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FACTS ABOUT EDUCATION--MORE WHITE ILLITERATES THAN COLORED IN THE UNITED STATES. HARRY S. CUMMINGS REPORTED CRITICALLY ILL Negro Troopers Sent to Prison--Five in Waco Clash Get Five Years; Ten Years For Sixth VOLUME 16. WASHINGTON FOOD FACTS ABOUT EDUCATION ILLITERATES THAT THE UNITE HARRY S. CUMMINGS R Negro Troopers Sent to Clash Get Five Years Speaking of food conservation, it might not be a bad idea for Mr. Hoover to turn his gaze on his own city of Washington and call a hail on their garbage can extravagance for the leak there appears to be something awful. Baltimore has a population of 600,000 and during the month of July last collected only 2,575 tons of garbage. Washington has a population of about 250,000, or a little more than half that of Baltimore, yet in the same month they collected 4,585 tons, or nearly twice as much. This report is one coming from a compilation made on returns from 59 cities with an aggregate population of more than 21,000,000. The best showing for increase of saving is made by San Diego, Cal., with total collections for July, 1917 only 43 per cent of July, 1916. It would not be a bad idea for Washington to make some investigation since it is the seat and center of this movement, otherwise the opinion may become current that they, while advising economy in the methods of living of others are themselves, failing to heed their own injunction. FACTS ABOUT EDUCATION There are more white illiterates in the United States than Negro illiterates. In 1910 there were 2,227,731 Negro illiterates and over 3,000,000 whites. It is a rare thing to hear of a Negro college graduate being convicted of a crime, but a common thing among whites. In 1863 only five Negroes in 100 over 10 years of age could read and write; in 1880 there were 43, and in 1910 70, and it is calculated that today that 79 out of every 100 Negroes can read and write sme. Still there are almost as many Negroes who cannot read and write today as there were in 1860. There are about 4,000 Negro college graduates in America today. Mississippi has invested only $1.20 per Negro child in school property. Shame! South Carolina only $2.39; Alabama $2.36; Georgia $4.73; Louisiana $2.54; while the District of Columbia has $135, and Missouri $30. Alabama spends each year about $1.47 for each Negro child of school age; Louisiana $1.81; Mississippi $1.35, South Carolina $1.09; Shame! MARRY S. CUMMINGS The Baltimore American, one of the leading white dailies of that city has the following notation on our friend Harry S. Cummings. It is self-explanatory. It is most complimentary, indeed, to Mr. Cummings. We hope not to loose him for the race would loose a valuable asset. But should the hand of providence move him he will take his departure with honor to himself and the race with which he is identified. Let us hope that the "silver cord" is not yet near the breaking and that he may be granted an extended lease on the tenure of this life. "Harry S. Cummings, representative from the Seventeenth Ward in the First French City Council, is critically ill at his home. 1338 Druid Hill Avenue. He has been in a comatose state since last Thursday and the attending physician do not hold much hope for his recovery. Mr. Cummings is the only colored man connected officially with the municipal government and there were general expressions of regret at the City Hall yesterday when it was learned that he was seriously ill. He enjoys the friendship of men in the public and professional life of Baltimore. He was first elected to the City Council in 1890. He was re-elected in 1891 and again in 1896 from what was then the Eleventh Ward. After a rearrangement of the city's ward lines the section which he represented became the Seventeenth Ward and he was returned in 1907 and again in 1911 and 1815. Thus for nearly 30 years he has been a figure in the municipal government of Baltimore. He is the oldest member of the City Council in point of service. Councilman Cummings enjoys quite a reputation as a speech maker and when one of Roosevelt's nominated for the presidency at the Chicago convention he was called upon to deliver a second speech. He was received with thunder-onsplaise and many Baltimoreans who were there say it was one of the best Th- McDowell Times. species they ever bear. For several years he has been suffering nervous attacks and other ailments which later developed into a complication of diseases. Recently he was quite ill and recuperated sufficiently to return to his desk in the City Council before the adjournment for the summer recess. A few weeks ago he was stricken again, however, and a blood clot developed on the brain which resulted in the unconscious condition. PRISON FOR NEGRG SOLDIERS Six Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, who clashed with the civil police and the troops sent to subdue them at Waco the night of July 29, were found guilty of violating the 3rd article of war before the general court-martial held recently at Camp McArthur, Waco, it was announced today. Five of the men were sentenced to five years at hard labor in the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas. The sixth man received ten years. All were sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the service and to forfeit all pay and allowances while in confinement under the sentence. The findings of the court-martial, which were given out for publication athea deputy, of the southern department, have been reviewed by Major-General John W. Ruckman, commander of the department, and have been forwarded to the War Department at Washington. COLORED CHARITABLE INSTITUTION CHANGING LOCATION The following from the New York World is information to the effect that one of the oldest and best known landmarks for charitable purposes in the city of New York is changing locations. It is a happy thought, however, that in its new location the surroundings will be equally as pleasant and the inmates even better housed than before. The law of the acquisition of property is a ruthless law and knows no sentiment, nor has it any regard for time-honored landmarks. "Coincident with the exodus of the city's Negro population from the more southerly sections of Manhattan into Harlem, north of One Hundred and Thirtieth Street, a number of the colored religions and charitable institutions have followed the northward trend of this element in New York's quota of residents. The most recent transactions of this character removes from the one-time 'Tenderloin' another of the rapidly disappearing landmarks of that recently commercialized district. The change affects the New York Colored Mission, which, during the last forty-five years or so, has conducted a day nursery at Nos. 323 and 225 West Thirtieth Street, one block from the old 'Tenderloin' police station house. The Harlem property purchased by the mission from Miss J. E. Sampfer, through Richard Collins, represents a hundred block jump and is located at West One Hundred and Third first Street. The dwelling on that site will be remodeled and used as a nursery and e-tement house. The officers of the mission are Dr John L. Barton, president; Edwin G. Gillies, William T. Ferris, L. Hollingsworth Wood and Stephen W. Collins. The Thirtieth Street property is part of a plot owned by Archibald D. Russell, who is about to improve his holding for occupancy by the Adams Express Company, lessees. Partisan Misrepresentation It is surprising with what patient endurance the Republican's of the country observe the persistent efforts of the Democratic press to convey the impression that Republicans are pro-German and are hampering the administration. As a matter of fact, Republican states were most prompt in supplying men for the army and navy, in subscribing for liberty bonds and in making Red Cross contributions. The chief obstruction to war measures in Congress has come from Democrats. The only place in the country where partisanship is observed is in the White House, where "deserving Democrats" still have almost exclusive recognition. KEYSTONE, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1917 Visiting in Keystone from Wilcoe. Mr. and Mrs. J. (Ushman) Brown, of Wilcoe, were visiting Prof. and Mrs. E. L. Rann in this city, Sunday. Brown is one of the finest, most reclusive and substantial takers in the county of McBowell. Then again, Brown has established an enviable reputation for strict honesty, reliability and efficiency. He has erected a fine home at Wilcoe and has a most flattering business. His wife is one of the best teachers in Akins District. She is kind, patient, painstaking, and in her work few women have to their credit efficiency more than Mrs. Brown, all of which tells her resemblances with the children and the parents in the community. Communication from National Headquarters in Washington Mr. S. H. Greer, Director of the Bureau of Chapter Promotion, has requested me to send the following information and instructions to all Chapters in the Home Division: There has been established under the Department of Military Relief of the American Red Cross, a Bureau of Camp Service. A memorandum herewith tell you about the proposed service. You will see that it does not in any sense duplicate what the United States Army is planning for the soldiers, nor does it at all interfere with, but rather supplements the work of other authorized organizations, such as the Committee on Camp Activities, the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., etc. Briely described the American Red Cross will have at each National Army cantonment, National Guard Mobilization camp, and at other military posts throughout the country, a representative who will look after any needs of the soldiers pertaining to their physical comfort. In order to carry out this work, there will be at each of these military posts a warehouse, where will be stored such articles as have been deemed likely to be needed, both in emergencies and generally, for the comfort of the soldiers. There are sixteen National Army cantonments and sixteen National Guard Mobilization capitals where storehouses will be erected, at each of which will be an initial instalment of various articles, drugs, supplies, etc., in the quantity indicated on the enclosed list. We