Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE NATIONAL The white dress and white suit parade was not carried out as intended owing to a funeral at 2:30. A short parade by the "boy cadets" and the small children was held at 4:00 o'clock, followed by a sacred program, was a feature of the day. A short program was rendered at 7:30 p. m., during the B. Y. P. U., by local and visiting talent. Then Rev. William Moody read the scripture lesson and introduced Rev. D. Parrish of Mound City, who preached the closing sermon of the convention. Following the sermon, the collection was taken and farewell handshake given. Subscribe for Gazette MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Sunday was a busy day for the officers and messengers of the Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday school convention. Memorial exercises were conducted by Revs. C. W. Norment, D. Parrish, E. S. B. /McCraary and F. Bomar at 11:00 o'clock. The total amount raised during the convention was $216.10, thus placing Metropolis ahead of the other cities so far as finance and attendance. The next meeting will be held with Unity Baptist Sunday school in Brookport, 1919. Following is a partial list of messengers who attended the convention: Dennis Farrow, Cairo; J. W. Corneal, Centralia; J. H. Hilly, M. Duncan, Geneva Ramsey, Colp; C. W. Norment, Lola Autra, Eva Aultra, Edith Toney, Carbondale; Helen Dement, J. W. Harris, Roderick Cecil Thomas, Sallie Jones, Ellen Dorothy Shoffner, Ruby Louise Harkins, Duquoin; Ollie Lawton, Olivia Anderson, Future City; E. E. Kelly, East St. Louis; Della Hill, Verniece Cuffy, Mounds; D. Parrish, Mound City; M. L. Washington, Mabel Lee Williams, W. H. Carter, Centralia; Rachel Smith, Sparta; Mattie Bradford, Emma Farrow, Tennie Watson, F. Bosmar, Prof. Singleton, Hester Taylor, Cairo; John Bruen, Malme Johnson, Mt. Vernon; Hazel Howard, Mary Ceigler, Jeppa; Daisy E Long, Jewel Long, Viola Blackwell, Belgrade; Elen White, Ruth Donlow, Nora Taylor, Brookport; Iola Wequhart, Alice B. Wequhart, Rev William Moody, Nettie Blackwell, Lee Belle Duke, Bernstein Kimball Adelaide McCrary, Ruth Nicholls, J. B. McCrary, E. S. B. McCrary, Metropolis. Editor Gazette: Please permit to say the circles of the East Mt. Olive Baptist association that your representative in the General Missionary Baptist State work of the Women that we enjoyed a grand meeting and nave back seeing a greater need to advance the Master's cause Now sisters let us bestir ourselves for annual session of the association which meets in Golconda, with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, Golconda, Tuesday before the 2nd Sunday in August. We hope to see a greater number than ever. I went to Hallidayboro, on the 1st Sunday in June and organized the circle in Mt. Zion Baptist church, they appeared to be highly elated over the work. Sisters, let us reach the $100. mark this year. May the Lord bless you all in your noble effort. Iam yours in his Name, M. J. O. Conner. MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS 'FALL WHERE THEY MAY.' NEGRO JUNE IS NATIONAL WAR SAVING THE TORCH OF PLEDGE YOUR SAVE A WAR SAVING THAT THERE MORE MONEY, LABOR, TO PRIOR FOR THOUS FIGHT R National Negro Business League. Goleconda, Ill., June 25, 1918 * Editor J. B. McCrary. Permit us to say in the columns of your paper that the East Mt. Olive Baptist S. S. Convention has just closed a very pleasant and profitable session with the Mt. Zion S. S., Hallidayboro. Elder H. C. Armstead and his people did themselves credit in the way they cared for the delegation. Strange to say that ElH. Armstead and the writer were the only ministers present the first day. We missed the brethren very much, but the work went on just the same. Elder McWilliams State missionary, and Elder Thos. Morris put in their appearance on Thursday, Rev. J. H. McQuern of Dewmaine fresh from the S. S. Congress which met in Alexandria, La., rounded in on the same day and gave much inspiration to the convention on the work of the Congress. He attended because he brought some of it Lack with him. The informed us that the money from the Institute, B. Y. P. U. and S. S. Convention $245, Two Hundred and forty five dollars. Quite a number paid up $1 and renewed and even advanced their figures by paying in advance for this year. Cash, 60 and 90 days pledges $270.00. The S. S. and its departments contributed to Foreign, State and district missions and retains some educational money. To the entertaining pastor, S. S., church $26.50. H. E. McWilliams state missionary, $13.00 plus $3 from Central S. S. Centralia, $9.00, Mt. Pisgah, G. Tower, $4.00. The above mentioned schools especially Grand Tower, has less than 10 pupils but they usually come with $12. Grand Tower, this year $5. Central $12. We are endeavoring to carry out the scripture injunction "We that are strong, ought to bear the infirmity of the weak." From Institute Dr. J. H. Fulton, $14, Corrinthian Mt. vernon, $10 Foreign Missions $7.75, Education $7.25, District missions St. John, Carmi, $5. The convention has money enough on hand to look after the small S. S. and to help the small churches. Bro. Editor, tell 'em we are not at the top but we are rising. advanced their advance for and 90 days The S. S. and Sparta Mr. Editor: Closed $2.05 JUNE 28TH IS NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS DAY THE TORCH OF LIBERTY PLEDGE YOURSELF TO SAVE AND BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS THAT THERE MAY BE MORE MONEY, LABOR AND MATERIALS TO PROVIDE FOR THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR YOU $1.25 for notice and 50c for the subscription for the Gozette for Rev. Thos. Lassiter Dewmaine. C. C. Phillips. N B. You only sent $1.25 in your draft. Thanks, Editor. Mr. and A. C. Tranzor Entertains Saturday Eve. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Tranzor entertained the following persons at their beautiful home on 820 Broadway: J. W. Corneal, Centralia Mrs. Mattie Washington, '' '' Mabel Williams, '' Mesdames Victoria Mayes, Minnie Moore, Ada Lillard, Lavada Rodgers, Margie Taylor, Lena Phillips, Love Renfro, Rubie Orrington, Janie Patterson. Sparta Mr. Editor: I take this privilege to let you and the public know of the many good things we are trying to do in Sparta. On last Sunday our S. S. was opened at 9:30 by the Supt. W. M. Macklin. The attendance was large. The lesson was taught briefly by the teachers, and nicely reviewed by the Superintendent. Rev. M. E. Parnell, preached for us at the morning service, and chose the following words for his text, "O wrethed man that I am." Romans 7:24. At 7:40 Rev. D. G. Hutson preached for us from Jonah 1:6, subject "Call upon thy God." The Golden Leaf club will meet with Mrs. Birdie Terry; Carnation club at the home of Miss Amanda Haynes. The Dalphen Chapter of the Eastern Star will give a banquet on the New Hope church lawn Saturday June 29th. Mrs. Mattie Phearson is visiting her daughter in Freeman Ill. Mrs. Josephine Fisher, united in full fellowship with the New Hope church. J. J. Taylor Reporter. PLANES IDENTIFIED BY TUNE Discovery Made by American Proves Extremely Vulnerable to British Aviation Service. Air raids on London are no longer the sure-fire stuff for heartening the German people that they once were. Lately the raiders usually find that they can raid up to the English coast and then have to raid right back home again. A young American is given credit for the success of the British in surrounding their capital with a shrapnel barrage whenever the German flyers approach. A Brooklyn youth who had enlisted in the British aviation service was assigned to test out an airplane detector which was expected to discover the approach of airplanes before they could be heard, so to speak, with the naked eye. No one expected that the device would make it possible to tell whether the approaching plane were German or British. His musical studies had trained the American's hearing to a high degree, however. He listened through the instrument for several days while only British planes flew