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The Calumet news., 1911-11-03
DlPHTHERlA is FATAL.

Gladys, the nine-year-ol daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Mills died
about 3 O'Clock this morning after a
al services were held privately this
morning. with interment at the Ma
pie Hill cemetery. The decedent was
born in Lake Linden and was a pupil
I'm the local schools.
The Calumet news., 1911-11-03
LsAT SHIPMENTS NOV. 20.

Coal dealers have been notified by
advices from Cleveland that cargoes OF
coal will not be shipped later than No
vember 20. This viii not terminate Tho
season Of navigation, however, as boats
will continue running until the lake
freezes over, about December 10.
The Calumet news., 1911-11-03

Practice targets have been adopted
for the British navy built up OF many
plates Of steel, any Of which can be
cheaply replaced when damaged.
The Calumet news., 1911-11-03
BREWER FUNERAL SUNDAY.
Services for Pioneer Resident of Pewa-
bic To Be Held at M. E. Church.

bic To Be Held at M. E. Church.
The funeral of William Brewer a
pioneer resident of the Pewabic loca-
ton, who died yesterday morning, will
be held on Sunday afternoon at l
o'clock from the Pewabic NJ, T.
church. The deceased was a member
of the odd Fellow fraternity, which
society will have charge of the funeral
arrangements. Mr.. Brewer was sixty
nine years OF age and had lived for
many years on Quincy hill, being one
of the early settlers i'm that section. He
is survived by his widow and several
children.
The Calumet news., 1911-11-03

Several more air blasts were felt in
Hancock last night and this morning
but no damage is reported to have re-
suited
The Calumet news., 1911-11-03

OF every SO persons in Germany,
one is a railroad employe.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
ATTORNEY JONES.
Comes Out Enphatically for the Re
nomination of President Taft-His
Strong Reasons.

Thomas /. Jones Is regarded as one
OF the most successful cOlOred attOr-
neys in Washington, having a large
Clentage and a practice that Is sec
ond to none both in character and
as 10 fees When The Bees repre-
sentative dropped into his office last
Tuesday. and in discussing various
subjects incidentally asked him where
he stood in the matter of renomlna-
ton for President Taft, Mr. Jones
said:
My appraisement OF Mr.. Taft is
that he has made one OF the safest
strongest and ablest Presidents we
have had He has a wonderful grasp
on all the confusing and perpleXlng
economic questions that are pressing
for action But | am for him prl-
marily because of the recognition and
elevation he has given the colored le-
cal fraternity. The appointment OF
| VIM II Lewis as Assistant Attorney
General position that puts colored
man within one step of the Cabinet,
is honoring the cOlored lawyers OF
| this country Mr.. Taft has, by this
appointment, placed the stamp of aP-
( iprOval upon cOlored lawyers. In ct
| feet he has said colored lawyers are
the equal of whites. Heretofore, and
that too by almost the entire white
| bar, colored lawyers have been re-
garded as mere pettifOggers. Mr..
| Taft has said that we are lawyers,
and there are some very able ones
among us | am not only for the re
nomination of Mr. Taft, but | am tor
/ his reelection, and l feel 1t my un-
bounded duty to take off my coat and
help to elect him, as every other col
ored lawyer and every other coloreC
lvoted should do. And | am not al
iaspirant for any office either. | an
igrateful to President Taft for the
recognition he has given us as race
iand especially to colored men in my
profession He has given us insplra
ItiOn and encouragement. don't be
lleve you can find a colOred lawyer
lin the United States who is a rea
llawyer but what feels as | do regard
ing the prediction of Mr.. Taft,
The above was said by Mr Jone!
with his characteristic vigor ant
straightforwardness.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
COLORED REGIMENT.