are planting to purchase most of these supplies with general funds available for this purpose. There are, however, a considerable number of items which we have, thought the chapters would like an opportunity to provide. These are suggested in separate groups on the sheet marked "A." A number of these items, would, naturally be made by the chapter members, and other classes of articles, such as jams, playing cards, safety razors, etc., might be contributed by members for this purpose. On the sheet marked "B" is shown a list of equipment for emergency cots. One hundred each of these equipments will be carried at each of the sixteen National Guard Army cantonments, and fifty-fifty at each of the sixteen National Guard Mobilization camps. We believe these cot equipments to be one of the most important parts of the Red Cross equipment. These 2,640 cots we have attempted to allot among the chapters, feeling that in this way only could we be sure of getting prompt delivery to the camps. We have suggested on sheet "A" and sheet "B" the number or quartty of the various articles and emergency cot equipments which we have thought might be provided by your chapter. This has been done on the basis, first, of alloting the whole production to the entire country and then among the various chapters in the various sections of the country. Will you please let us know as promptly as possible whether you can undertake what we have laid out for you. Will you please advise whether your chapter would like to contribute any of the other articles mentioned on sheet "A". When the quota allotted you has been completed, kindly inform this office, and instructions will be sent you immediately as to the packing and point of shipment. We should like as far as possible to co-operate with the chapters in their natural desire to give the articles which they contribute to soldiers from their own state, but the difficulty of carrying out this plan is obvious, and we hope that chapters will be content to let the distribution rest with the Division Head- (Continued on Page 5.) BOSCOE C. LEWIS Progressive Young Business Mau of Mauassas, Va.-Pioneer Wagon and Carriage Builder--Graduate of Hampton Institute. Of the many business houses established in the earlier days of the hustling, thriving town of Manassas, Va., none have met with more encouraging patronage because of excellent work turned out, than the wagon and carriage and general all-round blacksmith shop of Roscoe U. Lewis. As a youth, he demonstrated remarkable mechanical genius and having finished the course of the Manassas Industrial School entered Hampton Institute from which he graduated with trade diplomas in wheelwrighting and general blacksmithing. For a year or so more he taught wheelwrighting and blacksmithing at Hart Farm School, that splendid institution founded by Prof. W. H. H, Hart, for the reclaiming of abandoned and wayward youth of Washington. He then organized and taught the trades at the Manassas Industrial for two years. In 1983 he embarked in the business of general blacksmithing, carriage and wagon building and repairing in town of Manassas and has kept pace with the demands of modern lines in that progressive section. His shops are equipped with the latest improved electric machinery and his ware rooms are web stocked with necessary material. Besides keeping a regular force of mechanics to work, Mr. Lewis has not been forged of the needs of the race and with the spirit of the true teacher has always kept two or more colored boys in his shop as apprentices. Six of these upon completion of the trade he has established in business in northern Virginia. For the past six years he has been a trustee of Mamassas Industrial School. He organizas a horse show of colored farmers in 1904. He is past master of Prince William county Lodge of Odd Fellows No. 9780 and recently represented his lodge at the meeting of the State Grand Lodge in Danville, Aug. 27-29. NEGRO TROOPS IN SEPARATE UNITS WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 — Negro troops of the national army will be organized in separate units as is done in the regular army and so far as possible will be trained in the states where they are raised. The call for Negroes to mobilize at their camps will be postponed to allow the officers at the camps to arrange for the organization of these separate units. Both white men and Negroes of the selected forces will be given an opportunity to volunteer in the battalions of troops (or service on the line of communication, their work being military but not combatant. However, there will be Negro fighting regiments of the national army as there are of the regulars and national guard. SOLDIERS ATTACK COL. MINISTER Unprovoked Assault on Rev. C. H. Johnson WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2-About 1 o'clock this morning soldier-started trouble at Pennsylvania avenue and John Marshall place, by attacking Rev. Charles H. Johnson, colored, fifty six years old, inflicting a wound over his eyes. Mr. Johnson was standing on the pavement awaiting the arrival of a west-bound car, he explained, when one of the several soldiers stopped and dealt him a blow, he stated, for no reason whatever. Police of the sixth responded to a message asking for help not a riot call—and took the injured man to Casualty Hospital. The soldiers disappeared soon after the preacher was assaunted, and the police of the sixth precinct are endeavoring to establish their identity. It is stated that the minister was the only colored man on the corner when the assailant was mounted, which divested it of the character of a clash between colored persons and soldiers, such as occurred in South Washington Saturday night. Nitrate Plant to be Constructed in This Section. The Nitrate Supply committee, headed by Brig. Gen. Grozier, chief of ordinance, has recommended immediate construction of two nitrate plants by the Government at a cost of $3,600,000. Southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia are being considered as possible locations for such plants. Stay of Litigation During War. A bill has been introduced in the House by Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho which will be of interest to parties to civil suits new reading in State or Federal courts who have been called into the military service of the country. Permission is given such litigants to make written petition to the court for a temporary stay of proceedings. The prayers of the petition may be granted by the court for a period not longer than three months after the termination of the petitioner's military service, but in no event longer than six months after the conclusion of the war. Mr Smith provides that no statute of limitations shall run during the operation of the stay. ON TO BERWIND President Coger Speaks---Urges All Sunday Schools to Represent To the Sunday Schools of the Blue-done sunday School Union. Dear Superintendent, Officers and Scholars, greeting to you all that are laboring in the cause of the Lord. We should be thankful for the many kind blessings that the Lord has bestowed upon us for he certainly has blessed us spiritually, financially and intellectually, blessings which cannot be counted by human intellect. This little mountain state of ours has been blessed above all other states. While in other states there has been a great drench this season, we have had plenty of rain, the earth has yielded abundance of fruit. This is indeed a great State, its sweeping rivers sweeping majestically and silently to their outlets bearing upon their restless bosoms the white-winged mosses of commerce, in its towering mountains rogue peaks bathe their heavy heads in the clouds, its fertile valleys in whose productive soil wave the golden wheat and corn, in everything else that's good, and its multitudous grades of mineral whose veins traverse circuitous routes in subterranean chambers, so this means a great blessing to us, and above all we have great churches, school houses, great men and women, boys and girls. So we are blessed. Now to the dear superintendents, officers and students, the time is drawing near for the sitting of the Sunday School Union, and I notice that the Flat Top Baptist Association, the West Virginia Baptist State Convention and the Ministers and Deacons Union have broken the record this year in raising money and I would like for the Sunday School Union to do the same and for that cause I am asking all of the Sunday School is to send up two dollars more this year than they did last year. There is a great crisis in the land, our country is in war, soldiers are dying on the battlefields bathing the earth in blood and the high cost of living makes everything too very dark, but, however, I feel that God is on our side in the midst of these difficulties. We have been able to raise more money this year than we ever have, so let us do more for the cause of Christ than we ever have. Now may the Lord bless you all. Good bye. Yours for the Lord Jesus, REV. J. W. GOER, President of the Sunday School Union Draft Army Welcomed By President Wilson Soldiers of the National army welcomed into the nation's service last week by President Wilson with a message of affectionate confidence and a prayer to God to keep and guide them. The first soldiers for the army raised under the draft law are now in the various camps, five per cent of the total 687,000 men in the new army having been ordered into service September 5. The President's message follows: To the soldiers of the national army: You are undertaking a great duty. The heart of the whole country is with you. Everything that you do will be watched with the deepest interest and with the deepest solicitude, not only by those who are near and dear to you, but by the whole nation besides. For the great war draws us all together, makes us all enemies and brothers, as all true Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good our national independence. The eyes of all the world will be upon you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers of freedom. Let it be your pride, therefore, to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and straight in everything and pure and clean through and through. Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be a glory to live up to it and then let us live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America. My affectionate confidence goes with you in every battle and every test. God keep and guide you! WOODROW WILSON. The news is what we give—read it. EAST SAINT LOUIS MAYOR And His Secretary to Be Removed From Office Thirty-Seven Other Murderers Indicted for Their Connection With and Participation in the Wholesale Killing of Negroes. BELLEVILLE, ILL.—Mayor Fred Mollman, of East St Louis, and his private secretary Maurice Abearn, were indicted a few days ago in connection with the grand jury inquiry into the recent riots at East St Louis. Indictments were returned against 35 other persons in connection with the riots, but their names were withheld. The grand jury submitted a report scoring the may or for his alleged dilatiornies in taking means to curb the rioters who took part in the slaying of Negroes on July 2 and recommended that he be removed from office. "Mayor Mollman," says the report, "must be judged by his actions as proven in the evidence. If his failure to give direction to the militia and if his failure to call upon the sheriff and to deputy citizens who offered their services were the result of the tack to ability or of fright, the office should be taken from him and given to an efficient person. "If his failure to act was because his sympathies were with those who sought to drive the Negroes out of East St. Louis, he should make room for a chief executive who is in favor of enforcing 100 per cent of the laws. "The law abiding citizens and industries and the responsible laboring men should unite and demand the resignation of the mayor as the greatest good he can to his city." The specific charge against the mayor is malenance in office, based on his alleged negligence, at the time of the rots. The charge against the mayor's secretary is that of conspiracy with the rots, in that he ordered the police and militia to destroy cameras, "thus preventing moving picture men from photographing the rots." The grand jury recommended that the new grand jury, which assembles Sept. 17, the investigation of the rots. The grand jury also renews its former recommendation, that a state constabulary be organized. Oirent Grego A. Crow, in thanking the grand jury for its work, expressed the hope that the petit jury that tries the men named in the indictment would be equally courteous and thorough. NEED OF NEGRO LEADER NEED OF NEGRO LEADER (J. C. Cunningham in Progressive Messenger.) "But the colored race is without any recognized leader. Fred. Douglas is gone; Booker T. Washington is gone; and while there are many smart men of the race, a leader is yet to be found. We need leaders, but in order to secure the proper recognition we must have a leader or leaders, who are not so quick to sell. Most of the leaders of the race (I refer to those who have passed as leaders) as soon as they get the ear of the white man in their efforts, or shuns, to do something for the upstart of their people, would sell their race as quick a southern farmer would sell a bale of cotton. We have had too much of that class of leaders in the past, and the present day, and the future of which we know nothing, certainly calls for a different type of leadership amongst us. There's a large host of followers. Whom shall the leaders be? But one peculiar thing about the colored race is, that as soon as the seemingly right kind of leader starts to work jealously steps in and the result is, a great number of "factions" are started by some fellow who happened not to have received an early recognition of being appointed "treasurer." And these "factions" are the things that have kept the race out of very much of what is rightfully due it." Man From Georgia Dumb Until Three Beers Moisten His Throat. WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 31.—A well dressed young man walked into a saloon here, produced paper and pencil, wrote the appeal, "One Beer," and handed it to the proprietor, who promptly handed out the desired drink. Three times more this was repeated and the thirsty one then asked in a clear voice: "What's the charges?" "I thought you were dumb," said the surprised saloon man. "Nothing like that," was the reply. "You see, I'm just from Georgia and believe me, that place is some Nabara desert. I just couldn't talk until I had moistened my throat." Minera, Coke Men and Laborers wanted all over McDowell Coun-ty-Business Openings. NUMBER 26 A SOUTHERN EDITOR'S VIEWS On the Houston Riots ---Flays Selfish Politicians Shows Insincerity and Inconsistency of the White Man Toward the Negroes and Boldly States That "The Everlasting Adherence to Justice and Support of Law and Order the Kennedy For Present Wrongs." The following editorial appeared in The World News, one of the leading white cities published in Roanoke, Va., and these burning words of truth, unvarnished as they come are also the options whether expressed or unexpressed of most of the honest, fair minded and sober thinking white people not only of the South but of this country. "The large majority of people who read of race troubles in Houston, Texas, will accept them on their face value, and consequently their consideration will be supercilial. The underlying truth will never occur to them, and following the old and easy way of dismissing the subject as an insulated affair, they will lose the chance of understanding the gravest problem that our country faces." "Not long ago there was a riot in East St. Louis, and a little later there was a lynching affair in Virginia, and now there is the riot in Houston. These are only a few of the many clashes that are wearing all the time. When the East St. Louis horror was told about Southern newspapers insisted that it was a clear out demonstration of the fact that Negroes were safer and generally the much better off in the South than in the North. "On top of the Houston riot there comes a statement from Congressman Joe Eagle, of the Houston district, urging that Negro troops be removed immediately from the South and placed in northern camps. "If Mr. Eagle is right, Southern newspapers are wrong, if the newspapers are right, Mr. Eagle is wrong. "The truth of the matter is the solution of the race question has been left to the selfish trickery of politicians and the judgment of the mob. The Negro has been taught constantly that the mob is superior to law and order, and therefore when the opportunity comes to him to choose between the two for the enforcement of what he may regard as justice, he usually remembers well the lessons that he has so often studied. The long series of mob executions have sown its seed, and now we must reap its harvest. "The Houston trouble is one of the fruits that we gather through the orderly process of human nature. We sow the sand and reap the whirlwind; we start disorder and gather continuation." "Those persons who imagine that violence can cure this disease are easy in error. There is but one cure, an everlasting adherence to justice and an everlasting support of law and order. We cannot build up bitterness and hatred in the hearts of twelve million people, and expect to move along in peace and good humor. "If the race question is to be solved through any channel but that of carrage and death and misery, carnest, hopeful people must work and pray for and insist upon the development of kindlier relations; and they must with patient and long continued emphasis point to the need of cooperation for the common welfare and, as it would appear now for the rescue of the nation from appalling disasters." THE TROOPS ARE MARCHING ON We are coming, we are coming, On the road to Over There; With Old Glory floating o'er us On we march to martial air. From the city and the country, From the officer and the farm. We have gathered 'neath the nanner, We have heard the call to arm. 'Tis in Freedom's name we battle, With no selfish end to play. But a million men are ready To down a tyrant's sway, That the despot with no feeling For poor Belgium's utter woe, In his ruthless war, barbaric, May the faith of nation's know. We are coming, we are coming, From the shop and from the hall, From the mountains and the valley, You can hear our bugle call, Tis a sacred cause we enter, That the world may be at peace, That the war lord's throne may topple And his mad ambitions cease. O God, Weary. Enrolled Sixty-four. Mrs. Sadie Jones, teacher at Fifth, on the beginning of her school enrolled 64 pupils for the first day. Mrs. Jones is a graduate of Hampton Institute. Mrs. J. E. Thomas entertained a few friends on Thursday evening in honor of Misses McOlannahan and Watlington. Mr. George Walden, of Bluefield, was visiting Mr. James Gilbert Sunday. Miss Nowlin spent the week end visiting relatives at Pocahontas. Miss Gilbert was visiting friends at Maybury Sunday. Miss Carrie Watkins and Mr. W. F. Samples, of Keystone, were the guests of Miss Alphonse Simpson Sunday evening. Mrs. Lula Jennings, of Duncan, Pa., has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Malinda Cobb. Mrs. Cobb proved to be one of the most successful State Deputies at the Grand Lodge in Richmond. Miss Emma Nimmo, of Pocahontas, was the week end guest of Mrs. Stephene. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Carter, of Simmons, W. Va., were visiting relatives here Sunday. Miss Mamie Hairston spent the week end at Bramwell as the guest of Miss Joe Ella McKoy. Mr. Samuel Farmer returned Sunday from Mora where he has been visiting his brother. Mrs. B. E. Nowlin returned this week from Philadelphia where she has been visiting her brotner, Mr. R. B. Dennis. Miss Lethia Calloway returned this week and reports a very pleasant trip. She motored to Tennessee in company with Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, of Eckman. Madam Hawkins is having quite a success at the Upland Baptist church with the Passion Play. They have had an over packed house for two nights. It is reported that they will show at the same church on Thursday night, Sept. 6. Mrs. Jane Clark has returned from her home in Virginia, where she spent a month's vacation with her people and friends. Among her many friends who visited her on her return were Mrs. Ruth Wilson of Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Sam Hainton, Mrs. Richard Ham and Mrs. Mary Berry. The Elkhorn Colored School was opened Tuesday morning under the direction of Prof. E. L. Rann and his staff. The people of this place hope for these teachers much success in this their first year's work. Mrs. Alice Tyree Dies Mrs. Alice Tyree departed this life Sunday morning, September 9, after a long and serious illness. Mrs. Tyree was a church member and proved a consistent church member until the end. She leaves a husband, daughter, son and a host of friends to mourn their loss. REV. J. P.