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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03

I'LL sion work, that once demo-
M cratic denomination is slowly
passing from a Congregational to an
Episcopal form of church govern
ment. missions is the stalking
horse behind which this astute move
is concealed, and by which the
churches are being deceived into pay
ing the expenses of their own undo
ing 1t is done by taking collections
for missions" to which the people
contribute in the belief that they are
supporting ministers to preach the
gospel in destitute places; but when
the managers get the funds in hand
they divide them between pastors of
churches in towns and cities, calling
them missionaries, adding up all
their work and making big reports.
But they steadfastly refuse to let the
people know who these mission
aries" are, how much paid and
whether pastors or not. In return
these pastor missionaries whoop
the system and oppose all who de-
mand information.
1t is said that Bob" Toombs won
a case when the testimony proved
his client had stolen COW. Asked
how he did it, Bob replied: Every
one of that jury helped to eat that
beef" Those missionary" pastors
are evidently 'eating some of the
beef and need not be expected to
convict the fellow that divides the
beef with them.
We have been digging after this
graft" for fifteen years. We have
offered a reward for the information.
Last Sunday we preached to 1900
people, and offered a horse to any
one who would tell us who those
missionary pastors are. We have
the horse yet, nobody claimed him.
We have the animal freed. We
know he is in that hole. We cannot
coax him out Will Baptists help
us drive him out? We can make the
If they will not do it we shall know
that they know they dare not tell it.
That will finish the business. If
they do tell it they will finish them
selves.
1t is a system of secret graft in the
name of God and missions!
1t is making war upon Baptist
principles and liberties!
1t shuts the press and pulpit
against investigation.
1t persecutes those who ask for in
formation and seek to expose it.
1t poses as a champion of Gods
cause, and uses that cause as a cloak
to cover secret transactions.
1t uses mission funds to protect
itself from exposure, as well as to
impose the system on those who do
not want it.
The day of reckoning has come.
The people long imposed upon are
rising up and demanding the truth.
Romanism never ran from the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03

If you want Real enjoyment, send
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03

WONDER RUGGIES are the best yet.
Money cannot make or buy better. Sold
by Milton W.ArrOwOOd Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03

WONDER BUGGIES are the best yet.
Money cannot make Or buy better. Sold
by Milton w. ArrOwOOd Co., Atlanta. Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03
PAGE TWELVE THE. eJE +, r
The General Association of Bdpdsfs,
and q Baptist Council

light or opposed investigation more
determinedly than this system is do
ing it.
Don't you know that any system
which will not let the people know
what it does with trust funds is a
fraud? This system refuses to let
the people know.
In 1905 a General Association of
messengers direct from Baptist
churches was formed, for the purpose
of rescuing Baptist principles and
liberties from the hands of these
grafters, and restoring Baptist mis-
sion work to an honest, Scriptural
and democratic basis. Every Baptist
church may send messengers The
meetings are advisory, speech is free
No caucases. By this means Baptist
churches may take charge of their
own funds and work and control
them. The last session had messen-
gers from Baptist churches in seven
States. The next session will be held
in Laurel, Miss, December 1915.
Every Baptist church interested in
rescuing their liberties, preserving
their principles and work from graft
and promoting honest work, is not
only invited but urged to send mes
sengers.
1t simply extends the local associa-
ton idea to the States and the whole
South. The churches send messen-
gers direct to the local, the State and
the general associations, and thus
control all the work directly In
other words it is the application of
10 1eriJ nir,1O Of bo I'll
Referendum to religious and mis-
sionary organizations. 1t is just as
important in religion as in politics,
that the people have a means of pro-
tecting themselves from graft.
In connection with the General AS
ISOLATION we call for
BAPTIST COUNCIL
to meet in Laurel, Miss, with the
General Association. Let every Bap-
fist church send messengers. Let
every Baptist who feels interested in
the preservation of the principles
held by Baptists, and the promotion
Of Scriptural and Democratic meth
DDS Of work, attend the meeting. If
you do not know what we are doing
then come and learn. If you want
the truth let us come together and
make common cause in it's support
If you love liberty and right then
come and help us defend them. If
you want to know the dark story then
come and hear it. We mean to turn
on the light"
If you think the General Associa-
ton is not correctly formed, then
come and help us do it better.
Without disrupting the General
Association at all, a move will be
made that all Baptists who attend
will be invited to form a general
council, in which all may give their
views, discuss the questions involved
and propose such measures as they
think adequate to meet conditions
The object being that we may get
together to make common cause in a
time of need.
The one point aimed at is: Let the
Baptist churches take charge of their
own work and stop the grating and
the violations of their rights. 1t is
not proposed to disrupt either
churches or associations. So far as
the messengers of the churches can
go they can control, but the moment
the money basis" gets in control
the churches lose it, and right there
the graft begins.
Come over and help u.s. Liberty
and DrinciDlpS are chaan at 9nV cost
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-03
j. A. ScarborO.

