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THE BYSTANDER Willcox-Howell-Hopkins Company CITY AGENTS Hawkeye and Des Moines Fire Insurance Department of Fireman's Fund InsuranceCo. XXIII No.28 Boston Market Co. PROVISIONERS Phone Walnut 763 320 Sixth Avenue Where Quality Counts SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO-ORDER 15 NO MORE LESS THE GLASGOW 319-6TH AVE DES MOINESIA 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Come in and let us SAVE YOU MONEY on Christmas Jewelry We save you from 25 to 35 per cent on all Diamonds, Bracelets, Watches and Jewelry of all kinds. Diamonds from $5.00 to $50.00. Watches from $3.00 up. You may select any article in the store now and we will put it aside for you until Christmas Willcox-Howell-Ho CITY AGE Hawkeye and Des Moine Department of Fireman' Fire, Lightening, High Winds, Surety Bonds and Accident Insurance Northern Artificial MANUFACTURERS OF A Artificial Limbs Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Artificial Arms, Apparatus for Elevated Feet and Shortened Limbs. All kinds of Brace Work for Deformities, Crutches and Elastic Goods. 312-314 West Seventh Street Des Moines, Iowa Phone Wal. 3521 DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916. Every woman appreciates a useful gift and nothing would please her more than an Electric Iron, the greatest of all labor savers. We're All Buying Our XMAS AT ORANSK Save Money on Gloves Buy your Gloves and Mittens from us. We are wholesalers and manufacturers and can save you money. Leather, Knit and Fur Hermann Glove Co. 609 Grand Avenue FOR "HER" CHRIST —a Westinghouse Every woman appreciates a useful gift than an Electric Iron, the greatest of a 617 Walnut: AMEND : 3 Stores MEATS OF QUALITY-FANCY FRESH DRESSED Turkeys Geese Ducks Chickens Rabbits FOR XMAS High Grade Groceries 304 Walnut 510 Locust Christmas Decorations Trees—Expense is very slight. Wreaths—Made fresh each day. Holly—Fine quality. Mistletoe—Lots of fun. LIVING GIFTS Surly are the most appropriate for this season of the year. Gold Fish, Fine blooming plants, also ferns, etc. Bulbs put up in nice holly boxes Cut flowers, etc. You Will Be Treated Right Here IOWA SEED CO. 209-211 WALNUT ST. Hopkins Company AGENTS Boines Fire Insurance Ann's Fund InsuranceCo. Bids, Tornados and Cyclones Phone Walnut 1082 202 Central Life Bldg. Limb Company ```markdown ``` --- 313-315 Walnut Street Christmas Greens Car load spruce trees, 3 to 16 feet, Holly, Ground Plae, Mistletoe, Assorted Wreaths, tree Stands. Cemetery decorations a specialty. Out of town orders solicited. W. C. CHURCH Office and Salesroom, 423 6th Avenue Phone Walnut 1343 Warehouse 420 5th St. STMAS Use Electric Iron lift and nothing would please her more of all labor savers. An Electric Iron eliminates the hot stove—the many steps used in changing the old-fashioned iron—and shortens ironing day from one to two hours. This $3.75 value at $3.00 Des Moines Electric Co. Eighth and Locust Streets Christmas Greetings One trial load will convince you that Eagle Coal is Good Coal Delivered direct from the mine. Wal. 1068 and 1069, FIKE & FIKE Des Moines NEW and OLD BOOK DEALERS Books bought sold and exchanged 309 4th St. Phone Red 1484 Capital City State Bank Bank Building East Fifth and Locust Des Moines, Iowa—Established 1878 Capital fully paid.....$150,000 00 Surplus and Profits.....50,000 00 Shareholders Lliability..$150,000.00 HENRY WAGNER, President J. A. McKINNEY, Vice President D. J. VAN LIEW, Cashier GEO. W. RICHTER, Assistant Cashier It's Time To Pick Out Your Christmas Jewelry Come in now while the stocks are large and complete—pick out anything you want—pay a little down, the balance as you can—a little each week. Watches, Diamonds, Rings, LaValieres, Tie Pins-Beads, Lockets, Bracelets, Chains, Purse, etc.—All nice merchandise, marked in plain figures. LEVICH LOAN OFFICE 222 Walnut St. Mose Levich, Mgr American Trust & Savings Bank Cor. 7th and Grand Ave. 4 Per Cent Paid on Time and Savings Deposit American Trust and Savings Bank Xmas Neckwear Large Variety Gifts for Men TOGGERY SHOP 802 Walnut St. Shops Bldg. 214 6th Ave. Fleming Bldg. Peoples Savingr Bank 7th and Locust Street: Capital Stock $100,000.00 Surplus $200,000.00 4 Per Cent Paid on Time Deposit Chas. H. Martin, President, Frank P. Flynn, Vice President Edw. A. Slininger, Cashier Carl W. Mesmer, Asst. Cashier Pictures for the Home We invite your inspection of our line of Pictures and Frames. Bring us your framing; Prices and work are right. Phone Walnut 5347 S. ANDERSON "THE PICTURE FRAMER" Room 203—Over Zaiser's Stationary Store 314 West 7th Str Books and Pictures START The rush will soon be on. English glass. First class pictures; new subjects. Books and Picture Framing The rush will soon be on. All