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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
school Roard,s Version.

The Sheffield School Board says, and the townspeople for the most part back up the statement, that the whole trouble in the town is just the outcome of geograph- icaI conditions absolutely beyond their control. All the colored children in Shelf field, they say, live near the Plain" school, and for this reason 1t was di- rected that they attend there. It is fur tner asserted that at the suggestion of a prominent colored resident of Shelf field a colored teacher was employed. The board wishes to be absolved of even the thought of establishing a Jim Crow" school. It insists that before the school was opened every negro parent in the village was visited, and that all approved the plan thus to relieve the overcrowded school in the center of the village.
 That portion of Sheffield where the ne- gnoes live is known as Nov Guinea. and is really a village of itself, being re- moved from Sheffield proper about mile and a quarter. To show the colored res- dents of this section that they desire to treat them as well as the white children, a big bus was sent along the back road to gather up the colored children and take them to the Jim Crow school. But the horses were not overworked hauling colored youth to the especially provided temple of learning.
 Go Tong wifi you're old bus. You spec Ise goin let my chillun go to dat school? No, sirree!'
 With that declaration of principles more than one New Guinea parent has slam med the door in the face of the freezing driver.
 There would probably have been little or no trouble over the plan of the school committee had 1t not been for the fact that the parents of half a dozen white children living in the northern part of the town absolutely refused to have their children attend the same school as did the negro children and be taught by negro teacher. They made so much trou- ble about 1t that Miss Cora Fowler. the young colored woman appointed as teach
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

CT of the school, was retired, and Miss Daisy Cook. daughter of a farmer who was one of the most prominent, remon- strants against Miss Fowler, was appoint ed in her place. Miss Cook Is a popular young woman among the negroes of New Guinea, but had the school board secured the services of an angel 1t would not have made any difference to the New Guinea ites, and as for color, the school board might as well have hunted up a blue or a yellow teacher. The point the colored people could not lose and have not lost sight of Is the fact that their children had been ordered to attend one school and the white folks" children another.
 A. J. Collins, superintendent of the schools of Sheffield caused this notice to be sent out to the colored community:
 The Plain school has been reopened by order of the School Committee to relieve the congested condition of the village primary school, and all children of school age and below the fifth grade re- siding on the Plain and New Guinea arc hereby ordered to attend the Plain school. Special attention is called to the following extracts of the revised laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts re- lating to school instruction, enacted No vember 21, 1901. By order of the School Committee. s. M. Fox, Secretary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

ASSIST NATURE. There are times when you should assist nature. It Is now undertaking to cleanse your, system-if you will take Hoods Sarsaparllla the undertaking will be successful. This great medicine purlhes and builds up as nothing else does. tu-thu-su
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

not good memories for this and bad mem ories for that in any other sense than that we remember that which interests
 us and forget that which interests us not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
New Er17brOideries.

Just line of EMBROIDERIES bought onehd and going give the benefit. 10000 yards EMBROIDERY with INSERTIONS to match worth 10c 12 12c yard for Monday 6c $500 yards EMBROIDERY, beautiful designs to 10 inches wide both Swiss and Cambric with insertions match, for Monday, 8 yard .AVc TORCHON LACES from 12 inches wde with insertions to match, for Monday yard 500 pieces Mo- SO BLACK SILK TAFFETA RIBBON, worth 30c yard, for Monday NEW LINE OF LACE CURTAINS
 ALL ARE 1-2 TO YARDS LONG $1.50 quality, for Monday 0ec S2OO quality, for Monday @Ase4 S25O quality for Monday ~A'ssO NEW LACE COLLARS, Cape effect, with front Lapes, the latest style worth $35O for Monday $&@4 $150 LACE COLLARS for Monday 50c $100 LACE COLLARS for Monday .S0O 25 LADIES BLACK CHEVIOT SKIRTS trimmed with silk folds around hp and has separate drop for Monday $&0S 50 Ladies Black and Royal VENETIAN CLOTH SKIRTS, trimmed with perpendicular bands of material also ho
 zontal bands of taa silk has separate drop skirt skirt
 fully worth $5.00 for Monday at %3.z4 36 Ladies Black PEAU DE SOLE SKIRTS with three rules
 around bottom also has separate drop k this skirt would be
 cheap $65O but will sell Monday $409 100 dozen Ladies WHITE LAWN WAISTS sizes 32 to A,
 stye insertion trimmed for Monday S0c TURKEY RED TABLE DAMASK beautiful assorted patterns
 worth fully 4Oc yard, for Monday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

