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The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

Gov. Cobb and other Maine
men are seeking bail for Ohas. w.
Morse, the stranded financier, pend
ing his appeal to the higher court. He
ia now in tho tombS.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

At the next State muster on the
State grounds in Augusta, there will
be something of novelty. Adjutant
General Farnham has secured from
the government the promise of the
presence of regiment of regular in
fantry, who will participate in the
muster with our State troops. This
cannot fail to be of great help to our
local companies, and will be prom
inent feature in the muster.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

The "loose change" which many
young men throw away carelessly, or
worse, would often form the basis of
a fortune aud independence.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

What Maine legislators ought to do
is to knock that Estate publicity bill'
right straight in the head.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

"Poetry" is appearing on the Ital-
ian earthquake. The ''poetry" is not
quite so bad as the earthquake.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

The air is full of Lincoln literature
.
Ii is wholesome.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04
The Shawmut Dam Question.

On Wednesday of next week there
is to be hearing before the COM
mittee on Interior Waters at Augusta,
on the question of raising the dam at
Shawmut seven feet above It's present
level. The right to increase the
height of the Dam is asked by the
Shawmut Manufacturing Company and
Skowhegan's interest in the mattof
comes chiefly from the fact that many
places in the highway on the east side
Of the river, in the southerly part of
the town, would be over flowed if the
change is permitted. At the present
level of the dam, in case of high
water, the road is overflowed in
places from four to six feet and the
proposed change would undoubtedly
necessitate the removal of the high
way from it's present location and re-
build it farther back and on higher
ground. An aggregate length OF
nearly one mile of highway would be
thus affected.
In common with other owners of
farming land the town is further in
terested from the fact that the Town
Farm adjoins the Kennebec river,
about four miles from the Shawmut
dam, and the increase in the height of
the water would be likely to overflow
a part of the land, with damage to it's
productive capacity and fencing All
intervales for miles above the dam
would be likely to bethus unfavorably
affected.
The inhabitants of this section are
asked to give their attention to this
matter and to attend the hearing on
Wednesday next so far as possible.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04
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The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04
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The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

The Commissioner of the District
of Columbia have recommended to
congress to change the inauguration
day of the president and vice presi-
dent from March the fourth to the
last Thursday in April, the day on
which Was hington was inaugurated.
The serious illness and death of many
of those who have attended the inau-
guration on the fourth of March, in
Guiding senators and other eminent
men as well as representatives of
foreign countries, has called attention
the danger to all of the many
thousands of persons from the severe
weather peculiar to the fourth of
March. The ceremonies this year
will be most elaborate. Maine troops
will participate, arrangements having
been made for their entertainment.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS NAIL NATTER
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

It's when a fellow is out of sight
that he feels all eyes are upon him.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

r. EMERSON. Travelling Representative
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
SUNSHINE HOME NOTES.

The Christian Workers Foreign
Missionary Society held its regular
monthly meeting January rs. 1t was
a very interesting one. Owing to the
illness of Miss Gustasson, who was
to have addressed the Society, she
was not present. Rev. M. Shrene, of
the Pentecostal Mission, who expects
to sail for Africa this year, gave a
very impressive lecture on Foreign
Missions. He impressed the audience
with the thought that it is the indis-
pensable duty of the Christian Church
to send the gospel to those who have
never heard it. He gave very vivid
picture of the condition of the heath
en-, and showed why and how we
could best reach and help them.
DR.. H. T. Noel was among the large
number present, and gave very time
ly and encouraging talk.
The Workers Conference will hold
its regular monthly meeting Monday,
February Sth, from 10 to IL a. m. ALI
are cordially invited to be present.
Notwithstanding the extremely cold
weather quite large number of pu-
pills were present at our mission Sun
day-school
The Wednesday afternoon prayer
services still go on The meetings
are very helpful We hope our
friends will make a great effort to
be present with us. Meeting opens
at $3.50 p. m.
Sister Moore is still in Chicago,
she has not been well this winter.
We ask the prayers of her many
friends in her behalf
Miss e. B. Delaney is expected in
this city soon en- route for Little
Rock, Ark, where she will hold meet
lings.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
K. oE P. STATE MINUTES.

