Kansas City Advocate

KANSAS BAPTISTS MEET IN CHICAGO FOR BAPTIST CONVENTION Soon to Be the Largest Convention in World Many Notables in Attendance. Chicago, Ill.—The Baptists have been in charge here this week, and believe me when I tell you it has been one more meeting, and it has been a question in my mind where did so many people come from and what are they doing in this world? Of course you will not be able to answer this question, but it is in my mind just the same and some day it will get out. I have been in and about Chicago for two weeks looking around to see what I could see and who I could see and what was going on and then I had made up my mind that I was going to be here to the convention and that would put me in touch with some of the leaders. The first thing in order was the concert, and this was some concert, if you will take my word for it. They were here and here in great numbers to see it. Dr. Sutten E. Griggs was the speaker, and he made some speech. He is not the fire eater he used to be, but he has tempered down and is winning name and fame for himself in pleading the cause of our people. I am glad that I had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful pulpit orator. I would that I could show you Mrs. Martha Anderson, one of the greatest singers of this country and a great concert director. She had'a chorus of one hundred voices and believe me, honey, then singers nearly lifted the roof from the armory. They were born to sing, and I can imagine that they will be somewhere in the choir in Heaven unless they fall by the wayside and land in the other place. I want to hear them sing when I get to Heaven. Now comes the convention. It opened Wednesday morning and my people were there to take part in it. It was called to order by Dr. E. C. Morris, who has been president for 27 years. Now that is staying some and that is doing some staying. He has grown old enough to bear whiskers in the position, and he is considered a safe leader. He called the convention to order and delivered the keynote address. It was a gem, and the men heard him with applause. After the opening exercises, the gavel was turned over to the man who is pastor of the largest church in America, Olivet Baptist church, and the minister is the Rev. Dr. L. K. Williams. I am told that the membership is more than ten thousand and they have seven assistant pastors and 31 paid workers around the church, including local mission workers. Every phase of the church and Christian work is touched by these men and women, and all looking up to Dr. Williams. I told you a few things about him last week, hence I am not going to talk about him in this letter. His friends declare they are going to make him president of the largest convention in the world, the National Baptist convention, Just when I am not prepared to say to you, writing from this angle now. The first sermon of the convention was delivered by Dr. J. C. Austin, a young minister from Pittsburgh, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church, with a large membership. Dr. Austin has been looking the other way for several years until he went to Columbus last year and fully got his eyes open, and said that the placing money there would be throwing it away, hence he declared that from that time hence he was going to attend the National Baptist convention, and was on hand with a large delegation. He preached a strong sermon, and stirred the hearts of the people. In the afternoon the annual address of President Morris was delivered, and it contained many things. It was the work of a master and he just swayed that large audience at will. He had them shouting, then he had them crying, and then he had them rejoicing. Just from one thing to another during the entire address, and when it was over the Rev. Dr. W. M. Taylor, the giant from/Baton Rouge, La., and one of the greatest preachers in the Baptist church was accorded the floor and believe me when I tell you that king did make some speech. He is as eloquent as some of them fellows back yonder who invented eloquence. You realized that you were hearing a great man. Perhaps you now want to know what he was doing making such a big speech. Well, he was just getting his people ready for what was to follow, which was the motion commending the work and service of Rev. E. C. Morris and suspending the rule, and make him succeed himself by electing him president for another year. Seconds to this motion came from fully a thousand throats, and every fellow in that crowd voted, and Dr. Morris took the gavel for another year. Prof. R. B. Hudson, of Selma, Ala., was at once made secretary for the seventeenth time. He has proven to be a good, faithful secretary, and has worked hard. You see he is a scholar of the first rank. For a long time he has been principal of the High school at Selma, Ala., and when I say principal, I mean he is that and not part principal and part teacher. He has his office, his secretary and looks after the management of the work. He is right in the hearts of the people of that city—in fact of the whole state. So well pleased were the Baptists with his work until they raised his salary from $400 to $1,000 a year, not regretted that they could not go higher this year. The next sermon was preached by Dr. W. S. Ellington, of Nashville, Tenn., a strong young man, and a man of great ability. Dr. Ellington is now at the head of a great church in Nashville. His sermon was the annual missionary sermon, and if I know anything about preaching I am here to tell you that the sermon was preached. Getting through with it, I turned my attention to home. I have been stopping at the same place where Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, from Dallas, Texas, are stopping, and that is at the home of Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart, the wife of Charles Stewart, and I was made a welcome bird at that time. Of course, you are acquainted with Dr. E. Arlington Wilson, of Dallas? He was one time called the "boy preacher," but he is away from that now, and is one of the best Baptist preachers in the country. He is well known in Kansas City. His wife is right by his side—in fact she was with him when he was robbed Thursday night at the convention. He toted his pocketbook in his hip pocket, an easy place for the light fingered men. The crowd was on the corner, and the men picked him out as a greener, and they were not mistaken. They made the rush act scene, and when Dr. Wilson realized what was going on his pocketbook was gone and it toted along his return ticket to Dallas, the ticket of his wife, and $69 in cold cash. He grabbed a man, demanded his pocketbook, but shuffling had been done. Another man pulled his pal off, and Wilson went with him, called Prof. Lewis, the Gospel singer. Lewis jumped off and knocked the man down with his handbag, but the man was soon on his feet and out of sight. Mrs. Wilson jumped off 'too, in order to see her husband play the part of a hero. I witnessed all I could and left for parts unknown. I tell you from that time on I kept my mouth in my heart, and while I had only seven dollars. Kansas City, Kansas, Frida G.A.GREGG NAMED SECRETARY OF THE PASEO Y. M. C. A. Well Known Educator Is Transferred from Late Post at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prof. G. A. Gregg, of 2214 Russell avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, received a telegram last Friday from the National headquarters of the Young Men's Christian Association of his appointment as secretary of The Paseo Y. M. C. A. in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Gregg was secretary of the Hinton branch Y M. C. A. at Tulsa, Okla., up until the riot occurred there some months ago, and since has been on the relief committee, traveling most of the time, soliciting aid for the Tulsa