within its range. Then he heard a different note. A German raiding squadron was approaching. The American had discovered that British planes hum in G-minor. He found that the German raiders are tuned in B-flat. Now the British aviation service keeps men about the capital with their ears close to detectors, and whenever airplanes are heard vibrating in B-flat a barrage is immediately ordered. Took the Biscuit. The Mudcumbe Prevaricating and Debating society was in session, and all was proceeding peacefully and harmoniously, till the rat-story man spoke. "Some people," he said, "consider the rat hasn't got much sense; but they're wrong. For instance, once I saw a mother place her year-old babe in front of the cottage to sun himself, and, to keep his spirits up, she gave the little chap a big feeding bottle of milk. As I watched I saw a rat rceep up to the child, and my heart was in my mouth. I feared for the baby. But, bless you, the rat was only after the milk! He just slipped the teat out of the child's mouth and into his own, and then thoughtfully put the end of his tail into the child's mouth by way of a comforter!" With a great sigh the president handed him the biscuit—London Tit-Bits. LEAGUE The First Time The first time in the history of the establishment of The Gazette we were ever accused of publishing lies, was at the Baptist State Convention which met in Cairo, a few days ago. This was because we could not be used a "cat's paw," by our friends who do not stand for Landmarkism. They are our friends, but are too liberal in their view. We stand for all that Jesus Christ and his Apostles stood for, no more, no less, regardless of friends or foes. We we were invited to the Cairo meeting by some of the leaders as they stated that they wished to make the Gazette an Organ for the convention, but, as they could not use us, then they tried to kill us. But you those foxes, we are too well known in Southern Illinois for truth and veracity for them to mislead the strong and stalwart Baptist from the true principles of Jesus Christ by an offer an office or for popularity. We have been a life time contending for the "Faith delivered to the saints." and cannot be loosed from our Baptist moorings because of the principle and truths taught. "Mhus you have made the commandment of God of no effect, by your tradition." I they see it in the Gazette, they know it is true. The Baptist State Convention, which met in Cairo, was a frost! It was built upon wind and misrepresentation and could not stand and was really a misnomer from the information we get from both sides. They stated that the high railroad rates kept back the delegation and churches. Abuse and misrepresentation can't win Doctors. It is reported that the meeting was less in importance, finance and in attendance than our district S. S. convention. The ministers who called Phillips, Washington and McCrazy, pet names at the Cairo meeting, simply advertised our goods and sent them skyward as we have secured some new subscribers from Cairo. The General Baptist State Association which met in Chicago in May raised $700.34 and we are going to raise $1500. next year at Springfield. We lead others follow. The thanks of our people are due the Metropolis Daily News for the liberal use of space and prominence in its columns given to reports of the Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday School Convention. We were given the same consideration and courtesy as if the convention had been held by our white brethren. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION Petition For Pardon Public Notice is hereby given, that Horace Landers, 7452 R, convicted of Murder at the December Term, A. D. 1900, of the Circuit Court of Massac County, and sentenced to the Penitentiary at Chester Illinois, for the crime of Murder for term of his life, will apply at the July Term, 1918 of the State Board of Pardons to the Governor of the State of Illinois for a Pardon. Read The Gazette. George L. B. McCrary, Leaves For Wendell Philips* School, Chicago, Sunday Afternoon To Take Special Training for Service in France. U. S. Pays All Expenses. George Langston Bruce McCrary, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary, leaves for Chicago, Sunday afternoon, June 30, where he takes a special course in the Wendell Phillips' School or Government service in France. He is in Class 1 but volunteered to at this time as he has not been called yet. Only one colored is to attend this school from each county in Southern Illinois out of Class 1 and he must be a graduate from some High School. He will receive a soldier's pay and all expenses paid by U. S. May he carry the God of his mother and father with him is our prayer and be returned to our embrace sound and well after the war is ended if not soon. Noted Architect Receives Degree. Prof. John A. Lankford, the noted architect and mechanical engineer, the pioneer in his profession among our people in the U. S. to practice the profession of architecture as a livelihood has just received the degree of LL. B. (Bachelor of Law) from the Fre-linghysen University, Washington, D. C. He also had the honor of being president of his class. Gone To Camp Taylor. Ninety one of Massac's boys left the county Tuesday a.m. for Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. The Mayor of the city declared a holiday for more than an hour when the merchants and citizens made their way to Franklin Park. Rev. Southgate, of the Christian church and Ex-Senator D. W. Helm made excellent addresses. These ninety-one boys left the city merry and jolly wite their minds centered on the one thing, "getting the Kaiser." We have been reliably informed that Massac yet has 51 whites and 61 colored to enter camp out of class 1. Edmund E. Foss Visits Metropolis. Edmund E. Foss Visits Metropolis. Congressman Edmund Foss, of Chicago, canidate for the U. S. Senate from Illinois was in the city and presented his claims to the voters at the Court House, Wednesday eve, at 8:00 p. m. Hon. Mr. Foss has had 22 years experience as a legislator and is now seeking this high and lofty office as U. S. Senator upon his merits. He served on several of the most important committees and in all cases performed his duties to perfection. Page Two Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, - - - - ILL. MRS. M. J. MCCRARY, MANAGER FRIDAY JUNE 28, 1918. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B.McCRAY, 900 Pearl St. Metropolis, Ill. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity h week TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....80 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENT. For Representative We are authorized to announce Judge K. C. Ronalds, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Legislature of the 51st Senatorial District, subject to the Primary Sept. 11th. County Judge We are authorized to announce the name of WALTER A. PHILLIPS, as a candidate for County Judge of Massac County, Ill. Subject to the Republican Primary September 11, 1918. We are authorized to announce the name of Judge W. F. Smith, as a candidate for County Judge of Massac County, Ill., subject to the Republican Primary September 11, 1918. We are authorized to announce Fred Smith as a candidate for County Judge of Massac County. Ill., subject to the Republican Primary September 11th, 1918. For Sherriff We are authorized to announce the name of W. F. Cummings, as a candidate for Sheriff of Massac County, Ill., subject to the Rupublican Primary September 11, 1918. We are authorized to announce the name of Loren Smith, as a candidate for Sheriff of Massac county Illinois subject to the Republican Primary September 11, 1918. For County Clerk. We are authorized to announce Henry Morrow, as a candidate for the nomination for County Clerk, on the Republican ticket at the September Primary election. We are authorized to announce Fred Risinger, as a candidate for the nomination of County Clerk, on the Republican ticket, at the September Primary election. Assessor and Treasurer. We are authorized to announce John Kotter, as a candidate for Assessor and Treasurer of Massac County, Subject to the Republican Primary Sept. 11th. We are authorized to announce Elmer Brown, as a candidate for Assessor and Treasurer of Massac County, subject to the Republican Primary Sept. 11th. County Superintendent. We are authorized to announce T. F. McCatnrey, as a candidate for the nomination for County Superintendent of Schools, of Massac County, Ill., on the Republican Ticket at the September Primary election. We are authorized to announce F. C. Prowdley, as a candidate for the nomination for County Superintendent of Schools on the Republican ticket at the September Primary election. FOR COMMISSIONER We are authorized to announce the name of Chris Walbright, as a candidate for County Commissioner. Election September, 11th. Don't try to lug political matter in our paper without paying the price because we cannot afford it. 