McDowell Times

Republican Convention Perfect Harmony Reigned--Gov. Hatfield, as Temporary Chairman, Delivers Great Speech--Gen. E. O'Toole Permanent Chairman--Resolutions Adopted McDowell County Offers Good Opportunities for Negroes, Excellent Schools, high wages. VOLUME 15. Republic Cor Perfect Harmony Reig Temporary Chairma Speech--Gen. E. nent Chairma Ado More than 1000 citizens attended the Republican county convention at Welch Saturday and perfect harmony prevailed from the time County Chairman Metiinnis Hatfield called the convention to order until adjournment. This was one of the most representative conventions held in McDowell county. Men representing every shade of Republican belief and the leading citizens of all races were present—the miner, the laborer, the coal operator and merchant, and each vied with the other in demonstrating li. desire for harmony in order that Republican victory may be assured in November. At 4 o'clock p. m. Hon. McGinnis Hattfield, chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of McDowell county, called the convention to order and announced the purpose in a brief speech. He then called Gov H. D. Hattfield to act as temporary chairman, Messrs E. Hampton Gray and S. B. Moon as temporary secretaries. Governor Hattfield delivered a strong address in which he reviewed the accomplishments of his administration and sent volleys of returns to the criticism aimed at him by the Democratic state convention at Parkersburg. He challenged the critics to point out one measure championed by his administration that they would repeat and then he took up the charge of the creation of uncles offices. He pointed out the wasteful extravagance of the Democratic administration in the nation and the fact that it is costing a hundred million dollars more each year to run the nation under a Democratic administration than under the preceding Republican administrations. He ridiculed the charge that useless offices had been created in the state and called attention to the fact that no office could be created without an appropriation being made by the legislature to provide for it. In referring to "useless offices," he drew a local comparison by citing the fact that three assistant United States district attorneys have been appointed in each West Virginia district to do the work formerly done by one assistant under Republican administration. He criticised the activity of federal agents in the employ of the department of justice in attempting to harass and intimidate voters. The governor was given an enthusiastic reception and his speech was magnanimously received. Gen. Edward O'Toole of Gary was elected permanent chairman with B. Hampton Gray and S. B. Moon permanent secretaries. Gen. O'Toole delivered a brief address and then upon motion of Mr. C. M. Gates, appointed a committee of six to select delegates to the Huntington convention. The committee follows: Adkin district—C. M. Gates. Big Creek district—Rev. A. D. Allen. Brown's Creek Dist.—W. J. McClaren. Elkhorn district—Wm. Saddler. Northbork district—Dr. A. S. Adams Sandy River district—John Kennedy The committee retired and Senator Jae A Strother introduced the following resolutions which was read by the secretary RESOLUTIONS ENDORSEING AD MINISTRATION "Be it Resolved, By the Republicans of McDowell county, in convention assembled, that we feel a deep sense of pride in the successful and worthy administration of our own citizen. Governor Henry D. Hatfield. His has been an administration characterized by hard work and successful efforts; an administration that has elevated the standard of efficiency in state government, and an administration that has stood loyal to the whole people, has recognized the rights of all and not of a few. Governor Hatfield's painstaking and earnest efforts in behalf of an efficient and broadened state government have attracted the attention of people from coast to coast, and we predict that as time goes on, his administration will be looked back to as one of unprecedented merit and accomplishment. "The Hatfield administration, came into being at a time when there was a wide divergence within the Republican party, which had been rent asunder by the revertable division at Chicago in 1912. The Huntington convention of 1912 adopted a platform which imposed many big and weighty responsibilities upon the administration that was chosen by the people of the state in that memorable campaign. Governor Hatfield pledged himself to the people in that campaign, and wignen he was successful he assumed the governorship reins with a full realization of the responsibilities The McDowell Times. that were devolved upon him. "Handicapped as he was at the incipency of his administration by strikes, floods and other internal disturbances that brought worry to him, he never faltered at any moment in his ambition to carry out the program that was outlined by his party platform. There is satisfaction in the knowledge that the 1912 platform was not made merely run on, but it was made to be taut to and that has been demonstrated by Gov. Hatfield in his uniting efforts to bring about a full and complete redemption of the program outlined by his party. Today Governor Hatfield is in the position where he can point out, without fear or denial, that he has been true to the public trust, and no man who has ever occupied the executive chair in West Virginia has been able to carry out so fully as he has the platform promises of his party. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW "The workmen's compensation law, enacted by the legislature of 1913 and perfected by the legislature of 1915, is an eternal monument to the Hattfield administration and to the Republican party in West Virginia. It has been and will continue to be a dousend to the thousands of laboring people of the state who, under the provisions of that act, are protected and whose families are insured of benefits in case of the loss of the one upon whom they are dependent. THE VIRGINIA DEBT. "One of the big problems inherited by the Hattfield administration was the Virginia debt question. It is an issue that has been hovering over the state of West Virginia for many years. It was handed down from many Democratic administrations because of the refusal to deal with Virginia upon any basis of compromise. In those years the debt could have been settled with little burden to the state. "The Hattfield administration went into office facing a judgment in the supreme court of the United States, interest and principal totaling more than $21,000,000. By perserving efforts and diligent work discoveries were made and a reopening of the case obtained in the supreme court of the United States, and as the result of this the judgment has been reduced approximately $10,000,000. To Governor Hattfield is due much credit for this reduction. He was the one who took it up and insisted upon a thorough investigation being made, even against the advice of some who have been identified with the case for many years. This accomplishment in this connection should be appreciated by the people of the state Many laws that seek to bring about a greater measure of social justice have been written into the statute books of West Virginia, along with the redemption of the party promises. Among these can be pointed out the weights and measures law; the county salaries bill, abolishing the fee system and placing county officers upon reasonable salaries; the great broadening of the scope of the state's educational work, including the agricultural extension work; the primary election law, which has been demanded in party platforms for many years; the revised mining laws, giving greater protection to the lavis of 70,000 miners of West Virginia; the elevation of the standard of the state's insane saylums, allowing better facilities, and better care for the unfortunate inmates of these institutions; the revised public service commission act, insuring the protection (Continued on Page 4.) Savannah, Ga., Aug. 5—The Savannah union station was a black paradise Monday, when nearly 1,100 colored laborers, ranging in age from 21 to 45 years, started for Philadelphia on two special trains. They are to work along the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad. A crowd of 2,500 relatives and friends crowded the station and down to the train shed to see them off. Policemen had some difficulty in restraining the crowd which surged up against the ratmen when were opened to admit those who were to board the trains. There was nothing of the sorrow of parting in the crowd, everybody who left being in an excursion mood, and those who stayed behind being sure that they would be well taken care of by the wages sent home. Two hours before the train left the two agents of the Pennsylvania who had been arrested Saturday and released on bond were rearrested, charged again with having violated the state law of acting as immigrant agents. Bail of $1,000 was immediately furnished for each of the men, and they were at the station to assist in the work of getting the laborers aboard the train. PLAN NEGRO CITY North Carolina Philanthropist Financing Movement. Mr. John T. Patrick, a North Carolina philanthropist, is leading a movement to establish a model city for Negroes and recently delivered a lecture in Cincinnati on the proposed plan. Mr. Patrick is financing a $2,000,000 project to establish this city on an island off the coast of South Carolina. The city that will be established will cover 5,000 acres of land. The charter will restrict the ownership of all property to those of African descent. A large school especially featuring the industries will be established, as well as a school of music. Large, modern hotels will be erected. One of these will be for white visitors and tourists exclusively. A factory is being planned to give employment for the residents. A sanitarium for the convalescent will be provided, where the benefit of pure mountain