Iowa State Bystander

ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER The Best and only medium that reaches the colored people of the middle west. Mrs. J. H. McDowell, the delegate from Eliza E. Peterson Woman's Christian Temperance Union, will leave for Buxton o nMonday a. m. to attend the State Federation of Clubs. WANTED—Two good roomers; man and wife or two ladies. Reasonable rates reasonable at 907 17th street. "The Face At the Window," a thrilling drama in three acts, given by Mrs. Chas. Wilson at West High school Thursday evening, May 25, at 8:15, for the benefit of St. Paul's A. M. E. church rally. Tickets on sale at Model Drug Store. (Adv.) A new chapter of the O. E. S. was organized at Fort Dodge, Iowa, Saturday evening, May 13th, by the G. W. M., Mrs. Ruth B. Bright, assisted by Rev. I. W. Bess, W. P. of Queen of Sheba, Waterloo. There were seventeen applicants who received the light of the order. Every one seemed highly pleased with the secret work. Sister Lydia Cooper, W. M.; Bro. S. Hudson, W. P.; Sister J. Raglon, A. M. N. A. A. C. P. Dr. A. J. Booker, chairman of the educational committee, announces that he has another big surprise to spring in connection with the educational meeting to be held at Union Congregational church Thursday evening, May 25th. Hon. J. B. Weaver, Jr., son of the late J. B. Weaver, Sr., formerly candidate for president of the United States, will be the principal speaker. The legal redress committee will also make a full report on the recent fight on "The Birth of a Nation," and donations received to defray the expenses of this local fight and the fight on segregation being conducted by the Louisville, Ky., branch. All members are urged to attend. The public is cordially invited. By order of the executive committee. MRS. DOWNEY CHARMS HEAR ERS. Pays Loving Tribute to Mothers. Mrs. Helena Downey of Ottumwa, first president of the Iowa Federation of Colored Women, spoke at the Mothers' day exercises at St. Paul's A. M. E. church last Sunday night to a large and appreciative audience. The subject of her address was "Mother's Love." "With the tender recollection of a mother who long since passed into the silent beyond and the memory of precious home," said Mrs. Downey, "I come to offer the tribute of a grateful heart. Two years ago the stork visited Mother Columbia and brought her a new holiday. The new comer was christened Mothers' Day. What a beautiful and impressive tribute to mother for a whole nation to unite on one day in song, in speech and other appropriate exercise to honor her, the angel spirit of the home, the moulder of human life. What could more fittingly represent motherhood than white blossoms, the chosen emblem. Its whiteness symbolizing purity, its lasting qualities faithfulness, its fragrance love, its wide field of growth charity, and its form beauty. This day should strengthen faith and resolution, quicken action and stimulate self-sacrifice." BURNETTE FOR RECORDER. Mr. A. S. (Buzz) Burnett of Valley Junction has announced his name as a candidate for county recorder, subject to the republican primaries. Mr. Burnette is one of the best qualified young men for this office that Polk county could find. He has been deputy county auditor for about seven years, also worked in the recorder's office a short time. He has lived in Valley Junction for the past twenty-two years. For three years he was postmaster there. He was in the grocery and hardware store for several years. The editor of The Bystander has known Mr. Burnette for many years and has found him to be a gentleman. He has never held an elective office. His many friends solicit your support. Subscribe for and read your own neighbor's or quit going to the public library to read it. REMEMBER THE Palace Sweet Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Is the best place to go for Good Home Cooking Everything First Class Red 1367 1012 Center Street Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, Props. THE BYSTANDER Iowa State Federation Colored Women's Clubs Iowa State Federation Colored Women's Clubs Fifteenth Annual Session of the Colored Women's Clubs Will be held at the Y. M. C. A. at Buxton, Iowa May 22nd to 24th Inclusive. Board meeting Monday at 3 p. m. Monday Evening, May 22—Citizens' Night. Music—America, Invocation—Rev. F. B. Woodard, pastor Mt. Zion Baptist church. Instrumental solo—Mrs. Eva Pugh. Welcome address on behalf of city—Mr. Richard Anderson. Vocal selection—Mrs. Rosa Guy. Welcome address on behalf of churches—Rev. J. H. Ferribe, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church. Bailey. Parliamentary drill—Mrs. Helena Downey, parliamentarian. Music,. Symposium, Education—Mrs. A. G. Clark, chairman. Co-operation of Parent and Teacher—Mrs. Minnie Brown, Buxton. Race Literature—Mrs. Emma Brooks, Davenport. Vocational Training—Mrs. Anna Williams, Buxton. Mothers' Meetings—Mrs. Gertrude MRS. S. JO President State Federation of Colored Science Department National A MRS. S. JOE BROWN Association of Colored Women's Club National Association of THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE LADY OF THE WEST President State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Superintendent Social Science Department National Association of Colored Women. President State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Superintendent Social Science Department National Association of Colored Women. Mary Crawford MRS. HELENA DOWNEY First Honorary President State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Welcome on behalf of clubs—Mrs. Belle C. Watkins, first vice president I. F. C. W. C. Trio—Mesdames Carter, Mills and Miss Mardis. Response to addresses—Mrs. Jessye E. McClain, secretary I. F. C. W. C. Music—Self-Culture club chorus, Announcements. Benediction. Tuesday, 8:45 a. m. Invocation by chaplain, Mrs. R. N. Hyde. Song, "Iowa Beautiful Land." Roll call of district chairmen. Responded to with two minute talks telling of their efforts towards building up federation. Address, Earlier Educational vantages—Mr. A. G. Clark, Oloosa. Report of music chairman—Gus G. Nichols, followed by deniation. Why Preserve Negro Folk-lore Mrs. Clara Shepard. Tuesday, 8 p. m. Music. Invocation. Roll call—Quotations from N. women. Minutes afternoon session. Musical selection—Miss I. Jones, Oskaloosa. Original poem—Miss Marg Roberts. F. C. W. C. club chorus. A. m. n. Mrs. R. N. Ral Land." Re- minute talks towards build- committee. L. s. settings. Why Press Mrs. Clara S Tu Music. Invocation. Roll call— women. Minutes afte- musical Jones, Oskala Original Roberts. Instrument Annual Brown, presi- Violin Smith, Water Reading— vision. Announcer Wednesday Devotional Maybrook and Music. Banley. Parliamentary drill—Mrs. Helena Downey, parliamentarian. Music, Symposium, Education—Mrs. A. G. Clark, chairman. Co-operation of Parent and Teacher—Mrs. Minnie Brown, Buxton. Race Literature—Mrs. Emma Brooks, Davenport. Vocational Training—Mrs. Anna Williams, Buxton. Mothers' Meetings—Mrs. Gertrude E. Durden Rush, Des Moines. DE BROWN Women's Clubs, Superintendent Social Association of Colored Women. Address, Earlier Educational Advantages—Mr. A. G. Clark, Oskaloosa. Report of music chairman—Mrs. Gus G. Nichols, followed by demonstration. Why Preserve Negro Folk-lore—Mrs. Clara Shepard. Tuesday, 8 p. m. Music. Invocation. Roll call—Quotations from Negro women. Minutes afternoon session. Musical selection—Miss Edna Jones, Oskaloosa. Original poem—Miss Margaret Roberts. Instrumental—Miss Mildred Griffin Annual address—Mrs. S. Joe Brown, president. Violin selection—Miss Vivian Smith, Waterloo. Reading—Miss D. Mae Lee. Vocal solo—Mrs. S. H. Armisted. Style show, how women should dress, conducted by Madam Geo. C. Young, assisted by Madam C. H. Mease. Announcements. Wednesday Morning, 8:45 a. m. Devotional exercises, 15 minutes. Music. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1916. Colored S Roll call—Quotations, miscellaneous. Report of temperance chairman—Mrs. Lydia Hockedy. Report of civics chairman—Mr. Wells Fowler. A. Report of comm Installation of o Adjournment. Report of arts and crafts chairman MRS. JESSYE E. McCLAIN Secretary I. F. C. W. C. Paper, "The Practical Influence of the Clubs"—Mrs. Lulu Horne. Solo—Mrs. Minta Miles. Address, "Why Clubs Should Federate"—Mrs. Gertrude S. Johnson. Paper, "Medicinal Value of Fruits MRS. BELL C. WATKINS First Vice President, I. S. F. C. W. C. and Vegetables," followed by demonstration—Mrs. Clara Comely, Webster City, assisted by delegate F. B. W. club. Report of young women's chairman—Mrs. Eliza Redd. Round table, "What Our Young Women Are Doing," delegates from young women's clubs. MRS. JENNIE G. JOHNSON Cor. Secretary, I. S. F. C. W. C. Music—Miss Juanita White. Report of suffrage chairman—Miss Teresa Adams, followed by five minute talk, suffrage workers. Wednesday, 2 n. m. Music. Invocation. Roll call—Quotations from Dunbar. Minutes. Parliamentary drill—Mrs. Helena Downey. Music—Mrs. Fannie Sorrell. Symposium, Social Service—Miss Jessie E. Walker, chairman. The Home as a Social Center—Mrs. Jennie G. Johnson. The Church as a Social Center—Mrs. J. L. Edwards. The School as a Social Center—Mrs. Minnie B. London. Vocal duet—Mrs. Gus G. Nichols and Mrs. C. B. Woods. Report of child welfare chairman—Mrs. I. L. Brown. Address on child welfare—Dr. E. A. Carter, Buxton. Election of officers. Original poem—Mrs. Jonnie Storey Johnson. Wednesday, 8 p. m. Music. Invocation. Roll call—Quotation from Dr. Booker T. Washington. Minutes. Vocal selection—Mrs. Pearl Thompson. Original poem—Mrs. H. W. Hughes Paper, "The Care of the Teeth," Dr. L. R. Willis, Buxton. Music—Mrs. W. A. Brown. Address, "Our Boys"—Mr. J. H. McGrew, Buxton, secretary Y. M. C. Report of committees. Installation of officers. Adjournment. MRS. GERTRUDE S. JOHNSON Organizer I. S. F. C. W. C. MRS. WELLS FOWLER Chairman Civics, I. S. F. C. W. C. MISS JESSIE E. WALKER Honorary President, S. F. C. W. C. Chairman Social Service NORTHWESTERN FEDERATION MEET Among the many interesting women's conventions which are in preparation to oe held this year, one very close at hand is that of the Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which will convene at Wichita, Kansas, June 7-9. A knowledge of the program indicates that they will be a very busy set of women and will accomplish some very effective work for the benefit and advancement of the cause for which they are organized. Among the northwestern states interested are Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Illinois. Meeting at the same time as the national conventions in Chicago, the meeting takes a peculiar importance and we are hoping for splendid results. Mrs. J. Snowden-Porter of Illinois is president and Mrs. J. B. Rush of Iowa is secretary. Delegates will send names and addresses to Miss Stella Turner, 518 N. Water street, Wichita, Kan., chairman of the placing committee, and she will send assignments. Entertainment free to delegates. EDITORIALS THE MODERN SHORT DRESS IS HARMFUL. This new style short dress and high fashionable shoe tops that the so-called society women wear nowadays are very harmful, hurtful and dangerous to the morals of the American girls. It seeks to create the wrong impression. It is almost obscene and indecent to see our girls out on the streets with those short knee dresses. The sentiment that we sow now the next generation will reap, Mothers, your girls will soon lose all the modesty and womanly graces by such exposures. Why really some go on the streets with such stunts in short dresses and other indecent apparel that it shocks the gallant manhood of man to see them, You may say. Don't look at them, but what do they get out on the streets and in public if not for men to see. They are out to attract and be admired by men. In reading this article some will call me an old fogy, but some day you will say that we all ought to rise up and put a stop to the vulgar and indecent dressing. NEGROES IN SPELLING MATCH NEGROES IN SPELLING MATCH. Dalton, Mo., May 1.