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The St. Louis Argus 10th CAVALRY FIRST TO DEFEAT VILLA VOL. IV. NO. 52 10th C Crack Tenth Regiment Overtakes Company of Bandits KILL FORTY MEXICANS Colored Troops Suffer No Casualties. Outlaws Fleeing A squadron of the Tenth Cavalry, Uncle Sam's crack Negro troop, was the first to meet and defeat the Villa forces, according to telegrams "from the front" the past three days. The country is ringing with praises of General Pershing's famous soldiers. Major Evans, in his daily report, says, "Col. Brown, with squadron of Tenth Cavalry, encountered a band of Villistas and was pursuing them through San Antonio. Natives traveling from Chihuahua, state that Brown's command, part dismounted and part mounted, surprised the Villistas at noon meal with horses grazing, killing 30 or 40 bandits, capturing as many horses." Some reports say Villa was badly injured and escaped, others say he was not in the band that was overtaken. None of the Colored troopers were hit by bullets, in the running fight, the bandits firing wildly. At Poro College At Poro College We are pleased to announce the fine attendance of the members of the "Poro" Aggat's Club, at their regular monthly meeting, held last Monday evening at "Poro" College. Although Mrs. A. M. Malone was absent the meeting was very successfully managed by Mrs. Johnnie Pointer-Marshall, the vice-president, assisted by Mrs. Clara Smith-Eaton, and Miss Reginia McMurray. The College Crew will return within a few days, from a short tour through the north, with "Poro" College moving pictures. These tours will be continued by the crew throughout the entire year. To Visitors The trip of those visiting the Central Missouri Conference, will not be complete unless they add "Poro" College; 3100 Pine St., to their list. REOPENING OF KEYSTONE GARDEN POSTONED Mr. Milla announces that the beautiful Keystone Garden, at' Lawton and Compton, will not be ready for Easter Monday re-opening an account of the weather. The Argus will publish the opening date later. NOTICE All the ladies of the Story Tellers' Club will please meet Sunday at, 2:00 p.m., at the church, to have photos taken, the pastor being absent Wednesday. Mrs. Scott, President, Mrs. Calhoun, Secretary. SPOKANE MAN EXPLAINS IOWA BOY'S REVOLT Says Discrimination by Whites is the Cause—Denial of Privileges Disheartening—Negroes Loyalty Has Been Proven To the Editor of the Spokesman-Review.—The refusal of the little Colored boy in Des Moines to salute the flag has been charged to religious fanaticism, and it is charity to allow it to so pass. But I rather suspect that that boy's parents are of the constantly increasing class of Negroes who are asking the question, "Why should Colored Americans honor the American flag?" To the white American that flag is the symbol of liberty and opportunity, such as is offered by no other national emblem. To the Colored American it is the sign of prejudice, discrimination and closed opportunities more than is the banner of any other nation on the globe. In Cuba, for instance, discrimination against Negroes was never heard of until the American occupation. The same is true of Panama and the Latin republics; the advent of the American flag is the beginning of efforts to humiliate the Negroes. That Colored boy may have been aware that in this great "land of the free and home of the brave" his kinsmen are refused the opportunity to earn an honest living, while the foreigner, who can not speak our language and is saturated with anarchism and other ideas antagonistic to the welfare of society, has every door thrown open to him where he can do the work. Biggs in his city Colored men who have served their country faithfully under that flag and received an honorable discharge are refused the most common work simply because they are colored, while Italians, Greeks, Austrians and even Mexicans are readily employed. Recently, in this city, the public library of this city announced that a number of young ladies would soon be needed in the library and that an examination would be held at a certain time. Among those who presented themselves for examination was a young lady who had graduated from one of our high schools. Her family had been residents of this city for 25 years and taxpayers all of that time. But the girl was flatly refused the examination because she was Colored. The librarian, in justification of his action, said that a member of the board expressed great surprise that a Colored girl should presume to ask such a privilege. Thus the young Colored people are being taught by their white neighbors that they must not expect any of the opportunities or privileges that the flag represents; that its glorious privileges are for white people of every nationality who care to come under its protection, but not for black Americans who have shed their blood in its defense from Boston Common to San Juan, and at this very moment are defending its honor on Mexican soil. D. A. Graham. Pastor Bothel A. M. E. Church. Spokane, Wash. Negroes Elected Delegates To National Convention The Republican state convention, which met at Excelsior Springs, this week, was of unusual interest to the people of the state at large on account of the many issues and the struggle for place and power in the state and nation for the Republican party. There were four Negroes elected alternate delegates at large to the National convention which is to be held at Chicago in June. They were as follows: Geo. L. Vaughn, attorney, St. Louis; Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, St. Joseph; W. C. Hueston, attorney, Kansas City; Prof. A. R. Chinn, Glasgow. McKelvey Delegation Seated Excelsior Springs, Mo., April 6, 5:35 p. m.—The entire 23rd ward, St. Louis, delegation, headed by Jas. N. McKelvey, was seated in the convention here today. The contesting delegation was lead by Homer G. Phillips and grew out of a charge that the regular meeting, to select delegates, was not held on the hour sched. ST.LOUIS, MQ., FRIDAY, APRIL 7.1916. Making Good Their Pledge YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SPECK-16 The Widow Says To The Business Man: "Come on with your. Thousands, I'm Coming with my Mite." SUNDAY SCHOOL SONG SERVICE BIG SUCCESS Great Enthusiasm Shown in Singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" —Prof. Dreer, Supt. Antioch Baptist S. S. Leads Five hundred Sunday-school pupils and teachers participated in the mammoth sangerfest held at Union Memorial last Monday night. (The newly decorated church auditorium of beautiful carving, with highly polished hardwood floor and elegant new piano, made everything appear ready and most fitting for the occasion.) Seated on the platform with the leader, Miss Arsania M. Williams, were the superintendents of the various schools, Mr. L. F. Ford, Supt. of Memorial Sunday-school, gave the invocation, Mr. Wilson, Supt. of Central Baptist Sunday-school, read the one hundredth Psalm, Mr. Ross, Supt. Lane's Tabernacle C. M. F. S. S., responded to the greetings. When Miss Williams touched the electric button as a signal to the chair the great pipe organ pealed forth "Stand Up For Jesus," and a beautiful processional of Sunday-school pupils began, Miss Bethel Davis leading the girls, and Miss Bessie Coleman the boys. The Union Memorial Choir under the direction of Mr. Gerald Tyler, sang an anthem, after which the great chorus of Sunday-school folk sang, Mr. Hampton James, directing The glee club of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. Choral, the Epworth Choral, and the Brotherhood Group gave special numbers. Soloists of the evening were: Misses Annabel G. Dickson, Rose Harris, Bessie E. Coleman and Mrs. Nellie Wood-Austin. The altar decorations consisted of East St. Louis, April 5.—S. R. Wheat, a Negro, was elected alderman from the Second Ward, yesterday, defeating the candidate on the Taxpayers' Protective Ticket 300 to 94 votes. Wheat's name was not on the ballot. NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE'S 100 MEMERSHIP CAMPAIGN The Negro Business League has inaugurated a membership campaign in an effort to get 100 new members with in 60 days. Join now. Attend the regular meeting Tuesday night, 8 p.m. at Russell's Hall, Leffingwell and Pine St. W. C. Gordon, Pres. Julius A. K. Peklin, Sec'y. EXTRAORDINARY BIG MASS MEETING SUNDAY Bishop Bristol and Dr. Day to Speak at Y. M. C. A. Gathering Sunday at St. Paul's—Keen Interest Among Teams On next Sunday afternoon the meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association, which is to be held for St. Paul A. M. E. Church bids fair to eclipse all others. The meeting will be a doubleheader. Dr. John W. Day, who is known by all as a staunch friend and a broad humanitarian will bring a great message on the subject, "Doing One's Best." Needless to say, a large number of people will attend the meeting because of their great admiration and respect for Dr. Day. Bishop Frank M. Bristol will be the other speaker on the program. Bishop Bristol is one of the most eloquent preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is widely known as a platform orator. The Battle Axe Cadet Band will render two selections. Mr. Jones, the secretary said to a reporter, "The playing of these boys will have a double value and the music will be enjoyable, but at the same time the public will see a group of boys like the Young Men's Christian Association is formed to serve." The Building Committee has announced that purchase of the lot will be made within the next month, for by that time the second payments will be paid in and the necessary $14,000 will be on hand. Y. M. C. A COLLECTION CAMPAIGN 14 T. A. Curtis.....$4,860.50 $544.00 17 C. H. Turner.....4,687.50 483.00 19 C. H. Brown.....3,516.00 410.00 6 M. Roland.....1,754.00 404.25 12 L. F. Ford.....3,416.50 346.00 18 L. H. Bradbury.....5,074.00 331.85 18 T. A. Marshall.....3,263.00 298.45 20 M. A. Grant.....2,425.65 265.55 19 P. W. Mosley.....2,787.50 246.00 19 S. B. Wallace.....2,835.50 218.00 1 J. W. Myers.....6,078.75 185.00 1 G. B. Jones.....2,208.75 174.00 10 L. S. Williams.....2,511.50 165.50 11 E. D. Hamilton.....3,206.00 129.00 1 W. R. Hill.....3,049.50 109.75 15 C. Q. Clark.....1,476.50 165.50 16 R. C. Haskell.....1,264.50 103.50 1 J. S. Shaffner.....603.00 101.00 5 J. H. Harrison.....1,932.50 50.00 2 .....172.50 11.25 Campaign Committee .....10,012.00 1,584.85 Total from teams .....6347.15 Amount received where Team No. is unknown .....415.81 AT VILLA CENTRAL MISSOURI M. E. CONFERENCE Union Memorial Church April 5 to 9—Bishop Frank M. Bristol Presiding. Vote On Negro Bishop Defeated—General Officers in Attendance The Central Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was convened at Union Memorial Church of this city, Wednesday morning. Rev. B. F. Abbott, pastor. Bishop Frank M. Bristol, of Omaha, Nebraska, presiding. The conference was well attended by ministers and delegates. Reports from various churches showed a general increase of this branch of the church both numerically and financially. Some of the general officers of the M. E. Church were in attendance, among whom were Dr. Robt. E. Jones, editor of Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La.; Dr. L. Garland Penn, secretary of Freedman Board, and Dr. W. W. Lucas. One of the important questions coming before the conference was the matter of whether this conference wanted a colored bishop. When a vote was taken Thursday it was lost 43 to 10. The appointments will be made Sunday and the conference will adjourn Sunday night. Something unusual is taking place at the Scullin-Gallagher Steel Plant, where such a large number of men are employed. The majority of men who work at the plant usually go out there on Sunday mornings where they spend a deal of time discussing whatever comes in their minds. Rev. F. P. Berry, who is also employed, seeing this opportunity, called together a few men and started religious services, which the men readily took to. Rev. Berry is well known as a gospel singer, and when he starts one of those soul-stirring songs the men all join in, and as he puts it, "the spirit like the rushing of a mighty wind comes" and takes hold on the men. These services have met the approval of the employers who are willing to lend every encouragement to Rev. Berry and his assistants in their efforts. The Baptist and Methodist Churches are making...great preparations for their Easter festivities...Mdmes. Josephine Gates and Zelpha Berry are still on the sick list...Miss Pearl Schwartz is hostess to the Y. L. P. Club last Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m. A very pleasant afternoon was spent. Etta L. Word, president; Grace V. Anthony, secretary; Miss Mayne M. Taylor, instructress...A certain young lady in the 900 block Iron street is very busy now days. Look out for, a porters of the twenty-six hour limited, New York Central...Mr. Moses White was indisposed last week...Mrs. M. J. Word is very ill at this writing...The South End Cash Grocery will start business soon. Watch for the date of the opening...Mr. Henry Brisco is frequently seen around 6100 Vermont. What does this mean Mr. Brisco?...Don't impose on your neighbor by borrowing her paper, subscribe today for one that you may know. The Central Baptist literary was entertained last Monday by some splendid papers. Also a musical treat by Mr. Crenshaw. This past Monday the moving pictures of B. T. Washington were exhibited to a good house. A special program Monday evening, April 10. ended his himself. earn that body of manger.