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We want to put The Gazette into every home in the city within 30 days. Will you help us neighbor? Special inducements will be given. Let every reader help us to get subscribers. Build up your Race Enterprise. 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. Harmon Smitn, still remains quite feeble. The members of Unity Baptist church Brookport, are soliciting money to to stucco the gables of their church, the first of July. Remember, the paper is $1.50 per year. The paper has taken another raise, postage will be higher, 3c for stamps and 2c for post cards. please pay up. Mes. Maggie Williams of Eddyville, Ky., is in the city visiting her cousin Mrs. G. E. Williamson who has been quite sick but is improving slowly, visited our office and contributed financially on subscription. Thanks, come again soon. The editor will preach at Belgrade Sunday afternoon and at Brookport at night. Be sure and hear him. N. Culp, of W 9th St. is in Clinton, Tenn. on business this week. Richard Lassiter, formerly of this city, but now of Cairo, attended the Mt. Olive S. S. Convention Saturday and Sunday, returning home Wednesday. Prof. Singleton. Principal of the Sumner High School, Cairo, was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday on business connected with Congressman Foss' Senatorial Campaign. Mrs. Cora Allen, is sick this week. Wallace Bell was in Paducah Thursday. Mrs. Deborah Wilson, who has been in Paducah, Ky. more than a week is visiting her parents. Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Moody, were called to Arkansas Tuesday on account of the serious illness of their daughter. We trust she has improved. Miss Izora Rodgers, left Tuesday for Carbondale to attend the S. S. Convention of the Cairo district. Miss Rodgers is the delegate from the St. Paul A. M. E. S. S. this city. Eugene Jefferson, and Mesdames Mamie Jefferson and Princess Bell were Paducah shoppers Monday. Berry Upshaw, left Thursday last for Rockford to visit his sons. Mr. and Mrs. John Jefferson, Mesdames Effie Brown and children and Mamie Jefferson, Eugene Jefferson and son, accompanied the body of their daughter and METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. sister Mrs. Lillian Carter, who died in East St. Louis Thursday last and was shipped to the city Saturday for burial Sunday. The funeral was attended from the A. M. E. church. Rev. I. S. Stone officiating. Silver Crown Lodge no 26. F. and A. M. observed St. John's Day Sunday afternoon at the Antioch Baptist church. Rev. M. S. McCauley preached the sermon. Mrs Belle Tyson, of Princeton, Ky. who was in the city visiting her daughters Mesdames Lee R. Duke and Adelaide McCrary, returned home Monday being accomphnied by her grand-daughter Thelma Harris, also of Princeton, Ky who visited her cousin Necie Belle Duke while in the city. Mrs. Ruth Nichols, has as her guest this week, her sister, Miss Myrtle Hines, of Hartford, Ky. Mrs. America Kelley, the widow of the late Rev. Benj. Kelley, East St. Louis arrived in the city to stay indefinitely. Mesdames Lee Belle Duke and Minnie Newell, who have been indisposed for the past week are much improved. We appreciated the lovely flowers given us by Mrs. L. A. Mitchell of this city. Judge K. C. Ronalds, of Eldorado, Canidate for the Legislature was in the city Wednesday pressing his claims. Any one writing to this office on private matter and requiring an answer must enclose a stamp Fred R. Young, Attorney Administrator's Notice. Estate of Fred Briscoe, deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed Administratrix of the estate of Fred Briscoe late of the County of Massac and the State of Illinois, deceased, hereby give notice that she will appear before the County Court of Massac County at the Court House in Metropolis, at the August Term on the first Monday in August next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 28th day of May, A. D. 1918. Rosetta Briscoe Administratrix. KINKY Hair Made to Grow. Long, Soft, and Silky AMY STARKS says her hair was happy and soft and she used Exelento, and now she can comb it, and make it shine long, soft and silky. Don't be fooled all your life by using some fake preparation which claims to straighten kinky hair. You are just fooling yourself by using it. Kinky hair cannot be made straight. 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How City Police Captain Dealt With Runaway Girl. Brief Tour Sufficed to Make Her Acquainted With New York, and She Realized It Was Not All That She Had Pictured. How Minnie, tired of the prosaic life in her little home town, ran away to New York and how the New York police found her and returned her to her parents—is one of the incidents described by Zoe Beckley in an article in the People's Home Journal on "New York—the Port of Missing Girls and Boys," Minnie's parents had wired the New York police, and Capt. Grant Williams of the missing persons bureau, by methods the police keep secret, had located Minnie. The rest of the incident gives a picture of modern police methods rarely presented to the public. At half-past seven that same morning, writes Miss Beckley, Minnie Barnell, lying awake and worried in a little room in an obscure New York hotel, was an astonished girl when she heard a sharp "rat-tat-tat!" at her door and a voice saying, "It's all right, Minnie; I'm a friend with a message from home." Minnie sat up and blinked. A short white later she was looking into the face of a stranger, mild of manner and kind of eye. He was the sort of man Minnie had heard give stereopticon lectures in her home church many a time—a man easy to talk to, because you instinctively trusted him and felt he would understand. Still—there was a certain keen, steady look in his brown eyes. Minnie was angry. "Who are you, anyhow?" she flung defiantly. "What right have you to come here?" "My name is Williams—Grant Williams. I'm from police headquarters." Minnie's face flushed hotly. "You're going to try to send me home!" she cried. "Well, I won't go. You can arrest me if you like, but I won't go back. They've just sent for me out of meanness. Well, I can be mean, too! I've slaved all I'm going to. I've never seen anything or been anywhere or done anything in my life but work and slave and sit home. Now I've a chance to go with a musical show. I'm going to play the xylophone. I can earn good money. I won't go home! And what are you going to do about it?" "Well," answered Williams, rubbing his chin. "I don't want to send you home against your will., But your mother's pretty sick. Suppose we have some breakfast first, and talk it over? I'll wait for you downstairs." After coffee and ham and eggs at a nearby restaurant, Minnie's sullen anger relaxed a little. She found herself telling this man from headquarters about her home and her work as stenographer at ten dollars a week, and how tied down she was by reason of her mother's invalidism and her father's sternness. And how she longed "to see something." "Good!" said Williams. "I'll show you New York." The girl's eyes widened. The captain slipped away a moment and wired Jonas Barnell; "Minnie found. Safe. Meet us at