Wisconsin Weekly Blade

The Wisconsin Weekly Blade Official Organ of Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth. Illinois and Wisconsin Jurisdiction. 7,000 Members VOL. I Great 3-Days Convention On Rights of Citizenship By Colored Congress and National Equal Right Leagues Washington, D. C., Oct. 7, 1916—Coming from all section of the country, even from California, Colored men and women assembled at the seat of Congress in the 50th year since Congress voted in favor of the 14th amendment conferring citizenship upon Colored Americans in a National Citizenship Rights Congress Wednesday and Thursday in the beautiful John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev. W. C. Brown, pastor, the convention concluding on Friday with the 9th Annual Meeting of the National Equal Rights League, which called the Congress. The meeting was unique in the last decade in that leaders who were in opposition 10 years ago got together for equal rights. 180 delegates from 21 states were present and a spirit of getting together prevailed. The Congress, which before it adjourned endorsed the principles of the Equal Rights League was opened by Pres. Gunner of the League. Pastor Brown offered invocation, Secretary Trotter read the call, Judge E. M. Hewlett gave the address of welcome, followed by responses by J. H. Murphy, Editor of the Batilmore Afro-American, Mrs. R. Goggins, of Mich., J. P. Pear of Conn., and others. Rev. Harvey Johnson of Baltimore was elected temporary Chairman, F. Morris Murray, of Va., Secretary and Thomas Walker of D. C. treasurer. Committees were appointed, M. W. Spencer of Del., being made chairman on program, Editor Murphy on press, E. T. Morris of Mass. on credentials, addresses were made by Wm. Monroe Trotter, presiding, Rev. B. Gunner, N. Y., Thos. Walker, D. C., president of local branch and Rev. W. C. Brown, pastor, welcome and addresses, Rev. M. F. Sydes, R. I. and Rev. P. O'Connell, responses; invocation by Rev. E. P. Divon of Mass.; Music was by the Glee Club of the Dunbar High School. On Thursday the Congress went into permanent organization with Rev. M. F. Sydes, pres.; Rev. C. H. Stepeau, D. C., vice pres.; T. Walker, D. C., treasurer; J. E. Churchman, N. J., recording secretary; Wm. Warley, Kv., corresponding secretary; Elbert W. Powell, Cal., sergeant at arms; Rev. R. S. Johnson, Va., chapain. The Congress recommended to the Equal Rights League consideration of further getting-together of race organization and endorsed the principles of the League. It also adopted a ringing address to the country, framed by W. M. Spencer. This address declared the South was annuling the War Amendments by JimCrow cars, residential segregation, and disfranchisement laws and lynching of colored persons, even women. It denounced the Wilson federal segregation, and the color-line laws introduced into Congress, and called for racial organizations for defense of rights and privileges in the following clause: We call upon the leaders of our race to unselfishly guide the people and to organize them locally and nationally to resist and combat denial of civil and political rights and especially the policy of reparation from fellow Americans of every race in the public life, opposing prejudice. It was signed by M. W. Spencer, Del.; Rev. J. H. Eason, Pa.; Rev. J. E. Wood, Ky.; W. M. Trotter, Mass.; J. H. Murphy, Md.; Rev. R. C. Ransom, N. J.; Rev. W. S. Gay, Conn.; Mrs. Robt. Goggins, Mich.; E. W. Powell, Cal.; Mrs. S. L. Adams, Ill.; Rev. M. F. Sydes, R. I.; E. D. Williston, N. C.; Rev. B. Gunner, N. Y. The speakers at the Thursday night were Rev. C. M. Stepteau, D. C., presiding, Prof. Kelly Miller, D. C.; Rev. R. C. Ransom, N. J., the semicentennial orator who advised a nonpartisan negro party, William D. Brigham, of Boston, Mass., a Modern Day Abolitionist; Mr. W. Spencer who read the Address to the Coun- try. Music was by the Amphion Glee Club, Prof. Layton, leader. 9th Annual Meeting of the Equal Rights League. The Congress merged in to the 9th Annual Meeting of the National Equal Rights League on Friday with Rev. Byron Gunner in the chair, the morning session was opened with prayer by Bishop G. L. Blackwell of Penn., 180 delegates were enrolled from 26 states. Rev. J. E. Churchman was made recording secretary pro tem and J. L. Neill, D. C., with S. T. Morris, Mass., and Mrs. R. Goggins, Mich., were credentials committee. Bishop Alex Walters enrolled. Committees were appointed on Declaration of Principles, Dr. W. A. Sinclair, Penn., chairman; on racial organization through the League, J. E. Churchman, N. J.; on segregation, Wm. Warley, Ky., chairman; on disfranchisement; Rev. A. C. Randall, Md., chairman; on lynching, Mrs. I. B. W. Barnett, Ill., chairman; on nomination of officers, Rev. O. E. Denniston, Mass., chairman; on industrial movements, Rev. W. S. Gay, Conn., chairman. After remarks by Maj. W. J. Furlong, Mass., Mrs. Mary James, Mass., and Levine J. Spencer, Del., adjournment was until afternoon. In the afternoon these committees brought in strong reports which were adopted. Reduction of representation in Congress, a law by Congress making lynching a federal crime, a committee to wait upon Congress, drastic opposition to all sorts of race segregation in institutions as well as public carriers and domicils and organization of the race by Colored leaders were among the measures favored. Condemn Wilson, Favor Hughes. A strong address to the country was adopted scoring Wilson for his race segregation and favoring Chas. Hughes as the means by which to put Wilson out. The address contained the following: Owing to the alarming spread of Jim-Crowism we declare an opposition to the whole policy of race separation in public and semi-public institutions, in places open to the public as undemocratic and un-American, a denial of equality of rights and destined to make us social and civic outcasts. The night mass meeting was like the others, honored by a very large audience. M. W. Spencer opened. Prayer was by Rev. O. E. Dennison of Mass. Addresses were by Rev. B. Gunner, presiding officers, Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Garnett, Bishop I. N. Ross, J. P. Peaker, Conn., Prof. Allen W. Whaley, Mass., and Wm. Monroe Trotter, Mass. The music was by Miss Lillian Evans, soprano. A reception to the delegates closed a most successful three days' convention. The address to the country was signed by Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair, Penn.; Hon. I. B. Allen, N. Y.; Joseph H. Stewart, D. C.; Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom, N. J.; Mrs. Ida B. W. Barnett, Ill.; E. T. Morris, Mass.; Thos. Walker, D. C.; Rev. G. W. Kent. These officers were elected: President, Byron Gunner, D. D., New York; vice presidents, Rev. Reverdy, Ransom, N. J., Wm. D. Brigham, Mass., Rev. Harvey Johnson, D. D., Md., Rev. C. H. Stepteau, D. D., D. C., Rev. Marion F. Sydes, D. D., R. I., Mrs. S. L. Adams, Ill.; Rev. John Barnett, Va.; Bishop J. N. Ross, W. C. Brown, D. C.; recording secretary, James L. Neill, D. C.; assistant recording secretary, V.m. Warley, Ky.; corresponding secretary, W. Monroe Trotter, Mass.; assistant corresponding secretary, Maurice W. Spencer, Del.; treasurer, Thomas Walker, D. C.; financial secretary, Dr. W. A. Sinclair, Penn.; assistant