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Subscription $1.00 Per Annum esota----THE BEST S E LIST OF ADVERTISEMENTS-- FULLY THE BUSINESS REPRESENTED OF SERVICE LOOK OVER THE LIST OF ADVERTISEMENTS-- WEIGH CAREFULLY THE BUSINESS REPRESENTED BUSINESS HOUSES OF SERVICE AND TREATMENT. Look over the list of advertisements and weigh carefully the businesses represented here. Those men are doing business for the good of the public. They are studying the needs of the people and preparing themselves to meet and satisfy them. He, each of them, is your friend. He has more goods than the pages of any paper could afford to mention. Go to his place of business and tell him you saw his advertisement in The Advocate. Thank him for recognizing a newspaper business and assure him that you desire to trade with men who give and take, who live and strive to help others live, who, in fact, do unto others as they would like to be done by. They fully realize that life is a mutual benefit existence. There is in your home somewhere a vacant place that could be improved greatly by the article or articles you see listed here. There is or should be in your mind a desire for better conditions. These ads will stimulate that desire. The advertisements in our various papers and magazines are in fact the most interesting portion. They show the various and wonderful development of the human mind expressed in material form. They show in a striking manner the progress of the world along all lines. They in short, are an encyclopedia of progress. It is advertising that an effort is made to equalize the desires of men. Many thousands of dollars are spent just for the purpose of attracting man's attention long enough for an object to grip him. The passes or is passing a building and just a glance stops his whole body and may change his whole course of life. Window shopping can be made an extremely interesting and educative process. Look at any article and let your mind trace it to its origin nothing the possible number of people who had to do with its making, the place from where it came, etc. Note the price of the article and contrast your ability with that of the maker of it. This price will develop your appreciation for the wonderful things advertised STEAM HEATING PLANT BEING INSTALLED AT FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH. The steam heating plant being installed at this church is moving with great activity and progress. Workmen were on the job the next morning after the contract was let. Mr. O. M. Bigham of this city, and the largest contractor in this line on the Kansas side, is doing the work and he is on the job himself seeing that every part of the work put in, both in material and workmanship, is the highest class. Mr. Bigham installed the heating plant at the Metropolitan Baptist Temple. Anderson Furniture Co. "House of Merit" The Anderson Furniture company, 735-741 Minnesota avenue carries among the largest stock of Furniture, Stoves, Rugs, Drugs Floor Coverings, Pictures, and in fact everything in house furnishing and of the highest quality in the city. This store purchased heavily at special prices of the latest and richest furniture that could be had for the Christmas buyers and the prices are surprisingly low considering the advances in every commodity. Terms or Cash. Come in and see our goods and get our prices. "House of Mork" ANDERSON FURNITURE COMPANY, 739-741 Minnesota Ave. Bell, W. 1611. PAGEANTS The first Pageant ever given in our face will be had January 4th. It is changed from December 22nd. It is a Grecian Pageant and some of the characters are: Clo, History, Mrs. Eskridge; Euterpe, S. Hayden; Thalla, S. Roberts; Melponsene, A. Royston; Terpsichore, Mrs. Holmes; Erato, Mrs. W. Dwiggins and G. Nelson; Polymhania, F. Morris and L. Rogers; Urania, L. T. Green and C. Meeks; Calloge, M. C. Matthews; Apollo, C. White and others. "The Progress of a Race Pageant" will be given at the same time or in February. Prof. Jno Hodge and other teachers have promised to assist in the "Racial Pageant." Both pageants will require many characters and were proposed by the society editor. "The Greek Pageant" will be Thursday, January 4th at the Metropolitan Temple. Fine music will be interspersed. FORUM. The Citizens' Forum held its weekly meeting at Metropolitan Temple. After music, the president had Mr. Wm. Miller give the invocation as the Chapelain was absent. Current events were given by several. Dr. Love-gave an address on "Segregation Stimulates Negro Enterprises." Mr. Ray Trotter was the only one who agreed somewhat with the speaker. Those who spoke strongly against it were: Mr. Owens, Mr. T. Napper and Messrs J. Truman and T. Daryls made very fine talks against it, but did not surpass the fine talk made by Miss. Catherine Johnson against it. Attorney Shackleford and Attorney Bokker also made talks opposing segregation: Mr. R. Trotter rendered a pretty bellone solo. He was accompanied by his sister. Next-Sunday Prof. Grisham, our gifted orator, will address the Forum and very fine music will be rendered. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors, the Rev. J. R. Ransom, the church auxillaries, the Sheba Chapter of the Eastern Star, the Maple Leaf Temple No. 5, the Royal House, and the U. B. F. and S. M. T. Choir, the Ladies' auxiliary of the P. F. B. A. and the Pleasure Seekers Study and Art club of which she was a member, or their kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and death of our beloved wife, aunt, and daughter; also for the beautiful floral offerings. MR. J. M. PHILLIPS, MR. LIMROY RHODEN, MR. AND MRS. BEARL STONE. EVANGELIST BRAY'S FATHER DIES IN DENVER COLO. We received the sad news Tuesday of this week of the death of the father of Rev. H. Franklin Bray, the well known Union Evangelist who was carrying on a campaign at Atchison at the time of his father's demise. He was 77 years of age at the time of his death and had spent forty-four years of that time in the ministry. Dr. Bray and the family, have including The Advocate, their sincere sympathy in the loss of a father and husband. SOCIETY EDITOR HONORED AGAIN. Mrs. M. C. Matthews, society editor, received another important letter from Governor Arthur Capper through his secretary, Mr. C. Sessions, praising and telling her how he appreciates the poem composed by her and entitled "Our Kansas Governor." The Christmas headquarters of the Police Relief association, 708 Minnesota avenue, is a busy place. Members of the department already are gathering foodstuffs to be placed in the baskets to be distributed among the poor of the city on the day before Christmas. Requests for aid also are being filed and each case is to be investigated to ascertain whether those seeking assistance are worthy. The sewing circle of the First Baptist church under the leadership of Mrs. Edith Edmond is a live wire. Aprons sold, 68, netting $22.60. The offering at this church on Thanksgiving day was $95.77. Dr. Bowren, the pastor, is doing a great work spiritually and financially. His members love him and the community believe in Him. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, DECEMBER 15, 1916. A PROMINENT AND USEFUL YOUNG DENTIST LAID TO REST THE PROFESSION LOSES ONE OF ITS STRONG AND EXCELLENT MEN. Dr. H. T. Bolden, son of the late Rev. H. T. Bolden, who was hurt Thanksgiving Day, died Friday, December 8; at the hospital in St. Louis and his remains were brought here to the residence of his favorite aunt, Mrs. Amanda Smith, 812 Nebraska. The body was accompanied by his wife, mother, Mrs. Bolden's brother, Mr. Wm. Harris, of Chicago, and Mrs. Green, wife of the St. Louis undertaker. The funeral service was held from the A. M. E. church Monday, December 11th at 2:30. Resolutions were read from the Alumni of Mahara college from which he graduated, and Rev. J. R. Ransom delivered a fine eulogy over him. The Masons of this city held ritualistic service over him and were led by Dr. Soanes. His pall bearers were graduates of Mahara college. Among them were Dr. Cotten and Dr. Phoenix of Independence, his classmates. He was a consistent Christian and died in the triumph of faith. Deceased leaves a wife, Mrs. W. L. Bolden, of St. Louis; mother, Mrs. M. A. Bolden, two sisters, Mrs. C. B. Simpson, 909 Nebraska, Mrs. C. Saunders, of Baltimore, Md., three aunts and other relatives and many friends who mourn his demise. Many floral tributes were sent from St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Wichita, and Kansas City, Kansas, as tokens of sympathy to bereaved relatives. The Advocate and many friends console with the family. FIDST A. M. E. CHURCH-EVANGELIST MOTEN CLOSES CAMPAIGN WEDNESDAY-NIGHT. The first quarterly meeting of this conference year was held Sunday by Dr. Smith, presiding elder of the Kansas district. Presiding Elder Smith preached at the morning service and he was at his best. The great audience was greatly lifted up by his high and eloquent sermon. Communion sermon at 3 p. m. was delivered by Dr. F. F. Moten, the soul stirring evangelist, and he fairly lifted the people off their feet with his logic. There were many visiting ministers present in the afternoon from the various churches of Greater Kansas City. Also many members of the laity. Dr. Ransom, pastor, was not able to be present as by special request he was called out of the city to preach a funeral of one of his members. Quarterly conference was held Monday night at which time the presiding elder received reports from the entire working force of the church. Revival Meetings Closed Wednesday. The revival meetings which have been going on for nearly two weeks under the management of Evangelist F. F. Moten closed Wednesday night. Dr. Moten has worked hard for souls and his messages, have been received with great force and the people have been, greatly lifted, up and several additions have been made to the church. BIBLE CLASS. The Neighborhood Bible class met at Mrs. Arthur Younger's pleasant home this week and enjoyed the Scripture very much. The next meeting will be Wednesday, December 20th at Mrs. H. Dwiggins' new home, Ninth and Oakland. Lesson, Acts 26th and 27th chapters. All are invited. Twenty-five unstamped letters addressed to "Santa Claus" are included in the "unclaimed" mail at the post office, officials announced yesterday. The letters will be held until next week when they will be turned over to the Police Relief association and other organizations planning to dispense cheer on Christmas. I. J. OLIVER Undertaker and Embalmer Stood at the head of his class in the Kansas City, Kansas, School of Embalming. Passed the examination, in Kansas and Missouri with a mark of high efficiency. Prepared and equipped to take care of funerals of all classes at the lowest prices. Parlor and show room. 440 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. OPEN NIGHT AND DAY. NEWS PAPER MEN TO MEET EDITORS, MANAGERS, CORRESPONDENTS, MEMBERS OF, THE ALLIED NEWSPAPER PROFESSION WILL MEET HERE FEB. 7. 