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The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11
ADVOCATES
NEGRODAILY
NEWSPAPER

The doctor tells you that to make
a great race, health must be re-
garded as one of the great cardi-
nal principles. The minister will
tell you that race cannot be great
unless it is firmly fixed and found
ed upon the principles of Chris
tianity aud the church. The edu-
cationalist will tell you that an
ignorant race will never be regard
ed seriously by any people. The
historian will tell you that military
achievement and prowess, coupled
with spirit of heroism and valor,
are foremost in the elements of
greatness in a race The philoso-
pher will tell that fair proper
ton of all the prerequisite forces
working together in harmony, for
the good of all mankind, will make
a race great.
Some say get land, wealth, edu-
cation, religion, and it appears
that all are at sea on the very press.
ing needs to bring the Negro race
up to the mark of average respec-
liability.
Ten million dollars invested in
churches; twenty millions in col
leees and schools; two hundred
millions invested in homes; four
hundred millions invested in farms
live stock and farm implements; !;
sixty millions invested in trades,
business and professions; a hum
dred thousand Negro soldiers
graves; five million dollars invest
ed in lodges, temples and para
phernalia, and at the present time
the Negro has speaking acquain-
tance with every representative
force of the worlds civilization,
and vet he is weak, despised race,
. because he has no great fixed ma
ton and purpose, He must take
whatever comes to him from some
great, colossal, APPALLING force. He
must look up into the face of the
white man, and say, Il thank you
cir for small favors," and be glad
that he is living, jubilant that
matters are as well as they are, for
they might be worse, and he is
helpless to help himself.
= The money the Negro spends
with the railroads taking needless
's1.ips to summer resorts, to mean
ingless conventions, and good-time
foolishness, running up and down
the country. would establish in ev-
ery Southern State a mammouth
daily newspaper, a paper that
would employ our best and easily
available scholars, far superior to
the white men who collaborate and
edit the news of the Southland.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11
RACE ne WIS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

not colored choir appeared on
the scene. When they started it
became evident there were just two
sorts Of singing in the contest,
the old fashioned camp meeting
kind and the new. The Negro
choir was encored and encored and
every body knew where the prize
was going before the Judge made
the announcement. The best
part of it was they were unanimous
ly in their decision. When it
comes to singing, hats off please
to us.-Chicago Defender.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11
DENVER COLORADO, SATURDAY. JANUARY IL 1913.

ed American, and hundreds of 9TH
ers. 1t was weekly press that
fostered their interests, advocated
their projects, and thereby the
world began to read of this man
and that man, and what he wanted
to do and did do.
We are not to despise the day of
small things. From the small
acorn the huge oak, with its nigh
ty spread of branches, grew.
The entire Negro race of the
world will forever owe a debt of
gratitude to our illustrious Fred
erick Douglass Paper, and later
the Mort h Star, for over twenty
years, in Rochester, N. Y; nor did
his great newspaper suspend pub
lication until every slave in the
United States was given his free
dom: nor did, he cease waging
fearful warfare with Il virile pen
until every Negro was clothed in
the panoply OF citizenship, with
his right to vote. Douglass saw
the need of the newspaper as far
back as 1S4O, and although he used
to say, IF you wish TO hide any
thing from the Negro, put it in the
newspapers, 1t must be remember
ed and considered in the noblest
scence of charity and good fellow
ship that the people who read the
Frederick Douglass Paper and the
North Star were the ones who,
through the force and potency of
Douglass pen, because constrain-
ed to give their sons up as living
sacrifices to carry forward the great
principles that engaged his noble
heart in behalf of the millions of
his racial brethren in slavery.
We have grown to be a great
race, but in numbers only. We
are not great in anything else, be-
cause we refuse to build up the
other potent and practical institu-
tions that make other races great
We need the great daily morn
ing and evening Negro newspap-
ers in at least every big city of the
country. When we reach that al
titude of racial respect that we
have as weapon of defense some
thing with which to call the white
man liar as often as he tells it,
and to print the news of "The
truth teller" instead of giving
credence to news stuff fixed up for
big sensationalism, and to sell, the
more it departs from the honor
able and square purpose, then we
will just be emerging from the
primer, and taking our place in
the school of the world, in the
class of the first reader.
To-day the white daily papers
print whatever they please about
us, and we can but feebly attract
them to our little newspaper; if we
answer them, the people whom we
wish to attract never know we have
answered them.
If we have some cause that
gnaws at our heart for a high and
noble purpose, if it should con-
Germ the Negro, it will not be pub
lished, but returned with regrets,
or be thrown into the waste bas-
ket. All this the Negro knows,
but he is slumbering in hypnotic
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

