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KANSAS Kans.Hist.Society Vol. X11 TO KEEP A MAN IN A DITCH YOU MUST REMAIN WITH HIM SHOULD SUMMERS MOVE? By H. B. Bronson. Should Summers move? is a question in the minds of the citizenry of Kansas City, Kansas, the beautiful city bathing its feet in the placid waters of the Missouri and Kav rivers, drying them in the morning sun, rising on its eastern slopes, greeting 121,762 inhabitants as they arise from their nightly slumber and go hurry-scurry through the streets to turn the buzzing and clanking wheels of industry and commerce, education and christianity. The answer is two-fold: Affirmative, and Negative. Taking the action of the representatives who waited on Mr. Summers, and the action of whoever it was that tacked the "K.K.K." signs on the front and back doors of his newly purchased home, we conclude that they bespeak the affirmative sentiment as far as it may reach. The reason given for the expression of such sentiment is "that the people of that neighborhood have worked hard to build up their homes and do not wish to move in their declining years." Who asked these neighbors to move? Did Mr. Summers ask them to move? If he did, Mr. Summers is in gross error. If he did not (and I am taking the side that he did not), why this discussion of moving to arise in the minds of the neighbors of that community? Simply because an American who happens to possess a scarf-skin, different in color from that of the neighbors in the vicinity, has purchased a home therein. Is that fair? Is it right in light of justice? Nevertheless, he has been asked to move. The Negative comes: Summers has no right to move. This answer is based upon the Civil rights vouched safe to Mr. Summers by the government by which he is governed. The owner had a right to sell the property. And most certainly it was within the rights of the buyer to purchase the property. If this is true, then the citizens of Kansas City, Kansas, have a right to concede to Mr. Summers his right to live in his home purchased with legal tender, which is not more nor less than all of us, or either one of us would desire. What citizen of us would like to be deprived of his civil rights as is being asked of Mr. Summers. Not a one of us. It should be rather encouraging to the white neighbors to know that the blood-shed of the Civil War is not in vain when one from whom the shackles of slavery were lifted as a result of the bloody conflict rises to the status of civil decency and, by thrift is able to purchase a home in a neighborhood of wholesome environments. It should be encouraging further to the white neighbors to know that the millions of dollars spent for the education, culture and refinement, of a race for whose existence in America they are absolutely responsible, are not lavishly spent when it lifts a man to that state where he desires and obtains for his family—his loved ones—what his benefactors have for theirs. Why ask him to move? It is apparent that some of our white neighbors have not yet learned a much needed lesson: that, "You cannot keep a man in a ditch unless you remain in it with him, or mighty close to the bank." In such case neither will advance any distance in the onward march of civilization. The achievements that should come to such an one are reached by another who chooses to advance while you remain to hold a less fortunate fellow in the ditch. Such is plainly evident in America today when its wealth is computed among the heterogeneous combination of our republic. Some one has remained to hold another in the ditch. Black Americans have been friends to white Americans, and I dare say they remain so until this day. But under such denials of Civil Rights, how long is it expected that this friendship will maintain? What does it receive in reciprocity upon which it may be nurtured? We can surmise how long it would last if it were our white neighbors, for we well know their ambitions. THOMAS KENNEDY EDITOR AND PUBLISHER KING SOLOMON INSTITUTIONAL BAPTIST CLOSE ANNIVERSARY WITH RECEPTION WEDNES King Solomon Institutional Baptist church, Garfield avenue and Third street, gave an expression of their appreciation last week for the service of their pastor, Rev. S. Montgomery, had been to the church and community, in his first year's work. The anniversary started on Monday night, with a fine program and continued each night during the week, with exercises sponsored by various clubs of the church. Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. the church was filled to its capacity, with members and friends to witness the closing program. Rev. and Mrs. Montgomery were happily seated together on the south end of the rostrum, surrounded with flowers, ferns and plants, their feet resting on downy pillows. The anniversary sermon was delivered by Rev. H. D. Allen, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church and his excellent choir furnished the music. A number of the members, who had been selected, emulated their pastor in his christian leadership and spiritual sermons. Mrs. Montgomery, his amiable wife, shared in the many good things that were said and also Dr. Montgomery's sainted mother. They received a nice purse and many valuable tokens from members and the church as a whole. A large number of ministers were present of the city. Mrs. Sara Bartell sang a beautiful solo. Wednesday night a reception was held in their honor, in the lecture room of the church. Rec. Geo. McNeal, pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist was master of ceremonies. THE CIVIC LEAGUE There will be a call meeting of the League, Saturday night, over The Home Drug Store, and a full attendance is expected. A matter of Vast importance will be up for consideration—it is that of appointing a committee to be known as The Civic Safety committee. This committee will have a counterpart, in a like number of men of the other group, who will work together with this committee as a whole. The business of this committee will be to act on the "spur of the moment" to investigate and secure the facts in all those instances which are calculated or inclined towards causing Hectic feelings and actions; and thus, will easily constitute a safety valve in all such cases. There are also other matters of much importance which will be considered. And every man is expected to be in his place. I. F. BRADLEY, President. CLAUDE E. JONES, Secretary. AN IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT CASE Washington, Oct. 22. — The legal qualifications of children of former slaves to inherit property left by their parents was argued in the United States Supreme Court one day last week. The case came up on appeal from Oklahoma. It was held by the Oklahoma courts that children of former slaves could not be recognized as having the legal rights to inherit property of their parents unless their parents lived together as man and wife at the time of emancipation or afterward. The decision was based on the grounds, that persons in slavery were incapable of contracting marriage, and to give their children born in slavery a legitimacy status it was necessary for them to continue to live together as man and wife after emancipation, when they were to determine for themselves their martial relations. After the passing of a beautiful springtime and a sultry summer, after the falling of frost and the coming of ice that chilled the insects, the cows held a convention and passed a resolution to cut off their tails, for the reason that it was not necessary to carry them since all the pests were gone. A wise old cow, who had passed many summers and knew the need of the tail, objected upon the ground: "A COW NEEDS ITS TAIL MORE THAN ONE SUMMER." Let the wise read! Let loyal Kansas Citians resolve that Summers and all law-abiding and frugal citizens should live wherever they desire. Do this and let us be at peace with each other. Kansas City, Kansas, October 23, 1925 OH SHUCKS!! I WONDER IF THAT WEATHERMAN TOLD THEM I WAS COMING I WANTED TO SURPRISE EVERYBODY (Copyright, W. N. U.) Southern Fraternal Union Meets At Koran Hall. The Great Southern Fraternal Union meets at Koran Hall, Fifth and Virginia avenue, November 11th at 7 p. m. Magnolia Court No. 395 of Kansas City, Kansas, has just put on a membership drive for 200 members; six deputies are soliciting membership. The prize for the highest over twenty gets a $2.50 gold piece. The dispensation fee is $1.50, extended for 30 days. The object of this Society is to organize Courts, to encourage the moral education, and religious training of men and women, to give aid and assistance to its members in case of sickness. We