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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Capitol Blvd Hist.ical Room 10 VOL. XX NO. 49 CITY NEWS. Mr. August Griffin formerly of Des has gone to Omaha, Nebr. to go into business, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Claybroke of Buxton have moved to our city to make their future home. Mrs. Ruth E. Bright of Davenport, W. G. M. of O E. S. is a delegate to the Federation. While here she is the guest of Mrs. E T. Banks. Mrs. Wells Fowler of Ottumwa is in our city this week, delegate to the Federation. While here she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson. Mrs. G. W. Robinson, 1410 East Delaware street, is serving Ice Cream, Pop and Candies in the afternoons and evenings. Plenty of shade, a nice place to spend the evening. Take the Walker street car. Rev. E J. Penney, the supply pastor for Uion Conregational church, will finish two months work in our city next Sunday. He has made many friends and is a strong, able highminded christian gentleman. Mr. McCree wishes to extend to the following persons his sincere thanks for their valuable assistance during the reception at the Model Drug Store last Thursday evening: Misses Lee, Cook, Bell, Roberts and Messrs Malcolm Griffith, Edward Weeks. H. C Brown, L. Gregory, C. H. Lewis and Paul McCree. Invitations have been issued by the members of the Wednesday Night Bridge club for a "Garden Party" on June 6th at the Elks hall. The dancing will be from 9 until 12 and the music will be furnished by Thyous' orchestra. When visiting in Omaha, Nebraska, see D. G. Russell for neatly furnished rooms—all modern up-to-date houses, Phones, residence Douglass 5033; Office Douglass 3193. 1918 and 1922 Cummins street. At the convening of the Iowa Federated Women's clubs at Corinthian Baptist church, Rev. E J. Penney, acting part of Union Congregational church offered the opening prayer just prior to the Mayor's address of welcome. Mesdames Ella Lawson, Clara E. Adams, Essie Lewis of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Daisy Lemme of Iowa City are the guests of the Misses Gertrude and Adah Hyde and Mrs. Edith Emily Strawthers. Afternoon teas, breakfasts and card parties will be the mode of entertaining the young visiting guests, which includes Mesdames Ella Lawson, Essie Lewis and Clara Adams of Kansas City, Daisy Lemme of Iowa City, Jeremiah Clay Johnson of Gravity, Iowa, Mrs. Garnett McGee of Chicago, Misses Ala Steele of New York City and Cecil Harris of Chicago. Mrs. Etta Grant of Sioux City passed through our city last Friday from Keokuk, where she had been attending the Grand Chapter of the O. S. S. She went from here to St. Paul, Minn., to visit with relatives before going home. Mr. Charles S. Ruff, one of our old and well known newspaper men, formerly of this city, but now of Peoria, IL, arrived in our city last week to visit his aged father and brother, Chadius Ruff. Charles is looking fine and enjoying good health. While there he is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Shelton. He was the first editor that the Bystander had. Miss Carrie Watson, assisted by her aunt, Mrs. Gus Watkins, entertained about twenty young people on Sunday evening at a dinner party. dinner was served at three tables and the places were found by means of ninety place cards. The honored guests were Mr. Sutor of Marshall-Mesdames Ella Lawson, Essie Lewis, Clara Adams of Kansas City, Mrs. Daisy Lemme of Iowa City and Miss Alka Steele of Ne wYork City. she after dinner hours were spent in music and conversation. UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 04:45 a. m. Worship, sermon will be the children. 02 m. Sunday School. 04:55 p. m. Christian Endeavor 2:45 p. m. Christian Endeavor 2:45 p. m. Evening worship, sermon dehold the Man." After the sermon today night Rev. Penney will have a new parting words of farewell to mem- ers and friends. ODISON PARKER FOR SENATOR The name of Addison B. Parker will be on the republican ticket for the senator from Polk county. Mr. Parker is an attorney at law, a grad- e from Drake university, highly qualified and will give all classes and equals equal. He solicits the bred voters in his behalf and he treat them right. 12 m. Sunday School. ANNUAL CONVOCATION Of Electa Grand Chapter of O, E, S of Iowa and Jurisdiction Held a Very Successful Meeting in Keokuk, Iowa. The Electa Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star of Iowa and jurisdiction convened in their seventh annual convocation at Union lodge hall. The meeting was opened by the worthy grand matron in ritualistic form. The following grand officers were in their stations: John S. Brooks, G. W. P.; Ruth B. Bright, G. W. M.; Ada Monroe, G. W. A. M.; J. Emma Milligan, G. W. treasurer; Mary F. Bland, G. W.; Maude W. Wilkinson, G. W. conductor; Addie Edliott, G. W. The grand worthy matron proceeded immediately to appoint the following committees: Committee on rules of order. Committee on credentials. Committee on warrants and dispensations. After a recess of twenty minutes the committee on rules and order of business made a complete report. The committee on credentials made a partial report. The committee on warrants and dispensations asked for warrants for two chapters. The chapter was called off to be called on at 2 p. m. The annual address of the worthy grand matron was given in the first part of the afternoon session. She reported the judiciation to be in a growing condition and all the chapters working enthusiastically. The worthy grand patron gave his annual address, recommending that the members be regular in their attendance, as it was their presence more than their money that would make their chapters strong. The worthy grand matron appointed the following committees: G. O., addresses, grievances and appeals, obituaries, by-laws for subordinate chapters, visitors and returns. After a twenty minute recess the committee on appeals and grievances was called and reported no grievances. The committee on obituaries reported that during the year the jurisdiction had lost three members. The committee on returns made a complete report. A kindly greeting was read from John L. Thompson, W. G. M. of the grand lodge of Iowa and jurisdiction. An invitation was read from Alpha Chapter No. 2, and Electa Grand Chapter of Iowa and jurisdiction to a reception at Union lodge hall Tuesday evening. The program or that occasion follows: Piano solo—Miss Letha Johnson. Welcome address on behalf of the chapters—Mrs. A. A. Bland. Response -Miss Ada Monroe, G. W A. M, Buxton, Iowa. Welcome address on behalf of the Masons—A. W. Draine. Response—S. D. Lowery, Silver Leaf Chapter, Cear Rapids. Duet—Misses Rufh Bland and Dora Ware. Recitation—McKinley Brooks. Quartet—William Martin, Earl Ware, Charles Williams, Arthur Fox, Remarks—J. S. Brooks, Burlington. Solo—Charles Johnson. The Wednesday morning session of the O. E. S., holding its seventh annual convoitation in this city, opened with a short interesting talk by Rev. S. P. Moore, past grand patron of Illinois. A question box was placed on the altar and delegates were instructed that all who wished questions answered should place them in the box, and that they would be answered before the close of the session. Several committees were appointed at this session. They were the committees on petitions, on printing, on charity, and a committee was appointed to meet with a committee of the Masons. The committee on by-laws for sub-chapters reported that they had examined the constitution and by-laws of Pride of the West chapter of Minneapolis and found them to be excellent and that they did not conflict with the constitution and by-laws of the grand chapter. The worthy grand assistant matron gave a short, concise report. The worthy grand secretary gave an excellent exemplification of the work of the degree. In the afternoon letters of greeting and reports from the grand chapters of the following states were read: California, Kansas, Colorado, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, Arkansas, Indiana and Ohio. A report was made on donations received from several chapters toward buying jewels for the work of the grand chapter. Grand Historian Maud O. Thompson gave an accurate history of the seven years of the existence of the Electa grand chapter. At 3 o'clock the meeting adjourned in order that all the visitors might be able to visit the plant of the Mississippi River Power company. In the evening the chapter reconvened at Union lodge and a chapter of sorrow for the departed was held. Electa grand chapter O. E. S. opened their last day's session at 10:30 Thursday morning. The morning was spent in hearing the final reports of the committees. At 11 o'clock the W. G. M. called the chapter off and organized a past matron's council. Officers: President, Mate Clarke, Ottumwa; vice president, H. E. Jackson, Cedar Baker; treasurer, Maud Wilkinson, Des Moines; secretary, Eva S. Abbey, Minneapolis, Minn. Morning session closed. The afternoon session was spent in the election of officers. The following officers were elected: W. G. M.—Ruth B. Bright, Davenport. G. W. P.—John S. Brooks, Burlington. G. W. A. M.