Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. Miss Grace Harris was in the city to attend the wedding of her cousin, Mr. Guy E. Morris. Mrs. J. L. Edwards will spend Sunday in Newton visiting the A. M. E. Sunday school. Mr. Geo. Garter of Ames, Iowa, was on over Sunday visitor with Miss Catherine Mease. Mrs. Julia Hudlin and Mrs. Rose Laour of Omaha, Neb., arrived in the city Tuesday, called by the illness of their father, Mr. L. P. Blagburn. Mrs. Rollin Weeds and daughter, Bertha, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, are visiting Mrs. Weeks' sister, Mrs. Mack Robinson, for several weeks. Mrs. Ambrose Morris of Buxton was in the city attending the wedding of her son, Guy E., to Miss Lalah Brooks. Mrs. Mack Robinson entertained Saturday, July 26th, in honor of her niece, Miss Bertha Weeks, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. The Maple Leaf club will give their second annual dance Monday evening at Greenwood park. Music by Moran's orchestra. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Jefferson of 1322 Day street entertained Wednesday at a 6 o'clock dinner the Rev. J. H. Garrison of Sioux City and Rev. E. G. Jackson. Miss Golda Hackley of Sioux City, Iowa, passed through Des Moines on her return home from the Sunday school convention at Waterloo, Iowa, where she went as a delegate. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Pemberton entertained at 6 o'clock dinner Tuesday evening Rev. J. H. Garrison and Miss Golda Hackley of Sioux City, Iowa, and Revs. Jackson and Lee of this city. Miss Edythe M. Jones, a member of the North high school class of 1918, left Wednesday morning for a vacation visit to her parental home in Buxton. Mrs. Black has returned from Kansas City and Liberty, Mo., where she visited her sisters, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Reynolds. She reports a lovely visit. The 20th H. H. O. A. Art and Craft club met at the residence of Mrs., Miles, Eleventh and Center street, Wednesday at 2 p. m. Adjourned to meet at Mrs. W. Walden's, 328 Fourth street, next Tuesday. WANTED - To correspond with a good sober Negro barber at once. Address E. Mason, 104 E. 5th St. Davenportla. The regular meeting of the Deborah Administrative Council will be held at the residence of Mrs. Etta Hollin the third Monday in July. All members are requested to be present. Signed, Sue M. Brown, president; Maude O. Thompson, secretary. As we go to press we are sorry to learn of the death of Mr. L. P. Blagburn, who has been ill at his home, 817 Twelfth street, for over a year. Obituary will be published in the next issue of The Bystander. Funeral will be held Saturday at 1 o'clock from the residence. Mr. John D. Drake a graduate of the law college of Howard university and a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the supreme court of the United States, was, upon the motion of Atty. S. Joe Brown admitted to the practice in this state by the supreme court last Monday morning. He will be associated with the firm of Woodson & Brown, with his headquarters at Buxton. FOR SALE Drug stock of the late B. F. Cooper store in Buxton for sale. Communicate with G O. Terrell, administrator, Colfax, Iowa. THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS. Mr. Bryden Yates, Kansas City, Mr. R. F. Graves, Lincoln, Neb. both on their way home from the owa State university; Mr. John D. Drake, Washington D. C., John F. Rick and wife, Geo. Barnley of Palmyra, Iowa. CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday, June 27th. 10:30—Subject, "The Sixth Seal Opened." Please come on time. 12 m.-Sunday school. The delegates to the convention will make their report. 6:30 p. m.-B. Y. P. U. Reports from the convention. 8 p. m.-Sermon to the Young Women's club. Subject, "Same Mind and the Pure Mind." T. L. Griffith, pastor. ATHENIAN LITERARY PROGRAM 9:00 For Monday evening, June 25th: Invocation, Rev. M. W. Alexander. Quotations, Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Song, club. Peper, "The Need of Literary Training," Mrs. M. W. Alexander. Instrumental selection, Mrs. H. W. Hughes. Reading, "An Open Letter From June Crisis," Miss Lillian Neal. State Capitol Bldg Historical Koom Violin selection, Mr. L. J. Shelton. Reading from Dunbar, Miss Mary Jane Reeves. Instrumental solo, Miss Carrie Watson. NOTICE The members of Doriic lodge, No. 30, and North Star lodge, No. 2, A. F. & A. M., will celebrate the anniversary of the birth of St. John the Baptist with appropriate services at Maple St. Baptist church Sunday, June 27th, at 2 p. m. All master Masons in good standing are invited to meet at Doriic Masonic temple, East Seventeenth and Des Moines streets, at 1 p. m. and march in a body to the church. The public are cordially invited to attend this service. THE LYCEUM. At the meeting of the Des Moines Negro Lyeum at 1058 Fifth street Tuesday evening the officers elected at last week's meeting were installed, except that Prof. W. H. Warricks was elected and installed as chairman of the executive committee in the place of Mrs. S. Joe Brown, resigned, and Mr. Douglass Miller, Jr., was elected as reporter. Mrs. W. H. London of Buxton, Miss Valetta London, state university class of '16; Miss Mabel Morgan, state university class of '17, and Miss Anderson Johnson of Chicago were visitors who addressed the meeting and were elected to honorary membership. The meeting next week will be at the residence of Prof. Warricks, at which Miss Georgia Blagburn will lead the review of the June Crisis. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' GLEE CLUB Mrs. John Jackson on East Thirteenth street most beautifully entertained the High School girls' club last Sunday, June 20th, complimentary to her niece, Miss Anderson Johnson, of Chicago, Ill. Miss Lillian Colson, a teacher in Miss Burroughs' school, Lincoln Heights, Washington, was present and gave the club a very interesting talk. TABORIANS THANKSGIVING DAY. June, Sunday, June 20th. 1 p. m. all s knights and daughters, maids and pages of honor assembled at their hall. Eighth and Mulberry streets, and regaled formed the marched down the hall to the street, where the line of march was formed. The parade was headed by City Mounted Police Wilkinson and McClain, followed by Capital City band on foot. Next in line was mounted marshal of the day, Sir J. R. Roberts, Iowa D. drill master. Following was Sir Dr. A. J. Booker with his auto and banner bearer. Following was officers and members of King David Temple, No. 443, East Des Moines, Temple No. 454, born from Roman tent, No. 6, and Israel tent No. 245. Two large auto truck floats with the girls and queen mother from Roman tent, No. 6, and Israel tent No. 245. Next in line was thirteen seven passengers and members of Arctic Tabernacle, No. 472, and Mt. Moriah Tabernacle, No. 567. They proceeded to Corinthian Baptist Church, Fifteenth and Linden streets. Many gathered on the down town streets to witness the parade, which was considered the best ever. At the church, which was completely packed, a program was rendered. Music by Capital City band and church choir. An excellent paper was read by D. Dt. Maule M. Wilkinson, H. P. of Mt. Moriah Tabernacle, Subject, "The Founder of the Order, Father Moses Dickson." A sacred solo, "Just For Today," was sung in a pleasing manner by D. Bessie Black. Remarks by D. Mattie Brooks, H. P. of Arctic Taebrancule, also I. V. G. H. P. and D. P. of Iowa. Sermon by Rev. Samuel Bates was delivered in a splendid manner, referring to the religious side of the order and the object of our annual thanksgiving service. BROOKS-MORRIS WEDDING BROOKS-MURRIS WEDDING. One of the most interesting social events of the season was the marriage Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock of Miss Lahal Brooks of this city and Mr. Guy E. Morris of Buxton. The bride is the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brooks of 1623 Searle street, well known citizens of this city, and the groom a well known and highly respected young man of Buxton, Iowa. To the strains of the wedding march, played by the groom's cousin, Miss Grace Harris, a teacher in the public schools of Buxton, the couple took their places under an arch of smilax and roses. Rev. E. G. Jackson performed a very impressive ring ceremony. Little Thelma De Van, niece of the bride, acted as ring bearer, with little Mary Davis as flower girl. The bride was beautifully gowned in white taffeta silk, trimmed in lace, with a white tulle brell's veil caught up with a bunch of lilies of the valley. After the wedding about seventy-five guests were served to a delightful two-course luncheon. The house was beautifully decorated through-out with cut flowers, ferns and palms. The happy couple were the recipients of many beautiful and useful presents. They left for their future home in Buxton, Iowa, at 6:25 Wednesday evening. Those who assisted in serving the guests were the Misses Lahal Brooks, Bessie and Ella Mason, Misses Harris and Beatrice Hogsette. 1930 Where everything is guaranteed to give satisfaction--where you need not depend entirely on your own judgment. In this store--you know that you get your moneys worth, the style, quality and price is always right. Splendid values in Palm Beach suits, outing trousers, silk shirts, athletic union suits, straw and Panama hats. "Get Ready for the Fourth" Frankel's 513-515-517 WALNUT ST. IOWA BOY GRADUATED AT WIL- BERFORCE. We present to our readers a cut of Rev. R. H. Hackley, a member of the Chicago conference from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who graduated from Payne Theological Seminary of Wilberforce WM. PICKENS, A. B., A. M., L. D. Professor William Pickens was Lorn in South Carolina in 1881, reared in Arkansas, finishing the high school at Little Rock, Ark., in 1899; entered Talladega college in Alabama and graduated in 1902 an A. B. He then entered Yale university and graduated in 1904 an A. B., the highest rank of the class, with Phi Beta Kappa Key, and won the Henry James Ten Eyck prize for oratory in 1903 against thirty-seven other white competitors. In 1913 he traveled in Europe and wrote a serial on the trip in 1912. He wrote a book, entitled "The Heir of Slaves," published by the Pilgrim Press, the Congregational publishing society. He will give one lecture at Des Moines on Thursday evening at Union Congregational church and every race loving person should be present and all who desire to hear the best and highest educated Negro in America. He recently spoke at the annual meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. in New York at the awarding of the Springmard medal. IOWA-NEBRASKA BAPTIST SUN DAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. The Sunday school convention, B. Y. P. U. convention and Ministers' and Deacon's Union of Iowa and Nebraska Baptists met last week at the Second Baptist church, Ottumwa. Eighty-five delegates attended. Better meetings were never held. Several instruction papers, addresses, discussions and sermons gave enthusiasm, inspiration and practical service to the meetings. The institute lectures by Prof. J. A. Lapham gave the delegates opportunity to learn the modern and most successful methods of Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. work. We look for wonderful advances as the result of these lectures. The officers elected were: President, Rev. F. B. Woodard, Buxton; first vice president, Mr. H. L. Anderson, Omaha; second vice president, Mrs. Bertha Iong, Des Moines; recording secretary, Miss Bette Burgeley, Hitem; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. L. Barnett, Ottumwa; treasurer, Mrs. H. P. Smith. M. Pleasant Board Frankel's Say college, at Zenia, Ohio, June 1, with the degree of B. D. Young Mr. Hackley has accepted work temporarily in the Indiana conference until conference, at which time he will return to the conference. We congratulate Rev. Hackley. He pastored at Galesburg, Ill., at one time. members, Mrs. Jas. Bowles, Mrs. S. Bates, Rev. F. K. Nicholson. Two banners were awarded, one to the school bringing in the most money; the other to the one bringing the largest sum raised from a dime given to the little schools last year. The largest sum of money, $60, was sent by the Corinthian school of Des Moines. The largest sum raised from the dimes was $18.69, brought in from Bedford, the smallest school in the state. The convention turned over to the association board $188.47 for missionary work, provided for representation in the Western convention and for all running expenses and has a balance of about $40. The next session of the convention will be held with the Corinthian Sunday school of Des Moines. A. M. E. DISTRICT CONFERENCE The Des Moines district conference of the A. M. E. church met at the Bess Chapel A. M. E. church at Waterloo on June 15 and 16, and held one of the best and grandest sessions ever held by any conference. Among the most important things was a resolution in which the district pledged its whole and undived support in the annual conference, which convenes in Chicago, to the presiding elder, S. B. Moore as a delegate to the general conference in 1916 at Philadelphia, Pa. The program, which was inspiring from start to finish, was as follows: Tuesday Morning. Devotional services led by Rev. E. G. Jackson of Des Moines. Song, "Go Preach the Gospel." Invocation by Rev. R. C. Campbell of Yankton, S. D. Scripture reading, 27th Psalm, by Rev. H. C. Boyd of Washington. Ritual services, by Rev. J. H. Ferrebee of Buxton. Annual sermon by Rev. R. H. Cato of Cedar Rapids, Subject, "Constraining Love of Christ." Sacrament of Lord's supper. Spend Your Money for Clothes in a Safe Place Roll call and organization. Appointment of committees. Introduction. Adjournment. Tuesday Afternoon. Song, "Oh For a heart," led by Rev. H. C. Boyd of Washington. Prayer by Rev. Cato of Codar Rapids. Song, "Work, For the Night Is Coming." Scripture reading, Eph. 4, by H. C. Boyd. Testimonial services. Talk on "What Should Be the Attitude of the Church on Social Amusements," by Rev. J. H. Ferribeo of Buxton. Discussion of subject. Discussion, "The Importance and Value of Church Records," by Rev. E. G. Jackson, Des