information which has reached
Washington Is TO the effect that the
promised colOrcd regiment for New
York State Is now impossible. The
Democratic Legislature passed bill
last spring authorizing such regl-
ment. but because Of constitutional
objections. Governor Dix refused 10
sign the bill, and 50 it failed to be-
come a law The Democrats expect
ed by the passage of the cOlored regi-
ment bill to make many proselytes
among the colOred voters. The Leg
islature Is now in extra session, and
many colored Democrats expected
that d bill would be passed with the
constitutional objections eliminated
but the governor has made it plain
that no legislation must be passed ex-
cept such as for which the extra ses-
sion was convened This makes II
impossible for a COlOred regiment
and shows that the move g the Dem
ocrats was simply one OF buncombe
! This will be disappointing to Maj
Charles Fillmore, who resigned {
ST 600 clerkship in the Treasury De
partment here to accept one at les:
salary in the Internal Revenue Col
lector's office in New York, hoping
to be able to land the colonelcy o
the regiment.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16

was that ran him down the road q
few nights previous. Holm said; |
don't know anything about it, Go on
and don't bother me Then Dr., Hill
reached in his pocket for revolver
and ed FIVE bullets at Holm. The
horse ,egan prancing then and Dr.
Hill Dir, e on
Hollin's story was substantially the
same. DR.. Yeager. resident physi-
clan of Casualty Hospital said that
one bullet had shattered the large
bone of Hollin's lower leg.
Policeman Otto c. Hauschild, OF
the Ninth Precinct arrested DR., Hill
on description telepboned in iron
the scene of the shooting The pO-
liceman said at the time that a gang
of men had tried to give DR.. Hill {
beating in Benning several night:
before Holm was shot. HauschilC
arrested DR.. Hill. he says at the
point of a revolver and found tha
| the physician had a revolver and tina
he had five cartridges in each pocke
| of his clothes.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
STAND BY CAPT. OYSTER.

No one can possibly oveTestimate
the services that Capt. James F. Oys-
ter has rendered the cOlOred schools
of Washington. Although a white
man, no colored member of the
Board of Education has devoted more
thought, more energy nor taken
greater interest in the cause of the
education of the cOlOred youths of
this city. And considering the range
of his influence none have equaled
his interest. He Is not given to fault
finding, to criticism nor a desire to
making changes in the school person
mel simply to crafty an ambition to
tear down. At all times he IS inter
ested in the building up, and to build
ND he is a stanCh supporter of those
officials and teachers as 70 whose
ability and service there can be no
question. 1t would be well for the
schools, for the race, and for them
selves if the colored members would
emulate Capt Oysters interest IN and
unselhsh devotion to the cause of
Negro education. 1t would be we'll
if the three colored members would
ioin hands with Capt Oyster to main
tain harmony and efficiency. 1t would
be a sad commentary on the race II
such a contingency should arise, re-
sulting in the white members stand
ing solidly for harmony and efficiency
for the colored schools and the col
ored members standing solidly to-
gether to provoke discord and inef-
iciency The colOred people of thf:
city, and especially the parents who
have children in the public schools
owe a debt of gratitude to Capt Oys,
ter for his services in behalf of the
colored pupils And The Bee sin
cerely hopes that the course of tht
colored members of the board viii
be such as to share that gratitude tc
Capt Oyster The Bee urges, and il
doing so we but voice the sentiment:
of the colored people of the city, tina
the three colored memebrs cooperate
with Capt Oyster and the other white
members to preserve harmony, eff
cheney and progress in the coloreC
schools. AS a race none of US car
afford to permit selfish ends to actu
ate our efforts.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16

First, the speaker declared-That
the average present-day church IS
out of harmony with the original pur-
pose of the Almighty.
He said That God established the
church in the beginning as a house
OF prayer for all nations, but he re
gretted to say that the church Of this
age IS III most cases simply q play
house for the devil.
The church was originally design
ed t. teach the doctrines of the Faith
erhoOd of God and of the Brother
hood Of Man
The Fatherhood Of God is a Prin-
iti.l that Fe hear but little Of in
| this age. Apparently the leaders OF
| the Christian church have forgotten
, that all men are brothers and God
made Of one blood al nations who
| dwell on the fact of the earth.
be brothers; they have yielded to the
doctrine of the superiority of races st
long until the plain teaching OF The
! Scriptures have ceased 10 be reality
with them.
The frequent lynchings and burn
Iings Of Colored Americans is the mos
! DOStBlNt pibOl ltidl lilN "liitN iiiiAaAo
tiers have lost their vision OF God
and its only a matter of time whel
the average Christian Of Amerlci
will Just as soon go to lynching
ball game, theater or dance hall as t,
go To 4 prayer meeting or to the Sac
,rament of our Lord and Savior Jesu
! Christ. Thus, it IS clearly seen tha
the church has put off even the ap
Ipearance of Providential supervision
and what IS true Of the white churc
is correspondingly true of the Negr
church.
The Negro ministry of the countr
are rapidly departing from the prlr
/ ciples of the fathers, rather tha
standing up and oOntending for tn
/ principles Of righteousness and eXe1
cising faith in the over-ruling Prov
dence OF God. Many OF them hav
: yielded to the foIlies of the age an
have thrown their churches wide ope
, to shows, dramas, concerts and play
{ of almost every conceivable charaC
ter. The only thing in view IS
+ raise money.
The prayer meetings have aimos
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
AUDITOR RALPH W. IYLEK.
A True and Devoted Friend of the
Colored Schools.
HATTIE NEW DIPLOMATS.
Solon Menos to Be Minister Here,
Mr.. Furniss Announces.

