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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
NOTICED NOTICED

Remember you are never too
far to deal with us. We send
and ship goods throughout the
United States. Phone us or write
us your wants and we will do the
rest. We carry a full line of
everything that can be found in
a first class Drug Store.
Fine Manicure Sets, Combs,
Brushe s, Toilet Articles,
Watches, Clocks, Eyeglasses,
Strengthening and Drying Combs,
Curling Irons, Wigs, Transform
atoms, Syringes and Hot Water
Bottles, Madam Walkers Hair
Grower, Shampoo, Glossine, Tenn
Pile Grower, letter Salve. All
kinds of Hair Growers.
PRESCRIPTIONS A
SPECIALITY.
We fill and send them by par
eel post or express. We carry
the leading Negro Newspapers
and Magazines, such as the Kan
sas City Sun, Chicago Defender,
indianapolis Freeman, Topeka
Plaindealer, Omaha Monitor,
Crisis. Kansas City Independent,
Dallas Express, Boston Guardian,
New York Age.
Mail orders Promptly Filled.
THEo SMITHS DRUG STORE
1901 East 18th St.,
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.
Home p. M. 5467; Bell P. G. 1891
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Toronto, Can, Feb. 1S.-More than
.two-score former New Workers then as
now subjects of Great Britain are in
the colored platoon OF more than one
hundred and fifty men which will sail
with their regiment for the fighting
front in France on March 1.
The Canadian Observer whose edi-
tor. J. R. B. Whitney, is in New York
for a visit, was instrumental in rails
ing the platoon. For the first time a
colored commission officer is in the
English army. Captain Ligoure, for
merry of New York, a medical doctor,
and E. L. Cross, formerly assistant ed
itor of the News, is a sergeant.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
QuinoleumI Is Queen

YES, l Use Quinoleum, and like it fine.
JUST FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.
Ours are the finest made prepare
tons for the hair and face.
What We Manufacture
Hair Preparations.
o%uinoIeum Hair Grower. ...... SOC
Quinoieum Hair Tonic. Soc
oulnoleum Hair Shampoo. Csc
Face Preparations.
Quinoieum Face Bleach. .25c
QuinoIeum Face Cream .25c
ouinoIeum camphor Csc
A liberal sample of our new prepare
ton, a fragrantly perfumed toilet
powder and a velvety face powder in
pink and flesh colors (brown) sent
free with any order.
Call Bell Phone West 1857.
26th and Parkway, Kansas City, Kas.
QUINoLEUM MANUFACTURING
COMPANY.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Chicago, Ill. Feb. 22.-The marriage
of Mrs. Antoinette Smythe to DR.. Har-
ry Ward Garnes took place Wednes-
day of last week at the home of the
bride, in the presence of a few select
friends. The marriage ceremony was
performed by Bishop c. Il. Shaffer,
of this city. The matron of honor was
Mrs. Annis Hackley and the best man,
DIR. N. G. Daily. Mrs. Smythe is the
widow of the late Rev. Smythe. who
was pastor of the Bethel A. M. +.
church and was pastor of the leading
A. NJ. E. church at Indianapolis, Ind,
before coming to Chicago.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI.
Memorial

Memorial Ceremonies.
In accordance with the proclama-
ton of Grand Master Fields, Capital
City Lodge No. 8 assembled in their
hall Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock
and rendered the following program
in memory of the late Past Grand
Master, o. NJ. Ricketts,:
/. Call to order.
2. Song-"Savior, More Than Life
to Me-" .
3. Remarks by the presiding Of
ficer.
4. Extracts from the Kansas City
Sun on DR.. Ricketts,.
5. Song-"Nearer My God to
Thee"
6. Remarks by Past Masters
Thomas and Sanderson and j. w,
NJ. E. Clark; also by the Matron of
Tabitha Court, Mrs. Ida King and
others.
7. After the concluding song, will
There Be Any Stars in My Crown
the meeting was dismissed.
B. F. ALLEN, w. M.
]. w. DANIEL, Sec.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
BIRTHDAY OF LINCOLN CElE-
DRAFTED AT CHURCH.
Excellent Program Is Carried Through
by CoIored People-HoId Ban
quet Afterward.

