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Evening star., 1936-08-08
Weddings of Recent Date
Miss Mildred Shirley Champion Married
to Mr.. Charles T. Mothersead.

Gable will be at home at 46l6
Fifteenth street. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Gable are graduates of George Wash
ington University. Mr.. Gable is a
music teacher at Eastern High School.
Stathers- Hunter
Wedding in Baltimore.
The wedding of Mrs. Anna B.
Hunter and DR.. James r. Stathers of
Marietta. Ohio, which took place in
Baltimore, June 26 is of interest here,
where Mrs. Stathers has made her
home. The ceremony was performed
in st. Paul's Methodist Church, the
Rev. E. L. Bunce officiating
DR.. and Mrs. Stathers will make
their home in Loudoun County near
Leesburg, Va.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

FRS. RUSSELL B. HARRISON
Nu and her granddaughter, Miss
Vl Mary Virginia Williams, have
4 L returned from a To-day stay
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs A. G. Elam and their
twin sons, Gregory Eiam and Houston
Elam, of Takoma Park. Md, are
spending this week at Rehoboth
Beach, Del.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1936-07-01

to nst into them that quality which gives them the
desire of independently far providing the necessities
of life
One of the recent and last successful movements is the
completion of $4,000 to the hospital, this ad
dition makes fitting material for the chapter leading to
this eleventh anniversary 1t let's know that the Afro
American Sons and Daughters is not at standstill but
on the upward march
Those of you wHo have read this article to this
graph must surely have kept in mind the two guiding
stars, Mr.. T. j. Huddeston and DR.. L. T. Miller who
mindful of the destiny of the organization,
full that each dollar to the proper place wrapped
in the entire program that they unsefishy give them
selves when giving demands tax their
physical bodies. These two represent the very pill
lows of the organization and the most choice words of
praise weak and to have but little meaning when
used to their value An anniversary of the Afro
American Sons and Daughters will always ami
versary of Mr. Huddeston and Dr. Miller and the only
expressbe gratitude and appreciation that the race
give is to cooperate with them in putting the
and learning that he who hopes to live eternay
in the memory of must consider human values above
all else.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1936-07-01
Continued From, Page y

consulted plans drawn up, sites viewed and finally
and building material brought together to erect the
first Negro owned and operated hospital in the state
of Mississippi. This move applauded by all who
the knowledge of it for everyone knew to be-
of the races most important contributions and
Sites The building completed, moderny equipped
and ready for by December 49, 1928 The dedication
services at ST. Stephen M. E. Church attended by
crowds who from distant points throughout the,
state. s@t9aasE MHE
During the first month, January 1929 thrty-one}
patients were admitted Miss Clara Haggard being the
first to be admitted The hospital proved drawing card
for members for in 1929 it took clerical force of egh
teen handle the business. These employees
received unbeveaby handsome salaries for Negroes I'M
the state of Mississippi The of the hospital du
the genuine skill and services of DR.. Miller and Dr.
Fuove During the period of operation, the Afro-Am
Daughters have helped the sick to health
saved homes that would have been lost through mort
cages, built homes loaned money to schools to operate
and given employment to young people who other
wise would have been walking around.
Then like a thunder bolt out of clear sky-an ex-
plosve bombshel the depression descended upon the
entire universe If could would like to shut our
eyes to the conditions they existed and blot out the
of distress, but alas! never forget and
blessed be the fact for with it great lesson les
VIII only experience teaches Through all this banks,
stores Insurance offices and of every type and form
of business, closing and coapsing the Afro-Amercan
Sons and Daughters, still young business
stood with remarkable strength In 1888 the office build
ing remodeed at handsome cost The fact that this
organization has stood to this present time should be the
means of proving it's stability for years to come AS
the depression slowly passes the old organization is
gaining of the old members and enjoying
ciatve number of members Special mention should
be made of Mr.. E. Edwards who has been the field
for years and has added of members to the
organization Space does not allow to tell of all the
minor activities of the organization and of the and
women who rendering such valuable services
The purpose of the organization is to insure the
oarc If the Moro people before and aftnr death ard
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1936-07-01