剔de. The second of a series of song services, by the All Saints Choir, will be given Sunday, April 9, at 8 p. m. Among the special numbers will be, "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth," by Mrs. Mabelle Evans, "Fling Wide the Gates," by the choir, "Inflamatus," by Mrs. Ida Burrell Myers and the choir. The service will take the place of the regular Sunday evening program. W. B. GOODRICH TO SPEAK Will Address the Bonita Club Members on "General Inventions"—All Young Men Especially Invited * W. B. Goodrich, the president of the Bonita Progressive Club, will speak to young men, and especially young business men upon the subject of "General Inventions," Wednesday night, April 12, 1916, at the residence of E. Proctor, 4158 W. Belle. This club is becoming popular in its stand. The object of the club is to open opportunities and help young Negro men to greater achievements. Mr. Wiley Goodrich is the proprietor of the Bonita barber shop, 4066 Fairfax. He is a thorough mechanic with a very acute mechanical mind, consequently he is extremely interesting. He has invented several innovations and has patents issued. Everybody is invited and especially the young man. Watch this paper for our weekly doings. This club means business. Come out and see. Help us to help ourselves. Rice & Thompson Will Re-Open Soda Fountain The Market Inn, Chinese and American Restaurant, will have the spring opening of its soda fountain and grill room next Sunday, April 9. A feature will be, high class entertaining. The Market Inn is at 2321 Market St., and was formerly Silver Grill. W. A. Rice, the well-known fountain expert, and Wm. Thompson, will be dispensers in charge of the fountain and confectionary department. The grand opening will be Monday, April 10, from 12 m. Monday to 1 a. m. Tuesday. Refreshments of all kinds, lunches, fancy sandwiches, meals and short orders, all plain and fancy Chinese dishes and the best of service is promised. Special parties or private tables can be arranged for in advance. Phone Romont 1621. Joe Wah is manager. WELL KNOWN MAN MYSTERIOUS LY SLAIN Frank Hampton, a janitor in the Louisiana building, on Vandeventer Aver, was shot and killed Thursday night, March 30, by Charles J. Perkins, a painter, at his home 5132 Fair Ave. Perkins gave himself up and was exonerated by the coroner's jury. In a statement to an Argus reporter, Perkins stated that he took Hampton to be a burglar. He said, about 40:30 p.m. some one, with a dark lantern tried to enter his home through the door, but got the key stuck. After trying the windows, the would be intruder left, but came back after midnight and tried to work the key again. Perkins said he demanded to know who it was and Hampton, retreated without reply. As he jumped the fence Perkins fired. Hampton, boarded a Sarah street car and fell unconscious at Easton. He was taken to the hospital, but only revived enough to say he did not know who shot him. He was buried from the home, 3966 Finney, Tuesday. NEXT WEEK AT PYTHIAN HALL Thursday, April 13, Mrs. Ruth Shelton, authoress, will present the drama, "Lord Earlington." Saturday, April 15, the drama will be given at Booker Washington Theater at 2 p. m. SAY SLAYER ENDED OWN LIFE IN FIRE A posse of men, who were hunting Lafayette Chandler, accused of shooting Sheriff John H. Dierker, of St. Charles county, trapped him in a barn Wednesday and report he ended his own life in a fire started by himself John Givens, owner of the barn that was destroyed, found—the body of Chandler and tossed it in a manger. The coroner's verdict was suicide. For billa letterheads, circulars, try he Argus Publishing Co., Phone Bom 1452. PRICE 5 CENTS Religious Services At Scullin and Gallagher's Rev. F. P. Berry Having Great Success With the Men at Steel Plant. CARONDELET NEWS ALL SAINTS CHOIR IN SECOND SQNG SERVICE eee ce BRA X. FOR Is What Patrons Who Want Best Quality ‘PORDU'COLLEGECO. 3100 PINE STREET - - ST. sos MO. M.C. 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Tapp, FRB. “The Truth, About. the Bible” about five hundred pages, $3.00. “Why Jesus Wan ajMan and Not Woman” three Rondred pages, $2.00. “sexology of the Bible" over one hundred and. seventy- ‘five pages, $2.90.” All cloth-bound. ‘Theas Booka treat of the sex of the Bible, and show that the Bible is a book of 'sox and a book of spirit, and.that sex is the di- Viding line between. the physical and Spiridal worlds, ‘They show that dise ease, sickness and insanity are within the sex, and that sex-lust was the orig- inat"sin and cause of death, They are airostiig’ the attention of the meitical Sclontie, phitosephical apq theoleiica ‘worlds and people of all classes aa no other books of modern times. and ‘will Brobabiy’do more to shape the thoughts Bt ithe Buman race than any books, ever written in Riatory of the. world. ‘They are daily ‘going: ta, the great think= ofe'Ge ci parta’ot the civilised world: “T woutt: rathor be the author of the Tipp. than to ‘be the Present of the United Staten His sex. Interpretation Of the Bibln as therein contained, Is #0 daring and bis conclusions are so‘un- Shawgrabis ‘that the human intellect it ‘nthe world’s ‘greatest book. ‘worl ea ee bapp's' books on the ‘Bible and nls sex interpretation of the Bible will live Until Ume shall be no more. ‘Republics Hay perish and. Empires may decey, Dut ibsee books on the Bible will never die? je Prof. J. Silse Harris, AM “Mr, Tapp's works on the Bible will de more vo empty out Jails, insane in- Hitutions and Hospitals than any ouner Hien (Ghat has over ‘been. given te, the orld, tn our opinion, to “aay nothing w that they will do the ruman race. Be tar indeed Produced '& "world ides it"ine elviiusa world’ =e °ne NFAT f B.A Tompson, MD. Bak secuvvine 36D. : : ¥, Mikel, AB. MLD. < Bieptore i Clark, MD ‘We have arranged with the author sihpraere “for Ahege beaks, feamie or you. desire paper and” ‘tame, of the book oF sat icy ato ee ie ee eae dee Pe a ae ee SON Se [oe pone oer es a ee tarde eee onan Sana. Shas Se ieee Uns ee Soe oe oe ae ae a a oe ae ae oe MG eae es, ee oe. es oes a i oe — i = Sree “Friday, “April 7, 1016 TL Try Mi s. Comora Dooley's | * Superba Hair Grower — ‘And be convinced. “Guaranteed to grow Hair where others fail: Satiafaction’ in + six treatments or money rsfunded ‘CAN YOU BEAT IT? No Geeds Seat C.0.D. Ageots Wanted ADDRESS 2006 MORGAN STREET Pheee, Bement 865-2 ~ St, Lente, Miscoari ~ Offlce—Central 4783-B.-. Residence—Delmar 4471-L. HOMEE .G: PHILLIPS ; i LAWYER : | “Notary Public 2885 Market St. - St. Louis, Mo | ‘Office Phone “| Reaidence Central 817+-L, ‘3327 ‘Lawton, Bom. ‘1100-W. | MISS FRANKIE G. REED ¥ NOTARY PUBLIC “Public Stenographer___-_ 2359 Market St. St. Louis, Mo. SUCCESSOR APPOINTED .— I wish to announce that I have been appointed a representative for Dr. T. ‘M. Sayman’s toilet and household goods, which I will dispose of in con- neetion with my hair-dressing work. I am-wuccessor to Mrs. Neal who died Inst fall. All orders promptly filled. ‘Mrs. M. Branford, 9912 Pine at Bom, 2356R. PRESTO TOILET MFG. CO, yaoi oe ——_—___ a tl oe Pe peaeine| . College of Hair Culture! why OUT OF TOWN NEWws: ‘Tho Presto Toilet Mfg. Co., and Col- loge of Hair Culture, Chiropody, and ‘Manicuring, which is now beginning its second year in business, takes this opportunity to thank their many friends“and patrons, who havo’ given us their liberal support during the past year. Thus enabling us to estab- lish one of the fastest, growing busi- nesses of its kind in the country. ‘The Presto College of Hair Culture, Ohirop- ody and Manicuring are under the skillful management of Mdm. E. Thom- as and her trained assistants, Mdm. ‘Thomas is-a graduate of one of the finest college sof hair culture, chirop- ‘ody and manicuring in the country. The next class in the Presto College will begin on April 15th., in order to introduce our new electric. machine, which removes superflous hair and other facial blemishes, and our new Presto hair dryer, we are going to make the following liberst- offer to twenty-five Indies, only: Our course with diploma and outfit at the college is $25, but the first twenty-five ladies who will ail us: the following cou) actom] pl i oped ‘of hair culture for $12.50. The $2.00 application feq will be part payment of the $12.50. This offer will close ‘April 15th, and applies to twenty-five ‘ladies only. Each coupon will be num- bered as they are received at our office, Out of town ladies who wish to take -advartage~ofthiroffer-will be -gov- erned by the postmark on their lettors. : COUPON’ ‘This Coupon is Number..........; ‘and is good for $12.50 as part.pey- ment ona $25.00 course of the Presto System of Hair Culture. MG eee nssculseaens B. 0, Address... eels eeseeeecee |: Wot good after April 15th, POPLAR BLUFF NOTES By Mra. ©. P. Jackson. There were seven converts baptized Sunday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Chureh by Rev. G. C. Chinn....'The ‘Sacred and sentimental coneert given at the ME. Church, Friday night, was quite a. success. The Black Diamond Orchestra furnished the music for the occasion. ...George Spencer, the seven- teon-yoar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spencer, of Benton’ street, dis- appeared a few days ago. His where- abouts are unknown....Mr. Arm- strong, who has been confined to the une of his crutches owing to.severe in- Jurica.received to one of his feet while in the employment of the power plant vome-time ago, is now able to-go, with- out. them...../The services at the M. ©: Church, Thursday night, were quite impressive and the instructive talk given the mothers for the uplift and spiritual welfare of. their children by Rev. W. H. Huston-wae-well-received, after which he baptized eight children. --Mrs. J..W, Murphy and Miss Grace Higginbotham, of Moroceo, were shop: pera im Poplar Bluff, Saturday. ...Mr: LT. Leo is ‘a reader of the Argus... Miss Claudia Moore, one of the teach- ers of Charleston, spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Moore, of Alice .street....Rev. Aura Townsend, éne of the Mock Con- forence preachers of the A. M. E. Church, will entertain with a three course luncheon Monday night at her hgme on Alice strect....Mr. Richard Pigking is having a new houre built on Nerth Alice street where. his old one burned down... .Mrs. Harvey of Alice street, mother of Mr, Scott Harvey died suddenly at her home last Friday ssssRev. W. H. Huston departed list Saturday for Bt. Louis to atténd the annisal conference of the M. E. Church which convenes there April 5th... Mrs. Katie Adams is up again after being ill for a few days....Mr. Julian Cameron departed Inst Sunday for Denver, Colo.....Mr. “Will Stéan, whe went to Hot Springs for his, health, has returned much -improved,.. . Those wanting the St. Louis Argus can have same by calling on Saturdays at 904 Benton street, or it will be deliv: to your home by the carrier. CHESTER NOTES > By Mim Mabel Bighy = * Rev. Specss was out of town Sunday. “=: Mire Hoseg. had as his guest i Samuel Rowlett, of Cperte:c Mire, P. Gaston was hostess | The Presto Totlst Mfg. Co, is the largest firm in the west, among our Face, who are manufacturing toilet articles, arid hair preparations.» We have made in our laboratory, and have om the market twenty-seven different Preparations, tg follows: OILS AND TOILET WATERS CREAMS + White Lilac Toltet Hair Growing Ol! Water Pressing Ol Litac Tojiet Water Vanishing Cream Lily of the Valley Freckle Cream Red Rose Lotion White Roce Massage. Cream Florida Water Baby Label White Lavender Water Lily Cream Quinine Hair Tonic Cream of Roses © Dandruff Lotion Menthol. Cream Bay Rum lal “Presta” Special Talcum Cream Brown Skin Pace Moustache Grower Powder = / Dentifrice Pink Face Powder ‘Witch Hazel White Face Cream Powder Skin Whitener Perfumes TOILET WATERS White Lilac Toilet Water Lilac Touet Water Lily of the Valley Red Rose White Rese Florida Water Lavender Water Quinine Halr Tonic Dandruft Lott Bay Rum ial Talcum Brown Skin Pace Powder / Pink Face Powder White Face Powder Perfumes eG 2 | i. 0 Ce a oe eo rie aes a USING USING BEFORE - AFTER UaING USING Presto’ Skin Bloach, the best prepa- aation on the market for whitening the akin. Made in three colors; white, flesh and ‘brunette;—~Guamanteed to be absolutely harmless Plice 25 ete, and 50 cts, as PS. Woe want ».fow more hustling “agents” in” Kansas. City, St, Joe, ‘Moberly ‘and Joplin, Mo. Write us at once for partieulere and outfit. to the Ladies’ Aid Thursday. ...Quar- terly meeting will be held Sunday at the-A--Af-E: Chureh.-Preaiding Elder Sydes will be with us:.,.Mieses Anna and Essie Meredith’ were. the guests of Mins Angie Mischeous ‘Tuesday. .Mrs, Mary Nelson-is on the sick list. BT. MARY NOTES EGE i An enjoyable evening was spent by a large number oX young people last week at the hall...:Mrs. Henry Ham- ilton, Jr, ia convaleseent....Under the careful guidance of Miss L, Berry man, our school is progressing nicely. +-+-Dan Cupid is hurling darts in St. Mary’s..During Lent the social. wheel here is turning very slowly but: it won't be long before tripping the light fantastic will be the order of the day, “++.Mr. Ben Chappelle, of . Coffman, was a recent visitor here. WEBSTER GROVE NOTES © By Mrs. L. Laird Rev. J. L. Brooks closed his year’s work with much success, On Monday evening’ the Stewards reported $437.00 rained for the pastor, and for all-pur- poses $850.00. The official board sent a letter to the district superintendent asking that Rev. Brooks, be returned --Mrs. Sadie Harris entertained’ with @ six o'clock dinner last Sunday, Rev. and Meg L, Brooks and family... . Mra. Jaw Elazier and son, Entl, have returned to their home. ...Mr. Richard Boyd departed last week for Chicago +++-Mims Rallie MeDay departed: last week for her home in Kentucky. .Mr. and Mra. Bowen have returned home after spending the fall and’ winterin Wellston. _ : Bt. Louis....A large ‘number -attended the conference at Union Memorial Church this week..,.Mr. Frank John- son was a visitor at the M. E: Church last “Sunday night... Bro. Theo. Morrison has been agsisting with services at the A. M. E. Church . FESTUS NOTES | ‘By Mra A. W. Charleston ‘The Misses Birdie and Edna Soimon, of Crystal City, visited the Willing Workers’ Club at’ their last meeting and beeame: members. We are glad tc have them,...Mrs, Mayma Minor, of St. Louis, was the guest of her par. ente, Mr, and Mrs...A. N. Charleston, the week’ end....Miss Jestine Me- rage laeoegage bP apes Sy mage day, shopping....Prof, A. "R. Chinn, of Glasgow, was s' visitor in Festus, and gave a very interesting lectune to. the Order of Herron....Mr. S. Ross is uite:'thenk sopaletna Suu. owing... mma 8 7 aed i ta ttt 1 rae : ca ae | Bi a il : righ ie ee pO eA ; : P . ae ty 5 ca ‘il E * - a E — | E : General Private office of the Miss L. Simms Manager PRESTO MFG. CO. Stenoi he , Me y aa" ae. fet a rowed Mr. W, H. Davis Recent graduate of tho Commercial Department of the Sumner High _Rvening School, President and found- er of the PRESTO TOILET MANU- EACTURING COMPANY. - drug ‘stores, and hair dressers, who are handling our preparations. Druggists find ‘our preparations their best sellers. We are the only manufacturing com- pany, of our race, west of New York, who make and cary a complete line of barbers? toilet articles and sup- plies. Berbers should consult. our spe- cial rates before buying elsewhere. The ‘Toilet Mfg. Co., has made ‘i nahe Ebene ion tee ber of ladies, who have learned the Presto Bystem of Hair Culture, a who are tow using our preparations, anee Rel esi ; ‘Wo have on file hundreds of testi- monials’ from our agents all over the er Y ‘The different churches are preparing for Easter...-Rev. Treadwell, pastor cf the A. M. E, Church, and members are repairing the church. JACKSON: NOTES : Messrs, Thos. Farrar and Charley Brawn, of Onk Ridge, were in Jackgon Saturday on business... Miss Toxic Lacey and Hazel Eulinberg were visit: ors at our school Friday....Mr. Geo. Lacy is on the sick list....Prof. Car- ter, of Charleston, was in Jackson Sat- day and spoke.at the A. BM. E. Church Saturday night....1The Socialist enter tainment given by Mrs. Alice Cowan was a grand affair....Mins Mabala King, of Bonne Terre, is home visiting parents..Mr.?Theo. Beal is here from Clayton on business... Mian Mary Ev- linberg, of” Charleston, was the’ guest of her mother, Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Smith, of Cape Girardeau, was in Jackson Monday and spoke at the A. M. F. Chureh. -KIREWOOD NOTES = | By LE. Hawkins 3 - The Golden Leaf Court, No. .24, as well as ‘the whole of Kirkwood fee that a strong chain has been broken by the death of Mrs, Katie-Arnold, 6: years old, who ‘died after an illness of several months, Thursday, March ‘30. She was an old settler of Kirkwood and highly esteemed by both white and colored. She lived an_ upright Christian life for the past forty. years Referring to St. Matthew, 5th chafitdr, 16th verse, ‘Let your light #0 shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.'