The Appeal

YOU MUST BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS TO HELP WIN THE WAR VOL. 34. NO 25 NELSON INDORSES GOV. BURNQUIST IN NOTE TO NORTHROP Minnesota's Senior Senator Says Defeat of Executive Would Be Step Back in Path of Loyalty. President Emeritus of 'U' Joins in Urging Renomination of Burnquist. Senator Knute Nelson believes that Governor J. A. A. Burkunqist should be renominated and re-elected. He believes that any other course would be a backward step in the path of patriotism and loyalty. Minnesota's senior senator says that Governor Burkunqist has proved himself a "veritable Rock of Gibraltar, in maintaining law and order and sustaining the spirit of loyalty and patriotism." Senator Nelson's views are continued in a letter written by him to Dr. Northrop, president emeritus of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Northrop has added his indorsement of Governor Burkunqist to that given by Senator Nelson. Dr. Northrop's statement follows: "Some weeks ago I addressed a letter to Senator Knute Nelson urging him to become a candidate for reelection, because just now his services to the Nation were more greatly needed than at any other time during his career. "In reply, I received a letter which is so characteristic of his unselfishness and patriotism that it seems that the people of the State should have it to guide their decision at the coming primary election on June 17th. I cordially approve the sentiments as to Governor Burkunqist, as expressed in the letter of Senator Nelson, and commend them to the good judgment of the loyal people of this State. "Senator Nelson is recognized by all public men throughout the country as one of the most influential and useful of the Senators, and the people can testify their appreciation of his Loyalty and Statesmanship by giving him an overwhelming majority at the primary." This is Senator Nelson's letter to Dr. Northrop: Washington. D. C. May 31, 1918. Dr. Cyrus Northrop. Minneapolis, Minn. Dear Friend: I heartily thank you for your favor of recent date. I regret that the strenuous work entailed upon me here, will prevent my active participation in the Primary Campaign in Minnesota. I am a member of two important Committees that have much to do in connection with legislation pertaining to the prosecution of the war. My correspondence is extensive, averaging a hundred letters a day; much of it involving calls and errands in the various Bureaus, Divisions and Departments of the Government, now scattered all over the City, and I cannot, in the present emergency, neglect any of this work. My battle line and trench duty is here. But the exigency of this great war makes me especially interested in the nomination and re-election of Governor Burnquist. He has proved himself a veritable Rock of Gibraltar in maintaining law and order, in sustaining the spirit of loyalty and patriotism among our people, and in faithfully supporting our Federal Government in the prosecution of the war. Our great and noble State has been most fortunate in having a Governor in this emergency. It is comparatively easy to be Governor in times of peace, but not so in the midst of a great war. He has arisen and measured up to the demands of situation, and in doing so we have disappointed the slackers and those who are, in one form or another, in spirit or in deed, seeking to hambring the Government, and these elements are likely to oppose him. It would be a misfortune to our people and our State to defeat Governor Burnquist under these circumstances. It would be taking a backward step in the path of patriotism and loyalty. There was a time when some of the people of the Eastern States questioned whether Minnesota, with its heterogeneous, ethnic make-up, would measure up with her sister states in patriotism and loyalty; but that time is past. Under the leadership of Governor Burnquist, we have proved to our sister states that Minnesota has her heart in the war as zealously and as earnestly as the best of them. Let us not blemish this record by any backward step, in reaching out for an Yours very truly, KNUTE NELSON. NOT SO EASY TO BE BAD One Who Tries It May Come to Attach New Meaning to Biblical Injunction. It is a popular fallacy that it is much easier to be bad than good. So firmly rooted is this error that it is universally accepted. H. Varley writes in Inquiry: "Yet it is very easy to demonstrate the absurdity of it. Imagine yourself, for a moment, having decided to be as bad as possible. Throw off all thought of convention of law, of caring for the opinions of others and of heeding the still, small voice within you. Here you are then, ready to be bad. Not just ordinarily, pretty bad—but bad to the nth degree. What shall you do? Murder? That's silly, for there is none you hate enough and if there was the fear of eventually sitting in a chair not uphelder for comfort but not speedy demise would deter you from murder. Rob a bank? However delightful the prospect, you can't tear open iron bars with your bare hands nor dig through granite with your fingernails. Elope with your neighbor's wife? That is the most ridiculous of all, for you know your neighbor and that removes any wish to endure, even for a moment, what he suffers indefinitely. So you stand, and mentally go through the whole category of badness without finding a single thing you can do without much more trouble than you can perform some good deed. The worst thing you do yourself doing (that is sensible) is such a common peccadillo that you must despise it for its very littleness. So you see the difficulty of being just a little bad—the utter impossibility of being really bad. Then the Biblical injunction comes to you with an entirely new meaning: "The way of the transgressor is hard." MONKEYS ACTUALLY AT WORK Ingenlous English Officer Devised Scheme by Which They Earn Their Daily Bread. Monkeys actually are made to work in Malabar, India, which is perhaps the only place in the world where they earn their salt. The Malabar monkey is of the fine species known as the langur. It is very warm at Malabar, and there is a fan called the punka, which used to be kept in motion by a slave. It required a slave to work each punka, but now every punka in Malabar is worked by a monkey. It was an English officer who conceived the idea of making the langur work in that manner. The fan is a movable frame covered with canvas and suspended from the ceiling. The motion is caused by pulling a cord. The officer tied the hands of a languor to one of the cords, and then by means of another cord put the machine in motion. Of course, the monkey's hand went up and down, and the animal wondered what of a game was being played. Then the officer held its head and fed it with candy till the monkey thought it fine to work the arena. The experiment was successful, and now thousands of monkeys are in harness. Who Built It? Summing up his interpretation of the Amlens cathedral, the "Bible of Amilens," Ruskin asks: "Who built it, shall we ask? God and man is the first true answer. The stars in their courses built it, and the nations. Greek Athens labors here, and the Roman Father Jove and the Martians, the Gaul labors here and the Praetorians, the Roman labors Ostrogoth and washed an anchorite of Idumen. The actual man who built it scarcely cared to tell you he did so; nor do the historians brag of him. Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainteurs you may find in what they call their history; but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches. I say he "scarcely cared"; we are not sure that he cared at all. He signed his name nowhere, that I can hear of him. He was a remarkable intuitic cut by English remarkable visitors desirous of immortality, here and there about the edifice, but Robert the builder, or at least the master of that building, built on his no stone of it." Give "Overt" a Chance. Many a fine adjective has been spotted by being hooked up, in some facile phrase, to a commonplace noun. For example, overt. Never in my life, writes H. L. Mencken in the New York Sun, have I encountered overt save in front of act. Thus joined and polished, it is mouthed abominally by lawyers and newspaper editorial writers; the literate fauna of a superior type avoid it almost altogether. And yet it is a fine adjective, a juicy adjective, an adjective worth knowing better. Why no overt honesty, overt destiny, overt eye. Earlier in this life I made overt at a girl overtly red-haired, and remember her oleaginous kiss every time the barber's brush slides across my face. Let us appoint a committee to get overt out of jail. A Useful Husband "Why in the world does his wife call him Flicket Fence?" "Well, she says he's easy to see through." "And, then, he's very useful around the house." Another Matter. "How do you propose to support my daughter, young man?" "But I'm only proposing to marry her, sir." Minnesota Historical Society THE APPEAL. TO CUT WHEAT USE ONE-HALF Military Necessity Demands That Each American Eat Only 1½ Pounds Wheat Products Weekly. CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES. Allies Must Have Wheat Enough to Maintain Their War Bread Till Next Harvest. If we are to furnish the allies with the necessary proportion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month as against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels, or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situation as at Washington. 5. Food Administration at Washington margin for distribution to the army and for special cases, leaves for general consumption approximately 1½ pounds of wheat products weekly per person, the Food Administration's statement continues: Many of our consumers are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable and therefore requires a larger proportion of wheat products than cereal breads baked in the household. Our military require a full allowance. The government can make greater sacrifices in sumption of wheat products than can the poor. In addition, our population in the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abundant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations. With improved transportation conditions we now have available a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the long months a surplus of milk, and we now have corn and oats for human consumption. We also have barley and barley as substitutes has already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains. To effect the needed saving of wheat we are wholly dependent upon the voluntary assistance of the American people and we ask that the following rules shall be observed: 1. Householders to use not to exceed a total of 1½ pounds per week of wheat products per person. This means not more than 1½ pounds of Victory bread containing the required percentage of substitutes and one-half pound of cooking flour, macaroni, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, bread, public eating places and clubs to observe two wheaten days per week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In addition thereto, not to serve to any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served unless specially ordered. Public eating establishments not to buy more than six pounds of wheat products for each ninety meals served, thus conforming with the limitations requested of the householders. 2. Retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any one customer, not more than one-quarter of a barrel to any country customer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal weight of other cereals. 