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Sedalia Weekly Conservator. The Late Samuel W. Starks BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY J. McHENRY JONES, PRESIDENT OF THE STATE COLLEGE OF WEST VIRGINIA. HIS MANLY VIRTUES PROCLAIMED. HIS AMBITIOUS EFFORTS TO RISE VOL VI The Late Sam BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY IDENT OF THE STATE O IA. HIS MANLY VIRTU HIS AMBITIOUS E Hon. Samuel W. Starks was born in this city, March 10th, 1865, and died Friday, April 3rd 1968. He was therefore 43 years and 24 days of age. He is survived by his wife, mother and one sister. Sam Starks as a boy attended the public schools of Charleston, and obtained a common school education. During his school years he was a cooper apprentice, working in the shops beyond Elk. After leaving school he followed the cooper's trade for a short time, but becoming dissatisfied, obtained a place in the office of the K. & M. Railway. As he went in and out about his work, the constant clicking of the telegraph apparatus filled him with a nameless longing to know its language, to interpret for him self, the stories of danger, daring and adventure he daily told. In company with a fellow-workman he bought the necessary apparatus, set up a miniature telegraph wife, hired the operator, during the idle hours to give him a little help, and by dint of constant effort became a successful operator. Knowing how, he was ever ready to oblige the operator to take his place when absent, to indulge him when he was inclined to be inactive, but all the time glad, of the opportunity to familiarize himself with the real work of the office. Col. Sharp soon took note of young janitor, who had also become an operator, and gave him employment with him in Columbus, at a salary scarcely sufficient to pay his board and washing. Firstas both fanitor and operator and then in charge of the Charleston office. he won by patience and sacrifice in (in spite of his color) the confidence of his employers. HIS HIGHEST WORK It was not as telegrapher, stenographeer, bookkeeper or librarian that the name of Samuel W. Starks will be best remembered, but as leader in the order of Knights of Pythias. He was one of the charter members of Capitol City Lodge No.1, and from that day until he passed to the great beyond, he has been virtually the main spring of Pythianism in this state. He was the state's first Grand Chancellor, and has served in that office 16 consecutive years. He saw the order in the state grow from one castle to more than 100. In a state sparsely populated with men of his own race, he has made Pythianism the most virulent and helpful influence among us. He but into every thing he touched brains and energy, compelling by the force of his intelligence and genius success seemed impossible His management of our state fraternal insurance department has made it one of the safest and most reliable in the entire jurisdiction. HIS WORK IN WEST VIRGINIA The Pythian Mutual Investment Company is a child of his fertile brain. He consived the idea that dimes thoughtlessly thrown away by our people, if wisely invested would aid in building a monument of beauty and usefulness. This idea in the concrete stands on the corner of Dick erson and Washington streets, facing the state capitol, a monument to negro thrift when wisely directed. The first success accomplish, Mr. Starki turned to Huntington and purchased the herald building, an investment equally wise and profitable. It was his fixed purpose to dot the state with beautiful castles, and if the sand of time had run on a few years more he would have coined his wishes into realities. His accumulations of weath and affluence is an example of his own teabhings. He saw his race on the ragged edge of the world begging a place to meet socially, and he determined that this should not be and he used the things with in his reach to better their condition. ELECTED AS SURPEME CHANCELLOR IN the fall of 1890, afer serving several terms as Supreme Vice-Chancellor, he was elected Supme Chancellor of the Pythian wold. Entering the office he found the business of the organization in a chaotic condition, the trearury depleted, the order split in twain, and failure are ruid of the beloved order starting him in the face. Nothing discouraged, he began with indomitable courage and sleepless energy to right the, patch up the rents and begin anew to put craft out on the open sea. In 1900 the order had less than 20,000 members; as Supreme Chancellor Starks turns over the ship to other hands there are more than 150,000, members. In less than 10 years, under his progressive learership, he has increased the membership, seven times. When he began, the ordes could not pay the expenses of its Supreme representatives to a biennial convocation, today, it owns a temple on State street, Chicago, worth $150,000, and only a few montes ags purchased a sanitarium for the sick fraters at Hot Springs Arkansas. The orreer is in excellent financial condition having thousands of dollars in the banks of this other cities. Converted in this church, S. W. Starks has lead a Christian life from his youth until his death. Well has the Daily Mail said: "Sturting as a poor cooper's apprentice lan, he worked himself up in half the allotted span of life to a position which made him not merely a man of local prominence but one whose reputation was world wide, and whose example will be a guide to generations of his race yet unborn." We have watched