·HUBBARD Will Go to Clarksburg --Accepts call of Mt. Zion Church Rev. J. P. Hubbard, B. D., who has pastored the First Baptist church at Montgomery for nearly two years, has accepted the call of the Mt. Zion Baptist church at Clarksburg, and expects to enter upon his new charge about the middle of October. Rev. Hubbard has done excellent work in Montgomery. He has repaired that church, added new members and awakened greater spiritual fervor during his stay in that town. He leaves Montgomery to the regret of the entire membership and the citizens in general. He has demeaned himself there as "a workman that needeth not be sahamed." Rev. Hubbard was at Clarksburg the first Sunday in this month and preached two sermons that electrified the congregations. After the morning sermon he baptized four persons. On last Sunday Rev. Hubbard preached the installation sermon of Rev. M. W. Johnson, the recently called pastor of the First Baptist church, Charleston. Mrs. Lillian B. Gray Continues to do Good Work Mrs. Lilians B. Gray, who is traversing the State in the interest of Economic Science and Conservation of Food, closed the Sunday evening services of the A. M. E. Church with an appealing lecture to the women of our race to join the national movement of preparedness. The following Monday at the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Barrett she gave a demonstration of vegetable canning to the ladies present and the result was several jars of corn, beans and peas. The ladies say they hope to have her return in the near future. Big Rally The Mt. Chapel Baptist church will have another big rally on Sunday. Revs. L J. Hall, J. B. Evans and the pastor will preach. The Mt. Nebo choir will sing at the morning services, the Junior choir in the afternoon and the Senior choir at night. Dinner will be served on the ground. Come and help pay for this splendid church. $500 is needed. The congregation of the Presbyterian church worshipped in their new building last Sunday for the first time and the services were well attended and were full of interest. The pastor, Rev. R. P. Johnson, presached two splendid sermons, The Times, $1.50 We extend many thanks to our friends for their liberality; thus passes into history one of the greatest years in the life of the church. Keep Well Do not allow the poisons of undigested food to accumulate in your bowels, where they are absorbed into your system. Indigestion, constipation, headache, bad blood, and numerous other troubles are bound to follow. Keep your system clean, as thousands of others do, by taking an occasional dose of the old, reliable, vegetable, family liver medicine. Theodford's Black-Draught Mrs. W. P. Pickle, of Rising Fawn, Ga., writes: "We have used Thedford's Black-Draught as a family medicine. My mother-in-law could not take calomel as it seemed too strong for her, so she used Black-Draught as a mild laxative and liver regulator. We use it in the family and believe it is the best medicine for the liver made." Try it. Insist on the genuine—Thedford's. 20c a package. E-75 Mrs. B. Conner AT EXCELSIOR, W. VA. The Southwestern Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Inc. of Bluedfield, W. Va. PALMETTO CAFE Main Street Lord's New Brick Building Everything Fresh to Eat In First Class Style. Lunches At All Hours R. L. 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For years he has delved into the mysteries of the human stomach, believing it to be the source of almost absurdness. NOW he announces to the world that he has found proof to vandicate this theory and we have the pleasure of placing within the reach of all who suffer from stomach trouble, indigestion biliousness, constipation sick head ache, liver trouble, neuralgia of the stomach pains in the back, poor appetite, and impure blood, Dr. Camp't latest discovery: BURTON Stomach and Liver Tablets. Age is no barrier, nor sex an excuse for poor health. Regardless of who you are—man or woman—ten or seventy years old—do have a cronic ailment, similar to the ones above mentioned and local doctor has failed to give relief we want; the case and will give you permanent benefit with BURTONE or refund not only the cost to you--but, double the amount. Why risk your money on other treatments? Why suffer longer? Why board your money? Why pay more, when we offer to cure you for 85c or refund 70c? For sale by all druggists. "Womem Will Profit By Using Them" THE CO-OPERATIVE DRUG CO. Ravenswood, W. Va. THE PALACE Lane Williamson, W. Va. N'S PREMIER LEASURE ALACE MUSICAL, ENTERTAINING Season Served with a Smile 20th Century Soda Fountain Music to Entertain You Your Inspection SPEIGHT, Propietors MY FRIENDS ARE NEXT, BUT I WILL NOT PRESS FOR AN UNHUST JUDGEMENT NOR ASK FOR THE CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN. National Jail Robber KEYSTONE, WEST VIRGINIA. COMMERCIAL COLLEGE SECRETARIAL COURSE ACCOUNTING COURSE GENERAL COURSE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY B. D. COURSES DIPLOMA COURSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE M. D. COURSES IN MEDICINE D D. S. COURSE IN DENTISTRY PHAR. D. COURSE IN PHARMACY SCHOOL OF LAW LL. B. COURSES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE D. COURSES IN MEDICINE S. COURSE IN DENTISTRY D. COURSE IN PHARMACY SCHOOL OF LAW LL. B. COURSES For Catalogue, address Howard University Washington, D. C. FLOYD ROSS JUSTICE OF PEACE BOX 131. ELKHORN, WEST VIRGINIA 3-30'17 Madam Holly System Hair Dressing. Scalp and Hair Treatment. Massage of the Face and Neck. Manicuring. PREPARING WHOLESOME COSMETICS. Madam Holly System Hair Dressing. Scalp and Hair Treatment. Massage of the Face and Neck. Manicuring. PREPARING WHOLESOME COSMETIOS. Main Office West Church St. No. 53. Phone No. 292 P. O. Box No. 12 MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA 4-6-17. McCall McCall Pat McCall Patterns for Sept. The Marmor Dress REYNOLDE REYNOLDS KEYSTO REYNOLDS-SHOR CO. KEYSTONE, W.VA. Senreco REC.U.S.PAT.ORG. AIR.ONDAY use it regularly keeps the teeth clean and gums healthy four dentist knows. ask him Our Facilities for Doing JOB PRINTING of the QUALITY KIND ARE UNEXCELLED We Solicit Your Patronage No Order too Small None too Large WE PRINT ANYTHING As You Like it When You Want it Thank You s for Sept. Now on SALE Do not Worry This Fall About the Children's School Clothes McCall Patterns Are Delightful in Design Economical in Material Easy to use HOR CO. W. VA. CHICHESTER'S PILLS DIAMOND BRAND Beware of Counterfeits. Refuse all Counterfeits. LADIES! For your Presence for CHICHESTER'S DIAMOND BRAND PILLS in Rise and also metallic bones, coated with Mur- ibbon TAPES no OTHER. Give the Drugstore and the Drugstore DIAMOND BRAND PILLS for twenty-five years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TIME EVERYWHERE WORTH TRIED UNTIL 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 Money without limit to be made with Ten Automobiles given away free King and Tidewater Coal Co's Vivian, West Va. Splendid opportunity for excellent homes with good garden spots, fine schools and churches for all employees Wages among the best paid in the world with Ten Per Cent increase in wages effective May 1, 1917. Don't forget, TEN NEW FORD Passenger Touring Cars to be given away December 22, 1917, at the above named coal operations, Vivian, W. Va. Now is your chance to win a fine car. Please allow space in The Times for a few words in regard to our church work. At 9:30 we opened Sunday School with our superintendent, Brother W. M. Williamson presiding, with about one hundred men, women and children present. We had a lovely discussion of the Benefits of Our Atheism, of Temperance, of which our temperance secretary, Sister Janie Tucker, read an excellent paper on "Temperance Couldn't be Bettered by the Best Brain of Our Race." At 11 o'clock we were entertained by Rev. A. A. Hardy from the first verse of the thirty-second Psalm. "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose son is covered." He preached one of the most wonderful sermons we ever heard preached. At 6 o'clock B. Y. P. U., Deacon R. L. Benton, president, presiding. We had a very appropriate subject for the time being from Exodus 4:11-17 our lesson about excuses. Everybody was interested in the subject. We had a lively time all day Sunday in the name of the Lord. Mr. Wm. Downs, one of our popular policemen, was in Logan county last week. Revs. J. W. Coger and Henry Creasy passed through the city Monday. Both called at the office for some work. Miss Alberta Robinson was seen on the streets of Keystone Sunday. Miss Jeanette Morris and Madeline Marshall left last Monday for Bluefield where they will attend the B. C. I. again. Success to both of them. Mrs. Lucy Brown Crosses the Bar Mrs. Lucy Brown, of Kimball, wife of Mr. George Brown and sister of Editor M. T. Whittico, very unexpectedly passed into the Great Beyond on Monday morning and was taken to Ridgeway, Va., on Tuesday night. A full account will appear next week. The Pacific M $30,000,000 ASSETS Keystone, West Virginia Meals and Short Orders Plenty Time Between Trains to Get Meal or Lunch JITNEY BUSS TO ACCOMODATE THE TRAVELING PUBLIC AND PLEASURE SERVED Only Public Place at Montcalm Conducted by Man Drumners Ss4 Our Cooking and Accomodations Equal to Semmer Resort Service MONTCALM, W.VA. Fraternal, Beneficial, Social, Historical and Co-operative. ENDORSED by Bankers, Business and Professional men, Editors and Educators. A Progressive Fraternal Order consisting of a Supreme Grand Lodge, State Grand Lodges, District Grand Lodges and Subordinate Lodges Paying Sick, Accident, Old Age, and Death Benefits. A Liberal, Prompt and Reliable Order, founded on the life and work of a Negro, by a Negro, for Negro Men with a splendid Court of Susan for Women. ORGANIZERS and DEPUTIES WANTED AT ONCE Liberal Terms. Write for particulars, address A. FITZHOLAN WALLACE SUPREME GRAND GENERAL J. H. LOVE, State Deputy, Montgomery, W. Va. Its All in the Instrument! GET THE BEST Tone, harmony and volume will be found in every instrument we sell with a guarantee to satisfy the most critical ear. If you are in the market for a piano, get the best. Then see or write BOOKER KENDRICK Box 556 Bluefield, W. Va. M.T.L. O. M.L.F.R. GOALWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Preaching 2nd and 4th Sunday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday even- ning. Rev. W. O. Clements, D. D., pastor. :0: PILGRIM BAPT. CHURCH, Crystal. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Preaching 1st and 3rd Sunday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday Sunday. Rev. W. O. Clements, D. D., pastor. :0: WILCOE BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Preaching 2nd and 4th Sunday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Missionary meeting at 3 o'clock every 2nd Sunday. Rev. R. K. Henry, pastor. John Webster, clerk. :0: MERCY SEAT BAPTIST CHURCH, Pawhatan. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. m. Preschool lst and 3rd Sunday at 11:30 a.m. m. and s. p. m. Missionary meeting every first a. p. m. Red Cross each Tuesday evi- nings, Rev. R. H. Henry, pastor. h. O Vanhook, clerk. C. H. RICE Northfork, W. Va. REPRESENTATIVE OF Sinkford & Warren Embalmers & Undertakers BLUEFIELD. W. VA. Phone 217. Res. Phone 970 L. Madam Penn Hair Culture and Scalp Treatment The Famous C. J. Walker System. GARY, WEST VIRGINIA 4-27-17. CECIL H. RILEY PRACTICES IN ALL THE COUTS Phone, Northfork 406 NORTHFORK, W. VA. Windsor Hotel and Restaurant BUSH & MASON, Proprietors 141-2 Summers Street Charleston, W. Va. Meals on the European Plan. Rooms newly furnished and free bath. Telephone 3562 Mrs. Panzy Lord Agent for the Celebrated Mme. C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grow- ing and Beautifying Preparation . . . avil work guaranteed. Hold de- ploma for efficiency. Up stairs over Royal Drug Store. KEYSTONE, W. VA. "Where style comes from" Kill & Co. TAILORS SUITS MADE TO ORDER $18 -- Up Dry Cleaning and Pressing Neatly Done. Opposite Finney's. Keystone, West Virginia. Beauty Parlor HAIR DRESSING, SCALP CLEANING Satisfaction Guaranteed or No Money Mme. PEARL PERKINS Mrs. Grimes Old Stand Next to Sq. Criders Office KIMBALL, W. VA. H. J. CAPEHART ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Practice in all the Courts Phone 61 KEYSTONE, W. VA. S. B. MOON ATTORNEY-AT LAW WILCOE, WEST VIRGINIA ATTORNEY-AP-LAW WELCH, WEST VIRGINIA E. B. Thompson FIRST CLASS BARBER AND DEALER IN Sott Drinks, Candies, Tobaccos and Gigars Opposite Post Office KIMRALL, W. VA. Dr G. A. Jones, or Pachontas, Va., who has a very successful practice, also has a branch at Rossevain, Va. NOTICE! The understated having been appointed administrator for the estate of Arthur Avery, deceased, who died at Coalwood May 21, 1917, wishes to make it known that all persons holding claims against said estate must present them to said administrator and administrator for the estate. July 30, 1917, KIMBAL, Kimball, W. Va. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollar Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be curred by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Hall's Catarrh Cure has been taken by Catarrh sufferers for the past thirty years and has become down as the most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure acts thrush the Blood on the Mucous surfaces, exploding the Poison from the Blood and treating it. After you Have taken Hall's Catarrh Cure for a short time you will see a great improvement in your general health. Catarrh Cure at once and get rid of catarrh. Send for testimonial: free F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, Re. PATENTS Get your patent in the country, privately by perfecting your own. JERRY A. MATHEWS Patent Colorado Building, Washington, Colorado Patent, Trade Marks, Designs Mrs. Mary Hancock Meals & Lunches Quick Service EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS. Just above the Company Store POWHATAN WEST VA FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE Duty Demands Robust Health Fight to get it and keep it Fight—fight day in and day out to prevent being overtaken by tills and alls. Keep wrinkles from marring the cheek and the body from losing its youthful appearance and buoyancy. Fight when ill-health is coming with its pallor and pains, defects and declining powers. Fight to stay its course and drive it off. But fight intelligently. Don't fight without weapons that can win the day for without the intelligent use of effective weapons the pallor spreads and weakness grows and a seemingly strong man or woman oftimes becomes a pray to it after all. You will not find this class of persons in the hypoferrin ranks. No unhealthy, dull, draggy, droopy persons in that line. It is a hale, hearty, robust aggregation of quick-steppers who view life in a joyous frame of mind and are mentally and physically equal to any emergency. Hypoferrin stands for sound body and sound mind—it is the invigorating tonic of the times—powerful and unsurpassed as a health restorer, vitalizer and health preserver. Fight to hold the vigor of a sound body and hypoferrin or to stay the process of restoring the restorer health and strength—you win. Thrilling amazing, wonder-working properties has been approved by physicians as a restorer and safeguard of health. It is a thoroughly scientific preparation of the very elements necessary to tone up the stomach and nerves to build strong, vital tissue, make pure blood, firm flesh and solid, active, tireless muscles. Hypoferrin contains those mighty strength-producing agents, lecithin-and-adenine, form best adapted to benefit body and brain ingredients are absolutely necessary to the blood. In nine cases out of ten a run-down condition, saline, pale complexions the salt feeling and fruit are due to lack lecithin-and-adenine iron peptone in the system. --- =a ee i F Seer ; Z meaty . a ee ~ cots aoe ; wee 2 = * ~ e se fo WR. THOMAS QUARLES PRAISES BIG GREEK DIS Says Work is Pleatifel-Comph. —eew Sawyer Coal Co.- Zaye High Tribute to Educational Work of District and Especially Prof D.C. Coleman. ‘Mr. Thomas Quarles, of Sussua, one of the old line Kepublican politicians and strong worker in the ranks of the party. one of the memtere of the “tinance” committee im Big Creek District, waa it the city of Keystone thie week talking aod shaking hans with the boys « usual. He tells as that timex are not only good in Big Creek District from the standpoint of pienty of work and plenty of money, but that the political condi tions were never more settled, harmon. ions and friendiy than they are today Kapecially ie this true from the stand. point of the increasingly large colore' vote, because ail Negrovs are at hear Kepablicans, The eyes of the voters ary toruing more and more toward the hope of the Republicans to lift the people ont of thie great national stir of discontent uncertainty and diveare because it is: foregone conclusion that the Democratic party can’t do it. It is troe that every black man in oar District is ready ane willing to go te the front aud tight thy batties of aud defend the rights of the Stare and Stripes and they say #0 in their prayers, songs and sermons, aed around every table, but they also are anxious te know wiy it ie that the government seems Wo be disposed not to want the Ne gro. Mr. tQuaries has been looking after some business matters in Mercer conmty He sad: “I am giad you men are pre paring to bave « general meeting of th: colored Reputiican workers and vote of the county of McDowell and I prom ine you & large delegation from Hig Creeb District will be present at whatever place the call may designate. I too, Mr. Fd itor, think now i the time for us color. €d fellows to lay aside personal com Piaints and get together.”” Mr. Qaarles said farther: “I wish you Would state for me and wy people in general, that if they want to make gooc money, make it easy and plentifully, live in some of the best houses in Big Creek District where the best sanitary condi. tions prevail and where educations: op- portunities cannot be surpamed, all thes Lave to do is to come over to Susans, find the general manager and superin tendens of “Sawyers Pocahontas Coa Company" and ask for Mr. Henry Har man the “‘super"’, and don’t {ail to se ‘Mr. Sawyer, the general manager. The; are big-hearted, literal-minded and gen erally couservative in everything they and make no difference im men becaus of their color. They make it their tin emcern to open the door of opportanit to everybody and if a man doesn’t mak good it is bie own fault. Mr. Thoma Reynolds. the mine foreman ie ther “Jonnnie on the ect" He will tres you right in the fallest extent of th meaning of the word “right.” Th schoole bave all opened in full blast ao: under the general direction of our eff cient schoo! man and scholar, Prof. D ©. Coleman, we predict that thie will b be the banner setool year in the Distric of Big Creek.” American Red Cross Very traly yeurs, CURTIS F. LAKEMAN, Acting Director, Home Division. x0: SHEET “a” , Description and Smounts of Supplie for initial installment at each Nationa Army cantopment sand National Guar Mobilization camp. (Two thirds of tty specitied quantities to be supplied at Nea tonal Guard camps. 1. Tote! camber of articles which th Chapters in the Home Division migh prodace: 1,00 Comfort Kits. Pa james Tota: number of articles which you Chapter is requested to produce: 10 Com fort Kite. 10 Pajamas 2. Articles whieh the Obapters migh “Wie to dovate: 100 Sete Selety Kezors 15 Grows each Pencils and Pade, 5.x Cakes Soap, 1) Grow Khaki Mandker chiele, © Electric Fans (for hospital only), 1,00) Cakes Chorolate (sweet) 10) Peeks Playing Cards, 1.48) Oan Soup, 100 Sete Obeckers, %) Walkin Sticks, 50 First Aid Kite, Tobscco, ji any form, also pipes, Fruit in season Jom, Preserves, Jellies, Hte., (Home made) Chapters will please edvise the Divis jon Office as to the pumber of these ar Belew which it desires to furnish ‘3. Articles whieh we contempiate pur chestng: 1,00 Blankets (woolen stand ard) or Cotton Comforts, 106) yard Mosquito Netsing, 2,00) pairs Cotte Socks, 1,000 Toothbrushes, 1000 tute Tooth Paste, 2.50) packsges Footeuse 1,00) Bath Towels, Isx45, 100 Conve lescent Folding Canvas Ubsirs, #*) cam Coodensed Milk, umeweetened, 1,00 packages Toilet Paper, i) Bed Pans 0} arinels, 10 Ol) Heaters. In addition to these articies which w expect to porchase there will siso |x pablisbed s list of standard drugs mow hikely to be needed The above supplies are to be replenish (ed an fast a0 depleted +0 a to have sp proximately the above quantity in stor 8 all times. se SHEET “B Gery————— Chapter is request. ed to provide —--— |— emergency cot equipment, each equ.pment conmsting of the following articies: 4 Sheets, cotton. 