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NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
Brief Bits Of News and Comments on
Men and Measures.

Color Lines to be Ignored In Army.
Washington, D. Chat color lines
are to be ignored in the assignment of
Negro troops in the drafting section
of the national army has been revealed
in a general order issued from the War
Department, indicating the depart
ment's intention to apportion the Ne
gro troops evenly where possible in all
environments. The order provides that
in every cantonment there shall be one
Negro infantry regiment where sufi-
eient personnel is available.
Protests have been made against
quartering Negro troops in certain parts
of the South, but no modification has
been made.
The order is taken as an indication
Of what the War Department will do
in dispOsing Of similar regiments in ma
tional guard eneampments.
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Edward H Wright Assistant Counsel of Chicago,
Who Delghtes to Pose the Leading the Most Repre-
sentative Colored Man in the Middle West Was Caught
with the Goods him in Gambling Raid at the Home
of Mrs. Laverne Black, 1854 Indiana Avenue, Early
Sunday Morning. Col. William Randolph Cowan Was
Caught at the Same Time and Place.

no man is capable of doing that who
elevates gambling, trickery and double
dealing far above honesty and straight
forward square dealing.
1t is the strangest thing in the world
why so many Colored men who are
forced to work real hard for their money
will persist in blowing it in at the gam
bling tables at the expense of their
families and others depending upon
them, and as long as the Hon. Edward
ii. Wright has seemingly made up his
mind to gamble in spite of all the laws
which can or have been enacted against
it, it should be the solemn duty of
Mayor Thompson, that if he desires to
land in the United States Senate in
1918 with the solid support Of the
Colored voters throughout the state of
Illinois, to remove or separate his big
Colored assistant corporation counsel
from his present position and select
some other Colored man as the head or
the leading dog in the meat house to
boss the Colored people and to tote all
their votes around in his hip pocket,
who will not spend all of his spare time
around the gaming or the gambling
table.
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kins were called into the ease. Mr..
Watkins journeyed to Atlanta last
week to look the ground or the field
over, and as he is the Supreme Attor-
ney for the Knights of Pythias, through
out the world, and Mr.. White being one
of the most prominent Aasons in the
United States, they viii fight the So
called claims or pretentions Of the
white masons Of Georgia in relation
to their right to unhOrse the Colored
masons Of that state, in the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and on up to the
Supreme Court Of the United States.
The Colored masons Of that state re-
eeived their signs, grips and other Sc
eret degrees from high authorities, ma
sonic, who had the night to confer
them upon them; while the white ma
sons Of that state, picked theirs up as
best they could. Hence the litigation
to put the Colored masons out of the
running.
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wH1sKEY GOES OUT OF BUSINESS

Chicago, nl-Vietory in a fight
which had been waged increasingly for
the past twenty years by the Hearst
newspapers became complete last week
when the Federal Law forbidding the
manufacture Of whiskey and other dis
titled liquors went into effect.
Accepting the inevitable only after
spending fortunes in an effort to avert
it, and resorting to every possible trick
and subterfuge to postpone the day Of
reckoning, the Whiskey Trust eapitu-
lated and went out Of business an hour
before midnight.
By powerful cartoons, foreeful edi-
torials and by the mobilizing Of thou
sands Of moral leaders and millions Of
citizens in the campaign, the Hearst
papers carried the fight to Congress.
Seeing at last the handwriting on
the wall, the whiskey manufacturers
waged q determined fight for the pass
age Of q law which would forbid the
manufacture Of beer and light wines.
Success would have placed an enormous
premium on the soo, 600, 900 gallons Of
whiskey in bond by putting the eoun-
try on q whiskey basis.
The fight to end the destructive rule
Of whiskey in this country was begun
by the Hearst newspapers twenty years
ago. From New York to San Francisco
all the growing influence Of the chain
Of newspapers was brought to bear
against the whiskey traffic.
The whiskey men attempted coercion
by Withdrawing advertising. They at
tempted bribery by offering more ad-
vertising. They attacked the persist
emit champion Of true Temperance in de-
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wHsKEY AND IT'S ALTERNATIVE

