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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-11
Notice
MOUNDS

A o gHg eogog
This Is 70 let you know that ] !
Rev ] II Hilley. as s. S. Mise
ionary have been very sick and
Cont Z think will be able 80 ger
over the field. therefore have
appointed Rev. = Hamilton, 20
assist ne as 5 S. Missionary to
help ne wish the work. As III.
convenliog Is meas at hand think
Il best 70 Soon the work. The
convention will meet Wednesday
before The 18th Sunday in June, SO
let ns get busy cow and make this
meeting a success.
3cufs ior the cause,
+ n. Hilley.
S. S. Missionary.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-11
Notice.

Notice IS hereby given that the
4oth annual session Of the Mt Oh
i've Bapiist Sunday School Con-
venrion will meet WIKI the First
Baptise church. Mound City, H.. (.
on Wednesday before the 4th Sum
day in June 1920. Rev c. W.
Cole pastor.
II IS our earnest prayer that each
school pc well represented and that
the messengers from every school
will come prepared 10 to pay their
full quots. The delinquent will
be uolifed al one.
Let's not forget the beautiful
Banner TO be given 70 the school
representing with the largest .
mount Of money
I.er Us come praying and tgust-
ing ia the Lord thar this will be
the banner year both spiritually
and financially.
am yours in His cause
Dennis Farrow.
al Morris ST. Toledo. Ohio.
Ruth b DonIow
Brookpors. III Phone 7z-g s..
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-11


G. Wilsonsand chose that sse with
him on the subject the Charter Of
the Publishing House 70 show just
whereia the owpersbip lies and al
GO the consgol of same. IL must
be remembered thag DIR Morris S
name is associated with the make
op Of the charter toe. So II Boyd
as they call bin is guilty. SO is DR..
Morris and the seven that associ-
ated with thsm. They all know
1his but il Is only a trick to fool
continued next week
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-11

70 THE coLoRED PEOPLE

We wish to say people of Massac County, and
the surrounding territory thereto Having been solicited
by number of my people, also encouraged by of
my white friends who wish to and help employ
ment for all returning soldiers to the Undertaking
business have finally decided go that business
with view of serving my people, well as having
employment feeling that give them better service
than members of the other race though friendly
relation with all the other undertaers and expect
tain that relationship throughout my business
am perfectly qualified to give unexceIled service and
will guarantee satisfaction.
was born and reared in Metropolis, 9th and Pearl
SITS. Educated in Metropolis Public Schools graduating
from Dunbar High School in 1912 then entered the
Barnes School of Anatomy SANITARY Science and Embs
ing, Chicago Illinois from which graduated August ID
1914, from which school hold Diploma
We will carry snail line 1T Baskets only, present
owing to the advance price these goods but have
arranged with large undertaking establishment furnish
with anything needed short notice.
We have first class hearse at command
Calls answered day night distance immaserisL
We in the u. S. Service for sir months trying
make this country safe for Democracy thereby insur
ing ahe colored equal opportunity with other
Phone 229-Rine 3.
Respectfully yours
MCCRARY'S UNDERTAKING CO.
Metropolis, Illinois,
GEORGE L. B..MCGRARY. Manages.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-11
ADDITIONAL LOCALS

Mesdamea o North and .Kath-
crime Cumbling left Tuesday Tor
their homes in Peoria. and Alton,
respectively after visiting their UNI
Gle Mr. p \ Tandy. who is sick
Rev w. Cole. pastor the
Clover Leaf Baptist church. Jop-
pa. and isE Baptist Nd. City.
paid this office pleasant cali last
Monday.
Connie Waters. accidentally dis
charged double barrel shot gun
Wednesday aiiefaooF, the shots
took sfiscf 10 the shoulder Of ~
bert Donaldson a physiaT was
at once called. the wounds dressed
and the report is he IS doipa NICE
"
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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-11

