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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIX, No.15 CITY NEWS. FOR RENT—6 room house with bath L. J. Shelton. Mrs. L. Denny who has been critically ill for some time is not feeling any better at this writing. Mrs. J. R. Erickson left the 12th for Hatchinson, Kansas, to visit relatives and friends and also in Kansas City, Missouri. Mrs. E. S. Burris of Rock Island spent Wednesday in our city on business. He made our office a pleasant call. Rev. Wm. H. Stark and wife of Boone passed through our city Tuesday afternoon to Galesburg to attend the A. M. E. church conference. Mrs. J. W. Campbell and daughter Nellie, are visiting their mother and relatives in Maecon, Mo. They expect to return about the first of the month. Mrs. J. P Hamilton who has been attending the National Lodge of Elks in Dayton, Ohio, returned home Monday after having spent a delightful three weeks. Lafe Jackson, a former Des Moines boy arrived in the city Sunday for a visit with relatives and friends. Mr. Jackson hails from Minneapolis. Mrs Blain Thompson of Mexico, Mo. arrived in the city last Saturday. Mrs Thompson was formerly Miss Pearl Summit, a well known Des Moines girl Mr. and Mrs. Thompson intend making their home here. Miss Eldora Burton, daughter of Rev. M. J. Burton, Missionary of the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist association has come to Des Moines to enter Des Moines college. At present her home is with Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hart in Lake Park. Miss Lizzie Cowens of Denver, who was called here last week on account of the illness of her mother, returned some Monday leaving her mother, Mrs. See White, much improved. In the absence of Rev. B. U. Taylor of the A. M. E. church, who is attending conference, the pulpit will be filled Sunday morning by Rev. Walden and in the evening by Prof. G. I. Holt. Miss Mabel Easter entertained at a twiist party last night in honor of Miss Florence Russ of Quincy, Ill. Tables were set for twelve. A dainty lunch was served, after which all returned to their homes after having expressed their appreciation of such a delightful evening. The Negro Lyceum Association met Tuesday evening with Mr G H. Mason and after discussion of the proposed new Inter-State Literary Constitution voted to hold a social session next Tuesday evening at the residence of AYV, and Mrs. S. Joe Brown, in honor of the president, Miss Letta Cary, who leaves Wednesday or Thursday for Bishop College, Marshall, Texas, having recently accepted an appointment as Professor of Modern Languages in that institution. The Dramatic Art Club met Tuesday with Mrs Warricks and had a general review of Paradise Lost. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Warricks, President; Mrs. J. H Brown, Vice President; Mrs H. Spaulding, Secretary; Mrs. C. C. Johnson, Assistant Secretary; Mrs. George Patton, Treasurer; Mrs. J. B. Rush Instructor; Executive Committee Mesdames Rush,, Hammit and Avery. Mr. John J. Carter arrived in the city Wednesday evening from Minneapolis, where he has been on a business trip. L. H. S. BROWN JACK DAVIS Brown & Davis Headquarters for Cigars and Tobacco Billiards and Pool Phone Walnut 2314 229 Third St. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stabborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complex. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonizer! Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 20 1912. While there he purchased a beautiful four thousand dollr home in the aristocratic part of the city, near the site of the contemplated Art museum. He will remain in the city a few day's visiting Mrs. W. B. Cottoms and sisters, Misses Rosa and Letta Carter. He will accompany his mother, Mrs. Bryan Carter to Keokuk before returning to Chicago Mrs. S. Joe Brown, State Organizer of the Iowa Federation was out to Or alabor last Friday afternoon and perfected the organization of a club among the ladies of that place with Mrs. Wm. Austin as president. The Second Division of the Union Congregational Missionary society will give an entertainment at the church, 10th and Park Sts., Thursday evening, Sept. 26. 1912. Everybody welcome. Rev. Bowles and wife, who were visiting Mrs. Peter Bell, was called to Albia Thursday, owing to the death of Rev. Bowles' nephew. Coirnthian Baptist Church Announcement Services—Sunday, Sept. 22d. 10:30 a. m. Preaching by pastor. 12 M.—Sunday School. 6:30 p. m.—B Y. P. U. 7:30 p. m.—Report on the National Baptist convention and the trip to Houston, Texas. On Monday evening, Sept. 23d the Progressive Chorol Study club will give an entertainment at the church under the auspices of the Sewing circle. Admission 25 cents. T. L. Griffith, pastor. Dr. T. L. Griffith reports a delightful trip to Houston and Galveston, Tex. He and Rev. F. B. Woodard of Buxton, went from the State of Iowa. There were about four thousand delegates present. Delegates were more kindly received in any city than in Houston. The sessions were held in the spacious Auditorium which was granted free of all charge. The sessions were full of enthusiasm. The place of next meeting was left in the hands of a special committee. It is the plan to hold the meeting in connection with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Emancipation. OBITUARY! Mr. Geo. Lee died at his home, 2nd and Locust streets last Sunday evening. His death was quite a shock to his many friends, as he was only sick two days. The funeral services were held at St Paul's A. M. E. Church, under the auspices of Hawkeye Lodge No. 160, I. B. P. O. E. W., of which he was a member. Mr. Lee was 40 years of age and quite well know. He leaves to mourn his death a wife and two year old son; a mother, Mrs. Sarah Gray, three brothers, Dr. A. E. Lee, Henry Lee and John\Lee of Oklahoma, and two sisters, Mrs. Joe Cloyd and Mrs. James Washington. All were in attendance at the funeral except Mr. John Lee, who is traveling with a circus in Oklahoma and could not be reached by telegraph. The remains were laid to rest in Glendale cemetery. MT. PLEASANT, IOWA. Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield'b held a union picnic in Fairfield, Sept 10th, and was attended by the following: Mrs. Reed, Brown, Carter, Burnaugh, Misses Palmer, Picket, Brooks, Burnaugh and Burnangle. Mr. and Mrs Page, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas. Messrs. Nunnelly, Burnaugh, Patterson, Fitzgerald, and Reed Several attended the Hackenback and Wallace show in Fairfield, Saturday. Rev. Eaves has returned from the association and reports a very interesting session. Mrs. Ralph Burnaugh has returned from a week visit in Bloomfield with her husband. An entertainment was given at A. M. E church Monday which was a success. There were two numbers on that deserve special mention, those of Misses Genleve Watts and Grace Harris. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Watts and family have returned for a week's visit in Galesburg- Mr. Harl- y Palmer has returned from Centerville for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Nellie Palmer, The Kinsington meet in the Miss Myrtle Burnaugh last Thursday afternoon and an enjoyable afternoon was spent. Miss Sertley Anderson has returned from Ottumwa where she spent the summer. She was accompanied home by Master Rupert Rice. Mr. Pearlie McGill of Fairfield spent Sunday in this city. Mr. Roy Hicks of Fairfield was a Sunday visitor, Mr. Joe Arbuckle is quite ill at his home West of town. Mrs Brazel of Macon City, Mo., is visiting here with her sister, Mrs. Page. An article having real merit should in time become popular. That such is the case with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been attested by many dealers. Here is one of them. H. W. Hendrickson. Ohio Falls, Ind., writ-: "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best for coughs, colds and group, and is my best seller." For sale by all dealers. Editor's Observations. We seem to have lost out with our Observation column because of other more important things and conventions but now we shall condense the observations very much in these ten towns that we shall write about, beginning in Burlington. Here we find the colored people's condition much improved there are more of them beginning new homes and those owning one are improving and remodeling their property Then again they are beginning to take more interest in their church and secret society work. Burlington seemingly was behind but she is beginning to take more activity Mrs. J. E Johnston our most excellent agent had to resign on account of her hearing and Mrs. M. Sidney has succeeded her, so give her your items for the Bystander. Wm. Raigland is still the faithful employee of the Hotel Peter King, who for more than a quarter of a century has been employed by Mr. Pirkins the millionair Burlington Ry. officers, owns a lovely home and has a lovely wife and children. A McDowell is a hard workingman, saving his money so is also Aaron Hughes. John L Brooks is still employed by the C. B. Q Ry. Co. He is one of the pioneer citizens, well liked. Mr. Matt Ross own's a new home on 1057 Foster St. Rev. S. McDowell is the A. M. E paster and is bringing the church back to its former days. In Mt. Pleasant we saw signs of racial progress, but they are behind in society and social work, with the intelligent younger element. They will soon be heard from. Wm. Burnau is still foreman at the Spaulding House. Harry is a contractor in the plastering trade, doing well. John Greenup is still farming and living in his beautiful home; so is Clay Reed, both are successful men. James H. Weeks, a retired farmer is living at ease in his nice city home. His sons are running the valuable farm that he owns. He has lived in this county about fifty-five years, a veteran of the civil war. Mr. E. H. Reeser is a successful young man. Rev. R. Thomas is the A. M. E. minister. He is a bright young man, new in the Iowa conference Rev. J. M. Eaves has charge of the Baptist Jno. Harrison is a hustling young man doing well. Fairfield being our next stop. Here we found the people seeking higher up Mr. Sam Sykes is not in the barber shop at present G W. Coalson is doing well. He owns a nice home. T. W Price is one of the leading citizen here. R. M Baker is doing well. H. C. Stewart is one of the citizens, a veteran of the civil war. Wm. Smith, Greenup are hardworking men and will succeed. We next found ourselves in Ottumwa among some of the Bystander's most loyal and stallwart supporters here. We found the colored society well advanced along all lines, especially religious, social and in their sacred orders. Mr. Z. Taylor, one of the pioneers is still driving his express wagon. He is reputed to be the wealthiest colored man in Wappelo county. Jas. H. Johnson is another well to do, and highly respected citizens. He works at the Ballingal Hotel J. H. Weeks and Welles Fowler are two more good industrious race men who are highly esteemed by all people. They are both improving their homes. H. E. Elliott is a gardener living in the suburbs of West Ottumwa. He owns a valuable small farm there and raises many hogs. Mr. H E. Williams is still at the Elks club doing well. He is one of the coming young men, S. A. Herald is still at the Ottumwa Courier office. Mr. John Harris, who has been so very sick so long, is no better. He was glad to see ye editor Rev. M. I. Gordon is still doing good work for the A M. E. church with his flock. The Baptist has a new man who succeeded Rev. J. C. Reed, C T. Gooch is doing nicely. Geo. Baily is still in the torsional shop. In Oseola we found very few colored people. It is fast depopulating itself of the colored people. The little A. M. E. church still stands there presided over by Rev. A. L. Johnson. Mrs. Jno. Bryant, an old settler is still here, Her son. Frank and his wife lives with her. Frank has run the bus for the hotel for fully eighteen years. Mrs. M. Williams, a pioneer is still cooking at the old Hotel, where she has worked for thirty-five years. In Creston we found Mr. C. F. Burnaugh the ever faithful employee at the hotel where he has worked for thirty years. He owns a nice home. G. W. Daw is still farming his truck farm. He is a race man. The widowaldwin, with her three sons is still op. erating a four hundred acre farm within two miles of town. They have a splendid corn crop this year. Mr. H. Martin still lives in his beautiful home on Wyoming street Clarinda we next observed, as this is a great farming community, and there seems to be more colored farmers than any other part of the state. Many are doing extremely well. The two Johnson brothers W. H. and R. H. owns very valuable farms of 80 acres each. The former is a rural mail carrier for the past eight years—his wife is his deputy, his son Henry is also a regular rural route carrier, and has been for three years while the latter owns the best barber shop in Gravity, his son assists him in the shop. Both of their A man sitting at a desk writing on a piece of paper. He is wearing a suit and tie. The desk is filled with books and a telephone. There is a globe on the desk. "Say, Harry, we are making up a little fishing party for tomorrow. I have just telephoned to Jim Wesley and he will go. What do you say? "Good! Come down to the office at five thirty tonight. The fellows will be here." In making up a party for sport or pleasure the Bell Telephone is indispensable. farms lies about half a mile from the town. Mr. Stewarts, Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Carson's, Mr. Jones are all successful farmers, owning their own farms. H. H. Cook conducts a grocery store, his hustling wife assists him. Allen Jones still works in the blocksmith shop, doing well. He owns a beautiful home. H. A. Farrier, is still conducting his paint shop. He makes carriage and wagon painting his specialty. Rev. John W. Evans who had charge of the Baptist flock has recently accepted a call to Centerville, where he is now located. Rev. H. M Rivers is still at the A. M. E. church. L. W. Williams, the District Grand Chancelor of K of P. lives here. He is conducting a resturant and rooming house, doing well. Red Oak was our next stop. Here dwells about fifty colored people. P S. Eberhart is conducting a large Piano and Music store. He has been in business for the past eighteen years. Oscar Conner is still in the barbar business. He has been in business for fully twentg-five years. Wm. Hampton is U. S. Federal Judge court bailiff for Judge Smith McPherson. Mr. David Garner is a successful young man. He owns a nice home and several lots on Miller street. C. W. Chappelle works at the hotel. Council Bluffs was our next stop. Mrs. F. C. Walker will be our agent