Kansas City Sun
Saturday, October 13, 1917
Kansas City, Missouri
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A GREAT SERMON
What is the heart of Christianity? our hearts. Not the Christ who is Some will answer, "Living like" external; a Christ who is on the out-
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VOLUME X. NUMBER 7.
SUBJECT: "THE HOPE OF GLORY."
The following sermon, delivered Sunday, October 7, 1811, by W. H. Thomas, D. O. Pasquier of Allen Chapel A.M. H. Church, Kansas City, Missouri, was stenographically reported by Miss Susie Recola Goodwin, now pursuing the Post Graduate Course in the Commercial Department at Western University, Quindaro, Kansas.
Your attention this morning is invited to the words which are found in Colossians, first chapter and the 27th verse. "Christ in you, the hope of Glory," and the subject which we draw from these words is "The Hope of Glory." This is the last Sunday of the Conference year. Life's beginnings and life's endings are always significant. We think of those who began the Conference year with us and who are the year closes have left us. Where have they gone? Our hearts seem to answer the question, "The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." We don't know all of their immortality,
REV. WILLIAM H. THOMAS, D. D. who has been not only the efficient pastor of Allen Chapel, but has been the leader of his people in all civil social and economic movements for their advancement regardless of religious or political affiliations.
but we do know that part of their immortality is on this side of the stars. It is in our hearts and in the hearts of all earnest, loving, striving people who share their faith in God. Christianity is a religion of hope. Hope for the individual and hope for the world. The church finds itself confronted with a new world crisis. The world has always had its burdens to bear, but the burden which has been laid upon the heart of the world in this day and time is harder and heavier than in any previous period of the world's history. For every church must meet this double test. Is it of God? Is it of man? Does it speak of God? Does it minister to the needs of man? Never in any previous age of the world's history has the opportunity of the church to speak of God been greater. Never in any previous age of the world's history has the opportunity of the church to minister to the needs of man been greater, and the great question which we are asked is not what will the church lose, but the great question is, what will the church gain?
We speak of this temple in which we worship as being Allen Chapel Church, but you cannot make a church out of brick and mortar and boards and glass. You can make a building in which the church may meet out of such rude material. The church itself is formed out of consecrated flesh and blood. The church is a living organic structure having resident within it the spirit of the living God, and thus worthy to be known as the body of Christ. And for what ideals does the church stand? Fraternal societies devote themselves to emphasizing the one truth, "The Brotherhood of Man." The Labor Union stands for justice for all toilers. The Civic League stands for the betterment of our civic conditions, but the church is brave enough to stand up in the face of all the pain and anguish and struggles of the world and say:
"Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in Heaven."
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Christ." Others will answer, "To know God." But to answer that question in the light of the New Testament, we say that the heart of Christianity is to have a personal relation and a personal touch with Jesus Christ. Christ said, "I will build My Church." This was the fundamental purpose of his life. How did he build his church? He wrote no book, he painted no picture, he organized no army, he formed no ritual or creed. How, then, did he build his church? He gathered a few lives about him, saturated and filled with his spirit, and said of these will I build my church. Paul speaks of this as being a mystery. "Christ in you, the hope of Glory." And Paul uses the word mystery in this way: he meant a truth which had been hidden, but now revealed. The Greek mysteries were revealed only to the initiative, to a few select, and they were strictly kept from the multitude. But Paul's mystery was revealed to all. It was an open secret. "Christ in you, the hope of Glory." Not a few, but for the many, but you say Glory is something which can only come to the man or woman who is greatly gifted, and there are few among us who attain glory, very few. It is a rare thing to meet with a man or woman who has an idea of attaining what the world calls glory, and yet the Apostle Paul says here in the text that the hope of Glory is set before each one of us, even the humblest among us.
Just recently here in Kansas City, we observed Old Glory Week, the object of which was a rebaptism of the spirit of Americanism. But Old Glory Week in all of its observance was for the white man only and not for the black man. We were not permitted to go to Electric Park and there have the fires of patriotism kindled within us by the war exhibits and the pageants. It was Old Glory week for some; it was Old Shame week for others. The shame of ostracism. The shame of unjust discrimination; but here is Glory for all. "The Hope of Glory." What is this glory, which every Christian, even the humblest among us, may attain unto? I answer first of all, it is the glory of character, and character is the sum total of a man's good qualities.
We hear a great deal in this day and time about valuation, land valuation. I know very little about it, but I do know that there are some interests in our moral life which need revaluation. Take this very word Glory. It needs revaluation. It is like a coin which has long been in use and which by use has worn thin; lost its weight; so the word Glory has become cheapened and debased. Glory. When you hear the word mentioned, what do you think of? You think of rank, of title, of birth and wealth; but these are the mere trappings of the man, and not the man himself. They are his clothes, so to speak. A man's real glory depends not on what he has, but on what he is; not upon his possessions, but upon his character. The glory that depends upon externals is uncertain, temporal, rich today poor tomorrow, in the public eye today, in obscurity tomorrow; but the glory of goodness is permanent. It is beyond even the reach of the cold icy hand of death. The righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance. Fame, title, health and wealth all may go, but character remains.
A man who had been rich came home one night and said to his wife: "Wife, we have lost everything, and the sheriff will come tomorrow and sell us out." But that man had a brave, courageous woman for a wife, and facing that desperate husband, she said to him: "Husband, will he sell me?" and the man said "No." "Will he sell you?" And the man said "No." "Will he sell our dear little children?" "No." "Will he sell our characters and our hope and our faith in God?" "No." Then said the courageous wife, "You have simply lost the external. We have the real things left: Manhood, womanhood, childhood, character, hope and faith." "Christ in you, the hope of Glory." You will notice that the Apostle says "in you," in the indwelling Christ; not the Christ simply in the Bible; not the Christ of the church; not the Christ who is simply a figure on the pages of history; but the Christ who lives and moves and has his being in our hearts. Not the Christ who is external; a Christ who is on the out
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917.
side of us, a Christ who is simply our example and our ideal: No, it must be a Christ within, living and inspiring us. Christ in you. When Jesus enters a man's life and takes possession of his heart, the most amazing transformation not only becomes possible, but certain. The woman who was a sinner became an example of virtue. Zaccheus, the miser, became a philatropist; Augustine, the rake, became St. Augustine, the preacher. This was Paul's open secret. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me and is the way to victory over self and sin and to the attainment of a holy life. Paul gives us here in this simple text: "Christ in you, the hope of Glory." Here is glory for all, the rich, the poor, the great, the small of every tribe and nation.
The Sistene Chapel in Rome is adorned with beautiful angel faces, one of the wonders of the world, and these angel faces in that beautiful chapel were painted by Michael Angelo. Where did Michael Angelo ever see angel faces in order to reproduce them? It is said that he was frequently found walking in the suburbs and in the slums of the city of Rome, and as he went he studied the faces of the little beggar children in all their squalor and filth and dirt and those beautiful angel faces which adorn that beautiful chapel in Rome were simply the faces of those dirty beggar children which Angelo saw playing in the streets of the city; transfigured by his genius. But Jesus Christ can work a greater transformation than that. He can take a sinner, the vilest sinner, and make him a saint. He can take a Magdalene, an outcast woman, and make her a Madonna. He can take a miser and make him a philanthropist. He can take a rake and make him a preacher. This is what Jesus Christ can do if you will simply let him into your heart. Have you let him into your heart; into your life? He has knocked at your door; have you let him in? If you have, he can work a transfiguration in your life. Then what glory will be yours, "for as many as received Him to them gave He the right to be called the children of God, even unto them that believe on His name."
"Oh that will be Glory,
Glory for me, yes, Glory for me,
When by His Grace, I shall look on
His face,
That will be glory for me, glory for
me."
The Lincoln High School Community Meeting for October 21st will be in the interest of the Parental Home for colored boys and girls of Kansas City. Mr. H. R. Farnum, president of the Colored Children's Improvement Association, and the officers will make a supreme effort to enlist several hundred members who can be counted upon to give their influence in the interest of this parental home. Mr. Farnum will be present and preside; along with him will be Judge Porter B. Goddard, attorney for Board of Education; Mr. James A. Nugent, member of the school board; Mr. John R. Ransom, police commissioner; Mr. Chas. Young, attorney, and Judge E. E. Porterfield of the Juvenile Court.
Along with these gentlemen certain prominent women of the Women's Clubs, who are anxious to help us secure this parental home, will be present; among them, Mrs. G. W. Addison, Mrs. H. H. McClure and Mrs. Edwin Knapp of the Athenaeum and Council of Women's Clubs.
This is one of the most important meetings that has ever been held in this city in the interest of the colored wayward youth. The purpose is to secure a home for colored boys and girls similar to the McCune and Parental. Home for white boys and girls.
AMERICAN WOODMEN
Is coming into its own since the people of Kansas City have learned what it really stands for under the supervision of Mr. L. D. Hines, who stands for only that which is honest and the "square deal."
EX-SLAVES' REQUIEM.
By Roscoe C. Jamison.
they pass—their feeble foot-steps quicken
across o'er the bridge on which Death keeps
them the evening shadows fast thicken—
her have mercy on each weary soul!
was a day of toil, and of danger,
row and tears were their lot in the past.
Thou, whom they loved as a stranger,
gather them unto Thy bosom at last.
Mothers and Mothers,—O God, hear our pleading,
are the children for whom they did bleed.
for them, in Thy mercy exceeding,
unt them Thy strength in their frailty and r
ilt-remember the night, and its blackness;
great was their trust while the slow years d
Thy law is of rigid exactness—
her, have mercy on each weary soul!
Swiftly they pass—their feeble foot-steps quicken
To cross o'er the bridge on which Death keeps the toll,
Round them the evening shadows fast thicken—
Father have mercy on each weary soul!
Theirs was a day of toil, and of danger,
Sorrow and tears were their lot in the past.
Surely Thou, whom they loved as a stranger,
Wilt gather them unto Thy bosom at last.
Our Fathers and Mothers,—O God, hear our pleadings.
We are the children for whom they did bleed.
We pray for them, in Thy mercy exceeding,
Grant them Thy strength in their frailty and need.
Thou wilt-remember the night, and its blackness;
How great was their trust while the slow years did roll—
We know Thy law is of rigid exactness—
Father, have mercy on each weary soul!
REV. H. BLANTON PARKS, D. D.,
chap of the Fifth Episcopal District, extending
into the Pacific Ocean, and composed of the M
northwest Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California
prences. The Bishop isnow holding the South
at Sedalia, Mo., and willannounce the appointm
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Presiding Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal District, extending from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and composed of the Missouri, North Missouri, Southwest Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California and Puget Sound Conferences. The Bishop isnow holding the Southwest Missouri i Conference at Sedalia, Mo., and willannounce the appointments Sunday evening.
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LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCT 17
8:00 P. M.
Admission 25c, Children 15c
uspices of the L. H. S. Parent and Teachers Association
Mrs. F. D. Gleed, President
William H. Dawley, Jr., Chairman
NOTE—Cincinnati Union declares: "Miss Gallows' selections embrace every variety of classical music and a technique, coloring and artistic rendition gives her rank in the musical world." Hear her for yourselves, music love in Kansas City. Mr. Bell will ILLUSTRATE in colors BENDITIONS.
Auspices of the L. H. S. Parent and Teachers Association Mrs. F. D. Gleed, President William H. Dawley, Jr., Chairman NOTE—Cincinnati Union declares: "Miss Galloway's selections embrace every variety of classical music and her technique, coloring and artistic rendition gives her rank in the musical world." Hear her for yourselves, music lovers of Kansas City. Mr. Bell will ILLUSTRATE in colors HER RENDITIONS.
JOHN T. WATKINS DEAD.
Mr. John T. Watkins, Kansas City's leading undertaker and one of the most popular and pleasing business men Kansas City has konwn, passed away at the family residence, 2742 Woodland avenue, after a long illness, Thursday morning at 6:30 o'clock.
The funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, 24th and Woodland avenue, of which he was an officer and member for a number of years, under the auspices of Rone Lodge A. F. & A. M. and other organizations of which he was a member and the funeral sermon will be by his pastor, Rev. William Alphin. The body will lie in state at the church from 10, until 2 on the day of the funeral.
John T. Watkins was the sixth son of John D. and Martha L. Watkins,
JOHN T. WATKINS.
Kansas City's foremost undertaker, who passed away after a lingering illness last Thursday morning, and will be buried Monday, October 15, at 2 p. m. from the Christian Church, 24th and Woodland.
both now dead, and was born in Carthage, Ind., and at the time of his death was 44 years and 7 months of age. He was educated in the Carthage schools and studied embalming in Denver College, Denver, Colo.; came to Kansas City in 1909, where in company with his brother, Theron B. Watkins, past grand master of Odd Fellows, opened an undertaking establishment, which has since developed into the most successful in the West. He leaves a devoted wife, five brothers, two sisters and all save two were at his bedside at his passing. Interment will be in beautiful Highland Cemetery. The Sun joins his thousands of friends in mourning his untimely demise.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE COLORED METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH —
5TH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
The Missouri and Kansas Conference of the C. M. E. Church will convene with Jamison Temple, 1815 Paseo, October 24. All of the general officers of the church will be present. We plan to make this one of the grandest Conferences in the history of this church. Tuesday night October 23, Jamison Temple will tender a reception to the Conference. There will be a grand program and several prominent people will participate from in and out of the city. The public is invited.—Bishop M. F. Jamison, Presiding Bishop; J. B. McClain, Pastor.
THE PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP.
One week has now passed since we announced our handling of raincoats, cravenettes and gambardines for men, women and children, and the interest shown by the public in taking advantage of our offer to save money by making a trip to our place is certain evidence of the fact that the Negro is waking up. He is acting in time, he is not waiting for the cold blasts of winter and the high prices of hard times to catch him unprepared. At this time we are emphasizing our invitation to the public to give us an immediate call, save money and take your choice of the biggest line of raincoats of all kinds in the city.
G. A. PAGE, Shoes,
1507 East 18th Street.
Mrs. G. A. Page is in charge of girls' and women's coats and hats.
ALL COLORED PAPERS, DAILY PAPERS OF KANSAS CITY, AND ANY OTHER YOU MAY WANT, DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN CITY, PROMPTLY. 2416 Vine street. Call Bell Phone East 4572M. F. C. Malone
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THE WHITE WORKING CLASS
CHOOSES MEN FROM THEIR
OWN RANKS TO LEAD.
The White Man Chooses Our Leaders
and We Accept Them.
The National Council of Colored Workers Shall Be Spokesman for the Working Class Colored Man Hereafter.
By Rucker Smith.
How would you like to be a Gompers, the president of the A. F. of L., or rather, wouldn't this race of segregated, jimcrowed and much despised black people be better off if they had a Gompers. Who is Gompers? Is he a leader of the white race? No. But he is the servant of the organized white working class. Does he mislead his people, like certain big interest has tried to impress upon the minds of the weaklings of the white working class? No. On the contrary, he has made himself so indispensable to this class, they have kept him in office for years, as the president of the American Federation of Labor. Was he a preacher or school teacher before he was placed in that position? No. He was a sincere working man with the peculiar ability to serve his fellow white workmen. Do the people who choose him as their leader, or rather, spokesman, honor him? Yes, he is an American white man and his whole sympathy is with them. You say he is not leader of the white race? No.
[Picture of a man in a suit].
no one man could, with justice to all, be a leader of a race. If that is so, why is it that we Colored people are taught to honor one man as leader for the entire race? If a business man, preacher or teacher of the white race can not lead the working class, and do justice to them, how can we succeed as a working class without choosing one of our class and race to serve us? Are we smarter than the white working class? I think not. If we are, we have a mighty poor way of showing it. Dear workers, I say these things because they are not only true, but so plainly discernible, I do not see why we, as a race, have overlooked them. We imitate the white race in everything, why haven't we followed his method of class protection? The people, white people mostly, of this nation elect a president, but the working class white man does not accept him as their leader; if one colored man is chosen president of a certain school, he is designated as our leader by the white race; and if the President of the United States wishes to treat with the race on some subject, this leader who has been appointed by them, without our consent, is called on to handle serious questions for the entire race without our consent. Is this fair? The National Council of Colored Workers will meet Sunday, October 14th, at 1315 East 18th street, in the back of Mr. Hopkins' real estate office, at 3 p. m. The public is invited.
J. L. SHAW,
Chairman of the day.
W. M. BONNER, Secretary.
RUCKER SMITH, Organizer.
And Many Mexican Refugees Also
Subscribe at El Pago.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 10.—Negro soldiers at Fort Bliss have subscribed $100,000 to the Second Liberty Loan, according to the local Liberty Loan committee. A total of $1,226,000 had been subscribed here up to last night
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| HELENA, MONTANA Collins is seriously ill at his residence, and Mrs. Glover at a five course din
A. F. and A. M. Mo. ae 3904 Lloyd avenue....'The Busy Bee ner which proved to be one of the| Phetty(@ Siaam’s |
Juriedictt ey 3. Ek tiara Club of the Pleasant Valley Baptist |swellest affairs of the season....The| 6 oy | °
a rah Church met at the residence of their) Mesdames Robinson and Chandler : ‘ |
urisdiction ‘The demonstration given the forty- | captain, Brohtre Gus Watson, Tues-|gave a reception in honor of Mes- Little Cormex) |
Officere—1917. nine drafted men who left Helena on! dav avanine At the close of business |tamen Wine Bad Glover lant Monday! (lea | as (ose a
W. W. Fields, Cameron, Mo., Grand
‘Master.
C. ©. Clark, St, Louis, Mo. Dep.
Grand Master.
Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo., Senior
Grand Warden.
I. H. Bradbury, St. Louis, Mo.,
Junior, Grand Warden.
H. H, Walker, St. Joseph, Mo,, Grand
‘Treasurer.