Grand Central at 4 p.m." Then he started out with Minnie. They rode on a street car to Pattery park; visited the aquarium; walked up the wondrous cayon of Brondway; saw Wall street and the stock exchange, and Trinity church dwarfed among the skyscrapers. They passed the Singer tower and the Woolworth building, the ancient post office and the beautiful city hall. Newspaper row and the Bowery, dim and grim, were pointed out—and Minnie forgot her appointment with the musical show manager. With her unusual guide she took another street car that turned east on Delancey street, revealing a seething tenement district the like of which she had not pictured in her wildest dreams. She saw a single block where more people lived than in her whole town. She saw more poverty, more evidences of privation and sorrow than she believed existed in the world, let alone New York, the city of millions. They went uptown and took a dash through Fifth avenue, skimmed Forty-second street and glimpsed Broadway. Minnie's defiance had melted away. In its place was the weariness of the satisfied sightseer. She declined positively to have lunchon, saying that she preferred to have it on the train going home with her father. Minnie was back home before midnight, her mother's glad tears upon her cheek, her shoulder warm from her dad's hard hug. She went to work Monday morning as usual. Her employer never even knew she had beer away. "At an expense of exactly one dollar—breakfast and carfares," grinned Captain Williams, telling me the story as we sat in his office at headquarters. "Minnie Barnell was cured of the obsession that made her wretched at home! It's amazing how easily the human mind unkinks itself as soon as it has the least normal outlet. Minnie wanted to see 'life.' New York represented 'life' to her." Ash Trees for Airplanes. The appeal of the Aerial League of the British empire to landowners to offer their ash trees for aeronautical purposes has resulted in between three and four thousand trees being offered within the last few weeks, according to Flight. The government requirements in the next 12 months are expected to exceed 200,000 trees. John Galsworthy Describes the Poilu at His Best. Glad of Opportunity to Divide Rations and Make Friends With Four-footed Creature That Had Evidently Known Suffering. The sun, boring into his spine through his thin shirt, made him reach for his jacket. There was the little dog still sitting on its base, 20 yards away. It covered and dropped its ears when he moved, and he thought: "Poor beast! Some one has been doing the devil's work on you, not badly." There were some biscuit in the pocket of his jacket, and he held one out. The dog shivered and its pink tongue lolled panting with desire and fear. Jean Liotard tossed the biscuit gently about half way. The dog covered back a step or two, crept forward three, and again squatted. Then very gradually it crept up to the biscuit, bolted it, and regained its distance. The soldier took out another. This time he throw it five paces only in front of him. Again the little beast covered, slunk forward, seized the biscuit, devoured it; but this time it only recoiled a pace or two, and seemed, with panting mouth and faint wagging of the tail, to beg for more. Jean Llotard held a third biscuit as far in front of him as he could, and waited. The creature crept forward and squatted just out of reach. There it sat, with saliva dropping from its mouth; seemingly it could not make up its mind to that awful venture. The soldier sat motionless; his outstretched hand began to tire, but he did not budge—he meant to conquer its fear. At last it snatched the biscuit. Jean Liotard instantly held out a fourth. That, too, was snatched, but at the fifth he was able to touch the dog. It covered almost into the ground at the touch of his fingers, and then lay, still trembling violently, while the soldier continued to stroke its head and ears. And suddenly his heart gave a twitter; the creature had licked his hand. He took out his last biscuit, broke it up and fed the dog slowly with the bits, talking all the time; when the last crumb was gone he continued to murmur and crumple its ears softly. He had become aware of something happening within the dog—something in the nature of conversation, as if it were saying: "Master, my new master!—I worship, I love you!" The creature came gradually closer, quite close; then put up its sharp, black nose and began to lick his face—From "lafard," by John Galsworthy, in Scribner's. Liberty Cycle's Wheels. One of the outstanding features of the Liberjy motorcycle, the standardized machine developed by the quartermaster corps for army service in France, is the interchangeability of its wheels, says the Popular Mechanics Magazine in an illustrated article. A spare wheel, to be carried on the sidecar, will take the place of any one of the three wheels in case of an emergency. Furthermore, such a change can be made in less than 1 minute. On either side are transverse tongues which fit into grooves in the driving-sprocket and brake-drum mechanisms carried on opposite protrons of the rear fork. In mounting the wheel it is only necessary to slide it into place and lock it with a knock-out axle, which consists simply of a central bolt and nut. Protect the Birds. Saving the long birds of France is the object of a plan proposed by M. Andre Godart, a Parisian. M. Godart calls attention to the scarcity of birds in France, due to insufficient protection, and the consequent loss to grape growers of the Gironde in 1910 of 40,000,000 of frenes, as well as a decrease in the oil production of southern France, so great that the olive growers threatened to abandon the industry. He suggests that goldfinches, bull finches, linnetes, yellowhammers, thrushes, blackbirds and starlings, all of which nest readily in gardens, be reared in large and specially designed aviaries and released when full grown to repopulate the now deserted woods and fields. Presidents Who Were Soldiers Presidents Who Were Soldiers. More than half of our presidents have served as soldiers. Washington and Monroe were soldiers in the Revolutionary war; Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and Buchanan in the war of 1812; Lincoln in the Black Hawk war; Taylor, Pierce and Grant in the Mexican war; Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison and McKinley in the Civil war; Roosevelt in the war with Spain. Rich Ore Discovery Montana is the latest state to report wonderful discoveries of manganese ore. There is great excitement in that state over an alleged marvelous discovery at a mine where already about 1,000,000 tops of this precious ore are in sight. In view of the many exaggerated reports concerning manganese ore that have been circulated in the United States since the war began, the report may mean little more than some of the others. Norway Encourages Development. Norway Encourages Development. The Norwegian government has appropriated $7,000,000 to assist intensive agricultural development. Of this amount $4,500,000 is to maintain low maximum prices for cattle feed and fertilizer. HAWK NO MATCH FOR CROWS Cunning Creatures, by Clever Strategy, Stole Titbit From the Claws of Bird of Prey. Travelers in the Orient have much to say about the Indian crow, a bird that for uncanny knowingness and frankish audacity has perhaps no equal. Corvus splendens—thus have ornithologists labeled him; but a famous naturalist who knows the breed at first hand has called them "shreds of Satan, cinders from Tartarus." To give these impish creatures their due, however, it should be said that life in India is not a little enlivened by their presence. Here is a characteristic incident in this relation; A small hawk had seized a little bird and perched on a leafless branch to devour his prey. The spectacle drew two crows to the spot. They hopped and flapped from branch to branch, noisily discussing the strategy of their intended raid. Then one of them quietly slipped away through the surrounding foliage. At the same time his mate flew in front of the