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The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1917-05-31
ATLANTA, GA.
7. Raspberry
Nav % 1917.

May u, lJl(.
Yop cannot believe it. There
is nct house on IIelliord from
Edge@ood to Fords Spring, not
house, on Irwin from Fort to
Boulevard School, not house on
Jackson from Auburn to Ponce
deleoA, not a house on Houston
from tllilliard to Bishop Gaines
houst. only two houses on BOule-
ward from Morris Brown to Ponce.
De, fipr Cid Wheat Fort to Jack
son, Two houses on Auburn from
Fort to jackson. Bob Goosbys
and dne other near jackson. Not
a house on Highland from Hill
ard to Houston Schotield. lIoston,
Tame, Dunlap. Lyons. Golden
Summit, East ave. All are swept.
One Side of Young from GartrelL
to Edgewood, same side from
Edgewood to Auburn. Forrest
Ave. is swept from Fort to the
end OF Adams St. off the map.
You gan stand ON the corner of
Auburn and look in the front
door at Morris Brown. One
block burned in Summer Hill
bound by Woodward, King. Con
nally and Fair, including a white
church at Woodward and Con
nally. One block burned in West
End bound by York Ave, Lee ST.,
Gordon and Dun. The people are
giving the sufferers plenty to eat
and wear. Negro feeding sta
tions, Morris Brown and Bethel.
L. S. soldiers in charge. We will
rebuild our church soon, may be
ON arother lot some place. Wheat
St. and the little hardshell near
Fort and Schotield are the only
negro churches gone, the White
Ave i Woodward Ave, Grace
NJ. f. Boulevard and Highland.
Jackson Hill Bapt. jackson. East
Ave, West Minister Presbyterian,
Forrest and Boue. Some of the
men burned ont are a. Nash, ID.
T. Howard, X. f. Pharnow, jeff.
Thomas. Capt. Thos. Grant, Fair
Haven Negro Hospital patients
moved to Grady, !. \. Fitzpat-
rick and many others who had
bought on Irwin and Houston st.
DR. Walton Drug Store and Lees
Undertaking business (Which had
moved to 246 Auburn MorthiaS
Store, Auburn and IIilliard. Also
the homes Of Rev. c. II. Young,
Rev. Kelsey, Rev. Gamble, Rev.
+. Hall, Rev. Ellington, Tobbie,
the fortune teller; Traylor, the
contractor; Thos. Wright, who
lived in the old l.. G. Harris Home,
50 billiard; Trio Laundry; Morris
Candy Factory, Fort and Edge
wood; Mark Boyd's mansion,
Young St; Stoms Cake Factory !;
DR.. Tuggles; Peoples Home; Dea-
con Wyle, Willis Bell, 300 Au-
burn; Whitman Sisters home; DR..
Th0s. Alexander; the old Askew
home; the old Dardcn home near
the fourth ward between lIillod
and Fort to Edgewood. then Jack
son and Fort to Auburn, then Fort
and Boulevard to Poncedeleon
Park are all chimnieS and hills.
No deaths. few injuries, no suffer
ing. Many negroes and poor white
men have better food and clothing
than before. Orders are out to
move into any house you see. You
can see am still nervous from
my writing and spelling. 1900
Wheat ~. members homeless. Ne
worship at Liberty through the
week and Odd Fellows Auditori-
am on Sundays.
Stewart.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1917-05-31
THE REHABILITATION OF
ATLANTA MARKS SOME
PROGRESSIVE TEND
ENCIES

