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Official Organ of Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth. Illinois and Wisconsin Jurisdiction. 7,000 Members The Wisconsin Weekly Blade VOL.1 Milwaukee and Her Progressive Citizens Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 9, 1917 (Milwaukee, News, Service) Milwaukee News Milwaukeeans have settled down for the New Year and its work after one of the most enjoyable holiday seasons it has ever experienced. Among holiday visitors who were highly entertained were the Misses Ruth Weaver and Naomi Poole of Chicago, Ill., Mabel Raimey home from the University and Miss Alice Jones of Chicago. Mr. William Thirll entertained a large number of the young people at the home of his grandparents Mr. and Miss. Edward Monroe on last Sunday evening. Vocal solos were rendered by Mr. Willard Kinner and Miss Ruth Weaver accompanied by Mdme. Anna Gunther. The affair of the season and in fact the most striking affair ever given in the history of Milwaukee society was the Holiday Musical given by the Young Ladies Culture Circle at the palatial home of Mrs. John Branford. The gowns displayed by the young ladies and the immaculate evening dress of their escorts was a sight somewhat new to conservative Milwaukeeans. Participants on the program were Attorney G. H. DeReef, Messrs. Alvin Lucas, Willard Kinner and Robert Merritt and Misses Juanita Herron, Sarah Woods, Alma Cammack, Mabel Raimey, Jessica Burgette and the president Miss Marie A. Burgette who presented to the public for the first time the Ode and Creed of the Circle. The soloists were accompanied by Prof. Merrit and Mdme. Stewart. The members were permitted to invite one couple aside from their escorts and the gathering was one that will long be remembered by those who were present. Mrs. Josephine Peeples Jackson, who has wintered in Milwaukee for the past three years, has returned to Chicago for a brief stay. Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Raimey gave an "At Home" for their daughter Mabel who came home from Madison, Wis., where she is attending the University. Music and dancing were the features of entertainment. An original poem "Our student Girls" dedicated to Miss Raimey was presented by the Culture Circle and a very pretty response was made the young lady. All reported a most enjoyable evening. Mrs. G. Whitman assisted her sister Mrs. Raimey in receiving and attending to the welfare of the young guests. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wolfscale of the Wicliffe's Ginger Band are now happily domiciled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tate, 350 7th St. where they will be glad to meet their friends. Mrs. Wolfscale will be remembered as Miss Christina Hargrove, formerly of Milwaukee. Much pleasure and pride is evinced by citizens of Milwaukee upon the receipt of news from the stork-limited in Chicago, reporting the arrival of a son at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Saunders, 6608 Marquette Road. Mrs. A. G. Burgette, who has been, visiting at the home of her son, will now return a proud Grandmother. The Blade wishes all success to the happy pair. A large number of our ambitious young people are planning to enter the competition for suitable design for the Blade heading. Mr. R. L. Sanford, who has been somewhat indisposed, is now able to be about his duties. Mrs. Edith James and daughter, Mary, were the holiday guests of her sister Mrs. Camille Wilson. Mrs. James is an earnest church worker and a soloist of merit. Milwaukee was glad to note the return of one of her most beautiful and accomplished daughters. Rev. Joseph Connell, who has been assisting Rev. Woods at St. Mark, has returned to the East where he will resume work in his mother church. Rev. Connell is a graduate of Harvard University, a man of broad intelligence and a quiet, unobtrusive, conscientious Christian worker. Though here only a short time he won the admiration and respect of all and his absence will be keenly felt about the church. Among our exchanges we note with commendation the Christmas number of the Lincolnite, the month- A NATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPINION AND CIRCULATION ly magazine of the Princeton, Ind., High School, Prof. M. Wilcox, principal. In material and style the Lincolnite compares favorably with our best white high school journals. Note—The Secretary of the St. Paul A. M. E. Sunday School District who appreciates early reports from all schools receiving convention minutes. The Silver Leaf Club wishes to inform the public that they gave out baskets of provisions to many families during the Xmas Holidays and we sincerely hope they were enjoeyd to the fullest extent. Accept our best wishes for a Happy New Year. Mrs. Thorton, Pres.; Mrs. Harris, Committee Chairman. Mr. Earl Roberts, who was formerly with the Park Hotel at Madison, is now with the Slap White Jass Band playing at the Empress in Milwaukee. He sends remembrance to his old friends in the Capital City. Mr. C. H. Diemer, the renown Saxaphone player, is holding his own and is also with the Jazz Band. We are pleased to chronicle the improving of Mrs. Danegey of 473 7th St. She has been confined to her bed since the first of the year. Rev. S. Russel B. D., the popular pastor of Calvary Church, is attracting large crowds at his services each Sunday. He is a fearless and uncompromising gospel preacher, forcible and earnest. As a financier he is second to none in the Northwest. One of the grandest Literary Musicals and Social Entertainments of the winter season will be given at Calvary Church on the 18th by Miss G. N. Rueben and Mr. H. B. Kinner, Sr., for Club No. 2 of which Mrs. E. E. Merritt is Captain. The Elite, Fourth St., are servers of wholesome meals. Quick and polite service. Mr. and Mrs. Aibert Richardson of Atlanta, Ga. (Buckhead) is to permanently located in the Cream City. They are delighted with the change and already he is employed at good wages. Mr. Rowe of Chapel St., Atlanta, Ga., has decided to make Milwaukee his future home. No soon er than he reached the city through the influence of our Mr. H. B. Kinner he was employed in one of the city's large department store at a salary double the one he received in Georgia. RALLY, RALLY, RALLY. $200 at Calvary Baptist church Sunday, Jan. 21st. All friends and well wishers of the cause are urged to assist the Captains. NILWAUKEE WIS Mr. Hovey G. Stith, a graduate of Indiana State Normal College and elected to take the principship of a number of schools in that state, is indeed a man to be highly respected by his race. Since his stay here Mr. Stith has ever striven to labor for the advancement of himself and felio wbrothers wherever an opportunity afforded itself. He became the first member of the Race employed at the Plankinton Packing Co. in any capacity and thus his influence there are now more than a hundred enrolled. Mr. Stith is held in high esteem by his employers and associates in the offices of the Plankinton Co. We wish him continued success. Advertise your Rooms, Restaurants, Wants, etc., in the Wisconsin Blade as the best people in the Northwest read it regularly. MADISON, WIS., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1917 ANNOUNCEMENT Having wished you one and all a we have rolled up our official sleeve show you what our wish means. All about you and with your help we wi friends predict. First of all—to the young and am the best design for the first page hea carry with it some appropriate thou will be awarded by competent judg the winner will appear in the colum supply this but we want a race girl ing. Second—To the organization o ting motto for the Blade we will pre-original—the staff of the Blade will All competitors must have mate 1st. For further particulars address Blade. Our program of