Sedalia Weekly Conservator

Sedalia Weekly Conservator. . Fi a. Sampson . MEGRO BANK WAS CLOSED Muskogee, Okla., Feb. 26. A most unusual story is being told here concerning Bank Commissioner H. H. Smock, head of the state banking system of Oklahoma, and the negro town of Boley, southwest of Muskogee, in Okfuskee county. Smock sent an examiner into Boley to examine the Boley Bank and Trust company, a negro banking institution with a capital of $25,000. The examiner reached the town, which is composed of about 2,200 Negroes, and which is run by negoes, from mayor to postmaster. Just as the sun was setting, a mob immediately gathered around him and escorted him beyond the town limits with the reminder that no white man could spend the night in Boley, or stay their after the sun went down. The examiner was compelled to drive ten miles before he found a place to spend the night. Smock heard of the treatment tendered his examiner, and became so enraged that he ordered the bank closed if it did not at once comply with severe regulations. A delegation of the directors of the negro institution went to Gathrie to get him to loosen up on them a little, but he told them plainly that they had made his examiner "hunt the night," and that he would make them pay for it. He also told them not to accept any more deposits until they had complied with his additional demands. As a result the bank had Established in May 1903. Don't Fail to Remember That The Sedalia W CONSERV Sedalia Weekly CONSERVATOR W. H. HUSTON, Editor and Publisher Is a Constant Advocate of Progress, Intelligence, Industry, Race Pride and Aggressiveness. 1908. For the Year, We shall have Contributions from some of the ing Negroes of this state. Subjects that inte Public Mind will be conservatively treated. Progress, Intelligence, Industry Race Pride and Aggressiveness. We shall have Contributions from some of the Leading Negroes of this state. Subjects that interest the Public Mind will be conservatively treated. Subscriptions, On account of the great in- of the production of a Newsv Ra- The CONSERVATOR, the s for the year 1908 will be as follow One Year, : Six Months, : Three Months, : Subscriptions are always Pay- On account of the great increase in the cost of the production of a Newsv Race Paper, such as The CONSERVATOR, the subscription prices for the year 1908 will be as follows: Believing a Newspaper to be a Medium for the Reflection of Public Thought, the Management of this Publication has decided to grant space to any one desiring to be heard upon Public Propositious; provided, each contributor allows his dame to be used. The right is reserved to reject object- ionable VOL V was compelled to close its doors from February 12 until today, when they succeeded in arranging things to the commissioner's satisfaction. Boley is the largest purely Negro town in the United States, and is a well regulated little city. Even the Station Agent is a Negro. Supreme Court of Mississippi Gives Jury Rights to Negroes. Jackson Miss. Feb. 17—Chief Justice Whitfield handed down a decision in the case of Arthur Payne, a negro, to-day that is of far-reaching importance, especially in those States where the Negro has been elimination as a political factor and never placed on juries. Ferrer killed a white man in Tate County, and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. The defense moved to quash the indictment and also the venire of the ground that the jury was composed entirely of white men and that Negroes were purposely excluded. The court sustained the motion to quash the special venire, but overruled the one to quash the indictment, which the Supreme Court says was a "tatal error." This is the first time this question of mixed juries has been decided here. Dear subscribers if you will pay your subscription right soon we shall be able to employ more help. at The Weekly RVATOR Igence, Industry, le and Ag- veness. The Year, 1908. ona from some of the Lead- Subjects that interest the lively treated. eat increase in the cost wsv Race Paper, such as the subscription prices s follows: : $1.50 : $1.00 : $.65 days Payable in Advance. SEDALIA, MO., MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1908. NEGROES AT THE TOP. Negro Architects Who Have Won Their Way thru Merit. The following is an exact copy from the Democratic paper of Potosi, Mo., where J. A. Lankford and his brother Mr. A. E. Lankford were born. Lankford & Bro., as will be explained in the article, are Negro architects, who were pioneers in this country as architects. They are young men of ability, character and standing. J. A. Lankford is president of the Washington Negro Business League and Vice-President of the National Negro Business League; a director of the colored Y. M. C. A., and prominently connected with the St. Luke's and True Reformer's. Lankford & Bro. have designed and built more buildings than