a Committee of Rehabilitation
has been designated by the Mayor
OF Atlanta, with the advice of
the Chamber of Commerce to syn
chronize all the elements that
center into the restoration of the
burned area and those homes and
business enterprises that suffered
loss in the recent fire.
The Committee is composed of
the following persons, all promin-
ent in the business development
of Atlanta, and several of much
more han local fame: Mr.. Edw.
II. Inman, Mr.. Rockwell johnson,
Mr.. Isaac Schoen, Judge Walter
Colquitt, Mr.. Charles IL. Mason,
Mr.. Henry Ii. Pace, Rev. f. ii.
Oliver and Mr.. A. F. Herndon.
The three latter are Negroes.
The Minister'S position is self-ex-
planatory. Mr.. IIerndon is owner
of one of the largest and best
equipped barber shops in Ameri-
ca, is the dominant factor in the
Atlanta Mutual Insurance Com
pany, and resides in a home quite
in keeping with his station. Mr..
Pace is the distinctive character
upon this Committee. He is
young and virile and the Negro
prototype of the modern business
executive. His capabilities are
best explained by the fact that at
the age of 33, he is Secretary
Treasurer of the Standard Life
| Insurance Company, a 1925, ZOO
Legal Reserve Life Insurance
| Company that has on its books
five million dollars worth of husi.
ness, and that has met every legal
requirement and examination with
books and records i'll such shape
as to receive cOmmendation from
even antagOnistic sources.
1t is a distinct novelty in the
South for Negro interests to be
recognized in community matters
by the active participation of bo-
ma fide business men in the deli
berationS Of consequential bodies
Occasionally in politics and re
ligion some sort of Negro adjunct
committees have been tolerated.
but here we find ease Of abSo-
lutte and direct interchange of
ideas, and it may he said that the
exodus has not failed to become
prime factor in the Committee S
consideration.
Rehabilitating seven hundred
white and eight hundred Negro
families of every social and in
dustrial type is no mean job for
even those eight high-rninded and
experienced men, and our race
throughout the country may feel
certain that the race interests will
be cared for with aggresSivehe.s
tempered by proper sense o.
Justice and business diplomacy.
This will represent a lot of work
to already busy men but the es-
tablishment Of this precedent and
its satisfactory fuliillment is of
immeasureable value TO the race.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1917-05-31

Drs. A. j. Heron and c. A.
johnson, and Attorney G. Ii. De-
Reef of Milwaukee are also Alum
nj of Howard University-Ed.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1917-05-31

has tonsiiorial parlors and are
giving the Beloit public satisfac.
tion.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Henry Goodrich Writes.
Agency, Mo-, July 30.
A. f. Drake, Editor News,
Incnnr Mo

Agency, Mo-, July 80.
A. f. Drake, Editor News,
Jasper, Mo.
Dear Sir and Friend: Enclosed please
find check, to apply on subscription.
! am enclosing you clipping taken
from the Cover Enterprise, paper ed
tied in town ten miles from Agency.
1t will give you some idea of how we are
gradually building reputation. 1t
has been rather an uphill pull here
owing to little dirty competition, but
we are gradually winning out, and
things look much brighter every day.
1t is very hot and dry here, as we
have had no rain to speak of since June
9TH. The wheat is yielding well, moth
ing much under % bushels and up to
SO; oats also fine. The prospect for corn
has been excellent up to a few days ago,
but will have to have rain soon or is
going to be hurt badly. We have To-
Gated in our town the largest stirrup
factory in the world, 1t has been here
several years, and at present are receiv-
ing large orders from the government.
The man mentioned in the clipping
Mr.. l.. ID. McCrary, whom l recently
buried was brother-in-law of S. ID.
Chandler, who was several years Jas
per resident. Mr.. McCrary had been to
Jasper several times and was we'll ac-
quainted with many of the present Jas
per people.
Give our regards to all Of the old
friends down there, and standing in
vitation to give us visit in our new
home. We are just u miles southeast
of st. Joseph.
Yours very truly,
II. II. Goodrich.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Some Pointers for the Dairyman.

Some Pointers for the Dairyman.
Sunlight is one of the best known
enemies of bacteria. Dairy utensils
can be kept sweet and clean by
exposing them to the sunlight after
washing and scalding. A conven-
lent rack should be provided on
the south side of the dairy house
or wherever the washing is done.
To be effective, the sun must shine
on the inside of the pals and cans.
Some racks we have seen held them
in an upright position so that the
disinfecting action of the sun was
effective only on the outside. The
rack should be arranged so that
the cans or pals will be inclined at
the proper angle for the sun to
shine on the inside.
The old question of feeding fat
in milk keeps bobbing up. 1t
seems hard to get away from the
idea that certain feeds tend to pro-
duce milk richer in butter fat.
There is just one sure means of
raising the butter fat test, and that
is by breeding for it by constantly
selecting high testing animals.
The way to produce S per cent
COW is to breed that character into
the animal through inheritance.
Rations of various characters
have been tried, but with no ap-
preciable effect. The dairy divis-
ion of the Federal Department of
Agriculture is working on the
problem at the present time.
While slight variations in test have
been produced, those in charge are
not ready to say that the feed has
been responsible for the changes
observed.
The dairy farmer has been cling
ing 10 the old method of breeding
for increased butter fat production,
and it must not be forgotten that
it is total butter fat that counts,
and not simply a high test.
1t is well to remember that it is
the cooling of cream, and not the
mere fact of getting it into water,
that is so important. If the cream
is stirred faithfully it will in few
minutes be reduced to the same
temperature as the water in the
tank, while if put into the tank
with ut stirring it may rem in
warm for several hours. 1t is
needless TO say that ust so long
as the cream remains warm, the
bacteria. which even under the
most sanitary conditions have
gained access to the cream, will
not be hindered in their growth.
The vast majority of milk bacteria,
however, grow very slowly at the
temperature of ordinary cold water ;
hence the Importance of cooling
the cream very quickly. Kansas
Farmer.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
ALetter From Earl Frick.

