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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
BUXTON, IOWA,

Rest is rust. Life lies in study,
work and love.
Editor John L. Thompson was in
the city last week.
Mr.. Wash Slopes was killed in No.
is mine Monday by falling slate.
Miss Fannie Mays returned home
last Saturday from Marshalltown,
Iowa, on account Of the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Mary Parker.
Presiding Elder Moore was here on
Sunday and held his regular quarter
ly services at st. Johns A. M. E.
church.
Mrs. Alkaline MCDONALD and her
two children, Marshall and Ethel,
have returned from Birmingham,
Ala, to spend the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. Rosa Wilson.
Grandma Black, Mrs. T. A. Cole
mans mother, is very sick.
The Organ club of the St. Johns
A. M. E. church are planning to have
bazaar during the Xmas holidays.
Look for the date later.
DR.. E. A. Carter will attend the
meeting of the G. & N. w. surgeons
at Rochester, Mimi, at the Mayo hos
pital December 10th and 18th. DR..
Carter is the only Negro member of
the association.
Mr.. w. L. Mekins is out of the city.
Services were we'll attended at the
Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday
morning. One was baptized.
The Misses Ewing arrived home
Tuesday from Des Moines, where they
visited their aunt.
The City Federation meets Wednes-
day in the committee room Of the Y.
M. C. A.
Mrs. Alice Carey was indisposed
last week. <--
The F. B. w. club will give a box
social on December 18th.
The Self Culture club will meet at
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
BURLINGTON ITEMS.

The St. Johns A. M. E. Sunday
school gave very interesting mis-
sionary program last Sunday after
noon.
! The Willing Worker club is pre-
pairing to have an old folks concert
December 21st. -...
Last week when the daily papers
heralded the news that the moving
picture play, "The Birth of Nation"
was to appear here some time in jan
uary, a committee Of colored people,
with Hon. George H. Woodson as the
spokesman, held a conference with
the mayor. The committee were not
satisfied with the result Of their mis-
sion, so on Monday night a mass
meeting was held at the church. Rev.
j. H. Bell was elected chairman and
Mrs. l.. M. Abel, secretary. Resolu-
tons were adopted and vote to pub
lish a protest in each of the daily pa
pers was unanimously carried. A
petition is being circulated through
out the city, which later will be
brought before the city council.
Mrs. Fannie Parker was unexpect-
eddy called to Mt. Pleasant to the
home Of he rsister, Mrs. G. w. Jack
son, who fell and broke her arm.
Mrs. Amanda Palmer has gone to
Keokuk to visit her parents.
The B. j.. Progressive club gave q
chicken supper Monday night. A
neat sum was realized.
Mrs. Peter ing has been on the sick
list for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Cole enter
tanned the Willing Workers on Tues
day night.
Mr.. Henry Campbell of Washing
ton, Iowa, passed through the city on
Monday.
Mrs. Hulda Farley, who has been
seriously i'll for some time, is still in
critical condition.
The body Of Still Williams, young
man from Monmouth, ILL.,, who was
one Of the men who met death by
drowning in the Mississippi river
here few weeks ago, was found on
an island Saturday night. His wife
and his sister, Mrs. Clara Harris, and
husband of Cedar Rapids and several
ether relatives came here to accom-
pany the body to Macomb, ILL.,, the
home of his mother, where interment
will be made.
Mr.. Scott E. Jones, head engineer
for the Peoples Gas and Electric Co.,
spent few days at Milton, Iowa, ad-
justing one Of the Bates high speed
automatic engines for the company.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
ORIGINAL NOTICE.


In the district court of the state of
Iowa, in and for Polk county, January
term, A. D. 1915.
Mary Frances Ashley, Plaintiff,
vs..
Charles H. Ashley, Defendant.
To Charles H. Ashley:
You are hereby notified that the Pc
tition of the plaintiff in the above en-
titled cause is filed in the office of the
clerk Of the district court of the state
of Iowa, in and for Polk county, Iowa,
claiming of you a divorce from the
bonds Of matrimony on the ground of
drunkenness and cruel treatment, and
unless you appear thereto and defend
before noon Of the second day of the
next term, being the January term of
said court, which will commence at
Des Moines on the 3rd day Of Janu-
airy, 1915, default will be entered
against you and judgment and decree
rendered thereon. I7.
Dated this LIST day of December.
1915.
S. Joe Brown, ~
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
COUNCIL BLUFFS ITEMS.