New York, N. Y.-That the distilling
of whiskey must cease but that the
distillers win be allowed to produce
alcohol for medicinal and industrial
purposes is q piece Of news well cal
culated to hearten the disciples Of to-
tai abstinence. But the second thought,
in this as in other eases sounder than
the first, eauseG fearsome apprehension
as to the medicinal and industrial uses
to which this alcohol win be put.
That it win enter more largely than
ever into the connection Of patent med
ieines cannot be doubted. The elimina-
ton Of whiskey win give q decided i'm
petus to the sale Of the various "bit-
ters" and "tonies" and Sovereign
remedies" which have ruined the stom.
aehs of 30 many professed teetotallers
in the rural districts. The consumption
Of these nostrums, especially in prohi-
bition States, has always been enor-
nous, and the ills that they are war
ranted to cure unlimited. When no
disease Is to be eombated they are con-
sumed under the pretenee that they
''tone up the system" or "purify the
blood.''
That whiskey often becomes q tyrsnt
Is admitted by every one except its
slaves. In this connection We may re-
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The White shriners Of Georgia, who
are unineorporated, have for some time
labOred under the impression that they
possessed all Of the wisdom and supe-
riority and feeling or thinking that
was. Lately they instituted suit in
the Superior Court Of Fulton county,
that state, against the Colored shriners
Of Georgia, who are duly and regularly
incorporated. The Scottish Rite and
the Blue Lodge MasOns are include in
the suit.
The Superior Court, at the first trial
in July past, found in favor Of the
white masOns. Attorney George Cor
don (White) Of Atlanta, succeeded in
having the former decision set aside
and a motion Is now pending before
the court for . new trial Il was At
that point that Messrs. White and Wat
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It was stated in these columns the
latter part of December, 1915, that "ten
OF fifteen members of the Appomattox
Club felt that the other two or three
hundred members of the club should
eheerfully assist to maintain it for their
sole benefit, so that the ten or fifteen
members could use its beautifully fur
nished parlors to gamble in to their
hearts content" and not long after
that the AppOmattox Club was raided
like a common gambling house and ten
Sr fifteen of its most prominent gam
ling members were arrested and carted
to the Stanton Ave. police station.
. Of respect for their families we
did not publish the names of the mem
bers of the club who were arrested in
the gambling raid; at that time Edward
d. Wright, whom they claim greatly
delights to be known as the boss stud
poker player of the AppOmattOx Club,
led OF in the effort or movement to
throw MS out of the club headforemost
and cruelty or nail rs to the cross for
simply stating that which was true and
for honestly endeavoring to impart some
sound advice to the members Of the
club through the columns Of this paper.
On all occasions Edward II. Wright
wants to be known as the leading or the
most representative real Colored man in
Chicago and he viii never consent to
play ball with the rest Of the big Col
ored men unless they place his name at
the head Of the list as "the Hon Ed
ward n. Wight, Assistant Corporation
Counsel Of Chicago" Only last week
his name appeared at the top Of the ia
in some kind Of q very poorly gotten up
address to President Woodrow Wilson
which on the front page Of the greatest
weekly newspaper in the world and the
ink was hardly dry on the paper bear
ing his name to all parts Of the world
before he was arrested early last Sunday
morning like 9 common gambler.
The Hon. Edward II. Wright, If You
please, never hesitates in letting it be
known that it is the great joy of his
1ffs-to sit in . good stiH game Of stud
poker and in fact we have beheld him
with our own eyes in some Of the rooms
of the AppOmattox Club, sitting around
the table with the others who delight
toeamble, with stud poker chips stacked
high up in front Of him and with plenty
Of money lying on the round table
where the leading gamblers Of the club
were playing.
The bigheaded COlored assistant
evaporation counsel Of Chicago would
not accept our sound advice and stay
away from stud poker playing and early
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Raiders Get E. Il. Wright; "I'n Get
Police" He Says.