tua mind that governs the general behavior of the uni
versal and it's entirety. Napoleon placed into exile
and the minds of the Western world resting in
tentmen but the pages of darkened history gave vent
to itself and time and the early dawn of cool calm
morning found Napoleon marching bravey with his
joined soldiers through the streets of Paris playing
co all mankind. There cry when Napoleon was
eXiled there challenge but today comes the
ambitious challenge of youth, "Tll back" Is it that
we intelligent, sportsloving, loving, Cody
people, have overlooked something, is it that feel
ourselves inferior to that which is termed color?
Many years have passed since we, the Black Race,
have had "A young man, Black man." who is Past
Grand Master" if you pease-n the fine art of "Fis
ana" before have had filled with courage
and ambition as we now possess in Joe Louis
This is only true of the "Black Race but no man.
be he red brown what no has stood what the
Brown Bomber stood the night of June 49, 1886 And
on the morning after his K o., like a mighty thunder
bolt Gagged in glass container smeed with pgron and
thrown into rolling ball of fire, and smoke when pas
sed directly into the orbit of the rays produces
buston these words bursting from the calm and
courageous Joe Louis Il have my mistakes and III
profit by Them What his mistakes the sport
world cannot but what they he them
and feel that with the correcting of those mistakes
he'll reach his goal 1t is reported that Jack Johnson
one time Heavy Weight Champion" of the world said
Joe Louis is fighter and that he could lick him.
WELL take it from Jack ole boy, you fighting in
this day and time you would be chaff which Joes
right would drive away
fourth in the ring but rather let say that
prosperity is not with many fears and dsases and
adversely is not without comforts and hopes therefore
let place hopes in the Brown Bomber the main
road to the Negro title holder What Of is
he who has not had his ups and downs.
Is it not true that Big Business crashed society falls
and Christianity has it's perils-so is not diff
ferent after ALL he must suffer his with his
crowns therefore let not because of his de-
feat but rather let rejoice because he possesses the
the words spoken that the entire world to be
thrown into darkness, ell back, although his
ing may not be of the nature but let hope that
it will possess the will Power and Concentration that
it may be mighty the highest of the and
as concentrated the powerful solution Argus Ports.
So here hoping that after Joe has retrenched himself
he'll become greater master of himself, and the ring
than before because experience has taught him
Plus his courageous ambition and his eagerness to
conquer Joe back greater fighter than the
world has known because of his challenge to youth
Yours for sport
"Chuck' Harris
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1936-07-01
By
"CHUCK" HARRIS

I'm the son Of black woman, black like my Africa
writing about ay black brother, "Joe Louis, who was
defeated but hose ideals and ambition surpass that of
the stars nd whose life is connected with that ntellec
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1936-07-01

THE ARFO-AMERICAN. SONS & DAUGHTERS AP
PROACH nth ANNIVERSARY-ENJOY LEADER
SHIP OF MISUNDERSTANDING CHARACTERS
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-09-24
Patterns of Wolfpen
By HARLAN HATCHER
SYNOPSIS
opyright by the Bobbs- Merrill Co.

In 1885 Saul Pattern Of Virginia
came into the beautiful virgin coun-
try of the Big Sandy valley in
Kentucky. Chief of the perils were
the Shawnees, who sought to hold
their lands from the ever encroach-
ing whites. From huge pinnacle
Saul gazed upon the fat bottoms and
the endless acres of forest in it's pri-
meval quietude at the mouth of the
Woifpen, and felt an eagerness to
possess it, declaring it a place fit
for man to LIVE in! Five years
later he returned with Barton, his
fifteen-year-ol son, and built a rude
cabin. In Saul's absence the In
dams attacked Barton and wounded
him so badly Saul was forced to re-
turn with him to Virginia. In 1895,
when it was reasonably safe, Saul
returned with his family and pat
ent for 1000 acres, this time to
stay. He added to the cabin, planted
crops and fattened his stock on the
rich meadows. Soon other settlers
arrived. A century later, in the
spring of 1885, we find Cynthia Pat
tern, Of the fifth generation follow
ing Saul, perched on the pinnacle
from which her great great-grand-
father had first viewed Wolfpen Bot
toms. The valleys, heretofore un-
touched by the waves of change
sweeping the Republic, are at last
beginning to feel that restless surge.
Her dad, Spared, and her brothers,
Jesse, Jasper and Abral, have been
busy converting the old water
wheeled mill to steam power. Spar
rels triumph is complete when the
golden stream of meal pours forth
at the turning on of the steam.
Cynthia feels that something out of
the past has been buried with Saul.
Cynthia is a pretty and imaginative
miss in her late teens, who often
re-created Saul and her other fore
bears, and fancied them still living.
Spared proudly brings home the
first meal out of the steam mill, and
Julia, his wife, is pleased. Genera
ton after generation has added COM
forts and conveniences to Sauls
homestead, and Spared has not
shirked. The family goes easily into
the work Of the new season, due to
the simplicity Of life designed long
ago on the Wolfpen. The men are
busy in the field, Julia in her garden
and Cynthia in the house. Joy is
abundant
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"No. I want to be a lawyer, Gym
thia, and have an office, and plead
cases over at town. | read some
about them in the Gazette, and
know Tandy Morgan over at town,
and I've listened some to the trials
over there on court days. I think
I could do it,
'Does it take real money to read
law, Jesse?"
"Some. l been thinking about
that, too I'm going to dig ginseng
roots this fall, and I ought to get a
price for my steer when the drov-
ers come through. and l think /
ought to get to try it winter"
"Td like to have winter at books
in the Institute, but I don't guess
I'd ever get to-"
''What would you do with it after
you had it?'
"Oh, I'd just like to know things
and not be so book ignorant"
'You know about place and you
know enough about just books for
a girl"
She knew how he meant that we'll
to her and she kept it silently for
time. Then, she said, II wouldn't
want to see you go away, Jesse. 1t
wouldn't be the same with you gone,
but it would be nice for you to read
the law if YOU have that want. May
De could go for while. Let's ask"
"Not just yet, it's too soon. Aft
er the crops get laid by, maybe
There was a pause in words, each
one thinking forward in his own
way. Then the notes OF the supper
bell came flying up the hollow in
search of them, and they walked
slowly home through the dusk.
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CHAPTER ~