the new patterns of English glass. First class work. Splendid selection pictures; new subjects. H. JESSE MILLER Phone Walnut 1565 Sign of the PHONE WALNUT REEL 408 This a cab of a C Phone Waln USEFUL CHRIST USEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS those that will be with you for years brightening your home and reducing labor, can be found in large varities in our dislpay room Des Moines Gas Company 412-416 West 7th St. Tel. The Valley National Bank Cor. Walnut & Combined Capital Surplus $750,000.00 What better Christmas present to yourself or your family than a savings account in this bank. R. A. Crawford, Pres. C. T. Cole, Jr. V The Valley National Bank Cor. Walnut & Fourth Sts What better Christmas present to yourself or your family than a savings account in this bank. R. A. Crawford, Pres. C. T. Cole, Jr. Vice Pres. D. S. Chamberlain, Vice Pres. W. E. Barrett, Cashier 4 Per Cent Interest Paid Price Five Cents Central State Bank 312-314 Fifth Street Capital and Surplus $500,000.00 July 1 1909, $1,973,014.10 1910, $2,047,645.41 1911, $2,569,487.30 1912, $2,624,179.65 1913, $2,855,717.93 1914, $3,180,071.63 1915, $3,315,074.83 1916, $3,924,943.82 December 1, 1916 $4,522,108.32 Simon Casady, President Grant McPherrin, Vice Pres. H. B. Hedge, Vice Pres. J. B. McDougal, Cashier F. C. Ash, Asst, Cashier J. W. Hawk, Asst. Cashier SUIT ON OVER COAT 10-ORDER NO MORE 15 THE GLASGON 319-6TH AVEDES MOMES JA Make It a KODAK Xmas Brownie Camares $1 25 and up Prices from $6.00 to $66.00 Des Moines Photo Material Co. EASTMAN KODAK CO. 517 W. Locust St. Des Moines Picture Framing ART EARLY be on. All the new patterns of best class work. Splendid selection its. Reel Taxi Look for it on the Door This Monogram on the door of a cab means safety and the protection of a Company that prides itself on its employees and service Inut 408 RISTMAS PRESENTS ines Gas Company t. Tel. Wal. 202 Capital Bank Cor. Walnut & Fourth Sts Capital Surplus $750,000.00 圣诞 present to yourself or your ings account in this bank. C. T. Cole, Jr. Vice Pres. Pres. W. E. Barrett, Cashier Cost Interest Paid 813 Locust St. MERRY CHRISTMAS THE BYSTANDER BYSTANDER PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS DEE MONTES, IOWA JOHN THOMPSON, EDITOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1916 EDITORIALS CHRISTMAS. Once more the cycle of time has returned our great festival season, the natal day of our Saviour, which brings glad tidings of great joy, for a Saviour is born unto the world. Our thoughts are now turned toward Yuletide and that a proper celebration of the birth of this wonderful Counsellor who brought peace and happiness to the world 1,900 years ago. At this particular time we need some one to restore peace and bring happiness to the suffering millions of Europe. This awful scourge of war will leave a scar on the life of Europe for many years to come. While in America we are at peace, yet we cannot rejoice, because our neighbors and sister countries are in revolution and bloodshed and even some of our soldiers have been killed in battle on Mexican soil, and the lynching and burning of so many colored citizens. With these atrocities constantly being committed, can the civilized Christian world celebrate the birth of Christ, who died for all with a clear conscience? Have we done anything to stop these injustices? Shall we sit idly by and let these wrongs go on? In this modern age of social science the development of the children in order that future generations may become more healthy and strong and our leading doctors are writing about the care of the child and how to preserve and develop its body. Yet we think that if our so-called modern or up-to-date parents would use common sense and common decency in the rearing of their children, as did their fathers and mothers, we would not have so much trouble with the child. First, make them obey your orders. Second, teach them that those thin, high-cut, indecent garments do not preserve the health nor add beauty. Third, teach them that running the streets and going to all classes of amusements is injurious to health and beauty. Parents, go with your children and set the correct idea before them. OUR LAW MAKING BODIES. Very soon most of the legislatures of the various states in our sisterhood of states will meet to legislate for the good of their commonwealths. Each state has problems peculiar to their local interests. We always have a fear that those states south of the Mason and Dixon line that those legislatures will, as they have already done, pass some more unjust and iniquitous laws against the Negro. They have already discriminated, segregated and jim crowed the colored people so much in the southland that many thousands are migrating from there to the east, north and