10. INCLUSIVE. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14. Another annual convention of newspaper men for 1917 is to be held in this city Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7, 8, 9, 10th. The official call is just being released from the Corresponding Secretary's office of this city, which comes out signed by C. J. Perry of Philadelphia, Pa., as President, Joe. L. Jones of Cincinnati, Ohio, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Henry A. Boyd of this city as Corresponding Secretary. This will be the fourth time the newspaper men have gathered in the metropolis of Tennessee for an annual gathering, it having been made the regular meeting place of the regular sessions by constitutional provision. The executive sessions have been held generally in connection with the Business League during the month of August. It is understood from the Corresponding Secretary that they are expecting the largest attendance in the history of the Association, as there are practically no annual gatherings being held now in midwinter that will interfere with the newspaper men's program. The Nashville membership, which consists of 25 or more, have already called a meeting of the local members, and they are making preparations for the entertainment of all who may come. In addition to this, some of the leading newspaper men of the United States who are connected with the Association have expressed their intention of being present at this session. The work to be completed covers a wide scope and is of vital interest to the newspaper fraternity. Some constitutional changes are to be made, but the most important thing will be the consideration of the report of the Executive Committee, which held its session last August in Kansas City. Office of Uniform Bank K. of P. of Department Kansas, 513 Main street, Wichita, Kansas, Dec. 1, 1916. General Orders No: 5. To Captains, Lieutenants, Officers & Members, Greeting: I—According to rules and regulations governing the brigade, your quarterly assessment was due October 1, 1916 and must be paid at once. II—You will note carefully the general orders from Major General's office and see that they are complied with to the letter. III—You will note that the Ass't Adj't. General will visit you on the dates below, to elect and install your officers, and collect all assessments due the Supreme Lodge and this Brigade. All taxes must be paid before the new pass will be given any Company. We will visit Coffeyville, Jan. 16, Independence, Jan. 17, Galena, Jan. 19, Kansas City, Kans., 22, Leavenworth, 24, Lawrence, 28, Wichita, 29. Captains; see that your Companies are ready and at your. Armory the nights mentioned above. By Command. GEN. F. O. MILLER. CHAS. P. EDWARDS, Ass't Adj't. Gen. The Christmas shopper is the one person you meet-on every street corner and in each Christmas bedded store. From the plainest dressed to the most richly clad, the old and the young, big and small, beaming at you, frowning at you, they compose the hurrying, skurrying crowd of Christmas shoppers. Everyone is busy choosing and selecting presents for his or her own loved ones at home, those that are away and the circle of acquaintances. But that's the trouble. In the hurry and flurry of the moment the lesser ones, the homeless unfortunate, are too apt to be forgotten. Miss Demby, the fine singer from Boston, sang at Parkville Friday night to a large house. She was accompanied by Mrs. Wm. Boone saxophonist and Mrs. S. Hayden, pianist. We regret that Miss Demby left Wednesday for Chicago after a pleasant two weeks' visit here. Mrs. Sallie of 1016 Walter avenue, has been very sick but she is improving nicely. MAYOR GREEN AND CABINET FAVOR SEGREGA TION----LILLY-WHITES PUT IT UP TO THE MAYOR TO ACT AT ONCE SEGREGATION MEETING. The segregation meeting which has been agitating the minds of both colored and white for some weeks developed last night at the city hall where some two hundred whites and fifty or more colored were present. One John Beam was spokesman for the league who put it up, to Mayor Charles Green and the commissioners that something had to be done whether it was constitutional or not, while Mayor Green stated that he was in favor of such a division of the two races, he deemed it not wise, to take any action until the Louisville case which is pending now in the supreme court was decided and if found to be constitutional he then would proceed to meet the demands of the league. The commissioners when asked by the league where they stood, each one spoke in the affirmative. The only hinge with the present mayor and commissioners in not granting the desire of these Negro haters is as to its constitutionality. Ever since this city came under the commission form of government it has been in the hands of the "Lilly Whites" and this agitation of segregation which always starts from that lower element of half-breeds will continue so long as this form of government exists. We have men who will accept any issue and from any class or clan so long as they believe it will bring them into power. It is hoped there may not be any trouble caused by this intimidation but the good loyal patriotic citizens of this city will look to the men who they have placed in power, to act like men. EASTERN STAR ELECTION. ELECTA STAR ELECTION Electra Chapter No. 2, O. E. S., the richest lodge in town, held its annual election at its last regular meeting. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Vida White, W. Matron; Mrs. P. C. Long, Assoc. Matron; Mr. C. A. Long, W. Patron; Mrs. M. C. Matthews, Treasurer; Mrs. J. Williams, Sec.; N. Jones, Con.; Mae Jones, A. Con.; Mrs. Williams, Warder; L. T. Green, Sen.; Star, Mesdames Groomer, J. J. Thomas, S. Bryant, Rice and D. W. White. CARD OF THANKS. The relatives of the late Dr. Bolden wish to thank the many friends for their loving words of sympathy, the prayers, appropriate resolutions and the many beautiful floral offerings given. MRS. WIRTIE L. BOLDEN, Wife, MRS. M. A. BOLDEN, Mother, MRS. C. B. SIMFSON, Sister, MRS. C. SAUNDERS, Sister, Baltimore, Md. MRS. AMANDA SMITH, Aunt. DELINGUENT SUBSCRIBERS. You have been notified through the paper, also officially through the mail of your indebtedness to The Advocate and those who have failed to remit only have about two weeks in which to pay up so don't delay in sending it in if you want to get in on the dollar year rate. Mayor C. W. Green's morning mail contained a check for $15 from the Prostor & Gamble Soap company and notice of a donation of 500 pounds of meat from Wilson & Company, packers, to add to the Police Relief association Christmas collection for the poor. New names are being added in large numbers to the lists of the needy who are to receive supplies on "Cops' Christmas Eve." Donations of money, food, fuel and clothing will be received by representatives of the police department at the Minnesota Avenue headquarters. Many letters addressed to the "Cop's Santa Claus" also are being received. A letter received yesterday was written by a 14-year-old boy who says his mother is a widow and that they and his younger brother are in need. The case will be investigated immediately. Mr. Ben Richardson, of $41 Freeman avenue, full of his work Saturday and broke two ribs. We hope he will soon recover. MRS. PHILIPS PASSES AWAY AT ST. MARGARETS, HOSPITAL. Mrs. J. M. Philips of 334 Greeley avenue, who was taken to St. Margaret's hospital December 3 and went through an operation on the 4th had not sufficient vitality to survive the operation and passed away Thursday, the 7th. A funeral service was held Saturday afternoon at her late home, after which the remains were accompanied by her husband, nephew, her pastor, Rev. J. R. Ransom, Mrs. Wilson of the Eastern Star and two friends, Mrs. M. E. White and Mrs. Berta B. Johnson to Neosho, Mo., the home of her parents, where another funeral service was held Sunday, Dr. Ransom officiating. Interment was made Sunday in the family lot. Mrs. Philips was a splendid type of womanhood, and her friends were many. She was a consistent member of First A. M. E. church and also of several church organizations and fraternal bodies and when the news of her death reached her friends and the community it was a shock of grief and sorrow as it marked the end of a good and useful woman. The husband, parents and, relatives have-the heartfelt sympathy in this hour of sorrow and sadness. THEY SAY: That our Forum is the largest literary body and the only Forum in Greater K. C. That some of our, High-school pupils, some graduates and some teachers do not use etiquette and speak to older persons whom they know. Why not attend the Neighborhood Bible class instead of organizing Neighborhood Whist clubs? POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE TO WED Invitations are opt announcing the marriage of Irva Leah, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shelton French, 1026 Grandview boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas, to Thomas Augustus Fletcher, M. D., one of the very prominent and popular young physiologists of Kansas City, Mo. The ceremony will take place Wednesday, December 27th, at 11 a. m. at Saint Augustine church, Kansas City, Mo. A reception will follow at the home of bride's parents, hours 6 p. m. to 10 p. m. APPRECIATION LUELLA, GREEN, Public Stenographer, notary public, all kinds of papers executed, copying neatly done to order. No job too large or too small. I am taking this method to thank all persons who have been kind and thoughtful enough to bring their work to me. Wishing all of my patrons a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Mrs. Williams, of Washington state, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. N. Holloway, and also visited the largest chapter while here. Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted F. C. WAHLENMAIER REFRACTING EYE SPECIALIST 746 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, Kansas NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC! WE HAVE KEPT FROM IT AS LONG AS WE ~COULD—HIGH COST OF PAPER COMPELS Us = ® TO DOSO. = Owing to tho advance of price in newspaper print-in the pest twelve months with prospects of it going another four htndred per cent up in the next few months, we fe- gret very much to say that on January 1, 1917, The Ad- yeeate will have to raise its subscription to $1.50 per year. The monthly rate in the city Will be 15 cents, Nearly all dollar papers throughout the country have long _ since raised their price of subscription, but The Advocate has been hopeful and holding out for a drop in prices, ‘but there seems no relief at all. A UHANCE TO GET THE PAPER FOR “$1.00. All those who subscribe between now and January _ 1, 1917, for one year, will receive The Advocste for one Jear for one dollar, payable in advance. If-you want to - aave 50 cents send in your $1.00 before Jannary 1, 1917. ” All-~who fail to pay up by January 1, will be‘dropped from our books. This, however, will not exempt anyone * who is in debt to the paper, from paying. According. to ” the Federal law, anyone owing for a-newspaper is held - ‘Yesponsible and expécted to settle-the claim. . * Bemember, you can still také advantage of the $1.00 - per year in advance rate, by paying your subscription be- 7 vefore Jannary J, 1917, OP ye ne Bend your money into the office, 834-Nebrasky Krein _ Kaaae Gity, Kasias. Sgt aes ee ‘~ Se ee Os " BETTER FARMS FOR NEGROES Sime tor them to Prepare bhem- <r welver for Living. Topeka, Kas, Dec, 123.—“Kansas Soll, like the soil of other states, ‘was Reyer known ‘to draw ‘the color Jine” declared, Dr, Willlam B. Carter, presl- enfant the Sunflower State A’gricil- tursi wasoclation in galling t6 order the‘tenth annual session today, xt- fended py 250 negro farmers from all parts of the state, whe céme to gether to study the latest farming methods, and how to hive -better Romes and better farms, . “This is the time for the negroes to prepare themselver for living,” he ecatinued, “and more of us must get Gold of this Kansas soll, God planted fortune for every mad in the earth, and he must get it out.” Following s brief session of the ex: «cutive committee, Rev. E. W. C. Cox ef Topeka made the opening prayer for the association which was follow. €4 by & brief address from President Carter. Assuring the farmers that they were welcome to the Industrial and Educational Institute where the gessions are held. “You will not only get to inspect the industrial exhibit,” ke said, “but yon will get to see how your boys and girls are being prepared for usefulness and good citizenship.’ Vice Presidents J. C. Carson, of Sibleyvilie; Mrs, M Bolin, of Oakland and G. W. Gannaway, of Pratt, made reports on the work done by the ne gro farmers throughout the state. 2 number of committees were announc ed, and the first subject discussec was “Disease of Fowls and Theil: Remedies,” by W. W. Russell, of To yoka; Mrs. R. P, Brown, of Morris; O D. Redding, of Independence. ‘W. V. Smith, told of the import ance ‘of pure water on the farm, anc told how it could be bad. The im portance of the colored farmer to cul tivate the friendship of -his whit Relghbors, and both working hand i hand, helping each other was th theme of lengthy discussion led D; G. T. Raimey, of Ellinwood; J, Clond of Frankfort, und Ed Harvey ot Exdora. R. L. Smith, of Waco, Texas, pres! dent.of the National Negro Bankers zesociation, and president of th Farmers’ Improvement Soclety o ‘Texas, was introduced and made : #uort talk. He will.deliver a. ge “epeech Thursday. “No time in th history of the world were there a many Avenues opened up to the ne gro of this county and If be fails nov ko will not have any one to blame bu Aimself.” . @. W. Gannaway, discussed th “Farmer and His Church.” Ther were a number of short addresse made this moraing, ~ The association will be in sezalo’ until Friday evening. NOT TO ENJOIN DOHERTY Co. Clty Will Accept a 30-Cent Gas Rate Until Commission Acts. ‘This city will not attempt to enjoin the Doherty interests from putting the 30-cent rate for gas in efect pend- ing the establishment of a rate by the State Utilitles commission, Indge Hugh Smith, city counselor, said to xy on bis return from the state cap- tak ‘The commission, defendants in the Injunc‘ton suit- filed: by the re- celvers of thé Kandus Natural now pending in the ‘federal ‘court, cannot decome-a, party to such action itil the dismissal of the receivership au- tomatically disposes of the caso. " The commissioners have announced thelr Intention of naming, a tempor ary rate Defore January 1, to obtain untii 2 joint meeting ofthe commis fon, the purchasers of the Kansans ‘Natural “stock and tha cléfes and- dis tributing companies inyolved:is called when a pérmanent rate-mill_be-estab shed. . | “The gas supply question will be partly solved during - this: season," Judge Smith preiiicted, “Th6 sew company has already turned more gas into the pipes, hnd-say as- fast at eases are acquired the consumers wil get the benefit of the added supply.” The ‘commission, the. counselor said, has made no announcement of the amount pf the proposed temporary Tate. 80 CHILDREN FATHERLESS. 22 Workers Die In Underground Slast Near Pittsburgh and 8 Aro Huet Hurt. Pittsburgh, Kas, Dec. 14.—More than 60 children are fatherless this morning among the familles of the workmen in the Reedy and Ryan coal muine here, as the result of the explo- slon yesterday which trapped 62 miners underground, ‘The death roll hag been definitely placed at 22 men. with eight injured, some of them so seriously they are not expected to re. cover. ‘Twenty-elght were killed o1 died from injuries last night and twe died today. ‘Thirty-three men were rescued, 01 succeeded in making their way to safe ty before the rescuers reached them. This morning State Mine Inspecto: John Pellegrino began, making ar rangements for an official investiga tion into the cause of the disaster which, in its toll of dead and wound ed, closely approaches that at Fronte nac in 1889, when 40 men were killec fo @ similar explosion. COLDEST DAY OF ‘THE YEAR. Thermometer Registering Around 8 Degrees All Day. This probably will be tha coldest day of the year, Although the temper. atures this morning were slightly above those of yesterday morning, from all indications-the imerenry will take a steady tumble during the day. At 10 o'clock It was 8 above, a de gree colder than at 7 o'clock. It is too cold for snow, | Pecullar alr pockets and storm con ditions prevall generally over the en tire country, Most of Kansas 1s ex perlencing warmer weather than Kan sas City has had. : | In some parts of the South it 1s freezing, and points in the North an¢ Norrtheast report comparatively mild mae : 103 VOTING PRECINCTS, New Maps Show Precinct Boundary Lines in the City, ‘The 1917 precinct mapa, showing the new divieton of this city in the 103 precincts, 33 more than heretofore, were completed yesterday afternocn Prior to the November election there were 105 precincts In the entire coun. ty of Wyandotte, 85 of “which were outside the city Hmits, ~ “THE MANSAS CITY AUVOCATS. 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Deliver Large or Small Orders os =N, W. BAILEY, 4 ~ - 1969N. 3rd St. Absolutely Pure--Superiorjin Quality . 7 MERIT PREPARATIONS, <--Morit tn intended. to sasist in cleansing the scaly of dandrnft and all {rritations, thas aiding ip stopping the falling of hair and aiding the growth. ~ tee ee YOU WILL GET QUICKER RESULTS BY USING-MME. -L. « MALONE'S HAIR TONIG, FORA SOFT-AND. GLOSSY ESYECT, * FINISH: WITH MMB" 1. MALONES’ HIGHLY PYPYUMED . _ PRESSING POMADE, we i» ty ~ <a ‘ wi bg : Merlt ‘Hair Grower—50e, =" ss AR RE Pressing Pomade—25e, =n Le. - Merit Shampoo—28e, + >" 4 | MERIT HAIR TONIC—50c, . AGENTS WANTED, ‘ . - "For farther information write MMOS. LILLIAN MALON@, 2434 Woodland Ave, Kansas City, Mo. No Mall Orders sent C, O. D, DUNLAP LAUNDRY CO... is ZITA West 14th Street, The Best Laundry Service Possible Soft Water UsedExclusively by Us Geo. McClelland ' Bell, W. 364.5 7 Home, W. 634, Real Estate, Fire-Insu- © : rance, And Rentals, Room 18 1.2 Pecpies Bank Bullding, Cer. 7th and Minnesota Ave. 7th street Entrance, Upstairs. FOR RENT. 2 room house, elty water, $460 per month, 4 room House, close fa, eliy water, $8.00 per month. ~ 7 6 room. House, city water, $49 por month = —— - * HOUSES FOR BALE. .- 4 room house, 25 ft, $200.90. 3, room -Lowre, 20 ft, $550.00, $25 down, balance to enit. ~ eS 5D Tk vacant lot, $200 eaeb,. Fine—S room house, water anf gas SO ft. font; $1,500. $150 down and the balance to suit. 412 acres 1 mile west of the elty ‘WIN divide, $350 ‘per sore $108 ‘down, $8 par month with iaterest. Yor colored: _ ~ _ ae - _ Vaeant Houses Wanted, ~~ The Ady¥ocatd Gees in Mors Cot oped Homes In Wyandotte Than An Others Combined, Publiched fr Te a ts nes - The. Advocate wil te 15 cexta per rhentie-béginning January first, 19it. And. $180 ‘per yeer. Ons folles ver your tf you" Mbergbe, before Jeavary Msg eee © -otles. “Doatt-be wbreié to, day nity ot spur dollectors Sf toy oie ‘nttely Hedgson MirrorCo - -Old mitrors resifvered | . NEW ONES MADE TOORDER_ - Wort Guaranteed “sy | HOME PHONE W. 1619- ~~~ ; 1017 N. STH T. | 2a3° Kansas City. ’ Kansas"* Bell Phone, West 1181, ~ 7 | es IDA MAE JONES” NOTARY PUBLIC . Poblic Stenorgrapher —- ‘Office 1512 W. 5th Bt. K Saxe Bell Phone; West28, — Res., Phono | Bell West 180 . ‘ FISH MOSS; GOLD FISH- - AND SUPPLIES + wut be had as neoded no log a3-. the demand, insts. ae | Your Florist . “¢ MAS T, A. MOBELEY,, “ig Florfat. “Re . - 5 710_MInnesota Ave. = 75 > KANSAS ITY, =,” KASE - ’ DRESS MAKING. a) ~ AnD plain sewina: 2 Woe Gwarantes Satlefaction . of - « _ Gur Pricge,” Ressogahle 75, OARS, ELEN TRAYLOR 2 27 $B Mebracka-Ave. 8 Seth, Weak wad” > |. —— * Fhe tate ome of The: Adheweste to B04 Vedueoka Aven: oo Stoves-Stoves-Stoves, ¥ «NOTHING BUT.STOVES! “°°. Pad ne ee (ea This Pattern of [ (2) fal _ 2 Ranging “less Others to TO} : ip : to ao SSelect From... NiJe===il- g75,00.- From Factory to User. We Cut “Out the Jobbers Profit; at a Sav: “ing of 20 Per Cent to You; -__ f GASH OR GREDIT $1.00 DOWN-.-S1.00 PER WEEE" : Spe COMPLETE A - HEATERS - = UNEOF eR SUP prices = gem CONE! Pe a NATIONS ao RANGING «© eK), AND EASE AGP. $38.00 . rr a a |. BATHURST STOVE. GO: ~ Po #2 - CASH OR ‘CREDIT . een ba fsi.00 DOWN . -$100 PER WEEK ; °°" 514 MINNESOTA AVE. , Sugar Bowl - For Xuiss - 8 . NONE NICER - . Es | / ~ Better or Cheaper oe a 720 Nitsnesute Avena” Our 1917. ; . _ CHRISTMAS AND TAX _.. SAVINGS CLUB - Js Now Ready. Join now and have more money- next -year -—-LET US SHOW YOU-s) _ MINNESOTA AVENUE STATESBANK® - Le) /Sth-And Minnesota 3000" _Where-All theStreet CarsGo? ee 5 % ‘The Bank of Personal service ae = EG AcMENDENHALL Pea se, 2, oe +. “ALJJGROSSMAN, VieePreis—. 2 "oy. 77 BO BROWNE, Gatien “Jars, B, Rollins, on State ayente; 1s theumatism, "very, Very sick.