issue policies from $35.00 to $500.00, graded according to age; $2.50 to 5.00 per week sick benefits; free treatment, free medicine, hospital care and keep, including operation. We have a chain of hospitals operating in Arkansas, Louisiana and Kansas. This society is seven years old; Courts have been organized in Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan, Junction City, Eskridge, Osage, Newton, Wichita, Parsons and Kansas City, Kansas. Cash in Banks $4,469.54; $44,000 worth of property; business in force $1,225,000.00; State Grand Officers of Kansas, Rev. J. B. Phelps, B. D. S. G. M. Mr. Chauncey Downs, V. G. M. Lena Downs, G. S. Rosie Donaldson, A. S. Rev. L. C. Rice, G. C. O. T. Gordon, L.' G. C. C. Smith, G. M. D. Susie Franklin, G. T. Sallie Barge, G. & T. Alex Dow, G. O. G. John M. Gill, M. D. L. T. Montgomery, D. D. S. L. W. Johnson, attorney. M. B. Tompkins, drugist, Fairfax 3867. National Officers Dr. Fred T. Jones, N. G. M.; I. H. Lomax, V. G. M.; Mrs. S. A. Jones, N. G. T.; Dr. L. Routen, N. M. D.; T. J. Price, N. G. Atty.; Rev. J. T. Hill, N. G. Auditor; S. B. Smith, N. G. D.; Rev. R. V. Gaver, N. Ex. Com.; A. Z. Zilton, N. Ex. Com.; E. M. Harris, S. G. M. O.; Mrs. Lena B. Downs, G. S., Fairfax 2781. Edward S. Lewis, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Lewis of 1214 Armstrong avenue, holds a chair in the A. and M. college at Tallahassee, Fla. Mr. Lewis finished last June from Chicago University, with honors and is one of Kansas City, Kansas' model young men and his many friends and admirers look for nothing but his success. Mr. W. T. Lewis, his father, is one of the city's very efficient mail carriers. Mrs. H. H. Woodson of Quindaro, while on her way to church last Sunday morning to the city in her son's car, who was driving it, the rear axel broke and turned over, bruising Mrs. Woodson severely. Her son Mr. T. H. McMillan suffered a bad sprained arm and bruises. Both are doing nicely and it was very fortunate they came out of the wreck with no broken bones or even death. ADVOCATE THE LEGEND OF THE MUSICIAN REV. S. MONTGOMERY pastor of King Solomon Institutional Baptist Church, Garfield avenue and Third Street REV. S. MONTGOMERY HON- ORED—EXPRESSION OF THANKS. There are times in our lives when an expression of the happiness that comes to us seems impossible to express in words. For mere words seem to be inadequate to give forth the full depth of our heart throbs. This is our present state of mind in trying to express to our many friends our appreciation for their varied forms of expression on the occasion of our First Anniversary on Sunday, October 18. As we sat between the evergreen intwine with beautiful flowers, and soft pillows beneath our feet, gorgeous array of rosebuds around us, we were reminded of the tender love of the sheep for the shepherd. For this was indeed a triumphal entry into a new year of labor, and the ADVOCATE REPRESENTATIVE. Mrs. Eula Johnson of Greystone Heights, is an authorized representative of The Advocate, and all subscribers in that community or thereabouts, can pay her. Mrs. Johnson also takes subscriptions. Rev. C. E. Brooks and Mrs. Brooks left Thursday for their new field of labor, Wichita, Kansas. They motored through. Many ladies, led by Mesdames Smith, Silvers, Rice and others, visited Mrs. J. M. Brown Monday afternoon, and presented her with silver offerings. Mrs. Brown has been sick and nearly blind for 3 years. The Baptist City Missionary gave her silver. Foiled Again ```markdown ``` -SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TWELVE MONTHS. $1.50 ENGLE COOL BRIDGE Wa rather of the hood man, Episcopal land sought race "A mean front the Missi stress to the Ameri partit the a rema at a Cooli that have nation trend TGOMERY Central Baptist Church, Garfield avenue and Street ending of another as beautiful and serene as the flowers. With expressions Brothers Johnson, Henry, Flakes, E. R. Franklin, Ed Underwood, Joe Harmon and a wonderful sermon by the Reverend H. D. Allen, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church. Many tokens of value were presented us. In this feeble effort of expressing our thanks for this ovation, we are trying to send back to each one, who participated in it, the same measure of joy it brought us. Our prayers shall be that a copious shower of God's blessings may be yours, and that you may live long to do much work in King building for Christ. Yours for the extension of the work, MR. AND MRS. S. MONTGOMERY, AND FAMILY. Rev. Charles Summer Williams, who pastored Bethel Church, Indianapolis, Ind., for ten years, is the new pastor of Aleln Chapel on the Missouri side. Dr. Williams is a graduate of Wilberforce University at Wilberforce, O. As a preacher and orator, Dr. Williams has but few equals. His success as a minister and civic builder in the community's where he has served, has been phenominal. We welcome Dr. Williams to the west and may his association with us be of that same value as it has in other places. YOU CAN GET THE ADVOCATE FROM NOW UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1927, FOR $1.50. Send in your subscription to day, or call Fairfax 0650 and our representative will call. MAIL orders at any time. SHOCKS!! Number 10 ENGLISH CHURCH CONFERENCE URGES BROTHERHOOD OF MAN Washington, Oct. 22. Character, rather than color, and consummation of the Christian idea of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, were cited last week by the Episcopal Church Congress of England as right and just aims to be sought in the adjustment of world race relations. "A solid white front inevitably means a solid yellow, brown, or black front," was the keynote sounded by the Secretary of the International Missionary Council, who also laid stress upon the necessity of adhering to the high standards of living of America and Great Britain, and the participation of all the governed in the affairs of their government. Such remarks, coming from across the seas at a time concurrent to President Coolidge's utterances to the effect that class and racial prejudices can have no permanent place in this free nation, strongly corroborates the trend of world unity; and the millions of black people, not only in America, but all over the globe, have cause to rejoice that their needs are being considered by every unit of world government, with America taking the lead in the statesmanlike handling of a question which has heretofore been difficult of approach. The president, who speaks for Christianity, as well as for the state, has caused America to refresh her recollection of the baneful effects of interracial antipathies; and the church, speaking for itself, has repledged itself to the task of making the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man exalt the true Christian idea. Out of these virtues there will come to pass, not only in America, but all over the world, prosperity, happiness, peace, and understanding—a more perfect union here, and the equality of man the world over. SOUTHWEST MISSOURI A. M. E. CONFERENCE. Assignments To Ministers for Year Were Announced Sunday Night. Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 19.—The Southwest Missouri A. M. E. annual conference closed Sunday night one of its most successful sessions. The reports were excellent and the bishop, Rt. Rev. Archibald James Carey, was delighted with the work of his men and but few changes were made in the conference. The following assignments were made Sunday night: Kansas City-Springfield District—Allen Chapel, Charles Sumner Williams; Bethel, W. C. Williams; Willis Chapel, Wm. Alexander; St. John, W. E. Washington; Springfield, First Church, to be supplied; Springfield, Second church, C. V. Page; Higginsville, G. W. Cross; Cain Memorial, H. Clayter; Gilbert Memorial, W. F. Davis; Turner Mission, Wm. Seals; Pleasant Hill, L. L. Anderson; Warrensburg Ct., Jas. Arthur; Butler and Nevada, Harvey Parker; Joplin, T. D. Driver. Kansas City and Lexington District—Ebenezer, W. H. Peck; Lexington, J. A. Chandley; Ward Chapel, L. P. Bryant; Independence, J. C. Bell; Sedalia, W. D. Wilkins; Marshall, J. S. Payne; Odessa, A. J. Sanders; St. Luke, J. B. Herron; St. Paul, C. S. Timmons; Grant Chapel, Jno. Bradford; Waverly Ct., Earl Martin; Wellington, B. Coats; Malta Bend Ct., L. S. Watson. Evangelist—Ona B. Wilson. Missionaries—Mrs. Ida M. Moten, Mrs. Effie Bryant. TO DEVELOP AFRICAN GOVERNMENT. It has been announced from this town that native councils and a native trust fund will be inaugurated to assist the native Negro tribes to develop the beginning of a responsible government in the Kenya Colony. YOU CAN GET THE ADVOCATE FROM NOW UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1927, FOR $1.50. Send in your subscription to day, or call Fairfax 0650 and our representative will call. MAIL orders at any time. Mr. Warren Burns of Pine Bluff, Ark., is visiting his brother Wm. Burns for a few weeks. --- PAGE TWO THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE THOMAS KENNEDY, Editor and Proprietor. THOS. KNAPPER Associate Editor MRS. IDA B. KENNEDY, Manager. MRS. M. C. MATTHEWS, Society Editor. MRS. F. L. PRINCE Circulating Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY at— Office 608 North Sixth Street Phone Drexel 1814 Residence Phone Fairfax 0650 SUBSCRIPTION. One Year ..... $1.50 Five Months ..... .90 Three Months ..... .60 Centered as second-class matter August 29, 1914, at the postoffice at Kansas City, Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Advocate is a weekly Journal devoted to Race Progress and Human Uplift. Have your news in our office not later than Tuesday of each week to insurance publication. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. Washington, Oct. 22.—In 1831 a slave was sold in Jersey City for $1 and "other valuable consideration." according to a document found recently in a chest in the attic of the old Van Reypen house at Van Reypen and Academy streets, Jersey City. The house was built about 260 years ago, and has always been in the hands of the Van Reypen family. The present owner, Mrs. P. E. Green, is the granddaughter of Cornelius D. Van Reypen. Recently, W. H. Richardson, a historian and antiquarian examined the contents of the chest. Among the documents was a bill of sale from the Rev. Benjamin C. Taylor, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church, for a slave sold to Cornelius Van Reypen. Another was a receipt for a years subscription to a New York daily more than seventy years ago. A political song book of the Harrison campaign was also found. WANTED BOY TO ADOPT A nice brown skin baby boy wanted for adoption. Call Drexel 3888 or write 422 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. GREYSTONE HEIGHT NEWS Mrs. C. Lawrence of Platt City, Mo., who has been at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Davis, 2 Powell street from an infection of a sore hand. has returned to her home much improved. Mrs. Mary King of Cherryvale, Kansas, visited her niece, Mrs. Frank Johnson, 30 Powell street, last week. The Frank Johnson grocery, at 28 Powell street, is one of the reliable grocery stores in our community. Just the name of Johnson should appeal to us as to why we should give him our trade. YOU CAN GET THE ADVOCATE FROM NOW UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1927, FOR $1.50. Send in your subscription to day, or call Fairfax 0650 and our representative will call. MAIL orders at any time. CITIZENS' FORUM. The Citizens' Forum met as usual at Metropolitan Church. President Harris opened the meeting by having America sung and prayer and quotations. Then the anthem, composed by a colored man, was sung. Dr. Dyer, president of the Monrovian Club presided. Some features of the program were: Address, "The Clash of Color," by Dr. Love; Piano solo, Mrs. Norman; Talk, "Civil Rights," Atty. F. B. Anderson; Talk, "Falling Leaves," Mr. J. Graves; Talk, Dr. H. R. Stevenson, of Arkansas. Next Sunday, October 25th at 4 P. M., another fine program will be rendered. Come hear it. They say one or two officers will be elected. Come to the Forum. Mrs. Story, the daughter of Mrs. R. C. Johnson, 2068 North Sixth St., and the wife of Rev. Story, of the C. M. E. church, is visiting her mother and friends in the city. The Sunrise Prayer Band of First A. M. E. Church, will visit the Prayer Band of Metropolitan Baptist Temple Sunday morning at 6 A. M. W. T. Lewis will read the scripture lesson. Thos. Nelson is the leader. THE WEEKLY ANNOUNCER OF FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH Located Cor Eighth and Nebraska. METROPOLITAN C. E. BROOKS, Pastor. Parsonage 1111 N. Eighth St. Phone, Fairfax 2904 Order of Services 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. WEEKLY SERVICES. Official Board, 2nd and 4th Monday, 7:30 P. M. Choir rehearsal, Tuesday 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, prayer meeting, 7:30 P. M. Friday class meeting 8 P. M. CHURCH-NEWS A large audience of church people were seen last Sunday at 11 a. m., at First A. M. E. Church, corner of Eighth street and Nebraska avenue. Rev. F. D. Stevenson one of the churches strong local preachers filled the pulpit to the satisfaction of his vast audience. The minister seemed to be guided by the holy spirit and with all of its power. Rev. Stevenson delivered another good sermon at the evening service. The Sunday morning prayer band will go to Metropolitan Baptist Temple Sunday morning at 6 a. m., where they will have charge of the prayer meeting at that hour. Come out Sunday morning and hear the new minister. The Sunday School is doing fine only more boys and girls of families of this church should be in the Sunday school. Mothers and fathers send your children to the house of God at least once a week. The Allen Endeavor is up and doing every Sunday evening. Come out Sunday evening at 6 p. m., and hear a fine program. The Senior choir sang lovely Sunday morning and the congregation greatly enjoyed it. The Junior choir always gives spiritual songs Sunday evening. Come out Sunday and come early if you want a choice seat. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH NEWS LEAVENWORTH, KANS. (By Edna Harold Quinn.) On the morning of October 11th Rev. T. W. Green, Jr., who has been assigned to pastor Bethel church, preached his initial sermon before a large congregation. His sermon, "What Think You of Christ" was delivered in an inspired manner and the spirit of God prevailed in the service. At 8 o'clock p. m., Rev. Green preached to an attentive audience on the unlimited power of prayer. Bethel congregation is unanimous in its approbation of Rev. Green and the church has adopted this slogan: "A Greater and Better Bethel." Monday night the Emergency club of Bethel A. M. E. Church met at the residence of Mrs. Beulah Harper and held its annual election of officers. These officers were elected: Mrs. Rosa Walker, president; Mrs. Lottie Gentry, vice-president; Mrs. Edgurtew Baker, secretary; Mrs. Edna Quinn, assistant secretary; Mrs. Isabelle Smith, treasurer; Mrs. Eliza Jones, chaplain. Refreshments were served after which the club adjourned to meet at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Scott on October 26. Tuesday night a church conference was held in the lecture room of the church and Bethel members voted to improve and beautify the parsonage. Extensive improvements were planned and the church throws itself whole heartedly into this movement, confident of success under the leadership of God and the pastorate of Rev. Green. BE STRONG Matthee Davenport Babcock Be Strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle—face it, 'tis God's gift. Be strong! Say not, "The days are evil. Who's to blame?" And fold the hands and acquiesce—oh shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name, Be strong! It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day—how long; Faint not—fight on! Tomorrow comes the song. FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT Nice furnished room, strictly modern, with home privileges. close to street car line, 1244 Ann avenue. Telephone Fifield 0492. THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE METROPOLITAN TEMPLE NOTES Sunday, October 18 was a beautiful autumn Sabbath, and after a good 6' o'clock prayer meeting many assembled at Metropolitan Baptist church to hear the great preacher, Dr. Stevenson, of Helena, Ark. He preached another of his many great sermons. Many Christians here are carried away with his discourse and sinners are being converted. Sunday Dr. Stevenson preached to the largest crowd, and preached every night this week until Thursday. Then Dr. Morrow of Ebenezer, the largest colored church in Atchison, came—he will preach this Friday night and all next week. Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. are doing fine and the Religious School has around 300 enrolled. Among the converts 30 children promised to follow Christ at the Religious school. Some joined at the Revival meeting. Come to Metropolitan revival, which will continue all next week. Come to church this Sunday, October 25th, and hear Mr. Morrow, another great preacher. TRINITY INSTITUTIONAL A. M. E. CHURCH The morning service was a spiritual feast. The pastor seemed to be at himself and the congregation listened to him for forty minutes discussing the subject with Convincing Power. Many visitors were present from Denver, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., and the city. Rev. Well, of Chicago, preached the evening sermon. Two persons joined the church. Joint Official Board Monday evening. Sixty-five of the officers from the different departments attended the Board. Total collection for the day was $76.00. The drive is on to save our church. Rev. Wm. Winston, D.D., the pastor, will preach Sunday morning from the subject "He Met an Unequal Match." Sunday evening subject, "Their Joy Ended in Sorrow." Brother C. H. Cockrelis, the Banner Class leader for this week. The choir will sing for Carey's Chapel Sunday evening, 3 p. m. TRINITY INSTITUTIONAL A. M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL. The subject of the lesson was "Paul writes to the Corinthians," I Cor. 12:1 to 13:13. Theme: "What Love Does." Devotional Readings I John 4:7-13. Our Superintendent, Rev. N. B. Robinson, was absent attending the S. W. Missouri annual conference in Sedalia, Mo. In his absence Mrs. Tribue, our assistant superintendent, had full charge of the Sunday School and reviewed the lesson after the classes studied with their respective teachers. We were pleased to have Rev. Swain as a visitor. He made a very interesting talk on Love. There were 131 pupils present and the collection was $3.78. Native women of East Africa of the "flapper age" are using tons or miles of brass wire for personal adornment. They wind the wire around their arms, neck and calves of their legs. They roll their own. THE WORLD'S BIBLE Christ has no hands but our hands to do His work today; He has no feet but our feet to lead men in His way. He has no tongue but our tongue to tell men how He died; He has no help but our help to bring them to His side. We are the only Bible the careless world will read: We are the sinners gospel, we are the scoffer's creed. We are the Lord's last message, given in deed and work; What if the type is crooked? What if the paint is blurred? What if our hands are busy with other work than His? What if our feet were walking where sin's allurement is? What if our tongues are speaking things His lips would spurn? How can we hope to help Him and hasten His return? "Gosh, man; why don't you use Listerine?" TIMELY TRIFLES How quickly vacation ends. Romance was not built in a day. Money makes the stares grow. Flat feet never won fair dancer. A hasty demand requires a leisurely reply. It is doubtful if humility ever did much good. "Thank you," is threadbare, but it is always useful. If a man is a good debater, he argues about everything. We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. Peace can be eulogized forever, and yet war will break out. Old fools are more foolish than young ones.—Rochefoucauld. Constructive criticism is as much criticism as any other kind. Getting home to a porcelain bathtub and an electric fan is very inviting. Some folks have very few favors done them. They won't permit it. Still waters run deep, and there's lots of mud at the bottom of still water. Weakness of saving your money for a rainy day, is that every day is a little rainy. Silence is golden, but if you don't speak up, they'll pass the cake right over your head. You overlook this beauty of a village: You can live handsomely there on $1,200 a year. A man has quite a romantic range if he is thrilled by the screech owi's notes and the mocking bird's, too. Would Have More Joy The director of a large New York theater orchestra in a Sunday address expressed the view that jazz is dying so fast that it will be defunct within year. All of which sounds encouraging from the standpoint of good music and restrained taste on the part of dancers. That the prediction will be verified within the time limit fixed is open to question. But there can be little reason to doubt the wisdom of his suggestion that the church hymns should be "pepped up" by being more or less syncopated, to maintain the tempo set by this hurrying and impatient age. The church hymns are far from being the dirges and dyspeptic walls of the old days. They have been "pepped up" from year to year until most of them fairly reflect the cheeriness which has been injected into religion to take the place of the "fire and brimstone" wrath and despair of half a century or more ago. Even those grand sonorous old hymns are interpreted in the spirit of cheerful modernism and they have lost none of their comforting efficacy in the transformation. They do not need "pepping up," for to do so would be to set them to tunes out of keeping with the solemnity of the great verities they commemorate.—Kansas City Journal. Bees' Conversation That bees have a language by means of which they can communicate with one another about newfound feeding grounds, the kind of flowers to visit and their general direction from the hive appears to be proved through experiments made by a German scientist, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. He found a swarm of bees would visit the place where sugar was exposed immediately after one of them had fed and returned to the hive to spread the news. This the bee does by a peculiar dance. By marking bees with colors and feeding some while leaving others unfed; the experimenter proved that only those which had been fed would start the dance that brought swarms to new feeding grounds. Unavoidably Postponed "I hear that your wife has taken up golf." "Well, she intended to, but the tailor was two weeks late with her knickers and I couldn't get delivery on a sports roadster for her. She expects to start in about two weeks." —Life. Automatic Shift An automatic gear-shift system has been devised to facilitate driving. By this system the driver merely selects in advance the gear to which he wants to shift and the actual shifting is done by depressing the clutch. Stocking Production One stocking for every person in the United States is manufactured in one month; 56,636,052 pairs were manufactured in June, 1025, of which 15,959,448 were alk and 24,354,768 cotton.—Science Service. Wild Chinese Apples There are species of wild apples in China that are no longer than good used pess.—Science Service. REAL ESTATE DEALERS King Solomon Grand Lodge and Court Officers BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE A. MORSE INSURANCE, RENTALS EXCHANGES, LOANS Improved Farms, $55 to $1,000 per acre In Kansas, Missouri & Oklahoma 514 Minnesota avenue. Kansas City, Kansas Room 4 Drexel 1975 STOP PAYING RENT Own Your Own Home Nine rooms, strictly modern, $2,750 at $400 down. Six rooms, modern, hardwood floors top and bottom, lot 50x120, $3,500 at $400 down. Six rooms strictly modern, garage. $3,500 at $500 down. Five room, 1 acre, $7,750. Terms. Six rooms, 3 1-4 acres $2,600 at $500 down. Flats, Duplexes, Farms Other Modern Homes—See or Call W. R. JOHNSON REAL ESTATE CO. 516 Minn. Ave. Phone Drexel 3823; Res. Fx. 4106 The Security 2001 N. 5th St. Kansas City, Kas. Phone Fairfax 1917 Borrow From Us to Buy— Buy From Us To Borrow Agents For The Porters Loan and Investment Co., a $10,000 corporation Office 2001 North Fifth Street, Kansas City, Kansas King Solomon and Court GRAND LODGE OFFICERS Grand Master, Rev. J.A.Broadnax. Deputy Grand Master, Rev. Geo. McNeal, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Senior Warden, W. M. Bean, Topeka, Kas. Grand Junior Warden, M. J. Cummings, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Secretary, Clyde L. Briggs, Atchison, Kas. Grand Treasurer, J. W. Wilson, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Tyler, A. McRoy, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Chaplain, Moses Johnson, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Marshall, William Buffington, Topeka, Kas. Grand Senior Deacon, Richard Winfield, Ellsworth, Kas. Grand Junior Deacon, James Simms Kansas City, Kas. Grand Senior Steward, William Harden, Junction City, Kas. Grand Junior Steward, Loney Conley, Lawrence, Kas. Grand Lodge Auditors, D. V. Smith, Omaha, Neb., and Irvin Hawkins, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Lecture, D. A. Scott, Kansas City, Kas. Grand Persuain, W. M. Cavens, Manhattan, Kas. Grand Historian, Thomas Glover, Wichita, Kas. Grand Lodge Organizer, W. H. Garnett, Newton, Kas. J. W. Wilson, Rev., Geo. McNeal. Chas. Black and Clyde L. Briggs. PRINCE HALL LODGE NO.11 (Atchison, Kansas) Meeting nights: Second and fourth Thursday's in each month at True Eleven Hall, Sixth & Santa Fe streets. Visitors welcome. Clarence Kerford, W. M., 207 East Kearney street. Levi Woodson, Secy., 101 East Kearney St. 