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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Department of Archives, Cham W. Va. ESTABLISHED 1882. Holds Four Town Offices Holds Four Town Offices The only Negro resident of Hillside, the smallest incorporated village in New York state 30 miles from Manhattan up the Harlem valley, is its registrar of vital statistics. He is also a member of the board of health, secretary of the village improvement society and village trustee. He is F. O. Stratton, in business in New York. He was born in Virginia of poor parents, and got his education studying at home nights while working to support his mother. Some persons may have wondered at first whether it was wise to select a Negro for so many places of responsibility, but now the citizens are sure they did well in making this energetic Negro a Poch-Bah of the Hillside. On May 2 he was elected a trustee for three years. He found that for years the school children had to drink water from a spring so near a brook that with every heavy rain the spring was overflowed. The brook, he found, was practically a sewer for the dwellers in the valley above. He called a meeting of the board of health immediately to make provision for pure drinking water for the children. The townsfolk are grateful to him for the discovery. Stratton has lived at Hillside only a few years. His bungalow, called Sunset, is on the top of Sunset Hill, and is one of the most artistic homes in the country, though the cost of building and furnishing was not great. It is a true bungalow, one story high, with wide, sunny verandas, and cool, pretty rooms, furnished in harmonious colors. The big parlor is full of books and objects. This hard working, modest Negro, who disclaims any praise for the success of his career, has views on the Negro problem that vary from those of others of his race. "It is not wise for the Negro to colonize, especially in the North," he says. "The young Colored men should be urged to take their families away from the cities and into the country. Each should go quietly into some small community, if possible where there are no other Negroes, or only a few at least, and then, by living a clean, thrifty life and acquiring property, working hard at some occupation that he is fited to do, win the respect of his white neighbors. "The Negro is always bettered by living among but not necessarily in the same social set with white people, and neither be nor the white man is bettered by the establishment of Negro colonies. The best interests of the Negro are advanced by the constant example of the white people's thrift and manner of living, and not by the example of other Negroes in large colonies. "It is not a special mark of distinction that my neighbors, all white, have made me an officer of their village. But I would be less than a man if I did not appreciate their kindness. I am glad, however, if the establishing of my little home shows in any way what a Negro may do. "I came to the country to live because I wanted to remove my chil- HIS HOME ARTISTIC. WHITE MAN A BOON. HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, dren from the unfavorable conditions of crowded tenement life and the vicious idlers of my race. SEEKS TO BECOME A GOOD CITIZEN. "I came here with the idea of not being a discord in the social and political life of the new community, intending to be a good neighbor, doing all that a good citizen should to advance the best interests of the community, supporting always the best man for office, regardless of politics. That they have elected me to office is perhaps due to the fact that others have been too busy to do the work. That I accepted was because I desired to be of service to my neighbors and repay them for the courtesy they have shown me. The improvement association is composed of practically the whole body of taxpayers. A REMARKABLE HEN. The White Leghorn hen owned by John Grohan, of Glenville, New York, which a few weeks ago followed him to the trolley car to pay his fare with a nickel he had forgotten, has again proved her devotion to her master. Grohan enjoyed a half holiday and started to build a small chicken coop. The hen stood by and watched him pick up the nails and drive them home. After he had picked up half a dozen the hen walked over and picked up one with her beak and dropped it into his hand. This was simple, and Grohan was getting along well with his job when he smashed his finger. With this handicap he couldn't hold the nails. The hen, seeing that something was wrong, held a nail in her beak. Grohan placed the hen's head near the board and with a gentle tap started the nail, and the hen then picked up another. It was an easy job after that, the hen holding the nails against the boards and Grohan driving them home. The coup was soon completed.