him, friend, in every step of his creerer. At his rise we have rejoiced. We have been proud to call him our leader, and prouder still to know in our hearts that with all of his world wide fame he was still the same simple, loying friedd that he was before his elevation. He did not get above us as the world called him higher and higher but all of his thoughts were of us and how he might lift his brothers as he climbed. He might have left us as he climbed, but the poorest and the most humble had his ear in their sorrows and his help in their need. HE LOVED HIS RACE. He loved his race and never SEDALIA, MO., MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1908. wanter for himself any privilege that it could not share. When in justice and prejudice bore hard on his race, his heart felt the blow and have seen him shed bitter tears over race oppressions that he could not cure. He believe in our future and longed for new paths up the hill of difficulties, over which he might lead the war to higher grounds. He believed that much our trouble grew out of the fact of our poverty, and urged thrift as a cure for part of our ills. He gained success as a leader of men because he put right always before might. He never attempted to gain a point by double dealing, for after all he often said: "Only by doing right can we obtain permanent success." The soil of West Virginia never grew a better or bigger soul than filled the body of S. W. Starks, and the Negro race never had a kindlier nor a more beloved leader. He never lost a friend, nor knowingly made an enemy. When the chapter of his life closed last Friday morning the sun rose on a world poorer for his departure. His life was sweet and full of sympathy, and the tracks he left on sands of time will be revered by his friends and their children's children to remote generations. The clock has struck, the light has flickered and gone out forever. In the shadows as we wait and weep. If on his grave cloud fall a flower from every man and woman to whom his work has brought friendship, charity and benevolence, ce would rest tonight benath a wilderness of roses. Ah, my brother and sisters, we must take up the work of life tomorrow bravely, if bitterly, with out his help. The days and nights must come and go until we are called to follow him; but mano glimpses of the moon will look upon our sorrows before we see his like again. The world will be lonelier for us without Samuel W. Starks. But speak no more of his renown, Las his works ane honors down, And in the silent churchyard leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him. When The Flag Is Passing By Henry Holecomb Bennett. Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums A flash of color beneath the sky. Hets off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines Over the steel tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly. But more than the flag is passing by Sea fights and land land fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save too state; Weary marches and sinking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty and years of peace, March of a strong land's swift increase; Equal justice, right and law, Stately honor and reverent awe; Sign of a nation great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong Pride and glory and honor all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Along the street there comes A blare of of bugles, a ruffle of drums And loyal hearts are beating high. Hats off! The flag is passing by! Bring or send your job Print to us. First Class and Prompt work may be secured at the Conservator Office, Corner of Cooper and Ohio Streets. THE NEGRO IN POLITICS. RAY STANNARD BAKER IN THE JUNE NUMBER OF THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE BEGINS A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS LIVE TOPIC. READ CAREFULLY A Conservative Narrative of Conditions as They Appear to an impartial Mind. The discussion of the Negro in politics will of necessity deal chiefly with conditions in the South; for it is there, and there only, that the Negro is, at the present time, a great political problem. Negroes in the North are indeed beginning to play a conscious part in politics; but they are only one element among many. They take their place with the "Irish vote," the "German vote," the "Polish vote," the "labor vote," each of which must be courted or placated by the politicians. I have looked into Negro political conditions in several cities, notably Indianapolis and Philadelphia, and I cannot see that they are in any marked way different from the condition of any other class of our population which through ignorance, or fear, or ambition, votes more or less en masses. Many Negroes do not vote at all; some are as conscientious and incorruptible as any white citizens; but a large proportion, ignorant and short-sighted, are disfranchised by the use of money in one form or another at every election. One of the broadest observers in Indianapolis said to me: "The Negro voters are no worse and no better than our foreign voting population." Mayor Tom Johnson, himself Southern by birth, writes me regarding the Negro vote of Cleveland: "I do not believe there is any larger percentage of unintelligent or dishonest votes among the colored voters than among the white voters in the same walks of life" NEGRO A NATIONAL PROBLEM I wish here to emphasize again the fact that the Negro is not a sectional but a national problem. Anything