Plaindealer
Friday, August 9, 1901
Topeka, Kansas
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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER.
VOLUME III.
True Old-Fashioned Style
3,000 People
HONOR THE FRIENDS OF
Liberty and Justice--Was One of the
Grandest Affairs Ever Witnessed in
Era the History of the County--Music,
Song and Oratory Tell the Story
of a Patriotic Gathering.
The annual celebration of the colored people of Graham and adjoining counties was held August 1, at Scruggs' grove near the village of Nicodemus on the border of Graham and Rooks counties in the Western part of this state. Nicodemus is the center of a large and prosperous settlement of colored people who emigrated from Kentucky and Mississippi twenty years ago. The settlement is very prosperous and these people made no mistake when they went out on the Western prairies to carve homes for themselves and their families, far away from the "maddening crowd" of the lar- cities.
This celebration has been regularly observed at Nicodemus for many years, and while the crowd was not so large as usual, there was plenty of music and an excellent program. Sometimes the assemblage will contain six, eight and ten thousand people, but various reasons kept many people away this year so that perhaps three thousand were in attendance.
Geo. W. Jones, a lawyer of considerable note in the West, was the master of ceremonies and opened the program with some very spicy and appropriate remarks. The Hill City Cornet Band furnished music for the occasion, and daughters of prominent citizens executed some charming vocal selections. Hon. B. H. Tracy who was to appear as the principal speaker, was unavoidably absent and his place was filled by John S. Dawson, of Hill City, who has a position at present with the State Treasurer at Topeka. Mr. Dawson has frequently addressed these people at prior celebrations, but his effort on this occasion was fully the equal of his previous ones. Mr. Dawson has been quite a student of sociological problems and has a wide knowledge of history which he introduces with excellent taste into his addresses. He paid just and generous tribute to the great and good women of Great Britain and America who had helped rid the world of slavery. Wilberforce, Fox, Pitt, Burke and Clarkson, of Britain, and Garrison, Phillips, Mrs. Stowe, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln were all remembered in glowing terms. Nor were the veterans of the Civil War forgotten and his eulogium of the Black Phalanx of the G. A. R. evoked the wildest enthusiasm. Mr. Dawson closed his remarks with some valuable suggestions of a practical nature which were much appreciated.
Assistant State Superintendent, D. W. Little who was visiting normal institutes in the West, had arranged his dates to take in the celebration and made an excellent extemporaneous address. He discussed several thoughtful ideas on the race problem and showed himself to be a profound and logical thinker, and his speech was one of the hits of the day.
Judge A. B Head, of Salina, was also listened to with attention and made a commendable speech. His remarks were both witty and wise. A young colored man from Hill City, a Mr. Fred Douglas, whose name had not appeared on the program was next introduced and made a remarkable address. The audience was surprised and pleased, and this second Douglas is no disgrace to his mighty namesake of the famous days of old. Then the program concluded by a flag drill by the children of the neighborhood which caught the crowd. The children were cheered to the echo. All together the day's festivities were a greet success and mark another of the interesting occasions which have made the first of August a great day in Western Kansas.
NOTES OF THE DAY.
two merry-go-rounds did a thriv-
ing business from early morn 'till dewy eve.
The number of takirs showed a falling off from former years; the strong arm of the law having given it out flat and cold, that nothing out of harmony with the proprieties of the day would be tolerated.
The whites always turn out in greater numbers than the colored people and this year was no exception in this respect.
The colored people of Graham County have always been a political factor in that county. E. P. Mc Cabe was the first county clerk of the county, and was elected auditor of the state while holding the former office. J. R. Hawkins was for many years clerk of the district court. Daniel Hickmon was county commissioner for eight years. J. E. Porter was a county officer for four years, then jentered the University of Chicago. He is now a practicing physician in St. Paul. George W. Jones was county attorney for four years. He was succeeded by the present county attorney, W. L. Sayers, who has just closed five years of official charge of the office of clerk of the court.
Jones and Sayers are the only populist lawyers in the county, and their rivalties are good-natured but highly entertaining. Sayers belongs to the Kentucky crowd while Jones is a Mississippiian.
It is to be regretted that the young people of the settlement, instead of remaining on the farm and settling down beside their parents, find more inducements to drift into the large cities. It would seem that the free life of the praries would impell them to stay in the country. The population of this county is rapidly increasing, but young colored people usually spread their wings and fly to the crowded districts of Eastern Kansas and Missouri, or out to Denver and the Rockies. If this unwise policy is not stopped, the importance of Nicodemus as a factor in Graham County is sure to abate. How any young man can abandon the independent life of the ranch and the farm, for the crowded city does not appear.
The wheat crop around Nicodemus was very bountiful, although the corn crop has been cut short by the drought. Nevertheless the settlers are in the main prosperous. Good houses and barns are rapidly displacing the sod shanties of the past. Graham county is certainly the best poor man's country to be found within the limits of the land.
THE PASSING
Of an Old Land Mark in Kansas City Missouri—Was Once Prominent in the Politics of That State
Samuel R. Jordan, a well known colored man of this city, died Tuesday at his home, 1112 Campbell street, from old age. He had lived in Kansas City thirty-five years and was 75 years of age.
At one time he was quite a political power among the Negroes and one of the hose reels of the fire department now bears his name.
He was born in Richmond, Va., and in the old steamboat days came West. He plied his trade as a barber on the Mississippi river between St. Louis and New Orleans. He opened the O. K. barber shop on West Fifth street, coming here from Leavenworth, where he owned a shop in the old Planters' hotel. A wife and eight children survive him. Leon Jordan, the oldest son, is a lieutenant in the Forty-ninth in fantasy, and has just returned from the Philipine islands. The funeral ear vices will be held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the St. Augustine Mission, Tenth and Troost avenue.—Kansas City Star.
Mr. Jordan was one of the wealthiest men in Kansas City. He came there a poor man, and by thrift and industry he accumulated quite a fortune. He was a benefactor of his people in the community. He always cared for those who were needy, and the hungry never was turned away until he supplied their wants. If our young men will only rustle half as much as Mr. Jordan did from fifty years to the time of his death, they would go a long ways toward solving our problem. He was always courteous, polite and kind to all he met and he had but few enemies, if any. Peace to his ashes:
TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 9, 1901.
FINDS RELATIVES AFTER FORTY YEARS SEPARATION.
ONE of the strange, pathetic echoes which have been heard at intervals throughout the United States since the days of '65, found a lodging place in the town of Brooklyn, St. Clair County, Ill., yesterday. It is the story of an old slave who bore heavy burdens in the days that lie back of the "Emancipation Proclamation," and survived them. Allen Gaston is the name of the man who has known the the two widely different epochs in the history of his race, a man who, both bond and free, has lived to tell a tale which contains all the realism of Mrs. Stowe's famous work, with the tract like qualities left out. It is a plain story of long suffering and final rejoicing, and deep human interest.
Yesterday was a gala day among the residents of Brooklyn for one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens, Allen Gaston, was undertaking a visit to Cincinnati, Ohio, to become one in a family reunion of a group who separated under tragic circumstances just forty years ago and the members of which have never seen each other since. The best citizens turned out in a body to see him take the train; a brass band added its notes to the chorus of joy and congratulation; every one was happy. It was the celebration of the discovery that the glitter of a romantic story was, for once, pure gold. Gaston's story, as told by himself, is as follows:
Just forty years ago, Allen Gaston, then thirty years of age, with his brothers and sisters, who were children, and his own young wife, were brought to Louisville, Ky., to be sold to the highest bidder. Gaston he was called, but this was because his master's name was Gaston. He did not even possess a name of his own. He had only the human relations who were dear to him—sisters and brothers and wife, and these were in danger of being severed from him. Slaves who were sold on the block were not sold by the family.