—New York Tribune. MIND BLANK TWO MONTHS Stepping on a train in Summerville, Massachusetts, on March 2 t make a business trip to Boston, Albert H. Grimshaw, a druggist, succumbed to a strange aberration from from which he did not recover until he arrived in Pueblo, Colorado, last Sunday. Seeing a reference to his disappearance in a medical journal he at once notified the police. His story was verified by the chief of police at Summerville last night. LYNCHER COLLAPSES IN THE COURT ROOM. Art Dover, in jail at Newark, Ohio awaiting trial in connection with the lynching of Carl Etherington last July, came into court Thursday and voluntarily offered to plead guilty to manslaughter. Prosecutor Smythe explained to the court that Dover was the man who made a speech on the night of the lynching, urging the crowd to section Judge Nicholse refused to entertain the plea of guilty of manslaughter, and told Dover that if it would be proven that he under such a speech and that he was the leader of the mob, he deserved a much more severe penalty than for manslaughter. Dover collapsed upon hearing the judge's refusal to accept his plea. His trial is set for May 29. CREAMERIES IN W. VA. Warning Against Too Hasty Organization Warning Against Too Hasty Organization By Dr. C. A. Lueder, Instructor in Dairying, West Virginia University. The state of West Virginia has the finest bluegrass grazing lands in the United States. The markets of the state are second to none in the country for dairy products. With such conditions it would seem that dairy ought to prosper in many parts of the state; that there ought to be prosperous milk dairies near every city and that in the more remote sections of the state butter-making creameries ought to be very profitable for all concerned. Creamery Promoters. Only two creameries are now in successful and profitable operation. Others might have succeeded had they not been stocked too liberally with water. Most of the creameries here before established in the state have been organized by promoters who had no interest in the establishments other than getting their pay for buildings and equipment. Their method has been to paint a very rosy picture of the profits to be obtained through the organizing of a mutual creamery company; to induce as many farmers as possible to take fifty or a hundred dollars' worth of stock in the company, giving their note for the face value of the stock, the notes to be due when the creamery was ready to begin operations; and then, after a sufficient number had subscribed, to put up a building and equip it for business. With the creamery ready to be turned over to the officers of the company the promoters would dispose of their notes at a local bank and leave the creameries in the hands of its inex perenced owners. In every such case in West Virginia the promoters have sold a creamery and its equipment for nearly twice its real value. The wonder is that a single creamery established under such conditions should succeed to such a degree as to be able to pay dividends on its inflated cost. It is not difficult for farmers to protect themselves against the creamy sharks. Where the situation is such that it seems probable that a creamy might succeed it is just as easy to get disinterested expert advice as to get the interested advice of the promoter, who is always sure that a creamy will succeed if enough men can be induced to buy stock. For example: Not long ago an effort was made to organize a creamy company at a certain thriving city in the eastern part of the state. A little inquiry would satisfy any intelligent person that it is not a suitable place for a creamy; there are not enough cows and milk brings a higher price in the town than any creamy could pay for it. More Cows Needed. Before even seriously considering the possibility of establishing a creamery the men interested ought to know that there are enough cows within a reasonable distance to supply the creamery with milk or cream of that the farmers of the adjacent country will buy the cows. A creamery cannot succeed without milk, and milk cannot be bead without cows—hundreds of them. Farmers who are considering the organization of a creamery ought to consult either the division of the department of agriculture at Washington or the dairy department of West Virginia. Either will advise them against the creamery when the situation does not warrant a creamery and will help with advice and instruction after the creamery is established. West Virginia Needs Creameries. Let it be emphasized that West Virginia needs creameries; that there are many places in the state where creameries can be made to succeed as business ventures and as promoters of better farming, and that there are more places where only the foolish and the misguided will attempt to establish creameries. The college of agriculture is ready to furnish expert information to those who are considering and who may be in doubt. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE TO HAVE NEW QUARTERS. Although the State university was unsuccessful in securing a new agricultural building from the recent legislature the state board of control and board of regents have started repairs in Martin hall so that the college of agriculture may have all the room possible. Practically all of the basement and first floor of Martin hall will be devoted to the college of agriculture, giving fully double the space previously occupied. On the first floor a large laboratory for the study of farm crops and soil physies is being refinished and will be newly equipped and three more offices and recitation rooms will be made available for work in farm crops, animal husbandry, dairying and forestry. With the improvements the college of agriculture will be able to give thorough instruction in modern agriculture as far as class room and laboratory equipment are concerned. COLGRED GIRL WINS HIGH HONOR. Miss F. Marton Reed, on 18 year old colored girl, will be the valedication of the close of 1911 at the Brighton high school. Her points, covering the entire four years' course are 99 out of a possible 100, and the two pupils of this high school nearest her good about 92. It is the first time in the high schools of Boston that a colored pupil has graduated at the head of the class. The school career of this bright little colored girl has not been screened with roses; she has had sickness at home and school care, but she has overcome all obstacles and made a record that is establishing. Four years she passed at the Washington Allston grammar school, from which she was graduated, and four at the Brighton high. Her marks for deportment and purity in both schools are recorded perfect. There will graduate this June from the 14 high schools of this city about 1,291 pupils. The high mark obtained by Miss Reid will put her at the head, or very near the head, of the largest class of high school pupils ever graduated in this city. This girl, who stands a little more than four feet tall, and weighs not much more than 100 pounds, is in the very pink of health. While at Washington Allston school, her mother was taken ill, and in addition to the school work the girl kept the house. In the last year, her father, who was a Pullman car porter, suffered an apopleptic ehook, so that he cannot any longer provide for his family consisting of a wife, daughter, and two small sons—Boston Grove. THIS BOY AN EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG NEGROES. Master Edward Winthrop Robinson, the only colored member of the graduating class of the Weymouth, Massachusetts, high school, has been awarded a scholarship for Amherst college. He is the son of Mrs. Susan W. Robinson. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 20, 1892, and nearly all of his schooling has been at Weymouth. He has always stood high in his classes. There are 55 pupils in the class and no one else secured a scholarship. He has always worked afternoons and Saturdays, and through the vacations has been a cutter on shoe findings in the George L. Bates factory. Young Robinson hopes to enter the Harvard law school after finishing at Amherst.—Boston Guardian. NO.11 VOL. 30. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. Chief Justice Beauty, head of California's Supreme Court on his way to Los Angeles to hold Court, noticed a man talking to the motorman which was a violation of the ordinances. "You mustn't talk to the motorman," said the Chief Justice. "Aw, go to the d—l" was the prompt reply. "But I insist," said the judge. "I'd knock your block off, if it wasn't for your white hairs," said the cling. "Forget the white hairs and try," said the judge. The thug drew back to strike, but the judge knocked him down. The conductor came to investigate, and the judge explained that the man had violated the law. "Now," continued the judge, "I appoint you an officer. Arrest that man or (ject him from the car," handing the conductor his card. The conductor acted promptly. And when the thug hit the ground, he exclaimed. "Who is he?" And the conductor showed him the card. "Say, yer honor," pleaded the subdued man, "I gotta git to Passa-dena. If you'll let me ride lemme ride, I won't talk to no one." The judge agreed, and the fellow hid himself at the rear end of the car. It is said that the first paragraph Mark Twain wrote when he began his editorial duties with the Virginia City Enterprise was this: "A beautiful sunset made Beranger a poet,—a mother's kiss made West an artist, and fifteen dollars a week makes us a journalist. When Mark Twain was first accepted by the lady who afterwards became his wife, he was not so much distinguished as later on. He had only been a pilot on the Mississippi river. The lady was a judge's daughter, and he desired for his son-in-law some one of high social position. Clemens, however, fell in love with the daughter and proposed to her. He was refused; but not in the least discouraged, he said to her: "Well I didn't believe you'd have me, but I thought I'd try." After awhile he tried again, with the same result. With his celebrated drawl he said: "I'd think a great deal more of you if you'd said yes, but it's hard to bear." The third trial was successful with the lady; but then came the task of tackling the father. "Judge," said Clemens. "have you seen anything between Lizzie and me?" "What? What?" testily exclaimed the old gentleman, and Clemens repeated the question. "No indeed, sir, I have not," replied the judge. "Well, look sharp and you'll see," said the rising songguber. 