—Several hundred white and Negro people attended the first country-wide spelling match for Negro school children ever held in Missouri, and whih was a part of the ninth annual commencement exercises of the Bartlett Agricultural and Industrial school. Brunswick public school won first honor gold medal. Six students were radiated from the several service training departments. Rev. Dr. G. L. Prince of St. Joseph delivered the commencement address. He urged all to prepare for more efficient service in whatever is open to them. The exhibits of fine washing, ironing, plain and fancy cooking, house-cleaning and scrubbing and dusting by the girls and the demonstrations of plowing, harrowing, harnessing and driving horses and mules and caring for cows and hogs by the boys were features of the commencement. A high school meet concluded the program. We congratulate Prof. Bruce for producing the evidence of such thorough work done in his college. INDIANS TO BE MADE INTO U. S. CITIZENS Washington, D. C., May 11.—The United States will gain 186 new citizens Saturday. They are Sioux Indians of Yankton, S. D. Secretary Lane was on his way there today as the personal representative of the "Great White Father"—the president of the United States—to conduct the ceremonies. Incidentally he will present the Indians with patients to their allotted lands. The action will mark the first real step in Secretary Lane's policy of giving all competent Indians full control of their individual affairs and placing them upon the same legal standing as all other American citizens. He will then greet each Indian by his "white" name and the ceremonies will be ended. The above clipping seems to me a joke rejoicing over a few Indians being made citizens and given a white name. Perhaps the government would like to give him a white face. What about the Negro who is not granted his rights. Below we print a letter that was written to the Daily Capital condemning "The Birth of a Nation," and censuring the Capital in its position it took. It is a splendid letter and meets my idea regarding the play: California Woman, Portrait, Pictures ia Woman Protests Picture. "The Clansman." Monrovia, Cal, May 7, 1916—Editor Capital: We feel it our duty to write a letter o protest against the stand your paper takes in regard to the disloyal, unpatriotic and rebel sympathizing picture, "The Clansman." We have been great friends of your paper for many years, both in Iowa and since we came to California. But as the wife of a union soldier and mother of two sons, I feel that through four columns you simply ocer an insult. In favoring that untruthful production we positively know that it has done much to injure the cause of patriotism among the young of our land, and I sincerely hope you will hear from many more of your patriotic friends on this subject. Respectfully. Gertrude Braman. The Bystander believes in good government, because in good government only can all the people of all races, classes, professions and callings enjoy equal rights and privileges under the law. Good government is not alone the result of good laws, but is rather the result of the enforcement of those laws. That we may have good laws properly enforced it is necessary that we have at the head of the department of justice a man who is able to enforce them and is guided by the spirit of justice to his fellowmen in enforcing them. It is necessary that we have a man for attorney general who will enforce the laws against the powerful interests which are taking advantage of the weak and helpless, instead of using the law enforcement machinery of the state exclusively to the searching out of the petty offenses of the weak and ignorant and punishing them. There is no man appearing or attorney general who meets all of these requirements as completely as does H. M. Havner of Marengo. Mr. Havner is recognized as the greatest trial lawyer in the state, and the state is entitled to the best legal talent within its boundary to look after the many interests of all the people. Mr. Havner was a classmate in the Iowa university of our steamed S. Joe Brown, who speaks of Mr. Havner with the highest praise for his ability as a lawyer, his kindness as a classmate and his behavior as a gentleman. On account of this classmate relationship and years acquaintance S. Joe Brown, who in such close touch with and of the state department of justice were Mr. Havner attorney general as to insure a fair consideration for our most humble fellow citizens at all times. Mr. Havner was taught the equal Pay Boost and read the Bystander Dont borrow or read your neighbors, help make this a great paper rights theory from childhood by a father who gave four years of his life to free an enslaved race, and these principles of equal rights are imbedded in his life so that any other course for him would be impossible. The battle cry of Bystander readers should be "Havner for Attorney General." JAS. R. HANNA FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Mayor Jas. R. Hanna is going to win the nomination for lieutenant governor. Of that there is not the shadow of a doubt. He is a local man and the colored vote here that knows what he has done for this city ought to be for him, and will be. The colored vote out over the state not so well acquainted with him and with his work we want to reach and say to them to vote for Jas. R. Hanna for lieutenant governor. He is reliable. You always know just where to find him. He is an upright, honorable gentleman worthy of the vote of every man. He has been tried and found not wanting. The young man and the young woman can find an inspiration in his life. Since he was twelve years old he has fought his own way forward, helping himself through school and college and always helping others. He has a sympathy with the common people that is not often found in public men. His friends should show him their appreciation by going to the polls en masse and voting for him on June 5th, primary day. Mr. Thomas is still in the campaign for state treasurer and from the reports that are coming in daily we feel almost assured of his nomination. His appeal to the voters through his legislative record, together with the endorsement of labor, merit the undivided support of the wage earner in his campaign. Legislative Representatives of Railway Employees, Des Moines, Iowa, April 22, 1915. Hon. Chas, H. Thomas, Kent, Iowa. Dear Sir: During the past session of the Iowa general assembly we have measured our success, very largely, through the efforts of the members of the senate who have stood loyally by us in advocating, on the floor and by exertion of personal influence, for the laws we asked. We are attempting to express our appreciation in this letter, thanking you for the important part you have taken in assisting us, and assure you that the members of our craft, as well as ourselves, feel you have justly merited our gratitude. Wishing you full measure of good luck and trusting our successors may be privileged to further continue the same pleasant acquaintance and relation we have enjoyed, we beg to reain, Sincerely yours, Phil S. Billings, Legislative Representative Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Valley Junction. Jas. Steadman, Legislative Representative Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, Eagle Grove. J. A. Gibson, Legislative Representative Order Railway Conductors, Valley Junction. SAMPSON FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. While the choice of a candidate for governor is important, yet even more important at this time is the selection of a candidate for attorney general. The policies of the present administration have met with almost universal approval and the people of the state desire that these policies be continued. It is our belief that this can best be accomplished by nominating Henry E. Sampson, who during the past five years has been the assistant attorney general. He is the logical man. Mr. Cosson secured his position by the same road of experience. No one can successfully act as the executive head of this important department who has not secured an intimate knowledge of the inside workings of its several divisions by active experience in the office. Mr. Sampson is the kind of a public official to whom you can go at any time and secure a sympathetic hearing as to any questions affecting the general welfare of the people whom he serves. If it is a cause that needs his assistance, you can depend upon him at the time when needed. ALBIA NEWS. Lawyer James Spears of Buxton once a Sunder visitor in Albia was a Sunday visitor. Mr. Perry Smith and Miss Sadie Lewis are two of the Albia high school graduates this year and are enjoying high school festival and class parties this year. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. Geo. Hollingsworth on Monday. After business the hostess served a two-course lunch. The business meeting of the Mite Missionary society was held at the home of Mrs. Oscar Roper. No study period, but after the election of delegate to convention Mrs. Sallie Lewis, the hostess, served lunch. Mrs. Robinson of Hocking was in Albia on business two days of this week. Missionary program night at the A. M. E. church Sunday, May 14. This has been a rainy week in our vicinity. Rain almost every day this week. For a burn or scald apply Chamberlair's Salve. It will allay the pain almost instantly and quickly heal the injured parts. For sale by all dealer. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS in a communication to the Baltimore News, W. H. Holtcziel, principal of the Utica Normal and Industrial situte, Utica, Miss., writes: I have read your editorial of Number 15, entitled, "Booker T. Washington's Field." I have found it very teresting, but there are some points it which I feel ought to be amplified, to say the least. It is for this ason that I venture to write you is letter. For instance, you make a comparison between the Northern Negro and Southern Negro, and you state at the southern Negro's progress 50 years has not been relatively amenable with that of the Northern Negro during the half century of a freedom. You were kind enough weaver, to give some very valuable asons for this. The facts which I live at my command, however, and which can be had from the United census census, convince me that taking everything under consideration, Southern Negro's progress during e past 50 years has far surpassed the Connecticut Negro when you see us. We ought not overlook the fact that the Southern Negro is making progress endless difficulties--among them a matter of education. The Constituent Negro has paid, on the education of each of his children, out of public funds, for any given year, more than 15 times as much as we Negroes the far South receive per capita. Besides, he has educational facilities. For 50 years the Negroes have ad here in the South the poorest and of opportunities to educate them lives—school terms being from three five months in length, and the cot in fields taking up the remainder the time of our children. Besides, hen they do attend school, the facilities are often so poor that it is all oest equal to no school at all. It quires a boy 26 years to complete common school course under the circumstances. There is often no more an the wreck of a log cabin with no eating apparatus, and but the poor it improvised blackboards, and little no protection from the elements. He presides over such a school after as low as $1 a month (that is the average unit) for five months, and out of which he has to pay not less than 7 month for board. If this sounds travagant, I have only to invite yourention to the latest annual report the superintendent of education of is state and Louisiana. It cannot expected under such conditions that Negroes will make saltatory groves. But this is not the worst. There, we are, according to the United States mass, about 2,000,000 Negro children in the South who cannot get into even poor schools that I have just mentioned. That is to say $2 per cent of 15 Negro children of the South, according to the United States census, tend no school at all. Methodists who sought to have colored bishops provided for work among colored people failed to receive the action of the annual conferences of a Methodist Episcopal church, the firmative vote failing to reach the necessary two-thirds. Announcement the total conference vote was made Dr. Joseph H. Hingesey, secretary the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The plan was down as the Mississippi proposition Representative L. C. Dyer of Missouri, gave the record of the colored soldiers in the, wars of this country in a public meeting at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Fourteenth and Corcoran streets northwest, under the auspices of the National Memorial association, in commemoration of the fifty-fourth anniversary of the manipulation of slaves in the District of Columbia. The association, which is a national ne, is organized for the purpose of recruiting a site for the erection of a monument in Washington in honor of its colored soldiers and sailors who might in the wars of this country, Dr. Dyer said he would do all he could in further this movement by an appropriation by congress, and ledged the support of the Spanish veterans, of which he is commanding chief. Representative H. Martin Williams, he was master of the ceremonies, made a short address, in which he stated that he was for peace, and that a hoped this country would never be another war. As a table delicacy the tile fish has published itself firmly under the excitation of the bureau of fisheries, which undertook to bring its merits public attention a short time ago. these fish are now marketed to great quantities and are to be found on sale all the leading markets of the east, a part of the country, so that the government's efforts in introducing it have been amply successful. Sadan grass yields from one to eight tons of cured hay an acre. An enormous deposit of asphalt in anate province, in the Philippines, lies near the shore line at Tacloban that the can anchor and take on cargoes on lighters loaded at the mines with actually no overland transportation. There is a large and growing demand the islands for paving asphalt, and the cities of the far east are now in position to offer a market. We are several kinds of warts, manglious. The scientific name most common is verruca vul- to provide bishops for race and languages and was sent to all the annual conferences. The vote, as compiled by Doctor Hingley, was: Total vote of the conferences, 8,402. Necessary two-thirds for adoption, 5,601. Total affirmative vote, 4,921. Total negative vote, 3,481. The proposition failed of adoption by 680 votes. The vote of the raymen on the proposition was: Yeas, 3,360; nays, 2,425. Necessary for adoption of the proposition, 3,816 votes. The Wilmington proposition, giving bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church in constitutional matters the right of veto, which was submitted to the annual conferences by the general conference of 1912, was lost by a majority of 1,571 ministers and 960 laymen. The Colorado proposition, granting honorary privileges to retired ministers and absentee voting on constitutional matters, had a majority of 2012 ministers and 818 laymen. These privileges will be granted and will become law by favorable action by the general conference at Saratoga Springs May 1. The three questions now decided have been voted upon by the Methodists since 1912 and were considered the most important propositions before the various conferences. Mr. Washington's creed is emphasized on every occasion—that is, to "do the common things uncommonly well." Courses are being offered in domestic science, basketry, drawing, music, sewing, manual arts, physical training and the teachers' professional course. For recreation we have tennis, volley ball and swimming. We have a band concert every Sunday afternoon from 6:30 to 7:30. There are always between 2,000 and 3,000 people on the lawns, and there is also a lot not a senior authority. Every Tuesday thoroughly imbued with the Tuskegee spirit. We motored down to the Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Lawbreakers, located at Mount Meigs. There we found 165 Negro boys, 50 of whom came from Birmingham. We were very much impressed with everything we saw. You remember how earnestly the Negro club women of Birmingham have worked to establish and maintain this school. Recently the state has taken charge. Still, we found much that we can and must do for these boys, who must some day come back to the cities and add to the useful or criminal class their share of good or evil. The superintendent is a Tuskegee graduate, and we could see long before we drove up to the building that the Tuskegee spirit reached even to the reformatory, a distance of 27 miles from the institute. Beautiful flowerbeds and shrubbery added to the beauty of the grounds. I feel safe in saying that with the enthusiasm and earnestness which the summer school teachers manifest in the work here that Alabama will not long remain at the bottom of the ladder in illiteracy.—Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. Electrical machinery is used almost exclusively in a Philadelphia ice cream factory that turns out 10,000 quarts a day. The Rev. W. H. Jernagin urged the organization of the forces of the churches throughout the country in support of the monument movement. Thomas L. Jones told of the achievements of the colored race. Among the guests were the commander and staff, Department of the Potomac, G. A. R.; the president and staff, Department of the Potomac, W. R. C.; the Guy V. Henry Army and Navy Union, No. 9; the Spanish-American war veterans and officers of the National Guard of the district. The anniversary was observed Monday also at Mount Calvary Colored Baptist mission, Twentieth and E streets northwest, under the auspices of the Butter Zouaves Veteran Relief association. Prof. Jesse Lawson was the principal speaker. He voiced the feeling of his race in the sentiment that "the United States of America is the only country we know and her cause is our cause and her flag is our flag, and here together we shall live and never once say die. This is our country, our home, our own, our native land!"—Washington Star. The Japanese have many curious superstitions about animals, the chief among which is their belief in the supernatural power of foxes. There are numberless shrines dedicated to foxes. The badger is another animal feared by the superstitious Japanese mind. It is believed to have power to annoy people and to be able to turn into a priest at will. The mockingbird of the South is sometimes encountered as far north as the Potomac. The Australian government in planning the establishment of a laboratory for the application of scientific research to national industries. Experiments by the United States public health service resulted in the discovery of a new and inexpensive disinfectant derived from pine oil. Of Swiss invention is a storage battery electric switching locomotive in which powerful electro-magnets are used instead of compilers for drawing cars. DUTCH FRONTIER GUARDED BY 150 MILES OF FENCE Charged With Electricity, Wire Barrier Is Studded With Dead Animals. SENTINELS ON BOTH SIDES Holland Can Flood Great Area at First Signs of Invasion—Difficult to Cross the Border—Writer Describes Some Scenes of the War. Maastricht, Holland.—They tell you in this town that they have almost forgotten that there is a war. Perhaps they have, for it has swept past them and nobody expects it to come back. The potteries and breweries, which are the heart of the town's prosperity, are running full time and making money; business is good enough to all appearances, and the walls are plastered with the advertisements of innumerable moving picture houses where French war movies are listed side by side with detective dramas filmed in Los Angeles. But Maartricht saw and heard enough of the war in those first few days. Little more than a mile to the west is the Belgian frontier; 20 miles on the other side is the German frontier; 20 miles to the southwest is Liege. The town lies almost at the extremity of South Limburg—the bottle-shaped southward projection of Holland that runs down for some 30 miles before joining to the rest of the coast. The point is hardly two miles wide. And while its people may have forgotten that there is a war now, it will be a long time before they forget those first days of August, 1914. The Germans were coming west through Belgium—everybody knew that. Nobody felt sure that they might not find it more convenient to overrun South Limburg on the way; and the Dutch army, hastily mobilized the last day of July, was digging in along the frontier, while a few miles up the Meuse, on that range of hills which borders the river at Liege as it does at Maastricht, General Leman and his Belgians were sitting behind forts that everybody thought were impregnable and waiting for the Germans. During those days while the people in Maastricht, as in Liege, were waiting to see whether the war was coming their way, there passed through the town of Wolters, German civilians expelled from where they belonged to the beginning of the war, and already Belgians who thought that Dutch territory would be safer than their own were beginning to move into the town and district of Maastricht. Rumors That Germans Crossed. Limburg, of course, was not invaded. A legend persists that some German troops did cross the narrow neck of the bottle, but nobody has ever found any proofs. From Aachen, where the advance troops had been hurriedly gathered together, General von Enrich's army started west toward the Liege forts. At Verviers and elsewhere they skirmished with the Belgian outposts. Then they came to Vise, a village less than four miles from the Dutch frontier and little more than ten from Maastricht. The people of this town, who tell you that they hardly know now that there is a war, could see the smoke when Vise was burned—burned so thoroughly that the people who live along the border will tell you there is not a house left standing. That day there poured across the border a swarm of refugees of a different sort, the precursors of many others in the day that followed—what was left of women and children of Vise, who had seen 200 of their men shot down in the streets, and scores of others made prisoner and started on their way to Germany. Maastricht