Geo. W. K. Love, Kansas City,
Grand Secretary.
Neilson C. Crews, Kansas City, Re-
lief Secretary.
E. G, Lacey, Kansas City, G. L.
Ast District.
E. J. Cooper, Mexico, Mo. G. L.,
‘nd District.
OFFICERS OF GRAND CHAPTER,
R.A. M.
Missouri and Jurisdiction, 1917-18.
T. G. McCampbell, G. H. P., Quin-
daro, Kans.
A. L. Thomas, D. G. H. P., Jeffer-
son City, Mo.
J. P. Moffett, G. King, Sedalia, Mo,
8. A. May, G. Scribe, St. Louis, Mo.
Chas. Griggsby, G. Treas., Liberty,
Mo.
E. S. Baker, G. Secretary, Kansas
City, Mo.
Rone Lodge No. 28,"A. F. and
AY Me meets the dat and 3rd
Monday in each month. All
Master Masons In. good standing
Welcome, Emmett Spruell, W.
M.; C. H. Counteo, Sec'y.
Liberty Ledge No. 87, A. F.
and A. M., Liberty, Mo,, meets
the “Snd "and. ath Saturday
hights In each month. Willian
Parker, W. M.; Nelson Wallar,
Bec'y.
Mt, Olive Lodge No. 53, A. F.
and A, M., meets the 2nd and
{th Fridays in every month. Vis-
{ting Master Masons are wel-
come. W. H. Brown, W. M.
Albert Wilson, Secretary, 1820
Highland,
St. Stephens Chapter No. 37,
oval vArch” Masona,” Liberty.
Mo.” Meets first. Tuesday. in
each, month. |W. H. Robinson,
H P.""Win. Capps, Recorder.
SEZ _St Matthew Commandery
SE | No. 17, Liberty, Mo., meets
ls BOG|| the third Saturday night
Zor || Witiam Capps, B.C; W. HL
mcoX\ yobinson, Rec. 8ec'y.
pa eae ae
Sl U. BF
We. King, of ine, West Lodge
s No. 2f8 meets firat and third
Wednesdays in each month
fat 10th and Campbell, “C. F.
Wilson, “W M.; H.. Conway,
a B 880 Tracy Ave., Sécy.
D. OFT.
Primrose Tabernacle meets 1st
and 3d Wednesday nights in
fach ‘month at Tabor Hail, 1413
Vine street, “All Daughters and
Sir Knights In, good. standing
Bro welcome, Susie ‘Dotson, H.
P,, 1705 B. 12th; Estella Pitts,
C'R, 1815 B, 17th,
MASONIC BUILPING ASSOCIATION
T. G. McCampbell, President.
E, B. Thompson, Vice President.
‘W. H. Washington, Treasurer.
S. H. P, Edwards, Secretary.
Board of Directors:
N. W. Jordan. 8. Myers,
W.H. Brown. £, S. Baker,
W. R. Patterson.R, V. Adkins,
B.R. Francis. Richard Harris
Geo. Johnson, —‘R. Fulbright.
Meets second and fourth Tuesday
im each month,
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Bethel A. M. E. Church, 24th and Flora.
tobe sueptien’a Baptist Chureh, #4 Cnar:
16 St.
Centennial M. E, Church, 19th and
‘Woodland.
jr Second Baptist Church, 10th and Char
‘Alien Chapel A. M. B, Church, 10th and
Charlotte.
Bbeneser A. M. E, Church, 17th and
‘Tracy,
St. Augustine's P. B. Church, 11th and
‘Troost Avenue,
Ube Joba's A: M. 3. Church, 1748 Belle
lew.
[Sgventh Day Adventist, 224 and Wood-
‘St Monica's Catholle, 17th and Lydia.
Vine St. Baptist Church, 1825 Vine St
Ward Chapel A. M. B. ‘Church, 11th and
‘Tlorning Star Baptiat Church, 2311 Vine.
Highland Avenue Baptist Church, 11)
Highland.
‘Centropolls A. M, B. Church, Centrop-
oll, Mo.
Si. James A. M. B. Zion Church, 182%
Woodland Ave,
Second. Christian Church, 24th ant
Woodland.
piblisrim Baptist Church, 614 Chariot
Pleasant, Green Baptist, Church, Inde:
pendence Avenue and Tracy.
‘Calvary Baptist Church, 19th anc
Asiew.
GM. B. Church, 1817 Flora Ave.
St, James Baptist Churen, 4039 Min St
St. Luke's A.-M. H, Church, 43rd an¢
Prospect Place.
CLARK CHAPEL M, E. CHURCH,
1064 Madison Ave.
KANSAS CITY, KAN, CHURCHES.
Church of Ascension, 3rd and Steward.
Fire Anat is church, Sth and Neb
Bighth St. Baptist Church, 8th and
Metropolitan ‘Baptist Church, 9th and
Ontetropalitan .
wi
Bethel “A. M. E, Church, Water and
steward Stresta,
aes ‘M. E. Church, 2ist and
ay.
‘First Baptist Church, 5th and Neb.
King Solomon Baptist Church, Sra and
A. M. B. Chur Quindaro.
Bioasant Walley Baptist Church, Rose-
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HELENA, MONTANA.
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‘The demonstration given the forty-
nine drafted men who left Helena ox
the 5th for American Lake, Wash.
was unequalley by anything given in
this city. The race was well repre
sented and occupied a very prominent
place in line. ‘They carried an im:
mense American flag and were cheer
ed and applauded all along the line
Sergeant C. C, Matthews, retired, was
in charge, in full dress uniform, and
Sergeant James Miner, retired, of
Troop 4, Tenth Cavalry....Mrs, Liz
zie Cole is on the sick list....Mr
James Collins, ex-stewart of the Mon
tana Club and present valet of Charles
W. Clarke, Montana multimftionaire
‘of Los Angeles, Calif., was in the city
shaking hands with old acquaintances
| .+-Miss Olga York Is home from an
extended visit in Minneapolis....Mrs
Rebecca Green has gone to Boston
Nase +. Mr, G, B, Styke of Californis
|was in our city for a few days...
Rey. H. C. Parsons of Ebenezer Bap
tist Church left on the 8 th to attenc
|the Baptist Convention in Billings
Mont....The Mite Missionary Societ;
of St. James A. M. E. Church gave at
interesting program on Sunday after
‘noon....The Busy Bees were enter
tained at the home of Mrs. Jeffersor
‘Harrison on Thursday evening...
Rey. H. C. Parsons returned on the
re from Great Falls, Mont.
ARGENTINE, KANSAS.
The) Sahota” Pl ae.
A very delightful breakfast was
served by Mr. and Mrs. William Free-
lain Sunday morning at 10 o'clock in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Lane
of Elliott, Okla, Mrs. Dennis Hunna-
gin and Miss Ida May Hunnigin of
Coffeyville, Kas., and Mrs, John Bu-
ford of Argentine. Covers were laid
for six. A delightful menu was served.
The color scheme was beautifully car-
ried out in green. The guests depart-
ed declaring that they would not soon
forget the morning....Rev. R. 8. Ev-
erett of Coffeyville, Kas. has been
assigned to St. Paul Chapel, and filled
the pulpit at both services last Sun-
day....The Needlecraft Art Club was
entertained by Mrs. Nellie Bryan in
Kansas City, Kas., last tThursday af-
ternoon. The following officers were
eleeted: Mrs. Pruitt, president; Mrs.
Eya Bailey, secretary, and Mrs. Fan.
nie Carter, treasurer. Mrs. Eva Bai:
ley will entertain the club at thei:
next meeting....Mr. Cornelius Dan
iels of Kansas City, Kansas, and Mis:
Mary Allston of Argentine, Kansas
were married Wednesday, October 3
and are residing at 948 New Jerse}
avenue, Kansas City, Kansas....Mr
John Patton is improving after a se
[vere fliness. Mrs, Josephine Mur
ray is ill....Baptismal services were
‘held at the Second Baptist Church,
Sunday, 7, at 3 o'clock, at which time
‘the pastor and congregation of Jeru
salem Baptist Church were present
‘There were four candidates..,..Mr
and Mrs, Isaac Manlove are the prou¢
parents of a girl, born Wednesday
| October &.
idence...Mr. and Mrs. L. D, Williams,
12 Rolling Mill street, are the proud
parents of a fine boy, born Thursday,
October 4, They have given him the
name of Lilburn Dudley .Mr, Levi
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HE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 191
Collins is seriously ill at his residence,
8904 Lloyd avenue....The Busy Bee
Club of the Pleasant Valley Baptist
Chureh met at the residence of their
captain, Brohtre Gus Watson, Tues:
day evening. At the close of business
the hostess served a sumptuous re-
past....The Pleasant Valley Mission
Circle met with Mrs, Joseph Collins
Monday afternoon, at which time the
election of officers was held. Mrs,
Carrie Henderson, president; Mrs,
Sarah Thornton, secretary; Mrs. Fati-
mer Morton, treasurer; Mrs. Addie
Williams, vice president. Dainty re-
freshments were served by the host
ess.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
| ice iit Selby etsy
J. C. Wright went to his home in
White Cloud, Kas., the past....T, P.
Palmer left Monday for Washington,
D. C., where he enters Howard Uni-
‘versity to finish his medical course.
|We wish him success....Mrs. Bow-
ers left this week to join her husband
in Mississippi....Rev. J. W. Webb of
Chicago was in the city Sunday and
preached for Rey. B. Hillman’s con-
gregation. The speaker gave his heat-
ers a wonderful message, which all
enjoyed as being full of wholesame
instruction....Word has been receiv:
ed stating that Dr. J. S. Payne has
been reappointed to serve Lincoln on-
other year....Mrs, Anna Arbucile
‘died at_her home, 2029 North 29th
‘street, Tuesday. Deceased was the
‘grandmother of Nimrod Ross, who
being only known relative, and she
/was 103 years old. The funeral was
held in Castle, Rofer & Matthews’
undertaking parlors, Wednesday...
Rev. B, Hillman and nephew, Hall
Hillman, were Omaha visitors this
week....Mrs, J. C, Collins still lingers
quite ill....Roy MeAlister left for his
home in Atchison, Kas., this week....
Amaranth Chapter No. 54, 0. E. S.,
held memorial in their hall last Sun-
day afternoon in honor of their de-
ceased past G. R. Patron, Prof. Wil-
liams, of Kansas City, Mo....Wo-
man’s Davis C!ub held their entertain-
ment in the Mt. Zion church last Fri-
day night and was fairly attended.
BUTTE, MONT.
Mrs, Wm, Estes and Mrs, Dell Tur-
ner have returned to the city after a
three weeks’ sojourn in Seattle,
Wash.....Rey. EB. B. Reed of the Beth-
el Baptist Church returned home Sat-
urday morning after spending sevetal
weeks throughout the State of Colo-
rado....Mr, John Lucas is now sta-
tioned at Larkins Barber Shop, 414 8.
Main Street....Wm. H. Brown and
Miss Clara Rice were quietly married
Saturday and have gone to Anaconda
‘to reside permanently....Mrs. Mitch:
‘ell of Los Angeles, Calif., has fully re:
covered from her recent illness and
left for her home Tuesday evening.
‘She was accompanied by Mrs. Mary
Haynes, who will visit throughout the
| State of California....Sunday was
Mission day and Rey. Reed preached
fa very inspiring sermon on Missions,
Mrs. John Bird faovred the congrega-
i with a beautiful solo....The Mite
Mission met at the home of Mrs. Chap:
pelle. Rey. Allen talked splendidly on
“Missionary work. There were two
|members added to the society, Mrs.
Duncan and Mrs, Davis....Albert An.
thony, a Negro, certified for military
service in Brooklyn, is under arrest
in Butte as a deserter....The K. of P.
Club will meet in the literary room
of Bethel Baptist Church October 14
WEIR, KANSAS.
By Mrs. A. R. Phillips.
Mrs. Carrie Jackson of Nowata, Ok.,
is in the city visiting friends and rela-
tives....Rev. F. H. Prentice of this
city and Rey. H. Ford, of Pittsburg,
Kans., are carrying on a revival at
Yale, Kans.......Mrs. Mary King of
Pittsburg was in the city Saturday
evening on business......Rey. B. F.
Berry, who was on the sick list, 4s
able to be out again. .Miss Dora Fore-
man was over from Cherokee Sunday.
:...Mrs. A. H, Phillips was in Pitts:
burg Wednesday in the intetrest of
‘The Sun and met with much success.
....We received the sad news of the
death of Mrs, Ida Roffee who was vis.
iting her mother in Kansas City. The
arrangements for the funeral services
have not been made upon going to
press....Mr. R. C, Chatman has pur.
chased a Studebaker car and drove to
Pittsburg Saturday and spent the day
with Prof. King and wife.....The new
pastor of the A. M. E, Church preach-
ed an excellent sermon at 11:00 a. m.
Sunday morning....The U. B. F. will
initiate a class of ten candidates on
the 9th and the. 8. M. TT, are inyited
up to the hall to take luncheon. . ."The
Queen Esther Temple No. 21 will give
a spread, for one of their members is
to take leave soon for North ‘Topeka.
+++.The member is Mrs. J. W. John.
son....The Central School gave a sur
price party at the residence of Mr
and Mrs. A. R. Phillips Tuesday night.
It was given in honor of the principal
Prof. W. C. Crosby. The school pre
sented Prof. Crosby two nice presents
BILLINGS, MONT,
Rev. F. G. Barr was again assigned
to this city ae pastor of the A, M. EB
Chureh....Mrs. Belle Browning is
quite ill....Miss Lulu Bivens, the
youngest daughter of Mr, and Mrs
Bivens, is very ill and we hope for her
a speedy recovery....Mrs. Winn of
Kansas City is visiting Billings at the
of Mrs, Bell Browning... .Mrs
Conley entertained Mrs. Wint
and Mrs. Glover at a five course din-
ner which proved to be one of the
swellest affairs of the season....The
Mesdames Robinson and Chandler
gave a reception in honor of Mes:
dames Winn and Glover last Monday
evening at the home of Mrs, Yates,
110 N. 28rd street. Those present
speak in grand terms of the occasion.
The guests were Mesdames Conley,
Cook, Baker, Brown, Sera, Baltimore,
LINCOLN, NEBR.
Mrs. A. B, Smith was called to Bea-
trice Wednesday, her sister being {11
<...Mr. and Mrs. John 'T. McDonald
are the parents of a fine girl....Mr.
and Mrs. Wm, Woods entertained on
account of her birthday Monday night.
:...Mrs. Lilfian Jeter Davis en route
to Fresno, Calif., gave a musicale at
the A. M. EB, Church Friday evening.
-...The Bell family motored to Omaha
last week....Rey, Jas, W. Webb of
Chicago lectured on “The Black Man’s
Part in the Bible” Tuesday night at
Mt. Zion Baptist Church.,..Bdward
Hale, son of Mr, and Mrs. A. E. Hale
died after a brief illness of pneumonia
at Spokane, Washington. The boy
was brought here for burial and the
funeral was held at Brown & Doyle's
Undertaking Parlors 2:30 _ o'clock
Wednesday, Rev. Hillman officiating.
+...The following relatives attended
the funeral: Mrs. Martha Hale and
Mrs, Jas. Ford of Kansas City; Mrs.
Richard Gorham of Omaha, Neb.;
Herman Hale of Burlington, 1a.
FROM BLADES OF GRASS.
By Charles A. Starks.
‘Tis morning. I lie in bed, gazing
out my kitehen window, looking per-
haps for some hints of a sunshiny
day. 1 finally note a few blades of
grass with pointed tongues reaching
up above the rock sill; these are brist-
ling with a golden color which I know
is not their own, and I conclude from
this that the Sun is awake to the
Sun, because the sun never moves,
but lives and shines always, without
ceasing, It cannot stop, it must
shine, it must reflect the great prin:
ciple of life-truth.
But why do I only see one bright
beam enjeweling the blades of grass:
when there is an old wagon nearby
and an old barn and other objects un
der the sun's light? The thought
comes to me that it is the location
‘of these blades of grass that peculiar
izes them and appears to give them
‘greater glory. The other objects may
be hidden even by other objects and
lare therefore denied this present
jglory. ‘This I have called position
| because in a like manner it is true o!
‘us. ‘The Sun does not move—Trutt
(does not change. If some object:
‘seem more glorified than others, we
have learned it is owing to their po
‘sition. If the light of truth seems
brighter in some people than it doe:
in others, it is because of their differ
ence of attitude. The Sun dos not
move; truth does not change, but mer
are restless creatures. And as I lie
look and write, I note now that every
thing is aglow with livelier hue. The
old wagon, the old barn are now shin
ing with the gliding’ dye of the Sun
From this gleam that though some ob
jects by their peculiar position re
flect the sunshine before others, stil
‘all obpects are sure to be affectec
sooner or later. And so learn th
|truth—some early, some late. But al
|shall know, All shall see the ligh’
of heaven. This thought makes m¢
|glad, and I find myself thanking th
blades of grass—the reflection—thi
| sun—God!
WHAT PROHIBITION IS DOING FOR
THE NEGRO.
One of the most astonishing revolu
tions in history is taking place in the
southern states,
A few years ago, despite all the
optimistic talk of ‘his friends, the Ne
gro was getting ahead chiefly as ¢
consumer of whisky. Today good
times and prohibition together are
making not only good citizens but sub
stantial citizens of thousands of Ne
groes who a few years ago owned 4
hound dog and a whisky appetite an¢
nothing else,
Mr. N. L. Willett, writing in the Au
gusta Chronicle, says that within a
hundrednile radius of Augusta it is
estimated that from 3,000 to 5,000 au
tomobiles, ranging in value from $40¢
to $1,300, will be sold this season te
‘Negro farmers, One agent in Augusta
‘according to Mr. Willett, has already
sold this fall 35 $1,300 cars and near
» every one of them went to Negroes
White men throughout the South
are regarding the change with great
complacency. A Negro who has ar
automobile has a stake in the coun
try, and usually behaves himself,
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That there's no more detestable
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—That there are more Negroes try-
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—That there are a lot of girls in
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Statement of the ownershsisp, man-
agement, circulation, etc., required by
the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912,
of the Kansas City Sun, published
weekly at Kansas City, Mo., for Octo-
ber 1, 1917.
