Annie Lemberger's Death—He Is Immediately Sentenced to Prison for Life. Madison, Wis.—John A. ("Dogskin") Johnson, former convict and former inmate of the state insane asylum at Mendota, pleaded guilty to the charge of having kidnapped and murdered little Annie Lemberger, seven-year-old daughter of Martin Lemberger, on September 6, and whose body was found in Lake Monona three days after. Immediately he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Donovan Twenty minutes later Sheriff Brown and Under Sheriff Page departed with him in an automobile for the state penitentiary at Waupun. The whole proceedings did not last over half an hour. In many ways it was quite the quick solution and conviction in a mysterious crime on record. Johnson will probably be brought back to Madison. There is an idea that his disordered brain created a bug-a-boo of a mob that was waiting for him outside and that his confession was prompted by fear. A sanity commission will probably be asked to pass upon his mental condition. While this probably would not result in his release it will at least bring about a reopening of the mysterious case. If Johnson is inseane. He will be sent to think that he is, be does not belong in Waupun, but in Cokhask where a new hospital for the criminal insane of Wisconsin is approaching completion. Suspicion against Johnson developed as soon as the crime was reported and he was arrested. He was held in the police station and refused absolutely to confess or admit any knowledge of the crime. ERUPTION OF ETNA SERIOUS River of Lava From Volcano Imperialis 65 Cities and Villages With 300,000 Inhabitants. Catania, Sicily. The eruption of Mount Etna is assuming the proportions of a disaster. It was reported that 79 new fissures which is moving slowly northward, increased in volume and extended eight miles from its source. The houses of several peasants were overwhelmed. The earthquake continues to terrify the people for miles. At Zafferana, on the north coast of Sicily, 50 shocks were recorded by the coast of Monte Etna appears to be in a state of ebullition. An exact count of the number of fusures is impossible, because of the smoke which shrouds the whole mountain. There seems to be more than 30 fusures, all belching smoke and lava. The eruption means great suffering for the peasantry. The slopes of the mountains are more than 400 square miles, support a population more dense than that of any other portion of Sicily or Italy. There are 65 cities and villages in the area. The number of inhabitants is more than 300,000. Montgomery, Mo.—Perhaps the biggest hog in the world has been discovered in the possession of J. R. Robinson, who lives near Bowling Green, and has been brought overland for exhibition here. It weighs 1,100 pounds and is nine feet from tip to tip. Famous Fisherman is Dead. Louisville Kyle, D. S. Hite, known from Canada to the Gulf as an expert fisherman, whose grandfather name is Kentucky with Daniel Boone, is dead at the age of eighty-three. Woman, Sixty-Five, Jilted, Sues. Lawrence, Kan.—Ending unromantically a courtship of several months, Mrs. L. J. Sperry, a widowed sixty-five years old has died suit against James D. Faxon, sixty-nine years old, alleging breach of promise and asking $10,000 damages. Mr. Faxon is a wealthy shoe merchant. Spanish, Workmen Strike. Bilbao, Spain—a General strike was declared by Baxion. The Workmen's union. Troops are held in readiness for an expected outbreak of disorder. DEFENDS PUBLIC MEN CHAMP CLARK SAYS CORRUPTION CRY IS EXAGGERATED. Speaker Believes Unpurchasable Majority Will Continue to Rule Nation—Mass of People Honest. Louisiana, Mo. — Speaker Champ Clark of the house of representatives was entertained here by the home folks, the greater part of the population of the Ninth Missouri congressional district joining to greet him on his home coming from Washington. In his address the speaker asserted that upright and honest politicians are the rule, and not the exception in America. "Instead of there being too many politicians, there are not enough," he said. "In a country whose institutions are based upon popular suffrage every man should be a politician, and every man owns a section of the energy and talents to the service of the state. I do not mean by that that every man should run for office. That is a poor business at best. "What I do mean is that every citizen should, so far as in him lies, study the problems which confront us, and help, so far as he can, to solve them for the betterment of government, the improvement of society, and the perpetuity of the republic. "It sometimes urged that there is so much corruption in politics that good men are defiled by participation therein. That excuse is not tenable, in fact, it is preposterous. "The probabilities are that there is not a congressional district in America where there is a majority of purchasable voters; and the unpurchasable voters can control every one of them if they would only do their work." "The vast majority of American voters of all parties are absolutely honest. The majority of public men are of high character and patriotic. The corruptionists are only the exceptions, and the voters of the land, without regard to political preference of affiliation, are more and more demanding perfect integrity as a condition precedent to a public career. "That's the truth, and it ought to be preached incessantly to our own people and to these newcomers into our milest." G. A. R. LAUDS CLARA BARTON New York Leader of Patriotic Body Says Veterans Pray for Red Cross Head. New York—As commander of the G. A. R. of New York state Gen. George B. Loud sent the following communication to Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who is ill at Oxford, Mass. "From the hearts of 40,000 Civil war veterans in the great Empire state goes up a prayer to the great white throne for the recovery of the woman yourself — whose sublime work for suffering humanity has never been paralleled anywhere in the civilized world." Big Warships Keel Is Laid. New York. — The keel of Uncle Sam's latest and greatest dreadnought, the battleship New York, was laid at the New York navy yard in the presence of Rear Admiral Leute, commander of the New, York navy yard, officers at the yard and scores of workmen. German Dirigible Fella Berlin, Germany—During the army maneuvers the driest balloon "MB" caught fire and fell near the village of Grossbelow. The crew saved themselves by jumping as they neared the ground. The airship was almost destroyed. Poverty Is Growing. New York—There is more suffering from poverty in New York this summer than last year, according to the Association for Relieving the Condition of the Poor. Umpire Killed by a Ball. Boston, Mass.—Struck on the head by a baseball when umpiring a game at Riverside-on-the-Charter, Meyer Schlesberg is dead at the Boston Relief hospital, where he was taken after the accident. Big Atlanta (Ga.) Tabernaile Opened. Atlanta, Ga.—The Broughton tabernaile, said to be the largest religious adifice in the south, by the Baptist congregation of which the Rev. Len G. Broughton is pastor, was opened here. ASK REMOVAL POWER GOVERNORS URGE RIGHT TO OUST INCOMPETENT OFFICIALS. O'Neal of Alabama and Wilson of N. Jersey Clash Over Initiative and Referendum. Spring Lake, N. J.-The experience meeting of the governors of 34 states, with Governor Cruce of Oklahoma as presiding elder, was enlivened by a spirited verbal battle between Governor Wilson of New Jersey and Governor O'Neal of Alabama, garding the "caprice of the morality" and "mob rule"; by a spirited attack on the divorce ed by Governor Carey of Wyoming, and a plea for sympathy by Governor Kitchen of North Carolina, who has neither the power of reinforcement nor removal. Governor O'Neal of Alabama spoke on "Strengthening the Power of the Executives." He reviewed the conditions in his state, discussed the early constitutions of revolutionary times and declared there was a crying need in most states for their amendment. Two methods in which the powers of state executives throughout the Union ought to be strengthened were discussed by Governor Edwin L. Norris of Montana. He agreed with Governor O'Neal that the first vital step to be taken is to bestow upon governors the power to move efficient state laws and to empower the end of the criminal and remedial laws. The second is to grant the governor the right to initiate and refer legislation to the voters for their approval or rejection. Governor Wilton of New Jersey and Governor O'Neal measured wards over the initiative and referendum before the conference of the governor, as champion of the measure, Wilson, as champion of the measure, O'Neal, who had previously denounced them as "an insidious popular vagary." There was no mincing of words in the Alabaman's denunciation of the initiative, referendum and recall. "There is a movement which seems to be gathering strength in certain sections of the country," he said, "that tends to weaken rather than strengthen executive authority, that is the system initiative, referendum and recall." The governor has no power to veto or amend a law initiated by the people and adopted by referendum. If the law is in violation of the constitution, invades vested rights or destroys individual liberty, the only remedy can be found in the courts; and where the system of recall of judges prevails, overthrowing as it does the independence of the judiciary, the courts would defer judicial organization chiefly to register popular judgment on legal questions. Governor Wilson did not reply until several western g-vernors had spoken. Among other things he said: "What I would urge as against the views of Governor O'Neal is that there is nothing inconsistent between the strengthening of the powers of the executive and the direct power of the people." THIRTY HURT IN CYCLONE Town of Hobart, Mich. is Swept by Terrific Storm—Property Damage $500,000. Cadillac, Mich.