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The Topeka Plaindealer Nineteenth Year. No.14 Now, if this is not enough to chill the very blood of those young colored Americans, we do not know what it would take. Now for these fool "niggers" to pledge the loyalty of those young colored men who see that the cold hand of oppression is upon them and against them, and for these fools to say they are willing to go forward and volunteer to lay down their lives for a cause and a people who do not want them, have not asked them and by their ways and actions have said they don't want them, is more than we must admit. The old man would offer the services of these broken-hearted, setrazeed, dejected colored people where they are not wanted. To move our assertion, there is not a state in the Union attempting to organize a colored national guard, nor has this government attempted to enlist colored men in the different branches of the military service except as jack tars or men to scrub the boats or do chores. Now the Jews have been given their liberty and those exiles who for centuries stood up to defend their VOTE TUESDAY! House, Tandy, Porter, Newland and Norton Will Appreciate Your Vote. Between now and Tuesday many misleading statements will be circulated to prejudice voters against Messrs. House, Porter, Tandy and Norton, to which no attention should be paid, and if you have a friend who did not vote at the primaries, see that they go to the polls and vote Tuesday. The vote received by Mayor House and the other candidates named was a fine indorsement of their true character and sterling worth as citizens and public officials. Vote Tuesday by all means. BAXTER SPRINGS. Baxter Springs is a little zinc and lead mining city. The colored people who reside there are prospering and doing well. The colored Masonic lodge, Strange City No. 37, owns a nice piece of property which it bought some years ago and now it is valued at something like $10,000. The first floor of the building is rented to a wholesale company. Mr. Geo. Dawdy is still engaged in the blacksmith business, but will soon vacate his present location and a brick building will go up in its place. Mr. O. D. Lockeant has opened a tailoring, clothes cleaning and repair shop and is doing well. We prefect a great business for him. It is always a source of pleasure to call upon Mrs. Mary Phyllis Wheaton, who has lived in Baxter Springs for the past six or seven years and owns two or three valuable pieces of property. She is the mother of Miss Mary Anderson of Chicago, Ill. We were also proud to meet the Smith sisters, who conduct a first class dressmaking establishment and have all the work they can do. All Baxter Springs and surrounding towns are proud of these two young women. LIMA, OKLAHOMA. There is much astir in these parts among the farmers, most all lands to be farmed has been put in fine condition. Corn planting is going on rapidly. Many of the Lima teachers were in Wewoka Saturday of last week on business, among them were: Mesdames McRiley, Jones, Harbison, and Miss Torrence, Mr. Wellington was also attending to business in Wewoka last week. Mr. E. O. Shands with Miss Gross and Miss Croslin of Earlsonbom ran over to Oklahoma City last Friday evening to witness a theatrical play, they say the trip was pleasant. Mrs. J. G. Bradley, one of the Liovening to witness a theatrical play. The say the trip was pleasant. ma who is teaching near Wewoka has been on the sick list for several days, but we are informed that she is re cuperating and will soon be at her post of duty. at Lima, Oklahoma, commencing June 4, 1917, and continuing one month. The teachers will be carefully cared for at this place and indications are that this will be a good normal. W. B. Jones, of Lima, is the conductor. Mr. Easily, of Wewoka, who has been in Lima for the past few days hanging paper for Messis. Bradley Burrows has made quite a reputation here in that work at which he seems to be a past master. The Land Mark Masonic lodge, which was at Earlshoro, has moved to Lima, and will here after hold its meetings here. Mr. Frank Childs visited relatives and friends in the city last week. Mr. J. B. Perkins went to Taft, Okla., summoned there on account of the death of his father. The deceased lived here many years before going to Oklahoma and this many friends here extend sympathy to the herewed ones. Mr. Monique Jones and Mr. Will Howard were the guests of Miss Ethyl Shelton Sunday at the home of Mr. W. H. Paige on East Fifth street. WARRENSBURG, MO. Mrs. Richard Johnson entertained a few friends Friday afternoon complimentary to Mrs. B. J. Hawkins of St. Louis and Mrs. Walter Grant entertained Saturday afternoon and evening, assisted by Miss Almada Johnson and Miss Aralma Ralph, in honor of her brothers, her newhews and her own birthdays, with Mrs. B. J. Hawking of St. Louis as guest of honor. Mrs. Irene Diggs entertained on Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. John Edwards, who leaves in a few days for St. Louis to submit to an operation. We wish for her a speedy recovery. Miss Vina Fuell is on the sick list. GOVERNMENT DON'T WANT BLACK