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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE MINGO LONG. CELEBRATES HIS EIGHTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. VOLUME XXIII REW MINGO LON FLORIDA LYNCHERS. New York, Oct. 13.—The N. A. A. C. P., 7c, Fitch Avenue, New York, announced the offer of $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons guilty of lynching four Negroes at MacClenny, Florida, recently. A statement signed by James Weldon Johnson, acting secretary, says: "The N. A. A. C. P., pursuant to its policy of fighting mob violence offers a reward of $500 payable upon conviction of any lynchers at McClenny, Florida, to the person giving the information leading to the arrest. "This latest atrocity in Florida adds weight to the evidence which this association has placed before Congress in favor of a federal law against lynching." Bethel A M.E. Churches Split in N. Y., and Chicago. Chicago.—Bethel A. M. E. church one of the nation's greatest religious congregations, having a membership of nearly 5,000 and a landmark in the progress of community life in Chicago, has been torn assunder. The break follows closely on the trouble in New York City, where the Bethel church of that community, was split and the doors closed because Bishop Hurd refused to hear the wishes of the congregation in the assignment of a pastor. Exchange. The time has come when this one man spirit or power ceases to be a virtue whether in church or politics. Religious freedom as avocated by the Baptists of the world will eventually dominate and congregational rule will be the all prevailing rule in the Methodist as well as the Baptist courches, which is fast approaching. No man has a right to Lord it over God's heritage. The time will come when the Bishop will be known by history, as there is nothing sweeter than liberty. It appears that: L. K, Willilams pastor of the famous Olivet Baptist church Chicago, has struck a snag that will wreck his boasted sea worthy craft as he has played the part of Bishop for some time but, the more enlightened and thinking class want to run the affairs of their church, which is right. Rev. H. E. McWilliams, has been appointed State financial director of Illinois for the Educacational drive for the (Unincorporated) National Baptist Convention, I have just been informed that Dr. C. C. Phillips, is the director for Southern Ill nois for the greet financial drive of $25,000 000 in ten years. Rev. J. B. McCrary, is the trustee of the National Baptist Theological Training Read The Gazette; $2.00 Body Returned for Burial. The body of James Robert Lassiter of Belgrade, son of Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Lassiter, was shipped home for burial last Tuesday. He died in England two years ago of pneumonia. At the time of his death he was oh his way to France being a member of the Pioneer Regiment. The memorial services were held at the First Baptist church this city Wednesday afternoon. Capt H. G. Burke, and a few of the ex-soldier boys acted as poll bearers. After a short talk by Rev. J. B. McCray the remains were placed in the Masonic Cemetery. Peace to his dust. New Negro Bank. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 11 — The First Standard Bank of this place has made what is believed to be a record among Colord people in the United States Its entire stock representing Capital and surplus of $110,000,00 has been sold in less than five months. In other words, Colored people themselves have bought up the entire Capital stock within less than five months-not one dollar of stock having been sold to white persons So far as available records show there is no other corporation among Colored people that has ever approached this record. Wilson Lovett is business agent of The First Standard. Passes His 85th Mile Post Many Relatives, Neighbors and Old Friends Pay Him Honor Calvin Long, of Johnsonville, Tenn., and Whittaker Long, Dickson, Tenn., Nephews, Were Present. Mr. Mingo Long, "Pap" celebrated his 85th Anniversary at the home of his son's G. W. Long, on 10th and Johnson Sts., Sunday Oct. 17th. Mr. Long, and his wife live about two miles in the country. They are two of the oldest survivors of Slavery days, he is the only living child out of a family of 14, the last one to die was a sister, Mrs. Harriet McCrary mother of the editor of this paper, who died four years ago. Both Mr. and Mrs. Long, are jolly old people and have lived at or on the same farm over fifty years and are known and highly respected by both races which was demonstrated on this his 85th birthday, by the presence of a large circle of relatives and friends which filled every room of this home. All enjoyed themselves to the fullest extent and so expressed it in glowing terms and in return the family and relatives felt highly honored with the presence of such distinguished guest who made this the 85, anniversary such a magnificient