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The Denver star., 1917-09-08
Killed in Self Defense.
John Little Shoots When
Attack

Isaac M. Ledbetter, 40, a
Negro. was shot and instantly
killed by Jehn L. Little, also a
a Negro. at the Denver & Rio
Grande Railway company's
shops. West Eighth avenue
and Navajo street, shertly at
ter midnight this morning.
Little surrendered to the
crew Of the police ambulance.
He asserts he shot in self de-
tense. after Ledbetter had
struck him over the head with
a shovel following a trivial
quarrel. The bullet struck
Ledbetter in the left temple.
Both men we're employed in
the cinder pits at the railway
shops and had been close
friends until the qnarrel arose
which, according to Little.
precipitated the shooting.
Ledbetters body was turn
ed over to Coroner Horan,
who will hold an inquest. Led
better lived at Twenty-hrst
and Curtis streets.
Little is married and lives
at 600 Mariposa street, and is
we'll thought of and always re
garded as a quiet and peace
full citizen. He is a promi.
ncnt mason.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08
NO NEGROES IN THE FIRST
DRAFT CALL

Washington, d. C.-Until
the War Department determ-
ines upon a policy with re-
gard to quarterlng Negroes
of the National Army at can
tonments in the South. Ne
groes chosen under the draft
will not be called to the COL
ors. This course is due to
protests from Southern States
following the race riot at
Houston, Texas.
The War Department feels
it will not send Negro troops
to Southern camps until it
has had time to consider the
situation. One of the reasons
for not calling Negroes in the
first contingent of the draft is
that some of the cantonments
have not been completed.
There must be segregation
OF the races in the mobiliza.
ton OF the men drafted under
the conscription law for the
Natural Army. These were
the terms of AN order regulat
ing the matter wired from
Washington to Provost Mar
shall Gen. E. H. Crowder to
fdj. Gen. James n. McCord
today.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08
Color Line Ignored at
u. S. War Camps

Washington, Sept. 4-How
color lines have been ignored
in the assignment OF Negro
troops in the drafted sections
q the national army is reveal
ed in general orders issued to
day, showing the war depart
ment's intention to apportion
the Negro troops evenly
where possible in all Canton
ments. The order provides
that in every cantonment
there shall be one Negro in
fantry regiment where suth-
cient personnel is available.
Protests have been made
against quartering Negro
troops in certain parts OF the
South, but no modihcat'on
has been made, The order is
taken as an indication OF what
the war department will do IN
disposing of similar regiments
in the national guard camps.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08
Miss ALBRITT0N At PRESBY-
TERRAIN CHURCH sept. II
n
Musical Denver to Hear
Singer

INST as we would want other
cities to turn out to hear our
singers who are struggling to
win fame in the musical world
just so the Star is urging that
musical Denver hear Miss M i.
Minnie Albritton. rightfully
designated CALIFORNIA; mock
ing bird. who is at present an
advanced student in the Bos-
ton Conservatory of music.
Youthful in appearance. ma
tured in the execution of her
wonderful singing. techinal in
her outstanding featured
asing, marked by her pleas
ing tonic expressions Of such
rich and rare quality, reach
ing her higher registers with
remark Bile ease and very 1T
tie effort makes her such a
(musical personality that one
longs to hear her give express
lion to her musical soul. We
appeal to all lovers OF music
to encourage her by their
presence aud support. Let all
Denver welcome this deserv-
ing young musical woman.
Our girls and boys will sooner
d later be touring the coun =
Try ana in as much as ye have
done it with the least Of these
my singers. ye have helped
the race upward that much.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08
Progress Made In The East
St. Louis Riot Case

After a thirty days grind
the St. Clair county grand ju
ry returned indictments a
gainst Io2 persons, 80 whites
and % Negroes. In return
ing its verdict the grand jury
brought out the following
facts: loo persons were killed
and 245 houses burned in riot
ing. The estimated loss by
fire was approximately 5000.
900. Indolent officers. over
awed by cowardly inclination
remain inactive. Union labor
created aversion. to the Ne
gro, causing race hatred.
Shooting of policemen, plot
of mob leaders to gain sympa
thy. Automobiles that caus
ed trouble were riddled with
buckshot. occupants known
but no arrests made. Plans
to mob Negroes we're openly
held on Monday. but no ar
rests made by official to fore
stall the terrible carnage that
followed. Lack of respect for
law in East St. Louis.
One rioter, S. l.. Shultz, has
plead guilty to the charges of
rioting, conspiracy and assault
with intent to commit murder
in the circuit court of that
county. He was sentenced to
an indeterminate term of one
to fourteen years in the peni
tentiary on the latter charge
and to FIVE year term on the
conspiracy charge.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08

