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September 24, 1913.
Women Can Refund
wards making a lux^irious garden. work among the Freedmen. We
Convention Expenses It has been 'claimed that education gratefully -acknowledge the receipt BECOME A NURSE
will sipoil the Negro. It has not yei
j^ny -woman who expects to attend
of 15.00 from Rev. Samuel Edgar "1 reC'iinineiidTlieCtiaut.iuquaSclioo] ofXursin^'. I earned
the World's W. C. T. U. Convention
been proven that it will spoil him. May 28, and also $10.00 from Mrs. double my tuition wliile stiKlviuK: "I'wl receive $zo a week.
in Brooklyn, N. Y., can refund her
Education is a policy of -God for the Maria M. Gamble, June 10, who was
^lidaa F. Heiidcrscn. JindiLott, l-Vash. (portrait).
Convention expenses by inducing her improvement of all humanity. "So a faithful and conscientious contributor
to the work in the Southern Mis­
T-HE Chaiitauqua School
friends to enjoy the advantages of a teach.'- "Leam of me." "My people
•'of Nursing has trained
combination Life and Accident Insurance
Policy in the only company that norance is a cure for nothing. It can
perish lor lack of knowledge." Ig­
thousands of women iu
sion, and who has now, since her
their own honie> to earn
last offering, gone 'to her reward. But
$10 to $25 a week: as
temperate people can afford to patronize.
The only company that acknow­
of education lies at the basis of any and so her "works do follow her."
only blight and curse. The right kind the cause she supported still lives
nurses. Send for a copy of
"How I Became a Nurse'
ledges in dollars and cents that temperate
people are better risks and ot education means more than abil­
will be necessary this year will oc­
pa(?es vvith actual experi­
people's salvation, and the right kind The repairs and improvements that
and our ^ear Book—248
should have lower rates. The only ity 'to read the Primer and scribble casion some expense, and contribu-
ences of Chautauqua
coffl'pauy issuing a policy to temperate
people which covers life and pays well defined meaning. We suppose to share in the improvement of our Forty-eight specimen lesson pages
the name. Illiteracy is a term of no 'tions from any one who may be free
Nurses.
weekly sums while disabled from all teachers are taken out of the class equipment will be gratefully acknowledged
and appreciated.
The Chautauqua School of Nursing
sent free to all inquirers
accidents. All at a lower rate than of the illiterate. From one of these,
Is usually charged for straight life who receives $14 a month salary,
W. J. SANDERSON. 561 Main St. Twelfth Year Jamestown, N.Y.
insurance.
and teaches over 100 scholars in the
Principal. stirred up for renewed efforts during
the coming year.
It will pay you to call or write for largest colored school in a Georgia
details.
county, a Professor received a note
CLARINDA, IA.
Our Chautauqua assemblv was held
American Temperance Life
of which the followi-ng is a reprint: Our pastor. Rev. H. G. Conaughy, Aug, 13-23, and while the weather
Jusiirance Association,
"may 12, 1912,
253 Broadway, New York.
returned last week very much benefitted
in health and strength after
was extremely hot and the roads very
"Prof. 1 drop yo this Ca'rd to let
dusty, yet the people of this and surrounding
localities showed their ap­
THE SOUHTERN MISSION
yo know that I will be in on that
The day schools of the Southern
early train munday morning tell mrs. a month's vacat'on among the lakes preciation of the flne program. Mr.
Mission will open Monday, September
markus to meet the train.
in Michigan.
J. Ren Lee, one of our elders, is the
29. As we announce this another
"Y'ours • —."
opening, we are looking forward to
The thirty-seventh annual convention
of the fifthdistrict W. C. T. U.
president of the assooiation.
it with eager hearts and strong desires
that the year shall be char­
May this properly be called literary?
If it is not, is it not (ill) lit­
of lOwa was held in the Covenanter
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hosack and
flve children of Grove City, Pa., have
acterized hy strong service and
erary?
been spending the past montli visiting
Mrs Hosack's mother, Mrs. M.
Church of this 'place, Sept. 2-3. The
abundant blessing. During July and
iBut after all the literary factor is president, Mrs. Lucile W. Shadle, of
August there has been some day only one of the factors in the educational
life, and it is not the great­
IBlack and .Mrs. Ren Lee and other
B, McKee, and sisters, Mrs. M. M.
