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Topeka Plaindealer . Nineteenth Year. No. 24 School Condition in Ok Buildings for the Ed Blacks Located in Tenderloin Dis nditions Oklahoma! he Education of ted in White. in District. School Conditions in Oklahoma! Buildings for the Education of Blacks Located in White Tenderloin District. white people remove their filth to the districts where their schools are located. The colored people as a rule have very poor facilities for school buildings and equipment. In most places the buildings are too small and poorly ventilated, and in many districts there is no encouragement for those who are trying to get an education. Sapulpa is the only city where we found a first class building for colored children. It is located in a high commanding position, but the ground is very rocky and rough, yet if sufficient money is spent there can be made a beautiful playground and other improvements. In some towns, because of the location of the schools for colored children, when there come rains and bad weather it is almost impossible for the children to attend. At Welleetka the colored people have no school building at all, but use a small hall. This is outrageous and a disgrace to civilization in this day of enlightenment. This is all on account of the mean and obnoxious laws that the white people hide behind. It is the duty of the colored people of Oklahoma to take this matter up and see to it that this law is repealed or enjoined by the courts from enforcement. We believe that if the matter was properly brought before the courts they would sustain the position of the colored people. There are millions of dollars derived from school lands by the government and the colored people are not getting any benefit of it. There is also a free school book system from which the colored people are receiving no benefit. It is the duty of the school patrons to get buoy and see that the educational rights of the colored people are protected. Separate Schools Required—The public schools of the State of Oklahoma shall be organized and maintained upon a complete plan of separation between the white and colored races, with impartial facilities for both races. Definition of "Colored" and "Public Schools"—The term "colored" as used in the preceding section shall be construed to mean all persons of African descent, who possess any quantum of Negro blood, and the term "white" shall include all other persons. The term "public" schools within the meaning of this article shall include all schools provided or maintained in whole or in part at public expense. Separate Board—Officers—Wherever there shall be established and maintained a separate school, a separate-board of school officers shall be elected and chosen for the management of such school, as is provided by law for the election of other school officers. In districts having separate school boards, the electors of each separate race shall meet as now provided by law, at their respective schools for which directors are to be elected, and the electors of one race shall not participate in any election pertaining to the schools of the other race. Teachers Violating Separate Provisions—Misbehavior—Any teacher in this state who shall willingly and knowingly allow any child of the colored race to attend a school maintained for the white race, or allow any white child to attend a school maintained for the colored race, shall be deemed guilty of a misbehavior and on conviction he fined in any sum not less than $10 nor more than $50 and his or her certificate as a teacher shall be canceled. Private Institutions for Mixed Pupils Forbidden—It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or association or corporation to maintain or operate any school or college where pupil of both white and colored races are received as pupils. Any of the aforesaid being found guilty of a violation of this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. County Levies for Separate Schools In all counties separate schools for white and colored children are hereby established, and such schools shall be permanently maintained and the board of county commissioners shall annually provide for a tax on all taxable property in their respective counties sufficient to maintain separate schools; said taxes shall be estimated, published, levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes for county purposes, and in school districts where such separate schools are maintained no white child shall attend a colored school or colored child attend a white school. No Separate School-When-In any district having both white and colored children of school age, where Exemption from Service ervice on the Ground A Personal Survey by the Editor of the Evils of Segregation—The School Law is Placed Wholly in the Hands of Local Officials Who Deprive Blacks of an Equal Share of the Funds. Topeka, Kan., June 7, 1917 To the Mayor, Okrulge, Okla. To the Mayor, Orkney, UK. Meard Sir—We visited your city a few days ago and must say we were much impressed by the great improvement being made there by our race. But we were surprised and ashamed at the immoral condition that exists in your town especially the red light district, where immoral women are allowed to live and parade their fifth before the youths of the city who attend the public schools. We do think that if you are going to allow these houses of prostitution to exist, and as white people have drawn the color line so strongly in that section of the country, you should prescribe a district for the white prostitutes. Instead of having them near colored schools they should be placed near white schools, as the colored people have all they can do to bear the burdens and the sight of the immorality of their own race without bearing those of the white race. If your city is going to allow these immoral practices, we think it is only fair to move them over to where there are white schools so that white children may not think that all immorality is in the colored race, but in others as well. We hope you will give this matter your consideration, and we call your attention to it in order that you might advise the school board of these conditions so they can get busy and remove these places from the eyes of the public. Very truly yours. NICK CHILES, Editor the Topeka Tlaindealer. Topeka, Kan., June 7, 1917. To the Mayor, Weechea, Okla.; My Dear Sir—We visited your town a few days ago and were surprised to find in a civilized town no school building for colored people. Of course we know that you white people use the segregated school law to hide behind by deriving taxes from outside the city, for colored schools, but no Christian community would suffer such a condition to exist. The colored people should have a school building, and it is your Christian duty as mayor to see to it that through agitation or otherwise a school building is erected. If the law is wrong, the law should be changed so that right might prevail. We hope you are not so prejudiced against the rights of the colored people that you can not see far enough to wish to give them a school in which their children can receive instruction. Right is right, and intelligent people should not seek to mistreat those less fortunate than themselves. Hope you will take this matter in hand and see that these wrongs are adjusted. NICK CHILES, Editor the Topcki Plaudcaler. We publish below the text of the Oklahoma separate school law, which we hope our readers will peruse carefully and take the matter up with the authorities in power and see if such laws cannot be changed. They are unconstitutional, unfair, unamerican and unchristian, and work a hardship to none but colorful people, being intended to degrade the race and keep them in ignorance. There is no reason why the state of Oklahoma, where the colored people own thousands of acres of land and are worth millions of dollars, should discriminate against them in this matter. We found in all cities and practically all towns in Oklahoma colored schools located in the red light districts. We think it no more than right that the white people should take the white prostitutes into the districts where their schools are located. This condition exists at Okmulgee. Admitting the school there are white women sitting out on the porches in their loose shirts and gowns—also colored women—and the school girls have to pass right by these houses to enter the school. It is the duty of the decent and respectable colored people of these towns to see that these red light districts are shut out, or at least that THE LAW. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING JUNE 8, 1917 The Bright Side of Oklahoma A Story of a Month's Sojourn Among a Thrifty, Enterprising People. the number of either race is less than ten children, and they can be transferred to other districts having separate schools, no separate schools shall be maintained in the districts in which they reside. County Superintendent — Duty — The county superintendent shall ascertain what districts of his county contain children of both white and colored races and shall report the same to the county commissioners, who shall forthwith provide separ ate schools for the white and colored children, the same to be of impartial accommodations. Furniture and Equipment - The school districts shall furnish all schools with the same kind of furniture and equipments and give equal school facilities to both white and colored children at the expense of such school district, except as otherwise provided in this article. The school board shall employ teachers and furnish equal terms for all schools in their districts with teachers with equal qualifications as far as practicable, but no white person shall teach a colored school and no colored person shall teach a white school. The payment of teachers for the respective grades shall be the same in the white that they are in the colored schools, and vice versa. School buildings for the separate schools herein provided shall be erected from the proceeds of taxes herein authorized to be levied. They shall be of impartial accommodations and shall be let on contract let in competitive bids therefor. TOPEKA WAS LOYAL Colored Boys Register to a Man. The Absence of a Colored Troop in the Great Military Demonstration Tells the Story of the White Man's Effort to Crush Down the