Washington, Sept. 3'-A
regiment of a.4oo Negro steve
darcs for foreign service mas
been 19hot;zed by the war dc
partment to meet the demand
sor experienced men to hand
le war supplies for the Amer'-
can expedite nary force IN
France. Recruiting othcers'
especially those in Southern
seaport cities, have been IN
structed to seek men Tor the
regiment. The army also
Aan,s Negro cooks and VIII
give good pay TO even mex
oerienced men it they have ca
pakity and are willing 20
learn.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08

like creature on earth. To
such aggressive MEN. unjust
restrictions will in the end
Weld and break down, be-
cause they will ever refuse
to recognize them. In cases
of luxuries of life such men
will not accept the limitations
though they greatly desire
them and have the price de-
manded. In the case Of ne
cessities, they will fight re-
strictions and limit as far as
switch in their power, the de-
mand tor them.
A MAN CAN BE FREE
IN A FREE COUNTRY
ONLY WHEN HE RE
TAINS THE RESPECT OF
HIS FELLOW CITIZENS
TO THE EXTENT HE RE
CEIVES 7 H E S A M E
I TREATMENT F X O M
THEM THEY EXPECT
FROM HINT
Minneapolis Appeal
The Denver star., 1917-09-08
Dloyd, Fla.-Nathan Nose

Dloyd, Fla.-Nathan Nose
lev and Willie Green, Negro
farm hands, among the first
men drafted in Leon County
have multiIated themselves to
escape serving. Borrowing a
shotgun, the pair went to the
woods, and shortly returned.
Green with four fingers of his
hand shot off below the
elbow.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08

Our will go into the trenches in Europe Mr..
President and tight peoples who have and ALWAYS
treated those OF rather than serfs. We
will command because YOU assumed repre-
the spirit OF the
of this, the country will defend
last expiring breath, and o last drop of blood
But will pardon MIR. President we saw and saw
1t believing 1t down heart that has
president of United States to occupy the White
House under whom has suffered more and been
retarded its advancement than President Woodrow
Wilson.
The Denver star., 1917-09-08
FAILURE TO FIGHT, COSTLY

| Hos olio oiIS oClCLoCI VI
true Americanism, the Cleve-
land Gazette, edited by Hon.
II. {. Smith, a man of whom
all Americans may we'll be
proud, printed an editorial in
a recent issue which is so ac-
curate an exposition of the
costly blunder the colored
people have made IN failing
to fight tor their rights that
we reproduce it. We trust
that every reader will read
it carefully and ponder over
the truths expressed:
! 1T has not been so very
many years since the adop-
ton of the war amendments
OF the Constitution and the
beginning of systematic eff
fort on the part of our enc
mics to nulllfy the effect they
were expected 10 have and
its subsequent good. Since
these efforts at restriction be-
gan. they have grown and
multiplied rapidly and much
of it has been due to our re-
fusal to fight the issues raised
with all our resources, before
they become operative. In the
South disfrAnchisia9, spnsti-
tutions have come. separate
or Jim crow" railroad and
street cars, peanut galleries
In the theatres for our men
and women, separate bars in
Saloons" Jim crow" city parks,
swimming pools, Jim crow
ism in dental offices churches,
Y. M. Z. AS. etc. Indeed,
there is apparently a desire
tor segregation of races in
Heaven, if some of them ever
get there. These things have
all crept upon US since eman-
cipation and the elevation to
a citizenship supposed 10 be
equal to that of all other
Americans. We have los.
ground, South and North. be-
cause we have not fought,
and when we have resisted,
have lacked leadership, while
other supposed leaders have
played into the hands of our
enemies. AS a RAGS, we have
been 5urlesqued. abused and
Inundated by the thought
less (some members of the
race), as we'll as by those hos
tile to our interests, simply
because there was lacking
proper resentment on our part
and a determination to take
stand tor our rights with all
the power at our command.
The world loves a MAN,
a fighter! one who thinks as
much of himself as any ether
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