You will be as agreeable to your social interiors as to your equals and superi- ors.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

changed much yet. Pictures Of Abraham Lincoln are In great demand in. Sheffield, and things William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips said and did are being studied closely in the cabins along the back road" The school committee is busy making statements denying all in- tention of abridglng the rights of the ne- gro. 'rt
 Among outsiders the impression is grow ing that after the Sheffield incident Is but a tempest in a teopot, but, as a prominent Berkshire County lawyer put 1t the other day. Its a mighty awkward fix, at any rate. and to think 1t should have hap pened in this State, above all others.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

A phone message to TAO brings a wagon from Montgomery : Steam Laundry, where they do the very best work in town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
SUPREME COURT DECIDES THE BEST COURSE OF BOOK
 KEEPING IS GIVEN BY
 DRAUGH0N'S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGES.

Dexter Ave, opp. the Postoffice. Montgomery. and elsewhere.
 To the decision of the Supreme Court all other courts and the people must bow. Who more competent to pass upon the superior ity of course of instruction in bookkeeping and the merits of textbooks on that subject than practical bookkeepers. merchants and bankers who have decided that Draughon's s course is the best? Hence, We can. by ana logy, say that the Supreme Court has decided that the course of bookkeeping taught by Draughon's Colleges Is superior to others
 The combined skill. experience and expert knowledge of specialists who form the facuI- ties of DRAUGHONS chain of TWELVE Colleges ts sufficient guarantee that Draugh- on's Course of instruction is not equaled. Spe- cial advantages in Shorthand, Typewriting etc. Positions secured or money refunded For catalogue
 Address J. F. DRAUcHoN, Prest. Dexter Ave, opp. the Postonice. Montgomery
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
A RACE WAR
IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS OF
 MASSACHUSETTS. s.orv q, the Troubles at shefheld- scbool House is Burned Negroes Rsfused to Attend "'fm crow, Affair-Want to
 Be With Whites. '

.r ..onla in other parts
 Whne ,,a been busy exertins tner n country n 'ron frozen gas meters ano a-acTsd water pipes inhaoilanee ,ya,,sa- ,,..,n town of Sheffield, on 'he 11s.s .a...o piver. in Berkshire Coun'S'
 have heen busy feeding tne hi I,Sa-,y.s triotism, trimming the VICE n,a. in oaon,e sorcn n not thought about for forty years; nav nav Tha New York Tribune. It an
 a ahout because of an attempt .o ,-ea-, tha white children of the village III
 school and the black children II, enotber This wedding out process oiu .,ot anneal to the blacks in the ieasl. rTrder the advice of their indignant mas snA nas the colored children Of the town stuck to their white schoolmates iiAe eypancr to a poodle dog. In vain Were thay gently led from the school or their white mates by school committee no" hers and truant officers; all in van was -, "Jim Crow" school, called the
 school, established in another part oi .n. town for their exclusive use. IniS nT" historic structure lies a heap or plack, enea ruins as the result of fire, saiu to be of incenditary origin, which oes- troyed 1t at 8 o'clock on the morning or January 2. In vain has the Scnooi Board. in fulfillment of it's determination that the colored children shall not atteno the same school with the white children rented two rooms in a private house. m tended to fill the vacancy caused oy the destruction of the school building.
 The negro children simply will not pc educated lon the side," and there IS Hoi excitement in the Berkshires anu throughout the old Bay State than mas been manifested since the Statehouse dome was regilded. All the boasted mar nonv of the beautiful Barkshires has dis appeared. The wondrous colors of their framed autumnaI foliage have taken on a dinEy hue, and everywhere throughout inc state the smoke of the bloodless pat tie being fought at Sheffield is beginning to settle. A colored representative at the statehouse, in Boston, has asked the Sheffield school authorities for the reason governing the drawing of the color line, and the school authorities have answered that no color line has been drawn. The State Fire Marshal Is Investigating the destruction of the schoolhouse, three negro parents have, been arrested for failing to send their children to the "Jim Crow'' school, as that established for negro children was styled, editorials and letters on the situation are finding their way into the newspapers throughout the East, and Sheffield is beginning to feel that the eyes of the world are upon her.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
IMPERSONA4ORS
Will Appear at Jackson Park Next
Sunday.