—Thirty persons injured, six seriously; sixty dwelling and business buildings leveled to the ground and property damage of more than $500,000 is the result of the cyclone which swept the town of Hobart and Wexford county. Louis Lillian other members with their family and Miss Lillian Swanson, were buried under the debris of the demolished post office building in Hobart, probably will die, according to physicians. All the other injured in hospitals here will recover, it is expected. Portland, Me. — While most of the first unofficial returns have been revised by mail reports from town clerks, the re-suit of the election still is in doubt. One clerk returned one set of figures to the secretary of state and the exact opposite to the press. This discrepancy makes a difference of 328 in the total. It is believed only the official canvas of the vote by the governor and council will definitely determine the issue. Pastor's Salary Too High. Cape Girardeau, Mo.—Rev. Eugene F. Abbott of the First Presbyterian church has resigned, giving as one reason that his salary of $2,000 per annum was excessive considering the amount appropriated in charitable and other church work. He has accepted a call to a church at Fulton, Mo. where his salary will be $1,800 per annum. Pontiac, Ill.-Rev. Robert M. Wood of the First Baptist church at Momence, has resigned his pastorate, declaring that the church does not pay its pastors enough salary. He will engage in farming. He has been a pastor for 17 years. Eleven Uhlans are Drowned. Dresden, Saxony.-Eleven Uhlans were drowned in the Elbe during the army tragedy occurred near Piraa where the cavalry scouts endeavored to cross. Bare Binford Pictures. New York.-Commissioner of L-censes Wallace has informed Isaac Levi, who controls the moving pictures for which Beulah Binford posed, that the pictures could not be shown in Greater New York. Gen. Funston's Father is Dead. Iola, Kan.-Former congressman Edward H. Funston, seventy-five years old, father of Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, commanding the department of the Philippines, died at his home of heart disease. HELDFOR BIG THEFT FEDERAL OFFICERS ARREST & POTTER, ALLEGED LEADER OF "CON" MEN. Alleged Gold Brick King Arrested After Long Search—Government Refuses Bonds of $50,000 for Re- lease of Accused Man. Chicago.—S. O. Potter, alleged leader of a band of confidence man, who is said to have earned $1,500,000 through sales of "gold bricks" and green goods, was arrested by federal authorities. Seated in a Turkish chair in the parlor of his luxurious home in 1928 East Fifth-age room. Potter smoked a cigar and reading a newspaper when the officers arrived. The sum of $60,000 offered for Potter's release was refused, and the jailor was taken to the county jail following a preliminary hearing before United States Mahal Shay. Potter was arrested by C. F. DeWoody, division superintendent of the United States secret service here, on charge of operating a confidence game in Wisconsin. In addition, his operative, James H. Hovey, have covered the principal cities of the world and his loot to have amounted to not less than $1,600,000. Potter is alleged to operate with a gang, chief of whom is his special a. Steaver, Edward Starkloff, alias B. A. Steaver, E. A. Seaton, E. A. Bledon, E. A. Sely, A. B. Cline, Frank Norris, Francis Norris, Frank Allen, Ellis Sherley and E. A. Sands. Starkloff is said to use the name of Alam. He and Potter are known to the police in the "Gold Dust Twins." Between them they are said to have separated "seekers" from thousands of dollars. Potter and his friends are reported to have cleaned up a $1,500,000 in cash in the last few years, and have carried on their schemes successfully in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Potter, arrested here under the name of George W. Post, is now under indictment on six counts on complaints of Fred W. Hannen of Evansville, Wis.; Josiah Millepaugh of Brooklyn, Wis.; Joseph G. Genesee Depot, and G. A. Robich, Wis. horn and W. F. Feind, all of Jefferson, Wis. They declare that they received his literature, inviting them to purchase "money" on discount, and complained to the federal officials. Chicago, New York and Philadelphia were the favorite camping grounds of Potter and his crowd in America, but a year ago Potter and Starklow were arrested in the latter city and indicted for operating a confidence game. They furnished a cash amount of $23,000 and disappeared, and the department of justice offered a reward for them. Potter will be taken to Philadelphia when the Wisconsin matter is disposed of. WARD STARTS IN AIR FLIGHT Young Aviator Gota Gets away From New York in Coast-to-Coast Journey—Lose Bearings. New York—Lost in a great mass of railroad tracks, Aviator Jimmy Ward of Chicago, the second of the contestors for the Hearst $50,000 coast-to-coast aerial prize, made only 22 miles actual headway during his first day work. After flying at least fifty miles in the day, making three stops, the Chicago boy made but 22 miles direct progress. Ward started from Governors island on his long flight at 9:08 in the morning. A pilot engine decked with flags awaited Ward at the yards of the Erie railroad. But confused by the distance of his mistaking the tracks of the Lehigh Valley railroad for those of the Erie sped on to Ashbrook, N. J., before he realized his mistake. After alighting at Ashbrook for his bearings, Ward again took to the air and once more was confused by the multitude of railroad tracks. This time Ward's winding way led him to East Orange where he again alighted. Obtaining his correct course at last Ward winged his way aloft for the third time and alighted at Paterson, 22 miles from his starting point. Gold Run, Cal.-Iron serve, lightning wits alone saved the life of Anator Robert G. Brower, contestant for the $50,000 ocean-to-ocean prize here. His rudder quit when he was several hundred feet in the air. Half a mile further on were the deepest canyons on the great Sierra. The aviator started making great circles, using the control of his machine alone, and after two desperate sweeps in the air, came to earth, but bruised and strained. In the descent he smashed into two giant pine trees. Bardstown, Ky.—Historic St. Joseph's college, once a place of refuge for exiled King Louis Philippe of France, abandoned as a seat of Catholic learning, except for twenty years after the war, was reopened here with impressive ceremonies. McNamara Trial October 11. Los Angeles, Cal.—Judge Walter Brown announced that the trial of John J. James II, the Queen of Namara, alleged dynamite J. James II, compilers, would begin October 11. Counterfeiters on the Coast Washington—The secret service believes that a dangerous gang of national bank note counterfeiters which has been lying low for a year is again operating on the Pacific coast. A counterfeit $10 note on the Passedon (Cal.) National bank, brought to secret service headquarters, was declared to be the work of the gang. Aster's Son Going to Harvard. Newport, R. I.—Vincent Aster, son of John Jacob Aster, will enter Harvard this fall. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The time is ripe, if ever it was for every negro of respectability, energy and thrift, to own their own residence, if they already do not own us. The man who works six days in each week and without ceasing should at least keep records of each week's wages, so that in a moment the nucleus will have been secured towards the first payment on a home. We have from time to time written article after article upon this subject. We have pleaded with, threatened and abused whenever we thought it would do some good on this line, and we believe results have been attained. We have also obtained there activity in the purchase of estate by the colored people of this city. We mean by that the purchase of small places for homes, not as investments. If this is done in proportion to the numbers represented by the negroes in the population of this city, according to the advantages of fered them, we ammunition equalized as it is today, there is no earthly reason why they should not purchase a home whenever they so desire. Men may claim that the negro is full of idiosyncrasy, that he is thrifless, and that he will not work regularly and stick to it. This certainly is untrue and when reduced to facts and figures it can be shown that the labor of the entire south is today handled by the negro and in many places he is clamoring for work and cannot get it. This is different here, for in South Carolina and especially adjacent to Charleston there is and has been sufficient work for all who may apply and write for the negro three and half to fifty per cent better than a few years ago. Occasionally or at certain seasons some classes of labor might decrease or slacken up for a month or so, but taken as a whole, the year round, the laborer is truly worthy of his hire. Then let the man who is at the head of a family consider these things, save his money and build him a home, however humble, for the protection of his family in the days when age and infirmity will cause him to cease from active labor.