Under the manipulation of as
tute managers of Baptist Mis-
sion work, that once demo-
~ cratic denomination is slowly
The wageworker., 1910-03-05

is The Enterpriser Publishing Com
pany. The principal place of business
of said corporation is Lincoln, Nebras-
ka. The capital stock Of the corpora
ton is $10,OOO.O0, and shall be fully
paid when issued. The corporation
shall begin business on the 14th day
of February, 1910, and shall continue
for the period of fifty years from that
date. The highest amount of indebted
ness or liability to which the corpora
tion shall at any time subject itself
shall not exceed the sum of $6,666.00.
The affairs of the corporation shall be
conducted by board of not less than
five directors, who shall choose from
among their members a President,
Vice-President, Secretary and Treas
urer, any two of which Offices may be
filled by one and the same person. The
general nature of the business to be
transacted by the corporation shall be
that of general printing business,
including the printing of books,
pamphlets, newspapers, circulars, let
ter heads, advertisements and other
printed matter and shall have power
to buy. own, sell, lease, sublet and
otherwise own or control any real
estate Or buildings necessary or suit
able for the carrying on of it's busi-
ness and shall have power to mortgage
any such real estate or other property
owned by it. c. R. OYLER.
CLYDE J. WRIGHT.
T. c. MCKENZIE
Dated Lincoln, Nebraska,
February II, 1910.
The wageworker., 1910-03-05
"WHY" is AN IGNoRMAUs?
A Swanton Farmer Who Knows a Lot
That is Not So.

"Why, if the prosperity of the coun-
try depends on the prosperity of the
farmer are the laboring men of the
city considered so much more impor
tant than the laborers on the farms.
For instance they form unions, cause
strikes, destroy property with impuni-
ty, and cause hardship to the country
at large by keeping those from work
ing that are willing to work? I am
a farmer-J. C. Schmucker, Swanton
Neb'
The above is a portion of a "why"
sent to the Evening News and pub
lished last Wednesday evening.
"Why is an ignormaus?
Just as soon as we can secure an
answer to our question we will be
able to explain the why of Farmer
Schmucker
1t was Josh Billings who said, Its
better not tu kno SO mulch than tu
kno so mutch that aint So" The
trouble with Farmer Schmucker is
that he knows too much that isn't SO,
and not enough that is SO. When he
poses his Ignorance; when he de-
clares that they destroy property with
| impunity he betrays his lack of ver
acity, and when he says they cause
hardships by preventing those from
working that are willing to work he
stamps himself as a wilful preverter
of the truth or man too Internally
narrowminded or too awfully lazy to
study and ascertain the truth.
| We dearly wish Farmer Schmucker
would inform us how long $3.50 pork
and $3.50 beef and dollar wheat and so
cent corn would be the market quota
tions if the unions were to be smashe
all at once and the wage scale and
working hours left to the employers.
If he doesn't know that the high
prices now secured by himself and
his fellow farmers are due in large
measure-in largest measure-to the
fact that through organization the
workingmen of this country have SO
raised wages as to permit them to buy
more and more of life's necessaries
together with some of the luXuries, it
is high time he inform himself. II
all the union men Farmer Schmucke1
insults and lies about were to quit
working tomorrow, Farmer Schmuckel
would have to stand by and watch the
prosperity of the farmers tumble tc
the ground.
If Farmer Schmucker can read
and we presume he can, since it ap
pears he can write-we would advise
him to forget the untruths he has
stored in his mind and busy himself
with storing up some real information
concerning trades unions. Farmer
Schmucker should "scmuck up"
The wageworker., 1910-03-05
Notice of Incorporation.