financial secretary, A. Fitzholan Wallace, D. C.; chaplain, Rev. Oscar F. Denniston, Mass.; national organizer, Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Pa.; Rev. James E. Churchman, N. J.; assistant national organizer, Rev. Arthur Randall, Md., and an executive committee, M. W. Spencer, chairman. Let the merchants know that you read the Blade by patronizing them and tell them that you saw their ad in our paper. MADISON, WIS., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916 Peoria. Ill. News for the Blade may be left at Miss Bell Lee, 409 7th Ave. Phone Main 3734-R-2 or at G. T. Jackson, 917 Monson St. Phone Main 2335-L Cards are out announcing the engagement of Mr. J. E. Powers to Mrs. Margaret J. Hammett of Philadelphia, Pa., on Oct. 16th, 1916, at the Ward Chapel A. M. E. church. Rev. F. H. Curtright and family have returned from their business trip in the South and bring glad tidings of joy. Company K, Colored contribution of the troops on the Mexican border started home last Saturday night. Ordered to return several days ago, the actual start was not until last Saturday when the entire Eighth regiment, National Guard, left Camp Wilson for Springfield where the troops will be mustered out of the federal service. Rev. S. B. Jones, pastor of ward chapel A. M. E. church, has returned from the Conference of his church held at Sparta, Ill., and in view of the excellence of the work done in Peoria he was reassigned to the ward chapel again for another year by Bishop Coppin. Brother Jones begins the fifth year of his pastorate. In the four years he has been at the head of the church he has increased te membership from 128 to 252, and has reduced the indebtedness of the church from $3,300 to $1,200. When te difficulties under which he has labored are considered this is a magnificent showing and the good pastor as well as the congregation are to be congratulated. The following persons were in the city last week attending the funeral of Dr. W. H. Harper: Abe and Sanford Harper, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Raney, Mrs. J. Allcorn, Mrs. C. Love, Mr. Al. Richardson of Galesburg, Ill., Mrs. J. Pierce of Canton, Ill., and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson of Havana, Ill. Mr. A. Hughes, 922 State St., is sick at his home. Mrs. N. Burns of Washington, D. C., is advocating a universal colored Y. W. C. A., so be a booster for one in Peoria. The many friends are delightful to learn that Mrs. Capt. I. C. Harper is home from the hospital and getting along nicely. Peoria Lodge, No. 2465, met on last Thursday evening. We had a good meeting. We have no sick on the list and all is going on fine. We will have a lot of pleasure this winter, as it has been arranged to have something doing once a month. So come to the meeting and find out about it. We installed the following officers: Wm. M. Murduck, V. G.; E. P. Richardson, N. G.; Martin Journey, N. F.; A. W. Whitaside, P. N. F.; R. A. Gibbons, P. N. G.; W. W. Glover, Warden. The great revivals meeting have begun at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. Have you attended? Mrs. Perry of Seventh Ave. has returned from North Point, Mich., and is making preparation to entertain the Woman's Aid Club in the near future. Mrs. Perry entertained Mr. and Mrs. Nichols of Nebraska last Sunday with a delighted dinner. Mrs. Carpenter and two daughters of Streator, Ill., are making their home with Mrs. Carpenter's Brother, John White on Smith St. CAIRO, ILL. A Farewell Reception To Inmate Admonia M. Hudson, Ex. D. G. W. R. of Ill. and Wis. Jurisdiction. It was indeed a grand affair that Household of Ruth No. 1312 of Cairo tendered Inmate Edmonia M. Hudson,, Ex-D. G. W. R. and W. R. of No. 1312 at the palatial home of Inmate Carrie Gilchrist. Sister Hudson is leaving the city for her future home in Jackson, Mich. She is a charter member of 1312, loyal, faithful and progressive Inmate and Household loathe to give her up. We trust that she will be successful in her new field of endeavor and will make there as here many warm and true friends. After serving refreshments Inmate Jennie K. Langs, P. M. N. G. presented Inmate Hudson with a beautiful bouquet. The evening was enjoyably spent. Eliza Penick, M. N. G. Emma Washington, N. G. Rockford, Ill. Send your news for the Blade to 511 Knowlton St. Yankee Cleaner. Mrs. Walter Robison is visiting friends in Chicago and is being highly entertained. Misses Frances and Irene McInnis are in the city, the guests of their brother. They are recipients of many functions. Their home is in Festus, Mo. Mrs. James Scott, President of the Federated Nonpareil Club, has called it together to resume their winter activities. The L. S. C. club was royally entertained on the 7th by Mrs. H. Blake. A number was in attendance and every one spent an enjoyable afternoon. Yankee Cleaner. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Tucker sympathize with them because of the loss of their baby whose death occurred on the 6th inst. The Court of Calanthe, K. of P., gave a very successful concert last Monday night. Mr. Harry Blaskley officited at the piano. Miss Edna DePriest, a trained nurse in Providence Hospital at Chicago, spent a week with her uncle, Mr. Calhoun, Savannah, Ill. The Young Men's Booster club gave a sumptuous chicken dinner at the opening of the new hotel. Everything was up-to-date. Mrs. Minnie Thomas, Freeport, was in the city in attendance of the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Tucker's baby. A. play, "An Old Country", has been planned by the L. S. C. Club. Date will be announced later. LA CROSSE, WIS. Rev. Z. Smith, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist church, and Editor J. Anthony Josey was in La Crosse this week upon attendance of the State Baptist Convention. They were given a very cordial welcome by the brethren. They both addressed the convention in interest of their church and rendered a report of the church from its organization. For more than twenty-five years Mr. Ashly Shivers has been doing business in La Crosse. He is a man whose word is his bond, enjoying the full confidence of all the people regardless of color. He is the Father of our own Oscar who is hailed as a prince of good fellows. Mr. Shivers is planing on paying Madison a visit soon and The Blade extends to him a cordial welcome to its officials. Mr. Mirt Midgett is one of the prosperous young men of La Crosse, coming to the city about one year ago from Des Moines, Iowa. A perfect stranger, in the course of this short time, he has made many substantial friends and enjoys their confidence. Mr. Glen Maupin, 103 King St. is to numbered among the city's first citizens. He is genial and affable, and is well liked by all who know him. Mr. and Mrs. Maupin are quite popular in their home town. The good men of La Crosse and adjoining towns will, under the leadership of Mr. L. E. William, start an association to be formed into an Odd Fellow Lodge. The Editor talked the matter over with him and he consented to take the lead and with assistance bring something to pass. Why not a Lodge in La Crosse? Mr. Williams will also represent the Blade in his town. Send him all your news and give him your subscription. He is a man of wide and varied experience and