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EDINBURG, IND.
A number of our young men vis. ited in Columbus, Sunday evening. Leroy and Harry Williams of Taylorsville, were in the city Sunday evening Henry Bird spent Sunday at home Owen Lewis of Franklin was here Monday Jaires Matthews spent Sunday in Shelbyville.
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The quarterly meeting at the Fifth street church Sunday, was well attended and a success, Rev. Nichols preached the sucremental sermou...Pres. Elder Lewis preached at night to a well RBed house Mrs. Frank Gill is slowly improving...Mrs. Clara Weaver is better The Funeral of John /Thomas, who died at Richmond last Wednesday, occured at the Second Baptist church last Friday afternoon and was veiy sad, Rev. Terrell had the funeral in charge. Harrison Thomas of Bloomington and his grand daugheer Ida, returned home Sunday morning. IRVINGTON Mrs. Maud Rogers Brocke died Monday evening, funeral Wednesafternoon trom residence* Rev. A. Simmon officiated, Morgan and Shelton had charge of the remains, interment at Crown Hill...Fletch eechem returned from Danville. 1, Monday Joe Brent and f^mly have moved Miss Etta Carer, who has been in Hamilton. O., for the pa^t three months has re turned home Elmer Hammonds continues quite ill. PLAINFIELD Rev. Thos. Johnson was in Indianapolis Sunday Willis Clark visited his family last Sunday Mrs. Belle Siler and two children will leave today lor Anderson to visit her daughters Miss Eva Kellar will graduate from grammar school next month John Daughtery and Will Bailey wece in Danville Monday Rev. Morton of Indianapolis was here on a fishing trip last Friday......Mrs. M Johnson was in Indianapolis, the guest of her son for several days last week A number ot young went from here Wednesday nighn to attenc a supper at the home of [rs Bubdle in Bridgeport A umber a are going from here Sunay, to the Odd Fellows turn out Anderson There will be a Sunday school social at the Bethel chureh Wednesday evening...Mrs. M. A. Clark is sick.
Misr Nancy Street entertained Miss Lizzie Price, Sunday Miss Orinda Pettiford was the guest of her parents Sunday Rev. Edwards and wife entertained Mrs. Etta Jones at dinner Sunday Bill West is seriously ill Esquire Caaey is slowly improving... Walter Weaver and Mies Minnie Gulliford visited in Marion Sunday Con Stewart was in Marlon Sunday. BENTON HARBOR Rev. McFarland of the Second Baptist church has gone to Indianapolis to get his family who will make their home heie Mr. Littleton and wife visited Dave King and wife at Glen Lord, Sunday The Masons had their annual sermon preached at the A. M. E. church, by Rev. Evans, receipts for evening $to.oo.
KOKOMOThe Y. P. P. C. club gave a literary concert at the A. M E church last night The Green Tea social and concert given by the Alien Guards at the A. M. E. church Tuesday evening was a success The Howard lodge No 24 K. of P. have secured a hall on W- Jefferson street and are fitting it up Rally at the A M. E. church to-morrow. * The May Fair given by the Tabernacle lodge at their hall w as a grand success.
ROCKVILLE. Herbert Avery who has been sick for some time is improving— The supper given by the Stewardesses Monday evening, was a sue cess Miss Dabbs who visited Miss Janette Kussell returned to her home in Crawfordsviile. Monday Will G. Bennett, G. L. Peoples, 1. W« Wray and W. H, [ones were in Grawt'ordsvtlle Tuesday. Muy 24. to take Royal Arch chapter work in Masonry and will and will take K. T woik later The Missis Hanners enteitained in honor of Miss Dabbs of Crawfords ville.
CONNERSVILLE. Miss Irene Castlemao had a very serious accident from which she has a very lame foot Mrs. Clarence Coleman writes favorably from Battle Creek, Mich., where she has gone for the summer The K. T. has organized here with thirty members ... The Maceo lodge No 37 will hold their annual sermon luuezG Odd Fellows days was last Sunday and the city was full
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At 2 p. in the hour for them to made the march to church to the streets were crowded from curb to curb, the Odd Fellow^ and Household of Ruth cristened our new paved streets add they arrived at the 2nd M E. church at 3 p. m., William Dixon was master ot ceremonies and did great credit to himself and the order, Elder Geo, Gray of Cincinnati delivered the 1 greatest Fraternal sermon that was ever delivered in this city and ended the days work with one of his ! masterly sermons at the Baptist church at night, the 8tate Grand lecturer of the Masons paid this lodge a visit every mason should ; be proud of Brother Eagleston who savs he has his weather eye on the executive chair.