special features week. We thank our many subscrib With your help we shall realize the Having wished you one and all a Happy and Prosperous New Year we have rolled up our official sleeves and are going to get busy and show you what our wish means. All our 1917 plans are woven for and about you and with your help we will become all that our optimistic friends predict. First of all—to the young and ambitious we are offering a prize for the best design for the first page heading of the Blade. The drawing must carry with it some appropriate thought and must be original. The prize will be awarded by competent judges and the picture and biography of the winner will appear in the columns of the Blade. Our printer can supply this but we want a race girl or boy's name to appear on our heading. Second—To the organization or individual presenting the most fitting motto for the Blade we will pre-sent a prize—the motto need not be original—the staff of the Blade will judge the most fitting. All competitors must have material in our hands on or before March 1st. For further particulars address "Contest Department", Wisconsin Blade. Our program of special features for February will be announced next week. We thank our many subscribers who sent us New Year's wishes. With your help we shall realize them. The Editor. OSHKOSH, WIS. (Special to the Blade.) After a very pleasant visit of more than twenty-five days as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Turner, 9 Jefferson St. Mrs. R. V. Thornton and her little neice, Edna Frear, left their home, 902 Lime Stone Street, Lexington, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Turner entertained for them in grand style. Twenty-five guests were present at a roast duck dinner in their honor. A partial list are: Mrs. G. Scott and son, Wm. and Master Geo. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Hurman, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Rice. The occasion will long be remembered by those in attendance and for the genuine hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Turner. Mr. Chancy J. Payney were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Turner while in the city. Mrs. Turner accompanied Mrs. Thornton and her neice as far as Fond du Lac on their departure to the Blue Grass State. Mr. James Rhine of South Bend, Ind., and Mrs. Emma Elmore of Appleton were united in holy wedlock Thursday, Dec. 28, at the home of the bride. A most beautiful shower was given them by Mesdames W. S. Hart, Sylvia Tohmas, Brauer Frickey, E. Badger of Neenah and Misses Mathews and Hazel Raymore of Antigo. Mr. and Mrs. Rhine will make their future home in South Bend, Ind., after February 15th. Mr. Rhine is employed by the Singer Sewing Machine Co. of that city. Mrs. J. W. Smith made a flying trip to Milwaukee, Monday A. M., returning Monday P. M. Mr. Julius Kinner has been on the sick list since the first of the year. He is much improved at this writing. Dr. G. W. Register, P. E., will hold his regular quarterly meeting here Sunday, Jan. 14th. Mr. C. A. Scott is planning to spend a few days in Chicago this month. Mrs. A. Green, our pioneer and highly respected citizen, received a number of useful presents for Xmas. Mr. Butler and Miss Katie Williams of Fond du Lac were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith Sunday. Mr. W. S. Hart, steward at the Neenah Club has returned to his duties and the members gave him a grand welcome. Mr. Chancey Paynie of Green Bay stopped over in Oshkosh last week while enroute to Milwaukee to visit his children who are attending school there. Rev. W. Leander Lane is expected to be back in the city this week after a two months visit with his family at Williamsport, Pa. Mr. Henry Miller passed away at the Alexian Bros. hospital three weeks ago. He is survived by his wife. He is to be buried this week. TO OUR READERS:— Happy and Prosperous New Year lies and are going to get busy and our 1917 plans are woven for and will become all that our optimistic obitious we are offering a prize for holding of the Blade. The drawing must right and must be original. The prize es and the picture and biography of ms of the Blade. Our printer can or boy's name to appear on our head- or individual presenting the most fit sent a prize—the motto need not be judge the most fitting. trial in our hands on or before March "Contest Department", Wisconsin for February will be announced next ers who sent us New Year's wishes. m. The Editor. ROCKFORD, ILL Miss Hannah Wetheral of Providence Hospital night supervision is in the city spending a few days with her brother. Mrs. Blake entertained a few friends Sunday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Mathewson who gave a splendid talk. Miss Wade Roberts, a soprano singer, will appear here on the 15th inst. The public is invited to attend. Mrs. Clarence Gorum, who has been on the sick list is up at this writing. Mr. George Robinson is confined with the Small Pox. Mr. Letoy De Preist was given a surprise by his sister on his birthday. Miss Pauline Coleman was entertained in great style during her recent visit to our city. She had the pleasure of meeting with Household 1973 and gave an excellent talk on the principles of P. H. and P. Mr. Clarence Gorum who has been at the Mayo Bros. Hospital, Rochester, Minn., for some time, is again in our midst to the delight of his many friends. Miss Lula Sweet, who was on the sick list with La Grippe, is up at this writing. The recent program rendered by the N. A. C. P. club was a success. Mrs. Katherine Berry, Mr. Henry Blake and the President, Mrs. Lucian Morrow deserved praise for the part they played on the program. J. ANTHONY JOSEY, ESQ. WHG HAS JUST BEEN APPOINTED BY DISTRICT GRAND MASTER GEO. T. KERSEY, SUPERVI SOR OVER DIVISION NO. 2, COM PRISING MADISON, FOND DU LAC AND MILWAUKEE, WIS. Ask your grocer for: The Globe Bread. For Birthday and Wedding cakes yhone 532, The Globe Bakery Co. PENCIL PICKING P. N. F. THOS. L. JACKSON. Golden Link, 9520, G. U. O. of O. F. Milwaukee, Wis. There is no one we venture to say that did more real work for the Order in the Cream City than has Bro. Jackson. He is a born organizer and leader of men. In Fellowship his advice is often sought and freely given and cheerfully acted upon. He is also a leading member and one of the founders of The Calvary Baptist Church and at present is church clerk. MR. M. D. SHEPARD, 330 6th St., Milwaukee, Wis. The race should feel proud of such a man as Mr. Sheppard. He is a master mechanic and is now working as Stationery Engineer and enjoys the confidence of his employers. Mr. H. W. BALLARD, Milwaukee, Wis. There are leaders along and in every line of endeavor. It is with pardonable pride that we point to and call Mr. Ballard one of Milwaukee's society leaders. He is both genial and affable and numbers his friends by the hundreds. REV. R. T. REED. At St. Mark A. M. E. Church. The audience that was at St. Mark on last Sunday night was well pleased with the practical, soul-stirring, gospel sermon delivered by Rev. Reed. Many truths were brought to the attention of the hearers. The Reverend was at one time in Madison and made many warm and lasting friends who will be glad to note his success. An Up-to-date Birthday Celebration in Honor of Mrs. Zora Hartwig of Milwaukee. Many warm friends of Mrs. Hartwig joined her on last Sunday in the celebrating of her birthday. To say that a very pleasant time was had would be putting it mildly. Five choice cakes, Pepolitan Ice Cream, Port and Virginia Dare wine and fruits, together with cigars and candies were served. The guests vied each with the other to make the occasion one of continual enjoyment. After many hours were spent they departed wishing Mrs. Hartwig many happy birthday. THE GIFT SUPREME: What gifts, O Lord, have we before Thy throne To