66 Books. 1189 Chapters. 31173 Verses. 773746 Words. 3566480 Letters. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MOSAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN X. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. J. R. Cofferd, Editor, & Proprietor Drawer 869, and Seat Phone, 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911 The resignation of Jacob M. Dickinson is a god-gend to the entire country. Needless to explain. Governor Glasscock treated those Virginia debt intruders exactly right in every way, and every loyal son of this state will concur. The Supreme Court's action of no bail term for the heads of labor unions for violating the lower court's mandate may be looked at as right, but has a serious side to it. What will it lead up to? and what may be its finality? Prophecy is shrouded. Editor Manning of Alabama, is getting Thompsonized for his surcastic remarks about Booker T. Washington's Ulrich episode. Don't Worry Mr. M. about Thompson he is harmless. And another thought, if Booker has done no wrong no harm can befall him. Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts' noted orator, statesman, nero-soldier, publicist, historian, poet, an old time tried and true abolitionist, a lover of Jesus and all mankind, stepped across the great divide last week, at the age of 88. Col. keep up your work over there for the cause for which you lived and died here. In the ordered dissolution of the Standard Oil Co. by the U. S Supreme Court, and limited to six months so to do, a blow has been given to the biggest trust in the world. How now, do the little ones feel? Kill all and there will be no more starvation prices in this country. Our contention all along has been that trusts are robbers of the poor in food and clothes. Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, while not a voter, is striking sledgehammer blows on the line of political independence—the right thing for every brainy Negro woman to do. She thinks well of Mayor Harrison for his respect, devotion and recognition of his colored supporters, as parties should, but since scarcely any do, we are in union with the best to support men, not parties. It is being said that during the trials of Camorrista in Italy, court adjourns every time there is an outside confusion. It shows that the judicial officials are uneasy. If a bit of that unrest reigned in every court in this country there might be more justice done. Cincinnati had for a long time, and perhaps still has, an unrest at sessions of court. A white lawyer of Richmond Virginia declares that the segregation act of that city will not stand from the fact, the United States Supreme Court had a similar thing from the same city before it, that a junk dealer should not do business in a certain section of Richmond—and it decided that it would be discriminatory and class legislation, therefore annulled it, and that is what will be done when those freaks of barbarism come before it. --- The Pioneer Press with joy welcomes the launching of Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett on the sea of journalism. If he had a fight in progress and needed push, pluck and brains to help win it, he would as soon tie to her as any man he knows. Long live "The Fellowship Herald," her paper. When Mr. Taft defies the farmers of America in their appeal against his reciprocity propaganda, he puts himself into the hottest political borne's nest he has ever been. This is no one man's country and he will soon find it out, because it is too cosmopolitan. The influx of the world's oppressed don't have to be taught to strike back or what is best to be done in a country whose constitution declares it is free and the home of the brave. The Jew, Armenian, Italian, Japanese and Irishman will not stand for the robbery of human rights,—only slaves will do that. President Taft has an extra fever on him to the extent of trying to remodel the courts of this nation. He ought to know that courts, like politics are constantly changing, because they are, in the atricleat sense political bodies. He can not hope to reform on the bases they were when he was judge. It might be worth the effort to do away with the jury system, advocate the election of five judges in every judicial district, the rights of all citizens protected by a legislative enactment of initiative and referendum. Recently a Jew, Italian, Negro and Japanese held a conference in New York City, for the purpose of discussing case in this country. The Jew and Italian told the truth when they pronounced it the blackest of America's crimes, but the Jap and Booker told a——, for they both declared there is no prejudice in this country. The Jew and Italian saw it as it is and hit it powerful blows. The Jap knew better, and only a week or so before, Booker T. Washington had been clubbed and later his own wife treated worse than a scullion in Memphis, Tenn. What a pity some Negroes have not less gab and more