west, and now what does seem most preposterous, those same states are preparing to pass laws to make them remain in the south and till their land. Oh, hypocrite, thou art a jewel. The Negro will not always submit to these gross injustices and monster wrongs. Let our legislatures try and make laws for the betterment of all mankind and then our country will really be the land of the free and the home of the just. COLORED DAIRY MAN WINS HIGHEST HONOR. Were it not for the colored newspapers we would seldom know the honor that many of our colored folk are receiving in the various industries in this state and in this country. At the recent milk test in des Moines for the state of Iowa in November, Mr. Julian O. Winston, a Negro dairyman residing near Ottumwa, received the highest test from his milk. The manner of testing milk comes about in this way. The state dairyman officials collect two bottles from the dairyman without acknowledging the fact or telling them, and they deliver these bottles of milk to Des Moines, where they hold their annual test. And this year Mr. Julian Winston's milk, the Negro dairyman, won the first prize. Mr. Winston moved to Ottumwa, Iowa, from Charlottsville, Va., ten years ago and bought a farm of 180 acres. Two years ago he entered the dairy business, known as the Willow Springs dairy. At first he had twenty-five head of cows. Mr. Winston said when he first started the people of Ottumwa tried to down him because of his color, but his milk being superior, it won its way, and today he cannot supply his demands, although he is constantly increasing his dairy farm. There is but one other colored man who has a dairy farm and is doing a large business, that is Mr. David Garner of Red Oak, Iowa. He has recently entered in the dairy business and has the bulk of the trade in Red Oak. He owns a nice dairy farm and these few demonstrations should cause more of our people to take up agriculture. They could succeed and be of immense value in solving the so-called race problem. We congratulate Mr. Winston. The Bystander collector will be in your city in a few days. Please see and pay him your subscription. afternoon. xz tween the flies and unha. attending the funcon fox was killed. ..... 8c Strong Appeal to Reason Don't Kick a Race Already Down, Urges Prof. Laurence Jones. Piney Woods Country Life School, Braxton, Miss. Feb. 24, 1916. An Open Letter to the Members of the General Assembly of Mississippi: If the bill lately introduced, to prohibit white teachers from teaching colored boys and girls, was born in prejudice, if the gentlemen now assembled at the state capitol to enact laws that there may be continued in Mississippi "government of the people, by the people and for the people," look at this bill through the eyes of prejudice, then it would be useless for any one to produce arguments against its passage. believing, as do a great many of the leading white men and colored men whom I have interviewed, that the gentleman who introduced the bill was not actuated by prejudice, but has been misinformed as to the necessity of such a measure, I beg to submit some reasons why such a pernicious bill should not be enacted, especially during this "era of good feeling," between the races, during which era, neither Governor Noel, Governor Brewer nor our present governor, the Hon. Theodore G. Bilbo, appealed to prejudice in our campaign for office. There are two general propositions I would like for you to fix firmly in your minds before studying this bill: 1. The United States census, taken under a democratic administration, which I am sure you firmly believe to be the greatest fortune that could have come to the American people, tells us that the Negro without outside immigration, is increasing in numbers all over the south, and especially in Mississippi—he is not dying out. 2. The Negro has been free just a half century, the white race many centuries—the Negro race is yet a baby in comparison—such a race needs not only the civilizing influence of the best white people of the state, but it needs also the uplifting influence of the cultured, spiritual minded white missionaries whose hearts, filled with a love of God, impel them to help uplift these struggling, ignorant masses. With these two general thoughts in mind, with prejudice relegated to the background, there are two viewpoints from which to study this bill—the selfish one and the altruistic one: A. The selfish viewpoint. 1. Money Consideration—All of the available educational force you can utilize on the Negro will make him more useful and therefore increase the capital of the community, the county, the state. You want a man working, instead of a working man, do you not? A wise man by the name of Socrates once said, "Not only is he idle who does nothing, but he is also idle who might be better employed." 