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Now That the Colored Officers Have Made Good at Camp Funston, Let us Have Physicians and Nurses Twentleth Year. No. 3. OUR SOLDIERS AT CAL ARE A CREDIT Business Men Who Black 92d Declare a High Moral S Their White COLORED PHYSICIANS AND Government Should S and Women to C OUR SOLDIERS AT CAMP FUNSTON ARE A CREDIT TO THE NATION We visited Camp Funston the past week and found everything moving smoothly in the 92d Division, of which Major General Ballou is in command. The colored soldiers seem to be in fairly good shape, except they are short of uniforms, and we think the government should rush up uniforms for these soldiers, as so many are doing guard duty, and we saw men shivering during the recent cold spell because they were so poorly clad. We do not see why they have not been clothed before this time, as most of the white soldiers of the 89th Division are clothed. There have been organized different division battalions such as the 349 Merline Gun Batt. Headquarters' Train for military police; 317th Ammunition Train; 317th Supply Train; 317th Sanitary Train; 317th Engineers This is a part of the 92d Division, while other parts are in other training camps training for engineers, telegraph operators, infantry and other departments along with this division The government should see to it that colored trained nurses are placed at the base hospital and also at the medical officers' training camp, and also that colored physicians be placed at this institution. There is no reason why this should not be done, and no cause unless it is prejudice. The average colored and white person knows that white nurses or male attendants will not give colored soldiers attention they need, especially if such white persons be southerners, and then there are a great many northerners who will not give colored men the proper attention. We think it is due the mothers and wives of these colored soldiers to feel the ease about their boys being properly cared for, because they know that if people of their own color are in these institutions there will be no cause for anxiety. Prejudice exists, and it is the duty of the colored people of this country to write President Wilson and their congressmen and ask that these things be provided for. The colored men have participated in all the wars of this country, and many times victory has been due to the valiant fighting of the colored soldiers. Perhaps before this great struggle is over it will be the colored soldier who will put the finishing touch on the kaiser. They have a training school of about sixty young men, of whom several are from colleges and are taking the training under the instruction of Captains Dean and Barbour. These two gentlemen were formerly in the regular service of the army and know the regulation tactics and rulings from A to Z. We are proud of our colored officers and the great record they are making at Camp Funston. We interviewed several men of the other race, and they say they have the cleanest camp and best organization at Funston. This is due to a large majority of the officers who are working teeth and toe nails night and day to make success. This proves conclusively to our minds that all colored regiments should be officered by colored men as far as practical and as fast as they become efficient. The men do better and will fight and be disciplined better, as colored men know the needs of one another. There are a few among the commissioned officers who, if they should ease down a little, would find it would be much better for them. Some seem to have forgotten their race pride and think now since they are in the army the race should bow to them. They are unmindful of the fact that it is the newspapers and the general public who have to assist them in retelling what is due them through the army and navy circles. We have tried to talk to a few of them about matters of importance both in a business and military way, but some were so self-important and knew so much, that it was almost disgusting for a man who is fighting the battles of the race to lose time with them. One young man has already been sent from the army for disobeying rules and playing sick, slipping off from the camp and going to town and remaining out for two days visiting and having a good time. When he was called for he did not respond, so he was ordered out of the service. Now we hope such will not occur again. These men would not rest until they went to the training camp and were commissioned for this particular service, now it is their duty to live up to the rules, study the methods and different codes of army regulations, and teach the same to the men under them. Much time could be spent Now That the CAMP FUNSTON ADDIT TO THE NATION No Objected to the They Have Set 1 Standard for Brothers. ND NURSES ARE NEEDED Select Race Men Care for Them. profitably in lecturing the privates along the lines of everyday matters, for instance, the state in which they are camped, the name of the camp, the names of the commanding officers, and different places on the ground. We were surprised when we asked a guard where the major general's headquarters were and he directed us to the captain's and sergeant major's quarters. Some of them do not know a non-commissioned officer's emblems from those of a commissioned officer. The Y. M. C. A. under Mr. Arthur Hardy, assisted by Mr. Aaron Green, is doing fine. We are sorry to note the serious illness of Father Van Leu, who is now in the hospital with meningitis. He is loved by everybody, and all hope for his recovery. A temporary hostess room has been opened for the colored ladies at Camp Funston, where they can go and meet their husbands, sons, and sweethearts from eight in the morning till 5:30 in the evening. We shall from time to time call the attention of the public to the doings and conditions of the colored soldiers at Camp Funston. We have an eagle eye on those officers who are delivering the goods and doing good work in the national army. We also are proud to speak of the few colored people who are engaged in business at Army City right up next to the camp of the 92d Division. Mr. Frank Wilson has purchased a $5,000 two story building and is doing quite a business. Ho has fine furnished rooms, fine cafe with cigars and soft drinks in connection. Miss Lena Thompson and Prof. C. F. Clinkscale have opened up a bakery and are baking the best pies and cakes on the ground. They have employed Miss Steward to assist them. Bridges and Stanley have opened a fine cafe and rooming house on the same street facing the camp and have a No.1 place. They have rooms for transit and are giving first class accommodations. Mr. A. C. Stahley formerly of Pittsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Bridges of Junction City are proprietors. The Attucks Club have fifteen pool tables on the ground. This is a company organized by Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, who is president of the Afro-American Employment Agency, Kansas City, Mo. The club is doing a fine business. We wish to call the attention of the public to the Military State Bank, Mr. S. C. Willis, cashier, located at Army City. Mr. Willis is a financier and gentleman and will take great delight in showing the boys how to send their money home or encourage them to deposit it and allow them interest on the same. This is a real, safe bank to do business with, and nearly all of the soldiers are doing business with this bank. The colored boys who have transacted business with Mr. Willis like him and speak highly of the treatment accorded them. A WORD OF PRAISE. Vian, Okla , Jan. 8, 1918. Mr. N. Chiles, Toneks, Kan. Dear Editor—Indeed I highly congratulate you in the manner and steps which you have taken in trying to get justice dealt out from the higher judicial or executive powers for the poor and oppressed negro here in this U. S. A. I pray God that you may live long to advocate this down-troden and oppressed negro race's cause. It is the highest of my ambition to read of a few more men of Mr. Nick Chiles' caliber, but I guess that would be just about as hard a job as that swift winged angel had when he was flying searching the heaven and earth to get some one to go on man's bond. You might have heard a voice from somewhere out of the heaven of heavens: "I'll go down and go on man's bond." You might hear that little reason way down in Mr. Nick Chiles' heart saying: "I'll advocate my people's cause." Yours for success. E. D. MITCHELL. Box 278 Colored Officers Topeka Plaindealer ARMY CITY * * * 1 1 1 TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 18, 1918. M. H. GOV. CAPPER, Acknowledged Leader in the Senatoria Race. Who Speaks at St. John A. M. E. Church Feb. 3d. M. S. SCHOOL IS A MODEL Men are the Pride of the U: S. Army---Distinguished for Gallant Service. Mounted Service School Detachment (Colored). This organization was organized by the war department July 1, 1909, for the purpose of attending mounts ridden by officers and non-commissioned officers sent here to take instruction in course of equitation and the care of a horse in general. The Detachment has 166 enlisted men and one officer, who commands the Detachment, and of this number about eighty per cent of the men have previous service from 5 to 25 years in the service, and have active service in the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and other campaigns the United States have been engaged in. We also have about 90 married men in this organization, who are permitted to reside with their families in our near-by town, Junction City, Kansas, only 3½ miles west of Ft. Riley, Kansas, and, girls, the remaining number are looking for sweet-hearts and wives. We also have every little thing for enjoyment, such as pool hall, library, and recreation room, which are the best that can be had. And we have four of the best cooks in the army, who prepare our meals; men who have graduated in the art of cooking, and experienced in cooking. And our head waiter, Mr. Arthur Kauffman, who is without money and looking for a rich money or a wealthy young malden, is still here looking out for our dining room and keeps it in a perfect sanitary condition at all times for any one's inspection whoaever desires to do so. We have a number of men (mostly all single) who visit Kansas City very often. Especially one of number, a large gentleman with long moustache, looks very much like the Kaiser, who visits there very often and is mostly seen in People's Drug Store doing his stays there looking for headache powders and the young ladies who happen to be passing by while he is waiting for these headache powders, which takes him 2 or 3 hours to get sometimes. Some citizens have a wrong opinion about the soldiers and their way of living, so be sure for yourself. You are invited as company to visit our barracks at most any time, and you will be received as welcome as the flowers in May. This invitation is extended to all. All correspondence to be addressed to Mr. Ottoway Simmons, Detachment Clerk M, S S. Det. (Col.), Ft. Riley, Kansas, in regard to our men looking for sweet-hearts, girls, and wives. He will fix you up and put on the right road to get one. Don't write love to him, for he is married. Just write for information. He is the man that can furnish it to you. We have several men in the Detachment who own automobiles and property in Junction City, some of whom are also looking for a wife. Girls, Girls, you had better put in your application soon, girls. Three Mr. Simms. Mounted Service School Detachment We have also four of the best cooks in the United States Army here in the M. S. S. Det. (Col.), Cook Willie Alexander, Cook Sandy Campbell, Cook William Powell, and Cook Joseph Randolph. All have graduated from the best cooks and baker schools in the United States for instructions in cooking, and all graduated with many honors from the school. The cooks are all under the direction of Mess Sergeant Robert Revere, who is a very good cook himself. Commanding officer of the Mounted Service School Detachment (Colored), has been an enlisted man and a soldier for several years, formerly a soldier (enlisted man) Ft. Master Electrician Sergeant of the Mounted Service School Detachment (White) here at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and is at present a captain in the United States Officers' Reserve Corps, assigned to the quartermaster corps and commanding the Mounted Service School Detachments, White and Colored, and is also acting secretary of the Mounted Service School. Captain E. W. Suddarth has been in the service of the United States for about 27 years and is much liked by all at Ft. Riley, officers and enlisted men both. And he is a gentleman in all ways. When he was commissioned and sent away from Ft. Riley*many soldiers regretted to see him leave, and as soon as they all heard he was to be sent back to Ft. Riley to command the Mounted Service School Detachments and to act as secretary of the Mounted Service School, all were as same as if their father had returned home from a long visit somewhere. Captain Suddarth is a gentleman soldier. The Detachment clerks of the Mounted Service School Detachment (Colored), Privates Herman Gurnell and Ottoway Simmons, have been in the service for about 6 years and have served as clerks and non-commissioned officers most of their service. Private Ottoway Simmons was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1893, and entered the service in 1911, at a very early age. On his first enlistment, which was in Company "C," 24th Infantry, where he served as a clerk and non-commissioned during nearly all of his enlistment. When he was discharged from the service in 1914 he returned to St. Louis to his mother, where he remained until 1915, then re-enlisted for the Mounted Service School Detachment (Colored). Ft. Riley, Kansas, where he is at present. Private Simmons has served in foreign service. Private Herman Gurnell was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1893 also, served in Company "A," 25th Infantry, as a clerk and non-commissioned officer during nearly all of his enlistment, and served in the United States and foreign service also. When he was discharged he returned to his home for a short period. After a short visit at home he reenlisted for the Mounted Service School Detachment (Colored). Ft. Riley, Kansas, where he is at present. Private Simmons is transferring to the National Army, where his promotions are expected to be high and rapid. Both men are clerks of their organization. We visited the Mounted Service School Detachment for colored at Ft. Riley, Kan., and there are one hundred and fifty nine men in that department under the management of First Sergt. Moses W. Merriweather, who is a gentleman, scholar, and soldier, and is loved by his men. We would like to see Sergt. Merriweather promoted to captain in the United States Army, as he knows his duty from A to Z and has all the business of the service at his fingers' tips, is well versed in military law, rules and regulations for managing this department. The captain of the department has great confidence in the judgment and ability of Mr. Merriweather and relies upon him for the deportment and action of the men. He is the father of the boys, and we must say that the men attend strictly to business. Of course there are a few men in the department, as you will find anywhere, who should not be in the service, but by sufferance and hope that they may make better they are allowed to remain in the service. As a rule most of the men are economical and are saving their money. Eighty-five of them are married and raising families and own homes at Junction City. This service is very necessary and important to the army, and these men will not be sent to France, as they have the care of several thousand dollars' worth of live stock and other property, and it is very important that this should be looked after by the government. This is an excellent opportunity for young men to save money, educate themselves and make good. We would advice young men in this service to read good books and study hard and make use of their idle time, that they may be of value to themselves and the community in which they live after they retire from the army. There is a barber shop and tailoring shop in connection, and we must say that the culinary department, where they have several cooks and waiters and assistants, is all that can be expected, and there is noiner in the country. They have one of the finest mess sergeants in the person of Robert Revere. Mr. Fred II. Drcher is the fashionable and up-to-date tailor here. He was formerly a soldier in the regular army, but has retired and is now in the tailoring business. It is through his fine workmanship that so many of the boys look so spank and neat. A large majority of the officers of the camp have him make their suits. He has been at Fort Riley fifteen years. He was a member of the Gth Field Artillery, in which he served six years; this is the only horse regiment artillery in the service. Mr. Drcher is a gentleman who is well liked by everybody in Junction City, and especially at Fort Riley. There is no better tailor to be found in the United States than he, and he is crowded with work from one season to another, is a married man, has made money, owns property, a nice automobile, and, in fact, he is a man who believes in progressiveness. Following are some noted from the Fort; Router of Mounted Service School Detachment (Colored), Dec. 3, 1917, Maryweather, Moses W., 1st Sergt, Williams, William O., Sup, Sergt, Smith, Guss, Sta, Sergt. Price $1.50 Per Year COTTON PATCH DARKIES IN SONG SERVICE BATTALION REJUVENATE CAMP TRAVIS Plantation Melodies of Laborers of 509th Engineers Have Changed the Spirit of Drafted Men and Speeded Up Training and Accomplishments. Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 13.—"The Singing Service Battalion"—that's what they are commencing to call the 509th Engineers at Camp Travis, where, since the end of October, the organization that will be "first to France" of the National Army troops at Camp Travis has been built and trained by its engineer officers. Not that singing is the chief end and aim of the battalion in the grim business of winning the war for democracy—singing is but the spontaneous efervascene resulting from the gathering together, in six big barracks, of 800 picked draft selectives from the Negro contingent called late in October, the great majority of whom are typical Texas "cotton patch darkles." And who ever knew of a gathering of as many as nine of these lineal descendants of the cotton pickers of the old Southern plantation days—1 per cent as many as there are Negro privates and first class privates in the 509th Engineers—at least half of whom were not natural born singers? Nearly every newspaper reading American citizen, in the army or out of it, knows that the army heads encouraging singing and music generally, almost above all other forms of recreation, for the boys who are going "over there" to stand the brunt of the battle and the work of pushing the Hun back across his Rhine. A flood of song books for soldiers has been published. The Army Y. M. C. A. publishes and distributes cards bearing the words of popular songs, so that every soldier who runs (forward, not to the rear!) may read and who reads may sing. Everybody Sings! But is it necessary to encourage these dusky, husky picked men of the Engineers to sing? Far from it! No more necessary than (applying the old, trite comparison) to encourage a duckling to swim. They gather in the corner of a squad room in knots and groups, after almost any drill or roll call formation; one of them starts a melody; another catches it up; a deep subciliar bass voice from across the room joins in, in accurate harmony, and grasitates into the center of the group; a high tenor, or two or three, get into the swing of it, and THE WEEKLY NEWS Sanitary and Scientific Treatment of the Hair and Scalp. Teaching e Specialty. Straightening Combs, Pressers and Crimpes reasonable. HAIR GROWERS 25c nd 50c. On APPLI CATION I WILL COME DIRECTLY to your own to treat Hair or teach the Trade. Parlors 1310 Western Ave., TOPEKA, KANSAS. WHEN IN OMAHA STOP AT THE PATTON HOTEL N. P. PATTOV, Prop. Two Blocks South of Union Station —CAFE IN CONNECTION— Meals at All Hours. Phone Douglas 4445. 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They have been collected, set to music and printed in book form and are being distributed at 30 mails per copy by the NATIONAL MAPS PUBLISMINO BOARD, H. H. Boyd, D. D. secretary, &c. And Ave. N. Nashville, Tenn. Bant 50 cents for sample copy, send 3 calls for supply to letters of inquiry. there you have it—close harmony such as only the real Southern Negro can produce. They sing "Go Down Moses." They sing "I Want to Be Like Jesus." They sing "Swing Low, Sweet Charlot!" They sing—but why list the old Negro folk songs and jubilees and camp meeting chants, for those who have known their melodies from childhood up and who have heard these fellows from the Texas cotton cotton patches sing them on moonlit nights around their cabins? The first Sunday after the battalion received its full quota of drafted Negro recruits, Col. F. C. Boggs, commanding the 315th Engineers, under whose general supervision the "service battalion" known as the 509th Engineers has been organized and trained, ordered an open air service of song and divine worship on the hillside where the "sounding board" for speakers is located. They marched over, 900 strong, and formed in a semi circle eight men deep and facing the platform. Chplain Slosloff of 315th Engineers, who possesses deep psychological foresight into the Afro-American mind and heart, was the speaker. He swept his eye from one end of the dusky line to the other. Then he said: "Bows, let's sing. Let's try 'Swing Low, Sweet Charliet!'" Everybody Knew It. But they didn't have to try. Nine hundred voices in perfect harmony and with that plaintive timbre that characterizes the spiritual singing of the Southern Negro, for usured in tremendous volume on the spot where the chaplain stood. They sang another, "I'm almost home and I soon will be there, climbing up Zion's hill!" And they sang more and more. It was their first Sunday since the draft had called them from their homes, and the prevailing hue of the entitled personnel of the battalion was blue—one might say black and blue. Music was just what they needed; the natural safety valve of the Southern Negro. From that moment on the battalion's onlist personnel "found itself," like Kipling's ship. Sick Soldiers Serenade. Sick Soldiers Serenade. Soon the semi-occasional stringed instrument appeared in the barracks, as a few, a very few, for these fellows are poor as church inmate, most of them—sent home for precious banjoes, guitars, mandolins and "fiddles." Soon a double quartet was organized in Company A by Sergt. Liplin; soon another double quartet was lined up in Company B, with Mechanic Charles W. Ellis (Negro) as the moving spirit; and so the battalion has a nucleus of practiced singers to lead it when it gets out for a "sing song" in the open. Recently came a call from the Camp Travis base hospital, just over the hill from where the 609th is quartered—a call for the dusky singers to come over and sing to the slick lads in the wards. Such a call has instant obedience—it is a just call, the cry of sick souls for solace. So, a thousand strong, the battalion was marched over one evening to the hospital and for more than an hour it entertained the sick soldiers - yes, and entertained a horde of doctors, attendants and nurses besides, for they all gathered 'round to hear the old Negro includes. Musical Therapeutics. There is another side to this spontaneous music in the battalion; keeping down the percentage of illness. Possibly some of these army doctors may smile at this idea, but the battalion officers say that the percentage of men in the organization actually sick and unfit for duty is lower than it is in almost any other organization in Camp Travis. From a practicable standpoint the officers are satisfied that music has spoiled up performances of many laborious tasks. A Southern darks working within sound of music will work harder and more cheerfully than he will at any other time. If he himself be the source of the music, so much the better. They will, in working groups, perform half again as much work under the spell of music as they will without music. A gang of Negro stevedores needs no taskmaster or driver if allowed to sing; and if the boss happens to be wise enough he will make singing compulsory. On shipboard, the "chanty man" is a vital necessity. Corp. "Long Dick" Tranham of Company B, sometimes hailed by his comrades as "Tranther," tells a yarn to illustrate this. The corporal's father has been in the stevedoring business at Charleston, S C., for years, so he knows. "I have seen a gang of stevedores unloading or loading Clyde line steamships at Charleston," says Tranham, "the men passing back and forth in front of a great big photograph with a four foot horn. The boss had a lot of records, such as "On the Mississippi" and "Steamboat Bill," and he had a man shifting records all day. "Every time one of those skiffs with a load on his shoulder, passed that ragtime say, you ought to see him step lively! The boys wouldn't sing along with the phonograph, too. And they did enough more work to pay for the phonograph and the time of its attendent a dozen times over." And Trantham says only shift the scene from Charleston to "some French port" on the coast of the alps and see how much better work these soldier workers of the service battalions will do if they have music us as stimulus. WATONGA, OKLA. Mrs. C. A. Potter gave a New Year's dinner to her many friends. A surprise party was given on Roy Roeves at the home of Mrs Wiley has Saturday evening Mrs Jim Rouse of Hitchcock stopped over in Watonga on her return from Oklahoma City Mrs. L. Berry of Hitchcock at- tended the banquet given at the K. L. of S. hall. --- Mrs. Spencer Porter was visited by her mother and nephew. A party was given at the residence of J. Dixon. Prof. Henderson, principal of the Watonga colored high school, and family spent Christmas in Guthrie. Prof. F. H. McNeal and family spent Christmas with his parents, fourteen miles east of Watonga. Miss T. Walls visited her brother-in-law and sister, Prof. and Mrs. O. W. Winkfield. Miss A. Winkfield spent Christmas with friends in Chandell, Okla. Mr. Wall, who is a junior in the high school, visited his mother at Chandler. Mrs. Dr. Lindsey spent the Christmas holidays with her father, Dan Lewis, of Kingfisher, Okla. Mr. S. R. Dixon and family will farm this seas... Mr. and Mrs. D. Austin were up from Oklahoma City Saturday. News has been received of the death of Mrs. Mary Ausbon. She was the daughter of Rufus Parker. Mr. Buck Newborn has a mill to grind your corn, the only one run by a colored man in Watonga. The Mutual Development Society met Sunday afternoon, January 13, with Miss Macy Andrews, 724 West Kansas. The regular routine of business was carried out, after which the play, "Joseph Sold in Egypt," was rehearsed with good success, although a few members were absent. Four visitors were present and made short talks tending toward the development of the club. The visitors were Mr. Joseph White of Lincoln Institute, Mr. F. A. Claybourne of Indianapolis, Ind., Miss Emile Campbell of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Miss Thelma Trice of Port Smith, Ark. The closing remarks were made by the president, Miss Macy Andrews. Mr. Joseph White of this city and his friend, Mr. Luther White of Edison, Kan., have returned to Jefferson City, where they are attending Lincoln Institute. Mr Willie Peoples has returned to Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, to resume his studies. Mr. Allen Cooper, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Sallie Cooper, and other relatives in Topeka, has returned to Syracuse, Kan., where he has recently taken up a claim of 320 acres. He is well pleased with the prospects of the country and brought fine samples of his broom corn and field corn. Miss M. Byrd of Lawrence, Kan., was the guest of Miss Susie Cooper and Mrs. F. Fantroy during the Christmas holidays. Rev. Shannon preached at the Pleasant Hill Baptist church Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Divers is visiting friends in Perry, Kan., this week. Mr Corban Glass has returned home from Port Riley. Mr William Blankenbaker is some-what better at this writing. Mrs. Martha Bennett, Mrs. Opalie Shannon and son Maurice shopping in Bonner Springs Tuesday Mr. Charlie Austin, who has been indisposed for a few days with the grip, is able to be out again. A jubilee concert was given by the Trustee Helpers for the benefit of the A. M. E. church, Jan. 10th, under the management of Mrs. Leone Rawlins, at the Empire theater. The participants did well Miss Love Bowen of St John preceded at the piano. Mrs. Chas. Coleman had as her guests during Christmas week at a six o'clock dinner, Rev. and Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Paul Parkerson and Mastel Paul, Mrs. R B Parkerson, Madame Wychite and two daughters, little Misses Rhea and Dorothy, all of Hutchinson. A delightful reapst was enjoyed. Rev C O Smith and wife and Mr. Ross of Cheverne, Wyo., were guests at the Coleman home for Christmas dinner. Rev. P. D Davis, Miss Lenora Fahie, Mr. Ed Boydston and two daughters, Pauline and Edna, Bornice Murray and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams of Sterling were guests of Mrs. Charles Colman Mrs. O. H White entertained in honor of her nieces, Miss Clara and Georgia Drumgould, of Arkansas City, Kan Other guests were Mr. Gao Strader, Mr Edwards, Mr Vaughn of Lyons, Mr Paul Martin of St John, Miss Bernice Murray, Carl and Donald Keens, Mr Howard Boydston and Mr Carl White Mr. Ben Simpson made a business trip to Hutchinson Saturday. Mrs. Sara Stewart returned home after a three weeks' visit with her mother in St John. Mrs. Gertrude Llott of Minthutn is visiting her sister and mother in law, Mrs. and Mr. Ben Simpson. Mrs. Frank Wallarps had as her guests Sunday of Christmas week Widya Wacklide and daughters, Rhea and Dorothy, Mrs. J. H. Allen of Hutchinson, Mrs. Sarah Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Coleman and Misses Diana and Pauline Bodston of this city. A bountiful dinner was enjoyed by all Mr Howard Boydston entertained New Year's eve in honor of Misses Nettle and Oley Strader. These 14 attendance were Misses Bernie's Murray Elina and Pauline Boydston, Lora Fahle, Fay Boyen, Mr Paul Mattain, Misses Clara and Georgia Drumgould. During the evening they were favored with an interesting selection by Master Paul Parkinson of Hutchinson and a duet well rendered by Madame Wycliff's daughters, Dorothy and Rhea; also high class readings by Miss Fahle and Mrs. Alonzo Williams. We regret to learn that Mrs Hon Simpson is at this writing confined to her bed with the grip. Mr. I. N. White and Lummle Ad- PITTSBURG, KAN EDWARDSVILLE, KAN. STERLING. KAN. The Jackson-Walker Coal and Mining Co., New Location 118 E. 7th St. PHONES 550,3982,888 ams made a trip to Hutchinson Friday and spent a few hours touring the city. Mr. James Stewart of St John is looking for a location in our vicinity. We welcome him. We had a very deep snow on the 9th, since which time we have endured much zero weather and actual winter. CHANUTE, KAN. Miss Lula Anderson of Ottawa gave a recital last Wednesday night at the K. of P. hall. Mr. O. A. Jackson spent Monday in the city. L. McColough, W Washington and R. Gaston went coon hunting Monday night. Prof. Payne was in the city Monday looking after the interests of the band. The Masonic lodge will give a banquet in the near future. R. Hogan is winning the hearts of the traveling public and the business men of the city. Mr. Dennis, manager of the Harvey eating house, states that he is hard to beat. Mr. Arthur Whitmore was in Tulsa Monday. The residence of Mr. Frank Butler caught fire Monday and had it not been for the quick response of the fire department he would have lost it. Mr. A. Gates of Falls City, Neb. is here visiting relatives and friends. A number of young people from Humboldt attended the entertainment last Wednesday. Mr. Homer Johnson left Tuesday for Florida to spend the remainder of the winter. Mr. Benjamin Curry is working at the Oriental hotel. Lonnie Hale his accepted a position with D. H. Fisher. On account of the shortage of gas and the severe weather the churches were unable to have Sunday evening services. Mrs. L. McColough of Iola and Mrs. Johnson of Topeka spent the week end with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Berry. Mrs. A. Clark has been indisposed for the past week with a touch of pneumonia. The Fleur de Lis Att Club met last Wednesday with Mrs. H. Taylor, on North Santa Fe. Mr. Jackson Kouns is being kept busy these days. Miss Rosetta Tally returned Monday from Galveston, Texas, where she spent the holidays. Quite a number of young men have received their questionnaires and have filled and returned them. Phone 3300 See Edna Greene fro notary work C. H. Dougherty, sentenced June 5th, 1912, from Shawnee County, for burglary, second degree, will present his application for parole to the Board of Administration at their next regular meeting held in Lansing, Kansas, in February, 1918. Communications favoring or protesting his parole will be considered at that time. Signed. J. K. CODDING, Watden. (First published in the Topeka (First published in the Topeka Plaindealer, Jan. 11, 1918.) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Dean Harris, sentenced April 4th, 1917, from Shawnee County, for larceny from railroad, will present his application for a parole to the Board of Administration at their next regular meeting held in Lansing, Kansas, in February, 1918. Communications favoring or protesting his parole will be considered at that time. Signed. J. K CODDING, Warden. (First published in the Topeka Plaindealer, Jan. 11, 1918.) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Chas Saum, sentenced November 28th, 1911, from Shawnee County, for incept, will present his application for parole to the Board of Administration at their next regular meeting held in Lansing, Kansas, in 10th January, 1918. Communications favoring or protesting his parole will be considered at that time. Signed. J K CODDING, Warden MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE Atkinson, Kan., Dec. 24 The ministers met at Chonezer Baptist church and organized a min- isterial alliance. Rev W H Hill, pastor of Chonezer Baptist church, was elected president Rev C H Todd, pastor Zion Baptist church, was elected vice president; Rev W W. Bwing, pastor Mt Olive Baptist church, was elected secretary, Rev G H Billions, pastor A M E church, was elected treasurer MONEY TO LOAN ON ALL KINDS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Horses, cattle, plants, diamonds, household goods, libraries, typewriters, autos, carriages, machinery, and to tailored people.—F. S. Thomas, 519 Kansas avenue, Telephone 298. H. M. FELLOWS, Mg'r. The New Era New Era Millin New Era Milling Co. ```markdown ``` The New Era will Hunting Boat TRAMAGIC 1891 LONDON SHAVING PREMIER CO. 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Insist on your faster giving you the best - that is "POLAR 48." Other brands are BELFLOUR and X . Manufactured by KANSAS CITY, MO. ```markdown ``` We are the largest dealers in Creech Hair Goods, Raw Hair by the pound; Electric Combs, Ec., in this country. We show a large variety of styles and styles. Fine Creech Wigs than any other manufacturer in the United States. Writes for catalogue. IT IS FREEL! 20 Inch Creole Switches 25c Each; 24 Inch, 50c Each. ; ‘ ° rm hat ode 2 tii 8 . ’ ’ t oo 7 rigset 8 se a Gs. | ; ae eT a “y| , voce Pa Se . uN me mr pas 3 By dt 3 fifi RPG iat , Bort ae : Rees a ‘ pa ies aero | an sy a : gg aN ae 2 a Te 7 N yy Ly a fy i 2 e con.) DA. B. F. ALLEN, Fresident of Lincoln Institute, Jeffercon City, Mo. ee PRES, B, F. ALLEN OF June 25, 1907 (hroe children: Juli; LINCOLN INSTITUTE Llizabeth, aged 9 years; Ruth Loulse uped 7 Sears; and 1. F. Allen, jr. aged 11 months), Professor Lath We excerpt the following from ond Greek, Lincoln Institute, Jeffer “Who's Who In America” a bio xon City, Mo,, State College (col graphical dictionary of notable living otet, 1901-2902} president —Lincol men In America: Institute, Mixsourl state college fo! Denjamin Franklin Allen, college Negroes, ince 1902, Methodist president; born Savannah, Ga., Supe Member Noon. A. American Eco tember 8, 1872; son of Albert Kelley nomie Axnoclation, American Histor and Elizabeth (Green) A.j A. 13. ical Avxoctation, State Historcal So Atlanta University, Georgian, 18941 ciety, American Society of Sociology (A M1904; LLD., Wilberforce American Academy of Political St University, 1904; PR.D., Mortis ence, Southern Sociologicy! Congress Brown University, Georgia, 1905.) Miuxourl State Teachers’ Axsoclation Graduate student Universities of Mayon, Odd Fallow, Knight of Pyth Chicago and Wisconsin; married to inx Address, Lincoln — Institute Mavine Lee Williams of Macon, Ga., Jefferson City, Mo : KEEP MINOR ARMY OFFENDERS [for colored physicians are needed t — see to it that colored sick ant Prison Sentences Instead of Dishon-| wounded are properly cared for an orable Discharges Given Now. treated, The white men who act a Camp Doniphan, Okla,, Jan, 9.— No mote dishonorable diseharges will be xlven in the army in cases where the men atill have the capacity for anllitary service, according to a recent order of the Secretary of War. Whenever a rentence of dishonorable discharge is given in the future It must carry with it a long term of confinement in the penitentlary or the disciplinary barracks, Whenever the offense Is not con- sidered sufficiently grave to Warrant a long term in prison it is assumed that tho offender has within him the elements of military service and he must be made to serve hls enlistment in the army aa well a# undergoing a punishment commensurate with the offense Dishonorable discharges In the army bate increased to an alarming extent recently. Men are being drop- ped al the rate of about one hundred @ week, not becauxe they are incapa- ble of being soldiers, but because they have committed some offense that carries with it dishonorable dls- charke, - -* ARMY CLERKS’ PAY BOOSTED. Headquarters Staff Men at Gamp Funston Made “Non-Coms.” Camp Funston,, Kan., Jan. 9.— Rank of noncommlssloned officers, ranging from regimental xergeant- major down to corporal, were grant- ef to the clerks of the headquarters siafl by an order from Washington, Heretofore the clerks have done high clase work at the salary of a private, and the new ranks mein un Increase in pay of from $1 to $18 a month AND EMMET J, SCOTT Topeka, Kan., Jan. 25, boise Mr Bmmett J, Scott, War Depart. mest, Washington, 1, ©: My Dear Sir--T am writing you 10 inform you that at Camp Funston the colored soldiers have not been unl- formed to any catent and are in nowt of thelr unifurm overcoats and other clothing. We were there a few dase ago and the men on guard were poorly clad and were whivering In the raging starm of stow and cold They weere nlxo drilling with wooden gunn * ‘At the base hospital at Ft Riley there are reveral white nurses ond several are in training, but Wwe have no colored Bomen or gis who are Deing Invited to thie training depart. rent It Ix Very necessary [hat col- ored girls be installed Jn this institu. tion to care for colored roldiers, for you know white wom, as a rule, AML be bound to carry prejudice he cause Bouthern white officers ure in command amt qrejudice eaintx and ‘we might Ax well admit it and pre. pare to met It ‘the colored mothers are entithad to feel thet their sous when wick or wounded ure in good hands, and the only way fo assure {t In fo put colored women in train fing at thene hospitals, We find also that at the medical {ruining camp there are no colored physicians, which ought not to be, June 25, 1907 (Whree children: Julia Liizabeth, aged 9 years; Ruth Loulse, uged 7 sears; and WW. F. Allen, jr. aged 11 months). Professor Latin and Greek, Lincoln Institute, Jeffer ron City, Mo,, State College (col- oret, 1901-1902} president Lincoln Institute, Mixsourl state college — for Negrocs, xlnce 1902, Methodist. Member No 1. Aw American [co homie Axxoclation, American Histor. ical Avxociation, State Hlstorenl So- ciety, American Society of Sociology, American Academy of Political Sd ence, Southern Sociologicg! Congress, Miaxourl State Teachers’ Axsociation, Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pyth. ine” Address, Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo for colored physicians are necded to xee to St that colored sick and wounded are properly cared for and treated. The white men who act as attendants will on the slightest prov- ocation overlook colored patients. We wikh you would use your good of- ficex in xeeing to Jt or call the at. tention of the Secretary of War to these important matters that should be looked afier at once. I presume the same conditions exist at all the training camps in the country, and we expecially want to call your at- tention to the training camp at Camp Pike, We are informed that there are not even non-conmlasioned col- ored officers. This matter should be attended to and colored cominission- ed officers put in chatze, We are doing all we can to help win this war, and you know that no war hax ever been won by the United States unless the colored man did the lion's share of It, Another thing that we wish to call your attention to ix the law enacted “by Congress that no discrimination toward — sol- diers and sailors can exist. We be eve this law ought (o be fully ad. Vertixed and put before the soldiers, so that they will not be humiliated in iraveling from one point to another, Our soldicts should not take Jim Crow cars, This fa the law, and the sooner it is enforced the better it WHI be for all Very truly yours, NICK CHILES, Editor The Topeka Plaindealer . Topeka, Kan., Jan, 17, 1918, Secretary of War Baker, Washing: ton, D. Cy: My Dear Sir—We sinited Camp Funston two or three times and have visited a part of the 92nd division (colored), We wish to inform you fhat from our general observation of things, we think the men ate very much in need of clothing. They were sent there some months ago and put in overatls and such clothing as the government had ita command at that Ume, but the rigid winter bar been ‘ery hard on them and the sooner they ure given necersary clothing, such as uniforme, overcoats, ctc., the better off they will be, Also most of them are armed with wooden guns, You probably think that these things have already been provided for, und for timt reason we call your atten. tion to the same, because nearly all of the men of the sith division are uniformed, We are interested in Ree ing you win this struggle and know full well that it will take colored voldiers ta make (he finishing fight, ux they have done In all previous wars where success has crowned thly Kovernment, and to keep them in good shape it le necessary that thers be well cared for. We furtner want to call your ate tention that we see no effort by your department to provide trained col- ored nurses at) the base hospitalt where colored soldiers are Interned, particularly the one at Port Riles ‘There are no colared nurses at this hospital, and aa you know there Js Jota of prejudice in the army agninst colored soldicrs, especially among Southern officerk and Southern rol diers, and it would be no more than right that the parents and cepecially the mothers of these colored soldiers should be uxsured that their sons were being well cared for tn there Noxpitals. This prejudice exixtx and We cannot help it, and It fi therefore up to the government to Kee that the colored soldiers are fairly treated, and we know this will be if coloured Yat ite a ae ae Jo ° a tt lie ae ot re re ; ne, Lea ae ee i nen a ; wi ted ws Si iz eR oo aie SA Aco aa ctl ere Se pape | rn one ay ro Sets es tPtee ie te Re “ie : a 6). See : ied, Oe a Ola t a Nee ae a } |e 9 i Taake ‘ , Paces ot oa A Bee AS . ae ee Bins > do eS |, : “8 F an. i eet ie ae ; | any 3 a ‘_ cor, re: yA aa ¢. , /| 3h ne pa tes ee , 7 ee. 50 wits, Ca agte ~~ ud BR ft a id i are Pe # ’ 7 | a”. ee ae ° ia var NA ag “oe cones a Lo ¢ aca is 1 eet Sl, Ne , pee 4g Bn Se GS (BA Pee 3 a ial 7. ge Say PS ee | ~ ,_ eee ae Hf g 7 ; ta a = 1, ee U7 Dee Interior of the Modern Shoe Shop Conducted by J, A, Counts, Junction City ‘We also want to complain of the Medical training camp located at Fort Riley, We have not observed a single colored physician in these raining camps, and think it Is the duty of the government to Bee to it that rome of our physicians are per. mitted to enter these medical train- ing camps s0 as to learn all there is to be learned concerning the sick and wounded, as they should be fully prepared for duty when they enter France, We think our colored phy- iciana should be promoted along with the white physicians, if they merit auch advancement. We call sour attention to this fact for the Tenron that we do not belleve you know this condition exists and we Velieve Jou will soon remedy same. Very truly yours, NICK ‘CHILIS, Editor The Topeka Plalndealer. ——A— = J. A. Counts, ex-Soldier, is a Prosperous Business Man JUNCTION CITY. One of tho mot substantial busl- ncas enterprixes conducted by costed men in the whole state of Kansus is the U8, Shoe Shop at Junction City, owned and controlled by alt James A, Counts, assisted by ‘ty wife, They employ six people, have all the latest machinery, which cost several thousand dollars, and nave an auto truck for delivery, Air. Counts has the contract from che Kovernment to repalr shocs for the different posts, benides doing a lateu amount of work for individual Citi. zens at Junction City and surround ing towns, He Is certainly a busi. ness man and deserves great credit for extablixhing this successful busi: ness jn Kansas, Sometimes he is obliged to keep his force working day and night to keep up with thelr work. He has very few equals and no xuperiors in this line of work, Mr, Counts !s a man who js polite, energetic and courteous to all, and haa made friends by thousands since he has been in this business, Both he and hla wife are South Carolinians. He was born in Newberry, 8. C., and is 36 years old. Ie served fin the regular army three years with the Tenth cavalry, six years with the mounted service detachment at Ft. Riley, and was in the Philippine Ist. ands with the Twenty-fifth infantry, having joined the army when nine. teen yeirs of age. He learned the shoemuker's trade when a boy and when {it occurred to him that he could do more for himself, his coun try and hla race by going into the business, he did not wait for his time to explre with the government, bu! paid the government for hia unex. plred time and opened up hia pres ent business on the same «treet, at 118 West Seventh, four 3earx ago, opposite where he 1s now located. Ills territory now extends througl Camp Funston and Army City and the soldiers as well as the govern. ment Jond his truck down