heard the roar of the battle at Liege, when the Germans, trying to rush the hills without adequate artillery support, were driven back with the loss of 10,000 or 12,000 men, according to local estimates, and when for two or three days an excited world thought that the terrible German army had been stopped just over the threshold. And then one morn-ing window in the Dutch border a city rattled with the deep roar of a new kind of gun, firing at Liege from just south of the frontier line. The new howiters had arrived, and the Liege forts were bled to pieces one by one. 10.000 Refugees in City. Ten thousand refugees were in Maastricht before Liege fell—10,000 strangers in a town of less than 40,000. Most of them had money, and, as hotels and pensions were overflowed, the natives drove a thriving business for a while taking in boarders. But eventually most of the Belgians moved on to Rotterdam, or Amsterdam, or The Hague, or England, and these few who remained, running out of money, went to work in the factories that were just coming back to life and were absorbed in the routine of the town. They left behind their stories of German atrocities that have affected sentiment in Maastricht to a degree that may be indicated by the TOWER VAULTS MODERNIZED Historic Dungeone in London White- washed and Electrically Lighted. London—Just how unromantic the official mind can be is illustrated by the manner in which the dungeons of the tower have been handled by the authorities. For the first time the vaults in the keep at the tower have been opened to the public at a charge of sixture (12 cents). NEW PATROL BOAT ON SPEED TRIAL Patrol boat No. 2 on her speed trials in Lynn bay, making an average of 24 miles an hour. The trials were pronounced satisfactory under the direction of Stewart Davis, who is commander of the Volunteer Patrol squadron. The No. 2 is the first of the fleet of four now under way. These new type patrol boats are 40 feet over all, 8 feet 8 inches beam, and 3 feet draft, fitted with 13 horsepower engines. THE BYSTANDER NEW PATROL BOAT Patrol boat No. 2 on her speed tr 24 miles an hour. The trials were pro of Stewart Davis, who is commander No. 2 is the first of the fleet of four boats are 40 feet over all, 8 feet 8 in 135-horse-power engines. experience of a casual American visitor who, in all innocence, asked for German fried potatoes, and very nearly had to defend himself from personal violence at the hands of a squad of infuriated waiters, who insisted that Holland potatoes were the only kind that could, would, or should be eaten, and that there was something damning about the desire to have anything German. For months after the capture of Liege passage across the frontier was a fairly easy matter. Then the Dutch Government, which has prohibited the export of many articles and is much exercised to prevent smuggling, began to tighten its frontier guard, and the Germans began a series of measures designed to keep the Belgians in Belgium, and everybody else out. Today farmers and tradesmen living near the frontier can get passes across it, if favorably known to the authorities. But without definite and approved business no man, no matter who he may be is allowed to pass the barriers. Take a taxicab with a trilingual driver armed with a pass permitting you to approach the frontier and drive out along the road northwest of Maastricht. Through the mists of the wet, gray afternoon you can see off to the left the hills along the Meuse, and presently, little more than a mile out of the city, you come to a long, straight stretch of road bordered by tall trees which is blocked in the distance by a bank of earth straight across the thoroughfare. Your cab halts at the barrier, and from a shabby brick house at one side of the road emerge a customs inspector in muddy tweeds and half a dozen blue-clad soldiers. Another soldier in an improvised sentry box of straw that on a frame of saplings, is on guard across the road, and before you are two embankments, one starting at either side of the roadway and both stretching more than half way across, with only room for a single vehicle to pass between them. Must Go No Farther. Here you must halt; unless you are a peasant with a basket of eggs or an official of the Belgian relief commission you can go no farther. Fifty yards down the road is another double embankment, and beyond that a wooden sentry box painted black, white, and red. Here is the German empire, or, rather, its Belgian possessions. The squat, ugly village of Smecmares lies just beyond the frontier line—low, one story brick houses, about a foot high, with a solitary German court clad in a muddy uniform of no particular color, his spiked, helmet covered in burial. Here you see none of the bright uniforms worn by the men on leave or home duty in Germany; COLUMBIA When women take a hand and start a preparedness wave all their own, then shall it become universal. On the free rife range at Wintrop, Md. women flocked in great numbers recently, all enthused over the opportunity to learn how to defend their country. An uneasual sight it was to see a small wisp of a woman handling a rifle almost as big as herself with a long stick. "I want to learn how to handle it. The woman in the picture is Mrs. B. M. Botto, and she was as steady a shot as there was in the camp. But the office of works has done its best to deprive them of their historic illusion. It has given the dungeons a coat of whitewash and lightened them with electric lamps and not even the presence of the yeoman of the guard can make these historic cellars appear otherwise than commonplace and modern. True, there is to be seen a dark hole in the wall said to be the famous Little Ease, but in conjunction with its up-to-date equipment it is no more impressive than a passageway in Whitechapel. there are not many soldiers left in this part of Belgium, but those who are left are as businesslike as the men in the trenches. Only two or three of them are in sight here at Smeermaes the sentinel, and one or two others a little distance away, pacing along a high barbed wire fen e. This fence is the Belgian frontier—the first fence built along the border when the Germans began their policy of keeping the Belgians at home. When they found that despite constant patrolling this barrier was insufficient they built a fence along the 150 miles of frontier, 500 yards behind the first one—chosely woven wire this time, high enough to make it difficult even to throw letters over, and charged with electricity. That fence is studded from Maastricht to the sea with carcasses of dogs, rabbits, chickens and cows. And laterly the Germans have begun the construction of still another fence exactly like this one, but 500 yards farther back. The fences are constantly patrolled, and at night there are searchlights. It is getting pretty hard to get into or out of Belgium. The taxi turns back through the town and out again toward the south. After passing another double barrier of earthen embankments and an inquisitive sentry just outside the city limits you run along a road that follows the river perhaps 200 yards on the right, down through the cleft between the double veld, a little village where the Dutch troops acting as the frontiers guards against smuggling on the much-traveled route are quartered, and then on down the road toward Vise. Buins of Vise in Distance. The ruins of Vise are down yonder, beyond the mist-clad wood; and it is hardly more than a quarter of an hour's run to Liege. But it is the frontier; the driver shrugs his shoulders: "Weiter kann man nicht." And as you turn back you pass a line of high covered casks filled with leaves of bread—bread made from American flour, sent across the frontier by the Belgian Relief commission. Until quite recently it was almost as hard to get to Maastricht as to get into Belgium. The Dutch garrison was a strong one, and the traveler in South Limburg had to undergo hourly inspection of passports and special permits. But repeated protests by Dutch business men had its effect, and the reduction of the garrison removed much of the military need for restraints; so that today travel in the southern tip of the Netherlands is as easy as it is in Westchester. Only a single regiment is left in Maastricht. The old bridge across the Meuse is guarded day and night, and beside its parapets lie chevaux-defrise, tunged with barbed wire, and heaps of steel rails, ready to be thrown into place and block the bridge on five minutes notice. But the plant of the Dutch general staff do not contemplate any attempt to defend South Limburg in the event—which is every day regarded as less likely—of an attack. The defences, the dikes and dikes would be blown up and a great stretch flooded clear across the country. Behind the area to be flooded, at the center of the Holland, is Utrecht, fortified almost as strongly as the cities of the Vosges. Here the Dutch would make their first stand. Behind that still another area can be flooded, and then a third, extending the submerged district up to the fortifications of Amsterdam, which would be the last refuge of the Dutch army, as Antwerp was of the Belgian. Anything east of Utrecht would be only outspoken fighting, but the barbed-wire defences that are almost a constant feature of the landscape, and the marching soldiers that can be seen at almost any glance from the car window, indicate how sharp that fighting might be. One of these outposts is Roermond, the city just above the neck of the bottle that is south Limburg. To the north of Roermond the railroad crosses the Muse on a bridge which is strongly guarded and, mined, that it can be blown up without an instant's delay whenever the word is given. But the extent to which the Germans are prepared for even unlikely possibilities is indicated by the fact that in Aachen, a few miles over the border, there is an exact duplicate of that bridge, part by part, reacy to be assembled and set up as soon as the ruins are cleared away. Smoked Only on His Birthday, Billings, Mont.-George T, Stowell, ninety-seven, a pioneer Montana resident, is dead at his home in Helena. His last was the only illness of his life, pneumonia being the cause of his death. He avoided alcohol and smoked only once a year—a cigar on each birthday. The largest electrical range, in the world, installed in the State hospital, Warren Spring, Montana, wooks meals for 1,500 persons daily. The KITCHEN CABINET Not only physical but mental vigor and efficiency depend largely on a proper diet. Not in the clamor of the crowded street. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. But in ourselves are triumph and defeat. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS The 'dainty sandwich is always filling a large place and when well made and served there is nothing that is better enjoyed. Cream Cheese Sandwiches. —Take a square of cream cheese, mash it in a bowl. Cream Cheese Sandwiches.—Take a square of cream cheese, mash it in a bowl, adding a little sweet cream to moisten, salt and paprika to taste, with one or two canned red peppers, spread on thin slices of buttered graham bread. Marshmallow Nut Sandwiches.—Toast fresh marshmallows and cut fine, mix with chopped walnut meats and sweet cream. Cut white bread, spread with butter, then with the mallow and nut mixture. A few candied cherries may be used with this filling if so desired. A half dozen cherries finely chopped will be sufficient for half a dozen sandwiches. Fig Sandwiches.