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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Notice. Mound City, Ill. July 24, 1916 Please allow me space to say to the public through your paper concerning the Mt. Olive association which will meet with Mt. Olive church, Colps. I wrote to J. D. Davis, corresponding secretary and the $1 per head a week was changed so the association will meet on the above date without paying any board. Please give notice to the di-tri-that all of the delegates may see that they don't have to pay board. Remember the date, Tuesday before the 4th Sunday in September. I ask that every church be duly notified that they don't have to pay board. Please send this out this week through your paper I am yours in Christ, D Parrish, D. D. Moderator. HODGES PARK Having been informed that the Association will meet at Colps. Of the additional expense of said meeting I wish to say to the sisters of the Mt. Olive W. K. & M. Convention that we will have to get busy. We hope that each pastor in the District will encourage the women of their several churches to take interest in the work as we cannot know until the annual meeting what the committee of location will do. Let us come up to the meeting praying for success and stand together as a unit. For together we stand and divided we fall. I am praying that we will be united in oneness with one purpose and we can look with pride on a building erected in name The Livingston Normal Industrial Institute in the near future. Let us not lag in the work on the account of small obstacles but perseverance till the end if we do not work we cannot reap. What we sow we shall reap, and whatever we mete out shall be meted to us. Yours for success. M. J. Blake. President. NOTICE. Dear Sisters: the time is fast approaching for the State Association that was organized at Central a last year and the president is asking all local societies in the churches of each District to represent at this meeting and we hope to have a good representation from the Mt. Olive district. I have not heard from our missionary and don't know whether he has been able to visit any of the churches or not, but my dears he should not let our banner trail the dust. We should hold up the standard of the Baptist everywhere. I am settled at home for while, but I am going to work in his part of the field, as the work somewhat dull at present, but we have a lively set of B. Y. P. workers. They are doing real good work and I hope to be able to the same of the W. E. & member the State work is for you in May and will venne with the Sparta Church. GET OUTPUT OF JOLIET PRISON GET OUTPUT OF JOLIET PRISON FLORENCE SULLIVAN'S COMPANY HAS HAD A SOFT THING WITH CONVICT-MADE CHAIRS. When Edward F. Dunne was campaigning for governor four years ago he had as his press agent and field manager one Florence E. Sullivan, formerly connected with the John R. Walsh interests in Chicago. After Mr. Dunne's election Sullivan, for a time, became the official headman for the chief executive, at the state reformatory at Pontiac and at other state institutions. This position, however, did not prove sufficiently remunerative to satisfy the financial cravings of Sullivan, who then conceived the idea of forming a selling company, a close corporation, to take over the chairs made by the convicts in the Joliet penitentiary. This field of endeavor looked most inviting and profitable to this confident of Governor Dunne's, so on April 5, 1914, out in South Dakota, a corporation known as the Continental supply Company was chartered by John Reynolds, W. H. Clare, Erie L. King, Miss E. Levin and F. E. Sullivan, with a capital stock of $5,000. Reynolds, the president of the company, was a Chicago city salesman; Clare resided at Joliet, King, a son-in-law of Reynolds, was employed by others as a clark; Miss Levin was a stenographer in the office, and Sullivan was the active generalissimo of the concern. The company, for its own profit, was fortunate in being able to make an arrangement with the Democratic management of Joliet prison to buy from it chairs made by the convicts at the rate of $8.00 per dozen, chairs of exactly the same type and make which the preceding Republican management at Joliet had been selling at $14.00 per dozen. This was a good deal for Mr. Sullivan and his "inside company," but it is difficult to where the taxpayers of Illinois benefitted by the arrangement. Business was thriving with Mr. Sullivan's corporation, however, and it wasn't long before it succeeded in owing the state of Illinois, for goods purchased, an amount in excess of its capital stock. At a very recent date the company was indebted to the state for chairs in the amount of $18,000 and in view of the fact that Florence Sullivan has now migrated to Missouri to embark in the mining business with former Warden Allen of Joliet prison, there is a great deal of speculation and curiosity to see just what sort of manipulation or bookkeeping will be resorted to by the Democratic officials to liquidate this indebtedness, the product of the labor of the convicts, at a ridiculously low figure. Matters have been going from bad to worse in the management of Joliet prison during the past three and one-half years. The cold-blooded murder of the wife of Warden Ned Allen, who finally resigned, a $50,000 fire within the prison walls, the almost daily escapes of convicts, including many lifesemmers, and the absolute demoralization of all former discipline, are among the costly fruits at Joliet of the so-called honor system. The public knows little of the scores of escapes from Joliet, such news being carefully suppressed by prison officials. The prison payroll has been padded by the addition of at least two dozen more employees than were connected with this penal institution during the management of Warden E. J. Murphy, under the last Republican administration. It has been a haven of refuge for a hungry horde of useless Democrats, who had to be taken care of somewhere to comply with Governor Dunne's campaign promise. ARE BEINQ ORGANIZED ALL OVER ILLINOIS UNDER DIREC TION OF THE STATE COM- The indications are that Illinois will have more Republican First Voters' clubs this fall than has ever been seen in a former campaign in this state. Chairman Fred E. Storling of the Republican state central committee, has appointed a special subcommittee from the state organization to take special charge of this work and it is being conducted most actively in every county in the state. The name of every young man who intends to cast his first vote for the Rupublican nominees this fall is desired by the Republican state committee at its headquarters at the Great Northern hotel, in Chicago. Blanks have been prepared by the committee for use in the formation of clubs and these can be had upon application. MOTTO: HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Chairman Sterling is anxious to infuse young blood into the campaign for Huskers and Fairbanks and the Republican state jacket and is anxious to get in touch with every new voter in every one of the 102 Illinois counties. Dozens of First Voters' clubs have already been formed in down-state counties and many others are now in process of formation. Let every young man enlist under the Republican banner and take an active part and interest in the present campaign. As a white slave emancipator Lieutenant O Hara is a great little movie star. why this same hog serum, after a questionable test, was released and sold, with a resulting second epidemic? Will United States Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, he of the crimson, silken whiskers fame, kindly tell an indignant public why he went to the front for a friend at the Union Stockyards, interceded with Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture, with the result that this infected hog serum, which caused the second epidemic of the foot-and-mouth disease, was held at the yards and later sold? Will Governor Dunne tell the people why he ordered the killing of the herd of Mrs. Scott Durand at Crab Tree farm, Lake Bluff, Ill., when this herd was not even affected with the disease? Governor Dunne, himself once a circuit judge, sent a note to the sheriff of the county in which this famous stock farm is located, ordering that official to ignore an injunction from the circuit court, and acting upon that order from Governor Dunne the sheriff and his deputies, after reading the missive from the state executive, shot down in cold blood a herd of 64 perfectly well, beautiful, purebred, valuable Guernsey cattle. The manner in which this dastardly deed was performed was announced in the columns of the newspapers at the time. Mrs. Durand and her employees were led into the house by force, and while two men, revolvers, in hand, stood over them, one of the finest herds of imported cattle that ever graced an American stock farm was literally murdered. What happened after that? What course did the highly efficient and competent officials of the state take? Were the dead bodies of the innocent cattle buried as provided by the law? Was every effort made to prevent contagion, if danger of such pre-valued? No, according to Mrs. Durand's sworn statement, it was 27 hours after the first shot was fired before the last animal was dragged a third of a mile to a ditch, the animals dumped in a heap and left, and it was 24 hours more before the authorities saw fit to bury them and take the necessary precautions against contagion. The week previous to the wholesale slaughter of the Durand herd a little sparrow was