* From the verse referred to in the monument Mrs. jd erected for her bereaved ones to view. She was a charter member of the 4 Baptist Church and. of the” Golden \Leaf Cburt. She is sur- vived by her husband, Mr. Almstead Arnold. Mré. Grant Edwards, Jas Atn- old, Almstead Arnold, Je., Joe Arnold, Mrs. Dollie, Martain, five grandchil dren, two daughters and two sons-in- law. The funeral services were held Sunday ‘afternoon at 2 p. m. at the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Alex- under of St. Louis, a life long friend nf the family, officiated aaaisted by Rev. Jennens, the pastor. The burial was at Father Dixon’s cemetery. Un- jertaker” Parker, of Webster Grove, wan funeral: director. ‘The writer ex: ends his deepest sympathy: to the be- eaved family. | JEPYERSON CITY NOTES ‘Pres, B. F. Allen, with his~ famous General Manager : . EB. EW. By W. C. Majer -eountry,—who—are—selling the Presto préparations, Our mail order department has in- erensed so rapidly in tho past year, until we have been compelled to secure the services of an expert to handle this department. 3 We desire to-pface ‘on our “payroll this year 125 more agents to handle our preparations. Woe are prepared to pr larger.commission thin. any ther firia. First—because we ‘manu- facture our own preparations. Second —We own our plant, and have no rent to pay. _Third—We buy. all. of our-in- gredients wholesale, direct from the factory and laboratories, thus saying the middleman’s profit. ‘Choral Society, returned Saturday morning from a two days’ engagement at Mexico and Fulton, where tho presi- dent delivered one of:his famous. lec- tures to an’ nppreciative audience,. in connection with several selections from ‘the otchestra and choral society. They took the two towns by storm. The same program will be‘ rendered Wed- nesday evening at the A. ME, Zion Church in honor 6f Bishop Blackwell, who will be the guest of Rev, Henley for a few days....The debate Thure- day at the Lyceum Literary Society was-vory interesting. “The speakers were .well preparcd. The affirmative side won by two points, The proxident invites all visitors snd friends to at- tend....Mrs, Jessie Wilkins Ts .the quest of Miss Floy King and friends. Sheattended the literary society, and was one of the judges of the debate. --Mr. Bennie Price is very sick with pneumonia, His step-mother , arrived Wednesday....Miss Marie Carroll will Wave Buriday to” visit friends ThSt. Louis....Dr. HE. Johnson and Cel, AL. Thomas aro-attonding ‘the Ro- publican" Convention in. Excelaior Springs as delegates from Cole county, «-Mrs. Ethelene Hord and. little daughter, of Kanxas <City, are the guenta’ of her mother....Mr. Danfort, of Springfield, lectured. to’ the Brother- hood Sunday evening. The lecture war: very interesting and of benefit.....The club under the guidmice of Mrs, Mary Going, will render‘ a very: good. pro- gram Tuesday évening. A moving pie: ture feature will he shown of Booker T” Washington from the cradle to the wrave. Tet-every one turn out and “ve the works of a great man of our rite, at Second Baptist Church... .Dr. jarnett and wife, prosident of West “ea College, ix in the city attending’ 1» business....Miss Nannie Goins, Mrs. Gertrude Johnson and Mr. Ben- nie Price are indisposed...:The series { sermons at the A. M. E. Church is vringing many people to the meetings sronched by the evangelist, Rey, How- ird, of Nashville, Tenn., accompanied vv: bie wife, - ALTON NOTES . Cirele Lodge U. BL F., held. their (od anniveranry Monday night, April iat their hall. Addresses were made by Reva, Mason and Tiff, after which ~ijeper was served. ..The plays. en- titled, ‘The Merrimakers? Club,’? and ‘The Country Consins,’? given at the Union Baptist Chur®i, March 27th, wrder the masiagement of Misses Ethel Coat and Tucille Johnson, were a crand miceess,’ Many were present aod all enjoyed the entertainment... Joseph Douglass, grandson of Frede- rivk Douglass, thé noted ‘violinist of Washington, D. €.,- gave a concert at campbell Chapel Monday night, April ni. A large number were present to Miss L. Simms Stenographer Make all P. O. Money Orders, Checks or Drafts Payable to _--W..H. DAVIS, PRES. 3140-42 MARNICE PLACE | ST. LOUIS, MO u BELL PHONE: COLFAX 1019 - Superior’Cigar Store oo "2339-Market Street ~~ Imported and Domestic Cigars. : Pool and Billiard Parlor - “ Griffin Foster, "Proprietor ~> Wm. Clausel, Manager Phone: Brment 1535 Tia Testimonials From Some Of The Patrons Of TRESSA HAIR PARLOR Magic Hair Grower which gives actual results.—Mrs. C. A. Douglas, 2824 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo . Hund?eds of uth testimonies have been received by me, Once tried, you will always dec Tresss- Hate Treatment" Agents rested oo uz profit sharing plan, Gall or write Mme. E. W. May, Pres. : Phone Bomont 1407 ate t. se zt = = Fee aa Several Reasons _.’ Why There are several reasons why you should use the preparations made by the Presto Toilet Mf. Co. 1 Because they are the best by every test. 5 2 Because they coitain the highest grade of domestic and imported chemi- cals. . 3. Because ‘Presto’ is the best that can be had on tho market for the hair and scalp. 4& ‘Because it is guaranteed to be absolutely puro or money back. 5. They are made in our own lab- oratory under our personal supervision, Our ‘Presto’? hair grower promotes beautiful growth of hair, stops fall- ing out: and bresking of the hair. Price 50 cts. per jar. Our ‘Presto’? Pressing Oil. con- tains ingredients which protect. the hair from tho wind, and makes it soft and glossy, for women or men. Price 50 cts. per box. Our ‘Presto’? shampoo remove: dandruff and promotes hair vigor anc health. Price 50 ets. per bottle, Six wedks troatment for $1.25, con sisting of one’ jar ‘Presto’! Hait Grower, one box ‘Presto’? Pressing Oil, one bottle ‘*Presto’? Shampoo. i] COUPON ‘Mail this couppn and 25 cts, with || so your name and addres to us, and || c} Tecotve by return mail, either jar of ‘Hair Growing Ol, Pressing || t, OW or @ bottle of Shampoo, ox La ew ky ; my ||: - : i te r : ol - on _ Miss’ Augusta Hyatt 5 Private Secretary to the President. {15 Make all P. 0. Money Orders, Check W..H. DAVI 3140-42 MARNICE PLACE a BELL PHONE: C¢ hear this gifted man ofethe race.....A very successful rally was held at Al- Jen's Chapel Sunday, $55.00 being raised....Mr. and Mra, Joseph Doug: lass were the guests of Mrs. Dorn Lomy while-in the city.:..The first quarterly rally of the Union Baptist Church was held Sunday. afternoon, $05.00 was raised....The funeral of Mr. George Means, Sr,, was held Monday morning. The'remains were'sent_to Grand Tower, TM, for burial,” : . HERCULANEUM NOTES By J..W. Coin Mrs. Jas. Waters, is spending the week end in St. Louis... Quite m nuin ber from here attended the ball in q PMA | Dion . HOME BUTTEE MERGER Thie is one of the most wondorful inventions ever placed on the market. This machine will merge one pint of milk into one pound of butter in two minutes, The high price of butter makes it necessary for you to investi- gato the merits of this wonderful ,in- vention, We havo, on file in our office, hundreds of testimonials of peoplo who are using this machine. Write or phone us, Bell, Colfax 1049, and we will call at your home and demon- strate the morita of this machine, We want ten good agents. You can make $5 to $8 por day easily. For sale only by PRESTO MFG. CO, e We call special attention to our Baby Label White Lilly: Faco Cream, which is made from a special formula of our own, und is as harmless as a bineuit, and will remove those red Lumps from tho face end make it as soft and smooth as the faco of w child. Price 50 cts. a jar. is Mail the following coupon ang 10 ets. to us and receive a 25 cent bottle of our tripple strength perfume. a j “COUPON 16 cts. This Coupon and ‘10 cts. food for a 25 cts, bottle of tripple strength perfume. MES, “One OF the tioat wonderful hair culturists now before the public, will begin instructing the next ‘class in the Presto College of Hair Cultury or April 15, 1916. We teach you dither Hair Culture, Chirop- ody, Manicuring, Massaging. Write at once tor particulars. ‘Don’t forget our Special Coupon offer for the first 25 Indies who ‘will enroll before April 15. ecks or Drafts Payable to /iS, PRES. = ST. LOUIS, MO COLFAX 1019 Crystal City, Saturday night, An enjoyable time wag reported... .Splen- did services were” enjoyed at. both churches -Bunday....Mr. 1. Patterson, who has been very sitk, is ble to be out again. ...Mr. Henry Brown is suf: fering from a bum... .Mr, Geo, Bot: tix ang Mr. Harry Francis attended to Dusiness here “Tuesday... Mrs. M. Hardeaux spent Saturday and Sunday in Festus, also. Maw. 0= 80 Coltin’ and Mrs. Laura Roberson, CAPE GIRARDEAU NOTES By Miss,H. N. Jones ©. Mrs. Walter Montjoy and children, nf Belmont, Me., are the guests-of her Parents, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Randol, Continued on page 6 J can say gladly and truly that the Madam Mays’ Hair Grower has real- ly worked magically for me. . One year ago my hair was not more than. three ‘inches long, but by using the Mays’ Magic Hair Grower “‘Tressa’’ according to directions, my hair is now 14 inches long and thick in Bor: tion, Rrowii constant MD Witt bo very Tiaaset to show. my picture some future time. Thighly Teeommend ‘““Tressa,"” Mme Mays’ sults: Mrs. C. A. Douglas, 2824 Pine eceived by me, Once tried, you will its wanted on our profit-sharing plan. ~ May, Pres. pont 1407 es a, St. Louis, Mo. J. E. MITCHELL ..... Managing Editor HERBERT T. MFADOWS ..... City Editor and Advertising Manager P. H. MURRAY ..... Associate WILLIAM HAROLD KING ..... Associate SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months Three Months Single copy Fifty-two Week Advertising Rates F Entered as second-class matter April 5, 1912 the set of March 3, 1879. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single copy.....00 Fifty-two Weeks for one dollar Advertising Rates Furnished on Request Entered as second-class matter April 5, 1912 at the Post Office at Saint Louis, Missouri, under the set of March 3, 1879. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION New York office, Frost & Frost, 25, East 26th Street; Chicago office, Frost & Frost, Boyce Building; Atlanta office, Frost & Frost, Chandler Building; Nashville office, Frost & Frost, Independent Life Building. NEGRO ELIMINATION Elimination is the word which stripping of the Negro of all his treatment and party. The American idea of government towards race government. In early segregation, giving him certain was a government within a government of taxation and deprived of repatriation were different from the laws we had a long series of Indian were lost and millions of dollars conflicts engendered the bitterest life and money. The British in Canada govern the same as they did their white same churches, the same schools, property and representation as an Now, with this race idea still dianize the Negro—to give him reeities, to separate him in the school hotels, in eating houses, in the host the jails. The tendency is to per the Negro the butt for the insults and worse elements of the white population. You might as well try to damn try to suppress the aspirations of better conditions. Two and a h bondage could not destroy Negro most humiliating proscription add his effort to overcome. "Truth crushed to ceil For the eternal year We often wonder why it goes so easily doubt American civilization that we are a border ruffian nation passion and blood? Christianity is rapidly become ancient hypoerisy. Long prayers are much grace over the body of a Naltars of the holy religion. Our churches are doing a good duce still better results if they weclusively to the church work. One Negro killed, one white mened and a couple of barns burned in St. Charles County. Evidently the Negro was a b called a sheriff's posse, seemed equal 500 lynchers, with guns and law was the word which, in its application, Negro of all his franchises of city government. In earlier days the Inspector giving him certain territories and within a government. The Inspector deprived of representation. The Inspector from the laws governing white series of Indian wars, in which millions of dollars expended. The Inspector the bitterest race hate and war in Canada governed their Indian allies their white population. The same schools, and enjoyed the presentation as any other subjects, face idea still dominant, the America—to give him reservations in citi him in the schools, in the church houses, in the hospitals, in morbidity is to perpetuate a war for the insults and violence of all the white population. Well try to dam up the Nile, with the aspirations of the Negro for Two and a half centuries of destruction Negro manhood, and proscription added to it will or none. South crushed to earth will rise again for the eternal years of God are fledder why it goes on and when it American civilization. Does not all older ruffian nation, with mob law,? Is rapidly becoming only another Long prayers and many words the body of a Negro burned to religion. Are doing a good work, and the results if they would confine the church work. Killed, one white man killed, one of barns burned were the results. Negro was a bad man, and the sposse, seemed equally murderous with guns and law in their own Elimination is the word which, in its application, means the stripping of the Negro of all his franchises of citizenship in government and party. stripping of the Negro or all his remnants of citizenship in government and party. The American idea of government has always had a tendency towards race government. In earlier days the Indian was governed by segregation, giving him certain territories and reservations. It was a government within a government. The Indian was relieved of taxation and deprived of representation. The laws governing him were different from the laws governing white men, and, hence, we had a long series of Indian wars, in which thousands of lives were lost and millions of dollars expended. These long series of conflicts engendered the bitterest race hate and wasted much energy, life and money. The British in Canada governed their Indian population just the same as they did their white population. They all went to the same churches, the same schools, and enjoyed the same rights of property and representation as any other subjects of the Dominion. Now, with this race idea still dominant, the Americans want to Indianize the Negro—to give him reservations in cities and outside of cities, to separate him in the schools, in the churches, in the ear, in hotels, in eating houses, in the hospitals in poorhouses, and even in the jails. The tendency is to perpetuate a war of races and make the Negro the butt for the insults and violence of all the low-down and worse elements of the white population. You might as well try to dam up the Nile with