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. W 945 Everett Ave. CLARENCE HICKMAN, Secretary. 1327 Woodland Avenue. Phone Melrose 1042W. ATE DEALERS We Reach and Need Them All DIAMOND REAL ESTATE CO. 1-acre and 4-room log house and out buildings of all kinds. All kinds of fruit, $850—$150 down. 1-acre unimproved. All kinds of fruit, $550—$100 down. 4-room house, 1 acre. All kinds of fruit and out buildings. Close in: $2900, $600 down. SEE US BEFORE BUYING Diamond Real Estate Company Geo. McClelland, Pres. 547 State Ave., K. C., K. Drexel 2287 Mrs. Luella Green NOTARY PUBLIC 516 Minnesota Avenue Copying neatly done to order. All work strictly confidential. ROBINSON LAUNDRY CO. Prompt, Efficient Service. Office and Residence, 333 Lafayette Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Fairfax 1174. N. B. Robinson, Mgr PRINTING Of All Kinds not the cheap kind but the good kind done here. n Grand Lodge rt Officers GRAND COURT OFFICERS Mrs. Camille Briggs, Atchison, Kas., G. M. A. M. Mrs. Maude Mosby, Kansas City, Kas., D. G. M. Mrs. Loise Bruton, Argentine, Kas., G. S. M. Mrs. Jennie Thatcher, Kansas City, Kas., G. C. Treas. Mrs. Evelyn Searcy, Kansas City, Mo., G. C. Sec. Mrs. Maude Wright, Lawrence, Kas. G. Bur. Sec. Mrs. Hattie King, Bonner Springs, Kas., G. Wid. and O. Treas. Rev. M. W. Dickerson, Topeka, Kas., G. Joshua. Mrs. D. V. Smith, Omaha, Nebr., G. C. Lecture Mrs. Inez Pickins, Junction City, G. Asst. Sec. Mrs. Lottie Gentry, Leavenworth, Kas., G. I. G. K. Mr. Blount, Junction City, 1st Crt. Director. · Mr. T. Glover, Wichita, Kas., 2nd Crt. Director. Mr. Conley, Lawrence, Kas., 3rd Crt. Director. Mrs. Etta Coleman, Wichita, Kas., G. O. G. K. JUVENILE OFFICERS Mrs. Elmira Kennedy, Kansas City, Mo., G. W. Mrs. Sallie Harvey, Lawrence, Kas., G. Matron. Mrs. Salsberry, Lawrence, Kas., G. J. Treas. Mrs. Stella Maynard, Atchison, Kas, G. J. Sec. Mrs. Laura Boner, Junction City, G. J. I. G. K. Mrs. Dora Majors, Atchison, Kas., G. J. O. G. K. Mrs. Georgia Thomas, Kansas City, G. Organizer. TRUSTEE BOARD Mrs. Dovie Cumniings, Kansas City, Kansas. Mrs. Cora Yeager, Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. Nora Buffington, Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. Lucinda Mozee, Kansas City, Kansas. Mrs. Alice Meadows, Kansas City, Kansas. --- Friday, October 23, 1925. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Robert Griggs, defendant. State of Kansas to Robert Griggs, Greetings: You will take notice that you have been sued in the above named court for absolute divorce from the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, on the grounds of desertion and abandonment. Unless you answer said petition on or before the 5th day of December, 1925, the allegations and statements contained in plaintiff's petition will be taken as true, and upon further proof, plaintiff will be granted a divorce as prayed for in her petition. J. S. MANNING, Attorney for Plaintiff. CARL W. FINCKE. CARL W. FINCKE, Clerk of the District Court. O. D. BRUCE, Deputy. (First published October 23, 1925) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Lillian Hill, Plaintiff. vs. Ollie Hill, Defendant. To the above named defendant, Ollie Hill: You are hereby notified that you have been sued for a divorce by the above named plaintiff in the above entitled court on the grounds of extreme cruelty and on the grounds of abandonment. That unless you answer the allegations and charges as set out in plaintiff's petition on or before the 28th day of November, 1925, the same will be taken as true; that judgment and decree will be rendered against you divorcing you from the plaintiff, with such other and further relief as to the Court may seem just and proper. I. F. BRADLEY, JR. I. F. BRADLEY, J.K. Attorney for Plaintiff. (First Published October 16, 1925.) PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Viola Croft, Plaintiff, vs. Blanche Croft, Defendant. To Blanche Croft, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by your wife for a decree of divorce, in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on the grounds of extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty; that unless you answer the petition of plaintiff filed herein on or before the 19th of November, 1925, said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you granting said plaintiff an absolute divorce of and from you and such other and further relief as equity may permit. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First Published October 9, 1925.) GUARD YOUR HEALTH SANYKIT PROPHYLACTIC for MEN Affords Ultimate Protection After Infections Exposure Large Time Hee. Bill (64) $1 All Drugs listed at San-Y-Kit Dept. A $1 Beckman St. New York Write for Circular Advertising a Sale! You don't leave your rig in the middle of the road and go to a fence-post to read a sale bill do you? Then don't expect the other fellow to do it. Put an ad in this paper, then, regardless of the weather, the fellow you want to reach reads your announcements while seated at his fireside. If he is a prospective buyer you'll have him at your sale. One extra buyer often pays the entire expense of the ad, and it's a poor ad that won't pull that buyer. An ad in this paper reaches the people you are after. Bills may be a necessity, but the ad is the thing that does the business. Don't think of having a special sale without using advertising space in this paper. One Extra Buyer at a sale often pays the entire expense of the ad. Get That Buyer QUESTION OF SITE OF HOLY SEPULCHER Finding of Jerusalem Wall Raises Point. Part of the wall inclosing Jerusalem built by Agrippa, one of the last Jewish kings, and destroyed by Titus, has been unearthed recently. About sixty yards of the wall, some four yards in thickness, have been uncovered by the Jewish Exploration society. This discovery has aroused deep interest in archeological and religious circles. If this is the third of the series of walls built around Jerusalem, it is argued, it brings into question the authenticity of the site of the holy sepulcher, which is thus placed outside the city walls. The third wall was commenced by Herod Agrippa about 40-44 A. D. and was interrupted by the Roman governor of Syria, to be completed later by the Jews before the final siege of the city. By all accounts there were three walls which protected Jerusalem on the north, built successively both for the protection of the weakest side of the defenses and to afford room for the steady growth of the city at the beginning of the Christian era. Both the first and second walls were standing at the time of Christ and the place of crucifixion and burial must have been outside them. Some scholars have contended the song-recognized site of the Holy sepulcher is impossible because it is shut within ancient Jerusalem, it being known that crucifixions did not take place within the city walls. Adherents of this view, especially a large number of the English community who have always entertained doubts about the location of the Holy sepulcher, see further confirmation in the discovery of what is believed to be the third wall. The Jewish Exploration society, which is conducting these excavations, holds with Dr. W. F. Albright director of the American School of Oriental Research here, that the discovery of the Agrippan wall does not seriously affect "this long smoldering question." Doctor Albright admits that the situation is awkward. "Shall we decide for the holy sepulcher and against the evidence, or against the holy sepulcher and also against other evidence of little less cogency?" Doctor Albright asks. "Neither horn of the dilemma is necessary. The present north wall of the city dates back only to Hadrian's time and represents a wholly new line of wall. We are forced to the conviction that archeology rarely affects the question of holy sites. The location of the Holy sepulcher will remain just as certain or just as obscure as it is today." Along with this discovery there has been unearthed a mosaic belonging to the late Byzantine period. According to the Greek Inscription on the mosaic this was the fomb of a nun, near which there was also apparently a small Christian chapel. Underworld Weapons A London magistrate recently commented on the numerous razor assaults committed by hooligans. He said the razor is a distinctly un-English weapon, and that it belongs really to the American negro, who specializes in throwing it. Criminals are known by their weapons and their methods of attack. In London the metal knuckle-duster is a fairly common weapon. The Paris apache uses a knife, and generally carries a revolver as well. The desperadoes of Italy and Spain favor the stiletto and knife respectively. The knife of the Spanish is a deadly implement; it consists of a sharp, broad blade that folds into the handle and can be drawn and opened in one movement. Weighted belts are sometimes used by the London "tough." A gang at Lambeth was known as the "New Girdle Gang" because its members were armed with this type of weapon.