Before me, a Notary Public in and
for the State and County aforesaid,
personally appeared Nelson C, Crews,
who having been duly sworn accord-
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ig the Editor of the Kansas City Sun
and that the following is, to the best
of his knowledge and belief a true
aie of the ownership and man-
agement of the aforesaid publication
for the date shown in the above cap-
tion required by the Act of August 24,
'1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal
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‘That the name of the Publisher,
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the Business Manager is Willa M.
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are no known bondholders, mortgages
or other security holders owing one
per cent or more of the total amount
ot bonds or securities.
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THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917.
AMONG THE CHURCHES
ALLEN CHAPEL.
By Delia H. Mosee.
The grand sermon delivered by Dr. William H. Thomas, marking the close of the Conference year, is published in full in this issue of The Sun. Read it. It was stenographically reported by a pupil of the Business Course department of Western University. Rev. J. W. Hurse, D. D., accompanied by his cadets and famous choir made a joyful noise in Allen Chapel Sunday afternoon. He delivered a powerful sermon and lifted a splendid collection of $62.00 for educational purposes. In the evening Rev. R. L. Johnson of Los Angeles, Cal., preached a fine sermon. Monday night the last class meeting of the Conference year was held; Dr. J. F. Griffen and members of the First A. M. E. Church Kansas City, Kans., were present and a glorious meeting was held. All so cieties assessed for Conference turned in their claims at this meeting making excellent reports. The musical recital at Allen Chapel Friday evening October 5, given by the Musical Faculty of Lincoln Institute was a grand success. All are cheerfully invited to share our Church home.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The Young Women's Missionary Circle had a splendid meeting with Mrs. Corce Everett, 2715 Highland avenue, Wednesday. The Auxiliary to the Christian Women's Board of Missions had a well attended and very profitable meeting at the parsonage Thursday. The Bible School had its largest attendance and the interest increasing in the good work. The servons were highly commended and the spirit of the worship was helpful. The offering was very good. Next Sunday at 11:00 a. m. the Minister's subject will be "Six Infallible Witnesses to our Salvation, three in heaven and three on earth." All are welcome to all services.
VINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
All services were well attended. Mr. George Clark and Miss Helen Mopping are somewhat better at this writing. We hope they will continue. ...Mrs. S. P. Allen is visiting her parents and many friends at various points in Texas...Mrs. E. J. Hines, 2011 Askew, is visiting friends in Red Bird, Okla...Sunday is election of officers in the B. Y. P. U. All are invited to attend...The Moore's concert last week was indeed fine. We hope they will sing again in the near future.
MME A. MOORE
Teacher of
Piano and Voice
1905 E. 19th Street
Bell Phone E. 5407
ST. JAMES A. M. E. ZION CHURCH
1805 Woodland Avenue.
ORDER OF SERVICE.
Sunday Preaching at .....11:00 A.M.
and 8:00 P.M.
Christian Endeavor .....6:30 P.M.
Sunday School .....1:45 P.M.
Monday Board Meeting.....8.00 P.M.
Tuesday Missionary .....8.00 P.M.
Friday Prayer and Class
Meeting.....8:00 P.M.
Everyone is cordially invited to at
tend St. James.
C. D. PARKER, D. D., Pastor.
ELECTION CONTEST.
There will be an election contest at the Morning Star Baptist Church, 2311 Vine street, October 17, between Masculine Ryland Melford, who is a candidate for King, and little Miss Mary Grant, who is a candidate for Queen. We are asking all the ladies to support the little girl and all the men to support the boy. The polls will open at 7:30 p. m. and close at 9:45 p. m. Whoever is elected will be crowned on the evening of the 24th of October, after the great banquet. Come and witness this delightful affair.—A. Williams and Mrs. Janie Hill, Promoters.
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH.
"A Vision" was the subject of Dr. Bacote's beautiful sermon last Sunday morning and was greatly appreciated by an unusually large audience. In the evening the Covenant meeting was held and the Lord's Supper administered. Four candidates received the ordinance of baptism. During the day six souls were added to the church. ....The entertainment which was given by the Mission Circle last Thursday night called "The Twelve Tribes of Israel" was a grand success.... Miss McGliss (white) of the Welfare Board made excellent remarks at the meeting of the Mission Circle at the home of Mrs. McDaniels, 1513 Michigan avenue, last Friday afternoon. Next Sunday, October 14, a great educational mass meeting of the churches of both Kansas Citys under the auspices of the New Era Association will be held in this church at 3 p. m., to which everybody is invited.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
Next Sunday will mark the opening of our Sunday Men's Meetings for the season. At this time Rev. W. J. Robinson of the Kensington Avenue Baptist Church will be the speaker. Rev. Robinson is one of the best speakers in the city and you should hear him Sunday at 3:30 p. m.
On Monday evening, October 15, at 8:30 p. m. Attorney J. Vance Lewis of Houston, Texas, will deliver an address at the Y. M. C. A. This address will be free to men and women. Attorney Lewis is one of the most eloquent men of the race. He was an eye-witness to the Houston tragedy, and will tell all about it in his lecture.
THE FEDERATION OF THE COLORED CHRISTIAN CHURCHES OF GREATER KANSAS CITY.
To the Colored Brotherhood:
This is to call your attention to the meeting of the Inter-National Christian Missionary Convention in Kansas City, Mo., October 24-31, 1917. Also call your attention to the great need of a national meeting of Negroes of the church.
We consider we have in the meeting of the Inter-National Convention of Brotherhood here this fall, a great opportunity for a wise and helpful meeting in all respects for the Negro Christian Brotherhood.
The three Colored Christian Churches of Greater Kansas City, their friends and sister churches join in cordially inviting the Brotherhood to Kansas City, and will make you welcome.
Kansas City is in the territory of the disciples of Christ and is one of their strongholds, and the central states of the Mississippi Valley hold a big population of the Brotherhood of both races.
Kansas City can be easily reached by railroads from all sections of the country.
To the convention there will be special rates on all railroads to Kansas City.
We can meet on this occasion in Kansas City much cheaper in all respects than any other city.
We can witness the great Inter-National Convention and be in the atmosphere of one of the greatest religious Missionary bodies in the world.
A part of the sessions will be held in the Second Christian Church, Twenty-fourth and Woodland Ave. The program of these sessions will be National in scope and nature. Some of our greatest preachers, speakers and workers of both races have accepted places on the program.
The program will consist largely of symposium, conferences and round table talks respecting our local, state and National Missionary Educational work.
The evening addresses will be made by men and women of the church of National reputation as convention and platform speakers.
Representatives and Secretaries of the National Missionary Boards, and our National Field Workers have promised to be on hand and take part in the program.
We claim the race has much in Kansas City, of which to be proud, and that you will enjoy. It will be well worth your time and money to spend a few days in Kansas City, especially on such a mission.
So, all in all, this will be a great meeting ror you to attend, and we urge our ministers and faithful workers throughout the country to come.
The Federation of Colored Christian Churches of Greater Kansas City.
G. A. TERRY, President.
J. D. SMITH, Treasurer.
WILLIAM ALPHIN,
Cor. Sec'y.
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$25 month.
5-room, close in, on 17th street, $1,
850; $150 down; bal. to suit.
These are among the best bargains
anywhere in the city. Only a little
trouble for you to call me over phone
and arrange to see them.
WEST 1757. BELL PHONE.
SAY, PEOPLE!
HAVE YOU EVER RIDDEN IN
E. ALFORD'S
ELEGANT 7-Passenger
Eight Cylinder Chalmers?
WELL, IT'S A REAL LUXURY.
Give him a call.
Rates reasonable.
E. ALFORD,
1407 Michigan Ave.
AMERICAN WOODMEN
in a class to itself insures against
old age, disability, accident, sickness,
death, burial.
$150,000.00 for Protection of Policy
Holders.
$400,000.00 Paid as Benefits.
$30,000,000.00 of Insurance Written.
This unsolicited letter was
handed to us by Mr. Upton at
the close of our examination,
and after his board had examin-
ed every certificate in force by
the American Woodmen. When
it is remembered that not a half
dozen fraternals have so high a
valuation, we should all rejoice
at this wonderful achievement
of Negro big business.
Mr. L. H. Lightner,
Supreme Clerk, American
Woodmen.
It affords me great pleasure to inform you that after carefully valuing your certificates for the closed calendar year, I find the American Woodmen stands well in the lead of most Fraternals of America with a valuation of 112.1 per cent. When it is considered that a large per cent. of the Fraternal Societies of the country have a valuation of less than 75 per cent, you are especially to be congratulated for the very excellent standing of the American Woodmen.
This letter proves to you the status of this society. Then you should waste no time to become a member. (a) 42nd Office, 5th Floor, 9th St.
Phones: Bell, Grand 317; Mome, Main 3963.
SOCIAL SERVICE LECTURES.
There will be given at Old City Hospital, a series of lectures on Social Service, beginning Wednesday evening, September 19, and every Thursday thereafter throughout the year. These lectures will be given by experts along their special lines, as indicated by the following program. They will also be free, and anyone wishing to take advantage of them is invited to attend. They will be given in the nurses' Study Room of the Old City Hospital, and will begin promptly at 8 o'clock p. m.
Oct. 11-18: Mrs. Mary Ream, district supervisor Provident Association. Subject, "Provident Association and Its Work."
Oct. 25-Nov. 1: Mr. W. H. Phipps, food and dairy department Board of Health. Subject, "Relation of Safe Food to Public Health, or Kansas City's Food Control."
Nov. 9: Mr. E. J. Fleming, Legal Aid Bureau. Subject, "The Legal Aid Bureau, Its Work and Results."
Nov. 15: Rev. W. H. Thomas, pastor of Allen Chapel, Subject, "The Church and Its Duty."
Nov. 22: Miss Anna M. Barr, R. N. Visiting Nurses Association. Subject, "Public Health Nursing."
Nov. 29: Mr. H. R. Ennis, president Board of Public Welfare. Subject, "Following up the Paroiled Prisoner."
Dec. 6: Mrs. T. G. McCampbell, president Federated Colored Women's Clubs. Subject, "Tag-Day."
Dec. 13: Mr. F. F. McClure, superintendent Recreation Department Board of Public Welfare. Subject, "A City Plan for Recreation."
Dec. 20: Miss Stella Coles. Subject, "The Campfire Girls."
Jan. 10. 1918: Mrs. J. E. Dibble, investigator, Provident Association. Subject, "Social Service in the Hospital."
Jan. 17: Mr. J. A. Borron, chief sanitary inspector, Board of Health. Subject, "Sanitation as Related to Social Work."
Jan. 24-31: Miss A. J. Sorta, Women's Reformatory. Subject, "Training and Care of Delinquent Girls."
Feb. 7: Mrs. T. W. H. Williams. Subject, "The School for Servant Girls."
Feb. 14: Mrs. Mary Green, investigator, Provident Association.
Feb. 21-28: Mr. J. O. Stutsman, superintendent Municipal Farm. Subject, "Causes of Crime."
March 7: Dr. E. L. Mathias, chief probation officer. Subject, "The Juvenile Court."
March 14: Dr. Alberta Green, Women's Raoformatory. Subject, "Girls."
March 21: Prof. J. R. E. Lee, principal, Lincoln High School. Subject, "The School and Social Service."
March 28: Mrs. E. L. Bringham, Helping Hand Association.
April 4: Miss Anna Jones, Lincoln High School. Subject, "The Working Girls' Home."
April 11: Mrs. Margaret Barnett, investigator for Board of Health.
April 18: Mr. James A. Lee, truant officer. Subject, "The Truant Child."
April 25: Miss Beatrice Sydnor. R. N. and Miss Grace White, teacher. Subject, "The Fresh Air School."
May 2: Miss Eva M. Marquis. Subject, "How to Develop the Social Life of the Community."
May 9: Mr. O. J. Hill, president Federated Negro Charities.
May 16: Mrs. Frances J. Jackson, County Home for Negroes. Subject, "The County Home."
Committee on Finance St. Louis Branch of the N. A. A. C. P.
N. A. A. C. P.
REV. J. W. DAY, President.
MR. CHAS. A. FITTMAN, 1st Vice Pres.
MR. CHAS. A. FITTMAN, 2d Vice Pres.
MISS C. F. WILKERSON, Secretary.
MR. WM. H. HUFFMAN, Treasurer.
COMMITTEE.
REV. W. H. FECK, Chairman.
MR. JAMES A. LHEIL.
MR. A. W. LLOYD.
REV. B. F. ABBOTT.
MR. W. F. HUFFMAN, Sec'y-Treas.
PYTHIAN TEMPLE. 3137 PINE STREET
The St. Louis Branch of the L. close proximity) has devolved the claims for losses and detecting an matter of the barbarous rioting at in the first week of July, 1917, he that are necessary to the accomplish
The future safety of the Col. States depends upon the nation's viction and punishment shall be as sons because they are Colored as
Colored people alone can give and it shall be given most thorough are here asking for.
To this date $1,067.00 has been $648.00 has been expended. At other expense create need for a to
We publish fortnightly, in a money received and all expenditure persons with copies of these reports
We earnestly ask prompt, get pledge exhaustive effort for redress
Send all contributions by cheque to William H. Huffman, Treasure St. Louis, Mo.
Very truly yours for the p. American citizenship,
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Louis Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. on whom security has devolved the labor of giving relief to masses and detecting and prosecuting the crime. The barbarous rioting and massacres at East Side week of July, 1917, here makes a general appeal necessary to the accomplishment of its work.
Sure safety of the Colored people throughout lands upon the nation being taught that arrest and punishment shall be the portion of those who they are Colored as surely as such assault to people alone can give this lesson. We are not given most thoroughly; but we must have working for.
Update $1,067.00 has been contributed for this expended. Attorneys, detectives, counsel create need for a total of $5,000.00.
Public fortnightly, in available newspapers, lived and all expenditures and we will furnish copies of these reports on request.
Nestly ask prompt, general response to this urgent effort for redress and correction.
And contributions by check, registered letter or H. Huffman, Treasurer, Pythian Temple, 3131 No.
Fully yours for the peace and security of Citizenship,
Louis BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ADVANCEMENT OF THE COLORED M.
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The St. Louis Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. on whom (because of close proximity) has devolved the labor of giving relief, prosecuting claims for losses and detecting and prosecuting the criminals in the matter of the barbarous rioting and massacres at East St. Louis, Ill., in the first week of July, 1917, here makes a general appeal for funds that are necessary to the accomplishment of its work.
The future safety of the Colored people throughout the United States depends upon the nation being taught that arrest, trial, conviction and punishment shall be the portion of those who assail persons because they are Colored as surely as such assault is made.
Colored people alone can give this lesson. We are giving it now and it shall be given most thoroughly; but we must have the help we are here asking for.
To this date $1,067.00 has been contributed for this purpose and $648.00 has been expended. Attorneys, detectives, court fees, and other expense create need for a total of $5,000.00.
We publish fortnightly, in available newspapers, reports of all money received and all expenditures and we will furnish interested persons with copies of these reports on request.
We earnestly ask prompt, general response to this appeal and we pledge exhaustive effort for redress and correction.
Send all contributions by check, registered letter or money order to William H. Huffman, Treasurer, Pythian Temple, 3137 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Very truly yours for the peace and security of law-observing American citizenship.
ST. LOUIS BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE COLORED PEOPLE
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Wholesale and Retail
LIVE AND DRESSED
POULTRY, EGGS
and GAME
Fresh from the country.
IN ONE EAR AND OUT
THE OTHER
Most verbal appeals fall
down because people are
indifferent to them. Inattention becomes a habit,
in one ear and out the
other. The very existence
of the phrase proves the
point. Visual impressions
get there and stick.
MOON BROS'.
Live and Dressed Poultry, fresh from the country, can give you the impression through the eye that stick. If you see for yourself, you are sure to become a customer.
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MR. W. T. ANCELLE.
MR. C. A. PITTMAN, Chairman
REV. J. W. DAY.
DEAN CARROLL M. DAVIS.
MR. W. T. ANCELLE.
MR. ALBERT BURGESS.
MR. D. E. GORDON.
MR. WM. H. HUFFMAN.
MR. W. T. ANCELLE.
DR. T. A. CURTIS.
MISS JESSIE L. MOLLER.
N. A. A. C. P. on whom (because the labor of giving relief, prosecution and prosecuting the criminals in land massacres at East St. Louis, there makes a general appeal for fulfillment of its work.
Colored people throughout the U.S. being taught that arrest, trial, or the portion of those who assault is surely as such assault is made. Give this lesson. We are giving it roughly; but we must have the help been contributed for this purpose, attorneys, detectives, court fees, total of $5,000.00.
Available newspapers, reports of features and we will furnish interests on request.
General response to this appeal and press and correction.
Check, registered letter or money order, Pythian Temple, 3137 Pine St.
Peace and security of law-observer.
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EDITORIALS.
The Sun was favored with a pleasant call from Mr. Fred C. Williams, traveling representative of the Omaha Monitor. He is a p leasing gentleman to meet and makes friends wherever he goes.
The attention of the Society for the Suppression of Commercialized Vice is called to the fact that there is still a very noticeable vice district in the North End which appears to be run by very low Negro women for still lower white men.
It is indeed gratifying to note that the Lincoln Open Air School is already full and has aconsiderable waiting list. Parents have not been slow to appreciate the benefits of this modern treatment of delicate children and improvement in the health of the children are already being realized.
