McDowell Times

THE GREATEST EMANCIATION CELEBRATION In History of Keystone----5000 Visitors in City Good Order Prevailed Throughout the Day--Harmony Everywhere Able Speech--Prizes McDOWELL COUNTY OFFERS EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITIES TO THE LABORING MAN. VOLUME 10 THE GREATEST PATION In History of Keystone Good Order Preva Day--Harmony Able Speed COOPER ENDG Though the air was chilly and the ground damp after five day's rain, thousands of people came to Keystone Monday to attend the Emancipation Celebration under the auspices of the McDowell County Colored Republican Organization. Sunday and early Monday morning poured a large number of visitors in the city and each train Monday morning was filled to the limit of its capacity. They came from Mercer, Raleigh, Wyoming, Cabell, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Boone, Mingo, Wayne, in fact, all of the counties in southern West Virginia. They came not only rejoicing because of their freedom and the wonderful progress made during the past fifty years but proud of West Virginia and determined to do all in their power to keep W. Va. the best and freest state in the Union. Three bands made the vally echo and re-echo with the strains of patriotic music while hundreds of happy people marched back and forth through the streets of the freest city in the U.S. At 1:30 o'clock p.m. a wagon loaded with the county fair committee and the prizes, led by Lord's Cornet Band and followed by the Gary and Elkhorn bands drove from the Keystone Supply Co to the Base Ball grounds where the meeting was held and the committee at once began the distribution of tickets. At 2:30 o'clock J. E. Parson, President of the McDowell County Colored Republican Organization, called the meeting to order from the porch of the Baptist Church and after stating the purpose of the meeting introduced Prof. J. W. Robinson, who offered prayer. Hon. H. P. Graham, acting mayor of Keystone, made the welcome address. In a short speech the acting mayor told the visitors of the opportunities offered them in McDowell county, of the many privileges enjoyed here that are not accorded them elsewhere and heartily he welcomed them to Keystone, the mecca of the coal fields and the freest city in West Virginia. He assured them of every possible protection and paid a high tribute to the people of Keystone. Hon. W. W. Whyte, former Secretary of the Public Service Commission was the next speaker. He congratulated the colored people upon their wonderful progress since Emancipation and pictured a glorious future for the race. Hon. J. E. Meadows of Princeton was called upon to introduce the speaker of the day. The speech of Mr. Meadows was able and brilliant. COOPER DELIVERS ABLE SPEECH Hon. Edward Cooper, of Bramwell, opened his address by paying a beautiful tribute to the Negro in America for the wonderful progress made during the past fifty years. He complimented the Negros of McDowell county upon their great advancement during the past ten years and predicted more than double progress for the Negros of this county during the next ten years. The tribute paid Lincoln, Grant, Sherdan, Douglass and the soldiers the Union Army was a prose poem. He discussed vital toerests effecting the progress of the Negro since emancipation and congratulated them upon their education, moral and industrial progress and pointed out the road to future advancement. He placed himself squarely on record as a champion of human right and a believer in manhood suffrage. He discussed at length political issues effecting the people of West Virginia and of the country at large. His approval of the Workingmen's Compensation Act brought forth loud and prolonged aplause. He discussed the tariff and the regulation of public service corporations at length and declared himself in favor of only sufficient duty on the necessities of his as will make up the difference between the cost of production at hope and abroad and a high tariff on luxuries. He showed the effect of free trade upon the industries of W. Va. He praised the work of Governor Hatfield and the last legislature and endorsed the progressive legislation recently enacted. He declared as untrue a statement which recently appeared in a Bluefield paper that he was born with "a silver spoon in his mouth and a check book in his hand," stating that his father was not usually at the time of his birth and that he (the speaker) helped out away The McDowell Times the bushes where the Mill Creek Coal & Coke Co. now has its operations. He further stated that he worked in the mines in every capacity from mule driver to general manager. DECLARED HIMSELF A CANDIDATE FOR GONGRESS Mr. Cooper announced himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress from the Fifth Congressional District and asked the voters of this district to support him. His announcement caused long and loud applause, throwing up bats and yells of "COOPER! COOPER! COOPER!" The speech was one of the albeit ever heard in Keystone and places Mr. Cooper in the front rank of political orators. At the close of Mr. Cooper's speech. HON. EWD. COOPER committee composed of the following gentignen, Hon. A G. Free, Chairman; Hon. R. W. White, Secretary; Messrs Fletcher Harper, Coaldale; Jim McGuinr-Bramwel; Tom Quarles, Berwind; Henry Richard, Kimball; D. T. Coles, North York; Geo. Brown, Kimball, reported the f allowing resolutions; RESOLUTIONS WHEREAS, in the Divine economy of affairs, the preservation of a higher standard of citizenship, after one's duty to his God and his family, is, or should be his prime consideration: AND, whereas, it becomes the bounded duty of each and every citizen, with this grave responsibility resting upon his shoulders to give it careful and deliberate consideration, in accordance with the ariet spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of these United States, AND, whereas, there should be a cohesive adherence to the principle be calculated to the film maintenance of good government, having as its ultimate end, the greatest good to the largest number, to the entire exclusion of any selfish motive, or personal aggrandizement. AND, whereas, it is not only the mandatory edict, as thundered from Mount Sinai, that government by representation should run with man from the very creation through all the cycles of time, as a variable without a limit back to the very source from which it came, not only as a privilege and right, but as a duty and a heritage Divine. AND, whereas, according thereunto, it devolves upon us as a sacred duty to exercise the aggressive right of the election of able, competent, peculiarly fitted and eminently well equipped men in the representative capacity of our government. AND, whereas, there is, there can be no more vitally concerned branch of our great government scheme, than that of the law making bond of this incomparable nation, under the legal caption of Congress of the United States. AND, whereas, we citizens of McBowell county, a part of the Fifth Congressional District of the Commonwealth of West Virginia commit t t a political entity, whose varied and multifarious interests must be represented in the above named body; Be it Therefore Resolved: That we, the Colored Republican Organization of the above named county, which is mainly composed of men whose vocation in life is that of miners and laborers, headed by a splendid corps of professional men, on the account of the fact, as an unimpeachable reason, irreffutable and not to be gainsaid, bereinafter assigned do endorse, as the Republican candidate for Congress of the United States, to be determined at the primaries or conventions to be held at a date hereafter set by the proper authorizes in this year of our land 1923, to KEYSTONE WES1 VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1913 represent the Fifth Congressional District of the Commonwealth of W. Va. in Congress, a man:— 1st. Who has always been a loyal republican, and regular to the coming up and going down of the sun. 2nd. A man, who for the sake of his party and harmony, and for the sake of the forthance and broader development of the principles of this party, has many times sacrificed the ambition to go to Congress, when he clearly had the call of the electorate and could have occupied a seat in this distinguished body, but Caesar-like turned aside, thrice refused the crown, in order that he might the better serve the party, and his friends. 3rd. A man, who has ever been the consistent friend of the laboring class of people, he himself having been and yet being one of them, a true, stanunch and tried friend of the colored race, loyal to them to a fault, a man of satute business acumen, a trained lawyer, with an extensive knowledge of the law, a humanitarian, and a philanthropist of no mean degree A man not given to be radical in his ideas but rather conservative, who hesitates long and deliberates well before sanctioning any departure from the old landmarks of the Republican party as they are rooted and grounded in the Constitution of Independence and the Constitution of the United States a man who is a tall man, a broad man, a man who when he writes, the world will read, when he talks the world will listen, who when he thinks the pulse of the nation will thrill. Such a man is Col. Edward Cooper of Bramwell, Mercer County, W. Virginia, whom this body, in quasi-convention as sabled, comprised of the class of citizenry above mentioned, after due deliberation and careful consideration, takes pleasure and pride in endorsing as the next candidate for the Republican nomination for the United States Congress, and herewith pledge him our unstinted support from the very incipiency of the primary, or convention, until he shall have been declared eligible by the Clerk of the House of Representatives to assume the portfolio in that distinguished body, than which, of its kind, the sun does not shine upon a greater. Upon motion of T. Edward Hill, seconded by M. T. Whittico, the resolutions were adopted. The County Fair Committee then announced the winners of prizes as follows: 1st prize. One lot given by the Augusta Land Co., Princeton, W. Va., lot No. 13, block F, Wm. Wheeer, Eckman. 