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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. The Industrial Exposition and Fair to Be Held at St. Joseph, Mo., is a Step Forward, and Kansas Should Be Well Represented! 1 Historical Society Sta's House VOLUME IX. A BLOW TO JIM OROW CARS. Inter-State Commerce Commission Says Cars for Whites and Blacks Must Be Equal. Washington, July 8--The interstate commerce commission in a decision of the case of Georgia Edwards against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louisville railroad has held that where a railroad provided certain accommodations for a first class passenger of the white race, like accommodations shall be provided for Negroes who have purchased first class tickets It holds that in this case it is manifest the railroad "has unduly and unjustly discriminated in some particulars against colored passengers," and orders that where the railroad provides a wash bowl and towels in the coaches for white passengers and a separate smoking compartment, similar accommodations shall be provided for Negro passengers paying similar fare The complainant, who had purchased a first class ticket from Chattanooga, Tenn, to Dalton, Ga, was removed from a car for white persons to one for Negroes and complained that she was discriminated against because of her color and not afforded equal facilities. Commissioner Lane, who rendered the decision of the commission today held "The expense of a small smoking compartment in the latter [the of the whites] accounts for the difference in cost between the two cases". He holds that the broad question of the right under the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments of the constitution to segregate white and colored passengers has been upheld by the supreme court of the United States. The opinion continues Accepting these as conclusive upon the constitutionality of such laws we turn to the consideration of the reasonableness of such a rule, when imposed by the carrier; and this we find to have passed upon by this commission within a few months of its organization in this we find to have been passed upon by this commission within a few months on its organization in the case of council versus Western and Atlantic Railway company which was decided December 3rd, 1883, and which bell this separation may be carried out on railroad trains without disadvantage to either race and increased comfort to high "Again in Heard versus Georgia railway company, decided February 15th, 1855, the commission held that the separation of white and colored passengers paying the same fare is not unlawful it cars and accommodations used in all respects are forished to both and the same care and protection of passengers is observed "While, therefore, the reasonableness of such regulations as to interstate passenger trains is established it by no means follows that carriers may discriminate between white and colored passengers in the accommodations which they furnish to each. The principle that must govern is that the carriers must serve equally well all passengers whether white or colored, paying the same fare. I failure to do this is discrimination and subjects the passenger to unfair and unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage." Great Annual Meeting. The Neosho Valley District Sunday school convention will mee at Ottawa, Kansas, Tuesday, August 18, 1907 at the Baptist church, of which Rev. James Washington is pastor. The last session was the best in the history of the Neosho Valley district. Everybody seems to be more than pleased with the results, but are you satisfied to stop because we did well. It should only inspire us to do better. More is expected of us because the needs are greater and we know better how to supply them. We owe it to the district to excel past records. The time has come when not only the officers should feel a deep interest in this work; it is imperative that each member of the district should feel an individual responsibility in contributing to the success of this meeting by coming, giving, and praying. May we not all do this? Other districts are reporting a banner year. Shall we fail? From every Sunday school the answer is No. Therefore let each see well to it that you be present in August. The assessment for schools is five cents per member. But is not our interest greater than the small sum asked? Why not give as God has prospered us? The banner is now at Ottawa that being the school of honor at the last session? Do you want it? It is to be given to the school sending the most money above the regular assessment. In conclusion: As is our custom, we hereby ask that all schools elect their delegates not later than the 21st of July, and send names to the corresponding secretary at once. Please don't forget, as by so doing you will greatly aid the committee making the program. REV. NORRIS J. STONES, Pres, Chanute, Kans. MISS JOSIPHINE CHISEM, Cor Sec. Baldwin, Kan. MISS JOSIPHINE MARTIN, Rec. sec. Garnett, Kans. NEGRO FARMERS GET READY! No Time Should be Lost in Preparing for the Big Tri-State That ever popular anduntiring worker, Mr. Charles A. Groves has been appointed commissioner of agriculture for St. Joseph's great fair and industrial show, and we urge every Negro farmer in Kansas to get busy and answer his call. A letter from him follows I have caused circular letters to be sent many of you from St. Joseph, Mo., which is headquarters for our great Tn State Pan. Will you kindly read them and note the purpose. Savet before, west of the Mississippi, has so noble a movement been inaugurated by our people, of our people and for our people; neither have such opportunities and avant-gages presented themselves to us Joseph, a demonstrate and prove our progress, beyond a reasonable doubt, in these three states. I have been elected commissioner of agriculture and servant for this state; therefore I desire in expression of heatfeet co-operation by sending or notifying at once of any article or commodity, from a glass of jelly to finest horse, or pig, or pigs. The Sunflower State agriculturists are urged to take advantage of this fair and exposition that it might enable the sons of Kansas to carry off many prizes for agricultural productions at Topeka, 1911. The Sunflower State agriculturists report appear in this week's issue of The Pressman Farmers of all sections take note. Commissioner of Agriculture. The State Negro Industrial Exposition and Fair. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1907. Following the Color Line R.S. Eaker Tells of the Rural Negro. Continued from Last Week from the American Magazine Today a white overseer resides on every plantation and he or the owner himself looks after and disciplines the tenants. The tenant is in debt to him (in some cases reaching a veritable condition of debt, slavery or peonage) and he must see that the crop is made. Hence, he watches the work of every Negro, and indeed that of the white tenants as well; sees that the land is properly fertilized, that the dikes, to prevent washing, are kept up; that the cotton is properly chopped—thinned—and regularly cultivated. Some of the greater land owners empsoy assistant overseers or "riders" who are constantly traveling from farm to farm. On one plantation I saw four such riders start oat one day, each with a rifle on his saddle. And on a South Carolina plantation I had a glimpse of one method of discipline. A planter was telling me of his difficulties—how a spirit of unruliness sometimes swept abroad through a plantation, inspired by some "bigoty nigger." "I do you know what I do with such cases?" he said. "Come with me, I'll show you." He took me back through his house to the broad porch and reaching up to a shelf over the door he took down a hickory wagon spoke as long as my arm. "When there's trouble," he said, "I go down with that and lay one or two of 'em out. That ends the trouble. We've got to do it: they've like children and once in a while they simply have to be punished. It's far better for them to take it this way, from a white man who is than friend, than to be arrested and taken to court and sent to the chain gang." Planters told me all sorts of troubles they had to meet with their tenants. One of them after spilling a whole evening telling me of the troubles which confronted any man who tried to work Negroes, summed it all up with the remark: "You've just got to make up your mind that you are dealing with children, and handle them firmly and kindly as you know how." He told me how hard it was to get a Negro tenant even in the busy season to work a full week—and it was often only by withholding the weekly food allowance that it could be done. Saturday afternoon, of "evening" is they stay in the South, the Negro goes to town to visit his friends. Often he spends all day Sunday driving over the country and his mule comes to warn out that it cannot be done on Monday. There is often a furious revival which breaks into the work to say nothing of stolls and fish supports it which the Negroes often remain all night long. Many of them are enclaves with their tools, wasteful of supplies, responsible in their promises. One planter told me how he had built new fences around the homes of his Negroes and fived up their houses to encourage them in thrift and give them more comfort, only to have the fences and even parts of the houses used for firewood. Toward fall, if the cotton has been bad, and the crop of cotton short, so short that a Negro known that he will not be able to spray out" and have anything left for himself, he will sometimes detract the pruning entirely, leaving the cotton unpicked and large debt to the land off. If he attempts that, however, he must get entirely away, else the planner and chisel him down and bring him back to the work. Hinterate, without his pulse or training, with little ambition and much indulence a large proportion of Negro tenants are looked after and driven like children or slaves. I may a large proportion, but there are thousands of industrious Negro land owners and tenants who are rapidly getting ahead - I shall show next month. In this connection it is a noteworthy fact that a considerable number of of the white tenants require almost as much attention as the Negroes, though they are, of course, treated in an entirely different way. One planter in Alabama said to me "Give me Negroes every time! I wouldn't have a low-down white tenant on my place. You can get work out of any Negro if you know how to handle him; but there are some white men who won't work, and can't be driven, because they are white." In short, when slavery was abolished it gave place to a sort of feudal tynantry system which continues widely today. And it has worked with comparative satisfaction, at least to the landlords, until within the last few years, when the next step in the usual evolution of human society—industrial and urban development—began seriously to disturb the feudal equilibrium of the cotton country. It was a curious idea, human enough, that men should attempt to legislate slaves immediately into fire. But Nature takes her own methods of freeing slaves; they are slower than men's ways but more certain. The change now going on in the south from the feudal agricultural life to shipment modern conditions has brought dilution for the planters compared with what all others pale into insignificance. I mean the severity of labor industry is competing with right notice for the limited supply of Negro workers. Negroes, responding to exactly the same natural laws that control the white farmers, have been moving cityward, entering other occupations, migrating west or south—where more money is to be made. Agricultural wages have therefore gone up and rent relatively, have gone down; and had the South not been blessed for several years with wonderful returns from its monopoly crop, there might have been a more serious crisis. If the South today could allow little its chief need, we should have a single great show: Out of this struggle for tenants, servants and workers has grown the chief complications of the Negro problem—and I am not forgetting race prejudice, or the orphanage against women. Indeed, it has seemed to me that the chief difficulty in understanding the Negro problem lies in showing how much of the complication in the South is due to economic realities and how much to instinctive race repudiation or race prejudice. In one town I visited-not Hask mville--I was standing talking with some gentlemen in the street when I saw a man drive by in a buggy. "Do you see that man?" they