4. We ask the bakers and grocers to reduce the volume of Victory bread sold, by delivery of the three-quarter pound loaf where one pound was sold before, and corresponding proportions in other weights. We also ask bakers not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond 70 percent, of the average monthly amount issued in the four months prior to March. 5. Manufacturers using wheat products for non-food purposes should cease such use entirely. 6. There is no limit upon the use of other cereals, flours, and meals, corn, barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et cetera. Many thousand families throughout the land are now using no wheat products whatever, except a very small amount for cooking purposes, and are doing so in perfect health and satisfaction. There is no reason why all of the American people who are able to cook in their own households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and one-half ounces of flour, and we should ask the well-to-do households in the country to follow this additional programme in order that we may provide the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less able to adapt themselves to so large a proportion of substitutes. In order that we shall be able to make the wheat exports that are absolutely demanded of us to maintain the civil population and soldiers of the allies and our own army, we propose to supplement the voluntary co-operation of the public by a further limitation of distribution, and we shall place at once restrictions on distribution to be adjusted from time to time to ensure as nearly equitable distribution as possible. With the arrival of harvest we should be able to relax such restrictions. Until then we ask for the necessary patience, sacrifice and co-operation of the distributing trades. Defective Page FOOD CONTROL MEANS VICTORY European Shortage Places Problem Before American Government—Farsighted Policy Adopted. NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT. Food Administration Asks Aid of Every American in Gigantic Task of Feeding Millions. It is the food problem over there that makes a food problem over here. if we wished to be supremely selfish—and supremely shortsighted—we could go on eating as much as we like and whatever we like, without much difficulty or interruption—at least, until the Germans came! But we are not doing things in that selfish suicidal way. We are trying to make a great common pool of all of our food, and all of the food we can get from South America and other neutrals, and dividing it up fairly among America, England, France, Belgium and Italy. This does not mean that all of the people in the great pool are going to have the same ration, but means that we are trying to arrange to have enough for everybody, so that the soldiers—our soldiers and their soldiers—will be well fed, as they have to be to fight hard and continuously, and that the munitions workers and the workers in all the other necessary industries, and the men and women at that will all have absolutely necessary to do this if the war is to be two and we are going to do it, but it means planning, working, arranging, co-operating, being careful, not wasting, saving. And it means that each and every one of us has got to help. Now, we have enough and more than enough food for ourselves, and the Government is going to see to it that we keep here at home a sufficient supply of every essential kind of food to support our people. But over there they simply have not enough. Lord Rhonda, the English food controller, told us that American food administrator, that American food administrator, that the allies before the next uproar harvest 75,000,000 bushels of wheat in addition to what had been sent up to January 1 of this year he could not assure the people of the allies that they would have a sufficient supply of food to carry on the war. He did not say anything in this cable about the other food necessary, but he has told of these needs in other cables—and by his actions in England. For example, his latest regulation of the meat eating in the United Kingdom of meat eating one pound per week per person, this pound including the bone and other waste parts in the meat as bought in the shop. The allies must have more wheat, more meat, more fats, more dairy products, more sugar. Their harvests were very short—France had less than half her normal crop of wheat—and the available shipping is small in amount and constantly being lessened by submarines, so that it is now practically impossible to use any ships for the long voyage necessary to bring food from Australia and other remote markets. The food must come chiefly from America. In specific figures it is necessary that all the allies 1,100,000 tons of foodstuffs. This is a great responsibility and a great problem. The food must be found, and also the ships to carry it. It is being done, but can only continue to be done by the help and full cooperation of all of us over our broad land. We must produce and save more. To supply the wheat necessary until the next harvest, we must reduce our consumption by from one-fourth to one-third; we must cut down our usual average consumption of meats and fats by from 10 to 15 per cent, and dairy products by about 10 per cent. Over there they are tightening their belts and doing everything they can. They are eating war bread; they are cutting down their sugar in England to two pounds per person per month, in France and Italy to one pound—how much are you eating—and they are rationing crops for most of the staples. We must sacrifice. If we don't, we are helping to lose the war instead of helping to win it. A boy and a man DEATH RATE IN BELGIUM IS HIGH Under German Occupation, III Treatment and Poor Food Kill Thousands. WORSE THAN AN EPIDEMIC Mortality in Civil Life Greater Than on Battlefield—Situation Can Only Be Worse, Says Legation—One Execution Daily. Washington.—The existing death rate in Belgium is as high as at the time of the most terrible epidemics and greater than that on the battle field, due to the extremities to which German occupation has reduced the country. In addition, at least one Belgian daily is executed by the German authorities, according to a statement made public by the Belgian legation. The statement came from Havre and read as follows: "Not taking into account the losses on the field of battle Belgium has suffered heavily in its civilian population through the invasion and occupation of its territory by the Germans. "1. Civilians killed during the invasion, August-September, 1914—Although we are not yet in possession of a complete list of the civilians killed by the Germans during those fatal days, we know the number of victims to be well over 5,000. For the following provinces we have approximate estimates: Namur, more than 1,800; Luxembourg about 1,200; Liege, more than 1,000; Brabant, 897; Halnau, 1,000. Most of these victims fell in the town of Trier, under protection of the existence of sharpshooters, German fury knew no limits. Dinant counted 606 victims; Andenne, more than 200; Tamines, more than 400; Louvain, 210; Aerschot, about 150; Namur, about 75. Departees' Death Rate High "2. Among the deportees the mortality resulting from privations, ill treatment, underfeeding, etc., exceeds largely the normal percentage of deaths. Some, too, have met death on the battle fields, where the Germans forced them to do auxiliary work. If we possess ample information about individual places and undenable testimony on the broken health of the returned deportees in general, we are, however, unable to quote figures. "3. The electrified wire which makes the Belgians prisoners in their own country accounts for a great number of victims, especially among young people, who try to escape in order to join the army, or among colleagues, who try to smuggle news in or out of Belgium. In less than a year between August, 1916, and July, 1917, 160 persons were electricated. Since then the average number of victims has increased, owing to the strengthening of the guards and the putting up of new wires. "4. The death penalty, pronounced by the German military courts for crimes of patriotism, levies a heavy toll on the population. It is estimated that each day one Belgian at least suffers the supreme penalty. "The unsatisfactory food situation, due to the requisition of the homegrown foodstuffs and the sinking of many relief ships, the use of unsuitable institutes, the lack of fuel, as a result of the war, for her own consumption, and for exportation, of the Belgian coal fields, has dangerously increased the death rate. "Deaths from hunger and cold are not unusual, but it is mostly indirectly that the underfeeding of the population causes numerous premature deaths, for, through lack of physical strength, many people are subject to rickets or preterubulosis, and so become unable to resist slight illness which, under normal conditions, would not prove fatal. As to the bad effect of unsuitable substitutes, it will suffice to recall the diseases contracted by the deportees through the use of raw rutabagas and the paralysis of the brain and of the marrow or the special kind of jaundice provoked by the use of lupin seeds as a substitute for coffee berries. White Plague Prevalent. "The death rate all over Belgium, but especially in the large towns, is as high as at the time of the most terrible epidemics. A Brussels paper, appearing with the consent of the German censorship, admits that 'there are more civilian dead from lack of sufficient food than Belgian soldiers fallen on the battlefield.' On the other hand, a report on the 'Work of the Almshams' in Belgium shows that in 1917 the war were optimal for soldiers fallen in the war than of civilians killed during the same period and of deportees dead in consequence of their deportation. "Cardiac affections and cerebral hemorrhages account for the greater part of the deaths, tuberculosis, especially under the form of tubercular meningitis, for almost as many. Typhoid fever, caused by the occupying army, has occasionally levied a heavy toll on the civilian population. "The situation in 1918 can only grow worse; it is undeniable that the physical standard of the nation is lowering dangerously and that the effects of the disease on the health of the people will make themselves felt for a long time after the war." YOU MUST BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS TO HELP WIN THE WAR MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY GAVE PENNY UNDUE CREDIT Story Will Please Those Who Have Small Belief That Pocket Pieces Bring Luck. "Superstition is a relic of the dark ages," observed one of the supposedly wise men, "and it has no place on the battle ground of modern thought. "I don't believe in planting potatoes on Good Friday, nor in seeing the moon over my left shoulder. I think that a fisherman is foolish if he spits on his bait, and I don't believe in walking around a stump three times to change my luck. Neither am I afraid of black cats that cross my path. In my opinion all such things are nonsense. They are in the same class with that old idea about hanging a horseshoe over the door. That's an old, played-out scheme, and it never was worth a whoop. "There is only one thing in the list of lucky or unlucky ammes that works out in every detail, and that's the idea of finding a penny and keeping it for good luck." COMMISSION SEES FARM RESOURCES AS PEACE AGENCY March Says America, With Forces Unified, Can Drive Prussianism From the Earth. SURPLUS IN MINNESOTA Gopher State One of Few In Union With Oversupply of Food—Governor Early Urged Co-operation and Aid for Farmers. "About three months ago I picked up an old green penny that was lying in the gutter. I chucked it in the match pocket of my coat, and I have kept it there ever since. "Before I took to carrying the penny I couldn't turn my hand over without losing money, and ever since then I've made money at