2nd prize. One lot given by the Lawson Realty Co., Long Island, New York, lot No. 18, block 304, section of the Spruces, Camil Doughtor, No-thfork. 3rd prize. One barrel of flour, M. C. Hairston, Eckman. 4th prize. One half barrel of flour, Mrs. Phoebe T. Grimes, Kimball. 5th prize. One 20-pound ham, John A. Wright, Algoma. 6th prize. One 18-pound ham, R. W Witman, Wileo. 7th prize. One bolt unbleached domestic, given by Keystone Supply Co. Will Smith, Eckman. 8th prize. One pair shoes, given by G. Hyman & Sons, Naymon Taylor, Elkhorn. 9th prize. One 50-pound bag granulated sugar, Bank Slade, Vivian. 10th prize. One 15-pound ham, James Pannell, Premier. 11th prize. Ten pounds of best coffee, Charley Bandy, Elkhorn. 12th prize. One 12-pound ham, Win. Buford, Eckman. 13th prize. One bag 25 pounds best granulated sugar, Wavil Craft, Eckman. 14th prize. One 5-pound box best tea, J. E. Thomas, Elkhorn. 15th prize. Three pounds best coffee, Emmett Williams, Vivian. Prize of $25 in gold to winning baseball team, Elkhorn vs. Gary, won by Elkhorn 13 to 5. The immense crowd was perfectly orderly, the tickets were distributed and taken up and prizes awarded without the 'east friction. A good ball game was played by the Elkhorn and Gary teams and witnessed near 1,000 persons Elkhorn took the honors 13 to 5, thereby winning the $25 in gold offered to the winner by the McDowell County Colored Republican Organization. Of the 16 prizes given away only two were offered by local merchants. The Keystone Supply Co. and G. Hyman & Sons, in appreciation of the long and valuable patronage of the colored people of McDowell county. Each gave a prize valued at $5,000 each. The arrangements were perfect and everything passel off without a hitch or flaw. The colored school's were not in session and many teachers and pupils attended the celebration. It was the greatest day in the history of Keystone which means that nothing in McDowell county has ever equaled it. Many white people, several of whom were prominent in official life, were present and there was no unpardon incident to mar the harmony of the occasion. One special feature of the day which should be especially mentioned is the fact that the city officials requested the milton keepers to close their windows while the environs were waving hold and the request was complied with without a single SLAVERY IN THE PHILIPPINES SLAVERY IN THE PHILIPPINES (Literary Digest.) The assertion by Dean Worcester, of the Philippine Commission, that slavery is prevalent in the Islands will provide the new Governor-General with a problem to test his mettle at the very beginning of his term of office, observe many an editor. And if the editor happens to be one who objects to the plan for giving the Filipinos their independence in a few years, he finds the report a potent argument on his side. Newspaper opinion in this country, and also in the Philippines, in so far as we can judge, accepts Mr. Worcester's statement as facts, the one daily, the Chicago Post (Prog.), notes satirically that the disclosure is made "on the eve of Congressional consideration of the Jones Bill," and thinks "the Democrats will be able to push-push the story as an eleventh-hour attempt to discredit the potential capacity of the Filipinos for self-government eight years hence." The Filipino Resident Commissioner at Washington, Manuel L. Quezon, flatly denies the existence of slavery as an institution in the Philippines. But most of our editors are willing to take Commissioner Worcester's word, and the Manila WEEKLY TIMES finds the Commissioner's evidence so convincing as to lay Mr. Quezon and other Filipinos, "voluble in detail," "under the suspicion of delicate falshood." The Manila paper speaks editorially of the report, in which Mr. Worcester draws "inevitable and humiliating conclusion," as "one of the most important, as it is one of the most masterly, of the many notable pieces of work which he has performed during the many years of his service with the Philippine Government." To quote it still further: "It establishes beyond the shadow of it doubt that the practise of holding human beings in slavery is common in those provinces which are subject to the legislative control of the Philippine Assembly, and it carries the charge of prognage up to the very doors of the Assembly itself. "There is no losphole of escape from the obligation of honor which this report forces on the Assembly—the delegation to pass at its next session an act which shall extend to those provinces under its legislative control the pains and penalties which today await the slave-dealer, the slave-owner, and those who would thrive on peon labor in the non-Christian provinces." Commissioner Worceste's report to the Inland Government, after a request for information made by the United States Senate to the War Department tells of the capture of children and their sale in the Islands or in China, of their being enticed from home on various pretexts, and of their purchase from parent. One thirteen-year-old girl, for example, "had been bought from her mother for some pigs, chickens, rice, and a cloak." Shavings exist throughout the islands, according to this authority, even in the so-called "Christian provinces," under the direct control of the Philippine Assembly, not omenly, yet on such a scale that make it one of the most serious problems concerning the Government. To quote from press selections one or two characteristic paragraphs in the Worcester report: "It has been and still is a common thing for Filipinos living in a territory adjacent to that inhabited by Negritos Tagibiananas, Bengotes, or Hugas, to obtain children by capture or purchase and to hold them as slaves, selling them to others whenever it proves financially advantageous to do so. Such fortunate are clearly chattel slaves and often are repeatedly sold and resold. "A typical case is that of Lasso, a Tagbanan of Palawan, Lasso was brought from one Patricio Tabastabas by Pastor Medino for 40 pesos. Medino sold him to Vincente Baculi for the same price, and in 1912 Tabastabas bought him back for 45 pesos. This year he sold him to Benito Marcelo for 55 pesos. The case actually came before the Secretary-Treasurer of Palawan, who is also justice of the peace, on account of some trouble over the last payment for slaves, and it was in that way that the Government got wind of the matter. The official sent the unfortunate man back to his trade and furnished me with a statement of the facts. "Ambos Cumarines is a regularly organized province under control of the Philippine Assembly; yet since the American occupation children have been sold into slavery for deportation into China. The essential facts were reported by the Filipino Governor and the Filipino Fiscal of the province. I have been informed that it was the custom of the Chinese of this province, who bought children to send to Bhima, to give them a Bhinese hair-cut and dress them in Chinese clothes. And it is especially interesting to note that these Chinese claimed they were purchasing children for adoption, this being the same defense offered by the Filipinos who purchase Negrito children as slaves." Mr. Worcester then asks, "What has been done to stop this traffic in human flesh?" And he tells of successive efforts on his mart and that of other Commis- sioners to get the passage of drastic prohibitive legislation by the Philippine Assembly. Under the present laws, as judicially interpreted, most slavery prosecutions have been blocked because it could not be proved that the victims were detained by actual physical force. Why, he asks, should the Assembly block laws which would stop the traffic" Mr. Worester's own explanation is that some Assemblymen have actually been caught in slave ownership and further that a law penalizing slavery would likewise penalize peonage, which "prevails in every municipality in the Philippine Islands." GHARGES OF SLAVERY IN PHILIPPINES CONFIRMED Washington m, Sept. 20—Secretary Garrison bad before him a Philippine slavery report by W. H. Phipps, auditor for the islands, practically backing up the startling charges of Dean Worcester. It cites details of many cases of boys and girls sold into slavery at prices ranging from $20 to $100 and that heads of savage militias sell their daughters and regard the practice as a right. "I have no hesitation in saying that I think that the charges of Secretary Worcester that slavery exists in the Philippines, are sustained" says Mr. Phipps—Cincinnati Times Star. BEAUTIFUL BIRTHDAY Miss Catherine Harper interested at a birthday reception