any other firm of its kind. The supervising architect of the United States, in passing on their plans for the Jamestown Exposition, said: "The plans of J. A. Lankford & Bro., rank first in every respect, from a standpoint of beauty, design and price." "J. A. Lankford and Bro., architects and builders, of Washington, D. C., who were born and reared in Potosi, Mo., have just been selected by the white presbyterian church committee of this city to plan and build their new church, which is to be one of the finest in the city. There were eight white competitors in the Ar chitet's contest for this building, all white except Lankford & Bro., whose plans were found to be the most satisfactory in every way over those given by his white competitors." We are glad to note that J. A. Lankford was unanimously elected by the Board of Directors, supervising architect and engineer of the National Negro Fair at Mobile, Ala. This fair has been incorporated as a National Exposition for the Negroes of America We congratulate them on getting such a talented and worthy man as their supervisor of construction. —St. Louis Advance Sedalia Misses Organize The young Misses of Lincoln High School have organized them selves into a Club that devotes its energies to the cultivation of Artistic Needle work. It is known as The Apollo Club and has a membership of "23," the skiddock number. On the 22nd of last month Miss Hortense Smith entertained this organization at her home on East Morgan Street. Parlor games, music and a general chattering of tongues beguiled the moments away. Cream and cake was served by three charming waitresses, Misses Florence Burris, Fodonia Carter and Gertrude Williams. Miss Geneva Captolia Phillips is the accomplished president and Miss Ona Bessie Ruby is the efficient secretary. TRAINING .Why, Nettie' said her mother, what in the world are you pound ing your doll with your father's slipper for?" "Because she refuses to obey me, mamma," replied the little Mia." "I'm not a going to have neighbors saying that I spared the slipper and spoiled my child" Newspapers Unfair That the Negroes of this country are suffering great injustice through the newspapers no one who take the time to investigate can doubt. The great fault of our newspapers today is sensationalism which, of course, only reflects our own great fault. People want to hear of murders lynching, suicides, divorces, etc., and the newspapers give them just what they demand. There is no particular demand for the good side of Negro life, and this is seldon given. To present in concrete form what the people demand concerning the Negroes and what the papers give them I have clipped from the leading Philadelphia papers each morning for a month the references to the Negroes: It is possible that I may have overlooked some, but I am sure I have secured all the principal ones, which were as follows: There were in all 70 articles referring to Negroes, covering 412 inches. 36 of these articles were about crimes of Negroes; covering 246 inches; 22 articles, or 114 inches were not, indeed, directly on crimes but on the dark side of Negro life with pessimistic views of the condition of Negroes; 12 articles, or 53 inches, were of miscellaneous character, only 3 of which, covering 7 inches of space, referred to the good side of Negroes. In other words, it is clear that the articles referring to crimes of the Negroes; their weaknesses and other shortcomings, and those taking a pessimistic view of the race, took up 87 percent of the newspaper space of the month while articles referring to the good side of Negro life took only five per cent of this space. The items given most prominence during the month were those referring to assaults on white women and girls, lynching and attempts to lynch Negroes, thefts, race wars, arrests and such like. McGirt's Magazine. Boost The Neighbors. Cathey, Oklahoma, Feb., 18 '08 Mr. Ira G. Harris, President. Neighbors of the Heartstone, Kansas City, Missouri. Dear Neighbor:— some of my friends would like to know how you treated me in my late illness when I drew benefits from you and I take this means of letting them and the public generally know my opinion of you and your business methods. I have been a member with you for a long time now and I have found you just as prompt and liberal as my friends had said. I can conscientiously recommend you to every one as being fair and honest in your dealings with me. No one can make a mistake in carrying insurance with you. Sincerely yours, (Signed) L W. Webb, pastor. Shiloh Baptist Church. A College Girl's Pluck My heart swelled with pride when I found out how a certain young lady is making her way. She lives in the country—has always lived there. Until she was fifteen she had never been farther from her than the next town. Being in the country, did not prevent her reading everything she could get hands on, and she finally decided that she would go to college. 