The Topeka Plaindealer from Topeka, Kansas • 1

i 1 I No. 40. TOPEKA, KANSAS. FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 4. 1018 Price $1.50 Per Star i.

i i wbo have abilltiea along any special A Prosperous Business Man. Mr. and Mm. D. E.

Breckenrmge Mr. and Mrs. L. Le, Mr. and Mrs.

line will find It to their aavaniage OREO AN Joe 13 recken ridge and Mr. aaa IHE COL to acquaint their company com Bart Breckenridge, Bunaay. a Riure. Sr. of Hwbch- manders wito tne nature m.

i-ir up cokred enterprises In Kaasa DOING HIS BIT quliflcatlons, and this may lead to congenial assignment In keeping City than any other one man. cock, visited at the home of Mr. and Mr.auid Mrs. L. C.

Wood at a din-ner Wednesday evening. Mr. and (Mr. C. Towns and Mr.

and Mrs. L. C. Woods motored to Kinsley, Kansas. Little Robert Reves has been on the sick list.

Mrs. Myres was in Lamed Satur. day on business. We hope the ladles will have something on exlhlblt at the Pawnee fair. Mr.

Bill Perry has returned from He Is certainly an industrious man with their mental or wcnnicai uiu- around home and It Is a pleasure menta. There la alwaya aometmnK for a man to do who Is of proved ability or special We take freat pleasure In saylnK that we visited the beautiful home of Hon. E. A. Robinson, 2413 Mont-gall.

Kansas City, This home is a fine structure and la modern In every particular. Mr. Robinson is one of Kansaa Clty'a live wires and is a man who ubos his brain. He Is city manager the Continental Casualty Company and has In charge Mrs. D.

A. Draw Buoaay. Mr. and Mrs. O.

E. Breckenridge entertained about eighty guest Saturday evening 21. In honor of their brother Mr. F. D.

Breckenridge one of our prominent young men who Is to enter service dn the near to visit his home. He has two daughters who are the pride of bis heart. One Is a graduate of Lincoln High School and the other will graduate soon. Along with his other work Mr. Robinson loves to spending a few days in Hutchinson, Black America Measures up Full to Every Demand of 322; I the Government.

-Uaned from fflo of Emwett J. BcoU. Special assistant to the Sec ifreUry of war.) rAiM war work fiifrnv A An srhtruJ two cuurae ruture. a uchm'uim luncheon was served. In the wee Mrs.

Clara Russell has gone north rj nirhr u' deDSrted for home declaring Mrs. Breckenridge an Ideal The 'out of state guest were Mr. rw.Vor Rmwn. Loralne, Kansas, -War-Drtmmt officials aUta that Hy. or.Peclai.

equipment. There are ndw 41. colored chaplains in the United 8tMea Army. It Is expected that colored chaplains will be provided for service at Camp Lee at an earlydate. Colored narnhnra 01 "the "Committee of 100," who are authorized tt present the war alms of the Govern-raant, are getting in touch- with i the State Councils of Defense their respective localities and are thus lending themselves effectively to the programs marked out for their particular needs of the several states.

who Is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Lee, Geo W. I -A! cloce ine unKrn Camp at Fort Dei, Moines, out ol iwhlch came 639 colored commis-eloned officers, and prior to the es-tabllshment of the training schools at Camps Taylor and Pike, 1H colored men were commissioned aa In Infantry.

11 ltt Calvary for a few months. Mrs. Peart Harding who has been visiting tn Denver, Colorado, is spend-Ing a few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Curo. Mr.

and Mrs. Clara Towns gave a farewell party in honor of Mr. Loyde Wood who wfll leave for camp Funston, Kansas, In a few days. The house was decorated with the Hags of the Allies and small flags were given as souvenirs. Mrs.

Sara Franklin and Baby, Charline, of Kinsley, Kansas, are the guest of Miss Sallie Hawkins. CROWEBURG, KANSAS HamMton of Topeka. Kansas, who Is visiting at the Price and Hamilton homes and Mrs. Johnson, of Topeka who Is visiting at the 'mm -mk ml and 35 in Field .107 offl- In lfontrV CBmB nUt of the NEWTON, KANSAS I cent class at Camp Pike and 4i i.i. .1.1 a i aiorv pn.me.out of Camp Clark home.

Misses Willie Deloney and Helen Rouce visited at -the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas Drake Sunday. Mr. Fred Breckenridge escorted the Clark family or ome of the Clark girls home.