manhood. The Baltimore American of last week, and Washington Star of the 7, inst, drastically upbraids the Negro electorate for defeating the republican nominee for mayor of Baltimore. Negroes are no longer voting puppies; their eyes are open, and wide at that. They did right to defeat him. E. C. Timanus is the fellow who had an unknown colored man arrested, because and only because said colored man had a $50 bill and was trying to get it changed. He is of that class of whites whose colorphobia so blinds them that "all coons looks alike to them." The editor of this paper would rather support and vote for a known political foe, than for one who poses as his friend and never fails to stab him when he gets a chance. Away with that class of Brutus republicans. SAVED MANY FROM DEATH. W. L. Mock, of Mock, Arkansas, believes he has saved many lives in his 25 years of experience in the drug business. "What I always like to do," he writes, "is to recommend Dr. King's New Discovery for weak, sore lungs, hard lungs, hard colds, hoarseness, obstinate coughs, la gripe, croup, asthma or other bronchial affection, for I feel sure that a number of my neighbors are alive and well today because they took my advice to use it. I honestly believe its the best throat and lung medicine that's made." Easy to prove he's right. Get a trial bottle free, or regular 50c or $1.00 bottle. Guar My dear Dudley Sunday School: The Editor of this paper has kindly given us a little corner to begin our study of the Bible by asking and answering questions. If you get a paper every week you will see questions from the Bible to search for and answer. You know that Minister and people, Kings and Queens, Presidents and Statesmen, Doctors, Lawyers, every body, learn their best lessons from the Bible. You remember what our Lord and Saviour said about the Scriptures. "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. We read too in the bible "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they have received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." Let us, each one get a Bible or Testament and begin our study by searching the scriptures for ourselves we shall learn by answering the questions which the Bible asks us from Goesis to Revelation. Please bring your answers on paper to Sunday School, Sunday afternoon at 2 30 p. m. Correct answers will be published to your name every week. Our first week's questions are: 1. What place in the Bible is the word penknife mentioned? 2. What Book and Chapter is the story of Ruth and Naomi told? 3. Where in the Bible do we find mentioned that the poor was sold for a pair of shoes? 4. How many sons had Adam? 5. Who was Eve, Sarah and Rebecca? 6. Give the Book, Chapter, and verses in which we find the story of the woman at the well of Sychar. Please put your answers down on a piece of paper, fold it, and put it in an envelope, and write this address on it, and bring it to school. Address C. M. L., 117 North Samuel Street, Martinsburg, W. Va. 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For enquiries, e-mail: catalogue and special information address Dean of Departments Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. ... as Second Class Matter The Old Folks' Concert which was held at Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Tuesday night proved a great success from every possible standpoint. Mies Stella Roper, of Kearneysville, has been the guest of her sisters, Miss Emma Roper and Mrs. Mary Hunter during the week. Meadames. Arwinda Hart and Laura Hunter, both well known and energetic matrons of the Kearneysville neighborhood, came to our city on Wednesday night and were in attendance at the Old-Folks Concert. The Forepaugh and Selis Brothers Show will exhibit in Martinsburg on June 21st. Being the first big show that has been here in years, and one of the best that is on the road, it is bound to draw a big crowd of people to our town. The City Band will render the first open air concert of the season on Friday, May 26th. It promises to be a fine one, and all those who are acquainted with Director Gerardot, and his band, are assured of an enjoyable evening. D. George W. Baylis is visiting Martinburg. He used to be stationed in Fairmont, where he is held in the highest esteem by his patrons and where Dr. Sands and Dr. Carr know and hold him high up as an honest and skillful doctor. The Dudley Free Baptist Church Sunday School will hold its Children's Day on the third Sunday in June. The program will be both interesting and instructive, and will be in charge of Rev. C. MacRae Louistall. STARTS MUCH TROUBLE If all people knew that neglect of constipation would result in severe indigestion, yellow jaundice or virulent liver trouble they would soon take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end it. It's the only safe way. Best for billiousness, headache, dyspepsia, chills and debility. 25c at all drug-gists. BRING YOUR FURNITURE To me, or let me know and I will call for it, and it will be promptly repaired. 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