bullrushes as to try to suppress the aspirations of the Negro for a higher life and better conditions. Two and a half centuries of the most abject bondage could not destroy Negro manhood, and a century of the most humiliating proscription added to it will only give energy to his effort to overcome. We often wonder why it goes on and when it will stop, and seriously doubt American civilization. Does not all this lynching say that we are a border ruffian nation, with mob law, under the rule of passion and blood? Christianity is rapidly becoming only another name for American hypocrisy. Long prayers and many words are said with as much grace over the body of a Negro burned to a crisp as at the altars of the holy religion. Our churches are doing a good work, and the pastors might produce still better results if they would confine their labors more exclusively to the church work. One Negro killed, one white man killed, one white man wounded and a couple of barns burned were the results of a race war in St. Charles County. Evidently the Negro was a bad man, and the 500 white men, called a sheriff's posse, seemed equally murderous in their purposes — 500 lynchers, with guns and law in their own hands. UNITE ON ONE MAN There is but one way for the a delegate to the Republican Conv together and decide on one man. A division on the floor of the surely result in defeat. A Negro ter, whom. one way for the Negroes to secc Republican Convention to be held side on one man. Throw aside pe floor of the convention hall epeat. A Negro delegate is what There is but one way for the Negroes to secure the election of a delegate to the Republican Convention to be held in Chicago. Get together and decide on one man. Throw aside personal grievances. A division on the floor of the convention hall next Monday will surely result in defeat. A Negro delegate is what we want, no matter whom. SPANISH WAR VETERANS To the United Spanish War Veteran; Corpl. Wm. L. White. Camp No. 10. A motion was passed $^2$ at our last meeting on advice of our Commander-in-Chief, L. C. Dyer, that all suspended members be reinstated in the Camp on payment of 25 cents, one month's dues. Comrade you owe it to yourself, your family and to the Camp to rejoin your Camp. You can never tell when something will happen to you, be one of us so we can help you. The opportunity to come back is now offered you. Don't fail to take advantage of it. Just think of the price. 25 cents. All comrades are urged to bring in new members. Our muster-fee is only $2.00. Now, let us get together and work for the good of the Camp. All members are requested to be present at our next meeting, Tuesday, April 11, 1916, at 2804 Pine St. 8 p.m. Louis J. Mills, Adjutant. $1.00 .75 .40 .05 tats for one dollar Returned on Request at the Post Office at Saint Louis, Missouri, under in its application, means the franchises of citizenship in govern- ment has always had a tendency later days the Indian was governed in territories and reservations. It comment. The Indian was relieved presentation. The laws governing governing white men, and, hence, ears, in which thousands of lives expended. These long series of race late and wasted much energy, named their Indian population just population. They all went to the and enjoyed the same rights of other subjects of the Dominion, innant, the Americans want to Ins- ervations in cities and outside of els, in the churehes, in therear, in inpatients in poorhouses, and even in outculture a war of races and make and violence of all the low-down and ation. up the Nile with bulrushes as to the Negro for a higher life and self centuries of the most abject manhood, and a century of the led to it will only give energy to earth will rise again, vers of God are liers." on and when it will stop, and seri- Does not all this lynching say with mob law, under the rule of ing only another name for Amer- many words are said with as negro burned to a crisp as at the work, and the pastors might pro- ould confine their labors more ex- man killed, one white man wound- were the results of a race war in and man, and the 500 white men, nally murderous in their purposes in their own hands. Negroes to secure the election of ention to be held in Chicago. Get Throw aside personal grievances. convention hall next Monday will delegate is what we want, no mat- STATEMENT OF OWERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Publishers Argus Publishing Co.: Managing Editor, J. E. Mitchell Managing Editor, J. E. Mitchell Owners: J. E. Mitchell, St. Louis, Mo. B. W. James, St. Louis, Mo., Wm. Mitchell, St. Louis, Mo., L. E. Hawkins, Kirkwood, Mo., H. T. Meadows, St. Louis, Mo. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of April 1916. Frankie G. Reed, Notary Public. My commission expires June 24, 1919. RECEIVES DIPLOMAS Medames Bessie Burton, E. Muse, Ida Gaines and B. Harding have received diplomas and outfits in hairdressing and manicuring from Mrs. Minnie Starnes, Hairdressers of 3012 Lawton Ave. Ladies wishing a treatment in their homes may call Bomont 792, for any of the above named hairdressers, who will go out by appointment. All work guaranteed satisfactory. Braids and wakes made on short notice. THE ST. 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Actual results in six treatments I am offering to all new patrons a box of oil, gratis. Give me a trial. The semi-comic drama in five acts entitled, "Lord Erickson's Broken Vow, or Uncle Plunk," will be presented by the authoress, Mrs. Ruth Shelton, under the auspices of the White Rose Troop No. 2, benefit of St. James A. M. E. Church, on Thursday evening, April 13, at Pythian Hall, 3137 Pine St. Admission, 25 cents. Program begins at 8 p. m. Matinee, Saturday, April 15, at Booker Washington Theater, 23rd and Market Sts. Program begins at 2:30 p. m. Tickets on sale at Street Bros, pharmacy Mrs. Belle Keene, captain, Rev W. H. Peck, pastor. First Baptist Church, 1320 Clark Ave.-Sunday preaching 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday-school, 9:30 a. m. B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p. m. Preaching, Wednesday night by local preachers. Prayer meeting, Friday 5 p. m. Rev W. O. Davis, pastor, 4354 Lucky St. Second Baptist Church, Kinloch Park—Preaching, Sundays, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; Sunday-school; 1 p. m.; Weekly meetings, Wednesday and Fridays, 8 p. m. Rev. Timothy Font, 612 St. Garrison Ave.; St. Louis, Pastor. Mount Olive Baptist Church, 1429 N. 12th Street—Preaching every Sunday, 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m.; Sunday-school, 1 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; Mission Circle, fourth Sunday in each month. Rev. D. W. Morris, Pastor. Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, Kinloch, Mo.—Sunday, Preaching 11 a. m.; Sunday-school, 1:30 p. m.; Thursday, Class meeting, 8:00 p. m. J. W. Garner, pastor. Third Corinthian Baptist Church, 13th and Biddle streets—Sunday, prayer meeting, 5 p. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8:30 p. m. Sunday school, 1 p. m. Prayer meeting, Tuesday night. Preaching, Thursday night Fourth Sunday in each month Covenant and Communion. Rev. J. W. Hall, pastor; M. C. Crosby, clerk; Pete Brown, treasurer. St. James A. M. E. Church, St. Perdinand and Pendleton Streets—Sunday, Sunday-school, 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., and 8 p. m. Young People's Societies, 5 to 7:30. Class meeting, Tuesday, 8 p. m. Rev. William H. Peck, pastor. FACE THE FACTS! Inists on Military, Commercial, Financial and Industrial Preparedness —Let Us Be Ready for Peace as Well as War. By JAMES B. MORROW, in the Philadelphia Record. ONE of the Weekes, save John Wingate, the senator and the Massachusetts candidate for president—tolling as they all did among the granite humps of New Hampshire—was ever noted for his accumulation of cash or property. They were farmers mostly, beginning with Leonard Weeks, who, emigrating from England in 1656, became the head and source of the family. Agriculture sternly practiced among the embedded rocks and irremovable bowlers taught them to be resourceful and to keep at least one eye open to them. So William D., the father of the senator, was a probate judge, and once essayed to be a manufacturer. With the co-operation of neighbors, likewise alert and adventurous, be started a factory at Lancaster for making starch from potatoes. "I will never forget the look on my father's face," Captain Weeks told me, "when, on a Sunday morning, we saw we were leaving church, we saw men in the church, we heard them crying: "The starch factory is burning." I Captain John Wingate Weeks. "There was no insurance—the policy had lapsed—and the fire swept away all of my father's means and put a burdensome mortgage on his farm, two and a half miles in the country." If there had been a navy of a respectable size in 1881 John Wingate Weeks would now be a captain instead of a senator. Nor would he ever have become a banker and thus have set at naught all the traditions of the Weeks family for self-respecting, capable and wholesome poverty. And yet a psychological analysis of inherited traits might show that the senator comes naturally by his talents for public affairs and finance. Any inquiry into his personality must include the Wingates, the chief of whom, John; an Englishman, emigrated to New Hampshire in 1680. The Weekes and the Wingates intermarried during the second American generation as farmers, with an excursion into potato starch, as has been recorded, but the Wingates to become soldiers, preachers and statesmen. Palme Wingate, for example, the great-grandson of John, was a member of the Continental congress and later a senator from New Hampshire. A Big Man Physically. John Wingate Weeks of Massachusetts, in his name, therefore, goes back to the middle of the seventeenth century. Perhaps his gifts are equally as ancient. Wherever they originated, he has made good use of them. He is well-to-do—but has less money, perhaps, than is often represented—and Republicans in Massachusetts have not notified the country that he is their candidate for president. If he is nominated at Chicago in June, the main reason will have been that he is a business man. His candidacy, then, will be, something entirely new in national politics. In his measurements, Captain Weeks is a large man. A reasonable guess at his weight would be 250 pounds. His stature, perhaps, is five feet and eleven inches. His eyes are gray and his manner is frank and hearty. While at the naval academy he could slowly raise a 112-pound dumbbell above his head, but with one leg, he could slowly raise an 82-pound dumbbell with his left hand. More than that he could lower his hands to his shoulders and slowly and simultaneously put both dumbbells above his head the second time. A muscular youth, he was recommended by his principal to the "prudential committee" that called at the academy in Lancaster on a hunt of a teacher for their district school. The school was then closed—a group of students who were teachers into the road, slammed him down in the dirt and warned him never to return. "Lick 'em and lick 'em good," the prudential committee said. "Well you back up you do." "The third day, Captain Weeks told me, "a big, red-faced boy took his umbrella in hand and laborious; began to write a letter that, is he was seemingly engaged in writing a letter; as a matter of fact, he was showing off before the school and experimenting with the new teacher. When ordered to cut his pen and paper away, he smiled around the room at the pupils, who had stopped working, and then resumed his writing. "I took him by the collar, dragged him out of his seat and gave him a thorough whipping. He turned out to be the son of the chairman of the prudential committee. The old man never spoke to me again, not even in the road; he riding in a buggy and I walking to or from my work." Went to Sea for Two Years. On his graduation at the Annapolis Naval Academy, young John Whigate Gates went to sea for a cruise of two years. Seventy men were in his class, but there was room for only 10 of them in the navy. The navy itself consisted of five steam vessels classed as first-rates, and they were obsolete and unfit for active duty. Barnett, his room-mate, went into the army, now a major general and the commandant of that branch of the naval service. In Florida, where he had been engaged as a surveyor on a railroad, the late Midshipman Weeks learned that an old firm in Boston was going out of business. One of the partners had died and another had become blind. Henry Hornblower, a son of one of the partners, and the youthful Mr. Weeks bought the business, the latter borrowing the money with which to begin his career as a banker and broker. Hornblower acted for the firm on the floor of the Boston Stock Exchange. Weeks kept the books and waited on the company as it appeared. In a few years he two young men had offices all over New England and in cities as far away as Chicago. "I got my first valuable business idea from a famous New England dressmaker," Captain Weeks said to the writer of this article. "A friend who came to spend the night at our house was talking to Mrs. Weeks while I was reading a newspaper. I heard her say that she had bought a dress in Boston, and that soon after, on returning to the store, the proprietor, noticing her at the counter, asked if she had purchased the dress she was wearing at his establishment. On learning that she had, he said: "It is not right. Please give your name and address to the clerk and we shall correct the matter at once." A Story of Great alice. "But," the woman replied, the dress is satisfactory to me. Whatever is wrong is so small that it is not worth mentioning. "Small to you, nadam, the man answered, 'but very large to us.' "And do you know, the woman told Mrs. Weeks, the dress was not only taken back, but it was kept and I was given a new one. "I repeated the story to my partner next day," Captain Weeks said, "and from that time onward we tried to please our customers before we thought of ourselves and the probable jobs could make in our transactions." Three years ago, following at once his election to the upper House of Congress, Captain Weeks sold out to his partners and disposed of every interest that might be thought, even indirectly, to influence his judgment as a lawmaker. It it said in New England that he has always been very careful about his reputation as a business man. An anecdote told of him being a lawyer shows how his sensitivity to public opinion on one occasion proved highly profitable to his partner and himself. A run on a bank in which Captain Weeks was a director, though he owned but $900 of the stock, threatened, so he feared, to injure his standing in the community. He spent a day and a night at the bank, pledged two-thirds of all the property he and his partner owned for the payment of tax bank's debts and put through a rehabilitation plan under which the shareholders were assessed 50 per cent, on their holdings. The bank was saved, but some of the frightened shareholders sold out. Their interests were promptly bought by