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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. STATE CAPITOL Bldg HISTORY ROOM OCTHAW TON ROTON VOL. 10W VOL. XXI NO. 28 CITY NEWS. Mr. L. Sutor of Marshaltown, Iowa, spent last week in our city. Mr. Frank Walker of Washington, Iowa, was a caller at our office this week. Mr. Elwood Griffin returned to his house in Detroit, Mich., after spending a delightful Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Griffin, on Capitol avenue. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brooks are all smiles nowadays over the arrival of a ten pound baby boy. Both mother and child doing well. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lewis of the Thompson hotel announce the birth of a nine pound baby last week. Both mother and child doing well. Miss Margaret Roberts entertained eight young women Thursday afternoon at a matinee party in honor of Miss Adah Hde. Dr. A. J. Becker has just been highly honored, the 1st of January, by being employed as physician and surgeon of the Des Moines Street Railway Co. Editor John L. Thompson is preparing to make his official visit to the Masonic lodges of Iowa and jurisdiction within a few days. Miss Julia Beiley of Marble Rock spent New Year's in Des Moines, the guest of Miss Ada Hyde and Mrs. Gus Watkins. She left Sunday for Farsons, Kana., to resume her teaching in the school there. The semi-annual meeting of the Triple H. club will be held at the home of J. H. McDowell on Seventh street Tuesday, January 12th. All members are urged to be present. By order of the president, Mrs. H. E. Jacobe. The W. W. club of the Asbury church was entertained by Richard Porterfield, one of its honorary members, Monday evening, January 4. Twenty persons were present. An elaborate lunch was served. Mrs. Sophie Hill will entertain the club next Monday evening at New and Accession streets. Miss Myrtle Claughton of Minneapolis is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Barner of Grimes. While here she is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Fields. Miss Claughton is a former Des Moines girl and will remain about two weeks. Mr. L. P. Blagburn, who has been very sick for several months, is no better at this writing. His friends are alarmed, but hope that he may make a change for the better. Morgan, A. R. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Taylor gave a holiday dinner party at their home at 817 Maple tree. The dining room was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Covers were laid for nineteen and Mrs. Taylor was in receipt of many beautiful presents. The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Wm. Hammitt. The study of Pilgrim's Progress made an interesting program. Meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Warrick and finish the study of Pilgrim's Progress. Study constitution and by-laws of the national association. Under the amiable leadership of Maude M. Wilkinson, H. P. of Mt. Moriah Tabernacle, No. 507, Dt. of Tabor, celebrated their seventh anniversary of the order. Their hall was decorated with the lodge colors. It was largely attended by members of the four lodges. Program was in charge of Dt. Florence B. Taylor, C. R. The G. D. treasurer, D. G. chief menter, D. G. high priestess and the national vice priest will be honored guests. The Wednesday Night Bridge club was entertained by Mrs. Alice Huston. Election of officers resulted as follows: President, Miss Gertrude Hyde; vice president, Mrs. Edith Strawthers; secretary, Miss Maydrew Robinson; assistant secretary, Mrs. Harry Seymore; treasurer, Miss Ardella Carter. Club will meet next Wednesday with Miss Gertrude Hyde. The Missa Carrie Watson and Magnolia Seen entertained sixty young people at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Watkins at a New Year's party in honor of Miss Adah Hyde. The rooms were beautifully decorated with Christmas decorations. Music and dancing were enjoyed. The out of town guests were Prof. Coffin of Kansas City, Miss Georgia Blagburn of Burton, Douglas Miller, Jr., and Hubert London of Iowa City, Wm. Kane of Ames, Lyric Sutor of Marshallkown and Miss Naomi Lewis of Fairbury, Neb. Mesdames Geo. C. Young, and L. Wright who have just opened a ladies' dress and furnishing goods house on Ninth and Park streets on New Year's night their gas meter sprung a leak and the gas filled the house where they were sleeping, and through some miraculous power Mrs. Wright awokes to find she and Mrs. Young almost overcome by gas. They struggled across to the Thompson hotel, where Dr. Booker was summoned. They got better and now are able to be up, although a very narrow escape. Mrs. Edith Strawthrs was hostess Monday evening to the members of the Mary, Church Terrell club. Refreshments were served and an enjoyable evening spent. The following officers were elected: President, Miss Margaret Roberts; vice president, Mrs. Edith Strawthrs; secretary, Mrs. Audrey Alexander; assistant secrey, Mrs. Hannah Porter; treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Perkins; reporter, Miss Gertrude Hyde. Miss Margaret Roberts will be the next hostess. ANNUAL OFFICERS ELECTED. At the annual meeting of Union Congregational church written reports of the officers showed a remarkable growth. Twenty-eight new members have been added. The following officers were elected: Deacon board, C. S. Stewart, J. H. Shepard, H. E. Jacobs and S. D. Wilkinson; deaconses, Mesdames J. H. Shepard, C. S. Stewart, M. L. Gregory, S. D. Wilkinson and J. A. Spencer; secretary, H. E. Jacobs; treasurer, John L. Thompson; church clerk, Miss E. Holl; superintendent of Sunday school, Gus Watkins; chorister, Lee E. Holl; organist, Miss Zoe Richardson; trustee board, John L. Thompson, H. E. Jacobs, M. L. Gregory, C. S. Stewart and J. A. Spencer. BUSINESS LEAGUE. The regular monthly meeting of the local Business League will be held in the parlor of the Union Congregational church next Monday night. The program will be very interesting. A paper on "How To Get the Colored Man's Business," by Dr J. A. Jefferson, by Mr. Wade H. McCree, the druggist. A three minute discussion on each paper. All members and friends are invited. No admission. GRANT OUR CITY RAILWAY A FRANCISE. One week from Saturday, or on January 16th, the voters of Des Moines will be asked to vote for or against the new city franchise asked by the Des Moines City Railway Co. At present the street car company has no franchise at all. Their old one having expired. Therefore it is necessary that they be granted a franchise. Now the only question is what kind of franchise should be granted. The mayor claims that the franchise to be voted upon does not suit him. Yet a few months ago when he could have suggested some kind of franchise he did not, but how being forced to allow the people to vote upon some kind of franchise he comes in at the last moment and offers several amendments to the proposed new franchise. His sole object in offering the amendments is to invalidate the new franchise. Therefore I think as a citizen and voter of our city it is best to vote for the new franchise and against all of the amendments. Let us vote for our own best interest and get the new improvements, new extensions in car service, new cars, which means more work for the laboring man. Let us all go to the polls January 16th and vote for the franchise. The following are the list of presents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rush received on their seventh wedding anniversary, held at their home, 1547 West Twentieth street, Wednesday evening, December 23rd: Hand painted plate, Mrs. Nellis Davis; fancy china plate, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Campbell; couch spread, Mrs. and Mrs. J. A. Spencer, Grinnell, Iowa; pair large linen hemstitched towels, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Woods, Miss Nina Hamilton; embroidered dresser scarf, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Patten; large linen towel hemstitched, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson; pair embroidered pillows case, Miss Wild Warm, Marshalltown; hemstitched linen towel, Miss Gertrude Hyde; pair pillow cases and pair bath towels, Mr. and Mrs. God Patton; pair blankets, Mr. and Mrs. P. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. Alexander; cut glass water pitcher, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Jas Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Scott; hand painted bon bon dish Mrs. Fred Jackson; silver olive fork, Misses Mamie and Juliaallee, Marble Rock, Iowa; fruit basket, Mr and Mrs. Harry Allen, Mrs. Blanche Goodrich; vase, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Simmon; book, Mr. and Mrs. S. White, Indianola, Iowa; hemstitched towel, Mrs. and Mrs. Jas James; set of china plates, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Mrs. M. Watkins, Miss Carrie Watson; large picture with gilt frame, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Patterson; crocheted white wool evening jacket, Mrs. Francis Render; cut glass dish, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Culbertson, Clinton, Iowa; handmade oil painted picture, Mr. and Mrs. E. Green, Davenport, Iowa; mashogany serving tray, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Crews, Kansas City, Mo.; hand painted fruit dish, Mrs. Fielding; pair embroidered linen towels, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Southall, Buxton; hand painted plate, Mrs. E. A. Tiggs, Parsons, Kan.; $1.00 in cash, Mr. J. P. Durdan, Chicago, Ill. Mesdames Harvay Brown, N. C. Marshall, Geo. Patton of Des Moines, Roxie White of Chicago and E. A. Tiggs of Parsons, Kansas, assisted in receiving and serving the guests. The house was beautifully decorated with Xmas bells and decorations. BUSINESS LEAGUE ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. The Twin City Missionary Alliance hold a very interesting meeting Tuesday afternoon at the home of the "Twins," Meadames Grawford and Black, on Rondo street. A large number attended from Minneapolis. Delightful refreshments were served following the business. Miss Opa Wade of Thomas street entertained at 6 o'clock dinner Sunday Misses Lucille Elliott and Beasie Jones. Mrs. Janode Jackson was hostess for the King's Daughters Charity club Monday. The Self Culture club was entertained by the president, Mrs. Mattie Wade Hicks, last Wednesday. Mrs. Mamie Graves was a visitor. The club is planning another benefit entertainment for the Attucks home. Mrs. Dovie Campbell entertained friends at progressive whist last Wednesday night at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adams, of Charles street. The members of Memorial Baptist church are to be congratulated upon their success in having raised and paid $1,000 on their church within the short time they have been occupying it, about seven or eight months. They have some devout members who are making many sacrifices to succeed. The executive board of the State Federation will hold their regular meeting Friday afternoon in Minneapolis at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Donavan. They are planning for their midwinter meeting to be held February 8 in Minneapolis. Quarterly meeting at St. James A. M. E. church January 17th. Election of trustees for the ensuing year January 12th. Mrs. M. Moker and grandchildren, the Misses Beas, spent the holidays at their old home in Camarasville, Ind. Pilgrim Baptist church is succeeding nicely under the pastorate of Rev. Murrell. The church seems to have taken on new life. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Mrs. B. Scary has been on the sick list, but was able to be out Sunday. The young folks are taking advantage of the winter weather and snow by spending the evenings coasting, as the hills are in fine condition for that sport. The Benevolent club met with Mrs. Ella Gleaner, at which time the children for the sending year were closed. President, Mrs. J. Cheshire; vice president, Catherine Strothers; secretary, Mrs. Mattie Green; corresponding secretary, Cora Hennington; treasurer, Mrs. M. Woodford; chaplain, Mrs. Sarah Thompson; critic, Mrs. A. McClelland. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. L. Williams on Thursday afternoon, 638 West Mechanic street. Mrs. A. Kennedy is much better. She was able to attend church Sunday. Mrs. M. O. Williams entertained at dinner Tuesday afternoon in honor of Mrs. D. Carey, the evangelist; Mrs. B. Green of Kookuk, Madam Caponia of the east, a traveling missionary. The table was laid for twelve. A delicious dinner of four courses was served. The Young Men's club met Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church and elected the following officers: President, M. Weeks; secretary, S. Fowler; treasurer E. Bailey. The second of the series of parties was at the home of Mrs. E. Hall at 731 E. Fellows street. The hostesses were Mrs. E. Hall and Mrs. M. McGill. The evening was delightfully spent with music, singing, readings and games. Mrs. M. Taylor, Mda. A. Elliott and Mrs. H. Owens spent Monday afternoon with Mother Tolbert, who celebrated her 117th birthd-v Christmas day. She is a very intelligent old lady and it is a treat to hear her life story. Her mother lived to be 120 years old. She has a son in Albia, Iowa, 92 years old. Mrs. M. Taylor, Mrs. A. Elliott and ner Sunday, Mrs. B. Green being the guest of honor. A number of citizens and friends celebrated Emancipation day at the A. M. E. church on the evening of January 1st. The program consisted of talks of old soldiers and prominent citizens. The wedding bells will soon ring in Ottumwa. Mrs. Wells Fowler is on the sick list not able to be out. Stomach Trouble Cured. If you have any trouble with your stomach you should take Chamberlain's Tablets. Mr. I. P. Hibbs of Edina, Mo., says: "I have used a great many different medicines for stomach trouble, but find Chamberlain's Tablets more beneficial than any other remedy I ever used." For sale by all dealers. CLINTON, IOWA. Mr. Geo. Robinson and little son, Geo., Jr., are convalescing from a serious attack of pneumonia. We hope to see them out-soon. Christmas and its pleasures have come and gone. Humanity has set- tled down once more to business activity of the one pleasure of the seas- son was the dinner given on Christ- mas eve instead of the customary tree to the members of Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school, about seventy-five being present. The dinner was all that could be asked for and was headtily enjoyed. Mrs. Holland Williams was on the sick list this week, but is some better at this writing. [Name] BE SQUARE WITH YOURSELF. It is up to you, Mr. Voter, to look for your own interests. Men in public offices are looking after their political interests. They are confusing the Des Moins City Railway Company DR. J. R. SPINGARN TO SPEAK IN DES MOINES. At a meeting called by Atty. S. Joe Brown at his residence and attended by about twenty-five prominent colored man and western last Monday evening definite arrangements were made for the reception of Dr. Joel E. Spingarn of New York City, who is chairman of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, of which The Crisis is the official organ, and who will speak at the Corinthian Baptist church in this city on Wednesday evening, January 20th. Dr. Spingarn, who is a Caucasian, was for has recently recovered from an attack of menace. Mrs. Anne Williams of Buxton is the guest of her mother and friends this 18c twelve years professor in Columbia university, New York CiCy, and has devoted the past ten years traveling at his own expense and lecturing in the interest of the Negro. His present trip will cover at least one city in each state along the route from Ohio to the Pacific coast, the Des Moines meeting being the only one in Iowa, and Governor Clarke, Attorney General Cosson, Hon. Casper Schenck and the editors of the four Des Moines daily papers are co-operating with the colored committee to make the Des Moines meeting the best on the entire list. Further announcement will be made next week. week. Wm. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Thompson, is recovering from an attack of measles. JARE WI up to you, Mr. Voter, to in public offices are look ts. They are confusing Street Car Fr their own purposes and to your interest to have to ride in, extended lin to give YOU the best se is what the proposed st drawn with the idea of , your interests are when Mr. Voter, to look for your places are looking after the are confusing the Car Franchise purposes and not to your rest to have cheaper fa extended lines out to all the best service possible proposed street car fr the idea of STREET C erests are protected. Street Car Franchise Issue for their own purposes and not to your interests. It is to your interest to have cheaper fares, have better cars to ride in, extended lines out to all parts of the city and to give YOU the best service possible. That is what the proposed street car franchise provides. It is drawn with the idea of STREET CAR SERVICE in mind, your interests are protected. To make sure of it, then Vote "YES" r the Street tuaday Janu Street Car I January 16 Satuaday, January 16th, 1915 The election of trustees and Sunday school officers are events of the week. Little interest was shown in the election of trustees on Monday night. Mr. J. M. Mitchell, who has been ill at a local hospital, is improving at the home of Mr. Wm. Henderson, where he was removed some days ago. What a nice Christmas present it would have been to The Bystander if the delinquent subscribers had only settled their obligations. Biliousness and Constipation Cured. If you are ever troubled with bili- ousness or constipation you will be interested in the statement of R. F. Erwin, Peru, Ind. "A year ago last winter I had an attack of indigestion followed by biliousness and constipa- tion. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets so highly recommended, I bought a bottle of them and they helped me right away." For sale by all dealers. WITH YOUR look for your own interest ing after their political the franchise issue not to your interests. cheaper fares, have b mes out to all parts of the service possible. street car franchise provi STREET CAR SERVIC protected. To make su Car Franchiary 16th, 19 Our Best Bacon Eastern Brand 18C Native Pot Roast Beef 11c Pork Loin Roast 12½ Fresh Hams 15c Value 10C Sausage Meat 11c Hamberger Meat 11c Pure Lard by the pound 12½c. Poultry and Fish. S, & K. Market Co. 219 Walnut Price Five Cents AT the meeting of the Lyceum at the residence of Atky. J. B. Rush on Tuesday evening Mr. Jesse A. Gravesled the discussion of the proposed street car franchise, followed by Atky. Rush, Prof. Warricks and Mr. Easter. The meeting next week will be with Miss Vivian Warricks and will be addressed by Miss Kathryn M. Johnson, advance agent of Dr. J. E. Spingam, and a full attendance is desired. Fever sores and old chronic sores should not be healed entirely, but should be kept in healthy condition. This can be done by applying Chamberlain's Salve. This salve has no superior for this purpose. It is also most excellent for chapped hands, sore nipples, buras and diseases of the skin. For sale by all dealers. Subscribe zor the Iowa State Bystander. Smoked California Hams 1 12c Fundamental Principles of Health By ALBERT & GRAY, M.D. (Copyright, 1914, by A. B. Group) All life is dependent alike for its awakening and for its maintenance upon the influence of certain chemical factors, among which heat and moisture may be regarded as paramount. The organisms now living on this earth are known as plants and animals and without exception one and all are subject to the same laws. This makes for a close correspondence among all life and thus it is possible us to unravel and expose the tangle of our physical life and comparative plants is called botany and that of the animals is known as zoology, while the study of living things in general, including both animals and plants, is known as biology. Humanity owes a vast debt to biology and that debt is increasing every day. Biology teaches us that there is no room for chance in nature and that unrestricted growth never results in discord. Discord is always artificial. Wherever there is any "unnatural" condition we know there must have been some interference to account for It. And the present drift in the medical world is to locate this interference. Research work conducted along these lines with fish, chickens and the lily has recently exposed many inter- and extremely illuminating factors with relation to the whole disease known as cancer, and makes it very clear that we easily might solve most of our physical troubles in much the same way if we would only learn to heed the lessons acquired in the handling of the lower organisms. incubation is a word in common use; it is derived from the Latin words meaning to brood, or to lie on, and specifically it means the action of the hen in sitting on her eggs to hatch them; the word is also used in pathology as expressing the development within the human body of the germs of disease, and it is especially associated with the artificial means of hatching eggs with incubators or for any analogous purposes of an artificial foster-mother nature. Artificial incubation was known to the Egyptians and to the Chinese almost from time immemorial, but it is of comparatively recent use in this country. The eggs are placed in an incubator equipped with a suitable device for regulating the amount of heat, air and moisture admitted, and it be regulated to maintain a temperature of approximately 103 degrees. Fahrenheit, very marked changes may be noted in the interior of the egg from day to day as the result of the absorption of the heat. Assuming the temperature and moisture in the interior of the incubator to have been formal, candling the 100 eggs on about the fifth day of incubation will reveal remarkable changes taking place in them; the developing germ, with blood vessels radiating from it like a spider web, will be distinctly visible. Candling, again about the teenth day will show a further advance, and at this time, usually not a few of the developing chicks will be found to have died. The percentage dying at this stage is determined by the general vitality of the flock laying the eggs. If for any reason the flock is not in normal condition there will not be sufficient vitality in the germs to carry them and they die. Again on the fourteenth day it is customary to candle or test for the dead ones, for again there will be some with only sufficient energy to get this far. Between the teenth and fifteenth days the chick becomes relatively large and bulky, the temporary respiratory apparatus, together with its veins, increases greatly in size and extent and the life processes proceed with greater activity. On the nineteenth day it is the rule again to search for the dead ones and then the machine is usually not touched again until the hatch is completed. If the temperature and moisture have been maintained approximately normal, the chicks will break through their shells on the twenty-first day. Chicks resulting from a normal hatch are active and alert. They begin to pick shank and feed soon as soon as they reach ordinary care easily such maturity. But chicks from either a premature on a delayed hatch are inactive from the start, not alert and easily contract all manner of bowel diseases. Then He Poppad the Question. "In one of the liveliest figures in the social world, a young woman whose engagement was announced a couple of weeks ago," said a New York social climber. "brought about the proposal by an ingenious trick, which set off her peculiar style of beauty in two strikingly contrasting frocks on the same evening. There had been reports that the young woman was irritated by the lowness of the men she favored. On the night in question, at a dinner party, in her home, the girl wore beautiful creation of a delicate rose shade, and it was observed that she was unusually animated in her exchange of small talk with the man in the case. To the guests it seemed a real disaster when a serenet stumbled and dashed coffee on the rose gown. Of course, the young man was the most sympathetic of all. The girl hurried out. She surprised the company by appearing five minutes farward in a white gown of eggater beauty than the rose one. It was a transformation so quick the young woman was received with exclamations of delight. But society Under the most favorable conditions incubator chicks are never equal in general vitality to the normal hen hatched chick. They are less resistant and more subject to disease. We have not yet mature nature's secrets either with the lower organisms or with our own species, and for this reason we can well afford to draw lessons from the experience acquired in our hatcheries. The foundation of health is good air and good food. We bring mother bears the same solution that heat to the incubator, and if there is a deficiency in any degree in either case the developing life is certain to pay the penalty in leavened vitality; while if we take an excess of deficient foodstuffs we must likewise pay a penalty. ARTIFICIAL FEEDING. Inasmuch as health is the natural and normal state of mankind, it should not be difficult to preserve one's health. And it is not. But because health is inherent in us, and because we are elastic and therefore persistent to revert to the normal, whatever the provocation, with very few exceptions we obstinately and fatuously cling to habits and practices certain to impair our physical inheritance, until some sharp and severe experience lashes us into a consciousness of corporal limitations and compels the recognition of natural laws. Without exception ill health, physical debility, sickness and suffering in general come through repeated violations, either on one's own part or on the part of others, of the laws of this universe, of which we are a constituent part. Too often irreparable damage is done to vital organs before we become conscious of the breakdown, and then it is too late to do anything. As a matter of fact the problem of