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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Barn and granary improvements are
being added to the Schippe farm adj
joining town on the southeast.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

The l.. l.. Porter farm in Glendale
township was sold this week to John
Goudig of Vayland.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Miss Della Morrow, of Brookings
is visiting Miller friends this week,
the guest of Miss Rilla Mccoy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Prepare for winter during these
beautiful fall days, and get your win
dow glass at Scofields'.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20
NOTICE

H. H. Campbell is no longer in our
employ and we will not be raspcns-
iblo for any transaction made by lin.
Rhoades 3ros.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

All your grain and stock checks
cashed and your deposits guaranteed
at Citizens State Bank. II
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Miss May Rudd left this week for
Vermillion, where she will attend the
South Dakota University the coming
yea
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Today Is the day to get your storm
windows out, take them to Scofields'
and have the broken places fixed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

c. M. Dwyer spent Sunday II st.
Paul with Mrs. Dwyer, who is in a
hospital in that city.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Fall and winter samples have ar
rived. Come in and look them over.
Davis, the Tailor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

1t makes no difference where you
bought your stove, we car furnish
repairs. Scofields'.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Oscar Yetter, of Rockham, visited
relatives In the city Saturday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

c. H.. Runger returned last week
from Chicago, where he marketed a
train load of cattle.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

A daughter was born last week to
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Almond of Mid
land township.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

DR.. w. G. Redmond and p. A. Red
mond were visitors in Minneapolis last
week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Use Superlative Flour, a home pro-
duct. Made by Miller Roller Mills
ADV.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Churchill, of
washington, were Miller visitors Sun
day.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

Simon Mathiasen, of Walnut, Iowa,
was a Miller visitor this week.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

The highest market price paid for
hides at Z. M. Dunn's creamery.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20

The Press and The Dakota Farmer
one year for $2.00.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-09-20
THE MILLER PRESS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917
PERSONAL AND c

Free Pencils at wilcox's Drug Store
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03

of Negro Health Week, as outlined in
the data sent me. We shall be glad
to have copies of any further publica-
tions touching upon this movement" ;"
A booklet on Negro health is now
being compiled and prepared. This
booklet will also contain suggestions
for conducting local Health Week
campaigns. Interested individuals,
members of local committees and of
ficers and members of various organ
izations are requested to. send in
their names early in order that copies
may be sent them. The supply of
these booklets will be limited to those
who are interested in this movement.
Requests may be sent to Emmett j..
Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, MARCH 1917

Jim Barry in which Langford desired
to catch train at certain hour in
the afternoon. There was much de-
lay in starting the Langford-Barry
bout, and Sambo learned he had only
eleven minutes to get to the station
when the first gong changed
Sam had his clothes brought to the
corner. He walked out in the first
round, feinted Barry into a knot and
then knocked him out with hard
left to the chin. When the referee fin
ished counting Langford already had
his trousers on in his corner and was
lacing his shoes as the seconds car
ried the PROSTATE Barry to his cor
ner
Another bout is recalled in which
moving pictures were being taken.
Sam carried his opponent along for
eight rounds. Then he whispered to
the movie operator, Got enough fill
lum?" When told that the operator
had a fairly respectable picture Sam
bo walked out and knocked his man
out with punch.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
LANGFORD HOLDS ALL MODERN
RECORDS FOR RING kNoCkOUTS

Chicago, Feb. 25.--Samuel Langford
now holds all modern records for the
number of knockouts in the prize ring.
The 1917 boxing record book shows
that the tar baby has rocked sixty-six
men to sleep since he started his ca
reer with the padded mittens. No
other boxer before the public today
can boast of that number of knock,
outs. Several glove men have reached
the fifty mark, but none has succeed
ed in stowirg away sixty-six oppon-
ents.
1t is said of Langford that he
knocks 'em dead whenever he pleases.
Oldtimers recall one of his bouts with
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
CONSISTENCY.