every turn of the road. That's why I know it is lucky." "Let me look at your lucky penny?" remarked a bystander. "They'd just like to touch the thing." The penny-wise man ran two fingers in his match pocket, and as he did so he exclaimed: "By cracky! I'll bet I've lost the blamed thing. In fact, I know I have, I sent this coat to the dry cleaner the day after I found the penny, and I forgot to remove it from the pocket." Moral: Prosperity seems to be, in some measure, psychological. The Good That Comes of It The Good That Comes of it. Do you think that the war is making people less selfish in the world and in the United States? Surely it must, when in so many places people are sacrificing their dear ones and their money for a cause. Even if it seems to some more a question of honor and family or national tradition than justice or freedom. I often think of the rank and file of the German army, and even the junior officers. They are suffering untold hardships and showing magnificent bravery in the face of heavy odds, as much as, perhaps more than the soldiers of the allies. Although one must be here to realize that man must rise to a height of courage and endure in this war that people living in modern civilization never dreamed of. Surely come gain must come from this tremendous effort and conquest of self, and Germany must not be entirely laid, when her sons, even if forced, have paid such a price—Edwin A. Abbey, II, in the Atlantic. Cosmopolitan Odessa. Odessa, recently entered by German troops, furnishes the most remarkable instance in Europe of a rapid growth, like that of the mushroom cities of the New World. Founded in 1794 on the site of a small Turkish fortress which had been taken by the Russians a few years previously, it does not possess a single building which by any stretch of imagination could be described as old. The city as well as the port owes its origin to a Frenchman named De Ribas, an officer in the Russian army who had led the attack on the Turkish stronghold. French influence is strong, and there are important commercial French and Bulgarian colonies. Italians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Tartars, Armenians, Georgians, and other races in addition to the Jews and Russians make up the population of this cosmopolitan city. Quitting Work for War "Selling out; have to join the colors," has become quite a common sign in business places in many parts of New York. Investigation has shown some of them to be fakes, too. In all parts of England such notices are numerous. Among those of an unusual nature is the following, put up by a monument builder: "Having been called up for military service, Mr. Kennedy is forced to close down his business, all the other male members of the family being already in service. He begs to take this opportunity of thanking all patrons who have accorded him support in the past, and he hopes that any who might have business requiring his attention may be able to hold over the same until his return to business." Cautious Mrs. Flatbush--You don't think the war will reach over here this year, do you, dear? Flatbush--Why, no. Why do you ask that question? "Because I want to know whether to hang the hammock under the trees where it was last year, or in the cellar." Inclination to Experiment. "Why are you in favor of government ownership?" "I'm not exactly clear," replied the candid man. "But I've a vague idea that I'd like to see some lines of business in the hands of elected officers who might try to make a hit by lowering prices instead of raising them." Pork to Win the War Flatbush—So you're raising pigs? Bensonhurst—Yes, you know the pen is mellier than the sword. Will you guess you're right, for food will win the war." $2.00 PER YEAR COMMISSION SEES FARM RESOURCES AS PEACE AGENCY March Says America, With Forces Unified, Can Drive Prussianism From the Earth. SURPLUS IN MIKNESOTA Gopher State One of Few In Union With Oversupply of Food—Governor Early Urged Co-operation and Aid for Farmers. One of the greatest agencies for world peace in the opinion of Col. C. H. March of the Minnesota State Safety Commission is the great agricultural resources of the state and the Northwest, mobilized and unified, to wage a determined and vigorous Russian autocracy and efficiently working with all other forces for the one great patriotic purpose. With our forces thus unified, he says, Prussianism can be driven from the face of the earth and a Hun named world made safe for Democracy, Similar convictions are held by Governor Burquist. Recently Col. March with members of the State Railroad and Warehouse commission and others interested in Northwest agricultural development work returned from Washington where they conferred with President Wilson and members of his cabinet relative to aid and legislation of Minnesota and Northwest farmers generally and he spoke interestingly of the march is chief in command of the agricultural Commission and his visit to Washington, which was at the instance of Burnquist, will develop into something of tremendous benefit in the future. Washington and the President, Col. March says, are keenly interested in farm development and much in the way of federal aid for the farmers of Minnesota and the Northwest is under consideration. Cooperation in a farm aid way with Gov. Burnuill and the State Safety commission was practically pledged. "Unfortunately in the minds of many," said Col. March, speaking broadly on the subject of the Minnesota State Safety commission and its efforts to aid the farmers of the state, "there is a fixed commission, Commission has solely to do with the acts of disloyalty and sedition. With others it is the dissemination of loyalty propaganda. The scope of our work, however, is much greater than the beliefs quoted. Every phase of war aid in which Minnesota may be of help to the nation is included and not the least of our activities is agricultural development. "One of the first to answer the President's call for increased production in foodstuffs," continued Col. March, "warn. Gov. Burnuill, and realizing that such increased production was a matter of farm development principally, he early impressed upon the farmers of Minnesota of giving the farmers of Minnesota the farm aid possible. Help the farmer, he argued, as on his prosperity depends much; food is the one weapon now that will bring victory. "No one can know Gov. Burnuill and not be impressed by his sincerity and honesty of purpose and realizing the importance of his warning regarding food increase our commission at once began work. At the Governor's direction every known agricultural development unit in the state was consulted and their co-operation urged. Many departments in aid of the various phases of agricultural work were created and experienced men placed in charge. 'Find out the farmer's needs and speed up,' was the command. Even before the State Safety commission was organized, the Bunuill commission had, was on the job as one of the acts was the promulgation of the Governor's food proclamation which was drafted by the Governor almost on entry of the United States into the war. That proclamation which was directed at the food producers of the state put Minnesota in the front rank of commonwealth anxious to aid the nation in its hour of distress." With the declaration of war against Germany one of the first defensive steps was the taking of an inventory of food stocks and as pointed out by Col. March it found Minnesota one of the few states with a surplus. To conserve and increase this surplus was a duty that impressed the Gov't and delayed by delay he appointed a Committee to investigate and Conservation. The creation this committee by Gov. Burnquist was in advance of the organization of the State Safety commission and showing the wisdom of the step, Minnesota's agricultural development and the general conservation of food in the state was advanced in a way that brought almost immediate complimentary attention from the federal war heads. Washington was unstinting in prosecution. 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Business letters from them must be written on separate sheets from the contents of news or matter for publication. ```markdown ``` "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature." —John Stuart Mill. --- SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918. LEST WE FORGET Colored Americans are the only race-group in any country fighting Germany who are now proscribed. They are the only race-group which has not made united and formal demand for full rights. "Ask and it shall be given unto you," saith the Scriptures. On to Washington, Colored Americans, while our boys are dying in Flanders and our women are being lynched in the U. S. A. The colored Race Congress meets in Washington June 21 to 27. Permanent organization June 24. THE ONE EXCEPTION. Mr. McAdoo's generosity to the railroad employees is wide and bountiful and all-embracing—with one exception. While he provides equality of pay for white and colored firemen, trainmen and switchmen, he discriminates in that he makes the increase to the white beneficiaries retroactive to January first of this year and does not permit the colored beneficiaries to draw any increased back pay. They will begin to "get theirs" from June first. This seems to us a petty discrimination which we would hardly have looked for even from a Southern-born director general of railroads. DOGS AND DEMOCRATS DESTROY The Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer, says that 20,000 sheep could be kept in Yancey county in that state "but for 3,000 worthless dogs." Quite likely true. Just now there is a world shortage of both meat and wool and sheep raising is profitable wherever pasture is plentiful and dogs are scarce. But it was not always so in this country. For many years the chief menace to the sheep industry was the possibility of a democratic national administration that would put wool on the free list and destroy the home market for the home product. That is a matter of history, and history will repeat itself, though the present shortage of sheep may delay the discouraging experiences of the past. The day of cheap land in America has gone, and there is no probability that American labor CHRISTIANITY HAS NOT SAVED THE NATION CALL FOR COLORED LIBERTY CONGRESS RECITES GRIEVOUS WRONGS OF COLORED PATRIOTS---TO MEET AT WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 24-29, 1918, IN JOHN WESLEY A. M. E. ZION CHURCH—JUNE 23RD TO BE LIBERTY SUNDAY IN COLORED CHURCHES OF NATIONAL CAPITAL. All Colored Churches, Business, Civic, Literary and Fraternal Organizations and Societies Urgently Requested to Send Delegates. To the Colored Americans of the Republic of U. S. A.; By virtue of the vote of the National Colored Liberty Conference in national convention assembled at Boston, Mass., June 13, 1918, to wit: "The Aim and Object of this National Colored Liberty Congress is to press the just claim of the Colored American citizens of the United States of America to share in the world democracy for which they are subject to fight under the flag of the Republic, and to take positive measures to secure from the Government guarantee of the abolition of disfranchisement and of all caste discriminations, civil and political." We now send forth this CALL to our fellows in Color and in Proscription: To all Colored Churches, business, civic, literary and fraternal societies and organizations, greetings: The National Colored Liberty Congress is called to consider among themselves and lay before U. S. Congress methods by which President Wilson and the Government may best carry out his great war slogan—To make the world safe for Democracy—to make the world a fit place to live in." And we would also