life itself can be solved only by the study of what takes place in the minute portion of the cell, for it is in the "centrasome"—a roundish body alongside the nucleus of a cell that is undergoing division—that the new formation of an individual begins. Remember that cells increase by division; there is no corpse; each cell splits into two, indefinitely. We cannot all become cytologists—cell experts—but we can easily acquire a personal working knowledge from observation of any one of the lower organisms such as the chicken, for instance—sufficiently as a safe guide to better things if we will but open our windex to the truth. To begin with, we do not know, here in this country, how many children are born annually, because only a few states require birth registration, and we are therefore unable even to approximate the percentage of infants stillborn as the result of conditions identical in principle with those that cause the death of the chick in the shell. But we do know from statistics returned on approximately 60 per cent of our population of 100,000,000 that at least twenty-five per cent of all infants born die before they reach one year of age. In contrast with this condition we know that if a sitting hen is allowed to incubate, which the incubators are supplied and from which the 60 per cent hatch is considered highly satisfactory, the hen will, with but few exceptions, produce hatches approximating 100 per cent. The mortality in the incubator is insignificant compared to that which takes place among chicks under artificial brooding and feeding conditions, that is to say, during that period of life before the chick is sufficiently mature to be able to look after its own needs. If the death of forty to sixty or more per cent of a given flock of chickens ended the matter we might content ourselves with the idea that inasmuch as each species to increase in orderly, the checks known always to be in action, even though we are not able to perceive it, which is simply nature's method of preserving a balance, must result in an improvement of the breed. But unfortunately, this is found not to be true; for invariably those survivors of conditions which produce these very heavy mortalities are themselves so shattered physically that under the same conditions only a few generations suffer seriously to deteriorate a fine strain and, if persistently followed, quickly lead to total extermination of the line. On every hand we find these conditions closely paralleled in the human species. Deficient food supply to the pregnant woman gives the same results following lack of heat in any other incubator, and an excess produces about the same effect as too much heat in the machine; both inevitably lead to deterioration in the child; while artificial feeding is known to be fully as disastrous to the child as it is so clearly proved to be to the chick and its descendants. The solution is comparatively simple and consists in nothing more than training women to have a fit appreciation of the obligations of motherhood and actiously and conscientiously to prepare to meet the natural demands. began to do some thinking then when, two days afterward the engagement was announced. By this time it is be- lived generally that the servant had been rehearsed carefully in his role, and that the young woman's maid was waiting with the white frock in read- ness for the call of her resourceful mistress. Activities of Women. Miss Della Crewe of Waco, Tex, has started on a motorcycle trip around the world, accompanied by her pet rish bulldog. In Philadelphia there are 11,369 girls from eightteen years of age employed in the shops, factories and stores. Six thousand out of the nearly thousand mentioned in the Woman's Who's Who in America are or have been married. The French relief fund in the United States is being looked after by Mme. Jusserand, wife of the French ambas- sador to this country. Dr. Marden's Uplift Talks BY ORISON SWEET MARDEN. Copyright by McClare Newspaper Syndicate SHOULD NOT BE A DRUGE OR A BOLL. "There are some things it doesn't pay us to get," said Vice-President Marshall in a recent address. "For instance, it doesn't pay a man to get so much money that he becomes sahamed of his old-fashioned wife and no longer wants to trot in her society." Not long ago a man who abandoned his wife and who tried in every way to provoke her to get a divorce from him so he could marry a young and attractive girl, plainly told her that she was not good-looking or stupid and had money he wanted a wife who could show off in society. This poor woman had made all sorts of sacrifices in their early days of struggle with poverty. For years she had worked and deprived herself of necessities to help her husband get a start in the world, and to care for and bring up his children without a nurse or maid. She made a drudge of herself, but when he had become prosperous he had no use for the worn-out wife, with her burned-out beauty and her wrinkles, which had paid the price of a large part of his prosperity; he wanted to cast her aside for a young, fresh and attractive wife. In the trial the wife said: "I worked from seven in the morning until eleven o'clock at night. But now that I am no longer needed in the business, he has heaped upon me insults untold. He has neglected and failed to properly provide for me. "He repeatedly told me that I was not fashionable enough for him," the wife concluded. "He liked dressy women. He took me to one place and pointed out a Miss K, and said he had spent $400 wining and dining her." The world will never know the tortures, a thousand times worse than death itself, endured by wives of prosperous husbands, who so often prefer suffering to scandal and endure a living death rather than expose their husbands, who have been fascinated by younger and more attractive women. One of the most pathetic spectacles in American life is that of the faded, outgrown wife standing helpless, in the shadow of her husband's prosperity and power, having sacrificed her youth, beauty and ambition—nearly everything that the feminine wife holds dear—to enable an indifferent, selfish, brutish husband to get a star in the world. It does matter that the wife sacrificed her opportunity for a career, that she up her most cherished ambition—order to make a ladder for her selfish husband to ascend by. When he has once gotten to the top, like a wily, diplomatic politician, he often kicks the ladder down. He wants to make a show in the world; he thinks only of himself. His poor, faded, worn-out wife, standing in his shadow, is not attractive enough for him now that he has gotten up in the world. The selfish husband thinks that he should have a clear track for his ambition, and that his wife should be content, even grateful, to be allowed to tag on behind and assist him in every possible way in what he considers the grand life work of both of them—to make him the biggest man possible. It does not even occur to him that she could have an ambition welling up within her heart, a longing to answer the call which runs in her own blood, and a yearning to express it in some vocation as well as he. I do not believe that the Creator has limited one-half of the human race practically to one occupation, while the other half has the choice of a thousand. "But," many of our men readers will say, "is there any grander profession in the world than that of home making? Can anything be more stimulating, more elevating than home making and the rearing of children? How can such a vocation be narrowing, monotonous?" Of course it is grand. There is nothing grander in the universe than the work of a true wife, a noble mother. But it would require the constitution of a Hercules, an innately greater patience than that of a Job, to endure such work with almost no change or outside variety, year in and year out, as multitudes of wives and mothers do. The average man does not appreciate how almost devoid of incentives to broad-mindedness, to many-mindedness, to liberal growth, the home life of many women, the man and the professional man are really in a perpetual school, a great, practical school. He is continually coming in contact with new people, new things, being molded by a vast number of forces which never touch the wife in the quiet home. I believe in marriage, but I do not believe. In that marriage which paralyzes self-development, strangles ambition, and discourages evolution and self-growth, which takes away the life purpose. Nor is it necessary that the wife should work like a slave in order to grow. There is a certain class of men who go to the other Bad Practice Discouraged. Getting married in Burma is not entirely a pleasant operation. Custom warrants the practice of throwing stones at the house, and newly-wed, but not blackmail, and when recently a band of Burman youth demanded money before they would depart the law stepped in and sentenced the leaders to heavy imprisonment and corporal punishment. Eight nations in the European war have 12,000,000 fighting men. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER estrums and make moves in their wives—work them half to death, but physical drudgery does not develop because the wife is as badly off as the doll wife. A wife should neither be a drudge nor dressed up doll; she should develop herself by self-off, just as her husband develop himself. She should not pet herself in a position where her inventiveness and resourcefulness and individuality, her talent, will be paralyzed by lack of motive. Everything in the whole environment of tens of thousands of American wives is discouraging to growth and tends to struggle a broader, fuller life. A healthy mind must be an active mind. Vigor and strength cannot be built up in man or woman by inexperience or lack of motivation. There must be a purpose, a vigorous, strong aim in the life, or it will be nervous, insubstantial and tale. For centuries women themselves accepted man's estimate of them, and were content to walk in his shadow. But since the higher discovery of woman in the last century a new order of things is being brought about. Women are becoming less and less dependent upon men and more inclined to live their own lives. They are beginning to see their own possibilities, that they can have careers and ambitions as well as men. The girl of today expects a liberal education and looks forward to a career of her own. Women have at last learned that men have not monopolized all the genius, that ability knows no sex. And the wife is beginning to realize that there is one thing she should guard as the very jewel of her soul; that is, the determination to keep pace with her husband. HOME, SWEETEST WORD IN THE LANGUAGE. The story is told of a perplexed young man who wrote to the query department of a newspaper to know whether the editor would advise him to buy an automobile or get married. He said he could not afford to do both, and was in a quandary. The editor cautioned the young man to deliberate earnestly and not to make up his mind without due consideration. He was reminded that while an automobile costs more it doesn't talk back, and that a second-hand automobile could be traded for a new one. It is not recorded what was the decision of the irresolute young man. He then men, good men, whose lives, measured by ordinary standards, were successful, who never married; but those who hear or read of them feel that such careers were incomplete. To a certain degree, a young man should look upon marriage from a utilitarian standpoint. A good wife is so much capital. She makes him to be, by a kind of grace, a great deal more than he is by nature. She contributes the qualities needed in order to convert his wig into a side as well as productive efficiency. She introduces, for instance, into his intellectual nature that ingredient of sentiment which intellect requires in order to be able to do its best work and makes home an Eden. "To Adam, Paradise was home; to the good among his descendants, home is paradise." Most married men are sane, much more normal and level-headed, economical and careful, on account of their wives. A model home is a great corrective for a man. It keeps him up to standard and saves him from getting blue and discouraged. It develops the affectionate side of his nature and renders his character stronger and more symmetrical. Men can produce very much more because of harmony and affection in the home. There is nothing else which will call out the dutiful qualities of a man or woman like unselfish service. The very consciousness that one has others depending upon him tends to call out the best in him. It brings manhole into the life and broadens softness and sweetness the character. It is a great educator, a perpetual influence for good. Who could estimate what civilization owes to man's dream of a happy home of his own? What an incentive to man in all ages has been this vision of a home of his own! It is this picture which holds the youth to his task, bucks him up in times of hardship and discouragement. This picture of a home, this vision of a little cottage and some fair malnourished waiting at the door—this home vision has ever been the greatest incentive of the struggle, the greatest incentive of mankind! It is the dream of a home of my own—that has lifted multitudes of youth out of obscurity. There is no spur on earth which has has anything like the influence over man that this home vision has. The thought of his home and wife and children, dearer to him than life, keeps vast multitudes of men grinding away at their dreary tasks, when they see no other light in the distance. To multitudes of people home is the onlyasis in their desert lilies. Home is the sweetest word in the language. It has ever been the favorite theme of the poet, the author, and the artist. History is packed with the achievements of men for the sake of the home. They cross oceans, they explore continents. They endure the heat of the tropics and the cond of the arctic; they explore mines in the desert; they themselves are off from civilization for years for the sake of wife-and-home. Women are always sincere when angry. Military Dances. The Highland fling symbolises victory. The schottish milleaire, that was popular some years ago, was another Scotch dance with a military suggestion. Many old prints show that the bagpipe of Scotland accompanies the military dance, as it cost today, and to its strains fighting is being done that emulates that of past centuries. Many trains of thought carry us freight PRETTY HEAD COVERING THAT IS EASY TO MAKE. Best, Perhaps, in Rabbit Yarn or Sunny—Success Will Be Sure If One Will Follow the Directions Given Here. How counting the little baby bonnets are handed in rabbit yarn or sunny, and so we need to indoors, anyone who can do the plain knitting stitch can make a bonnet by following directions: First, it is necessary to find the face size. This will be 12, 14 or 16 inches, according to the age of the child to wear it. Four skins of two-fold, saxon wool, will be required, white or pink, as preferred. To make the bonnet cast on 88 stitches, using No. 2 bone needles. Katt in ridge for 14 inches, or 107 ridges, and bind off. To make the band round the neck of the crown, with a steel needle pick up one stitch from the 107 ridges. Made of Rabbit Yarn. Made of Rabbit Yarn. Start on the right side and decrease to 54 stitches by knitting two stitches together to end of row. Knit 13 ridges on these 54 stitches, then bind off. If the bonnet is white, make the turnback flap of white satin or corded silk—a strip of ribbon about 3½ or 4 inches wide will answer. Decorate with embroidered rosebuds, or, if this is beyond the knitter's skill, bought embroidery could be applied. The outer edge should be trimmed with a frill of narrow, val lace and the flap lined with a bit of pink india or other soft silk. The knitting is laid in three planks with the ears to shape the bonnet, the stitches to shape the bonnet under rosette of pink ribboned. The raw edge of the flap is turned under the knitted edge and a cap lining of soft white silk fitted in. Then a rushing of face is sowed in around the face, and least the ties of white or wink ribbon are added. Of course, one may keep the beast all white, all one color, or a combination of white and a color. For instance, if the baby is a boy the knitting and silk tap might be white and the ribbons blue. The embroidery could be forget-me-nots, or the entire frill and the rhinestone, the frill and the rhinestone, which would be white, of course, might be blue. In that case pink rosebuds would be more effective than forget-me-nots upon a blue background. FIRST TEST. THE CRETONNE Cheaper Grade Not Always a Good Investment—Makes Excellent Furniture Cover. A cheap cretonne is not always a good investment, as it often becomes more expensive than more like a ceasar muslin than a good cretonne, so before investing in a low-priced material it should be tested. To do this take a small piece and rub it thoroughly as it washing. If the threads separate and it becomes thin, it will wear badly, and not is really economical, no matter how cheap the price, but if it passes this ordeal it will probably last as long and wear as well as a much higher-priced one. A cretonne on a very dark background is very scarce and the lightest, coloring, and used not makes the room appear dark if some cheerful sores are introduced into the floral design. To cover furniture is not really