with re pair work, for they know that when Counts gets through with ft, It will be a first class fob. Mr, Counts has hot been idle all theee years in the saving act, while he ix broad and tharitable, always ready to help out Churches and poor people who are worthy, and he takes pains in teach. Ing yourng bovs the trade, set at the same time he has looked out for the rainy day, He owns seven lots, 1 kin room house and a two room howe, with barns and outhouses, Valued at several thouxand dollars, He and his wife work to the advant, nge of each other. Mrx, Counts i cashier and assistant manager and Ig a woman. full of business, At this shop repairing Is done while pou wait, and Jt ts a common thing to see to or three prople waiting ta have repairing done, They guaran. tee quick work and the best, Do not for get the address, 121 West Seventh street, Junction City, Kan. and if you want your shoes delivered Contiaug: ta his g008 work, *" Community, Hall Mr, Jones Opens a Fine Place for the Race. We met our old friend G. B.C. Jones at Junction City Inst week. He in just as Ilvely and active as ever, still preaching at the Church of Ged. Me owns good property, is a pro grearive citizen, and hax some money out on interest. He has a fine fam. Hv of eleven children, nearly all of Whom are married. His son in-law, Mr. Wm. Murd, who 1s 4 member of the mounted service school detch. ment, is building a bungalow at a coxt of $4000. Junction City was ih need of an Amusement rexort for the colored woldiers, so Mr. F. M, Roberts, a young business man of Wellington, came to Junction City and offered hin rervicen to open up a community hall for colored soldicrs, provided he could get the proper location. He leased the recond story of a build. Ing located wt 310 1.2 Rast Etghth, ‘This bullding wos overhauled and re- valred and opened for business in December, It Ia a pleasuro to visit thls ball In the evening and see hun- dreds of soldiers being entertained and entertaining themsches as I they were at home, ‘This community hatl is conducted by Mr, Roberts dr a first class manner, When one en tors the hall le fetls as though he had entered on tig falr or socia gath,ring. At one end of the hal there are six pool tablea going anc at the other end of the hall there | [tc large cafe conducted by Mra, Jone of Salina. There are several fn tables and chairs where Indies an ‘JRentlemen sit and have {ce cream Jeott drinks, and indulge in socla | obate, At another end of the halt |where overcoats and wraps ar Johecked by beautiful young ladies Jund another presides at the cash re Jixter. Two young men verve rol Jdrlaks over the counter and handt ]them ina businesslike manner. Ther {ix alxo a private room for commis Jrioned officers, Mr. Roberts hax xe cured some high clin Jay entet |talnern, This 8 one of the mab ‘fenturex of the community halt The phate dances and grand marche: |which are yery much enjoyed. Ther Jix no getting around the fact tha any xoldier who gets homesick wi JJ sear of the Blick by shuting Com Jmonity hall, Mr Roberts Is ont J22 veure old, but every Inch of hit fis business, “He i naw preparing t pat Ina bath room and barber hye jand In fact he expecta to make th J[ptice first class in every particnhir [le has a epecialty ‘conceit an vaudeville Mondays, Wednexdava an |Mridava | [versbody bx Lnvitud an Jno admission fee ix charged, Th -{businesa men of Junctlon City xpen highly of Mr. Roberta and the con ,}munity hall and are proud of him, IN MEMORY OF THE LATE J. L, HARPER P. D G. M, of Grand Lodge No. 17, G. UO, of O, F., of Kansas, Whereas, It hax pleased the Su. jpreme Ruler of the Universe to Te j move from our midxt one of our moxt loyal members; and, Whereas, In“ hix death the D, G L, not any loves a falthful: member but each brother has lost a true and tried frlend, ane who wan truly a brother in’ Friendship, Lave anc Truth; therefore, be it Rexolved, That we extend ou heartfelt xvmpithy to the bereaved family and qelatives und) bow with them In humble submission to Wim wha dorth all things well. Our loss fx but heaven's sitin, | Bro, Harper Is not dead but sleep oth, “Asleep in Jesus, bleed sleep, Wheic'cr none ever wake to werp, M, i. NUTLER, DG. Ma GL. No, It Sys se HON, J, J, THOMAS Prominent Churchman and Lodgeman Dies After Brief Illness, The sudden denth of J. J, Thomas pocted=that the-'pecple'pan hardly Tealise that Mr, homag has departed thia life, His itiness was of short duration, be being sick only a little more than a week, He was treas- urer of the Metropolitan Baptist whurch twenty-four years, a member of the Knights of Tabor, and was connected with many other enter. Drinen. The funeral services were held at the Metropolitan Baptist church: many could not get into the building. The absence of his brother, P. Cy Thomas of Toprka, was caused by his own serious Intlers at his home, Mr. J. J, Thomas lived an exem. Plary Christian life. The funeral was no sad one. Tle leaves a wife, three children, a mother, two brothers, one sister and @ host of friends to mourn his death, * CHARGES AGAINST 4 SOLDIERS DROPPED War Department Believes Charges Were Due to “Cupricious Conduct Of Inexperienced Officer.” Washington, Jan, 5.—The war de. partment has annulled court martial proceedings against ten entisted men of Hittallon A, Eighteenth feld are (lery, regular army, conducted on charges of mutinous conduct, The men have been ordered re. stored to duty on the opinion of the reviewing authority that the pro ceedings were due entirely to the “cas pricioux conduct of an Inexperienced officer.” There has been a puggestion that the officer himself may now face charges, The above article rhown how com: mlarioned officera can do so many |Srone things and cause the govern. ment lots of trouble. Now there soldiers were court martialed by 4 eines of officers who were inexperl: enced and hastily did things that Were wrong and had meted out pun. Ixhinent to there soldiers, and after the decision waa reviewed {twas shown that these officers had don the wrong thing, so their decision Was annulled and the soldiers placed Jback jn service, Now, the ranic thing that happened in this affalr happened at Fort Sam Touston, That court martlat acted beyond tt authority and did not give the mon Proper Iriat; that Ix, it was not ar fair nw it would have been before the | United States district court, The sot |diors rferred to in the alove arts. ce, boing white men, it was Ken that they lind proper protection and the charges against them were drop md. Now, the war department Jxboutd take in charge the trial o} [the soldiers of the Twenty-fourth In |fantry and ree to It that these mer {who are now in the federal prison be siven another hearing, xo - 1] (First published in the Topeks ; Pialidealer January 18, 1918 ) j NOTICE, ‘Jin the Probate Court) of Shawne County, Kansas, In the matter of the catate of Fan nie Fustin, deceased All perrons Interested will take no {tice that my petition ix on fle in th office of the Shawnee County Piobat. ,JCourt, asking for authority ta sel the following dexcribed real extate situated In Shawnee county, Kansas -{belonging to estate of Fannie Fustin -Jdecensed, for the purpose of payin i} the debts of said extate and the e1 pensex of adminiatratlon, to-wit: Part of Kaw Reserve Number 4 0 pj the Kaw Mnlf-Hreed linda describe ‘ax follows: Commencing on the cus ipline of xaid reserve, 15 chains xout! V}of ihe southeast corner of the north wort quarter of xald reserve numbe {4. running thence south 3,81 chains | thence west 1.57 ehaing, thence nort i}paraltel with sald line 3,81 chalne V}thence east 1.67 chains to the plac ‘}of beginning, containing three ffih of an acre, be the same more or lexs also Tota 1830 and 184 on Adam street, in Burchatl's addition to. Ch clty of Topeka, Sald petition is get for hearin: Tuesday, the Gth day of February 1918, at 10 o%lock n. m., at whicl thne and place you can make know! any objections you may have to th granting of such order of sale. : SARAI F, MALONT, Administrator, Dated this Mth day of January 2918, Dudlew Av On Nae udley Atkins, Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Graniteware, Auto Supplies MANHATTAN AND OGDEN, ' KANSAS, GEO. C. Groceries and Meats Phones 596-597 MANHATTAN, KANSAS, C. RR. Hepler, President W_E. Knight, V-President F, DB Forrester, Sec'y.Mg'r, PATRONIZE The Palace Drug Co., (Incorporated) Successors to C. L, Lewis Manhattan, Kansas Jos. R. West TREAS, AND GEN. MGR. Manhattan Interruban Railway Co. et They Like the Boys MANHATTAN. When it was first proposed 09 rend colored soldiers to Camp Pune ston there was © newspaper report that the white business men of Man- hattan and Junction City did not want the roldiers there and had aent f protest to Washington against thelr coming. Now, we have interviewed the lending bankers, business men and alreet car officers, and they say they have never had a better class of men to deal with than the colored goldiers in camp ot Funston that they nro orderly, gentlemanly, and in fact. haye shown themselves as worthy to wear the United Btates unifori ns the white soldiers. While talking with the Ramey Bros. of Manhattan, who are among the larg. ext. coal and luraber dealers in the West, they sald that (hey were preed of the colored roldiers and the rec ord they were making, and thought that thelr presence there had helped rather than hindered; that thelr presence had helped the white sol diers to conduct themselves bettor. Mr. Joseph T, West, treasurer and generat manager of the Manbattan City and Interurban Railway Com pany, snys that the colored soldiers are manly and have no trouble what. ever, and that he Is proud of them and will do anything to help them, Mr, S.C, Willis, cnshier of the Milltary Tian at Army City, says that soldiers seem to be prudent and saving tnd many Of them have a posited thelr money in the bank and are also sending money home, You will sce through our advertls. ing columns that we Interviewod sev: eral business men at Manhattan whe are roliciting the trade of the sole dicrs and thelr families and will be glad ta extend to them all the eour tosles and make them welcome while in Manhattan, There are three nice coterad churches In Manhattan and the cel. red people ara doing what they can to nzake It pleasant for the visitors. Mr Preston Phillips ia our war Correxpondent at the fort and wilt handle the Plalndealer in areuad Funston and Kiley. Mr Louis Hickman of Manhattan, who has been in the hospital at Rosedale for nome time, came beme Jat. week accompanied by his som. Ile is a brother to Mra, Idel Martin, who conduct a boarding and room- Ing house at Manhattan, We were proud fo meet at Man. hattan Me @, D Hanks, who has been employed an clerk at the Knost- man «othing store for the pust tem years, ‘This ix one of the largest ury ronda and clothing stores in Manhate fan and Mr. Hanke id efficient and competent and knows the busivoss, He J pollte and gentlemanly, and anyone going to this store will do well to call upon him, Mr W W_ Shobe of Salina is the man of the hour at Manhattan in che taxi tine He has purhhased four new Dadge enclosed automobites, well lighted and heated Mr Shobe has no superior when It comes to the auto ani taxi business He has pev- eral thoarand dotlare invested In the buiness ant {« making good, Fle employe ee seral men to Keep the ma. chines going, has six or seven auto mobiles and” fs doing a wondent} business, making three or four hun] dred dollars a Weck He bas phone and his headquarters are gow at the Community hall Mr, Show In past grand maxter of the Distric Grand Ladge of Odd Fellows and the author aud present treasures 9: the burlal fund of that organization. Entered at the Postoffice at Topke, Kan., as Second Class Mail Matter. Plea Plioindicator, 112b Kannan Avenue, Topke, Kanan. Money sent by Express, Postoffice Money Odee or Registered Letter to our risk; otherwise at the risk of the sender. When the attention of The Plioindicator is called to any misstatement of facts in these columns, or to any error concerning any man or thing, correction will cheerfully be made. Unsigned communications, except from our regular correspondents, will not be published. COLORED TROOPERS MAKING GOOD By Henry C. Newell Many thousands of colored men who are in the draft are today finding greater opportunities than they have ever known before. The fact that they are in the army means now, if it never before meant, a broader education, a better physical body, a clearer brain, and a brighter future. As one goes about from one big cantonment to another he cannot help observing that the colored race is figuring in this greater opportunity, that there is a stirring of ambition that is bound to result in great good. Men of the race who never held a pen or pencil between their fingers in all their lives are now learning their A-B-C's with the same delight as children do. The presence of hundreds of men in the Y. M. C. A. huts doing the same thing spurs them on. When they have really learned to write so that they can get word back to the friends they have left behind, then they are in the way of becoming efficient soldiers. It may seem strange to you, but actually some of these men could not even understand orders when they first came to camp. For one thing, they didn't know their right from their left foot, and lots of them could not tell what the sergeant meant when he said: "Right about face!" They didn't know which way to turn. Of course, that was to be expected, for there are some well educated people I know who wouldn't have executed orders any better than these fellows in the colored regiments. But it did not last a great while. The boys learned—they learned mighty rapidly too. At Camp Grant, near Rockford, Illinois, there is a particularly fine piece of work going on for the colored troops. It is under the supervision of the Army Y. M. C. A., the colored branch of which employs four able secretaries to study and solve the physical, intellectual, social, and religious problems and needs of the men encamped there. Early in the encampment only a few letters were written in and mailed from the Y. M. C. A. hut for colored soldiers. But after a campaign that had this slogan: "Every Man Must Write His Name," the sale of postage stamps increased greatly—simply because men who had never been able to write even their names learned to do so and also began to write letters to friends and relatives. The story of Bill Bailey is rather typical. Bill had been a coal heaver, and education never had appealed to him; he couldn't use it in his business. He could neither read nor write, and the little figuring he found necessary could be done on his fingers. But as soon as he got into camp, away from his Chicago friends, he grew lonesome and even a bit homeless for them. Just then the Y. M. C. A. campaign came on, and Bill Bailey discovered that writing was the thing that would immediately connect him with his friends again. So he enrolled in a class in writing, and after a week or more of harder labor than he had ever done in his life he was able to scrawl his name. The achievement whetted his appetite. He wanted to learn rapidly now, so that he might soon write a letter to his folks in Chicago—a thing he had never been able to do. But several weeks later Bill actually wrote his first letter—wrote it and then surveyed it with the proud eye of an artist. It looked awfully good to him—and it was good, too. But all this was only the beginning of Bill Bailey's adventure in education. Very shortly he was asking if he could not learn to do "sums." A class in mathematics was organized by the Y. M. C. A. secretaries, and Bill and a number of his fellow soldiers were enrolled. They are now being instructed in the subject, and when they have mastered it they