success in congratulations, and contributions and well wishes for the extension of life, prosperity Cox Wiggles and Wobbles. Candidate Cox, rocklessly charging that the Republican party had set out to corrupt the electorate by raising a fund of $15,000,000 with which to "buy the presidency," has been utterly confuted by the facts. Instead, it has been completely established that the goal fixed by Chairman Hays was only one-fifth that amount, or $3,000,000, with contributions rigidly limited to $1,000, and that never before has a campaign fund been so free from the taint of corporate, sinister or sordid influences. That an overtaxed, overburdened and weary country, paying the cost of incompetence, incapacity and extravagance in governmental affairs and mainministration at Washington, would welcome relief at any price legitimately expended may be taken for granted. But only in the wild dreams of Candidate Cox—who stands committed to Wilsonism and the wastefulness of Wilsonism, with everything that Wilsonism typifies and implies—has any such expenditure as Candidate Cox charged ever been remotely conceived or for a moment contemplated. Even his foremost newspaper champions—organs of the international banking crowd which favor his candidacy because, with equal rashness, he promises that if elected he will go into the Wilson League of Nations—editorially admit that his slush fund charges have proven groundless. Candidate Cox's credibility as a witness has similarly been damaged Candidate Cox's credibility as a witness has similarly been damaged by the wet and dry issue confronting him. To the indisputable proof that the New Jersey Liquor Dealers' Association is appealing for funds to elect him as a "pronounced wet" he replies that the liquor interests of Ohio never contributed to any of his campaigns. Yet a sworn statement, signed by the secretary of the Ohio Liquor Dealers' Association and on file in the secretary of state's office, shows that that organization contributed a substantial sum out of its treasury to the Cox campaign of 1916. And in the face of it all, having withstood for months, in silence, William Jennings Bryan's denunciation of him as a "wet" and unfit to run for president, Candidate Cox, with characteristic audacity, now assures a North Dakota crowd that "I have always voted dry!" Shade of John Barleycorn! What a spectacle is presented in American politics! and happiness. Meesrs Calvin Long, of Johnsonville, Tenn., the oldest living nephew and Whittaker Long, of Dickson, Tenn., a nephew were among the many relatives present composed of sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandsons, grand daughters, great grand-sons and great grand daughters galore and the family register showed a great many more absent than present. After the usual exchange of greeting and good fellowship refreshments were served and a friendly handshake and a pleasant good bye followed. Following are the names of the persons and the amounts contributed: Rev. B. C. Long, $1 00. Mrs. Georgia Hughes $1.00. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett, 50c. Geo. Jameson, 25c. Mrs Laura Hutchison, 25c. Mrs. Georgia Martin, 25c. J. B. McCrary, 25c. Rev. and Mrs. Harmon, 50c. Mr. and Mrs. Ontrue Cowper, 25c. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Upshaw, 50c. Mrs. Ella Warfield, 25c. Mrs. Addie Adams, 25c. Mrs. Vienna Ford, 25c. Mrs. Nancy Turner, 25c. Mrs. Elzia Campbell, 50c. Mrs. Norris Colp, 25c. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Long, 85c. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Donlow, 50c. Mrs. Mary Broyles, Sugar, Rev. and Mrs. G. T. Hamilton, 50c. Calvin Long, Tie 75c. Whittakea Long, Socks $1.50. Mrs. Narcis Lowery, 25c. Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler, 25c. Mrs. H. Groves and mother, 50c. Frank Mills, 25c. Mrs. Beulah Dallas, 25c. Mrs. Annie Miller, 30c. Mrs. Ellen Buchanan, 50c. Mrs. T A. Urquhart, 25c. Mrs. Tilda Spicer, 25c. Mrs. Gussie Crossland, 25c. Mrs. Amanda Kin bail, 50c. Mrs. Eva Stah s. 25c. Geo. Cathoun, 50c. Mrs. Rachil Shannon, 25c. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, 50c. Mrs. Mary Robinson, 85c, Mrs. Mrs. Leah Reed, 25c, Joe Mayberry, 25c, E. G. Blackwell, 25c, Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Rowlett, 50c, Geo. Ford, 25c, Willis Jones, 25c, Mrs. Ella Smith, 25c, Nathan Beard, 25c, Mrs. Carrie McCrary, 25c, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maxwell, 50c, Mr. and Mrs. Will Gibbs, 50c, Hiram and Elmer Sims, $ .00, Geo, Donaldson, groceries, $1 00, Mrs. Ida Wade, 25c, Mrs. Colister Long, 1 pint of wine, Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Crippens 85c, Cyrus Crippens, 85c, Mrs. Lurania Blakemoore, 85c, Aaron Long, 85c, Miss Izora Rodgers, 50c. Executor's Notice. Estate of George R. Whittaker, deceased. The undersigned having been appointed Executrix of the last will of George R. Whittaker' late of