—London Tit-Bits. Cuckoo and Its Eggs Henry S. Davenport of Milton Mowbray, England, tells the following cuckoo story in the London Times: "A sister-in-law of mine at Stamford was standing by a window when a cuckoo suddenly appeared and flopped down on the close-cropped lawn not much more than the length of a salmon-rod from her. It turned slowly round and round a few times, then crouched for half a minute or so, and then moved about a yard away, leaving an egg clearly exposed to her view. After a few moments more the cuckoo picked the egg up with its bill and flew off with it still showing between the parted mandibles. I have been in quest of unimpeachable evidence on this point for over half a century, but with a success more or less negligible." Why Spoil the Wedding? Bridget—Ol say, Pat, why do they have so many young groomsmen and bridesmals at the fashionable weddings in holgh life, Ol want to know? Pat (astonished)—Yez don't know that, Bridget Muldoon! Shure, it is that if the groom don't turn up thur'l be somebody for the bride to be married to, onyhow.—Pearson's Weekly. A Shocking Insinuation Mrs. Booster—You don't look a day older than your daughter. Mrs. Flapper—Goodness gracious! Say, do I look as old as my daughter! THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE SPREADING NEWS TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO Paying for a war seems to hardest part. New York Gazette an Early Periodical. New York's first newspaper was published just 200 years ago. It was a modest little sheet less than one-fourth the size of a page of the Times and appeared weekly. A bronze tablet on the south side of the Cotton exchange marks the site of the office from which it was issued. A few fugitive "news letters" had appeared from time to time, but no regular publication was attempted before 1725. The first paper was known as the New York Gazette. In Boston a regular weekly paper was published at an earlier date. There was not much news in the New York paper two centuries ago. The Gazette consisted of a single sheet, printed on both sides, its page two columns in width and the whole contents measuring less than one modern newspaper column. In fact, the Gazette printed almost no local news. Foreign affairs were of superior interest. The first number devoted its first page to the text of a treaty between the emperor of Germany and the king of Spain. The second news feature was a "Remonstrance of the Clergy of France" presented to the king against a new tax of 2 per cent. The only glimpse of local life in early New York offered by the Gazette is to be found in the advertisements. Each issue contains but from one active advertisements. New York then gave promise of becoming a shipping center. "Scarcely a week passes," it appears, "without the arrival or departure of some seagoing vessel. Yet there were no ship news reporters on the Gazette staff. The Atlantic crossing then required two months or more. The real estate announcements offered farms for sale down by the present crowded dead line. The suburbanite, however, was already flourishing, for there was a surprising number of "plantations" on sale in New Jersey and Long Island. In almost every number of the Gazette there were advertisements of slaves for sale. From time to time the name of a traveler passing through New York is mentioned. Otherwise all attempts at acquainting the public with local happenings ceases. The Gazette managed to exist, though advertisements averaged only an inch or so weekly. A line across the last page announces that the paper is "to be sold by Richard Nielck, Post Master, where advertisements are taken in." It was not until 1744, when the paper had run for about nineteen years, that it achieved a circulation of 900 copies.—New York Times. These Changing Times The midland cities have changed. Apartment houses have risen on the vacant lots where football teams composed of wealthy boys once played against football teams composed of "muckers." At fourteen the wealthy boy is no longer anxious to have enormous muscles and to emulate Ted Coy of Yale, but to own a sport car and be a Ben Lyons—or even Michael Arlen. The cheap literature of daring, of Nick Carter and Young Wild West, has vanished. It is a conquered world into which the post-war boy grows up; there are no outposts of civilization to grasp his imagination. He gets the impression that everything has been done. Instead of the Henty books he roads moving-picture magazines.—F. Scott Fitzgerald, in McCall's. Millionaire Collectors Charles Dana Gibson said at a luncheon in New York: "Do our millionaire collectors enjoy their collections? Does the owner of priceless Keats holographs pore over them as some attic poet would? "A millionaire invited me to dine at his white palace in Fifth avenue the other night. After dinner he led me to his picture gallery, pointed to a splendid painting and said: "I want you to tell me whether that's a Renoir or a Renault. You see, I was over in France last month, and I bought some pictures and some autos, and I've kind of got the names twisted." Sinister Symptoms "I believe old Riley Rezzidew is losing his mind," said Constable Sam T. Slackputter, the faithful guardian of the peace and dignity of Petunia. "What makes you think so?" asked the proprietor of the Right Place store. "Why, he stood around all the time the old opry house was burning, and neyer said a word about where he thought the fire was when he first heard the bell."—Kansas City Star. Help for Hypochondriac "Chuggins doesn't seem to be as sickly as he was." "No, he has quit complaining. His new automobile has done wonders for him." "Fresh air, and that sort of thing?" "No, his mind is so taken up with his engine and his tires that he hasn't time to think of his anatomical equipment." Cloth Enough "I say, Gerald, what a topping tie you're wearing! I should like to have a dress made out of that."—London Opinion. Edison's path to success is paved with good inventions. The best of autos sometimes run their owners into debt. Good times are those in which people contrive to get a little more. One of the drawbacks of the super-civilization is the lack of roasting ears. Put confidence in everybody and soon you won't have any in anybody. The perplexing problem is to get the tolerant to tolerate the intolerant. The trouble with conservation in America is that it is as yet mostly conversation. The fellow who stole an airplane is being pursued, we presume, by the flying squadron. Something is being done to make bandits understand that they are not really popular. Isn't it curious how weeds will grow in dry weather while grass and vegetables will not? One test of prosperity is when you can always get credit enough to live beyond your means. Now that the hatpin is a dead letter, is the public supposed to blast olives out of bottles? A vacation is a good deal like a lottery. People put a lot more into it than they get out of it. Much has been sald of Washington's fleasless dog. Yet how much more lonesome is a dogless flea. There is something about the song of the cricket that suggests it senses it is just that welcome. The semi-annual report shows the locomotive of the limited at the crossing still in first place. An actor will try to talk for 48 hours. He will be able to do it easily if the subject is "Myself." Earthquakes Pull Clock Dr. J. Shida, selsmologist at the Kyfoo Imperial university, has invented a machine to herald the coming of an earthquake by means of sounds a few seconds ahead of its actual occurrence. The apparatus consists of a pendulum that registers slight vibrations prior to an earthquake and makes sounds by coming into contact with a coll. The sounds are magnified by means of an amplifier. The strength or weakness of the impending quake may be determined from the audibility of the sounds. Doctor Shida says that a disastrous earthquake usually occurs about seven seconds after a slight tremor, which is not felt by the human body, and therefore people in possession of his apparatus will have time to get outside their houses before the disaster falls. But they must "make it snappy." Painted Too Black Charles Y. Knight, automobile manufacturer, said on the White Star pler in New York: "Automobilists, after all, aren't quite as black as they're painted. An automobilist the other day knocked down a jay walker in the country. Of course he stopped and administered first aid. "When the jay walker came to, the automobilist said: "I'm sorry I knocked you down. Now what can I give you in reparation? "Wall.' said the jay walker. 