BLOOMINGTON The May Fair at Second Baptist was quite a success Mr. Ciark and wife left for their home in L,alayette Wm. Prophet and wife royally entertained a number of friends at their home on Tuesday night in honor of Miss Maty Todd a student in the high school Mesdames W 4 heler and Johnson spent Suuday in Louisville The Alpht Kapp.i Nu entertain their friends at Griffi hs dancing academy on the 9th ..The Colored schools closed yesterday Misi lessie Lee is our primaiy teacher next year.
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BRAZIL NOTES. The St. Paul lodge of M isor.ic, is preparing to entertain the Graad lodge here in August The O.E S. held an entertainment at the Masonic hall last Friday night, tin 27 and it was a financial success, Mrs Ell's the present Matron will j attend Grand Chapter which meets | in Evansville in the latter part of I this month Quite a number are j on the sick list The Trustees ■ and Stewards of the A M E.chu;h ; are preparing to give a joint rallyon the third Sunday' The Union Sewing circle Fair was a success. Rev C. H. Jackson of the 2nd Church of Terre Haute fillsd the pulpit last Sundav at 3 o’clock and able and instructive sermou.
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-Mr. John Haleand wile have •ued invitations for a reception the afternoon and evening of June 7th in houorof Mr < and Mrs. Lowndes The Eastern Star Fair will be held this week...Miss Eva Johnson spent a few days in Danville, III Will Holt of Indianapolis was the guest of Miss Maud Fisher Suouay Miss Belle Jones will entertain fifty guests in honor ot M». and Mrs. Lowndes, Monday evening Mrs. Kate Butler and Miss Grace Keene spent Sunday in Indianapolis Mrs. M. A Tiester was elected delegate to the S. S. convention to be held at Rackville this year George Thompson o Bloomington college passed through here for his home in Covington, Sunday night The Athens musicale club has returned from a successful! engagement in Rockville, this week The A. ^ E. literary society met Tuesday
night at the church. KALAMAZOO MICH.
To'morrow is Missionary quarterly meeting day, Mrs. P. Wright will speak at 3 p. m The quarterly conference held last Monday evening was the best during the 3 years of Rev. Lyons pastorage at the A. M. E. church...Rev. Saunders preached a very able sermon Sunday evening The Song services of the Second Baptist church was a success last Sunday..—..Mrs. W. Roberts and daughter ot Lansing, stopped in this city, enroute to Lawrence Mich The Social at the Second Baptist church was a success, $21 was real.zed......Blue back spellers for sale at Bobbs-Mer-rill Co The A. M. E. social was a success A kick coming...The State Republicans met at Lansing June 1-2 There will be a grand ball June 15 at Vandalia.
One of the most beautiful wed dings that has occured here recently was witnessed at the Baptist church last Wednesday evening at eight o’clock, Wm. Bradley and Miss Lottie Gordon, of this city; were married by Rev. VV. Porter. Miss Gordon was one of the leading youug ladies of Vincennes society, The bride was dressed in a unique gown of white silk and carried a beautiful bequet of bridal roses. The brides maid was Miss Lueline Gordon and the best man Clifton Gordon. After the ceremony was performed a dainty luncheon wai seived at the hridet residence, the bride received many handsome presents, the couple will make their future residence in Danville 111 Curtis Anderson and Miss Francis Richie were quietly mar. ried at the A. M. E. parshnage, Tuesday evening, by Rev. Kelley. Miss Grace D iy is on the sick list,
ANDERSON ITEMS. Mrs. Delta Hill of Muncre, was the guest of Mrs. Louis Watkins, Sunday The Rally at the A. M. E. church was a success The engagement of Miss Lizzie Walker to James Carter, has been announced, the wedding will occur in the early tall Alonzo Douglas of Muncie, was the guest of friends, Monday The G U. O. F. will hold annual Thanksgiving sermon which will be held Sunday at the Second Baptist church Grant Hicks spent Sunday in Tipton Mrs, Fannie Richardson is visiting in Indianapolis The Sisters of the Mysterious Ten gave their an. nual thanks giving sermon Sunday at the Second Baptist church. Dr. Brown of Chicago made the address
SEYMOUR. M r s, Dixon entertained last Thursday evening, the H. H. Society...Miss Tressa Goode of North Vernon, was the guest of her grand mother, Mrs. Antra Mitchell...Miss Luella Goens and C. E. Hardimon, were elected delegates to the Sunday school convention Mrs. Dixon entertained Mr Hardimon and wife at diooer, Sunday.
FRANKFORT
Miss Bessie Cox was the guest ot Forest Mitchell...Mrs, Anna Mit chell returned from Lafayette Monday Blanche Clark visited in Lafayette, Sunday John Morgan was in the city Sunday.
