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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-05-05
BLACK NANNY STATUE.
TcyaS Starts Movement to Erect Mill
lion Dollar Memorial.

Washington. April 2S.-Appeals
from prominent men all over the
country to make the movement Tor
the erection of a monument to the
"Old Black Nanny" Of the south
national, prompted the authors OF the
proposition TO change it from a Texas
TO Z national affair. The idea is to
erect a marble or granite monument
to cost 81 100000 to the faithful old
character in Washington.
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to worthy young men. 1t has made
it possible for Negroes to own bank
stock. 1t has demonstrated the fact
that Negroes can operate straight,
clear-cut banking business. 1t has
helped its patrons to secure homes,
and has kept many from losing their
homes.
1t really would be difficult to real
ize how much the Union Savings
Bank at Vicksburg has helped the
masses. Some Negroes. having meyer
had any dealings With banks felt
that the larger institutions were too
FAR removed from them. 1t is an
entirely different thing to have a
banker sit next you IN the church, to
exchange visits with YOU, and to
greet YOU in familiar manner on ;he
streets. Thus by the appearance of
the Negro bank, banking business is
brought right homo to the Negro
waGerarner, and it is We'll TO add
that in nearly every case. it has
taken only few months dealing with
the bank TO drive away the morbid
fear of it's breaking.
Still another class Of persons who
were in The habit Of spending all
their money was'reavhed, to the end
that they not only began TO build
up an account, but very soon ac-
Ouired the saving habit in a very pro-
nounCed manner. Nine cases out OF
ten the man who saves his money.
and who acquires property is bet
ter man than he who does not. so
the Negro bank likewise can add to
its credit the fact that ii makes bet
ter citizens Of the people.
\ significant feature Of the Union
Savings Bank is that all OF its OIL
GERS are Young men. men Of the new
school. who believe in doing things.
Men who. from the education they
have received in the South hardly
have the inclination to wait for poSlt-
ions TO turn up for them, but nave
gone ont and turned mp something.
The president Of the bank. }. u. II.
Bowman is a man not yet 80. and
the cashier and one Of the founders
was a barefoot hoy III Nashville
about 90 years ago.
Rev. \. Nj. Johnson. Nice-Presl-
dent: Thomas Dillon. Second-Nlce-
President: G.. NJ. Mcintyre. Assistant
Cashier: are the other officers. The
directors are all Well known and
Negroes Of this state
among them ]. D. Dora, success
ful r!anter Of Warren County: T. V.
Receiver Of Public Mon
les. Jackson: Rev. !. c. n. Henry
% Vicksburg: w n. Jones. "A. W.
Ware. Robert Bell. Mrs. W. !. Jones,
and Prof. l.. J. Rowan. President
Acorn \. and NJ. College; Rev. W.
u Dangerheld and |William Lyman.
The institution has every facility
for conducting a regular commercial
and savings bank business. and IT
addition to the security OF time
lock. burglar safe. G~>"lo burglar
insurance has been provided. All OF
these Young people connected Win
this institution stand we'll IN the
cOunsels Of their race and hold the
respect Of all the people of both races
in their community. Such examples
should be the highest incentive 10
other Young men Of the Negro race
to rise in spite Of conditions. TOR
after all. it is the individual that
makes rhe environments. not envir-
Onmcnts the man.
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Concrete
r.. Examples
or THE PROGRESS or THE Nj.
GIRO Is SHOWN IN THREE
MISSISSIPPI TOWNS.
Successful Bank
Is teaching the masses rrugality and
helping them to make better riti-
80. zcnS of themselves. while foster.
. ing other enterprises.