will take up French, geography, and other studies. Thus Bill Bailey is better able to entertain himself and use his leisure hours to some good purpose than he would have been without the Y. M. C. A. campaign for every man to write his name. He is also having a chance to play games and build up muscles that he never used before. The out-door games are teaching him to think and act quickly; boxing he enjoys most of all, perhaps; it is boxing that trains him for trench fighting, bayonetting, and grenade throwing, all of which the good soldier now knows. In all of the cantonments the Y, M, C, A. religious program for the colored troops has had a beneficial effect. Many men have been converted, and many others have given up filthy and expensive habits. Profanity has decreased to a noticeable extent where campaigns have been made to show the troopers how useless it is. The cleaner atmosphere of the camps has made it possible to entertain women friends and relatives of the soldiers in the Y, M, C, A, huts, Army Shoes Watson's Army Puttees SHOES MANHATTAN, KANSAS. Hosiery MR. WISEGUY- BY C.D. GRAVES NATIONAL CARTOON SERVICE CORPORATION, N.Y. THE HUCKSTER ANSWERED TO THE MAN, WITH WHOM HE HAD DISPUTE; "YOU NEEDN'T THINK I AM A SKIN BECAUSE I PEDDLE FRUIT." THEN WISEGUY TOOK THE MAN INHAND AND LISTURED HIM AWHILE. "YOU SHOULDN'T ARGUE WITH A MAN IN SUCH A VULGAR STYLE." A man in a suit leaps over a railing, pointing out to two children who are cheering him on. and these social parties are greatly enjoyed by the men who are away from their own families and friends. In the Y. M. C. A. building erected for the special use of the colored troops there is ample space for motion pictures and theatrical entertainments, as well as for letter writing and social games. This is one place in camp which the men really enjoy, for it makes them feel thoroughly "at home." FORT RILEY. Corporal D. H. Boner, who is a member of the mounted service school detachment at Ft. Riley, was born in Bryanville, Ky., in 1873 and enlisted in the United States army in 1898, served three years with CoC of the Twenty-fifth infantry, four years and a half in Troop A, the Ninth cavalry and enlisted in the mounted service January 14, 1911, at Fort Riley. He was promoted to the rank of corporal in November, 1917. Mr. Boner is one of the most enervising and energetic soldiers in that department, is thrifty and prosperous, owns a nice home at 1102 North Jefferson, Junction City, which is a very valuable piece of property in a good locality. Mrs. Boner is an in- THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN dustrious lady and has a position in the government laundry at Ft Riley. Mr. Boner is one of the bankers for the mounted services, and whenever the boys need money they know where to get it. It keeps him quite busy on pay days collecting interest and renewing loans. He has proven himself to be a soldier and a fighter. He has been in several expeditions in the Philippines and in several battles, one on August 12, 1899, in Subig province, Zambolis; in action at Fernanda, P. I., Dec. 7, 1899; at Batolon Dec. 8, 1899; at Iba, Dec. 19, 1899; at Santa Cruz, January, 1900. In this battle twenty Americans were killed and wounded, but he came out without a scratch after defending his line as a valiant soldier. In conversation we asked him if, in traveling, through the country, he did not find it rough, and he said that several times in marching over the mountainous country his shoes were worn out and he was barefooted and the thorns and thistles would tear his clothes until he was ragged. He came to the states in 1902 and will retire six years from now, with double time allowed for service in the Philippines. JUNCTION CITY Junction City is another trading post for the U. S. army, and here we find the business white people all in one accord in saying that colored soldiers are making good, and those who protested have lain down and are as quiet as mice. It was only a few irresponsive white people who kicked, but the merchants who have had dealings with colored people to spend their money and buy the best of goods and make the least complaints. In conversation with Mr. Thos. B. Kennedy, president of the First National Bank, one of the safest bankers and business men in Kansas, he spoke highly and commendably of the colored soldiers. Mr. Kennedy has lived in Junction City for a number of years, and, in fact, it was through his instrumentality and other men of his type who have made Junction City what it is today. Mr. Kennedy is loved and highly respected by all his associates, and he is now president of the Kansas Bankers' Association. He was sick and unable to attend the annual meeting of the Association but was elected president by a unanimous vote, which shows with what confidence he is held. The First National Bank is one of the largest banks in the country, has a capital of $75,000 and a surplus of $125,000, and pays interest on time deposits. It is located in one of the finest buildings west of Kansas City, all modern, everything modern, building of beautiful Vermont granite, everything artistically arranged and designed. All the officers and clerks are polite and Manhattan Furniture Undertaking Co. Gold Metal Cots and Officers Bed Rolls We Want Y THE NEIGHBORS HEARD THE WARNING SNOUTS BUT SOON FORGOT THE SCARE. take pains in looking after their depositories. One among the largest stores there is the Rockwell Mercantile Company, which occupies almost one-third of a block, employ a great number of clerks, and carry all up-to-date goods. Mr. Rockwell, one of the owners and managers of the firm, is a gentleman who has lived at Junction City a number of years. He is a diplomat, highly respected and loved by everybody. The store is doing a great business among the soldiers. ASK CLEMENCY FOR NEGRO SOLDIERS Washington, Jan. 12. The A. M. E. ministers of this city have sent President Wilson a petition asking clemency for the five other colored soldiers of the 24th Infantry recently sentenced to death for participation in the Houston, Tex., mutiny. In their petition the ministers say there are extenuating circumstances which they believe merit executive clemency. TEETH! For First Class Dentistry at the Most Reasonable Prices Consult New York Dentists 107 N. 4th St., MANHATTAN, KAN. The present war, or high cost of living, has not caused us to raise our prices. You can afford, to travel miles to patronize us and save money. Arrangements can be made for easy payments. COME AND TALK TEETH WITH US Hours 8 to 6; Sunday 10 to 12 urniture and Co. Your Trade Phone 109 ..The.. B. Rockwell Merchandise & GrainCo. JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS WE will appreciate the Troops at Fort Riley The Soldier's and Offic in a scientific manner. We Uniform that will give you Hat that is the most become appreciate the patronage at Fort Riley and Camp's and Officer's needs a banner. We will help will give you the best most becoming. WE will appreciate the patronage of the Colored Troops at Fort Riley and Camp Funston. The Soldier's and Officer's needs are here supplied in a scientific manner. We will help you choose the Uniform that will give you the best service, and the Hat that is the most becoming. Officers' Uniforms ... $10 to $35 Officers' Overcounts... $32.50 to $45 Khaki Pants ... $2 to $5 Khaki Caps ... $2 Men's White Handkerchiefs, Walfs Spiral Putters, pr. $4.50 Canvas Leggings, pr. $1.50 Legging Laces, pr. $10c Leather Putters. $.50 to $16 O. D. Wool Knit Helmets. 10c or 3 for 25c Silk Handkerchiefs 50c and 75c Soldiers' Hat Cords.....25c Officers' Hat Cords.....$1.00, $1.75 Spurs, pair.....$3.00 O. D. Sleeveless Sweaters, $3.00 to $5.50 O. D. Sweaters.....$5 to $8 Army Shoes, pr $7.50 and $10 Sheets, 72490 in., each.....79c Other Sheets.....$1.15 to $1.75 Pillow Cases.....22c to 40c Pillows.....75c to $4.00 WeareHead Military Me and carry a full line of the CANVAS PUTTEES, LEATHER D. WOOL SUITS, SERGE SUIT LINED TRENCH COATS, SILK SIGNIAS, ARMY KITS, BED BOSIN'S ARMY SHOES AND GLOVES, KHAKI HANDKER DREDS OF OTHER USEFUL MANHATTAN, KANSAS. Cole's Big Headquarter by Merchand line of the following at all ES, LEATHER PUTTEES, ARTS, SERGE SUITS, O. D. OW COATS, SILK HAT CORDS KITS, BED ROLLS, CANVA SHOES AND BOOTS, SWAGG HANDKERCHIEFS, SHOE ER USEFUL ARTICLES FOR KANSAS. Big Dept. and carry a full line of the following at all times. CANVAS PUTTEES, LEATHER PUTTEES, ARMY BLANKETS, D. D. WOOL SUITS, SERGE SUITS, O. D. OVERCOATS, SHEEP LINED TRENCH COATS, SILK HAT CORDS, CHEVRONS, INSIGNIAS, ARMY KITS, BED ROLLS, CANVAS BUCKETS AND BOSIN'S ARMY SHOES AND BOOTS, SWAGGER STICKS, CROPS GLOVES, KHAKI HANDKERCHIEFS, SHOE POLISH, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER USEFUL ARTICLES FOR THE SOLDIERS, MANHATTAN, KANSAS. MANHATTAN, KANSAS. State A safe Bank for the Soldier Boys. Liberal interest on all time deposits. Do all of your business through this Bank whose employees are delighted to give all information as to how to Invest and Save Your Earnings MR. S. C. WILLIS, Cashier Makes Uniforms for Officers and Does Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. . . the patronage of the Colored and Camp Funston. Her needs are here supplied will help you choose the the best service, and the ing. Walfs Spiral Puttees, pr. $4.50 Canvas Leggings, pr. $1.50 Legging Laces, pr. 10c Leather Puttees. $.50 to $16 O. D. Wool Knit Helmets. $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 Campaign Hats.. $3.50 to $5.00 O. D. Bath Robes.. $7.50 Men's Wool Socks, pr. 40c to 65c Men's Mercerized Lisse Socks, special...3 pr for $1.00 $10.00 O. D. D. Wool Blankets. on sale at..... $8.50 Bedding Rolls..... $7.00 Other Blankets, cotton, pair $1.60 to $6.00 Wool Blankets, pr..... $8 25 to $15 Towels..... $15c to 35c quarters for merchandise..... allowing at all times. PUTTEES, ARMY BLANKETS, D. B, O. D. OVERCOATS, SHEEP HAT CORDS, CHEVRONS, IN- DLLS, CANVAS BUCKETS AND BOOTS, SWAGGER STICKS, CROPS HIEFS, SHOE POLISH, AND HUN- RTICLES FOR THE SOLDIERS, Dept. Store, State Bank Mr. Nelson Porter is seriously ill at his home on Tyler street, with neuralgia and inflammation of the stomach. The Plaindealer wishes him a speedy recovery. Mrs. Lillian Ransom, who has been ill, is now on the road to recovery. Mrs. L. Jones and Mrs. L. Brown of Kansas City, Kan., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Matley Coran, at 1155 Clay street. Miss Emma Glover of Kansas City, Kan., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Earl W. Beck, at 1504 Tyler treet. FOR RENT—A six room house at 900 Western Ave. See Mr. Grissom, 918 Western ave.—Adv. Mrs. W. II. Noble of Phoenix, Ariz., sister of Mrs. R. C. Cannon, who has been dangerously ill at her home, is much improved. Mr. Milton Elliott of Manhattan, Kan., spent a few days visiting his niece, Mrs Lillian Ransom of 1726 Topeka avenue. Mr. Elliott is on his way to his old home in Harrisonville, Mo., where Uncle Sam has recently called him to report. Mr. T. L. McGee of Garden City was a pleasant caller at this office on Monday. He was en route from Lawrenceburg, Ky., where he spent over a month visiting his brother. Mr. McGee is a brother-in-law to Mrs. Emma Gaines, 1182 Buchanan, with whom he stopped while in the city. Typewriter Opportunity—An Oliver typewriter No. 5, shipped anywhere within the U. S. on five days' free trial; price, $34.70. Terms, $2 per month; no collectors; we trust you. A magic ink eraser; removes a blot, word or a line like magic, free with each order. Send 10c today for complete instructions on how to collect and sell names. We pay cash or commission for mailing our circulars and we insert your name free in our circular mallers' directory. You will receive many money making propositions from leading mall order firms. Frey's Distributing Agency, Weatherford, Okla. WANTED—Two girl waitresses. Write Frank Wilson, care Colored Y. M. C. A., 92nd Division, Camp Funston, Kan.—Adv. The members of the Federation of Clubs will organize a Sabbath service at the aged women's department at the club house, conslating of Bible reading, prayer, and song service by the girls' quartet. The public is invited to help in this service for the aged and shutting.—Mrs. Jackson, President; Mrs. Malone, Chaplain; Mrs. Rolin, Chairman; Mrs. Van Der Zee, Leader. Rev. George McNeal spent several days in Oklahoma recently in the interest of the Red Cross work. It has not been long since he returned from a trip to Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and his report of the condition of the country along social and political lines, so far as the colored men are concerned, is not very rosy. He says they are subjected to the insults of the white men, who still continue to dictate for them, in some localities, the same old form of settling at the end of each year, and the colored man still comes out in debt. They now refuse to settle up with the colored men at the end of each year unless they sign up for another year, fearing 'that they will leave the country. Rev. McNeal says he saw several insults at Memphis on street cars toward colored ladies, which were almost unbearable. During the holidays Mrs. Julia Bowles, 1321 Highland, entertained three young colored school boys whose parents have been neighbors of hers for years, at a fine dinner. The boys who enjoyed the occasion were Silas and Ernest Chaney, who are attending the Catholic school at Leavenworth, and Leon Jordan, Jr., who is staying with his aunt Josie Wright of Topeka and attending school here. Mrs. Bowles enjoyed the company of the boys, and the boys certainly enjoyed the dinner, as it consisted of everything good. They say they love Mamma Bowles and hope she will continue to invite them to holiday feasts. We wish to call the attention of our Topeka friends who are interested in the Women's Federation work and their clubs to the fact that this institution is for the upbuilding of humanity and the protection of good morals among girls and women of Topeka and Kansas at large. Mrs. Etta Jackson, the worthy supervisor, and her staff of board members and associate members are doing their best to make this work worth while, and are meeting with encouraging success and generous help from the kindly disposed and the public. This undertaking is largely an effort and will require time and patience, with faith and Christian charity to accomplish our desire and effort. The work of the Women's Federated Clubs is a heartfelt religious work, a rescue work, an opportunity for the student and the high school girls to accomplish themselves in a life work to help in the upbuilding of morality and the good Christian womanhood and sisterhood, the home for the wanderer, the help for the weak and erring. The home for the aged women is an inspiration of good. Sunday service will be held in the afternoon from 4 o'clock to 5. Bible reading and service, song service by the girls, selected.—Mrs. S. M. Van Derse, Reporter. Mrs. Laura Selectman, who has been visiting friends and relatives here, has returned to her home in Okarche. Her many friends in Topeka spared no pain in making her visit a pleasant one. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morgan of Dover, Okla., prosperous farmers in that section of the country, were the guests of their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Morgan, at Kansas City cutting the holidays. Mrs. Leon Jordan is in the city with her husband, who is spending the winter here with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright. FOR SALE—My property at 925 College Ave. Telephone 2327 Blue. George Wright.