Rev. A. L0veIace,
Ex-Missionary of the Mount
Olive Baptist Association and
who took a Theologicalcourse
in the National Baptist Semi.
nary, Nashville, Tenn, will at
tend the Mt. Olive S. 5. Con.
vention in Md. City, Wednes-
day before the 4th Sunday in
June.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
A LONG LIFE FOR THE SOCIAL
 CORNER.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: It is long time since i have written for the Corner, but it is no sign I have forgotten you all. It gave me great pleasure to attend all the gatherings at Franklin hall last week, as I have. not been able to attend any meetings before this winter. It was grand treat to meet so many of the sisters of Club No ?, where I used to belong.
 This has been a hard old winter and I guess we shall all feel better when the good old summer time comes. Ii will soon be here, before we are really ready.
 It seems but yesterday that l. first read about the Social Corner, and now We are ten years old and I have spent some of the happiest times of the ten years at the Social Corner gatherings Lorg may it live.
 Beccy Maine: I can tell you how I make souse.
 It was the way my grandmother taught me to make it many years ago. Scala and scrape pigs feet. Boil un- ul 1t all falls from the bones. Then chop fine and season to taste with salt, pepper, a little cayenne, and powdered sage. Pack into a mold. When cold, slice, roll in meal and fry. Some like vinegar on it, when served cold. It may not be just what you requested, but it is good. 1 am glad to see so many of the old writers lately, ard am also glad to welcome many neE ones. 'The more the merrier"
 With all good wishes for a long lived Social Corner.
 ELIZA JANE.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
4 cHlIiiLpREN's sEWlNe GLASS.

Dear Sisters of The Corner, Some thing was recently said about a benevolent woman. who has gathered the little girls of her neighborhood into a, Saturday sewing class. She showed me the rules which the ch.I=, dren were taught from the, first, and which may be a gnide to some cther person who might ne moved to lake up similar work:
 The correct position Is to place the feet flat on the floor; sit well back. in the seat, holding the work up to the eyes with the light over the left shoulder.
 It is most essential that the hands be clean, otherwise the worK is soil. ed and the needle rusted.
 Do not put the work or thread in the mouth.
 Always use a thimble.. Place 1t on the second finger of the right hand, as this is the longest and strongest finger. The needle should be pushed from the side of the thimhle, not from the top. .ss The thread should be an arms length; the end broken from the spool is the one to put through the eye of the needle.
 All stitches are made from right td left. with one or two exceptions. Never put the sewing on the knee as this position cramps the lungs and strains the eyes.
 Do your best on each piece of work ] having the Wrauz side as neat as pos
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
THE HABIT oF MENpINe.

Editor of the Social Corner: Much that Jennie had to say about sewing is after my own mind, and I quite agree with her that much of the dis like for sewing is due to the way in which we have been brought up.
 You know very well that anything that becomes a habit is easier to do than something that is not a habit. We brush our teeth habitualIy and so, after the early years of childhood, when the task Is difficult, we brush them without thinking very much about it, unless the brush bricks us or we particularly like the taste of the tooth paste. And so it is with any, habit. We do things by habit with as little wear and tear on our nervous system as possible.
 Now any one can get into good Housekeeping habits. One Of them that is particularly useful to get into Is the mending habit. Mending is a bugaboo. indeed, to most housewives But if it Is done as habit, it becomes no worse than any of the other rather nonotonous tasks, such as dishwash- ing or dusting.
 One thing to do is always to have a basket of mending lying about Then you can get 1t out and tackle ii whenever you have to sit down and wait for anything. This may moi seem like much of a time to mend But really, in the course of a week you probably. spend many minutes enough to make quite an impression on a weeks supply of stockings, just waiting"
 les FAITH
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
aoT !. . -cR1oss ssilNIs,,

7 Dear, Sfstersof the Social Corner: It will not be long till Good Friday gets here, and on that date most house keepers like to Surprise their families with Hot Cross buns. ' I am sending two recipes which are reliable and sure to please. - ! American Buns-Sift together one quart of feuf, one-quarter teaspoon of salt, one cup of sugar and three scant teaspoons of baking. powder, Rub in one-half cup of butter, add q one half teaspoon of ground nutmeg, one quarter pound of sliced citron, one quarter pound of seeded raisfns. and half teaspoon of. .allspice., Beat two eggs, add a half cup of milk, stir and add enough more milk to make q firm dough-. s--,..,.'- .-., --. Mould into buns and lay, on but tered. tin. two. inches apart. Brush with milk and dust with granulate6 sugar. Mark a cross with sharI knife, then bake In a hot oven,
 English Buns-Mix two pounds. O | flour with one-f1alf pound of sugar
 a half teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of ground cinnamon and nutmeg anC one pound of carefully washed cur
 rants. Make 3 thin batter by beating
 begins to fernaent. Add a half poun, Of melted butter and enough milk t
 make the batter soft. Dust with fou
 and let 1t rise for half an hour.
 Shape the dough into buns. and la, them apart on buttered tins for hal
 an hour to rise Press cross moul
 on each and bake in quick oven 1
 or 20 minutes. This recipe makes tw
 dozen buns. 1 AUNT KATE.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
CREATORS PERISH BUT THEIR WORKS SURVIVE

