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BENTON WILL REDEEM THE SIXTH DISTRICT The Well Known Banker, Business Man and Statesman Will Be Elected to Congress in 1916. Voters .Throughout the District Believe Hon. Otis L. Benton is the OnlyMan to Lead the Republicans to Victory. Oberlin Times: The inaugural ceremony at Topeka January 11th, when a Democratic Governor stepped down and out and Arthur Capper, a Republican, took possession of the governor's office placed the good state of Kansas in the Republican column where it rightfully belongs. It was a day of rejoicing in Republican camps and many politicians of the state gathered at Topeka to enjoy the occasion. This event placed Republicans in every elective office in the state which, with the election of Charles Curtis as united States Senator, gave the party every reason to be happy. Electing but two of the eight Congressmen from Kansas was the great loss to the party and the natural thing for statesmen to do at this time was to cast around for men in the different congressional districts, who can carry the party banner to victory in 1916. The following editorial gleaned from our exchanges, point to our townman, Otto L. Bentos, as the one man who can unquestionably redeem the big six, if he can be prevailed upon to sacrifice his large business interests to make the rate. The editor's follow: The republicans of Kansas were successful in the last campaign in electing their state ticket and the United States Senator and two of the eight members of the lower house of congress. We believe if the republicans of the sixth district will begin work now that this district can and will be carried by the republican candidate for congress in 1916. We have been looking over the list of available men in the district and believe that Otis L. Benton of Oberlin is the best man for the republicans to nominate. His knowledge of the district, the needs of its people and his experience as a business man and farmer and his experience in Washington makes him a good man for the place, Gaylord sentimental. In looking around over the sixth congressional district for good congressional material the opinion seems to prevail that Otis L. Benton of Oberlin is a sure winner. He is a native Kansas man in the sixth district as a young man and has been actively identified with this part of the state ever since. He is a true blue Republican, whose party fealty and loyalty has never been questioned and probably no republican in the district has a cleaner political pedigree than Mr. Benton. He is a man in the prime of life, vigorous, up to date and a man who gets things he goes after. This district is naturally republican and in two years we predict a great republican victory. This paper hopes that Mr. Benton can be prevailed upon to get into the race in earnest—Lagan Republican. The congressional race is the sixth district in 1910 is attracting considerable attention already and a number of candidates have been mentioned. The Times is it receipt of the following communication from one of its subscribers who has expressed an opinion that will meet the approval of many people in the district: The recent republican victory in Kansas as well as throughout the nation has naturally given republicans great hope for future success. The sixth congressional district is naturally Republican with a sure majority and the snan who gets into the race in good earnest with the proper credentials in a sure winner. Opinion. Denton of Oberlin has for years been considered first class congressional timber but his friends have never thus been able to prevail upon him to become a candidate. We hope that Mr. Denton will consider this an opportunity time and get into the race with his usual enthusiasm and vigor which means great success for the republicans of the district. Downs Times. A short time ago we publicly stated that Otis L. Benton would make Kansas a good Governor, but the people over the State figure they owed the governorship to Mr. Capper for many reasons, but Mr. Benton is the biggest, strongest and most capable man to represent this district in Congress, from the fact that he has stood by the farmers, business men and this country for the past thirty years to our personal knowledge, we have always found him to be honest, painstaking, doing things that are best for the people in general. As a business man of wide experience, h has no superior in the district. His trip to Washington as Supervisor of Indian Lande for the government was handled with success and heralded over the country as a wise step by the administration in selecting an capable a man for the business entrusted to him. We do not know that he is, or will be, a candidate but the people in the sixth district would do well to nominate him without opposition at the primary, then elect him in November, 1916. Deatur County is proud of him and will do her part in pushing forth a favored son. We have known him thirty years and know what we are talking about and should be consent to be a candidate it will be the first time he has ever asked for an elective office. Politically he has been a lifelong Republican and is deserving not only from a political standpoint but for the reason he has been a friend to the farmer, his longevity is beyond reproach and his capabilities are of the highest, is an untiring and persistent worker. "Yes, leta put Benton over, he's a go guter."—Beaver Valley Booster, Jan. 21, 1915 The great desire of the republican party in 1916 will be to elect a republican congress that will save the country from the iniquitous laws that are now being imposed upon the people by the present democratic administration. Kansas was highly successful in the election of its United States senator, governor and state officers, but unfortunately the congressional districts went Democratic with two exceptions. The sixth congressional district is naturally republican and if good judgment be used it is our opinion the old sixth can be redeemed and placed back in the republican column where it belongs. With due respect to the gentle men whose names have been mentioned as being possible aspirants for the place the News Dispatch is inclined to the belief that Otis L. Denton of Oberlin who is being urged by friends to make the race would prove a winning candidate. Mr. Beuton is a native born Kansas, a republican who has never side-stepped and has the reputation of one who does things. Those asking that Mr. Beuton become a candidate feel certain of his nomination and election. He has lived at othern some thirty years, has been successful in business and otherwise, well qualified to suitly represent this district in congress. What may the other republican papers of this district, are you ready to make a boost for a winner in 1910?—Phil psburg News- Dispatch, Jan. 21, 1915 Some of the papers of the district are urging this to Benton of Oberlin to come out for Congress on the Republican ticket next year. Mr. Benton is a widely known and highly respected man and the nomination for that position has been tendered him many times hit the past and he has declined the same "with thanks."—The Norton Daily Telegram, Jan. 22, 1915. During the past ten days The newspaper days of this, the sixth district have been busy looking over the congressional timber, for the race next year. There is a strong feeling among some of the Republica of this district that the time has arrived when it is essential that a man be chosen who can Dr. Thompkins' Fine Success at the Old General Hospital! S. W. H. and will do more than draw his salary and vote when called upon to do so. The Enterprise believes that the party could make no better choice than Otis L. Beaton of Oberlin. He has all the qualifications that go to make an ideal congressman. For thirty years he has lived and labored among the people of this district he would be in a position to do effective work. He is a plain, conservative far-sighted business man endowed with a rugged honesty and a keen judgment that would at once receive and hold the respect of his colleagues. If Mr. Beaton can be prevailed upon to accept the nomination, his service to the people and the Republican party will be of lasting benefit.—Cedar Enterprise. The announcement that Otis L. Benton of Oberlin had decided to get in the race for congress on the Republican ticket made a big splash in political circles over the district. Mr. Benton is an old timer out there, a keen politician widely known and has the money to properly finance a campaign. He is the man who has no pluckily stood by his guns in Decatur county through all the lean years and by his words of encouragement and substantial assistance to the farmer in the ways of loaned money and seed wheat kept things going and finally brought them through to prosperity.—County Seat Item in Lebanon Times. The friends of Mr. Benton at home and over the state have, at different times in the past, tried to persuade him to enter the Congressional race, but he has turned a deaf ear to their pleadings. He has been an unqualified success in every line of business undertaken. He has been too busy building up Oberlin, Decatur County and Northwest Kansas to enter the political field in his own behalf. He has at all times been a special friend to the farmer, and worthy men have always found a friend in Benton. He has, during the Well Known Kansas City City, Mo., Physician is Doing a Great Work for the Race. We had the pleasure of visiting the Old General Hospital at Kansas City, Mo, last week. This institution has been turned over to colored people under the management of Dr. W. J. Thompkins, one among the best physicians and surgeons in the city. This is one of the best propositions ever given to colored people of this nature in the history of the country. It was badly needed as there is no getting around facts that where there are charitable, penal or public institutions for past lean years, furnished thousands of bushels of seed wheat, thus investing his ready money, taking his chances with the farmer for results, until 1914 when his determined efforts and confidence in Northwest Kansas placed hundreds of farmers and business men on a safe financial footing. In sickness or in health; in adversity or in prosperity he has proven himself a friend of real worth. The needs of the Congressional district are naturally of a farming, stock-raising and financial nature. While Mr. Benton is classed as a banker and is one of superior ability, he too has been one of the heaviest farmers, stock-raisers and feeders in this section for the past twenty years. He has at all times kept his ear to the grass roots and his heart beats in perfect accord with every interest of the people in this portion of Kansas. He has spent hundreds of dollars experimenting to make culture following the suggestions of the most noted experts. Because of his special ability as a banker he was selected by the last administration as Supervisor of Indian Funds and in this capacity over 500 banks holding Indian money came under his supervision. He conducted the business so satisfactorily that he was requested by the present administration to remain and complete the work. Mr. Benton's quiet and happy home life, his pleasant local church relationship combined with his large business interest have been and are still a strong factor in keeping him out of public life. If he can be prevailed upon to enter the race he will be a winner and not only the sixth district but all of Kansas and the middle west will profit by his wide experience and splendid ability. His announcement would be welcomed by personal friends from all portions of the state as well as at home regardless of political lines. colored inmates there should be colored attendants, as where there are a large per cent of white attendants the colored inmates do not receive the proper treatment. It is through the many efforts of Dr. Thompkins, who is every inch a race man who has worked on this proposition a long while and through the instrumentality of God a young man in the name of Just was elected as Mayor of Kansas City and he has displayed a great friendship toward the colored people. Having explicit confidence in the integrity and ability of Dr. Thompkins he used his good offices in having the hospital board to set aside the Old General Hospital for the use of colored people. This was opened Nov. 15, 1914 and the number has grown from 130 to 105. There are several large summer THE WOMAN WHO WAS A WOMAN MRS. J. L. HARPER Mrs. J. L. Harper, Wichita, Kansas, president of the Womens Federation of Clubs, Secretary of the Baptist State Sunday School Convention, Most Noble Governess Household of Ruth, State of Kansas. Mrs. Harper is one of Kansas' porches for the inmates, a large kitchen fine two story building for the nurses' department which is neatly furnished with baths and steam heat. Mr. Thompson is having the building cleaned from top to bottom; painted and papered, putting in new furniture, carpet and linenum. They employ fifty people. This is an splendid opportunity for young ladies to be trained nurses. The offices and clinical department is under the management of Mr. O. J. Brooks, who is the chief clerk and the artist known all over the U. N. He is a thoroughly trained business man and is bringing this department up to the equal of any like department in the city. They have an interne of which six young colored physicians are in training. They have the great advantage of specializing in the different diseases of mankind. There is not another institution in the U. N. where young colored men have as much access and opportunity. This is something that Dr. Thomphkins has always wanted to carry out, to give this class of young men and women a chance to perfect their respective professions. The Spanish language is taught so it can be spoken fluently as Mexicans are placed in this hospital and it will be very necessary to learn the language. It was a pleasure to visit the different wards and see how nicely they are kept and the good treatment that is being given the inmates. They are fed the very best, clean and wholesome food which is prepared by two men, who are among the best cooks in Kansas City. They also have a kitchen where light food and nourishments are prepared for patients, who partake or fight diet. They have it connection, the operating room and dispensory. Mrs. Thompkins, wife of Dr. Thompkins is the matron and assisting manager and has charge of the commissary and issues all requisitions for supplies used in the institution. She is a graduate of the Ohio State University and held the chair of English at West Virginia and Lincoln High School. She is a woman of high accomplishments, beautiful, kind and polite and is a great help to her husband in managing this institution. Dr. Thompkins in speaking of the man who set this institution going says two much praise cannot be given Mayor Jost and Mr. T. M. Finn, president of the Health Board, who has aided and assisted him in putting this institution in good shape. He says they are friends to the colored people and wishes to see them succeed and the only way to see them succeed is to give them the opportunity and this is the opportunity given them to make good and Dr. foremost beautiful, intelligent, progressive women, a graduate of Hobson Normal Institute, a teachers' training school at one time operated under the Iowa Society of of Friends at Parsons, Kansas. Thomjkina is certainly the right man for the place and these gentleman will have nothing to fear for the longer he and his wife have charge of the institution the more important and progressive it will be. This institution is located at 22nd and Holmes St. WELLINGTON, KANSAS. Mr. Chilly Wind and Hoary Snow has been our guest for the past few days. The big Union Revival of all the white churches with the colored invited has proven to be a victory for God's kingdom. Up to the first of February, 642 souls professed a hope in Christ. The meeting continues until Sunday night the 7th. Mr. Samuel Letcher is still improving. Mr. Dickerson who was brought here from Winfield, Kansas, is improving rapidly. Mrs. Jenkins is able to be up, after several weeks of serious illness. We wish to say that the A. M. E. church is gathering herself together and like any other one of Zions ships is steadily launching out into the deep. There is to some extent a general spiritual wakening in this community. Several souls have been added to the church since conference. Our sacred concert on last Sunday evening was very helpful and inspiring. Program was as follows: Opening song, by choir; Invocation, Brother Horn, hymn, choir; Address, Mr. J. Oldham, "Abraham and his dependants"; vocal solo, Mrs. A. Butler; reading, "Carretha's faith", Mrs. H. C. White; vocal solo, Mrs. Noble Taylor; address, "Old Father Time", Prof Edward Thompson; vocal solo, Miss Huth Brown; reading, Mrs. J. Reynolda; vocal duett, R. Robinson and Mrs. White. 