—Soak figs over night in orange juice, then simmer in a little water added to the juice, until tender. Add a half cupful of sugar and the juice of half a lemon to each half pound of figs. Chill thoroughly and chop to a paste. Spread on thin white bread or on slice of pound cake. Marguerites—Make a billed frosting, using a few tablespoonfuls of steamed, chopped raisins and a half dozen chopped nuts. Put a teaspoonful on crisp, salted wafers and brown lightly in the oven. Sponge cake baked in a sheet and then cut with a small biscuit cutter into rounds be frosted with orange icing and rolled in grated rind, or the top decorated with the rind, making very tasty cakes to serve with a cupful of tea when a friend drops in. It's the song ye sing and the smile ye wear That's making the sunshine everywhere. SAVORY SUPPER DISHES. To make a supper dish at all pops lir it must be tasty and quickly pre- a supper dish at all popu be tasty and quickly prepared. Milk toast fills both of these qualifications, therefore it is a great favorite. Palm Tree Spanish Chowder. Cook together a can of tomatoes and a can of red kidney beans for ten minutes. Add a pound of finely chopped hamburger steak, one chopped green pepper, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook five minutes longer and serve piping hot. Corn Bread. At noon put two cupuels of cornmeal in a mixing bowl and pour over it $1\frac{1}{2}$ cupuels of boiling water, enough to thoroughly scald it. Well well and cover with a coating of butter; cover and let stand until night. When ready to bake add a beaten egg. $1\frac{1}{2}$ cupuels of milk a cupuel of four, sifted, with three teaspoonful of baking powder and a half teaspoonful of salt; use more milk if needed, as this should make a thick spoon batter. Bake 20 minutes in gem pans. Halibut With Cofishh—Wash and fake a cupful of halibut, wash and fake two cupfuls of codfish and cover with boiling water; let simmer for 20 minutes, drain and rinse again. Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter, add two of flour and blend until smooth; pour this into 1½ cupfuls of rich milk. Season with paprika and salt, if neede- d. Place the drained fish in a case- role, pour the sauce over it and cover thickly with buttered crumbs. Bake in a moderate oven a half-hour. Mulligatawny Soup.—Slice three large onions and brown them slightly with four slices of chopped bacon. Re- serve the heat and add a teaspoonful of curry meat. Chop four tablespoonfuls of flour and a half teaspoonful of salt; blend all together, and then add three pints of veal or chicken stock. Chop two apples very fine, add them to the soup and simmer gently until the apples are cooked and the soup is thick. Rice Muffins—Mix a cupful of boiled rice with two cups of tuffed flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, a tablespoonful of sugar, a half teaspoon of egg and a cupful of milk. Mix well and bake in muffin pans. Serve hot. Silence Pleases Orator. What a speaker likes best is not applause. It is silence. There are moments when to a speaker the silence can be thrilling. Then he knows, as we say, that he "has" his audience. A perfect relation has been established. During those moments the thought is passing rapidly from the speaker's mind into the minds of the listeners, and is taking effect. It may not always be a sympathetic effect. It may even be hostile. Nevertheless, the thought is at work. Exorbitant Possibilities "Sometimes I am in favor of peace at any price." "Yes; there is often a temptation to feel that way. The only difficulty is that the man who controls the supply is liable to keep boosting the price till you find you can't raise it." - Washington Star. Once a Limestone Ridge. The islands of Lake Erie are part of a limestone ridge that the ice age glaciers did not wholly reduce. Geologists call this ridge the Cinemañal anticlinal. it extends into Tennessee. The sky is always blue. The sky is always blue. What though the night shall darken, and enfold you. And for space in sinless silence hold you. The dawn shall brighten when your rest is through. The sky is always blue. WAYS WITH PARSNIPS. This delicious vegetable should be found often on our tables during the spring months. To boil them and serve plain put a pork shank to cook in boiling water, let simmer for an hour or two, then serve the fore dinner add the well-washed parsnips, cooking gently to keep them them and serve plain put a pork shank to cook in boiling water, let simmer for an hour or two, and two hours before dinner add the well-washed parsnips, cooking gently to keep them whole. Season and serve with the pork. Pot Roast.—Prepare a pot roast in the usual way and cook some parsnips in boiling, salted water until tender. Drain the parsnips and put them into the kettle after the meat has been removed; cook until well seasoned, add flour to the sauce and serve meat, parsnips and gravy all on one platter. Casserole Parsnips.—Cut the pooled parsnips in thick slices and parbole in salted water for 30 minutes. Drain and put into a casserole with butter and pepper, or a few slices of bacon may be used instead of butter, or beef drippings may be used. Bake two hours, adding a little water until they are very tender. Browned Parsanips. — Cut well-cleaned parsnips lengthwise and cook until tender in boiling, salted water. When tender, brown in fresh pork drippings or in suet fat. Serve the parsnips, with a sauce made with flour and cream in the fat left from frying. Parsanips With Drawn Butter Sauce. — Wash and scrape parsnips and cut in pieces or in strips; cook until soft, then serve with drawn butter sauce—melt a third of a cupful of butter, add three tablespoons of flour, salt and pepper to season and a cupful and a half of boiling water. Serve hot. It is not the events of life, nor its emotions, nor this nor that experience, but life itself which is good.-P. Brooks. Now is the only time to begin doing great things. By making out menus for a week in advance, keeping lists of food well liked, thus bringing variety to the table, the housewife will save, heq-save much other things. It is also a good plan to place opposite a recipe the cost inged, thus bringing variety to the table, the house-wife will have self much time for other things. It is also a good plan to place opposite a recipe the cost of the dish. Usually eggs are one of the varying costs, but the house-wife will be able to tell at a glance the cost of the dish. As the majority of women have a certain allowance to spend for the table this will help her to keep accounts and perhaps reduce expenses or at least equalize them from month to month. When eggs are sixteen and eighteen cents a dozen is the time for angel food cuffles, sponge cake and moulds. When eggs are sixty cents a dozen pork cake, apple sauce cake, escalloped dishes and eggless dishes of various kinds will be used. Angel Food—Sift one cupful of sifted flour with a quarter of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Take a cupful of egg whites, add another quarter of a spoonful of the cream of tartar and a pinch of salt, beat until stiff but not dry, add a cupful of sifted sugar, folding in lightly; then the four, also folded in; flavor with vanilla and bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven, using a tube pan. Cocoa Mousse—Use one and a half cupfuls of cream, five tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, one and a half ounces of cocoa, or half a cupful, one half-a teaspoonful of vanilla. Dissolve the cocoa in a small saucepan with two tablespoonfuls of cream. Whip the cream and when nearly beat in the sugar and cocoa; mix thoroughly, turn into a wet mold and pack in ice and salt for four hours. Date Pudding—Mix together a beaten egg, a cupful of fresh bread crumbs, a cupful of chopped dates, a cupful of sugar, a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt and three tablespoons of milk. Bake in a sheet and serve with whipped cream flavored with almond. Nellie Maxwell The familiar song of "Annie Laurie," says the London Chronicle, was written by a soldier in Flanders to his ladylove at home. The writer was William Douglas, and Annie Laurie was one of the three daughters of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwellton. Sad to relate, Annie did not marry her sister. Some say that Douglas was killed in Flanders, but whether or not that is a Annie was led to the altar in 1709 by James Fergusson of Craigdrogar. Why "Hell Gate." Hell Gate, the narrow pass in the East river at New York, was called by the Dutch helgelt, meaning "bright strait" or "clear opening." The name quickly suggested the present English form, which was regarded as more appropriate on account of the whirlpools which made navigation dangerous. Dire Japanese Prophecy. An old Japanese prophecy says: "When men fly like birds ten great kings will go to was against one another." POLITICAL ANNOUNEMENTS. For State Offices. Hon. Geo. A. Cosson, present attorney general of Iowa, is a candidate for governor. Hon. Joseph H. Allen, state senator of Pocahontas county, is a candidate for governor. Hon. W. L. Harding, present lieutenant governor, of Sioux City, is a candidate for governor. Hon. Earnest R. Moore of Cedar Rapids hereby announces his name as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Hon. James R. Hanna of Polk county has announced his name as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Hon. Mm. Brady of Dallas county hereby announces his name as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Hon. W. S. Allen, the present secretary of state, announces his name as a candidate for secretary of state Hon. W. C. Brown, the present state treasurer, hereby announces his name as a candidate for renomination for state treasurer. Hon. Thomas of Union county is a candidate for state treasurer. Hon. Shaw is a candidate for state auditor. Attorney Henry E. Sampson of Polk county, one of the assistant attorney generals, is a candidate for attorney general. Lawyer H. M. Havner of Marengo has announced his name as a candidate for attorney general. Geo. M. Pilmer, republican candidate for sheriff, a capable, economical efficient business man, the friend of the colored man. PETER H. The colored voters of Polk county were never more united in the support of any candidate for public office than they are in supporting George E. Brammer for county attorney. George Brammer is known to be fair and unprejudiced; in fact he demonstrated his absolute fairness in the last session of the owa legislature, of which he was a member from this county. He gave courteous treatment and consideration to every person having public business to transact with him, and he may be expected to do the same thing in any office in which the voters may place him. Mr. Brammer introduced and championed what was known as the "apropriation bill" for the colored people and in many other ways showed that he is unbiased and a safe man to occupy public office. George Brammer is well qualified for the position he seeks and seems to be receiving as strong support among all classes as he is among the colored people. Indications are that he will be a "winner" by a good majority. He will make a good county attorney. M. STOUTENBURGH FOR SHERIFF. The name of James D. Stoutenburgh will be on the republican primary ticket as candidate for sheriff at the coming primary in June. Mr. Stoutenburgh was born in Monroe county on a farm and came to this city when 19 years old, and was employed in a grocery store. Later he became owner for