2. Health Consideration—A great, increasing mass of Negroes living in unsanitary surroundings with no knowledge of sanitation and hygiene is a menace to every white citizen in the commonwealth—the missionaries, in a most effective way are teaching, "cleanliness is next to Godliness." You must teach us to be sanitary, if you would save yourselves from the spreading of contagious diseases, and I would think that you would meet with welcome arms any band of missionaries who are willing to come down here among these ignorant masses and teach them as they are now doing—how not to infect with filth and germs the food you eat and the clothing you wear—if you could see the immaculate laundries and training kitchens of these missionary schools and over each a faithful missionary teaching little Negro girls to be clean and neat and sanitary and inspired them to go back from the main traveled roads and teach it to the masses, where now they are idle, such a profound law would die in the committee room. More money and better health are the two paramount ideals that every individual is seeking from a selfish standpoint—they must therefore be the two main ideals for the commonwealth from a selfish standpoint. I. The educational viewpoint. I. These missionaries are teaching the education of the heart, head and hand—conceded by every southerner Buxton Cafe 135 E. Grand Ave, A Good Restaurant and Rooming House H. D. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. (Known as Hustler William,) DES MOINES, IOWA Also has a Confectionary and Barber Shop at Carney. Cough Medication for Children Mrs. Hugh Cook, Scottville, N. Y. says: "About five years ago when we were living in Garbutt, N. Y., I doctored two of my children suffering from cloaca with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and found it just as represented in every way. It promptly checked their coughing and cured their colds quicker than anything I ever used." Obtainable everywhere. and the world to be the kind of education the Nerro needs. cation has no media. 2. These missionaries have proven their ability to cope with the problem of the state. For they have properly educated the Negroes whom they had under them. This is proven by the facts that: a. Their graduates and ex-students are succeeding. They are among the best Negroes of the state. As farmers, business men and teachers they are our best and most desirable citizens. b No graduate or ex-student of these missionaries has been convicted of any heinous crime; no greater argument could be offered in behalf of these Christ-filled missionaries than to say that no graduate or ex-student has ever been lynched—the sure punishment for seeking social equality. Aak any business man and he will give you conclusive business reasons why the state needs teachers for the Negro regardless as to the color of their skin. III. The economic viewpoint. 1. The state does not maintain sufficient schools to train the Negroes, aside from one state school, every member of the general assembly realizes that the rural schools of the state are not worth a continental in training the Negro to be useful, back again to Socrates, "Not only is he idle who does nothing, but he is also idle who might be better employed." When you drive out these missionaries are you willing to increase the taxes and duplicate the work these schools are doing. 2. Another economic reason resolves itself into the fact that it is far cheaper and wiser to allow northern philanthropy and missionaries to teach the Negro to be farmers, mechanics, teachers and presachers than for the state to maintain and continue to build convict camps. 1. Such a law as this one proposed is in opposition to religious liberty. If one's religion impels him to go out and teach those in darkness and you say, "Thou shalt not," you strike a death blow to religious liberty or even your own kind. Religious liberty is one of the fundamental principles of the nation. VII. Finally, gentlemen, it is not necessary for a race—a race as every one of you believe your race to be—a superior race, to show its superiority in this way—can there be any true civilization, in the world when any men are left out—left to drag behind? 