quet Afterward.
Butte. Mont.-The Lincoln birthday
celebration at the Bethel Baptist
church, corner OF Idaho and Mercury
streets last night, was attended by a
large number of the colored people of
Butte.
The program was in charge of Jesse
H. Smith as chairman Of the evening
and consisted of the following;
Invocation by Rev. E. B. Reed.
Song, Star Spangled Banner" by
the audience.
Recitation, Fifty Years Freedom
of the Negro" by Mrs. Frank NJ. Shan
non.
Paper. Abe Lincoln" by Mrs. Ollie
Fenter.
Song, I've Something to Tell Lou"
by Mrs. w. H. Olden. She was com
PEELED TO respond to an encore.
Paper, Abraham Lincoln and Fred.
erick Douglass" by Mrs. Jesse Smith.
Address by L. c. Foreman, who said
that if Lincoln, Washington and
Booker T. Washington were alive to,
day they would advise the negro to
fight for the Stars and Stripes.
Song, America" by the audience.
The organist was Mrs. L. B. Reed,
After the program was completed a
banquet wasS served.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
mccullough SCORED HIS NINTH
STRAIGHT KAYO.

Young Mccullough sustained his rep
utation as a knockout king Wednes-
day night by stopping Kid Yellow of
st. Louis in the fourth round of a
scheduled 15-round bout before the
Old Turner Hall A. c. The bout was
fast while it lasted but it was seen
early that Mccullough had it on the
St. Louis dark boy. 1t was McCul-
logh's ninth straight knockout.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Jackson, Tenn, Feb. "a, 1917.--The
fourteenth session of the Lane Col
lege Farmers Conference was held
here Thursday and Friday. The at
tendance was larger than ever before,
farmers, teachers, doctors, ministers
and others came from almost every
county in West Tennessee. Reports
showed that great progress is being
made. Popular addresses were made
by MI. S. NJ. Roberts of the Expert
ment Station; Or. X. H. Boyd, of Nash
vile, and Mrs. Mcdonald, of Nash
VILE; DR.. S. A. O'Neal, of Kentucky;
Bishop N. c. Cleaves, and DR.. w. T.
Vernon, of Memphis.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Billy Kings Stock Co., playing a
long engagement at the Strand thea
ter, Jacksonville, Fla. all is well. The
weather has been a little democratic,
but they are coming out in droves,
however. Mrs. King is fast recovering
from the fire accident which occurred
just before she left Chicago.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
FISK UNIVERSITY is GIVEN AN.
OTHER $4,000.

st. Louis, Mo, Feb. 23.-Word has
reached this city that three weeks af-
ter Fisk University at Nashville,
Tenn, was given $4,000 by the Gen
eral Educational Board, that the Car
negie corporation gave another 10000.
These gifts are conditional On the
university raising a total of S15O,000
for a general rehabilitation of the
plant.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Chicago, Feb. William c. Buck
ner, Negro, trainer of the Chicago
Americans, is to be retained for the
1917 season. Buck is well known
for his rubbing powers among Ameri-
can leaguers. He has been with the
team for five years.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Bert Williams. the worlds best
comedian, is still with the Ziegfeld
Follies and doing excellent work
which none but him can do. He is
one of the few high-salaried Colored
men on the stage today.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03

Palm Beach, Fla, Feb. 23.-The
Chicago American Giants and the New
York Lincoln Giants fought out a 2
and . tie and failed to break the dead
lock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
Mr.. Metzger's Suffrage Bill.
(St. Adams Messenger