'You ought to have seen the expression on my mother's face A. Prof C. C. Hubbard, Principal of Lincoln High School, Sedalia, Missouri. Who Will Deliver an Address at Jefferson City, Missouri, on the 13th. He Will Ably Represent Sedalia. UMENTS! 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When I had saved up sufficient for my fare to and from the university, I thought I'd venture; but reconsidered, and waited until I had enough to pay my board at some reasonable place for a week. Do you comprehend my scheming? I made a bold attempt to secure work what do you think I did?" "After eating a good lunch, I set my hat a little firmer on my head, buttoned up my jacket to the very throat, shook out my skirks ane said, 'Now for it'—and I went to the next house as a be- MONUM THE BEST PROPOSITIVE MENT HEIN The Latest Designs and a 28 YEARS CORNER O SEED BULBS, Sweet LAWN ARC 106-108 No. 22 ginner asking for work that would permit my attending the preparatory department of the university. It was on the sixth day only that I found a position as cook and maid of all work for the hours I should be in the house. "Almost everything in the Way of work has fallen to me to do. There is scarcely a lawn in this place that I have not sometime cut. I have 'tended baby,' nursed the sick, taken care of the aged, and have even done washing and ironing for the students. Not one day have I really been ill though often tired to death. But—" she leaned back against the fence that separated us and pointed a beautiful building a cross the square—"I shall take my degree there next June. This is my ninth here. Yes my ninth year. I failed in examination many times, for I could not always get work that gave me school hours; but not did I think once giving up. Here I am, and next September I hope to be one of the teachers in this same beautiful university." —Exz. Entered at the Sedalia Post Office as Second class matter. Correspondents and Agents wanted in every town and village in Central Missouri. Senator Warner's Unusual Activity in The Negro's Humiliation. STEWART RESTAURNT MRS. S. DALE, PROP. Meals: Regular Meals, 20 cents. and 25 cents. Hours: 7 a. m. to midnight. 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With streaming eyes, our Old Soldier Boys would hail his approach Did they think then that he, their hero, would be the principal instrument used to stultify the noble career of their valorous dusky sons? Yet cruel fate has ordained that he, the Negro's greatest idol, should smite him the severest blow. We look for stabs and kicks and curses and injustices from the Tillmans, Carmacks, Graveses and Dixons, that majestic array of anarchistic firebrands that know not shame. When they strike, we are nerved to receive their vicious blow. But when those whom we have loved and trusted so absolutely smite us as Major Warner, the Junior Senator from this State persists in doing, our strength deserts us, and in despair we are forced to articulate, "And Thou, to, Warner." Is President Roosevelt so great that he is incapable of committing an error? Is the Negro so insignificant that a wrong, however fiendish or great it may be, is inflicted upon him needs no redress? STEWART RES ```markdown ``` Office 121 East Main Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 1 year $1.50. Six month $1.00 Three month $0.75 Single Copy .05 Special rates to Agents and Club organizations. Office as Second class matter, wanted in every town and village Annual Ac- Negro's Humiliation. In other word, can a Great and Cultured White man do anything to a Negro that would be contrary to the laws of American Ethics? Some strange conditions have arisen as result of this Brownsville affair. Our race is subjected to a grave injustice. In our weakness we have asked that justice be done. Our old men have plead for fair play. Our mothers have prayed that this stigma be erased from the brow of their suffering sons. Our young men, manfully and courageously, demand that a square deal be given. Holland, years ago, when threatened by a merciless foe, loosed her dykes and surrendered to the sea, rather than bow the knee to despotism. As a result of her absolute surrender to fate, she liberated herself. Young Negroes will refuse to longer be bequiled by the dupliciities of such men as Senator Warner, who has risen to fame and affluence by stepping upon the shoulders of our fathers Fifty thousand Negro votes were woven into the fabric from which the "Mysterious Stranger" made the senatorial toga that envelopes the ungratetul heart of the Junior Senator of Missouri. In one thing we may expect the senators from Missouri to be together on this year—voting to brand Negro soldiers as criminals, outlaws and traitors, with out evidence to sustain the allegations. SUBSCRIBERS. If you are honest, you will re-mit for your subscriptions