add to them—To make Democracy safe for the world, to make the world a fit place for all people to live in. We know that the present contains the darkest hours of the world's We know that the present contains the darkest hours of the world's history. The earth is full of violence, pain and sorrow; of bitterness and hate. Many people are in a state of peroxide; their hearts are failing them with fear because of the evils which stink by night and by day. Our people are trying to hold fast their faith in God and government. But to many God seems to be far away and the government strangles off to the many wrongs and injustices done to our people. And it is certain beyond question, that neither culture, religion, nor even our boasted Christian civilization has saved our nation from many deeds and traits of autocratic barbarism. In the midst of much suffering and prejudicial wrongs for centuries, we have been patient and loyal to our country. In all wars for independence and a united nation, we have marched and fought in the front ranks. "When disaster clouded the Union's cause, we volunteered for strong, and served without pay for eighteen months till given that of which we were greatly deserved enslavement if captured; were brave in action, patient under heavy and damn labor and cheerful amid hardships and privations. Surely we have given the world the undying proof that Americans of African descent possess the pride and devotion of the patriot and soldier." That is the compliment paid the Colored soldiers at the close of the great Civil War. We are no less patriotic and loyal today; we serve our country and its flag; we know no other. Representing as we do, more than one-tenth of the fighting strength of the U. S. we desire in Liberty Congress to be assembled, place and date as above aforesaid, to ask President Wilson and Congress at this time to remove from the statutes of our Country all proscription laws of race discriminations of whatever kind, that we may have at home, for ourselves, our wives, our children and our posterity, that which we are fighting and dying in a strange land to secure for others. We are ready to fight to victory for a world-wide democracy which offers equal opportunity and equal protection, for every man, woman and child, American citizens at home and beyond the seas. With this covenant we stand ready to pledge to the government our fortunes, our lives, our wives and children, to the last dollar and the last man to win the war for world-wide democracy and to make the world a fit place for all people to live in. Meet in John Wesley Zion Church, 4th and Corcoran St., N. W., Washington, D. C., June 24-29, 1918 A Clayton Powell, N. Y., Pres.; Allen W. Whaley Mass., Natl' Organizer; Marion F. Sydes R. I.; Recording Secretary; D. S. Klugh, Mass., Treas. H. H. Harrison, N. Y., Chairman of Board; Mrs. S. J. Allen, Mass., Cor. Sec. L. G. Jordan, Penn., Wm. Monroe Trotter, Executive Secretary. Executive Headquarters—34 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. will ever be willing to accept the wages of America's competitors. That of free wool shall continue, it is only being true, if the Democratic policy a question of time when we shall import wool to the destruction of our own industry. Two things are necessary to insure the permanent establishment of sheep raising as an adjunct of farming in nearly every section of the United States—kill off the worthless dogs and re-enact the protective tariff on wool. SHOULD BE NO COLOR CASTE. The New York World, one of the greatest daily newspapers in the country, says in a recent issue: "If there is any ground for the complaint of Colored trained nurses that they are unjustly discriminated against by the Red Cross, it should be removed at once. This is a black man's fight as well as a white man's and the Red Cross should be the first of all bodies to recognize the fact." THE DRIVE FOR LIBERTY The movement for the Liberty Congress was inaugurated in Boston, June 13 of last year at a session held in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty, at a national conference called by the New England League. A Liberty Conference was started as a national committee to arrange for a National Colored Liberty Congress. Rev. A. C. Powell of New York is president; Prof. A. W. Whalley of Boston is national organizer; W. M. Trotter, executive secretary. A board of managers was begun with Robert H. Harrison of New York as chairman. This board is to be augmented. The purpose of the Congress is to press the just claim of Colored Americans to share in the world democracy for which they are all subject to fight under the flag and to take positive measures to secure from the government guarantees of the abolition of disfranchisement and of all caste discriminations. The proposal to hold a meeting early this year has been enthusiastically re- ceived by the thinking men of the country and the executive officers have decided to hold the congress at Washington, D. C., June 21 to 29. This congress of Colored America to present to the Government its claim for a share in the world democracy is a great opportunity for the Colored people. Every community ought to send a big delegation. ON THE RIGHTS OF MAN Influential colored men in various parts of the country have signed a strong memorial to the President, Cabinet, Congress and the Governors of the states. We quote a portion of it. We are one group of American people than whom there is none more loyal, which is marked out for discrimination, humiliation and abuse. In the great patriotic and humanitarian movements, in public carriers, in Federal service the treatment accorded us is humiliating, dehumanizing and reprehensible in the extreme. This persistent and unreasonable practice is but a thrust at the colored man's self respect, the object being not merely to separate races, but to impress us with the idea of supposed natural inferiority. Such demoralizing discrimination is not only a violation of fundamental rights of citizens of the United States, but the persistent segregation of any element of our country's population into a separate and distinct group, on the sole basis of color is creating a condition under which this nation can not long endure. When we reflect upon their brutalities and indignities, we remember they are due to the fact that in all almost every Southern state we have systematically by law or chicery been deprived of the right that very manhood suffrage which genuine democracy would guarantee to every citizen in the Republic. The propaganda of filching from colored Americans the ballot is but a supreme effort to reenslave us and to force our assent thereto. To this policy the colored man does not, can not and will not agree. Of it our intolerance is cumulative. Against it, we shall exert our righteous efforts until not only every eligible colored man, but every eligible colored woman shall be wielding the ballot proudly in defense of our homes. We are appealing to you neither as vassals or inferiors. Bull Run and Appomattox fixed our status in this nation. We are free men. We are sovereign American citizens—free men who purchased our freedom with our own blood on every battle field from Bunker Hill to Carrizal, full rights and immunities such as are freely granted to others but systematically refused to us. IS THE LINE DRAWN YET? The head of the American Red Cross is out in a denial of a part of the charges of discriminations by Red Cross against colored soldiers. He says that colored soldiers are served exactly the same as white soldiers, but there has never been much doubt about that. Miss Martha M. White of Jacksonville, Fla., was the only colored delegate present at the meeting of the Council of National Defense at Washington. She made a talk at the meeting. Bringing up the matter of a recognition of colored nurses, she received the positive assurance that the Red Cross had made no provision for use of colored nurses either in this country or in France, and that none would be made. Will the Red Cross head kindly explain? COLORED TROOPS ALWAYS COLORED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST Governor Whitman of New York was not to blame because he aided in the dedication of a jincrow branch of that travesty on Christianity, the Y. M. C. A.—he was invited by the segregationists who are engaged in the nefarious work of belittling Christ. The governor, however, called attention to the fact that the New York colored regiment was the first to carry the stars and stripes to the firing line in France. That is not strange. It was a colored man—a mulatto, Crispus Attucks, whose blood was first spilled in the Revolutionary war. In the battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812, Commodore Perry's colored marines were first in the fight. In the Slaveholder's Rebellion the colored troops were not first because they were not allowed to enlist, but when they did get in and 200,000 were finally enlisted, they got to the front in a hurry. At San Juan hill in Cuba in 1898 colored troops were at the forefront and at Carriazal in Mexico in 1915 they were among the first to die for their country. In every American war, the "colored troops have fought nobly." WILSON FOR WOMEN VOTING. President Wilson has expressed the hope that the senate would pass the woman suffrage amendment at the present session of congress. His attitude was made known in a reply to a memorial from the French Union for Woman Suffrage, which asked him to proclaim the principle of woman suffrage as one of the fundamental rights of the future. "It is my earnest hope," the president said, "that the senate of the United States will give an unmistakable answer to this question by passing the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution before the end of the session." Now that the women have won the president to support suffrage there is every reason to hope that Mr. Wilson may aid the colored people in their fight for the removal of color discriminations in the U. S. A. DEMOCRATS BROUGHT THEM IN: "This department is too patriotic to use these pencils," wrote Inspector C. O. Myers to W. D. Fulton, Ohio's Secretary of State, on receiving a consignment of pencils marked "Made in Germany." It was a fine joke on the Democratic officials of Ohio, whose party stands for free trade. They are "too patriotic" to use pencils "Made in Germany," but in 1913 their party was so unpatriotic as to make a bid for German competition in lead pencils, against those "Made in America" by reducing the tariff duty to a ridiculous rate, thereby enabling Germany to stock our market so full that our importers are carrying those stocks four years later. Do you Democrats and free traders now see the point? If the war lasts long enough perhaps you will learn something in regard to this matter. No amount of argument has ever been able to convince you. NO SECTIONALISM? A bill to provide pensions at a minimum of $25 a month for veterans of the Civil War passed the House of Representatives by the impressive vote of 241 to 46. Yet this is not the most impressive thing in the incident. The forty-six representatives who cast the negative votes were all Democrats and all but one of them came from the solid South or its immediate environs. To them should be added two others, one from Tennessee and one from Texas, who answered "present" when their names were called. The sole negative vote cast by a Northerner was provided by Mr. Gordon of Ohio, whose motives may best be determined by his constituents, who will have opportunity to pass upon the question next November. The other forty-five members who opposed the bill are probably beyond reach of any political or other chastisement. They hall from states where the loyal soldiers of the