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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-24

/, Sister NJ, j. Thompkins took dinner
with Mrs. j. w. Martin Sunday.
There were several called on Mr.. and
Mrs. +. M. Mayfeld Sunday at their
new home on East Wilson street.
Miss Adams is visiting with Mrs
Albert jackson.
Mrs. Katherine Smith is enjoying d
visit from her brother Of Pittsburgh
Pa.
Quite a number Of .Centerville folks
visited in Mystic Sunday.
Mrs. Leonard Lewis entertained at q
three-course luncheon Monday evening
Miss Elizabeth Adams was the honored
guest.
Mr.. Tolliver of Ottumwa, Iowa, was q
Sunday visitor in our city.
Mrs. III. b. Marshall was calling on
friends Saturday afternoon.
The N. A. A. G. P. will have a Social
Saturday night at the church and a
small program will be rendered
Mrs. Marie Brown is reported on the
sick list at this writing.
Sister Lucy Bell is somewhat i'm
proved at this writing.
Brother Robert Tinell took supper
Monday evening with Mr.. and Mrs. H
w. Thompkins.
The church and Sunday school is
progressing nicely.
The Art and Industrial club was en-
tertained at the home Of Mrs. Mildred
Mayfeld Tuesday afternoon, Oct. Ia
at 8 O'Clock. A large attendance pres
ent The club gave $40 for the home
in Iowa City. The people of Center
vile pledged 5000. Mrs. Mildred May
field headed the list with $25, being
the largest individual contribution of
the race. Our state president, Mrs.
Martha White was present and gave Il
grand address, explaining every detail
about the girl Is home of which Center
vile is very proud. After business was
disposed of delicious two-course lun-
cheon was served.
Mrs. White was the guest of Mrs.
John Hicks while in the city.
Mr.. Henry White was caller at the
Mr.. j. Hicks home Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Childs visited Sun
day afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Watson.
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IN MEMoRIAM.

In loving memory of my dear Grand,
mother Angeline Coleman, who passed
away six years ago October 22, l9l4;
gone but not forgotten. 1t was nara .'
to part from you dear, still I know II
was Gods will. Your memory fingers
around my aching heart. Yet as time
goes on, miss you more. Your cneer.
full voice, your welcome face; no one
,an ever take your place. Rest on
dear. Your memory shall never 1aoe'
Your loving grandson,
Lloyd Davis.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-24

employment in other coal fields or cities
until now there are only about 1000
people in Buxton of which 1900 are
colored. The two justices Of the peace
are colored. G. R. Foster and
Mr.. w. H. Bailey. Two con-
stables Mr.. G. r. Roman, I cannot
just now call the other one Five
churches of which three are colored, the
st Johns A. NJ. E. pastored by Rev.
Sims and the Mt. Zion (without min
utes) and the other Baptist church pas
tored by the Rev. F. G.. Boiling, who is
doing good here. One Y. M. c. A. with
Edward Mills as secretary. Lieut.. Wal
ter Hutchinson has just succeeded him
last Sunday at a large meeting at 4
o 'clock, where he was inducted into the
Office. There are four white teachers
and six colored teachers. Mrs. Minnie
Landon is principle; assistants, Mrs.
Mayme Humbles, Miss Mary Dimitry
Miss Lotto Hart, Mrs. Mae I Solo Bill
ings. Mr.. Hobe Armstrong still operates
the only meat market. He has been
with the company for the past thirty
four years and is claimed to be the rich
est man in Monroe county. He owns
over /, 100 acres of some of the highest
assessed land in that county. Ruben
Gaines is one of the rich men here. He
owns several farms and many houses in
Coopertown. Lawyer George H. Wood
son, the pioneer lawyer and real es-
tate man lives here. He is another large
property holder, wealthy bachelor,
so ladies ought to look that way. Mr..
Woodson is without doubt the best
criminal lawyers perhaps in. Iowa. There
are two other colored lawyers, J. A.
Spears and H. H. Hicks, the latter
has fine tonsorial parlor here. One
physician, DIR. E. A. Carter, the company
doctor and one dentist, DR.. +. A. Willis
of which both have a large practice. Mr..
Jacob Wilson, one of veteran wheel
house in political affairs for many
wears who has been sick for several
years is improving. Mr.. G. G. Southall 8
daughter is now teacher in the aca-
DENY in Virginia. Mr.. James is another
young single man, who is operating
cigar factory. There are about twenty |
five farmers owning their own farms,
Mr.. Henry Harnes, J. II. Bates, M.
Oualls. Mr.. Isaac johnson, Mr.. A Nor !
ris, Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor and many 9TH
ers that cannot name who owns their
farm and doing well.
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REPORT ON HOME
FUND CONTINUED

