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The Muskogee Cimeter. Death of L. A. Bell. L. A. Bell, for nearly twenty years a resident of this city and one of the most widely known and highly respected negro of the entire state, died at his home on north third street at 11.a. m Wednesday after suffering for many years from Bright disease. However he was full of energy and no longer than two weeks ago was at his office looking aftei his business affairs Deceased was at one time wealthy but lately had lost heavily through land and bank investments though he had plenty left for his last days. He was about 65 years of age and past Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of Oklahoma besides being prominent in other fraternal orders. L. A. Bell enjoyed the respect and confidence not only of his own people but of the white people as well. He was intelligent, polite and attended industriously to his own affairs. The hour of the funeral has not yet been set but will be attended by yrominent colored men from difference parts of the State. Ex. We publish this week a clipping from the Wagoner paper (A white Paper) that gives the standing of the Late L. A. Bell among the people where he lived. Mr Bell was one of the best known Colored men in the State and stood in the front ranks as a leader of his peodle. He was honest upright and true and stood ready at all times to help those in distress. The people of Wagoner County and especially the City of Wagoner owe him a debt of Gratitude, because but for his effective work the county site would have been removed from Wagoner to Coweta. At the most critical period Mr Bell took a hand and brought the black men who lived between the rivers in line for Wagoner and saved the day. As a race leader and as a good citizen he will be missed all over the State. There is a considerable tempest on she school situation in Muskogee a few nights ago at a meeting held in the Y. M. C A Hall resolutions were passed indoering the teachers and the teachers and the board of education. As we go to press another meeting is being held and just what the out come will be is problematic. We hope that each citizen who attends the meeting will conceed to his opponent honesty of purpose and the right to his own openion. The entire community desire a efficient worker and on that point at least we all agree, and we also desire the very best of talent, and that the services rendered be amply paid for, because we know that you cannot have the best talent at the poorest price. Personallities should not prevail in any of the meetings, but the interest of the children if it is necessary to call a spade a apade, then we must hew to the line and let chip fall where they may. We have some, a few good teachers in our schools and we have some who are not worth three whoops in the regions of Pluto. We believe that the board of education will do what is right but they must be informed as to the conditions because without such inform their are completely in the dark. We are making no complaint a goinist the old board because they were always prompt to act when charges were filed, and as no charges were filed, they are not responsible for the lamentable conditions of our schools, and the recent up heaval of the of the immoral condition, but on the contrary the patrons of the schools are guilty of a very great laxity. It is our duty to barrel to chop off the dead limbs and to get the rotten apple out of the barrel and to see that the water is not mnddied in order that a culprit may escape. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court Of Muskogee County, Stote of Oklahoma Dona Mitchell, Plaintiff vs. No. 3995 James S. Mitchell, Defendent The defendant, James S. Mottchell, will take notice will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Dona Mitchell, for devorce and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Dona Mitchell on or before the 20th day of June, 1915, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgements rendersd accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 29th day of April, 1915 C. H. Shaffer Court Clerk Spencer E. Sanders, Attorney for Plaintiff By John Zufall, Deputy Clerk Bargains in (HAND MADE) 50c. Value, 24c. Bargains in ( HAND MADE ) Human Creole Hair 50c. Value, 24c. 69c. Value, 39c. No. 33. DOUBLE CHATELAINE BRADS, 20 inches long, weight 1 oz. hand-made, real human Cussole Halt (feature a growth) GUARANTEED to cumb and not fade. State whether black or dark brown wanted. SENT POSTPAID, 24e. No. 34. 1½ oz. 22 inches long, 43c. postpaid. 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Write for it today and mention this paper. The address is RATEKIN'S SEED HOUSE. Shenandoah, Iowa. PERSISTENCE IN BUSINESS WINS PERSISTENCE IN BUSINESS WINS How Miss Cleo M. Gibbs Mastered Her Difficulties. TELLS A THRILLING STORY. Rose From Obscure Clerical Position to Chief Clerk In Big Business Concern. Attributes Much of Success to Doing the Little Things Well and Sticking to Her Job. Birmingham, Ala.