—J. E. Milligan, Cedar Rapids. Grand Treasurer—Maud Wilkinson, Des Moines. Grand Secretary—Mary F. Bland, Keokuk. Grand Conductor—Addie French, Des Moines G. A. Conductor—Eva S. Abbey, Minneapolis, Minn. . The invitation to meet with Pride of the West chapter, Minneapolis, Minn., was accepted. ODLE FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY. This week we present to our readers Mr. M. S. Odle, who is a candidate for county attorney, subject to the primaries in June. Mr. Odle was born in Illinois in 1870 and was educated in the public schools. Later he attended the Greer college at Hoopen堡, Ill., after which he came to Iowa and entered Drake university and graduated from the law department of that university in 1907, was admitted to the bar and has been practicing ever since. Mr. Odle comes from one of the old abolition families. His father, Mr. Miles Odle, who was a soldier in the civil war. He is a high-minded, well qualified young man and coming from the common walks of life as he has, he is in close sympathy with the laboring people, and if nominated will treat all classes with equal justice, as has been his past experience. He therefore solicits your support next Monday. FISHER FOR SUPERVISOR Mr. A. C. Fisher, one of the present members of the board of supervisors from the Fifth district. He has made an honest, earnest canvass for his renomination and by virtue of his many years of service and long life spent in Saylor township on the farm and with his present knowledge of the things of the county, he is the best qualified man from that district at present to become a member of the county board. He has always been a true friend to the colored people and merits their support next Monday. DE GRAFF FOR JUDGE Hon. Lawrence De Graff, one of the present members of the bench, is a candidate for renomination on the non-partisan ticket. Mr. De Graff has been on the bench for several years and merits the support of this county by his square dealings and honest decisions. He is an honest, high-minded, Christian gentleman of high ideals and his many friends are asking your support as one of the judges of this district. GRIFFIN FOR SHERIFF This week we take pleasure in presenting to our readers the true likeness of John Griffin, the present sheriff of Polk county, who is a candidate for renomination for his second term. Mr. Griffin has made an excellent sheriff. He has been fair and honest to all classes of people. He has a colored man in his department in the person of Mr. W. T. Jones and his many friends are urging upon you his support. He is a County boy, having been born and raised here, and we assure you that he will make a most excellent sheriff, as he has already done, if given your support Monday. BRENNAN FOR JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT Hon. Hugh Brennan, one of the present members of the district bench, is a candidate for renomination, subject to the primaries June 1st on a non-partisan ticket. Judge Brennan has served on the bench for the past ten years and has made a splendid, good jurist, honest, careful, judicious and conscientious with all cases. He has lived in Polk county for the past forty-six years and has practiced law since 1878. His life is an open record to the citizens of Polk county. J. M. McNAMARA. J. M. McNamara is known as one of the successful business men of this city. Just the kind of a man that ought to be in the legislature. His word is as good as a gold bond; his enthusiasm is contagious and he works all the time for a greater Des Moines. He is generous and fair. If you ask the men who are in business with him they will tell you that he is the squarest man they ever met. Just try it. See what his M. H. M. help says about him. That is a good way to test a man. They have a way of distributing something of the profits at the end of the year in the form of extra checks, dependent upon the volume of business done during the past year. A plan that is so generous, so fair to the people who work for them that every one of them becomes a lasting friend to Mr. McNamara, and to the firms with which he is connected. He is broad-minded, clean-handed, generous and so liberal with his giving that he is known as one of the supporters of dozens of worthy causes in this city. He is a republican who believes in the party. He is a worker for friends. No friend ever found him wanting. No friend ever knew him to betray a confidence. A committee working in his behalf has found that the business men want him in the legislature because they know he will urge business methods and same laws. If we had more of his kind in the lowat legislature it would be better for state, city and country, alike. Vote for him. He is worthy of your support. MYERLY FOR CONGRESS. We take pleasure in presenting to our readers the familiar face of Hon. Joseph I, Myerly, who is a candidate for congress from the Seventh congressional district, subject to the primaries next Monday. Mr. Myerly is one of our well known and highly esteemed citizens, having been born, raised and educated in Polk county. His father moved from Warren county here. Mr. Myerly is a lawyer and at present is a member of the city council, having been elected recently at our city election by the largest majority of any of the commissioners, and has charge of the department of streets and public improvements. He has made one of the best commissioners we have had under our new form of city administration. He is a true and tried friend of the colored people as is demonstrated by the fact that he has more colored employees in his department than any other commits- 1910 SENATOR ARTHUR C. SAVAGE OF ADAIR. Republican Candidate for United States Senator. Senator Savage of Adair is one of the brilliant young republicans of Iowa. He is a republican of the type which has made the party great. He J. E. (AL) DeVORE, CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY TREASURER. J. E. DeVore, better known as "Al," was born in Marion county. He has resided in Polk county the past forty years. Al has had fourteen years' experience as a deputy and clerk in the county treasurer's office, having served under Treasurers Dilworth, Murphy, McKay, Murrow and Dobson. He has never held a public elective office and was never a candidate for one. He is a member of the Masons, K. P.'s, Elks, Eagles, Owls, and was formerly a member of the Moose and Woodmen. Al is also a son of a veteran, has always been a republican and is thoroughly competent to fill the office he seeks. Al is a good friend of the colored race and can be depended upon to give us a square deal if elected. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my friends who so freely and kindly assisted me during the illness and death of my beloved mother. L. J. Ehelton. sioner, which has been true of Mr. Myerly in all his public and official capacity. He was postmaster of our city for several years and all through his life in Des Moines he has shown the spirit of square dealings and justice with all classes of people. He raised and educated a family in North Des Moines. By age, experience in public affairs and qualifications there is no candidate upon the republican ticket who is more eminently fitted for the high office of congressman than Hon. Joseph I. Myerly, and his many friends, both colored and white, are using all honest means to secure his nomination next Monday, and they especially solicit your aid and support in his behalf, and we feel safe in saying that if elected to congress the colored people from this district will have a true and tried friend that will stand by them and their interests upon all occasions. Therefore he will appreciate any support that you may give him. THE NEW YORKER s imbued with the principles which made the republican party a power in the past, made it the party of liberty, of freedom and of equality to all men. Senator Savage is the Abraham Lincoln type of republican. He believes in the principles which General Grant and William McKinley fought for. He believes in the protective tariff, which means higher wages and more work for our people and prosperity for our whole nation. If elected he will do much for the people of our state. You should remember that his opponent, Cummins, voted to place the educational advantages of the country outside of the grasp of our colored boys and girls in the south and was one of the only two republican senators who took such an unfair stand. You will make no mistake if, on June 1, next Monday, you will go to the polls and vote for Arthur C. Savage for United States senator on the republican ticket. 190 Born in Polk county, Iowa, April 19, 1867. Has held many positions of trust. Has been associated in some form or another with the industrial or business life of the city for years, and his record is known to everyone. He is president of Confidence lodge, No. 102, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. The business that passes through the court of Polk county is enormous. That the affairs of such moment should be kept close track of, and the records be made accurate to the minute detail is a thing which every voter will not only concede without argument, but in which he is vitally interested. The accuracy of the records is largely dependent upon the ability of one man, the clerk of the district court. If he is competent and painstaking, all is well; if not, chaos soon reigns and the legal affairs of the county are soon in a muddle. Mr. Fred L. Barnett is highly qualified and experienced to be clerk of the district court of Polk county. He is a true friend of the colored people and merits their undivided support. His many friends solicit your vote for him Monday. OTTO PEEL FOR CONSTABLE. Lee township has produced her full quota of candidates for constables for this year. One of the most prominent in the list is Otto Peel, well known member of the clerk's union. Friend Peel has been a party worker for twenty years, has made a pronounced success as inspector in the department of streets and as bailiff for the county court. He is fully conversant with the duties of the office to which he aspires and would make a valuable and trustworthy official. From the standpoint of integrity and good repute, the name of Otto Peel stands high wherever he is known. He is one of the best known citizens in Lee township, and from the list of friends which he enjoys, and the enthusiasm in his candidacy which they display, it is the most reasonable of assumptions that he will be successful in his efforts for nomination to this office. IOWA WOMEN'S FEDERATION. IOWA WOMEN'S FEDERATION. This week our city has been entertaining the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which numbers fully forty clubs, with more than eighty delegates present from all parts of the state. It was indeed a very large attendance, as well as a successful session. There was much good accomplished and great enthusiasm. All reports were encouraging and the ladies were benefited by the continued success of this organization. The gatherings were largely attended and the papers were worthy and showed much thought in preparation. We look upon this organization as one of the potent factors in