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Against this constructive power—love of justice and fair play, a heritage of every Anglo-Saxon, you are face to face with an opportunity to kick a race that is already down, a people who have always served you faithfully and who are ready today to take up arms to defend your homes and your laws and institutions, laws and institutions that mean no more to us than the paper or stone composing them. Gentlemen of this general assembly in the year of 1916, you have a noble inheritance of centuries of culture. I believe you are too noble to pass such a law—noblisse oblige—from him who has inherited much, much is expected. I beg of you not to write such a law on the statute books. I believe that every white man of the state blushes with shame when he turns back to the code of 1798-1848 and reads that the punishment of a human being, even though he was a slave, for mere perjury, Chapter 37, Article 2, Paragraph 59, reads: "If any Negro or mulatto shall be found, upon due proof made to any county or corporation court of this state, to have given false testimony, every such offender shall, without further trial, be ordered by the said court to have one ear nailed to the pillory and there to stand for the space of an hour, and then the said ear to be cut off, and thereafter the other ear nailed in like manner, and cut off' at the expiration of one other hour and moreover to receive thirty-nine lashes on his or her bare back, well laid on, at the public whipping post." I believe that just as you feel today about that law, future generations will blush with shame when they read of this nefarious proposal that you have been asked to write into the laws of the commonwealth. May I not suggest that some Christian hearted member of each body of the general assembly, rise up and move that a vote of thanks be extended to these noble missionaries of your own proud Anglo-Saxon blood, who have come down in a Christlike spirit to help you train the ignorant masses of the black people about you and that every member in a happy altruistic spirit of man noblehood rise up and give the "chautauqua salute" to "our white missionary brothers in the grand old commonwealth of Mississippi." In conclusion to my plea on behalf of my struggling people permit me to quote to you, if you please, these golden words of the "prince of peace" of our day and time—your own William Jennings Bryan: "The intelligent citizen knows that God has so linked us together that any legitimate advancement made by one contributes indirectly, if not directly, to the welfare of all, and that all, therefore, are concerned in any injury that comes to one of the number."—Jackson Daily News, Friday, February 25, 1916. Lawrence C. Jones. That this coming winter some of our southern state legislatures will again try to pass laws against the Negro and this splendid appeal should be read and headed by the white law makers. For Eczema, Tetter and Salt Rheum. The intense itching characteristic of these ailments is almost instantly allayed by Chamberlain's Salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all dealers. Subscribe and pay for The Bystander. 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Many out of town guests will spend the holidays’ in the Capital City. cic We wish all of our subscribers a Merry, Merry Christmas, Mrs, Hannah Porter will leave Sup- day. night to spend Xmas with her perents in Atchison, Kans, + ES eee Mr W. J. Jones of Buxton was in our city Satarday. While here he called at the Bystander office. Mrs, G. H, Irvin and Josephine Peco returned Monday from Birmingham, ‘Ala, and report @ fine trip. Seen Rev. SL, Birt accompanied the body of Mr. Bush to Keokuk, where funeral services were held, and the remains laid:away last Wednesday. FOR RENT OR SALE—1207 Center street; will sell on payment. M. Carr, 709 Polk Bldg, Mr... Wm.-B, Keen of Indianapolis, Ind,, is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. M, Le Gregory on 1éth street Place. Mrs. R. Jefferson came down from ‘Ames yesterday to visit her daughters, Mrs, C, B,° Woods and Mrs, W. L. ‘Tomlin, Mrs,T. Blagburn will be hostess to five college gitls during Yuletide. These. girls will be headed by Miss Mildred:Griffin, who is ‘attending Iowa State College. “The names will ap- pear later. ‘ Mr., Lee’ Wilburn of Chicago, Ill, arrived in our city yesterday to spend the holidaya with hie sisters, Mrs, C B. Woods and Mrs, W. L. Tomlin. The Callanan club held their Xmas dinner Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Hyde, 821 Thirteenth street. Presents were exchanged and s pleasant afternoon was spent. ” North Star and Doric Masonic lodges will celebrate St. John’s Day at North Star Masonic, Temple;Association Hall, ith and: Cepter streets, Wednesday evening Dee. Z7th, with a banquet. A program will be.