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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24
Eight Billions

Louisville Courier-Journal:
If the crops of the American
farmers continue TO reach an
nually a value of $8,OOO,OOO,0OO
or so, neither President Roose-
welt for anyone else need worry
much about the "uplift" of
farm life. The returns from
the crops will work the uplift
themselves, without the aid of
commissions and things. With
money overlooking their pock-
cts, the farmers will insist on
their improving their homes
and thereby making their lives
pleasanter. They will pay
more attention to sanitary con-
ditions and to appearances, for
they will have the means with
which to accomplish reforms.
They will buy newest devices
in the way of machinery, they
will insist on better roads, they
will be better able than before
to maintain excellent schools.
Just as money makes the mare
go, it makes the farm grow.
When the money jingles around
the farm houses, the capitalistic
farmers will desire to live in
ways that become magnates.
Eight billions of dollars for the
farmers this year! First thing
people know the farmers will
constitute the plutocratic class
Mrs. M. O'Connor was an
Omaha passenger this morning.
This was certainly another
fine day and the weather man
thinks it will continue this way
for a few days, at least.
. Harry Fensler came in from
Ames last evening for a hol..-
}, day visit with home people.
j, Miss Verona Pratt wiilarrive
tomorrow morning from Wis
consln University to spend the
holiday vacation with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. 3. W. Pratt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Maht ny
will spend Christmas in Aber-
deem, S. D. the guest Of Mack
: Harris family.
Miss Ethel Nebbergall Of
. Sioux Falls, South Dakota is
here the guest of DR.. and Mrs.
DeVore.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24
Obituary Notice

The remains of the late
George Haegany arrived this
afternoon and were taken to
the home of his niece, Mrs.
Mccullough. The funeral SER
vices will be held Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock.
George Haegeny was about
66 years old at the time of his
death, and ever since the late
war, made his home in Harrison
county and vicinity. He SER
we'd during the civil war in
Company A, 10Th Iowa Volun-
teer Infantry, with Charles
Alexander of this city. So far
as we can learn he leaves one
sister, Mrs. Magner of Rawlins,
Wyoming, three nieces and one
nephew, Mrs. Mccullough,
Mrs. Baldwin and Charles
Haegeny of Missouri Valley
and a Mrs. Laughrey of Coun-
lcll Bluffs. In California he
leaves four nephews, Isaac,
John, William and Adam Haeg-
eny.
Mr.. Haegeny has been in the
4 Soldiers Home at MarshalltoWn
for sometime and died at that
place on Monday of this week.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. Frank Greedy left this
morning for Tekamah, Nebras-
ka to spend Xmas with friends
and relatives.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Green
entertained at Sunday dinner,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Doty, Mr..
and Mrs. j. d. Jones, Mr.. H. l..
Jones and Miss Frances How
ard.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

o. A. Better returned to his
home in Lincoln this afternoon
after a visit here with Harold
Cook. Beltzer played left half
on the University foot ball
team last season.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

General Manager Ashton
and family passed through the
Valley today in their private
car enroute west.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. Geo. Wicknam, of Coun-
Gil Bluffs. and Miss Lucille
Shelley, of st. Paul, Mimi, ar
rived this noon for a short visit
with Mrs. Guy Mahony.
Mrs. r. L. Coulthard is enter
tanning the Kappa Delta girls
this afternoon, complimentary
to Miss Shelley, of st. Paul.
Miss Lucille Shelley, of st
Paul and Mrs. Geo Wickman Of
Council Bluffs, who were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Mahony returned to Council
Bluffs this morning.
Mayor Thomas Mallory of
Council Bluffs was in town to-
day shaking hands with friends.
Harold Cook, who is attend
ing school at the Nebraska
State University, is here for
the holidays.
Miss Bess Simpson of Mil
waukee Donnor College will ar
rive tomorrow morning and will
be the guest of Miss Verona
Pratt during the holidays.
For Sale
A bay stallion, 8 years old
Mount Russell Jr. pedigree
weight HOO.
Hugh House, Mo Valley
Phone F 9 tt
]. P. and P. w. Mullen of
Broken Bow, Nebraska have
arrived for a holiday visit with
home people.
j. C. Huff and family have
gone to Wilton, Iowa for a visit
during the holidays.
No. Ga is the number which
was lucky for the big doll giver
away at the Cash Bazaar last
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Vient
left this morning for their HON,
in Minneapolis, after a visi
: with the j. d. Tamisiea family
Joe Smiley is home from low;
City to spend the holiday vaca
tion with his parents.
Harrison Cowan is home iron
Coe College for a two week
visit with his parents.
Some one took an .overcoa
from Creely's pool hall las
Saturday evening by mistake
and it should be returned Their
as soon as possible.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24


