Iowa State Bystander

THE BYSTANDER (By John L. Thompson.) Boost Pay and read The Bystander XXVI No. 6 Bates a bouncing baby boy, someone remarked that he was making boys to run his shop. Mrs. Rosa Corbin is conducting her rooming house and boarding. She has eighteen regular boarders, doing well. Mrs. Rebecca Corbin is living here. She wishes to be remembered to her old Des Moines friend where she lived for thirty-five years. Mrs. D. S. Johnson will still chronicle the news for the reliable Bystander. Mrs. Maggie Sage is still here doing well. Mrs. S. Washington has been sick for several months. D. L. Holmes is one of the successful young men. He is teaming for the city making big money. He owns some fine horses. Mr. E. Green is still running the restaurant and pool doing well. Mr. Eugene Green is our ever reliable expressman doing a big business. Mr. I. A Trembo is conducting his soft drink and pool hall. He is a fine fellow to meet. Mr. U. M. Shortridge is doing well. Mr. William Towles has bought a house on 415 West Ninth street. Mr. H. Harper on Bridge home. Mr. and Mrs. L. Shepard on Grand avenue is doing well. He works for the Railway company. They own a very modern well kept home. J. I. Ingram is also doing well. Mr. and Mrs. U. Ballard are doing well. They own a nice home. H. H. Smith also owns good property. His several lots are covered with grape vines and they are loaded with fine grapes, several thousand pounds. Mr. A. Coonze at 510 West Tenth street also has lots of grape in his vineyard this is a big crop year through Iowa. Mrs. C. Robinson has bought a house at 1718 Eastern ave. Mr. and Mrs. H. Buck on Scott street are still here, doing well. Mr. and Mrs. William Turner are doing nicely, also is F. Baker. Mr. H. Howard has bought a nice large house at 1528 Judson street and is enjoying happiness with his family. Chicago, Chicago, oh you little city on the pond, says one writer but we had rather put it Chicago the world's metropolis on the lake. We want to write briefly about this wonderful city while some of the inspiring things that we saw is fresh upon our memory. Breaths a soul who ever goes to Chicago but what they come away with a new vision of hope and surprises for here you can see and meet hundreds and thousands of people of every civilized country upon the face of the globe. Every known tongue and every known language live side by side in this great metropolitan city. We have here a little more than 100,000 Negroes in nearly every avenue and in all kinds of business known to the American Yankee. Some are rich some are poor, some are educated and cultured and some ignorant and almost uncivilized, some are succeeding and some are bad. In fact there are here just like the human race in all other nationalities. The colored business directory reveals the fact that Chicago has at present about 235 policemen, three members of the state legislature, one member of the city council, almost one regiment of colored soldiers in khaki now with about 100 colored commissioned officers. There are 480 colored clerks employed as clerks in the post office, 280 mail carriers, eighty four colored churches, one Y. M. C. A., one Y. W. C. A., and one hospital, 125 barber shops and several hundred restaurants and lunch rooms, twenty-five lawyers, thirty-four physicians, fourteen dentists, six undertakers, several hair dressing parlors, hundreds of pools and soft drink parlors, three banks, ten real estate firms, twenty grocery stores, fourteen drug stores, one daily paper, two magazines, five newspapers, two good baseball teams, three hotels, five colored bands, several manufacturers and laundries. It is said that more than 5,000 railroad porters live here with several shoe stores, candy and many other stores that space will not at this time permit me to enumerate them. The first thing that struck me was the big colored carnival company was holding a carnival on the Odd Fella track of Grand on Thirty-seventh and State streets, given one week for the benefit of the Odd Fella lodge building fund. They had old merry-go-rounds, the whip, swing and the air swing, woman's booths and lottery drawing by numbers of chickens, geese, ducks, flour, sugar and ham and meal and various other amusements. The next real surprise to us was to see such royal and enthusiastic receptions that both white and colored people give the last of the colored heroes just returned home from France, the 803rd Pioneer infantry numbering 1,800 with white officers marched from the depot to Grant Park to the khaki and boys in blue club house where they were served to dinner by the Red Cross. Both colored and whites of the 165th infantry band met them at the Grand Central depot where they escorted them to Grant Park and gave and open air concert while the boys met their parents, sweethearts and wives and friends. It was a great time, dancing, singing and eating. At 2 o'clock the big parade headed by a platoon of police- DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1919. A $10,000 Drive. All Expected to Help The drive is on. The workers are busy in the various duties assigned to them. The people of Iowa, both men and women, are expected to come to the support of this movement. Iowa is widely noted for the number and high character of its educational institution, but there is not in all Iowa a home or dormitory for the colored students. The committee urges everyone who has received a subscription card to fill it out and return to chairman at once. Those who have not, committee will mail cards to you or send in your donation to chairman of committee. The Mary Church Terril Club of Des Moines heads the honor roll of Clubs. Christian Culture Club of Washington is second. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Knights of Pythians and Court Calanthe made generous donation at their meeting in Cedar Rapids last week and are first on honor roll of lodges. Rev. C. P. Jones of Osceola is the only minister in the state enrolled thus far in the drive. The people must awaken. It is not like Iowa, the Iowa we have known for the past two years to let any worthy cause suffer. men, mounted. It was a great sight and those 1,800 avenues marched down Michigan avenue through the downtown loop to the Grand Central depot. All street cars were stopped and all traffic and people in those tall building shouted applause and threw out long paper streamers eight, ten and twenty stories high a wonder contrast as toington, D. C, the capital of our countr what had just gone on over in Washry. Chicago citizens irrespective of color certainly gave those soldiers a great welcome at the depot. The soldiers entrained in three divisions for Camp Grant to be mustered out. One cannot imagine this sight unless you had seen it. Fully 20,000 colored citizens and perhaps half a million of white citizens witnessed those heroes. I would like to tell my readers more about this demonstration but I fear you may think me a radical, however, there were a few from Des Moines that viewed this sight. Gus Dunden, secretary of the Y. M. C. A and Edyth Strahter, Helen Cravens, Thornton Graves, Mrs. Maud Woods, George Woods and wife. There are a host of former Iowa people living here in Chicago. Among the many that are here are a few that I met: John Wright of Buxton. He has a large pool hall, lodge room, soft drink and ete. The two Roberts brothers also of Buxton, who have just opened an automobile repair and blacksmith shop. Mr. B. Jones, a carpenter of Buxton, James R. Weeks and family formerly of Des Moines. Nels Fowler and family formerly of Ottumwa, Ia. Mr. L. W. Holley formerly of Muscatine. Gus Durdan is assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. here. He was formerly of Des Moines. Lee E. Holt, formerly of Keokuk, Hugh Haskins, formerly of Keokuk. He owns a saloon on Thirty-first and State streets. Demands Congress to Investigate Lynching HUGHES, TAFT, BOOT, A. HUGHES, TAFT, BOOT, A. MITCHELL PALMER SIGN ADDRESS TO NATION DEMANDING CONGRESS INVESTIGATE LYNCHING Demand for an investigation by congress of mob violence and lynching in the United States is made in an address to the nation signed by 150 citizens throughout the country including former President Taft, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the governors of seven states including Governor A. H. Roberts of Tennessee, every living former attorney general of the United States, the heads of California, Illinois, Princeton, Western Reserve, Fisk and Vanderbilt universities, Charles W. Eiliot, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, J. B. Bingham of Mississippi, and Senator Arthur Copper of Kansas. The address to the nation is an outcome of the national conference on lynching which was held in New York City, May 5 and 6, last. "The people of the United States suffer justly under the grievous charge that they continue to tolerate mob murder," says the address. "In the year 1918 no less than sixty-seven persons were done to death without trial or any process of law, having denied the right to a day in court accorded by the federal and state constitutions to all citizens. "It is well known that the innocent with the guilty suffer the cruel inflictions of mob violence. Mobs have even invaded court rooms and prisons to seize and murder prisoners whose punishment had already been fixed. Early in 1919, a hospital was invaded by a mob, and the attack resulted in death from shock of a patient that day operated upon. National Negro Business League in St. Louis St. Louis, Mo, July 31.—One of the most important features of the coming meeting of the National Negro Business League will be a discussion, "A Reconstruction and Readjustment Symposium—The Negro's Relation Thereto," in which national leaders of thought will participate. The subjects of Labor, Health, Business and related questions and problems will be dealt with at length. It is hoped that a sympathetic southerner of national reputation will, also be present to speak on this occasion. Addresses will also be delivered by Mr. William D'Arcy, president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America. Mr. Allen W. Clark, chairman of the Clean-Up and Paint-Up Bureau, with headquarters at St. Louis, and Colonel Otis B. Duncan of the famous Eighth Illinois regiment. The official announcement of entertainments for the League include a visit to the Anheuser-Busch Boeva plant a special entertainment at the Booker T. Washington Theater and an Industrial and Fraternal parade showing the achievements of the Negroes of St. Louis and the middle west. The Eighth Illinois regimental band will furnish music for the reception and banquet which will be held Friday evening, August 15th at the Coliseum. It will thus be seen that the local Negro Business League of St. Louis is making full and complete arrangements not only for the business meeting of the league, but also for the entertainment of the delegates and of the friends. The meeting begins August 13. "Patriotic citizens throughout the country feel the shame which lynchings cast upon the nation but they have assumed partial responsibility for this shame by their silence and their acquiescence. The time has now come when citizens of the United States can no longer contemplate without protest the setting at nought of the fundamental principles upon which their citizenship is based. "The undersigned, therefore, as citizens of the United States without sectional or party bias, with the interest oily of the republic at heart, urge all public spirited men and women to oppose with all their power the recurrence of the crime and the shame of mob murder, they urge the governors of the several states to do all that is possible to prevent and punish lynching; they pledge their support to the officers of the law who, in the face of mob excitement, discharge their duties; and they urge upon the congress of the United States nation-wide investigation of lynching and mob murder to the dthat means may be found to end this scourge." Among the southern signers of the address are Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland, former attorney general of the United States; George M. Bailey, editor of the Houston Post; William M. Hunley of Lexington, Va., secretary southern race commission; William S. Sutton, dean of department of education of the University of Texas. Among the signers from New York are the editors of the Evening Post, the Independent, the public, the New York Age, the New Republic, the Nation, the Survey, the Crisis, the publisher of the New York Times and the presidents of the Bar and Merchants' Associations. Chicago Riots Chicago, Ill., July 31.—The scene of riot has shifted from Washington, the nation's capitol, to Chicago, America's greatest cosmopolitan city, and regarded everywhere as the world's greatest center of race progress. Sunday afternoon, a colored lad was bathing in Lake Michigan near the beach at East Twenty-ninth street. The day was hot and tens of thousands of Chicago's population were seeking relief from the heat in the cooling waters of Lake Michigan. This lad was on a raft and a white ruffian threw a stone and knocked him into the water where he drowned before being rescued. The attention of white policemen was immediately called to the ruffian, but the policeman refused to arrest the man, where upon the crowd became angered and in a short time began to "clean up" the place. The man accused of the crime is Augusta Strauber. Finally, he was arrested by two colored detectives Middleton and Scott. The news of the crime scattered like wild fire. Hundreds rushed from the beach in their bathing costumes, hurrying to places of shelter while others hurried to their nearby homes for revolvers and rifles. And, in less than an hour, there was a general battle in which more than one hundred whites were injured by weapons of various kinds. The news of the strife spread to every section of the south side and at several points such as Thirty-first and State, Thirty-fifth and State, Thirty-ninth and State streets, thousands of people gathered and talked in low tones over the situation. Between sun set Sunday night and early Monday morning Closed 4th Annual Session in Cedar Rapids, July 24th, 1919 Mrs. Maude M. Wilkinsen, Grand Reporter Cedar Rapids, In., July 22.—The twenty-third annual session Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, jurisdiction of Iowa and the fourth annual grand session of its auxiliary the Iowa Grand Court O. O. Calanthe in session at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 22, 23 and 24. K. of P. grand sessions were held in K. of P. hall on First avenue. The Grand Court sessions order of Calanthe were held in the Odd Fellows hall on Second avenue, Tuesday, July 22 at 10 a.m. Iowa grand court opened. Mrs. Eva Owens G. W. C. of Des Moines and grand court officers were guests of Cedar Court No. 10, Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Ada Green, W. C.; Mrs. Flora Lavell, presiding at the piano. The grand court officers were received with honor and invited with words of cordial welcome and greeting by W. C., Mrs. Ada Green of Cedar Rapids, and her court officers after which she presented the gavel to G. W. C., Mrs. Eva Owens, Des Moines, proceeded to open the G. C. all grand officers present in their station appointing of committees (special) and rule: chr. flora Lavell, Cedar Rapids, Francis Hicks, Ottumwa; Mary Miles, Buxton. Wednesday morning, opening services order of business, reports of committees, etc. Wednesday afternoon 4 p. m. joint memorial meeting at the K. of P. hall. Mrs. Mattie Green of Ottumwa, chairman of the grand court memorial committee and Mr. Robert Couch, Des Moines, chairman of the grand lodge K. of P. memorial committee, Calatheian choir rendered appropriate music and songs. Mrs. Maude M. Wilkins of Des Moines eulogized the deceased brothers. Remarks by G. P. C., L. W. Williams of Clarinda. Invocation by Rev. and Sister O. A. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo. this joint memorial meeting was private for the fraternal order and was indeed said and made a lasting impression on all, and shall long be remembered. Wednesday evening, annual sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church by Rev. Sir James L. Wharton of Davenport. The Calatheian choir rendered music. Beautiful solo by Mrs. Johnson. Offering was $48.18 which was divided equally with the church and the Rev. Wharton. A pretty lawn party was held by the members of Cedar Court No. 10 after the sermon at one of its member's beautiful homes. Thursday morning, routine business, reports and election of grand officers. Credentials and return—Chairman Sallie Brinks, Bruxon; Louise Baker, Centerville, Ia.; Naomi Smith, Des Moines; Lizzie Washington, Albia. These committees were excused to committee rooms and prepared said reports during the time while said committees were arranging their report a devotion exercise was being conducted in the grand court room. Committees out fifteen minutes returned with report for time and rule present and partial report of credentials finding nine sub courts and two juvenile courts reported and nineteen members recommended for the P. W. C. degree. The G. W. C. declared a constitutional number present and proceeded to open the grand courts in regular ritualist form, G. W. C. then ask G. W. Inx Della Bryant to come to the east to preside at the opening. Mrs. Saphnona Bates, G. W. rator led song, "He is the One," and "feder fervent prayer which was soullering. The Lord has blessed us to G. W. C. then resumed her station in wegan the actual duties of her office Grand officers absent two: The stations were filled by Mrs. Florence Houston as G. condtress, Des Moines, Mrs. Alberta Graham, G. P. of Ottumwa. G. W. C. expressed pleasure greetings and good wishes for a business and harmonious session. Mrs. S. Bates, assisted by Maude M. Wilkinson and Laura Rhodes conferred the P. W. C. degree on nineteen. Members of which the G. W. C. appointed the committee and charters, necrology, appeals and grievances, foreign correspondence, state of order, finance, law and supervision, mileage and board, juvenile court, special committee, fraternal greetings, resolutions and recommendations and telegrams. Tuesday afternoon the report of G. W. C. and other grand officers and routine of business. Tuesday 8:30 p. m. grand public reception and opening jointly at the K. P. hall. Master of ceremonies, Sir M. W. Scott, Cedar Rapids; opening anthem by the K. P. of and Calanthian choir, Mrs. Flora Lavell at the piano. Invocation by Rev. Woodard of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Welcome on behalf of city, Mayor Rall absence. Judge Patterson made the welcome address. Response, Sir Harrison Gould, G. C. Des Moines; vocal solo, Mrs Minnie Gray; welcome on behalf of Cedar No. 10, G. O. C. Mrs. Ada Green, W. C.; response, Mrs. Della Brynt, Des Moines; vocal solo, Mrs Julia McGee; welcome on behalf of K. of P., Sir A. E Joyce, C. C.; response by Sir Tracy Blackburn, Des Moines; solo Sir Fred H. Gresham; remarks by Mrs Helena Downey, Ottumwa; remarks by Attorney George Woodson, Buxton; announcements, after program, refreshments were served. ing, there were more than a doben fights in which more than two hundred were injured, some fatally, the majority of them being white and a score of the policemen. Hundreds of police reserves and four hundred mounted police were called out Sunday night to quell the disturbance. Chief of Police Garrisey, his assistant Alcock, Mayor Thompson and leading organizations of people of both races are doing all possible to restore peace. Much damage has been done by both races to street cars; colored men and women boating up white people on cars running through the south side district, while whites have been furious in their treatment of colored people on street cars running through Wentworth avenue, and Halsted street, on cross lines. Mayor Thompson declared conditions are very serious and must be carefully studied to get at the cause of the trou- Price Five Cents Wednesday morning, opening services order of business, reports of committees, etc. Wednesday afternoon 4 p. joint memorial meeting at the K. of P. hall, Mrs. Mattie Green of Ottumwa, chairman of the grand court memorial committee and Mr. Robert Couch, Des Moines, chairman of the grand lodge K, of P. memorial committees, Calathian choir rendered appropriate music and songs. Mrs. Maude M. Wilkins of Des Moines culogized the deceased brothers. Remarks by G. P. C., L. W. Williams of Clarinda. Invocation by Rev. and Sister O. A. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo. this joint memorial meeting was private for the fraternal order and was indeed said and made a lasting impression on all, and shall long be remembered. Wednesday evening, annual sermon at M. Zion Baptist Church by Rev. Sir James L. Wharton of Davenport. The Calathian choir rendered music. Beautiful solo by Mrs. Johnson. Offering was $44.18 which was divided equally with the church and the Rev. Whaston, a pretty lawn party was held by the members of Cedar Court No. 10 after the sermon at one of its member's beautiful homes. Thursday morning, routine business, reports and election of grand officers. Thursday, 2 p. m. a wonderful parade of K. of P. ladies of grand court in auto led by the people's band and discharged soldiers of the order. The city of Cedar Rapids had looked forward for this great street parade as the main streets were decorated with United States flags as welcome. Thursday 8:30 p. m., grand installation of G. C. officers and grand ball given by Twin City Club at American hall. Music by Jackson's orchestra. Next session will be held in Sioux City, IA. TEN BYSTANDER—7-31-19 Telegrams of greeting were received from Jos. L. Jones, S. C., of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sir. S. W. Green, S. C., and grand court of Missouri in session at St. Louis, Mo. The Grand Court O. O. C. voted to allow $25.00 to be sent to Sir Jackson to apply on supreme prize drill money at Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 1919, also allowed $10 to be applied to scholarship fund drive to buy home at Iowa City for our girls who attend State College. The efforts of Mrs. Helen Downey, state chairman, Ottumwa. Grand Court voted to allow salary for the office of G. W. C., G. R. of D. and G. R. of Deposits at the 1918 session allowed salary for office of grand secretary of G. W. C. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan, highly respected citizens of Cedar Rapids sent beautiful bouquets to the grand court, also the grand lodge K. of P. sent greeting and beautiful bouquet of catt flowers. The grand court received with many thanks. Thus closes a great and glorious meeting. Following are 1919 officers: G. W. C., Mrs. Owens, Des Moines; G. W. Inx, Mrs. Della Bryant, Des Moines; G. W. T., Mrs. Sallie Brooks, Buxton; G. W. O., Mrs. Saphorne Bates, Des Moines; G. W. S. D., Mrs. Mable Horn, Cedar Rapids; G. W. J, D. J., Mrs. Ella Griever, Ottumwa; G. W. R. of D., Elnora Gresham, Cedar Rapids; G. W. R. of Dep., Mrs. Lillian Robinson, Des Moines; G. W. Cond, Mrs. Maggie Rise, Davenport; G. W. A. Cond, Ella McDonald, Waterloo; G. W. Escort, Mrs. La Rhodes, Des Moines; G. W. Lecturer, Mrs. Florence B. Houston, Des Moines; G. W. Herold Willie Booker, Des Moines; G. W. P. Mrs. Alberta Graham, Ottumwa; G. W. Matron, Mrs. Mattie Green, Ottumwa; G. W. trustee, 3 years, Mrs. Mary Buxton, G. W. trustee, 2 years, Mrs. Clara P. Hanson, Cedar Rapids; G. W. trustee, 1 year, Mamie Smith, Des Moines, G. or reporter and G. secretary of G. W. C., Maude M. Wilkinson; Supreme Rep., Mrs. Eva Owens, W. C., Des Moines; Ect. Rep., Mrs. Sophone Bates, Des Moines; Rec. for G. W. C. degree at supreme meet Atlantic City, N. J., August, 1919; Rosa Bolden, Maggie Jones, Buxton; Elnora Gresham, Cedar Rapids; and Maud M. Wilkinson, Des Moines. ble and the means of correcting it at once. It is claimed by some that more than two thousand Springfield rites with considerable ammunition are in the hands of the colored people on the south side. This statement is denied by Alderman R. R. Jackson, colored and others. However, it is well known that the majority of the people are strongly armed. At time of going to press, conditions are fairly quiet, but by no means under full control.—Associated Negro Press. THE BEST PHYSIC. When you want a pleasant physic-try Chamberlain's Tablets. They are easy to take and mild and gentle in effect. They are highly prized by people who have become acquainted with their good qualities. They only cost a quarter. Money can beget money, and its off-spring can beget more. M M M B S play M it at of re no p 7 pu hi ia b sd ai The best advertising medium to reach colored people in the west THE BYSTANDER (By John L. Thompson.) Last week we were so very busy in the Tri-cities and Chicago that we could not get our observation out in time. Therefore we are going to skip this week the observation of Rock Island and Moline because we want to have Chicago in this week's review as it is fresh from our memory and will include the other omitted cities next week. On Wednesday morning July 15 just as the morning sun spread its shining rays upon the horizon in company with bicycle and grip we started with our face the longest toward this rising sun facing cast for the longest and heaviest trip of the year over the Rock Island into the old Quaker City of Oakaloa, which was founded more than half a century ago by the band of Quakers coming from Pennsylvania who sought to extend their religious ideas among the Indians in the then great west here lives about 5,000 people of which 500 are colored. There are two colleges, the Penn college and Oakaloa, three colored churches the M. E. pastored by Rev. W. Brown, who is doing well. J. B. Wood, who is still in the ice and coal business, is preparing to move out on a farm soon. He has thirty acres of good corn this year. He is a hustler. Mr. Frank Allen is still in the contracting business and work as usual. Woody Thomas is still helping him. Mr. S. Mitchell, one of the pioneers of this city, has passed away since we were still operating their torsional parlors and are doing nicely. The former is high up in the Masonic councils of Iowa. He is the only son of the Hon. Alexander Clark of Muscatine. Mrs. Ring is quite sick and has been for several months. W. C. Coleman is still in the same old place doing well. He owns some good valuable property. Pierre Barquette is back from Ottumwa and is employed as a butcher in a meat shop. Mr. A. Hardy is one of our oldest and highly esteemed citizen, well fixed. R. Franklin is still working at the movies, doing well. Mr. A. Stewart is still here doing nice. Mr. Hockaday is running his barber shop. E. E. Jones, one of the old and highly respected citizens is still working at the bank. We next stopped in Washington, Ia. Here we find that the colored population is more on the decrease than increase. Most of those here are old settlers and own their own homes. One church supplies their spiritual needs, the A. M. E. pastored by Rev. F. J. Peterson, whose daughter, along with one of Mr. Daniels daughters graduated from the high school with honors. Mr. A. L. Hall is doing well. He is employed by the city as seavenger. He owns a nice home. H. K. Craton is also doing well. He owns valuable property. Nate Black is still in the job printing business. Muscatine found a home for us one-half day here also one church denomination serves the colored constituents the A. M. E. pastored by Rev. R. Thomas, doing as well as could be expected. Frank A. Walker is still in his barber shop, also are the Greenway brothers while some of these brothers are out upon their small farm. Mr. Jeff Thompson is still working at the depot while his wife is running one of the finest hair dressing parlors in Iowa located in the balcony of the finest store buildings in Muscatine. You can take the elevator and go to it on the second floor. Her parlor is beautifully equipped with all the latest and modern fixtures. She employs from three to four girl to assist her. All are colored girls. Thomas Lloyd is working in the tailor shop. A. O. Powell is still working in the Muscatine hotel. Miss Grooms is still matron at the court house. Davenport was our next stop. It is one of the largest and finest cities in Iowa with a colored population of 1,200. Two colored churches, three pool halls, three restaurants, three barber shops, two soft drink and lunch rooms, one physician, one dentist, two shoe polishing stands, several roaming and boarding houses, one undertaker, one forist. The A. M. Church is restored by the Rev. S. B. Moore, a very fine minister. He is doing well. He only son is one of the active young men of this city, an enthusiastic boy Scout and has worked hard last winter to furnish the Bystander with the Davenport news while our agent was sick. Rev. Moore is the Grand Patron of Iowa Eastern Star Grand Lodge. The Baptist Church is pastored by Rev. F. K. Nichalson, an able young man who is well known in Iowa. Dr. R. S. Taylor, who was recent elected R. W. Grand Senior Warden of Iowa, has a large and lucrative practice here. L. M. Brown is the undertaker. He formerly lived in Des Moines. He has a fine parlor and doing well. John E. Bradford, one of the leading and high Masons, is freight clock at the Rock Island freight office. Mr. Doe well. He owns a nice home. Mr. Charles Bates is still running his business parlor. The day we were born to him and Mrs. Boost Pay and read The Bystander XXVI No. 6 DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1919. The drive is on. The workers are busy in the various duties assigned to them. The people of Iowa, both men and women, are expected to come to the support of this movement. Iowa is widely noted for the number and high character of its educational institution, but there is not in all Iowa a home or dormitory for the colored students. The committee urges everyone who has received a subscription card to fill it out and return to chairman at once. Those who have not, committee will mail cards to you or send in your donation to chairman of committee. The Mary Church Terril Club of Des Moines heads the honor roll of Clubs. Christian Culture Club of Washington is second. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Knights of Pythians and Court Calanthe made generous donation at their meeting in Cedar Rapids last week and are first on honor roll of lodges. Rev. C. P. Jones of Osceola is the only minister in the state enrolled thus far in the drive. The people must awaken. It is not like Iowa, the Iowa we have known for the past two years to let any worthy cause suffer. men, mounted. It was a great sight and those 1,800 heroes marched down Michigan avenue through the downtown loop to the Grand Central depot. All street cars were stopped and all traffic and people in those tall building shouted applause and thrown out long paper streamers eight, ten and twenty stories high a wonder contrast as to ington, D. C., the capital of our countr what had just gone on over in Washry. Chicago citizens irrespective of color certainly gave those soldiers a great welcome at the depot. The soldiers entrained in three divisions for Camp Grant to be mustered out. One cannot imagine this sight unless you had seen it. Fully 20,000 colored citizens and perhaps half a million of white citizens witnessed those heroes. I would like to tell my readers more about this demonstration but I fear you may think me a radical, however, there were a few from Des Moines that viewed this sight. Gus Dunden, secretary of the Y. M. C. A and Edyth Straighter, Helen Cravens, Thornton Graves, Mrs. Maud Woods, George Woods and wife. There are a host of former Iowa people living here in Chicago. Among the many that are here are a few that I met: John Wright of Buxton. He has a large pool hall, lodge room, soft drink and ete. The two Roberts brothers also of Buxton, who have just opened an automobile repair and blacksmith shop. Mr. B. Jones, a carpenter of Buxton, James R. Weeks and family formerly of Des Moines. Nels Fowler and family formerly of Ottumwa, Ia. Mr. L. W. Holley formerly of Muscatine. Gus Duran is assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. here. He was formerly of Des Moines. Lee E. Holt, formerly of Keokuk, Hugh Haskins, formerly of Keokuk. He owns a saloon on Thirty-first and State streets. Demands Congress to Investigate Lynching HUGHES, TAFT, ROOT, A MITCHLEL PALMER SIGN AD- DRESS TO NATION DEMAND- ING CONGRESS INVESTI- GATE LYNCHING Demand for an investigation by congress of mob violence and lynching in the United States is made in an address to the nation signed by 150 citizens throughout the country including former President Taft, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the governors of seven states including Governor A. H. Roberts of Tennessee, every living former attorney general of the United States, the heads of California, Illinois, Princeton, Western Reserve, Fisk and Vanderbilt uni- universities, Charles W. Eiliot, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, J. R. Bingham, of Mississippi, and Senator Arthur Copper of Kansas. The address to the nation is an out- come of the national conference on lynching which was held in New York City, May 5 and 6. last. "The people of the United States suffer justly under the grievous charge that they continue to tolerate mob murder," says the address. "In the year 1918 no less than sixty-seven persons were done to death without trial or any process of law, having been denied the right to a day in court accorded by the federal and state constitutions to all citizens. "It is well known that the innocent with the guilty suffer the cruel inflictions of mob violence. Mobs have even invaded court rooms and prisons to seize and murder prisoners whose punishment had already been fixed. Early in 1919, a hospital was invaded by a mob, and the attack resulted in death from shock of a patient that day operated upon. National Negro Business League in St. Louis St. Louis, Mo., July 31.