will assist The Blade in its effort to give to its thousands of readers the news of his locality. Milwaukee, Wis. H. B. Kinner. Why not get together and have a Milwaukee edition of the Blade. Show the good people that our cify is in the lead. The Blade has made good in Milwaukee and we thank Editor Josev and his staff for the interest they have shown in our city. Send your news to 708 Cherry St. for the Blade or leave it at The Question Lunch room, 193 4th St. It does not matter whether you are a subscriber or not. The Blade will print your news if it is sent to us on time. Mr. Gus Gladney who resided in this town for many years, dropped dead down town last Thursday. The entire community was shocked over the report. Mr. Gladney had only been sick two or three days but did not take his bed at all. He had been employed by the Street Railway Co. for about nineteen years. A wife survives him. Little Dorothy Hall, one year and six months old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hall of Eighth St., died last Sunday morning. The funeral was held at St. Mark A. M. E. church Tuesday. Mrs. Geo. Williams of 624 Poplar St., who has been in the hospital for several weeks, is home again but not able to be up. Miss Josephine Peoples, who has been visiting her parents in Chicago, has returned to the city. Mr. Gus Kinner has returned to Milwaukee after having spent several years in Detroit and throughout the East. The following parties spent an enjoyable evening at a theatre party last Saturday night after which they proceeded to the Turf Hotel and had a mid-night luncheon: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Merritt, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sanford, Mrs. Lovie, Miss Nellie Smith, the scribe and Mrs. H. B. Kinner. The Masonic Lodge made a grand turnout at the funeral of Mr. Gladney Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kinner entertained the following Sunday evening at luncheon: Mr. and Mrs. R. Ralph Sanford, Mr. and Mrs. R. Merritt, Miss Nellie Smith, Mrs. Jane Rogers and Mrs. Lula Miller. Watch for the Milwaukee edition of the Blade. You will see the Colored People's Business Buildings, churches, hotels, and her prominent men. Keep your eyes opened and see what the Milwaukeeans ARE DOING. GRAND T 204-206 S HIGH CLASS MO SATURDAY: Sporting Blood--A Ra SUNDAY: The Redemption of Morrison. MONDAY: Wm. Farnum in "The FRIDAY: Charlie Chaplin in "T GRAND THEATER George They GEORGE'S $2.00 HAT CLOTHING HIGH GRADE FURN G. A.' ISBERNER 404 East Wilson Street Near Cardinal Hotel --- OSHKOSH, WIS. One of the grandest concerts of the season was given at the A. M. E. Zion church on the 5th inst., an extra large attendance and feast of fun and good time. Opening address by Hon. Mavi Mully. Rev. Geo. Register, D. D., invoked the divine blessing. Song by the church choir. Music by the famous Dixie Quartette. Mrs. Johnson White and Mr. A. L. Henderson read very interesting papers. Mr. Irwin and Miss Florene Mathews of Fond du Lac favored their hearers to a very sweet duett. While Mr. Eli Rice and Mrs. G. Montgomery were at their best in the condition of their duette. The pastor, Rev. Lane, made the closing remarks thanking all for their attendance and the participants for their service. The supper was prepared by the chef from the C. & N. W. car and was served by the following committee: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Mesdames Netter, J. P. Turner, Moon, Ruby Shagd. Mr. Sowell acted as usher and Mrs. Carrie Casey as Mistress of ceremonies. Mrs. Aley Sherley and daughter were in Oshkosh Sunday from Fond du Lac and attended services. Send your subscription to the Blade and let us have all your news as it must reach the office not later than Tuesday of each week. Pay your subscription. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. The Blade carries the Ad. of The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. The oldest and largest manufacturers of colored toilet articles in the world, established since 1858. We feel safe in recommending this firm and their articles to the use of the general pub. BROWN, THE TRUNK MAN, is offering bargains in trunks and traveling bags. 206 E. Main St. Cook with gas, and buy a stove from the Madison Gas & Electric Light Co. Terms to suit you. THEATER STATE ST. MOTION PICTURES ce Track Story. Dave Darcy with James Man from Bitter Roots." the Pawnshop." George's Hats They Satisfy DO HAT STORE HING FURNISHINGS BERNER --- NO.19 Madison, Wis. ```markdown ``` A National Journal of Opinion and Circulation. Entered as second-class matter June 8, 1916, at the post office at Madison, Wis., under rthe Act of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to THE WISCONSIN WEEKLY BLADE, 312 N. Henry St. Money sent by express money order, or registered letter at our own risk, otherwise at risk of the sender. J. A. Josey, Editor and Manager. L. J. Ousley, Contributing Editor. Phones 6756—3369. SUBSCRIPTION: One year .....$1.50 Six months .....1.00 Three months ..... .50 NOTICE. NOTICE. The D. G. L. is not responsible for any financial obligation of The Blade. ILL. AND WIS. ODD FELLOWS Why not an Odd Fellow Lodge in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac, Wis.? These two thriving little cities within the radius of fifty miles and with more than two hundred colored people, should have an Odd Fellow Lodge. The Editor of the Blade is using his best effort to this end. La Crosse will or hopes to be brought into the order and any city or town in Wisconsin that has men of backbone integrity, and trust the banner of Odd Fellowism, should be unfurled to the breeze. Let the Odd Fellows of this jurisdiction bestir themselves. Let them remember that we must build up our order and not only in the state of Wisconsin but likewise in Illinois. Organize lodges wherever you may find suitable men willing to following the fotosteps of our predecessors, learn and teach the principles of Friedship, Love, and Truth. BENJAMIN JEFFERSON DAVIS AND HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON. Two of Georgia's Distinguished Colored Men Highly Honored. The Blade, together with the thousands of friends throughout this country, are pleased with and approve of the appointment of Hons. Henry Lincoln Johnson and B. J. Davis as members of the Advisory Committee of the Republican National Campaign Committee. This is and should not be an honor for Georgia alone but for the entire race in this country. We have always contended that the Republican is a party of, for and by all the people. It does not confine itself to any particular race, but welcomes all men without regard to race or creed. These men are accredited national leaders and every loyal Republican and self-respecting Negro should rejoice and appreciate it as its true worth. This act within itself shows that the Republican party will give every man a square deal OFFICE BOY NOW MUST BE A CHAUFFEUR TOO Business Men Send Youths to Drive Cars Around Block. Philadelphia.