—Charleston (S. C..) Messenger. Rev. H. H. Prostor, speaking on "Egypt and Its Light on the Relation of the Races" in Atlanta said: "Egypt is the gateway of Africa, the cradle of civilization and the mother of the Holy Land. Caliro, the center of Egyptian Life, presents many contrasts between the new and the old world, but its chief interest is historic. Its pyramids constitute the earliest monuments to human industry. It is evident from a study of the great museum in Cairo that a great people occupied this territory. They were great in agriculture, art, science and religion. It is also clear that blacks played a great part in this civilization. Among the evidences of this are the busts and plasterings kings seen in the museum in Kings Cairo, the numerous colors. The features of the Sphinx are those of a negro and the colossal statue of Ramesses II. excavated at Memphis, shows him to be of black origin. The Pharaoh before whom Moses pleaded was the son of Ramesses I. and was, therefore of Negritian origin." James Shelton, Indianapolis, member of the ways and means committee, called upon E. Lung, Chinaman for a subscription, says an exchange Shelton told Lung that he would guarantee that he would wash 5,000 more shorts during the K. of P. encampment. Lung didn't believe it and requested Nigeea shint to wash Nigeea angrily. Nigeea shint "shirtee." Shelton insisted that 5,000 negroes represent at least 5,000 shirts and that Lung ought to subscribe for he would see that they would bring all their shirts to his Landry. The Chinaman laughed and rik: "I g'e you dolle, but Nigeea ain't got 5,000 shirtee. Nigeea shirtes are no good. They lose checke. Don't you send you checke." Tell Nigeea no checke no shirtes. Give辽e doll." Mr. Shelton accepted Lung's dollar and declared he would never try to induce a Chinaman to subscribe to another negro enterprise as long as he lives—Dallas Express. Dr. Booker T. Washington's appearance in the Alabama case at the White House as that of a patriotic citizen of Alabama as that of a defender of the civic privileges of his race and a foe to the reactionary forces that would relegate the negro to the background. Doctor Washington is in no sense a politician. He gives his opinion of public matters when an expression can do good. He does his duty as a wideawake American should—Texas Freedman. Pessimism is not a word or term with which to conjure, if you would lift men up or prepare them to unlock for themselves those causes that contain the essentials of a useful, practical life. The man, woman or child who is pessimistic is foredoomed to failure—Ex. It goes without saying that one bad and worthless negro can do more real harm in a minute than all the good negroes put together to accomplish in a year in matters of racial uplift and that which tends to progress, race advancement and all else pertaining to our well-being and material welfare. For instance, consider what was done in a racial way at Little Rock, Ark. in a rock and that which is charged up to our race by that vicious and good-for-nothingness a day or two ago in Purcell, Okla—Texas Free man. Imman E. Page, president of Langston university, Langston City, Oklahoma, in his speech, before the National Negro Business league at Little Rock, Ark. told the negro was doing in education, and how he was being educated. He said he started just thirteen years ago with 40 acres of land, without the mule, 40 students and four teachers. The state then appropriated $5,000 for the support of the school for two years. He recounted the success year by year, until at present it has $280,000 in the national government had given 100,000 acres of land for the endowment of a negro school. The change in political parties did not make any change in the interest of the white people in the negro's progress, because just after the change the main building was destroyed by fire, and the legislature appropriated $100,000 for the erection of another building, which ran across the street, and turning out teachers to teach the negro race, lawyers to plead for the negro, and doctors to cure the negro race," he said. Other addresses were delivered by J. E. Johnson, cashier of the People's Bank and Trust company; John W. Simmons of Coweta, "The Negro in Oklahoma;" I. W. Young, M. D. Boley, R. W. Tolliver, D. D. Boley and R. Emmett Stewart, the negro lawyer. Stewart spoke of his lucrative practice, and asked for a stenographer at once, saying that he was in position to pay a salary of $100 a month. Quite a large crowd of colored people and a considerable number of representative white people gathered in Bethel church in Atlanta to hear the address of W. T. Vernon, ex-register of the treasury, who is now connected with the interior department as supervisor of education. His present appointment was made some time ago by President Taft and comes as a reward for his able work in Kansas, where he is a leader. His address was an interesting and instructive one. He urged that there should be peace and a cordial understanding between the races here in the south, and that this was the first and most important site for progress. He said, readily, while people are the real friends of the law-shading colored citizens. I am the child of slave parents, "he continued, "and we are here to stay, to live in this country, where we have been for the last three hundred years, and we mean to remain here. We must work out our death as other people have done, and must pay and must make sacrifices." He was introduced by Bishop J. S. Flipper of Arkansas, and the closing remarks were by the pastor, Dr. C. M. Tanner. Vernon came here from Hampion institute, and will go from here to Tukegee, following the work of his department. The census reports thus far issued show in regard to agricultural conditions in the south two things: First, in both the South Atlantic and the south central states the value of farm lands and farm buildings has considerably more than doubled. They have increased from $2,187,360,380 in 1900 to $2,476,152,600 in 1910, an increase of $2,169,820,000. In the south central states the increase has been even greater. The value of farm lands and buildings in 1900 was $2,072,672,000 and in 1910 it was $4,887,353,000, an increase of $2,764,681,000. Second, during this time the number of farms has steadily increased, showing that the plantations are breaking up and the era of the small farmer has been over. The number of negro land owners has increased much more rapidly than the number of white land owners. This certainly looks as if the negro was not going backward in the south, no matter how much the planters how about negro labor.—New York Age. When a backward race gets far enough advanced to attract widespread attention and command a healthy opposition, no better evidence of its progress is needed. When the negro was a slave he had no opposition because he was not in competition with the white man. But fifty years of freedom have brought him to the point where he is dressed on in college and on in the magistrate and newspapers, discussed in politics, preached on from the pulpit, argued about in homes and even made the subject of drama. None but a rising people could command all this attention.—Ex. Debt is an awful burden upon any human being, who has experienced it. Some of our people will get into it, seeing no way of getting out, then they will be harassed. Recently we saw several of these victims being tormented and humiliated by these loan sharks, who make double their money loaned by practicing uury. Dealing with this system only means shame and disgrace to you in a long run. Try to economize and get on foot.-Palestine Plaindealer. Every negro bank, negro store, negro shop and all negro enterprises, every educated negro boy and girl helps to solve the societal negro problem and lift that much-talked of "white man's burden." Lets line up and promote enterprise, race patronage and thorough business and literary education.-Palestine (Tex.) Plaindealer. The frivolous fuss maker and the squabbler has made conditions harder for the negro than any other class of our people. Is Urged by Booker T. Wash- ington. PATRONIZE RACIAL TRADE PLEADS WITH ORGANIZATION TO TEACH MEMBERS OF RACE SELF CONTROL. Chicago.