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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07

THE many appeals for the
campaign fund will receive q
great deal more attention at this
stage of the campaign than after
it is over, and when you have
accounts running over from one
campaign to the other you can
appreciate the effort Of any body
that tries to collect the money in
advance of spending 1t.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07

IF the matter of nominating
county commissioners is left to
the convention, you have no room
to complain that your choice was
not considered. Good men in
this county that would serve
we'll in this important position
are plentiful and they should be
induced to run.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07

MIR. Aubury L. Brooks, Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress In
this district, passed. through the
city on his way to Oxford, to at
tend court Wednesd ".
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07

THE suggesting that Messrs.
Peay and Brogden represent Dur
ham and this senatorial district
will meet with popular favor In
Durham and should they come
out and enter the race it Is quite
likely that they would at least
make good run.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07

EVERY fellow that wants to
can receive encouragement to
come out for the legislature, and
possibly it can be accounted for
BY the friends Of such feeling
thai matters cannot be worse.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07
The Carolina Mutual Lille Insurance
Company.
OFFICES IN FITZGERALD BUILDING.
A Few Facts Concerning the Tremend'
GUS Growth Of this Insurance
COmpany-Has $4,000
Policy Holders.

IL was i've years dSo, III Tile
year of 1908, that James E.
Shepard sowed the seed that is
to-dayireaping,an abundance har-
vest in the insurance field. At
that time he founded the Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
which is now one of the leading
colored insurance companies in
this state. During the first year
succeeding its establishment the
company issued about 1900 poll
cies, but to-day there are 80, 900
members of this company, all of
them carrying life insurance poll
cies. These figures show that
the company has made rapid pro-
gress in its short life, and there
is no telling how greatly it may
develop in the future. Quite ap-
propriate and convincing of its
strength is the motto of the COM
pany, Prudence! Strength! Fru-
gality!"
At present they occupy prac-
tically all of the second floor of
Fitzgerald building on West Main
street, and several of the Office
rooms are being re-papered and
nicely fitted up. In these Offices
they give employment to nine
clerks and two stenographers.
Besides these there are one humid
red and eighty agents confined to
this state and three travelling
men that go anywhere in the
Union. G. w. Powell is the gen.
eral manager, and has charge Of
all these employees.
Back o. this company there are
a host of prominent and well-to.
do colored men, who are the of
fcers and directors of the com.
pany. The officers are as fol.
lows: Prof. w. G. Pearson, Pres.
ident; James E. Shepard, First
Vice-PreSident; s. Fl. Wick,
Second Vice-President; ]. A.
Dodson, secretary and treasurer
All of the officers are members Of
the board of directors, but be
sides these there are a few other,
as follows: John c. Dancey, re
corder of deeds, Washington, D
C., w. P. Burrell, Richmond
Va, and H. E. Hagans, Colds
boro.
Thus you see the company i
in excellent shape, and under tn
direction of men who understan,
the business.
The reserve funds are invest
ed in real and personal pro
perty. We are glad to see thi
insurance company in such goo'
condition, and hope for it a
great success in the future as ha
been its fortune to have since it
birth five years ago.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-08-07
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.