-werved ull, Master Masons and their wives-are invited. Miss Suni. Lee: was hostess at, a birthday ainat pany last. Friday night: at the ‘Palace’ Sweet Cafe, rede itis’ were prevent atid & de- lightfal , four-course. dinner was served. Miss Lee’ was the recipient of many nicé and useful presents. Grand Master §.:Joe Brown, accom- panied by @. C. Johnson, grand mas- Hert ccpethonien of the tows grand lodge of Masons, made a special visit to Western Star lodge, No. 36, at Ft. Dodge last Monday evening, adjusted some difficulties said lodge was having and conferred the second and third degree upon two candidates. The members and many friends of Rev, H, A. Perry have prevailed with him to remain in Des Moines and carry out the work so nobly begun at the East Side A. M. E. church, in- stead of ,accepting the pastorate of Washington Chapel, Tuskegee Insti- tute, which he has been offered. Thompson “hotel guests: Vergil Waldon, city; Mrs. Bertha Williams, city; M. C. Brown, city; Gertrude Robinson, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Miss Beulah Wheeler, Marshalltown, Iowa; Miss Ethel White, city; Clarence Jones, Huntaville, Mo; May Moseley, Waterloo, Towa; Marshall, Banks and Wright, Littleton, Ohio; Wm. Cain, Anies, Towa; E. C. Manning; Ames, Towa; A. L. Countee, city; T. Thur- ston, Rock Island, Ill. nina ea = ROOMS FOR RENT. [Any person wanting a room _ {or light housekeeping may call for Wal- nut 6987—a good place for hte right person, Must be trustworthy, Chris tian preferred. Residence, 2710 Sixth avenue. ERI ANNOUNCEMENT. Kine Solomon Commandery of XMAS PRESENTS FOR EVERYBODY YOUR CHOICE FREE Framed Pictures “Hand Decorated Plates Big Story Books Any one given with one pound of Busing Powder. Come. in for your Coffees, Teas and Baking Powder and Sek your XmasGifte. 200 Stores-4,000 Wagons Grand Union Tea Co. Phone Wal. 1001 04 W, Walnut cee Menta castes Deeseccerecooossoosoorors * 3 REMEMBER THD ¢ Palace Sweet Cafe ¢ UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Fs the best place to ge far Good Home Cooking oi Everything First Class é ~ Special Sunday Dinner = 25c and 35e. rs % Red 1367 1012 Center Street ; ‘ Mr. and Mrs. J, R. Erickson, Be Proprs. ; Ge Ceo Ae eR Knights Templar, No, 6, will observe the anniversary of the birth of the Savior with appropriate services in ‘the hall of North Star Masonic Tem- ple, corner West Eleventh and Center streets, Christmas morning at. 11 o'clock, The Rev. 8. Bates, R, A. M., will deliver the Christmas address, All master Masons in good and regu- lar standing are cordially invited to attend. All Sir Knights will, appear in full dress uniform, By order of ©. F. Topson, E, C, Jas. B. Mitchell, Rec. NLA. A.C, The Des Moines branch of the Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People will hold their annual Emancipation meeting . at Union Congregational church, corner West Tenth and Park strects, Mon- day, January 1, 1917, at which time addresses appropriate to the occasion will be delivered by Hon. Jas. B. Weaver, newly elected member of the state legislature from Polk county, and Editor John L. Thompson. Good music. Admission free. 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Price 50c a box. ‘Send stamp for pamphlet. MME, M. BEARD ‘hones WANTED 519 So 16th St. St. Joseph, Mo, MT. PLEASANT, IOWA. ‘Mrs. William Pickett returned home from Chicago, after accompany- ing her mother to that place, and re- ports a successful trip,.and also spent 2 week with her two sisters, Mrs. George Fleming Johnson and Mrs. Fred Wilson of Chicago. A very en- joyable time was spent with mother and sisters. * WILLIAM H. LOWRY, “RD Nos Ease Bae sah ei 6... Naa , it 3 iy r ae haan Pees bees ee a ae <— aan A ts o he ae . Om | i 2 | sae * | ‘Dr. William H, Lowry, dentist, :was, born in Clarkeburg, W. Va., February 18, 1876. He received his early, school-, ing at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, graduating from that ingti, tution in June, 1902. In a of the same year he was elected prin- CY, pan Be Re TS Perat cetage pa Tan, ij Me ° SANTACLAUSSAYS jm. Wee h gi om : i . ree MN Bee. ge | Tor ee oe Aye ay a, ey egal’ CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB “yg <2 NOW FORMING IOWA LOAN & TRUST CO.. ‘ ‘ 1 _. «IS THE BEST SUGGESTION ‘Grand Opening, Friday, Dec. 15,1916 rand Qpening, Friday, Dec. 15, 1! A Flower and a Souvenir Will Be Given to All Who Join Friday ' CaS TES OS IR \ ae) ‘. Thousands Joined Last Year's Club te SEB And ~~ $60,000.00 Was Distributed to Members JOIN NOW and next Christmas you will be happy and have money. SANTA CLAUS IS RIGHT. The CHRIST- ‘MAS SAVINGS CLUB furnishes the easy and practical way to save money with which to buy Christmas pres- ents and winter supplies. The CHRISTMAS SAVINGS: CLUB MAKES GIFT GIVING A PLEASURE, not a burden on anybody. ; You can join more than one class if you wish. Everybody welcome. Eight different classes. a Classes for Everybody as Follows: In Class 2 You Pay In Class 2A You Pay In Class 5B You Pay Firat Week ..ciscecusicccecsecsces 26 Firat Week «2... sees cree ge eee $1.00 First Week ....ceesceseceseseee$ 06 Becond Week s.ieeessececescevsese 4 Second Week ....sseccccesesecee 98 Second Week .....sseeesesessiee 10 Third