1 Sheet, rubber, standard size 1 Hotwater Botte, medium size. $ Blankets, woo! or wool and cotton mixed. 2 Pajamas. ‘2 Towels, hand. 2 Pillows. 2 Pithbwenece 2 Hospital Bedetire 2 Wash Clothe. 2pair Cotton Socks e Bed Cer w 2 Urinal, 1 Folding Canvas Cot (“Gold Medal or similar type recommended ) Toilet Paper Pair Slippers Monquito Netting and Har Where specitied the above articles arr confirm to Red Cross stomtants se cording w cirevlar A ROO 165 The bedding and c'othing ennmerates shove should be wrapped separately in . rong paper, and then the whole outtt cot and all, shonld he bound together firmly with buriep. (14) for each Na Somal Army castonment and (5 for excl National Gard camp ) RAGE CONGRESS SUNDAY SEPT. 16TH Sao New Yoru, N.Y, Sept. 10, IIT -a © vepben committee of one bundred he ‘700 organized here to weleome the del gates to the National Kace Congres sled by the National Equal Right Lex ne to ronvene in Mother Zion Charet. V. 196th Street, Tuesday and Weines tay, September 1Sand 2). On thiscon, vittee are local editors, clergymen, Inw ¥-7e, doctors, business people and citizer vader. Conspicuous among ite mem ‘ere are leaders of the Silent Protest Fe ade who went to the White House wit! «+ petition against lynching The paramount issne of the Congres vad the 10th Annual Meeting of the Les cae which comes on the third day, Thars fay, Sept’ 20, will be the fresh and in creased ameulte apon the rights of ub» Face by the Federal government au! up 0@ Americans since the call to suppor the European war for world Demoerscy ‘September |), Nationa! Congres Sav day. President (iunmer, of the League 108 only appeals to every community t orm an Equal Rights Committee to prc ide for a delegate by & pablic rally 0 therwise, but calis upon every pastor t make Sunday, September 1, “Rac Jongress Sunday” and pray and preac 0 & Gational getting-together for justicr seo urging & delegate to be sent by ear bareh. West Virginia Collegiate Institut. Will Open bo tacdcchs Mond-y September 17th The West Virginia Collegiate Institut vill throw open ite doors for the recep: ton of studeats Monday morning, sp fember 17, when the boarding hall opens Monday and Tuesday will be given v “rgiatration and classification of the iarg sumber of soung men and women wl we expected to begin arriviog on th ‘iret train Monday morning. The form ypeuing will take place in the shor ‘hapel Wednesiay morning. septewtr ¥ = Amitable program will be srrang -d for the oceasion and many frien sho live im the vicinity of the schoo! a xpected to be preseot. President Byrd Prillerwan has visit, oany ee fions of West Virginia durin. the summer and he bas been almost over aheimed with apvesis from amir tion ‘oung Negroes of the State who want hance to educate themselves For th last five years the institation has bee crowded to ite capacity each year an: he authorities have been, compelled vat forth extra effort to provide dorn ory evace for those who have flocked ¢ the school. 1a spite of the unfavorati onditions brought about by the war, U texistration for thie year is expected t reach ite nenal proportions eo Order of Publication ae ae At Roles held in the Clerk's Ottier « the Uirenit Court of MeDoweil County 00 the first Monday in sept. ivi? Jefferson Davie, Planet } t oe Te Chancery Rene Davia, 5 Te rr . coby silos eas ‘att sw stn ‘rom the defendent by the piaintitt nas A VINOULO MATRIMONII And it fh affidavit now on Ble with the popers in this canes: the the defendent is = Don-resident of thy Mate of West Virginia: it is theretor wrdered that the ssid detendent do ap Mt the Clerk's Office of the Cireny’ ours of MeDowelt County within on. ‘month from the date of the first publics an) ee do what @ neces © peak eae ee “kak js farther ordered that» cop) of thie order be published once a wee: for four succemmve weeks in ome news paper in MeDe well See : copy of the same be ‘at the from: door of the court house of MeDowel ae oe — 4 Tanto: *. BURBRIDGE PAYNE, Oiers James K. Seith, Pe The Times, $1.50 CIRCUIT COURT: (Eighth Ju- dicial Circuit) Counties of Mec vowel. Mercer and Monroe. : Hon. Isaiah C. Herndon, Judge Welch; W. Burbridge Payn Ok. Terms of Court Second Tues day injFebruary June and Sep tember. CRIMINAL COURT: Hon. Jas. French Strother, Judge;W B Payne, Clerk. ‘Terths of Court Second Mon. day in January, April, July ani October COUNTY COURT: Dr. R.K | "tragonier, President, Keystone tol. Jax. Elwood Jones, and loward N Esvenson, Vommissioners |W. OW. Whyte, clerk, Woleh. Terms of Court’ First Mon day in January, April, Augusi ‘and October License Term, tiret Monday ir lune. COUNTY OFFICERS : Sheriff, S A. Daniels, Weer Prosecuting Attorney G. L ‘ounte, Welch. Assistant Pros. Attorney Samuel Solins. Clerk Cireuitand Crim. Courts turb-idge Payne Clerk County Court, W. W Vhyte County Surveyor, w C Morga: fivian Supt. Free Schools, W Cassius ‘ook, Welch Assessor, W. J Hattield, Welch County Road Engineer, W. J AcCiaren County Health Officer and cor ner, Dr. H. G. Camper Commissioner Schoo! Lands + B Rusmisell. McDowell Members House of Delegates larvey Haggerman, E. Howard farper, J. Buel Swope, Fioyd Valdron. State Senators, Sixth Senat. ial district (coaaties uf Mc Dow U, Mingo, wayne and wyoming ‘ohn W. Luther, Welch; Well: }oodykoote, Williamson MINERS = WANTED! i aa rr | a a © EVERY ONY WORK f_IWO WEIS Pl. BER BeBe at —_ a} SEU. j an y J) ald | “| =) || ae eae et rs = Ps alts. \ . \ we il es or as, 4 ! 1's oD Mad aN Pa bi) ES : oan ae wa) 3 ‘eo 2 on: MONG people who love in choke 1 Baga tse B] bes, holcuuink ee f F Oi recognized everywhere 5 fi] and with every day endears itself more and more to [i é its owners. ; ; The same is true of the F : “Baldwin MManualo” =f Bi] the successful unification of the most artisic piano with {ff j th ment sentiic player acon made the we ; f fect on the market, acthetan'a pans uot onc ples ; fy} Piano. i Contemplating the purchase of either pi F ; player an, you shod not ed fo emai Ue | _socosy G, W. MOONEY ; : BLUE-IELO, |W. VA. i; OS. exe @ TNE CRAND Prex—pamis.100 Sy Dee care om Qe Te atts tee ee LS GRRE RR RA nan a Ba ead ee CSR SEL ted SER Eee aS i Satisfy you, if you will only Pe] let us, because there is nothing too good for a the sick. ee ee Our Prescription Department 3 ag We afe in position to take Ee Bi zi care of you. Service is what (aR SDR. BRIDGEFIID oy want, WE RENDER PS | oH ——— IT. Cail on as Ta SSB | E keep it, if we haven't it, we stock it, so kindly let os Be PSEA) st the right time, im the right way; anc we do thihys in the scien- Ao ESBS titic way, 20 call 00 us before yoni see anyone else es iF DON'T FORGET! That we are living in the Twentieth BERS Century, and High Brown Powder, High Brown Hair Grower, Ba Ba Roz! Bleach, Aida Pomade, aol a Straightening Com! are the & ouly things, and the only way, t» live a “High Brown's Life M Fy DON’T FORGET YOUR DRUG MAN at the Ried 4 BRIDGEFORD PHARMCAY fH Sr KEYSONE, WEST VIRGINIA. Be an BS =o en on 8 oe a ar Pa corn — a Hurrah! 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Articles or more than ten lines will be charged 10 cents per line. Published every Friday in the interest e the Negro Race--His Civil and Political Rights. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year in advance.....$1,600 Six months in advance.....80 Three months in advance.....50 One month in advance.....25 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, 1804, at the Post Office at Keystone W. Va., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, SEPR. 14, 1917 EDITOR IN VIRGINIA Editor M. T. Whittico is in Virginia where his sister was buried and is in no way responsible for these broken lines. The "devil" grabbed up the quill and began writing. THE NEGRO MUST GET IN THE FIGHT BEFORE THE ALLIES CAN WIN. On two occasions we have noticed that the War Department in sending out orders to the Draft Boards that no Negroes were to be selected in the 5 percent or 40 per cent call for the general army for America. I is remarkably strange that this country, fighting for "free democracy" for the world, should thus discriminate against some of its citizens—the Negro, and then if one is found who happened not to register last June he is rushed to the Federa grand jury to await the action of the court. Why this difference Is it that that awful monster of race prejudice will not down even when the Negro is willing and waiting to give his blood on the battlefields of Europe for a cause which is herald as the common cause of all the world? Is this government, this Democratic government of the people for the people and by the people sincere in its declarations? The writer would like to know. But as in all other conflicts, from the Boston commons to the sandy shores of Mexico, the Negro has played his part and has played it well and if the allies with America as their hope win this world war, the Negro has got to get into it, not as butlers and porters, but as soldiers on the battlefield. It was the Negro who hastened the end of the war of '98 and it will be the courageous and fearless Negro to help win the day in Europe. The Negro is a true and tried soldier and his willingness to die for the cause of right should not be treated with contempt by the powers that-be. Let us in, Uncle Sam. The schools of the country are on in full blast and there is every reason to believe that this year will be a successful one. But let us add here that it is to be hoped that the teachers will make themselves known and felt in the uplift of the community aside from the classroom. The teacher should be an active factor in Sunday school, church and