The Country Fair given by the w.
w. club proved q success and we wish
to thank those who gave to US their
financial aid as we'll as their presence
Monday evening. Mrs. Florence
Frankal prepared the supper that
tempted the onlooker and met the
approval of those that ate thereof.
Mrs. Hazel Turner had charge Of the
domestic booth, assisted by Mr.. Luth-
err White. All kinds of good things
were found there, the best pies, home
made candies and cakes. If you
want to know how to make one Of the
best carmel pies ask Mr.. James
Woodson. Everything sold we'll and
we trust the club will give another
one some time. Fifteen dollars and
sixteen cents was cleared and now the
lights in the parsonage are all paid
for.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
Lauehter Aida Dieestion.

Laughter is one Of the most health
full exertions; it is Of great help to
digestion. A still more efectual help
is dose Of Chamberlain Tablets.
If you should be troubled with indi-
gestion give them a trial. They only
cost a quarter. Obtainable every
where. e.. s.... PEP
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10

the home Of Mrs. Minnie Brown on
Wednesday, December 10th.
Mr.. Clinton Carter and Miss Ida
Parkey were married on Thanksgiv-
ing day at the home Of the brides
parents. We wish them much sue
cess. @N
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10

MAYOR Thompson's Reply to His Critics.
Mayor william Hale Thompson of
chicago Ia answer to those who criti-
else him for appointing colored citizens
4o once gives the following as his rea-
sons: a..
TN because the persons appointed were
essentially fitted and qualified for the
positions they were selected to fill.
sBetause In the name Of humanity,
II ID my duty to do what I can to ele-
1vata rather than degrade any class Of
American citizens. s.. s..
N because during the prediction cam
paign 4 gave You my word that II
elected I would give you square deal,
and BHI Thompson keeps his word"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10

1 t<aishts II Pythias Report Bic Gains.
The supreme lodge Of knights Of
Pythias, which held It's recent meeting
ana encampment at Columbus, O.. 10
Dorted IN enrolled membership Of go
DO ana $1,000 members Of the Court
of Caianfhc. The receipts since the
Aast meeting amounted to over $500. 600.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10

Mrs. ]. Johnson, who has been
here in the Jennie Edmundson hos
pital left for her home Sunday after
noon at Billings, Mont. Mrs. Alice
Davis, her sister, accompanied her.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
RURAL SCHOOLS.
Report of the Jsanes Fund Board
Shows Great Achievements.

Report 81 the Jsanes Fund Board
Shows Great Achievements.
The report Of the Jeanes fund board
for the past school year shows that it
sco-operated during the year with pub
lie school superintendent in 1873 coun-
ties IN fourteen states. The supervis-
ang Industrial teachers, paid partly by
the counties and partly by the Jeanes
fund, visited regularly in these coun-
tiles 8.463 country schools, making in
an 1882 visits and raising for pur-
poses Of school Improvement $73, 43S.
The business Of these travelling teach
era. working under the direction Of the
county superintendent, is to introduce
into the small country school simple
home industries, to give talks and les
sons on sanitation and personal clean
liness, to encourage the improvement
of schoolhouse and school grounds and
to conduct gardening clubs and other
kinds Of clubs for the betterment of
the school and the neighborhood.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
FOUR
Slightly Used Pianos

that were taken in exchange on
Player Pianos. These are instru-
ments of fine quality and in good
condition. Have been taken from
good homes where they had little
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
JONES PIANO co.
(sINCE 1882
8O7 Walnut St.
THREE
Repossessed Pianos

that will be sold for the amounts still
due on contract, thus giving you the
advantage of what has been paid by
the former owners. Also
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-12-10
FIVE
Rental Pianos