and Mrs. j. d. Jones, Mr.. H. L.
Jones and Miss Frances How
ard.
Rex Edgecomb came in this
afternoon from Ames College
and will spend the night with
his sister, Mrs. Ed Madsen. He
will go on to Omaha in the
morning for his holiday vaca-
ton.
Mildred Hall went up to
Modale this morning to spend
her holiday vacation with rela
tives.
Mrs. j. P. Martin and two
sons went to Omaha this morn
ing to meet a nephew, Iell
Branson of Payette, Idaho,
who will be a guest at the Mar
tin home during the holidays.
The Missouri Valley Electric
Lighting and Heating Company
were circulating a paper on the
streets yesterday for the sigma
lures of those who would use
gas should a plant be installed
as per the late franchise grant
ed the company. Many Of the
business men signed the paper
and we trust it will get further
than this stage. This franchise
went through with the under
standing that a gas plant would
be built here, but as usual
nothing came of the matter. If
there is any likelihood Of the
work being done the company
can rest assured that the citi-
zens of the town will give their
support.
We just received a letter
from II. f. Davidson, of Mass
who left this county many years
ago, but has always taken the
Times. He is in the wood and
lumber business and is doing
we'll, which we are glad to hear
Mrs. L. A. Lewis was a bust.
ness passenger to Dunlap this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs, G. r. Stout
drove to Logan Monday even
ing accompanied by Rev. ane
Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. j. p
Martin. Tuesday evening they
took as their guests Mr.. ane
Mrs. Spafford and Mrs. Oscar
Pugsley of Mondamin. They
report fine meetings at Logan
Is came forward last night AM
the total conversion for tn,
meetings was 81.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Harrison Cowan is home from
Coe College for a two weeks
visit with his parents.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24


Mr.. and Mrs. F. e. Myers
we're Council Bluffs passengers
this morning.
Miss Tilda Lutge left this
morning for Norfolk, Nebraska
where she will visit friends
during the holidays.
Miss Nettie Filkins is report
ed as much better today.
For Sale
A number of thoroughbred
Duroc Jersey male pigs.
Hugh House, Mo Valley
Phone F9 If
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Ell Seebold has purchased
the II. O. Beebee farm two
miles west of California juno
ton.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Some one took an .overcoat
from Creely's pool hall last
Saturday evening by mistake,
and it should be returned there
as soon as possible.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. F. w. Myers yesterday
entertained Mrs. j. P. Garner
and son David and Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Edmonds, of Rag
Ian township.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24


j. F. McDermott of Missouri
had shipped to him for Christ
mas a fine assortment OF Holly,
9 sample OF which is shown in
Heath's Grocery window. This
is one of the best samples we
have ever seen in this part of
the country.
MIR. and Mrs. j. w. Shultz of
Schuyler will spend Christmas
in the Valley with relatives.
Frank Cradle of Council
Bluffs visited friends in the Val
ley today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. a. E. Hunter was an
Omaha passenger this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Joe Smiley is home from Iowa
City to spend the holiday vaca-
ton with his parents.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

E. r. Rourke of Broken Bow,
Nebraska is here for the holi-
days. He reports good crops.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. r. L. Coulthard is enter
tanning the Kappa Delta girls
this afternoon, complimentary
to Miss Shelley, of st. Paul.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Viene
left this morning for their home
in Minneapolis, after a visit
with the j. d. Tamisiea family.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. Elmer Clapp and child
rem left this morning for Des
Moines to visit until after the
holidays. Mr.. Clapp will go to-
morrow evening.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Miss Lucille Shelley, of st
Paul and Mrs. Geo Wickman Of
Council Bluffs, who were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Mahony returned to Council
Bluffs this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. G. S. Babcock left this
morning for Omaha to spend
the holidays with her children.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24
Ed Bradley transacted bust
ness in Omaha today.