Since the close Of the active cam
paign to secure funds for the purchase
Of home for the girl students at Iowa
university, the following have contrib
uted to the Des Moines committee: Mrs.
Lillian Burrell, Des Moines, SIS; Mrs
Laurence G. Jones Of the Piney Woods
life and country school, $40; Household
Of Ruth, Des Moines, $40; Mrs. W. e.
Madison, Ames, Iowa, So; the Roose-
welt club, $5; Miss Tabitha Mash, 81;
and the st. Mary's Christian Home so
ciety, $1O.s5. The local committee are
grateful to these donors and at TINS
time urge all friends with outstanding
subscriptions to forward same to MIS-.
Jassye E. McClain, treasurer at loo1
Seventeenth steeet.
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ments viii need to be made for the girls
also.
Dorothy Monroe. Winonah Williams
and George and Merreweather Martin
are the old students who registered with
us last week
Eight or ten of the Fulton students
spent the week end at home attending
the county fair.
President G. Richardson and Prof. /.
w. Daniel gave addresses at the "A. M.
E. church Sunday afternoon and the
Lincoln institute chorus furnished the
music. Prof. v. E. Williams also sang
bass solo.
Miss Lucille King class of '19 who is
teaching at Joplin, Mo-, was pleasant
campus visitor Saturday.
The Own-A-Bible campaign which is
being conducted by the Sunday school
is producing some good rivalry among
the classes.
Our football boys will meet those Of
Lincoln High, East st. Louis Saturday
afternoon. Will we win? Of course.
Mr.. Nelson Kerr, training officer in
the United States rehabilitation service
visited our school and inspected the
work being done by the soldiers in that
branch of service. He expressed himself
we'll pleased with the work they are
doing.
President Richardson visited the an
nual Negro fair at Bunceton, Mo-, and
delivered the principal address. 1t was
wall racaiued He renOrts Negroes in
that vicinity doing very creditably
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cENTERvILLE NEWS.

The chicken supper given Saturday
night at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. 81
Trippletts was well attended and. sue,
cess reported.
Miss Ida Conley, who was operated
on few days ago at st. Josepr's Mer.
cy hospital. is doing nicely. We al
hope for her speedy recovery.
The A. & T. D. club will meet with
Sister Stella B. Nash Thursday after
noon.
Quite a number Of Sir Knights an
Daughters and friends attended the so
cial given by Sir Lewis Hughes at his
home in Mystic.
Deacon Ceory Noah is some better q
this writing.
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INSTITUTE NEWS.

Miss Jessie Wallace, senior norman
class. has returned from Desoto, Mo-,
where she substituted until a primary
teacher could be secured.
We were glad to receive our our coples
"a the Hill Top last week. The paper
Is 4 credit to its editorial staff.
The boys dormitory is SO crowded that
The upper rooms of the industrial build
mo are being fitted up to modate
the Young men. If the enrolment in
ereases much more some new arrange
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More Than Enough Is Too Much.

To maintain health, mature man or
woman needs just enough food to repair
the waste and supply energy and body
heat. The habitual consumption Of
more food than is necessary for these
purposes is the prime cause Of stomach
troubles, rheumatism and disorders Of
the kidneys. IF troubled with indiges-
tion, revise your diet, let reason and
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-24

The above cut is Sergeant Roberts,
who with Sergt. Henry Johnson of the
old Fifteenth or Three Hundred Sixty
ninth infantry Of New York dubbed as
the He'll Fighters. He was the first
soldier of the A. E. f. to be decorated
by the French government with the
Croix de Guerre and the much coveted
gold palm and star. He will speak Tues
day evening, Oct. % at the West High
school auditorium.
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For chapped skin.