city, is visiting Miss Mamie
Blackley, Of Raleigh.
Messrs. w. ]. Griswold and R.
O. Everett were appointed Tues
day as receivers for the Durham
Iron Works.
Miss Annie Harvey, who has
been visiting Mrs. ]. I. Rose, has
just returned to her home in Ra-
leigh. 49,.
Major w. A. Guthrie went
over to Oxford, where he is at
tending court now in session
there. <- ..$
Mr.. w. A. Lloyd. who spends
a portion of his time in this city,
left Wednesday for his home in
Memphis. Tenn.
Victor S. Bryant returned Tues
day from Waynesville. where he,
Mrs. Bryant and children have
been spending some time.
Rev. L. B. Padgett, a returned
missionary from South America,
delivered a lecture at the Gospel
Tabernacle Thursday night.
General Passenger Agent, S.
H. Reams, of the ID. & s., has
returned from Dunn, where he
went with the Durham Orchest-
IA. III
R. C. Kelly, a law student at
Trinity College, left Wednesday
afternoon for Laurinburg, where
he will look after some business
matters.
J. F. Willy has returned from
Morganton, where he went on a
short visit to his family, who are
spending the summer at that
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. E. Murphy
left Thursday for Graham other
points in Alamance and Orange
counties, where they will spend
two weeks.
Among our callers to-day were
Harrison Ashley, of Undertake,
who always makes it a point to
attend to his''subscription before
his time expires
General J. 5. Carr, Mrs. Carr
and their son, Austin. went up
to 0econeechee Farm Wednes.
day where they will spend two
months or more.
DR.. w. K. Boyd, head of the
department of history at Trinity
College, has returned from Vast
ington, d. G., where he has beer
engaged in special research worl
for several weeks.
Mr.. S. NJ. Snider is in Green
vile, S. c.. on a short businee.
trip. Owing to the wreck Of
train No. 80, Mr.. and Mrs. Snid
der missed each other when HI
vas Unexpectedly headed hel
way.
While attending the Lindsay.
Massey wedding, Mr.. E. A.
Atwater received a message tell
ing of the sudden death of hi!
brother known as Zillie Atwater
The young man died at his ole
home near Cedar Grove.
DR.. +. P. Venerable, presiden,
of the state university, Mrs
Venerable and Miss Taumul
Manning, of Chapel Hill, wht
have been visiting in the western
part of the State, have returned
to their homes at the Hill.
A man in East Durham by tn,
meofAlphonsus Tendall, better
known as Fond" TendalI, wa!
tried before Justice Of the Peac,
7. j. Morton Thursday evenin,
fer being infamous. 1t is re
ported that Tendall has insultet
anumber of ladies in that section
which Ia something the Iaw w;l
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

while not entirely pertinent to the subject should be
OF interest to every loyal Idahoan. In these days
when the districts of Hood River and Yakima are
being advertised from end of the country to the
other, when their merits being proclaimed every
where and their high values advertised to the whole
world 1t may be of interest to compare the output
and income of these districts with our fruit section
in southwestern Idaho Quoting Better Fruit for
January Hood River shipped a trihe less than 200
cars OF fruit, netting little less than $2OOOOO" If
there had been apples consigned to markets
from this section (the amount of which | do not
know but it is SmalD, the carload shipments of fruit
this point than was returned to Hood River From
Boise and Weiser valleys and the Emmett district
the income should be considerably in total than
from Payette valley, nearly $5oO,OOO for south
western Idaho The estimate of apple shipments
from Yakima is 1000 boxes; figured at Hood River
prices this will give 100000. The total receipts of
both Hood River and Yakima totang 100000 as
as against 100000 for this district
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
An Impoverished Nation.

Another week has been regulated to the tomb
of time and still there is with Japan although
the bird of omen is croaking its pessimstic propl-
ecles and the senaton mongers are still busy with
their gloomy forecasts
In truth, war with Japan, is possibility so far in
the future to cast shadow before it. for Japan has
reached the limit of taxation and can obtain no more
credit abroad and is burdened with foreign debt
of nearly billion and quarter dollars 1t is prac-
tcally at the end of its borrowing and needs long
interval of peaceful development and expansion to
save it from bankruptcy 1t could not consider
a proposition to fight the wealthiest nation of the
earth.
In the light of these facts it is difficult to imagine
this stricken people seeking nation though
in all the representations put forth the sensation
lists give Japan the pose of an aggressor and the
United States the attitude of filled with appre
henslon lest conflict may be precipitated between
the two governments.
An exaggerated estimate of the fighting capabil-
tiles of the brown of the orient has filled the
public mind since Russia was worsted in sanguin-
airy conflict with them In those times of feverish
and unheathful excitement, public sentiment in the
United States cheered the Monaghan as he crushed
the Caucasian and encouraged him with extravagant
praise along his destroying course.
Now the United States, fearing that taste for the
UOOu VI WIlle 11ldn mas become an undppedSaDe
appetite that may entce the hordes 5000 miles
of open water to attack their quondam friends in the
mpregnable fortress of the west, is chary of its
praise and affects to despise the islanders whom it
once warmly commended
The fruits of unnatural sympathetic alliance
with an alien race are being gathered in the fears
that based unreal phantoms of Japanese
strength and disposition to it. Perhaps this
may be a just retrbutive effect, for we owe to
Russia, the discounted opponent of Japan, more
than owe to all the other nations of the earth, for
the moral support of Russia the saving of the re
public in the hour when the clouds of destruction
were hanging low in a-calamitious sky.
While there is no possibility of unsought en-
counter with the island empire of the east, this
of apprehension has been fully earned
md it ought to be remembered as valuable lesson
n the control of the emotions.
The people of Japan leaving their home
,ronment by hundreds of thousands and many of
hem naturally drift westward to the American con-
inent They are leaving their native land because
hey there encounter only taxation and sem-starva-
ion. The empire is paying the debt of war in the
distress of its people and is not likely to again in
oke the that sends them forth seek the sus
anance that is denied them within the confines of
own
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27