today. ST AURNNT ANNNOUNCEMENTS. The Conservator is Authorized to announce W. H. Ramseyas a candidate for Mayor subject to the action of the Republican City Convention. FOR CITY ATTORNEY The Conservator is authorized to announce Holmen Hall as a candidate for Sedalia City Attorney, subject to the action of the Republican city convention. FOR COLLECTOR. The Conservator is authorized to announce E: F, VanWager as a candidate for Collector, subject to the action of the Republican City Convention. W H. RAMSEY FOR MAYOR. Friends of W. H. Ramsey, a former President of the Sedalia Business Men's Association and a very wide awake business man, have persuaded him to allow his name to go before the republicans of this city as a candidate for the office of Mayor. In entering the race, he has no personal ambition other than to serve the people. As president of the Sedalia Business Men's Association, he did great service for the making of our greater Sedalia. This organization under his administration inaugurated many plans that resulted in great good for our city. Mr. Ramsey is by no means a professional politician. He is an energetic business man and enterprising citizen, who has great confidence in the people of Sedalia. His actions are swayed by common sense, good judgement and radical impartiality. If he is nominated, he must be elected since we believe he will fill the bill from "Alpha to Omega." For the republicans to win in the municipal election they must put men who are greater than a clique or ring—men of character so broad and commanding that "clique or gang" methods can not touch or tarnish them. Such is the standing of Mr. W. H. Ransey, the man with the "Racket" behind him. Holmes Hall for City Attorney. Holmes Hall, the popular young Attorney, makes formal announcement throughout columns for the nomination for City Attor on the Republican Ticket. For several years, Mr. Hall has been a resident here. Having worked in our shops and studied in our school. He is broad gauged and liberal in his ideas, since he believes that all men --even Black men, have certain rights that ought to be regarded. Many influential friends are laboring to secure his nomination, because he has the respect of all men in the city. If nominated he will beat any democrat in the city E. F. VanWagner For Collector. One of Sedalia's own young men in the person of E. F. VanWagner, the present city Collector, makes formal announcement through the columns of the Conservator for the nomination for the office of Collector on the Republican ticket. For one term he has filled this office with acceptability and now asks re-election as a reward for good service already rendered. Mr. VanWagner is strickly a Sedalia, having been born here educated in our public schools and served in responsible positions for Sedalia enterprises. His experience as book-keeper has --- served him well in the ad.nistratlon of him office as City Collector He has many friends among the Sedalia Negro youth. Neighbors Best Sick Benefit: Canon City, Colo., Feb. 24 '08. Mr. Ira G. Harris, President, Neighbors of the Heartstone, Kansas City, Missouri. Dear Neighbor: I am indeed glad to learn of the great progress we are making in the west, I became a member of the Commonwealth and am more than pleased with the consolidation. The movement of to-day is toward centralization and consolidation in all lines both in the business and religious world. The move foward by the consolidation will undoubtedly result in a largely increased membership in the coming year. I have heard from some of the other members here and all seem well pleased with the consolidation. Any assistance I can be to you, you may commend me. I am, Fraternally yours, (Signed) L. W. Harris, pastor. Mount Olive Baptist Church. OFTERVILLE NEWS. The fourth quarterly meeting was held on the Otterville, and Smithton circuit on the 27 and 29th February, the work of the circuit was earnestly reported by the pastor, W, H. Smith, our beloved elder, was well pleased with the work this year and spoke commendable of the people and pastor who has worked together in love and union that Zion's interest might be continued. Elder Smith has given us good service this year and is one of increasing popularity on this circuit. After our business was completed in our quarterly conference the following resolutions were produced: Wheras Rev. C. S. Webster has made us an efficient and conciencious pastor. Whereas he is greatly respected, and loved by both saints and sinners. Be it resolved that we in our fourth quarterly conference do earnestly request that he be returned to us this comming year, for the purpose of furthuring the interest of Zion in our community. SAMUEL H. WRIGT. AN OVERSIGHT I want to pay this bill, he said at the hotel bar, "but I think you have made a slight error here in my favor. I've been reading over the extras, and I cannot