In the continued illness of Dr. H. T. Kealing many friends have just cause for alarm over the probable outcome. Dr. Kealing is one of our really great men and one that we are by no means prepared to lose. His high order of intellectual, moral, social and religious service has for many years been one of the most highly cherished assets of the whole race.
Starting with a matinee Sunday, October 14, The Dubinsky Brothers' Stock Company will begin their fourth successful week of permanent stock at the Grand with a splendid production of that clever comedy, "A Pair of Sixes," which is hailed as one of the funniest comedies ever seen in Kansas City.
"A Pair of Sixes" was seen last season at the Shubert at two dollar prices and the Dubinsky Brothers will give an exact production of the play as first presented in New York, giving the theatergoers of Kansas City an opportunity to witness this attraction for the first time at popular prices. Charming Irene Daniel will appear in the part originally played by Ann Murdock in New York. Chester Bishop, Charles Cubine, Barney Dubinsky, Lloyd Sabine, Hazel Stone, Lorena Tolson, Gladys Bush and Fred Butler will be seen in comedy roles. The bargain matinees on Sunday, Thursday and Saturday have proved very popular.
Marguerite
Henry
"Which One Shall I Marry?" is the new play by Ralph T. Kettering which Rowland and Howard are producing this year. It will be presented at the Garden all next week.
The play is an allegory, and shows a young girl standing at the "crossroads of life" intent upon the question which is so engrossing to every girl. "Which One Shall I Marry?"—this is the question—and it is also the title and theme of the play. It is simple in story, but intensely interesting from its heart appeal, and abounds in comedy of the most amusing description. The Irish aristocracy is shown in the person of Mike Moran. The author sums up his intent in writing the play, when he says: "The play only consumes a single hour of life, and still covers Aeons of time in telling."
The first and last acts form a complete play.
The management of the Garden Theatre have opened up the entire mezzinine or box floor to the colored people. The prices will be 20 and 30 cents. These prices apply to the engagement starting Sunday, October 14th and all the time every week thereafter.
Classified Wants and Rooms to Rent
WANTED AT ONCE.
Colored men, women, boys and girls
to fill high class jobs and positions.
Apply Square Deal Employment Bureau,
1315 E. 18th St.
For Rent, 2100 Charlotte street—
One, two and four-room apartments,
modern, hot water heat. Reference.
For Rent—Strictly modern 5-room
apartment, elegantly located, 2608
Highland. Bell Phone, East 2507.
FOR RENT—Neatly furnished
rooms, 2403 Vine Street.
FOR RENT, 2501 Michigan—6-room
house; water and gas; $15.00 per
month. Mrs. Ruf, 2529 Monroe Ave.
WANTED—Two furnished rooms,
centrally located, in nice family. Address Sun office.
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms;
strictly modern, in private family.
Board if desired. Bell phone, East
4067-M 1215 Paseo.
FOR RENT—Neatly furnished room
for one or two ladies. Call Bell
phone, East 4405.
FOR RENT—Neatly furnished room.
Modern. Gentlemen preferred. Call
Sun Office, East 999.
NEGRO HELP WANTED.
All kinds of work for men, women and boys at all times. See Rivers Manager Afro-American Employment Co., 1510 East 18th Street.
FOR SALE
Northeast corner, 22d and Bellefontaine—Large 8 room house, 35 foot corner lot with improvements all in. Price $1,650. Call Home phone, East 1455.
FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms to porters only. Call Bell 'phone East 1147J. Mrs. E. Rose, 1514 East Tenth street.
WANTED—Children to care for by the day or week. 1514 East Tenth street. Bell 'phone East 1147J.
HIGH CLASS COLORED APART.
MENTS.
Kelly Apartments, 16th and Tracy, newly decorated and cleaned throughout. Bath and gas range furnished. First time occupied by Colored tenants. No Children or Pets allowed. For rent to High Class Colored tenants with references only. See these at once, only $12.50 and $13.50. Janitor will show. Phone rental man with Moffatt Realty Co., Both Phones, Main 3207.
NOTICE TO MISTER RENTER.
A very small payment down and the balance like rent will buy you a nice modern home in the most exclusive neighborhood in Kansas City. Begin now. SEE THE SQUARE DEAL REALTY AND INVESTMENT CO., 1315 E. 18th street. Bell phone, Grand 317, Home phone Main 3963. We have the largest and most reasonable list of properties of any Colored real estate firm in the city.
HELP WANTED
Colored laborers, good workers, with small families, to go to Utah for coke oven work. Wages $1.85 per ton for pulling and loading. Good men can pull and load three tons or more in 7 or 8 hours. There are men on this job that have earned $200.00 a month.
Four-room cottages, with running water and electric lights, can be rented for $8.00 month. No labor troubles of any kind. Groceries and provisions cost same as they are here. There is about a dozen colored families there at present. This is an excellent chance to earn money. Will ship Tuesday, October 16. Transportation furnished. For further particulars, call Rivers, Manager AfroAmerican Employment Co., 1510 East 18th street; Bell phone East 782; Home phone East 802.
Wonderful Opportunity
Wonderful Opportunity to Own Your Own Homewithan Income for Old Age
This flat is located at 1910-12 East 26th St., facing south. It is a solid brick building and modern with electric light and gas, just finished and full of satisfied tenants. I will sell this six apartment flat of three rooms to each apartment, so that it will pay for itself in 12 years without a dollar of your money, except the first installment of 500 dollars. It rents for $75 a month. This is your opportunity, investigate.
Home phone 9096 Main.
Bell phone 658 Main.
Evenings 3232 Linwood.
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917
Negro Business and Professional Directory of Greater Kansas City
MRS. SUSIE OWENS, 2331 Vine street Bell phone. East 5017.
BARBER SHOPS
LABORING MEN'S BARBER SHOP,
W. F. O'Bonnon, Prop., 558 Grand
avenue.
BEAUTY PARLORS AND HAIR
DRESSERS.
MISS ELSI ROGERS, Poro Hair
Dresser, 1244 Armstrong Avenue,
Kansas City, Kansas.
MRS. CORA D. WILLIAMS, Poro Hair
Dresser, 1319 Euclid Ave. Bell
phone, East 1215-J.
MRS. SUSIE P. GIPSON, 1725 Michigan
avenue, Poro hair dresser. Bell
Phone, East 305J.
CAFES.
MRS. H. W. DOTSON, 1705 East 12th.
Bell Phone, E. 2214.
DELMONICA CAFE, 1512 East 18th
street. Bell phone, East 618.
FLORISTS.
CROSTHWAIT FLORAL CO., 1501 E.
Ninth. Bell phone, East 272.
LAWYERS
C. H. CALLOWAY, 601 Delaware,
Home phone M. 58, Bell phone Main
448. Practices in all courts.
W. C. HUESTON, 601 Delaware, Home
phone, M58, Bell phone Main 448.
Legal advice. Practices in all
courts.
E. A. SHACKLEFORD, Attorney at
Law, 511 Minnesota avenue, Kansas
City, Kas. Bell phone, West 3866.
JEWELERS.
J. A. WILSON, 1616 W. Ninth street,
Kansas City, Mo. Bell phone, Main
6248R.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
J. E. MILLER STUDIO, 1622 East
Eighteenth street. Bell phone, E. 91.
REAL ESTATE AND EMPLOYMENT.
COLORED PEOPLES INVESTMENT
CO., Solomon Smith, Pres., 2122
Vine St. Bell Phone, East 1011.
Home Phone, East 4011.
A B C EMPLOYMENT AND INVEST-
MENT CO., 500 Minnesota, avenue.
(Upstairs) Kansas City, Kas. Bell
phone, West 1743; Home phone,
West 221. C. W. Neloms, Mgr.
H. L. KINSLER, 918 East Twenty-
first street. Bell phone, Grand
4204.
SHOE STORE.
G. A. PAGE'S SHOE STORE, 1507 E. Eighteenth street. Bell phone, East 1328.
SHOE REPAIRING.
ELECTRIC SHOE & REPAIR SHOP,
J. C. Banks, Prop., 1514 $ \frac{1}{2} $ East Eighteenth street, Bell phone East 4339.
UNDERTAKERS.
ADKINS BROS. & GREEN, Nineteenth and Vine streets. Both Phones, East 4349.
H. B. MOORE, 1031 Independence avenue. Bell phone Main 3398W. Home phone Main 3341.
WATKINS BROS., 1729 Lydia avenue. Bell phone Grand 987, Home Main 7989. Res., Bell East 3281.
MADAME
RAMBOU
Beauty Culturist of Chicago, Ill.,
ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HER
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Hairdressing,Manicuring
Face Bleaching
Call and see her for low rates
1316 Euclid Ave., 3d floor
Phones—Bell East 2608
Home East 2633
Miss Goldie Price has opened a Studio of Music at her home, 1736 Brooklyn Ave. Special attention given to beginners. Lesson, 25 cents.
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MICHIGAN AVENUE RECORD EXCHANGE
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The Spotless Kitch
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13 WEST 13th STREET
a place in Kansas City for a Clean,
some, Satisfying Meal
Plays any make of records. Come every day. The Stewart Phonograph, $7.75, plays any make of records. All 50 cents a month.
AVENUE RECORD EXCHANGE
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T 13th STREET
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Twelve Nineteen Michigan Avenue.
The best place in Kansas City for a Clean, Wholesome, Satisfying Meal
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Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Press-
ing Oil, 1 Face Cream and
Direction for Selling, $2.
25c Extra for Postage.
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21 S. Compton Avenue,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
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Home Phone Main 5467
Bell Phone Grand 4591
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The W. L. Martin Ladies' and Gents'
Furnishing Store
Will Show You How to Save Money and Time
Buy Your Children's Clothing Here.
1313 E. 18th STREET.
Anyone holding policies with the National , the above company, notify us by phone or mail and we will call.
LINCOLN INSTITUTE
College, Normal Industrial and Courses for farmers and trades. Moral Tone, Violin, Piano, Vac Heat, Shower Baths.
President Allen has been and that fact assures stability. Term opens September 1.
For catalogue, write to Pr City, Mo.
College, Normal Industrial and Agricultural Courses. Short Courses for farmers and tradesmen. Superior Faculty, High Moral Tone, Violin, Piano, Voice. Electric Lights, Steam Heat, Shower Baths.
President Allen has been with the school twenty years and that fact assures stability and character for the work. Term opens September 1.
For catalogue, write to President B. F. Allen, Jefferson City, Mo.
Mrs.
Originator of
Mme. Lydia Gardner's Lip Reducer. $1.00 p
Why pay more than 50 cents
to get a trunk hauled?
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Stand, 2109 Campbell Street
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Agricultural Courses. Short men. Superior Faculty, High voice. Electric Lights, Steam
with the school twenty years and character for the work.
President B. F. Allen, Jefferson
Madam Lydia Gardner's Magic Lip Reducer
This wonderful preparation positively reduces thick lips without injury. Every bottle sold strictly guaranteed. Agents wanted in every town in the United States. My remedy does all I claim for it, or money refunded. Write or call at 316 Kentucky Ave., Joplin, Mo.
$1.00 per Bottle
than 50 cents
trunk hauled?
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Mrs. J. A. Hensley, 2443 Tremont Pl., Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Della Burns, 913 Everett Ave. Kansas City, Kans.; Mrs. Laura Fields, 1007 East. 17th, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Eliza Bradford, 1704½ E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Agents Wanted. Write for terms.
MADAME NEFF'S
HAIR DRESSING PARLORS
at
1714 EAST 18TH ST.
Bell Phone, East 412W.
CITY NEWS
The Klean Kitchen, 23 West 13th Street, is the swellest place in town for Colored people.
Have you ever tried the Klean Kitchen, 23 W. 13th street, the best place in town to eat?
Mrs. Simon Wilson of Jerome, Ia., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Matthew Johnson and brother, Jno. Stimmetz, 1721 Virginia.
Mr. H. W. Scott, real estate dealer of Dallas, Tex., was in the city a few days and was a pleasant caller at The Sun office.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Renfro of Moberly, Mo., have entered upon their duties as superintendent and matron of the U. B. F. Home at Hannibal, Mo.
Thos. Harris arrived here from Seattle, Wash., last Saturday after six years' absence and will leave Monday for Seattle. Miss Sallie Harris, his sister, will accompany him to make it her residence.
The Oak Leaf Art Club met with Mrs. Etta Kenyon, 1913 E. 10th street. There were 11 members present and one visitor, Mrs. Barbour Johnson, who also joined the club, making five additions to the club.
Mr. Sidney Johnson, 1701 East 11th street, left last Tuesday evening for Rochester, Minn., to attend the bedside of his wife, who is at the Mayo Brothers' Sanitarium.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Weaver leave Monday morning in their touring car for Southern Kansas and Oklahoma, in the interest of the Afro-American Automobile Training School.
Mr. Charles Grigsby of Liberty, Mo., district deputy grand master of Masons, is improving nicely at the Bell Memorial hospital, where he recently underwent a serious operation.
Mrs. Elliott, wife of the well known merchant of Muskogee, Okla., is valuing from a recent operation at the Wheatley Provident Hospital at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. L. Bailey, 2620 Euclid avenue.
Mrs. Nellie E. Young, 2412 East 21st street, is improving nicely after having undergone an operation at the Wheatley-Provident Hospital.
Hon. A. W. Lloyd of St. Louis, Mo., Grand Chancellor of Knights of Pythias, passed through the city this week en route to St. Joseph on business.
Mrs. Lila Roache of Omaha, Nebr., en route to Los Angeles, Calif., stopped over for a few days in the city to visit friends and relatives. While here she was the guest of Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, 1706 E. 10th street.
We are cutting off those lieing, cheating, "get-something-for-nothing" subscribers who always have some excuse for not paying their subscription. We warn our merchants and business men to beware of this class of Negroes.
Miss Cecil Duncan, 20 years of age, died from tuberculosis at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Price, 1737 Woodland avenue, and was buried from the A. M. E. ion Church Tuesday. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery in Kansas City, Kas.
Beverly Robinson, a member of Rone Lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. M., and Emanuel Commandery, died after a brief illness at St. Margaret's Hospital and was buried last Tuesday at Plattsburg, Mo., his former home.
Walter French, the well known musician, intimately known to his friends as "Christmas," passed away after a brief illness at the residence of his father in Kansas City, Kans., from whence the funeral will be held Sunday at 1:00 o'clock under the auspices of New Era Lodge, K. of P., of which he was a member.
CARD OF THANKS.
The Improvement Board wishes to extend their sincere thanks to Mr. Nelson C. Crews for his most excellent remarks, Tuesday evening, in behalf of the photo of our pastor, Rev. W. C. Williams.
ETHEL KEMP, President.
CORA McKAY, Secretary.
CARD OF THANKS
Rosedale, Kans.:
We wish to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our beloved father, husband, brother and brother-in-law, William Fisher, also for the beautiful floral offerings. Many thanks.
SALLIE FISHER, wife,
HOWARD FISHER,
MR. and MRS. W. O. FISHER,
MR. and MRS. D. E. ROBINZINE.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank the relatives, friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy during the long illness and death of Mrs. Sara Ellen Farley Jones. Also for the beautiful floral offerings.
Son, Sisters and Brothers.
LINCOLN INSTITUTE CONCERT.
One of the most brilliant, enjoyable and successful musicales ever given in Kansas City was the one given by the Music Faculty of Lincoln Institute Jefferson City, at Allen Chapel last Friday evening under the auspices of the Alumni Association and the management of Mrs. Fannie J. Dawley. Every number was a masterpiece, and the large audience thoroughly enjoyed the most excellent program rendered. President Allen is to be congratulated for having secured such a splendid cotrie of assistants in his splendid institution.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of Hattie D. Warren, who died October 11, 1915:
It was autumn time when she left us alone.
It has been two long years since she left our dear home;
But she has gone to a more beautiful home above,
And is waiting there for the ones she loved.
Sadly missed by
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL HOME
ECONOMICS AND HOME MILLIN-
ERY FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
1. Beginning Monday, October 15,
and each Monday thereafter from 3:00
to 4:30, under the direction of the
Domestic Science Department of Lincoln
High School, Mrs. Sarah P. Goss in
charge, there will be conducted a
"Housewives" Round Table." The purpose
of this course is to study im-
proved methods of Domestic Science
with a view of applying them to the
home. (Practical Demonstrations at
each meeting). This course is open
mainly to housekeepers. Only a limi-
ted number can be accommodated.
2. Beginning Tuesday afternoon, October 16th, and each Tuesday afternoon thereafter from 3:00 to 4:30, under the direction of the Domestic Art Department of the Lincoln High School, Miss Clara. Lynden in charge, there will be conducted a class in "Home Millinery." The purpose of this class is to teach women who are housekeepers to make over hats wherever it is possible and to make, by their own hands, new hats economically.
DR HURSE AT ALLEN CHAPEL.
Sunday was a high day in Allen Chapel from the beginning of the morning service when Dr. Thomas preached a most wonderful sermon, which appears in this issue of The Sun, until the close of the night service. Especially in the afternoon, at 3 o'clock, were the services particularly attractive when St. Stephen's Baptist Church' congregation, headed by their choir of forty voices, the St. Stephen's cadets, composed of twenty-four boys ranging from 6 to 15 years of age, and led by their indomitable pastor, Dr. J. W. Hurse, and his deacons, invaded Allen 250 strong, and one of the most glorious halleluj, spiritual services ever held within its historic walls was enjoyed by the large congregation of all denominations who were in attendance. At the close of Dr. Hurse's powerful sermon $62.00 was laid on the tables to assist Dr. Thomas in his Conference claims Allen Chapel's pastor, official boards choir, auxiliaries and congregation will repay the visit to St. Stephens in the near future.