son, Nathaniel o. Hultgren, Alva R.
Joneson, Oscar L. Johnson, Ernest
Johnson, j. William Johnson, Fay
John LENS, Orion w. Lindgren, Gail
b. Nelson, Elmer Nelson, Ernest G.
Nicholson, Alvin A. Nystrom. Ernest
A. Ostrom, Arthur e. OsSian, Ruther
ford H. Ossian, Ada NJ. Peterson and
Walter E. Wadhams.
Shorthand course-Esther E. Ander-
son, Florence Clark, Mae Clark, Edna
F. Hillstrom, Henning Hokenson, Ly-
dia Jackson, Alva r. Joneson, Emelia
| " Johnson, Medic Johnon, Esther L.
| Johnson, Minnie Lindquist. Elmer Mel
son, Ernest Ostrom, Mary B. Stouffer
Ethel Wade, Eileen E. Carlson and
Budie E. Holmes.
DIR. Paul Brown Addresses Graduates.
! The exercises this morning were
preceded by selections by the college
band on the lawn near the main build
ing. The exercises in the chape
opened with a song by the audience
and DR.. Andreen gave the invocation
A violin solo, Mendelssohn' "Concer
TO Andanti," was played by Miss Ethe
Wade.
The commencement address wa.
given by Rev. Paul Brown of Moline
He spoke of the increasing demand
for commercial graduates, and of tbs
particular opportunities of the youns
men and women who have buines
training, in the development of thu
commercial interests of the country
He urged that the students continu
their studies. that their minds ma,
not become dead.
/ The certificates were presented t
the graduates by President Andreer
An organ solo, 'Whitman's "Proces
sional March," was delivered by Mis-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27
WANTS A BIC sum
Loss of Lads Arm Results in
Suit Against Milwaukee
for $4,000 Damages.
FRANK YOUNG IS GUILTY
Verdict to That Effect Is Returned in
Circuit court-Scharrer Trial
Is Concluded.

The sum of $4,000 is sought as dam
ages in suit filed by William Rum
Ter, an East Moline boy, by his next
friend, his mother, Mrs. Clementine
Reed, against the Milwaukee. The lad
lost his left arm last summer in an &C
along the tracks. The plaintiff is rep.
resented by George c. Wenger and A
B. Johnson. ~"
Young Is Guilty.
Frank Young, the negro who was
tried yesterday for burglary and lar
ceny, was found guilty by the jury in
its verdict returned late yesterday af
sefnoon. The negro some months age
entered Wright's restaurant, and stole
some food stuffsy from a rear room
States Attorney j. X. Scott appeared
sor the prosecutions. and w. E. White
side represented the defendant.
Finish Scharrer Trial.
The trial of the case against Ro.
Scharrer for burglary and larceny wa
concluded and the case went to tn,
jury late this afternoon. Scharrer wa
brought back here from Monmouth t,
answer to charges of burglary here
He is being tried on a charge of ha,
,ng entered the saloon of Charlie
Thomas and taking $40 worth of cloth
ing.
Sues for Divorce.
Mrs. Kathryne Hansen has filed
bill for divorce from Arthur Hansen
They were married in Peoria Marc
10, 1902. The complainant states tina
her husband threw her down a fligh
of stairs on one occasion, and was oil
erwise cruel to her, and that he deser
ed her in 1905. Schriver & Schrive
| represent the complainant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27
BODY IS NOT FOUND
Search For Remains Of Joseph
Valentine Drowned in tho
e Slough Continues.
COL. HOBBS OFFERS HIS AID
Suggestion Made That City Provide for
Services of Diver in Such Cases
as This.