Captain Weeks. The bank prospered and later was combined with other large banks. Boston financiers say that Mr. Hornblower and Mr. Weeks ultimately made $250,000 on the stock which they purchased when the bank seemed to be on the verge of ruin. When I asked Captain Weeks about the matter, he said: "I was a young man and couldn't afford to be a director in a bank that had closed its doors in the faces of its depositors, many of whom were poor and most of whom were small merchants and wage-earners." "How," I asked him, inasmuch as he was a sailor himself once, and is now on terms of intimacy with many high officers, "would you describe the navy of the United States?" "At the outbreak of the war in Europe, he answered, 'our navy, in my opinion, the second best in existence, Authorities for whom I have great respect did not agree with me. They ranked our navy third or fourth—some giving France second place and some believing Germany was stronger at sea than ourselves." "I still think that in ships alone we were the equal of France or Germany and much the superior of Japan. Our officers are the ablest in the world; our crews are the most intelligent. No nation gives its officers the training that is given to the naval officers of the United States. And the men in our ships, coming from farms and villages, in agriculture, the finest morally and physically affort, may days, back in 1880, let us say, the sailor on shore leave who returned to his ship sober was keeled hauled or otherwise punished by his mates. All that has changed. Intricated sailors are see, no more on the streets. Our men are sober, serious and capable. When an estimate of any navy is made, the personnel, as well as the ships, must be considered. "So I had thought that only Great Britain excelled us as a naval power at the outbreak of the war in Europe. Since the war started, France and Germany have geen building ships. Our rank just now, therefore, is uncertain. But we have a good navy. Still, it should be much larger." "Has the war taught the world any naval lesson?" Friday, April 7, 1916 "A great many. It has shown the value of aeroplanes, which are now known as the eye of the fleet. They are very necessary as scouts. Leaving the deck of a vessel, they can easily locate the enemy and are therefore of the greatest possible use in the events that occur before a battle. "The submarines, too, has been learned, are of a real and practical service. All officers think they have become permanent addition to every navy, but the new disagreement as to their general utility. Can a swarm of submarines, for instance, go to sea, meet a fleet and destroy it? The question cannot be answered until such an attempt has been made and either failed or succeeded. "I asked one of the highest military authorities in the country if 1,000 submarines, along with mines, could safeguard the United States against invasion—the mines to blow up the enemies' ships off shore, if any happened to get that near, the submarines having met the rest and destroyed them before they came within striking distance of our coasts. The answer was that such a measure of protection, an invasion of the United States would, to say the least, be made very difficult. "You see, no one can tell as yet what part the submarines will take in the ware of the future. Their uses are slowly being developed, and we cannot know what they are capable of doing until the French or British fleet meets the fleet of Emperor William. "Also, it has been learned that battle cruisers are required to bring a navy up to its highest efficiency. Cruisers formerly were used as scouts and to hunt down and destroy the merchant ships of an enemy. They were swift, but not heavy enough to take a place in the battle line when large vessels were engaged. A 844 Battle First. "The modern cruiser, however, can fight, being covered with armor and armed with large guns. Steaming $80 knots and can run all around a deet of dreadnights and pump shells into them from a long distance and from any angle. Our navy must have battle cruisers, besides a great many submarines and aeroplanes, if we mean to be in a position where we can protect ourselves against injury, insult or dishonor. "It should be always remembered," Captain Weeks went on to say, "that our navy will be our first line of defense. American ships will meet foreign ships before there is a battle on shore. If the United States goes to war with any nation in Europe or Asia, the fleets of the two countries will fight for the supremacy of the sea. "No invading army will set out for America until it is safe from attack by our fleet. So long as our fleet is affloat, no army will venture to start for our shores. Moving troops from one country to another is an immense undertaking, even when it is safe to do so." "Four hundred large ships, for example, would be required to transport an army of 250,000 men from Japan to the United States. Armies traveling by water have to carry their armament and ammunition thorces. Japan would have 400 large ships out into the Pacific unless its fleet had fought and defeated our fleet. Nor would Germany or any other country in Europe attempt an invasion of the United States so long as our fleet, decks cleared, was waiting in the Atlantic. "Looking to the East, I can see no probable danger that is likely to occur in the near future, unless the allies are thoroughly beaten by Germany, or unless Germany is thoroughly beaten by the allies. If the war is practically a draw at the end, the efforts to maintain an equilibrium of power will keep entirely engaged for some time with their own affair." "Do you believe that a trade war against this country will follow the restoration of peace in Europe?" "Such a war will come—there is no doubt of it. Loaded with debt, burdened with taxation, Europe will turn with energy and ferocity to the works of peace. The factories in Europe, except in Belgium, Poland and Northern France, have not been shut down nor burned. Indeed, new ones have been built. Industrially, save in the places I have named, Europe is better situated now than when the war began. Facts to Be Faced. "Things have been speeded up in Great Britain, Germany and France. The factories, old ones and new ones, are running. They will be running after the armies at the front have been sent home, but instead of making cannon and ammunition, as at present, they will be operated night and day in the production of goods for the American markets. All Americans, no matter whether they call themselves Democrats or Republicans, all Americans wish wisdom enough to face the facts. Europe is going to take possession of the markets and the people. You spoke of an invasion by soldiers. There can also be an invasion with products. We all kinds of defenses—military commercial, financial and industrial. And right here at home I think some of us need defense against fallacious ideas. For example, we need to hear many suggestions that business be taken out of the ownership and yet we hear many suggestions that business be taken out of the ownership and made it wonderfully successful, so that it may be turned over to the national government. Right ought to be regulated, but we have regulated the railroads so vigorously that no more are being built, although the parts of the country. Furthermore, the time comes, when the railroads cannot borrow money for short periods on as advantageous terms. And yet: transportation, next to agriculture, is our most important industry. Would government ownership and operation improve the situation? No; the situation would be made worse. State ownership and operation has fallen. Wherever it has been tried, expenses are increased and delicits created. On the other hand, charges went up 10 per cent in three years. More than 1,500 new men were emigrants, conductors or brakemen, but chief porters and other little politicians, places for whom were found around the general office. Government ownership in the United States would add 1,250,000 to our oil or their salaries. Freight rates, I am more, would be higher than at present and the oil work would be less and not garnish. Friday, April 7, 1916 SOC SOCIETY AND LOCAL NOTES Miss Ivy Harris, 3514 Lawton is ill. Mr. W. H. Bunn, 4324 W. Belle and Mrs. Nannie Ramsey, same address, are on the sick list. Mr. L. E. Molten, 3827 Easton, president of the Seven-Church Union, is suffering from rheumatism. A. R. Chinn, of Glasgow, Mo., chief grand mentor of the Knights of Tabor, was a visitor in the city this week. Mrs. M. B. Toler and Mr. Paul Thompson, of Memphis, visited relatives in this city this week. Miss Nellie L. Scott, of 4250 Finney Ave., left Saturday, April 1, for Omaha, Neb., where she will go in business. Mrs. Vinnie Ewing, of 4336 Fairfax Ave., is home from the hospital where she has been a patient for five weeks. Dr. A. W. Craddock has returned from Marshall, Mo., where he attended the funeral of his father, Mr. Edwin Craddock. Mrs. Celia Kirkley, formerly of 2201 Eugenia St., has moved to 2659 Lucas Ave., where she would be pleased to see her many friends. Mr. R. Edward Staten, one of the delegates to the Republican State Convention, left Tuesday for Kansas City and Exeelsior Springs to attend the convention. Mr. Ross, who has been seriously ill for some time at his home in Clayton, is able to be up again. He wishes to thank his friends for their kindness during his illness. Mrs. Nannie Hughes, of New Franklin, Mo., is the guest of Miss M. Sebec, of 4132a Finney Ave. Mrs. Hughes is a lay delegate to the M. E. Conference. Mrs. O. Bass, formerly of 2122 Wash St., has moved to 2230 Wash St., second floor, where she would be pleased to have her many friends call. Dr. Bayne's College exercises were beautifully carried out for the benefit of the widows and orphan home. He is also the pastor of the Ferguson Baptist Church. The many friends in St. Louis, of Mrs. Lucy Arnold-Edwards sympathize with her in her recent bereavement in the death of her mother, Mrs. Katie Arnold. Among them are Bessie Page and Miss Viola Clay. Messrs. Wm. H. King, Honer G. Phillips, C. E. Smith, W. H. Holliman, W. H. Fields and Walthall Moore, delegates to the Republican State Convention, left Tuesday morning for Excelsior Springs. Miss Dayse F. Baker, our correspondent at Farmington, made a business call at our office Saturday. She reports that the Argus is growing more popular in her town each week. Miss Baker is a teacher in the public schools at Farmington and possesses fine business qualities. The regular monthly meeting of the Simmons School Patrons' Association will be held Tuesday, 7:45 p. m., April 11, at the school, 4200 St. Louis Ave. The Association will present to the school a portrait of Hon. J. M. Turner. An interesting program will be rendered. Mr. and Mrs. S. Dupree, of 4319 Labadie Ave., who have been away on a vacation have returned after a pleasant trip and while in Floridid they did not forget the Orphan Home and brought enough delicious fruit to give each child some. It was distributed last Sunday by their son, Owen Dupree, and his cousin, Dave Anderson. The members of the Carnation Embzoidery Club entertained their husbands with a party at the residence of Mrs. Dora Pillars, 113 E. Swing Ave. The house was beautifully decorated in the club colors, pink and white. The club members and guests present were twenty-seven. A delightful luncheon was served. Mrs. Jessie Washington, president, Mrs. Letha Lambert, secretary, Mrs. Eannie Pittmore, reporter. The E. L. C. Club held their second meeting at Mrs. Mabel Allison's, 4328 West Belle Pl., Monday, April 5, and spent a delightful evening, fourteen present. The hostess presented the members with crochet baskets with club colors attached. Next meeting at Miss Ocie Calhoun, 3108 Clark Ave., April 17. Mrs. Bessie Herndon, president, Miss Ocie B. Calhoun, vice-president, Miss Idell Hubbert, secretary, Mrs. Ida Bell Spivey, reporter. S. B. Ray, of Chicago, on his return from Gay, Okla., made a brief stop at the Argus office to see the editor, his old friend. Mr. Ray returns the sad news of the death of his father, Edward Ray, who died March 30. He has our deepest sympathy in the great loss he has sustained. Mrs. Mammio Tibbs, 4001 Finney, is quite ill. Mrs. Ivory, of 4344 West Belle Pl. was hostess to the Florizania Club. We had one visitor, Mrs. J. A. Astor, of Kansas City. Mrs. McNeary, of 4349 West Belle, president; Mrs. Bryant, secretary. Mr. L. J. Tuggle, 4328a Lucky street, is able to be at work again, after being ill for four weeks with the la gripe, and wishes to extend his many thanks to Pride of St Louis Lodge, No. 72, K of P, Troop A, 1st Cav., U. R. K. P., and the United Spanish War Veterans for the attention shown him during his illness. Mrs. Susie Baker, of 4155 Washington Ave., entertained at dinner Saturday Mr. Alonzo Phillips, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Taylor Garrett, of Pembroke, Ky., Pauline Rawls-Green and Mrs. Manning Carter. A pleasant evening was reported by all. Mrs. Zoe Hunter, of Kansas City, attended the funeral of her brother, Mr. Frank Hampton, of 2666 Finney Ave., who was shot Thursday night, March 30, and died a few hours later. He was also the brother of Mrs. Mary Bassett and Miss Ivern Hampton. Prof. Earl C. Roberts, who gave a recital here last Week is a graduate of the Quincy Conservatory of Music. Prof. Roberts displayed a masterly knowledge of the technique of music. He held his audience spellbound as he artistically executed such classics as "Rhapsodie Hongroise, from Franz Liszt." St. Louisans well appreciate this talented musician of our race. Rev. W. H. Huston, pastor McCabe Temple M. E. Church, Popular Bluff. Mo., was among the callers at the Argus office this week. Rev. Huston is a printer and newspaper man of the "Old School" and at one time was employed in this city by C. K. Robinson Printing Co. He was attending the Central Missouri Conference which was held at Union Memorial Church. The engagement of Miss Charlesetta Porter Wilkinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bunn to Mr. Thos. A. Jeff ferson, postal clerk, was announced Saturday, April 1, by place cards at a luncheon given by Mrs. Sanford Robinson, 4457 Garfield, to the Phendelma Club. The decorations were carried out in pink and green and spring blossoms. Ice cream was served in forms of wedding slippers, wedding bells and capid hearts. Each guest received a dainty favor. The date of the wedding will be announced soon. NEW BOOK To you who are yearning as never before for a unadulterated, true demonstration of life beyond the grave, read the new book just off the press, "Divine Inspiration," psychic research of the great beyond, by Prof. J. W. Williams, 352612 Cozens Ave, St. Louis, Mo. Price, $1.50 by mail postpaid. LADY AGENTS Several neat-appearing women to sell a well advertised line of Toilet Preparations. Address in own handwriting. Wilms Sales Agency Co., 408 Fullerton Bldg. BOARD AND ROOM WANTED.