the County of Massac and 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 December 1920 Term on the first Monday in December 1920 next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the pupose of having the same adjusted: All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 11, day of Oct, A. D. 1920. Laura Bradley, Executrix Roy R. Helm, Attorney. We attended church at night and listened to a splendid sermon by Elder Jos Fields, of Peoria. We returned to the parsonage and ate a lunch prepared by Sister Washington, and and her lovely adopted daughter. We left at 1:30 a.m. for Chicago, over the B. & O., where we attended the Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge from the 12-13 inclusive, retruning home the 15th after enjoying a most splendid session COX'S STATEMENT TO LABOR PROVED TO BE GROSSLY INACCURATE Claim He Had "Never Pressed a Soldier Into an Industrial Controversy" Not True. USED OHIO MILITIA TWICE Question Not About Merits of Strike or Need for Military, but as to Truthfulness. By WILLIAM HOSTER. Columbus, O.—Governor James M. Cox's boasted labor record has been shattered by his own official act. Claiming that he had "never pressed a soldier into an industrial controversy," the record of his action as governor of Ohio in mobilizing the National Guard of this state for service in the steel strike of 1919 has been produced in flat contradiction of his assertion. Not once, but on two occasions was the Ohio guard, at an expense of $23,000 to the people of Ohio, called into service and sent to Akron and held in readiness for action in nearby Canton. The question is not as to the merits of the strike or as to the necessity for the presence of the guard within striking distance of Canton, but concerns wholly the truthfulness of Governor Cox's statement, obviously made to win favor among the workmen. The facts as brought out in the speech of Republican State Chairman George H. Clark, formally opening the campaign at Columbus, are as follows: Ordered Guard Out Twice. After the steel strike had progressed for some days, with more or less disorder, Governor Cox on September 28, 1919, suddenly ordered the mobilization of the guard at Akron. A period of quiet followed, and the troops were withdrawn. And then again suddenly on October 25 the guard was once more mobilized and sent to Akron, and while it lay there at that strategic point awaiting a summons into action staff officers representing Governor Cox kept close watch on the situation in Canton. In his speech at Wheeling, W. Va., on the night of August 14 Governor Cox said: "For six years I have been in executive authority in the great industrial state of Ohio. During all this time I have never pressed a soldier into an industrial controversy." The question is, did Governor Cox tell the truth? Answering this question, Chairman Clark in his Columbus speech displayed to his audience a photographic copy of Special Order No. 52 issued from the Adjutant General's department of the State of Ohio, dated Columbus, October 25, 1919, which designated certain officers for immediate active service and paragraph 4 of which reads: Facts Presented. "In anticipation of the development of a roling condition at Canton, O., the Governor of Ohio has deemed it necessary to assemble a sufficient number of state troops at Akron, O., to be held in readiness to render aid to the civil authorities at Canton, O., and has so directed the Adjutant General of Ohio, who, pursuant to such order, directs Colonel Benson W. Hough to proceed without delay to Akron, O., to take command of all state troops upon arrival at Akron, O., and to hold them in readiness for duty, awaiting further orders." The order is signed by the Adjutant General and counter-signed in these words, "By command of Governor Cox." Did Governor Cox tell the truth is the working man? Supplementing this documentary proof, Mr. Clark produced photographic copies of headlines from Canton, O., newspapers of concurrent date, which read: "State troops mobilizing for duty here. All available companies are ordered out." And, "Governor orders troops for duty here. Ohio soldiers reporting to armies following trouble." Truth Should Be Known. The surprising thing about it all is that Governor Cox in his Wheeling speech should have made so far an assertion when all of the facts with regard to his mobilization of the guard were still fresh in the public mind, at least in Ohio. Of course it is not to be expected that workingmen elsewhere in the United States would be familiar Congressman T. S. Williams Tours District. Congressman T. S Williams of the 24th Congressional district has made a speaking campaign in Massac county in the last few days and will return and wind up at Metropolis, Saturday night Oct. 30th. He has covered the entire district, having visited every county. There will be an increased Republican majority in the district and he will be returned to