social growth of the people. Let not the uninformed be spurned or unkindly treated. Teachers, let your day pupil see you at Sunday school and church. Tell them on Friday to meet you in some Sunday school on Sunday. Don't set up the howl now about the high cost of living because your coal bin is empty and winter time is just around the corner. What did you do with the money you made this summer? A nice bank account would look mighty well against that big time. One cannot but comment on the trend of the Negro to the North, where better industrial conditions are offered him. Unquestionably his competing in the great labor markets have been the root of some of the recent race disturbances, but a Birmingham, Alabama, man says that Negroes come North because they are lynched in the South without pretense of mercy or justice if they refuse to work, which the Birmingham man thinks is a sufficient reason. The Gallipolis Tribune also has something to say on the subject about as follows: "The only use the South has for a colored man is to have him do his hard work for the lowest possible wages. The North take-care of him and feeds his family even when he is a confirmed loafer, whence it seems that neither North nor South treats him exactly as he should be treated." The whole question is one to difficult to solve, and surely the South is not going about the solution in the right way. The trouble is that attempts are made to treat all colored men and women as a race, when, in fact, more devotion should be paid to the individual. When thinking about the question one cannot but recall the lines of Paul Lawrence Dunbar the colored poet, who, struggling to peck his way through the sheaf of environment and the circumstances of birth, occasionall left out a sob of intense grief tempered, however with optimism. Who can forget the lines from the gifted hand of this colored boy, (for he was only boy) long gone? - Charleston Gazette. MRS. JULIA E. FRANKLIN DEAD Mrs. Julia E Franklin, mother of N. H. Franklin, of Cincinnati secretary and treasurer of the Houston Coal and Coke Co., and M. C. Franklin, of Roanoke, died Tuesday afternoon at her home in Roanoke, death being due to infirmities of age. She was 6 years old, a native of Bedford county, Va., and had been a resident of Roanoke for the last thirty years. Besides her sons N. H. and M. C. Franklin, she is survived by one other son. John Franklin, of Roanoke county, and five daughters—Mrs. C. I. Beckley, Mrs. Henry Adams an Mrs. W. G. Stouffer, all of Roanoke; Mrs. C. G. Ludwig and Mist Laura Franklin, of Washington Telegraphers for U. S. Signal Corps Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 11- Colleges, the public schools and the Y. M. C. A. in West Virginia will cooperate to train young men throughout the state for telegraphers for service in the Signal Corps of the U. S. Army according to advices received by the State Council of Defense in response to suggestions made a week ago. From the headquarters of the central department at Chicago it was announced by Lt. Col. L. D. Wiedman, signal officer, that West Virginia's quota of war telegraphers to be secured through the educational institutions of the state would be 300 and the suggestion made that the telegraphers be recruited from young men who will be included in the second and later calls under the draft. Favorable responses have been made by the public schools of Bluefield, the Huntington public schools, Davis and Elkins College, the Charleston public schools, the Y. M. C. A. of Elkins, the Y. M. C. A. of Fairmont, Bethany College and the Parker- eraburg public schools. TO SOLDIER In the Washington correspondence of Charles Brooks Smith the following interesting item appears: "Sauuel Solins, assistant prosecuting attorney of McDowell county, is also a member of the local exemption board at Welch. Also, he is twenty seven years of age and was nrafted. Now neither Mr. Solins nor the other members of the board appreciated the duty of passing upon Mr. Solins' qualifications for military service. It was embarrassing to all concerned. Obviously the McDowell prosecutor was too weighty for soldiering whatever other things may or may not have been against his entering the service. But the board had reason to believe that if they examined Mr. Solins and exempted him, there would be a lot of criticism for the reason of Mr. Solins' membership and political activity of some years which has accumulated for him the usual number of political enemies. It was an embarrassment which caused the member of the board no little thought but finally it was decided to have Mr. Solins come to Washington with a letter of request that be examined here by one of the local boards. So Mr. Solins came with his letter, and enlisted the aid and company, and congressman Edward Cooper. The pair visited various army officials as the war department before the finally got the affair straightened out. The case was without precedent, and a case without precedent finds few officials willing to take the chance of establishing one. Finally, it was decided that Mr. Solins should present himself before one of the local boards. That was satisfactory to Mr. Solins as far as it went, but he wanted it to go further. He wanted to be passed on by a regularly commissioned army surgeon. So that was finally arranged, too. He was examined by both the civilian board and by an army surgeon and given documents to show it. He was exempted by both. "To fat," was the main part of the verdict in his case, "to fat" a regards his feet, eyesight no what it should be, but otherwise able to sit up and take nourishment. Mr. Solins will continue to assist the regular prosecutor of McDowell county while the war goes on. winding Gulf April 18, 1917. We, the undersigned, hereby agree to pay the amounts set opposite our name towards building the Collins Chapel Union Church, to be built at Winding Giff, W. Va. Mrs. Edward Williams paper. George Wolfe $ 10 00 pd Mrs. B. May Smith 5 00 pd J. M. Hendon 1 00 pd A. Y. Tucke 1 00 pd Justus Collins 20 00 pd M. E. Flanagan 50 pd E. R. Peterman 1 00 pd H. P. Wills 1 00 pd S. W. Shumate 1 00 pd C. C. Kirkwood 1 00 pd Mark Sims 50 pd Heck Blair 50 pd C. G. Blair 50 pd E. H. Pugh 1 00 pd P. L. Jamison 25 pd C. E. Burkeley 1 00 pd C. P. Tolley 1 00 pd H. Blankenship 1 00 George Lawson 1 00 R. G. Ward 1 00 W. H. Cox 1 00 W. T. West 50 A. P. Bartes 1 00 Milton Williams 25 pd J. H. Spencer 1 00 pd Henry James 50 pd Mrs. A. K. Minter 1 00 pd Mrs. Lizze Marshall 2 00 pd B. W. Johnson 50 M. W. B. Shannon 2 84 Edw. Calloway 50 Sam Taylor 50 Edna Williams 25 J. A. Church 25 pd Theatre 18 00 pd Edw. Williams 1 00 pd Total amount raised $ 55 62 If pork goes much higher a ham sandwich will be a very acceptable wedding gift. — Dallas News. Old King Coal may be a merry old soul, but nobody seems to be laughing heartily at his aviation stunts. FOR SALE: — A good house and lot at Anawalt, W. Va., at a bargain. See J. McNEELEY, Anawalt, W. Va. Aurora, Ill., Sept. C...John Barley-corn, having died last midnight, was buried this morning from the Advent Christian Church The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. D. W. Woodward. Four little boys were patrons. The casket was a pawn pine box, and in it was what was represented to be the body of John Barleycorn. There were no flowers. The "deceased" looked natural, his nose was still red. Beside him in his coffin was a bottle of whiskey. It was a blushed and solemn faced assembly that gazed at the boys as they entered the church with the "remains". They marched down the aisle to a slow dirge pumped out on the organ. Everybody registered grief—that grief often pictured in countenances of mourners grown old waiting for the "rich uncle" to demise. "The late lamented" was placed before the pastor, who, with but one preliminary outspreading of the arms, launched into his sermon. "Friends, brothers, sisters," he said "I come here to bury John Barleycorn not to praise him. "He has been a companion of many and deceiver of all. He has, some good talk believe, warmed them in the winter and cooled them in the summer, aroused them on rising and put sleep into them of nights. But he has been crime's firstly, the despoiler of homes, the arch for morals; let us bury him deep." When he had finished everybody pressed forward to take a last look at the "departed." Announcement was made that the body would "lie in state" through the day. Interment after dark was in the ashpile. NO COLOR LINE IN ASSIGNMENT OF TROOPS Washington, Sept. 5. --- How colorline have been ignored in the assignment of Negro troops in the drafted section of the national army is revealed in genera orders issued yesterday showing the war department's intention to apportion the Negro troops evenly where possible in all cantonments. The order provides that in every cantonment there shall be one Negro infantry regiment where sufficient personae is available. Protests have been made against quartering Negro troops in certain parts of the South, but no modification has been made. The order is taken as an indication of what the war department will do in disposing of similar regiments in national guard camps. CUNNING. I'd rather lose than play the cheat. I'd rather fail than live a tie; I'd rather suffer in defeat Than fear to meet another's eye. I'd rather never win a prize Than gain the topmost rung of glory And know I must myself despise Until death ends my sorry story. What if another never knew That I had tricked my wap to fame, And all unseen my hand could do, The cunning little deeds of shame? The stolen prize would not be sweet, In pride I could not ever show it; Men might not know me for a cheat, But I should ever after know it. There is no joy in tricky ways, Who does not justly earn his goal The price for such a victory pays. Shall torture long his soul. What if I could, by canning claim The victor's share of fame and self, And hide from all the world my shame! I could not hide it from myself. I'd rather fail in every test Than win success by base deceit; I'd rather stand upon my best, Be what it may, than play the cheat. I'd rather never win men's praise Nor share the victor's sum of laughter Than trade my self respect for bays, And hate myself forever after. -Edgar Guest, in the American Boy. 