air, expert medical and surgical attention may be had. The board having charge of the arrangements consists of Dr C. V. R. Roman, Nashville, Tenn., Secretary-Treasurer; John Patrick Turner, G. Edward Dickerson, Philadelphia, Penn.; Lester A. Walton, Editor of New York Age, New York City, and A. B. Jackson, Philadelphia. Mr. Turner will leave the latter part of this month to select the island and make final arrangements for establishing the city. "THE HATCHET IS AS FAR AS I AM "THE HATCHET IS FOREVER BURIED AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED" (BY SAUNDERS B. MOON.) If any Democrat has been indulgent party in McDowell county has the burlican majority—to make such gains as victory for the Democratic state ticket cord and the size of the Republican Saturday, must surely have cleared the ocrat and must have bade him "to cevious foolishness." Governor Hatfield, the temporary If any Democrat has been indulging the illusion that the Democratic party in McDowell county has the husk of a chance to reduce the Republican majority—to make such gains as will palpably boost the prospects of victory for the Democratic state ticket—the personnel, enthusiasm, concord and the size of the Republican mass convention held at Welch last Saturday, must surely have cleared the vision of even so credulous a Democrat and must have bade him "to cease such vain imaginings—such obvious foolishness." Governor Hattfield, the temporary chairman, made a speech running over with good cheer and good will for everybody except the Democrat. He said that the hatchet which was brandished during the primary campaign was forever buried, as far as he was concerned, and that had the other aspirant for the Republican nomination for governor been successful, he would have given him his whole-hearted support; that he had during the primary campaign refused the urging of over-zealous partisans to declare that he would not support the other min, if nominated, he deplored the necessity which had forced his participation in the primary campaign to defend his administration from attack; he regretted the loss of some erstwhile friends, but rejoiced at the prospect of their return in good time to assist at the obsequies of the Democratic party in November. The convention had no "cheer leaders"—it needed none. The entrance of Governor Hatfield, and General Edward O'Toole, who was later chosen as permanent chairman, gave occasion for a spontaneous and genuine outburst of real, oldtime "whipping," and when the governor reviewed the events going before and following the "great schism" at Chicago in 1912, when the Republican party went upon the rocks and Woodrow Wilson was elected to the presidency by a minority of the voters, a solemn hush enveloped the crowded court room, quelling every sign of restlessness from the intense heat which caused miniature rivers to flow down the faces of the multitude of switering Republicans present, but when he spoke of the nomination of Hughes and Fairbanks and the return of Roosevelt to the Republican party, a great volume of applause shook the perspiration from every streaming brow. The vacillating and spineless foreign policy of President Wilson was contrasted with the courage and firmness of Roosevelt in dealing with other nations, when he was president, and a particular case was cited in which Roosevelt secured even more than he had demanded from one of the great powers of Europe for forgetting the Monroe Doctrine, and this too while our country remained at peace—honorable peace with all the world. The fluency, ease, good-humoredness and deep sincerity of the governor's "keynote" speech fell like a healing lotion on the sores made by a bitterly contested primary---like the kindly, paternal admonition that thrusts ill-feeling from the family fireside. An old-timer, who has listened to many famous "spell-binders," and who has probably heard every speech that Governor Hatfield has delivered in McDowell county, emphatically declared that the governor had just made the best speech of his career. Of course, this old-timer may just be full of the "spirit" that is seizing upon us all as we go out to fight our old enemy, the Democratic party, again---he may be susceptible to illusions---but we don't believe it, for we, too, fell victim to the same happy contagion of a speech that was brimming with Republican good fellowship. Yes, we publish the news TENDS TO FURTHER ALIENATE BRITISH IRISH SUBJECTS Refusal to Surrender the Body to His Family an Act of Needless Cruelty. The execution of Sir Roger Casement on the charge of high treason last wook, came as a distinct shock to the civilized world and was nothing less than a political blunder. Though the government had secured his conviction, the distinguished prisoner expected that his powerful friends would be able to obtain executive clemency, and up to a few hours before his execution, he expected a commutation. Sir Roger was a cultured and brilliant man and had distinguished himself in Africa where for many years he served as consul for his government. He was of a mild and affectuate disposition and was much beloved by the natives and all who were fortunate to enjoy his acquaintance. He stood for a noble ideal—Irish liberty—and he was willing to sacrifice his life on the altar of Irish freedom. The Negro entertains the most kindly feeling for Great Britain. He has not forgotten how in 1833, by a single stroke of the pen nearly 800,000 slaves were liberated in the West Indies. He still greatly remembers that in the dark days of American slavery, Canada was our land of refuge and that on two occasions England sheltered the saunted Douglas when he was driven from his native land by the persecutions of the insatiable slaveholder. While the Nexro is not unmindful of England's many acts of friendship, he is unable to approve her Irish policy. At times British characters exhibit unparalleled stubbornness and obtuseness and it was this very foolish and short-sighted policy that caused England to loose her rich American colonies. FOREVER BURIED, CONCERNED" GOV. HATFIELD. ing the illusion that the Democratic risk of a chance to reduce the Repub- will palpably boost the prospects of ---the personnel, enthusiasm, con- mass convention held at Welch last the vision of even so credulous a Demi- sue such vain imaginings----such ob- IRELANDS BITTER STRUGGLE. England's Irish policy has always been characterized by cruelty and oppression. Notwithstanding that the Irish people are mostly Catholic, yet for years Great Britain forced them to pay tithes and fees for the maintenance of the Anglican church in Ireland. The agrarian troubles are still fresh in the public mind. They occasioned another method of crushing the poverty stricken people of the Emerald Isle. The abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1801 around the resentment of the Irish people as nothing else had done. They bitterly resented this act of injustice and have since been tireless in their efforts to secure complete autonomy. CASEMENT'S CRIME It is charged that Sir Roger organized a force in Germany for the purpose of attacking the British forces in Ireland, and that Germany furnished the funds for the expedition. Sir Roger denied that Germany had anything to do with the movement and contended that no witnesses could be secured in Germany who would substantiate his contention. The government refused to secure these witnesses and after a brief trial he was convicted. His speech in his own defense is an English classic and will rank with the famous speech of Warren Hasting. We are led to reflect that it is not so much what a man does that determines his guilt or innocence, but the acid test is whether he succeeds or fails. The world lands the American rebels as patriots. Thurs form the most brilliant pages of history, but had they failed in this attempt to secure their independence, a different story would have been written. It occurs to us that under the same circumstances surrounding Sir Roger Clement, an Englishman who did the same thing would have earned the plaudits of his entire race. The execution of this brilliant and distinguished Irish protégéist accomplished no good purpose but will only intensify the feelings of revenge in the hearts of the liberty loving Irish people. This barbarous act will not terrify, as was intended, but will only further hearten them to continue the struggle until success crowns their efforts. Not only did the government refuse to commute the sentence, but the execution was made more revolting by the government's renal to permit his family to save the body. VERIFY, "man's inhumanity to man, makes countless thousands mourn." NEGRO REGIMENT IS TO BE FORMED Will be Composed of Companies From Roanoke, Bristol, Lynchburg, Norfolk, Staunton; Petersburg and Other Places Roanoke, Va.; Kig, J. - Companies K, L and M, of the proposed Virginia Negro Regiment will be recruited from Richmond, according to an announcement made by W. O. Trener, of Roanoke, who is behind the movement to organize the regiment. Companies representing Roanoke, Bristol, Pocahonts and Lynchburg will compose the first battalion, Stanton, Petersburg, Norfolk and Portsmouth will furnish the second battalion, and three companies from Richmond and one from Danville will make the third battalion. The regimental adjutant, the majors, lieutenant colonel and colonel will be white, and the first lieutenants, second lieutenants and captains of the companies will be colored. The battalion adjutants, chaplain and surgeons also will be colored. It is expected the companies will be raised as follows. Company A and the machine-gun company, organized at Boanoke and recruited from Wytheville, Pitaski, Petersburg, Eggleston, East Ediford, Christiansburg, Salem, Vinton, Holmes and Bedford. Company B, raised at Bristol and recruited from Abingdon, Glade Springs Marion, Saltville, Big Stone Gap, Cooturn and Norton. Company C, organized at Pocahontas and recruited from the surrounding territory. Company D, made up at Lynchburg. Company E, raised at Stanton and recruited from Lexington, Buena Vista, Covington, Clifton Forge and Harrisonburg. Company F, recruited from Petersburg, Company G from Norfolk, Company H from Portsmouth, Company I from Danville, and Companies K, L and M from Richmond. The headquarters company and supply company will be recruited from the state at large. The three battalion adjutants will be graduates of Hampton. The chaplain will be from Roanoke, and the surgeons from the state at large. The Keystone Ladies' Busy Bee Club gave a "shirt waist" ball last Friday night. A large number of music and dance lovers attended and a pleasant evening was enjoyed by all present. The Knights of Pythians Hold Successful Session--Grand Officers Report Progress--Re-election of Practically All Grand Offcers--Editor Whittico Stirs up Interest in Investment Dept.