He lived on the Gaston farm with his relatives, including an aged father and mother, until April, when the war broke out. It was then that his master, fearful that he would lose his slave property, took the group to Louisville for the purpose of putting them up for sale on the same spot where many horses and mules, brought from the interior of the state, had been sold earlier in the day, just as the human stoek was to be sold—to the highest bidder, Gaston, the master, lived about twenty miles from Louisville, and at the breaking out of the war, decided to move elsewhere. Hence the sale.
When the white Gaston and the colored Gastons approached the city on the day of the sale they stopped for refreshments. The slaveowner knew the value of well-kept property, and, in addition to food liberal decoctions of whisky were offered. A cheerful "nigger" sold at a higher price than one who was sullen. Allen Gaston, however, refused to drink. He felt that he was on the verge of a terrible tragedy. Instinct told him that some of his little group might be sold "down the river," to be lost from him forever in the, immense plantations about New Orleans. Others might go to points far distant. At any rate, they were probably on the eve of an eternal parting. He determined to do all in his power to prevent such a catastrophe. He would remain sober, and if his own ingenuity could effect it, he and the woman to whom he had been married under the custom of the time, with the children who were their all and all, should be kept together. His refusal to drink resulted in punishment. He was whipped until he consented to imbibe the liquor which would make him indifferent to subsequent proceedings.
The party arrived at the market early in the afternoon, and in less than half an hour Gaston was compelled to mount the block. Presumptuous beyond his kind, he made an appeal to the bidders not to buy
him, unless all the members of the family were "struck off" together to the same master. His humane appeal was ridiculed by the crowd, and some one commanded him to be silent. When he continued his appeal he was taken from the block and horsewhipped again.
Gaston was finally 'knocked down' to a man named Ramsey, a regular trader. He was jerked from the block, and while his family begged for a last embrace, was hauled away and placed in a kind of stockade. His life after leaving the block was one of adventure. Upon losing sight of all he held dear, he resolved to make every effort to regain his freedom, in the hope of again finding his family. The next incident of his career was when, after being carted to the house of a man named Jones, he learned that war had broken out between the North and South, and that all the planters were in fear of losing their slave property. He again had visions of freedom, and the joy of being reunited with his family.
Under the new master, Jones, Gaston was given the hardest kind of labor. But there soon came another change. This master, too, was afraid of having too much capital invested in stocks that were in danger of going down to nothing, and again the illfated slave was sold. His next surroundings were those of a brickyard at Covington, Ky. Here he formed the acquaintance of another slave who had been sold from a farm adjoining the Gaston place. A friendship ripened and the two planned to escape.
That night, when the human stock were through with their work, they were locked in a stockdae and told that if any of them attempted to get away there would be bullets to follow. One side of the house faced the broad Ohio, almost overhanging it. A desperate jump from the roof which could be gained from the window would land a man in the strong current, where he might have a slight chance to get away, provided he was strong enough. The two friends decided to make the leap. They made a compact that if either lived to find freedom, that one was to do what he could toward securing the freedom of the other's family.
The leap was made. Gaston came to the surface of the water and struck for the opposite shore. His companion he never saw again. The one survivor reached the opposite shore in safety, and hid in the bushes that lined the waterway. By degrees he reached the house of a Northern sympathizer who shielded him as long as he cared to remain. He feared that he might be found, however, and for months lived in caves and fields, hiding from human sight. Ultimatelyhe reached Brooklyn which was then a "free" town, through the assistance of a number of white men.
Here a new life began for him. After the war he became a citizen of high standing and was elected to all the offices of the place. Now he was mayor, again a member of the board of education, and later town trustee. He did much to increase his education and passed into another phase of life. The past was like a hideous dream. The one thing that had brightened it was a bitter reflection for years, for he had no means of finding out where his beloved ones were. The years seem to have brought healing. In the course of time he was again married and another family grew up about him. His sons became strong men in the village affairs and a daughter married the mayor of the town.
A letter addressed to Gaston a few days ago, carried him back forty years to the things of his past life. The letter was signed by one Morgan, who stated that he was the son of a man who, with Gaston, had leaped for life into the Ohio in the early 60s. Morgan, the brickyard companion of Gaston, had escaped and had, after the war, married Gaston's sister. The writer was, in consequence, a nephew of Gaston's, and informed him of the whereabouts of all the group that had been sold to
BENTILLMAN.
The South Carolina One-Eyed Monster Continues to Abuse the Colored 'People Its a Shame His Colored "Mamies" Milk Didn't Kill Him
WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN LYNCHED
By 500 Ignorant White Brutes—President McKinioj, Don't Sit in Your Chair Like a Clam and Not Speak Against These Outrages—King Edward of England Would Not Keep Mum When Part of His Subjects Were Being Murdered to Please the More Fortunate—Speak, Speak, Oh, Mr. President Speak—The Imperial Lincoln or Grant Would Speak in Unmeasured Terms
Doings of the Race as Gleaned from Other Sources
the highest bidder in Louisville forty years ago. That is why Allen Gaston, with much pomp and ceremony, left Brooklyn. After a separation of forty years there will be a union of the widely scattered.
K. of P. MEETING
The Grand Lodge of the Kingdoms of Pythias and Court of Calanthe are Holding an Interesting Session in Lawrence.
The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias convened with Western Star Lodge No 1 of Lawrence on Wednesday, August 7, for a three day's session. The welcome address was made by Congressman J. S. Bowersock of the 2nd Congressional District and was fittingly responded to by Prof. R. H. Wade of Topeka. The work of the Grand Lodge was taken up in earnest and disposed of in a business like manner. Grand Chancellor Jno. E. Lewis presented an able report of his work during the year and made many suggestions for the benefit of the fraternity.
The Knights of Pythias is one of the latest orders in Kansas, among our people and has grown with surprising rapidity. Reports show a healthy growth both financially and materially. The subordinate lodges all reported an increase of members and an improvement in finance. This order is attracting the young
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Senator Benjamin F. Tillman of South Carolina, during a discussion in Marquett, Wisconsin, of the race question from a Southern standpoint justified lynching. "In Wisconsin you have 5,000 black men," said he. "Why don't you try the bleaching process and try to exterminate them by intermarrying? The idea is repugnant to you. In South Carolina we have three-quarter million blacks and 550,000 whites. The 'carpetbaggers', the 'niggers' and the Southern scalawags and scoundrels ruled us after the war, until they had stolen every thing that there was in the state, then we went with our shotguns to the polls and took it away from them. All men are not created equal, and the 'niggers' are not fit to vote. Come what may, the white people of the South will govern their own country." He condemned Booker T. Washington's scheme to educate the Negro along industrial lines, as an attempt to place him on an equality with the white artisans, something that would intensify race hatred in the South. He said that among the four million of slaves during the rebellion, there were more Christains than there are to-day among the nine million blacks in the South. "I do not want to uphold slavery," he continued. "I thank God there are no slaves today under the stars and stripes."
Mr. Tillman made an eloquent plea in justification of lynching, saying that Southern women could not be brought into court to testify to their degradation before a jury for the purpose of convicting a beast. His reference to the sanctity of the Southern household and the Southern women and his remarks on lynching were heartily applauded. He closed with an impassioned statement to the effect that the white people of the South would remain on top "in spite of the devil," and if necessary, he and his brethren were ready to take down their shot guns again.
A press dispatch from Carrollton, Miss., says:
"The brutal murder of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Tiliferro, on the night of July 30, led tonight to the lynching of Betsie McCary, her son, Belfield McCary, and her daughter, Ida McCary, all colored.
"A mob composed of about 500 white citizens of Carroll county
men of the state. Among its leading men will be found Dr. S. H. Thompson of Kansas City, J. H. Phelps, A. T. Glover, P. H. Deland of Arkansas City and a host of other bright young men, who are rapidly coming to the front in a business way in this state.