vXTHILE Cynthia was watching
Wv the quiet movements Of Spar
rel blowing on Wolfpen, Shellenber-
ger was debarking from the noisy
wharf-boat at Catlettsburg at the
mouth of the Big Sandy where the
river packet Ventura had just land
ed from Pittsburgh. He got through
the piles of sacks and barrels and
rolls Of wire on the wharf and bank.
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God upon the food before them.
Shellenberger was making some
rapid readjustments between what
he had vaguely expected and what
he actually saw. The log cabin Of
popular talk, filled with thin chill
dren and hounds holding soul and
body together inadequately with
corn bread and greasy bacon, had
represented for him the four thou
sand square miles of the Kentucky
mountains, and left him unprepared
for Wolfpen Bottoms, with this big
house, these people, and this table
full of hickory favored ham, can
died sweet potatoes, mashed irish
potatoes, fluffy hot wheat biscuits,
sweet yellow butter, and black hon.
ey tasting Of clover blossoms and
wild-fowers.
"This is an unusual section OF
country up here, Mr.. Pattern"
Shellenberger observed.
'There's not finer piece of coun-
try anywhere than right around
here" Spared said.
The silences at the table were
natural and unstrained, broken oc-
casionally by Shellenberger's re-
marks and Sparrels replies. Gym
thia wondered what Jesse was
thinking about this man who had
so unexpectedly appeared at their
supper table. How he changes the
evening and the room! minute
ago it was just like it always is.
Now its His hair has bald spot
and cow-lick in it, and there is
funny ridge above his eyes in his
eyebrows and across between his
eyes, and his nose is stumpy, and
his eyes are deep in. He talks nice,
but don't believe l like him much.
Abral seemed to be interested in
him.
whereabouts do you come from"
Abral suddenly asked.
swell, l suppose come from a
great many places" Shellenberger
answered. II move around wherever
my business takes me. I've just
come from Pittsburgh to Catletts-
burg on a boat and from there to
Richardson on a train, and from
there to your fathers landing on a
Sandy River boat"
"Pittsburgh is a long way off from
here, amt it? How long does it take
to come from there?"
'Most of three days."
"Why did you want to come way
up here to Wolfpen?"
Shellenberger laughed, and Spar
rel smiled at Abral's serious and in
sistent questions.
"You mustn't pry into other peo-
pies affairs so, Abral," Julia said.
"Not at ALL" Shellenberger said.
II wanted to see this fine country
up in here, and see if we couldn't
do some business with each other,
your father and L."
They left the subject there dur
ing the rest of the meal. The men
got up.
The evening was balmy and they
sat on the long banistered porch,
looking down Wolfpen toward the
black mass of Cranesnest Mountain.
"You have a big place here, Mr..
Pattern"
Its a good-sized place." Spared
said. "My great-grandfather took
up about five thousand acres when
he came in here and it's been added
to a right smart since, maybe an
other thousand"
"What do you do with all Of that
acreage?"
"Why, we have about sixty acres
of good bottom-land in crops, a
good deal in grass, and there's this
part here with the house and gar
den and orchard; my two girls have
farms on it, and the rest is just land
to have around you to look at and
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coming together to form the tri-
state view of Kentucky, West Vir-
ginia and Ohio.
The little town at the junction of |
the rivers and three states was bus
thing with activity. 1t was the gate
way to the Big Sandy Valley. All
produce for the new and growing |
towns up the river came down the
Ohio from Pittsburgh or up the
river from Cincinnati, and poured
itself out on the wharf at Catletts-
burg. Shellenberger stood watch
ing the negroes hustle great loads
of flour and coffee and salt from
the bow Of the Ventura.
A few RATS of logs were tied to
the willows above the town. Some
men were fishing from them. Heavy
fleets Of coal barges were moving
slowly into view from behind the
sharp wedge of West Virginia down
the Ohio.