Most Loyal Citizens on Earth. The great demonstration in honor of those who registered for the selective draft was participated in by several thousand people last Tuesday, and while there was not very much enthusiasm, the people showed their disposition to be loyal to the call. This should be an object lesson to the white people of Kansas and elsewhere, that as soon as a point can be reached, and that should be reached at the next session of the legislature, there be organized a colored regiment in Kansas. It was heartrending, and a disgrace to see such a large procession The Bright of A Story of a N Among a Th prising Taft is a colored town, located on the M. O. & G. railroad. Here may be found a colored depot agent, ticket agent and telegraph operator. The Orphans' Home and Deaf and Dumb Asylum is located here. Prof. J. R. Johnson is superintendent. This school is situated on something like 200 acres of ground, a beautiful site in a commanding position. There is a large three-story brick building with about fifty rooms, and an administration building, where the president and his family live, a large frame building with twenty-five rooms, which was the first one erected. A large cattle barn, sheds and other outbuildings are on the grounds. The land is all under cultivation and stocked and furnishes ample work for the children. Mrs. Ingram, the matron, is to be commended for the splendid condition of the institution; every room is neat and clean and is kept that way year in and year out. It can not be denied that Prof. Johnson is the right man for the place. He is thorny, oughtly in love with the institution and its inmates and gives strict attention to all details of the institution. He is a man who doesn't need to be told how to run the school, but has worked out all the details himself, and so well that when the state funds are insufficient to feed and cloth the inmates he has originated a plan whereby he can use the children in raising large cotton crumbs for the school, giving employment to many, and the money earned toward feeding and clothing ds of Having a Wife on Kansas avenue without a uniformed military organization of colored people. For fifteen years we have tried hard to get the state to organize a colored contingent of the national guard in Kansas, but have been unsuccessful. At this time the white people can see the inconsistency of race prejudice that keeps the colored men out of the national guard. Every state in the Union where there are colored people in sufficient numbers should have a battalion or regiment for the drilling and instruction of colored young men. The boys from the State Industrial school, west of the city, certainly made an imposing sight. They were uniformed, armed and equipped as well if not better than the Kansas National Guards, and were better drilled. The State Industrial school is made up of all races, and they were all represented in that parade. There was no color line drawn, and there did not seem to be anybody murdered or ostracized because of the colored boys who belonged to the institution. One special feature that we wish to call to the attention of the people of Kansas, as well as other states, is that this large contingent of uniformed, armed and equipped boys was commanded, led and drilled by a Filipino, whose skin is very dark and who could easily be mistaken for a colored man, yet the adjutant general was very proud to review these boys in their dress parade on the state house grounds, for this Filipino is without doubt a good drill master and has his boys well drilled. The point we wish to make is that if a Filipino can come over here and work for this institution, why can not a native born colored citizen have this same right? The Filipino and his people defied the United States, fought and killed Americans. Now this same Filipino is here instructing Americans in military tactics. We have always contended that colored men have been too weak and mild for their own good. If he would stand up and contend for what is due him he would soon come into his own. We are proud to announce that President Wilson and his cabinet have acknowledged our letters and given us just consideration. Capper in Senatorial Race. We see by the Hlawath World that the friends of Gov. Capper in that vicinity are pushing him for the United States Senate in 1918. Gov. Capper is running in the winning class, and we would advise all those who oppose him to be very careful before they enter the race against him. He is pretty swift, has made Hanaas a good governor, and has without a doubt the woman vote behind him from the start. If he raises no mistletoe between now and nomination time he will be the Republican candidate for United States Senator. Keep your eye on him. Side Oklahoma Month's Sojourn thrifty. Enter- People. on inmates, thereby making up the deficiency in the funds appropriated by the state, for, as Oklahoma is a new state, funds are not available at all times to carry on these institutions as they should be conducted. The system used by Prof Johnson is permissible and the state is printing by this plan. The state will soon build a new industrial school for boys here, doing away with the present one at McAlter, and it will be partially under the supervision of Prof Johnson. The governor and the state board of supervision gave Prof. Johnson a loan bill for honesty and efficiency and acknowledges that there is not another institution in all Oklahoma conducted on as neat and business-like plan as is this one. If the colored people of Taft would make the proper effort, that town would be one of the best in the state. They are badly in need of a bank. The town has a few grocery stores and there are two general merchandise stores for colored people located here. Mr. Wm. Sands is manager of a lumber company and is doing well. BOYNTON. The colored people around this community are cleverly fatigues. In the town Dr. Pinney has one of the largest drug stores in the city, is doing a fine business and enjoying a fine practice. Roy Williams of St Louis has just recently accepted the position of pharmacist in this store. Dr. I. McCarter is the veterinary ope to Support Shquld and has been there six years. He is doing well. There is one undertaker in the town in the person of Rev. Lea. town in the person of Rev. Lee. Mr. T. C. Cleveland, who terms himself the "barbecue king" of Boynton, says he is prepared to open up a large business and wants the people around that country to write or call upon him for barbecued meats. In the city are two tailoring shops, blacksmith shops, a garage, and an ordinary school building on which lots of improvements could be made. ```markdown ``` OKMULGEE. Here we found a real live town—lots of colored people and they own much property. Many are engaged in business, and nearly all is on one street. There are several two and three story buildings. The race is chiefly engaged in the grocery business, and there is one undertaking establishment, managed by Rev. Hoard, formerly of Topka. He and his wife also conduct a retail grocery store.. Rev. Hoard has purchased a fine two story brick building and his many friends in Kansas will be pleased to know that he is doing well. His wife is a lady well versed in business and is making a success. We met our old friend J. II. Williamson, who was in Okmulgee be fore it was a town and is now enjoying the fruits of his labor. He owns some real good property, over no man and calls no man master. He is a real friend of the race and is one of the pioneers who did much to encourage the newcomers who came to that now prosperous town. There is one nice drug store in Okmulgee, several practicing physicians, one dentist, two blacksmiths and two contractors. This is the home of J. B. Keyes, the man who owns one solid business block and receives a large income each month. There are several nice large brick churches in the town, and a brick school building is now being erected, but it is not near large enough for the population. The greatest object we have is the location, as it is surrounded by a lot of white and colored assignation houses. We have written the mayor of the city to move the white prostitutes to a district where the white schools are located and only leave the colored rubbish to disguise the colored schools of this district. This will be bad enough without having the white trash and colored rubbish all mixed to denominate this institution. If the colored people would get busy in the town and wake up they could remedy all these evils, but as long as they remain idle and allow prejudiced white men to put this over them, just so long will they continue to do so. Mr. Jackson, who conducts a barber shop and owns a two story brick building and one of the finest bungalows in that part of the state, is to be commended upon the great struggle he has made. He came to this town with but 75 cents, but is first coming to the front and within the next few years will be worth ten or fifteen thousand dollars, without a penny against him. He is one of the finest barber shops in that part of the country and he owns the two story building in which it is located. The colored people of Okmulgue need to get down to business. They ought to have a large dry goods store and laundry. In all these Oklaboma towns there should be colored laundries, and persons who know this business would do well to go to these towns and open up such business. It would give employment to many men and women of the race. There are several lawyers and contractors at Ohmulgee. WELCETKA. At Wetektn we spent a few hours. It is here that the colored people have no school building. The white people are either so ornery or the colored people so slothful, that there is no building; the fault is either with one or both. No effort is being made on the part of the teachers of the public schools for the erection of a building. We think it is a shame and disgrace that the teachers of this school do not protest and insist on a school building, even if they sacrifice their present jobs. It is better to have a school at all hazards. This is the town where you change cars for Clearyview and Riley. Here is conducted a hotel by a lady who gives first class accommodations. This city is where Chief Sam held his sway and broke up hundreds of families who had good homes and farms and are now