found in one of the stalls by an inspector. Great censure followed, but a trail of alleged-infected blood a third of a mile in length was later left untouched and 64 carcasses of supposedly infected animals were left in the open for two days. Birds, squirrels, rabbits, dogs and other carriers had free access to this alleged cesspool of infection left by these highly competent officials. Mrs. Durand is still seeking to recover compensation for the damage wrought her property. She has but little recourse because the live-stock commission of Illinois is not under bond and is wholly irresponsible, yet it has authority to kill valuable cattle at any time. This is only one example of the results of the inefficiency of a department of Governor Dunne's administration. There were hundreds of other similar cases. As result of the epidemic the Chicago yards were closed, there was no open market for cattle, and stock raisers were forced to ship their stock to Chicago, there to be killed. One stock raiser at Spring Valley sent a shipment of perfectly well cattle to the Chicago yards. A Boston firm offered him a cent more a pound for his cattle than he was offered by Chicago firms, but no cattle were being shipped from the yards, and his resulting loss was enormous. Inefficiency on the part of the state officials, appointed by a Democratic governor, had locked the barn after the horse had been stolen. It is the same old story of Democratic inefficiency. The people of Illinois are sick and disgusted with present conditions, and they are determined to return to the good old days of Republicanism and efficiency in the administration of the national, state and local affairs. The next Republican governor will appoint as members of the Illinois live-stock commission practical men who are identified with the live-stock interests of this state, men who are in touch with and know the needs of the farmers of Illinois, and not persons whose only claim and qualification for office is a political pull. Under a Republican governor the farmers and live-stock producers will get the reforms in this important state department they have been praying for. UNIVERSITY OF MILINGTON LIBRARY MISCONDUCT OF SOME DEMOCRATS MISCONDUCT OF SOME DEMOCRATS Whenever Illinois has had Democratic state administration history records that defalcations, embezzlements, abscondings and general inefficiency have characterized the conduct of many of the appointees and employees serving under it. There were many such criminal instances, still fresh in the minds of the people, during the administration of Gov. John P. Altgeild, which proved very costly to the tax payers of this state. The present Demoralic administration of Governor Dunne has, very naturally not been free from such scandals. Two glaring instances of official misconduct which might be cited are the cases of Doctor Diamond of Chicago, head of the State Dental board who was caught in the act of selling for $50 each, the sets of questions and answers to applicants for the state dental examinations and Patrick H. Hart, secretary of the State Labor Bureau of Statistics, at Springfield, who absconded with about $3,000 of public funds, both appointees of Governor Dunne. No such scandals or misconduct on the part of appointees was ever known under a Republican governor in Illinois and the character of the men appointed to office by the Republican governor who will be sworn in next January will insure the state against a repetition of any such offenses by officials during the next four years. The trouble with the Democratic brethren is that they are given power so "soldom by the people in Illinois, they are so hungry, that they just simply can't help dissipating everything in sight when given the chance. When those connected with the Alt-geld regime went out of office 20 years ago they even took with them waste-paper baskets and the clocks which hung on state institution walls—in fact, pretty nearly everything that was not nailed down. It was a hungry horde which was separated from power. HOPE OF DEMOCRACY IS TURNED TO GLOOM Psychological Change Wrought in Illinois—Republicans Are Again United Colonel Roosevelt's ringing and unqualified indorsement of Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee for president, and his spontaneous indorsement of Republican principles has wrought an amusing psychological change in the minds of the Democratic leaders throughout the state of Illinois and the nation. A few months ago the skies were luminous with promises for the Democrats. They looked into the future with hopefulness and confidence. They could see nothing to mar the pleasure of existence, for it seemed certain that the Republicans would again present a divided front, while Democracy would present a united army ready for the fray. They read the early news from the Chicago conventions with apparent pleasure. Conditions of 1912 seemed about to be repeated and our Democratic brethern began to see Victory within easy grasp. They were in great glee when they learned that the two conventions being held in Chicago simultaneously had each nominated a national ticket. President Wilson's alleged smile appeared on the front page of every Democratic organ throughout the country—then came a cloud in the sky. There was a drooping of the corners of the mouths of the great leaders of Democracy when it became known that Colonel Roosevelt had declined to accept the nomination tendered him by the Progressives. Then came "Teddy's" splendid endorsement of the national Republican ticket* and Democracy's smile faded away, in fact it was transformed into a frown of worry. Democratic leaders saw at once a divided party formed into a wonderful militant organization with a following militant its banner far greater than ever followed Democracy's fallacies. This reorganizing and reuniting of the Republican party seemed to take all of the ginger out of the Democratic leader, and when they began to realize that Republicanism had again come into its own, they also realized that in the state of Illinois they had a desperate battle to wage, for they --- must face, not alone a united Republican party, but they must also defend a blundering state administration and endeavor to explain its mistakes, which have been many and grievous. Is it any wonder, then, that a divided Democratic party in Illinois is hopelessly looking about for a leader and an alibi? Illinois will return to the Republican ranks next November with a majority so large that it will make Democrats and Republicans all over the nation sit up and take notice. Using the National Guard as a political plaything is sure to prove an expensive experiment. President Wilson is destined to learn in November. UNCLE'S SORRY PLIGHT. "Breathes there a man?" I think there do— Who strokes the moss upon his chin And says, says he, "Twixt me and To show he doesn't care a d—n For gringo threats, which he defied. And all this watchful waiting dope, When both of Uncle's hands are tied By Woodrow's diplomatic rope. "This policy of 'Watchful wait. We may prepare some day to fight; But not until a later date." Has put us in a sorry plight. And we could demonstrate our views On what our stars and stripes demand By casting votes for Justice Hughes." A. M. C. After all, the big Mexican crisis seems to have been purely a political emergency. CENTRALIA Dear Editor of Gazette, please allow me space in your worthy paper to say that Sunday School was well attended at 9:30, 153 scholars and officers present Bro. J. W. Corneal, Supt., is doing a great work. Rev. I. W Winston, District Missionary preached at 11:00. Rev. J. W. Pitts, the pastor delivered a strong sermon at night and gave Lord's supper assisted by Rev. Winston. San Antonia, Texas. San Antonia, Tex. Sept. 8, 1916. Dear Mr. Editor:- We received your papers and was very glad indeed. No doubt you are wondering why we have not sent in any news. The fact is we have been on a two week stay at Leon Springs and have been so busy until it was almost a case of impossibility, Border news: Everthing is quiet on the border. Some of the Illinois troops have already left Camp Wilson and the rest are expected to leave in the near future. Our stay at Leon Springs was without an accident; we were there on the target range and stayed two lonesome weeks. The distance from Camp Wilson to Leon Springs is twenty-four miles and we had to hike it, stopping over night at Ten mile hill. The hike each way was made without an incident. All the boys are eager to entrain for the north since camp life has become monotonous. Co. M. had quite an excitement Sunday when the 3rd and 7th Regt. got in a row over a goat, the 3rd and 7th Regt. were making for each other at charge bayonets when old trusty Co M. was called upon to throw a skirmish line between them before order was restored. The 8th regt. will parade at the Reporter quadranthe before Gen. Funston this afternoon. All the boys are well and sends best regards to the editor and reaes of the Gizette. We remain your reporters. Sergt. T. Lyons, " G. L. Nee'y. SPARTA. Our church and Sunday School are successful spiritually and financially. The primary class was reviewed by Bro. Haigler. At 11:40 Rev. P. B French preached an able sermon Rom. 13:13 from which our souls were made to rejoice in the God of our salvation. At 7:55 the church having reassembled our pastor chose for a text, John 3:3 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. The sewfg circle will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Anna Owens next week under the auspices of Mrs D. Browning. The carnation club reported to the church with $3 and will have a social meeting at the home of Mrs. Will Washington next week, and it is further understood the carnation club will have a rally for the church the 3rd Sunday under the management of Mrs. Malinda Foster. Mrs Minnie Wheeler of St. Louis is visiting her parents. Rev. P. B. French and wife this week. S. Bardlett Kerr, Solicitor. State of Illinois, Massac County ss. In the Circuit Court, of said County. August Term A. D. 1916. The City National Bank of Metropolis, Ill. Vs. John Lackman and Ada Lackman, Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 297. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit. on the 29th, day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I, Lannes P. Oakes, Special Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30, A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: All of Lot One (1) in Block One (1) in the Goulds addition to the City of Brookport, Illinois, as per recorded plat thereof, and a parcel of ground off the westerly side of Lot number Two (2) in Block number One (1) described as follow:-Beginning at the Southwest corner of said lot number Two (2), thence Northerly to the Northwest corner of said lot; thence easterly on the Northerly line of said lot, 9 feet; thence Southwesterly in a direct line to the point of beginning, being the property conveyed to me this day by H. W. Meyer, situated in the County of Massac, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 30th day of August 1916. LANNES P. OAKES. Special Master in Chancery. NOTICE To all messengers coming up to the District association which convenes with Mt. Olive Baptist church at Colp, Ill., on Tuesday before the fourth Lord's day in Sept. 1916 will have to pay one dollar for board during the session This means one dollar for the entire time. Done by order of the Mt. Olive Baptist church. Rev. J. D. Davis, Pastor, Wm. Crayton, Clerk. Subscribe for The Gazette. Those Behind Scheme Consider There Are Weighty Reasons for That Radical Proceeding. Because of differences of climate and the character of the people between north and south Florida, agitation has been started to divide the state by a line running along the twenty-ninth parallel. Another suggested division line is the Suance river, some twenty-five miles north of the twenty-ninth parallel. The northern portion would contain about 27,000 square miles, a little larger than West Virginia and larger than Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey together. South of the twenty-ninth parallel there is something like 41,000 square miles, slightly more than Ohio and a little less than Tennessee. It has been proposed to name the new state, the northern half of Florida, Jefferson, in honor of Thomas Jefferson, while the south half would retain the name of Florida. The suggestion for the division of the state into two states was made as early as 1914, but the matter was dropped. Recently the state has been thrown into a turmoil over the selection of a Democratic candidate for governor. The northern part of the state is pulling in one direction and the other part in another. The northern part of the state is inclined to prohibition, while the southern part, with Key West and Tampa, would apparently prefer to retain the old order of things. While no formal campaign has been launched looking to creating sentiment for a division of the state the prospects are that one will be under way before many months. RESEMBLES FIRE OF COALS Electric Grate. Recently Introduced Into Great Britain, Gives a Realistic Imitation. The somewhat novel electric grate fire that is being shown British householders gives an ingenious imitation of flaming coals. Each heating element is an arc-shaped steel trough, about ten inches long by two wide, across the top of which a chrome nickel resistance wire is wound back and forth in a kind of screen, with mica insulation. The elements required are set as vertical panels in the fireplace. A current of 500 watts for each gives a bright red glow, and as the air passing upward from the bottom becomes gradually heated, it is divided into layers of varying density, causing a shimmering effect like that seen over railway rails on a hot day. This radiation and the direct action of the air coming in contact with the heated wires make it practicable to produce red or smoky flames as desired, with a cheerful play of light and shade in contrast to the steady glow of the ordinary heated radiator. Of the heat radiated, about three-fourths is found to come from the heating elements direct, and part of the remainder is sent out indirectly from the metal over the fire, while part is distributed in the warm air discharged horizontally into the room. THE LURE. "In't you all's paw afraid de neighbors' chickens will git into your garden?" "No," replied Miss Miami Brown. "Dat's what paw broke up de ground an' scattered de seeds around foh." THE ORATORICAL SEASON. "Why do they hold the national conventions in June?" "I don't know," replied Senator Sorghum. "For my part, I'd rather stay at home and listen to the commencement essays." NOT APPARENT. "Do you believe, at a glance, the undersea boat seems capable of running the gauntlet always?" "Well, it doesn't seem so on the surface of things." Wife—The paper says that nitrates are higher. Hub—What do we care? We never telegraph, anyway. Visitor—I suppose you found it great fun at the front? Damaged Hero—Oh, yes, killing! —London Opinion. United States Presidents, as a General Thing, Left White House With Modest Fortunes. Washington left an estate valued at $800,000; John Adams died moderately well off, leaving about $75,000; Jefferson died so poor that if congress had not purchased his library at $20,000 he would have been a pauper; Madison was frugal and left about $150,000; Monroe died so poor that he was buried at the expense of his relatives; John Quincy Adams left about $55,000; Jackson died worth about $80,000; Van Buren left some $400,000. It is said he did not draw his salary while in office, but at the expiration of his term of service drew the whole $100,000, according to the New York Mail. Polk left an estate valued at $150,000; Taylor had saved something from his pay while in the army and died worth $150,000; Tyler married a lady of wealth; Fillmore was always frugal and added to his savings by marrying a woman of wealth, and was worth about $200,000; Pierce's estate was valued at $50,000; Buchanan left $200,000; Lincoln about $75,000 and Johnson $50,000; Grant was wealthy, but lost his fortune in the Grant & Ward failure; Hayes was always frugal, and added to his fortune, while Garfield was only moderately well off; Harrison died worth $250,000, while Cleveland's fortune was large; McKinley and Taft were not well off, while Roosevelt had a substantial competence; Wilson has royalties from his books, and his second wife is a woman of wealth. NOT A MIXER The First Orator—Do you mix your metaphors? The Second Orator—Never. I always drink the straight stuff. MELBA'S MELBOURNE LEGACY. News from Melbourne is that Mme. Melba, the prima donna, will get one-seventh of the estate of her disapproving father, David Mitchell, says an exchange. He divided the estate in equal shares to his seven children, and Melba's part will be $215,000. David Mitchell was an Australian contractor, and Mme. Melba, his third child, was born in Melbourne. Of Scottish descent, he was a strict Presbyterian and had a great aversion to the theater and opera house. He resisted the aspirations of his daughter to win fame with her beautiful voice, and it is related that he succeeded by personal entreaties in limiting the audience at one of her early concerts in Melbourne to 30 individuals. Mme. Melba, then in her teens, accompanied her father in 1887 to England, where he officiated as commissioner for the colony of Victoria at the Indian and colonial exhibition. ITS USES. "Did you see where in Europe they are mixing shredded wood with flour to make bread?" "Yes; wouldn't that make a fine diet for the platform makers at the convention?" CAUSES. Bix—A physician says that yawning is caused by a lack of oxygen in the blood. Dix—Or a lack of pep in the conversation.—Boston Evening Transcript. ITS KIND. "She'll never ask for wine, but when she wants it she pretends to be sick." "I see. A case of sham pain." A BIG ITEM. "Can two live as cheaply as one?" "Well, another passenger adds nothing to the upkeep of a motorcar."—Louisville Courier-Journal. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A wave of industrial prosperity and we have to revise our notions. The South wants the Negro, after all, and wants him so badly that it isn't going to let him get away if it can help it. Listen: "Americus, Ga., police and sheriff's office have thrown out a draget for the agents who have been leading Negroes out of the country with promises of work in Connecticut," a special dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution reads. "Several industries have been paralyzed by the Negroes leaving their work." Then there is the old bogle of alien immigration. Listen again, this time to the Washington Post: "There is a growing need for common labor," which may become "so acute as to cripple industry" and which is "due partly to prosperity and partly to the impairment of immigration." The same paper commends the sit The same paper summarizes the situation as follows: "Not long ago agents acting in behalf of the Russian government transported from Norfolk, Va., a complete force of shipbuilders, including foremen, draftsmen, mechanics and ordinary laborers. The shipbuilding force was removed in a body to Russia, so that the Russian government might have better facilities for shipbuilding. "The need for labor, both for agricultural and industrial development, is as great in the South as in the East. Recently two thousand Negro laborers left Savannah, Ga., to work on the Pennsylvania railroad. The laborers were taken from a point four miles out of Savannah because the local council had passed an ordinance requiring a $1,000 license fee for any agent sending laborers out of the state. "All of the factories in the South are taking precautions against draining of their labor resources. Their situation is not different from that which prevails in the East. Some months ago one of the large motor car companies in the East had a strike and within 24 hours agents of the large munition companies were on the field inducing the strikers to accept employment in the munition plants." But suppose we follow the Negroes to Connecticut and let the Hartford Courant tell about it: "One way in which the labor shortage that has been felt in the North during the present period of intense industrial prosperity has been met is by the importation of Negro laborers from the South. The tobacco plantations in the immediate vicinity of Hartford have made particular use of this expedient. "Marcus L. Floyd, general manager of the Connecticut Tobacco corporation, now has 145 Negroes at work, and expects soon to have 200 working on the 620 acres that are being cultivated under cloth by the corporation. "On the Griffin-Neuberger plantation at Griffiths, Conn., there are now 83 Negro workers, and here will be 130 before the season is over. "These Negro workers are paid $2 a day and housed free." And here is the explanation: "The cause of the labor shortage in this section, according to Mr. Floyd, is that the high wages offered by mutilion factories to unskilled laborers drew most of them into the work. This with the fact that immigration has almost ceased." So the war, which brought the industrial prosperity and also cut off the immigration upon which American employers so long have depended, is to be both praised and blamed. And in the The South Texas Colored Missionary Baptist association convened in its twenty-third annual session at Houston, Tex. Moderator Rev. A. T. Gordon called the association to order. The opening service of the prayer was conducted by Rev. B. J. Preacher of Galveston, G. W. Smith and D. Young, veteran ministers of the association, offered prayer. F. I. Richardson was elected reporter for the association. The moderator set forth the principles of the association. Rev. A. C. Ray and Rev. C. H. Jones, secretary and assistant secretary, respectively, were at the desk. Vice President Rev. J. C. Curtis presented Rev. C. H. Jones, who had been selected to preach the introductory sermon and his alternate. Rev. J. L. Lampley. Rev. C. H. Jones announced his subject as "The Certain Increase of the Kingdom of Jesus." He made a strong appeal to the ministers of the gospel to bestrift themselves to active service. The following committees were announced: Finance, Revs. B. J. LeRoy, J. L. Lampley, I. G. Griffin, A. C. Carter, P. A. Pinkney; enrollment, Revs. W. H. Stewart, B. C. Carter, G. W. At the closing session of the National Negro Christian congress at the Cosmopolitan Baptist church, Washington, the following officers were elected; Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, Washington, D. C., president; Rev. Dr. W. H. V. B. Taylor, West Virginia, first vice president; Rev. Dr. W. R. Winston, Washington, D. C., secretary; Bishop J. J. Higgs, St. Louis, corresponding secretary; Rev. Dr. George W. Thomas, North Carolina, treasurer, and Rev. Leroy Frazier, Richmond, Va., organizer. meantime there is only one result in sight, the wages of the common laborer will advance sharply, in the South to keep the Negro at home, and in the North to lure him away from Dixie. Among the recent promotions in the army was that of Maj. Charles Young, Tenth United States cavalry, to the grade of lieutenant colonel. Special interest attaches to this case for the reason that, although Colonel Young is not the only colored man to have been graduated from the United States Military academy, he is the only man of his race to have reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, the second highest in regimental organization. He was graduate in 1889 and most of his service has been in the Ninth and Tenth cavalry, in which he rose gradually to his present rank. For nearly a year, while holding the rank of first lieutenant, he was attached to the Seventh cavalry, a white regiment. During the Spanish war he served as major of the Ninth Ohio colored infantry, a regiment he helped to organize. For several months past he has been serving with his regiment in the punitive expedition to Mexico under General Pershing. In addition to Lieutenant Colonel Young, there are eight other colored men holding commissions in the army. These are: Maj. John R. Lynch of the pay corps, formerly a member of congress, who is retired; Capt. John E. Green. Twenty-fifth infantry, who is military attache at Monrovia, Liberia; Capt. Benjamin O. Davis of the cavalry, who is military instructor at Wilberforce university, Ohio, and Chaplains W. W. E. Gladden. Twenty-fourth infantry; George W. Prioleau, Twenty-fifth infantry; O. J. W. Scott, Tenth cavalry; Louis A. Carter, Ninth cavalry, and T. G. Stewart and William T. Anderson, both of whom are on the retired list. Chaplain Anderson has the rank of major, the others being either captains or first lieutenants. In the period covered by one vigorous manhood, approximately coincident with the half century following emancipation, things changed very much for the American Negro. He more than doubled in numbers and accumulated wealth exceeding $700,000,000. His school property for higher education built and paid for in that time amounted to $20,000,000; his church property to $70,000,000. In the half century the percentage of literacy was raised from 5 to 70. At its close there were 1,700,000 Negro children in public schools instead of a meager 10,000 in 1863. The number of Negro churches was increased from 550 to 40,000; the number of communicants from 550,000 to 4,300,000. Sunday schools increased from 200 to 41,000 and pupils from 10,000 to 2,200,000. This is a very creditable record for an uneducated, illiterate race suddenly thrown on its own resources in the midst of a highly organized white civilization, which had no place ready for its former slaves. And the Negroes are by no means standing still. They are entering every branch of business and making good; they are rapidly extending their real estate holdings; they are giving themselves a secular and religious education that ranks high in the Christian world. What their future in this country will be no man dares to prophesy, but undoubtedly they will be ready to meet boldly and capably whatever fate has in store for them. They have learned to stand on their feet. Mitchell, H. Willis, B. J. Preacher. Vice Moderator Rev. J. C. Curtis called the afternoon session to order. Rev. T. Wesley, assisted by Rev. I. S. Ambrose, conducted the devotional services. Invocation by Rev. I. C. Capital and Dr. J. E. Edwards of Temple conducted the Bible institute. The committee on finance and enrollment made its first partial report, which was adopted. Membership of banks in the National Negro Business league has grown from two, in 1900, to fifty-one at present. This fact was brought out in the discussions before the seventeenth annual session of the league at Kansas City, Mo., emphasizing the service the organization, which was founded by the late Booker T. Washington, is giving to the Negro business interests of the country. An address on the Negro state guaranteed banks of Mississippi by C. B. King of Indianola, Miss., was on the program. Health and business prosperity, the raising of cattle and the management of various business enterprises were discussed by the delegates. When Company A. Cardington, O., of the Fourth regiment, went to Camp Wilson it had eleven pairs of brothers, two pairs of fathers and sons and fourteen men over six feet in height. Company A is the youngest in the state, having only been mustered into service June 8, eleven days before the mobilization call. It has 100 members. When death, the great reconcilier, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Ehot. MAKING RAPID STRIDES Canada Improving in Every Way Agriculturally, Commercially and Financially. The reports coming to hand every day from all branches of industry in Canada speak highly of the constructive ability of that country. Recently the managing directors of the Canadian Credit Mer's Association gave out the statement that business in Western Canada was good. In every branch it is better than in 1913, and everyone will remember that in that year business was excellent. He says: "The beauty of it is the way in which payments are coming in. Merchants all over the West are taking their cash discounts. Such a transformation I never saw. "From the records in the office I knew it was getting better. We clear here every retail merchant in the country every three months, and we are therefore in the closest touch and have intimate knowledge of the way trade is going and how payments are being made. Conditions at the present moment are better than I had dreamed it was possible that they should be. "The statements which we are receiving with reference