Hope they and many more down that way will come again. We missed sec ing Aunt Mary, Tiddy Addley, Auntie No. 1, Lucy Acorn, Huldy and Mary France who had always been with us at our anniversary meetings. There were about sixty in all there.- The hostesses did well in decorating the table with the usual color, in stream CTS and bows, with the birthday cake in the center. As usual the table was well filled with the goodies, and we were tserved with scalloped oysters, scalloped potatoes, salmon and sal mon salad, while the last served was delicious fruit salad. We all did justice and there was a large quan- tity of food left which was auctioned off by one of the hostesses.
 Then came songs and readings and the social hour. Some left early and took in the pictures, while the others stayed. some being busy with their fancy work and crochet hooks. I was sorry there was no later trains so sthe Norwich sisters could have remain ed longer. After the gathering broke up some of the sisters went up to St Joseph's hospital to see one of the sisters, Anna Nell, who has been very sick, but who is now able to be up
 and around her room. They found her looking much better. She seemed
 cheerful and pleased to see them
 We are all glad to hear PopaO Over is better. We missed hearing Bfddy 1 cackle at the gathering and hope she
 will be able to cacSle for us at the next gathering. Now hoping the So- cial Corner may live and grow fo1 years to come and best wishes to al
 the sisters, I am as ever,
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
A pRErrY eoob WoRLn-

This worlds a pretty good sort of world
 Taking it altogether In spite of the grief and sorrow we meet
 Tn spite of the gloomy weather. There are friends to love and hopes 10 cheer And plenty If compensation For every ache for those who make The best Of the situation. There ore quiet hooks for lovers of hooks.
 With Nature in happy union: There are cool retreats from the noon tide heats Where sCuls may have sweet com munion: And if there's a spot where the sun shines not There's always a lamp to light it. And # there'n a wrong we know ere long That Heaven above will rite it. So it's not for us to make a fuss Because of life's sad mischances. Nor to wear ourselves out to bring aout
 A change on our circumstances. For this worlds a pretty good sort of world
 And He to whom we are debtor Appoints our place, and supplies the grace.
 To help us make 1t better.
 rid Bits
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
SOMETHING NEW IN THE BREAD
 LINE

Dear Social Corner Folks: I am not the chief cook of our household but because of illness 1 have been substi- tuting for some time and to make it interesting have done a good bit of exper imenting. I have been making pumpkin bread" which we like so well I'll tell you how. A day or two before you want to make it stew and
 mash fine a kettleful of pumpkin, or
 squash, adding salt and sugar to suit
 taste. The varieties of these fruits
 of the vine are of so many different
 kinds that of course some will make
 better bread than others. So, if yours
 isn't good, don't blame it on me. for
 it'll be because your ''punkinn wasn't t
 good one, while a good squash of
 course, is better. Take one cup of cornmeal, one cup graham flour and five cups white flour. Thoroughly
 mix with two heaping teaspoons of
 baking powder. then add enough cold stewed pumpkin to mold into two soft loaves, and bake at once in a moder- ately hot oven about one and one half or two hours. 1 like bread well done and brown, top and bottom. My
 parsnip bread is made the same way, using boiled and mashed parsnips irl- stead Of the pumpkin, and is sweet enough without sweetening. have only tried this once, but it was good all right. l didn't use cornmeal in the parsnip bread, and of course one may l leave that out of the other if they l don't want it.
 | Will someone tell us if it is possi- i ble to make good kraut of turnips? am trying it, grinding the turnips | through a food grinder.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
THAT TIRED COX.