find that you have charged anything for telling me you thought it might rain'. Gov. Hughes as a Party Mans "I am a party man and I am a party governor, and I have no sympathy with the idea that the parties depend for their success upon the blind following of any leadership. I believe in party organization because it is an effective means of standing for certain commonly accepted principles. I be leive in party machinery, because it is the only means through which an organization can express itself effectively; but I believe in making the party appeal to the people upon the basis of principles and putting up candidates who will stand the test of the closet scrutiny, and I believe it to be best for the people if every elector is required to give the consideration that is necessary to express his individual choice with regard to every candidate for office." --- Moerschel Brewing Co. BREWERS AND BOTTLERS. Co. Main and Missouri, Avenue. Phone 814. Private Orders Given Special Attention. When You Buy Moors ::: Echel's Beer, You will Be Patronizing a Home Industry. ::: Meets on the first and third Sat urdays of each month at 7:30 p.m., in its hall. G. T. Blackson, Worthy mas- T. M. Baylor, Sec'y. —ter. C. H. Robinson, D. W. M. SWERNEY CHAPKL. A. M. E. Church. Sunday School : 10:00 a. m. Preaching : 11:00 a. m. Class Meeting : 1:00 p. m. Evening Services : 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at eight O'clock. Rev. D J. Gordon, Pastor. J. B. Marney, Secretary. SUN-FLOWER TEMPLE NO. 187 S. M. T.'s Meets on the first and third Saturdays of each month at 1:30 p. m. Ada Sims, Worthy prin. Alice Baylor, Secretary.—cess. Cornelia Child,Vice princess. Lodge Directory. UTOPIA COURT No. 19, Order of Calanthe, Sedalia, Mo., Meets on the first and third Thursdays in each month at 3 p. m., at the D. O. H. hall, Mrs. Annie L. Stemmons Worthy Councillor. Miss Agnes Miller, Register of Deeds GREATER SEDALIA NO. 42 Sedalia, Mo. Holds its regular meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each month, at the Conservator Annex, 121 East Main Street, at Eight O'clock sharp. Prof. C. C. Hubbard, Box 42, Chancellor Commander. S. B. Moore, Holtman Bldg., keeper of records and seal. St. Louis Lodge No. 41 St. Louis, Mo. Holds its regular meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the Pytnian Hall, 3137 Pine street, at 8 p. m. William Carson, 1114 Morgan street, chancellor commander. Charles S. White, 1239 Morgan street, keeper of records and seal. WARRENSBURG LODGE NO. 46 Warrensburg, Mo. Holds its regular meetings on the first and third Fridays, each month, in their castle hall, at Eight O'clock oromply. E. W. Hendricks, chancellor commander. Will Cooper, keeper of records and seal, Lamonte. Mo. ANCHOR LODGE No. 31 Cape Girardeau, Mo. Hold's its regular meetings on the first and third Thuradays of each month in their castle hall at Eight O'clock sharp. George Walls, chancellor commander. Albert M. Oliver. Box 86. keeper of records and seal. Moerschel B BREWERS AND Cor. Main and Missouri Private Orders Given Special Attention : Moerschel's Beer, You will Be Paid Negro Congreasmen. A graphic political history of the Negro in the United States has been presented in an engraving just issued, entitled, colored congressman. Alabama sent three colored men to congress Florida sent one. Georgia one, Mississippi sent two. to the senate and one to the house of representatives, Louisiana and Virginia sent one each, North Carolina sent four and South Carolina heads the list by sending eight. This engraving contains excellent portraits of these twenty two representatives of the race, the date of their service and the congresses in which they served. 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McDonald, the local representative for the Thiebe-Stier in Music House of St. Louis, has the following pianos for sale. CHICKERING & SON. of Boston, POOLE, CAM- ERON, THIEBE-STIER- LIN, THIELIN, and STIEN- BACH-DREHER. Persons, desiring a piano, can save money by seeing me first, since we are manufacturers and, therefore, we can save you money. Call on, or write, J. J. McDONOUCH, 017 LaFayette Street, Sedalia, Missour Church Directory. SEDAMIA CHURCHES. Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School 9,30 a.m. Preaching - 11,00 a.m. Class-meeting - 5,00 p.m. Epworth League - 6,30 p.m. Preaching - 7,80 p.m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening of each week. REV R. DAVIS, Pastor. Residence 107 E. Cooper street. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. Church Morning Service 11 a. m. Sunday School - 2 p. m. Class meeting - 3 p. m. Evening Service - 8 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday nights at 8 p. m. Teachers' meeting Friday nights achers' meeting Friday nights P. Thurman, pastor. H. R. Brown, Secy. C. M. E. Church North Osage St. Morning services - 11 a. m. Sunday School - 2 p. m. Class meeting - 3;45 p. m. Epworth League - 9;30 p. m. Evening Service - 7;45. p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednes day evening of each week. Christiou Band meeting every Friday night. You are welcome. Rev. T. L. Scott, Pastor 313 W. Clay Mrs. Mamie Walker, Secy. Morgan Street Baptist Church. Preaching ... 