perching hawk, and hovering steadily within a foot of his beak maintained a bustling menace of snatching the tittib. That effectively compelled the attention of the hawk. His prey grasped firmly beneath his feet, he angrily hissed and lunged at the hovering nuisance. So lively was the skirmish that the human onlooker forgot the existence of the second crow. But now that wily bird reappeared some distance in the rear of his destined victim. With stealthy siddlings and short, noiseless flights he drew near. Then he made a swift dash, seized the hawk's long, barred tail by the tip, hung on with his full weight and topped the luckless hawk in a complete-back somersault from the branch. The released tibbit was instantly seized by the first crow, and the clever pair bore off their booby with much trumpphant cawing. No "Mayflowers" in London? If there are in England any descendants of the little band of Pilgrims who sailed in the Mayflower 258 years ago, they are difficult to discover. An American woman living in London has been trying to find them, and with that object she inserted advertisements asking any "Mayflowers" now in London to meet her at a hotel at a certain hour. The appointed hour came, and the American woman waited. A moving picture photographer, several newspaper photographers and a dozen reporters arrived and were mistakenly and enthusiastically greeted as Mayflowers. There was an air of eager expectancy and suppressed excitement. Everybody waited for 45 minutes, but not a single Mayflower appeared. There were signs of disappointment. "But there must be some Mayflowers in London," said the American woman to the reporters. "I can't be the only one." She looked again at the door, but there was no sound of footsteps and the meeting adjourned. Rebuilding German Population. Rebuilding German Population. All questions relating to rebuilding of the shattered Germanic populations engage uncensuring attention. There has just been another German-Austro-Hungarian medical congress on the subject in Berlin. Eminent physicians and surgeons pointed out that, while there was a vast deal that their profession and the public health authorities could do to help in the repopulation of the two states, liberal social legislation by their governments was an equally important factor. Education must be cheapened, the cost of living, so far as rearing children is concerned, must be reduced by every possible means; taxation must be readjusted so that the lower and middle classes will henceforth bear the minimum burden; housing reform was urgently called for, and ways and means had to be found for permitting more people to share the benefits of food-producing land. American Shoes for Japan. Japanese women are not so quick to adopt occidental styles as are Japanese men, but the upper-class women do wear modern dress and footwear at social functions where European or American women are likely to be present in any considerable number. "With effort a few American shoes can be sold in Japan now, and the effort ought to be made for the good of the future, for the market will undoubtedly be inviting within the next ten or fifteen years," says C. E. Bosworth, trade commissioner of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. "Although there are many shops where modern footwear is made there are few places where ready-to-wear footwear is stocked. Commercial patriotism should keep American shoes in the market." Life Prolonged by Rigid Diet Life Prolonged by Rigid Diet. General Booth (IL), who is sixty-two, has no grounds for disagreement with the food controller, the London Chronicle remarks, for he has for many years proved the wisdom of observing a strict dietary. At fourteen his life was despaired of; at seventeen the doctors gravely announced that he would not see twenty-one, and for three or four years he could not even walk upstairs without assistance. By adopting a rigid vegetarian regimen and resolving to keep himself alive by hard work, he attained a healthy middle age and today, notwithstanding the pressure of war work in which the Salvation army is engaged, he maintains extraordinary vigor. --- Now is the time to buy Clothing, Dry Goods and Shoes for the Whole Family Kreb's Big Unloading Sale Started Saturday Morning June 22 We bought too heavy and now must unload. We are willing to give you the benefit of our foresight in buying goods before the great advance in prices. Compare our prices with others and see the great saving to you by buying from Krebs' Clothing Co. Space will not permit in quoting many prices. You come in to see in order to appreciate these wonderful bargains. Sale started Saturday Morning, June 22 Us Soft Shirts, 75c and $1 values Sale Price ..... 63c Us Work Shirts, good 75c values Sale Price ..... 63c Us Work Shirts, good $1.00 values Sale Price ..... 73c Us Dress Shirts, good 75c and 00 values. Sale Price ..... 63c Us Dress Shirts, good $1.50 values Sale Price ..... 98c Shattan Shirts, $2.00 and $2.50 Values. Sale Price ..... $1.43 Men's Soft Shirts, 75c and $1 values Sale Price .....63c Men's Work Shirts, good 75c values Sale Price .....63c Men's Work Shirts, good $1.00 values Sale Price .....73c Men's Dress Shirts, good 75c and $1.00 values, Sale Price .....63c Men's Dress Shirts, good $1.50 values Sale Price .....98c Manhattan Shirts, $2.00 and $2.50 values, Sale Price .....$1.43 MEN'S UNDERWEAR Us Underwear, 75c grade, B. V. D. Sale. Sale Price ..... 63d Us genuine B. V. D. Union Suits, North $1.25. Sale Price ..... 98d Using Underwear, $1.50 grade. Sale Price ..... $1.23 Using Underwear, $2.00 grade Sale Price ..... $1.63 Briggan Shirts and Drawers Sale Price ..... 44d Us Knit Shirts and Drawers Sale Price ..... 44d OVERALLS Grade Finke Detroit Specials and Radlight, $2.50 values. Sale Price $1.98 MEN'S FURNISHINGS Suspenders. Sale Price . 23c Suspenders. Sale Price . 44c Belts. Sale Price . 23c Belts. Sale Price . 44c Handkerchiefs. Sale Price, 2 for 15c Neckwear. Sale Price . 23c 50c and 75c Neckwear e Price, all at. each, 44c R SAVINGS STAMP DAY CAL GOVERNOR LOWDEN VE URGES ALL CITIZENS TO MEET ON J SIGN PLEDGES AS IS ASKED BY THE PRESIDENT MP DAY CALL BY LOWDEN IS TO MEET ON JUNE 28 AND IS ASKED BY IDENT 35c Suspenders. Sale Price ..... 23c 50c Suspenders. Sale Price ..... 44c 35c Belts. Sale Price ..... 23c 50c Belts. Sale Price ..... 44c 10c Handkerchiefs. Sale Price, 2 for 15c 35c Neckwear. Sale Price ..... 23c 50c, 60c and 75c Neckwear WAR SAVINGS STAMP DAY CALL BY GOVERNOR LOWDEN EXECUTIVE URGES ALL CITIZENS TO MEET ON JUNE 28 AND SIGN PLEDGES AS IS ASKED BY THE PRESIDENT By GOVERNOR FRANK O. LOWDEN President has fixed June 28th as the Stamp Day. The War Savings campaign is one. It will determine how generally one is getting in the war. Human power is now rapidly moving to the Liberty Loans have been taken with great success, millions of our people who can no longer battle lines nor subscribe to Liberty Boats are none, however, within our borders. Stamps or War Savings Certificates. Skill of our military lines are the patriotic force, completely these latter are mobilized, the become our forces at the front. There can be of our second line of defense than the num- bern Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certificates the purchase of these securities upon term- in even the Liberty Bonds can be bought, and are given an advantage over the gren- so avail themselves of this opportunity se- curity, but serve themselves as well. Ha- tomy will be formed, and thrift and econ- ociary to win the war, but will also be the health. BIGGE UPON THE MEN AND WOMEN AND NOISE THAT, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 11. ON FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918, ALL WHO BEFORE DONE SO REPAIR TO THE NEAR- STATION PROVIDED BY THE WAR SAV- FOR ILLINOIS, AND THERE SIGN WORK CARDS. IN THIS WAY ILLINOIS CAN BE THEART AND SOUL BACK OF HER SOLDINES is declared that the pie was the flavor of the sparrow. To chicken and equal to "I admire a liar," Washington boys found this "even when his pre- to in their secret sparrow