—Requirements for office boys have automatically risen with the new ordinance regulating the parking of automobiles in central streets of this city. Advertisements for "Boy Wanted" now conclude with something like this. "Must be experienced in driving motorcars or willing to learn." Here's the reason. Suburbanites who drive their cars to their offices in the city in the morning cannot leave the autos parked in the street as they could formely. In a section of chestnut street where there are several big office buildings, for example, cars must not be left standing for more than half an hour at a time. So every half hour the business man sends his office boy to the street to drive his auto around the block. If his office boy isn't a chauffeur the business man goes himself. But this takes valuable time, and, added to the expense of starting up the car and moving it around the block sixteen times a day for six days a week, it costs money. Hence the demand for office boys who are also chauffeurs. The Negro Moving North The Negro Moving North The war, cutting off immigration from Europe, has started a northward movement of negro laborers, which journalistic observers find most significant. For the negro, it is said to be the entrance upon "a new stage in his progress 'up from slavery.'" For the North, it is the intensification of its negro-problem. The South may gain by the partial transfer of its race-problem, and its added attractiveness to white immigrants. But the prevailing Southern comment is represented by the Montgomery Advertisers's question, if the negroes go, "where shall we get labor to take their places?" "It is being systematically stimulated by Northern employers of labor. The Pennsylvania Railroad has taken 4,000 blacks from the South, 3,000 being brought North in one train of six sections. Persons familiar with our New England tobacco-farms have observed this season the appearance of negro laborers in much increased numbers. Exaggerated estimates of the movement are in circulation. At the negro conference in Washington last week, representing the New England and Middle Atlantic States, it was asserted that more than 500,000 blacks from the South had come North in the past six months. But, whatever the figures may be, letters and telegrams were read at the conference from many manufacturers, mine-owns, and others, giving assurances that negroes would be encouraged to make their homes in the North and would receive a 'square deal.' It was represented that the industrial situation in Pennsylvania and New York was such that at least 2,000,000 negro laborers could be employed in the next year." Now, remarks The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans), a representative of negro Methodism in the South, "if negro labor is as objectionable and worthless and as undependable as our Southern friends would often assert, why all these drastic measures to prevent this worthless labor from going elsewhere?" "Let us for a moment be frank with each other," it continues. "The negro at heart loves the South, its activities, its sunshine, its climate, but he is very much dissatisfied with the treatment that he other wise receives. His families do not receive proper protection at the hands of constitutional authorities as well as the bar of public opinion. There are not proper facilities for the education of his children. There is not a congenial atmosphere for the development of self-respect and of racial contentment. We are disfranchised, we are hedged about, and we are lynched without redress. Even a worm sometimes will recoil and a half-dead hound will resent constant mis-treatment. Is it any surprise, therefore, that in spite of all the negro's natural inclination to Southern climate that he so eagerly seizes an opportunity to go elsewhere? "If our Southern friends are anxious to prevent this immigration to the North, they have the remedy in their own hands. It will not be by coercion, or threats, or arrests, it will be because the South recognizes the negro as a human being with all the rights and privileges of a human being. . . . If Georgia, Florida, and the other States of the South want to retain the negro in their borders and have him pile up their wealth and happiness, there are some things that must be guaranteed: . . . protect our families, improve educational facilities, regard the human rights of the negro, give him the franchise by whatever standars we may, but let that standard be honestly and squarely administered; make it possible for the negro to have recreation under healthful conditions and remove the constant dread and suspicion that constantly surround him. If this is done the South will have al the labor that it wants, a labor which it has known for at least three hundred years and tried under all conditions and proved to be the best labor of the world. Shall the negro continue to move north or is he to remain at home? We wait for the answer." Success for the negroes of the North would mean better conditions for Southern negroes. For if the Southern negro, finding political and social conditions in tolerable, were able to migrate to the North, he would have in his hand a weapon as effective as any he could find in the ballot-box. . . . "Thus the negro, a half-century after emancipation, is to-day entering upon a new stage in his progress 'up from slavery.'" SPORTSMEN PLAN TO WIPE OUT THE ENGLISH SPARROW Will Ask Governor of Every State to Aid In Work. New York.—The League of American Sportsmen, whose object is the preservation of wild life, is considering the question of inaugurating a nation wide campaign for the destruction of the English sparrow. Its officials say this bird has made such headway here that it is driving out the smaller song and insectivorous birds and that it has become a question of whether we will have only the English sparrow to represent our bird life or destroy it and regain some fifty species of useful and beautiful birds that used to inhabit farms and countryside all over the land. The league intends to issue a proclamation declaring war on the English sparrow and setting aside a week, possibly in April or May of next year, to be devoted especially to waging it. The governor of every state will be asked to aid the work. Printed instructions as to the plan of the campaign will be sent to the mayors of all incorporated cities and villages, to the heads of the school systems in every county, to college presidents, to principals of preparatory schools, to the heads of the boy scouts in each state and to other organizations which might be expected to extend sympathy and aid. Four principal methods of action will be employed: Tearing down the nests, trapping the birds, shooting them under police supervision and under licenses issued by the police authorities, and, in cities where water pressure is available, turning the hose on the birds at night after they have gone to roost. WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD. Mrs. Van Sickle Takes Active Part In Her Birthday Celebration Her Birthday Celebration. Sussex, N. J.