Place, as o'er us Christmas and thems ring? So humble we, and poor! no gold, nor myrrh Nor treasure, for our Saviour can we bring. Thee comes a voice—"Beloved, bring thy cares, Thy burdens; dearer they than rarest gold. Cast them before Me and receive in turn My Gift—the Peace of which the Angels told. M. A. Bargette, by request NOTICE A meeting of the Lincoln Memorial Society is called to meet Sunday next at 4 P. M. at the Blade Office. The following will take due notice and be present: Geo. Buckner, Allen Henderson, A. T. Stewart, J. S. Mosley, Asa Washington, Jos. Gentry, G. G. Mosley, W. R. Harris, J. H. Kemp, John W. Hill, T. E. Hines, Z. A. Trottier, Wm. Hopkins, S. S. Steele, S. R. Banks, Moses Jefferson, Thos. Horton, Wm. Miller, O. M. Davis, V. C. Turner, H. D. Calsey, Wm. Carmichal, J. W. Eubanks, J. N. Wilson, David Thornton, I. Brown, Paul Oliver, A. J. Hutchinson, N. B. Byrd, C. C. Scott, Wm. Hickman, Jas. Jordan, Aug. Wiley, Herman Jordan and Jas. Cortrell. J. Anthony Josey. Harry Allison, Sec. Spend a few hours with J. S. Wadsworth at the Park Hotel Pool and Billiard Parlors. NO.32 By Mrs. S. C. Craig, Lancaster, Wis. Ten years ago do we remember That mild night in fair September; When the moon was bright With our hearts all gay and light, We journeyed toward the old Klondike To a home where we felt welcome! And there we meet in joy not grief To organize The Autumn Leaf. Autumn Leaf we praise thee well More than any tongue can tell We should ever hold thee dear And never worry, never fear; Only praise thee more and more And welcome thee to every door Thus should we always remember Every Twenty-ninth of September. Many are the joys we spent Where in every home we went, We've tried to do our work up fair Without a murmur or a care Will we ever prove to be Ever loyal unto thee? To him who seeth and knoweth all When discouraged let us call. Years may come and years may go, What's our future we don't know, But as we journey life's road through To cach other let us be true. For to speak an angry word Is like drawing the keenest sword; Therefore; let us bring joy, not grief In our club called Autumn Leaf. MILWAUKEE, WIS. PROFESSIONALS. Gladys Sellers to Teach. Gladys Mae Sellers-Smack, Wisconsin's only iratic Soprano and the only Bronze Melba, has recently completed the Summer course at Madame Ezalia Hackley's Musical School in Chicago and is now ready to give vocal lessons. Her studio at present is at her home, 315 Fourth street where she will gladly interview any person who may apply for her instructions. Her terms are reasonable but she has been pronounced quite efficient. NOTICE The Plate is for sale at Scott's News Stand, 283 4th St., Milwaukee. Robinson and Heard, 5129 State St., Chicago, Ill. Little Dandy Hotel, Rockford, Ill. Percy Hill's, 426 Race St., Beloit, Wis. Hill's Grocery Store, 651 E. Dayton St., Madison, Wis. Trotter and Hopkins Pool and Billard Parlors, 222 E. Main St., Madison, Wis. News for publication may be left at either of these places. For ORCHESTRA MUSIC for all occasions, address W. A. BARBOUR, 410 Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis. NOTICE St. Benedict Settlement is a home for colored working girls and women of good morals. Anyone found inducing them to an immoral place or play will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Mrs. Laura Duncan, 823 Winnebago St., Milwaukee, Wis. 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. Phones 6756—3369. L. J. Ousley, Contributing Editor 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. EDITORIALS The man who saves is making sixty miles an hour on the road to fortune. Start the New Year with a view of Advancemnt, to rise above the little trifles and obstacles of life. Our people are leaving the South in large number and are meeting with much encouragement in the Northwest. We should see to it that those who are worthy are given a helping hand. Rev. S. Russell, Jesse Woods and Mr. H. B. Kinner are doing yeoman service in helping our people coming from the South land that happen to stop in Milwaukee. Mr. Kinner is in charge of The Blade in this city and is operating a free employment agency. Write him or our Editor. H. B. Kinner, 708 Cherry St., Milwaukee, Wis. We were pleased with and wish to extend thanks to Editor and Mrs. R. B. Montgomery for the kindness shown us while in their city. They are a great work for our people. The National Advocate is a fixture in the field of Journalish and there are few newspaper men of national reputation than Editor Montgomery. Editor. First Prohibition Act The first prohibitive measure was that of the Saxon King Edgar, who nearly a thousand years ago on the advice of Dunstan, put down many ale houses, allowing only one to exist in any village or small town and at the same time limiting the drafts of the drinkers. The common drinking cup of that day held about two quarts, and Edgar had eight pegs placed at stated distances in each cup, heavy penalties being imposed on those who drank from one peg to another at each time. Neither the working nor the result of the act encouraged Edgar's successors to further action, and the next prohibitive legislation on the sale of liquor is due to Henry VI, who by an act against vagabonds and beggars in the year 1495, gave power to any two justices of the peace to stop the common selling of strong ale in towns and any other places they thought necessary—London Mirror. Three Kinds of Secondhand Books. "How much is this book?" a prospective customer asked the second hand book dealer. It was a volume of essays. "That is a 'reading book' and sells for 50 cents," the dealer answered. The prospective customer looked puzzled, so the secondhand book man went on to explain: "I have been in this business a good many years, both here and in other cities, and I have found that everywhere the general secondhand book buying public divides books into three classes and asks for them accordingly. "A paper backed book is a 'novel'." "A cloth bound novel, however, is a 'fiction book'." "Everything else in bound literature comes under the classification of 'reading books'."—Kansas City Star. Different Schools Dean Hole, who was the pioneer of rose shows in England, was fond of telling this story: At Cambridge a horticultural show was suddenly invaded by a heavenly host of sweet girl graduates. "Madam," said a member of the executive to the lady in whose charge they came, "may I point out that this is a school for horticulture and not for husbandry?" BE TRUTHFUL The black man moving North is the topic of the day and is being discussed throughout the country. The fundamentals underlying the movement of the black man from the South to the North is not far-fetched. We have read and studied many reasons submitted by the white and black leaders in answer to this grave question. To our mind none of them have been candid to face the truth. Any student of economic, social and political conditions, who is willing to admit that the Negro is a human being, possessing the same capabilities, aspirations and ambitions common to the human family, has the answer at hand. The Blade feels certain that the answer is plain unmistakable; it is because they feel that they do not get adequate wages for their services and are not accorded the same treatment that other classes of laborers are. They do not receive the proper protection in the country district norin the cities. Too often they are punished for the least little thing. Many times they are made to leave their farms and their homes after the crops are made, and thereby lose their year's hard earnings. That in many places their children are forced to attend schools in houses that are not fit for cattle much less human beings. The white writer attempts to show everything except the real cause for the movement. He has submitted every