at her home R. R. Ave. in Burk Friday evening September 19. Many of the friends of the family were invited, most of whom attended and those who could not attend set tokens. The home was beautifully decorated and the gret's enjoyed a "fears tit for the Gods," games, music and dancing. Prof. E. L. Rann was toast master and made a number of witty reference to those whom he introduced to speak. Hon. E. Howard Harper, brother of the hostess and Editor M. T. Whittico were the life of the occasion and kept a stream of merriment. This was the most beautiful home party of the season and Miss Harper was the recipient of many congratulations and a large number of valuable presents. Aside from the family those present were; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Rann, Mr. J. E. Parson, Misses Mary Robinson, Mary L. Williams, Jessie R. Free, Memphis Carter, Alberta Robinson; Messrs. Geo. F. Hill, S. N. Mills, W. F. Sample, L. J. McIntifin and M. T. Whitcoff. THE BOOSTER By S. B. MOON While we do not doubt that all the world loves a lover, yet even the beloved simpleton who beams with the near divine joy of a great and exalted passion for an Eye of his own day and generation is not held in more affectionate regard than the man who has the power of always discerning the silvery gaze supposed to line every cloud. He is the person who can never be an unwelcome guest anywhere. No situation can become so grave but that his helplessness and bainoyancy can affect an armistice between those engaged in acts of hospitality towards one another. In private life, the booster is the friend of the family, and of secrets from him; there are none. In the time of domestics unpleasantness, he can spin such a delightful and unthought of yarn on the blessings that he then and there observes, that those who had thought themselves aggrieved, perceive with confusion that their position is a most enviable one, and thereupon all irritability passes away and the booster who disclosed the butulé whereunder the light of contentment and happiness burned, comes in for an effusiveness of tender regard and appreciation from those from whose eyes, he removed the scales and showed the immensity of their good fortune. In the world of business, hardly will one man be fortuned so wise that no marring circumstance transpires to disturb the even tranquility that has come to abide permanently in the company of a great mind. Little tempests arise, seemingly without cause, and the hand that has therefore guided and governed all his concerns so steadily and so astrayly for a while becomes padded and uncertain. The man of affairs feels himself losing his grip and marvels at the weakness that has punched upon him vawners. Now is the time when the booster gets in his work. He just happens around, and while the opportunity offers, he regulates the discomposed person before him with a recital of that very person's splendid achievements in the past half envious points to the future as promising to be even more prodigal in her favors to this seemingly chochse vessel in the realms of big business. The man who bears his own great deeds thus recanted, feels a golden weakness that only a short time OPERATOR'S MEETING AT HUNTINGHON, W. VA. Really More in Interest of the Miners Than the Operators--Prejudiced Press Colors Matter and Leaves False Impression on Minds of the Public )By R. W. WHITE. The publications, apparently controlled by the outside interests which are trying to unionize the state, bastened to say all sorts of things and make all sorts of predictions, on last Saturday, after the operator's meeting in Huntington. They wove a very pretty story but it was in the one essential element, viz. consistence. They said in great glaring headlines, that the operators proposed to raise a million dollar fund to fight the union. They intimated that the operators were bitter in their denunciation in union principles. Now the truth of the matter, that nothing of this kind took place. The chief object of their meeting was, if possible, to agree upon new matters for their coal, to discuss the extension and developments of their present operations and go over the proposition of an uniform schedule of wages. Just such reports as these are doing and have done the harm. They seem to be designed especially to incite a bad feeling in the minds of the miners, and all too often it has that effect. The miners see these headlines, reads these articles, and not knowing any better, not stopping to investigate, and the operators giving out no report denying it, he (the miner) jumps to the conclusion that it is all true and thus another batch of the seed of discord is needlessly, yet skillfully sown. 11 one who have this done are cunning enough to follow it up with some feature of false confirmation and thus fix in the mind of that innocent minor impression that is anything else but a fact. Let us analyze this situation for one minute ana see if the miner blmself was not banefitted by this very meeting. West Virginia coal is in great demand. It is preferable to any coal on the market. Industries, manufacturers and ocean trade demand it. Now the more contracts that can be placed the more coal that must be mined, and consequently the more men there must be employed. Is this not in favor of the miner? There is no reduction of wages, nor lengthening of hours for him, nor any curtailment of his present privileges—merely the furt nishing him more work, whereby he earns more wages. Would you not say this is in his favor? Now as to a proposed million dollar fund, to fight the union, its too absurd to consider. Any man who can think at all, would know that if an aggregation of men with as much brains and business sense as these men had, intended to do anything of this kind, they never would have said anything about it. This is too dam to hold good in a thinking mind. In discussing the report of the Secatorial Investigating Committee, it might have been said and doubtless was said, that every effort possible would be made to stop operators and political parties from other states attempting to dictate terms to us in this state. Who will say this is not in the interest of the miner of our state? Thirdly; in developing and opening up new mines at home we furnish employment for a greater number of men, and previously, threatened to be his undoing. Now, Richard is himself again and he is both ready and eager to take up the fight against any odds to show that he is all that his admiring friends think he is. Thus has the booster saved a man from the danger of lost confidence in himself and spurred him on to more prodigious labors, backed by an enthusiasm that renders success a certainty and disaster, an impossibility. It is, however, in public and political life that the star of hope that always adorns the head of the booster, emits the most radiant glow. He has the happy facility of being on everybody's side and the ability of convincing his present auditor that his side is the right side. He is full of sorrow that anyone can be so blind as not to observe and proply appreciate the kingly virtues of the friend before him, and is whome he is so well pleased. He rejoices, however, that the great majority of his fellow creatures are as keen of observation as himself and have acknowledged fealty and sworn allegiance to his own well beloved beige lord. So the story goes and so goes the booster cheering everybody and dis, courageing nobody. In his weak smiles displace frowns and laughter utterly routs the hosts of despondency. WEST VIRGINIA'S LEADING NEGRO JOURNAL--DEVOTED TO THE RACE. NUMBER 30 MEETING INGHON, W. VA. of the Miners Than the ed Press Colors Mat- False Impression of the Public KNOW COLOR LINE should a schilded uniform price go in effect it is the very thing the miner has asked. Certainly these are things in his favor are they not? On the whole, instead of meeting against the miner, when investigated it discloses the fact that the operator met more in the interest of the miner than themselves. It is indeed high time that the people, and especially the miner, knew all the facts in every transaction of this nature, and it is equally high time that responsible publications coine their reporters as well as their reports to facts in the case. It were well that this be done for the public wants the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and it will do its own indulging. Much has been said in a vilifying way with reference to the withholding of privileges from those who seek them by the operator. This is especially a matter of some importance when considered from the view point of the colored man. We have tried to make a thorough investigation of this matter as far as we have gone and the facts are in the case that there have been but few if any colored men who have asked for anything in a professional way of the operators. We have not been able to find one colored man, as a professional man, whether doctor or lawyer or what not, who has ever asked to be considered in this capacity. From a talk we have had with several of the men, who are operators, there is with them but little sentiment in these things. The only thing they ask in any matter is that result be obtained. SMALL FIRE IN KEYSTONE For the second time within a year fire visited the property of W. Bank at the corner of Main St. and the R. K., opposite Midway. The first fire destroyed