Moines. Discussion, "What Is the Best Method of Lifting Collections for Church Finances," by Rev. J. H. Garrison, Sioux City. Adjournment. Tuesday Evening. Devotional services, led by Rev. B. F. Hubbard of Muscatine and Rev. R. C. Campbell of Yankton, S. D. Scripture reading, St. John, 4:7-21, by Presiding Elder S. B. Moore. Song, "Somebody Knows." Sermon. Subject, "The Actions of Brotherly Love," by Rev. H. C. Boyd, Washington. Song, "Beulahland." Prayer, Rev. Ford, Cedar Rapids. Song, "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder." Revival, Rev. H. C. Boyd. Prayer by Rev. N. R. Morgan, Clarinda. Reading of journal. Roll call. Introduction. Reading of paper on Christian Endeavor. Adjournment. Wednesday Afternoon. Devotional services, led by H. Gould of Des Moines and H. C. Brooks of Muscatine. Roll call and report of charges. Adjournment. Wednesday Evening. Memorial song service. Prayer by E. G. Jackson. Reading report of memorial committee. Song, "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder." Song, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye." Report of committees. Prayer by Rev. J. H. Ferribee. Election of two delegates to the annual conference. Report of finance committees. Benediction. Committees were: Finance—Rev. J. H. Garrison, chairman; F. B. Nelson, Cedar Rapids, secretary; Rev. R. H. Cato, treasurer. Memorial committee: Rev. W. W. Williams, Rev. J. H. Ferribee, Rev. S. W. Stansbury. District secretary, Washington of Albia. District treasurer, Rev. R. H. Cato of Cedar Rapids. Reporters: For the Recorder, Rev. E. G. Jackson. For the city press, Rev. J. W. Bess. For the Bystander, C. H. Coleman. IOWA GRAND MASONIC LODGE The twenty-eighth annual communication of the M. W. U. G. lodge, A. F. & A. M. for Iowa and jurisdiction, will convene in regular session at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the guest of Mt. Olive lodge, No. 17, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 13th to 15th. On Monday noon July 12, a school of instruction will be held, under the direction of the grand custodian. In the evening exemplifying the third rank, at which all present masters and wardens as well as all Master Masons will be expected to be present. On Tuesday, July 13, at 10 o'clock the grand master will open the grand lodge. In the evening a reception will be given to the grand lodge by the local lodge and citizens of Cedar Rapids. 'Wednesday evening grand lodge of sorrow. Thursday evening a grand reception. Full program next week. WESTERN BAPTIST CONVEN- TION. The Western Baptist convention will meet with the Washington Avenue Baptist church, Springfield, Mo., Tuesday to Sunday, July 13th to 18th, 1915. The Women's Auxiliary will be in session the first two days and the convention the remainder of the time. Excellent programs have been arranged. The local committee are preparing to entertain a large delegation. Baptist churches, associations and conventions are urged to represent. T. L. Griffith, Chm. Executive Board. J. Goins, Cor. Seretary. MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA Mrs. Joseph Roman and Mrs. Thomas as Robison agent part of last week in Ottumwa as delegates to the Sunday school convention. At 8 o'clock Monday evening, June 21st, Mr. Luther Lowry and Miss Wilda Warn were married at the home of the bride's parents. The bride was handsomely gowned in white chairmeuse and carried a bouquet of white lilies. Her only attendant, the matron of honor, Mrs. Harold Wolder, wore a pink chairmeuse. Mr. Harold Wolder acted as best man. Rev. Wm. Lowry, the bridegroom's brother, performed the ceremony. Only the bride's family and near relatives were invited. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry left at two minutes of 12 for Cedar Rapids, where they will make their future home. Geo. E. Jackson celebrated his 29th birthday last Thursday. All who attended the dance last Friday evening report a good time. Mrs. I. C. Brown and her daughter, Ruth, are visiting friends in Toledo. Miss Vivian Wickerson is in our city visiting her grandmother. Miss Mary Redercik is home again, after a week's visit with her mother in Grinnell The Eureka lodge held their public installation on Tuesday evening. A large crwd attended. Light refreshments were served. The officers installed were Mr. A. C. Wolder, W. M.; Mr. Geo. E. Jackson, Sr. W.; Mr. Carl Brown, Jr. W.; Mr. T. Lowery, tyler; Mr. E. M. Jackson, chaplain; Mr. Wm. Bannon, Sr. deacon; Mr. C. C. Gilmore, Sr. steward; Mr. T. Robison, Jr. steward; Mr. Geo. Suter, secretary; Mr. Albert Walker, treasurer; Mr. O. Spots, Jr. deacon. Mrs. Spotts of Oskaloosa and her daughter, Mrs. O. N. Kutranunso, of St. Louis, Moe, were in our city visiting her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. O. Spotte. Mr. D. Miller of Mason City was in this city visiting Mr. Lyle Suter. KECKUK, IOWA, NEWS. At the home of her son, Augustus Fox, occurred the death of Mrs. Luvenia Fox, after a short illness. She is survived by one son and several grandchildren. The funeral was held Friday afternoon from the A. M. E. church. Mr. Ralph Teebau has returned home from Washington where he has been attending Howard university for the past year, and will resume his duties as custodian of the Country club for the summer months. George O. Terrell, grand master of Odd Fellcws, visited in Keukok on Monday. Friends here regret to know that Mr. Thomas Rush and daughter, Nora, expect to move to Des Moines to make that their future home. We congratulate our baseball team for winning the honors from Quincy on Sunday afternoon. Miss Verna Beaman left last Tuesday for Galesburg, Ill., to attend the Sunday school convention. She will also visit relatives in Torino, Ill., Fort Madison and Des Moines, Iowa, before returning home. At one of the local hospitals occurred the death of Mrs.贝丽 Reeves. She is survived by her parents, husband and one son and two daughters. The Keokuk colored alumni held their banquet Thursday evening, June 17th, at Masonic hall at 8:30. The grand march was led by the president of the alumni and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Draine. After that the guests were seated to a delightful spread. The program consisted of after dinner speeches, which were given by Miss Artisha E. Fields, Dr. S. Flourney, Rev. D. E. Butler and Mrs. W. W. Gross. Several selections from the alumni orchestra, consisting of Arthur Robbins, violin; McKinley Brooks, cornet; F. S. Johns, on drums, and Ruth Bland, piano. Misses Hawkins and Gross entertained the club with a paper and speaking. A violin solo was rendered by Arthur Robbins, with Miss Dora Ware as accompanist on piano. The honor guests besides Miss Emile Elizabeth Gross and Miss Iona Hawkins, were Mr. and Mrs. Horace Craig, Mrs. M. S. Clark, Mrs. W. H. Thompson, Mrs. J. R. Clark of Ottumba, Iowa, and Miss Olga Haley of Battle Creek, Michigan. Miss Ioria Hawkins entertained a few friends at a matinee dance Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Tucker of Carthage, ill, visited in Keokuk last week. Mr. Orange Fields is ill at his home, 1125 Fulton street. Greatly Benefited by Chamberlain's Liniment. "I have used Chamberlain's Liniment for sprains, bruises and rheumatic pains, and the great benefit I have received justifies my recommending it in the highest terms," writes Mrs. Florence Slife, Wabash, Ind. If you are troubled with rheumatic pains you will certainly be pleased with the prompt relief which Chamberlain's Liniment affords. Obtainable everywhere. MONMOUTH, ILL. Mrs. Eliza Smith went to Godfrey, Ill., on business Thursday morning. Mr. John Collins returned to his home in Chicago, after a week's visit with his mother and sister. A strawberry and ice cream social was held last Friday evening at the A. M. E. church. Everyone enjoyed themselves and a neat sum realized. Mr. McDaniels of Chicago was in town last week in the interest of his industrial school in Chicago. Mrs. Eliza Ashby of Burlington was in the city last week owing to the illness of Mrs. Jim Johnson. A nice musical program was rendered by the P. L. D. Literary club at the Calvary Baptist church Tuesday evening. Rev. I. N. Daniels, P. S., was in town the first of the week on his way to the Sabbath school convention, which convenes at Galesburg on Wednesday and Thursday. Bert Searcy left Saturday for Ottumwa for a visit with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Searcy. Price Five Cents Mr. G. M. Harris of Mt. Pleasant was in town the latter part of the week. While here he did some special work for some of the business houses. Misses Lucile Grant, Edythe Saunders, Mary Brown and Rev. P. H. Mewis went to Galesgur on an early car Wednesday morning to be there in time for the opening of the convention. The two former were delegates from here Sunday afternoon the Masonic lodge and the Eastern Stars will have their annual sermon at the Calvary Baptist church. Rev James L. Wharton of Rock Island will deliver the sermon. Mr. Charles Groff of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is here visiting relatives and friends. DUBUQUE, IOWA, NEWS DUBUCK On June 14 Mrs. Ruth Bright, worthy grand matron of the O. S., assisted by Mrs. J. E. Milligan, assistant matron, organized matron known as Ruth chapter O. E. S. and installed the following officers: W. M. Mrs. Ivy Wells, A. M. Mrs. Mattie Martin; patron, Mr. Henry Martin; treasurer, Mr. John Wells; secretary, Mr. Harry Rose; conductress, Miss La Verne Martin; assistant conductress, Mrs. Henrietta Pelky; warder, Mr. C. C. McGregor; sentinel, Mr. Samuel Henderson; Adah, Mrs. Pearl Martin; Ruth Mrs. Margrate Henderson; Esther, Mrs. Mary Rose; Martha, Mr. A. L. McGregor (pro tem); Electa, Mrs. Maybelle Rose; chaplain, Mr Henry Rose, On June 23 Dubuque lodge, No. 29, A. F. & A. M., held their installation of officers, at which time the following, who had been duly elected and appointed, were installed: W. M. Harry W. Rose; S. W. Henry C. Rose; J. W., Samuel Henderson; treasurer, John C. Wells; secretary, C. McGregor D. S. Henry Martin; J. D. A. McGregor; S. S. William Madison; J. S. William King; chaplain, Rev. B. F. Hubbard; tyler, Edward Martin. Bilious Attacks. When you have a bilious attack your liver fails to perform its functions. You become constipated. The food you eat ferments in your stomach instead of digesting. This inflames the stomach and causes nausea, vomiting and a terrible headache. Take Chamberlain's Tablets. They will tone up your liver, clean out your stomach and you will soon be as well as ever. They only cost a quarter. Obtainable everywhere. DAVENPORT ITEMS The playground is open for the reception of the children and the matron in charge will be glad to see them all there. Mrs. Ollie Hall and Mrs. Chas. House have been visiting their brother, Oscar South, 1112 Ripley street, they left for their homes in Bowling Green, Mo., June 20th. They were entertained by Mrs. Garfield Martin and Mrs. Fred Davis. Mrs. John E. Bradford has recovered from an attack of tonsilitis. Clotilde Carter and brother, Jewell, of Rock Island are spending their summer vacation at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Harris, 617 Eastern avenue. The matron and members of Adah chapter, No. 10, of Rock Island were in attendance at their annual sermon last Sunday. They report an excellent service. Miss Hazel Busey is in Galesburg, Ill., this week attending the Sunday school convention as delegate from the Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school. Last Sunday was Stewardess Day at Bethel church and they had a splendid program as usual, after which Mrs. K. L. Lamont, evangelist, made some stirring remarks. Rev. and Mrs. F. K. Nickerson are the proud parents of twin boys. Webster Busey is in Minneapolis, Minn., visiting in the Rev. T. B. Stovall family. Mr. Allen Bean, a student at Wilberforce, Ohio, university is home to spend the vacation. Hiram lodge, No. 19, A. F. & A. M., held their annual election of officer, with the following result: John E. Bradford, W. M.; Chas. Shepar', S. W.; Maiey Marshall, J. W.; Bert Samuels, secretary; Howard Green, treasurer. After the election the brethren enjoyed a smoker and social good time. Mrs. Ella Baker of Chicago, who has been in the city several weeks taking care of her mother, returned home Tuesday, accompanied by her mother, who will remain indefinitely. The agent will call on all delinquent subscribers at an early date. Please be prepared to pay. Miss Bertha Bradley of Moline was a guest of Miss Della Watkins one day last week. Richard B. Harrison, reader, will give a recital at Bethel A. M. E. church May 30th, under the auspices of the Tribe of Asher. E. Green, captain. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This is a remedy that every family should be provided with, and especially during the summer months. Think of the pain and suffering that must be endured when medicine must be sent for or before relief can be obtained. This remedy is thoroughly reliable. Ask anyone who has used it. Obtainable everywhere. Don't forget the Pickens lecture at Union Congregational church. AFRO-AMERIGAN. CULLINGS Giles B. Jacksou, among the wealth fest Negroes’ to. Richmond, Va, and Xnown throughout the state, wns born & slave fm Goochland ecunty about sixty-five years ago, He has been Ghosen president of the exposition Which fs to bo held in that city In July in commemoration of the fiftieth ‘anniversary of the emancipation snd of the achievements of the Negroes i this country. Ho has secured a fed: feral appropriation of $56,000, an ap: propriation from the Now York legit ature of $7,500, © Counciimanic ap ropriation trom the clty of Richmond ‘of $5,000 and several lesser donations. Jackson {a the leading Negro law: yer in Virginia, and at one time was rominently identifed with the po Utieal Ife of President McKinley, who commissioned him as a colonel to take part in the inaugural parade in 1001, “In 1905 Jackson was placed tn ‘comimand of the third civle division 4a the Roosevelt inaugural parade at Washington, and Mr. Roosevelt, when he visited Richmond, in 1906, called fat Jackson's office, and trom in front of It addressed a crowd of several Mhousand Negroes, who cheered him Josey, Jackson's taw offices are decorated with bronze busts of Presidents Me- Kinloy and Roosevelt, a large picture of Gen. U. 8, Grant and staff, and portrait of Abrabam Lincoln, besides pictures of all the other presidents from Washington down. Jackson has a vivid recollection of General Grant, whom he saw three times, twice as a prisoner of war. During the war Jackson followed his master, Col. Charles W. Dickinson of Fitz Lee's cavalry, as body servant. When he was captured by the Union troops in Caroline county he asked to be taken before General Grant. ‘There he begged to be allowed to return through the lines to bis master, whom, he sald, he had left wounded upon the battlefield, General Grant granted him permission and gave him a pass. Jackson says he asked to be al- jowed to leave the Fedoral lines at night 0 that he could guide himself on his journey by the stars. ‘This was allowed. General Grant cautioned him, however, that he might be shot by picket, and told him if he was baited to stop at once and give the password, which was, “Friend of the Union.” He started out tn the darkness and soon experienced some nervousness, whereupon he recalled the advice of the Union commander. At once he began repeating the password at ev- ery_step, and finally bogan shouting *Fviend of the Union” s0 loudly that he was surrounded by elght or ten patrols, who demanded to know it he belleved he was the only friend the Union possessed. Jackson showed bis Pass and was allowed to proceed. Jackson again fell into the hands of the Federals at City. Point, Va., not far from Petersburg. Here he told his captors that he knew Géneral Grant, who had once allowed him to return to the Confederate lines, and he wished to be taken before him again. He showed his pass, whereupon they took him to Grant's headquarters, about five miles away, and to bis delight the general recognized him. “Well, my boy.” sald General Grant, “we seem to have you again. - Do you still want to go back to your master, or have we caught him sito?” Jackson replied that his master was stil living and not yet captured. He begred to be allowed to return to “bls people,” and Grant consented. In New York recently Booker Wash- ington gave this sound suggestion to his people: ~ *Bettle down and get identified with some one place. ‘Then build up there Teputations for sobriety and Industry. If you can't find the right place in the ity, go to # small town near by, or Set back to the soil. At any rate, set- de down and get hold of some proper ty and start-a bank account. You will soon find that your savings are grow- ing and that you are growing faster and bigger than the bank account.” We have evidence from a number of sources that Negroes in the rural Bouth are more careful about educat log thelr children than white neigh- bors. Child labor is not so serious a problem among the Negroes as among the whites. Tt would not bo at all sur prisiog !f thus indirectly the solution ‘of the racial problem be obtained. Ed- eated, well-to-do Negroes will produce Artists and profesalonal people. Such & group Js moro powerful than laws ‘Their wishes are the laws of the fu- ture.—Chicago Herald. ‘The aniline dye trade, it is interest- ing to recall, was made possible by fan’Englishman's discovery. The Ger- ‘mans came to imonopolire the trade, aed. now an attempt 1s) being made to Dufld up an aniline dye industry fu England. Professor Perkins first produéed colors from coal tar. In a motion picture theater in a Maryland town patrons are admitted . at a lower price to s room behind the sereen, where they can see the pic “tures as well, although the reading matter {s reversed. ; Water: will boll without fire. After five honre of constant and rapid stir. Ying with a paddle, boiling water was ogo ‘at Johns Hopkins univer. eg jhe “DaitedBtates geological su : yor cafried on aa tnyestign- es aes fees or ot Ce eee are ows i It was after the war, when Rich: mond was under a military govern ment and Grant was in the White House, that a great dispute broke out fat Richmend over the boundary lines of the wards, The two factions, one of which was represented by Jackson, appealed to the military governor, who sided against Jackson and his follow. ers, But Jackson remembered Gen eral Grant and appealed to him, fand representatives of each side ap peared before the president. ‘After listening to the wrangle for some moments the president sald to them that he knew only one of thelr number, and knew him to be honest, because he had twice held him a pris oner of war and each time he had begged to be sent back to his master. ‘Then asking Jackson to present to him the map of the plan which he advocated, President Grant took from his pocket a lead pencil and wrote across the ward pronosed by Jackson the two words, “Jacksuz's Ward.” ‘And “Jackson's Ward" it remains to this day. E, L, Blackshear, president of the Prairfe View (Tex.) State Normal and Industrial college for Negroes, an- swered those critics of education for the Negro who say that education of the black man only makes him have less regard for law and order! In opening the commencement exercises proper Profestor Blackshear gave & short history of the institution. “Bome white people express the be et that education of the Negro makes him less honest and less upright,” sald Professor Blackshear. “This institu- tlon was established as an agricultural college tn 1878, and the next year was made a normal institution. In her bis- tory she has graduated 1,111 students and has given certificates to teach to more than twice that number. Fig- ures show that not one of our gradu- ates has committed a capital offense against the peace and dignity of the state; less than 1 per cent of our graduates have committed the least misdemeanor, and not one of them has committed an act of violence agsinst the white people of Texas. “It 1g another particularly encour aging fact that since this school’s establishment there has never beén the slightest tinge of friction or hard feeling between the white people of this county and’ community and the students, faculty and officers of the Prairie View institute, In view of these statements, which are indisput- able facts, 1 do not think thet eny ‘one can ‘consistently say that the proper kind of education does any: thing except encourage the Negro In hig attempt to live a better and more useful life.” ‘Commencement exercises at Prairie View came to an end with the pres entation of diplomas to the graduates dy Judge John I. Gulon, president of the board of directors of the Agricul tural and Mechanical college, and the Prairie View normal! The presence of a large number of white people at the commencement exercises at Prat rie View during the entire week has been the source of much pleasure tc the members of the board of directors. Leading cftizens of Hempstead, Wal ler and counties surrounding the Prairle View normal are enthusiast in thelr praise of the institution and the work It 1s accomplishing —Houstor Post. In the Falkland islands there are five times as many men as women. Professor Atlong of Lyons, France, proved by experiment that human per- spiration 1s an irritant because It ia actually poisonous, It actually burns away the epidermis of sensitive skint ‘and leaves them almost raw. It {s im- Portant that perspiration be not checked; it 1s equally Important in hot weather to change one’s under clothing every day. ‘The Texas agricultural statfon bas fesued a pampblet, in view of the great number of houses which have Deen recently carried away in the floods of the rivers of that state, con- taining valuable suggestions for an- choring houses exposed to this danger. ‘The first European nation to adopt the metric system of weights and ‘measures was France. This was in 1790, and was followed by Holland in 1816, by Belgium in 1820 and by Swe- den in 1889, In every 100 music devotees only fone Is bald headed, while in every other profession the percentage ts 11. Princess Mary of England, only a child of seventeen, has been developed into a keen, practical, as well as sym- pathetic woman of affairs, She spends almont all her tlme every day in di- recting and taking part in rellet work for the wounded soldiers of her coun- try. and the allies. Mistletoe thrives on the western coasts of Amerfta to'an extent not approached Jn the East. In many places this parasite growth is respon- Able, directly or indlrecty, for a con siderable Joss of timber. fe In Java Dutch government engin- eers have built a road bridge more than 100 feet Jong and with « central span of more than 60 feet entirely ot bamboo. . More fires occur in London on Sum day than any other day of tho week, and August: and: December are the [thd spmaiiption. of fuel ol te aa ash 2 hy spt E 4 ir 9 = So i i fy. Pte te ; 3 mele dp Sm yO Beers Le i is ea eS) A Lee yO | all ee ate Pi ibe ele cies . LR ey y NR Av aaa Ad \ ee NN RS ere nhial Ge ene | Nei ee Wake Ve a / |) meme | Reef LO I ff) Ne eos Mc (a A ye ees, fe Prana) kN Nga 2 nn) je of ential Cg ee Re ere Olan eee et Pe Sy Garde’ tents In tho garden of the Hellopols Palace hotel in Egypt. Over the malo entrance of the hotel te Unton Jack and the fed Grove ag, aa the bullding 1a sed as the Australian general hospital serena ene EO HBO nn eater ont eect ECR pa soa Dab OE tary training. ‘Teach young men aod | Germans only wx felds away. toys to be soldiers “ie dug a eort of trench aon th where we stayedall night, Next morn-| fence, to hide in The farmer gave ¥ Pnere We Rtas od all RIS Nar ee ee oe. ine we yore (0 British Soldiers, Separated From Command, Have Exciting Time. . Play Hide and Seek With Germans for Nine Months, Cross Frontier Behind Enemy's Lines and Escape into Holland. Rotterdem.—There have just crose- ed the Belgian frontier behind Ger- man lines and come into Holland, six British soldiers. ‘These men were at Mons, in the tragic days of August, and were cut off from their regiment fn the great retreat. They crept through the encircling Germans, and, for nine months, have been fugitives In France and Belgium, living in flelds and dugouts. They have passed through experiences probably _with- out parallel, playing, through all these nine months, a game of hide and seek, to have lost’ which would have meant summary execution. James Carrighan told me the history of the adventures: “It was on August 26 that the Ger bans got round us properly. Our Uttle lot of odd men were collected, ‘nd went {nto one trench. ‘The Ger mans are surrounding us,’ said the captain. Then we heard the call to ‘Cease fire.’ ‘Don't mind that, men, safd the captain. ‘A German fs sound. Ing It “Se we kept plugging away. Three times the Germans sounded the call ‘Cease fre. Then the captain stood ‘up to send four men out to the flank. He got a butlet in the heart and was killed instantly. ——— then took command and gave the word to charge. We vent at them once, but had to Fetire. A second time we charged. —— got hit in the hip. “The third tlme, when we had an other go, it was pitch dark. We had to come back again, and 1 found there were only seven mien with me. We were absolutely surrounded. “But we managed to hide in a ditch GET READY! SAYS ACTOR 7a ae nanan Fortes Hobertsas, the English actor, recently sailed for Eng. land, after completing a farewell tour of the principal clties of this country. Just before sailing be said: “By last words to beloved America while T ‘ami on her soll are to be well prepared, ‘et ready. Establish compuleory mill: Pea BIG ot BY JOE MARTIN ‘Nineteen Riusive Base Trapped by One Little Kel—Seeond Try Gets ‘Seventeen More. ie - Smith, La—Joe Martin hak just preset Neal oe mets of bass ot (with It a strange tale, hea’ 36 tiga back mi 1 caught t at 1.5 banis with a a CE ee ae IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. OWA STATE BISTANDEE IN EGYPTIAN HOTEL 6 _————————— a _ Te ogee ey i ALi 2 Sig teal Ne vs "Bore iv a Nee, |) eee. ae ” | ee tary training. Teach young men and doys to be soldiers.” where we stayed all night. Next morn- ing we found ourselves in a little pad- dock, only two flelds away from the Germans, in the middle of thelr lines. 80 we lay low all day. “Then eight Frenchmen crawled up to us. We managed to keep out of sight until most of the Germans had gone on. We had most of the time in orchards, and lived on pears for ten days. We were then a party of twenty-one, eleven English and ten French, As we were desperate for want of food we decided to make for a vil- lage and fight to the last man it we met any Germans. Just before we left the orchards twelve Germans caught two of our French comrades and bayoneted them without giving them any chance to surrender if they had wanted to. “We got to a village, making our way along the railway line and through the forest. Here we all lodged in a bara, and a woman, the best soul we ever met, brought us milk three thmes a day. “The Germans, who were searching for us, were ina horseshoe shape round the village, and were closing in on us. Private Jamteson, a scout, and good one, took command. He got us out, nearly under the noses of twelve ‘ublans, Wo got into a fleld, and stayed there for a month, with Russia Shows Little Evidence of Great Conflict. Determination to Win and Break Ger. man Milltariam ts the Spirit of the Czar's People—No End to Hia Armies. By SLOAN GORDON, intaromter a eR ee soe eee Mee eter Petrograd, Russia.