eighteen years of a grocery store, and is well known to the people of this city. For the past four years he has been employed as assessment clerk for the city of Des Moines. He has never before asked or held an elective office, although he has helped the republican party, and has been an active member of the same for years. Knowing that he is fully qualified to perform every duty of said office and by virtue of long service in this city and county, and his fair dealings with the people, his many friends are asking your support. He is a good friend of the colored people and has dealt fair with them in his public career. In fact all classes of people find in him a true friend. Remember his name on the republican ticket on primary day. FORT MADISON NOTES. Mr. Floyd White of Hamilton, Ill., was a Fort Madison visitor last week. Mr. R. H. Higginbotham is very sick at this writing. The Mothers' day program given at the Second Baptist church last Sunday was certainly a grand success. delegate to the Sunday school convention, which convenes in Aurora, Ill., some time in June. The young people of the A. M. E. church will give an entertainment on Thursday, May 18. The Sons of Brotherhood will give a barbecue at the Second Baptist church Wednesday evening. Miss Agnes Stewart, who has been confined to her home for the past month, is able to be out again. Miss Jennie O. Harper will entertain her Sunday school at an outing on Black Hawk Heights on Saturday afternoon. Mr. C. E. Mullinax, yho has been on the sick list, is able to be out again. Rev. J. F. Augustus is visiting in Keokuk. Mr. Berle Anderson of New Boston, owa, was a Fort Madison visitor last week. Mrs. D. Isom is on the sick list, ROBBINS FOR ATTOREY GEN. ERAL The name of Honorable C. A. Robbins of Winterset will be on the republican ticket as a candidate for the nomination of attorney general at the primaries June 5th. Mr. Robbins is one of the best qualified men in Iowa for said position, having lived 42 years of the 47 years in Iowa. Years in active practice of law, four years as county attorney of Madison county, four years a city attorney at Winterset, Iowa, and at present he is the assistant attorney general of Iowa, having served in this capacity for six years. Therefore if you are looking for a splendid man for his high office there can be no question about Mr. Robbins. Age, experience, qualification and fitness, we recommend him to the voters of Iowa for their consideration. NADOLE FOR SHERIFF Mr. Frank J. Madole, our good friend, is a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff of Polk county. Frank was born in this city in 1875 and has spent his entire life in this city. Was educated in the common and public schools. He has never before asked or held an elective office, although an active republican all of his life. He has followed the wall paper and paintin gusiness. Was in business with his father on Sixth and Locust for many years. He is now with the Buck Brothers on the East Sids. He is a member of the painters union, local No. 246, Painters and Decorators of America. He also is endorsed by four other local unions of this city and he is a true and tried friend of the colored race. In fact he is in sympathy with the common masses of people, because he has dealt with those people all of his life, and therefore would make a splendid sheriff for Polk county. His many friends of this county are asking for him your support, and therefore solicit your vote on June 5th at the primaries. BUXTON, IOWA. The Federation of Women's Clubs observed Mothers' day Sunday by giving a splendid program in the auditorium. Although it was a very rainy day many little ones came out and rendered beautiful and inspiring songs and recitations suitable to the occasion. Mr. R. G. Potter and Mrs. Anderson March, who are delegates to the Masonic grand chapel, left Monday for Oskaloosa, where they will hold their annual conference. Miss Georgianna De Sleet's funeral was held last Sunday at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Services in charge of Rev. Woodward. Mrs. Josephine Mays moved to Cedar Rapids this week, where her husband, Edward Mays, has been working for some time. Mr. Steve Anderson is back from Detroit, Mich., to look after moving his family. Steve is very much impressed with Detroit. Says they are hiring men by the hundreds. Secretary McGrew left last week to attend the international convention at Cleveland, Ohio, which began Friday, May 12th, and lasts until Tuesday, May 16th. Prof. Rogers is here this week representing the Western college. Last Sunday while playing with a gun John Pollock shot and instantly killed his brother, Dewey Pollock. Both were young men. JOHN H. BURKE Senator Joe Allen is entitled to the vote of the colored man. His ancestry was Quaker, his grandfather being one of the underground railroad men who helped many a poor colored fugitive from the south. J. H. Allen never turned a deaf ear to the Negro, The Piney Woods institution which Mr. Jones started found in Mr. Allen a ready friend from the start, he being a foundation member and holding a foundation certificate. ever in the history of Iowa politics has the colored man had a chance to vote for a man who has done more for the race as opportunity offered than has J. H. Allen. His friends are taking a very strong stand in this matter because it is time they recognized their friends and helped them politically. It is time that the people gave more attention to these things, and in the candidacy of Joe Allen Iowa has a chance to do something worth while. HEALTH HINTS. A. J. Booker, M. D. You are dead wrong unless: You are dead. You love God with all your soul, all your mind and all your heart. For to not to is to make you a pittable jelly fish in this brief existence and a mius quantity in the next. You pay some attention to proper rest and your health generally, for the men who have done most are the ones who do not fetter their souls by coddling weak bodies. A. B. You know that God is not a man sitting in a big throne chair with a lot of crowns on one side and a bunch of clubs on the other. For it says, "God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." You know that the doing of good deeds and the thinking of good thoughts make your soul greater. For we can only appreciate the goodness of God by having a big calibered soul. You know that the world is getting better. For there was never a time when people were trying so earnestly trying to help each other and learn the will of the Master. You know that it is less a matter of words than of deeds. Talk is a fine bluff, but sooner or later people expect you to square your conversation with your works. For the people who smile all the time do not mean it. You know that the wicked can prosper, if money is a sign of prosperity, and this bunk and twaddle about they shall surely fail is ancient stuff. For the only prosperity is that of the soul and freedom from fear of being exposed. You know that so-called repentance is fear of being punished, in most instances, or of being caught in nearly all cases. For a fellow who has a high sense of honor has his sorrow before he does questionable things. It is a lot easier to not do things than to try to explain and square up afterwards. Most of them do not cry until they are caught. You know that most of us make our own temptations by thinking of things. we would do if we had a chance. For most deeds are done in the heart before they are acted. A real honest man or woman has few temptations; their instinctive honesty protects them. You know that the fellow who builds a fence closes out more than he closes in, and when we try to get exclusive you exclude more than you include with your selfishness. 1916 FUTURE EVENTS FORECAST THEIR SHADOWS. Republican national convention at Chicago on June 7th. National Negro Business League at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. National Negro Press Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 19. National Teachers' Association. National Bankers' Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. International Conference of Grand Master and P. G. M. and Grand Secretary at Chicago on August 21. Knights Templar Conference and Imperial Council and Supreme Grand Chapter of R. A. and Supreme at Chicago, August 22. Grand Chapter of O. E. S. at Chicago on August 21. General Conference of A. M. E. church at Philadelphia on May 4. Iowa Grand Masonic Lodge at Ottumwa on July 11. Iowa Grand Lodge of K of P. at Des Moines on July 18. Iowa Grand Lodge of Order of Calamathe at Des Moines on July 18. Iowa Grand District of Odd Fellows at Colafax on August 22. Iowa Grand District of Household of Ruth at Colfax on August 22. Iowa Grand International Order of Twelve at Keokun on August 1st. International Order of Daughters of Tabernacle at Keokun August 1 Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association at Centerville on September 4. Iowa-Nebraska Sunday School Az. THE BYSTANDEK sociation at Des Moines on June 13. Iowa State Federation of Colored Women's club at Buxton, Iowa, May 22. CLINTON, IOWA. The concert given by the Iowa club a fortnight ago was a success. A large crowd was in attendance. A neat sum was realized, which will go to assist in liquidating the church indebtedness. Mrs. Martha Greenle, an old and respected citizen, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Geo Martin, on Olin street on Tuesday morning, May 9th. Deceased had been in ill health for a number of months, battling bravely endeavoring to regain her health. Clinton had been her home for a number of years, where she had a large acquaintance. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Martin and son, William. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon from the Second Baptist church, of which she was a member. Rev. F. J. Nott officiating, assisted by Rev. W. W. Williams of Bethel A. M. E. church and M. O. Culberson. Interment was made in Springdale cemetery. The Missouri club will give a supper and concert at Bethel A. M. E. church on Friday night. Mesdames G. D. Culbertson and E. S. Heron left Monday morning for Oskaloosa to attend the annual meeting of the O. E. S. Mr. P. P. Taylor, a former resident of Clinton, now of Chicago, was a Clinton visitor the past week, transacting business. In the last monthly meeting of Bethel Sunday school board Mrs. E. S. Heron was elected delegate to the annual convention to be held at Aurora, Ill., in June. The time is near at hand to pay up your subscription, so be ready when the representative calls on you. 