The progress of the newspapers as
advertising mediums has become a
phenomenon. It shows that adver-
Using is coming more and more to be
regarded as a necessary business at
tribute. Nothing else explains it.
The newspapers are no better medi'
ums than they have been these past
twenty-five years-ip some respects
they are not as good. They have
done little to stimulate advertising,
except to give the advertisers meas
urably increased calculations, and
coincidently increased advertising
rates. In their editorial conduct,
in their hold upon the people. in
their general management, they
have progressed mainly in those
matters concerning their internal
management which do not affect
their readers. They have improved
wonderfully - maraged properties,
but not appreeiably Is leaders o4
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

Manager Sol Loeb of the Evange.
line Theatre is preparing to install
considerable ned attractive scenery
in the theatre. Mr.. E. B. Coleman
representing Scenery Company is
spending a week here preparatory to
the installation.
Spring time Is Kodak time get
ready, Ansco films all sizes to fit
any Kodak or Camera. Belanger
Drug Co.
Mr.. Jere Dyer is preparing to in
stall the pool and billiard tables in
his place at the corner of Front and
Railroad Avenue. The fixtures have
arrived and will be placed this week.
IT PAYS YOU TO BUY AT THE
SPECIALITY STORE.
Place yourself in a position to say
that you are a member of the best
organization in Morgan City, and
Berwick, The Chamber of Commerce
and watch US grow.
Eatonic for bad stomachs, see our
window, soc per box. Belanger
Drug Co.
There will be Track Meet in
Patterson Saturday at 2 p. m. Quite
number of the Morgan City High
School boys are to take part, and a
number Of automobile parties are
planning to go cheer the boys.
Creole Gumbo 1Oc and Heinz
Cream of Tomato Soup 15c. Ring
Dyer Lehman Co.
Mrs. C. Rebinnack Of New Orleans
is visiting her sister Mrs. L. j.
Fleury.
SEE l. w. PADDOCK FOR IN.
SURANCE.
Mr.. E. Doome of Belle River was
in Morgan City Thursday transact
ing business.
1T PAYS YOU TO BUY AT THE
SPECIALITY STORE.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20
Great American Industry.


They are striking figures that the
bureau Of education gives in its report
on the schooling of the American peo
pie. They show that "a per cent Of the
population-a trif1e less than one.
fourth Of the American people-are in
school, either as pupils or as teach
ers.
School, it thus appears, is our great.
est national industry. And the pro
portion Of brains, hearts and souls
that this industry absorbs, In com.
parison with the three other leading
countries In the world, 10 an inspir.
ing revelation Of Americas thirst for
knowledge. In Germany. the country
that ranks next to the United States
In the scope Of its educational equip.
ment 20 per cent Of the population
are in school; IN Great Britain, 10 PEI
cent; In France, II per cent.
In the United States there are e.
100000 persons enrolled In VARIOUS
educational institutions. What IN army
Of hope that is.-the army that vfll
create and guard Amefica1 future!-
New York Mail.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20
PERSONALS.

Mr.. Sam Shelbourne, who has
Ion working at St. Martinsville ar
rived Thursday to spend a few days
-4h relatives and friends.
PAYS YOU TO BUY AT THE
SPECIALITY STORE.
Mr. Walter Pregeant, represent
.se Schiller Rubber Company of
N.w Orleans was business visitor
n Morgan City yesterday.
When you think Of anything in q
a,ug store, think of Belanger Drug
Co.
Mr.. E. L. Louis, travelling sales
nan for Swiffs and Company of
New Orleans was here Thursday.
Sunshine Cakes in IA varieties at
Dyer-Lehmann Co.
Mrs. Schuyler P. Coleman of New
Orleans spent today with Mrs. v.
Ellis.
Mr.. R. E. Duffy of New Orleans
vas a business visitor here yester-
day.
Daily Review 40 cents per month
delivered to your home.
Mr., Senette is now the owner of
the saloon known as the Senette and
Maddox, the sale was passed We'd
nesday.
Raise your own chickens; Buck
Eve Incubators and Breeders now
for sale at Dyer-Lehmann CT.
Mr.. VIM. Kreisle leaves in few
DAYS for Houston, Texas for his
health.
Mr.. B. L. Beverages, representing
the Good Year Tire and Rubber Co.
of New Orleans was business visi-
tor here Thursday.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20
THE CRISIS