The Independent order Court of Calantha, representing the wives, sisters and daughters of Kansas Pythians, was also in session during the week. Mrs. Jennie Vernella of Topeka has made a splendid officer. Her work during the year just clos-
MRS. JENNIE VERNELLA
ed was of a high order, and her presiding was marked with dignity and intelligence. Mrs. Vernella belongs to the class of ladies who should be elevated to the highest positions in our societies. The reports filed indicate a healthy growth of this branch of the order. Long live Pythianism. It's a good thing.
LLMAN.
Continues to Abuse the Colored 'People
amies'" Milk Didn't Kill Him
CHILDREN LYNCHED
Adent McKiniojg, Don't Sit in Your Chair,
Inst These Outrages—King Edward
Mum When Part of His Subjects
Use the More Fortunate—Speak,
Speak—The Immortal Lincoln
in Unmeasured Terms
who marched to the jail in order, demanded the keys from Jailer Duke, proceeded to the cells of the Negroes, bound them by the neck and hands and carried them to the corporate limits of the town, where they hanged them to a tree by the public roadside and riddled their bodies with bullets. The mob resisted the earn. appeals of Judge W. F. Stephens and W. H. Hill, who stod on the steps of the jail and appealed to them in the name of law and order. They even followed the mob to the cell doors, with their arms around the necks of the leaders, pleading with them to let the law take its course, but with no effect.
Ida McCray confessed knowledge of the murder and stated that her mother Betsie, and her brother Belfield helped her to commit the crime. She further implicated others, who will probably meet a like fate. Betsie McCray refused to make any statement. " _____
Old one-eyed Ben seems to have a grudge against the colored people, and how a man who has nursed the breast of a colored women could come to hate them, is very strange indeed. He has robbed the colored people of their labor since emancipation, and is now busy belching forth his idiotic thoughts, trying to prejudice fair minded people against them.
During the war this monster was nothing more or less than a patroler. He has made his disreptuable standing by abusing them. He has made his wealth by working them on his farm at starvation wages, and now he abuses those who made him. It is a great pity that his colored "mamies" milk did not kill bim when he was a child. Let our Republican congressmen act at the next session and do less talking. We have both houses and the president, and we should do something to prove worthy of being called the party of humanity.
The lynching of colored women and children in Mississippi last week was an outrage and a blot upon American civilization, and so long as our men are cowards and show no defense, so long will these outrages continue. Be men, not babies.
NUMBER 32.
TURNED OUT TO
DIE LIKE AN OLD
Worn Out Horse, Little Walter McClain, of Topeka.
A 15-YEAR-OLD COLORED
Boy is Tortured and Otherwise Brutally Treated at the Hutchison Reformatory-Governor banley should Investigate and See That Good People are Placed in Charge.
Little Robert McClain, a motherless boy of fifteen years died last week at the home of his father on Washington street.
A tew days ago his father received a telegram from the Hutchinson Retormatory stating that his boy was on the verge of death, and what should be done with him? He answered them to send him home and the neighbors who attended him say that several sores were upon his body, that he was weak and exhausted from starvation, beating and other cruel treatment. The boy said on his death bed that it was a horrible place, that the officers were cruel, heartless and inhuman, and that he was sick three months and during the first of his illness he was put into the dungeon and made to live upon bread and water, after which he was placed into the "sweat-box," another place of torture, and kept several hours.
If the above is true, then what are the people to expect of officers who are entrusted to the keeping of children placed in their care tor reformation? These children are sent to such places to be made better, and not to be treated like brutes—whipped unmerciully, tortured with everything that is inhuman. Are the men in charge of this reformatory unmindful of the fact that these young people are not hardened criminals and should not be treated as such.
We hope Gov. Stanley will investigate the working of this institution more thoroughly and if he finds that these outrages are carried on to reform young boys, oust the last one from office. It does no good to almost kill and then try to reform; it has to be done with kindness, endurance, care and painstaking and not with the cudgel and starving method. Let men who are employed have good common horse sense and not be bulldozing idiots.
IN ATCHISON SOCIETY.
The swellest Afair of the Season Was the Party Given by Mr. and Mrs. Garner.
The all absorbent conversation of the hour is the swirl party given by Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Garner of this city to their daughter Miss Leila Garner of Kansas City, Mo. at the beautiful Forest Park, Wednesday evening, July 31. Invitations were issued to one-hundred of our best citizens and all responded, the majority in full dress suits. At 8.30 p.m. this element of pleasure seekers were conveyed on trolley party cars, illuminated with varied colored lights, to the park, where they also found the gentlemanly Mr. Garner had the park and pavilion brilliantly lighted; even the park lake circuit was on. At the entrance of the pavilion Miss Garner occupied a throne like position richly decorated and with very becoming smiles. She was, by the genial Senator Brown, Master of ceremonies, introduced to the happy bevy of invited guests as they filled in by Her Honor's royal elevation. All eyes next sparklingly riveted toward the rostrum for to their increasing delight they saw a great evening before them. There was Prof. Dardis' orchestra of five professional musicians with the renowned violinist, Frank Martin, as leader. The guests vied with each other in expressing their high gratification. The orchestra broke loose with a rich march that set every heart ageing when the grand march was announced. This was lead by the Prince of Fashion, Mr. Edward of Boston, accompanied by Miss Myrle Pennel. He introduced several new features and was followed immediately by Mr. and Miss Garner. Several white people were permitted to take seats in the pavilion and some of the wealthiest in the city took advantage of the opportunity. They got their treat for the colored people danced some up to date dances that they are not familiar with, and too, the grand square without having the figure called.
Internission came at 11:30 when after a tenor solo by Senator Brown and a speech on the occasion by Dr. W. H. Hudson, a repast was served. At 1:20 a.m. the orchestra struck "Home Sweet Home" and while every one would have gladly indulged to a later hour, they with smiling regrets, bowed to the program, thus closing one of the grand-eat banquets we can recall. Mr. and Mrs. Garner reside at 421, Commercial St. Miss Garner returned to her home in Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday throwing many bouquets to the good people of Atchison and to her beloved parents. Come again Miss Garner; we will take you in charge altogether next time.
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FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1901
South Carolina is the only state having a pitchfork freak.
The open and avowed intention of the Southern States is to disfranchise the Negro because of his color.
Educational reports from the South indicate that Negro illiteracy is more rapidly dissapearing than white illiteracy.
Will Governor Stanley appoint a Negro on the St. Louis Exposition Commission? We don't know.
If the South will base the suffrage qualifications on an educational and property basis, allowing it to effect all classes alike, the Negro will meet the most stringent requirements.
No government has need to fear the intelligent voter. The Negro is becoming the intelligent voter of the South, despite the vehement opposition of constitution nullifiers like Tillman and his ilk.
Hon. G. W. Martin, secretary of the Historical society is going to see if life is worth living. Our cards will be out soon announcing his marriage to a widow in Topeka. He is getting younger in his old days. A few lessons from Cupid might kindle the fire anew. There is no telling what the tree might bear.
Hon. J. E. Latimer, of the state library, is in Pleasanton this week seeing about The Herald, on which he holds a mortgage to the amount of $800 and a little "clique" down there were trying to get the best of him. However, he has things in working order and "she'll run as long as he has a dollar invested." You can't steal a march on a good man and' Gene is one of them.
There is a growing disposition to halt "keg parties" in various families around town, much to the annoyance and disgust of the better class of our people. It should be stopped and the only way to do it is for the better element of our people to demand that these disreputable affairs be stopped. Several cutting affairs have occurred during the past few weeks and they are on the increase.
This week we received from our old printer friend, Col. Will Harris, who is now on The Indianapolis World, a copy of the Afro-American Business Directory and Review. It is a very beautiful publication and tells how the colored people cf the Hoosier state are progressing in the business world. Typographically it is one of the neatest things that has come to our notice in a long time, and shows that merit and artistic taste seldom found in a Negro printer. Mr. Geo. G. Simmons, the man who did the work should feel very proud, as it proves him to be a printer of the highest class. Here's luck to you, "old man."