Henry w Furniss, the United
States Minister at Port au Prince, has
cabled the State Department the list
of diplomatic officers who will rep
resent Haiti abroad The list fol
lows:
Solon Menos, Minister at Wash
ingtOn
Hannibal Price, secretary Of lega-
ton at Washington.
Nemours Auguste, Minister at
Paris.
Calisthene Fouchard. retained "a
Minister at Berlin
@. B. Dorsainville, Minister res
ident and consul general at London
Ulrick Duvivier, charge d'affalres
at Havana
Catinat Fouchard consul general
at New York.
Rosalveri Reliard, consul general al
Havre, France.
Louis Delinois, consul general al
St. Thomas, D. w. l.
Mr.. Menos. who comes TO Wash
ington, is a widower His wife wa:
sister of Mrs J. n Leger, whose
husband formerly was Haitian Minis
ter here. Hannibal Price, who come:
as secretary of legation, is the sOr
of former Haitian Minister here
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
RELIGIOUS UPRISING
In Galbraith A. M. E. z. Church
Arouses the Whole Community.

The first Of the series of ten ser
mons was delivered by Rev S, /
Corrothers, pastor OF the above
named church on last Sunday even
ing, at g P NJ.
Notwithstanding the heat and the
fact that a great many of the proml-
nent members Of the church have not
returned to the city from their va
cation. the church was crowded from
pulpit to door, and the most remark
able thing about the whole matter
was that about fifty or one hundred
of the audience were white.
TIE text taken for the occasion
was not given, but the words upor
which the sermon was built were, u
have pulled off my coat, and how
shall ! put it on"
In order that the reading public
might get an idea of the source o
| the tremendous enthusiasm that fol
lowed, | here give the head lines o
! the discourse:
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
SHOOTING HOLM.
DR.. William Hill Held in $4,000
Bonds for the Grand Jury.

DR.. William Hill Held in So 1000
Bonds for the Grand Jury.
E.rT2s. s|sss 7s-sss,. ~ Ssl---s
DR.. William Hill, a colored physi-
clan. whose address the police give as
Four-and-a-Half and B Streets South
west. was held for the grand jury
under $4,000 bond in the Police Court
Tuesday to answer a charge OF
shooting Lewis Holm, colored, OF
7I2 Benning Road, July 10.
The story of the shooting as
brought out in court by questions
of Ralph Given, Assistant United
States Attorney, and Attorney James
O'Shea, who appeared for DR. Hill
was that DR.. Hill was riding down
Benning road in buggy when a man
named Enoch Ayers, cOlored, I5z
Benning Road, stopped the doctor
and asked for "a lift into town
Ayers climbed in the buggy. A few
minutes later, according to Ayers
Lewis Holm appeared on the road
'Dr. Hill stopped the horse and
leaned out of the buggy" said Ayers
and asked Holm if he knew who i
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
THOMAS w. FLEMING.

Cleveland, o., Sept Q, IoII
On Tuesday, September 5, the Re
publican primaries were held to nom
mate a city ticket Mr.. Fleming, who
Is now member of the City Council,
serving as one of the Councilmen at
Large. and who was candidate for
denomination. was again nominated
from a field of II candidates as one
of six Councilmen at Large upon the
Republican ticket This Is the third
successive time the Republicans OF
Cleveland have nominated Mr.. Flem-
ing for Councilman at Large, which
is a distinct honor. He is the first
colored man to serve as member OF
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
Doing Well.