Week ceecseseecesee scares: 6C PRE WOOK: 5a. sascuscastaccsnce: 598 Twenty-fifth Week ......esesee+ 1:25 And 60 on, for 50 weeks, at/the end of And so on, reducing the weekly payments Twenty-sixth week ...esseeseeeees 1.25 +which time you receive. $25.50,. plus inter- 2c @ week until Dec. 10th, you receive Forty-ninth Week ....:.seseeeees 610 - estat 4 percent. = / $25.50, plus interest at 4 per cent. Fiftleth Week .....0cccccseece eee 0B In Class 5 You Pay In Class 5A You Pay tt A por cant Your payments increase 6c First Week ...sseseseeseecigeeeees BC First Week -........0seeeeeee es $2.50 until the middle of June, and then decrease Becond Week ...eereeeeeescwieness -10€ Second Week .......e.seseeeeeees 2.45 be until December 10, 1917. Third Week «.....--seeeecenseess 15C Third Week .........cee esse ees 2.40 ‘And so on for 60 weeks, at the end of And #0 on, reducing the weekly payments In Class 10B You Pay 2 +. which time you receive 968.75,plus 4 per Se each week until Dec. 10th you receive Firat Week .f.sscseecesecseccene$ 10 cont interest. 4 $63.75 plus 4 per cent interest. Second ea *, a pecscceeceesees 020 In Class 10 You Pay In Class 10A You Pay Twentycnisth Week © 222s000000000 2:60 First Week ..seecereesseescpngeee +106 Firat Week ......s0ceeetecee ees «$5.00 Forty-ninth Week ...secseeseecee 220 Second Week ..sseeeessevenwenees 206 Second: Week .....ccececeeeeeeee 4,90 Fiftieth Week ..0..csccerescseeee 10 Third Week -...ceceeereccepeee ss 180C PHEW Ok iia tas acts co gave erases, AiO In fifty weeks you have $65.00 plus inter- And so on for 60 weeks, si fie end, of. And so on, reducing the weekly payments est at 4 per cent. Your payments increase which time you recelve $127.50 '‘plus.4 per 10c each week until Dec. 10th, you receive 10c until the middle of June, then decrease cent interest, * $127.50 plus 4 per cent interest. until December 10, 1917. ; No Fines! No Dues! No Extras! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR Patwunirs MONTHLY IF YOU WISH. No Withdrawals or Transfers Will Be Allowed. You can't Lose. If xu ae Leable so Keon S. ‘Your’ ee ou Will Receive on December 10, 1917, Our Check for the Amount Paid in. Ne interest une ‘All members of THE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB will receive on December 10, 1917, checks for the amounts due them. We Have Members All Over the United States. Always:Enclose Pass Book When Making Payments by Mail Complete information willibe mailed out of ue or, Bia You can pay as far in advance as you like. Call, sign a'signature card; make your first payment and you will receive Club Membership, pass ‘book showing dates payments.are due and amount of each payment. ‘ °° ¢ », 2 t e e it Join Now! ~The Christmas Savings Club Join Now! gx ~~ IOWALOANGTRUSTCO. znatee eae oe —BANK— oh “ae CA ~ od a Sees. ON % 4 : AWC gy 210Sixth-av. DES MOINES, IOWA —Hlippee Bldg. Me 7/ er WY re Ny : 2 tS” ee oe ie & : BT Bes a placa: aga es Rea a Ter ON ita: ea RON ns rae Our New Dentist,, cipal of school at Fairmont, WV. in June, 1903, he Fesigned the|principalship of this school to ac- ‘eppt the. position of commandant of ‘cadets of the West Virginia Collegi- ‘ate Inititute., After serving his Alma Mater nine years, he resigned to pur- ue the course of dentistry at the State University of Iowa, graduating in February, 1916, Dr. Lowry is practicing in the city Dea Moines and receiving. the proper support of the race. He one of the most modern and finest equipped dental parlors of any of the young dentists in our city, a credit to our. race and city, His office is in the new Thompson hotel, 775 West Ninth street. His wife is a very amiable young lady, the oldest daugh- ter, of Mr. and Mrs] Geo. Mason of ‘this city. FW hp we sorrowtel, sieit "We bare pasted forever, He write “tab ( vend deck 'thd rag” a Test dian to caf for 1h” adtvined the empertenced fiwwd.—-Lewteriile, Cas Ne 3 Subscribe for The Bystander, iin! Danter Stenal. Af the’ fire bell. should ring would you run and stop it or go and help to ‘putout the fire? It is much the same ‘way with a cough. A cough is a dan- ger signal as much as a fire bell. ‘You should no more try to suppress it than to stop a fire bell when it is CT) ee i a ee Have a <a rent | Box of = |ORO Sent by : ct Ar 3 |. Boro College Co., 8100 Pine Street, Dept Q. St, Louis, Mo, a 3} ‘Please mention name of this paper when writing. ringing, but should cure the disease that causes the coughing, This. can neatly always be done by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Many have used it with the moat beneficial resulta. It is eapecially valuable for the persistent. cough that eo often follows & bad cold or an attack of the Mra, ‘Thomas » Am Fela tod cite *Dkene te ee ‘ter my husband takes cold easily and coughs and