Elias Day and Clifford Walker, the
great lmpersOnaters will appear at
jackson Park next Sunday afternoon
and evening. These men are true art
lists. They will furnish the best en-
Itertainment of the season thus far
given. Mr.. Day has appeared in all
|of the best lecture courses of the
country. while Mr.. Walker, who is
English by birth, has given perform
ances in nearly every civilized coun-
try on the globe. This entertain
ment will be of the highest order. We
promise that all who attend will be
better entertained than ever before.
The usual band concert will also be
given both afternoon and evening.
No admission charged. Excursion
tickets % cents.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
COMMUNICATION
TO COUNCIL
From Citizen of West Rich
mond.

Gentlemen-This evening your
chairman on public improvements will
report unfavorably to making a side
wolk on the north side Of West Main
street from First to Fifth streets,
wholly ignoring a petition signed by
seven-eights Of the resident owner
ship, and at the same time will report
to make said walk from First to
Third, wholly ignoring remon-
STRANGE, signed by every foot Of resi-
dent ownership. You will remember
that at the last meeting Of the old
council Gardner and Deuker, through
misrepresentation, railroaded the
measure through your honorable body
to make a sidewalk on the north side
of west Main from First to Third
without a single petitioner, but in
stead standing remonstrance signed
by every foot of resident ownership.
Gentlemen here is the key to the
whole situation. Mr.. Sedgwick owns
nearly all the lots on both sides of
west Main street from third to fifth
street. Now if council can be induced
to force the people to make a walk
from first to third street, then the
people who wish to 90 to Earham
or the cemetery and the pupils who at
tend the public schools may travel
upon those nasty slippery pebbles un-
til they are ground to pieces before
sidewalk will be made from third
to fifth street
No one has asked council for walk
the north side of west Main from
first to third, not even a nonresident.
Therefore Gardner and Deuker will
have to explain to council and the
people; or we, demonstrators, will
continue to believe them the employ
ed tools of Sedgwick to "bulldoze'
the measure through council as they
did. We have no hard feelings
against "Dick.' It's the ones that
do the work that are the most dispica-
ble We are now asking for a walk
on only one side of Main which will
cost our friend Dick more than one
half as much as both sides and at the
same time give us an outlet. We want
to be fair in this matter and ask Of
council this much. If you will not
make the walk to Fifth, don't make
any of it.
The demonstrators.
G.. f. DAILY,
21S w. Main Street.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

and Mr. &c. ~. sAndrews, which was
solemnized Yesterday at 1.-THE M =.
parsonagee at Dayton by the Rev.
Sellers. Mr.. Andrews belongs to one
of the oldest families in Dayton and
.is a Ason Of Mrs. Rev. o. S. Harri-
son, Of Williamsburg, this county.
The young couple will reside in Day
ton, where the groom is in business.
The Cedar Springs hotel is proving
popular resort for Richmond soci-
ETY. people and large number from
here were over for dinner there last
evening. Mrs. Jennie Wilke and
daughter, Miss Marguerite, Miss Ber-
tina Whitridge and others formed a
party.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Coe took din
ner at Cedar Springs last evening.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
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will be held at the home of Mrs.
Henry Townsend, Ill South Twelfth
street, Wednesday afternoon, at 2:3O.
Papers will be read on the topic of
the afternoon by Mrs. M. S. Marble
and Mrs. A. w. Hempleman.
The Royal Neighbors and the Mo-
dern Woodmen spent yesterday at
their annual picnic, given at the
Glen. ....
John Crawford and family and j.
Nj. Williams and family made a hap
ply picnic party yesterday.
A large picnic party yesterday was
given by Messrs. and Mesdames Platt
Robinson, Warrington Barnes and Ed
Swayne, in which there were about
thirty people.
Yesterday was a gala day at the
Country Club, the club house being
decorated with flags and bunting in
honor Of the day. Last evening there
were many excellent features Of en-
tertainment and all was followed by
a dance, attended by large number,
including several from out of town.
japanese lanterns were hung about
the grounds and the scene was a pref
ty one The Park band furnished mu-
sic throughout the evening.
Mrs Englebert will entertain to-
morrow afternoon for Mrs. J. Ev-
erett Jones, of Denver, Colo.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of the
Grace NJ f. church will give a supper
tomorrow evening at the church.
Hhe Flower Mission market on
Saturday was attended with great sue
cess and large sum was realized.
The wedding Of Miss Clara Estelle
and Mr.. John E. Eyden occurred at
the parsonage of the First Baptist
church last Friday evening, Rev. Ad-
olson Parker performing the cere-
mony. They made a happy wedding
pair. Both have the best wishes of
large circle Of friends and ac-
quaintances. Mr.. Eyden is a sales
man in dry goods store and Mrs.
Eyden belongs to an old and we'll
known Richmond family.
The Mission Circle of the First
Baptist church will meet Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. Emma Lantz,
1920 North F street. The program
will consist Of three papers: Noun.
tain Missions, by Mrs. Sullivan :;
Deacons' Work, by Mrs Whitley;
Tidings From the Field, by Mrs. o.
i've Woods.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Penny Club will be held tomorrow
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Frank
Medearis, 4O5 Randolph street, West
Richmond. A business meeting will
be followed by program. Luncheon
will be served.
A very pretty, but quiet wedding
was that of Miss Elizabeth thinner
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w ARREN CLEMENTS