--Is Re-elected Grand Lecturer CLARKSBURG, W. VA. Aug. 6. The twenty fourth annual session of the K. K. P. Grand Lodge, began amid suspicions circumstances in the Water street school hall at ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson opened the preliminary meeting and turned the gavel over to Prof. J. W. Robinson of Kimball, W. Va., who acted as official master of ceremonies. Prof. Robinson introduced Mayor Gordon, who in a brief, impressive talk welcomed the Negro Pythians and Cajantheans to the city of Clarksville. He assured them that though they sat in different lodges, the underlying principles of the white and Negro fraternities were the same, and that justice, universal brotherhood and the common fatherhood of God, were the uplifting ideals of the great order. Mayor Gordon was followed in turn by Dr. E. T. Jones, a colored local physician, and Mrs. Mary Kansell, who spoke for the local lodge and court respectively. The address of Dr. Jones was very eloquent and showed the physician as skillful a user of words as he is a dispenser of pills. Prof. J. Rupert Jefferson, G. W. C., Hon. T. Gillus Nutter, of Charleston, Mrs. Anna Washington, of Parkerburg, responded respectively to the addresses of welcome. The addresses of Prof. Jefferson and Attorney Nutter were loudly applauded. The personnel of the Negro K. of P. Grand Lodge is composed of the representative colored men of the state. Lawyers, doctors, business men, divines, teachers and a large infiltration of honest youth are found among the representatives. This meeting attracted over 200 visitors to the city, who with the 200 delegates made up an aggregation of representative Negroes who fully appreciated the civic fression tendered to them by the honor, the mayor. The afternoon sessions of the Grand Lodge and Grand Counts were devoted to the appointment of various committees. The local committee provided social recreation for each event. COERT Supreme V. G. J. L. Jones gave a talk Committee onCredentials Mrs. E. V. Seay Miss F. C. Carter, C. H. Locke Law and supervision—Mrs. Lola Mack Mrs. E. V. Seay, C. H. Locke, M. Maria Whittier, C. H. Rice, Mrs. Mary J. D. Dean. Milage—E. V. Seay, Sallie Brooks Emily Robinson, Fannie Robinson Resolutions—Jennie Miles, Sarah Slangder, Amanda McNeese, Natima Seay, Addie Calloway, Sophia Silmou Lulu Harris, Maggie Johnson Olivary, Anna Davis, W. H. White, J. E. Tatum, E. J. L. Turner, Anna Bolden, Melinda McClelland, D. A. Cox, Finance—Anna Washington, Emma K. Anderson, Mattie Moss. Greetings to Grand Lodge—M. T. Car- per, Julian Lee, Sache Johnson, Isabella Coates, Nellie Tatum. Grand officer report—Emma Anderson, Fatele Dodd, J. E. Haskins, Elizabeth Brown, Victoria Harris The second day's session was opened at 9:30 a.m. with a full representation from each ledge of the grand parterition. The chief business of the morning was the adjustment of the business of the committee on credentials, and the reading of the report of Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson. The report was a beneficial and thorough review of the activities of the grand chancellor for the year and a comprehensive history of the state and development of the order under his management for the last year. It showed that the number of lodges and the financial membership of the same was the greatest in the history of the order. The relief work while very large, had been satisfactorily looked after. The valuable property in Huntington and Charleston, assets of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association, a department of the order, have become, by judicious management, properties of great commercial possibilities. The grand chancellor was repeatedly interrupted by applause during the reading of his report. At the morning session of the great court, the same order of business was being observed and the report of the G. W. O. J. Rupert Jefferson, revealed healthy growths of the calanthean department. The grand worthy chancellor was the recipient of well merited praise for the NUMBER 22 nights Pythians Grand Officers Report of Practically All Editor Whittico Stirs Investment Dept.--Is Grand Lecturer creditable condition of the courts of the grand jurisdiction. This session of the court was honored by the presence of the supreme worthy chancellor, Sir Knight Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati. O. Mr. Jones is nationally known as one of the progressive race leaders whose activities are closely allied with commercial and civic movements that tend for the aggregation of wealth and the hastiness of social uplift. Night memorial services were observed in the Fen street Methodist Episcopal church. Following are the various committees appointed at the session: Appeals and grievances F. L. Morton, Carl Rabbitt, J. W. Foy, William Carpenter, William Brown, John Froston, U. F. Eck and J. F. Tatum State of order M. T. Whitney, A. A. Deborahy, J. T. Larner, Walter Lazenby, J. D. Jones, Floyd Kiss, G. W. Foy and E. V. Sealy. Kosobhore, L. C. Lev, T. F. Page P. J. Latino, W. C. Harris and W. H. Park Grand Lodge officers—N. H. Hays William Carpenter, Joe Carry, Amy Keshmoul, J. W. Robinson and U. V. Whitlow Foreign correspondence—N. L. Edwards, A. L. Spencer, C. W. Donnelly, W. S. Kecear and Jess Penny. (Continued on Page 4.) RAISED REWARD FUND FOR HEROIC NEGROES Southern White Daily Pays Glowing Tribute to Men Who Rescued Flood Victims. Charlotte, N.C. White North Carolinians are showing their deepest gratitude to two colored men, Ross and Shaw, who colored their lives to save the lives of white men who were about to drown in the recent overflow of the banks of the Catawba river which flooded the western section of the state, inflicting much damage and causing the loss of a number of lives. A subscription fund for the men which was started by The Charlotte Observer, a leading white daily has run into the hundreds of dollars and the Observer has the following editorial tribute to them. "The two colored men who took the honors from the various life saving organizations at the southern's Catawba bridge are quite sure to come in for both a Carnegie medal and a Carnegie award. It is the custom of the Carnegie board to supplement the medal with cash awards in cases of unusual merit and the cash is increased for the benefit of the family of the winner. It is usually so placed that his children will get an education, or that in case of his death they will have a home. In all events it is arranged so that it cannot be useless made away with. Thus in connection with the fund that is coming into The Observer office for the benefit of the two colored men would seem to give guarantee that they and their families are going to be well provided for as homeowners. They will be set up for life and all the people will say that it will be a reservation that was deserved." ONCE SLAVE HOLDER HE NOW WORKS FOR THE NEGRO RACE Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 3 — Years ago the family of L. P. Rawley, who now lives in Washington, D.C., kept slaves. Today Rawley is spending bi-time traveling to raise money for a colored industrial school. This school is the Slater Industrial and state Normal School, at Winston-Salem, N.C., which was founded twenty years ago and ranks next to Hampton and Fuskegee in the south. The North Carolina legislature recently provided a new dormitory for girls and appropriated $12,000 with the provision that the trustees raise a similar amount. Rawley wants $12,000 subscriptions of $1 each to make up this amount. He is in the city in the interest of the fund. Miss Fozzie Stovall is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sallie Stovall-Hill, in the city. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION BE RATHER THAN SEEM TO BE WHITTICO & HILL PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS. M. T. WHITTICO, Editor. T. EDWARD HILL, Business Mgr. Articles or more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Published every Friday in the interest of the Negro Race---His Civil and Political Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year in advance.....$1.50 Six months in advance.....75 Three months in advance.....45 One month in advance.....20 Single copy.....05. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST Special rates to churches, schools and colleges. Subscribers changing their Post Office address must notify the publishers or else his subscription will be collected just the same as if he had not. Entered as Second Class Matter March 22, 1904, at the Post Office at Keystone, W. Va., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. FRIDAY AUG. 11, 1916 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET For President CHARLES E. HUGHES, of New York. Vice President CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, of Indiana. United States Senator HOWARD SUTHERLAND, of Randolph Congress—Fifth District EDWARD COOPER, Mercer. Republican State Ticket. Governor IRA E. ROBINSON, of Taylor. Secretary of State HOUSTON G. Y JUNG, of Harrison. Superintendent of Schools MORRIS P. SHAWKEY, of Kanawha Auditor JOHN S. DARST, of Jackson. Treasurer WILLIAM. S. JOHNSON, of Fayette Attorney General E. T. ENGLAND, of Logan. Commissioner of Agriculture JAMES H. STEWART, of Putnam. State Senator—Sixth District J. W. LUTHER, of McDowell. Republican County Ticket. Sheriff S. A. DANIEL, of Welch. *Prosecuting Attorney G. L. COUNTS, of Welch. Commissioner County Court (Long and Short Term) HOWARD N. EAVENSON, of Gary. Assessor W. J. HATFIELD, of Welch. House of Delegates E. HOWARD HARPER, of Keystone. HARVEY HAGERMAN, of Bradshaw. J. BUEL SWOPE, of Welch. FLOYD WALDRON, of Welch. HARMONY AND GOOD WILL The Republican county convention held at Welch last Saturday testified to the harmony in the ranks of the Republican party and was a forecast of the unity of action on the part of all Republicans against the Democrats in November. The speech of Governor Hatfield was an able defence of his administration the Republican party and a scathing arraignment of the national Democratic administration for its vacillating, weak and inefficient government. In state and county affairs he advised harmony and unity among all Republicans and said that he would preach the good old Republican doctrine upon every hillside. Every resolution was adopted unanimously, delegates were elected without opposition and men of every shade of Republican political opinion were placed upon the delegation. This was one of the most harmonious and enthusiastic conventions ever held in McDowell county. PAINTING UP The property owners of this city who are painting and cleaning up their houses are to be congratulated. It is a thing long desired because the worn, weathered houses especially in the business section had become an eyesore. If all merchants, business men and property owners will beautify their places it will help business conditions because all people would rather visit and trade in a clean, neat and attractive place than in worn, dirty, scaley places like Main street of this city has been for several years. Let other property owners do what the Hymans and Budnicks have done—paint up, clean up and beautify. THE GRAND LODGE The recent session of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias held in the city of Clarksburg, was considered to be the best held in years. It may not have been the largest in attendance, but from the standpoint of harmony, enthusiasm, and downright business this session passed any other it has been our pleasure to visit within the past seven years. Everybody seemed to have been full of business accomplishments. The local committee seemed to have worked together for the good of the order and hearty co operation with which each and everybody went about their work not only simplified matters but merited the compliment of being the best in its history. Reports showed the fraternity to be not only progressive numerically but substantially so because of its financial and material growth. Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson is the right man in the right place and the hearty endorsement he has received by all the members is additional attestation of his general fitness and ability to handle this great institution. White and colored alike were very lavish in their praise of the orderly manner and general conduct of every member who attended the Grand Lodge. The large amount of stock subscribed and paid for at this session comes in particularly for encouragement as well as endorsement of the business side of this order. Men elected to office and taking an oath to do right ought to be too big and too gentlemanly to stoop to do a little thing. In efficiency in public or private service is to be spurned then away with the growth of our government. And he who so lightly regards the honor and solemnity of an oath to that extent makes a serious mistake both for himself as well as those he is supposed to represent. No innocent man or woman ought to have to suffer inconveniences, deprivation or loss of time, or money, or reputation merely to gratify the political spleen of some other politically disappointed office seeker. Republicans all over the state appreciate the visible evidence of political harmony which is be coming more evident every day as we get nearer the battlefield. Discordant feelings is rapidly disappearing, enemies are becoming friends and the party success is becoming the watch word. All real Republicans, men who know the party to be bigger than any one man, will support the Republican nominees this fall. The political conditions are smoothing themselves down to normal. Those who at times appeared to be sore and disgruntled are now learning to know that the party is bigger than any one man. Everybody is realizing the fact that to win this fall over the common enemy will require a united front. Many of the leading Republicans in McDowell county attend ed the Republican convention at Huntington yesterday. The Superfluous Negro From the New Republic. To the Northern Negro the war in Europe has been of immense and unexpected advantage. It has shut out the immigrant, who is the Negro's most dangerous competitor, has doubled the demand for the Negro's labor, raised his wages and given chances to him which in the ordinary course would have gone to white men. If immigration still lage after the war, or is held down by law, the Negro will secure the great opportunity for which he has been waiting for these fifty years. The average Pole or Italian arriving at Ellis Island does not realize that he is a deadly foe to the native Negro. He hardly knows there are Negroes. He takes the first job he can get, competes seemingly with other white men, and, as he rises to higher industrial reaches, makes room for other white men. All the while, however, he is unconsciously fighting the Negro. By filling all the jobs in the North the immigrant forces the Negro back on the South, where wages are lower and industrial development is more backward. It is a silent conflict on a gigantic scale. In the half century between 1860 and 1910, the foreign-born in the United States increased from about two million to over thirteen millions, of whom the overwhelming majority—over 95 per cent—remained in the North. Industrially, they filled the North to the saturation point. In the same period, the Negro increased from about four and one-half to ten millions. But of these, almost nine-tenths were forced to remain in the South. They were held there as effectively as though the white immigrants stood on the Mason and Dixon line, armed with machine guns. Because of the race prejudice, the individual Negro can't easily rise above his race, as the individual German, Greek, Jew or Italian in America does. He is never a man among men, but a Negro sharing the common lot of Negroes. And that lot is bad because industrially the Northern Negroes are superfluous. They hold no monopoly of skill, and are largely debarred from acquiring skill or using it if acquired. In the common occupation, on the other hand, where numbers count, they are too few. In southern cities, in Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham Richmond, Nashville, Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, Negroes constitute one-third to one-half of the population, and more than that proportion of wage earners, and are given a chance to earn their living, because without them the work of these cities could not be done. In the city of Philadelphia, on the other hand, Negroes form only 1-2 per cent of the population, in Chicago only 2 per cent, in New York a little less than 2 per cent. In almost every occupation they are a hopeless minority. If white men will not work them, if the employer is forced to choose between a large supply of white labor and a small supply of Negro labor, he will choose the former. There are always enough white men or women thanks to our immigration to do the work. The Negroes can be replaced by white, but cannot replace whites. The New York example proves how replaceable and therefore weak and defenseless the Northern Negroes are. The colored population of the Greater City—one hundred and ten thousand does not equal New York's annual increase in whites. If these hundred thousand Negroes were to leave, their places could immediately be filled from Ellis Island. In almost every occupation the Negro is numerically weak. If the twelve thousand white barbers of New York refused to work with the two hundred Negro barbers, the latter must submit. If the thirty thousand white carpenters and joiners choose to draw the color line the one hundred Negro carpenters must look for odd jobs or work for their own people. The Negroes have a chance to only when there is no one else. He is the last served, his are the industrial leavings and scrape. Being superfluous, possessing no industrial weapon against race prejudice, he is forced to work for a grotesquely low wage as menial jobs, which the white man disdains. We often wonder what the reflective Negro thinks as he listens to our orators who welcome immigrants to this land of liberty, to this free world of opportunity for all men. What does he think of our democracy, morality, religion, as he views it from his side of the color line? The Negro asks for little. A half century of the contempt and exclusion which we call "freedom" has taught him to be modest. He does not look to the big prizes of life, but is content with the common things, the right to walk unnoticed and uninsulted through the streets, the right to live where his purse permits, the right not to be robbed by landlord, tradesmen and employer, and last and most fundamental, the right to earn a living at the work for which his skill and intelligence fit him. Yet, because the immigrant has given us all the labor we need and has made the black man superfluous, we deny these rights to the Negro. He becomes the bell boy, elevator boy, Pullman porter, the obsequious tip receiver. Debarred from lucrative occupations, he receives low wages in the occupations into which he is forced; debarred from living in most neighborhoods he pays exhorbitant rents in the districts into which he is crowded. A chance seems now about to offer to the Negro. Immigration after the war seems likely to be kept at a lower level during several years or possibly decades. If then, the supply of immigrant labor is reduced, while the demand for labor maintains itself, the Negro, who has equipped himself, should find a wider range of activities opn to him, and a stronger demand, especially for unskilled labor. But if the Northern Negroes increase in numbers while their opportunities widen and increase, they will be less dispensible, and more able to make terms. It is the Negro's first chance, the first extensive widening of his industrial field since emancipation. 