'what do ye generally give, stranger?' Ugly and Hated Paul Wayland Bartlett, the noted sculptor, said in an interview on the France: "A farmer's wife, a terrific nagger, hung herself from a tree in the apple orchard. "The farmer married again. "His second wife, also a terrific nagger, hung herself from the same tree. "Afterward farmers from all over the country came and took cuttings." The Right Answer "Should wives be paid wages?" asks a writer in a recent article in a magazine. "Certainly!" says a married man of our acquaintance. "What do you think I send my wife out to work for?"—Judge. Mont Blanc's Tip-Top The summit of Mont Blanc, the highest point in Europe, was reached for the first time by Jacques Balmat on August 8, 1788. Isn't That Enough? Prue—Her lawyer tells her she hasn't grounds for divorce. Kelvin Hall Kelvin Hall Glasgow, which was destroyed by fire last July, is to be replaced by a modern building that may cost 12,000,000. All kinds of Shoe Shining Material for Sale ALL WORK GUARANTEED 1004-6 North 5th Street—Near Minnesota Avenue BUSCH & BROWN, Props. AUTO LIVERY D. WI Cars by T 1006 Walker Avenue SAY IF YOU Cars by Trip or Hour SAY IF YOU WANT HAIR Go to 1209 North Ninth Street To-Mme. C.O. TAYL BEAUTY SHOP Kansas City, Kansas Phone Fairfax 0442 Office Phone Drexel 3703 Residence, DR. L. T. M DENTAL SURGEON Office 9:30-12 All Patients by 4441/2 Minnesota Avenue If you can't push, pull; if you can't pull, please get out of the way. No man is really well educated until he can answer all the questions his children may ask him. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Kansas, 29th Judicial District County of Wyandotte, ss. Walker Johnson, Plaintiff. vs. S. T. Hutcherson defendant Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said Court, numbered 6506-A wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendants, and to me the undersigned, Sheriff of said County, directed, I will offer for sale, at public auction, and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, at the front door of the court house in the City of Kansas City, in said county, on Tuesday the 10th day of November, A. D. 1025, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, the following described real estate situate in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, to-wit: Commencing at a point in the north line of the right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, one hundred and sixty-five feet west and two hundred and three feet North of the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section nineteen of township ten of range twenty-five east, in Wyandotte county, Kansas, thence north three thousand feet more or less, to a certain wire fence running east and west along by a ditch, thence east along the line of said fence, four hundred and ninety five feet, thence south to a point in the North line of the right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific railroad, thence northwesterly along said line of right-of-way to a point of beginning. DANIEL (BOB) MAHER, Sheriff of Wyandotte county, Kansas (First published October 9, 1925.) Small Loans WEEKLY PAYMENTS LIBERTY BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Credit Investment Co. Room 298. Wyandotte Building Fifth and Minnesota Avenue Drexel 117 Home REPAIRING SALE YOU WAIT 50c 65c to 90c 90c Cleaned and Blocked YOU WAIT Selling Material for Sale GUARANTEED -Near Minnesota Avenue ROWN, Props. Fairfax 3185 LSON rip or Hour Kansas City, Kansas WANT HAIR D. TAYLOR'S Y SHOP Res. Phone Fairfax 2227 425 Greeley ONTGOMERY Hours 2-5 6-7:30 Appointments Kansas City, Kansas W. T. WHITELAW DRUGGIST Phone Fairfax 0622 3091 N. 27th St. Kansas City, Kan. Spend Your Money with your home merchants. They help pay the taxes, keep up the schools, build roads, and make this a community worth while. You will find the advertising of the best ones in this paper. Phone, Fifield 2367-M Mrs. Aretta White GRADUATE PORO COLLEGE PORO BEAUTY PARLOR Dandruff, Falling Hair, Itching Scalp, Ficial Bleanch, Marcel Waving, Singeing and Clipping. OPEN EVEINGS BY APPOINTMENT 359 Waverly Ave. Kansas City, Kansas Call Fair- fax 0380 Or 4422 --- PAGE THRE Kaw Furnitur Kaw Furniture Auction Co. THE AUCTION STORE 439 MINNESOTA AVE. NEW AND USED STOVES, CARP Kansas C PLUMBING At Wholesale Price 5-ft. bathtubs, completely 30-gal. hot water tanks... Gas tank heaters..... Flat rim sinks, with stra- Toilet bowls, china ..... Toilet seats ..... Pipe, fittings and suppl- city delivery; terms if yo- illustrated price sheet. V ers to install. Standard Pipe and Plu Kansas City, Kansas Phone Har. 4983 701-11 East 18th Kansas City, Mo. A Mexican and an American worked on the same shift and sometimes ate their lunch together. On several occasions the Mexican had rabbit meat in his pail. This he shared generously with his comrade. One day the American asked: "Where you get rabbits, Jose? I can't find any." "My wife, she get 'um,' Jose replied. "She say ever' night they come around house and make noise. She shoot 'um." "Noise? Rabbits don't make noise." "Sure," Jose asserted positively, "Go 'Meow, meow.'" EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Case No. 13528. State of Kansas, Wyandotte County, ss. In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Dan Robinson, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentory have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Dan Robinson, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 2nd day of October, 1925. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and that if such claims be not exhibited within two years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. IDA ROBINSON, Executor of the last will and testament of Dan Robson, deceased. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. To Charlie Moore, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by your wife for a decree of divorce, in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, on the grounds of abandonment and cruelty, that unless you answer the petition filed herein on or before the 20th of November, 1925, said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you granting said plaintiff an absolute divorce of and from you and such other and further relief as equity may permit. E. A. SHACKELFORD, Attorney for Plaintiff. (First Published October 9, 1925.) THE FEATHERHEADS YESTERDAY FELIX HURLED A B HARSH WORLD THE MAN ACRO HALL FOR OCCU THE HOTEL PUBLIC BATH TOO LONG AND THE MAN ACRO HALL HURRI A FEW MEAN EPITA RIGHT BAY AND THE BATT STILL PAGE FOUR J. A. STEPHENS Charlie Moore, Defendant. e Auction Co. ED FURNITURE SETS, HARDWARE G AND PIPE Prices to Everybody trimmed.....$30.00 8.00 4.50 miner.....4.75 7.00 2.25 lies at reduced prices; free you desire. Write for free We furnish licensed plumb- Plumbing Supply Company Drexel 2418 442 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas CITY BRIEF'S AND IN SOCIETY. Dr. Stevenson of Helena, Ark., stopped at Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith's 907 Washington boulevard, while preaching here. Mrs. Brown, mother of Professor Brown, of Northeast Junior High, is now visiting in Oklahoma, but will return here soon. Miss Mattie Lawrence, on Nebraska, is sick at her home. Her sister was here from Pleasanton, Kansas, waifing on her. Pierian Club met Thursday from 2 to 4 p. m. at Mrs. Spatchez' and had topics on important events of the week. Next meeting is at Mrs. Dahlia Thompson's. Mrs. French had otpics of the day. Rev. A. T. Parker, father of Mrs. A. J. Boulden, of this city, who has been pastoring at Leavenworth for the past two years, was sent to Larned, Kansas this year. Rev. Parker and his wife are quite well known here. He is of the C. M. E. Church. Mrs. Lydia Ellis, 2083 North Sixth street, has been confined to the house for two weeks with illness. Mrs. Ellis' many friends will be pleased to see her out very soon. Less than $125 was contributed by the two hundred thousand Negroes in New York City to the defense fund for Samuel A. Browne, the Staten Island colored postman whose home has been attacked several times by audacious mobs. The colored Protestant Episcopal churches of Washington recently purchased property, containing fifteen rooms, which will serve as a home for widows and aged and indigent members of the church. Mr. Sandy Trice, of Chicago, has been appointed chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and Daughters of Isis. The Irving Fireproof Centering Company, of which Samuel A. Irving, a colored contractor, is president, is building the concrete foundation for the $10,000,000 Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. The average value of all land in farms in Coweta County, Georgia, has decreased $33 per acre since 1920, and there has also been a decrease of 1029 in the number of colored farmers, mostly cropers. If you like this paper, "Follow the Swallow Back Home." YES, AND LET ME TELL SOMETHING, A.F. McKEOWN, YOU THINK YOU CAN BUILLY ME YOU'RE ----- DREXEL·4023 THE KANSAS CITY ADVOCATE City Boys Miss Much of Real Joys of Life If you were fortunate enough to be raised on a farm or in a small town twenty or more years ago, it often occurs to you how much the modern city boy misses in the way of real fun. Along about this time of the year, back there in the radiant past, "the gang" was following the local Huckleberry Finn, the courageous individual first to brave the springtime chill of the "ole swimmin' hole." It is a sorry contrast, alongside the concrete swimming pools for metropolitan youth in this year 1925, observes the Montreal Herald. Nature was coming to life, back there in the country, with an entrancing display of buds, first wild flowers, pussywillows and strange birds going North. And, oh, that fresh air! Back yonder, there were big barns with huge haymows to play in. And, at this season, it was customary to erect great shanties in back yards and vacant lots, to house the gang's secret society. In the 1925 city, the barn is a one-story garage, and pa usually has a fit if he catches the boys in the fliver-hotel, playing with oll cans. Citites are heartsickingly clean, with no lumber and old tin cans and packing boxes and back-alley bones and junk for the boys to gather. Remember when we put on a Buffalo Bill show at the edge of town, and a burnt-cork minstrels in the barn? Do you think the modern city youth has as much fun at his dancing class or the school cantata? Neither do we. The city lad is so pressed for elbow room and playthings that, for instance, when he gets roller skates he rides 'em to death, then hungrily seeks new amusement. That's why we have waves of juvenile, manlacal concentration on one thing in the cities. Right now, it's wireless. Civilization and metropolitan congestion may be a good thing for grown-ups, though odds are on the nays. But it's certainly tough on the youngsters. It is childhood that has lost most in modern city life. And even when pa takes the kids to the country on Sunday afternoon, they get about as much of a glimpse of it as from a moving train. Pa is restless, nerves keyed up, wants to get along fast and try another stretch of movement. Real-for-sure boyhood is vanishing to join other antiques of the day when nature and science were mysterious enough to make life worth while. " New Measures of Paper The terms "reami" and "quire" used as measures for the buying and selling of paper since the time of Caxton are to become obsolete. An agreement arrived at between the Federation of Master Printers and the National Association of Wholesale Stationers and Papermakers to come into force immediately lays down that the ream shall be replaced by 1,000 sheets. In the arithmetics the ream was supposed to contain 480 sheets, but in practice was sold sometimes at 504 and sometimes at 516 sheets. Mr. Thorne, secretary of the National association of Wholesale Stationers, said to a Daily Mail reporter the agreement also provides for the standardization of the sizes of paper, the number will be reduced nearly 40, the number will be reduced to 19, and the substitution of 1,000 sheets for the ream will secure the advantage of decimal calculations for the trade. Farm Acreage Decreasing The latest federal census shows that the acreage of improved farm lands in New York and New England has decreased more than 11,000,000 acres during the last 40 years. The Old and the New The old-fashioned girl-who used to bring in the milk bottles when she woke up now has a daughter who brings them in when she is going to retire.—Providence Tribune. Home Stavers You can appreciate the great change in the last hundred and fifty years when you remember that on his midnight ride Paul Revere found most of the folks at home. Charitable Investment The land and property invested in almshouses in the United States was valued at about $150,000,000 at the end of 1924.-Science Service. Good Old Mother Earth Likened to Music Box Underground radio has been heard across the continent. Transmission has been made from underground cables and it is asserted that the earth crust is a more effective medium for sending radio messages than is the air. The philosophers of old used to believe that the planets and the sun made music as they rolled. They called it the music of the spheres. Once again, as often in the past, fact may outdo fancy if the earth becomes resonant with radio songs and messages. Then indeed it would be a musical sphere, asserts the Minneapolis Journal. Marvelous as this possibility appears, it is not inconsistent with what is known about radio and the earth. For this old globe is not the thickly solid affair that many of us imagine. Earthquakes cause undulations in the world's structure that travel for miles and are read and interpreted by scientists far distant from the scenes of disturbance. In its mountains and valleys, in the rising and falling of its surface the earth shows that it is not unfriendly to undulation. Instead of being solid and stolid, the earth is in reality plastic and much given to rhythm of various kinds. It lends itself to marvelous transformations and transmutations, such as flower-beauty issuing from muck and mire, heat from rocks and radiant energy from its fiaming heart. Radio messages going through the earth are not more wonderful than these same messages going through the air and through brick and stone walls on the way. Statesman Makes Fight Senor Adolfo Dickmann, a leading socialist deputy, seeks to suppress horse racing, the national lottery, and all other forms of gambling in Argentina. He has introduced a bill in congress with that end in view. Horse racing in Buenos Aires is maintained by the wealthy and exclusive Jockey club, an important factor in the political and social life of the community. Senor Dickmann asserts that those who really benefit from racing in Argentina are the breeders of the race horse. Such horses, he maintains, are of no economic value, while betting on the races impoverishes the workers who patronize the tracks. Betting last year reached the grand total of $130,000,000. The Argentine lottery, Senor Dickmann holds, is a sop to the poor, and he explodes some archaic theories of the benefits to the state and charitable institutions from the division of the lottery spoils. He presents figures to show that since the lottery was founded in 1806 the Argentine people have paid 1,100,000,000 pesos in trying to win prizes, while less than 125,000,000 pesos have been received by charitable institutions, which, he asserts, are now "devoting their time to caring for deluded persons impoverished by trying to win lottery prizes." To Save Would-Be Suicides To Save Would-Be Suicides In Berlin the number of suicides has become so alarming that a proposal has been made to create special relief stations where persons contemplating self-destruction might go and receive the help they need. The causes of suicide are most often lack of money, illness, neurasthenia and unrequited or obstructed love. Could the sufferers receive good advice, a little money or the intervention of the proper person it is thought their intention might be shaken and their lives saved. Pastors, luc confessors, psychanalysts and regular physicians might be drafted into service. The question remains whether intending suicides could be induced to have recourse to such lifesaving stations. Restaurants of Tokyo No one needs go hungry while in Tokyo if one has the price of a meal, as there are more than 5,000 foreign restaurants, places where the food common in other countries may be found, in many places the cooking being done by individuals who have been cooks in the foreign countries. In the same city there are more than 1,000 Chinese restaurants and more than 10,000 strictly Japanese eating places. —Ohio State Journal. Couple Hook Same Bass While fishing in Swift Run pond near Plqua, Ohio, recently, says the Toledo Blade, Walley Genslinger and Miss Belle O'Brien both hooked the same bass. 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