("The equality of nations upon
an equality of rights must
neither recognize nor imply a differ
ence between big nations and small,
between those that are powerful and
those that are weak. No
peace can last which does not recog
nize and accept the principle that gov.
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed
President Wilson, Jan. %.
To be consistent, these principles
must obtain in individual nations in
their treatment of their citizens-be
tween chose that are powerful and
those that are weak.")
I've Just come back from "Dixie
Where the orange blossoms grow
Where sheep from goats are sorted,
White folk from black-you know.
Where Waiting Room forJ Colored,"
And waiting Room for whites"
Naively voice the methods
OF Southern Equal Rights
| heard the common verdict
That rulers must be white,
That Negroes must submissive be,
That might must be the right.
This is no wild assertion,
You know it's strictly true;
| ask you, Mr. Wilson,
What we, ourselves should do?
Equal Rights for others
How earnestly you crave
Yet, in our land, a Negro
Is little more than slave.
You "speak for all the peoples"
And urgently you teach
The war-worn, blood-drained nations
oh, practice what you preach.
For shame that any people,
And shame that anyone
Should smugly preach a duty
They leave themselves undone!
oh man of winged phrases!
Show now, that all may know,
Was your quill that scars so highly,
Plucked from eagle, dove or crow?
e. ANSON MORE.
Denver, Jan. 30, 1917.
Rocky Mountain News.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
GOVERNOR SETTLES MUNICIPAL
TROUBLES IN EXCLUSIVE
NEGRO TOWN. -s7>

Jackson, Miss-Among the visitors
of note at the state capital was Isaiah
T. Montgomery, probably the best
known and most intelligent Negro in
Mississippi, founder of the town of
Mound Bayou, which is peopled gov
erned and built up exclusively by Ne
groes. Isaiah Montgomery was the
only member of his race who was a
convention of 1890, as delegate from
Bolivar county. He was here to con-
suit the governor and attorney gen.
eral relative to the. internal political
affairs of MouI2d Bayou, claiming that
kind of ring has gotten control of
the municipal affairs which declines
to be ousted or to retire; yet their re-
tirement, he feels sure, would be for
the best of the community.
In general and material way he
reports the people in this section to
be in first class shape materially, with
increased bank savings and deposits,
and a cotton crop very little short OF
the last previous season, which has
brought good prices, while food and
forage crops have also been gratify-
ing
Montgomery was accompanied to
Jackson by B. S. Mount of Merigold,
well known attorney, formerly of
Vicksburg, who went with him before
the governor and attorney general and
sowed that the pseudo set of Off
cials said to represent Charles Banks
faction has succeeded in self-perpetu-
ating themselves. They had failed to
provide for the proper registration of
voters and in other ways had thrown
obstacles in the way of the voters
themselves, making the changes nee
essary or holding an election accord
ing to law
The attorney general ruled that un-
der the conditions described the
Mound Bayou municipal offices were
vacant and that the town was virtu-
ally without legal head or directing
body.
Later in the day Governor Bilbo is
sued his proclamation setting forth
the alleged state of facts and appoint
ing set of provisional officers who
will supersede the pseudo officers
now claiming the seats of administra-
tion.
The new officers are appointed by
the governor today, whose commits
sions are imme diately effective are:
Eugene Booze, mayor, succeeding II.
C. Cresswell; George Moore, marshal,
succeeding Charles Williams; H. H.
Powell, r. W. Hood. Edward Thread
gill, r. M. McCorkle and Reuben
Brooks, succeeding the .quintette
which as stated, is said to represent
the Banks faction, which is now down
and out, according to the Montgomery
clan.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
National Negro
Health Week
Dates Decided Upon Are April 22-2S 1917--Campaign
Launched and Now Under Way.