such a difficult task as many would imagine, provided a reliable pattern can be obtained, and it is, in fact carefully pinned to the sofa or chair and fitted so that any parts which are too large or too small can be altered and arranged. Cricetone is generally 30 inches wide, and a full-sized sofa requires a lot of cutting. When cutting the cover for the sofa the jibes for covering the arms must be laid, before cutting, with their right sides together, or when cut it may be found that they are both for the right or left, and this would involve an enormous waste of material. Also the pat- Dance frocks are made of chiffon and are glittering with paillette. Sand-colored corduroy is seen in women's practical winter coats. The tunic is now cut in points or scallops. These are edged with large beads. Colored beads, jet and pearl beads are used. Printed taffeta is a favorite material for tea jackets, and some of the designs and color schemes are an poetic as they are effective. The jacket does not flare enough use a reed or thick wire to get the right line. This is done in many of the high priced models and can be copied by you. Fawn and straw-brown silk linings are used for, immensely popular covert coating, and for the equally well-liked marine blue ones there are linings to match. Shot silk is much used again for the purpose. The newest blouses have high necks. That is to say, they are buttoned right up to the throat the old fashion. that would be plaited in such a way that the design will run up the seat and back of the sofa, and over the sides, or arms, and the pattern must be carefully matched in the center, where the material will be joined. KEEP HANDS FROM CHAPPING Or If They Are New in Bad Condition Here Are Remedies That Will Help The first chilly day is the day one should begin to wage a war against shapped hands. If you can keep your hands from becoming chapped in the transitional weather between hot and cold, you will have little difficulty with them later on; for it is in the first cold days that they are especially sensitive to cold. Still, it is never too late. Chapped hands are almost always caused by insufficient drying after washing, or perhaps the water was ice cold and very hard, or used too hot. Both extremes are bad for the skin. To preserve the hands from going cold in cool water, you should, whenever possible, be washed in tepid water, and if this is softened by a teapool of borax so much the better. Be sure to use a soap of good quality, and when drying the hands take the precaution of rubbing each finger separately. If the hands are rubbed over once a day with a slice of lemon and a little cold cream, or if mutton tallow is rubbed into them thoroughly before eating, the skin will be little danger of the skin becoming chapped or rough. FOR THE GIRL WHO SKATES Appropriate and Attractive Costume of Blacuit Tan Cloth is Latest Idea of Fashion. One sees young women in velvet and a veil with white cuffs at the rinks in the city, but the real out-of-door girl wears a proper skating rig of which an attractive example is li- THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD'S FINEST ART lustrated here. Severely tailored coat and skirt are of biscuit tan cloth and the 'sung little skating hat' is red brown beaver with a band to match. White woolen gloves and a warm scarf, which may be tied over the ears if needed, complete the costume. SUITABLE FOR FLESHY MAID Many Fabrics Especially Adapted to Her, and Some She Should Be Careful to Avoid. The girl who is too fieshy should never wear shiny stuffs such as satin. They catch the light on the curve of your figure and make you look much stouter than you really are. Soft dull stuffs are the right things for you. Never wear a blouse of one stuff and the skirt of another, but always have whole dresses or costumes. A contrasting vest collar or front on a dark dress is quite allowable. Wear stripes or plaids stuff rather than checks because the contrasted patterns. Don't have a contrasting belt-it you in two and, by taking away your height, increases your apparent width. Wear becoming collars. High ones are very unbecoming to a thick throat and, besides, you are nearly sure to have—a pretty neck—most stout people have—so you may as well show it. Let your indoor skirts touch the ground always. Have them made close-fitting on the hips with a good flare out at the foot. A skirt, which draws in round the feet always increases the apparent size of the hips. The elbow blouse is certainly going out of fashion. At the present moment the most popular models are those which are medium high. Cleaning. Tatting. Almost everyone who has tried to clean tatting by washing it knows it is almost impossible to restore the picots to their natural shape in this way. A better way is to soak the tatting in gasoline and while they are wet dust all the pieces with corn starch. Wrap them in a clean towel and leave them for several hours. Beat the towels slightly, lift out the lace the picots in and it fizzes to mark. Press the picots into shape and iron lightly on the wrong side. Mother's Advice. "That young feller has been calling on daughter for several weeks, hasn't hat?" OF DRIED VEGETABLES MANY PALATABLE DIHES MAY BE PREPARED. Need Especial Care but Will Repay Time Given to Them—Excellent Hash is One Compose of Potatoes and Lentil. Dried vegetables contain a great deal of nutrients and if they are properly processed they can into very palatable dish. They should always be soaked overnight, rinsed, brought to the boiling point, and then simmered slowly with a quarter of a teaspoonful or baking soda in the water. When the fresh vegetables are scarce the good housekeeper can give a greater variety to her table for a smaller cost if she uses liberally of the dried vegetables as well as of the tinned. Beaked beans, porridge and succotash are old standbys that no one has need to be remolded—but with these time-honored dishes many households seem to und their use of dried vegetables. If you live in a locality where you can get dried sweet corn, or if you have been forehanded enough to put it up for yourself you are very lucky, for this is far superior to the tinned variety. Canned corn is one of the vegetables whose flavor is entirely changed by belig canned. Dried corn is delicious made into corn oysters and can hardly be told from the fresh vegetable. Soak the corn overnight and in the morning bolt it up with a pinch of baking soda. Press out the pulp with a sharp knife and to a pint of the pulp add two beaten eggs, one tea-spoonful of butter and salt, a dash of pepper, and enough flour to bind. Roll into small cakes and sauté them in butter, or drop from a spoon into hot fat to make fritters. These may, of course, be made of canned corn also, and they are sometimes improved by adding a little milk and sugar. Dried beans and peas make very good purées, but care must be taken with the corn as a multicolored long time. When they have begged until they are very tender mash them through a sieve. Place again in the saucepan and stir into them enough hot milk, pepper and salt to season them, add butter and a little sugar before serving. A very good hash of potatoes and lentils is made from one and one-half cupuples of cold cooked potatoes, two cupuples of boulled lentils, one teaspoonful of salt, pepper to taste, half a cupful of milk and one teaspoonful of onion juice. Cook the hash in a drying salt, brown, and serve with a to- Potato Designs. One cupful mashed potato (warm); two tablespoonful shortening (warm); cupful and a half of sugar; two eggs; cupful and a half of milk; full each autumn and cinnamon; two suplits four; two leapsoffens baking powder. To mix: Put shortening and sugar in mixing bowl and cream; add the warm mashed potatoes and then the eggs, one at a time, until they are mixed well through. Add the four baking powder, spices and beat thoroughly. Let stand about half an hour to ripen. Then add enough four to the potato mixture and golden brown. Lay on wire screen to drop. You will find they will stay fresh longer than the old-fashioned kind. Wire Closets. A wire cupboard for the kitchen or pantry is a great convenience. R. is, of course, impervious to flies, and therefore is useful for holding wafers, cereals and other food in summer; food which does not, however, need to be kept in a refrigerator. It is also impervious to the attacks of mice, and is useful in the autumn, when mice sometimes make their way into the kitchen. These wire cupboards, made of a wooden frame over which wire screening is fastened, come in various sizes at various prices. Chocolate Custard To one cupful of hot milk add two tablespoons of grated chocolate, two well-beaten eggs, four tablespoons of