—How the great war has drained the human reservoirs of France—how the boulevards of Paris are manless wastes; how the call to arms has taken male Germans from the farms and the villages and the citfes; how rare are men of fighting ‘age upon the styeets of Budapest and Vienna, and héw, even in London, there is noted a marked falling ot in the number of visible male beings— all these evidences of the effects ef international blood letting have been set forth in countless columns in the newspapers of America for months, That the ‘stories are true of those German and Austrian and French and even British centers there can be no reasonable ground for doubt—the nu merous authorities attest thelr accu- Facy. But it may be set down that this ts not true of Petrograd. To all ‘outward appearances in this war cap- {tal there ts no war. There are evl- dences here and there of great mill. tary activity. There are dally drills ‘upon the public squares and there are Red Cross signs in great profusion. But of men, or, rether, the absence of ‘men—there 1s 'no such thing. Great, mysterious, brooding Russta =the "unfathomable Russla—goes: about her daily ways with a noncha, lance that is baffling to the western mind. Her streets are crowded—the streets of Petrograd and of Moscow ‘and even of Warsaw, where the fight: Ing lines aré but a few miles distant, Tens of thousands, literal hordes of men of all ages fostie and crowd along the famous Nevsky Prospekt trom ‘morning until night and fer into the night, ‘Thp botel lobbies are jammed with mew and women in fure and finery, “Ie Mt always lke this?” exclaimed an American who has spent may years in Petrograd and other parts of Rusola, in response to inquiry. “Well, fust about. I wouldn't know there was ‘a war going on if it weren't for the newspapers. “Russie,” he continued, “is going ‘about this war business with an alr ‘of confidence that 1 have never seen before. It is not quite-the same con- Adence that your typical Britisher dis- plays, the sort we always, associate with the English and which has been variously classed es bullheadedness, arrogance, egotiém and plain nerve, It fe none of these with Russia, It fa merely @ concrete national example about an hour he canght a little eel. Re proceeded to string it, declaring he was goldg to have something to show, anyhow. He dropped the long stringing’ line over the side of his boat, fished for nearly an hour, and caught a five inch trout. He started to pull up his line to firing the trout and felts ferce tes and after stroggie he pulled in 19 ‘big, Diack mice pass,” Funk lee Germans only six fields away. “We dug a sort of trench along the fence, to hide in The farmer gave us civilian clothes, and we worked for him In the flelds for three weeks, un- der the noses of the Germans. Then we had to clear again, “We divided into three parties. My Uttle party of eight got into a field, where we made a dugout. We lived In this for a month, stegling out at night to get food trom some people in a village close by. While we were there a Frenchman brought us a no- tle which had been stuck up by the Germans in the villages about. This ‘ald they know where there were Eng- lishmen hiding in the district, and that if we did not give ourselves up we would be shot when we were caught, “We made another trek, and then lived a month In a hut, which we built in a corner of a field. Then a Belgian guided us to a village.” What happened to the fugitives af- ter this must not be disclosed, as {t might tmplicate friends who helped them to escape. Private Jenkins has seratches on bis face and torn clothes, as a result of creeping trough the barbed wire into Hot: land. For the first six months the six tn- trepld fugitives wore their uniforms under their civilian clothes. Said Private Carrighan: “We were de termined to stick to our khaki.” of what Js really :nderneath the sur- facea Russian individval character Istle. "Your Russian {sa fatalist In reat crites, "When it’ comes. to something really big he settles down to.an imperturbable’caim, shrugs his thoulders, and takes bls medicine.” That the general atitude of Russia toward the war has changed slnce hos titles began ls testified to by those who have observed, “Ta the beginning of the war." gald one of,these observers, a Russian ther chant ‘with large interests In Petro grad and Warsaw, “we felt thet we ‘rere fighting only’ to repulse an en femy—to prevent Invasion of our ter Fltory. ‘There was Httle show of bit forness against the Germans. But 1 fs difterent now. This war as done more to make Tusslans think and to draw them together then. anything that has ever happened in the histor of the country. ‘Today there fea fxed determination to ght it out to finish and to end the probability of fu ture conflet ‘by destroying Prussian milltariom.. That may sound strange to those who have looked so long upon Russia. as a mltary nation, but it iy nevertheless true. A new feeling of patriotiem has been born,” “And do you know,” he added, much as though it were a matter of course, “that it le Impossible for Russa to Jose—for the allies to love this war? Rutolan resources of men and money are too vast. Why, there are a mit lion young men arriving at: military age every year, Rusola could lose a mallion every 12 months, which {8 tn concelvable, and still keep her armles {in the feld' in undiminished number Rusala can feed her arses, and never feet it. “All the blockades In the world cannot affect us! We ralse our own food, and can and will make our ova suppiles of every sort, It necessary. We have the money, we have the men, and, by heaven, we have the spirit!” Prisoners May Fish, Greencastle, Ind—A fish pond prob. ably soon will be Dullt on the state penal farm, according to the trustees, Deer’ creek passes through the farm, and the trustees say ther will stock the atream with game fish. ‘The tras tees say they want the prisoners on the firm to have some recreation. They are of the opinion that fshing will be about as good as any. 3 Names In 10 Minutes, ‘Winamac, Ind—Are, Ida Moore ob- tained a divorce trom William Moore in the circuit court here and her mal- po name, Ide Malbaur, was restored, fen minutes later her name was egain changed when she was married to William Beach. It was the fourth marriage for Mrs, Beach and the frst tor Beach, Bargain Day at Flushing, Flushing, N. Y¥—Six shaves, two hatreuts, two shampoos aid thres mas. sages for $1 was one of the bargains sold at a “dollar day” celebration here, wn ‘Tile bass had tried to swallow the oel, and it hed slid through thetr gills and strung them. Joo put the bass on another line, dropped the eel overboard asain. In 41 mibutes be pulled ip ia more bese. Bayoune, N. J—*The throwing ot rice and old shoes at weddings tn the ew $200,000 Bt. Henry's Roman Cath. olie ehureh-will not be: permitted, The pastor, Rev. Peter. H. Rellly, sald he Example of Fact Furnished by Paris Woman. Importance of Controlling Thinking Has Been Shown Time and Again— ‘Derangement of the Nerv: ‘ous System le Basy. Everybody ought to learn, from early childhood, the Importanes of con trolling thelr thinking. ‘Thoughts may be, and often are, a deadly as the worst engine of destruction over tn vented. Not long ago a Zeppelin went sll Ing over Paris, dropping bombs a3 i patsed. Fortune was kind to the Parisians, and uo one was killed oF ferlously wounded by the exploding bombs. One woman, However, though tntouched, fell dead ‘She had been killed, not by a bomb, but by a thought—a ‘momentary, de vastating thought of fear conjured up In her own mind. ‘There was a train wreck in ilinols ‘A number of passengers were badly injured, but many escaped without physleal barm of any sort. Yet among the latter there were at least a dozen who afterward developed paralysis of arms or legs. These persons, I repeat, had not re celved the least 12al bodily harm. ‘The ‘whole trouble with them was that they had thought they must’ be severely injured, and by thus thinking they had so deranged thelr nervous ayetem as to cause the development of paralytic symptoms. Dearing cases like these ta mind— and they are occurring every day—tt fs easy to Urderstand and appreciate the force of this emphatic statement by a leading American physiologist Professor Dearborn of Tufts college: "The aspects of consciousness are thi realest of all real things. |For ev- ery man crdshed by a falling rock or an overturning ear, dozens are crushed ty mental objects such as volitions and feelings.” ‘Again aud again it has been com: clusively proved that thoughts of fear, anlety, despair, have caused fatal ovcome In case of accident and illness where recovery would otherwise have been assured, Moreover, the world fs, and always has been, full of physical wrecks whose tnvalidism has been directly and solely due to the destroying thoughts on which they have allowed thelr minds to dwell, ‘Truly thoughts are “the realest of all real things,” and the whole trend of a man's life, for good or evil, de pends on the kind of thinking in whlch ho Indulges. "As a man thinketh, 0 ts he,” 18 ne mere pleturesque ilterary phrase. Tt accerds with, and ts supported by, the facts of sclentife research and’ every. day observation. Control your thoughts, and ‘the se. cret of lealth, happiness and success fs in your grasp.—Kaneas City Star. LOCK THAT REQUIRES NO KEY can readily be understood by exam- f} Zn E = we 0 sulting rooms, in which the certainty of absolute privacy is desired without the use of a key. ‘The diagram shows a section through the lock. At F the bar on which the handles are turned fs seen in cross section. ‘This turns a bar that presses againet DD, the two arms ofthe bolt B thereby drawing this back with the tongue C, which fastens the door. A is a tumbler that falls Snto place when the handle on the in: side of the door ts turned. When {t has fallen the door is locked so far ‘as the outside handle {s concerned, for the latter handle cannot move the tumbler A, and this ts in such poet. tlon that the bolt cannot move back until A has been turned out of the way, which can be done only from the inside. E is a protection to stop A from turning too far. ‘Use for Con) Retina: ® Malivozky, a Polish ceramic chemist, who recently visited this country, discovered that coal refuse could be turned into brick and a large corporation, eapitalized at. $2,000,000, has been organized to enter upon the manufacture of this new product, The bricks are a deep cream shade, closely fecked with irregular red blotches due to the percentage of ron contained in the coal. ‘This gives « ‘most artistic color to the brick. It has also the advantage of being very hard and close grained, so that It wil take & higher polish’ than granite which it closely resembles in texture Another advantage of this now bulla ing material, whlch it {s belleved wil soon be in great popular favor, ts that 4 can be made in any desired size and shape, While bricks tn standard sizes wi be fiania the material cane med. Into pillar, ornamental ob Hunting Needle in Body Is an Easy Matter, Sclentiats Have Devised Scheme wy Which Trouble of the Most gen. lous Character May Be Prop. = erly Dealt With, When a needle has wandered aroun fm the body, a8 needles 80 often ds ‘and pain in somo spot has arvose ‘suspicion that it ts the cause, the san geon had to cut it out. This ts not w easy as it may seem, because he dow not want to make an unnecestarly large wound and He cannot find ox the precise position of the needle unt he reaches it. Dr, J. H, Monks recently devised method of finding the needle, whia he describes in the Boston Metied and Surgical Journal. A powern magnet 1s pasted over the suspectel spot. This magnetizes the buried nee die. Then another, suspended from ‘a fine silk thread, 1s passed over the same locality, when the poles of the buried needle’ will attract unlike pol ‘of the examining needle, causing ty d ———————— Fea o a oo ee pea Needle imbedded In the flesh Te found by magnetizing 1t and swinging so ther neccle over It latter to swing around parallel to the axis of the buried needle, and {f ox palr of poles ia neaper than the othe there will be a corresponding dlp a the examining needle, somewhat after] the manner of the “divining rod." It 1s aatontabing how a needle Gat nas been swallowed, a9 noodles ofte are, will wander about in the bol and perhaps after many months me Ite presence known by a sore apot Sioa oa ate Bes In all other belligerent nations but Japan, said Mr. Wakatsuki, mite of finance, addressing the conventios of clearinghouse managers at Osaka recently, commodities have greatly increased in price, while just the re verse In the ease’ with this county Britain ond. Russia have. Introduce large Increases In taxation, an France and Germany will probably Compelted. to follow ‘sults even. th United States, Italy and other coun tries are faced with the necessity of Increasing taxes, but tn Japan no at dition bas been made to the, birdea of the populace. Whereas both the Delligerente and.the-matosts:-of 20m belligrents havo been complied W inflate currency by such means as the) Suspension of conversion, and the th Tilted fasvo of notes, Japan has Deed favored ‘with the contraction ot cut reney. Te wil thus be seen that Japss has got rid of the two most importa factors in the outflow of epecte, tha Is, the appreciation of commodite ata the infaton of eurreney.. It is duty of the government and the pet plo alike to strive to the utmost fa the furtherance ot tho economic In tereste of Japan at the ‘present. 