Down in Council Bluffs the
stores have planned to close all
day Christmas, but will keep
open late Thursday evening for
the benefit of those who wish to
purchase Christmas necessaries
for their Friday dinner. Do
not know what plans the mer-
chants here will make for Fri
day.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Rev. Douglas was a rassen-
ger to Omaha this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. Geo. Wicknam, Of Coun-
Gil Bluffs. and Miss Lucille
Shelley, of st. Paul, Mimi, ar
rived this noon for a short visit
with Mrs. Guy Mahony.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

No. Ga is the number which
was lucky for the big doll given
away at the Cash Bazaar last
night.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24
Miss Nell Richardson was an
Omaha passenger this morning.

Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Weston
left this morning for Lincoln
to attend the marriage of a
friend.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Dewell
went to Lincoln this morning
to attend the marriage of a
Miss Bruner.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Miss Bess Simpson of Mil
waukee Donnor College will ar
rive tomorrow morning and will
be the guest of Miss Verona
Pratt during the holidays.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. j. P. Martin and two
sons went to Omaha this morn
ing to meet a nephew, Zell
Branson of Payette, Idaho,
who will be a guest at the Mar
tin home during the holidays.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-12-24

Mrs. L. A. Lewis was a bust
ness passenger to Dunlap this
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
WORTH ADVERTISING For

There 5499 Negroes employed here Washington bv s
Government alone and these 9 Negroes draw salaries aggregan
S3o4o These than three millions of dollars are sDent obt
here Washington but scattered among hundreds of traden
Is tins amount OF money worth bidding for? certainly and
not the largest in this city refuse to oct the bo
end OF did they but realize howmuc money Negroes are real
y spending
Now lhe Bee IS the only Negro publication this CITY Ii stands
without rival competitor andcovers the field ike are Tf
few OF the merchants in this city will paonize advertising col
of The Bee presenting the bargains he NAV have
these Negroes these 99 Negroes draw annually from e
Government three millions of will assume that b. mar
ronizg publication edited and operated by OF race that
such firms desire and deserve their patronage such firms will
receive the bulk these he millions of dollars received and
spent by the Negroes of Washington.
What clothing what furniture what dry goods
what other lines of business will make effort divert
themselves millions If dollars spent by Washington
Negroes BY advertising in The Bee?
Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 500 aPPreca
tive Negroes spend their three millions of dollars with
time advertise in The Bee the newsPaDe- that
into everv Negro Washington Remember merchants Of
Washington it's what advertising pays you NOT what costs
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

most of the rioters put in Jail. The
man who started the riot took poison
and ded. He was afraid because a
Northern state was behind them .
find out who started the riot. No dif-
ference between the Democratic and
Republican parties ed? What State,
have Jim Crow Car laws?7 Every
State in the South. The Democratic
party says some favor them but the
whole does not. How do YOU know
hat? How do you know its policies !?
While the Republican party has had
its shortcomings and has not done all
we think it should have done, It has
done more for US than the Democratic
party. Compare your condition now
with forty years ago and see the won
deriul transformation. What a won
derful change from that of the depth
from which we came. of your old
fathers and mothers in distress and
being oppressed until Republicans
same along with its splendid "Ship OF
State and towed us on, forward and
forward until we have reached, today,
this splendid height, until we are
pretty nearly able to take care of our
selves.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
CAMPAIGN TINGLES.