-Surrounded by her six children, twenty grandchildren and four great-grandchildren to say nothing of a host of relatives, friends and neighbors, Mrs. Sarah Van Sickle of Wantage township, two miles from here, celebrated her one hundredth birthday. She took an active part in the celebration and urged the younger ones to dance and play games while she looked on and directed things. Mrs. Van Sickle was born and has lived in this part of New Jersey all her life. She said that her health was good and that she felt no older than she did thirty years ago. She is still able to read without the aid of glasses and is a daily reader of the newspapers. The sewing machine still claims much of her time, but she is not able to thread the needle as dexterously as once. immigrants. But the the Montgomery Adver- get labor to take their ern employers of labor. backs from the South FIRST COMMUN Campaign, Ill To the M. N. G., Office throughout the Distr Greetings: Log Cabin Baking Co 607 University Ave MADISON P MADISON PACKING 307 W. JOHNSON ST. Largest and most Sanitary M in the City. best and most Sanitary M in the City. e 4920. MERCHANTS & SAVINGS BANK Largest and most Sanitary Market in the City. 'Phone 4920. MERCHANTS & SAVINGS BANK MERCHANTS & SAVINGS BANK 23 WEST MAIN STREET OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 TO 9 PAUL KINGSTON bus, Carriage, Baggage and Taxicab PHONE 146 CE: NEW PARK HOTEL MADISON, OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 TO 9 PAUL KINGSTON Omnibus, Carriage, Baggage and Taxicab Line PHONE 146 OFFICE: NEW PARK HOTEL MADISON, WIS. Eden District Grand Household of Ruth No.18 G. U. O. of O. F., Illinois and Wisconsin Office of the District Grand Worthy Recorder FIRST COMMUNICATION. Campaign, Ill., Oct., 1916. To the M. N. G., Officers and Inmates throughout the District. Greetings: This is to notify you that Grand Tax, 10c per financial member, is due Eden District Grand H. of R., No. 18. Will you help make this a banner year by promptly paying all bills as they come due and see that you get receipts for same? If you do not have your Annual Report blanks by December 15th for the Household and your Juvenile Society, please write to me, and if you do not receive Delegates' and Honorary Members' blanks by April 15th, please write to me. Please help have a clean record in August, 1917, by having in all Annual Reports, Annual Taxes, money for District Proceedings and Delegate and Honorary Member Credential on or before June 15th, 1917. Trusting that all will be well in our noble order and P. H. & P. will reign, I am yours faithfully. N. B.—Please note that several households have not responded to the notice sent out Aug. 8, 1916. They were given 30 days to respond or be placed on the delinquent list. The Fringed Gentian. Children gladly welcome you. Blossoms of the royal hue. Brightening the dullest room With your wealth of purple bloom. On damp glove or mossy ground In the autumn are you found. Opening your challis tail Where the cheerful sunbeams fall. When the summer flowers fade You adorn the narrow glade. Weaving in your textured light Sapphire from the streams of light. Children linger where you grow And your green leaves are aglow With the message from above Teaching us that life is love. THE HOME OF Fine Stationery Office Supplies Greeting Cards of all kinds Job Printing--Seals--Stencils H. C. NETHERWOOD PRINTING CO. N. Carroll Street ACKING CO. Sanitary Market City. SAVINGS BANK EVENINGS 7 TO 9 INGSTON Luggage and Taxicab Line E 146 EL MADISON, WIS. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY G. U. O. OF O. F. District Grand Lodge Officers, Illinois and Wisconsin Jurisdiction. District Grand Master—George T. Kersey. 2961 South State St., Chicago, Ill. Friendship Chapter, No. 66, O. E. S. Meets second and third Saturday nights each month, G. A. R. Hall. Mary Jones, Worthy Matron. J. W. Brown, Worthy Patron. Marion Buckner, Worthy Sec. Fresh and up-to-date drugs at Lewis, State and Gilman St. It is the request of the City Editor that you furnish him with local news. Capital City Lodge No. 72, F. and A. M. Meets first and third Wednesday night each month, G. A. R. Hall. O. M. Davis, W. M. T. E. Hines, W. Sec. Enterprise Lodge, No. 9109, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays night each month, G. A. R. Hall. Joy Lee, N. G. E. Champ Warrick, E. S. J. Anthony Josey, P. S. Harrisburg, Ill. Queen Ester Household of Ruth No. 602 meets the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month. Ester B. Messer, M. N. G. Lorena Mae Bacon, R. N. G. Flora Washington, N. G. Chas. E. Messer, W. R. MRS. N. OWENS Dealer in ALL KINDS OF HAIR GOODS SWITCHES, WAVES, FRIZ ZES and HAIR CHAINS Mailorders promptly attended to 420 Sixth Avenue Phone 182-J Baraboo, Wia. Send your subscription to the Blade and keep abreast with the doings of the Oddfellows and your community. NOTICE! All matter for publication in The Blade must reach our office no later than Tuesday morning for that week's issue. Write on one side of the paper only. Every P. S. and W. R. of Illinois and Wisconsin jurisdiction are requested to send the names of their officers and the nights of their meeting to The Blade for publication. Also to furnish us with the news of your locality The Blade is on sale at the following places: Mosley & Smith, 202 E. Washington Ave., Trotter & Hopkins, 222 E. Main St., Hill's Grocery Store, 649 E. Dayton St., Weaver's Grocery The Oldest Trust Company in the State of Wisconsin The SavingsLoan&Trust Company Steensland Building, Madison, Wis. Pays 4 per cent. for Your Money. Debentures, Certificates, Savings, Trusts Make your Deposits by Mail. Money to Loan on Real Estate Security OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS E. B. Steenland, Pres, and Treas. W. A. P. Morris, Vices Pres. J. G. O. Zehnter, Vices Pres. E. F. Riley, Sec'y and Trust Officer. I. M. Kittleson, Assistant Sec'y. W. D. Curtis Stanjord P. Starks E. A. Prodifit A. F. Menges S. T. Swansen Herman Pfund BE HAPPY And Buy the Famous Malt and Snow Flake Bread also Rye, Graham and Bran Baked Rye. TheGlobe Baking Company 219-223 East Main Street Special orders for Birthday or Wedding Cakes LYNCH BROS. The Home of Good Groceries The only state street store that gives CASH REBATE TO ITS CUSTOMERS. Delivery to all parts of the city. 306 STATE STREET Telephone 2195 Velvet Ice Cream It's All Cream Kennedy Dairy Co. 618 University Ave. Phone 778 Capital City Cigar Co. 108 S. Pinckney St. Madison, Wis. Wholesale Cigar Jobbers Phone 523 Some of our leading brands: Upmann's Repeater Upmann's Ideal Upmann's Fleur de Upmann Garcia & Vega Clear Havana Chas. Denby Lucius Clear Havana Clear Title When other Corn Cures Fail Try Red Cross Corn Harvester. The Menges Pharmacie "The Best Ice Cream" Order for Parties, Sunday Dinners OLSON'S Phone 1440 Washington Building The Blade request that each P. S. send the name of the delegate elected to the B. M. C. for publication. Also the name of any friend that contemplates going to Washington on the Oddfellow special. LOCALS Yankee Cleaning. Yankee Cleaner. Our columns are for the Ruths as well as for the Odd I fellows and it is our aim and object to serve the Sisters as well as the Brothers. Yankee Cleaner. Mr. Ernest Brown accompanied Mr. J. W. Powell to Chicago last Sunday. Mr. H. Kinnedrew of Chicago is in the city for a few weeks. He is a member of Englewood No. 3240, G. U. O. of O. F. Telephone your news to The Blade, Phone 3369. Mr. Clarence Hickman of Baraboo is in the city for the winter and is taking up his usual work at the sugar factory. He is at present at the home of his sister, Mrs. Guy Anderson. We were pleased to have a call from Mrs. Morris Hoover accompanied by Messrs. Robt. Ball and Phillip Brown. Miss Elsie