Miss Phyllis W. Waters, a SEN
ior in Ann Arbor high school, has
been elected captain of the basket
ball team. This is the first time
in the history of the school this
honor has been conferred upon a
colored girl. She is the daughter
Phil Waters, who was also a great
athlete when he was a student at
the University of Michigan in the
COS.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

After a good deal of effort we
are gradually getting to the point
where the most dignified and re-
sponsible publications in the Uni
ted States are beginning to capi.
talize the work Negro" just the
same as they do the words Jew or
Irish. Both the outlook and the
Century Magazine have recently
decided hereafter to spell the word
Negro with capital IN" This
we think is distinct victory. We
hope that publications like the In.
dependent and the New York Ev
ening Post will soon follow the
Outlook ane Century.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

Charleston, W. Va, Dec. 81
Mrs. Lillian Starks. died suddenly
at the home of her brother-in. law,
E. G. Berry, Athens, O., December
"a. She was buried from the
home of her late husband in
Charleston, West Va, December
28. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Starks was State Librarian of
West Virginia and Supreme Chan
cellor of the knights of Pythians
at the time of his death some five
years ago.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

Abberville, La, Jan. "A Ne
gro woman residing in this vicin-
ity a few days since gave birth to
five children. They were well
formed, all being males, but still
born.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

In Pittsburg a number of church
choirs were in competition for a
prize, and some one of them would
have carried off the honors had
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11
lmproved Pressing iron.

A new electric pressing iron is
equipped with metal plates. which
can be inserted to increase its weight
when desired.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

Austin, Texas. Jan. Am
nouncement was made here today
that mandamus proceedings in the
Supreme Court of the United
States to compel the surrender of
six soldiers at Fort Clark, near
Bracketville, to the civil authori-
ties of Kinney county, Texas, will
be withdrawn, on Gov. Colquitt's
request. The soldiers were want-
ed in connection with a shooting
atfray at Il Mexican dance at Brack
ettville. Gov. Colquitt has been
informed the military authorities
will turn over the troopers with
out contest.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-11

Freeman.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

Mrs. G. j. L. Smith returned
Saturday from weeks visit 10
Mr.. Smith in Fort Myers. She
was accompanied by the latter,
who spent Sunday und part of
Monday at home in this city.
Box social in the lower hall of
the Masonic building tonight.
Proceeds to be used in purchasing
IA typewriter for.the High School.
Ali interested in the school should
attend. Ladies requested to pre-
pare boxes.
Mrs. n. c. Hewitt entertained
on last Friday afternoon in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson Hewitt
of Youngstown, o. The occasion
was greatly enjoyed by a large
number of invited guests.
The Mobley Dry Goods Com
pany is making improvements In
the interior of their store. The
show windows have been recon
structed and other changes made
that make things look more at
tractive and inviting.
1t is said there is a time in
every boys life when he is about
10 years old that he needs one good
licking. If he doesn't get it, he
will believe the rest of his life that
he can lick his father.
Mr.. A. Rich, formerly of
Kansas City. Mo-, with his son,
George Rich, has located at
Cleveland and bought nice little
place near the old Huckeby home.
The two gentlemen drove through
the country from Jacksonville, and
had a very pleasant trip. They
are we'll pleased here and have
come to stay. Their families will
be down later. The elder Mr..
Rich was sufferer of rheu matism
for many months prior to coming
here, but he has been greatly BEN
Gifted by the change.
A large number of ladies and
gentlemen of the Acknowledgement,
enjoyed a launch excursion down
the bay last Thursday. 1t was
given expressly for the pleasure of
Rev. and Mrs. McCord, who clos
ed a successful revival meeting
here Sunday night.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13
NOTICE