AMERICANS! Denied the Rights of Citizenship, Fool Blacks Try to "Horn in" Where They are Not Wanted. United States Government is Preparing All Citizens for War Except the Negro---Even States are Ignoring the Ever Loyal Blacks---its up to the President. We have become disguised at so much hypocrisy and decent practiced by so many fool colored men who are always trying to parade their follies to the white man. Since this great eventment about war between this country and Germany, a lot of these fools are trying to instigate the cited American white people by offering their services to the government, either to the governor or direct to the president, in order to get their names in the newspapers or before the community in which they live. It is usually this class of people who never accomplish anything by doing good things for those who depend upon them or in the community in which they live. They are never heard of except in excitements of this kind, when newspapers are glad to dish up such slush. Now, every good thinking and well meaning colored man in this country knows that the colored people have always been loyal and have never refused to defend the flag of this nation, not understanding they have not been protected under the folds of the flag that they have from time to time defended in different wars. There is no concealment of the fact that the young colored Americans are much dissatisfied with the condition that confronts them in this country as do those of Ireland and the Jews of Poland and the exiles of Russia. Colored men are segregated in every form and manner that can be mentioned in this country, their women are outraged, lynched and burned as well as the men. They are driven from their homes, are not allowed to exercise the right of franchise in parts of this country, they are not allowed to operate national trains as engineers, bakersmen and conductors in the North, and are only allowed to work as firemen in some positions of the South, at longer hours and less pay than their white brothers. They are not allowed to hold clerical positions either in stores or as stenographers, bookkeepers or any position for which they might fit themselves. They are excluded from the marine department of the navy, expert gunners, artillerymen and most all of the important branches of military and naval service, and they are denied the privilege of entering the military and naval academies, yet a lot of fool, ignorant "niggers" are asking the government to consider them as ready to go upon the battlefield when the government is not seeking them and does not want them and has made no preparation for them to fight and defend the government. The call is being issued now for 1000 men in the navy department and no colored man is offering himself because he knows he will not be admitted. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING MARCH 30, 1917 rights of all human beings, of free speech and equal opportunity, and were banished from Russia, have been restrained to liberty to come home and defend their flag. Now we think it is no more than right that if war is declared between the United States and Germany, all these restrictions should be removed from the colored people, their citizenship restored to them as it was given them by Abraham Lincoln, and which they were later deprived of by Southern law-makers and such nets declared constitutional by prejudiced judges. They should be allowed to join different military departments of the government and there fight to defend the honor of this government, as they have done before. The colored man has paid for all the rights and privileges of any other man in this country by sacrificing his blood upon the country's altar and yet he is practically a slave. No honest Christian white man would blame him for a moment for asking for the things that we have mentioned in this article. We are American citizens; we believe in the protection of the American people, but we do not believe in the protection of white citizens only and the colored men left out by unjust discrimination by the counts of the land and men who enforce the laws as well. Before congress joins President Wilson in declaring war they ought to first declare that every American citizen, whether white or black, should enjoy all the privileges of this government alike, and all segregation laws should be declared unconstitutional and all those in authority who execute the laws should execute them impartially, showing no favors to any race. As it is well said, Justice is a blind goddess revolving her wheels up and down on the white and black; she does not know, does not see or care, so long as the wheels turn in one direction. NICK CHILES, Editor the Tonekn Plaindealer. OPEN LETTERS TO THE POWERS The Attention of the President, Secretary of War and Secretary of Navy are Called to Condition of Negro Citizens. Your Excellency, Hon. Woolrow Wilson, President of the United States, Washington, D. C.: My Dear President—From present indications you and your war council with the assistance of Congress will non decline war upon Germany. As editor of a newspaper circulated in the interests of