The Rev. Frazer Metzger, represent
alive of Randolph in the general assem-
bly,, who in 1912 led the Progressive
party in this state as candidate for
governor, has introduced a bill which
would confer on Vermont women, with
some minor qualifications, the right to
vote for presidential electors. In brief
he would confer on the women of THIS
state the privileges that the women
have in SO many Western common
wealths. There is nothing unreaSon-
able about the measure. as the Messen-
ger looks at it, and there is much that
can be said in its favor. The West
is outvoting the East, and the fact tnat
women have the presidential ballot II
that section will by its own force even
tually overcome all objections and Sc
cure for Eastern women the privilege
Of voting for candidates to the elec
toral college.
The equal suffrage question cannot
be lodged at this session. There i
considerable difference of opinion q
| Montpelier as to just what the kepub
| lican platform realty said about TIN
matter, some claiming that the party I
pledged to giving the vote to women
others maintaining that such was no
the case. Let that dispute be pu
aside, and let the legislature give thl
question its full consideration regard
F.! less of what some can read into tn
1 platform and others can read out OF !
\ quite as easily. The question ha
passed the joke stage here in Vermont
1 Neither ought it to be a football be
tween the two houses, the one passin
it this session. confident that the othe
will kill it, and so on. II the legisl;
ture does not want to make the tni
decision, why not let the question 90 |
the people on a referendum?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
RAILROAD NEEDS.

The railroads are catching up with
their business through a better organ
ization to put idle ears into cireula-
tion, but the freight situation is still
troubling the railroad managers. For
ten days the biggest automobile fac
tory in the world stopped operations
and 10000 men were idle in order to
let the railroads running into Detroit
catch up with the business. Not long
ago 10000 carloads of steel in Pitts
burg were awaiting transportation. In
1909, James J. Hill told the country
that the railroads would need 81 ,0O0,-
100000 of new capital a year for the
next ten years to provide them with
the facilities needed to meet the trans
Portation demands. For the last two
years they have secured $7SO,O00, 900
in each year for betterments and equip
ment but this has proved to be made
quate. Now that the railroads. are
making a little money, forces are at
work to reduce rates and increase re
strictions, which will work to deprive
them of the new capital they need fol
bettcrments; and the more the rail
reads are baited and the closer theil
noses are kept to the grindstone the
worse it will be for the large bushes.
/ interests of the country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Not a Murder Case.

The investigation of the cause of
the death of Betty Benson of Fair
Haven at Los Angeles, Cal, on Jan. 3
was abandoned By States Attorney G.
V. Poulin of Rutland on receipt of a
telegram from Chief Of Police John L.
Butler of Los Angeles stating that the
girl died from natural causes and that
the supposed bullet wounds on her
body Were ulcers due to disease from
which she was suffering. The police
chief says that the girl served a par
tial sentence in a California Jail for
having opium in her possession unlaw
fully and was paroled because she was
menace to other prisoners. The pc
lice chief attributes bruises on the
body to jostling in transportation
across the continent. The girl prob
ably died on the operating table in ;
hospital.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
Fifty Dollars for Suggestion.

For having suggested the name
Betty Wales to the Goldman Cos
tune Co. of New York, the manufac-
turers of that dress, Mrs. Lena B. Carr
of Rutland, has received a check for
$50 from the company. Miss Edith x.
Dunton, also of Rutland, was the au-
Their of Betty Wales, Business
Woman, a book written especially fol-
the Goldman company. Together with
the check, Mrs. Carr. who is connected
with the Rutland Railway Light &
Power Co., received fiattering Offer
to become connected with the Gold
man company. She has been writing
several years for Women S Wear, a
New York trade magazine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

Earl Grey were being held by a light
cord. The first big thing was the al
lied conference in Rome. That brought
italy into line and gave her chance
to advise on the Balkans. The sitter
program against Constantine followed.
Now even more important than the
Rome conference is the gathering of
representatives of the allied powers in
Petrograd. There are big names i'll the
list though every man must have taken
his life in his hands when he set forth.
Lloyd George has not gone, but Lord
Miner is now in the cars capital.
France has sent Gen. Caletnau and
CASTOR Domerque, minister of the col
onics as her representatives.. 1t will
be recalled that Gen. Kitchener was on
his way to Petrograd when he lost his
life. For any great drive the several
members of the entente allies must
work as one man. They must know
each others problems and how to helI
each others shortcomings.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

T II E. r E VOL Y E. r
Howard liam

The revolver is handy implement
which is sometimes used to deprive
strangers of their valuabies. There
are six shots in every revolver, any
one Of which, when accurately located,
will prevent the deceased from testi-
fying at the trial of the accused.
Revolvers are bought in large guam
titles by timid husbands, who take
them home in order to discourage bur
glars from entering the house and
carrying off the hall clock. As rule,
the revolver is hidden in the lower left
hand drawer Of the library table, where
the husband can get at it without at
lacking the burglar with his bare
hands. Revolvers are called con
cealed weapons for the reason that the
contents are usually concealed in some
body else.
The toy revolver is a playful form
of spontaneous combustion on the
Fourth of July leaving bandages,
splints and other mementos in its wake.
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