0 ment by encouraging the developmen! ot home industries andthe indepen dence of capital ica A survivor from one af the torpe) doed ships says: “We had no men it our boat who could row. We ver] soon learned to row. I had nevel rowed a boat.before, but I can do now.” The smallness of the numbel of men in our mercantile marine whd can handle a rowing boat would sus prise the majority of people, and those who can handle a sail are aa even smaller band. They get almost no opportunity of learning. As fot swimming, very few are experts, and Dattallons of them cannot swim # stroke, Just last summer I sailed ‘with a British cargo boat officered by nonewimmers, and haying on board only four men in ull who belleved that unalded, they could keep themselves affot—London Chronicle. : Germane’ Gace le Made Hareslace-/ The perils of the deadly gas used by the Germans since the third batt of Ypres was launched the latter pati of April have already been minimize by French sclentists, At frat take by surprise, the French, English at Canadians were driven back before tht terrific charges made by the German under cover of the asphyxiating gat ‘hls ga bas been found to bo ort ctpally bromide chloride, which in treme cates affects the’ lungs to tht Point of suffocation. But now (bi French spray ammonia when the Get} man gaa comes rolling toward the! The ammonia combines "with sreenish-hued gas to form the noni furious ammonium bromide. Juries Selected by Girta, A Los Angeles gl was allowed assist in picking a fury, If the int {tion of @ woman fs to be brought bear in the selection of trial juror % good many different elements wil bo brought into play with varying sults, On the whole the proc should be aatistectory, if the girle Rot too much inclined to exhaust Bumber of thelr challenges all in ‘bunch —Los Angeles Times, * Hla Next Preferment. Here's a prominent foreigner .w has had the Order of the Bath and Order of the Garter conferred “upo ‘him, and probably he's now nervous! Waiting for the order of the win lunderelothes as the next step In th Une of preterment—Onlo State Jot nal, AValadhl woes ‘The Scientifte American says thai since early last year an average, thirty-five patents. on spring w} for motor ears) and tricks have granted cach month . - MADE UP IN CRETONNE GARDENING DRESSES THAT ARE PRETTY AND PRACTICAL Fabric, Carefully Chosen, Makes a Garment That Shows Its Wearer to the Best Advantage—Many Ideas to Choose From. Many seasons ago the wives of the artists in the little Norman village of Giverny discovered the picturesque color-schemes and designs of material, and their appropriateness for gowns "to be painted in." All the painters' wives were expert models for their husbands, patiently sitting and standing in doorways and windows, under trees in meadows, out in the broiling sun, or in damp and dirty boats on the little river. Gowns to pose in must be colorful and graceful, above all they had to be cheap, as the colony those days was composed of hard work, the way up the ladder of fame, though several of them have since arrived at the top. So the ladies set their wives to work and some body thought of cretonne, and very soon they were all posing in coats and other garments made of it, shading their heads with Japanese parasols. Now here it is in America, made up into gardening dresses both pretty and practical. The pattern on the fabric must be chosen carefully, for only one among dozens is really adapted to clothes. Small figures are best; the gowns seen recently were all of closely patterned designs. Some of them were like big painting aprons, cut out deeply at the neck and under the arms, with servicable pockets in front; and worn with white gulpses with elbow sleeves and simple, turned-down collars. The bretelle-idea was used for others, the skirt being made of the cretone, and a sort of skeleton waist added, consisting of shoulder-waist with three straps down the front, and three down the back, buttoned conspicuously to the belt, and worn over a white blouse. There were natty skirts of cretone to be worn with blouses or with the new English smocks. The patterns chosen were not always quite appropriate. It is so easy, in choosing cretone, to look like perambulating bedroom furniture! The best of them were the smallflowered designs and the awning stripes. These last were most attractive. A clear medium blue, boldly striped with a group of black and white lines, was plaited into a hipyoke, so that only the blue remained visible at the top. A two-inch green and white stripe was treated in the same way, and there were excellent skirts in black and white and pink and white combinations. These striped skirts are especially intended to be worn with the colored linen smocks, on which the feminine world is going somewhat crazy. A THE FASHION WEEKLY Blue chiffon underdies draped over & flash-colors underdies trimmed with chiffon Blue chiffon skillfully draped over a flesh-colored underbodice trimmed with bands of ribbon. black and white striped skirt is worn with a yellow linen smock, embroidered in dark blue and red, and finished with a white collar. Lilac smocks are done in yellow and blue, green in coral-pink and purple. All white smock suits of loose top part and patch, pocket-packed skirt, are also shown. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Military Hats the Rage. The military cheapeau is the "bit" of the season. All the pretty girls are wearing these dashing styles and very charming they are with the buttoned and begged military taillleurs. Among the new military hats is the "Tipperyer," a close fitting tque, tied around with a small bit of gold braid. Then there's the "Belge," rising to a peak at the front, and also trimmed with gold braid. The "France," the "Kaiser," "The Scottie" and the "Cossack" are other popular military models. Sensible Children's Garments to Be Had in Almost Any Material Desired. Since rompers have been go generally adopted for playtime garments for both boys and girls, they now appear in many new models. Also, they come in other materials than the gingham; for instance, little girls are wearing the cotton crepe rompers which are so easily washed out and need no ironing. The delicate colored chambrays are also used for morning wear, while those made of India, ponge and other wash silks are used for afternoon wear. Most of these are smoked into the neckbands and the sleeves are finished in the same way; this makes them quite pretty in appearance. The boys' rompers are generally made of ginghams or linens. Quite the newest and most fascinating little suits for boys are those made in the Oliver Twist model. They are usually of linen, in solid colors. The "Brother and Sister" suits seem to be very popular, made in dailly col- Excellent Way in Which Old Tree Stump May Be Turned into a Thing of Beauty. Just at this time of year, ideas that may be easily carried out in the garden will be welcome to many of our readers, and we give a sketch of a good way in which an old tree stump may be utilized. The top of the stump is hollowed out and filled with mold and in it may be planted a large fern, as shown in the sketched flowers or shrubs can be planted if they are angular intervals, in the sides of the stump circular holes are cut and these holes are also filled with mold and in them smaller flowers or flowers can 100 be planted. To clearly illustrate this idea, on the right-hand side of the stump in the sketch one of these holes is shown empty. With a sharp chisel and a hammer the spaces can easily be cut out of the wood, otherwise the stump should be left quite in its natural condition. To make the other side of a doorway and filled with dainty flowers looks wonderfully pretty and they can be prepared without much trouble and at a very small cost. EFFECTS IN BLACK AND WHITE Draperies for the Home May Be as Effective as Artistic Sense Can Devise. Black-and-white effects are used in draperies and other decorations as well as in dress fabrics. Black-and white stripes, plaids and black backgrounds of color are well liked. One of the new draperies is an old-fashioned design in chintz, with a lattice of black on a French gray background upon which are printed flowers and foliage in shades of gun metal gray and shrapnel reds. There are other combinations on a French gray background. Box covers, lamp shades, couches, couch pillows, screens, curtains and valances in harmonizing designs are used with pleasing effect. In planning the decoration of a home individual taste and desire for tones and color harmony may be easily gratified, the range of fabrics, designs and treatment of color blending being so nearly perfect that any artistic scheme may be carried out and still kept within a modest purse. POCKET EASY TO FASHION Adjustable, and May Be Quickly Made by Those at All Skilled In Embroidery Work. For fear that one of your white skirts or a silk gown will not come prepared with the omnipresent pocket, there is a delightful separate pocket arrangement, to be slipped over a leather or fabric belt, upon which the quick embroiderer may spend a profitable hour or so. One white crepe dechine dress exploited a pair of these pockets strapped over a dark blue shade of blue. The pockets are cut much like an envelope, with the two straps instead of a flap, buttoning at each end of the crescent-shaped opening. A border of darning stitches in two shades of blue or brown or all in black makes a pretty finish. Cross-stitching in the may be equally well employed. The button-bellies should be worked and the buttons sewed on with the same color as used for the embroidery. A pair of these pockets worn on each hip over a white linen skirt give the effect of a smart yoked model and are really practical enough to hold a handkerchief, keys or bit of change. Crocheted Hat Tops Among the smartest of the new shade hats are taffeta or more sailors covered with what, upon examination, proves to be nothing more than a hand-crocheted mat made exactly the size to cover crown and brim and held in place by a ribbon around the crown. ored linen or chambray; they show a modified suspender effect. Both the boys' suits and the girls' dresses in this fashion are worn, of course, with a little gulpe. They are not absolutely new, but vary a bit in the combination of materials and trimmings this season. For the boyish-looking little girl there is the yellow linen dress trimmed with white. It is laced through large rings down the left side to the bottom of the little waist, where it joins the side-plaited skirt. Mulberry and White. A new striped waist has a top and sleeves of mulberry and white striped chiffon and is opened in an oval decollete in front and overbound along the edge with a plain color. The girdle is black faille like the skirt, has one point on the lower edge and two points on the upper in front; in the back it is simply a wide girdle fastened invisibly. Men who wear good clothes do it for their own satisfaction, but women dress for other women. A 338 x FOR COMFORT IN POULTRY HOUSES Division Into Compartments Plan That Works Well in a Number of Ways. Former Has Some Advantages That Poultrymen Will Recognize—Many Insist That It Makes Only Faultless Floor For the Henhouse. Bv WILLIAM H. BADEFORD. Mr William A. Haddford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF OPEN SUBJECTS, and will provide the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of the readers of this paper, the manufacturer, but without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects, the success of the farm, Ford, Ford, 1872 Prairie Ave. Ford, Illinois, and only incite two-cent stamp for reply. On farms a combination farmhouse that accommodates laying hens in one department and setting hens in another works very nicely. The plan shown in the illustrations represent a house 20 feet by 14 feet in size, divided into two rooms. The larger room is intended for general room comfort during the winter season. The smaller department may be used for a nesting room during the winter and as a hatching department during the early spring, and later as a brooder house as the season advances. The combination works well in different ways according to the amount of poultry and whether purebred fowls are kept for profit or less valuable birds are kept for home use. Sometimes one department is wanted for a few especially well-bred trapped nests to keep their eggs separated for hatching. Generally, however, the culling of the flock is done during the fall from previous records, so that all the mature hens wintered over are good enough to furnish eggs for hatching. The construction of this poultry house has been very carefully planned and worked out to design a practical building that must be used after years, thus requiring much more effort than are carelessly planned and poorly constructed. Poorly constructed houses become so infested with vermin of different kinds that it often seems better to tear them down and to build new rather than to try to repair them. Modern poultry houses are much ```markdown ``` better than the old-fashioned sort, and the breeds of poultry have improved to such an extent that better houses are recognized as being necessary. This poultry house, although not very large, is built with a good solid concrete foundation that reaches down below frost. The floor also is of concrete. Some poultrymen prefer building a floor of lime. Ordinary burdens lime is spread over the ground several inches deep and pounded down and made level. Water is then thrown on the lime in just sufficient quantities to cause it to slack properly. Enough water is used to slack the lime into a paste mortar and it is left in this condition until it dries and hardens. This kind of a poultry floor is not so hard as concrete, and the chickens will scratch depressions in it in places in their efforts to uncover the grain that is scattered in the litter. The chickens in digging up the kernels of grain get considerable lime, which goes to manufacture bone and egg shells. If the original lime is good and the slacking is well done, the floor will be satisfactory for a long time. If soft places develop and the hens dig the floor through, it is easy at any time to throw a little fresh lime on to the cavity and moisten it with water enough to slack and fill the depression. There are poultrymen who insist that this is the only method known to the poultry fraternity for making lime as house floor. The same kind of lime floor may be made into both of these rooms, or only one of them, as thought best. Lime floors will discourage rats and mice almost as thorough; as a concrete floor, and they are not so rough on the chicken's claws. Any kind of hard noor should be kept covered with straw, for the reason that chickens cannot stand comfortably with their toes out straight. They want something to close their feet around. The construction of a chicken's foot is intended by nature to close the toes when the chicken sits down. This is for the purpose of grasping the limb of a tree or a rooster to hold to the ground, while it is sleepy. Hens will roost in the dark nighty nights without falling off, because of the peculiar construction of their feet and legs. in building the walls of this pottery house the sills are laid in fresh cement plaster on top of the con- IOWA STATE HYSTANDER crete foundation walls. Bolts are embedded in the concrete, which pass through suger holes in the sills, and the nuts are screwed down to hold them firmly in place. The mortar is trowelled up against the sills inside and outside carefully to prevent a cold draft. Chickens can