Notice is hereby given that the un-
Iersipned have associated themselves
@ogether for the purpose of forming a
corporation under the laws of Ne
braska. The name of the corporation
The wageworker., 1910-03-05
GENERAL MENTION.

Labor Items We Gently Lifted From
Many Bright Exchanges.
Trolleymen have organized in Hol-
yoke, Mass.
Master plumbers in Worcester,
Mass, have grantedsthe newsforty-four
hour a week schedule.
Postal clerks have recently identi-
fed themselves with the Central La
Dor Council in San Francisco.
Carpenters in Springfield, O., have
decided on minimum rate of 35
cents an hour and nine-hour,5 work
day.
All team drivers and helpers, ex-
cept those on coal wagons, have per-
fected an organization in Holyoke,
Mass.
Molders' Union in Kalamazoo, Mich,
have increased strike benefits of the
men on strike from 81 to $40 per
week.
Garment Workers Union in Indian
apolis reports that its membership is
still increasing and all factories using
the label seem to have a season of
prosperity.
The molders working in the Enter
prise foundry at Muskegon Heights
have secured a raise of cents an
hour, or $3.O6 for nine-hour day.
If the present rate of limitations
continues it will be only short time
when the Metal Polishers in Spring
field, O., will have every man in the
organization.
The Oriskany Malleable Works
company, in Utica. N. Y, one of the
oldest iron working plants in New
York state, granted without solicita-
| ton an increase in wages ranging
from 10 to Is per cent.
The non-union fur workers are or
ganizing in Greater New York and
| will demand higher wages! Operators
that formerly made SIT a week now
get 50, cutters that got $50 now make
$12 to SIS.
The molders and coremakers in
| Springfield, Mass, have been granted
an increase-the former $2.75 to So,
and the latter from $3.50 to $2.75.
The increase will go into effect on
March 1 and it will continue until
July II, 1911.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

1t is all over now, the double
header that came with Christmas.
The day proper was spent quietly by
the entire population, either in
church or at home, and the delights
of giving and receiving presents
filled the measure of all to speedy
hours. Then came bedtime. Then
came dreams more or less anxious by
reason of the amount of confections
eaten. Then came the morning light
and the gray dawn of an overcast sky
as though to present a contrast to
the fine cold weather of Christmas
day. The second edition of Christ
mas was almost as quiet as the first
section of the holiday. Now Christ
mas is over and its charities have
been dispensed and it's cheer imbibed.
Work is Oh again, and once more the
people are engaged In their ordinary
occupations with many a pleasant
thought of the days pre-empted by
the Christmas festival. The passing
of the succeeding days of the week
to the coming New Years will be
marked by much of the continued
holiday spirit, and then will come
New Years Day. The old year will
pass out. The new enter, and the
year 1911 will be causing annoying
mistakes to letter writers and check
drawers until the new calendar date
shall become fixed in the mind.
Everyone is better for the good time
Of Christmas. Everyone should be
happier in the New Years greeting.
The holidays are fine contribution
to the happiness of the people.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

Council is to be commended for
its course in wanting to collect
money due the town. The street
improvement delinquents, and the
light, water and sewer delinquents
will all receive notice to pay up be-
fore a given date or Council will
proceed to collect by law. 1t is not
fair or just to those who do pay to
allow delinquents free use of our
public services. "Small" is that
man or woman who finds fault with
Council for endeavoring1 to do its
duty. Members of Council are
elected to represent the tax payers,
the citizens of Smyrna, and every
councilman is expected to do his
duty, distasteful as it may seem.
Let US hope that Collector Grow will
be able to collect money due the
town without having to resort to the
power of the law.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

On our first page will be found
an excellent article, "Why Smyrna
Should Have a Board of Trade p"
If Smyrna is to ever progress it
must be by the efforts of it's citizens.
The Federal Building, live home in
dustries, and up-to-date municipal i'm
provements will never come unless
we as citizens organize and agitate.
Smyrna has long needed a Board OF
Trade and we give space and heartily
endorse what is said in the article
above stated. May the New year
be forthcoming in successful work
along these lines.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

When are the people of Smyrna
going to set about a movement
toward raising a subscription to be
placed with the Government $4,000 for
the purchase of a suitable postoffice
site. From what we can learn
Smyrna is to be congratulated on
getting even an appropriation of
SIS, 900 when it has been against the
rule to give Federal building to a
town of our post Office class. Now
that Smyrna has the appropriation
within its grasp, it would be blot
aud a shame to allow the question of
she purchase of a site rob US of a
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