Edward H. Wright, COlOred, assistant
corporation counsel, was much annoyed
and threatened to "see the chief and
have you men transferred" when
Sergeant Frank Coreoran, Detectives
Mcguire and feeling raided q fat at
3454 Indiana avenue early yesterday.
The fat is occupied by Mrs. Laurene
Black.
Wright, who was easily identified, the
police say, although he gave the name
of Louis johnson, 1924 Vernon avenue;
William Vance, q porter, 1894 Prairie
avenue; James Williams, $3.50 State
street, and William B. Cowan, real es-
tate dealer, 3552 Forest avenue, al
COlOred, were charged with gambling.
The detectives seized t11e from the
poker Chicago Herald, Monday,
Sept. IL, 1917.
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=, last Sunday morning while many good
people were engaged in saying theil
prayers just before starting to church
Patrol Sergeant Frank Corcoran, of the
Stanton Ave. police station, reinforced
with Detectives feeling and Mcclure
wendell their way to the fiat of Mrs
Laverne Black, 3454 Indiana Ave.
whom they claim is a very close and
a very warm friend of the Hon. Edward
81. Wright, and after the police officers
had somehow or other made their way
into the home of Mrs. Black, 10 and be.
hold, they found the Hon. Edward H.
Wright sitting at one of the card tables
and the officers say that che was play
ing stud poker to beat the band" The
officers pulled in one hundred and nine
teen dollars which was lying on the
table in front of the Hon. Edward H.
Wright, the Colored mayor of Chicago,
and when he was arrested he swore that
his name was Louis johnson or Joseph
Williams and that he resided at 1924
Vernon Ave, but he was unable to fool
the police officers and they toted him,
and Col. William Randolph Cowan and
the others arrested at the same time to
the Stanton Ave. police station, where
they were released on two hundred
dollar bonds.
There is no desire on our part to
detraet from the greatness Of the Hon.
Edward H. Wright, neither do we en-
terrain the least bit Of personal Ill
feeling against him, but we honestly
feel that the vast majority Of the de-
cent and highly respected Colored peo-
pie residing in this city who never per-
nit themselves to spend their time nor
money in an effort to rob or cheat their
fellow men in q game Of stud poker,
feel deep down in their hearts that the
Hon. Edward n. Wright has by his
late rash action brought everlasting
shame and burning disgrace upon them
that without any delay Mayor VIII
liam Hale Thompson, IL he has any re-
speet or regard for the better element
Of the COlOred people, should remove
him from Office, for he has no moral
right from this on to claim that he
really represents anyone else but him
self and the gambling or the sporting
element.
It is further clearly evident TO the
best and the law abiding Colored people
in this city, who believe in being honest
in their dealings with their fellow men,
that he never has and that he never win
be in q position to fully represent in
any way the self-respeeting, the pro-
gressive and the intellectual Colored
people residing in this community, for
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VAST MAJORITY DECENT RESPECTABLE COL
CITY, THEIR
MONEY IN CHEAT ONE IN
A WRIGHT BROUGHT
EVERLASTING
WITHOUT DELAY MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON SHOULD
REMOVE OFFICE.
THINKING COLORED
REPRESENT RESPECTING, PROGRESS
INTELLECTUAL CoLORRD PEOPLE RESIDING THIS
COMMUNITY, FOR so WHO PLACES GAMBLING
AND TRICKERY HONESTY SQUARE DEALING
THEREFORE, IF MAYOR THOMPSON DESIRES TO LAND THE
UNITED STATES SENATE
MUST CAST BIG CoLoRED ASSISTANT
CORPORATION OVERHEARD SOME
MAN TO TOTE VOTES AROUND
POCKET TIME
THE GAMING GAMBLING TABLE.
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The 55th anniversary Of the Enamel
patton Proclamation and a patriotic
meeting will be held at Bethel Church,
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock un-
der the auspices of the Chicago Branch
of the Law and Order League. A. H.
Roberts, President, William H. Davis,
secretary.
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member that in the forum scene in
"Julius Caesar" a citizen fears that
a worse tyrant than the one murdered
may come in the latter's place.
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viOus ways and determined fashion, and
always they failed to check the steady,
patient, intelligent hammering against
the whiskey traffic.
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The Chicago Branch Of The Law and
Order League VIII Hold q Patriotic
Meeting at Bethel Church Sunday
Afternoon, September 23rd.
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THE coLoRED MAsoNs OF
GEORGIA HAVE RETAINB d
MEssRs. J. z. WHITE AND 8 A.
7. WATKINS TO DEFEND THEM
AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF
THE WHITE MAsoNs OF THAT
STATE.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
TO HOLD LOYALTY MASS
MEETING IN MILWAUKEE

Because there is every indication
that Madison will not be able to &C
commodate the crowd that will attend
the big non-partisan mass meeting to
be held soon under the auspices of
the Wisconsin Loyalty Legion it was
decided Tuesday afternoon at a meet
ing of the general council of the
legion to hold the meeting in Milwau-
kee instead.
While the arrangements of details
for the meeting has been left to the
executive committee or the legion, it
is probable that the meeting will be
held at the Auditorium, that being the
only building in Milwaukee large
enough to accommodate the crowd.
There will be at least one and pos
sibly two speakers of nation wide
fame. Among those mentioned as pos
sibilities are Elihu Root. Nicholas
Murray Butler, William Howard Taft,
John Sharp Williams and Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
SOCIALISTS HOLD MEETING.
But Little Business Transacted Tues
day.

