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SANDHTILLE.

Mrs. Anna Flater has gone TO Balr-
more, where she will spend the winter
with relatives and friends.
Miss Hazel Zepp, OF Emory IL visit
ing her brother, Mr. Wilson Zepp.
Miss Eta Zepp and Mr. Carroll
Stocksdale spent the weekend with
friends in New Windsor
Miss Maria Shilling returned home
after visiting her aunt Mrs Nicholas
Mummaugh- OF Emory
Nj. Charles Frank, OF Baltimore, !
visiting his cousin, MFR. Henry Neck
ley
Prorracted meeting l. now II prog
ress at SANDY Mount The evangelist,
Rev. Lewis Shel1horn, OF Ashland, New
Jersey, has charge OF the meeting this
week
Mrs. u w Caples has returned
home after visiting her son. Ashland
and family, Of Philadelphia
The Ladies' Mite Society, oil Sandy
Mount Methodist Protestant Church
held its last meeting q the home q
Mrs. =. T. Shilling, with large At
tendance.
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SNTDERSBTRG.

Mr. William H Ruby spent the lat
ter part OF last week i'm Washington,
D c., visiting his cousin, David
Stephan, who IS critically Ill
Butchering now l. the order OF the
day
The members OF the Sunday school
Oh this place are rehearsing for an
entertainment TO T. held during the
Christmas holidays.
Jacob W. Ham and Harry o. Al
baugh. carpenters, OIL this place, are
working - McDonogh-
The carpenters expect to finish the
new Mt Union United Brethren
church this week, after which the
Westminster Hardware Company will
install z hot air furnace
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LINEBORO.

Mrs. Edwin Wertz and son Donald,
OF Arlington, visited here Sunday.
David Mickey, oil Baltimore, has been
spending a few days with nj family
here.
MIR a. g. Cent? made trip TO Har-
riSburg this week
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel TschOp, Of
Windsor, Pa, visited Mr. and Mrs. Os-
car Cramer over Sunday.
Miss Alice Kopp spent Thursday o.
this week III Hanover.
Mrs Robert Markell and mOther-in-
law Mrs Lydia Markell, OF Hanover,
visited Mr. and Mrs. VIM Currens
Saturday
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COURSE OF LECTURES
DR., Sehmueker VIII Deliver Lee.
lures on Birds and Their Habits.

The Westminster Lecture Branch OF
the American Society for extension OF
University Teaching, which was or
gained by the clergymen OF this city.
met on Monday evening and completed
the arrangements for the first course
OF lectures. The lectures viii be given
on Friday evenings for six consecutive
weeks, beginning January 10, 1913, ct
IS D. n The offer Of the use OF St.
Johns Parish Hall for the lectures
was cordially accepted The lecturer
will be DIR. Samuel Schmucker, Pro-
lessor or Biological Science, State
Normal School, West Chester. Pa
The subjects OF the successive fec
lures viii be:
January 10-The Living Bird
January 1T-COlOr lin the Gfrd
World
January 24-Mating and Migrating.
January 51-A Rnbber Family.
February The Bird Lover iii
Winter.
February IA Few Familiar Birds
The lectures will Be- illustrated with
lantern and slides. The price OF the
course tickets l. $1-25. They viii b.
for sale O. the Drug Stores Single
admission viii be 25c- Dr. Schmuck-
er's lectures are very attractive and
have aroused wide spread interest
His services are 90 greatly IN demand
that Ii was neeesSar! TO engage him
last July The Westminster Center j.
very fortunate in being able TO inau-
gurate its course with z lecturer Of his
ability and popularity. Ii Is TO be
hoped that ourciiEens viii avail them
selves Of the opportunity afforded
them 1t is said that no one who
hears DR. Schmucker's first lecture
ever misses any of the others The
proceeds, II any, viii be used for the
extension OF the work i'm this vicinity.
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BFNNERSFIL1E.

Nr. John II Benner, who was On
tine sick list il better
Miss Mary = Miller, OF Westmins-
ter. and Miss Bessie g. Miller, OF
Spring Dale, spent Sunday with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs Samuel o. Mill
ef.
Mr. Daniel Young, who has been o.
the sick list for some weeks IL mot
much better
The stUrk was around last week and
left q fine baby girl ar the home Ot
Nr. and Mrs. Samuel Tucker
Miss Lizzie Benner i making her
home with MIR Edward ShaHer and
family
Mrs Tom Kaufman, O. Baltimore
spent "A few days with her uncle. last
week, John H- Benner-
Miss Marie Davis. O. Tyrone spent
SUNDAY nth her aunt. Miss Nora
Davis
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Bishop.

