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The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
Stage Pitched Battle
Several Officers and Negro Gambler
Exchange Shots.

Greenville, S. c., Oct. IA
pitched battle between several ofli-
GERS and Joe Turner, the negro gam
bier, wanted here for the murder of
two Greenville police Sunday morn
ing, was staged in patch of woods
in the southwestern part of Spar
tanburg County last night, according
to reports brought here today by
policemen and other officers who pur-
sued the negro.
Deputy Sheriff Noe and former
Chief Of Police Gosnell and others
were fired on several times by the
negro, armed with two pistols, and
several volleys were exchanged. He
was pursued through dense thickets
and trailed by bloodhounds that tirts
picked up the trail at Il negro house,
where it was believed the fugitive
had been hiding.
Officers who returned to Greenvillc
early today reported posse OF sew
eral hundred strong was securing the
country. At one stage of the hunt
il was believed the negro had been
surrounded and all avenues of escape
closed in, but then found their quarry
had slipped through the meshes of
the human net thrown around the
swamp.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
Has Secret Service.
Colored would be detective.

Hot Springs, Oct. lit viii re
main for one Tom Curtis, said to be
secret service man stationed in the
Union Station at st. Louis, to verify
the story told by Richard f. Brooks,
negro, Of 10 North Garrison avenue,
st. Louis, porter on the paymaster's
car of the Missouri Pasiiic railroad,
to clear Brooks of the suspicion of be-
ing implicated in a negro secret or
ganization which, it is alleged, has
for its object the stirring up Of ne
grocs against the whites.
Brooks was arrested and locked up
in the city Jail after he had paid for
a special badge bearing the inscrip-
ton, Secret United State Service,
d. c.. The badge was made for him
by J. c. Harding, at his stand near
the postofiice. Brooks told newspaper
men that Curtis, who Brooks says is
IA Secret Service man, asked him Mon
day night in st. Louis to get the
badge made for him.
Curtis came to me just before the
, train pulled out, told where | would
find the badge man and explained that
the badge maker in Hot Springs had
/ made that kind of a badge for him
about year ago and that he had re-
Gently lost the pin and wanted an
other one just like he had made be-
FORE" said Brooks. Il asked Curtis
where could find him if he wasn't in
the Union Station when l got back,
and he said | could get him at Pill
Chestnut street. | have seen Curtis
in the Union Station for the past
three years, and | have eveY reason
to believe he is Secret Service
man.
Harding, who made the badge, says
the negro told him he wanted the
badge for his own use. Harding says
Brooks wanted Washington" on the
badge and said that 81 work out of
there"
Brooks referred the officers to high
officials of the Missouri Pacific rail
road in St. Louis, who, he said, would
youch for his character. 81 never
thought how strange it would look for
me to get a Secret Service badge
made" said Brooks, but | realize it
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
The Trouble in Arkansas.

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 10
Fifth Ave, New York, makes public
the following letter from a cores.
pondent near the scene of the race
riots in Arkansas, showing cotton
prices, not Negro nsurreetion, as the
cause of the trouble. The correspond
ent, whose standing the Association
vouches for, writes:
"The whole trouble, as / under
stand it, started because a Mr.. Brat
ton, a white lawyer from Little Rock,
Arkansas, was employed by sixty or
seventy colored families to go to
Elaine and represent them in a dis
pute with the white planters relative
to the sale price of cotton. The ru-
NOR is that the planters had organ
ized to settle with the tenants for
their cotton on a twenty-five cent
basis, when in turn the planters would
sell it for much more. Quite natur-
ally the tenants objected to this and
employed Mr.. Bratton to represent
them. 4 full statement by Mr.. Brat
ton appears in some of the clippings
have sent.
This Federated Union Of Amer
lea is camouflage. The real issue was
the dispute over the price Of cotton
between the tenants and planters.
The propaganda published in the press
about Negroes being armed to kill
all white people and take their farms
away from them is too ridiculous to
be given any thought"
The clipping referred to is from
the Memphis, Tenn, Commercial APP
peal, of Friday morning, October 3.
According to L. S. Bratton, father
of the attorney accused of 'incit-
ing the Negroes, therein quoted, his
clients claimed that it had been i'm
possible for them to obtain itemized
statements of accounts or in fact to
obtain statements at all, and that the
manager was preparing to ship their
cotton, they being share troopers and
having half interest therein, off
without settling with them or allow
ing them to sell their half of the crop
and pay up their accounts. - -
As we were informed, there were
some 90 or 20 of these share troopers
who desired US to represent them. If
it's crime to represent people in am
effort to make honest settlements,
then he has committed a crime. If
this is crime in country where we
have been spending our money and
the lives of our boys to make the
country safe for democracy, we do
not understand what the word
means"
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
Chicago's Two-Level
Theatre