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The subject was Resolved That segregation and discrimination are detrimental to the Negro race in the U. S. The following were the debaters and did credit to the subject; Affirmative, Mr. Barnest Brown, Miss Jennie Boswell; Negative, Miss Alberta Smith of Manhattan and Miss Katherine Hill. Many good points were brought out on each side, but the judges finally decided in favor of the Negatives; Mrs. Henry Owens and Mrs. Win Garvin were called home to Missouri to the bedside of their sick mother last Thursday. The N. U. G. club met Thursday at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Henderson, 445 N. College Ave. This being their regular monthly visiting day and the weather being fair a goodly number was present. The following program was rendered: Song, "I am Thine O Lord," roll call, Emmerson; a very good paper by Mine Margaret Adams, subject, "The privilege accorded the State President of the Federation of Women's clubs and the thought she can instill in the minds of colored women." Dr. H. H. Wilson accepted the invitation to address the ladies on the subject of "Respiration." The lecture was very instructive, concerning the care of children, the correct breathing, the proper ventilation and the causes and prevention of Tuberculosis; vocal sola, "Perhaps" by Miss Jennie Boswell. The following ladies were hostesses: Mrs. Wm. Henderson, Mrs. Thos. Parker, Mrs. John Rhodes, Mrs. Sarah Henderson and Mrs. M. S. Davenport. The house was beautifully decorated. The color scheme was red and green. The guests were seated at one long table, centered with carnations and the place cards were cupids. An elaborate two course lunchroom was served. The following guests were present: Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Wilson, Miss Ruth Henderson, Miss Ruth Alexander, Mrs. John Smith of Manhattan, Mrs. S. H. Johnson, Mrs. Anna Bryant, Mrs. Carrie McReynolds, Mrs. Sarah Goodwin, Mrs. Fred McGee, Mrs. Clarence Bell, Mrs. Winifred Travis, Mrs. Lorie Green and Miss Cora Daniels of Sedalia, Mo. EL DORADO, KANSAS A large crowd was present at Literary Tuesday night. We are glad the people come out and hope to have a great many more members. Current Events and historical questions were discussed. A spelling match furnished amusement for the remainder of the evening. Mrs. Iras Patterson was the best speller. Mr. Gus Law read an interesting paper. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Young have moved to Salina. Their many friends were very sorry to see them go. Mr. J. R. Taylor has gone to Topeka on business. Miss Fern Easter has returned from Oklahoma. Mrs. Carrie Smith's children have been sick with pneumonia. Both are reported better. Mr. and Mrs. William Reed have gone to St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Law entertained the whist club Wednesday evening. Delicious refreshments were served. Miss Patterson and Mr. Reynolds were guests of the club. Mr. Jesse Waller will entertain the World's Wonder, Friday evening. Club members, Messrs. and Meadames Iras Patterson, Gus Law, Misses Ollie Browne, Mary Patterson, Jaunita Bradshaw, Josephine Browne, Messrs. Arthur Reynolds, Floyd Browne, Jesse Waller. AEBYVILLE. KANSAS Rev. Nathaniel Hawthorne Jeltz, appointed pastor of the A. M. E. church of this place, through the vacancy occasioned by unconditional desertion of same by Rev. John Allen; he is getting the work pretty well in hand. This is his first charge, as he was only licensed to preach last October, but he has assumed command here with all the thoroughness and grasp of a veteran, and it is the unanimous opinion of all that he will through his abundant energy and ability build this work up to a status that it had never light before. One of the noticeable evidentations on this is seen in the instance of the splendid Literary organization that he has launched, known as the "Cooper Forum," which meets at his church every Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Crowded houses from the very start, have attended the meetings of this popular organization, which has fair to become one of the strongest literary organizations in the West. Its chartered officers are as follows: President, Goo, W. Boydston, vice president, Rev. deltz; we retary, Miss Elma Boydston; asst. scy', Master Donald Kerns; Chaplain, Rev. Ed. Boydston; asst. chaplain, Oll. White; surgent at arms, Mr. John Gill; asst. Rev. Fd. Boydston; treas. Mr. Carl Kerns; asst. Master Howard Boydston; Director of choir, Mrs. Leona Rollins, formerly Miss Leona Martin of St. John; asst. Lands of male quartals, Mr. Ben Rollins; Chairman of Board of Directors, Mr. Frank Williams; other members, Mr. Levy Kerns, Mr. L. N. White, Mr. Carl Kernd, Mr. Ben Rollins; Chairman of Program Committee, Mrs. Dora Boydston; asst., Mrs. Zona Williams and Mrs. Mary Kerns; Chairman of Committee on Entertainment, Mrs. Mary Kerns; asst. Mrs. Dora Boydston, Mrs. Zona Williams, Mrs. Leona Rollins and Mrs. Lowry; Chief Director of all Committees, Rev. Nathaniel Hawthorne. IOLA. KANSAS. One of the swellest events of the season was the birthday dinner on last Sunday afternoon at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weston, 709 N. Buckeye St. The rooms were beautifully decorated with pink, blue and green crepe paper and potted plants of various kinds. This artistic work of decoration was done by Misses Floyd Coker and Eppa Duncan. The occasion was in honor of the 22nd birthday of their youngest son, Urthel G. Weston of Kansas City, Mo., who is quite an accomplished musician and a graduate of the Tola High School. At 3:30 o'clock an elaborate luncheon of four courses was served, consisting of cream tomato soup, roast turkey, fried chicken, celery, cranberries, escaloped oysters, dressing, sweet potatoes, pea patties, pickled peaches, hot rolls and coffee, sweet potato custard and cherrie pie, brick ice cream, marble and burnt sugar cake and fruit. Covers were laid for the following invited guests: Misses Floy and Anna Coker, Eppa Duncan, Katie Grubbe, Eureka Smith, Maud Dunson. Wilma Burgess and Madam J. W. Gordon; Messrs. Art, Ellis and Earl Johnson, Dr. L. J. Parker and Floyd Stuckey, Mr. and Mrs. Siklen Hanley and their little son, Glea Mr. and Mrs. Grant England, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Smith and Mr. Frank Weston. Mrs. Weston was assisted in serving by Mrs. Proyer Hanley. Mr. Weston received several useful presents, among them a beautiful clothes brush in a leather case, presented by Miss Cleo and Mr. Emmett Williams of Erie, Kansas, who was not present but sent their regrets. The afternoon was spent in music and social chat. Mr. Weston favored his invited guests with several instrumental as well as vocal solos and his sweet tenor voice that changed to a beautiful bass voice. Miss Maud Dunson also favored us with several piano selections. Mrs. J. W. Gordon acted as toast mistress and proved herself equal to the occasion. The guests departed at a late Lour declaring Mrs. Weston an ideal hostess and wishing Mr. Weston many more happy birthdays. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weston entertained on last Monday night, Rev. and Mrs. J. W Gordon at 6 o'clock dinner in honor of their son, Mr. U. Weston of Kansas City, Mo. Rev. J. W. Gordon, ex-pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, but now pastoring at Fayette, Mo., who came home two weeks ago, somewhat indisposed to visit his family is much improved and was able to return to his field of labor last week. The 2nd Quarterly meeting at the first A. M. E. church last Sunday was largely attended and Presiding Elder Smith preached two wonderful sermons, morning and evening. Rev. J. W. Gordon of Fayette, Mo. preached a wonderful sermon at the first A. M. E. church a week ago last Sunday night. The Rev. is always welcome at our church. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Flippins entertained Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Saterfield and Mrs. J. W. Gordon at 0 o'clock dinner in honor of Rev. J. W. Gordon of Fayette, Mo. The old time candy pulling at the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Gordon on last Tuesday night for the benefit of the Mission Circle was quite a success, so much so until they were ask to repeat it again on Tuesday night, Feb. 2, at the home of Miss Maggie Wall on N. State St. Mrs. D. H. Saterfield is on the sick list and we wish her a speedy recovery. The choir at the 1st A. M. H. church is said to be the best in the city. Mr. H. G. Smith is the director and his lovely daughter, Miss Eureka, with her sweet disposition is the organist. Why shouldn't it be the best? Rev. C. A. Holt, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church who has been in Oklahoma for the past month, engaged in evangelistic work is expected home this week. HUTCHINSON. KANSAS. Mrs. William Wakliffe, of South Poplar street, entertained a number of friends Wednesday evening complimentary to her sister, Miss Lottie Adams and Miss James, who were visiting her from Pratt. The hours were spent in different amusements and all report a delightful time. The Forum, which meets every Sunday, held a very interesting session, during which time a civic league, composed of six members was organized. The The Home National Bank Of Arkansas City, Kansas (ESTABLISHED 1888.) Capital Stock.....$50,000.00 Surplus (earned).....75,000.00 Profits (earned).....22,563.58 Circulation .....48,500.00 Deposits .....873,206.64 Total.....$1,019,270.22 We Invite Your Business. A. H. DENTON, President. GEO. D. ORMISTON, Vice Pres. W. H. EMITH, Ast Cashier. R. A. BROWN, Cashier. J. B. Brown, Mark Krouch, A. H. Moffharles, H. T. Taylor, A. A. Doerr DIRECTORS:—John Lindas, W. W. Gett. THOS. B. KENNEDY, President. W. F. MILLER, Cashier. JAS. V. HUMPHREY, Vice Pres. F. A. DURAND, Asst. Cashier. First National Bank. JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS. Capital and Surplus, - $175,000 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. OLDEST, LARGEST BANK IN GEARY COUNTY. The Bank of Commerce The Bank of Commerce A Good Place to Bank. Capital Sack $50,000.00. One Dollar Starts an Account in Our Savings Department. We Pay Interest on all Savings REMEMBER—A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED—START NOW AT BANK OF COMMERCE, a good place to Bank. Capita and Surplus $200,000.00 W. C. ROBINSON, President. J. E. DUNN, Vice President. R. H. BRADLEY, Cashier. H. E. COOPER, Asn't Cashier. 42 Years Successful Business in Winfield, Kansas. and thereby, much good will be accomplished for racial advancement and the uplift of humanity. Sunday was quarterly meeting day at Bethel A. M. E. church, and the revival effort which has been in evidence since New Years' eve was brought to a close at this point with quite a success. Nearly fifty have been saved and added to the church. Mr. Loaon Wilson is critically ill at this writing and his mother states that the end is expected at any time. Mrs. E. A. Shackelford is indisposed at this writing. All hope for her speedy recovery. The order of the Eastern Star is progressing nicely under the matronage of Mrs. B. T. Owens. A recital has been planned for the near future and the following have been added to the orders: Mrs. E. A. Shackelford, Mrs. R. Brown, Mrs. H. Broadus and Mrs. R. R. Perkerson. Mrs. W. W. Evans, most noble governess of the Household of Ruth is doing splendid work. With pink and white carnations as a center piece and ferns forming other decorations throughout the house, Miss Mable Plummer entertained twelve at a four course pink and white luncheon in honor of Dr. W. B. Brooks, of Pueblo, Colo.. Miss Fern Brooks of Parsons a delightful three Miss Flannery will leave in a few days for a three week visit with relatives and friends in Saint Louis, Mo. 2 Miss Bessie Cunningham will entertain thirty-five of her friends at an afternoon at card followed by a matinee dance in Century hall Valentine day, which is her birthday. Miss Elsie Underwood, who has been visiting in Kanass City, Mo., the past fortnight, has returned. Miss Maude Barnett, who spent ten weeks in Chicago, has returned home. Miss Anna Butler is attending the Normal at Emporia. Rev. J. Rogers, of the Second Baptist church has closed a successful revival. A general spiritual awakening was manifested. The choir of the church were able assistance during the meetings. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bell, who formerly lived here and now reside at Pasadena, Call, writes that they will soon return home. Mrs. George Saunders, who has been sick, is improving. Mrs. Berl Snowden, of Hardin, Mo. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sam Raddick. Mine, Anita Pattl Brown will appear in concert in our city. Watch for the date. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perkinson is improving at this writing. National Bank City, Kansas PUBLISHED 1888.) $50,000.00 75,000.60 22,563.58 48,500.00 873,206.64 $1,019,270.22 Your Business. GEO. D. ORMISTON, Vice Pres. R. A. BROWN, Cashier. Bank in Pawnee County. Plus - $60,000.00. TT·BROS.' AL BANK , KANSAS. Moffbarles, H. T. Taylor, A. A. Doerr W. Gett. W. F. MILLER, Cashier. F. A. DURAND, Asst. Cashier. National Bank, City, KANSAS. Plus, - $175,000 DEPOSITORY. BANK IN GEARY COUNTY. Of Commerce Boston, Kansas. Central Sack $50,000.00. One Dollar Brings Department. We Pay Interest A PENNY SAVED IS A PEN- AT BANK OF COMMERCE. H. T. HARBAUGH, V-Pres. G. E. HARBAUGH, Ass't. Cashles 1914. National ank.... LD, KANSAS. 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KANSAS €ITY, KANSAS, Meats and Poultry “At Living Prices. Make: this your... 5-7... Headquarters for Poultry eae First class meats of all kinds at money-saving prices. Eggs, oysters and pure lard. White House Meat Markets, Phones: 1422 Grand; 558 Main. Kansas City, - - ~- Missouri. Thirty Years in the gro Nog ay The Shellabarger | Mill and Elevator Company, a Tt og 4 ‘ oo < oth RLOOMINGTON. KANSAS. Promdeg Elder King came out te Reck Valley Sunday, Jan. 1ith to hold quarterly meeting, but the people came out te sburch so late he had to hasten to Fudora withont having quarterly meeting. Mr, und Mre, Walter Mitchell ate dianer Bunday with Mr, Wm. Logan. Prof, Davis of Quindare preached at the Bloommgton church Sundog and an spite of the inclement weather a larte crewd same out to hear him, While he wae ia Hloomlugton, he was the guest of Mr, and Mrx, Wm, Clayborne, Mr, Alex Brent gave a wood chopping Test Wednenlay —‘Ihowe present were Mr. Jebn Thornton, Mr. Edward Lovie, Mr. Wm, Cayhorme, Mr, Wash Simp om, Mr, Sherman Peterson, Mr. Wm, Logan, Mr, Andrew Kiser, Mry George Cowen, Mr, Gearge Jensen, Mra, Calle Lewis, Mrs. Lirrie Thornton and Mrs, B, Geylorne, who assisted In the 00h- ing. Mine Inez Clayborne visited lied weeh with Mim Minnie Kiser, Little Ethel Lewis 'sd qite ach at this wiitiag. Mine Jeasie Clayhorne js home visit- fing thin week. ‘Mera, Julia Washington has been quite sick bit js somewhat better aot this writing. Miss Mery Washington, our newly elected oupsrintendent ie having mush aucees i the Sunday Shool, My, ad Mre. John ‘Thornton ate din mer BKunday with Mr, and Mra, Win Claylmrne, Mr, James Ceeorgia is looking around, T wonder for what, OSAGE CITY, KANSAS, Mrs, Fannie Turner has been on the tek bet this weeh and we hopo her a apeedy recovery. The Cowert on lust Raturday even- fing, Jan, 14, was well attended, ‘Lhe Qregtam wae excellcent. ‘The feature df the evening wae a tableau, “Crown- fing the Sunday School Angel.” ‘The eclelration Sunday, Jan, 17, of the ercund anniversary of Rev, R. Cox's, ppastorage at the Wimbly Chapel Baptist sebuysh was ore of the beat ever held ‘bere. <A very Interesting programme wee rendered and great (ribute was paid Rev, Cox as a pastor and leader, SE SU er EE is 7 Ee SEE RR Ee 4 pS eee ess | SS | ‘Mien Amanda Tuchner, of Kansas City fs visiting hep fatter, T, 1B Ruck- ner, Tees, Spipling. the Preslding Wider at the M, KE, church preached a very