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MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. CLARINDA, IOWA. (Special to Bystander from Mr. Jeff Nowling.) Mr. Jeff Nowling, who has been visiting friends and relatives in Clarinda, makes the following report: He found his brother, Mr. Give Nowling, occupying a new seven-room modern house, which he owns, 508 E. Tarkio, valued at $3,700 and family in excellent health. Mr. Lewis Montgomery has purchased a nice home one mile south of square and he owns two teams of horses, one team valued at $800, and he drives to market a few hogs every three months. Mrs. Arthur Montgomery has purchased a nice little home at 608 So. Fourteenth street and self and family are doing well. I found Mr. Noah Pemberton, the mail carrier, and family enjoying perfect health in their new home, which they have recently purchased five blocks from the heart of the city and he also states that he has found out of 500 colored population two-thirds are buying or own property in the city, nice homes, and he states that Mr. Williams is doing fine in the restaurant business, and Mr. Lane also, and Mr. Barnett and Griggs in the barber business. V. L. Jones Director E. F. Samuels Manager Jones & Samuels Undertakers Phone Maple 2548 519 E Court Ave. Des Moines, Ia. PETER H. Hon. H. M. For the nomination Subject to Republican primaries. Younken The Great Are at T All Thru Included Economy You'll find bargains on every counter and every shelf. Now is th mer and save n. H. M. Havner nomination for Attorney General American primaries. See write up on editorial page Sumker Brothers Great May Sales are at Top Speed All Thru the Store Including the economy Basement and bargains aplenty at every turn--counter and case--on every rack--in Now is the time to shop for Sum- Hon. H. M. Havner For the nomination for Attorney General Subject to Republican primaries. See write up on editorial page Younker Brothers The Great May Sales Are at Top Speed All Thru the Store Including the Economy Basement You'll find bargains aplenty at every turn-- on every counter and case--on every rack--in every shelf. Now is the time to shop for Summer and save And speaking for the colored girls in regard to attending school, seeking for a lofty education, is excellent. But for the young boys is poor. But there is one exceptional young man 18 years of age, Mr. Hershel Montgomery, 608 E. Fourteenth street, who is laboring hard and paying his little sister's, Miss Caddie Montgomery, way through high school. This young man I say is entitled to praise. In regard to health conditions, they are fair in Clarinda. Mr. James Arnett is suffering considerable with a paralytic stroke. We wish him a speedy recovery. plating making their home. Mrs. Lillian Lane and Mrs. Wilkerson are attending the Eastern Star session at Oskaloosa. Mrs. C. Long of Greenfield, Mo., is visiting friends and relatives in Clarinda. I did not learn the amount of collections the churches took in Sunday, but judging from the clinking of coins at the places I visited before they started to church the collection must have been fairly fat. Rheumatism. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Johnson from Gravity, Iowa, who said farming conditions were fine. Also the pleasure of meeting Mr. Baldwin of Creston, Iowa, who stated they were feeding 200 head o cattle, 250 head of hogs and mastering 560 acres of land two miles from Creston and they have seven splendid teams of horses. 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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Clinton, Iowa to Colored Women, Our 1916 Style Book We are the largest manufacturer of colored women's hair, and we like to introduce our goods we sell sending free on our best book, at no cost, for styles for colored women, and the latest hair dressing. Every colored woman should have our warranty guarantee, every article we sell or positively stand combine and washing the same as your own. We manufacture a STRAIGHTENING COMB of cotton of the best heavy back, absolutely the best guaranteed. With this comb made fully at the low price of $9 cents we give you the straightening comb today. Sand your order for this straightening comb today. A FULL LINE of Hair Brushes. Newly Articles is illustrated and can be bought less than offered elsewhere. AGENTS stand for book today. BURBANK HAIR CAREMENTS-147 Park Bouw, New York Department Q1. POLITICAL ANNOUEMENTS. For State Offices. Hon. Geo. A. Cosson, present attorney general of Iowa, is a candidate for governor. Hon. Joseph H. Allen, state senator of Pocahontas county, is a candidate for governor. Hon. W. L. Harding, present lieutenant governor, of Sioux City, is a candidate for governor. Hon. Earnest R. Moore of Cedar Rapids hereby announces his name as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Hon. James R. Hanna of Polk county has announced his name as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Hon. Mm. Brady of Dallas county hereby announces his name as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Hon. W. S. Allen, the present secretary of state, announces his name as a candidate for secretary of state. Hon. W. C. Brown, the present state treasurer, hereby announces his name as a candidate for renomination for state treasurer. Hon. Thomas of Union county is a candidate for state treasurer. Hon. Shaw is a candidate for state auditor. Attorney Henry E. Sampson of Polk county, one of the assistant attorney generals, is a candidate for attorney general. Lawyer H. M. Havner of Marengo has announced his name as a candidate for attorney general. Geo. M. Pilmer, republican candidate for sheriff, a capable, economical efficient business man, the friend of the colored man. PETER H. The colored voters of Polk county were never more united in the support of any candidate for public offices than they are in supporting George E. Brammer for county attorney. George Brammer is known to be fair and unprejudiced; in fact he demonstrated his absolute fairness in the last session of the owa legislature, of which he was a member from this county. He has courteous treatment and considerate act to every person having public business to transact with him, and he may be expected to do the same thing in any office in which the voters may place him. Mr. Brammer introduced and championed what was known as the "apropriation bill" for the colored people and in many other ways showed that he is unbiased and a safe man to occupy public office. George Brammer is well qualified for the position he seeks and seems to be receiving as strong support among all classes as he is among the colored people. Indications are that he will be a "winner" by a good majority. He will make a good county attorney. M. STOUTENBURGH FOR SHERIFF. The name of James D. Stoutenburgh will be on the republican primary ticket as candidate for sheriff at the coming primary in June. Mr. Stoutenburgh was born in Monroe county on a farm and came to this city when 19 years old, and was employed in a grocery store. Later he became owner for eighteen years of a grocery store, and is well known to the people of this city. For the past four years he has been employed as assessment clerk for the city of Des Moines. He has never before asked or held an elective office, although he has helped the republican party, and has been an active member of the same for years. Knowing that he is fully qualified to perform every duty of said office and by virtue of long service in this city and county, and his fair dealings with the people, his many friends are asking your support. He is a good friend of the colored people and has dealt fair with them in his public career. In fact all classes of people find in him a true friend. Remember his name on the republican ticket on primary day. Mr. Floyd White of Hamilton, Ill., was a Fort Madison visitor last week. Mr. R. H. Higginbotham is very sick at this writing. The Mother's day program given at the Second Baptist church last Sunday was certainly a grand success. Miss Jennie O. Harper was elected delegate to the Sunday school convention, which convenes in Aurora, Ill., some time in June. The young people of the A. M. E. church will give an entertainment on Thursday, May 18. The Sons of Brotherhood will give a barbecue at the Second Baptist church Wednesday evening. Miss Agnes Stewart, who has been confined to her home for the past month, is able to be out again. Miss Jennie O. Harper will entertain her Sunday school at an outing on Black Hawk Heights on Saturday afternoon. Mr. C. E. Mullinax, who has been on the sick list, is able to be out again. Rev. J. F. Augustus is visiting in Keokuk. Mr. Berle Anderson of New Boston, owa, was a Fort Madison visitor last week. Mrs. D. Isom is on the sick list. ROBBINS FOR ATTOREY GEN- ERAL The name of Honorable C. A. Robbins of Winterset will be a candidate for the republican ticket as a candidate for the nomination of attorney general at the primaries June 5th. Mr. Robbins is one of the best qualified men in Iowa for said position, having lived 42 years of the 47 years in Iowa, Years in active practice of law, four years as county attorney of Madison county, four years a city attorney at Winterset, Iowa, and at present he is the assistant attorney general of Iowa, having served in this capacity for six years. Therefore if you are looking for a splendid man for his high office there can be no question about Mr. Robbins. Age, experience, qualification and fitness, we recommend him to the voters of Iowa for their consideration. MADOLE FOR SHERIFF Mr. Frank J. Madole, our good friend, is a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff of Polk county. Frank was born in this city in 1875 and has spent his entire life in this city. Was educated in the common and public schools. He has never before asked or held an elective office, although an active republican all of his life. He has followed the wall paper and paintin' business, Was in business with his father on Sixth and Locust for many years. He is now with the Buck Brothers on the East Sides. He is a member of the painters union, local No. 246, Painters and Decorators of America. He also is endorsed by four other local unions of this city and he is a true and tried friend of the colored race. In fact he is in sympathy with the common masses of people, because he has dealt with those people all of his life, and therefore would make a splendid sheriff for Polk county. His many friends of this county are asking for him your support, and therefore solicit your vote on June 5th at the primaries. BUXTON, IOWA. The Federation of Women's Clubs observed Mothers' day Sunday by giving a splendid program in the auditorium. Although it was a very rainy day many little ones came out and rendered beautiful and inspiring songs and recitations suitable to the occasion. Mr. R. G. Potter and Mrs. Anderson March, who are delegates to the Masonic grand chapel, left Monday for Oskaloosa, where they will hold their annual conference. Miss Georgianna De Sleet's funeral was held last Sunday at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Services in charge of Rev. Woodward. Mrs. Josephine Mays moved to Cedar Rapids this week, where her husband, Edward Mays, has been working for some time. Mr. Steve Anderson is back from Detroit, Mich., to look after moving his family. Steve is very much impressed with Detroit. Says they are hiring men by the hundreds. Secretary McGrew left last week to attend the international convention at Cleveland, Ohio, which began Friday, May 12th, and lasts until Tuesday, May 16th. Prof. Rogers is here this week representing the Western college. Last Sunday while playing with a gun John Pollock shot and instantly killed his brother, Dewey Pollock. Both were young men. JOHN H. HARRIS Candidate For Governor. Senator Joe Allen is entitled to the vote of the colored man. His ancestry was Quaker, his grandfather being one of the underground railroad men who helped many a poor colored fugitive from the south. J. H. Allen never turned a deaf ear to the Negro, The Piney Woods institution which Mr. Jones started found in Mr. Allen a ready friend from the start, he being a foundation member and holding a foundation certificate, ever in the history of Iowa politics has the colored man had a chance to vote for a man who has done more for the race as opportunity offered than has J. H. Allen. His friends are taking a very