Mr. Wash Earl, one of our wealthy farmers, of Hitchcock, who has Mary 'Maley is convales- iMrs. cent now. hPfin nfc (flaremore lor nis neuiiui has returned home and made prepa- gU8ie HuiidtTBon and Kev. Hunter Mr.

and Mrs. J. W. Anderson are leaving for Chicago and Cincinnati for a two weeks visit. They will visit Washington, D.

while on the trip. and Mrs. Tom Slaughter returned from Omaha to spend (the winter at home. Mr. Chas (Franklin and Miss Georgia Ward were united in holy wedlock last Wednesday and are living with his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. We congratulate this young coupie and predict for rations ior a bjub, uuoi rcporu'u iuo bir ii.

Mr. Huston Younc returned irom romm tn iMr. Jt-arie sale will be one of the largest ever held around Hitchcock. The farmers Dillonvale, Ohio, being called under the selective draft to report at camp Funston M't Wednesday night. Mr.

Geo. W. Reid accompanied bv L. W. Whitehead, Franklin, J.

around here are busy sowing wneat. Mr nnd Mrs. Warren Haruy. or. Drummond, spent Sunday with Mr.

IfU IIMV i Taylor last The foregoing summitry gives a total of 941 color-. exl officers tfraduattog from the Officers' Training Schools, and these figures are exclusive, of those com-missioned in the Medical Reserve Corps and In special branches of the service, both over here aaa abroad, and the count does not embrace the officers of the National Guard and those in the original Regular Army. The War College at Washington advises that there have beea re, gistered 207 white labor compun-, ies, 200 of which were sent overseas before their organization was entirely This Js positive evidence that these Labor are not confined exclusively to colored membership, as lias been intimated in some quarters. A colored woman's Volunteer Service Leauge, of Newark. N.

Kocn nrirnnized nS a iimUCn 01 and Mrs. BrecKennage. V. Keller and Wm. I homas motored to Emporia last month to attend the Masonic Grand Lodge.

Mi Marguerite Jackson who them a prosperous iuiure. VNGMAN AND PRETTY PRARIE, KANSAS wnt tim Riimmpr in Detroit, has returned home to enter school Thomas, of J. L. here. Mr.

and Mrs. Dunkirk, moved at Hennessey. Mr. D. Mason who nas neen visiting at the home of his wife's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. H. JacKson, has returned to his home at Fallis. Mr. John Barfield is visiting In Louisiana preparatory to his going to camp.

A card has been received announcing the safe arrival of. Archie Bur-rls over Mrs. Floyd and sister Mrs. John Vaughn have returned from The miners of Crowdeiry have organized a ministrfi to entertain the citizens here exhihitng every pay and Monday night following. jvirs Minnie McDaniel leaves for Kansas City Monday to attend the board meeting of the S.

M. T. PLEASANTON, KANSAS Mr. Earl Arncfld who Ss work. ing in Kansas City visited his pn- camp Funs(bon iwnere tney vibwju Mayor's Committee of the o- ht otiH Mm Monre.

Mrs. A. HON. E. A.

ROBINSON. tH onvoral -times whiel there. Dozier, Mrs. Hollen Slaughter, Rev. National Defense, and has opened iMrs.

Earnest Porter spent last farm a little each year and this past year he had a garden at four diffe week in Pratt visiting. rents. Mr. and Mrs. li.

w.Arnoia Sunday. Mr. R. E. Fine was in Ft.

Scott Sunday and Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor moved to this place from Mound Cilty, Monday. Mr.

Taylor is working the Frisco extra White and Mrs. rneips were visitors In Croweburg Sunday. Mr' Walter Moore, of Franklin, rent places, wnue ne motors up often having bought an MJfcs Etta (Floyd twno spent summer In Chicago, spent a few days in Kingman before returning to the new home In Western, Kansas. On jreturoing-i Miss Floyd viBlted oiai-ivM in Edwards 111., and Overland car. Mr.

G. W. Reid and family motored to Cherokee Sunday visited relatives, friends and church finding several thousand dollars worth of real estate from which collects rent. He is a man who has worked himself up from the bottom of the ladder, attending Northwestern University at Evangton, It was through his efforts that the National Business League was brought to Kansas City in 1916. It was he who organized thd.

large delegation of business men who had a Pullman to Muskogee to attend the Business League and secured the promise of the officers of the League that they would meet in Kansas City. Mr Robinson is doing more to build made several days stay with her sister Mrs. Minnie noyd Wright in handicapped because oi his right limb yet tt has been no barrier to him. He Is Interested In transfer work and has three teaams that are used by the ty. He also contracts or excavating work and employs from eight to ten men and he has done several thousand dollars worth of thhj kind of work.