affects the South favorably or unfavorably reacts upon the whole country. And the same latent race feeling exist in the North that exist in the South (for it is human, not Southern). The North, indeed, as I have shown in previous articles, confronted with a large influx of Negroes, is coming more and more to understand and sympathize with the heart-breaking problems which beset the South. Nothing short of the patient cooperation of the entire country. North and South, white and black, will ever solve the race question. In this country, as elsewhere, political thought divides itself into two opposing forces, two great parties or points of view. Whatever their momentary names have been, whether Federalist, Democratic, Walg' Republican Populist, or Socialist, one of these parties has been an Aristocratic or Conservative party, the other a Democratic or Progressive party. The political struggle in this country(and the world over) has been between the aristocratic idea that a few men (or one man) should control the country and supervise the division of labor the products of labor and the democratic idea that more people should have a hand in it. It has taken various forms and assumed many faces, Religious, Social, Industrial, but it is all a part of the fundamental social conflict between the Few and the Many. The abolition of slavery in the South was not abolished because the North agitated, or because John Brown raided or Mrs. Stowe wrote a book, or for any other sentimental or superficial reason, but because it was undemocratic. WHAT SLAVERY DID This is what slavery did: It enabled a comparatively few men (only about one in ten of the white men of the South was a slave-owner or slave renter) to control eleven states of the Union to monopolize learning, to hold all the political offices, to own most of the good land and nearly all of the wealth. Not only did it keep the Negro in slavery, but nine-tenths of the white people (the so-called 'poor whites', whom even the Negroes despised) were hardly more than peasants or serfs. It was in many ways a charming aristocracy, but it was doomed from the beginning. If there had been no North, slavery in the South would have disappeared just as inevitably. It was the restless yeast or democracy, spreading abroad upon the earth (in Europe as well as America) that killed slavery and liberated both Negro and poor white man. Revolutions such as the Civil War change names; they do not at once ceange human relations. Maukind is reconstructed not by proclamations or legislation or military occupation, but by time growth, education, religion thought. When the South got on its feet again after Reconstruction and took account of itself, what did it find? It found 4.000.000 ignorant Negroes change in name from "slave" to "freeman" but not changed in nature. It found the poor whites still poor whites; and the aristocrats, although they had lost both property and positions, were still aristocrats. For values after all, are not outward, but inward; not material, but spiritual. It was as impossible for the Negro at that time to be less than an aristocrat. And this is what so many legal minded men will not or cannot see. What happened? Exactly what might have been predicted. Southern society had been turned wrong side up by force. The Ku Klux Klan, the patrollees, the Bloody Shirt movement, were the agencies (violent and cruel involved, but inevitable) which readjusted the relation ships, put the artist on top the poor whites in the middle and the Negroes at the bottom. In short, Society instinctively requested to its old human relationships. I once saw a man shot through the body in a street riot. Mortally wounded, he stumbled and rolled over in the dust, but sprung up again as though uninjured and ran a hundred yards before he finally fell dead. Thus the Old South, though mortally wounded, sprung up and ran again. THE STRUGGLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA The political reactions after Reconstruction varied, of course, in the different states, being most No. 3 violent in states like South Carolina, where the old aristocratic regime was most firmly entrenched, and least violent in North Carolina, which has always been the most democratic of the Southern states. In South Carolina then, for example, the aristocrats in 1875 returned to political supremacy. General Wade Hampton, who repsented all that was highest in the old regime, became governor of the state. A similar tendency developed, of course, in the other Southern states, and a notable group of statesmen (and they were statesmen) appeared in politics — Hill and Gordon of Georgia, Lamar and George of Mississippi, Butler of South Carolina, Morgan of Alabama, all aristocrats of the old school. Apparently the ancient order was restored: apparently the wounded man ran as well as ever. But the Old south, after all, had received its mortal wound. There had been a revolution, society had been overturned. The institution on which it had reared its ancient splendor was gone: for the aristocrat no longer enjoyed the special privilege, the enormous economic advantage of owning his laborers. He was reduced to an economic equality with other white men, and even with the Negro, either of whom could hire labor as easily and cheaply as he could. And the baronial plantation which had been the mark of his grandeu before the war was now the millstone of his doom. Special privilege, always the bulwark of aristocracy, being thus removed, the germ of democracy began to work among the poor whites. The disappearance of competitive slave labor made them unexpectedly prosperous. it secured a more equable division of wealth. With prosperity came more book reading, more schooling, a greater feeling of independence. And this feeling animated the poor white with a new sense of freedom and power. Enter now, when the time was fully ripe for a leader, the rude man of the people. How often he appears in the pages of history, the sure product of revolutions; bursting upward like some devastating force, not at all silken-handed or suble-mind, but crude, virile, direct, truthful. Local Politics. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR REPRESENTATIVE, We are authorized to announce the name of George W. Anamosa as a candidate for the office of representative in the Genera Assembly, subject to the endorsement of the Republican Primary on August the 4th. FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY We are authorized to announce the name of Harvey D. Dow, as candidate for the office subject to the endorsement of the Republican Aug. the 4th. Characer. Not Golor, Counrs. Two of the twelve jurors who are to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the men charged with graft in connection with the State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., are Negroes, both janitors, one o whom is the foreman. They were acceptable to both sides. Sedalia Weekly Conservator W. H. HUSTON, EDITOR & PUBLISHER. G. TOM IRELAND.....Advertising Department. FRED A. HUGHES, Local News and Circulating Department. RUTH BUCKNER & GERTRUDE WILLIAMS, Compositors -SUBSCRIPTION RATES:---- One Year, Six Months, Advertising Rates Quoted on Demand Correspondents and Agents wanted in Central Missouri. Entered at the Sedalia Post Office as Stand By Race Enterprise If when you wish to help your You would spend a nickel or For little things you know the (Although this verse is poor in You are helping Negroes every And then although you may r The good of what you are doing It helps when eater you spend d (Never mind about this rhyme They can feel it anyhow. And so it goes this adding up Will make a show, if you keep Just spending now and then a (Here you see I lost my rhyme It's the race's strongest weapon — Editor of Chicago Conserv Stand By Race Enterprises. when you wish to help your race, you would spend a nickel or a dime, little things you know they sell, although this verse is poor in rhyme) you are helping Negroes every time. And then although you may not see good of what you are doing now, helps when e'er you spend a dime, never mind about this rhyme) they can feel it anyhow. And so it goes this adding up. I'll make a show, if you keep on spending now and then a dime, where you see I lost my rhyme) is the race's strongest weapon. Editor of Chicago Conservator. One Year,.....One Dollar. Six Months,.....Sixty-Five Cents. Advertising Rates Quoted on Demand. Write Today. Correspondents and Agents wanted in every town and village in Central Missouri. Entered at the Sedalia Post Office as Second class matter, Stand By Race Enterprises. It when you wish to help your race, You would spend a nickel or a dime, For little things you know they sell, (Although this verse is poor in rhyme) You are helping Negroes every time. And then although you may not see The good of what you are doing now, It helps when e'er you spend a dime, (Never mind about this rhyme) They can feel it anyhow. And so it goes this adding up, Will make a show, if you keep on Just spending now and then a dime, (Here you see I lost my rhyme) It's the race's strongest weapon. — Editor of Chicago Conservator. The Last Analysis. The Last Analysis. Thursday, the 11th, the voters of this vote on the Local Option proposition. Our cussions pro and con. Many have lost the are indifferent. Still others claim to have is near at hand and every citizen must be before deciding as to where you stand, cided, it is essential to good citizenship that element that enters into this local option eq at from a religious or moral point of view it ferent appearance to that it held when view economic observation, we conscienciously be considered in all of its phases, since each ph will produce some manner of effect. It produces some immoralities. But it w that all immoralities originate in the saloon ter in Indiana a few years ago, murdered he acted indiscreet and a few are dishonest, it w attempt to persuade a sensible man or woman christian ministry, as a whole, is unworthy people on moral and religious lines. Le ways. To allow a wave of spasmodic enthusiasm readjustments in our local affairs, we believe such radical changes to be unnecessary is possible. [X] It is to be regretted that personalities are entered into this campaign. Abuse is not as argument. After the ballot is cast and the Sedalians, property owners, tax payers and boycott will hurt us individually and collectively. The battle is on. Let e his power to win. But let us be broad-m other fellow have his say. As we see it, to continue as she is. Vote her "wet" 11th, the voters of this city are con- Option proposition. Great has be- nin. Many have lost their self-control. Still others claim to have no interest in every citizen must become interest- ful as to where you stand, those that into good citizenship that you should come into this local option equation. In our moral point of view it will assum- so that it held when viewed from a