wandering over the country. Just out of Wellekka on the banks of the creek there are several families living in tents and huts, with half clad children, who were left from Chief Sam's tribe which started or Africa. They are pittable looking sights, and some Christian organization should go among them and do something to relieve their condition. A person viewing these conditions would think he was in the wilds of Africa. Let the progressive colored people look after these unfortunates and see that they are allowed to come back into real life again. This is the fruits of being led by loud-mouthed, ig- Price $1.50 Per Year. norant persons whose sole purpose is to gain reputation and money for themselves. The action of Chief Sam has taught the people a wholesome lesson never to be forgotten. Those who did go are now begging money to return to their homes in this country. If the colored people would read more colored newspapers and listen to the substantial men of their communities these wild-eyed strangers could not come into their communities and lead them astray. The country has now nearly recovered from this flasco and the colored people are getting down to business. CLEARVIEW. We stopped at Clearview a few hours. This is a colored town. There are several stores well stocked with dry goods, notions and groceries, as well as one drug store and a nice boarding house. Here we met Mrs. M. E. Doggett, the postmistress. She has served in that office for the past three years, is a highly educated and accomplished woman, and we must say, that Uncle Sam has no better employ in his service than she. We met Mrs. William Irvine, whose home was formerly at Manhattan, and who is a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College. She went to Oklahoma to teach some time ago, but met Mr. Wm. Irvine, who is a successful business man, and now they have three beautiful daughters, the oldest of whom is eight years of age. Kansas will be proud to learn that Mrs. Irvine is doing well. Dr. Lucas is the physician of the town and Mr. McAlford is the druggist. They are substantial young men and doing fine. This town is the headquarters of the Black Cow Oil and Gas Company, of which Mr. J. E. Thompson is president and general manager. They are working hard to bring in a well, and if they succeed in bringing one in near Clearview it will be a great business town. Clearview is a pretty town. It has two or three good schools, and one industrial school, of which Prof. Leftwich is president. BOLEY. This is the real, real live town of Oklahoma and it is certainly a pleasure to visit the place, which has a population of over 1500, all colored (Continued on Page Four) A CHANGE MUST COME! If the South Would Prosper Conditions Must Change. There is much speculation as to the outcome of the Negro exodus from the South and the employer of labor is now being seriously handicapped by the loss of laborers flocking to the labor centers of the East and North. But this condition can not be remedied by the enactment of such heinous outrages as that perpetrated recently near Memphis, Tenn., when a mob of some two thousand or more skulking hellions burned and mutilated the body of one Eli Person, who was charged with the murder of a 15-year-old white girl. The usual claim was made that Person confessed to the crime. We know the nature of this confession—written out to suit the fancy of the mob by one or more of its constituents and the Negro forced to sign the same, not knowing what he was signing, but realizing that it was death to sign it or death not to, sign it, a result of the "33" degree of punishment; but to prove that the confession was a hoax, we have only to note that said confession implicated two other Negroes, one a deaf mute, and these two were up for the same Christian treatment. However, white men who knew that this confession was a he made out of whole cloth came to the defense of these helpless victims of a mob of American Christians, and saved them from the fate of Person, who after being prepared for a burnt offering on the altar of American civilization, had his arms jerked from their sockets, his eyes gouged out, and, after being burned, his heart was plucked from his seared body and placed on exhibition as a souvenir of justice. In connection with this wonderful demonstration of American justice, this mob was forming for two weeks and when all arrangements had been completed the schools were diamissed in order that the children might witness the great scene of Southern justice. Not only are these crimes the sign of a degenerate nation, but they are great inducements for Negro laborers to leave the South, and as the usual Southern white man is a lax, wortless cuss, who would rather whittle on a stick and chew tobacco than to go to heaven in a chariot, the man who has work to be done will find himself in a hard row of stumps when these scalawags have been successful in driving the Negro away. Either the industries of the South must suffer, or these hellions must be put out of business. Address all communications to The Supreme Plaintiff, 1120 Kansas Avenue, Boston, Kansas. Money sent by Express, Postal Office Money Order or Registered Letter at our risk; otherwise at the risk of the sender. When the attention of The Plaintiff is called to any misstatement of facts in these columns, or to any error concerning any man or thing, correction will necessarily be made. Unused communications except from our regular correspondence, will not be published. We cannot account for the accident, but for once in its existence the Topeka Daily Capital, Gov. Capper's great moral guide and Christian educator, spelled "Negro" with a capital letter, and so far as we know, no one has been found dead around that great establishment because of this great accident. This happened Tuesday, June 5, the great American registration day. May many such days come again. To the People of Topeka: We wish to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Ismert-Hincke Milling Co., which is a corporation that manufactures some of the best flour made in this country, and gives the best rates. If you want to save money and have good flour at the same time, call for the "I..II." brand. Tell your grocer that if he wants your trade he must handle "I..II." flour. THE CASE OF DR. R. E. SMITH During the past few weeks several articles have appeared in the daily press concerning the case of the wife of Mr. Asa Smith, a wealthy citizen of Parsons, Kan., and Dr. Robert E. Smith, a young colored man, who was reared in that city. We do not know the facts in this case, but we do know that there is one ungodly liar in that burg who seems imbued with an idea that a mob wants to execute the law. The lies sent out from Parsons by the representative of the Kansas City Post are so far from believable that Satan would not try to pass them off for anything but lies. According to the lies of this correspondent a man would have to possess at least three good hands and arms to perpetrate the kind of crime charged. No man with two hands only could hold a woman, struggling against certain death, and pour acid down her throat; and if, as stated in press reports, this woman ran out in the yard before becoming unconscious, there certainly would have been some tall screaming in the house before she came outside. But with all the lies told, the mob wanted by the Post scribe has not materialized. The following clipping is from one of the Parsons dailys: "A telegram from Parsons to the Kansas City Post last evening states that howling mobs have been marching through the streets of Parsons, demanding the blood of Dr. Smith, the Negro doctor, and that a great mob is forming. As a general rule the people of Parsons can generally place the blame for this kind of stuff." "Stuff" is right. Parsons people have respect for law and order, and only once has the mob spirit got sufficient courage to show itself, and the damper was clamped on their ardor so quickly that one member of the mob ran home and jumped into bed with his boots on. We don't know the author of these malicious lies from Parsons, but we believe him to be a skulking skunk who landed in Parsons a few years ago from Missouri, a red-eyed Democrat, transformed himself into a Populist, and metamorphosed into the ranks of Republican leadership, was batted on the head with a waterelm club and knocked from his high perch on that limb, and is now trying to come back to power. But there will be no mob in Parsons. Stand Up For Right! Below is a clipping from the Charleston (S. C.) American, which says that colored women are going to demand that they be employed in the navy yard clothing factory. This is as it should be, as the colored people represent the majority of the laboring class of people, and we would advise the colored people to write immediately to the President and Secretary of the Navy, that this matter may be adjusted. The American's article: The announcement from officials in charge of the clothing factory at the Charleston navy yard that only white women would be employed as operators in spite of the insistent demand of colored women in the last two days that they be employed, was published in the daily papers in this city, and has met with instant protest from the Negroes of the community. The statement, made last night by representatives of the Negroes, was that demands had been made on the recorder of the labor board at the navy yard for application blanks for employment and at the postoffice and the office of the director of labor in the custom house, but that the response has been that no Negroes would be employed at the clothing factory. The reasons given, it was said, were those advanced already by officials at the yard, that there could be no mingling of the races, and there was no provision for segregation. On the other hand, the Negroes claim that as American citizens, in a national emergency called upon to do their patriotic duty in offering themselves for employment at a government plant, they have the same right to employment in the clothing factory as the white people. The further claim is made that the new building of the clothing factory, to be opened June 1, will need 600 operators, and they can fill the building with Negro women, thus avoiding any mingling of the races. The officials of the clothing factory, in a