powdered sugar, a slight pinch of salt and one tablespoon of cornstarch mixed smooth with a little cold milk. Let the mixture reach the boiling point, remove from the store, and when cool, pour into cup or glasses. Place in the refrigerator until firm and cold, and serve with whipped cream. Scrapple. Cook one pound of fresh pork until it drops from the bones. Pick the meat to pieces and strain the liquor, of which there should be one pint. Put the liquor and meat on to boll and thicken with Indian meal until it will harden enough when cold to cut up and fry in slices. Season the liquor with pepper and salt. To Keep Fish. Fish may be preserved for a couple of days in a very simple yet safe way. Boll together three quartes of water and a pint of vinegar. When just on the boll put in the fish and scald it, but not for more than two minutes. Hang the fish in a cool place, and it will keep fresh even in the hottest weather. Useful Wash-Day Hints. Soda should be thoroughly dissolved in the washing; water before the clothes are put in. Never lie to lie about on the clothes, and sometimes causes them mold. Soda should never be added to water in which woolen are being washed, as it causes them to shrink. To Line the Cake Pan. Waxed paper, such as comes inside eraser boxes, is splendid to line cake pans which are a trifle thin. Cut pieces to, then flour them, pour in the batter, stand the hot pans after baking on a wet cloth for five minutes. The cakes will droop not when it ville, Mo. is the guest of her sister, Mm. W. A. Mitchell, Jr. Mr. Harry Palmer of Maryville, Mo. who has been the guest of Miss Frances Mitchell, left Tuesday morning for his home. Miss Frances Mitchell entertained with a 6 o'clock dinner Monday evening in honor of Miss Dorothy Palmer and Mt. Harry Palmer. On Sunday, December 27th, a family reunion was held at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Montgomery, Sr. (Daddy), where a delicious turkey dinner was enjoyed by those present. Those present were Mrs. Arthur Montgomery and children, Cattle, Maa, Lydia, Hershel, Elwell, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Montgomery, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Roper have been visiting the past week in Des Moines. Mr. Alfred Grayson returned to Knoxville, Ill., after spending six months in Albia with his grandchildren, Mrs. Estes, Mrs. Bennings and Mr. Roy Grayson. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Morris are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl at their home. Mrs. Winn. Bennings entertained at 12 o'clock dinner on Monday at a three-course lunch in honor of Mrs. E. Jeffers of Des Moines. Miss Viola Young, Mrs. Charlie Young and Mrs. Mabel Robinson of Hocking were in town the past week. Emancipation day January 1, 1915 was obeyed at the A. M. E. church. Lawyer Miller and Lawyer James Spears were the speakers. Mrs. Robinson read a paper. Singing by the choir and Mr. Pearl Thomas. Supper was served by the ladies of the A. M. E. church. Mrs. G. A. Davis and Mrs. Bessie Grayson entertained together a company of ten at a 6 o'clock New Year dinner on Saturday afternoon. Miss. Mildred Lewis, who has been quite ill, is much improved at this writing. Mr. Williams has been appointed turnkey at the jail. Mr. H. Bowman is still quite ill. A very unique postal card with holiday greetings has been received in this city from Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson of Des Moines, Iowa. Prof. E. W. Bayles of Savannah was in the city a few days this week soliciting subscriptions for The Home Protective Record. He is also the principal of the schools in that city. Mrs. George Walker spent most of the holidays visiting relatives and friends in Dalton and Kansas City and returned home this week. Prof. A. T. Walker one of the instructors at the Bartlett Industrial school at Dalton, spent his vacation in this city with his family. E. W. Thompson, our only druggist, has distributed some very pretty calendars. The picture on them is called "The Pardon," from the original painting by H. M. Brett, and being such a suggestive subject and containing also the picture of Abraham Lincoln. The calendars will be retained for several years. Mr. M. W. Webster attended the meeting of the Inter-State Literary association last week, which met at Lawrence, Kas. The second annual program under the auspices of the Negro Business League (Inc.) in commemorating emancipation proclamation was held at the Frances Street Baptist church last Friday night. About 400 people were present to hear the program rendered, which was very good, especially the vocal solo by Mr. James Hill and the original poem by Mr. R. C. Jamison. Mr. I. F. Ramsey, the president of the League, presided. Next year they expect to secure some very prominent person to deliver the principal address. The following students, after spend- DAVIDSON'S ROCKS LABORATORY FURNITURE STORE 412-414-416-418 WALNUT-ST. ANY STOVE WANTED SOLD Pearless Cook Stove, Like cut on right, mounted on high leg base, oven top and all side walls asbestos lined throughout; has full size 18-inch oven, extra large fire box with duplex grate, and large roomy pouch feed door; all plain nickle trimmed. A splendid value, special. ... 22.50 Steve Accessories of All Kinds. Pearless Quk Heater, in 17-inch Size, with Extra Heavy Reinforced steel bowl, shaking ring and draw center grate, steel drum is corrugated and reinforced, has loose nickle plain foot rails, double nickle screw drafts in ash pan door and extra large ash pan. An unusual value at 13.50 Pearlans All cast cook stove in all plain black luster finish, with No. 8 standard top. 16 incr oven; duplex grate; can burn either wood or coal. 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New Year's day Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, entertained eighteen of their old friends and friends to a delicious free breakfast turkey dinner. Mrs. Robinson in one of Bedford's best cooks. The out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson, daughter, Miss Mabel, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson of Gravity and Miss Gertrude Lucas of Buxton, Iowa. Bedford will have a big debate soon. Excellent For Stomach Trouble. "Chambersian's Tablets are just for stomach trouble," writes Mrs. G. C. Bunn, Arnold, Pa. "I was bothered with this complaint for some time and frequently had billious attacks. Chambersian's Tablets afforded me great relief from the first, and since taking me bottle of them I feel like a different person." For sale by all dealers. CLARINBA, IOWA. Mrs. Maude Jones returned from Kirkvillah, and Ottumwa, and reports her sister, Mrs. E. Johnson, very much improved. Mrs. Mattie Renfru, Mrs. Lottie Williams, Miss Anni Baker and Miss Pearl Mash, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cooke and Joe Griggs attended the ball at Creston New Year's day. Mrs. E. T. Lane entertained the Sunshine class to a party at her residence and on enjoyable time was had by the youngsters. Mrs. Jane Montgomery is visiting Mrs. Jane Montgomery is visiting her sister in Omaha. The following trustees were elected at the A. M. E. church: Mr. Howard Muss, Lewis Montgomery, George Montgomery, Noah Pemberton and John L. Morgan. A winter picnic was given New Year's night by the Study club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Farriers. Too much cannot be said about the pleasing manner of the entertaining. Mr. Rochelle Johnson of Gravity visited a week with Mr. Leonard Nowling. The O. H. S. Rose of Sharon, No. 18, took and held the annual election of officers. The following were elected and installed: Mrs. L. Lane, W. W. Mrs. L. Hendley, A. M.; Mrs. G. Cromwell, monkey; Mrs. L. Jones, treasurer; Mrs. M. Cook, Adah; Mrs. E. Wimson, Ruth; Mrs. E. Johnson, Ruther; Miss Frances Johnson, Marsha; Mrs. E. Black, Electa; Mrs. S. Couch, A. Coad, Miss Mabel Johnson, Ouch; Mrs. J. Montgomery, warder; Mr. Keith Lane sentinel. Mr. Wm. Headley gave an entertainment Saturday night at Taberum hall for the benefit of the Baptist church. Mr. R. E. Wilkerson received a tribute that her brother, Mr. Thomas Fields, had passed away at his home. Mr. T. G. Jones, Sr., is visiting her sons, Mr. T. G. Jones, Jr., of Oak, and Mr. O. Jones of Omaha this week. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas (nee Lida Lange) lost an infant child at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton. Mr. Robert Banks and family left for Cedar Rapids, where he has employment. Miss Dorothy Mae Palmer of Mary- Poorless Cook Stoye, Like cut on right, mounted on high leg base, oven top and all side walls abestos lined throughout; has full size 18 inch oven, extra large fire box with duplex grate, and large roomy pouch feed door; all plain nickle trimmed. Aplendid value, special. 