Sometimes new pianos slightly
damaged in shipping are put in rem
tai for six months or year before
being offered for sale. These pianos
will be offered at less than wholesale,
as we have received considerable
money as rental.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-11
COTTON


new YORK, MAY lo.--QuichIy Iy denied ru-
NOR, cf extremely disquictug developments
IN Washington threw the cotton market into
state ~ excitement which bordered ou
decentralization for q brief period late this
morning Rallies of several point, followed.
however. and the close was steady 8t a met
decline " only Z to lj points
Liverpool made a very strong showing
after tie big declines OF last week and the
local market opened firm at am advance Of
II to II points. This advance carried Oc-
tober contracts up to 1903. or 36 points be.
low the level Of last Friday aud seemed TO
attract scattered realizing while II appeared
that many local traders were slow to follow
the Liverpool advance owing TO expectations
Of wider difference between the Two mar.
Leis There was no aggressive demand and
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ADVERTISING RATES

All Advertisements will be accepted IN
Tha World on the following conditions
ONLY; A..
right 10 reviss and classify all ads Return
wrong replies. Three.time ads. very seldom
fail Money refunded on unused inser'ouA
Errors corrected or money refunded
RATES.
One cent word for sll elassheatoha
rycent clsirv0yants, personals snd matn'
monial which Ia two cents per WORD NM,
mum charge 25 cents Your credit Is goo
II Won own a phone except for personal
T,rrit,r "a jor sale and position wanted al
tertisinc. which are cash, Classification not
yIat1nteed after 8 p. m
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-11

An advertising for position wanted.
furniture ftr sale and personals are easn
with order.
Out.oftown ads. will not be run un'
less remittance is made win orutr
Two cents per word for all ads ordered
WiscIasSifird.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-11
FURNISHED ROOMS

WANTED Large furnished sleeping room,
convenient to bath. Box 474 World.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-11
Nsw YORK Cotton Futures.

EIW YORK Mal lU-~po' cotton quiet
mddug upland, 500, sales 200" bales.
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S0ebbims & DaTImgll

Phone 9>9. los Drew Bids.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-11

WANTED-To rent by reliable couple
fonr.room modern furnished house or one
half OF double house, within fifteen days
State price to nermanent party. Box i37
World.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-11

FOR SALE-1, 500 duck eggs, 81 for 49,
81 per 100 g. NJ. Litson Phone 4032.
BRED TO LAY Leghorns, white for sale
Thirty-fve laying pullets and three fine
cocks, sac. NJ L. Smith, phone 1909, or
home, Seventh and Evans, Kendall.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24

minds OF the Japanese people with the desire to in1ct
blow 1t is all very easy to sidesep the situation
with laugh Nothing is simple than hurting
abuse and scorn at author who tells us some un
pleasant truth.
And amid all the bombast Of the Japanese book,
adroity coupled with boasts typ!cay Oriental
there Is enough truth sober serious thought
1t may not be matter Of fact the Japanese author
asserts referring to his nation. that I'VE can
seize the port and Notifications OF Honolulu with
greatest ease, and perhaps San Francisco will not
fall into Japanese hands like ripe apple 1t Is
however and this fact ought be written in capital
letters and read from housetop that defense
on the Pacific coast is ptfuily weak. If wise
we will exhaust every resource Of dlatory diplomacy
before we give an opportunity for If. however.
some nation should ruthlcssy disregard efforts TO
would stagger like drunken man before We regained
balance
The prevailing idea Is that nothing can happen Ia
this true? The popular belief that the United States
General Adha r. Chaffee. rs free OF opporuni.
ties for invasion is all tommyrot'" Homer Lea In
the "Valor OF Ignorance" is definite. This
Republic and Japan. he says. ARE approaching,
less the hand and predetermined the other.
that point of contact which Is war"
Let us sincerely hope he is a bad prophet. But II.
on the other hand he should have accurately sensed
the future. what then?
Are we ready to meet an enemy on the Pacific
coast7
Do take a layman's answer Ask the trained
army and navy experts in the War College at Wash
ingon. They Will tell you NO" They will tell you,
also that they have been endeavoring to prepare for
years for the contingency that may arise and that
their plans for defense have been whstled down the
wind by the men in Congress- who should have given
them money and authority They know definitely how
many Japanese could be landed the Pacific
in sixty days. armed and equipped with ammunition
and three months provisions.
Ask them why there to-day 5000 United States
soldiers in the Philippines and 5000 in Hawaii? Ask
them why mortar-pit Fort Dupont the Delaware
has been robbed Of of its In order that
they may be shipped 10 Honolulu? Ask why handful
of men guarding the approaches to the eastern
cities leaving the Atlantic Coast practically defense.
less. while troop.ships laden with soldiers have hur-
ried to the Orient?
The Orient. mind you, not the Pacific Coast. Manila
and Honolulu loom large In the sky that s far west
that it is east. But what about Portland and Seattle
and San Francisco and Los Angeles?
Yes, what about them?
As these words written there 10 not sinale
hrstcIass battleship on tho Pacific coast.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24