reason the real one underlying the unrest among the laboring Negro in the South. He has not asked himself a single time the question: "Am I not responsible for the unrest and migration of the Ne-gro?" "Is it not the treatment he is receiving as a social, economic and political factor in the Southern equation responsible for the unrest and movement?" The white man's pride and belief that the Negro is not entitled to the same treatment that the white man is, is responsible for his failure to look the facts in the face and explain to his black brother that he is a part of the conscience, the thought, the tradition and character of the South, and therefore a part of its economic, social, and political equation, and is entitled to just such consideration as his worth and character merits. The black man knowing as well as the white man the real fundamentals underlying the unrest has been evasive and too cowardly to meet the issue squarely. He has apologized and tried to make the white man believe that he was satisfied with the conditions obtaining, and that there was no real cause for the movement North or elsewhere. In this instance the Negro Leader has not been fair to himself, he has not been manly. He has undertaken to please the white man at the expense of his own method, character and usefulness. In fact the Negro leader's position has been cowardly, mercenary and vacillating. The white man's position has been evasive of the truth, and he has sought ulterior motives rather than meet facts and figures. Let the migration continue here in the Northwest. There is plenty of work and better treatment, better school facilities for those of our race that will prove that the statement of the Negro haters of the South that we will not and can not make good citizens to be false. KING GEORGE'S BADGES FOR INVALID SOLDIERS Medals Also Will Be Awarded to Queen's Nursing Service. London. It is officially announced, says the London Times, that on the recommendation of the army council the king has approved the issue of a silver badge to officers and men of the British, Indian and oversea forces who have served at home or abroad since Aug. 4, 1914, and who on account of age or physical infirmity arising from wounds or sickness caused by military service have, in the case of officers, retired or inquilished their commissions or, in the case of privates, been discharged from the army. The badge will also be awarded to members of Queen Alexandra's imperial military nursing service, regular, reserve and territorial force, Queen Alexandra's nursing service for India and members of voluntary aid detachments who have quitted the service under above conditions; also to civil practitioners and to other civilians who, having occupied positions normally held by officers or other ranks of the royal army medical corps under a fixed agreement for a period of service, have been forced to resign by physical incapacity caused by military service. The badge is in the form of a circle, an inch and a quarter in diameter. The circle bears the words "For King and Empire—Services Rendered," and circumscribes the imperial cipher surmounted by a crown. It will be worn on the right breast or on the right lapel of the jacket with plain clothes only. DEAF MAN IN BATTLE A HERO UNDER FIRE DEAF MAN IN BATTLE A HERO UNDER FIRE Unable to Hear Orders. He Faces Silent Death Rescuing Wounded. London.—Some day the stretcher bearers who are working steadily throughout the big attack ought to have a monument all to themselves. They have already earned it by their magnificent courage under terrible fire. One officer of a Manchester "Pals" regiment which fought at Mumetz and elsewhere is now in a London hospital, his life saved by the courage of the men who dashed through a curtain of fire to his rescue when he fell helplessly wounded. He says that all the time the stretcher bearers were doing things which deserved the distinguished conduct medal, and he told of at least one man who he thinks has won it. This is a man so deaf that he was unfit for work in the trenches. He was a cheerful sort, and the men liked the queer things that happened when he failed to hear an order. Every one but the deaf man stood to he rook no notice. During the big battle he was ordered to the leasing station just behind the lines, but he spent the whole day under the murdoous fire of the machine guns and the artillery between the first line trenches and a shorter trench far advanced in the most exposed part of the ground, pleking on the wounded, twisting them on to his broad back and staggering back with them under fire until he reached a place of comparative safety. Then he went back into the thick of it again. He was the one man in that toiling, devoted company who did not hear the awful clamor of the shells, but calmly faced a silent death. The "Pals" whom he has so often amused are now hoping that he will get the medal he deserves. FAITHFUL DOG'S BARKING CALLS FATHER TO CHILD Little One, Playing In Pasture. Where It Strayed, Kicked by Horses. Wheatland. Wyo.—G. F. Harold's little son, Alvin, two and a half years old, was kicked in the head by a horse the other day, his skull was fractured and other severe wounds, seemingly sufficient to cause death, were sustained. The father's attention was called to the child by the frantic barking of the farm dog, and upon investigating he found that the dog was guarding the insensible form of the little boy from a bunch of horses in the pasture where the little fellow had wandered in his play. The child's forehead was crushed, the nose broken and the eye lailt open by the flesh being all torn from it. As he was still alive he was rushed to a hospital with all possible speed. The surgeon performed a very delicate operation, lifting the broken bones into position and sewing the torn skin around the eye back into place, and at present writing the little fellow is getting along nicely and gives promise of complete recovery. That he was not instantly killed is probably due to the fact that the horse's hoof struck a glanding blow, and that he lives at all is because there was a skillful surgeon available. Set New Agricultural Record Raising Cabbages. Greensburg, Pa. — Four Westmoreland county young women, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith, near Ruffsdal, have established a new agricultural record in the yield and profits to be derived from a two acre plot of cabbage. The Misses Smith, the eldest of whom is eighteen, now have a bank account of $800, with accounts due from Pittsburgh commission men amounting to $800, and a quarter of their cabbage yet remains to be cut and marketed. Buyers estimate the value of the entire field at about $2-400. Early last spring Smith turned the two acre plot over to his daughters, telling them to make any use of it they desired. The girls, after closely scanning the market reports for weeks, decided to grow cabbages. They set about 18,000 plants. KILL WHITE FACED IBIS Kansas Hunters Were Puzzled, but Professor Solved the Problem. Topeka, Kan. A party of hunters were near Stafford when a long legged bird, which looked like a crane and flew like a duck, suddenly rose and started toward Oklahoma. Six guns spoke at the same time. The bird gave up the southern trip. The men did not know what they had killed. They guessed everything from a mud hen to a wild turkey. George Stansfield made a secret trip to Lawrence and comforted with a smile of the professors. They labeled the kill a white faced glossy tits, a species of waterfowl very rare in Kansas. The coloring is very delicate and changes continually. It is one of the snake family, but is unfit for food. SISTERS EARN $2,400. The Oldest Trust Company in the State of Wisconsin The SavingsLoan&Trust Company Steensland Building, Madison, Wis. Capital and Surplus, $300,000 