—Racial pride without drawing the color line was advocated by Beverly Washington, the state's governor, to collisum to a crowd of 1,000 persons, the address being delivered in connection with the encampment of the colored Knights of Pyrrhia. He took the position that the colored man should give the colored man the preference in business, just as the white man gives the white man the preference. He urged the colored people to encourage thrift, industry and honesty in their everyday life, and said that while the colored people labor under many handicaps and divide their country this country must turn these handicaps to their own advantage and work out the problems that confront them. Mr. Washington was introduced by E. G. Tirdrington, Indiana grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, who referred to him as the greatest living negro and the leader of the negro race. Mr. Washington said in part: "At the present time there are certain functions which a fraternal organization can perform for the race after a manner; that no other body can do. One of the functions of this organization is to teach pride of faith in them and to teach them to themselves. No race of people can preper unless that race is proud of itself, proud of its past and of its present. I have no sympathy or patience with any black man of America who is not proud of the fact that he is an American negro. There are in some parts of the country, I am sorry to say, some colored people who are so weak and shortsighted that they would prefer to be third-rate white people rather than first-rate colored people. I prefer to be third-rate white people, except and by example that there is as much glory in being a first-class colored man as in being a first-class white man. "We are as a nation within a nation in this country. There are more black people in the United States than the entire population of Canada. The number of black people in this country is greater than the total population of Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The number of black people than the entire population of Mexico. We should be proud of our race. Just as the Englishman, as the Frenchman, the German and the Irishman are proud of their races, so should we be proud of our race. "We should be proud to belong to a race that has a struggle ahead, and which has a problem for every day in the year. History shows that when a problem is solved it finally disappears. "Whenever you get two black men and two white men together you have a race problem." "While we should be the last to draw the color line, at the same time we should see to it that in every wise and legitimate way our people are taught to patronize racial enterprise. If a colored man has a grocery store he should receive his share of racial patronage. If he has a shoe store he should get some of our dollars. If a colored man is a builder and contractor he should get a chance to build some of our houses and churches. If a colored man conducts a bank or a real estate concern he should get some of our money. "The trouble with our people is this: There are shoe stores in every city where, when a negro woman stops to buy a pair of shoes, she cannot have them tried on or fitted. They will not permit her to wear the shoes. The store they will be sent out to her and she fits them on herself. Yet, if a colored man opened a shoe store in that town the colored people would pass his place and go right back to the store where the colored woman could not have her shoes fitted. "There are millinery stores where a colored woman cannot have a hat fitted. She must try it on at home. Yet, if a colored milliner opened a store in the neighborhood, the colored women would pass it by and go right back to the store where they are not allowed to try on a hat." "Another part of the work of fraternal organization in this generation is to teach our people how to govern themselves, to direct, to control themselves. This means the teaching of the race to subordinate selfish and narrow ambitions in the interest of the general welfare. "Some people say that the negro cannot govern negroes; that they will not follow a leader or a foreman of their own race. They say the colored man must have a white boss. I say this is not true. The colored man does not need a white boss at any time. "It is a function of a fraternal organization to teach our people to have respect for racial workers, racial leadership; to teach our people to hold up the hands of the oppressed, the responsibility of leadership, and racial guidance thrust upon them. This organization in the past has held up the hands of its leaders, and I predict and urge that it will do so in the future." Hyker—What do you mean by say- ing that young Shortleigh embarked on the matrimonial sea in the steer- age? Pyker—Well, you see, his salary is only seven dollars a week—Wash- ington Star. "Do you think women should propose?" asked the passage lady. "I don't know" mused the young thing. "Have you tried everything else?" THE BLACK MAMMY MEMORIAL GEORGIA'S EVIDENCE OF APPRECIATION OF THE OLD ANTEN- BELLUM NEGRO, IN PRACTICAL FORM ABOUT TO BE IN MATERIAL SHAPE IN ATHEM. She hands beneath the weight of years with flexible feet and slow. Tot in her heart there throbs and whines Fet in her heart three throbs and shines the light of long ear; Of days when on her dear old faces they played an angel smile. As in her blessed arms she held and cropped to sleep "her chile." In her race shore with its ebon glow. And yet the "old black mammy's soul was white as driven snow; Her tollwands hands were kind and true through air he bonded year. To mistise and the little ones in gladness Her ranks are waning year by year on southern hill and plain, and the mongolian gone's she'll never come again; Yet somewhere on the radiant hills be Her dear old arms will fold again o'Mistun and "her chile." God his faithful feet shall touch the shining shore; God keep her with his faith once at rest forevermore! Athens, Ga. — In a few days it is hoped there will be begun the first work of actual building upon an institution which is unique in its nature and original in its naming—the Black Mammy Memorial institute. There have been news notes and coarse allusions to the project in the public press, only recently has the institution been really crystallized into what it will actually be in its beginning. As it is the plans are for an expenditure three or four times what the author of the idea believed he could raise to put in it a year ago. Beginning on hopes of raising a theatre, he began to build a modest building, the plan became known and from every section of the state, from Old Virginia and from the southerners in the northern state and from as ardent northernners came suggestions and advice which expanded the plans to somewhat meet the requirements of offices which the "racial peace monument" should mean. Instead of five acres of land twenty-five have been bought on an eminence in full sight of the University of Georgia and with a view out over the immense tract embraced in the extension territory of the university and state college of agriculture—all but in sight of the homes of Grads, the Cobbs, and Boone, and Hill—which were frequently by hundreds who made the Old South the paradise of history and the elysium of romance. The charter of the association reveals the object of the institution: "To maintain a school to prepare colored boys and young men and colored girls and young women for the practical duties of life by training them for domestic service and for service in the military. We believe give them such academic training as will best fit them for carrying out the main objects of this school." There "is to be no capital stock and there is no pecuniary gain to be made." The teachers are to be paid moderate salaries and the one who has been instrumental in bringing the great plan of the memorial institute to a desired consummation has been giving his nights and days to his labor of love while he made a living teaching in the city schools of Athens. The young negro teacher whose work has brought to pass the practical memorial which shall not only serve as a monument of stone but a living remembrance in active hearts and lives of a newer sort of trained negro youth, is himself a grandson of the "old black mammy" of the days that were. Mrs. John D. Moss, a member of one of the wealthiest families of the state, has taken a care to find out something about this young man, who is the story of his struggle and his success, of his quiet seven years of effort and thought in the interest of the institution which he is now to lead. Sam F. Harris was born in Athens thirty-six years ago and his grandfather, whose name he bears, was a slave in a wealthy Georgia family, who "hired out" his time as a skilled shoe maker and made considerable money at this vocation. Young Sam Harris was located in schools and the Atlanta university. Coming back from college he was in charge of the colored schools at Gainesville when that system was first organized, under Prof. R. E. Park, now head of the English department at the university—being the first colored teacher ever paid a salary in Gainesville. After a year there he was made principal of the school, and he has had that position ever since. Even in this place he soon added "industrial" to the high school's name. A meeting of some of the most prominent educators and business and professional men in Athens was held at the office of Judge John J. Strickland in the interest of the project. Those present were: William T. Bryan, president of the Athens Electric railway and industrial builder