The great Louisiana Purchase Exposition will be held in St.
NFGRO DISFRANCHISEMENT.
The Maryland Democrats, in, their state convention this week were more candid in their discussion of the "race question" than are the Virginia and Alabama constitutional conventions now in session. In Virginia the suffrage is being regulated on the ground that the colored voters are unfit for the franchise, and in Alabama the Democratic state convention pledged the party to deprive all Negroes of the right to vote without depriving any of the whites, on the ground that in the absence of such a safeguard Negroes will control the politics of the state. The fact that for years the Democrats have done the counting and returning of elections and have suppressed the Negro vote in Alabama has no effect on the apparent seriousness with which "Negro supremacy" is discussed as a point of peril to be escaped at all hazards.
The Maryland Democrats while not submitting it in so many words plainly intimate that
the reason why Negro suffrage must be abolished in that state is because such action will inure to the injury of the Republican party and to the advantage of the Democracy. In their convention platform they declare that:
"The Democratic party represents more than 40,000 majority of the white people of Maryland. They, in common with their brethren of other states in which large masses of Colored voters have been injected into the body politic, recognize that peace, good order, personal safety and proper development of our material interests depend upon the control of the commonwealth by its intelligent white residents. Without the aid of the 60,000 colored voters the Republican party in Maryland would be a houlegess minority.
"We therefore without hesitation proclaim that the success of the Democratic party will mean that while we shall deal with perfect fairness in securing all the benefits of good government and full and free opportunities for education to all classes, such action must be taken as to prevent the control of the state government from passing into the hands of those who have neither the ability nor the interest to manage public affairs wisely and well."
The milk in this cocoanut is in the statement that "without the aid of the 60,000 colored voters the Republican party in Maryland would be a hopeless minority. "We therefore without hesitation," etc.
The Democrats are making a grand stand play before the country as the relentless enemy of ignorance and illiteracy in the suffrage, but there are several things they neglect to explain. In New York city, for example, the Democratic party is generally busy cultivating the illiterate element on which it depends for its control of that city. In Alabama the new census returns show that in ten years the gain of literates in the voting population has been 8.1 per cent, of which 2.1 per cent is white and no less than 6 per cent is colored. The colored people of Alabama seem to be learning to read and write three times as fast as the ignorant whites.
Democratic cant against illiteracy and in favor of a clean and high-toned suffrage leaves the same bad taste in the peoples' mouth as the similar cant last fall in favor of self-government in the Philippines, while in the South self-government had no existence.—Topeka Daily Capital.
A New Richmond in the field.
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Current Comment.
IN appointing three colored soldiers to high commissions in the regular army, President McKinley may have had in mind the suggestion made in 1863 by Lincoln to the first free state government of Lousiana respecting the offer of the franchise to Negroes. "They will probably help, in some trying time to come," wrote the great emancipator, "to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." The colored soldiers justified this prediction by their valiant fighting in Cuba and the Philippines.
Education in Alabama.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON is jubilant over the educational showing of Alabama in the census returns. That state has gained 8.1 per cent, in literacy, which is not surprising in view of the great progress it has made in industrial development; but what especially pleases Mr. Washington is the discovery that the colored voting population has gained 7.3 per cent in educational progress, while the whites have advanced only 2.1 per cent. This seems to speak well for the future of the colored race.
A Southern Woman's Appeal.
From The Tropical Bay Capital
MISS FRANCIS GRIFFIN, of Alabama, in a recent address before the constitutional convention of that state in favor of the ballot for educated and tax paying women, used one quaint and novel argument which called out great applause, not only from the ladies who crowded the gallery, but from the members of the convention. After advocating the franchise for women upon general grounds, this gifted daughter of Alabama said in conclusion:
"I have not discussed the color question, because for a long time the darkeys and we stood by each other. You know there was a time when criminals, the insane people, traitors, idiots, Negroes and women were not allowed to vote. Now I understand that my gardener is going to be disfranchised. He has been the only thing that represented us at the polls. I live in a household of women, of educated women. My sisters are widows, and I am an old maid. There is not a man on the face of the earth interested particularly in how the affairs of our household go. We have no more voice in that neighborhood than if we were a party of Americans set down in Russia. There is a Negro gardener who works in our field, who is hosler and major domo. He was a little over 21 when he came to us. He said he had been at school ten years, and he was at the first page of the second reader, but when the voting time came, he went over to a village and did the voting for our family. And now, as you are taking that one prop from under us, we ask you at least to give us his leavings."
The Negro as a Soldier.
THE mustering out this month of two Negro volunteer regiments after nearly two years of creditable service in the Phillipines, and the recent appointment of three colored men as officers in the enlarged regular army, have again called public attention to the Negro as a soldier. Sufficient praise has not, however, been accorded to the President for appointing these men, or to the army examining boards, which found two of them qualified for promotion from the ranks, and recommended them for advancement, in spite of the prejudice existing in the army against the Negro officer.
That the colored soldiers have fairly earned this representation among the commissioned ranks by brave work before Santiago and in the Phillippines, does not detract from the merit of the action. The sad experiences of Cadet Whittaker and of ex-Lieutenant Flipper in the eighties, and the difficulty of adjusting the relations of white and Negro officers within the same garrison without injury to discipline or substantial injustice, would have been quite sufficient excuse for a Secretary of War or a President who wished to shirk his duty. Hitherto such colored officers as have been in the army were lieutenants in Negro regiments, and therefore the subordinates of nearly all the white officers and unlikely to exercise command over them. But now that the one colored officer who has been in the army during the last few years has risen to be an extremely efficient captain of cavalry, and a colored man has been appointed a major in the pay department, a genuine test of the discipline of the army is at hand.
The same favorable testimony has long come from the regular army. Excellence in drill, pride in the service, passionate devotion to just officers and of officers to them, contentedness and happy endurance—these are to be found in the Negro regular, as well as in the volunteer. For years the colored regiments, and particularly the Ninth cavalry, stood at the head of the army in the Inspector General's reports, being especially distinguished for their few desertions. As brave soldiers the colored Americans won their spurs the day Shaw died on Wagner's walls to be "buried among his niggers." Their valorous conduct at Santi-go was but a repetition of Civil war and Indian campaign achievements, even when their beloved white officers were shot down and they went ahead under their sturdy sergeants—with their eyes to the front.
Minnesota on the Color Question.
From The Topeka Daily Capital
PROMIENT in all the clubs is the "color line" question; those who have settled it to accord with their own view points are still anxiously on the lookout for similar contrary decisions in their sister societies. It is needless to recount here the facts of the case; they are intimately known to every club woman in the land. To outsiders the details and "in and outs" may not be so well known, but there is a habit among most of them of keeping posted on "general results" and when these are achieved on a broad and conscientious plane the audience is pleased to express applause. Although the attitude of one club may in the matter of withdrawing from the federation be the exact opposite of that of a near neighbor, the position of each may be in the minds of the above mentioned outsiders understood and likewise approved, if the underlying reasons are but built on generous lines. By a vote of 42 to 18, and after a contest lasting several hours, the New Central club, one of the leading woman's clubs of St. Paul, adopted a resolution "protesting against any color line in the Minnesota State federation, and desiring the conditions of membership to remain as at present—intellectual and moral fitness." The color question has been agitating the State Federation of Woman's clubs for a long time. A few weeks ago a club composed of colored women applied to Mrs. Julia S. Williams of Minneapolis, the president of the State federation, for admission to that body. Mrs. William was inclined to take the responsibility of admitting them, and therefore officially requested opinions from all clubs in her jurisdiction. The action of the New Century club is the first that has been taken, and it has been held by some to be an indication that no color line will be drawn in Minnesota. However, the members of the club who opposed the resolution maintained that the sixty members who voted upon the subject do not constitute a majority of the club, and that the question may be reconsidered at a subsequent meeting.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Jno. S. Dawson, assistant
State Treasurer spent Aug. 1
in Nicodemus, Kans.