three houses and the one large house left was only saved by the quick and effective service of the Fire Department. Tuesday night about 8:30 o'clock an alarm was sounded and it was found that fire had broken out in the big boarding house owned by W. Bank and occupied by Mr. Walter Shields. The fire department was only a few minutes in responding and the fire was kept in the room on the S. W. Corner. In 30 minutes after the alarm was sounded the fire was out. It is thought one of the two N. & W. Brakemen who occupied the room left a candle burning and it sat fire to some drapery. The city lights furnished by the Appalachian Power Co., was cut for about one half hour in the early evening and many persons who did not have lamps used candles. It is estimated that the damage to the house will be only $250.00 while the damage to the furniture etc., owned by Mr. Shields will amount to between $400.00 and $200.00. Far greater damage was done by water and unnecessary tramping through the house than by the fire. W. VA. COL. INST BREAKS RECORDS W. VA. COL. INST BREAKS RECORDS The West Virginia Colored Institute opened its fall term September 17th with the largest enrollment at the opening in the history of the institution. On the 24 day the enrollment reached 276 as against 200 last year. Every room in all the dormitories is taken, and the State Board of Control is devising means by which to make room to receive the many students expected to enter immediately. Of the present enrollment nearly 100 are new students, many of whom are high School graduates. The classification of students shows a decided improvement in the work being done in the public schools of the State. Much interest centers around the unveiling of the Lincoln Bust Saturday afternoon, September 27. This bust was donated to the school by the Honorable Willian: Seymour Edwards. It was constructed by the famous artist, Henry K. Bush-Brown of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bush-Brown was at the West Virginia (Continued on Page Two.) MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION BE. 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The entire program was carried out to the letter without much or flow and one of the largest events ever assembled in McDowell county took part in the celebration. There was no closure and the day and night passed with general repelling. The McDowell County Colored Republican Organization describes great credit for bringing together such a great number of people to celebrate the most important event in the history of the country as far as the Negro is concerned. We believe the effect of this meeting upon the general condition of the Negroes in West Virginia will be immense. We brought together some of the best members of the two races and those of the white race had occasion to see a great crowd of colored people from all walks of life, well dressed, well behaved and intensely earnest. Not only the Negro leaders who came from many sections of the state but brought them together and what it meant to them and their children. The cooperation of the school officials, the McDowell Recorder and the schoolmaster in making the event a great and successful one presages the negro lot of a better day, not only for the Negro lot for all people in McDowell county. The Negro is about to enter upon a new treason, a treason which will mean as much to future generations as the emancipation from physical slavery means to the present generation. Let us all hail the down of the new day with thanksgiving and tracing. The new Negro is upon the scene and will take up the work where the father left off, better prepared than the father were. He will work without fear for the advancement of his people after all time. GOGPEERS'S ANNOUNCEMENT The announcement of Huey L. Johnson Cooper's candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor did not cause a surprise to the voters of Millsville, NY. It has been generally understood that Mr. Cooper would be a nominee and allowed candidates for the nomination for some time and yet when he becomes an open and frank answer of his candidacy at the close of one of the debates most brilliant speeches ever heard, he caused one of the greatest demonstrations of approval ever witnessed in the county. Mr. Cooper played himself separately on record as a Republican and gave unstinted praise to the Republican State Administration and last legislation. He stated his position on national issues and is wholly in sympathy with the atheist political thought of the day. He did not appeal to the prejudices of any race or class but stated that his sympathy is with the laboring people. His position on the tariff is in keeping with what experience has taught the people of West Virginia and the country at large is for their best interest. He favors the regulation of corporations and the protection of the working man. He showed a surprising familiarity with the history of the Negro in America and discussed questions affecting them frankly and leisurely. He did not tell them of slavery and the Republican party freeing them, but he left the party path and discussed questions affecting them today. He placed himself in the rank with Governor Hatfield as favoring absolute justice to all and pleaded himself to do all in his power to make conditions better, not only for the black man but for all American citizens. His statement, "I believe that human rights are the greatest of all rights, and that I stand first and for all time in favor of human rights and marched softly." caused such an outcast of approval as is seldom witnessed in this day of unrestful white orators frequently make such an assertion to purely Negro audiences but it is seldom in this day that they have the Foraker and Hatfield courage to be so frank to a mixed audience. Edward Cooper is made out of mate- cial for a great station. He stands for Great principles and has the courage and ability to肩负 some great principles and laws and fight for the end of injustice of the laws after they are enforced. The Fifth Congressional district of W. Va. has never held a congressman with as an outstanding knowledge of the needs and congress of the people as Mr. Cooper and his own opinion is consistent and thoughtful in his work in making some important history. Mr. Cooper and his may support fellow Cooper and feel as nested that their every interest will be responsible to take care of. NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION The annual session of the National barist test Convention that is the guest of this city this week has brought together perpulsate the largest body of Negroes ever assembled in a religious gathering. It is estimated that over five thousand delegates were present at the opening session Wednesday morning, and others will come to the city by the end of the week. This great outcourt is probably due to the lack that aided to the regular routine of business this year is the celebration of the mancipation of the slaves. But so that as new, it is a great and represents the intelligence and progressiveness of the race in the fullest sense of the term. Great strides have been made by the Negro Baptists in this country. Fifty years ago they were poor and ignorant; they had no courses, no seisons that they could call their own; no publishing houses; fifty years ago they were wandering from place to place, but not without a leader, for they were then as now rusting in the God of the universe to guide them, and the evidence in Nassau shows that the trust has to abundantly rewarded. Today as is shown by the reports of the president and secretary of the various boards, the Negro Baptists have millions of dollars worth of church and school property; they have many who can measure arms with the most haired of the world; an president morris they have a leader the poor of any man in the country; in De K. H. Boyd, the secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board, have a business general who has the ability of a Wanamaker; and we would go on training men in the denomination who have made their mark in the world until a book of many pages would be built, but space will not permit. Suffice is to say that fifty years of freedom that the Negro Baptists of this country leave of joy have made plain to the world that these people are a great people, and are doing their share in working out the destiny. Their great numbers make their task great, but under the leadership of great men and the guidance of beloved they are measuring up to the fullest requirement. Nassau Glory. TWO NEWSPAPER MEN APPOINTED TO OFFICE TWO NEWSPAPER MEN APPOINTED TO OFFICE Henry S. Greer, of Morgannown, State Historian and G H. Folder, of Charleston, Aristocrat Charleston, W Vt. Sept 9th (Special)—Two rkwspaper men were appointed to office today by Governor Hatfield. Henry S. Green, editor of the Morgantown Post Chronicle, was appointed state historian and G. A. Bolden, editor of the Charles- ton Mail was appointed state archivist He reto fore the two cities have been combined and a vacancy have existed since the death of Virgil A. Lewis, state historian and archivist, eight months ago. As state historian Green will organize a legislative reference bureau while as state archivist Bolden will continue the present work of the department and will develop a publicity feature with reference to West Virginia's