, lima, writes: at is a matter in which
am deeply interested, and am sure
you will be glad to know that North
Carolina has one of the most progress
i've Boards of Health anywhere in the
South or perhaps in the United States.
They cooperate with us and come and
address our students whenever we i'll
vite them. l shall be glad to receive
the booklets to which you refer and
rest assured l shall give all the public
ity possible to them"
Mrs. Nettie F. Trowbridge, secretary
of the Calhoun (Alabama) Colored
School, says: I'VE shall be very glad
to cooperate in this health movement
and will arrange to have the atten-
ton, not only of the teachers and stu
dents, but the people of the commu-
nifty, called to the movement"
Mr.. F. H. Henderson, principal of
Howard Normal School, Cuthbert,
Georgia: Permit me to say that l
shall cooperate with you by interest
ing my school and community in the
importance of the movement You are
doing the South an. incalcuable serv-
ice in your efforts to promote health
and prolong life among Negro people"
President William T. Holmes of
Tougaloo College: 81 am greatly in
terested in your letter and the en-
closed circular which gives informa-
ton concerning the National Negro
Health Week l shall certainly see to
it that Tougaloo makes some kind of
an observation of this Health Week
1 am writing at your suggestion to the
National Cleanup and Paint-up Cam
paign Bureau. l shall propose that
we not only observe the week for our
own campus, but make it part of our
Extension Movement as WE'LL
President Walter S. Buchanan, Ala
bama State Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College: 'In reply to your let
ter of the sixth concerning the Ma
tional Negro Health Week, please al
low me to state that we are arrang-
ing a suitable series of exercises Tor
this occasion We shall aim to bring
forcefully to the attention of our stu
dents and teachers and the public
vital questions concerning disease
and its prevention"
William ]. Hale, president, Tennes-
see State Normal School, says: Il
am in sympathy with this movement
and shall be pleased to work for the
advancement of same"
President l.. J. Rowan, Alcorn Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College (Mis-
sissippD, writes: 1--WE shall beSvery
glad to participate in the observation
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03

Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Feb. 10
At the workers session of the Annual
Tuskegee Negro Conference, the cam
paign for the 1917 National Negro
Health Week was actively launched.
Mr. Emmett ]. Scott, secretary of the
Tuskegee Institute, read to the con-
ference the official call for the Ma
tional Negro Health Week and ex-
planned it's purposes. I'm this effort
for improving Negro health" he said,
"in addition to the cooperation of the
leading organizations among the
colored people, we also shall have the
cooperation of the leading white or
ganizations that are working for
health improvement in the country;
as, for example, the National Anti
. tuberculosis Association, the National
Child Welfare Association, the Ala
bama Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
the Southern States Anti-Tuberculosis
Workers, the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company, the Prudential Life In
surance Company, the United States
Public Health Service and the various
state and city health departments"
The need of continued efforts to i'm
prove Negro health conditions was es-
pecially emphasized at the Tuskegee
Workers Conference which had for its
subject, Health Improvement for
Efficiency" 1t was pointed out that
ill health among Negroes is causing
financial losses greater than the COM
bined revenues raised by towns, coun-
ties and States throughout the South;
that education and health improve
ment will double Negro efficiency;
that tuberculosis among Negroes costs
the South, annually, enough to estab-
lish three thousand, five hundred
(3.5OOo factories which might employ
seven hundred thousand (700,000)
persons; that contrary to the popular
idea, malaria is more common among
Negroes than among whites; that in
the malaria sections of the South, two
Negroes to one white person have
malaria each year. 1t is through such
efforts as the National Negro Health
Week that it is hoped health condi-
tions among Negroes will be greatly
improved.
Those present at the recent Confer
ence agreed to return to their re-
spective States, localities and COM
munities and there begin an effort to
arouse interest among the people in
order that they might enthusiastically.
enter into this nationwide effort for
their welfare. In support of the move
ment President Charles F. Meserve of
Shaw University, Raleigh, North Caro-
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03

Washington, Feb. II. Race Sc
gregation ordinances of south
ern cities were defended in a
brief presented to the supreme
court of the United States by H.
R. Pollard, city attorney of Rich
mond, Va, in test case from
Louisville, KY, affecting muni-
.cipal laws of Richmond, Balti-
more and other cities, to be re-
argued orally next month. Pho
tographs of Negro homes, schools
churches and banks in Richmond
were attached to Mr.. Pollard's S
brief as evidence that restricted
on intermingling of whites and
Negroes does not curb Negro de-
velopment. AS white persons
are prohibited from living in Ne
gro residential communities, it
was contended that there is no
unconstitutional discrimination
in the ordinances against the Ne
gro race.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES


understood the mayor will an
nounce plan of partial segregs-
ton for Negroes, and that sec
ton of the country may be laid
out along modern lines as a Ne
gro colony. There are nearly
SO, 600 Negroes in Baltimore, the
largest number in any city.
Richmond, Va, Feb. 17.-Mr.
James 7. Carter, of Richmond,
Va, Grand Treasurer of the Or
der of Elks of the World, sue
cessfully passed the recent ex-
animation held by the Virginia
State Board of Law Examiners
and is now licensed to practice
law in Virginia. This was his
first appearance before the board,
Mr.. Carter is stenographer to the
law firm of Christian Gordon and
Christian, of Richmond, and is
said to be the only colored person
holding such a position in the
South. He started with this firm
as a janitor when but lad, and
by taking advantage of the op-
portunity presented, he has made
the most of it. He is graduate
of the Correspondence Law De-
partment of the University of
Chicago. He also studied law
under a private tutor in Rich
mond. He is member of the
Board of Directors of the South
ern Aid Society of Virginia, and
is the husband of Mrs. E. Carter,
president of the Woman's Aux
iliary of the Richmond Hospital.
Messrs. C. Augustus Mckenzie
of Richmond, and Thos. H. Reid,
of Portsmouth, were also sue
cessfur in passing the exami-
nation.
Sylvester, Ca, Feb. 10.-Jim
Keith, colored, who charged with
the murder of Sheriff Morelan6,
of Lee county, on December Is,
1915, was saved by Worth county
officials from a mob which lynch
ed five other colored men for the
crime, was acquitted in superior
court here last week. At his
first trial here a year ago Keith
was convicted on the theory that
he was in the conspiracy which
resulted in the murder of the Lee
county sheriff and was given
life term. Further evidence,
however, has led to the general
belief that Mozelle Lake, Negro
who escaped, is the murderer.
Keith, in January of 1916, was
removed from the Worth county
Jail and carried to a place of SAT-
ETY. shortly before mob, suppos-
edly from Lee county, took five
colored suspects of completely in
the murder of Sheriff Moreland
from Jail, carried them to
Starkesville, in Lee county, and
there lynched them.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03

Terre Haute, Ind, Feb. H.
Young colored girls have been
employed as ushers at the Grand
Opera House, taking the place of
boys. They wear black dresses,
white aprons and caps and white
earbobs.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03

Washington, D. C.-England
has made informal inquiry of
American diplomatic agents the
possibility of American interven-
ton in Liberia, as next best
friend to the republic; strongly
recommending and also demand
ing institution of administrative
reforms. If Liberia refuses to
effect the reforms urged, this
government may withdraw its
traditional friendly attitude, it is
reported. Minister Curtis has
notified the State Department
that the affairs of Liberia are in
bad way. The European war
is said to be responsible for con-
ditions.
Baltimore, Feb. 19.-To meet
a situation of alarming grav-
ity," Mayor Preston announced
tonight that he had called a meet
ing of $50 physicians, social
workers and representative citi-
zens for next Friday to devise
ways of improving the health of
the Negro element in this city.
The Negro death rate is % to 32
a thousand, while the white death
rate is I6 to 19. Mayor Preston
declared that the health records
of the city show in regard to the
high death rate from tuberculo-
sis that for every white person
their is a percentage of 81 Ne
groes to die from the disease.
He said the poor housing condi-
tions are chiefly to blame. 1t is
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-20
Big MASONIC
DAY EXPECTED
Kinsman Council TO Enter
tain Many Visitors
COMMITTEES NAMED
Annual Reunion OF Cryptic Body The
Fourth Wednesday In April When
s. E. M. Degree viii BE
Conferred