conghs. - Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is ‘the best medicine for breaking up these attacks and yeu cannot get him to take nay. other." Obtainable everywhere. ti lent Thon P. Da vand ¢ drs, R » Sewi the hoi teat fterno } at t i. Bu e stud Thoma as an foun an wa 38, Albert the so. la was ome of ing at eather nding. at the 7noon of the sd the ft the Next gram en, ed 20 0 all PF +h. INTERESTING PAPER ON PROMI-NENT MEN. The Independent Sewing Circle club held their first meeting October 23 at the home of Mrs. H. Jones. The meeting was opened by singing and prayer by the chaplain, Mrs. Jones. Scripture reading, St. Matthew 18th chapter, discussed by all the members. The program was next rendered, which was as follows: Reading by Miss Ada Davis, about the Negro race. Paper which was commented upon by all the members. Subject of the paper, "Prominent Negro Men," read by Mrs. Osgar Roper. The manner in which the Negro became an inhabitant of America is one of history, but not in the sense of conquest or seeking adventure or civilization, but as a servant of who sought to enrich themselves and to have some one to do their bidding, the hewers of wood and drawers of water throughout eternity. In speaking of prominent Negroes in our country I will take for my theme "Prominent Negro Heroes of the Past." Little is known of what glorious and valiant service the black race has rendered to his land of forced adoption. Among the first to shed life's blood that this country might be free and independent, where every man is supposed to be free and equal, was the escaped slave, Cuspus Attucks, who gave up his life on Boston commons, with other patriots, for freedom's cause. Others named in this paper were Peter Salem at Bunker Hill, Major Pitcairn, commander in British army; Latham and Leidford, who defended the American flag, and so on held her listeners until she closed with the greatest Negro leader of modern times, Saint L. Overture, defeating Napoleon at San Domingo in the French revolt. Miss May F. David, Albia, Iowa. Nervous Women. When the nervousness is caused by constipation, as is often the case, you will get quick relief by taking Chamberlain's Tablets. These tablets also improve the digestion. Obtainable everywhere. PROBATE NOTICE. Order. Probate number 9484. Probate number 9484. Notice to the unknown surviving spouse and heirs of Maria Mash, deceased, and to the unknown claimants of, in and to said decedent's undivided one-third of the real estate hereinafter described: In the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county. In the matter of the estate of Maria Mash, deceased; L.M. Grimes, administrator. This matter comes up on this 5th day of December, A. D. 1916, upon the application of the above named administrator for an order of court authorizing him to sell the undivided one-third interest of said decedent in and to the following described real estate: Five (5) acres more or less formerly owned by Charles Maish, also spelled Charles Mash, being the same person, formerly her husband, and who pre-deceased her, specifically described as the north half. $(n\frac{1}{2})$ of the northeast quarter $(ne\frac{1}{4})$ of the southwest quarter $(sw\frac{1}{4})$ of the southeast quarter $(se\frac{1}{4})$ of section thirty-six (36), township seventy-nine (79), north range twenty-five (25), west fifth p. m. Iowa, for the purpose of raising money with which to satisfy the debts and charges against the estate of said decedent and the court finds that so far as known said decedent, Maria Mash, left no spouse surviving, or heirs, and that if said decedent left any spouse or heirs their names are unknown to said petitioner, L. M. Grimes, administrator of said estate and unknown to the court; and that he, the said administrator, has sought diligently to learn the same. Therefore it is ordered, considered and adjudged that said application of said administrator be and it is set down for hearing for the 20th day of January, 1917, at 9 o'clock a. m. of said date and that notice thereof shall be given to said unknown mouse and heirs, if any, of said decedent, and to any unknown claimants to her said undivided one-third interest in said premises by publication of a copy of this order for four successive weeks in some newspaper published in the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, to be designated by the clerk of this court, and the court hereby approves the form of this order for the purpose of such notice. Judge. I hereby designate the Bystander in which the foregoing notice and copy of court order shall be published. A. E. Mahan, Clerk of the District Court in and for Polk County, Iowa. By J. E. O'Brien, Deputy. Subscribe for The Bystander. 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