Notice under first div, Title Q, Chapter XVI,
Section $50 General Statutes of Florida,
To Whom it May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that at the regular
meeting of the board of county commissioners
on Tuesday. the fourth day of March, A, d. 1913,
c. c. Morgan, A. c. Johnson and others, resi-
dents and property owners within the territory
hereinafter described, presented to the board of
county com missioners of DeSoto county, their
petition praying thereby that a public drain and
drainage district be established as provided by
law. said district to be incorporated within the
following described territory and location, to
wit:
Sections IA and 10 in range %, and sections 7,
Is and I9 range "a, all in township 90 in DeSoto
county, Florida. Said public drain to be estab-
lished within said location as shown by plans
and specifications on file with the clerk of said
county. This is therefore to cite all persons,
residents or owning land within said proposed
district to be and appear before the board of
county com missioners of said county of DeSoto
at their office in Arcadia at the regular meeting
of said board on the first Tuesday in April, AID
1913. and show cause if any they may, why said
petition should not be granted.
II is further ordered that this notice be pub
lished in the PuNTA GoRDA HERALD for three
successive weeks, during the month of March
1913, Ordered in open session at Arcadia, Flor
ida, this ord day of March, 1913.
A. l.. DURANGO, County Clerk
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13
LOCAL OVERFLOW
vsws of Punfa Gorda and DeSoto
County

Nrs. W. E. Mobley spent Sat
urday in Arcadia
Masonic Lodge meets tonight,
A fnII attendance of members de-
sired.
Golf sells it for less.-51tf. adj,
yertisement.
Sam Williams of Samville, is
trsnsacting business in the city to-
day.
Charlie Cochran made bust
ness visit to Jacksonville last week.
Why, G.F.F,F. means COTS
Fancy Family Flour. Try it,
advertisement If.
Miss Ruth PiIIinger, after apend-
mo a short time with friends at
Fort Myers, returned here yester-
day.
Why, G.F.F.F. means COTS
Fancy Family Flour. Try it,
advertisement If.
J. H. Elby, a recent arrival
from Newton, Kan, has bought
twenty acres of land near here,
and will make this place his
home.
Your baby's carriage retired
price reasonable-Punta Gorda
Hardware. If. advertisement.
C. E. Sans of Wauchula, spent
Sunday very pleasantly in Punta
Gorda.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

Mast Master ter one week from Sunday.
ito M is Norm Norm" Pepper was a Wis.
ti. Gotf sells it for less.-51tf nd
disagreement. 'lt ad-
bo MRS. MA C, A. Carver returned
e no%'e da Monday, after spending sew aNu
chula. parents at Wau-
NO hod"k pictures finished at Hue-
mans n Arcadia, Fla.~S.3t ~ a dlur-
tiSement. "o'0r-
W. W. 7; McLaurin, wife and con
OF Oak Grove, Mo-, are s rrn iOa
a. snort time II in Punta Gorda, ston.
@nns;a at :, the ne. Inn. They expect st'b to
'o'"'e IN this section of the state,
,o al xmas OF sewing machine
needles Il bobbins, shGttIes and
nneedie-threaders at Punta Gord a
hardware If advertisement.
Miss Nell Whitaker is at homo
III Inns city after having closed her
school at Bermont for tho $50 Nv
and summer vacation. '"S
Get your bicycle sundrles and
your repairing done yS.I. Huff
man man at Strobhar's bicycle shop
Mr.; and Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
and daughter, Miss FIossie, Of
Maryland, spent last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred in this citv,
Mrs. Jacobs is Mrs. Allred's amt,
Plenty of old newspapers for
sale cheap at The HERALD office.
A meeting will be held in the
city hall tomorrow night for the
purpose of organizing a brass
band. Every one who can play
an instrument and those who wish
to learn are requested to be pres
ent.
Golf is in the lead. If you want
to buy goods, see Golf. Stiff ad-
vertisement.
j. G. Alfred. of the DeSoto
Telephone Co., went over
to Tampa yesterday afternoon to
attend a meeting of the telephone
managers of the state, whom the
Tampa people have prepared to
entertain most royalty. A ban
luet is to be given them and free
automobile rides about the city,
and a new automatic telephoning
system will be demonstrated for
The benefit of the visitors.
Glassware, china and notions; a
,ice line to select from; fair prices
Mrs. S. |. Huffman, Gilchrist
Bldg. advertisement
Beginning this afternoon, Menge
Bros, of Fort Myers, begin the
operation of a steamboat from that
ity to Fort Lauderdale on the
Cast Coast. Trips will he made
weekly by the steamer Suwanee,
nd meals and berth are included
n the charge for passage. Thus a
ice trip through the Every ladies'
nd drainage canals may be taken
" all who wish.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