We are the largest manufacturers of coloured women's hair, and in order to produce our goods we are sending free our latest book so we wig styles for colored women, in the latest hair dressing.
Every colored woman should have one. We guarantee every article we sell or actively stand combing and washing the same as your own.
We manufacture a STRAIGHTENING COMB of solid hair, with extra heavy back, absolutely the best and most serviceable made, fully guaranteed. With each comb we sell at the low price of our lamp cup free. Send your order for this straightening comb for 89c.
Sent postpaid for 89c.
A FULL LINE of Hair Brushes,
Nets and Toilet Articles is illustrated
and can be bought for less than
offered elsewhere.
end two-cent stamp for book today
AGENTS WANTED.
MUMANIA HAIR COMPANY,
181-187 Park Bow. New York.
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917.
KANSAS CITY, KAS.
By Mrs. Zenobia Nelson.
Mr. Gus Miller of 2118 North 3d street is ill.
Mr. Morgan of 1341 Barnett avenue is seriously ill.
Mr. S. H. Nutall, 619 New Jersey avenue, is ill.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Emery has recovered from her illness.
Madame D. Walker Booker was present at the Forum Sunday and made encouraging remarks.
Miss Agnes Bingaman of Shreveport, La., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Cessney, of 2316 North Sherman street.
Mr. George Vaughan of Springfield, Mo., spent last week with his niece, Mrs. Pearl Monday, 2706 North 5th street.
Mrs. Alta Boswell has returned from a three weeks' visit at Ottawa, Kas., where she visited her grandmother.
Mrs. Elizabeth James, 2812 North 6th street, entertained Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Holmes at. dinner last Friday evening. Covers were laid for four.
Mr. J. W. Hall and wife of Chicago Ill., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hall, their brother, and wife of 619 N. 12th street.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Rice and son, Lorenzo, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rice and Hal Tucker motored to Frankfort Kas., and Centralia last Sunday.
A large crowd attended the Forum Sunday. The address by Dr. S. H. Thompson was very practical and helpful. It was discussed by Dr. T. C. Chapman and Dr. A. Porter Davis.
Covenant and Communion was held at the Metropolitan Church Sunday morning. Rev. Calvin Carter of Manhattan, Kas., preached at night from Luke 10th chapter, which was full of helpful thoughts.
Mrs. Nellie McGee of Checotah, Okla., spent last week with I. F. Bradley, Jr., last week en route to Lawrence, Kas., where he is attending K. U.
Mrs. Juanita Webb of North 6th street departed this life Sunday, October 7. She had been ill for some time and was a highly respected Christian young woman. The funeral services were conducted from the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, of which she was a faithful member. She leaves to mourn her loss a baby, a husband mother and several brothers and a host of friends.
Rev. Griffin has divided his church in Odd and Even clubs—fifty clubs on either side; each club required to report $25.00 each at the Grand Rally, October 28. The pastor and members are trying to make rapid strides toward paying off the heavy indebtedness. Men's day was observed at the A. M. E. Cchurch. A rare treat was enjoyed by all and the church was crowded with men. The subject, "Should the Negro take any part in the present strikes," was ably and masterly discussed by Lawyer Hueston of Kansas City, Mo. The executive board of the Interstate Litrary of Kansas and the West held their first business meeting at the home of the chairman of the board Mrs. W. Dwiggins.
Prof. Edward W. Perkins, for many years principal of the schools at Macon, Mo., past deputy grand master and past grand lecturer of the Masonic fraternity, this state, passed away after a long illness last Saturday and was buried last Wednesday under the auspices of the fraternity. No man was better known in the state than Prof. Perkins, and no man did more for the uplift and advancement than he. The Sun extends its deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to thank our friends and their many beautiful floral offerings during our recent bereavement in the death of our husband and father, James Washington—Louvenia Washington, Wife; Sadie Fitzpatrick, Catherine Washington, Daughters.
Mr. H. L. Kinsler, the popular real estate man of 918 East 21st street, left Thursday to attend the World Series of ball games at Chicago, Ill., and to visit his sister-in-law and mother-in-law, Mrs. Vera Black and Mrs. Nannie Williams, 51 East 42d street, that city. He also will visit at Grand Beach, Mich., and stop over in St. Louis en route home.
P.
NEW LOCATION.
Dr. Thos. A. Jones, 1612 E. 12th Street, over Cooper's Drug Store, Phones, Bell East 3811, Home East 176; Residence phone, Bell Wabash 569. Hours; 8 to 9:30 a. m.; 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m.; Sunday, 10 to 11 a. m. and 6 to 7 p. m.
FORTUNE WEAVER VISITS OKLAHOMA.
Prominent Kansas City Negro Promoter Visits Oklahoma City.
Fortune J. Weaver, Kansas City's live wire and hustling business man, visited Oklahoma last week for the purpose of advertising the Afro-American Automobile Training School of Kansas City of which he is president and founder.
Mr. Weaver was a guest of the Negro State Fair Association at Muskogee. From there he went to Tulsa and Talequah; then to Smithville, just five miles out from Oklahoma City, to visit his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith better known as Deep Fork Smith, the cotton king, the founder of Smithville.
Mr. Weaver spent his boyhood days on the farm with his foster parents and says the credit is due them for his inspiration and whatever success he has made in life. Mr. Weaver is president and founder of the Afro-American Investment and Employment Company, Inc. Though this company he has been the connecting link between the white property owners and business firms and the Negro citizens of Greater Kansas City he has made it possible for them to buy nice, modern homes in desirable sections of the city on the easy payment plan and to furnish them employment while paying for them.
He is the founder of the Kansas City branch of National Negro Business League and has been its president for the past nine years. Through this institution hundreds of Negro men and women have been encouraged to open up business enterprises of various kinds in and about Kansas City. Through his earnest work in the League and his co-operation with the late Booker T. Washington, the National Negro Business League was entertained last year in Kansas City. At this meeting Mr. Weaver was elected as one of the members of the executive committee of the National Negro Business League.
Mr. Weaver and his devoted wife, Mrs. Bessie M. Weaver, also own and operate the Weaver Florist and Fruit Shop at 1510 East Eighteenth Street, Kansas City, Mo. This is one of the most popular and best patronized Negro business places in Kansas City. Their floral department furnishes hundreds of dollars worth of flowers each month for parties, weddings and funerals both in and out of the city. The various lodges and societies order their floral designs for funerals by telegraph or telephone and they are made up and sent in perfect condition hundreds of miles away.
Mr. Weaver says there is no line of work at the present time that offers the Negro man or boy such a fine opportunity as the automobile mechanic and chauffeur. Hundreds of good positions and openings for repair shops await the Negro who has the ability to repair, rebuild and keep automobiles running and for this reason he is giving his valuable time and attention to the establishment of the Afro-American Automobile Training School for Negroes. There are hundreds of our men and boys who have not had the opportunity to educate themselves along professional lines. Neither have they had a chance to learn a trade. This school offers them a rare opportunity to learn the most interesting trade of them all, and one that will enable them to go anywhere in the country and earn big wages.
It only takes eight weeks to master the trade and the cost is only $75 for the complete course in the school.
Mr. Weaver says the Negroes of Oklahoma own more automobiles than the Negroes of any other state in the Union, and the majority of them own high grade cars. Quite a number of our men and boys took out scholarships in the school and will report in Kansas City within the next thirty days.—The Black Dispatch, Oklahoma City, Okla.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Short time money to loan to roominghouse keepers—must have reference. Property owners can obtain a loan thru our agency and pay it back by weekly installments. If your house needs papering, painting or repairing get a loan and put in its necessary repairs. Our business is strictly confidential Bell Phone, Grand 4204.
KRELL PIANOS
For the benefit of those who have been unable to call and see just what we have offered the past TEN DAYS will have SATURDAY ONLY in which to avail themselves of the exceptional advantages of before the necessary advance in prices of our instruments, therefore you must not delay if you wish to make a legitimate saving on your piano or player-piano Terms to suit your convenience.
THE JONES STORE CO
12th and Main Sts., 3d floor
PIANO AND VICTROLA DEPT.
PULLUM'S AUTO TRANSFER AND EXPRESS
PULLUM'S AUTO TRANSFER AND EXPRESS
FAMILY MOVING
PROMPT SERVICE
Stand 1624 E. 18th St.
Bell Phone E. 2906
Home Phone
E. 4349
Bell Phone E:2013
KING COLE
The Aeroplane.
Since the ordinary car does the ordinary things, to take a ride in King Cole 8, one comes out of the past into the present.
Our car is steam heated in winter, air cooled in summer.
A
INVEST!
Don't Speculate
BACK in 1912 we sold good shoes for $4 to $6.
Today war prices prevail for labor and leather. Both callskin and sole leather cost over twice the sum paid in 1912. The prices of high-quality Crossett Shoes must today be made at least $7.50 to $12.
And remember this: Shoes of like quality cannot be sold for less. To get an adequate return for your money you should pay at least $7.50.
Let us show you the new Crossett models. We will help you invest your shoe dollars to the best advantage.
Crossett Shoe
Makes Life's Walk Easy
Holeproof Hosiery
Guaranteed Kind
35c and up the Pair
W. D. WALLACE, Mgr.
1005 Main Street
HELP WANTED—Neat colored girl
with grade school learning for office.
Prefer one living at home with parents.
Good chance for advancement.
Afro-American Employment Co., 1510
East 18th. Home phone East 802;
Bell East 782.
Monday October 15th
the great Annual Fall Housefurnishing Sale FURNITURE RUGS DRAPERIES LINENS CHINAWARE PICTURES HOUSEWARES BEDDING
Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. KANSAS CITY, MO.
Big Sale of Men's and Young Men's Overcoats Worth $20 at $15
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905-921 MAIN STREET
ALL WORK
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DELAY
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BY
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HAIR DRESSING & MILKING
WILLIAMS ST. CO.
We contracted for these goods months ago before prices advanced. Not a suit or overcoat in the lot worth a cent less than $20. All are this season's styles. Newest models and colors. All sizes 32 to 50 chest. Choice
$15
Auerbach & Guettel
The Palace
CLOTHING CO.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
Cranks From All Sections Seek to See President
WASHINGTON.—The real president of the United States arrived in Washington the other day. He admitted it. "I come," he announced, as he stepped off the train from Keokul, "to take possession of the White House. Wilson was elected by fraud. I will
A man throws a ball.
I COME TO
TAKE
POSSESSION
OF THE WHITE
HOUSE
WILSON WUZ
ELECTED BY
FRAUD
"Welcome," said a cordial secret service man. "Permit me to escort you to the White House."
Whereupon the self-styled president was whirled to police headquarters. Eventually he held forth in pomp at the psychopathic ward of the Washington Asylum hospital.
In the last few months this institution has welcomed a few other presidents, the Queen of Canada (who had come to ask Secretary McAdoo for $500,000 for coronation expenses), the Most August Oracle of the People (including Mexico), numerous crack-brained inventors, miscellaneous "chums" of the president (who just wanted to chat with him), and sundry other members of the batty battalion.
One chap—educated and ostensibly intelligent—came all the way from California to arrest the president. He ran the secret service guantlet at the Union station and calmly walked up to the White House before guards nabbed him.
Another sage came from New York with a weird tale of the shooting of 400 German spies on the Brooklyn bridge every day. He wanted President Wilson to have the same system started in Washington.
Eagle-eyed plain-clothes men stem the tide of cranks at the Union station. Only the cleverest crank can get near the White House. And it takes a sane man to get inside.
Why One Treasury Official Is Short on Vacation
Why One Treasury Official Is Short on Vacation
BYRON R. NEWTON, as assistant secretary of the treasury, has had occasion to dispense a few hundred millions for the erection of public buildings. But such fiscal gymnastics are not helping him one bit when it comes to recovering that $50 of the Newton family's money which went up in smoke a few days ago.
THE 850
As a result Mr. Newton, who sits all day in the home of the greenback and talks amiably with foreign gentlemen about billion-dollar loans, faces two alternatives. Either he curtails a vacation or he floats a personally conducted Liberty loan of his own to finance a much-needed trip.
It happened like this. A few evenings ago Mr. Newton wended his way homeward to dine with his family, and Mrs. Newton called his attention to two articles of which she thought the assistant secretary was in need.
One was a pair of garters. The other was the roll of bills—$50 worth of them. Mr. Newton seized upon the garters and thoughtfully placed the bills inside the garter box. Then Mrs. Newton proceeded to impress upon him the urgent need of the vacation.
Next morning the frugal Mrs. Newton asked if Mr. Newton had put that money in a safe place. No wife would trust even an assistant secretary of the treasury when it comes to his own household finances. Her suspicions were fully justified. Mr. Newton searched his pockets, racked his brain, and then remembered he had put the money in the garter box. And a careful maid, it was later discovered, had cast the garter box into the fireplace.
It was a case of money to ashes, of vacation to the four winds, and Byron R. Newton back to figuring on the expenditure of hundreds of millions in new taxes, but not a cent for vacation.
Capital Crowded as Never Before in History
EVERY department of the government is engaged in drawing recruits to the national capital. More than 15,000 clerks, alone, have been brought here since the United States cast itself into the war. The regular public buildings were filled to their utmost capacity long ago. In the big State, War and Navy building the corridors of every floor except that occupied by the three respective cabinet members are filled with desks and busy people. Outside, all over town, vacant office buildings have been rented. The other day I heard John J. Fitzgerald, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, who has much to do with the subject, declared that there was not left in
2021.
long ago. In the big State, War and Navy building the corridors of every floor except that occupied by the three respective cabinet members are filled with desks and busy people. Outside, all over town, vacant office buildings have been rented. The other day I heard John J. Fitzgerald, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, who has much to do with the subject, declared that there was not left in Washington a single building for rent. The rents of apartment houses have joined the aviation corps, and many natives have felt compelled to seek cheaper quarters to make room for the influx of war boomers. Houses of the best grade, long a drug on the market, are now in such demand that an unoccupied one is hard to find. Before Mr. Wilson and his Democrats came here this city was the favorite refuge of the rich and the overrich. Congress had exempted all form of securities from taxation in the District of Columbia and there was no income tax to annoy one. Since this ceased to be a haven for money and also since Mr. Wilson married a widow whose husband had been "in trade" a lot of these people have abandoned their palaces and gone elsewhere, leaving their Washington windows planked and the grounds shabby.
Recreation Keeps President Fit for Hard Work
EACH day sees the solution by President Wilson in a few hours of some great problem which in the old days before the war would have been given weeks and even months of consideration before a decision was reached. Numerous special boards have been given special problems for solution. Seldom does any board reach a decision without the president's assistance. Usually a board will become deadlocked after considering a question for several weeks and will rush to the White House for the president's advice. Sometimes the president will go to the office of the board itself to render his assistance.
GOLF
Then after the whole situation has been laid before the president he will consider it for a comparatively few hours and announce a decision. Sometimes the decision is given as that of the board. More frequently the president announces it and takes the responsibility himself.
In the whirlwind of events it probably is thought outside of Washington that the president has little time for entertainment. Nothing is further from the truth. Each morning at 8:30 he goes for a game of golf. He is away from the White House until 10:30. After a bath and a change of clothing he is ready for the day's business. Most of his work is done between eleven in the morning and one o'clock in the afternoon, when he has lunch. After lunch he receives two or three callers and then goes out for a drive through one of the city's parks.
In the evening he goes either for a drive or to the theater. One evening out of every week he spends at a vaudeville show. Another he devotes to a current theater attraction, frequently a musical comedy. Sometimes he takes a turn around the Speedway after the theater before returning to the White House.
The president accomplishes a great deal of work each day and undoubtedly he could do more if necessary. He believes, however, that a certain amount of relaxation is necessary to keep him in the best possible trim. It is only when there is business of a very pressing nature that he foregoes the theater and his golf game.
THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917
What Can We Do?
When the men of the National Army are located in the training camps they begin to look for letters from relatives and friends. There is a friendly rivalry among them in the matter of numbers of letters and cards received, About the easiest and most agreeable thing we can do for those we know is to drop an occasional line or so
Another convenience for the men in cantonments is an inexpensive, small portfolio, made of linen or khaki. It is about nine inches wide and fifteen inches long, with pockets on one end for stationery stamps, cards, and for three blotters, one above the other, fastened at the corners, on the other end. At the center there are two loops, made of narrow straps of linen, to hold the pen and pencil. The blotters make a writing surface, thus serving a double purpose. Even ink can be carried now in small sticks to be dissolved in water when needed. This portfolio is a simple affair, easy to make and very convenient. A leather portfolio may be taken as a model. Made of denim or khaki the soldier's portfolio weighs next to nothing and will stand wear.
The men are kept busy and do not find it always easy to get mail off; also they are sometimes dilatory. It is a good idea to address envelopes and cards, enclose writing paper in the envelopes and stamp them. Mail a package of this ready-addressed stationery to the boy in camp and all he has to do is to write and seal the envelope ready for mailing, or merely write his message on a ready addressed post card.
Fads And Fancies
Of
Fashion
THE LADY OF THE MUSEUM
DISTINCTIVE SEPARATE SKIRTS.
Two things, above all others, are required for the success of the separate skirt. When it is made in plain, familiar materials it must be rescued from the commonplace by faultless fit and workmanship. When made of novelty weaves the selection of unusual and appropriate patterns reflects the best talent or modistes. It takes an instinct for dress or an educated taste to make the most of the separate skirt.
with its opportunity for variation with different blouses and its all-around usefulness for afternoon and evening wear.
Julia Bottomley
New materials and models in extra coats are coming in for their share of attention and one must be hard to please who cannot find a coat or cape to her fancy. An unusual cape coat is of prim Quaker gray wool jersey cloth, the garment falling to the bottom of the dress. The sleeves are in gathered bishop shape, the collar convertible above a flat pointed hood. Flat, pointed pockets adorn the packet front, which is betted in closely. A navy blue novelty cloth with a large overline plaid of yellow is made in the same model and has a high military turban made of the same material.