alle xermon and alse held quarterly conforense Monday tight Jan. 26. “The folly Fellows Banquet, Satur ty evening, Jan. 24, was attended by many ont of town guenia, all went away saying they had enjoyed a fire Hime and hoping the Jutly Yellows imucn suveens In their (lub: work, Mra, John Morten has returned, hume affler an extoaded visit in Kansas City, Mo, visiting her daughter, Mrs, Jlazel Navis, Suaday, Jan 43, was Women's Day,” Rev, Worlson of Carbondale preached thiee very soul «titping sermons, 4 very interesting program waa rendered In the afternoon, Some very encouray- Ing yemarhe were made by Mra, Min Adoo of Carbondale, bulding the ladles ta ever hold up the Vlssion cause, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, dle A, MOE, church closed a 31 days’ meeting Sunday night, with seve- ral additions to the chuerh ‘The Metropolitan Maptist deur loved Hts 10 dayy’ revival Sunday night WEH aeyeral aecemmona, ‘The Peopies’ Vorua at the Metrapoll. aa eburch presented Mr, ‘Tilford Darls, the ex president with a beautiful book, entitlad, “Oug of Bondaze,” ‘The new admunivration has the following offlvers, TW, Trench, Presidents Mus, W. Dwigzing, Tat View Prea,s Mr, Ty ‘Thompaen, Sed Vy Press Maw D, Whit field, Sec'y.g Mra. T, Davia, ‘Troan, 5 Dr, poanes, Critles chairan of Executive Raymond Welton; masistant; Mra, Glove fg DMipdy Chaplaing Rev Albert Hrown, M1 the Forum's last mecting the fol lowing persona purticipetod in the pros gram: Mrs. fa. Machner, current events; vocal aol, Minn O, Pinchards extnporancons sper, Rev, D, A. Holmen; comet solo, Mr, Smiley, At the clone of Rev, Holmes talk he re- ceived an ovation, Lincoln High felioo] will furnish the program, Feb, 14, Mr, A, Raunders sang a solo at the Forun by request, Alpha Art club sonvenrd with Mra, Florence Rice, 1417 N, 8th St, Jan, SES ae EOE RET ORE ST a | Te, ‘an excellent program, the hostess served @ sumptuous two course luncheon, con: sloting of fried oysters, hot biecuite, maraconta sald on lettuce leaves, encal- loped potatoes, watermelon cake, yet: low cake, ice cream and mints. After declaring the hostess to be taateftu #2 her seasoning and an excellent eook, they adjourned to meet Friday, Feb. 5, at Mre, Jennings, We regret very much thet Mra, Twella Green fell on the slippery walke and broke hee wrist. We hope her m@ speedy recovery, We also regret that Mre, Mayme denking felt on the icy granatold walk at ber home and it fe feared it may affect her greatly, Mra. Hertha Carroll at Belle Mem- orial Hospital has a fine new baby gir! now, two weeks old, She and little “Dertha Marie” are doing well. Prof, and Mra, Thompkins on Everen Ave, are the proud parents of @ fine girl, We are glad to relate that Mrs. Mat- tle Oliver on Winona Ave,, is much im- proved, Mra, ModMillen is out agein, Mr. B. J, Washiagton hed @ success- ful operation performed at the hospitel, Mrs, (iainen on Ny 6th St, hee been somewhat indinposed, Mra, Miller tas returned from 8t, Toule, A large crowd sasermbled at the A. M, E, churrh to hear Me, ‘frotter of Bass tell of his visit to the Presiuent, He fe a pleasant interesting apeake and pleaded hia cause well, Some seen anrong hia audience were: Attorneys Calloway, Knox, Plueaton, Prof, and Mra, Rowner, Mr, Cook, Rev, Thomas of Kansas City, Mo, Revs. Owes, Bow- fon, Vaughn, Prof. Reynolda, Judge Bredley, Prof, and Mrs, Ituster, De. tnd Mra, Heyden, Mire, Marie Wilson, Misecs Mabel Wilson, J. Green, Joba- eon, Dr, Anthony, Pr, Thompeon, Atty, and Mra. Green, Atty Shackleford, Mr. ©, B. Johnson, Mise Marie Jchneon, Mra, Thomas, Mp. Wm, Montgomery, Prof. Kealing, Dr, Nathony, Prof, and Mra, Porter, Mra. M. C, Mutthewa, Mr, (ieo, King and many others, Rev, Me- Neal and Thomas took up the collec: tion; a large aum was collected, Judge and Mrs. Bradley servel din ner to Mr, Trotter and Dr. and Mra, Thumpxon entertained litin at supper, Many staunch people regret Mr, Trot> ter changed his pobtics. Miss Eva Jarhaon fs sich at hor home at thia writing, Misy Mabe! Wilson has been indian pred but ia at schoo) again, Mre, Lizzie Stovall Is at home afch, Mra, Weaver in sick again Maw Anna Willan on State haa heen sth, lat ia better, Mr. B, J. Frye, one of the leaders for “yo tu church day” is sick and not able to de as much as he wished, Mra, Hattie Miter, farmerly a teach= rin this ety ia here fram Chicago. she may lavute permanently In greater Kanna City, ‘The Parent-Teuches’s meeting at Simuer shoo) had a ale crowd and the talks wete beneflcal. They any that Rev, Molmes has con- sited and converted meze in 19 days han ia customary: in so short a time, Hix vettion lant Sunday night was enh. tine, It wax, “ihe hupreme Court of ease” At the clove of the suecting, 1 large purae waa giver. They say George BR, Sinith College ways wine the arutorical prizes, ‘They maduee fine speakers, We tegret to heir of the death of Mre Wignett in Olde, She was the em ir of Mr, Jennings, Mis, Macy Dunks of Fast Wall ot, te very sith, Max, Duncan fa adil on tho wich lee, Mr, and Mra, Robt, Curtla are very pond of a bouncing little gir) and mother and child is getting along nbeesy ‘tho Shiloh Baptist church was very maw! of their new jaeacher aad wife Res, and Mrs. C, A, Ross, who arrived here Suutay, Jun. 24, ‘Thin wae hls first hunday here aud he earrled on a Hwondufal meeting and Sunday afters root, he ala preachey’ at the A.M. E, shurcheas they were lastly a rally and tained about &40 00, Mr, Ram Rrown has opened a pantl- torhim on Wall st. Minn Retta Wella is #tul In the city slsting telatives, Mrs. Dather Lewin of Kanmas City, Ma, ie viating relithes in the rity, A surprixe party was given by Mrs, UG. Thomason in honox of her daugh- fer, Mina Fethep O'Bries, at her Lith Hhdtlday, "Two conten were served Ubose present weres Misses Thelina and Marling Johnston, Pearle Wade, Nellie and Helena Faulkner, Ora Flaten, Berthine Hunter, Mabel Sanders, Dole lia Gwens, Tabe Whither, Viviaa rion, Irene Fleming and Mr, Rod- ney O'rlen, Mr, William Copeland and Miss Lil- lian Ruseell woere married at her horse, Jan. 20, Mr, Willie Sanders and Mise Jennie’ Inckard were married at her home, Fob, 1st, e283. ¥. WATSON DS: = AFTER A LOMO ILLNESS a ee ee: ere etre, eee Ne Great Church Worker. mes . Washington, D, C.—Mra, Frases T, Booker Watson, wife ef De. B. F. Wat- vom, secretary of Church Extension of the A. M, E. church; died Guaday, Jen, 20th, at ber realdence, 1535 Fourteenth street, In the language of her devoted daughter, Mre, Capitola Smith, “Hed mother planned the time, ft sould mat have been more Gtting.” Where ence was the presence of a pious, Obrietian woman, wife, mother, sitter, grand: mother, good citizen and fried, phere now, abides a priceleas memory of ene whese consintent devotion te dety and Ube highest ideals of life and whee Obristian qualitics endeared ber to al! who knew her, As a minbter’s wife whe bed distinguished herself as frend, especially to the poor, Monday end Ticeday the clouds seemed to weep with the family and frienda, and Wednesday, the day of the funeral, could not have been more nearly perfect. The sum shone, the sky wes bright and all natire seemed to eay, “O, dry those tears.” The fu- eral services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. C, HI, Stephen, assisted by the Revs. Ross, Gaines, Sydes, Mossel] and Rev, Lowe of Vhilidelphia, Dr, Htepteau preached a most excellent ser- mom. He sald, in part: “Jhow vate are our efforts, how empty our words to guild a grief, a crushing grief, oext te the children of earth, or bew futile our attempts fo comfort anguished hearts made ao by the visitor, death; yet the minsion of Christianity In to bold the lighted candle of hope over every open grave and bid its votaries look beyond the regton of the dead to a land of light, i}fe and happinens, Tife in hing; death Is hing; amd all earth’ creatures munt meet them, for cach claime ble own, and having the energy and the daring to struggle with the one, Ged hath provided us with hipe and eon. fidence to meet the other, “Aa in nature, the night here In—is elsewhere the daw.s3 ro in the spiritual tian travela thin road of life in the death here is life yonder, ‘Mie Chrin- strength of his Master, until at dart, weary, tired and exhausted, he irs down to soothe hin esen from the*etrain of a Tong, tiresome itay; cloung them upon time, he opens them upon things eternal, and stands face to face with hin God.” Mra, Watron made a brave fight for life, She Sived for peace, Mera wan @ genial personabty, hind of heart, please ing in manner, as gentle as a child, an wtled as aomatica, as loving an aw methes whith she was to all The many lives touched and fofluenved by her gentleness will vear the frigrance und sweethees of her useful Hilfe until memory fails; for great liven are eter: nil, amd heate thw, fove Gad never die nor dy thei dveds perish from earth, Rev. FN. Rows, who liad been Mra, Watron's pastor for five years, at the Metropolitan AM. Ee church, «poke of ha maay virtnes as a wife, nother ant fiend, He dwelt on her life as a fore in character buds, her Joyalty and support to her clinch, of her box Jitalny to ca ho mumintet as a mexacn ger af Gol, of her Fatherhood and Brotlarhoot creed te man, whether he Was a preacher of the inboion, pastor of the largest church or bixhop char acter, not pumttion, wade the maa in her estimation, Pu, Av L, Gaiues, ef Baltimore, a nephew of the Tite fameuted Bishop Weoley J, Gainer, had been slunety aa siciated wath Da, Watson and Inved Mrx Wateon as a mother, The min istere of Multimene Confererce turned out im full, Rev, Dr. Pd, Jerdan was among Uke mourncis, Ministera of the IMirent denommations of the city: aad Varios wevtions uf the «ity were in attendance, Mre, Watecn's brother, from Virginia, Vi, Booker reached here in tame for the funetal, Itt, Hes. Boh Coppa, one af the dorest and dearest: filendy af Ye, and Mire, Watson, came en and spent ‘ues PITTSBURG, KANSAS. ‘the funeral of Mrs Si Dowell was held at Mouat Ifcbron Baptist church, Rev. J, T, Elias officlating, The Home Mision Cirle met at Sister Faura Terce's, Mrs, Emma Boyd went to Fort Rooft Sunday to visit Mr, and Mre, A, Boyd, Mrs, Macey Officer and Mr. Joe Cur- : » a iz c reg _ ; Catalogue sf Free! Free! Freelissrasicuy AGENTS WANTED! | FINE CREOLE HAR _ 3 %, + ‘ A - az —e a 7 L os od eae ae * RoAn me we , Ciel ¥ s x ™N Oe oo “ J ci a Cred Baer Gate nen, ; ea MID hc ta Vhte cheney. “wo toes LRA MMe sires rier Lotmyt eS oe aell more Fine Wigs CN he al |, acral han sey other manufesturer mote is in the United Btates. wee a es or Catalogue. iT 38 if SAM WILLER, : P.O. Box dee, HUMAN HAIR GOODB CO, ag neh Croce Switches 280 Shrevepert, La, Each; 24 Inch S00 Each. | ‘aa j v i ae or: |B ae SAM FEWS, N. B, MILLIGAN, st H 9 The Little . Pullman, SESE RE AE Pullman Porters and Railroad Men. POOL ROOM, BARBERSHOP AND READING ROOM IN CON- | NECTION—Located on the Rosedale Car Line, opposite” the Ter minal ropnd house—FIRST CLASS CAFE in connection. s + FEWS & MILLIGAN, Proprs. Bell Phone: Grand 4762, ° KANSAS CITY, MO. eS WILL M. WITTIG, President and Manager. aI ' ‘ Geo. Eysell Drug Co., i Union Depot Drug Store Mail Ordera Prompily Attended, , Opposite Waiting Room, 4M. the Beat Brand of Whiskey—Butied In Bong 7 1088 Union Avenue GANSAS CITY, MIssoURI Tome Phone Weat S80 Pell Phone Weet sex ————oOoOO———— th int of Mr. and Mra, Roy t Serr thd 9 Mo Pool and Billiard Mrs. Nettle Lee was culled to Cha nute um aerount of sickness, Parlor. Mr, and Mrs, Drake of Fort Seett} One of the finest up-to-date pool were in the city visiting her «isters}and billard halle in the country is Mre, Bansett, in Claremore, Okla., owned and opers ° —_— | ated ty J. A. Lewis and hes also PITTSBURG. KANSAS. @ bares Naa af clam aad sch... Rire, J, W. Perea very dehzhtfully eatertaimed the ladies of che Woman's Hume aad Verein Mission souety at her home om ‘Thurelay afternoon of last week and aeveateca members were present, Vimtora were Maze, Abe Itob- em and Mr, Dell ‘Taylor, Am inter: exting subjmfs wae discussed by all present, A two conte Iunchwom waa rerved, after which all departed, de- vlaring Mrs, Verve un ideal hostess. Bethlehem A, M, E, church Je have Ing o series of mectings and myh fa telest iy being manifested, Pann = Vy ee Elder Smith held quarterly mecting bere Suaday morning, & Miey Beume Brown of Mound City, Kunwar attended quarterly meeting here Sunday, Mr, Choples Siulth of Kansas Cily arrived here ‘luesday tu viait his son, ‘Thomas and wife, Master Willaim Colhna and sinters, Rw and titadya are quite ill, Rev, 4. 4, Klag feon the wick lag, Mra, Mattie Lacey purchased a plano for hex Sunghters, WINFIELD. KANSAS. ‘The Caraation Embroblery club met with Mra, Berl Brown, ‘She ufternooy was spent in sewing, ‘The hastens served a dainty Junch., The suv will Ve entertained by Mis, John Nichols ‘Yhe Kewpie club met with Miss Awilda Brows, ‘The efternoon was epent in whist, A delicious Junch ron: mating of meat loaf, mnashdd potatoes grevy, bot rolls, and cranberry jelly was served, ‘yhe Carnation Embroidery club was entertained by Mrs, Jobn Nichols, Jt being program day, there was 30 bun tess nor aewlng, Those on progtem 1 Pool and Billiard Parlor. One of the finest up-to-date pool and billerd halls in the country is in Claremore, Okla. owned and opers jated by J. A. Lewis and has also a large line of cigars and tobscce, It fe also headquarters for walters and porters and employment bureau. SS 1% Blks, W. P, O. Home Phone75?, Furnace Heat, Electric Lights. Nicely Furnished Rooms, The Central Hotel, MRS. O. E, MARSHALL, Prep. W. H, H, ASHBY, Mgr, Marshall Sisters Cafe in Connection, Barbershop on Third Floor. Rest Roam for Gentlemen, 402 South &. Excelsior Springs, Me, wer: wclo, Lillian’ Franklins pian solo, tiertrude Nichuls; reading, Leona Hrown, wolo, Omega Nithols; reading, Miinie Goodwin; qale, Gora Brown; wadla, Avilla Drown; solo, Yvart Nichols, Afler the program » delicloys lunch was served conduiing of fried thicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, crams berry Jelly, coffee and foe eran, ‘The Kewpe ub met with Gertrude Ni hole The afternoon was spent in whist, A lunch cotlating of sand: wiches, onffee, Wwe cream wae aerved, “the Carnation Embroidery glib met with Miss Lona Hrowr, After business and afterauon of sewing a lunch wae wet ved, Roy Moore of Medicine Lodge, after a few months abserce resumed his att lie at Southwestern, 1, E, Shonts of Boley, Otlahoma is in our clty visiting bis sister, Mra, Lang on East Oth Bt. Ie wiil enter the dry cleaning establishment on N, Man 8t, ‘the ©, T, C. club met at the home of Mra, Andy Charles on the evening of thy Sist, * MICK CHILES, Editor SUBSCRIPTION MATER. One Year.....$1.50 Two Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Advertising Rates Per Month $2.00 Per Inch. Entered at the Postoffice at Topaka as Second Class Mail Matter. --- NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:—Mr. Theo Baughman is the authorized solicitor and traveling agent for the Topeka Plaindealer. We beg the public to give him their support as he is a man who is, interested in the uplift of the race, and will call on you not only to subscribe for the paper, but will interview you for write ups on leading men and women of our race, also cuts of prominent people and their homes in the various portions of the United States.—Nick Chiles, Editor and Owner of the Topeka Plaindealer. 