Mr Robinson Is a staunch Republican and Is president of Tenth Ward all prospering nicely. Topeka. A. I ASSIGNMENTS PARSONS, KANSAS Mrs. Katie Whltlinams of Deni otm Texan visited her niece Mrs, headquarters, at xviuiDerry where colored soldiers may be made "at home" and entertainment provided for them.

A suitable building Is to be secured for the establishment of a canteen for the benefit of the soldiers; Some of the officers of thfs Voluntary SeVVlce League are: Mrs. M. Burrell, E. Hilton' and Mrs. Emma Wormley; and treasurer, Mj-s.

Louise HiRon. J. E. Blanton, In co-oPera-tlon with the War Department commission on Training Activities, is doing effective work In various camps in organlng "Liberty Choruses" among the colored soldiers and in instructing them in the technique of plantation melodies, folk-song singmg and the standard "spirituads." He is introducing with great success "Natalie Curtis Burlin's newlyconceived and moHt happily "harmonized folksong "A Hymn of Freedom." which Is set for singing the tune of "Rule on, Jesus, Ride George Williams and friends for a few days. TOPEKA DISTRICT Rev.

11. I). Harris. P. Mr.

Sercie Hasting is taking a visit at Gatnsvllle and other points 'Mr, JOnn urowu, ui n.ouaao City, Kansas and Mr. Tom Smith, of La Cygne, were in this city Tuesday. Mrs. Hattle Stone visited Sum-day with Mr. and Mrs.

G. W. Arnold. Rev. J.

W. Gillespie has gone to Omaha, to 'attend the A. M. E. IMr.

Merle Smith has been called to the cofor8. He left the first of the week for camp Dodge to entrain for army service. The A. M. E.

Church at this place will have a new pastor this insuing conference year, Rev. Christopher. Rev. Gillespie will be pastor of the church at Rosedale. Mr.

Nelson Wilson, of La Cygne was in (this city Thursday on business. Mr. Fred Simons who is employed in a hotel at Paola was in this city Saturday enroute to his work, from Mound City, where he lias been visiting. in Texas. Mr Charlie Finis, of Sedalia.

Mo Chairman Hays Visits Topeka spent Sunday visiting Ms3 Helen Hudson. tlan gentleman. He puts on no air? and win go out ot his way to apeak Xq a person. -BU oome is at In- by profesSiOhT ff statesman, pollUc, ian and gentleman. It was interesting to stand ln the headquarters of the central committee last Friday afternoon and see him work.

He first had a con-rerpn with tliA different canidates The Jewel Art Cluh will entertain their husband3 Monday night Sept Mrs. Katie wiilbe honor guest. The Kewpie Art Club held its onenine meetine with Miss Fern St. John ReV. H.

King. Lawrence Rev. John Adams. Junction City J. W.

Warren Argentine R. S. Everett. Brown Chapel G. P.

Haywood. Oiltawa A. J. Sanders. Paola N.

B. Johnson. Emporia C. A. Woods.

Garnett A. J. Johnson. Olatha cir. Wm.

Council Grove H. M. Davis. St. James, N.

Lawrence R. E. Harper. Lakeview M. Chislonl.

Eudora A. C. Tally. Rosedale J. T.

Gillespie. KANSAS CITY DISTRICT Rv. J. T. Smith, P.

E. 1st Church Kansas City, Kas. J. Griffin. Fort Scott Parsons T.

W. Greene, Jr. Willis. 2215 Morgan Ave. for Congress and committeemen from Opportunities for the entrance of Mr.

French Christian visited his mother Sunday and Monday before entering in the camp. Mrs. Chris different districts and called ln the heads of the various factions of Kan. sas and when everything was over, the lamb and the lion laid down together and all agreed to work in hnrmonv for thn success Of the tian Invited a few in Monday eve nine in honor of her son. "Whist and dancinE were the The people of the State of Kansas as well as Topeka are proud of the visit of Will H.