.'Looks good enough" Shellenber-
ger thought, turning away from it,
and going into Sherry Gordon's sa-
loon. The saloon was crowded with
rough men from the boats and the
mining towns. A friendly-looking
hill man was leaning over the rail
at the end of the bar. Shellenber-
GER spoke to him and got hos
pitable answer.
<GTT h ~
berger said.
"Sure. Make it whisky"
They drank and commented on
the spring weather.
''Where you frum 2" the man asked.
pittsburgh"
"A Teller could see you didn't
come from no place about here.
Where you headin' for?"
"Pike county," Shellenberger said.
"You goin' way up there? It's a
long ways from here"
"How's the best way to get up
there?'' !. .-s.... 4.-..e-...s
"They amt no best way, mister.
They's only one way withouten you
aim to walk. You take the G. & O..
from here up to Richardson. That's
as fur as she goes. You ketch a
boat up there and it takes you on
up to Pike"
Shellenberger bought drinks again,
and then went outside, following
the main street back toward the
hill to the railroad station. The
Big Sandy train was crowded to the
baggage car with curious men from
the new towns and the mines up
the river. They seemed to belong
to a different race from Shellenber-
ger-or Spared Pattern. Several OF
them were happily drunk
Shellenberger in his neat gray
tailored suit and polished shoes sat
among them aloof but observing.
After a while he sat by one who
looked more intelligent, inquiring
carefully about the work these men
did, their wages, the number Of sur
plus men who had wandered into
the valley without steady job.
Nduy' OIL ClC1l, A0 ICdIACu, UClO4SOO
to the poor lower-river towns above
Catlettsburg, where they picked up
a few dollars around the mines.
The new railroad followed the
Big Sandy back into the hills. Shell.
lenberger sat by the window OBJ
serving with particular interest the
width and current of the river be-
low him, appraising the RATS that
were coming down from the timber
lands and the raftsmen who were
straining nightly at the long oars
to get the logs around the sharp
bends without breaking up OF
grounding on the sand-bars. The
train passed coal mines at whose
base depressing debris of novels
huddled darkly together. The hill
sides, already defowered Of their
timber, exposed naked ridges to the
sun. Whole families Of conventional
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about where is the Fat
tern property"
'Well, now, let's see. The Harris
would be about there, and, we'll. the
Patterns would be just about there,
near or far, l judge"
ut is a large tract, isn't it?"
"He's got a sight of land, | don't |
reckon he knows how much he
has got. Clever man though, Spared
Pattern is. He's got books and
deal of learning. He does doctoring.
And his woman, there amt taken
er woman on the creek than Julie
Pattern
While Cynthia and Jesse planted
the last of the sweet-potato sprouts
in House Field, the Fanny Freeze
landed on the sharp bend at Pres
tonsburg and was tied up for the
night to big sycamore that shone
yellow in the dusk. Toward noon
of the next day Shellenberger
walked briskly down the gangplank
at Pattern Landing Barnes watched
him go, saw him greet Nelson, Spar
rel's grandson, and got up the bank
by the wide path that lost itself in
the willows.
Cynthia stood by the door to the
kitchen in the evening listening for
an instant to the quiet futter of
the live things On Wolfpen about to
receive the dark.
1.-THE days in the garden with
the sun on your back are good days.
They ought to go on and on forever.
The evening always comes so fast
when you've got things to set out.
Then your body feels so good after
work, just standing minute be-
fore supper while another day goes
out. A body can see the dark come
in the same way you see the big
hand of the clock move: you look
away for the space Of a little
thought, and then when you look
back again it has moved, or grown
darker"
Jesse was coming in from Barn
Hollow. He stopped at the beehives
by the garden fence to straighten a
| rock under a corner of one of the
boxes. Jasper and Abral came up
| from the barn.
SLOWS the lambing?" Jesse asked
He poured out water in the pan on