A Letter From Earl Prick.
The following is letter from Earl
Frick, who is gunner in the U. S.
Navy, son of Ned Fricll of Jasper and
sister of Mrs. r. Il. Cearnal of Girard,
Kans. The letter is written to Mrs.
Bessie Embree, cousin of the young
man.
Somewhere in Port" L. S.. A.
July, %, 1917.
My dear cousin: just received your
letter and was mighty glad to hear from
you.
So the boys enlisted in the Engineer
Corps. Well that is good branch of
the service guess. Hazel sent me the
News" and L saw it in there, too.
Well, l am mighty glad l enlisted
when did for have that much more
experience.
We have just arrived from France
and we had quite lively time, too,
with submarines all around us and two
torpedos crossed the bow of the ship
and just missed us by few feet and
'darned few, too" and all ships fired at
them. They disappeared and one ship
dropped high explosive bomb. 1t eX-
ploded about 40 feet or more under the
surface and oil and debris came to the
top SO l guess we got some of them.
Say, you ought to see me load the
six inch gun in our gun crew. Am al
SO acting gun captain in case the gun
captain gets killed or wounded. We
load and fire in from to seconds and
believe me, there is some noise when
they fire, too.
There was lot of racket that night
and nobody was allowed to go to sleep
and all hands wore life belts at all times.
No sleep or rest for As or 60 hours, steady
watching by the guns. There were
sure some sleepy guys when we got
through.
France is some country all right.
We had three days leave. We went to
Paris and Nantes and had fine time.
We wanted something to eat and they
didn't ''savy our lingo so went back
in the kitchen, got some eggs and po-
tatoes and put them in the skillet and
showed them how we wanted them
cooked so they knew what we wanted.
Another place we wanted water with
our meal and | had to show them by
pouring some from flower vase into a
cup. 1t is all right if you ''savy"
French, but you have an awful time for
a while though there is quite lot of
English spoken there now.
Tell all the folks got across to France
safe and back again to the States after
about two months travelling over there
and storing up coal and food, etc, then
over here again. EThe French think we
are going to help them so much and
win the war that we were welcomed in
the towns with open arms. Well, !
hope to be home on n furlough late in
the fall. Will close for this time with
best love and regards to all.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
tering sun while last Sunday it was

raining during the entire service.
| have been too busy to be home
sick as yet, but l an looking for
ward with keen anticipation to
the ten days l expect to spend with
my Jasper friends sometime within
the next four months, at the end
of my training here.
Sincerely, yours,
A. Mendel Drake.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Reading on the Farm.

Upon most modern farms may be
found interesting books. magazines
and the daily paper, where in the past
the ancient almanac and few other
more or less uninteresting books were
at hand.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
The Modern Baby.

Now an ocullst has discovered that
babys white raiment Injuries his vi
sion. They've taken away his cradle
and his old-time remedies and his
fairy stories, and now they want to
pinch his snowy pinafore.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer,
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02

: "There is only one way to get ready
for Immortality. and that is to love
this life and live as bravely and cheer
fully and faithfully as we can."-Hen-
ry Van Dyke.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Careless Fire-Hydrant.

Jokum - Gracious! Your mud
guard is all smashed! Did you bump
into something's" Bunkum-"No. We
were standing perfectly still, and q
flre-hydrant skidGed into us."-Judge.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Sounds All Riuht,

Myrtle, who was in the fifth grade,
asked her younger sister if she knew
what rectangle was, "Why, certain
ly," she answered. "a rectangle is n
man tangled up in n wreck"
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Jasper Naval Recruit Write Home.
Newport, R. l., July II.