and correspondent from the Bluffs. Chas. S. Davis is now farming his truck farm, and conducting a pool hall. Mrs J. L. Tannheil is running a restaurant at 1025 Broadway. Mrs. Tillie A. Reese runs a rooming house. Mr C. Hopkins and Mr. H. L. McKinzy are industrious, hard-working, young men. T. S. Britt is still working in the hotel Rev. J. L. Whorton, the A. M. E. church, has finished the church that Rev. Newman had started several years Rev. Wharton has only been here about eight months, but he has been very successful with this fleck. It is a pretty little church. BUXTON ITEMS. Mrs. A. Perkins left Saturday for Omaha to spend a week visiting her son Thomas. Mrs. Willa Coleman left last Monday for Boone, Iowa, to visit with her husband's relatives. Miss Virginia Steel who has made her home in Des Moines for the past year or two, passed through last week on her way to Wilbeforce University where she will enter school. L, D. Phillips who was hurt in the mine last week, is improving nicely. Earl Johnson met with the misfortune of having his second toe on the right foot cut off by a motor passing over it. He is getting on nicely. Mr and Mrs. W. B. Rhodes desires to thank the friends and neighbors for their devoted attention and sympatty, and the presentation of flowers during the illness and death of their son. Minta Johnson left last week for Colfax to attend school. Mrs. L. G. Chatham and all the children, except Prentiss and James left Friday night for Lynchburg, Va., where they will live in their old home. Prentiss and James left Tuesday with the car in which the household goods and things were shipped. Lawrence Carter is minus a toe, the result of a car running over it in the mine last week. Mr. J. N. Reasby had three of his ribs broken and an ankle sprained in 16 mine last Saturday, as a result of being squeezed. Cyrus Hurst, who was burned very badly in the mine on the 16th of Aug. died Sunday morning. The funeral was held at Mt. Zion Baptist church, Tuesday. Rev. C. H. Mendenhall officiated Mr. Grant Brown, having in mind his MAKING UP A PARTY "Say, Harry, we fishing party for tom- telephoned to Jim W What do you say? "Good! Come do thirty tonight. The f In making up a par Bell Telephone is indispensa IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM MIDDLEBURG TELEPHONE & FLUSHING CO. boyhood days, when he used to go and see the girls, and thinking what a nice thing it would be to steal a march on the people and take his bride to another city and be married, woed and won the hand of Mrs. Alice Carey and they were married in Albia lost Wednesday. Rev. F. B. Woodard is attending the National Baptist convention in Huston, Texas. Rev. W. E. Carter preached for him last Sunday. Mrs. M. F. Bradley of Glascow, Mo., sister of Mrs. Lewis Gibson, and Mrs. Geo. Roberts also of Glascow visited with Mrs. Gibson about two weeks returning home last Friday. A few friends were invited into a breakfast in their honor last Friday morning. Mr. Earl Webb made a flying trip to Ottumwa last Friday to see his lady love, returning Monday. A large pelican measuring $7\frac{1}{2}$ feet from tip to tip came flying over Buxton Sunday p. m. and one was reminded of a sham battle when they heard the number of shots that were fired at it. The bird was too high to be reached by the revolvers, breech-losers and winchesters, and it flew safely to Armstrong's pond where it lit and was killed by Emery Armstrong. It is the largest bird that has ever been killed in this vicinity. Mr. A. G Rhodes, Jr., purchased the bird for $5.00 and will have him mounted. Rev. and Mrs. Mendonhall are quite sick at this writing. W A. Bawd, Jr., arrived Monday from a two weeks visit with relatives and friends in Kansas City and Excelsior Springs, Mo. A pretty little indoor picnic was held Monday evening in the home of Mrs. W A. Brown by her S. S. class, in honor of Misses Tillie Cxx and Idella Jones who took their departure for their Virginia home, Tuesday morning The young lad eseed to enjoy themselves immensely. Miss Ola Webb who spent several weeks in Chicago is home again. Mrs. Sally Reasby is a new subscriber to the Bystander. W A. Brown, Sr., has resigned his position as Boys work director of Y. M C. A. The Mount Zion Mission circle met in the church last Thursday morning. The delegates, Mesdames Woodard, Burkett and Brown who attended the association and women's convention were present and made their report. The officers will be elected at the next meeting. Mr. John Graves had two of his fingers so badly mashed in the mine that it was found necessary to amputate a portion of them Miss Essie Oliver who has been out of the city for some time is being seen among her friends again. CARD OF THANKS We the undersigned wish to thank the Hawkeye Lodge No. 160 of I. B. P. O E. W, and our friends who so kindly assisted in the sickness and death of our beloved one, George Lee. We are also very grateful for the very beautiful floral offering. Respectfully, Mrs Henrietta Lee Dr. E. A. Lee Mother and Family NOTICE The board of directors and the executive board of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will meet in Clarinda, Ia Sept. 27th. All members are urged to be present. Mrs. J B. Rush, Pres., Des Moines. Mrs. H M. Hutchison, Corresponding Secretary, Buxton. Few. If any, medicines, have met with the uniform success that has attended the use of Chamberlain's Colic. we are making up a little norrow. I have just Wesley and he will go. down to the office at five- fellows will be here." party for sport or pleasure the table. Every Bell Telephone is a long Distance Station. TELEPHONE COMPANY Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The remarkable cures of colic and diarrhoea which it has effected in almost every neighborhood have given it a wide reputation. For sale by all dealers. MASON CITY NEWS. (Special to Bystander.) Miss Louise Williams of Des Moines is in our city visiting her sister, Mrs. Nettie Carr, of 1132 Second Ave Mrs. Walter Davis of Warren street entertained a few of her friends at a six o'clock dinner, Wednesday, Sept. 11, in honor of Mrs. Donselay of Rockford, Ill., and Mrs. Taylor of Marshalltown, who is the guest of Mrs. J. D. Reeler. The young people of Memorial Mission organized a literary society for the benefit of the church, which they will render the first program will be given Friday evening All invited, Refreshments will be served by the committee Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stratton your Mason City visitor Sunday. Mrs. Walter Davis very pleasantly entertained the Ladies Aid society. A 3-course luncheon was served. Much credit is due the hostess for her generous hospitality. Mr. McNealy is again back in our city after four weeks absence. Mr. James Falkner has returned to Chicago after a stay of thirty days in our city. Mr. Eddie Mansey is in the city working for the Milwaukee Ry. Company. Mr. B. B. Lewis has returned to the Windy city. Mrs. Mary E Wright of Mason City is now in Rochester, New York, visiting her son for an indefinite time. Mrs. Taylor will leave Wednesday for her home in Marshaltown and Mrs. Donelay of Rockford, Ill. and Mrs. J. D. Reeler of this city will accompany her and from Marshaltown on to Buxton where the two will visit friends for a few days. ROCK ISLAND NEWS. Mrs. Henry Burris, who has been so very sick, is able to be up again. Mrs. John Slaughter has just returned from East St. Louis, where she attended the grand court. One of the biggest events given by the Rock Island churches this season was the big celebration and barbecue given at the Exposition grounds Sept. 12th to the 15th, inclusive. There were quite a number of strangers in the city and the Ladies Band from Galesburg was the center of attraction. Mrs. R. D. Pollard returned home last week from Kentucky where she has been visiting for several weeks. She also visited a very aged uncle in Indiana, while away. She was accompanied by her two little grand children — Scottie and Lutie Jane Lyons Mrs. C. B. Hosmer, traveling agent for the Tuskegee Institute is in the city this week. Mrs. M. Toomey of Davenport visited Thursday and Friday with Mrs. Chas Windsor. Mrs. W. H. Moore and children returned home Sunday evening from Collinsville, Ill, where she has been visiting a week with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. James Windsor of Macon City, Mo., formerly of Bloomfield, Iowa, arrived in the city Saturday, at noon to make their home with their son Chas, Windsor. Mr. Windsor and son Louis went to Macon last Wednesday to accompany them to Rock Island. MURCATINE NOTES: Special to Bytander The jubilee concert given at Woodmen Hail, Sept. 13th for benefit of Rev Allen was a decided success. The main feature of the program was the reading of "Hegar," by Miss D Mae Lee, of Burlington, Iowa. A beautiful bouquet of flowers was presented to Miss Lee by Mrs. W. E. Blien and son, two of Muscatines most wealthy and cultured white citizens, as a tribute of their appreciation of her talent. Miss Lee is a former Muscatine girl. A benefit dinner will be given on Sept. 17th to defray the hospital expenses of Mrs M. Baines. In the evenikg a recital will be given by Miss D, Mae Lee for the benefit of Mrs. Baines. Mrs. Sada Morgan will arrive in this city tonight on a visit to her brother, Chas, Lee and other relatives. GOOD FOR BILICUNESS. "I took two of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets last night, and I feel fifty per cent, better than I have for weeks, says J. J. Firestone of Allegan, Mich. "They are certainly a fire article for billioness." For sale by all dealers. Samples free. CEDAR RAPIDS NEWS. Mrs. Dan Calender is quite slick. Mrs. W. L. Green is able to be out again. The gentleman settled with Mrs. Green, very nicely without any trouble. Mrs. John Jackson, who has been under the doctor's care for the past month is able to be in the choir again. Miss Mable Price is on the way of recovery. Mr. John Jackson visited his brother, Booker Jackson and father of Galesburg, Ill., reported a fine time. From there he went to Fairbury, Ill., and Bloomington. Mr. Irvin D, Crowder of Fairbury is ```markdown ``` Price Five Cents. visiting his sister, Mrs. Jno. Jackson of Sterling, Ill. Miss Lue Taylor and Mrs. Buearl McFay, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson. DAVENPORT NOTES. Miss Gertrude N. O'Neal, a student at the New England Conservatory of music of Boston, gave a recital at the Bethel A. M. E. church Friday evening, assisted by tri-city musicians. The following program was rendered: Selection—Orchestra. Vocal Solo—Miss G. N. O'Neal. Instrumental Solo—Mrs. Chas Jones. Mandolin Solo—Mrs. D. S. Johnson, Ladies' Quartette. Vocal Solo—Mrs. Chas. Shepard, Cornet Solo—U. Clark. Group of Songs—Miss G. O'Neal. Reading—Mrs. Della Marshall, Bags Soil—E. Greene. Instrumental Solo Mrs. Eugene Allen Vocal Solo—Miss G. N. O'Neal. The entertainment is for the tribe of Levi. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Allen entertained Tuesday aftertained in honor of their mother, Mrs. Allen of LaGrange, Missouai, and Mrs. Williams, of Keokuk. A 2-course luncheon was served, A delightful time was enjoyed by a large number of guests. Mrs. Allen left for her home, Wednesday morning. Mrs. Ruth Bright returned from Colorado Springs, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler entertained Thursday afternoon in honor of her sister in the city, A 3-course luncheon was muchly enjoyed. Mrs. Wallace Balard and little son Eugene have returned home from Missouri where they have been visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Eurice Hawkins remains quite ill at this writing. Mrs. Jennie Valentine is not expected to recover. Mrs. Gader of Des Moines is visiting her brother Mr. C. P. Jones at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Green. Mrs. C. B. Lewis visited at the Culberson home in Clinton last week. Mrs. Mattie Hale who was seriously shot last week is emoving. Rev. S. B. Walkup preached at the Third Baptist church, morning and evening, of last Sunday. The 6th anniversary of the Stewardess' Board of Bethel A. M. E. church will be observed Sunday, Sept. 15th. Banquet. Monday eveni, September 16th, in honor of the 36th anniversary of the Stewardesses Board. The Tri-Cities are cordially invited to come and enjoy this event. We mean all the citizens of the Tri-Cities and adjoining cities as well. Galesburg, Monmouth, Clinton, Washington and Fairfield. We want at least 500 people to enjoy this banquet, Plates 35 cents. Menues prepared by the oldest stewardesses board in the state. Mrs. C. H, Marshall, the president, and Mrs. Jennie Valentine are the only survivors of the original board that was organized thirty-six years ago. Henry McGaw is the only steward living who voted to confirm the first stewardess board of Bethel A. M. E. church at 4th and Gains street. No loyal member or friend can afford to stay away from this banquet. All the federated clubs and fraternities and sister societies are cordially invited to join in celebrating this very important event. BURLINGTON ITEMS Miss Ida Palmer is now making her home in Chicago. A very pleasant time was given her at the home of her sister Mrs. Gallaway six miles south of town. Mr. A Hughes, who has been quite ill for some time is improving. Rev. S McDewell is still poorly at this writing. He has not been able to fill his pulpit for some time. Rev. G. W. Brown filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church the past Sunday owing to the illness of the pastor. Mr. H. Burnley has been on the sick list, but has improved. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Early received the sad news of the death of their son John of Quincy, Ill. They left Sunday for Quincy. They also have the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. Mr. James Purry was taken suddenly ill with a paracital stroke, but still unconscious at this writing. Roy Boyd and Early left Monday afternoon to attend the funeral of their brother in Quincy. Quite a number of Burlington people will leave this week for Galesburg, where they will attend the A. M. E. conference. Miss Hazel and Orma Woods left for Davenport where they are visiting their sister, Mrs. C. Young. Mrs. P. King, who has been in poor health for quite awhile left last week for Sulphur Springs. Mrs. A. Pleasant has returned from Carton, Mo., with her sons, Cart and Floyd where they have been visiting their grandparent The many friends of Mrs. Anna Johnson were sorry to learn of her sad demise. Mrs. Johnson was loved by all. The children has the sympathy of their many friends. Our collector will be in Poole and Ogden Monday. Iowa State Bystander BYSTANDER PUB. CO., Publisher. DES MOINES. IOWA PROVED VALUE OF THE WIRE Record of First Telegram by Means of Which a Criminal was Caught. The first case of a criminal being brought to justice by means of the electric telegraph took place a few months ago after the extension of the system to Slough in 1844. A murder had been committed at Salt Hill, and upon hearing of the occurrence the vicar of Upton-cum-Chalvey, Rev. E. T. Champnes, was informed that the last person seen to leave the house was a man wearing the dress of a Quaker. Mr. Champnes at once conceived the idea that the suspected person had probably fled to London, and acting upon this suspicion, hastened to Bloomfield, whom answering to the description was seen by the vicar to pass through the booking office. Communicating his suspicions to Mr. Howell, the station superintendent, the latter caused a telegram to be sent off. This is the telegram which raced (and beat) the train to Paddington: "A murder has been committed at Salt Hill and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7 h. 42 m. P. M. He is in the garb of a Quaker, with a brown greatcoat which reaches nearly to the he is the last compartment of the second first-class carriage." The following reply was received from Paddington: "The up train has arrived and a person answering in every respect the description given by telegraph came out of the compartment mentioned. I pointed the man out to Sergt. Williams. The man got into a New Road omnibus and Sergt. Williams. The New Road referred to is the present East Road. It is but fair to add that the mis creat, who proved to be a forger returned from a twenty-one years trans portation, had already been discarded by the Society of Friends. The prisoner, Tawell by name, and once a well-known city man, was committed to jail at Aylesbury and finally sufed fered the extreme penalty of the law — Railway Magazine. For Experts to Quarrel Over For Exposers, outage a garret in his official residence, the other day, the new mayor, of Saint Alain (Loirs de Cher). Central France, M. Emile Dumas, discovered a beautiful portrait painted on wood of Charles 'D'Amboise, Duc de Chaumont, who was governor of Milan in the reign of Louis XIV. And 1511 Experts state that the picture is either by Leonardo da Vinci (painter of "The Last Supper," from Milan and of "La Gloconda," lost from the Louvre last year) or by Andrea del Gobbo, one of da Vinci's pupils. There is already a picture of Charles 'D'Amboise, by del Gobbo, in the Word Curiosities. It is impossible to "kick" a man in French. You must give him a "blow with the foot." The Portuguese do not "wink" at one. They "close and open the eyes." In the languages of many semi-clilvized tribes there is no word with which to convey the idea of "stealing." pern haps because the idea of property is soagogue. He says of the early missionaries that, to attempt ing to translate the Bible into Algerian quin, he could find no word to express "love." and was compelled to invent it—Tit-Bits. Typesetting In China In the new edition of "China in Transformation." by Archibald R Colquhoun, which has just been published by the Harpers, the author discusses many interesting phases of present conditions in China. Judging from his reports, a labor-union man would leave China a shattered wreck of industry. A coolie labor can be obtained in any amount for 15 cents a day, and women for 11 cents. Mr. Colquhoun found much interest in watching the Chinese compositors at work setting up type in their native language. The compositors of China must be men in good condition, for a font of type contains 10,000 characters, and the compositor must be in the room. It is quite probable that in setting a stickful the compositor is compelled to walk at least a mile. Star Helped Revolution A star so bright that it could be seen in the daytime helped the revolution in China. The superstitious people believed that the star was an augury that the gods favored a change of dynasty. Alexander? Pouf! "Alexander the Great was less than thirty-five years old when he conquered Darius and became the master of the world." "What of it? Lavender was less than that when he beat the Giants and stopped Marquard's winning streak, wasn't he?" Great Chance. Artist (surprise a burglar)—Stay just where you are for five minutes. The light effect is simply fine!—Filegende Blatter. Reasonably Sure. "But remember that my saying yes doesn't settle it. You still have papa's consent to gain." "Oh, I'm not worrying about that," he replied. "I am holding several thousand dollars' worth of your father's collateral." Few Leave United States Army. Desertions in the United States army in 1911 amount to only 2.88 per cent—a lower rate than in any other year for ninety years, except is 688 ```markdown ``` CAUSE OF TERROR Vagaries About Lightning Without Reason. Although It Causes Fewer Violent Deaths Than Any Other Foe of American, it Is Feared Most by Many. They agree that your danger from the celestial artillery depends principally upon the locality in which you live, and your shelter at the time of the storm. The weather bureau, by careful observation and tabulation, discovers our zone of greatest danger from lightning to include an area of the east coast all the Arkansas coasts from Massachusetts set to Virginia, inclusive, and biting inland until it takes in southern Vermont, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and eastern Illinois. Thunderstorms therein are more fatal though less frequent than in the Gulf states. If you wish to escape thunderstorms almost entirely, pitch your tent upon the Pacific slope, where such storms are practically unknown. Or, if required to dwell within the danger zone, pitch your tent upon the midst of a city block with continuous tin roofs connected to well anchored watermouts. The fact that lightning annually strikes four times as many people of outdoor occupations as people in general emphasizes the wisdom of keeping indoors during such disturbances. But if caught in the open bear in mind that you are far safer in the dense heart of a wood than at its outskirts, and that the shelter of a single tree is particularly treacherous, especially if near the edge of a body of water, even a ditch. But if you must be near a tree, seek the companionship of the beech, which is struck least often of all, and avoid particularly the oak, which attracts lightning more than any other. The oak is hit fifty-seven, the fir thirty-nine and the pine five times as often as the beech. Avoid above all a tree or other shelter where under a group of men or beasts are huddled together in the shade of the underhead, monarch of all clouds, be exclusive. The weather bureau also warns you against doorways, particularly of barns and stables; also a house connected with a metallic clothes line. While successful in tabulating the destructive and fatal effects of lightning and, by deduction, formulating such common-sense rules as the above, our weather bureau, in common with other great meteorological institutions, finds the force behind the fiery cannon balls and projectiles of Jupiter Fluvius too illusive and vaguious to be reduced to law. For years the bureau has been gleaning from all parts of the world reports describing the eccentricities of this awe-inspiring phenomenon, of which Flammarion has said: "It is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, fearing, and indifferent or indistinct, passing from one extreme to the other. It wrigles through space it moves among men with surprising agility, appearing and disappearing like lightning." But the most wired of all lightning praks on record is that of killing a man and leaving him standing erect, as in life. Such a phenomenon was later reported by a Canadian observer, C. Ballallarge, who near Beaumont saw a man stricken by indifference in a field, though dead, he be motionless, not standing with one foot in front of the other in the attitude of taking a step. PRESIDENT FOR A DAY In the talk about electing presidents of the United States it is recalled that Senator David Rice Atchison of Clay county, Mo., claimed the unique distinction of holding the office of president of the United States for one day. The terms of office of President James K. Polk and of Vice President James A. Madison were limited by limitation on Saturday night at midnight, March 4, 1849. Gen. Zachary Taylor, Polk's successor, was not inaugurated until Monday, March 5, 1849. Senator Atchison was at the time president pro tem, of the United States senate. The expiration of vice President Dallas' term left a vacancy to which Senator Atchison instantly succeeded. This made him ex-officio vice-president of the United States, the only one likewise a vacancy in the presidential office, to which in turn Atchison instantly succeeded. No Offense. "Your wife referred to you as 'it,' did she not?" asked the lawyer. "Yes, but I don't believe she meant anything unkind by that. She frequently referred to her pet dog in the same way." More Transport Troubles. Conductor—You'll have to pay for that child, mum. but only. **Parre**—Indeed, I won't, young man! I never awe yet, and I can't a-goin' to begin now!—Punch. FAVORS A RETIREMENT LAW. "If there were a retirement law for the clerks employed by Uclem Sam in the various departments at Washington, the civil service would not be cluttered up by a small army of aged and inefficient clerks," said W. R. Hayes, former congressman from New Hampshire. "As it is now, no head of a department or bureau chief will discharge a man or woman who has been a faithful worker for 30 years or more, because old age has impaired the usefulness of the employee. Asa result, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who are kept on the rolls merely as a matter of humanity. If dismissed they up in many instances upon the grounds that for it to utterly out of the question that private employment could be obtained for them. The stupidity of the clerks themselves has been one of the chief reasons why a liberal retirement law has failed of passage for all these years. The clerks can never agree on any policy among themselves. Many of them obstructively contend that the government has no right to withhold a pension from a person for a pension fund for retired clerks, ignoring the recognised improvidence of that large per cent. of employees who never save a penny of their salaries. it would be an act of benefence toward this class if a portion of their wages was regularly retained. "Unquestionably, it would be cheaper for the government to give a pension outright to those whose faculties are decayed, and to put young and unsupervised people in supervised care. Every other class nation in the world save the United States has some kind of pension scheme for its civil servants, that of Canada, especially, betray a model." MICROBE LOST HOPE. A lonely 'microbe, disheartened and ready to die because the public health service is rapidly putting all his lik where they can do humanity no harm, peeked over the edge of Assistant Surgeon General George Rucker's desk the other day and heard the doctor humming a ditty that went like this: "A fly and a flea, a mosquito and a lause, all lived together in a very dirty house. The flea spread the plague and the skeeter spread the chills. All lause spread typhus, too. Folks in bills. The fly spread typhoid and the lause spread typhus, too. Folks in that house were a mighty sickly crew. Along came a man and he cleaned up the house. He screened out the skeeters and swatted the lause. The fly and the flea he cracked on the wall. Now the people in that house were a mighty sickly crew. "Well," piped up the microbe, "that's all right as far as it goes, but it strikes me you've been a bit partial in this thing. How about the bedbug? Where does he get off?" "He's going to get off pretty quick," returned the doctor. "So far the bedbug has been able to prove an alib, but I've put the sanitary detective on his trail and I'll get him yet." Whereupon the microbe, seeing the jig was up, committed suicide by jumping into the inkwell. 11,221,624,084 CIGARETTES. If cigarette smoking is as deadly as some of the antis make out, the country will soon be inhabited exclusively by imbeciles. During the fiscal year 1921, the tide number of 11,282,621,084 cigarettes smoked in this country, an average of about 128 for every man, woman and child. Inasmuch as not all men and women and few children before the walking age smoke cigarettes, the average consumption for those who do is considerably larger than 128. This eleven billion odd is an increase of two billions over the construction of 1911, and Secretary Mac Veagh and his department officials confess they cannot explain this vast LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING DISCON CONTINUED. Secretary Franklin MacVeigh will not permit any more chafing dish parties in the Treasury building. The noonday 'parties', the daily teas and daily hot luncheons have been discontinued. For many years clerks of the treasury have made merry over the chafing dish at noon, but there will be no more of that and everybody will have to go out to get lunch. The sanitary committee of the department recommended that the secretary have the little eating parties discontinued and all cooking utensils removed. Light housekeeping in Uncle Sam's money chest is a thing of the past. Driving an Alligator Using a child's toy wagon and allowing himself to be drawn about by an alligator, is one of the queer methods adopted by a German sportman to win a wager, says Popular Mechanics. He claimed in a conversation with a friend that there were no less than 10,000 methods of locomotion, and in the dispute that followed he wagered that he could win it. The wagerer had to take up his place and a trip around the world was undertaken to try out all the various kinds of transportation, and incidentally to devise some new ones. The alligator stunt was carried out at the alligator farm at Los Angeles, Cal. Worry and Work. Wigs=-Worry kills more people than work Wag=-Quite natural! there are more people worrying than working. Style Hubby Likes. Mrs. Shortly was discussing the last fashion with a young lady caller. "Did you say your husband was fond of those clinging gowns, Mice?" "Yes; he likes one to cling to me for about three years." Lippincott's The Reason. "Bridge ought to be popular with the English nobility." "Why with them especially." "Why with them can support it with so many peers." Lord John Compton Cavendish, baron of Chesham, and possessor of some 10,000 acres of the land which fell to Sir William Cavendish in dissolution of the monastery lands in Cardinal Woolsey's time, is in America passing eighteen-year-old judgment on American life in preparing to follow in the footsteps of his