: NickprSburg, Miss. May 2.-TC
show in 4 measure the advantages
of the Negroes in the South for ad-
>Tancrment in commercial and rducat-
ional directions. it is only necessary
to compare the growth Of thiS people
i'm any good sized city in the South
with that of the same people in a
Northern community. There are in
the city Of Washington upwards Of
10000 Negroes, more Negroes than
there are people in the three largest
cities in the State Of Mississippi, and
yet. in either one of these three Mis-
sisSippi towns, more concrete eN-
amDles Of progress are shown among
the Negroes than is true Of Washing
ton.
The growth and work Of the Union
Savings Bank, one Of the many Negro
banks in the South is the story OF
the hard work, the diligence and
intelligence of a Nashville Negro boy,
who attended school a, Walden Uni
proud Of the fact that he is South
ern mana Southern Negro. The
Negro in question is 7. G. Ewing. Jr..
the son Of the we'll known Negro law
Yer and Cashier Of the Peoples Saw
ings Bank and Trust Co., Of Nash
vile,
T. c. Ewing, Jr.. and the late Dr..
C. Henri Woode were the founders
of the Union Savings Bank. which
was organized in 1904. The fact was
pointed out to the promoters that
there were already eight banks in
the city OF Vicksburg. one Of them
a colored Institution and the launch
ing of another enterprise seemed, at
least, foolhardy.
Mr.. Ewing now declares that in his
mind and the minds Of the other
promoters there was never any quest
ion of the success Of the institution
and the rapid growth Of the institute
ion from its humble quarters in the
basement of the old Washington
Hotel 10 its present commodious
location on the corner Of Washing
ton Grove Streets, is but the rerif-
cation Of their opinions.
Some idea of the banks increase
in business may be gained from these
figures: In 1906. the resources Of
the bank were SIS, 1884. 0%: in 1907
they were $53.263.05: in 1908 they
were $50, 531.IS on June | 9TH. 1870"
they wero $5S.S1I.7l The capital
stock Of the bank has been recently
increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
There is more than ordinary
business side to the successful con-
duct Of a Negro bank. Negroes in
some quarters have but little respect
for the ability and worth Of their
own people. OF course, these facts
too are often discounted by some
white people. The successful operat-
ion Of this and any other banking
institution helps the Negroes OF the
community in divers ways
1t assists depositorS in saving
money 1t pays them interest on
savings accounts, and thus LIFTS them
uD in the realm Of people with in
comes. 1t reaches the masses and
leads them into the banking bust.
ness. 1t fosters other Negro enter.
prses. IT offers diGnified positions
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AninlOsity

CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE.
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F'andc Roeeman. tho =. ~,cr 70.
'""'t Grst bascman, Is DIavine right
field for Columbus.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06

London, July 6.-William O'Brien,
NJ. p, leader Of the Irish insurgents,
is conducting a campaign in Ireland
against the policies of John Redmond,
leader of the Irish nationalist party,
John Dillon, and other OF MIR. Red
mond's advisers. Mr.. O'Brien believes
that Mr.. Redmond has betrayed Ire
land into the hands Of her enemies
and that this will result in the over
taxation of Ireland to the extent of
$17,500,000 a year, the curtailment of
the usefulness of the land purchase
law, and a diminished prospect for
home rule.
Discussing the conference Of con-
servative and liberal leaders who are
trying to find a compromise on the
lords veto resolution, Mr.. O'Brien
said:
Hope For Ireland.
"If Mr.. Redmond has sold himself
body and soul to the unlucky guild
ance of Mr.. Dillon, the situation Gre
ated by the conference would be one
full of hope for Ireland. The states
manlike thing would be frankly to
accept and facilitate the conference
as a sensible way of averting grave
constitutional and social peril from
the three kingdoms.
"If Ireland's representatives played
the part of peacemakers instead Of
impotent obstructives of the confer
ence. they would have an unanswer-
able case for demanding that the same
methods of friendly conference among
both parties should be applied to de-
vising some great scheme Of perma-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
JORDAN R0ASTS
FOOTBALL GAME
Requires No Intelligence and
Arouses Same Emotions as
Prize Fights

Boston, July 6-Denouncing college
football as combination of pure
brutality and pugilism that appealed
to the love Of the sordid, David Starr
Jordan. president of Leland Stanford
university. led in the discussion that
followed a report made by the COM
mittee on moral education in public
schools to the national council of
education of the National Educational
association, in convention here. He
added:
Some day the college presidents
and school heads of this country will
perhaps be called cowardly and brutal
because they did not put stop to
the dangers of football, sport that
destroys the best there is in Ameri-
can youth"
The game. he continued. aroused
the same love of the sordid that
focused the interest of the country
in "a ring away out in far Nevada,
where a white man and black man
were pounding each other Monday"
mo intelligence is required in the
game of football" he asserted. BLACK
smiths and boiler makers can play
the game as we'll as men of the finer
intellects; in fact they are considered
the best raw material for the game. -
President Jordan favored the sub
stitution of the English game of
Rugby.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06