stand the cold of winter and thrive, but a draft of cold air coming through a crack often proves fatal. This poultry house is fitted with double sash windows, but ordinarily 20'-0" ROOSTS NESTS SCRATCHING FLOOR NESTS STITTING HEAVY the lower sash is shoved up as far as it will go. A frame is fitted under the outside or upper sash. Thin fivecent cotton is stretched over the lower sash. This is the only satisfactory and practical ventilator for a poultry house. RELICS OF DEPARTED Napkin Rings Condemned as Being Things of Which the World Has Long Been Tired. It is understood that the National American Woman Suffrage association takes just pride in the opportunity it has afforded to its members to dispose of their superfluous napkin rings, which is to say all the napkin rings they possess. The whole melting-pot plan fires the imagination. But for the napkin rings. They are relics of a departed age, reminders of the era of the Saturday night bath, the old folks' concert and the painted panoramas of the Nile. They abide now in out-of-the-way corners, tarnished and forgotten, bands of old silver, often affectionately inscribed on the command of givers long since turned to dust. They are the sort of reminders of a gentler but less fastidious generation that has been given for some good reason and have no desire to keep. The serial napkin went long ago. To the melting pot, by all means, with the rings, and that they may melt up into millions of dollars' worth of silver is our sincere wish—New York Times. Dangerous Revenge. "Very little talk is heard among the allies now about dictating terms of peace in Berlin," said Representative Bardoltth at a German-American banquet in Chicago. "The allies realize that to get to A338 x Berlin would be as dangerous a game as Daft Hank's revenge. "Daft Hank once helped himself to a wheelbarrow load of fertilizer belonging to Farmer Husk. The farmer, therefore, had him locked up for ten days. Daft Hank, when he got out, said to the general storekeeper: "Well, I've found a way to get even with old Corn Husk for lockin' my up. "Yes?" said the storekeeper, as he drew the cheese back out of his resh. "Yes," said Hank. "I'm goin' to catch a mad dog and put it in among his cows." Left Behind. "Didn't we invent gunpowder?" asked the Chinese philosopher. "Yes," replied the polite but positive foreigner; "you invented it, but you bear about as much relation to its practical use as the man who invented the first tintle bears to the modern brass band." The Middleman. "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "do you want that wood chopped?" "Yes. Will you chop it?" "No. But I know some fellers dats' takin' physical culture, an' fur some coffee an' san' wiches I'll see if I can't' hook 'em up to dis job fur exercise." Much More Tragic. "Was your saddest hour the time when you discovered that your fiancee was flirting with someone else?" "No; it was when she discovered that I'd been doing the same thing."—Stray Stories. Work for Scientists Colossal stone statues and other relics of an unknown race on Easter island, 2,000 miles off the west coast of the United States, are to be studied by English scientists. Felt Overpaid. "Misery offered the man who saved his life half a dollar." "Did the man accept it?" "Yes, but he handed Misery 20 cents change."—Boston Transcript. His immediate Necessity. "That post looks as if he were longing for the tongue of bird." "Huh! He'd be tickled to death with the neck of a chicken."—Houston Post. The KITCHEN CABINET If you entertain the supposition that any real success, in great things or in small, ever was or could be, ever will be or can be, wrested from Fortune by his and starts leave that wrong idea.—Bleak House Every man has a right, an undoubted right, to regulate his own proceedings by his own likings and dislikings.—Martin Chuzzlewit. Except for those who are working at hard labor a simple breakfast of fruit, cereal, an egg and toast or a bit of bacon and a cup of coffee is a sufficient and satisfying meal. A nice way to treat a cereal that has been served cold is to put it, while cold, through the potato ricer. When wanted, it is then in an attractive form to serve. Corn Toast. Cut stale bread in slices and toast. Cook three tablespoonfuls of butter with one tablespoonful of finely chopped onion three minutes, stirring constantly. Add two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until well blended, then pour on gradually, while stirring, two cupfuls of thin cream. Bring to the boiling point and add two cupfuls of canned corn, drained, three-fourths of a teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of paprika, and one egg, slightly beaten. Again heat to the boiling point, and simmer two minutes. Arrange on the toast which has been buttered and placed on a hot platter. Pour over the corn mixture and serve hot. Creamed Salt Codfish—There is no more wholesome dish for any meal than creamed fish. Pick the fish in small pieces; there should be three-fourths of a cupful. Cover with lukewarm water and soak. Drain, put into a saucepan, add 2½ tablespoonfuls of butter, stirring until the butter is melted and mixed with the fish. Sprinkle with two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until mixed; then pour on gradually, while stirring, one cupful of scalded milk. Bring to the boiling point and let botol for two minutes. Add one egg to the butter, for the boiling to end to the table. Southern Eggs—Butter small ramen dishes and half fill with hot boiled rice. Slip a raw egg in each, season with salt, pepper, grated cheese and a little chopped boiled ham. Pour in hot water to surround the dishes, cover and bake until the eggs are set. Sauted Tripe—Wipe fresh honey comb tripe, cut in pieces for serving, and parbrot ten minutes, using equal parts of milk and water to cover tripe. Drain, season and roll in flour. Saute in butter. A most delicious ice cream may be made with a cup of grape juice, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, a pint of thin cream and sugar to sweeten, depending upon the sweetness of the grape juice. Freeze as usual. The beautiful watermelon pink is not the least of the attractions of this frozen dish. Sponge Pudding.-This is not new, but so good that it bears repeating very often. Stir a third of a cupful of flour into a cupful of milk; when smooth set into boiling water and cook. When added and dissolved, three eggs, well beaten, with a fourth of a cupful of sugar. Cut and fold in the whites of the eggs, leggen stiff, and flavor to taste. Pour into a well-buttered pan, set in water to make twenty minutes or until firm. Serve immediately with sauce prepared as follows: Cream an eighth of a cupful of butter, add a cupful of powdered sugar gradually. Braised Beef.—Cut two thin slices of fat salt pork in pieces, try out and remove the scraps. Take three pounds of beef cut from the lower part of the round, or a chuck may be used. Wipe with a damp cloth, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and brown the surface in the pork fat. Place on a trivet in a deep baking dish and surround with half a tea teaspoon of peppercorns. one-fourth of a cupful each of turnip, onion, carrot, and celery cut in bits and three cupfuls of boiling water. Cover closely and bake four hours, basting every half-hour and turning the meat once during the cooking. Serve with a sauce made from the gravy in the pan, strained and thickened with butter and flour. A pretty way to serve any gelatin salad is to mold it in a ring mold and turn out on a bed of lettuce, filling the center with the creamy, thick dressing which will be served with the salad on a lettuce leaf. A good dog stores being in order, it is pleasant to have a good dog story to tell by way of wind-up. A Georgia lady has a St. Bernard dog that is a perfect jewel. He is sent out to the pasture every morning with the cows, and every evening he brings them safely home. In milking, he keeps away the cows in the pail. Around the house he makes himself useful in many ways, bringing in wood and running errands, and he also works the tread. both bats have the strangest of faces, both pretty and vely. The American false vampire (raro) has head and ears and teeth like a wolf. The tubenosed bat has big eyes and no nails that protrude from the face. The Malayan masked bat head is in miniature like that of a hippopotamus. The bat's ears are large, the muzzle ears and a countenance that actually laughs. The hammerhead bat has immense protruding jaws. The flower-nose really suggests a pretty SOME OF THE OLD "TIPPLES" Early Housekeepers Had Many Recipes That Have Been Handed Down to Posterity. Whether there will be a revival during the next few years of the domestic art of making wine is a matter of pure conjecture, but it is interesting to recall that formerly many common things that grow around us were utilized by thrity housewives in the preparation of "ttiples" that were more or less mild or more or less potent. Generally the wine-making potentialities of these things are little thought of now, and in most homes, even in country homes, wine-making processes have been forgotten. Reference has recently been made to the making of dandelion wine, a sweet and potent wine prepared with the aid of the golden flowers of the dandelion. Elderberry wine and elderflower wine were made in most of the rural homes in the Potomac country a generation or so ago. Blackberries and grapes were gathered and converted into jam and wine or cordial, and raspberries were especially sought after that wine could be made from them. It is probable that in the minds of elderly persons today there is preserved a better memory of raspberry vinegar than of raspberry wine, for it was popularly believed that raspberry vinegar was superior to that made from apples. In cherry the fruit was treasured because it could be preserved or converted into a fruit juice that could be drunk which at certain stages of its "aging" or development was exhilarating and intoxicating. The flavor of gooseberry wine was known and esteemed by most of the grandmothers and grandfathers of present Washingtonians. On all the old farms there was a little distillery, though on some farms it was not so little, just as there was an icehouse and a smokehouse, where the peaches and apples and grapes could be distilled into fruit brandy. Cider-making was a ceremony, and in the late fall when frost had pinched and somewhat shriveled the persimmons a strange potation called persimmon wine. Parsnip wine was made by British housewives before emigration to America set in, and the art of making this wine was brought over by the early immigrants. There was also in colonial times in America a drink which was called peppermint wine, or peppermint liqueur. LETTUCE FOR THE TABLE Much Depends on Its Proper Preparation and Arrangement When It Is Used. When lettuce comes from the market, clean in cold water and look it over carefully to see that all dirt and insects are removed. Place on a piece of dampened cheesecloth, then roll up and put on the ice, when it will be ready for use and will often stay fresh for a week. Some persons complain of sleepiness after eating lettuce. This is due to the lactucin in lettuce, which the milky juice contains. This juice may be removed by cutting from the lettuce the lower end of the heads or stalks and then standing the lettuce in cold water for several hours before using. Keep the head intact when you wish to quiet the nerves or to induce sleep. Lettuce leaves in lettuce lettre relish for lunch or dinner and may be served in a small cut glass dish: Line the dish with lettuce leaves upon which place either ripe or green olives and tiny red tomatoes. Chill with cracked ice. The olives and tomatoes may be taken with the fingers at any time during the meal. Hot-Water Platter Those who have to solve the problem of cold dining rooms, especially at breakfast time, will find greater comfort in the use of the hot-water platter. Bolling water is turned into the tank under the platter and the top screwed on. Then the nickel cover is placed over the food, which keeps hot and in perfect order for at least thirty minutes. The original outlay seems a little large, as the medium dollar, but with careful use it will repay one in the comfort of hot meals. There is also the round hot-water plate which is excellent for the breakfast tray or invalid's use. Sheila for Lemon Pie. Try my way of making the shell for the lemon pies, and I think that you will be pleased. First I should not put in the baking powder. Turn your deep pile plate upside down, put your crust over what should be the bottom of the tin, put it so that it fits close. Then turn edges, pick and bake. It will turn out perfect and bake better not having so much bottom heat, because it is raised from the oven floor—Exchange. Tomato Squares Mix two cupfuls tomato, four cloves, two slices onion, two peppercorns, half teaspoonful salt and one-quarter teaspoonful paprika. Cook ten minutes, press through a sieve. Melt three tablespoonful butter, add one-quarter cupful cornstarch and strained tomato mixture; boil ten minutes. Cool slightly, add one egg, pour into buttered pan, chill, in squares, dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat. Drain on brown paper. Serve. Puree of Baked Beans Put two cupfuls of baked beans into a saucepan, add small piece of pork; l'you have it, cover with two quarts hot water, season with pepper and salt and add one-half onion. If you do not use the pork add one tablespoonful butter, boll until the beans are very soft, then press through a sieve and serve. Cantaloupe Frappe. Three pints of cantaloupe pulp, two cupfuls sugar, the juice of two lemons or one half cupful lemon juice and pass through a very fine sieve. Freeze as usual. Serve from glass cups or from the chilled rind of the melon, shaped into a basket. Every man has a right, an undoubted right, to regulate his own proceedings by his own likings and delikings.