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There enally Lave quite insigniticant hegie- tongs, aud for that cementne preparabon ie mime for then; and we meat shy the Negro the justice Us say that it in mot al ways hie fanit. There is co we in our Uryine to concen! the tact that sine white people se oot of their way to dy a Negro an ith turn; Negros have to hear @ wreat deal of thie sort of thing It ie not al Ways an easy coatter to get at the real werite of «case of this kind, But the Negro ought ty be treated justly. even if be hws « black skin There ie no reson why Negroes ehontd not be put iu the aruy and jernsitted to fight for their emutry Jt is mot right that the whiter should wate ail the sacritices, In order to et fect thin, Negroes wit, of course, be trained ae soldiers, and lave gone and ammanition in their keeping. Kuowing the danger of ince clashes, however, one officials should be exceed mgiy caretil in the selection of the men whe are to command the Negro toope and shonld ick men who have bad eare~ fol training along this line, and who are known to be alert oitivers, and just bat Figid dieciplinarians. As we have said before aw a rule Southerners shenld be a signed to this work. Southern men whe have commandest Negrove, prefer to com: mand then, cleclaring, if treated justly imi tiruly, thes are ax docile as children, and uick to respond to command Those «it un who have been im close cou: tect with Negroes all our lives know thie to be trae of them The War Department weme not alto- ether biauiciew in thin inat matter. See retary Baker, wae warned that trouble might be expected, and be might haw aid emphanis on taking the utmost care tm handling the Negro troops at this eri sie and have cautioned! those in com and not to leave any opening for trouble. No evidence has appearel far that the War Department gave the matter any spevial attention, engromed ae it Was with seemingly more important things Send the Negro regulars at once to France and give then: something to de that will employ them and we shall bear bo more of such occurrences. ‘They are uber tizhters and they would make # record against the Germans. —Staanton (Va) Lemder, August 2, 1917, Glen White Rev. W. K. Woodson aud Deacon R. ‘T. Thornton are attending the Winding Golf Ministers nd Deacons Union at Vax this week Rev. Wm. B. Nesbit, DD , of Bram- Well, wae in town and preached two sou!- ‘itring sermons for us. Our souls were sande to rejoice. Mewere. S. Deal, T. Jeiferson and 0 ¥. Barton went to Kaleigh Labor Day. Mr. Garnett Morgan has retorned (rom Peshoutas, Va., where he spent severs! lage with relatives and friends Me. Geo. Boone, of Gilliam, spew # veral days in town thie week guest of JB. Wood Mr. slanse! McKinney went to Beck ley Thursday in answer to his call to the © Jor. Mr. Semmes Flood made a Imsiness trip { Northtork thin work Mra. Henry *tokes left on Wednesday {© the Sheztering Arms Hospital accom i vaied by te husband, Deacon W. U. Pearson wade a tying tio to Berkley Frictay of thie week. Rev. WH. Heston wae 10 attendance #) the Winding Galt Ministers and Des «one Union at Pax thin week Kev. 5. Davie, of Stotesbanry, was in {em Thareday of this week Mr. K. L. Jolneon made a bnsinem ty sto Beckley on Friday of thie week Mrs. kK, T. Thornton is on the sick it 1r. Win Kobinson had hie foot had!y 1 ached in the mites Phorsday. Kew, W. RK. Berger, of Northtork, was tue city Wednesday. He called a [office on bawines. CORNWELL NAMES NEW ARCHIVIST Hustington Man Selected to Take | the Place of Professer H. S. Green Goveanor Cornwell bas appointed Prof, WM. Poutk, formerly of Pet ment, later of Huntington, State Histor. ian © d Avchivist to eneeest Prot, HS. Gre, howe teem expires September I Mf Kontk’s appointment ie net elles nth Oetober 1, ae Govertor Con, we!) lesired Profesor Green ty com tint om shee until the first of the swonth Woe npicte the compilation of data rew Peru t Waterpower leinlation which he in aes ientnting for the waterpower com ‘mite created by the Legisiatare Pet bould hae been identified as a ronment educator thronghont the state for» veral years. He was ouperinten dent of school at Pledmont, and lates at Hovtiegtm, where he was suceerded by ©. L. Wright, the prewat incumbent Vee Foulk hae been living in Hant- eto tor the pant few years, moving ts that erty from Piedmont. He is « tritle over titty yeare old and a Democrat. It we hee that the new historian and arehiv- int in stiwtinct addition to the offieval tole of the state capitol, and that he will make a splendid record in bis new office. Prof. HS. Green has made an enyie- ble reputation aa State Historian and Archivist, and daring bis tenure of office the department has made rapicl strices forward He hae been antiring io Lis labors W advance his departuent, and Will be iniswedt by hie mrny friends im the brea CARETTA Little Etta Lon Rewie Taylor, age 1 Years and « few days, whose health failed ber last February, was forced to take her bed a few weeks ago being too weak to walk around She was a loving child and always had sw smile for everybody. Death came trip- ping along the 2th of August and car. ried her soul back from whence it came. Her funeral wes held at the M. Church, of Tazewell, Va., and her re mains laid to rest by her mother in the news cemetery beneath « mountain of Hhowers. She leaves a brother, sgrandinother, three annte and a number of cousins and friends, B.S. C. Grocery Co., Appeals to Their Patrons Bluefield, W. Va, Sept. 9, 1617 To Oar Patrons: — The high cost of operating business compris. to snk ach of our customer pleese take care of their accoonte when due, for we can give better service shen we Can collect promptly. ‘Thanking you for past patronage and soliciting your fatnre orders, we hope to semain, Youre ror bnsinews, BOS ©. Gawker Cowrssy Philadelphia, September 8. -Two work mon were killed and more than s sore of persous were injured in an explosion At the Frankford yAreenal in this city early today. According to workers the explorion was accidental, there being nothing to incicate that it was cansed by an outside agency. Two of the injured are young women Major Montgomery, commandant of the arsenal, aod bis aide are investignt- tug the explosion. Carelesnew of a workinan, it wae believed, was the catiee of the ercident. Master Ionis Washington, sm of Dr, and Mrs. S.A. Washington, of Hilltop, arrived in the city Tuesday night to spend the winter with hue aunt, Mrs. Ide E. Whitten. _ Key. T. B. Scott, who pastors at Siab- fork and Kedeton, wae im the city sever: a} days thin weed. Kev, K. J. Marcus has returned from Tuskegee, Ale, where be spent tw weeks with lis mother and other rela | tives. Wanted Ii50 Construction | Grade Men United states 6.86.60, Guy, Wet Vig OO’ Only White Men Will be Taken to Petersburg This Month Only white men will be ineinded in tive next contiogent of forty per cent. oi the draft to be taken trom Weat Virgin. in to the Petersburg cantomiment Septen- ber 19 to 25, it wax announced today at State military headyuarters. While rail way equipment available ix not enflicient to handle the whole forty per cent, in one day, the division will not be wade in ynotae from the several hoards, ws ia the firat five per cent , bat all the men to go from any given board will be taken at the same time. The schedale of train being workel out and will be announced paertiig . TYPEWRITERS. ALL MAKES--ALL PRICES Factory rebuilt ard second hand, sold, rented and repaired; three ‘months rent free if purchased. Every machine guaranteed. Ask for price list and special «fler on UNDERWOODS & OLIVERS TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE, 212 E. Sth St., Cincinnati, O. | Are You @ Wotan ? | Take Gardul | The Woman's Tonic | —~ NOTICE! The Blu: tone Sunday School Union will meet with the Rose of >haron Baptist Sunday School, Berwind, W. Va, Thurs day and Friday before the first Sunday in Oet., Oct. 4-5. Let every Sun. day School try to repre- sent. REV.J. W. COGER, President. MRs, N. B. FITCH, Secretary. Ladies and Gentlemen: Yoo are cordially invited to visit STs MR. and He W. PRICE, Mgrs. apts Colored Hotel inthe C.ty. 2 minutes walk from the station. Meals: Europenn und American Plan 0) Raleigh Steer Phone 974. BLULFIELD, W. Va. Meals at all hours in First Class Style at Reasonable Prices. GROCERIES AND SOFT DRINKS Eat hereand yo'll not know that high cost of living is higher. Elder Simon King : YUKON, W. VA. INSTALLATION! Rev.R.H. McKoy, D.D. Will be Installed as pastor of Wingfield Baptist Church Eckman, W. Va. SUNDAY, Sept. 16, 1917 Program ~ 00a m. Sunday School, W. A. Williamson, Supt. 10:30 m. Prayer Meeting led by Deacon Samuel Pritchard 11:00 a. m. Installation Sermon, Rev. W. H. Mitchell, D. D., Pastor of Scott Street Baptist church, Bluefield Music by Scott Street choir. Collection AFTERNOON 3:00 p.m. Sermon by Rev. L A. Watkins, B. D., Pastor of Algoma and Keystone Baptist churches. Music by Keystone choir. Collection. Benediction EVENING 7:30 p. m. Devotionals conducted, Deacon R. L. Benton, presiding THE PASTOR WELCOMED: 1. To the Deacon Board by R. L. Benton 2, To the Sunday School by W. A. Williamson 3. To the Missionary Society, Mrs. Mary Glenn 4. To the B. Y. P. U. by Robert Carter 5. To the Church by Mrs. Elmira Young 6. To the Community, Mrs. £. S. Downing 7. Response by the Pastor Collection. Benediction MONDAY EVENING 7:30 p m. Prayer Meeting led by Deacon Walter Wade 8:00 p.m Sermon by Rev. J. E. Pryor, B. S. T.,, Pastor of Lovely Zion Baptist Church, Vivian, subject, ‘The Duty of a Member to his Church and Pastor Collection Benediction TUESDAY EVENING; 7:30 p.m Prayer Meeting led by Deacon Wm. Coats 3:00 p m. Sermon by Rev. L. Dabney, D. D., Pastor of Mt Zion Baptist Church. Bluefield. Music by Key- stone Choir. Collection. Benediction WEDNESDAY EVENING. 73)p m_ Prayer Meeting led by Deacon C H. Davenport 5:00 p m, Sermon by Rev. J. W. Robinson, A. M , Pastor of First Baptist Church, Kimball Collection. Benediction —————————— The public is cordially invited to attend all of these services sad assist in making OE ee All male members of the church or friends of the cause of Christ are asked to give $1.00 and females 50 cents. Whatever you give will be highly appreciated. REV. R. H. McKOY, D. D., Pastor. ROBERT CARTER, Clerk.