Miss Susic Eeaglesen left
Wednesday for Denver to visit
her brother Albert Eeagleson.
Prof. I. W. Adams, of Mar-
shall, Mo., visited in the city
last week,
W. W. Plumb, who has been
barbering in Abilene for the past
two months is in town this week.
Mrs. May Roundtree, of Kan-
sas City is the guest of her pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hoe.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Mrs. Alice Taylor to
Mr. R. Hightower, Wednesday
Aus 21. "
Miss Lucy Pullin was called to
Chickesha, I. T., last Thusday,
on account of the death of her
brother, Owens Pullin.
Miss Carrie Smith of Atchison
is the guest of Miss Luvenia
Brown who has just returned
from Oklahoma and Emporia.
Mrs, J. D. Johnson, Miss Nora
Williams and Clifford Sharp will
leave Sunday on a visit for Col-
orado Springs.
Grand Chancellor John E.
Lewis of the K. P. S. made his
visit to Eacelsior lodge No 3 last
Saturday. :
Mr. Mitchell and sisters, Mis-
ses Mitchell of Burlingame, were
pleasant callers at Tne Prain-
DEALER office Tuesday.
The Knights of Pythias will
run an excursion to Lawrence,
Saturday, Aug. 10. Trains will
leave Santa Fe Depot 7:30 A. M.
Fare 75 ct round trip.
Mrs. Geo. Washington enter-
tained Mrs. Ewing Small and
son Raymond and Mrs. Albert
Edwards at dinner Thursday at
her home in Shorey.
Deputy Sheriff Stewart is an
applicant for the sherriff’s office
in 1902. If Gov. Stanley ap-
points him, he 1s well experienc-
ed in the office, having served
several years in that capacity.
A petition is out asking the
governor to appoint Bert Lucas
the republican nominee for sheriff
to fill the one year term created
by the last legislature. The
Biennial Election lawis the cause
of this,
Jas. A. Page passed through
the city en route to Chicago.
He has been taking his outing
in Utah and California.
Miss Hester Hawkins returned from
Emporia, Wednesday, where she has
been attendiay the Normal Institute.
She was accompanied by Muss Mamie
Lewis of Ft. Smith, Ark.
Mr. Frank Wilson has return-
ed from Chickesha I, T., where
he has been very ijl, Mr, Wile
con and brother aré among the
leading business men of Joplin.
Mr. Thomas Moore and wife
formerly of Topeka now of Kan-
sas City, are visiting friends in
Topeka this week. Mr. Moore
was a member of the 23rd Kan-|
sas and did service in Cuba.
Card of Thanks
We desire to thank our many
friends who so kindly assisted us
during the illness and death of
our husband and son, W. B.
Hamilton.
Mrs. W. B, Hamivtoy,
Mrs. Lavra A. HaMittox.
County Attorney Galen left
for Chicago and New York this
week to look up the insurance
companies doing business in To-
lpeka. He 1s the first county
officer to take hold of this matter.
Shawnee should be proud of
him. Heis out for our interest
so let us be contented and do
well.
Mount Olive M. E. chureh is mov-
ing along nicely. Our rally Sunday
was a success. The Sening Ci cle
will meet Friday at Rev. Mrs. Hooks,
1182 Buchanan street.
| Wewill give a tree watermellon
feast next Friday night, Aug. 16th,
10 cunts admission. Every body. in-
vited. We will install the officers of
new Socuty, Aug. 16th.
Our pastor M. T. Hooks is better.
The 2nd Cumberland Presby-
terian Church 13th and Quincy
street will have a rally Sunday
Aug. 11.- This ralley is to help
raise money to repair the church
parsonage. We earnestly solicit
the aid of all friends and sister
churches. Preaching jat 11 a,
m., 3p.m. andS p.m. Special
selections by the choir at the
afternocn services. Rev. Helm
of Shiloh will preach at 3 p.m.
Endowment or Educational
day will be strictly observed at
St. John’s A. M. E. Church Aug.
18. Special program by the
Sunday School at 9.30 a. m.
Sermon on education by the pas-
tor at 1r.00 a.m. In the even-
ing there will be a special plat-
form meeting at which time there
will be addresses and papers by
some of the leading educators of
thecity. The choir will be as-
sisted by some of the leading
vocalists of Topeka. A rare treat
is in store for all who may
attend.
Quarterly meeting at Brown's
Chapel Sunday Aug. 11. Preach-
ing at11 a.m. by the Presiding
Elder Rev. J. W. Braxton, at
3p. m. by Rev. A. M, Ward of
St. John A. M. E. Church, after
which, sacrament, At $ p. m.
preaching by the Presiding Elder
all the pastors and their respec-
tive congregations and friends
are kindly invited to atiend.
Come and help us, and let us
have a grand spiritual feast.
W. P. Greene, Pastor.
‘Notices.
The North Western Missionary
Baptist association will meet
with the Independent Baptist
church at Leavenworth Aug. 13
to18. All the churches, Sunday
Schools and Mission Circles will
take notice and be represented.
All Sunday schools with a mem-
bership of 100 will be required
to pay $5.00, or $3.00 for a less
number.
An effect is being made to se-
cure reduced rates on the certi-
ficate plan all persons, who do
not buy round trip tickets are
reqested to secure certificates
from their home agent when
they purchase tickets. The peo-
ple at Leavenworth are prepared
to take care of all who attend
the association, For further
information write.
H. I. Monror, Cor. Sec.
Mrs. Verneila, Mrs. E. W.
Matley and Mrs. R. L. Skearce
will leave Wednesday morning
to attend the Grand Session of
the Knights of Pythias and La-
dies of Calanthia, which convene
at Lawrence, Kans. Aug. 7, 8.
9, 10.
North Topeka.
Mrs. Lucy A. Johnson, a mem-
ber or No 93 is quite ill at her
home.
_ There will be a wedding at
the U. K, T. hall Aug. 14 Wed-
nesday evening. Please present
invitations at the door.
| Mr. Robe:t Jordan has beea
very ill, but is now recovering.
The Temples and Tabernacle
will celebrate Aug. 12 at their
113 E. Sixth street. All are
cordially invited. Dinner and
supper will be served. Rev. H.
W. White will lecture in the
evening. Members wear white
dresses and badges. Mrs. Ellen
Cook, pianoist. Admission to ct.
Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, Chairman.
Indus tu lastitut2 Notes
The musical department has
purchased a combination reed
and pipe organ. This depart-
ment is gradually and steadily
growing.
Do not forget the band con-
cert, Sept. 13.
The Sabbath afternoon praise
services promise to be very help-
ful neatterm. Special attention
is being given the work.
Principal Carter has been visit-
ing towns in the southern secticn
of the state. He is loud im his
praise of Dunlay, Emporia and
other places.
Jas. Wallace, one of the stud-
ents from Keene spent a few day's
at the school this week.
All parents who intend placing
their children in school neat térm
will please correspond with the
principal at once. School opens
‘Sept. 10.
Prof. G. W. Jaékson is bring-
ing the band tothe front. We
hope to have the band uniformed
in the near future.
The Library has recently
received a large number of book:
relative to industrial subjects.
Donations of books are always
thankfully received.
Sewing classes are being held
at the Institute every Tuesday
and Friday afternoon.
The band is progressing nicely
during the Summer. They will
give a concert Sept. 13th.
An opportunity will be ‘given
two young men to work out theit
entire expense next term. Only
earnest young men need apply.
School begins Sept. roth. We
hope that all students will try tc
be present the opening day.
dehin Soukiern Hehections:
| Avwriter inthe Farm, Stock and
‘Home recently returned froma trip
to Alabama, where she spoke on
practical poultry culture to four
colored industrial schools, Marshall,
Waugh, Mt. Meigs, but chiefly at
Tuskegee, that institution which
serves as a model to the others.