Chapped skin whether on the hands
or face may be relieved in one night
by applying Chamberlain 's salve. It
is also unequaled for sore nipples, burns
and scalds.
Adv.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
AS no HOME MANUFACTURE.

Replying to the contention of the
liquorites that with nationwide pro-
hibition private stills and kitchen bar.
rooms will spring up all over the land,
the National Advocate very wisely and
pertinently says:
Proven facts as to moonshine whis-
ky making, and the effects of it, do
not justify the public operation of dis
tilleries and breweries. A private still
to every square mile Of Southern ter.
ritory could not be so bad for this
country as one public brewery in every
county, under law Of the nation APP
proving it and sharing its profits.
Evil that is banned by law remains a
thing of rebellious purpose, but it can
never be SO disastrous to the life of
a people as an evil made lawful UNI
der the statute, and constantly corrod.
ing the character Of men, the purity
of their legislation, the strength of
their common government"
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BEER cRIMINoLocY.

A woman physician, DR.. Mary f.
Cushman, of Maine, writes as follows :
IF anything has ever demonstrated
the evil of beer drinking, 1t is surely
the present war. Years ago, when
specializing in mental and nervous
diseases. was taught that alienists
had proved the crimes for which dis.
titled liquors were responsible, are
crimes of passion unprecedented, and
often a horror to the perpetrator
when he RECEIVERS from the effects Of
his drink. The habitual use of malt
liquors, however. so affects the moral
sense as to lead 70 deliberate crimes,
carefully planned, coolly executed,
without conjunction or remorse Ger
many, the great beer-drinking nation,
has simply illustrated this in war
conducted along the above lines of
beer criminology. What does our ma.
tion want of the drink that makes
men capable of the atrocities perpe-
trated by Germany"
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GOOD ENOUGH TO PASS ON.


These suggestions are offered by the
New York Sun:
We have not the means of verify
ing the estimate of the brewers that
10000 saloons in this city go out OF
business because Of the executive ban
on beer, but the figure is round and
fascinating and suggestive.
Ten thousand bartenders are well
come in essential industry, If not In
the army.
Ten thousand hardwood bars could
be turned into gun stocks, ships furni-
ture and peace conference tables.
Ten thousand sets Of mirrors, placed
In the environments, would add to the
Joy of the man putting on his first
suit Of olive drab.
Ten thousand brass footballs would
be received by the shell factories with
loud cheers.
Ten thousand groups of private
stock" bottles could be used as keteh-
up containers.
Ten thousand bungstarters could
be adapted to shipyard use for the
driving home of wooden keys. One OF
these interesting weapons might be
sent to the Historical society.
Then thousand states, after careful
washing, could be used In schools
Ten thousand vacated saloons
what is the increased value, in money
alone, of the buildings in which they
nestled?
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
B0ScHEE'S SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
so successfully for fifty-one years in
all parts of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles? It
gives the patient a good nights rest.
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, gives nature
chance to soothe the inflamed parts.
throw off the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than haF
century
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CHAPTER XIII.
Despair-and Freedom.