SOUTH BEND NOTES. Rev, Mrs Waytes leaves for her home in Virginia, Monday Mrs Eli Stewart is on the sick list Miss Bertha Morgan cf Chicago, attended the grand ball here, Mon day ..C. M. Braggs has moved into their new house Mrs. Tom Wilson is on the sick list The Odd Fellows gave one of the grandest balls at the Columbia hall, Monday evening; that has been in this city this season, everybody had a good time and went home pleased
LOGANSPORT
Mrs. Lear ot Chil’ago is the guest of Frank Carter and wife Rev. Green of Peru, filled the pulpit, Sunday night Several were baptised Sunday, by the pastor Mrs John Curtis was in Rockville last Sunday, the guest of Rev. Rhs sell and v\4fe Mr. Gibson of Kenneth, with Ivs wife were in the city Monday, the guest of Horace Turner and wife Mrs Mary T. Hill was entertained by Mrs. Lizzie Brewer, Sunday Leo vVinslow completed the 8th grade with high honors. He delivered the class history Mrs. Mary Gray has returned from Louisville, and reports a good time. SHELBYVILLE. James Matthews of Edinburg was here Sunday Geo. Hines after attending school in Washing, ton for three months, has xeturned to ihe city for a three month’s va cation Levi Newby of Indianapolis, was the guest of ’datives in our city Decoration day Mrs. Wm. Reed of Indianapolis was the guest of relativss here, Monday Mrs Belle Lawrence of Indianapolis, spent Sunday and Monday in our city, and was accompanied home by her son, Rohcoe Mrs. Bertha Woodard is the guest of her parents in this city Mrs. Hodge lelt tor her her home in Indianapolis, after a few days visit in our city, she was accompanied home by Mesdames Johnson and Marshall...Earl Williams and Wm. Ellison were the guest of the Misses Dukes, Sunday. Miss Clara Dudley and Lisher Anderson spent Monday evening m Indianapolis, Miss Laura Dudley accompanied them home, You are cordially invifed to attend the Childrens’ day at the and M. E. church, on the 12th...James Motley spent Monday and Tuesday in Franklin Robert Marshall has etnrned heie from Union City The Ladies met at Castle Hall, Tuesday night, which organized a protem body, a laige number were present...Mattie, the little daughter of Jerry Vaughn and wife, died Wednesday and was buried Friday Robert Reed and wife, Levi Reed and Catherine C. Harper and daughter, Lillie of Indianapolis, were the guest of Mrs. Frank Reed Sunday and Monday...Miss Francis Whited left Tuesday for Franklin. where she will spend a few weeks.
FT WAYNE.
The Ladies of the Stewardess Board held a fair on the 24-5-6 of May for the relief of the Steward department, and their success was phenomenal, the contestants were spirited and brought in a handsome sum: Mrs. Addie Rhodes the first prize, which was a china set of 100 pieces, and Mrs. Jannetta Moten won the second prize which was Ja fine rocking chair Sam Raines spent Decoration day in Loganport.
George Bowens and wife are spending a few days in Frankfort. The sewing circle of the A. M. E. church meets twice a week...... The May rally to pay the church debt was a succest over $100 were raised and the debt paid, members and pastor ore itjoioing over 'he victory Mesdames Lydian Bowen and James Bishop are on the sick list N A. Hawki'ns is vis iting his wife in Ttnnessee M ir>v of the mines are idle throwing m m\ of our peopie out of work Mrs Ed Matthe ws\ entertained the pas
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organizers, but, not content wftb all this, they proceeded to use their embezzled power for the purpose of need lessly humiliating that element in the Indiana Democracy which is foolish enough to believe that the Democratic party ought to represent something more than the hunger of a political machine for a plethoric campaign fund and for the spoil? of office. During the Indianapolis convention there was not a moment when the Bryan element of the party stood the slightest show of exercising any influence upon the business of the meeting. The galleries were systematically packed with Parker partisans. The tickets were distributed through the Parlor organization. Hearst men were denied tickets to the hall, despite the fact that there were scores of empty seats, and a Parker badge was a sufficient “open sesame” to doorkeepers. The proceedings of the convention were one continuous shriek from start to finish, the machine doing its work relentlessly. The character of the proceedings may be judged from the statement of Henry Colerick, a prominent Allen county anti-Tagggrt leader, on the floor of the convention, that three hundred Hearst delegates had been robbed of their right to sa in the convention by the state committee, by the refusal of Senator Kopelke of Lake county, former Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, to serve as a vice president of the convention because of the outrageous tactics adopt* ed, although he came to the convention as a Parker man, and the repeated refusal of the chair to permit chal-
DANIEL E. STORMS