Training School at Newport. After
very enjoyable trip up here from
st. Louis through Detroit, Canada
and city of New York, have
spent two weeks of real hard work
on the drill grounds as an appren-
tice seaman. Now, however. |
have had my rating changed and
spend most of my time playing in
the band. All this afternoon l
spent playing my faVorite instru.
ment, the baritone, with the sta
ton band in training, sitting on
hill just above the edge of Nara.
gansett Bay. The training station
is situated on a little island just
below the city of Newport, just
inside the bay and in full view of
the ocean. 1t is a beautiful little
island completely covered with
barracks and tent encampments
for the sailors and the executive
buildings and parade grounds. At
no spot on the island are the blue
waters of the bay out of sight,
with its Continual traffic of steam
ers and smaller motor craft. Every
once in a while a warship slips
into the harbor and little grey
patrol boats are constantly passing
up and down. Every day or so a
big aeroplane passes over, flying
low and all the men run out to see
the ship, for this means of locomo-
ton is not quite common to most
of us yet.
am really enjoying TIE life as
well as could be expected, as far
from home and friends as | am,
and am enjoying the best of health
Naturally l keep very regular
hours, spending from 9 p. m. till
a. m. in my cot mo more no less)
The food is excellent and climate
enjoyable. 1t has never been
really hot since | came to the island
and it rains about half the time.
Although the air is not hot the sun
burns freely, for the hats are
practically brimless and the uni
form is low at the neck. AS a re.
suit nearly all the fellows Qor few
of them have been here more than
a few weeks are badly burned on
the face and neck.
The only hard problem for most
of us is keeping clean clothes.
Imagine doing all your work in
pure white uniforms from leggins
up land the work means anything
from shoveling coal to washing
dishes besides drilD and keeping
those clothes clean yourself. 1t
isn't so hard on the musicians, who
do nothing outside of the musical
line, but the seaman and fireman
have quite a time, and | must say
some of their white suits are rather
dingy after their first attempt al
laundering.
I want TO thank Mr.. Moore fol
that very kind letter that he wrote
to Chaplain Charlton about myself
The Chaplain called me to his of.
flee and had very pleasant talk
with him. think a great deal Of
the Chaplain now. He i5a gooc
man and an excellent minister
Every Sunday there are church
services Catholic and Protestant,
and all men on the island (somt
fifteen thousand) march to anc
from the services, They are helc
in the open air for the lack of {
large hall, and one Sunday We
listened to a sermon in the swell
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The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
Only to Trust.
Farmer.

Only to trust, and do our best, and
wear a smiling a face as may be for
others and ourselves.-Robert Louis
Stevenson.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02

On account of smallpox the seth an
nual reunion advertised for August 3
and at Crane, has been poetponed in
detinately. The outbreak is not seri-
GUS but in the interest of public safety
it is thought best to take this action.
J. S. Hemphill,
President Reunion Committee.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02
President Reunion Committee.

Supplementary List Red Cross Sub
scriptions.
w. ID. Wood, $3.50.
w. S. Johnson, S1.00.
Harry Bender, Sl.00.
Miss Minnie Busby, S1.00.
Miss Pearl Cunning, so cents.
Miss Nora Fox, S1,00.
Mrs. w. +. NIoulton, so cents.
The Jasper news., 1917-08-02

Hardaway Reappointed Postmaster.
Postmaster Tom Hardaway received
notice last Wednesday of his reappoint-
ment as postmaster of Jasper. His
commission expired in May last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23

They are graded according to the char acter of the leaves anu then tied to- gether into bundles of a half dozen or more each, in which shape they are taken to the auctions and sold"
 Many of the tobacco centers have their auction rooms. There is one here at Finston- Salem and another at Danville, Va, which has the largest loose leaf bright tobacco market of the world. Buy CTS from all sections come to these mar kets and at the height of the season there are men at Danville from every country in Europe. The market handles 50,000, O0u pounds and upward year. and thou sands of hogsheads are shipped direct from there to the manufacturers abroad.
 l have visited the warehouses at Dan Vile. where these auction sales are held There are eleven of them, and each covers several acres. Tn tobacco, cured as have described is brought in by the farm CTS and laid in piles npon the floor. The piles are in long rows and each pile is as big around as wash tub It represents one mans crop, and is marked with a card bearing the name of the owner.
 Walking about among the piles are scores of tobacco buyers. They examine the tobacco, handling the leaves and smelling them. When the auctioneer comes In he begins at one end of the room and moves from pile to pile auctioning off each lot as he goes He gives the amount of tobacco represented by the ana does not waste time waiting for bids He auctions off two or three lots per minute. After finishing one row he starts down another, and so on until all are disposed of As soon as a sale is made 1t is marked down by a bookkeeper who follows the auctioneer, and the farm CT can get his cash straight away from the warehouse, which acts as a clearing house for the buyers.
 Iooacco is one of the money crops of the farmers. It Is sold for cash, and ehere IS no trouble about payment. This mas always been so, and 1t will probably continue as long as man is addicted to the toDacco-using habit. The first money that came Into the south was from to- pacco It came from sales made to Eng and as far back as 1856, and a little later topacco passed as money and was used Iii payment of taxes Preachers got tneif salaries in tobacco, and the town onlcers were paid the same way. Some or the oldest families of our country nave among their colonial great-grand- mothers women who were brought over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23
OUR BIG TOBACCO INDUSTRY Frank G. Carpenter