asked me. "Well, he is the greatest tenant stealer in this country." I heard a great deal about these tenant stealers. A whole neighborhood will exert one platter when it keep the land cultivated well into easy life neighbors. No grieve. Some may be well offered more ages, sometimes he will give the tenant better homes to live in, and sometimes he will be made by that older force of a masterful person. ly which easily controls an ignorant ten entry I found, moreover, that there was not only a struggle between individual planters for Negro tenants, but between states and sections. Many of the old farms in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama have been used so long that they require a steady and heavy annual treatment of fertilizer, with the result that cotton growing costs more than it does in the rich, alluvial lands of Mississippi, or the newer lands of Arkansas and Texas. The result is that the planters of the West, being able to pay more wages and give the tenants better terms, lure away the Negroes of the East. Georgia and other states have met this competitive disadvantage in the usual way in which such disadvantages, when first felt but not fully understood, are met, by counteracting legislation. Georgia has made the most strenuous laws to keep her Negroes on the land. The Georgian code (Section 601) says: "Any person who shall solicit or procure emigrants, or shall attempt to do so, without first procuring a licence as required by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." Ex-Congressman Wm. H. Fleming, one of the ablest statesmen of Georgia, said. "Land and other forms of capital cannot spare the Negro and will not give him up until a substitute is foanl. His labor is worth millions upon millions. In Georgia we now make it a crime for any one to solicit emigrants without taking out a license and then we make the license is nearly prohibitive is possible. One of the most dangerous occupations for any one to follow in this state would be that of an immigration agent as some have found by experience." In this connection I have in account published in April in an au gusta newspaper of post such case. "The heaviest fine given in the city court of Richmond county within the past two years was imposed upon E. E. Arnett yesterday morning. He was sentenced to pay a nine of one thousand dollars, or serve six months in the county jail. "Arnett was convicted of violating the state immigration laws regarding the carrying of emigrants out of the state. He was alleged to have employed thirteen Negroes to work on the Georgia and Atlantic Railroad, which operated in this state and Alabama. The jury in this case returned a verdict of guilty when court convened yesterday, although it had been reported that a unusual was probable." A famous railroad migration agent called "Dog Leg" Williams, also promoted Negro migration from Georgia to Mississippi and Texas a few years ago was repeat only presented at finally driven out of business. In a letter which he wrote some time ago to the Atlantic Constitution and I know several countries not who lived miles from Atlanta, where it's more than a man's life to worth to go into, to get Negroes to move to some other state. There are farmers that would not hesitate to shoot their brother were he to come from Mississippi to get this nuggets as he calls them, even though he had no contract with them. I know personally numbers of Negro men who have moved West and after accumulating a little returned to get a brother, sister, or an old father or mother, and they were compelled to return without them, their lives being imperilled; they had to leave, and I have quick." In view of such feeling it may be mongue how tattle in the talk of the deportation of the Negro race. What the Southern winter town is not found Negroes but more Negroes who will keep their place. Many other laws have been passed. 14 get a divorce. Her home, and mother. NUMBER 28. THE YOUNG Literary Congress Was Highly Instructive and a Brilliant Success from Every View Point. The second annual Literary Congress of the young people of the Fifth Episcopal district of the A. M. E church which met at St. John's A. M. E. church, Topeka, Kansas, of which Rev. J. E. Edwards is pastor, was a grand success, from a financial, literary and moral standpoint. There were distinguished representatives from Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. The session was presided over by Rt. Rev. Abram Grant, bishop of the Fifth Episcopal district. He is one of the greatest men of today. He is doing more to Christianize and unite the two races in America than any other man under the sun. The congress convened Thursday morning and held three sessions each day and adjourned Saturday morning. There were several papers read and discussed and excellent music rendered, both vocal and instrumental. Several distinguished representatives who were present at the proceedings are Rev. Tillman of Colorado, P. E. Barksdale of the St. Louis district; Rev. Caldwell of St. Joseph, Bryant, P. E. Collins of Kansas City district, P. E. Beale of the Hannibal district; Revs. Ward of Kansas City, Kans, Peck of Kansas City, Mo., and Oyens of Pueblo, Colo. Profs. Sims of St. Joseph, S. French of Western University, Emory and Moseley of Columbia, Mo. Revs. Gregg of Leavenworth and McDonald of the Western Christian Recorder, also Miss Godfrey of Kansas City, Kans, Miss Sexton of Hannibal, Mo., Mrs. Cora N. Motin and the Miss Brosius of Jefferson City, Mo. Mrs. Cora N. Motin, who is one of the instructors in Lincoln Institute and a most highly educated woman, was secretary of the congress and won the admiration of the entire delegation and was congratulated upon being one of the best secretaries that body ever had. She recited two of her favorite pieces on Friday evening which won a round of applause, and not until she had responded two or three times did the audience cease. As an entertainer she has but few equals, if any, in her race. We have paid from fifty cents to one dollar to witness dramatic plays whose leading lady could not equal Mrs. Motin. The address of welcome on behalf of the people of Topeka by Miss Salian Jelly was one of the brightest pieces of the day, and was responded to by Hon Nelson C. Grews, the matchlessrator of Kansas City, Mia Much credit is due Rev J. E. Howard for the successful and dignified manner in which he entertained the convention. Resolutions were passed thanking the citizens of Topeka for the hospitality extended them. Resolutions were also passed thanking Miss Jeanne for the contribution of $1,000 to assist in the education of colored people in the South, and also for the appointment of the Rt. Rev. A. Grant as one of the trustees to handle the fund. The congress adjourned to meet in St. Joseph in 1904. This congress is helpful to young people of the race who come together once a year to gain useful ideas and increase their knowledge of each other. Tri-State's Costly Advertising. The large lithographs keep him advertising the lives of Earl and Industrial Association to be used in St Joseph Aug 10 to 10, no notice of the most ever placed on the boards in the West. No Negro enterprise in this part of the country has ever used such paper. COLORED FARMERS TAKE A STEP FORWARD The fourth annual meeting of the Sunflower State Agricultural Convention at Joplin at Iwandaville Kansas, on Saturday June 29th. A number of colored farmers were present from Edwardsville, Minneapolis city, Lawrence and Borma Springs and a very interesting and public meeting was held. A large public dinner was spread before the delegates on the lawn in front of the beautiful residence of Mr. Jones, and a reception was tendered the visitors in the evening. Principal N. B. Burtlett High School. St. Joseph, Ms. president in the State Negro Institute. Expansion and in which will be held St. Joseph from August 4th. Both was present attending attendance and exhibits from the Kansas colored farmers. Prof. Albert Ross, director of the Business Department of Western University, also was present and made a short address to the most The colored farmers this year at making studies forward to future betterment and economy and saving in their personal business. Among the important legislation enacted was the creation of a purchasing agent who is to buy in carload lots such things as steel, plows, cultivators, flour, coal and all things used in the farm, direct from the manufacturers, thereby saving the middleman's profit and expense. Colored farmers in all parts of Kansas and Missouri may have access to this department. This association phlogged itself to furnish an exhibit and some space at the Kansas Centennial State Exposition, to be held in Iowa in 1911. Articles of association incorporating the association for $10,000, divided into two shares of $10 each, were ordered kind with the Secretary of the State of Kansas, and a charter issued. The shares of stock to be paid for on the installment plan with an eighteen months limit. The installments to be due in July, August, September October and November of each year. Several hundred dollars worth of shares were immediately subscribed for by the members present and the president. This A group was an authorized to begin negotiations with colored farmers elsewhere for the sale of additional stock. From the sale of these shares an experiment farm will be purchased and made self-sustaining upon which will be bred and crossed different kinds of hogs, chickens, cattle, sheep, corn and grain, and the offspring will be sent from this central repository plant direct to a members home farm for the improvement of his own stock and produce. This will include fruit and grain as well as live stock. This experiment farm will be conducted and self-supported not for the purpose of making money, but for the mutual benefit of the stockholding members, who must be Atro-Americans. A delegate was selected to attend the National Business League, which meets in Fopka in August Hon J.G. Groves was chosen to represent the organization at the St Joseph exposition and to supervise the exhibits from Kansas colored farmers during the Iii State Exposition in that city. This organization of young Negro farmers who have their reputations their money and property behind this movement, is aggressively at work for betterment and greater wealth for the colored farmers of the West. Headed by such an agricultural expert as Charles A. Groves a graduate of a four year agricultural course from the State Agricultural College at Manhattan Kansas and who has spent more than twenty years in practical work on the farm, and fostered and backed up by that world leader of all Negro farmers, I11 Groves the potato king, and a host of substantial farmers who believe in him, this movement is no child's play, but is all ready assured of great success. Every Negro farmer in the West and especially in Kansas should associate himself with this race enterprise and put his shoulder to the wheel and his spare cash in having an interest in this institution and thereby hit the Negro farmer at the West out of the illusuring eyes of the world and bring lasting benefit dignity and respect to a rising race of steady people. The average Negro farmer in the eyes of the white race is a joke. His live stock, his vehicles and even himself are usually apt to be laughed at and made fun of. We have, however, colored farmers who are doing a great deal more in the agricultural world, more than they as a whole are getting credit for. This organization is stirring the colored farmer to greater activity and encouraging the backward farmer to press onward and upward. Every Negro farmer in Kansas—yes, in the whole West—ought to belong to this organization, not alone for continental reasons because he is a Negro, not only because it is helping the Negro farmer in the South to come West and find it a suitable farm home a home in Kansas on long ture payments not alone because it is teaching its members new ideas and testing for them new machines and tools used in farming not only because it is continuing the Negro young man in the cities who is skeptical, that the Negro young man who owns a farm in money and people. In addition to these continental reasons the colored farmer should belong because of cold business facts and figures in his favor, because he would make money in improving his farm, his seed and his stock, because he is losing money every day by not being longing, because the colored farmers who do belong are getting deeper and deeper interested and are proclaiming its good benefits