Washington, Nov. 2nd as he should be to assist in holding up the hands of President Harding. It is essentially necessary for every Republican voter to cast a straight ballot this year. Just make an X thus in the circle at the top of your ballot, fold it up and hand it to the judge and see that your name is recorded before leaving the voting place and then go home get down on your knees and thank God that you were given the privilege of voting your sentiment and having that ballot honestly counted for men who believe in the Constitution of the United States and Democracy for which our boys fought so nobly for and yet are denied the privilege of even seeing. Rev. H. A. Boyd, Member of the National Baptist Publishing Board and Sec. of the National Baptist S. S. Congress, sailed Sept. 24, for Tokyo, Japan as a member of the World's Sunday School Congress. His wife and daughter accompanied on this trip. He promised the editor, on his return to visit Metropolis, where our people will all be glad to honor him and hear him lecture. Walker's Indigestian Cure. Rev. J. B. McCrary is agent for Dr. Walker's Sure cure for Indigestion and Dyspepsia. 500 and $1.00 bottles. $1.10 by mail. We can cheerfully recommend it. Page Two Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. RETROPOLIS, - - - - ILL. WRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER GEO. L.B. McORABY, EDITOB Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Uninterested as second-class mail mat at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. R.McA RY, 903 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 week TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Due Year.....£2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. WARREY G. 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We have received many encouraging letters as to our stand for the Old time Baptist Faith, from laymen and the clergy not only in our Discrict, but throut Illinois, telling us they are with us. We have the everlasting words of Christ, telling us He would be with us always, and to preach the Gospel, and we do though the heavens fall. Thanks for words of confidence. 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 prayers of the righteous availeth much.—Bible. Dr. W. P. Washington, of 1110 Casey avenue, Mt. Vernon, Hi has moved to Decatur, to enter upon his work as pastor and is now located at 600 S. Greenwood Ave. We wish him much success in his pastorial labors. "Be Ye Sure Your Sins Will Find You Oun. To insure publication all correspondence should reach this office not later than Tuesday morning. The editor. Any church needing a good pastor and a splendid preacher, a man of high ideals and broad vision, we can recommend Rev Jno. Bruen, of Mt. Vernon, Ill. who successfully pastored Shiloh Baptist church of that city for 5 consecutive years. His address is 1011 Herbert, St. Mesdames. Jody Hubbard and Willie Bogan, of Paducah, Ky. were in the city Wednesday the house guest of Mesdames Ethel Culp, and Mary Broyles. Miss Blanche Bogan, of Clifton, Tenn, spent Wednesday with Mesdames Norris Culp, and Noah Broyles, Mr. Whittaker Lorg, of Dickson, Tenn, is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Messrs, Neuton Cork, Lacey Patterson, John T. Upshaw, Arthur Harmon have returned from Chicago, where they attended the Masonic grand lodge. Mrs. Amanda Barnard, was in Paducah, shopping last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maxwell, and children, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Donlow, of Brookport, were in the city Sunday attending the 85, anniversary of their grand-lather, Mr. Mingo Long. Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Brown, of W. 9th St., are the proud parents of a fine baby boy. Mother and baby doing fine. Mr. Calvin Long, of Johnsonville, Tenn., visited relatives and friends for a few days. Those on the sick list are Mesdames Bennie Jackson, Gracie Williamson, Miss Maud Porter, Charley Davie, we hope all a speedy recovery. Messrs. Elmer, Hiram Sims of Brookport, were in the city Sunday and called to see E, S, B. Mc Crary. Mrs. Addie Frizzell, of Lovejoy, is in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and, Richard Winston. Her father was vuite sick for a few days but is much improved at this writing. We are very sorry to learn of the continued serious illness of Mrs. Effie Brown, of East St. Louis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Jefferson. Mrs. Beatrice Yarbrough, formerly of Shady Grove, but temporally of Clifton, Tenn, was in the city Wednesday and called to see the editor and family, she is looking fine. Mrs. Ella Morris, of Paducah, Ky., visited her cousin, Rev. Edgar S. McCrary. Sunday, returning home Monday. We hope she will return again. We are pleased to learn that Rock Hill Baptist church Carbondale, will entertain the Mt. Olive Baptist Association next year. This is one of the best in the State and is loyal to the principles and doctrine of Jesus Christ. They have a strong preacher in the person of Dr. W. M. Moody, who is determined to show Dr. Carter, of Centralia, how to raise some money as $1,000.00 is the slogan. We are please to learn that Mrs. Tittsworth is out of danger from her recent operation. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. We pity that soul whose religion will not bind him sufficiently strong enough to enable him to rise above his evil companions sufficiently high and long enough to allow his light, (life) to shine forth to illuminate the pathway of some poor sinner that will lead him into that path that shines more and more until the perfect day We have several good preachers that are idle that would make good pastors if they were given a chance. Every church large or small should have a pastor, and carry out the great commission of Jesus. Ye should be doers of his word and not hearers only. Heed this message and herald it to the lost and benighted world. Every church door in Southern Illinois should be thrown open at least twice every Sunday that the gospel might be preached to every creature. Let none hear you idly saying there is nothing you can do while the souls of men are dying all around you without any hope for the future life and happiness. 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Miss Lucinda Hodge, is at home again after visiting her brother in Evansville, Ind. Mesdames Sarah French, and her sister Josie Clark, of Carbondale, were in the city Wednesday to attend the funeral of their brother, James Robert Lassiter who was shipped home from England for burial. Richard Lassiter of Cairo, attended the funeral of James Robt. Las iter, his nephew who died in England, two years ago while in service, whose body was shipped here for burial Tuesday. Subscribe for The Gazette. Now AMERICAN WOMEN DOING FULL SHARE FOR THE COUNTRY Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Wife of Republican Nominee, Praises Her Sex. DISCUSSES HIGH LIVING COSTS Declares in an Interview That Present High Prices Can Be Reduced by Votes. By Estelline Bennett. Mrs. Coolidge sat in a day coach on a slow local train between Boston and Northampton and talked about her husband, her children, the high cost of living and the domestic problem. The conductor and the brakeman stopped as they went through the car to talk to her. She had made friends with them in her frequent journeys back and forth to keep in touch with her children in school in Northampton and her husband at his duties in the state capitol. She knitted diligently as she talked. During those trips she knits all the winter stockings and sweaters for her two boys—John, aged fourteen, and Calvin, twelve. "Too many people are afraid of work," she thinks is the fundamental reason for the high cost of living and the much discussed domestic problem. "I think the only thing the women at the country can do now," she said, with the quiet conviction of one who has thought it all out, "is to vote for the men whom they think will make the right laws and see that they are enforced. They have done all they can in the home. I think the reason there is so much sugar on hand now is because people are doing without it in their homes. Women Have Done Their Share. "Americans women have done, and still are doing, their full share. They have sacrificed and saved and substituted and made over. But that isn't enough. They'll have to vote the plight of living down." "Here in New England, where it is a little hard for us to give up pie," she laughed at the tradition that has become a joke "we have learned to use pit kinds of chopper substitutes for butter and lard, and in my own household we have experimented with different fruit combinations to find something we like and that will take the least sugar. Apples must be tart to make good pies, but we have found that blueberries take less sugar and the combination of apples and blueberries, half and half, is delicious, requires less sweetening than apples and has more character than the blueberries alone." Knows No Domestic Problems. The domestic problem, which is closing homes all over the country and increasing the hotel population, is something of which Mrs. Coolidge thinks she has no personal, practical knowledge. She never keeps but one maid, and she never has been without one. In the fifteen years of her married life she has had only two. The first one she inherited with the furnished house into which she and Mr. Coolidge moved when they were married and took with her when she moved. The second came when the first left to go and live with her sister. There must be a reason for their staying, it was suggested to Mrs. Coolidge, and she thought possibly there were several. She thought the type of maid had something to do with it. Her's both have been American women old enough to have a sense of responsibility to their work and intelligent