the wash rock.
"Thirty-eight lambs now, fourteen
pair twins" Abral said.
Jesse laughed at the way he said
| it. "There's Bible for it,
"That one young eve is in some
trouble" Jasper said.
II feared that" Spared said.
Cynthia felt a surge of pity for
the poor eve which was imperfect
ly equipped to bear the lamb she
had conceived, and was now ruth
lessly trapped in a snare whose pur-
pose Cynthia could not fathom.
There was a faint noise in the or
chard path behind the house. Spar
rel got up. The boys listened. Gym
thia paused in the doorway. Julia
came from the kitchen.
1T must be Nelson," Jesse said.
| Two men on muleback came from
the path into the yard. Cynthia saw
that it was Nelson and a stranger
She concentrated on the stranger
whose features were obscure in the
last of the daylight.
Spared welcomed the visitors
from where he stood.
"Howdy," he said in his deer
voice.
''Howdy, folks" Nelson said, still
holding to the bride of the mules
II brought this Teller over from the
landing. He says he wants to see
you, Grandpap."
you're welcome,' Spared said
"Come in.''
THANK you, Mr.. Pattern. My
name is Shpllpnhprypr"
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boat whistled for all those who
were going on up the river.
you're going on by boat?" Shell
lenberger asked of tall black-hat-
ted man tramping in long strides
toward the wharf.
EYES," Amos Barnes said. "We're
right lucky to have a good boat
stage. Takes longer by hack"
They walked on down to the log
wharf.
"When is she due in Pikeville?"
Shellenberger asked.
Sometime tomorrow, If she's
lucky. Pretty fast going, Catletts-
burg to Pikeville in two days. That's
travelling"
There was a score of passengers
on the Fanny Freeze, all men save
one, a travel-tired woman who sat
with her baby on a chair on the up
per deck mindless Of the smoke.
Some of the men idled about
the narrow passageway, or leaned
against the railing watching the
families digging in the fields. Sew
eral gathered among the heap of
freight on the lower fore-deck. Shell
lenberger found Barnes sitting on
a barrel of -four in the sunshine.
"Cinders amt so apt to get in a
mans eyes up front here" Barnes
said.
Eyes, it's much better up here"
Shellenberger answered.
Shellenberger regarded Barnes,
trying to take in all his dimensions.
He was a large man in a dusty
brown suit, the pants tight-ftting,
hugging his knees, and squeezing
down into a pair Of straight black
boots with brown ears to pull them
on by. His sandy hair fared out
from under a high crowned black
hat and joined a flowing red beard
| which swept down from his ears
| to the fifth button on his vest.
Shellenberger filled his pipe leis-
urely. He could hear young noun
taineer describing his adventures on
his first journey out Of the hills.
g. just give up that Catletts-
burg was sure all afire and Albumin
down the way everything was a.
blazin, up like brush heap in a
clearin', and yelled out to Taz, he
was back at the tiller, Taz was,
says, Let's take and tie up, Taz
! this -dad-burned towns Albumin
up!' And Taz he made a sight Of
fun outen me a-devilin' me on ac
count I'd slept clean a-past Cat.
lettsburg and here we was already
a-runnin' in to Ashland where they
got all them furnaces and things"
The laughter was frayed by the
wind and carried back into the
swirling smoke.
II suppose you've been down to
Ashland or somewhere" Shellen.
berger inquired.
II rode the Greenup County cir.
cult, and I'm going up to Plkeville
to ride circuit now"
"You are we'll acquainted with the
upper Big Sandy then, 1 imagine?'
Il ought to be, brother. I've rid 6
sight of country in these parts in
my day. I've rid about every single
creek and holler."
Shellenberger spread out a map
Of the Big Sandy region.
"There's Catlettsburg at the mouth
Of the river. There's Louisa. An(
there's Richardson where we tool
the boat. That's Paintsville, there:
the mouth Of Cannon creek. :
"That's the mouth Of Cannon
we're just now passing" Barne!
said, pointing to his left over {
salt barrel.
IA man could float a good-sizet
raft down that stream. Is it tina
wide very far up?' Shellenberge
asked.
uJt,c fiftv RI hundrad feet wild,