to the standing of country merchants indicates that there will be very few failures this fall. It is quite remarkable. Men who have been behind for years and in the hole are actually paying spot cash for everything, and taking their cash discounts. Banks and loan companies this fall will have more money than they know what to do with. "This is about the condition of trade, and I am glad to say there is no exaggeration in what I have said. The business of the prairie provinces is in splendid condition." Crop reports are also good. From all parts comes the word that the crop conditions were never better, and the situation at the time of writing is that there will be fully as great a yield as in 1915, when the average of wheat over the entire country was upwards of 80 bushels per acre. The harvest therefore will be a heavy one—and, following the magnificent harvest of last year, the farmers of Western Canada will all be in splendid shape. Old indebtednesses, much of which followed them from their old homes, are being wiped out, improvements are now being planned, and additional acres added to their present holdings. During the past year there was a large increase in the land sales both by the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern land companies, as well as by private individuals. A great many of the purchases were made by farmers who thus secured adjoining quarters or halves, the best evidence probably that could be had of the value of Western Canada land when those who know the country best are adding to their holdings. A number of outsiders have also been purchasers, but very little land has changed hands for speculative purposes. An evidence of the prosperity of the country is found in the fact that such a large number of farmers are purchasing automobiles. Alleged hard times in Manitoba have not dampened the ardor of motorists or prospective ones. The automobile license department reported a few days since that there are 1,600 more private owners of cars in the province this year than last. The number of licenses issued this year was 10,400, as against 8,800 last year. At an average cost of $1,000 each the newly purchased cars represent a total outlay of $1,600,000, while the total number of cars in the province are worth approximately $10,000,000. The new cars are of modern types. Many people, for some unexplained reason, have feared and continue to fear that this country will experience a period of industrial and business dullness after the war. There seems to be no justification for such a speculation. On the contrary, there are sound reasons for belief in the prediction of Mr. Kingman Nott Robins, vice president of the Farm Mortgage Bankers' Association of America, who, in the Monetary Times, declares that Canada will experience her greatest proportionate development in production immediately after the conclusion of the war. The country will certainly have exceptionally favorable commercial conditions to take advantage of. There will be the great need of Europe in the work of reconstruction, Hardships Come First. "Lucky" Baldwin was one of the well-known characters on the Pacific coast up to a few years ago, when he died. His case is contradictory in a way, as his "luck" came only after such struggles and hardships as few men go through. As a prospector he was near death many times and lived in desperate poverty for the greater part of his life. Then he made a strike in prospecting when left him fabulously wealthy. His sobriquet of "Lucky" is a decided misoner here, especially as family troubles and litigation embittered his last years. In glancing over the list of those who control the largest fortunes in this country, it is often impossible to realize how it comes that men of such varying qualities attain success. Where does this success come from, anyway? Is it foresightness, is it strength of character, force of personality? Or is it a quality called luck? Mexico is 1,900 miles long. and along with this, the natural tendency of the allies to trade among themselves, and perhaps special trading privileges. Mr. Robins points out that the greatest development in the United States followed the costly and destructive civil war. Mr. Robins, in an address before the Bondmen's Club of Chicago, expressed the opinion of a far-thinking mind and the review of an experience of the last of his numerous trips through the Canadian West. When he said he regarded the spirit of the Canadian people, as he found it, the most admirable and encouraging feature of the entire situation. They are facing the sacrifices of war courageously and with calm confidence as to the result, and in similar spirit they face the economic future, confident, but expecting to solve their problems only by dint of hard and intelligent effort. An important part of Mr. Robins' address, which invites earnest attention, is that in which he refers to the land situation, and when his remarks are quoted they carry with them the impression gained by one who has given the question the careful thought of a man experienced in economic questions, and specially those relating to soil and its production. He is quoted as saying: "Agricultural Canada was never so prosperous, and immigration of agricultural population both during and after the war seems a logical expectation, finding support in an increasing immigration at present from the United States, in spite of numerous canards spread broadcast throughout the United States to discourage emigration to Canada. The lands of Western Canada, however, as long as they are as at present the most advantageous for the settler of any on the continent, must continue to attract, despite misrepresentation, and on the increase of its agricultural and other primarily productive population depends the economic future of Canada. All other problems are secondary to this, and the large interests of Canada, recognizing this fact, are preparing to secure and hold this population both during and after the war. They are content to let city development and other secondary phases and superstructure follow in natural course. This recognition of the true basis of economic development is an encouraging augury for the future." "The war has brought the United States and Canada nearer together economically than ever before. The total investment of United States capital in Canada doubtless exceeds $1,000,000,000, of which $300,000,000 has been invested since the war began. Except for Great Britain, Canada is the United States' best customer. Our exports to all of South America in the last three years were less than a third of our exports to Canada in the same period, although Canada has been rigidly reducing her imports since the war began. Even France, a good customer of the United States, bought $70,000,000 less than Canada during 1913, 1914. And yet Canada's purchasing power is in the first stages of development only. It has been estimated that the United States can support a population of 600,000,000. Using the same basis of calculation in reference to natural resources, Canada can support a population of 400,000,000. "Canada is potentially the m ulous, and, in primary produce least, the richest unit of the empire, and it behooves us in th ed States to know our Canada." The social conditions throughout Western Canada are everything that could be desired. Schools have been established in all districts where there may be ten or twelve children of school age, and these are largely maintained by liberal government grants. A fund for this purpose is raised from the revenue derived from the sale of school land, one-eighteenth of all lands being set aside as school lands. All the higher branches of education are cared for, there being high schools at all important centers, and colleges and universities in the principal cities. The different religious denominations prevail, each having its separate church, and religious services are held in every hamlet and village, and in far-off settlements the pastor finds an attentive congregation. The rural telephone is one of the great modern conveniences that brings the farm home nearer to the market. It is not saying too much to state that in matters of social importance, in the most remote settlements they carry with them the same influence as is to be found in the most prosperous farming districts of any of the states of the Union.—Advertisement. Many Like Him. Hewitt—He's a pessimist, all right. Jewett—I should say so; he could see the dark side to a blonde! To Fortify the System Against Summer Heat Many users of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic make it a practice to take this old standard remedy regularly to fortify the system against the depressing effect of summer heat, as those who are strong withstand the heat of summer better than those who are weak. Price 50c. 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Watson of Rushville, Republican nominee for United States senator, during a visit he made there recently. "Oh, I don't know," the lad hastily replied. "But I suppose that I'll run for things." - Indianapolis Star. IM TATION 13 SINGEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. Instit on "Le Creole" Hair Dressing—it's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00.—Adv. A Wee Bit Sane. While a certain Scotch minister was conducting religious services in an ayylum for the insane one of the inmates cried out wildly: "I say, have we got to listen to this?" The minister, surprised and confused, turned to the keeper and said: "Shall I stop speaking?" The keeper replied: "No, no; gang along, gang along; that will not happen again. That man only has one lucid moment every seven years."