enough to respond to reasonable courteous treatment. "A good many women who keep only one maid have trouble in their households because both mistress and maid, but chiefly the mistress, are afraid of work. A woman expects one maid to do the cooking and scrubbing and everything else and still be dressed up in black dress with white cap and apron, ready to answer the doorbell any minute. It isn't humanly possible. I always answer my doorbell myself. I do it for two reasons. In the first place, there is no one else, and, in the second, I like to greet my friends at the door myself." Mrs. Coolidge is of medium height, with brown hair, hazel eyes that hold a good deal of merriment and a very quick sense of humor. At home she and her children have a little orchestra. Mrs. Coolidge plays the piano, John the violin, and Calvin, after considerable discussion, in which he favored a bass drum, compromised on a banjo-mandolin. They play hymns and war songs usually—the hymns, they learn in the Congregational church and Sunday School of Northampton. They avoid difficult and unfamiliar music because the object of the orchestra is entirely recreational and not educational. That is a part of Mrs. Coolidge's educational policy—that children should work when they work and play when they play and keep the two separate. That was why she sent her boys to the public schools of Northampton when they were five years old. Every morning when she is in Northampton, Mrs. Coolidge takes her Boston bag and goes to market. If the neighbor next door is going Mrs. Coolidge goes with her in the car. Otherwise she walks. She has no domestic policy. She buys, she says, "what the family need and can afford." We are Agents for the Dr. Walker's Great Indigestion Cure. Sure cure for Indigestion, if directions are followed. It has cured others, why not you? Why suffer and die from Indigestion when you find a cure? You can eat what you want when you take Dr. Walker's Medicine. We guarantee it. Sit right down and order a $1. bottle MRS. M. J. 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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. Old Rambler, - (103 YEARS YOUNG; @cem Old Rambler, as he is generally called had a special invitation to toibe present the, oth ata Big Republican Lovefeast and Banquet, given at the Leland Hotel, Spring- field. We responded with our pres- ence and met the Repuplican ed- itors, county chairmen, secretaries, Senatorial and Congressional nom- inces, most of the state nominees and defeated ones were present, and we listened to the addresses and pledges made for party ha’ mony and Republican success on Nov. 2nd, This was a_ successful meeting and every ove pledged himself to help carry the State for for Harding and Coolidge and Lvs Small and the rest of the Srate ticket by 300.000, It appears that the Chicago Tribune has tura- ed turtle and will support the Democratic candidate for Govern or and hopes to fool the country Republican voters into voting the Democratic ticket as its influence don’t amount to very much in Chicago, but the Tribune and J Ham Lewis, cannot ride into the Governor's chair, but we will snow them under an avalache of votes 300,000 strong and leave it for generations yet unborn to find out the exact spot of their graves, as there is to bea Republican land- slide Nov. 2nd. We are tired of Wilsonism and hypocracy and wiil vote for men that wil uphold the Constitution and true Democracy We took breakfas, and dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Renfro, worshipped at Pleasant Grove Baptist church, at 11:00 o'clock where we were in- vited to preach at night but de- Slined the invitation. Rev. M L. Porter the pastor was.out ol the city adi was ruqiored he had accepted a charye ih I | We left for Decatur over the Il- inois:Trdetion actived at 4 lof our old fricad Dr, W. P, Wash- oe pastor of the Mt, Zirt Baptist charch, We found him hard at work in his r | vor, re y purchased 300 paid r wed’ bi people and heis doing good, Th ‘3 and members’ are a an up-to-the-minute ‘class of ‘pe ple Joppa | This being our rally day we hid la glorious time. Rev, J. H | Stamps. preached three “able. ser- mosn. Money raised for the day $25.50 Rev. J. | Johnson, is veryssick at his home with fevery Mr. Lige Bly and wife will leave for Galesburg Mondays Cecil Thomas, is better at. thi writing. | Mrs. . Eddi: Johnson’ is, very sick at this writing. | Mr. Manuel Bly and Mr. J. H. Palmer will leave Monday for |Galesburg, Monday. Mr Willie of Sparta, is in the city visiting his sister, Mes. Bessie Johnson. Mrs, Willie Engram was in Me- tropolis, Saturday. . This being our pastor's day, al- though not present Rey. R, Jones. fot Md. City filled his place and he Fpreached thee strong sermons. Total raised for the day $20.00, Mrs. Mamie Faulkner, of East St. Louis, is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs, Winnie Faulk- ner, Miss Lela Berry, left