- ae | oe “Mr, Keel, son-iplaw of Pret, J: x Edwie, was _sociewbaf Ul this week, Mrs, Jennie MeLellaad ip sick with THE KANSAS CITY-AnyocaTeE,.. HOME DRUG 60, ING i Wed Wee Ss RRUC LT Ol Call us up for anything In drug : line. We have a full line of useful and ‘practical Xmas Gifts; Cigare Vand. Tobaccos, Perfunies, Combs, Brushes, Toilet ‘Waters, ete. all in fancy Xmas package. A full Hine of Von’ Brecht’a fine Chocolates, -Nothing will sult “Her” better than one of these for Xmas, 25¢ to $5.00, ‘ A nice Hine of Xmas Greeting Cards, x a . We give 8. & Hy Green Trading - - Stamps- We wilf be pleased ‘to have you calle 7 7 ” "ee ra : Any where > WE! DELIVER 4 sAny2tine oss GeAnyything. - \ IR ma 5 a «(Call Today, Fing Tallosliig. Suits Made 6 Onder, . “ Beh_West 4424,” oS ; MBOOLKIN’- _ Expert Cleaijer and- Byer - ° “All “Alterations: Guaranteed, “Ladtes? Work a Specialty. * } pat 1808 Quindare Blvd, KANSAS,CITY, - __ KANGK acess ee ae = SANS: “Aftordéy- tomes Guy; of Topeks, waz in qur ‘ity thia week.” = Oo git SS: A | Mrs. Tydta LewlpHenty is gate ‘alck. ot herbie on, Troup avenge:+ - ASK He FO BEKING eat tir AND AX suntan DAY AX HIM AGEN BEFO HE, Pre Sef SF MUVES MCR CE SCOR NOG, i Umph-bumph, nelttier has four. Uh elo Ike ever hearn of sech béfos not i all ‘is awn days, It shirely ts cutis, dat it is, es a3 . And er bout all-your Wnelé Iké can’ fay’ bout it ig, dat tp Sho mus be = ign of eutitin; find 1 reély do think if is or algn of the Wah, oF simfin Ink da. Saat | And dat brings to my mine, ole An- [ehent, tines, 1s you ever Hearn tell ov jam? ° ., Well it waa dis-way: Ole Dick Plan- tagenet wanted to wear de Crown and ho, killéd a dozen befo ke got it, De fust thing he done, was to Shire a lot of fellers to run erround after ‘him, am ax him to be King, an he wud play lak he did-en want it—an dey wus to keep on after hini~azin him. (He was-alréidy some Hi-up, sum- fin, T disermémbers now.) So, de fellgts, what. he bad hired, went to de place whar he was at, an make ef lot ov noisé, an keep on hol- terln, sind makin out ‘at dey wants bim tobe King. - | An ole Dick, des ag sli a8 er.fox—he make out ‘at he don heah em, and he put on a Idig face, an kinder limp erlong; and say: “It’s thmte for mo fer gray—praying is d8 mos, I does, I dons now, In prayin tow.” Don He look down, ahd tend-like he is prayin, x - Dese feller, what workid fer him, keep3 6n er sistin off Hl, fo be King: “Bo our King—won't you be ofr ‘Ring,” dey kept ‘er hollerin it, An Ole Dick,-he, wid his long face, you know, kep,, er tendin-lak, he was prajiid, and did-en’ Hear nothin whad dey. sala. . ~ Sq der wag one great big qnp, heay rmarter, dan de rest, an he knowed mo din dey did; scnie rely did-en \nbwed wy, déy was dar, dey was des dsr, cau dis Big qmart un tol ‘em to come. He was Sho smart, dey called hii de Bucking. Ram., So. he say, “Come on,, he ig_prayin’ now, we will go out and holler round somewhere, else, 5 while, ami conte pack whén He alnt ér prayin.”" - So dey did—dey conic’ back er gin An dar he was, Olé Dicky wi His Jong, solum, tur face, ahd tis mos Sank-simo-sous look, wid: his prayet book im his ha, and tow he wad ér S|yrayin, nobody, (but the Devil) know - |ed—be des kept on er prayin. _| And dey engin to holler, dé Buck. Ing Ram leadin’ ‘em: “O, Duke, bo’ ou2 King. Richard, Duke of- Oyster bé our |Sing. Yous been a Good Duke— won't you be our King.” An Ole Dick, he aln' dofn’ néthita’ but mumerin, tendin lak hes prayln and don hear nothin’ dey say. eB An dey keep er hollerin, “Be our King—you is de Duke, be de King.” Am arter while de Bucking Ram, he holler out loud, “Richard—Duke cv Oyster — Hall — King Richard the THREE. An, Ole Dick, he des as SIl as er Fox keep, er Umpin erlong, and kinder sumblelak, wid his prayer-book ir. his han, and he kinder nod his haid down, prayin, den de Bucking Ram, Holler out, “He said’ he wul be King, 'An den dey all run round and round and say “He sald he wud be King.” Ah Ole Dick, jeg ag soon as dey was olt out, he throwed dat, prayer, book so fur de Devil ain’t going to fin it and he holler so it almost shake de ‘hous, “Away! And to-HELL with prayerbooks,- crowns and robes, by || Blood won:-By Blood Must. Be Main tained” . oe Ben he say to one of his fellere what's been hollerin} fur him: : “Delay leads impotent dnd“ snall-paced beggary,. 4] ‘Then fiery expedition ie my wing, - Jove'e meretry and herald for a king! Go musfer-men; my coungel is’ my shield: == We miiist be brief, when traitors bhave > thefild. 7 | Hi an tet your Utils Tke-tell” you, de ~ |things.dat Ole.Ditk done, was mo-dan {a "caution | a | An. des’ oneward—You'all, better ents iat cle Olteiae ne. nauk tt the So Swe RS RS ee eS e — er . 3 Foe eP pre Maite ae. pe Pe eaxiy W.T.” Whitelaw |lf our “6 ot soni oes ee, DRUGGBT OW cee pean 8, Racy Rae ES MIR SE I 2 Hrwelkores i whatzos vin f° Baie Mion ae hee = fs Weewilgetiefet roe A EES concammuessscemcen Pat ng wet oe oh eae” @ - ws ; 9 SB eR gee cat wate <= WHY PAY RENTS: RN aaah E SSE ENTS he age Rw Tm Ny Caren amrenER meee ee | eet er ear ack eas ers: enn a wa 2 are RE a ee ae i an Res | PT ARE aN! Ce Ao ele A Sees: fH Suthers ee Tet are eri venie eta eee eee 3 ee a Pieters eae mee es ICT a rae ee bee) cE OD ae ee eee r eee a rl ee a ee ee So Ce aces ee ee are cae 1) eae ae ccm: ene | veer he. a a 3 é - a EER Sey ie “Fae ee vane coerce eee Pee eee eee ce i r * on : <= i Le r oer oe 3 oe es * ee FOR RENT. 2308 Vine, 8 room cottage, barn, water furnished <......4+0+++-8,9.00. 601-35 Indépendénce, $ room apartments, $9 and ..-.serrseeee 11.00 2516 Holmes, brick apt, 3 rooms, range, fuel and lights furniahed 11.00 * 3830 Cottage, 7 room brick and frdme apt, modern ........+++6 16.00 2803 Michigan, 6 réom house, water and Gas ....--ee.cseeecae 14.00 1749 Holly, 4 rooms, gas In house, clatern water ..v.seeceees-- 1000 2835 Terrace, 4-room cottage, owner pays water bill ........... 7.00: 4819 Norton, modérn apartment, 4 rooms ....ee.e-seeccceeceeee 14.00 1818 Hightand Avénue, gas, water In yard, 4 rooms .,..---..+6 12.50 2434 Michigan, 4 room cottage, water and gas ........-.-00006 1250 2631 Euclid, 5 rooms, brick, water, gas and tollet In house, - cement, basement .....ccpegeccseerteerersecsenesacievees 17.50 1810 Euclid, gas and water In house, key next door, 6 rooms... 17.50 2115 Highland, 6 rooms, gas; water_outside door ....+e:....5.. 15.09 Ot Michigan, 7 rooms, modern ..c.cscsaseseeeesecececccccecy 2250 2408 Montgall, 8 room mod,, water bill pald...sscseeceeresceres 2000 2100 E. Sth Sb, modern, @ F00Ma .p.secceesccccccccececccccecey 25,00 559 Campbell, 9 rooms, water In house, water bill paid .......- 20.00 ax Grove, 9 room Modern ..csseresseeeebeesteceeecseabectee 2250 1219 Agnes; 6 room, partly modern . ....cseesereeesoeceserseeee 18.00- 1916 East iith, 6 room ......ceecceetteeceecereeceesederceese 18.00 2457 Bellefontaine, & room . ..e wececcecsecsscecrceecessescces 14.00. 2194 Bellview, § room .+-...ssessesteevecectensceseccessceess 1400 527 Lydla, 4 room apartment ..,00.-.-.ce-eseeeescccceeeceeee 800, 1819 Norton, 4 room moderg apartment .....sccesecesscnscees 15.00 ,807 Forest, 8 room brick apartment .......ceccsessseescecees 10.00 1308 E. 19th, 2 roém modern brick apartment .....70-cecceere 5.00 2680 Cottage, 3 raom Brick ...-...ceeeceerecereresesegececsee (7.00 3221 E, 22nd,-4 room modern .,..ccceerecrrmmecFertecceenscee 16,00 1907, E. Gth St, 7 room modern «-..seccscsecdecsresceccoreee 2250 2034 Holmes St, 7 room modern ... .csseeseecencertereceoee 16.00 OTORE ROOMS = . 1439 East 19th, new. modern brick .....cevecceccssscesencoee $3M00. 1418 East 19th, new modern: brick .......,.sc--tsssessrcereee, 18:00, 2808 Vine, Brick stoe-rcom ....c..sesceseviccreerccneeseese ere 2200: 2436 Mine,.brick store room. «+. 0cceecengecceperserccerevet tees 4250 1481 E, 18th, storetoom, strletly modern .....ciecccsccersees 1LOO 1483 E. 19th, atorsroom, strictly modern ...cccsssecesreseees 18.00 _ 1415 E. 49th, brick store FOO wyeseeceeeeiserceves oe cons 18.00 - =-FE-you must rent, the above-llst Is the best'wa have. > - Wa Arcien wan Sx thee = . :WE:KEEP OUR TENANTS EMPLOYED.: SOME BARGAINS. 1680 Cottage, 7 room. brick and frame, just finshed remodeling, painted inside and out and newly decorated, Price $1,750.00 .. $50.00 down, $15,00 per month. 1118 Vine St, 4 room cottage, $1800; $50. down, $18 monthly. $17 Michigan, 5 room modern cottage, $1700.00, $200.00 down, $15.00 per month, : = 2629 Euclid, 5 room modern brick cottage, $2050; $150 down, $15 monthly. : “5 1614 raat toth St, 7 reom moderna residence, $2750; $300 down, $25 monthly. : . 912 Highland, 6 room modern brick, slate roof, an excellent hargain , ,t $2000, $200 down, $20 month. We have plenty of money +9 loan on Kansas, City real estate, 1st or - 2nd mortgages. eS Afro-American Investment: cece. Company = ~:~ “<2! 1510-E,-Eightestith Street Home-402,Eaut ves ; 7 _ Beli 7a Eat _~ Nothing More- Cheerful : ’ 2 Sp Sos For the Season’s Greetings - : Specially selested and now ready for the most ob- i we _ terving. ‘Those. fine Cyclomen, Azaleas, Begonia, <t Ne Cincinnatl; S:otch” Heather, Plants of every de- Sade py sccintion, - a : aH Cut Flowers for all occasions, Weddings, Decora- # * \g “tlona dnd Banquets, ~~" | - of PY Our tine of tke latest deatgns\in Flower Baskets, =e Jardenters, Ivory Art Ware superb. We have add- ° a = ed a ling ofAmerican and Forelgn Gold, Fish,: the | # SA ~ Chinese-Tefessope aid American Fantalls, Fish” fo. “Mess and, Supplies, complete in every detail, Your > it _” . vistt' to cur Flower Shop is most Welcome: Calf. eae | early vad ayold the usual rush, during the hol!- “days, Ott of-town oniers'recelvs our best attention. ag . Your. Flore =n gee eet ee Pei MRSS T.cA. ZMOSELEY ¢- os eae Ras 202 as Ot at ga em See 2 FAO Minnie Ben Ba a Fae RA oe, KANSAS CITY. ADVOCATE. And Independent. G. A. GREGG, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. MRS. M. C. MATTHEWS, Society Editor. LOTTIE B. HALL, CIRCULATING MANAGER. Published every Friday at 8:34 Kebraska Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The Advocate is a weekly journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Uplift. SUBSCRIPTION. Pear Year . $1.00 Six months . 60 Three months . 35 Single Copy . 