Chlcago's newest thoroughfare, the
widened North Michigan avenue, is
to have an unusual two-level theatre,
To be part of an history studio and
Office building to be erected on the
new boulevard and Grand avenue at n
cost Of $3,000,00O.
For the first time in Chicago's his
tory, the motor playgoer will enter a
playhouse at Il different level than
the pedestrian. Automobiles will use
the sub-street below the raised bou-
levard and on the Grand avenue level,
where there is space for parking.
Special elevators and starways will
lead to the foyer.
The theatre, for which the ten
tatiye name, The Michigan" has
been adopted, VIII seat ! ZOO and is
planned to house legitimate attrac-
tons. 1t is said New York produc-
ing firm viii take a long term lease
of the theatre. A syndicate headed
by Walter W. Ahlschlager, the archi-
tect of the project, has purchased the
site.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
This and That Repeats.

The stars are Alex Rogers, Woody,
Lena Roberts, Jim Burns, Dink Stew
art and they are ably supported by
the whole company. Lest we forket,
Miss Haxel Thompson Davis has
greatly improved the dances and her
artistic mind is portrayed by the
marked improvement of the steps.
Miss Alice Webb has given us a swell
exhibition in fancy chorus dancing.
The music is rhythmic and catchy
Luckyet certainly put pep in his pro-
duction. Baby Blues by the same
company next week. "Nuf sed"
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
a popular Repeater. Chicago Stage
Goers Highly EIsted At New Come
dy Shown At The Avenue.
THIS AND THAT.

Alex Rogers and Luckyeth Roberto
stupendous Comedy Running for the
second week is making the hit of the
season. For high class songs, dances,
scenes and comedy this play is un-
surpassed, on the stage today.
Alex Rogers and Luckyet Roberts
with their able promoted Mr.. Forest
are to be praised and congratulated.
Everybody in Chicago desiring eve
ming of wholesome relation should
visit the Avenue Theatre.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
MOVIE NOTES
"Charlie'i in the Movies
Hon. Chas. w. Anderson, of New
York, one of the Escorts tn the
Belgian Queen on Her Visit to tha.
City.

If you will visit the pathe Weekly
Cmoyie) you will see an excellent
picture of Hon. Chas. w. Anderson
as one of the Official escorts to the
Queen of the Belgians! The camera
caught him as he was lifting his hat
IN Acknowledgement of the Queens
thanks for attendance on her during
the official ceremonies at the City
Han. He and four other members
of the committee had just escorted
her to her automobile, which was to
take her to the Waldorf Astora Ho-
tel. The King and the Crown Prince
'who IS also Duke Of Brabant) were
each escorted by five members of
the Mayors Committee on Reception
10 Distinguished guests.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
ArkansasGover
Wishes to Suppress
Colored Papers

Special to WHIP. Governor Brough
of Arkansas in a statement is desir-
Gus of keeping certain colored week
lies out of his Territorial limits.
1t is said that these papers are
"infamatory" Just what is meant
by inflammation is not known. The
Negroes are aware of their false Sc
curity and poor pay and it is not
tho't that the papers have given them
this information. Negroes are leav-
ing Arkansas in great numbers and
the autumn crops are not being
harvested.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01

EXPERT DRESSMAKING - MISS
Susie A. Davis. 33 E. Ard st.
Phone Drexel 900. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01

Al Anderson and Jay Coins of the
Anderson-Go MS team. arrived in the
city Friday, October 10th. and opened
at Logan Square Theater, Sunday,
Otober llth. They Will appear in
Waukegan, Sunday, October 18th and
are expected to play the Chicago
vaudeville circuit for quite a while.
This will be good news to some Of
the fun lovers along the stroll.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01
Defense Fund for Co.
lored Riot Defendants.