sufferers. Mrs. A. Li. 50 The Priscilla at the Temple dear tian preach reside about by all races. at the sang hymns by Mr. C PProf. Gregg is a product of Kansas University, and for a number of years held the chair of mathematics at Western University. About a year ago, he took up the "Y" work and took a summer course at Harper's Ferry and was assigned to Tulsa, where he made a fine record and when the riot took place had things well under way for the erectin of a $150,000 building. The secretary of The Paseo Y. M., C. A., Mr. Harris, resigned some weeks ago to take up other work. The appointment of Prof. Gregg was not a surprise to those who know him and his fitness for such work. He will enter upon his duties October 1, TRAVELED IN SPECIAL CAR A large delegation from here left Monday night for Sioux City, Iowa, to attend the Grand session of the York Rite Masons, which opened for a four-day meeting, commencing Tuesday high noon and closing Friday night. They traveled in a special car over, the Missouri Pacific and will return in a like manner, Mrs. Katie Govan and her two daughters of Palestine, Texas, visited her niece, Mrs. M. A. Davis, 830 Nebraska avenue, this week. They have been visiting relatives in Oklahoma. It is said our night schools will open about Oct. 10. Last year was a record breaker as to the colored of the city, in both attendance and accomplishment. One can hardly pass through a colored neighborhood at this time, without hearing the night school being discussed. Some of those who are attending the Nebraska A. M. E. Annual Conference, at Lincoln, Nebraska, this/week from here and vicinity are Rev. J. F. Griffin and wife, Rev. W. B. Johnson and wife, Rev. J. A. Broadnax, Rev. H. M, Knight and wife, Thos. Kennedy, district steward of First Church; Rev. Gillespie and others, whose names we were unable to obtain. I kept my hands on it all the time, and before you can say "Jack Rabbit," I will be out of this robbing Chicago, and will spend a few minutes in Kansas. I will be in Pittsburgh, Kansas, with Rev. J. T. Lias, of the Baptist, and I am to preach him a Baptist sermon. Do you want to know where I will be next week? Well, I will be at the Kansas conference in Topeka, Kansas and if you want to send me a letter, send it care A. M. E. church. I have promised to tell you about Prof. G. R. Bridgeforth, and the good work he is doing for our people. Look out for my letter. J. O. MIDNIGHT. ADVOCATE SAINTED MOTHER GOES TO HER LAST RESTING PLACE Mrs. Priscilla Thomas, Age 90 Years, Had Lived Here for About 50 Years. The funeral service of Mrs. Priscilla Thomas, who died Sunday, Sept. 4, 1921, was held at the Metropolitan Baptist Temple, Friday, Sept. 9. This dear mother was a true Christian and by her life really preached her own funeral. She resided in Kansas City, Kansas, about fifty years, and was loved by all who knew her, of both races. Mrs. I. Wood presided at the pipe organ, and the choir sang some of her favorite hymns. Resolutions were read by Mrs. Battles, from the Mission Circle; Mrs. J. T. Roberts, from the Nebraska Avenue Neighbors; and Mrs M. C. Matthews read an eulogy and an original poem from the Charter Members Club, which was praised by both white and colored present. On account of the pastor of the church being out of the city, Dr. Griffin preached a very appropriate sermon, and Rev. McLain and Rev. A. Royston assisted. The Charter Members, Neighbors' Club, the Church and others gave beautiful floral designs. The deceased was a consistent member of her church, and died in the full triumph of faith, aged 90 years, leaving two sons, Mr. George Thomas, of Kansas City, Kansas; Mr. Price Thomas, of Topeka, and a daughter, Madame D. B. Hagans, of Chicago; grandchildren and many other relatives and a host of friends, who regret her demise. The remains were deposited in a metallic casket and interred in West Lawn cemetery. The Advocate and staff extend sympathy to the bereaved family. Miss Ruth Gregg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Gregg, 2214 Russell avenue, entered Kansas University Monday. Miss Gregg will take up fine arts. She finished from Western University last year. The other daughter, Unice, entered Sumner High school this week. Mr. B. W. Hillard and Mrs. Hillard, of Wichita, Kansas, visited relatives and friends here for a week. They lived here until something more than two years ago, when they moved to their present home. Mr. John Kearny, of Walker avenue, and one of our splendid citizens, was taken to St. Margaret's hospital Sunday for treatment. It is hoped by his friends that he may get along nicely. Mrs. Beatrice Frye of Pittsburg, was in the city recently attending the funeral of Mrs. Priscilla Thomas, her grandmother. Mrs. Victoria Smith and Miss Riley, of Rosedale, attended their cousin's funeral. Mrs. Dr. John Wilson has had as her week-end guests, Mrs. M. S. Lee and daughters of St. Joseph and Miss Florence Carter of Kansas City, Mo. Some of the ladies who attended the F. and A. A. York Masons' Grand Court at Sioux City were: Miss Lucinda Wilson, Mrs.A.T. Mozee, Mesdames McRoy, Cora McMillan, D. Cummings, Jennie Thatcher, Ethel Wilson and Miss Terrill and others. Prof. and Mrs. G. B. Buster have as their guest, Mrs. Patterson, mother of Mrs. Buster, from Greenfield, Ohio, Mrs. M. C. Matthews poem at Mother, Priscilla Thomas' funeral was selected and asked to be printed by the family. Notwithstanding the pennywise policy of the county commissioners in attempting to prevent County Assessor William G. Bird from finishing the checkup on omitted and delinquent property, through the volunteer aid of his deputies, who proposed and successfully carried out an agreement which cost him or the county nothing, he has been able to add $610,-540.00 taxable property to the tax-roll. Mr. Bird desires to publicly express his appreciation for the display of patriotism by those deputies who so loyally supported the department during the past emergency. Today he has turned over to the county clerk statements which will add the above stated amount to the tax-roll of 1921. This would have been impossible but for the support offered and accepted by him from the following list of deputies: Otto F. Harris, W. A. Snook, Luella Green, Hazel Swanson, Bessie Dean, Mary Blowers, J. B. Christianson, Anna Knittles, Ada E. Meyer, Emma L. Hinton, Irene Hornick, W. H. Young, Hannah Higman, Irene Patrick, Flossie Austin, Etta Billings, Anna C. Smith, J. L. Otterman, J. R. BurtonJ. A. Dudley, Jean McDaniel, Mabel M. Hartung, Margaret L. Andersn, Anna Wallace, W. S. Cloughley and Sadie Barrett, which, if they were paid would have cost the county for services rendered, $426.00. The taxes on the amount returned by them will add more than $20,000.00 to the county treasury. When the emergency arose approximately all the deputies volunteered their services. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Brown of 1045 Walker avenue, has returned from ten weeks' visit in Okabogi lake in Arnold, Okla. ALONG THE LINE OF REASON Uncle Ike,—What you keep on foolin a-long dat line fur? "Cause Ah Doan no Noth-in else,—an ahm gwyn-ter keep beat-en on dat drum;—tell I maks time,—or I beats a hole in it." The prospects are bright for an active and profitable year for the Civic League, the president and members are united in their purpose to put on a drive for membership, by which it is intended to enroll not less than three hundred members. And that, too, of the kind who "Do Things." Every member is expected to bring with him an idea of what would be worthy of consideration, in the work of advancing the fortune of the race. There is already in the minds of several, a plan, which may be easily put into practice, which will do more than any one thing yet undertaken to put matters and things in a better light. It is something in which all may have a part, and therefore all will be interested in it. It is simple, plain and open and easily understood, and just the thing, of which we have NOT been thinking. And once in mind, and being carried in thought, its success is assured. One of the best ways to Reform the world,—is for Every man to Reform just ONE man,—Himself; that ought to be, and it IS Easy. And so, in our case,—the best way to have a reign of that which is most suitable and Best—is for every one to DO HIS BEST. We there-fore look forward with hope, to a season in which the Watch Word shall be, "Come let us Reason together, it will do thee good." So fall in line,—every man, to his place:—and let no one shirk or run. UNCER IKE: The man who wrote "Honolulu Eyes" got a divorce the other day in California because he found his wife in her bedroom with an iceman. Perhaps he should have named the song "Honolulu Ice." Edifice Will Stand as a Monument to Our Racial Group — Big Parade to Be Given. The new Pythian Temple on State avenue, near Fifth street, will have its cornerstone laying Sunday, September 25, at 2:30 P.M. Every fraternal body in the two Kansas Cities has been invited, and have given their consent to be present. A number of bands have been contracted for to lead the various divisions that will march from Fraternity Hall, 314 Nebraska avenue, to the Temple, 524 State avenue. Uniform companies, from the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Tabor, U. B. F. and S. M. T.'s and a number of Uniform companies of the Knights of Pythias of the two cities. The work on this Temple is going right along, and when completed will stand out as a monument to the city and our racial group. When finished it will have the largest and most up to date auditorium in the city, barring none. The entire three-story front will be finished in cut stone. An Armourdale man is going to sue his wife for divorce because she wants a bath tub in the house. He says he never yet went in swimming inside a house and doesn't expect to begin at this late date. Will the new income tax give a real estate agent privilege of tacking a board on a house and then deducting $100 for "upkeep of properties," like the old? Or will make him tack a board and a shingle, too? A petition signed by about 6,000 patrons of the Missouri & North Arkansas railway has been sent to Henry Ford, asking him to buy and operate the road. There is timber enough along the line to make spokes for Ford cars for the next 24,000 years. When Fatty Arbuckle was in Kansas City, Mo., a year or two ago he was presented with a big gilded key, typifying the key to the city. Fatty held on to it when he left and the city still owes a pwnbroker $10 for it. But if Fatty came now—!!! The Kansas City Telephone company has already spent more than a month's increased revenue for advertising its own version of need for the increase. Probably a few are convinced, but the majority ain't. Paying Fines as You Go Some useful things have occasionally come out of the turmoil in Central Europe. One of the best plans of which we have heard is a new fining system which is used in Prague. The police carry receipts for fines for various sums in their pockets, and present them for immediate payment to hilarious citizens who break the peace by singing or playing musical instruments on the streets at the wrong time, or where the volume of harmony is too great. This tends to allow the citizens of this old city to get some much needed rest. This system has worked so well and has become so popular that it was extended to traffic violations as well. It would certainly be a great convenience if we could adjust minor infractions such as a smoking automobile, or failure to keep automobile lamps lighted, without having recourse to the police or traffic courts. MEMBER • NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE NOTES Although the weather was inclement, a large number attended this church at 11 A. M. Dr. Harrison, our new pastor-elect, was present an scheduled time. Deacons Johnson, Thomas, Oliver, Ford, Hulsey, Jennings, Taylor, Stovall, Jackson and McCombs were present doing their duty.The pastor's subject was "Jesus Feeding the Five Thousand." He portrayed his subject beautifully, and many sanctioned it. At the close Deacon Oliver and Deacon Taylor complimented it, and the choir sang "Immanuel." Madame D. B. Hagons, of Chicago, made remarks and praised the sermon, and thanked all who gave flowers or assisted in her mother's funeral. At 8 P. M., a great multitude assembled and filled the large lower auditorium and then went into the balcony. Dr. Harrison preached from Rev. II-17, "To him that overcometh. will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." He preached a wonderful sermon on this passage of scripture and caused hundreds to rejoice spiritually and several shouted aloud. This makes the fourth sermon he has preached and every one of them were fine and taught Christian lessons. Rev. Battles, Rev. Royston and Rev. Garrison were in the pulpit. Dr. M Terrill, dean of the college at Houston, Texas, was introduced and given the Chautauqua salute, and he made appropriate remarks He praised our selection for our new pastor, and said the state of Texas hates to give him up. Dr. Harrison asked for a collection for the Texas college and they were given so rapidly he told them, "That will do," as they had given $13.32, which was more than the Second Baptist, Kansas City, Mo., the largest church west of the Mississippi, gave. The church collection was over $107. The Mission Circle will give a 25-cent chicken dinner September 21, at 4 P. M. All are invited to this dinner. Their Sunbeam club gave a long interesting program last Friday night and cleared over $17. Alice Jennings, the Sunbeam's president, won the quilt. Mrs. Pickens was second. Next Sunday, September 18, Dr. P. H. Westbrook, of New Orleans, will preach. Everybody is invited and welcome at this church. Rev. Harrison will be here again the second Sunday in October. Some visitors present were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boone, Dr. Jasper Thompson, Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson, Mrs. Gentry from Leavenworth, and Prof. A. J. Neely. Tuesday night Dr. Harrison preached to a large crowd and accepted the call. He will be here at the rally the second Sunday in October and will be here to remain November 1. THE WEEKLY ANNOUNCER OF FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH J. F. GRIFFIN, Pastor. Residence, 1111 North Eighth St. Residence Phone, Fairfax 2904 Alex. Jones, Assistant Pastor. ORDER OF SERIVCES. 9:30 A. M., Sunday School. 11:00 A. M., preaching. 5:00 P. M., Junior Allen League. 6:00 P. M., Senior Allen League. 7:30 P. M., preaching. Choir rehearsal, Tuesday 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, prayer meeting, 7:30 P. M. Friday class meeting 8 P. M. CHURCH NEWS Two fine services were enjoyed, closing up this conference year, last Sunday. Although the day was very stormy, nice audiences attended the services. Rev. J. F. Griffin, the eminent pastor, filled his pulpit all day. His sermons were strong and full of rich food for his hearers. This being the pastor's last Sunday for this conference year, the evening service was well attended, with both members and friends. The pastor left Tuesday morning for Lincoln, Nebraska, the seat of the conference, it being the first to be held in the new Nebraska Conference. He took with him the best annual report that ever went out of First Church. Dollar money roll was raised to a considerable higher mark. The Senior Choir will have the Mozark quartette at the church on the 22nd of this month. They are said to be a great musical team, and at the price of admission, 25 cents, the house should be packed. Presiding Elder J. A. Payne of the Omaha District, attended class meeting Friday night and the Sunday evening service. The Junior Choir rendered some excellent music Sunday evening with a full choir out. The Senior Choir will have a new director this year. Mr. Alex Gatewood, a senior of Fine Arts at Western University having charge. Fine services all day Sunday. Special music, both morning and evening. Visitors and strangers always welcome at First Church. Argentine. Kansas St. Paul A. M. E. church, Kansas City, Kans. 2325 Ruby avenue. J. A. Broadnax, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 11. Class, 12:15. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday nights. You are welcome to all services. Perfectly Healthy "Is that son you speak of adolescent?" "No; he's as healthy as any boy you ever saw." The Reason Discontented Wife—Several of the men I refused before I married you are richer than you are now. Husband—Yes, and that's why. The Chinese republic is asking bids of $2,000,000 or railroad equipment. At the present rate of exchange about as much weight in money will have to be shipped over here as the machinery. When one changes an American dollar into Chink money, he has to hire a dray to carry the change. In Russia two drays have to be hirgd. "Own Your Own Home" W. R. JOHNSON & COMPANY Real Estate and Rentals 516 Minnesota Avenue Bell, Fairfax 0255, K. C., K. Store building, 7-room apartment for living connected. $2,000, at $300 cash; bargain; see this. 4-room, city water, gas, fine; $750, at $150 cash. 10-room, brick duplex, income $30; payments $25.00 per month, including interest. $2500 at $300 cash. 6-room modern, $3000, at 700 cash. 5-room, water, gas; $1800, at $300 cash. Fine vacant lots; bargains. The Kansas City Advocate, Friday, Sept. 16, 1921 Burglary insurance has been raised 10% in Kansas City, Mo., since it was found that some of the policemen are former convicts. The price of whiskey has been reduced to 20 cents a drink in Kansas City, Mo. Perhaps the days of the old "nickel slug" will come again. The new bill in congress gives married men an exemption of $5,000 on their income tax if they happen to have six children. "Do it now!" The fall styles call for a skirt of filmy material below the knees, the short inner skirt remaining—if any is worn. This will cancel all bets by mere men as to whether she wears pink or red garters—or none. The Kansas state censor board let a picture pass showing some girls disrobing to go in bathing, but just before the climax a freight train rushes by, and when it has passed the girls are submerged up to their necks. A Quindaro man has seen that picture eight times, in hopes that the freight train might be delayed. Charlie Chaplin may be made a knight in England. If so he will pay in fees about $500,000. That is a hunch for Americans. Make knighthood a source of income. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Louis Petty, Plaintiff, vs. Maggie Petty, Defendant. Petty, 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 in said case, on or before the 27th day of October, 1921, the petition will be presented to the court, and evidence introduced thereon, and a trial had at which a judgment will be rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, divorcing the plaintiff from you, the defendant, and awarding costs against you as a part thereof. LOUIS PETTY, Plaintiff, By I. F. Bradley, His Attorney. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk District Court. [First published Sept. 16, 1921] Rc Vac Roc Vacat Rock Island Vacation Tours Route of the Famous Golden State Limited to Minneapolis St. Paul St. Louis Chicago and California; Colorado Flyer and Rocky Mountain Limited to Colorado. Rock Island --- National progress is the sum of individual industry and energy. Roscoe Arbuckle pictures are now barred in more than forty cities. Some medicine is so mean that one can't even forget to take it. The woman who tries to conceal her age is old enough to know better. Three Japanese millionaires control the entire fish output of the kingdom. According to reports from the local labor bureaus, Wichita has no idle men; Leavenworth has 45. Chintzs and cretonnes will be largely used this winter. No, Archibald, they're not new drinks, but a sort of cloth. CALL W. R. J. Concern HOME OR PROPERTY 516 MINNEOTA AVE. MALONE'S SA MAL 732 MINNESO This meat market We keep only the best Fresh daily. At the lo Everybody gets a store. HARRY MAL 732 Minnesota Avenue GROCERIES LET US SERVE YOU GOOD EAT WE DELIVER CORNER TROUP AVENUE If We Please You, Te Attractive tourist rates initially lower ular rates to and lake recreational parks shore resort via Rock Isl will be on railroad tick June 1 to 30, 1921. Re October 31 --- Arbuckle pictures are old in more than forty medicine is so mean can't even forget to man 'who tries to conge is old enough to act. CALL W. R. JOHNSON & CO. Concerning that HOME OR PROPERTY TO BUY O MINNEOTA AVE. PHONE FAIR ALONE'S SANITARY H MARKET 732 MINNESOTA AVENUE this meat market is perfectly keep only the best meats in the daily. At the lowest market everybody gets a warm welcom HARRY MALONE, Proprietor Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City HOME OR PROPERTY TO BUY OR SELL 516 MINNEOTA AVE. PHONE FAIRFAX 0255 MALONE'S SANITARY MEAT MARKET This meat market is perfectly sanitary. We keep only the best meats in the market. Fresh daily. At the lowest market price. Everybody gets a warm welcome in this store. 732 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas B. I. WORTHY GROCERIES AND MEATS LET US SERVE YOU GOOD EATS. OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE WE DELIVER----PHONE FAIRFAX 2557 CORNER TROUP AVENUE AND HALLOCK ST! If We Please You, Tell Others; if not Tell Us GROCERIES AND ME SERVE YOU GOOD EATS. OUR MOTTO DELIVER——PHONE FAIR CORNER TROUP AVENUE AND HALLA If We Please You, Tell Others; if not T R Island on Tours Attractive summer tourist rates, substan- tially lower than regi- ular rates to mountain and lake regions, na- tional parks and sea- shore resorts. Tickets via Rock Island Lines will be on sale at all railroad ticket office. June 1 to September 30, 1921. Return limit October 31.. Attractive summer tourist rates, substantially lower than regular rates to mountain and lake regions, national parks and seashore resorts. Tickets via Rock Island Lines will be on sale at all railroad ticket offices June 1 to September 30,1921. Return limit October 31.. For detailed information address J. A. Stewart, General Passenger Agent Kansas City, Mo. The meetings anent the city market quetsion are becoming about as interesting as a vaudeville show. With Fatty Arbuckle in jail and Charlie Chaplin in England, who's going to stop all the soft pies thrown. Stage-struck girls should think twice before they begin to act. SUBSCRIBEB FOR THE ADVOCATE THE LEADING RACE PAPER Small Loans WEEKLY PAYMENTS LIBERTY BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Credit Investment Co. Room 208. Wyandotte Building Fifth and Minnesota Avenue Drexel 117 Home JOHNSON & CO. selling that CITY TO BUY OR SELL PHONE FAIRFAX 0255 NITARY MEAT MARKET DOTA AVENUE It is perfectly sanitary. It meats in the market. West market price. Warm welcome in this ONE, Proprietor , Kansas City, Kansas AND MEATS ITS. OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE PHONE FAIRFAX 2557 VENUE AND HALLOCK ST! Others; if not Tell Us and tours summer substan- than reg- mountain regions, na- and sea- s. Tickets and Lines sale at all market offices september return limit, ```markdown ``` DIRECTORY of the Most Worshipful King Solomon's Grand Lodge, F. & A. A. York Masons, for the Jurisdiction of Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa and So-Dakota: Rev. J. A. Broadnax, W. M. G. M. 2325 Ruby Avenue, Tel. Argt. 1001, Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. J. Franklin