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, Vice-Pres. J. G. O. Zehner, Vice-Pres. E. F. Riley, Sec'y and Trust Officer. I. M. Kittleson, Assistant Sec'y. W. D. Curtis Stanford P. Starke A. E. Proadfit A. F. Menges S. T. Swansen Herman Pfund CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT Central WisconsinTrust Co MADISON, WIS. L. M. Hanks, Presiden Magnus Swenson, 1st Vice-Pres. John Barnes, 2d Vice-President Fred M. Brown, Treasurer B. J. Halligan, Secretary T. R. Hefty, Ass't Secretary E. C. Dedge, C. R. Van Hise, H. L. Russel, A. L. Sanborn, P. B. Knox, A. O. Fox, H. P. Jamieson, Thomas Hefty, Joseph M. Boyd, T. C. McCarthy, E. Ray Stevens, H. S. Johnson, W. F. Pierstorff, A. E. Proudt A UNIVERSAL CLEANER AND POLISM YANKEE CLEANER A CONCENTRATED CLEANER "Yankee Cleaner" registred as a Trade Mark in U. S. Pat. Office and in Foreign Countries. Yankee Cleaner takes the place in the home, public building, office, hotel, restaurant, church, school, factory, warehouse, club, cafe, hospital, railroad coach, steamship, store and garage of scouring soaps, metal polishes, soap powders, silver pastes and polishing soaps and powders in endless variety—Yankee Cleaner outdoes the best of them all at their own specialty, and at trifling cost. FOR SALE. Six Shares Atlanta State Savings Bank Stock. Information write T.Y., care Wisconsin Blade, Madison, Wis. JNO. W. HILL Staple and Fancy Groceries Delivery to all parts of city 651 E. DAYTON ST. Phone 7975 Madison, Wis. RESTAURANT When in Milwaukee visit the ELITE CAFE MEALS AT ALL HOURS LUNCHES PUT UP 10-15-20 Cents and up ROBERT WHITE, Prop. 273 Fourth St. Wehrman & Son are offering bargains in all leather goods, at 116 King St. Politeness and courteous treatment is the motto for all customers. YANKEE CLEANER looks clean, smells clean, is clean, does clean and as a friend puts it "YANKEE CLEANER cleans everything but a guilty conscience." WE URGE PATRONAGE OF THE FOLLOWING ADVERTISERS, AS THEY WILL ASSURE YOU HONEST AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT. Professional people get HOME-COOKING of MRS. S CO FIELD 322 Fourth St., Cor. Prairie St. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Flash Light Groups, Banquets and Lawn Parties CHAS. L. WARREN Commercial Photographer Resident Pictures a Specialty, Interior or Exterior 722 Winnebago St., Milwaukee FARMER'S LODGING HOUSES Rooms 15c and 25c per night $2.50 per week 213 Fourth Street 917 Clybourn Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin WHY SUFFER? Let PROF. G. W. MURPHY Treat your feet, remove the bunions, corns and in- grown nails Office: Kirby House East Water and Mason Sts. Milwaukee, Wis. RESTAURANT When in Milwaukee visit the ELITE CAFE Meals at all hours Lunches 10-15-20c and up ROBERT WHITE, Prop. 273 Fourth St. KEYSTONE RESTAURANT OPEN ALL HOURS D. MOORE, Prop. 251 Fouth St., Milwaukee, Wis. ROOMS — For nice rooms see Mrs. M. Ward, 1706 Prairie St., Milwaukee, Wis. J. BECKETT FINE GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS 622 Vliet St., Milwaukee, Wis. D. SCHWEER Funeral Director and Embalmer Carriages and Hearses to Let 516 Chesnut St. Phone Grand 607 Milwaukee Mr. Schweer directs more colored funerals than any other man in the state, because he does his business fairly. BROOK'S CAFE First Class Service Home Cooking 288 Fourth Street Milwaukee, Wis. S. BENISH Meat Market Fancy Cuts a Specialty Poultry, Game, Oysters in Season 720 Winnebago St. Tel. Grand 2194 Milwaukee THE HOME OF Fine Stationery Office Supplies Greeting Cards of all kinds Job Printing--Seals--Stencils H. C. NETHERWOOD PRINTING CO. 24 N. Carroll Street VISIT THE Park Hotel Pool and Billiard Parlors Under New Management J. S. Wadworth, Mgr. WHY NOT make it the "LITTLE DANDY" 426 Race St., when in BELOIT and be served right. Excellent Meals at Reasonable Prices 'The home of young folks. PERCY HILL, Prop. BE HAPPY And Buy the Famous Malta 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 --- 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 SUIT CASES TRUNKS TRAVELING BAGS and all kinds of Leather Goods Largest Stock in State Chas. Wehrmann & Son 116 King St. Phone 666 LOCALS All copy for publication in the Blade must reach us by Thursday of each week. Our correspondents must write on one side of the paper. 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. Our collector will call to see you next week. Be prepared to pay your subscription. 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 Cleaning. Call 778 and you will get Velvet Ice Cream. It's all Cream. Mr. J. S. Wadsworth is in charge of the pool and billiard rooms at the Park Hotel and most cordially invites you to call and see him. Best treatment for all. Attorney Geo. H. DeReef, Milwaukee has been invited to give the address before the Lincoln Memorial Society and the citizens of Madison on Feb. 12th. Our Editor spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday in the Cream City as guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kinner. The choir of Mt. Zion Baptist church will render special music on Sunday night. The pastor will preach a special sermon. The public is invited. Trade with the Merchants who ask for your patronage through the columns of the Blade. YANKEE CLEANER looks clean, smells clean, is clean, does clean and as a friend puts it "YANKEE CLEANER cleans everything but a guilty conscience." You will find the Blade for sale at Trotter & Hopkins, 222 E. Main St., and Hill's Grocery Co., 649 E. Dayton St. Miss Frankie Jenkins, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nealy who left to spend the Xmas and holidays in St. Louis will not return just now as she has changed her name being married to Mr. ..... of that city. Send in or telephone your news to company or if you intend to take a trip let your friends know it through the columns of our paper. You will find the Blade on sale at the Hill Grocery Store, 651 E. Dayton St. and Trotter & Hopkins Pool, Billiard and Barber Shop Parlors. Mr. J. W. Brown spent a few days in Lancaster visiting relatives and friends. While there he addressed the Silver Leaf Club. Rev. Phillips and his good people are planning to entertain the St. Paul District and Sunday School convention in June. They will be in need of a home and the Blade trusts that our people will respond to their request readily. Value of Education. "Every day spent in school the children earn $9." This statement was made by Wisconsin's state superintendent, who bases his estimate on the official records of the bureau of education at Washington. Here is what he offers as proof of the statement: "Uneducated laborers earn on the average $500 a year for forty years, a total of $20,000. "High school graduates earn on an average $1,000 a year for forty years, a total of $40,000. "This education requires twelve years of school of 180 days each, a total of 2,160 days. If 2,160 days at school add $20,000 to the income for life, then each day at school adds $8.02. "Forceful as this summarization of earnings is," said the superintendent, "it tells but one side of the story—the money side. Back of this can be seen improved standards of living, more intelligent and progressive communities and a stronger national life."—Chicago Herald. Icy Cold Winters In the winter of 1780 New York harbor was frozen over and teams passed from New York to Staten Island. New York bay was frozen over in the latter part of January, 1821, and sleighs passed over the Hudson river from Cortlandt street to Jersey City. On Feb. 3, 1844, Long Island sound was frozen over a few miles above New York. On Jan. 20, 1852, the East river was frozen over, and hundreds passed over both ways between Brooklyn and New York. On Feb. 10 and 11, 1856, the East river was frozen over so that the people passed over freely. On Jan. 23, 1867, the East river was bridged over with ice, and 5,000 persons passed over. On Feb. 12, 1875, the East river was completely bridged over for over three and one-half hours. During the blizzard of March 12, 1888, the East river was frozen over so completely for several hours that hundreds passed over both ways—Magazine of American History: FIND INDIAN RELICS. Members of a New Historical Association Get a Load of Them. Klamath Falls, Cal.