son, we conscienciously believe that it is phases, since each phase, when it manner of effect. It is true that moralities. But it would be illo- cated to originate in the saloon. Because years ago, murdered his wife, annot- a few are dishonest, it would be un- a sensible man or woman to belie- as a whole, is unworthy of the confi- religious lines. Let this rule of spasmodic enthusiasm to bring our local affairs, we believe will be hui- changes to be unnecessary, since s [X] setted that personalities and a spirit campaign. Abuse is not, and must alter the ballot is cast and counted, art owners, tax payers and America art us individually and weaken the battle is on. Let every citizen But let us be broad-minded enough say. As we see it, it will be best. Vote her "wet" Thursday, the 11th. the voters of this city are commanded to vote on the Local Option proposition. Great has been the discussions pro and con. Many have lost their self-control. Others are indifferent. Still others claim to have no interest. The day is near at hand and every citizen must become interested. Before deciding as to where you stand, those that have not decided, it is essential to good citizenship that you should consider every element that enters into this local option equation. If it be looked at from a religious or moral point of view it will assume a very different appearance to that it held when viewed from a business or economic observation, we conscienciously believe that it should be considered in all of its phases, since each phase, when in operations will produce some manner of effect. It is true that the saloon produces some immoralities. But it would be illogical to claim that all immoralities originate in the saloon. Because one minister in Indiana a few years ago, murdered his wife, another out west acted indiscreet and a few are dishonest, it would be unreasonable to attempt to persuade a sensible man or woman to believe that our christian ministry, as a whole, is unworthy of the confidence of the people on moral and religious lines. Let this rule operate both ways. To allow a wave of spasmodic enthusiasm to bring about radical readjustments in our local affairs, we believe will be hurtful. We believe such radical changes to be unnecessary, since subopt regulation is possible. [X] It is to be regretted that personalities and a spirit of boycott has entered into this campaign. Abuse is not, and must not, be taken as argument. After the ballot is cast and counted, we shall still be Sedalians, property owners, tax payers and Americans. Strife and boycott will hurt us individually and weaken the municipality collectively. The battle is on. Let every citizen fight with all his power to win. But let us be broad-minded enough to let the other fellow have his say. As we see it, it will be best for Sedalia to continue as she is. Vote her "wet" W DR. HENDE 811 to 815 WALNUT ST., K The Oldest in regular Graduate in Medicine. Over Over 30 years in Kansas City. Authorized by the Chronic, Nervous State to treat all. 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He was in earnest about it and the leaders in the church fell in with the idea at once, and all arrangements have been completed. WHAT ABOUT THIS? Washington, D. C., May 28—There is consternation in the camp of the "Hessians" here. It comes about in this wise. It will be recalled that an administration paper here stated before the meeting of the Conferences of the A. M. E. Church at Norfolk and of the A. M. E. Zion Church at Philadelphia, that Register W. T, Vernon and Recorder John C Dancy would be detailed to get things to rights for Taft and Roosevelt at these conferences, respectively. They went, and with them several thousand Taft buttons. Well, the conferences came to a close and it was reported to Mr., Roosevelt that no one was seen at either place wearing a Taft button, except the two above named drummers. At the same time it was told him—and it is true—that new edition of several thousands of Foraker's speech on the Black Battalion went like hot cakes as long as the supply lasted. So on last Saturday night Vernon, Dancy, Tyler, Terril, and all the kitchen cabinet, were summoned to the White House (side entrance). There and then they were called to account for the failure of the missions to the conferences as well as for the ugliness of the situation in general. After the president had jawed awhile—informing them that he had expected men of such reputed influence would have gotten things to going administration-ward by this time and intimating that such importance could not be tolerated much; longer—Register Vernon ventured to reply. He told the president rather frankly that he had done his best but, could not get a single man to wear a button, in fact that it was simply impossible to make any headway in the face of the situation he created by his action in the Brownsville matter. At this the president flew into a towering rage. He pounded the desk, plunged about gesticulated wildly and fairly split the welkin. He wanted to know a hundred things one of which was why they could not explain to their people if they both ambassadors and their people—"had any sense" that they must know he could not surrender to a "demagogue," a "marplot a "scoundrel," etc. They should have told their people that he would make the Brownsville matter "all right" in his own way, etc. After he had exhausted himself he strode out abruptly, leaving them bunched in a corner, crushed and