FOR SALE-Lot on Bokeelia Is.
land, next to store and post office;
200 feet OH fine sand beach on deep
water channel, running across island
about 1870 feet to Turkey creek; fine
fishing boating and bathing. Will
sell for 500 net, about half price.
For particulars apply to w. =. JoHN-
SON, Upton, Mass. 2t#
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

FOR SALE-One 30-foot cabin
launch cheap; also one 18-foot speed
mode, launch.-HEwITT Bros. Pun
to Gorda, Fla. If
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

FOR SALE-Improved waterfront
property located opposite Cleveland,
Call, investigate or write.-N. G..
LARSEN, Cleveland, Fla.-tnov28
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

For SALE-Day old penciled H.
dian runner ducks, rs cents each
l.. M. WRITTEN, Punta G0rda.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

FOR SALE-25 acre farm, all
grubbed, fenced and ditched. 300
bearing trees, good barn and small
house. fine muck pond, underlaid
clay. titlesclear.-HEwITT BROS. If.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13
CLASSIFIED
WANTED.

WANTED-A good milk COW.
State price and kind of COW In first
letter.-ED HoxIE, Murdoch. Fla.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13

FOR SALE-l00 acres miles
South of Punta Gorda, on Alligator
Creek, on railroad, 100 bearing
orange trees.-Albert w. Gilchrist.
Punta Gorda, Fla.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-03-13
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-New Printype High.
grade Oliver Typewriter. cheap for
cash. 1t is at my office Smith Block
WALLACE CHADMAN.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-05
TENT cATERPlLIARS.

It is a magnificent response which is being made to the appeal issued by the Connecticut Agricultural college and the state board of education for the destruction of the tent caterpil- lars which have done such a tremen- dous amount of harm about the state and are prepared to greatly increase it unleGs their presence is opposed by some united effort Trees over large sections of the state were completely denuded of foliage the past summer through the unopposed activity of this pest The idea of interesting the chil- dren in the gathering and destruction of the egg masses provides competitive work for nimble hands to do- The need of it and it's value is recognized by the action of individuals and or ganizations in offering prizes for those who destroy the largest number.
 The greatest benefit from such an onslaught on the tent caterpillar is bound to be felt In the localities where they have been allowed to make such inroads and naturally there are the places where the most effective work can and must be done There should be the determination, however. in all sections of the state to eradicate this destructive nuisance. whether the nests are to be found in large or small num- bers. Just as valuable work is to be done for the community by ridding it of It's few hundred nests as for the gathering of many thousand where they happen to be plentiful. Wherever g. tent caterpillar nest is seen it should be destroy ed. Better results can be ac- compifshed today than six months or a year hence.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-05
goSToN's FIRETRAP.