—By young lady employed. Phone, Lindell 4878-W. Y. W. C. A. NOTES The Skating Parties given in the W. W. C. A. gymnasium are growing more popular each week. Both young, men and women are invited. Chaperoes in attendance. Mrs. Winnetta Grady entertained the Booklover's Club in the Association Club Rooms Saturday afternoon. The Club Dining Room was furnished in memory of Mrs. Amelia Ware by her daughters, Mrs. M. J. Dickson, Mrs. I. M. Taylor, Miss Georgia Brown, and granddaughter, Mrs. Winnetta Grady. Miss Robertann Barbee, of Summer High School, made an unusually good talk to a small but appreciative group at the Vesper Hour Sunday afternoon. We are glad to announce the appearance of the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the Y. W. C. A. Gymnasium, April 19 at 8 p.m., under the auspices of Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church and Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A. Tickets on sale at popular prices. Are you interested in Folk of Euthetic Gymnastics! If so, join the Wednesday evening class at Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A., under the direction of Miss Jenette Macket. Large mass meeting at Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A. Sunday afternoon at 4:30 in the gymnasium. Eminent speakers from the M. E. Conference. Good Music. You can always depend upon NEBER BRAUN you have power to MAPLE AND PAPER CROSSING you should THE ST. LOUIS ARGUS REVIVAL AT SEMPLE AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH Revival services are being conducted at the Semple Ave. Baptist Church every evening. Rev. G. W. Clemmons, Pastor. PROVIDENCE BAPTIST NOTES The month of March was a period of sacrifice and effort with us. The church extends heartiest thanks to friends for help given. The prize contest for the Negro doll, conducted by Mrs. Eugenia B. Cole, was won by Gladys Ports, having raised the largest amount, $15.06. She received the first prize, a beautiful Negro doll, dressed in pink silk, and Irene Thomas received the second prize a small sized Negro doll. The money was raised to apply on pipe organ. The church extends the contestants a vote of thanks for the funds turned in to help in our financial struggle. LANE TABERNACLE NOTES Sunday was communion. A large number were present to participate in the Lord's Supper. Dr. Richard D. Stinson, principal of the Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute spoke at the eleven o'clock service. The Epworth League will present an interesting program Sunday evening at G o'clock. The League is growing in interest-week under the direction of Mr. T. H. Edlin and Miss Susie Johnson. We cordially invite you to worship with us. FIFTY YEARS IN MINISTRY In 1866 the Rev. B. Wick Stewart began to preach the gospel at Warrensburg, Mo., and entered the regular itinerant ministry of the African M. E. Church in 1869. A number of his many friends will celebrate the occasion at the Wayman Chapel A. M. E. Church, 23rd and Wash St., on April the 26th. See further announcements next week. Regular services at the Wayman-Social Settlement, 1401 Morgan St. each Sunday at 8 p.m., Sunday-school at 2 p.m. All social and Christian workers are invited to take an active part in the reform movement in this part of the city. B. W. Stewart, Supt. and Evangelist. MT. OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH NO. 2 Pastor Dixon and members are still in the field for the Lord. Sunday was the third Sunday of the 60-day revival to be held at that church. The members are proving to be loyal to their leader. Rev. E. R. Mason preached a帮fput sermon, speaking from the Book of Revelation. Text, "Who Will Be Able to Stand in That Great Day." Rev. Bibblin led prayer. Sister C. Maderson and Sister M. Blue are ardent workers in the cause. After service Rev. Mason was permitted to raise a small collection to aid in the burial of Phil. McDuffy, 1104 N. 12th. The public are invited to attend the meetings held every night at 8:30 p. m. at 1405 Morgan St. Rev. A. Dixon is pastor, Sylvester Noble, Reporter. SONG SERVICE AND SPECIAL LENTEN PREACHERS AT ALL SAINTS CHURCH Sunday night, April 9, at 8 o'clock there will be a special song service. The choir will render some fine and inspiring music under the direction of W. Elmer, Keeton, organist and choir master. Wednesday night, April 12, Rev. J. Courtney Jones, rector of Emmann Church, Old Orchard, will preach his second sermon. Friday night, April 14, Rev. B. T. Kemmerer, vicar of St. George's Chapel, will be the speaker. All are invited to attend their services, regardless of their church connections. LEONARD AVENUE BAPTIST On-last Sunday we enjoyed splendid services all day. The communion was one of the best and largest attended services in the history of the church The Sunday-school continues to keep up its progressive work, and we look forward to a new high record of 150 pupils. Pastor Dunavant has been suffering from a severe cold for several days which has kept him confined to his bed for a short time. A number of the members are on the sick list, which will be read at each service and we hope the members and friends will see to it that they make a short call and visit the sick. We enjoy live programs at the B. Y. P. U. every Sunday at 6:30 o'clock. We invite you to come and enjoy the evening with us. FIPTH BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES The first Sunday in each month being always our Communion and Sacrament, the forenoon services were in a Covenant meeting. In the evening we listened to a most excellent and intelligent sermon by Rev. Claybrooks, of Omaha, Neb., who afterwards assisted Dr. Caston with the Sacramental services. Sunday-school at 1:30 and B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 were fairly well attended. But we are looking and working for a longer attendance. We hope for blessings and "showers of bless- WAYMAN SOCIAL MARRIAGE LICENSES Johnnie Watts.....1535½ Luens Viola Turner.....1535½ Luens Wm. Wright.....220 S. Lefflingwell Eliza Young.....4275 Lucky James Settles.....2641 Morgan Sylvia Lander Whitfield.....2935 Luens Joe Foster.....3011 Lawton Helen Wallace.....2619 Wash Adam Minor.....2702 Walnut Mrs. Katie Crump.....1012 N. Pendleton James Redmon.....2423 Goode Alma Johnson.....2423 Goode Andrew Alexander.....Chesterfield, Mo. Mary Divers.....Creve Coeur, Mo. Thomas S. Mollison.....3133 Laclede Ellie Palmer.....2820 Market DEATHS OF THE WEEK Geo. Jeffries, 4038 Finney, 60. Charlotte Frys, 1321 Linden, 20. Jillian Holmes, 3224 Lasalle, 29. Lizzie Phillips, 1010 N. 14th St., 40. Frank Hampton, 3966 Finney, 41. Ella Martin, 3220 Washington, 39. Maggie White, 4446 Maffitt, 42. Wim Bowen, 2829 Lucas, 3. Emma Mason, 2912 Washington, 88. Wim Emery No 5 N. Garrison, 15. Philmore McDuffy, 1104 N. 12th, 34. Ada Ewing, 3456 Lawton, 65. Raymond Harris, Kansas City, Mo. Carrie Moore Nelson, 2743 Mills, 36. Aougus Doran, 321 S. Garrison, 50. Mary L. Adams, 1506 S. 2nd, 40. William Smith, 5334 Bulwer, 43. Martha James, 1027 N. 10th, 90. Chas. Pitts, City Hospital, 35. Don Pasehall, 2907 Laclede, 38. Vivian Pipes, 636 Athlone, 2 mo. John Morgan, 2218 Adams, 50. Lela Middleton, 3409 Papin, 45. Martha Valle, 2143 Adams, 18. Leroy Burton, 4057 Finney, 3 mo. Ardie Ebick, 903 N. Cardinal, 49. EDWARD RAY DIES Gay, Okla. Special to Argus.-Mr. Edward Ray, 54 years old, died at his home near here March 30. He was well known and a highly respected citizen of this community. He had been seriously ill only a short time but seemed to realize the end was near and telegraphed his son, S. B. Ray, of Chicago, to hasten to his bedside, who arrived in time to see the last of his father. Mr. Ray was repugged to be wealthy and left quite a number of cattle as well as a fine farm. S. B. Ray, his son, took out administration papers before he returned to Chicago. He leaves to mourn their loss a devoted wife, seven children, five brothers, four sisters and a host of friends. Calvin Davenport departed from this world April 3, 1916. He was the father of Mrs. Agnes Davenport, 11 N., Garrison Ave., (Williams). Remains at Russeli Undertaker, Sunday, April 9, 1916. Funeral Monday, April 16. In loving memory of our dear husband and father, Rev. George W. Bolden, who departed this life April 6, 1915. 'Twas a very sad Tuesday, Early in the spring When the clock struck four. Then the half hour one— Oh, father we knew then That the hour bad come. Just one year ago today Since our dear father passed away. O Lord keep green the grass that lies Beneath the vaulted skies. Keep sweet sleep and give him rest Whose hands are folded on his breast. Sleep on dear husband and father dear. We loved you but Jesus loved you more A little while we shall stand in the dark gateway For we too are hasting to that home beyond the skies. Sleep on, sleep on dear father, sleep on, sleep on and take your rest Sleep on, sleep on dear father, sleep on sleep on and take your rest God has called you home to heaven Our God knows what is best. Sadly missed by Margaret Bolden, wife, Mattie Dorsey, Jessie Bolden, Hurtes Bolden, Maude Bolden, Margaret P. Bolden and Georgia Eblen, daughters. GATES AND MANUEL Undertakers - 1107 Finney Ave Phone: Dell 922 - Lindell 5600. QUINN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES Quarterly meeting will be held at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church, South St. Louis, Sunday, April 9. Dr. W. H Peek will preach at 3 o'clock. T. L. Watson, pastor. ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH Our revival services are progressing wonderfully. The spirit of Christ prevails and the attendance is very good. Rev. Perry preached at 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. His morning text was, "Christ the Way of Life." The Sunday-school at 1:30 had a good attendance. The lesson was very interesting and was well discussed. The Beacon Class met in their praise meeting at the residence of Sister Martha Stenls, 4338 Cottage Ave., Sunday, at 2:30 p. m. An excellent program was tendered. Sister D. Pipes, of Lucky street, was received as a new DIED IN MEMORIAM Do You Believe in Safety First in Hair Culture If so Start Right and Insure Safety By Using "The Slaughter System" AND Lyda's Hair Beautifier Trade Mark, Reg. U. S. Patent Office Guaranteed to Grow Hair in Six treatments or money refunded. 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Prof. Fowler delivered a very interesting address Sunday at Chambers Street Baptist Church, which was much enjoyed. His class is doing a great work. Mrs. Nellie Woods Austin represented our Sunday-school at the festival at Union Memorial Church. Two hundred children wanted at our Sunday-school. Supt. Temple and teachers will make it pleasant for them. The bazaar was quite a success under the auspices of the Electric Light Club. Little Harvey Kent, who was accidently hurt at school, is recovering. SPECIAL EASTER SERVICE There will be special services at the above named church Easter Sunday night. An elaborate program will be rendered. "The Resurrection," will be delivered by Rector Weatherford, assisted by two other gentlemen. Reading by some of the best meditations in the city. A free-will offering will be taken for the benefit of the building fund. J. S. Weatherford, Rector; R. Duke, Assistant. 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This is one of the few places in the city where patrons can get the genuine Mexican chili. The place has become famous for its delicious spaghetti and toothsome fish sandwiches. Regular meals are served and lunches can be had at any hour day or night. Ice cream or any seasonable vaind will be found on the menu at all times. Don't let the sluggish spring days trouble you. Eat at Hussey's Alabama Kitchen. He should worry. BEAUTY CULTURE Mrs. E. Slaughter Gamble offers, in connection with her, regular hair and scalp treatment, special rates on facial massage with a 'guarantee to cure all blemishes, beautify and change the complexion in six treatments. Having just installed new electrical appliances for this special work, she is prepared to render expert service. Parlors open as usual. 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FOR RENT: Four rooms and bath, $15. 4291 N. Market. 3-244-HM FOR RENT: Neatly furnished rooms with hot and cold water. All modern conveniences, $1.00 week, and up. 3412 Fine St. FOR RENT: Free moving for colorel people; two houses, 2218a and 2224a Wash St. 3 and 4 rooms; low rent. Gibson · Furniture Co., 2219 Wash St. 444-7. FOR RENT: Family of two has nicely furnished room for couple or gentlemen. All conveniences. Lindell 1864W. 4221 West Belle. (4.7.4.8) FOR RENT: 13 room house, 2704 Lawton Ave. Call at 1925 Market St. Geo. W. Holt. (3.17) FOR RENT: Furnished or unfurnished rooms, with all modern conveniences. Board can be had without room, if desired. Phone Lindell 5714W. Mrs. S. Thomas, 3533 Lawton. (4.7.2) FOR RENT: Neatly furnished or unfurnished room, near Summer High school, for lady or gentleman. $1.25 a week. 4433 St. Ferdinand. (4.7.4.8) FOR RENT: One front furnished room to two gentlemen or man and wife. $10 per month. 4351 Finney. (3-3-4 B) FOR RENT: Neatly furnished room with electric lights, phone and all modern conveniences. Phone, Lindell, 3809R. 4042 Cook. (3-17-4-G) FOR RENT: Neatly furnished rooms for man and wife, or gentleman, with all conveniences. Bath, gas and telephone service. 4270 Garfield. Phone, Lindell 4393W. (3-17-4-C) FOR RENT: Two furnished rooms with all modern conveniences. Front room with alcove suitable for two gentlemen or couple. With or without board. 4218 W. Bell. FOR SALE.—Modern brick · residence; seven rooms and bath. Cheap Irwin Wheeler, 4009 Cook. FOR RENT.—Nearly furnished rooms for couple or single. Bath and other conveniences. 829 N. Leonard Ave. 724 H.M. NOTICE TO RENTERS The Parkway Apartments, 3500 Lawton Ave., are being newly decorated and put in good order. Single or two-room suites, furnished or unfurnished, gas for cooking, baths. Phone, Lindell 3098. 3-17-4T. FOR SALE: Two ladies suits. One blue serge, other wisteria velvet. Size 64. Cheap. 4728 Vernon. Phone, Forest 7413W. (3-24-4-R) FOR RENT: Nice furnished rooms, with all conveniences. Mrs. Bransford, 2014 Pine. FOR RENT: Furnished room in private family. Bath, furnace and electric lights, 4430a W. Belle. Phone, Forest 6746R. FOR RENT: Nicely furnished rooms. All modern conveniences, reasonable, to nice party, 4320 W. Belle. WANTED: Two men to "batch" with me. C. F. Tidwell, 4279 Finney Ave. FOR RENT: A large room with all conveniences, in private home. Free phone, 4065a West Belle. Lindell 5943-W (3-31-4) FOR RENT: Nicely furnished rooms with all modern conveniences. Phone, Forest 6706-W. 4422 West Belle Pl. FOR RENT: Nicely furnished room in private family. 