The Chicago riot is over and the
excitement passed Twenty-Five col
ored people have been killed and some
eeventy-five have been indicted for
6ifenses growing out of the riot, the
majority of whom have not the funds
To provide proper and adequate legal
services.
Various agencies have spent thou
sands of dollars in the immediate re
lief of riot sufferers and for legal
services of those persons who have
already been tried. nj order to prom
eriy defend the remaining persons
indicted fund of $4,000 is needed
OF this amount, the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People has given $4,000 and the
balance must be raised by public sub
scription. At the suggestion of the y.
A. A. {. p. a joint committee has
been formed for the purpose of rails
ing this amount an dis composed of
representatives Of the following or
CARNATIONS.
National Association for the Adj
yancement of Colored People
Cook County Bar Association
Urban League.
Chicago Federation Of women's
Clubs.
Baptist Church.
NJ. f. Church.
A. NJ. Z. Church.
c. NJ f. Church.
A. NJ +. Zion Church.
Presbyterian Church.
Congregational Church
The Hon. S. S. Gregory, former
President of the American Bar Asso-
citation, and Hon. James J. Barbour,
former state senator and former As
sistant States Attorney have been
secured to assist the Cook County
Bar Association in the legal defense
and the services have been extended
TO every person indicted who has
been indicted who has been indicted
and is not able to secure proper legal
aid.
The joint COMMITTEES formed is
known as The Joint Committee to
Secure Equal Justice for Colored Riot
Defendants and has the following
officers:
Dr. Charles B. Bentley, Chairman,
Rev. j. W. Robinson, First Wee
Chairman,
Rev. A. ]. Carey, Second Vice
Chairman,
A. Clement Mac Neal, Secretary,
A. X. Maynard. Treasurer.
Harris Trust and Savings Bank,
Depository and Auditor of Accounts.
Headquarters during the campaign
for funds have been secured at 1891
State St, Douglas 1921. Address all
inquiries and mail to that address.
Make checks payable to Joint Com
mittee to Secure Equal Justice for
&. lorcd Riot Defendants.
Do not visit shrdl cmfwyp bmbm
Do not wait for a personal solicit
tation but contribute at once. Notice
Of meetings and reports of receipts
and expenditures vii be published in
papers. ast7 III IN
Defense Fund:
n. A. A. c. P. ..........S5 100000
Court of General Robert
llott, Order of Foresters 10000
7. O. Brown ...... 5000
+. c. Hegstrom ... 25.00
SEND YOURS IN NOW.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01

JOHN B. GRAFTON

a beautiful nine fiat building at
4712-14 and Is st. Lawrence Ave.
All moderate.
Purchased through o. w. Horton,
salesman at J. L. Slaughter's Real
Estate firm.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01

That colored citizen of New York
is surely going some, and it is regret
able as we'll as lamentable, that other
cities are not sufficiently advanced
TO give the race such recognition.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01

Milas Randolph's mandolin quin-
tette furnished the music at the en-
tertainment and social given by Mrs.
Thompson, $50 L. 39th St, Friday
night, October 10th. This aggrega-
ton of fun makers has Just returned
from a trip thru the West.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-11-01

FOR SALE-2910 Federal ST.
2-flat frame, So rooms. Bath. Own
ers, 3215 N. Natchez Ave, near Bel
mont Ave. EASY TERMS.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
MRS. FORD'S HOME

for tubcrculous patients. Liberty, A. y
Private baths. sleeping porchca Rates
$40 10 $50 weekly.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
THE WARREN

VN ITEL OCEtN
sPRI Nc LAKE BEACH. y l.
y iouse that different" in its fin. a.,
rolhiEnents, unusual and artistic 1ccor,
surrounded BY green lawns ana aar6er.s &C. 'es l
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Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30
IN MEMORY.