Our merchants nearly all report
a splendid Christmas trade and in
many instances was from a third to a
half better than year ago. This
is an encouraging sign of the times
and an incentive for our merchants
to lay in better stock and adver-
tise.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

Governor Pennewill has chosen
wisely in the naming of Phillip Q.
Churchman as associate judge to
succeed Judge D. o. Hastings, re-
signed. He is fully qualified and
will in every way become the office.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

handsome and up-to.d date building.
Who will come forward and volun-
teer? Let us hear from some of our
capitalists and moneyed citizens.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

Good results ALWAYS follow the use
of Foley Kidney Pills. They con-
tain just the ingredients necessary
to tone, strengthen and regulate the
kidneys and bladder, and to cure
backache. Sold by Benton N. Wei,
don, Smyrna; w. R. Keys & Co.
Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28
SMYRNA, DELAWARE.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. Dec. rs. 1910

Founded by Robert D. Hoffecker July 5, 1854
Editor and Proprietor until February 10, 1907
nFFICE:-Next Door to the FrniJ Growers
aIiOnal Bank.
Telephone. No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

Two thousand men are be indicted
in Ohio for selling their votes. 1t
must have been the popular industry
there, and evidently paying one.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

The world is preparing to enter
tain itself as usual with it's annual
good resolution joke.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

The happiest person of this joyous
season is the one who makes others
happy.
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28
ROBT d. HOFFECKER,
Editor and Business Manager.

aOVERJISRMENTS-T SMYRNA TIMES is tn
hasiness medium not only for the town it rep
resents but for the outlying district ofwhich 1t
is tie centre, embracing the towns of Clayton,
kenton, Cheswold, Leipsic, &c. A rate Of so
cents an inch for first insertion and % cents
tof each subsequent insertion will be charged
or transient advertising. Locals and Reading
Notices, 10 cents per line per issue. spec T
discount on ali semi-annua1 and yearly sCve
tisementS
Smyrna times., 1910-12-28

PdE SMYRNA TIMES is published at Smyrna
Del, every Wednesday afternoon.
fHE TIMES is an independent paper devoted to
.he welfare of the town it represents and the
state of which it is a part. 1t also gives the
':ems of importance of the Eastern Shore of
MARYLAND
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06
CENSUS SUPERVISOR STILL
WAITING FOR ELIGIBLE LIST
Bureau Has Not Forwarded Names OF
Possible APpOinteeR-SchOOI of
Instruction to Re Here.

The supervisor Of the census for the
Second Nebraska district has not Yet re-
ceived back from the census bureau the
list OF eligibles for census enumerators TO-
the district, though he is looking for the
list daily and the full list should be re.
ceived here not later than March 10
The enumerators will be assembled in
Omaha upon appointment for instructions
and this school OF instruction may con-
tlnue over several days in order that the
enumcrators may be mad familiar with
their duties.
The questions relating to physical infirm-
tiles are liable to meet with considerable
evasion and the utmost delleacy will have
to be observed BY the enumerators. As an
instance the inquiry as to blindness APP
piled only when a person is either totally
or partially blind In both eyes. so as to be
unable to read even with the help Of
gisks,s, Only persons who are both deaf
and dumb are 10 be reported under the
question whether leaf and dumb"
The question concerning school attend
ance any time since September !. 1909. re-
lates only to persons OF school age. be-
tween ; and p years old. In case any per-
son outside hat age limit actually at
tended school. the fact is TO be noted on
the schedule.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06

neither in character of Indebtedness nor
ability to liquidate. The mortgages of the
early '9Os filed in Nebraska represented
eastern money, while the mortgages of
today represent Nebraska money! In the
early '90s Nebraska was long on indebted
ness and short on money, today Nebraska
farmers are investing of their surplus
millions of dollars each year in the cheap
lands of other parts of the United States,
Canada and Central America.
In this relation we call attention to a
comparison of the state bank deposits OF
Nebraska in 1895 and 1910. The former
1900, 1852, the latter $73, 28S, 616.75,
showing an increase of $59,Os2, S41.13. on
November 8, 1909, the national banks of
Nebraska had on deposit S1S6,OS0 ,OO5.66.
The crop and live stock valuation of
these dates are: Live stock, 1895, $685.
S72, 900; 1910, $685. 4s, 900; increase, $780,
PIT, 900. Crops, 1895, $4S,3O7,179; 1910,
$255,45 900; increase, S211, 1881.
The increase in land values of 1910 over
that Of 1900 will be something appalling,
and yet Nebraska and the western farm
ing districts of all the so-called west is
going straight forward producing crops
that are paying interest on these reputed
high prices of farm land values.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06
George P. Cronk
Sues for Divorce
Comes into Court Alleging that wife's
Cruelty Has Undermined
His Health.