When she first entered the far South
and sawso many little one-roomed
hovels, and also so many slouchy
Negro boys idling around railway
stations, she wondered whether the
colored race is rising. But answer
was made by these schools with their
bright-eyed, intelligent, earnest, tidy
respectful pupils, and the improved
appearance of whole communities
that were touched by them. Some
of the earlier schuols pushed academ-
ic education too fast, but the practi-
cal kind is now given precedence.
Every pupil labors two hours a day
at Tuskegee and many work their
way through the school. The appre-
ciation of industrial education is
proven in the North by constantly
increased aftendance at agricultural
schools and it is proven most strong-
ly in the South at Mountevallo, Ala.,
a state technical school for white
girls, and by other flourishing insti-
tutions of the same class, It is said
that no other area devastated by
war was so large as that in the
southern states. Money gone, build-
ings destroyed, slaves free, ruin
every where. The Negro had mus-
cle only, the white man didnot have
that. These things should be con-
sidered in estimating progress in tho
South, and we should be liberal of
encouragement and help. In the
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in Georgia and a few in Alabama.
Tuskegee Institute is planting 4,000
peach trees this spring, having
learned that doing its own fruit can-
ning is expedient, profitable and
educational. Considerable macroni
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GARNETT, KANSAS.
Miss Emma Johnson, of Fort Scott,
is the guest of her cousin, Mra. Hattie
Powers.
Mrs, Mattie Hewin. Misses Bessie
Rogers and Gertrude Crutchfield are
in Paola, attending the Central State
Baptist Association.
Miss Victoria Wallace, who bas
been visitding in Detroit, Mich., re-
turned home Friday.
Rev. H. W. Scott was in the city
on Sunday.
Fred Reed, who has been visiting
in Kansas City, returned home on
Wednesday.
a JETMORE.
Mrs. Geo. WV. Gross of St. Jue, Mo.
returned to her home after a long
visit in this county with her sister,
Mn. T. P.Muore. Mrs. Gross re-
ports a nice time while in our midst.
Mrs. Belle Bennett, of Topeka, is
visiting her sister Mra. T. P. Moore,
of this county, and ehe thinks her
health greatly improved.
Mrz. Granvil Bradshaw entertain-
ed Mrs. T. P. Moore and family for
dinwer Monday, also Mrs. G. W.
Grogs of St. Joe and Mrs. Bennett of
Topeka.
Mr, and Mrs. Elliot Harris served
anice supper to quitea nuwber o}
friends Tuesilay eve.
Sunday wasa grand day at th
home of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Moore
it being a family reunion of th
Moore's. Those present were Mrs
G. W, Gross and daughter, of St
Joe, Mo., Mrs. Belle Bennett of To
peka, Mr. and Mes. J. W. Green ant
family, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Owen:
and family.
Mra. S. T. Owens eerved dinne:
Thursday to Mr. and Mrs, T. P
Moore and family and Mrs. G. W
Gross and daughter of St. J e, anc
Mrs. Belle Bennett of Topeka.
Papa Moore was 78 years old a fev
days ago, but he looks to be just ir
the prime of life
Abilene, Kansas.
Mrs. J. F, Smith and daughter will
leave Th irsday for Hopkinsville, Ky.,
to visit her sister and frienda.
Mre. Palmer is having good success
in the meetlngs—tbree cunversions.
Rev. A.J. Walker, our ex-pastor,
is with us. Hecame to see us last
Thursday and the pleasure at the
meeting was mutual. He admin-
istered the Lord's supper on Sunday
and took three candidates for baptism
into the water. The Lord has blessed
him and the church in his coming.
Mr. B. Mecklen was in town Wed-
nesday, visiting Mise Bell.
Ralph Logan has returned bome
from the west.
Mrs. Logan is better.
Quarterly meeting was held at the
A.M. E. church Monday night July
29th. Rev. J. W. Braxton was here
assisting Rev. Woods with commu-
aiow.
Amount of money raised this quar-
ter $64.90, the largest amount raised
in 7 years.
Rev. Woods is moving along
nicely.
LINCOLN NEWS.
Mrs. Anna Bedell returned, last
week from Omaha, where she visited
several days.
Mrs. Alice Wright and daughter
Bertha left last Saturday for St. Joe-
4eph, Mo., to join Mr. Wright, who is
now employed there.
The First of August celebration,
given at Lincoln Park by the Baptist
church, was a social and financial suc-
cess, The jubilee concert at 8r. x,
given by the choir, was pronounced
excellent. The neat sum of $30.70
was cleared above all expenses. Muen
credit is due Rev. Jeffress and his
competent committee.
Birs. J. W. Cooley entertained at
dinner Sunday the Misses Cora Clink-
scale of Chicago, and Lula Clinkscale
of Topeka, Mrs. Talitha Marshall,
Rev. and Mrs, M. Wooton and-Misses
Lucille and Luetta Gardner.
The rally at the A. M. E. chureh
‘was a succese, both spiritually snd fi-
nancially. The spirit was vividly
manifested at every service, which
showed that all were working with
one accord. Rev. Wooton preached a
blessed sermon in the morning, whick
was appreciated by a large audience.
In the evening Mrs. White delivered a
‘ine sermon toa large crowd. Some-
thing over $90 was raised.
Thesewing circle of the Newman
“M. E. chorch gave a delightful lawn
»social at the residence of Mrs. A. P.
‘Curtis. A plessant time was enjoyed,
eke Bee se tin O rete Eire ark” Se ee eS.) ke velar. wien.
Mr. Greenleaf Johnson, who has
been very ill, is now convalescing.
Mr. Andrew Nettlea, who was re-
ported hurt in the railroad disaster at
El Reuo, Okla... proved not so badly
injured as was supposed.
The lawn social given by the choir
of the Baptist oburch, "Tuesday eve,
was a very enjoyable affair anda neat
sum was realized.
‘The friends of Mr. N. B. Phillips
have presented him with an easy
chair iu which to sit during bis ill-
ness. *
Mrs. J.T. Wright returned Wed-
nesday from a week's visit in Denver.
Mrs. Nettie Owens is visiting in
Denver with her husband.
Major Moore is suffering this week
from sciatic rheumatism.
The Daughters of Tabernacle and
Tent will give a pic nic at City park.
the 12th.
Mr. Frauk Chrisman went to Falls
City on Saturday, to attend the 4th of
Avgust celebration.
The Slayton Jubilee Singers have a
ten days engagement here with the
Epwarth assembly, commencing this
week. ev, Jeffress and wife are
camping at the assembly grounds.
Mrs. Mary Telsom, who has been
visiting her sister, in Coffeyville, re
turned home Sunday.
Mesdames Dolly Armstrong, Hat-
tie Powers and Gertrnde Crutchfield
attended the celebration at Ottawa,
Thureday.
Mr. Spottwille met with quite a se-
rious accident, Saturday. While com.
ing to town with a load of bay his
horses became frightened and rat
away, throwing him over a rock fence
breaking two of his ribs and cracking
his collar bone. His many friends are
pleased to hear that he is slowly re:
covering.
WICHITA, KANSAS.
Mrs. Mary Beady and little eon
Howard are visiting friendsin Vinite,
Lt
Wm. Orey, formerly of Wichita but
now of Seatle, Wash., was visitor
in the city last week.
Mra. Bz. Harper, of Arkansas City,
is avisitor in the city.
Miss Lula Parks entertained very
pleasantly @ number of her friends
Friday evening, in honor of her broth-
er, William Parke, of Kansas City,
who made a short visit with his rela-
tives,en 1oute for Buffalo, N. Y.
The entertainment given at Peer-
lesa hall Monday evening was largely
attended and was a highly successful
affair. It was under the auspices of
the Wichita Searchlight.
The Misses Alice Thompson, Mattie
Andrews, Lulu Covington, Mrs. S.