-The story of success, no matter who the individual or what the field, is most always thrilling and interesting and commands public attention. That story must be more interesting and thrilling if the narrator happens to be an obscure colored girl, who in the very nature of things starts out in life handicapped by reason of meager opportunities and advantages. Miss Cleo M. Gibbs, the chief clerk of the Atlanta (Ala.) Special Benefit company, of which Mr E. W Howell is the president and manager, is one of the most efficient clerks in Birmingham and assumes with entire satisfaction much of the harassing details of the management of the big company. She is a young woman who in her own way tells how she rose from a mere machine in the work to one of the really dependable characters. Miss Gibbs says; "When I first entered the work as an obscure clerk the outlook for success seemed unusually dark. I could not see my way clearly I always looked for the road to success, whatever it might be I worked hard in school and succeeded in finishing with class honors and came to Birmingham from Meridian, Miss., Jan. 20, 1910. I was in the city about a month before I applied for work. Then I applied at the office of E. W. Howell, who was at that time the secretary of the Atlanta Mutual Insurance association In about two weeks there was a vacancy to be filled, and my application was accepted. "At first I did not like the insurance work and experienced difficulty in keeping all the details straight—such as the difference between lapses and transfers, life schedules, what to do when one name appeared on the lapse and transfer sheet at the same time, making up office books, showing the cash, the arrears, the advances and so on. "The first week seemed enough for me. I was ready to give up, but my people insisted on my sticking to the job and making good. I fully decided to quit and did so. I did not remain away from work long, however, and, summing up new courage, reported for work the same day I quit." "Starting off again. Mr. Howell would send one of the agents or the special men into the office to show me what I had to do. Each day it seemed that one would show me in a different way from another, always telling me that the other was wrong. When the state inspector came all of my work was wrong, and I had to stand the consequences because it was in my handwriting. Everything seemed to work at a disadvantage. I only knew that I was sticking to my job, and I was then fully determined to stick until things went right. "I did not get the work right until Mr. Howell told me to make no changes until he directed me to do so. State of Oklahoma. Muskogee County In the District Court of Muskogee County Oklahoma H. B. P. Johnson, Plaintiff vs. Agnes Johnson. Defendant. Publication Notice No 3879 Agnes Johnson: You are hereby notified and summons is hereby issued by publication according to law, advising and notifying you that suit has been filed against you by H. P. B. Johnson docketed in the District Court of Muskegee County Oklahoma where you are named and proceeded against as defendant requiring you to be and appear in said court on or before the 22 day of May 1915 for defend the divorce proceeding filed against you in said court: and you are hereby notified to so appear at said time, and so defend said action, or judgement will be taken against you in said behalf according to the plaintiff's petition herein filed. Given under my hand and seal of this court this the 7th day of April 1915. C. H. Shaffer Court Clerk. By G. M. Lionberger. Deputy Clerk. A person (Negro) who advised other Negroes not to patronize Negro Doctors, Lawyers and other professional men, is not entitled to the support of the race. It is bad enough for the individual himself to knock against the professional man, but its hell when he advises the rank and fire to follow his cursed example, No. 666 This is a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. 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Hair by the p CATALOG Midland Valley R. R. Co. Change in Train Schedule, Effective Sunday February, 28, 1915 2 Trains Daily Between Muskogee and Tulsa No. 1 For Tulsa, Arkansas City and Wichita ... 8:40 a.m No. 5. For Tulsa and Pawhuska ... 5:10 p.m No. 2 From Wichita and Tulsa ... 6:00 p.m No. 6 From Tu's and Pawhuska ... 10:35 a.m 2 TRAINS DAILY 2 BETWEEN MUSKOGEE AND FT. SMITH. No. 4 (Motor Train) For Ft. Smith and pts. beyond ... 7:50 a.m No. 2 For Ft. Smith and pts. beyond ... 6:10 p.m No. 3 (Motor Train) From Ft. Smith ... 7:45 p.m No. 7 From Ft. Smith ... 12:15 p.m ```markdown ``` Ten Cents a Pound for Your Cotton IN TRADE For Close-in Muskogee Property. Improved or Vacant; near M. O. & G. R. R. Shops. Now building, close to car lines. Cotton Taken in Full or Part Payment. Lots 50x132 1-2 Feet Call or write Room 1-2 Twine Building 209 1-2 South Second Street, Muskogee, Okla. If you're going to market- a ticket reading via The Katy is the best kind of a start. 