Walker of Waco, Tex., has come to our city for an indefinite stay. She is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Kemp, 24 W. Johnson St. Ask your grocer for The Globe Bread. For Birthday and Wedding cakes yhone 533, The Globe Bakery Co. Our collector will call to see you next week. Be prepared to pay your subscription. Mr. Chas. Russell, Lake Mills, passed through the city Tuesday enroute to Albany to visit his mother. He was the picture of health. It is the request of the manager of The Blade that you send us all your Odd Fellow news for publication. Let the Odd Fellows and R this throughout the jurisdiction of Illinois and Wisconsin know what are doing. The "Get Acquainted Reception" at St. Paul church last Tuesday night to meet and welcome the pastor Rev. L. G. Phillips on his return was indeed a success. Mr. J. Wesly Brown delivered the address of the evening. Mrs. O. M. Davis introduced the pastor. Ice Cream and Punch were served. All present enjoyed the occasion. Send in or telephone your news to The Blade, Phone 3369. If you have company or if you intend to take a trip let your friends know it through the columns of our paper. It is imaterial to us whether you are a subscriber or not, we will print your A grand box social will be given at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Friday night, the 13th. The public is cordially invited to attend. You will eat supper with the lady whose box corresponds with the number purchased. A prize cake will also be offered to the lucky guesser. Why not come out and try your luck? A good time assured to all. The Blade is commencing a campaign to add 3,000 subscribers to its list by Jan. 1st, 1917. Read the announcement elsewhere in this issue. Special service at the Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday night. The Pastor will report on his trip to the State Baptist Convention and the choir will render special music. Yankee Cleaner. Call 778 and you will get Velvet Ice Cream. It's all Cream. Remember the Box Social Friday Night. Mt. Zion Church. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Buckner spent Sunday as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Henderson. They were motored to the home in the touring car of the Henderson's. Send your Odd Fellow news to The Blade. We desire to publish the name of the N. G. P. S. and meeting night of every lodge and household in the jurisdiction. Don't fail to attend the Box Social tomorrow night. Mt. Zion Church. Win the Prize. Yankee Cleanser. The many friends of the genial and affable Mr. Morris Hoover will with pleasure welcome him on his return to Dane County. He comes this time accompanied by his better half. They are with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoover of Middleton. Young Mrs. Hoover before her marriage was Miss Nellie Valentine of St. Louis, Mo. The Blade is operating an employment agency; all kinds of work furnished. Yankee Cleaner. Hallowe'en Dance at Maccabee's Hall, Friday Oct. 28. Mr. Henry Walters, Manager. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISE- WANT COLUMN WANTED—Men roomers. Nice furnished room. Modern improvements. Terms reasonable. Mrs. G. G. Mosley. 615 Clymer Place. WANTED—The readers of The Blade to patronize the merchants that ask for your trade through the columns of its paper. WANTED. Two or three students to board. No room. Phone 1887 or call at 522 St. Park St. Yankee Cleaning. men's, women's and children's shoes at H. F. Tiedeman, 516 E. Wilson St. Yankee Cleaning. Telephone your News to The Blade, 3369. Yankee Cleaning. Ask your grocer for Globe Bread, it is wholesome. Yankee Cleaning. ADVERTISE At once. MRS. J. ANTHONY JOSEY, Guest of The Illinois Branch Women's Committee, National Hughes Alliance. Main Dining Room, La Salle Hotel. Many function have been tendered the wife of Editor Josey who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and their daughter Myrtle of Champlain Ave. The above occasion was indeed one of much splendor and beauty. The occasion was a reception tendered the Women's Transcontinental Hughes Campaign Train. Many were in attendance and promised to aid along the line to help put the republican party in power. MR. AND MRS. MADISON JONES AT DINNER. Mrs. J. Anthony Josey Guest of Honor. A five-course dinner complimentary to Mrs. Josey was given on last Thursday by Mrs. Madison Jones, 3354 Wabash Ave. Those present were Mrs. and Miss Smith of Champlain Ave. and Miss Roberta Echold. The following was the men, served in courses: Cream Tomato Soup, Lobster Salad in Lemon Hull, Fried Spring Chicken, Peas Encasse, Canned Sweet Potatoes, Cheese Spaghetti, Combination Salad, Apple Pie, Hard Sauce, Black Coffee and After-Dinner Mints. The guest and those present departed loud in their praise of the royal manner in which Mr. Jones entertained. CAPT. J. ROBT. YOUNG. DULUTH, MINN. We were indeed very pleasantly surprised on our last mailing night to have the gallant, undaunted prince of good fellows, Capt. J. Robt. Young drop in on us. He had been at his old home in Lexington, Ky., for several weeks being called there on account of the illness of his mother. She is at this writing fully restored to health. As usual the Captain is a leader of society and numbers his friends by the thousands. Though he caught us on one of our business nights we failed not to show him a great time. Messrs. W. R. Carmichael, H. D. Casey, Victor C. Turner and David Thorton joined our party and from early in the night until he departed on the 1:40 A. M. for Minneapolis, much ground was covered. He reports his business in a flourishing condition. The boys are now waiting to entertain his partner, Prof. C. C. Smith. Call again Capt. Financier Some Farmer Too. Winsted - Connecticut farmers must take off their hats to George B. Case of Wall street, New York, who has grown on its estate in Norfolk one of the best cr. crops of corn ever raised in the state. Here is what the crop cost him: Cost of plowing three and a half acres, $25; cost of phosphate, $40; cost of planting, $5; cost of cultivation, $30; cost of lime, $12.50; total, $112.50. Estimated yield of corn, 900 bushels, worth $300. Buy Your Books and Stationery AT THE UNIVERSITY SUPPLY ASSOCIATION LAKE AND STATE STS. --- SCOUT Mr. J. H. Kemp, the Tailor, is located at No. 5 N. Webster St. with a full line of patterns. He is a graduate of the tailoring department of Tuskegee Institute. All goods fitted and made in his establishment. SUIT CASES The Blade will publish an elaborate Christmas edition of special articles, cut and write-ups of and from the leaders of the race. Among those who will contribute will be: Rt. Rev. Bishop J. S. Flipper, Georgia, Major R. R. Wright, Hon. H. L. Johnson, Washington, D. C., Prof. H. S. Murphy, Oklahoma, Dr. C. T. Walker, E. R. Carter, Emmett J. Scott, A. B. Singfield, Nannie H. Burroughs. Major General Morris Lewis, Illinois. Hon. Jas. F. Adair, New York, O. P. Mack, Kentucky, Miss Ruby Thornton, Major G. T. Jackson, Pres. N. W. Collier, Florida. AINS IN SHOES. Women and Misses Shoes Moderate Prices $2.50 and up es $3.00 and up Misses Shoes $1.00, $2.00 and up BARGAINS All Men, Women at Moder Men Shoes . Women Shoes Children and Misse ARGAINS IN SHOES Men, Women and Misses S at Moderate Prices Shoes . . $2.50 a Men Shoes . $3.00 a Wen and Misses Shoes $1.00, $2.00 a BARGAINS IN SHOES. Men Shoes . $2.50 and up Women Shoes . $3.00 and up Children and Misses Shoes $1.00, $2.00 and up H. F. TIEDEMANN 516 E. WILSON STREET Telephone No. 850 Political a tising Distri CALI GIBBS SIGN TISIN Critical and Adv tising Matter Distributed CALL 459 BBS SIGN & ADVE TISING CO. al and Adver- ing Matter distributed CALL 459 SIGN & ADVER- ISING CO. Political and Advertising Matter Distributed GIBBS SIGN & ADVERTISING CO. 