the advancement of colored people and at the same time using our energy to bring about a just recognition from the heads of the government and various state departments of the rights of a people who qualify our people as an appl Now, Mr President, as head of the nation, with everything in your command, in time of war you should declare all Americans free and reliable to defend the flag as one nation, and there should be no segregation laws or any implied rules in favor of one rate as opposed to another when all are fighting for the same common cause. You nor your council have made no provisions for the training of the colored men for military purposes. West Point military academy is closed against him, also the naval academy at Annapolis. He is denied the privilege of serving with the marines or as a gunner, and is almost denied the right of being a commissioned officer. Those who have taken the examination have failed from the fact that those who had charge of the examinations have displayed their displeasure or prejudice. The states in the Union will not moorage colored men nor will they master them in as national guards, except in Illinois, New York, and probably a battalion in Ohio. We believe that if you understood the condition that exists against the military training of colored men, you in your war council would help to eliminate this condition, knowing as we do that the colored soldier has always been loyal and among the fighting that ever entered upon battlefield in this or any other country. The European war seems to bring results to that class of people who have been ostracized, disfunished and driven away like cattle for centuries. They are now being organized as people or human beings. The Jews of Poland have been given their rights and those Russian exiles who have been imprisoned for years have been thwarted and have now become full fledged citizens and are returning to their native land to exercise the rights of citizenship. Of course among this were men who had the right to think and express themselves and when they did that, they were banished. The same thing exists in his country with the colored man, one fully in the Southland. He is not permitted to vote or to be allowed to join military companies to defend the flag he loves. He is segregated on a railroad and street cars, locked, outraged and burned. The selkims of the counts have been shot, and it is a well established fact that it is not constitutional for any state to enact such laws against a particular race; but his has gone on in South Africa, in a few Northern states as well, and counts have upheld such acts because the white man who made the laws and interpelled them were lured by color prejudice. Owing to the existing condition of race prejudice against the young colored man in this country he has becomeukewarm and indifferent as to what his results may be as between nations, and if these outrages are committed he will still grow indifferent as to the conditions of things as they exist. Now, my dear President, I hope you can see your way clear under existing conditions to demand that colored national guards be established in the various states in the Union and that they be officered by colored man as far as practical. I believe in case of war all Americans should be loyal to the flag and those in command, and at the same time the places should be respected in their rights. The condition of the colored man, as far as a soldier is concerned, is almost as bad as in 1861 when the cry was "a white man's war" and the colored man was not solicited to fight until the Southern soldiers had almost captured the Northern army, when it was found necessary to enlist the colored man to save the North. We hope you will not wait for an emergency before the colored man is put into the field of action. He should have plenty of time to train and be thoroughly prepared to enter the battlefield, but if things continue to exist as they are, in the case of war not very much could be expected of the colored man, although he is loyal and wishes to fight for the protection of the flag which has denied him so many of his rights to which citizens are entitled equal protections before it is imprinted by those in authority. We hope you will give this matter serious consideration, and we call your attention to it because of the love we have for our country and our flag, notwithstanding that as colored citizens we are denied the rights that are accorded to and enjoyed by every other nationality that comes to the shores of America. Very truly yours, Topeka, Kansas. March 27, 1917. Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: Dear Sir--As editor of the Plain- dealer, a newspaper published in the interests and advancement of the colored people of this country, we do not see any preparations being made by your department to increase the military status of the colored people of this country. There are no colored national guards in any of the Southern states and in only two Northern states. We are surprised and chagrined at the state of affairs that now exists and are at a loss to know why young colored men are not allowed to attend the military school at West Point, as it has been demonstrated that there are no better fighting troops in the war than the colored troops who fought in every war of this country, yet they are deprived of every right and privilege enjoyed by white people, and this country claims to have a flag that floats over all alks. We can not understand why there is so much distinction in the army against colored men being promoted to any position they may seek or any examinations they might be capable of passing. They are loyal and want to defend the rights of America and the American flag, yet they are not permitted on account of the prejudice of men of your race, and especially those men who are in command and who could stop this prejudice if they so desired. NICK CHILES, Editor the Topchla Plunderer. DECENT SCHOOL FOR NEGROES! Atchison Board of Education Comes Across After Being Reminded of Their Duty by The Plaindealer. We visited Atchison the other day and want to say, that if there is a city in Kansas that needs a new school building it is Atchison. The Lincoln school building of that city is an old, dilapidated building, unsafe, unsanitary, and is hardly to to herd cattle in. While we were in the building the wind came up and tattled the windows and jarred the building in such a manner that the children could not hear the voice of the teacher. This is a deplorable condition and the people of Atchison ought to get busy and see that this building is torn down and something decent built in its stead. The state fire marshal, health officer and superintendent of public instruction should see that the building is torn down. If the citizens of Atchison will not do their whole duty, the state officers should take the matter up. We can not understand what the colored people and voters of Atchison have been doing all these years to allow themselves to be imposed upon by this building being permitted to stand all these many years. A place that is unfit for cattle surely would be unfit for human beings, so let these leading colored men and women of Atchison who holler so loud for white men for office get busy and holler for a school building for their children. In response to a letter sent out by the editor of The Plain leader to the board of education and others, the following rephos were received: Jopka, March 22, 1917 M. Nick Chiles, Editor the Plaindealer, Topeka, Kan.: Dear Mr. Chiles—I wish that I did have authority to take action in a great many situations similar to the one that you describe in yours of March 20th. There are a number of places in the state where school boards neglect, not one class or race of children, but in all the district, refusing to give them necessary conveniences. But, under the present law, neither myself nor any other state authority has any powers in matters of this kind. I have talked with the city superintendent and some members of the school board at Atchison in regard to this matter. They recognize the condition and I feel sure are plan- Price $1.50 Per Year. ning to erect a new building soon, but owing to their refusal to issue bonds for building purposes, it takes a little longer than it should by this plan. I am hoping that this will be corrected at an early date, and I have some assurance that that would be the case. Very truly, STATE OF KANSAS Department of the State Board of Health. Topeka, March 22, 1917. Mr. Nick Chiles, Toneka, Kan. Mr. Nick Chiles, Topeka, Kan.: Dear Sir-I have your letter of the 20th and replying will say that the Lincoln school at Atchison which you mention, not being a state school, this department has no jurisdiction in the matter. It is suggested that you make your representations to the Atchison board of education, which alone has authority. For the past two sessions of the legislature we have endeavored to secure a state sanitary school commission which would exercise control over the public schools of the state, but in both instances the bill was defeated. We cannot, therefore, take the matter up with the Atchison authorities, as you suggest. STATE OF KANSAS, Department of State Fire Marshal. Tonoka, March 21, 1917. Mr. Nick Chiles, care Topeka Plaindealer, Topeka, Kan.: Dear Sir—I am in receipt of your letter of the 20th inst. in re Lincoln school, Atchison, Kansas, and in reply beg to advise that the first time I have an opportunity to visit Atchison I shall personally ascertain what the conditions are in this building. Thanking you for calling my st- Thanking you for calling my attention to this matter, I am. Very truly yours. L. T. HUSSEY, State Line Marshal. Nick Chiles, care the Topeka Plaindealer, Topka, Kan. Dear Sir--I am in receipt of your letter of the 20th in regard to your recent visit to Lincoln school and in some ways I quite agree with you that the school building is not as it should be. But it is no worse than some of the buildings which we have just recently replaced with modern structures. It is only a question of a short time before the present Lincoln school building will be torn down and a new one erected, either in the same place or in another part of the city accessible to the colored