Hays, Chairmun of the National Republican Committee. Too much credit can not be given State Chairman, Motter, for the manner in which he handled the affair and the fact that he secured the visit to this city of Chairman Hays. From the time he arrived in Topeka last Friday, until his departure, he was busy. Governor Capper and state Chairman Motter met him at thetrain, escorted him to the state house where he spoke in the afternoon to a large crowd in the repre-senative hall. Mr.

Hays is a man iwell versed on international and national Issues and matters pretain-ing to the war. He gave the people much information and food for Republican party at the coming elec tion. Mulvane, Scruggs, Clarke, William Allen White and scores of amusements for the evening at a late hour. A dainay luncheon was serevd. The Clover Leaf Art Club mett with Mrs.

Leroy Howard. BUY LIBERTY BONDS Coffey ville H. H. Jones. others who have been on the outside agreed to lay down the club and fight for the success of the war, liberty bonds and the Republican par A.

i Independence H. Shepard. ty. One thing Mr. Hays said that we particularly liked was that this war meant th christianizing; of the LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS Mr.

John Smith ireiturned from Omaha last Tuesday evening after attending conference. Editor Nick Chiles was in the city Wednesday for a short stay. Mrs. H. Walton entertained the following 4adtes Thursday at dinner.

Miss Hattie Ingram, Mrs. Ida Thompson, Mrs. E. J. Harris and Mrs.

C. Hamilton. Mrs. Walton received a card from her son, Wirt, stating that he had arrived safely over seas. Rev.

and Mrs. A. J. Sanders left Friday for Ottawa, Rev. Sanders' new charge Rev.

J. C. Owens ably filled the pulpit at Bethel A. M. E.

church Sunday. Pittsburg B. R. Ross. Inla J.

J. Watson. Chanute C. R. Runyon.

Cherry Vale T. E. Weir City H. H. Dent.

Baxter (Springs C. T. Whitcomb' Galena W. D. Rivers.

Pleasanton J. E. Christopher. OBWego Croweberg Ison Aaron. thought.

He appealed to the people entire world and that all men would be on equality so far as the administering of the laws are concerned to lay politics aside and urged mac everybody go with push and vim into Everybody should fcuy a liberty bond. Every dollar invested will help bring about better conditions in this country as well as in Europe. In "vefthrewing kalserism In Germany, you will also be instrumental in clearing this country of lynchers, segregation laws and all the angels of hell and represenatives of the devil who have been robbing colored people of their property and life for the past hundred years. Let every citizen do his duty in helping to win this war. this present liberty loan campaign onrt huv bonds.

His arraignment of the Democratic party for trying AT GERMANS to Inject politics into tnis war was ovnrA He stated several facts Ebenezer Kansas city Kansas B. Robinson. -i Homboldt OMAHA DISTRICT Rev. A. C.

Terrell, P. E. Omaha N. C. Williams.

competent colorea men in me urinary Corps are now open. Information relative to this branch of the service may be had by address-' Ing Major Ray J. Stanclift, Assla-- ftant Director of the Veterinary Corps, Washington, D. C. New barracks are being built at Howard University and Atlanta I nl-versity for the acemmodaion of the young men who are coming in from all sections of the country to take the military training along with their academic studies and for the vocational cesses that wUl come trom draftees who will be assigned there by local boards or army camp officials.

The opportunities offered young colored men through the Com-Vmlttee on Education and Special Training are being seized with a-. 'erness, and -eo -rapiaiy has the de-' mand for this type of education grown, and so 'potent are the re-t suits noted, thefc the Governments policy of thus turning out specially-trained men for Its manifold needs, Is meeting with universal approval and ds to be continued Indefinite By next July, it Is estimated that 20 000 young colored men will have Teceived this training in some of its lorms. Charles Ham-is, leader of Commonwealth Band, of Baltimore, has been appointed assistant band leader and will go to France with one of the colored organizations. After six months, he will be made a second lieutenant. officials In France are said -to be exceedingly fond of the "jaaz" music furnished by the colored bands.

General Petaln recently visited a sector in which there are American troops and had "the time of his life" listening to a colored hand playing the popular "jazz inus-lc, with soime Negro dance stunH in with thp Knirit. of the mela- KANS GALENA YALE, KANSAS where the Democrats have been de. delict ln asslnsting the president to carry on the war while on the other hand the Republican party is doing everything in its power to assist in promoting this war and crushing the" kiBer He Raid that after the war S. Omaha J. Broadnax.

KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Mrs. Nancy Reynolds, 1220, Highland and Mr. T. D. Spears, of Louisiana, were quietly married Leavenworh J.

C. C. Owens. Atchison B. Billops.

Lincoln J. S. Payne. Bonner Springs H. M.

McTassel. Prejudice Whites Want Segregated Schools, Mrs. Donnie Palmer Is on the sick list. Mrs. Grayson is improving nicely.

Mrs. Crocket and her mother, Mrs. Jackson, gave a reception Saturday night. And also Mrs. Grayson.

iMrn. Town's mail a a nnfr-V trfn to the Republican party would be cal 11, 1918, and are now at the Troy E. Eat man. Elwood D. C.

Miller. Wo nnte thftt tlinre ara a few nri. Highland J. W. Thomas.

led on to put not only mis country uui the foreign country on a staple basis wherein everybody could live at ease. Canldates for Congressmen from fnnrth fifth and sixth districts Pittsburg, Kansas, Saturday evening. judiced white people at Galena, who are still agitating the seperate school Question They should have Mr. Beaton, Mr. ftdward Miner home of their friends at tne aooye address, they are both excellent people and we wish them much happiness Miss Martha Canterberry spent her vacation in St.

Joseph, guest of her sister. Rev. J. R. Richardson, 2400 Allis Kansas City, and pastor of Mt.

Pleasant Bapitist Church is and Mr. Guiles also made trins to addressed the meeting, by special in Cherokee Saturday evening. sense enough by this time to know that such a question is a thing of vitation from Chairman woiier. Misses Rosa iLuniile Pal newspaper men were asked to De present and they responded from a.l mer Marie Wheaton. Mvrtln Millpr.

the past. Tliy better go to church and have their minister preach some good wholesome doctrine to them, sucn as out again after a serious illness. Opal Weaver and Ruby Miller were on parts of the state to meet me VotlAtm rhairman ana IO Hiiriiu program rriaay nignt at unerokee, Kansas, also Masters Baily Grayson Ret. Geo McNeal will preacn at his church the 1st Sunday" in 1918, the annual sermon of Princess hanauet which was held at the the golden rule. That class of white the and Philip Maple.

Chamber of Commerce rooms and i people who advocate separate schools was given by the liberty loan com- will be a thing of the past after this Cameil Mr Whits has hpen visi Horton E. Malone. Beatrice Wm. Nebraska City J. W.

Stapelton. Oskaloosa E. H. Adams. Bethel cin.

W. E. Washington. Qulndaro Hiawatha A. H.

DefMoss. WICHITA DISTRICT Rrv. E. W. Smith, P.

E. Wichita J. R. Ransom. Hutchinson It.

C. Henderson. Arkansas City J. W. Williams.

Treat Bon1 P. Davis. WinfloH H. C. White.

Pratt H. J. G. Gause. Hill City Wm.

Martin. Garden City I. A. Brown. Newton Wm.

Enyard. Wellington T. M. Reeves. Sterling St.

John Salina H. M. Mickens. mittee of this city and county, me war. i ney neru to gi ousy ami the read the newsnannrs and learn what Mrs.

M. E. Adams. Pres. Mr.

J. F. Crawford, of was in the ry the guest of Mrs. ting her friends, Mrs. R.

H. Baker and Mrs. John Lewis, of Yale. eoitor oi tins iai-' banquet and we again had the plea- 1 the colored race is doing for them on cur of hearing some splendid and a foreign field. Let the good white M.

E. Adams. LARNED, KANSAS ihflDful remarks from nays, peopie wane mi unu pui uns luifrior OKEENE, OKLA Mr Howard Steener has cone to Burdetta, Kansas on a business irip. Mw. Patterson has return Mr.

Leuvincent Lee who on some time ago is was get- There were over oou guei iirenrw tia nmn-a and at times thev arose from their They should be sent to Germany feet and cheered until it was deafen- and put in the class with the kai- ine What we liked about Natio- ser as they are enemies not only to rial Comm'itteeman Havs is that he is the colored people but to the best a plain, outspoken, dignified, Chris- whites also. dies-He warmly congratulated the colored teader upon the excellence of the work of his organization and thanked him for the enjoyable entertainment that had been given Colored men serving as privates, ed from Wichita, Kansas, and report- M1. pnd M. B. F.

Patterson, of i ed a nice time If Sfener entertained N0TE3y Special Order of the Government, all Who are Not Paid in Advance Must Be Dropped from Our List.