—One of the most important features of the coming meeting of the National Negro Business League will be a discussion, "A Reconstruction and Readjustment Symposium—The Negro's Relation Thereto," in which national leaders of thought will participate. The subjects of Labor, Health, Business and related questions and problems will be dealt with at length. It is hoped that a sympathetic southerner of national reputation will also be present to speak on this occasion. Addresses will also be delivered by Mr. William D'Arey, president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America. Mr. Allen W. Clark, chairman of the Clean-Up and Paint-Up Bureau, with headquarters at St. Louis, and Colonel Otis B. Duncan of the famous Eighth Illinois regiment. The official announcement of entertainments for the League include a visit to the Anheuser-Busch Bev plant a special entertainment at the Booker T. Washington Theater and an Industrial and Fraternal parade showing the achievements of the Negroes of St. Louis and the middle west. The Eighth Illinois regimental band will furnish music for the reception and banquet which will be held Friday evening, August 15th at the Coliseum. It will thus be seen that the local Negro Business League of St. Louis is making full and complete arrangements not only for the business meeting of the league, but also for the entertainment of the delegates and of the friends. The meeting begins August "Patriotic citizens throughout the country feel the shame which lynchings cast upon the nation but they have assumed partial responsibility for this shame by their silence and their acquiescence. The time has now come when citizens of the United States can no longer contemplate without protest the setting at nought of the fundamental principles upon which their citizenship is based. "The undersigned, therefore, as citizens of the United States without sectional or party bias, with the interest sally of the republic at heart, urge all public spirited men and women to oppose with all their power the recurrence of the crime and the shame of mob murder, they urge the governors of the several states to do all that is passible to prevent and punish lynching; they pledge their support to the officers of the law who, in the face of mob excitement, discharge their duties; and they urge upon the congress of the United States nation-wide investigation of lynching and mob murder to the dnet that means may be found to end this scourge." Among the signers of the address are Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland, former attorney general of the United States; George M. Bailey, editor of the Houston Post; William M. Hunley of Lexington, Va., secretary southern race commission; William S. Sutton, dean of department of education of the University of Texas. Among the signers from New York are the editors of the Evening Post, the Independent, the public, the New York Age, the New Republic, the Nation, the Survey, the Crisis, the publisher of the New York Times and the presidents of the Bar and Merchants' Associations. Chicago Riots Chicago, Ill., July 31.—The scene of riot has shifted from Washington, the nation's capitol, to Chicago, America's greatest cosmopolitan city, and regarded everywhere as the world's greatest center of race progress. Sunday afternoon, a colored lad was bathing in Lake Michigan near the beach at East Twenty-ninth street. The day was hot and tens of thousands of Chicago's population were seeking relief from the heat in the cooling waters of Lake Michigan. This lad was on a raft and a white ruffian threw a stone and knocked him into the water where he drowned before being rescued. The attention of white policemen was immediately called to the ruffian, but the policeman refused to arrest the man, where upon the crowd became angered and in a short time began to "clean up" the place. The man accused of the crime is Augusta Strauber. Finally, he was arrested by two colored detectives Middleton and Scott. The news of the crime scattered like wild fire. Hundreds rushed from the beach in their bathing costumes, hurrying to places of shelter while others hurried to their nearby homes for revolvers and rifles. And, in less than an hour, there was a general battle in which more than one hundred whites were injured by weapons of various kinds. The news of the strife spread to every section of the south side and at several points such as Thirty-first and State, Thirty-fifth and State, Thirty-ninth and State streets, thousands of people gathered and talked in low tones over the situation. Between ams set Sunday night and early Monday morn Mrs. Maude M. Wilkinsen, Grand Reporter Cedar Rapids, Ia., July 22.—The twenty-third annual session Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, jurisdiction of Iowa and the fourth annual grand session of its auxiliary the Iowa Grand Court O. O. Calanthe in session at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 22, 23 and 24. K. of P. grand sessions were held in K. of P. hall on First avenue. The Grand Court sessions order of Calanthe were held in the Odd Fellows hall on Second avenue, Tuesday, July 22 at 10 a. m. Iowa grand court opened. Mrs. Eva Owens G. W. C. of Des Moines and grand court officers were guests of Cedar Court No. 10, Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Ada Green, W. C.; Mrs. Flora Lavell, presiding at the piano. The grand court officers were received with honor and invited with words of cordial welcome and greeting by W. C., Mrs. Ada Green of Cedar Rapids, and her court officers after which she presented the gavel to G. W. C., Mrs. Eva Owens, Des Moines, proceeded to open the G. C. All grand officers present in their station appointing of committees (special) time and rule: chr. Flora Lavell, Cedar Rapids, Francis Hicks, Ottumwa; Mary Miles, Buxton. Credentials and return—Chairman Sallie Brinks, Buxton; Louise Baker, Centerville, Ia.; Naomi Smith, Des Moines; Lizzie Washington. Albia. These committees were excused to committee rooms and prepared said reports during the time while said committees were arranging their report a devotion exercise was being conducted in the grand court room. Committees out fifteen minutes returned with report for time and rule and partial report of credentials finding nine sub courts and two juvenile courts reported and nineteen members recommended for the P. W. C. degree. The G. W. C. declared a constitutional number present and proceeded to open the grand court in regular ritualist form, G. W. C. then ask G. W. Inx Della Bryant to come to the east to preside at the opening. Mrs. Saphonna Bates, G. W. orator led song, "He is the One," and offered fervent prayer which was soul stirring. The Lord has blessed us to meet face to face in this, another year. The G. W. C. then resumed her station and began the actual duties of her office. Grand officers absent two: The stations were filled by Mrs. Florence Houston as G. condress, Des Moines, Mrs. Alberta Graham, G. P. of Otumwai. G. W. C. expressed pleasure and good wishes for a business and harmonious session. Mrs. S. Bates, assisted by Maude M. Wilkinson and Laura Rhodes conferred the P. W. C. degree on nineteen. Members of which the G. W. C. appointed the committee and charters, necrology, appeals and grievances, foreign correspondence, state of order, finance, law and supervision, mileage and board, juvenile court, special committee, fraternal greetings, resolutions and recommendations and telegrams. Tuesday afternoon the report of G. W. C. and other grand officers and routine of business. Tuesday 8:30 p. m. grand public reception and opening jointly at the K of P. hall. Master of ceremonies, Sir M. W. Scott, Cedar Rapids; opening anthem by the K. of P. and Calanthian choir, Mrs. Flora Lavell at the piano Invocation by Rev. Woodard of Mt Zion Baptist Church. Welcome on behalf of city, Mayor Ball absence Judge Patterson made the welcome address. Response, Sir Harrison Gould, G. C. Des Moines; vocal solo, Minnie Gray; welcome on behalf of Cedar court, No 10, O. O. C. Mrs. Ada Green; W. C.; response, Mrs. Della Brynt, Des Moines; vocal solo, Mrs. Julia McGee; welcome on behalf of K. of P., Sir A B Joyce, C. C.; response by Sir Tracy Blackburn, Des Moines; solo Sir Fred H. Gresham; remarks by Mrs. Helena Downey, Ottumwau; remarks by Attorney George Woodson, Buxton; announcements, after program, refreshments were served. ing, there were more than a dobenights in which more than two hundred were injured, some fatally, the majority of them being white and a score of the policemen. Hundreds of police reserves and four hundred mounted police were called out Sunday night to quell the disturbance. Chief of Police Garriety, his assistant Aleock, Mayor Thompson and leading organizations of people of both races are doing all possible to restore peace.' Much damage has been done by both races to street cars; colored men and women beating up white people on cars running through the south side district, while whites have been furious in their treatment of colored people on street cars running through Wentworth avenue, and Halsted street, and on cross lines. Mayor Thompson declared conditions are very serious and must be carefully studied to get at the cause of the trou Price Five Cents Wednesday morning, opening services order of business, reports of committees, etc. Wednesday afternoon 4 p.m. joint memorial meeting at the K. of P. hall. Mrs. Mattie Green of Ottumwa, chairman of the grand court memorial committee and Mr. Robert Couch, Des Moines, chairman of the grand lodge K, of P. memorial committee, Calathian choir rendered appropriate music and songs. Mrs. Maude M. Wilkins of Des Moines eulogized the deceased brothers. Remarks by G. P. C., L. W. Williams of Clarinda. Invocation by Rev. and Sister G. A. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo. this joint memorial meeting was private for the fraternal order and was indeed said and made a lasting impression on all, and shall long be remembered. Wednesday evening, annual sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church by Rev. Sir James L. Wharton of Davenport. The Calatianah choir rendered music. Beautiful solo by Mrs. Johnson. Offering was $46.18 which was divided equally with the church and the Rev. Wharton. a pretty lawn party was held by the members of Osdar Court No. 10 after the sermon at one of its member's beautiful homes. Thursday morning, routine business, reports and election of grand officers. Thursday, 2 p. m. a wonderful parade of K. of P. ladies of grand court in auto led by the people's band and discharged soldiers of the order. The city of Cedar Rapids had looked forward for this great street parade as the main streets were decorated with United States flags as welcome. Thursday 8:30 p. m., grand installation of G. C. officers and grand ball given by Twin City Club at American hall. Music by Jackson's orchestra. Next session will be held in Sloux City, Ia. TEN BYSTANDER—7-31-19 Telegrams of greeting were received from Jos. L. Jones, S. C., of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sir S. W. Green, S. C., and grand court of Missouri in session at St. Louis, Mo. The Grand Court G. O. C. voted to allow $25.00 to be sent to Sir Jackson to apply on supreme prize drill money at Atlantic City, N. J., Aug., 1919, also allowed $10 to be applied to scholarship fund drive to buy home at Iowa City for our girls who attend State College. The efforts of Mrs. Helen Downey, state chairman, Ottawa. Grand Court voted to allow salary for the office of G. W. C., G. B. of D. and G. R. of Deposits at the 1918 session allowed salary for office of grand secretary of G. W. C. Mr. J, and Mrs. Milligan, highly respected citizens of Cedar Rapids sent beautiful bouquets to the grand court, also the grand lodge K. of P. sent greeting and beautiful bouquet of cut flowers. The grand court received with many thanks. Thus closes a great and glorious meeting. Following are 1919 officers: G. W. C., Mrs. Eva Owens, Des Moines; G. W. Inx, Mrs. Della Bryant, Des Moines; G. W. I., Mrs. Sallie Brooks, Buxton; G. W. O., Mrs. Saphorne Rates, Des Moines; G. W. S. D., Mrs. Mable Horn, Cedar Rapids; G. W. J, D., Mrs. Ella Griever, Ottumwa; G. W. R of D., Elnora Gresham, Cedar Rapids; G. W. R of Dep, Mrs. Lillian Robinson, Des Moines; G. W. Cond, Mrs. Maggie Rice, Davenport; G. W. A Cond, Ella McDonald, Waterloo; G. W. Escort, Mrs. Laura Rhodes, Des Moines; G. W. Lecter, Mrs. Florence B. Houston, Des Moines; G. W. Herold Willie Booker, Des Moines; G. W. P. Mrs. Abraham Graham, Ottumwa; G. W. matron, Mrs. Mattie Green, Ottumwa; G. W. trustee, 3 years, Mrs. Mary Miles, Buxton; G. W. trustee, 2 years, Mrs. Clara P. Hanson, Cedar Rapids; G. W. trustee, 1 year, Mamie Smith, Des Moines, G. or reporter and G. secretary of G. W. C., Maude M. Wilkinson; Supreme Rep, Mrs. Eva Owens, W. C., Des Moines; Elect Rep, Mrs. Sophone Bates, Des Moines; Rec. for G. W. C. degree at supreme meet Atlantic City, N. J., August; 1919: Rose Bolden, Maggie Jones, Buxton; Elnora Gresham, Cedar Rapids, and Maud M. Wilkinson, Des Moines. ble and the means of correcting it at once. It is claimed by some that more than two thousand Springfield, rides with considerable ammunition are in the hands of the colored people on the south side. This statement is denied by Alderman R. R. Jackson, colored and others. However, it is well known that the majority of the people are strongly armed. At time of going to press, conditions are fairly quiet, but by no means under full control—Associated Negro Press. THE BEST PHYSIC. When you want a pleasant physic try Chamberlain's Tablets. They are easy to take and mild and gentle in effect. They are highly prized by people who have become acquainted with their good qualities. They only cost a quarter. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. The best advertising medium to reach colored people in the west 5 § —“~ SAI am cotter | Boost Pay : Fatnte Gapttot Bie Titst at ; 2 The Best ‘and read The i 1 eS 7 advertising medi- rose ; I t iu aero SSS ne XXVI No. 6 - DES MOINES, 10WA, FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1919. Price Five Cents nn a THE EDITOR’S OBSERVATIONS eee AE Ce ee eee ae ees not get our-observation out in time Therefore we are going to skip this week the observation of Rock Island and Moline because wo want to have Chicago in this week’s review as it is fresh from -our memory and will include the other omitted cities next week. On Wednesday morning July 15 just ae the morning 8am spread its shinning rays upon the horizon in company with bi- ayele and grip we started with our face tho longest toward this rising sun fac- ing east for the longest and heaviest trip of the year over the Rock Island into the old Quaker City of Oslealoosa, which was founded more than half a century ago by the band of Quakers coming from Pennsylvania who sought to extend their religious ideas among the Indians in the.then great west here lives about 5,000 people of which 500 ate colored. ‘There are two colleges, tho Penn college and Oskaloosa, three colored churches the M. E. pastored by Rev. Woodford, formerly of . Des Moines; the Baptist Mission pastored by Rev. B, P. Palmer, who is just plan- ning to begin building a church and tho A. M, E. pastored by Rev. D. W. Brown, who is doing well. J. B. Wood, who is still in the ice and coal business, is preparing to move out on = farm 2002, “He has thirty acres of good corn out this year. He is a hustler. Mr. Frank Allen is otill in the contracting business crowded with work as usual. Woody Thomas is still helping him. Mr, 8. Mitchell, one of the pioneers of this city, has passed away since we were Inst ‘here. A. J; lark’ and Mr. Moore are still operating their tonsorial parlors and are doing nicely.” The former is high up in the Masonic councils of Towa, Ho is the only son of the Hon. Alexander Clark of Muscatine. Mrs. Ring ie quite sick and has been for several months. W. C. Coleman is still in the same old place doing well. He ‘owms some geod valuable property. Pierre Barquotte is back from Ottumwa and is employed as a butcher in a meat! shop. »Mr. A. Hardy’ is_one of our old-| est and highly esteemed citizen, well fixed. HE, Franklin is still working at the movies; doing weil. Mr. A. Stewart ig still here doing nice. Mr. Hockaday| is running his. barber shop. E. E. Jones, ono of the old and highly respected citi- zens is still working at the bank. We next stopped in Washington, Ia, Here we find that the colored population is more on tho decrease than, increase. ‘Most of those here are old settlers and own their own homes One ehurch sup- plies their spiritual needs, the A. M. E., pastored by Rev. F. J. Peterson, whose) daughter, along with one of Mr. Daniels daughters graduated from the high school with honors. Mr. A. L. Hall is doing-well. He is employed by the city as seavenger. Ho owns a nice hon:e. H. K. Craton is also doing well. He owns valuable property. Nate Black is still in the job printing business. Mus- eatine found a home for us one-half day here also one church denomination servs the colored constituents the A. M. E, pastored by Rev. R. Thomas, doing as well as could be expected. Frank A. Walker is still in his barber shop, also are the Greenway brothers while some of these brothers cre out upon their small farm. Mr. Jeff Thompson is still working at the depot while his wifo is running one of the finest hair dressing parlors in Iowa located in tho balcony: of the finest store buildings in Musca tine. You ean take the elevator and go to it on the second floor. Her par- lor ig beautifully equipped with all the latest. and modern fixtures. Sle em- ploys from three to four girl to assist, her. AU are colored girls, Thomas Lloyd is working in tlie tailor shop, A.. 