Beautiful color combinations. In broad and narrow stripes, and original methods in making are found in the new separate skirts for afternoon wear. Some very handsome plaids are among them but stripes afford better opportunities for the designer. A fine example of what may be done with them appears in the picture above. Taffeta, in black, old blue and white stripes, laid in wide plaits makes a skirt that can afford to dispense with any cost of trimming. It hangs from a high walstiline where three overlapping bias folds make a wide girdle extending to the hip. The same fold is laid in the semblance of a pocket at each side finished with a row of small black, silk-covered buttons.
Renew Old Silk Dress.
Cut a piece of cardboard the width of the hem and about five or six inches long. Lay the cardboard on the hem, lengthwise, and trim it off half an inch narrower than the hem. Open a seam on the under side and slip in the cardboard, running it back close to the stitching, then turn the broken edge over the cardboard and overcast. The cardboard prevents any stitches from showing or going through and makes a more even edge.
There is a wide range of color combinations to choose from in the striped and plaid silks and satins shown in the shops and they promise an increased vogue for handsome separate skirts. Blouses to be worn with these skirts, are most effective when made of the same shade as one of the colors in the material. For informal dress such a costume merits consideration
INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES
New York Cafe Owner Has Moving Tale of Woe
New York Cafe Owner Has Moving Tale of Woe
NEW YORK.—Michael Ginty made it clear to the police of the West Thirty-seventh street station that he never again will hear without questioning the voice of man or bird. At two o'clock he figured himself out $50 and in one porter, but when he left the city
one parrot, but when he left the station house his conduct indicated that the parrot may not be long for this world.
I OUGHTA WRING
YER NECK
Mr. Ginty, who owns a saloon at 331 West One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street, explained that early one morning, before he shut off all faucets and counted the proceeds, a wretch entered his place of business with a parrot. The parrot was good appearing, as the police could see, and, when he appeared at Mr. Ginty's damp ring he seemed to have a marvelous vocabulary. Mr. Ginty told the stranger that never in his life had he listened to as well educated a bird. To which tribute the bird rapidly replied at that time: "Well educated! My dear fellow, you have no idea what I know. I know it all, if anyone should happen to ask you, and I'm always willing to chirp at a moment's notice."
Mr. Ginty told the police that the owner of this marvelous conversation-alist made no effort to sell the bird, but that he, Mr. Ginty, had asked if he might buy it. The man appeared reluctant to part with the parrot, but when Mr. Ginty had raised the price until it was $50 the man consented to sell.
He bade the bird good-by and assured both Mr. Ginty and the parrot that the parting gave him great pain. He had reached the door when the parrot, looking after him called: "Remember, boss, if you are such a cur that you'd sell me like this I'll never speak another word till you come back and get me again."
"Don't mind that," called the owner to Mr. Ginty, "he'll get over his grouch." After which the owner vanished.
For five hours Mr. Ginty tried to get a single intelligent word out of the parrot. Then a customer dropped in and made a suggestion which sent Mr. Ginty scurrying to the police station, parrot in hand.
It appears that the man who sold the parrot is a ventriloquist and has broken cafe owner's hearts in all five boroughs. The birds, far from being well educated, are more of the other. They're speechless.
"Clients" of Fortune Teller Somewhat Peevish
"Clients" of Fortune Teller Somewhat Peevish
ALLENTOWN, PA.—After a hearing before Alderman Gotthardt here, Isaac Hertzog of Nazareth was held for trial at court on a charge of fortune telling. The accusation was brought by Mrs. Mary Brong, who testified that in two years she had vainly paid Hertzog $83 to recover some silver spoons and a sewing machine that had been stolen. It turns out that Hertzog visited Allentown every week for "consultations" with his customers. Mrs. Brong said she could "feel" when he arrived in town, and then she was impelled to visit him and give him money.
I WISH TH' SNAKE
WOULD
HURRY
UP WITH
TH' SPOONS
AM SEWIN'
MACHINE
On one occasion, she said, Hertzog declared the thief would assume the form of a snake and come wriggling along with the spoons and the sewing machine, but no snake ever appeared. He had given her a large collection of roots, and a number of "benedictions," which he signed with the names of the saints.
Another witness against Hertzog was pretty Miss Mamie Schoch, in a short blue skirt and with a vanity box, which she used frequently. She testified she had paid Hertzog 50 cents for the receipt of an incantation "to get back her bean," who had transferred his affections to another girl.
Hertzog told her to squeeze a bag of salt and repeat the three hardest words in the dictionary. She followed instructions; but her lover remained recreant.
Hertzog's defense was that his customers took up his time when they consulted him and he was entitled to pay. He seems to have had customers by the score for years, some of whom seemed to like being bamboozled.
Mere Man Tires of Too Much Feminine Curiosity
S. T. LOUIS. - Fifty to one—and then some—is too many. A. Hubell says so—and he knows. An island in an ocean of girls is mild in comparison. A. Hubell is a cook in a kitchen full of cookresses. He's the one lone man down at food, conservation, headwriters.
at food conservation headquarters. That is, he was. He canned peaches and he canned pears, he canned tomatoes and he canned potatoes—and now he's canned himself.
HERE'S WHERE I QUIT
Every morning Hubell has given a demonstration on canning. Besides the some odd fifty nifty maids in the kitchen, there are some odd but not so nifty women who come to learn to can. They stand just outside the kitchen—looking in.
The other day Hubell, in his most becoming bib and apron, was showing how pears are canned. The crowd go
how pears are canned. The crowd gathered thick about him.
"Hasn't he big arms?" a woman whispered.
"You cook the juice to a thick sirup." Hubell said, seeming not to hear.
"How thick?" came an inquiring chorus.
"And then you add more sugar," Hubell continued, getting ready to measure the amount to be added.
"How much sugar?" screamed the chorus, and someone remarked on the misfit of Hubell's apron.
"Now you sterilize the jars." Hubell went on.
"Do you do the same for apples?" asked a woman nudging to the front. "My blackberry jam won't jell," said another. "Do you think soda is good in tomatoes?" queried one close by.
"How do you make sauerkraut?" someone demanded.
Hubell set down the pears. He wiped his brow. He turned to a conservation committee member.
"You can count me out," he said. "I can can apples, blackberries, tomatoes and sauerkraut. But I can't can 'em with pears."
Women Pilfer Zoo Buffalos' Fur for Cushions
Women Pilfer Zoo Buffalos' Fur for Cushions
SAN FRANCISCO.—The hides of the buffalos in Golden Gate park these days look like the next to the last picture in the "going, going, gone" advertisements of a certain hair restorer. Attendants have been wondering why women who passed up the herd in the days of its hirsute glory have been flocking about the corral as the buffaloes become homelier than ever.
I HOPE I CAN GET ENOUGH FOR A SOFA PILLOW
"They even pet the big brushes, said one puzzled attendant. He walked over to the pen, determined to get the secret of the feminine change of heart. He learned the women were not fondling the buffalos, but trying to help nature along by pulling out their fur. The big beasts seemed to appreciate it, as they stood quietly by the heavy picket fence through which the women reached. Now everybody is happy.
picket fence through which the women reached. Now everybody is happy.
The park attendants are glad, because the buffaloes, if their fur is piled by women, won't try to rub it off on the trees, which generally suffer in the process.
The buffaloes are happy because fur pulls off a lot more easily than it rubs off, and the former system sort of tickles.
And the women are joyous, because they are getting a lot of buffalo fur, which is ideal for sofa cushions.
HOMETOWN HELPS
HOME-OWNING AIDS THRIFT
Being Tied to One Place Is More Profitable Than Being Foot-Free and Homeless.
The owning of a home, a fortune greatly desired by every man, is achievable by most men. And yet the proportion of Americans who live in rented quarters grows larger year by year.
One of the prime reasons for this increasing tenancy is that an increasing proportion of earners are employees, and being employees they wish to hold themselves free to move as better employment may offer itself. To this hope of better employment the home of a home is easily sacrificed.
The fear of being tied to a home is not uncommon in those who are not employees, says the Minneapolis Journal. Some are not content to settle down permanently, being lured by the enchantment of the beyond—that beyond being the other side of the continent or the other side of the street. Moving becomes a habit, made easy by those whose business is transportation. But in the end the habit is expensive.
As a matter of everyday demonstration, two facts stand forth: First, being tied to a home is vastly more profitable than being foot-free and homeless; and, second, the home-owner need never be tied to his home in an undesirable way.
Few men ever accumulate enough to carry them through life without first being caught and tied up. Every well established business is a financial hitching post. The business of the life insurance agent is to catch and tie those who will not otherwise accumulate. Buying a home while living in it is one of the surest ways on earth to persuade a man to accumulate property.
IS THE BEST WAR MEMORIAL
Town Hall or Library Serves Purpose Well and May Replace Monuments of the Past.
The question of war memorials, of fitting tributes to those who have met death through military service or whose deeds have been marked by signal acts of bravery, has been for a long time discussed in the foreign architectural press. A plan proposed, and one that has met with general approval, has been the building in each town of a permanent memorial to mark appreciation of the heroic men who have gone forth in this war. This plan will undoubtedly be found to be as admirable in this country as it is in Europe.
No one, says the American Architect, will criticize the patriotic impulse that prompted a grateful people to set up in our cities and towns the many soldiers' monuments that so often disfigure public squares and commons and which as often cause a feeling of deep regret to every artistic observer. Now will be found an opportunity to take steps to avert in the future a very serious artistic blunder, and no class of men can exert a greater influence in these matters than architects.
As the town center is the logical place for these memorials, it is equally logical to assume that when properly conceived they would exert a very decided influence on the future development of the neighborhood. We need in this country a better development of community life, a more intimate intermingling of the people, and there is no greater or better method than the facilities offered by the town or village hall. A well-designed village hall or library will admirably serve the purposes of a memorial and provide for all the people a constant reminder of the purposes of its erection.
Food Handlers Examined.
To deal with the "carrier" problem and many others along this same line, the New York city department of health has passed an ordinance that demands a certificate of health from every person who in any manner handles public food. The manufacturers and employees are enjoined from hiring any person who has not such certificate, and they are made responsible for his compliance with the law. They are examined free of charge, and the public institutions have been very generous in supplying them with free treatment, when they are found not up to requirement. These regulations include cooks, bakers, butchers, dairy employees, candy makers, waiters, dishwashers, delicatessen workers, food peddlers, etc.
Model Homes for Working Classes. What is designated as "Model Labor Colony" is being started on Staten Island by a company in connection with the new $2,500,000 garbage disposal plant that is being placed in operation. The colony is designed to house the working classes of this plant and other large industrial establishments in the vicinity. There will be a number of cottages of five rooms each, equipped with running water, electric light, bath and toilet facilities, steam heat, etc. There will also be a large dormitory to accommodate single men and a restaurant for feeding the entire community.
An Emergency Call
By Matilda Emerson
(Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Madge had been at Mercy hospital nearly a month as a probation nurse. It was her first week on duty in the emergency room, helping Miss Paterson write the entry record of each patient as the ambulances brought them in.
"I don't see how you can be so—" she hesitated for a word that would not hurt the feelings of the other nurse—"so used to it all. Seems to me each case is worse than the last one."
"Oh, nearly all of you girls play tunes on your heart strings when you first land here. It just has to be, and you can't help it. Try to look at it in that way. You can't afford to be sorry for them all. It uses up your nerve force."
But she did not get used to it. Not then, nor during the whole six months of her probation. Miss Paterson had taken a fancy to her from the very beginning. She was willing and well educated and all of the doctors liked her. The last two weeks of her probation period she was placed at the emergency desk at night, and it was here she met Mrs. Crosby Latimer.
It was a wild, spring night in early May. There had been a heavy rainstorm, followed by a high wind, blowing in from the sea to the east. Madge had just stepped across the room to close the window as a sudden gust of wind blew a lot of her papers on the floor, when the door was pushed open by a woman. Madge saw at a glance that she was not the sort who sought the shelter of Mercy hospital. While she wore no hat, her long broadcloth cloak was unmistakably correct in its lines, and costly in quality. Her heavy, dark hair was streaked with gray and the wind had loosened it so that it was
A
"Will You Tell Me Who I Am?"
naft tumbling to her shoulders. The pallor of her face was like the hue of a jasmine flower; even her dry lips seemed bloodless as she moistened them nervously, leaning heavily on the little shelf in front of the brass grating at the entry clerk's window. A wave of compassion swept over Madge, as she saw the look of utterly dazed helplessness in her wide, dark eyes.
"I beg your pardon." she said, slowly, "but could you tell me who I am? Please, please tell me who I am. I've walked so far and I couldn't find any one I dared to ask. I saw the light from your window. Will you tell me who I am?"
She suddenly burst into a fit of nervous weeping, and bowed her face in her hands. The door leading upstairs swung open, and little Blair, one of the internes, came in, humming.
"I say, Miss Laurence," he began, but Madge motioned him to be quiet.
"Mr. Blair," she cried, pleasantly, "do you think you could take my place for just a few moments? I want to take this lady into the reception room."
Blair gave the stranger "the once over" as he would have expressed it, and murmured, as he took Madge's seat:
"Better land her in the 'din'!"
"Better land her in the 'dip.'" But Madge shook her head. This was no case for the dipsoniania ward, and she knew it. As they stepped into the big white marble hall together the woman put out her hand like a child for Madge to lead her, and she took her upstairs. When she came back, Blair noticed that she seemed excited, but not one thing would she tell him, except that she had placed the woman in care of Miss Gage, and it seemed only a simple case of aphasia. She told him she would report it as soon as Doctor Alkin came in at six o'clock. He was the house doctor on nervous diseases. Just as soon as she was alone she lifted the receiver from the phone.
Utilizing Forests to Double Their Value by Robert H. Moulton
COLLECTING OLEORESIN BY THE OLD METHOD OF "BOXING"
Forest Products Laboratory hopes to bring about
COLLECTING OLEORESIN BY THE
OLD METHOD OF "BOXING"
of a little-known branch of government, the forest products laboratory, situated at Madison, Wis., Mr. Hallauner and his associates hope to teach this country how to save two billions of dollars annually.
He is confident that it can be done; that is, that the annual cut of wood, now valued at two billions, can be made into articles of use which at present prices would bring double that amount.
It is a man-size job, but the confident engineer points proudly to unbelievably vast economies already effected in the wood trades through the work of the forest products laboratory's chemists. They are in such terms that it would be hard to tabulate the exact savings, but there is little doubt that they run over $100,000,000 a year.
Few persons outside the wood trades know of the laboratory, the first of its kind ever to be established, but which has been imitated in a number of countries since it began operation. Its annual appropriation is small for the work it does; something less than $200,000.
He is confident that it can be done; that is, that the annual cut of wood, now valued at two billions, can be made into articles of use which at present prices would bring double that amount.
Germany has been driven to extreme use of her forests by necessity, but no country with the exception of Germany has made such a systematic effort at developing forest products as the United States. Charcoal for the manufacture of black gunpowders is being obtained from dogwood, willow and alder. Great quantities of alcohol and ether are made from imported molasses, but if we were cut off from this raw material we could depend upon the forests. Alcohol could also be made from grain, but in war times grain would be required for food. It is estimated that during the present year 40,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol will be used at home, while huge quantities are being exported.
Germany has been driven to extreme use of her forests by necessity, but no country with the exception of Germany has made such a systematic effort at developing forest products as the United States.
Charcoal for the manufacture of black gunpowders is being obtained from dogwood, willow and alder. Great quantities of alcohol and ether are made from imported molasses, but if we were cut off from this raw material we could depend upon the forests. Alcohol could also be made from grain, but in war times grain would be required for food. It is estimated that during the present year 40,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol will be used at home, while huge quantities are being exported.
The use of wood for gunstocks is, generally familiar. Our supply of seasoned black walnut, the most suitable wood for the purpose, has been entirely exhausted by the heavy demands of Europe. Heretofore the practice has been to let gunstock material air season for months before it would be worked up. Time became so important that artificial seasoning was resorted to, but improper methods destroyed too much of the material.
The forest products laboratory has now perfected dry kilns which overcome the trouble, and as a further aid is perfecting methods of using other woods, notably birch, for gun stock. Then there is the near relative of the gun stock, the wooden leg, making heavy demands for willow. Millions of feet of lumber and heavy timbers are required in war times for structural purposes, such as the erection of docks, bridges, trenches and temporary shelters.
Disinfectants are now a necessity. They can be made from wood. Pure wood alcohol is the only substance that can be converted into formaldehyde, universally used for disinfection
The forest products laboratory has now perfected dry kilns which overcome the trouble, and as a further aid is perfecting methods of using other woods, notably birch, for gun stock. Then there is the near relative of the gun stock, the wooden leg, making heavy demands for willow. Millions of feet of lumber and heavy timbers are required in war times for structural purposes, such as the erection of docks, bridges, trenches and temporary shelters.
Distinfectants are now a necessity. They can be made from wood. Pure wood alcohol is the only substance that can be converted into formaldehyde, universally used for disinfection against such contagious diseases as smallpox, scarlet fever, diptheria and tuberculosis. It is also used to prevent crop diseases by disinfecting the seeds.
But the importance of forest products for war supplies in no way compares with their importance for industries. The largest of these are the lumber, pulp, and paper, naval stores and distillation industries. They employ more than
Latimer? This is Mercy hospital. No, I'm only the night nurse in the emergency room. Mr. Latimer, your mother has just wandered in here. She had lost her way, and her memory. No, she is not hurt. I found your name in her handbag on a letter. You will come at once? Yes, I think that is best. What? Oh, I have the letter; there will be no publicity."