Wilson, D. G. M. Kansas City, Kansas. Albert Williams, G. S. W., Sioux City, Iowa. Miles L. Newlin, G. J. W., Sioux ralls, So. Duk. Clyde L. Briggs, G. Sea., 612 T street, Atchison, Kansas. J. W. Wilson, G. Treas., Kansas City, Kansas. C. J. Coleman, G. Lecturer, Topeka, Kansas. A. White, G. S. Dea., Atchison, Kansas. Chas. Gordon, G. J. Dea., Omaha, Neb. Dr. D. W. Gooden, G. Med. Ex. 2211 Cuming St., Omaha, Neb. Underwood Gaines, G. S. S., Junction City, Kansas. Chas. Lee, G. J. S., Leavenworth, Kansas. T. A. Mozee, G. S. B., Quindaro, Kansas. M. Anderson, G. S. B., Ellsworth, Kansas. Rev. James Reeves, G. Chaplain, Eldorado, Kansas. C. J. Goode, G. Marshal, Omaha, Neb. Wm. Cavens, G. P., Manhattan, Kansas. York Masons St. John Lodge No. 9, F. & A. A. York Masons, meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month at Ninth street and Everett avenue, 8 p.m. Visitors always are welcome. DR. J. FRANKLIN WILSON, W.M. 1403 North Tenth Street. CLARENCE HICKMAN, Secretary, 1517 Lydia, Kansas City, Mo. Frank Wilson Lodge No.88 F. and A. A. York Masons meet the First and Third Saturday evenings of each month at 8 p. m., Ninth and Everett avenue. Visitors ever welcome. S. H. MADISON, W. M. 1336 Barnett Avenue, T. A. MOZEE, Ecretary, R. F. D. No. 2. PROGRESS LODGE NO. 90 Meeting nights first and third Tuesday night of each month, 8 P.M. Ninth street and Everett avenue. Knights of Tabor Hall. Visitors welcome. C. A. GRANT, W.M. 1051 Oakland Avenue, Phone Fairfax 2991 CHAS. BUTLER, SEC. 342 Greeley Avenue. Q All Work Guaranteed Kassel Jewelry Co. 548 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City Kansas Call Fair- fax 380 Or 4422 Mr. and Mrs. Sand W. are in the city, I want you to meet them. DR. W. M. BLOUNT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 428½ MINNESOTA AVENUE Residence, 402 Lafayette Avenue KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PHONES Office Fairlax 1258; Res. Drexel 1258 6 to 7:30 P. M. Sundays by appointment only. OFFICE HOURS 9:30 to 11:30 A.M. Kansas City, Kansas. $750 Pep To The Lamb has bought the output of winter season Monday, A SPECIAL PRICE OF car-run is our price. We Kansas City, Mo., yards, last long. Better get in order at once, if you want Kansas City, K Missouri Yards The I 750 Per Ton - 6 Lambrigh the output of a mine of M on Monday, August the 8 ALL PRICE OF $7.00 per ton your price. We have 20 c y, Mo., yards. This price Better get in your wint , if you want to get in on Kansas City, Kansas, Yards Missouri Yards The Lambri $7^{50}Per Ton-COAL-$7^{50}Per Ton The Lambright Coal & Fuel Company has bought the output of a mine of Missouri Coal—a high-grade lump. We will open onr Fall and winter season Monday, August the 8th. SPECIAL PRICE OF $7.00 per ton, delivered, on forked Missouri Coal, and $6.40 per ton on car-run is our price. We have 20 cars for the Kansas City, Kansas, yards, and 30 cars for the Kansas City, Mo., yards. This price will stand good for these cars until gone. They will not last long. Better get in your winter order at once and save from $2 to $5 on a ton. Place your order at once, if you want to get in on this opening price. Kansas City, Kansas, Yards.....Third Street and New Jersey Avenue Phone Fairfax 1923 SAMUEL DIGGS THE OLD RELIABLE SQUARE DEALING AND H TIMES Pays the Highest cash price for bottles, bones, copper, everything in t Place of Business—1006-1 FAIRFAX 3577 OLD RELIABLE JUNK DEPT. HEALING AND HONEST WEIGHT TIMES best cash price for junk at all time, bones, copper, brass, lead, zinc everything in the junk line. 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SANTAL CAPSULES MIDY Easy to Take-Quick to Earn CATARRH of the BLADDER Safe, Successful Each Capsule bears name E3 Beware of counterfeits The great mass of news relating to West Virginia conveys the impression that lawless bands of miners are roving the state without reason except an unjustified bitterness against the mine owners. "Uneducated mountaineers" they are called. The four basic facts which are consistently ignored and which it is the duty of government and press to present. These are: 1—The mines of West Virginia constitute the last refuge of autocarcy in the mining industry In these mines an unrestrained, unlimited greed dominates absolutely. Absentee owners hold immense tracts of rich mining land, demanding only dividends. 2—The appetite of this private greed is upheld by a private army of killers, the like of which no longer exists in any other state. This-private army is paid by the mine owners and BLE JUNK DEALER HONEST WEIGHT AT ALL TIMES for junk at all times, rags, iron, er, brass, lead, zinc and the junk line. 6-1008 North Third Street KANSAS CITY, KANSAS WOMEN AND GIRLS LISTEN: Do you know that Her-Tru-Line removes the cause of all hair trouble? It does it by making the scalp health. Then the ugly kinks and curls quickly become soft, straight, glossy, beautiful. The proof is in every jar. Try it today. It's the BEST. Price 50 cents, post paid. AGENTS WANTED ne Co., Atlanta, Ga. HONES—710—DREXEL ED OVER SHINGLES OOFING COMPANY CONTRACTORS REPAIRING KANSAS CITY, KANSAS naturally seeks to justify its presence by making "business" for itself in the form of trouble. The Baldwin-Felts detective agency recruits this army, but the mine owners pay the bill. Deputy sheriffs, paid by mine owners, form another wing of the private army, equally dangerous. 3—The present strike is a direct protest against the action of the mine owners of West Virginia in refusing to abide by the award of the United States coal commission. If the United States government at this time defends the mine owners and does not destroy the private armies of the mine owners the government is in the position of sustaining a defiance of an order issued by its own authority. 4—The state government of West Virginia has broken down, not because the miners have protested against lawlessness, but because it has failed to stop the mine owners from enforcing law as a private business at the hands of privately paid and privately directed gunmen. These four paramount truths have been almost totally ignored. To neglect to present these facts is, in my opinion, a breach of a public trust upon which the integrity of the whole newspaper world must rest its claim to confidence and belief. These paramount truths have been found to exist by represen- The Kansas City Advocate, Friday, Sept. 16, 1921 tatives of the United States government. The government itself, through the United States senate, established these truths. It found them after long and painstaking inquiry. They are indisputable. They are as they have been. The Federal Bituminous Commission rendered its report on March 10, 1920. It carried with it an award of twenty-four cents flat on pick work and machine mining to the bituminous miners of the United States. The coal miners of Mingo County, West Virginia, refused to apply the award, and instead they arbitrarily applied five, ten and fifteen cents on each mine car there being no coal weighed throughout the field. The capacity of these mine cars varies from two to five tons, and the highest rate paid per car was $1.40. This price for five tons of coal represented and included all dead work and tonnage rates. When the award was granted the bituminous miners by the commission, the miners of Mingo County sent committee to the operators and requested that the award be granted in full, and the companies refused it The miners contended that the award was granted them by their government and that they were going to insist on it. Every plea to the operators was met with refusal, and finally the miners of Sprigg, Stone Mountain and Red Jacket went on strike, called meetings and sent a committee to Charleston to interview the officials of Distret No. 17, U.M.W. of A. They were told plainly by the Miners' union that the