elder brother of the land which fell to Sir William Cavendish in the dissolution of the monastery lands in Cardinal Woolsey's time, is in America passing eighteen-year-old judgment on American girls. He is preparing to follow in the footsteps of his elder brother Charles William Hugh. In the army, who died at the head of the Seventeenth Lancers at Diamond Hills, a tall, rangy lad, yellow-haired and blue-eyed, the Baron Chesham would be typically American if he might exchange a slight English accent for a few pieces of American slang. His first announcement was that, while primarily interested in American girls, he had never been exposed to the love bug, and did not intend to select the future Lady Chesham until he was in the army. The announcement followed a direct and personal question intended to be leading. "More than anything else I have noticed your American girls, and I think them ripping, more interesting and more human, though not so pretty, perhaps, as the English girls, and—not printed in London. What? "You know they have picked me for a military career over home, and if they knew I was looking over the American girls they would send the Coldstream Guards after me." Lord Chesham had just returned from a fishing and hunting trip that the British Columbia and is on his way home. Press "cuttings" told of his bagging grizzles single-handed. "I say, you fellows are wonderful guessers," he laughed, as he looked over some of the "cuttings." "I shot a pheasant and a sparrow and caught some fish which uncle said were so smal that I ought to throw them on the bank." Uncle, by the way, is Colonel William Edwin Cavendish, lieutenant colonel of the Grenadier Guards. The Colonel and Mrs Cavendish and Miss Bettine Cavendish, like her cousin, more American than English, acccompany the young baron. "I like your country and wish I could stay a while, but uncle seems to have had better get me back to Buckinghamshire, with some of these pretty girls. But, you know, I haven't met one of them." The Baron comes of one of the oldest and wealthiest of English families of the nobility. He is a descendant of the first Earl of Burlington and the First Duke of Devonhshire, a cousin of the eighth Duke of Devonhshire and of the latter's brother, Lord Cavenhshire. The Baron, Lord Cavenhshire was murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by the revolutionary faction known as the "Invincibles." A KENTUCKY HEIRESS DOING CHARITY WORK The fact that she is a wealthy hei- heress does not cause Miss Rebecca Gor- don Averill of Frankfort, Ky., to lead an idle, use- less life. On the contrary, she is one of the most active women in her state, in the cause of suffering humanity. Miss Averill is noted in her city for the square where she is doing for the children of Frankfort's Tenderloin Frankfort, Ky., to lead an idle, useless life. On the contrary, she is one of the most active women in her state, in the cause of suffering humanity. Miss Averill is noted in her city for the splendid work she is doing for the children of Frankfort's Tenderloin district. Every day, from 9 until 2 o'clock she may be found in a house in the slums, where she conducts a free kindergarten for children. Here are gath-ed a happy company of little wafes from homes of poverty and squalor. With the gracious and kindly southern lady to guide them, the children learn how to do many useful things. They also receive clean clothing and are given nourishing food. In addition to the kindergarten work, Miss Averill conducts a class for mothers, and one afternoon each week the women of the district gather in the cozy clubrooms; there to enjoy the day and the women incidentally to receive instruction in many household matters and subjects pertaining to child rearing. Thinka Batha Not Necessary Not having taken a bath in twenty years is the record of Ezekiel Parker, a farmer living in the northern part of Craven county, N.C. Several days ago he related the cause of his absence from the tub for such a long time. "When I was a younger," said Mr. Parker, "my mother took a delight in having a bath in the year. Rain or shine, hot or cold, I was compelled to immerse myself in the tub. After my mother died I took no more baths. My health began to improve after I stopped bathing so much and there is not a man in this country who is more healthy than I am." Mr. Parker is almost a girl, gives the perfect picture of health, and from all outward appearance will live to a ripe old age. Lands Atmosphere "She is in great demand as a bridesmaid." "Wonder why? She is neither pretty nor stylish." "But she can sob beautifully, and all the brides like that." Vouched For The Senator's Wife (in Washington) —You are sure they are nice people, Augusta? The Senator's Daughter—Yes, mamma. Their father is owned by the same trust that owns papa—Puck. MRS. THOMAS F. RYAN'S WORK FOR HUMANITY MRS. THOMAS F. RYAN'S WORK FOR HUMANITY The recent grant by Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan to the Convent of the Holy Child at Suffern, N. Y. of property valued $40,000 to draw attention to the splendid work this noble woman is doing in behalf of religion, education and humanity. The property at Suffern is of three mansion and 18 acres of ground, and will be used Suffern, N. Y., of property valued at $250,000 serves to draw attention to the splendid work this noble woman going in behalf of religious education and humanity. The property at Suffern consists of a fine mansion and 18 acres of ground, and will be used by the nuns as an academy for young women. These sisters have their mother house in England and their largest convent in the United States is at Sharon Hill, near Philadelphia. Mrs. Ryan's gift to the Holy Child nuns follows a long list of benefactions to the Catholic church and to non-sectarian institutions. These include a million dollar cathedral, rectory and other buildings at Richmond, Va.; a school and a wing to a hospital; a church in other churches in other Virginia towns; a chapel for the Jesuits at St. Andrew-Hudson; a chapel at Tucson, Arziz, and funds for the support of other chapels in Arizona, New Mexico and Indian Territory; the endowment of rooms for sick telephone girls and nurses at various hospitals; scholarships at four colleges and four conventes; the establishment of Sisters of Charity costing $150,000 at Sufferr; a hospital for consumptives near Phoenix, Arziz; the establishment of the Order of the Perpetual Adoration in this country and a convent and chapel for the order at Washington, D. C.; the building of monuments on all the battlefields of Virginia, the state in which Mrs. Ryan and her husband were born, and a convent throughout the country which are devoted to fighting tuberculosis. Mrs. Ryan's gifts to charity years ago came to the attention of the pope and the Papal court has made known its gratitude to her for her charities many times. In 1904 she was decorated by Pope Plus X. "NEWLY RICH" OVERRUN FASHIONABLE NEWPORT2 "The fashionable cities of the east, as Newport and Bar Harbor, have become so overcrowded and over-run with people of every class that the better class of folks are desirous of making some other place their headquarters." PETER H. BURGESS "There is no use hiding or trying to hide the fact that people of fashion have no proper place in which to live in America. It is not that they are exclusive. It is not that they are particular. People who have money—and money is easily made in America—are not necessarily fit associates for cultivated people. "But with their money they are able to get property close by the homes of people who do not wish to associate with them, and, therefore, the latter must move or be regarded as snobs. There are often many common people with money, common homes, refined residence places—and most of them have done so. I do not mean to reflect upon the common people, for they are necessary to the economic development of the world, but I am not compelled to have social relations with people whom I do not like," declares I. Townsend Burd. Jr. Townsend Burden, who is a member of Meadowbrook and Rockaway clubs and one of the best known polo players in America, about 18 months ago married Florence Sheedy of Denver, Colo., the wedding being made notable by a check for $1,500,000 given the bride as her dower by her father. Beyond Even Ty Gobb The baseball reporter's English is weird and wonderful, says the Washington Star, and apropos of it there is a story about the great TY Cobb. In a New York hotel two college professors watched TY Cobb bent over a neon sign, "Look at that poor fellow's frowns and muttershed, and the first professor, "with that journal." "Yes," said the other, "he can't make it out, you know." "Can't make it out, iteh." Can't even read! These baseball players played in the park. "Oh," said the other, "Ty's educated all right enough; but that's the baseball page he's got there." Oldest Biddle Known The oldest riddle known is that one asked by Samson, in Judges 14:14:18: "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came sweetness." It was naturally impossible for the guests at his wedding feast to solve the riddle, for it referred to that very uncommon incident of the bees making honey in the carcass of a lion. The old translation used the word meat in the seventeenth century, and in the food, its real meaning in the seventeenth century. This riddle dates from possibly a thousand years before the Christian era, and is evidence of the very ancient custom of telling riddles or asking difficult questions. On the Safe Side. "I'm going to learn the deaf and dumb language." "What for?" "So's the next time I go after a bribe no measly little dictograph can catch me." He Had. "You have never thought seriously of marriage, have you?" "Many a time." "Then how is it you have never married?" WITHOUT A COUNTRY PEOPLE OF A LITTLE MAINE TOWN CANNOT VOTE. Division of State Inthe Counties in 1827 Left Small Corner Out and Mistake Was Never Corrected—Error in Surveying. Bangor, Maine—Hibberts Fore folk don't care a rap who is president, who is governor or what the tax rate may be, for although lying in the state of Maine, U. S. a, they are residents of nother town nor county, have no government, no bosses, no improvements, expenses or taxes. In fact, Hibberts Gore folk are political orphans copying a slide in a door and wedged in between Waldo, Lincoln and Knox counties—a patch of field and forest left out in the cold by an error in surveying. This 500 acres should have been included in Lincoln county when that great section of old Maine was divided into several counties in the year 1827. No one ever took the trouble to rectify the error, and so, for 85 years, the inhabitants of Hibberts (originally Hibbards) Gore have been going on their own hook, or, as the natives say, "ain't nowhere." It lies between the towns of Liberty, Somerville and Washington and is about halfway between Augusta and Penobscot Bay. At one time a dozen families lived on the Gore, but being somewhat remote from schools and stores and the land not over fertile, they gradually sold their holdings and moved away leaving three of the farms, included by actual residents, in all, including four youngsters who are sent to school in Palermo, the parents paying their tuition, alided by a state appropriation. The balance of the territory is owned by people living in adjoining towns who cut hay and pasture their cattle on the once-occupied farms. No taxes are raised in Maine's orphan township; the one bit of high way which runs through the Gore is kept in repair by the residents and land owners. Schooling is paid for by the individuals, as stated, and that all is there is in the municipal line. Nobody seems to want the Gore, and some are to be accommodated to stay where they are. If they join some other town they will have to pay taxes, which will cost them more than they pay now for schooling and roads. If any town takes the Gore In—and some have considered the matter—the town will get less In taxes from the Gore property than it would in keeping up the roads and establishing a schooling if the scholars in the Gore. So both sides are content to let the Gore alone. The peculiar status of Hibberts Gore has brought about some amusing situations in the past. The fact that it is in no county and in no town has led to the false impression that it was out of the jurisdiction of all law and its territory could be a paradise for freebooters of all kinds. A smart man, who owned lands on the Gore, drove all his stock there from his neighboring town just before the assessors came around in April. When the assessors called they found his home barns deserted. They assessed taxes on the stock on the Gore just the same, and threatened to sue him if he didn't pay. It was rather a game of luck, and though it better to pay than to run the taxes than the cause of the Gore go to the state legislature and perhaps have his land there attached to some town where the taxes were high. Lincoln county stands as a sort of a protectorate, as the land was originally a part of that county, although the Gore is altogether outside the county lines, but the titles to properties in the Gore are recorded in the Lincoln county records. MULES PLOW FIELDS ALONE Maryland Farmer Succeedes in Training Animals to Work Without a Driver. Ellendale, Del.-Colonel Benson, a prominent farmer and a great lover of animals, has succeeded in training a pair of mules to plow a field without a driver and to breath the shade of a tree and watches his prince team do the plowing. Colonel Benson a few years ago had a team of mules with which he plowed, which wore no harness except the traces and which he guided by shouted directions. This year he has gone his past performance one better and it is a curious sight to find the colonel leaning on the fence by the road, chatting with anyone who drives along while a furrow and plowing as straight a furrow and plowing as fine work as if an expert driver were handling the relins. Must Not Dance. Fayette City. Pa.—Each applicant for a position as teacher in the public schools in Allen township is asked to sign an iron clad agreement not to dance during her service in the school. Need Laborers Pittsburgh, Pa.—Scarcity of labor here has resulted in employers going to police stations and paying the fines of men who are willing to go to work for them. Kill Fifty Cats a Day. Washington.—More than 300 cats have been killed here within a month. Fifty cats are being killed daily by the authorities. Says Guides Ride Moose Albany, N. Y.