I Near Rough Point, Jackson county,
Tenn, on February 10, 1901, there
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Luke /.
Xix beautiful little girl baby, after
wards named Hester Coe. From the
time she opened her little eyes upon
the dear ones about her, she was the
center of attraction and the idol of
the affections of all in the home
where she grew up to beautiful girl
hood. Even now, through the strange
providence of time, she sleeps be-
meath solid embankment of precious
flowers, she is even dearer to sore
and bleeding hearts than ever before.
The sweet flowers that are now fading
sto dust upon her grave only reflect
through the diamond dewdrops that
nestle on their petal the beautiful,
spotless character which will outlive
the roll of time and the flight of
years. Hester Goes bright and
cheerful disposition, with which she
met all her friends, impressed her
associates with the beautiful reality
that her short stay on earth was to
brighten the world with smile.
Though she had grown to be a young
lady, the loneliness of her girlhood
chung to her still like the tender flower
of the breath of June to the dying
December smitten by the driven snow.
At the time of her passing away, she
was and had been for some time
student in the Carthage High School,
where she made friends by the scores
who will long remember her sunny
life and mourn her untimely death.
After moving from Rough Point
to Dixon Springs some years ago with
her parents and grand parents, she
soon endeared herself to those with
whom she was thrown, as was evil
denced by the large concourse of peo-
pie who gathered around her grave
to drop a flower and a tear. We never
realize the beauty of the flower or the
sweetness of the perfume until 1t has
been crushed; so with the dear ones
who go from US. In spite of the dark
ness and sorrow of the death cham
Der where Hester Goes life went out,
the beacon lights on the frontiers of
heaven seem to flash scintilla-
tions of glory into her precious soul
to the very last which gave her
strength to talk to loved ones about
heaven as though she had been there
many times. With firm grasp upon
the precious promises, she told US
good bye and quietly passed to her
reward at IL o'clock January 23,
1919. Hester professed religion
October, 1911, and Joined the Naza-
rene church at Monoville.
Obi could she come back and see
US once more
We would patiently wait on Times
rugged shore
For the moving ships that pass in
the night
To bear our souls to the land of
delight.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30

wrote we were in dear old U. S. A. at
Camp Wadsworth. A short while
after this we left for Camp Merritt,
N. j., then started for France. We
sailed at about 2 p. M, Sunday Sept
30th and without anything to mar the
pleasure of The trip landed at Brest,
France Nov. Z. We sailed on the
largest ship, the German Vaterland,
now Leviathian. After landing we
were carried into Camp. Slept in
small tents on the ground. We stayed
here only few days. Our next quar-
tiers were more comfortable and have
been ever since. Very soon after this
our company was torn up. Our cap
tain, ieutenants and few sergeants
left US. Among the our top Sgt. all
hated to see our captain go, he was
liked by all. After this the remand
er of the company was transferred to
329 Inf. where we were given the
McNabb system of rifle practice. At
one time we were due to be on the
front in ten days. Have been on the
rife range 3 times in succession, once
firing at the target and twice as coach
or instructor.
On Thanksgiving day in the town
of st. Queen / CHANGED to see Henry
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30
TENNESSEE.

Clay Smith, one of the old boys" in
the infirmary waiting for the Nam-
bulance to carry him to the hospital.
He had mumps of course. The long
and short of it was that stopped to
converse with him, and a week ago
today another ambulance brought me
with another bunch here with the
same disease. / therefore am spend
ing my Xmas in the mumps ward. It's
easy to imagine the time the people
back home are having this Xmas.
Probably it's not so easy for you to
see ours. Last night at IL o'clock or
there about we were awakened by
Santa Claus, bringing each man a
sock full of things, such as cigarettes,
candy, cakes, and etc. Today we
were treated to dinner of chicken,
potatoes, jam, cakes and grapes. OF
course this did not equal your Xmas
dinner but remember this was in
France, where we hope not TO I'D
another Xmas. Nevertheless we all
are enjoying our stay pretty well, but
will enjoy our sail toward the States
much more. This we hope will be
pretty soon.
Yours till the Smith County boys
come trooping home.
Otis WEST.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30
Mrs. S. C. Bridgewater Entertains.