Members of the Social Corner: Have you ever paid any attention to the faces on the trolley cars (not those in the pictures but, those on the passen- gers), in the streets and business places? And. have you ever thought how frequently that tired look is en- counfered?
 Why do we look "titedf" We do not have the monotonous lives that our grandnothers did. we do not have the laborous processes of home manufacture that did our mothers. All the labor saving inventions are within our reach. We get most of our clothes ready made. Pleasures by the. score are ours for the taking. Why then should the lines of care be so appar- ent? Who can tell?. S.s9r a
 Is it because we have elevated the god of success above all .slse?. Is 1t because, we are trying so hard to keep with the procession? Is it because we are trying to, crowd our days with so many interests. So much of outside ef- fort and cultural ActivitisS that we have forgotten that calmness of out look and repose of manner are the first requisites to life that shall count for the things most worth while.
 .tBut. we have to keep up. with the procession."" I can hear someone think, if she doesn't say so. But de we? What would happen l. we shall fan behind 6 pace or tWo7 we have s great many things to learn yet, and one of them Is that rushing through life at breakneck, nerve racking pace lases Jus more than we gain. t, Is mol conducive to good work. steady, nerves health or happiness. How mulch req success can we attain without these
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
HOW soUsE IS MADE.

Dear Social Cornerites: You in your little corner, l. in mine. But when the clubs meet we are like dust on sweeping day-all at one spot.
 We'll, about souse. Saw or split the top of the hogs head three times once in the center and once in the middle of each ear. Remove the brains and chop the nose each side from the eyes, clean out the dried blood and gristle. Cut off the ears and remove the yellow spots under the ears and eyes. Saw each jaw aparr. Soak an hour and rinse well. Place in kettle, cover with luke warm wa ter and boil till the meat leaves the bones. Put the meat. skin ears and all through a coarse meat grinder and strain the water it was cooked in for fine bones. Replace the ground meat in the water and put in salt, pepper, sage Or poultry dressing. Stir well and pour hot into a clean cloth bag and hang up to drain twelve hours. Put a pan under the bag as the top of the drippings is nice for potatoes.
 take the joints of when cleaning wash, rub with powdered saltpetre and sprinkle with coarse salt and use them to bake with beans.
 As the quality of souse is consider able clean five or ten pound cloth sugar bag is all right for draining Cut the coarse thread on side of bae a little way and turn cloth back wbeT slicing souse and then pull together again and tie. This is my way. J, F. IT.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
ANOTHER USE EoR ApprEs.

Readers and Writers, of The Corner:
 T am sure those of you who have ex- pressed their relish for apples in, many forms would like to try the following; 1;
 Apple 'scaIIop- -Moisten two cups of fine dry bread crutnbs with one-fourth cup of butter melted; butter baking dish. put in half of the crumbs, cover with three cups of peeled and sliced apples, sprinkle in one-half cup of sugar; add one half teaspoon cinna- mon, little grated nutmeg and one- half saltspoon salt. Cover with the remaining crumbs, pour in enough hot water to moisten., Bake covered for half an hour; then remove cover and bake until the apples are tender and the crumbs brown. Serve with cream and sugar. .s..sf,,.... ,.-e~--
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
TEN MILES FROM A YEAST CAKE

TEN MILES FROM A YEAST CAKE.
 Dear Social Corner Friends: am not a member of the clubs. but read the Corner news every week. I am living in small town bordering the Massachusetts northeast corner line,
 ten miles on main road from a yeast cake. A nejghbor came in last week from the east part of the town saying
 he tried to get an yeast cake at 8 near by store. There was none to be
 had that way nearer than Putnam.
 24 miles away. Now that is going some when you have no team. A groc-. cry man. comes from a village seven
 miles away once week. That helps
 those who have no team like myself. We were snow-b bound like all other people, but the men kept working till
 roads were passable, Ire flu struck the center district when eight out of twelve families had one or more sick. There was one death. The mail route is so long the carrier has divided it and the center has mail every other day. Once we had seven days mail on the seventh day. Eleven days I could not get to my mail box, being alone, and snow so deep. The 1 box was in sight, too. But the neigh |:bors helped me out.
 have fed the bluejays, chick-a- l dees and along comes a lone crow, 50 bold and hungry he lights on the pi-
 azza floor for his share, altholNi 1 there is not much left when the greedy bluejay is done eating. There I is now so much grass ground they l are not so near the house, only once 1 in a while can you hear them call.
 The backbone of winter must be i broken as woodchucks and other an- finals are out. As doctor was com ing in from a nearby village his sleigh ran over a woodchuck. Pussy willows are also out.
 1 Beccy: Hello! How are you? Glad you can get mail out Have not mo- l ticed a letter from your daughter l lately. Wish you and I could have a. talk about the days when we were
 young.
 And where is the sister (have for gotten her nom de plume) who sat at our church with me one beautiful October afternoon some time ago to listen to the subjects at the fellowship meeting. Do you still. read I the Social Corner? Well, if we live
 we will soon hear the whipporwill sing, but make maple syrup first.
 Married and Happy: How are you
 and your son? He used to teach the
 model schoeI in our town before the i war.
 Best wishes to all.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
A NlcE MUSTARD pREssINc.