The w. A. G. girls were entertain
ed Friday afternoon by Miss Helen
Davis in honor OF Miss Ruby Reed,
of Richmond. The house was decorat-
ed and light refreshments were serv-
ed. The diversion Of the afternoon
was awarded to Miss Edna Driscoll.
Those present were Miss Ruby Reed,
of Richmond; Mary Thomas, Medora
Hopkins, Edna Driscoll, Edna Col
vim, Fife Abraham, Louise Summers
and Helen Davis. -Muncie Star.
Mrs. Albert Grouletf, of Riverside,
entertained several friends at a 6
O'Clock dinner Friday evening at her
home, on Wheeling avenue. The af-
fair was in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs
p. Sailing, of Anderson, and Mr.. and
Mrs. klute, of Richmond. The dee
orations consisted of red roses and
ferns, and were very pretty. Those
present were Messrs. and Mesdames
P. Sailing, of Anderson; Klute, of
Richmond; S. n. Smith, Mrs. Elmer
Moody and Rev. Charles Dunlap
Muncie Star.
Yesterday was the occasion for a
large number of picnics, the ideal day
being taken advantage of by many
parties of people, large and small.
The woods in all directions were the
scenes of merry picnics.
Among the picnics were the follow
ing: Messrs. and Mesdames F. A.
Lackey, Thomas Nicholson, Frank
McCurdy and a number of others
were at Hoover's, north of the city;
J. ]. Dickinson and George Virgins,
east Of Richmond; f. E. Roney,
Charles Green and Mr.. Farrow, will
families at Greensboro camp; VIII
Campbell, George Williams, Charles
Holton and families, together with a
large number of other relatives,
north; Harry Henley and about ff-
teen others, at Sedgwicl Rock, south ;
st. John s church, at Boyce's Woods,
attended by nearly the entire congre-
CATION, and at which drills and songs
were a feature, was one of the most
successful in many years; a number
of Earlham students, at knightstown,
and several other parties spent a very
pleasant day.
Mrs. Howard Campbell chaperoon-
ed party Of young people Sunday
and yesterday at Knollenberg' s
farm, in honor of her daughter, Miss
Fannie. In the party We're Misses
Inez Williams, Renee Peters, Merle
Williams and Fanny Campbell
Messrs. Dudley Elmer, Ramsey Pound
stone, Walter Eggemeyer and Willard
Rupe.
The monthly meeting of tho W.
F. NJ. S. of the Grace NJ. f. church
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
NOT A BURGLAR.

A man was found trying the door
of the Bell residence east of the city
Sunday morning and the noise alarm
ed the family. The man was drunk
and didn't know where he was He
was arrested and turned loose.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
DYNAMITED
Was the Household of James Viii
Son-Wife and Child Perished.
(By Associated Press

Lawrenceburg, Ind, July 5.-The
house-boat of James Wilson was
blown up by dynamite today. 1t is
believed that his wife and infant
child persisted. Wilson is missing.
He and his wife have been quarreling
Of late.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
MIDDLETON ESCAPED.