my credulity. Are dozens of these tidbits "A friend of min- on wires before the blaze efforts to pry into him by these sparrow pirates, recently limped into a sparrow is a simple mat- "What's the mat- ing the breast away from all I asked, more to h- and skinning. Special traps cause I cared what I catching sparrows. These "Then he gained our favorite rookeries and a display of nery sparrows are caught at a equaled. In June 28th as National War Savings campaign is a most show generally our people are only moving to the battle front. With great success. There people who can neither play a role to Liberty Bonds. Within our borders, who cannot signs Certificates. Are the patriotic forces at home. Are mobilized, the more irre- front. There can be no better sense than the number of those War Savings Certificates. Durities upon terms more favor- can be bought, the humblest usage over the great bankers. His opportunity serve not only lives as well. Habits of thrift and thrift and economy are not but will also be the basis of our AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN THE HOURS OF NOON AND 1918, ALL WHO HAVE NOT ART TO THE NEAREST PLACE BY THE WAR SAVINGS COM- HERE SIGN WAR SAVINGS ILLINOIS CAN SHOW THAT OF HER SOLDIERS AT THE Such a Plausible Lie. "I admire a liar," said a clubman, even when his prevarications strain my credulity. "A friend of mine, who objects to efforts to pry into his personal affairs recently limped into my place. "What's the matter with your feet? asked, more to be polite than because I cared what was the trouble. "Then he gained my admiration by display of nerve I never saw equaled. The President has fixed upon June 28th as National War Savings Stamp Day. The War Savings campaign is a most important one. It will determine how generally our people are participating in the war. Our man power is now rapidly moving to the battle front. Our Liberty Loans have been taken with great success. There are, however, millions of our people who can neither play a part in the battle lines nor subscribe to Liberty Bonds. There are none, however, within our borders, who cannot buy Thrift Stamps or War Savings Certificates. Back of our military lines are the patriotic forces at home. The more completely these latter are mobilized, the more irresistible become our forces at the front. There can be no better measure of our second line of defense than the number of those who shall own Thrift Stamps and War Savings Certificates. By the purchase of these securities upon terms more favorable than even the Liberty Bonds can be bought, the humblest in the land are given an advantage over the great bankers. They who avail themselves of this opportunity serve not only their country, but serve themselves as well. Habits of thrift and economy will be formed, and thrift and economy are not only necessary to win the war, but will also be the basis of our future wealth. I URGE UPON THE MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF ILLINOIS THAT, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF NOON AND TEN P. M. ON FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918, ALL WHO HAVE NOT THERETOFORE DONE SO REPAIR TO THE NEAREST PLACE OF REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY THE WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE FOR ILLINOIS, AND THERE SIGN WAR SAVINGS PLEDGE CARDS. IN THIS WAY ILLINOIS CAN SHOW THAT SHE IS HEART AND SOUL BACK OF HER SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT. good, and the linen of the sparrows was superior to chicken and equal to "I admire a liar," said a clubman, partridge. Washington boys found this "even when his prevarications strain out long ago in their secret sparrow my credulity. roasts, where dozens of these tidbits "A friend of mine, who objects to were spitoned on wires before the blaze efforts to pry into his personal affairs and devoured by these food pirates, recently limped into my place. Cleaning a sparrow is a simple mat- "What's the matter with your feet? ter of cutting the breast away from all I asked, more to be polite than be other parts and skinning. Special traps cause I cared what was the trouble. are used for catching sparrows. These "Then he gained my admiration by are set near favorite rookeries and a display of nerve I never saw dozens of sparrows are caught at a equaled. "An-eel stepped on them," he said. --- MEN'S SHIRTS 50c values. Sale Price .....38c $1.00 values. Sale Price .....63c KREBS CLOTHING CO. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL STRAW HATS CAPS DRY GOODS Little Profit in Salt. A recent investigation by the bureau of mines proves that a salt famine in the United States is unlikely, says the Popular Science Monthly. At the same time it was established that owing to the low price of salt and the abundance of its supply there is but little profit in the salt industry, although the American salt works have supplied in recent years practically all the salt consumed in the United States. What a pity—for the profiteers—salt is not used in munitions! How He Knew. Officer (examining German prisoner)—So you knew there were Americans in the trenches opposite you, did you? How did you come to find out? G. P. D—dot voss eesy, Herr Oberselt! It voss all quiet dere for a long times, und dann, von morgen, we heard sompetty shunt aut. "You —!" Denn we knew dere voss Americans dere.— Stars and Stripes. Simple Menu "You don't appear to object to these food restrictions." "I don't see any restrictions worth mentioning," replied Mr. Cumrox. "I have been for years wishing I could sit down in the best restaurants and order cornbread and cabbage and potatoes right out loud." "Gun Without a Peer." What the Scientific American calls "a gun without a peer" is the new 520 millimeter mobile howitzer built by the Crpusot works for the French army. It is mounted on a railroad carriage and fires a shell 20.47 inches in diameter. It is a fort wrecker, and one shell from it is said to have sufficed to reduce Fort Malmshire, on which the Germans had spent so much time and labor, to a pile of dust and debris. Hotel Proprietor—Did you enjoy the corner playing in the next room to yours last night? Guest (savagely)—Enjoy it! I should say not. I spent half the night pounding on the wall to make the idiot stop. Proprietor—Why. Jones told me this morning you applauded every one of his pieces and he was going to send for some more music right away so that he could play for you again. Cockney Repartee. Some of the senior boys from a Vauxhall school's literary class were taken to the old Vic to see "The Merchant of Venice." When Shylock, in the court scene, was urgently demanding his pound of flesh, a bright cockney boy, in eager tones, cried out to the judge. "Hi, you! Ask him for his meat card!"—London Tit-Bits. HELP STOP THIS W.S.S. BUY W.S.S. on June 28th & KEEP HIM OUT of AMERICA The first part of the government program for The Children's Year is the weighing and measuring of all children under 6 years old and recording them on government cards provided from Washington. The parents keep half of this card, giving the normal weights of children from birth to 16 years of age, and the duplicate is sent to Washington to be tabulated there. The work will be carried on through the local units of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, with the co-operation of the doctors, nurses, schools, clubs, Parent-Teacher associations and local welfare organizations. These first government tests will be followed by other constructive work for children and mothers, including the establishment of child welfare stations and mothers conferences, extension of public health nursing, better care for mothers at maternity and protection of the growing child in school and in recreation. Sale Price $1.00 and $2.00 G CO. Metropolis. Illinois. Page Three ole Family June 22 buying goods be buying from Krebs' these wonderful MEN'S SUITS 36.50 Suits ..... $4.3 38.00 Suits ..... $5.9 410.00 Suits ..... $7.9 112.50 Suits ..... $9.9 115.00 Suits ..... $11.9 120.00 Suits ..... $15.9 125.00 Suits ..... $19.9 $4.95 $5.95 $7.95 $9.95 $11.95 $15.95 $19.95 $6.50 Suits ..... $4.95 $8.00 Suits ..... $5.95 $10.00 Suits ..... $7.95 $12.50 Suits ..... $9.95 $15.00 Suits ..... $11.95 $20.00 Suits ..... $15.95 $25.00 Suits ..... $19.95 MEN'S and LADIES' SHOES 2.00 Men's white canvass Oxford$ . $1.4 2.50 Men's white canvass Oxford$ . $1.9 3.00 Gun Metal Oxford$ . $1.9 3.50 Gun Metal Oxford$ . $2.6 4.00 Gun Metal Oxford$ . $2.9 5.00 Gun Metal Oxford$ . $3.9 LOT 1 3.00 Men's shoes $ . $1.9 LOT 2 6.00 Men's shoes $ . $3.9 4.50 Men's shoes $ . $3.7 7.50 Men's dark tan $ . $5.9 3.50 Boys" shoes $ . $2.6 LOT 3 3.00 Ladies' Oxford$ . $99 LOT 4 3.50 Ladies' Shoes and Oxford$ . $1.4 LOT 5 4.00 Ladies' Shoes and Oxford$ . $1.9 2.50 Ladies' Pumps $ . $1.9 3.00 Ladies' Pumps $ . $2.2 3.50 Ladies' Pumps $ . $2.6 5.00 Ladies' Pumps $ . $3.9 lot Children's Shoes and Oxford $1.50 and $2.00 values $ . $98 e canvass Oxford..