Dear Social Corner: How many times. there are when cooking that the whites of eggs are used and you have to rummage your brain to figure out what to do with. the yo1ks. It has oc- cured often with me, especially when we have a souffe-cheese, or fish Or prune or whatever it may be-and, I have gotten into the habit. of making a mustard dressing at those times to save these yolks x.>-sss..
 It is nice on potato salad. lettuce, chopped cabbage and other vegetable salads, and it Is convenient to have on hand I am therefore going to give to others,
 Mustard Dressins-Mix tyS tSble-
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
NUT JELLY LAYER CAKE.

Dear Social Corner Sisters: I just love to read your letters, but am not very fond of writing But it has been so long felt you would disown me if I did not write, so will send the cake recipe. If you have not tried It, try it and let me know the results. ' Nut Jelly Layer cake-Cream a small cup of sugar with two rounded tablespoons of shortening; break over it one egg and beat with spoon; add a smau cup sweet milk, one cup chop ped hickory nut meats, two cups flour two rounded teaspoons baking powder a pinch salt, two heaping tablespoons cornstarch.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
PLANTED TOMATOES; RAISING
 RHUBARB

Dear Corner Family: Last month I wrote it was time to- select garden seeds but the Editor advanced the thought that it was time to plan the garden" . sa
 I have been wondering, if he had reference to window gardening Or if he had been. reading all about the sunny south and. how busy they were making dents in the soil; for early dreams for number of months.
 The middle of last month I planted four kinds of tomatoes and am try ing to keep them growing but expect some of them will die. The most thrifty plants are the four contain CTS Of 4 rhubarb. The longest stalks are nine inches and we are having
Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-20
usINc LEFr.ovER CEREAL.

Social Corner Sisters: A few weeks ago member of The Corner advised pouring water over theN cereal which has to stand for those late to break fast. This is well to avoid waste but the thrifty housewife never throws away cup of left over cereal.
 Having found ways in which to utilize them so that the family ap- proves most heartily l am going to pass the idea along.
 Bacon with cornneaI Dises-Fry the bacon in the ordinary way. Take cold cooked cornmeal or any other kind of cereal, slice thin, cut in rounds with a pastry cutter, brush with melted butter, place in a butter ed cake tin and brown in a very hot oven. Serve these cereal discs on the same dish with the bacon. A better way.to do this is to have baking pow der tins handy at the breakfast hour and into these pour whatever cereal is left oyer after all the members of the family are served allowing the still warm cereal to cool and harden in the right shape-so that a biscuit cutter need not be used, all that will be necessary being to slice the discs of cold cereal off the mold which the tins have made.
 Cereal Muffins with Jam-One and one-half cups flour; three teaspoons baking powder, one-half cup of any kind of leftover cereal, three fourths cup milk, one, egg, one tablespoon oi butter. one tablespoon. sugar, one half teaspoon salt Sift the flour witt the baking powder. Add to 1t the salt and sugar, sitting a .secohd time Break up the cereal, mixing it with the three fourths cup of milk; add | the beaten egg and mix well. Add next the melted butter, and stir thi. mixture into the dry materials. .Turr l into buttered muffin. tins and bake 1T a. quick. oven for 25. minutes.
 ner could give me recipe for bear soup.
 MARY J.