While | was working at the hos
pital conditions at my old barracks
had been getting worse and worse
Very few of the men were absolutely
right in the head, guess, and almost
all had given up hope of ever getting
out alive. Though they put up good
front to the Huns, they really did not
care great deal what happened to
them. The only thing to think about
was the minute they were living In.
The day came back two English
men, who had suddenly gone mad,
commenced to fight each other. 1t was
the most terrible fight have ever
seen. 1t was some time before the
rest Of us could make them quit, be-
cause at first we did not know they
were crazy. When we had them down,
however, they were scratched and bit
ten and pounded from head to foot.
Both Of them bled from the nose all
that night, and toward morning one
Of them became sane for q few min
utes and then died. The other was
taken away by the Germans, still
crazy.
Another time an Australian came
into our barracks and very seriously
told us that he had drag with the
German officers and that he had been
to dinner with them, and had had tur
key, potatoes, coffee, butter, eggs,
IL Il. =
you could think Of. We just sat and
stared at him. 1t seemed impossible
that any of our own men would have
the gall to torture us like that, and yet
we could not possibly believe that it
had really happened. Finally, one
fellow could not stand it any longer.
He was nothing but skin and bones,
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but he grabbed a dividing board and
there were just two wallopS: the
board hit the Australians head and
the head hit the floor. Then half a
dozen more pounced onto him and
gave him real licking. When he
came to he had forgotten all about
the wonderful dinner he did not have.
Not long after this the Russian doc
tors proved to the Germans that there
was no black typhus in our barracks
and we were allowed the freedom of
the camp except that we could not
visit the Russian barracks That was
no hardship to me nor to the rest of
us, except one chap from the Cambrian
Range, who had a special pal among
the Russians that he wanted to see.
And, of course, when it was verboten,
he wanted to see him all the more.
A day or two after the order was
standing outside the barracks door
when I saw this fellow come out with
dividing board in his hand. / thought
he was going to smash somebody with
it, so stood by. But he STOPPED over
and damned one end of the board
against the threshold of the door,
scratched the ground with the farther
end of the board and measured again
He kept this up, length by length, in
the direction of the Russian barracks.
The sentry in the yard stopped and
stared at him, but the fellow kept
right on, paying no attention to any
body. Pretty soon he was right by the
sentry's feet and I thought any minute
the sentry would give him the butt,
but he just stared while and let him
pass. That lad measured the whole
distance to the Russian barracks, went
inside, stayed a while and calmly
strolled back with the board under his
arm. When he reached our barracks
again he told us he had found vino
mine. What he had found was some
thing not so unusual--a boneheaded
German.
There was a lot of bamboo near the
Russian barracks and the Russians
made baskets out of it and turned
them In to the Germans. For this they
got all the good Jobs in the kitchen
and had fine chance to get more to
eat. But they were treated like dogs
that is, all except the few Cossacks
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Temperance
Is QOfeSH
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
STRONG DRINK is BARRED

STRONG DRINK is BARRED
From the vicinity of the coal mines,
From the vicinity Of the shipyards,
From the vicinity Of the munition
plants,
From the vicinity of the steel plants,
From the vicinity of the war train
ing camps,
From the vicinity Of the army on
the battlefield,
From the vicinity of all war work
plants,
From the vicinity of the business
districts.
From the vicinity of the resident
districts,
From the vicinity of the factory dis
tricts.
From the vicinity of the public
schools,
From the vicinity of the Christian
churches.
WHERE SHALL III GO?
1t is set upon by the food admins.
tration,
1t is condemned by the fuel admin.
istration,
1t is debarred by the railroad adj
ministration.
1t is prohibited by the navy depart.
ment,
1t is excluded from the army de-
partment,
1t is restricted by the agricultural
department,
1t is pronounced illegal by the judi
cial department.
One by one the states Of the Union
are eliminating it.--Western Christian
Advocate.
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sI00 Reward. 500

Catarrh is a local disease greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. 1t
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
Is taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys-
tom. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
destroys the foundation of the disease,
gives the patient strength by improving
the general health and assists nature In
doing it's work. $4,000 for any case OF
Catarrh that HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE fails to cure.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
r. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01

The University of California has
issued a bulletin which states that the
wine and table grapes Of California,
now worth 100000. would be worth
ss,0O0,G00 If converted into grape
strip. Phalanx.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01

as deadly as snakes venom.
The liver acts as q guard over our
well-being, sitting out the cinders and
ashes from the general circulation.
A blockade in the intestines piles q
heavy burden upon the liver. If the
intestines are choked or clogged up,
the circulation of the blood becomes
poisoned and the system becomes
loaded with toxic waste, and we suffer
from headache, yellow-coated tongue,
bad taste in mouth, nausea, or gas,
acid dyspepsia, languor, debility, yellow
skin or eyes. At such times one should
take a pleasant laxative. Such ore
is made of May-apple, leaves of aloe,
jalap, put into ready-to-pse form by
Doctor Pierce, nearly fifty years ago,
and sold for rs cents by all druggista
as DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
STOCKTON. CALF. "a For constipation. sick
headache an inactive liver, indigestion and bill
BUSINESS there is nothing to equal Or. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. have tried other things but
like the Pellets best of any, Mrs. F. CAN.
YIELD. 500 s. Grant Street
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
COAL PRODUCTION REDUCED BY
DRINK.