—Christian Herald. CLEANSE THE PORES Of Your Skin and Make It Fresh and ticura. 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Indeed, it seems to smack of the far East, but the followers of the Christian monk, Maro, or Moro, have been settled on the slopes of the Lebanon since the seventh century. The latest news about his Beatitude was that he was to be tried by court-martial, and in that event his chances were not happy, despite his name. The Maronites are staunch Francophiles, and they and the other persecuted people of Syria look with longing to the expulsion of the Turk and the victory of the allies. The Maronites are interesting in that they withstood the influence of Islam and maintained their independence. Later they joined the Roman Catholic church, and in 1736 formally subscribed the decrees of the council of Trent. They retain their national rites and usages, and the ancient Syriac language is used in their liturgy. Their patriarch is elected by their bishops, subject to the approval of Rome, and resides in the convent of Kanobin, on the Lebanon. DISAPPOINTED George—Admiring the beauties of nature? Harry—That's what I came out here for, but I haven't seen a real beauty since I left the city. TREES AS MEMORIALS. A woman has hit on a novel memorial to the soldiers from the village in which she resides who have given their lives in the titanic struggle. It consists of a grove of oaks and at the foot of each will be placed a stone on which will be inscribed the following: "This tree was planted in 1916 in memory of a brave man, to-wit, ——, of this parish, who fell on the field of battle in the great war of ——." Here is an idea for some of our cemetery companies. Why should they not adopt a similar scheme, and, instead of laying out burial grounds with trees and shrubs, beautiful but uninteresting, make each tree a memorial to a fallen hero. This would achieve the double purpose of beautifying the cemetery and commemorating in an interesting way the district's sacrifices for the cause of justice and freedom. MOST PAINFUL "Hallo, Newwedd, why so somber?" "Say, old man, I've made a very painful discovery. My wife can't sing." "Painful? Why, man, you are to be congratulated." "Alas, no! You see, she thinks she can."—Boston Transcript. "When the students in Austria fight their famous duels." "You've got it wrong. It's in Germany the students are such duellists." "I know what I'm talking about. Isn't Austria the dual empire?" POOR FORM OF RELIGION. Many a man thinks he is religious because he prays to the Lord to relieve him from the consequences of his own misdeeds. HAD REGARD FOR HIS CUTICLE. "Why do you hide, Johnny?" "I hide to save my hide," replied the boy, who had hied him hither from a wrathful parent. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. WAR'S EFFECT ON WILD LIFE TELEPHONE GIRL KNEW L Many Flies Before the Sound of the How Operators in Paris Helped Many Fled Before the Sound of the Guns, While Others Were Apparently Undisturbed. Some curious and interesting observations upon the psychological effect produced on animals by the detonations of big guns have been recently made. The animals considered are the horses and dogs used for military purposes, and the game in the area of warfare. It was noticed soon after the beginning of the war that the latter began to migrate into Luxemburg, Switzerland, and the portions of France and Belgium not the seat of hostilities. The first to flee was the "black game" (a term which includes the wild boar, the badger and the bear), whose senses are specially acute. Then the roebuck and the red deer followed; but, strange to say, the hare, whose timidity is proverbial, continued to occupy its usual territory. The larger birds likewise, such as the grouse, the pheasant, the sea-eagle and the wild duck were driven away by the heavy firing. Strange to say, the wolf, which was expected to regain lost ground in the present war, has shown itself very gun-shy. Another curious fact is that the songbirds, such as the lark, the thrush and the finch, have not been driven away by the thunder of the cannon, and continue to hold their nests and sing their songs in their accustomed haunts. Other birds which remain unfrightened are various kinds of owls, falcons, sparrow-hawks, crows, etc. BEES' STRUGGLE AT BIRTH New Additions to Hive Have Trouble Forcing Their Way Into This World of Labor. It is interesting to watch young bees in the act of hatching out from the cells of the hive. The wax capping which confines them is thin, but it is quite strong enough to give the tender young bee a good deal of trouble in nibbling it through. At first one can only see a part of the insect's head through a small hole it has made. It gradually nibbles away the wax till the hole is big enough for the entire head to get through, but are this stage is reached the young bee has been assisted in its efforts by several of the older bees who, though no doubt engaged in some other work, pause on their way and very considerately nibble away a little of the capping with their strong jaws. Once the head of the young bee is out of the cell, it has much more power, and after pulling and twisting perseveringly the thorax is gradually worked free of its prison. Then the abdomen slips easily after it, and the birth of the bee is accomplished. When they are free of the cells, the young bees stand for some time palpitating, and apparently getting their breath again after their efforts, while some of the nurse-bees gently stroke them and give them food. HOLLAND SHORT OF TIMBER. Holland is suffering from a serious shortage of timber for building purposes, and the existing supply will be exhausted within a few months unless relief measures are taken, according to the report of an association of employers and workmen in the building industry, which recently met in Amsterdam. The only hope, according to the association, is to secure large quantities of timber owned by Dutchmen which are now tied up in the harbor of Archangel, Russia. This can be done, it is pointed out, only by assuring the Russian government that the timber will not be sent out of Holland for use in the countries now at war with Russia. It was resolved to urge the Dutch ministry of commerce and industry to take the necessary steps for releasing the cargoes detained at Archangel. Other cargoes consigned to Holland are tied up in the Russian port of Riga, but under existing conditions there seems to be no hope of their being released. NOT SPECIFIED. "You told that sallow-faced girl her skin was like peaches." "Perfectly true. I meant yellow peaches." She—There goes Jones. I hear he married a very superior woman. "Any woman would be superior to Jones."—Life TELEPHONE GIRL KNEW LATIN How Operator In Paris Helped Out Priests Who Found Themselves in Linguistic Difficulties. That the telephone operators of Paris are well versed in foreign languages is a thing which many visitors to this city have found occasion to discover, but a most striking proof of their versatility is told by a Swedish Catholic priest now visiting there. The priest, who does not speak a word of French, was received at the station by a French colleague who did not know Swedish, but who was to be his guide, so the two priests arranged to carry on their conversation in Latin. The following morning the visitor, who lives at a hotel, was called up on the telephone by his colleague. He had barely started speaking when he was interrupted by the operator at the exchange, who told him, that because of the war he must not use a foreign language. The French priest explained the circumstances to her and she assured him that matters might be arranged. In a moment the two priests heard a new young voice in the phone, addressing them in the most perfect Latin. What she said, translated into English, meant that although it was forbidden to use foreign tongue the operator would be very pleased if the two fathers would speak in Latin and it would then be her duty to listen to their conversation. BARRED He—I understand you play nearly every game. She-All but the marriage game. SQUELCHING A DEALER. "Can I sell you some antiques, sir?" "What have you in stock?" "I've got a chair George Washington sat in, a cradle Jenny Lind was rocked in, a mirror used by Catherine the Great of Russia and—" "Say no more. Those things are comparatively modern." 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All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of infants and RACE COLORING DUE TO FOOD Diet of Various Peoples Said to Be Real Cause of the Difference in Hue of Skin. Certain authorities hold that the pigmentation of the races is due to feeding. It is pointed out that in the animal world color is often determined by food, and it is contended that by chemical process the same results are shown in the different human races. According to this theory, the original man was black, since his chief diet must have been vegetarian. Fruit and vegetables contain manganates that ally themselves with iron, constituting a "dark brown combination." Negroes who add meat and milk to their vegetable fare are never as dark as those negroes who eat only vegetables. Indians are red, it appears, because they have absorbed for generations haemoglobin, the red substance in the blood of animals killed for food. Mongols are yellow by reason of the fact that they are descended from dark fruit-eating races who penetrated into the plains of Asia, became shepherds, and lived to a great extent on milk, which contains chlorine and has a bleaching effect. The Caucasians were another branch who became still whiter by adding salt to their dietary. Common salt is a strong chloride and a powerful agent in bleaching the skin. The effect can be seen, it is declared, in the case of negro children who have been reared on a "white" dietary. They are never so black as their kindred who have not 'abandoned vegetarianism. No Hospitality Wanted. Some things must be taken the way they are meant, or there is apt to be trouble. A Baltimore party motoring on Sunday were astonished when passing a prominent institution for the insane to see over the main entrance the hospitable, though somewhat suggestive, inscription: "Elk, Welcome." 