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, 1916. Frank Bargill, Plaintiff vs. In Ghancery Anna Bargill, Defendent The object of this suit is to obtain from the defender by the plaintiff a divorce. A VINGULO MATRIMONII And it appearing from an affidavit now on file with the papers in this cause, that the defender is a non-resident of the State of West Virginia; it is therefore ordered that the said defender do appear at the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of McDowell County within one month from the date of the first publication of this order, and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein. And it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper in McDowell County, and that a copy of the court house be posted at the front door of the court house of McDowell County for twenty days before decree is rendered. A copy. Tests: W. BURBRIDGE PAYNE, Olerk A. G. Froe, P. Q. 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, 1916. Julia Wimbel, Plaintiff, w. In Chancery, Joe Wimbel, Defendant. 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 non-resident of the State of West Virginia. It is therefore ordered that the said defendant appear at the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of McDowell County within one month from the date of the first publication of 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 successive weeks in some newspaper published in McDowell county, and that a copy of the same be posted at the front door of the court house of McDowell county for twenty days before decree is rendered. A copy. Teste: W. BURBRIDGE PAYNE, Clerk. A. G. Froe, P. Q. M. Ofsa has opened up the Keystone Steam Laundry and is now ready for business. The laundry is in the upper end of Burke and are prepared to do all classes of work at prices be low those of outside laundries. This is a home industry and should be patronised by people of Keystone and vicinity. Professional Cards BROWN W. PAYNE Attorney-at-Law Bechley, West Virginia. Bury Public Trap HilljPhone P. O. 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Brugger and sat. few CHICHESTER'S DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for twenty-eve years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TIME TRIED EVERYWHERE WORTH TESTED OPTOMETRIST EYES LE EXAMINED Glasses Fitted Adjustment-Duplication and Repairs. All Work First Class Call or write Dr. S. P. Younge Pocahontas, Virginia. Restaurant! When at Bluestone don't fail to get your meals at Mrs. B. M. Smith's better known as Belle Smith. Best cooking, excellent service, everything fresh and clean. First class lodging accommodation—clean beds, linens changed daily. Rates Reasonable. BELLE SMITH'S Restaurant and Lodging House Opposite Depot BLUESTONE, W. Va. Hotel Clark A Comfortable Place For The WEARY TRAVELERS TO EAT AND SLEEP The Sanitary Conditions are Good Three Hot Meals Served Each Day GOOD OLD HOME COOKING Spend a Week at the CLARK HOTEL CLARK SIDE Wm TUCKER, Prop. NORTHFORK, W. VA GRAHAM When you are at G. Chin, call to see a and spend a pleasant hour or day in the hotel. We serve hot meals 3 times a day and also at all hours. Rooms for rent, nicely arranged for ladies and gents Cold drinks and Ice Cream. N. O. REED, Proprietor. P. O. Graham, Va. FOR SALE Two houses and lots on Jones and Brackett streets, Bluefield, W. Va., by Jackson and Rebecca Patterson. 6 and 3 room houses all modern conveniences, accessible. Terms guaranteed to be arranged satisfactory to purchasers. For further and complete information address or call for JACKSON, Genealal Delivery, Bluefield, W. Va. Pay for The Times. 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 Tues day in February June and September. CRIMINAL COURT: Hon Jas. French Strother, Judge; W. B. Payne, Clerk. Terms of Court Second Mon day in January, April, July and October. COUNTY COURT: Dr. R. K. Brantier, President, Keystone. Co. Jas. Elwood Jones. Commissioners W. E. Chyte, clerk, Welch. Terms of Court. First Monday in January, April, August and October. License Term, first Monday in June. COUNTY OF OFFICERS: Sheriff, J. F Johnson, Welch. Prosecuting Attorney F C Cook Assistant Pros. Attorney, G L Countz Clerk Circuit and Crim. Courts, Burbridge Payne Clerk County Court, W. W. Whyte County Surveyor, w C Morgan Vivian Supt. Free Schools, W Cassius Cook, Welch Assessor, C E Rusmisell County Road Engineer, w J McClaren County Health Officer and coroner, Dr. H. G. Camper Commissioner School Lands C E Rusmisell. McDowell Members House of Delegates W W Hughes and C. E. Harman. State Senators, Sixth Senate ial district (counties of McDow ell, Mingo, wayne and wyoming Jas A. Strother Welch; Wells Godykoftk. Williamson. Walker & Butord ReStaurant WILCOE, WEST VIRGINIA. Quick Luch, meals served while waiting on trains. Everything to eat in season. Rooms for rent. First class service promptly rendered. Pop and ice cream. WALKER & BUFORD, Props. A. L. Spencer A. L. Spencer Quick Lunches and meals served while the train wait Ice ream, Confectioneriese Pop, Tobacco etc. Mora, W. Va. Colds should be "nipped in the bud", for it allowed to run unchecked, serious results may follow. Numerous cases of consumption, pneumonia, and other total diseases, can be traced back to a cold. At the first sign of a cold, protect yourself by thoroughly cleaning your system with a low dose of THEDFORD'S BLACK- DRAUGHT the old reliable, vegetable liver powder. Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, on Madison Height, Vd., says "I have been using Thedford's Black-Drought for stomach treasures, indigestion, and colds, and find it to be the very best medicine I ever used. It makes an old man feel like a young one." Invite on Thedford's, the original and greatest. B-6 Great Improvements Being Made- More Room Needed. On Sunday morning, July 25, in company with Rev. -- Watson, ex pastor of the M. E. Church, of Huntington, I started upon my first visit to this institution which the State is supporting for the unfortunate Colored children of the State. We were met by a boy who is an inmate of the home and were conveyed in a vehicle drawn by a mule. As I rode along, it brought to my mind the memories of early days—those happy days of early manhood, the days of dreams, hopes, aspirations and yearnings. In this reverie, we arrived at the place of destination ere we knew it, and ascended the steps of a massive brick structure with large porches facing in three directions. We were given a beauty welcome by the Matron, Mrs. Emma J. Hill, the wife of the Superintendent, a class mate of my sister and one that I have known since she was a girl. After a brief rest, we entered the chapel and found the Superintendent and his assistants engaged in the study of the International Sunday School lesson. The children vied with each other in answering the questions asked by the teachers. Rev. Watson preached at the 11 o'clock services. He preached an excellent sermon. The music was inspiring. Persona acquainted with me know that I hardly ever do the "Baby act", that is weep, but the pathos of those children's singing, their intense earnestness came near getting me. When the Superintendent called on me for an address, it was a few minutes before I could get myself together for a talk. At the close of the services, the Superintendent carried me around for inspection. The new barn and silo is a model in every respect. The silo will provide ensilage for 25 cows 265 days. It has 12 stalls for cows each separate with an individual drinking bucket, food and litter carriars, a track upon which these carriers are conducted. The horse department is separate. Eight modern stalls separate with hay racks and feed boxes. The equipment was purchased from the James Manufacturing Company. The barn and fixtures cost over seven thousand ($7000) dollars. The second story of the barn is the place for storing hay and corn. The Superintendent and his boys are already storing away hay. We visited the two new heenneries and four hog houses with heens, chichens, turkeys, hogs and pigs. There are spacious concrete feeding platforms upon which the hogs are fed. On the farm will be found corn, beans, peas, cabbage. In fact, everything in the vegetable line. There are possibly forty five acres of growing corn and beans. There are separate play grounds for the boys and girls; a new pump house in which is installed a new gas engine; a large corn crib for storing the hog corn. We inspected the main building, starting at the dining room. It has separate tables arranged like other modern institutions. Each child has his knife, fork, spoon, napkin, etc. The dining room is presided over by Mrs. Willie Straughter, the widow of the late Hon. A. P. Straughter. She also has charge of the laundry. Of course we are a dinner- a regular country dinner with a Ground Hog on the side. The kitchen is scrupulously clean. It is under the auspices of Miss India Taylor, a graduate in Domestic Science and the teacher course at the Virginia Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Va. She has three girls as