economic resources. O a great friend and business man Jacob Sharer has returned to the city of Kyoto and has opened up a very fine line of dry goods in the building next door to the daimok' and John Triggs' sloops. It will pay you to call and see him and his metate line of ladies' and gent's wearers to be buying at other places. Call for Jake Sharer's place. Miss Mary Yates died at Wytheville, Va., last Sunday morning at 4 o'clock she was the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. S. M. Yates of Davy, W. Va., and her remains were interred in the Wytheville-cemetery, the family burying under the ashes of fraternal honors and friends generally. Attorney D. R. Toulminson of Wilcox was a pleasant visitor up Northfor hollow last Sunday. "Dame Rumor" has it that his visits are of a serious nature and that he will soon be a party to the issuing of "invite" to a marriage contract soon to take place between him and a certain young lady teacher at Rolle. Mr. Thomas W Watson from Charleston was a pleasant visitor in Keystone this week, the guest of the official staff of the McDowell Times. He is a man of considerable political influence and knows this county like a book. He left Wednesday night but will be back one day next week. He is one of the boys. Mrs. George Graveley, of Roanoke, Va., daughter of Mr. "acason Estus of Switchback," this county, was visiting her father and friends in and around keystone last week. She and her sister Mrs. McHaliemer call at this office. WANTED: Fifty men to work on streets on Welch, Beard and lodging furnished. Apply to Kelley Bros., Welch, W. Va. F.O. Box "A.A." W Va. Colored Institute (Continued From First Page.) Colored Institute a few days ago, and placed the butt in position in the wall of the Chapel. The bust is an exact copy of the one which marks the spot whoore-Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Ottysburg Address. This is the tubular year of the Emancipation which is being celebrated by Negress throughout the United States. President Eyrol Prillerman is very destruc- of making Saturday, September 21, a red better day at the West Virginia Colored Institute. He is highly gratified at the fact that Honorable H. D. Hattfield, Gov. of West Virginia, has kindly consented to receive the Lincoln butt in the name of the State. The following will be the order of the exercise: Presentation by Hon. T. C. Townsend, representing Honorable William Seymour Edwards. Unvailing by Master Seymour Ed- wards, son of the donor. Acceptance by Hon. H. D. Hatfield, Governor of West Virginia. Remarks by members of the State Boards. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR FRANCHISE TO WHEN IT MAY CONCERN: This is to give notice that on the third day of September, 1932, the undersigned Eikharn Valley Traction Company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia, gilded with Louis Schwartz, Recorder of the Town of Clark, McBowell County, West Virginia, its application in writing to the common council of the said town of Clark for a franchise to construct, maintain and operate a street railroad upon, along, across and beside certain streets, avenues, roadways, alleys and bridges within the corporate limits of the said Town of Clark. The said application or fully sets forth the terms and provisions of the franchise applied for, and fully sets forth the names of the streets, avenues, roadways, alleys and bridges desired to be used for the said railroad, and fully sets forth the obligations and undertakings offered to be carried out by the undersigned corporation, and the said application is now on the office of the said Recorder. A" notice of operations, firms and persons interested in the granting or refusing of said franchise is hereby notified that at regular meeting of the common council of the said Town of Clark, on the third day of November, 1932, at 8:00 o'clock P.M. in the Council Chamber of said Town of Clark, on the corner of Central Avenue and McDowell street in said town, the undersigned corporation will ask the common council of said town to grant to it the said franchise in accordance with the terms and provisions of said application. 15. For any reason, the said common committee shall fail to hold a meeting on the date named the matter will be called up for consideration at the first regular meeting of the said common council held therefore EKLHORN VALLEY TRACTION COMPANY By C. C. HAIR, Secretary. Northfork, W. Va. September 15, 1933 Mrs. Vanhook Dies After Two Week's Illness Mrs. H. C. Vanbok, of Powhatan, after an illness of not more than two weeks, succumbed to the dreaded monster, death. Posted in night of this week. She was the wife of Mr. H. C. Vanbok, member Board of Education for Elkhorn district. Mrs. Vathok was a consecrated Christian woman and a member of the Powhatan Baptist church. She leaves two children and a husband beside many other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her death. The body was taken charge of by Sinkford & Warren, Undertakers and Unselmers, through the local agency of Mr. C. H. Rice at Northfork. The remains were interred in the Johnson Investment Company's cemetery at Prairiehats, Va. Huefield Dolored Schools Have Largest Enrollment in History Jas. L. Hill, Principal, Making Good. The colored schools of Bluedfield has the largest enrollment in the history of the city. There are so many children attending the two schools that the Board of Education is considering making arrangements for additional quarters and another teacher. Jas L. Hill, the Principal, assisted by an able and active corps of teachers are making the Bluedfield schools all that is expected of the test graded schools and are being ably backed up by the Superintendent and Board of Education and receiving the unanimous co-operation of the patrons and citizens. The enrolment for the week ending Sept. 18th is as follows: SPRING STREET. Teacher and grade: Enrolln't. Blanche Thomas, 1 B and 1 B 64 Geo. D. Benson, 2 A 4 A 25 Average per room BROWN STREET. Viola Douglas, 1 B Rebecca Patterson, 1 A and 2 B Marie Woody, 3 B and 3 A Lizzie Taylor, 3 A and 4 A O. T. Wikerson, 5 B and 6 B Jas. L. Hill, 6 A and 8 B Total Average per room Total colored Average per room COLORED CHILDREN Must be Provided With Suitab'e Place to Go to School According to Decision. Wheelinz, W. Va., Sept. 22.—A complete victory was won this morning by the colored people of the state, through their attorney E. J. Graham in the effort to compel the counties to furnish schools for the colored children, when the writ of mandamus was brought up for argument before Judge Chas. C. Newman sitting in Part I of the circuit court. The mandamus was issued on application of Attorney Graham in behalf of the colored people of Hancock county who demanded that they be allowed the right to secure education for the children as they were tax payers in the state. The case is the outgrowth of the tailor of the board of education of Hancock county to furnish schooling for five minor children of Joanna Strele of Chester. This morning, however, Prosecutor Attorney Frank L. Bradley os Hancock county appeared before the coert and stated in behalf of the school board that they were willing to furnish places for all colored school children at once if the writ was at once withdrawn. Attorney Graham was willing to have the writ continue until the November term of court in order to test the officials and this was agreed to by the Prosecutor and court. This will mean that all colored children in the state will have to be provided with a place to attend school in the future. PRINTER WANTED Good all-round, sober, industrious, yaintaking printer with eye single to business, wanted. Good salary paid, not promised, to a man. Come on next train if you think you can fill the above. McDOWELL TIMES PTG. CO. Keystone, W. Va. POANOKE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. John Powell of McCo- Comas, W. Va., is the guest of his coun- m Mr. James L. Hughes of 338 6th ave., N. W. Mrs. Ella Thorpe and son Ray spent last week in Ferrum with her grand- parents. Mrs. Mattie Lewis of 209, 6th ave., N. W., who has been on the sick list is much improved. Mr. Jas. L. Hughes has returned home after visiting many northern cities, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Atlantic City and Boston. He speaks of having had a delightful time. Miss L. Marie Hughes left Monday for her school, V. N. and I. L., Petersburg, Va. Miss Leila Early of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stokes. Rev. Lomax of 527 7th ave., who has been slick is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves are contemplating on visiting their father in Indianapolis, Ind. in October. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brown of Bluefield, W. Va., spent Sunday with their brother James L. Hughes. NOTICE NOTICE You are hereby notified that thirty days after the date of first publication of this notice that I will apply to the Governor of West Virginia for a conditional cardon as made and provided in section 14 of chapter 20 of the Code of West Virginia. OPERATES IN E EMPLOYS MORE PAYS A CLAIM THE OLDEST, LARGEST AND HEALTH INSURANCE W H HARR NORTHF YES, WE ARE DOING THE B The Amer STATES IN EVERY STATE IN THE YES MORE THAN 8,000 A CLAIM EVERY EIGHT DAY BEST AND STRONGEST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IN T ARRIS Spec NORTHFORK, WEST VIRGINIA THE BUSINESS. WHO? american We OPERATES IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNION EMPLOYS MORE THAN 8,000 AGENTS PAYS A CLAIM EVERY EIGHT MINUTES THE OLDEST, LARGEST AND STRONGEST LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE WORLD W H HARRIS Special Agent NORTHFORK, WEST VIRGINIA YES, WE ARE DOING THE BUSINESS. WHO? $48,157.22 MRS. SEE A. JORDAN, General Traveler Territory of West Virginia and Kentucky OFFICE: Rooms 4 and 5, K. of P. Building will be held in Charleston. READ THE AL TRA REVIEW MONTHLY JOURNAL The Industrial, Financial, Minin ering, Building and General WHOLESALE and RETAIL D AND PUBLISHED BY S. H. BOX THE AUGUST NUMBER pally along the Norfolk and Western Elkhorn, Tug River and Thacker Folk, Richmond, Roanoke, Buefiel FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS, SEE D. E. V. JORDAN Territory e OFFICE: Ro The next state meeting will be REA COAL RE A MONT Devoted to the Industry Engineering, Bu D. E. V. JORDAN, General Traveling Agent Territory of West Virginia and Kentucky OFFICE: Rooms 4 and 5, K. of P. Building The next state meeting will be held in Charleston, August 29th and 30th READ THE COAL TRADE REVIEW A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Industrial, Financial, Mining, Contracting Engineering, Building and General Business WHOLESALE and RETAIL EDITED AND PU SEE THE A EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY S. H. BOITNOTT SEE THE AUGUST NUMBER Interest Principally along The Pocahontas, Elkhorn, veloping in Norfolk, Rich along the line. Interest Principally along the Norfolk and Western Railway System. The Pocahontas, Elkhorn, Tug River and Thacker Fields. Also developing in Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Buefield and other places along the line. PUBLISHED MONTHLY Second H Of All BOUGH Hand Hand Fur Of All Description RIGHT AND SO DOOR TO HIPPOD SEE Of All Descriptions BOUGHT AND SOLD NEXT DOOR TO HIPPODROME SEE A. L. CALHOUN $26,000,000 ASSETS The exact amount of claims recently paid by The American Workman insurance was $1.00 Per Year Northfork TE IN THE UNION 8,000 AGENTS EIGHT MINUTES GEST LIFE, ACCIDENT AND ANY IN THE WORLD Special Agent T VIRGINIA WHO? Workman Traveling Agent and Kentucky of P. Building Charleston, August 29th and 30th THE TRADE EW JOURNAL Financial, Mining, Contracting General Business DETAIL Y S. H. BOITNOTT ST NUMBER and Western Railway System. and Thacker Fields. Also de- ke, Buefield and other places DIRECT NEWS ARTICLES Furniture Scriptions D SOLD ORGANIZED 1868 $38,000,000 PAID IN CLAIMS The American Workman is now doing a fraterna business in the state of West Virginia Single Copy 10 Cents West Virginia Edward R. Winslow, who has been a member of the staff of The McDowell Times for more than a year, will leave next Monday for his home in Woodstock New Brunswick, Canada, on account of failing health. Mr. Winslow has made many friends in Keystone during his stay here who regret to see him leave but wish for him a complete restitution to health. Names Omitted Mr. Editor:--You will please make an addition of the following named persons namely: Mrs. Minnie Richards, Mrs Minaie Craghead, Misses Ida E. Alexandra, Eliza Ramey and Mr. Anburn Black who were present a a birthday society given in honor of me and who brought valuable presents. R. P. JOHNSON. Elkhorn and Ennis The Elkhorn Graded School opened Monday, Sept. 8th with the following teachers for the term: Principal, E. M. Craighead; Asst, M. Lavender, Mary L. Williams, Emma Holley, Erma Mosley and Memphis Carter. Frank, Thompson, who has been the guest of relatives and friends here for the last two weeks, returned to Lynchburg Monday. Messrs. Samuel Perkins, Wm. Nowlin, and Misses Ollie Gilbert, Mary Brown and Laura Nowlin left Monday the 8th, to enter Bluefield Colored Int. for the coming term. Mrs. Sallie White is very ill at her home at Crozer. Mrs. Cathryn Martin remains very ill. Miss Ellen Marshall has returned to resume her duties as assistant teacher at Ennis. We deeply sympathize with Miss Marshall in her recent bereavement occasioned by the death of her mother. Master Stuart Waller of Anawalt, a former student of the Elkhorn Graded School and who is now attending school at The West Virginia Colored Int., was visiting friends here recently. James Lee, who sustained severe burns from a recent accident, is improving. Mr. S. N. Miller and Miss Nannie Watkins were pleasant visitors to Ennis last Sunday. Miss Alphonse Simpson, a graduate of Elkhorn Graded School, class '13, left Saturday morning for The W. Va. Co', Institute. Mr. and Mrs. John Pondexter were shopping in Northfork, Tuesday. Master Marco Simpson left Monday morning for The West Va. Col. Institute where he will attend school. GAREY LAUDS PERRY Western Clergyman Puts High Fame ot Colored Warriors in Erie Battle CELEBRATION ON NOTED SPOT Chicago, September 17th. The centennial of the battle of Lake Erie was celebrated about thirty miles from Sandusky, Ohio, on the spot where one hundred years ago Commedore Perry won his famous victory. Rev. A J. Carey, A. M., D. D., Ph.D. pastor of the institutional A. M. E. Church of this city, Represented the colored race, Ex President Taft was the principal speaker. It may not be generally keown that 109 of the 430 seaman who fought with Perry were colored men. In his speech, Dr. Carey called attention the bravery and heroism of the race in the protection and preservation of this country and said the colored man had won a right to a square deal. He made a strong plea to the American people to turn the most effective forces of America against injustice and unrighteousness. The speech is a message to the American people from the great body of intelligent Afro American citizens who are not satisfied with the present conditions. He said "We ask nothing more that a fair chance and we will be satisfied with nothing less." That even Southerners appreciate true manhood when exhibited by an Afro-American was shown by Governor McCreary of Kentucky in the crowded lobby of the hotel. The Breakers, the next day after the exercises. He grasped his hand and said, "While I do not agree with everything you have said, I admire the manhood displayed in your neterances." I FOR SALE-A Smith Premier No. 5, Typewriter, with wide carriage and in fair condition. Owner will sell very cheap, be cause he wishes a lighter machine. Apply to: EDWARD B. WIN SLOW, McDowell Tissue Office. SAXOPHONE ORGHESTRA Music furnished for Socials and Dances. The best and greatest musical hits and harmonies. Terms Reasonable. Wire or write THADDEUS E. HARRIS Attorney and Counselor at Law Now located in the Whittico Bldg. on Upper Main St. Practi- cing in all the Courts of W. Va., Va. and O. Kesystcne, W. Va. Brown Bros. HOTEL BILLIARD ROOM Cafe and BRBERSHOP H. BROWN, Manager Ninth St. Bet. 6th and 7th Aves. Huntington, W. Va. Undertaking and Embalming Service by Sinkford and Warren at Northfork, C. H. Rice Agent. Sinkford and Warren under-takers and embalmers in the city of Bluefield are to be congratulated on the wise selection of Mr. C. H. Rice of Northfork as their agent for the territory of Northfork and adjoining towns. Any time any one should unfortunately need the services of these gentlemen all you have to do is to notify C. H. Rice who is always "Johnny on the spot." He can be found by calling over any phone in No. and ask for C. H. Rice, A. for Sinkford & Warren, undertakers. They guarantee all services rendered to give satisfaction. 10 tf NOTICE! The Mason craft of West Virginia is hereby notified that Grand Secretary E. L. Rann is now located at Keystone, W. Va. All correspondence should be directed there and will be promptly acknowledged. E. L. RANN, Keystone, W. Va Notice to Take Depositions. TO GEORGIA HAIRSTON: Take notice that on October 4, 1913, at the Law Offices of Lawson Worrell, in the town of Clark, Northfork, McDowell county, W. Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of that day, I shall proceed to take the depositions of myself and others to be read as evidence in my behalf, in a certain suit in equity, depending in the Circuit Court of McDowell county, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendant; and if from any cause the taking of the said deposition be not commenced, or, if commenced, be not concluded, on that day, the taking thereof will be adjourned from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall be completed. NELSON HAIRSTON. Order of Publication. WEST VIRGINIA: At Rules held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of McDowell County, on the first Monday in August 1913, John Douglas, Plaintiff, VA. In Chancery The object of this suit is to obtain from the defendant by the plaintiff a divorce. A VINCULO MATRIMONII' And it appearing from an affidavit now on file with the papers in this case, that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of West Virginia; it is therefore ordered that the said defendant do appear at the Clerk's Office of the Court of McDowell County within one month from the date of the first publication for this order, and do what is necessary to protect his interest herein. And it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successes week in some newspaper published in McDowell County for twenty days before decree is rendered. A copy. Teste: B. HAMPTON, GRAY, Deputy for W. Burbridge