John Amos Bishop, an aged and
highly respected citizen OF Harvey
Nd, died Wednesday evening, De
cember 4, after . brief illness from
pneumonia, aged 40 years Nr. Bish-
Cd was q member OF the Reformed
church at Emmitsburg, and an active
member OF the - o. * OF MI @.
He Is survived BY his widow and
nine children, Mrs. Joseph Caldwell,
James C.. Bishop and Mrs Mary Rifle,
of Emmitsburg: Lewis Bishop OF Cali
fornia; z Z Bishop, OF Hanover;
Harry Bishop, oil Virginia; Maurice
Bishop, OF Harrisburg; Mrs Ella Null.
OF Baltimore, and Charles B. Bishop,
OF York
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Rogers.

Charles Rogers, colored, an employe
OF David Cashour, OF Linganore, died
On Tuesday, December ., a the result
OF a. injury sustained, about week
ago, when he fell from q fodder
wagon and broke his spine
Rogers was Industrious, sober and
trustworthy and well liked By his en-
plOyer and people in the neighbOr-
hood who knew him
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The new fTe-cent piece j. To have
IN Indian On one side and . buffalo
o. the other : picture OF slot
machine would be more symbolic
and up-tO-date
The cost OF farm labor has increas-
ed 200 per cent since 1920
Andrew Carnegie celebrated his
seTentT-seTenth birthday ON NOTem-
Der the twenty-ffth-
The board Of estimates has fixed
the Baltimore city tan rate Or Sol.
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She Weighed 100 Pounds.

Justice Mason, VINO weighed $50
pounds, and was said to have been the
largest woman in the world died =
Montreal, Canada, November g. Sew
eral months ago me became insane
and was taken IL charge o. the Assis-
tant PUbliQue II the institution she
became notorious for exploits oil
strength when lin a frenzy Even the
walls Of her room failed TO restrain
her, and III was necessary t0 build q
rDundhDHse outside the main building
especially for her : specially built
coffin was necessary to inter the re
MAINS
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Onite DARK.

Maud-So You accepted Jack. Tou
must regard him in q different light
from what you used to-
Ethei-To tell the truth there
wasn't any light at al when ac-
cepted him-BOston Transcript
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Christmas News.
The PHCeiS What Counts

Why pay more elsewhere when you
cam bury your fancy and staple grocer
ieS af SuIEivan's, 90 w. Main, ST., mt
the following low prices:
Tons OF Candies and Nuts
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Wages e Belgium are lower gener-
ally than in any other European
country
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WANTED
10000 lbs. Of PORK

We want 10, 900 pounds CT DRESssE1D
PORK from now until the close q tne
season Tor which - VIII pay the hlgh-
est cash market price
We Will b. able after the = week Nm
October TO supply the public e Ehole
ale O. retail, Pork. Hams, Saas9gr
Pudding and Scrapple, etc o. the IN
est cash prices, call and see our new!
fitted IT'D place ot business. corner -
Liberty and Green streets Mes
Minister.
Apple Butter and Cider Vinegar on
sale
Yours respectfully,
VIM. i. MYERS 4 son,
Butchers and Packers
Cor. Liberty and Green sts.'
Westminster. Nd
oct Al IT,
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UTOGSrTSS
Granulated Sugar.
15r Salmon nav rnn 10c
n Pnna Tar5 ...25c
3 cans Shriver'S Beans OF Corn-.-----22c
J cans Bahhitt OIL Banner Lye-------59c
3 lbs Eagle Butter Crackers
3 lbs. Plain or Sailed Soda Crackers22c
cans Evergreen Corn ~
Dark Syrup per gal---------------------55vycc
Fancy Blended Coffee.
g lbs. Oatmeal. ......................-......-52c
! lbs large Raisfns- ----------------...---;.z
Fancy Apricots, Prunes and Peaches
Raisins, Currants, Ctroa and t!gs.
Wishing one and mil, a very Merry Annas
/ am Yours for Business
MILTON "A SULLIVAN
nov fsSm zap. Phone 46-k.
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Figs, Dates, Oranges and Nuts.
Watch for my price on Oysters next
week
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SALE BILLS PRINTED DIV SHORE
NOTICE AT THIS OFFICE
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