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Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. We want agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c a box—one 25c box proves its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to Northern Branch, 113 Clark St., Evanston Ill., Southern Branch, P. O. Box 812, Greenboro, N Persons days earlier GROWER, N. C. Persons in the South can get their days earlier by writing THE S GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812 N. C. Persons in the South can get their goods three days earlier by writing THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, N. C. Persons in the South can get their goods three days earlier by writing THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, N.C. T Don't Forget Heilmann PAN DANDY BREAD With Every Meal For Sale at Your Grocer TRUNKS TRAVELING BAGS and all kinds of Leather Goods Largest Stock in State Chas. Wehrmann & Son 116 King St. Phone 666 Near New N. W. Depot THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr. The First National Bank MADISON, WISCONSIN United St Capital Surplus and U OFFICER United States Deposits plus and Undivided Profits OFFICERS AND DIRECTORR United States Depository Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits $440,000.00 A. E. Proudfit President M. E. Fuller, Vice-President E. B. Steensland Jas. B. Ramsay FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAINTAIN HAIR COSTER MORE PLAYABLE LAUNDRY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT PRICE 25.4 AND 50.4 A BOTTLE FORD'S HAIR STRAIGHTENER NO. 022 STRAIGHTENES THE HAIR BY ROLLING IT IN TWENTY FOUR BRASS ROLES. BEST AND QUICKEST THING WE KNOW OF IT STRAIGHTEN HAIR PRICE $ 1.50 PATENT SECTIONAL TOOTH PATENTED LOCKING DEVICE FOR HOLDING TEETH FORD'S SPIRAL HANDLE HAIR STRAIGHTENING AND SHAMPOO COMB NO. 024 SOLID BRASS, NICKEL PLATED LARGE AND KERN STRONG AIR KNOWN THE HANDLER OF SPECIAL LOCKING DRIVE HOLDS THE HANDLE WITHOUT SOLDERING PRICE $ 1.00 FORD'S MEDIUM SIZED BRASS SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 026 A GOOD AND SERVICABLE COMB FOR THE MONEY PRICE $ 1.04 ALL OUR GOODS WARRANTIES AS DESCRIBED FOR SALE BY YOUR REALIST OR DIRECT FROM US PRICE IN WRITING DIRECT AND MONEY BY PUR OZONIZED OX MARRIAGE Just receive plete line of Samples. Nothing but A $15.00 and coats. Your Clothes Cleaning and Pr J. H. Depend "THE PUBLI FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HARSH KINNY HAIR SOPTER MORE PLUMBABLE FASHION TO COMB AND PUT UP IN THE STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT PRICE 25¢ AND 50¢ A BOTTLE FORD'S HAIR STRAIGHTENER NO. 022 STRAIGHTENS THE HAIR BY ROLLING IT TWENTIETH FOUR BRASS ROLLS. BEST AND QUICKEST THING WE KNOW OF TO STRAIGHTEN HAIR PRICE $ 1.50 FORD'S PATENT TWO PIECE SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 023. YOU HEAT THE ROD, NOT THE COMB THUS SAVING BURNING AND SOILING THE COMB RETAINS HEAT LONGER. PRICE $ 1.50 PATENT SECTIONAL TOOTH COMB PATENTED LOCKING DEVICE FOR HOLDING TEETH TIGHT NO. 023% TEETH IN THIS COMB ARE MADE OF SEPARATE PIECES OF BRASS, MOUNTED ON SOLID STEEL ROD AND HELD BY A PATENT FERRULE. SHOULD THE TEETH BECOME LOSE, TURN THE FERRULE BY TWISTING THE HANDLE AND THIS WILL PRESS THE SLEEVE TO TIGHTLY AGAINST THE TEETH AND MOLD THEM FIRMLY. PRICE $ 1.25 FORD'S SPIRAL HANDLE MAKES HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 024. SOLID BRASS, NICKEL PLATED. LARGE AND VERY STRONG CANNOT BURN THE HANDLE OF SPECIAL USE. YOU HOLD THE HANDLE without SOILING. PRICE $ 1.00 FORD'S SMALL BRASS SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 025 WOODEN HANDLE LARGE AND VERY STRONG MARKING AND SERVICEABLE HANDLE FOR WIPING THE HANDLE without SOILING. PRICE $ 1.00 FORD'S MEDIUM SIZED BRASS SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 026. A GOOD AND SERVICEABLE COMB FOR THE MONEY PLATE. PRICE $ 50.4 ALL YOUR GOODS WAPRANED AS DEScribed OR MONEY REFunded. FOR SALE BY YOUR DEaler OR Direct from US UPON RECEIPT OF PRICE IN WRITING DIRECT AND MONEY BY POST OR EXPRESS MONEY ORDER. OZONIZED MARROW CO. 46 W.KINZIE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Just received, new and complete line of Fall and Winter Samples. Nothing but ALL WOOL fabrics $15.00 and up, suits or overcoats. Your Clothes Cut and Made Here Cleaning and Pressing Properly Done St. Benedi 823 WINN MILW St. Benedict Settlement 823 WINNEBAGO STREET MILWAUKEE, WIS. Home for Colored Working Girls and Women Strangers in the City. Either Catholics or Protestants All are Welcome. Either with or without means. MRS. L. DUNCAN Phone 2852 Depository d Profits $440,000.00 ECTORR F. G. Brown, Vice-President F. W. Hoyt H. L. Moseley M. C. Clark, Cashies FORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION MAKES THE SKIN LOOK WHITER AS SOON AS IT IS PUT ON EXCELLENT FOR FIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND LOCAL SKIN DISEASES PRICE $25.4 BOTTLE FORD'S PATENT TWO PIECE SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 023.YOU HEAT THE ROD, NOT THE COMB THUS, JAVING BURNING AND SOILING THE COMB RETAINS HEAT LONGER. PRICE $1.50 23% TEETH IN THIS COMB ARE MADE OF BRASS PIECES OF BRASS, MOUNTED ON SOLID ABS MOLDED BY WARTEN TERMULE. SHOULD TEETH BEcome LOose, THEN THE FERRULE WISTING THE HANDLE AND THIS WILL PRESS SLEEVE UP TIGHTLY ON THE TEETH MOLD THEM FIRMLY. PRICE $1.25 FORD'S LARGE BRASS SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 025 WOODEN HANDLE ARGOT AND VERY STRONG, MAKING A GOOD AND WRICTUREABLE COMB FOR KINNY AND KNAPPY HAIR MICREL PLATED. PRICE $1.00 NO HAIR STRAIGHTENING COMB NO. 027. STRAIGHTENING COMB GOLD REST ON REAL SHORT PLATED. PRICE $2.54 FORD'S HAIR PRESSER NO. 028. STRAIGHTENING STEEL FRAME, SOILD BRASS KNOBS, VERY SERVICEABLE PRICE $5.04 MONEY GREATER 426 W.KINZIE ST. CHICAGO,ILL. New and com- mil and Winter WOOL fabrics quits or over- Hand Made Here G Properly Done MP, Mailing PLEASED" MR ST. Settlement O STREET WIS. No.144 Madison, Wis. --- Smart Dress For Girls. This charming combination dress for girls is of navy blue charmeuse, silk and serge. The silk serge jumper waist is trimmed with V shaped pockets embroidered in rose or other 1920 color. The georgette collar is hefa stitched, and the skirt is finished with a band of serge around the bottom. This dress, suitable for girls of twelve to sixteen, was designed specially for Franklin Simon & Co. New York. Home Cookery Sweet Pickled Peaches.—To seven pounds of fruit allow four pounds of brown sugar, an ounce of ground cinnamon and a clove in each peach. Make sirup of a quart of vinegar, sugar and cinnamon. Pour over peaches for three mornings, heating the sirup every morning. Lemon Butter.