-Martin Chruskelw. If in the serving of meats one is careful to give no more than the per son habitually eats, the waste from the table will be little. It is far better to serve a small helping and give a second one that the good food should be wield. If usually in the minor economies which are often beneath the notice where the wise housewife keeps within her expenses. One housekeeper who has tried the method of co-operation with her cook in holding to a certain yearly table expense has paid her $10 extra yearly, and finds they have even better food, for the cook takes a personal interest in both having attractive food and keeping with it. The worthy of trial by other progressive women, and, by the way, it keeps the cook at least a year to try out the method. Ox-Joints With Vegetables—Two ox-joints have enough meat on them to furnish flavor to quite a dish of vegetables. Cut two ox-tails in pieces at the joints, put into a saucepan, cover with water and boll five minutes, drain and sauté in butter, to which a sliced onion has been added. When well seared and browned add a half cupful each of carrots, turnip, celery, or peas, cover with boiling water and simmer until the vegetables are soft. Season well with salt, pepper and add a little parsley. Serve with a brown gravy poured over the ox-tails and vegetables. Hamburg Steak With Cabbage—Take firm outside leaves of cabbage, wash and drain. Prepare the steak by seasoning with salt, pepper, a pinch of ground cloves, nutmeg and a little onion juice. Use half pork sausage in the meat combination. Form balls and cook in a hot hot fat until well browned over, then wrap each cake in a cabbage leaf, skewer with water, and pressing pan, adding a little boiling water, cover closely, and simmer for a half hour, or until the cabbage is tender. Serve with a gravy poured around the cakes. Tomato sauce is very good as an accompaniment to this dish. Dates are considered in most homes as an occasional dainty, as we consider confectionery, yet ten cents a pound dates are a cheap energy-producing food, one which gives six times the returns per pound as good beefsteak. In many countries dates, figs and black bread are the only foods eaten, yet the people are strong, sturdy and able to endure much hardship. Another advantage of the dates over meat is that they keep splendidly, if kept from insects. There are many tempting ways of serving dates, the manner most common of stuffing with bread, fruit, fondant, cheese, is commendable, but there are more and better ways of serving them to our families. Delicious Sandwich Filling—Take two cupfuls of date paste, which is dates put through a meat chopper, and a cup of peanut butter, rubbed smooth. Makes a most appetizing filling for sandwiches. Dates with various cooked cereals are always liked, and are especially good for growing children. Give them such fruits as figs, dates and prunes and they will not care to make candy orgies which will leave them ill for days. Another good combination for date filling for sandwiches is this: Two cupfuls of dates, a half cupful of lemon juice, a half cupful of peanut butter and a dash of salt. Grind through the meat chopper and mix well. Keep in jelly glasses, cover with paraffin paper. Dates in baked custard, dates in tapioca and dates as filling for cookies, dates as pie and cake filling are some of the delicious dishes which may be prepared at home. Dates, apples, celery and nuts make good sandwiches. Dates cooked with rice as a pudding: Add to a quart of milk a cupful of stoned dates and a quarter of a cupful of rice. Sweeten and bake in a slow oven. Nellie Maxwell mill by which the butter is churned. And—take notice, boys—he does all these things without pay, and never asks for a holiday. But the faithful fellow is put to another remarkable use. Every summer he is sheared, and his silken wool spun into yarn! Who says that dog doesn't earn his board?—Exchange. To Make Corks Watertight. Corks may be made airight and watertight by keeping them immersed in oil for five minutes. flower, and the chin-leafed bat might be a pansy with sharp teeth almost concealed in the center of the flower. Some of the bats of tropical countries attain to the size of gray rats, with wings having a spread of five feet. Of this order of Chirpthema more than 400 species have been noted and volumes have been written telling of their structure and habits. Our Daily Special. We all hope for the best. But oul a few of us expect to get it SUMMER BREAKFASTS. fruit, cereal, an egg and toast or a bit of bacon and a cup of coffee is a sufficient and satisfying meal. A piece of meat that is cooked and will be served cold is to put it, white cold, through NEW WAYS WITH OLD FOODS. elicious ice cream may be a cup of grape juice, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, a pint of thin cream and sugar to sweeten, depending upon the sweetness of the grape juice. Freeze as usual. The beautiful watermelon pink is not the least of the atrac-frozen dish. He Earns His Bread. Bats With Peculiar Faces. LITTLE ECONOMIES son habitually eats, the waste from the table will be little. It is far better to serve a small helping and give a second one than that good food should be wasted. It is often the case that economies which are often beneath the notice where the wise house- SOME WAYS WITH DATES sider confectionery, yet ten cents a pound dates are a cheap energy-producing food, one which gives six times the returns per pound as good beetsteak and black and white bread are the only foods eaten, yet the people are strong, sturdy and able EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS Westward bound, we first stopped at Atlantic, Iowa. Hero are located but few people, perhaps about fifty. Yet the strange thing was that when I got off at the depot I did not know the name of a single colored person and did not have a single colored subscriber here, but secured several within a few hours, Ed Taylor is one of the reliable men here. He has charge of a flat. E. Williams is another good man. Wm. Tucker is doing well. Mr. L Starks keeps a boarding house Mr. L Starks is a reliable citizen. He is a contractor. He had just lost his wife and the funeral was the afternoon that I was here. There is a young colored man who is night baggageman, a position seldom held by our people. Council Bluffs was our next stop. We have here two churches, the A. M. E., presided over by Rev. Manly, and the Baptist, pastored by Rev. J. W. Morton; one secret society, the Masonic lodge, which is doing well, presided over by Mr. W. H. Harrington; a chapter of Eastern Star, presided over by Mrs. W. L. Cave; one cafe and boarding house by Chas. Burke, who is conducting a first class cafe. His cousin, Miss Caldwell, assists him. Chas is a very nice man to meet. Mrs. Tillie Reese runs a rooming house and is doing nicely. W. C. Lyons is still working at the Grand hotel bar shop. P. F. Means is working for the National Harvester Co. Mrs. C. Hopkins is just opening up a cafe in the Crescent hotel, the only dining room in the hotel. Mrs. F. C. Walker is her assistant. Her other help are white. We wish for her success. W. H. Birdsong is a good citizen, as also is Mrs. Ward. Rev. W. A. Moore, formerly of this city, who went to Oklahoma, has returned and says there is no place like Iowa. Mr. Stewart is still at the Elks club. His assistant, Mr. McRaven, recently died in California while in search of health. He now has a young farmer boy named Jas. A. Woodson, whose father owns 996 acres of Missouri land in Prairie county. Mr. R. Manuel, a brother of Mr. J. E. Manuel of Des Moines lives here and is doing well. Mr. Powell is still here working in: the hair dressing parlor. Finding our way across the Big Muddy, which was on a rampage owing to the great rains. Here is located Omaha, the metropolis of Nebraska, and one of the largest cities on the Missouri river with about 10,000 CLINTON, IOWA Children's Day was observed appropriately at Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school. The program as laid down by the committee was pretty much carried out. A good number were in attendance, who were pleasantly entertained. Mrs. E. S. Heron was in charge. Mrs. M. O. Culberon, who went to Gary, Ind., some days ago, to remain indefinitely, has returned home on account of illness. Mrs. Lulu Head, adopted daughter of Mrs. G.W. Martin, passed away on Saturday night. Deceased had not been in good health for some years, but did not become seriously ill until about three weeks ago. Her funeral took place Monday afternoon from Estabrook's undertaking pariors. Rev. F. M. Glater officiated, assisted by Rev. F. J. Nott and M. O. Culberon. Music was rendered by members of the A. M. E. church choir, and a duet sung by Mrs. Johnson and daughter. Interment was made in Springdale cemetery. The third quarterly meeting was held Sunday at the A. M. E. church, Rev. I. N. Daniels, P. E., was present, preaching morning and evening. Rev. W. B. Lowery left Monday morning for Marshalltown, where he was to officiate at the wedding of his brother, L. D. Lowery. Before returning home he intends to visit with relatives and friends in Cedar Rapids. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robinson entertained Rev. I. N. Daniels and Rev. and Mrs. Lowery at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Robinson is reported as being quite ill at her home on Tenth avenue. McNeil lodge will hold installation of officers on Tuesday night. A program will be rendered. Repairs have been completed on the parsonage of the Baptist church and Rev. Nott expects to move his family here in the near future. McNeil lodge, No. 21, A. F. & A. M. 12th and Wabash, Chicago, Ill. will open July 19th, 1905. Recorded by State Bureau Dame. colored Americans, of whom many are doing well and many not doing so well as they should. We have one fire station manned by all colored firemen. Unfortunately they now have a white captain. They used to have a colored captain, Mr. C. E. Trent. W. H. Jackson formerly lived in Iowa. Mr. Jackson worked in the coal mines at Buxton. He and his very industrious wife have saved enough to have remodeled their home at 3204 Pinkney which is just completed, a very beautiful modern 8-room home. It is a credit to any race. They are deserving and we are proud of their success. D. G. Russell is another self-made business man. He is operating a hotel shop and pool room at 1322 Cummings street and is doing a large business. He came here only a few years ago from Missouri. Rev. W. F. Botts is still pastor at the large Baptist church which is building a beautiful 25,000 church. They expect to finish next year. Rev. Botts is a fine man and a Christian gentleman, a great worker. Rev. W. T. Osborne is still pastor of the large A. M. e. church. He is an able Christian man and is doing the large A. M. e. church. He is an able Christian man and is doing the large A. M. e. church. Mrs. V. Warren of Des Moines was here visiting Mrs. Woods. Yo editor took supper with this young couple. J. P. Pegg, one of the leading city politicians, is still city superintendent of weights and measures. He has made good in this office and the new administration has just reappointed him. Mr. Pegg is truly a race man. He owns one section of Nebraska tera firma, which he manages. C. M. Simmons is still running his pantilator and doing well for a young man in business. Mr. G. W. Obee is still in the undertaking business. He has recently taken into partnership Allen Jones of Clarinda, Iowa, who has moved here and bought a beautiful home at 2426 Ohio street. They have the finest undertaking parlers of colored men in Omaha. Mesdames South and Johnson's hair preparation parlers have made a great growth in the past few years. It is one of the greatest preparations of hair goods in the west. G. W. Lenert is still running his rooming house. A. L. Anderson is working at the same place. held its annual election of officers on Tuesday, June 8th. The following officers were elected: W. M., Rev. F. 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A program will be rendered in the evening. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Mr. Wm. Ryan is in the city visiting friends. Mrs. John Williams has returned home from Missouri. She found her husband quite ill, but he is much improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Alkens were,calling on the West Side on Sunday. Rev. Lowery of Clinton is in the city visiting his mother, Mrs. M. Lowery. He attended the Warn-Lowery wedding at Marshalltown on June 21. Mrs. Russia Smith left for Chicago for a visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson are getting along fine. They are still at the hospital. District conference and Sunday school convention convened at Waterloo, Iowa. Conference convened on the 15th and 16th and the convention the 17th and 18th. Tuesday morning Rev. Cato caretened the sacramental sermon and it was eloquent. Rev. Ford and wife, Mr. J. B. Nelson. Rev. Cato and Mr. Edward Boyd attended the conference. Mrs. Rev. Ford gave the lecture on sacred geography and it was just excellent. Mrs. Ford has a wide reputation as being a great normal teacher. Mr. Eddie Corely is out of the city on business. The Children's Day program was rendered Sunday, the 20th, instead of Sunday, the 13th. The program was fine and much praise is due Madame H. Flowerer and Mabel Horne. Mrs. Bee'le Christian and Mrs. Earl Berry were called to Oelwein on account of their mother being quite ill. Mrs. Christian returned home and reports her mother some better, while Mrs. Berry remained at her bedside. Mrs. Cormen Hinks is able to be out Woman's Crowning Glory is Her Hair Why not grow your hair by using Woman's Crownning Glory is Her Hair Why not grow your hair by using Mme· M. Beard Hair Grower It removes dandruff, stops itching of the scalp and makes it grow long, soft and beautiful. Price $50 a box. Send stamper for pamphlet 519 So. 16th St. St. Joseph, Mo. NEW Elite Restaurant New Reliable Place to Eat Meals 15c and up Lunches or Short Orders Served 304 W. 