A meeting of local socialists was
held in West Main street Tuesday
evening. But little business was trans
acted, the organization being in it's
infancy. Socialism, it's principles and
precepts1 were the main topics. at
takes crooks to start every movement
said one speaker quoting the prohibit
zionist party, suffrage and several
others, to substantiate his contentious.
Large profits in war time by war
munition manufacturers was dis
cussed by several of the members.
The unanimous decision arrived at
was to the effect that right in a sense
it was radically wrong insofar as pa
triotism is concerned
The meeting was adjourned at an
early hour following the admittance
Of two new members.
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STAND BEHIND WILSON
URGES ]. C.. SPOONER

Former United States Senator John
c. Spooner of New York, who spent
Tuesday in Madison visiting his broth
er, Phillip Spooner, who is critically
i'll, in an interview on Tuesday said:
1T is the duty of every citizen of
the United States to stand staunchly
be hind President Wilson and the gov
eminent in support of all measures to
bring the war with Germany to a
speedy and successful end.
I'VE have got to. fight this war
through to a finish. No one can pre-
dict when it will end, but we will win.
| do not believe that any of the allied
nations will let up until the kaiser is
licked. I strongly approve of the act
OF the president in having congress de-
clare war on Austria"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
CITY FISH SALES SHOW
net PROFIT OF SIS

In report to the city council Tues
day evening City Sealer Edward Gnat-
zig, who has had charge of the fish
sales at the city market, shows that a
profit of SIS is in the treasury after
all expenses are paid. The actual ex-
penses aside from the fish was $217 40.
About 10000 pounds of fish were dis
posed of. This includes 500 pounds
given away to the poor short while
ago and donations to the hospital The
total amount received from the sale
of fish was $1169.4O and the cost of
the fish was $115440.
A pretty good showing, all things
considered.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
WILLIAM J. MURPHY
CALLED BY DEATH
after BRIEF ILLNESS

Following a brief illness from a
cold contracted while on visit to
Markesan, Mr.. William J. Murphy
died in the New Belivdere hotel on
Tuesday night His death was totally
unexpected by many friends who
were not aware that he was sick and
was shock to the whole community.
Mr. Murphy was born in the town of
Elba April II, 1877 and when a young
man made his home in Columbus
where he was engaged in business. He
was married in 1906 at Markesan and
came to Watertown in 1910 engaging
in the hotel business, conducting the
New Belvidere hOstelry since that
time. He also for the past two years
conducted cafe in Main street. For
awhile he served on the police force
as substitute. He possessed a large
number Of friends in this and other
cities and his death will be learned
with regret by many
He is survived by his widow and
two children, William, ten years old,
and Dorothy, eight years old. The
funeral will take place on Thursday
morning with services in st. Bernard's
church at 8 o'clock. Burial will be in
st. Demands cemetery
Miss Mary Butscher died in the
family home, 404 Main street, Tues
day afternoon following an illness of
four months. Miss Butscher was a
daughter of the late Joseph Butscher
and was born in Watertown February
6, 1859. She has resided in Watertown
ever since. She is survived by three
brothers, Albert, Boyd, Joseph Min
neapolis, and Theodore, Milwaukee.
The funeral will take place on Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock to St.
Henry's church.
Miss Bessie BuSler, six year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Buss-
Ter, passed away at the farm home in
the River road Tuesday evening fol-
lowing an illness of kidney trouble
She is survived by her parents, one
brother, Raymond, and one sister,
Norma. Funeral services will be held
in the home Saturday at l o'clock and
at 2 o'clock in st. Marks Lutheran
church. Interment will be made in
Lutheran cemetery.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
RED CROSS MEMBERS
SWELLING THE TOTAL
IN WEEKS DRIVE