The search for the remains of 10
seph M. Valentine, who was drowned
Monday evening in Sylvan slough, was
continued today without success. The
usual methods of dragging the bottom
of the river were used, but arrange
ments We're made this afternoon to use
dynamite. Commandant F. E. Hobbs
of Rock Island arsenal offered to lend
his aid in the search.
The family have offered a reward OF
500 for the finding of the remains.
Besides the members of his immedi
ate family Mr.. Valentine is survived
by brother Martin of this city, and
a sister Mrs. Lawrence Dillenschneidel
of Kansas City, who is ON her way
here.
should Have Public Diver.
Rev. J. F. Lockney. pastor of Sacred
Heart church, who has been observ
ing the efforts of those who are
searching for the body, today made
"a suggestion that deserves serious
consideration.
Rock Island should have divers
Outfit said he, land at least during
the summer months, employ someone
who could operate it in such cases
as this. There are several drownings
in the river here every season and il
nearly every case there is difficulty
in finding the body. Sometimes it is
in the water for weeks and occasion
ally it is never recovered. There
ought to be something more effective
at hand than the crude means nov
used in dragging for corpse. The
expense of divers outfit would no
be heavy and it might very properl!
be born by the city, or, for that mat
ter, the three cities, Rock Island, Mo
line and Davenport might divide The
cost and jointly use the apparatus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27

board in the planning for the ceremon-
les, and upon motion the chair was
empowered to name committee from
the Booster club to act in the same
capacity.
The Exposition Project.
President Reck brought before the
club the matter Of the formation of
an association to put into effect the
carnival feature in Rock Island, re-
porting the proceedings of the meeting
recently held at the Rock Island Club,
as outlined in The Argus at the time.
1t was proposed to form a corporation
with capital of $4,000, the shares to
be 800 EACH and to promote an amuse-
ment enterprise to be designated as
the Rock Island Exposition company,
and to lease the Twelfth street track
for the purpose. After T. ]. Medill, c.
s. Mcdaniel and Mr. Reck had explain
ed the project in detail subscription
paper was presented and third of the
stock was subscribed among those
present, Mr.. Hunsacker. the guest of
the evening, being among the subscrib-
ers.
A Midsummer Outing.
1t was decided to hold one more
meeting of the club before taking the
summer recess, and it was determined
upon motion of w. H. Reck to arrange
for Steamboat outing for the club
during the summer months, the chair
being instructed to name a committee
on arrangements. of which he appoint
ed W. A Rosenfield chairman.
The meeting then adjourned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27

Mabel Abrahamson, and the valedic-
tory was delivered by Miss Florence
Clarke.
The exercises concluded with the
singing of the doxology, and the bene-
diction by Rev l. o. Nothstein-
Gifts for Leader.
Professor Emil Larson, director of
the Wennerberg male chorus, was
given an agreeable surprise by the
members of the chorus last evening
All unknown to the professor, the
chorus marched to his home and be-
gan to sing one of the chorus songs.
calling on him to come out and lead
them. To do this. they handed him
new baton made of ebony and hand
somely mounted in silver On the
baton We're engraved the words: ITO
E. Larson from the Wennerberg '0S''
Einar 'JoranSon, of the chorus, made
the presentation speech and Professor
Larson replied. expressing his thanks
and appreciation. Under the efficient
leadership of Professor Larson. the
chorus has established a wide repu-
! tation as one of the foremost organi-
cations of its kind in the country, and
| Il was thought especially appropriate
to acknowledge his services in the
manner shown last night. Professor
Larson will continue to be the leader
of the chorus next year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27
BOOSTER CLUB
DOES THINGS IN
ANNUAL meet
Officers Are Reelected and Re.
ports of Years Work
Read.
A NEW YORK MAN TALKS
Numerous Important Projects, IncIud-
ing Exposition, Acted
Upon.