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You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of ORAL P. TUTTLE, as a candidate for member of the Legislature, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September Primary election. We are authorized to announce CLAUDE F. LACY, as a candidate for member of the Legislature, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. For States Attorney We are authorized to announce the name of Roy B. Halm, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of WALER ROBINX, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. FRED SMITH, is a Republican Candidate for State's Attorney, subject to the primary in September. For Circuit Clerk. We are authorized to announce the name of Norman F. Iman, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of Arthur H. Finley, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of JOHN HERBERT WILLIIS, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September Primary election. We are authorized to announce J. M. MOOREFIELD, as a candidate for County Commissioner, on the Republican Ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. For Coroner We are authorized to announce the name of Dr. Gno. A. Hirwart, as a candidate for Coroner, on the Republican ticket, subject, to the voters at the September primary election. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged ito pay up. The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. NOTICE The time of meeting of the Association (Mt. Olive) district have been changed by the moderator by the request of the association at its last session, from its regular date to Tuesday before the fourth Sunday in September. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Laura Bradley of Joppa, was up Thursday. We had not received the result of the election when we went to press. We learn that Walter Roberts, was nominated for States Attorney over Roy R. Helm, and Fred Smith; Colfax Morris, for Circuit Court Clerk over Norman F. Inman, J. Herbert Willis, and Arthur H. Finley. Dr. Geo H. Stewart, for coroner. Claude F. Lacey, carried the county as one of the members of the General Assembly, Lowden for Governor, Len Small, for State Treas. Boyd. McCane, is erecting a fine residence on north Pearl St. Our paper will be a little late next week as the editor will be at the association but we will not skip the issue. Geo. L, B. McCrary, left for East St. Louis, and St. Louis, Mo., Thursday for an indefinite stay. The Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene at Colps, next Tuesday. Mrs. Sussie Watson of Paducah, Ky., visited her brother, Bud Barnard and family Sunday. Mrs. Myrtle Thomas of East St. Louis, left for home Sunday after spending several weeks vising with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hughes Mr. and Mrs. James Wheeler of Johnsonville Tenn, left for Brookport, and Paducah, Ky., Monday where they will visit relatives and friends on their return home. Mrs. Essie Daugherty and her children of Brookport, are visiting her grand-parents Mr. and Mrs. Mingo Long, this week. Frank Martin, has purchased the Charley Hodge property on East Broadway and will reside there. He is erecting a building for his barber shop where he will locate in the near future. Miss Izora Rodgers visited relatives and friends in Brookport, Saturday and Sunday. Thos. King of Unionville, was in the city Saturday looking after his property interest. Jessee Porter is very sick this week with lung trouble. Mrs Sallie Townly, was able to be out at church Suneay after a five months spell of sickness. N. W. Long and the editor were in Unionville, Sunday and visited Siloam Baptist church. They took dinner at the home of S. A. Owens in company of Rev Halsey, and Isaac Watson, of Paducah, Ky. We found the people to be industrious and progressive farmers. Wm. Shannon, is very sick at this writing. Mrs. Cora Stalls, of Decatur, is in the city visiting her sisters Mesdames Eva Stahls and Rachel Shannon, for a few days. Edgar S. B. McCrary, and wife left for Uniouville, Saturday where he will teach the coming session. He opened school on Monday. NOTICE The program committee of the Mt Olive Baptist association is requested to arrange the program at once for the association which convenes at Colp, Ill., Tuesday before the 4th Sunday in Sept. Send letter blanks to all of the churches at once so the clerks will have time to make out their letters. There will be no charge for board. Subscribe for The Gazette. $100 Reward, $106. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the oely positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonial. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Born by an Druggist, 104. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. George Hibbs. Drowned. George Hibbs, the son Mr. and Mrs. John aud Ellen Hibbs, of Metropolis, was born in Livington, Co. Ky., Dec. 29, 1817 Aged 28 years, 9 months and 12 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Eva Frazier Aug. 8th 1912 by Rev J. B. McCrary. Two children were born to this union, George and Alton who survive him. He was honest and industrious, a loving husband and a kind and indulgent father. The funeral was held at the residence at ten o'clock Thursday by Rev J. B. McCrary. The remains were intered in the Kidd Cemetery. Brother Editor, Please allow space in your valuable paper to say a few words concerning the people of our vicinity. Prof. Edgar McCrary, and wife of Metropolis, came into our neighborhood last Saturday, and he will teach our school. They are both industrious young people and we are always pleased to have such talent. He opened Little Rock School Monday morning with a good enrollment. Quite a number of patrons were present and gave wholesome advice to the pupils. Sunday was a high day at the Siloam and Free Baptist churches At Siloam in the absence of the pastor Rev. P. Cross, Rev. Halsey, of Paducah, Ky., filled the pulpit at the morning service. Rev. J. B. McCrary, of Metropolis, preached a glorious sermon at 3:00 to an appreciative audience. At 8:00 o'clock Rev. Joseph Kelley, of this place preached a short but interesting sermon. At the Free Baptist church, in the absence of Rev. A. A. Crim, the pastor, Rev. Fred Bell, of Cleveland, formerly of Shady Grove preached to a large audience at the three services. Sunday Shool at the Christian church was well artended. Rev. W. A. Neil, pastor. Rev. J. B. McCray, and undertaker N. W. Long, of Metropolis, tSundayed at this place. Brother Isaac Watson, formerly of this place, now of Paducah, Ky., was with friends Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Maggie McCracken, and grand-son, Cecil Bell returned home Monday from Graud Rivers Ky., where they visited relatives and friends. Rev. A, A. Crim, returned home Monday from Graud Rivers Ky., looking after his charge. Prot. and Mrs Edgar McCravy were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McCracken. Lannes P. Oakes, Solicitor Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, as. In the Circuit Court of said County, Auust Term A. D. 1916. Mary C. McBane Vs. Arthur H- Finley, Chas. Finley, and Elvira Finley. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 301. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, towit, on the 6th day of September A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause. I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday October 7th A. D. 1916 at the cost door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and the State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit. The Northeast fourth of the Southeast quartor of section number Six (6), except one-half acre in the Southeast corner thereof; and, also, Six and one fourth acres which is bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the South line of said tract fifty rods West of the Southeast corner thereinf and running Nrrth thirty six rods to the public road; thence with the public road in a Southerly direction forty-sight rods; thence West thirty-five rods to the place of beginning. And fifteen acres from off the West side of the Southeast fourth of the Southeast quarter of section number Six (6) And ten and one-third acres from off the Eastern side of the Northwest fourth of the Southeast quarter of Sec. number Six (6), except a strip of ground two rods wide on the West side of said ten and one-third acres leading from the public road to the Curtis graveyard, which said strip was heretofore deeded by David Curtis and wife to the heirs of David Curtis, deceased, for a roadway to said graveyard. And seven acres from off the Eastern side of the Southwest fourth of the Southeast quarter of section number Six (6), also, seven acres from off the Eastern side of Northwest fourth of the Northeast