union would not organize them while they were on strike, to return to work, put all the mines in operation, and then if they desired to become members of the union, they would be given the opportunity. These instructions were carried out. Again the committees were returned and about eight hundred miners allied themselves with the union at once. Following this the miners flocked into the union and as a result were all discharged and served with eviction notices. The discontent had become very acute in the month of April, 1920. By this time the Baldwin-Felts detectives appeared in Matewan to evict the miners, their wives and children. At this time practically all the miners had joined the union. In the report of the last senatorial investigation of which there is public record, that of 1914, Senator Shields in his section of the report refers to the mine guards as "generally lawless and desperate men." Inasmuch as the conditions then under investigation exist today in an intensified form, it is informing to read from the report of Senator Kenyon the following extract: "It is well to inquire as to the reasons for such deplorable conditions. Many things appear on the surface which might be deemed causes, but they are only surface indications of a deeper trouble. A reading of the record will lead one to the belief that there were many causes for the conditions existing. "Among them might be related the employment of mine guards, high prices charged the miners at company stores, mine guards acting as deputy sheriffs, post offices located in company stores, private roads to the schools and stores, no opportunity to purchase homes, cemeteries upon company grounds, attempts to unionize the miners, alien ownership of large tacts of land—in one instance, 21,000 Acres. All of the various things appearing in the testimony might be cited as causes leading to the conditions which the committee investigated. However, it is the opinion of some of the committee that the cause of all this trouble is deeper and more fundamental The basic cause is the private ownership of great public necessities, such as coal; this coupled with human greed, incident to such ownership, has brought about the deplorable and un-American conditions in the West Virginia coal fields under investigation." In relation to the hired gun men who have brought the administration of law in West Virginia to the point of absolute collapse and whose most recent activities have been brutal and lawless beyond description, Senator Martine reported: "In no spirit of malice or hatred, but with a view that the country, through knowledge of the true conditions, may right the wrong, I charge that the hiring of armed bodies of men by private mine owners and other corporations and the use of steel armored trains, machine guns, and bloodhounds on defenseless men, women and children is but little way removed from barbarism." In 1914 Senatorial committee found a complete breakdown of civil law and in depicting the lengths to which coal mine autocracy was carried officially reported that during the period of martial law the court martial before which offenders were tried "deemed itself bound only by the orders of the commander in chief, the governor of the state, and in no sense bound to observe the constitution of the United States or the statues of West Virginia relative to trial and punishment of parties charged with crime." The senators found that during this highhanded reign the civil courts were open and holding their regular terms. It also was found that the court martial inflicted punishments "unknown to the statutes or in excess of the punishment provided for such offenses under the laws of the state." The trouble in West Virginia will not be cured by forcing men into submission while allowing continuance of the evils against which they have so desperately protested. I join with all Americans in deprecating the violence in that state, but it is worse than useless to deal with the surface manifestations while allowing the deep, underlying plutocratic criminality to continue uninterfered with and unchecked. The United States government can do a great service by destroying government by gun men, by restoring civil government uncorrupted by coal mine aristocracy and by giving to the miners an opportunity to secure justice and to be free from prosecution in enjoying their constitutional rights. Unless the government does this it adds to the shameful record and helps to perpetuate the era of crime and brutality. The Parting My children, I have done my best, It's up to you to do the rest; I've reared you up from infancy With kind and loving constancy; I've dressed you in the finest clothes At my command ,tho, heaven knows, It's cost, at times, exceeding pain, So think of this and be not vain. And now I wash my hands of you, For I've done all that I can do. I've done my best to keep you clean; I've taught you manners and, I ween, What style you have you owe to me, Your syntax and your history; And it's been hard, I won't disguise, At times to make you harmonize. Yes, children, I have done my best To fit you for the acid test; I've shined your shoes and brushed your hair, And used the rouge-pot, here and there; Now get you gone into that bourne From whence (I hope) you won't return— You could be better, could be worse, But, after all, you're mine—My Verse! I have several pet reforms I would like to see instituted, but I would sacrifice them all in the accomplishment of a single one. I would abolish that argosy of stale senatorial utterance called the Congressional Record, and spend the money, now being used in publishing the monstrosity, for dog biscuits, or something else of value. We may not look upon life as a jest, neither are we warranted in taking it too seriously. There is a middle ground, which is, for those who will occupy it, a place of great advantage. There we learn that life is both glad and sad, sweet and bitter. Some of the things that are sweet today, tomorrow taste of ashes, and lots of our present joys are the future's pains and sorrows. That is as it should be. Life is not the mere motion of drawing air into the lungs and expelling it therefrom; it is a song and a tear; a laugh and a sigh; a bit of honey and a bit of gall—and the measure of a man's greatness is in exact proportion to his ability to assimilate it all and still say: Life is good. SWIFT, JR., FACES JAIL AND LOSS OF AUTO Lake Forest, Ill, Sept. 6. Louis F. Swift, Jr., son of the multimillionaire packer, will be charged with illegal possession of liquor in an information to be fied in the Lake County court, according to State's Attorney A. V. Smith. Young Swift was arrested at Zion City with five pints of whiskey and a quantity of champagne in his automobile. If convicted, he faces a jail sentence, a fine and confiscation of his $5,000 automobile. Kansas City Post. Up-to-date Mrs. Manchaser: You ought to make up your face a little, dearie, before you go out where all those young men can see you. Dearie: I won't need to, mother. With this new short skirt on no one will notice my face. Old Idea. "New? Why women carried their rolls in their stockings before you and I were born." "Mamma," asked the little tot. "what's an angel?" "An angel," explained the mother, "is something that flies. and—" "Well," interrupted the little girl, "papa called Julia a darling little angel just now. Will she fly?" "She certainly will." replied the mother, "the first thing in the morning." It Isn't Bobbed Yet A few evenings ago while a Bonner Springs boy was calling on his fiancee, she remarked that her hair was falling out rapidly and she intended having it bobbed. When the young man called the next evening, instead of the customary box of candy he presented the fair damsel with a bottle of hair tonic.