About twenty minutes later a limousine passed under the red brick arch and Stanley Latimer jumped out. He did not mince words at all; but Madge caught the relief in his eyes and voice when he saw her.
"I am sure, Miss Laurence," he said as they went upstairs together, "that I need not tell you how grateful I am to you for sensing the whole emergency in this case. My mother has not been herself for several days. I have been out of the city on duty with the National Guard, and she made some very ill-advised investments without my consent. I blame her broker far more than I do her, but between them they lost thousands of dollars, and I'm afraid I might have been rather harsh with her when I found it out." Madge looked at him gravely. "Perhaps you did not realize that she was in a very low state of health. We have only made a slight examination. There seems to be some organic heart trouble. Don't you think there are some things more important than the mere loss of thousands of dollars, Mr. Latimer?"
Perhaps this was why, when he took his mother away that night, Latimer carried with him a vivid memory. No woman had ever said anything to him like that before. The following day the superintendent called her to his office.
"We're very sorry to lose you, Miss Laurence," he said, "but it appears there was an emergency case last night which was not entered properly or reported to Doctor Alkin. In fact you took it upon yourself both to admit the patient and to discharge her. You will leave the staff at the expiration of your probation period."
She went back to her desk, somewhat dazed, but still she felt that she had done exactly the right thing. The telephone rang about five that afternoon. It was Mrs. Latimer's voice—eager and pitifully anxious. It sounded—begging her to come at once and act as special companion at any price she might see fit to ask. She was leaving with her son for an extended trip by automobile through the mountains, and he joined her in the hope that Miss Laurence might be able to join them.
It was several weeks later at a little mountain inn in the Adirondacks, Madge had just returned from her daily hike, and Stanley joined her as she stood on the wide veranda overlooking the sweep of forest. She did not meet his eyes. Somehow she felt as though she could not trust herself while she told him the determination she had come to that afternoon. She wanted to give up the case, she said, and go back to hospital duty. She loved Mrs. Latimer, but she felt she must go.
"But why?" he insisted. "Oh, you needn't answer. Do you consider my making love to you an insult? Why not let me go away instead, if it is that? Haven't I asked you to marry me, and you've had the pleasure of refusing me several times?"
Tears filled her eyes in sudden anger.
"Oh, I think you're horrid. Do you
think I care anything about your mon-
ey? You treat me exactly as though
as though you were sure I couldn't
help but say yes, because you are such
a prize in the matrimonial market."
He laughed.
"Dear, you're all wrong. I find that mother's little coup in Wall street cleaned us out, instead of just sinking a few thousand. I'm going back to work on a salary in my uncle's office. Doesn't you want to try to teach me how to live on it properly? Make me your last emergency case."
Madge did not even answer as she smiled up at him. Somehow she felt glad that her days of probation were really ended.
Over the Fence.
I have noticed that any fence gives a feeling of protection to the speaker who talks over it, prompting him to frankness which he would not venture without that slight barrier, much as a child outside the lion's cage addressed it with bravado. Especially is this true in respect to the close back fence over which only the elevated passer-by can spy the worker in the garden. With horseback riders, truckwomen, expressmen, farmers on hayracks, and bespurred linemen—those the Welsh call "folks,"—I am on terms of familiarity which is never abused when we meet in other localities. A fat vegetable woman stopped her horse and wagon one day to look over the fence. Me she acknowledged with a smile and a murmur about the pretty garden. Then, lifting her voice, "I have great respect for you, great respect!" Eager to rise to the situation I begged her to come in sometime and see the garden. "I will do that."—Lucy E. Keeler, in the Atlantic.
How to Save the Mothers
According to a circular issued by the children's bureau of the United States department of labor there are annually about 15,000 deaths from maternal causes in the United States, and available statistics show no decrease in maternal mortality since 1900. The Medical Record comments that "these 15,000 deaths are but a rough indication of preventable illness and suffering among mothers." And it calls attention to Dr. Grace L. Melgs' suggestion that centers of maternal and infant welfare be started in every county
THE KANSAS CITY SUN. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1917.
Forest Products Laboratory hopes to bring about a saving of two billion dollars a year—it's a rather neat saving!
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AID the Chicago pork packer: "We make our money by saving everything but the squeal." Says Frank J. Hallauer: "The wood industries are going to go the pork packers one better; they are going to save everything, including the bark." And it is to teach the wood industry how to do this that Mr. Hallauer has been working for six years. Engineer
It is a man-size job, but the confident engineer points proudly to unbelievably vast economies already effected in the wood trades through the work of the forest products laboratory's chemists. They are in such terms that it would be hard to tabulate the exact savings, but there is little doubt that they run over $100,000,000 a year.
Few persons outside the wood trades know of the laboratory, the first of its kind ever to be established, but which has been imitated in a number of countries since it began operation. Its annual appropriation is small for the work it does; something less than $200,000.
The laboratory is now looked upon to save the paper situation of the country, and it cheerfully tackles the job. Only recently announcement was made in Washington that the laboratory had discovered that good grades of paper can be made from a number of far Western woods and that Wisconsin paper mills were already ordering trainloads of wood chips from the West for paper pulp. The cost of freight to Wisconsin is more than offset by the cheapness of the chips, and the paper thus made is expected to prove a considerable factor in relieving the paper famine. A visitor who leaves Mr. Hallauer can scarcely believe that there is anything which cannot be made from wood.
"How about the cabled story that the Germans have discovered a food they can make from wood which they are feeding to Russian prisoners?" was the first question asked.
"Almost surely not true," he said. "The human stomach cannot stand it. It is possible to convert sawdust into cattle food, and that was probably the foundation for the story."
But Germany from her forests is obtaining such great results that if, as an English writer recently suggested impractically, England were to destroy Germany's forests, the war would surely end very soon. Artificial cotton is one of the things which are being supplied from wood. Paper shirts are also being used, but then-Japan is supplying these to the Russian soldiers.
THE TREE IS NOT THE MAN
IMPROVED METHOD OF COLLECTING OLEORESIN
1,000,000 farmers. Their products are valued at $2,000,000,000 annually.
The most promising and novel developments in the line of by-products from wood are in the nature of chemical utilization. It might be said that the chemists of the forest products laboratory have put the prod to forest products. The lumber industry draws upon the forests for many times as much material as do all the other industries, and only about one-third of the tree cut for lumber is actually put on the market in that shape.
Right here is more than enough waste, although not often in the right form or readily available, to supply raw material for all the other industries. The problem now becomes one of adopting means of utilization to suit the conditions. Years ago wood ashes were leached for home soap-making, to furnish potash. The practice disappeared. It is now being revived as a source of potash to offset the shortage of fertilizer due to the war.
The most promising and novel developments in the line of by-products from wood are in the nature of chemical utilization. It might be said that the chemists of the forest products laboratory have put the prod to forest products. The lumber industry draws upon the forests for many times as much material as do all the other industries, and only about one-third of the tree cut for lumber is actually put on the market in that shape. Right here is more than enough waste, although not often in the right form or readily available, to supply raw material for all the other industries. The problem now becomes one of adopting means of utilization to suit the conditions. Years ago wood ashes were leached for home soap-making, to furnish potash. The practice disappeared. It is now being revived as a source of potash to offset the shortage of fertilizer due to the war.
In the Red River valley of Texas the Indians used to use Osage orange for dyeing, but that wood never gained commercial recognition as a dyewood. Within the last year, however, we have succeeded in getting it into the market as a substitute for fusible, which we import from Jamaica and Tehuantepec, and more than $1,000,000 worth of these dyes is now being made by American manufacturers.
The forest products laboratory has just completed an analysis of the oils which can be obtained from the needles or leaves of all the coniferous trees of the country. From a number of species the oils obtained have very attractive odors; other oils can be used in greases and shoe blackings. In Europe the finer needle oils are used as perfumes in soaps; others are used for inhalations for lung diseases.
It has been working on the production of alcohol, from wood for five years. It has succeeded in
The forest products laboratory has just completed an analysis of the oils which can be obtained from the needles or leaves of all the coniferous trees of the country. From a number of species the oils obtained have very attractive odors; other oils can be used in greases and shoe blackings. In Europe the finer needle oils are used as perfumes in soaps; others are used for inhalations for lung diseases.
It has been working on the production of alcohol, from wood for five years. It has succeeded in
SPY ON FRENCH CHILDREN.
One of the most interesting examples of how specialized spy work is shown by the way Germany has her secret service organized in the conquered portions of Belgium and northern France. German officers have found by experience that the men and women who are left do little talking outside of selected groups where they know everyone can be trusted. But, often, the invaders learned, these citizens forgot themselves when they are talking before their children. So Germany sent experienced schoolteachers, men and women who understood child psychology and who could speak French, to the occupied cities and towns to open French schools. When it is possible the teachers win the good will of the children, and through the innocent boys and girls learn what the parents are thinking and talking about. —Carl W. Ackerman in the Saturday Evening Post.
German officers have found by experience that the men and women who are left do little talking outside of selected groups where they know everyone can be trusted. But, often, the invaders learned, these citizens forgot themselves when they are talking before their children. So Germany sent experienced schoolteachers, men and women who understood child psychology and who could speak French, to the occupied cities and towns to open French schools. When it is possible the teachers win the good will of the children, and through the innocent boys and girls learn what the parents are thinking and talking about.—Carl W. Ackerman in the Saturday Evening Post.
Summer Discussion
"What's dem summer clothes you all is wearin'?" inquired Mr. Erastus Pinkley.
"Dat's Palum Beach suit."
"Pallum beach! Mebbe 'tis. But it looks mo' like Coney Island to me."
Making the Useless Useful.
Cholly--Er, I say, Miss Ethel, I—er—hem—
Ethel—Oh, do you. Then I'll set you to work
hemming sheets for the soldiers.—Boston Evening
Transcript.
Sarcastic.
"Yesterday he said to me: 'Has your wife planned your vacation yet.'"
WOOD DISTILLATION LABORATORY
lowering the cost of production and raised the yield to such a point that the introduction of this alcohol as a motor fuel seems likely, particularly with gasoline going up as it has been. As Mark Twain said, "What chance has prohibition when a man can take a ripsaw and get drunk on a fence rail or drink the legs off the kitchen table?" Western larch has an unusually high percentage of galactan, which it is believed can be converted into a fermentable sugar for use in making grain alcohol. This same galactan in oxidation yields large quantities of muric acid, and muric acid can take the place of tartaric acid in the manufacture of baking powder. A number of lumbermen recently visited the laboratory and one of the chemists made baking powder from wood, and his wife made biscuit with it. Another advance is the preparation of a fine, sweet sirup from galactose, a sugar derived from galactan. So if the people of Montana, the home of the Western larch, get hard pressed they can make their flapjacks with larch baking powder, bake them over a stove heated with larch alcohol and sweeten them with larch sirup.
lowering the cost of production and raised the yield to such a point that the introduction of this alcohol as a motor fuel seems likely, particularly with gasoline going up as it has been. As Mark Twain sald, "What chance has prohibition when a man can take a ripsaw and get drunk on a fence rail or drink the legs off the kitchen table?" Western larch has an unusually high percentage of galactan, which it is believed can be converted into a fermentable sugar for use in making grain alcohol. This same galactan in oxidation yields large quantities of muric acid, and muric acid can take the place of tarturic acid in the manufacture of baking powder. A number of lumbermen recently visited the laboratory and one of the chemists made baking powder from wood, and his wife made biscuit with it. Another advance is the preparation of a fine, sweet sirup from galactose, a sugar derived from galactan. So if the people of Montana, the home of the Western larch, get hard pressed they can make their flapjacks with larch baking powder, bake them over a stove heated with larch alcohol and sweeten them with larch sirup.
Converting cellulose obtained from wood into a gelatinous material known as a viscose opens up another field for research and adds a new line of products running all the way from sausage casings to tapestry. Five million dollars worth of silk socks sold last year got their silk from wood, as did many silk neckties and fancy braids. Probably it won't be long before the whims of the silk-worm will have little control over silk market conditions.
Kraft paper is made from sulphate pulp, and the method of making it came to this country from Sweden ten years ago. Kraft is much stronger than other papers. It is brown, like what we usually think of as wrapping paper. Large quantities of it are used for that purpose and it is particularly suitable for large envelopes. Kraft is used for book covers, for imitation leather and for cardboard suitcases. An attempt is being made to produce a paper twine that will replace the binder twines now made from imported fibers. This question has become more active because of the recent shortage of these other fibers on account of the conditions south of us. A successful paper substitute would provide for the utilization of a large amount of wood waste and at the same time build up a home industry independent of foreign raw materials.
The problems put up to the laboratory to solve are many and complex. One man in the frog business was suffering heavy losses from the death of his tadpoles. He asked the laboratory to find out if there was anything in the wood which when washed out polished the tadpoles.
The government chemists undertook to study the matter. They could not locate the trouble, so it was put up to the section of timber tests. After a few experiments it was found that the resonant croaking of the large frogs produced vibrations in the boards of the tanks. The vibrations were transmitted through the water to the ganglin of the tadpoles (they have no brains), causing a disease somewhat akin to infantile paralysis.
The remedy was simple. The man was advised to separate his tadpoles from his large frogs, thus confining the vibrations to the older generations. This was done and the mortality among the tadpoles decreased wonderfully.
AIRPLANE COMPASSES
Of the thousands of inventions relating to the war which have been filed in the patent offices of the United States and the countries of the entente allies in the last three years many have been for compasses for airplanes. The points aimed at particularly have been the elimination of errors that result from tilting and banking. The problems are complex and have been studied for years, as the troubles worried users of compasses long before airplanes came into the world.
Of the thousands of inventions relating to the war which have been filed in the patent offices of the United States and the countries of the entente allies in the last three years many have been for compasses for airplanes. The points aimed at particularly have been the elimination of errors that result from tilting and banking. The problems are complex and have been studied for years, as the troubles worried users of compasses long before airplanes came into the world.
The military value of a perfect compass for an airplane would be great. With such an invention flights on cloudy night would be comparatively safe and aviators could reach predetermined objectives without much regard to land bearings. At present, when he cannot see land or anything else, the airman practically has to feel his way to a large extent.
His Wife's Little Shot
"I'm glad you're over the draft age."
"Why."
"Think how humiliated I should be to have to admit that I was dependent on your stingy salary every week for my living."—Detroit Free Press.
Sure Way.
"What is a good way to get rid of angle worms in a garden?"
"The best way I know is to plan a fishing trip. There won't be a worm there when you go to look for them."
New Reading.
"The old proverb says uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
"Yes, because it can't find a good way to cover the lies up."
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 14.
RETURNING FROM CAPTIVITY.
LESSON TEXT: Form 1
GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.—Psalms 126:3.
Israel went into captivity because of her sins. The time of her disciplinary process was about to end, as its purpose was now accomplished: namely, the cure of Israel's idolatry. Ever since the Babylonian captivity the Hebrew people have been worshipers of the one God. Monotheism has stood forth as a vital characteristic. The main reason for the Jews' maintenance of racial identity in spite of their national dislocation and the breaking up of their social ties, is the unity of their faith, around the one God.
1. The Proclamation of Cyrus (vv. 1-4).
(1) The Time of (v. 1). The first year of Cyrus; that is the first year after his conquest of Babylon.
(2) How It Was Brought About (v. 1). The Lord stirred up his spirit. The Lord often uses very unlikely agents in the accomplishment of his purposes. There is nothing too hard for him. He can readily use a heathen king to accomplish his purpose. He can find a way of approach to any heart. Likely Daniel was the agent used to bring the matter to the king's attention. Daniel was still the influential prime minister of Babylon. From his study of the prophecies of Jeremiah (Jer. 25:12; Isa. 45:1; compare Daniel 9:2), he knew that the time was near for the return of the people to their own land, so he likely brought the matter to the attention of the king and persuaded him to thus favor his people.
(3) Its Contents (vv. 2-4).
(a) A confession of the true God (vv. 2-3)
He acknowledges him to be the God of heaven, the Most High, the Supreme God, a God of goodness. He declared, "He has given me all the kingdoms of the earth," and that God had with authority laid upon him the charge of building him a house at Jerusalem. (b) A Generous Permission to Israel (v. 3). All who desired to go up to Jerusalem and build the Lord's house were permitted to go. He even commanded the blessing of the Lord to be upon them.
(c) A Positive Co-Operation (v. 4).
None were obliged to go up, but a positive obligation was laid upon those who did not go up to render assistance to those who did. They were to aid in the building of the house of God by giving money, beasts and goods. It was more than a free-will offering, an obligation in addition thereto. The obligation was even wider than the people of Israel. The heather were asked to render aid.
II. Response to the Proclamation of Cyrus (vv. 5, 6).
(1) By Israel (v. 5). Strange to say the decree of Cyrus was not met with great enthusiasm. Only a small number, chiefly from Judah and Benjamin, returned (v. 5). For most of them it meant giving up business interests, for they had settled down to the regular callings of life. Besides the sacrifice of business interests it involved great risks as to the future. The entire company, including servants, was about fifty thousand (2:64). Of this company we note the following divisions; first, chiefs of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, that is magistrates; second, priests, and Levites, leaders in religion; third, skillful artificers, head workmen.
(2). By Their Neighbors (v. 6). This response was apparently more hearty than that of the Jews themselves. Their neighbors gave freely of gold, silver, beasts and goods. God had not only graciously disposed the heart of Cyrus toward his people, but then found peculiar favor from their neighbors, so that their wants were abundantly supplied.
III. Restoration of the Sacred Vessels (vv. 7-11). These vessels had been carried away to Babylon many years before. Little did Nebuchadnezzar realize that he would put into safe keeping the vessels which would be needed at this time. They were carefully numbered and turned over to the proper officers. Except for their desecration in Belshazzar's feast, they were none the worst for having been carried away. These were brought up to Jerusalem from Babylon.
Poverty.
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.—Bovee.