to the world. For instance, a colored farmer member located anywhere in the West sees a low annual, or tract of land near his own home that he may wish to buy he gets the price from its owner, who most likely is a white man; but he thinks it too high. It is a business fact that in organization can always buy cheaper than an individual, because its influence and prestige and credit are stronger. So this colored farmer says nothing further to the owner, just ships a letter to the purchasing agent of the organization, who buys it at a minimum loss price, and then makes it over to the colored farmer, thus saving him from 10 to 25 per cent. What is true of land is true of seed, cultivators, labor, flour, and other farm necessities. This organization exists not for the purpose to make money for it self, or for anyone else, but as a mutual help and advantage to its members, as a go-between buyer and seller, as a getter or better bargains because a corporation can get better bargains than an individual can drive. United we stand and grow strong, divided we remain weak and impowerful, seems to be the idea followed out. Every colored farmer, his wife or son or daughter, should be interested, because it is making a future place of employment for the colored farmers son or daughter. The Plainsdale urge them to write to the president, Chas A. Groves, Edwardsville, Kansas, and at least get more of the free information about this laudable movement and race enterprise. It means much to the future welfare of those who are dependent upon the soil for their support, content and permanent happiness. MORE FIGURES. In these columns there were recently presented a few remarks showing the undue weight which the South has in the Republican National Convention according to the appointment rule usually followed. Here are some more facts along the same line. Nine Southern states including the on the South from North Carolina to Texas as case 1913 B Republican votes in 1914. 102, nine states will have 192 delegates in the Republican National Convention. Kansas gave Russell over 400 votes more than the entire nine states nommed, yet it will have only 20 delegates in the National Convention in other words, one Southern Republican will have as much influence in naming the Republican candidate as twelve Kansas Republicans. Here are the figures of the Republican vote in these nine states and the delegates which will be apportioned them under the next rule. Lop Vote Delug Michigan 22,474 22 Arkansas. 40,860 18 Florida 8,114 10 Georgia. 24,004 26 Louisiana 5,205 18 Mississippi 2,168 20 South Carolina 2,554 19 Texas 50,307 38 Virginia 40,450 24 Total 160,335 192 To elect the power of these nine Southern states with a Republican vote of only 169,335, will require ten North- ern and Western states with a total R epublican vote of over two million. Here | | Rep. Vote | Delog | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Hawaii | 632613 | 51 | | Iowa | 307907 | 26 | | Kansas | 210891 | 20 | | California | 205220 | 20 | | Minnesota | 210651 | 22 | | Nebraska | 148558 | 10 | | North Dakota | 52505 | < | | South Dakota | 72081 | < | | Oregon | 00167 | < | | Washington | 101610 | 10 | | Total | 2015111 | 102 | As stated here from the Republican party in the south—what there is of it—is made up largely of Negroes who are controlled by political bosses. Tolerant has been holding for that support in the Brownville investigation. If he gets it it will require the power of over 20,000 Northern Republicans behind him to obstruct the influence given Toleraker by those 109,000 Southern Negroes. KANSAS WOMEN DOING KANSAS WOMEN DOING THINGS The seventh Annual Mission of the Kansas Federation of Womens Clubs convened June 20th at the A. M. E. church Kansas City Kansas, for a two- day session. The following eighton- clubs were represented: Lawrence, Cat- nation club, Wichita, Golden Link clubs, Salma Dunbar club and N. I. club, Lakewood Clovis Leaf club, Newton, N. I. club Topka, Excelsior, Dum- nas Oriental Rosebud, Golden Rod, or- phone Home Moths Congress, and N. I. Plus Fulta clubs Kansas City, Kansas Alpha, Adelphi. Progressive Rehearsal and Metropolitan Sewing Club. Wholesale and retail human hair dealers. Wigs $15 per dozen or $375 each and up; switches $4 per dozen or 75c and up; kinky hair, wavy hair, straight hair, dark brown and jet black colors. Money must accompany all mail ordors. 1402 Calhoun Street, Fort Worth, Texas. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D. P I C I A N AND S U B G R O N be congratulated upon the interesting and highly enjoyable sessions that have marked this years meeting. The programs consisted of vocal, instrumental and literary selections and were rendered with a high degree of skill and excellence. The paeas pertaining to the Negro woman's work in helping to uphold her race were full of brilliant ideas that brought out some benchalal discussions. Wednesday evening a reception was tendered the visiting delegates at M and 10. hall, and after a short program takes, nets and cream were served to all present Thursday evening the session closed with a declimation contest in which Miss Rosie Rossen, Miss Mary Thomas, Miss Nellie Jackson and Miss Lillian Simpson contended for the medal. Miss Rosie Rossen was awarded the prize by the judges The session adjourned to meet next year in Wichita. The following officers were elected for the year: President, Mrs. E. D. Robinzine of Kansas City, Kansas; 1st vice president, Mrs. Angie De Priest of Salina; 2d vice president, Mrs. M. A. Young, of Wichita; secretary, Mrs. J. L. Harper, of Wichita; corresponding secretary, Miss Jesse Ewing, of Kansas City, Kansas; treasurer, Mrs H. Petrie, of Newton, Kansas; chaplain, Mrs H. J. Frazier, Wichita, state organizer, Mrs J. Harris, of Kansas City, Kansas; historian, Mrs. Skarce of Topka. The new executive board is composed of the following: Mrs. Pula Harris, Kansas City, Kansas; chairman, Miss Lue Harris of Topka, Mrs. Alpha Gamble of Kansas City, Kansas, Mrs Mabel De Priest of Salina, Mrs. Emma Gaines of Topka, Mrs. N. Dilbert of Kansas City, Kansas Among the visitors present were Mrs. Joseph H. Hortford of Chillicothe, Mo. Mrs. W. Bacote of Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. John M. Wright and Mrs. O. A. Layton or Tepcha, Mrs. Walker of St. Joseph Mo. 1st vice president of the Missouri State Federation of Women's Clubs who solicited the attendance and participation of the Kansas ladies in the coming Industrial in State Fair meet in to be held in St. Joseph, August 4th to 9th. It was decided that the Kansas ladies would be represented by individual clubs at the various cities. The art work displayed was simply magnification and consisted of Battenburg drawn work, embroidery oil painting, knitting, crocheting latting and all sorts of fancy work. The Federation banner was awarded to Mrs. Bilhoud DuVries of the Adelphi Art Club of Kansas City Kansas, for the best artistic production. It was embroidery work representing a cut glass vase containing pinks in water. It was a source for great admiration by all the ladies Mrs. D W. White of Parthenary Club, Kansas City Kansas, but a very fine specimen of handwork, a white linen embroidered suit with hat to match. It represented much tedious work, skill and art and ranked up in the class with the prize winner. It was tally work shipped by all the ladies. Mrs Pope Jones of Lopaka, drawn work sideboard cover, and Mrs Fwing of Kansas City, Kansas, china painting, deserve special mention for their fine workmanship. The Federation this year has undertaken an excellent new feature which it will develop as a charity and source of benefit to the power girls and married women of the race who cannot afford to pay for instruction. The Kansas Federation has established and will now maintain a school for teaching dress making and plain sewing in all of its branches, and will operate the school for one year in each of the cities where the annual conversions are held. Kansas City, Kansas, will get it this year, Wich- Get Busy If The Afro-American WILL GET Y We are sending hundreds of o to good positions in and out of the We are Headquarters for Reliable women coming to Kansas City should always have a demand for compa connection, and can accommodate y HELP SENT TO ALL WHEN TRANSPORTATION S Main Office S E Cen Branch Office No. KANSAS CITY, National Life Insur The Knights Prote Authorized to do bus State. We issue policies f create a reserve fund to loa accident benefits while you United States should carry benefited. Busy If You Want Work American Employment Agency WILL GET YOU A JOB G hundreds of competent colored men and and out of the city. Letters for Reliable Negro Help. Colored m Kansas City should come direct to our office and for competent help. We have a H accommodate you until you get a situation ENT TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUR RATION SUPPRISED. S. E. Cerner Eighteenth and Pass Officer No. 1,1005 M'Gee Street! WILL PROFESSIONAL MAIN National Negro Insurance C Rights & Ladies Protection Used to do business under the laws of the due policies from $75 to $1,000. We fund to loan to membnrs. Sick a ts while you live. Every Negro in t should carry a policy with us and Get Busy If You Want Work The Afro-American Employment Agency WILL GET YOU A JOB We are sending hundreds of competent colored men and women to good positions in and out of the city. We are Headquarters for Reliable Negro Help. Colored men and women coming to Kansas City should come direct to our office, as we always have a demand for competent help. We have a Hotel in connection, and can accommodate you until you get a situation. HELP SENT TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WHEN TRANSPORTATION SUPRNISHED. National Negro Life Insurance Co. The Knights @ Ladies Protection Authorived to do business under the laws of the State. We issue policies from $75 to $1,000. We create a reserve fund to loan to memburs. Sick and accident benefits while you live. Every Negro in the United States should carry a policy with us and be benefited. P.C. THOMAS, Natl Sec. New and Hand Good Furniture, Stoves, Sec Gas Fitting, Etc., bought We do Gas Fitting, H All Work Guaranteed. And Second Goods , Stoves, Second Hand Clothing, ing, Etc., bought, sold and exchanged. as Fitting, Repairing and Uptol- Guaranteed. New and Second Hand Goods Furniture, Stoves, Second Hand Clothing, Gas Fitting, Etc., bought, sold and exchanged. We do Gas Fitting, Repairing and UptoI All Work Guaranteed. PHONE 860. 211 N. WASHINGTON 11 N. WASHINGTON AVE., IOLA, KANS. you love your sick! keep PHONE 860. 211 N. WASHINGTON AVE., IOLA, KAS William Barnes is credited with being one of the best Chief Mentors the Knights of Tabor ever had. He is a Christian gentleman and he many friends, in and out of the order. The St. Joseph Tennis club again challenges the Atchison club. We will come up and play you at the Tri-State Fair until you hide your faces. What have you to say, St. Joe? Atchison's biggest picnic will be held at Forest Park, the first day of August. The people are hungry for a big picnic at home. Mrs. Belle Murray and Mice Winifred Morton are doing nicely with their Ice Cream pailor. Pryor Dickey and his brother Henry are making great headway on their farms at Port Williams. Eighteen wagons and vehicles made a first class gathering of coloured people at Doniphan Lake, on the Fourth. Irvin Boldridge and Chas. Sloes have a fine boy and girl respectively. Many a doctor has lost a patient when he could not account for the real cause of death; but nine times out of ten these obscure cases can be laid to women who meddle with their mess behind the doctor's back. Then, there is another set who come and say, "You look so bad." If Kallithrix Parlor HAIR GOODS, HAIR ORNAMENTS, NEW POMPA-DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, AND FRIZZES OF ALL KINDS. A NICE HINE OF TOILET |WATER AND PERFUMES. F. J. Weaver. Bonded by the Metropolitan Eurety Co. J. JOHNSON Proprietor. ATCHISON, KANS. Alfred Rivers. Reference: Missouri Saving Bank. IF YOU WANT Work Employment Agency YOU A JOB Competent colored men and women city. Enable Negro Help. Colored men and had come direct to our office, as we recent help. We have a Hotel in you until you get a situation. PARTS OF THE COUNTRY FURNISHED. Eighteenth and Pasco J,1005 M'Gee Street! MISSOURI. All Negro Insurance Co., & Ladies Section Business under the laws of the from $75 to $1,000. We can to membnrs. Sick and live. Every Negro in the by a policy with us and be Second Ids Second Hand Clothing, set, sold