for her home in Paducah, Ky. Eddie Johnson, is better at_ this writing. Miss Sarah Bradford, married Thursday. Ei pith Subscribe for the Gazette 103 YEARS YOUNG; j HE'S FOR HARDING "It 1 should live to be another 100 years old I certalnly would never vote for a member of, the Democratic party for President or any other nationat of- fice,” So declares “Grandpa” Albert Vogel, 108 years young, of Jeannette, Pa., who cast his first vote In presidential elec: tion for Polk, voted for Abraham Lin- coin and has voted the Republican ticket ever since. Next month he will vote for Harding and Coolidge. “ell the country I am fcr Harding and Coolidge and Arnerica first,” says Mr. Vogel. “I want no Wilson League teas a hie >” ei aes ae : i ; -—Z et ae a rw Ne <; [?. fee. oo . r "ALBERT \OGEL, of Nations. President Wilson's autéc- racy and the wastefulness of those he gathered about him as his official famt ly was to be expected. Tt has been a Democratic trnit for years.” “Grandpa” Vogel takes a daily con- stitutional over streets near his home fn Jeannette. Occasionally he preaches A sermon from one of the Western Pemnsylyovia churches with old. time vigor, He started life as an assistant lamplighter In the Capitol grounds at Washinzion when be was fifteen years old. He oftef) ran errands for mem- bers of Congress and can vividly re- call We eloquence of Menry: Clay and Daniel, Webster and other famous stufesmen of that period, He saw An- drew Jackson {nnugurated tn, 1832 Later he became a Methodist minister EDITORS PAY VISIT i. TO MARION STAR AND FIND A REAL PAPER “lf Prosiient Harding fs as big a sdecesy as Kiiter Harding he will go down {h hfetory in the Halt of Pame,” writes J. Gabbert of Riverside, Cal., in on article just published on his re- turn from, Marion, where he visited Harding's paper. “We found Just the sort of a paper ‘a futnte President might be expected to edit” suys Mr. Gabbert, “and the visity to came nearer to being an editorint conference than a political ermsade, “We forhd_faen working for Eastor Harding who bad besa with him for periods vat¥ing from 20 to 88 years. Wozfownd that Editor Harding foliows elosily every detall’ Incident to the publication of his paper, He knows what pay the helpers on the floor, cet, Just as he knows the amount he pays hfs manager, He can hanglie type like the rest of Us, and It wonld keep my foreman busy to beat, him on setting up a stlek of Spoint typax He knows how to make op @ paper like a veteran and he is just ag much at honle in the business oifice-looking over the adver tising accounts.” ~ DA OLD AND NEW COX SLOGANS. © Washington. — ‘fhe following inter- esting interview with Governor James M. Cox of Ohio was published in the bated column of HM Washington. Post four years ago-viz, on July 29, 1916+ “Ohio is not.the only state where the people are sbonting the praises of the President for having preserved peace fh the United States. Our honer has. remained unsullied. The slogan ‘He rae ‘Us Out of War’ will be the midst effective argument the Democrats chn.usedn the eampnign, . Americanistn “bad Boon Sree inpted by the President o thar: pioblern of nattonal {import its beow thet squarely and sat isfactonfig es ne) ey ‘This ‘ens to-§ ow the caliber i Governor Cox, “With him it ts ny: thing to win, any sort of a catch phrase, siégan or anything to deceive or fogl the people, } ane sooNdE FARuene:! Senator Harding’s speech to the farmers of the country,’ delivered ‘at the Minnesota State Faiz, ts commend ‘able not only for the Subject matter and, the, onstructiye. statesmanshif which it contains, bat for the calm and dignified tone which prevails through: out the entire addgess. Nothing gould more thoroughly {mpress Intelligent people with the difference in the sena tor and bis opponent and their qualifi cations for the presidency than Senator Harding's comprehensive discussion of the agricultural problems of the na tlon and the solution which must be applied to them and the political ha rangue@elivered at the same place by Governor Cox,—Sloux City (Ia). Jour nal. Ralsine as Stat ot Lite. The life of Cuba ts tarculy sustatn. ed. by raising, tts people consuming the fruit more gencrally than any oth. ‘er of the Spamish-American colonies Pe ey ad NE Se Fe ae SHAKESPEAR SAID: “All The World’s A Stage.” Grant the truth of that statement now as then. In that case we need the scenes 1 shifted once in a while. | Why not let the I. T. S. be your “property man”? COURTEOUS, EFtIGIENT SERVICE. ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM. 