assistants. From the basement to the attic, judging from appearance, the Matron and her assistants know the household arts and practice them. Everything is strictly sanitary—children's toilets and baths, halls, walls, in and outside of building. The boys are amply provided for in the way of dormitories. They have three large airy dormitories with separate beds, which can care for seventy-five boys. The girls are not provided for as well as the boys. Their dormitory is entirely too small for the present number of inmates, fifteen. The Superintendent informed me that he is asking the Board to begin the erection of the other wing of the building which will not only provide dormitory space for the girls but will provide additional rooms for the officers, a reception room for the children; also a sewing room, a larger laundry and a can- Honest Tailoring Do You Know a Good Thing When You See It? $18 $15 $20 nery. The laundry and kitchen have to be used jointly for canning purposes which make the work slow and cumbersome. A recreation room for girls could be provided as well as a work shop for the boys. A larger space for girls is an absolute necessity. The way the building is arranged no space est apart for boys can be used and the quarters be separate from those of the girls. The girls dormitory at the present occupy the same floor upon which is located the officers rooms. I am certain if the Board will visit the Institution and notice the congestion in the girls quarters and how the officers are doubled up, it will start the erection of the other wing at once. If this wing is erected with the present space for boy, it will answer the needs of the Institution for at least twenty years. The sewing room is not adequate. It is too small. Miss Inez Ward, a graduate of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, has charge of the sewing. She is specially prepared for sewing, having finished this course at the above named school. Miss Myrtle Irving, a graduate of the West Virginia Colored Institute, has charge of the school and music. School is conducted every day for a half day. The farming is done by the boys under the supervision of Mr. Henry Waller, a practical farmer. The canning is done by the girls under the supervision of the Matron. She is assisted by the sewing teaching in the mornings and in the afternoons by the teacher. It is a home where all the children seem happy. To me it had the appearance of one large family of which the Superintendent and his wife are the heads. It is a beehive of industry where each fellow has a task to perform and this is being done as well regulated as a clock. Play is free and spontaneous for the fellows too small to work. In the background is supervision. Half holiday is given on Saturday. The children have croquet, base ball, marbles, swings, etc. It was amusing to see the little fellows walk a pole on their hands skin the cat, turn somersault, walk on their hands, etc. The Superintendent hopes to be provided with play apparatus which will add to the pleasure of the children. He wants a moving picture show for them also. The State through the Governor who has always been a friend of this Institution and all unfortunates, the State Board of Control, especially Mr. James S. Lakin, President, and the Immediate officers of the Institution are carrying out the injunction "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Montgomery Rev. J. P. Hubbard, pastor of the First Baptist church, who has only been in the city since January 1, of this year, is doing well and is being well linked by all who have met him met him. He preached the eleven o'clock sermon in London at the District Sunday School Union. He succeeded Rev. Warner Brown and it is but fair to him and his ability as a leader to note the fact that in this short time he has paid off all past financial obligations, has a cash balance in the treasury of something over $200, and is now successfully laying plans and making preparations to build a new church. Thirty-eight new accesions to the church are living testimonials of his spiritual influence and powers as a gospel messenger. Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Thornton entertained Revs. J. D. Oleman, L. A. Watkins and Milton S. Malone at dinner Sunday, and in the afternoon the trio was at Mrs. H. L. Lord's attea. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Cabbell gave $40 in the rally Sunday and left Monday morning for Virginia to visit relatives and friends at the old home place. LOST OR STOLEN. Saturday, July 22nd, a blue rain coat off the 5 o'clock train, between Jenkinjones and Gary. Finder will please notify B. F Hughes, Gary, W. Va., box 434, and receive reward. FOR SALE: West Virginia Shufflers, Pure Pit Games; Guaranteed to win or die trying. Originated and bred by W. T. Howard, Worth, W. Va. 12-17-th. Do You K $18 SUITS TO MEASURE Other Tailor LEIDMAN B Tailors from the Cradle This town is about three miles from the main line of the K. and M. railroad on a branch line. There are about 500 Colored men on this operation. They are men of independence. Colored schools at this place are very good, although they are only of six months duration. The teachers recently appointed for this term are Misses Addie Beele and Ruth Foster. The church work under Rev. M. G. Smith, of Cattlesburg, Ky., is in a very progressive condition. His denomination is Missionary Baptist. Pythians, Odd Fellows, Mussons and True Reformers are the leading lodges in this town and are very strong. There are practically no white men on his operation. Most of them are colored men. Accidents are few and far be tween. Dr. Thos. Bryant, colored physician and one among the most efficient physicians in the state, a resident here of at least 17 years duration, has by efficiency won for himself the esteem and confidence of both his own people and the whites to the extent that Dr. Bryant to day is the leading physician in this section. His ripened and conservative opinions are always gladly received, looked for shp appreciated. Politically his heart is on the right side. This Coal Company made no mistake when it engaged the service of Dr. Bryant. And the fact that seventeen years have been his uninterrupted stay on this operation with a constant increase in the number of his friends among both white and colored is additional testimony of his fitness, ability and his general square dealings with the public. Messrs. Hopson Printeres, Chester Woods and Carden Summerville, three young men, are preparing to enter some Normal school this coming fall. We feel assured that when they make up their minds and fill out their applications, the school will be one of the three state schools, either the West Virginia College Institute, the Bluefield Colored Institute or Storer College. Mr N. T. Terry, an old citizen of 25 years here at Raymond City, a hard working man, one of the oldest citizens of this place, a strong Odd Fellow, a successful barber, a grocer of marked success, has established himself to the extent that he is one of the white and colored people's "favorites. Should he lease this place, the people all, would shed tears. To the children every day, he is to them what Sansa Clause is to them at Christmas times. He has had the sense and conservative economy enough to put away sufficient money for a rainy day, till today he can work if he wants to or let it alone if he choose. He is an old bachelor and if some good woman, maid or what not, should want a good husband and if she could induce brother Tyre to assume responsibility for her, she would have a lifetime fortune. H. H. Woods, one of greatest and most fearless Repubblican campaigners, a strong Knight of Pythian, Chancellor Commander of Evening Star Lodge, No. 4, for the past 14 years, President of the Robinson Republican Club, deacen in the Baptist church and Assistant Mine Foreman, is still on the ground in the saddle of practical usefulness. He was chosen delegate to represent Evening Star Lodge, No. 4, at the Grand Lodge which convened at Clarksburg, August 1-4. The above named Lodge subscribed and paid for another share of stock in the Pythian Mutual Investment Association. This is one of the best Lodges in the State. They have the finest and best furnished hall perhaps in the state, the kindness of the Company. Mr. J. A. Shores, Master of the Works in the Evening Star Lodge, Trustee for the colored school and has been for the past fourteen years, an old resident of considerable influence, represents one of the best families on this operation. At his and Mrs. Shores we were received and in that home we were made welcome and were accorded all the kindness and hospitality imaginable. This is one of the best and most neatly kept homes it has been our pleasure to visit on our itinerary. The milk and butter they have on hand are remarkable. Mr. Wm. Davis, formerly of Chicago, Ill., and Gary, Indiana, is here with a promise to stay three years. Dark sorrel horse, branded on right hip. Finder will receive a reward of $10 by delivering same to William Downs, at Keystone Know a G James N. Thomas, commonly called "Father," was at his post in his tonsorial parlor, making the boys look good. Jim is a very reliable, all round fellow, especially when (asleep.) Mr. John Strange, one of the most industrious as well as reliable men in the city, singularly made himself known and felt by meeting everybody and watching after their every want. Dr. E. T. Jones, the leading colored physician in the city and one of the finest and most eloquent orators of the State, was kept busy acknowledging compliments on his able address at the opening exercise. Mr. E. L. Morton, one of the directors of the F. M. I. A., won many compliments for his mutual friendly support given to the work and his expressions of deep and abiding interest in the Order and his faith in the management of the administration. The Annual Session of the Grand Lodge K. of P. of this State will