The Rock Island Booster club held
its annual meeting at the Rock Island
Club last evening, and the attendance
was exceptionally large. President w
M. Reck occupied the chair, and after
dinner had been served, delivered his
first annual address. 1t reviewed the
work of the club during the year of its
existence. as follows:
Gentlemen of the Rock Island
Booster Club: A year ago your club
was formed for the purpose of raising
a fund of 100000 for the industrial
development of Rock Island. can
Tot forget the morning when you re.
ported at this club house eager for
duty. The feeling of harmony, unity
and mutual helpfulness, the sinking of
all differences, the determination 10
win, the up guards and at them spirit
shown that morning has never abated
but dominates the boosters with abid
ing force today. The work at hand
was more than done as fund OF
$4,000 was raised. Then came the
permanent organization of the boost
ers' and, gentlemen, | speak advisedly
when say that in many respects this
is the most important of the organiza
tons which are now promoting the
city's welfare. 1t is the most elastic
most easily handled of all the organi
cations, it can act quickly and strike
with vfgor while the iron is hot. Al
the same time it stands in harmonious
cooperation with all the other bodies
engaged in the forward march We
may liken the Boosters club to tht
picked cavalry which scours the coun
try in search of information in ad
vance of the main army, engages il
sharp, often brilliant skirmishes; an(
more, makes those desperate charge:
that often turn the tide of battle ant
make history. There is a great anC
useful future before us, gentlemen o
this club; let harmony, self sacrifice
and inflexible determination ever dom
mate our future as it has our past.
And now, to briefly recapitulatt
the work of the year: Aside from thu
raising of the s137.G Rock Islant
development fund, this club, through
some Of it's members, participated il
the annexation of part of South Roc
Island to the city, the first tim
Eighteenth avenue has ever beel
crossed This promises to be of grea
Importance as the industrial eXpar
sion of the city goes on.
The Toll Bridges.
'An evening devoted TO the questio
of the Milan toll bridges, and an il
teresting address by Mr. johnson
state highway commissioner, whethe
or not a toll should be charged
brought on the good roads question
matter of vital Importance to ever
community. Yoar directors held tire
meetings al the Rock Island Club wit
the supervisors and the road commit
sioners of Andalusia, Bowling an
Black Hawk townships with the +
suit that the officials in each of thes
townships have organized for system
attic work on The country roads wit
the usual road implements and tt
King split log drag. The result
should be $50 miles of good roa6
within radius of Is miles of Roc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27
PERSONAL POINTS.

DR.. Louis Ostrom has gone to Pitts
burg to attend the meeting of the eye
and ear specialists. Next week he
will attend the meeting of the Amer
lean Medical society in Chicago and
return home a week from Friday.
Mrs. Frank Bay of Carbon Cliff has
returned home from Iowa City where
she was with her daughter, Mrs. Paul
Barth of this city, who underwent an
operation at the university hospital
Mrs. Barth is recovering nicely and
will return home in few weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27
OBITUARY.
Peter johnson.

Peter Johnson died this morning at
his home, $40 Twenty-first street,
after an illness of about a week with
bronchitis. Mr.. Johnson was born in
city for the last 40 years. He is sur
Vived by his wife and two sons
Charles and Phillip at home, and
three brothers, August and Otto in
Chicago and Charles in Andover
Mich, and sister in Sweden.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-27

and of its means of amusement and en-
gates. Rock Island, said the speaker,
is not only good place to visit, but a
good place in which to live. He con-
trasted the difference between the way
| the business man is hedged about in
a great city like New York, where he
seldom has the opportunity or time to
see the sun or breathe the refreshing
atmosphere. whose individuality is lost
| in the great swarm, of the west of
which Rock Island is a part, where
there is free air, chance to see the
sun, and where every man is known in
the community by his works, and
where, along with the pursuit of bus.
mess, there comes the opportunity
each day for the warm hand clasp, mu-
tual friendship and good fellowship.
| Mr.. Hunsacker referred to these char
lacteristics of Rock Island, it's sociabil-
lily and its hospitality, and its beauti-
full general environments, no less than
Tits commercial advantages as prompt
ling the company which he represents
to locate one of its important plants in
this city. The company, he went on to
lsay, had made no mistake. If it had 1t
!, to do over again it would do just as it
! had done. He spoke of the superior
shipping facilities of the city, as af
J, forded by river and rail contributing
t to making this city one of the great
II est Industrial and commercial cente-s
of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys
L There is a wonderful future befor.
e Rock Island, said Mr.. Hunsacker, am
!" there is nothing that will contribute S,
+ much to the realization of all that i
a in store for Rock Island as the Booste
J. club and the booster spirit.
n Long View Dedication.
l., President Reck read a communities
d Ition from Hon. William jackson invi
n ling the cooperation of the Booster clu
lin the dedication of Long View parl
n and the promotion of home-comin
ii week in the same connection, the lie
al ter stating that similar letters had bee
,ej written to the presidents of the Roc
II island Club, the Rock Island Bushes
s. Mems association and the chairman
IS The Rock Island Industrial commission
a. President G.. L. Etster of the Rock Is
lie and Club, reported that acting upo
G. The letter he had received from M
I'll jackson, he had already appointed
IS. committee to cooperate with the par