-Warwick Stevens Carpenter, a magazine writer, just returned from the Canadian woods, says the guides up north amuse themselves by riding wild bull moose near the water. Wealthy Chauffeur Bayshore, L. I—Frank Knight, a chauffeur who inherited $58,000, said that he will not give up his job. He is employed by a wealthy summer resident. COLD-BLOODED BLAUGHTER HAS STIRRED ALL MEXICO. More than Two Hundred Rebel Suspects Are Lined Up Against Adobe Wall and Shot to Death Without a Trial. Mexico City—Proofs of one of the most horrible massacres of innocents ever recorded in any country pretending to the usages of civilization were received at the office of the ministry of war the other day when the announcement was officially made that 214 human beings had been ruthlessly slaughtered in the name of the law at Puruandro, State of Michoacan, in revenge for an attack made on the city by rebels a few weeks ago. Although every effort was made to keep the facts from the public as well as from the government, letters and telegrams of protest were received by President Madero indicating that he had been crushed by Leza, had been crushed by a thirst blood and by his orders all the priorsons suspected of rebellious tendencies had been herded in a corral and shot down in cold blood. Orders instantly were given by President Madero, that a rigid investigation of the persons responsible for the massacre should be arrested and held for trial. According to the information received at the War Office the carriage was the result of denunciations made by former rebels, who for a consideration agreed to point out the culprits who were engaged in looting the city, the details of which were published in the newspaper later. Irregular soldiers acting under the orders of Prefect Loza were sent in every direction looking for the criminals and those who were unable to prove their innocence of all complicity were immediately thrust into the city jail which as a result soon became overcrowded with suspects. With no provision for the accommodation of such a large number of prisoners, the unfortunate became accustomed to the servitude until their cries of anguish are said to have irritate the Prefect until his wrath was changed into a form of frenzy. Almost without warning, twenty-two of the most noisy prisoners were marched into the patio and at a signal from the official in charge all were shot down in cold blood before they had a chance to either escape or fight for their lives. It is admitted as a fact that the blood of these victims trickled under the doorways and threw the populace into a state of panic that almost resulted in a riot in front of the prison. Unable to appease the indignant citizens, the Prefect is alleged to have then ordered the massacre of every person suspected of sympathizing with the uprising and company after company of helpless prisoners were led before their executioners and shot down without further ceremony, because the beheaded man was a that the henchery was not entirely confined to men alone and at least two bootleads believed to have stolen a few trinkets when the city was raided, also were killed. Several prominent residents of the city called upon the Prefect and attempted to dissuade him from following such a bloody course but without avail and the callers were told to make themselves scarce if they did not wish to court a similar case. A few hours later, the body of eyewitnesses of the relatives of the protesters were taken prisoners and subsequently lined up against the dobe wall. Overcome by fear the populace kept silence and the affair probably would never have been made public had not a public-spirited citizen sent a letter to the government asking for an investigation. In order to make the massacre still more horrific, Lot ordered a list of victims printed and placed at the portals of the cemetery, where all might read. WORM DIET FATTENS DOG Canine Grows' Sleek Ridding Tomato Field of Pests—May Be an Epicure. Fulton, Mo.—A dog owned by J. B. Britts, north of Fulton, may have an epicure, as far as tastes go in the canine family, but Britts and his neighbors have a different name for his gastroenteritis. It all happens through the dog's fondness for big green worms that inhabit the Britts' tomato fields. Britts operates a canning factory and this season put all of his land into use for growing tomatoes. About the only objection he saw to the catapus business was the thought of keeping the patches free from the green worms that regularly infest the tomato plants. With him, however, it was counting troubles before they arrived, for when he anticipated a rush of the worms to his patches and went about looking for them it was a repetition of the cupboard scene in Mother Hubbard—there was none. But, unlike the dog in that nursery jingle, the dog "got his." According to the neighbors, the dog dotes on the green worms as a diet and spends his time in the tomato patches taking care of the vines. The fat, sleek appearance of the canine is ample proof he thrives on his meals of worms. Call Men Walters Insolent Newport, I. - Mrs. O. H. P. B. Belmont says men waiters are "insolent, arrogant and likely to become tips", and for that reason she will employ only waitresses for her dinner to Miss Inez Muhland. Next Lined With $10 Bills Atlantic City—In uncovering a rat's nest in a livery stable here, Joseph Penrose discovered that the nest was lined with ten-dollar bills, partly GOOD ROADS BANKERS URGE GOOD ROADS County Associations Being Formed for the Discussion of Rural Highway Improvement. The present-day activities of bankers' associations' in the cause of vocational education and highway improvement will bear rich fruit in results. Occasionally this work awakens a discordant note, resentful of effort in behalf of the bankers' values such as aid. The Illinois State Bankers' association has beastified itself vigorously in both fields, and laid plans which will work results. County bankers' associations are being formed throughout the state, and both rural education and highway improvement will be discussed before the bankers' means forth the problem and the best means of approaching it locally. Highway improvement means the expenditure of money, and road commissioners will listen to the counsel of bankers on this subject with willing ear. In order to counsel wisely the local banker must be informed, and a thorough discussion of good roads and the specific problems that confront each community. In addition, the banker to contact with the road commissioners. From personal work of this character the most beneficial action is certain to ensue. Bankers who approach this problem intelligently will urge on the commissioners the use of the road roller and road drag in building and maintaining highways. The financial argument can be effectively brought to bear, as more money can be saved in road building and maintenance in the past than in any other way. Their use works a real economy. When taxpayers come to understand how much more durable either a dirt or gravel road may be made by use of the steam roller, and how much more cheaply it may be kept in repair by a road drag, they will demand that investments be made in these important improvements. When losing gravel or crushed stone on a country road and calling it a job is a childish procedure in the light of modern methods—Breeder's Gazette. CRIMSON CLOVER WITH CORN Legume is Valuable Both for Grazing and its Power of Depositing Nitrogen In Soil. (By GREGOR H. GLITZKE, Kansas) The value of the樱花 clover grown in a corn field after the last cultivation is that it supplies the average farmer as it should be. This is a legume that is very valuable both as a crop for grazing and its power of depositing which supply of nitrogen in the ground, which will increase to a great extent the yield of the crop that follows it. As crimson clover is a winter variety, it can be sown in the corn field after the last cultivating and even late in the fall as August and September. It will make quick growth and will not injure the corn by drawing nutrients from the soil that the corn should have, as the corn is practically matured before the clover starts to use the plant food from the ground to any extent worth speaking of, and almost from the start it begins to deposit nitrogen in the soil, thus returning more plant food to the soil than it takes there from. It will also keep the late crop of weeds down. These late weeds usually do a great deal of harm by draining on the soil without returning anything to it and also by scattering a good supply of seed which will make much work and trouble the following year. Why not sow broadcast from 12 to 15 pounds of crimson clover seed per acre over the field and prevent this growth of weed and reap, a great benefit from the clover. After the corn is husked in the fall the clover will produce a wealth of grazing for the stock as they are clearing the corn field. It will make them slick and fat, and if the dairy herd can get this treat the returns in the milk pail will more than repay the venture. It will also furnish good grazing in the early spring up to the time when it is turned under. Maryland Malden Blush A favorite apple in its season and a variety to the manor born. Is the Maryland Malden Blush. In days long past, before apple-growing partook of a high degree of art and method, this variety grown from seed and suckers is often taken up and planted in orchard form. There are many varieties of type in fruit and characteristics of tree. There are, however, still in existence in different portions of Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland some of the best of this grand apple, and to name its superior for a fall apple is an act that will help to perform to the satisfaction of a large majority of the native citizen citizens. The Farm Box Turning the grindstone in the hot san generally turns a boy's thoughts to the cool, dim atles of the stores in the city. Value of Bilage. To argue with a farmer against the value of silage in rapidly becoming as useless as to believe it. Acid Solids. Acid solids very commonly require phosphate fertilizers as well as pcp ash. Single Defect or Steep Hill Means Smaller Loads. Prevailing Notion That All Highways Must Be Built on Sectional Lines Is Often Responsible for Poor Condition. (By R. M. DOLVE, North Dakota Agricultural College.) The old saying that "a chain is no stronger than its weakest link" would lose none of its force if it were changed to "a country road is no better than its poorest mile." It matters not how good a road may be if it contains a single defective spot or steepe grade, for no larger loads can be hauled over it than the horses can pull through the defective place or up the high hill. This statement is so self-evident that most people will readily accept it as an axiom, and yet they are seemingly contented to haul fractional loads to market because of some often slight local defect in a road that could be permanently repaired at a nominal cost. The precondition that the only place for a highway is the section line is often responsible for a section line passes through a slough that cannot be easily drained a good road cannot be built through it except at an expense for first cost and subsequent maintenance far exceeding the cost of purchasing a right of way around the slough. The same is true of hills, for if a hill cannot be easily reduced to less than a seven per cent grade it should be circumvented. The writer recalls a road tributary to a small town in the Red River valley, where the entire road is level with the exception of one place where it makes a turn at a section corner near a river. The section corner is close to the river and at least sixty feet from the river, and yet scores of farmers, who use this road in marketing their produce, haul their loads down this sixty-foot drop, turn the corner and haul them up again. At certain seasons of the year small loads have to be hauled because of this hill and often horses are permanently injured by the heavy pull up the hill. Still nothing because of this hill, done, though, at a nominal expense, at all times, be secured above the hill, thus entirely obviating the grade and at the same time shortening the distance to town. Examples of this kind are common and force one to the conclusion that section lines are the proper place for roads only when a good road can be built over them; otherwise the road should be located so as to secure the best route consistent with such factors as distance, cost, drainage and grade. In a new community the best time to locate the roads where they should be is while the land is cheap, when a right of way may be secured over private property with but little difficulty in expense. In this connection it should be remembered that a grade which may not be objectionable when the roads are uniformly poor so that the large loads cannot be hauled any way may become serious obstacles when the roads are improved so that they will sustain heavy hauling. In illustration of this point may be cited that while it requires a pull of 140 pounds on the traces to haul a ton over an average earth road it requires a pull of only 60 pounds to haul a ton over a good macadam road. A six or seven per cent. grade that would be permissible in an earth road may be less than 60 pounds that could be hauled on a good macadam road. In other words, the better and more improved a road becomes the more objectionable becomes the grade. Further illustration of this fact may be drawn from the experience of our railroads. In the early days of railroading, with its small locomotives, small boxcars and light trains, grade were permitted which since the advance of the large modern trains with its heavy trains, high speed and improved track have become practically impassable so that the companies have been forced to spend millions in reducing these grades. See That You Have Pure Water Pure water is necessary in the home. One of the greatest sources of trouble in our rural homes today is the water supply. See to it that the well is so placed that the surface water from around the barn will not drain into the well. Place the well where the surface water will drain away from the barn. Form should light, so that nothing can fall into the well. When sickness breaks out in the family a good thing to do is to have the well examined immediately, as much trouble often arises from polluted drinking water. The Preservation of Chestnuts In Italy a method of checking germination is now being quite largely employed. The fruit is soaked sewev or eight days in a tank of water, well stirred daily, after which it takes about a week to dry. This seems to be the most conspicuous and in this condition they will travel satisfactorily. Dalryng on Town Lot Dalrymple on a town lot may not sound like the most profitable kind of work but it has proven a blessing to many. The herd will not naturally be kept