11:00 a. m. Sunday school ... 2:30 p. m. Preaching ... 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednes day evening. Come, you will be made welcome to all of our ser- vices. — Rev. J. H. Downing DURKIN'S CHAPEL, FREE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School 10 a.m. Preaching First and Third Sunday in each month, in a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting Tuesday night Covenant Meeting Friday night Pews free and everybody made welcome Rev. E. D Burns, Pastor, Mrs Zula Whitley, Clerk, Mabel Williams, Asst. Clerk ```markdown ``` A CALL TO CONFERENCE INFLUENTIAL NEGROES ISSUE A CALL TO THEIR RACE TO NEED IN PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL 7TH. THE CALL IS HOSTILE TO THE ADMINISTRATION. The positive and notorious hostile attitude of the government of our republic toward its citizens, of color under the present Republican administration and the approach of the party 1908 produce a crisis for one eight of the citizens of these United States of America. The open alliance between the President ane the nullifiers of the Constitution in the South constitutes the most flagrant collusion between a Republican president and the Southern Democrats since the emancipation of the American slaves 45 years ago to-day, save in the case of Andrew cw Johnson at the close of theCivil War or of Rutherford B. Hayes at the close of the reconstruction. But it has remained for the present chief executive of the United States to prescribe in official documents an inferior grade of education for one class of citizens, and to thus officially brand that class as concealers of criminals and as rapists, while the defaming and discharging in disgrace of more than a hundred soldiers, all Colored, without a trial or chance to be heard in their own defence in a denial of justic and constitnional rights visited upon Colored citizens unprecedented in our country's history. The placing of the nation's sanction upon the segregation of citizens for and because of color in public travel but completes the federal maltreatment of the Colored citizens under the present Republican administration, leaving him stripped of rights, branded and in contempt. 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MO. official position as a cabinet officer has in public speech in the south condoned their disfranchise ment of citizens for color in admitted violation of the federal constitution, and who has supinely indorsed in toto the brutal and automatic discharge of Colored soldiers with out trial by executive decree, you as one of a class which almost from necessity has for two generations by its solid support and with a loyalty that sacrifices friends, the chance to make terms with the enemy and even life itself kept the Republican party almost continuously in power, but one who is free from party obligation are invited to a National Conference of Colored men, and of avowed friends to be held in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., April 7, 1908, to counsel together as to the wisest course to be pursued politically by the colored citizens of the country, especially those unrobbed of hte ballot who are willing to use this weapon for the rights and liberties of their class, under the present abnormal condition of affairs. This conference will have special referenc to what demands shall be made of political parties as to the national platform and most particularly to what candidates for the presidential nomination most deserves the support of the Negro voters. Please come prepared to make a stand for equal rights and for constitutional liberty for all in these United States without regard to race, color or creed. (Signed) ALEXANDER WALTERS. President of Afro-Ameican Coun- cil. WILLIAM H. SCOTT, President of the Suffrage League of Boston and vicinity. WILLIAM M. TROTTER, President of the New England Constitution and Suffrage League Boston, Mrss., Jan. J. 1908. PERSONAL. J. F. Brent was called to Boon ville, Friday on important business. Rev. T. P. Cardener of Worensburg, was in our city during the past week. --- J. C. Murray and little daughter, Dora, spent a few days in Warrenburg, recently visiting relatives and friends Mrs. Annie Stemmons our esteemed worthy Counsellor, is making preparation to go away on a trip. She declares that she will not go along. Wilson Curd, an industrious young citizen living north of the city, closed out a deal during the past week by which he secures 15 acres of good Pettia county land. He means to plant himself