population of Ackhison. There is not much incentive to fix up an old building when the 'school board is about to start building a new one. However, there is one thing that I desire to call your attention to, as you seem to think that we have given the colored pupils the worst of it. In South Atchison we tore down the old building and gave school children one of the nearest, up-to-date school buildings in town. The building is surrounded with beautiful grounds and is beyond criticism. The colored children of Atchison have access to one of the best and modern high schools in the state, so you have no criticism to offer there. We try to give the greatest good to the greatest number, so for this reason the Lincoln school has been left until the last. Yours truly. The members of the Second Baptist church have improved their property by the addition of a new well. The Young People's Proposed club rendered the following program last Wednesday night: Quotation from Lowell; biographical sketch on Lowell by Henry Greene, Jr.; recitation, Ada Nichols; solo, Sam Maxey; song by trio, Miss Marie Ellington and Octavia Maxey and Mr. Tom Allen; short address, "Being on Time," Mrs. Susie Cobb; humorous reading, Miss Elizabeth Baker. Claude Wilson of Campioml visited friends here Sunday. Mrs. Amelia Maxey and Miss Elizabeth Baker are both very ill. Little Elizabeth Maxey went to Kansas City Sunday to visit her aunt, Mrs. Geo, Newland. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Reed of Kansas City have moved here and are at present staying with Mrs. Reed's mother, Mrs. Huttle Plumb. Rev. Ritchey preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday, morning and evening. Mrs. Martha Bibba went to Seneca Wednesday to attend the funeral of a relative. Mr. H. Pecking of Falls City spent Sunday in Hiwatha. Mrs. Trunk Collier of Falls City was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Plumb, last week. Mrs. Grace Young was initiated into the Tailor lodge last week. Two of our young ladies have completed their "hope" boxes. We hope to hear a singing of the bells this spring. Mr. and Mrs. George Newland of Kansas City visited at the home of Mrs. Newland's mother, Mrs. Ben Maxey, Sr., last week. Mr. and Mrs. "Tin" Woodson of Holton visited with Rev. and Mrs. Ritchey last week. Address all communications to The Pope's Plioindocolor, 1129 Kansas Avenue, Bebopka, Kansas. Money sent by Express, Publication Money Order or Registered Letter at our risk; otherwise at the risk of the sender. When the attention of The Plioindocolor is called to any misstatement of facts in these columns, or to any error concerning any man or thing, correction will cheerfully be made. Unaligned communications, except from our regular correspondents, will not be published. If all those who are trying to be little the twelve United States senators who stood out against Wilson in his efforts to plunge this nation into war with Germany would enlist as privates in the army there would be some chance of them not grandstanding, and there would be such a rush to enlist that the government would have to put up the bars if all who talk war would act war. GRAND MASTER'S PROCLAMATION. Office of Grand Master U. B. F. and S. M. T., Kansas Jurisdiction. Thanksgiving Proclamation No. 4 (All Local Lodges, Temples, Juveniles, Past Masters, Counsels and Encampments must observe Thanksgiving day.) Kansas City, Kansas March 14, 1917. To the Most Worthy Masters, Most Worthy Princesses, Most Worthy Matrons, to the Most Excellent Past Masters, Most Excellent Queens, Knights of Friendship and Members of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten of Kansas Jurisdiction, Greeting: The annual Thanksgiving Proclamation to be observed the fourth Sunday in May, 1917. Whereas, The law of the National Grand Lodge of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. and Juveniles of North America and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, has authorized the fourth Sunday in May for Thanksgiving: Therefore, the National Grand Master has ordered that this day be set apart and known as Thanksgiving day; and, Whereas, Article 10, Sec. 3, page 62, of the National Constitution of the United Brotherhood of Friendship and Sisters of Mysterious Ten of Kansas Jurisdiction provides that an annual thanksgiving anniversary be observed by all local lodges, temples and juveniles on said date, and lodge or temple desiring to hold their anniversary sermon on any other day must get a dispensation, for which they shall pay two dollars to the Grand Master of Kansas Jurisdiction. This Thanksgiving day is set apart for the purpose of rendering thanks to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for His general protection and guidance in the affairs of our order; and by this proclamation we call upon you first to thank God for the general blessings that He has bestowed upon the U. B. F. and S. M. T. throughout this jurisdiction. Another twelve months have passed with much experience and business and love. Sympathy has been added to our past history in the Kansas Jurisdiction. We have been called upon to meet the assaults