—Loaded down with newly found Indian reliies, including pipes, stone war hammers, dishes, grinders, seventy-five arrow heads, ten spear heads, several knives, eleven mortars and more than 100 pestles, J. C. Rutenie, A. C. Yaden, Floyd Brandenburg and George Snyder, members of the recently organized Klamath Historical association, returned recently from a ten days' research expedition through the hava beds. These beds, lying just across the California line in Modoc county, were the seat of the Modoc Indian war and have furnished many valuable reliies during the last few years. Most of those found on the present trip were gathered along the receding shore of Tule lake, which is being drained at the hands of the United States reclamation service by diverting Lost river, which formerly flowed into it. ATTACKED BY PET BUCK. Hatchery Superintendent and Wife Set Upon While Feeding Pet Deer. Auburn, Me—John F. Stanley, seventy-six, superintendent of the Maine fish hatchery grounds, and his wife, seventy-one, were nearly killed by a pet buck which suddenly became enraged. Stanley was feeding the animal, which charged on him, breaking several ribs and cutting and bruising him. Mrs. Stanley was awakened by the noise and, clad only in her nightgown, rushed to the inclosure to aid her husband. The buck charged her, too, and would have killed her but for a collie, which set upon the deer and drove him away. Mrs. Stanley crawled to the telephone, gave the alarm and then fainted. Her husband was found half submerged in a brook and helpless. The buck was killed by order of the state authorities. PAN-AMERICAN SCHOOL PLAN Argentina's Envoy Suggests Inter-change of Letters by Pupils. Washington. -Plans for establishing a system of correspondence between the high schools of Argentina and the United States were discussed at a conference between Ambassador Naon of Argentina and a representative of the Washington bureau of the American Peace society. "I have already dispatched to one of the Buenos Aires schools letters written by students of the Proctor academy of Andover, N. H.," said the ambassador. "In due time I shall receive from the principal of the Argentine school a long letter written by the students there, which will be translated and sent on to Andover. Thus the plan may be considered to be definitely under way." CAT'S BITE CAUSES DEATH. Brooklyn Pier Watchman is Stricker With Hydrophobia. New York.-Hans Jurgensen, fifty years old, of Brooklyn, a watchman on pier 38, Atlantic docks, died in the Long Island College hospital of hydrophobia caused by the bite of his pet cat. Jurgensen's hand, which was bitten, gave him a little trouble during the first six weeks following the bite, but it was only a few days ago that the hand and arm began to swell. Dr. William M. Ennis of 31 First place, Brooklyn, who was called in, diagnosed it as hydrophobia and caused Jurgensen's removal to the Long Island College hospital, where the diagnosis was verified by physicians from the department of health before his death. HE DYNAMITED HIMSELF. Dug a Hole, Packed Explosive In, Lit a Fuse and Dived In to Die. New York.—This is the way Leon David Rose, for five, a foreman blaster of Stony Point, Rockland county, proved to his meek cousins friends that he had meant what he had said when he told them that he was going to blow himself up. He dug a hole about three feet deep in a hillside. He paused sticks of dynamite—there is no way of telling how many—into the hole. Attaching a long fuse to the explosive, he touched a match to the end of it. Then he dived into the hole and, resting on the dynamite, waited. Fragments of his body were found afterward. POOR GIRL SPURNS BICHES. Tires of $10,000 Bargain That Kept Her In the Country. Amboy, Ill.-Mary Smith a poor Chicago girl, who was adopted by James Pankhurst, a wealthy farmer, and his wife on Aug 13, 1915, with the understanding she was to remain single and act as companion to the aged couple and receive $10,000 upon their death, has grown tired of the bargain and returned to Chicago. "Money isn't everything in this world," she said. "I want the right to live as I please. I simply find that I do not like to live in the country." TREES FOR BROADWAY. Foresters Want to Cooperate With Park Department. The association has found that the oriental plane tree does well in the streets, and it is planned to plant these. SEVEN THOUSAND MILE VOYAGE IS MADE BY TUG New York.—A remarkable sea voyage of 7,000 miles, from Dordrecht, Holland, to Tampapec, Mexico, in a tug-boat but sixty feet in length, with a draft of three feet, has just been completed by a crew of men under the leadership of Captain H. Waltaker, Captain Waltaker and his crew, of whom one was E. M. Eden, a young artist of Amsterdam, who made the trip to satisfy a longing for adventure, started home on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam. The voyage required eighty-four days' time and was made doubly hazardous by the fact that the tug could carry only twenty-seven tons of coal. Frequent attempts to stop passing vessels to replenish the bunkers failed. Each time the presence of the small boat in the path of a steamship would send the vessel zigzagging away in the belief that the tug might be a disguised submarine. "We were taken for a submarine a dozen times during the trip," said Mr. Eden, "and each time the vessel took to flight and we could not catch her, although we were badly in need of coal and provisions." The tug was the Fuerta, built by the Corona O" company in its shipyards in Holland for use in towing oil barges in the Panuco river. In ordinary circumstances the tug would have been transported lashed to a ship's deck, but the freight rate demanded was deemed exorbitant, and Captain Waltaker was selected to make the voyage with the tug under her own power. COLONEL OFFERS A REWARD Somebody Cut Down Mr. Roosevelt's Sassafras Tree at Sagamore. Oyster Bay, N. Y.-Colonel Roosevelt is on the trail of malignant malefetals again. This time it is one or more intriped woodmen who unknown to him, sawed down a large sassafras tree on the colonel's estate, Sagamore Hill. Colonel Roosevelt offered $25 reward for information leading to the "discovery of the individual who maliciously and feloniously entered my land and with a crosscut saw felled a large and valuable sassafras tree, which by its fall partially destroyed an even more valuable beech tree." If there are any trees to come down at Sagamore Hill the colonel wants to do the chopping himself. TO GET A REAL SO TO GET THE BEST GET A REAL SQUARE DEAL GET THE BEST THERE IS when in Rockford, Ill., stop at LITTLE DAN 318 S. WYMAN ST M. B. BAX MEALS SERVED Cigars and Tobacco Just received, plete line of H Samples. Nothing but ALL $15.00 and up coats. Your Clothes Cut Cleaning and Press J. H. K Dependable "THE PUBLIC 712 UNIVER TLE DANDY HOUSE S. WYMAN ST. and be Served M. B. BAXTER, Prop. VALS SERVED AT ALL HOUSE Tobacco Barber Shop in received, new and the line of Fall and W apples. ing but ALL WOOL for 00 and up, suits or s. Clothes Cut and Made ing and Pressing Proper J. H. KEMP, Dependable Tailoring THE PUBLIC BE PLEASE 712 UNIVERSITY AVE. Mad THE STAR HAIR LITTLE DANDY HOTEL 318 S. WYMAN ST. and be Served Right M. B. BAXTER, Prop. MEALS SERVED AT ALL HOURS Cigars and Tobacco Barber Shop in Connection Nothing but ALL WOOL fabrics $15.00 and up, suits or overcoats. Your Clothes Cut and Made Here THE S A W THE STAR HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dresser One thousand agents want made. We want agents in every to sell THE STAR HAIR GRO wonderful preparation. Can without straightening irons. Sells for 25c a box—one 25c value. Any person that will u be convinced. No matter what your hair, just give THE STAR a trial and be convinced. Send box. If you wish to be an agent we will send you a full supply to work with at once; also agents 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 S. Southern Branch, P. O. Box N. C. Persons in the South can get days earlier by writing THE GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box N. C. Northern Branch, 113 Clark St, Evanston Ill. Southern Branch, P. O. Box 812, Greensboro N. C. Persons days earlier GROWER, 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. Phone 791 ```markdown ``` WANT COLUMN ROOMS—For nice rooms see Mrs. M. Ward, 1706 Prairie St., Milwaukee, Wis. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—WANT ADS AGENTS WANTED—All or part time. Big pay. Write, phone or call Miss G. M. Reuben, General Agent, 331-6th St., Phone Grand 138, Milwaukee, Wis. WANTED—Men roomers. Nice furnished room. Modern improvements. Terms reasonable. Mrs. G. G. Mosley, 615 Clymer Place. IT WILL PAY YOU TO ADVERTISE IN THE XMAS EDITION OF THE BLADE. WANTED-To buy men's seconds hand clothing. Also good bargains for sale in same. Telephone 5172 203 State St. WANTED—Live energetic agents to represent the Blade. Liberal terms Write the Blade Publishing Co., Madison, Wis. WANTED—A hustling young man or woman to work on Blade clerical force. Good salary to right person. Will furnish transportation. Address J. Anthony Josey, Madison Wis. Yankee Cleaning. PIANO LESSONS Piano lessons given by Miss Marion Buckner. One-half hour lessons, 25c; one hour lesson, 50 cents. For further information phone 356 or call at 419 W. Main St. Telephone your News to The Blade, 3369. more down nuts to Yankee Cleaning. The Blade is operating an employment agency; all kinds of work furnished. ALL SQUARE DEAL TEST THERE IS DANDY HOTEL IN ST. and be Served Right BAXTER, Prop. SERVED AT ALL HOURS Barber Shop in Connection d, new and com- of Fall and Winter ALL WOOL fabrics up, suits or over- Cut and Made Here Pressing Properly Do e H. KEMP, Table Tailoring "IC BE PLEASED" UNIVERSITY AVE. A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower A Wonderful Hair Dresser and Grower re thousand agents wanted. Good money We want agents in every city and village ALL THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a a useful preparation. Can be used with or out straightening irons. Is for 25c a box—one 25c box proves its Any person that will use a 25c box will advise. No matter what has failed to grow hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER al and be convinced. Send 25c for full size If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and will send you a full supply that you can begin with at once; also agents' terms. Send all by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER. Mfr. Northern Branch, 113 Clark St., Evanston Ill. Southern Branch, P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, Parsons in the South can get their goods three earlier by writing THE STAR HAIR WER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, Madison, Wis. HAVE YOUR GOWNS, HATS, COATS and other apparel always fresh and new looking by sending them here to be dry cleaned. With our aid your Wardrobe will always be in first-class condition. With our help you need never wear an old looking article of apparel. Every time we dry clean any part of your costume we re-ewear freshness. "The Old Reliable." Established 1884. Knney St. W. STRELOW, Prop. EORGE WIE SUGAR MANUFACTURE GEORGE CIGAR MANU CIGAR MANUFACTURER 111 KING STREET ephone 2551 Madison, Telephone 2551 OUR BRANDS Zodiac . . . 10 cts. La Posa . . . 10 cts. Julius Caesar 10 cts. Ed Tiffin . . 10 cts. El Crispo . . 10 cts. TRY A BOX BROWN The DOWN The Trunk BROWN The Trunk Man 206 East Main Street Lowest Prices on All K TRAVELING GOODS, THE SATCHELS AND VAL west Prices on All Kinds VELING GOODS, TRU ATCHELS AND VALISE Lowest Prices on All Kinds of TRAVELING GOODS, TRUNKS, SATCHELS AND VALISES TRADE MARK It stimulates the It builds up imulates the appetite It builds up your sys It stimulates the appetite It builds up your system We Deliver to Any Part of the City HausmannBrewing Phone 33 usmannBrewing Phone 33 --- 116 S. Pinckney St. n Dye Works E WIESE UFACTURER Royal Honor . 5 cts. La Flor de Cuba 5 cts. Miss West . 5 cts. Signo . . . 5 cts. Buy Jingo . 5 cts. Art . . . 5 cts. Trunk Man on All Kinds of FOODS, TRUNKS, ND VALISES How'd you do without Hausmann's Beer on your table ne appetite p your system BrewingCo e 33 Phone 2485 Madison, Wis. FREE SURDAY, JANUARY 10 is the last day of our wonderful sale. We are giving with every order for suit or overcoat made to measure FEE A $6 TROUSE Genuine "JOHN HALL" Tailoring with a guaran ee of absolute satisfac action. THE PRICE IS RIGH $6.00 and $18 rday the 13th is the last extra ages JOHN HALL 28 E. MIFFLIN E-INVENTORY S NOW GOING ON to 50 Perc discount will be allow during this sale richs Dry Goods SATURDAY, JANUARY 13th is the last day of our wonderful sale. We are giving with every order for suit or overcoat made to measure FREE A $6 TROUSERS Genuine "JOHN HALL" Tailoring with a guarantee of absolute satisfacfaction. THE PRICE IS RIGHT $16.00 and $18.50 Saturday the 13th is the last day No Extra Charges JOHN HALL No Extra 28 E. MIFFLIN Charges PRE-INVENTORY SALE NOW GOING ON Discount will be allowed during this sale 3 North Pinckney ARCHANTS & SAVINGS BANK MERCHANTS & SAVINGS BANK 23 WEST MAIN STREET OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 TO Benedict Settler 823 WINNEBAGO STREET MILWAUKEE, WIS. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 7 TO 9 --- 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 1ST ANNUAL COMMUNICATION Eden District, Grand Household of Ruth, No. 18, G. U. O. of O. F., States of Illinois and Wisconsin.— Arfetter Miller, D. G. M. N. G., 417 Seventeenth St., Cairo, Ill. Greetings: To all Household of Ruths and Juveniles of the Jurisdiction of Illinois and Wisconsin: I appeal to all to co-operate with the Administration, in building up the District work by complying with all the General Laws and the Laws of Eden District, Grand Household of Ruth, No. 18, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. Note General Laws of 1912 and 1914, (See pages 71 and 72, sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18 and 19.) The newly elected W. R. will send her name and address to the Grand Secretary, Bro. James Needham with the seal of the Household of Ruth, also with the name of the M. N. G. signed; and send the same to the D. G. W. R., Mrs. Eva T. Dean, 708 N. Poplar Street, Champaign, Ill., within thirty days. March 1st, of each year is Peter Ogden Day. The second Sunday in May is Annual Thanksgiving Day of the G. U. O. of O. F. and H. H. of R. See Proceedings for Children's Day. See Proceedings for the District Grand Lodge No. 9, and Eden District Grand H. H. of R., No. 18, which meets in Sparta, Ill., the first Tuesday in August, 1917. Arfetter Miller. D. G. M. N. G 417 Seventeenth Street, Cairo, Illinois. A. E. See or write Miss G. M. Reuben, 710 Winnebago street, about the following things: General information about Milwaukee. Shares in Thunderer Publishing Co., which plans to run a chain of Colored Daily News Papers. Shares $5.00 each. Shares Judge Lynch Publishing Co. $25 each. Shares in Defender Publishing Co. $1.00 each. Any Race Paper published in America may be had at regular subscription price, delivered to any address without extra charge. The following Race Books, Authentic Edition, Booker