On Saturday Afternoon, the 25th,
Mrs. S. c. Bridgewater, at her lovely
home in Dixon Springs, gave the sec
ond of a series Of entertainments for
the discussion of current events by
the Literary Coterie of her town.
Mrs. Bridgewater gave an unusually
interesting paper on 1.-THE Peace
Table" She had arranged on the
walls pictures of illustrious figures
of today and clippings which were in
harmony of the discussion. A read
ing, "Our Boys After the War, was
given by Mrs. Will Jordan; and by
Mrs. Mai Black, a reading was given
on 1.-THE Environments of Our Sol
diers." Miss Alma Ford read a poem
entitled Our Boys" After the read
ings and discussions, Mrs. Bridge
water, in her delightful fashion,
served tea, sandwiches and confec-
tions. The silver, china and the SER
vice carried out the Oriental effect.
Those present were: Mrs. Sam Ross,
Mrs. Walter Gray, Mrs. Alex Allen,
Mrs. w. M. Young, Mrs. Webb Allen,
Miss Kate Moore, Miss Birdie Neal,
Mrs. Isham Beasley, Mrs. Phiney,
Mrs. Mai Black, Mrs. Will Jordan,
Mrs. Hewlett Denney, Mrs. H. B.
Reeves, Miss Alma Ford.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.


County clerks off &c, Jan. 90, 1919.
W. A. HALL EFT Al, Complainants,
VS..
VERNON BRADLEY EFT AL. Def'ts.
1t appearing FRI m affidavit filed in
this cause, that he defendant, Yer
non Bradley, is nonresident of the
state of Tennessee: It is, therefore,
ordered that he enter his appearance
next term of thu County Court, to be
held at Carthage, on the first Monday
in March, next 1919, and plead, an
swer or demu9 to compliments bill,
or the same twill be taken for con-
fessed as to Him and set for hearing
ex parte; and that copy of this
order be published for four consecu-
tive weeks in the Carthage Courier.
]. E. HIGH, Clerk.
J. R. CURTIS, Sol. for Complainant.
1-3O-4t
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30
"RAUS NIT EN-. "
TRUE PRAYER-ITs ANSWER.

Prayer to God is rational act-a
potential force-placed in the hand OF
man for a wise and beneficent pur-
pose. 1t is an avenue OF access TO
God; it is a means of communication
of the soul with its creator and IN
Christ Jesus, its redeemer, it is a
power to be used for legitimate pur-
poses. but should not be abused. ANY
good thing may be abused. Marvellous
results are obtained through prayer.
In the history of men and of nations,
answers to prayer are recorded.
God moves in mysterious way his
wonders to perform" Some times
He uses human agencies to work his
sovereign will in the life of men IN
answer to prayer. He is interested
in nations and men. His helpful prov
idence is extended TO all mankind. he
causes His goodness to pass before
criesmen. His ears are open to the
cries of His people. He draws nigh
unto all who draw nigh unto Him.
According to the teaching of Christ
and the experience of the church,
both in the early centuries and IN
later times, the greatest manifesto
ton of divine power Is in the pathway
of the intercession of His true fol-
levers. Every visitation of the spir-
it of God resulting in spiritual awak-
enings in the home church and in the
mission fields, has been, in its self,
a convincing evidence of the reality
of prayer. That God has conditioned
so largely the extension, the progress
and the fruitfulness of His Kingdom
upon the faithfHlAess and loyalty OF
His children in prayer, is at the same
time one of the deepest mysteries and
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-01-30
"RAUS NIT EN-"
MISS ANNIE LEE MYER
To SAIL FOR FRANCE

Miss Annie Lee Myer, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Myer, is in New
York, and will soon sail for France.
Miss Myer goes to France as a rep
resentative of the Y NJ c. A. and,
while in Europe, will be employed in
Y. M. c. A. canteen service. During
the past three weeks, she has been
in New York undergoing training
for these duties. Miss Myer has en-
listed her services for a period of six
months, however, it is not known how
long she will be retained in France.
Many friends in Carthage and Smith
county wish for her a pleasant voy-
age and happy stay among the
American soldiers in Europe.