statement last night, say that if there is any dissension in regard to employment the navy department will remove the factory and Charleston will lose the benefit of a finely equipped, efficient plant that means a great deal to the community in many ways. They indicate that there will be no backward step in their attitude to employ only white women in the factory, as outlined in their statement published yesterday, and that the contention of the Negroes for employment will only lead to a disagreement that will mean the loss of the factory to Charleston. There the matter stands Fight to Finish. The Negroes state that they have made preparations for a determined fight for what they consider their rights. The matter is one, they claim, that affects their rights as citizens of the United States, and they will carry the fight to the highest court in the land to effect a settlement. The navy yard clothing factory officials say that the matter is already closed, as far as employment of the Negroes is concerned, and they will stand back of the announcement made that there shall be only white women employed in the factory. Yesterday an effort was made by the Negroes to obtain application blanks at the postoffice, at the office of the director of labor in the customs house and the office of the recorder of the labor board at the navy yard. A black Negro woman was sent to each place to ask for an application blank. She was refused. Directly following her a light colored Negress asked for an application blank and was given one at each place. The Negro leaders, who instigated the requests, immediately asked why one was refused and the other granted blanks. The answers were identical—that in the case of the light colored Negress the impression was that she was a white woman—otherwise she would not have been given the blank. Thus, the Negroes claim, it is made plain that the Negroes will be refused blanks. Call for One Thousand. The Negroes are calling for 1,000 of their race to apply today for application blanks for employment at the clothing factory. They say that one out of three applicants may be thrown out by the labor board, and thus at least 600 of their race will be given the opportunity of employment in the clothing factory. War Department, the Adjutant General's Office, Washington, May 3, 1917. Mr. Nick Chiles, Editor Topka Plaindaler, Topka, Kan.; Dear Sir-I am directed by the Secretary of War to acknowledge the receipts of your communication of recent date addressed to the President relative to the establishment of colored national guards in the various states, and to advise you that your letter has been made a matter of official record for reference when Congress shall have completed its legislation relative to the raising of new forces and the appointment of officers therein. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, AND KANSAS CITY, MO. Mrs. Sara Parks, Grand Princess of the S. M. T. lodge of Kansas, who has been quite such, is convalescent. Attorney Elisha Scott of Topeka was in the city Friday attending the federal court. He obtained a writ of habens corpus for one Chas. Pat- ton of Wichita. In spite of the rain May 27 the U. B. P. and S. M. T. held their annual services at the Metropolitan Baptist church. The sermon was preached by Rev. Geo. McNeal. Over eighty dollars was raised in the collection. E. W. K. of P. held their annual services May 27 at the A. M. E. church. The U. B. F., S. M. T. and Juvenile held their annual services June 3 at the A. M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Brown, 841 New Jersey avenue, have returned home from Pleasant Hill, Mo., where they attended the funeral of the latter's aunt, Mrs. Nora Cohran, who was also the mother of Rev E. M. Cohran, state missionary. Mrs. J. W Jones, 410 State avenue, and Mrs. Minna Hatt, 1043 Grandview boulevard, were in Pleasant Hill, Mo., at the bedside of the latter's grandmother, Mrs. Nora Cohran, for several days before she died. On Sunday evening following the funeral Mrs. Jones was called home by the sudden illness of her husband Mr. Will Townes, 1017 Walker avenue, is ill at his home. He is a member of Patriarchs No. 66 and the Odd Fellows in Kansas City, Mo., also of the band. Mr. J. Donas Hurt, 2120 North Walnut t boulevard, has returned home after a delightful visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hurt, at Memphis, Teen. He was royally entertained while there and says the colored people are very suc ceestful in that part of the country. Mr. Sillas Hunn of Hiawatha, Kan., is the guest of his sister and brother-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. J. B. McLindon, 342 Haskell avenue. The funeral of Mrs. Jarrett was held Tuesday from the M. E. church. She was a member of Centennial M. E. 'church, K. C. Mo., and her pastor, Rev. Davis, came over to deliver the eulogy. Mrs. Sadie Duncan, 1016 Oakland avenue, remains ill at her home and her sister, Miss Bettie Moseley of K. C. Mo., is constantly at her bedside. Mrs. M. E. Goins, 1502 North Ninth street, entertained the Woman's Mite Missionary society at her home. Dainty lunch was served. The pars-mage committee of the M. E. church met with Mrs. Letitia Childs, Tenth and New Jersey avenue, this week. Kannas City, Missouri. The funeral of the youngest child of Rev. and Mrs. S. W. Bacque, 2210 Kannas avenue, was held at 9 o'clock Sunday morning, May 27. Their many friends extend their deepest sympathy. Now Hope Temple S. M. T. held its anniversary Tuesday night, May 27, and entertained the members and guests with a fine program, which was enjoyed by all present. The hall was beautifully decorated for the occasion and an elaborate lunch was served. Miss Magnolia Lewis, Princess. The many friends of Dr. Brookins, 1816 Woodland avenue, are glad know his health has been restored and that he has resumed his practice. A fine program was rendered at the Masonic Temple Sunday afternoon in honor of Esther Day by the nine chapters of the O. E. S. of K. C. Mo. The choir singing, so los and addressed were fine. NEGROES MAKING GOOD IN HARPER COUNTY Anthony, Kansas. Editor Plaindealer: My Deir Sir—I hope you will give space for my letter in your paper, as I feel it will be an incentive to many who read it. I am a missionary and love all people. God created all, and says in His word, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." I am a white woman, but meet so many refined colored people that are vastly superior to our inferior whites that I feel encouraged when I can do anything for the upbuilding of the colored race. I have read your paper some and find so much about "preparedness." I read that slogan everywhere, and must say I never saw a more industrious, congenial and prepared lot of colored people than there are in the little town of Anthony (about 3000 population). Oil leases have been taken and there are prospects of a real boom soon. There are two colored churches here, and not an idle colored person in the town; they are decidedly better fixed than the whites, all except two or three families owning their own homes. I should judge there are fifteen or twenty families and several single men and women working in the town. A number of intelligent little children are enrolled in the schools. I wish to mention a few of those whose names I best remember: Mrs. Oath and Mrs. Colemin, both pioneers and aged windows, own nice homes. Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson, great church workers, have a lovely home. Mr. Jackson is employed at the First National bank building. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thoras own a neat cottage and seven lots. Mr. Thomas is a section foremin. Mrs. Maddox, another aged widow, owns her own home. Her son works at the bank, owns a nice cottage. Her daughter, Mrs. Mintin, and husband have considerable town property. I also met Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hogue, who own a beautiful suburban amenage. Mr. Hogue is engaged in hog raising, registered Poland-Chinas being his favorite breed, and a nicer bunch of hogs I haven't seen in many days. I talked with Mrs. Hogue, of whom Missourii should be proud. She said her maiden name was "Manse Iowa," and a more accomplished young woman I have never met. She is mistress of the Spanish and English languages, and I was pleased with her clever manner and witty repartee. I asked why she was not teaching the languages and she replied; "That would be too great a contrast, I rather think poultry will go better with Mr. Hogue's hogs, therefore I operate three incubators." I never saw a finer variety of poultry. I will say in conclusion, and as one who loves your people, keep such towns and people in mind as an example—many dependent whites, but every colored person in this town independent. Stop off and see for yourself. May the Lord encourage them to continue. Remember me to the folks as their sister in Christ, if you visit Anthony. MARY E. ELLINWOOD HUTCHINSON, K.A. Mrs. C. O. Smith entertained a number of friends at one o'clock dinner Sunday. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Claud Cayton, Mrs. Alma Allen, Miss R. McCallup, Mrs. M. C. Rhoten and Master Morris Lee Rhoten, and Mrs. Bulwate. All enjoyed a delightful dinner. Farms for Negroes Sir Alfred Mee, why not buy a farm in a land here a man is a man! Here ONE cross will pay for your farm! I can sell you a farm in Logan County, Kansas, PRICE FROM ONE DOLLAR TO TWENTY DOLLARS PER ACRE. Easy Terms, Great and most beautiful climate on earth. It is mean BUSINESS, write 8. E. CAREY, Lawyer, BUSSELL BPINGER, KAR. Are You in Trouble? Are You in Trouble? Sick, Poor or Unhappy? If so, consult me. I will give you Metaphysical Treatment that will bring results. If unable to call, write. A free-will offering of money should be given with each request for treatment. MRS. M. L. FOSTER, Student of H. J. Howell, Metaphysician. 945 Washington Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas. Bass' Green Houses are chock full of Spring Plants. Prices to suit the times. Geraniums, Ferns, Salvias, Cannas, Foliage, Vincas, Verbenas, Snapdragons, Hanging Baskets, Porch Boxes. Come and see them. Phone sales promptly delivered. E. G. BASS, FLORIST. Phone 3000. 