Thrice Illustrious Master William
Dyer named the following committees,
at the regular assembly Friday night
of Kinsman Council, No. 76, r. & S.
NJ, to serve for the annual spring re-
union which will occur the fourth
Wednesday in April when the degree
of Superintendent Master will be CON
ferred
Program-Chas. E. Ayers, l.. e. Raw
linson and Donald H. Harper.
Reception - Frank o. Levering,
Charles c. Iams, l.. T. Cromley and
John r. Doelfs.
Banquet-R. M. Greer, Jed S. Mon
tbs, R. w. Stauffer, H. V. Smoots and
A. E. Rawlinson, Jr.
Music-William M. Coup, Otto S.
Baker and Chas. e. Ayers.
Invitations will be sent to councils
in Coshocton, Newark, Mansfield,
GAINESVILLE and Marion to attend. The
annual inspection of Kinsman will be
made that night by E. Gilbert Robin.
son of Mansfield, principal conductor
of work of the grand council of Ohio
who expects to bring with him mum.
ber of Mansfield companions.
At o'clock in the afternoon, the
degrees of Royal and Select Master
will be conferred which will be follow
ed by banquet at o'clock. The Su.
per-Excellent degree will be exempli.
fled in the evening. L. E. Rawlinson
is in charge of this.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-20
STEVENS WILL rs
MODEL OF BREVITY
Accounts Filed For Confir
mation-News From
Court House

The trustees of the Methodist Epis-
copal church,. w. Severns, F.. h.
Kirby, Columbus Ewalt, S. G. Dowds,
b. d. Heron, A. A. Dowds, G. s. Sapp,
H. w. Blair and c. X. Conard-have
filed petition in common pleas to
sell a portion of land recently pur-
chased by them from the city, to st.
Pauls Episcopal church.
Petitioners cite that on Oct. 2, 1916,
they bought lot No. SO from the city
BY "gentleman's agreement" strip
on the south side of this was later
to be sold to st. Paul's church. At
a quarterly conference of their
church, they were authorized to make
this sale the revenue from which is to
be applied to the purchase of the lot
from the city.
Petitioners ask for authorization to
convey premises. They are repre-
sented by Bert o. Evans and Ewalt &c
Blair.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-20
MIRED auto
RESULTS IN NAIL PENETRATING
HAND OF LESTER DUTT

A nail, which penetrated his left
hand Friday morning when lie was at
tempting to work his automobile out
of a mud-hole near Gambler, caused
Lester Dutt of this city to require the
services Of a physician to cauterize
the wound after 1t had started to
heal
The nail was not rusty, but had In
fected the hand until it was swollen
to great extent by Friday evening.
The nail did not penetrate the hand
very deep and did not cause Dutt
much pain until later.
A local physician cauterixed the
wound, removing all infection. and
them dressed che cut made BY the nail.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-20
EFFUSIVE IN
COMPLIMENTS
Masonic Paper Showers
Praise On Mt. Vernon
KUHN'S COMING HERE
Annual Inspection Of Clinton Chapter,
r. A. NJ, To Be Made Wednesday
Evening BY Columbus Man
KUHN'S COMING HERE
(The Ohio Mason)


The annual inspection of Clinton
Chapter No. &c, Royal Arch Masons,
of Mt. Vernon, will be made by Ex-
cellent Companion John P. Kuhns, of
Columbus, Grand Master of the Second
Veil of the Grand Chapter. Those who
have attended Masonic meetings in Mt.
Vernon, can picture in their minds the
enjoyment this visit will bring to Bro.
Kuhns, for they do things properly in
that good old town, of which there are
none better.
The Masonic bodies of Mt. Vernon,
which includes all those branches of
the York Rite, are admirably situated
have an established reputation to main
tain for high grade work, which we
know will not be sacrificed upon this
occasion, nor will they forget those
ancient ties of friendship which
they have ever clung to Masonic
brother, who perchance might pass
that way, regardless of his rank or IT,
tie. The companion who can and does
not accompany Bro. Kuhns, on this trip
will have missed visiting one of the
Masonic garden-spots of Ohio, where
real fraternalism always ahounds
without alloy.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-20
BREAKING GLASS
CAUSES RUNAWAY OF MRS.
STEWARDS HORSE

a horse driven by Mrs. A. NJ. Stew.
art was passing the Oakland restar-
rant Saturday morning at the time Of
the breakage Of the plate glass front
and became frightened at the crash C. c,
the falling glass The horse started
to run away and upset the buggy, but
no one was hurt, as a man who was
ON the north side of the street caught
the beast before it got far The bug.
~ was damaged but little and the
horse was only badly frightened.