The drive for Red Cross member
ships which was started last Sunday
is going steadily forward The vari-
Gus local committees are meeting with
good success and many new member
ships are being added. Committees
are at work in each ward of the city
and in the towns hereabouts.
The force at work in the office of
the Red Cross have been kept busy
night and day during the last week
compiling returns of workers as they
have been brought in. From indica-
lions the work is progressing better
than ever before and it seems that
the WatertOwn chapter roll will have
many new members when the drive
closes and all those who have been
members last year will also be on
the chapter roll
Captain after captain has reported
each day with many new members
and all old ones. The work they are
doing is the best ever undertaken in
this world, and the workers will be
we'll repaid when the drive coming to
all old members re-listed and many
new ones. The remuneration received
will be satisfaction in a work we'll
done. ITO strive and persevere," to
the final day of the drive should be
the slogan of all workers.
Speak i'm Theatres.
-Four minute men" have been
Iii in, fbn
Sunday in the interests of the local
Red Cross drive The pith of the ad-
dresses, which were very short, were
on the work, aims, inception and pres
ent stand of the organization. DR.. E.
w. Bowen and Gordon Bacon spoke
Saturday at the Classic and Majestic
respectively. On Sunday the speakers
exchanged theatres. Tonight Nicholas
; Thauer will speak at the Majestic and
Gordon Bacon at the Classic
Those who heard Mr. Thauer at the
Classic Monday evening were fairly
carried away by the speakers elo-
quence. They say it was one of the
most clear, short and impossionate ap-
peals to the great cause of humanity
the Red Cross-that has ever been
made here. The work, scope and need
was brought out clearly by the
speaker. His clear, forceful and grace
full description will long be remem-
bered by those who heard him at the
Classic Monday.
=
There will be a meeting of the
ward captains and Red Cross =
committees in the executive Of =
*-fices in the Bank Of Watertown I"
building this evening =
The following poem on Red Cross
work, written by Amelia Josephine
Burr, of the Vigilantes, appears in
the January number of the Red Cross
magazine feeling in it justly ex-
pressing the sentiment of everyone
engaged in Red Cross work:
1nterminable folds of gauze
For those whom we shall never see.
Remember, when your fingers pause,
That every drop Of blood to stain
This whiteness, falls for you and me,
Part of the price that keeps us free
To serve our own, that keeps us clean
For shame that other women know.
0, saviours we have never seen,
Forgive us that we are so Slow
God-lf that blood should cry in vain,
And we have left our moment go!
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
Banknote for a Million Pounds.

The Oldest note in the possession of
the Bank of England is dated Deem
Der 10, 1899, for 1855. In the bank
library is note for EOS which was not
presented for Ill years. Another is
q note of 1882 for one million ster-
ling. This is the only specimen of q
million note in existence, only four
notes for like amounts having been
issued.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
Skat Scores.

Following are the results of play in
the Skat club weekly tourney at Ohm
Bros Monday night:
Phillip Hartig, 10 good plays.
B. Richter, high points.
G. A. Feisst, Is good plays.
DR.. H. Klein, second high points.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
THE WEATHER

For Watertown and vicinity-Un-
settled and continued mild weather to-
night and Thursday. Coolest during
last night 30; warmest today SO.
Special forecast for shipments with
in radius of 400 miles-Prepare &C.
hour shipments for temperatures as
follows: North and west, % to 80 de-
grees; south and east, about freezing.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19

A fresh shipment of oysters.
direct from Baltimore, has been
received and are ON sale at Carl
OttO's at SO cents a quart, Is
cents a pint. 12tf
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19

Call today and let us explain
why the VOss Vacuum Dasher
keeps the water hot instead of
cooling it as other sO-called va
CUM dashers do. ID. & F. Ku-
SefCO.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
Just Half Obeying.

Sherwood, tired of his play, had
made several attempts at opening the
kitchen door. His mother, hearing
him, called out: Turn the knob and
come ill.," prompting Sherwood's an
swer "Well, mamma, 1 is turnin',
but I isn't tumin' in"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19

A large assortment of flower
ing plants also palms and ferns
suitable for holiday gifts, also
all kinds of choice cut flowers
at the Stuebe FIcraI Co.
"Send fl0Wers-alWays a good
ldea. 17-3t
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-19
REMODEL STORE.
StueSe Floral Company Make Many
improvements.

The Stuebe floral store presents an
attractive appearance these days. The
whole store has been newly painted,
papered and many new shelves put
in. The improvements make it one of
the up to date floral shops in the
state.