Love's Secret.
Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.—Frederick W. Faber.
Honest Endeavors
I think that there is success in all honest endeavor, and that there is some victory gained in every gallant struggle that is made.—Dickens.
Power of Littles.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.—Michael Angelo
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THE LAND OF REALITY
THE RICH MAN'S HOME
By Ralph Thomas Kettering
Direction of Ed. W. Rowland & Lorin J. Howard. (Not a Moving Picture)
THE WORKING AREA
The above is a view of the first unit of the Lincoln High School Mechanical Building, in course of construction by the Lincoln High School boys, under the direction of their instructors. All of the work of laying the bricks and of making the cement floors in this building was done by the class in brick masonry; and every part of the woodwork, including window frames, roof framework, floors, etc., was done by the boys who are taking the course in carpentry This first unit having been completed, they have begun the erection of a second unit.
The monthly musicale concert of the Lincoln High School Community Organization was held in the auditorium of the High School at 3:30 p. m. last Sunday. The auditorium was crowded to its capacity and one of the most pretentious and high class programs ever offered by Prof. Smith was faultlessly rendered. Encore after encore greeted the singing of the matchless quartet, composed of Mrs. Effie Grant Hardy, Miss Anna Smith, Prof. Reynolds and Major Smith. Every number was a masterpiece, and the vast audience was more than pleased with the splendid offering presented them.
SELECT TRAINING CAMPS FOR
DRAFTED, NEGROES.
Washington, Oct. 8.—Colored men included in the draft in Northern states will be trained at Yapahank, Wrightstown, Annapolis Junction, Chillicothe, Rockford, Des Moines and Fort Riley, the war department decided today. A regiment of Colored men at each cantonment will be officered by white soldiers with rank above captain.
Six hundred and twenty-six Colored captains and lieutenants who complete their training at the camp at Fort Des Moines, Ia., this week will be assigned to the seven cantonments.
The Kansas City Sun:
I am mailing to you today amount of Liberty Loan Bonds purchased by the Tenth United States Cavalry and the Quartermaster Corps, stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. I would like to have this published in your next issue, as this is such a credit to the race and in my opinion the entire colored race should know of this. The total amount purchased by different organizations are as follows:
Organizations Percentage. No. Men Pres't. No. Men Sub. Am't.
Q. M. Corps. 91. 28 25 $2,600
Hospl' Corps. 91.7 24 22 1,600
Hdqs. Trp. 56.7 74 42 4,000
Sup. Trp. ... 83.5 42 35 2,750
M. G. Troop. 98. 48 47 4,400
Troop E. ... 78.4 74 58 5,650
Troop F. ... 100. 67 67 6,800
Troop G. ... 65.1 66 43 2,450
Troop H. ... 70.6 68 48 4,250
Troop I. ... 57. 79 45 3,500
Troop K. ... 86.3 51 44 5,150
Troop M. ... 85.7 70 60 4,250
Total. ... 77.6 691 536 $47,400
This includes the Second and Third Squadron of the Tenth Cavalry with one more squadron to be heard from, the First Squadron, which is stationed at Nogales, Arizona.
JOS. C. BATTISE,
Sergt. Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A
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Ready to Wear Men's Suits and Overcoats, $7.00 to $20.00
Boy's Suits $2.00 to $6.00
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Hats and Furnishings.
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THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917
Afro-American Automobile School for Negroes Under New Management.
Fortune J. Weaver takes full control and says that he is determined to see that the Negro men and boys shall have an opportunity to learn the automobile trade as it is taught in the leading white schools of this city.
He has bought the full equipment of the Kansas City Automobile Training School, the oldest automobile training school in Kansas City. Some of the most important parts of this equipment are as follows:
Thirty-seven (37) trouble shooters
One (1) 25 Horse Power D. C. Motor
One (1) Emery Bar, Emery Grinder and One Horse Power Motor
Two (2) Blacksmith's Outfits
Two (2) Oxy-Acetylene Welding Outfit
One (1) Battery Charging Outfit
One (1) One Horse Power Motor (Knap)
One (1) Two Horse Power, Crocker and Wheeler Motor
One (1) One Horse Power, Tom Thumb Motor
One (1) Barber and Divindler Farm Electric Lighting Plant complete)
Ten (10) Complete Sets of Stocks and Dies
One (1) Assortments of 100 Pieces, Magnetos, Carbureators and Starters
One (1) Assortments of 100 Pieces, Magnetos, O Complete Furnishings for two (2) Class Rooms, This equipment invoiced over $6,500.
Mr. Weaver has also secured the services of an insti leading Automobile Schools for the past seven (7) years gro men and boys can be trained for instructors.
Mr. Weaver has decided to incorporate and sell a li a guarantee of 6 per cent interest on every dollar invest some money to invest, can get further information by.
The following is a few extracts from a catalogue a week from Mr. Weaver's office, and the return mail brin who have been looking and longing for this great opporti just get on the train and come to the school; others writ they will be here as soon as they can get things arrange
AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE TRAINING
The only Automobile Training School Agents wanted in all Negro Districts. Free Scholar enroll.
There is a great opportunity for our men and boys eral repair shops and garages, and become independent 24-26 Woodland avenue, Kansas City, Mo. A modern feet of floor space, formerly occupied by the Sweeney become the largest in the West.
100 Pieces, Magnetics, Carbureators, two (2) Class Rooms, complete super over $6,500.
The services of an instructor who has past seven (7) years. He will help for instructors.
Corporate and sell a limited amount on every dollar invested. Parties other information by seeing Mr. Wets from a catalogue that is being and the return mail brings back hurry for this great opportunity. Some the school; others write and send can get things arranged to come.
MOBILE TRAINING SCHOOL, KC Mobile Training School for Negroes districts. Free Scholarship to any for our men and boys to go into the become independent business men City, Mo. A modern steam-heated copied by the Sweeney Auto Training
Complete Furnishings for two (2) Class Rooms, complete supply, of tools for 200 students. This equipment invoiced over $6,500.
Mr. Weaver has also secured the services of an instructor who has been instructing in one of the leading Automobile Schools for the past seven (7) years. He will have charge of the classes until Negro men and boys can be trained for instructors.
Mr. Weaver has decided to incorporate and sell a limited amount of shares at $100 per share, with a guarantee of 6 per cent interest on every dollar invested. Parties who are interested, and have some money to invest, can get further information by seeing Mr. Weaver personally.
The following is a few extracts from a catalogue that is being sent out by the thousands every week from Mr. Weaver's office, and the return mail brings back hundreds of letters from glad hearts who have been looking and longing for this great opportunity. Some of them do not wait to write, but just get on the train and come to the school; others write and send in their enrollment fee, or say that they will be here as soon as they can get things arranged to come.
AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE TRAINING SCHOOL, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
The only Automobile Training School for Negroes in the World. Agents wanted in all Negro Districts. Free Scholarship to anyone who induces ten students to enroll. There is a great opportunity for our men and boys to go into the various communities, open general repair shops and garages, and become independent business men. The school is located at 1420-22-24-26 Woodland avenue, Kansas City, Mo. A modern steam-heated brick building with 13,200 square feet of floor space, formerly occupied by the Sweeney Auto Training School for Whites which has since become the largest in the West.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The following are a few questions that you may wish school, also the answers. These are questions that are in taking a course:
Q. In what kind of neighborhood is your School I
A. Our School is located in a high class Negro Res Business Center, and about five blocks from the Y. M. O of the city, one block from the famous Paseo or Parade has provided lawn tennis, basketball courts, baseball and
Q. Does your regular tuition fee cover all the expenses
A. It does. There are positively no extra charges to buy. Everything in our School is for your use.
Q. Must I have more than an ordinary education
A. By our method of teaching it is not even necessary to buy real experience. Of course, the more education
Q. Do you assist your graduates in obtaining a go
A. It is a pleasure to assist our graduates at all ment department which keeps constantly in touch with panies, factories, wholesale houses and other people who exert every effort to place graduates whose reference tent to hold positions with people who want and pay for
Q. Is there any way in which I can reduce expenses
A. In order to assist the student who demonstrates finances will hardly pull him through the School, here that you can work before and after School hours and e
Q. What will be my total expenses while attending
ons that you may wish to ask before
are questions that are commonly as
school is your School located?
high class Negro Resident District
bocks from the Y. M. C. A. Building
nous Paseo or Paradeground, as it
lalls courts, baseball and football gro
fee cover all the expenses of that
lively no extra charges. We furnis
is for your use.
On ordinary education to make good
it is not even necessary that you
course, the more education you h
mates in obtaining a good paying p
our graduates at all times. For the
instantly in touch with private own
and other people who need compet
mates whose references are good and
who want and pay for competent h
who can reduce expenses while in sch
dent who demonstrates that he is
through the School, here in our city y
per School hours and earn your roo
expenses while attending School?
follows:
from $4.00 and $5.00 per week, 8 wee
ding money, etc., 8 weeks.
money necessary to complete a cours
for the purpose of giving prospecti
ne to us, and what it will cost you
have competent instructors in all of
you enter this Automobile Training
business and duty is to see that
the why of every move you make.
hold you in a way you can unders
tation department in the School, you
care of an expert instructor who sh
when you have finished the course
any make of Automobile.
OFFER TO STUDENTS UNTIL
a 200 boys and men from all parts
tested in learning the Automobile
is harvested, others as soon as ce
a chance to get in and out before
to enrolls now and makes a payment
comes to the school within the next
$40.00) more, will be given the con-
dlarls ($50.00).
The following are a few questions that you may wish to ask before taking out scholarship in our school, also the answers. These are questions that are commonly asked by persons who are interested in taking a course:
Q. In what kind of neighborhood is your School located?
A. Our School is located in a high class Negro Resident District just three blocks from the Negro Business Center, and about five blocks from the Y. M. C. A. Building, fourteen blocks from the heart of the city, one block from the famous Paseo or Paradeground, as it is commonly called, where the city has provided lawn tennis, basketball courts, baseball and football grounds for the Negro citizens' use.
Q. Does your regular tuition fee cover all the expenses of that court?
A. It does. There are positively no extra charges. We furnish you tools and you have no books to buy. Everything in our School is for your use.
Q. Must I have more than an ordinary education to make good in the Automobile business?
A. By our method of teaching it is not even necessary that you know how to read and write. We teach you by real experience. Of course, the more education you have, is bound to help you.
Q. Do you assist your graduates in obtaining a good paying position?
A. It is a pleasure to assist our graduates at all times. For this purpose we maintain an employment department which keeps constantly in touch with private owners of all makes of cars, sales companies, factories, wholesale houses and other people who need competent mechanics and chauffeurs. We exert every effort to place graduates whose references are good and who, we are satisfied, are competent to hold positions with people who want and pay for competent help.
Q. Is there any way in which I can reduce expenses while in school?
A. In order to assist the student who demonstrates that he is thoroughly ambitious and still his finances will hardly pull him through the School, here in our city we can find employment for you so that you can work before and after School hours and earn your room and board.
Q. What will be my total expenses while attending School?
A. Your expenses will be as follows:
Board and room, $4.00 and $5.00 per week, 8 weeks. $40.00
Tuition. 75.00
Laundry, spending money, etc., 8 weeks. 8.00
Total. $123.00
The above is the amount of money necessary to complete a course in the A. A. A. Training School.
This pamphlet is gotten up for the purpose of giving prospective students an idea of what they may expect to find when they come to us, and what it will cost you to take out a scholarship in this School. We have arranged to have competent instructors in all departments, men who are experts in their particular lines. When you enter this Automobile Training School you come at once under the care of master experts whose sole business and duty is to see that you learn the Automobile business fully and completely, and know the why of every move you make. No "guess work," no "I think so," but plain straight proven facts told you in a way you can understand. As soon as you have completed the work in the demonstration department in the School, you are put to work on practice motors with your tool kit, under the care of an expert instructor who shows you how to make adjustments, repairs, rebuild, overhaul, etc. When you have finished the course you will be capable of overhauling, repairing, adjusting and driving any make of Automobile.
OUR SPECIAL OFFER TO STUDENTS UNTIL OCTOBER 15.
We are in communication with 200 boys and men from all parts of the country, mostly people from the rural district. They are interested in learning the Automobile business. Many of them have arranged to come as soon as the crop is harvested, others as soon as cotton picking is over. We want to give the fellow who can come now a chance to get in and out before the rush comes and therefore the following cut rates are offered:
To any student who enrolls now and makes a payment of ten dollars ($10.00) on his tuition fee and comes to the school within the next thirty days prepared to pay forty dollars ($40.00) more, will be given the complete course at the reduced price of fifty dollars ($50.00).
GOOD POSITIONS WAITING.
There are lots of good positions waiting for competet
yourself and get paid for what you know. If you haven't
an employment department that will assist you in gett
AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE
Home Phone, East 5201
Bell Phone, East 1917
is waiting for competent chauffeurs
know. If you haven't got all the
will assist you in getting a job to h
ICAN AUTOMOBILE TRAINING
There are lots of good positions waiting for competent chauffers and mechanics. Why not prepare yourself and get paid for what you know. If you haven't got all the money we will help you. We have an employment department that will assist you in getting a job to help pay your expenses.
AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE TRAINING SCHOOL.
the baptist and to allow it to fail will be a lasting disgrace as well as reproach upon us as christian women whom God has so signally blessed. Every sister who reads this should send us some article for a bazaar. Send your contribution to the corresponding secretary, Mrs. C. R. McDowell in care of the Washington Ave. Baptist Church, Springfield, Mo
ARE YOU A K. OF P.
If not, you are invited to become a member of the Kansas City Pythian club, whose membership is increasing rapidly. The officers of the club are:
Eight (8) Block Motors
One (1) Buick
Thirty-seven (37) trouble sh
One (1) Dodge touring car
One (1) Banner Press Drill
One (1) Lathe.
Two (2) Blacksmith's Outfits
To the Baptist Sisterhood of Missouri. Dear Sisters:—
The Womans' State Convention will convene in Springfield, Mo., on Tuesday, October 16, 1917. This will be one of the most important meetings ever held by our women, as the need of our school is more pressing at this time than ever before. We are called upon to make greater efforts to meet those needs and every circle should do its best to send the largest offering it has ever sent up. If you cannot send a messenger, send a letter with your offering. This work belongs to
1420 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Now it to fail will be as well as re-christian women signally blessed. Reads this should be for a bazaar. On to the corres-sions. C. R. M. the Washington Springfield, Mo.
K. OF P. invited to become asas City Pythian ship is increasing of the club are:
John Stimmetz, President.
S. Alexander, Vice President.
Geo. Belford, Secretary.
I. C. Zackary, Asst. Secretary.
Geo. B. Fowler, Treasurer.
S. Dickens, Chaplain.
Smith Johnson, Sergeant at Arms.
The club meets each Wednesday and Saturday night at 8:30, at 1510 East, 10th street.
A special dispensation has been granted by Grand Chancellor Lloyd, under which you can secure membership at the low fee of $4.50. Apply to any of the above named officers, or to James P. Maynard, Organizer, 2416 Vine street.
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TO THOSE WHO WAIT. By Roscoe C. Jamison.
Fear not, O Eager Hearts, that thou shalt be
As outcasts still, when strikes the armed host
To free the world from ancient tyranny.
As God is God, thou art not wholly lost.
The Master Dramatist who forms this play
But leaves the gripping climax till the last,
He holds in store for thee a shining day,
In this world-tragedy, so deep and vast.
We see great armies led by obastful Pride,
While Mars, in fiendish glee, shouts: "Let them come!"
And from the shell-torn fields soon weeps a tide
Of sorrow forth to cleave the hearts at home.
Columbia sees at last, through tear-dimmed eyes,
How caste and prejudice have sapped her strength,
Then Truth will speak, and bid her to arise
And follow . . . till she comes at length
To where you will be standing, patient still,
Waiting the call to serve your Country's needs,
And Truth will say: "I saw at San Juan Hill
Black soldiers save the day by peerless deeds.
To save Old Glory now, O send them forth!
They fear not Death, nor Hell, when they can stand
And fight unfettered!" Then o'er South and North
Will sound the bugle call, a full command,
To those who wait with faith and loyalty.
Then, bound on longer by a senseless hate,
Ye shall march forth, to prove, across the sea,
What things are written in the Book of Fate!
I Pride,
wants: "Let them come!"
weeps a tide
arts at home.
didmmed eyes,
apped her strength,
r to arise
at length
cient still,
Country's needs,
a Juan Hill
beerless deeds.
am forth!
when they can stand
South and North
l command,
royalty.
less hate,
loss the sea,
Book of Fate!
We see great armies led by obastful Pride,
While Mars, in fiendish glee, shouts: "Let them come!"
And from the shell-torn fields soon weeps a tide
Of sorrow forth to cleave the hearts at home.
Columbia sees at last, through tear-dimmed eyes,
How caste and prejudice have sapped her strength,
Then Truth will speak, and bid her to arise
And follow . . . till she comes at length
To where you will be standing, patient still,
Waiting the call to serve your Country's needs,
And Truth will say: "I saw at San Juan Hill
Black soldiers save the day by peerless deeds.
To save Old Glory now, O send them forth!
They fear not Death, nor Hell, when they can stand
And fight unfettered!" Then o'er South and North
Will sound the bugle call, a full command,
To those who wait with faith and loyalty.
Then, bound on longer by a senseless hate,
Ye shall march forth, to prove, across the sea,
What things are written in the Book of Fate!
Peoples' Drug Store
Northeast corner of Eighteenth Street and the Paseo
For twelve years we have served you. We have never substituted nor given you an inferior article. We carry everything in the Drug line, all the latest and best toilet articles. We deliver anything to any part of the city - - promptly - - call us up.
PHONES
Bell East 1814 Home East 4082
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BELL PHONE, EAST 3955.
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JANE B.
JANE B.