Payne, Clerk. B. R. Carter, P. Q. ORDER OF PUBLICATION At Rules held in the Clerk's WEST VIRGINIA: court of McDowell County, on the first Mon day in August, 1913. George Petro, Maintiff, vs. Annie B. Petro, Defendant. The object is to obtain from the defender by the plaintiff a divorce A VIRGULO MATRIMONI And it appearing from on affidavit now on file the defendant is a non-resident of the State of West Virginia; it is therefore ordered that the said defa- dant do appear at the Clerk's Office of the state a non-resident of the State of West Virginia from the date of the first publication of this order, and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein and therefore ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper published in McDowell County, and that a copy of the name be published once a week for McDowell County for weeks days before decree is rendered. A copy, Tuesite. B HAMPTON, GRAY, Deputy for W. Barbidge Payne, Clerk. A. G. Free, P. G. Read the Ads. DR. E. W. LOMAX Surgeon-in-Chief For Medical and In Operation Seven Month 216 Bland St. Bluefield, DR. M. M. TINSLEY EYE Specialist Is Now Located in Welch, West Virginia In the Payne Building, Second Floor, Room 8. medical and Surgical on Seven Months Without St. Res. Bluefield, W. Va. For Medical and Surgical Cases In Operation Seven Months Without A Death 216 Bland St. Res. Phone 373 Bluefield, W. Va. Is Now Located in Welch, West Virginia In the Payne Building, Second Floor, Room 8. R. B. Bernheim Terms of Court day in January, A and October. License Term, f June. COUNTY OFFICE Sheriff, J F John Prosecuting A Cook Assistant Pros. A Counts Clerk Circuit and Barbridge Payne Clerk County Co heim County Surveyo Dr. Tinsley is a graduate of McCormic Medical College, Chicago, Ill. He comes highly reommended as giving good service in his profession. Any who are suffering from EYE STRAIN or painful vision and need properly fitted glasses will find it very important to see him. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF MCDOWELL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT: (Eighth Judicial Circuit) Counties of Mc Dowell, Mercer and Monroe. Hon. Isaiah C. Herndon, Judge Welch; W. Burbridge Payn Clerk. Terms of Court Second, Tuesday in February June and September. Terms of Court Second Monday in January, April, July and E. Attent Colored C NATIONAL PETITION AGAINST JIM C GATION BY FEDERAL Read, Citizen, Sign Your Name and Sign and Mail to THE GUARDIAN, PETITION tention Colored Citizens PETITION AGAINST JIM CROW AND CO GATION BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Sign Your Name and Address and g to THE GUARDIAN, 21 Cornhill St. PETITION. Attention!! Colored Citizens NATIONAL PETITION AGAINST JIM CROW AND COLOR SEGRE GATION BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Read, Citizen, Sign Your Name and Address and get Others to Sign and Mail to THE GUARDIAN, 21 Cornhill St. Boston, Mass. To the President of the United States Hon. Woodrow Wilson, White House, Washington, D. C. SIR: This is to certify that we, the undersigned, under your administration there should be an Cabinet to segregate employees of the national protest against this as a plain insult, public de- Colored Americans, the establishment of caste you to reverse, prevent and forbid any such n accord with your promise of fair, friendly, just Colored fellow-citizens. NAMES. ify that we, the undersigned, are surprised and estration there should be any rules made by the employees of the national government by ra- tion as a plain insult, public degregation, an unus- ful, the establishment of caste in this tree Repub- lism and forbid any such movement by your pro- mise of fair, friendly, just and Christian tru- zens. AMES. ADDRESS. This is to certify that we, the undersigned, are surprised and indignant that under your administration there should be any rules made by members of your Cabinet to segregate employees of the national government by race or color. We protest against this as a plain insult, public degradation, an unsufferable injury to Colored Americans, the establishment of caste in this tree Republic. We petition you to reverse, prevent and forbid any such movement by your bureau chiefs, in accord with your promise of fair, friendly, just and Christian treatment of your Colored fellow-citizens. d Surgical Cases nths Without A Death Res. Phone 373 l, W. Va. COUNTY COURT: James E Jones President, Switchback. B. F. Tipton, Northfork. Dr. R. K. Bragonier, Keystone. Commissioners R. B. Bernheim, clerk, Welch. Terms of Court. First Monday in January, April, August and October. License Term, first Monday in June. COUNTY OFFICERS: Sheriff, J F Johnson, Welch. Prosecuting Attorney F C Cook Assistant Pros. Attorney, G L Counts Clerk Circuit and Crim. Courts, Burbridge Payne Clerk County Court, RB Bernheim County Surveyor, w C Morgan Vivian Supt. Free Schools, W Cassius Cook, Kimball Assessor, C E Rusmisell County Road Engineer, w McClaren County Health Officer and cor oner, Dr. J H McCulloch Commissioner School Lands, C E Rusmisell, McDowell Members House of Delegates, Geo. Wolfe and C. E. Harman. State Senators, Sixth Senatorial district (counties of McDowell, Mingo, wayne and wyoming) Jas A. Strother Welch; M Z. White, Williamson. HELP of any kind, phone or write Roanoke Employment Agency No. 11 Norfolk Avenue, upstairs (3rd Door from St. James Hotel) ROANOKE, VA. Will Furnish on Short Notice Phone 83 E. L. CUNNINGHAM. Manager tion!! Citizens IM CROW AND COLOR SEGRE RAL GOVERNMENT. LAWYER AND NATIONAL JAIL ROBBER Practicing in all Criminal Courts in the United States "When myfees are secured" celebrated, Well Liked, and Most Popular beer U family will do well to have WEST VIRGINIA in every table. Children who drink it become rosy and fat; old people think well and more ly who drink WEST VIRGINIA BEER. and on ICE at Every SALOON All Over This Country headquarters in McDowell Coun The celebrated, Well Liked, and Most Popular beer Used Any Family will do well to have WEST VIRGINIA BEER on every table. Children who drink it become healthy, rosy and fat; old people think well and more acturately who drink WEST VIRGINIA BEER. Found on ICE at Every SALOON All Over This Country Headquarters in McDowell County W. E. Stuart, Agent Keystone, W. Va. Fine Wines, Cigars and DOMESTIC CASE P. C. P. CRUMPLER, 1911. Hurrah! HUNTINGTON BUILD This handsome structure and entirely by the Mutual Investment Association of what can be effort and united action. It is indeed a splendid give new life, new he every Stockholder, the Order and the Race. Let no one hesitate le in this great corporate Investment Association sure to pay handsome invested. 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Ask the agent in your local office about it or write to this office. THE PYTHIAN MUTUAL ESTIMATIVE SOCIETY L. O. WILSON, President, Weston, ```markdown ``` Fine Wines, Whiskies Beer Cigars and Tobacco DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED CALL ON: P.C. PETERS CRUMPLER, W. VIRGINIA 1911. Hurrah! Hurrah! HUNTINGTON BUILDING CLEAR OF DBT This handsome structure is now owned absolutely and entirely by the Stock holders of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association and is a fine illustration of what can be done by concentration of effort and united action: It is indeed a splendid achievement, and should give new life, new hope and new inspiration to every Stockholder, and every Member of the Order and the Race. Let no one hesitate longer to subscribe for stock in this great corporation—The Pythian Mutual Investment Association—for in due time it is sure to pay handsome dividends on the money invested. TAKE STOCK RIGHT NOW $10.00 is the price per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask the agent in your locality about it or write to this office. : THE PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENTS SOCIATION L. O. WILSON, President, Weston. SINKFORD & WARREN UNDERTAKERS Special Attent the C Special Attention to Orders From the Coal Fields 459 RALEIGH STREET Special Attention to Orders From the Coal Fields Bluefield, - West Virginia W.A. SIMPSON First Class Tonsorial Artist. Hot and Cold Baths. Sanitary Applicative Face Lotions KEYSTONE, W. VA. Feb. 1, 1911. PHONE 217 CR 562-J KEYSTONE, W.VA Well Liked, popular beer Used Have WEST VIRGINIA men who drink it become the think well and more VIRGINIA BEER. Every SALOON Country McDowell County Whiskies Beer and Tobacco IMPORTED ON: ETERS W. VIRGINIA Hurrah! BING CLEAR OF DBT is now owned absolutely k holders of the Pythian ation and is a fine illus- me by concentration of achievement, and should and new inspiration to every Member of the or to subscribe for stock —The Pythian Mutual —for in due time it is dividends on the money RIGHT NOW are, either paid up or on the agent in your local- is office. AN MUTUAL ASSOCIATION client, Weston, WARREN to Orders From Fields H STREET SAMUEL SOLINS Attorney-at-Law WELCH. WEST VIRGINIA Hary J. Capehart ATTOKNEY-AT LAW Practices in all the courts in W. Va. Agent for the sale of choice property in Bluefield and Prince easy terms. Office up stairs opposite the Keystone supply Co., Keystone, W When you read, read THE TIMES THE LEADING TONSORIAL ARTIST Well grown, well liked and patronized by all the boys going, coming, or staying. The place to receive the best of service. Everything Antiseptic; polite