T. Washington's Own Story of his complete life and works, including a supplement by A. L. Holsey and pictures of Dr. Washington's Funeral and Burial, prices $1.75 and $1.25. Facts of Reconstruction, True story of Birth of a Nation, by Major John R. Lynch, $1.50. Life and Complete Poetic Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, $1.75, $2.50 and $3.50. Portable typewriter, 10 days' free trial, price only $35.00. Guaranteed 25 years. Will do work of $100.00 machine. Agents wanted. Write for particulars. DIG UP BIG TOOTH OF PREHISTORIC MASTODON Well Preserved, Though Found Far Below Surface of the Ground. Cottonwood Falls. Kan. - A big tooth, which is supposed to have come from the jaw of some mastodon of prehistoric ages, has been unearthed by T. E. Nichols of this city by men employed in making a deep cut on Diamond creek. mile and a half northeast of Elmdale. The trench had been sunk to a depth of fifty three feet and had passed through an eight foot gravel strata when the big tooth was found. A soapstone formation was encountered just beneath it. The tooth is well preserved. It weighs over three pounds, measures a foot and three inches in circumference around its base and is three inches in height from its base to the points of the tooth. It is oblong in shape, its width being three and a half inches. There are six flanges or points to the tooth, which extend upward in regular pairs. The tooth has two large roots, there being about three or four inches of the root intact, but the lower parts are broken off. It is believed the tooth belonged to a carnivorous, or flesh eating, animal because of the flanges or sharp points. After finding the tooth another bone only a few feet away was uncovered by another workman. It is a large flat, round shaped bone, which resembles a knee cup. FEW SMALL COINS FEW SMALL COINS Directors of Mints Hold Conference to Solve Problem. People Among Whom Nickels, Dimes and Quarters Circulate Have More Than Ever Before—Engraving Department Reports Enormous Demand For One and Two Dollar Bills. New York.—An unprecedented demand for small coins—quarters, dimes, nickels and cents—a demand that is daily straining the resources of the United States treasury department, brought F. H. J. Van Engelken, director of the mint, to New York to see if something could be done to relieve the scarcity. He met officials of all mints here for a conference to devise ways and means of turning out enough small coins to meet the demand. At the conference were T. W. H. Shanahan, superintendent of the San Francisco mint; Thomas W. Annear, superintendent of the Denver mint; E. D. Hawkins, chief clerk of the San Francisco mint, and Vernon Boyle, superintendent of the New York assay office. "We never before have been confronted by such an emergency," said Mr. Van Engelken, "and I doubt that we will be able to materially increase the production. Our two large mints now are working twenty-four hours a day, while the smallest is on a sixteen hour shift. They are all at maximum capacity, and their energies are being concentrated on the coins of which we are so short. "Our idea in holding the conference was to discuss the operation of the mints, probably adopting at all of them suggestions that have proved of benefit in one mint. We are now at capacity. Therefore by the team work which we believe this conference will produce we expect to be able to speed up our production of small coins. The problem is growing more perplexing every day." "What is the reason for the shortage in small coins?" the director of the mint was asked. "There is only one answer," he said. "The people among whom the small coins circulate have more of them than ever before. It is the result of the tremendous prosperity that is getting down to the people who use coins of small denominations. "I talked recently with the head of the engraving department in Washington. He tells me there is a similar tremendous demand for the dollar and two dollar bills and that this demand is increasing as the holiday season approaches. None of them is returned. They are worn out. Bankers say they are having great difficulty in meeting the demand." DANCED OFF DIET GAINS. Net Loss of One and a Half Pounds In Chicago Squad Due to a Ball. Chicago Square Due to a Bail. Chicago. — Dancing and dieting are not in harmony. The "weighing in" figures of the "diet squad," which demonstrated that 40 cents' worth of food a day is enough for the average individual showed a loss of seventeen and a half pounds when compared with figures of the day before. The answer seems to be that most of them attended the annual dance of the health department. Only two members of the squad showed a gain. Each gained half a pound. Comparing weights with those taken when the test started, seven members gained ten and a half pounds, but the other five members lost twelve pounds—net loss a pound and a half, and all because of the dance. LOTS OF MONEY IN KANSAS. Hat Passed For $1,500 Brings Back $2,029. Smith Center, Kan.—There is a lot of money in Kansas—enough to buy the minister a motorcar merely by passing the hat in a crowd. So comes the report from Karlan, Kan., where fancy priced hogs, cattle, wheat and corn are the means of sustenance for farmers. The other day, says J. W. Partlee of this town, a $5,000 church was being dedicated, and the finance committee announced the fund to put the church out of debt locked $1,500. "Pass the hat," yelled some one. The hat contained $2,029 in cash and checks when it got back. FACES DEATH FOR THEFT. Old Sea Law Puts Indiana Prisoner in Bad Fix. Gary, Ind—Death penalty under an old sea law faces C. A. Shillinger if he is convicted of stealing a compass from a United States Steel company's ore ship. Under a law passed in 1790, Shillinger, if found guilty, must either be freed or hanged from the yacht arm of the ship in Gary harbor. The prisoner will be tried in the United States district court at Indianapolis. Spanking Replaces Moral Suiason. New York... Whatever educators may say of the advantages of moral suasion over the rod, superintendents and trustees for New York's dependent orphans have concluded to the contrary. Good, old fashioned spankings work wonders, they declare. Thirty of them met at the Russell Sage foundation and agreed that the 10,000 orphans under their care were more amenable to spanking than to other forms of reproft. The First National Bank MADISON, WISCONSIN No. 144 United States Deposit Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits OFFICERS AND DIRECTORR No. 144 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 Bank of W Bank of Wisconsin Bank of Wisconsin PAUL KINGSTON Omnibus, Carriage, Baggage and Taxicab Line OFFICE: NEW PARK HOTEL ******************************************* ************************************************ The Gas Range IT IS CLEAN--for there are no ashes, no coal, wood or kindling, no soot, no smoke. The range itself is neat and clean and easily kept so. It does away with cause for worry both in keeping fires hot and in results of cooking. TI IS CONVENIENT for all heat wanted and 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. Ironing Made Easy With Why? Why, simply because the electric Iron cuts the work in two. Your iron is always hot. There is no waiting, no waste of energy, no dread of injuring fine clothes. It saves labor and clothes and gives you more time for other things. We are willing that you should see what the electric flat-iron will do. We do not urge you to accept our word for it. Try it, if you will, in your home. A phone call will bring one. You decide if you wish to keep it. Madison Gas and Electric Company Madison Gas and Electric Company --- Depository d Profits $440,000.00 ECTORR F. G. Brown, Vice-President F. W. Hoyt H. L. Moseley M. C. Clark, Cashier sconsin MADISON, WIS. ---