1t portrays human Lincoln.
Heretofore, the Lincolns of both
the spoken drama and broader
drama of the screen have been mere
historical figureheads. Says Thomas
A. Edison: 'In The Crisis we have
the Titanic figure of Lincoln, his
actions, his characteristics preser-
we'd for posterity in moving pictures
in manner SO true to life that it
recalls to my mind the great eman-
cipator as l knew him. I
A delicate and beautiful romance,
involving north and south in the
border city of St. Louis, is told.
The play follows closely the novel,
which has had a great popular sue
cess, and has now taken its place
among the classics of American
fiction.
The slave market of old St. Louis
is reproduced, with an auction sale
of human chattels in progress.
Lincoln and Douglas debate the
fiery question that finally set the
country in a blaze Of Civil War:
"Can the people of a United States
territory in any lawful way, against
the wish of any citizen of the Uni
ted States, exclude slavery from its
limits prior to the formation of
state constitution"
The torchlight campaign of the
SIXTIES, with its crude poetry of the
backwoods, is shown, eliminating in
the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Fort Sumpter is bombarded, and
the American flag falls for the first
time before the hostile fire of an in
ternal enemy.
A nation rushes to arms at the
call of a raw-boned humorist, who
is destined to become the sublime
man of sorrows.
The battle of Vicksburg is fought
in detail, with its flotilla of crude
river gunboats bonbarding the forts
on the bluff, and its blue and gray
coated land armies engaged in a
grim hand-to-hand death struggle.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

Exalted Ruler Maurice Blum of
the Morgan City Lodge of Elks has
announced the appointment of the
local House Committee as follows
M. P. Palmer, Chairman; H. L.
Jolley, P. H. Kenney, A. B. Fisher,
and D. C. Walsh, Finance Commit
tee. A. B. O'Brien, Chairman, Henry
Loeb and J. R. Harmed.
1T PAYS YOU TO BUY AT THE
SPECIALITY STORE.
It is understood that Morgan City
will do her share towards the food
problem this year. Numerous yards
will be converted in "garden space
and the prospects are that vegeta-
bles will be quite plentiful in due
time.
Never let day pass without read
ing the advertisements in the Daily
Review. There is always something
new.
Maple Syrup in 10c cans; Pure
Syrup in loo and .15c cans at Dyer
Lehman Co.
Mr.. Robert E. Duffy Of New Or
leans IL spending few days here.
The entire yard space in rear of
The Peoples State and Savings Bank
and Fisher Brothers, is being placed
into q Garden.
Baby Week Campaign May LIST to
May 9Th.
Mr.. Lucien Klein Of New Orleans
was the guest Of Mr.. and Hrs. J. A.
Strauss this week.
IT RVS YOU TO BUY At THE
SPECIALITY STORE.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

For shoes whst.will come sitter leaeA'
err Cloth Of suitable kinds may be
used and rubber or sizpilar material
may enter into the product, but man
1facturers seem 10 look most hopeful.
" upon paper as the basic substance.
Paper leather Of attractive appear
ance, adapted for many purposes a.
well az the natural leather, is, Ia fact,
said to be satisfactorily made already.
In q German process, paper a. long
6ber is converted into pulp. suitably
colored, made flexible With glycerine
and non-drying oils and waterproofed
with. shellac solution given the graia
Of morocco or other leather by press
ting in q matrix and finished with
lacquer. The matrix is formed by tax.
Ing an impression Of the natural
leather in shellac.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20
USELESS FEAR OF BACTERIA
Authority Says People Are Allowing
Themselves 70 BE Needlessly Wa.
ried Over the Subject.