strong stand in this matter because it is time they recognized their friends and helped them politically. It is time that the people gave more attention to these things, and in the candidacy of Joe Allen Iowa has a chance to do something worth while. HEALTH HINTS, A. J. Booker, M. D. You love God with all your soul, all your mind and all your heart. For to not to is to make you a pittable jelly fish in this brief existence and a mius quantity in the next. You pay some attention to proper rest and your health generally, for the men who have done most are the ones who do not fetter their souls by coddling weak bodies. PETER B. You know that God is not a man sitting in a big throne chair with a lot of crowns on one side and a bunch of clubs on the other. For it says, "God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." You know that the doing of good deeds and the thinking of good thoughts make your soul greater. For we can only appreciate the goodness of God by having a big calibered soul. You know that the world is getting better. For there was never a time when people were trying so earnestly trying to help each other and learn the will of the Master. You know that it is less a matter of words than of deeds. Talk is a fine bluff, but sooner or later people expect you to square your conversation with your works. For the people who smile all the time do not mean it. You know that the wicked can prosper, if money is a sign of prosperity, and this bunk and twaddle about they shall surely fail is ancient stuff. For the only prosperity is that of the soul and freedom from fear of being exposed. You know that so-called repentance is fear of being punished, in most instances, or of being caught in nearly all cases. For a fellow who has a high sense of honor has his sorrow before he does questionable things. It is a lot easier to not do things than to try to explain and square up afterwards. Most of them do not cry until they are caught. You know that most of us make our own temptations by thinking of things. we would do if we had a chance. For most deeds are done in the heart before they are acted. A real honest man or woman has few temptations; their instinctive honesty protects them. You know that the fellow who builds a fence closes more than he closes in, and when we try to get exclusive you exclude more than you include with your selfishness. 1916 FUTURE EVENTS FORECAST THEIR SHADOWS Republican national convention at Chicago on June 7th. National Negro Business League at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. National Negro Press Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 19. National Teachers' Association. National Bankers' Association at Kansas City, Mo., August 20. International Conference of Grand Master and P. G. M. and Grand Secretary at Chicago on August 21. Knights Templar Conference and Imperial Council and Supreme Grand Chapter of R. A. and Supreme at Chicago, August 22. Grand Chapter of O. E. S. at Chicago on August 21. General Conference of A. M. E. church at Philadelphia on May 4. Iowa Grand Masonic Lodge at Ottumwa on July 11. Iowa Grand Lodge of K. of P. at Des Moines on July 18. Iowa Grand Lodge of Order of Calaathe at Des Moines on July 18. Iowa Grand District of Odd Fellows at Colfax on August 22. Iowa Grand District of Household of Ruth at Colafax on August 22. Iowa Grand International Order of Twelve at Keokuk on August 1st. International Order of Daughters of Tabernacle at Keokuk August 1 Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association at Centerville on September 4. Iowa-Nebraska Sunday School As- THE BYSTANDEK sociation at Des Moines on June 13. Iowa State Federation of Colored Women's club at Buxton, Iowa, May 22. CLINTON, IOWA. The concert given by the Iowa club a fortnight ago was a success. A large crowd was in attendance. A neat sum was realized, which will go to assist in liquidating the church indebtedness. Mrs. Martha Greenle, an old and respected citizen, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Martin, on Olin street on Tuesday morning, May 9th. Deceased had been in ill health for a number of months, battling bravely endeavoring to regain her health. Clinton had been her home for a number of years, where she had a large acquaintance. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Martin and son, William. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon from the Second Baptist church, of which she was a member. Rev. F. J. Nott officiating, assisted by Rev. W. W. Williams of Bethel A. M. E. church and M. O. Culberson. Interment was made in Springdale cemetery. The Missouri club will give a supper and concert at Bethel A. M. E. church on Friday night. Mesdames G. D. Culberson and E. S. Heron left Monday morning for Oskaloosa to attend the annual meeting of the O. E. S. Mr. P. P. Taylor, a former resident of Clinton, now of Chicago, was a Clinton visitor the past week, transacting business. In the last monthly meeting of Bethel Sunday school board Mrs. E. S. Heron was elected delegate to the annual convention to be held at Aurora, Ill., in June. The time is near at hand to pay up your subscription, so be ready when the representative calls on you. Billiousness and Constipation. For years I was troubled with billiousness and constipation, which made life miserable for me. My appetite failed me. I lost my usual force and vitality. Pepsin preparations and cathartics only made matters worse. I do not know where I should have been today had I not tried Chamberlain's Tablets. The tablets relieve the ill feeling at once, strengthen the digestive functions, purify the stomach, liver and blood, helping the system to do its work naturally.—Mrs. Rosa Potts, Binningham, Ala. These tablets are for sale by all dealers. Heart Disease Almost Fatal to Young Girl "My daughter, when thirteen years old, was stricken with heart trouble. She was so bad we had to place her bed near a window so she could get her breath. One doctor said, 'Poor child, she is likely to fall dead any time.' A friend told me Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy had cured her father, so I tried it, and she began to improve. She took a great manly boot, but she is spared to me today, a fat, rosy bed near a window so she could get her breath. One doctor said, "Poor child, she is likely to fall dead any time." A friend told me Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy had cured her father, as she took she began to improve. She took a great many bottles, but she is spared to me today. I checked girl. No other than imagine the confidence I have in Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy." A. O. CANON, Worth, Mo. The unbounded confidence Mr. Canon has in Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy is shared by thousands of others who know its value from experience. Many heart disorders yield to treatment, if the treatment is right. If you are bothered with short breath, fainting spells, swelling of feet or ankles, pains about the heart and shoulder blades, palpitation, weak and hungry spells, you should begin using Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy at once. Profit by the experience of others while you may. Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy is sold and guaranteed by all druggists. CLARINDA, IOWA. (Special to Bystander from Mr. Jeff Nowling.) Mr. Jeff Nowling, who has been visiting friends and relatives in Clarinda, makes the following report: He found his brother, Mr. Give Nowling, occupying a new seven-room modern house, which he owns, 508 E. Tarkio, valued at $3,700 and family in excellent health. Mr. Lewis Montgomery has purchased a nice home one mile south of square and he owns two teams of horses, one team valued at $300, and he drives to market a few hogs every three months. Mrs. Arthur Montgomery has purchased a nice little home at 608 So. Fourteenth street and self and family are doing well I found Mr. Noah Pemberton, the mail carrier, and family enjoying perfect health in their new home, which they have recently purchased five blocks from the heart of the city and he also states that he has found out of 500 colored population two-thirds are buying or own property in the city, nice homes, and he states that Mr. Williams is doing fine in the restaurant business, and Mr. Lane also, and Mr. Barnett and Griggs in the barber business. Jones & Samuels Undertakers Phone Maple 2548 PETER H. Hon. H. M. For the nomination Subject to Republican primaries. Younken The Great Are at T All Thru Includ Economy You'll find bargain on every counter and every shelf. Now is th mer and save n. H. M. Havner nomination for Attorney General American primaries. See write up on editorial page Smoker Brothers The Great May Sales Store at Top Speed All Thru the Store Including the economy Basement and bargains aplenty at every turn-- counter and case--on every rack--in Now is the time to shop for Sum- Hon. H. M. Havner For the nomination for Attorney General Subject to Republican primaries. See write up on editorial page Younker Brothers The Great May Sales Are at Top Speed All Thru the Store Including the You'll find bargains aplenty at every turn-- on every counter and case--on every rack--in every shelf. Now is the time to shop for Summer and save And speaking for the colored girls in regard to attending school, seeking for a lofty education, is excellent. But for the young boys is poor. But there is one exceptional young man 18 years of age, Mr. Hershel Montgomery, 608 E. Fourteenth street, who is laboring hard and paying his little sister's, Miss Caddie Montgomery, way through high school. This young man I say is entitled to praise. In regard to health conditions, they are fair in Clarinda. Mr. James Arnett is suffering considerable with a paralytic stroke. We wish him a speedy recovery. plating making their home. Mrs. Lillian Lane and Mrs. Wilker- son are attending the Eastern Star session at Oskaloosa. Mrs. C. Long of Greenfield, Mo., is visiting friends and relatives in Clarinda. I did not learn the amount of collections the churches took in Sunday, but judging from the clinking of coins at the places I visited before they started to church the collection must have been fairly fat. Rheumatism. If you are troubled with chronic I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Johnson from Gravity, Iowa, who said farming conditions were fine. Also the pleasure of meeting Mr. Baldwin of Creston, Iowa, who stated they were feeding 200 head o cattle, 250 head of hogs and mastering 560 acres of land two miles from Creston and they have seven splendid teams of horses. The Baldwin brothers have the First National bank reference of Creston, Iowa. These gentlemen farmers we should be proud of. Mrs. Phalbia Pemberton is making her home with her aunt, Mrs. Casson. She has employment in the village. Mrs. Edna Jamison of Missouri will remain the guest of Mrs. Noah Pemberton (sisters) until Mr. Jamison explores the Nebraska state and becomes located where they are contem- AVE YOU BEAUTIFUL HAIR? WE are the only Importers and Manufacturers of Real Colored People's Hair. Also Wavy Hair. We absolutely guarantee our hair to stand combing and washing and to retain its color and crimp. Wigs, Plats, Braids, Transformations and Puffs in stock or to order; all shades, none too difficult. Straightening Combs and Toilet Articles. at stamp for Price List. Mail Orders receive prompt attention. Old Reliable Mme. 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