... COLLEGES HIT
The Boy Who Wants to Learn
Practical Things Must
Look Elsewhere

Boston, July 6.-"That boy who
wants to learn to dig a ditch. harness
a horse. use plow or milk COW
would go in vain to the agricultural
colleges in the country" Dick J. Cros-
by of Washington, d. c., specialist in
agricultural education, told the de-
partment of rural and agricultural
education Of the National Education
association convention today. There
are 300 more secondary schools and
colleges teaching agriculture than
there were eighteen months ago, he
said, but they teach theory only.
Prof. G. F. Warren of Cornell uni
versity expressed the opinion that the
farmer without an agricultural edu-
cation was headed for the poor house.
He quoted figures to show that ten
college bred farmers average $S47
yearly income against an average of
only $31S for the farmers whose edu-
cation has been limited to the district
school. Most of the teachers used to
say, he said, that any fool could farm.
Now they say agriculture is to diff
cult for high school students.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
WILLIAM 0BR|EN OPPOSES THE POLICIES
Of JOHN REDMOND CONCERNING IRELAND

nent pacification for Ireland. Under
the impulse of good feeling toward
ireland thus generated there would
no longer be any irreconcilable ene-
my of home rule in England. from the
king on his throne to his humblest
subject.
But SO long as Mr.. Dillon's un-
lucky genius broods over he Irish
cause craftsmanship of this kind is
not to be looked for. He will go on
with his dismal catalogue of blunders
until he makes all English parties
alike disgusted with the incapacity,
impotent bullying and general cussed-
ness of the Irish Molly Mcguire party.
Blamed for Misfortune.
"For the first time in Ireland's his
tory it Is her own representatives who
are responsible for all her misfortune
in the destruction Of the land pur-
chase act. the intolerable increase in
overtaxation, and the mismanagement
of this whole lords veto controversy.
This is the state of things which has
called an All for ireland league into
existence.
There are half dozen incapables
who at present are past praying for.
Whenever the general election comes
ireland will again have body of rep
resentatives with insight enough to
discern great opportunities for the
country. and with the courage to turn
them to account in the higher and
permanent interests of the nation
without being deferred by the danger
of passing unpopularity or ignorant
calumnv."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
FARMERS PL0W uNEARTHED BURIED
TREASURE GUARDED BY A SKELETON

Laurel, Del. July 6.-Asbury Ham
mond. q Woodworking farmer, living
near Mount Herman Methodist Pro-
testant church, in Wicomico county
about sixteen miles from here, has
suddenly become rich man, and his
good fortune has started this entire
section to talking, and some of his
neighbors to digging.
Hammond. deposited in local bank
. few days ago about $4,000. mostly
in gold and silver coins. The money
looks as bright as il 1t had just been
dropped from stamping machine in
q mint. Some of the coins were Span
ish, but the most of them, it is said,
bore the stamp of the United States.
The latest date stamped on any of
the pieces was 1921.
Ugly RumOrs Afloat.
Two days after making the first de-
posit Hammond astonished the bank
ohicials by depositing another bag Of
the same kind of money. This time
there was $4,000. The nature Of the
deposit was so unusual that Mr.. Ham
mond was questioned. His only reply
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06

was that it was secret, and that he
did not consider 1t anybody's busi-
ness. Ugly rumors were soon float
ing around, and then he consented to
talk.
About ten days ago Hammond says
he was plowing In . sandy hill on his
little farm, when the plow point
struck hard substance.
Skeleton Guarded the Geld.
An examination showed 1t to be the
roof Of Q brick vault. Hammond OBJ
tained an az and spade and the top
Of the vault was soon demolished.
Hammond found inside the skeleton
Of q human being. and in one corner
Of the vault ct the skeletons head he
found a musty bag. Another bag lay
in corner at the feet of the skeleton.
1t was these bags that contained the
$4,000.
The Hammond farm has been visit
ed by hundreds Of people who have
seen the grave. The vault Is mys-
terry. of which the Oldest Inhabitants
know nothing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
Bitter FIGHT
WILL Be WAGED
Both Parties Will Soon Open
Congressional Headquar-
ters East and West

Washington. July Elm waging
their warfare for control of the next
congress both the Republican and
Democratic campaign committees will
have headquarters in the east and
west, where will be done the work Of
directing and sending out literature
and spellbinders. The Democrats
will be active in three places, Wash
ington, Chicago and st. Louis, under
the direction Of Representative Lloyd
of Missouri, the chairman. The far
west and the southwest will be
handled through the St. Louis office,
while the interests Of the middle west
and the northwest will be looked af-
ter from Chicago.
Representative Mckinley of Illinois,
the Republican chairman. expects to
open headquarters in Chicago and
New York
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
WOMAN MARRIED
MARRIED LOVER
Deserted on Her Honeymoon
Trip Now Wants the Man
Punished