Civil War are held in execution; and the only method of dealing effectively with them is by placing their party in the minority in Congress. They constitute a majority of their party and when the Democrats are in power they dominate their party colleagues; and it is only on rare occasions that they can be overridden. This happened to be one of those occasions. SOUTH LYNCHES THEM. Henry Johnson, a colored soldier, of Albany, New York, has been cited and decorated by the French military authorities for what the French general of division terms "a magnificent example of courage and energy." With him was Needham Roberts, another colored man. "Both men fought bravely," says Pershing in his official report of the exploit. On the same day that the cables from France brought the news of Johnson's and Robert's heroism, the wires from Valdosta, Georgia, brought the story of the lynching of a colored woman, Mary Turner by name, because she had attempted to resist the lynching of her husband. This coincidence has moved the New York World to inquire: "With tens of thousands of American colored men fighting for civilization in France under the American flag, how much longer are the American people to tolerate lynching of colored men and women? The answer is easy. Lynchings of colored people will be tolerated in the South—where they occur almost exclusively—so long as the political party to which the New York World adheres is permitted to deprive colored citizens of their right to vote and thus, through the exercise of their civil rights, to protect their rights to property and to life. AMERICANS—THAT'S ALL For many years it has been the custom to treat colored people as aliens, although they are more than ninety-nine per cent of American birth; and there is a growing tendency among the colored people to regard themselves as aliens. This is being encouraged by a class of leaders who call themselves "Negroes" and yell about "Negro Kultur" although they have not more than half and often less than one-eighth of Negro blood. Such men ought to stop the "Negro" propaganda and be Americans and demand justice because they are Americans and not by the false assertion that they are "Negroes." They should not have any rights as "Negroes" but every right of an American citizen should be and will be accorded them, if they fight for their rights as American citizens by right of birth. Germany has lodged a complaint in Washington and asked for safeguards against such excesses as led to the lynching of Robert P. Praeger at Collinsville, Ill., on April 4. If the brutal Huns are shocked at mob violence should not the colored people of the country—loyal and patriotic citizens—be shocked and protest against the mob murders so common here and of which they are usually the innocent victims? There are a few honest and sincere colored men who use the term "negro" in describing themselves, but the majority who use the term are jimcrowists pure and simple. The time has come to eliminate such words as German, Negro, Irishman, Lithuanian, etc. People in the United States ought to be satisfied to be known as Americans. That one word is big enough to include all persons born in this country. --- The Boston Guardian asks: Is Spingarn playing double? Well, it certainly looks that way from this neck o' the woods. He is a Jew but has sought for himself all rights and privileges of American citizenship, while at the same time proposing and advising segregation and separation and segregation for colored Americans. Is there one who dares to deny it? That was good advice Cardinal Gibbs gave to 5,000 Catholic soldiers at Camp Meade, Among other things he said: "First, last, and always, be as a band of brothers. No matter what state or nation you come from, no matter what race or religion, be as a band of brothers to defend your country against her enemies. The National Food Administration is doing its utmost in every way possible to educate the people up to the fact that there is not enough food stuffs to supply our needs without the practice of rigid economy by everyone, especially the housewives. The forecast of available supply indicates grave danger of serious shortage, unless conservation is vigorously and nationally practiced. The slogan is: "In the Name of Liberty—SAVE FOOD". The estimated revenue of the government for the fiscal year ending June June 30, 1918, is $4,995,699,000 over receipts of 1917. This speaks well for the loyalty of the people of this country. The great Southern sport of lynching goes on apace and Georgia holds the banner. The recent affair near Valdosta included three men and one woman. Defective Page THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man entious discharge o stand alone; the w intolerant judgment the countenances o averted, and the he cold, but the sense be sweeter than the world, the counten the hearts of friend WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO." I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.—Charles Sumner. Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes Mental and Physical Segregation. (From Amsterdam News.) Editor Amsterdam News. Sir: I cannot too heartily congratulate you on a recent editorial discouraging the use of the word "Negro." There is no greater delight enjoyed by the white people of the United States today than the spreading use of this unfortunate term. Why? They realize that it is the most potential factor at work at the present to bring about both a physical and mental segregation of the people of color. Its use is on the increase only because its use has been made by Do Bois and Washington feel that its repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to retain the good will of the masses. The term "Negro" is not only absurdly inaccurate as applied to millions of colored people, but it is also alarmingly injurious, for the following reasons: a. It has never stood historically or in the present, anywhere in the world, for anything noble or uplifting. Most high-grade Africans repudiate it. b. It was out of Africa it was never applied to higher types, but to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegambians only. c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," "Negrofly," and its compounds, Negrohead, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all clearly in their associations, degrading. d. Its feminine form, "Negress," is justly and correctly used to define your wife and daughter and sweetheart, if you favor the use of the masculine term. e. It has been the word used by the Southern whites for two centuries, when formally speaking or writing about an unworthy or criminal man or woman of the race. For when he speaks of the worthy he invariably says "colored." f. It is not differentiated in the mind and thought of the whites from their favorite and generally used (among themselves) terms, "Negro" and "Nigger." g. As stated by an eminent Japanese diplomat it has an unquestioned influence in cutting us off from the thought, sympathy and co-operation of the millions of colored Africans, Asiatics and Islanders of the Yonder world. Hatea the Term "Negro." "I hate the term Negro because it is being used in terms of hatred. It is the cause of the segregation of the Negro; it is being used in contempt in public places; it is an excuse for disfranchising him; and it is an exent beaten by the colonel one tenth of one per cent of the colored people in America can trace their descent to Africa, and there is no more right to call all colored people Negroes than to call all white people Turks or Armenians."—Ex-Assistant United States Attorney General Wm. H. Lewis, Boston, Maas. The Color Line in the Catholic Church. (From the Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La.) (Oakle, New Orleans, La.) There are two hundred thousand colored Catholics in the United States, according to alter F. McEntrite, a prominent Catholic who in telling of the orders and societies of men and women working among color people in the United States, among other things says in the Tidings, of Los Angeles: "The Church knows no color-line in the House of God, and any man who tries to lay one down is not a true Catholic." This is good reading but it is not true to fact. There are only two colored priests in the entire Catholic colored constituency of America, and the Catholic Church is the only religious body in America that forces on its constituency a white ministry. Moreover, the color issue is drawn as completely in the Catholic Church as elsewhere. There was a time when colored churches welcomed colored people to the church but not now. In St. Joseph Church, New Orleans, a few seats in the rear are marked reserved for colored MRS. LEAH JANE WALKER Enters Into Her Eternal Rest in Beulah Land. About three years ago, Mrs. Leah Jane Walker came to St. Paul to reside. She had been in poor health for about seven years and it was RACE PREJUDICE I am convinced my more evil thing in the Race Prejudice; none erately—it is the work now. It justifies and baseness, cruelty and other sort of error in its body runs the black suspicion, jealousy and the darkest poisons of I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than Race Prejudice; none at all. I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poisons of the human soul. —H. G. Wells in N. Y. Independent. in who in the consci- of his duty dares to world, with ignorant, ant, may condemn, of relatives may be hearts of friends grow of duty done shall the applause of the ances of relatives or s.—Charles Sumner. thought that she would improve in the healthful climate of Minnesota. She was placed in a comfortable home at 394 Rondo street, by her daughter, Mrs. Annie Dempsey, who made her home and spent most of the time in Winnipeg, Can., where she conducted a dressmaking establishment. Mrs. Walker lived a quiet life, spending her time caring for her grand-daughter, Armesia Dempsey, aged 15 years. She seldom left her home but devoted her energies in keeping it in immaculate order and was highly esteemed by her immediate neighbors. A few weeks ago she began to fall behind in patient sufferer and always said God knew and she was willing to trust Him in every way. Last week, feeling that her end was near, her daughter was summoned to her bedside. Everything possible was done for her but on Thursday morning, June 13th, at 9:20 o'clock she passed away. She was born in Shelbyville, KY, Oct. 11, 1853, but subsequently moved to Louisville where she afterward resided for many years. She was for 40 years a member of Green Street Baptist church and was a devout Christian. 