George p. Cronk has begun action for di-
vorce from Mrs. Cora l.. Cronk. His pc
tition in district court charges extreme
cruelty.
Friends of Cronk have expected that this
action would be taken ever since Mrs.
Cronk appeared before the grand jury to
complain OF her husband. The final re-
port of the grand jury which does not find
any Indictment against Cronk was awaited
before the action in divorce was initiated.
Cronk, through his attorney, Thomas d.
Crane, states in his petition that he was
married in September, 1906, in Chicago. The
first specification OF cruelty alleged is that
Mrs. Cronk, in March, 1907, lin the absence
OF plaintiff from his home, entertained a
number of parties, both male and female,
Of bad reputation in the home of plaintiff"
Next, another charge OF evil company is
preferred in connection with an automo-
bile ride, mentioning some prominent
young society men, and the same allegation
is made a third time in connection with,
stll another person. 4.
Another count charges that Mrs. Cronk
locked up the door OF the plaintiffs bed
room, so that he was therefore obliged to
sit up all night" 1t is averred that Mrs.
Cronk once urged her son, Raymond
Patterson, TO strike the plaintiff and that
Mrs. Cronk herself, in a room In the Mil
lard hotel, threatened him with a revolver,
The petition contains numerous allega-
tions, mentioning the Palm Beach episode,
the lurid stories In a Los Angeles news
paper. Mrs. Cronk's appearance before the
grand jury to complain OF her husband, her
effort to prejudice the Elk against him
with the purpose OF barring him from that
order and concludes by stating that his
health has been undermined as a result
OF this.
The petition says that knowing an in
dlctment for improper support OF wife or
family meant dismissal from the order OF
Elks, OF which he is member, Mrs. Cronk
was anxious to sick the grand jury onto
her husband and had gone to Arthur c.
Wakeley and II. c.. Mann. officers Of the
Elks, with tales on her husband. asking
them to prefer charges in the lodge.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06
WOMEN CONDUCT BANQUET
FOR LAYMEN'S CONVENTION
To Lay Covers for 1880 on Opening
Night of BiE Missionary Move
ment Gathering I'm Omaha.

Twenty-Five women representing the
Omaha church organizations have taken in
hand the preparation Of the banquet to b.
given on the opening night of the Omaha
Laymen's Missionary Movement convention
at the Auditorium on the night of Marcn
II. The banquet will probably be a tended
by 1900 delegates to the convention. At
least 500 OF these delegates will conn fro n
towns in other parts Of the q trict, while
Omaha, Council Bluffs and South Omaha
will be represented by a much create.
number.
The churches of Omaha Will be repre-
scented by about 10 per cent Of their
membership. The committee in charge
decided TO put this Limitation on the local
attendance to prevent any possible crowd
ing OF those who come from other parts Of
the district.
A committee of seven men in each church
has been named to care for the repI esenta-
lions at the convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06
JOHN GORDON HAS THE CHECK
Man with RFOken Back Wins $1,000
on MagaAin subscriptions and
Gives a. Away,

John Gordon. the man with a broken
back, who has been soliciting magazine
subscriptions for the purpose of winning
a cash prize OF 5000 to be given as a
donation to the Child Saving Institute, has
at last achieved success. He has com
pleted his work and received the check for
1000.
Gordon now proposes to compete for sew
eral other prizes and says that he has a
plan for further gifts to charity through
his earning
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-06

whole teaching body will rave the benefit
OF their conclusions. Manual training was
not overlooked, but was given a great deal
of attention In the open discussions"
The next meeting OF the department OF
superintendent is to be held at Mobile,
Ala. A dozen cities were after the meet
ing, and Mr.. Davidson says the offers
from their representatives were the real
flights Of oratoiy Of the indianapolis gath
ering.