05 ADVERTISING RATES. Made on Application. Bell Phone, West 2968. "Entered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the post office at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Art of March 2, 1879." Don't forget The Advocate collectors when they call. It's only 10c per month and no one should put the collector off. Have your news in our office not inter than Tuesday of each week to insure publication. Office 834 Ne- QUINDARO. The night school is doing nicely. A large number of the old people are attending. It is a splendid opportunity for all young people who for any reason have been denied schooling. Hunting is all the go here. Many rabbits are changing their place of habitat. Rev. Thurston and his people had a splendid service all day Sunday. Dr. Lyman spoke at Vesper Sunday. He is traveling in the interest of Negro Sunday schools under the auspices of the International Sunday School association. His talks are helpful. Mr. Robinson will sing and Attorney Shackelford will speak at Vesper Sunday. Mrs. S. C. Hogg has returned from a visit in Missouri. John Walker and several men had an all night and day possum and rabbit hunt. They returned laden. The S. M. T. had a big meeting Thursday evening. Mrs. Fannie Johnson is priestess. Tuberculosis day was observed at Allen chapel Sunday. Quarterly meeting next Sunday. Glad to greet Rev. Owens again. Let every one come. Keep warm—keep as warm as possible. Pres. John A. Gregg of Jacksonville, Florida, will soon favor us with an account of his school. Edward Landon is quite sick. The sudden change in the weather has caused a good many colds. Rev. Jones is principal of the night school and Miss Dunson who teaches during the day in Vernon school is teaching. They are assisted from time to time by Prof. Gregg and May Ammons. Miss Denby, who is visiting Mrs. Will Boone went to Hannibal, Mo., Wednesday for a few days. Fresh and wholesome candies and nuts for Xmas.—King's Kandy Kitchen 542 Minnesota avenue. Mr. Frank Slaughter of 1006 Walker avenue, is sick. We hope he will soon be well. Mrs. Hill, the mother of Mrs. F. G. Easley and Mrs. Ida James on Freeman avenue, is sick. The very sick baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller on Walker avenue is improving slowly. Mrs. Goins of 1502 North Ninth street, fell and hurt one of her ankles. We hope it is nothing serious. Mrs. M. M. Owens of 1914 North sixth street, went to Leavenworth Monday for a short visit. Electa Chapter will have an initiation Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Masonic Hall, Tenth and Washington boulevard. Mrs. Jones, the mother of Mrs. D. Jackson, 70 Freeman avenue, is very sick. Mr. Carl Easley of Oakland avenue, was on the sick list last week. Mrs. Thomas and her son, of 1518 North Ninth street, is on the sick list. Mr. Albert Price is on the sick list! AMONG MEN WHO DO THINGS JUNIUS J. N. GRAY, Manager The Gray Printing Co. 1414-16 N.5th JUNIUS J. N. GRAY ANYBODY can spell words and apply colors to paper; but that does not constitute printing; printing is the art preservative, and must be executed by Artists. Men, who think and act at the same time, and who do not compound the price for so doing, make up the personnel of The Gray Printing Co., where you receive personal interest; the job is better than the other fellow's, and the PRICE—"Rock Bottom! It costs no more, because GRAY KNOWS HOW. The novelty, the dainty, the so-called difficult jobs are all executed with EASE and DISPATCH—with that peculiar artistic touch. Gray knows how—ASK ANYBODY! Call or Phone New Location—Not "Moved," but Enlarged Quarters Bell West 4187 5th and Oakland Mesdames Chas. Porter and J. Kelly, of Atchison, visited Metropolitan Temple Sunday after attending their Grand Matron's funeral in Kansas City, Mo. Little Leona Rollings, of 1014 Walker avenue, has been very sick. She is much better now. Prof. N. G. Grisham, ex-principal of Lincoln high school of Kansas City, Mo., will be the principal speaker at the Forum Sunday. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Emma Harris, Plaintiff, vs. Trece Harris, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 26th day of January, 1917, the petition filed in said case, will be presented to the court, and upon trial of the case, a judgment will be rendered divorcing the plaintiff from the defendant, and awarding to her the care and custody of the minor child of said marriage and for the costs of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY Attorney for the Piff. Attest: R. J. McFARLAND Clerk District Court. (First publication December 16, 1815) THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE HO. DO THINGS GRAY, Manager Co. 1414-16 N.5th ands and apply colors to pa- constitute printing; print- and must be executed by Artists. same time, and who do not com- pute up the personnel of The Gray personal interest; the job is better PRICE—"Rock Bottom! It costs HOW. The novelty, the dainty, executed with EASE and DIS- tic touch. Gray knows how— d," but Enlarged Quarters 5th and Oakland apply colors to pa- te printing; print- executed by Artists. and who do not com- personnel of The Gray rest; the job is better ck Bottom! It costs the novelty, the dainty, with EASE and DIS- Gray knows how— Unlarged Quarters 5th and Oakland Mrs. J. Miller; one of Greater Kansas City's pipe organists, and is the organist at St. Mary's-Catholic church will-give a recital at the Forum Sunday at Metropolitian Baptist Temple. Mr. Miller, husband of the organist, and a tenor singer of excellent tone and quality, will sing a number. All members of the First A. M. E. choir are requested to meet Tuesday evening at the Y. W. C. A.. Business of importance. Mrs. Daisy Rgynolds of 706 New Jersey avenue, is sick in bed under the cure of the doctor. NATI NATHAN The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a building with a flat roof and large windows. A Home Production Prices That Are Right Home Phone West 847--Bell Phone West 821 1514 North 5th Street Kansas City, Kansas GO BOULDIN C "THAT For First Class C Ladies and Gents T All Work C Prompt Auto S Bell Phone Bell Phone West 777 Cash or Credit C. R. SHERMAN FURNITURE CO. Out of the High Rent District Away From The High Price Click FURNITURE . . . . . . RUGS Kansas City, Kansas Agency for The Buck Stoves and Ranges 7th and Quindaro Blvd. KANSAS CITY . . . . KANSAS The Bible class is doing good work. It has made a deep impression on certain men of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden were visitors at the last meeting. The next meeting is at Mrs. H. Dwiggins, on Oakland avenue, Wednesday, December 20th. Mr. Matt Carroll visited Chicago on his last run from San Francisco. HAN W. THAT Auto or Horse Drawn—Aut , Delivery a Specialty GO TO BOULDIN CLEANERS "THAT CLEAN" For First Class Cleaning and Dying Ladies and Gents Tailoring a Specialty All Work Guaranteed Prompt Auto Service or Call Bell Phone West 838 The following musicians have promised to see to musical numbers for the Grecia Pageant: Boone's Orchestra, Prof. Reynolds and pupil, Miss E. Wilson with Prof. R. G. Jackson, Miss Butler, Mrs. Jackson and others for January 4th. Subscribe for The Kansas City Advocate, a clean family paper. D. G. JONES DRUGGIST 7th and Quindaro Blvd. Kansas City . . Kansas H. P. W. 566---B. P. W. 131 We Wish You A Merry Xmas and Happy New Year Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, 2511 North Sixth street, have the greatest sympathy including The Advocate in the loss of their darling twin babies, Sophonia and Sedonia, aged two years and six months, being only 5 days between their deaths. Little Allena McNear is sick and out of school. ee eee Cerne See eee side ie aad adigaige EA RCT Sore en eer ane re mre Pee eee oe Seger eee MER Rese We gers Rcee SN EE Re ae A a D7 Me ee Ere a Pe eS Br Se BER i ethene pie ee ae coe og °F a . oN. 2 THE RANDAS CITY ADVOCATE. 5 +, . ; tof Sad . SWELPED THE DESERVIYG MAN ‘BIRTH OF THECLINEN COLLARY; °° ses, zerara. -- me, story ns Wort [ - “The. East India- Hair Grower“: «> ® SS aaa 1 - aan Sete SES Ee OE ced. dan : ov siiys . ua Ac arOW : mi ee Se sa tory, kenlth’s}'- - Weel. Retate and Renta. | warm and Home, containing only one . ewit-eremwnce: Gat, | Were Yorker pared Fev Momentar AMIE, Oo tN a hae G. WY. NELOMS & COL ‘wont, was receatiy handed to'a village: AL. veces aap fyate Pat a Compliment Where {- Greatest Atfiction. | fa Hae ted Wa dmtstrs = Ce. KEL ae AON ‘WGrowth “Se Maly WIS’ V—The™ Woman's Home Companton ‘petits en editorial about a man«who (wrote a letter pra(sing 2 young rall- ‘bead man. It saya; ‘A busy New York man returned jest summer from his country home. he statlon agent in that little coun £ town had been particularly help- ‘Sed to him, in caring for his tranks and "gfranging for the comfort of his faxally.” — - “The New York man was gratefal to Mee xtation agent. He told him so ‘Re wondered, ns he rode along, what @ance the young ‘fellow had to that geuntey station. Would any officer of dbp road ever pass that way? Would Ge Ind's willingness and efficiency Weer goin him a reward? ~ When he reached his office he ‘wrete a letter to the president of that Jgaliread. ‘I want to congratulate you - the young man who represents you ‘pe Saalthton; he sald, ‘he ts courteous ad intelligent, and the good will that Secures for your road In thxt sec ten Is worth real money to you. He ya young chap worth watching’? “A little thing it was, The cost was gly 8 few minutes of a stenographer’s @me and a two-cent stamp. Yet that Qetter stood out Like a diamond on the resident's desk amid the bundle of @uerulous complaints, It brightened Ye day tn that big office. It may have Yhanged the whole career of the young ‘hap in the country depot.” DEBT MANKIND OWES CHINA Getestial Kingdom Gave Us the Sue » ..eulent and Nourishing Buckwheat Cake, Says a Writer. Xf niankind lives up to the Injune fem “Render unto Caesar the things it are Caesar's,” then mankind owes 4 buge debt to central China. It gave ts the buckwheat cake,” remarks Girard In the Philadelphia Ledger. . Flour mills often print the pleture @€.an American male deer upon the "Peper sack containing buckwheat flonr, pot the buck has nothing to do with fe name of buckwheat. , “ Buckwheat was originally “Buch ‘welzen,” German for beechwheat, be tase the shape of a buckwheat grain is SGactee and itresembles exactly the Schout, but isa Uttle smaller, Indeed, {hp Dotanical name of the two is idem eal—“focopyrum.” Bussians were eating buckwheat kes centuries before America wu ered, It is still a soldier's re Genin the realm of the czar, but It i ed with tallow oll or butter. ‘The Hindu eats buckwheat cokes on fast: doys, although a Chifistian ' youldn’t regard it as much of a fast } feasting on buckwheat cakes—un eas they were the usual sweet and Yeathery commodity peddied in restau tants under a false name, “ X say great buckwheat fields in the ° of the Himalaya mountains Ir _ Sais, where I was told that the smal "farmers threshed and ground thel | Bour precisely as was done 2,500 years “ égo, when Buddha was a boy. Seek Substitute for Rubber. ‘That the future, even more than the past, is to be the scientist's opportu- ‘fity Is {lustrated by the serious Pe already belng given by the na- jens of the world to the problem of teulntaining a supply of rubber, or of f.sultable substitute, adequate to the growing demands of industry. . Ever since the world was young, ‘tgibes and nations have fought for pos- ‘weselon of one or another of the sup- posed indispensable materials of com fort and luxury. ‘Once it was for filnt for arrowheads, gnco for metal for utensils, agalfi for fost, sometimes for salt, and-as the de- mands of matikind became more com- Wer, for 2 hundred other things about which the aboriginal had .not even heard. Just‘now, owing to a certain peculiarly rapid development of the automobile in transportation, rabber is taking « leading place. Great Enolish Monarch. For years Wing Alfred warred against the Danes, often defented, but ‘ever falling in courage, not even ‘When driven into the marshes or when be was forced to pay blackmail to buy peace, From his first years -3p0n the throne he worked to build a nary that should wrest from the Danes the mastery of the seas, At last he succeeded, and the heritage that “he Jett to his countrymen has time and again preserved the British isles from jnvaders, The Danes were able to hold pos- sesefon in the middle of England, but Alfred's victories made the English of other hostile Kingdoms hall him ss thelr leader, When he died England had for the first time grown Into a waltedtland, despite the conquests of fee Vikings. _ Chews. ,_Duting the rush hour, a middle Seed woman entered a subway car accompanfed by her eighteen-yearold .