The Globe is in receipt of beauti
full and useful bound copy of the K.
P Official Proceedings of the Tenth
Annual Session of the Grand Lodge
Knights of Phythias of Tennessee, Ju-
risdiction of N. A., S. A, E., A., A. and
A., held at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, July
14th 18th and 10th 1908 (Pythian
Period Xiv. The book has two
hundred and fifty pages, we'll printed
and bound and is the work of the Ma
tional Baptist Publishing Board of
this city. In the front of the book
there is an excellent cut of Sir. Knight
j. P. Crawford, G. c., and throughout
will be seen the other grand lodge
officers The journal shows marked
improvement in Pythianism over the
past year. There are one hundred
and fifty-nine subordinate lodges now
in the State with a membership of
6978, showing an increase of 1924
members during 1907, which does not
include all the members taken in and
those dropped.
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Jackson, Miss, February 2.-There
was stormy scene at the meeting of
the Mississippi Silver Service Commits
sion held here between ex-Gov. Varda-
man and Director Of Archives Row
land, members of the commission, grow
ing out of a resolution offered by Row
land, making mention of a fund of
some $1,700 collected by Vardaman
during his term as Governor for sill
yer service for the battleship MISSISSIPPI
pi, and which the resolution alleged
he refused to turn over to the commits
sion. Vardaman started around the Ia
BILE, when Rowland picked up a paper
weight and said:
Come on, I'm ready for you"
Gov. Noel and Superintendent of
Education Powers interfered and sue
ceeded in restoring peace.
OF course, no one can think of the
great Vardaman having an itching
palm. But Director Of Archives, Row
land, it appears, thinks so. One thing
though is certain, Vardaman cannot
give up the seventeen hundred dollars
and have them, too. Something is go7
ing to catch any man who hates his
fellowman for no other reason than
the color of his skin.
JADECEE
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
ST. LuKE,s BANK.

There was no surprise when at the
annual stockholders meeting of the
st. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Rich
mond Va, Emmett G. Burke, Cashier,
handed around the dividend checks
for all paid-up capital stock, because
the directors had already declared a
10 per cent dividend at a meeting held
prior to the stockholders meeting.
says Richmond correspondent to the
Globe The checks were all written
and to those stockholders not present
they were authorized to mail the checks
out. Mrs Maggie Walker, President of
the Bank, still occupies her unique DO
sition, being the first and only woman
president of a banking concern in the
United States. The report for 1908
will show an increased volume of bust.
ness over the preceding years. There
is no change in the officers or directors
for 1909.
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TO STOP IMPosToRs.

There have been several people go
ing over the State posing as represent
atives of the Women's Baptist State
Convention. So Mrs. NJ E. Hamilton
has issued the following:
Intelligence has reached me
through the mail that another person,
save our authorized representative, is
representing herself to be State Or
ganizer of the Baptist Woman's Mis-
sionary and Educational Societies in
Tennessee. Hence l write to assert
officially that Mrs. V. w. Broughton
as Corresponding Secretary of our
state work, by virtue of her office,
according to Article VII of Constitu-
ton, is the only authorized agent to
develop our state work"
Respectfully,
NJ e. Hamilton,
President Of Womans Convention
Auxiliary to Tennessee Baptist State
Convention.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
BILLS FOR NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Three bills have been introduced in
the General Assembly of Tennessee
providing for the establishment of a
Normal School for Negroes. The pur-
pose of this school as set forth in each
OF these bills is to provide for the
normal training Of Negro teachers to
teach in the schools of the State. The
necessity for such school has long
been apparent, and its realization, it is
hoped, will be assured by the passage
of one of these bills. While neither bill
includes all the people want, yet that
could be provided for by and under
the same appropriation and what will
materialize from other sources. If
their influence or suggestion, through
their representatives, will have any
weight or bearing with the General
Assembly in its consideration of this
measure, the bill will be amended so
as to add to the normal an agricul-
tural and a mechanical department,
making the institution Normal, Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical College or
School for Negroes.
The Normal, Agricultural and Me
chanical College Association, COM
posed of prominent Negro citizens of
the State, was organized for the speci-
fic purpose of presenting the claims of
their people to the lawmakers for an
institution whose curriculum would
embrace agricultural and mechanical
training. Already there are many in.
situations for higher education, such
as Roger Williams, Walden and Fisk,
of this city; Howe Institute, Memphis;
Knoxville College, Knoxville; Norris
town College, Morristown; Lane Col
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
DELTA PENNY SAVINGS BANK.