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To All United Brothers of Friendship, Sisters of the Mysterious Ten and Juveniles, Officers of the entire National Jurisdiction—Greeting: This circular comes to inform you of the general condition of the National Jursidiction and to proclaim the day of National Thanksgiving. I am glad to state that the National Jurisdiction is at peace with itself and since our last circular we have had only one ripple among our Sister States that would cause us to feel that anything at all had gone wrong. On December 23rd, 1914, I was asked to go to Birmingham, Ala., to investigate some trouble concerning the State Grand Lodge and Grand Temple. A letter from Brother C. A. Howze, State Grand Master at that time, stated that he thought that he could have the matter under control in a short time and save me he trip. I advised Brother Howze to proceed and to settle the matter if possible for I did not care to go to Alabama to take charge, or make investigation. However, matters grew worse instead of better and telegrams began to reach me daily from Alabama, asking for relief and claiming that all of the mortuary money, endowment money, National Grand Lodge Tax, State Taxes had all been used and not a dollar was left in the treasury and that the Jurisdiction was thirty thousand dollars behind with its Endowment claims and not one dollar was being paid on it. Nine-tenths of all of the Lodges and Temples in the State had become defunct and only thirty-five or forty dollars per quarter was being raised, and Mr. Howze's salary, office rent and attorney fees took all of this and was creating a deficiency along this line. A petition with fifty-nine names of members of the Lodges and Temples of Alabama in good standing was sent to me with the above charges and many others against the State Grand Master and his administration, begging me to come to Alabama, make investigation for myself. I then wired my deputy, Brother P. F. Hill, of Nashville, Tennessee, to proceed to Birmingham on the 28th of December and see what the trouble was and make investigation and see if he could not pacify the Jurisdiction. Brother Hill wrote me under date of January the 3rd, 1915, saying that he had been to Alabama and found matters very badly complicated and advised that I set a date when he should return to Alabama, meet me and we together go fully over the matter and see if we could not straighten them out and bring peace to the Jurisdiction. This date was set for February 12, 1915. In the meantime I wrote Mr. Howze and told him that under existing conditions I thought best to come to Alabama and make investigations, since it seemed that we were on the eve of losing the Jurisdiction. I assured him that I had no feeling in the matter and that I considered him innocent of any charge alleged against him until the same had been proved and that I was coming to Alabama, as his guest as Grand Master of Alabama, and asked that he set the place and time for the meeting and asked that he be prepared to meet the accusations alleged against him, a copy of which I sent him and another copy sent, officially through the National Grand Secretary under registered sealed. Mr. Howze said, at first, that he would welcome the investigation and would be glad for me to come and make investigation, but I found conditions quite different when I got off the train at "high ncon" February 15th, in the City of Birmingham, Alabama, no one seemed to know me. At first nobody met me and I felt strange from failing to see Mr. Howze upon my arrival. I passed through the station and was making my way up town when Deputy National Grand Master P. F. Hill passed by and asked me to ride with him up town, which I did. Five minutes after arriving at the office of Dr. Jackson, the High Sheriff of Jefferson County, Ala., being piloted by a colored man found his way into the office where I had immediately entered the colored man pointed me out to him, then I was served with injunction papers also Brother Hill preventing us from having anything whatever to do with the Grand Lodge of U. B. of F's. and S. M. T's. in the state of Alabama or in making any investigations or in any way, saying or doing anything pertaining to the Order in the State of Alabama. We had to stay in Alabama eight days before we could get before the courts with a cross bill to dissolve this injunction. This we did at the cost of some three hundred and fifty dollars and then cited Bro. Howze to appear before me for investigation, aathing he refused to do. I then went to the Insurance Commissioner's Office where the Grand Treasurer's books were being examined and found canceled checks for the National Grand Lodge Taxes paid to Mr. Howze for several years, none of which had reached the National Grand Lodge and in fact the conditions here showed that the complaints had stated facts in nearly every accusation; not being able to make investigation of Mr. Howze's account and with the information gained by examining the Grand Treasurer's books, I felt justified in suspending Mr. Howze and calling the National Executive committee in extra session to meet March the 8th at Texarkana, Arkansas, since emergency existed and conditions warranted immediate attention. I notified Mr. Howze of this session and asked that he come to Texarkana since he would not allow me to investigate his books and accounts, and be prepared to defend himself before the National Executive Committee. On the morning of March 8th at 11 a. m., a quorum being present the call was read, motion met with a second to accept the same was heard, put and