@ecgiter. Both mother and datighter . Were forced to stand for awhile oppo- ‘mite % row of men busily intent on sawing om, *Virginis,” raid the matrox with quitting emphasis ang loud enough for teomen to hear, “Judging from appear “gates we have made a mistake, This Me presumably the dining car ef 5 Seew-chew train” . Ne wonder that % estore ates Apgen ceding his.evenlng Popec—wp- tide Gown —New York Timer.-__ ‘BIRTH OF THE:LINEN COLLAR: -Asgording. to History, Risckeentilts | Wite Invented Modern Man's Greatest Affliction. ’ _ The -wife-of3a ‘Troy (N, ¥) black filth ts sald to have been thé first pergon to have made separate collars for men’s ebirts. This happened in 1825, and men have been -sitffering ‘aver since, Outside of inventing the separate collar, this woman did the family washing. Accordingly she set herself to work ‘making separate collars for her huz- vand’s shirts and then made enough to sell outside the home, ‘This innova tlon attracted the attention of Rev. Ebenezer Brown, o retired Methodist cainister, and he, with the ald of the women of bis family, went about sell- mg collars, ‘This was in 1829, All the work on these early collars was done by hand, for the sewing ma- shine bad not yet been Invented. In those days not more than a dozen col- ‘ars a day were sold, Thelr nome— “string collars"—was specially appro- priate, for they were tied around the neck with a string of, tape attached to tach end of the collar, Except the bands, the first separate collars were Fenerally all Inen and of two thick- nesses, although some were faced with cotton cloth. ‘They were slightly stif- (ened and had high polnts extending xbove the chin on elther slde—Popu- far Science Monthly. . NAPOLEON'S IDEALS AND AIMS Great Soldier and Statesman 2 Lover at High Tragedy—Purpose of the Arcs d> Trlomphe. T Jove’ hich tragedy, the sublime, Uke that of Corneille, In tragedy’ great men are more truly great than In history. We see them only in the erises which unfold them, in the mo ments of supreme decision; and we ere not burdened with all the pre- paratory details and conjectures, often false, which the historian gives us, + +» Tragedy should be a he role statue In which nothing of the weakness or quivering of the flesh Is seen, Dante ts to me the greatest genius of modern times, . . . I am en- vious for my dear France that shé has never produced_a rival to Dante, that this colossus has not had his equal among'us, No, there Is no rep- = which can be compared with | The Ares de Triomphe would be ‘futile work; serving no purpose, and I would not have builf them if I had of thought them a means of encour ‘aging architecture. I hoped with the Ares de Triomphe to nourish the archi- tecture of France for 20 years, ‘The Edelwelcs, ‘The tourist fn the Alps wears a bunch of edelwelss as eridence of prowess In scaling high peaks, for It is a-matter of common bellef that this 1s a plant found only in lofty and not easily accesslble pinces, also that it 1s Peculiar to the Alps, In his book of Alpine rambles E. 8. Salisbury revises these impressfons. In the’ Alps the plant fs really one of the heights, and teeking it In the wild state below about 6500 feet is useless, Under cultivation, however, it grows In much ‘ower regions, even far from the moun tains, magnificent specimens having been scen In a-garden in Ireland. ‘The wild edelwelss is also ngt confined to Switzerland, but is & widely distrib- uted mountain plant found on almost ul mountain ranges of the northern hemisphere, and is abundant even in the comparatively low altitudes of the Siberian steppes, The flower Is prized not for rarity but for its intrinste peauty, and because it is so eminently characteristic of alpine regions, The white, starlike flowerheads are con- splcuously uncommon in the fact that the woolly rays are only the inclosing oracts_of the flower cluster, and not strap-shaped petals such as are met with in the daisies” and chrysanthe- mums, - Just Two Women. - —~ ‘There are two women—just two women in the world, One Is a Desert and one ls a Valley, The'desert wom- €n take them all, They thirst and thirst—and give nothing; but the val- ley Women are fruitfal. They are the deep, wet valleys’that bring forth. They are all Marys. . . . Sometimes they shall know what they can do, The fruitfol valleys do not know yet. + + + They shall say to all those who do not belong, “Nos You will not do. 1am walting for my man who comes, + + + They will walt for the troe husbandman. ‘There is one for every (rulttal valley, but they do not know yet, and they bring forth the seed that falls. .”. . But they are all Marya. + « Hah! they should let the Marys tend to thess things: ‘hese are riot men-niatters . Men should run-away and play ‘with the desérts until they are called—“Doctor Nick.” ~ Bemewhere East of Suar- . - . Hotel ufe is bed enough anywhere, but St 1s worst in the Orlent, You hear the mother of a twelve-yearold girl tell her to “run’ away while mother smokes,” or tell her-husband that she “will kave a whisky and soda andthe Uttle girl can have » small one, ds the weather is hot” Such thins happen tn America, but they aro not the nor mal thing, ax they are in these poly: Blot trade‘ports, ‘The commercial clase "accusg the missionaries ef being” fo¢ sxclusive end tho: missionaries. assert ‘they are aot golag to rin a fancy har te attract thelr sompaiziote—ne thers years), ~* sce ok 1-17 REAL BSTATE. *.~ ‘+ ~ Weel Ketate and Rents. We NELOMS & COL _ ~ Peal Estate~Seaterd Have All Kinds of Property for Sate “7 land Rent | PRICES To. SUIT PURCHASER Bee Us Before Giosing Deal + We Will Save You “Money: 600 Minn. Ave UpStalta, KG, K. * °"<"Home Phone, We. 1038, 5 Bell Phone, West 1743. r eee : . MODERN HOME FUR SALE. ~ + $1,600 will buy it} $200 down; pay inents to suit, Call Bell West 26f 7 Honie West 594. Sg <GUSY GEE CLEANERS AND. -DYERS. Men’e Suite Cleaned and Pressed 6t¢ Lales Sulte Cleaned and: Preesed @5e We do net call for or deliver clothes Wo cannot afford It at these prices. 4. R, BTEWART, Boil, Weat $979 1416 6th St, K. C,H . sSWELEA ]4 A WILSON me Henaas Cliy's Pre weer Negre Jowster. ~ * RELIABLG ¢BWELRY ~ 118 W. 8th St - Ke t% Mo. ; Boll Prone M, 62682, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HENDERSON @ BOOKER D. E. Henderson Guy J. Booker 622 Troup Ave. $43. Greeley Ave. —Bell Pliones— West 1820 West 2367M Suite 3253 Stobbs Bidz, KANBAS CITY, KANSAS. Bell Phone, West 939. Bott Phone West 2508, - _ & A SHACKELFORD. ATTORNEY.AT-LAW, _ B16 Minnesota Avenue. KANBAS CITY, KANSAS. Beit Phone 424 West, 3 DORSEY GREEN, 7 _Attorney and Counselor at Lew, G16 Minnesota Avenue =< ‘KANSAS CITY, KANGAS. Bell, Ww.2883 - ; 1, F BRADLEY. Lawyer 6. 72 ilnnssota Avenue, Roome 6 and 6 DENTICT , Beit Phone W. 18, - OR MARION GOTTEN 3" - ci" DENTIST, 7 a 614 Binneesta Avon, * KAMaAS CITY, KANSAS. . -enocars, ©» ~ |.» W. © CARROLL FANCY GROCERIES, MEATS, CON. FECTIONERY, FRUITS, ETC. Ball Phone West 1653, _ 220 NORTH THIRD STREET H.W, HILL, . Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries Dry Goode and Notions, Bell Phone, 885 West? ‘2702 Nerth Sherman St Bell Phons, West S737. = Office Hopra: =.” Bto 11 AH, 2 to P.M, ‘At Night "| OR LEAR, PETTY © ~ . °;, Phygletaa ‘and Surgeon” _£ x. HHO Minnescta-Ave, <j DECORATOR." ~~ ¥.;,Bz. Hews, Despister and: Palnter toa. Crim Parlor and Contectfonscy: » TTARN, Sed Odell, W. 2806" - <SuseGRIeE. FON-A CLEAN. FAM TY FAP RA,.90.98 PER YRAR. ” > Whole Story Ina Word. -: * ‘The following note, sdys the British Farm and Home, containing only-one "wor, was recently handed to'n village BchC master: = “Cepatonitegoatatur- Ing” I€ wads -brovght by. one” of the boys on behalf of-a telghbor’s child who wad~Abgeut, The “schoolmaster ‘eyentually arrived nt'a sotution—“Kept ‘at-home to go a:taturing!” Funeral Rings” 2. “Funeral rings,” or “memorial rings.” were largely ‘made in the seventeenth century. They contained the name-of $hé person nnd date-of death,:enameled In black nnd ‘yhite,.and were’-often very elaborate in form. A not uncom- rou design was that of.a skeléton bent along the hoop, holding a coffin, which formed the bezel. _ | Aniportance of Color, Qolof is a wonderful thing. Tt goes fo the goul of you like musle, whether ‘You know it or not. If 1 could have ‘may way, avery person in the world should study color harmony, through fwien they hss ses the wast Fame ‘formed—and maybe help ie ‘dolng. — Newspaper"Clothes Hancer. An emergency clothes hanger may be made by rolling upea newspaper and tying the middte with a plece of string, leaving a loep by which to hang it. This may be sospended from a gas bracket or other handy hook, and will take care of Ught-welght articles, 7The Future's Bright Hope. Grandpa thought pa was golng to turn out to be something wonderfal, and pa {s confident that son will make a mark in the world. Each generation seems to refilize that It Is a fajlure, but it is betting on the next genera- tlon—Forth Worth Star-Telegram, ———— ; Just-What Did He Mean? A lady, who was suffering a slight Indisposition, told her husband that {t was with the greatest dificulty she could breathe, and the effort distressed her exceedingly. “I wouldn't try, my deaz,” soothingly responded the hus- band. 7 ‘Treatment of Houre Plants, . Earth for Window boxes or potted Dlants should be heated In the oven Before using and will save much worry Ferarding Uttle buga and worms, Spraying plants with a syringe and-a “wads of naphtha soap will destroy plant Uce and spiders, Bs Real Estats | « 400 Minnesota Avo.” = Bell West 823, 2 KANSAS CITY, KANSAS WE SOLICIT THE BEST HOUSES , _ FOR COLORED PEOPLE | Pay, ug $80 down and $10 per month