Like most Negro banking concerns
principally located in the South, the
Delta Penny Savings Bank of Indian.
ola, Miss, declared an annual dividend
on their paid-up capital stock at a re-
cent meeting held to which the officers
for the ensuing year and the same
board of directors were reelected.
The dividend declared was 16 per
cent; 10 per cent of this amount was
sent out in checks to the stockholders,
per cent was passed over to the sur
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
TO THE PUBLIC.

ter, standing or reputation OF any person,
firm or corporation, which may appear In
the columns of THE NASHVILLE GLOBE
Will be gladly corrected upon being brought
to the attention OF the management.
Send correspondence for publication 80 as
to reach the ONCE Monday. No matter In
tended for current issue which arrives as late
as Thursday can appear in that number, as
Thursday is press day.
All news matter sent us for publication
m, ; be written only on one side OF the pa
per pd should be accompanied by the name
OF the contributor, not necessarily for publ
cation, but as an evidence OF good faith.
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plus fund. The cashier of the bank,
Mr.. w. w. Cox, states that the affairs
of the institution are in a most pros
porous condition. The personnel of
the officers for 1909 is as follows: w.
w. Attaway, President; w. H. Coats.
.Vice-President; w. W. Cox, Cashier:
an. b.. Burnett, Assistant Cashier.
There was no material change in the
Board of Directors.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
PRESIDENTS OWN MEDICINE.

AANGO4OGN4 y OWN MhOlClNE.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois,
made a forceful speech in the House
last week in support of his resolution
concerning the Panama Canal deal.
1t does seem that the President is go
ing to be given a dose of the investi-
cation medicine that he has been so
strenuous in portioning out and max
ing others gulp down. With the voice
OF Stentor he has cried out, 'Investi-
gate! investigated" and now the peo-
pie, through their representatives, are
rolling back the echo of that cry in
tones as loud, Investigate! investi-
gate!" The President meant the in
vestigation of the other fellow; the
people mean the investigation Of him
or rather the things he has been
doing outside the limit of his authori-
ty and prerogatives as President. It
is a case of the verifcation of the old
Grecian proverb-his chickens are
coming back home to roost.
There is now no fear Of the "big
stick" in terror of which all cringed
and kept silent till now, save the re-
doubtable defender of the rights of
those who could not defend them
selves. He alone offered opposition to
the wielder of the dreaded club. The
time now is when there are none too
timid to flaunt the red flag Of defiance
in the face of the once mighty and
strenuous one" The Pulitzers, Will
lets and Raineys are legion.
When our puissant President on the
fourth of March steps to the front
OF the stage, makes his bow and the
curtain falls on his last act, he will
return to ordinary citizenship the
most wholesomely disliked of all the |
chiefs. For he has done and |
left undone some things which he
should not. We take this saying, a |
nugget of gold, from the almost for
gotten and dust-covered lore of the
past and quote it for the purpose of
application or comparison: "Time, my
lord has wallet on his back wherein
ne puts aims for oblivion" but the
President has wallet on his back
he will put Browne and Bald
win, the detectives, and his discharge
without-honor order as a remembrance
Of the gravest mistake of his admins
tration-an unwarranted and willful
blunder that will haunt his conscience
while he lives and leave a blot upon
his memory when he is dead. Had
not our mighty ruler been flirting
with Southern sentiment he would not
have attempted to throttle justice by
setting aside constitutional rights.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05

o. X. with a large element that fat
tens on such poison. But God bless
the thought based upon the firm be-
lief that there is another large ele-
ment too chivalrous, too humane and
too lofty to subscribe to language that
breathes out such suggestions for
wholesale murder.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
ANNUAL BANQUET.

Monday night, February Is, 1909,
the Railway Protective Association
will give their annual banquet at
the headquarters and hall, Tenth ave-
nue., North, and Cedar street. The
management will spare no pains to
make it the grandest affair Of it's kind
ever given in the city of Nashville.
H. Bowling, Chairman.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05

lege, Jackson, and others. Having
these, the peoples most crying need
is State supported school that will
furnish industrial training.
1t is hoped that State Superintend-
ent of Education Jones will use his
influence toward the securing of a
school, which of course, will be under
his supervision, that will have the
industrial features so much desired by
the Negro people. This is said be-
cause he. as well as Governor Patter-
son, said some commehdable things
about industrial education for the Ne
gro in an address recently delivered
at Fisk University, where about sew
enty-five members of the Legislature
which had been invited were enter
tanned with program of songs, must
cal recitals and readings specially pre-
pared for the occasion.
AS one of the bills provides for four
normal schools, three for whites, one
in each division of the State-East,
Middle and West Tennessee-to be To-
Gated as centrally as possible with
health conditions and financial sup
port as important considerations, and
one for Negroes to be located some
where in Middle or West Tennessee.
But in determining the location for
the Negro school suggestions from
those representing the interest of the
Negro people should have consideration
with the authorities. Another bill pro-
vides for the school to be located some
where between this city and Chatta-
nooga On the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis Railroad.
1t is our opinion that the Legisla-
ture is going to act reasonably fair in
providing creditable normal and
training school for Negroes in which
they will not only be prepared for
teaching the literary branches but
other useful industrial arts. H
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
COMMUNICATION.
Vardaman and the Money.