the advancement of our race in the northwest and we only bespeak that it is our hope that the good work those women are doing will continue and develop until it reaches every nook and corner of our state, benefiting hu- Price Five Cents. manity and elevating the race. MASONS TO LAY THE Y. M. C. A. CORNER STONE The Masons of Missouri will on next Sunday lay the corner stone of the -100,000 Y. M. C. A. building and Hon. Nelson C. Crews, the grand master, invited the grand master of Iowa to be present. Fully 800 master Masons will be in line, with 200 commanderym in uniform. Those who will go from Iowa are John L. Thompson, G. M.; H. E. Williams of Otumwa, deputy G. M.; S. Joe Brown, S. G.; Hurbert E. Jacobs, P. S. G. and g Auditor; Atty. J. B. Rush, W. M. of North Star of Des Moines; W. J. Shepard, P. G. custodian of Buxton, and Benj. J. Hack of Des Moines. OUR CITY PRIMARIES On next Monday the voters of Iowa will be called upon to express their choice as to candidates on the various places to be filled upon the ticket at this coming November election and it behooves every voter to go to the polls and express their preference as to the various candidates who are soliciting your support. The Iowa State Bystander has from time to time published a list of candidates upon the republican ticket who are soliciting your support for nomination and are running such a list again this week. We are asking our colored voters to read this list over and make your selection from those who have been broad enough and willing to give your race paper their announcement cards and write-ups. Feeling that those who do not care to give colored newspapers their part of the announcement are not soliciting the least of your support and perhaps do not care much about your vote. While we have run a large number of candidates and have solicited from all our candidates in the county, we feel it no more than just that the names who do not appear in this list would not advertise with us and did with the other newspapers, so when you go to the polls Monday remember this list and make your selection from those whose names are published in The Bystanderr. BARBER FOR LIEUTENANT GOV- ERNOR W. C. Barber of Des Moines is a candidate for lieutenant governor, subject to the republican primary next Monday. He is a good, reliable, honest, clean, high-minded citizen, well qualified by age and experience. He stands for high morals and is a strong temperance man. He is a friend to all worthy struggling humanity who are trying to live a higher and better life. He solicits your vote Monday. United States Senator. Albert B. Cummins. Arthur C. Savage. Governor. C. G. Lee. Lieutenant Governor. W. C. Barber. Secretary of State. William S. Allen. Auditor of State. Joseph H. Byrnes. J. F. Wall. Clark B. Ellis. Treasurer of State. W. C. Brown. Attorney General. George Cosson. Congress—Seventh District. Cassius C. Dowell. Joseph I. Myerly. State Senator—Thirtieth District. Thomas Fairweather. Addison M. Parker. State Representative. O. S. Franklin. George C. Brammer. S. B. Garton. James M. McNamara. Lester L. Thompson. COUNTY TICKET. Auditor. F. J. Alber. James M. Lee. Treasurer. John A. Backman. P. H. Martin. Al DeVore. Clerk of District Court. Fred L. Barnett. A. E. Mahan. Robt. J. Phillips. Sheriff. John Griffin. County Attorney. Joseph E. Meyer. M. S. Odle George A. Wilson. Coroner. J. F. Garrison. Claude H. Koons. Joseph Lilly. Iver G. Newlen. Wm. O'Donoghue. Judges of Supreme Court. Non-partisan judiciary ticket. Vote for six.) Frank S. Shankland. B. I. Salinger. Judges of District Court. Non-partisan judiciary ticket. Long term. Vote for ten.) Wm. S. Ayres. Hugh Brennan. A. P. Chamberlin. Lawrence DeGraff. C. A. Dudley. T. L. Sellers. Frank S. Dunshee. Thomas J. Guthrie. W. H. McHenry. (Short term.) William S. Ayres Charles A. Dudley. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Hampton boys learn how to care for milk, make butter and cottage cheese, and handle cows to the best possible advantage. The idea underlying this work is to train who shall go out and show the country people the value of good dairy methods. Rev. H. H. Dunn, pastor of Central Congregational church; Rev. A. Lawless, Jr., pastor of University church, and President E. M. Stevens of Straight university have returned to Washington from the National Congregational convention held in Washington. A large delegation was present from all sections of the United States. Four national Congregational societies were represented in the convention, viz.: The National Congregational Church holding society, the Sunday School and Publication society and the American Missionary association. The Southern negro is working on his own salvation, not in terms of education, not in terms of formal education but in terms of property ownership and mainly in terms of land in the rural regions. He is doing this with out let or hindrance in the South largely aside from the awareness of the whites, largely because of their difference, but even more largely with the sympathy and help of his white friends and neighbors. He is little trapped by tugging at his own books, a kept commonly used to indecisive an impossible something; it is in civilization, as in education. It is th The American Missionary association is carrying on a most extensive work among the colored people. It is now conducting and maintaining 64 schools for the colored people in the South, with an enrollment of 14,000, under the direction of 600 trained teachers. The churches among the colored people of the South number 206, with a membership of 15,000. A most aggressive program for the further extension of church work, for better equipment of school buildings, and higher efficiency in school work was adopted. The new program calls for greater local initiative, a more discriminating missionary support, a larger number of self-educating churches, a greater focus of self-education in so-called urban and rural centers, closer supervision of the field and a Sunday school superintendent for the colored schools in the south. Rev. Sterling M. Brown of Washington was elected president of the convention. Rev. H. H. Proctor, D. D., of Atlanta, Ga., was elected secretary. The next convention will meet at Talladega college, Talladega, Ala. Although she is only thirty-one years old, Mrs. Winfield Stoner of Quarryville, Pa., is the mother of nine children, and in a competition with 350 others she was proclaimed the champion cake baker. A final word on the subject of our personal responsibility as an executive council to the churches seems to be needed, says a correspondent of the Standard. It has been suggested that the executive council should ignore all organizations among the churches and deal directly with local churches. In many cases that may be the case, but I am firmly convinced that the experiences of the executive council in its work as well as the present needs of the negro churches only tend to emphasize the advisability of using our friendly offices to secure among the negro churches such an organization of forces as will win the respect and the regard of possible benefactors and make it possible for us to do what we were confident that we could do less satisfactorily if we dealt with them separately and ignored that important and essential relationship which they have with one another. Miss Cristie Holmberg has been elected clerk in Santa Barbara, Cal. by an overwhelming majority over her male opponent. By February India's greatest hydroelectric plant will be supplying 60,000, horse power to industries in Bombay and vicinity. All the six sons of John and Mary Wheatland of South Croydon, Eng. are in the royal navy. Their ages range from sixteen to seventeen years. Countess Molitor, an English woman, will shortly start on a perilous trip across the Ruba-ei-Khall, the great sandy desert of South Arabia, alone, using only native guards. The United States mail carries yearly much more than three hundred million letters free of charge. A new fire alarm box shows the exact location of the fire to which the department may be called. Ninety-five persons are known to have perished in the Alps during the season of 1912. Great Britain owns 160,000 miles of ocean cables and Germany. 10,000 miles. The Southern negro is working out his own salvation, not in terms of politics, not in terms of formal education, but in terms of property ownership; and mainly in terms of land in the rural regions. He is doing this without let or hindrance in the South, largely aside from the awareness of the whites, largely because of their indifference, but even more largely with the sympathy and help of his white friends and neighbors. He is lifting himself by tugging at his own boot straps, a figure commonly used to indicate an impossible something: but in civilization, as in education, it is the only possible means of elevation. The negro is emerging from jungleism and winning civilization mainly and necessarily by his own efforts. His progress is by struggle—struggle within himself for mastery over himself and struggle outward, surrounding circumstances. The negro problem will not be solved by editorials, creeds or statutes; by conferences, congresses or assemblies; by pride, prejudice or passion. The development of the negro can be stimulated, safeguarded and directed wisely and benefently. The stream of tendencies can be kept clear of injustice and cruelty, brutality and inhumanity, and it will be so if we have any Christianity worth the name. —Dr. E. C. Branson in the Southern Workman. A plea to the Methodist Episcopal church, South, asking it to take a deeper interest in the affairs of the colored Methodist Episcopal church is contained in the quadrennial address of bishops which was made at a general conference of the colored church at St. Louis. When a woman is in love with a man she'll listen to what he says—just as if he were saying something. Well worth consideration is this extract from an editorial in the Chicago Record-Herald: "The problem is to educate these grown-up children into mental and moral maturity. That is no easy task. Rather it is an arduous effort to which many a life must be given, and it will never be