in the garden, but it can pay and furnish the family an abundance of good wholesome food. Buying Land. Some of our good friends who are selling their homesteads at high prices may find that more acres do not bring greater contentment. Amusement for the Family When you take the boy to the emergency too, help keep him out of danger. Raise Your Calves. The man who has a promising heif or orchard may be the butcher who can afford it. THE SCRAP BOOK HOW TO KNOW AND AVOID THE VENOMOUS SNAKES. By a careful study of the subject it has been found that there are about twenty-five different kinds of snakes in the state of Ohio. From our own knowledge of reptiles it is probable that this number of varieties will be found in most of the middle west and western states. The venomous snakes found in that section of the country west of Pennsylvania are two kinds of rattlesnakes and the copperhead. The copperhead is pretty widely distributed. It is hard to imagine colony red and has on its back fifteen to twenty-five V-shaped yellow blotches and a row of thirty-five to forty black spots on each side. The head is copper-colored, and the length of this snake is not over forty inches. The copperhead is a dangerous snake, because it has no rattle with which to warn persons approaching it and is quick to strike. However, it quickly disappears on the clearing of land and the settlement of the country. There are two species of rattlers, the prairie and the common rattlesnake, existing in both light and dark form and many people believe there are several species of this snake. It lives in low, swampy regions. The common rattlesnake is larger Pilot Black Snake (non-venomous). Side view—to show round pupil and slender form of head. and much lighter in color. It lives among the rocks. Polsonous snakes are all attractive in appearance and may usually be know by the rather short, stout body and flattened head. They are different from all other snakes in that they have well developed potion fangs in the front of the upper jaw, a deep pit at the side of the head, plainly visible between the eye and the nostril. The venomous snake can always be told by the pupil of the eye, which stands vertically, similar to the pupil of a cat's eye, in the eye of the snake the pupil runs horizontally. Pictures of the heads of poisonous and non-pisonous snakes should be carefully studied, as by close observations the pits on the sides of the head and the catlike eyes will always disclose the nature of the reptile. When the different snakes are considered, their food will be found to include a great variety of animals. Some snakes feed largely upon in- Side View—Mouth Open to Show Teeth and Tongue. sects, still others upon mice. Many do not show any decided choice of food and take whatever they find easiest to procure. So far as they make their food of field mice, they are highly beneficial, for these mice cause much injury. Many of the insects and animals taken for food are injurious and snakes benefit man by eating them. However, has no economic value and therefore is not considered in economic treatment. However, snakes sometimes feed upon birds and eggs and some of them have adopted this habit to the extent that during the nesting season most of their food is of this kind. So far as they do this they are considered injurious, for most birds are highly beneficial. Birds feed from this source, although some serpents climb trees readily and nests in trees are not beyond their reach. There are two species of large black snakes in several states; one is called simply black snake, or at other times, when it has a bluish color, blue racer. The other is properly called pilot snake. The two are distinguished by the following characteristics: The blue racer has smooth, shining scales Head of Prairie Rattler, (venomous). Side view—to show "pit," vertical pupil and bulging cheeks. all over its body, a white marking on chin and throat and nearly uniformly colored scales without white margins. The plot snake has keeled scales all over its body; the scales have white margins, but there is no white marking on chin and throat. Both of these snakes are commonly found in meadows where they ready access to meadow mice. Just last summer the writer happened to be in a meadow at the time it was being mown and had the pleasure of seeing an immense blue snake race out of the tall grass. When it stopped in plain sight and swallowed the mouse whole, as is the habit of all snakes. This was a demonstration of an economic habit, and as meadow mice were abundant in the fluid in question, the serpent had no doubt taken up its abode there for the time being and was fattening itself on the rodents. We have a number of small snakes like the grass snakes, ribbon snakes and water snakes, and some larger ones, like the fox snakes, milk snakes, and one of the water snakes, which are more or less common everywhere. Some of these are likely to continue common where some other species will become extirpated, for each has some peculiarity which acts to keep them alive in small creeks and ditches everywhere and find protection in debris that gathers in obstructing places. As we shall always have open waterwaters, these snakes have a great prospect for the future. The grass snakes are colored like the foliage and are thus well protected. The milk snake is colored like the milk snakes and so will not be necessarily reduced in numbers by the clearing and ditching of the country. As snakes are more often than any other animal killed at sight, the writer cannot resist the temptation at Side view—mouth open to show fang raised and in filmy sheath, small teeth and harmless forked tongue. Shows also how the head is spread and the lips held back when the snake is striking. this time of saying something in their behalf. It is surely a pity that no snake, no matter how useful, or on the other hand how lacking in any harmful trait, dare show itself in the open without risking its life. The water snake has some way of appreciating this situation, for when it comes out of the water to sun itself, it rests in such a position that it can slide off into the water and may be seconded by snakes of more than one of snakes do more good than harm, and this fact should be considered in our treatment of them. New Town an Old Name The city of St. Paul's first speech was Antichoof of Pisidia. It is important to designate the city of the province of which it was the capital, since Seleucus, the founder of the city, the great conqueror and ruler of the Seleucid empire, named no less than sixteen cities after his father Antichoof. The name 'Antichoof, however, is not repeated in ancient geography so often as many modern names recur in modern geography. There is, in instance, a Washington in almost every state of the union, and no postmaster would be wise enough to know where a letter addressed to "Newton" should go unless the state was also added. It is interesting, by the way, to note the name Newton was as a student of Aristotle in the modern, only it was called Neapolis, which meant new town, or new city. There was a Neapolis through which St. Pat.' passed on this very journey some twenty miles from Antioch. At another Neapolis on the coast of Macedonia he landed on his way to Philippi on a later journey; and the great goddess of the sea, Aphrodite, was the way of spelling Neapolis or new town.—Christian Herald. Subdance of the Bermudas It is contended that the Bermuda islands are merely the remnant of an island, very much larger than the present entire group, which has sukk into the ocean. The original island, it is asserted, had originally four of three hounded or four hundred square miles, whereas the Bermudas of today are only about twenty square miles in area. Within a comparatively recent period, according to Verrill, the Bermudas have subsided at least eighty or one hundred feet. Their base is the summit of an island, and the composition of shell sand drifted into hills by the wind and consolidated by infiltration - Harper's Weekly. Opinion of an Expert Baseball a Great Civilizer Baseball is the greatest of all civilizers, even more potent than the time-honored three R's or spelling book, according to Prof. William Pierce Gorsuch of the University of Chicago, who has just returned from a tour around the world. American teachers in the Philippines have recognized the "civilizing" influence of the national game, Professor Gorsuch says, and are daily giving instruction in baseball just as they do in reading and writing. According to the teachers, love for this pastime is causing a rapid decrease in the number of cock and bull fights in the islands. Use for "Prickly Pear." The much-abused "prickly pear" a species of cactus which covers large areas in Queensland and has hitherto been regarded as one of the principal vegetable pests of the country, is to be turned to commercial account in future. An experimental farm has already been started for the purpose of treating the prickly pear and converting it into fodder. It is claimed that the prickly pear was manufactured from the pears, and if the process to be experimented with proves successful a considerable asset to the state will have been discovered. POINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Preserving and Cooking Hints That Have Been Used for Many Generations. When making marmallar jam cut rounds of tissue paper the size of the jar, soak each in vinegar and lay close over the top of the preserve. This will prevent it going moldy. There's an easy way to make jelly, and what is better is the fruit right in the mellow jelly bag. The filled bag is placed in a large kettle and covered with cold water. After boiling until the fruit is soft, the bag with its contents is lifted out and suspended from a book to drain all night. If one has no assistant this idea has much to commend it. Do not throw away vinegar in which homemade cucumber pickles have been stored. Keep it and use it in salad dressing, instead of the ordinary vinegar. The flavor is delicious and one that cannot be gained in any other way. When canning or splicing fruit gave the surplus juice in the airtight jars and when you make your home-made mince meat pour this juice into the mince meat. You will find this the most time given the mince meat, a much richer flavor. To open a stubborn fruit jar, invert the top of the jar in hot water (bolling hot, not boiling), taking care that the water is not deep enough to touch the glass. The principle is to expose the glass to the air and allow it to usual. A minute or two is sufficient; should it remain in too long the glass would also be expanded. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS In molding peppermints or other candy, keep the hands dusted with confectioners' sugar. Potato balls which are salted in butter after being boiled are delicious. They should be served with a generous sprinkling of minced parsley. To clean a frying pan after fish or onion, cut the pan with soaah water, drain out the water and then put it on the fire and shake a little oatmeal in. Small tin cans can be used for gem or patty cake pans by melting both ends from them in a dripping pan. The cakes will easily slip out of the bottomless rings. When using a bottle of glue, the stopper may be prevented from sticking by rubbing a fresh one with a little lard or grease of some kind and using that in place of the old sticky one. "clean an enameled bathbub wipe it dry and then rub it with a cloth dipped in turpentine and salt. Afterward wash it with clean warm water, then wipe it dry and it will look like a new tub. Blackberry Pudding. One egg, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, one half cupful of butter, one half cupful of lard, two cupfuls of sifted flour, one quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonful of baking powder, one pint of black pepper, one cup of cream; to a cream; add beaten milk and flour sifted with the salt and baking powder. Dredge berries with flour, use no juice and add. Place in a pudding mold. Steam two hours. Sauce—One cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of flour, one cupful of boiling water, butter and sugar, add flour, pour on the boiling water and cook until it foams. Spice Cake. Make a cream of one cupful of butter and two cupfuls of sugar. Add four beaten eggs and stir for five minutes longer, then mix in a cupful of sweet milk, one quarter of a grated nutmeg, one tablepoonful each of cinnamon, mace, nutmeg and cloves. Measure three cupfuls of cream of tartar and one of soda. Sift twice and stir in with the rest of the ingredients. Bake from 40 to 60 minutes in a moderate oven. Flahy Forks. Silver forks that have been used for fish are apt to retain a fshy taste, especially if they have been used in eating kippered herrings or soused mackerels. This fshy taste can be removed readily by washing the forks in hot water and then in the dishpan with the other dishes in hot soap water. Cold water, used first, will completely take away the objectionable taste. Cleanliness In the Kitchen There may sometimes be observed in the cooked dish a loss of flavor, act a bad taste, but a lack of it is appetizing. It would be interesting to know in how many cases this comes from a lack of cleanliness in utensils and methods. Personal hygiene is, of course, in the kitchen, and every good housekeeper endeavors to maintain a high standard in such matters. Economical Stew. Grease the bag well; wash one and a half pounds of fresh pieces of mutton well; dust them thickly with salted barley flour and slightly with pepper; peel and slice one pound of onions, two pounds of potato, thinly. Wash them well; put them (wet) into the bag with the meat, in layers; then add about a half-pint of water; put the bag on the broiler, cook slowly for two hours; dish up on a hot dish and stir around well. Smothered Perch. Clean and carefully dress 12 large white perch. Put a thin slice of fat salt pork on each fish, and cover with a thin layer of finely chopped onions. Arrange in baking pan that can be covered, put into the oven and bake slowly. Just before the fish are done, season with salt and pepper. Pour over the fish hot cream or milk, with plenty of butter. Potato Soup. Eight large potatoes, one large onion, one half pound salt pork cut in slices, three cloves and a sprig of parsley; boll two hours, then strain and add the butter of butter and one pint cream or milk; let come to a boil and serve. Everything All Right If It Was Told Only to Mabel. 