22.50 ST. JOSEPH. MO. ```markdown ``` IOWA STATE BISTANDER Santa Claus visited Bethel A. M. E. church December 24th. A good pro- gram was rendered. Mrs. Donnegan lead the Christian Endevour on December 27. Topic, "Work." All of the "left-overs" were royally entertained at New Year's dinner and after dinner dancing at the home of Mrs. Donnegan January 1. Miss Mabel Morgan delighted a company of four at cards and a dainty luncheon December 30. Mrs. Watkins, matron of the Kappa HAVE YOU WE are tured Also Wave We are combing an crimp. Wizs. P stock or to Stra Send two-cent stamp for Price List. The Old Reliable Mme. 486 8th Avenue 11-18-2-18 Betwe Colored First Roller of the Monday January Namur's R 11th and --- Colored Folks First Roller Skating Party of the Season Monday Evening January 11th, 1915 Namur's Roller Rink 11th and Walnut For all Lodge an A Negr The Love GEO, W. 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Big business, properly conducted and regulated, means better service to the public at less cost. ing their vacation in this city with their relatives and friends, have returned to resume their studies: The Messra. Raymond Robinson to the S. U. I., J. H. Simms, Jr., to K. U., Fred Carrieger and Miss E. Wheatley to Lincoln Institute. A marriage license was issued at Savannah last Thursday to Mr. Wilbur R. Ray of Avenue City and Fay E. Reynolds of this city. It is safe to assume that they have been united in the holy bonds of matrimony ere these notes are published. Mra. I. F. Ramsey, who has been in Nashville, Tenn., for about two months attending her mother during her last illness, returned home last Sunday. We extend condolence to her and sorry to hear of her mother's demise. Miss Mae Johnson, 317 So. Twenty-fifth street, entertained a few friends at dinner last Wednesday evening. Dr. J. E. Spingarn of New York City will deliver an address in this city Tuesday evening, January 19. Mr. J. Beard left Monday afternoon for Kansas City, Mo. He may decide to remain in that city. Prof. Jackson, musical instructor at Western university, assisted by some of his advanced students, gave a concert at the Ebenezer A. M. E. church last night. Mr. W. J. Irving of Horton, Kans., a railway mail clerk was in our city last Monday. He now has charge of the mail car between Horton and Fairbairn, Neb. Cough Medicine For Children Cough medicine For Children. Never give a child a cough medicine that contains opium in any form. When opium is given other and more serious diseases may follow. Long experience has demonstrated that there is no better or safer medicine for coughs, colds and croup in children than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is equally valuable for adults. Try it. It contains no opium or other harmful drug. For sale by all dealers. IOWA CITY NEWS. The students are returning, reporting very good times spent during the holidays. 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All the preparing for the semester examinations, which begin the latter part of the month and determine whether some of us are needed here longer. DAVENPORT NOTES. The teachers of the Bible school of the Third Baptist church presented Banners Furniture Books the superintendent Mrs. Huff, with a hand painted plate as an Xmas gift in appreciation for services rendered Rev. Nicholson and wife were presented with a purse as a token of their efficient services and unstring interest in the building up of the Third Baptist church, of which he is pastor. Rev. Oscar McClellan of Fort Madison, Iowa, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. E. H. Hostke, and husband of Davenport, and also Mrs. Nellie Parker, a daughter, and husband of Rock Island, Ill. Revival services are now in progress at the Third Baptist church. All are invited to attend. Mrs. Oss of Pontiac, Ill., is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Piper, of 723 Harrison street. Mrs. Thos. Mitchell is still on the sick list. 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Office 619 East Court Ave Des Moines 1 Jönjes Cafe The Old Reliable Place to get your meals PHONE RED 318-W. 3rd St 3027 Rooming House at 316-218 3rd St. wwa State Bystanders BYSTANDERS PUR. CO. I. BOSS MEMORI. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1816. the guest of Miss Ruth Perkins on Sunday. Sunbury. Wallace Bails of Huntsville was a Macon visitor Sunday. Misses Poca Honkes Smith and Ivory Bails of Columbia were the guests of relatives. Hagel Brummall of Moberty spent a few days in our city. Mrs. Ellen Ross spent a few days in our city. Misses Cynthia Maston, Lucille Evans and Icy Quinn spent Sunday in Clarence and report a pleasant time. Oval Carter, Walter Davis and William Douglas spent New Year's night in Mobery. Miss Lee Etta Owens made a flying trip to Macon. Miss Ruth Gleaves is visiting relatives in the city. Once more the death angel came into our city and took from our midst Aunt Nellie Houston. She died at her residence on Broadway street. She leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Several Moberty girls were visitors of Macon during the holidays. Miss Birtena Young is visiting her sister in Chillicothe, Mo. Misses Bessie and Hattie Young spent a few days in Moberly. We are very sorry to hear of the serious illness of Mrs. J. B. Harris of Quincy, Ill. Mrs. Willmont Coleman of St. Real was called to Macon by the death of her brother. MONMOUTH ILL. NOTES. Miss Ida Wallace, who is teaching in the public schools at Jerseyville, Ill., spent her Christmas vacation here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wallace. Rev. C. L. Scruggs will leave this week for Jacksonville, where he will take up his new duties as pastor of the Mt. Emory church of that city. Owing to Mrs. Scruggs' poor health she will remain here indisfinitely. She has been quite ill the past week. Rev. Scruggs has been here for the past eight years and has increased his congregation and erected a beautiful church building at the cost of $11,000 with all but $3,000 of the debt being paid. His members and many friends regret to see him leave, but all wish him success in the new field. Mrs. Mary Edwards of Burlington is spending the holidays with her daughter. Mrs. Jennie Saunders Those who are on the sick list are Mrs. Will Penny, Mies Julia Pitter, Messrs. Jim Whitfield and Hamilton Stockes. Mrs. Florence Barmun was taken to the hospital Sunday where she underwent an operation. The P. E. Society of the A. M. E. church will give a turkey dinner and supper at the church New Year's day and open house in the afternoon. Mrs. Stoll Williams and daughter, Mrs. Noema Watson want to Jacksonville where they will attend a family dinner. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Berdett entertained a few friends at dinner Sunday. James Hardin, steward at the Commercial club, was remembered by the club with a Christmas box containing $20 in silver and gifts for himself and wife. Wedding bells rang in Monmouth Xmas eve announcing the marriage of Everett E. Murphy of Monmouth to Miss Marie Hawkins of Galeaburge by Dr. Marie L. Scrugge at his home on East Eulidie avenue. The couple will make their home in this city, and we all extend to them our best wishes for a happy married life. Mr. Elmer Wallace spent Xmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wallace. He returned Monday to Chicago. Several parties came over from Burlington Christmas eve. Mr. Henry Grant entertained several friends with scrumptious New Year's dinner. Both the Sabbath Schools of the Calvary Baptist and the A. M. E. churches had their Xmas exercises on Christmas eve. The Baptist had a tree with their program and the A. M. E. had a Christmas ship. ENTERPRISE NEWS. The Progressive club will meet at the home of Mrs. William Battles this week. Mrs Frank Brown is still on the sick list. Rev. F. C. Bolden was in the Capital City on business Tuesday. Miss Nellie Jackson of Marshallown and sister, Miss Ella Jackson was visiting their sister Mrs George Allen. Mrs Joe Wellington is somewhat better at this writing. Mr. A. Robinson of Carney and friend attended the Odd Fellows installation Friday night. Mr. Geo. Terrell, district Grand Master of Colofox installed the officers of the Odd Fellows lodge. Mrs. Pendleton is still on the sick list. Mr. Wm. Lewis of Chicago is visiting his brother Mr. George Lewis. Pendleton. Last Sunday was a glorious day for church service, four new members were add-d to the church. Revival meetings start Sunday. Mrs. Frank Johnson and sister, Mrs. W. D. Miller visited their parents New Years day in the Capital City. Mr. Robert Brown was in Doe Moines on business last Saturday.