be only three days duration hereafter instead of four as in the past. This change was made at Oklansburg last week. Dr. B. F. White made a very strong and closely contested race for Grand Medical Director, yet everybody and everything moved off smoothly. Prot. H. H. Railey, Field Agent for the Orphans' Home, made a strong and effective talk on the Orphans Home, its usefulness, its great beneficent deeds of helpfulness in protecting the poor unfortunate orphan children of the race, and paid a high tribute to the State through its management of this Home. His presentation of the real inside workings of the Home won for him, the State and the poor unfortunate orphans much concern by all who heard him. Mr. T. T. Page, of Logan county, was on hand, watching every detail of the Grand Lodge session. Mr. Allen DeHonney better known as Big 350 pounds Allen, was at his post and fought hard to get the next annual session of the Grand Lodge to be in Charleston. Mr H. H. Woods, of Raymond City and often called "Good Looking Woods" was on hand breaking the hearts of the ladies as usual. Mr. Thomas Jones, sometimes called "Setback Jackson," a bigger hearted boy never lived than he, kept his auto hauling his friends everywhere they wanted to go. His home was headquarters for the "Big Bugs." Tommie Jones was nominated by Tommie Whittico to go to the Supreme Grand Lodge next year. Prof. S. A. Guess, one of the race's best educators and Assistant Principal at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, was selected reporter for the 24th annual session of the Grand Lodge, and he made a very able, practical and forceful address. Messrs. John Calloway and Jas. Rankin, of Bluefield, represented the two Lodges in the above named city and right well did they do their duty. Prof. Jas. H. Hill, Superintendent of the Orphans Home, who is making good in every particular and who is making the State officials to know and his race to appreciate that they put the right man at the right place was active in the deliberations as usual. Service is what we give. The Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company Operates in Every State in the Union Employes More Than 8,000 Agents Pays A Claim Every Eight Minutes W. H. HARRIS, Special Agent Keystone, West Virginia GUARANTEED WOOLENS On Wednesday night, a total of $725-41 was in hand with more to be reported which speaks exceedingly well for this congregation and the people of keystone. Much interest was manifested in the services and every one seemed to have enjoyed the splendid sermons of the able divines. Rev. J. D. Coleman, of Bluefield, prescheduled Sunday morning, Rev. A. Hatfield, pastor of the Keystone and Davy Baptist churches, (white) in the afternoon and Rev. L. A. Watkins, the pastor, in the evening. Rev. Milton S Malone preached Monday night, Rev. Dr. R. H. McKoy Tuesday night and Rev. L. A. Watkins, Wednesday night. The Eckman choir sang Sunday morning, the Algoma choir Sunday afternoon, the church choir Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights, the Presbyterian choir Wednesday night, and they sang to the delightful satisfaction of the splendid congregations. Rev. Watkins has had active charge of this church just one month and the telling success of this rally beepspeaks a great future for him in this splendid field. Certainly Keystone is capable of doing great things and she is going to do them. A list of those who contributed in this rally will in these columns. NEW COLORED SCHOOL BUILDING Blundell, W. Va., Aug. 9. ---The Board of Education for Beaver Pond district, at a meeting held yesterday decided to erect a modern brick school building for colored people at the corner of Genoa ave. and Wilson street. This building is to take the place of the old frame structure which stands high upon the mountain side and the pupils are compelled to climb in all kinds of weather more than 180 steps to reach it. The lots upon which the new building will stand was purchased by the Board about two years ago. Work will commence on the new building at once, but it is stated that the entire building will not be completed this year but several rooms will be made ready for occupancy. The colored people of this city are to be congratulated upon securing the building after several years of efforts. "The mail man stopped at a house one day, The politician came and went his way, The next six months there was hell to play, Who was to blame, the Blue or the Gray?" The Pacific $30,000,000 ASSETS Opera Em Pay W. H. H. Everyday Work CRYST Grys It Can Be F ntual Life CRYSTAL COAL & CO COMPANY rystal, west, Va n Be Found in The McDowell Lite Insurance Company ```markdown ``` It Can Be Found in The McDowell Times ORGANIZED 1868 s in Every Sta yes More Tha Every State in the Union More Than 8,000 Agents In Every Eight Minutes RIS, Special Agent State, West Virginia DAL & COKE ANY est. Va. On Crane Creek. the McDowell Times ce Company $36,000,000 PAID IN CLAIMS Union Events Minutes Real Agent Free Pressing (Continued from Page One.) Printing and supplies...C. W. Boyd, J. E. Haskins, P. J. Williams, Ellis Bullard, J. R. Calloway and N. J. Covington. Law and Supervision...T. G. Nutter, Robert Harris, W. J. Thompson, C. H. Rice and M. T. Whittico. Greetings to the Grand Court...J. W. Shellcroft, Alex Redmond, Earl Johnson and George Dishroom. Grand Lodge degree...C. W. Boyd, G. P. Porter, H. H. Woods, W. N. Brown and Zack McClung. Obituary...J. W. Robinson, G. W. Foy, Joseph Barnett, J. J. Turner, William Nelson and F. C. Lewis. Finance...J. W. Shellcroft, N. L. Edwards and J. W. Robinson n. The second session of the K. of P. Grand Lodge was spirited, and replete with business important to the order. The reports of the officers were completed in the forenoon. In the women's department a similar routine of business was observed. The afternoon in both divisions of the order was devoted to the adoption of various resolutions from the different lodges and courts, the subject matter of which was of vital importance to the future lite of the order in the state. Sir Knight J. C. Jones, S. W. C., presided in the Grand Court, and his instructions were very helpful and served to inspire the future good. Much enthusiasm was aroused in the Grand Lodge by the speeches of Grand Medical Director N. L. Edwards, M.D., and Sir Knight J. L. Hill, Superintendent of the Colored Orphans Home at Huntington. Both gentlemen have a state wide reputation for judicious and conservative thought, and when they spoke at length for the good of the order, each delegate was interested and benefitted. THIRD DAY'S SESSION The report of the supreme representatives showed a membership of 250,000 Negro Pythians, the possessor of $1,450, 750.40 of tangible property. It also showed that the Grand Lodges owned over $400,000.00 of property, and the Supreme Lodge $450,000.00 worthy of property. The Grand Court elected officers who were installed by Supreme Counselor J. L. Jones. The Supreme Counselor was presented with a handsome silver water pitcher by the Grand Court. Prof. Jefferson made the presentation speech. The local committee headed by John W. Strange arranged a banquet for the lodges and visitors at Norwood park. The stock meeting of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association of the Grand Lodge, which filled, to the utter exclusion of all other business, the afternoon session of the third day, was by far more satisfactory in results obtained than any other that has been held for many years. This new awakening of interest that is counted in dollars and cents may chiefly be attributed to the ind fatigable energy and persuasive power of the Grand Lecturer, Sir Knight M. T. Whittico, or Keystone, Editor of the McDowell Timer. In his official visits to the various lodges, he made prominent the necessity of the Pythian rank and file investing the savings in gilt edge collateral. The success of his campaign was evidenced at this session when, at the rousing meeting over three hundred shares of stock were sold. Editor Whittico is also one of the Negro additions to the state Republican committee. While he hails from grand old McDowell county, he represents the 27,000 Negroes of the State, and has won the enviable reputation of being fearless in the defense of all right principles. Grand Chancellor Wilson, President of the Investment Association, is exerting more than ordinary efforts to make of this department an imperishable monument to the terit and economic ability of his race. The management of its affairs, his judgment has been wise, his ideas conservative, and his honesty unquestioned. His greatest ambition is to establish through this Association business enterprises in the state for the benefit of his race. ELECTION OF OFFICERS The closing session of the Grand Lodge, which began at 9:30 a. m., in the Water Street School hall, was very strenuous. Measures that had been held in abeyance or had not been completed were rushed through with precision and dispatch. The committee on Resolutions, among the commendable things suggested was instrumental in having the Grand Lodge vote $25 to the Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund. The following officers were elected by a unanimous vote: L. O. Wilson, of Weston, G. C.; J. W. Robinson, of Kimbail, G. V. C., W. J. Thompson, of P. G. C.; Prof. C. W. Boyd, of Charleston, G. R. of S. Dr. N. L. Edwards, of Bluefield, G. M of Ex.; Hon. M. T. Whittico, of Keystone, G. L.; Hamilton Woods, of Raymond City, G. M.; Kev. J. J. Turner of Kimberly, G. P.; Dr. R. C. Harrison of Kimball, G. M. R. After spirited contests, Prof. J. Rupert Jefferson, of Parkersburg, and J. Jefferson Jones, of Clarkabur, were chosen Supreme Representatives. J. D. Shelton, of Quinnimont, and A. W. DeHoney, of Charleston, were recommended for the Supreme Lodge degree. Huntington was chosen as the next place for the Grand Lodge session. The officers were duly installed by