atention given to all customers. You find all modern up to date service with all kinds of electrical treatment of the face and head at 19!Norfolk Ave. ROANOKE, VIRGINIA "Headquarters for the boys" White Oak Shoe Shop ELECTRICAL SHOE REPAIR- ING WHILE YOU WAIT . Good work, reasonable prices, best of leather used—polite treatment. We sell Rubber Heels, Heel Plates, Spur Stiffeners, Shoe Laces, Buttons etc. Call and see us L. E. JOHNSON, Mgr. July 7, 1912, 3mos. MRS. L. B. HUNT Proprietress FIRST CLASS BOARDING & LODGING ACCOMMODATION Near Colored Methodist Church Only two minutes walk from station. NORTHFORK, W.VA. MRS. J. E. PARSON COLLEGE GRADUATE Hairdresing, Shampooing, Electric Scalp Treatment, Facial Massage, Manicuring, Chiropody. Phone 34. Box 175 Keystone - West Virginia NEW TAILOR SHOP in the new brick building in Northfork, W. Va. CLEANING PRESSING REPAIRING ALL WORK GUARANTEED OR MONEY REFUNDED Henry Belcher P. O. BOX 94 NORTHFORK, W. Va. MRS BELLE SMITH The woman who cooks good meala and feeds you well. LODGING ACCOMODATION the very best obtainable. Bluestone Jct., W. Va. NOTICEI NOTICE All members of the McDowell County Colored Republican Organization are hereby notified to meet in the city of Keystone on Thursday, November 17th, 1913, for the purpose of electing officers and for the transacting of any other business as may come before the body. Done by order of J. E PARSON, President of the McDowell County Colored Republican Organization, Keystone, W. Va. NOTICE To whom it may concern: This is to certify that Ben Jones, who is now confined in the penitentary at Moundville, convicted from the McDowell County Criminal County on a charge of Felony, will, after the 1st day of October, 1913, apply to the Governor of West Virginia, for executive commission. BIC FALL SALE Keystone Supply Co. Making room for New Stock. Must be sold or given away Sale begins on SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27th Come early and get the best bargains everoffered in Keystone. Here are a few prices. Ladies New Cloaks inluding Broadcloth, Cashmeres, Caracul, Plush, Astrakan. All wool rattine at from 4.98 to 30.00. Ladies Persian effects at from 9c to 49c. Beautiful lace and lawn colors. Large supply of piece goods, gingham, calico, percales, serges, flannelette cotton and all wool rattines. Silks satins and velvets in all the newest colors and weaves a prices actually astonishing. 50 pieces of outing, all shades and designs at 10c per yard. INSPECT OUR GROCERY DEPT. We carry a full supply of Groceries, Teas, Coffees, china, crockery, enamel ware, fruits and can goods, in fact everything carried in a first class Grocery Remember our sale of last September, everybody was pleased at the great bargains. KEYSTONE SUPPLY CO. First Choice the World Over Fragrant Saazer Hop Gardens Anheuser-Busch imports more Saazer Hops than all other brewers. It's this exclusive Saazer Hop flavor that placed their master brew Budweiser Absolutely ALONE at the Top of the world's bottled beers. The supreme quality and purity of Budweiser come from our brewing and aging only from the choicest Barley and rarest Saazer Hops. Our plant is the largest and finest in the world and our output is the greatest. Bottled only at the home plant in St. Louis Anheuser-Busch Brewery St. Louis. CHARLESTON Liquor Co., Distributors Charleston, W. Va. Mens' $1.50 Hats for $ .98 Mens' 2.50 Hats for 1.69 Mens' 3.00 Hats for 1.98 Men's & Boys' Caps Men's & Boys Winter Caps from .19 to .39 Men's Shirts Men's $1.00 Shirts for $0.49 Men's .50 Shirts for .29 Men's $22.00 Suits for Men's 18.00 Suits for Men's 16.00 Suits for Men's 15.00 Suits for Men's 12.50 Suits for Men's 10.00 Suits for This Is a Real Sale Ladies' $4.00 Sikh shirt Waist for $2.98 Ladies' $4.00 Sikh shirt Waist for 2.79 Ladies' $3.00 Sikh shirt Waist for 2.49 Ladies' $2.00 Sikh shirt Waist for 1.53 Ladies' 1.50 Madras, Pereale, Lingerie, Nausho, white and colored Sikh Waist. 79 Ladies' $6.00 Skirts $2.79 Ladies' 4.50 Skirts 2.59 Ladies' 4.00 Skirts 1.98 **Coat Suits** Ladies' $11.00 black & blue serges $6.69 Ladies' 10.00 broadcloth 6.98 Ladies' 15.00 new and latest style 9.98 Ladies' 18.00 to $20.00 Coat Suits 10.29 Ladies' latest style: $6.98 to $10.00 Ladies' $10.00 Sapphire Plaid $7.98 Ladies' 10.00 Chinchilla 6.98 Ladies' 10.00 Chinchilla 4.98 Ladies' 20.00 Black Broad Cloth 14.90 Ladies' 18.00 Blue Mole Skin 10.49 Children's $4.00 Bearskin 1.29 Misses' $5.50 to 4.50 Broadcloth 2.98 Shoes Children's Shoes at from 10c to 69 Ladies' $4.00 and $5.50 Shoes 98 to 1.29 Hats Laudles' Street, trimmed and felt. 50 to $1. Rugs Matting Druggets, 9x12, was 3.50 $2.20 Velvet, 27x54 1.75 Axminister 27x54 2.50 Velvet Druggett 9x12 worth $25 15.00 Axminister 9x12, dark Persian de- sign, worth $20.00 at 25.00 AL, Plush, Astrakan. A 9c to 49c. Beautiful la- percales, serges, fla- the newest colors and w and designs at 10c per yea RY DEPT. china, crockery, e cured in a first class G Sale released at the great bargain LY CO. Hats trimmed and felt .50 to $1 Rugs 15, 18, 12, was 3.50 $2.20 1.75 2.50 12 worth $25 15.00 dark Persian de- 20.00 at 25.00 Astrakan. All wool Beautiful lace and serges, flannelett st colors and weaves a s at 10c per yard. DEPT. crockery, enmell first class Grocery the great bargains. CO. Hats West Virginia ```markdown ``` American Workman Fraternal Insurance O. pays Sick, Accident and Death Benefits. For further participants see or write D. E. V. JORDAN, General Agent for West Virginia and Ky. Office, Room 2 and 4, K. of P. Building CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINA TIN'S HOTEL for Colored at Class Accommodation POCAHONTAS, VIRGINIA ers and Coke Can always find Steady work at Coal Coal & Coke e Creek When in Keystone, Stop at Bluefront H Five minutes walk from Ry. Station. In accommodation, where you air from the base of the me prietress MINNIE First Class Accommodation POCAHONTAS, VIRGINIA and Coke Mer Can always find Steady work at Crystal Coal & Coke Co. On Crane Creek 923 With modern accommodation, where you can enjoy the pure air from the base of the mountain EVA ALLEN, Proprietress MINNIE MUSE, Manag F. E. BRYANT Registered Pharmacist in 70: "Fresh Drugs and Polite Accomo- nies, Toilet Articles, Sodas, Tobacco Anawalt, W. Va. COBB'S Drug Store, 442 Raleigh EDWARD'S BUILDING BLUEFIELD, W. VA. of Drugs, Medicines, Druggists' Sundries, and in Bluefield call to see us. Only five minutes tion. Soda at the found. ALL TURNER'S WINE WHISKIES, WINES, B Y, BEER, ALES TOBACCO, CIGARS, Etc., Etc. the Bridge, West End of C Northfork, W. Va. Henry County Sa SHERMAN FINNEY, PROP. Imported and Domestic Whiskies, Wine Gins, Beer. Tobacco and Cigars The only Registered Pharmacist in nawalt HIS MOTTO: "Fresh Drugs and Polite Accomodations" Drugs Medicines, Toilet Articles. Sodas, Tobacco and Cigars Anawalt, W. Va. W.H. COBB'S Drug Store, 442 Raleigh Street EDWARD'S BUILDING BLUEFIELD, W. VA. Complete Line of Drugs, Medicines, Druggists' Sundries, and Toilet Articles. When in Bluefield call to see us. Only five minutes walk from the railroad station. Soda at theount. MARSALL TURNER'S PLACE FOR FINE WHISKIES, WINES, BRANDY, BEER, ALES TOBACCO, CIGARS, Etc., Etc. Cross the Bridge, West End of Clark. Northfork, W. Va Sole Owners of the Famous Black Boy LI- quors: Good Old Corn and Apple Brandy . THE SON private Ho uses Surgical and medical Treated Harrison private Hospital Cases Surgical and Medical Treated at Reasonable Rates. EFFICIENT STAFF Phone Excelsior Drug Company A Young Progressive Grocery Man, also dealer in Cigars, Tobacco and Notions. He is proprietor of a first class pressing and cleaning establishment. Should any man want a first up-to-date suit of clothes made to order and to fit call on F. W. Watts. All work guaranteed or money refuced. F. W. WATTS 409-11 Harvey Street WILLIAMSON, W. VA. Undertaking and Embalming Ser vice by Sinkford and Warren at Northfork, C. H. Rice Agent. Sinkford and Warren under-takers and embalmers in the city of Buehfeld are to be congratulated on the wise selection of Mr. J. H. Rice of Northfork as their agent for the territory of Northork and adjoining towns. Any one any one should unfortunately need the services of these gentlemen all you have to do is notify C. H. Rice who is always "Johnny on the spot." He can be found by calling over any phone in No'o'o'o and ask for J. H. Rice, A. for Sinkford & Warren, undertakers. They guarantee all services rendered to give satisfaction. 10 of Now Well "Thefdford's Black-Draught is the best all-round medicine I ever used," writes J. A. Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. "I suffered terribly with liver troubles, and could get no relief. The doctors said I had consumption. I could not work at all. Finally I tried THEDFORD'S BLACK- DRAUGHT and to my surprise, I got better, and am to-day as well as any man." Thedford's Black- Draught is a general, cathartic, vegetable liver medicine, that has been regulating irregulari- ties of the liver, stomach and bowels, for over 70 years. Get a package today. Insist on the genuine—Thedford's. E-70 Erown Bros. HOTEL BILLIARD ROOM Ca e and L'RBER SHOP H. BROWN, Manager Ninth St. Bet. 6th and 7th Aves. Huntington, W. Va. Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tonic FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS. 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