'Her funeral was held at her late residence last Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. J. M. Henderson officiating. Special music was sung by the junior choir of St. James A. M. E. church, and the beautiful solo, "Face to Face" was sung by Mrs. Josse Arthur, Mrs. B. C. Archer, accompanist. There was a number of beautiful floral tributes covering her casket. Messrs. G. W. Stewart, Oscar Sanders, J. Q. Adams and T. H. Wellington acted as pall bearers. Lyles funeral director, interment at Oakland cemetery. The deceased leaves her daughter, grandmother and a sister, residing in Louisville, Ky., to mourn her departure. MISS GRACE W. EDWARDS A Former St. Paul Resident Wins Honors Abroad. Though it has been something over five years since Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards left St. Paul to make their home in Ottawa, Ill, they are kindly remembered by a host of friends they left behind. Mr. Edwards held a position in the McQuaid Market House and the high esteem of his employer. He was also a prominent member of St. James A. M. E. church, in which both he and his better half were active workers. It will also be remembered that they had a daughter, Miss Grace, then young, but who now is a fine young woman, but who has a common expression, has "made food." THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE LADY OF THE WORLD MISS GRACE EDWARDS just been awarded a diploma from the Ottawa High School and also one from the Sherwood Music School of Chicago, which has a branch school in the music department of Pleasant View College at Ottawa. She stands very high in the estimation of the school in which she is the only colored pupil, yet the graduating class of 2010 students chose her for pianist of "Mikado" the commencement opera. She is already putting her talents to profitable use, she teaches music and harmony in her home town and also at Streater, a large town, sixteen miles from Ottawa. yself that there is no this present world than at all. I write delib- est single thing in life holds together more abomination than any in the world. Through blood of coarse lust, and persecution and all the human soul. in N. Y. Independent. ee ee ee | | ST. PAUL | WEEK'S RECORD ‘OF HAPPENINGS. IN MINNESOTA’8 CAPITOL. fhe “Saintly City” and Saintly City rotke—Newsy Items ot acclal, Re Ngtous, Political and General ‘Mat ters Among the Peoule. PHONE: N. W. CEDAR 5649 PHONE TRISTATE 23776 SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918. “In the Name of Liberty—SAVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOREVER. Conserve on coal by burning wood PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS! Smoke SIGHT DRAFT 6-Cent Cigar. Mrs. Quintman Hicks has moved to 953 Rondo street, ‘Mr. B, Johnson has moved to 493 W. University avenue. Mr. J. R. Morris has moved to 50 St. Anthony avenue. OFPICR CEDAR 4048 ES. DALE 1400 LAWYER nese ‘eon nema ierarsee: ST. PAUL Mrs. J. W. Williams has moved to 655 St. Anthony Ave. Pride holds some people up and throws a great many down. Mr. and Mrs. Jas, A. 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John M. LaCoste, Chairman Ira S. Ashe Louis Moore F. D. McCracken C. W. Wigington Chas. Cuthbert ‘Wm. Pettet MINNEAPOLIS COMMITTEE. Dr. R. S. Brown, Chairman F. Terry J. Houston The management reserves the right to refuse undesirable persons. Dr. C. B. Cheeks of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived in the city last Saturday and has taken chargo of Dr. J. R. French’s dental parlors, 409 Court Block. LADIES wishing anything in the ine of hair work or scalp treatment may have their wants supplied by call- ‘ug on Airs. Elizabeth Battles, 972 Rice. street. Mrs. Florence Duckett and Mrs. Mae L. B. Graves of the St. James Mite Missionary Society will leave this ‘week to attend the annual convention which meets at Des Moines June 26 to 27. Mayor L. €. Hodgson will deliver ‘the address of welcome to the Federa- tion of Women’s Clubs at Memorial Baptist church next Wednesday even- ing at 8 o'clock. Public cordially in- vited. ‘The special sermon for the Elks of the Twin Cities preached by Rey. J. ‘M. Henderson at St. James A. M. E. chureh last Sunday evening was a masterful effort and was highly ap- preciated by those present. PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER—MRS. H, 1. WILLIAMS, OFFICE OF ATTY. W. 7. FRANCIS, SUITE 329 AMERI- CAN NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, COR. CEDAR AND FIFTH STREETS. ALL WORK CONFIDENTIAL. Mrs. J. Q. Adams and daughter, [Miss Raythella, went up to Anoka on ‘the 12th inst.,’to attend the gradua- tion of Miss Anna Marie Arnold. They |were the guests jointly of Mrs. W. J. Arnold and Mrs. Clarence Jackson. The most popular pienic each year is that given by the MEN'S EPISCO- PAL CLUB of St. Paul and Minne- apolis, and as usual it will be the big event ‘this year, with their outing and pienic at Parker's Lake on Wednes- day, July 17. LADIES—Who desire any of the Overton Hygienic “High Brown” Preparations can be supplied by call- ing upon the agent, Mrs. A. W. Jor- dan, 791 Rondo, or ‘Tel. Dale 8199, and deliveries will ‘be made anywhere in the elty. (11-2417, The Thirteenth Annual Conven- tion of the State Federation of Col- ofed women will hold a two-days’ session at Memorial Baptist church, June 26-27, The ladies are actively planing to make the meeting one of the best ever held. Mr. and Mrs, W. B. Tandy and daughter, Miss Katheryn, left last |Tuesday to motor to Chicago, where Mrs. Tandy and daughter will remain for two weeks and then join Mr. ‘Tandy who went on to Biddleford Pool, Me., to spend the summer. CONSERVE by having your family washing done by the IDEAL WET |Wwast LAUNDRY, 430-482 Rice street, opposite Memorial Baptist church. Save both money and labor. Call N. W. Cedar 6112 or Auto. 24 996. ‘They will tell you all about it. LADIES—Mrs. H. Milner, 494 Rice street, is prepared to shampoo your jhair and give scalp treatments. Old hair switches made to look like new also transformations and puffs to or- der. All work strictly confidential and fat reasonable prices. Residence calls made. Tel. N. W. Cedar 3708. : Mrs. Nancy Church returned last Tuesday evening after an eight months’ stay in Los Angeles, Calif. She went West to visit Mrs. Josephine ‘Taylor who was quite sick and subse quently died a few weeks ago. She is now at home -with her sister, Mrs. Charles Saunders, 650 Fuller avenue. Mrs. Lillie Hamilton, expert, mani curist, licensed chiropodist and hai ‘artist who has been in the profession ff for more than five years has opened a Beauty Shop at 381% Rondo street, corner of Western, and is prepared to take care of hair, face, hands and feet in the most approved manner. Tel. ‘Summit 3079, | Mr. “George Kelly was awarded $1,000 damages in the District Court this week, for having wrongfully been ejected from the Great Northern Rail- jroad by an over officious conductor last December, and was imprisoned in jail in New Rockford, N. D., where he suffered from a freezing temperature and the “cooties.” Mrs. M. Love, the “beauty artist,” who has been serving customers at her home, 257 Rondo street, has re- cently opened new parlors at 310 Rondo street and is better than ever Prepared to take care of customers for hair dressing, massaging, mani- curing, chiropody, electric treatments, ete, ‘Those desiring her services are invited to call or telephone Dale 8245 for appointments or residence calls. A Splendid Sacrgd, Song. Service will be given at St. Philips Bpiscopal church, cornér of Aurora and Mack- ubin streets, by the best available musical talent, under the direction“of Mrs. Lillian McKnight, Miss May Wil- liams, accompanist, on Sunday even- ing, July 7th, beginning promptly at 6 o'clock. A’ silver offering will be taken at the door to be devoted to a very worthy object. Public cordially invited. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo, N. ¥., president of the National Associa- tion of Colored Women’s Clubs, who has been in St. Paul for the past two weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. W. R. Hardy, and her sisterinlaw, Mrs. Emma Burnett, 518 St. Anthony ave- nue, made splendid addresses at sev- eral of the churches, halls, receptions, ete, of the Twin Cities ‘during her visit, all of which were excellent and timely. She has been deluged with social courtesies, automobile rides, luncheons, dinners, receptions, and declares she had a most delightful time in every way. She left yester- day for Des Moines and Buxton, Ia; Kansas City and Beatrice, Kans; Omaha, Neb., and Denver, Colo. LABOR DELEGATES HONORED. The Sterling Club held an informal reception at the Union Hall on Wednesday evening last in honor of the colored delegates to the National Federation of Labor convention now being held in St. Paul. Frederick D. MeCracken presided. ‘The address of welcome was delivered by Attorney Hammond Turner, and Delegate Mil- Iner of Norfolk, Va., responded. Ad- Aresses also were delivered by Rev. J. M, Henderson, Rev. T. J. Carr, Atty. W.'T. Francis, and S. Edward Hall, ‘The temarks of Delegate Lancaster of Mobile on the labor situation affecting colored people in the South was very interesting. A-good crowd was pres- ent. Refreshments were served. The efforts of the Sterling Club are to be commended and filled a long felt want in this community. F. D, McCRACKEN—RENTALS. 410 Court Blk. 4room apartment, 334 Rondo street, $15.00. 7 rooms, St. Anthony near Kent, $20.00. 1000 Iglehart, entirely modern, hot water heat, $25.00. $200 cash and balance same as rent ‘will make you own your own home. _leneral Insurance—Rentals—Farm 2 ‘SOME WINNERS. —at the— Primaries Monday Hoarding Six pounds of wheat flour, or a month's supply for each member of the family, is the limit fixed by the Food Administration. No true American would. violate this ruling. But flour in small quanties is expensive, home baking is inconvenient. That is why it is more economical and satisfactory to eat wholesome and ~ nourishing : Purity Bread —— ees Order From Your Grocer Today een oeey ‘ Food License B, 21631. ee i. on co a 4 | Sp | ~~ (ore Cc ee ¢ | Pi sasel a JAMES HANDLAN Senator ete EEE co 4... oe eh Ps Aq " xs bert :] = 3 B. G. NOVAK. Senator oe : Ue ie a > ey fe Se oe s i= en Nae Cy b fa ” an f pan ' F ie & a Sy Cs MARTIN J. O'MALLEY County Treasurer SAFE MILK PHONE: Sues ~ Se a SEES 346 % + DAY PHONES: . NIGHT PHONE: Pee aes Ee Mw cesan sete rn a THe MAN WHEN IN THE TWIN CITIES DON'T FAIL To visiT an N 4 . mereavepnoe THANN’S Tere non” eo HOTEL, CAFE. AND POOL ROOM Sin ' V om a a HEADQUARTERS FOR RAILROAD AND. XN 8 y THEATRICAL FOLK ——ee rwown as . anaes 40.£. THIRD ST. ST. PAUL GEORGE J. RIES. County Auditor x os ee? A XN \ | DAVID WALLBLOM County Commissioner Uncle Sam expects you to keep hens and raise chickens in your back yard. Words do ten times more to irritate people than the strongest acts.—Car- dinal Manning. BEAUTY PARLOR MRS. M. LOVE, PROP. LATEST ELECTRICAL EQUIeMENT SCALP AND FACIAL TREATMENT HAIRDRESSING, SHAMPOOING MASSAGING, MANICURING enrmoropy 910 RoNDo sr. sr. PAUL _—_—_—_—_—_ S iw J as) let Uhl | Dok | f) it your watdh is not keep- ing accurate time, bring I it to Ubel for adjustment | oF repair. Your work will be done |} f} with accuracy and prompt- Y ness—the charges will be ff very moderate, H j j Frank A. Ubel} “Jewelor—Opticlan—Optometriet 78 Wabasha Street f ue ‘You Will Find Purity Fine Cake An Enjoyable Delicacy For Dinner Or Luncheon 100% PURE SOLO BY ALL FIRST CLASS GROCERS TRL. DALE 9006 DELIVERIES MADE THE RECHERCHE A. B. BUCKNER, PROP. CONFECTIONARY, CANDIES, CAKES, SODA WATER, SOFT DRINKS, NICK NACKS ™~ CIGARS AND TOBACCO 441 RONDO ST. ST. PAUL, MINN. 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Suits ana Overcoats Made to Order; Cleaning, Repatr- ing, Preasing Neatly Done 829 Dale Cor. Rondo ST. PAUL | ed ssh, i West a A eo) : Masten .en Oh a BEST | ce hae PuOns Tie TT VANDER BIE'S + ICE CREAM + IS THE BEST For Sale Everywhere J.C. VANDER BIE Partridge and Brurison Sts, 3T. PAUL, MINN. 1. mapenr Anrrore Quiox Sexviox Peoples’ Barber Shop ‘A. RAGLAND, PROP. A, H. WASHINGTON, MGR. Shaving, Hair Cutting, Shampooing, Face Massage, Manicur- ing, Hot and Cold Shower Baths, Shoes Shined CIGARS, TOBACCO, MAGAZINES AND WEEKLY PAPERS 269 ROBERT ST. ‘ST. PAUL, MINN. an aE neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ned on Af: : Mei. > HA WILLIAMS ea #8 ‘Announces bs NEW method of a oe if ~~ ‘3 ETT ISP” PAINLESS DENTISTRY I positively guarantee te extract teeth and remove nerves ABSQLAJERLY, PAINLESSLY Get prices hove before going elaswhere . A Weitten Guarentee for 20 Years Given With Afi Work, Dr. Williams,¢27 EB. 7th St TEL. C. 6192 KENDRICK BLDG. 2ND FLOOR ST. PAUL @Hico Cedar 1673 Dr, Valdo Turner | PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON NEW DAKOTA BUILDING Cor, 6th and 7th Streets comme HOw Sto lla. m, 2 t17. m FOS, m Sundays 10 to 11 = m, Res. 386 St, Albans Tel Dale Alt THE DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Mattere Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City. J. N. SELLERS, MANAGER 2812 Tenth Avenue So. Tel. N. W. South 3372. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918. FREEDOM FOR ALL FOREVER. Smoke SIGHT DRAFT 6-Cent Cigar. Tickets, adults 60 cents, children 35 cents. "In the Name of Liberty.—SAVE FOOD!" Mr. R. E. Allen, the grocer, has moved to 610 Sixth Ave. No. Dying in poverty is easy enough; it's living in poverty that comes hard on a fellow. Remember the WAR SAVINGS STAMPS drive beginning next Friday, June 28. Do your bit. Mrs. Ida M. Smeddler of "The Hair Shop" left last Saturday for a business trip to Duluth. She will return today. The presentation of St. Paul's Dramatic Club's operetta at Settlement House last Monday evening attracted a large and delightful crowd. Get ready and wait for the MEN'S EPISCOPAL CLUB picnic at Parker's Lake, Wednesday, July 17. It will be as usual the big thing of the season. See advertisement in this issue. Would you have your feet smile? Then take them to PRICE & SMEDDLER, the expert scientific chiropodists, 715 Sixth avenue north. They will remove all foot troubles painlessly and perfectly. They will call at your home if you prefer. Just call Hyland 5633. Mesdames Price & Smeddler, of the Hair Shop, 715 Sixth avenue No., have quite a valuable adjunct to their "Beauty Parlor" in the person of Mrs. Ethel Gooden, an expert in hair work. Ladies desiring the best treatment for "Woman's crown of glory" should call to see her. She's a Good 'n. Miss Marvel Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Madison Jackson of Prospect Park, who has been very ill with pneumonia, is considerably improved. Miss Jackson was a member of the graduating class of South High School but was deprived of the priviligation being present at the graduating examination, in part because of her failure, but she received her diploma at home just the same as well as many floral remembrances from her classmates and friends which had a salutary effect in hastening her recovery. MR8. ROBERT A. VAN HOOK FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING AND LADIES' TAILORING PARTY GOWNS A SPECIALTY 1008 SIXTH AVENUE NORTH MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Mesdames Price & Smeadier, proprietors of the "Beauty Farlows," known as The Hair Shop 715 Sixth avenue north, have completed the decorations of their splendid establishment and may now be called the "Purity Shop." Persons, ladies and gentlemen, who prefer to preserve their personal pulchritude are invited to call. Strictly confidential service. SPECIAL AGENCY FOR THE MAN WHO CARES The Florsheim SHOE STANLEY SHOE CO. 421 ROBERT ST. ST. PAUL SAINT PAUL SAVINGS DEPOSITORS. Deposits made in this bank are not subject to commercial risks; we make no commercial loans. The laws of the State of Minnesota protect your deposits by the most careful provisions as set forth in the make. THE STATE SAVINGS BANK, 33 East Fourth St., Advertisement. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Remember that National War Savings Day is June 28. Pledge yourself on or before that day to save to the utmost of your ability and to buy War Savings Stamps that there may be more money, labor and materials to back up those who fight and die for you. You may not be able to fight, but you can save and buy War Savings Stamps. MINNESOTA IS ALL RIGHT. The Minnesota Recruiting District is somewhat elated over the fact that in April, 1,103 recruits were secured in the state, which is believed to be the highest record in the country. When the final count was made for May, however, it was found that 1,240 recruits had entered the service. A rush of men during the last few days of the month netted 175 May 31, which was the banner day for the month. The rush was largely of men 21 years of age, who would have been compelled to register June 5. This as Major John D. Yost, Recruiting Officer for the Minnesota District says: "Shows conclusively that Minnesota is back of the boys at the front, and can be counted on for whole-hearted support at all times." GOVERNOR BURNQUIST APPOINTS EXPERIENCED RACE MEN OFFICERS FOR THE SIXTEENTH BATTALION. Saint Paul, Minnesota, June 11, 1918. Public Order No. 1. Commissions have been signed for the following Staff Officers: Continues until every piece of Furniture, every Rug, Stove and entire slightly damaged stock of WALLBLOM FURNITURE AND CARPET CO. Is disposed of to make room for new goods. Every article that has been slightly damaged by SPECIAL Every sale made with the understanding that delivery of goods will be made just as quickly as possible. We are behind on deliveries because we cannot secure trucks enough to keep up with the enormous sale of merchandise. Free Freight 100 Miles; Auto Delivery 50 Miles. The Wallblom Furniture and Carpet Co. "THE HOUSE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY" 398 - 408 JACKSON ST. Liberty Bonds Accepted Same as Cash. N. W. SUMMIT 3079 LILLIE HAMILTON BEAUTY SHOP ELECTRICAL TREATMENTS OF ALL KINDS, HAIR DRESSING MANICURING, HAIR GOODS TO ORDER. COMBINGS BOUGHT SURGICAL CHIROPODY 381 1-2 FONDO ST. ST. PA DR. VAL DO. TURNER—Captain Medical Corps. MINNESOTA STATE P of Colored Women's City DR. JAMES REDD—First Lieutenant Medical Corps. Major Sherwood has appointed Ira S. Ashe Battalion Sergeant Major. Company "B" elected officers following Captain Sherwood's promotion to Major, as follows: ORRINGTON C. HALL—Captain. T. W. STEPP—First Lieutenant. JOHN F. COQUIRE—Second Lieutenant. Geo. L. Hoage. Supply Officer. By order of Major Jose H. Sherwood. MUST BE SOLD. six-room house, entirely modern, St Albans street. Price $2,300, on a payment of $150 cash and monthly payments less than rent. McCracken, 410 COURT BLK. MASONIC SERMON St. John's Day among. Masons is one of the notable events of the year, and their annual sermon is usually attended by many friends as well as brethren of the order. This year's celebration will be under the auspices of Anchor Hilyard Lodge No. 2, Minneapolis, and will be held in that city Sunday June 23rd, at Bethesda Baptist church, 11th Ave. and 8th street. Take or transfer to Bloomfield car and get off at 7th and 8th streets. Beasley will preach, and Rev H. P. Presley will expect here, might be present to assist in the ceremonies. Pioneer No. 1 and Perfect Ashlar No. 4 will meet at Union Hall at 1:45 p. m. and go to Minneapolis in a body. The services begin at 2:45 p. m. All are invited to attend. T. 7 M. C. The Above Stands for the Club That Will Give the Big Boat Excursion. The committee of staff that originated and so successfully managed the Patriotic Entertainment for the benefit of the Red Cross, at the Armory, January 8, are arranging to give a Big Boat Excursion on steamer Ole Wing and barge Maniton, July 22. That's a long way off but they expect to take the biggest crowd ever. They will have a ticket selling contest for a prize of a magnificent diamond ring that will be placed on exhibition at Gittelson's jewelry store, 398 Wabasha street on next Monday. Go and see the beauty and see if it is not some prize to work for. The committee is comprised as follows. C. E Jones, chairman; Thomas Lewis, vice chairman; G. J. Lee, recording secretary; J. Lous Ervin, financial secretary; J. W. Milton, R. B. Beard, S. M. Lewis, Billie Williams, J. T. Clairbourne. Persons desiring to enter the contest for the diamond ring should call to see J. Louis Ervin, 309 Court Block. Free Freight 100 Miles; Auto Delivery 50 Miles. RES. N. W. DALE 2149 MINNESOTA STATE FEDERATION. of Colored Women's Clubs to Meet in St. Paul, June 26-27. The Thirteenth Annual Convention of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will hold a two days session in St. Paul June 26-27 at Memorial Baptist church, corner of Rice and Roller streets. Mrs. Mary Taylor, the local chairman, assisted by plenior committee, has promised to make this convention one of the largest and most interesting in years. Preparations are being made for the sustenance and homes for the delegates and visitors. Plans are also being laid for their special entertainment during their stay in the city. It is said that no race can rise higher than its women. If this is true how much is expected of us. Let us give all our hopes, prayers, talents and strength, to a noble cause—the uplifting of our race. Our motto is "Lifting as we climb." The average man or woman, who wins special mention in the battle of life, must fight valiantly, and the color people are no exception to the rule. Further announcements will be made. Yours for our men, women and children, Estella Dane Wiley. Publicity and Press. MRS. JESSIE MURDOCK WILLIAM, Duluth, President. MRS. ETHEL, HOWARD MAXWELL, St. Paul, 1st Vice President. MRS. MINNIE BURWELL, Minneapolis, 2nd V. President. MRS. MAE BLACK-MASON, St. Paul, Recording Secretary. MRS. ESTELLIA DANE WILEY, St. Paul, Asst Recording Secretary. MRS. HESTER KEEYS, Minneapolis, Treasurer. MRS. SUSAN EVANS, Duluth, State Organizer. MRS. PEGGY HOBSON, Chrm. Ways and Means Com. Citation on Petition to Sell Lands. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Ramapo, State Court. In the Matter of the Application for License to Sell the Real Estate of Nels M. Johnson, Decedent. The State of Minnesota to All Whom It May Occur. On reading and filing the petition of David L. Johnson, Representative of David L. Johnson, Representative of that license be said deceased, praying that license be said deceased, the real estate of which said deceased died seized, and it appearing by said personal account that there is not sufficient personal account of the debt representative to pay the debts outstanding against the deceased, and the expenses of administration that need to pay such debts licenses and expenses, and for the best interest of said estate to sell said real estate of said deceased. It Is Therefore Ordered. That all persons interested in said estate be cited and required to appear before said Prosecutor to answer the question of July, A. D. 1918, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the Court House in the City, at the Court County, then and there to show cause, be, why license should not be granted to said representative to sell said real estate according to the prayer of said Prosecutor, to be served by publication, thereof in the --- BEAUTY SHOP ST. PAUL Liberty Bonds Accepted Same as Cash. Appeal according to law. Witness the Judge of said Court this 3rd day of June, 1918. E. W. BAZILLE, Judge of Probate. (Seal of Probate Court) Attest: F. W. GOREWISCH, Clerk of Probate. S. P. CROSBY, Attorney. (6-8-18) Stewart Hotel 246-50 Fourth Av. So. J. EDW. STEWART, Proprietor CHARLES BRODY, Manager FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty Elegant, Steam Heated, Electric Lighted, Rooms. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Gentlemen's Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, Barber Shop and Bath, Private Dining and Reception Rooms for Ladies. A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. SPECIAL TEMPERANCE BEVERAGES. Special Terms for Private Parties, Banquets, Etc. TELEPHONES Office: Main 2869; Auto 36 774; Dining Room Main 2831 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. PORTERS' AND WAITERS' HOTEL FOR MEN ONLY RATES REASONABLE MINNEAPOLIS I Tal. Hyj. 3605 Heers: A $ J. M. $ to 12 M 4 to 5 P. M. Sundays and Brings by Appointment DENTAL SURGEON First Class Guaranteed Work in All Branches of Dentistry 715 Sixth Ave. No. Suite No. 1. MINNEAPOLIS THE BOOKS Be Sure Your Request for "Information" is Necessary Thirty out of every one hundred calls for "Information," are for numbers correctly listed in the telephone book. Delays on these thirty calls could be avoided if telephone users always looked in the directory first. When the assistance of "Information" operators is required, complete and definite data should be given them as to spelling of names, initials and addresses. Indefiniteness or impatience on the part of persons calling "Information" will necessarily delay their call. NORTHWESTERN TELEPHONE EXCHANGE CO. HANDLAN' MEATS, FISH, POULTRY OYSTERS AND OUR FISH SE WE DRESS O ANDLAN & SULLIVAN MEATS, FISH, POULTRY, BUTTER, LARD, ETC. OYSTERS AND GAME IN SEASON. OUR FISH SHIPPED DIRECT. WE DRESS OUR POULTRY. HANDLAN & SULLIVAN MEATS, FISH, POULTRY, BUTTER, LARD, ETC. 492 JACKSON STREET Phones: Office, Hyland 6533; Res, Colfax 4198 Residence Calls by Appointment For Ladies and Gentlemen PRICE & SMEDDLER, Props, All the Latest Electrical Sanitary in Scalp Treatment, Hairdressin Massage, ELECTRIC HAIR PRESSER— TON'S HYGIENIC "HIGH WILL BE US Fast Electrical Sanitary Equipment, Licensed Expert Artists Treatment, Hairdressing, Shampooing, Manicuring, Facial Massage, Chiropody. HAIR PRESSER—DERMA BEAUTY LIGHT—OVER'S HYGIENIC "HIGH BROWN" PREPARATIONS WILL BE USED AND SOLD. All the Latest Electrical Sanitary Equipment, Licensed Expert Artists in Sculp Treatment, Hairdressing, Shampooing, Manicuring, Facial Massage, Chiropody. ELECTRIC HAIR PRESSER—DERMA BEAUTY LIGHT—OVERTON'S HYGIENIC "HIGH BROWN" PREPARATIONS WILL BE USED AND SOLD. ALL PRICES VERY REASONABLE N FROM N. W. PHONE TO 3 A. M. HYLAND 5851 NORTH SIDE CAFE FINE CHOP SUEY OUR SPECIALTY 901 SIXTH AVE. N. MINNEAPOLIS, N PATRONIZE THE J & H WET W 3753-55-57 CEDAR HIGH GRADE SPECIAL WET WASH AND I LAUNDRY OUR WORK OUR BEST ADVER WET WASH LAUNDRY 555-57 CEDAR AVE., MINNEAPOLIS HIGH GRADE SPECIALISTS IN SANITARY WASH AND DRY WASH FAMILY LAUNDERING TO OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT. WE CALL & DELIVER DIES! If You Know, that it is CHEAPER to send your family washing to the "Old Reliable" the Mitol Steam Laundry to pay a "wash lady" big wages, furnish als, soap and fuel—and then worry all day. iron all the flat pieces, and starch all the rough dry ones. CURTEOUS DRIVERS. GOOD SERVICE MITOL STEAM LAUNDRY W. Cedar 4622 Tri-State 21939 Cedar 3549 Quick Service OPEN ALL NIGHT MODEL CAFE A. R. RAGLAND, PROP. At Class A La Carte Meals From 6:30 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. at Reasonable Rates Regular Dinner 11:30 A.M. to 2.30 P.M. 20 Cts. Robert Street ST. PAUL, MINN J & H WET WASH LAUNDRY 3753-55-57 CEDAR AVE., MINNEAPOLIS HIGH GRADE SPECIALISTS IN SANITARY WET WASH AND DRY WASH FAMILY LAUNDERING OUR WORK OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT. WE CALL & DELIVER LADIES! Do You Know, that it is your family washing to Capitol Steam than to pay a "wash like meals, soap and fuel---- We iron all the flat pi rough d COURTEOUS DRIVERS CAPITOL STEAM N. W. Cedar 4622 Do You Know, that it is CHEAPER to send your family washing to the "Old Reliable" the than to pay a "wash lady" big wages, furnish meals, soap and fuel—and then worry all day. We iron all the flat pieces, and starch all the rough dry ones. GOURTEOUS DRIVERS. GOOD SERVICE CAPITOL STEAM LAUNDRY N. W. Cedar 4622 Tri-State 21939 Tel. Cedar 3549 Quick Service OPEN ALL NIGHT MODEL CAFE A. R. RAGLAND, PROP. First Class A La Carte Meals From 6:30 A. M. to 12:00 P. M. at Reasonable Rates Regular Dinner 11:30 A. M. to 2.30 P. M. 20 Cts. 289 Robert Street ST. PAUL, MINN First Class A La Carte Meals From 6:30 A. M. to 12:00 P. M. at Reasonable Rates Regular Dinner 11:30 A. M. to 2.30 P. M. 20 Cts. 289 Robert Street ST. PAUL, MINN. CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETI- TION FOR ADMINISTRATION. be heard, at the Probate Co. in the Court House in the c. Paul in such county, and she STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Harrisey, In Probate Court. should not be granted and thi- tation be served by the p. Barber, Decedent The State of Minnesota to All Whom It May Concern: The petition of W. T. Barber having been filed in this Court, representing the County of Ramsey, Suffolk a resident of the County of Ramsey, Suffolk a sota, died intestate on the 3rd day of January, and praying that letters of administration to the estate be granted to Geo. W. Steward It is Ordered, That said petition be held and that all persons interested in said matter be said hereby are gived and required to appear before this Court on Monday the 15th day of July, 1913, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon or as soon thereafter as said matter can (6-15-18) THE BELL OF THE MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE N. W. Cedar 7618 Tri-State 24401 CAROLYN E. PRICE SUITE NO. 1. 715 SIXTH AVE. NO. OPEN FROM 12 N. 10 TO 3 A.M. DREXEL 1269 Save Food Buy War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds N. W. Cedar 2003 Tri-State 22694 854 RICE STREET IDA M. SMEDDLER MINNEAPOLIS N. W. PHONE HYLAND, 8981 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. PHONES Quick Service OPEN ALL NIGHT be heard, at the Probate Court Room is the Court House in the City of St. Paul in the county where show cause, if any they have, why should they, should not be granted and that this clauses served by the publication thereof in the county according to law, and by mailing a copy of the petition at least 14 days before said day petition to each of the heirs of said decedent are known and appear from the files of this Court. Witness the Judge of said Court, this 14th day of June. E. W. BAZILLE. Judge of Probate. (Seal of Probate Court.) Attest: H. GOSEWISH Clerk of Probate. HAMMOND TURNER. 321 Metropolitan Bank Bldg. ODD FELLOWS MARS LODGE NO. 2202, G. U. O. F dine second and fourth Wednesday in each month at Union Hail, Agrora and Kent Streets, at 8:00 P.M. S. G. Smith, J. Wesley Kelly, P. S. S. G. Smith, J. Wesley Kelly, P. S. S. G. Smith, J. Wesley Kelly, P. S. FREDERICK DOUGLASS LODGE NO. 9006, G. U. O. F, meets second and fourth Monday in each month at Union Hail, at 8:00 P.M. m. Jas. O. Lyons, N. G. R. A. Hatton, P. S. 126 W. Arch street. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 658, G. U. O. F, meets the third Monday in each month at Union Hail, corner of streets at 8:00 P.M. M. Mrs. Annie Belton, Carrie E. Lindsay, N. G. R. 918 W. wo- bridge street. ST. PAUL PATRIARCHY NO. 124. Meets third Monday in each month at Agrora and Kent Streets, at 8:00 P.M. R. V. P.; Augusta Jones, N. F. P. PATRIARCHY LODGE NO. 1, F. P. R. M. meets first and third Monday in each month at Union Hail, corner of Agrora at 8:00 P.M. m. F. D. McCracken, W. M.; 126 W. Arch street. 432 Rong street. PERFECT ASHAR LODGE NO. 4, F. A. M. Ameets second and fourth Tuesday in Cor. Aurora and Kent streets, at 8:38 P. M. John A. Sayles, W. M. Ira A. Ashe, Secy. 225 Rondo street. BETHEL CHAPTER NO. 28, R. A. M. a meet three Thursday in every other meet and Kent streets, at 8:30 M. R. P. Jackson, H. P.; John A. Sayles, Secretary, 479 Rondo street. PILGRIM COMMANDER NO. 22, K. Knight's Templar. Meets fourth Thursday in Hall, Aurora and Kent streets, at 8:00 P. M. W. F. T. Chandler, E.C. at 8:00 P. M. W. F. T. Chandler, E.C. in Charleston, Secy. 638 University avenue. FEEZAN TEMPEL NO. 26, NOBLES of the Mystic Shrine, meets third day in each month at Union Hall, corner of Aurora and Kent streets, at 8:00 P. M. John A. Sayles, Geo. A. Lhooge, Rec. 590 Charles street. Minneapolis. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 776 U. G. F. meets second and fourth Tuesday in the library. Tom Pierse Hall, Cor. Fourth street and High Ave. Beach, Mrs. S. Darager, M. N. G. Miss Cora Napler, W. R. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE- CLOSURE SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That default has occurred in the conditions of that certain mortgage, dated the 8th day of May, 1912, executed by Bertha A. Wolf and Richard G. Wolf (wife and husband) as mortgageg, to Rose Ledegar as mortgageg, filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for Ramssey County, State of Minnesota, on the 9th day of May, 1912, at 3:00 o'clock and 20 minutes P. M. and recorded in Book 438 of Mortgage Records, on page 243 of that; that mortgage was subsequently and on the third day of July, 1914, duly assigned to John P. Smith by Decree of the Probate Court of Ramssey County, Minnesota, which said Decree was filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for Ramssey County, State of Minnesota, at the 10th day of December, 1914, at o'clock and 50 minutes P. M. and recorded in Book 573 of Deeds Records, on page 230 of that, that, pursuant to provision of said mortgage, said assistance of said mortgage has elected to declare the whole debt secured thereby to be now due and payable; that there is no damage and payable, at the date of this notice, upon the debt secured by said mortgage, the sum of Three Thousand $2,000.00) Dollars, and that no action or proceeding at law or otherwise has been instituted to recover said debt or any part thereof; that, by virtue of a power of sale therein contained, said mortgage will be foreclosed and the land and premises therein described, lying and being in the County of Ramssey, State of Minnesota, described as follows, to wit: Lot numbered Eleven (11) in Block numbered Three (3) in Palace Addition to St. Paul, according to the recorded plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds in and for said Ramsey County and State of Minnesota, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash by the Sheriff Ramsey County, at the Cedar Street man door of the Court House, in the City door of the Court House, in the City door of Minnesota, on the 1st day of May, 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon to pay and satisfy the debt secured mortgage, seventy-five ($75.00) Dollars attorney's fees therein provided for, and the costs and disbursements allowed by law upon such foreclosure and sale. Dater May 17, 1918. JOHN P. SMITH, Assignee of Mortgagee. W. T. Francis, Attorney for Assignee of Mortgagee, 329 Metropolitan Bank Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. (5-18-18) Citation on Petition to Admit Will to Probate. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Ramsey—same as Bank Bldg. In the Matter of Proving the Alleged Last Will and Testament of Ernest W. Crane, seceded. The State of Minnesota to All Whom It May Concern: Whereas, W. T. Francis of the City of Omaha and State of Minnesota has delivered a bill to the probate Court of the County of Ramsey, Missouri in writing purporting to be the Last and Testament of Ernest W. Cranum, county of Minnesota, decendent, and filenames petition to said Probate Court, praying that the instrument may be proved and admitted to probate and that Letters Testamentary be granted thereon to W. T. Francis. It was agreed that petition be heard and that instrument be cited in said matter be cited and required to appear before this Court on Monday, 19th July, 1918, at 10 o'clock A. M. or as soon as possible, said matter can be heard, at the Probate Court Rooms, in the Court House of Ramsey, in said County, and show cause, if necessary, said petition should not be granted and said Will admitted to probate and delivered to the judge served by the publication thereof in law, and by mailing a copy of this citation at least 14 days before day of hearing, to each of the heirs, devlises, legitifies, cedent whose names and addresses are and appear from the files of this Court. Witness the Judge of said Court, this 31st day of May, A. D. 1918. E. W. BAZILLE, W. T. Francis HIGHWAY OF MEMORIAL (Seal of Probate Court. Attest: F. W. GOSWISCH, Attest: W. T. FRANCIS, Attorney 329 Metropolitan Bank Bldg. 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