of this section; Billupe Phinzy, president of the Southern Mutual Insurance company and capitalist; P. Vincent of the Georgia National bank; John E. Talmadge, Sr., president of Talmadge Mills and head of the wholesale house of Talmadge; John D. Talmadge, president Moss Cotton company; E. R. Hodgson, president Empire State Chemical company; A LAWYER'S WAY. "Do I believe in lawyers?" said the little man, bitterly. "No, sir, I do not." "Why is that?" somebody asked. "Because," replied the little man, "a lawyer will never say outright what he means. He twists things about so. Suppose he wanted to tell the lawyer that he would begin: "If, by that particular arithmetical rule known as addition, we desire to arrive at the sum of two David G. Harrow, chancellor of the university; Judge H. S. West, and Judge J. J. Stirling, with Prof. Sam Harris. The organization applied for and was granted a charter and additional men were interested. A board of trustees was elected; W. T. Bryan, Athena, president; John E. Talmadge, Sr. Athena; John D. Moss, Athena; Robert F. Maddox of Atlanta, H. H. Dean of Gainesville, and C. J. Hood of Commerce. Colored directors were named and among them were the four who first met and worked out a plan with Harris for an industrial school; H. Hawkins, M. Hawkins, Chunna, H. Hawkins, W. A. and M. G. Glilam, L. Hunt Jackson Spalding, and F. S. Harris. It is planned to build the Memorial hall according to the adopted outline by the architect—old southern style, at a cost of $15,000. There will be built also two domitories costing $10,000 each. The institution already owns 25 acres of land in the suburbs of Athens—enhanced since it was purchased and estimated at a valuation of $5,000. The south will be asked to contribute to this fund of $25,000 to erect this working monument to the city. Then the old south ever knew. The responses it is confidently believed will make the modest sum for initial building look modest indeed. The courses that are designed to be taught include industrial and academic lines. Housekeeping, cooking, sewing, nurse training, laundering, dairying, poultry raising, agriculture, carpentry, masonry, English or common school education, municipal or rural areas. These courses, the principal says, are designed to meet the needs of those who will make some phase of domestic or industrial labor their life occupation, not as teachers or leaders, but as intelligent industrial workers and citizens. It is that the masses, the average, everyday, common school age, say opportunity to fit himself for real, useful living and service, this line of education will be followed. And the institution will serve not only Georgia, but the country at large. GOVERNOR PRAISES RACE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF ARKANSAS TELLS DELEGATES TO BUSINESS LEAGUE CONVENTION THAT NEGROES ARE A REMARKABLE PEOPLE. Little Rock, Ark—All the delegates to the twelfth annual session of the National Negro Business league left this city with words of praise for Governor Donaghey, who made a notable address to the delegates at Kempner's theater. Governor Donaghey was applauded often. He said in part: "Some men might be embarrassed to come here under such circumstances, but I am not in the least, because I know who I am talking to. I know who I was, and with I know them and understand them, and they know me. There is no trouble between us. Everything is all right. I know your strong points and I know your unnesses. "I am greatly pleased to welcome you. You are a remarkable people—remarkable more than for your color or your plantation melodies. Behold the astounding progress you have made in 50 years. "What are the prominent elements in the solution of the race problem? First, your unfalling good humor. The Irish—my own people. Our quality, but not to the degree a deserved one, it has carried and is carrying you through your hardships. You are said to be an imitative race, but you never suicide or suffer from nervous trouble. Another distinguishing character of your race is your loyalty and your devotion. No race is so loyal and devoted as you." THE NEW POSTMASTER. Frank H. Hitchcock, the postmaster general, tells a story to illustrate that sometimes mistakes are made in the service of which he has charge. A rural postmaster, it was found, never answered any of the official communications and directions sent to him, but he was always correct. Finally, an inspector was sent to his office to find out what the trouble was. "Here is a bunch of letters and documents," the postmaster explained to the investigator, "and I don't know what to do with them. They have on them the initials P. M., and nobody with those initials lives in this community." The inspector muttered something about "heads of solid ivory" and said, in emphatic language, that "P. M." stood for postmaster."—Popular Magazine. HI8 LULLABY. "Good morning, Mr. Schneetopperp! "exclaimed the good lady of the house as the new second-floor back took his place at the breakfast table. "Goot mor-r-ring!" replied the musician, bowing gallantly. "I'm so afraid you didn't pass a comfortable night," pursued the hostess, sympathetically. "Can we do anything for you!" "Not koomfortable? Me?" exclaimed the long-heared one. "Ach, jia. I slee' like so humming bird! I was owl rite. Joost before I to go bed I br-ractice mit mein feedle—" "Oh, was that it?" interrupted the hostess, with a look of glad relief. "I'm so pleased. We thought you were shifting the bed."—Answers. added to two, we should find—and I say this boldly, without fear of contradiction. I repeat, we should find by that particular articulatory formula herein before mentioned—and, sir, I take its responsibility for the statement I am now about to make—that the two of the two, added to the other two, would be four'. No, sir, I do not believe in lawyers." There's always something to suspect in a kindly stranger's solicitude, even though it be the loan of a light. COLORED Y. M. C. A. OF CHICAGO IS GETTING THE MONEY Chicago.—The South side department of the Young Men's Christian association has entered upon a second campaign in their efforts to secure a $150,000 fund for the South side. In their first campaign they secured from the colored citizens of Chicago more than $67,000 in pledges. They entered into entering upon a second campaign to make a pleasing pleaded seriously. Appeal after appeal has been made, and thousands of letters sent, but for some reason, best known to the subscriber, no payments at all have been made on some of the subscriptions, and others have paid only part of what should have been paid up to date. Of the total subscription, of $67,000, less than $13,000 has been paid. With this, all expenses of the campaign have been a beautiful site, at the northeast corner of Thirty-eighth street and Wabash avenue purchased. At a recent meeting the house committee increased its number from 20 to 25, from which the following executive committee was elected: Dr. George C. Hall, R. C. Kelley, William D. Neighbors, A. H. Roberts and J. W. Flasher. This change will enable the house committee to transact its business with greater dispatch than has been possible heretofore, and a lively time is promised the subscriber who is in arrears. Members of the committee will be able to visit the various churches and secret organizations, and appeal to the members who have subscribed to pay up their subscriptions on or before the first of September, when the next or third installment comes due. The South side department has every good reason to believe, that if they succeed in raising $25,000 more, the central department will assist in collecting the larger pledges, which will make it possible to begin building at once, so that all outside work can be done and the workmen be on the inside before winter sets in. To that end every person who has promised is urged to make good as soon as possible. In order that those who work during business hours may be accommodated, office is being kept open until nine o'clock in the evening. Papments may also be made by creek, draft or money order, payable to James B. Forgan, treasurer, and mailed to the office. Officers and members of the committee seem to entertain no doubts as to the immediate response on the part of the public when they realize the importance of the movement and the position the people of Chicago occupy. Upon this point Dr. George C. Hall, chairman of the executive committee said. This is a big undertaking, a big business proposition, and the people must be made to realize its importance, and when they do, they will pay. Mr. Morris Lewis, executive secretary, thinks that the "colored people of Chicago are facing a very grave situation and one that needs a great deal of sacrifice in the payment of pledges on the part of subscribers. The eyes of the public of Chicago are upon us and we are also being the people of the nation. We must push toward our goal of $50,000 cash as rapidly as possible, and I feel confident we will get it, when the subscribers are made to understand how important it is that they meet their obligations." NEGRO EDUCATOR ENTERTAINED BY NEGROES AT FORREST CITY. Forrest City, Ark—Booker T. Washington's triumphal tour of Arkansas, came to a close