Let this almost inconcei,eble fact be repeated. At
this moment hero rstclass shlps on tho
Pacific Coast
The active feet consists of the armored cruisers
Maryland and Colorado the thrd-cass cruisers Chat.
tanooga, Cleveland Denver New Orleans and Raleigh
the Gun6oats Annapolis and yorktown and O torpedo
Hotila.
Brave are the OFFICERS and men who man the guns
OF this TOY squadron and couraGcously would they
defend tho nations honor! How long could they main
tam an unequal struggle with feet OF armored battle
ships! Not long The answer spoken by Napo.
leon ons ago God" said he is on the side OF the
heaviest artillery"
couple OF gunboats-guard fifteen hundred miles Of
the Pacific coast: Can any one. in his senses,
call this preparedness? In the event Of war. It may
be said, the Atlantic fleet would be the Pacific.
Yes, and leave the Atlantic with nothing Tho
Panama Canal was built TO distance for the navy.
Suppose there should be a slide in the Cuebra cut?
This occurred only few days and navigation
held up for week Or suppose come one. as the Jap.
anese Bernhard suggests. with stick OF dynamite
disabled one or two locks? What then?
or course the way around South America would still
be But oh. the days. the weeks, the months
anxious waiting Our ships moved down side OF
the continent and up the other Homer Lea is author
lily for the statement that in time peace.
most favorable circumstances II required four months
for an American fleet to pass from the Atlantic bases
this period would be prolonged. international
laws" he says. prohibit beigerents from sending
than three warships into a neutral port
time. They cannot remain longer than twenty.!our
hours and cannot take munitions supplies
other than enough coal to proceed to the port.
The same ships cannot again enter that port within
space of three months. These prohibitions force the
American navy in transit depend entirely upon auxil
larry ships for their susenance and coal"
In Wow Of all this ought there to be adequate
battleehlp fleet on the Pacific coast7
In other words, ought not TO be prepared
So much for the present lack Of naval defense. The
story OF the land force s one of inadequacy and weak
ness. both as to men and guns. From the Canadian
line to the Mexican border there defense dis
trcts the Pacific coast One Of these ia located at
Los Angeles. But Fort Macarthur Is yet compile ed.
and troops stationed there. Its value de-
Tense Is still in the dreamy future. The other four
a aR
Puget Sound and Columbia The figures showing the
number Of mortars and guns IN the forts OF these de-
fences before but shall not present them in
detail. though they undoubtedly In the
offices of every foreign nation. Suffice 1t to say that
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24

1t may be that this CONTEND
of the japanese Bernhard" nd
readers the effect of idle boastin|
the japanese master minds that
book knew perfectly we'll what Il
by MIR. Henry Litchfield West, OF
tional Security League, in his an
In another column will be fo]
by George Lauferti taken from
the Next War;" for which the nj
the Sponsors.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
The Warning a1sd Threat OF the Japanese
AzeGIyzed by ara Expert of Our Nd
Leogue, Who Shows HosO the Japanese Cd
Sixty Dogs Upon the Pacific Coast 81
Fully Equipped for on I1euasi0u OF til