'And She 'Thinks it Absurd to Question Her Ability in That Line, and Forthwith Proceeds to Give Proof of it. "Mabel," said Harriet, "can you keep a secret? If you can, I have half a mind to tell you something." "Can I keep a secret?" returned Mabel. "Well, I rather guess I can Hannah Brown was in here Thursday and told me how her mother threw a china plate at her father at breakfast last Thursday morning, and missed him, breaking all the tacups on the mantel-piece and entirely ruining their new ormolu clock, and I've never breathed a word about it to anybody. And two weeks ago yesterday, Lulu Horterson was in here and told me in strictest confidence how her father had had to take the family portraits to a well-sandwich to a pawnbroker in Philadelphia to raise money enough to pay for the second instalment on her mother's new motor car, and 40 elephants couldn't drx it out of me. "What's more, poor Mrs. Windles was over here day before yesterday and confided to me the unhappy fact, which she wouldn't have get out for anything in the world, that her daughter Susie is not really over in New York studying music, as everybody has given to believe, but has actually given to Reno and taken a cottage there to Reno and taken a next spring comes around to qualify as a resident in order to get a divorce from Jim Slobberts, who Mrs. Windles says, though outwardly kind and considerate and generous, as a matter of fact is the meant, most brutal old skintinl in private life that was ever inflicted upon a long-suffering woman. "There are at least three of the most important secrets in this town, confided to me by people who know me and who knew me, even the fire of the Inquisition could not lead me to betray them—and yet you ask me if I can keep a secret!" "Have I told anybody that Marile Shoemaker's first husband had been an English butler before he turned up here and married Marle representing himself as the younger son of the British peep?" I ever breathed to a soul what I have known all along, that the reason Tom Traddies resigned as payer in Col. Blathers' bank was that Betty Blathers proposed marriage to him and he refused even to think of it, thereby getting the whole Blathers family down on him? Did I ever tell you what Jessie Skele told me after Sunday school last Sunday, that she knew you dyed you hair and from a mall-outer house by the box from a mall-outer house, I never did, what's more, I never will Can I keep a secret? Suppose you try me?!-"Harper's Weekly. Seaweed as Food and Medicine Seaweed as Food and Medicine. Seaweeds having been suggested as a possible source of future wealth, especially for food products, Ferrot and Gecik are used in the food industry to give some facts concerning present uses. In Europe they are collected for their alkalies and iodine, for which they are chiefly valued. In some localities they are popular medicines, one kind being employed as a vermilfuge in Corsica, and others, on account of their iodine, being given in goiter and scrofa. In Brittany, where some of the poorer inhabitants have employed seaweed and food, about 10 per cent of the variety is not collected of the variety known as iceland moss. In the north of France a little seaweed is gathered by the peasants as manure. To the Asiatics these plants have been more important, and in Japan edible seaweed is not only the source of a number of food preparations but is even extensively cultivated to give a sufficient supply. Gelatines and glue are among the products. Seaweed is also used as food, and it is supposed that their popularity may be as an aid to the digestion of the great quantities of fish and rice eaten by the Japanese. How He Helped. Apropos of the terrible Rosenthal murder in New York, District Attorney Whitman said to a reporter: "The ramifications of this crime were bewildering. The most unlikely men helped in it in the most unlikely ways. It's like the case of Johnny Jones." The minister, one lovely Sabbath morning, saw Johnny wending his way toward the cemetery with a basket on his arm. "Why, Johnny, what are you up to? he asked. "I'm helping mother with her peach preserving, sir," said the lad. "The minister smiled incredulously. "Helping with the preserving! he scoffed. "Oh, yes, I am, sir, Johnny persisted. 'I'm on my way to the cemetery now to collect the fars.'" Edison Clings to Idea. Thomas A. Edison is still enthusiastic over his idea of printing books on thin sheets of nickel, cheaper, tougher and more flexible than paper. He also produces the nickel sheets at a dollar a pound, and that they would print as well as paper and be practically indestructible. Put Money In Circulation In the course of a year it is said that the theatres of London spend $100,000 in printing and $40,000 on ad vertising. Variety of French Roads France has four classes of roads. They are, respectively, fifty, forty, thirty-three and twenty-five feet wide. Oplum Traffic Being Wiped Out. The opium traffic from India into China is to be decreased gradually until 1917, when it will cease entirely. ```markdown ``` Evidence Seems to Prove Correctness of This Position. From Real Life, in Which Dogs and Cats Have Apparently Used Their Brains, Have Been Verified. Few subjects have been so paintakingly investigated or so widely discussed as the mental processes of the higher animals. Whether they reason or not, a great many careful observers are convinced that they do; and every reference to the question brings interesting letters from readers all over the country. W. L. Mott of Bollar, Mo., has written to tell us of an extremely intelligent Newfoundland dog, of which he was the owner. In the presence of Mr. Mott and his brother-in-law, this dog was grey equipped into a hollow wooden pump log lying on the bank of a creek. For a time he barked and worried the end of the tube without any satisfactory result. He then desisted from chewing the log, sat down in front of it and observed it attentively. Suddenly he sprang to his feet, seized the end of the pump log, dragged it over nearer the bank of, the creek and with his nose pushed it into the water. The dog, with its mouth open as the water reached him, and the dog, springing into the water, easily caught and killed its prey. Here is a course of action which has certainly most of the external indications of a reasoned process. Another reader, Mrs. May Jordan MacDougall of Duquesne, in adds that animals do learn by imitating each other. Bruno and Jeff were two dogs belonging to the same family. Jeff had an extensive repertory of tricks, none of which had ever been taught to Bruno. But Bruno observed that his friend's performances was invariably rewarded with a lump of sugar or other canine luxury. Accordingly, he set himself to do the same tricks, and in a short time, without any human assistance, he played "play dead" and roll over as obediently and successfully as Jeff. The other instance is that of a cat, Toots by name. Toots was a stray kitten that had been adopted by a charitably disposed family, which already owned a cat named Tom, so old that he had lost all his teeth, and had to hook his food from the plate and carry it to his mouth in his paw. Toots watched this performance with interest, and gradually gave up eat-ing, and eventually took his own with her paw as long as Tom lived. When the older cat died the kitten returned to her own more natural method of feeding—Youth's Companion. Tomtit a Lamplighter. There is generally some quite simple explanation of a mystery—if it can only be found quit. The lamphistor at Greenford, near Ealling, has been puzzled for some time past by finding one of the lamps lighted every day, although he had duly turned it down. He suspects not spooks, but mischievous boys, and so he prepared an ambush. To his astonishment, as he was watching, up went the lamp, and then he discovered that the unauthorized lamphistor was a tomtit which had a nest in a corner of the lamp, and in getting into it was in the habit of hopping on to the ring of the incandescent bypass. Many years ago the writer of this note remembers a spell of mystery in the shape of the mysterious ringing of a bell at intervals during the night. No human agency could be detected, and the mystery grew deeper. Possibly the research机构 had been appalled, but no chance revealed the fact that the ringing was caused by a rat, which used the wire as a jumping-off place. Spoops are composed of very varied materials—Westminster Gazette. Prince's Romance. The Bulgarian crown prince Boris, it is said, fell in love with Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Roumanian crown prince—though he never met her—upon seeing a photograph of her when the queen of Roumania paid a visit to the Bulgarian court last year, upon coming of Prince Boris is said he has formed his father, King Ferdinand, of his passion, and said that he must marry Elizabeth or remain single all his life. His father had no objection to the match, but on being approached on the subject, King Charles, of Roumania, vetoed it for political reasons. King Ferdinand, however, on a recent visit to Vienna, persuaded the Austrian emperor to use his influence so successful that an official announcement of the engagement of the young couple is expected shortly. — London Standard. Reproach Returned. Theodore Dreiser, who, at the age of 40, had produced but two novels, believes in slow, painstaking composition. The novelist of another type reproposed Mr. Dreiser for the ten years of silence that lay between "Sister Carrie" and "Jennie Gerhardt." "Why," this individual said,—"why Dreiser, I'll write a novel in three weeks and think nothing of it." The novelist of the world, I suppose, will think the same, said Mr. Dreiser coldly. Unprofitable Possum Hunt "Possums are abundant around Wattsboro," says the Lunenburg (Va.) Tribune, "but a man in that neighborhood went out hunting the other night, and after his dogs got after something he cut down two trees and finally ran his own cat into the dining room of his own home." Island's Name Appropriate. Christmas island, in the Pacific ocean, is so named because Captain Cook landed there on Christmas day, 1777. ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. ee eee ee ee sti migat and it foels very wintry up this "ov. H. P. Jones proached his fare oll sermon Sunday evening prior to the A. M, B. Conference which meets im Galesburg, IIL, on the 18th inst. His teturn, however, is ‘expected by bis many friends, Mr, and ‘Mrs, M.A. Johnson of ‘Thomas Street celebrated their Atth wodding anniversary last Tussday evening by inviting a few of/ thel most intimate friends. Progressive whist was indulged in until a late hour, Mr. James Lee winning first prise, Mr. J. E. Murphy second, and ‘Mr, Geo. Hoage the booby. Delightful refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Johneca were the recipients of many nice presents. At a late hour the guests departed for, thelr, homes wishing the host and hostess many more happy days of wedded bliss. Misa Albreta Bell is playing at the Unique Theatre. We are glad to see Miss Bell occupying the position which she so much deserves. ‘Tho Self Culture Club mects Wed- neaday with Mrs, . C. Hall of Faquler Street. ‘Mrs, Gertrude Barber left Sinday night for a three weeks’ stay in Chl cago. ‘Mrs. Wm. Cannon has returned from a very pleasant visit in Law- rence, Kansas, the guest of her moth- er, ‘Mesdames Geo. Duckett) and 0. Hicks left Monday evening for Gales: burg to attend conference. ‘St. James A. M. E. Church has been most successful this year under the pastorate of Rev. H. P. Jones, Over $4,000.00 has been raised for all pur poses which makes a splendid show: ing. All the church auxiliaries have done thelr best it seems to assist in making the succes. ¢ Mra. Addie Minor has resigned as directoress of St. James cholr. We regret very much to hear of the recent death of Mrs, Sllone Yates of Kansas City. Mr. B. W. Lindsey is now running out west for the N. P. R. R. Rey. E. H, McDonald, who has been in Texas attending the Baptist con vention, is expected home this week. Mr. J. H. Hickmas, director, has 2 new junior choir at Pilgrim Baptist Church, composed of little Misses be tween ‘the ages of 12 and 15 years and they sing well for such young voices. : ‘Subscribe for the Bystander. BEST TREATMENT FOR A BURN. If for no other reason, Chamberlain's Salve should be kept in every house- ~old on account of its great value in the treatment of burns. It allays the pain almost inatantly, and unless the injury 18 a severe one, heals the parts without leaving a scar. This salve is algo unequaled for chapped hands, sore nipples and diseases of the skin. Price 25 cents. For sale by all dealers, CENTERVILLE, IOWA, NEWS Tati Centerville at present is having A quiet boom. Plenty of work in both the city and the mines affords plenty of “work. Everyone seems to be happy. Rev. F. T. Ward is visiting here for the last ten days looking after his property. He was the guest of Rev. J. W. Bvans at the Sunday evening aervice. ‘Mr, C, A. Williams of Chicago, Il, is visiting his auntie, Mrs. Hicks, ’ of East Jackson Street, this city. The Rev. preached two powerful sermons both morning and evening. Many white visitors were present at the service in the evenin. Mr.,Archie Gooding, who is on the sick fist for some three months or more, is slowly improving. Mrs, Mash of South 17th Street, at the home of her soninJaw, Mr. J. L. Mash, is very ill. Rev, and Mrs. J. H. Evans will cel ebrate thelr twelfth wedding anniver- sary September 26th. Many invita- tions are out announcing the same. ‘The Second Baptist Church and its pastor are very glad to have the asso- Clation meet with them next Septem- ber, 1913, artd we expect to richly entertain ‘the delegates. ‘Mrs, Reg of Omaha, Nebraska, is visiting her sister, Mrs, John Hicks, and Mrs. Mash of’ South 17th Street, who is very ill. ‘Mrs, Susie Williams entertained’ at dinner Sunday Mrs. Jno, Evans, and Mrs, Birtha Morton and Mrs. Mary Brooks. ‘Mr, Frank Morton made a flying trip to Trenton, Mo., last week and took bis ttle niece’ Deloris Morton, home, who will enter school there Monday. 7 The Second Baptist S, 8. will hold thelr annual picnic Saturday, Septem. ber 21st, at the Glen Hoggin Park. ‘Master Clifford Terrell and Mrs, Ivy Scott of Des Moines are visiting hie fathar Me Robert: Tesrell. HITEMAN, IA. Sbecial to the Bystander. The many friends of Mr. William Randolph were shorked to hear of his death Friday, Sept. 13, 1912 at 7:20 p.m. Mr, Randolph’ was born in Kirksville, la, May 10, 188, died in Hiteman, Ja. ‘Age 27 years, 4 months and 3 days, after an illness of 21 days, ‘The funeral services were held Sunday, 1 p. m., from Miner hall con- ducted by Rey. 0. B. Smith of Os- kaloosa, Iowa. He leaves to mourn his lose a wife and a baby girl, moth- er, father, sister and a host of rela- tives ‘and friends. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the sorrowing relatives. OTTUMWA NEWS. Rev. and Mrs. M. I. Gorden left Tuesday morning for Galesburg, Ill. to aitend thte annual A.M. E. Com ference. Miss May Catlin who has been visit- ng at te home of Mr. and Mra. H. Owens on Mill street left Friday afternoon for Galesburg to attend the Conference and visit relatives. From there she will go to Chicago. Mrs... Frank Henson entertained a few friends at dinner Friday in honor of Rey. and Mrs, M, 1. Gorden. ‘Mrs. James Robinson 1s confined to her home with Illness. ‘Mrs. Hattie Stearns of Fairfield is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo Robinson on Center Ave. Mrs. Sarah Gooden was operated on for appendicitis at the Ottumwa hos pital. She is getting along fairly wall. ‘Miss Dalay May Crump will remain in Spokane, Wash. with her father Robert Crump. ‘Mr. Geo. Robinson has gone to Centerville on account-of the serious iiness of his aunt. 7 © Mr. Frank Smith went to Fairfield Friday night on peat “Mra. Harry Owenk: went to Gales- ‘bling Friday efternoon to attend Con- ce and visit relatives. ae ‘WMtre’ Geo. McGill and children lett Fitday tor Gajsstiarg to attend Coe ference and visit relatives, "Mr. Rosege Gunn was taken to the Ottumwa hospital Friday with Ty phoid Fever. His mother Mrs. ‘Btearns could not return to her home in Chicago as she intended until he 1s botter, _ Maulr Mash has gone to Centerville ‘called there by the serious illness of ‘nis mother ° ‘Mra. Anna Carson and children who have been spending the summer in "Newton with her sister havo returned: ‘Mr, Chas, Owens who has been visiting in Missouri has returned. Homer Johnson of Oskaloosa was in the city Friday and Saturday. ‘Mr, Barcay of Oskaloosa {8 work: ing at the Ballingquall. ‘Miss Berdie Williams of Jay street returned from Chicago where she has ‘been spending her vacation. ‘The Sewing Circle will celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation Mon- day night, Sept. 23, at 8 o'clock. A good program of musical numbers— reading and addresses—will be ren- dered, Admission 10 cents, All are woleome. The Benevolent Club) will give o high class entertainment Sept. 19, ‘The Benevolent Club album, in con- nection with a good musica! ani lit- erary program will be rendered. Ade mission 10 cents. Mr. Earl Webb of Buxton left Mon- aay ‘evening for his home after # five days ‘visit with Miss Leila Downy and mother, Mra, Lee of East St. Louts, Ill. is visiting at the home of Mrs. Oscar »-Hliams, Mrs. Anna Lee and other friends. Rev. Newman of Oskaloosa and Rev. Morgan of Yankton, 8. Da, ar Tived Monday enroute to Galesburg to the A. M. B. Conference. Mrs, Basfleld of Washington and daughter Miss Leona were in the city ‘Sunday. ‘Miss Leona left on the evening train for St. Louis enroute to Fisk University and Mrs. B. re timed to her home. ‘Twenty young people stormed the Clark home Monday evening, The occasion being the twenty-third birth- day of Raymond B. Light refresh- ments were served, They left in the Wee small houre wishing him many happy returns of the day. ‘Miss Margurite Gardner and aunt of Chicago are visiting at the home ot thelr father and grand father Mr. Chas. Owens. Mr, John Harris does not improve any. Ye pastor and members of the A. ‘M. EB. Caurch held a very pleasant farwell service and social in the lect- ure room of the church Monday even- ing. After the service several heart teeineart talks were indulged in each one wishing the return of our good pastor Rey. M. I, Gorden who made PisGnnual report shawing the church to be in the best condition in its history, having taken in $1,478.10 dur- ing the year. Being entirely out of doubt and all boards and auxiliary -aving a balance in the treasury. 22" Rte nour the wna: farwelle were taken for this conference year. Each One hoping to greet the same pastor and wife at the beginning of the new conference year. ‘Mrs, Wells Fowler, Plum street is suffering with rucumatism, Rev. fr. J. Carr has returned from ‘the Iowa-Nebraska Association whieh convened Sept. § to 9 at Omaha, Neb. He ‘reports a profitable and pteasant time = COLFAX. “Rev. Toomy of Davenport fMllet the pulpit both morning and evening to an appreciative audience. Mrs, Lulu Edgar of Colfax, who represented the Ruths at the annual gathering which convened at Keokuk ‘has returned. home, and reports a grand session. ‘Miss Stella Pierson was shopping ._ the Capitol City Friday and was also a guest of her -rother of 1508 High .street. Mrs, Green of Des Moines is vis- iting her sister, Mrs, Henry Clark. Miss Berthe Strother who has been visiting her friend, Mrs. Alice Battle returned to her home in Buxton to resume her work in Buxton post of fice as clerk. ‘Mr. Owen Redman left for lows City to resume his studies for the coming year. And as this ts Mr. Regman’s Inst year at ‘college we wish him the greatest success. Mr, Creed Taylor returned from Omaha Monday where he has beer attending the Towa and Nebraska convention, where he went as a rep resentative of Bethel Baptist church Mrs. D. E, Murft of Cape Town South Africa, is here for rest and relaxation at the home of Mrs. Alle« Battle and will give several lectures while In the city, Sunday night she lectured to a large audience at thé ‘White Baptist church and Tuesday afternoon at the Presbyterian churcl and Wednesday night at the Bethe Baptist_ church. ‘Mr. Peter King of Burlington, wh« is here for a much needed rest witt hopes of benefiiting his health an¢ drinking the mineral water, is stop ping at the Battle House while it our city. ‘Miss Ethel Terrell, one of Colfas young ladies, left Friday for De Soto Mo., where she has been employe ag one of the teachers in the publi school. We Wish Miss Ethel suc cose. ‘The Jadies Mission Circle will mee ‘Thursday, September 19, at the hom« of Mrs, Battle. If you knew of the real value 0° Chamebtlain’s Liniment for lame back, soreness of the muscles, sprains and rheumatic pains, you would never Wish to be witout it, For sale by all dealers. MACON. Mrs. Allie Cobbert and son, Johnie, have returned to tneir home in St. Louls ‘after a few days’ visit with her sister, Mrs, H.C, Clark. ‘Mrs, Cora Logon of Buxton, Towa, gave a musical concert, which was well attended and very highly ap- preciated. Western College began Sept. 26. ‘The A. M. E, church gave an ex: cellent bazaar ‘Thursday and Friday ight. ‘The Mission Cirele had thelr ‘annual election Friday, Mrs. D. How- ard is president. ‘ "Siro, Wietona. Bragsell 1®) visiting ‘Ler slater in Mount Pleasant, lowa, ‘Miss Edvina Harris attended the xair in Shelbina, Mo. Rev, P. B. Gales preached two ex éellent sermons Sunday morning and evening. + ‘hiss Genevieve Adams of Millan, Mo, has returned to attend Dumas High school. ‘ Mr. J. L, Thompson was in the city Jaat week. Wider Heal preached an excellent ‘sermion Sunday evening, 3 CLINTON. ‘A number of our people took in the barbecue at; Rock Island last week. ‘The W. W. Club pt the 2nd Bap- Uist. church: gave a ‘on the 14th which was a financial success, the peace ae the 2nd Baptiat ee cr preedag Toth ‘morning fe pastor morning and evening. A social was given Monday night av Bethel A.M. 15. church by a com- multtee of young men for the steward ‘department, An adjourned session of the quar terly conference was held Monday Bight cloding the conference year’s worl ‘Those reported on the sick list are “Grandma Parm, sald to be 126 or 130 years oid, and Mrs. J. Martin. ‘The choir of the .nd Baptist church will give an entertainment on Sept. Qist for the pupose of purchasing books, Rev. G. W. Slater spent Saturday and Sunday in Chicago, where he de- Iivered lectures. He returnei Mon- day, leaving that night for the an- nual ‘conference at Galesburg, ae companied by his family. Mrs, H. G. Williams returned home last ‘week from a visit at her home in_Missourl, Please send in your delinquent sub- scription remittance, we need the “money. ‘Mrs, C, V. Bush. expects to leave this week for Chicago, where she in- tend# to spend the winter. ‘We notice quite a number of stran- gers in town. We are always: glad to meet the reputable representatives of the race. KEOKUK NEWS. Mr. Frank Flint 1s proprietor of a newly established pantatorlum at No. 817% Main Street. He solicits the patronage of all. Mr. Fliut's former home was in Augusta, Georgia, where he was previously engaged in this kind of work. Since coming here several months ago he has been em- ployed in the family of Major D. B. Hamill, By his exceptional courteous and affable manner he has won for himself friends whom we feel assuked will give him their hearty supporp. He guarantees his work to be reason- able and first class. ‘Mrs, John Hampton was last week stricken with paralysis, which has oc- easioned much regret’ among her many friends. Our sympathy is ex- tended to the family and we hope she may soon recover from this ab- nornial condition. Several of our young married peo- ple and prospective grooms have re- cently purchased homes, also a num- ber who gwn their residence homes are purchasing property for an invest- ment, This spirit of advancement among our people here is rapidly gain- ing favor, which ‘tends to show that we are not retrogressing, but instead are working forward to achievements that will accomplish for us recogni: tion both in the industrial, economical and financial world. In our article containing synopsis of the Missouri Jurisdiction of S. M. Tvs that was held at St. Louis, Mo., last month we failed to state that Keokuk was honored by Mrs. J. 1. Phillips receiving the highest number of votes cast for third grand trustee. Mr, and Mrs. Nathan Mitchell have purchased the ice cream parlor lo- cated at 1123 Main Street, of Mr. Ed Roberson, he having conducted it for the past two years. The young peo- ple felt loathe to see Mr. Roberson discontinue business, he having en- deared himself to them by his kind and always courteous treatment but feeling that indoor confinement was not best for his health as well as other ‘mattera of a business nature that ‘meeded more of his attention. - He igs oa gia Me Phone Red 1035 246 W. Srd Street. } GW. SCOTT, Proprietor | We have opened a first class pool and billiard hall at the above ad- dress and solicit your patronage, ) Courteous treatment to all. We carry a full line of choice Cigars and Tobacco. > PILE sx RECTAL Eran ie Mild Mea! Treat a) ment for ait" Rectal Olsenses Contalna scores of testimovias from perces™ cured Fears age BaF sri whom you mas” coreepond BAY reo to sce” Bly protentonal te Sad‘becn devoted to the excite tive study an uestment of Ree. Y {er Digester in Det" Moines Be / Sind orton tousy, Re / «S(O. Y. CLEMENT eo Suite 408 FEA, taraunret Bidet bos Moines, ta. | cae Se j | neg | | | r 1 | | | — a MRS. A: M. 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This san- itary method of treatment is also having ‘the desired effect in helping to prevent:the spread of diseases, for it Isa fact that hair in an unsanitary condition carries the germs of disease which often prove fatal to innocent persons coming in contact with them, For treatment, call on or address: + Mrs Mollie Whitney 726 10th St, Des Moines , YOU CAN’T BEAT IT oe Hot Home-Made Bread Sf a> all day with those delic- fi > ious home cooked meals. f = i sl When in Chicago, Il | i G Everybody eats at the : Bi "ue §6The Model Cafe \ ; j ‘ yo 12 West gist St. Near state St, X y Columbia Hotel Bldg., Chicago z Moderate Prices Quick Service W. L. HARRISON, Prop Phones—Aldine 3368~ Automatic 73-174 ng} Falcon (Rost Pattengs To a | BRE | ee PAT.COM is without ees a superior Milled under most Ask your sanitary conditions Grocer realised the necessity of his discon. tinuing business, But we are glad that tn the person of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell wo are assured of that same cordial and courteous welcome greet- ing. They need no introduction as-we ail “now "Ghar to, be capable and worthy young people who are qualified to conduct any business they may undertake, They desire to main- tain the patronage of all former cus- tomers and hope to gain ‘many new ones, In connection with the soda fountain they will also serve short order lunches, ‘Mr. Will Haley ts at home with his ‘mother Mrs, Jno. Thomas after an extended trip in’ Southeastern Mis- sour! {n connection with the different fairs in that part of the state, | The stork is quite busy here these days. His latest visit was last week ‘at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Jno. Mitchell, a bright eyed daughter. ‘Mr, Ed Roberson, who is Grand Chief Mentor of the Sir Knights and Daughters of this state, is very much enthused over histrip to Louisville, Ky, during the triennial conclave ‘which convened there last month. He speaks In glowing terms of the hos- pitality accorded them while there ‘and of the progress along all lines ‘among our race there, It being more ‘than what was expected because of ‘some misrepresentation. The Colored branch public Ibrary there is = com- mendable structure that attaches great significance toward race devel- opment. Mrs, George Patton of Des Moines was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Nathan Mitchell while in our city ‘attending the Odd Fellows’ session, A plenic in her honor was held at Cedar Glen before her re: turn home. ‘The sponsors were Mrs. Georgia Caldwell, Miss Edna Hender- son, Mrs. Nathan Mitchell and Miss ‘Kania Masiea. MARSHALLTOWN NEWS. (Special to the Bystander.) Rey. K. L. LaNont of Oskaloosa was in the city the past week looking after the interest of the A, M: E. church and rajsing ‘‘dollar money'” for confer- ence, She was accompanied by her daughter Clara Cahel, and son, Deney, She talked to the mother's at the Bap- tist church on a Friday bight, while tears came from some mothers eyes and hands went up all over the house to prove her statements. Deney is on- ly thirteen years old, but he masters his cornet well with his sister at their organ and their duets and treio’s. They rendered a delightful program. Every- one was very much pleased and may God add his blessing upon their work, BUETCN BRIEFS. (Special to Bystander.) ‘The Mission at Buxton which report- ed closed by Rev. Allen of the A. M. 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A number of Albans attended the fun- eral services at Hiteman and a number went, to the cemetery in Albia, Mr, Roy Grayson and Mrs, Roy Gray: son and son, Ben, of Hocking was i Albia, Friday. Rev. R. Manly preached his farewel sermon at the A. M. E, church on Sun day evening Mr. and Mra Estes, Mr. and Mrs. Richie attended the funeral of Wil Randolph in Hiteman, Sunday. Lawer Geo. H. Woodson of Buxton was in Albia this week, also Atty. Jas. Spears of Buxton. ORIG(*IAL NOTICE In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, No- vember Term, A. D. 1912. 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