and exchanged. Repairing and Uptol- J. W. ANDERSON Plumber. NGTON AVE.,IOLA, KAS you love your sick keep them out. Five Negroes in Atchison will own first class farm land in Western Kansas within 60 days. One already owns 320 acres and is in a deal for more. The Northern Negro must own more land. The white people care nothing for our good clothes. Master Bates Bruce, son of Prof. H. C., of St. Joseph, returned home Monday after spending a week with Toussaint. Andrew Morcly Jae taken part in Robinson's restaurant and has added ice cream to comfort the stom ache. Miss Hattie Ingram returned on Saturday from teaching school in Oklahoma. We know not how many broken hearts she left behind. Atchison Tennis club challenges Kansas City, Mo., Tennis club. Speak up, Drs. Uthank and Perry. Miss Georgia Allen can give all the other girls pointers on stock raising. Mrs Parson Twine does not look any older than she did ten years ago. It is about time the Anniversary club should be giving one of its great dinners. All the churches are having first class Sunday Schools. JUNCTION CITY. The Second Baptist church is conducting a series of meetings, Rev. Crawford preaching soul stirring sermons at each meeting. Rev. Abbott preached an abe sermon Sunday evening to an appreciative audience. Mrs. Alma Chinn is on the sick list. Mrs. Paul Crews and daughs Nellie and Ida, and also Miss Lucy Holmes, all of Clay Center, are spending several weeks in the city for holidays and friends. ide, who has been visiting Mrs. Dwine and family for several days, returned to her home on Monday. John Turner and wife, a newly married couple have started housekeeping and are at home to their friends on West Twelfth. Mierce Ora and Mable Anbury spent the Fourth in Wakefield. G M. Brown has built a lovely home on W. 10,h street, which to and family now occupy. D. R. P. Fox, an old resident, died Friday evening at the home of his daughter. He leaves two daughters and a host of friends to mourn his loss. His funeral was held on Sunday, at 11 a.m. James Richardson and N. D. Aldridge will take a month's vacation, visiting Kansas City, the Territory and Arkansas. Louis Crews will follow in a few days. Miss Frankie Turner left for Boller, Colo., where she will spend the summer with relatives. Mrs. Florence Harder, reametreou at Fort Riley, and Assistant, Miss Aldridge are doing work for people of Fort Riley. Junction City and all other correspondents, please write only on one side of their paper. HIGGINSVILLE, MO. James Fielde, the undertaker, of Slater, changed cars here last Friday from a visit with relatives at Sedalia. Rev. J. P. McDonnel, f Gillian, passed through on the 5th, from a business trip to Sedalia. E. S Johnson, of Meatso, Mo., spent last Sunday in the city with friends. Miss Lena Coll or still on the sick list. S. Henderson, of Kaneau City, was in the city last week, visiting relatives. Rev. James Thomas, of Warrenburg, was in the city last Sunday, and preached at Rev. Jennings' church in the evening. Miss A. M. Britt spent Sunday in Odeea, assisting in the Children's Day exercises. J. W. Voohie's I also carry a free size of GROCERIES and MEATS. Give me a share of your trade. and Shining Parler Halcutt St. Share 100 Massage & Specialty SCOTT & SWEN DELL, Props. L.I. Independence Ave. KANSAS CITY M.C. DELL LHONE 2474 KAIN S. M. Chandler's Barber Shop and Pool Hall [Image of a man with a beard and mustache, wearing a suit and tie. The background is a solid black oval.] First-class Artist in the Barber Shop—Popular Prices, Work Guarantee! You are Always Welcome. ARE YOU GOING TO VISIT CHICAGO THIS, if you are you would want to stop at some good reliable home where things are home like! Well, drop us a letter with (50 cents) enclosed and we will see to it that you will have a First Class place to stop, where not only men but women and children will have the best care. All the leading Stores and private boarding houses in all the large cities Register with us. Write us at any time you wish to get Room. - . See pe ae eee ee ee ee the third Qoor to reat. Call at the office of Tak PLainpracer. ._—— : Me. Eugene Vaughn of Quindaro, Kers.Iseraplo ed at this office as steng*apher. —_— Bishep Abraham Grant, president vt the kaung People's Congress, wae the gcest ct Mr. and Mrs. Nick Chiles last week. Misses Ruth Cole and [da Godfrey. to; ct Kansas City’s prominent teaclers were in Tujeka Jast week atientirgthe Wuung People's Con grety Mr James Fonta m ct Hopkins~ vile, Ky vets his people las? week Hew ll yrhaliy make To- peka his hone. Me. Georke Hickman of Kansas City spent afew days with his people Me. and Mrs R. 8. Sims, last week —- Misses Parthenta and Maggie Brodious and Mrs. F, E. Motin of Jefferson City, Mo. were among those who attended the congress leat week, Prof, Sims and Mr. Fletcher Me Gee of bt. Joseph, Mo. Mr. P. K. Brownof Argentine, Mr, Warner Tyler, one of the prosperous farmers of Stafford county, attended the cons gress list week. NOTICE—A good lunch counter, poo! and billiard hall for rent. A party w..o can cook, or who can ée- cure a good cook, can take this place and coin money. Takes very little money to handle it. The finest location ia the city. Mr, and Mra. N Chiles entertained Saturday at two o'clock dinner com plimentary to the following guess: Prof, Shelton French and wife, Quin- daro; Mr,and Mrs. W. W. Fisher, Mrs. Cura N, Moten, Jeflerson City, Mra. Young, Wichita, Mrs Taylor Reed, Miss Ida Godfrey, Kansas City, Mo.. Prof. Sims and Rov, J. C. Caldwell of St. Josepn, Mo, FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev, Carr preached morning anc esening Sunday, For hia text at 11 a.m, he chose the text, ‘They now desire a better coantry.’’ In the evening he discyursed from the sub fect, “God's Providence.” The tent, “God will pr side.” The sewing Circle will meet this afternoon with Mra. Ellen Paze, 914 Buchanan street Good attendance is desired, Excelsior Hibte class meets thie evening atthe Perkias residence on Chandler street ‘The pastor left Tuesday tor Law rence tu attend ths association, Ou Monday e,ening 1s prom’sed a fine treatin the way of a musical concert at this church, Vocal and instrumental music, together with sonte literary feature, will farm a program that will be highly enjoya- ble and well worth the dime asked for :dmissien, Mesdames Electra Paze.Perry and ¥., H, Slaughter are among those why have hen ashed tu participate, All are invited to atfend These entertainments geven occasion ally, ure for tha purpose of increas- ing var building fund and the patron age et the public ty respectially so- hhetted. VERY LOW HATES 10 NEW ORLEANS, The Nations! Biptiat Pablishing Board has eaceceded, after months of liberal and gonstant communes tion with every general passenger agent of every Foul in the four pan senger axsucistions, in leaving two of the largest ones announce an ex- cevdingly low sate in follows for the sunday School Congress, Excursion tate for the Sunday School Congiess at New Orleans han been announced fur the South western Parmenger Aneciation, which Includes that terory lysis south cf Missouri, and weet FOR SAL Improved and Unimpre ved To Waubaunsce and adjoining counties. See or write WESLEY PAGE, Eshridge, Ranias. Mrs. R. L, Skearce and son, Rich- ard returned Sunday from a two weeks’ stay in Kansas City. Little Edith Walker, who has been visiting relatives ia Topeka the vast two months, returned to Kansas City Monday, Mr. A. Salishury spent Sunday in Lawrence, and returned with his tw little boys wao have been visiting there. Mrs WN. Corneal and daughters were guests «f Mrs. Charles T. Paelps of St. deeeph, Mo. Tie musicaie given by Misses Panty Puelys, Buelah Corneal and Zeteida Gordon at the Francis street Baptist church in st, Joseph, Mo Was a great success, Mr. Tompkins and wife of Uska- loosa were guests of their daughter aud son in law, one of the jamtors of the state house, Mrs. C.S, Smith and her cousin, Miss Booker, returaed to Kansas Cuy Sunday, having spent several days very pleasantly with relalives here, Mise Mabel Vaughn of Quindaro, Kana., was the guest of Miss Marga be Mims Inet week, and alao attend ed the Young People’s Literary Congress. The following guests were enter tained at dinner Friday by Mr. and Mrs, Nick Chiles: Rev. Gillam of Colorado Sprivgs, Rev. Peck of Kansas City, Mo., Bishop A. Grant, and Miss Ida Godirey of Kansas City, Mo, | Mr. and Mrs. Webb, Miss Helen Webb, Mr, Holder, Mrs. Poole and Mr, Patton picaiced at Vinewwood Monday evening. All reported <a fine time. Prof. Wm, E. Guy of Enid, Uktla, left Monday night for the K. of P. Grand Lodge at Guthcie, after spend- inga week with relativer. While here Mr. Cuy read a paper before the Literary Cougreas entitled “The Investment of a Man's Life,” ad dressed the V, M,C. A. and preached at Bt. Joan A. MT, E. chureh Sunday night | Great prenarations are being care tied on by the colored people of St Joseph, fur the coming fair August 4-9 Remember they have several thousand premiums to give to thuee ‘who have cahiluts There will be horse racing, trotting and pacing at this fair. Letevezy person who has a horse to exhibit orto enter write WATHIill, secretary There will be thousands from all over Kanans, Towa and Nebraska to attend the Negra ‘T'ri State Fair. TOUSSAINT LIOUVERIURE. ‘This eol tier, statesman and martyr with a mere handful of men held at Day sixty ships and 30,000 trained sildere—the tower of the French army and navy. Wendell Phillips provounced Ty uvssint the greatest general the world has produced Pictures of thia great) Negru, and of allennuent eotoret people sold by The Colored Amencan Novelty Ca, PLO drawer, 2268, Waehing ten, DC Agents wantee ST JOR DEGROKRS WILDL MOLD FAIR. We are glad to note the fact that the colored peuple of St, Joseph have issucd a procir@ on to allthe people of Nebrasha Missourt and Kansas to attend the Tri State Negro Industral exposition and lair August y-y Every colored farmer, mechanic, professional people of the race should place on exposition some product of ther labor, Push on, citizens of Bt. Joseph, we are glad to seo the colored people of that section of the country make an effort to demonstrate and manitain an indus, trial eaposition, To eryone ou the Mates fern row St dae anton dota tn tees C. T. Phelps’ Barbershop The Bost Artet and the ico Parce Jel La asete Bakeet SAINI JOSEPH, . ° sO A STEP FORWARD! Allen, the Gifted Topeka Writer will Foraish Lyrics and Songs for Williams & Walker. J Mord. Allen, Topeka's favorite son, lelt Tuesday for New York, where he goes to write the lyrics and songefor the great Widiams and Walker company, Sume months ago Mr, Ailen ottered to the reading public a book entitled “Rhymes and Rhy med Tales,” one of uf which fet into the hands of une ofthe company, and recognzing his great ability. they at once began negotiations to secure hiseervices with the above result, Mr Allen ia without doubt one of the best whtery in America, and asa play writer will make yood The best wishes of Tuk PLaispeal ER and all Topeka go with him, J oH. Childers, editor o The Watchman, is in St Joseph thie week. N. J. Williams and wife left yester- day Or Springfield, Mo, to visit rel- atives, For a good time, den't fail to go the Summer Garden every Tuesday and Friday night. —— Mrs. J. W. Udmonds left yester- day morning for Leavenworth to at- tend the funeral of A. J. Gilmore. _—_— If you want to win a premium send something to exhibit at the fair at St Joseph, which convenes August ath and extends to August 9th, — | Let every man, woman and child that haeany work of geniue to ex- hibit write WA Hill, secretary of Tri State fair, Board of Trade Blig, §t Joseph, Mo. Mr. and Bfre N. Chiles entertained the tollowing guests at dinner on the Fourth; Bishop A Grant, Rev J C Caldwell, Rev J CC Owens of Pue- blo, Colo, ana Rev Beale of Hanni- bal, Mo —_ Every farmer of Kansas, take notice: Get resdy te exhibit some- thing at the Tri State and Industrial Fair. Write Charles Groves, prea. dent of the Suntlower Agriculturists, Hdwardsville, Kans,, who will direct and aesi t you in getting your exhib it to St. Joseph, Ma, for the fair which convenes August 4-9 Mr, Groves’ exnbit, will consist. of five carloads of produce, ee ENTERTAINMENT FUND! The ways and means committee of the Topeka Colored Business Teague, consisting of | O Guy, Clay Odell, Mrs Mary King, Archie ig- qee, Wallace Withame, Prof WR Carter, Dr E8 Lee, ProfC & Clink- scale, Fred Roundtree and Nathan- iel Sawyer are jertecting arrange ments and putting forth strenuous effortsto rise suticient tnds tor the