in this city, and at Madison. The Washington party, which was made up of Booker T. Washington, E. J. Scott and N. Hunt of Tuskegee, Ala.; J. C. Nopier, register of the treasury, Chicago; D. C. S. Lalng Williams, United States district attorney, Chicago; F. H. Gilbert, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Alexander, grand master, Mosaic Lamps, Liturgical Arts, Birmingham, Ala.; M. A. McKission, grand master of the Colored Odd Fellows, Holly Springs, Miss.; Spencer Patterson, St. Dennis, MD; Professor Mando, New York; C. J. Jones, Trenn, N. J.; Doctoroms Mary and Barravan of Mariana, was met by a brass band upon its arrival here and the procession, taken up from this city to Madison; covered more than a mile. At the latter place Washington's party was entertained at the home of Scott Bond, for dinner, after which Washington spoke to about 400 people, 800 people, about 500 white people in attendance at a barbecue given in his honor. Washington was given an ovation upon his arrival at the speaker's stand at 2:30 o'clock, at which time he made a back-to-the-farm speech that lasted about an hour and thirty minutes. THE SAMPLE James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, ended a recent address in Washington on the autumn crops with a crop story. "A commission agent," he said, "looked carefully at a handful of wheat that had been brought by a farmer's boy, and then inquired: "How much more has your master got of this, my bad?" "He ain't got no more of it," said the boy; "it took him all the mornin' to pick that out."—Los Angeles Times. "I'm afraid my work is going to be complicated," said the new teacher. "In what way?" "Mrs. Cumrox was looking through the text book on arithmetic, and it occurred to her to suggest that I refrain from teaching her daughter any examples in improper fractions."—Washington Star. When the tide comes in, we have proof that there are as many fish in the sea as out of it, only more so. --- ACTUAL VALUE IS $13,903,913 Total Production Worth Millions and Iowa, Ranka Only Second to Missouri in River States West of the Mississippi River. Des Moines, Sept. 15.—An increase of nearly 200,000 tons of coal in the total production of coal in Iowa in 1910 over any other year in the history of the state is noted in the report just issued by E. W. Parker, coal statistician for the United States geological survey. Copies of the report were received at the state house yesterday. According to the report the total production was 7,928,120 short tons, valued at $13,903,913. This is an increase of 170,358 tons over the 1909 total, and an increase in value of more than $1,000,000. During the year the Iowa mines gave employment to 16,665 men, who worked an average of 218 days. Of these men, 9,209 were on strike during the year. The average period of idleness was forty-four days, according to the report. The average production per man was 476 tons for the year. Most of the mines in the state work an eight hour day. Only twenty-two counties in Iowa mined coal in 1909 and 1910. In the amount of coal mined, Iowa ranks second only to Missouri of the states west of the Mississippi river. Mr. Parkes and Mr. Worsell were the only states west of the Mississippi reporting coal outputs in the census of 1910. At that time, Iowa's production was given as 400 tons and Missouri's at 10,000 tons. TWO CROPS IN ONE SEASON Peter Bonhop of Rock Rapids Expe pects Twenty Bushels Oats From Second Cutting Now On. Rock Rapids, Sept. 15—Peter Bonhop, a farmer residing near here, is now cutting the second crop of oats from a field that he planted last spring and from which he has already cut one crop this season. The first crop was a partial failure, due to the work of the grasshoppers cutting off the heads of the ripened grain. The oats that fell off either took root and grew or the parent stock soaked out at the root; result- ing in the second crop. Mr. Monhop states that the new crop will probably yield him close to twenty bushels per acre of good oats. PROVIDES HOME FOR AGED Ole Cloven Late Resident of Lake Mills Leaves $50,000 for its Support. Mason City, Sept. 15—One of the strangest wills ever filed for probate in this county is that of the late Ole Cloven, who died a month ago at his home in Lake Mills, aged 61 years. With the exception of $1,000 which is to be divided among six relatives, his entire estate of $50,000 is to be used by his executors to build a home for aged poor. It is stipulated that the home is to be erected at the center of his large farm. Arrested As Blackhander. Dubuque, Sept. 15—Lagdon F. Taylor is under arrest charged with being a blackhander and trying to extort money from Jones county farmers by sending them threatening letters through the mail. Two men and two women may be arrested in connection with the plot. Colafx, Sept. 15.—The surgeons of the Rock Island are holding their ninth annual session here and 156 are in attendance. First aid to the injured was illustrated by a representative of the Red Cross society. Teachers of Agriculture. Ames, Sept. 15.—Prof. A. V. Storm is the head of the new department in the state college for the training of students as teachers of agriculture in high schools, which has opened here with a large attendance. Oskaloosa Minister Resigns Pastorate Oskaloosa, Sept. 15.—Rev. C. W. McCord, pastor of the Christian church here, has resigned to accept the pastorate of a church at Andola, Indiana. Sues for Damages. Keokuk, Sept. 15.—William K. Hodge has sued Captain William A. Blair and the Morning Star Steamship for $50,000 damages for the death of his son, John Roy Hodge, who died in a hospital from typhoid fever contracted while working on the boat. Electrical Worker Electricated. Clair Bluffs, Sept. 15. Ryan, 22 years old, was electricated here today while working with a gang of five men on wires of the Council Bluffs Electric company. Return Body From Philippines. Creston, Sept. 15.—The body of Harry Ickis, son of Lon Ickis, killed in the Philippines by Morlos while he was working for the government three years ago, has been discovered and will be brought back for burial. Galva Barbecue. Ida Grove, Sept. 15.—At the fourth annual fall festival held in Galva yesterday they roasted a whole or at a barbecue and at noon fed the multitude free. The ox was roasted in the middle of the main street. EKOOKU JOTHE. Miss Blanch Kebo very pleasantly entertained a number of her friends Wednesday evening, Aug. 30th, at the home of her uncle Bert Kebo 1414 Morgan. The party was given in honor of Miss Fiona Wilson of Galesburg and Miss Mable Bland of this city. The Rev. W. J. Brown preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon to a very interested audience. Rev. Brown left Monday evening for Pittsburg, Penn., to attend the National Baptist convention. He will visit friends at Graham and also visit his wife at Shawville, Virginia. He will be gone until the latter part of October. Mrs. Emma Brown attended the Baptist association at Ottumwa, last week and will also visit her daughter in Omaha before returning home. Mrs. Webb and Miss Eda Henderson also attended the Baptist association at Ottumwa. Mrs. Elen Dixon attended the Grand Convocation of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor which convened at Council Bluffs last week. Mrs. Dixon will also visit at St. Joseph, Mo., and other points returning home. A very delightful lawn social was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Teabeau 1802 Tima street, Saturday evening, Sept. 2d. It was a splendid success. Friends in the city will be pleased to know that Ralph Teabeau who underwent an operation for Gland Affection has so far recovered as to be able to attend school again. Mr. Ed. Robinson returned home the first part last week from Council Bluffs Iowa, where he attended the Grand Convocation of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Mr. Robinson has the honor of being alerted D, G. M. of the order. Miss Della Bland is suffering with stomach trouble but is much better. A very delightful dancing party was given Thursday night by the Misses Clea Larson, Madie Lewis and Elsa Robins in honor of Miss Flora Wilson of Galesburg and Miss Mable Bland of Keokuk. Miss Bland left last week for Ashville, N. C. where she has accepted a position as teacher. Mrs. Daisy Ware left Tuesday morning for Dos Moines, Iowa, to attend the annual conference which convenes in that city this week. Bliouiness is due to a disordered condition of the stomach. Chamberlain's Tablets are essentially a stomach medicine, intended especially to act on that organ; to cleanse it, strengthen it, tone and invigorate it to regulate the liver and to banish bliouiness positively and effectually. For sale by all dealers SIOUX CITY ITEMS (Last week.) The entertainment given last Thursday evening at the A. M. E. church was quite a success, both socially and financially; the sum of $12.66 being taken in. It was for benefit of the pastor. The Mite Missionary society will meet at the A. M. E. church Wednesday. Mrs. Viola White has been sick the past week with appendicitis, but it much better at this writing. Master Nelson Little John arrived in the city Monday for a short stay and a hand-shake with old friends. He has been traveling with the Congo King troup. The Art Culture club will hold its annual picnic at River Side Park Thursday afternoon. A reception was given last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Morgan in honor of her mother, Mrs. Mills and cousin Miss Ethel Smith. A large number of people being invited. The evening was spent with music and games. A nice three course luncheon was served. Married in our city on last Thursday evening, Aug. 31, at the residence of Mrs. Orpha Ramsey, Rev. J. W. Dowden performed the ceremony. Only a few intimate friends were present. The bride and groom have been residents in the city for several years and quite prominent in society. May their marriage life be bright and happy. Mr. and Mrs. George Tymony of Moberly, Mo., came to our city a short time ago to reside with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. Roberts. Mr. Chas. Watkins came home Tuesday from Minneapolis where he went to attend the funeral of his father, Mr. Isaac Watkins. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jewell has been quite sick. Mrs. Mills, mother of Mrs. Ella Morgan, and consin Miss Ethel Smith left for their home in Kansas City, Mo., after spending several weeks visiting in our city. Died in our city Sept. 4, Dr. T. J. McAllister, of the appendicitis following an operation at the Samaritan hospital. His wife was at his bedside when he passed away. He leaves a wife and a host of relatives in Albany, Miss, to mourn his departure. Mr. McAllister came to our city from St. Joseph, Mo., some four months ago to work at his profession in the M. and L. Dentist office. He had two or three attacks of appendicitis before submitting to an operation. He won many friends within the short time he was in our city by his nices genteel ways and manners. The remains were shipped Tuesday evening to Albany, Miss., his home, for burial, his wife accompanied them. She family have our sympathy. Reu J. W. Dowden, pastor of the A. M. E. church, expects to leave next Tuesday for to attend the A. M. E. annual conference which convenes at Des Moines, beginning Sept. 18th. The best plaster. A place of fannel dampened with Chamberlain's Liniment and bound on over the effected part is superior to a plaster and costs only one tenth as much. For sale by all dealers YOUNKER BROTHERS are offered Miss Lessie Terrell departed for Sedalia, Mo., Wednesday where she will teach in the city school during the coming year. Mr. D. S. Johnson, one of the popular young men of Des Moines was an over Sunday visitor in the Spring City, the guest of J. Owen Redmon. Mrs. Mathias, of Hotel Colfax was a business visitor in Des Moines last Thursday. Mr. Erick Banks of Washington, D. C. spent a few days at the parental home last week. J W. Holmes was a Capitol City visitor last Sunday. Mesdames Jackson and Brant who been indisposed for some time are rapidly improving. J Owen Redmon departed for Grinnell Monday where he will resume his studies in Iowa college. Mr. Walter Williams and Mrs. Mattle Knox were Capital City visitors last Thursday. The many friends of Miss Mattie Thomas regret to hear of her death which occurred in Galesburg, Ill. last week. Miss Thomas was Past District Most Noble Governor of H. H. of Ruth and was loved throughout the district. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family. BOCK ISLAND NEWS. (Special to Herald.) Mrs. Carter Sproles has returned to her home in Streater after a two weeks visit with Mrs. S. Hill. Mrs. H. entertained Monday evening at Incheon in honor of Mrs. Sproles, Mrs. S. and Mrs. C. N. McKimon, Mr. aud Mrs. William Stewart and Miss Hazel Quarles, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hill expect to move in their new home in E. Moline, Sept. 8th. Best Treatment for a Burn If for no other reason, Chamberlain's Salve should be kept in every household on account of its great value in the treatment of burns. It allays the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a severe one, heals the parts without leaving a scar. This salve is also unequaled for chapped hands, sore nipples and disease of the skin. Price 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. Mrs Ruth Bright of Davenport arrived in our city Sunday evening and spent a short while here on business. Mrs. M. Green and daughter spent Friday in Knoville with relatives. Mrs. B Alord Smith left last week for a visit with relatives in Texas. Mrs. Chas Fletcher entertained the Thimble Circle Friday afternoon at her home. Following the business session dainty refreshments were served. Mrs. Chas, A. Anderson has returned from a visit to Davenport. She was accompanied home by John Sage who will spend some time here. The Lewis Concert band were in Bur lington Labor Day where they furnished music for a celebration. It is reported that the young ladies gave much satisfaction. Misses Adah Richardson and Illa Allinn, together with a few friends enjoyed a yicinic Labor Day, at a grove eweve miles south of town. Mrs. Fleming was at home to the Autumn Lleaf club Thursday. After the program a four course luncheon was served the guests. Rev. R. H. Hackley left Monday for Mt. Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Winston have returned from a months visit at Atlanta, Ga. --- FOR PRESENTATION FROM FALLS OUT, MAYHAM AND FRIENDS OF SALF DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTES, AT THE GROUND, PUT IN AND ADD 20 BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S MAKE AND REPEAT BACKYARD. TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE LOTION SKIN FOR THE COMPLEXION MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMmediately UNION APPLICATION, WILL NOT IRITATE THE SKIN, OR INFRARED FOR ECEMA, SALT RHINIA, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND PRECLELS. • • • SOLD BY DROUGHTS. IF YOUR BOUNDLESS CANNOT SUPPLY YOU WE WILL SELL YOU IN THE MARKET IN THE GROUNDLE OF MARROW CO. LEASE ME. 877-222-2222 COLFAX NOTES. GALESBURG ILL P You are not experimenting on yourself when you take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a colds that preparation has won its great reputation and extensive sale sale by its remarkable cures of colds, and can always be deended upon. It is equally valuable for adults and children and may be given to young children with implicit confidence as it contains no harmful drug. Sold by all dealers. BURLINGTON ITEMS. On last Wednesday evening a company of friends gathered at the residence of Mrs. L. Washington and surprised her niece, Mrs. R. Brawley. A very delightful time was enjoyed. Mr. Holmer Oranges of Chicago's visiting his relatives, grandma Tyler and Mr., and Mrs. G. Tyler. Mrs. A. Pleasant was at home to twenty of her friends last Friday evening, complimentary to Mrs. R. Brawley of St. Louis. A delightful time was had. Mrs. J. Trent has returned from a visit in Chicago. Mrs. J. Badgett it visiting her sister Mr. C. Jones of Oakalooa. The birthday party given at the residence of Miss Ida Palmer in honor of her nephew, little Quinton Palmer, was one of the sweetest affairs of the season About twenty little tots attended and certainly enjoyed themselves to the highest and wished their little friend many happy returns of the day. Mrs. R. Brawley departed for Keokuk Saturday to spend the day with relatives. She will leave for her home in St. Louis Sunday, after a delightful visit. Rev. Primer is attenting the Baptist Association in Ottumwa. Mr. A. Pruitt returned Monday from Ottumwa and reports a delightful time. Mr. S. Ray is to be out again after a few days illness. Rev, and Mrs. J. H, Bell and daughter, Mesdams Maud Jones and Mr. Gibson are attending the A. M. E. conference in Des Moines this week. Miss Lorene Howe visited in Gravity last week. Mrs. Josie King left Saturday for Red Oak, where she will remain indefinitely. Mr. G. Nowlings was taken ill Sunday but is better at this writing. Mesdames H. Ferrier and C. H. Cock entrained the ladies of the Art club and their husbands to a six o'clock dinner, Wednesday evening, Sept. 6th, at the home of Mrs. Fervier, in honor of Rev, and Mrs. J. H. Bell. Covers was laid far eighteen while Miss Eva Parker presided at the punch bowl. The club presented Mrs. Bell with a beautiful gold pin as a token of remembrance, all report a delightful time. Misses Vance Jones, Jessie and Ew Parker entertained at 8-course dinner, Sunday, the following guests, Messra. Geo. Williams, Glen King, William Stevens, Virgil Lewis, and Miss Martha Oldham, all of this city. The Sewing Circle of the A. M. E. church, entertained Thursday in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Hell The State Fair closed Saturday night $50,000.00 in the hole owing to the rainy weather, out of the whole week, only one day was fair, hence the small attendance. The reception given Rev Jones by the members and friends of St. James, A. M. E. church was a most pleasing affair McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns For Women Have More Friends than any other magazine or patterns. McCall is the reliable Fashion Guide monthly in one million, one hundred thousand homes. Besides showing all the latest designs of McCall Patterns, each issue is brimful of sparkling short stories and helpful information for women. Save Money and Keep in Style by subscribing to McCall. Costs a very, including any one of the celebrated McCall Patterns free. McCall Patterns Lead all others in style. In store, you can see all the patterns, call McCall Patterns that any other two can be combined. More than 15 cents. 