here DO IT NOW If you've found a task worth doing Do it now. In delay there's danger brewing. Do it now. Dont you be a by-and-byer And a sluggish patience-tryer; If there's aught you would acquire. Do it now. If you'd earn a prize worth owning, Do it now. Drop all waiting and postponing, Do it now. Say, "I will!" and then stick to it. Choose your purpose and pursue it. There's but one right way to do it, Do it now. All we have is just this minute, Do it now. Find your duty and begin it, Do it now. Surely you're not always going, To be "a going-to-be," and knowing. You must sometime make a showing, Do it now. ----Nixon Waterman, Nixon Waterman, In the March Success. to stay and prosper. Let other Negroes do as he has done. Mrs. Lizzie Young, of Jefferson City, after a very pleasant with her daughter, Mrs. Lulu Abbott of West Morgan street, returned home on the fourth. Good order and a Culture Breeding entertainment is put on at the Nickleodeon at every performance. Negro talent earns some of the money. Look out for the Curbstone Politician. He will begin operations soon. Chunks of 50 or 100 votes may be polled from their pockets at any old time. William Curd one of our longwood friends, called at our office Thursday and ordered the Conservator. Mr. Curd is a nice young yellow but like Wood Ross of Georgetown he needs a wife. 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ALL WE ASK IS YOUR MON- EY AND GOOD BEHAVIOR. ission 5 cts to 9:30 9:30 to 10:30 The Brownsville Injustice. The vote of 11 to 2 by which the Senate Committee on Military Affairs declared that the soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry"shot up" the town of Brownsville on that August night of 1906 does not dispose of that case. The Senate is still to be heard from. Senator Foraker has led the fight in favor of the discharged soldiers and on the divisions on some aspects of the case he has stood practically alone. Nobody doubts that the Senate will sustain the position taken by the committee. But the vote there is not likely to be so onesided as it has been in the committee. Moreover, in the discussion in the Senate the country will bear what is said on both sides. But neither the vote in the committee nor in the Senate will alter the fact that the discharge of a whole battalion for the offenses of a few members of it, if any of the members did commit the offenses charged against them was unjust. Moreover, at the time of the discharge there had virtually been no hearing of the case from the side of the soldiers. Not even the most pronounced of the enemies of the soldiers have ever intimated that all of them, participated in the disturbance. The theory of the law that it is better that the ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent persons shall suffer is here made to read that ten innocent persons shall suffer in order that the one guilty person shall not escape. The fact that the discharged soldiers were Negroes is a detail which will not be considered here. There is no double standard in morals. Equity carries no color line. Many of the 150 members of the discharged battalion had served several terms in the army. Some of them would soon have been able to retire on a service pension. The conduct of the battalion had been good. Yet virtually with out a hearing all its members were expelled from the army under a charge of dishonor. All of them are forever barred from getting any position of any sort in the service of the government. After an honorable military record extending, in the case some of them, over fifteen or twenty years all are thrown out on the world branded as outlaws. Whatever the president or the Senate may say about this conduct it will be very hard to make the American people believe that this is justice. --Globe Democrat. OFFICIAL CALL For Republican Ward Primaries and Convention. The republican voters of the various wards of the city of Sedalia Mo; are hereby called to meet at the places designated herein on Friday, the 13th day of March, 1908, at 7:30 p. m; to nominate a candidate for councilman from each of the four wards and to select a member of the Republican City Central Committee from each ward to serve for two years and also to select delegates to the city republican convention to be held at the circuit courtroom on Saturday, March 14, 1908, at 7:30 p. m, for the purpose of nominating republican candidates for mayor, city marshall, city attorney police judge, treasurer, collector, assessor, one school director, to ratify the nominations for councilmen made by the respective ward meetings and to select a chairman of the republican city central committee. The several wards will meet at the following named places and will be entitled, respectively, to the following number of delegates. First ward--At city council rooms, sixteen delegates. 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