The movement to place all post
masters under civil service is said to
have the approval of President Wilson.
His critics will see in this endorsement
plan to keep in office the deserving
Democrats who received their appoint
ments from him, but there is a broader
side to the question. At present only
postmasters Of the fourth class are APP
pointed upon the basis of examination
as to their fitness. By taking away
an important collection of political
plums from the party in power the pro
posed change would unquestionably
make for efficiency of service. The
post office department is a big bust
ness-the people S business at that
and it should be run on business prin.
ciples.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

a
give TO your mother, that | wonder
if there is anything you would like me
to paint for youT
THE little girls face was in smiles
at once.
"'Oh, yes she cried, I'd like to
have my dollie taken-I mean paint
ed For she did not see why paint
ing took so much longer than having
picture taken 81 the photographer 5.
4 would love to paint your dollie,
said the Lady. viii you bring her
with you tomorrow? What is her
nameT
Indeed, l will bring her tomol>
row, and her name is Alice Gustava
Ariel Star Jewel Bright Cucumber
Green
Dear me! What a very long
name, said the Lady. How can you
ever remember it ALL?
"Well, l call her Allie Baa fo1
short, said Alice. You see, her frs
name is after me, Gustaya is from {
Fairy Story once read, Ariel is from
Shakespeare, Star and Jewel Brigh'
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
A Deserted Village Indeed.
Barre Times.)

Fire has added its lugubriouS efforts
toward the complete wiping out of Cop
perfield, once thriving village of 2,ooO
people in the eastern boundary of the
state, and has destroyed half the build
ings remaining after the general hegira
following the shutting down of the cop
per mines some wears back. The state
ment that one half the buildings have
been destroyed by fire should be accom-
panied bv the qualifying remark that
there were only two buildings standing
before the fire broke out so the loss was
not so tremendous as might have been
suspected by the first assertion. The two
buildings were the huge structure once
used by the mining company as store,
office and meeting hall, and caretak-
er 5 house. 1t was the store which was
burned; and now there Is nothing but
the caretaker s little house in that
whole solitary waste, where once the
hum of industry was heard and the boom
was on.
Copperfeld was but scene of desc.
lation and a gloomy memory of van
/ ished hopes even before the destruction
| of the company s old store building;
Inow it must be desolation and gloom i'll
/ tensifed. To visit the place and walk
over the scenes of so much former aetiv
ity was to give rise to a desire to get
out as soon as possible, especially if the
dav itself be lowery and forbidding
There was something almost uncannA
in the death-like stiffness of the place
and there was the unpleasant sight o,
acres of ground torn up and quilted on
as if by terrific bombardment of count
less heavy guns on the western wa
front. And now fire has added it's de
pressing effects to the region by wipin'
out the great, gaunt structure tina
stood like the sentinel of the desolat
region, telling of the once proud pre-
tension of the hopeful Copperfield. le
there was a compelling attraction abou
the place despite its dreariness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

Some toy reviewers explode with 50
much zeal and earnestness that people
who look down their throat Just before
pulling the trigger can hardly tell them
from the sudden uprising of a key of
giant powder.
The horse pistol IS an adult revolver
which let's 90 bullet as large as a
billiard ball. After midnight
marauder has received three or four
of these bullets into his system. it will
begin to dawn upon him that he has
been struck by something and he viii
retire hastily for repairs. There would
be fewer burglars III this country if
it was generally understood that there
was a repeating revolver in every home
however humble, with plain, undaunt
ed female Immediately behind it.
If children are allowed to play with
the family revolver they should be
taught to point it straight up, SO they
will not kill ANYBODY except tota
stranger.
MS Newspaper Service1
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
ENCOURAGING TO GOVERNOR.