speechless. Your correspondent's informant is a reliable man and he vouches for the above. One thing certain, it has been very hard to find any of the 'Nigerian embassy' in their usual haunts this week. Boston Guardian. Miss Georgia Garner, of Festus Mo., a student of Western University while enroute home stopped off at the Queen City and is the guest of Miss Agnes A. Miller. Yon shape the morals of the world, And when earth's alst lone flag is furled, when earth's last press has ceased to whir, Its driving motor ceased to o purr, Wben life's last stick is laid aside. And all your fermes are justified You'll turn you from the record made And face Gob's judgement unafraid. For your ideals are good. You go your daily journeys to and fro, Through winter storm and summer heat By village road, by city street, Uncearing and unbuyted and free To do what seems to you to be Best for the world and cheer men on Up heights that still remain unwon. The stem that would hurt or fill A heart with woe 'tis yours to kill. The word to put feet on the way. To better thugs 'tis yours to say. 5 Lift up the weak, cheer on the strong And set life's toiling to a song. Do most to help men on their way, And do it for the smallest pay. I'd rather that my lot were cast With yours, to stand with you at last And be judged with you, than to stand Alone or with whom you call grand. You shape the morals of the world, And when earth's last lone flag is furled And you your tale of talents tell Twill be seen you have shaped them well. —Texas Post. Boost Sedalia, Don't Knock. "Do you know there's lots o' people Setting 'round in every town, Growlin' like a broody chicken, Knockin' every good thing down? Don't you be that kind of cattle, Cause they ain't no use on earth, You just be a booster rooster, Crow and boost for all your worth "If your town needs boostin' booster Don't hold back and wait to see If some other feller's willin', Sail right in, this country's free; No one's got a mortgage on it. It's just yours as much as his, If your town needs boostin' boaster You get in the boastin' biz. "If things don't just seem to suit you, An' the world seems kinder wrong What's the matter with a boostin" That's your chance to let him know Just because it ain't your shout, But your'goin' to boost a little, Mrs.C. W. Holliday and daughter Blanche left for Chicago Thursday evening to spend a few days visiting relatives and friends. Dr. A. Higgs of Marshall Missouri, Reports the Work of the St. Joseph Distric in a prosperous and progressive condition once that the Church and people at Marshall was never better. He expects to spend three weeks in July in Boston on the study of exegetical Law and Theology of the Bible. Messers Young and Jackson are the city's plungers now. Last Thursday evening they gave a private reception at the Red Cross Cafe, and every thing that is delicious to the palate was served. The table was most artistically decorated with flowers and the young ladies wore bunches of roses. Experiences were eliminated from the minds and the boys enjoyed themselves. Miss Matilda Nelson, entertained two of her Knobnoster pupils, also a few Sedalia friends east Saturday evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The guest were Misses Cora Fields and Marie Powell of Knobnoster, Missea Celeste Jackman, Gertrude Williams, Florence Buris Hortense Smith and Mary Jackman and Messers Eugene Jones and Luther Jackman were the Sedalia guest. The music of the evening was furnished by by Misses Mary Jackman and Hortense Smith. Ice cream and cake were served and after a well spent evening tha t departed for their respective homes. Miss Fields and Powell returned to Knobnoster Sunday evening. Moerschel Brewing Co. BREWERS AND BOTTLERS. Cor. Main and Missouri, Avenue. Phone.214. Private Orders Given Special Attention. When You Buy MORE : : SCHUL'S Beer, You will Be Patronizing a Home Industry. : : G. J Grosshan The Old Reliable Retail dealer in Groceries, Provision and Feed all kind at bottom prices 109 East Main st OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 a. m., 8 to 5 & 7 to 9 p. m J. D, BALL, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON LEXINGTON, : : MO. Lodge Directory. UTOPIA COURT No. 19, Order of Csanthe, 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, Hoffman Bldg., keeper of records and seal. POLAR STAR LODGE No. 60, Verslilles, Mo.. Meets on the 2nd and 4th Tues days in each month, at 8 O'clock, in its Castle Hall on Fisher St. Clay Thruston, chancellor commander. E. W. Fowler, 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. WARRIENSBURG 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. Holds its regular meetings on the first and third Thursdays 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 At :: schmel's Beer, You will Be P THE MAGNET Barber :: Shop! FIRST-CLASS WORK GUARANTEED. Baths in Connection AL G WHEELE, Prop't. 103 NORTH LAMINE ST.... Help Wanted Women Men girls and Boys can make Big Money by selling our Toilet Articles. Write quick for our terms and full particulars. 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Your drugget sista Dr. Miles' Heart Cure, and we authorize him to return price of first bottle (only) if it fails to benefit you. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind ALL TOGETHER FOR MISSOURI STATE FAIR SEDALA ALWAYS THE FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER You need either a Vibrating Rhinitte, Rotary Shuttle or a Single Thread (Fish & Chicken) Bending Machine write to THE NEW HOME GROWN MAGNINE COMPANY Many sowing machines are made to all regardless of quality, but the New Home is made to wear out. Our warranty never runs out. Bold by authorized dealers only. HOT SALE BY NEWHOME LIGHT RUNNING THE WORLD'S GREATEST SEWING MACHINE J. J. BAKER Supply Co., SEDALIA, MISSOURI. BUILD A HOUSE If So See ARCHITECT, CARPENTER AND BUILDER. CHAIR CANEING AND ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING. Phone 633. 514 Monroe St., Jefferson City, : Missouri. Church Directory: SEDALIA CHURCHES. TAYLOR CHAPEL 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 - 7,30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening of each week. REV R. DAVIS, Pastor, Residence 107 E. Cooper street. CUPN HAPEL A. M. E. hurch 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 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. Christian 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 Wednesday evening. Come, you will be made welcome to all of our services. —Rev, J. H. Downing. BURN'S CHAPEL, FREE BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School 10 a.m. Preaching First and Third Sunday in each month, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Tuesday night Covenant Meeting Friday night Pews free and everybody made welcome Rev. W. H. Howard, Pastor, Mrs Zula Whitley, Clerk, Mabel Williams, Asst. Clerk Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills relieve pain INSTITUTE NOTICE The State Board of Education has appointed Prof. C. C. Hubbard, B. S. D., as conductor of the Central Missouri Institute for Negro teachers that will convene in Sedalia on June 15th. Among the counties already heard from are Bates, Benton, Cass, Henry, Johnson, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan, Osage and Pettis. All who intend to attend should write, C. C. HUBBARD, 223 West Johnson Street, Sedalia Missouri Colored Voters of Sedalia Market House These Are Home People, Who Are Working for Our Own Homes and Our Own Business Enterprises. e Every Colored Voter Is Invited to Come and Bring Your Friend ' ' ST AND UP FOR SEDALIA. ' ' Program of The St. Joseph District Sunday-School Convention To Be Held at Armstrong June 10-14, 1908. --- WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 MORNING SESSION—5:30 to 6:30, Morning Watch, led by Mrs. Q. E. Whaley, the president. 9 to 9:30, Devotional Services, led by the Rev. Monroe Denny. 9:30 to 11, Organization work. 11 to 12, Sermon by the Rev. Leroy Woolrich. AFTERNOON SESSION—2:30 to 3, Devotional Services, led by the Rev. Christopher Tays. 3 to 3:20, Paper, "Group Meeting," by Mrs. Annie E. Ellis 3:20 to 4, Paper, "Evils that keep us down," by Prof. E. B. Thompson. 4 to 4:30, Pentecostal service. Evening Session—8 to 8:20, Devotional Service led by Mrs. E. Mack Welcome Address, by Mrs. P. M. Cason. Response, by Rev. Mrs. A. H. Higgs. President's Annual Address, by Mrs. G. A. Whaley. Sermon, by Rev. W. R. Rivers. THURSDAY, JUNE 11. MORNING SESSION—9 to 9:30, Devotional Service, by the Rev. M. I. Jackson. Reports from Sunday Schools. Paper, "Child Training," by Miss Zenobia Z. Payne. Evangelistic Service. AFTERNOON SESSION—2:30 to 3, Devotional Service, by Mrs. M. L. Jackson. Paper, "Decision Day," by Mrs. Valeria Jones. Paper, "Spiritual Intensity," by Misa Oletha Saunders. ```markdown ``` AT THE ket H - NIGH ome People, Who Are Working our Own Business Enterprises. c the Queen City Conc oter Is Invited to Come and Bring UP FOR S Address, "Power of Habit," by P. E. W. C. Ellis, of Mexico District. Evangelistic Service. EVENING SESSION—8 to 8:30. Devotional Service. Sermon, by Rev. G. W. Rever. FRIDAY JUNE 12 MORNING SESSION—9 to 6:30, Devotional Service, Delegate from Kansas City. Report from Epworth Leagues. Seating of Convention. Election of Officers. Consecration Service. AFTERNOON SESSION—2 30 to 3 Devotional Service, by Mrs. Lenora Williams. Paper, "Epworth League Institute," by Mrs. J. H. Kenner. General Discussion. "Is the World Growing Worse, or less Religious?" by the Revs. J. L. Smith, T. W. Broyles, L. F. Payne, O. A. Johnson, P. E. Higgs, W. L. Lee, E. P. Geiger, Dr. J. Will Jackson Institute Instruction, Prof. J. H. Kenuer. Consecration Service. EVERING SESSION—8p. m. Grand SATURDAY JUNE 13 MORNING SESSION—9 to 9:30, Devotional Service, by Rey. J. Neal Unfinished business. Address on Important Subjects, J. Will Jackson, A. H. Huggs, G. W. Ball, P. Oyerton. Evangelistic Service. AFTRENOON SESSION—Convention Outing and Picnic on Grant's Chapel Campus. SUNDAY JUNE 14 MORNING SESSION—6 a. m. Twilight Prayer Meeting, led by Lewis Hill and Belle Miller. 9:3g to 11. Model S. S., led by W. W. Grant 11. Sermon, Rev. O. A. Johnson. AFTERNOON SESSION—2:30 to 3, Devotional Service, William Moss. Convention's Annual Sermon. Installation of Officers. EVENING SESSION—8 to 8:30, Devotional Service, by Rev. G. W. Harvey. 