helped along by oratory, but only by the patient teaching of line upon line, precept upon precept, till the thoroughness and keeping of the word have been drilled into their understanding and worked out by them in practice. To that end such a humble and patient propaganda as Booker Washington's, aiming to make the blacks into well-behaved citizens and good workers, honest and reliable, is worth all the oratory of Demozenes and Cicero and Alexander L. Jackson combined." Strikes and lockouts in Rhode Island during 1913 caused a loss of $225, 350 to wage-earners and about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in value of production to employers, according to the report of the commissioner of industrial statistics. London is divided into two camps over the proposition to widen Richmond bridge, over the Thames. The bridge was opened for traffic in 1777. The way is narrow, but opponents of the improvement plan say that to tamper with the ancient structure will destroy its beauty. L. B. Johnson of St. Albans, Vt., generally attracts attention when he drives through the town behind his pair of two-year-old steers. He has trained them so that they will obey the reins as well as a horse. Even truth has its ups and downs: Crushed to earth, we are told it will rise again. All the world may love a lover, except the one particular object of his affections. Italy's olive oil crop will hardly exceed 50 per cent of a good average yield. A woman frequently changes her mind, but the quality remains the same. FACTS ABOUT COAL Geological Survey Makes Public Some Interesting Data. Report Shows Why There Is Real in Heat-Producer and Why Steam-Boats Blew Up—Peat the Mother Substance. Washington.—To the head of the family who has been shoveling coal during the long winter it matters not what his coal is made from as long as it gives a reasonable amount of heat and is paid for. And yet this question of the ingredient matter and the geologic processes of peat from which coal is formed is considered so important by those who are not simply shoveleres of coal that the United States geological survey, through David White, has made a study of the subject of the effects of resins in coals. Resins, under which is included the resin of commerce, the copal from which varnish is made, the amber used in jewelry, and many other similar materials, are secretions generated in some of the cells or vessels in plants of many different kinds. One of the most familiar resin-producing trees is the pitch pine, in which pitch is a resin. Resins contain very much more hydrogen and carbon compared to the amount of oxygen than ordinary wood, so that, other things being equal, the resinous woods make much hotter fires than those containing no resins, the hydrogen and carbon being sources of the heat. The larger the amount of heat the hotter the fire. Many a Mississippi river steamboat was blown up in the old days when, in order to win a race, the barrels of resin in the cargo were broached to feed the fires. Resin adds heat power not only to the woods which contain it, but also to the coals. These are some of the interesting sidelines on a report which is rather dry reading to the layman. How did resin get into the coals and why are some coals more resinous than others? These are some of the questions that Mr. White answers for the satisfaction of the student and the efficiency expert as well as for the coal shoveler in the home. This is why there is resin in coal. Being more resistant to decay under water than the wood cells and other tissues of the plants and trees from which the peats of bogs and coal-forming swamps are produced, the resin lumps and particles are generally left to be buried in the peat deposits, even when most of the surrounding wood has rotted away and disappeared. In this way they are sometimes concentrated in quantity so that, together with waxes, likewise of heat value, they form considerable portions of the vegetable debris in the peat. Peat is the mother substance which, after deep burial in the crust of the earth, has been converted into coal. The kind of the peat largely determines the type of the coal. In his paper Mr. White emphasizes the part played by the resin, which in some coals is very abundant, in consequence of the heating power of these fuels. In some places the glittering amberlike resin forms a large part of the coal. Beautiful samples of this sort are found in the coal beds of the Phillipine islands. Mr. White has found not only lumps of amberlike resin in the bituminous coal of the Palezozoic age in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, but he also shows that many of the singular and long-age extinct types of vegetation that was in the ancient peat swamps of the Palezozoic era had trunks containing great quantities of resinous substances. Scrutinizing the Immigrants lands to seek homes in the United States. In the past statements have been made charging that the government is too lax in passing on the physical and mental fitness of immigrants, but a study of the report of the last year's work of the public health service physicians who examine immigrant children and child entering this country must meet strict health requirements before being permitted to pass the immigration officials. Under the direction of Surgeon General Rupert Blue a system of examination has been developed which makes difficult the entry of the physically or mentally unfit. According to the report which the public health service has just issued to cover the work of the last fiscal year, ending June 30, 1913, the government's medical officers examined 1,574,371 immigrants at ports in the United States and its dependencies, Porto Rico and Hawaii. This report included the examination of temporary or non-immigrant arrivals, who are the allen residents of the United States making a temporary trip abroad and all aliens residing abroad making a temporary trip to the United States making an immigrant arrivals in the United States last year number 1,197,832. Out of the aliens examined, 38,585 were certified to the office of the United States immigration bureau, of the department of labor, for physical reasons. The immigrants who failed to pass the examination of the public health officers were divided into four classes. Out of the 38,558 defectives Kaiser Getting "Hustle" On. This is an age of hustle, and even the pumps and ceremonies of life are being "speeded up" in correspondence with the increased pace of real affairs. It is not surprising to find that energetic monarch, the German emperor, stickler though he is for the due observance of every detail of monarchic ritual, complaining of the slowness of court etiquette, and insisting, like an American mill manager, on certain time saving expedients. One change in particular is described by IOWA STATE BYSTANDER discovered, 1,369 were held because of idiocy, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, insanity or tuberculosis. The second class included those affected with laothome, contagious or dangerous diseases, and of persons so afflicted there were 5,397. Sometimes Washington can get down off its pedestal and be real human, and that is what a human at Times the other at a time which was attended by half of official Washington. Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, wife of the senator from Wisconsin, who has passed the half century line, and Mrs. John B. Henderson, widow of the late Senator Henderson from Missouri, who has certainly passed her three-score years and ten, were two of the ladies who made things lively at this particular dawn. For 40 years Mrs. Henderson has held a dominant position in social life of Washington. Her originality, her daring innovations and her individuality have won her distinction, and Mrs. La Follette, although a later comer, is equally prominent. After the guests of Mrs. John D. Works, wife of the senator from California, arose from the flower-laden table, the floor was cleared, and the orchestra struck up a lively air. The music proved too much for Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. La Follette. They took up their positions, and to the accomplishment of applying hands and feminine "brues" they gave an impromptu exhibition of old-time dancing, and just to show the newer dances were not "out of their class," they executed a one-step and a double shuffle, and wound up with the hesitation waltz. The federal horticultural board has issued a notice to all cotton mills, and especially those in Trying to Keep the South, to destroy by burning all seed that may be found in bales of imported Egyptian cotton. These seed are likely to contain larvae of the pink boll worm, which is very destructive to American cotton. The number of seeds of Egyptian cotton found in a bale of Egyptian lint is probably small and the presence of any seed in such bales is due to faulty ginning. Ginning and storing, however, does not kill the larvae of the pink boll worm, which has been known to withstand storage in cotton seed for more than seven months. So dangerous to the cotton crop of the United States is the pink boll worm regarded that on May 28, 1913, a quarantine was promulgated designed to prevent the introduction into the United States of this worm by forbidding the importation of cotton seed from all foreign countries except two regions in Mexico. Since that date several shipments of cotton seed infested by this worm have been intercepted and destroyed. the number of rooms he encountered in his effort to locate the desired one. He accosted a passing clerk and inquired where Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Blaklee's room was located. When informed, he tremblingly pulled from his vest pocket, where it reposed ready for delivery, a card greatly embellished in a Spencerian penmanship hand showing that he was a rural carrier from Wisconsin. "I wonder if Mr. Blaklee would like to see one of his hands," he remarked. The clerk, not being familiar with rural vernacular, and knowing that Mr. Blaklee had two hands, could not understand why he should want to see another of his hands. "However, Mr. Blaklee saw 'one of his hands,' as he always does, and this phrase