proper entertainment of the National Negro Business League which convenes in our city August t4ath, 15th and 6th Ae this isthe firet time si ctu of the league will be neil west of the Mossissipga Kaver, all indications point to the fact that we will have a Breal mecting here next month ad when we compare our city with Chi cago, New Vork, Atlanta and other large cities where the National hapue has met, we readily recognize the inagnitude of the responsibility for making complete arrangements for providing for the crowd which will be here during that week We therefore appeal ta the liberal tty aud goodwill of the citivens of Tuya ka tu help us make this the banner meeting in the history of the organization, und thereby encourage astriving people te bmld a solid and sure foundation for the fature uphtt of the race Whe t Wawing b'anh fori will tee given to [te ne authorized te golieit Aotaleas PSGTLININME NE TE ONS Thereby sabscribe —-— dollars te the Popeka Coicred Buyers League payable on or bef ro August Ts! 07, forthe purpose of gntertaming the National Negro Business League Anpust 1yth, Usth and 16th seeeeee ) SUB OOTIbEr fq GhGns, Pres dent Tito het Stunt) See Wel Raesas ave ge ee ae ee epee ye every Tuesday and Friday nights. ———— Mrs Effie Jones’ parents spent the Fourth in Topeka The viaduct is us open for the Summer Gardez Tuesday aad Friday evenings. MreLeeAnders apeat last week in Kaneas (ity v.90 og Ser sister in- law Wilson's Sutamer Gerdes, the pop ular place for evening anisetient tsopen Tresas aad Friday evea yee Mise Leona Talbert gave a cate purty Wednesday of laet week in honor of Mrs Annd DeMors of Nes York For au evening ct pleasure take the Last sixth street car to Wilson's Suminer Garden = Taesday and Pri day evenings. Rev JE Edwards of St John A ME church left Wednesday fora visit tu Los Angeles, California Mrs Lizzie Scott has gone to Chi cago fora visit to her daughter and sister — Gueate registered at the Bailey Hotel laat week: Dr. M.O. Rickette, St. Joseph, Mo., Hon. Neleou C. Crews, Kansas City, Mo. and Mr Briggs ot St. Joseph, Mo, Misses Mary and Martha Johnson lett last night for Oklahama City, to reside with their siater, Mrs Ed, Williams. Captain William Reynolds, who haa resided 1u Tupeka for many yeara. left last night for California, where he will make his future home. Miss Elizabeth Scott gave a aneet pea luncheon on the Fourth for Mra Elizabeth Lewis Jeflerson of Chicago Hee gaests included Mesdames Jett erson, Mayme Perkins, J D Graham, Misses Gertrude Solomon, Ota L Perkins, M B and Eva Watterson, - da Upshaw, Elien Page, Mary Haren, Mary Graham The table was decorated with sweet peas and miniature fire crackers Itas with a degree of pleasure thai we announce that our highly eeteemed Iriend, Mr Edwin S. Lee, the popu- lar druggist, was eranted a permit tu sell intoxicating lquors according te law, Mr, Lee tost his permit a few months ago through jealousy on the part ofa few knockers, but hia square dealing in the past made it no trou blefor himto get it back, He has always used the privilege of hut per- mit as prescribed by taw, and should not have been deprived af it in the first place | NOTICIL. After a close exam naticn we had tht Mis. Susie Wagner 1s not of the lowest character and isnuta fignter, and every word that way printed has been taken back an its absolutely false, there is nothing toit manate H. Harness, PUBLICATION NOGICES No. 24365 Inthe Distriat Court of shawnee Crusty, Kansas, Julia A, Perkins. Plantae, vA thomas Perkins, Defemiant, State of Kanens to eaid defendant: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, by the above named plamtif, Julia A, Perkins, whose petition tn said case was filed im said courton the ast day ot April, A. D., 107, that antess yon answer wald petition or appear hereinen or before the 17th day of May, 107, tne allegation eid pe tion will he tuken oe tre anda judgment rendercd agatnst you di- vorcing said plaintif trans ve and far ather pt perrclich ste oan und pe won deere s bea woe DD Risuyttry AL wat KROL, Liastey Coerk PY strict Court First publohed Apri.th, sg ¢ We do First-class Job Work REV, MAGETT LOPES Wis & GL. Second Home to Be Wrecked by Him. Hasa Wile ai Feanttlon, Kas, Whom he Deserted Sev- eral Months Age. Lo the New tapes Baprist nities at thas Hany as Cette te Davee ec pea wate Mie Sent te ter degiter at Mi and Mre Wood sett of Noith Laergreen eae Was toe an eprte et Che tact that he Peas anitidd at uel inne than a sean ago te Mise Me Vistar ot ba ankgert, Ranstes and Chit hes wite de sll tuving amt, iu the eprint ot Mes Scott's neues fronts, hae not bean divorced Tf the steny trtas cut te te true, the amorous divine has at least two desu late homes to answer for, and there are rumors that other escapades of the hind should be chat ged ag tint hone Magett is a nogiu, and tat chiage of the coloted chiret here untit the thet of fast month He Game ta Chanute fiem Frankfort, Kauss and laenght with fim recemmentatious of god character Ne hee a pleasing manner aud appears ance atid fas stamens to his tock, fie Whih be tiged ate imembere te beware of wiong deang and sek te dive a tightens Tite were clegnent ant ine pusive. His petoabtlors were revealed: in an unusual miner He meade application fe pina cohaed fraternity which heya bale im this city Hetere accepting him Fates Heloweslnp the venal investigation ie ta his pot lite wae meade, i was hound that he had hed a wite whom he had been compelled by oun iate father to many and when he had deserted slovtty aiter he law dad her te the attar thew ber and then infant ald upon the metcies of the wotll | Vis apphadtion te amemberdap waa) Tejected, nnd ve fee was started agarnat fin tn toy cheneh Tis antlaenee wit! W mayonty of Ue memtine was strong though to make st impossible te get ant fhtemt stecogth mineats Cle egeywettion ter cast tame ant he was allowed to hah Lite term which expate Lim dane ef this pear Winks hese tee formed the asin Hate ob Mase Sot the Letter come to Chanute with bee fester parents hom Mota telphie ae Pinnany at thie sean Mi Seott as eraptoved an the Cautter sales te and hes wae cdbepte lth eid wher ebe was a cath but a tes months mow than thee yeae old and Wat cated tor fer and aeaved her ace if she were thea own tenk aid Weel She Hed been given an edueaten ant trad d wo tase for which she shewel ae aptness, aed bab abwage ateme Ds atestid wath the exelent deme which bal bec given ber that as antl atter the Hew, Alize came pen the scene Tle tonne tegen gov otto tions be Miss Scott He antresduce t himself suite the Formate caacle wonder coven of tte call lg deprereating humeclt as beans inte ested Un Chea ompaituad welbane ble Sette ate net meander wt fhe Baptist Lonel bat Tetons te the Methe tret lee Hemmation Kes Masetts aenuer was see ange ed Latang wad fe Wie pomsensid of se mud porstersiete that they weat te Jus chatch sever ties aed sit andes fais pre urtoaag Me ceorbantted fas vieats tee the hea ay they Tegan te ducreaver that at was ft Theta sperstital stdin allege ther Pow hned be was itters sted be that the sul when Wey feet veut antes eodetue Hey Vong ema was ae hte po sont attratien gy Mis Seah he add tee stages cen cru Meg He pastors usateamenmd oy qd HER ec pattte nt another meade anya What she furatd tate se came ttn ia hat ste rank ned fielp but thask ane Vie was Wien, Ti erder Ge anike eune however and autlus thou condeain a Mer Whe naght Ie ninecent. she went || tee Ca and teat te food fer teaeote whether | Vie Magett Intd co sate there ' She tend that the eters wae trae |) Vhe te ated women tehl fot a tseet pots Uitte tel Sie te weengerd wie = Had decom wequaintel wath Magett while he wae the patston an that neigh. tothe ot cid Wo datlear andes that aegy | ties atttnee whale be xeony ti bel HTP wert ved the eaten sen shel Fat teastedd dn © e ttn ttgenan et ated Deb teen geet buttaby decaned Lhe Sutter pe obmed at the corunant Poort he te Para oe abot got drank ots Sung wh hat deen tat ty Pembina * it de as We postoray Eat Atehe see ew oe ED 8 chases: bee: feeds: ack \ rh owe fy th gt va she is now with them, She is the moth et of » baby about ain months old, The father hae never seon his chill, the dae eerted wifh te Mis Seutt the latter came home anl confionted Megett, demanding that he explain the atteir He toh a phisitle story, Claims ing that he was not the one who bad tana l the gate trouble, and that when he martial her he dtl so unter duress and was Innocent of any ein, being made 4 scapeyent for another He also said that fe had potten a divorce from her, faving stud for it am Sawn City, Flows, Miss Seett tuck fue story ag true, but WA foster doth was still ansatusfiod. She weit {ean atternes and asked bias on rmng the disere fiwe fa lowa ‘The [Inween asctitesd hey that Marth « story was tte deabie that te cold nut sue Pt sete ue that stat inti) he had veotlisie (a aestlemes there aad beer ection ter 1 ctu tugth ot the, Maced had teen an Charnte ever since We matted Mass Ms Mister in) Pranks fort ant this cacumetance discreditel Was stony Mis Seutt Wouhl tuleiate nm orore, She aevt thine that Magett came to bet ete she deaotneed hai to his lace, a0a lone stub aw scatlunge rebule that he never ventined these wzam ‘Through {tall however, he mamtained tus indus sme oun the gut Whar he no fonger ducd face ler foster patents, he pers suaded their daughter to meet hin chane destinely of the Lumea of members of Tas thak. Things went en until finally the gitt twht Mis, Seutt that they were to be matieds that the cremony was to be Iettortnal yesterday, duly 4th, and that she woull tave at once with her huse and for Linoln, Mb, whete he had heen given @ pastorate. She said that he told her the parsonage was all ready tor thew, und the congregation eager to Welwine the pastor amd his bride, Migett has deen gone tem Chanute about tour weeks He returned last, With amd thas te temam here until the waliog The et said Sunday aight, lumerer that he went auay. Monday morning the git told Mra, Scott that she was per ont on an errand. She Went tone of the place where she bad ev ausiting Magett A change of clos Hung had been left there bs her, in ans Lapaticn of ber thyht at is presumed. She donned the garments, went to the Katy station, tah the tim for the north ant ene then nothing hae been of or heart thom her by ter Cha- wute ties At as presumed that ebe went to Jom Magett Whale the girl is at Chest own flesh eb bteomt Ma amt Vee Seutt are as med eneerned whont her tile and full MH omotiaw that she shoukt have chosen, ee teat hernedt owas from them in auch Cmanned ts af mle had dec Chet nate nel daughter We teed Ce ese her sight «ald Mis Scott *Pversthing that she want- Awe got tor teat Mir Stott as cepecball guneved that sha Woull bave been tet inte taking a atep shiek he belie vec will prove her undoing He teh preat parte m hoe “daughter” as mw alwnye culled her and made many wcriices tor her ske, Ie Scotts me exellent people, They rie ane heme, amd in the room in Shieh Mee Nett secoued the Trrbune wi and tebl het eters were many hetle meh ache while cumtently had bees fe Telonguugs of (he mised girl, and in me ate stead wt fine piano, its cover Teed es at the anstrtment had become unto Lecause of the family's misfortune, Whether Mflagett soll mares the gut Pov postide ler te Ive with hem sMhent pein thaungh (he formaity of Wattage setenuny cin only he cone tet Vie Seatt thinkm that hes niles aver lis victim ae suilusent to wuse her to de ansthing for his ake. Ncconbug to Mis Scott ators, the Hepernye poston Woes the fucalty, peculiar ome HOEY oe ONE teistie ait alineat teoistilts putt icnee aver weren, and ee weoely vemege women Vi Neese toned she were har then thin Tele whe jan dove with him nie qo tet dow te mages ter that he te oanuther smerthert fa Coftessalle mi there gs tee de lenge how mony others HUTCHINSON, KANSAS Mis Margret Crow of the CMR thatch entertaimed the Lydian hochety ob the Soom Haptit chiuch Tuesday. Hitec atuber ot the didn of the aoe ety Were paeecnd and all gequnt a good tte Mie Santi) Shabhefond read a very tutenestane papers full af inecyues them te evens Chutetien Phe stubyoct. Was “Am f Needle" Mas Crow made a teas datexeating talk et tuiesion work, and }odeuhh say that. weunn of her talent fer such work should at ome bo pit werk dor the herveet is white ant the P Tarte tne ten Vbs. Eb Multis cor sce Kerrcs cay Samm wee eae RS st thane wa dew rad 1M, JAMISON ™.D., PHYCICIAN ASL SURGEUS Auaauing Pays le ot tt ages ead Lad or slow Moe ty b ter tim ty costes te NSS rvate seven on tHe pete w+ BM wr, ; Cc af é ‘ . ee : . e