8:30, Sermon, by Rev. D. J. Mitchell Adjurnment. Mrs. G. W. Whaley, President Mrs. E. B. Thompson, Sec'y Rev. H, T. Reeves, Pastor Dr. A. H. Higgs, Presiding Elder. PERSONAL. The man who does not desire freedom for others is unworthy of freedom for himself. Miss Gertrude Flynn has been on the .sick list for several days but is now improving nicely. --- Those who ignore the rule to speak no evil of the dead should at least be sure that their information is correct. --- Thursday is the day for sober and conservative actions. Don't try to eliminate the business feature that fixtures so conspiciously in the affair. --- Local condition are such that a radical re-adjustment at this time will bring hurtful results. Therefore vote on the 11th to continue present conditions. Absolute prohibition is impossible here under present conditions. Saloon regulation is a feasible and attainable goal. Let us be practicable. Georgia has fifteen Negro industrial schools. North Carolina has fourteen and South Carolina has twelve. Virginia and Mississippi each have nine. Alabama and Tennessee seven each, and Arkansas, Florida and Louisiana. six each.—Ex. In controversies such as our present Local Option Campaign, it is very little on the part of either side to "sling mud" Plenty of intel- gent and truthful data for argumentmay be had for either. No objection can reasonably be raised against out of town speakers so long as they observe the laws of propriety. When representatives from either side resort to abuse and scandal, it is an indication of a shortness of something to say. Mesdames Annie E. Walker, Jessie Shanks and Ella Greer of Kansas City, who were visiting in Warrensburg last week, ran down on the 2nd and spent the evening with Mrs. Marie Johnson on West Johnson Street. They were accompanied by Mrs. Minnie Little, their Warrensburg hostess. If the Prohibition party is no larger in probation than was the attendance at its State Convention, at Jeplin recently it is a miserably weak party in Missouri. The fact is the people of this state who believe in temperance and favor regulation of the liquor traffic are not members of the Prohibition party. And because of this the cause temperance is all the stronger in Missouri. Prof. E. W. B. Curry, president of the Curry Industrial Institute of Urbana, Ohio arrived in our city Saturday and was tendered an informal reception at Taylor's Chapel in the evening. A very cordial welcome was extended to him by both "The Dries" and "The Wets", Music was furnished by the Queen City Concert Band. Refreshments were served gratis to hundreds of guests. Sunday Morning Prof. Curry preached at the Morgan Street Church to an appreciative Audience. In the afternoon, a large concorse of citizens, white and black, listened to hisable address on "Temperance" at Wood's Opera. As an orator Mr. Curry ranka with America's best. In handling the cause he represents, he use logic courage and convincing simplicity. Such argument as he presents demands thoughtful consideration. While some of the cultured and conservative Negroes of this city though differing from him on Local Option proposition applied in our local contest all appreciate very highly his manly presentation of his views. At 8 o'clock an overflow audience greeted him at Taylor Chapel, where he preached an able discourse. By the coming of such men as Prof. Curry, Dr. Mason and Lawyer Guy the race is bene fited, since they give us food for thought. Great questions are properly solved, when unhampered thought prevail. MRS. S. DALE, PRINTRESS ICE CREAM, SODA WATER, LUNCHES AND SANDWICHES A SPECIALTY. 121 EAST MAIN STREET. SEDALIA, MISSOURI. Oris Jackson has returned from Glasgow. Mrs. Brooks Moore and Kate Abbott have returned from basseas City. Carruther Miller of Warrensburg is in the city this week calling on friends. Mrs. Mabel Ramsey, of N. Broadway is expecting her little nephew of Chicago, this week. Doctors Earl Harris and J. T. Williams are in St. Louis this week at the State Board exami- ```markdown ``` Ollie Brown D. D. S. will open up his newly equipped office in West Main St. next door to Dr. J. M. Harris in a few days. Arthur Camp has returned from McAllister Springs where he went to work, but his mind and heart was in Sedalia so he came back. The Executive Committee of the Constitution League will meet the A. M. E. Church Tuesday night. Bishop Abram Grant presiding. Mrs. A. Julius Williams, for a early of Toledo Ohio, now of N. ville Penn, is visiting her mrt and sister-in-law Miss Eilee Williams of N. Laming street Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sylvia Abbott a fine baby girl weighing 9 pounds on the 3rd. or June Mother and babe are doing well The stork visited the house of Mr. and Mrs. Squire Kelly and left a fine baby boy weighing 14 pounds. Mother and babe are getting along nicely. Straighten Your Hair Dear Star--I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would need no without it. 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Teachers passing the examination at this Institution will be granted certificates to teach without further examination. The following are the instructors: Dr. J. M. Kapris—Lecturer on Physiology Hon Homer G. Phillips, Attorney at Law—Lecturer on Civics Prof. H. L. Billups, M. S.—Instructor Psychology and Penmanship Editor W. H. Huston—Instructor in Mathematics Prof. F. S. Bowles,--A. B. Instructor in Science C. C. Hubbard--B. S. D. Instructor in Pedegogy. Special Lectures will be given by Prof. G. V. Buchanan Supt. Pudic Schools Sedalia Prof C. R. Luckett, County Superintendent and others. All teachers are cordially invited to attend - Excellent accommodation. WANTED—A sample Latest Model "Ranger" making money fast. Write for NO LONGER than to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. Allow 2 DAYS FREE, put it to any taxi you wish, keep the bicycle ship it back to FACTORY PRICES. We are going to $5 middlemen's profits by an ante behind your bicycle. 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