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Educated in Metroplis Public’ Schools,” graduating from Dunbar High School in 1912) ~I-then™entered™the Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanatary’Sciénce and Embalm- ing, Chicago, Illinois, from {which{fjgradtatea# August 14 1914, from which school I hold a Diploma. |. We will carry a sitive ot Béskeltibaly, ‘at! present, owing to the advange price on tiese.gaods,, but we have ‘arranged with a large undeytaking establishment to furnish us with anything yeeded.on short notice: ~ Wekaved fint Mksa hearkeat alr comical 1 Calls answered,day or night; distance immaterial. We werd in the U! S.,'Service for six months, trying to. make this cduiitry safe’ for “Democracy;* thereby “itibur- ing the colered man an equal epportunity with other Faces. PHOne SaeURiig ahr OM RAEI, he ¢ebt1 1Respectfully yours, } MCCRARY’S UNDERTAKING CO, { Metropolis, Hlineis, ) 5) 6 ? i ao, GEORGE L. B. MCGRARY, Managet, Staple: and Fancy Groceies ic etal as Mest Lae alata cg | FEARN & JERNIGAN t Pere i? 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Copied from a statement and published according to an act of Congress August 24, 1012. 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and business managers are: Publisher, J. B. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill.; Editor Geo. L. B. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill.; Managing editor, Edgar S. B. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill.; Business Manager, M. J. McCrary, Metropolis. 3. That the known bond holders, mortagees and other security holders holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, mortages, or other securities are: S. B. Kerr, Metropolis, Ill., Fred R. Young, Metropolis, Ill. D. W. Helm, Metropolis, Ill. J. B. McCrary, Publisher. aworn to and Subscribed before me this 29th day of Sept. 1920. G. B. Alston, Notary Public. air, 727 L. --- ELDER EDGAR S. B. MCGRARY Who's sick at the of his father's on 903 Pearl St., but is much improved at this writing. We publish this for the information of his many friends who are anxious to know of his condition and who have been so extra nice to him during his illness. He is slowly improving it is thought. 100 Negro Boys and Girls Wanted as Reporters and Agents for The Gazatte. The largest and the best Selling Negao Newspaper in Southern Illinois. Agents wanted in every town and village. Liberal Commission. Keep own commission before sending to company. Write for particulars if interssted. MRS. M. J. McCRARY. Manager, 903 Pearl St., Metropolis, ill Agents Wanted! Phone 364 The "Front Porch" Campaign. WE MUST CUT THAT SECTOR OFF FROM IT'S BASE OF SUPPLIES! REPUBLICAN RE TRENCHES DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT "WASTE" LINE The first meeting of the executive Board will meet with Clover Leaf Baptist church Joppa, Friday before the 2nd Sunday in December. Every officer must be present to be installed. We ask for one dollar to be sent up from every church to help in the great work we have before us, the feeble churches, missions, education and Old Ministers' Home. Every minister is asked to send or bring one dollar to the Board and every deacon is asked for 50c. Don't fail us as we must raise at least One Hundred Dollars at this OUR JOB OFFICE Gale in Los Angeles Times. meeting. Let us take on new energy and more spiritual and financial fervor. We must take the line and hold it for Landmarkism and for Christ. All Have Their Burden. Nearly everybody is handicapped in some way. So don't fancy you are unique in having things to put up with and fight against. We are here to fight—and to conquer.—Home Noten. All Weather Good. Sunshine is delicately rainy is retreating, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.—John Runkin. Page Four Joppa. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Hardy of Metropolis, were in the city Sunday visiting friends. Mrs. Ellen Barnett and daughter, Miss Gertrude Buchanan, were in Metropolis, on business Wednesday. Mrs Lizzie Crigler, and daughter Miss Mary were in Metropoli Wednesday on business. G. Buchanan, Reporter. Carbondale. Dear Editor of The Gazette This is to inform you that our church is alive in every way. The Lord is adding to the church daily such as shall be saved. The pastor was at his post Sunday and preached in the morning at 11:00 a.m, and 7:30 p.m., to a large congregation, took in two candates for baptism and one by letter. Will baptize Sunday Oct. 18. Total amount raised Sunda was $70 01. The Lord is doing great things for us where of we are glad. On the fifth Sunday in the month we are to have a rally for the widows of our church, all proceeds will be given to our widows. We hope to have a good time. Our church asks that the M Olive Association meet with us 1921. Yours for the cause of O Lord, One Faith, and One Btism, One wife and One Set Children. W. M. Moody. Adversity and Prosperity. We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.—Seneca. Household Philosophy "Brume what a difference there is said the household philosopher. "I tween things we need and things we what. There are many things we are in the house, but never can find the money for, while somehow we can wave and the money for things we want that we personally fancy."