809 E. 15th St. WHEN IN OMAHA THE PATTON HOTEL, Boecka So. of Union Sutton, M. P. PATTON, Prop. CAFE IN CONNECTION Meals at All Hours. Phone Dongles 4446. JAMA. NEBRAKA 1014-16 So. 11th St. TOPEKA'S FIRST COLORED LICENSED EMBALMER. HENRY UNIKE Our Popular Undertaker Phone 574, 809 Kansas Ave. Open for Business Day and Night. Everything New But the Man. Best Service Guaranteed. THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN ...Grower... It removes dandruff, stops the itching of scalp; it gives wonderful results. Three Months Treatment for $2 20 or $9 c per Box. Agents Wanted JME. M. HEARD. 519 S. 16th St. SAINT JOSEPH. — MISSOURI Ada's Hair Grower a 3 months will make the hair long, soft and glossy, a trial will prove it. When a Leavenworth, call on the manufacturer. We want Agents to represent us. a 8 months will make the fair long, soft and glossy, a trial will prove it. When a Leavenworth, call on the manufacturer. We want Live Agents to represent us OATARRH of the BLADDER and all blighters in 24HOURS SANTAL AL MIDY For notary work see Miss Edna Greene, public stenographer, at the Plaindealer office, Phone 3300. Kansas' Famous Wheat makes I-H FLOUR Hard, winter, "turkey red" is the world's flour wheat supreme. Given the benefit of I-H modern milling, this fine raw product becomes a super-fine food—I-H Flour—the aristocrat of every grocery. Try it. Ismert-Hineke Milling Company Topeka, Kas. JUNCTION CITY, KAN. Rev. II. Shepard and church are making preparations to entertain the District Sunday School Convention and Allen Christian Endeavor League of the Topeka district of the A. M. E. church, June 12, 13 and 14. Preparations are being made to entertain about 65 delegates. Sergeants Dorsey, Thompson, Ellis and Barnes expect to receive commissions as lieutenants in the colored regiments soon to be organized. Mrs. Tyre Rivers, wife of Colonel Rivers of Ft. Riley, has organized a number of the colored ladies here as Red Cross workers. The women are doing some very creditable work in making supplies for the soldiers. When the required number have joined they will complete their organization and be given first aid instruction and will be able to accompany their husbands and friends upon the battlefield. Mrs. G. M. Brown is the new president of the A. M. E. Literary society. Mrs. Housely, wife of Rev. Housely, is in a critical condition. Their many friends sympathize with them in the loss of their infant. The young married people have organized the Crescent and Star club for social recreation. Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Allen entertained their club at their lovely remodeled home on West Fourteenth street. The evening was enjoyably spent in games and discussing the war situation. Mrs. N. D. Aldridge sustained a broken rib recently. Some of our colored U. S. boys are making good. One private is driving his own car for the commanding officer's personal use, for which the government pays him ten dollars a day. Miss Helen Jones and Miss Ellita Blantyre spent Decoration day in Manhattan looking after the graves of their depatted relatives. The Second Baptist church, under Rev. C. R. Bruster's reign, is making some marked improvements in the property by laying concrete walks and building a fence. SALINA, KAN. Miss Geraldine Bryant and Mr. Estill Woodley have arrived from Topeka after spending a few days in hiatus attending commencement of the T. I. and E. I. They report a pleasant trip. We are glad to have Misses Corrine Henderson, Ovelia Hayes and Edna Lannagan, and Mr. Theodore Banks home from the T. I. and E. I. Miss Frances Deprad is in Nicolemus at the bedside of her sick mother, Mrs. Mary Deprad. Miss Hattle Alexander, who has been in the hospital here for several weeks, has returned to her home in Hill City. Miss Mary Banks, who was home with her parents for a short while, left Tuesday to attend the Normal at Emporia. Misses Bessie Greene and Edna Lannagan accompanied her. Miss Jennie Boswell is home from school. Miss Alphonso Perrin is attending the Normal here. Miss Mary Johnson and little brother Henry are in the city as the guests of Miss Geraldine Bryant. They are T. I. and E. I. students and are on their way to their home in Denver. The meetings of the A. M. E. district conference begin Wednesday and a large attendance is expected. Messrs. Geo. Jones and Estill Woodley were guests of Miss Bryant it dinner Sunday. Reconstruction of the St. John Baptist church is almost finished and fedulatory services will be held in two weeks. Mrs. Ella Rosemond, who has been on the sick list, is able to be out again. Mrs. O. B. Wilson is on the sick list. Mrs. Edna Henderson of Topeka was here as the guest of Mrs. R. C. Jackson at the Country club. Reconstruction of the M. E. church on North Eighth street has begun. AGENTS! Make big money selling Dermatas Hair and Face Preparations. Write it once to Mrs. P. W. Dunavant, Pres., 2749 Walnut St., St. Louis, Mo. MAKING OIL RUNS. The Springvale Oil and Gas Company is pleased to announce increased activity in the development of its oil properties. Two oil wells have been completed to the shallow depth, one of which is now on the pump and producing around fifty barrels of oil per day and the other has caused off the shallow oil sand and is drilling for the deep pay, both being in section 19-4-2, Carter county, Okla. On the lease noted above no expense and pains have been spared to fully equip it for complete development at an early date. A 10,000-barrel steel storage tank has been ```markdown ``` completed, a steel flow tank has been built and a modern pump station is all complete and in operation. Recent favorable developments on arsenage adjacent and in close proximity to several of our properties have increased the value of same tenfold or more and these properties alone, to say nothing of our producing acreage, should present a source of profitable investment to the investing public such as is found in the foremost concerns of like nature throughout the country. For prompt disposition and quick sales a block of 2,000 shares has been set aside and when they have been sold it is the intention to withdraw all other stock from the market. First come first served. Prompt action imperative. Shares, for a short while yet, $3 each. Address THE SPRINGVALE OIL & GAS CO., F. W. Bruner, Secretary, 14½ West California St., Oklahoma City, Okla. (First published in the Topeka Plaindealer June 1, 1917.) State of Kansas, Shawnee County, ss: In the matter of the estate of Lucy Ambrose, deceased, late of Shawnee County, Kansas. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that on the 28th day of May, A. D. 1917, the undersigned was, by the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, duly appointed executor of the estate of Lucy Ambrose, late of Shawnee County, deceased. All parties interested in said estate will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Remember "The Valley of Lost Hope" at the Apex, June 15. REGISTERED PATENT OFFICE U S BEFORE AFTER This Company has gone out of business and we have bought the receipts for making these preparations. The articles for making these preparations can be bought in any drug store. Anyone can make it when they get the receipts. You can send $1 in a letter or money order or stamps and we will send receipts by mail. II. MOSLEY 509 N. 1st St. - Richmond, Vn. "Voice on the Wire" Friday, 5c, at the Apex. Attorney Elisha Scott was in Wichita Monday on business. FOR RENT—A nice three room cottage. 410 Fillmore street. Best of music and pictures at the Apex. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. D. C. Scott entertained Mrs. Craw of Los Angeles at dinner Sunday. Mme. Dayse Walker-Booker was a pleasant caller at this office on Tuesday. Cowboy and western pictures every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the Apex. Lincoln Institute, at Jefferson City, Mo., will hold its graduating exercises June 5 to 16. Miss Elizabeth White of Kansas City spent Sunday in the city the guest of Miss Saseta Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Z. Martin of Chicago were pleasant callers at this office one day this week. Miss Beulah Wims, a student of Pittsburg Normal, is at home again and reports a pleasant year's work. Miss Mamie Williams has returned from Jackson, Tenn., where she has been teaching at Lane College. Mrs. Walter Z. Martin was honor guest of the Monday Afternoon Whist club. Mrs. Jessie Brice was hostess. Mrs. Lillian J. Craw of Los Angeles, Cal., was the guest of Mrs. E. Ridley at six o'clock dinner on Monday. The Sunday Afternoon Forum met at the Y. M. C. a rooms June 3. A very interesting program was rendered. Mrs. Clarence Moss entertained Wednesday evening complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Z. Martin of Chicago. Mrs. Jessie Brice entertained a line party Thursday afternoon at the Novelty, complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Z. Martin. Mr. A. M. Robinson visited his sister, Mrs. A. R. Ransom, last week. He was en route to Oklahoma to visit his father. Mr. U. G. Jones of Denver, Col., is in the city, guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Jones. He is here to recuperate his health. The Good Samaritans will meet at the residence of Mrs. Birdie Scott Taylor, 1170 Lincoln street. All members are urged to be present. Revs. T. L. Griffith and Jos. T. Hill spent a part of the week in Lawrence attending the Kaw Valley District Sunday School Convention. Rev. C A Williams of Denver, Col., is in the city visiting his mother, Mrs. Annelise Williams. He was a pleasant caller at this office Tuesday. Mrs. R. H. Wade entertained at seven o'clock dinner Friday evening for Mrs. Lillian Jeltz-Craw. Miss Mabel Overton of Chicago was one of the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ware entertained Mr. and Mrs. Walter Z Martin at dinner Saturday. On Sunday next they will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Drane. Mrs. Lillian Jeltz-Craw of Los Angeles, Cal., left Monday for her home after a delightful visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Jeltz, 615 Morris avenue. Mrs. Stoner Williams, on the North Side, was severely injured recently when she had the misfortune to fall down a flight of steps. She is still under the physician's care, Mrs. Robt. W. Strode of Winslow, Ariz., is in the city visiting Mrs. G. W. Hicks. They were pleasant callers at this office Monday and Mrs. Strode left her subscription to this paper. The following are the colored graduates from the Topeka high school; Miesa Alta Sawyer, Edna Williams, Hortonua Ridley, Berthan Porter and Esther Van Dyne; and Messrs. Harold Monroe, Aaron Douglas and Columbus Hagan. On last Friday evening Mrs. R. H. Wade and Miss Hazelle Harris royally entertained at six o'clock dinner complimentary to Miss Mabelle Overton of Chicago, a piece of the former, and Mrs. James Logan Craw of Los Angeles, Cal. The Carnation Art club met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Frank Kelly, 1733 Jackson street. Adjourn to meet next with Mrs W. M. Steel, 926 Wood street.