5 A NEGRO CITY IN NEW YORK. In one district in New York City a Negro population in numbers to the inhabitants of Dallas, Texas, or Springfield, Mass., lives, works, and pursues its ideals almost as a separate entity from the great surrounding metropolis. Here Negro merchants ply their trade; Negro professional men follow their various vocations; their children are educated; the poor, sick, and orphan of the race are cared for; churches, newspapers, and banks flourish heedless of those, outside this Negro community, who resent its presence in a white city. The progress which the Negroes have made in their own district is indeed little understood by those who, fearing the encroachment of a Negro slum, have done their best to thwart the growth and the progress of New York Negroes in obtaining better housing and living conditions and opportunities for racial advancement for the responsible colored people of New York City. That this prejudice manifested by their white neighbors is largely unwarranted both on moral and economic grounds may be seen from a rehearsal of the facts. If one stands at the corner of One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street and Fifth Avenue, in four directions can be seen rows of apartments or flat houses all inhabited by Negroes. This is virtually the center of the community. The houses are in good repair; windows, entrances, halls, sidewalks, and streets are clean, and the houses comfortable and respectable insile to a degree not often found in a working man's locality. The ground floor of the buildings in every case is occupied by a store or business office. Here and they're one sees the name of some Nationally known firm whose agent, always a Negro, has opened a branch business among the people of his own race. From the juncture of One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street and Fifth Avenue can be seen the business signs of Negroes and Negro firms whose holdings and interests reach an aggregate of four million dollars. Philip A. Payton, a Negro and a wealthy real estate operator, may be rightly termed the father of this Negro community, since is was he who, despite violent opposition, first installed his people in tenement property in this section ten or twelve years ago. It was Payton's theory that living conditions equal to those available for the white man were what the Negro needed to give him the realization of white progress and white standards. Payton first bought three tenements. At that time a wealthy syndicate of whites owned a near-by tract, known as Olympic Field, where athletic meets had been held for several years. The syndicate intended cutting the tract into building lots, and thinking to improve their selling chances, bought the tenements controlled by Payton and evicted the Negroes. But Payton and another Negro, J. C. Thomas, thereupon bought three other tenements on the same block and evicted the whites. The result of this skirmish was merely an exchange of tenants. After a series of shrewd business dealings in which the syndicate was worsted, the Negroes were left in possession of the millions of their future community, and Payton's dream of progress among his people had begun to be realized. The Negro section prepares now extends for ten blocks between Seventh and Park Avenues, with a generous fringe of colored tenants teaching out in all directions from the community center evidence of quiet growth and expansion. In this community of tenements and apartments are about fifteen hundred private houses of very good grade. One prominent member of the settlement recently paid fifty thousand dollars for one of these. The most prosperous of the Negroes, however, do not all live in private houses, by any means, since the apartment-houses, as in similar white districts in New York City, offer equal advantages for good living. Negra who worked his way through Harvard University and two years in the Harvard Law School, Mr. Harris is editor of The News, a paper whose chief staff of theses men are all colored. Among these twelve men are Peslob Johnson, a writer of verse; and a recent graduate of the University of Chicago; the sporting editor, Leslie Pollard, who as a Dartmouth student was rated as a member of that somewhat nebulous organization the All-American Football Team; a clever cartoonist, E. C. Shefton; and a Washington correspondent in the person of Ralph W. Tyler, an auditor in the navy under both President Roosevelt and President Taft. The clerks, stenographers, and advertising solicitors of The News are also all Negroes. In the professions this Negro community has some twenty physicians who received their medical training at various universities and colleges. Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Howard, the College of Physicians and surgeons, Long Island Medical College, and the Flower Hospital School are all represented. One West Indian who is resident in the community was a student at Oxford. In the legal fraternity there are fifteen lawyers from Harvard, Yale, Syracuse, Columbia, the New York Law School, and Northwestern University. One of these men is a deputy Assistant District Attorney for New York County, and one is Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city of New York. There are eight dentists from Howard and New York Dental Colleges, two architects from Cornell University, four registered pharmacists from Columbia and the New York College of Pharmacy who conduct large drug stores in the trained nurses D My.. edanl cess was district, and twenty-five registered trained nurses. In the business world the community possesses Negro real estate firms which enjoy the confidence of some of the largest and most conservative financial institutions in the city. One of these, Nail & Parker, may be taken as an interesting example. This firm has full charge of the property holding of St. Philip's Church, which is valued at well over a million dollars. In addition to this they manage for individual owners some seventy-five to eighty separate parcels of real estate, and collect over five-thousand dollars a month in rent, St. Philip's Church, built, by the way, from the plans of a Negro architect, was erected a few years ago at a cost in land and building of $255,000. It carries a mortgage now of only twenty-nine thousand dollars. In addition to this the church owns a block of ten apartment-houses valued at $320,000. These carried a mortgage of $303,000 in April, 1911, when they were acquired by the church; this has since been reduced to $311,000. From this and other property owned by the church is derived a yearly income of over $25,000. A study of the history of St. Philip's from its founding and establishment in Sullivan Street one hundred years ago, and its steady growth, reveals a system of business management of which any religious community might well be proud. In this Negro district there are eight other churches, some wealthy, all in good circumstances, and all with interesting histories of growth and administration. Such success is not obtained without economy and well-directed saving. Indeed, as may be supposed from such a record as is shown by this brief account of St. Philip's Church, thrift is encouraged and practiced by the more substantial element of the community to a very great degree. 12 many instances all members of a family are engaged in some definite form of work. One family representative of this class may be instance. The father is chef in the Pullman service, a son is a "red cap" in the Grand Central terminal, a daughter has charge of a theatrue, dressing room, the mother makes appointments for hair dressing among well to do people in white localities and not as treasurer for the family. A younger daughter looks after the home. Each member of the family deposits her or her entire earnings with the treasurer, and when in need of clothing or moderate spending money draws on the treasurer, who issues the money and keeps strict account of all expenditures. This family has accumulated a savings account of over $46,000 and is buying properly on long island. The thoroughgoing business attitude moved in the small percentage of saloons. The city of New York numbers its saloons at the ratio of one to every thousand population, and in power class neighborhoods a much higher average. The Negro community has less than one to every two thousand of population, and only five of those are owned or conducted by Negroes. There are no very definite data on which to base the per capita wealth on the community. Some statistics published three or four years ago gave as the savings bank deposits of all Negroes in New York City the sum of fifteen million, since three-fourths of the Negro population of New York City. nen now live in this uptown community, it would seem reasonable to estimate their savings deposits at least as high as ten million. Business men of the section, however, insist that this is too low. They believe fifty per cent, and point but the United Union Dome Savings Bank carried alone one and a half per cent of Negro savings. Of public institutions run for and by Negroes the community possesses an old folks' home, a day nursery, a home for graduate nurses, a house for boys which is the headquarters for sixty Boy Nevada and their major, a union rescue home for girls, and a music settlement. Of these, perhaps the music settlement deserves most special attention. It occupies a fine double brown-stone house, and is under the management of Mr. J. Roamond Johnson, a Negro and member of the New England Conservatory. (Concluded Next Week.) Ogilsvie Springs a New One! Well Known Sport Plans An Ideal Fishing Camp. Our mutual friend and fellow townman, Mart. A. Ogilvie again stands in the glare of the spot-light of the sport world. He has always been a leader among the rod and gun sports of the this section of the country, and is always in the front rank of those who do things to promote the fishing and hunting game. Some two years ago Mr. Ogilvie "put one over" on the boys by purchasing a motor boat after organizing the "Ogilvie Rod and Gun Club," of which he is president. The club flourished like a green bay tree, and has pulled off some of the biggest and most successful fishing and hunting events ever staged in Kansas, and the launching of the motor boat in Mill creek at the beautiful farm of Mr. C. C. Officer, three and one-half miles from Paxico was the biggest thing ever pulled off by the club, and the event will long be remembered by the participants. Heretofore, Mr. Ogilvie and his forces have spent from one to two weeks each year at the Officer farm where they caught many fine fish and had a good time generally. Mart. Ogilvie is a fellow that does things "different" and his way is the only way. He has arranged with Mr. C. C. Officer to establish a permanent camp on his place, where the members of the club can go anytime and fish, and it is the intention of the members to spend all of their life time there during the summer and fish—especially on Saturday and they will remain over until Monday. In conversation with Mr. Ogilvie one day this week, he remarked to the writer: "We had better call the club together some evening, as I have something good to tell the boys" and drawing a long flat pocket-book from his pocket produced therefrom a document which proved to be a con- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. MARIE A. OGILSVILT tract for the station on screen wire quarters 12x14 and other convenience that will make the "Ogulvie Real and Gun Club" camp the joy spot of Kansas. In the course of conversation he said, "Our wives, mothers and sisters can pence at the camp anytime they so desire, and enjoy a pleasant outing unimobilitated and in comfort and ease. There will be no delay in getting things in shape. I have paid the appointer and it's all up to him to get busy as soon as spring opens. The equipment for cooking, etc., will be the first much better than last year, because the camp is a permanent proposition, and as for myself, my wife wife likes to get away from the noise of the city and breathe pure country air, and we expect to be at the camp every spare moment we have, and it's a safe bet that Mrs. Ogulvie and a bunch of her friends will The Eurka Comb Is fulfilling its mission by decidedly causing what is eagerly sought for, Beautiful Straight Hair. Soft, Silky Strands a rush of growth, so much so, the EUREKA COMB a favorite, and a Needed Device. Why so, the demand of the device is sufficient to warrant us, that it is the best COMB for purposes on the market, when used, never to be without the splendid device. They are marvelously in evidence in thousands of homes throughout the country, and all are favorably impressed with the beneficial influences derived therefrom. Why so, a combination of metals assimilated, and when heated will produce the effect so much desired. Understand the EUREKA COMB is made by professional efforts, so as to give satisfaction, when used as to direction, of which every COMB used goes with it instructions, how to use, and what for. We are particularly anxious to bring to notice and in short, they will be used by every one. They are usually sold at $1.50 each, complete Hoping this will convey to you why the EUREKA COMB is preferable. With our guarantee. For further information write: EUREKA COMB CO., Chattanooga, Tenn. AGENTS WANTED be on the spot a great many times when I can't think of going." Laments the Death of Dyche. "In the death of Prof. Dyche, Kansas loses one of the most valuable citizens the state has ever produced, and so one regrets or feels it more keenly than the sporting men of the state. Since he has been at the head of the fish and game department of this state, you can catch good fish any place in Kansas. Uafair fishing has become almost an unknown thing and our streams are filled with fine fish." For years Mr. Ogilvie has been one of the state's leading sporting men and is right up to the minute on everything, but his son, Mr. Alfred Ogilvie, a chip off the old block, proposes to show "dad" and his crew a few points about fishing during the coming season. The young man has spent several seasons on the great lakes and "knows" a few things. "The Ogilvale Rod and Gun Club" has been in existence for several years, and while members come and go those who officiated at the burning and served in an, official capacity are still in the game. Each year something new is brought out and each year their joy, comfort and pleasure is increased. Several times the club has been cut down to only four members, but whatever plans that had been mapped out they were always carried out to the letter as was proven when the motor boat was launched last season. They are: Mart. A. Ogilvale, president; Ira Smith, secretary; Dick Porter, treasurer and Tom Warren, steward and general superintendent of the camp. However, the permanent camp will see many new faces, and all are good substantial fellows, love outdoor life and their sunny dispositions will make the camp just what it is intended to be—a place of joy and pleasure. They are: John M. Wright, Fred M. Stonestreet, Harry O. Abbott, Earl W. Beek, Dr. Wright, Ph. O., E. Nelson, Allen A. Alexander William Vaughan, Otto Bennett, Dwight Burton, Geo. W. Smith C. C. Lytle, Alfred Ogilvie and Walter Miller. One evening next week, the boys will eat jackrabbit sausage, test Marta's good cigars and discuss matters at his home on Grand avenue. The date at present is undecided, but those having phones will be notified, otherwise, call Ira Smith, the secretary at the Plaindealer, 3300 and the information can be obtained. Sickness Spots a Bear Hunt. During the holidays Mr. Ogilvie had planned a trip to Florida with a bunch of prominent sporting men, where he was to participate in a bear hunt, but when the time came for him to depart, he was feeling badly, and while he was on his feet and worked daily, as he puts, "I am not right, and am afraid to make the trip," and sure enough, a few days later he was forced to take his bed, and was confined to his room for two weeks or more. However, the old gladiator is again on his pins, but a little weak—too weak to go back on the job as head miller at the D. O. Coe Seed House and Feed Mills, a position he has capably filled for some fourteen years or more. FOR SALE—A good four room house equipted with city water. Fifty-four foot front by 200 feet deep; good barn and two good out buildings for $1100; $100 down and balance on payments. S. V. TINDALL, Springfield, Mo. Sister McTasell, wife of Roy McTasell was arrested from her quiet pose on last Saturday by the singing and laughter of a jolly church of memb ers of the A.M. E church who brought with them pounds of good things to eat. The Reverend being out of town, Sister McTasell was more than thankful for the generosity shown her. Trolley To Kansas City Trolley To Kansas City One of the most delightful rides in the State of Kansas is on the TROLLEY LINE between Kansas City and Leavenworth, Kas. This road runs through beautiful and picturesque country. It takes you by the door of the State Penitentiary at Lansing, Kas., the National Soldiers' Home, Ft. Leavenworth, and both the Federal and Military prisons and many other important sight-seeing places. Car₂ leave Kansas City every hour on the even hour from 6 a.m. to 10 p. m.; last car leaves Kansas City at 11:30 p. m. except Saturday night; last car leaves at 12 o'clock midnight. Car₃ leaves Leavenworth, Kansas, every hour on the half from 6:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. except Saturday and Sunday nights the last car leaves at 12 o'clock midnight. The Kansas City-Western Railway Co. THE COLORED PEOPLE OF GARDEN CITY all know that they are politely and promptly waited upon when they enter our store. We make no distinction between white and black people. We appreciate your business and want. There are good and bad eople of all colors in every community. Those who pay their bills promptly we run accounts with, to be settled every week or month as the case may be. Those who do not pay promptly as agreed, we decline to run accounts with, whether they are white or colored, rich or poor. The J. E. Baker Mercantile Co. MAKE YOUR OWN LIQUORS AT HOME. Cincinnati, O, Feb. 5, 1015.