'O. Powell is still working in the Mus- cating hotel. Miss Grooms is still mat- ron at the court house. Davenport was ‘our next stop. It is one of the largest and finest cities in lowa with s colored Popiilation of 1,200. Two colored churches, three pool halls, three restau- tants, three barber shops, two soft drink and Yunch rooms, one physician, one dentist, two shoe ‘polishing stands, several rooming and boarding houses, ‘one undertaker, ome florist. The A. M- Church is rostered by the Rev. 8, B. Moore, a yey “ne minister. Ho is do- ing well. If < culy-gon is onc of the ac tive young vx" of this cif, an onthu- siastist Boy Scout and ha: worked s0 hard last winter to furnish tho By- stander with the Davenport news while ‘our agent was sick. Rev. Moore is the Grand Patron of Iowa Eastern Star Grand Lodge. The Baptist Church is Pastored by Rev. F. K. Nichalson, an ‘able young man who is well known in Towa. Dr. R. 8. Taylor, who was re ent clected R.-W. Grand Senior Ward- en of Towa, has a largo and lucrative Practice here. L. M. Brown is the un- dertaker; He formerly lived in Des Sree at CM al ana GS run his shop, Mrs. Rosa Corbin is con- ducting her rooming house and board- ing. She has eighteen regular board- ers, doing well. Mrs. Rebecea Corbin (formerly Mrs. Raikes) of Des Moines is living here. She wishes to bo re- membered to her old Des Moines frieds where sho lived for thirty-five years ‘Mrs, D. 8. Johnson will still chronicle the news forthe reliable Bystander. ‘Mrs, Maggie Sage is still here\doing ‘well. Mrs. 8. Washington has been sick for several months, D. L. Holmes is fone of the successful young men. He is teaming for the city making big money. He owns some fine horses. Mr. E. Green is still running the restaurant and poo! hall, doing well. Mr. Eugene Green is our ever reliable expressman doing a big business.” Mr. I. A. Trembo is still condueting his eoft drink and pool hall. He’is a fine féllow to meet. Mr. U. M. Shortridge is doing well. Mr. William ‘Towles has bought a house on 415 West Ninth street. Mr. H. Harper on Bridge avenue is doing well. He owns s well Kept home. Mr. and Mrs, L. Shepard on Grand avenue is doing well. He ‘works for the Railway company. They own a very beautiful modern well kept home. J. I. Ingram is also doing well. Mr. and Mra, U, Ballard are doing well. They own a nice home. H. B. Smith also owns good property. His several ota are covered with grape vines snd they are loaded with fine grapes, sev- feral thousand pounds. Mr, A. Coonce ‘at 510 West Tenth street also has lots ‘of grapes in his vineyard this is a big crop year through Iowa. Mrs. C. Rab- inson has bought a house at 1718 Bast- em ave. Mr. and Mrs. H. Buck on Beott street aro still here, doing well. Mr, and Mrs, William Turner are doing nicely, also is F. Baker. Mr. H. Howard has bought s nice large house at 1528 Judson street and is enjoying happiness with his family. Chicago, Chicago, oh, you little city on the pond, says one writer but we had rather put it Chicago the world’s metropolis on the lake. We want to write briefly about this won- dexful city ‘while some of the inspiring things that we saw is fresli upon our memory. Breaths there a soul who ever goes to Chicago but) what they come away with a new vision of hope and surprises for heré you can see and meet hundreds and thousands of people of every civilized country upon the face of the ,globe. Every known tongue and every known language live side by side in this great metropolitan city. We have here a little more than 100,000 Negroes in nearly every avenue and in all kinds of business known to the American Yankee, Some are rich some are poor, some are educated and cul- tured and some ignorant and almost uncivilized, some are succeeding and some are failing, some are good and some are bad. In fact there are here just Jike the human race in all other na- tionalities. The ‘colored business di- rectory reveals the fact that Chicago has at present about 235 policeman, three members of the state legislature, one member of the city council, almost one regiment of colored soldiers in khaki now with about 100 colored com- missioned officers. There are 480 col- ored clerks employed as clerks in the post office, 280 mail carriers, eighty: Zour colored churehes, one ¥. M. C. A. one Y. W. ©. A. and one hospital, 125 barber shops and several hundred res- taurants and lunch rooms, twenty-five lawyers, thirty-four physicians, four- teen dentists, six undertakers, several Hiair dressing parlors, hundreds of pool halls and soft drink parlors, three banks, ten real estate firms, twenty gro- cery stores, fourteen drug stores, one daily paper, two magazines, five weekly newspapers, two good baseball teams, three hotels, five colored bands, several manufacturers and laundries. It is said that more than 5,000 railroad porters live here with several shoe stores, eandy and many other stores that space will not at this time permit me to enumerate them. The first thing that Struck me was the big colored carnival company was holding a carnival on the Odd Fells track of Grand on Thirty- seventh and State streets, given one week for the benefit of the Odd Fel- Tows lodge building fund. They had old. merry-go-rounds, the whip, swing Gna the air swing, woman’s booths and lottery drawing by numbers of chick- ens, geese, ducks, floyr, sugar and ham ‘nd meal and various other amuse: qments. The next real surprise to us was to see such royal and enthusiastic re- ceptions that both white and colored people give the last of the colored Jeroes just returned homo from France) the 03rd Pioneer infantry numbering 1,800 with white officers marched from tho depot to Grant Park to the khaki and boys in blue club house where they srere served to dinner by the Red Cross. Both colored and whites of the 165th Bote te band met them at the Grand A $10,080 Drive. All Expected to Help The drive is on. The workers are busy in the various duties assigned t then. The people of Iowa, both men and women, are expected to come to the Papers ot thw Goveuend _ Towa is widely noted for the num: ber and high character of its educa. tional institution, but there is not in al Iowa a home or dormitory for the col: ored students. The committee urges everyone whe has received a subscription card to Ail it out and return to chairman at onec Those who have not, committee will mail cards to you or send in your dona. tion to chairman of «ommittee. The Mary Chureh Terril Club of Dea Moines heads the honor roll of Clubs Christian Culture Club of Washington is second. " The Grand’ Lodge of Knights of Knights of Pythians and’ Court Cal: anthe made generous donation at theis meeting in Cedar Rapids last week and are first on honor roll of lodges. Rey. C. P. Jones of Osceola is the only minister im the state earolled thus far in the drive. ‘The people must awaken. It is not like Iowa, the Iowa we have known for the past two years to let any worthy cause suffer. men, mounted. It was a great sigh! jand those 1,800 heroes marched dows Michigan avenue through the downtow loop to the Grand Central depot. Al street cars were stopped and all trafic land people in thove tall building shout ‘ed applause and throwed out long pa per streamers eight, ten and twenty stories high’ = wonder contrast as t ington, D. C., the capital of our coum what had just gone on over in Wash try. Chicago citizens’ irrespective of eolor certainly gave those soldiers s great welcome at the depot. The sol dicts entrained in three divisions fo ‘Camp Grant to be mustered out. Oni cannot imagine this sight unless you had seen it. Fully 20,000 colored citi zens and perhaps half a million of white citizens witnessed those heroes. I would like to tell my readers more about this demonstration but I fear you may think me a radical, however, there were 2 few from Des Moines that viewed thi sight. Gus Dunden, secretary of the Y. M. C. A and Edyth Straughter, Helex Cravens, Thornton Graves, Mrs. Maué ‘Woods, George Woods and wife. There are a host of former Iowa people living here in Chicago. Among the many that are here are a few that I met: John Wright of Buxton. He has a larg pool hall, lodge room, soft drink and ete, The two Roberts brothers also of Buxton, who have just opened an auto mobile repair and blacksmith shop. Mr. B, Jones, a carpenter of Buxton, James R, Weeks and family formerly of De: Moines. Nels Fowler and family for merly of Ottumwa, Ia, Mr. L. W. Hol ley formerly of Muscatine. Gus Dur dan is assistant secretary of the Y. M C. A. Ire. He was formerly of Des Moines. Leo E. Holt, formerly of Keo kuk, Hugh Haskins, formerly of Keo Kuk. He owns a saloon on Thirty-firs ‘and State streets. Demands Congress to Investigate Lynching HUGHES, TAFT, ROOT, ike MITCHELL PALMER SIGN AD- DRESS TO NATION DEMAND- ING CONGRESS INVESTI- Demand for an investigation by con gress of mob violence and lynching ix the United States is made in an addres: ‘to the nation signed by 150 citizen: ‘throughout the country including for mer President Taft, Attorney Genera ‘A. Mitehell Palmer, Dr, Henry Vaz Dyke, the governors of seven states in eluding Governor A. H. Roberts of Ten nessee, every living former attorney general of the United States, the head: of California, Illinois, Princeton, West ern Reserve, Fisk and Vanderbilt uni versities, Charles W. Eiliot, Elihu Root Charles Evans Hughes, J. R, Bingham d€ Mississippi, and Senator Arthur Cop: per of Kansas. ‘The address to the nation is an out come of the national conference of lynching which was held in New: York City, May 5 and 6, last. ‘phe people of the United States suffer justly under the grievous charg that they continue to tolerate mob mur der,’? says the address, ‘‘In the yea 1918 no less than sixty-seven persons were done to death without trial or any process of law, having ben denied the right to a day in court acoerded by the federal and state constitutions to al citizens. ‘Tt is well known that the innocent with the guilty suffer the eruel infle tions of mob violence. Mobs have ever imvaded court rooms and prisons tc seizo and murder prisoners whose pun ishment had already been fixed. Early in 1919, a hospital was invaded by i mob, and the attack resulted in deat! from shock of a patient that day o;¢r ‘ated upon. Bre ptt National Negro Business League in St. Louis St. Louis, Mo., July 31.—One of the wmovt important features of the coming imeeting of the National Negro Busi- ines League will be a discussion, ‘<A Reconstruction and Readjustment Sym- posium—The Negro’s Relation There- 0,’’ in which national leaders of ‘thought will participate. ‘The subjects ‘of Labor, Health, Business and related ‘questions ‘and problems will be dealt with at length. It is hoped that a sym- pathetic southerner of national reputa- tion will.also be present to speak on thin occasion, Addresses will also be Aslivered by Mr. William D’Arey, president of the Associated Advertising lubs of America’ Mr, Allen W. Olark, ehairman of the Clean-Up and Paint-Up Bureau, with headquarters at St. Louis, and Colonel Otis B. Duncan of the fa- mous Eighth Illinois regiment. The official announcement of enter- tainments for the League include a ‘visit to the Anheauser-Busch Bevo plant 2 special entertaistent at tho Booker TT, Washington Theater and an Indus- ‘trial and Fraternal parade showing the fachievements of the Negrocs of &t. Louis and the middle west, | The Eighth Ilinois regimental band will furnish music'for the reception and banquet which will be held Friday eve- jning, August 15th at the Coliseum. It will thus be ween that the local Negro Business League of St. Louie is making full and complete arrangements not only for the business meeting of the league, but also for the entertain: ment of the delegates and of the friends. Tho meeting begins August 13. ‘Patriotic citizens throughout the jeountry feel the shame which lynchings cast upon tho nation but they havo ae sumed partial responsibility for this shame by their silence and their aequie- sence. The timo has now come when citizens of tho United States can no longer contemplate without protest the setting at nought of the fundamental principles upon which their citizenship in based. ‘The undersigned, therefore, as citi zeus of the United States without sec: jonal oF party bias, with the interest eily of the republic at: heart, urge all public spirited men and women to op pose with all their power the recur- rence of the crime and the shame of mob murder, they urge the governors of the several states to do all that is passible to prevent and punish lyneh- ing; ‘they pledge their support to the officers of the law who, in the face of mob excitement, discharge their duties; and they urge upon the congress of the United States nation-wide investiga: tion of lynching and mob murder to the en dthat means may be found to end this scourge.’ ‘Among the southern signers of the ad- dress are Charles J. Bonaparte of Mary- land, former attorney general’ of the United States; George M. Bailey, edi- tor of the Houston Post; William 9. Hunley of Lexington, Va., secretary southern race commission; William 8. Sutton, dean of department of education of tho University of Texas. ‘Among the signers from New York are the editors of the Evening Post, the Independent, the public, the New York Age, the New Republic, the Na tion, the Survey, the Crisis, the pub: lisher of the New York Times and the presidents of the Bar and Merchants’ ‘Asadelations. Chicago Riots Chicago, Ill., July 31,—The scene of riot has shifted from Washington, the nation’s capitol, to Chicago, America’s greatest cosmopolitan city, and regard ed everywhere as the world’s greatest center of race progress. Sunday after noon, a colored lad was bathing in Lake ‘Michigan near the beach at East Twen- ty-ninth stroct. ‘The day was hot and tens of thousands of Chicago's popula. tion wero secking relict from the heat in the cooling waters of Lake Michi gan. This Ind was on a raft and a white ruffian threw a stone and knock- ed him into the water where he drowned before being rescued. ‘The attention of white policemen was immediately called to the ruffian, but the policeman refused to arrest the man, where upon the crowd becamo angered and in a short time began to ‘‘clean up’? the place. The man accused of the crime is Auguste Btrayber. Finally, he was arrested by two colored detectixes Mid- dleton and Scott. The news of the crime scattered liko wild fire. Hundreds rushed from the beach in their bathing. cos- tumes, hurrying to places of shelter while others hurried to their nearby homes for revolvers and riffes. And, in less than an hour, there was a general battle in which more than one hundred whites were injured by weapons of various kinds. ‘The news of tho strife spread to ‘every section of the south side and at several points such as Thirty-first and State, Thirty-Afth and State, Thirty: ninth and State strects, thousands ct people gathered and talked in low tone: ‘over the situation. Between sun set ‘Sunday night and early Mouday. morn The Iowa Grand Court of Calanthe Closed 4th Annual Session in Cedar Rapids, July 24th, 1919 Mrs. Maude M. Wilkinsen, Grand Reporter } shea Bihan bas Barges ay me MRS cance ts Lodge Knights of Pythias of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australie, jurisdiction of Iowa and the fourth annual grand session of its auxiliary the Iowa Grand Court ©, ©, Calanthe in session at Cedar Rap ids, Towa, July 22, 23 and 24, K. of P. grand sessions were held in K, of P. ‘hall on First avenue. Tho Grand Court sessions order of Calantho were held in the Oda Fellows hall on Second avenue, Tuesday, July 22 at 10 a. m. Iows grand court opened. Mrs, Eva Owens G. W. ©. of Des Moines and grand court officers were guests of Cedar Court No, 10, Cedar Rapids. Mre, Ads Groen, W. 0.; Mrs. Flora Lavell, pre siding at the piano, The grand court officers were received with honor and invited with words of cordial welcome and greeting by W. C., Mrs. Ada Green of Cedar Rapids, and her court officers after which she presented the gave to G. W. ©, Mrs. Eva Owens, Des ‘Moines, proceeded to open the G. C. Al grand officers present in their station appointing of committees (special) time and rule: chr. Flora Lavell, Cedar Rap ids, Francis Hicks, Ottumwa; Mary Miles, Buxton. Credentials and return—Chairman Sallie Brinks, Buxton; Louise Baker Centerville, Ia; Naomi Smith, Des Moines; Lizzie Washington, Albia, ‘These committees were excused tc committe rooms and prepared said re ports during the time while said com: mittees were arranging their report 1 devotion exercise was being conducted in the grand court room. Committee out fifteen minutes returned with re port for time and rule and partial re port of credentials finding nine suk courts and two juvenile courts report: ed and nineteen members recommended for the P. W. C. degree. The @. W. C declared @ constitutional number pres ent and led. to ‘open the ited a cal 'C. then ask G. W. Inx Della Bryant to come to the cast to preside at the opening. Mrs, Saphonna Bates, G. W: orator led song, ‘‘He is the One,’? and offered fervent prayer which was sou! stirring. The Lord has blessed us tc meet face to face@in this, another year, ‘Tho G. W. C. then resumed her station and began the actual duties of het offiec, Grand officers absent two: The stations were filled by Mrs, Florence Houston as G. condtress, Des Moines Mrs. Alberta Graham, G. P. of Ot- tumwa. G. W. ©. expressed pleasure greetings and good wishes for a busi ness and harmonious session. Mrs. 8 Bates, assisted by Maude M. Wilkinson and Laura Rhodes conferred the PW €. degree on nincteen. Members of which the G. W. C. appointed the com mittee and charters, necrology, appeals ‘and grievances, foreign correspondence state of order, finance, law and super vision,.mileage and board, juvenile court, special - committee, fraternal greetings, resolutions and recommen: dations and telegrams. Tuesday after noon the report of G. W. G. and other grand officers and routine of business Tuesday 8:30 p. m. grand public re ception and opening jointly at the K of P, hall, Master of ceremonies, Si M. W, Scott, Cedar Rapids; opening anthem by the K, of P. and Calanthiar choir, Mrs, Flora Lavell at the piano Invocation by Rev. Woodard of Mt Zion Baptist Church. Weleome on be half of city, Mayor Rall absence Judge Patterson made the welcome ad dross. Response, Sir Harrison Gould G. C., Des Moines; vocal solo, Mrs Min nie Gray; welcome on bebalf of Ceda: court, No. 10, 0. 