For the first time in the his to ry
of Reno County case was tried in
Hutchinson the other day before a
jury composed exclusively of color
ed men. 1t was the hearing in
Probate Court of the case of Mrs.
Martha j. Marshall, Negro wo-
man, who was being examined as
to her sanity. Charles Fulton,
deputy probate judge remarked
that he never saw a finer set of
men on jury than those six col
ored men, one of them a doctor,
another a minister and a third
law student, and all of them men
who have good education and char
acter. 1t attracted a lot of atten-
tion, being very unusual occur
ance in Kansas legal circles.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

Sopleased is Florenz Ziegfeld,
Jr., manager of the "Follies of
1911, with the services of Bert
A. Williams that last Saturday he
signed three. year contract with
the colored comedian. Mr.. Will
Jams will have one of the princi-
pal parts in the "Follies of 1872"
which will be presented at the
Jardin de Paris the first week of
June. He will be starred in a new
comedy by Manager Ziegfeld, COM
mencing the first week in Septem-
ber. -
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

cutive committee was chosen, and
the treachery that was practiced in
Las Vegas by the Representative
caused confusion and split that
will never be harmonized until tnat
action is rectifed. We must have
good men with clean records to
lead the colored voters. No i'm
ported corrupt political tricksters
can manage the colored voters of
our city Such men must be for
ever eliminated, or the Negroes OF
our city will remain hopelessly di-
vided.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
ALBUQUERQUE NEWS.

Mrs. T. o. Mason left last Sun
day for Los Angeles, where she
willspend several weeks for the
benefit of her health.
Mrs. R. H. Murray returned last
Monday after being abcent from
the city several months visiting
relatives.
A. R. Samuels our enterprising
shoe maker is slowly recovering
from an operation on the liver,
while he is not entirely out of
danger, yet we hope for a pelma-
nent recovery.
r. W. Lowe, a recent arrival from
Alton, ILL.,, has opened a general
silverware repair shop, with watch
repairing a specially. We are glad
to see this enterprise on the part
of Mr.. Lowe, and trust that he will
soon become one of our leading
business men.
G. Hanker of this city has accept
ed position with the Santa Fe
Co, as baggage man at Belene, N.
Mexico.
Rev. A. Richard who has been
recently called to pastor the MI.
Olive Baptist church is proving
himself to be a Christian gentle
man and is making many friends
among all classes of citizens in our
city. The members of his church
are learning to love their new pas
tor, and we believe that his congre-
CATION will receive through his ef-
forts spiritual revival, that will
make this the grandest church in
the southweat. All the auxiliaries
to the church are looking forward
to successful future. Rev. Rich
ard is making himself felt in our
city in church work, and we be-
lieve he is the right man in the
right place.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Bramlett are
rejoicing over the arrival Of a 10I
pound boy, which came last Sat
urday, to grace their home. Hen
ry is handing out cigars to the
boys.
Vim. Austin, a lad is making
history in the pugilistic world and
has bright future. Austin says
he will fight anything southwest
his weight.
Our city has now three political
clubs among the colored voters
and each has some following.
Never before has the Negro voters
had SO many clubs and been SO
badly split up. Just four months
ago we were thoroughly united
with only one club. The present |
was brought about at the
time the selection of our colored |
at large on the state exc
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

The graduates and former stu
dents of Fisk University, Nash
vile, Tennessee, have organized
themselves for special financial
rally on May L. The occasion of
the rally is 100000 gift by the
General Eduation Board of New
York City to Fisk University on
condition that $4,000 more be
over S125,0O0 of the latter amount
has been raised or pledged and SER
ious effocts are being put forth by
the trustees of the school to get the
balance. AS the alumni and for
mer students of Fisk are scattered
by the hundreds all over the coun-
try, they are putting forth ener-
gies in all their localities to raise
the S25 900 that they have fixed
upon as the special contribution
they desire to make toward the
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
NEGROES PRO-
GRESS IN 1911
The Excerpts from the Negro Year Book Press
which recently Appeared in the Chicago Record Herald
The facts and figures compiled by Monroe Wo,d.