carried. Mr. Howze's case was called up and upon finding him absent an attorney was appointed to defend him. His defense was received and read following the charges against him, Bro. L. F. Hill represented the National Grand Lodge and Brother Lee Headspeth represented Brother Howze, after arguing the case it was submitted to the Executive Committee who voted unanimously to expel Brother Howze from membership in the Order and sustain the National Grand Master in suspending him from office and made this suspension permanent and appointed Rev. J. S. Jackson of Birmingham, Ala., Grand Master to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Howze and to hold office until his successor had been elected or appointed and qualified. The jurisdiction of Alabama under Brother Jackson is taking on new life; many members are returning to the order daily, and we hope to see the Jurisdiction again in a flourishing condition. The printing press and office fixtures of the State Grand Lodge of Alabama were sold at sheriff sale to the highest bidder, for money which had been borrowed on the same and no one could tell for what it was used. The Jurisdiction is now trying to rebuy this outfit for use in the Jurisdiction. Now with the exception of this case the rest of the National Jurisdiction is working in perfect harmony. The National Grand Lodge, in its triannual session, will convene in the twin cities of Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas, July the 26th to 31st; the indifference on the part of one or two Jurisdictions concerning the meeting place having been settled by a two third vote in favor of Kansas City. No State Grand Lodge and no State Grand Temple can be represented in the National Grand Lodge unless all dues and taxes for 1913, 1914 and 1915 are paid in full according to the records of membership in the various Jurisdictions. Every Lodge in the National Jurisdiction that is in good order with its State Department will be entitled to one delegate who shall hold a credential from said Lodge properly sealed and signed by the Master and Secretary. No others can be seated on the floor of the National Grand Lodge. Every State will be entitled to three delegates at large from the State, who will hold credentials signed by the Grand Master of the State and the Grand Secretary and bearing the State Seal. Respectfully submitted. National Grand Master, U. B. F. and S. M. T's of the World. STEPHEN BELL, National Grand Secretary. Office of National Grand Master U. B. F. and S. M. T. Jefferson, Texas, 3-10-1915. To all Grand Lodges, Grand and Subordinate Officers, Members of U. B. F., S. M. T. and Juveniles throughout the World, Greetings: WHEREAS, It has been the custom for a number of years to appoint one day in each year of General Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God for His goodness and guiding providence and ask the continuation of the same, and WHEREAS, We as an institution have many things to be thankful for during the past year, the unnumbered kindnesses, and the loving and protecting care of God has at all times been about us and have kept us and preserved us as an institution and has enabled us to care for our sick and afflicted and care for those depending upon us for help in hours of need and distress. THEREFORE, I, T. E. SPED, National Grand Master, do hereby set apart and designate Sunday, May the Thirtieth, as a day of General Thanksgiving and on said day all members of the order will congregate in their halls or churches and give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His love and tender mercies bestowed upon us. No jurisdiction shall choose a separate day from the one designated only by special dispensation of the N. G. M. Deliver Me, O Lord, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man. Members—Which imagine mischief in their hearts; continually are they gathered together for war. Conductor—They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah. Members—Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. Con.—The proud have hid a snare for me, and cord; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set guns for me. Selah. Mem.—I said unto the Lord. Thou art my God; hear the voice of my supplication, O, Lord. Con.—O, God, the Lord, the strength of my salvation thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. Mem.—Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; further not his wicked delight; less they exhalt themselves. Con.—As for the heads of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. Con.—Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the vilest man to overthrow him. Mem.—Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, they rise up again. Mem.—I know that the Lord will maaintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor. Con.—Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto their name; The upright shall dwell in their presence. Addresses Sermon Given under my hand and seal of the National Grand Lodge at Jefferson, Texas, this the 10th day of March, 1915. And of U. B. F. Period the 54th LIV. (L. S.) T. E. SPEED, National Grand Master, U. B. F. and S. M. T. of the World. STEPHEN BELL, National Grand Secretary.