promises to be the popular esesme to gain entrance into his office. Jefferson Davis from the person Relics Go Back. of Jefferson Davis when the Confederate president was captured be surrendered to Joseph A. Hayes of Colorado Springs, Colo. as representative of the estate of Jefferson Davis. The articles are a double-barreled pistol, two dueling pistols, four bullet molds, two pistol holsters and one pistol case. Since the seizure of the Confederate president these articles have been in the custody of the war department. Secretary Garrison was unwilling to yield to the threat of the oldest daughter of President Davis, until advised by Attorney General McReynolds that he could legally do so. The war department also has a shawl and cloak taken from Davis, but as these articles were not asked for they will not be surrendered. Had Provided a Mixture A curious mixture of the practical and the artistic abides in the souls of small Italian boys. The children of a Chicago school had planted their gardens, and were reporting progress to the teacher. Many had set out radishes, beets and onions. "And what did you plant, Pedro?" The question was addressed to a ten-year-old son of Italy. "My garden," replied Pedro, "will have roses, geraniums and garlic." old-fashioned courtiers in Berlin as "startling." Up to now it has been customary for those present to make two obeisances—one to the kaiser and one to the empire. Henceforth it is decreed that they shall only make one bow in passing the "presence," which shall include both majesties. Formation of Human Being. That the formation of a human being begins with the stomach in the contention of several salivary of high REAR ADMIRAL IS INVENTOR OF RANGE FINDER YUAN SHI-KAI'S GOVERNMENT GOING BACK? YUAN SHI-KAI'S GOVERNMENT GOING BACK? DAUGHTER OF MINISTER FROM GUATEMALA SAID THAT HE ASCENDED FROM HIS ANCESTORS Bradley Allen Flare is a rear admiral of the United States navy and in command of the bureau of operations, which is being kept fairly busy during the present fracas with Mexico. What is of greater importance is the fact that he is the man to whom the success of the naval improvement in the world's naval gunnery is directly due. His stadiometer and range finder is in use on every modern warship in the the bureau of operations, which is being kept fairly busy during the present fracas with Mexico. What is of great an importance the fact that he is the man to whom the recent great improvement in the world's naval gunny is directly due. His stadi-meter and range finder is in use on every modern warship in the world. He is the Edison of war—afloat. Fiske began inventing things when he was but an ensign. He was born in Lyons, N. Y., in 1854 and graduated second in his class at the naval academy in 1874. Every now and then he would think of something to invent. But while he was at work upon it he would be sent where a workshop could not be found with a search warrant and a drawing board had never been heard of. That is the usual lot of young officers, but not all young officers had the excellent reason for desiring to stay put that Fiske had. Finally he became discouraged. He applied for voluntary retirement. Then the possibility of a war with Spain began to up. His application was refused. He had already roughly developed his stalemeter and range finder. When the battle order was displayed in Manila bay Fiske was filled with the enthusiasm of the true inventor. In order to test his invention he obtained permission to lash a basket to the foremost of the Petrel, which was not Yuan Shi-Kai's government has fallen back on the old 'Manchu system of giving the governor (formerly the viceroy) orders to send to the capital certain definite amounts, leaving the governor to collect as he can, sufficient above the required sum to pay his province's expenses, including the cost of his provincial army, and what sums he chooses to take as his own personal compensation. But even this plan hitherto governor (formerly the viceroy) orders to send to the capital certain definite amounts, leaving the governor to collect as he can, sufficient above the required sum to pay his province's expenses, including the cost of his provincial army, and what sums he chooses to take, and his own personal compensation. But even this plan hitherto has failed, for the central government has not been able to recover the prestige and power which the Manchus held, feeble as they were. Correspondence from Peking has shown how the so-called modern army refused to fight the Mongol tribesmen within the province of the capital, Chilli, itself, and how, when --- The old Spanish ideas regarding women, ideas which were in exist- ence a quarter of a century ago, have almost entirely passed from our sister republics in Central America. For we find today that the daughter of the ministers from that country are as fully up to date and independent as any American girl. P Prominent among them is Senorita Luz Mendez, the handsome young daughter of Senor Don Joaquin Mendez, minister from Guatemala. The word Luz when translated into English is the equivalent to "light," a very appropriate name for this girl from a land of eternal sunshine and roses. Senator C. S. Thomas of Colorado is not a native of that state, but was born in the South and emigrated West in early youth. He is the chairman of the senate suffrage committee, and in that capacity was present that memorable April day when a funny story was told by one of the speakers. MAPHORE & EWING The women were out in full force that day, both 6 camps armed for the war. The dreary facts were lightened by the humor of the tale related by a dame from New England who told the following incident: Discordant Thoughts. In wandering through your mental pleasure-grounds, whenever you come upon an ugly intruder of a thought which might bloom into some poisonous emotion such as fear, envy, hate, worry, remorse, anger, and the like, there is only one right way to treat it. Pull it up a weed; drop it upon the rubbish; throw it into the stinging nettle; and let some harmonious thought grow in its place. There is no more reckless consumer of all kinds of exuberance than the provided with accommodations for officers who wanted to be out in the open during a battle. There, with his orderly, to whom he dictated observations, he sat happily through the fight. Even in its crude form his device worked successfully. Between observations he noticed that the hydraulic devices which were depended on to turn the turrets were not altogether satisfactory. That pleased him. He had an electrical turret turning motor on the fire. Flake was pained to observe that the American gunners not only fired slowly, but were inaccurate, although he could see that the men were cool and systematic as they worked about the guns. He noted a good many other things, all of which battleships have an electrical system of interior which is Flake's. They have a boat-detaching device and electric ammunition hoists and range indicators and battle order telegraph and helm indicators and a dozen and one other improvements which are Flake's. In naval circles Flake is somewhat noted for his candor. Most people held immediately after the battles of Manila bay and Santiago that the Americans were superior to the Spaniards at every point. Flake thought then—and has never changed his opinion—that the American fleet was but the instrument of a higher power. Given ordinary battle judgment on the part of the Spanish admiral and he fears that not an American ship would ever have got out of Manila bay. But he tempers his criticism of the bad shooting of the Americans in the术思虐istic praises of the American themes in the battle which brought up to with cold precision at their battle stations. And under their skins they were fairly wriggling with happiness at the fun of fighting. They were also covered with powder dirt. dishanded, the troops join brigand bands, one of which, in the province immediately south of Chillin, numbers, it is calculated, 5,000 men. Except where foreigners are given control or a measure of it—as in the case of the extensive salt tax, the Salt Gabelle—the government is able to collect little in the way of revenues. Yuan Shikai might employ more foreigners to help him control the authority, as well as he himself, have given continued proofs of their unwillingness to give authority to foreigners. The men in high positions around the president are all of the old school, almost one having been a high official under the Manchus; and it is generally understood in China that it was the Chinese and not Manchus who most opposed the entry of the foreigner. The opposition to foreigners, however, exists not only in the palace. Whenever the government must reconcile with foreigners in making loans, granting concessions, or any other business in which there might be "squeeze" or the surrender of authority in any form a noisy opposition arises from every side. Senorita Mendez was early sent to receive her education in Paris at the Sacre Coeur convent, a custom which is universally observed by the old families of Guatemala. There she made herself proficient in French, which she speaks as well as her native Spanish. She also traveled extensively in Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and the Holy land, visiting the scenes of the birth and death of Christ. On returning home, about three years ago, she at once accompanied her father and mother on the former's new mission to Washington. As Senorita Mendez was in poor health, it fell to the lot of the daughter to play the part of hostess, which she did most successfully. In society, the chief pleasure of Senorita Mendez is in literature. She likes dancing, and is an accomplished skater, but writing is her one passion. Meisonier, the famous painter, is a relative of the Mendez family. Senorita Mendez writes poetry, so it is no wonder that Senorita Luz is regarded as the possessor of unusual talent. "I was having a discussion one day when the woman opposing, who was a Daughter of the Revolution, asked me if my forefathers fought in the Revolution. I replied that they did, but it was on the wrong side. "The lady of ancient lineage