| months, and our cigarette output is three | times as many. The cigars which the 1 United States makes in one year, if laid | out end to end, would reach several | times around the world on the line of the equator, and the cigarettes are so l many that if they were joined they would make a line of small smokes four 1 times as long as the distance between the
 earth and the moon. Our consumption of
 cigars is so great that we burn up more than 21O00,000 a day We smoke 900,O 900
 cigars every hour more than 15 900 min
 ute and over 250 a second. As to cigar
 cites. the United States is now using
 something like 60O00,000 day This
 means about 2,5000O0 per hour, more than 40,000 minute, and about 700 every time the watch ticks from January to Decem- ber year in and year out.
 The internal revenue receipts from to-
 bacco would build a fleet of 35 ocean greyhounds each as big as the Lusitania to carry our food supply to the allies, or it would build and equip 10 big battle ships to aid us in destroying the fleet of the Germans.
 This will give you some idea of the extent of the tobacco industry reduced to brass tacks. It has many ramifica- tions and it's products are equally surpris- ing. 1 do not know just how many tons of plug tobacco the United States now consumes, but there is one factory here which covers several acres and is devoted to nothing but plug. At the time of my visit at least 800 employees were operating machines, making the square and oblong packages sold in the stores, and others were standing at tables twisting out the black, snake-like ropes of chewing tobac- co called twist" The weed has to be specially created In the making of plug. It is saturated with licorice and sugar and favored to taste.
 You may think that the custom of snuffing Is dying out. The statistics show that we are still producing about o000,o00 pounds of snuff every year, or enough to give a pound and half of this nose-titillating mixture to every American family. It was at Durham N. C.. that I saw my first snuff fac- tory. Tn making the powder the to- bacco leaves are half rotted and mixed with other ingredients before they are ground into snuff. The stuff Is packed up for market in OK bladders in balls ranging in size from that of your fist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23

{ to your head; and it is sold by the ounce or the pound. It Is used largely in the mountain districts of the south after the custom known as snuff dipping" In this the snuff Is not sucked up the nose. ] It Is taken into the mouth, being ap- | piled with a chewed stick which Is dipped into the mixture and then rubbed over the teeth and gums. It is com- mon throughout the southern Appalach- ian mountains.
 The custom of using snuff for the nose is fast dying out, although 1t was more or less prevalent among all classes in colonial times. Dolly Madison, the wife of the President, was an artistic snuff-user. She had two handkerchiefs for the purpose. One of these, she said, was for blowing and the other deli cate lace affair, she used as a polisher Not long ago many of our United States senators used snuff, and in my own time as a correspondent at the capitol at in the Senate chamber, the powdered tobacco in which was supplied to such senators as were addicted to the habit at the expense of the government.
 The south Is now making three fourths of the tobacco of the United States. The weed can be grown almost
 
 but there are certain localities and soils which produce far better tobacco than others. In Connecticut the con- ditions are especially good for making cigar wrappers, and they raise some of the finer tobaccos under tents at a cost of hundreds of dollars per acre. Some of the Kentucky tobaccos are so fine that the plants are bagged in order to keep the seed pure, and each region has it's own speciality. The finest Ha- vanas are grown in little district in western Cuba, where the soil Is worth almost its weight in gold. Not long ago when a railroad was put through that country the people scooped off the top earth and brought in poorer mate rial to build up the right of way for the tracks. They used the top soil for their tobacco fields, treating 1t some what as fertilizer.
 As to the southern states, which make the bulk of our tobacco crop, have before me the figures for the crop of 1915. At that time Kentucky produced in round numbers about 9560O0,ooo pounds