—By a new method of concentration an expert distiller of this city has produced a concentrated extract with which anyone can easily and quickly make in their own home, any Liquor, Whiskey or Cordial at a saving of over fifty percent of the Liquor Dealers Prices. A few minutes does the work requiring no apparatus, no boiling, no experience whatsoever. While the Liquor making at home idea is new and startling in its possibilities its legality has been carefully investigated by the highest anthorities and his method has been found to conform with the Laws in every respect. This new method will be welcomed by thousands of people living in districts where it now even impossible to obtain Whiskey for medicinal purposes. Anyone can now save the heavy expenses, high licenses and enormous profits of the saloon keeper and liquor dealers and can have in his home at any time a pure, nourishing liquor at a very low cost. It is indeed a remarkable discovery and he has already received thousands of letters of praise. Anyone can try a full quart of his Liquor free by writing to M. W. PRICKETT 364 Universal Bldg., Cincinnati, O., and ask for his booklet, "Secrets of Making Liquors at Home." Sent to anyone sending their name and address. P Kansas City lies in the State of Kansas is on the City and Leavenworth, Kas. This picturesque country. It takes you at Lansing, Kas., the National and both the Federal and Military sight-seeing places. hour on the even hour from 6 a.m. Kansas City at 11:30 p.m. except Saturday clock midnight. s, every hour on the half from 6:30 day and Sunday nights the last car Western Railway Co. Union Coal and Feed Co. Coal, Feed and... Poultry Supplies. B. N. ROOKS. Bell Phone West 3436. 1839 Quindaro Blvd. KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. Great Radium ...Water... God's Gift to Suffering Humanity Flowing from the bowels of the earth —the greatest germsister that's known. The diseased germs are busy tearing down the tissues of the body. Come to Claremore, Okla., and bathe in the "Fountain of Health." Stop at Cobb's Bath House Hotel. Rates reasonable. CLAREMORE OKLAHOMA If you will constantly read The Topika Plaindealer you will become so accustomed to it that it will soon be a household necessity. ker Mer. Co., y, Kansas. RDEN CITY all know that they are when they enter our store. We make ck people. We appreciate your busi- bad eople of all colors in every com- th Meee, soi 5 S Fb Ft emer tees DS inet ORE eae ne BB, Haynes, Feb, 8. + _ | £ re ee val “Phat coal question? Better talk a over-with Wilson, Phone 8642. ( by —o » Mr, J, Keller of Arkansas City was b pleasant caller at this office lant week, gees 7 Mr Meth Burne of Lawrence wa the iguent of Miss Ann Taylor Sunday, $ —o— Me. Parla: Moore spent the after- _ woog’ Wednesday with Sirs, Joe Walker, * tee . > Don’t forget the Charity Ball ag the Abtetropolitan hall, Feb, 10, Come ont and help the poor and needy. * ~_ —tm > You must not mina the Charity Ball, gives atthe Metropolitan halt, Wel- aisday, Feb, 10, by the Alphs Circle. . =o PICTURES FRAMED— Portrait Pho: tos. For high quality and low Prices," pall 2553 White, 1176 Lincela ‘Stzpet, {Mise Lillian Jordan gave a six o'clock dinner, Wednesday, Feb. 3, In honor of her guent, Miva Watson. Covers were laid for six, en A charity ball will be given by the Alpha Assist Circle, Wedzeaday, Feb, 10, at the Metropolitan hall for the benefit of the poor and needy, + a Lincoln Day eatertainment and play at the Becond Baptist church, 3rd and Quincy St., Friday, Feb, 12, Adminston 110 cents, G, W, Henry, Pastor, —~ The Kewpie Kiuh, meg with Mri Richard Bass, 927 College Avenue, last ‘Tuesday evening, The next meeting will be with Mr, Albert Conelley, on “Buchanan St,, Feb. 16, —o ‘We are pained ta report the death of Mr, Samuel Higgins which occurred one “day this week in Texas, The funeral a-will be held today front the Shiloh Bap- tlat church In thle clty, Particuars mext week. ’ —_ The Poinsetta Embroidery cluly met with Mre, Emma Fisher, 1012 Clay St. Jan. 27. A two course lunch was nerv- 0d, Next meeting will be with Mra, eQhas, Davis, 13th and Lane.St., Thurs- ‘day, Feb. 11, . —_o * A oplendid opportunity for profes: alonal nurses, Ladies desiring to eater the profession will write to Dr, W, J. ‘Thompkigs, Old General Honpital, 22nd and Holmes St., Kansae City, Mo. who will give full particulars, — The Ne Plus Ultra Art and Literary met on Jan, with Mra, B.C, Duke, ‘The next ing will be held Feb, stb, with Francia Jamison at the home of theypresident; Mrs, Laura Wil- lame, 1105 B. Jetproon st. * a oo Mr, and }3rf. Chas. Bradshaw of 1547 Quincy" St, served a four course dinner in honor ‘ofRev. L. K, Williams of Texas, Coverg wppe lald for Rev, ©. G, Fishback, Bessie Haynes, Mr. W, Bradshaw and Mis? Mf, Bradshaw, —~—, Mr. R A. Carson, sontractor has re- turned from Clarksville, Tenn,, where he'vinited hia mother, He says tines are very hard there and that our people are suffering aad are not receiving very Rood treatnient from the white people, -_o COME TO TEXAS, save $10.00 per month, Buy a lot in a fast growlag railroad city of 7,000 people and forty acres of land for &300,00, $10.00 moathly payments, without Lnterest, Dept, 8, FRANE C. BENNETT & COMPANY, Dallas, Texas, a ‘The grand officers of the Housrhold of Ituth, No, 12, State of Kansan, who constitute the executive committe held their meeting luxt Friday at the resi: dence of Mr, and Mra. DAC, Mott, 1020 Hwhanun dt, The report of the Sanious grand officers showed the order ‘Tbe grand officers of the Househok of Ituth, No, 12, State of Kansan, whi constitute the executive committre held their meeting luxt Friday at the resi dence of Mr, and Mra. DAC, Mott 1020 Huwhanan dt, The report of the Sartous gran officers showed the order to be working In peace and harmoty aml the fluancial report showed great increawe, ‘the following officers were present DPresklent, Mra Je Ba Harper YG, M,N, Gof Widutay Mrs, Lary Anderson, D6. We Dy Wichita, 3% 6, Ttitia Newnan, 9G, ON, Gi, Kae sas City, Moy; Mew. Rose dackaon, D G. End, Crew, Topehay Mins Extells Black, DL G. End, beelyy Atehiaon Mixa Maybelle Burnett, D, GW. 2, AtihIsont Mra, Cora Yeager, DL G. W, 4%, Lawrenes, Mra, Lula Siammers wus muspended from the Household for nine- * tysaine years, The'report of the come mittee showed that the crder Ja putting an new Ife and has neatly $1060 on hand, Thin pas be De , ings aati AR PH tee Moe eee Thal. ahdSimtmoniode’? f° r f Dr. Wiles! Marv! ON ae ee "and epusine 2° ogee &, boy weg Bi we knew and ales {OOLSN Kip borat short ume’ until thete Ate would EDL him. They would Sr ee a 2 DE. MilestiNérvine E to school, segularty: wis aed ot ad & Spit for pon io oe ” Blephen G. Horttek, Ambridge, Pa. ~ Spasms, fits, convulsions, St. Vitus dance and fpiteesy, frequently afflict children. “If yow have a child suf- ferings from any of these diseases ‘do not hesitate to give Dr. Milea’ Nervine a trial. ‘pelt Under & pearanten ansuring the teturn of the price of the first bottle If Walle to Benoa. At all druggists. Mrs, Fred M, Perkins {a ill at her home on Lincoln street. -o— Atforney Etisha Scott was in Bon- ner Springs yesterday on legal bunl- ness, —o ‘Miss Lula Walker and Mrs, C, Bled- tog spent the day, Tuesday with Mex, Joe Walker. ‘ . Oe Dr. Wright fe still Alling prescriptions at the old stand, “fet me be your druggist?” ts his foremost question. — ‘Wilson sella coal cheap. Better stock up before it gets cold and the price advances, Call 3642 and all orders will receive prompt attention, —— Mr, ant Mrs, A. Coleman announce the marriage of their daughter, Eunice, fo Mr. Harry Moran of Wagoner, Oklahoma, on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 6 o'clock, The marriage ceremony wan performed by Rev, G, W- Henry at the parsonage, Mr, and Mrs. Morgan are at home to their friends at 028 Western Avenue, ~~ Mra, L. Gray, 1415 Monroe street en tertnuined a number of young people Wednesday evening, the occasion be- ing the twenticth annlversary of her daughter, Mrs. Helen Gray Floyd. The evening was pleasantly apent ia gamen, muale, ete, and at a seasonable hour a delicious five courge luncheon was 8er- ved and all departed for their several homes feeling glad to have been present, —o— Great arrangements are being made for the Lincola Day relebration and banquet to be held here next Friday, Feb, 12, ‘The principal apeaker for this occasion will be the Rev. W. H, Thom- as, of Kansas City, Mo, who is se: garded as ane of the foremost orators of the Went, The executive committee, with the asnistance ‘of the president, Tou. James I, Guy, is working hard to make this ocrasion even graader than any af tha farmer cotehrations —o The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday night at the Third Baptist church, Prof, N, Sawyer presiding, Prof. Fred Roundtree and the Rev, Geo, Gilbert Walker were the speakers of the evening and their re- marke were well received, There were several who added thelr nanies to the list of members of this organization, OBITUARY, Misa Helen Frazier wax born, Dee. 23rd, 1803 in Topeka, She died at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Sophia Bran- ford, Feb, Lut, 1015; aged 21 years, two months and three days, She professed a hope in Christ several days ago and wan quite happy watil death. fhe join- ed St, John A.M, E, church, She anid to Mre, Angeline Williams, her auntie, Rev, Brown and others, that the Lord had wonderfully Weaed her and that she waa Teady to go, She was of a kind and pleaseat disposition, he feavex to mourn her loss, two aunties, other relutivew and friende, (First Published in The Topeka Plaindealer Jan. 22, 1915.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of the State of Kansas. Bertha Cathert, Plaintiff, vs, No, 29218, Charles M. Calbert, Defendant. State of Kansas to Charles M. Calbert; Greeting; You sre hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of the State of Kansas, by the above named plaintiff, for an absolute di- vorce, and that you be barred from any Interest, right or tide In or to Lot No, 445 and the North half of Lot 447 on Madison Street, in Shaws nee Place Addition to the City of Topeka, Kansas, and that unless you answer the sald petition or otherwise plead herein, on or before the 5th day of March, 1915, the allegations in said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you tn accordance with the prayer in sald petition contained, TD, HUMEPTREY 9 (Atfeat) ; Attorney for Plainti@? Oa hhets Catk of Distr (Beal)itt Court. | q [hres Ree ee a | A spiendid devotionnt atmosphere! evhlled at btyJohn Benda, , pm, aP- Pecstive’s @idience —grected” padtor: Brown at I A, M. and listned to a most boteresting and timely discourse on “hhepticismIts Nefarious Effects.” The evening discoutge wan also of marks, td Interest and waa much in keeping with our evangelistical meetings thet have been in progress for several nigh,® Illa nubject was, “Keeping Mowe With God.”, Words aed for, text was, “Bet Unlae house in ordir for thou ehalt d'e and not live.” For an evening of inclement weather, the evening servke was one of much interest, A number of young people Inve pledgud themselves to better eves: ing attendanse, ‘Ibe Sunday School and Fndiavor were largely attended and Interesting indeed. ‘The revival meet: Inge will close this Frhlay eventagp Rev, Wells, the second “Billy Sunday,” has teen doing sume fine and effective preaching at St. Jolin, While the wea- ther has not becn in our favor, the meetlaga have been well attended and great good hus been accomptished. Several have profesned shving faith In Jesus Christ and quite a few have joined the church, Among those professing and uniting with the church was Mr, J. Pace, husband of Mrs. Mollie Pace, one of the old faithful members and ste- wardens of the church, There was great rejoicing when this age father came inte the ciurch, ‘The Lincoln Day exercises and ban- quet, Friday evening, Feb. 12, will be held at St. John, and the Stewardess Board, assisted by several othera, will serve Ube banquet, Miss Helen Frevier, lnving with hey auntie, Mra, Broadford, 414 Buchanan St, died Feb. 1, and the funeral was helt from the gealdence, Feb, ard, Rev, Brown offictating. She had been lk for some time, She made xtrong pro- fexsions of Chrivt since the mecting started and joined St. Joha church, Mra, Amanda Logan, 1707 Hilnore At, died at her home, Jan, 29 and the funeral wan hell from the house, Feb. Int, Rev. Brown officiating, assinted b, Rev, Hors, Our wih are quite numerous at this time, Int nut dangerousy il Mr, Abs Lott. who underweat an operation at Chrint Honpital fe getting along nicely. Min, Eliza Parker, 1121 Iaxunt 5t., tsuated by Mra, Lula Harris of Em- poria, royally entertained the Sewing Circle lant Wednesday, The dinner served by the Ntewarden, Board at the home of Mrv, D, C. Scott lact Thursday, was a sumptuous affalr and successful, The ladies of the State Executive Board, Household of Ruth, meeting in Towha were special guests, The home peaple also aicely gave thelr patronage, This coming Sunday wall be monthly communion, and the pastor has an- nounced an old fashioned general class for 11.4. M, You caanot afford to mis, this spiritual treat, Mr, Wm, Buckner, our efficient Sun- day School superintendent bax made a fine ret of tables for the primary de- partment, which are just fine and meet a long-felt need, Special meeting of St. Joha members ly called for Wednesday evening, Feb. 10, following meeting of trustee board, Every member shawd come and play part in special interest of St. John. All are welcome to worship with us ASHBURY M. E. CHURCH, (Rev. Walton Brown, Paster.) 837 N. Van Boren 8t. Servicea were well attended Sunday, Dr, staiphng preached two excellesit sermons, Mr, Curtia Micke fa the new Sunday Shool superintendent of Anbury, Mr Micha fs un excellent young man. He wan conserted under the present paster, ‘The Woman's 1, Me Sulety wan en tertainad Welnexday at Mrs. HM, ‘Tomp: xon'a, on N, Taylor Street, A plendul program was rendered aul lunch werved, The Linoli's Birthday Eulogintt Banquet promren to he a fine affalr, One of the swclat features will he the presenve of men and women whe mus Mr, Lintoln, AM ladies ercurted hy Keutlomen will he adiutted free, Kee member it f6 on the evening of the 120s at Asbury, Rey, Stripling left Sumdiy evening for Mirkogee en businers, Mix, Vainla Tobl has boon judesposd The Hades Aid Rocety) was enter tained Feitay afternoor by Strs. Rovte Rutherford, 310 Saywell St. Ax usttil Mra, Rutherford entertamed in repel style, ‘This Awatliary bag atreasdy talsed this onference yeap, one hundic} and forty declare and fe the greateet socal fun tion of Avlury and the com mun'ty, Rev, «A, Haynen Law bin serlomly trlppled, but he beamvck bopreved, Me acculentally burt bia kneg which caused him to be unable ta be out at all for quite a while.’ : Ce ae ae Fe Pa: . 