cus take the lead, % The Plaindealer |they bad better ecek a country {i . h third #13, Face tor all zauicg, $160 _ where they can practice this er th Sern EL pee hy Be Pp otographs 3 per cent to entre, 3 per cent t . oHDeaLE ‘ ‘coli. i . i ! THE PLAINDEALER PUB ,CU. fcolish tdea cr dig down into weeting @ persoral matter dn urder te ‘The price at my Studio ae sdb dette gin ooeettae 114 Bast Seventh street their pockets and employ private |*tcure ® .arge erd erthuelastic cather- is sheep but the work is of FRIDAY=Saddle hurice, 3 gaite; 28 ——_-~- ~ ~~ — jteachers and conduct private!" .autive committer, Mek Chites] Me higpert class. Why pay 2d, 34, Siteer cup, Walk, trot an x : h I 3 su 28 pr “ st, 2d, r, $1 NEKCMILES,EAvorand Munngty_lacncols for them. = Jt Tenia, Rasots cnuans and W.] whemthemtme curler |g tc tare Ty Ah te her om a ——— It seems tobe a fived policy|}H. Twloe, correeprrding secretary, of can be secured for ONE: Weuee. vac SUBSCRID ON RVTES: * Muehogee, 1. T., «fl appeise all weate LF? gram, Cuest of hener and speake oe sear ytd - seen Mvofameng the white men to force ee ge iherall wae HALF? Stop and eee rae Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of Trea! Sees si 3001 the colored 1 Jean raiircads of the convention and will eye Maes, Urattiug and TAH Three motte ty nan r wo} the colored people to accept any*| request tkem ta extend courtestes to LADY BOARD OF MANAGERS. _- sae -ithing they offer cither by force |the memtere ong patlitire eghecrate e . ip | Sze TL IL Watras, Preeident, . Entered at tae PostePae at Topekere Second | ap by » fi, DUNCAN, Pree, ae ‘Mas. J, A. Suotmens, lot Vice Presiden ass Moll Watt & . rby law It 13 better to reach > DB, FARR, Seer , 124 Kansas Ave TOPEKA Mas. le Grees, Secretar an agreement with the parcnts| cterato Springs, Colo. Tare 19, 1007, | —— Mrs J Ce Cage tats Chairman. FRIDAY, JULY rs, tyot as te whether they sill send —_ ome tte are ME Ria ee MB ee: pheie . hy Lene 8:4 eaAlaen dl teachvre| FF 28 2 8h.” Og |. Mies. 2. VY} CinkLN A Pods cuter abo hat Teen hinds tt tomon by thie at dae subscriber sent etch ore of them acatd berry the following inscription. «Fo three of any delinquent sil scrtlers, Une of them etal. *Lwall pay Saturday moght if] live’ He's dead. Another ead: “See you tomorrow.” He's blind, still aovther waid ‘] bope to pay you thix wath, ergo te hell.’ He's gone,” URES TA (OR, AORN ge) ORE Aras ee alg Crow School Case! The supreme court has decided That the city of Wichita cannot separate the racesin the public schcols under the provision of an act of the legislature in iSS« which gives cities of the first-class the power to separate white andj colered children except Wichita. Since this act, cities of this class have seperated the children up to the high schoul, but th: chil- dren of Wichita have been going along peacefully tegether with- ut uny friction until about a year ago when the board decided ¢n a separation without even censulting the colored patrons of the schols, Then Mrs. Sallie Rowles brought an action sn the distnet court of ,Wichita to compel the boatd to admit her children on the grounds that they had no right to discrimi- nate, The case was tried and a decision rendered against her by Judge 1. C. Wilson, who held that the beard hada mght to separate the racess because a law had been passed empowering the school beard of Kansas City, Kas,, to separate them im all grades, therefore Wichita had a tight under the same act te k Thhewise, By this decision he ts known as the -+'Kindergarten Jadge." whose comeptin of bis 1s very limited This was ne Mf the most rm hculous dect-tens ever rendered Ly any vadge live ing. The supreme court very wisely reversed hie decision and decided according to haw, IH the cithens -f Sedgwick county would elect a indge who would be fatrand = nipartial, it would save the tax-payera considerable meney. The colsred pece of Wichita are met particular about sitting in the game room with white children cr those cf «y other nationality, but they do want the law cy sally adnunistered. If it was left to them, they would have all colcred teachers in the schools at Wichita, who in a great measure are superior to the while teachcrs, who mostly keep up cenfusion by teaching race hatred and malace to the white children The colored teacher would nct do this but would teach unity and fairness, und we believe the children would ad- vance more rapnily than at Fresent, and we dare say thas eighty per cent. of the children of Wichita would attend such u echcol provided it was convenient and facilites equal, but the Ne- gro dces cbiect to any law that restricts him from dciny as any other citizen If these mean. ecntempuble whites who are afraid that thesr children will become ccntaminated by sitting in aroom with colored children, they had better ecek a country! where they can practice this fcolish tdea cr dig down iato their pockets and employ private teachers and conduct private schools for then. It seems tobe a fived policy among the white mento force the colored peuple to accept any- thing they offer either by ferec arby law — Ht 18 better to reach an agreement with the parcnts as ts whether they sill send there ch.idren to colored teachers than te try te force and drive them b, underhanded methods The tas payers are beginning ts groaw ender the fnlishitea of separating the children and adling buldings for the same grades because sone poor, in- signincent white parent objects tothe child poing to the same schoo! with colored children. The people of Wichita should rid themselves of this bundle of igncrance, hypscricy and deceit in the person cf Judge’, T. C. Wilson, and also the crazy school board whese methods are high-handed and devlish Rev. Bowren Making Good in Kansas City. The rally al the Firet Baptst chereh wre a record breaker among the shapte: chirehes oo: Ransas, Vader the leaders y of the Rev, W A, Bowren A,B, the church raver $ sco Kev wren wa gratiate of the State Un versity, Loisv te. Ny, and vate te Ranede aboittws years ago Feraveit a yer ne pagarel te Shioh Buy e¢ charen at Le sect Wascarn otis Chart as Jay sim 8) on oa the churel tas » yeas re ae ° * Z staf E ee 1a $ - = ay > =. ig ee ~~. Ha: ‘ae es 5 : a tat ' pit A 4 % = : wet ovr Sad He ag x‘ re: 7 me . tity tbe ths de ane vteaad snare ie powers acmiuedthe ¢ cone, Asa “eautier AL odds tae alte rook fey Banks at Sahna ¢ nmed eee oof Ant erchareh is yet tu be heard nea Meter pattan Dap te cau ay Sev Bosra sprosdethe chusch, Ans oy pe pie are e€ aly as proud tain Bis a wm oenrreet 3 er yieac cr and stande haa ca te come sot ue dgnoas maton. othe haus avn the name oie carree “the O'pgeet preacher in Roinsas," bth in pons ots'z2 and ava ‘inane er THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION Of the Western Neyro Press Associat en Wall Meet at Topeka, Kansas. do the Press Pureuait to tle .tg- ular appourmert under the provisicre cf the .chetituticn, the Weetern Negro Pyare Avscuation of the Cmeed states is Lerely cathd to convene at Icycha, hansae ia ite clventh arrual session oc Menday ard duceday, August J2th ard loth 1969 Al prepietoe editers wanagere, Tee peoters and corerpercerte weet cf the Miselesip pl rive are eligible to mentaz- alvin the assoomtien ard are urgel to Ve sresere. We ceraiv'ly eaterd an Invitation to (le wren ters (1 the fraternity ttreugts «ut the ecurtry te mect with Le in To jeha Karsas to consuder these questicns to vial to the wellare cf the wae * this curtes Digert cnvehpuents ph 6 tee Prewrvite aftaly Lahrans ‘cues searet us dhe Clansuan ty Dis r ard ire publaatien ef beche aud wage creat. be with the avewed purpose f worirg tenthwent spans us show the reed cf atic on be part cf the interhgert and thoughtful weutere of tle race, acd the rress must undoult- teas take tho lead. We would again wige upen every pa+ yer ard its ectire staff to make this weetirg a yersoral matter in order te ‘courte w .arge erd erthuelastic gather- nue | the executive committee, Mick Chiles cf Tepeha, Kaseas chauman, and W, H. Tulne, corresperding secretary, of Muskogee, 1. T., wil eppeise all weate ein railreads of the convention and will request them ta exterd courtestes to the memtere and gullscers of the craft W, 1. DUNCAN, Pree, > 3B, FARR, Seex ucletaco Springs, Colo. Ture 19, 1007, . Following the Color Line! | Continued from Page 1. Ue Suthernetatee abih are de. eignedto keep the Negro on the Tand, and Baving him there to make hint work, The contract law, the abasex uf which lead to peonage aud debt slavery, is an excellent €a: amples-which I eball dievues more fully in the next articler The crim inal !awe, the chain gang system. and the biriry of Negro vonvicte te private individials are all in one way or arotier, devices to keep the Negro wt work on farms, in Lrick- yards and in vines. The yagrancy lawe not unlike thoee of the North anle.cellent in purpose, are here sometimes executed with great re. verity. In Alabama the last legis: lature passed 4 law under which 4 Negro arrested for vagrancy muet prove that ke se nota vagrant. In short, the ohl rule of Taw thit a mo iv innocent antil proved guilty we ture reversed for the Negro, #0 ideas he larden of proviry wit he ta nota by of vignine ys tests upon hina, n-tupoo tne tate The last Alabama Legieature also pissed silibyent same law, o2e ergumcnt inate favor being thar by prevent amg the Negro trom pot-hunting it would force bir to srk nore stead ily in the cotton selfs. To be contunued. EMPORIA, EAN. | Mr. W. Datggan and her little danghter Wilma, of Kansas City, who have Leen sititing relatives and friends, retirned home on last Sarurday, Res. CW. Waileon, of Junction City, filled the pulprt at st, James Baptist church sunday night at 7:30 ani delivered an ible sermon, tare tne is cat Heh. avin, o Mm. Charen el. Mcafee, who bas se unt carck veting her mother, Mr- 1. Buti ‘ut samday tes rina: one tn anew City, Mis [ms Woale or Kanes City, te NUE uty. the guest of Misses Delta ant Myrtle [pion Mee Jinny Moure Pitnen, of Liosteme md tiard Worthy Mat rua Pines Tall tran) Chapter, vee ud Name Chapter No, 1b on Weilueedsy 1zht, emiming over forthe reception on Panlay nacht The reception given by the Didier ol the Kutern star was acliattend ed ard ver all the cvpeneem were pul bey reahved she nevi lise sum oT 2h 1. Evaporta had one of the griudest celebraione op the Fourth of Jmy tit Lyon courty ever witnessed. Te wat cetimated by many that there were tuctty-tive thousand people m attendaree. At the Fan ground the clowd was immeree, in epite cf the Pot runebine all being anaioue to see the horee paciug. I'he racew were good. Jokn snd Robert Woods, from stony City, brought two very tne horeee for the racee, though only Jone, which took third jlace, war entered, Owing to the distame cf the cirele they deuidrd the other horee wae too fart ard ehe wae nut put on the track until ail the other racing wae aver, when Mr, Woa's ) it Ler on for a free dieplay of a hreesyuartere ofamlle race, The enterprising young ranchmea are to - omplimensed on their eatra good work, | Muse Grace Tiptor came home 10 ‘spend tke Fourth of July ana wl! remain tor arhort vies. Mr, Jockeun and wife, of Jula, epent the Fourth jn Emporia, tre visitors of Mra, Jackeon'y parente, Photographs The price at my Studio ia cheap, but the work is of the highest class. Why pay such an enormoys price when the same careful work can be secured for ONE: HALF? Stop and see me W. H. LUCAS, 123 Kansas Ave TOPEKA ome He are SE Bee DR. A. A. MAYER, RADUATED IN Advanced Cphthalmoltgr Spevins : MK Attention g : to Weak EYES. Strabismus Corrected without an Operaticn. Calls made to any part cf the city, In Topeka Thursday, Friday and Saturday of cach week at 1112 West Twellth Street. Permanent office: 633 New Hamshire St., Lawrence, Kas. David staford ani wife. Jamex Stafford, of Kansae City, was hare for the Fourth of Jaly and attended the races Roy Evins ard Leelie Bry mt left Jas. week fur Kaneae City. Clarene Dayiw has purchased a handsome rew Uuggy, which he drove out on the Fourth, ‘The rally ag st. damc~ Bay tret chinch broaght tn ¥121 44, Haprison Caray bell left) sunday night fur Silva, Kansas, where he will work fir an undetute time, TRI-STATE NEGRO INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION AND FAIR. St. Joseph, Mo, August 4 to 9, 1907, Ahee air ag cflered by the leading aud moet pregresslye men and women ot this [nesters cauruy, Piesident, N.C. Bince, the p pup'ar and theroughbred collegian in tcholat who has am five yenrs com- pletely revolutwnized the Negro schools of st Toeoph and placed them cna firm Industrial