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Solo rendered by the Gertrude Barber and rendered by Mrs. Bettle Jones. The choir rendered several selections; Mr. Ora Hall acted as master of ceremonies. Refreshments were served by the stewardess. In his report Rev. Jones showed an increase in all departments over last year, with $285.00. Resolutions asking for his return was sent to conference. He left Tuesday morning for Des Moines. Rev. Strong and Hardin are also in attendance at conference The One More Effort club met Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. I. Hicks of Thomas street. The hasty pudding committee, headed by Mrs. Bess Roberts, served a chicken stew supper to the delight of all present. Mesdames Zella Reynolds and Bassie Miller have returned from their visit to Indianapolis. Misses Birdella and Grace Harris a card party and dance at their home last Friday evening in honor of Miss Reeder of Keokuk. A large number were present, and enjoyed themselves until a late hour. Mesdames Shortridge and Craig and Miss Reeder returned to their home in Keokuk last week after a pleasant visit in our city the guest of Mrs. Anna B. Harris Miss Bertha Lewis in St. Louis and may remain all winter. Mr. B. J. Edwards is in North Dakota with a hunting party to the Benevolent Association turned out in a body Sunday to have their first annual sermon preached by Rev. Jones at the A. M. E. church. The sermon has been the talk of the town every since. It was simply grand. The Benevolent Association was formerly the White Rose Temple S. M. T. Mrs. Birdie High has returned from a pleasant visit in Chicago. Mr. Dan Roy is reported seriously ill. Word reached us of the recent death of Henrietta, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dunn of Chicago, formerly residents of our city. Mrs. Dunn has the sympathy of a host of friends here. ALBIA, IOWA Mrs. Lucinda Jones returned from Chicago on Sunday of this week. Messrs H. 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Mrs. Lidia Clay is very, ill at her home or East Henry street. home on East Henry Street. Mrs. Wm. Wiette returned to Centerville after a few days visit at the parental home 908 North Main street. street. Mrs. Neal Entertained a company of young people Friday evening in honor of her nephew, Douglas Miller of Des Moines. Cards being the feature of the evening of which a 2-source luncheon, was served. A fine time reported. Mrs. Hedge and daughters, Miss Ruth and Winifred returned home from Streeter, Monday morning. Miss Leoni Parmer left Friday evening for Centerville for a few a few days visit with her sistr Mrs. Cutler Roberson. Rev. Eaves and Mrs. Posten Smith have returned home after attending the association in Ottumwa last week. COLFAX NOTES. Rev. James Bowles and wife and Mr. Creed Taylor are attending the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist association in Ottumwa this week. Rev. W. H. Clark and wife are also in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Strouther of Buxton returned to their home last Friday after a delightful visit with their host of Spring City friends. Rev. Burton the State missionary preached an al sermon at Bethel Baptist church last Thursday evening. Those who attended the State fair at Des Moines were Mesrs Owen Red-Medon, J. J. Beasely, Geo. Banks, Walter Williams, Misses Mattie Knox, Minnie Alexander, Mrs. John Brodus and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Holmes. Miss Mattie Brown has returned from a visit in the Capitol city. Mr. Alex Keene was called to Des Moines last week by the death of his mother. Rev. Robert Lipscomb and Mr. Frank Brown who are employed at Enterprise were Colfax visitors. Mrs. Carson, who formerly resided here came last Saturday for a visit with friends. Mrs. Margarite Mitchell and two children departed for Wyoming last "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open Book." The Foraker Cafe M. G. RUTLEDGE, Sr. Prop. and Mgr. 214 Third Street South. Electric Lights. 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Dame rumor says the wedding bells will soon ring in the Spring City and we will lose one of our most charming young ladies. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pertilla have gone to Des Moines where they will reside. Mr. M. R. Welch has opened a restaurant and suburban grocery on the lot just north of his home and is meeting with success. We congratulate Mr. Welch upon taking a proper step in the right direction. Mr. Dave Glover was a business visitor at the county seat last Wednesday. Earl Johnson of Buxton is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Morris. Little Stillys Mattison won a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes in one of the labor day races at Epworth Park Monday. Don't trifle with a cold is good advice for prudent men and women. It may be vital in case of a child. There is nothing better than Chamberlain's Crugh Remedy for coughs and colds in children. It is safe and sure. For sale by all dealers. Good for Billiousness. "I took two of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets last night, and I feel fifty per cent. than I have for weeks, says J. J. Firestone of Allegan, Mich. "They are certainly a fine article for biliouness." For sale by all dealers. OTTUMWA ITEMS. Rev and Mrs. S. Bates were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. Cornelius Reid during the sitting of the Iowa-Nebraska association. Ottumwa church going people turned out en masse to hear the various pulpit orators. Rev. T. L. Griffith, W. F. Botts, and F. B. Woodard left after the Association for Pittsburgh National Baptist convention. Mrs. I. C. Reid, vice president of the Woman's Federation, will attend the executive board meeting at Osceola on Wednesday. Miss Naomi Coalson left for Des Moines Monday. She was the guest of Mrs. J. C. Reid. Thieves broke into the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Reid while they were attending the Association and stole clothes and money valued at over $125.00. Rev. Dr. E. E. Buck, Chicago; Rev. R. H. Broyles of Rock Island, and Prof. May Kendrick addressed the delegates at the reception Saturday evening. Lew Arntz, the well known Doctor of Optics, believes in treating the colored people the same as whites. This is evidenced by the fact, he offers to sell or rent to black or white alike, his residence at $215 Fourth St., Highland Park, which contains city water, sewer, gas, barn, etc., for $1250, on monthly payments of $10. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1911 Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. P. & A. M., International Grand Convocation of Heroes of Jericho of America and Western Baptist Association Published every Friday by the Bristol stander Publishing Company Molines, Iowa. Office in Cumberland building, corner Seventh and Ninth berry streets. Iowa phone, Wn. nut 899. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER Entered at the postoffice as noonday class matter. 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B.—Correspondents: Flood mail your letters that contain new for publication not later than Tuesday night to insure publication for the current week; and sign your name, not for publication, but the we may communicate writes the new Communications must be written on side of the paper but be of interest to the public. "Bidity is the soul of wit." remember. We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS Continued from page 1. He has recently taken unto himself a help mate. She is one of Ft. Madison's madames. We wish for them success in married life. He entertained a editor. Rev. E. Green of Nassau Teen, a student in Maharashtra's college, formerly a pastor of the Pilgrim Rest church here, and Flournoy at the home of Mr. Thomas Rush and Mrs. Nora Clemons, a very fine dinner was enjoyed by these tinguished guests. W. C. Aldes is working for the Keokuk Water Power Co. He was kind enough to furnish with some valuable views, pamphlets and bulletins on the water power he could not get elsewhere. B. L. Anderson is still in the tonsorial business doing well. A. J. Fields and wife still running their grocery store, doing as well as could be expected. If none of our so-called race talkers would prionize their own enterprises and their bills promptly the problem of Ngo in business would be solved. W. Gross is still on the U. S. mail writer as a carrier, doing well. Mr. Pruce Bland is working at the same place His wife met with a serious accident. The explosion of a gasoline car burned her severely, but not dangerously. Mr. Sam Brown is still more houses and is a very busy man. Mr. A. Brown helps him. He had many years' experience and is in doing some of the largest jobs in the Gate City. Mrs. Mary Green is nicely. Mrs. M. J. Lowe is well doing nicely. Lame back is one of the most common forms of muscular rheumatism. 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