It is with commendable speed that Boston has set on foot a number of Investigations as the result of it's dis astTous fire It has required a fright fu1 loss of life to disclose and bring to the attention of the Boston au- thorfties the exact situation in the cheap hotel and rooming house dis trfcts. The revelations of the fire are sufficient to indicate that plenty of effort must be used and perhaps addf- tiona1 legislation secured in order to prevent such an awful tragedy from recurring. It is made plain that such places as poor men are inclined to seek for lodgings in Boston are ver- table 5Tetfaps. The unfortunates were hennned in without a chance for es- cape
 This calls for a regulation of the building and fire laws which will pre- vent A recurrence of such conditions. It is not at all probable that the Ar cadia, is the only place of the kind wherein hundreds of lives are endan- gered every night because of the exist ence of the same inadequate provisions against protecting the lives of the lodgers. Not only must Boston take up the question with a view to es- tabIishing better conditions for that class of men but it must look care fully to the necessity of fire preven- ton. Even though the investigations disclose no violation of existing laws as to buildings and fire protection the heavy loss Of life is sufficient to bring to an end any chance fer repetition. A reasonable degree of safety should be required even in the cheap lodging house.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-05
DEATH FROM AUTOS.

The killing of a young woman in Derby by an automobile just after she had alighted from an electric car Is another instance of the lack of care on the part of the drivers of auto mobiles. By the state law no auto should attempt to pass a car which Is stopped to leave or receive passen- gers at a speed greater than three miles an hour, Had such regulation been observed in this instance there was no reason why the machine should not have been stopped in time to avoid the trolley car passenger, who had be- conS= confused by suddenly finding her self threatened by the auto No one should have been in a better position to have controlled the situation than the driver of the auto, who must have seen the stopped car and expected someone to leave or get on the car.
 The passing of electric cars which are stopped for the convenience of the public is done with none too much care by the auto drivers, even though the streets may be narrow. Instead of a disposition to stop and allow the people to get to a position of safety the same as would be done by most any other vehicle, the inclination is to urge and hasten the people until the natural result is confusion
 It was but recently that complaint was made that there were too many laws concerning the auto, but it might have been better said that there are too many auto laws which are neither respected nor enforced. The deaths from autos are growing instead of de- creasing. This is a condition which should be reversed.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-05
MONEY FOR MILITARY OPERA.
 TONS

The political contest which has been stirred up in France over finances and war preparations concerns a matter of international interest in view of the efforts for international peace and the reduction of large expenditures through the declaration of a naval holiday" The bone, of contention in France was the proposed war loan of s260 .00e, 900 with the attendant ques ton of taxation upon such rentes and the anticipation of an increase in the income tax Even though the action meant the resignation of the French ministry it must be considered in the light of refecting the demands of the country for a curtailment of expendi- lures for military purposes.
 This is in accord with a widespread feeling in European countries that such expenditures are being made out of all proportions to the demands It is this race in war preparations which has inspired the demand for economy in both England and Germany and re- suited in the proposal that those lead CTS refrain from naval construction for stated period Thus they would hold their relative positions without pouring in many millions more through costly competition It is Frances eff fort to keep up with the leaders which has been defeated
 What may be the outcome of all this agitation for the elimination of waste ful expenditures remains to be seen but it is apparent that there is a growing feeling in that direction among the bigger nations and it is not inn probable that it will result in time fin the securing of some relief.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-05

l would like to ask if they are only down in the square. l think there are a good many who have to travel out side of the square with their stock such as groceries, meats and all kinds of business that can be carried on teams. l can't see why all appropria- tions are made for the people of the city only, where two o-thirds of the bus mess men have to travel through the country including the city limits.
 Those outside of the city are just as good as the people inside the city as far as city limits are concerned.
 We haven't a road where any bus mess man can travel without getting stuck and they have to follow the road because they get shut out from other peoples land.
 They have to follow the road that is sometimes almost impossible to go through. With g. very little expense the road can be fixed. We pay as much tax as people on the square wish I could hear from the business mems association as to what they say about it.
 JOHN N HEIBEL.
 Norwich, Dec. 4, 1913.