did not relish this, and, throwing back her head proudly, remarked, 'I am deceived by the long line of revolutionary ancestors. "Yes, I returned, that is exactly what you have done. You have descended from your ancestors, while I have ascended from mine!" Slight Mistake "Well, well!" exclaimed the near-sighted man as he sank into an easy chair. "The fashions in women's clothes keep on getting slimmer around the ankles, don't they?" "That isn't a fashion magazine," exclaimed his wife sharply. "That's a seed catalogue. What you're looking at is a picture of a carrot." discordant thought, and weeding it our saves such an astonishing amount of eau de vie wherewish to water the garden of joy, that with it in hand every man may be his own Burbank—Robert H. Schaumer, in the Atlantic. To Get the Best In Life Train yourself to find the good in what seems evil, to make of disaster an opportunity for your courage, to master suffering by patience, to learn from sorrow sympathy—G. B. Merriam Most Welcome Additions to Function That is Every Day Becoming More Popular. Hot buttered currant cakes have become an essential to the properly served afterparty tea. Some say the custom is of French origin, but England holds out that it is strictly British, in that the currant cakes are typical of Yorkshire and Cumberland, where the best of them are made. To serve the cake hot it is split and placed upon a grill, warmed quite through and then well buttered. Here a reed spoon will reflect credit on any one who will follow it accurately: Cumberland Hot Cakes One pound of four, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, four ounces of clotted cream, six ounces currants, two tablespoonfuls castor sugar, one ounce finely shredded lemon peel, a grate of nutmeg, one egg, a little milk and a pinch of salt. Sift together the flour, baking powder and sugar. Add the salt and nutmeg. Rub the cream well in. Add the currants and lemon peel and munch thoroughly. Beat the egg in a little milk, and with it work the other ingredients to a fairly stiff paste. Roll the mixture into a mold, baking on a griddle or buttered baking dish, split open, butter lightly, place together as before and serve hot from the griddle, piling them neatly upon a dolly-covered plate. GOOD WAYS TO SERVE RICE Something Different From the Ordinary Methods, and All Well Worth a Trial. (1) Take two cupfuls of cold rice; butter a baking dish, arrange in the bottom a layer of rice, then a layer of grated cheese. Continue until the dish is full with cheese on top. Pour over this enough milk to cover well, sprinkle the top with pepper and salt and dot with little pieces of butter. Bake in a quick oven twenty minutes. (2) In a fry pan brown one cupful of finely chopped beef in one tablespoonful of melted butter; to this add one cupful of tomatoes that have been put through a sieve. The add two cupfuls of cold rice, seasoning with salt and pepper and serve very hot. (3) One cupful of cold rice, one cupful of finely chopped beef or ham, Salt and pepper to taste. Beat one egg and add to it one tablespoonful of milk. Pour this over the meat and rice to bind them together. If too dry, add a little milk. Dip one egg in a little milk. Dip it in a cracker crumbs and try it is enough lard and butter mixed to crisp, on both sides. Dried Beef With Macaroni Dried Beer With Macaroni Break macaroni in one-inch cup; there should be three-fourths cupful Cook in boiling salted water until soft drain in colander and pour over one quart cold water to prevent pieces from bursting. Remove skin from one quarter. Remove half thinly sliced mocked dried beef and separate in pieces, cover with hot water and let stand ten minutes, then drain and arrange alternate layers of macaroni and beef in a buttered baking dish, having two of each. Pour over two cupfuls white sauce, cover with three fourths cupful buttered cracker crumbs, and bake in hot oven until crumbs are brown. You could also soak as above, then frize in a table- spoonful of butter, and add to poached eggs. Beans for Two. Soak two cuptails of California peas in two quartes of water, say, the night before using. Next morning have your beanpot ready; first put into the bottom half teaspoonful of mustard and a big tablepoonful of molasses. If you like brown sugar, why use, why use that instead and slices of onion if liked. Pour your bean into the pot, fill up with water, then add your sauce and a pound to three cups of salt pork. Cover over and set in oven for six hours. You will have to look at them once in a while to see if water has given out. Peach Bread Pudding. On a pint of stale breadcrumbs pour boiling water to molten and stir in a tablespoonful of butter, add a full well-beaten eggs and half a cup of sugar. Butter a pudding dish, then put a layer of butter and a layer of fresh or canned peaches and sprinkle with pulverized sugar, and so on until the dish is full, batter on top. Bake in good oven for about an hour and serve with sweetened cream or any other plain sauce. Economical Sponge Cake. Economical Sponge Two eggs, one cupful sugar, one half cupful hot water, one cupful four, one and one-half teaspoonful baking powder, pinch of salt, gritted rind of one half a lemon. Cut off the yolks of eggs and the sugar, then add the water, the remaining sugar, the lemon rind, the flair fitted with the baking powder and salt; lastly fold the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth; bake 20 minutes in a buttered and floured tin. Baked Prunes. Soak a pound of French prunes, drain them and put in a covered baking pan with about a cupful of cold water. Add a cupful of sugar, half a lemon rind and three cloves. Cover the vessel and bake for three hours. This is good sweet for the young and delicate and if whipped cream is added to the prunes when cold the fruit will seem more than ever delicious. Scraper for Pans. scraper to a scraper for pots and pans is one of the most useful things in the kitchen. 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Money must accompany all orders. (Special to Iowa State Bystander.) Mother. Mother, home and heaven, the three most beautiful words in the English language. Yet to the fond parent the word that gives the child happiness is to hear the child from its first utterance of da, da, ma, ma, and so on until it can distinctly say "mother." By this time the child has so deeply planted its little life into that of the mother that they are almost insuperable. S odeley has each twined their hearts together that when the many duties of 'life' begins that carries the child out into the world that he or she finds himself always longing for the tender embrace that the true mother gives, such that he feels no other has. It is a touching scene to gaze upon a mother fondling her baby as we so often see painted the picture of the Madonna, and as Louise M, Alcott has written: "A fair Madonna, golden haired, whose soft eyes seem to brood upon the child whose little hands crowned her with motherhood. Sainted by death, yet bound to earth by its most tender ties, for life has yielded up to her its sacred mysteries. So live, dear soul, serene and safe, throned as in Raphael skies; type of love, the faith, the grief, whose pathos never dies, divine of human, still the same. To touch and lift the heart, earth sacrifice is heaven's fame and nature's truest art. The little boy and girl as he kisses mother good bye at the door and off for school. How she thinks of the child through the day or when they grow into manhood and womanhood and leave for college or enter into the various business enterprises to seek for his fortune and fame or in some dark path of life miss both, taking to dissipation and the many follies that can enter the life of the youth, or when the mother gives her fair daughter in marriage. To hear, to heed, to love, to seek. Fair lot that maiden choose. Thy mother's tenderest words are said. Her lot to bear to nurse, to rear, to love and then to lose. 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Mrs. Lucy Finley was called to Garden City on account of the illness of her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smart of Maryville catered at the Linderman banquet. Will Greenway of Muscatine visited at the Walter Williams home Wednesday, May 20th. On Tuesday evening, May 12th, the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Crayon surprised them and made merry for a few hours at their new home, 725 W. Madison street. Mr. Crayon went to Sherman, Miss., in April and on the 30th was married to Miss Hattie Taylor at the home of her parents. Mrs. Crayon is fast becoming "acclimated" and is a worthy addition to Washington, as well as a perfect helmet for Mr. Crayon. The P. E. girls gave a social in the lecture room of the A. M. E. church Wednesday evening and everyone enjoyed the novelty of the social. A man and two children are working on a wooden fence. The man is holding a tool, while the children are sitting on the fence. 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And took the flowers away Sick Headache 2418 Flora Ave. ```markdown ``` IOWA STATE BYSTANDER attack of acute indigestion, but is some better. Mrs. Nelly Ross is in Clinton, called by the illness of her sister, Mrs. Mattie Thompson, who is the proud mother of a nice little daughter. The eight ladies who attended the grand chapter O. E. S. have returned and were delighted with the kind treatment and hospitality of Keokuk people. Three of the Otumwa wodge were honored with offices of grand body. Mr. J Weeks, G. A. P. P. G.; Mrs. M. Bailey, G. marshal; Mrs. M. Clark, O. T. C. and president of the administrative council. Mrs. Nicy Fine, wife of Wm. Fine of Cedar Rapids, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Wm. Thompson, on Ferry street, South Ottumwa, Monday, May 25, at 10 p. m. She was 44 years, 4 months and 14 days old. The out of town relatives were where at her bedside were her husband, Wm. Fine; mother-in-law, Mrs. Sylvia Fine of Newton, and three brothers of Peoria, Charles and O. K. of Clinton. The B. S. Lee Mite Missionary society met with Mrs. A. Campbell on Tuesday afternoon. Subject, "How Best To Be a Missionary," led by Mrs. O. Williams. The A. M. E. Mt. Zion Sunday school gave a May march and sociable Monday evening. It was well attended and had a financial success. At the primary June 1st the name B. I. Salinger will be third on the nonpartisan ticket in Polk county for Supreme Judge. He is worthy and qualified and a firm friend of our race. The Benevolent club will meet with Mrs. C. Strothers on the Side Side. The Silver Thimble club met with Mrs. T. Hicks on Thursday afternoon. The funeral services of Mrs. Nice Fine were held at the home, conducted by Rev. R. B. Manley of Albia, on Wednesday afternoon. The body was laid to rest in Shaul cemetery. 