CAMPAIGN JINGLES.
DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS.
Offers Bill to Repeal Law Relative
to Crimes Committed While Violat-
ing the Elective Franchise and Civil
Rights Law,
The following is a copy of a bill
introduced by Congressman Hull,
Democrat, of Tennessee, on Janu-
ary Is, 1908.
Goth Congress.
Ist Session.
H. R. 1883.
In the House of Representatives.
January IS, 1908.
Mr.. Hull, of Tennessee, introduced
the following bill; which was referred
10 the Committee on the Judiciary
and ordered to be printed.
A BILL
To repeal section ffty-fve hundred
and nine of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, relative to crimes
committed while violating the cleo
tive franchise and civil rights law.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress
Assembled, That section ffty-fve
hundred and eight of the Revised
Statutes of the United States relative
to conspiracies to injure or intimi
date citizens in the exercise of the
elective franchise and civil rights, be,
and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. ?. That this Act take effect
from and after the date of its passage.
Sec. 55o8, Revised Statutes of the
United States.
Conspiracy to injure or intimidate
citizens in the exercise of civil rights.
If two or more persons Conspire to
iujure, Cypress, threaten or intimi-
date any citizen in the free exer-
else or the enjoyment of any right or
privilege secured TO him by the Con-
Stitution or laws of the United States,
or because of his having so exercised
the same; or if two or more persons
go in disguise on the highway or on
the premises of another. with intent
to prevent or hinder his free exercise
or enjoyment of any right or privi-
lege so secured, they shall be fined
not more than FIVE thousand dollars
and imprisoned nor more than ten
years; and shall moreover, be there
after ineligible to any Office or place
of honor, profit or trust created by
the Constitution or laws of the United
States.
Other Grimes Committed While Vio-
lating the Preceding Section.
If in the act of violating any pro-
vision in either of the two preceding
sections any other felony or mis-
demeanor be committed, the offender
shall be punished for the same with
such punishment as it attached to
such felony or miSdemeanor by the
laws of the State in which the offense
is committed.
TAFTS CINCINNATI SPEECH.
Allen Temple is one of the finest
colored churches in the city of Gin
cinnati, and recently Mr.. Taft was
escorted thither by a deputation Of
the ministers of the Ohio Conference
of the A. NJ. E. church, and made an
address, from which we give a few
extracts:
He was there, he said, TO express
his sympathy with the Negro race
in its struggle for better things. A
sympathy, which / have had from the
time I was a small boy, for I inherit
ed it from my father, Alphonso Taft.
The colored race never had a better
friend than he"
The writer of this article can at
test, from personal knowledge, that
such was the fact. 1t is pleasant to
note Mr.Taft's reference to education
for the race. He said:
"But. while advocate with all the
energy and confidence possible the
spread of primary and industrial edu-
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
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UNDERTAKEN AND PRACTICAL ENBATMrK
TWELFTH AND STREETS N. w
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TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS.
Reunites the Separated, and
Removes Spells and Evil Influence:
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AND PEN & INK
STEEL CONST RUG
Phone Min 6o5s--M Office
cation, | am for from minimizing the
Importance of opportunity for higher
education for the Negro. The race
needs leaders, and the leaders need
as complete education as possible"
The race has a dozen great nation
al organizations: The National Bap-
tlst Convention (much larger than
any organization that exists among
the whites), the Methodist General
Conferences, the publishing houses
sending out thousands of pages of
religious literature, and then, there
are the Free masons, Odd Fellows
Pythians, who are collecting and dis
tributing thousands of dollars in char
ity,-how could they do this without
men of higher education?
In regard to race riots, Mr.. Taft
said: "They are of the most fendish
cruelty, manifesting itself in the
blindest and most unreasonable as
Saults upon perfectly innocent peo-
pie, simply because of their color"
It is impossible to read accounts
of this sort without having ones
blood boil with indignation at the
knowledge that there can abide in the
human breast such a savage and
beaStly impulse and motive"
We hope that Mr.. Bryan will re-
view that speech.
n VOTE FOR BRYAN IS A
VOTE INDORSING NEGRO
DISFRANCHISEMENT," SAYS.
FORMER MINISTER BASSETT
Professor w. E. B. Dubois, a we'll
known colored educator publishes the
following under the heading: "The
Negro Vote" the article being in
tended to induce Negroes to vote for
Bryan:
"The Republican party never, as a
party, opposed slavery. "The Repub-
lican party was responsible for some
of the worst ''black laws" against
free Negroes.
The Republican party was willing
to fight to end the war, and leave
slavery as they found it."
Commenting on these statements,
the Hon. E. D. c. Bassett, former
Minister to Hayti, confdant of Presi-
dent Grant, and Secretary Fish, and
one of the ablest men of the Negro
race, says that they are utterly absurd,
The Republican party, says Mr.. Bas-
sett, took from the first the only prac-
teal way of antagonizing slavery,
and by practical means it carried
forward the struggle until slavery
was dead. The "black laws" against
free Negroes in certain states border
ing on slave territory were not passed
by the Republican party which was
either not IN existence at the time OF
their enactment, or was too insignl-
fcant to make an impress on leglsla-
ton. The Republican party, under
Abraham Lincoln. took step after step
toward complete emancipation as each
step became possible, and crowned
its work by the constitutional amend
ment aboliShing slavery.
Mr.. BaSSett characterizes as sui
cidaI the suggestion that Negroes
should vote for Bryan who has pub
licly at meeting in the CooperUnion
New York. approved the action OF
Southern Democrats in disfranchis-
ing Negroes. He says that Negro
support of Bryan would be looked
upon as an acknowledgement that
Negroes approve and indorse the
Bryan Democrtic policy Iof Negro
disfranchisement, and would tend to
deprive the Negro of the sustaining
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