In the mines of the Pittsburgh Vein
Operators Association Of Ohio there
was loss of 10000 tons in coal pro
dnction on July 5 caused by li,luoY
drinking on the Fourth Of July,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01

know. The sentries booted me all the
way back to my old barracks. a
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
Optimistic Thought.

Observe thyself as thy greatest en-
envy would do; so shalt thou be thy
greatest friend.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01

1t is wise old saw that cuts with
Its wisdom teeth.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-02-01
Restaurant LIumor.

This fish is very rich.'
Eyes. it is well supplied with bones"
Boston Transcript.
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Make the best of the present-if you
are unable to exchange it for anything
better.
The diamond drill., 1919-05-24
MANY PERSONS SOUND BLIND
Peculiar Afflletion That II Is Now
Asserted Is Not Uncommon
Among Mankind.

Color blindness IS by no means an
uncommon complaint, for many peo'
pie, although they may possess per.
feet eyesight for reading or seeing
long distances, are quite unable 20 dis
tlnguish between green and red and
many other pairs Of colors. Lately 1t
has been found that some suffer from
an exactly similar affection OF the
hearing power-that is, an inability 70
distinguish particular shades OF sound.
A school teacher reports a boy who
could not distinguish at all between
the sounds OF "very," perry" ami
"Polly," and yet he could hear at as
great n distance as anybody. Another
youngster would spell different"
"drifent." He said that was how It
sounded 10 him. Several others ran
the letters "r, IN" and ~" together IN
hopeless way, being unable TO tell
one from the other.
The diamond drill., 1919-05-24
LINK WITH PREHISTORIC DAYS
Hoatzin Birds, Found In Guiana, Have
Long Been Subject Of Study
by Scientists.

Running on all fours; climbing with
fingers and toes like monkeys; diving
and swimming as sklllfully as II they
were denizens Of the ocean, the baby
Hoatzin birds. found In Guiana, per-
petuate the prehistoric days when rep
tiles were the dominant beings. II
can neither sing nor fly gracefully and
its very presence Is betrayed by its
strong odor, but ID is none the less OF
great Importance In the bird world be
cause OF its strange prehistoric at
tributes.
The nests OF the old birds are al
ways built out over the water, fre-
quently some Is feet above the sur
face, and the young birds, with their
wings turned back, not folded as is
usual but up like a Divers hands, will
dive cleanly from the nest into the
water and swim like fish. When
they wish to return TO the nest they
climb on shore and walking on their
feet and handlike ends Of their wings
will creep back TO the tree and then
climb like monkey, using what Is
virtually the thumb and first fingers
OF their strange wings. They have
q long neck and head far more rep
lillian than birdlike, and despite their
lack Of beauty many scientific expedi-
tlons have been sent to Guiana 10
photograph and study these birds,
who represent oil the ages Of his.
tory from reptile TO modern life.
The diamond drill., 1919-05-24
Robert Louis stevenson,s Prayer.

Robert Louis Stevenson's last prayer
tells us how all great men live by faith
of the life immortal. Assembling his
servants, ut the end of the day, IN his
house in Samoa, he prayed Behold
US with favor, folk of many families
and nations gathered together IN the
peace OF this room. Weak men and
women. subsistlng under the covert OF
thy patience, be patient still Suffer
us yet a while longer. with our broken
purposes of good, with our idle en-
deayor against evil. Bless 20 ms our cx-
trnordinury mercies II the day come
when these must be taken, brace us 20
play the man under anliction. Call
as UP with morning faces and with
morning hearts, eager 70 labor, eager
20 be happy IL happiness shall be our
portion, and, If the day be marked for
sorrow, strong 10 endure From n
sermon by the Rev Or Newell Dwight
Hills at Brooklyn. N. y.