W. Jones, and Rev. aud Mra. A. C.
Terrill nade a pleasant trip to the
country on Tuesday.
Miss Pearl Stewart, of Topeka, is
visiting in the city.
Carl Guy, of Kansas City, was 2
visitor inthe city, last week,
Mrs. A, Harris left Monday, for
Danville, Il.
WINFIELD
Mr. John Jackson returned from
Oklahoma City last Saturday, where
he bad been visitirg his parents.
Rev. J. Reaves was over from Wel-
lington last Sunday and preached his
farewell sermon at the Second Baptist
church, and tendered his resignation.
Brother Reaves has been one of
the lucky ones who drew a home in
the Lawton district which is claimed
to be the better district of the two.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith came up from
Ponea City last Saturday, to visit rel-
atives and friends.
Miss Kate Montgomery, of Okla-
homa City, is visiting, here, the guest
of Mrs. A. L. Nichols.
The ladies of the O. E. S. gave a
successful entertainment last Monday
eve, at the A. M. E. church, A little
over S9 was raised.
Messrs. Rodgers and Wilson, of
Omaha, Neb., were in town last wseX,
Mr- Allen Taylor and wife left Jast
Monday for Perry, O.T.
Mr. Harry Alwell and cousin, Miss
Grace Alwell, are visiting in the city.
Mrs. Henry Jobnson is visiting her
parents at Geuda Springs.
Messrs. James Johnson, W. H,
Washington, Grant Bryant, Charles
Johnson attended the O. E. S. social,
last Friday eve.
‘Miss Irena Flemming came up from
Arkansas City, last Saturday, to visit
her parents.
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‘There is a threshing machine otitii;
in town managed altogether by color-
ed men,
‘Mr. and Mrs. Kiowa spent Sunday
in the country.
~ Rev. White filled his place in the
Baptist ministry Sunday.
Mrs. Rucker, of Raytnond, is visit.
ing ber mother, Mrs. Miller.
Miss Enima Rawlins and Miss Pol.
ly Stewart attended the camp meet
ing in Lyons, Sunday.
More of our people should tak
Tue PLAINDEALER
Mr. G. W. Boydston lately lost
fine horse.
‘Mr. Harvey Kerns thinks he is al
most a widower as his wife has beet
gone all summer.
Carthage
The Annual Association of the S.
W. district of Missouri met on Tues-
day morning at 9 o'clock, at Bethel
Baptist church with Rev, O. D. Bond
moderator, and Rev. J. S. Dorsey,
vice. Delegates from the various
churches began to arrive on Monday
morning, and although the church
has been without a pastor fur some
time we are glad to report that under
the leadership of Deacons Crawford
and Pool we wera amply prepared to
care for our visitors. Among the
many delegates arriving in our city
we were pleased to see Rev. J. M_
Girhand of Appleton City aud Kev.
H, H. Curtis of Joplin, Mo., Rev. Dr.
J. A. Ward of Nevada, Mo., and Rev.
S.S. Smith of Lamar, Mo., better
known as Uncle Sam. Rev. A. J.
‘Thempson, who is well known in this
district, writes that he will arrive on
Friday. He has been pastoring the
Tenth street Baptist church at Quiv-
cey, Ills,, for the past three years.
There will be a grand entertain-
ment Saturday night, given by the la-
dies of Bethel Baptist church. Every
body invited to attend. Admission
10 cents.
Kansas City, Kas,
An article appeared in last week’s
issue, entitled “Jesus Christ in the So-
cial World,” and signed G. W. Wood.
The article was excerpts of a paper
read by Rey. E. A. Wilson before
the Men's Sunday Forum; the mistake
being caused by the fact that W. G.
Wood sent itto Tae PLatnDEALER
with the above statement on a sepa-
rate slip, which was misplaced when
the article was published,
Miss Carrie Davis went to Lawton,
registered as agent for her father, Til-
ford Davis Sr., also tor herself, and
both numbers drew prizes. They
ought to be valuable as the numbers
are 2133 and 3844. Mr. Duncan is
very much elated aud goes down this
week to file on his claim. Mr. R.
E. Bullet, Rev. T. K. Phillips and
Mr. Frank Jennings were other per-
sons to draw claims.
Cards are out announcing the mar-
riage, Auguet 7th, of Mra. Lulu Drake
of this city and Mr. William Johnson
of Argentine, Kaneas.
Mrs. Stella Spencer and Mrs. J. T.
Roberts were quietly married, August
Ist.
Miss Enma Snell, who taught in
this city for sume yeara, is visiting her
brother, Rev. B R. Guy, in Argen-
tine, Kansas.
Mr.and Mra. Thomas Mayberry are
here from St. Louis, Mo., visiting the
parents of Mrs. Mayberry.
The Colored American can be found
each week on sale at the Wyandotte
Drog store.
The Men’s Forum will meet vext
Sunday, at 4 o'clock, at the Metropol-
itan Baptist church. This will be the
first ladies’ day and a large audience
will be present. The subject for dis
cussion is, “Which is better for the
Negro, commen school or higher edu-
cation.
“W. G. Wood spent a few days of
this week in Werrensburg, visiting
relatives.
Weir Items.
Mr. M. Goodin and Mrs. Patsy
Bailey were married on Wednesday,
Rev. A. J. King officiating.
Wa. Sewell left on the Sth, for
Lawrence, to attend the G. Lodge
K. of P.
Master Fisher Berry, who has been
sojourning in Kensas City for several
weeks, has returned home.
Mra. Carrie Warren left this week
for Puebl«, Colo, to join her brother
Ernest Moore,
Mr. Frank Nellon was the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Abe. Dorcas on the
4th.
Miss Marie V. Mosely is suffering
this week with her eyes.
Mr. Henry Reed has moved to
Pittsburg.
Mrs. L. Scott transacted business in
Pittaburg this week.
Revs. Wm. Weir and Woods, of
Alabama, held s series of meetings
last Week.
Mre. Bettie Brown died July 25th;
at the residenve of her son-in-law, Mr.
L. Scott. On the 26th a song and
praise service was held at the Baptist
church, atter which the remains were
carried to the Weir City cemetery
for their Isst resting place. Funeral
services will be held the third Sunday
in Aug, by the pastor, Rev Z. Jobn-
ton. Mrs. Brown had reached the
age of 70 and died in Christ, a faith-
ful Christian. She was born in Tus.
caloosa. Ala., aud lesvesa son and
daughter to mourn her los, and many
friends to aympathize with the bereay.
ed relatives.
Emporia.
home about ten miles southwest of
town, Monday afternoon of lust week,
and was buried in Grand View cem-
etery, Tuesday afternuon.
Miss Lizzie Patterson, of Los An-
geles, Cal., is here, visiting relatives
and friends.
Prof. Carter, of the Industrial In.
stiuute of Topeka, spent a few days
this week, visiting in our city.
Miss Hawkins, who has been here
for some time, attending the Normal,
returned to her home in Marshall,
Mo., Sunday.
Miss Etola Bufkins has returned
from a visit in Colorado Springe, and
tells a very interesting story about
her climbing Pike's Penk.
Mrs. Elliott bas closed her boarding
club and will not open again sun.
Messra. Clarence Paige and Ken
nedy, of Newton, visited with us this
week. on Mouday.
Mr. Lewis Bassett is quite ill a4
his home on Neothw street, suffering
from an attack of inflammatory rheu-
matism.
Mr. W. S. Watson, of Plymouth,
is also reported on the sick list.
‘Miss Minnie Wakefield is visiting
the Warden sisters, in Abilene, thi
week.
Mr. William Reed is the proud
grower and posseesor of two thousan¢
seven hundred and fifty bushels o!
wheat this year, which goes to prove
that he and family won’t have to eat
snow balls and drink ice-water this
winter, ag,well as the fact that Lyor
county has some wide awake colored
farmers.