$1.45 e canvass Oxford..$1.95 Oxford..$1.95 Oxford..$1.95 Oxford..$2.65 Oxford..$2.95 Oxford..$3.95 # LOT 1 es ..$1.95 # LOT 2 e ..$3.95 e ..$3.75 tan ..$5.95 e ..$2.65 # LOT 3 Oxford ..98c # LOT 4 es and Oxford..$1.48 # LOT 5 es and Oxford..$1.98 aps ..$1.98 aps ..$2.25 aps ..$2.65 aps ..$3.95 hoes and Oxford O values ..98c $2.00 Men's white canvass Oxfords.....$1.45 $2.50 Men's white canvass Oxfords.....$1.95 $3.00 Gun Metal Oxfords.....$1.95 $3.50 Gun Metal Oxfords.....$2.65 $4.00 Gun Metal Oxfords.....$2.95 $5.00 Gun Metal Oxfords.....$3.95 USE LESS WHEAT. The allied nations have made further increased demands on us for breadstuffs—demands that Americans are obligated to meet. In the meantime America's meat supply has been greatly increased for some months to come by the unprecedented shipping to market of hogs that averaged 232 pounds each instead of 203 pounds—the normal. The United States Food Administration, endeavoring to adjust the international food balance, promptly removed certain restrictions in this country on the use of meat and at the same time asked for a smaller consumption of breadstuffs. We are asked to observe only one meatless day each week—Tuesday. We will have larger meat stocks for awhile. But our bread ration must be held to a minimum. In altering its food conservation program the Food Administration emphasizes that the food situation is of necessity, subject to radical changes, caused by crop conditions at home and abroad and by the precarious transportation problem, both in overseas shipping and in America's overburdened transportation system. The Food Administration will keep the American people fully and frankly advised of each change in the developing situation that they may know definitely the part their food sacrifices play in the world war. Many Lambs Killed by Rattlers. Rattlers, always plentiful in parts of Washington state, are this year more numerous than in any previous season. Sheepmen are forcibly reminded of the fact by the loss of lambs. Older sheep know the menace in the tattoo of the rattlesnake, and will change their course at the sound; but the lambs are often bitten. There is nothing that can be done for the relief of a lamb which has been bitten. It dies in a little while.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Slightly Nervous. rights of children ent to Washington through the civil of National schools, clubs, stations. These instructive work of child welfare health nursing, of the growing Flanigan, a brand new soldier, was placed on guard one dark night. Failing to see another soldier approaching until he was almost beside him, Flanigan nearly jumped out of his skin but managed to quaver: "W-who goes there?" On being told the fellow's name, and finding out for sure that he wasn't going to be killed right away, says Flanigan, regaining his courage: "Advance then and give the liscount." --- Page Four Extra Ordinary Notice. To the Sunday Schools composing the Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday School Convention of Southern Illinois. Greetings: Dear Co-laborers:—The annual session will meet with the First Baptist Sunday School at Metropolis, Ill. Friday June 21, and will continue in session up to Sunday night June 23. It is hoped that every school in the district will be fully represented and prepared to pay the full quote of the school represented by the delegate sent to the convention. Do not come complaining and pleading hard times. Think of the many thousands that are in a worse condition than we are. Therefore let us all come praying and giving thanks to the Almighty for the many blessings we have received from His bountiful hand in the past year. The banner that was cast in the Colps fire will be replaced, and the S. S. making the best report will receive it. Hoping that we will all be spared to meet together in June at Metropolis, I am yours in the cause of Christ. Dennis Farrow, Pres. 429-15th St. Cairo, Ill. Ruth Donlow, Cor. Sec. Brookport, Ill. Officers of Ministers' Alliance. resident; ..... Elder .....C. W. Norment, Carbondale Vice President W. P. Washington, Mt. Vernon Recording Secretary .....J. B. McCrary, Metropolis Corresponding Secretary .....J. D. Davis, Colp Treasurer .....H. C. Armstead, Pulaski Vigilant Committee F. Bomar, Cairo P. B. French, Sparta Thos. Morris Metropolis A. J. Bowers, Dewmaine Rev. Berry Thomas, Metropolis The only way for any enter, prise to succeed is to have both moral and financial support of the friends of the race. Our slogan is to have 1000 subscribers by June. Reader will you help to reach this goal by sending in your neighbor's name with $1.50? We pay the postage. Help to make a greater Metropolis Gazette. We have just received several font of new type and have others of the way. Try our Job Department for your next job. We can serve you satisfactorily. To those who live out of town send us a job to day, and we will mail it out the first mail the next day. Special attention given to this class of work. We know what you need and our 23 years of experience enables us to please you. We would thank all of our subscribers who are in arrears for the paper to remit at once. Do unto us, as you would that others do to you. This is one part of genuine religion. May we expect to receive a post office order in the next mail. NOTICE Elder J. H. Hilly, Missionary lor Mt. Olive Baptist Associia- jon postoffice address, is Colp, II. Whatever That Is Armed with a hooked bill resembling a hawk, with a spread of wing as big as a good-sized eagle and equipped with long legs, which he carries straight behind him, a bird which Allan Irish, of Sabino, Me., says is a zyphunkquilpherz and is rare in that vicinity, has been seen frequently near Sabino. Ambassador Quick to See Attraction "Hostess House" Would Have for Americans in London. It was an amusing incident that first made the need of the hostess house apparent in London. In 1917 certain American members of a Canadian unit had business with the American ambassador, but could come to him only on Sunday. Mr. Page suggested that they come to tea at his house. Six of them arrived, and Mrs. Page poured tea in the drawing-room. It was very cheery and cordial, but somehow the business hung over. They had to meet another Sunday. This time there were ten Americans—and the business was not completed. Mr. Page suggested a third Sunday, and 20 Americans came to transact business with him on that day. During the following week he suggested that the Americans in the Canadian unit who still wished to talk to him should come to his house a fourth Sunday and wind up affairs with him, and on the fourth Sunday the Page drawing room was packed with soldiers. The ambassador told his associates about it, and one of them claffed an American who had gone there to tea. "Ambassadors are popular with you Yank's," he said. "Oh, the ambassador's all right!" conceded the American. "But we didn't attach much importance to the business. It was Mrs. Page. She served us tara around an honest-to-goodness log fire, with a tea wagon and fixings. It was great!" And there you are! Mindful of those Sundays, Mr. Page realized that with the advent of