—Adv. Mr. Peter Roundtree, father of Prof. Fred Roundtree, visited him during the holidays. He is now with his son Peter, Jr., at Girard. Rev. J. W. Clay, pastor of King Solomon Baptist church, Kansas City, Kan., was in the city Thursday to interview the governor. He was a pleasant caller at this office and paid his subscription. He says that his wife, who is at Prescott, Ariz., for her health, is improving, and that he visited her during the holidays. Rev. Clay is vice moderator of the Kaw Valley Association and a member of the National Baptist Educational Board. Mrs. Jennie De Priest of Salina and Miss Jennie Boswell, teacher at Russell Springs, Kan., were guests of Mrs. Angie De Priest during the holidays. Miss Cleo De Priest accompanied her aunt to Salina, where she will attend school. The Needlecraft Club met with Mrs. Taylor Reed, 1410 Western avenue, Thursday afternoon, January 3. Plans for the year were laid. A delicious three course luncheon was served and a pleasant afternoon was enjoyed. If you want first class poultry, eggs, etc., call on Win. and J. Johnston, at 1335 East Eighteenth St., Kansas City, Mo.—Adv. To Farmers: If you wish to get fair prices for your produce, such as poultry, eggs, etc., write Wm. and J. Johnston, 1335 East Eighteenth St., Kansas City, Mo. For reference write Traders National Bank, Eleventh and Grand.—Adv. Mr. W. II. Jackson died Saturday, January 12, in Kansas City, Mo. He leaves to mourn his loss a mother, three children, two sisters and one brother. The body was taken to Columbus, Kan., for burial. The Shamrock Club kept open house at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, 1417 Tyler street, from 2 to 7 p. m. The house was beautifully decorated The ladies were looking their best, all dressed in white and each carrying a bouquet. After serving 98 guests with the club's menu they adjourned to meet January 15 with Mrs. Mollie Pace, 716 Fillmore street.—M. Pace, President; F. Greene, Sec. Brown chapel is preparing for its revival, to begin February 20. They are holding cottage prayer meetings and having good success. Bro. R. Williams filled the pulpit Sunday in the absence of the pastor, Rev. T. W. Greene, who preached a funeral at Wamego on Sunday. He has been confined to his home ever since with an attack of the grip. Mrs. Rosa Jackson, accompanied by Mrs. Corn Yeager of Lawrence, have returned from Wichita, where they attended the funeral of Past District Grand Master J. L. Harper. Rev. George D. Olden, for years pastor of the Second Baptist church and founder of the Capital Hand Laundry, arrived one day last week for a visit with his many friends. Rev. Olden is now located in East St Louis, Ill., where he is doing a great work for racial uplift. Miss Mattle Perkins, of our circulation department, left today for St. Joseph, Mo., where she will look after delinquent subscribers and visit her sister Mrs. H. T. Campbell Subscribers will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly Hon. Jas. A. Troutman, who has announced himself as a candidate for governor, subject to the Republican primaries next August, is one of Kansas' most prominent Republicans and attorneys at law. He served this state as lieutenant governor and has served the citizens on various committees and delegations which have been the instigation of pronoungating many good things for the upbuilding of all the different classes of Kansas. He is a Kansan and is thoroughly imbued with the progress Kansas has made. He is a safe and same candidate, a staunch Republican and if elected governor of the state of Kansas the citizens will have no apologies to make at the end of his term. PIERCE ADDITION, Rev, Lee gave an interesting lecture at Pierce school house Sunday afternoon, which was well attended. Mr. Eugene Martin spent Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. Pierce band will furnish music for the Sunday school Sunday, Jan. 20, at 3 o'clock. Everyone is welcome. Mrs. Lulu Diggs is ill at her home on 25th and Monroe street. * Mrs. Cora Yeager stopped over in Topeka en route from Wichita and was the guest of Mrs. Rosa Jackson, 129 North Van Buren. The death of Miss Susie Wilson, which occurred last Monday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Nichols, 815 Fillmore, where she was employed during the winter, was a shock to her family and to the entire city. She was in comparatively good health and was suddenly taken sick at 10 o'clock Monday morning, and died at 1 o'clock the same day. She called her sister, Mrs. Forbes, but became speechless before she arrived, and, if she recognized her, was unable to utter a word. Miss Wilson was one of Topeka's most highly respected, cultured and industrious young women and had for years been in service at the Mackinaw islands, where she was employed by one of the large summer camps where wealthy families and their children resorted. When it came to thrift and economy she was in a class to herself, and had something like $1500 in the bank and on interest, besides large insurance policies and other valuable properties. She lived with her widowed mother at 1218 Buchanan, where they own their own home. Besides her mother she leaves three sister—Mendames. Fannie Forbes, Georgia Ware and Lizzie Mitchell—and one brother, Le Roy Wilson. The funeral was held on Thursday afternoon from St John A. M. E. church, of which she was a member, Rev. F. J. Peck officiating. The casket was of lavender state half couch plush with the very finest of lining tinged with lavender. The extension handles were of old silver. That the deceased had a legion of friends was manifested by the profuse floral offerings. Interment was in Mount Auburn cemetery. The deceased not only leaves a host of friends in Topeka, but also in Kansas City, Chicago and other parts of the country, who regret the loss of so intelligent and valuable a young woman. FORMER TOPEKAN MAKING GOOD One thing we are proud of is the great success Mr. Frank Harris, acting executive secretary of the Y M. C. A. at Kansas City, Mo., is making in the position. Mr. Harris was at one time connected with the Topeka Plaindealer, and we are not surprised that he is making good, as he always makes a success of anything he undertakes. We were proud to read a letter from Mr. C. S. Bishop, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., greeting Mr. Harris and wishing him success and happiness and complimenting him upon the benefits he had rendered to not only the colored Y. M. C. A, through his management and good work, but he has given great information to the other Y. M. C. A. and enlightened the officers as to how to conduct certain lines of business connected with the association. Mr. Harris was born in St. Paul, Kan., is 36 years old, and shows that he is a thoroughbred Kansan by the fact that he does not play on the job, but makes every hour count, and we would not be surprised at any time to see him made the regular secretary. His salary has been advanced twice since he took charge of the organization a few months ago. He has made the cafe department a profit sharing concern. When he took charge the management of that FRANK MARRIS department was running behind. Not only this, but he has brought the whole organization up in a financial way. While it is very necessary that the moral and Christian side of the work be developed, at the same time the financial end should play a prominent part. This Y. M. C. A. is headquarters for colored people of the West, and nearly every young man who goes to Kansas City stops here, providing he can get accommodations. Mr. Harris is a perfect Christian gentleman and takes great pride in meeting the visitors and making them welcome while in the association building. He supernends the entire business, has everything at his fingers' tips, and can tell any time in the day the financial standing of the organization. He was married a few years ago to Miss Florence Mosely, who was also at one time an employee of the Plain-dealer office. She is an accomplished young lady and is working in harmony with her husband, thereby helping him to succeed, as all good wives should do. They have purchased a nice seven room house at 1627 Park avenue, all modern and up-to-date. Mr. Harris has never asked the organization for a raise, but they have given it to him voluntarily, and will continue to do so until he reaches the limit or as much as they can afford to pay, but they will never be Bridges & Stanley Cafe, Soft Drinks, Furnished Rooms Fronting 92d Division Give Them a Call ARMY CITY, KANSAS Everything in Wearing Apparel for Army Men Kuppenheimer and Society Brand Uniforms and Overboats able to pay him commensurate with the great service he is rendering. May Mr. Harris continue in his great work. 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 new on the pump and producing around fifty barrels of oil per day and the other has caused all the shallow oil sand and is drilling for the deep pay, both being in section 19-4-2, Carter county, Okla. ```markdown ``` 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 completed, a steel flow tank has been built and a modern pump station is all complete and in operation. Recent favorable developments or acreage adjacent and in close proximity to several of our properties have increased the value of same ten fold 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. SAMMY: We want your business. We run a clean "joint" and our prices are right. We sell everything you need in Sporting Goods, Chevrons, Swagger Sticks, Flashlights, Safety Hazors, Cutlery, Pennants, Pillows, Collar and Hat Ornaments, and Presents to send to "her," etc. Military, Civilian and Athletic Clothing We are opposite the Interurban Station, in Manhattan, 115 South Fourth St., right where you get on and off the car. Look for the sign. 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Write JACOB'S PHARMACY, Atlanta, Ga. -AGENTS WANTED- WRITE FOR OUR LIBERAL TERMS The Best in Typewriting Call and See EdnaGreene Notary Public Phone 3300 Capital, Surplus, ---the best place in all Topeka to buy and to save! CARROLTON, MISSOURI As we were about to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, seventy-five Carrolltonians and quite a number of out-of-town friends were invited to participate in the celebration of the sixtieth birthday anniversary of one of our highly respected citizens, Mr. Green Titus, who was born December 25, 1857. His birthday celebration was one of the most elaborate that have been witnessed here. The day of Mr. Titus' birth, Christmas Day, being the same as that of "The Prince of Peace," causes Mr. Titus to feel highly honored. Mrs. Millie Titus, the very devoted and congenial wife, spared no pains in making the eve a pleasure to all. For beauty in decoration the hostess has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. Since the spirit of patriotism is swelling in the breast of every true and loyal American, the hostess carried out the scheme of patriotic colors appropriate to yule-tide. By our prescense Mr. Titus was much enthused and was very grateful to the Ruler of the Universe for having been spared to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Mr. Titus was the recipient of a number of useful and valuable presents, which are too numerous to list. We were entertained with beautiful Victrola music selected just for the occasion while the following menu was being served: First course: Goose, Turkey, Oyster Dressing, Ham Sandwich, Opossum, Sweet Potatoes, and Bread. Second Course: Fried Salad and Salted Wafers. Third Course: Pineapple Ice Cream, Caramel and Fruit Cake. All departed wishing Mr. Titus many more happy birth-days and all a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. ELWOOD, KANS. Mrs. Earl Jackson, mother of Wathena, Kans, is spending a few days with her. Mr. Herschel Walker of Omaha, Neb., took dinner Sunday with Mrs. Earl Jackson. Mr. Nelson is now on the sick list. Mrs. Alverta Garnon gave a party Saturday evening in honor of her sister, Miss Cora Haskins, from Horton, Kan. The hour was from 8 till 11. Mrs. Emma Belcher served dinner New Year's for friends from St. Louis; also her sister, Mrs. Lula Hines of South St. Joe. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Thomas of St. Joe spent Friday with their sister, Mrs. Nelson. On the third Sunday of this month the A. M. E. Church will give a rally. New Year's Night Mrs Nattle Botts gave a candy pulling. Those present: Mr. and Mrs. R. Gorman, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Gorman, Mr. and Mrs. O. Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Jafus, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jackson, Mr. Bolts, and Mrs. L. Garmon. The evening was spent in playing games. Rev. John Garmon was called to Moravin, Kansas, Saturday evening on the death of his step-brother. EMPORIA, KAN. Emporia went visiting during the Xmas. Among the young ladies we note Misses Molly Moore, Lucile Armstead, Hazel and Margaret Rogers, and Mrs. Julia Rogers spent the holiday visiting. Miss Gerdine Broadus and other students have returned from visits to their homes Quarterly meeting at Mt. Olive A. M. E. Church was held last Sunday, Rev. H. D. Harris, P. E., was present and preached two able sermons. Rev. E. D. Hughes preached at the 3 P. M. service. The report was good, showing that $260 00 had been raised. The gold bracelet contest was a lively affair. Miss Moore was a close contestant, but Miss Lucile Armstead won the beautiful jewel. Mrs. Lucile Elliott, 869 W. 6th Ave., is improving after a long and severe illness. Rev. Clarence Davis preached to the Mt. Olive people Tuesday eve. Mrs. Ohe Brown and Mrs. Artela Ellhott were indisposed last week. Mr. Jiles Elliott donated Mt. Olive 6 bundles of shingles for the parsonage. Mr. Frank Rogers spent the Xmas as a hermit—he was all alone. Miss Margaret Armstand, S. S. Superintendent, gave her Sunday school pupils a splendid holiday treat in the form of a program and sacks of goodies. Rev. X. C. Runyon spent the Xmas week with his parents. He pastors at Garden City, Kan. He is a graduate of Payne Theological Institute, Wilberforce University. ATCHISON, KAN. Mrs. Matilda Allen, who made her home with her granddaughter, Mrs. Carrie Kerford, departed this life Sunday morning, Dec. 16, at 4 A. M. She had been in failing health for about a year, and while she knew that she could not get well, she was cheerful and kind with the family and friends with whom she came in contact. Her illness took a serious turn on Thursday, and on Sunday morning she passed peacefully to the great Beyond. She leaves to mourn her loss one daughter, five grandchildren, one nephew, and other relatives and friends. The funeral was held at the A M. E. Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 P. M. Rev. Billops officiating. Mrs Ota Perkins of Topeka has visited a few days in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Briggs. Misses Hattie Ingram, Ida Ross, and Camilla Briggs spent the week in Kansas City attending the Inter State, Dr. F. A Pearl of the medical corps of Camp Funston spent a few days in the city The following ladies are home to spend the holidays: Miss Eradna Hoy, teacher of St. Louis, Miss Ruth Anderson of Western University, Mrs. Hazel Williams of Minnesota, and Mr. Andrew Johnson, also of Western University. Mr. J. Peoples of St. Paul, Minn, spent a few days in the city, the guest of Mrs. Bernice Elkins. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lett of Emporia and Mr. Bert Ray, also of Emporia, spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Charley Porter. Mr. Edwin Potter of Frankfort, Ke., was the guest of his uncle, Mr. Jerry Saylor and wife. Mr. Joseph Alexander and Mr. W. Bradford, who have been ill for some time, are reported better. One of the most pleasant affairs of the holidays was a reception given Jan. 8 from 2 to 5 P. M., when Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Lewis extended their hospitality to about 70 of their friends in honor of Mrs. Amanda Crooms of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Mars of Chicago. The rooms were very beautifully decorated with green and red and with candles burning here and there in the darkened rooms made an occasion long to be remembered. The hostess was assisted during the afternoon by Mrs. E. Handy, Mrs. J. D. Colbert, and Mrs. Jerry Taylor. Dainty refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Kerford are the proud parents of twin boys born Jan. 8. Mother and babies are doing nicely. The twins found on their arrival a little brother, making three boys in the family. The Sunflower Art Club was very pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Clifford Barnes. Mrs. Jerry Taylor entertained with a one o'clock lunchon Wednesday, Jan. 9, in honor of Mrs. Amanda Crooms of Hutchinson, Kan, who is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Rachel Taylor, and Mrs. Cornelia Pettis. Those seated at the table besides the guest of honor and hostess were Mrs. Alexander Denny, Mrs. J. W. Lewis, Mrs. H. Potter, Mrs. B. G. Jackson, and Mrs. Rachel Taylor. The ladies spent the afternoon very pleasantly in conversation. Mrs. Mary Mars of Chicago, Ill., is spending a month in the city, the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Alexander Clagget, and her mother, Mrs. Amanda McDowel. The Utopia Art and Reading Club was very pleasantly entertained at the home of Mrs. Ethel Jackson on Oak Street. Mrs. Amande Crooms left Wednesday for her home in Hutchinson, Kan., after spending two weeks in the city visiting relatives and friends. A movement is on foot by Prof. W. E. Gray and other men of the city to raise one thousand dollars to help build a community house at Camp Funston for the colored soldiers. It is hoped that every one will give something to help. Mrs. Edna Balance was found dead at her home, 1313 Hickory St., Sunday eve. The body was frozen stuff when found. It was supposed she had a stroke of apoplexy. JETMORE, KAN. Xmas with its many joys is o'er, and we are all settled down to work once again. The music rendered by the young people at the church during the holi- days was excellent. Mrs. Willard Bradley and daughter and Miss Alta Bradley spent the holi- days in eastern Kansas. Robert Bradshaw of Camp Funston spent the holidays here visiting rela- tives and friends. The following ladies by various entertainments helped to make the holi- days unusually gay; Mesdames Fife, Edith Board, Estella Moore, Ethyl Bradshaw, Melissa Bradshaw. Messrs R. O. Bradshaw, O. L. Board and Geo. Board motored to Larned re- cently. Mrs Bradford and Johnson returned to Larned after a most pleasant visit here. Mrs. Mattie Lee and gravedaughter spent the week end in the Valley Settlement. Mr. and Mrs. Pettis were the Sunday dinner guests of J. E. Bradshaw family. Mr. R. O. Bradshaw gave two rousing social affairs during the holidays. Mr. Robert Bradshaw left last Friday for Camp Funston, declaring that he was afraid to look an Xmas fowl in the face. He wishes to thank those who made his stay such a pleasant one. Rev. E. H. Lee preached two rousing sermons during the holidays. PAOLA, KAN Mrs Thos. Greer of Kansas City and Mrs. Henry Martin of Jersey City N. J. were in the city during the holidays visiting their father, Mr. Robert Thomas, and relatives. Miss Daisy N. Peak spent the holidays in Bartlesville, Okla., with her sister, Mrs. Henry Morrison. Mr. Wendell Buckner of Topeka spent the holidays with John E. Lowry. There was a reunion of the Emmons family during the holidays. Those present were Mr Neal Emmon's father of Omaha, Messrs William Jesse, Walter of Kansas City, Mr. Ralph and wife of Omaha, and Miss Marie of Paola. Miss Nellie Bush of this city and Mr. Benjamin Gray of Quindaro were united in marriage at the home of Miss Bush's parents. Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson, Monday, Dec. 31. The pupils of Miss Peak's and John Lowry's room gave a program at the A. M. E. Church during the holidays, which was well patronized and enjoyed by all. The people of this community remembered the boys from this county who are in service at Camp Funston by sending them boxes. Mr. Leon Bush, who is attending Western University at Quindaro, spent the holidays with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson. Mr. Garfield Gordon, formerly of this city, but now residing in Oklahoma City, was in the city during the holidays visiting home folks. Miss Toussie Etta Vantrace, who has been making her home with her brother Charles and Wife of Edwardsville, Ill., has returned home to her father. Mrs. May Lawson, formerly Miss May Shepherd, is visiting with her mother, Mrs. Alice Brady, west of town. We wish the Editor of the Plain-dealer and his staff a happy and prosperous New Year. CHERRYVALE, KAN. Miss Alma Jones and Mr. George Bolden of Independence were the guests of Miss Jones' parents and sisters Sunday. Mrs. Henderson has returned home from Fayetteville, Ark., where she spent the holidays with home folks. Mrs. Tessie Wheaton is reported some better at this writing; also Mr. J. L. Roberson, Jr., who has been on the sick list for some time. Mr. Clyde Teal was the guest of the Misses Jones Sunday. Mr. Archie Cooper of Coffeyville was the guest of Miss Geraldine Jones Sunday. Mr. Edwards of Coffeyville was the guest of Miss Rubie White Sunday. Miss Alma Jones of Independence was over Thursday visiting relatives. 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The Red Cross Club will meet at the home of the president, Mrs. Wilson, Nebraska Avenue, next Friday afternoon. Mr. W. Greeneway is on the sick list but is somewhat better, although he is awfully feeble. The Choral Club was going to give a candy pull Thursday, but the weather was so bad it had to be called off. Miss. Ida Williams' voice was greatly missed last Sunday. Miss Sara Williams from Des Moines is visiting her father and sisters. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. We are still at the front, fighting for the Cause. Our new church is doing fine. Xmas was good, but old Santa forgot me on the tree. My, my! But the next good thing I had to do was to thank the many friends who had donated to make the pastor and family happy Xmas with flour, meat, sugar, coffee, canned goods, and a nice purse of cash, $12.50, and more to follow. So you see we are not forgotten. The colored people are doing fine here. A great demand for help of all kinds. Colored miners wanted. Wages good. Mrs. Barclay has organized the ladies of the city for a great work in our Zion this year. Must say we admire the brave and heroic stand the Plaindealer takes for the Race. Wishing you great success, I am, Yours, REV. T. B. J. BARCLAY. 201 M. St. SIOUX CITY, IA. The Autumn Leaf Club gave their annual pre-holiday ball that proved a decided success. The music was the very best. Prof. and Mrs. J. W. Norris were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Whitlock Dec. 16. Mr. Stubblefield and wife were guests of Mr. Shores during the holiday. Miss Vastil Walker visited her mother during the Xmas holidays. She is attending Wayne College. Leo Johnson entertained his sister from Des Moines Sunday. Mr. Stubblefield and family called at Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Whitlock's New Year's Day. From there the two families attended the play given at the A. M. E. Church. Title: "Out in the Streets." Characters were well prepared and made a decided hit. Mrs. Minnie Whitlock was very ill last week from food poisoning. It was by the prompt action of her husband that she was able to rally through. Much better now. It pleases the writer to know that here we have a young girl saleswoman in one of the largest stores. She attends high school and works evenings and holidays. She is making good with hundreds of other white ladies and girls. She is Miss Vivian Stubblefield. Prof. J. W. Norris spent last Sunday in Yankton, S. D. Leona Tarwater and Miss Mnue sang at the Xmas services of the Baptist church. Oh, you ought to attend Sundav school at the Baptist church! Grand! And they will have delegates from three states as guests very soon. PLEASANTON, KAN. Mr. John King of Chanute visited from Monday until Wednesday with his uncle, Rev. A. J. King. There are several cases of diphtheria in this city, and the public school, the churches, and other places of assembly are cloed. Several families are quarantined. Abe Collins and family, G. W. Arnold and family, and Robert White and family are quarantined for the diphtheria. Mr. H. W. Ward returned from Kansas City Wednesday. Mrs. Myrtle Carter returned to Kansas City Thursday. Misses Elizabeth Carter and Cordelia St. Clair and Master Delbert White are on the sisk list. Miss Carter is improving at this writing. Mesdames Ella Fine, Florence Fine, and Messrs Robert White, Edward Fine, Henry Downing, Earl Arnold, and William Arnold are members of the local Red Cross society which was organized by the white citizens of this place. Rev, J. W. Gillespie returned from Kansas City, Kansas, Saturday, where he had been visiting his daughters. KANSAS CITY, KAN. Mrs. M. Elizabeth Frulain, not Mrs. A. Crump, is head instructor in the knitting, with Mrs. Hattie Miller first assistant. As the demand for experienced knitters became so great, Mrs. A. Crump and Mrs. C. H. James were appointed to assist Mrs. Frulain at the packing plants and the several schools. 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Miss Mary Banks, who spent the holidays with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Banks, left recently for her school at Girard. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Everett, who have been visiting relatives and friends at Little Rock, Ark., have returned and report a pleasant trip. Mr. Wigley of Guthrie, Okla., is visiting his daughter and son. Mrs. Haynes and Mr. Wigley on N. 2nd St. Mr. and Mrs. West Hudson are the proud parents of a baby girl. Rev. Luther Franklin is on the sick list. Many visitors spent their holidays in Graham County, Hill City and Nicodemus certainly know how to entertain strangers. Christmas at both of these places are passed all previous years. The Baptist church in Nicodemus had a Christmas to think about for years to come. Hill City Baptist church had their first Christmas tree. Miss Orn Seruggs, Nicodemus teacher of the public school, knows how to bring Things to pass. She is one of Western University's students; also Mr. Joe Wilson. Both of these young people are a credit to the church and race. We are looking for something to happen some time soon. Miss Willa Mae Martin, daughter of Rev. W. M. Martin, who is taking a through course at Western University, spent her holidays with her parents at Hill City and received and enjoyed many rich presents and friends. Her sister Helen, who is a student in the High School, entertained Mr. Thomas Glenn, Mr. M. Hickman, Mr. K. Scroggirs, Mr. G. London, Mr. Ford, and many others in her honor. Master John H. Martin is making good in manual training and the rest of his studies in the High School here and has many nice pieces which he has made. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Greenn entertained Miss Willa Mae at tea while she was here. He is a farmer and has bought a home. He and his wife know how to entertain. Honorables John and Will Sayers, two of the best lawyers in the county, haven't time to eat any idle bread in their line of perfection. Rev. Wm. Martin spent the Sunday in Hoxle and spoke to the white people. KANSAS CITY, KAN. Mr. Walter Ruler and wife have returned home from a delightful trip out west. Mrs Vashtl Ruler spent Xmas in Sterling, Kunsak, and New Year in Denver, where she joined Mr. Ruler. Both reported a fine trip. Mrs. Minnie White of Sterling, Ka, is now visiting her son and daughter. SANTAL AND PILLS MIDY SALINA, KAN. HILL CITY, KAN. completely cured by the use of one 25c box of DOUBLE STRENGTH DANDRUFF CURE. After using a few boxes your hair will become naturally soft and glossy. The McCLELLAND'S STRAIGHTENING OIL has no equal for straightening the hair. Price 25c each. 1013 Kansas Avenue. TOPEKA. KANSAS. NE 4526 BLUE Mr. and Mrs Walter Roler of 1805 N. First St. Mr. Charles L. Grant of St. Louis is the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Frances Campbell. Mrs. John Collins and Mrs. Archie Campbell entertained at a six o'clock dinner in honor of Charles L. Grant. Six courses were served. There were twenty guests in attendance. Among the guests was the Rev. Moses William. Mr. Rosby Walters has returned home from Chicago. All of his friends are glad to see him. Mrs. Walter Roler entertained with a luncheon in honor of Mr. Charles L. Grant, followed by a matinee party at the Orpheum Theatre. T. R. AGAINST RACE HATRED "I wish Loeb were President," the Colonel wrote New Yorker. Loyal Americans of German Antecedents Just as Good as Those of Mayflower Ancestry, Former President Declares. From the New York Times. In letters written to two men in New York City Col. Theodore Rosevelt has come out for fair treatment on the part of the United States for loyal American citizens whose parents happened to be born in Germany. The colonel said that he had German blood in his veins, and that his former private secretary, William Loeb, Jr., was of German descent. "I would give anything on earth," wrote the colonel, "if Billy Loeb were President of the United States today." Walter Lingenfelder wrote to Colonel Rosevelt last summer asking him for his views on the status of a loyal American of German ancestry. He included an article he had written depicting the spread of race hatred in America, and the colonel replied as follows: "Dear Mr. Lingenfelder: That's a mighty nice letter of yours, and I like your article. I inclose you copy of a letter I have written to a fellow American. I am partly of German descent, although I have more more Scotch and Dutch blood in me than I have German or English or French. The Hollanders and Flemings are racially nearer to the north "low" Germans than the latter are to the "high" Germans of South Germany. Faithfully yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Inclosed in the letter to Mr. Lingenfelder was one which the colonel had written to Frederick Retz, vice president of the Moore Press, Incorporated, in New York City. This letter reads: "My Dear Mr. Bentz: I thank you far your letter. What American could desire more honorable and more typically American ancestry and associations than yours? Your father was born in Germany. He served through the Civil War, was wounded twice in it and died from the results of his injuries. It makes my blood boil to have the government permit any discrimination such a man as your father was. I no further than that. It makes my blood boil to have them permit any discrimination against the son of such a man as your father was. "In my regiment in Cuba, one of the captains under me was born in Germany. I will fight for his rights as my fellow American just as quick as I would fight for the rights of any man whose ancestors came over here three centuries ago to Virginia or Massachusetts. "I don't believe in men being transplanted second-rate English any more than I believe in their being transplanted second-rate Germans. We are all Americans and nothing else. "Billy Loeb has been for fifteen years closer to me personally than any other man. His father and mother were born in Germany. His father, like yours, served through the Civil War. I would give anything if Billy Loeb were at this moment President of the United States. "Two of the naturalists who were closest to me in South America and Africa were Edmond Heller and Leo Hiller. The fathers of both were born in Germany but they are just as good Americans as I am. Leo Hiller is now in the officers' training camp, and, if I had been allowed to raise troops, both he and Heller would have been under me. Under no circumstances would I like to see any one try to discriminate against either. Faithfully yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Mr. Lingenfelder said he had been prompted to write to the colonel after a New Yory newspaper had printed the assertion that there had never been a President with any German blood in his veins. UNCLE SAM CARRIES RACE PREJUDICE ABROAD Where Men Will Be Sent In regard to the first disposal of Porto Rican troops the latest information from Washington says: "It is understood that the total draft army of 12,851 men, approximately 8,000 whites will be sent in December to the Eighty-first Division at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., the station originally selected for them by the War Department. They will be trained in association with troops from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. The Porto Rican negroes, numbering slightly in excess of 4,000 men, will not be sent to the Southern training camps. It is understood that the races are to be separated and that the negro contingent from the island will go to Camp Upton at Yaphank, L. I. It is said to be the intention of the department to include the Porto Rican negroes in a division that is to be organized and stationed at Camp Upton when the troops now there have been moved out. As this may not be done for several months, it is probable that the Porto Rican negroes recently drafted will not be called to the colors until next spring, by which time climatic conditions in the North will be more favorable." AN EPISCOPAL NEGRO BISHOP The Rev. E. T. Demby to Work in the Southern States. New York, Dec. 29.