for three or four years, and we'll give you a house, 173 CHEAPER TO BUY THAN IT 18 TO RENT.” 200 Propositions to Selest From. F. W. RAGSDALE AUTO EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE We Like Long Hauls . ia Bell, West 3794 J. ; 1228 ‘Virginta Avo. Ki Gq Ke Insure Your Hair ‘And watch 4t grow, by using tho great vanitary hair dressing (HER-TRU-LING, Re Ne Ss eh. ee ee fee! , oe Pes eee To ass ae pease It fires takes out dandrutf and cures itching, totter and ringworm. ‘You ean thengee the halr take on a rich youthful ‘appearance and be- gin to grow \ It stops the hatr frpm faldng ont; breaking off or splitting at 4ho ands, It makes coarse, stub- ‘orn, kinky hatr.sott and long and easy to manage. ~ Ite, gerfuime is_cbermtag and never tells to’ please Ti's. fing— -eyerybody's using tt, Large jars $0 (stamps or money order) or to give you an idea, will eat you « ATRIAL BOX for oct © ° ~ * aod REP WANTED. “The. East India- Hair Growar - a WIL Bromete a Full 1, KET ‘Brongh “Se. Mate Wint fe = AGO Restore tha * a er Boe. Btrength, Vitality and ("re mS Pe Dewy. of gentle EY f vs : te -iFyour RAIR ia ~ | ee eee Ee ; DRY AND WIRY | | APS eee a oy ee TRY Sa &. Roane EAST INDIA HAIR’ Shia: oem riers: urea one * GHower, “4 ees: Saaecaeee Be RM 1r you are tothered ith - ee pantees Zi 2 Bi} falling tale, Dandruth, 3s: & ee: cy 3 ae Ba] itching. Scalp, of any . Ba Ee te. aimee) = Hale Trouble, wo want ee ae | MRP Se) © you, to try a Jar of. ee ig tear WY Bee East India Hale Grow a. eee 8 aL -The remedy” com cts Me 3k ele eee . tains medical propen sen ind eee / ties, that 6 to the NY wes cre Hat, em w : ey salilate the akin, helping. SS ae mature da its work =x * oy Leayes the’ halr sci Le — and silky. Perfumed with @ batm ofa thousand flowers. The best known remedy for Heavy and ~ Beautiful Black eyebrows, also restores Gray Halr to Its Natural Colon Can be used with Hot trong for etraightening. Price Sent by Mall 80 Cents—10 Cents Extra for Postage =~ . S. D. LYON, General Agent $14 Eaet Second Street. Oklahoma City, klahoma, » . ‘THE OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEALER ~ Pays the highest cash prices for Junk_at afl times, rag bones, copper, brass, lead, zine and everything In the Junk Il SQUARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT AL Place of Business—108-1008 North Third Street, Kansas :O BELL, WEST eee - a .* ~ Pays the highest cath prices for Junk at afl’ times, rags, Iron, bottles, bones, copper, brass, lead, zine and everything In the Junk line. SQUARE DEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT AT ALL. TIMES. -- Place of Business—100¢.1008 North Third Street, Kansas City, Kenexe. : BELL, WEST 8877, > OF 15,000 If you want to reach the 15,000 col- ored people in Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte comfy The Advocats is the only paper published in the city or county whereby you can reach them. It 1s she only paper’ published In the clfy or county whereby you.ci reach them. ‘It fs-the only organ that appeals to the necds and ‘wants of this-large community of consumers, Publicity of any kind fo sell, buy or trade in The Advocate will reach more people than all other publica. tlons combined In Wyandotte. ‘The Advocate cne year $1.00, if you subscribe before Janvary Ist, 1917, $150 thereatter, Monthly cubscription in the City, 15 cents. All these In ad. vance. Read front page notice, Subseribe for The Advocate by the year now and save fifty cents. Tt ‘will be 18 cents a month ‘after Jan- uary, 7 ° TO THE PUBLIC: ‘This is to certify that the “Improy- ed Colored Ancient Woodnien of the World” is not a fake-but has been chartered In the states of Kansas and Oxlshoma, to do a legitimate bust be fn these and other states. For any information concerning the order call on T, 8. McMorria, 1418 North Ninth St, P. A. Coleman, 1959 N. 6th Bt, Kansas City, Kas, Regular meet. ings firet and- third Wednesdays at Slaughter’s hall. ,PUBLICATION NOTICE. | Pat ec Gok sekcbakd euch oes ain we eo Aaron tiny * ie Lp ee My ‘Defendant. To Aaron, Hill: ~ “ ‘You sre hereby.nolified that yor have been sued by the above named plaintitt in the District Court of Wy- andotte County, Kansas, for divorce, and that You are required to answer| the petition of the plaintiff, filed in the’ office of the Cletk of the District, Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or befezoxthe 18th day. of January,| 1917; Or zald petition will be ‘taken, a true and judgment will be. rendered against you fn favor of plaintiff, grant: ing her am absolute divores from you; and for such-othér and further relfef jas the nature of the case may require. : - DORSEY GREEN, — -+ > | Attorney for Platatit?, - (First. publication December &, 2918.) |.) gANNOUNCEMENT, = | ~Atersiey Btlackelford. wien 16.0 Feace thad:he has’ rendred hls offio be Bit-fiiemecctn aysmee Where he it be ‘Pletaed so reestre hie trietde ae ee ee 2 see we a ® S Bell Phone, West 2476W.’ PLAYERS, PIANOS, GRAFANOLAS, VICTROLAS, THE PATHE. - PHONE. Butler & Son 610 Minnesota Ave. “Prices ‘less. Deal with proprietor. No. high salarles, commissiozs, bly rents," great advertising bills for you to help pay. ~ . Kansas City, Kaneas Office Phone Bell West $20 = Residence 1227 N. Bth 8t Bell Phone, 861 West S. H. Thompson, M.D, Office 1312 N. Sth Street a Mrs. C. L. Hodgson "MASSAGE, HAIR TONICS and HAIR STRAIGHTENER COMBS " PERFECTION PIANO POLISH WE DELIVER ANYWHERE 929 Nebraska Ave,-Kanszs City, Kan, BALINA, KANSAS, . Step at D, L. Taylor's Homa Modern convenlencen Eresp thing satistactory. A few steps from Union Station. = 3 4 North Sth Bt ‘YATES BRANCH Y. W. ¢. A Corner Sth 8t and Nebraska Avenue. Kansas City, Kanaas | <Desirable Focatlon. Well furnished rooms, Modern conrentences. Prices 25 per night, $1.25 per week. Vor further information call Bez phone, Weaf 1566, “ Economy Movers. HOUSE CLEANERS—TRANSFER— FAMILY MOVING — SHIPPING AND’ STORAGE. Skillful workers.and Sanitary Base y ment Cleaners. .# “SERVICE SPHAK$*—WORK TELLS - B, Ay ROBINSON, 7 Bell, East 704. - Homes, Wart 4598 Resa the notice en the frost page” of tke compelled rales ca subscription 9t- The “Ad Fost’, “whiek- witt “ale ~~ Dive January Ish UT, $96 per ‘Teer Af you vend. oF Bring io he of phan Dedewe Gm wd of Wid Pear, OSE ae Ae ve: ee har Every Suit and Overcoat Guaranteed to Give Satisfactory Wear or a New One Free Auerbach & Guettel The Palace CLOTHING CO. A FEW OF OUR H Why Should Y GEO. McC Real Estate HOW OF OUR HOME BARGAIN? Why Should You Pay Real Estate. McCLELLAND? Real Estate and Rentals 7th and Minnesota Ave. Peoples Bank Bldg. Seventh Street Entrance (Upstairs.) modern house, $2400.00. $100 cash, $20 in mo. modern house, $1700.00. $850 cash, bal. on eas. modern house, $1800.$200 cash. $20 includi. modern house, $1600. $300 cash. $16 includi. modern house, $2100.00. $500 cash, $19 includi. house, close in, $1550.00. Cash, $50.00, bal. bungalow $1400. Cash, $50.00, bal. $17.00 in tracks. 4 room house, good barn, chicken house, bal. bal. to suit. Ten mins. walk to car line. trees, $350 an acre, close to the car. $200 cash. and int. A FEW OF OUR HOME BARGAINS Real Estate and Rentals 7th and Mile Peoples H Seventh Street E 7 room modern house, $2400 and int. a mo. 5 room modern house, $1700.00 5 room modern house, $1800 int. a mo. 4 room modern house, $1600. int. a mo. 5 room modern house, $2100.00 int. a mo. 5 room house, close in, $1550 4 room bungalow $1400. Cash and int. 5 acre tracks. 4 room house, go $200.00 cash, bal. to suit. Ten min 41-2 acres, $350 an acre, clos ing prin. and int. VACANT LOTS $85.00 AND UP. --- --- A SUGGESTION See me and my line of F Thing to be considered. Out of the high and my line of Presents. Quality to be considered. A line of good Out of the high Rent District. See me and my line of Presents. Quality is one Thing to be considered. A line of good Jewelry Out of the high Rent District. J. C. BARKER 913 N. 6th St. Kansas City, Kans. Just around the Corner from 6th and Minnesota I CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR A complete and most interesting gestions for every n MAS GIFTS FOR YEAR GROU and most interesting showing of Christmas gestions for every member of the family kks Stationery Leather Toys Gift Cards Picture ds Calendars CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR YEAR GROUND USE! A complete and most interesting showing of Christmas Gift Suggestions for every member of the family. Picture Frame MAUNDER-DAUGHERTY 632-634 Minnesota A "SHOP EARLY" Mr. C. A. Long visited in For Scott this week. Mr. William Greenada yet real poet. Boys' Suits Overcoats Mackinaws for.Xmas Bell.W.864 Juvenile Books Construction Toys Athletic Goods Games Latest Books Newest midwinter styles in men's suits; neat stripes, black and white effects; some silk sleeve linings . . . $15 Men's Duck Coats, sheep lined, 34 inches long, extra high sheep collar, special value at . . . . $5 Xmas Neckwear Men's Neckwear, $1.00 shapes, big assortment, including holiday box . . . . $50c Odd lot of men's heavy gray Cassimere Coats; all sizes; an extra special value at . . . . $5 Xmas Handkerchiefs HOME BARGAINS You Pay Rent? CLELLAND and Rentals Minnesota Ave. Bank Bldg. Entrance (Upstairs.) 10. $100 cash, $20 including prin. $850 cash, bal. on easy payments. 