From time to time during the
wear the census bureau has issued
.enteresting information concern
ing the Negro.
The Negro population in the
United States in 1910 was $685.
294. Of this number S,749, 800, or
S9.1 per cent. of the Negro popu-
lation live in the South. The CEN
sus reports show that Negroes are
not going to the cities as rapidly
as the whites are. The white pop
ulation of cities during the last ten
wears increased 1876 per cent. and
the Negro population 3o.5 per cent
The most interesting thing that
the census reported during the
wear concerning the Negro was
that Negroes are becoming farmers
at more than twice the rate of the
whites. From 1900 to 1910 the
number of white farmers in the
country increased 9 per cent. and
the number of Negro farmers l9per
cent. In 1900 there were 76I,lo4
colored farmers. In 1910 there
were 917 ,465 such farmers.
The farm laoor in the South
has occupied considerable amount
of attention during the year, par
ticuIarly when the census report
showed that in many parts OF the
black belt in the South the popu-
lation was decreasing. 1t was sug-
eested that the large plantations
be cut up and sold in small tracts
70 farmers. 1t was also suggested
that emigrants be secured from the
North and from Europe. Dr.
Booker T. Washington called at
tention to the Importance OF land
lords and others providing good,
comfortable homes for their ten
ants, having good sohoolhouses'
GOOD churches and making life in
the rural districts safe.
Negroes during the year made
gains in the field of organized Ia
bor, At the 1910 annual meeting
of the National Council OF the
American Federation of Labor
resolution was unanimously passed
inviting Negroes and all other rae
es into the labor federation. The
officers of the federation we're in
structed to take measures to see
that Negro workmen, as we'll as
workmen of other races were
brought into the unions. Follow
ing out this policy, steps have been
taken to unionize the Negroes
working in the Pittsburg district.
At New Orleans in October the
Negro longshoremen were admitted
to the International Longshore-
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

92gg :, for interneship at the city hos
pital and the city dispensary in
indianapolis, Ind. James B. Muir
ply. in a recent at the st. Paul,
MINI, post Office made an average
of go. rs per cent, the highest gen.
eral average ever established by a
government employe IN the North
west,
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
NEGRO SECRET SOCIETIES

Financially Negro secret socie-
ties appear to be very prosperous.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Ala
bama at its annual meetings re-
ported that $75,949 SO had been
received during the year. The col
ored Odd Fellows of Louisiana
paid $4,000 for a three-story brick
building in New Orleans. The
United Brothers of Friendship
erected a $4,000 building at Louis
vile, Ky. This order in Texas
collected during the year SGT .459.
Fifty-two thousand three hundred
and forty-sevn dollars of this
amount went to the widows and
orphans fund. In no state do the
secret societies handle more money
than they do in Mississippi. At
the annual meeting of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of that state it was
reported that during the year $780,
600 had been expended for the
payments of endowment benefits
and that balance of $4,000 was
on hand. At the recent biennial
convention of the Negro Odd Eel
lows of that state it was reported
that during the two years $5O7, 900
had been paid out by the treasurer
for the benefit of widows and Or
orphans and that a balance of
$7S, 900 was on hand.
The Mississippi societies are not
only giving attention to the col
lection of funds for sickness and
death, but are endeavoring to pro-
mote the health of the members.
In their local and state meetings
considerable amount of time has
been devoted to lectures on farm
ing, domestic economy and other
subjects have been given by ex-
perts from the United States De-
partment of Agriculture and other
places.
The knights of Pythias are fl
naucially one of the strongest Ne
gro orders in the country. AT the
biennial session of the Supreme
Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias which met in August in
indianapolis it was reported that
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

Columbus, O., Feb. 20.-W. L.
Reid, colored man who was born
in Germany, educated in Germany
and Rome, aud who speaks twenty
one languages, called on Mayor
Karb last week and made applica-
ton for position in the city ser
vice. He said he had been in
hospital for two years ann is just
now sufficiently recovered to take
up steady employment. Reid
commenced his conversation with
the Mayor in German and switch
ed to Italian. He finally stumped
the Mayor on French, and later, in
the out side office, engaged in con-
yersation in Spanish with a man
who knew something of that Ian
guage. He told the Mayor be was
willing to accept any kind of en-
ment and he came we'll recommend
Reid is typical Negro in looks
and actions. He was born in
Munich, Bavaria, in 1866. He is
also a nephew of Fred Douglass,
who became famous during the
war to free the slaves and who was
for many years recorder of deeds
in the District of Columbia
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

fund. Thos. j. Galloway, grad
uate of Fisk University, with head
quarters at 135 T St, N. w.,
Washington, D. c., is the secre-
tary and active manager of this
special effort among the Fisk
alumni.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, MARCH 1912