7 ate ae 4 eee Way. Me : a " “MO Raa paint ga 2 WF gripped ‘in bloédy. combat htt hs: vf = ++ Alone in'the hot deadly {Wastes uf the'cigeert: ‘= oxi » SRE ACRE 'Cettoin death facing the one wh West hd ‘ Be *One" fought. for a “woman”! wHo' must! be «1 «i+ pase) ae Bought for gold. “The other for his own litle i ‘ld. Lt Thy 8 ORR, a ” a ° "One is Wilkerson—the other ti Gallon), « ¢ r f] 7 It forecasted fifteen years of mighty struggling ¥ t ma against fate—against misery—against himan ; j suffering. “6 : 4 And the Combat? Who Won BP ‘ | r You can see it all in the thrilling MASTER * gf i KEY eerial atthe | st fi PONY APEX THEATRE ; a a " ‘ i] a we > 7es, C~AHE MASTERKEYY 3/ STS RLREING nso E My ster S and Botance! , . z Beginning Wednesday, February 17th, and | running every Wednesday thereafter. ; BROWN CHAPEL NOTES, (Rev. B. RB. Ross, Pastor.) Through the mist and tain Sunday, weriice wax well attended, Sunday School begea on time. ‘The scliont wan addressed by Me, Keller of Arkansas City, Kansas aud Mr. Parks of Mutton, Nervices begun promptly at 1ta'clo ky welection by choirs weripture femon, St. John, 411-27, lead by Rev, ot, DeMenns seriion by pastor, aubject, “Lhe Samar tan Woman an an Evangetint’, ‘Test, Rt. Joha, 4127-28, He very: plainly showed earh and every one his or her duty aa a Christian to their fellawman. The Junior Endeavor wet at 3 Pa, with the president In the chair, The A. GB, L, was ted by Rev, Mra W, W. Russell, which was very interestoeg, Ashord talk by Mra, Tule was very In- tercating. Fifteen mlautes song wer. Mice“by goxpel teams prayer by pastors reripture lesion, Roman 10:1-18, read by Rev. Jennings; xermon by Rev. B, Chisolim, subject, “And if 1 be lifted up, F Will deay all men wnto me? He showed us the opportunity of lifting Christ in our every day life before the world, The series of meetings are still being condu tel, Cottage prayer meet: ings are being held each afternoon, Orie of the twin babies of Mrs. Me- Ree died fast Saturday afternoon al the ome of Mrs, M. C. Hope on Wash: ington Sty aged 15 days, Short fusera service waa conducted by Rev, 1, R, Roms} interment in Mt. Auburn come tery, officiated by Stonestreet & Son, Mise Julia Chiles left Wednesday for Kansas City, Me, There were 12 graduates from the 8th grade at Waslilngton school last wich. The exerchien were fize also thy decorations furnished hy Mrs, Lizsle Searcie were nice, Rev, H. W. King, P, E. and Mr, ‘Thomas Glover were callers at the par: wong’ thin Week, also Mr. W. We Buch: air, ‘Things to do at chunht Take your seat early; tisten to the sermon with a view of being helped; alt at the front, and the far ead of the pew, that late comers may be accomodated; at the clove, give @ Kindly welcome to your neighbor, TEACHERS PROTEST. To the Editor of the Plaindealers In your laxt Issue we were erroneous: ly reported ox having attended ard hav. ing made take at a club meeting, We hase not been present at uny meeting of much a nature and therefore gould not have talked, In justi to the Fluer De Lis dub we wish to nay that we were peste at A very pleaait and ciyesable meet: ing with than at the home of Mea Overton, We heard na euch conyeran thm as stated, and made no talks, Vhe tates were engaged in protl abte and commendable work, Peers thing was conducted as was defitthig a clot of Intelugent women, N, FLAS, AIRS. 1, IARDLATAN. OBITUARY, Mase Amends Ane Lagan wits here in Newath, Olde, Jan. 2 Init, She hed at hep home, 307 Filmare Sty. Tephay Sea 2, MLS hice borthnday aged 5% yuars, Mis, Lagan came to Kansas with her fant ly fu the early 70's ond sett dat Milane am Dakerset, County, whae they dived untie tay, 10, 110, when tay tnoved to Tepchay She was aired to Mer, BF, Lagan it Taso, vemamiyg tie fatcful wife antl death, ‘te thie an‘on sever ehitdren were ham fre of whom aursive her, four sons und one daughter, fhe professed a hopecin Crist ate ue the year IS42 und remained w falthful Cbristap willl death, he wae a mem. ber ¢f the A, MoH, rlurch, being the Coming to The Apex! Mon. and Tues., Feb. 8-9 . eee 2 ~ | it " From Georgia in The Fall Bl GEORGE Of the Mighty... -. A rip roaring comedy produced entirely by colored people and featuring Big: George Bell, 7 ft..'9 In, tall, largest colored man on earth. ’ mother of the Abilene church for « mumber of yenra, She had been nich for nome thine, but bore her Sllncax with much patience, being alvaya cheerful and happy, She alnos frecly expreaned herself to the family, Rev, Brown and friends, as be: ing seady avd willy to go when st sermed to pleaxe the Master, One of her mort favorite songs wan, “Whar A Filend We Have In Jens.” She leaven to mourn, a husband, four sona, one daughter, three grand bildren, two sis- tera, two bruthers, other relatives and frends, The two brothers atl ninters are auppowd to be living in Cleveland, Ohio, Peace to her ashen, ‘ ——— NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. The Inte Mrs, Ellen Bransford, of Little Rock, Arkansas, better known as “Aunt Ellen” sleft $0,000 to the No- gro Latheran church of that rity, the had been working as a domestic since the Civil War and lavested winely in real entate, eee | Soloman Harper, a cvlored man, has invented an automatic signal and rafe- ty devine for trains, Representative colored men of New York City have ore ganized a company called the Natloaal Grand Control Signal Company which will take charge and promote the water, John E, Nail In the president, eee Mr, E.G, Charlesten, @ colored un- det'aker of Charleston, South Carolia, has erected a #10,000 offwe Luildiag in that city, eee The Railway Ezuployees Protestive Association wan orgunized in Nashville, Tennessee, reveatly, ‘Thin te an organi- tation of colored men from all sections of the country, eee | The Puitadelphia (Va.) Courant han a published “black Jing of advertine. ‘mente which they refuse, ‘The list In- ‘dudes liquor, cure all meditines, clale- voyante, fake land rales and all adver- ‘thements which hold the race up to ridicule, eee | The National Negro Business League han insned a call for the observance of & Natlonal Negro Health Week, March’ 2t te 27th, : wee = ‘The Provident Assoclation of Sain Louin haw been organized to relieve the poor and dentitute of thet city, ‘Tie toloted people have already contribyped, more then a0, vw y corte | eed. tnd 1 At the First Maptist chorehs aye iNew, Vinginia, a apectal peas Men’s Service wan hell last Sunday, “Negra burinenst how to build ft > land how to tear it down” was the aub-/ ject nelected by Rev. GD, Hendervoa, the pastor, ee ' eee ‘The Standent American Mutual e tusurance Company, ‘of. Houston, Texaa,t made a very rredtablé showing for- ite; fit xix monthe of ‘operation, Dr. M, W. Dogan Is president, eee ‘The Farmer's Co-opesation Mercan- tle Confpany, of Mound Bayou, Mlasis~: appl, has Jurt Cloned the mort success.’ ful year Ja its history, The? books Mioweil a total business {or the year of $2210.51, see ‘The Torchhght, of Danville, Keny tucky, hen installed 9 “service depart- ment" at its office whkh supplies all kindy of local information, euch ae names of persons having rooms to reat or who wheh to take boarders, it alse proposes to be a “guile for sboppers. This service ip designed to help ,both thelr advertixers and ‘readers, ‘Wee Colored busine) en of Des Moines, Towa, have organized! the lowa Realtp Investment Company with 8, Joe Brows as the secretary., Mr, Brown is alea secretary of the Local Negro Bustaess Leogue, A) # f ove Henry E, Burris, for twenty-five years a carrier in the poatoftice at Rook Ie land, Tiincis,’ was ‘recently: tendered: a banquet by other carriers in his ity: Kpeeches «f apprerlation were delivered by the Postmaster; and Assistant Post= master, ' ‘I : a Ty We would like ot finpress upon the minds of our debtors that we are dite need of ready cash and any aesistance | will be highly appreciated, % , », ‘ " ; + 5 Soe OF = . 2 # Bsa ¢ cy 2 eee Ue EEN Gos | hs FO EOMARSANGAD CITY, RANSAS, se OY < ih Sontag “Polar: tt as wt Bear” Flour , y THR BRST FLOUR fer : & A - famliy vee Insist on your we A We y--—= a Dealer riving you the beet er tiat ls “POLAR BEAR: er excellent brands are eS % “NOXALL and X. T. CG” MANUFAOTUREr BY . The New Era Milling Company eee OV oi bane eel dk ceed Platadealer' for twa. or: three year: Will you be 90 kind a6 to phone 1746 bt call at 404 Kast Fourth’strect and pay | ike coltector, if not all pay a little, I shows that you want to pay am hones! and just dett. You onght to hare ksowledge enough to know that a bus: ness conaot exist forever on credit, that it takes money to pay help to get out @ newspaper, and at the same time those who are retponsible for ite week- ly vivite to your home have to live the same ae anyone else, so why be so uns couth with the collector and not eve try to pay an honest newspaper debt, You pay for other things, why not pay for your paper? You that are eo dis- honest change and be tke the people that we have thet will pay a small amount now and thea on thelt paper until it ls paid up-tédate, We are pleased to note that we have some very good and bonest people in this city and again we hare some mean, dishonest people that are pessing for Christians, We don't doubt about their religion, but if they would pay or try to pay thelr just debts we could judge them better as being just right, ‘The 1. 5.1, Art club met Wednesday afternom January 27th with Birs, D, Q, Morris, The club waa called to order by the preaideat, Mra, J. Gilbert, Roll called and members respondced with quotations, The afternoon was Nery delightfully apent in needle work, After business a very dainty luncheon was served by the hostess, The club adjourned to meet Wedaesday Feb, 3 with Mra, LS, Shepard, Mrs, Willle Moss Crouch died Jan, 27 after an ilinew uf sometime, Funeral was held at Saint James M, EB. church Jan, 20th, conducted by the pastar, Rev. J. 2. Rice, She leaves a husbana and other relatives to mourn their loss which ia God's gain, _ Remeber the rally Easter Sunday at Bethel A, M. FE. church, | The Peoples’ Forum met Suaday at Sardis Firat Beptlst church, The Meup de Lia Art ant Literary elnb met at the home of Mrs. William Donley Tueaday afternoon. Much in- terest is being shown by each member, as their instructor, Mra, A, D. Grant is desirioun that the ladies make an ex cellent showiyg at the Federation this year aad euch lady in doing extra good work, New memberg are ae follows: Mrs, dames Smith, Mra, Haoley Moore, Mra, N,N, Gilbert and Mra, Crochet Morris, Club adjourned at a late hour to mect at the home of Mes, James minith, 411 Union, February 2d Mew Eva Wilson and daughter, Emma were called here from Kaneas City last He bby the itlness of Mra. Wilson's father, El Cumpbell, At this writing he is much improved. ‘The 12th of February is Lincoln Day at Bethel .\. M, E. church. All are invited to help celebrate the Dirthday of Che Great Emaactpator, Admiseiun ten cont, Program as follows: Song—"My Country ‘Tin of Thee,” Congregation. Invovation~Rev, 1, MW, Me Meter, belection—Or het ra, AdireoTtev, Graves. Sole “Mra, Audy Grant, Pape —Mr, Tra Hunnigan Instiumental Musie=Mrse Wy 1 have, ! Reading—Misa Myitle Ree her, Selection—Dunhar Quartett, Paper—Miss Jennie MeChan, Sele tion —Orchont pa, Addiens= Bey. dD, Riev, Duett Mes, 18, Harding Guy and Mina Brow dee Baird. Selertion—On bextra, Duett -Miss Elsa Maley and) Mre Claret? Vferee wa PAY AT YOUR POSTOFFICE $1.00 FOR THIS / BEAUTIFUL 20 INCH SWITCH ao ia a a PI PSPS eR ae SN PR ey a “ We will send by Parcel Post C, O. D., your Te . choice of a black, brown or dark brown switch made of Di either Creole, Wavy, Crimpy or Straight natural hair, 3 " mems, 20 inches long. You poy for switch at your Postoffice, if salixfactory. Send No Money with your letter, just send your FULL NAME, ADDRESS and lock of hair for matching. Odd shades alkitle more. This switch sells for $2.00 everywhere and if you do not think you are getting a bargain, return same and get your money. Send for ILLUSTRATED CATALOG of Braids. Switches, Pomps, Buffs, Wigs and high grade HAIR GROWERS, POMADES, ETC. JOHNSON’S BRANCH, 973 Tremont St., Roxbury Crossing, Mass, | Heme Phone 5394 Mala. Bell Phone 657 Mala. Friedman Bros. Wholesale and Retail Groceries. _ Kensas City, Missouri. Buy Your Lodge Supplies From \.Big Negro Firm.. ~The Love Regala Co, | sGEO. W. K. LOVE, President. 2418 Flora Avenue. Kansas City, Missourl A N a a SY —aee a ee sad hs Ot yy rae 7 on) - y SS NS Raley 1a) \ >a SMe A ee aw. RO La peed e From Meadows of Gold Butier ‘Purest of cream, €arefully selected, thors oughly pasteurized, skilfully churned makes this the best of al! butter, always pure, sweet and good. Packed fresh from the churns in patented odor proof packages to preserve ull its good » ness for you. Ask Your Grocer for eae . peeneNe aes we nn t = N os = e , dta flavor wins favor. ‘Continental Creamery Co., Topeka, Kes. { eeeeeeessi—‘“‘“‘“‘i‘é;;C;C;!Cf , VANITA, OKLAHOMA. Kes, Tanner, of Cherokee, was in the thy Monday, XN. Moore of Ketchum was in’ the tity Monday en route to Bag Cabin from Chanute, Kansas, © Raldrich, of Chanute, Kansas, was tn the chy Monday, Richard UW, Marrison, of Chicago, 1, wall give a tectal here February 1th The poeple of this vicinity should tur uut to hear this noted reciter, A. 1 dathwon came In off hity rin saturday, Rev, J. 8, Borders, of Hartshorn fs Visiting he son, Rev, Ih 2, Bordess Mrs. Wy, OW, Willainson’a wate that way lont several weeks agi war Tocated hy James Davis, The finder Houted hiowimy of it bat Mr, Davia was able fo convince him that he heew he liad it, On ta Tulsa, Fob, 1513 ta the Ae. aniation of Neyio Teachers, . Mra, Digga pasned through the eity Friday from Cheleea, en route to Par. aona, Kaneas, her home, Meaera Childers were in the city Mon. day attending court, Howard Smith, of Claremore, was in the city Raturday, J, Davia came down from Welch, J, Rowe, of Nowata, was in the eity Monday, Prof, Swain, of Pensacole, was a vis Ktor Raturday, We. Five yaar rber’ Shop Hand ong Blertrlc Maseage Shop in the Btate—Sanitary ., dn Every Detafl . 6 ee ee HAIR CUTTING A. 8PRCTALTY. Hot and Cold Bathe—Alwayh «. First Class Service—Finest of Tobacco and Cigars... Clothes Cleaned Whil You Wall. + Nasi ORNSTON, Prep. 610 N. Mein Bt. ‘WICHITA, KAS. When in Wichite Visit Landrum end Hickerson’s Cafe 603 N, MAIN ST, WICHITA, Ks. |G, Wolf, of Nowata, was in the city Raturday, Dire, Murray and Mise Murray, of Big Cabin were In the eity Saturday, CLAREMOROE, OKLAHOMA, The following persona are regie- tered at Cobb's bath horse hotel Mr. C, W, Porter, Council Bluff, Ark, Mine Ira Lewinas, Stroud, Ohla, Mrs, Lulu Coaley, Boley, Oblahoma. Mr, James Talton, Kanaaa City, Mo, Mr, James Barber, Kansas City, Mo, Mr, George Miller, Fort Werth, Tez. Mr, J, 8, Rmith, Okmulgee, Okla. Mr, W. M. Carter, Coffeyville, Kas, Aina Sivil V, Watker, Datlas, Texas. ‘Mr. Charle Harper, St. Louis, Mo, LA IUNTA, COLORADO. (he union revival services Closed here Friday January 2lst with almeteen ron: Versiois and the churches are greatly revived, The Mount Zon Baptiat church will baptize nest Sunday. They have quite a number to baptize as the result of the union meeting. A reecption was given at the A, M, F, church Thursday evening, January 20 by the meinbers of the A. M. E, and Baptiet churches in honor of their new members, The church was beautifully decorated with flowers, rugs, ete, which was beautiful and gave It a home lke appearance, An extensive program wae rendered, Rev, Reuven received much priase a4 pastor-e\angelist front a toast responded 10 by Rev. Reader of Mount Zion Baptist church, There were many other numbers on the progeam which were listened to very attentatively by the large audience, After the program, all were served ty delicious ice cream and cake, ‘The one somment by all present was thot it was the Kraadest affair ever held fh La dunta. Suntay wax quarterly meetng day, Presiding Elder F. 1, Donahue was with tix and preached {wo mose eacellent wermons whith were greatly enjoyed by all prexent. ‘the crowds were goud, expecially so in the afteraoon., WEIR CITY, KANSAS Mr, Milton Reel, a former resident of thee cits, but now of Kawas City Mo. was a retent visitors ii the city co Ditsiness ter the minens THe wat cue of the fist colored men, in fiet hte only ane, that ever bad the offic of Distt Heart Member of Dutric Ne, Me dn recent: yarns he hua Tol Verte of has lege, The A, MoE. church gave a grand toveption re ently ia honor of thei presding eter, Rev, 1. 