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The ceremony was solemnized in the presence of about twenty relatives and friends by the Rev. Wm. B. Lowery, pastor of the A. M. E. church, in Clinton Iowa, and a brother of the groom. The out of town guests were Rev. Wm. B. Lowery of Clinton, Mrs. Mary F. Lowery of Cedar Rapids and Mrs. Ellen Howard of Albion, Iowa. The wedding party came home Tuesday morning and are residing with the groom's mother at 903 South Eighth street. SCANDIA, IOWA. The Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday school celebrated the first Children's Day program last Sunday. The first time in the history of Scandia this day has been observed. The program was simply fine. It brought out the largest congregation ever turned out since the establishment of this camp. The children deserve much credit for their performance. The Rev. J. H. Beverage and his wife of Woodward visited the exercises and seemed to have enjoyed the program. Mrs. Beverage spoke very encouraging of the efforts and then gave a reading, which was enjoyed by all. Rev. Beverage also delivered a very able address. Subject, "Love." The address was full of logic and seems to have driven facts to the minds of all present. Miss Hazel Bradley officiated at the orgn. Monday evening there was an ice cream entertainment at the school house, given to the children for their faithfulness in the Sunday school work. The cream was free to all. Prof. Rodgers, the conductor of the program, delivered an interesting address on the subject, "Prepare To Leave a Light in the Window." After the lecture cream was served to all. We shall soon organize a Young People's Union, then the Women's Mission. The collection for Children's Day was $4.00. We were represented in the Sunday school convention at Otumwa by letter, but we hope to be represented in the association by delegates next fall. ALBIA NEWS. Mr. Cornelius Miller left Albia for Chicago on Wednesday morning to work in a hat factory. Miss Jewett Lewis conducted the Sunday school work in the absence of Mrs. Nellie Estes on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Morgan returned from the district conference on Wednesday evening. Miss Robinson of Hocking was in Albia on Thursday afternoon. Miss Pauline Thomas has been sick a few days the past week. Master Bennie and Leroy Grayson of Hocking No. 3 have spent the week in Albia at the home of their grandparents, Mr. Monroe Davis. Little Margurette Estes spent the week in Des Moines with her grandparent, Mrs. E. Jeffers. parent, Mrs. E. Jeffers. Mrs. Richards is visiting her daughter in Des Moines this week. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. Edward Butler on Monday afternoon. Lawyer James Spear of Buxton was in Albia on business one day this week. He made a number of strangers in Albia the past week. OMAHA. NEB. The gerat revival at Grove M. E. church, which was conducted by Rev. J. N. C. Coggin of Atlanta, Ga, closed Sunday night. There was more than fifty conversions. The famous Williams Colored Jubilee Singer of Chicago will entertain at Grove M. E. church June 22nd. Prof. Bondurant and Mr. James Hill gave a recital at Grove M. E. church Monday evening, June 7th. They were pleased with a full house. The famous pianist, Blind Boone, was in our ryite June 9th, under the auspices of the Y. V. U. club of Zion Baptist church. There was a packed house to greet him. There was two prizes awarded to the two selling the omtaskites. Miss Aliane Bentley received the first prize, which was a diamond ring. The second prize, $2.50 in gold, was awarded to Miss Irene Cockran. Mrs. Robinson of this city has opened a neat dressmaking and millinery shop. Sore Nipples. Any mother who has had experience with this distressing aliment will be pleased to know that a cure may be effected by applying Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is done nursing. 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Mr. Dee Appleton of Kirksville is employed in this city. Mr. E. B. Cooke was in Shenandoah a few days last week. While in our city Mr. J. L. Thompson, G. W. M., made a visit to the Rose of Sharon O. E. S. MONMOUTH, ILL. Miss Etta Searcy of Ottumwai, visited here two days. She won her way to Peoria, Ill. Will Penny, A. D. Lewis, John Peples and Jesse Guthrie attended the races in Galesburg. The Royal Circle of Maple City Royal House of the U. B. of F. A. S. M. T. lodges were entertained in Friday by Mrs. Rosa Loveless, a Mrs. Laura Maupin at the home. The Ladies' Sewing Circle was entertained at Mrs. Nowling's. Miss Lillie Washington of Corning and J. Johnson of Creston were callers on Miss Callie Arnett. We neglected saying last week the luncheon given by Mrs. Lee and L. Jones was in honor of Mrs. Carrie Robertson of Sioux City. Master Leonard Nowling is visiting Roscoe Johnson of Gravity. Children's day services will be observed at the A. M. E. church. Miss Anna Baker left to visit Indiana, Des Moines and other points. Mrs. Florence Rice of St. Joe is in our room. Mrs. Martha Lewis is better. Mrs. W. M. Baker visited her son, Mr. V. L. Wis, a few days. Stomach Troubles. Many remarkable cures of stomach troubles have been effected by Chamberlain's Tablets. One man who had spent over two thousand dollars for medicine and treatment was cured by the three tablets. For sale by all dealers. KEOKUK, IOWA. Mrs. J. C. Craig of 1701 Franklin street entertained June 16th at a reception from 3 to 6 o'clock in honor of Mrs. Horace Theodore Craig. Assisting in the receiving line were Mrs. Craig, Mrs. M. F. Clark, Mrs. W. H. Thompson and Mrs. J. R. Clark of Ottumwa, Miss Olga Haley of Battle Creek, Mich, Mrs. Tucker of Carthage, Ill, Mrs. Harry Ashby and Mrs. Clifton H. Ashby. The guests were introduced to the receiving line by Mrs. Alonzo Draine. Tee was poured in the dining room by Mrs. George Snoddy and Mrs. Fielding Johnson. Assisting in the dining room were Miss Aurelia Bland and Miss Blanche Kebo. The guests were invited to the dining room by Mrs. George Ashby, Mrs. Mary Martin and Miss Tita Field. At the punch bowl were Miss Pearl Ashby, Miss Elizabeth Gross and Miss Marie Lewis. There were eighty guests at the reception, which was beautifully appointed in every particular. In the evening at 7 o'clock Mrs. Craig entertained the husbands and gentlemen friends of those who assisted in the dinner at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. George Snoody, 1312 Orleans avenue, entertained at a seven-course dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Horace the Draco Craig. Covers were laid for fourteen. The out of town guests were Miss Olga Haley of Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. M. Stearnes of Kansas City, Kans., Mrs. W. H. Thompson, Mrs. J. R. Clark and Mrs. M. F. Clark of Ottawa. Mrs. W. H. Thompson, Mrs. J. R. Clark and Miss Olga Haley left for Ottawa on Monday evening. Miss Haley will leave Ottawa the last of the week for an extended visit with relatives in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cal. Returning will visit Kansas City, Mo., and Chicago, Ill., expecting to be at her home in Battle Creek, Mich., about the second week in September. Your Credit Is Good. H4 MONMOUTH, ILL. Miss Etta Searcy of Ottumwa, Iowa, visited her two days. She was on her way to Peoria, Ill. Will Penny, A. D. Lewis, John People and Jesse Guthrie attended the races in Galesburg. The Royal Circle of Maple City Royal House of the U. B. of F. and S. M. T. lodges were entertained last Friday by Mrs. Rosa Loveless, and Mrs. Laura Maupin at the home of the latter. Mrs. Anna Merrial and daughter of St. Louis, Mo., are visiting at the home of Josh Merrial. Byron Newsome attended the Galesburg races. A number of friends pleasantly surprised Mrs. L. P. Maupin in honor of her birthday anniversary. The guests left a number of nice presents in remembrance of the occasion. Mr. Richard Wallace is home from a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Anna Brown, of the Hotel Brown at Springfield, Ill. Mr. John Collins of Chicago is here for a week's visit with his mother and sister, Mrs. Margaret and Miss Harriet Collins. Mrs. Edward Payne, who has been confined in bed for several weeks, is somewhat improved. Rev. T. L. Smith, D. D. of Quincy, Il., was in the city the last of the week. He stopped at the home of Mr. Emmet Birdett. Children's Day exercises will be held Sunday at both churches. In the evening the stewardess board of the A. M. E. church will render a program. Mrs. L. Abel of Burlington was here last week. She was present at the U. B. F. sermon and took part in its program. A number of Tuskegee students excellently entertained the public at the Wethomist church Tuesday evening. Speeches, negro melodies and readings were given. Mrs. G. F. 'Tiddings of Kewanee is visiting Mrs. Ernest Bassett. The U. B. F. lodge held their annual sermon on Sabbath afternoon at the G. A. R. hall. The sermon was delivered by Rev. T. L. Smith of Quincy, Ill. Others took part in the program. The music was furnished by the Calvary Baptist choir. Those from out of the city who were present were Rev. Smith of Quincy, Dr. H. D. Hewitt of Jacksonville, Ill., Mrs. L. Cipier of Paris, Mo., Mrs. J. H. Donaldson of Galesburg and Mrs. Mary Turner, also of Galesburg. Please get your subscription money ready for the agent. Restored to Good Health "I was sick for four years with stomach trouble," writes Mrs. Otto Gans, Zanesville, Ohio. "I lost weight and felt so weak that I almost gave up hope of being cured. A friend told me that I had tablets, and since using two bottles of them I have been a well woman." Obtainable everywhere. MACON, MO., NEWS Miss Ruth Reese has returned to her home, after a two weeks' visit with her grandmother in Webster Grove, Mo. Born, to Prof. and Mrs. E. W. Perkins, a fine boy, Mother and son are doing nicely. Mother Webster has purchased a new pianist player. Hurrah for Mother Webster. Rev. G. W. Cross left for Carrollton for the Sunday school convention, to represent the A. M. E. Sunday ```markdown ``` Open A Charge Account FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1915. JOHN L. W. KENNEDY, EDITOR Published every Friday by the Bristolander Publishing Company, Dept. of Law. Office in Chicago, building, corner Seventh and Mam berry streets, Iowa place, Waukegan 897. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, F. A. M. and Lodge of the Grand Congress, Heroines of Jericho of America and Western Baptist Association. Entered at the postoffice as second class matter. Advertising rates for display ads 25 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six inches per inch, for each insertion. Local advertisers 10 cents per line for each insertion counting seven words to a line. For churches and secret societies where admission is charged, one-half of the above-mentioned rates. For professional, legal announcements and contracts, no rates are given on application. All ad advertising is to be paid in advance. school. Mrs. Dolly Donnelly and Mrs. Alex Henderson are the same at this writing. The Macon Colored Women's club met Saturday at the residence of Mrs. Tom Adams. A delightful evening was spent and several interesting topics were discussed by our most loyal and intelligent president, Mrs. Ida L. Garnett. A delicious two-course lunch was served. The ladies departed at their usual hour, lauding Mrs. Adams an excellent hostess. Miss Irene Wright is visiting relatives in Moberly, Mo. Miss Corinne Wright spent Saturday in Moberly shopping. Mr. Raymond Houston spent a few days out of the city on business. Mr. James Garnett, Jr., has returned to his home, after a short visit in Jefferson City, Mo. Miss Ada Kimbrough is visiting relatives in our city. Sunday was Children's Day at the Bethel A. M. E. church. A splendid program was rendered gy the children. The church was beautifully decorated in red and blue paper. The fun.eral of Mr. William Brummall occurred at the Bethel A. M. E. church Tuesday last. Miss Carrie Henderson remains very ill at her home. There will be a Fourth of July celebration at Stevon park, given by Mr. Willard Carter. The Misses Alma McElroy and Lucille Harris were elected delegates to the Sunday school conference, which convened in Bevier on June 24 to 27. Cephes McElroy is on the sick list. Mrs. H. C. McGill, the hairdresser of our city, is out of town on business. Several Macon knights are contemplating on spending the fourth of August in Quincy, Ill. Mrs. Addie Hoskins of Rock Island, Ill., is expected home soon for a visit with relatives. Mrs. B. P. E. Gales is visiting her mother in Evanston, Ill. Mr. William Adams of Milan, Mo., spent Sunday with his sister. Owing to the rainy season the moonlight picnics all seem to be a failure. Mr. Floyd Ancell and Miss Ruth Perkins have returned to their home from school. They attended Lincoln Institute. For the sake of Mike pay your subscription. How do you expect the paper to run when you are only putting out the reading. VIVIAN L. JONES Funeral Director PHONE: Empire Locks Residence Wal. 6624. Office 619 East Court Ave Des Mollys OSKALOOSA, IOWA Children's Day was observed both by the Baptist and Wesley Chapel Sunday schools. Miss Ruth Kiner of Beacon left Wednesday for Waterloo, where she went as a delegate to the Sunday school convention. Coming home she will stop in Marshaltown for a week's visit at the Geo. Suter home. Mr. and Mrs. Moore and baby of Louisville, Ky., are visiting at the parental home on A avenue West. Mrs. Fred Tolson served lunceon to a large crowd Friday night and Mrs. R. Franklin Tuesday night. Mrs. Ethel Fields left Monday for Des Moines. Master Hansol Nelson of Sac City is visiting at the home of his uncle, Rennie Nelson. Miss Ruth Crowder returned Monday from Ottumwa, where she was in attendance at the Baptist Sunday school convention. M. R. L. Topp and wife of Grinnell, en route for Chillicothe, Mo., are spending a few days in the city, the guests of M. Lillian Huron. June 22nd and no wedding bells yet. Wilbur Johnson was in Buxton on Tuesday. Your subscription is due. Be prepared for the collector. Messrs. Chas. C. Hudgins and Arthur L. Cooper left Thursday night for Omaha, Neb. Misses Naomi Kimbrough and Francis Kinar went with the S. W. White family to Clear Lake. Miss Kimbrough will stay with the family until they are settled and Miss Kinar until August. Then she will return to be present at the family reunion in Beacon.