0. C. Mrs. Ada Green W. C.; response, Mrs, Della Bryxit, De Moines; vocal solo, Mrs. Julia McGee: ‘weleome on behalf of K. of P., Sir A B Joyee, C. C.; response by Sir Tracy Blackburn, Des Moines; solo Sir_Frec H. Grooham; remarks by Mrs, Helens Downey, Ottumwa; remarks by Attor ney George Woodson, Buxton; an nouncements, after program, refresh: |ments were served. ing, there were more than a doben fights in which moro than two hundred were injured, some fatally, the majority of them being white and a score of the policemen. Hundreds of police reserves and four hundred mounted police were sallod oct Sunday hight to quell the disturbance. Chief of Polfec Garricty, his assistant Alcock, Mayor Thompson and leading organizations of people of both races are doing all possible to re- store peace. * Much damage has been done by both races to street cars; colored men. and women beating up white peopl> cn cars running through the south sido distcict, yhile whites have been furiouse in their treatment of colored penyle on street cars running through Wentworth ave. ree, and Halsted street, 2n1 on cross Tines. ‘Mayor. Thompson declare} conditions are very serions and must be carrfally ‘stndied to get at the cause of the trou _WEOCROSCAY TBOTRIAG, OPORING: GneviOee: order of business, reports of commit- teos, ote. Wednesday afternoon 4 p. m, joint momorial-meoting at the. K. of P. hall. Mrs. Mattie Green of Ot- tumwa, chairman of the grand court memorial committee aid Mr. Robert Couch, Des Moines, chairman of the grand lodge K, of P. memorial commit- tee, Calathian choir rendered appro- priate music and songs. Mra Maude M, Wilkins of Des Moines culogized the deceased brothers. Remarks by G, P. ©, L. W. Williams, of Olatinda, Invo- cation by Rev. and Sister, 0. A. John- son of Kansas City, Mo. this joint me- morinl meeting waa’ private for the fra- ternat order and was indeed sald and made a lasting impression on all, and shall long be remembered, Wednesday evening, annual sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church by Rev. Sir James L. Wharton of Davenport. The Calanthian choir rendered music, Beautiful aolo by ‘Mrs, Johnson. Offering wae ¢46.18 which ‘was divided equally with the ehureh: and the Rev. Whatton, a prety lawa party was held by the members of Oe dar Court No. 10 after the sermom at one of ite member’s bewutiful homes. Thuredsy moraing, routine Dusines, reporta and election ot gol iar Thursday, 2p. ma parade of K. of P. ladies of grand court in auto led by the people’s band and dis- charged soldjers of: tho order. The elty of Cédar Rapids had looked for- ward for this great street parade as the main streets were decorated with United States flags as welcome, ‘Thursday 8:30 p. m. grand installe- tion of G. C. officers and grand ball giv- en by Twin City Club at American ball, Music by Jackson's orchestra. Next session will be held in Sioux City, In. TEN BYSTANDER—1-31-19 trom Son, Sour, 8. Gy of Clasinnati trom Jon. I, Jones, 8. C., i, Ohio, Sir, B. W, Green, 8. 0. ee cd peeet ok Misonen seen at. ‘The Grand Court’0. 0. C. voted to al- low $25.00 to Be sent to Bir Jackson to apply om supreme prize drill money at Atlantic City, N. J. Aug, 1919, also allowed $10 to be applied to scholarship fund drive to buy homo at Towa City for our girls who attend State College. The efforts of Mrs, Helen Downey, state ‘chairman, Ottumwa. Grand Court vot- ed to allow salary for tho office of @ W. 0, G. B. of D. and G. B. of Deposits ‘at the 1918 session allowed salary for office of grand secretary of G. W. C. Mr, and Mre, Milligan, highly re- sposted citizens of Cedar Rapids sont Sant boquets to the grand court, also the grand lodge. K. of P. sent greeting and beautiful boquet of ent flowers. The grand court received with many thanks. ‘Thus closes a great and ‘glorious mecting. Following, aro 1919 officers: G. W. 0., Mrs, Eva Owons, Dos Moines; G. W. Inx, Mrs. Della Bry- ant, Des Moines; G. W. I., Mrs. Sallie Brooks, Buxton; G. W. O., Mrs. Saph- rontie Bates, Des Moines; G. W. 8. Dy Mrs, Mable Horn, Cedar Rapids; G. W. 5. D,, Mrs. Ella Griever, Ottumwa; G. W. E. of D., Elnora Gresham, Cedar Rapids; G. W. R. of Dep., Mrs. Lillian Robinson, Des Moines; G. W. Cond, Mrs, Maggie Rico, Davenport; G. W. Ay Cond., Elia McDonald, Waterloo; G. W. Escort, Mrs. Laura Rhodes, Dee Moines; G. W. Leeturer, Mrs. Florence B. Hous- ton, Des Moines; G. W. Herold Willi Booker, Des Moines; G. W. P. Mrs. Al- berta Graham, Ottumwa; G. W. mat- ron, Mrs. Mattio Groen, Ottumwa; G. ‘W. trustee, 3 years, Mrs, Mary Miles, Buxton; G. W. trusteo, 2 years, Mra. Clara P. Hanson, Cedar Rapids; G. W. trustee, 1 year, Mamio Smith, Des Moines, G. or reporter and G. secre- tary of G. W. C,, Maude M. Wilkinson; Supreme Rep, Mrs, Eva Owens, W. C., Deo Moines; Elect. Rep., Mrs, Sophone Bates, Des Moines; Rec. for G. W. C. degree at supremo meet Atlantic City, N. J. August, 1919: Rosa Bolden, Mag- gic Jones, Buxton; Elnora Gresham, Ce- dar Rapids; and Maud M. Wilkinson, Des Moines. ble and the means of correcting it at once. It is claimed by soma that more than two thousand Springfeld. rifles with considerable ammunition are in the hands of the colored people on the south side. This statement is denied by Alderman R. R. 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Do not give an eulogy or write your personal ‘comment upon classes, all societies, all religious denominations should be reeog- nized. 5 imply tell the news or event in « brief, simple manner and let the readers of The Bystander comment. ‘We have correspondents in the follow- img towns: albis ...-...-------,-Sdiss May Davis Buxton, Iowa .........--Edward Mills Clarinda, Ia.....----Miss Viola Walker Cedar Bapids.......Mrs. Cora Harrison Centerville ......Mrs. A. L. Crittenden Chillicothe, Mo.....Mrs. Ruth Anderson Clinton ........--------.--A. A. Bush Council Bluffs....Miss Agnes Fountain Davenport ........-Mra. D. J. Johnson Galesburg, Ill........Miss B. Anderson Keokok, Ia.......-..-Miss Mary Smith Knoxville, lowa........Mzs. H. Bryson Macon, Mo. .............-Lucy Harris Mason City ......-....W. L, Wiginton Moberly, Mo......Miss Lee Etta Owens Moline, Ill. ......Miss Hable G. Torver Monmouth. 1U....Mrs. Bernice Metlock Omaha, Neb. ....... Mise Murel Brown Oskalocea ............Mrs. Cora Moore Ottumwa, Ia......Miss Margrette Davis Rock Island, Ill......Miss B, Edmunds St. Paul, Mi-n.......Mrs. Hattie Hicks Quiney, Ill. .........Mrs. Mattie Lillye EDITORIALS Raee riots have at last reached the north ‘this week in two of our most thickly and cultured centers, Washing: ton, D. C., in the east and Chicago, IIL in the middle west It is indeed un- fortunate that those racial differences should be in a great democracy like our country that poses as the preserver of human liberties and savior of great- ex democracy, liberty and justice to ‘all people. It is also painful that these racial troubles should come just now when we, the better class of both races are seeking to bring about equal justice to the Negro in this country since he #0 willingly and heroically gave his life for America’s honor and ideals in for- eign lands and hap just returned home to his country hoping that out of the Rew reconstruction, new democracy that we give to the foreign nations might in some way and to the same de- gree be granted to the colored peoples. Tn this recent trouble it is not a ques- tion of social equality, nor of the old worn out excuse of rape, but simply a question of his life liberty and right to buy’ property and live where he may choose. The pursuits of freedom and happiness is guaranteed in the pream- ‘ble of our capstitution. Let the lead- ing, reasonable and thoughtful peoples ‘of both race keep cool, be calm hold a Tevel head, use wise deseretion, do not fact hastily or without. thinking twice, ‘put be firm for right and justice. The est thinking white people know abgo- futely that we are imposed upon by & poor, jealous Negro hating white/cle- ment that is all the time insulting Cae treating end abusing the Negro,| One pote se being dese Soe OS es | tyipg a concealed wespon and do not stop the white man and search him for concealed weapons. Is that right? and justice to disarm the colored people ‘and Jet the white hudiams who are causing the disturbance, keep their ‘arms, Cértainly one or the other thing is true. The average white man is afraid of the Negro, to meet him on ‘equal terms or else they seek to give the rough, lawless element encourage- ment on advantage. Let our gov- ernors, county officials and city officials administer and execute the laws with malice toward none and with justice to all. Right must prevail. CHARGE WASHINGTON NEWS | PAPER WITH DINCITING TO RIOT’ ; Action by the attorney general of th United States against the Washingto Post on the ground of incitement t riot in connection with the recent rac: riots in Washington is asked in a let lisher of the New York Times, and thi ter sent to Attorney General A. Mit chell Palmer today by John R. Shillady seeretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. The letter is as follows: July 25, 1919. Hon. A. Mitehell Palmer, Attorney General, United States, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: ‘The National Association for the Ad- vaneement of Colored People respect- fully asks if the office of the United States attorney general intends proceed- ing against the Washington Post on the ground of incitement to riot, in eon- nection with the recent disorders in Washington. ‘The ground for such procedure seems to lie in matter published on the first page of the Washington Post on the morning of Monday, July 21, on the evening of which day the worst disor- ders occurred. ‘The matter referred to reads as fol- lows: a +*Mobilization for Tonight.’’ “It was learned that a publication of every available service man sta- tioned in or near Washington or on leave here has been ordered for tomor- row evening near the Knights of Co- jumbus hut, on Pennsylvania avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets. ‘<The hour of assembly is 9 o'clock and the purpose is a ‘clean-up’ that will eause the events of the last two evenings to pale into. insignifieance. ‘Whether official cognizance of this assemblage and its intent will bring about its forestalling cannot be told.’’ In view of the fact that the ‘‘mobi- lization’? announced by the Washing- ton Post had not been ordered by any authority, military or civil, does not the passage show intent by the Wash- ington Post to bring about such ‘*mob- ilization.”? Sineerely yours, (Signed) John R. Shillady, Secretary. COUNCIL BLUFFS NEWS. Couneil Blucs, Ia., was hostess this week to the thirteenth sessidn of Des Moines district conference, which was in annual conferen®e July 22-25 at the Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. M. R. Dhonenee, pastor. ‘This was one of the most interesting sessions in its history. The conference opened Tuesday with the following pro- gram: : Morning Session. 9:390—Devotional services, Revs. H. A. Perry and N. B. Jones. 10:00—Ritual service, Rev. S L. Birt. 11:00—Annual sermon by Rev. R. Thomas of Muscatine. Administration of the Lord’s supper. Roll call and organization. Introduetions. Adjournment. Afternoon Session 2—Devotion led by Revs. B. F. Hub: bard, C. PB. Jones and J, Wilbur Nor- ris, 2:30—Paper, ‘‘The Minister's Task in the Reconstruction Period.’’ _ 3:00—Diseussion. 3:30—Short talks on the Ter-Centen- ‘ary celebration and its ultimate aim. 4—Organization of the District Mis- sionary Society, Mrs. Izora Mackey, president. Evening Session. 7:40—Program by District Mission- ary Society. . The delegation was large, repre- senting all parts of the district. Rev. M. R. Dhonenee and the people wel- coemd all with hearty greetings and splendid entertainment. Officers, Rt. Rev. L. J. Coppin, D. D,, bishop; Rev. J. H. Ferribee, presid- ing elder; Mrs. J. L. Edwards, dis- trict. Sunday school superintendent; ‘Mrs. Ford, president normal depart- ment; Mrs. Izora Maekey, president District Misionary society; Mrs. Anna Mae Norris, district superintendent Al- Jen C. E. league; Rev. M. B. Rhonenee, host. ‘Mrs. E. Miles is in the city loking over Conneil Bluffs asa possible fu- ture home. She is stopping with Rey. Jackson. ‘Miss Sadie Monteen of Minneapolis was given in marriage to Dr. E. Ern- est Graves, the popular Lincoln den- tist. The ceremony was. performed by the Hev. Botts at the residence of Rev. Jackson of Tabernacle Baptist Church. ‘The bride was given away by her broth- er, A. L. Monteen. : A GREAT REMEDY. The. merits of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy are well known and appreciated, but there is oceasion- ally @ man who had no acquaintance with them and should read the follow- ing by F. H. Dear, a hotel man at TWELVE BYSTANDER—AUG 1:19 Dupuyer, Mont. ‘‘Four years .ago 1 used Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoc1 Remedy with such. wonderful results that I have since recommendct it to ms Pele db IES yO cy oe dia a Doe ag tae Cog iy eu eee haa Se ae ae ae Co ; ee ee ee [__ Mr. Johnson Gordoa left for his hom Saturday after spending several day with Mr. and Mra. L. P. Lewis. _ The social given by the Clio Club Sat wsday night proved to be quite a suc cess. { ‘M. Noah and H. Bolden served ie cream and cake for the Mayflower tent Sunday, July 13. Mrs. Louise Todd is visiting relative and friends in Missouri. ‘The Circle was entertained at th Chureh by Sister C. Jones and Siste Stella B. Nash Thursday night, July 17 Mr, Heary Brown arrived in the eit; on a ten day's furlough with relative: and friends. Mr. Brown spent many months in France. He leaves July 2 for the Mexican border. Mrs. E. Bell of Omaha, Neb. prepared a large family dinner at the home of her- daughter, Mrs. A. L. Crittenden. ‘Those present were her daughter, Mrs. A, L. Crittenden and her grandehildren Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Jones and daughter, Ellen; Mr. and Mrs. E. FP. Brown and son, William; Christina James and Olive and Mrs. Clara Jones and son, Theodore. All report a splendid time. The Sir Knights and Daughters of Tabor were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lee Monday, July 21 by Daughter Lee, Sir Samuel Lee and Sir William Clark. All reported a splendid time. Wish we would soon be entertained again by them. < Mrs. Hannah Cobb and daughter, Mrs. Shelby Noah, served a two-courst luncheon to Mrs. E. Bell of Omaha, Neb. Mrs. A. L. Crittenden and Mrs, Clara Jones Sunday afternoon. Mrs, E. Hicks seryed 2 6 0’clock din ner to Mrs. E. Bell of Omaha, Neb. and Mrs, A. L. Crittenden and Mrs. C. Jones Sunday, evening, July 20, assisted by her daughters, Mrs. E. Baker and Miss Gracie Hicks. Several called on Mrs. E. Bell of Omaha, Neb., while she was in the rity. Mrs. Albert, who has been working in Fort Dodge, returned home Saturday night, July 19. ‘Mrs. -L Jackson entertained Mrs. E. Bell to 9 o'clock breakfast, July 20. ‘This week Rev. Rogers of Des Moines preached two soul-stirring sermons for us Sunday, July 20. Mrs. Laura Bell, who has been visit- ing relatives and frieds, returned to her home Tuesday, July 22, accom- panied by her grandchildren, James and Olive Crittenden, who expect to spent the remainder of their vacation with her daughter, Mrs. A. L. Critten- den and great granddaughter, Alden went as far as Albia with them. Mr. John Saunder and Mr. Johnny Leek returned home Thursday with their discharge after serving several months overseas. Rev. F. J. Knott will conduet serv- ices for us Sunday. ‘Mr. and Mrs, William Oliver enter- tained the Mayflower Ten Sunday, July 20 at their home on East Wilson street. The Mission Circle was entertained at the church by Mrs. Hannah Cobbs, Mrs. Agnes Allen and Mrs. Shelby Noah. The Clio Club gave a social at the chureh Saturday night, July 26. Mrs. and Mrs. James Price served ice cream, cake and punch at the home Eighteenth for the Mayflower Tent Sun- day, July 27. Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Martin enter- tained the Sir Knights at their home on West Garfield, Monday, July 28. A large crowd was present. Miss Treasola Taylor and Sister Ethel and Wynette of Oskaloosa, Iowa, ar- rived in the city to visit relatives and friends. Mr, Philip Jeter returned home after spending a few weeks in Nebraska. | Mrs. E, Woods was visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. Langley in Albia, Sunday, July 27. Mr. and Mrs, H. Tompkins and sis- ter, Mrs. M. Brown, are visiting their brother, Mrs, L. Thompkins in Drum and Monkey. |, ‘Word has been reeeived in the city that Mr. William Starkey has arrived in Camp Dodge from overseas and is awaiting his discharge. Miss Viola Noah returned home Fri- day after visiting several months in Cedar Rapids with her brother, Rozelle Noah. ) The K. of P.’s Court of Calanthe just closed a very successful session Thurs day. ‘The parade led. by the Cedar Rapids colored band was one of the best held in the city. About fifty-four delegates and officers of the grand court of Calanthe were present and a large number of K. of P. Mrs, Eva Owens of Des Moines was unanimously elected grand worthy counsellor for another year. Fred Perkins had an operation per- formed at Mercy hospital Friday. He is doing nicely. We were glad to. weleome our boys from overseas, Those returning home are: Harold Price, Charles Graff, Howard Robbins, Goldie Steele, W. A. Brown, Jr., Ray Brown, Dr. Beshears and Herman Lewis. ‘Mrs. Thomas Jackson, remains about the same, being still confined to his home. ‘Mr, Walker is a guest at the home of Rev. J. P. Sims. : ‘Mrs. Fred H. Gresham is visiting in Keokuk, : Anyone wishing to read the Crisis will find it in the public library here- after, Credit due to L. D. Lowery. of having the Crisis in the library. Rev. Sergt. M. G. Sishuba, missionary, a native of Queentstown, South Africa, and having served in the British army overseas, lectured at the Mt. Zion Bap- fist Church, Sunday afternoon, ' The Cedar Rapids colored band, played at Riverside park Sunday after: noon. The crowd was very apprecia- tive and applauded ‘the boys very mueh, “When haying news call 3069-W. AN OLD FAULT FINDER. Anirritable and fanit Anding. dispo Lows with good digestion and bowels [that act regularly is usually good ma tured. When troubled with indigestion or constipation take Chamberlain’s Tablets. They strengthen the stomach and enables it to perform its function naturally. They also cause a gentle movement of the bowels. On Tuesday evening, August » & the Bethel A. M. E. Chureh there wil be a program of unustal merit. Mis Lorene Clifton, who has charge of th program, has succeeded in _securin; some of the best musica! end literar: talent of the tri-cities. There will als be addresses by two of our returne: soldier boys. Come early: You canno acord to miss any part of the program which begins at 8:30 sharp. The many friends of Mrs. Frank Brown sympathize with her in the loss of her mother, Mrs. Wess} who passed away last Sunday at her home in Kirk ville, Mo. Mrs. Brown had been at her mother’s bedside for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hopkins after a residence of several months in Rock- ford, IL, have returned and are nicely settled in their home on East Locust street. . Mr. Garfield Martin and Mrs. Sarah Turner of Des Moines were united by marriage at the parsonage last Thurs- day at the Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. S. B, Moore officiating. Best wishes follow them. Rev. C. R. Waters of Keokuk is in the city om business. While here is seeing quite a few old friends. Mrs. William Brooks has returned from Burlington whiteher she went on business of the Sisters of the Myste- rious Ten. ‘The Llinois Club will give a musical in the new intermediate school on Har- rison street, August 12. More later. Harold Sydney of Burlington is. vis- iting his unele and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William Brooks. Tag day of Bethel A. M. E. Church went over the top last Saturday. The tag day slogan is: Every year a bet- ter one. Everyone was delighted when the boxes were opened and $176.99 was the amount they contained. Mrs. Hattie Lambert has returned from a very pleasant visit in Ottumwa and Washington., ‘Among the boys who have returned from overseas are Sergeant Lewis Henry, Earl Baker, Samuel Young, Win- slow Washington, Benjamin Wyatt, Ed- ward Sample and Perey Brown. Our pastor, Rev. C. W. James, b. ©. preached a powerful sermon Sunday night, July 27, at Mt. Zion Baptist Chureh. Madame C. L. Moore went to Can- ton, Ill, to visit Rev. James’ sick wife and brought her back to East Moline es be treated by the chiropractic doe- tor. __Ihe girls have an organized base ball team that’s just fine. - “The B. ¥. P. U. of Mt. Zion Baptist Chureh is progressing fine under the presidency of Miss Jessie Rush. FORT DODGE NEWS. Second Baptist Church, Fourth ave- nue and Seventeenth street south closed one of the most sucecssful revivals in its history, conducted by Rev. Samue R. Skelton, Fort Dodge has been work- ing as never before. The meeting closed Sunday with thirty-one additional mem. bers, ‘The members are rejoicing over the great victory. | OUR NEW HOME a Ne a a aes a 2 _— i VEZ a eH Hy oe eee Bk nae iin 5 here De aeew! ean nt! ee mpm Eh Bene ae eT AT pee 2 eke PT 13 FX AW |= he Fear cn Ba cc | 1 Set ites A 4] Set bao ; Fld tte kbd (CVE ete Pee ed SN ' 25,000 MORE PORO, AGENTS WANTED Equipped with the Very Latest Apparatus for Teaching the Poro System of Scalp and Hair Culture \ and all Branches of Beauty Culture Terms Moderate Diplomas Given ‘Write Today for Further Information ‘ DAVENPORT ITEMS. EAST MOLINE NEWS. FORT DODGE NEWS. Go Over The Top of your head every day with PALMER’S MGS tas DRESSING and knock out the enemy (Dandruff) A finely perfumed Pomade for coarse, stubborn hair. Only 25 cents for large package at all drug stores, or sent by mail upon receipt of price. The Genuine made only by The Morgan Drug Company 1512 Atlantic Ave. - - Brooklyn, N. Y. PALMERS Makers Sh these fi uieheeeewe Famous Skin Preparations. "SS Seq py~ Rowen Skelton left Monday for Sioux City. The baptising will be the first Sunday in August. Amount raised dur- ing the revival, $179.63. ‘Mrs. Biggs is visiting in Missouri. A party of eighteen were pienicing in Ol- son Park Sunday. : The Fort Dodge Improvement Club is planning a home-coming celebration for the soldiers now that they are all home. Mrs. A. Perkins and granddaughter, Alice and Mary Short are visiting her ‘daughter, Mrs. Fred Coleman. | CLINTON NEWS. | Mrs. M. J. Holliday has returned home from a visit in Moberly, Mo. "Mr. Charles Anthony was a visitor at ‘the annual session of the Grand Lodge ‘of Masons in Des Moines. The members of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor are busy getting things in shape for the entertainment of the annual session of that order which convenes in Clinton next week. Anyone who may have any items of interest, will please communicate with the correspondent by phone or other- wise. The Bystander is desirions that all persons knowing themselves - indebted ‘to them will please pay up: The following boys have arrived home from overseas the past week: William Mann, Earl Junkins, Sanford Junkins, Willard Guy, Fred Judon, Cur- tis C. Bush, Owen Simmons and Clif- ford Culberson. ‘The annual pienie of Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School will be held Wednesday, Angnst 13 at Eagle Point Park. CT.ARINDA NEWS. Mrs. Will Moss and son-in-law went to Kansas City Saturday morning on a business trip. Mr. W. L. Williams just returned from the grand lodge which was “held at Cedar Rapids, Ia. He reports a fine time and was elected grand chancelor again for the K. of P. of the state of Towa, having filled the office before fo1 several years. Three cheers for L. W. Williams. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Chureh. Presiding Elder Rey, Ferribee preached three sou!-stirring ser. mons. After the morning service there was one Baptised and five was added to the Church. In the afternoon the weather was warm, but there was a good attendance at all services. ‘Mr. and Mrs, George Montgomery ‘was made glad Saturday afternosa when their oldest son, Wilfred Mont. gomery returned from overseas. He has been gone ten months. Mr. Admas Johnson, another ye turned soldier, whose home is in ‘rav- ity, Iowa, eame home Saturday from overseas, having been in the service for ten months. Mr. Dick Johnson and family and Henry Johnson and ‘family motored to Clarinda Sunday from Gravity, !4.. ard attended quarterly meeting. ‘The Clarinda Base Ball Team played Burlington Junction Sunday afterioon, Sorry to say Clarinda got beat. Flease phone all news, 128-8 A TRAVELING MAN'S EXPERIENCE. You may learn something from the following by W. H. Ireland, a travel ing salesman of. Louisville, Ky. ‘‘In the summer of 1888 I had a severe at- tack of cholera morbus. I gave the hotel porter fifty cents and told him to buy me a bottle of Chambericin’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and to tag> no substitute. I took a double dese of it according to the directions and went to sleep. At 5 o'clock the next morn- ing I was called by, my order and took ‘a train for my next stopping ;lace, a well. man.’ Dae Sse a NEGRO SOLDIERS’ IN OUR WAR Gtew Book) ‘Fells ail about the war; tt ts faip to fel, arvererinn AUSTIN JENKING CO. a ‘be minth Street, Washington, D.C. Vacant Lots and Improved Property Phone D. 774 A GEEAT BARGAIN For sale my home of 5 rooms all on the ground floor, gas and electric lights. A cool house and chicken house; lot 62x 150 at 609 Twentieth avenue, Rock Island, Ill. Will sell part down and balance on payments. Call or write Mrs. Hattie Lambert, 329 West Tenth street, Davenport, Ia. No. 5254-Y. Davenport. FOR SALE Two properties in good locations for particular parties. One on Forest near Sixth avenue, and the other on Seventeenth street. Select places for home. Excellent terms. H. H. Reynolds. Phone Wal. 2780 and Drake 2018. NOTICE The columns of this page are open for news, personal and social. If you have a guest or if you entertained in honor of a guest or for any activities of clubs and churches kindly, call Wal. 899 and we will gladly take it over the phone. It is up to you to help the social editress make this a live up to the minute page of local events. PERSONAL Mrs. Nellie Esters returned the first of the week from a pleasant visit with relatives and friends in Albia, Ia. Mrs. Pearl Thompson left the city last week for a visit in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Harry Shaw, one of our policemen is spending his vacation in Minneapolis and St. Paul visiting old friends and acquaintances. Mrs. Joburness Kelso and little son, Redmon, left the city Thursday for their home in Chipiwa Falls, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Clay and baby left the city Tuesday for a weeks' visit with Mrs. Clay's relatives, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mills of Buxton, Ia. CORRECTION. At the dinner given last Monday evening at the residence of Mrs. Charles Wilson, 804 Arthur street in honor of Mrs. John Smith of Keokuk, instead of the evening being spent in playing cards it was spent in playing croquet. Prof. Leslie J. Stewart was called to New York City last Friday night to take an appointment in the war camp community work. Mrs. Stewart will leave in a few days to join her husband in the east. Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Curtley of Seat NOTICE TO COLORED PEOPLE ROYAL SKIN BLEACH is greatest skin bleach ever covered by skin care products. A yellow skin baler, polisher and more attractive. Heal skin beaches and pimplees giving a right, smooth, light, fascinating completion to anyone. Send 256 for trial sample. Coated Agents Wanted. Attractive proposition. ROYAL MFG. CO. 1531 Phelan St., Birmingham, Ala. Roy E. Handy J. W. Bland Handy and Bland Funeral Director Golden Rule Services Golden Rule Prices PHONE MARKET 1488 600 Eight Street Des Moines, Iowa New Monarch Cafe When you are in Omaha we would be pleased to have you call and pay us a visit at The New Monarch Cafe THE FINEST OF IT'S KIND WEST OF CHICAGO C. R. TRAMBLE 107 Sq. 14th St. Phone: Tyler 4591 J WHEN IN COUNCIL BLUFFS Go To For good meals, short orders Ice Cream and Soft Drinks Also Rooms to Let. A. S. HALL, Prop. 1013 Broadway Bradford's Barber Shop 428 W. 3rd Street FIRST CLASS WORK BATHS Bradford's Pool Hall M. J. BRADFORD, PROP A LINE OF TOBACCO, CIGARS & SOFT DRINKS Phone Wal. 1916 757 W 9th St. DES MOINES. IOWA. tle, Wash, arrived in the city last week to visit their son, Carl Curtley, and other relatives and old friends. They are stopping with their father, Mr. Curtley and sister, Mrs. Bertha Hanger. it has been several years since Mr. Curtley visited in our city, and we are glad to welcome him home again and to know that he is succeeding in the west. Mrs. G. Dailey entertained at dinner Sunday evening at her home, 933 Fourteenth street as a courtesy to her mother, Mrs. J. Smith of Keokuk, Ia., and Miss Nevada Grigatsby of Davenport, Ia. Covers were laid for ten. Eight of whom were ex-citizens of Keokuk, Ia. Afternoon was spent in pleasant conversation about the good old days in the home town. Mrs. Irwin Warthal of Knoxville, Ia., who arrived here last Saturday is the guest of Mrs. H. R. Graves. Mrs. Ann Hutchinson and her little sister, Katherine, from St. Paul, Minn., are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Adam Dixon. They will remain here about two weeks. Mrs. G. P. Sims of Minneapolis is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Elmore, 1068 Fourth street place. She was called to the bedside of her nephew Ben Elmore, who died July 20 at the Methodist hospital. Mrs. Fred Stewart arrived home Thursday from Chicago where she visited for three weeks with an old school friend, Mrs. Bessie Kitchen. Mrs. R. N. Hyde entertained a number of ladies at the Army Club Wednesday evening. Delicious refreshments were served. Mr. Gus Nichols returned Thursday night from Chicago where he spent his vacation. He reports a splendid time. The members' of St. Paul's A. M. E. choir gave a party Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Joburness Kelso, their organist, who left the city Thursday for her home in Chipewa Falls, Wis., and Miss Stella Tyler, who leaves the city for her home in Little Rock, Ork. A very pleasant, and enjoyable evening was spent by all. Mrs. Jessie Davis of 828 Thirteenth street entertained Mrs. Joburness Kelso last Saturday evening at a 6 o'clock dinner. Mrs. Albert Moss, who has been so seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clara James, 3230 East Eighth street is gradually improving which is good news to her many friends. Rev. O. A. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., who formerly pastored Asbury Church here for six years visited in the city the past week. Rev. Johnson has just come from Cedar Rapids where he had been attending the Grand Lodge K. of P. He was elected grand prelate at this session. While here in the city he was invited to preach Sunday at Asbury Church. Wednesday evening he preached at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church. He left the city for Oskaloosa where he will visit relatives and friends before returning to Kansas City. We are always glad to welcome Rev Johnson as he is certainly a progressive minister and believes in working for God. Mrs. C. J. Denny of Huntsville, Mo., will arrive in the city Sunday morning to be the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. Gohanna of 807 West Twelfth street. Mrs. Gohanna expects to leave the city for Colorado Springs about August 15. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Wilkinson of 223 East Thirteenth street have been camping up the river near Balford on their vacation. CLUBS. The Mary Church Terrell Club met Monday evening with Mrs. Jobnurce Kelso at which time a very interesting meeting was held. Club adjourned to meet next week with Mrs. J. H. Perkins. The Phylis Wheatly Art Club served supper at Union park, Wednesday evening, July 30 in honor of their husbands. The Mary B. Tolbert Club met with Mrs. John Mayweathers Tuesday, July 22 at which time a report of the picnic dinner was given. They adjourned to meet Tuesday, August 5 with Mrs. J. Alvin Jefferson. The Callanan Club will meet Tuesday, August 6 at the residence of Mrs. Thornton Adams, 2931 West Grand avenue, rear. All members are urged to be present as they wish to discuss plans for an entertainment in the near future. SOCIAL PICNIC SUPPER. Tuesday evening the members of the M. C. T. Club gave a picnic supper at Greenwood Park as a courtesy to Mrs. Kelso, one of their members who is leaving the city for her home in Chiipwa Falls, Wis. Mrs. Louise Gray of Chicago, Ill., was also a guest. A delicious supper was served which was greatly enjoyed. ENTERTAINMENT AT SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH The Mission Circle and Church Club of Shiloh Baptist Church, South East Scott and Fifteenth streets will give an entertainment at the Church August 9 at 8:30 p. m. A beautiful quilt is to be given away at this time. Come and bring someone else with you. Refreshments. Mrs. D. Miliigation, president, and Mrs. Pearl Lee, secretary. Fowler Brothers EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS FRANK F. FOWLER L. FOWLER Embalmer and Director Manager Phone Maple 2548 117 East Walnut Street Des Moines, Iowa THE BYSTANDER Athletics of all Kinds Prizes Awarded Free Refreshments at 6:00 o'clock Everybody Invited ENTERTAINS IN HONOR OF MRS. RUFF Last Monday afternoon, Mrs. George C. Young entertained about fifty guests at the Army Club in honor of Mrs. Mae Ruff of Peoria, Ill., who is visiting in the city, the guest of Mrs. Jack Lindsey. This was one of the most pleasant affairs given at the club. Cards and other games were the afternoon's diversion. SYNDICATE CLUB ENTERAINS. The Syndicate Club wishes to annual parties and will entertain the boys of the 804th and 805th ception Thursday evening at 8:30, Aug. 7 at the Army Club, to which the public is cordially invited. The return of the 804th and 809th Pioneer infantry has caused much rejoicing among the home folks and in order to show their appreciation of the part the boys took in the great war they are doing all they can to entertain them. Among the many entertainments given or to be given is the big victory picnic given in their honor at Union Park, Monday, August 4. There will be speaking in the afternoon at 4 o'clock by Mayor Fairweather, Hon. H. R. Wright, Rev. S. L. Birt and Licut. Jesse McGuire, Great interest will be devoted to athletics and prizes awarded to winners. These athletics will be in charge of Mrs. Charles Howard and in charge of Mr. Charles Howard and There will also be a base ball game between soldiers and the Syndicate Club. All soldiers and former soldiers are most heartily welcome. Come and enjoy yourself. Refreshments served free of charge at 6 o'clock. The Capital City band will furnish music. To all who are really concerned in missionary work you are hereby notified that we will hold an open air service next Sunday evening from 7:30 to 9 o'clock at the Great Western round house settlement for the benefit of our work. There are about twenty-five or thirty families here moved in from the south and we would be glad to have all that could attend this service. They have also established a place for service at 204 South Union street where services are held everd Lord's Day at 11 in the morning and 7:60 in the evening. Come, you are welcome. Rev. G. E. Saunders, minister. Mr. Elmer McDougal of Chicago was in the city Saturday, the guest of Miss Adahy Holde. Three nights this coming week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday there will be moving pictures at the Union Congregational Church. These movies are of a high class entertainment. They are instructive, educational, scenic and comic pictures. Good wholesome amusement for everybody. Admission only 10 cents. Children 5 cents. VIRGINIA PICNIC ASSOCIATION There will be a meeting of the Virginia Picnic Association Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp at the home of Mr. S. C. Carey, Oxford street. All members are requested to be present. By order of the president, Mr. C. H. Roan. CARD OF THANKS. The family wishes to thank their friends for their kindness and flowers at the sickness sand death of their son, husband and brother, Ben Elmore. Rev. B. Franklin of Harkis, Ia., preached a splendid sermon at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning. He presented many actual facts. Liberty Mo. Mrs. Evelyn Jackson of Liberty, Mo., American Co-Operative Investment Co. Business will open within 15 days. ENTERTAINS IN HONOR THE 804TH AND 808TH. NOTICE MOVING PICTURES CARD OF THANKS. MYSTIC NEWS. Watch for the has returned home after a two week's visit with her daughter, Mrs. M. Cunningham. Mrs. Everlyne Jackson, Mrs. Nannie Marshall, Mrs. Martha Hughes, and Mrs. Lulu Best, spent last Tuesday angling in the Chariton river. They reported a very pleasant outing, and brought back some of the funny tribe. Mrs. Anderson, who has been conducting a series of Pentecostal meetings has gone to Chicago. Mrs. Anna Baker of Cedar Rapids, Ia., is visiting relatives and frieds here this week. Mr. Lewis Hughes was in Centerville on business Monday. Mr. R. E. Hughes and Mr. J. A. Clark, who have been harvesting in Kansas, came home Sunday for a short visit with their families, have gone back and will probably finish the season. Mrs. Nanie Marshall of Keokuk is visiting Mrs. M. Cunningham. BOOK ISLAND NEWS. Mrs. Kemper Gibson is visiting at her old home in Metropolis, Ill., the guest of her mother and friends. Mrs. H. Houston entertained fifty guests in honor of her husband's birthday on last Tuesday evening. The house was beautifully decorated in garden flowers and the lawn was all aglow with Japanese launterns and electric lights. Mr. Houston received many beautiful presents among them was a leather traveling bag from his brother Masons. A four-course luncheon was served to the guests and a large cake decorated with fifty candles told the story without any questions to be asked. The guests departed at a late hour hissing him fifty more happy birthdays. Mrs. Warren Douglass and little Miss Glendolin are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. Golden. Mr. Albert Critz remains quite sick much to the regret of his many friends. Mrs. Bowman of Kansas City is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. Windsor. The many friends of Rev. R. A. Broyles were deeply gripped to hear of his wife's death. Mrs. Broyles was an exemplified Christian woman and her loss will be keenly felt at home and abroad. Mrs. Robert Thompson of Decatur, Ill., visited over Sunday with his mother, Mrs. M. Brooks. His son, Donald, who has been visiting for several weeks in Rock Island returned home with his father. Mrs. Harvey Coleman has been quite sick for the last two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. William Ivy have recently purchased a fine automobile and will soon leave for Peoria, Ill., to attend the O. E. S. grand session and Knights Templar conclave which convenes in that city. Mr. W. Golden and Mrs. J. Moore returned from overseas last Friday. The boys say their's no place like home. Troop 14 of the boy scouts of Rock Island, and their Scout Master, Mr Will Taylor and Assistant Scout Master Ernest Harris will leave the latter part of August to attend the summer camp for boy scouts of Rock Island at Cordova. SPECIAL NOTICE TO BAPTISTS. The Iowa Baptist Association convenes in Zion Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn., August 19-24. All churches govern themselves accordingly. All messengers in the vicinity of Des Moines, please arrange to reach Des Moines not later than Monday, August 18 at 8 p.m. We have arranged for a special car over the Rock Island short line leaving Des Moines at 9:30 p. m. Monday 18. Drop me a card if you desire to go with this party. Geo. W. Robinson, Secretary, 1009 West 12th St. RACE PROGRAM VERY ATTRACTIVE The Iowa State Fair management has never announced a more attractive program, one that promises better sport for lovers of harness and running races, than the one to be contested at the coming fair, August 20-29. It includes thirty-one race events, eighteen for harness racers, twelve for runners and one for free-for-all trotters under saddle. The purses offered are liberal from the horseman's point of view. Furthermore they will be contested under the Added Money Plan which will be tried out for the first time in Iowa this year. Under its provisions all entrance money, subsequent payments and starting fees—all of which have in the past gone into the treasury—will be added to the purse offered and the entire amount divided among the winning horses. 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Mrs. Leonard Barry gave an interest ing talk of his experiences overseas ai the Pilgrim Rest B. Y. P. U. last Sun- day. Rev. C. R. Waters is spending a few days in Davenport. ‘Mise Gertrude Cook is ill at this writ: ‘ing. ‘Mrs. Grashlson of Cedar Rapids is in the city im the interest of the Negro girl’s home at Iowa City. Quite a few of our soldier boys have arrived from overseas. Mr. B. Rud is sick at this writing. Rev, W. H. Storks preached an excel- lent sermon at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Chureh last Sunday evening. Sunday afternoon, July 27, the First Afrieah Baptist Church held their see- ond rally, Rey. J. Sterling Moore preached a sonl-stirring sermon. The rally amounted to $126.00.. These peo- ple are to be proud because they are so few in numbers. Rev. Clark certainly is struggling hard to make them a grand People. ‘We are sorry to report Rev. Byrd is no better. ‘The Bethel A. M. E. Sunday Schoo! will hold their annual pienie on August 7 at Wild Cat Springs. ‘Mr. Beverly Scott is training a crowd of girls to give a military drill in the near future. Mr. Ralph Reid is reported ill at this writing. : WHAT IS BEST FOR INDIGESTION? Mr. A. Robinson of Drumquin, On- tario, has been troubled for years with indigestion, and recommends Chamber- lain’s Tablets as ‘‘the best medicine I ever used.!? If troubled with indiges- tion or constipation give them a trial. They are certain to prove beneficial. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price 25 cents. _ Mr. Black of Washington visited over Bunday at the home of Mr. Charles ‘Washington. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Thomas enter- tained om Tuesday at 6 o’clock dinner Madame E. Jeffers and Nellie Estes and Hattie Bennings and the family. Music was furnished throughout the evening until 9 o’elock by their Victrola. On Sunday 2 number of Albians at- tended a large pienic given in Hocking by the Hocking people. The Hocking people have their returning soldiers home, Mr. Lou Edmond and Roy Burns. All the soldiers from Hocking who have returned ere looking fine. Mrs. Delia Thomas entertained on Thursday evening from 4 to a late hour, supper in honor of Mr. Donald Thomas from Frances and Mrs. E. Jeffers Mrs. Nellie Estes of Des Moines and from & o’elock the rest of the evening the Albia girle and boys music was furnished for supper and evening by the Victrola. ‘Thte happy overseas men in Albia home from France are Mr. Donald Thomas, Mr. Sdris Walle, and Mr. Gor- don, Mrs, Harris has word from Mr. B. Harris that he has landed and she ex- pects him home this week. Sunday evening was missionary eve- ning at the A. M. E. Chureh. ‘Mr. Walls from France is in Albia at the home of Mr. B. Lewis. Mrs, Wall will accompany her husband to Moulton to visit his parents and from there back to, HE OPOT WETS IDUot Secll gs ‘ eC eS Bay Lo ines ~ ef Zi; hae 64) OM. 4g EON ad NGS 2) 1) Oke 4 a San : L =p an SPN We i Lf (ax Polar Suse Er ek, eS A os xr i , en » o ge McCree’s Prescription Drug Store + 1014 Center Stréet Telephone Market 1485 Des Moines, lowa , The road to GOOD LOOKS is made easy by using high grade BEAUTY HELPS, We havea , complete line but space will not permit us to list all of them. Madam Walker's Hair Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, * S2cents each Madam Walker’s Glossiae and Temple Grower, |. 37 cents each Kashmir Bleach, Vanishing Cream and Powder, ‘ 52 cents High Brown Powder, 26 cents and 52cents Straightening Combs, $1.00 Black and White Goods, 26 cents and 52 cents Send in your mail orders now, including 8 ceats postage. Prompt attention given to your orders. Make money orders payable to Wade H. 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THE BYSTANDER JOHNNY ON t -}\. ae ea [Ga | 2 bao Set } ei Bon E les) i, o, So | 4 : ~~ yy asses “4 OS: ie RY ae is a os Sol Le OC gh? og sa i ES = Bs ee ee hh fis Asks ” Ae ee \ \ GZ hs | ip \ zy Rye A\\\\\WeA de = DY) VA \ \ 2 Saree Cis, ma b= se i Mason City. ‘Attending the K. of P. Grand Lodge in Cedar Rapids were Mr. Ed. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Washington and Miss Alberta Bobinson. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Frank Veneiera are re joieing over the arrival of a fine baby She isgirl at their home; also Mrs Mary Ward. She is great grandma now. ‘AM are getting along nicely. ‘A very warm wave has been in this seetion of the country for the past week. Albia has been visited by in tense heat. Mrs. G. A. Davis entertained on Sat urday evening in honor of Mrs. E. Jef. fers, Mrs. E, Estes and Mg. Donald Thomas, About aiateen in nilaber wer to supper and cream from 6 o’clock un- til 1:30 o'clock. In the District Court of the State of Towa, in and for Polk County, Septem ber term, A. D. 1919: Solomon Brown, Plaintiff, vs. i Luey Brown, Defendant. To Luey Brown: You are hereby notified that on or be- fore the 29nd day of August, A. D. 1919 the petition of the plaintiff in the FIVE BYSTANDER—7-31-19 above-entitled eause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the District court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of yeu a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of desertion. For farther particulars see petition, and unless you appear thereto and de- fend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the September term of said court, which will eom- menee at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa on the 2nd day of September, 1919, de- fault will be entered against you and judgment ‘and decree rendered. thereon. Dated this 29th day of July, 1919. 8. Joe Brown, Attorney for Plaintiff. Macon is enjoying some very hot days. Rev. J. W. L. Underwood has re turned frof St. Louis, Mo., where he attended the Western Baptist conven: tion. | Misses Harriett Bradley and Laurs ‘Pankey departed Monday after a pleas ‘ant visit with relatives and friends. Dr. J. E, Smith and daughter, Miss Kathryn have returned from St. Louis, Mo., where they attended the Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge. Mrs. R. Grant has returned from 8t. Louis. The wedding of Mrs. Rosa Perkins and Mr. Philip Hubbard of this city oceurred at the home of the bride. We wish for them success. Lucille Mitchell of Callo, Mo, was the guest of Juantzeal Harris Satur- aay. Mr. Arthur Johnson and brother, Ted- ry, spent Saturday in Macon. ‘Mrs, Richerson of Kirksville has pur- chased a beautiful home in the city. He will move his family immediately. ‘Mrs. George Watkins of Coshoton, Ohio, is visiting relatives in the city. ‘Master Jose F. Harris was delightful- ly entertained by a little party given by Miss Lucille Horris, ‘Mrs. Rosa Adams has returned from Warrenburg, Mo., where she was sent as a delegate by the Daughters of Tabernacle. Mr. Arthur Bel is working in Han- niball. ‘Mrs, C. Alice Crews will depart Mon- day for: Mexico, Mo., where sho will represent the G. U. C. of the House Hold of Ruth. ‘Mrs. Rosa Adams suffered an attack ORIGINAL NOTICE. MACON NEWS. {\ Nl a amy. Lf : < : | a ig (SH Se ae ee oe EMI Le MI Pe ay?) rh > Soo = wee Lz Gaara Oa 4 we “a «~ o L (DAVIE y} iM es oy Aes nS ~\ Sry, i a 4 - gra“ . Dalos a3 : ie Ds a) I a of acute indigestion Saturday night. We ‘are glad to state sho is doing nicely now. ‘Miss Edna Harris is on the sick tist. Rev. A. R. Fox preached two excel- lent sermons Sunday morning and eve- ning. ‘The vine stand Broadway Baptist Sunday School will give their anaual pienie Saturday at the water works. We are glad to see Laurence Carter and Wendell Braggs back sgain from overseas, also John Pickett. ‘Mrs. Hannah Morrison is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton McElroy are the proud parents of a bouncing boy. Mother and son are doing nicely. Mr. Fred Wilson will leave Friday for a visit in Chicago, Tl. Mr. Joe Ancell has returned from St. Louis, Mo. ‘Mrs. F. B. Watkins of Kansas City was a visitor last week. Loyd Adams and James Burton, re- lerest will take place at the gran¢ opera house Tuesday night. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. Notice is hereby given that the Eagle Coal Company, a corporation, organized under and existing by virtue of the lawe of the State of Iowa, and author- ized to conduct a general coal business therein, with its principal place of ‘bus- iness at Des Moines, Iowa, held its an- nual meeting on the 2lst day of May, 1919, at its office at Seventh and Mul- berry streets at Des Moines, Iowa; that all the direetors and stockholders of said corporation were present or repre- sented at said meeting and in accord- ance with Section 1617 of the Code of Towa, Chapter 1, Title 9, and acts amen- datory thereto, it was voted by said di- rectors and stoekholders that said cor- poration was dissolved .by the unani- mous consent of all, the. stockholders and directors of said corporation. Ar- ticles of dissolution of said corporation were duly drawn and signed and acknowledged by all of the officers of said corporation; and it was further voted by the unanimous consent of the directors and stockholders at said meet- ing that notice of dissolution of the Eagle Coal Company and of the execu- tion by the officers of said company of Articles of Dissolution, should be pab- lished in ‘‘The Bystander,’’ = news- paper of general circulation in Polk County, Iowa, as provided by law. D. E. Sayre, President. * E.-A. Sayre, Seeretary and Manager. | H. A. Sayre, : HOCKING NEWS. Corporal Roy Burns and Private Joe Edmonds have arrived from overseas. ‘Mrs, Eva Roper and children have arrived home from St. Paul, Minn. They reported having a fine time. ‘Mr. Willis Headspeth from Des Moines visited a week with Master Lee ‘and Alfred Roper. Miss Alberta Robinson is in Cedar Rapids visiting. ‘Mrs. James Roper is still on the sick list. | ‘The Baptist Chureh gave a basket dinner Sunday. There were quite a ‘number down from Albia. Miso Ida May Young is visiting at the home of Mrs. Cora Roper. ‘Mr. Joe Robinson is on the sick list. GRANULATED SORE EYES CUBED. “For twenty years I suffered from a bad case of granulated sore eyes,”’ says Martin Boyd, of Henrietta, Ky- “In February, 1903, a gentleman asked me to try Chamberlain’s Salve. I bought one box and. used about two- thirds of it and my eyes have not given me any trouble since.” eee See tas CHURCH DIRECTOxY. MAPLE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH * East Maple Street. Bev. Samuel Bates, pastor. 11:00 a. m—Preaching. 1 ee anes aches, 6p. m—B. Y. P. U. 1:30—Preaching. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, Cornithian Baptist Charch 'G. Wikoblnace, Pastor” G. W. 1” a, m—Preaching. 1 Sunday school. shop me BYP UL S p. m—Evening worship ana preaching. Unien Congregations! Church, ‘Tenth and Park Sts. Rev. H. E. King, pastor. 11a, m—Morning worship. 12:15 p. m.—Sanday school. Caristian Endeavor at 6:15 p. = Ligut..M.-H.-Thompeon; president. Evening services at 7:20 p. m. ‘Mid-week prayer meeting Wednes- oF. veedy tavilet at all of thee services. St. Pass A. M. E. Charch 1gth and Crocker Sts. Rev. 8. L. Birt, D. D., Paster. 10:43 a. m—Preaching. 12:80 p. m.—Class meeting. 1 p. m—Sunday school. 6.30 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. 8:00 p. m.—Evening worship. Unisa Baptist Charch Sixteenth and McCormick. Rev. M. Toomey, Pastor. {he a. m—Preaching. Cp. m—B, Y.P. U. 8 p. m—Preaching. @. John A. M. B Zion Church 8. E. 19th and Scott Sts. Bev. E. 8. Hardge, Pastor. 10:00 a. m.—Sunday school. 11:00 = m.—Preaching. 6:30 p. m.—V. C. E. Society. 8:00 p. m—Preaching. 8:00 p. m. Friday—Prayer anc clam meeting. _ Bethel. A.M. R. Charch Sixteenth aud ‘Pics Bes. Rev. H. A. Perry, Pastor. ‘11 a. m—Morning service. 12:86 p. m.—Class meeting. 1:00 p. m.—Sunday school. 6:20 p. m—Christian Endeavor. 7:20 p. m—Evening worship. Prayer, Wednesday, 8 p.m Epworth League, 6:45 p. m. Asbury M. EB. Church. Services in Knights of Tabro Hall, : 12th and Park ‘Ste. Rev. Spencer Ray, Pastor. Phone Wal 8241. Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Evening Service. Preaching, 7:45 p. m. Class Meeting, Friday, 8 p. = CHURCH OF GOD AND SAINTS OF CHRIST. 928 12th Bt. Elder E. W. Pittman, Pastor. Preaching every 4th Sunday A M 11:30, Preaching every Sunday evening, 7:30. A Preaching every Wednesday evening, 7:30. Preaching every Friday evening, 7:30. Services all day Saturday. JOHNNY ON THE SPOT GETS BUSY LIKE THE BEES. THAT DONE CONTAINS BEES JOHNNY, TO KEEP THEM IN A COMATOSE STATE YOU MUST PLACE THEM IN A COOL SPOT SURE MIKE - ER - I MEAN PROFESSOR IT'S A SHAME T'FREEZE EM ILL WARM THEM UP A BIT HERES ON THE STOVE CONDARN IT! I PORE SOME THIN' ILL FUMP OUT NOW CAN'T MY BOWED PARTS! ALL WHAT THROUGH THAT TO SHAKE OFF THESE BEES! MULLY GEE MUSTER! WHAT YER LOOKIN' FER, A BOY? I'M JOHNNY ON THE SPOT AND I'LL TAKE THE JOB! 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We are especially prepared to turn out letterheads, billheads, noteheads, statements, folders, booklets, envelopes, cards, circulars, programs and sale bills. Come in aud see us next time you need something in the printing line. THE BYSTANDER ```markdown ``` JOHNNY THAT CONE CONTAINS BEERS JOHNNY. TO KEEP THEM IN A COMATOSE Des Moines, Iowa LOOKS is made easy by BUTY HELPS. We have a not permit us to list all of them. Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, cents each Jasine and Temple Grower, cents each Preshing Cream and Powder, 52 cents Oiler, 26 cents and 52 cents Sizing Combs, $1.00 Foods, 26 cents and 52 cents Us now, including 8 cents postage. your orders. Make money orders. H. McCree Station Druggist IOWA FLOR DE MELBA The Cigar Supreme At the price FLOR DE MELBA is better, bigger and more pleasing than any mild Havana cigar. CORONA OR SELECTOR SIZE 10¢ OTHER SIZES DIFFERENT PRICES Ask your dealer for your favorite size. If your dealer can't supply you, write us. I. LEWIS CIGAR MFG. CO. Newark, N. J. Largest Independent Cigar Factory in the World, PRINTING at to have and when to when you really need it. and the habit of satisfying our work is of the highest services are always at your e are especially prepared heads, billheads, noteheads, booklets, envelopes, programs and sale bills. is next time you need printing line. HNNY ON THAT GONE CONTAINS BEES JOHNNY. TO KEEP THEM IN A COMATOSE THE BYSTANDEM KEOKUK NEWS. Mrs. Mary Johnson and daughter, Cecil, have returned to their home in Des Moines after a visit with relatives and friends. Master Leonard Wells of St. Louis is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brown. Miss Marie Scott is visiting in Marshalltown. She will be accompanied home by her little cousin, Master Thorman Fields. Mrs. Leonard Barry gave an interesting talk of his experiences overseas at the Pilgrim Rest B. Y. P. U. last Sunday. Rev. C. R. Waters is spending a few days in Davenport. Miss Gertrude Cook is ill at this writing. Mrs. Grashlson of Cedar Rapids is in the city in the interest of the Negro girl's home at Iowa City. Quite a few of our soldier boys have arrived from overseas. Mr. B. Rud is sick at this writing. Rev. W. H. Storks preached an excellent sermon at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church last Sunday evening. Sunday afternoon, July 27, the First African Baptist Church held their second rally. Rev. J. Sterling Moore preached a soul-stirring sermon. The rally amounted to $126.00. These people are to be proud because they are so few in numbers. Rev. Clark certainly is struggling hard to make them a grand people. We are sorry to report Rev. Byrd is no better. The Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School will hold their annual picnic on August 7 at Wild Cat Springs. Mr. Beverly Scott is training a crowd of girls to give a military drill in the near future. Mr. Ralph Reid is reported ill at this writing. WHAT IS BEST FOR INDIGESTION? Mr. A. Robinson of Drumquin, Ontario, has been troubled for years with indigestion, and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets as "the best medicine I ever used." If troubled with indigestion or constipation give them a trial. They are certain to prove beneficial. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price 25 cents. Mr. Black of Washington visited over Sunday at the home of Mr. Charles Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Thomas entertained on Tuesday at 6 o'clock dinner Madame E. Jeffers and Nellie Estes and Hattie Bennings and the family. Music was furnished throughout the evening until 9 o'clock by their Victrola. On Sunday a number of Albians attended a large picnic given in Hocking by the Hocking people. The Hocking people have their returning soldiers home, Mr. Lou Edmond and Roy Burns. All the soldiers from Hocking who have returned are looking fine. Mrs. Delia Thomas entertained on Thursday evening from 4 to a late hour, supper in honor of Mr. Donald Thomas from Frances and Mrs. E. Jeffers Mrs. Nellie Estes of Des Moines and from 8 o'clock the rest of the evening the Albia girls and boys music was furnished for supper and evening by the Victrola. The happy overseas men in Albia home from France are Mr. Donald Thomas, Mr. Sdris Walls, and Mr. Gordon. Mrs. Harris has word from Mr. B. Harris that he has landed and she expects him home this week. Sunday evening was missionary evening at the A. M. E. Church. Mr. Walls from France is in Albia at the home of Mr. B. Lewis. Mrs. Walls will accompany her husband to Moulton to visit his parents and from there back to ALBIA NEWS Mason City. Attending the K. of P. Grand Lodge in Cedar Rapids were Mr. Ed. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Washington and Miss Alberta Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Veneiera are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine baby She is girl at their home; also Mrs Mary Ward. She is great grandma now. All are getting along nicely. A very warm wave has been in this section of the country for the past week. Albia has been visited by intense heat. Mrs. G. A. Davis entertained on Saturday evening in honor of Mrs. E. Joffers, Mrs. E. Estes and Mr. Donald Thomas. About sixteen in number were to supper and cream from 6 o'clock until 1:30 o'clock. In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, September her term, A. D. 1919. Selena Brown, Plaintiff Solomon Brown, Plaintiff, vs. Lucy Brown, Defendant. To Lucy Brown: You are hereby notified that on or before the 22nd day of August, A. D. 1919 the petition of the plaintiff in the FIVE BYSTANDER—7-31-19 above-entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the District court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of desertion. For further particulars see petition, and unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the September term of said court, which will commence at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa on the 2nd day of September, 1919, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. Dated this 29th day of July, 1919. Macon is enjoying some very hot days. Rev. J. W. L. Underwood has returned from St. Louis, Mo., where he attended the Western Baptist convention. Misses Harriett Bradley and Laura Pankey departed Monday after a pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Dr. J. E. Smith and daughter, Miss Kathryn have returned from St. Louis, Mo., where they attended the Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge. Mrs. R. Grant has returned from St. Louis. The wedding of Mrs. Rosa Perkins and Mr. Philip Hubbard of this city occurred at the home of the bride. We wish for them success. Lucille Mitchell of Callo, Mo., was the guest of Juantzeal Harris Saturday. Mr. Arthur Johnson and brother, Tedry. spent Saturday in Macon. Mrs. Richerson of Kirksville has purchased a beautiful home in the city. He will move his family immediately. Mrs. George Watkins of Coshoton, Ohio, is visiting relatives in the city. Master Jose F. Harris was delightfully entertained by a little party given by Miss Lucille Harris. Mrs. Rosa Adams has returned from Warrenburg, Mo., where she was sent as a delegate by the Daughters of Tabernacle. Mr. Arthur Bel is working in Hanniball. Mrs. C. Alice Crews will depart Monday for Mexico, Mo., where she will represent the G. U. C. of the House Hold of Ruth. Mrs. Rosa Adams suffered an attack ORIGINAL NOTICE MACON NEWS. of acute indigestion Saturday night. We are glad to state she is doing nicely now. Miss Edna Harris is on the sick list. Rev. A. R. Fox preached two excellent sermons Sunday morning and evening. The vine stand Broadway Baptist Sunday School will give their annual picnic Saturday at the water works. We are glad to see Laurence Carter and Wendell Braggs back again from overseas, also John Pickett. Mrs. Hannah Morrison is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton McElroy are the proud parents of a bouncing boy. Mother and son are doing nicely. Mr. Fred Wilson will leave Friday for a visit in Chicago, Ill. Mr. Joe Ancell has returned from St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. F. B. Watkins of Kansas City was a visitor last week. was a visitor last week. Loyd Adams and James Burton, re-lerest will take place at the grand opera house Tuesday night. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. Notice is hereby given that the Eagle Coal Company, a corporation, organized under and existing by virtue of the laws of the State of Iowa, and authorized to conduct a general coal business therein, with its principal place of business at Des Moines, Iowa, held its annual meeting on the 21st day of May, 1919, at its office at Seventh and Mulberry streets at Des Moines, Iowa; that all the directors and stockholders of said corporation were present or represented at said meeting and in accordance with Section 1617 of the Code of Iowa, Chapter 1, Title 9, and acts amendatory thereto, it was voted by said directors and stockholders that said corporation was dissolved by the unanimous consent of all the stockholders and directors of said corporation. Articles of dissolution of said corporation were duly drawn and signed and acknowledged by all of the officers of said corporation; and it was further voted by the unanimous consent of the directors and stockholders at said meeting that notice of dissolution of the Eagle Coal Company and of the execution by the officers of said company of Articles of Dissolution, should be published in "The Bystander," a newspaper of general circulation in Polk County, Iowa, as provided by law. D. E. Sayre, President. E. A. Sayre, Secretary and Manager. H. A. Sayre, Treasurer. HOCKING NEWS. Corporal Roy Burns and Private Joe Edmonds have arrived from overseas. Mrs. Eva Roper and children have arrived home from St. Paul, Minn. They reported having a fine time. Mr. Willis Headspeth from Des Moines visited a week with Master Lee and Alfred Roper. Miss Alberta Robinson is in Cedar Rapids visiting. Mrs. James Roper is still on the sick list. The Baptist Church gave a basket dinner Sunday. There were quite a number down from Albia. Miss Ida May Young is visiting at the home of Mrs. Cora Roper. Mr. Joe Robinson is on the sick list. GRANULATED SORE EYES CURED. "For twenty years I suffered from a bad case of granulated sore eyes," says Martin Boyd, of Henrietta, Ky. "In February, 1903, a gentleman asked me to try Chamberlain's Salve. I bought one box and used about two-thirds of it and my eyes have not given me any trouble since." MAPLE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH East Maple Street. Rev. Samuel Bates, pastor. 11:00 a. m.—Preaching. 1 p. m.—Sunday school. 6 p. m.—B. Y. P. U. 7:30—Preaching. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Cornishian Baptist Church Fifteenth and Linden Sta. G. W. Robinson, Pastor. 1 a. m.—Preaching. 1 p. m.—Sunday school. 6:30 p. m.—B. Y. P. U. 8 p. m.—Evening worship and preaching. Union Congregational Church Tenth and Park Sts. Rev. H. E. King, pastor. 11 a. m.—Morning worship. 12:15 p. m.—Sunday school. Christian Endeavor at 6:15 p. m. Ligut, M. H. Thompson, president. Evening services at 7:30 p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting Wednesday. Everybody invited at all of these services. St. Paul's A. M. E. Church 12th and Crocker Sts. Rev. S. L. Birt, D. D., Pastor. 10:45 a. m.—Preaching. 12:30 p. m.—Class meeting. 1 p. m.—Sunday school. 6:30 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. 8:00 p. m.—Evening worship. Union Baptist Church Sixteenth and McCormick Sixteenth and McCormick. Rev. M. Toomay, Pastor. 9:30 a. m.—Sunday school. 11 a. m.—Preaching. 6 p. m.—B. Y. P. U. 8 p. m.—Preaching. St. John A. M. B. Eion Church. S. E. 19th and Scott Sta. Rev. E. S. Hardge, Pastor. 10:00 a. m.—Sunday school. 11:00 a. m.—Preaching. 6:30 p. m.—V. C. E. Society. 8:00 p. m.—Preaching. 8:00 p. m. Friday—Prayer and class meeting. Bethol A. M. R. Church Sixteenth and Filmore Sts. Rev. H. A. Perry, Pastor. 11 a. m.—Morning service. 12:30 p. m.—Class meeting. 1:00 p. m.—Sunday school. 6:30 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. 7:30 p. m.—Evening worship. Prayer, Wednesday, 8 p. m. Epworth League, 6:45 p. m. Asbury M. R. Church. Services in Knights of Tabro Hall, 12th and Park Sts. Rev. Spencer Ray, Pastor. Phone Wal. 8241. Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Evening Service. Preaching, 7:45 p. m. Class Meeting, Friday, 8 p. m. 928 12th St. Elder E. W. Pittman, Pastor. Preaching every 4th Sunday A. M. 11:30. Preaching every Sunday evening. 7:30. Preaching every Wednesday evening. 7:30. Preaching every Friday evening, 7:30. Services all day Saturday.