HE revelations of Japans plans invasion and con.
quest Of Pacific island and
recently printed this have widespread
interest and throughout the country translation of
the Japanese Renhad the book auspices
OF Japans powerful National Defense Association numbers
its officers the heads that and gov
rnment called not only the why Japan
ernnned later with the
also for the contempuous
book of easy victory
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24


diplomatic relations, to say the
least, when California enacted It's
anti-Japanese legislation, Mr.
Bryan. then Secretary OF State.
fastened to the Pacific coast to
throw the weight of the Admins.
tration against local hostility and
in favor Of the preservation OF
peace. In the second place-and
this is the important fact-the
book which this newspaper has
presented to its readers would
never have been written Il the
United States were absolutely i'm
pregnabie on the Pacific coast.
We might as we'll he frank.
There is no sense in deceivfng our.
selves. The weakness Of our de-
tense on the Pacific coast affords
the opportunity to infiame the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
BY Henry Litchfield West
Executive Secretary and Expert Of tho National
Security League

Security League
YOU do not war. do not want war; No.
" body wants war. The people Of the United
States want to live in peace and harmony with
II the world
But what they want and what they may have to
hngs We hope to return safely from ride in an
nevertheless we purchase liability In
urance When we go to sleep at night We hope and
expect to arise safe and sound nevertheless we insure
ourselves against burglars and fire and sickness Why
,iduals?
For the likelihood of Is always with us.
The man is a fool who says that is impossible.
He knows In his heart that he is lying to himself. Not
until human nature changes and greed ambition love
power desire for territorial and commercial ex
,anson vanish from the face of the earth will. war
ease. We are not warlike people We 1--we peace
md quiet. Yet from the days when forefathers
stood behind the trees and stone walls at Lexington
have succeeded each other with fatefu frequency
Turing each succeeding generation. Who knows when
history Alright. however. doubt that will come
IT will not be war OF aggression. We do not covet
.th envious soul the possessions Of other nation
{ Will be a war OF self.defense.
Selfpreservation is the first law of nature The
ruth has passed into proyerb. There period,
however. In the lives Of nations as we'll as of indivd.
ials when prudence ia lost in selfsatisfaction and
when foresight and preparation atrophied by in.
Inference Such period has been upon us Even
= nov we are sleepiy wrapped in the mantle
oil selfcontent We stick our heads into the
sand like ostrich and fondy imagine we
We living in fools paradise
Once in while smugness and self.con
ceit get jolt 1t comes to us now In the
translation OF book written in Japan and
issued under the auspices OF the National
Defense Association OF that country
This newspaper has done a notable work
in presenting translation OF this volume
and letting know the poisoned seed which
has been dropped into the minds OF one mill.
ion Japanese-aye, many than a mill.
ion. for this figure represents only the copies
which have been Sold and 1t is certain that
the readers vastly greater number.
The translation of this book by Lawrence
Mott. the well.known writer. and Mr.. Hahn
Jou Kia, another distinguished writer, gives
picture which Is not pleasant to see It
reveals antagonsm toward the United
States which lover Of peace between the
two countries wants to look upon.
We have quarrel with Japan, nor do we
want any. II trouble eomea, it will not be Of
our seeking. At the time, let US face
the facts find them
Do not forget first Of all. that we came
dangerously to rupture Of
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24

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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24

A Remarkable
Phi otograph
of One of
Our New
l4.Inch Guns
Being Fired.
The
Projectile Is
Seen Just in
ADVANCE
Of the Cloud
Of Gas
Elected.
This Powerful
Weapon
Compares
Adequately
with
Japan's Big
Guns
But We Have
Only Four
to Guard the
Entire
1900 Miles
of Our
Pacific Coast.