of real enemies of different races, both within and without our ranks; but with the power of the scepter of the living God we shall march through with smiles upon our faces. We have tried to live in peace with all mankind, especially with the brothers and sisters of the Purple Degree. We hope to cultivate the spirit of charity, and extend the benevolent hand to all loyalty of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten. Let us meet all mankind upon the triangle of Justice, Mercy and Truth. When we have accomplished this great work, we hope to hear our Heavenly Father say, "Come unto me and rest." OTTAWA, KAN. Mr. L. E. Porter of 520 North Poplar street was born in Franklin county, Kansas. His parents came to Kansas from Ohio. Mr. Porter served a term as postmaster and is a student of law. If elected mayor of Ottawa he promises full time to the office. Mr. Porter was interviewed by a representative of The Plaindealer and was found to be a most cordial gentleman, with a broad comprehension of justice toward all men. He believes that the colored people should have their share of the city's work, and will work to that end if elected mayor. He will give the city an honest administration and faithful service. Rare or color will not be a consideration when it comes to dealing out justice. A colored drayman does his draving, and a colored mechanic built his flues and plastered his new house last summer. The colored voters of Ottawa go to the polls on April 3 strong for L. E. Porter, because he is the working man's friend. Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Woods have gone to Kansas City to visit Rev. Woods' mother, who is very slick. Services at the A. M. E. church last Sunday were good, with one accession. The missionary meeting at the Third Baptist church Sunday afternoon was very interesting. Rev. Hays of the United Presbyterian church preached an excellent sermon. We wish to extend our many thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kindness which was shown to us during the illness and upon the death of our beloved husband and father, "Doc" Davis. OBITUARY. Eldredge Eugene Brooks, eldest son of Rev. A. H. Brooks and wife, was born at Lawrence, Kan., March 4, 1882, and died at New York city March 24, 1917, aged 35 years and 20 days. He was converted at Baxter Springs, Kan., at the age of 16 years and always identified himself with the church wherever he lived. At the time' of his death he was a trustee of Salem A. M. E. church, New York city. He survived his father just six months. He leaves to mourn his loss a devoted wife, mother, sister and brother. Another link in the family chain is broken, and while he is gone and cannot return, we can see him again where parting is no more. We humbly how in submission to God's will. MRS. NANNIE BROOKS. MRS. ELIZABETH RILEY. NORMAN BROOKS. SUMMER NORMAL - HUGHES AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES. Opens June 4th, 1917, and continues for four weeks. A cordal welcome is extended teachers of neighboring and other counties to enroll. Tuition, $1 for the term. Board and lodging from $3.50 to $1 per week. Daily model class work and work leading up to the June examination a specialty. Examination conducted by the faculty. Lima High School Building, Lima Oklahoma Instructors—E. L. Coffey, Daniel W. Lee, Jas. M. W. Luttington, County Superintendent, Wewokn. Okla. The funeral of Mr. Alonzo Carter, 537 Campbell street, K. C. Mo., was held Tuesday afternoon, March 20, 1917, conducted by Rev. Rhodes. Eulogy by Miss Magnolina Lewis, princess of New Hope Temple, M. T. of which his widow is a member and an officer. Floral tributes were beautiful. The remains were placed in a vault and final interment was made Wednesday afternoon in Woodlawn cemetery, K. C. K. There was an automobile portgee in charge of H. B. Moore, funeral director. The deceased leaves to mourn a wife, Mrs. Mary L. Carter; one stepson, Charlie Washington; three stepdaughters, Miss Eva P. Washington, Mrs. Minnie Jackson and Mrs. Rosetta Woods; two brothers, two sisters and one son. Kansas City, Mo., night school closed last week. Rev. Voss is conducting an institute at the Y. M. C. A. this week and preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday night. We wish to thank all who showed so many acts of kindness during the illness and upon the death of our husband and stepfather.—(Signed) Mrs. Mary L. Catter and Stepchildren. Mrs. Alice Lewis of K. C. Mo. was on the Kansas side on business Wednesday. The funeral of Dr. G. H. Brown, 1015 Freemain avenue, was held Wednesday morning, March 21, 1917, under the auspices of the A. F. & A. M. lodge. All the doctors in the two Kansas Cities turned out in a body. Serman by Rev. J. R. Ransom. He was highly esteemed and liked by all who knew him. High tribute was paid to his memory. Floral tributes and resolutions were many and beautiful. He leaves to mourn his demise a wife, five sons and other relatives and friends. The Funeral of Mr. Simon Wyatt of the undertaking firm of Wyatt & Son, was held Tuesday from the A. M. E. church under the auspices of the Sir Knights of Tabor, Palatine Guards and Busy Bee lodges, who paid a high and glowing tribute to his memory. Sermon by his pastor, Rev, J. R. Ransom. Floral tributes and resolutions were many and beautiful. He is survived by his wife, one son, one sister and many friends. Funeral director, Nathan Thatcher. Dr. and Mrs. R. C Hayden, 1403 North Tenth street have as their guest the former's sister. PANICO, KANSAS. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, of Boulder, Colorado, returned to her home last Thursday, after spending several weeks with her step-daughter, Mrs. Walter L. Officer. During her visit she was entertained by Mrs. Noland Cloudy, of Maple Hill, Mrs. David Officer, Mrs. Cicero Officer and Mrs. Daniel West, of Puxico. Her charming personality won for her many delightful friends. Mrs. Jennie Johnson spent a few days visiting in Topka, with her step-son, Mr. Ernest B. Hayes. She was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Officer, of Puxico. Miss Ada Walls is visiting with her sister, in Rossville. Mrs Berry Terril who has been ill for several weeks, is able to be among her friends again. Mrs. Ruth Johnson spent a few days in Topeka, last week, visiting her daughter, Miss Nancy Martin. She was accompanied by her granddaughter, Miss Edith Walls. Mrs. Fred Douglas and Mrs Horace Oliver, of Topeka, and Mr. Louis Bradley, of Kansas City, Mo., spent Sunday in Paxico, visiting with relatives. Club No. 2, of the C. M. E. church, will give a bx social, April 7. Mrs Daniel West gave a surprise party in honor of Elder T. A. Bower's birthday. The C. M. E. church will give a rally, April 1, for the benefit of the Pastor. Mr. Mortimer Thorn has returned to his home in Dallas, Tex. Rev. T. H. Borders, president of the F. M. state board of Oklahoma, and Rev. J. W. Jones, state missionary, of Guthrie, were in the city Sunday. The W. H. and F. M. society met at the home of Mrs. C. R. Dickerson last week. Mrs. Mollie Carter and Mr. Joe Hilliard were called to Sapulpa to attend the funeral of their brother, W. Hilliard. Mrs. Sallie Jones has returned home from Minn., where she underwent a slight operation. She is improving nicely. Mrs. Ann Hadley has slightly improved. Miss C. Randolph is spending a few days in the city, the guest of her brother, Dr. Wade Randolph. Miss Luella Clark has returned home from western Oklahoma. Mrs. Clayton Taylor left Sunday for Tulsa, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. E. Kitrell entertained a number of young friends at a whist party Tuesday night. Invitations have been issued for the S. M. T. banquet Wednesday night at Rex hall. Mrs. Nathan and Pearl Dixon and Mrs. Jno. Jackson are preparing to spend the week-end in Oklahoma City. Don't forget to visit the new cafe under the management of Mr. Will Hill, at Carter's old stand. Pleasant meals and good order. Also, you can find the Plandealer to read while you are waiting. OLATHE, KAN. Rev. L. S. Watson of the A. M. E. church closed a very successful revival meeting March 11. There were seven additions to the two churches, Hillsdale and Olathe. Rev. J. W. Edwards of Weir, Kan., an evangelist, assisted him in his Ola-the meetings two weeks. Sunday, March 18, Rev. H. A. Marangeopa, the walking missionary, preached morning and evening at the A. M. E. church. Sunday afternoon he gave a lecture at the court house on his travels through Africa. Sunday morning at the Baptist church Rev. Jackson preached an excellent sermon; subject, "How to Live." Rev. E. P. Bradley of Kansas City, Kan., filled the pulpit in the evening. The Acme Culture club met at the residence of Mrs. P. G. Porter on March 14. An interesting program was rendered. One hour was spent in needlework. The next meeting will be with Mrs. I. Caldwell, on North Chestnut street. The Misses Allen were hostesses to the Idle Hour club Friday afternoon. Mrs. Burdette read a very interesting paper, which was discussed by the members. On Monday evening, March 12, the beautiful residence of Mrs. Capitola Greene, 4127 Penn street, Kansas, City Mo., was the scene of a very pretty party given by Mr. Walter Rollins to his olathe friends. They left Olathe at 8 o'clock in automobiles. The evening was delightfully spent in music and games. A delicious three-course supper was served to sixteen guests. Mr. Arthur Jenkins spent Sunday in Kansas City visiting his mother, Mrs. Margaret Jenkins, who is very sick. Mrs. Lillian Caldwell, was a week-end visitor in Kansas City. Mrs. Emma Tonodi and children returned Sunday from a week's visit in Lexington, Mo. Mr. Eugene Jenkins is seriously ill with typhoid fever. (First published in the Topkick Plaindealer March 30, 1917.) NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. In the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. In the matter of Maiti Village, a person adjudged to be insane. State of Kansas, Shawnee Coun- Creditors and all other persons interested are hereby notified that the undersigned was, on the 23d day of March, A. D. 1917, duly appointed guardian of the person and estate of Maria Village, who was, on the 22d day of March, 1917. 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