Excellent Official Record Made by Efficient Secretary of State. Daniel E. Storms, who has the marked distinction of having been twice nominated by acclamation for the office of secretary of state, wai horn on a Tippecanoe county farm, near Stockwell, un January 30, 1866. His education was secured through the common schools, Purdue University and Michigan University, he graduating from the law department of the latter with the degree of LL.B. in 1892. He then became a successful practitioner and was Tippecanoe’s county attorney at the date of his first election to the office for which he has been renominated. His family consists of wife, daughter and son. During that portion of his term already completed the office has made
THAT STATE CONVENTION
Bulldozing Methods Score a Triumph
for the Reorganizers’ Candidate. The political history of Indiana af-
fords no parallel fur the high-handed, diertionest and unrepubtican methods adopted at the recent Indiana Democratic state convention. They were employed by a coterie of politicians who had entered Into contract with New York parties to deliver this state to the Hill-Parker-Belmont combine, and were determined to deliver the good* regardless of the proprieties or
even the decencies of politics. A great deal has been said about the
liberal use of money by the Hearst contingent in Indiana, and doubtless it was well supplied. It required no detective work to determine, however, that the reorganizers w T ere even better equipped with funds. Where this money came from may be imagined by those who know the relation of the Parker candidacy to certain interests which are dissatisfied with the merger decision and the general attitude of President Roosevelt’s administration toward such combinations of capital as
arc illegal and oppressive and desire lenglng of the votOB of countie3 by as president a man that they can use. , ndlvld „ al delegates, without regard to
The caucuses preliminary to the convention of May 11th were characterized by the wildest disorder, precipitated by the bulldozing tactics of the Democratic machine, which, though in alliance with David B. Hill, was unmindful of his maxim: “There’s no sense in cheating when there’s no use of it.” The action of the state committee in calling a snap state convention, separate from the convention for the nomination of a state ticket, the sudden and secret caucus of the Seventh district delegates a month ago, the use of such methods as the Taggart machine is capable of adopting, culminating in personal assaults and the burning of ballots in Allen county and the creation of contesting delegations in several communities where the Parkerites were outvoted, the preliminary plans for organization adopted by the state committee—all. this made certain the triumph of the re-
whether or not the vote had been cor-; rectly cast. Those of the speakers who protested against instructions for | Parker were greeted with cat-calls, howls of derision and every variety of | Insult known to the hoodlum hanger-on > of the Marlon county Democratic ma- 1
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The doors of the Republican party j are open to Democrats who fail to see in this sort of thing “a return to the Democracy of Hendricks, McDonald and Voorhees,” as it is described by the Indianapolis organs of the reorganizers, the Sentinel and the News, whose expurgated accounts of the convention give no suggestion of the despotic character of the proceedings. The fair-minded observer will see in it only a return to the practices of Simeon Coy, and honest Democrats will resent at the polls the intrusion of such methods into the politico of the state of Indiana.
DANIEL E. STORMS.
an exceptionally attractive record, the fees collected for the benefit of the state and turned into the treasury being considerably in excess of those for any previous period of similar length. : Appended are record facts which serve to illustrate the growth in importance j of the Secretary of State’s office within the past few r years: For the fiscal | term (two years) ending Oct. 31, 1898, total collections by the office were $54,326.30; for the term ending Oct. 31, 1900, $127,154.85: for the term ending Oct. 31, 1902. $187,176.31. During the first fiscal eighteen months of Mr. Storms’ administration the collections have amounted to ^186,323.56, practically equalling in eighteen months the total for the two years preceding. In other words, all that is to be collected from May 1, 1904, to October 31, 1904, will be a clear gain to the state over the amount of the previous two years, and those two the best the office had ever had. These figures serve not only to illustrate the growing importance of the office, tvit also to emphasize the prosperous development of the state In its mining, commercial, industrial and financial richness. To the steady reduction of the debt left as a legacy by the last Democratic administration, the Secretary of State’s office has contributed an increasing share and deserves continuously to be administered by representatives of that party whose purpose is to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number.