quarter of section number Seven (7), and all of the abo landslying and being in Township number Fourteen (14) south, Range number Four (4) est, situated in Massac County, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 12th day of September A D. 1316. Rev. A A. Crim, was in Mes tropolis visiting Tuesday. Dear Sir and Brother, allow me space in your paper to say that I had a letter from Rev Hillie stating that the Association could not meet at the 17th St. Baptist church at Murphysboro as they were not able to entertain the Association; therefore I shall have to change the place of meeting and will let you know later where it will meet As the Association authorized me to change the date, of the meeting of the Association as to keep it from conflicting with the National Baptist Convention. Therefore I set Sept. 19, for the setting of the Nt. Olive Baptist Association. This will give all the Bros. a chance to go to the National Baptist Convention; if any Bro. in the district has any objection to this change let me know through the columns of this paper. Please give all the churches notice of the change. Lours in Christ Rev. D. Parrish, Moderator Invention of Cut Glass. Pressed glass was invented by a humble carpenter of Easdwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a Bohemian glassmaker conceived the idea of making cut glass. This idea was destined to revolutionize the entire glass industry of the world. The inventor began by making the walls of the article on which he was working thicker than he was wont so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figures as he chose. All Weather Good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing; wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather—John Ruskis. FAIR TO BREAK PAST RECORDS Illinols State Exhibition Will Be the Greatest in Many Years. CATTLE TO BE ON GROUNDS All Space Taken for Stock Exhibits —Managers Conservative Considering Prospects for Great Exhibition. Nw records are going up at the state fair in Springfield, September 15 to 23. Only the wildest freaks of the weather man can prevent a great horde of people from swooping down on the state capital from all sections of the state. Members fully believe that the attendance records will be broken. Cattle, sheep and swine will be again this year. Last year they were barred because of the fear of spreading the hoof-and-mouth disease. This year all available space is taken. Officers believe that visitors will have the best time in their lives by going to the illinois exhibition of 1910. The executive officers of the board who have been working hard on details are: President, Len Small, Kankakee; treasurer, J. F. Prather, Williamsville; secretary, B. M. Duvison, Springfield. The vice presidents from the various congressional districts of the state are: First district, Martin Conrad, Chicago; Second, B. H. Heide, Chicago; Third, John McCord, Cook county; Fourth, Frank M. Mares, Chicago; Fifth, August W. Miller, Chicago; Sixth, John Dill Robertson, Chicago; seventh, J. J. McComb, Chicago; Eighth, Louis F. Wilk, Chicago; Ninth, J. F. Rehin, Chicago; Tenth, W. E. Davin, Libertyville; Eleventh, vacant; Twelfth, George H. Madden, Mendota; Thirtenth, J. E. Taggert, Freeport; Fourteenth, Frank Thornber, Monmouth; Fifteenth, W. F. Aten, Ray; Sixteenth, J. P. Code, Bradford; Sevententh, Heitt B. Taylor, Fairbury; Eighteenth, Thomas G. Venuin, Watseka; Ninetenth, William Dighton, Montclaire; Twentieth, Ellaas Watkins, Petersburg; Twenty-first, C. M. Woods, Springfield; Twenty-second, John B. Culp, Pethalo; Twenty-third, Thomas K. Marshall, Carbondale; Twenty-fourth, John W. Shaw, Harrisburg; Twenty-fifth, Joab Goodall, Marlin. The superintendents of the various departments to whom information queries may be sent in case it is not furnished at the general offices of the state board of agriculture, at the state house are: Class A cattle, section 1, beef breeds, Jonb Goodall; Class A cattle, section 2, dairy breeds, Thomas G. Vennum; Class B horses, section 1, heavy horses, J. P. Code; Class B horses, section 2, light horses, H. B. Taylor; Class B horses, section 3, jacks and jennetts, Ellis Watkins; Class B horses, section 4, speed, George H. Madden; Class C sheep, Thomas B. Marshall; Class D, swine, John S. Culp; Class E poultry, John McCord; Class F, mechanical arts, William Dighton; Class G, farm products, John W. Shaw; Class H horticulture, J. J. McComb; Class I, foriculture, John W. Shaw; Class J, relics, A. W. Miller; Class K, textil fabrics and amateur art, A. W. Miller; Class L, education, J. D. Robertson; Class M, machinery, B. M. Davidson, secretary; Class N, dairy products, Frank M. Mares; Class O, apiary, culinary and pantry stores, W. E. Davis; general superintendent, B. H. Heide; marshal of the ring, C. M. Woods; superintendend of Colleseum, J. F. Rehm; superintendent of gates, J. E. Taggert; superintendent of tickets and admissions, Louis F. Wilk; superintendent of boys' state fair school, John D. Robertson; superintendent of permits and privileges, W. F. Aten; superintendent of grandstand, Frank Thorbur; superintendent of members' restaurant, J. F. Rehm; superintendent of forage, B. H. Heide; superintendent of emergency hospital, vacant; superintendent of Women's building, C. M. Woods; auditor, C. M. Woods. The boys' state fair school commission includes Francis G. Blair, president; George F. Tullock, Edgar G. Prult, Eugene Davenport, H. A. McKeene, secretary. Board of Lady Managers—President, Mrs. S. E. Winser, Princeton; vice president, Mrs. Grace Vail Gray, 5621 Maryland avenue, Chicago; treasurer, Mrs. Clarence G. Goodwin, 7542 Ridgeland terrace, Chicago; secretary, Miss Laura A. Gonterman, Edwardsville. Information for Fair Vistera Information for Fair Visitors. Within two blocks of the two union railroad stations in the state fair city, the Springfield Commercial association will establish an information bureau. As it was last year, the place where all questions will be answered, and all directions carefully given, will be on the Court House square. There the Commercial association will erect a frame building, appropriately labeled. And in it at all times will be clerks with heads full of information such as state fair visitors want. Where to eat, where to sleep, and what street car to take; questions of all sorts will be answered. Fred R. Young, Solicitor. Master In Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Bernard N. Burns vs. Emma Homberg, J. F. Homberg, Minnie Steers and George Steers. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 287. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit, on the 29th day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, 1. S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30th. A. D. 1916, at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis; County of Massac, and State of Illinois, seal at public venue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lots Three Hundred and Eigthy-one (g81), and Three Hundred Eighty-two (382) in Block Thirty-two (32) of the City of Metropolis, in the County of Massac and the State of Illinois, except a strip sixteen (16) feet wide and running back Seventy-five (75) feet out of the northeast corner of sand Lot 382, being 16 feet front on the Alley and running back the width of the Sterling Lot, situated in the County of Massac, in the State of Illinois. Terms of sale Cash in hand. Dated this the 6th day of September A. D. 1910. S. BARTLETT KERR Master in Chancery. W. L. Krone, Solicitor. Master In Chaneery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Mrs. Cora Emmerson Vs. Anderson Bryant and Nina Bryant. Bill to fore- close mortgage No. 290. Public notice is herebs given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit. on 2nd day of September A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I. S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30th, A. D. 1916, at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis. County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder. the following described real estate to wit: Lot number Four (4) in Block Two (2) Mattie Johnson's. Addition to the town of Brookport, with all the buildings thereunto, belonging, in Massac County, Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 5th day of September A. D. 1916. S. BARFILET KERL, Master in Chancery. W. L. Krone, Solicitor. Master In Chancery Sale State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Fred K. Young, Va. William Tanner, Bill to foreclose mortgage Nor 296. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit, on the 31st day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I. S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30th, A. D. 1916. at the cast door of the Court house in the City of Metropolitan, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue, to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lot number Eleven (11) in Block number Three (3) in the village of Robinsville, as per recorded plat thereof, in the County of Massac, and State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 5th day of Sept. A. D. 1916. S. BARTLETT KERR, Master in Chancery. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary, Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stiff Joints, Syphilists, of All Discriptions, Indigestion Corns, Bunions, Lost of Manhood, All Kinds of Swelling and Fever, Neuralgia, Worms, in Children, All Kinds of Skin Diseases, Mumps, Diptheria, Weak Eyes, All Kinds of Paine, Pneumonia, etc. When your doctor falls, buy you a box