200 cash. $20 including prin. and $300 cash. $16 including prin. and $500 cash, $19 including prin. and 0. Cash, $50.00, bal. $17.00 a mo. $50.00, bal. $17.00 including prin. od barn, chicken house, well. $3,000. walk to car line. to the car. $200 cash. $15.00 includ- --- presents. Quality is one A line of good Jewelry Rent District. YEAR ROUND USE! showing of Christmas Gift Sug- member of the family. Leather Goods Picture Frames Mens' and Women's Christmas Slippers Home W. 594 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DON'T SWALLOW MILK FAST Unless It Is Properly Chewed, Curds Are Sure to Form in the Stomach. Milk, fresh from the boyling font, with its rich store of vitamins and enzymes, with the finest quality of pro- tein for brain and muscle building, salts to stiffen the bony framework and to brighten the vital fires of the body, is a natural product. Not only is it not improved by the art of cook- ery, but it is actually damaged by it and rendered incapable of supplying in the highest degree those subtle elements which are essential to good nutritio- GROSSMAN' Ladies' Coat SALI $15 Values Sp A word should be said about how to take milk. It should be eaten, not swallowed as a beverage, Dr. J. H. Kellogg asserts in Good Health. All foods need to be masticated. The calf and the nursing infant chew milk. The movements of the jaws and the gucking movements executed by an infant in nursing induce an abundant flow of saliva, which dilutes it, and to a high degree promotes its digestion. Milk, when swallowed rapidly as a beverage is likely to form in the stomach large and hard curds, which are very slowly digested. Many persons who suffer from taking milk in this way imagine themselves to be unable to take milk, and so abandon its use. Milk should be sipped slowly and with a sucking movement of the throat, so as to secure a liberal admixture of saliva. By this means, the formation of hard, indigestible curds may be prevented. Milk also must be taken in right quantities and in right combinations. It cannot be denied that milk digests better when taken by itself or in very simple combinations than when mixed with a large variety of other food-stuffs. JAPANESE WOMEN WORK HARD Little Consideration Is Shown Even to Aged in the Land of the Rising Sun. It wasn't long before we landed before we saw the Japanese woman, the type that old Japan creates. She and some others were having a bridge patty. Sounds inviting, but it wasn't. About 20 of them were driving piles for a new bridge. The sun was scorching the timbers enormous, and the men overseer was abusing them. For weren't they only women? Without education and with old Japan's idea of women crushing them down, they deemed themselves pretty fortunate to have even such work and the princely sum of ten cents a day. No, it isn't enough for old Japan that the women should have a baby every year. They must work, work like men and animals. In Nikko we could see from a distance a long line of bowed figures climbing the steep bank of the River Dalyn, and on coming nearer we saw that they were old, old women, wrinkled and gray, carrying barrels—not baskets, but barrels of stone from the riverbed to the road. Such is the reverence for age in Japan—Jean Price, in World's Outlook. Broad Path or Narrow? People are pretty much alike. The man in the penitentiary and the man in the pulpit are built in very like molds. The chemist can find no distinguishing element in either saint or sinner. Take the man out of the prison and surround him with the environment of your town's good man, and neither you nor the policeman on the beat could tell one from the other. As a matter of fact, all men and all women want to be good. Some accident of body or of mind or of surroundings may swerve them from the path of righteousness, but deep down, in their hearts they would prefer to do good thin to do evil. Give a child a sound mind in a sound body and that child will lead a right life. Batter and bruise his mind or his body and he loses responsibility for his acts to a more or less degree. The desire to do good is still there. The ability is gone. Short-Lived Pin. Scientific curiosity has led a French investigator to look into the old question of the fate of the ordinary brass pin. By a series of experiments conducted on his own estate, he discovered that pins, like human beings, go their way and are resolved into dust. Hairpins, which the experimenter observed for 154 days, disappeared at the end of that period, having been converted into a ferrous oxide, a brownish rust, which was blown away by the winds. Bright pins took nearly 18 months to disappear; polished steel needles, nearly two years and a half; brass pins had but little endurance. At the end of 18 months, steel pens were nearly gone, while their wooden holders were still intact. Pencils suffered little by exposure. Bad Boy of Colonial Days A notebook of a justice of the peace in Connecticut in the year 1750 specifies the behavior of a certain small meeting house boy as follows: A rude and idel behavior in the meeting howb such as smiling and laring and intiscing others to the same evil. Such as laarfing or smiling and pulling the heir of his payer benoit simkif in the time of publick works. Such as throwing Sister Penticost Perkins on the ice if being Saboth Day or Lord's Day between the meeting houses and his places of abode.—Bhaz. "Mide Glimpses." S. & H. GR GROSSMAN'S THE X Ladies' Cloth COAT SALE $15 Values Special at $9.90 GROSSMAN'S THE XMAS GIFT STORE WHERE PRICES ARE DOWN Fancy and plain cloth coats in all sizes and the very newest winter styles. Your opportunity to buy a coat that sells regularly at $15.00; special at $9.90 GROS GROSSMAN----638-640 Minn. Ave. CAR CORPORATION DEALSOUTBRIDGEBUNC SUES OUT INJUNCTION AGAINST WYANDOTTE COUNTY. Contending That It Is Sole Owner of James Street Bridge and Part Owner of Central and Kansas Ave. Bridges, Regardless of the Fact That the County. Now Is Spending More Than 1 Million on the New Structures. To read a petition which was filed in the United States district court yesterday; one would almost be persuaded to believe the Kansas City Railways corporation, successor to the old "Met" and the "L" companies, is engaged in the philanthropic work of building bridges and viaducts for Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte county. Here are some of the contentions set forth: That the corporation is sole owner of the James Street bridge. That it is half owner of the Twelfth Street bridge. That it is half owner of the old Central Avenue bridge. Therefore the Kansas City Railways corporation is contesting the right of the commissioners of Wyandotte county to compel it to pay half of the cost of rebuilding the new Central Avenue bridge and vladuct from Riverview to James street; the new East Kansas Avenue bridge and high line to connect with the Twenty-third Street vladuct at the state line; and one half the cost of lengthening the James Street bridge. On such a contention the Kansas City Railways corporation asks the United States court to restrain the county commissioners from interfering with traffic over these bridges until the termination of the suit, and further that the court adjudicate the rights of the corporation as to its ownership of the bridges. Assuming that the old "Met" and "L" companies did pay pay a share of the cost of building the old structures, the absurdity of the corporation's contention is apparent when it is understood that Wyandotte county is now expending or already has expended something like 114 million dollars rebuilding the new East Kansas Avenue bridge and high line, a new Central Avenue bridge and high line, besides having improved the James Street bridge by the adding of another span. The state law, under which the commissioners proceeded to reconstruct the bridges in 1912 to conform to drainage board regulations, provides that all public service corporations must pay half the cost of bridges over which they operate. And all these improvements were made necessary by reason of the fact that the old bridges were worn out, or size they failed to meet-flood requirements prescribed by governmental engineers and the drainage board. Regardless of the fact that the franchises of the Kansas City Railways corporation only have six years more to run, the corporation to use these structures, should by all law and right and justice, be required to pay its share before it is permitted to operate a single car over the East Kansas Avenue and the Central Avenue bridges and high lines. Furthermore it should pay its share of the $157,900 paid out by the county to improve the James Street bridge, or stop running cars over that structure. The taxpayers of Wyndhole county are not going to permit all those more than a million dollars to be ex Beautiful styles, latest models, made of very fine quality plush, all sizes; special at ..... $14.75 Other Plush Coats on Sale, at $19.75, $22.50, $25.00 and $29.75 Girls' Coats, sizes 2 to 14, on sale ..... $2.98 to $7.58 USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR MEN Silk Half Hose ..... 25c to 50c Silk and Knit Mufflers ..... 50c to $1.98 Lisle Suspenders in gift box, pair ..... 50c 638-640 Minn. Ave. SMAN----63 Mi HAIR SPECIALIST THE LIFE OF MARY C. MAYER MME. C. O. SMITH-TA Guarantees to Grow Hair By Giving Price First Treatment, AGENTS WANTED . . . Bell, West 2642 W. KANSAS CITY KAN MITH-TAYLOR By Giving Scalp Treatment Treatment, 75c Millinery Department 1616 N. 10th St. TY KANSAS MME. C. O. SMITH-TAYLOR Guarantees to Grow Hair By Giving Scalp Treatment Price First Treatment, 75c AGENTS WANTED Millinery Department Bell, West 2642 W. 1616 N. 10th St. KANSAS CITY KANSAS ```markdown ``` S. W. PEARCE JEWELER AND OPTICIAN Specialty in Repair and Optical Works 538] MINNESOTA AVENUE KANSAS CITY KANSAS pended on bridges to enable the Kansas City Railways corporation to fatten from the millions of 5-cent pieces paid as street, car fares by our people. No, not by a long shot. ry, son of Daniel Berry, will be heard in the district court-at Goodiand March-7. The Missouri legislature is to be asked for an appropriation of money in aid of industrial farming for negroes as carried on at Birmingham under direction of H. P. Ewing, the "Potato King" of Wyandotte county. Senator A. L. Cooper or Kansas City, Mo., has volunteered to present an appropriation bill and he will have influential backing by many Missouri leaders, white and black. DEWEY'S LOSING IN COURT. Judgments for Loss of Life and Injury In Old Feud Battle Are Piling Up. Notice of the second verdict for the plaintiff in the Dewey-Berry feud suits at Goodland, Kansas, was received yesterday by Fred Robertson, United States district attorney. The jury gave a verdict for $1,000 damages and interest amounting to $500 for Roy Berry who was shot in the face in June, 1903, when his uncle, Dan Berry and a cousin Alpheus Berry, were killed in a battle between their family on one side and Chauncey Dewey, Chicago millionaire, and eleven ranchmen from the Dewey 59,000-acre cattle farm near Goodland. The shooting was the culmination of a feud growing out of a line boundary dispute between Dewey, in charge of his father's ranch, and the Berrys, old settlers of Northwestern Kansas. A verdict of $7,000 for the death of Daniel Berry was found last week. Suit for $10,000 for the death of Alpheus Ber- "The negro as a rule has laid down," said Mr. Ewing when he visited the office of Mayor Green yesterday. "He seems to think that the white people owe him something, that they ought to carry him. But that is all wrong. The negro has it within his power to work out his own salvation. He can be independent, loyal and prosperous if he will, and nothing is easier for him than industrial freedom." Mr. Ewing is foremost among the negroes of the middle west in the back to the farm movement and he is converting hundreds of his people to the Mao. Gloves ..... $1.25 to $1.75 Palamas ..... $1.80 Garters pair ..... 25c Bells ..... 60c Shirts ..... 69c to $3.50 FIR Shirts ..... $2.50 to $3.50 Underwear ..... $1.00 to $5.00 Men's Trousers ..... $1.98 to $3.95 MAKJING MANY CONVERT8. Bell Phone West 830 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30