2. smth. A presume was tendered by members of both churches, after which all) present budulyed in refreshments and all bad a jolly good tine, Mr, Tiley Mall's daughter, who at. tied from Mahama about tue morths ago, has retmmed te her heme in the Southiband, Mr, George duchaou, who was on the sich Uist, Is up agen BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS. Mra. Luella Lavender wae called te Kanws City on account of the serious inexs of her brother, Mr, John Doug, leas, She Nas accompanied by her daughter, Mra, Mande Weekly, Ty, Fy As Brumtet of Neosho, 3fo, preashed a few nights at the Mt, Olive Raptiat church en route home fron Cheriysale, Kansas, Hie eermons were highly appreciated amt enjoyed by all who leant him, Mra, Faster McDonald departed thts fife Filday, dan, 22nd at the home of Bes, 1, B. McDonald, after a lingering itis cf several wetha, Hefore de partiig thin life she called earh indi: vidual of the family to her bedside and told them what she desired ead one to do, ‘she also aang er favorite hymn, “Ain 2 soldier of the Cross.” she loft a biight testimony ¢hat will live for years to come, Her remains were taken to Pittsburg, Kansas, where the funeral was held bunday, Jan, 26 at the Mt, Hebron Baptist church of whkh she was a faithful member, Rev, J, KE. Filue officiated. Rev. J, W, Tavender preached $2 Neveho, Mo., Sunday to a large and ap: preclative audience, | Rev, J, A. Bramlett of Neosho, Mo, EN Qe Neng eee iret FOR, Boteay Mr, ant Mra, 9, W, Lavender aad Mr, aed Mrs, , War. Moore, * ‘ Mri, Edna Ovnncr,abter 2a Iileees of eight weeks te slowly improving. Her many friends whe vinited her dally hope her a speedy recovery, PARSONS, KANSAS, The Mid Winter carnival ct the A. ‘M. EL church last week was sajoyed by all who attended and the booths —conslating of Jail, Postoffice Chill Parlor, Ice Cream parlor, Pie Stand, Fortune Teller, ete—woere all geod aad the concerts every night were well at- tended, “The Old Maids’ Ctub” Tuee- day night; “Seven Gistere From Alss- ka” on Wedaerday night; musical re- citat on Thurday aight; the Buaday ‘wchool program om Friday aight, and the “Mistletoe Bough” closed the merry making of the affair when Miss Irene McMurray was crowned as the most popular young lady, : Myr. Tollie Bowen, who hae brea alok at his home for some time,- died last JH. Tschudy Hardwood Lumber Co. 2300 BROADWAY, KANSAS CITY MISSOURL Large Stock. Highest Grades. Prompt Service. Everything in the Hardwood Lumber Line, Two Long Distance Pheaca in Our Office: Bell 827 Grand— — Home 827 Mala, Ueating Ba, visa AGI IS SULICND Ss a | ; FUN pecne ay o Ke oO BTRAG 2 Roe anni A KS I Usgfoo WADA — aT Bs - Te was cicirese Of letters be Mask Shampoo Drier Coo oY; rapolis, Munn. not to idivet wld, . 4 BRAUTIPUL RvAD OF BAIR IS A LADY'S CROWNING CLORY.~and every lity com Deve itifehe wiituse the Magke, The Magte will Cry toa hair after « shampoo or bath, and atraigtien thecurilest head of halr, It w'ilsisc otimelate tte growth. The Alumiatum Comb eon: net iajure the hair, besnses It fe never hented direct, but takes Its heat frm the beating bar whict, {s heated on our Alchobel Heater, of any other beater, We odviee th) uso of Hayes’ Late Pomedes Best on the market. Price per box, Ie. 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(8 your hair, I give treatments all over the United States by mail, Write me at once, I send booklet concerning the care of the balr, and testimoniuis of those taking my treatments when a@ 4-cent stamp {8 enclosed, I do mot have axente.. T need a personal history of your hair and scalp and your physical condition, All mail promptly answered when a 4cent stamp Js enclosed, J am the galy ‘woman of the race growing heir today who can show the public the real length my hair was when I first began treating it. Send fer book Jet a mean business, You can secure these preparations only from me. None like them made in the world, The T. D. P, Bcientific Soap Preparation, Madam Perkins, sole agent. This is for you. but soft, long, beau not be put on the Do you want this write for particulars kins, the Scientific Denver, Colo., who world with ber wou hair, My own hair is ment, With these grew 17 Inches in matned one length yeavs, What I did doing for hundreds do for Hs with my Scalp Preparations, bold Meo te gl i Aa, "When ‘ta Pateese and, declze ib tse clas’ meal‘ stop with’ Bird. Mul ebé': Mro, Mosley on Belmont evenea, just”: east of the Frisco depot yay Mise Vesti Prather of Kamtye City, Kansas, be the geest of Mr. ead Moa, P, R, Hoges. 7 Phone all news to Bell 1048, ¥) eS * Whea tn Omaha * THE: PATTON : HOTEL N.P. PATTON, Prop, |? {8 Blocks Be, of Union Statics.) —CAFE IN CONNBUTION.— Meals ot All Mours. | Phone Dongias 4445, 1016-16-18 South 17th Bt. OMAHA, 1: +: WHBRASKA, UH. T. GEEDER,M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PITTSRORG, —i— KANEAS Peeoe oat! 108; Res. ie ~Divensee of Women g Specalty— NO more ironed bails, tiful balr that need dresser on retiring. kind of hair? It so, to Madam T. D. Per- Scalp Speciatist of is astonishing the derful art of growiag my best advertise- treatments my hair two years. I¢ had re- {four inches) for 16 for my hair I am of others, and will Matchless Scientific My treatment stops XXTH CENTURY HAIR PREPARATIONS And Have Good Hair Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower promotes a beautiful growth of hair, stops falling out and breaking of hair, removes dan-irruff and relieves itching of scalp. It will make YOUR hair grow. For woman, man or child, PRICE 50c. PER JAR Mme. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower TESTIMONIAL This is to certify that the writer suffered for four years with danduff and itching of the scalp until practically bald, trying many remedies but of no avail. About six months ago I began to use Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Grower, the results up to date are pleasing. Dandruff removed, itching stopped, good growth of hair started. The remedy is O. K. Yours for succes, Rev. L. W. Harris, Mod. Mt. Zlon Baptist Association, Carrollton, Mo." Mme. Blair's 1911 Manufactured by Mrs. I. 2024 Morgan Ave., Pa Removes Dandruff; Starts the Hair Grow Hair on Bald Heads if Used CURES ANY SCALP LADIES! If you wish a luxurious use this remedy. Price 50 c per lb. Preasing Oil, $1. Removes Dandruff; Starts the Hair to Grow in Four Days. Will Grow Hair on Bald Heads if Used According to Directions. CURES ANY SCALP DISEASE. LADIES! If you wish a luxurious growth of hair in six months use this remedy. Price 50 c per box. Preening Oil, $1.25 per box. SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI Rev. T. A. Harvey assisted by Rev. Rice, an evangelist of great ability, and members of the A. M. E. church, are holding a revival service out of which much good is being accomplished. Mr. George W. Allen, of the A. M. E. church, says the Lord called him fourteen years ago to preach the gospel. After disobeying the Divine calling for such a length of time, he says he is now whipped up to the post, and will take up the great and glorious work for the Master. He delivered a soul stirring sermon Sunday morning at his church, and will be ordained Tuesday evening. Prof. and Mrs. C. H. Wilburn are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine son, who is proclaiming himself boss of the family. Mr. Emmett Andrews, of Chicago, who is holding his own as a splendid picture of health, was an enjoyable visitor with his folks and friends in the city recently. Mrs. Miles, of El Reno, Oklahoma, mother of Mrs. William Fullbright, became the happy bride of Mr. K. S. Johnson, of El Reno. This event was solemnized at Mount Moriah Baptist church by Rev. Haley. Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Hardrick at their recently and lovely erected home, 238 Dollison street, entertained with an elegant five course dinner Sunday. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. James S. Hardrick, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Thomason, Mr. and Mrs. Steward Fullbright, Mrs. Nellie Edmondson, Miss Osborn, Miss Helen Wallace, Miss Thelm and Gray, Dr. O. U. Brown, Mr. Curtles and Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Hardrick. Very recently Mr. S. V. Tindall made a very pleasant visit with Mr. James Cowden, 617, 12th street, Kansas City. They brought in as trophies, five coons which they caught in a delightful hunt. A most worthy representative number of young men have organized into a club known as "The Royal Owls." They hold meetings every second and fourth Tuesday night in each month. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Messrs Chas. L. Williams; vice president, W. P. Campbell; secretary, Noria Wilburn; treasurer, Lawrence Hogan; by-law committee, L. Mma. P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Pressing Oil Madam P. M. 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H Bustill, chairman; E. F. Cobb, Nelson Howard; social committee, James Andrews, chairman; E. F. Cobb, L. H. Bustill; decorating committee, T. F. Cobb, chairman; Eldon Marley, E. Massey, Cecil Logan. This club will give an opening banquet in the near future. May long live the Royal Owls, as they have many warm friends and staunch supporters in the community. Mrs. S. V. Tindell has returned from a two months' visit with her mother. Mrs. Jane Grier and sisters. She had a most delightful time. The event of the week of note and importance was the large gathering at the Masonic Temple on Brownville St., Jan. 18, of ladies in their daintiest and most becoming gowns to pay homage to and love to Mrs. Maggie Scales, one of the best and most representative women of the city, on the eve of her departure to Kansas City her future home. About eighty-five women enjoyed this social function which was held from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. A splendid program consisting of an opening address by Mrs. Rev. J. N. Dorsey, vocal solo by Mrs. Rev. J. M. Harris, presentation of a gift on the part of Macedonia Order by Mrs. C. M. Young, vocal solo by Mrs. Rev. W. M. Young, who responded to an encore, solo, Mrs. Bertha Fullbright. Delightful music was interspersed throughout the afternoon by Prof F. Stairland and Mrs. Bertha Fullbright at the piano. Mrs. Lucy Williams and Mrs. Nellie Hall deserves unlimited praise and softly compliments and congratulations as promoters of such a lovely affair which everyone greatly enjoyed. They were assisted by Mardames I. V. McAdams, Ellen Ealinger, Anna Hightower, Lottie Fullbright, Anna Perry and Bell Holmes. The charming waiters whose services were indispensable were Mardames Harry Thornton, El Lane, Harry Neeley, and Steward Fullbright. A daintily preparal four course menu was enjoyed. Mrs. Scales responded to all in a sweet yet touching and impressive manner. 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Send us an order today order for $1.25 and receive them or write for literature and infor- Dabney's XXth Century EPARATIONS CO. Dept. J. Kansas City, Mo. of friends in Springfield. Miss Edyth Payne, of Topeka, Kansas was a most delightful visitor at the reception. CHEROKEE, KANSAS, Womens' Home and Foreign Mission Society Renders a Fine Program Paper on "Charity Was a Gem. The following interesting and highly instructive program was rendered before an appreciative audience: Address—President L. Preston. Duett—Lizzie Jeffres, Della Mann. Paper—"Missions," Mrs. A VanHook. Fireside Talk—Miss Sarah Rogers. Song—Choir. Recitation—Irene Brown. Duett—Valeria and Vandetta Goodall. Paper—Mrs. Morton. Solo—Gurnella Roberson. Interesting Remarks on Missions—Rev. Goodall and also by the Pastor. Rev. R. E. Tanner. The paper on "Charity" by Mrs Morton was easily the feature of the program which we take pleasure in reproducing; "Charity." What is Charity? Why Charity is one of those amiable qualities of the human breast, that imparts pleasure to its possessor, and those who receive it. FREE FREE Beautiful fashion book for coarse ladies, showing all latex, styles in hair. We are the largest impo tion and manufacturers of this style which is sold by us at prices lower than any dealer, and also guarantee to be of the best quality and am washing and combing. Hair sold to the pound, also hair nets and toilet articles. Lowest prices. If not sai lsfied, money returned. AGENTS WANT ID. Send 2 cent stamp for book. Humania Hair Co.. DEPT. F. 23 Duane Street. New York. Charity the dew from heaven, fallig gently on the drooping flowers in the stillness of night. It's refreshing and reviving and the effects of Charity is seen and admired when it flows from a good heart and looks beyond the skies for approval and reward. Charity never harrows up, but strives to calm the troubled mind. Now the true benevolent man and woman go about doing good for the sake of goodness. They don't want no parade, no trumpet to sound their charities, no press to print their acts, angels smile on such benevolence. Charity is the attribute of Deity, the moving cause of every blessing we enjoy. Charity is the golden chain that reaches from heaven to earth. It is another name for disinterested, lofty, unadulterated love. It is the substratum of philanthropy, the brightest star in the Christian's diadem. It is the foundation and capstone of the climax of all Christian graces. Without Charity our religion is like a body without a soul. Were this heaveaborn, soul cheering principle the mainspring of every Christian, the polar star to guide them through this world of sin and woe, illus that flesh is heir to, would be softened in its molting sun beams, and satan would become a backrupt for want of business. Falschool, slander, and persecution would be unknown. Pure and undefiled religion would then be honored and glorified. Oh, could an angel bear a balm of such Charity in our hearts, earth would become a heaven and hell a fable. When one has fallen into disgrace, its head, is abashed, and out of countenance, partaking of his share. If anyone is disappointed of hope, or endeavors, Charity cries out alas, as if it were itself, defeated. If afflicted with pain, or sickness, Charity looks sadly, it sigheth, and groans; it salutes and languishes with him. If in a pitch, or hard want, Charity, if it cannot survive, it will console and now abideth faith, hope, Charity. These three, but the greatest of these is Charity, first Cor. 13th chapter 13th verse follow after Charity and desire spiritual gifts, first Cor. 14 chapter, 1st verse. Though I speak with two tongues of men and angels, and have not Charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.—First Cor. 13th chapter, first verse. Fair Charity be told my guts. And be thy constant through my breast, Soft peace it brings wherever it arrives. It builds our quiet latent hopes revives. Lays the tough paths of nature, smooth And even opens in each breast a little heaven. GARDEN CITY. KANSAS. Mr. Ralph Crooms spent a few days in the city last week. He was on route to Hutchinson. Misses Nola Brown and Vernon Carter will go to Jetmore Saturday to spend a few days. Mrs. Clarace Jones, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chan, Stewart, returned home Friday. Mr. Charles Adams was host to a surprise party Wednesday evening given in honor of Miss Jenna Riley. The evening was spent in playing whist. The guests included: Misses Guilletta Brown, Deborah Stewart, Margaret Winchester, Retta Stewart, Nola Brown, Martha Adams, Margurite Gravitt, Mrs. Clarence Jones; Messrs Rollie Stewart, Silas Lee, Arthur Roberts, Leonard Miles, Harry Elliott, Ralph Croome and Chas. Adams. Rev. Jones and family are out after being in with small pox. Mr. F. Lucas is numbered among the skil Mr. and Mrs. John Hart announce the birth of a daughter, born January 19. Rev. Brooks held quarterly meeting Sunday Jan. 21. A large crowd was in attendance at the services. Mr. Joe Smith spent a few days in Kansas City last week. Mrs. Mary Price is a guest at the home of liev. R. H. Adams. Miss Retta Stewart Sundayed with Miss Riley KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. Editor Plaindale: Please give space in your paper for us to say some thing about our pastor and church work. The Lord is blessing us with such success that we desire the public to share in its knowledge. We, the Eighth Street Baptist Taber made, have not ceased to pray and work. We have installed our furnaces at a cost of four hundred dollars and the auditorium is limited with case. All of these with the choir in under A. F. Radford, M.D. doing a great work. The church is On January 30th though cold and slick with ice and raining, the members and friends found their way to the pastor's and wife's homes, had the Kansas band with sweet music that will give life and vigor to the mind and soul of anyone. At a late hour, the band played and then sang some soul stirring songs. A beautiful program was rendered in the parlor. They ladened the dining table with many good and useful things to eat. The pastor expressed himself as being grateful for the surprise and the sunshine that the visitors brought with them. Sisters William Garreon, Maude Payton, M. Whitmore and Opal Hayden made things pleasant upon this occasion. Ice cream and cake were served to the audience. May the Lord bless these people and pastor. A CHURCH FRIEND. CLAREMORT. OKLAHOMA. Prof. E. W. Woods, of Tulsa, was in the city on last Sunday, calling on friends. Mrs. John Lewis is on the sick list. Mrs. Neelie Wars sustained a painful injury last week, when she slipped and sprained her ankle. Rev. J. D. McLendon passed through the city enroute to Oklahoma City on last Saturday. Mrs. Lena Ingram, of Haskell, is here to spend the remainder of the winter. She is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Elston. Mr. and Mrs. Joahua Rowe and two children are here from Chanute, Kansas, visiting relatives. Rev. Amerson very ably filled the pulpit at the A. M., E. church on last Sunday night. Rev. B. J. Nelson, who has been somewhat indisposed for the past week is able to be out again. Rev. Richards preached the Missionary sermon at Mount Zion Baptist church Sunday. The paper, "Why Children Should Attend the League," by little Beatrice Pratt, deserves special mention. Beatrice is one of the youngest members of the League, and while her paper was couched in simple, childish language, it was splendid and contained much food for thought, even for the grown ups. The Baptist Home Mission sisters were entertained at the home of Mrs. Annie Henry last week. MAPLE HILL. KANSAS. A girl at Sunday School, Sunday morning said that she had heard that when it thundered in January that winter had broken, but it does not look like it had this morning. Mrs. Sam Smith who has been sick for six weeks is better. Ernest Scott of Paxico Sunday in apple Hill. Mrs. Thomas Bolton and Velmer attended the play in Wataunsee, Saturday evening. Marion Wallace was called to Kansas City, Saturday evening on the account of his mother's illness. His son Richard accompanied him. Remember the play to be given at the Christian church, Feb. 13th. Admission 5 and 10 cents. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DR. J. M. JAMISON—327 Madison St. Special disease. Phone 959. OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to 12 m. 2 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. 7 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. Sunday by Appointment. DR. M. L. R O S d Physician and Surgeon Calls Answered at Night. Office and Residence 720 Kansas Ava., Rooms 5 and 6. PHONE 2967. Office hours: 9:30 to 14:30; 3 to 6 Bell phone 901. DR. THADDEUS P. MARTIN Physician and Surgeon. 832 Kansas Ave. Residence: 1/26 Buchanan St. Residence phones: Bell 901-K. Ind. 2489 Res. Both phones 774. Res., Bell 647 OLIVER A. TAYLOR, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office 334 Kansas Ave., over Gibler Drug Store, across from Throon Hotel. Calls Answered Day and Night Residence: 1535 Van Buran S. First Class Accommodations. Net and Cold Baths. DR. W. ROGER RUSSELL. DENTIST All Work Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction. 83 Kansas Avenue. Phone 8494 MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN BETWEEN TOPKA — AND — FORT SCOTT, PITTSBURG, WHEN CITY AND JOPLIN Leaves Topeka at 7:45 a.m. F. E. NIPPS, Ticket Agent. Phone 871. THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE Farms.... For Negroes Colored men, why not buy a farm in a land where a man is a man where ONE crop will pay for your farm. I can sell you a farm in Legu- county, Kanada. PRICES FROM $30 TO $30 per acre; easy terms, good sell, best climate. If you mean bus- ness, write S. E. CAREY, Attorney at Law, Ransell Springs, Kanada. Bell Phone West—Home Phone West 484 484 Quantity, Quality and Price Always Right. C. H. BARNEY, Coal, Wood, Feed. —Sewer Pipe, Water, Plaster, Lime, Cement, Sand and Brick. 2076 North 13th Street, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. WHEN IN COLORADO SPRINGS —and want a— FIRST CLASS PLACE TO STOP CALL ON MRS. G. E. BRAXTON, 915 E. Huerfane St. COLORADO SPRINGS, —— COLOR. The Bulkley Dry Goods Company. EXTENDS to the Colored People a Most Hearty Welcome to Come in and Visit this. You'll Receive Courteous Treatment and Find Here Large Assortments of DRY GOODS. MILLINERY. READY-TO-WEAR GARMENTS. SHOES AND ACCESSORIES. Send Your Mail Orders to The Bulkley Dry Goods Company. WE PAY POSTAGE. HERE'S A USEFUL RAG DOLL Tests Corn Just be Well as Any Expensive Centrivance. With an expenditure of half a dollar or even less and an hour's time a seed corn tester may be made at home that will answer every purpose. This simple device for selecting good good ears is known as the "rag doll tester." probably because it resembles nothing more than a rag doll when it is rolled up and put to soak in a pail of water. Its efficiency was proved in several years' test of it at the Iowa agricultural experiment station, which says that it will select good ears as satisfactorily as the best expensive manufactured testers. Buy a few yards of sheeting of good quality and tear it into strips eight inches wide and from three to five inches long. If it is planned to use the strips, a number of times bem the edges, as otherwise the ravelings sometimes disarrange the kernels in unrolling. Down the middle of each cloth strip lengthwise draw a line with a heavy pencil. Then draw squares about three inches wide and number the squares. Wet one of the strips thoroughly and stretch it out in front of the ears to be tested. Take six kernels from ear No. 1 and place in square No. 1; take six kernels from ear No. 2 and place in square No. 2, and so on. When the cloth has been filled begin at either end and roll the cloth up. If the cloth is well moistened the kernels will not push out of place. When the cloth has been rolled tie a string around each end, rather loosely or, better still, use a rubber band. Number this roll No 1. Then proceed with No. 2 in the same way. As many rolls may be used as are necessary to contain the corn which one has to test. From thirty to fifty ears can be tested in each roll, depending upon the length of the strip of cloth. After the rolls have been filled they should be placed in a bucket or tub of water, where they may remain from two to eighteen hours, depending upon the preference of the operator. At the end of this time pour off the water and turn the bucket or tub upside down over the rolls or use a common dry goods box for this purpose. A couple of small pieces of wood should be laid under the rolls and one edge of the roll should be lifted from one-half to one inch in order to give ventilation. At the end of five days the kernels should be ready to read. Depending upon the arrangement of ears, select first either roll No. 1 or the last roll filled. This cloth will be wroiled in front of the ears represented. Examine all kernels carefully. In all cases in which all six kernels are not strong in germination the ear should be thrown away.—Farm Press Truck For Spool Fence Wire. In the accompanying illustration, taken with the description from Popular Mechanics, is shown a handy rig for carrying a spool of barbed wire FENCE WIRE TRUCK, SIMILAR TO A BAG- SAGE TRUCK, WITH A BOD BETWEEN THE HANDLERS FOR THE SPOOL. BENCE WIRE TRUCK, SIMILAR TO A BAG SAGE TRUCK, WITH A BOD BETWEEN THE HANDLES FOR THE SPOOL. when putting up a fence. The manner of construction is obvious. The spool of wire can be easily handled by one man with this device. Economical Hog Traugh. When rough lumber is $18 a thousand, about the price at present, a six foot hog trough made of two inch plank costs about 50 cents for lumber. Labor and nails add 25 cents to the cost. Hogs destroy from one to three high troughs in a year. Feed gets washed, too, for a new trough is selenium made till the old one is poorer they ought to be. Three troughs at the above estimate cost $2.25. An iron trough six feet long costs $2.25 and will last a lifetime.—American Agriculturist. Heavy Fertilization In Best In wheat fertilization experiments at the Indiana experiment station on clay and foam soils the complete fertiliser gave the largest average increase and the greatest average profit per acre. The use of 200 pounds of fertiliser per acre on wheat proved more profitable than the use of 100 pounds per acre. Trees Are Worth Savings. 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First, all the tag locks must be removed, whether they be dung or grease and dirt, writes W. C. Coffey of the Illinois station, describing the proper way to tie up a fleece; second, the fleece should be carefully rolled up by hand (not in wool box), with no ends or stray locks protruding and with the flesh side out; third, the fleece should be tied with a hard, glazed twine, not larger than one-eighth inch in diameter. In tying the ends of the twine especial care should be taken to make a firm, hard knot that will not slip. Tag locks are not so common that their presence in fleeces from farm flocks is the rule rather than an exception. The total effect of leaving them on fleeces is bad. It puts our wools in bad standing with wool houses and manufacturers. Long continued, it has led to the only logical result—namely, discrimination in price against our wools. Careful rolling, with the flesh side out and no ends or stray locks showing, adds greatly to the appearance of the fleece. It also prevents mixing the wool from different fleeces, and, by the way, each fleece should be tied to itself. In the wool warehouse it is a pretty sight to see the heaps of graded wool faced with a tier of carefully rolled and tied fleeces. GOOD FOR THE GRUNTERS. This Handy Swill Barrel Doesn't Need Much Material or Labor. A very handy swill barrel for feeding a lot of hogs when they come crowding around the trough is made as follows, says the Iowa Homestead, from which article and illustration are reproduced. The barrel A is set on a small platform immediately above a trough, B, next to the hydrant D, which has a goose neck so that water can be drawn into the barrel directly from the hydrant. In the center of the bottom of the barrel is bored a two-inch auger hole which is kept closed by means of a plug, C, the handle of which is HANDY SWILL FEEDER. made of an old broom handle and long enough to reach to the top of the barrel. Swill is made of ground feed, and when it is desirable to feed the hogs all the operator has to do is to stir the swill and pull the plug, and the swill runs out into the trough without any trouble. When enough has run out the plug may be returned to its place, and in this way there is no spilling or handling of swill. The trough may be of any convenient length. Spring Culture of Wheat Harrowing wheat in the spring is a practice that is receiving considerable attention of late years. Where the ground is compacted hard from beating rains of early spring, followed by rather dry weather, the harrowing of wheat with a drag harrow is good practice. So for experiments have shown at the Missouri station, however, the harrowing of wheat is not always sufficiently beneficial to pay for the work, although where one harrows in clover seed at the same time the practice is usually a paying one. Where the wheat is badly "heaved" the use of a heavy roller in the early spring is a good practice. All depends, however, upon the extent of the "heaving" Kill the Rats and Save Chicks. In answer to a subscriber who complains of rats getting away with his young chicks and requesting a remedy for exterminating the rodents, a correspondent of the Kansas City Farmer says that if powdered sulphur and cayenne pepper are scattered around the rat holes the vermin will disappear. Another remedy is to scatter powdered lye around their holes. The lye will stick to the rat's feet. He commences to lick them, which causes letha Why Rely on Corn? In sections where corn has not provided a success it is folly to rely upon corn. In such sections there are crops which do succeed, and it is the part of intelligence to plant them. Kaffir, milo and other crops grow and do well where corn fails. Then why rely on corn?—Farm and Ranch. WILSON CASH COAL CO. A man who could invest a quarter and get back a dollar and a half would think the bad stretch a good thing. That is about what an farmer can do in the handling of manure. Two-five cents' worth of acid phosphates added to the stable manure will return 150 cents' worth of crops. The Ohio experiment station has proved it, many farmers have found it to be so, and yet most of us fall to invest the quarter or make the worse mistake of failing to care for the manure at all. National Stockman and Farmer. FOUR SPUD CROPS A YEAR. Spanard's Methods May Be Good For Others to imitate. From Spain comes the report of a spanard who grew four crops of potatoes on the same land in twelve months. The potatoes were grown under ordinary conditions, and the ground was fertilized with horse manure. First crop, Scotch seed potatoes planted Aug. 22 and dug Nov. 6, 1911, fair size, firm and good quality; second crop, Scotch seed potatoes, planted Nov. 9, 1911, and dug Feb. 19, 1912, fair size and very good quality; third crop, Scotch seed potatoes, planted Feb. 21 and dug May 19, 1912, large size and much better than those of preceding crops; fourth crop, Spanish seed potatoes, planted May 22 and dug Aug. 19, 1912, poor yield and potatoes small. The grower attributes the poor quality of the last crop to inferior seed; lack of water for irrigation and to several very hot winds that prevailed in July; but, as in other years, the crop of this same period has been a good one, the low yield of 1012 does not detract from the feasibility of the plan.—Rural New Yorker. FOES OF THE ROSEBUD. Set After the Fly and the Slug if You Want to Save Your Flowers. To destroy the green fly, colonies of which congregate on the young growth of the rosebushes and suck the juices of the plant, and other insect pests, we spray the bushes with tobacco dust after wetting them so the dust will adhere. We have also found fresh white hellebore dusted on the bushes a very good remedy. A sifter can be made by punching the cover of a baking powder can full of small holes and using the can in the same manner as a salt or pepper shaker. Wilson'sCashCoalCo. 421 Holiday 'Phone 3642 The rose slug, a light green worm that eats the leaves, may be controlled by applying whale oil soap, one-half pound dissolved in four gallons of water. The rose bug, a hard shell beetle that eats the leaves and blossoms and greatly damages the roses is best controlled by hand picking or knocking off on a sheet in the early morning. Rosebushes can be kept quite free of insects, however, by liberally and frequently sprinkling with tobacco dust.-Rural Life. Keep the Calves "Coming." The calves must be kept "coming," whether they suck the cows or are hand-fed. Skimmilk calves grow strong and thrifty if given a chance. Their milk has to be clean and enough of it. With it they need something to take the place of the cream that is gone. Corn is a good substitute. Oats help also. Ground flaxseed in the milk is fine, but it costs too much these days. For cheapness and results corn and oats crushed together or just plain corn coarsely ground and fed dry are hard to beat.—Iowa Homestead. Hand or Power Spraying Hand spraying is more expensive than power spraying. The cost varies much in different cases, depending on the efficiency of labor, convenience and other essentials, and much depends on the apparatus used. The pump should have capacity to maintain high pressure, and the nozzle must throw a fine spray. The requirements are the same for every kind of spraying-Farm Progress To a short piece of half round post securely tack on the curved side with Plaindealer shingle nails a sheet of heavy galvanized iron about fifteen inches long. Bore a hole in the block at an angle of about forty-five degrees, deep single nails a sheet of heavy galvanized iron about fifteen inches long. Bore a hole in the block at an angle of about forty-five degrees, deep enough to receive a long handle. This works very satisfactorily.—Farm and Fireside. A conveyance of land described as running with the meanders of a non-navigable stream gives title to the thread of the stream in the absence of a contrary intention shown by the deed.-Robinson Versus Wells, Ky., 135 B. W. 317. In selling personal property the general rule is that where no misrepresentations are made by the seller in respect to the quality or condition of the property the purchaser buys at his own risk and cannot recover damages on account of defects or unsoundness but where animals or articles are sold for food the law implies a warranty on the part of the buyer, that such provisions are wholesome and it to eat, and the rule of buyers' risk does not apply Seo Specs SS ES The a soit = = f= J