—Mrs. Weddington, Pres.; Mrs. Theresa Hollis, Reporter. Mrs. Tamar Daniel, aged 86, died at her home, 1933 Clay, Tuesday morning. May 29. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Mount Olive M. E. church, conducted by Rev. J. D Rice, assisted by Rev 'I. W. H. Terrell of Lawrence, Rev. L. H. Bolden, Rev. J. S. Burton and Rev. G. D. Olden. She is survived by a daughter, Fam. nie Cunningham; a son, C. C. Daniel, and four granddaughters. THIRD AND KANSAS AVE. MONDAY AND TUESDAY. "The Evil Women Do," 5-reel Bluebird feature, 10c. WEDNESDAY. "Purple Mask" No. 14. A two-reel western drama, 5c. THURSDAY. A good Western picture, 5c. FRIDAY. "The Valley of Lost Hope" and "The Voice on the Wire." 5c. SATURDAY. "The Girl From Frisco," two-reel Western picture, 5c. Always a Good Show. Satisfaction Given or Money Back. Mrs Arms, wife of Sergt. Benj. Arms, left last night for Chicago to visit her daughter. Miss Pearl E. Anderson of 710 Hancock street, who has been very ill, is able to be up again. Word has been received in Topeka of the death of Dr. James Page at Pittsburg, Pa., Friday, June 1. Burial was made in Chicago. The deceased was reared in this city and had many friends here who sympathize with the bereaved family. Miss Mabelle Overton of Chicago, Ill., has been visiting in our city, the guest of her uncle, Mr. Overton of North Topka, and other relatives. She left for her home yesterday, and will stop at Lawrence and Kansas City. She is the daughter of Mr. Anthony Overton of Chicago, proprietor of the Overton Hygiene Co., makers of the high brown face powder. To the People of Topeka: We wish to call the attention of our readers to the advertiserent of the Isert-Hineke Milling Co., which is a corporation that manufactures some of the best flour made in this country, and gives the best rates. If you want to save money and have good flour at the same time, call for the "I.-H." brand. Tell your grocer that if he wants your trade he must handle "I.-H." flour. Mrs. T. Craddock Sinkford, the popular hair dresser, is a firm believer in the saying, "Advertising pays." Mrs. Sinkford had this office print her two thousand booklets giving details of her Marrow Pomade, and now she is kept so busy that she is forced to work day and night to supply the wants of her patrons, but she now has a good supply of this great hair remedy on hand and hopes to keep up with the demands of the public. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus M. Frazier, 106 North Jefferson street, very royally entertained at dinner last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Walter Z. Martin of Chicago: Mrs. Gene Gough of St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Margie Washington of Kansas City, Mrs. Harriet Williams and Mr. Frank Jordan of this city. When Mrs. Frazier entertains she does not stop on half-way ground, and those who partook of this feast of good things will always remember this great occasion. We are in receipt of a letter from our old friend Thomas Brown, from Pocatello. Idaho, informing us that he is enjoying good health and doing fine. He enclosed two subscriptions to the Plainenaler. He informs us that there is a great demand for colored labor in that state. Anyone wishing to go to Pocatello will do well to address a letter to S. T. Brown, Box 1144, and he will be glad to give information. Mr. Brown is a Kansas young man and was reared around Holton, and Horton, is honest and upright, and can be relied upon. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Z. Martin arrived in the city Friday from Chicago and are the guests of Mrs. Harriet Williams and brother, John Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Williams. Mr. Martin is a clerk in the Chicago postoffice. Mrs. Martin is a Topekan, having been born and reared here. Topeka claims her and welcomes herself and husband. A number of parties and receptions have been planned for them. They will leave next Wednesday for Kansas City, Mo., to spend a week with Prof. and Mrs. N. Clark Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Crews. Mrs. Lillian J. Craw and Mrs. Maudo E. Gentry attended the commencement exercises at Western University Just Thursday. Mr. Jackson White of this city was one of the graduates. Jackson will be remembero as the boy the Les Commerceault club, of which Mrs. Gentry is president, cared for up until two years ago, when he felt that he was able to care for himself. This he has nobly done and graduated salutatorian of his class, receiving a diploma not only from the normal department, but from the agricultural department as well. Jackson is an honest, industrious boy, and the club are proud of him and feel that their efforts have not been in vain. He is planning to attend Kansas University next term. Notice—Firs. Victoria Clay-Haley, National Organizer of the National Association of Colored Women, will appear in an illustrated lecture at the Second Baptist church June 29, instead of June 7, as announced in our last issue. BARGAIN DAYS Every Friday and Saturday after May 15 will be bargain days at Bass' greenhouses. Call 3000 and order your plants, or come and see for yourself. 600 East Fifteenth street "Money saved is money made." Last Sunday was a great day with us. Beginning with the Sunday school, all services were well attended. Dr. Hill preached a most inspiring sermon in the morning, all feeling its effect. This was followed by an offering which netted the day's efforts $80. A large crowd gathered around the table of the Lord at the communion hour. This Sunday, June 10, will be another great day if the elements are kind to us. Pastor Hill will preach at the morning service; subject, "A Tight Grip." At the evening service Mme. Dayse Walker-Booker, the noted lecturer, who has thrilled thousands all over the country, will be the speaker. Her subject will be "Today." This is one of her newest and best oratorical efforts, and we want her to meet her largest Topeka audience with us. She is a power, and will do us all good. Hear her Sunday night at Shiloh, after hearing some good music by a great choir. Just two more episodes of "The Purple Mask," at the Apex. Don't miss 'em. Mrs. Henrietta Davis and sister, Mrs. Julia Prince, of St. Louis, Mo., were in Topeka to attend the funeral of their aunt a few weeks ago. Mrs. Davis was formerly Miss Henrietta Jackson and was a teacher in the public schools of Topeka and also a member of The Plaindealer force. We are always pleased to welcome her to Topeka, and her many friends were glad to see her. Her husband, Rev. Davis, is presiding elder of the Missouri district of the A. M. E. Zion church. Mrs. Prince is a member of the welfare board and does much work for the welfare of her race, especially among the orphans and old people dependent upon charity. The editor of the Plaindealer was in Oklahoma when these ladies were in Topeka and is very sorry to have missed seeing them, but at the same time is glad to know they were here and gave this office a call. Mme. Dayse Walker-Booker is in the city from Indianapolis, Ind., and is lecturing at the different churches in the city. She spoke at the Second Baptist church, Third and Quincy, last Sunday evening, at St. John A. M. E. church on Monday and was to have spoken at Shiloh on Tuesday, but the storm prevented, and she will speak there Sunday night, June 10. Before she leaves Topeka she will give a special lecture to women, and we hope all the women will avail themselves of the opportunity to hear her. She is one of the best lecturers in the country on human rights and is a forceful speaker. She is a strong advocate of the rights of her sex, for which the women admire her. She is worth $100 a night, and $1000 to any community in which she speaks. Those in other cities who have not heard her should write and get in communication with her at once. ARE YOU GOING TO COLORADO! Persons contemplating a visit to Colorado Springs, Col., should stop at the National Preachers' Home. All outside rooms, hot and cold baths, every convenience; room and board not to exceed $1 per day; one block to car line. Write Mrs. Ellis E. Braxton, 915 East Huerfano St Colorado Springs, Col.—Adv. COLORED MAN WON FROM TENOR SINGERS Edward J. Reeves, the only collar man entered in the Spring Music Festival held at the Forum in Wichita, was easily the winner in the tenor, class B, contest. The contest number was "The Years at the Spring," by Beach, and Mr. Reeves' score was close to the 100 per cent mark. Mr. Reeves was born and raised in Kansas and is now making Wichitn his home. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, and has passed the government examination for meat inspector. See "The Girl From Frisco" at the Apex every Saturday. The best series we have shown yet. BLUEBIRD PHOTO-PLAYS PRESENT 'The Evil Women Do' Intrigue, Revegne, Retribution Introducing ELSIE JANE WILSON And RUPERT JULIAN Leading a Select Company of Blue- bird Comic Artists, Including Dianella Billing- ton, Hobart Hen- ley and Douglas Gerard Emil Gabollau's Thrilling French Detective Story, "The Clap of Gold," told in Gripping Episodes, MON. & TUES. June 11-12 SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. (Third and Quincy.) Next Sunday, June 10, will be observed as the fifty-third anniversary of the organization of the church. There will be a home-coming service at 3 p.m., to which all persons who are now or ever have been members of the church are invited. The Sunday school will have a Children's day program at 9:30. The pastor's subject at 11 o'clock will be "The Stumbling-block and the Millstone." At the home-coming service addresses will be delivered which will cover the history of the church since its organization. Music by the chorus. The anniversary sermon will be delivered at p. m. by Dr. G. D. Olden, with Dr. W. R. Carter as his alternate. Music by the choir, and special numbers by members of the choirs of former years. On Tuesday, June 12, there will be a public reception to graduates of colleges and high schools. An invitation to the public is extended by the social committee, which has the matter in charge. Rev. J C. Olden of Metidian, Miss., pastor of the Congregational church of that city and a son of Rev. G. D. Olden, will deliver a lecture on Friday, June 15, on "The Exodus of the Negro From the South." Rev. Olden has given the subject special study and will have a message which all should hear. Last Sunday was a great day. There were large congregations both morning and night. At night a most excellent address was delivered by Mme. Dayes Deane Walker-Booker, T. L. GREEFEH Niern. ```markdown ``` Mme. Teedle Craddock Slinkford HAIRDRESSER Pomades, Shampoo and Hair Toile. Scip Treatments a Specialty. Braids made to order. Straightening Combs. Electric Combs and Brushes for all. All Mail Orders given Prompt Attention Phone 4018 Red — 209 Jackson St. Topeka, Kansas. DR. J. M. JAMISON—827 Madison Street. Special Diseases. Phone 959. DR. S. FLOURNOY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 508 Kansas Ave. Office hours: 9.00 a.m. to 12 M. 2.00 p. m. to 5.00 p. m. 7.00 p. m. to 9.00 p. m. AT OFFICE EVENINGS Phone 1147 DR. J. LOUIS RANSOM, Physician and Surgeon 409 Kansas Avenue Phone 4265 Office Hours:—9:30 to 12:00 a. m. 1:30 to 5.00 p. m.; 7:30 to 8:00 evening. Sundays by Request. OFFICE HOUSES— 9.00 a. m. to 12.00 m 2.00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m. 7.00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m. Sunday by Appointment. DR. M. L. ROSS, Physician and Surgeon 'alls Answered at Night. Office 720 Kansas Ave.-Tel. 3087. Res. 1881 Monroe St.-Tel. 3087 B-2. OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 to 10 50 a.m. DR. THADDEUS P. MARTUS Physician and Surgeon Phone 8608 652 Kansas Avenue Residence: 1028 Buchanan Street Residence Phone: 3608 R-2 Tel. 771. Res. 413 OLIVER A. TAYLOR, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office: 334 Kansas Ave. (Over Gilber's Drug Store), across from Throop Hotel At office one or two hours in afternoon. Practice limited absolutely to office work, Residence, 914 Buchanan street, Hours--8 to 12 a m, 1 to 5:00 p. m DR. CHAS. L. WILLIAMS Dentist Sunday by Appointment 609 KROSS ATYDUS -- TOPEKA, KAN Stopestreet & Son, To cater one of the finest lines of UNDERTAKING GOODS in the State for never sleep. Two Licensed Embass ers in attendance PHONE 52. 436 QUINCE 9D Wash goods--big|bargains Small lots, odd bolts, and mill lengths of the very Wash Goods right now in greatest demand for Summer Apparel-on sale at ladi reductions from their worth. Palletier's Bargain Basement-1 Great Store within a Store. trolley To Kansas City! One of the most delightful rides in the State of Kansas is on the THOLLY ZINE between Kansas City and Leavenworth, Kansas. This line runs through beautiful and picturesque country. It takes you by the door of the State Postmilitary at Lansing, Kan., the National Soldiers' Home, Fort Leavenworth and both the Federal and Military Prisons and many other important sightseeing places. Cars 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 nights last car leaves at 12 o'clock, midnight. Cars leave Leavenworth, Kan., every hour on the half from 6:30 a. m. to 10 80 p. m. except Saturday and Sunday nights the cars leave at 19 o'clock, midnight. The Kansas City-Westlein Pairway Co. The New Era Milling Company Order by Mail Delivery Prepaid Wash goods-- Small lots, odd bolts, and mill le right now in greatest demand for radi reductions from their worth. Ginghama; fancy patterns, plaids, checks and stripes in all the best colors—the 12½c quality. 10c White Goods of all kinds suitable for waists and dresses—remnants and odd lengths of up to 19c ones special priced, per yard 10c Apron Percale; yard wide; good quality; small figures and stripes on light grounds—per yard 12½c Ginghama; plain colors, stripes and small checks for house dresses, children's dresses, boys' waists, etc.—the regular 15c quality, per yard 12½c Wash Goods; 2½c. to 10-yd lengths of Seed Voiles, Tissues, Flaxons, Lawns, Ginghams, etc.—19c to 35c values, per yard 12½c Barred Nainook; the yard wide, snow-white in small checks—15c and 19c quality, per yard 13c Lonaldale Muslim; the genuine in up to 10-yard lengths—lay in a good supply, per yard 15c Fancy Wainslings; barred materials, fancy cords, woven figures, etc. in waist lengths, per yard 17c LAWRENCE GIRL WINS UNIVERSITY HONORS Lawrence, June 2. To the Plaundeker: Miss Blanche Patterson of Lawrence, Kan., is still attaining honor in scholarship. Not content with graduating from Lawrence High with honors, she has begun quite a brilliant college career. Miss Patterson was the only student among the fifty-five university freshmen announced by Dean Templin as belonging to the college honor roll. Miss Patterson has also been awarded the Winston scholarship for next year. In addition to her excellent work as a student, she is one of the most popular young women in Lawrence's younger set. Lawrence appreciates her success and wishes her many more honors during her university career. Mr. Ralph Mattox is in the hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where he underwent an operation for cataract of the eye. He is getting along nicely. Miss Gertrude Davis of Emporia spent the week-end with home folks. Miss Hattie Davis, who is attending high school in Emporia, will soon be home for the summer vacation. There was a light attendance at the rally at the M. E. church last Sunday on account of the rain. The collection was "17 Miss Violet Hooker, Mr. Walter Johnson and daughter Callie of Council Grove attended the rally at the M. E. church. Mr. H. L. Davis and son Roy are the owners of a new 1917 model Studebaker car. Mr. Wm. Ray of Omaha, Neb., is here for an indemnite stay. He is going to try farming again. Roy Davis drove his new car to Osage City to attend the Odd Fellows' thanksgiving exercises. He was accompanied by Geo. Lowery, Wm. Ray, Sum Harness, Harry Eulghon and Sam Robinson. Mr. Kirk Bridges is the the proud owner of a new horse and nuggy. Miss. Claudie Evans is planning on taking lots of chickens this year. Irolley To K One of the most delightful rides in ZINE between Kansas City and Leavenw beautiful and picturesque country. 16 Penitentiary at Lanning, Kan., the Natio and both the Federal and Military Pri osing places. 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Davis and family motored to Hawke Station to attend the fishing party given by Miss Violet Hooker and her school. Several fish were caught. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCory also attended the fishing party. Miss Elizabeth Woods and Miss Helen Keel of Manhattan visited with H L. Davis and family, returning home Sunday evening accompanied by Miss Pearl Davis and Miss Violet Hooker as far as Council Grove. Miss Pearl Davis visited with Miss Violet Hooker a few days and returned home Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Roy Harness of Junction City was here visiting relatives and friends. He and his cousins, Fred, Toll and Aaron Harness, attended the fishing party. PAOLA, KANSAS. Mr. Louis Tennyson, who has been in Independence, Kan., for several months, is home again. The young ladies gave a tambourine drill last week which was appreciated by all. Miss Ernestine English, one of our high school graduates, left last week for Muskogee, Okla., where she will do stenographic work. Rev. 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We were there three days and never heard a cross word nor saw a fight, except when two old ladies on the outskirts of the town engaged in a neighborhood quarrel in a buck yard. They were aliring each other's characters and that only amused and attracted the attention of their neighbors. All the business places are as up-to-date as in any city you might visit, and one city goods store on Saturdays employs from fifteen to twenty extra clefts. The patrons of the town are white, Indian and colored. The streets were thronged and everybody was talking business. This is the first place we ever visited and met so many people all talking business. Had it been in Kansas City or Topeka they would all have been talking about some white man's bank or some white man's political job, or something which they could not even look into, but here in Botley you find nothing but live people, all interested in the progress of the race. If they succeed in getting one of those large crops around Boles this year, look out for greater things for the city. Bobby is the home of B. F. Brown, the government demonstrator, who employs a young lady, and they are doing much to encourage the colored people along agricultural lines. Mr. Turner is the banker. He is continually on the job and too much praise can not be given him for the manner in which he has conducted the bank. It is through his efforts that Boley has been made the city that it is. It is always through financial institutions that the business people exist, and if it was not for the banks, towns would not amount to anything. Mr. Turner has worked hard and suffered much to make this town a success, and now his bank is one of the safest and best in the state. He also owns a big drug store, which is managed by Miss Taylor, who is a first class pharmacist and druggist. The people of Boley should be proud of Mr. Turner. Our old friend Hizel, the man who feeds the people, is still on the job. He it is who handles more treat than any other man in that part of the country, for he is a wholesale and retail grower and butcher and his store is loaded down with all sorts of good things of the season. Here will be found everything in the market. Colored people are known to eat and live well, and Mr. Hizel is prepared for them. He is assisted by his good wife, who is a splendid business woman. Mr. Hizel is a wide awake young man- and a booster for Boley. Everybody likes him and he likes everybody, and has no enemies anywhere in the world. Boley should be proud of its post master, Caesar R. Simmons. He is certainly a wide awake business man and works