over 81, 100000 had been collected
for endowment; that there was in
the grand lodge treasury S42,035;
that the property owned by the
grand lodges was valued at $776,-
29455. The total real estate hold
ings of the order were valued at
S1,500,000. 1t was decided at the
indianapolis meetings to begin
the erection in Chicago of the
Pythian Temple to cost between
S150,O00 and 100000.
Reports show that in 1911 the
value of property on which Ne
groes paid taxes was: In Arkansas,
$50, 100000; in Georgia, $32, 1884,
437; in North Carolina, $2S, 100000
in varginia, $27,OOO,O0O, and in
Texas. S3O,O00,O00. The total val
ue of property owned by Negroes
in the United States is estimated
to be about S6O0,O0O,OOO.
EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Negro students have shown
ability. Edith Palmer of Phila-
delphia, won the free scholarship
prize to Cornell University. Ed
ward Winthrop Robinson was
awarded scholarship at Amherst
College. Bessie Gamer was vale
dictorian of her class in the Hill
burn, N. Y, High School. She
finished a four years course in
three years. Marion Reed of the
Brighton High School, was the
best student to be graduated from
a secondary school in Boston. She
was valedictorian of her class and
received 500 scholarship to Sim
mons College. The fly fighting
committee of the American Civic
Association of New York City Of
fered prize of $40 for the best
essay on the housefy as a carrier
of disease. Willie Henderson,
13. year old colored girl, won the
prize. Ethel Davis of Boston, in
a competitive examination against
/, 400 other pupils, won scholar
ship of $500 per year in Wellesley
College. George w. A. Scott won
the second prize in the Curtis ned
al contest at Columbia University
in 1910 and first prize in 1911.
James B. Clark, a junior Negro
student at Cornell University. was
awarded the prix d'honeur in the
annual competition in French es-
say writing and translation, held
under the auspices of the Society
of French Professor in America.
Charles Henry Crippen of New
York, in a competitive examina-
ton, won the state scholarphip in
Cornell University. Dorothy G.
Quinn of New Bedford, Mass, won
a 5000 scholarship at Radcliff Col
lege. Thomas S. Lowry, a gradu-
ate of the medical department of
Howard University, stood highest
in the Florida state medical exam
ination. p. E. Robinson of Dur
ham, N. G., graduated With the
highest honors from the North
western University Dental School
of Chicago. He was appointed
demonstrator in clinics, the first
time colored man has ever held |
such position. l.. Aldridge Lew
is of Nashville, cut of fifteen COM
petitors, received the highest grade
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

Washington, d. c., Feb. 21.-
Major John r. Lynch, a retired
paymaster of the United States
Army, has been sued in the Su-
preme Court of the District of Col
umbia for $500, which his for
mer wife, Mrs. Ella w. Dunham,
alleges that she transported to him
in trust at the time of their mar
riage in 1884, Mrs. Durham
AYERS that tie property in question
was conveyed to Major Lynch in
trust for her and her daughter,
Miss Alice Lynch. She further
alleges breach of trust and asks
the return of her property. Maj.
Lynch was married again last Au-
gust to Miss Cora E. Williams of
Chicago. He was at one time a
Congressman from Mississippi,
and was an influential factor in
the politics of that state. He was
temporary chairman of the Re
publican National Convention in
1854, when the late James G..
Blaine was nominated for the pres
idency. Col. Theodore Roosevelt
was one of the delegates from New
York. After leaving Congress he
practiced law in Washington, un-
til his appointment as a paymasser
in the army during the Spanish
American war. He was placed on
the retired list several months ago,
having reached the age limit of
ga years.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02

mems Union. Among the 1000
conductors that recently attended
the annual meeting of the Nation
al Railway Conductors of America
at Jacksonville, Fla, there were
four Negroes. At the eighteenth
biennial session of the National
Association of Letter Carriers,
which met at Rochester, N. Y,
fifteen Negro delegates were pres.
ent.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-02-05
Rainier Valley to
Hear Geo. F.
Cotterill

A rourinR meeting viii greet
George y. Cottefiii. progressive can
didafc for mayor In Rainier Valley
tonight. With tho valley people. nsi.
nieipal ownership IL live question
and one that 10 not 20 be- aide step.
ped. and Cotfefili. the foremost
champion of municipal Ownership In
Seattle. will be given an enthusiasts.
tic reception.
The meeting viii be- 10 Dngdale's
hall. Rainier beach. beginning at \
y. ~. Aifa, Margaret Munna and
Dan Earle viii be- the other speak.
era. Coftefiii's platform. as well IA
his previous record. stands square.
~ for the immediate bniidinr of the
city car line. and the valley people
promise 20 give him the biggest
meeting in the campaign.
cotteriil spoke 10 NOR. than 500
al Odd Fellows hall Ia Fremont
Saturday night. th. same hall where
only a might previous. T. A. Parish
met frigid reception by only 80
auditors