To timid individuals a recent artl-
Gle In the Journal Of the American
Medical association On Bacteria On
Paper Money and Books may bring
comfort.
The Sun has endeavored to present
only the most reliable scientific as
pect Of the subject Of germ diseases,
because the usual hasty generaliza-
lions Of science and baseless asser-
tons which continually appear in print
under the euise Of scientific authority
sooner or later rebound to the dis
credit of real progress. An unwar-
ranted skepticism is aroused and the
distrust Of an obvious misstatement
unconsciously becomes magnified into
q reactionary indifference to the better
contributions Of scientific men. The
championship of half or conjectured
truths inevitably acts in the course of
time as q barrier to the very objects
which are sought in public reforms,
for in the end truth always prevails.
Some years ago the Sun called at
tentfOn to the erroneous idea that tu-
berculosis may be contracted by per-
sons using the telephone mouthpiece
which has been used by many others.
We showed that the postmaster gener-
al Of Great Britain had the mouth
pieces on the telephone under his con-
troll examined bacteriologically, with
the result Of 10 disease germs being
discovered upon them. The Journal
comments upon the popular opinion Of
few years ago that the handling of
/ sOiled paper money was extremely dan
gerous on account of the bacteria that
may adhere to it. The fact is that
bank tellers do not share this aversion,
nor do they present evidence of ex-
ceptional liability to infectious dis
eases. It has been positively ascer-
tanned and published in the Popular
Science Monthly that paper money con-
stitutes an unimpOrtant factor in the
transmission Of disease. While clean
paper money satisfies our esthetic
sense, it has not been proved that
soiled money is likely to become me-
dunn Of disease transmission.
With regard to books. it is the Gus
tom to disinfect them, when soiled. by
exposure to sunlight and air, but it is
fact that the hygienic laboratory of
Johns Hopkins has not found germs of
diphtheria, for instance, on books com.
ing from homes in which children had
been suffering from this disease. The
fact is that the majority of bacteria
found on books are the same as those
found in atmospheric air, and that the
colon bacterium, which is frequently
found on the hands of schOolchildren,
has rarely been found on the books
they handle. There is really no ma
terial risk involved in the reissue of
books recently read by consumptives,
unless the books are obviously soiled
and even then the risks are very slight
Since, however, bacteria like the
typhoid and diphtheria organism have
been occasionally discovered on arti-
ficially infected books, there may be
good reason for subjecting all returned
books to direct sunlight before redis-
tribution.
Practically the danger from soiled
money and books is no more obvious
than the danger from the mouthpiece
Of the telenhOne- York SIM.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20
IT PAYS YOU TO BUY AT TIL
SPECIALITY STORE.

A prudent mother is always on
the watch for symptoms of worms
in her children. Paleness, lack of
interest in play, and peevishness is
the signal for WHITES CREAM
VERMIFUCE. A few doses of this
excellent remedy nuts the end to
the woyms and the child soon acts
naturally. Price 25e per bottle. Sold
by Belanger Drug Co.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

public opinion or in editorial streng-
tn. But advertising has gone march
ing on, from one high-water mark to
Notwithstanding News.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

II don't believe we can stand an
these additional expenditures Jon are
planning"
"Well, Charley, DEAR" replied young
Mrs. Torkins, ''1'll tell you what veil
do. Wen 60 ahead and make them.
Just the same, and you can be COM
mittee to observe and determine wheth-
e. the experiment II success"
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20
CATHOLIC CHURCH

High Mass every first Sunday at
$50 q. m.
Low Mass every other Sunday ut
Z q. N.
Sunday School every Sunday ut
$3.50 p. m.
Low Nass every first Sunday ut
7:30 q. n.
High Mass on third Sunday q
$50 Z. n.
Sunday School every Sunday st
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

4 blocks from ferry 6 room house
for rent cheap. Apply DR.. Berwick.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

For Welch's Grape Juice, 10c ane
25c-Ring 287..
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

Put your dimes in . sarden and
dollars win grow. -.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-20

Baby Week Campaign May LIST to
May 9Th
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-13
Ordinances Being Enforced

It is difficult thing for the marshal of the town, or any other executive officer. to enforce the laws when people insist on violating some of them. How ever, Jos. F. Woods, marshal of Holbrook, is entitled to great credit for the manner in which he is enforcing the stock and dog ordinances.
 The town has been rid of the burro pest by the marshal round ing up and placing in the pound a number of these critters that have made life miserable for the people so long.
 Ownerless dogs are being plac- ed in confinement by the marshal and unless claimed within the legal limit of time they will be shot.
 A few milch COWS are occa-
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-13
Successful Demonstration

The joint demonstrations on prairie dogs eXtermina- tion, July 3, at Snowflake, Taylor and Shumway, con- ducted by the U. s. Biolog- ical Survey and the U. of A. Extension Service, represent ed by Isaac Rogers and CIR. Fillerup, were decidedly suc- cessful.
 Seventy-five people wit messed the demonstrations and 600 pounds of prepared bait were given free to farm CTS and ranchers. The bait was applied by parties organ ized for the purpose. Good results were evident, as shown by dead dogs shortly after the bait had been placed.
 The new prairie dog bomb is cheap and it does the work, not a dog can escape.
 Farmers and ranchers should follow this good be- gining up until these rodent pests are entirely extermin- ated.