3128 Fawton. (3-31-4) DO YOUR OWN SHOPPING "Onyx" Hosiery Gives the BEST VALUE for Your Money Every Kind from Cotton to Silk, For Men, Women and Children Any Color and Style From 25c to $5.00 per pair Look for the Trade Mark! Sold by All Good Dresses. WHOLESALE Lord & Taylor NEW YORK STARKES AND STARKES Carpenters. and Builders. General repairing of all kinds. Let us estimate your work. Office, 4243 Cottage Ave. EDWARD A. NEAL. Carpenter and Builder. General re- pairing. All work promptly attended o. Call and see me. 2335 Randolph Street. CHAS. S. PERKINS, Sign Painter and Interior Decorator First-Class Work. Prices Reasonable 3132 Fair Avenue. What do you want for your dollar? A lot of worthless stuff, or one hundred cents' worth of good reading matter? You can get your money's worth by subscribing for the Argus. A. BENJ. DAVIS Tuner, Repairer and Finisher of Pianos Reed and Pipe Organ Expert Work Guaranteed. Headquarters Y. M. C. A. Building 702 Lawn Ave. St. Louis. To Be Insured Is Read this advertisement and save your money: The Great Eastern Casualty Company of New York, gives you $12.50 per week for twenty-six weeks in a year for $8 per year, and $2,500 for death by accident. For $10 per year it gives you $25 per week for sickness and $5,000 for death by accident. For particulars see or write, J. D. Miller, solicitor, 4023 Finney Ave., or call Bonmont 1452. PARTIAL LIST OF CLAIMS PAID IN ST. LOUIS Hon. Benj. F. Clark, Judge of C. C. C. Div. 2. $ 32.14 Joseph F. Dickmann, Sheriff of St. Louis. 21.64 B. W. Maginn, Manager, Cent. Nat. Bank Bldg. 20.00 B. P. Taafe, Former Justice of Peace, 9th Dist. Aaron Lurch, real estate M. A. Bohrmann, plasterer Michael Dottloff, brewer Wm. C. Maxwell, railroad Andrew Schasserro, grocer Joseph H. Strotjost, live stock dealer Wm. D. Cave, merchant..... Mrs. Mary Reynolds. York T. Power, street inspect- stable ..... 35.71 Frank Mann, barber ..... 85.00 Paul Thuerer, saloon keeper ..... 100.00 Chas. H. Rodgers, printer ..... 12.86 Mrs. Ida Ford ..... 11.43 The following is a partial list of new members: Mr. James Worthing- ton, Mrs. Eton Holloway, Rev. Geo. W. Clemmons, Mrs. Minerva John- son: Mr. Henry Dorsey, Prof. W. A. Giles, Mr. Abram Gibbs, Miss Winnie E. Coleman and Mr. Geo. H. Bolds, Mr. Andrew Stitt. Mrs. and Mrs. Frederick Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. John L. High, Mrs. Car. FOR RENT—3-room, flat with all conveniences, at 4219 W. Belle; also 2-room at 4217 W. Belle. Call Lindell 5432. FOR RENT. Large lovely furnished front room for two respectable gentlemen. All modern conveniences. 4327 West Belle Pl. (3-31-4) OFFICES FOR RENT PYTHIAN HALL—3137 Pine St., first floor, front, $15. Second floor, front, $10.50. Steam heat, janitor service, use of both phones. Phone W. T. Ancell, Central 8519, Bomont 1885. 4-7-14-KP FOR RENT: Newly furnished rooms with electric lights, telephone, hot and cold water. $2.00 per week and up. 3416 Lawton. (4-7-2) furnished telephone, per week (4-7-4) DO YOUR OWN "Onyx" Gives the BEST V Beautiful Bust and Shoulders are possible if you will wear a scientifically constructed Bien Jolie Bassiere. 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For employment-call at the office of the Central Association Bureau of Information. 2728 Morgan. Phone, Bomont 3049. J. T. Dixon, Manager AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Writes for particulars. Kensington Mediaton Co., Atlanta, Ga. u travel between ouis and as City When you travel between St. Louis and Kansas City if you wish to enjoy a delightful daylight trip or have a most comfortable night's ride; be sure to insist upon having your ticket read ... via the ... Missouri Pacific Route of The Scenic Limited Picturesque daylight ride Interesting every mile of the way Lv. St. Louis ... 9.00 a.m. 2.00 p.m. Ar. Kansas City ... 5.30 p.m. 9.30 p.m. Convenient, comfortable night service Sleep soundly all the way Lv. St. Louis ... 7.10 p.m. 10.10 p.m. 2.20 a.m. Ar. Kansas City ... 2.55 a.m. 7.25 a.m. 9.30 a.m. For further information call or write CITY TICKET OFFICE 7th and Olive Streets J. M. GRIFFIN General Agent Passenger Department Main 1009 Central 6001 Safety First MISSOURI PACIFIC Courtesy Always THE ST. LOUIS ARGUS ```markdown ``` AT A GIRL'S DEALER NO. 1 STYLE 4523 You cannot afford to neglect your eyes. If they bother you, have them tested free. Glasses fitted from $1.00 up. Fifteen years' experience. DR. WILLIAM KNIGHT, 2335 Market St. LODGES FAR WEST CHAPTER No. 2, & A. M. meets first Wednesday each month. All Royal Arch Masons in good standing welcome. Chas. Bollinger, H. P. Geo. Broomfield, Sec. Carpation Chamber of the National Order of Mosaic Templars of America meets the first Monday night of each month beginning Feb. 7th, 1916, at Tabernacle Hall, corner of Beaumont and Morgan sts. All Mosaics in good standing welcome. Mary Magdalene Chamber of the National Order of Mosaic Templars of America, meets the first Wednesday in each month, at Tabernacle Hall, corner Beaumont and Morgan. All Mosaics in good standing welcome. Central 9659-R MRS. E. GUZE Lace Curtains Cleaned 2729 Clark Ave. St. Louis, Mo. Sarah Banks, W. G. M., 3418 Pine St. Mary James, W. S., 2735 Francis St. Erving Automobile Co. General Machine Shop and Blacksmith Work. Automobiles Stored. Bought, Repaired and Sold. Acetylene Welding, Carbon Cleaned by Oxygen. Cylinders Ground. Pistons Enharged to Fit Reground Cylinders. Platton Rings and Gears Made to Order. Automobiles and Trucks for Hire. Radiators Repaired. ODD FELLOWS' HALL Odd Fellows' Hall 2923 Morgan Street. Newly decorated lodge rooms and reception hall for rent. Special attention to private receptions. Rent very reasonable. See janitor or call the secretary's office. Phone, Delmar 4299L. 4720 Delmar Boulevard St. Louis Mo. Spiritual Medium CHAS. H. SMITH ELECTRICITION ```markdown ``` Licensed and, bonded, electrical contractor. We will wire your old or, new house and furnish you fixtures and give you six months to one year to pay for it. Fans rented, sold and repaired. 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A history of the crade to the drive. This is the best book on Dr Washington. The publishers, this Co. 9th Street, Washington, D.C. pay express and give the best life-size photograph to each subscriber. Anyone wishing an agency can get prospectus and photos for 15 cents. Friday, April 7, 1916 DON'T SUBMIT TO SEGREGATION To My Segregated Friends Who Desire To Enjoy The Liberty Guaranteed Us By Federal Constitution. 1 Those of you who have manhood and womanhood enough about you to do all in your power to prevent being "JIM CROWED;" those of you who are of a character that should not be segregated or "Jim Crowed," I cordially invite you to call at my office, I HAVE A SOLUTION THAT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY. Cut this ad. out and bring it with you. It is good for $5.00 on the first payment on the purchase of any house or lot that I have for sale and I have 'plenty of them awaiting you—for cash or easy payment plan in good locations. There is plenty of employment in East St. Louis and also remember there are thousands of people who live in East St. Louis and work in St. Louis and reach the down town district in less time and with less trouble than many of you who live out in the city of St. Louis. Each car crossing the bridge passes within half block of my office and my sixteen years experience in business enables me to be of great service to those desiring to buy in good locations where the property will double in value in a short time. Come and make your home in a city where you are wanted by both white Phone, Klin. St. Clair 341-R Manger ABERNATHY REALTY CO. 20-A N. Main St. E. St. Louis III. A. L. Beal UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER Miss Berdie Beal, licensed embalmer for ladies. Open day and night. Carriages furnished for all occasions. 2726 Lucas Ave. MARKET STREET. CLINIC DR. 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April 7. 1916 INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (BY M. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) AENEAS AND DORGAS. LESSON TEXT—Acts 9:22-43. (See also Prov. 11:10-31.) GOLDEN TEXT—In all things showing theself an ensample of good works.— Titus 2:7. Step by step the Gospel can be traced, spreading itself, but "begining at Jerusalem." Paul's conversion is one of the greatest evidences of Christianity. The two miracles of today's lesson are additional evidence that $t$ is of God: I. At Lydda (vs. 32-35). Caligula, emperor of Rome in A. D. 39, ordered his statue to be erected in Jerusalem that he might be worshiped as a god there as elsewhere. The excitement and conflict which arose in opposition to this sacrilege lasted for two years, during which time Christian persecutions ceased. Following Saul's visit at Jerusalem, and during this time of quiet, Peter made this tour of visitation. Lydda (modern Ludd) is about twenty-five miles northwest of Jerusalem. Here dwelt certain saints (v. 32) literally "holy ones," converted disciples of Christ, not ones of special honor, for all who are members of the body of Christ, are "saints" (Phil. 1:1). Here also dwelt Aeneas, "a certain man," possibly not a believer, but having great need (v. 26:3:2; 10:1, 14:8; 9:10), and of years standing (v. 33). Notice Luke, the physician's careful record. Peter must have seen many such, yet this man is one Peter "found"; he was evidently looking for him. Peter's pity was not sentimental but practical and his words powerful, for back of them was the Living and Powerful Christ. He knew who could work a cure. The long weariness is to be relieved. Yet days of illness gave time for meditation and probably prepared the man's heart to respond in faith to Peter's words. Peter does not attract attention to himself, but, rather to Jesus. His was but to be the instrument of the cure. The healing was a means to an end; for when those who dwelt in Lydda and Sharon (v. 35) heard of the miracle, or saw this healed man, it was to them a demonstration of the power of the risen Christ, and they "turned to the Lord" (v. 35). There is no comparing Peter with modern "healers." Peter's words and actions were a living demonstration, not for-profit, of the power of Jesus in his life and testimony. II. At Joppa (vs. 36:43). Joppa was the only seaport the Jews ever possessed for themselves. It was and is still a rather insignificant town, and now marks the beginning of the railroad leading to Jerusalem, 35 miles distant. No name is recorded of any of its rich or prominent citizens, only that of an humble woman. The record of her life, however, is inspiring (v. 36), and her name is a common one adopted by organizations of women. Like her master her life was full of "good deeds"; like him she was not ministered unto, but ministered. This is real greatness and it is open to all of us. Her name "Tabitha" (Hebrew), Dorcas (Greek), means gazelle, which in the East is a favorite type of beauty. This "certain discipline" was beautiful in life as well, for she was first a believer, then a doer. We believe in order to do, not do in order to believe. This woman is an example of the wise and capable woman mentioned in Prov. 31:10-31, a picture well worth studying in these days of the "feminist movement." She is a good type to be followed by church women, and by us all in the fact that her reputation rested upon deeds "which she did" (v. 36), not ones she was about to do, nor did she wait for some great opportunity of service. The life of Dorcas reveals one of the causes of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman empire. It was a source of wonder that those early Christians should love each other. The reason why Dorcas was allowed to die lies in the providence of God. He loved his work and this recorded incident has served to raise up multitudes of other Dorcases. Her death also reveals that being "full of good works and alms deeds" does not exempt her servants from sickness and death, and that God evidently has other purposes in sickness than to chastise our sin or to humble our pride (John 9:3, II Kings 13:14). The friends of Dorcas were folks of faith, for as yet there was no case of apostolic power to raise the dead so far as we know, and it was now about ten years after the resurrection of Christ. Peter followed the example of his Lord (Luke 8:2, 54), dismissed all spectators and "mrayed" (v. 40). The way to revive a dead pastor, church, school, personal experience, or person son "dead in trespasses and sin" is by prayer. Peter also did as he had his Master do to his mother-in-law (Mark 1:30, 31), and gave Dorcas his hand to help her arise. This gave an opportunity for fruitful work among the converts (v. 41) and the entailment of many new believers (v. 42), so that Peter abode in Joppa for some time in the house of "Simon, a tanner." His Own By REV. B. B. SUTCLIFFE Assistant Superintendent of Men, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago With peculiar emphasis this text describes all Christians as "his own." Believers are the peculiar property of the Lord Jesus Christ in at least three ways. They become his by gift from the Father. In speaking of them Christ describes them as those "whom thou hast given me." They are also his peculiar property by his own purchase, for he bought them with his precious blood on the cross of 1930 Calvary. They belong to him in the third place by their own surrender to him. These things are full of assurance and of blessing to the believer. The Father will never take back the gift he has made to the Son, the Son will never give up that which he has purchased at such awful cost, and that which is surrendered, he will never allow to be wrested from him. Christians are his own peculiar property to have and to hold and to love unto the end; or, as the Rëvised Version has it, "to the uttermost." As a child becomes the peculiar care of a home so the believer becomes the peculiar care of the Lord. All other cares take a secondary place. It is his care to guard his property. It sometimes seems as though the Lord dealt with his own in a hard way. This is because the Christian, like the child, does not understand the "why" of many things. Many of the seemingly hard things that come to the Christian may be but the guarding of the Lord's property from dangers unseen but to his eye. Again, it is the peculiar care of the Lord to guide his own people. He knows what lies along each pathway and when he seems to close a path which looks attractive to one of his own, that one can rest assured it is because he sees danger there or else he sees more blessing along some other road. The unknown and untried of the Lord's choosing are the ones where richest blessing lies, and happy the Christian who allows him to guide the footsteps. Once more it is his own peculiar care to provide for his own. Many are the ways he has for providing for them. Sometimes by natural, sometimes by unnatural ways, as in the case of Elliah at the brook. The ravens were called to bring meat to the prophet, and they were sent to feed Elliah just where the Lord told him to be. Had he been elsewhere he might have missed what the Lord had for him. So the Christian often misses much that the Lord has for him by being out of the Lord's place. See to it that you are in God's place for you and he will see to it, though he must work a miracle, that every need of yours will be supplied. His Own Peculiar Love. The peculiar love of the Lord for his own covers all their shortcomings and their peculiarities. The Lord graciously warned Simon Peter of his coming time of denial, but Peter boastingly said he would lay down his life before