—This is an excellent filling for tarts or a spread for bread and is delicious on hot biscuits; Juice of two lemons, three eggs beaten lightly, piece of butter the size of an egg. Mix altogether and cook in a double boiler until about the consistency of custard. Bran Bread.—Soak a yeast cake in a cupful of tepid water and when dissolved stir it into a mixture of a cupful of graham flour, a cupful of bran and half a teaspoonful of salt. Set in a warm place and let it rise for an hour. Then beat in a quarter of a cupful of melted butter and knead in another cupful of bran. Shape into two leaves, place in greased pans and when they have risen to twice the original size bake in a moderate oven for about forty-five minutes. Tomato and Lettuce Salad.—Shred a head of lettuce. Arrange on a salad dish, sprinkle with a tablespoonful of chopped onion and mix well with mayonnaise dressing. Peel firm tomatoes, slice thin and arrange on the lettuce, allowing a little of the lettuce to show around the edge. Heap little mounds of mayonnaise on each slice of tomato and sprinkle with one teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Serve at once. Tomato Chicken Soup—Feel four peeled ripe tomatoes in enough water to cover until tender. Press through a sieve and add a pint of rich chicken stock and the juice of a large onion. Bring to the boiling point, add a table spoonful of flour rubbed to a smooth paste with a little cold water and season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook until thickened and serve with squares of buttered toast. PAPER PATTERNS Have several tiny bags made of strong cloth filled with sand and use them to weight down a paper pattern instead of pinning it to the cloth when cutting out a garment. It saves much wear and tear on the pattern, and the work of cutting out can be done much more rapidly by their use. Four or five bags will be required for a pattern of medium size, one being needed at each corner or angle. If through using the pattern it is pressed out smoothly and rolled around a mailing tube instead of being folded to fit the envelope it will be much easier to use next time. Pres. Wilson's Hypocrisy By William R. Willcox, Chairman Republican National Committee. It required more than ordinary assurance for the man who has done more than any other President since the civil war to fasten the shackles of bondage on the American freedman, to stand at the humble log cabin at Hodgenville, Ky., and pronounce a eulogy upon the great emancipator. In the light of President Wilson's own contemptible treatment of the negro, his praise of Lincoln, the plain man of the common people, the product of poverty and obscurity, was false and shallow. Bringing to Washington all the prejudices of his southern birth and rearing surrounding himself with men of the same inherited feelings, Mr. Wilson early gave to his administration, so far as the colored man was concerned, the stamp of snobbery, vindictiveness and ignorance, and these traits have characterized it from the time of the removal of J. C. Napier as register of the treasury to the present day. United States. Not even the splendid patriotism of the black heroes of the Tenth Cavalry, who went to their death at Carrizal as the result of the President's policy of timidity and blundering in Mexico, sufficed to move him from his course of negro-baiting. The colored man, under Woodrow Wilson, may die for his country, but he may not serve in civilian life under the sign of the "Jim Crow." Beginning with Napier three years ago, President Wilson has persistently pursued a policy of segregation that has brought unmerited hardship and shame to thousands of American citizens. President Taft and Roosevelt encouraged deserving and intelligent negroes by giving them positions in the federal service. President Wilson quickly gave evidence of one of his most characteristic traits by surrendering to southern negro haters of the Vardaman type. In a matter of plain justice to his colored fellow citizens he was "too proud to fight." Drive Freedmen From Service He did recognize the justice of the claim of the negroes to the treasury position which a colored man had held for more than twenty-five years, and at first nominated an Oklahoma negro; but he promptly withdrew it when notice was served upon him by the Democratic race fanatics in Congress that no negroes would be confirmed. Even the post of minister to Hayti, always filled by a black man, went to a white man. If Mr. Wilson preached the "new freedom" he practiced the "new bondage." The new order of things at Washington quickly became apparent and a systematic policy of segregation in the executive departments was under way, instigated first by Secretary McAdoo and Postmaster General Burleson, who had many imitators. By the summer of 1913 the segregation of negro clerks in the Treasury Department and the postoffice was an accomplished fact. It was Mr. Wilson's theory that the problem presented was "human, not political." The rapacity with which hungry Democratic office seekers scrambled for the 15,000 government positions carrying salaries amounting to more than $8,000,000 per annum, which, under Republican administration, had been filled by self-respecting and intelligent negroes, indicated that he was right, but not in a sense reflecting credit on human nature. The segregation begun by McAdoo and Burleson under Wilson has spread through the country. It is the fixed policy of the present administration. The obnoxious theory of "Jim Crow" intolerance has fastened like a cancer in the political and social fabric of the nation. CRUISER TO CARRY RELIEF. Des Moines Also Will Take on Ameri- can Refugees at Jaffa. New York. - Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the joint distribution committee for Jewish war relief, announced that the United States cruiser Des Moines would leave soon for Alexandria and proceed to Jaffa to transport the medical supplies sent by the committee for the hospitals in Palestine. Through the courtesy of the secretary of the navy, permission has been granted for the cruiser to take aboard at Jaffa the wives and children of American citizens who desire to leave the country and come to the United States. The passage from Jaffa to Alexandria occupies about thirty six hours. THE GAS RANGE will be in your kitchen this summer because it is clean, comfort-bringing and convenient. IT IS CLEAN--for there are no ashes, no coal, wood or or kindling, no soot, no smoke. The range itself is neat and clean and easily kept so. IT IS COMFORT-BRINGING for it makes the kitchen cool, by doing away with all unnecessary heat. It does away with cause for worry both in keeping fires hot and in results of cooking. IT IS CONVENIENT for all heat wanted is ready at the turn of the valve. The'prices of the ranges are from $16 up. We have just the right size for your kitchen. PHONE 4400 Madison Gas and E son Gas and Electric Com 126 E. Main Street SIGN WindowL Painted H Displ Gibbs Sign and A CALL SIGNS! WindowLettering Painted Bulletin Displays Sign and Advertising CALL 459 --- SIGNS! WindowLettering Painted Bulletin Displays Gibbs Sign and Advertising Co. CALL 459 TRADE MARK Refreshing Invigor freshing Invigorating Health We Deliver to Any Part of the City HausmannB HausmannBrewing Phone 33 --- ?Why Not? 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