for Boley and Boley alone — that is his only hobby, to build up that town and not "Simmons. He is not at all selfish; all he wants to do is to take care of the people and have a first class postoffice, which he has, and there is none better conducted anywhere in the United States. No mail is laid around in the office that should be delivered. He sees to it that everyone gets his mail and if the white people were as careful about this matter of people getting their mail, Uncle Sam nor anyone else would have any complaint. Mr. Simmons is a thorough race man and believes in the uplift of his people. We met S. J. King, the cotton buyer and ginner. Last year he ginned over twelve hundred bales. He is a prosperous business man, honest and upright, which accounts for his success. We met our old friend McRiley and family, who are landmarks of Bohy and are doing much to keep the city on the map. We stopped at the commercial hotel of which Mrs. Berry is the proprietor. Bohy has this office and several building houses. Judge O. H. Bradley is one of the five wives of the town. He is an unattaker and justice of the peace. M. Bradley, his wife, is one of the school teachers. We advise people who want a good place to live and enjoy life to go to Boley and help build it up. Boley needs a large commission house. It is an apt cultural town and as soon as the people learn to take more little and hogs the town will be better off. WITH MISSIONARY MEETING. Parsons, Kan., June 4, 1917. To the Members of the Kansas Conference Branch of the Woman's Mute Missionary Society Dean Sisters—The date of our convention is July 25-27, and we will meet in the First A. M. L. church, Kansas City, Kan., the birthplace of our branch. Let each auxiliary send their delegates and their full assessment, and pray that we may have a globus success financially and spiritually. On account of the war and the high cost of living our missionaries are suffering at home and in foreign fields, and we must double our finances to maintain our missions. Fifteen hundred dollars is the goal this year. Let us pray and work as never before. "Let our motto, "Lifting as you climb," and the watchword, "Unity," be the pivailing spirit of each heart and every auxiliary. Do not forget to send or bring a piece for the bazar. I am yours for the cause of missions. MRS T. W. GREENE JR. WINFIELD, KAN. Among those who attended the A. M. E. conference at Salina were Rev. J. A. Broadnax, Rev. R. C. Lee, Mesdames Ruth Lee, Clara Flower, Deatrice Wright, Gertrude Nichols, Dorothy North, Mr. Roy Moore, Mrs. W. A. Wrigth and Ada Slaughter. Miss Gladys McClaren of Wellington is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fowler. Mrs. A. I. Nichols of Burden was in Winfield last Tuesday on business. Rev. E. P. Geiger of Wichita was in Winfield last Teusday to attend the college commencement. He is a graduate of the class of 1909, and during his stay in the city was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Montgomery and Mr. and Mrs. Cy Keys. The people of Winfield are very proud indeed of Roy Moore and Ambrose Woodard, who graduated from Southwestern University last Tuesday. These are the kind of boys the race needs. Mrs. Edward Thompson of Wellington was in the city last Saturday visiting her parents, Mr. and Miss. D. E. Douglass. The ladies of the O. E. S. gave a very nice program at Arkansas City last Thursday evening. The play given was "The Queen of Sheba." J. W. Jackson was in Arkansas City last Thursday on business for the Grand Lodge; which convenes in August. NEWTON, KAN. Mrs. G. J. Bull and childen of Wellington, Kou, are the guests of Mrs. George Bloan, 515 E. Eighth street. Mr. George L. Paine has purchased a five-passenger Studebaker car. Mr. Oscar Freeman is home from Topeka I. and L. I., where he attended school last term. Mr. Joe Richman is very sick, having been confined to his bed about two weeks. Mrs. Belle Bennett of Jetmore is visiting Mrs. A. J. Tandy, 810 E. Ninth street. 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Though being a mere child, there is nothing I enjoy more than hearing or seeing one presenting before the eyes of the public those things that pertain to the uplift of this noble Negro race. Your statements not only gave me a desire to read and ideal them, but caused me to look into the telescope of time and see the time coming when this noble black race of ours shall enjoy equal rights with any race on the globe. I am sure that every boy and girl who sees your statements concerning the Negro's equal rights not only desires to see that time come, but will put forth every effort to cause that time to hasten on. I write this in I encourage you to go forward with this good work. My prayers are that our just God of heaven bless you. May you live with and continue manfully, bravely at currently putting before the verse of the public those things which return to the upift of this our Negro race. Respectfully yours. WINNIE A. ANDREWS. Mr. Johnson, who has been sick since time, is improving. Mr. Richardson of Fourteenth Street, the Rock Island porter, is con- nued to his bed. His physician says he will be able to be out soon. Rev. Jackson, pastor of the Second Baptist church, preached two sermons Sunday morning and wined at his church, corner Fourteenth street and Avenue A. This being his second year as pastor, he is trying to finish building the new church. Rev. A. Gumble metched at the A. M. E. church Sindiv night to a goal sized audience. Dr. F. J. Peterson, the pastor, is succeeding in leading his people to higher ground. He will begin a series of meetings Wednesday night. Prof. John L. Thompson of Des Moines, Grand Master of the A. F. & A. M., of Iowa, was a visitor in my city Monday. He is president of the International Convention of Grand Masters; editor of the Bystander, a weekly journal of the press; proprietor of the leading hotel for our people in Des Moines. While here he called on Mrs. A. Gamble, a panel of his when he taught school in Bethany Mo., many years ago, and they had a pleasant visit. The A. M. E. Sunday school will give an entertainment, including a baby contest, Tuesday evening, the proceeds to be used to send a delegate to the Sunday school convention which convenes at Des Moines next week. The colated people have come to the city in great numbers this spring largely from Oklahoma and other Southern points. They are getting good jobs at fair wages and seem to be contented in their new homes. ELWOOD, KAN. Mrs. Adena Everhart spent Sunday in Illawatha, Kan, where she attended the baptizing. Mrs. Hatriet Turner returned home after several weeks' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Rodgers, in St Louis, Mo Miss Pearl Wisner and Miss Irene Milone have been appointed delegates to the district conference and Sunday school convention which convenes at Kansas City, Kan. Rev John Garmon, Mr Roscoe Wisner, Miss Lucile Robinson and Miss Edna Walker spent Sunday in Wathena at a rally and basket meeting. Those who attended the commencement exercises at St. Joseph, Mo., were: Miss Edna Walker, Miss Lucile Robinson, Mrs. Lulu Brown, Mrs. Sueie Brown, Cornelia Brown, Misses Edna and Irene Malone, Miss Cota Haskins and Miss Pearl Wisner. Mr. Roscoe Wisner attended a recital in St. Joseph, Mo., Monday night. YALE, KAN. Prof. Reece of Cherokee was in the city on business Saturday. Services were held at the A. M. E. church Sunday under the auspices of Rev. Aaron and at Mt. Hebron Baptist church by Rev. Chas. Ford. Both meetings were well attended and enjoyed by all. Mr. Dennis Hudson, who has been on the sick list for some time, is some better. Quite a number of friends visited Yale on Decoration day to pay their respects to their dead, among whom were Miss Stanh Cobb, M. Sylvester Powell, Mr. Wm. Cobb, Mrs. Mollie Cunningham and Mr. Q. Edrunson. Messrs. H. Shaughter, C. Thomas, Mayweather, Brown and H. Meredith, motored from Croweburg and were the guests of Mr. Hudson. Mr. A. D. Smith of Girard visited Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Sunday. on Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Sunday. Mr. H. Palmer was in Yale Sunday visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Palmer. Mr. Lightey of Cherokee spent the week end with her daughter, Mrs. M. Galines. Mrs. Jno. Lewis went to Pittsburg on business. Miss Lavenia Dewberry graduated from Pittsburg High school this year. She is a talented young woman and her many friends wish her much success. The common school of Yale has been built up considerably in the last year. Masters Teumseh and Clarence Weaver completed the course and will enter the P. H. S. the coming term. Miss Esther Beaton spent a few days with Mrs. Samuel Carmichael of Croweburg. KINSLEY, KAN. Rev, Orin Decreman left Saturday evening for Jetmore to fill his pulpit on the first Sunday in June. Mrs. Woods and daughter Mary were in from Garfield Thursday on business, and visiting. Miss Ruby Payne has become a reader of the Plaindealer. There seem to be quite a number of cases of measles in the city among our people. Mrs. Mary Thomas has been on the sick list, but is some better. Mrs. Lucile Jamison is expected home to visit her mother, Mrs. Johnson. Mr. Sylvester Martin sold four pigs Saturday at a very satisfactory price. Mrs. Bessie Burney of Dodge City spent Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Walker on her way home from a visit in the East. Mr. and Mrs. Will Taylor of Wichita are now working at the Grove Hotel PAOLA, KAN. The A. M. E church has a rally on which will end Sunday. It is expected that by that time there will be a hundred dollars on the table. The following colored students graduated from the eighth grade and will enter the high school next fall: Mary Taylor, Emma Dillard, Marie Emmons and George Jackson. Mr. Chris Dillard left last week for Edwardsville, Ill., for an indefinite stay The following people left for Chicago last week: Mr. W. W. Webb and daughter, Mr. Ed Webb and wife and Miss Vanda Tennyson. Mr. R. M. Taylor, who has been in Chicago for some time, writes that he likes the city fine and that he will soon move his family there. Miss Ether Hayden has returned to Nebraska, this time going to Juniata. Sone ee Fasieseern, S Sse) fas Se St on OR SSeS l= TB FEA Sen he ser = si i ee t “0 fon EE 22 Side Ok owth’s ni ahom pe = “Ee 1