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Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. The morning session was opened with devotional exercises led by the chaplain, Mrs. F. Baker, of Davenport. Standing committee reported. Splendid recommendations and suggestions were made, among them the recommendation to change of the Federation from industrial school to that of a home for girls and aged women. An excellent paper on White Slavery Among Our Girls was read by Mrs. I. L. Brown of Marshaltown. Interesting discussions followed. The courtesy committee then presented Rev. Penney of U. C. church, Rev. and Mrs. Brice U. Taylor of the M. E. church, who made interesting talks. Tuesday Afternoon, 2 O'clock. Opened by devotional exercises. Roll call, quotations from Dunbar. Mrs. Mary Scott was introduced and gave a splendid demonstration on hair dressing. Dr. Booker was presented and gave some valuable information under the head of Symposium Health, as did Drs. A. E. Lee, C. M. Wilson and Miss Tibitha Mash. Splendid paper by Mrs. Comely. Mrs. Vivian Jones then addressed the Federation on Undertaking. Roll call and quotations from noted colored women were given. Instrumental solo, original, Miss Saran Johnson, was highly appreciated. Splendid papers and readings were interspersed with beautiful musical selections. The annual address by the president, Mrs. Rush, was an inspiration to every colored woman. Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. Devotionals. Memorial services followed, Mr. Hattie Hutchinson and and Mrs. Mabel Easter were eulogized. Reports from various departments and clubs were read and adopted. Paper on Benefits Derived From Club Life was fine. Discussions equally commendable. Musical numbers good. eloquent and able young man, having pastored about ten years since he left college. He is a graduate of Fisk university and from the Moody Theological Institute of Chicago. His family will accompany him here. ing gift and most desir- els to everyone. 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LEE Of Story County Candidate for Republican Nomination for GOVERNOR OF IOWA Primary Election June 1, 1914 "The primary law contemplates that differences may be threshed out in a preliminary contest, and policy determined by the rank and file of its memb this is done the majority should rule and the minori Judge Lee in Letter to Chairman Rawson. mary law contemplates that differences shed out in a preliminary contest, and ined by the rank and file of its memb he majority should rule and the minori Letter to Chairman Rawson. "The primary law contemplates that differences in the party may be threshed out in a preliminary contest, and the party's policy determined by the rank and file of its membership; when this is done the majority should rule and the minority submit."—Judge Lee in Letter to Chairman Rawson. BIG VOTE FOR JUDGE LEE Hampton Chronicle, May 1, a big crowd out to the caucus, A full township ticket was no caucus a ballot was taken on as follows: Lee, 49; Clarke, 66 county would indicate that Juddous vote here, but hardly any was going to be as unanimous indicate. HONEST, STRONG, ALEX Senator D. C. Chase, in WD district who have seen Judge pressed with the fact that in mentally and in the second place in any public man, the courage a case should be taken from the and directs a verdict according all public men is that they are what they know to be right, by which affects them personally the type of man who has the al and look at a question in its e that, he has the courage to ad along those lines. He is of that intellectually honest and brave judgment leads him. Judge Le and no man would influence him he is not as one who has to lea strong and able and walks alone own judicial district as not only a man of rare ability and unq is regarded as a just judge an comium could be paid to anyone of broad and comprehensive view a believer in all the progress w the human race; he understand he is not afraid. Without ina enough to say that in all the of any man who seeks the go for many years. He is a deep-thinking, independent and equal to all the demands o would be governor in fact. out to the caucus, nearly sixty voters by ship ticket was nominated, and at the not was taken on the governorship, who wee, 49; Clarke, 6. The report from all indicate that Judge Lee was going to plea, but hardly anyone believed that they be as unanimous as the Ross township. IST, STRONG, ABLE AND COURAGE. D. C. Chase, in Webster City Herald.—He have seen Judge Lee on the beach he has the fact that in the first place he is in the second place he has what is exe man, the courage of his convictions, he be taken from the jury he takes it for verdict accordingly. The great trouble is that they are afraid to do what he want to be right, by reason of a calculation them personally and intimately. Judge man who has the ability to brush away a question in its elemental aspects and the courage to accept responsibility for forces. He is of that type of man which is honest and brave enough to go where he is him. Judge Lee has a strong and o would influence him in arriving at his one who has to lean upon a staff for his sole and walks alone and upright; he is district as not only a man of genial disb ability and unquestioned intellectuals as a just judge and a fearless one. No be paid to anyone. Not only that, but comprehensive views; a philosopher and all the progress which makes for the house; he understands public questions, and said. Without inaugurating any compa that in all the essentials Judge Lee who seeks the governorship or who hews. He is a strong man in all the words but dependable and getatable; a thor independent and sympathetic man; of all the demands of the governorship; terror in fact. Hampton Chronicle, May 20th.—In Ross township there was a big crowd out to the caucus, nearly sixty voters being present. A full township ticket was nominated, and at the close of the caucus a ballot was taken on the governorship, which resulted as follows: Lee, 49; Clarke, 6. The report from all parts of the county would indicate that Judge Lee was going to poll a tremendous vote here, but hardly anyone believed that the vote for him was going to be as unanimous as the Ross township vote would indicate. HONEST, STRONG, ABLE AND COURAGEOUS. Senator D. C. Chase, in Webster City Herald.—Those in this district who have seen Judge Lee on the beach have been impressed with the fact that in the first place he is clear sighted mentally and in the second place he has what is exceedingly rare in any public man, the courage of his convictions. If he thinks a case should be taken from the jury he takes it from the jury and directs a verdict accordingly. The great trouble with nearly all public men is that they are afraid to do what is right and what they know to be right, by reason of a calculation of chances which affects them personally and intimately. Judge Lee is of the type of man who has the ability to brush away all sophistries and look at a question in its elemental aspects and more than that, he has the courage to accept responsibility for a decision along those lines. He is of that type of men which is very rare; intellectually honest and brave enough to go wherever his honest judgment leads him. Judge Lee has a strong and original mind and no man would influence him in arriving at his conclusions; he is not as one who has to lean upon a staff for support, but is strong and able and walks alone and upright; he is known in his own judicial district as not only a man of genial disposition; but a man of rare ability and unquestioned intellectual courage; he is regarded as a just judge and a fearless one. No higher encomium could be paid to anyone. Not only that, but he is a man of broad and comprehensive views; a philosopher and an optimist, a believer in all the progress which makes for the betterment of the human race; he understands public questions, and above all he is not afraid. Without inaugurating any comparisons, it is enough to say that in all the essentials Judge Lee is the equal of any man who seeks the governorship or who has sought it for many years. He is a strong man in all the word implies; not only strong but dependable and getatable; a thoroughly sane, deep-thinking, independent and sympathetic man; of full stature and equal to the demands of the governorship; moreover he would be governor in fact. LEE MAKING GREAT STRIDES. Manson Journal:—We do n of the state on the governorship is making great strides in this the writer has met many voter a man they are for Judge Lee. as we have found them. JUDGE LEE'S NOMI Atlantic News-Telegraph mary election, in the judgments that will save the republican par Journal:—We do not know what is doing the governorship, but we do know that strides in this section. During the met many voters over this section and e for Judge Lee. This is not theory be und them. LE LEE'S NOMINATION IMPERATIVE News-Telegraph—Judge Lee's selection in the judgment of the writer, is the republican party from defeat in Nov Manson Journal:—We do not know what is doing in the rest of the state on the governorship, but we do know that Judge Lee is making great strides in this section. During the past week the writer has met many voters over this section and almost to a man they are for Judge Lee. This is not theory but cold facts as we have found them. Atlantic News-Telegraph—Judge Lee's selection at the primary election, in the judgment of the writer, is the only thing that will save the republican party from defeat in November. TIME TO CALL A HALT. Boone News Republican—A bm of spending the public's mo and this is the platform on whi tion. ALBIA NEWS. news Republican—A halt should be called g the public's money without consulting platform on which Judge Lee seeks NEWS. services. Boone News Republican—A halt should be called in the cus- mption of spending the public's money without consulting the public, and this is the platform on which Judge Lee seeks the nomina- tion. Mr. Pearl Thomas was a Knoxville visitor last week. Mrs. Henry Bowman was in Buxton the past week, called there by the death of her aunt, Mrs. Paston. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. G. A. Davis on Monday. Quite a number were present. After business, lunch was served. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. Presiding Elder S. B. Moore was present and assiste Rev. R. B. Manly with his q with his q. of Abilis of Sarny. olates that differences in the part liminary contest, and the party and file of its membership; whe d rule and the minority submit."- man Rawson. 20th.—In Ross township there was nearly sixty voters being present, dominated, and at the close of the day the governorship, which resulted. The report from all parts of the Judge Lee was going to poll a tremor one believed that the vote for him was the Ross township vote would. BLE AND COURAGEOUS. Webster City Herald.—Those in the Lee on the beach have been in the first place he is clear sighter he has what is exceedingly rare of his convictions. If he think the jury he takes it from the jury. The great trouble with nearly he afraid to do what is right and reason of a calculation of chance and intimately. Judge Lee is obliged to brush away all sophistication, elemental aspects and more than accept responsibility for a decision of type of men which is very rare enough to go wherever his honeys he has a strong and original mine in upon arriving at his conclusions, in upon a staff for support, but in he and upright; he is known in his a man of genial disposition; but questioned intellectual courage; he had a fearless one. No higher enquiry. Not only that, but he is a man news; a philosopher and an optimist which makes for the betterment of his public questions, and above all augmenting any comparisons, it is essentials Judge Lee is the equal governorship or who has sought it in man in all the word implies; not gedetable; a thoroughly same sympathetic man; of full stature of the governorship; moreover he not know what is doing in the rest but, we do know that Judge Lee section. During the past week is over this section and almost to This is not theory but cold facts NATION IMPERATIVE. Judge Lee's selection at the pri- of the writer, is the only thing from defeat in November. ALL A HALT. I halt should be called in the cus- ney without consulting the public, which Judge Lee seeks the nomina- services. services. Mr. Peter Washington of Buxton was in Albia on Saturday. Lawyer Geo. H. Woodson was in Albia on business Wednesday of this week. The club's picnic at the home of Mr. Wm. Bennings on Thursday evening of this week. Mr. Bennings' sister from Keosauqua is visiting with him in town this week. Mr. Dick Robison of Ottumwa was in Albia on Sunday. ELGIN WATCH SALE [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit and tie. The background is black. The man is facing the camera.] A few Albians attended, the bail game in Buxton on Sunday. Mr. Burt Jones of Hiteman was in town. Rev, and Mrs. Woldon came over from Buxton to attend quarterly services at the A. M. E. church. Mr. Corthon and family of Hiteman were at the Ed Butler home Sunday, also to quarterly services. Number on the sick list is Mr. Bowman, Mr. Harte, who is very sick at this writing, and Miss Fay Bennings. A number of strangers in town the past week. GARKISON FOR CORONER. The picture of Mr. John F. Garrison, who is a candidate for coroner of Polk county, subject to the primaries next Monday, is here given. He is one of the best known business men and has lived in our city twenty-seven years, where he has been in the fine horse and mule business. MOBERLY, MO. Lincoln school closed May 22nd with a successful term, under the leadership of Prof. H. C. Vaughn as principal. Mrs. Joe McClure died May 22nd at the family residence. Funeral will be Monday. Burial in Oakland cemetery. Mrs. Lulu Cook, formerly of this city, who has spent the past two years in Des Moines, Iowa, is in the city visiting her mother and sister IOWA STATE BYSTANDER At the Oldest Jewel GIN WA at the Oldest Jewelry Store in Des Moines. WATCH SA $10 Your choice of hundreds of style, open face or hunting, anteed for twenty years, of $10.00. These splendid Elgin watches for their time keeping quality absolute satisfaction. TEN DO Remember, both men's a hunting or open face, all sizes in this unusual sale. 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TEN DOLLARS Remember, both men's and women's watches, either hunting or open face, all sizes and all styles, are included in this unusual sale. Make your selection of the cases—we have hundreds to choose from—and you can tell best when you see them whether you prefer one that is full engraved, partly engraved, plain or engine turned. There is no extra charge for engraving names or inscriptions and we will reserve any watch. Plumb Jew YOU'RE SAFE SIXTH & WALNUT b Jewelry Store RE SAFE AT PLUMB'S WALNUT FLEMING BUILDING Plumb Jewelry Store YOU'RE SAFE AT PLUMB'S SIXTH & WALNUT FLEMING BUILDING The graduating exercises at the A.M. E. church Friday night were good in every respect. Prof. Chinn of Glasgow, Mo., was in the city Friday night and delivered an address to the graduates. Mr. Joseph Beverly received quite a few presents, as he was the only graduate. Mr. Charlie Black died suddenly in Huntsville on Monday, May 18, 1914, at the age of 62 years. He leaves to mourn his loss one brother, Mr. A.C. Black. Burial was in Huntsville [Name] He is a friend of the common people and will stand upon his past record, which he invites all to investigate before casting your vote. He has never before held or asked for any elective office, although an active, progressive worker, a true friend of the progressive idea as advocated by the progressive idea. He solicits your support. cemetery. We extend our heartfelt sympathy for the bereaved on. Mr. Hicks from] Hannibal, Mo., passed through the city en route to Huntsville on account of the illness of his mother. Mr. A. C. Black has been arranging for the Moberly band, also there has been arrangements made last week for a boxing contest at the Forest park August 3rd. The Moberly ball team went to Columbia to play today. --- Mrs. A. C. Black If It Is For Your Lodge WE HAVE IT! We manufacture Lodge Regalia for every Fraternal Society. Cash or Installment Plan: Cheapest Badge House in the Country. Catalogue for your Society FREE. Subscribe for the Searchlight and The Bystander. You will find out what's going on August 3rd. The campaign is near the close. Mr. Dowell's friends have made a clean, honest fight, and we firmly believe their candidate will be nominated. Mr. Dowell has been an active figure in county, city and state affairs for a good many years, nine years in the Iowa senate, eight of those years as chairman of the judiciary committee, the most important committee, in many ways, in the senate. He so impressed legislation, was loyalty instrumental in formulating so much constructive, progressive, needed legislation that he was recognized then as one of the strongest men in the state. He will go to congress so well equipped as to take high rank at the first. Mr. Dowell is broad-minded, is generous to a fault, is a hard, persistent worker. He is one who gets results. He is broad enough that he will give every county in the district the same attention that he gives Polk county. A friend in Warren county who has known him from boyhood days says: "C. C. Dowell will make one of the best congressmen this district ever sent to Washington. I know he will. I know his ability, his clean life, his singleness of purpose, his ability to represent the district faithfully. Mark what I tell you, he is going to congress and he will be one of the best men we have ever had in that body." The man who said that is an active republican, a man of large affairs who has known C. C. Dowell all his life. And he but repeats the sentiment of a good majority of the republicans of that county. Lawn mowers cheapest at Dawson's Hardware, Sixth avenue. If It Is We We manufacture Fraternal S Plan. Chea ry. Catalog CENT The Negro Re N. Residence Phone, Red 6778 Harry Allen General Claim Adjuster and Real Estate Agent Office 317 Locust St Phone Walnut 1227. 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The annual session of the National Negro Business League will meet in Muskegon, Okla., August 19 to 21. The National Association of Teachers will hold their annual meeting in Savannah, Ga., July 29 to August 1. The thirty-sixth annual session of Iowa-Nebraska Baptist association will be held in Des Moines on September 8 to 10. The eighteenth annual session of the International Order of Twelve, Knights and Daughters of Tabor, will be held in Centerville, Iowa, August 11 to 12. The twenty-ninth annual session of the Iowa-Nebraska Sunday school convention will meet in Omaha, Neb., June 18 to 19. The annual meeting of the Minneapolis State Federation of Colored Women's clubs will meet in Minneapolis on June 24 and 25. The annual meeting of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten of Missouri will hold their session in Keckuk, Iowa, in August. The sixth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held in Baltimore, Md., May 3rd to 5th. The St. Paul district conference and Sunday school convention of the Chicago Annual Conference will convene in Rockford, Ill., May 19 to 22. The ninth biannual session of the National Association of Colored Women will meet at Wilberforce, Ohio, August 4 to 7. The eighth annual session of the Des Moines district conference, Sunday School Convention, Normal Institute and Allen Endeavor League will be held at Mt. Pleasant, Iews. June 9 to 13. Lawn mowers sharpened and repaired. Dawson's Hardware, 6th Ave.