Shenandoah, presided, and the secretary,
Mrs. M. M. Bl-ack, of our congre­
school work for those who are able
to attend during that part of the year, est. It is the crude, miseducation
relatives. They came the entire distance
in their Chalmers automobile,
gation, recorded 'the minutes, while
andit also gives to some the opportunity
to make up some studies where tion that does despite to genuine
covering the distance in six day.-;.
that is too often nominated educa­
Mrs. Dalby, of Coin, the treasurer,
looked after the flnancial department.
they are behind in their grades. Mrs. training and culture. It has been
Miss Mary Tippin, of Omaha, visited
several days during August, at the
A review of the year's v/ork showed
E. 0. Senegal and Anna Sims iiave said that the Negro's soul is the Negro's
hope. This was spoken of him
energy and push among the Unions,
been 'teaching ;n Knox Academy and
home of her brother, Mr. Arch Tippin,
and the presence of Miss Ruth Van also Mr. W. J. Tippin, of SteHing,
Mrs. Kynett at Pleasant Grove. All co-ncerning his success in music. It Syoc, State organizer, and Supt. of spent a few days visiting his uncle
the Sabbath Schools and all the re-miusligio-js services in the church are con­
success in life.
tion during the entire convention. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Whitehill re-
be said of him concerning his L. T. L. work, was a great inspira­
Arch.
tinued with no break through the Pre eminently the hope of any people
is their moral and religious train­
served supper the first evening and in honor of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Ho­
The L. M. S. of our congregation 'rently entertained at a dinner pa.-i;y
year. There is good seed sowing all
the year, and with increasing interest ing. And our inspiration in the educational
work in the South land is ment of the church, realizing a neat E. McKee, Mrs. Rosa Miller, Mr. and
dinner the following day in the basesack.
Those present were, Mrs. M.
and enthusiasm we trust it may go on
as the day school work is again entered
into.
pressed divine purpose "Let us make
Ren Lee, Mr. T. E. Miller and Mr.
summed up in the words of an ex­
sum of money to be used for mission­
iMrs. W. M. Black, Mr. and Mrs. J.
There is room for increased inter­
man." It takes more than letters and
est and enthusiasm. The field is
large; the needs are great, and much
upward progress is yet to be
made before the masses of the
^'egro race stand on the heights and
"Tiew the landscape o'er" of a truly
virtuous and ransomed people. Up-
'S'ard advance has been made and is
tieing made. According to the last
tliiited States censu-s Negro illiteracy
•1 the Southern states was reduced
15 per celit during the last ten years.
I'Ws is a step in the right direction,
*id is no inconsiderable stride to
•sake in ten years wheu all the barkers
inherited and otherwise are considered.
But 'the reduction of illiter-
My 15 per cent is not an increase
°f 15 per cent in real education. The
""^re name ability no more to read sliows and what write genuine one's
*cation may do for an individual
* a race than two drops of water
^'11 show what moisture will do to­
A FAMILY PAPER,
•ability to write to do tbat.
There are yet 2,200,000 Negros in
the Southern states that are old
enough to read and write but are un­
every way, and that we were being
able to do so. They are still In the
complete darkness of ignorance so
far as any literary training is concerned.
Vastly greater is the number •
that is groping in the dalrkness of
immorality and sin. Yet they can be
reached; they can be 'taught, and no
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more splendid example can be found
anywhere of what thorough going
Christian training can do for a people
than are found among the souls of
the Black Folk.
Bless God for Christianity, for its
enlightening and saving power, and
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fot the great privilege of teaching
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We thank those who by their contribufons
and prayers remember ou: •
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layer's Cherry Pectoral for hard colds, coughs, bronchitis.
J. O. Ayer Oo.,
ilhousands of families always keep it in the house. ' " "^
Lowell, Ma-sb
ary purposes. The delegates expressed
themselves as highly pleased
with the excellent meals served during
the convention, and each seemed
to feel the meeting a success in
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and Mrs. Edmund Dunn.
Mr. and Mrs. James McKeown anil
daughter Elsie took a vacation trip
to Macedonia, Ohio, to visit their
daughter and sister, Mrs. John Duncan.
They also stopped in the eastern
part of this state on the'r return
trip.
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