Earl Middleton, we'll known here,
who was sent to the reformatory
from Marion a short time ago, has es-
capped from that institution and is
still at liberty.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

A very pretty, but quiet wedding
was that Of Miss Elizabeth Zimme,
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
MARSHAL AXLEY
Fatally Shot While Separating Two
Men.
(By Associated Press. J

English, Ind, July 5.-In a general
fight Deputy Marshal Robert Axley
shot and dangerously wounded Spill
man Commins and was fatally shot
by Thomas Nelson. Axley was trying
to separate the other two men.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
HOW AUTOISqS IN
SPENT FOURTH
A NUMBER OF THEM MADE THE
RUN TO DAYTON.
A COLLISION BETWEEN
Will Vaughn and Henley's Machines
NO One Hurt-Buckboard to
st. Louis-Auto Notes.
A COLLISION BETWEEN

The Fourth of July was taken as
great holiday by all of the Richmond
automobile drivers, all of whom used
their machines to effect yesterday.
Frank Land, Will Vaughn, and Wal
ter Wilke, each with party made the
run to Dayton to see the automobile
races there, in which Wilke was en-
tered with a Rambler. Owing to
some irregularity Wilke did not race.
The runs there and back were all
made in good time and with no ac-
cidents. The rain, which fell in tor
rents, in the Afternoon near Dayton,
caught many and the autoists coming
in were covered with dust which has
stuck to the machines by the water.
Other local autoists took runs to
neighboring cities and spent the even
ing picnicking. All Of the machines
worked overtime.
AS Will Vaughn, with his party of
five, was coming up Main street last
evening in his Ford, the firing Of
crackers by some Of the party divert
ed his attention and he ran into Mr..
M. C. Henley's big Haynes-Apperson
surrey, which was standing under a
tree. Vaughn's axle was bent and a
front spring was broken, but no one
was hurt.
A White steam machine was quar-
tered in the garage yesterday. 1t is
carrying party Of five from Column
bus, Ohio, to Utah.
Two young men were here yester-
day enrOute from a town in Pennsyl-
vania to st. Louis in an Orient buck
board. So far they had had but few
accidents and the little machine, they
said, would carry them to their des-
tination in good time.
An auto driver from Columbus to
St. Louis sprained his axle and
spring near New Paris last night but
managed to reach the garage here this
morning.
One of the largest cars that has cv-
err been in the city was her: last
night. A party Of ten Indianapolis
people occupied it, and were return
ing to that city after spending the
day at the Dayton races. The ma
chine, Premier, was over twe"ty
feet long and the tonneau alone seat
ed seven comfortably. 1t Was ac-
companied by a smaller machine Of
the same make, seating four persons.
D~1l TX
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

An auto driver from Columbus to
st. Louis sprained his axle and
spring near New Paris last night but
managed to reach the garage here this
morning.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

The monthly meeting of tho W.
F. M. S. of the Grace NJ. f. church
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

A White steam machine was quar-
tered in the garage yesterday. 1t is
carrying a party Of five from Column
bus, Ohio, to Utah.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Penny Club will be held tomorrow
afternoon at the home of Mrs Frank
Medearis, 405 Randolph street, West
Richmond. A business meeting will
be followed by program. Luncheon
will be served.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Feldra?n re-
turned from a short visit in Anderson
this morning.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-05
BEVERIDGE CALLS ON PRESI-
DENT.
(By Associated Press.

Oyster Bay, July Ex-senator Bev-
eridge called on the president today
and had an informal political talk.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-28

serious conference between Governor
Odell the two New York senators and
President Roosevelt. No concealment
is made of the fact that the republican
outlook in New York has been menac-
ed by the factional differences, but the
situation in that respect is very much
improved.
Governor Odell told the President
yesterday that the republicans are
constantly getting in better shape i'll
the Empire state. while on the other
hand. the democrats are getting wider
apart. During last weeks convention
of democrats at Albany. Governor
odell was not in that city, but he had
a swarm of republican politicians
mingling with the democrats, and they
have sent reports to him. Governor
Odell told the President the reports
show that the revolt against David B.
Hill as result of his rough shod rid
ing down of Tammany has created a
factional feud among the democrats.
which will be difficult to heal.
Governor Odell believes Tammany
will knife the democratic ticket II
Parker is nominated and it is his can
did belief that New York state will
show no losses on the congressional
ticket,