and high class literary Lass, is respected tur his great alality and high | suaractor and unequailed push. He has ithe enthe people, white and black, sup- porting hum tn this undertaking. [nr MO. Rhkette, the old euable INaster Maser, ts uncweled as an orator pated etateeman ard physiun, Mr. WoOA Mad, the astute secrctury and Uredeuies, tf the Ligh tred cliss hea ote VW) tem of Nite ters austin these able tas ares Dr WooS) Canin, Anden Dales dt Bers the matines nance Thad Walker cet cr the bs Pentoit +. Ay quarts Wash Wilhare. Dr FOL Ramecy the ou coastal under> taka, MoO Lawrie the uminent tailor, Wr Pod MoMisce. the dertier, Terlden three gro Hew Toot tathiwell, The 1 Re Me Creesland Vr, Wan Iridtey, Mee veo Walker, Mr. taues Gerden. Me. enue Oi Hanan Vi, i Moreell, and secre of the men and womes serhing in sweet en eid ed amen, Mrs He 1 Walha. morket of the ade head cb tednagers af tke Tri- State Pyar and Industrial Exposition; Moe Wet Caldwell chanmin, Sra, Lulu Gieen, sccutary, Mie Caatie thempson, Mis, Mane Clea, Mees Lo Bcd, Mrs, HM Whites. eupersisors of inmusies Mis, G1 Pidpe ct tte time arte, Mes, ‘Newton Michuin of pyrceraphy, Mra JA, Taker, Mis Fila Humphrey and doze ans of other ladies are going vigorously abcad with ane atta and cther collece ticny of great Interest tu this fair, Program, MONDAY-—sdhoul Ghitdrens Vay All Onifien fice nem $ to 12 years Spee Gal pregiam given by culored children entestammng the white children, Ads dives by Preadent Pruce, introducing Moigor Spratt and Aruthur W, Brews ter, postmaster, Cluldien’s games of all birds, JURSDAS—Tadie’s and gentlemns spon contest in ailing and driving. Ru bouts sirgle and deuble aber tupy Ist, 2d and 3d prizes, Gentle- hia's montad egg ine, prises, dare st hat 2d Mule race half mule), Lilzes, cagaiw Ist, pipe 2d, WEDNESDAY —IJrotting, three minute slase, $100, 5 per sent to enter, 5 per vert to stat First meney $3, seee ond §25, thid 415 Free for all trot, R100 5 per wut to enter, 3 per cent to stuart Firet meney $85, sevond €25, third $15 Running balf mate repeat Yeates 2 and 3, r353 Mret anoney $50, ersond €25, 3 pee cent to enter, 3 por cent to start THLESDAY=faurg 230 «lise, F100; S pcr cent to startccdr 5 per cent to evter, 5 per coat to starts fret weney $€5, second #25, third #15, Eace tor all pacicg, $100; 3 per cent to entre, 3 per cent to start. Running tae, half mile, re peat, #753 first money $50, eecond $25 FRIDAY=Saddle turiee. 3 gaitey 2st, 2d, 34, Siteer cup. Wath, trot and canter horses; Ist, 2d, Ir, Silver cup. SATURDAY—Spraint Laber Day pro- grav, Cuest of huner and speaker, Hon. W. ‘Ts Vernon, Register of Treas ury, Races, trotting and pacing. LADY BOARD OF MANAGERS. Mas, IL. 1. Watker, President. Mas. J, A. Sarotnens, let Vice President. Mas, I, Greets, Secretary, Mas J oC. Caipwert, Chairman, Miss SO Wuritsty Mas. MOD Lacrit Mas. J. 1 Garey Mrs. dons Cray Mrs. PC Mesiey Mus. Lataa Bian Mas UG. D Reptoxn Mos C. 1, Vues Mas. Newtun Uienriy Mas. Castir Lieurses ' Mire, Ang Masoe Are You K, of P.? BY PUY NUT ARAUW that the Knights of Pythias is the strongest and most progressive order of the age? The four departments of the order are as follows: SUBORDINATE LODGE: In this the members are uted to care for and pro- tect each cther interested as well as in sickness and distress. UNIFORM RANK In this Jepartment our young men are receiving a military educotion which they can get in no other way, thus making them bet- ter and more usefnl citizens. LADIES COURT. In this the wives, mothers, widows, daugeters aad sis- ters of the Knights are united for the common pur- poses of life. ENDOWMENT In this department we are paying cut thousands of dollars annually to widows and heirs of deceased Knights. IF THERE Is NO LODGL. in your locality, confer with the Deputy Grand Chan ceilor cf your district or write JOHN E, LEWIS, G. C., Box 1017, Wichita, Kansas. GRAND OFFICERS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The followsng oficere bave ben elected tor the bunflower Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythins, Jurisdiction 5, A. S, A, B A. A. aud Au Sno. K, Lewls, Grand Chancelicr, Wieb- ite, Kas, J. B, Davis, Grand Vice Chancellor, Weir, : B, Pope, Past Grand Charceilor, Jo peka. | Rev, 5. Wy Batcbelod, Grad Prelate Lawrence, | Res, J, 5. Ning, Grand Lecturer, Weir E,S, Lee, Grand Master of Exchequer, ‘Topeka. Dr, 1, H. Anthony, Grand Keeper of Recorda anu Seal, Kansas City. W, A. Wanght, Grand Naater at Aris, Winfeld J, E. iovson, tirand sna .8 Guard, Co- lumbue. Fred Martin, Grand Outer Guard Wichita. Dr, 8S, HM. Thompson, Grand Medica} Director, Nansas City, J, 11, Guy, Urand Attorney, Topeba. A. T. Glover, Grand Secretary Lndow ment Koard, Wichita. S. W, Fleming, Grand Treasurer bo dowment Rosrd, Wicbita, Doo Witheme, Supreme Repreeenta tive, Lawrenos. Place of next meeting, Lawreaes, 1907, To the District Court of Shawnee Connty, Kansas, Jackson Wright vs No. 24,448. Lula Belle Wright PUBLICATION NOTICE, The saul defendant. Lala Bell Wright, ishereby nvtitied that she has been sued by Jackson Wright In the above named court for a divorce. and unless she appears and acewere oa or before the 20th day =f Jaly, igog, the petite ted sy otaiat @ will be taken a4 trie, aud cdytuert renferel, divorcing plaint ff trom detendant. Josten Reet, Attorney for Plaizut? Altest. K. L Tuomas | Clerk of the Detr.ct Court (sear) HForet pablished June gth, ro 7 WHAT HM WOULD DO, Boldier’e Course In Event of Hie Be ing Suddenly Awoke, Of Co}. John C. Hayes, who served with Gfatinotion uncer Gen. Winfeld Goott in the Mexican war, &n amusing story is told by T, E. Farish in bis Gold Hunters of Californian” Hayee with bis command, had Leen ovt @couting. On his return be made ao Peport to Gen. Scott, who rect for Rim. Gon. Scot was a veritable man tinet In enforcing military discipline, After Hayes was ceated in the com manders headquarters, Scott salds “Col. Hayes, I have recelved no report af your expedition against the padre.” “I did not think it worth while,” sald Hayes, “Every officer cf the erry is required to make a full resort of everything to hie supericr cficer. Pleare make your report verbally.” Mayes began by raying thet be struck the pacre’s trail on a ceriain Gay, followed it for two days and on the third day, while bis command 88 vesting at coon and taking their Biesta, (he old padre came down op them. The “boys” gathered theme selves together and whipped the Mexicars off, killing gute a number of the padres command. His own loss was insignificant, cre k"lled and three wounded, “Surprised you ekt” Querted Scott. “Yer; we were uct ex: pecting him.” “Where were sour Picketa7” “Did not have any.” “What!” shouted Gen, Scott -"A eoicnel In the regu'ar arm) «f tke United States go Inio camp ‘n the Beart of the encmy's courtry and Bever place a picket on guar? What Woulé you ¢o if surprised when asleep?” “Skoot the fret man that waked me up,” waa the coci revly, ANSWER WAS BEFORE HIM, Unnecessary, It will not be differ? for Beet fans to recall the exc“ement canoe Some years slace Yvan enterprising talloring estabiishmert hn wr ‘o fae for it« Importunite propeurd'r gs of the question, “Po you wear prr'st® which greeted the ¢ye at every turn, When th's furor cf advertising wag at ite heizht, b= lordship the Rt Rev, Mr Courtney, ther but reeentiy creat ed Mebop of Halifax, yald his frag Vielt to his frrmer boue Poston, where fer a nenter nt’ scars he Fad been rector of St Puta Tremont atreet whieh pou he tad wt foe the Vieher digrity 'n Neva Seren Ve aprrored om the rtreet in the eonte: Uoral arose ef in Trctish bishe op incl irg the ken, hue Cock ings and luce breeches Thur attired b@ wae ret ty Halt VHIPIpe Preok who pauted tefere tun and paved we tentively at the ural firtre ay preserie? Tle evre cf the Aletlt guished Roster cerenen traveled slowly conn the tal torn ef h's late colleague In the vifretry ants they rested upon hie ether eatremitt then, extendire b's tand te tenuired, eclerriy “Do seu wear pacts” Dottie'’s Prayer. “Please, God, rahe Mamie Rota a od girl, Pleace nate ker & awful Boca ttle girl An if t aint too much trouble, pleare male her #0 ced that I can take her new doll, an atest think [1's noble ar’ self rac‘f.cin' Lever to sek for tt Lack agaio, Awttl = Cleveland Leader — 7 Match-Bex Furniture, ' “4 A London hotet keeper roreeeate Temarkabie suite of furniture, many years ke bad collectec expty match boxes which were Hnally made Dy vA skilled cabinet maker into Rar cles of furniture The outht con of « writing table with emcking ap psratus, & firercreen, a cabiet, § ebair and emailer articles, in the com struction of whieh many theveunds of boxes were employed, Keeo Serene. Whea you come to think of it, most of ue So bave a hard time keeping ourrelres ju orfer Temper, Lerves, velfishoces, sod icneings, ambitions and degtres, all ine‘ting to bave & bear'og, nd down eteys wisdom and ordess contro! Of courre there ore the ecol headed, intellectual people to atom eelfsacrifce means octhiog, and Uitle they know cf the fett of the otter pasefonate half JI} health abd divcoptent ors the fruite «f the tate Keep sereae, say ‘I rhall cou. trol myself and be a cheerful phie- osopher” ead all wil) go ¥oll-—-New York Post The soda season now opened at Capital Pharmacy. Mr. W. M. Slaughter is in Chicago visiting his children. Misses Bessie Hawkins and Effie Burge left last week for a visit to California. WANTED-Men for quarry and warehouse. Good wages, steady work. Do not write. Apply at works The Iola Portland Cement Co., Iola, Kansas. --- Rev. McDonald of the Christian Recorder, his wife and Rev. F. Jesse Peck, pastor of Allen chapel, Kansas City, were among the visitors here last week. WANTED—1000 couples, cake walkers to compete for championship of the West for the Negro TriState Fair and Industrial exposition, St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Fred M. Stonestreet, Jr. is now a fullfledged undertaker, having passed the examination before the state board of embalmers at Leavenworth last week. --- WANTED-To sell all kinds of concessions, no exclusives. 100,000 will be here for the Negro Tri- state exposition. For particulars, address WA Hill, sec'y and treasurer, Board of Trade Bldg., St Joseph, Mo Dr. Unthank, Mr. I. M. Horton, of Kansas City and Prof. Kiel ef St. Joseph attended the congress last week. It is rumored that Prof. B. F. Allen, president of Lincoln Institute, was married recently to one of the leading ladies of Georgia. Mr. Emerson Reevely of North Topeka was married to Miss Anna Reynolds at the St. Mark's parson age last week. Rev. Housley performed the ceremony. Mr. J. W. Perkins of Denver. Colo., was in Topeka last Saturday visiting his relatives. He was shaking hands with many friends and all were glad to see him and to know that he is thriving so well in the Rocky Mountain city. Among the distinguished visitors that were in Topeka last week attening the Young People's Congress were Rev. R. L. Beal, P. E. of Columb district, Hannibal, Mo.. Hon. Nelson Crews, clerk of police court, Kansas City, Mo. Rev. M. S. Bryant, P. E. of the St. Joseph district Liberty, Mo., Rev J. C. Caldwell of St. Joseph, Mo., Rev. J. D. Barksdale, P. I. of the St. Louis district and Rev. Tillman of Colorado Springs, Coto. WANTED- Attractions of all kinds, such as bands, aerial acts, gymnasts acrobats, balloon excursions high dive, educated horse and dogs for the Negro Tri-state and Industrial exposition. For particulars address W. A. Hill, Board of Trade Bldg., St Joseph, Mo. In the D. strict Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Malinda Haywood, administratrix of the estate of George W. Haywood, deceased, Plaintiff, Nancy Haywood, Charlotte Haywood and Tobe T. Haywood, Defendants. PUBLICATION NOTICE Tobe T. Haywood, defendant above named will take notice that he, together with his co defendants, has been sued in the aforesaid court by the said plaintiff and that he must answer the plaintiff's petition filed in said action on or before July 27th, 1907, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment entered against you as prayed for in said petition, namely the foreclosure of the mortgage on lot 13 on Harrison street, city of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, and sale of the property, mortgaged and the title thereto released on the plaintiff. [IEAL] Clerk of the District Court By JENNIE C. ROSFN. Deputy. First published June 14th, '07. "CAST DOWN YOUR BUCKET WHERE YOU ARE" Mrs. Wm. Knott after a visit with friends in Kansas City, returned home this week A Tri-State Negro