To the Nashville Globe:
Sometime ago a newspaper, speaking
of Vardaman, intimated that he had
got his man." but the following shows
that when Rowland grabbed the paper
weight the irate Ex-Governor recon
sidered his evil-intention and camped
in his tracks, and it also shows that
he is involved in a money matter:
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
NEEDLESS COMMISSION

NASHVILLE american is huge joke on
that paper:
A NEEDLESS COMMISSION
Foraker has at last made Roosevelt
agree to a bill providing for a COM
mission to pass on the re-enlistment
of the negro soldiers who Shot up"
Brownsville, Tex. 1t was all right to
agree to commission, but the COM
mission should be created for the pur-
pose of seeing that tlese crazy revo-
lutionary, numbering soldiers were
shot.
Here were lot of men, sworn in as
soldiers of the United States Army,
and yet they shoot and terrorize the
citizens of the army post to which
they are sent for the purpose of pro-
tecting the post. They should have
been shot. That, at least, would have
decided the question of re-enlist-
ment
If this piece of twaddle is not
joke, then it is the meanest piece of
pure "cussedness" that ever appeared
in the columns of a public journal
whose legitimate mission is to record
the current news and give expression
to such opinion as tends to the general
welfare. But if we remember correct
ly, it has not been many moons since
this same great, glorious and all-puis-
SAINT vehicle of news said in another
connection in substance that certain
alleged culprits should be hanged and
afterwards find the law justifying 1t.
At the time it spewed out that joke
the other two daily papers of the city
hoped on it with both feet. 1t tried
for several issues to reply, but it was
noticeable that each successive effort
grew less and less until it fizzled into
a scarce audible mum" and then into
nothingness. It's contemporaries had
belabored it into an inglorious silence.
II dueked and lodged and tried to side
step but to no purpose, they found the
dreamy spot, the solar plexus, and
planted there hard jolt and the de-
fender of hang first and find the law
afterward" took the count
Yes, Foraker steadily drove Roose-
welt from one position Of his absolute
proof or evidence to another, until he
had neither evidence, proof nor make
shift. No Southern paper should COM
plain of the outcome of that Browns
vile mess" for Mr.. Roosevelt did all
in his power to fasten that crime on
the black men. They were innocent
and he failed. No mortal outside the
torrid region of sheol ever tried hard
er to accomplish any one thing than
he did to involve those men.
1t is easy to understand the posi-
ton of any Southern paper that in
dulges in such extravagant language.
1t knows that any thing it says about
or advises to be done to the Negro is
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05
LADIES' AUXILIARY OF ST. JOHN.

Friday afternoon, January 22,. 1909
at the residence of Mrs. Alice Wright
OF Patterson street, this band of loyal
workers assembled and quite an en-
Joyable afternoon was spent. Madame
b. G. Coffey, the president, called the
meeting to order. The meeting was
opened with song pass me not"
scripture reading by Rev. A. Brooks;
song Il must tell Jesus; next was the
reading of previous minutes, after
which the following program was rem
dered: A paper by Miss Etfie Blanche
.Hadley Only a working girl" IAN in
strumental solo by Mis- SHAY Julia
Wright; paper by Miss Addie Luckett
The Lost Bible; instrumental solo
by Miss Sarah Hightower. The in
strumental solo rendered by Miss
Hightower was a beautiful selection
and was we'll rendered by this accom-
plished musician. The various camps
reported $11.52. The next in order
was the election of officers for the
ensuing year which resulted as fol-
lows: Mrs. e. c. Coffey, President by
acclamation Vice-President, Mrs. Hat
tie Hightower, Sec; Miss Lizzie Dick
erson; Assistant Secretary, Miss M. B.
Topp; Treasurer, Mrs. Lizzie Jackson.
The executive board was elected by
reclamation for another year. Rev. A.
Brooks made brief remarks and the
Auxiliary sang the closing piece. The
hostess, Mrs. A. Wright, then served
two-course menu: chicken salad on
lettuce, beaten biscuits, potato chips
and sweet pickle, chocolate, spice and
white cakes. The visitors present
were: Madames w. S. Brooks, Jno
Adams, j. c. Thomas, M. A. Saunders,
D. A. Hart and little Misses Winnie c.
and Dayton A. Hart, Madames Robert
Wingfield and Stephenson, and Miss
Ella Kennedy, of Columbia.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-02-05

DR.. Crum has been appointed again
as Collector of the Port of Charleston.
Tillman is going to resort to filibuster-
ing tactics to keep the Senate from act
ing upon the appointment until Con-
gress adjourns on the fourth of March.
Tillman is feeble in health, but he is
going to make heroic effort to hold
out and talk the Crum appointment to
death. This is the Tillman of Oregon
land-deal fame.