P. G. G. W. J. Thompson. (Continued from Page One.) of the state's water power resources, as well as proper regulation of the public utilities corporations of the state---and in this connection we must not forget that lowliest citizen of the state can, if he has just compilit, bring an action against the great corporations, and the state will see that his cause is looked after by lawyers provided for that purpose, to see that the interests of the public are protected and that no injustices are permitted to be heaped upon the people of West Virginia. "These and many others constitute the elaborate and constructive programs of legislation that has been brought about by the Hattfield administration. It is a record unequalled in the history of West Virginia, and we are glad to take this occasion to extend to Governor Hattfield our sincere appreciation and admiration and our full approval of his administration." In an able and effective speech, Senator Strother moved the adoption of the resolution, which was duly seconded and unanimously adopted. T. Edwarn Hill, Manager of the McDowell Times and Committeeman, read the following resolution and in a brief speech moved its adoption which was one admid lond cheers and prolonged applause. RESOLUTION JUSTIFY GOVERNOR'S USE OF MILITIA Whereas, It has come to our notice that the Democratic platform adopted recently at Parkersburg criticizes Governor Henry D. Hatfield for the use of some few members of the State Militia in protecting the rights of the voters of Elkhorn district, in McDowell county, and Whereas, We are conversant with all the circumstances surrounding this incident, Therefore, be it Resolved by the Republicans of McDowell county in convention assembled that we hereby extend our hearty thanks to Governor Henry D. Hattfield for the admirable part he took in preserving to the Republicans voters of Elkhorn District, McDowell county, their right as citizens, and in securing them the privilege of casting their votes as they chose to do in the Republican primary on June 6, asst; and we heartily commend and approve the action of William Saddler, Justice of the Peace of Elkhorn District, of McDowell county, in calling upon Governor Hattfield for aid in preserving order at the polls, protecting the voters in the exercise of their prerogative as citizens of this county, and in the protection of the integrity of the ballot box. Be it further resolved, That we condemn vigorously the arbitrary action of a few persons in an effort to control and dominate the electorate at certain premises in Elkhorn district; that we unmistakably condemn the outrageous action prompted by a few individuals in causing the arrest of regularly appointed election officers on trumped up charges, simply for the purpose of detaining those election officers and keeping them away, from the polls in the exercise of their duty. We congratulate Governor Hatfield upon his fearless stand in doing everything he could to foil such a conspiracy as was attempted to be carried out on that district, and in bringing protection to the voters he did no more that was duty as Governor and as a citizen of the county. Be it further resolved, That we reexamine the charge that has been made that Governor Hattfield used the military force of the State for the purpose of controlling the will of the people in the recent primary and brand such statement as maliciously false. We take this occasion to pledge to him our thanks in mourning measure for his prompt action in insuring full protection to the voters, and we believe that the use of the military force was entirely warranted and that the Governor exercised his prerogative in this regard with the aim in view to see that an honest, fair election was conducted, where every man's vote would be counted as it was cast. The next resolution was offered by Hon. W. W. Hughet, in behalf of the candidacy of L. C. Anderson for judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, which resolution was read the Secretary of the Convention, as follows: "Whereas, McDowell county has it the person of L. C. Anderson, a candidate for judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in every way qualified to perform the duties of that high office, and Whereas, McDowell county gives the largest Republican majority if any county in the state, and is, as yet, without a representative on the state ticket." "Resolved, That the delegate elected by this convention to attend the State Judicial Convention, to be held in the city of Huntington, on August 10, 1916, and she are hereby instructed to vote as a unit for Luther G. Anderson so long as long as his name may be before the Cocvention, and to use every honorable means in their power to secure his nomination." This resolution was unanimously adopted. COMMITTEE REPORTS The Committees on Delegates reported the following list of names and recommendation which was unanimously adopted: lon, W. Burbridge Payne, W. W. Hughes, S. W. Patterson, K. B. Bernheim, McGiamie Hatfield, H. T. Graham, J. W. Cooksey, H. D. Hatfield, Samuel Day, Sam Elliott, Wade Brown, S. T. Hatfield, W. W. Sanders, A. L. Oahoun, William Miller, Thomas Miller, Samuel Solins, E. W. Wotnack, O. M. Gates, William H. Drewery, C. O. Froe, J. W. Donley, Howard N. Eavenson, J. S. Wilcox, William Kelly, W. O. Cook. And it is recommended that the said delegation be instructed to vote as a unit, as a majority of the delegates present may determine, upon all matters coming before said Convention. The Convention adjourned amid cheers and the best of feelings because of the harmony and goodwill exhibited on the part of the party leaders and the beautiful and patriotic music rendered by the Landgraff and Wilcoe Bands helped to cause the good feeling and beaty cheer. LABOR LEAVING SOUTH The recent agitation caused by the departure of several thousand Negro laborers for the north has been receiving much publicity in the columns of the daily papers and has resulted in an ordinance being passed by council prohibiting labor agents here from sending laborers outside of the state. The mayor and the city council seem to fear a shortage of Negro labor, yet we cannot see, in face of the hundred of idle Negroes walking the streets, even after the departure of twelve hundred men sent last Monday night to the railroads of the north, where this scarcity comes in. Even since this big exodus of laborers hundreds of Negroes who have not been able to secure work, have been seeking an opportunity to be transported to other fields where they may secure work in view of their inability to find profitable employment here. The cry of a shortage of labor is indeed inconsistent with the actual conditions existing here. Instead of aarity of labor just the reverse is the case as very perceptibly shown by the hundreds of Negroes walking the streets in the work by the northern roads we look upon as a sort of providential relief to the over-supply of working men who are unable to secure work, and instead of decrying the departure of the men who left this week it would be a benefit if the number were just twice as large. Wages for labor here are at the lowest possible figures, in fact, they are at the starvation point, and until there is a rise in the measly remuneration now parceled out to them for their day's work, they will welcome and accept any opportunity to go elsewhere to work where they can better their condition. the committee of representative Negroes who were called into conference with the mayor concerning the labor question here, took the proper stand when they refused to advise against the departure of workers for other fields, in view of the scarcity of work here and the prevailing low wages paid. --- LOCALS Rev. J. D. Coleman, of the B. C. I. preached at Mt. Chapel Baptist church Sunday morning. Rev. Hatfield, pastor of the local white Baptist church, preached in the afternoon and Rev. L. E. Watkins, the pastor, preached at night. Each service was well attended. Editor and Mrs. M. T. Whittico returned from Clarksburg Monday. They attended the Grand Lodge, K. of P., and the Grand Court of Calanthe which mean that city. E. T. Tyree, a prominent business man of Roanoke, formerly of this city was visiting friends here Tuesday. Rev. R. H. McKoy, of the G. R. A., preached at Mt. Chapel Baptist church Tuesday night. Prof. Eph Williams' famous Silas Green Co. played to a crowded tent here Tuesday night. The players were arrayed in new and brilliant costumes and the show was better then ever before, though the last few acts were interfered with by the great downpour of rain. J. H. George and family, Dr. and Mia. J. E. Hereford, of Northfork, witnessed the performance of "Silas Green from New Orleans" Tuesday night. SOME GOARD VINE. Vivian, W. Va., Aug. 8...Jonah's guard vine of Biblical fame had nothing on one raised by Oliver Carter, a coal miner employed by the Tidewater Coal and Ooke Co. of this place. Carter's guard vine made its appearance Sunday August 6th and from 7 o'clock a.m. to 6 o'clock p. m. it grew 13 inches and in 48 hours it had grown 52 inches, and any "jonah" carrying a great load of "bootleg seat" could have laid his weary head upon a stone and rested in the shade of Carter's good vire. FOR SALE Two houses and lots on Jones and Brackett streets, Bluefield, W. V., by Jackson and Rebecca Patterson. 6 and 3 room houses, all modern conveniences, accessible. Terms guaranteed to be arranged satisfactory to purchasers. For further and complete information addr or call for JACKSON, General Delivery, Blankford, N. V. Prompt and first.class service in parlors or at home of patrons NO. 16 FEDERAL AVE. 2 doors below the Elks Opera House BLUEFIELD, W. VA. THIS Handsome structure is now owned absolutely by the stockholders of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association and is a fine illustration of what can be done by concentration of effort and united action. 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