he would leave him even. When, therefore, Peter so miserably failed it might seem that the Lord's love would grow a bit cool. But in spite of the failure there was no leasing of love, there was no cooling of the affection. It was his love that was in the look that brought Peter to his repentance. Let no Christian who may have failed his Lord think that the love of Christ has cooled or been diminished. He loves with an everlasting love that many waters cannot quench. Return unto him and it will be found that having loved his own he loves them unto the end in spite of any failures. Again some are kept away from him because they seem to be so backward in learning of him. But he loves in spite of the backwardness of his disciples. Think of Philip after three years of companionship not being able to discern who he was, but had to be told, in answer to his inquiry for the Father, "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father." He knows so well the make-up of the believer that no slowness to understand can surprise him, much less make his love grow cold. He loves his own with a peculiar love that nothing can cool or turn aside from its object. His own peculiar property, which is his own peculiar care, is the object of his own peculiar love. Even the unbelief of his own is not sufficient to cool the warmth or lessen the depth of his love. Poor Thomas, the doubling one, was never loved any more truly or more deeply than in the midst of his refusal to believe in the resurrection until he had thrust his hand into the wound prints. There is nothing that can bring to an end the love of the Lord for his own, for having loved his own he loves them unto the end; or, as the Revised Version puts it, "He loves them to the uttermost." THE ST. LOUIS ARGUS Out of Town Continued from page 3 ...Miss Ruth Wiley, who has had charge of the public school near Belmont, returned home Thursday...Mrs. A. E. Gibson, of Kinloch, is here visiting her mother, Mrs. A. Jones, and sister, for an indefinite period...Saturday, Mrs. P. T. Johnson, of Poplar Bluff, passed through the city to be present at the burial of her sister, Mrs. Harriot Ross, who died Friday. Mrs. A. J. Renfro accompanied Mrs. Johnson to Commerce, where the interment took place. Mrs. Johnson returned to Poplar Bluff Monday...Sunday splendid services were enjoyed at the A. M. E. Church and unusual interest is being manifested in the Bible class. At Heyel Chapel Baptist Church communication services were enjoyed and in spite of the rain a nice crowd was in attendance. Preparations were begun at Heyel Chapel Sunday-school for the Easter festivities...Mr. Eldridge Burris, commonly called "Dago," died Monday. FARMINGTON NOTES Indeed and in truth the box social which was given by the ladies of the M. E. Church Thursday evening was one of the most enjoyable affairs ever witnessed in this place. Rev. Spurlock and wife with quite a number of their members joined in and helped to make it such. The church was beautifully decorated and more than eighty persons were served. Rev. Reynolds and family enjoyed it immensely. It was given to pay honour to them...Sunday afternoon Rev. Spurlock preached an able sermon and the rally of a fortnight closed with a total of $93.22.... Rev. Reynolds left for conference Monday feeling this conference year was a glorious one to all concerned....Mrs. Margaret Glover, of Fredericktown, was the guest of Mrs. E. Harris Saturday and Sunday. She accompanied Mrs. Scott Cole and Master Kossuth Baker to St. Louis Monday....Mr. Samuel Burke has recovered sufficiently to resume his usual vocation....Miss Alcacea Douthit, of Coffman, has come to our town for an indefinite period....The pupils of Douglass school and faculty, deeply regret the passing away of Master Laurence Matthias, whose remains were brought here from St. Louis the first of the week....Miss Mabel Meyers spent Sunday in/Crystal City, the guest of her mother, who while there on a visit was taken ill. She is convalescent....After a long visit with relatives in St. Louis, Mrs. Eliza Overton has returned. We are glad to know her eyesight has improved....Miss Edith Cayee has returned from Mineral Point, where she has just closed a successful term of school....Mr. Perey Swink met with a painful accident while splitting kindling. A piece of it struck him over the right eye, thus causing him to have medical attention....Mrs. Lucy Bridges is attending conference at St. Louis, this week....Mrs. Beulah Cayee has arrived from Charleston, where she has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Jordan. EDWARDSVILE NOTES Rev. McAllister, of the Missouri Conference, preached both mornings and evening at the A. M. E. Church, Sunday. Rev. Wm. Ghram, of Springfield, Rev. McAllister and Mrs. Effie Smith took dinner with Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Fisher, Monday...Rev. J. H. Fisher made a business trip to St Louis, Monday...Miss Mildred Robinson and Mrs. Lucy Ward, who have been ill are improving...The pastor's aid of the A. M. E. Church met at the home of Mrs. Bennett this week...Mr. and Mrs. Bloomie Robinson have moved to their old home place...Mr. and Mrs. Griffin have moved to this city and are now located on West street...Mr. George Spiller has been on the sick list...Edward Rollins, of Chicago, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. James Robinson...The Passer's Aid of M. Joy Church will meet this week with Mrs. Della Lewis...The Men and Boys' Club met Tuesday evening at the A.M. E. Scott is confined to his home with la gripe. An infant church, with its several officers was organized at the A. M. E. Church Saturday...There will be a sermon preached to the children Saturday afternoon...Mr. E. E. William made a business trip to East St. Louis and St. Louis Tuesday...Rev. J. Phillips and Mr. Dewey Lewis made several calls on white men who have proven friends to the Negroes of Edwardsville...Mrs. Carrie Turner, of Decatur, not knowing that the Negroes were to be "jim crowed" on the Illinois Traction line, boarded a limited car and was asked to go into another car since she was the only Negro..."Booker T. Washington, from the Cradle to the Grave," the picture exhibition of the age, presented by a Tukegee student, will be shown at the temporary court house Saturday evening, April 8. There was a banquet given at the First M. E' Church Friday, March 31. There was music furnished by the orphan children. A nice crowd were present and the evening was pleasantly spent....Mr. Abe Minor, who has been suffering from a nervous breakdown is convalescent....The Home Missionary Circle gave an April fool By E. E. Williams party at the M. E. Church....Mr. E. J. Edwards attended the funeral of his newhaw's mother-in-law in Kirkwood....Rev. R. G. Williams preached his farewell sermon Sunday night. Oxford agents are rapidly advancing and seem to have no trouble in battling down the forts, and a number of towns have been entirely captured. The Oxford agents have the most modern equipment to use in their work, which of course accounts for their rapid progress. During the month of March, we were able to add greatly to our agents and customers' list throughout the United States; we have two agents in British Columbia and five in Canada. Local agents who graduated recently are as follows: Mrs. Bertha Marion, sister to our successful New York agent Mme. Rena Fields Voting, passed her examination, making highest average in her class and was awarded her diploma by Mr. W. L. Majors. Mrs. Marion's intention was to go into business with her sister in New York, but during her stay in St. Louis, she has gained so many customers that she has decided to remain here for a while and will be pleased to have all customers call at her residence, 325 Montrose Ave., or will go out by appointment. Mrs. Irene Lewis, 1315 E. Broadway, East St. Louis; Ill., who made next highest average and is one of our best agents, deserves much credit. In the near future she will open a beauty parlor in East St. Louis, installing two of Mr. Major's latest inventions, ray electric treatments and the electric scalp purifier, with hot and cold air hair dryer. Mrs. Ethel Cooper who follows, and is a very conscientious worker for the Oxford College, will be pleased to have customers call at her residence, 2613 Bernard street. Mrs. Annie B. Spann, came from Tuscaloosa, Ala., to complete her course, making a high average and is one of our most accomplished agents, being located 2665 Scott Ave. Miss Lillian Bothee, who came from Mississippi, and took her final examination making an average of 95 per cent has left to establish her business in Minneapolis, Minn. We have enrolled on our list for the spring class, Mrs. Amelia Jones, 5221 St. Louis Ave., and Miss Ella Lindsay, 3012 Pine Street, both are doing well in their studies. Other names will appear later. PALMER WAXKIN WATERCER 100% SAFE FOR USE ON ALL WAXES 25c Refreshed PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER Clean and Bleach the Compliment Make Dark, Brown or Sallow Skin White Good for Pimples and Rough Skin Get the Original and Comfort Made Only by JACOBS' PHARMACY ATLANTA, GA. AGENTS WANTED. Write For Yours. If you would like to have more lustrous, flowing, beautiful, long, straight hair; use one jar of Zynol Hair Grower, and Straightener. Price 50 cents, sent prepaid everywhere. 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He dors many daring things, one being the placing of his fae in’ a ton ’s mouth, The tri of lions do several stunts and Keop the audionce in a fit of excite fhent and. expectancy. Minstrel Mortis, the comedy juggler, is pleasing with his same old stunts Sand same old jokes, Mattie Garland, the delightfully pep pery, sweet singer ix improving. She maintains her xtrone voiee, but sings with more ease. Hers work is eneour Agingly appreciated hy, the big: audi ences. Harrington and Mills close th® show with a goad singing and dancing act. _Especially noteworthy is the artistic + The Home of Good Liquor + é THE. OLD KENTUCKY Wine and Liquor Co. | Everything Good in Wines aud Liquors at LESS THAN USUAL PRICES. . FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED. South East'Cor. SARAH & FINNEY AVES. dancing of Miss Mills. Mnrrington’s eccentric work is good, but his stig gestive talk should he eliminated. Th set makes-a big hit, NEXT WEEK AT THE BOOKER’ WASHINGTON THEATER Beginning Monday, April 10 SMITH AND MILLS ‘ Furious Pun and Frolic , . NINA MARSHALL -. Late of the Smart Set Company FOSTER & FOX Impersonators, Surprise Novelty: Enter tainers BURTON & VAUGHN Wyman (Buzzing) Burton “and” his “fair brown" in’a- barrel of fan NEW SERIAL FOR COMET | “CThe Mysteries of Myra,’? a new serial based onthe, seienee of pay: ‘chology, a new isea in moving pictures Will be seen in its first chapter Thurs- fay, April 271 at the Comet Theater. ‘It deals with the aetjal experiences of the spiritualistie sqdnees, hypnotism and kindred ine fe is declared tebe a wonder, 7+ NEXT TUESDAY - Next Thesday: the. Comet will show Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude in ‘4lyss"" a four part story of life in South Afrien, by Rider Haggard, Wanted Young- - Lady For responsible position, one accustomed to handling money and not afraid of.work. Must be pleasant and agreeable, no ob- jection to young married woman. Send name, address, photos and reference; if any, to C, Box No. 5. Argus, office, 2341 Market St. Picts will be returned to un- available-applicants. "REMOVAL NOTICE” Hehe Bim psen teas removed his residence from 2000 Vine Grave, to 422 Cottage Ave. “Phone, Forest io5an. Phone Bomont 1518 WNEFED HAT SHOP Hats Made“to Order, Old Hats Cleaned, Blocked. Dyed and Retrimmed,.Callgl For and Delivered Quick Service DRAKE & BALL, Mgrs. 2m6 MARKETST, = ‘ST. LOUIS, MO. THE ST.LOUIS. ARGUS THE NEW THEAFER FIRE PROOF BUILDING 21st And Market Hen Class — COWBOY, INDIAN, DOMESTIC MOVING PICTURES CHANGED DAILY “GRAFT.” EVERY THURSDAY. " The Girl and The Game and. “The Iron Claw” | Every Monday _ The. Red Circle : EVERY SATURDAY - NEW BILL AT THE COMET Mondays—'‘ The Girl sind he Game,” ‘Thursdays—‘Graft.’” ? Saturdays—'‘The Red Circlo.'? re ee . THE RETINA . HIGH CLASS MOVING -PIC- i TURESHOW, — 20th and Market Streets LADIES & CHILDREN ESPECIALLY INVITED JOHN H. GENTNER, Prop. 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If affatra'of the heart or emotions of love interest you, he gives the exact and truthful revelations of all lve affairs. settles lovers’ quarrels, enaties you to win the esteem and affection of anyone you desire, causes speedy ant happy marriages; tells if the one you love ts true; also date of marriage; restores loat ‘affection, peace and confidence t+ lovers and discordant families; gives you the full secret how to control, fasci- nate and charm the one yuu love; also those you meet. and how to make a per- son at a distance think of you. Lady Attendant. Weak Mediums Developed. NOTE.—Those calling for pastime, curt ous and frivolous persons are only wast Ing time calling on Prof. Gladstone. Strangely fascinating are the words that come from the cultivated lips of this most Interesting man whose journey of life has aiready taken him through all the re- nowned paychic schools of Egypt, india and Europe. It seems, indeed, as If his knowledge must come from that mysten- ous world of which we all would know, yet longing, cannot know, He looks far away Into the dim mysterious future— the great beyond—acroas the dark chasm which separates the human body trom the flitting: soul—and that which Is to be is told. The separated are brought to- ee Watch For | ‘The Redemption, UNION MEMORIAL CHURCH _/ Wrlday, April 7, 1916 INE, The Old Reliable 'OYANT Reading Fee Low 50c AND UP. eee ws Si toa ee Tan i i M Sn ee ia ~ Cae ether, foes are made friends, lost prop- erty 1a recovered, the mist “is brushed away frem business ventures, the band fa 06 guided that failures are averted, the earth's ‘aurtace Is explored, ite treasure laid bare to his mysterious perceptive mind, and while he gives names, dates tacte and figures, his visitor site dum- founded at the revelations he makes te him. He ts surely a man of the passing ime. j : GLADSTON@ ts not a clairvoyant from choice, but because fate bas 80 decreed It. His ancestors were powerful mediume and have for ages handed down their Wonderful power of gift from generation to generation. 80. he has received the rich inheritance together with the com- dined. knowledge and priceless experience of generations. No matter what. your ‘present trouble may be or what your Past experience has been, you will eave {me and avold disappointment by at ‘Once consulting Gladstone. . - NOTE.—Qladstone answers no letters. 1f you cannot call In person, do not writs, as his time te fully occupied: with hie Personal callers. : TAKE WELLSTON HODIAMONT On BS HAMILTON CARS Sunday, 10.8. m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays —_—<—<—_—$ $$ |. NOTICE TO CHAUFPEURS Chauffeurs and automobile ownera may obtain. application cards for license from Attorney Geo. L. Vaughn, Notary Public, 2336 Market St. ‘Phones, Bomont ‘1644, Central 8371.