American forces in England a substitute home for them was an immediate necessity; so he was the moving spirit in the establishment by the Y. M. C. A. of the American Officers' inn at 5 Cavendish square, London. Slogans That Have Counted Slogens That Have Counted. One of the big factors in arousing the people of the United States to the great patriotic service they could perform through war gardening was through the slogans sounded from time to time, writes Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden commission, in an article in the Garden Magazine. "Every garden a munition plant," is the slogan on the design drawn by James Montgomery Flagg. "Can vegetables and fruit and can the kaiser, too," is the slogan of another striking poster. "Grow food F. O. B. the kitchen door," is one of the forceful slogans coined and used by the commission. "Hohenrakes versus Hohenzollerens" is another of the phrases which has hit the reader between the eyes. "Get into the garden frenches;" "The hoe is the machine gun of the garden;" "Food must follow the flag" are slogans that have done their bit. "Keep the home soil turning" is a clever paraphrase of the title of a famous song. Other successful phrases used by the commission are: "Speed up and spade up;" "Tune up the spading fork." Companions on Service Flag. A thirteen-star service flag has just been raised in Baltimore. It represents thirteen inseparable companions. One star is golden and honors the memory of Louis Cohen, a boatswain's mate on the United States steamer Manley, who made the supreme sacrifice when his ship and a British vessel collided somewhere in the Atlantic. The other twelve stars represent bournings companions, who are now preparing to go "over there." Four are in the navy, one at Camp McCletlan, Anniston, Ala., and another at Camp Meade, Md. The flag hangs from the window of a store kept by H. Mankoditz, at 1430 Baltimore street, where the "crowd of thirteen" used to meet before being called to the colors. Cohen was a son of Louis Cohen, living at 13 Ridger place, New York. The Manley collision occurred March 19 last. A depth charge aboard the ship was exploded by the impact, killing one officer and three enlisted men and injuring a number of others. Fresher Symbolism. Symbolism has a more direct relation to our conduct than we are always ready to grant. The old conventions of burial and of grief overemphasized the importance of physical and individual loss, and so were in themselves an obscuration of the new light we are seeking upon the marble face of death. The growing practice of wearing white rather than black for mourning, or of continuing the habitual colors of one's dress; the movement for placing upon the service flag a gold star in memory of a soldier killed, are attempts toward a fresher and truer symbolism expressing our growing protest against the depression and paralysis too often resultant upon the passage of a loved one from the known world to the unknown.—Winifred Kirkland, in Atlantic Monthly. Magnesia Cure for Cancer. The theory that cancer is not of microbial origin, but is due to the excessive elimination of certain substances normally contained in the blood, is supported by a report of the researches of Professor Dubard, just published by the French Academy of Medicine. Finding that the system of cancerous subjects was particularly poor in magnesia, Professor Dubard administered large doses of it to patients operated on for cancer, and reports encouraging results in a large number of cases. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. HAIR GROWER and BEAUTY SPECIALIST Chicago, Illinois. --- --- C. H. HON, GEORGE Candidate for the R United State The Man Wit More than Twenty years in 12 years of Naval Commi ficers-"Father of the M Committee on Foreign Aff Conceived idea and secured val Training Station, Great 000 men have been, and are Upheld American Rights of Government in all war measu Experienced legislator and President Taft at its dedication. "I congratulate Congressman Fo pletion of his labors. Those of us Washington' can understand the un essary to bring this about." The man Illinois shoul ate in this present cr This is a time when every the history of his country. GEORGE E. FOX for the Republican Nee for United States Senate Man With A Rece twenty years in the House of Naval Committee, Called by of the Modern Navy," M foreign Affairs. Idea and secured establishment of Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, w been, and are being trained. American Rights on the High Seas and in all war measures. legislator and constructive states that its dedication make the following st Congressman Foss on being able to s ors. Those of us who know how thing understand the unremitting attention t is about." Illinois should send to U, present crisis. be when every voter should be of his country. More than Twenty years in the House of Congress. 12 years of Naval Committee. Called by Naval Officers-"Father of the Modern Navy." Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs. Conceived idea and secured establishment of U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, where a 100, 000 men have been, and are being trained. Upheld American Rights on the High Seas and supported Government in all war measures. Experienced legislator and constructive statesman. President Tatt at its dedication made the following statement: "I congratulate Congressman Foss on being able to see the completion of his labors. Those of us who know how things are done at Washington' can understand the unremitting attention that was necessary to bring this about." The man Illinois should send to U. S. Senate in this present crisis. This is a time when every voter should be posted on the history of his country. Proposed Constitution of the Baptist Minister's Alliance. We, the Minister's of the Mt. Olive and East Mt. Olive Baptist District Associations of Southern Illinois, desirous of a more oneness in perpetuating the principles and Doctrines Legislated by Jesus Christ, and practiced by His Apostles, seeking by the word of God to bring ourselves, and the churches as well, more into the unity of the Faith of Jesus Christ, do now adopt the following Constitution. Sec.1. This organization shall be called the Missionary Baptist Minister's Alliance of Southern Illinois. Sec.2. Officers. Its Officers shall consist of a President, two Vice Presidents, Recorcing Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer and such committees as may conserve the best interest --- --- GE E. FOSS Republican Nomination for Senator with A Record in the House of Congress, Attee, Called by Naval Of- Modern Navy," Member of Cairs. and establishment of U. S. Na- Lakes, Illinois, where a 100, being trained. in the High Seas and supported fires. constructive statesman. make the following statement: ss on being able to see the com- who know how things are done at remitting attention that was nec- d send to U. S. Sen- isis. voter should be posted on of the body, all of which shall be elected annually by a majority vote of the body. Article 2 Membership. Sec. 1. This organization shall be composed of Missionary Baptist Ministers furnishing bonified membership in any regular Missionary Baptist Church, together with his good standing where he now pastors, or where he last pastored, or the church where he worship's with whether he ever pastored or not. Article 3. Authority. Sec. 1. This organization shall have the power to receive to, or drop from its fellowship any Minister or Ministers whom it deems worthy or unworthy of fellowship. Sec. 2. This Constitution by laws,or regulations, shall by no means conflict with the rules and regulations of the two Associaitons namely Mt. Olive and East Mt. Olive. Subscribe for The Gazette. OUR JOB OFFICE We have had over 23 years of Active Experience in the printing office and will give you the benefit of same just for the asking on that next job of yours. "Let Us Show You." Try us. We print from a visiting card to a large size poster. 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