San Francisco, Cal, July Eff
teen months of deception have ended
for Mrs. Lena Rotemeyer Allen, for
merly of Kansas City. Henceforth
the world shall know that, in her es-
timation, she is wronged woman;
that she was an innocent victim in a
mock marriage in Kansas City; that
she was deserted in the midst of what
she believed to be her honeymoon,
and that she endured modification,
suffering and even want for more than
year to hide her misfortune from
her relatives. Robert Fairfax Allen
Of Paola, Kan, a son of Judge A. NJ.
Allen of Kansas City, married and the
father Of four children in Paola. is
the man Mrs. Allen accuses of being
responsible for her position in life.
To Ask ExtraditlOnl
Mrs. Allen has appealed to the po-
lice here and as a result Of her dis
closures it is asserted extradition
papers will be issued for Allen to
bring him from Paola, Kas., to this
city. The grand jury is now taking a
vacation of month and for that rea-
son the complaint against Allen is to
be sworn to by Samuel T. Bush, who
has acted as an attorney for Mrs. AL
len-or Miss Rotemeyer-which ever
the name really should be. f.
The story Miss Rotemeyer told the
police of San Francisco this afternoon
included the narrative of mock mar
riage performed in the Union depot in
Kansas City, November "a, 1908, by a
justice Of the peace whose name she
did not know, and sanctioned by a
marriage certificate which she did not
see. A hurried trip to California fol-
lowed and then, according to her sto-
~, came dessertion. There were no
witnesses to the marriage. The
groom told his bride he had obtained
the marriage license several weeks
prior In order that he might have 1t
II needed.
Relatives We're Not Told.
It was not S>ltil short time ago,
Miss Rotemeyer says, that she began
to suspect that she was not legally
married to Allen. For fifteen months
she had worked as a bookkeeper and
q stenographer, all the time writing
letters to her family and allowing her
relatives to believe she was happily
situated In San Francisco and being
cared for by her husband. However.
that husband had left her shortly aft
er the arrival in California, and the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
WILD GUN PLAY
ON new YORK
TH0ROUGHEARE
The Police and Yeggmen Ex.
change a Steady Hail Of
Bullets |
ROBBERS were CAUGHT WHILE
DRILLING HOLE IN CAFE SAFE
Proprietor Had Large Sum Of Money
on Hand Belonging to Italian So.
cieties and This Was Object Of Raid
One Man Escaped.

New York. July 6.-After a running
fight between safe crackers and the
police in Harlem today. in which thir-
ty shots were exchanged, the police
facing rain Of bullets chased
Frank Picci up an elevated railroad
stairway and captured him after q
desperate hand-to-hand encounter.
The second man bolted into tene-
ment house and disappeared.
The burglars showed fight from
the start when found by Zeranda De
ANGLES, proprietor of First avenue
cafe. drilling hole in the safe Of
which De ANGLES for the last month
kept from $4,000 to $1,000 belonging to
the Italian societies.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
FACED DEATH To
SAVE LIVES Of
OTHER PEOPLE
Superintendent Rushed Into q
Burning Benzine Still and
Shut Of Valve
HEROIC DEED PREVENTED EXPLOSION
OF 10000 BARRELS PETROLEUM
Firemen Poured Powerful Streams Of
Water on Daring Man as He Rushed
Into the Burning Plant-Thousauds
Cheered as He Emerged.

Pittsburg. Pa, July 6.-while fire.
men poured powerful streams of wa
ter upon him w. A. Weaver, superin-
tendent Of the Atlantic Refining plant
(the Standard Oil company dashed
daringly through the flames and
smoke early today and shut the valve,
which prevented the fire from spread
ing from the burning still Of benzine
to the great tanks of oil nearby. In
the vicinity over 10000 barrels of
petroleum in various stages of re-
hnement were stored. Two thousand
people, called from their beds by the
peril, cheered the superintendent as
he came scorched from the burning
still. What likely would have been a
catastrophe similar to that at Sheri-
dan several years ago, when 200 peo-
pie were seriously injured in gaso-
line explosion, was prevented and the
loss confined to the benzine still.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
SOUTH DAKOTA
REPUBLICANS
ENDORSE TAFT.
His Administration Has Read
Many Substantial Reforms
Into Statutes
DECLARED AGAINST THE
CkNN0N.AlDR!CA POLICIES
President Received a Much Heartier
Endorsement Than Was Anticipated
by Many-Ris Loyalty to Roosevelt.
an Policies Commended.