—Chieftain. If you are on the wrong side of the fence climb over onto the right side. The French Porter (in Paris) —He gave me 50 francs. The French maid—Ah! Then he is an American, no doubt! French Porter—He couldn't have been; he was sober. HELP THE PEOPLE STRICKEN IN THE TULSA RIOTING Let everyone have a share from $1 up in helping the people of Tulsa. Sign all checks in the name of S. D. Hooker, who is chairman of the relief committee, or G. A. Gregg, executive secretary, 2214 Russell avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Thos. Kennedy, editor of The Kansas City Advocate, will receive contributions from Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Frank Harris, secretary Paseo Y. M. C. A., Kansas City, Mo. Let everybody help. WM. H. TOWERS Attorney-at-Law Notary Public Bell Phone Fairfax 3866 511 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, Ks Fred W. Fitchue P. L. Jacobs East Side Flower Shop Cut Flowers Designs Decorators ROSES -- CARNATIONS CHRYSANTHEMUMS 1517 East 12th Street Bell Clifton 1059 Kansas City, Mo. PHONE FAIRFAX 1258 CAR AT YOUR SERVICE J. C. BRANCHE REAL ESTATE LOANS AND RENTALS It is a privilege to get it for you promptly 428 Minnesota Ave. K. C. K. Dr. G. E. Horsey's Office Will have office hours on the Kansas Side at Dr. Davis's office, 422 Minnesota avenue, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week. Hours 11 a. m. to 1 p.m. each day. Forrest B. Anderson ATTORNEY AT LAW 529 State Ave., Kansas City, Kansas Bell Fairfax 1050 Practice in all State and City Courts WISEMAN & SON Fancy Groceries and Meats 1718 NORTH SEVENTH ST. KANSAS CITY, KANS. ROSE & TENNELL KINDLING AND WOOD FOR SALE Prices are Reasonable Give Us a Fair Trial Each Order Will Be Highly Appreciated Hauling Accepted; 2-ton Truck Call at 215 Parallel Avenue Phone Fairfax 2148 for information QUAKOR OIL Nest for Gold, Catarrh, Gripe, Bronchitis. Was in great demand for use as a preventa- tive during the epidemic of Spanish Influ- enza. Your drugstri or direct. 22c. a bottle. THE QUAKOR OIL CO., 131 W. 31st St., New York HAIR DRESSER Call to see Mrs. McCoy for good Service All Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable Use Own Preparations Dressmaking a Specialty MRS. W. J. McCOY 2509 NORTH ALLIS AVE. KANSAS CITY, KAS. PHONE FAIRFAX 1282 Got Results Stockson: "One day last week old man Gotrox bought a lot of those 'Do It Now' signs and hung 'em around the office." Bond: "How did the staff take it?" Stockson: "Almost unanimously. The cashier skipped with $30,000, the head bookkeeper eloped with the private secretary, three clerks asked for an increase of salary, and the office-boy lit out to become a highwayman and got as far as Pittsburgh before he was caught and disarmed." HANK AND PETE ECONOMIC STRATEGY IS NECESSARY TO MAKE THE BUSINESS PAY BY KEN KLING GEE, THAT 'LICQUID FIRE' OVER IN THE TRENCHES HAS NOTHIN' ON THIS CRAPE FRUIT; THEY OUGHT TO FURNISH MASKS WITH THIS STUFF!! SAY WAITER, TAKE THAT AWAY- WHAT DY'MEAN BY GIVIN' ME SOUP WITH A FLY IN IT! WELL, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FOR 10¢ A BOWL- AN 'EAGLE? COSH, THIS FOOD IS THE LIMIT! CALL THE MANAGER HERE AT ONCE WAITER!! YES SIR! DID YOU CALL FOR THE MANAGER, SIR? YES, LOOK AT THAT SAUSAGE! IT'S ONLY HALF FILLED WITH MEAT- AN' THE OTHER HALF IS SAWDUST!! WELL, YOU SEE SIR- THINGS ARE SO HIGH THESE DAYS IN OUR BUSINESS- THAT IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE BOTH ENDS MEET!! CET IT- 'HEAT' Page Four. HANK AND PETE CEE, THAT 'LICQUID FIRE' OVER IN THE TRENCHES HAS NOTH ON THIS CRAPE FRUIT; THEY OUCHT TO FURNISH MASKS WITH THIS STUFF!! A FRATERNAL DRIVE IN KANSAS CITY, KANS. IS ON WANTED—500 new members for the Busy Bees, or I. O. B. & L. of C. We pay—not promise to pay $3.00 per week sick dues; $70.00 funeral and endowment as follows: First year, $100.00; second year, $200.00, and after the third year, $300.00. It will cost you 45 cents per month dues and burial with a tax of five (5) cents per quarter on burial and endowment, $1.25 per quarter. For further information call Fairfax 3577. For the next 60 days, it will cost you the sum of $1.00. Hudson Lodge No. 1, Eureka Lodge No. 2, Wyandotte Lodge No. 3, St. Elmo Lodge No. 5. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Fannie Majors, Plaintiff, vs. Henry Majors, Defendant. To the above named defendant, Henry Majors: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for a divorce by the above named plaintiff on the grounds of extreme cruelty that unless you answer the petition filed herein on or before the 13th day of October, 1921, the facts therein contained will be taken as true, and a decree granted the plaintiff, divorcing said plaintiff from you, and with such further relief as to the court may seem just and proper. I. F. BRADLEY, JR., Attorney for Plaintiff. (First publication Sept. 2, 1921) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Mattie Durham, Plaintiff, vs. David Durham, 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 21st day of October, 1921, the petition filed herein, will be presented to the court and evidence introduced thereon, upon which a trial will be had, and a judgment rendered, the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bond of matrimony between us, and divorcing me from you, and awarding to me, my maiden name. Mattie Phillips, and for the costs of this action. Attest: R. J. McFarland, Clerk, District Court. (First publication Sept. 9, 1921) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Charles Evans, Plaintiff, vs. N. M. Evans, defendant. To the above named defendant, N. M. Evans, Greetings: You are hereby notified that you have sued in the above entitled court by Charles Evans, the plaintiff, and that this action is brought to obtain an absolute divorce for the plaintiff from you. That the grounds therein alleged is abandonment, said abandonment having been continuous for more one year next preceding the filing of the petition herein. You are further notified that unless you answer the petition hereofore filed in said cause on or before the 23rd day of Oct. 1921, a judgment will be rendered against you adjudging and decreeing to plaintiff, for the causes therein set forth, will be rendered accordingly. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Jennie Freeman, plaintiff, vs. Rob ert Freeman, defendant. To the above named defendant, Rob ert Freeman, Greetings: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above entitled court by Jennie Freeman and that this action is brought to obtain an absolute divorce for the plaintiff from you. That the grounds therein alleged are gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. You are further notified that unless you make answer to the petition heretofore filed on or before the 23rd day of October, 1921, a judgment adjudged giving and decreeing a divorce to the plaintiff from you, for the causes therein set forth, will be rendered accordingly. BOOKER & CLARK, Attorneys for Plaintiff. (First publication Sept. 9, 1921) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Tucker Dement, vs. Essie Dement. To Essie Dement, defendant above named: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, by the above named plaintiff on the grounds of Extreme Cruelty and that unless you answer the petition filed herein on or before the 3rd day of October 1921, the allegations of said petition will be taken as true and judgment and decree rendered accordingly divorcing you from said plaintiff and with further relief as to the court may seem just and proper. I. F. BRADLEY, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff. (First publication Sept. 9, 1921) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, 3rd Div. Andrew Williams. Plaintiff, vs. Corine Williams, Defendant. No. 16035. To Corine Williams: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plainiff