—The Episcopal diocese of Arkansas has taken a step toward the color line that is held to be in advance of any yet taken by any religious body in America, Protestant or Catholic. It is the election of a full blooded negro to be a bishop. The man chosen is the Rev. Edward Thomas Demby, archdeacon of Tennessee and principal of an industrial school in that state. He is reported to be a man of scholarly attainments, and to have done sound educational work in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and German and French philosophy. If he accepts the election, as it is expected he will do, he will be the first negro bishop to be elected under a plan long discussed North and South, and may be given jurisdiction beyond the state of Arkansas, extending into Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. His work will be wholly among negroes, and he will be suffragan to the Rt. Rev. Dr. J. R. Winchester. SPRINGFIELD, MO. The last meeting in the old year was held at the residence of Mrs. Aggie Gatewood, she being the delightful hostess to the Literary and Musical Club; also to the "L. H" Club. Although it was one of the most disagreeable days of the winter, a delightful afternoon was enjoyed, being like summer time indoors, and enjoying the choicest vains of the season. Mrs. Hazel Burnett—visitor. Prizes won by Mesdames M. A. Janett and B. B. Cooper. On Christmas Day, at the residence of Miss Edwina Smith, 1005 Sherman St., the members of the "L. H" Club were hostesses to their gentlemen friends, entertaining with a sumptuous course dinner, which was excellently and daintily prepared by their own hands. To mention that it was enjoyed with without repeating. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cobb have returned from St. Louis, where Mrs. Cobb has been under the care of doctors for several months. We trust Mrs. Cobb is greatly improved. Mrs. Esterdelle Bruce of Walberherforce, Ohio, is enjoying the holidays at home. We regret that Miss Manjunetta Bickers is still reported on the indisposed list. Mrs. Sylvia Murphy of Atchison, Kansas, spent two very pleasant weeks visiting kinsfolks and friends. Mrs. Murphy has been away from her home town for 15 years. We were all proud to see her, and especially to see her looking so young and good, jolly, etc. Come again when you can remain longer. Mr. Carl Law has returned to Macon College. Mo—whereby leaving some one a bit lonely. Mrs. Rev. Catherine Bodell Alexander was here during the holidays visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edd Bodell. Her husband has charge of a church at Nevada, Mo. Mrs. Maggie Bosey, having spent most of the summer and fell in travel with her grandson, Howell Lewis, returned and enjoyed the Christmas holidays with her husband. Mr. Darwyn J. M. Cooper, after an absence from horse of 5 years turned and has spent about 16 months with parents, folk, and 1 friends. He will have for Am Arbor, Michigan, about the 10th of this month. Mrs. Henry Bodell of 1865 Rogers St. entertained with a New Year's dinner Mr. and Mrs. Edd Bodell and Mrs. Pay Catherine Alexander of Nevada, Mo. Private Eugene C. Abernathy of Co 323 327 Motor Supply Company, 921 Division of Camp Funston, vested ki- wife, who is not so well, and parents for 5 days. Mr. Abernathy is looking well. Massrs Robert Denforth, Leonard Hernard, and Lester Hill have also enforced a furfur. Mr. Moses Williams is still on the sid. list. we regret to state. Mrs. Nettle Dillard has been indo proud for about 10 weeks. posed the threat to her Mrs. Ella Jarrett is confined to her apartment with laprippie. Mrs. Louisa Brewer died Dec 28, 1927, at the home of her daughter Mrs. Liza Smith, after an illness of seven years from paralysis. Mrs. Brewer possessed a large soul and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. The family has the deep sympa- thy of the community. Teachers and students of Lincoln School visited many homes on Christmas Eve, presenting gifts and sharing Xmas joy. Prof. and Mrs. II. V. Wilburn and little daughter, Lucile Julia, of Kansas City, Kansas, enjoyed Christmas with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edd Wilburn, folks and friends Little Lucile Julia is like a streak of sunshine, and quite a treasure. The Stork and Santa Claus got together and presented to Mr. and Mrs. Revelle a fine heir as a Christmas gift. Mrs Revelle, formerly Mrs. Aurelia Webb and little one are getting along nicely. The L. II. Club on Saturday afternoon just before Xmas enjoyed Christmas festivity to the utmost, interchanging with every other member beautiful, valuable, and useful gifts. Miss B. K. Morrison was a delightful visitor in the city during the latter part of the holidays, having spent some time with mother at Columbia, Mo. Mr and Mrs. T Layton and daughter, Miss Ethyle B., entertained with an elaborate course dinner during Xmas holidays. Covers were laid for Hours:—9 n. m., to 12:00 m; 2:30 p. m. to 5:00 p. m.; 7:00 p. m to 8:30 p. m. DR. J. M. JAMISON, Special Diseases. Phone 959 — 327 Madison St DR. S. PLOURNOY, Physician and Surgeon. 600 Kannan Ave Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. AT OFFICE EVENING Phone 1147 DR. J. LOUIS RANSOM, Physician and Surgeon. 600 Kannan Avenue Phone 4268 Office Hours—8:30 to 12:00 a.m. 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Bundays by Request 419 Kannan Avenue — TOPSKA, KAN 1 to 5 30 p m Hours—8 to 12 p m. A. Xue, T. Craddock Sinkford, NARRHDEENE MARILLOW POMADE I will grow your hair or refund your money. My guarantee of money lack I not satisfied makes you absolutely safe in giving Marrow Pomade a trial. A two month home treatments for $1.50 by mail $1.75. I make a nice fifty of caring all scalp diseases in the womens form. My system of Hair Culture is the most marvelous known to modern science. I teach the art of hair and bake my culture complete—give a diploma au start you on the road to success. Marrow pomade, Tonle and ampoules, bough at the top of the home. Nitrogen-rich combs, Electric Hair Cobs and brushes, make Braids and Transformations to match your own hair. Send in today for one of my booklets. I was agents in your town. Write me for agree and make money. All mail orders give prompt attention. Mme. T. Craddock Ninkford, Fhone 4618 Red — 209 Jake Topeka, Kansas MISS C. A. PEARSON Real Estate and Employment Agency Bell Phone W. 323 1947 N 5th St. KANSAS CITY, KAN. ```markdown ``` We carry one of the First Houses of UNDERSTAKING GOODS in the State. We never sleep. Two licensed Funbal- mure in attendance. Phone 52 — 414 QRINGV AT Ada's Fian Grower 7 A company will rent a hair long soft and glow retail will prove it. We morrowly, call on our man factory. We we live agents to represent in every city and hamlet, in the great West BOX OF PRESSING OIL 25c BOX OF HAIR GROWER, 50c Mrs. Ada Montgomery MANUFACTURER. The Indiana Restaurant 7. Passenger Peerless Car for Hire...7 F. G FIELDS, Prop. Kansas City Mo. REAL HAND-MADE HUMAN CREOLE HAIR LATEST STYLES IN COLORED PEOPLE'S HAIR GOODS—WIGS, BRAID S., TRANSFORMATIONS, PUFFS, BANGS, HAIR NETS, CUT HAIR BY THE POUND. Rev. and Mrs. Webster, Mr. Herbert, and Mrs Edwina Smith, Mr. Durwin and Miss Doris Cooper, Mr. Stewart Fulbright, and others. Mrs. Layton was assisted by Mesdames Aggie Gatewood and Lotha Fulbright Mr. and Mrs. William Smith entertained Prof. H. V. Wilburn and family with course dinner. Covers were laid for fourteen. Mrs. Odessa Cobb and Miss Grajia S. Corneal entertained about 50 couples New Year's afternoon at the K. P. Hall with a progressive matinee entertainment. The time sped delightfully, but too quickly, as was expressed by many. Mrs. B. R. Cooper, 930 S. Grant St. was hostess to her "The Woman's Musical and Laterary Club" and visitors, Mrs Prof. Perkins, Mrs. Prof. C. H. Wilburn, Miss Clara Nuttall, and Mrs. John Wilburn, Friday afternoon, Jan. 4, 1918 Prizes were von by Mrs. Crede M. Young, Miss Geneva Vickers, Miss Clara Nuttall, and Miss Edwina Smith. All heartily expressed themselves as being well pleased with the course menu and entertainment of the afternoon. Mrs. W. A. Jarrett, Pres, Mrs. Lon Vickers. See'y. Next meeting with Mrs. J. S. Hardrick, Jan. 18. Author, Tennyson. Mr. Herbert Smith, having spent several months in Gary, Indiana, Chicago, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., is visiting at home for the holidays. Mr. Smith, during his stay away, has done well financially. He is thinking of accompanying Mr. Elmer Jones to Detroit, Michigan, soon. Mrs. Mara Clark is spending the Christmas holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Unthank, in Kansas City, Mo. We miss Mrs. Clark greatly. Msdames Burdie Anderson and son, Master Herschel Elvin, and Mrs. Bettie Hall enjoyed a pleasant visit at Mrs. Hall's home, Humansville, Mo. THE WHITES SETT TO DRIFTING BACKWARD. LAMAR, Mo., Jan. 12. Two divorce suits have been filed here since Dr. A, D. Craig, a widely known Barton County physician, and Mrs. Allie Jane Stratton, wife of John Stratton, a business man, left for Joplin, where they will make their homes. Their friends say they plan to matry as soon as possible. It is understood that Dr. Craig will not contest his wife's suit, arrangements having been made for alimony before the filing of the suit. Mrs. Craig is to receive the Craig's residence here, the physician's automobile, and $1,000 in cash. Mrs. Craig's petition alleges that Dr. Craig, on pretence of giving Mrs. Stratton medical treatment, had visited her "far beyond the bounds of propriety; that he had told her (Mrs. Craig) he did not love her and admitted his infatuation for Mrs Stratton." Mrs. Craig alleges her husband's infatuation became well known. The Craigs were married in Polk County, Mo., in 1891. Mrs. Craig asks custody of two major children. They also have two grown children. Stratton filed his a t a few hours after Mrs. Craig filed hers. According to his allegations Dr. Craig took advantage of his frequent absence from Lamar at Trace, Kau, where Stratton has business pet posts, to hestle his attentions upon him. His wife, he charm to told him, she did not love him and one only for Dr. Craig, and that she did the plausible were your sister from Lamar to be to other But there was an understanding geen all the parties that Stratton was a form divorcer a widow, Stratton, his wife and Dr Craig had dinner together at a Lemar hotel the enough before Stratton brook sent for divorce. Dr Craig and Mrs. Stratton are and to have go to London, where they will live apart until the divorces are granted at the term of this month, and where Dr Craig will pras- ses his professio. Stratton is sel- ling out his interests here and will live at Theatre. A HOG SELLS FOR $100. Chattanooga, Tenn. A colored man, Mr. S. P. Chick of the sali- url, ribbed and sold one hog for one hundred dollars. He has done more than any colored farmer in Hamilton county. Then, in the way of raiding and selling hogs Mrs. S. K. Holmes presented the Ninth Street Baptist church with an ```markdown ``` Restaurant good, home cook- s, stock men and at here. Car from Missouri venue from Kansas Kansas City Infor- ess Car for Hire..7 Kansas City Mo. largest assortment Combs. Catalogue. The Hair Imporium NEW YORK CITY a lot Individual communion set, purchased with the proceeds of the mock trial which was given some time ago. Miss Agnes Gray and Mrs. Chester Lewis entertained Miss Bell and Miss Flummer of Hutchinson with an in- formal dancing party Friday, January 11. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes gave a beautiful dinner New Year's day. The table was prettily decorated with violets. The place cards were hand painted violets and the centerpiece a large bouquet of violets. Covers were laid for twenty-four and the dinner consisted of six courses. The guests were Meadames A. Brown, A. F. Brown, Tydings, Renfrow, Helen Fortner, T. J. Harris and J. Clark, Messas, A. F. Brown, B. F. Tydings, Renfrow, R. E. Brown, T. J. Harris and Judge J. Clark, Misses Elsie and Nannie Brown. Messas, M. Tucker, C. Davis and Wm. Harrison entertained with a small dancing party for Miss Plummer of Hutchinson. The out of town guests were Miss Faye Slaughter of Topeka, Miss Capitol Tipton of Emporia, Miss Bell of Hutchinson and Mr. George Brown of Emporia. Megara, Rilev and Sumner Rogers, Bruce Brown, Fred Taylor, Glen Anderson and Vernon Walker entertained Misses Danny Mae Hill, Gladys Anderson, Ruth and Josephine Clark, Anna Rogers and Marjorie Tucker with a four course dinner and dance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T Brown, January 11. Miss Irma Frazier spent the week end in Kansas City, Mo. Lieutenants Arthur Hill and Alden Logan were in the city Sunday. Both have been ordered to Newport News, Va. Mrs. R. C. Henderson has been ill for quite a while. OMAHA TARAH Past Arcanum Temple No 1 meets 8 o'clock Thursday night in each month. Sir A. M. Harrold, presiding, Apt. 1. The earl than, 16th and Wille Ave. Light of the West Palatium meets o'clock and fourth Tuesday night Sir C. M. Kitchen, P. P., 2014 N. 117th St. Evening Star Temple No 4 meets great and third Monday nights, Sir A. M. Harrold, Humphrey Temple No. 2 meets second Monday night, jointly with evening star third Monday night. Bt Wm. Jackson, C. M., 2017 Burdette is. A M. Harrold Temple No. 2 meets second and fourth Thursday nights. Air J. H., Andrew, C. M., 2412 P. St. Ninth St. Linda. Linda Liraffe Temple No. 80 meets first and third Wednesday afternoons of each month. Dt. Gertrude Ashby, H. P., 2111 Poppleton St. Golden Sheaf superbacle No. 01 meets first Thursday afternoon and third Thursday night. Dt. Luis Bunney, H. P., 1125 N. 10th St. St. Maria Tabernacle No. 8 meets second Thursday afternoon and fourth Thursday night of each month. Dt. Rachel Harrod, H. P., Apt. I, The Nathan, corner 18th St. and above. Golden Rule Tabernacle No. 23 meets each month Dt. Budie Stapleson H. 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