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force which he now derives from the
Republican sympathy and attachment.
There can be no doubt that the
thousand Negro voices which ac-
claimed William H. Taft at the Afri-
an NJ. E. Conference in Cincinnati
expressed the general sentiment of
black Americans, and that with very
few exceptions, the members of that
race will vote with and for the can
didates of the party which not only
liberated the Negro but which made
him citizen with the same rights
as the white, and which upholds him
in those rights in every state control
led by Republican votes.
To the infinite credit of the col
ored friends of Judge Taft is must
be said that they indulge in no abuse
or villifcation of those who see po-
litical matters in a different light.
III. Daniel Williams, Thirty-third
Degree, is still drawing his pension.
Good boy.l
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

The Worlds Congress of CHM
the places
lung disc
Dr. who made
will and clinical treatment of the
Oxygen, oa-
meu OF about the 18th of October
Address a o G J.
w. Commerce Street, San Artoni Texas
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

BISHOP Caldwell OF THE
AFRICAN METHODIST EPIS-
COUAL ZION CH. ISSUTS
STATEMENT ADVISING COL
ORED VOTERS TO STICK TO
THE GRAND OLD PARTY AND
VOTE FOR TAFT AND SHER-
MAN.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

RUGS and CARPETS
at this sale special priced.
50 SO Rug at. ........ .S1.90
SO Rug at 1926
All wool Ingram, 2-ply.. $50. SO
All wool Ingram, 3.ply. $4,000. SO
Half wool, extra supers. .... .26
Sanitary Carpet. .... 20
Union Carpet ........... 22c
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
DENIM COATS

Denim, Corduroy, Sheep Lined
Coats and Suits for men and boys.
Denim Coats, 81 so value at 81. 10
Denim Coats, 200 value at go
Denim Coats, $50 value at ..1.75
Denim Coats, 2.75 value at 90
Corduroy Coats, 400 value at. 3 10
Corduroy Coats, 500 value at.3 SO
Sheepskin lined, 500 value at. Is
Men Corduroy Pants, .65 value l 80
Whole Suit Of Corduroy, coat,
vest and pants, at. 10
Children's Corduroy Suits, just
the thing for school, at. 2 90
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
25 per cent discount

Ready made Skirts, knit wool
Scarfs, knit Underskirts, satin I'm
derskirts. Shawls, health bloom
Skirts, Nightgowns Golf Gloves,
Mittens, Caps, Hoods for Children
or Baby On above one.fourth off.