Text ot the l.eaaon. Murk xv, 1-15. Memory V«*r*e»», 12-14—Lioldcn Text, Luke xxlll. 4 — Commentary I*rcpnred l»y Itev. D. M. Steurna. (Copyright, 1901, by American Pres* Association.}' After the pussover and the institution cf the supper in the last lessou our Lord spoke lo the eleven the wonderful words cf John xiv to xvi and prayed as recorded in John xvii. Then He wont forth over the brook Cedron with His faithful few to the Mount of Olives and into the garden of Gethsemane, e.ist off by His son Israel (Ex. iv, 22. 23). This was foreshadowed in David when He, with His faithful few, crossed the same brook, cast out by bis son Absalom (II Sam. xv. 23, 30), but iu that case the wicked son was slain, while here in our lesson the righteous King is to suffer in the stead of liis; enemies, the just for the unjust (I I’eL; iii, 18; Rom. v, 8). The agony and conflict in Gethsemntu 1 , the sleeping disciples, the betrayal and arrest of our Lord, Simon I’eter’s blunder with the sword, the dis-, ciples all fleeing, Jesus before Annas and Caiaphas. the false witnesses, the' blindfolding, mocking, smiting, spit-. ting, I’eter's denial—-these are some of ; fthe events and incidents of that awful night, but who can toll what they; meant to Him who was the center of' all, the Jatinb of God, oppressed aud : afflicted, brought as a lamb to the' slaughter and as a sheep before bei^ shearers, opening not Ilis mouth (Isa., liii). The morning came, the morning) of earth’s darkest day, ahd the council, having condemned Jesus to death, blndi Him and lead Him away and deliver; Him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.j The King of. the Jews, rejected by His own people, treated by them as an. 'evil doer and condemned to die, silentand suffering. He allows them to act their pleasure. About the time that our Lord was brought before Pilate Judas brought* the thirty pieces of silver, testified to the chief priests and elders that .Tesus* was innocent, threw down the money in the temple and went and hanged-' himself (Matt, xxvii, 3). Uor a more full account of all that; k passed between Pilate and the Jewish rulers and Jesus see Luke xxiii, 4-10;. John xviii. 28, to xix, 13. It is possible' that as Pilate, the representative of the great world power of that time, asked .Testis, "Art thou the king of the Jews?” lie may have thought Him to be some poor, harmless, weakminded person, for even now when some true believer speaks of Jesus as the King of the Jews, soon to return and sit on David's throne, asserting that he also expects to reign with Him, he is apt to be considered by many very religious people to be an ignorant, weakminded person, notwithstanding such Scriptural statements as Luke i, 32, 33; Itev. v, 9, 10; Uol. iii, 4. Having confessed before the high priest and before Pilate that He is the Christ, the King of the Jews (Mark xiv, 01, G2; xv, 2), He has nothing more to say, so now to chief priest? and Pilate He answers nothing, bui patiently awaits their disposal of Him. It was the governor’s custom to release to the Jews at the time of the passover a prisoner, whomsoever theydesired, and, having a notable prisoner, a murderer named Barabbas, he asked, whether he should release Barabbas or Jesus, the King of the Jews. He probably thought that they would surely choose Jesus, but be knew neither their murderous hearts nor the God of Love who was overruling sill these things (Acts iv. 27. 28). The chief priest moved the people lo ask for the release of Burabints, and when Pilate asked what he should do with Christ, the King of the Jews,'they cried. "Crucify Him!" and as Pilate again asked. "\\ hy. what evil hath He done?” they cried the more exceedingly. “Crucify. Him!” It appears from a harmony of the ( gospels (one being before me as I write and quote from one or the other, of the evangelists) that Pilate interceded for Jesus and offered to set Him fn-e not less than seven times on that, eventful morning. Peter says ..hat Pilate'7was determined to let Him go (Acts iii. 13). In John xviii, 38; xix, 4, G, we hear Pilate say three times. “I find no fault in Him.” Pilate's wife, because of a dream which she had. sent this message to her husband: “Have thou nothing to do with that just man” (Matt, xxvii, 19). There seemed to be no one against Him but His own nation, and they so hate Him that they prefer a murderer to the! Holy Lamb of God. So Pilate, willing to content the peo-| pie, yet acting contrary to bis own con-j science and against bis wife’s entreaty,] released Barabbas. the murderer, and delivered Jesus, the innocent one, to be crucified. But since Pilate held Him to be innocent and washed his hands of the affair (Matt, xxvii, 24), why scourge Him? it is all too awful to read, but what must the actual occurrence have been? Was it at this time, as the plowers plowed upon Ilis back and made long their furrows, that the cruel thongs flew round His face also and made His visage to be so marred more than any man? (Ps. cxxlx, '8; Isa. Iii, 14.) I do not know, but I have often wondered. People are daily choosing a murderer, the devil, or the Christ of God. Every one must face the question, “What shall I do with Christ?” We cannot get rid of it any more than Pilate could, and no amount of niter or soap and water can wash away our guilt (Jor. ii, 22), nothing but the blood of Jesus. As He died in the stead ot Barabbas, so He died in my stead, but how can I ever thank Him?
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