Sioux Falls, 8. d., July 6-The Re-
publican state convention today gave
President Taft a much heartier en-
dorsement than was anticipated by
many. The president was commended
are known as the Roosevelt policies
and his administration was endorsed
as having read many substantial
measures of reform into the statutes.
The convention in all reference to
the Cannon-Aldrich policies declared
against them in strong language.
Willis G. Cook of Sious Falls was
reelected chairman of the Republican
state central committee.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06

he said otherwise made It quite clear
that he had given assurance to Mr..
Poindexter that he would support him
in his attempt to unseat Senator
Piles.
Coincidentally, Secretary Ballinger
and President Taft held q conference
at Beverly yesterday in which they
discussed the reclamation service.
There Mr.. Ballinger denied with
emphasis q rumor that he was to re-
sign. II am not a gutter and never
have BEEN" he said.
Miles Poindexter ID an out and out
insurgent whom the people Of the
state Of Washington elected on radi-
cal platform. He has been Arm
supporter Of Roopevelt policies. es-
national resour@ SAeh was the
congress. He arfiveds Oyster Bay
on the noon train and W. "eaEnized
at once AZ an insurgent. X .E had
the Same pleased smile that Sseex m
the faces of Senator Bristow anA
resentatives Murdock and Madison
Kansas when they came here laA>
Saturday.
While the general opinion here is
that Col. Roosevelt 10 still feeling
his way" as regards his ultimate at
titude toward the Taft administra-
tion, his stand is considered the most
striking indication Of his. present
frame Of mind. And that he will still
fight hard for the conservation move
sment which he inaugura&ed while in
Office he made plain to interviewers
when Mr.. Poindexter had gone.
There have been two important
''insurgent conferences" at Sycamore
Hill since the colonel's return, but
more are coming. One Of the most
potential of these is arranged for
Thursday next. On that day five of
the best known and weightiest Of the
insurgents are coming to talk with
the ex-president, but Mr.. Roosevelt
declined to give out their names.
Gov Hughes is expected here either
Thursday night or Friday morning
for the long expected conference on
New York state politics. He had
been expected tomorrow, Col. ,Roose-
velt said, but he telegraphed he would
attend the funeral of Chief Justice
Fuller at Bar Harbor. He will come
to Oyster Bay on his return.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
BIGELOW PAROLED
Milwaukee Defaulting Banker viii
Ieara Priann ShnrflY

Milwaukee, Wis, July 6.-That
Frank G. Bigelow, ex-president Of the
First National bank, now serving
ten-year sentence in the Leavenworth
federal prison, is to return to Mil
waukee within the next fortnight un-
der a parole signed by the president.
is the report persistently circulated
among the friends Of the former
banker in Milwaukee today.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
AUTO Turned
ENTIRELY OVER
One Was Killed and Two 9th
ers Were Probably Fatally
Injured

San Antonio. Tex, July 6.-An auto
plunged fifteen feet from a bridge into
San Pedro creek here earl ytoday and
one person is dead, and four injured
while two are probably fatal. The
machine turned turtle as it fell. The
dead are Miss Dot Miller, buried un-
der wreck SO that the body had to be
chopped out with an axe. Those
probably fatally injured are Doro-
thy Miller and Matte Lehert.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
NAV Win Prize

Atlantic. N. j., July 6-Highly
pleased with his successful trip over
the sea last evening. Glen H. Curtiss
nhis biplane will today attempt Z
fifty mile speed fight over course
that will take in the city and sea
front, providin gthe weather condi-
tions are favorable. II he succeeds it
is stated by local committees having
the exhibitions in charge that the dar.
ing aviator will be awarded the prizs
of $4,000,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-06
CURT|SS AND
HARMON TO FLY
Harmon Will Gross Long
Island Sound-Curtiss For
Speed Record 4

New York, July 6-Clear weather
and listless breezes this morning
promised excellent weather condi-
tions for Clifford B. Harmon's twenty
six mile aeroplane flight from Garden
City. L. l., across Long Island sound
to Greenwich, Conn, landing on IN
island in front of the country place Of
his father-in-law, Commodore q. G.
Benedict.