Industrial Exposition and Fair WILL BE HELD AT Saint Joseph, Mo., AUG. 4-9, 1907 WANTED-At once, a good bar ber. No boozer need apply. J B. LEWIS, Ablene, Katz Mr. Ed Wright will visit his sister in Memphis, Tenn. It has been several years since they have met. Miss Hazel Washington left Tuesday for Chicago, where she will visit relatives. Mrs. Henry Washington left Tuesday for Los Angeles, to spend the summer. Mrs. Hattie Hines and children of Arkansas are visiting their relatives, Mr. and Mrs G W. Guy. Miss Nettie Waterford of Muskogee I. T. is the guest of Miss Alberta Guy. Misses Mary Jordan, Gertrude Solomon, M. B. Patterson, Eva Paterson, Mrs. Taylor Reed, Mrs. Alice Jackson and Mrs. S. E. McCarroll left Monday night for a trip to Colorado. Miss Clara E. Porter, a teacher in the public schools of Kansas City and author of a book, "Bits of Verse," attended the Young People's Congress here last week. Mr. E. C. Spires, an old citizens and one of the foremost plasterers of Topeka, will return soon to Wellesville, Ohio, to visit his mother, relatives and friends, and will be absent six weeks or more. Mr. Spires has worked on some of the finest buildings of Topeka, Mr. Frank Durein's mansion on Quincy street between Fourth and Fifth being one of them. All this work was done by colored men. NOTICE. ITS OBJECTS ARE to afford a chance to all our people to visit Saint Joseph and beautiful Lake Contrary, the fullest of all sorts of attractive and wholesome amusements of any other place of recreation of all the Middle West. To give opportunity to bring together evidences of their inventive genius, products of farm and field and everything cred tadle to the race. NOTICE. District Household of Rutn No. 12, will meet July 16-18 at Salina, Kans. All households that have not elected their delegates, will please do so at once, and send the name in to D. W. R. Letitia Carson, 425 Buchanan street, Topeka, Kansas SENATOR FORAKER, Prof. W. T. VERNON, Gov. E. W. HOCH, Bishop ABRAM GRANT. Prof. B. T. WASHINGTON, NOTICE. St. Mark's A. M. E. church will have a big rally on the 4th Sunday in August, and will expect all ministers and their congregations to be present, also all other friends. Rev. W. H. Horsley, Pastor. NOTICE OF FINAL. The State of Kansas Shawnee County. In the Probate Court in and for Sand County. In the matter of the estate of Julia A. Scott, deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that I shall apply to the Probate Court in and for said County, sitting at the Court house in the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, on the 4th day of May, A. D. 1907, for a full and final settlement of said estate. Dated April 3rd, A D. 1907 W. I. JAMISON. Administrator of the estate of Julia A. Scott, deceased. First published April 5th, 1907. $5,000 in Prizes for Horse Racing, Fine Stock and Farm Products of all classes. A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIARD MR. W. A HILL, Secretary. Saint Joseph, Mo.. DEAR SIR: I desire to exhibit PARLORS Headquarters for all who wish a nice time. When Hutchinson call on him. 808 SOUTH MAIN STREET WHEN IN MUSKOGEE, I. T., STOP AT MARTIN'S HOTEL and CAFE It is one of the nicest cleanest Cafes in the city. Everything up-to-date and served in style. Clean Beds a Specialty. For Stand Priviledges, Etc., Address W. A. HILL, Secretary, Board of Trade Building. Jas. W. H. Martin, Proprietor 106 COURT STREET. W. E Jackson, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Greece 486 Kasson Ave. . NEWD. TOIREA, KANSAS In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. The said M.niee Lisenby is hereby notified and required to take notice that the plaintiff has filed his petition in the above said court in an actu- r a lawce said that she must agree, plead or answer to the petition, be filed on or before the given day of April, 1907, or said petition will be taken as true and audited, rendered according to the prayer of the petition therein, filed. A. M. THOMAS, Attorney for Plaintiff First published March 8th, 1907. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Laura Thomas, Plaintiff. No. 24,326 Marc Thomas, Defendant. The defendant, Mace Thomas, a hereby notified that he has been cited by the plaintiff above named in the Detroit Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, for a divorce, on the ground of abandonment, and that he must answer the petition filed by the plaintiff, on or before the 4th day of June, 1907, or such petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing piner from the defendant. Joseph Reed Attorney for Plaintiff. Artist. R. L. THOMAS, Clerk, by JENNIE C. ROSEN, Deputy FIRST PARISH, April 14, 1907 PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District of Shawna County, Indiana. Elizabeth M. H. Heckert, Plaintiff The said Dolph Hookert hereby rounded and requested to take re that the Plaintiff has tendered her pension in the above entitled Court in a tion for a divorce and that he must appear or answer to the pession herein filed on or before the day of June, 1905, or the gess- tion will be taken as true and judgement rendered as to the prayer the rent on herein filed. HEAR AMERICA'S FOREMOST SPEAKERS: Elizabeth M. H. Heckert By her Atty. W I. Jamiesa Attent: Clerk of the District of Corr Inst published April 20, 1907. For Promotional House and Lodges Woman in Palette Colo Souls B. W Shelton'g Rooming House. 101. k street three lane n a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 101. j gate of be loo M.D.Lawrie, Tailor and cleaner Suit and Trousers made to Order PANTS $3.50 to $12 SUITS $15 to $41 212 FEAMIN ET, ST. JOSEPH. FEELING LIVER-ISH This Morning? TAKE THEDFORD'S Black-Draught Stops Indigestion and Constipation 25¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS A Gentle Laxative And Appetizer REDUCED RATE on all Railroads. “MNS WE WANT 6,000 More Men, Women and Children to More Men, Women and Children to Read and Pay for THE | “TOPEKA | -PLAINDEALER 00c THREE MONET> 50c i jiberal ‘Commission to Energetic demathveie eatin cue ote ereamrtfindileSt eos atoachaernabeiteihialead 5 mit nemaamtilet bein thee ss, nantebthdinn iieadilinaS” . gb. bes. Beate, Si eel. thee, Bete. cn eRe palin | PRESCRIPTIONS... Lee's Drug Store, 921 Kansas Ave. Farmers in this section are all simply engaged in harvesting their crops. Quite a crowd attended the picnic at McBrien beach, or Thursday, July 4th. Covenant meeting and the ordinance of The Lord's Supper were observed at the Third church, last Sunday. Good crowds attended in spite of the excessive warm weather and collections for the day amounted to $20,50. A number of visitors were in our town last Sunday, on the excursion from Kansas City. The Gem Social Party is now operating in full bloom. Nelson Good has nicely fitted up his place and well stocked it with good things to eat. So for his patronage good. Keep it up. N.P. Policy of Philadelphia is representing in town, at the rent share of Rev. A. Christine. He is representing a method to a Bathing Germany The Third Church is not a going opera for the Neighbor District A society, that convenes in August HUTCHINSON, KAN. No sadness of this hour is for the funeral services of Mrs Richard Wattles, who departed this life at the case of her parents, Thomas Johnson and wife, at 1014 Third street, on Saturday, July 6th. The young people were both of good families and stood high in society. Ree J. H. Ramey, of Great Bend, attended the funeral. Mr. Osense, the great brother of H. B. Osense, one of our leading yourstreet, and who has reached the extraordinary age of about 120 years, is now supposed to be lying at the point of death. The second Baptist church raised not on Sunday night, to apply on a debt due the House Mission Mrs. Kestells Shackleford With james is at home in her handsome cottage on 13th Avenue, W. Mr. Williams is connected with the Mc Birroy Dry Goods store and is a hustler. Miss Ona Pirkerson has not been at her post in the office, for several days, because of the illness of her mother. Rev. T. M. Davis of the C. M. E. church, has returned from Kansas City, looking fresh. Miss L. P. Allen, the leading hat dresser in the West, made a dying truy to Kansas City this week on business. Miss J. W. Pope sent to Sterling this week, to visit parents. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" No STRAIGHTENING KINKY or CURLY HAIR that it is intended to up in any style desired containers with its length. Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly known as OZONIZED OX MARROW and is the preparation known to us that makes kinky hair straight as shown in the image. It is made from the most stubborn hair, harsh, bluish or red hair suffers pliable and easy to comb. These results may be obtained from one treatment of good bottles are usually efficient for a year. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade removes and prevents dandruff, relieves itching, favors the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off, makes it grow and by nourishing the roots gives it new life and vigor. Being elegantly perfumed and harmless, it is a solitary necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Ford's Hair Pomade has been made and sold continuously since about 1870, and label OZONIZED OX MARROW is issued by the United States Patent Office in July 1870. Ford's hair pomade makes the hair bKRAIGHT, SOFT and PLUSIBLE. Beware of institutions remember that Ford's Hair Pomade is put up only in 80 cts. also and made only in this age and by us. The genuine has the signature Charles Ford Fresh on each package. Retain all others. Full directions with every bottle. Price only 60 cts. bold by druggists and dealers. If your druggies or doubles can not supply you, they can get it for you in his jubber or with lesale dealer. Proven little postpaid or $1, 601 throne. Allow $400 for six book-times etc. We pay per centress charges at points in NY. A Writer named ingerd piall or express money order, and mentions name of this paper. Write your name and address plainly. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None granules without my signature) Charles Ford Bill 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Agents wanted everywhere. Why does your doctor tell you to take this Prescription to LEE'S, 921 Kansas Avenue? Why do so many druggists send to LEE'S for the Drugs with which to fill your Prescriptions? than any other druggist in the city, and that the druggist who refused to sell you a glass of ice cream soda the other day charges you more for your medicines than Mr. Lee! And did you ever hear of any one being refused anything in Lee's store because of his color? Really, now, do these ideas ever present themselves to you? Why don't you try Lee's Drug Store just once and see if you are not as well pleased as you are with the store that considers you unfit to drink a glass of soda at the counter or soda tables? Come to our store Sunday evening to Wilson's Orchestra Concert, and see what Lee's Store is like, won't you? The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West Leading and Best Industrial School of the west courses Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. He was the world's greatest Negro poet. The fact that he had no white blood in his veins makes his achievements in the literary world the more astounding. A fine engraving made in three colors he just been issued which sells for only one dollar ($r.) Send for one today. Address The Colored. American Novelty Co., P. O. Drawer 2318. Washington, D C. Agents wanted. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County. Kansas. The said defendant, Ehjah Hunter, is hereby notified and required to take notice that he has been sued in the above said Court in an action for divorce by the plaintiff, Anna B. Hunter and that he must appear, plead or answer, on or before the 26th day of July 1907, or the petition filed in the above said suit will be taken as true and judgment rendered according to the prayer of the same. Attorney for I'll, ANNA B HUNTER. First published June 7th, '07. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Bertha Coon, Plaintiff. vs No. 24,428. Per Lee Coon, Defendant. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County, by the plaintiff herein, upon the grounds of drunkenness and extreme cruelty, and that unless he answer the said petition on or before the 8th day of July, 1907, judgment will be rendered as prayed for in said petition granting the plaintiff an absolute divorce from the said defendant. BERNA COOX. 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