in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Karsas, for divorce, and that you are required to answer the petition of plainiff, filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 20th day of October 1921, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you in favor of plainiff, granting her an absolute divorce from you, and for such other and further relief as the nature of the case may require. DORSEY GREEN, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First published Sept. 9, 1921) With the coal barons shutting down their mines and again threatening a national coal famine this winter unless the people pay them war prices and extortionate profits, a number of groups of workers and co-operators are securing coal mines and operating them co-operatively, not only to furnish a household necessity, at a fair price, but also to provide employment for miners who would otherwise be out of work. In West Virginia 1,400 miners organized the Himler Co-operative Coal Company, and have supplied a half-million dollars to make it a success. These cooperators virtually own the entire town of Himlerville, including a bank, a weekly paper, and an electric power station to supply the homes of of the coal miners at cost. Across the Tug river in Kentucky the workers have organized the Nebo American Coal Company on a co-operative basis, with a capital of $240,000 wholly owned by the miners themselves. The co-operative store at Boonville, Indiana, owns its own coal mine, and at Dugger in the same state another cooperative mine is producing 300 tons daily. The Secretary of the All-American Co-operative Commission of Washington, D. C., in a statement issued to the press, continues the National Co-operative Bureau, declares that since coal, which is the very basis of our economic life, is being manipulated and monopolized for the enrichment of a privileged few at the expense of the entire nation, we must have either co-operative opera- The Kansas City Advocate, Friday, Sept. 16, 1921 tion of the coal mines by the workers themselves, or else complete control and operation of the mines by the federal and state governments, in line with the plan just advocated by Governor Blane of Wisconsin, Governor Frazier of North Dakota, and the leaders of other progressive states. The average labor cost of mining a ton of anthracite coal, which sells for $15.98, is only $3.38; and in the rich bituminous field surrounding Birmingham, coal which costs but $2.25 a ton at the mouth of the mine sells for $8.75 in the adjacent city. During the war one coal company plundered the people for as much as 7856% profit on the capital invested in its mines, while many recent coal company dividends exceed 100%. The powerful coal barons have recently defeated all attempts at regulation by Congress. But regulation at its best only tinkers with the symptoms without removing the cause of continued profiteering in coal. Cooperative ownership and control of this vital natural resource can alone protect the people and the industries of the nation from further exploitation by the coal combine. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Co-Operative National Bank of Cleveland has just completed its first nine months of existence, and reports a progress which leaves no room for loubt that co-operative banking is destined to transform the economic strength of the producing classes—the industrial workers and farmers—when once they have learned to mobilize their tremendous credit power under their own control The Engineers' Co-Operative National Bank opened for business November 1. 1920, with resources of $650,971.11. At the end of six months, its resources had climbed up to just over $7,000,000 And now, at the close of the first nine months' business, the resources of the bank total $9.356.343.28. Besides increasing its business at the rate of a million dollars a month, the bank is preparing to erect a 21-story office building, which will not only house the bank, but provide a substantial income for the investment from the rental of the offices. This building is to be directly across the street from the spacious national headquarters of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and will be one of the handsomest and most imposing banking structures in the country, a credit both to the Engineers and to the entire co-operative movement. The phenomenal success of the Engineers' Co-Operative National Bank is not due to any fortunate accident, but to the fact that it is founded upon the ideal of service rather than profit-grabbing. The resources of the bank are used for productive purposes rather than for speculation and exploitation, and the resulting profits, instead of accruing to a few rich stockholders, are distributed among the thousands of working people throughout the country who have deposited their savings in this cooperative institution, owned and controlled by labor for the welfare of the producing classes. The City Planning commission had the selecting of a site for a city market before it last Wednesday evening Really it was sad and at the same time amusing to see things all wrought up over the expenditure of six bits for a market. Our prediction is that a six-bit market will be a failure wherever placed in Kansas City, Kans. $2.50 to $3.00 at least is needed to put in a city market that will be able to successfully compete with the Missouri side market. The Planners would not have been far from right if they had said to the city commissioners: "Go ahead and spend your six bits the best you can, but we prefer to wait until something worth while is contemplated before using our time to consider it. With $300,000 a city market might be established that would be a thriving competitor of the Kansas City, Mo., market. BIG DOUBLE CIRCUS HAS VAST PROGRAM Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey to Present Scores of Entirely New Features The announcement that the far-famed Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows are to exhibit at Kansas City, Thursday, Sept. 22, has aroused no end of interest. It would seem as though practically all the youngsters and grown-ups in this section were planning to attend. Twice each day for almost two months New York's great Madison Square Garden was packed with those who thronged to see this biggest program in circus history. They saw scores of the jungle's most ferocious bests, subjugated to such a degree, that these beautiful animals leaped to and rode on the backs of elephants and horses, jumped through hoops of fire, opened their mouths that the men and women trainers might lay their heads and hands inside them, or leaped from pedestal to pedestal like trained dogs. And these marvelous dumb actors are all on tour with the great double circus. The four immense steel arenas in which they perform are set up in the mammoth main tent. There is no additional charge—everything is on the one program. And by "everything" is meant not only the wild animal displays but the entire circus. More than 600 men and women, embracing the world's foremost arenic stars, take part. There are almost 100 clowns. Aside from the ferocious beasts, the program inclues thirty trained elephants. Troupes of camels perform in the rings. There are five companies of trained seals, many dogs, bears, monkeys, pigs and pigeons Fully seventy trained horses and Sheltlands are presented. It is the biggest circus program the world has ever seen, given under the largest tent and, in connection, is the famous combined Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey menagerie. Irish potatoes, hot or otherwise, are too expensive to employ for stoking purposes, but I know where there is a large pile of good rocks—and they're not busy. Let us not go to extremes in anything. 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