1t must have been distinctly encour-
aging to Governor Graham to see how
the house representatives, took hold OF
his program yesterday. Three of the
several measures embodying the gov
oruor IS recommendations were passed
by votes that were practically unani-
nous, and unless hindrance develops
in the senate these bills bid fair to be
come laws within a short time. They
provide for a consolidation OF the agri-
cultural interests. a reorganization of
the insurance department and the cs-
Enlistment of a commissioner Of in
dustrics to assume the work now done
by the industrial accident board and
the factory inspector.
With these bills through the house
Governor Graham 5 supporters may de.
vote their time to tackling that part of
the administration program relating to
changes in the Judiciary. The measures
covering these points are likely to en-
counter considerable opposition from
the lawyers but The Reformer has
courage to hope that the majority OF
the lawmakers are clear sighted enough
TO see through the technical objection,
that these astute gentlemen are raising
4 As We understand it Governor Ora
ham does not claim that his plan 70
abolishing the dual system of courts i
theoretically perfect nor that it will
result directly in big saving to tn
state. but he does claim that by mean
of it Justice will be fastened and tina
IS more important to the people of tn
state than all other considerations con
biucd. As we have said on numerou
previous occasions, the legislators wi
do well to listen to Uncle Horace s aG
vice on this as well as his other recon
mcndations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01
CrOshy's BOIted Meal
Our Bolted Meal is Manufactured From
Re-cleaned Yellow Corn-the Star Grade

Our Bolted Meal is Manufactured From
Re-cleaned Yellow corn-the Star Grade
II is not kiln.dricd, and therefore re
tains the sweet taste Of the corn. Il is
boltcd coarse so II can be used where
either graduated or boltcd is required.
Note the following, relative to the vir
tues Of eating corn products:
In the columns Of the Evening Mail
Of New York we find a pauegyric on
corn that offers one ray of hope. We
quote q few paragraphs:
DIR Barnard tells MS corn meal at
three cents a pound IS equal in value
20 two loaves Of wheat bread.
Based on food value corn in the
form of meal or hominy IS the cheapest
foodstun obtainable today.
again, Dr.. Barnard tells us three
cents worth Of corn meal contains as
much nutriment as 81 cents worth of
eggs az 90 cents dozen, or SO cents
worth of round steak for which you
pay 80 cents pound.
Corn meal at three cents pound is
equal in food value to six pounds of
potatoes, for which the housekeeper
today pays 20 cents.
1T is equal to pound Of cheese for
which she pays % cents, so cents or
more.
1T is equal TO six pounds Of bananas,
IL pounds Of oranges, II pounds of cab
bage.
The corn that VIC cook into corn
cakes, that we eat as hominy and
mush, costs only one-tenth as much as
some OF our breakfast foods.
Corn meal and hominy contain twice
as much fat as any other cereal except
oats, and the world knows the worth Of
cat meal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

A correspondent in the New York
Tribune writes: q believe Mrs Byrne
has written a new page into the his
tory of the woman movement in this
country. She has cherished noble
ideal, and she has defended it in way
that must warm the sleeping hearts of
those great revolutionists on whose
glorious efforts this republic was found
ed" What is there heroic about a
woman who deliberately violates the
laws and then tries to create sympathy
by starving herself? A plain diagnosis
would be that Mrs. Bryne is a fool in
the head.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-01

IF it is true that State Fish and
Game Commissioner j w. Titcomb has
sent his resignation to Governor Ora
ham the state is to lose the services
of an almost invaluable official simply
because Of the penny-wise pound fool
ish attitude OF the legislature in not
promptly raising his salary to $4,000
the same as the heads Of other state
departments are getting. Mr. Titcomb
has stated frankly that he has received
an offer of 81 900 a year to become fish
culturist Of the state of New York and
vet he is willing to continue in his pres
ent position, which in MANY respects
is much less desirable to man of his
technical training, for $1,000 q yeat
less. If the hunters and fishermen of
Vermont, who contribute every cent of
the money that supports the fish and
game department, could have their say
in the matter there is absolutely NJ
doubt that they would go on record il
favor of paying the commissioner a sal
airy commensurate with his value VIVA
interests are at work III the legislator,
to thwart the wishes of the $4,000 o
more sportsmen of the state!