Mr Verbal Duncan went to Colo:
rado Springs last. week, which plac
he expects to make his future home
He is greatly missed here as he was
une of the buys,
Misees Luada and Sarah Davis, o!
Kausas City, are visiting relative:
and friends here this week.
Mr. David Tipton and crew are do-
ing business in Olpe this week.
Mr. William Lampton, another
wide awake Lyon county farmer, put
up a hundred tons of bay last week.
Mr. Samuel Irving also raised
about one thousand four hundred
buebels of wheat this year.
Bud Evans met with a very pain-
ful accident by stepping «m ao nail
which entered his foot aboyt an inch.
Mr. J. B. Leslie is on the sick list.
Misses Hester Hawkius, Hattie
Harper, Lauvinia Brown and Felicia
Davis returned to their homes in To-
peka after a successful summer term
1m the State Normal echool.
Meesrs. James and Arthur Helm
are in Newtou, working for the Santa
Fe Co.
Oswego.
Mr: Mingo Porter, of Joplin, wa:
inthe city Mouday visiting relatives
The rally at the second M. E
churob, last Sunday, was a grand sue-
cess and the pastur was made to re
joice.
Mr. G. W. Landis who is engaged
in hog raising, says prospects are ne
for fall market.
Miss Oliria Porter left Tuesday to
visit her sister-in-law, Miss M. J:
Porter of Joplin.
Mr. Wm. Jones, who has been ou
the sick list, is reported much better.
Miss Mary Smith of Parsons, ia the
guestof Mr.and Mrs, Juhu Irvine
this week.
The Mesers. Hudson Dial and
Harvel, of Chetopa, paid Oswego a
pleasant call last Sunday.
Mr. Arthur Coles, of Parsons was
in the city Sunday, trying to find
his best girl
Joreph Parks came over from Jop-
lin Sunday to visit home fol’ss.
Sam McBride was visiting in the
city a few days.
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NOTICE,
AIL persons icterested will take ouce that my pe
tion son fle ia tbe office of the Sbawnee “county.
Kansas, Probate Court, asking for authonty to sel
the following described real estate, situate in Shaw-
nee County, Kansas, belonging to the estate of Lon-
don Wilson, deceased, for the purpose of payiox the
debts of sald estate and the expenses of administra,
hon, towst: Am undivided one-half of—commencm
8 71 100 chaies west, and 9 96-100 chains south ol
the north east corner of the north west quarter 6
section 5, Township 12, range 16; thence west 61 feet,
thence south siz feet: thence east 8: feet; thence
north 111 feet,
Said petiuon is sat for heanog atthe office of the
Meebate Judge, in the en of Topeka, in anid. coanty,
on Tuesday, the 27th day of August, 1901, at whuch
lume and place you caa make koown aay objections
you may have tothe granting of such order,
S AP. Rounornre, Admunutrator, said estate,
eaalt Samar Wk cees.
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MARGARETHA SCHEER, Plaenf,)
EMMAS. MUNK. J. MUNK a0}
DAVE CLOSE, Defendants,
(Ne a3,047)
To Emma S. Suat and J, Munk:
‘Youwill take notice that you have been sued in the
dutnct court of Shawace county in connection with
the above named defendant, Dave Close, and that
you mutt amwer the petition fled 1m said action on or
before the ayth day of Sept. 1901, of said petton
willbe taken at true and judgment and a decree ren-
dered accordingly in said action for $4,000.00 damages
claimed by the plasotif against said defendants. and
thatan attachaeat order has issued and levied upon
the following desenbed property as the property of
Emma5, Muck andJ. Buk, the north zo fect of
the south 35 feet of lot number za.0n Kansas avenue,
North Topeka, Kansas, commonly knows as lot sum"
ber 608, and that said property will be sold under said
anachment order to satisfy said jadgment.
=) W.E JAMISON, Attorney for Plaine
{eait A.M. CALLAHASL, Clerie District court.
— (eg 2.0. 31, 3900)
In the Dotnet Court, within and for Shawace county
State of Kansas,
DELILAH ANDERSON, Plant,
ss,
HENRY ANDERSON, Defendact. f
No. 21.2640
Thesaid defendant, Henry Andenion, will take
souice, that the said plain, Dellah Andertoa, did
‘on the a7th day of July, 1got, commence an action,
‘nd file a petitoa 1a the above named court, against
he said defendaot, and that the said defendant must
appear and aaswer the said petiion 0 filed against
him, by sad plainuf, on or Lefore September s6th*
appt, or saud petition will be taken 25 true, and a
judgment and decree will be rendered 1m said Coun,
dreorcing said plaintiff from said defendant, on. the
‘ground of extreme cruelty: and restoring to het, her
maiden name of Delilah Sounds, and grant to satd
plantiff such other and further relief, as im equity,
the aature of said plaintif s case may requite.
Witdess my hand, and seal of aid Court, affixed at
wyoffice am the City of Topeha, this 3rot day of
July. 1901
Lent] Auest: A. M.CALLAHAM, Clerk.
JOSEPH REED, Atorney for Plant,
NOTICE.
Nouce is hereby given that on August sgth, agot
Drs, Lina Mahana, wMlo is now confinea sn the jail
of Shawnee county, hanag been convicted im the
District Court of saud county, on four county far ¥10-
Lauon of the probibitory Lau, will apply to the Gov.
ercor of Kansas fora pardon.
‘Aug 2, 1901. JOSEPH REED, Auorney.,
NOLICE,
My application for a perm:t to sell sntoxicating
Inquors according 10 faw at 112 West Exghth avenue
rathe Fourth ward of the eityzof Topela, snow on
file inthe office of the Probate Judge of Shawnee
county, Kansas DThe hearing of the same isset for
Tuesday mormng, August the 2zth., agot, at 0
olcloxk.
ES. Lee,
PUBLICATION NOTICE.
Inthe district court of shawnee county, Kansas.
EDNA EARL NEWBERRY, Plamud,
DUDLEY NEWBERRY, Defendant.
| To Dudtey Newberry, defendant, Herein you are
hereby Patifiel shat you have been sued sm the
above entitled action for cause im the
aoovenamed court by Edaa Pearl Newberry you
wife. That Plaowf fled her petition with the
clerk of the district court uf Shawnee county Kansas
on the twenty-eight day of June A. D. sgor and
unless you answer the same on of before the a7th day
of August 1gor that the allegations therein contained
‘wilt be taken as tree and judgement rendered accord-
ingly against you and divorceing you from said
Plaauf, and granting such other and further relief
asthe court may deem proper.
H.L. SMITH, Attomey for Plait.
In the dotnet court of Shawnee county, Kansas.
MAMIE SICHOLIS, Plow,
Lo
G, F NICHOLIS, Defendant.
ToG. F. Nichol, dee, You are hereoy notfied
you have been sued inthe above entitled action fo
cause sm the above named court by Mamie Nicholis,
yourwfe That sau Planta filed her peutiou with
the clerk of the distnct court of Shawace counts,
Kansas on the twenty-cigth of June A. D. 1901 and
unless you answer the same on or before the 27th
day of August 1791, that the allegations therein
contained will be taken astrue and judgement ren-
dered accordingly against you aad duorceing you
from said Plaintiff and granting, Plavatiff such other
and further relief as the sourtmay deem proper.
HL, Smnb, Acorney for Plaintifl.
Inthe dutnict court 1a and for Saawnee county, Ka
F E.JORDAS, Planut,
ELLA JORDAN, Defendant,
(So. 21,232)
The defendant, Ella Jordan, a resident of the state
of Minourn ts hereby notified that she has been
sued by F. E. fordaa im the district court aforesaid
man action for divorce and that she must answer the
Petition filed im said cause of acuon on or before the
16th day of august 1g0t or said petstion will be taken
astrue and judgement rendered for divorce as pray-
ed for therein
[seat] 4, Tagras,Auornen for Pavot
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