Mr.. ]. Moria Saunders spent last
Sunday in the beautiful town OF
Martinsburg, w Va, where he states
that the colored people are showing
more progressivenes than III any
other town of its size in this part OF
the country. There are about 1000
colored people in this town, which is
situated in the mountains, about 20
miles above Harper's Ferry, and
nearly everyone owns his ground.
Mr.. Saunders was the guest of DR..
Samuel E Gray, a graduate of How
ard University, who has built up for
, himself an enviable reputation in
Martinsburg as a physician of the
first rank. Situated a few miles from
this town and in the mountains Is
1.-THE North Mountain Santarium fol
colored consumptives. winch was es
tablished by DR. Gray. The trac
contains so acres. and aside from
being one of the most ideal location:
lin that part Of the country, IS also
the only sanitarium of its kind to b'
found anywhere.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16

the City Council of Cleveland, being
nominated and elected two years ago,
he - the only one to serve as COun-
Gilman at Large in the State OF OHIO.
Mr. Fleming has been prominent IN
Ohio politics for years, and is now
serving his third term as member
of the Ohio Republican State kx--
ecutive Committee He was elected
as an Alternate Delegate to United
States Senator 7. z. Burton, to rep
resent the 2Ist District of Ohio IN
the last National Republican Conven-
tion. Mr.. Fleming is a lawyer and
prominent in the social life of Cleve-
land. He has been prominently
mentioned for position in Washing
ton, D. c. He will be elected at the
coming election in November.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16

Report 20 National Baptist Conven-
tion-Over One Hundred Eighty
seven Thousand Dollars Received
and Nine Million Periodicals Mailed
Out This Year.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16

become things Of the past, class and
covenant meetings almost the same,
and the theaters and dance halls
packed and the most deplorable
thing connected with all this Is the
fact that fifty per cent OF these peO-
pie are connected with the Chris
! tiau church
Vt the close OF the discourse thirty
seven men and women stood for
lprayeT.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16

Gut MS 1 CdA'
PITTSBURG, Pa. Sept. "A
Showing gross receipts OF SIS7,753,77
for the fiscal year ending August 81
IoII. and at the same time reporting
4O6. go letters written to the various
Baptist Sunday schools throughout
the United States, Rev. R H. Boyd,
Secretary of the National Baptist
Publishing Board, Of Nashville, Tenn,
concluded his two splendid reports
this afternoon before the National
Baptist Convention in session in this
city Dr. Boyd declared in his re
marks before this convention, which
IS reputed to be the largest organized
religious body in the world, that un-
less his people exercised more self
dependence, which will make them a
progressive and industrious people,
and help teach their pOsteTlty that
"a we'll man needs no CTutChes, they
were not going to make as rapid
strides in the future as they had IN
the past He spoke particularly from
= denominational point of view, as
he said he represented the future
churches among two and one half mil
hon Negro Baptists.
1t was the sixteenth annual report
Of the Home Mission Board of this
Convention, of which Rev. ]. P. Rob
inson. D. D., of Little Rock, Ark, is
chairman, and the fifteenth report of
the National Baptist Publishing
Board. located at Nashville, Tenn, of
which Rev. c. H Clark, D. D., Is
chairman DR.. Boyd fills the secretary
ship of both boards. These two po-
sitiOns he has held with credit to
the denomination and to the race
since 1906 The reports as presented
bv Secretary Boyd were in pamphlet
form and consisted of ninety-siX
printed pages. 1t reviewed the work
of the Publishing Board from its be
ginning in Nashville, Tenn, in the
winter OF December, 1906, when with
out a dollar from this convention
DR.. Boyd began to demonstrate what
the Negro Baptists, as well as the
race. could do if they would cultivate
self-dependence. His reports show
that up to the close Of August, 1911
he has mailed out during the pas
twelve months nine million eighty
FIVE thousand one hundred sINty-Ont
periodicals and requisites written
arranged, COmplcu, tulJtu anu sen
out from the National Baptist Pub
fishing Board an increase Of nineteeI
thousand seven hundred and seventy
one over 1910. 1t was interesting t
watch the trend of his report showing
how, step by step, year after year
the institution under his management
had gone along in the face of muCI
opposition within the denomination
as we'll as the keen competition
which naturally opposes from with
out yet he reports an increase OF te
thousand dollars worth Of busines
over last year. The report was re
Ceived with enthusiasm by the dele
gates to the Convention, and agai
DR.. Boyd was proclaimed by his de
nomination as their Moses Of mod
eTn times.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
Mr.. RALPH GIVEN.

If there is one man who deserves
credit for his work and uniform fair
ness in his prosecutions and treat
ment of the people, it is Assistant
United States Attorney Ralph Given
He is one man that IS deserving oi
promotion.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
MASONIC NOTES.
A. A. o. N. M. S.

The Imperial Council held its an
nual session at Atlantic City on
Tuesday and Wednesday Much
business was transacted. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Mobiles,
Eugene Phillips Imperial Potentate;
S. J. Blackburn. Imperial Treasurer,
and J. H. Murphy, Imperial Recorder.
The Imperial Council will meet in
this city in 1912
Blue Lodges.
The Grand Master and officers will
paw their annual visitation TO the sew
era1 lodges as follows: John F. Cook,
No. 10, September II; Hiram, No 4,
September I8; Pythagoras, No. 9.
September 70; Felix No 3, October
2; Social, No. I, October 5; Ionic,
No. u. October 6; Widow and Son,
No. 2, October II; Charles Catcher,
No. IS, October I8; Prince Hall, No.
ID, October 70; St. Johns, No. II,
October 23.
The Washington bee., 1911-09-16
SELF DEPENDENCE
National Baptist IConvention
SELF DEFIANCE.

Rev. R. H. Boyd. Secretary of the
Home Mission and Publishing
Boards Advocates Religious Thrift
For his Denomination.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-16
TO REDUCE COST OF LIVING.

With this spring the CITY of Mem
phis, Tenn. inaugurates an expert
ment which. it is believed by the
foremost authority in the farmers
cooperative demonstration work at
Washington will prove the practical
bility of a plan capable of reducing
the cost of living in America by re-
ducing it half that amount
DIR. S. A. Knapp, the chief of the
cooperative demonstration office n
the department of agriculture at
Washington, in announcing the in.
auguration of the Memphis expert.
ment, dwells particularly on the eff
ticiency of boys in showing that, by
the use of proper modern methods,
enormously increased crops can be
raised on ground which gave previous
| ly but meager returns to the toll and
the crude systems in vogue among
the men farmers of their respective
districts In brief, the corn-club plan
is to be applied to town back yards
The plan, not althogether novel in
its central features, yet truly astound
( ing in the imposing magnitude con
templated, proposes that every family
in the United States shall utilize the
spare ground attached to it's dwelling
for the raising of the vegetables used
on the home table. It is obviously i'm
possible to shut ones eyes to the fact
that there are many thousands, per
haps millions, of families who, living
in city localities so densely populated
and so completely bricked, have nc
spare ground available for even a foot
| of parsley.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-16

of national bank. He and his wife
decided they would build new house
and bought a desirable lot on which
there was a boarding house, intending
to remove the building and erect a
modern home.
The house was full of boarders when
they came into possession and all
were told to find other places. Two
of them begged so hard to be allowed
to remain that Mrs. Meade yielded
and she has been in the business ever
since.
BY allowing the two boarders to re-
main she was barred from making
serious objections to others and they
kept "edging' in until Mrs. Meade de-
cided to repair the old house for a
hotel and build an addition to it..
Since then other additions have been
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-16

built and the whole house nicely fur.
nished like a home. There is no Of.
flee, no cigar counter and none of the
hotel air about the place, features
which make it a novel attraction to
the travelling man
81 can't tell you whether it pays
to run hotel said Banker Meade,
when asked about the profits of The
Cottage" because if there are any
profits they go to Mrs Meade and j.,
there is a deficit it comes to me. The
deficits, however, do not come often.
What we like about this hotel bust
ness that we were forced into is that
we are able to furnish a comfortable
home for strangers who come here
and that is profit enough so long as
Mrs. Meade likes to run the place